Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 September 1878 — Page 6

""TEE rMXTEK'S SQAKS-CMOW. mm ArafetUa Vaaayk Krow laa a small studio in Uhh Mwm, tlHN, all tfea wlRMr, Wttfca ana ny, Mm draw awl palaHMl day by day. MwMTtwlHOtHwrkh, Harau Aad work wada suashlna ia fcerbeart. DMa her eaavas, many a saene CmiarspaM,(airHlaifrB Wu wrotijckt aln. The hww and rala PaHad upon har window-nana; Ratafee within bar eoy room Wkfc toymw toil diapalfed th ateem i Awl, eSomatfwati. in a andm-tone, San to ttarsalt thara. all atone.

Hut. wha the anrln; and aUUIIUJll1 anBta Mar studio araw 0 ui ull and tntaa Ah Bought the rui al sotlcudaa in winding mrmim sum wwm , For painters' work contract a taint Unlaw from N'muers swlf thay paint. So mit Ml Arabella wear. To skatca from 'tra fally hHt. It who a lovely summer's day; a lovely mxmh) Wore her lay ; , liar (oldta-stool and box sfeateak, Aad, Kaatod in a quiet nook, Mar white umbrella o'er her head (Like a tall riant-mushroom spread) Jtegan to paint, when, lot a Howe She heard. A troop of idle boys Game Hocking round her. rough and rude. Some o'er her shoulders leaned; some stood la fromt t her, aad cried: "Taint met Jf ptr 1 should like to see." Aotae kma-had, soma shouted. " What a set I" Said Arabella, la a pet: "And no policeman within hall Te seed these ruManlmps k Jail." In ana, she could not work, so weat Straight homeward la frreat dleeeatant. She had no brother to defend her, Nor country cousin to attend her. A plan eeearred to her next day To keep these idle seamps away. And easel by her side she placed, And over it she threw In haste A hat and cloak:-and there it stood la held aad threatening attitude. The rabble at a distance spied The soareerow standing by her side; And, thinking t was the towa-pollee, They left Miss A. V, Brown la peaee. MORAL. .Sometime, an innocent pretense la the beet means of eelf-Uefenso, And if a scarecrow keeps the peace, Whtaneedto summon the police? a Oanea, m St. XkholMfer September. THE STRICKEN SOUTH. Freer ef the Yellow Fever Scearge Tales Almost tee Horrible for Belief. Mew Orleans, Aug. 29. A deluging Tsia, accompanied by thunder and oEilly north wind, which commenced at 3 o'clock and continued one boar, bodes evil to tbe siok, and increased mortality k predicted for to-morrow. From 12 o'clock until 4, 23 deaths were reported, increasing the number announced at 12 m. to 69. Interviews with the Sanitary Inspector elicit the statement that there are sot so many case to-day as on Tuesday, but all admit that not one-half are reported. Dr. J. C. Beard, City PhvsioiaH,ha treated 146 and reported only 40. Every house oa Franklin Street, for two squares above Roydras, contains a yellow fever patient. One square en Euterpe Street between St Charles and Carondelet Streets is in the same condition. The intersecting streets have been barricaded to prevent the passage of -vehicles, and a milkman who undertook to force his horse through was driven away with a loaded revolver. This afternoon an hour or two passed at the'1 oftce of the Recorder of Deaths developed several strange sights. The oflice 'is oa the ground floor of the St. Louis Ilotel, corner of Royal and St. Louis Streets. While sitting there one of the charity wagons containing two dead bodies in rough, unpainted pine coffins drove up for a burial permit. One, containing a woman, was piled upon the top of the other, and surmounting the ghastly heap sat a faithful dog and the woman's husband, who accompanied her to the Potter's-field to note the spot whore they laid her. Empty coffins had been brought from thf Work-house and driven round to the scenes of death as ene might drive around and gather p so muck garbage. The driver started on a round through the rain, and after about an hour returned with two other bodies for two other permits. The olerk on duty said that this was his fifth visit, and three other wagons perform the same office. It is of course understood that these instances are exclusively confined to the miserably poor. They nave muecu sunereu lernoiy, anu me nation will rejoice to learn that a miti- I gation of their agony has at length ' come. Y itnin a week their abodes have been metamorphosed from pest-houses into hosoitals. Thanks to the Howards and the Young Men's Christian Association, the scum of the oity, black and white, are receiving as careful attention aa could be given In the best regular hospitals. Instances do sometimes occur which are extremely sad. A little girl of 11 was so unfortunate as to be attacked in the house of a cousin on Magazine Street, where two children died and two were sick. The evening she expired another of the household was attacked and the imfortunate girl's body lay in an undertaker's warehouse during the night and was not buried till the next day. No one pretends to conceal the fact that tbe disease is destined to increase, but there is every hope in the ability of physicians to reduce the percentage of mortality. At a meeting of the Board of Health hut night the origin of the epidemic was discaseed, and from tbe data furnished, it was plausibly argued .that it could be traced to tbe ship Souder. The Board disoweed tbe progress of the epidemic, and the members were unanimous in the belief that it was beyond human control, and would have to ran its course. Unleee some great and rare meteorological change takes place the probability is strong that the city will be swept .throughout. A strange feature was brought to light yesterday by the comparative statistics of the convalescent and fatal oaees. It is seen that tbe mortality among the negroes attacked is early 0 per cent. So fatal indeed is the disease that when a fall-blooded negro hi seised he abandons hope at once. In lllttetratkm of the extreme nervous prostration daring tbe stage of oonvaMseenoe, one man, already able to move sxfimt. in mmee, an who was consider , . , ,, - r, ' . d totally oat of danger, was severely t

frighted by a vivid Mask of lightning Saturday afternoon, relapsed law fever within an hoar, and died with blaok vomit at 9 o'olook. Matty of the beet doctors in the city now are refusing to visit new oases, having their powers already tried to the utmost.

j Mempuis, Aug. 29. The terrible soourge is increasing every moment. There is hardly a house in the city, not entirely vacant, but has one or more persons down with the disease or lying dead awaiting burial The increase of j the malady among the negro population j to-day is frightful, while it does not ) seem to relinquish its hold upon the white people. Every hour in the day J new victims are reported, and physi- ' ntuna errt frnm linusi tn hrtnoAfm thin rim V" llttU " ' ' ...... The County Jail, which, in 1878, was in the heart of the infected district, yet had not a single case then, now reports seven oases. The prisoners, numbering near a hundred, are now being removed to the Forest Prison farm, on Preei- ! dent's Island, where they will be kept under a strong guard, i be atmosphere is thick with the pestilential poison, and as tle disease increases its numbers of victims there is a corresponding increase I of alarm among the well ones who have I thus far escaped, and large numbers are moving out into tbe country, some preferring even to take up their abode in freight cars on the lines of railways rather than risk their lives in this scourged city. Father Walsh, of St. Bridget's Catholic Church, died this morning. Ed. J. Mansford, one of the Howard visitors, is down this morning. His associate, Mr. Rheard, fell yesterday. This makes five Howards that have fallen in that one district. The rainy, damp weather that set in at noon to-day will undoubtedly increase the terror of the disease, and fearful results are expected the next few days. Memphis, Aug. 30. Physicians from other cities continue to arrive and have gone to work in good earnest. Nurses also from Mobile, Shreveport, Charleston and other points have reported to the Howard and other relief associations and are being assigned to duty. Applications for medical attention and nurses however are on file which can not be filled until more arrive. Found dead in a house," has become a common report from the visiting nurses. A sad case of this character is that of Dr. K. P. Watson. He had worked like a Trojan since the fever broke out as physician and nurse, but finally was missed, no one knowing what had become of him. Yesterday a visitor went to his temporary quarters, his family having been sent out of the city,found tbe door locked, knocked it open and fouud the dead body with all the symptoms of having died of yellow fever. It could not be ascertained how long he had been dead. Dr. Wateonwas one of the niost active physicians in the epidemic of 1873. Miles en Miles ef Winged Ants. Yesterday afternoon a spectacle was witnessed by Dansvillians resembling one of four years ago in character, but Srcatly exceeding it in magnitude, louds of small-winged ants blackened the atmosphere in perpendicular streaks, extending north and south an apparent distance of five or six miles, and perpendicularly from near the earth about a mile upward, and moved rapidly from oast to west with the wind from near 4 ojclock until it was too dark to see them, so that the vast insect Hock must have been over 75 miles in length. Many of them settled down in the village, very thickly in spots, but not nearly so thickly as in 1874. The most of them were very small, but many of them were as large as a large ant, and some of those large ones were without wings, the wing3 probably having dropped off. Occasionally one of the clouds, a few feet in thickness, would be seen moving rapidly downward as well as well as westward, while others would keep ght on We have found no Dansvillian who recollects any phenomena of the kind except the one of 1874, which occurred September 8 of that year, early in the evening. Damvillt (N F.) Atlvtrliser. legal Airertlslig ! Ce-Oferatlre Newspapers, An important decision, touching the legality of advertising in newspapers pnnt( d on the co-operative plan, has been rendered by the New Jersey courts. A mortgage sale was advertised in a newspaper printed on this plan, and the property was sold as advertised. The owner of the property protested against the proceedings, on the ground that the advertisement thereof was not legal, because the newspaper printing it was a so-called "patent inside." A petition to set aside the sale was accordingly filed in chancery. The petition fully and squarely raised the issue as to whether a newspaper using a " patent outside," printed outside the State, was a newspaper printed and published in the State, in which land sales might be legally advertised. The question was fully argued before the Vice-Chancellor, at Newark, N. J., and a decision rendered "that such an advertisement was legal and sufficient, and was both a substantial and literal compliance with the statutory requirement;" and the motion to set aside the sale was denied and petition dismissed. 1 m Oberlin College took a new departure this year, by conferring the degree of A. M. upon nine ladies, graduate of its literary course. Among thera were Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blaokwell, and members of the faculties of Wellealey, uann unniMH, vuctlill, anil 1.1 IB Woman's Medical College of New York.

TWO MIXUTES T LATE. Bob Vane and I had always been rivals. At school, if there was a priae to be won, we always went it neck and neck until the very last, when he managed to just get one step ahead of me. Notwithstanding our constant con

tests, we were the very best of friends. Bob was a good-hearted, whole-souled J fellow, ani never crowed over a victory. I When we grew to bo men, we were . still rivals in every thing. If I pur- , chased a fact horce, Rob was sure to ' get one just a half-second better. If I bought h fowling-piece, be would get t one a livilo more costly and accurate. We were both considered leaders in all sports, but Bob seemed always to be a short distance ahead. ' When Clara Floyd came to the vilj lage to spend the summer, nearly every i body went frantic over her. I must confess it even now, she was remarkably beautiful. Her brown hazel eyes, in whose liquid depths seemed to be stored away the loves of the gods, were full of melting tenderness. That oval face and slightly dimfiled cheek exceeded the velvety peach n softness and delicacy. The bust, over which an artist might go crazy, or a sculptor frantic, with her whole form, height, and complexion, were faultless, to say tbe least. Her hair was a dark Auburn, and hung in luxuriant curls ttround shoulders of snowy whiteness. Clara was not of tbe class of popular beauties, but she was a beauty every body declared. I bad scarcely been introduced to her and became interested, when I found that lay friend Bob Vane was beginning to pay his regards to her also. Bob and I were in for it now, I knew ; for he was in earnest, and so was I. The months of June and July and nearly half of August passed by, and we were both getting along well. For once in my life I felt sure that I was ahead of Bob. Miss Clara was evidently coquetting with one of the other of and 1 could not tell which, yet felt almost sure it was not me. One of us had her company engaged I the time. We almost killed our fast all horses taking Miss Clara out riding. And whenever she expressed a desire for a row on the lake, we were her oars men. Our hands were constantly blistered, yet in secret we kissed those blistera, and wished they might always re- j main to torment us. J I had very near brought matters to a ' crisis, as far as I was concerned, and I onlv waited a favorable occasion to tiro-1

p0se i DmTe6V$ Monthly. Fortune seemed to favor me. There I ."T . 7TT was to be a grand picnic on Swan ; A swera will a liisterj. , v , says : hen It. T. . Dnke entered not oe lost. ' the Confederate service in 1861 as CapA steamer, the Spread Eagle, was to tain of CompanvA, Nineteenth Virginia take ns from the villace to the inland. ' . t r...i s.i. li i

On the day before the excursion was to cordinr to The i ami v take nlacl my uncle, a wealthy oldjdw bachelor who lived ten miles out in the , waikortbe Colonel's great-grandfa-

country, som, lor me. I could not refuse, or Unole Tobin's displeasure ing a note to Miss Clara, explaining my not calling on her that I hoped to have ing her escort the next mv horse to the buggy and drove away. My business with Uncle Tobin being somewhat of a legal nature, aad being tedious, I was compelled to remain over night with him. The next morning it seemed that uncle never would get done talking, and his hired man was an age in harnessing my horse. At last I got started, but when within three miles of tbe village, a tire came off. I looked at my watch, it, was half - East 8; the boat would leave' at 9, and ere I was three miles away with a broken vehicle. I unharnessed my horse, mounted him, rode until I was almost in sight, and dismounting, led him into the village. The steamer, to my chagrin, was half a mile up the river, steaming away for Swan Island. " You are just two minutes too late," said a friend, who saw my downcast expression. How far U it to K ?" I asked. "Seven miles." " And tbe train loaves there for M at 9:40 does it not?" ."Yes," replied my friend. " M is just across the river from Swan Island?" , t 'l 7?U o mo,mta i'i TJ VL cn I?laInd yet almost as soon ae the Spread . i!t-.jj. i I hat was just what I intended to do;, anu in ten minutes 1 was mounted on the swiftest horse the liverv stable could i furnish, and thundering away to K The town was almoet reached when my horse cast a shoe. The Spread Eagle wan now five miles away. Clara Floyd was on the boat, and, worse than all, Rob Vane was on it too. My only hope was to catch the train at K , and here I waa a mile away, the time almost up, and a lame horse. 1 hurried up the poor beast as fast as he could go, but he became more lame every moment. The depot was in sight; I heard a whistle, and the engine-bell ring. On I dashed, lashing my poor horse furiously, but the train was moving away was going, was gone aa I reaehed the platform. " You are just two minutes late," said the freight agent, as I sprang from my horse. I was determined not to be baffled at this stage of the game. The section leader, with four brawny Irishmen on their hand-oar, wa just pushing out. On inquiry they informed me they would go within two miles of M , ami by my offering the leader five dollars, he agreed to land tne there. I left ray horse, sprang oa the hand-

ear, very

QOMOtxatHe way. i At M , after hunting for two hours j ague I might almost say I found a akllfman to row me over to the bland. 1 oouuortattie way. I All-Amu) If kaal thA SfclirmmUl llttibul her g, andPg pmWadlS could be seen making themselves hap - py among the shady grove with which Swan Island abounded, while the steamboat lay tied up to shore. I could hardly wait. Clara was in that beautiful grove, aad, worse than all, Bob Vane was there too. I I did not present a very presentable , appearance after my ten-mile ride in a buggy, my seven-mile ride on horseback, and my ten-mile ride on the hand-oar; now I was finishing up in a dirty fisherman's skiff. But 1 was in too much of a hurry to stop for appearances ; I was determined to know my fate before night. I was landed, and wiping my hea'ed face with mr handkerchief, walked ud to the groves where so many of mv menus anu acquaintances were enjoying themselves under the magnificent shade trees. ' They all expressed surprise at seeing 1 me, and some really seemed glad that 1 1 among the gav crowds, and it was some bad come, l sought for Miss Clara I time before T found her, When I did, she was releasing tbe arm ot aoo vane. " Hello," cried Bob. Why, Harry, how did you get here' I did not see you on the boat." " I came around by land," I replied, i evasively. " You look as if you had walked," be replied. I made no answer, but asked Miss Clara for a promenade. "With your permission," she said to Bob. Of course he gave it, and we walked off together. I told her the cause of my delays, my misfortunes and vexations of i i .1 iue murmur, grauuauy approacoingiQe subject until I laid my heart at her feet, anu prupwttu marriage. i She looked up in my face and said, am sorry, Mr. Lowe, but you are 1 lo minutes too late. I promised Mr. Robert Vane to marry him about the time you were landing on the island." I recroseed the river and returned to K on th train, for the Spread Eagle was no place for me. At K I mounted my horse and rode to the village. I am still a bachelor, and it is all be cause 1 was "two minutes too late. lt L I M 111 M 1 IIS. E1M M. 1 H , I i i ,

srAs if ; rBrrun8 worn bi gu"M" ,or preserve bis sword, acquainting him - . with its value as a family relic. Captor (Jieen Vieteria's Inceme. and captured then exchanged addresses and parted, the Colonel to remain some" In the debate in the House of Lord j months in Johnson's Island Prison. last week Sir Charles Dilke said that the Since the war several efforts have income of the Queen was 385,000, or been made to find out the Colonel's about fl,925,0OO per annum, but that captor, but it was only a few months ' she did not spend one-half of it, notago that hie present address was ob-1 withstanding the act of Parliament tained, and a letter received from him ; specially stated that 325,000 of this contained tbe information that the i sum "was to be spent in maintaining

sword was still in his possession. After ' some negotiatiens the sword was for-' warded, and know in tbe Colonel's pos-1

seesKm. i aKed in private circles and is beginning It is a quaint and singular looking old to be discussed in the newspapers. A weapon, triangular-shaped, having three writer in the Mayfair, a paper which is cutting edges, a solid silver hilt and supported by tbe best of English socioguards, is of the style known as a dress ty, discusses this subject, and pays that sword of the time of Charles and Queen ' " for sixteen years the English nation Anne, and has doubtless danced at the has faithfully performed its part of the side of some gay cavalier in tbe days f contract in allowing her Majesty, as the when " Church, King and State," wa head of the State, a magnificent income, the cry. It followed its owner lo the and people of an arithmetical tnrn of Old Dominion, and paced minuets mind want to know what has become of

Williamsburg, ran away with him at 1 j Braddock's defeat, saw the Revolution ha-Infirm 1 to a four years' oonteet for the " Lost , Cause," and surrendered with a heavy heart, has again returned to whom it ufL. i.

j unsneaineu ior years 10 come. , mny urawn irom tne Treasury, anu Dr. Walker, the original owner of the large sums called for to endow her nu- , sword, was quite a distinguished man in merous children so soon as they reach

the early history ot this and Louisa Counties, representing both of these counties time after time in the House of Rurgeeses. He was tbe guardian of nomas Jener.on and intimately connected in public and private relations 'with Washington.. He was married twice, his wives being Missea Thornton, first cousins of Washington. He held many important offices lh Virginia, be 1 ing a member of tbe conventions of 1775 and 1789. At one time he owned the land upon which Charlottesville is now

situated, and he gave the public square 1 throat which .wmed to give him pain, to the county to build tbe Court House. Th Princess Bismarck immediately lieIt is said he could ride from Gordons-1 gan slapping tbe dog's neck in order to ville to the Ohio River and sleep every ' facilitate the passage of the bone, but night of his journey oh his own ground. Sultan, being very much out of humor, He is buried at Castle Hill, tbe residence ml understanding the demonstra of his granddaughter, Mrs. William C. tIon rushed at his raiatrew and knockRives. Dr. Walker left numarona da- d ber down. The bone disabled him

numerous scendants in this county, tbe Rives, Nelsons, Maurrs, Fry, uilroew, Lew ises, Pages and Dukes being descendants of hta children. Suits of Englkh coatings are made all of m kind of goods

iee will he all the rage this fall. Plush fabrios will be much worn.

www nut aw Utvn f UIH, 5 U fri color for coating, . . Bonnets will be worn of a larger ' Velvet will be used for trimming ureases. Lueterleaa silks are the most fashionable. Tinsel threads orop oit in many new fabrics. Felt bonnets are to be embroidered with gold. Every lady arranges her hair to suit her face. Composite costumes are as fashionable as ever. liners rea w tne new shade of earnet or maroon. . Felt hats will H ( ever this fall. Flowers of fur will be amonsr the winter novelties. ShootLi cloth is the new name for India cashmere. Gold braids and gold embroideries . t .1 are to be revived Feathers in cashmere colors are among the novelties. Plaids will be much worn m the I first weeks of the fall. Short and demi-trained dresses are equally fashionable for street wear. The leading styles in bonnets are the Gysy, Quaker, and cottage shapes. The latent novelty in veils is black dotted net, lined with white illusion. Two, three, and four kinds of material will be used in the fabrication of fall and winter dresses. Pleated basques and pleated waist polonaise with deep yokes and wide belts are coming in vogue. aistcoat stuffs are shown for ladies' wear of corduroy brown, blae, ( liners red, gray, drab, and corn. The panier scarf is seen on some of the new dresses, and is said to be the precursor of the panier proper. The Louis Quatorze casaque and long waistcoat is worn over a kilt plaited skirt without any scarf around the hips. White barege is used for inexpensive bridal dresses. Such dresses are trimmed with white satin and garlands of orange blossoms. Back draperies are only slightly more bouffant, and there are no perceptible paniers on the earliest importations of fall dresses. On some of the dresses for the next season are to be worn accessories that is to say, plastrons, pocket and cutis composed entirely of feathers. An imperative rule in second mourning is that neither fringe, nor flowers, aor SUn' nor jet, i ""J :, useu in me or other garLong pointed corsages, or simulated points on princess robes, are very fashionable for full evening dress. The . .M . . - the state which pertains to the sovereign of Great Hritain." " What does she do with it?" is a question which is being

Beyond an occasional drawing-room reception, state ball, a concert now and tu. n.,. v:...:., o...i.. ..,ui..s

state display. This is a well known and extensively discussed fact. Even these expenditures were suspended during her u... u ?.... the age of maturity or marry. J no writer in the Mavfnir concluded with the remark that this grasping and penunousnees of the Queen "tends to bring the crown into contempt." This is very plain language, and will some day lead to trouble. London Lttler to (Xe Baltimore heiublicnn. Bismarck, atlastaccounts.intcnded I rting with his big dog Sultan. The animal, while devouring his ration of 'meat, was troubled by a bone in his

from biting, or she might have been much hurt. So long as Sultan bit the ; servant-) or strangers Bismarck had no fault to find, but an attack upon a mem t ber of his own family neeciwilated the banishment of his trusty companion and protector.