Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 September 1870 — Page 1

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The News.

DOMESTIC.

Dayton, Ohio, has a pollution )f 30,Cfl3. Increase since IrtOO, 10,280. President Grant is expected, at the State Fair, commencing at Miirlington- on the 13 h.

Tin* population of Quincj, Illinois, according to tin? census ri-tum», i.s24,.#tf. Peoria, Illinois has

population of 22,Ni,

according to the census returns. The census returns of Davenport show a population of oyer twenty thousand.

Kben C. riia.se, Treasurer of the Mechantcs'Savlugs Bank, Brooklyn, committed suicide Tuesday, hy hanging.

It is stated that the manufacturers at Kail River Mill, Massachusetts, will employ Chinese lahor if the strikers don't come to terms.

According to the hooks of the United State* Treasurer, Wednesday, there was SWJ.OUO.OUU on hand in Treasury notes of the series of 18M 3111,417,158 to supply the place of notes retired fractional currency outstanding 40,0tf7,784.

Two cars of a train on the DesMoines valley Hail road were thrown from the track and down an embankment, Tuesday mornlug, south of DesMoines, and entirely demolished. Eight ill were killed and seventeen seriously injured, all of them heing Iowa soldiers, on their way to attend tlie Slate Soldiers' Keurilon.

In Halt I',ilie City, on Tuesday, on the l'r': text that l'aul Kiiglehn-cht, J»«-ntile dealer, had appealed irom a de: Islon ot dealer, nan ipnuni

Police Court, imposing certn ill liniis, District Court, a squad of tin

A terrible accident occurred about 7 o'clock Monday morning at the Preston Mope No. Three, at ilrardsvillc, l'ennsvlvan.u by which six moil wero killtrd uiul onr fatall wounded. A car got

I W Wil

»r

lohn

l.onlsand Jacob Goerlngand William lUncs,

killing

llS®ll

them instantly. The old man Goe-

rlng and the third son were severely shocked. Those killed wen- under an umbrella. Louis(Joerlnnand William Minesrach leiivo a wife and throe children.

FOR EI OS.

The Prussians have summoned I-ongwy to surrender, but the commanding olllccr has refused.

A special dispatch from Berlin say- Austria is secretly arming. All the officers and soldiers now on furlough are being recalled. Warlike preparations arc being made, -the object

this policy is unknown.

There are ten thousand peasant-sand flfleen thousand wounded soldiers shut up in Met/.. The Prussian I.andwehr is Investing. Thionville. The Prussians hold all Southern Alsace.

It was reported that General Von Kteinmet/. had been displaced, and that because of the great losses incurred, Ills force has been Incorporated with that ot the Crown 'Prince. It now seems that the report Is false.

King William's suite at army headquarters consists of about one thousand persons, Of whom eighty are court dignitaries. Servants, attaches of postal and telegraphic service, members of engineer corps, geographers, i*e., make up the rest. Bismarck strain Is about as ample as King William's.

Measures have been taken to blow tip the bridges and tear ui the railways around Paris promptly on the approach of the oneinv It is understood the Diplomatic Corps in case the eltv should In- heselged, will go •to Tours, which, owing to their presence, will bo considered neutral by the belligerents, and respected its such.

The Prussians attacked McMahon's army Tuesday near Beaumont and defeated and drove It back upon the Belgian (Vontier. Tin* French camp fell Into the lmntls of tin* Prussians. The pursuit of the French troops was continual lor several miles, anil was Interrupted bv the number of cannon and prisoners which were taken. Twelve guns, some thousiiuils of prisoners iuui material of war were captured.

Tiie London 7V»ir.« says Paris must and will be saved. The removal of the seat or Government Is Indispensable,

owing

to tlie

prcdoxilnence there of the rabble, whten t. irreconcilable with public order and military movements. Tne Tinas questions tne »tactles of Marshal McMahon In moving to tlie norlneast, and thereby leaving an open road to Paris. He might at least have threatened a descent on the advancing columns of the Prussians.

Two hundred thousand good troops are now In Paris, and fresh thousands, well armed, arrive hourly. A new corps organ ired at Lvons has arrived. The gens armes, policemen. fraudlrallleurs. foresters and Custom-house servants are coming in from all departments. Eighteen thousand Kunncrs from the tleel are stationed In tne fortifications. The city swanns with trwps. There is a strong conviction that the ativanco of the euotiiy will be checked.

The Prussians under th« Prince Rornl have b*en wen going towards snlppe. The German forces spread throughout 'he "U mrtinent of Aube, have abandoned h« lr otuniupmeuU and now

wnnls Couimervy. Twenty-flye thousand tiermans have nxvntly mss4l Jolnvi le, N'nssv nnd on tierehtle llethel ()ran«]im and Crol .. AI.NMI CAVA-LRJ- )VU«S«HI through Lhalons, going towanis Epernay.

mi in ino uirccuon oi swj render. The enemy In advancing towards lt«sthol nnd Vou*iors,oomina

Grandnre ami

The following news from the French ar OlHee is just received Nearlv SOn.lXliJ men are now in the triangle formed by IIM** ntng fnun Rhenns to Rethel an«l oiinern. Bajutlne is not slitit up. He has 120jiV0 men, und McMahon Is lf*M*» stmng. Thcv are

Royal,

nnd McMahon is lw«w sironn- »11 stealing two marches on the Prince who is two day* ahead of Princv rn Charlen, It isliopod the latter can nc

•'mlerick

iiojxxl the latter can not come

up in time. Fifty thousand men left 1 aris on Monday for the vicinity of Rethel. It is sjild the Prussians force there is SftVW strong.

The sufferings of the inhabitants of Strasburgare terrible. They are starving, and compelled to live in cellars day and night to avoid the unceasing fire of the besiegers.

On the 25th, at 9 o'clock in the morning, Verdun was attacked by the Prussians, 10,000 strong, commanded by the Crown Prince of Saxony. After a combat, which lasted three hours, during which time three hundred shells were thrown into the city, the Prussians, much injured by French artillery, were repulsed with considerable loss.

The Time*, in striving to disentangle the news from the seat of war, says that jic.nabon seeks to back again towards Paris. On Saturday morning lie was at Steinayyinu on Sunday, according to French retired to Vouziers and Rethel but the Belgian accounts report him on Tuesday at sedan with the Prince Imperial, and hourly expecting the Emperor. The Prince had hastened forward, leaving the Emperor, whose illness prevented him Iroin travelling rapidly.

WAR NOTES.

The label with the name of every soldier, which is attached to the coat of every German soldier, so that he may be recognized in case of death, is of tin and not ot parchment, which would soon be destroyed bj perspiration.

An American newspaper

th„

armed with authority ty the «.ltj (,utt».d Ills store, and destroyed Ills entire slock, valued at twenty thousand dollars.

ll'l.

wagon containing seven men were by coining In contact with the lop timbers, Which precipitin the

slope,

throw oil' timbers, bottom of

a distance ot one hundred irds. ollowlng are the killed (ii-orge lay-

Tavlor, Thomas Hobblns, Michael

^ehl, Philip Farley and Thomas Dourker. i:un Tavlor lost one foot andAvas otherwise seriously and prohaiiiy fatally injured. The three 'I'avlois were brothers. All the

men, with

one exception, lea\ laige tami-

lies. (ieorgln bonds to the amount of three hundred and llftV thousand dollars have just been discovered. The present State oUlcers

of (Seorgia

assert that they knew nothing ot

them till a few days since. Upon their discovery tin' Secretary of State simply reported to iovernor Mullock that two packages— one containing SloO,(UK) of bondsand the other SfcilXUKKJ of bonds—had lately come into his possession, and that lie was not aware or their existence till a |7\v day

before The

Governor reports the finding to the Legislature, saving that they were not regularly turned 'over by the previous Secretary ct Stale to the present one, and asking toi Instructions. It Is said that tin were gl\en in lieu of the Educational Fund, appropriated by a

former

respondent

St. Avoid had an inn-r* ».-» with Bismarck, and was most cordially treated, llie Kin" was very kind also, and sent word to the Ameiikcner" that in case lie lound

hius been most 'flattering, when compared with that bestowed upon the people of other nations, and testifies to the popularity of our country in all parts of Europe.

General Moltke.it appears, is another of the men who have learned to put a bridle upon their tongues. He seldom speaks to anybody, and hover conveire s. He knows seven languages, but it is a superfluous accomplishment, since he never uses one ot tliem—a man, in fact, entirely after Mr. Carlvle's heart. Just before lie started for the war, a great speculator in stocks met him, and desiring to get a hint or two for future use said: "Weil, General, how are things getting on?" "Thank you, Sir," was the replv my rye crops are getting on beautifully, but my potatoes are very backward. Things have been getting on better with the General since then.

The address of Marshal McMahon to his troops admits the defeat which they encountered at Froschweiler, but comiorts them with the assurance that they did all llisit it was in the power of mortal men to do. If his statement of the number of troops engaged on each side may be accepted, it is unite evident that the French were crushed bv overwhe mlng numbers. They were only thirty-five thousand against one. hundred and lll'ty thousand—a disproportion which

State administration.'

r»,r«.^.1eii Frtjcpoi-t. Aj-m-sfcroii* Cpun*J*»l*tnrv*ylvaniR, Monday nrternoonfnnder very singular circumstances. It

generalship or bravery could overcome. The Zouaves were cut to pieces, and a pathetic letter from their General tells the storv of their fate. McMahon's old popularity will probably be partially revive.d in France when the conditions under which lie fought become known.

A special correspondent writes from Saarbiult, August IS, us follows: "In Tuesday's actiou the Eighth Cuirrasmcrs cnnTgcd two fBglmeiit oi' tvtmch lirfpmtry. Cutting illeit1 way through them, they found themselves opposed to a battery of six guns which they toon. The Prussian culrrassiers were now charged by two regiments of Fronch carbiniers on both llunks. Wheeling to light and left the Prussians met their new foes, and after a desperate hand to hand tight drove back the French cavalry and brought otrtlie six guns, together with two eagles. The brave Seventh went into action eight hundred strong, and one hundred and forty-seven only survive. All the olllcers wen: killed. The survivers say now, with a terrible determination, Wait till we get Chalons, and we will show the French what the Thrce-tlfties can do."

The Stoats Anzeiger publishes a fuller account of the battle before Met/.. The French army, on the morning of the llth, stood In front of Met/., on the east side, near a point where the road from St. Avoid is joined hy that from Snarlouis. It was formed In great camps, extending over at least six miles. The army appeared on the point of retreating toward Chalons. Marshal Bazalne must have had to contend with difficulties in carrying out tills design, for lie did not move. General Stelnmetz attacked the French at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with the Thirteenth Division, which latter was supported by tlie Fourteenth.

The French troops were ranged in several lines, defended by very deep rifle pits For tills reason, perhaps, they tired more quietly than in former actions. These Hues were ut Ars-lu-Guenexy. Ogy, Hornyt and Columbes. The woods also afforded good cover, but these and the pits were taken successfully, by storm, by the Prussians, who fought veiy hard anil with very great loss. The French losses were principally killed, because as they fought in the trenches they were shot through the head, which alone* was exposed. No less than seven hundred nnd eighty-one dead Frenchmen were counted behind one trench alone. The battle ended at the glacis of Metz. The French escaped In confusion, partly into the fortress and partly round tlie city. "The battle of tlie 10th, at Mars-La-Tour, Is universally regarded here as a very importaiit stragetlcal success, because as the enemy was tlrlven back on Metz, their line of retreat on Chalons lias been cut through, and the concentration of tlie French armies prevented."

TIIK CROWN PRINCE.

Among the French who fell

into

the hands

of Prussians after the battle of Woerth, were two correspondents of the Poris press, M. Henri Chabrillart, of the Figaro, and M. Cardon, of the Gaulotis. Kaeli of

these

gentle

men has published an account of his adventures. At Soulz they were brought Into the presence of the Crown Prince, and the interview is thus described by M. Chabrillart:

I confess I nnnvwy much embarrassed. If I draw tlatterlng portrait of the Prince, it will lx said that I am sold to the Prussians if I draw an unfavorable picture of him, to gratify any malevolent passion, I shall Rullty of Injustice and falsehood. I ntn a reporter, which means a kind of photographer. I shall therefore simply and truly state what I snw and what was said. Those who may be dissatisfied with my account must deal with the Prince themselves.

are

niarehtnji to-

is not my fault that he Is human. Would to Heaven that all Germans wen? like him but, fortunately, it is not so. Prince Frederick William, heir to tlie frown of Prussia, is a man of tall stature, thin with a calm and placid countenance but in the curve of his aquiline iux*e and dilating nostrils there are evidences of energy, while the rapidity of his glance convinces you of his decision. A full fair, be«rd "oftens the somewhat stern expression of features. He has great slnu

iack

from

Mont hols,

Croix-aux-Bols.

A force of

tunic with ml collar and upon the shoulder a small epaulet to Indicate his rank, with no other distinguishable ornament. He wore small black cap bordered with red, and the whole uniform was severely simple. lie speaks French with great purity, without Foreign accent, beyond a slight German Intonation and occasional hesitation on certain words.

KKSl'MK OF THE PROGRESS OF TIIE PRfSSIAX ARMS FROM Ti'lE COMMKJCCKJtKJCT

THE

INVASION. The following I* a resume of the program of the German arms since the commencement of Invasion of France:

After the cheek encountered by the French vanguard near Saarburk, August 5, followed by the rout of McMahon, the French main body retired on the line of Moselle, to the 1 fortresees of Thionville und Met*, defenses

Sites

of the first order, and the well supplied and intrenched camps wlilch were constructed, gave great strength to their new position, and a direct attack would have been diffl.Iiit Therefore the German armies passed to tlie southofMetz toward the Moselle to cross it above the city, and discover the enemy's movements. Such great masses of trooDS covering a vast region, inquired specfai precautions. The first army was to f/ank the enemy's line of march, and was directed to take a new position near the river Nied. Meantime the lirst and second armies approached each other, a division p"-S over the Moselle. Tlie

ion,

the

same

8th,

divis

took part in a fight in wllich

the French were repulsed and pursued until thev reached

protection of the guns of

Metz. This combat resulted greatlj to the advantage of the Prussians, as it retard*® the French retreat, and the advantage was easily followed up.

Two roads connect Metz with erdun,and Verdun with Paris. Tlie

-cond

army re-

fraining from the passage of the Mostlle ana Paris thus threatened, the obliged to withdraw from the right bank of tlie Moselle before Metz, not being strong enough to stop the Prussian moveraeijte. The advance of the first army, observing the movement of the French, attacked, on August 14, the French rear, throwing it upon the main body, which was compelled to send back several divisions to support the rear The Prussian first and seventh corps went on tlie south side to compel the French to face about. They succeeded affer a bloody but victorious conflict, llie Prussian fifth division attacked General rossard. By decrees the entire French force became engaged, and of the Prussian forces the other divisions of tlie Third Corps, the Tenth Corps, a regiment of the Ninth Corps, and a hrigaue of the Eighth, participated. Prince Frederick Charles had taken command. The movement was successful, and the southerly road to Paris was intercepted. The Prussians fought heroically. amE their losses were large, but those of the enemy, especially of the Imperial Guard, were immense. The French official reports estimate tlie Prussian force engaged at double what it was. The only way for the Emperor to escape fatal isolation from Paris and lrom his supplies, lay on the northern tine.

The Prussian army in the south, nndlri-, no enemy before it, fell back, combining with the other army. A joint attack on tne French was then planned. The trench, ceasing to retreat by the northerly line, took a position on the heights before Metz. ihc second army Instantly moved to the right, fixing its center and left at Verneville and Armanvilliers, while its right rested in contact with lie tirst army. Absolute readiness for a simultaneous movement along tne entire line was requisite, as the French position was a strong one. At tlie start the Ninth Corps encountered rtn advanced detachment, who opened with artillery from the Verneville side. The right of the army, therefore, was ordered to engage the enemy in front, and at 1 o'clock opened a well susinined and effective cannonade, which lasted till broad daylight. The French replied with vigor. About 2:30 the infantry engaged thcenemv who wns just then strongly rewiforced, his line reaching from St. Marie-Aux-Cheves to La Cuisse. His position naturally of great strength had been so fortified by earthworks and ditches, that, it seemed almost impregnable. There was a brief delay before the assault, in order to make sure that the enemy had stopped his retreat on the northern route. The combat which ensued was long and terrible. On the left the Gardes and Saxon troops fought, at St. Marie, St. Privat and Dencourt. Meanwhile the otlier wing was engag near St. Ail, the Ta Cuisse wood and Verneville a§ far as-the tiorth side pf the northern road

In the action at Gravelotte, and the coftteft spread from Vaux to the Moselle, where a brigade of the Third and Tenth with artillory were engaged with the entire French army, McMahon's corps and Failles division excepted. After sundown, the Prussians took tlie heights by storm, flinging back the French along their entire line to tlie shelter of Metz. a.

TIIE MORMON CURRENCY. The Mormons reached Salt Lake Valley in an utterly impoverished condition. The cash capital of the entire community would not probably have exceeded $1,000. The California migration furnished them a market for their surplus products but, as they had but small use for money, they preferred taking of the miners instead something which they could either eat, drink, or wear, and not procurable at home. As they increased in numbers and means, merchants established themselves among them, thus enabling them to use their small stores of money in the purchase of needed supplies. Their great distance from market, and the small proportion of their crops which would boar transportation, have, however, at all times made money extremely scarce, and have led to the perpetration of a complicated and often amusing system of barter. Hundreds of farmers, living in reasonably comfortable circumstances, and having large families to clothe and educate, will not see a dollar in money for years. Such a farmer wishes to purchase a pair of shoes for his wife. He consults the shoemaker, who avers his willingness to furnish the same for one load of wood. He has no wood, but sells a calf for a quantity of adobe.s, the adobes for an order on the merchant payable in goods, and the order for a load of wood, and straightway the matron is shod.

Seven watermelons purchase a ticket of admission to the theatre. Ho pays for the tuition of his children seventy-five cabbages per quarter. The dressmaker receives for her services four squashes per day. He settles his Church dues in sorghum molasses. Two loads of pumpkins pay his annual subscription to the newspaper. He buys a "Treatise on Celestial Marriage" for a load of gravel, and a bottle of soothing-syrup for the baby with a bushel of stringboans. In this primitive method, until the advent of tlie Railroad, was ninetenths of the business of the Territory conducted. And even now, in the more remoto settlements, a majority of all transaction are of this character. The merchants, purchasing their goods in New York or San Francisco, must, of course, have money to pay for the same but they sell iheir goods for cattic, Hour, and dairy products, which are then marketed for cash in the adjoining mining Territories.—From "Sail Lake City." in Overland Monthly for Scjrtcmber

A Goon CHARACTER.—A good character is to a young man what a firm foundation is to the artist, who proposes to erect a building on it he can build with safety, and as all who behold it will have confidence in its solidity, a helping hand will never be wanted. But let a single part of this be defective, and you jro on at a hazard amid doubting and distrust, and ten to one it will tumble down at last, and mingle all that was built on it in ruins.

A most Spartan answer was given by a Bavarian cavalryman to his betrothed, who expressed a fear that the French would invade the country and destroy her village. My dear," said he calmly,

you must 'know, if the French oornc nerc, nivsclfand all my comrades will bo dead/

|[For the Saturday Evening Mall.] I SEVERED.

HY EN OS 11. HKEI).

Tlie brow of classic grace— Bfit for no heritage on high I'i face thy face—meet eye to eye

I"ore I but to put forth my nrin, |My hand would rcacli to thine—., let still the space is boundless which [Divides thy heart from mine— ere lies a dreadful gulf between iat ever must—shall—Intervene! *.

could in one brief moment gaze Upon tliy form and face— 'he eyes that charmed as with a spell—

."My voice could reach thy listening ear, Were I to call thy name— Which never more shall pass my lips—

No matter whose the blame. 4 Iu life, though mingled is our breath— fiiere still doth stand between us, Death!

Fd sooner die than look on thee, I Though-standing by thy side:— i'Twere better far, long years ago,

That you or 1 had died—

'twere better now, the grave should close Q'er my great wrongs aud thy deep woes! NF, 28th, 1870.

0For the Saturday Evening Mail.]

Adventures of a Wanfdering Jour. Printer.

*i Jv. -i BY GEO. C. HARDING.

NUMBER H.

When I began these papers it was with no intention of writing an autobiraphy. Therefore I pass over such rtions of my typographical career as •wfould not interest the readers of the MAIL.

One fine autumnal morning

took

^first-class passage in a prairie schooner, loaded with fruit and left for Clricago, to seek fame and fortune in a wider teld than that afforded by the little town of Paris. As usual, I had but little money, but like a great many others, I erroneously believed that I had mastered tlfe printing business because I could set type and read manuscript. was afterwards cruelly undcceived, and I may as* well state here that the education of a printer, when he leaves a country office, master of the trade, as he supposes, has pnly just commenced. A* mere type setter is not a printer. I finally became something more than a .ftmiftrnnethlng less1 than a pkriter.' That unfortunate lack of mechanical capacity was a serious drawback, and in the course of my experience I have lost many a fat piece of rule and figure work, on account of my incapacity to handle it neatly, and expeditiously. I could read the worst manuscript overwritten (Bloss excepted) and my proofs seldom exasperated the proof reader.

I didn't stay long in Chicago. I made the round of the newspaper offices, and then explored the job offices to no purpose, and the little store of money I had was rapidly being eatefi up. I afterwards learned a better way than the one pursued in Chicago. Rural printers are not eagerly sought for when the foreman makes up his jealous, and my dress, manner, and mode of application for work betrayed me. Instead of asking for a situation, the right way is to inquire "how's subbing!" and then hang around the office, until, in an emergency, some fellow is obliged to put you on his case. For the enlightenment of the outside world it may be well enough to state that printers rarely drop into a regular situation in going to a new town, but serve a probationary term on the "sub" list. The work is too hard

a morning paper to

be kept at steadily, and the necessity for temporary retirement, for .the indulgence in a typographical drunk, has resulted in the establishment of the "sub" system each office has a number ot, printers without regular situation but ready to step in and fill a regular case for a few days or weeks. Ignorant of this, I hunted a situation in Chicago, until feet and heart were sore. At one place I could have procured work, but I scented a rodent in the atmosphere, and declined the offer.

From Chicago I went to Joliet, by canal—.Toilet was worked over without avail, and my next stopping point was LaSalle. There as usual, I met with no success, but heard of a situation at Peoria. IIow to get there was the rub, ind a devil of a rub it was. No printer teas ever more completely "strapped than the undersigned. An exhaustive search of every pocket revealed not one single five cent piece, and, to add poignancy to the anguish of the situation, my appetite was excellent, while there was a painful sense of vacuity in the gastric reservoir. Something had to be

done,

and that quickly. So I boarded a steamboat advertised to leave at ten 6'clock for Peoria and other points on the Illinois river. I was innocent of any plan of action when the.inexorable clerk should extend his invitation to walk up to the captain's office and settle, but desperately determined to go as far as possible, and then, with the resignation of a christian, submit to being kicked ashore when my time eame. A heavy frost had crisped vegetation, and the early moniing air was eager and nipping.

close to the smoke pipes, shivered and scented the maddening fumes of a savory breakfast being spread in the cabin. Any one who has been dead broke and hungry among strangers can appreciate my forlorn and miserable condition, but I doubt if any one else could have gotten up so doleful a countenance. Whilo turning the prospect over and over in my mind, in the vain hope of finding some side less doleful, my attention was attracted by a young man who came out of his stato room, yawned once or twice, exchanged a nod with the clerk, and ordered a cock tail of the bar keeper. Something familiar in the tone of his voice attracted my attention, and a second look only was needed to recognize the features of a schoolmate who had run away from home years before, and embraced a maritime life. In an instant I felt better. Walking up to the bar I remarked that I would take "one of them." The astonished and indignant look of. my friend soon changed to one of recognition, and one cocktail succeeded another until I felt as rich as Chauncey Rose. "Bill," I learned was first pilot on the boat, and when I unbosomed myself, he readily agreed to "fix it" with the clerk. As I left him at the Peoria wharf he pressed a half eagle into my palm. The meeting with him may not have been providential, but it was most opportune, and I felt like a new man as I entered Peoria.

Dr. Hitcliconk, a former citizen of Terre-Haute, was publishing a paper there called

the

"Voice of the Pco-ple."

It was a sharp, ear-piercing voice, and I got a regular situation on it. It was a very good situation with one exception. The Doctor was poor as two church mica. At first, with a laudable view to accumulating something for wet weather, I only drew enough of my weekly salary of seven dollars a week to pay board, and then I found that, draw ever so hard I couldn't get any more—sometimes not even that. The Doctor's office was wofully deficient in the matter of furniture. Quoins and footstieks were worn out, no two leads or rules of the same length, the chases sprung and everything out of order. In lieu of an imposing stone, the pages were made up on a wooden table badly warped. I remonstrated and pleaded, and the Doctor. alwajpt promised 'to get* news •"•©lit* fit, but never did it. Fnally one afternoon

I locked aip a page as well as the nature of the case would admit, and in lifting it off it bulged out in the center, and tumbled on the floor.

very large page, but

So I cuddled up I along, and hinted that the matter in

o-r

wasn't a

it seemed as if

there could nof be less than seven bushels of pie. I looked ruefully at the disgusting mess, whistled softly for a moment, put on mv coat, took my valise in hand, and got aboard of a steamboat which was furiously smoking at the wharf. That was the last of my connection with Dr. Hitchcock, and as I never heard ol the oico attciwaid, I presume it was the last of it.

I rot off at Pekin, ten miles below, aiuAvent to work for a

one-armed

man

named Bernard Bailey, who was publishing something or other, I forgot what*,/ Baily was good pay but the wages were so low and wont so baa that I

could

only make a trifle over

what was required to pay board. In about six wccKsI^iccuiiiuliitcdiivcdollars, which was just enough to pay steamboat fare to St. Louis.

At St. Louis I met two young fellows from Wisconsin, named Otis and Bligh, who had passed through Peoria about two months before, and stopped a lew days. They were subbing and starving. Wc boarded at the Pacific Hotel, kept by a fat and friendly old gentleman named Merritt, who had bowels of compassion for young men struggling to live, and didn't press board bills when he knew there was no blood in his human turnips. Bligh and Otis were at the Intelligencer, since deceased and I hung up at the Republican, at that time famous on account of its foreman. "Old Fowler," who was quite a character, and originated many of the firstclass typographical jokes, current among the craft from Boston to 'bnsco. As I have never seen some of them 111 print, it may be worth while to give

tbFowler

Was bedeviled with country

printers. His regulars were a merry set bibulous and nomadic in habit, and consequently subbing, in busy times, was good. The hordes of half-baked printers from Illinois, Missouri, and the north counties came down on him like an irruption of the Goths. Fowler had charity for a green printer, if there was anything in him to Indicate that he had not entirely mistaken his vocation, but he hated "shoemakers" and "blacksmiths." It was a favorite joke with him to ask an applicant for a "situation" if he worked or "sewed" or "rK?gged" work. When ho had occasion to dispense with the services of a shoemaker, he usually did it in ambiguous language. One night, having had infinite trouble with an Illinois cobbler, he called him to one side. "Look 'e here," said he. "If that drunken fool want'syoutowork for him again to-morrow, you just tell him you'd see him d—d first." On another occasion he took a bungler aside, and, with an air of great secrecy, asked him if he didn't want to make some money. The rural artist's honest face glowed with enthusiasm he responded in the affirmative. "Who did you learn your trade with," said Fowler. ith of Jersevville," was the response. "Well," said Fowler, "you just go right back there, and sue that man for dama-

^On'e night a slow sub, who had been b»l' ofh«- *£^,8 put on in an emergency, was keeping the naner back by putting in a couple We see the J-rencn sputinj, h0,E a "take'' which he trirJ^cs. sticking thefr fingc hours on have finished in a half hour, howler came around three or fohr,times, at intervals inquired how he was getting gets

weekly. Finally the tardy SUD "qundded out," took his copy between his teeth, emptied his stick, and waltzed up to the copy hook. "Well* Mr. Foreman," said ne, with vivacity, "I've fin»i&hed that slip. Now what shall I Ay at next." "Put on: your coat," said Fowler, "fly down, them stairs, and don't let me ever see you up here again." He flew.

The Republican office is famous on account of one of its printers having abbreviated Jesus Christ—putting it J.' Christ—togetinalittle"out." Ilis name was Cook. He was tolerated .until he, learned somo sense on account of his.readiness at repartee. On his first night, Fowler, in handling Cook's matter, found he had taken unwarranted, license in the matter of justification. "Here!" said the wrathful Fowler, "You fellow in the butternut warinus !. One of these lines is half an inch.long-! er than the rest." "Well," said Cook. "I had a d—d big "out" to get in."

Epaphroditus Christly Smith was at that time on.the Republican. Christlyis famous among the craft. He was a^ handsome, well-dressed fellow\ full of* life, and remarkably fond of jewelry., lie was always literally hung in rliai lis,, while diamonds glistened on his shirty front, and his fingers wero hooped with, elegant seal rings. Ho had an eye to business as well as display, and was always ready for a dicker when any of" his jewelry attracted the attention of a fellow-workmen. Where ho got his apparently inexhaustible store of valuables was a mystery, but it was suspect-. ed that he held business relations witlu a pawnbroker. If it accumulated on his hands, he was always ready to get up a ratlle, for a watch, ring or pin, and he had the devil's own luck in throwing. All the Republican hands were inveterate gamblers. Every pay day a stone would be cleared oiV, and tlw regulars and printers, to the number of fifteen or twenty would get around it, and throw "high dice" at a quarter ante. Sometimes a lucky fellow \vould. win a peck of silver, and sometimes, after a hard weeks work, he would get his Sunday morning's nip on space, and\. let his board bill lay over on the next week.. The office owned its own dice, and a new set would have to be pur-..-chased every four or five weeks. In that time the attrition of constant: usage would wear the corners perfectly round, and obliterate the spots.

AR ANIMATED SHOWKK.—'The savans of Corinne, Utah, are puzzled over a shower of Water lizards which camo with the first shower that part ot the country had been blessed with lor tliroo month's. In looking over the.ground the day alter, the shower an editor found a number quite dried up, audi noted with surprise that there was so. little substance in them as to leave nothing more than inero skeletons. K. judge caugtyt forty ill his new collar,, and now mis them in a water tank forthe edification of his follow-citiwms.. Thev resemble the reptile known in the north-west as the iniul*puppy their color'is a dull brown, with bright, spots. The usual theory of "toad showers" is that the numerous toads scon after a sudden rain were really iiii the ground and wero drawn out by the moisture, but expl nation is cut ofl ia this by two facts: 1. That these wero clearly water reptiles, and.die iu. a few* minutes on dryland. 2. The ground has been so hard and dry that softbodied reptiles could not luivo-penetra-i ted it. So the Corinnethians- concludo that the phenomenon can be accounted for in no other way than that there exists a sort of aerial transportation hith-v erto unknown, and they are thankful, that the shower came as soou as it did fofchad the drought lasted much longer nothing short of an army o* alligators, would have been launched u-pon. fchenu from tho clouds.-

TJIK GKNKVA JHWKFIFIKRH.—A correspondent thus writes from fjeneva^ Switzerland: "The whole population appears to be prosperously- engaged in. some kind of industrial occupation, chiefly in jewelry and watch making. Women and chililren even aro able to earn money by somo particular branch of these manufactures. Children ol ten years earn five or six fraucs a week.and after a little tinio as much as ten or more. Many girls support themselves by painting on enamel, or by engraving, ami almost overy member of a family contributes a portion toward tho common stock. Upward of 100,M)( watches are manufactured annually try the 0,000 workmen engaged in the business. Tho town has be-

ides sixty gold

smith shops. Trinkets and jewelry are nowhero so cheap as in Geneva. A good journeyman earns from thirty to forty francs*a week. Division of labor is carried to a great extent, since about eighty different machines unite their labor in the production of a watch. Perhaps there is 110 provincial town in Europe having a greater amount ol wealth. I have scen.an estimate made by one of tho bankers, which gi\es eighty-one millionaires in a population of less than 00,000, the inhabitants of the canton."

THINK.—Io your own thinking. Yes that is tho idea. Think for yourself. It is well to listen to the expressed thoughts of others, and it is an agreeable pastime to give expression to your thoughts. But when alone weigh what you have heard and traverse what vou have said. It is well to do this, for It will assist in curing you of false notions, and of eradicating unprofitable and vicious ideas, and in time make you better men and women. What vou thus gain from surroundings you will unwittingly transmit to the rising generation, ami the result will be that you will do your share in the glorious work of elevating the human family. Do your own thini^ig^^^^^^^^

THE CHASSEPOT AND THE NEEDLE

G,.N_A*

private letter from an Eng

lishman, elated at Saarbrucken, says '•I can't help reiterating that in all the shooting tbpre has yet been tho Prussians have had out and out tho

We see the FrenclTspHting on their

car

tridges, sticking their fingers into their guns, and giving every possible sign that, after a few shots, the Chassepot eets so foul they don't know how to treat it."