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VOL. 7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, ArRIL 22, 1882.
NO. 2.
THE INDEPENDENT
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J. J AS ECU L E IX
. PRACTICAL ' 1
"WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, 'AND
optician. ;
ALLWCRKWARRANTED. ii
Staler in Watohca. ClMki, Jewelry,
SsetMl avt-4 Kysriassjva, ;
And a Fall Line of . j
Clgari, Tobacoos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proptr adju-tment of Spectacle ; always on hand.
Depet of the Gesulne Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacle and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of postoffioei JLoee
bfff . Oregon.
r1 A HONEY'S SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
T tH. Muhouoy, Prop'r. !:
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The IS cast of wines, liquors and cigars in Deasjr
las count, and the beet j
- BIL.L.IABB TJLB1L,VX
fat the State kept ia proper rapaln f ;
fartlea traveling en the railroad win tad tUe
place very handy to visit daring the Mop
ping of tit train at the Oak :
.' laod, Depot, Give me a call. :
f Jab. maHONSY.
JOHN FRASERf j
Home Uade'vPurnitTO.
W1XBVR, - - OREflOH,
Upholstery Spring Mattrasses, Etc.
uonsianuy on nana.
rilDHITIIDC I have the beat stock o
I Ullltl I Ullt.. mrnilare south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture. j
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a eall before purchasing elsewhere. ;
J ALL WORK WARRANTED.-! )
DEPOT HOTEL
XUc&ard Thomas, Prop'r
TIBI8 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
lor a number ol years, and has become Tery
opnlars-ith the traveling public First-olase
SLEfcPINO ACCOMMODATIONS. '
And the table supplied with the best the market
auurms. notei at uie aepotoi ine.itanrnaa.
Furniture Store I !
JOII N GI LD ERKLEVE
HAVING PURCHASED THE FURNI
ture Establishment of John Lehnberr, is
now prepared to do any woi k in the
UPHOLSTERING LINE
""
ue is a lao preps rea to iuraisa
NITUREr !
In all style, of the beat manufacture, and cheaper
than the cheapest. His
Chairs, j
TfAtle,
' BurcauH,
UeuMteadN, :
WaNli8tanlai,
ETC., ETC.. ETC. j
Are Ok superior make, and for low cost cannot be
equalled in the State. The j
Finest of Spring Beds
And the j
Most Complete $ of as
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Always oa band. Everything in ine line fur
niahed,of the beetquality,on the shortest ;
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS NUDE AND TRIMMED.
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
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Desiring a share of public patronage, the un
dersigned promises to oner extra inducements to
all patrons. Give ne a trial.
JOHN GILDERS LEVE.
H. C.'. STANTON.;!
' Dealer in '
Staple Dry Coods I
Keeps constantly on hand a general assort--.
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,,
WOOD, WILLOW AND ULASSWARF,
ALSO - :
Crockery aiid Cordage
A full stock of '
MCHOOH.; B O O K
8uoh as required by the Public County Schools
All klBds of STATION KRY, TOYS and
FAWCY ARTICLES j
To suit both Young and Old. )
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
irnsousan franoisco. ;
SEEDS !t
AIRDS OF MSI QCALI1Y
ALL OB DE Tt St ;
Promptly attended to and Goods shipned
with care. !
Add ress, Haebraey Reno, i
Portland. Oreeon
y fit lee. j
Kotioa Is hrehy given, to whom it nay concern, Hiat
th niHlersigited hts been awarded the contract for
keeping tba Douglas county Pauper for tiie period ot
two jreara. All persons In need of aaiUUnc? from .aid
eooaty must first procure a certificate to that effect
from any member of the County Board, and present it
to one of the following named persons, who are anthor
lsed to, and will care for those presenting; such certificate
W. L. Buttea, Boaebarg ; L. L Kelioev, Oakland ; Mrs
. wwo, Looking Olsaa. Dr. 8croggs is authorised to
Mraiah aaedieal aid to all persons ui need of tba same
wuv urn seen oecnrea paupers of uougiaa eouniy.
WM. & CLARKfc, aupt. ot Poos.
. . Rosaauae, Or.. Feb. U, UdO . i
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
DT TM.EO AFH TO 91T&
Hon. W. B. C. Brown, a prominent
democrat and leading citizen of Sacra
mento died very suddenly at that place
on, he 12th of aploplexy.
The Clarion tots received a telegram
from Stuttgart, stating that King Char
les of Wartemberg was converted to
Roman Catholicism and baptized on the
10th by the .Fope.
Remarkable cold weather continues
and damage to fruit in Kentucky is very
great, according to all reports, and vege
tation of every sort has been put back
several weeks, except wheat, which is in
very fine condition.
Moett, of. Poughkeepsie, twice con
victed of the murder of his wife and
twice sentenced to death, was granted a
third trial in the same court. His coun
sel plead guiltv of murder in the second
degree and the plea was accepted.
Orlando B. Pot."" owner of the old
World building, ; -&ly destroyed by
fire in New York, has been sued by the
proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm
newsDaner. for 50.000 damairra hv
losses sustained in burning of the build
ing. . y
The governing board of Harvard Col
lege, voted .13 to 12 that it was not ad
visable for the university to give any as
surance, or hold out any encouragement
that it will undertake medical edncation
of women by Harvard college, in its med
ical school.
W. A. Hurlbut, president of the Chi
cago base ball club of the National Base
Ball League, died of heart disease at
Chicago on the 11th. He was the moving
spirit in the organization of 1876, and has
been president up to last year. .
Reports received! by the agricultural
department up to the 8th shows a very
nopeiui prospect tor good crops in the
south. There in a general increase of
acreage of winter and spring wheat and
oats, and a slight decrease of .cotton.
The sawmill, salt block and drill house
of Phinne, Fisher & Co. at South Sagi
naw was burned on the 13th ; loss, $15,
000; insurance, 810,000. Two hundred
and fifty thousand feet of lumber owned
by C. F. Moore, of St. Claire, was also
burned; loss, $2500; not insured.
The governing committee of the New
York stock exchange has placed on the
regular stock hot reorganization first lien
bonds of the New York, Lake Erie &
Western Railroad Co., debenture bonds
of the Richmond & Danville Railroad
Co., and Oregon Short Line Co.
- Four miners from Washington county .
write that they have been cast into a dun
geon at Chihuahua, Mexice, having en
deavored to leave the mine, and say Mex
icans fired on the party from ambush,
killing two and fatally wounding an
other. They complain that the U. S.
consul refuses to aid them.
After a sealed verdict finding Hawkins
and Gibbons guilty of gambling in Chi
cago had been opened another batch of
gamblers was put on trial without a jury
and testimony began. It is the inten
tion of defendants to let the remaining
cases go by default and appeal the whole
question to the snpreme court.
During the illumination of Ro-common
in honor of the release of Parnell, the
windows of a house not illumined were
smashed, the house of Major Warring
attacked and windows broken. Serious
rioting ensued, the military was called
out and three rioters seriously injured.
The London Times says Chili has
struck its talons deep into the body of
Peru and cannot disentangle them. The
conquest and incorporation of Peru
straightway in a victorious republic
would interest one as well as the other.
and will be preferable to the intolerable
relation wmcn Dinas inem togecner now.
Secretary Teller enters upon the duties
of the interior department on the 10th.
Important changes are rumored. 4 Critics
say that Secretary Lincoln, the only
member of the cabinet appointed by
President Garfield will remain for a short
time longer and then be superseded by
some one more in accord with the pres
ent administration.
Charles Morris, of Lynn, Mass., after
raising about $70,000 by forgeries, bor
rowing and raising money for sufferers of
all kinds, has disappeared, leaving his
wife and children. The names , princi
pally used in the forgeries were . James
W. Pike, R. C. Judkins and George H.
Harwood, He raised $12,000 for Jud
kins, the principal victim of the recent
boiler explosion. -. ' ,'
The rumor of the sinking of the United
States flagship Richmond is published
in London, among some of Lloyd's ad
vices by mail, and evidently of a very
old date. It is probable, therefore, the
rumor now circulating is the same which
originated in New York several weeks
ago, from the misconstruction of an offi
cial paragraph about the non-arrival of
the Richmond at Panama. The Rich
mond was reported as having arrived at
Yokohama March 1.
The senate has confirmed S. P. Rounds,
public printer; S. C. Wright, receiver of
pnblio moneys at Carson, Nev. The
nominations of Wm. E. Chandler as sec
retary of the navy and Secretary Hunt,
as minister to Russia, were reported back
from the naval and foreign relations com
mittees with recommendation for confir
mation. The following are nominations:
John Robert Graham Pitkin, marshal for
the east district of Louisiana, and John
F. Gowey, of Ohio, register of the land
office at Olympia, W. T.
' John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., has
signified his intention to create a fund
of $1,000,000 to be known as the John F.
Slater fund, for the education of freed-
men, the fund to be vested in a board of
trustees, which includes ex-President
Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, Wm. P.
Dodge of New York. Gov. Colquitt of
Georgia, Jas. P. Boyce of Kentucky
and Wm. A. Slater, the donor s son
Slater explains: The general object is
the uplifting of negroes and their pos
terity by conferring on them the bless
ings of a Christian education. The dis
abilities suffered by this people and their
singular patience and fidelity in the great
crisis of the nation, established a just
claim on the sympathy and good will of
humane and patriotic men. I cannot
but feel that compassion is due in view
of their prevailing ignorance which ex
ists, because of no fault of their own. If
after thirty-three years three-quarters of
the trustees shall for any reason agree
there is no further use for the fund in
the form instituted, Slater -authorizes
them to apply the capital to fB-np'w; jfesi
tablishment,or foundations stfbsidarv to
existing institutions of higher education,
so as to make them freely accessible to
colored students. Under the present in
stution of the fund he especially wishes
that neither the principal or income be
expended in land or building for any
other purpose than that of a safe and
productive investment lor income.
James Lansing, who shot and killed
nimon .raton at Sacramento, had a nar
row escape from being lynched by a mob
The Catholic clergy of the diocese of
Cashel and Emly, passed a resolution
pledging themselves to exert all their in
fluence to prevent outrages, demanding
cessation of coercion and eviction of ten
ants for arrears of rents, and also pledg
ing themselves to co-operate with the
people's representatives, with the object
of securing an amendment to the land
acts. "' -. -
Dr. Lamsonhas written an acoount of
his movements at about the time of his
visit to Wimbledon just before the death
of young John, but only states therein
what has proved untrue. Defense ob
tained the evidence of four servants em
ployed by the doctor while at Bourne
mouth. All depose as to ecoentrio acts
on the part of the prisoner and to the
belief that he is insane. '
Gold win Smith writes to the London
Times, if British legislation and people
would handle the Irish question with
vigor, their determination would be ap
plauded by nobody more than the great
mass of Amerioan people as distinguished
from politicians. Smith recommends
abolition of jury trial in agrarian cases,
collection of fair rents by summary pro
cess, suspension of representation in
rebellious districts, suppression of mur
derous press, and special legislation con
cerning foreign emissaries, their govern
ments being given fully to understand
their position.
The Herald's Paris special sayB: Par
nell 's friends went to meet him at Garde
du Nord on the 12th, but contrary to ex
pectations he did not arrive by either the
ordinary or the tidal train. Sexton, who
is in Paris at present, telegraphed to
London for news, but had received no
reply on the 12th. Parnell's nephew,
who is a son of Mrs. Thompson, was
buried at 2 o'clock on the 12th at St.
Germain. He was aged twenty-two, and
died of typhus fever. If Parnell's sole
object in applying for release was really
to attend the funeral he will presumably
now go quietly back to Kilmainham.
Patrick Egan and several other leaguers
waited for him all day at the Hotel de
Larmandi.
A sudden and terrific hail storm oc
curred at Dallas, Texas, on the 12th;
hail stones fell ten inches - in circumfer
ence and sounded like the discharge of
fire arms. Teams ran away in the streets
and many persons were dangerously
hurt. The aggregate damage is many
thousands of dollars. Reports from
neighboring towns show like destruction.
At Dennison 1000 cattle stampeded,
causing great consternation. It is feared
there has been much loss of life and
property. The storm king after the hail
storm unprecedented in severity, aston
ished the inhabitants by a combination
of rain and hail that completely eclipsed
all previous efforts. For hours the water
fell in torrents and the streets rivalled
ordinary rivers. Every metallic roof
was perforated and the leakage has done
immense damage to stocks of goods. The
rain of the 13th flooded the basements of
many business houses. The worst suf
ferers are the Daily Herald, damage to
press and stock room contents, estimated
at from $10,000 to $12,000; E. M. Fill
more, liquor store in the same building,
similarly visited, estimated his loss at
$8000.
Herald's Madrid: Sarah. Bernhardt
made her debut at the Theater Royal in
the presence of the king and queen and
Infanta Isabella. There was a splendid
audience. The tiers of boxes and pit
were crowded with nobility, diplomats,
men of letters, politicians and lovely
creatures in rich toilets. Bernhardt ob
tained applause on her acting, especially
after the third and fifth acts, and made
a magnificent success. - She deeply
moved the audience, and cheers, vivaa
and bouauets abounded. Her husband
is a poor performer. The chief topic of
conversation between acts was the disas
trous inauguration of the season of bull
fights, where on two' days in succession
there was a fearful scene of excitement,
many bulls were badly wounded and the
celebrated bull fighter, Carancha,
smashed his nose. On the second day a
bull caught him near the barrier, tossed
him up and gored him again and again.
He was mortally wounded. Extreme
unction was given him outside the bull
ring, and he was carried home on a
stretcher, followed by large crowds.
Hundreds of all ranks visited bis house,
and the press is full of harrowing ac
counts. The new bill for the election of presi
dent . and vice president provides that
electors shall be chosen the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in November in
every fourth year, except in cases speci
fied in sections 147 to 149, revised stat
utes; that electors shall vote on the third
Tuesday of December following their ap
pointment, and that between the day of
choosing electors and the day they are to
vote, the title of the office of elector may
be determined, which, if made by the
highest judicial tribunal of the state
having jurisdiction shall be conclusive;
that congress shall be in session the sec
ond Wednesday in January next after the
meeting of the electors, and count the
votes; that upon reading the certificates
the president of the senate shall call for
objections, which, if any, shall be made
in writing and shall state clearly and
concisely with argument on the ground
thereof, and shall be signed by at least
one sanetor and one member of the bouse
of representatives before the same shall
be received; In the event of controversy
in any Btate as , to the appointment or
elegibility of electors, decision thereof
by its highest judicial tribunal having
jurisdiction shall be conclusive and the
vote shall be counted in accordance
therewith, unless reversed by both
houses; that if there be more than one
judicial decision the two houses shall
determine which shall be received ; that
when there has been a controversy in any
state and no certified decision has been
transmitted, or when two or more such
certified decisions have been transmitted,
the contested votes from such state shall
not be counted unless both houses con
cur therein, and if there be several elec
toral certificates from any state and no
such judicial decision, the certificate
shall be held by both houses to be exe
cuted by proper authority and shall be
conclusive; that if a result is not reached
before the" fifth calendar day after the
first meeting of the two houses no fur
ther recess shall be taken by either
house; that notwithstanding the decision
and declarations mentionad the title of
. office of any person declared to be elected
president or vice president, and the title
of any claimant thereof may be tried and
determined by action in the nature 'of
quo warranto, and action may be brought
prior to actual entry or usurpation, and
must be commended within ten days
after declaration of election of defendant
in the circuit court of the United States
for the district in which defendants or
either of them reside.
POLLY GARDNER AXD THE DRAW
BRIDGE.
BT JtJUA K. HILDBETH.
Polly Gardner had been spending her vaca
tion with Annt Mary in the country. She
would have been "perfectly happy" but that
her father and mother were obliged to remain
in the city. . It was five weeks since she bad
seen them, and it seemed to Polly like five
months. ;
One lovely afternoon Polly sat on the horse
block idly kicking one foot backward and for
ward, watching Annt Mary as she drove off on
a visit to a sick neighbor. The birds were
singing, bees were humming, and the slender
branches of the great gray-green willows that
shadowed the road moved softly with every
light puff of wind. Away off in the field over
the hills Polly could hear the ring of the mow
ers' scythes. Everything was so pleasant and
peaceful that she wished her parents were there
to enjoy it with her. -
JW as Annt Mary was hidden from sight by
a bend in the road, she heard the crunching of
wheels in the opposite direction, and, on look
ing up, fonnd it was another wagon, driven
by Mr. Ward, the grocer and postman of Wil
low Grove. He checked his horse at the gate;
and began fumbling slowly in his coat pocket
for something. 3
After considerable searching he drew ont a
white envelope, and turning it first one way
and then another, shook his head, and began
feeling in his pockets again, brought forth his
spectacles, adjusted them carefully upon his
nose, and once more began examining the let
ter. At last he read in a lond voice:
" 'Miss Polly Gardner, in care of Mrs. Mary
West, Willow Grove. In haste.' " Then he
peeped over his glasses severely at. Polly, and
asked sharply, "Who's Miss Polly Gardner?
Do you know, little girl?"
"Oh, that's me!" cried Polly, jumping from
the horse-block, "and Mrs. Mary West is annty,
Please give me my letter. It is from mamma.
I am so Kladl"
"Can you read?" asked Mr. Ward, he, still
holding the letter far above PollyB reach.
"Yes, of course I can," cried Polly, indig
nantly. "I am nine years old next week."
"Well, well, J&188 folly Gardner, here's yonr
letter. But if your mar hadn't put 'In haste'
on the outside of it, you would nave had to
come and fetch yourself," said Mr. Ward, as he
banded the letter down to Polly.
"Thank you ever so mucn," sata Folly, tear
ing her letter open ne vously. After reading it
once she said, "Oh!" in a delighted voice.
"Nothing the matter?" inquired Mr. Ward,
who still sa looking at Polly.
"No; but mother and father are coming to
day, if this is the 24th of August." .
"Yes, it s the 2u of Angust. But let s see
your letter, and I can tell you what they
mean."
Polly handedlher letter back to Mr. Ward,
who read it aloud slowly:
'Deakebt Poixt. Papa finds tba't he can leave
hts bnslncaa for a short time, so we have concluded
to spend the remainder of your vacation with you
and aunt Mary. We will take the train that reachea
wiuow urove at i :d v. M., on the 24tli. Tell aunt
Mary to meet us if she has the time.
" 'Love to all, and a thousand kisses from
" 'Mamma and Papa.'
"Well," said Mr. Ward, as he gave Polly
back her letter, "they'll be here in about a
half -hour, for it's almost four now. I guess
I'll be moving; it's time I was back to the
store." So he chirped to his horse, and then
turned the wagon, and was soon ont of sight.
As aunt Mary would not return before five
o'clock, Polly determined to walk down to the
railroad station, and meet her father and moth
er alone. She had often been there with aunt
Mary to watch the trains come and go. It was
a small station, and very few people stopped
there.
Just before reaching the station the railroad
crossed a draw-bridge. Polly liked to watch
the men open and shut the draw as the boats in
the river passed through. There was a foot
path over this bridge, aud Pollv had once cross
ed it with aunt Mary. They had stopped to
speak to the flagman, who was pleasant and
good-natured. He told Polly where she could
find some beautiful white lillies in a pond not
far away. That was more than a week ago,
and the flowers were not then open, and now
as Polly ran down the road, she thought she
would have time to gather some for her par
ents before the train arrived.
When Polly reached the station she found
no one there, and on looking at the clock, saw
that it was only ten minutes past four, so she
had twenty minutes to wait. Then she ran on
quickly.
The flagman stood by the draw, and Polly
saw, some distance down the river, a small
vessel coming toward the britge. She ran
along rapidly, and as she passed the flagman
he called out:
"Going for the pond lillies? The pond was
all white with them when I went by this morn
ing." "Yes, sir; I want to pick some for mamma
and papa. They wrote me a letter and said
they were coming in the next train."
"Yon don't say sot Well, I guess you're
glad. Look ont for the locomotive, and don't
take too long picking your flowers, and you'll
have plenty of time to get back before the
train comes in."
Polly thanked him and ran on. In about
five minutes she reached the pond. How lovely
the lilies looked, with their snowy enps resting
upon the dark water! But their stems were
long and tough, and most of them grew far be
yond her reach. She contrived to secure' four.
Polly was sorry to leave so many behind, but
was afraid if she lingered too long she would
miss the train. So, gathering np the blossoms,
she panned them into her belt, and scampered
back toward the bridge.
The boat had just sailed through the draw,
and the man stood ready to close the bridge
when Polly came np. He looked over at her
from the center of the bridge, and called out
with a smile:
"Couldn't yon get any more flowers than
these? If I had time to go to the pond yon
should have as many as you could carry.
Polly smiled back at him,- and then began
to watch him as he made ready to turn the
great bridge back into place for the tram to
pass over. His Ifand was already on the crank,
when a rope dangling over the railing of the
bridge attracted his attention. Ashe tried to
pull it in it seemed to be caught underneath.
Polly watched him lean over to get a better
hold, when, to her great horror, the piece of
railing to which he held gave way.
. There was a sudden scream, and a great
splash in the water. But before the waves of
the swiftly flowing river closed over him, Polly
beard the cry.
"The train! the flag!" -j
Poor little Polly! She was so alarmed for
the poor man's safety that for some moments
she could think of nothing else, and ran back
ward and forward wringing her hands in de
spair. As he rose to the surface she saw that
he made frantic gestures to her, and pointed
np the road from which the train was to come.
He seemed to be able to keep himself above
the water with very little effort, and Polly saw
with joy that the accident had been observed
by the occupants of the vessel. The man in
the water struck out toward the boat, and
Polly could hear shouts and cheers from the
men on board. -
All at once she was startled by the far off
wnistie of the approaching locomotive. In a
moment she understood the meaning of the
nagman s gestures. She looked at the open
space and then at the bridge. In five minutes
or less the train would come dashing into the
terrible chasm. Polly's hair almost rose on
her head with horror. - Jt was as much as she
could do now to keep her Senses.
There must be some way to avert the awful
calamity. She ran swiftly along toward the
rapidly approaching tram. Lying on the
ground just by the small wooden house where
the flagman generally sat, Polly saw a red flax,
She remembered having heard that this flag
was used in cases of danger, or when there was
any reason for stopping the cars, She did not
know whether there was yet time, bat she seiz
ed the flag and flew wildly up tt e track.
. "Oh, my papal oh, my mamma!" she cried:
"they will fall into the river and be drowned!
wnat snail l aor ana rouy waved the nag back
ward and forward as she ran. -
Then came the train around the curve. She
' could see the5 white steam puffing from the pine
and could bear the panting of the engine.
"I know they'll run over me, bnt if mamma
aad Dana are killed. I don't care to live." she
reaid to herself, as she approached the great
black noisy engine. -
When it was about three hundred feet awav
from her, she saw a head thrust out of the lit
tle window by the locomotivo, and then, with a
great pumng, snorting, and whistling, it began
to move slower and slower, until at last, when
it was almost upon Polly, i stopped entirely.
All the windows were alive with heads and
hands. The passengers screamed aud waved
her off the track. She stepped off and ran
close up to the side of the engine and gasped
ont, "The bridge is open and the man has fal
len into the river. Please stop the train or yon
will be drowned."
The engineer stared in amazement, as well
he might, to see a small girl with a flushed
face, hair blown wildly about, aud four lillies
pinned in her belt, waving the red flag as
though she had been used to flagging trains all
her life.
At that moment another remarkable figure
presented itself to the astonished eyes of the
passengers. A man, dripping wet, braised and
scratched as though he had been drawn through
briers, came tearing toward the cars, stum
bling and almost falling at every step. As he
reached little Polly, he snatched her np and
covered her face with kisses.
"Yon little darling," be cried, "do you know
what you've done? You've saved the lives of
more than a hundred people."
Polly, nervous and excited, began to cry.
One after another the passengers came hurry
ing ont of the train aud crowded around her,
praising and kissing her, until site was quite
ashamed, and hid her head upon the kind flag
man's shoulder, whispering, "Please take me
away and find mamma and papa."
Almot the last to alight were Folly s parents,
Why, it's onr Polly 1" they both exclaimed at
once.
The draw was now being closed again, and
the conductor cried, "All aboard 1" The pas
sengers scrambled back to their seats again.
Folly s father took her into the car with him,
and now she looked calmly at the people as
they gathered around, and answered politely
all questions put to her, but refused the rings,
chains, bracelets, and watches that the grateful
passengers pressed her to accept as tokens of
their gratitude for saving their lives.
At last Folly grew tired of so much praise,
and spoke out: Really I don't deserve your
thanks, for I never once thought of any one
but papa and mamma. So keep your presents
for yonr own little girls. Thank you all the
same."
Those that beard her laughed, seeing they
could do nothing better for her than to let her
remain unnoticed for the short distance she
had to go.
When Polly was lifted out of the car, and
stood npon the steps of the station while her
father looked after the luggage, the passengers
threw kisses and waved their handkerchiefs to
her until they were ont of sight.
A few days afterward Folly was astonished at
receiving a beautiful ivory box containing an
exquisitely enamelled medal, with these words
engraved on it :
- "Presented to Polly Gardner, whose courage
and presence of mind saved a hundred lives."
Agriculture la America.
Most prominent among the factors
that have contributed toward the extra
ordinary development andprosperity of
agriculture in the United states is, un
questionably, the great native fertility of
soils, as yet unexhausted in the newer
States and territories, whioh are thus
enabled to pour out upon the East and
upon Europe the accumulated soil treas
ures of many ages. That these cannot
hold out forever, or even for years to
come, is an inexorable law of nature;
and the steady diminution per acre in
the States east of the Mississippi river,
resulting in their increased inability to
compete in the growing of cereals with
the newer States, has long given warn
ing that the experience of the Old
World is being repeated on the new
continent, and that the old and ever re
curring question is upon us of maintain
ing profitable productiveness by means
of systematic culture and returns to the
soil.
Whether this question shall be allow
ed to assume the aspect of the menace
that annually confronts the European
agriculturalist, "No manure, no crops,"
or whether an ounce of intelligent pre
vention shall forestall the heavy burdens
that will otherwise rest upon the coming
generation and its industries, is the
issue that must largely be determined by
enlightened government action, in the
face of the already inveterate bad habits
of the vast majority of American farmers
that are, as usual, promptly adopted by
fie European immigrant. The ravaging
of the virgin soils by heavy cropping
without change, or even the slighest
attempt at return, followed by the
turning-out of ,the "tired land, and
too often, by the washing away of the
the surface soil from the hard plow-sole
formed by shallow tillage, not uncom
monly resulting in the definitive ruin of
the land for agricultural purposes, is re
peated more or Iobs in every newly set
tled region. Deserted homesteads, and
melancholy old fields scarred with gul
lies, mar the face of the land in the rear
of the pioneer farmer, and impose upon
his steadier successor a heavy tax, in the
way of reclamation, on soils that u ra
tionally cultivated would not have felt
the need of manure for scores or years.
For the want of the most rudimentary
knowledge of agricultural facts and
Ennciples, the planters of the South
ave for three-quarters of a century
wasted nine crops of cotton for every one
made, by failing to utilize the chief pro
duct of their fields cotton seed for re
turns to the soil, which needs but little
more to maintain its full productiveness
forever. Such a crying evil as this would
hardly have been allowed to exist so long
in any country less averse to the least
semblance of paternal government with
out something more than the faint warn
ings and remonstrances uttered from
time to time in the periodical press, or
in government documents. . The great
perfection attained by agricultural im
plements for large-scale culture under
the hands of American inventive skill,
serves but ! to add to the rapidity with
whioh the process of soil devastation is
carried forward into new fields. Eugene
W. Hilgard in April Atlantic.
j A Strange Tale.
The Shanghai Mercury says: A very
singular discovery is reported to have
been made by a party of six Spaniards
while on a shooting expedition in the
island of Formentera, which is part of
the Balearic group. They came upon a
large cavern, entrance to which seemed
almost impossible, owing to the thick
growth of brambles. Their curiosity,
however, was excited, by the evidence
that the cavern had-been .made . by hu
man hands, and they cleared away the
obstacles in their path, arriving , alter
several hours hard work in a spacious
chamber of Arab architecture in an ex
cellent state of preservation. In the
centre of this chamber stood two splen
did tombs of very peculiar shape and of
great external beauty. They lifted with
out much difficulty the lids of these two
tombs and were greatly astonished to
find that they contained the mummies of
young woman and an elderly man of
colossal stature.- Upon the head of the
woman was a diadem which, if the
stones are real, is of priceless value.
There was a large pearl necklace round
her throat, carbuncles in her ears, and
her fingers were covered with rings.
The male figure bad an imperial crown
upon its head and a sceptre in its . right
band. i
Almost Burled Alive. .
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Josephine Ryinan, ; a fair-haired, blue-
eyed young woman, is just recovering
from a remarkable illness at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Brown, at Evansville,
Ind. Her parents died some vears aero.
and Josephine went to work in St.
James, a little village near by. One
Saturday night last winter she went to
the singing sohool. ! She had not been
in her seat long when she felt a very
strange sensation about her head, accom
panied by pains in the back. She arose
to her feet, as if to start out of the
church, when she fell in a dead faint,and
was carried home. Her friends at first
thought that the attack was but a mere
fainting spell, and the usual restoratives
were applied, but the girl continued to
lie as if dead. Sunday cane and went.
but still there was no change. The body
became colder and colder, the eyes were
open and staring, the lips were apart,
there was no perceptible pulse.and every
indication pointed to death. Physicians
pronounced life extinct. The priest was
sent for to administer the last rites, and
the weeping sisters and friends of the
family prepared to bid Josephine the
last farewell. The coffin -was ordered,
busy fingers began to prepare the white
clothes in which to bury the corpse, and
in fact, every preparation was made for
the final scene.
Thus passed Monday. On the evening
of that day there was a slight change in
the appearance of the body, which gave
the startled watchers a faint hope that
the girl lay in a trance, and that this was
but death s counterfeit. The body lay
on its back, with arms folded, just as the
attendants placed it. There was not the
least perceptible breathing; the eyes still
had that stony, unmeaning gaze; the face
was as pallid as white marble; but the
iciness of real death was wanting. The
feet and limbs were not warm,4)nt they
did not have that chilly touch- that is a
sure accompaniment of actual dissolu
tion. There was sufficient doubt in the
minds of those in attendance to warrant
caution, and so another day and night
passed.
On Wednesday, or the fourth day after
the girl was first stricken down, the
priest was again sent for. After crit
ically examining the case and consulting
with the physician, he said: "it is a
trance. She may come to herself, but it
will be but momentary. When she re
lapses all will be over. She can't live."
Accordingly the funeral wa3 set for the
next day. Imagine the feelings of hor
ror which possessed this girl when it is
known that she was cognizant of every
word that was spoken in that room, and
could see the forms of her friends and
watchers about her couch. Her terrible
situation is best told by herself. She
said:
"Oh, sir, it was horrible. As I lay
there on my back, stretched out on the
boards, with my arms crossed and feet
tied together, with the lighted candles
about my head, and could see my sisters
and neighbors come and peer into my
face it was awful. I heard every word
spoken. My body, limbs and arms were
as cold as ice. I thought of the agony
of being buried alive, of being nailed in
a coffin and lowered in the ground. I
tried to make some noise or move just a
little to let them know that I was alive,
but it was impossible. I saw my sisters
come in one by one and ' look into my
face. 'Poor Josie, she's gone.' Their
tears dropped on my hair, and their
kisses were warm to my lips. As they
turned to leave me, it seemed as if I
mu it make an effort to attract their at
tention, if only by moving my eyelids.
But I couldn't do it. I felt like scream
ing. I tried to, but I couldn't move a
muscle. The priest came in, and felt my
arms and wrists. He shook his head.
Then he placed his ear to my heart. It
was no use. He could not hear it beat.
After saying a short prayer for the re
pose of my soul, he turned and left me,
and my agony and horror were redoubled.
Will no one find out that 1 live; said I
to myself. 'Must I be buried to wake
only when it is too late? Must I come
back to life when they put me in the
vault, and all of the people have gone
away, only to die of fright and horror
and suffocation I The thought was
madness! Why dosen't the doctor do
something to bring me to myself? I am
not dead 1' It was of no use. There I
lay thinking and listening to every word
that was said. I could hear a woman
giving directions as to the making of a
shroud. I heard the time set for the fun
eral aud all. I tried to look conscious
and let them know that I understood it
all, but it was impossible. It is a won
der I did not die of fright and agony. I
often think that I would sooner die, a
thousand times sooner, than go through
that experience again. Finally, when all
had left the room but two or three, some
one said: 'Ain't yon going to cut her
hair off?'; My hair was done up in long
braids and fell down my back. ''Yes,'
said my sister, 'we'll cut it now. Then
they got the scissors and came up to me.
vv mie one oi mem iook noia oi my neaa
and turnd it to one Bide, the other, with
the scissors, began the cutting. I could
feel the cold on my neck. I realized
that this was about the last thing they'd
do before putting me in the coffin. The
woman began to clip, and a second or
two one long braid of my hair was taken
off and laid aside. My head was then
turned the other way to allow them to
get at the other braid, but this was not
touched. Thank God! something
in my condition, or some movement. I
don't know what it was, caused my sister
to scream, and I was ; saved. The
scissors dropped to the floor with a loud
noise, the woman jumped back, nearly
scared to death, and I sat up. You
should have seen the house a little while
after that. I thought everybody had
gone crazy. 'Venie's alive! Venie's
alive T The whole neighborhood came
rushing in as soon as they heard of it.
and for several days there was nothing
talked about but me. My folks thought
X Uidn t know what was going on. la t tie
they thought that every word spoken in
that room, was heard and understood by
me. ! They tried to keep everybody from
referring to the fact that my shroud was
bought, the coffin i ordered and the
funeral arranged. They made an ex
case, too, for part of my hair being cut
off . They told me the reason of it was
that a plaster had been put on the back
of my neck, and my hair got so tangled
that it had to be cut away. I didn't say
anything. One day my little brother
said to ne: 'Verne, you was going to be
buried last Thursday, and they out your
hair off.' He never imagined that I
knew more about it than he did. . The
recollection of those terrible days and
nights will never leave me. I pray to
God that I may neyer be called upon to
pass through it again. I would rather
die." . . . t V- -v:-. : :
There is a strong probability that the
year 1882 will add 4,000,000 to our popu
iation by immigration alone.
Twenty Sobs.
One day there came into old Mr. Gal
lagher's hat store a man who asked to
look at a cap. He was shown a number
of caps, and selecting one that suited, he
stated that he would take four of them.
The hatter was somewhat astonished to
hear the man ask for four caps at once,
especially as he said he wanted them all
the same size.
"Have you four sons of one size?"
asked Mr. Gallagher.
"Yes, sir, I have, and I've got sixteen
others besides," answered the man.
"Where are they?" inquired the hatter,
who stood all torn up by a curiosity at
the strange statement.
"They're down here at the market,"
"They're down here at the market,"
was the reply.
'.Bring them here," said the hatter,
"and I'll make them all a present of a
cap each.
The man went ont, and shortly re
turned, chasing into the store a drove of
boys that looked something like the
famous staircase band you might see in
the theater if you ever visited such a
plaoe."- . j;
"Hyar they be, mister. These be my
boys, they be."
"Well, well, well, I never! Doesn't
that beat all!" ejaculated the old hatter,
as he gazed in wonder at the group of
gawkingyoung fellows who stood there in
all sorts of awkward attitudes, some star
ing about in an absent sort of way .others
giggling like school-girls, and the rest
getting all tangled np with each other in
endeavoring to keep from trampling on
the boxes or oil-cloth or matting on the
floor. . ;.. -.
"Come in, boys, come in and make
yourselves at home, shouted Mr. Galla
gher as the string blocked np the door
way. And he was soon busy "fitting"
their pates with caps.
"This 'ere's Thomas Dittimus," said
the happy father, dragging forth the
eldest of the gang. "He's the first born,
and a mighty good boy he is, too. He's
about thiry-five years old."
He. was speedily suited with a cap and
told to stand aside
"This hyar one," said the old stock
raiser, "is the next oldest. His name is
Christopher Holmes." And his father
grabbed another of the drove as though
he were a big sheep. "Ef you'll notice,
stranger, you'll see that the first boy has
got black eyes like mine, and this has
blue eyes like his mother." It was but
the work of a second to slap a cap on the
blonde head, and he was pushed over by
the side of his older brother, with the in
junction not to get mixed in with the
others till every fellow had got his new'
cap.
"Step out here, Peter Dialander."
commanded the owner of the bunch of
boys. At this, a third young man am
bled out in front of the delighted hatter.
who enjoyed the experience beyond de
scription. "Hayr's a other . black-eyed
boy," remarked the boy-builder. "You
see every other one is a blue-eyed, and
the rest is black-eyed so far. and this
helps to keep the run of them if yon un
derstand the system, but when you come
to go through the whole string you'd
get mixed after the first ten, as Til '.ex
plain to you further along. Now this
one is Calendar Jones, and making a
dash in among the mob the daddv
brought out a fourth son and almost
held him up by the back of the neck. A
cap was passed down over his head, and
he was assigned a position among the
seniors.
Number five was fished out- of the
regiment and introduced as Eecy Icy.
He got bis cap and went to join the
others that were , already fitted out.
Then came Osy Neeshy, followed next
by George Wampum, then Shaw no Cato. i
"1 kind o sort o try to keep 'em
divided into lots of five, you see, by
giving them names of a different na
ture, yet something alike; for in
stance, Injun names all come together.
But right about hyar I always get
mixed when I try to pick the lads out
according to their ages, 'cause, you
see, the eyes begin to change along
about the tenth baby that comes.
Commencing with the first, who, as you
saw had black eyes, the change of color
keeps on black, then blue till it gets
down to the tenth or eleventh, when
there is a change right around the other
way. xor iustance,tbe tenth being blue
the eleventh ought to be be black, bat
one of his eyes is blue and one is black;
then the others start out just opposite to
the way they first tbegan. . That is, yon
will notice, now strange that let me
see," mused the father, trying to single
&ut the proper one. "Yes, the twelfth,
who should . have had blue eyeB if the
change had not taken place, is black.
Then the next is blue, the next black
and so on to the end. On account of
this change the first and last
are black, whereas, if the alteration had
been kept up as it started they would
have been opposite ia color.. In the
same way the next to the first and next
to the last are both blue, and so on."
The introductions kept on, and the
boys were all fitted with a cap each, free
of cost, by the good-natured hatter. The
father stated that there were no twins in
the party, and that they were all the off
spring of one wife. There was about a
year's difference in their respective ages,
the youngest being about twelve. Rela
tive to keeping the run of the family the
old man stated that his wife, the mother
of the boys, knew them better than he
did a great deal that is, she could call
off their names and ages without having
to stop to think, like he did, at times.
"What do you propose to do with
your boys?" inquired that hatter, J
"Make farmers of 'em, We're jest
traveling through hyar now on our way
to se-tie somewbar, but we don't exactly
know wbar."
"Did you ever have any girls ?"
"Nary gal, stranger. All boys, and
we've never had any death in our
family." Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wht the Mes Won't Dakcb. A
general wail goes up at the scarcity of
the male element at Washington parties,
which opens up a vast subject the cus
toms of society which drive men out of
it. The German has disorganized every
thing. A man may goto a ball to amuse
himself, but when it comes to amusing
himself according to the directions of a
ballet dancer, called "the leader," it is
altogether a different thing. He must
dance whether he feels like it or not; he
must "take out" those who have taken
h ra out and taken him in by so doing.
He must 1m always on the alert; there is
none of that fascinating softness of re
pose, that sweet forgetfulness which is
the subtle charm of dancing, i We nave
got the German, bnt we have given np
dancing. No wonder that men had
rather be chopped to pieces than go into
society where the German prevails, and
a grim and solid phalanx of mammas
line the walls to see. that no man dances
twice with the girl ha wants to.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
The best penance for envying
anoth-
er s merit is to try to surpass it.
If yon want enemies.excel them; if yon
want friends let others excel you.
As too' Ions retirement weakens the
mind, so too much company dissipates it.
.It is no point of wisdom for a man
to beat his brains about things impossi
ble. "
We know that we must meet to part.
bnt we know not that we part to meet
again.
Genius makes its " observations in
shorthand; talent writes them out at
length.
I look into a man's face and see how
how cheerful it is, and then I know how
wise he is.
There is no one study that is not capa
ble of delighting ns after a little appli
cation to it. ,
The reproaches of enemies should
quicken us to duty, and not keep us
trom it.
Let your inclination be to those who
advise rather than to those who praise
yafur-eondnct. - -
Next to a life of stirring action, is a
life devoted to the study of the princl
pies of action.
If there is any great aad good thing in
store for you, it will not come at first or
(second call. -
Man cannot dream himself into a no
ble character; he must achieve it by
diligent effort.
The best way for a man to get out of a
owly position is to be conspicuously
effective in it.
Z ll C
understood his own talents, nor a good '
one who mistook them.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is eur helper.
The most influential man, in a free
country at least, is the man who has the
ability, as well as the courage, to speak
what he thinks when occasion ma re
quire it. J
A patent describes a steel ribbon lined
with leather, to be nsed for driving
belts. The patent is issued upon the
novel method of connecting the metal
and the leather. "v -
General Fremont suddenly discovers
that he has a claim on the Golden Gate.
It ia a wonder that some of the old fel
lows who live in the "future times back"
dd not claim the golden stairs.
The meanest man on record sent
through a postofSce presided over by a
woman a postal card on which was writ
ten, "Dear Jack ! Here's the details of
that scandal. And the rest was in
Greek.
Fogg Can say a neat thing when he
wishes. Wkn Miss Frankincense asked
him, pointings, jit a mirror, what he
thought of her pie he replied, I think
that in it alone can yos. find your peer
in beauty." - V
Seven months ago a 'Poughkeepsie
iaay Droice on a needle m tne paim oi
m j a
nor ngut uutu iuiu. was nuauw tu cvtracv
it. The wound healed in aTSw 6ays,and
last Saturday the needle came out of
, 3 , . i. , . .
her heel. i
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.
The spirit of fashion is not the beauti
ful, but the willful; not the graceful.
but the fantastic; not the superior in the
abstracts, but the superior in the worst
of all concretes the vulgar. Leigh
Hunt.
A California man worth nearly half a
million dollars recently attended the
funeral of his son. Just before the
coffin was lowered he unscrewed the
silver handles, and taking them back to
town, sold them to an undertaker. N.
Y. Herald.
The lake at Manzanillo. Mexico, burst
its confines and poured into the sea. The
lake was full of alligators and the harbor
of sharks. When the monsters met. a
water battle immediately began, and it
was waged for several days in the pres
ence of most of the people of Manzanillo.
t or a long time victory trembled in the
balance, but the sharks finally prevailed .
and dined on the rear guard of the alli
gators.
The Rev.' Dr. Magoun. one of Phila
delphia's Baptist ministers, told a New
York conference that there were plenty .
oi narrow-minded persons in every de
nomination who 'worship God through
inherited fear, and put aside religion
witn tneir suhday clothes. They are al
most, as numerous as the sands of the sea.
and have not soul enough to give hell a
substantial grip.
Mas Boiled Down.
The average number of teeth is 31.
The number ot bones in man is 240.
The average weight of a skeleton is
about 14 pounds.
. Ihe weight of the circulating blood is
about 18 pounds.
The average weight of an adult man is
140 pounds, 6 ounces.
The brain of a man exceeds twice that
of any other animal.
A man annually contributes to vegeta
tion 124 pounds of carbon.
A man breathes about 20 times a min
ute, or 1200 times in an hour.
One thousand ounces of blood pass
through the kidneys is one hour. '
The skeleton measures one inch less
than the height of the living man.
A man breathes about 18 pints of air
in a minute, or upwards of 7 hogsheads
in aday.:
The average weight of the brain of a
living man is 3 pounds; of a woman, 2
pounds 11 ounces.
Twelve thousand pounds, or 24 hogs
heads, 4 gallons, or 10,782 pints of
blood pass through the heart in twenty
four hours, ii
The average weight of an Englishman
is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 13C
pounds, and of a Belgian, 140 pounds.
Five hundred and forty pounds, or
one hogshead, 1 i pints of blood passes
wiiuugti we umii juune uuur.
The average height of an Englishman
is 5 feet 9 inches; of a Frenchman, 5 feet
4 inches, and of a Belgian, 5 feet 6"
inehes. .;;
One hunched and seventy-four million
holes or ceils are in the lungs, which
would cover a surface 30 times greater
than the human body.
The average of the pulse in infancy is
120 per minute; in manhood, 80; at GO
years, 50. The pulse of females is more
frequent than that of males.
The heart beats 75 times in a minute;
sends nearly 10 pounds of blood through
the veins and artaries each beat; makes
four beats while we breathe once.
A man gives off about 4.10 per cent,
carbonic gas of the air he respires; re
spires 10,666 cubio feet of carbonic acid
in 25 hours, connumes 10,667 cubic feet
of oxygen in 24 Lours, equal to 23 inches
of common air.