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INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON.
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ASM LAND OREGON FRIDAY, APRIL 23. 18S0,
VOL. IV—NO 5.
Bob’s Diary.
ASHLAND TIDINGS.
J. M. M CALL.
MORRIS BAUM.
Skipping three white pages in the lit
tle black-covered book from which we
copy the above entries, we find two pen
cil sketches, which, after long and close
examination, we conclude to have been
intended for portraits of Bob’s school
master and the goat, respectively ; and
that is all that we can find in Bob’s
diary for 1880. Probably Bob will not
resume Lis task until next year.—Amer
Amer-
ican Rural Home.
The other day Mrs.
Cummings
brought out of the clothes press, for a
Issued every IPridnjr, *
poor woman, who had seven small chil
—B Y——
"9 dren and stood at the back door, an old
I coat of Bob’s. Before giving it away,
Main Street, Ashland.
LEEDS «Sc MERRITT.
■ she sought the usual assurance that
I
i there was nothing in the pockets, and
NEW DEPARTURE.
OFFICII—O. Main Street, (hi wcond stury ui MeCall I
in the search she felt something be
a Bäum'» new building )
tween the coat and tho lining just un
Job Printing.
— - - — — —
-«................ - —
The undersigned from and after April der the inside pocket; After some dif
Of all dMcription* done on short notice. Legal Blank’,
Corns.
18th, propose to sell only for
ficulty she succeeded in recovering it,
Oreular». Bu»inc«s Cards, Billhead», Letterheads, Pos
tan, ata., gotten up in Rood style at living prices.
through a hole in the aforesaid pocket,
i
CASH IN HAND
i
Corns consist of layers of thickened
by which, doubtless, it had found its
Ter«u el subseripUon
Or
approve^
produce
delivered
—
except
epidermis
—the transparent coating tout
r? ~
way to its hiding place. It proved to
.15 AT
O m eopy. cme year........... .....................
when Dy special agreement—-a short
be a little black-covered book, fastened protects the sensitive true skin beneath.
. 1 50
•• “ «ix months................. ................. ....
and limited credit may be given.
- I 00
“ •• three month»
together by a tongue and a loop, having This epidermis is in constant precess of
..12 50
Club rat««, «ix copies for........................... —.
on the back in gilt letters, “Diary, formation from the true skin, and is as
rerme ia «dvauce.
They have commenced receiving their 1880.” Opening it she saw on the up constantly thrown oil’ in minute par
Tar toa of Advortlainrx
. À.
N?W Spring Stock; and that every
per right-hand corner of the title page, ticles. It is a«, destitute of feeling as
LKOAL.
day will witness additions to
•ne square (ten
or less) 1st insertion............ 50
the words; Robert Cummings, Jr„ from the nails—as also the scales on the legs
Kash additional iniertteui...... ............. .................... - 1 00
the largest stock of
Uncle Joe, and then she remembered to of fowls and on the bodies of fishes are
LOCAL.
have seen tho book before, about the 1st only modified epidermis. Coins are
10e
Local notioea per line_____________
fUfular advertUeiaanta inserted upon liberal term.
of January. Below is an extract copy among the “excrescences” of civilization.
A higher civilization, however, which
of its contents:
shall
conform tho shoe to the foot, in
PROFESSION AU
Ever brought to. this market. They de
January 1. This is New Yetrl day.
stead
of the foot to the shoe, will know
sire to say to every reader of
Uncle Joe gave me the diary to-day. I
DR. L H. CHITWOOD, '
this paper, that if
am going to write in it every night just of them only as we know of the crushed
A
before going to bed. Every Doy and feet of the Chinese women.
ASHLAND, : : : : OREGON.
thickening
of
the
epidermis
having
been
girl ought to keep a diary so when he
caused at the points of special pres
OFFICE - At the Ashland Dru? Store.
Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will gits a man he can see what he did when sure, this inflames still further the skin
he was a boy. This is New Year’s day,
do it, they propose to do the largest
and their ain’t no school to-day, and I beneath, giving rise to successive layers
business this spring and summer
JAMES R. NEIL,
have played with Billy all day. Billy is of thickened epidermis, which cannot be
ever done by them in the
ATTOjdEY-AT-L À W ,
mv goat. I got up and ate breakfast, thrown off like ordinary scarf-skin. Be
last five years, and
then I harnessed Billy and went around tween the vital force beneath and the
they cun posi
Jacksonville, Oregon.
•0
and saw Uncle Joe, and he gave me this pressure of the shoe above, tho central
tively make
diary. He says it is the best thing a portion comes to have the hardness of.
it to the
boy can do to keep a diary. But he nail. If a splinter is left in the linger,-
advantage
J. W. HAMAKAR,
says it is the hardest thing a boy can the flesh above and around it will die,
of every
tu
NOTARY PUBLIC,
do. I ¿Writ see where the hard comes and new skin be formed below, which
call upon them in
Linkville, Lake Co., Oregon.
in.. I Hke to keep a diary. I let Jim will in time lift tho splinter out. But
Ashland aqd »test the truth
my Green drive ipy goat while Uncle in the case of corns, nature’s efforts are
OFFICE—In Poet Office building. Special attention
of their assertions. They will
Ivan to conveyancing.
Joe told me how to keep my diary, and thwarted by the persistent pres
spare no pains to maintain, more
sure from above, which constant
fully than ever, the reputation of their he let all tho boys drive him, and they ly enlarges the corn from below.
broke my sled. I ain’t ’going to lend
M. L. M’CAll,
The first step towartl relief is to sc
House*, as the acknowledged
Billy any fnore. I ate dinner and then
SURVEYOR & CIVIL ENGINEER,
cure
a shoe anatomically correct in
played with Billy some more. I showed
construction.
Meanwhile, remove the
all the boys my diary and they are go
Ashland, Oregon.
I ate pressure from the corn in whatever way
U praparad to do any work in hia line on short notice. For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, ing to ask their fathers for one.
supper and played dominoes with Uncle may be possible. A pointed knife run
Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Joe till eight o’clock. I am going to down carefully between the layers will
Hats, Caps, Millinery Dress
begin to write in my diary every night easily take out—for the time—the cen
Goods, Crockery,Glass and
DR. W. B. ROYAL
at eight o’clock,¿so I won't get sleepy. tral cere. Sometimes it can be picked
Tin
Ware,
Shawls,
Has permanently located in Ashland.
It is nine o’clock and I am a-going to bed. out with a nail, after soaking the feet
Wrappers, Cloaks,
Win give hia undivided attention to the practice of
January 2. Got up this morning and three successive nights in warm water.
And, in fact, everything required for I- the
madwina. Baa had fifteen years' experience Ln
ate breakfast Come to the conclusion The soaking swells the core and, like
Oregon. Office at hia residence, on Main street,
trade of Southern and South
opooslte the M. E. Church.
to leave oft’ the I in my diary. Don’t posts lifted by the frost, it seldom re
eastern Oregon.
see anv use of it. Went to school in the turns fully to its place. But, as tho
morning and didn’t have my geography cores always fill up again, tho only rem
DR. E. 1 BOYD.
A full assortment of
lesson. But the class is so big I only edy is the removal of the cause.—■
DENTIST.
had one question to answer, and Jimmy Youth’s Companion.
Green told me that. Showed my diary
Frugal Habits.
Linkville, : ; : : : Oregon.
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
to Jimmy Green and he showed it to
Office and residence, south side of Main atreet.
Johnnie Barlow, and he showed it to
He who knows how to save has
A Full Line of
George Steiner, and teacher came near learned a valuable lessen. A boy who
seeing George reading it. Ate supper saves ten dollars a year out of a very
Aoob Wagner
E. K. Anderson.
W. IL Atkinson.
and played with Billy. Then wrote in meagre salary acquires a habit of taking
Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins my diary. I am going to bed.
care of his money, which will be of the
Clothing, always on hand and
January 3. Concluded not to say I utmost value to him. Tho reason why
for sale "at lowest prices.
got; up this morning, because I get up workingmen as a class do not get ahead
every morning.
Jimmy Green and faster, are not more independent, is that
The highest market price? paid for
Geòrgie Steiner have got diaries. John- they have never learned to save their
Wo will continue to purchase wheat
nie Barlow had one, but the teacher earnings. It doos not matter a great
took it from him and threw it into the deal whether a man receives a salary of
—A T—
s*ove. He was awful mad, and says his two dollars a day or three dollars, so
Come One and All.
father will make the teacher pay f r it. that there is nothing left on Saturday
The Highest Market Price,
Ate dinner and went to school in the af night he will not g6t rich very rapidly.
J. M. KcCAU. A CO.
And will deliver
ternoon, The teacher said we must
But
I rTe will never have much ahead.
write compositions for to-morrow. Am tho individual who receives a dollar a
going to write about diaries. Must stop day and is able to save ten cents, is lav-
JAMES THORNTON,
JACOB WAGNER,
now and write my composition. Forgot ing up something for a rainy day. Young
W. H. ATKINSON,
E. K. ANDERSON.
Anywhere in town,
to say I ate my supper. Now for com people who expect to labor with their
AT MILL PRICE h .
position.
hands for what they may have of this
January 4. Concluded not to say I world’s goods, wlio have no ambition or
Wacaer, Ander»«« At Co.
ate inv breakfast, dinner and supper, wish to become professional men, office
because I do that every day. Went to holders, or speculators, should by all
school tliis morning. Johnnie Barlow means acquire habits of economy, learn
has got another diary, but he don’t let to save. So surely as they do this, so
the teacher see it. Went to school in surely will they be able to accumulate,
the afternoon. Read my composition on so surely will they be in a situation to
diaries. The teacher said he hoped ask no special favors. Every man wants
other little boys would keep their diaries to learn to look out for himself and rely
at home like I do. T am glad to-morrow upon himself. Every man needs to feci
ABE NOW MAKING FROM
is Saturday.
that lie is a peer of every other man,
Ashland.
Main Street,
January 5. Played so hard I’m too and ho cannot do it if he is penniless.
sleepy to write what I did to-day. Per Money is power, and those who have it
haps 1 will to-morrow.
I have constantly on hand the very best
exert a wider influence than the desti
January 6. Went to church this tute. They are more independent.
SADDLF. HOBMES,
morning. The minister’s text was Matt., Hence it should be the ambition of every
BUOUILM AMD C AB BI AWES,
280th chapter, first verse. Am going to young man to acquire, and to do this he
a
And can fiurnish my customers with
put down the text every Sunday. Went must learn to save. This is the first les
tip-top turnout at any time.
to Sunday school. In the afternoon son to be learned, and the youth who
read my Sunday school book, which is cannot master it will never Lave any
BLANKETS»
named “The Boy who Saved the Life of thing. He will be a dependent all the
HORSES BOJIlDUl)
an Angle Worm.” Am going to try to days of his life—a mere useless append
FLANNELS,
lie like him. » Went to church in the age to society.
On reasonable terms, and given the best
—--------- »«o>»---------------
evening.
Can’t remember the text
attention. Horses bought and sold
CASSIMERES,
Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
and satisfaction guaranteed in
Neither can father and mother.
all my transactions.
January 7. After this when I say I
DOESKINS,
He is an o[d man—as most of us will
went to school I mean all day. Went
II. F. PHILLIPA.
AND HOSIERY. to school. Wrote in my diary last night be when we reach 77—and has that in
till I was too sleepy to learn my lessons, convenient infirmity of age, an inability
and had to stay after school. Too to recall at once the thing he would re
13 I
member. But he still remembers more
sleepy now to write any more.
January 8. This is written in school than most men, and what comes to his
on January 9tb. Concluded to go to mind is always worth remembering,
bed early and write in my diary next which is not the case with most men.
day. Went to school. Didn’t do any He lectured at Concord lately, giving his
hundreth lecture before the lyceum of
thing much.
Jan. 9. Guess I’ll write every other that town. His health is firm, his spirit
OLD AND NEW,
day. This is Jan. 11. Didn’t do any cheerful and serene, as in earlier years,
thing much.
but he sees fewer visitors and finds his
Are
invited
to
send
in
their
orders
and
,
HUME
LL.
Proprietor.
Jan. 10. Went to school. Didn't do days more precious as they grow fewer.
J.
are assured that they
much.
Ht writes little, reads much, and is re
Jan. 12.................................................... vising those papers which he will never
Jan. 13. Forget what I did yesterday publish, but which will yet appear in
Having again settled in this place
and
day before. Will finish this to print some day.—Springfield Republican.
ond turned my entire attention to
night.
the Marble Business, I am pre
At Prices that Defy Competition.
A butcher enters the office of a law
Jun. 14
pared to fill all orders with neat-
yer.
“ Sir, I want your advioe. Is the
Jan.
Uk.
..........
ó
.................................
nees and dispatch. Monuments,
owner
of a dog responsible for any dam
Jan.
16.........
........................
Tablets, and Headstones, executed
V
age
that
the animal may do ?” “ Cer
Jan.
17»
Going
to
wait
till
I
am
sick
gj^in any description of marble.
tainly.
”
Then your dog has run off
and then catch up.
gJfSpecial attention paid to or
ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS.
with a leg of mutton from my stall, and
Jan. 18.
ders from all parts of Southern
I will trouble you for ten francs.”
19.
Jan.
Prices reasonable.
“ Very well, my friend, have you five
Jan. 20.
Address:
francs
change V “Yes, sir,” (Produces
Jan. 21.
«7. H. Bussell,
Jan. 22. Sick to-day. But what good them.) “ That just makes it square; my
fee for aduce is fifteen Irenes.”
SECRETARY is a diary anyhow I
Ashland, Oregon.
J. M McCall & Co
f
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Against Divorce.
Old New York and the Indians.
A Fight for a Lover.
It is announced from Rome that Pope
Leo XII has promulgated an encyclical
against divorce. The reaffirmation of
the well known position held by the
Roman Catholic Church on this question
at this time is explained, no doubt, in
view of the efforts now put forth in
France to pass a law sanctioning and
authorizing divorce in that country on
prescribed conditions.
The Catholic
Church forbids divorce, and far some
sixty years the laws of France have
been in conformity with the views of
that church on this question.
But
under the republic liberal views have
been gaining ground, and among other
fruits of such progress may be noted a
growing sentiment against the iron-
bound marriage system which forbids
divorce for any cause. The Catholic
Church will not recognize marriage as a
civil contract, but regards it as a sacra
ment, and therefore refuses to sanction
any act of a State annulling the mar
riage bond, declaring that only the death
of one of the parties can free a husband
or wife from marriage obligations and
place the one or the other in a position
to contract another marriage. Such di
vorces as have been sanctioned by the
Catholic Church have been on the
ground that those marriages were void
from the beginning. That was the case
with the divorce of Napoleon I. and his
wife Josephine, the ingenuity of some
one having discovered some technical
formality prescribed by the council of
Trent had been violated in the original
ceremony. The Buffalo Courier cites,
as another instance, the more recent an
nulment of the marriage of the Prince
of Monaco.
The encyclical of the Pope is aimed
also at civil marriages which, as we have
said, arc not recognized by the church.
Mr. Douglass Campbell, one of the
most devoted students of the history of
the State of New York, who is engaged
upon a work of original research illus
trating it, read an exceedingly interest
ing paper the other evening before the
Historical Society upon the Indians in
colonial New York. His paper is a
striking presentation of the claim that
the colonial policy of New York wa3
not only just to tbo Indians, but that it
was of the utmost value to to English
ascendency upon this continent, and to
the Union.
The colonists “simply
treated the Indian as a man.” They took
nothing but by purchase, and their land
titles were respected, because for their
lands they had Indian deeds. The
Dutch colonists were traders, and made
no pretense of missionary work. After
the English conquest the Indians ¡»laced
their lands under the protection of the
crown. During the French war the col
onists defended them against the French
and during the Revolution the Indians
were the allies of Great Britain, and for
the first time made war upon the colo
nists.
Except for this policy of the British
colony, which secured the alliance of the
Six Nations, who remained faithful, it
is not impossible that France might have
won in the great contest of more than a
century which was waged with England
for the control of the continent, and
which Mr. Parkman is so brilliently and
exhaustively narrating in his historical
series of France in America.
Mr. Campbell shows further how this
colonial Indian policy affected the
Union. The Six Nations and their land
west of the Alleghanies had always been
recognized by the other colonies as be
longing to New York. But when the
articles of confederation were to be
signed, Virginia and Massachusetts and
Connecticut claimed the territory under
various charters. Maryland refused to
join the confederacy until the dispute
was settled. Then New York, with
patriotic magnanimosity, presented the
northwest territory to the Union, and
the confederation was completed by the
accession of Maryland.
The three
States still maintained their claim, but
a committee of Congress reported that
the sole title was in New York, and that
her deed would vest it wholly in the
United States. This is an exceedingly
interesting chapter of the annals of New
York, and Mr. Campbell is plainly the
man to complete the history which Mr.
Broadhead unfortunately left unfinished.
A sanguinary duel has been fought at
Onancock, Vu, lately, between two
women, which resulted in the probable
fatal wounding of both. Miss Louisa
Wise and Miss Margaret Downing had
for some time excited much comment in
the village because of their jealous quar
rels over the attentions of a young man
named Benjamin Young. On one or
two occasions they had como to blows
in his presence, and were only restrained
from seriously injuring each other by
the efforts of Young. This young man
seems to have been in doubt as to which
of the maidens possessed his heart, and
temporized with them and had little dif
ficulty in convincing each that she was
the object of his admiration. At length
lie went to a party with Miss Wise,
and while dancing with her the assem
blage was thrown into intense excite
ment by the sudden appearance of Miss
Downing, who, in a tragic manner,
stalked up to the couple and forbid her
lover to dance with her rival. As she
stood facing the couple, with her eyes
inflamed
with
passisn,
it
was
thought that violence would be the next
act in the drama. Suddenly, however,
with a piercing shriek, she sank to the
floor in a swocn, frothing at the mouth
as though suffering from an epileptic fit.
She was removed hy her friends, end
Young and Miss Wise withdrew.
The following day Miss Wise received
a note from Miss Downing, requesting
her to call upon her, as she wished to
see her about an important matter.
Miss Wise went to her rival’s house as
requested.
She entered the yard,
walked around to the kitchen entrance,
pushed open the door, and stepping in
side, saw her rival seated by the stove,
with her head resting moodily upon her
hand
When Miss Downing caught
sight of Miss Wise she sprang to her
feet, and seizing a stout club, rushed at
her, shrieking with rage. Miss Wise
ran into the yard, and seeing the other
following, she picked up a pitchfork,
and facing her enraged rival, warned
her to stand off.
Miss Downing ex
claimed :
“All right; we will fight now. You
have a weapon, so have L”
Both being strong, healthy, country
girls, they found no difficulty in wield*
ing their weapons. As Miss Downing
rushed at the other, she was met by
the three-tined fork, which was driven
into her breast. The next instant she
struck Miss Wise a stunning blow on
head which staggered her, and followed
it up by a second blow which felled her
to the ground. Miss Wise soon regained
her feet, and assuming the offensive, im
paled Miss Downing’s hands on the
prongs of the fork. Again she received
a stunning blow on the head from the
club, which felled her to the ground.
While in this position she thrust the
pitchfork into Miss Downing’s face,
making three terrible wounds. By this
time both were weakened by loss of
blood.and dropped to the ground insen
sible. In this position they were found
by some neghbors, who gave the alarm.
Dr. Drummond was summoned and was
soon in attendance. Both girls were
terribly injured, Miss Downing having
been wounded fourteen times by the
pitchfork, and Miss Wise shockingly
bruised and beaten about the head.
They are now suffering from a high fe
ver, and the physician has little hope of
their recovery. In lucid intervals they
gave the particulars of the fight, and at
the same time each begged piteously to
see Mr. Young. The latter, evidently
not relishing the notoriety into which he
was brought by the strange infatuation
of the two girls, has left town, and no
trace of him can be discovered. The
affair has caused the most intense excite
ment here, and the usually quiet little
town has been in a turmoil since the par
ticulars of the fight were made public.
Tricks of Memory.
Too much to do, besides its direct ef
fect on the busy worker, exposes him to
certain inconveniences apt to escape the
notice of others. One of these is the ef
fect produced on his memory. Ono who
leads a rushing life, who has to hurry
from one thing to another, and from one
person to another without a moment’s
interval, cannot have a vivid remem
brance of many things that happen in
bis experience. He is necessarily liable
to forget, in a way that another cannot
understand. Many a busy physician has
found himself at times in serious trouble
from tliis cause. He has made a prom
ise to a patient, but before the promise
had hardened in his memory, some ex
citing case has hurried him away, oblit
erated the impression, thus the promise
forgotten. Author’s memories have been
known from a similar cause to play
them strange tricks. We know an
author who was engaged in writing a
book amid many other absorbing occu
pations. For some weeks the book had
to be laid aside. When leisure came,
he resumed it, as ho thought, at the
point where he had broken it off, and
got through a considerable chapter,
when to his mingled amazement and
amusement, he found in his drawer an
other manuscript, almost precisely sim
ilar, the existence of which he had quite
forgotten.
So strange and incredible
are these tricks of memory, that some
times the most honest of men, if exam
ined in a court of justice, would hardly
be believed. The non mi ricordo would
hardly be accepted by those who have
had little experience of the difficulty of
carrying in the memory impressions
whieh have not had time to photograph
themselves on its tablets, or have been
blurred by other impressions following
too quick.—Macmillan’s Magazine."
The Vanderbilt Estate.
Tn the late suit of Cornelius J. Van
derbilt to recover a due proportion of
his father’s estate, it was finally settled
that he should receive the avails for
life of §400,000; the property to be
placed in the hands of Edwin D. Wor
cester, a3 trustee; the principal to be
disjiosed of by will by Cornelius ; and if
agreed upon by the two brothers and
the trustee, the principal to be placed in
the hands of Cornelius, to be used by
him in his own way. Cornelius lately
asked his brother to place §200,000 of
the principal in his (Cornelius’) hands.
William declined to comply with that
request. Then Cornelius applied to
Judge Donohue to have William re
moved from any control over the trust
fund, as the possession ot §200,000 of
the principal was necessary in order to
afford him capital for conducting busi
ness enterprises—his health and comfort
demanding that he should enter into
active business. He averred that he
and his brother William were the only
surviving sons of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; that William is worth now
over §100,000,000, and that it would not
injure his business interests to part with
the control of the trust. The Judge de
clined to grant the petition to Cornelius.
New York Public Schools.
One expenditure of nearly four mil
lions of dollars seems very large for one
year, even for a city which lias more
than a million of inhabitants, but there
was no money taken from the city treas
ury last year which served a better pur
pose than the §3,805,147 55 which went
for the maintenance of our public
schools. Of the whole expenditure §2,-
604,686 was for teachers’ salaries, and
the number of children taught was 241,-
918 in the city schools, and 22,245 in
the corporate schools. The cost of edu
cation per capita lias decreased somewhat
in recent years, and the increase of the
expense of instruction does not keep
pace with the increase of the number
who are taught. The expenditure of
§182,242 for sites, buildingsand repairs,
should not be reduced until the
quarter of a million of children who
attend school in this city are provided
with better school accommodation, The
crowding in many of the schools and the
lack of ventilation are two of the evils
which should be removed, but whose re
moval will require large expenditures
for years to come. The public schools of
New York are not falling below the
high standard which they have long
maintained, and the instruction they
furnish is generally satisfactory; but
there is room for progress, and the edu
cational system of New York should
furnish a still better example for the
educators of the nation. There will be
little grumbling over the payment of the
school tax if taxpayers are made to un
derstand that the money they pay is
being economically used to give every
child the means of the best education
which a public school system can afford.
—N. Y. Mail.
—One of the most remarkable of all
pi oof readers, Mr. John C. Robinson,
known as the Lighting Proof-reader;
was found dead in his bed at Williams
burg. The Sun, of whose proof-room
he had charge, in speaking ef his death,
says that he was known to read a proof
sheet aloud at the rate of 696 words a
minute, or 41,760 words an hour. He
was forty years of age, and when, only
thirteen years old he began his exper
ence in a printing office as a “copy boy”
at Gray’s establishment in Cliff street.
He became a proof-reader on the Tri
bune in 1854, and when he left that
journal five years he was superintendent
of its proof room. He was almost the
only expert who could decipher the hier
A proud man who had failed in bus oglyphics of the late Horace Greeley.
iness, and found that his assets would
There is only one sure way of getting
pay only fifteen cents on the dollar, in
sisted, for the looks of the thing, on pay rid of rats without trouble, and that is
ing twenty-five cents, even if he had to to move out and let them have the house
make up the difference out of his own to themselves.
pocket.
A Danbury man can kick eleven
A Virginia paper describes a fence inchest higher than his head. During
which is made of such crooked rails that good fruit years he hopes to make con
every time a pig crawls through he siderable money in traveling through
comes out on the same side.
the State and kicking boys out of trees.
Edgar A. Poe’s Watch.
R. W. Albright writes from Fort
Madison, Iowa, to the Chicago Time« aa
follows: I have in my possession the
gold watch of Edgar A. Poe, the history
of which is as f
st In the year«
1840-41-42, Edgar A t’ c had become
indebted to my L.e !. r John W. Al
bright, then a merchant tailor doing
business in the city of Philadelphia.
He had given several notes for the «et-
tlement, together with the watch in
trust, which remained in my brother’s
hands until 1845, when it passed to an*
other brother, H. A Albright, of 8t
Louis, and at his death was given to my
mother, who at that time and up to her
death, was residing with me.
A jury m Dodge county, Neb., gave a
judgment for §2,800 for the plaintiff in
a suit where it wa3 plainly shown there
was no claim at all. The explanation
was that one of the jury had slept dur
ing the hearing of the testimony, an
other had been reprimanded by the
Judge for eating peanuts ’and wanted
to get even with him; and another ad
vanced and carried through the argu
ment that the defendants being agent«
of the Pacific Railroad, and the railroad
being an object of hostility owned by
non-residents, while the plaintiffs were
local residents, it was their duty there
fore to decide for their own citizens,
and defend their homes. This patriotic
appeal settled the case. -
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Recipe for making pantaloons last—
Make the coat and vest first.