Marshall County Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 July 1878 — Page 1
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VOLUME 22.
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1878.
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LOCAL DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Daniel McDonald Auditor A. C. Thompson. aiieri L.C. Vina. Treasurer A. L. Thomson. Kecorder J. B.N. Klingwr. Surveyor .....A. I . North. School Superintendent W. B. Bailey. , 1 Hiram Kan. k Commissioners Howard Barnaby ) James Abrains Regular sessions of tbe Commissioners' Oeurt rst Monday, in March, Jane, September and De-
Jl'IJICI VI. OKMCEKS. Ctrcnit Judge Sidney Keith. Circuit Prosecutor P. O. Jones. Seasioas of the Circuit Court, 1st Monday ha March, 3d Monday in May, Ith Monday in SeptemM and 3d Monday in December.
Mayor. Clerk..
CITY GO VfcKNMKNT, Irana Tniiunn JJavid K. Snyder. . . Jamei A. Oilmore.
Supt Public Schools Koaooe A. Chase. City Council meets second and fourth Mondays la eacb mouth.
CHL'RPH DIRrtTTOMY. 1HR1HTIAN rH Al-EL. F i n aata-aa latSB a. aa. V and at t-m . m. suoxftay sSsaTat -fcta p. m. H . V. K- -d. Fastor.
TKJSBTTKaUAN t HVRCH. r" raachinn; srrary J aaboaUi it lv:3e a. at., and at T:SS p. tu. Sabnath school at i-ta p. m. Prayer meeting, Wednesdays at I p. m. Seats fret. G. A Little, Pastor.
METHOPIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Corner LaPoits and Center streets. Preaching very haMth at 1S0 a. m., and V p. m. Sunday achool at lifcao p. in. T. C. SUinger, Pastor.
l)BKOKMKD CHUKCH. Services tn the LuX Wthentn chnrch the first and third Sundays in each mouth at lodu a. m.. and at the Jacoby caoih at t p. m. Jf. b. Hamry, Paster. ST. THOMAS Episcopal charch. Divine ssrrlces every Sanday at 10c30 a. tu,, and at 'rJO p. m. SandaysiSBl at 130 p. m. Seata free. J. J. ilATHOLlC (St. Michael's) CHURCH. First V.' service, 7 At a. m. Second service at to a: m. Vespers at 3 p. am. O. Zarweilea. Pastor. MASONIC. PLYMOUTH COMMANDER Y, E. , NO. M. Stated conclaves the second Thursday in each aaoaU. J. W. Houghton, E. C. C. K. Toaa, Kecorder. PLYMOUTH COUNCIL, NO. lg, R. A. 8. M. Stated convocations the second Wednesday in ach month. J. t Langenbaau, J, i. m.
PLYMOUTH. CHAFTKR, NO. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocations the first and third Mondays in each month. J.M. Confer, M K. H. I', a 1 1 1 1 . PLYMOUTH, LOOOK; NO. lav; A. P. A A. M. Lteied conimn meat I oua first and third Fridays lit each mouth. A. L Heere, w. M. J. Brownlce,
KILWINNING LcilM.K. NO. 438, A.'. A A. M. Slated communications the urst and third Tneadays in each month. K. A. Chaaa, W. M. C. 3. utphen, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, EASTERN STAR meets the first Wednesday of each mouth at Masonic UalL Mrs. C. O. Smith, W. M. A. J&iingam aec. ODD KKLLOVVs. AM ERICt S LODGE, NO. 91, L 0. 0. F., meets every Thoraday evening at 7:30 p. in. Resident sad visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend , H. O. Thayer, N. O. H. B. Reeve, Sac
LYMOUTH KNCAMPMBNT, NO. 113. Stated meetings second and fourth Moudays In each
tn. U. Speyer, C. Y. J. A. Paiuier, Scnbe.
KIKE CO MP A NIKS. ADRIATIC KNOINM CO. Stated meetings second Tuesday in each month. W. H. H. Calles, hoc. K. K. bWuhiil, Foreman.
1HJRRENT HOSE CO. Stated meetings second . Tuesday in each month. J. W. Palmer, ForP ROTECTION HOOK AND LADOER CO. Stated meetings first Tuesday in each month. Henry
Speyer.
LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
PLYMOUTH BUILDING LOAN A SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, NO. 1. Board of Directors meet first Monday of each month. D. U. Armstrong Pres. C I. Toan. Sec PLYMOUTH BUILDING, LOAN ft SAYINGS ASSOCIATION, NO, 1 Board of Director. meet Drat Monday la each month. W. B. Hess, Pro, u. A. Brown, Sec
F. M. BURKET,
Dentist, Offlca over A. Becker's grocery, opposite Post Office. All work warranted to give entire satisfaction in every raspert. Diseases . f tue mouth and teeth successfully treated Teeth ex tr acted
use of ultiuaa oxid
All work warranted. I
pa, ConinKatlon tree. am In
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DR. A.C. HUM K
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year, six months of the time I wsa sntfrrly hetlesH. I was ohlisd to have two men help me in and nut of bed. I wan wollen 19 inches latjrer than
my tiaiuiai SaSS an.uiHl my waist. 1 iitler.-.l all manrouM and lire. 1 tried ail remedrrp for Dropty. I had three tilfft-rt-iit doctors. My friends all expected 1 would die ; many nights I was expected to die before moruiug. Atlant Vegetlne was acut me by a friend. I never shall forget the f rat dose. I coald realze its good pffects from day to day; I I was getting better. After I had taken some five as six bottles I couid slavp weU night. I began to gain now quite fast. After taking some tn bottlea, I conki walk from one part of my room to the other. My appetite was l'ou.I, the Dropsy had at this time diaapptiared. I kept taking the Veoetins until I had regained my usual health. I heard of a
anaaaj; raster I 11 . ! '
I will l.-ll ssnata!. ' the terrihle Are:
It npriinja from the earth it is dreadlul and dire.
In the dark intry sky, kr-v See thp spark Upward, fljrjj See if prow lu th fraiua
See it glow Into flame ! Pp. it humiiig nn.i I'la.ln ; sat' it -it ii. into Ufa Vi til a vijpur antaMug Howlonir tor the Mf.' Hear tbe noise and the r:itt .- How it swells, how it irrows, LikrtChe fra-h of tbe bntrte. Like the clash of the foes. So- it rnnliinn and rising and roaring, See it trying to touch a tall star, It Nwai- in ilie sky to be oarin, Like a flag of fierde ianie frutn afar. See it turning and buruiug and braving Hee it f.r- indi.K n.d i:le:iminL- tud re-1 : Ah t the smolte iavthe air now is waving Like a winding-sheet of doll lead. Hear It laugh wtth wild gtee at each futile endeavor
to queii' h or to quoil its . ui runt force ;
nd builder. I will also say it has cured an aunt
of my wife's of Neuralgia, w ho hail differed more
thau SO years. Rhu says she lias not had any Neu
ralgia lor eight motit Us. I have given It to one of my children far Canker Human. I have no doabt tn my mind that it will cure any tumor; it ia a great cleanser of tbe Wood, it is safe to give a child. I will recommend it to tbe world. My father ia 60
yearn old, and ft sajrn there ia nothing like it to
give aTrenirtn ana lire to an aieo person. I animl be too thankful tor the use of M. lam Vert gratefully yonrs, John S. Nottaoi. All Diseases of the Blood. If Vcgvtino will relieve psin ; cleasse, parly, and cure such dinea. . restoring the patient to perfect health after trying differeut physicians, many remedies and suffering for years, in it not conclusive proof, if yoa are a sedrerer yoa can be cored? Why is this medicine performing such great cures? It works in the biood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly be called the Great Blood Puritier. The great source of disease originates tn the blood; and on medlrlnc that does not act directly upon it to purify and renovate, has any mst claim upou public attention. VEGETINE I OWE MY HEALTH TO YOUR VALUABLE VEGTINE. Nisrosr, h v ., Apr., 9S, 1S77, Mr. E. R. Slevftis:Iraaa Si it. Having snffered from a breaking oat of Cankerous Seres far aaere than Ive lean, canned by an accident of a fractured bone, which fracture ram into a ruanliigaore, having used every thing I could think of and nothing helped me, until I had taken six tiutwue of roar vnlaante medicine which Mr. Miller, the apothecary recommended very highly. The sixth bottle cured me, and all I can say, ia that I owe my health to your valuable Vegetine, Your most obedient servant, Acbbkt Vi,s Koatis a. "It unnecessary for me to euumerase the diseases for which the Vegetine should be used. I know of no disease which will net admit of its see, with good results. Almost innumerable coru-
lainta are caused by poisonous secretions in the lood, which can be entirely oxpelled from the
s jstom by tbe ose of the Vegetine. Whet, the
plaints blood,
blood is perfectly cleansed, the disease rapidly
yields; all pains cease; healthy action is promptly matured, and the patient is cored. VEGETINE Cured me when the DOCTORS FA TT, F.D. 'in i n n ati, o., April, lo, lern. Afr. U. H. SUvena Dbab Sir. I was seriously troubled with Kidnay Complaint for a long time. I have consulted the hast doctors in th's city. I have used yonr V egetine for this disease, and it has cured me when the doctors failed to do so. Yourn truly, Ena est Dobioan, Residence $t Race St. Place of business, 13 Cent. Av. VEGETINE. Prepared Dy 11. R. Stevens, Boston, Mass. fette 1 Mid by Ail Druggists.
DENTIST!
Office in Seoond story. Post Office Building
Teeth from one only, to a
full set, so cheap that the rich and poor can all
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Dr. J M JENNINGS
PHY81CIAN AND SURGEON, office with Dr. N. Sherman over Lauer' a Store, on
Michigan strvot, Plymouth, Ind. Residence on Center street, opposite Catholic church.
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AMA8A JOHNSON
ATTORN KY AT LAW. PrtKnpt attention given te collections, settlement of decedents' estates
and guardianships, deeds, mortgages, and other con-
racts drawn up and acknowledgments taken, in -
ace ovrr Duck A Toan 's Hardware Store.
It d.-liirhtn and exults with no nam; of remorse.
With no pain, with but passion mad passionquivers With itspeannn of ornrlet, the bloddiost hoe. With its gleaming stream.- and its roaring rivers, It dares to do all ihlnga that name dares to do. How it darts, how it dances and daabes, As though it hsd taken for aim TO reduce all the world into SShes And to llüSg oll the stars into flame ! It !s gotteTinr; and glowinjj and glaring And raging it rings its own kneel! It is showing its wonderful daring It Is turning the sky into hell. How it lazily liugcrs With it swell and iU fall; Willi its fljery fingers Weirdly waving a pall ; With its liorrihu hisst'St, Like the w in.; in a storm; With its blistering kisses. On face and on form.
Of its flashes Bereft, Only ashes Are left; Till Its cries Tell its doom And it dies In the gloom.
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I have told yon the tale of the terrible Are
It lias sung its last song to lis luminous lyi
It has sung iN last soiij, it has breathed its last breatb. It has lived without fife. It has died without death. AppUitons Journal.
P. O. JONES,
Attorney et Lew A Diet. Proeecuto. Prompt attention given to all claims and colMotions left in his eare. Office In corner of Soar's brick block. Plymouth Ind.
C. H. REEVE,
ATTOKNEi AT LAW. Located in 184. Collections and convey iuidng a spoci-
llty. Buys and sells real estate on commlslon. Insures lives and protferty in A. l comanleis. Desirable, real estate for sale in the
city and adjoining. fttovM
OR. I. BOWER.
PHYSICIAN AND 8ÜR0E0N. will be pleased to receive patients at his office.
Mo. 61 tlchican street, where he may be fotnd a all union, except when professionally absent, hie residence being at the same place.
July ist. .876. em
Wm. N. BAILEY. M. D.( PHYSICIAN A SURGEON. Thirty rears oraetice. Orailuat of two Medical col
leges, and six years Surgeon in tho army of the U. 8. (vol, serv.) Can compete successfulir with aar auaek in tho United States.
Thankful for past favont. is still in regular
practice, and only requires to be better known to have en extensive one. Office In bean' new briek, cor. of Aflchigan and LaPorto streets.
Plymouth. Ind.. July 1st. 187. l y
J. O . 8. D. A. J. W. PARKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Notaries Public and Authorized War Claim Agents ; Off., en at Bourbon and Plymouth. Indiana. Especial attention given to theaottieoieut of decedents Estates, Conveyancing, and tbe collection of Boldlers' Claims for Pensions: will attend promptly to all professional business entrusted to them, and practice in Marshall and adjoining counties. Plymouth office on Oano ..treat bftwoen Mlehiiraii nmt Psntar utrustu
Bourbon offieeoverirror uriuttng ofll..e. ütf
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BS. E. W. ÜIM.AI',
HOMEOPATHIC Physician and D.-ntlst,
and Dr. J. A. Dunlap. regular physician and
surgeon, respectfully odor their services to the public. Offlce in Corbin's block; residence on East Gano street.
WILLIAM B. HE88, 4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Plymouth, Indiana.
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MEN WITH (UEEE NEB YES. The Jnmpers of Maine A Rerlon In which Some St art ling; Thiugs are Seen. New York Sun.) Id February last I was riding in a sleigh from Shirley to Greenville, in Maine. I was a commercial traveler, and my companion in the cutter, Mr. Long, was an old schoolmate from New York, now a saw-mill owner of Greenville. Hiding just behind us in a rude pung were two Canadian Frenchmen, whom he had hired to work in his mill. At the foot of a long hill I sprang from the sleigh to warm my feet by walki ncr, and as I leaped out, the broad seat, on the extreme end of which my friend sat, tipped up and he fell out into the deep snow. Ho jumped up and laughed. Just then ; saw the Frenchmen tumble backward out of their eleigh as Long had done. It was a ludicrous mimlckry, and I could not understand it We stopped their lazy horse and laughed at them as they came up, but they only pointed at Long, muttered something in mongrel French and shook their heads seriously. One of them had struck on his hoad and sprained his neck. "Well said long. Td no idea
those fellows were jumpers."
Jumpers?" I asked: "What's
jumpers?"
"Why, didn't you ever hear of jumping Frenchmen?" "Never In my life." "These are jumping Frenchmen. They tumbled out of that seat just because they saw me tumble, and they couldn't have helped it to save their lives. This country is full of
Jumpers."
"Can't thev control their conduct In any way? "Oh, yes; in most ways, when they are not jumped; but you jump one of them and over he goes." "Jump one of them! Come, explain. You'll have to make your joke plainer." "No joke.'pon honor. By jumping one of them, I mean surprising him. Startle him in any way and you set him going at once. I'll show you a lot of them when we get to Greenville." We were in the upper half of Maine.
Greenville is at the lower end of Moosehead lake, which is the source
of the Kenebeo river, and the center of a vast lumber region. It contains some fifty houses, among which are two laree hotels, which are filled
with pleasure seekers in summer, More than half of the lumbermen
employed in tho woods in winter, 1
learned from L., are Canadian French, or half breeds unkempt, half clad, and so ignorant that not more than
one in two hundred can read print or write his name. Most of these he
said, are jumpers. "Now follow me into the dining
room," he added, as he hitched the
two horses in front of a small hotel.
JOHN 8. BENOER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, IALC0NY BLOCK. PLYMOUTH, IND. VaThäoial atlontinn rrivun -v Ina uoM t . on I of
PpVMBä BIO.IHIi'll l'LU H UfVJ SI lUCISjrilt V 1 i i taUsj. and partition of lamia: also the collection of through tho Window Of WblCh W6
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Maims and foreclosure of mortifaea. KemitUuices
Preservation of the Natural Teeth A SPEQTAT.TTY. 0. C. DURE,
DENT 1ST ! Office over Parks Bros Law Offlce, Gano Street.
Plymouth, Ind.
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A. C. A A. 8 . CAPRON, Attorneys & Counsellors AT LAW, REAL ESTATE ACENT8. IKFICg-A. L. A II Ktl.KK s BLOCK. TO PLYOUTH, IND.
J. D. StcCLABKM O. H. t HAMS V, McClaren A Chanev. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in all the ronrts In the state. Office in Wheeler's block.
over Btcker A WoU dry goods store, Plymouth,
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OR. J. T. DOKE. PHYHICAN A H URO BON. Tenders his professional services to the oiUsens of Walnut and vicinity. All calls promptly attended to. Charges reasonable. ly jny7T C r extra fine calling cards 10 cents; 40 tinted L ö bristol lo cents. C. Lanison, l'lyiuoutii, Ind.
could see a dozen red-shirted men at
supper. I followed him in. As he
entered the room he raised his hands
suddenly above his head, pointed
his fore-finger at the oeiUng, and
said "Sh-h!" so as to be heard by ail. The men around the table instantly sprang up, pointed their fore-fingers at the ceiling, and every one said
"Sh-h" One knocked over his chair
and some crockery was broken by the jog that the table received. The two Frenchmen who had foUowed
their employer repeated the same
gesture and said "Sh-h!" Themen around the table flushed, and then
turned pale as they resumed their seats. They recognized Long as he
salutod them in their peculiar French
Indian patois; but they were surly fbnd indisposed to talk. We soon
withdrew. "Well," said Long, "they're jumpers." "What did they do that for?" I asked. "They couldn't have helped It if their lives had been at stake." I wanted to investigate this strange phenomenon, if, indeed, it was genuine, but I was to start next morning for liangor. "I have never seen any of these queer creatures down along the coast," I said. "No," said Long, "they are confined to Canada and the frontier mainly in the lumbering region. There are thousands of jumpers in Maine. By the way, you are coming back in April. Just make a stay of a fortnight, and I'll show you more jumpers than you can count, and more odd and exciting tricks than you ever dreamed of. Jumpers come in out of the woods in the spring, and they will be loafing around here in April, drinking whisky, and spending their winter's earnings. I promised I would do it, and I did. I stayed there nearly a month, What he told me is a fact. Jumping Frenchmen are as thick as dogs, and they are not much more intelligent. Jumping and shouting and moving suddenly when startled, is peculiar to most of them. I have seen as many as twenty-five jumpers all together. Touch one of them when he was not expecting it, on the neck, or even on the hand, and he would cry out, tremble, turn pale, and catch his breath, and his crying out would be pretty certain to start the other.
There are many different kinds of
jumpers. oome, wnen startled,
fiercely strike out directly in front of
them, hitting whatever is in the way. As I made it my business to watch these men, I saw a good deal of this hitting, most of it harmless, as they
generally struck only the air. They
ike to tease one another, or jump
one another as it is called there.
This is their principal source of fun, and whenever there is a gathering of them they warily watch to avoid a jump. Occasionally a man
when laughing is jumped either by a
sudden noise or a chip hitting him on the back. Then he flings away
whatever he has in his hands. I saw
one pouring some milk into his cof-
ee. I shouted to him "fling it!" and
he flung the pitcher across the room, smashing it against the wall. A gong
hung behind a door, but it had not been used for years on account of
ts startling effect on jumpers. One
day a stranger tappsd it. A man whom I was trying to talk with struck aimlessly into the air, and another knocked a friend into a great
fireplace.
Any of these jumpers can be made
to strike anybody that stan.ls near enough, by shouting to him, "Hit him!" Long tells me that seven
were knocked down in a second, the general assault being induced by a clumsy writer, dropping a tray. I saw one fellow who sneezes whenever anybody else sneezes, and even when anybody indulges in a simulated
sneeze. Bis nervous system seems to be easily imposed upon. I saw another, who, though he does not know
a word of English, will repeat any
short sentence spoken to him suddenly.
"Good morning, how d' do?" I
said to him.
"Good morning, how d' do?" he
repeated after me, with excellent articulation.
Mast S w Itiir the Other Wax; ;L. D. Mansfltld Cincinnati Ua&dte, In the north the only drawback
upon a favorable condition is that
many laborers are unemployed. But this number Is now diminishing, and if there be not an increased im migration, the time is near when the demand for labor will be greater than
the supply. New forms of industry are constantly arifing, and if Europe continues to demand food, it will take
all the surplus labor to till the fields of the west This may seem to some a fiction highly colored. But it has
no imagination in it The conclusions are drawn from positive facts. All the movements of mankind, whether on a large or small scale, are like the motion of a pendulum, which, having swung to one side, swings back. In the last five years the
moral and intellectual, as well as the material, business of the country has
been swinging to one side. When its
monetary system got deranged,
and began to break, everybody and the newspapers in particular thought they must cry "hard times,"
and keep it up. This has got tiie
some, and it will not pay to keep it
up much longer, nor will the condi tion of things justify it
The First Steamboat. The Rev. Frederick Reynolds Freeman, a Baptist clergyman of Illinois, now in his 73d year, was an infant of two years at the time of the arival of the Clermont at Albany, on her first voyage up the Hudson. He was carried on board in hia mother's arras, and having made the history of the voyage a matter of study and record in after years, he communicates the following occountto the Philadelphia JVes: "The first steam packet (of 140 feet keel and 16 1-2 feet beam) was trim and handsome enough, excepting the boilers, machinery and smoke-stack, which were rude, cumbrous and of extremely formidable appearance. The side wheel, too, was a clumsy affair, uncovered and with twelve huge paddles, held in their place by a ring half way between their extremities and the hub, that sent water splashing upon the deck with every revolution. The top of the smoke-stack was about thirty feet above the deck nearly as high as the two masts, ftom tho rear one of which lloated tho stars and stripes. "Hours berore sbe started a great multitude had assembled along the wharfs to witness the expected inglorious ending of what was generally known as 'Fulton's Folly.' Cries of 'God help you, Bobby!' 'Bring us back a chip of the North Tole!' 'A fool and his money are soon parted ?' etc., were frequent, loud and annoying. Fulton, however, knew that the crowd was sincere in their ridicule, and, with a confident smile, went on superintending preparations for the start, as if he knew that triumph would presently more than overbalance the sneers, jibes and cat-calls of the vulgar, and pitying manners of the more refined. Smoke issuos from the stacks; the hawser is drawn in; the side-wheel quivers; it slowly revolves; Fulton's own hand at the helm turns out the bow; he is pale, but still confident and self-possessod ; the Clermont movos out into tho stream, the ponderous machinery thumping and groaning, the wheel frantically splashing and tho stack belching like a volcano, but the Clermont steadily moves; all aboard swing their hats in the air, and give a cheer that is immediately taken up by the entire multitude on land; tho Pennsylvanian has triumphed, and the hitherto incredulous and mccking populace of New York are the first to do him honor; the crowd remained eheering ou the piars until the Cler
mont is out of sight up the Hudson.
Mr. Freeman says that the boat
arrived at Albany on September 19,
thirty-six hours after starting from
New York. It had been continually
in motion, the party haying stopped at the residence of Chancellor Livingston on the way up. The speed
was at tbe rate of five miles an hour.
The appearance of the strange vessel as she steamed up the river had a remarkble effect even in daytime,
upon the crews of crafts pas-ing by, for comparitively few of the skippers
coming down could in those days of
slow mail and no telegraph, have been prepared to encounter such an oddity; but at night the Clermont spread consternation and terror on all sides. It was very dark, and the fires were fed with dry, white pino wood, which, when stirred, would send up columns of flame and sparks from the mouth of the tall stack. This apparent volcano, moving steadily through the darkness up the
middle of the river and accompanied by the rumbling and groaning of the
hard-laboring machinery, was well calculated to strike terror into the
hearts of sailors on the sloops and other crafts coming down with grain and general farm produce, who had never heard of any motive power for vessels except wind, and who, withal, were extremely superstitious. "My father and others told me," says Mr. Freeman, "that whole crews prostrated themselves upon their knees and besought Divine Providence to protect them from the horrible monster that was marching on the tides and lighting up its pathway by its fires."
A Democratic exchange complains
that Minister Noyes has come across
the ocean "at great expense to the government and tells nothing." He tells much, but cot of the character to suit the revolutionists. It is a late hour to complain of expense; It all lays at the door of Democratic reform, and when the whisky bills and witness fees are all paid up, the party can put it in as one of the planks of the reform method of saving money peculiar to the modern Democracy, Inter-Ocean.
How liar-Room Liquors are Made. There may be seen daily on Chestnut street, says the Philadelphia HuJletin, a man dressed in faultless apparel, with a great diamond on his breast, vainly endeavoring to outglitter the magnificent solitaire on his finger. In a German university he learned chemistry, and not even Liebig knew it better. His business is the mixing and adulterating of
liquors. Give him a dozen casks of deordorized alcohol, and the next day each of them will represent the name of a genuine wine or popular spirit He enters a wholesale drug store bearing a large basket upon his arm. Five pounds of Iceland moss are weighed out to him. To raw liquors this imparts a smoothness and oleaginousness that gives to imitation biandy the glibness of that which is matured. An astringent catechu, that would almost close the mouth of a glass ink-stand, is next in order. A couple of ounces of strychnine, next called for, are quickly conveyed to his vest pocket, and a pound of white vitriol is as silently placed in the bottom of the basket The oil of cognac,
the sulphuric acid, and other articles that give fire and body to liquid poisons, are always kept in store. The mixer buys these from various quarters. They are staples of the art. Congressional Personals. Senator Sargent was a printer in early life. Senator Oglesbee was once a California miner. Senator Ben Hill was a prisoner at Fort Lafayette in 18G5. It was Senator Bayard's original intention to be a merchant. Hon. Thomas W. Ferry has the finest Senatorial beard in Congress. The parents of Hon. Benjamin A. Willis, of New York, are Quakers. Senator Dorsey. of Arkansas, has been the President of a tool company. Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, has the degree of LL, D. from Columbia College. Senator McPherson made his fortune as a farmer and a dealer in live stock. Senator Whyte, of Maryland, was once a banking clerk of George Peabody's. Senator Lamar is a fine mathematician, and has been a professor of mathematics. Senator Jones, of Florida, was 10 years old when he left his native Emerald isle. Senator Conkling will not allow himself to be called out of the Senate during a session. Hon. Jacob D. Cox was born in Canada, and paroled the troops of Gen. Joe Johnston. Hon. Benoni S. Fuller, of Indiana, commenced life as a school teacher and a sheriff. Hon. James B. Beck can never be President, having been born In Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Senator McMillan, of Minnesota, was a law student in the office of the lato Edwin M. Stanton. Hob. Wm. M. Garth, of Alabama, is a graduato of Emory and nenry College. Virginia. Senator Edmunds' vinegar cruet is ornamented with a figure of Moses turning his rod into a serpenr. Hon. A. H. Boekoer, of Missouri, was a student at Georgetown College, in the District of Columbia. Hon. Otho R. Singleton is a native of Kentucky, and has been in public life for over a generation. Senator Mitchel was once a professor of medical jurisprudence in Williamette University, Oregon. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, vas Attorney General of that State in 1852, at the early age of 2G. Stcitor Burnside resigned from the army in 18T2 to manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his own invention. Hon George A. Bickneli, of Indiana, is a doctor of laws, was a fence-viewer one year, and a Judge for twentyfour years. non. Wm. A. Phillips, of Kansas, graduated into the politics of that State from the staff of the New York .Trihune. Hon. Horace Davis, of California, is the only man who ever fitted himself for a miller by graduating at Havard University. Hon. Fernando Wood commenced life as a shipping merchant at 19, and retired at 38 with an ample fortune. Senator Thomas C. McCreery, of Kentucy, has that happy expression which settles on the face of a cat after it has eaten the canary. Hon. Thaddous C. Pound, of Wisconsin, is the oniv member of the Congressional delegation from that
State who is not a lawyer. Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Pennsylvania, was Chairman of the Democratic Convention, which met in Baltimore in 1844, and nominated Polk and Dallas. Senator Armstorng was a school teacher for seventeen years, having opened and conducted at St Louis, the first public school ever established in Missouri, under the laws of that State. Senator Kirk wood, of Iowa, is a Southern man b birth, and received his scholastic education in Washington. None of the Congressional delegation from Iowa were born in that State. Hon. R. P. Bland, of Missouri, practiced law in Nevada during the "flush times," when the Coroner charged $1,000 forholding an inquest, and had to employ three deputies to help him keep up the day's work. Washington Pres.
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Hffogiiizing the Confedrracj. An old soldier at Omaha prints this recollection oi Col. Bob Ingersoll in action: "Col. Ingersoll fought manfully until overpowered and compelled to surrender, but not until one of Forrest's men had him covered with a gun and had drawn a bead on him. Ingersoll sang out: 'Hold on there! What do you want to shoot me for? I have been recognizing your old Confederacy for the last two minutes!' When Ingersoll was exchanged his horse was returned to him by the rebel General, with the remark that he was the man that saved his life with a joke."
Adrift in my Httle boat, Becalmed on a oold sray sea; And chill mists lazily float All over my boat and me. The breeze fie dead asleep, Not a breath in the idle sails; Aud I wearily watch and weep And listen for distant Saasa. Shall I still drop useless tears and sit here and wait and wait, Till my head jrrow? gray with years. For the wind that may come too late? To be idle is shame to the strong! 1 will lay my hand to the oar; Aud the bark that has waited lone. Shall wait for the wind no more.
There are more than 2,000 photograph galleries in Paris, employing upwards of 18,000 persons and doing a business of more than 30,000,000 francs a year.
Items of Interest. The United States pays annually to other countries $100,000,000 for sugar and molasses. Ia his Fourth of July speech, Hugh McCuUoch said there must be no sympathy with the doctrine advanced by some clergymen that starvation is a means of grace. A new kind of steeple-chase has been gotten up in Cohoes, N. Y. In the latter part of this month a couple of men will climb a steeple 300 feet high for a wager of $150. Laura Bridgman, who is blind, deaf and dumb, is now over forty-eight years old, but does not look over thirty. She is still as busy as ever, learning, working and teaching, and is said to be well contented. The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon takes Colonel Bob Ingersoll down the bank thus: "I should do nothing to convert such a man as Colonel Ingersoll. He is a green watermelon. The more he abounds the sooner the public will turn from him." Present indications are that the car-builders are now to have their harvest Quite a number of Western roads have already given orders for box-cars adapted to carrying grain or meichandise, most of which will be used in increasing their quotas with the fast freight lines. Wilbur F. Story of the Chicago Times, has not profited by his trip to Europe. On the contrary, while traveling in Switzerland he suite red a severe paralytic stroke, and is now in Paris, undergoing treatment He has only partial control of his lower limbs. He will return home about the 1st of August. The railroads of the United States have in use 3,500,000 car-wheels. Those on fast passenger trains are renewed eyery ten months; but freight cars use the same wheels sometimes ten years. The average life of a wheel is 50,000 miles, and at that rate it takes 700,000 a year, at a cost less the old wheels, of $6,000,000. The recent extremely warm weather has greatly improved the prospect for a good corn crop, and farmers who were holding on to their last year's crop until they knew to some extent what this year's crop would be, are now beginning to ship quite largely, and the through lines are beginning to feel it, the increase in business being quite perceptible. The old story of the existence of
immense coal beds underlying the Minnesota prairies has again been revived. A number of speculators have bought land and propose to commenee operations in Union county; but the Pioneer-Press, of St. Paul, has no faith in the reliability of the reports. Indians are killing the settlers in the Tigh valley, about forty miles from the Dalles, Oregon. Part of the Warm Spring Indians are on the war path, and many whites were saved from them by the rapid riding of the friendly half-breeds, who warned them of the uprising. Horrible details of the famine in northern China accumulate from all sources. Chinese authorities estimate that 5,000,000 people haye died of starvation, and the most revolting crimes have become habitual in order that the stronger may live upon the weaker. A broom factory nearly completed, was demolished by a hurricane which
swept through Amsterdam. New York Wednesday afternoon. Nine workmen were buried in the ruins. Robert Bergen, Frank Hart and Patrick Eagan were fatally, and the rest severely injured. Several other buildings were damaged. Stanley takes no exercise, drinks nothing but tea, writes from morning until night upon a little African stool about eight inches .igh at a table less than two feet in height and has a tremendous litter of books, papers and maps in his apartment, which he will not allow to be moved even to be dusted. The indications at the treasury con
tinue to show that the government is
making every possible effort to prepare for resumption. Treasurer Gil-
fillan has gone to join Secretary Sherman at New York, to eonfer upon the subject Gilfillan himself, before leaving, expressed the opinion that the treasury is in good oondition for resumption. The convention in Washington ter
ritory, assembled to frame a constitution on which to ask admission as a state, have reached two questions. One of these is in regard to giving suffrage to women as well as men, and the other contemplates limiting the amount of land which any one man may hold.
The amount of gold produced in Montana up to date is $120,000,000. The amount of silver produced in 1875, $100,000; estimated silver product for 1878, $2,000,000; gold yield In 1877 (exported), $3,220,000 ; sliver bars and base bullion exported in 1877, $740,000; silver ore shipped In 1877, $200,000. Total shipments last year, $5,000,000. The wool shipped from Montana in 1877 was 310,000 pounds, and it is estimated that the shipments this year will reach 500,000. There are 300,000 cattle in the Territory. The Joplin (Mo.) Herald says there is no metal mined in the United States which has fluctuated so much In price as has lead ore. Fifteen years ago it was worth $110 per 1,000 pounds, while to-day it is dull at less than $20 per 1,000 pounds. In 1858 It sold at the mines at $18, while forty years ago, when the northern mines were first opened, $6 and $8 was considered a fair price. But at that time transportation was difScilt and expensive. It is lower to-day than it has been for twenty years, and in fact below its intrinsic value. General Sherman is engaged in preparing an elaborate statement of his views upon the military establishment demanded by the peculiar wants of the United States. His theory is that in a republic such as ours, where the civil power is weak, the reserve power should be strong, and that the military should be organized so as to co-operate with it within the limits of statutory and constitutional provisions, instead of being guided by usage or precedent He thinks both Banning and Bragg have manifested such prejudice in dealing with the army that fair treatment from them carrot be hoped for. To a reporter of the Philadelphia Record, Mr. Joseph J. Martin (engaged in the business of shipping beef to the English market) said, the other day, that about two weeks ago he shipped 200 cattle by a Clyde steamer, and they arrived in England as fresh as if they had just been driven out of a yard. In fact they stand the ocean passage better than a trip from the West in the cars. The first consignment of meat sent over from New York was in 1875, and amounted to 36,000 pounds. One year later Philadelphia sent over her first shipment, amounting to 150,610 pounds. During the April following, the shipments aggregated 2,546,200 pounds. During the past year oar Glasgow firm imported 12,000,000 pounds of American meat In spite of the heavy shipments the demand has so far exceeded the supply that prices have steadily advanced. Concerning our ability to supply the English market, Mr. Martin says there are 8.000,000 head of cattle annually available for slaughter. Those that are shipped average one-third of a ton net Allowing an American to eat as much meat as an Englishman mm Ä at Si mm -a
say loo pounds per neaa or. tne
population we could, out of our
surplus stock, considerably more than
feed the entire population of England. Eloquent Temperance Extract The great and gifted Thomas F. Marshal, of Kentucky, once upon a time delivered a temperance lecture in the hall of the House of Rreprosentatives in Washington before the Congressional Total Abstinence Society, of which the following Is one of the most eloquent passages: "Sir, I would not exchange the physical sensations, the mere tense of animal being that belongs to a man who totally refrains from all that can intoxicate his brain or derange his nervous structure the elasticity with which he bounds from his eouch in the morning the sweet repose it yields him at night the feeling which he drinks in through his clear eyes, the beauty and grandeur of surrounding nature; I say, sir, I would not exchange my conscious being as a strictly temperate man, the sense of renovated youth, the glad play with which my pulses now beat healthful music, the bounding vivacity with which the blood courses its exulting way through every fibre of my frame, the communion high which my healthful ear and eye now hold with all the gorgeous universe of God the splendors cf morning, the softness of the evening sky the bloom, the beauty, the verdure of the earth, the music of the air and waters with all the grand associations of external nature reopened to the fine avenue of sense; no, sir, tho' poverty dragged me though scorn pointed its slow fingers at me as I passed though want and destitution and every element of earthly misery, save crime, met my waking eye from day to day ; not for
the brightest and noblest wreath that ever encircled a statesman's brow; not if some angel commissioned by heaven or some demon sent from hell to test the strength of virtuous resolution should tempt me back, with all the honors which a world can bestow ; not for all that earth can give would I cast from me this pledge of a liberated mind, this talisman against temptation, and plunge again into the dangers and horrors that once beset my path; so help me heaven, as I would spurn beneath my very feet all the gifts the universe could offer, and live and die as I am, poor and sober."