Ashland tidings., April 30, 1880, Image 1

ASHLAND OREGON' FRIDAY, APRIL 30. ISSO
VOL. IV—NO 6.
ASHLAND TIDINGS.
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The Fate of Pra Pre Cha.
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PROFESSIONAL.
DR. J. H. CHITWOOD,
ASHLAND,
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OREGON.
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At the Ashland Drug Store.
OFFICE
JAMES R. NEIL,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Jacksonville, Oregon.
1 W. HAMAKAR,
NOTARY
PUBLIC,
Linkville, Lake Co., Oregon.
OFFICE—In Poet OtSce building. Special attention
Iven to conveyancing.
M. L. M’CALL,
PURVEYOR à CIVIL ENGINEER,
Is prepared to do any work in his line on short notice.
DR. W. B. ROYAL,
Has permanently located in Ashland.
WUl give his undivided attention to the practice of
medicine. Has had fifteen years' experience in
Oregon. Office at his residence, on Main street,
opooeite the M. E. Church.
DR. E. J. BOYD,
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CASH IN HAND
Or approved produce delivered—except
when by special agreement—a short
and limited credit may be given.
They have commenced receiving their
New Spring Stock, and that every
day will witness additions to
the largest stock of
General Merchandise!
Ever brought to this market. They de­
sire to say to every reader of
this paper, that if
Standard Goods!
Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will
do it, they propose to do the largest
business this spring and summer
ever done by them in tho
last five years, and
they can posi­
tively make
.
it to the
advantage
of every one to
.
call uj>on them in
Ashland and test the truth
of their assertions. They will
spare no pains to maintain, more
fully than ever, the reputation of their
House, as the acknowledged
For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries,
Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Caps, Millinery Dress
Goods, Crock e> y, Glass and
Tin Ware, Shawls,
W rappers, Cloaks,
And, in fact, everything required fur the •
•
trail« of Southern and South
trade
eastern Oregon.
A full assortment of
DENTIST.
Linkville,
The undersigned from and after April
18th, propose to sell only for
HEADQUARTERS!
Ashland, Oregon.
Oregon.
IRON AND STEEL
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
OS m Mid residence, south ride of Main street.
A Full Line of
Jtoob Wxjner
E. K. Anderson.
W. H. Atkinson.
THE
ASHLAND MILLS !
We will continue to purchase wheat
—A T—
The Highest Market Price,
Ashland Woolen Goods!
Flannels, Blankets, Cassimeres, Doeskins
Clothing, always on hand and
for sale at lowest prices.
The highest market price? paid for
Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard.
Come One and All.
J. M. McCALL A CO,
And will deliver
Flour, Fee& Etc.,
Anywhere in town,
at m ILL PRICE h .
Wasner, Andersen A Co.
ASHLAND
livery, Sale & Feed
STABLES,
Main Street,
:
JACOB WAGNER,
E. K. ANDERSON.
JAMES THORNTON,
W. H. ATKINSON,
THE
ASHLAND
WO OLEN
MÄNÜFÄC’G
co.,
ARE NOW MAKING FROM
Ashland.
I have constantly on hand the very best
IADDLE
BEGVIEM AMD
RBI AGES,
And can furnish my customers with a
tip-top turnout at any time.
HORSES BOARDED
On reaaonable terms, and given the beat
attention. Horses bought and sold
and satisfaction guaranteed in
all my transactions.
U. F. PHILLIPS.
The Very Best
NIAITIIIVIEI WOOL!
BLANKETS,
I
FLANNELS,
CASSIMERES,
DOESKINS,
AND HOSIERY.
E :
ASHLAND
WORKS.
OLD AND NEW,
Are invited to send iu their orders and
are assured that they
Having «gain settled in this place
and turned my entire attention to
the Marble Business, I am pie-
pared to fill all orders with neat-
ne«« and dispatch. Monuments,
Tablets, and Headstones, executed
in any description of marble.
£SF8pecial attention paid to or-
^yders from all parts of Southern
^JTOregon. Prices reasonable.
SHall Receive Prompt Attention !
J.
H. Bussell,
Ashland, Oregon.
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J our patrons !
J. H. BUSSELL, Preprie ter.
Address:
Poor Children in Large Cities.
Hidden Treasures of Arizona.
MORRIS BAUM.
At Prices that Defy Competition.
♦
ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS.
W. H. Atkinson,
SECRETARY
The shocking discoveries made re­
Your readers will nil have have heard
of the Siamese Ambassador on specia' cently at the Shepherd’s Fold, in New
duty to the Court of St. James, who York City, have had a tendency to di­
has recently been so feted not only in rect public attention to the condition of
England, but who was also received in poor children generally in all large
private audience by the Emperor of cities. Nothing is truer than that the
Germany. This high functionary has sins of parents are visited upon their off­
lately returned to his native land, bring- • spring. Dissolute ami worthless men
ing with him the assurance to his gov­ and women bring into the world helplei s
ernment that England will not support beings for whose welfare there is no
I
the views of the Consular*Agent as to provision, and whose heritage is shame
their dealings with what might be called and misery. Neglected and despised,
their political offenders, knd what has they grow up to fhrong the avenues of
been the the result of this deplorable crime. , Accustomed to squalor at the
success of the Chinese mission the fol­ outset, the very comforts to which they
iowin" lines will shew. This unfortu- are naturally entitled becohne so in a fly
nate nobleman, Pra Pre-cha, who, ever prizes to lure them on the road to vice
It would seem that
since he returned from his wedding tour ■> and destruction.
of eight days’ duration, has been kept philanthropists could devote themselves
in custody in company with the worst to no task more noble than that
galerians that ever a country like Siam of rescuing these disconsolate waifs of
can produce, chained with the heaviest humanity, and placing them in a way to
chains on neck, arms and feet, has now achieve theii own futures. Organized
finally, after eight months of immeasur­ society assumes to perform the work
able sufferings, bad sentence passed on in a measure, but auxiliary oper­
him, which is that he receive 100 lashes ations are necessary, as events
with the rattan and then be decapitated. constantly prove. If it is worth while
The unhappy victim of Siamese fam­ to devote millions of dollars annually to
ily rivalry—onco in the possession the spiritual welfare of heathens in for­
of I p ' s monarch’s mest intimate con­ eign lands, it is certainly iu keeping
fidence—has during all the time of his with Christ’s teachings, and with the
trial been deprived of all means of de elevated humanity of the age, to be
fending himself against the dreadful ac­ equally liberal toward the tender vic­
cusation got up by his adversaries, tims of misfoitune in our midst. A
through threatened and paid witnesses, single child, snatched from tin slums of
all intercourse with bis own family be­ a great city, and trained up to pure
ing strictly forbidden. Sentence having womanhood, or to strong and brilliant
been passed—and though chained as manhood, would outweigh all the
formerly described—he was further put schemes of visionary benevolence that
in an it on cage strong enough to resist were ever invented. It is a disgrace
the force of any wild beast, brought on that men and women, by their improvi­
board a small gunboat, lying in readi­ dence and vice, doom their own chil­
ness, and in the middle of the night dren to careers of misery, but it is an
down they went along the silent Menam equal disgrace that society permits it to
past his own house, where, unconscious be done. In the latter case the duty
of what was happening, his young wife that devolves is neglected, not so much
was, perhaps, teaching her little baby from intention as from ignorance of the
to pray for his unfortunate father from facts. The abodes of vice and destitu­
whom they had so long been separated, tion are not cheerful to even mentally
and whom they would now never see contemplate, and by general custom are
again. The news has just come from > shunned by those so fortunate as to
Pechim that ho died like a man. For dwell elsewhere. It is necessary, how­
the Siamese law it suffices for any one ever, that they should be occasionally
to be a relation of a person convicted to remembered, and that the philanthropist
be deprived of all rank, rights and pos­ should be reminded of the field they
sessions without trial or anything, and perpetually afford for his labors.—S. F.
this can perhaps explain to civilized Chronicle.
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minds why the unfortunate members of
The Ute Settlement.
the late Pra Pre-cha’s family, his aged
father and three brothers, are now im­
Negotiations with the Utes have been
prisoned, chained and treated like mur­
derers and plutderers; that their wives concluded. The formal agreement pro­
with their innocent children have been vides in the first paragraph on the part
made slaves to pound the rice of those, of the Indians that they will procure the
who in bringing their husbands and surrender of those of their nation impli­
fathers to a fall will have the enjoyment cated in the murder of Agent Meeker
of their possessions. And in a short and his employes, and in case they do
time there will, in all likelihood, be no not succeed in apprehending the parties,
one left of a once flourishing family, they will faithfully aid any officers of
whom every European in the place has the United States directed to make ar­
known and loved as one of the most ad­ rests. The second paragraph cedes to
vanced and obliging among the Siamese tho United States all the territory of
noblemen. It is rumored that the Si­ the present Ute reservation in Colorado.
amese ambassador will return again to One quarter section (IGO acres) of agri
Europe some day in the Spring to in­ cultural lands and a like quantity of
vest Her Majesty with the most exalted grazing land to be given to each head of
order of the white elephant. I v’ll a family, and one-half of this quantity to
keep you informed of his departure fo. <'ach female person, being set apart for
1 settlement of the Indians. The
that purpose.
The Straits Times gives some further bo., them Utes agree to settle upon unoc-
particulars of the affair. The Singapore cuj led agricultural lands of the La Plata
river, in Colorado and New Mexico, or
paper says:
“Mrs. Pre-cha, lice Miss Knox, in that vicinity. The Uncompaghres go
daughter of Mr. Knox, lately British to Grand river, near the mouth of the
The White
Consul-General for Siam, who is now Gunnison, in Colorado.
river
Utes
will
take
the
uplands
on the
at home, arrived here on Dec. 1st, on
her way to England by the Ban Yong Uintah reservation, Utah.
This agreement is entered into by the
Seng from Bangkok. The unfortunate
Ute
chiefs, who promise to obtain the
lady tells a doleful tale. Shortly after
the return of Phya Bashakarawongsee, consent of their people to a cession of
who was sent as envoy to England— their reservation upon the following ex­
mostly in refeience to the relationsex press conditions :
First—The Government to survey
isting between the Siamese government
and Mr. Knox arising out of Miss and patent to the Indians in severalty
Knox’s marriage—the King of Siam or­ the lands reserved for them, giving a
dered that Pre-cha, Miss Knox’s hus­ fee simple title to each Indian so soon as
band, should be beheaded, which was the necessary laws are passed by Con-
done. Pre-cha, it will be remembered, gres?, this title to remain inalienable,
was flogged in the first instance, and has and the lands not taxable for twenty-
been detained in prison for months past. five years.
Second—That so soon as the consent
Many members of his family have also
of
the several tribes of the Ute nation
been arrested, and Mrs. Pre-cha had to
beat a hasty retreat from Bangkok to shall have been obtained to this agree­
save her own child and two children of ment, the annuities heretofore provided
Pre-cha’s by another wife, who are now for by Congress, amounting at this time
here with htfr. We have always depre­ to $60,000, will be paid to the Indians
cated the conduct of Mr. Knox in order­ in cash, and as much more will be added
ing a gunboat to Bangkok with the ob­ as Congress shall appropriate. This an­
ject of intimidating the Siamese because nuity is to be paid in cash at the request
of a personal quarrel; but we must now of the Indians, the President having
say that this last act of the Siamese was discretion to pay them in cash or in
barbarous and will estrange from the stock, wagons, agricultural implements,
king, ex regent and their government etc. The latter are to be furnished suffi­
the sympathies of their most sincere well- cient for their reasonable wants ; also
wisheis and friends.”—Bangkok Corres­ such saw and grist mills as may be neces­
sary to enable them to commence farm­
pondence of the Hong Kong Press.
ing operations as soon as their settle­
ment is effected. A commission will be
How to Fight Polygamy.
appointed to superintend their settle­
A lady makes a suggestion entitled to ment and attend to carrying out the
consideration. She thinks the discus­ agreement, and the money appopriated
sion of polygamy in the National Con­ by Congress for this purpose shall be
gress would be disgraceful to the coun­ apportioned as follows: One-third to
try.
Her remedy is to so direct the those a ho settle on the La Plata river,
tide of immigration flowing to our one-half to those on the Grand river, and
shor_-s that in a little while a powerful one-sixth to those going to the Uintah
anti-polygamy party would be formed in reservation.
Third—In addition, as pay for their
Utah. She would have the expenses of
lands,
the Utes are to receive an annu­
intelligent emigrants paid to Utah ; she
would place the Mormons in the minor­ ity of $50,000, to be distributed among
ity ; she would establish able Gentile them per capita, and their present an­
newspapers ; and she would send there nuity of $25,000 to be continued.
eloquent lecturers, not forgetting to in­
There are 383 theatres in the United
clude among the latter several strong
States,
and more building. Churches are
minded sisters. “Have the battle,” she
building
at the same rate. The devil is
says, “fought out in Utah, and then
working
hard to keep pace with the
bring Utah into the Union as a State
quietly, as if polygamy had never been times. You take this either way. It
is a regular double header, as it were.
thought of.—The Progress.
At several points in Yavapai county,
during the past sixteen years, some won­
derfully rich gold quartz has been picked
up. Tne finders, in every instance, made
dilligent search to discover the veins
from which the float was supposed to
come, and faileJ, hi every instance, to
find the hidden bonanza We append a
few notable cases wlncl^ occurred in the
neighborhood of Prescott and the coun-'
try adjacent :
In 1864, Wi liam Rice was hunting in
the country between Whipple and Lynx
creek. His camp was out of meat,
and Willard was determined to bring
back some venison lie wounded a
fat buck, and while following him
up over that rough country, stumbled
and fell, spraining Ins ankle. In at
tempting to rise, his hand rested on
what proved to be a piece of the richost
kind of gold quartz. He looked care­
fully, but found no ledge. He carried
the specimen to camp, where it created
much excitement, and, although the
whole of Lynx Creek turned out in the
hunt, the vein lemains undiscovered to
this day.
In the Full of 1872 Pete Reed, Char­
ley Hall ami others discovered on Tur­
key creek several large specimens of
honeycombed quartz, literally filled with
the yellow treasure. The boys were
la ted, and thought they had “struck it”
sure, but long and careful prospecting
failed to untarth the vein, and it has
not been found yet.
During the Bradshaw excitement of
1871, some parties brought into
that camp about twenty pounds of
the richest quartz ever found in Yava­
pai county. It uas worth over 8100,000
per ton. The finders were the lions of
the camp. Experts, merchants, saloon
keepers, every one courted their ac­
quaintance^ It was considered a rare
distinction to take a drink—at your own
expense—with one of them. Merchants
offered them credit, barkeepers cheer­
fully “hung up” the drinks, and mining
speculators advanced them some ready
cash. After a while they returned to
the scene of the discovery, on Humbug
creek, and although they hunted faith­
fully for nearly two months they did not
find the lodge.
In 1866 a prospector in the country
between Groom creek and the Haxsa-
yampa, came across a piece of float
quartz which was half gold. He took
it to the Chase mill, then owned by
Noyes A Curtis, and several» parties
searched a long time to find the mine,
bub they only had their labor for their
pains—the mine was never found. In
every instance mentioned it is the opin­
ion of experienced prospectors that the
veins from which the ore came have been
covered up by a slide from the adjacent
hills, or by the natural decomposition of
the veins thems?lves. and that the rich­
est gold ledges iu Yavapai yet remain
undiscovered.—Arizona Democrat.
Troubles of the Chinese Emperor.
The Emperor of China is just now in
a serious difficulty. Young though he
is, he has already to maintain some sev­
enty women of his establishment in var­
ious capacities, and, like every other
gentleman who has ladies under his pro­
tection, the duty devolves upon him of
clothing them. This would be a compar­
atively easy task were the seventy fair
ones of a reasonable turn of mind. But,
unhappily for the peace of the brother
of the sun and moon, their extravagance
is pronounced to be beyond all bounds.
Two hundred and fifty thousand taels,
which is more than one-half of the land
tax of the empire, were expended last
year in silk, satin, gauze, velvet, red
and gilt paper, and pearls. It is said
that one dress, which is in the possession
of an empress, was covered last year
with seed pearls, worked in so peculiar
a fashion as to have cost a fabulous sum.
With respect to this robe there is trouble
ahead. The empress is aged, though
the dress is new. If she dies, according
to custom, it must be burned, supposing
it to be in her possession at the time of
her demise. She refuses to part with it,
and the idea of this wastefulness, cou­
pled with the prospect of increased ex­
travagance in the coming year, troubles
the owner of the vermillion pencil ex­
ceedingly.
“Iron Mountain’s Going to Boom.”
A man was ac.’osted oil Broadway by
a bootblack, the other night, who
wanted a quarter to secure a night’s
lodging. “If you’ll give it to me I'll
give you a point on stocks,” added the
bright youth. Much amused the man
gave him the money.
“Now,” says the
boy, “when you go down to Wall street
in the morning you buy Iron Mountain;
buy lots of it; it’s going up.” “Why,
how do you know anything about Iron
Mountain?” asked th • astonished man.
The boy mentioned the name of a promi­
nent operator and said: “I blacked his
boots to-day and while I was doing it he
said to a friend as was with him, ‘Iron
Mountain’s going to boom, says he.
That’s how I know it.” The man took
his point to the street, bought the stock,
and made 20 per cent on his invest­
ment in the advance which, surely
enough, took place.
G ?neral Butler is thought to show a
wistful yearning for matrimony in his
beautiful eyes. But no woman is able
to determine with certainty the meaning
of those ambiguous optics.
S2 50 PER ANNUM.
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An Old Bible.
Romance of Buzzard s Rooflt.
It was in 1850 that I met, in Mobile
Buzzard’s Roost is u modest little
Ala., the owner of this book—Dr. J. R. town within the shadow of Mount
W itherspoon, grandson of President Shasta. No high ambitions disturb the
Witherspoon, one of the signers of the even tenor of its ways. Morning, noon -
declaration of independence. The doc­ and night for years it has pursued it«
tor was an educated gentleman, and invariable course and few things happen
urged me, if I ever came in the region to ruffle the surface of its kindly gossipy
of Greeusboro, Ala., to be sure to call regular toil or unbroken monotony; .
on him, and he would show me his won- Cherished among them a* the Father of
deg’ful Bible. I was not slow to accept the Buzzards, the patriarch of the vll-’
his invitation, and rode on horseback lage, few would have believed, several
some dozen miles out of my way to see weeks ago, that the oldest inhabitant
the greatest wonder of the age, of this would be the one to powerfully agitate
kind of book.
its placid existence. For rears he had
I louml the venerable doctor living kindly dispensed hospitality and good
elegantly on broad acres, and with the cheer, at the only hotel in town, and
slaves about him, for he did not seem to for years he had been looked upon as a
think there was anything in his Bible steadfast exemplar of single blessedness,
against slavery, though his grandfather though there Was a tradition that he
signed the declaration that “all men are had been a married man in the dim past
created equal.” The book was soon But a new era has dawned upon the
brought out from a careful keeping, and Roost. Hostlers cease their kindly ad­
sure enough, though I had seen for years ministrations to the equine, sheepherds
the great Van-Ess library, with Bibles allow their flocks' to stray, chamber­
having a chain attached that once held maids neglect their daily avocation.
them to a pulpit, and the Bible of Philip “Boots" has hung up his brush for a
Melancten with his autograph, I had holiday, all business is suspended to
never seen any such Bible as this !
join in the general festivity and rejoic­
I took it in my hand with awe, for it ing incident to the accession of a mis­
was written in the days of King Alfred, tress to the district. In answer to a
and by a monk of Cornwall, England, thousand surmises rumor gives the fol­
who
lowing legend of the lov«i of the bride
lifetime—and was evidently on the finest and groom, The patriarch of Buzzard’«
of parchment, little inferior to satin. Roost was lonesome. It was not that
How such a finish could be put uj>on there were none to keep him company
the skin of any beast in the days so long when ennuied with the world’s care.
ago. when the binding of the book was No; his manorial lights extended far
in oak boards, tied with buckskin and wide in and around the “Roost’«”
thongs, was a mystery and almost a con-1 classic limits and hundreds there were
trad ict ion.
to do him reverence. Tho Wintry
But more wonderful yet was the writ- | snows of some seventy Winters had
ing within. The pages were all ruled passed over his head, leaving no other
with great accuracy and written as uni sign than their color, for his heart was
iorinly in the lines as print, which was young, his spirits gay; no voice wa*
not then invented, for some 500 years louder in cachinnations over the luck­
lay between that old monk and Fault less wight who was mulcted for drink»
and Guttenberg. The style was Gor­ at the village inn while playing “seven-
man text hand, and was an abbreviation up” or “pedro;” none more active in the
from the Vulgate of Jerome made in the daily concerns of life. But with all
fourth century.
these allurements he missed the «oft
The first chapter of every book was blandishments that only a woman cart
written with a large capital, of inimit­ give. Nursing this idea from day to
able beauty ami splendidly illuminated day front month to month he heard of
with red, blue and black ink, still in the Matrimonial News and its mission.
vivid letters, with no two of the capital Upon procuring a copy and perusing its
letters precisely alike. Here was indeed charactei istic advertisements a definite
a Dore before him of our age. Each plan was formed, and he accordingly
chapter is divided into verses by a dot answered one modestly setting forth the
of red ink, though I do not remember charms of mind and body of a Boston
when “ the venerable Bede” made his widow who sought an elderly gontleman
division of Scriptures into chapters and for a helpmeet. Answer followed an­
verses. This dot of the Bible I speak swer and he waj charmed with the evi­
of may have been the work of a subse­ dence of culture and refinement exhib­
ited in her letters, and ujion receiving-
quent age.
As to the size of the book, it was her picture was in no wise disappointed
about that of au old Ainsworth Latin in the presentation of a stately brunette,
dictionary—the kind that was mistaken apparently somewhere in the thirties.
for a Bible once by a family in Alabama, But with a wariness consequent upon so
and brought out at the request of a cal- many years’ observation of the sex, be
porteur, who wished to see their Bible! delayed the momentous question. At
This manuscript Bible of Witherspoon's last 1880 rolled iu and leap year re­
contained all the books of the Old Testa­ sumed its quadrennial sway and the
ment except the Psalms and the Apocry­ lady, tired of love’s dalliance, proposed
pha. Two chapters, the last of Leviticus that a wedding ceremony be a fit cli­
and the first of Numbers, containing the max to their acquaintance. With wise
most splendid capital letters in the forethought, acting upon the suggestion,
book, had been recently wantonly ab­ she packed her trunk and started for
stracted or cut out, in the house of Dr. California, arriving at Redding about
Witherspoon, by some Biblio maniac, two weeks ago, where the happy
who did not dare steal the whole book. groom met her, the knot was tied and
It contains, also, the whole of the New Buzzard’s Roost now rejoices in a Bos­
Teatament, except the chapter where ton bride.
the disputed text occurs, about “ the
Advice to Marrying Mer.
three who bear record in Heaven.”
in regard to the history of this Bible,
It would be extravagant to pretend
the doctor told me that it was found by i that nil young mat i iagrable girls are
a friend of his father among a lot of old angels, but there are angels among mar­
books bought at [auction for a song— riageable girls.
This is not even ex­
some twenty shillings—and taken to a ceptional, and odd as it may api>ear, lew
clergyman, Rev. Dr. McCalla, of South exceptional in Paris than elsewhere.
Carolina, a. a book that the purchaser The well bred young giils of Paris are
could not make head nor tail of, and admirably well bred, they arc almost too
which might be of value to some book much so. Their mothers so refine their
learned man. The clergyman readily intellectual and moral culture that they
gave him some half dozen books for it make up a creature so delicate that it
from his library, such as could be easilv cannot bear the touch of an ordinary
“understanded by the people,” and ine mortal without being wounded and
man was happy in the exchange. Dr. withering. This exquisite kind of edu­
McCall certainly was, for he had driven cation naturally attracts tho marrying
a sharp bargain, and had a book that man ; it seems to him a strong guaran­
was worth, when first written, $2,500, tee of conjugal prosperity and security.
and would be worth that now to any old He watches for this fine game, carries
book worm—who desireth not new books her off and sleeps »n pence. Far be it
any more than new wine, “for he saith from us to disturb such tranquility; we
the old is better.”
simply observe
! ■nan who seek«
This heirloom barely escaped getting to transplant on
clioioe plant«
out of the family line, for it was once from the materna I <»: 1 I tise to the «oil
loaned by Dr. Witherspoon, but he had of marriage ougl.. ;o lw i highly di«-
the forethought to put the borrower un­ tinguished horticulturist, irina
■ •
coarse ,
der written bonds to return it, and the soil and unskillful h> i 4 the rarest
man «lying, the book was lent by his plants are the ones th: r —n out most
widow to some third person, and finally badly. Some fad«; and dh , other« de-
found its way, as a rare treasure, into generats and return wildly i > a savage
some college, Harvard, I think, whence state. Consequently^ the fool < an not be
it was recovered under a threat of a suit too strongly urged to many a fool ; that
on the bond.
would be the easiest, the most humane
I left the sight and handling of this and the honest way.
most wonderful Bible of any in exist­
ence, perhaps, with many a longing, lin­
The carrying of government freight
gering look, but not till I had written its on tho Upper Missouri and Yellowstone
history very fully at the request and dic­ rivers is getting to be one of the cheap­
tation of its venerable owner.—Roches­ est things in the world. At the late
ter Express.
bidding for the t ransporiation of freight
on the above rivers, the Peck line and
Two boarding house keepers are
the Powers line of steamers put in the
comparing notes* “It ’pears to me,
lowest bids ever known. The former
Mrs. Miggles, that your chicken salad is bid 10 cents for the carrying of 100
never found out—leastways, I never pounds 100 miles on the Missouri river
hears none of the boarders complain.” and 20 cents on the Yellowstone. The
“Well, you see,” explained Mrs. Mig­ Powers’ bids were 9 9-10 cent« on the
gles, “I alius chaps up a few feathers Missouri and 25 cents on the Yellow*
with the real.”
stone—two of the lowest bid« by at
Frank Schuncke, a Memphis dairy­ least $50,000 ever made.
man, set a loaded gun inside his poultry­
The telephone is only about two yean
house in hope of punishing «ome
old,
but some of the jokes about it
chicken thieves, and his wife, ignorant
sound
as though they were ragged when
of the fact, was killed by it. That was
the pyramids were young.
.a Schuncke, indeed.