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The Plymouth Republican.

VOLUME 23.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THUBSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1870.

NUMBER 0.

ADVERTISING RATES.

Business cards. 5 fine, fc. prr vsar. Special rates givenjto regular advertiser. Legal Advertise me la as regvlated by law. Home and transient advertising made known oo application, C'anrrh and society announcements, marriage and ! ' notices, f n a. Local notices, in body typ, 19 cento per line, trat insertion; second insertion S cento.

rrJob; rrit.fing on the moat favorable m

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

T. A. HORTON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONOd:c in Post OfScc Block. Dwelling ob Bast Hid Sooth Mkhigan Strict PLYMOUTH. IXÜIANA.

Time's ('limits.

bt satt in w. trke.

Dr. at M JENNINGS. THYSfCIAN AND SUKGEON. offlce with I rr. ij, stirnuan over Launr' Store, oa Eicliignn street. PIv mouth. Ind. Residence ott Center street, opposite Catholic church, bm xuMi

AM AS A JOHNSON ATTORN SY AT LAW. Prsmpt atteoUoo given to collectiona, sstUraaeat of decedewta' ertatcc aad gaaniUustiipa, deeds, morigagea, and other conuli drawn ap and ackuoa iedgmenta taken.

P O. JONES, Attorney at Law A Notary Public Prompt attention given to all claims nnd colsctions left in his car. Office in corner of oar's brick block Plymouth Ind. C. H- REEVE, AITOKXE i Al LAW. Located In 184. Collections and conveyam iug a specialty. Buys and sells real estate -n coiuonslon. Insures Uvea and property in A. 1 conitnnles. Desirable real estate tor sale in the It and adjoinics. Norl-TS D. I I. BJME&. 1HTSICIAS AMD SURGEON, will be JL pleased tu re-i- patients at his office. !To. Sl tichisan street, where he may be oend a all diu, except when professionalg absent, his residence beuur. at the same I sir ist. ist. "

The songs we sang in other yeara They greet us now no man. The loves that ronseil our hotte and fears Are vaniaht-d nw, sntl o'er. Th tri .iids w love arr scattered wide. Familiar an nes are rhauged; Aud hearts that once wen- trv- aud tried Are lift . or -.traug-i. The lip thf sweetest smile that wore ; The check that blimmed most lair; The voice that rharim-d lie long before, w ith masir rich aud ran-; The eyes whose litrhtest glance ronld still ur hearts with love enthrall. Whose smile cisild Mes,wtSMa frown coald kill, Arechaared or vanished all. The wav was bright before is then. The ruining day seem fate; We salaried with onr fellow-men. With heart to do and rlare. The bones of youth are faded now, lla fevered 'I reams are past; Ami time, upon ong furrowi-d brow, His silvery shale has cast. Wt oo are ehansred, hnt not in heart ! Old time may do his worst; lie cannot Irom remembrance part The things we loved at flrs'.. The eye may dim, the elieeka grow pale. The snows of age may fall, Tet anail our mem ric never fail To heed aOecl ion's iai!.

THE DARKEST HOUR,

Wm. N. BAILEY. M. D.. 1HYSR IVN A SUKGEON. Thirty years

A practice. Graduate of two Jteaicsi coi- i ages, aud six rears Surgeon in the army of Co U. S. (vol. serv.) Can compete suoi-esa-liy with any quuck la the United States. Vhaaaful fur past favors, is still .u regular i arawtice. and oulr reiuires to be better known K bave au ejtl-nive one. UfQce in Hears

itv brick, cor. of JTicntgan aiid LaForte Streets. Plymouth. In !.. uly 1st. 187. 17 J. O , S. D- A J- W. PARKS, A TTOItNEYS AT LAW. Notaries Public and A Authorized War Claim Agents; Offices at lesrbon and Plyiuwutn. Imliaua. EspeetoJ axuvntiou given to tb auttlif it! of oWeodeiito states. Couvayanctng. and the collection of toidiera' Claims for Pensions; will attend promptly to all profi-sional business entrusted to them, and practice iu Marshall and adjoining coantie. Plymouth oice on Gano 6 treat between Michigan aud Center street, loarboo offiee . . -. i,-f r max offl 23 tf

C. R. CHANE ATTORN Bf AT LAW. Will practice in all the -osrts to the state. OfTtoe in Wheelers block. htm Itocker A Wolfs dry goods store, Plymouth, bid. aagiijr

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KS. K. W. uoi.tr,

HOMEOPATTIIC Tbysiclan and Dentist, and Dr. J. A. Dunlap. regular physi-'ian and Surgeon, respect'iilly ofler their nervices to 16 public. Ortce in ('.rbin's block; resienee on East Gano street.

WILLIAM HESS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Plymouth. Indiana. janlyl

JOHN S. BENDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, läiCOBY wtOC. PUSOUTH. IRQ.

Ksvectai aUeutiou given to the aottlea.eut of es totM, and partition of lands; a!-o the collection of glsleas and foroclossre ot mortgages. Remittances

prompt. 'V " a7c i . jt a7T capron, Attorneys & Counse lors AT L.V W REAL ESTATE AGENTS. rrtCK A. L. A UKKLSiO BLOCK. r. PLYOUTH. IND.

J. B. N. KLIN6ER, Notary Pablls, Conveyancer. Kxaniiner of Tille and Civil Kugiaeer. Will furatsb a complete Abstract of TM M lands iarshall eoanty, lad. 'Iii e at Ii a residence, oa Jtadlaon rtreet. uorto of uurt llooae square. nrxoi iu, isMASA.

W. H. MERSHON, Teahr of Vocal and Instrumental Music. Will be ta Plymnuth every MoLdav and Tuesday. I uo Organ. Vtuitn, Oaitar. voice cnltnre aud Laribony. Luive orders al t'lias. v hitmore'a music room dec & 3m

DENTISTS

F. M . B U RK ET,

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Dentiat, ftVe ovor A. Beekur'a rnterf, opposite Host Office. All work warranted to give satire satisfaction to every rsapet i. l.'waos il the month tnd teeth asceeastnll trxaied

Tr tb ex t'tc ted without pain by the use of altrons olid All work warranted. I

"I have tried crerywhere to get work. I went from door to door this morning. oiTering to do any thing, hoping to earn enough to get you and the children something to eat." The speaker was a poor but industrious man, who had married, as mauy do, a very young and beautiful

girl, without stoppiug to think that a long life lay before thern, It was a brd winter, ami the young wife, who had seen 21 years, was the mother of three children, the youngest be- t lag an infant only 3 months old. She had been disappointod. What woman who has married hastily, and at too early an age, has not? But she had a good and brave heart, und learned in time that the future of her hus

band and dear little ones depended much upon hersetf.

"Don t despair, Harry, sne replied, answering the words at the c jtnmeneemeut of this sketch. "It

is our darkest hour, and help must be near." She held her babe up to her face, tohide from her husba d the starting tears. At that moment her little 3-year-old son said: "Mamma, I's so hungry!" "Hush Freddie.'' said his sister, who was two years oi ler than her brother, "mamma's got no bread." Though but a baby, the little girl knew the bitterness of want, I can't bear this auy longer." said the half crazed father, taking something from drawer and rushing to the door. ' Harry, are you mad?" shrhked his wife, springing toward him. ''Oct out of my way," he esohlflMd, fiercely endeavoring to push her from him. "See you bave hurt the baby." "Hairy, I wil! not let you out." He turned his white, frenzied face toward her. "Papa," she said pleadingly, pointing to the frightened children, "would you leave them fatherless?'' "What can I do?" he moaned, sinkinto a chair. "Take baby and stay here, while I go and get bread." She put her infant in his arm, while be sat still, unable to act or

v Link. Then she put on her bonnet warm."

For a moment she gazed ut him; .1 Al 1 1 - I

tuen mere arose ueiore uer a mental vision a half-crazed man and three starving childred. She uttered a moan of agony. Then the struggling soul's cry escaped her lips. "Heavenly Father, give me strength!" Trembling she, laid the bank-note down, and in silence turned to go. "Will yousee your children starve?" he asked. "Haven will send relief. You

have a gray-haired, honorable mother. of whom you are justly proud; as , such I wotil 1 have my son remember ! me." The door closed, and she stood again in tho - tree', freezing, starving, I hopeless. For a moment she felt as if Hying upward, then down down, and she knew no more. A tall, blustering sort of a mau eaught her ae she fell.

"Take care, my lass; It's slippery here," he exclaimed. But the dead weight, and pale,

pinched teatures told him ehe was the victim of no accident, but of life's !

bitter realities; and, taking her into a : shop, he waited till she revived. "Now, miss, you're all rifrht," he

' said, when she was able to speak, j "There's a cab at -the door; tell BM where you live, and I'll have you safe there before tho wind shifts again." ii ' ly she yielded to the stranger's 1

request, feeling, she knew not why, that heaven had sent her a friend. The husband was surprised when his wife returned, but the stranger , with her soo explained the situation of afTair, and also learned from the sorrowful father the story of their destitution. He then gave Harry money to get fuel and provisions, i promising to stay till he returned. While talking to Mrs. Allen, who sat holding her infant, he took up a small case that lay upon a table, and

opeMng it disclosed a picture of a mother and child. 'May I ask fiom whom did yon receive this?" he 'Inquired, gazing intently at the NkaMMh "From my m ithar." "Is she alive?" "No, sir. I lost both parents when I was a child. I do not know thut I have a relative living." "That picture was takea the day you were a year old, twenty years

j ago- your name was Sinti Lee?"

"Yes; l ut how come you to know

my name and age?" "I am your mother's sailor brother, i William Leslie. I have been a wanderer for twenty years; I returned, hoping to find my sisier; but you I must till her place. Cheer up, my i dear; I have more than enough for us j alL" There was a suspicious huskiness In the old sailoi's voice as he took put his bauduuna, and. vigorously blowing bis nose, complained that the room was too warm. Nina smiled at the little fiction, for everything was 0 j d and cheerless. She laid her babe in its crib, aud putting her arras around William Leslie's neck said:

"Your kind heart, uncle, makes It

KILL KU BY A METEOR.

Leoni' i. roter, of Fountain Comity, lustantly hilled hy the Fall or a Twenty-pouuu Meteor. Krem the Indianapolis Journal.) On Tuesday night of last week, Leondas Orover, who resided in the vicinity of Newtown. Fountain county, met his deuth in a way that is probably without parallel in this or any other country. Mr. Orover was a widower, living on his farm with a married daughter and her husband. On the evening referred to, the marlied couple had been absenton a visit to some neighbors, and upon returning at a late hour, entered the house, finding everything, to all appearance, in usual order, and supposing that Mr. Orover had already retired, went to bed themselves. Next morning t h daughter arose, and having prepared breakfast, went to the adjoining room to call her father, and was horrified to lind him lying upoa his shattered bud. a mutilated corpse. Her screams brought the husband quickly to the bedroom, und an In ppectiun disclosed a ragged opening in the roof, directly over the breast of the unfortuuate man, which was torn through as If by a cannon shot, and extending downward through the bedding and iloor; other holes showed the direction taken by the deadly missile. Subsequent search reveuled the fact that the awful calamity was caused by the fall of a

I believe there's nobody left in this world but a set of graspiu", bloodsuckin' old misers. Why, good land, you don't want to be able to buy a National bank with one corn crop! Thirty cents for corn! Well, I'll let my carriage horses run on cornstalks all winter before I'll pay any such an unheard of outrageous price for corn as that. Why, tho country's flooded with corn, and 30 cents a bushel is a blamed robbery, an' I don't see how nny maa lookin' at the crop we've had, can hive the face to ask such u pr'ce." Burlington Haw key e.

Coasting Recollections. j tion from changes of temperature, The boys wer3 coasting down Syc- and the absorption of moisture, which amore street hill last evening, when favors decay. Much will depend on John Sanscript and flis wife came the spartment In which the experi along. They had been up on Balti- j ment is tried, a dry or cool one being more street visiting, and were on best. 1 This is not a new discovery, their way home. The Pennsylvania Dutch farmers "Just see them boys, now," said have long practiced this way of keepJohn, as he braced up at tho intersec- lng apples. tion of Mulberry street. "It reallv " . " ' , . , . . How Jievada Lumbermen Snrt Their reminds me of the days when I was Ljg, iH,wa the Mountains, a lad. Do you know, Jane that lj A cbuto is laid from the river's used to coast down hill on a sled that i, i(1Lr ,,n th tan mmmtain m th.

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Ileal Ii of the Last Sarvlvor of the LewIs and Clark Surviving Party. i harlottoavllle (Va.) Cor. Sew York Snn.l Capt. Tom Lewis, nearly iK) years old, was found frozen to death last night iu tho public road in Albemarle county. He was farming in a small way in the county, and It is supposed that he had gone out to cut some wood. Capt. Lewis bad led an eventful life, and was famous as the last survivor of. the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Missouri river. Merriwether Lewis, the oldest son of Mrs. Marks, of Locust Hill, by her former marriage wi.h Col. William Lewl, of the Revolutionary army, was Privat Secretary to President Jeff -rson shortly after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and was elected to explore that Territory.

He had permission from the Presi

way?" "Did you, John?'

railroad, and, while we are telling it, the monster logs are rush! ig.

meteoric stone, and tho stone itself, dent of seUctlng bis aid and compan

pyramidal iu shupe and weighing i )D, and he chose Lieut. Clatk, of the twenty pounds and a few ounce?, ! regular army. Tho company was oravoirdupois. and stained with blood, I ganized with about thiity private was unearthed from a depth of nearly j BCdiers, and commanded by Capt, five feet, thus showing the fearful im- Lowls an,j Clark. Capt. Lewis also p-tus with which it struck the dwell- ,ook Hioug on(5 üf hU hives, a youth

ing. rne position or tue corpse, with . 0f n. named Tom. Tom was remark-

other surroundings, when found, showed that the victim was asleep when strickeu, and thut death to him was painless.

m d ehuwl, and kissing tho two eager little faces that watched her movements, told taem to be good children and she would get them something nice.

Hh took her on his knee and smoothed her sunny hair, saying: "Poor little Nira! Your old uncle hove in sight just in time to save

Snrba hrsdiT ui Webed? of Sua Week. DxITA. C. HUME,

DENTIST! OfB'je In Socoud story. Post Office Building Teeth from one only, to w full set, so eheup that the rieh and poor can all GST THEM. Ii eservation of the Natural Teeth A SPECIALITY.

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She bun led away to the business jje drew the wondering children part of tho city, and enteriug a large toward him aud kissed them, while building, knocked timidly at an office ; Nina shuddered, thinking how, for a door. It was opened by a msn whose brief moment, one hour before the appearance and everything about him dark hours of despair threatened to boie the impression of wealth and engulf her. culture. Harry Allen returned with enough "This is indeed a surprise, Mrs. Al- fuei aDj f00j to comfort aud cheer lea, a most agreeable one," he said, i tno fjeal ono8t an(j was ma(e happy leading her to a seat, "To what for- y hearing the glad news.

C. C. DURR,

DENT 1ST ! Ofice over Parks 11 ros.' Law Office, Gano Street.

Plymouth, lud.

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PHILIP BEST'S Milwaukee BOTTLED LAGER BEER! tiavinx t iii'-u the agency of tite above celebrated Boitlixl I ji- t tV-er, rau furnish it for $1.25 per Dozen Battles nd deliver at any jurt of the city. MAX RUGE.

tunate circumstance do I owe this visit? For it must be something very lmporant that has brought you out this bitter cold day." She felt the covert sarcasm, but nerved herself to speak. "Necessity, Mr. Thornton: my husband has bad oo work for months, and my children are suffering; give me some copying to do to earn them bread." He bad known her from her childhood; he knew how her proud, sensative spirit shrank daily under the lash of adversity. He bad ventured once to ridicule the man whom the married; but, with an imperious gesture which he had not expected, she replied: "He is my husband." "An idle husband and bungiy babies, Mrs. Allen; that's bad," be said, answering her appeal. An angry retort arose to her lips, but she conquered her pride, and said: "Give me work, and suffiotent to provide for their present wants," "Is It true that you are In so much need, Nina?" His kind toao, and tho onoe-famil-iar name dispelled all her reserve. "They are starving! To save them I came to you. Ho unlocked a drawer und put a bank note into her hand, saying: "Spend that, and you shall have morf" She raised her tearful eyep to his; her lips moved, but she could not speak her heartfelt gratitude. He stood 2t her side, stooped down, und whispered ouu word, "Mine!"

Years of prosperity followed, and there came a time when Nina, surrounded by kind friends, once more met Mr. Thornton. Ho approached her, and, in a low tone said: "Mrs. Allen, am I forgiven?" Sho glanced at bitn; his presenoe recalled the darkuess, saddest hour of her life. "Yes." she replied, "forgiven and forgotten." The Deacon's Mistake. A good deacon in Davenport. Iowa, saw a drunken mun whom he knew, driving aimlessly about the streets one daik nihr. The deucuu kindly got into his sleigh and took the reins, intending to take the drunkard home, which was two miles away ; but disliking the idea of wulking buck, he stoppei at a tavern to find somebody who could more conveniently do the job. While he was iu tho tavern, the drunkard drove off by himself, aud a young fellow arrived with his girl iu a sleigh. The young fellow entered the tavern, leaving hi" girl, mufilrd in a blanket, to wait while he got a diink. The deacon found a volunteer to take his place as guide to the drukard;butthe volunteer, on going to the sleigh that then stood in front of the taveru, discovers! that the occupant was not the diunkrd. und said to the deacon, "Its a girl out there." "No, tuin't," replied the deucon, who thought she was the drunkard, He put one arm around her and roughly pulled away the blanket. She screamed for help. Hir lover ran out and gave the deacon a severe whipping. Then they took the good deacon into the tavern, washed the blood from his face, the girl k ssed him, and all was furgiven.

Quito a Mistake, Last night two buggies stopped at the Capital Hotel, and two gentlemen jumptd out almost eimultaueously and went into the hotel, leaving two Indies in their respective buggies. One of the men came ouw in advance of the other, and by the uncertain light thrown from the hotel, was led aside from the actual fact in the little m Itter vi getting in the right buggy. In

a word, Mr. J. got in with Mrs. F., who i

were as totally unknown to each other, so fr as acquaintanceship is con eerned, as if one had died ten years ago in Africa nnd the other hadn't been born. As married men often do, Mr. J. drove some distance before speaking. Flually ho remarked: "I've got a corn on my toe the one you p rsist in putting your foot on, too that hurts about as bad as the common run of things gencraly do." The lady was very much surprised, and rather haughtily replied: "You've been trying to pick a quar

rel with me all day, aud now, to make the matter more exasperating, you ,

change your voico to an unnatural growl." "It's you, rnudam, who have changed. My voice is natural. I am not trying to assume anything. You screech like an old gate." "You are an old fool!" "Give my teeth here; you shan't w ar them another minute." "Teeth! teeth! What in the world do you mean?" Hut just then, driving through a flood of light, the parties recognized that they didn't recognize. "Madam," said Mr. J., stopping the horse and ?traighteuing himself up, "I hope you will excuse me, but I wotdd like to know how you came in my buggy, and, futhcimore I'd like a little Intelligence as regards the whereabouts of my wife. What have you dune with her madam?" I dou't know what you mean, sir.

Got out of my buggy!" "Your buggy! Why, madam, you are beside yourseir!" "Yes, and beside yourself, which

I fact I deplore to such an extent that I

will be forced to call the police." "Police! pulioe. ' was shouted lustily, and, when Utficer Dailoy came to the spot, the woman insisted on the man's arrest.

ably black, and neither comely in person nor attractive in manner. Tom was Capt. Lewis' favorite body servant, and stuck by his master to the last. Capt. Lewis often told how Tom had saved his life after the ex pedition bad crossed tho Rocky mountains, and was about to descend the Columbia river. Lewis was in

; the wilderness, with no companion ' save Tom, who bad been christened j by the soldiers "Capt. Tom Lewis," and which name clung to bim to the d iy of his death. The two wete at1 taeked by tbteo Indians from hostile tribes then In that country. Cant

LO-wts was seriously wounded in the thigh. He sent the only ball in his rille through the head of oae of his as-a l ints, The other two rushed on him and would bave slain him had not Tom hurled one insensible to the ground, and with the but end of the gun of his prostrate master brained the other. Ho was herculean in strength. He went through all the trials und hardships of that great expedition without flinching. Tho Lewis and Clark expedition ti-nniuated in 1806. Capt. Lewis onme to his mother's home, near Joy depot, iu Albemarle county, and went thenee to St. Louis, the capital of Missouri Territory, of which he was then Governor. On Ms return he stopped for the night at a little inn on the roadside somewhere in Tennesson. Iu the tr.orning he was found dead in his room with bis

"Why, yes; but thats lirty years thundering, flying, leaping down the a8'-" declivity. They come with the speed Sanscript scratched his head con- j Qf H thunderbolt, and somewhat of tentatively, and then muttered, it8 roaT. A track of flre and smoke sottovoce: "Durn my graaddaddy's follows them -flre struck by their buttons, in dou't try it!" friction with the ohuto logs. They MrsTS What' dear?M aDXi0Ugl7 Mk8d descend the 1.700 feet of the chute in "rm Äi 4 aJMMWti Io doing so they drop

700 feet ernendicularlv. Thev strike

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ago."

Now, John, if I wera you- n "But you are not tue, so dou't In

terfere. Here, souny, to a lad j jsi puff d ut the hill with hid sled), here, sonny, I'll give you a quarter to lei me nlido down on your sled once!" The bargain was eagerly nailed and clinched. "BCkeerful, old man," urged the boy, as Sanscript gquattod rather awkwardly on the sled ; "be keerful, I say, sod don't let her flunk one way or 'tothcr till she btings up, or you'll git mashed." ".Never Baud, youngster," assured John; "I've been hero afore some yeais afore but" But what, will never bo known, for just then the sled, of its own accoid, started dowu bill, and even John himself bns since been unable to recall what be was about to observe. The surprise at tho sled's unexpected movement was general. "Look out '."yelled the boy. "Ob, Johu!" screamed Mrs. Sancrlpt. "Whoa, there!" yelled John. But tho sled wouldn't whoa. It seemed to have set off down the hill to beat its best time. Johu had cbunce only to catch hold of both an.l hnM kia iir..ii f Ii f ne fear thn

., asi.. st lg springs 150 feet vertically into wind would blow off the top of Mb .6 " ... . .

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report that can be heard a mile distant. Logs flred from a cannon could scarcely have greater velocity than they have at the foot of the chute. Their average velocity is over 100 feet iu a second throughout the entire distance, and at the instant they leap from the mouth their speed must be fully 200 feet per second. A 6ugur pine log sometimes weighs

ten tons. What a missile! How the : water is dashed into the air! Like ! a grand plume of diamonds and rainj bows, the feathery spray is hurried to tno height of 100 feet. It forms the grandest fountain ever hoheld How the waters of the pond foam j and seethe and lash against the short I One log, having spent its force by its mad plunge Into the deep waters, has floated so as to be al tight angles with the path of the descending monsters. The mouth of the chute is, perhaps, fifteen feet : above the surface of water. A huge J log burled from tho cbuto cleaves ! tho air and alights on the floating

log. You know how a bullet glances, but can you imagine a eaw loa gtanc-

ing. The end strikes with a heavy shock, but glides quickly past for a short dislai.ee, then a crash like the ! reverberation of artillery, the falling

Items of Interest. The world uses 35.000 barrels of refined oil dally. The Missouri Legislature, Jan. 15 elected Gen. James Shields for tho short term In tho Unitod State Senata. Cincinnati has a nowa boy who t 12 years old, is thirty eight inchoo high, in his shoes, nod weighs only thirty-six pounds. Kearney's la tee t prayer is: "May God Almighty strike the man de) takes less than 2 a day during who the coming winter." It is believed that the Government has made $16,000.000 by the destrtxv tion of fractional currency while lathe hands of tho people. Gen. Tom Thumb and his wlfo am giving public exhibitions again. The General is rich, but says he is not contented at home, aa ho like exeit fe

me ol. Joseph Gainer, of Scottsvllle. Hew

York, has just lost bis wife. She 103 years old. His age is 107,

they had been married eight y-nina years. There art fewer blind people Id Switzerland, in proportion to population, than in any other European country, and more deaf mates, idiots and lunatics. The coldest spot in North America,. Battleford, Canada, has a newspaper newly established the Saskatchewan Herald. Battleford is 750 milea went of Winnipeg. Manitoba. St. Louts has seyen hundred lawyers, and this year tho law taxes them $35 per head, thus utilising a elaas hitherto considered utterly unprofitable to tbo finances of tho city. United States note used to bo at a discount in Canada, but now the Northern Now York banks havo agreed not to receive Canadian bank notes except at a discount of 2 per centum.

heatl. The only thought he had time t fitatar saa thut th bnv must. IlKVS

,v " -- - . J - -- - trrmi . ilsii'a runners as a nrac- lüß 11 8lrucK

o w tical joke. And if this was coasting, ho had naver coasted, if his recollection served him right.

the air, and with acurve like a rocket.

falls into the pond 70 yards from the

Do Please to ftou't! Sometimes a thing quaintly said sticks In the memory as a burr slings

Two thirds the way down the hill ! to a woolen garment when tho same the sled struck an ice hummock, and ; idea, more plainly uttered, slips swiftImmediately his course was changed , y 0ff jDt0 forgetfulness. It must, we

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to a parabolic curve. Whack! bang! ciash! clink! The bringing up was so awfully sudden and uncertain. Sanscript and the sled disappeared as abruptly as a shooting star. The sled lay shivered to atoms against a Inmp-

think, have been a "little Prudy" among the woe homines of the children's stories of the present genera tion who used to voico her persuasions comically thus: "Oh do please to don't r In this world of temptation steadily

post, and Sanscript lay shivering $urrounding and pressing upon good in the grocery cellar just opposite. and Daj alke, tho entreaty toward When the off runner of the sled col -1 tne resistance of all evil needs to bo llded with the lamp post and stopped ; nmogt continually made. It may the vehicle. Bnnicrlpt rose like a clr- h,.f, gome one if he will set little ous leaper and went right on turning ; prudy's alarm clock so that it will jinsommersaults to the second. He g0 jlg tiny silver bell at the Instant of went through tho grocery window as nnger, and ring out its soft appeal:

the circus leaper goes through a pa- 0h, do please to don't !

some unaccountable purpose or by himself remains a mystery to this day. Tom was his body servant then and knew more about this mystery than any one else, but he always shook his head when asked and said. "This is a matter the less talked about the better." On the death of his old master. Tom returned to Albemarle county, and with savings bought a small farm, which ke occupied oo the day of bis death. It is supposed that, from feebleness and exhuustion, he fell in the road, and. not being able to rise, was frosen to death. His death ends the list of survivors of that historic expedition.

throat cut. whether by another for per hoop. All the ginger bread hor- j Young man! You who bave Just

ses aud candy apples aud other CIlgt 0ff the tow-rope which to this Christmas luxuries were disarranged, date has kept up your intl nate and ofoourse. The rubbery part of San-1 constant connection with th family soript's body struck a western re- bark, whore father and mother, and serve cheese on the counter, scatter- brothers and sisters, havo given you

ing the skippers In consternation. ! tho infinite advantage of their lore

The old coaster bounded five fwet at ! -nti ffiiidance. and who havo begun to

The Plague. Cablegrams from St. Petersburg give accounts of the breaking out ami spreading o! a plague in Astrachan. This Is a province of Russia northwest of the Caspiun Sea, iu Asia. It is travelers by the river Volga, which

runs through it from northwest to

The buggy was driven back to the ! GUtheast; its area Is over 61,000

an obtuse angle, touching again for

row aid sail and steer for yourself,

a sec nd at the top step of the cellar pei haps In a strange city: when you stairs In the rear of the store, and j are denied by the new glare, and fas-

then, continuing like a diver into the Plutonic depths below, be went feet foremost through the head of a hogshead tilled with something soft. At first he wus uncertain whether the contents were Orleans molasses or

cinated by the thousand glittering allurements whiob invtte you to stop over the line which they think is right In your home among the hills; "Oh, do please to don't!" Put your foot down. Let your father's and rnnth-

i Capital Just iu time to meet another

buggy, the oci'upautH of which had a ! similar experience. Ai kaiia Deinurrat.

The Price of Corn. "No," the honest farmer remarked, iu tones of tho deepest dejectiou, "the big crops don't do us a bit of good. What's tho use? Corn cniy 30 cents. Everybody and everything is dead set agiu the farmer. Only 30 cents for corn. Why, by gum, it won't pay our tax, let alone buy us clothes. It won't buy us enough salt to put up a barrel of pork. Corn only 30 cents! By jocks, it's a livin', cold blooded swindle on the farmer, that's what it is. It ain't worth raisin' corn for such a price as that. It's a mean, low robbery." Within the next ten days that man ha 1 sold so much more of his corn thn be intended, that he found he hud to buy corn to feed through the winter with. The prioe ueurly knocked bim dowu. "What! he yelled, "thirty cents for oom! Laud alive thirty cents! What are you glvin' us? Why, I don't want to buy your farm, I only want home com! Thirty ueute for corn! Why,

square miles, and consists of vast plains, the greater portion of which mi. arid, sterile, und a desert. It was at one period submerged by the Caspian. On the skirts and delta of the Volga a few fertile tracts und pastures appear, on which are grown corn, vines, fruits, tobacco, and cotton. The fisheries of tl e Volga are of great value ; no stream in the world

Is more abundantly stocked with fish,

melted glucos. liefore he had time I er's God be your God, and trust Him to Investigate, the grocer and two to make you as happy as man needs policeman came down. The uohap-; to be in this world as, indeed, a man py old boy was lifted out of his sweet ean be! pickle and hauled off to the stutionj Young woman ! You who have been house on a charge of malicious des-' drifted in the cuirent of ciroumstaa;i action of property. The grocer ' Ces which Ood has arranged, and perappeHred soon after, and compromis- mit ted, within the sweep of someeddy ed. upon John's paying the following ; whoso whirl perhaps looks pleasantly, bill : but in which, if you drift any further.

will airaost surely suck you downosS ward into "many foolish und hurtful 1" , . a i a a J..i.,.niAM

nisifl, waicn urown men iu uesu uruuu

i Window sash

CruiUiil cli

lloilirnil mol

Christin good

Total til 3

ml iw.r.l i t Ii ,i " MOh fin nloMan tn

Theo the boy came in with a bill of u ' Uve dollars for his sled, to say nothing , Aa it lg easy to avojd boginclngs, so of the loss of a suit of clothes, a sur-1 it u hard almost impossible to

rithstand endings. Besist the d -vil

and ho will flee

geon's bill for plastering sundry skinned surfaces, and the bill of a

hackman who conveyed the fainting from you But nerer go wth him wife home. In tho cooler moments j ualf-way. lest he be too muob for you,

many thousands of persous are em-j of aftei thought, Sanscript reckoned aQ(l make you go the whole. And ployed in taklug fish, ebiefiy stur- Up aud discovered that it bad cost wnen you ttrw weighing the queatlou,

him $109.78 to recall the recollections 6ien l0 ,jeHr ilt0 Prudy, saying: Do

geou; from the

l oes aud bladder

large quantities of isinglass and

caviare are manufactured. What the exact nature of the plague which is devastating a province some 370 miles in length aud 250 in breadth, is we are uot informed. It is stated to have been engendered through the Cossacks who had returned from the Turkish war. If so, it is probably a virulent and deadly form of tvpbus. The Cossackfc are very MMhy in their haldts. They wear no underclothing, except it be a sheep-skin, which is never ohanged from year to year. Once the taiut of an infectious disease gets among thwm, it is almost impossible to crradicate it. Should such a disease as this spread west-

of (lftv vears ago. and required but

one minute and five seconds of old Father Time in which to do the recolleol lng. Cincinnati Eni uier.

pleuse to don't.

Apples In Saud. A writer in the London

A Pleasant Expression. A young man from the country was in town yesterday, and ho entered a

I photograph gallery to have bis picture Garden taken. After seating him. the operator

frays that be finds fruit to ke p best in perfectly dry sand. He keeps fruit this way all the year round. He has

told him to aaume a pleasant expression. "Think of something cheerful," he said ; "think of your girl." A ter

vsnni tiirmirjh flu HiiHsinn V.mtiire

the result can syaryciy bo roresecu.- i tae8 ot Peking in sand are the ex-Chlca-jo Nto. t. I elusion uf air cufreuts, the preserva-

had French crubs two years old The rlble scowl took possession of the Cutelac pear has remained sound for j young nun's face, and jumping up he twelve months. Tbo fruit must bo j ozolaimed, "Think of the douoel She sound when stored, and the sand went home with another fellow last must be quite dry. Tho chief advan- nJut- ""it 'he J?" R L lbUu"de,for all mo I" IT aui.Lnllv trimwht .if haär

a a uiv . . w w v ixcuilj luwuytjuv vri asvs but the pleased expression was not

forthcoming. Xorri to wn Herald,

Ex-Governor Marshall, of

sota, is now in search of his son George, a boy of fifteen, who has ran away from home after an Id judicious course of reading boys' traahy bovha and paper. Caleb Cushlng smokod Mke n steam, engine, aud as though there was utility In tobacco. He used profanity to impart intense emphasis in some angry expressions, but never hMe or meaoingieasly. A woman 84 yeara old, IT ring ta Washington county, Ky, who has tJs ecendaots unto tho third generation, surprised the community In which she lives by giving birth to twins a few days ago. The Pope takes oeeaaloa to poonouuee hj favor of the subjugation of women. He says the wife must hesubject to tho husband as the servant Is to tho master, the child to the paeon t, and i Ivll divoroe la ail wrong. Peter Herdlc. the noted mllttooal rebankrupt of Wllliamsport, Pennsylvania, has not boon board from tor ten days, and It Is believed that ho has Bed to Europe to avoid arrest tor some of his questionable transactions. The son of King Theodore, of Abyssinia, who was Uken to England after the fall of Magdala, is being ottorated for the Bri'dsh army. He Is a slender and dusky youth, and haughty and shrewd as becomes a dososadaafe of tho Queen of Sboba. There was a con vent ton at Charlotte, y c. Jan. 15 of Northern mem from five Southern States. Resolutions wers pasae showing the advantages of the Sooth as a place for people seeking homes, nod declaring there, wa no social ostracism. The chief of the Chinese legation was a ked what his countrymen who. wished to emigrate would do if tho l' ii led States refused to reoei Ve

them. He replied that they would go to Ireland as that was the only country not governed by the Ii Iah. The San Francisco JWI says "the best Irish and WilUhtre bacon in London comes from Chicago and St. Louis, and 'superior Yorkshire bains from Cincinnati." The Pt might have added that the best Swiss cheese In this country Is owsdto la Milwaukee, and that most of the French. mustard ooaea from Buffalo. Mesne Amuiimmta. Simple experim-nts enliven longevenings at home not a little. Wogt vo a few for tho benefit of the. young folks. A good imitation of the cathedral bell may be produced by suspending n poker by two atringe. and inserting the extremities of them into the oars. A blow given to the. poker will now produce, through t ho medium of tbo strings, a sound squal to that of a great bell. Thai shown that the vibrations to tho metaillo mass of the poker by the blow are. m turn more readily communicated to the oar hy the strings than through the air. Thus, oo the same r rlnclpie the bolllug cf a kettle, inaudible in the air, msy be distinctly hoard, even from the beginning, by resting one end of the poker on the vessel and applying the other to the ear. Sot also, the beating of a watch placed at one extremity of a long beam of timber may he heard through the timber at the other end of the beam, by a person who holds his osr to the wood, although it Is totally Inaudible Id th air.