THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED
Saturday Mornlntts,
BY THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THE .
FINEST JOB- OFFICE
IS DOUGLAS COUNTY.
CAJIDS, BILL MEADS, LEGAL BLAXKS
And other printing, including
Large and Heavy Posters and Show v
Hand-Bills,
. Keatly and expeditions'-' executed
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f4tX MOHthl..WMWimiMMMtl MWW ' 90
Ttare Moil...-... 1 OO
Thorn lire ifca term for those tmtIds In adtance.
The Iudefxndknt offers fine Inducement to ad-
VOL.7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATUJ AY, FEBRUARY -10, 1883.
NO 44
vertuera. Term reasonable. , .
Dp T" Ttl
3x J.JAOCtULEK
PRACTICAL ,
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER,
AND
. . OPTICIAN.
ALL WORlfwARRANTED.
Dealer In Vfistcbes), Cloka, Jewelry,
Spectacle atd ftv !
And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobacccs and Fancy Goo's.
Tne only reliable Optometer tn town for the
proper adjustment cf PpecUcSee ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec-
tacles and Eyeglasses
OFFICE K! ret door aonih of poef office, Rom
bury. Oregon. j- ..
PE. M. W; DAVIS,
'bENTIST.
ROSEBURG, OREGON,
OFFICE OS JACKSOS r TREET,
OPPOSITE THK POSTOFFICE.
HAHOriEY'O SALOOW
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jan. Mahonoy, A?roik.
The finest of wines, liqaora and cigars in Dowy
lu count, and the best
IJILLIAUD TABLE
la the State kept in proper repairs
Parties traveling on the railroad will find UOt
place very handy to viaitduring the atop
ping of the train at the Oak
land, Depot. Give me a call. -(
Jaj3. iiAnOHEY.
'
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made I rurniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.
Constantly on hand.
rilDIIITIIDC I have tlie best stoeko
rUnill I UnC tnrniture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
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No two' Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
SSST ALL WORK WARRANTED
DEPOT" HOTEL-
OAKLAND, - - ORKUOW.
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
TPHIS HOTEL flAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot years, and has become very
popular with the traveling public. First-class .
SLEfcPINC ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. H otei at the depot of the Kailroad.
JAYIN0 ON AND A LARGE LOT OF FINE
Spanish Merino
C " .... ;
I offer the ame for sale, Cheap for Cash, at my
Farm in Douglas county , six miles from RoseburR.
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STAfJTON.
Dealer in
Staple Dry Goods!
Keeps constantly on hand
ment of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, V 1
WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLaSSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
O IT O O L
BOO IiS
8uch as required by the Fublte County Schools
All kinds or STATIONERY, TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS !-a SEEDS !
ALL KIXDS OF BM QUALITY
A. T-j JL. OK DEK S
Tromptly attended to and Goods shipned
' with care.
Address. llacheney & Reno,
Portland. Oreeon
Hotlee.
Notice is hereby pven, to whom it nay concern, thst
Mm undersiguwl has been awarded the contract for
keeping the DoukIui county Pauper forth period of
tw years. All persons ht need of aaistnce irota aid
county must first procure a certificate to that effect
from any member.of the County Board, and preent U
to on of the following named persona, who are author
iced to, and will ore for those presenting such certificate
W. L. Butten, Roseburg ; L. L. Kellong, Oakland ; Mrs
Rfon, Looking Glass. Dr. Scropgn is authorized to
lurniBh medical aid to all persons in Deed ot the same
bo have been declared paupers of Douglas county.
WM. a CLARKE, Supt. of Poor.
SoasBDM. Or.. Feb. 16. 1880
. Attorney-General Marshall has com
menced suit against the Central Pacific
railroad company to recover $2,000,000,
with interest and costs, on the ground
that the road has refused to carry public
messengers, lunatics, prisoners, etc., free
of charge, in accordance with the terms
by which the state granted aid to the
company, in guaranteeing interest on the
bonds in conformity -with the act of the
bgislaturo of 1864.
LITEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TELEGRAPH TO DATE.
Sabinlias been elected U. J3. senator
from Minnesota.
The coinage of the Philadelphia mint
for January is $2,294,000.
"Rev. Edward P. Roe, the famous au
thor, and James G. Roe, ex hotel keeper,
hare made an assignment. The liabilities
are $75,000. ' -
The German reichstag is discussing a
proposition ,of the conservatives demand-
ing for trade guilds the -exclusive
ngnt
of apprenticeship. .
' The American ship W.'R. Grace, fears
for the safety of which were entertained,
has arrived in Sau Francisco,' 158 days
from New'York. " -
The rubber works of Sconde & Co.,
will close on Feb. 10th, owing to the
high price of riw material. It throws
1500 men out of employment.
A woman in Philadelphia by the name
of Catherine Benson .annoyed by children
playing in front of her house, fatally shot
Maggie Carlotte, one of a group passing.
Prominent officers of the government
say that ex Senator Dorsey has' sold his
extensive property in New Mexico for a
very laTge sum of money, to James W.
Bosler, of Pennsylvania who was inter
ested with him in the star route business.
In the New York supreme court re
cently judgment was rendered in favor of I
rendered by the former as public speaker
in English's behalf when canvassing for
the vice presidency of the United States
in 1880. i
In the French chamber of deputies,
Feb, 1st., Daves, minister of justice, read
the decree of exclusion of the pretenders
to the throne from office, and the cham
ber decided, by a vote of 396 to 134, to
pass to a discussion of Fabre's compro
mise bill. . .-':- -.--..-"
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany, composed of Aaron S. Everest, B.
B: Waggoner, F. Lu Everest, W. T.
Fleming and W. W. Hetherington, of
Atchison, have filed articles pf incorpor
ation with the secretary of state of Kan
sas. Capital stock 1,000,000.. .
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., : dispatch of Feb.
1st says: A horrible case of death and
destitution in Kingston township was re
vealed to day by the Ladies'. Aid Society
A man, named Leonard, and his son were
found dead in bed, the wife dying and
two young children in the last stages of
starvation. Belief was given.
John B. Sistv arrived, at St. Ixrais a
short time ago from Denver and arranged
with the officials of the St. Louis & San
Francisco railroad to take charge of the
news department of the road, and left on
the 29th. He Las not been seen nor
heard of since. He had a large amount
of money in his possession when he dis
anneared. His friends believe he has
been foully dealt with. ,
. A Boston dispatch of Feb. 1st says
Early this morning a wheel in the mill
of the American Powder Company's
works, at Acton, Mass., exploded wfth a
terrible crash, shaking the dwelling
houses for manv miles around and de
molishing a wooden frame building in
which the mill was located, as well as
damaging the buildings of the company.
No workmen were killed or injured. The
damage is considerable.
v A New York dispatch of the 1st iris.
savs: Captain Joseph died Tuesday. He
was bom in 1803, He introduced the
steamboat ticket system which, in a shoxt
time, was adopted tnrouguout tne coun
try. He was the first to do away with
wood and burn coal !dn steamers. He
also had built for himself the first, state
room, the steamboat berths alone being
used ud to that time. He was an inti
mate friend of Commodore Yanderbilt
and Daniel Drew.
Further irjci nest into the causes of the
Newhall house holocaust was chiefly de
voted to testimony on the condition of
the building. A number of experts tes
tified that the house was as safe as most
cood hotels. C. D. Nash, president of
the Newhall house association, testified
that there was hose on every story suffi
cient to flood it, besides 200 pails of
water standing ready in various parts of
the house, lie thought the nre was in
cendiary. '-
A Los Ansreles dispatch of Feb. 1st
says:. Two native Californians, named
Bino and Granillo, quarreled at Cerrito's
rancho. near Wiltnigton, yesterday, when
Bino drew a pistol and shot Granillo, the
ball Daseio: 'throuch the body. Friends
of the wounded man caught Bino, tied
him to a tree an 1 beat him almost to
death. An old woman, armed with a
knife, tried to cut his throat, but was
prevented bv bystanders. The would-be
murderer is in jail. I Granillo at last ac
counts, was still alive, but not expected
to live.
A Milwaukee dispatch of Feb. 1st says:
Theinnnest in the Newhall house tire
was finished to dayj Herman Strauss,
ex-member of the tire department, who
rescued many lives, said the extension
ladder was badly handled, most of the
crew beiner crreen. The ladder was in
a bad condition and broken. It had
never been handled or drilled for years
The iurv deliberated several hours and
adjourned until 9 o'clock tp-morrow fore
noon. Scheiler, arrested for eetting the
embodying a general denial of having
removed the billiard balls, and explain
ing the removal of whisky as being
caused by want of room in the hotel, and
statins: that the insurance was not more
than the actual value of the stock.
The In man steamship dock at New"
York city was burned on the 1st inst,
involving a loss in docks and freight of.
between S3.000.000 and $4,000:000. The
steamer Eavpt of the National line, ar
rived the dav before with the cargo of
the Union steamer City of Brussels, and
was at the pier and I had discharged most
of the cargo, which tind not been removed
from the dock. Guns and rockets were
fired for tugs and the Egypt was towed
into the stream, with the rigging ablaze.
The warehouses, which were built of
pitch pine, were burned and the Egypt's
freight was totally consumed in few
minutes. About 130 laborers were on
the pier at the time the fire broke out,
and it rs believed all got off safel v. The
steam3hip was saved but considerably
damaged, I
Philadelphia subscribes to the amount
of $20,000 for the relief of sufferers by
the floods in Germany. '
The governor of Atlanta offers a reward
ef $5000 for the capture and return to the
sheriff of Montgomery county of Isaac
H. Vincent, late state treasurer.
The officers charged wit a wrecking the
Jersey City bank plead not guilty on
twenty-six indictments. The bondsmen
have surrendered Bookkeeper Beach.
Fletcher Beed, a young man of Putnam,
in a fit of religious excitement, set a straw
stack on fire and jumped in the flames,
after he had cut his throat. His remains
were charred bones when found.
The snow storm in Wyoming on the
2d inst., exceeded in ; peverity anything
in the history of the territory. Great
lossof cattle can only.be prevented by
the ranges being cleared of snow by
wind. ;:'v;..Y ;-z
Stockholders of the Boston Pacific bank
brought two suits against the Pacific
bank in order to test the question
whether the new stock and old and new
assessments on the stock do not consti
tute indebtedness on the bank.
Libby Raifle, a student . ot the state
normal scnooi at idenooro, ira., tor a
year or two past, was arrested on the 2d
inst., at her - brother-in-law's in Cleve
land, for the murder of her illegitimate
babe, tier sister barau was arrested as
accessory.
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The sexton of the Episcopal church on
corner of Prince and Thompson Sts.,
New York, found three robbers in the
act of leaping from the windows, and he
soon learned that they had cut eight
pictures from the frames and drank the
communion wine. i
A Chicago dispatch of Feb. 3d says
At noon to-day snow began falling
heavily and continued nearly the entire
afternoon. Trains in every direction are
interf erred with. No trains westward
and northwestward. The. troubles are
very serious and some lines are block
aded. ..--.. - : -.
When jute is reached in the tariff bill,
Representative Page will move to reduce
the rate from that fixed by the committee
of ways and means, $15 per ton, to $8
per ton. and also to reduce tha rates on
jute batts from $6 per ton to $2 per ton
On quicksilver, he will move to place
a rate of 15 cents per pound.
A horrible story comes to the Atlanta
Constitution, from Marietta, of a young
woman giving birth to an illegitimate
child, then killing the babe, and remain
ing m bed with the decaying body for
eight days. A little brother, who cooked
for the sister, and her father, were the
only occupants of the house.
Fortv-seven Hungarians, arrested for
complicity in the railroad war at Bangor,
Pa., have brought suit against the super
intendent of the Lehigh & Lackawanna
railroad, who made the complaints, the
justice who issued the warrants, and the
constable who served them, charged with
false imprisonment in each complaint
The complainants claims $5000 damages.
A thousand desperate contrabands are
operating along the northern border of
Mexico. From the American railway
fetation in Texas a large quantity of goods
were recently smuggled across the BiO
Grande. The Mexican., custom officers
captured the smugglers and seized the
property near Lampasas, but another
band of contrabands came along and the
result was the killing of three ofh-jers and
a recapture of the goods.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Feb. 4th says:
Two 'weeks ago the coal shoyellera at
Harper's rolling mills, Newport, Ky.,
struck against a reduction of wages
Harper supplied. their places with Cm
cinnatNnen. To-night these men, on the
way totheir work, under escort of the
police, were attacked and beaten with
stones. The chief of police and two po
licemen were hurt, but not seriously.
The mob at last accounts numbers over
1000.
A dispatch from Empire City of Feb.
4th says: The steaming 1 earless has
arrived from? the wreck ot tne laco-
ma. Niue of the crew were lost,
and First Assistant Engineer Grant
died after getting ashore. The ship is
completely broken up. Nothing can be
saved from the wreck, live bodies were
recovered and will be buried to-day
Engineer Grant was buried yesterday.
Nothing can be seen oi the wreck but
the top of the cylinder at low water.
Seven men were lost off the fore yard
when the mast went overboard.
A Quebec dispatch of Feb. 1st says: A
sale was made to day. subject to a clear
proof of title, of the large estate of the
late G. 13. Hall, oi tne Montmorency
mills. This comprises the large mills on
the Montmorency river at the foot of the
falls, below here, all the dependencies,
including the house of the late JLmke of
Kent, father of Queen Victoria, the mills
and timber limits on the Rimouski river,
175 miles below, on the south shore: the
Giorondeau property, near to Habosha,
60 miles above here, on the south shore;
the extensive timber limits on the river
St. Maurice. 300 miles northwest, on the
north shore of the Radnor; the iron forges
near Three Rivers. 125 miles above this
city; the timber limits on the Gatican
and Desert rivers, 150 miles north of the
Ottawa and Jean De Terre river, with.
Kakabonga limits. All this was bought
bv a syndicate with Lazenreal at the
head, on behalf cf French capitalists, for
$2,000,000. "
A Washington dispatch of the 2d inst
ays: The Times severely condemned the
aotion of the house committee on coin
age yesterday, involving the resolution
to suspend the coinage of silver. This
makes it certain that no action will
be taken at the present session to put a
stop to the wasteful and mischievious
accumulation of depreciated silver dol
lars in the hands of the government.
Their action is all the more surprising
because it has been shown in the most
explicit manner by the secretary of the
treasury's recent letter, that there is
no room for any more silver dollars to
be stored in the treasury vaults. The
most serjoud difficulty is found at San
Francisco, where there are some six
hundred and eight tons of 8:lver, two-,
thirds of which are "standard"' dollars.
The only relief possible is the removal
of a part of this silver east, at a cost of
$10,000 for every $1,000,000 transported,
and for this transportation there is no
appropriation.
The Advantages' of Woman Knffra?e.
Following are extracts from the mes
sages of the governors of Wyoming to
the several legislatures. They give the
opinions of the executives on the im
portant subject, of woman suffrage.
; ine ionowing paragrapn is taken from
the message of Gov. J. A. Campbell to
the legislative assembly of 1874: '
There is upon our statute- book MAn
act granting to the women : of Wyoming
Territory the right of suffrage and ; to
hold office, which has now been in
force two years. Under its liberal pro
visions women have voted in the terri
tory, served on juries, land held office.
It is simple justice to say that the women;
entering for the first time in the history
of the country, upon those new and un
tried duties liave--'cbridutfed i themselves
in every respect with as much tact,
found judgement and good sense as a
man. , While it would be claiming more
more than the facts justify to say that
this experiment, in a limited field,, has
demonstrated beyond" a doubt the per
fect fitness of women, at ' all times and
under all circumstances, for taking a
part in the government, it furnishes at
least reasonable presumptive evidence in
her favor, and she has a right to claim
that so long as none but good results are
manifest, the law should remain unre
pealed. r
Governor Campbell referred to the
same subject in 1873 in the following
language: r
The experiment of granting to women
a voice in the (iovernment, which was
inaugurated, for the first time in the his
tory of our country, by the first Legisla
tive Assembly of Wyoming, has now
been tried for four years. I have, here- I
tof ore taken occasion to express my views
in regard to the wisdom and justice of
this measure and my conviction, that its
adoption had been attended 1 only by
good results. Two years more of ob
servation of the practical working of the
system have only served to deepen my
conviction that what we, in this Terri
tory, have done, has been well done, and.
that our system of impartial suffrage ' is
an unqualified success.
In 175 Governor John W. Thayer s
message commented on the question as
follows:
Woman suffrage has now been in prac
tical operation in our Territory for six
years, and has, during the time, in
creased in popularity and in the confi
dence of the .peop4e. In my judgment
its results have been beneficial, and its
influence favorable to the best interests
of the community. A right or privilege
once granted is not not easilyurren :
dered. In this case it is difficult . to
perceive any good reason why it should
be. -
Gov. Hoyt's message of 1882 has the
following:
"Woman suffrage, although resting on
equity, snpported by reason and con
firmed by experience, has hitherto
gained but partial acceptance as a princi
ple of political philosophy. It com
mands more and more of public attention
in many portions of our own land and in
Other countries whose political institu
tions look toward freedom of the people.'
But to-day the new Territory . of Wyom
ing is the only spot on .the earth where
the political privileges of-women are
equal and identical with those of men. It
was a bold and gallant stroke on the side
ot reason and of justice long delayed,
that act of our first Legislative Assem
bly; and what wonder that the eyes of
the world have been turned on Wyoming
ever since.
"Elsewhere, objectors persist in call
ing this honorable -statute of ours an ex
periment, .We know, it is not that
under it we have better laws, better
officers, better conditions, better morals,
and a higher social condition than could
otherwise exist that not one of the pre
dieted evils, such as loss of native deli
cacy and disturbance of home relations.
has followed in its train that the great
body of our women, and the best of
them, have accepted the elective fran
chise as a precious boon and exercise it
as a patriotic duty in a word.jtbat, after
twelve years of happy experience, wo
man suffrage is so thoroughly rooted in
the minds and hearts of this people that
among them all no voioa is ever uplifted
in protest against or in question of it.
For these reasons, also, there rests on us
the obligation to so guard and elevate
the social order as to make Wyoming an
everbrightening star for the guidance of
this new and grand movement in the in
terest of human freedom." -Laramie
Boomerang. r "
Russian Folk Lore
A certain woman had a daughter of
her own and a step-daughter. She long
wished to get rid of her step-daughter.
At last she said to her husband:-.
"Take your daughter away from my
sight; carry her wherever you like.
Leave her in the open field to the crack
ling frost."
The father wept and wailed, but at
length he yielded, placed his daughter
on his sledge, drove her out into the
open field, and there deposited her
Then, having crossed himself, ha has
tened home, so as not to witness his
daughter's death.' :
The poor girl left alone,- shivered and
uttered a silent prayer." 1W .
. Up came Frost, and said: 'Maiden!
maiaen, a am iea-nosea jcrost.
"Good day to you,Frost," she replied.
"I suppose God has sent you for my sin
ful soul." v , -,
Frost had intended to smite her, but
he Was pleased by her way of speaking,
so he took compassion on her and threw
her a warm cloak. She wrapped herself
up in it aft d remained sitting there.
Twice did Frost come up again to visit
her. and each time she pleased him so
rV a
tnat be made
much by ner sage replies
her all manner cf presents. She decked
herself with the gold and jewels he gave
her, and sat on tne box. wnicn bad con
tained them, singing. songs Meantime
her step-mother was baking cakes for her
funeral feast. When they were ready
she sent her husband forth to fetcC his
daughter's body home. j
When he had been gone awhile the
house dog barked from under the table:
'The old man's daughter is being
brought home all in gold and silver, but
the old woman's daughter has no suitors. n
In vain did the stepmother regale it with
cikes in order to make it change its tune.
It barked on as before. When the girl
arrived in all her. glory v the step mother
was at first astounded . Then, after hear
ing what had occurred , she ordered he r
husband to take her own daughter out to
the same spot n-the open field and leave
her there. Presently Frost appeared
and .addressed the girl as he had ad
dressed her predecessor; but no good
words could he get from her, so be Aqw
into a rageaand froze her to death. When
her mother sent for her after a time, the
house dog beneath the table again began
to bark this. time exclaiming; "Suitors
are coming' for the old "man's daughter.
but the old woman's daughter is a bag of
bones." 'The door opened and the girl
waa brought m dead J Her mother wept
and wailed, bnt it was too late. fNotas
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ana queries. . ;
Justifiable Ejectment of a'rasengrV
William Pease, 76 years of age, took
a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad on Januaryl,1881;
to go from Hoboken to-Montelair.1 He
gave the conductor of the train a ticket
for a passage from Montclair to New
York. The conductor refused to receive
it, and demanded his fare. Mr. Pease
refused to pay, and the conductor di
rected the brakeman to put him off. The
latter did so, in spite of active resistance
from Mr. . Pease, who, before be was
ejected, finally offered to pay his fare,
but its acceptance was then, refused by
the conductor. The dispute commenced
while the train was in or near the tunnel
beyond ' Hoboken,' but Mr. Pease was
put off a short distance beyond a regular
station. .- - .
He sued the company for damages
and obtained a verdict in the Court of
Common Pleas for $3000. From this
judgment the railvoal company appealed
to the Common Pleas, General Term,
wnicn. uourt yesterday banded down a
decision reversing the judgment of the
Court below and ordering a new trial.
Judge J. F. Daly, who writes the opin
ion of the Court, says: ; j
"If the tram arrived at a regular stop
ping place, and while the conductor pro
ceeded to eiect a passenger for non-pay
ment of fare, the latter might offer to pay
before he was actually ejected, and. such
payment should be received. Bat if the
stoppage of the tram was for the sole pu,r
pose of putting the passenger off and he
rendered the stoppage by a faotious re
fusal to pay the fare," he would not have
the right to tender the fare and continue
bis trip after naving caused such an in
terruption. . It can make no
difference in principle whether the train
had proceeded a longer or shorter dis
tance when it is stopped again, nor
whether the second stoppage was made
within the limits of the ordinary stop
ping place. It is the fact that a stop has
to be made througn the pertinacity of
the passenger in wrongfully refusing his
fare. That determines the question.
N; Y Herald.
Schooling and Crima.
Ignorance is the parent of vice. This
is the universally accepted maxim. The
argument is, therefore, that" education
will make vice incapable of propagating
its species. Thu3 every roan who pro
jects to drag the government into schools
for all thinks he is on the wav to ex
tingnish vice and' make mankind pure
Yet we see it often announced that
youths have been led to crime by read
mg dime novels. Thus it doth appear
that education is the parent of vice
Then it is found fhat a little education is
a dangerous thing, and that in order to
extinguish vice it must be carried to a
high degree. This seems" to make the
work of exterminating vice by education
rather remote. But is not this mcon
sistent? If ignorance is the parent of
vice and education the extinguisher,
then at every step in education the sub
ject ought to grow better. To read is a
great step, and should make him hun
ger and thirst for Sunday school books.
The multiplication table should multi
ply the moral tendencies. Grammar
snould fill the mind with the good, the
beautiful, the true.. Geography tshould
lift the bouI from nature up to nature's
God. To cipher the rule of three should
make the boy almost too good to live.
To doubt this is to deny the maxim, and
to say that education is the parent of
vice., ua- v . ' v - V: -
A Living Skeleton Delude a Beauty.
All the romance that clustered around
the -marriage of the Living Skeleton to
"No. 71," in the late show of beauties,
has. been, dissipated. Hurried consulta
tions are had and mysterious whisper
ings are indulged in. The fact is that
Mr; Skeleton has a wife and three chil
dren living-in another State. Mrs
Skeleton has learned the startling news
that another flirt stole away the affections
of her bony spouse. , ,
"Oh, yes," said the Skeleton last even
ing, "I have a wife and three children in
the West."
"Aren't you afraid she will have you
arrested for bigomy, when she bears
of this second marriage?" he asked.
"What if she did? They can't put me
in a workhouse and make me work.": ;
As the reporter gazed at the bag of
bones he was forced to admit that the
Skeleton was right. There is not a mus
cle visible upon hU anatomy -Neis
York Star! '" a-M " v ,
The joy caused in gastromio circles by
M. Olsen's paper on "The North Sea
Fisheries,' and the great oyster discov
eries there will be shared by the, whole
oyster-eating world. Two hundred miles
of oyster-beds, thirty to seventy miles
wide, that is to say 10,000,000 of splendid
oysters, within easy-distance ; of the
British coast, it is a dQvery to. which
: all those of Stanley and Livingston sink
f iato insignificance. One curious feature
j ut u u- - a ,iti.
aUVUV A V AO IUH V VUV SJ war-' fc v mv vtvsvu
of twenty-one fathoms,' thus disposing
summarily of the .prevalent idea that
oysters .can only be raised successfully
in shallow water. The man who invents
a new disn, according to some, tne man
who planter a tree, according to the
Mohammedans, deserves well of man
kind; but what is the reward of a man
who ; diseovers 16,000,000 4 acres' of
oysters? ' . . ,
A movement is on foot among the lead
ing merchants of St. Louis for a large
exposition building in the heart 'of 'the
city.
In Te (Men Time.
Chatting a few evening since with a
charming old lady of eighty years, and
seated close beside her in 9 chimney cor
ner, whose capacious fire-place was aglow
witn a nickory blaze, such as few Of this
generation have been' fortunate enough
to witness and enjoy,' the current of so
cial gossip , and reminisetfee flowed into
the domain of Fashion. , With a minute
ness of detail which exhibited remark
able powers of memory, we were favored
with a clearly-defined description of the
manners, customs and prevalent modes
of ' dress of the days "when she was
young . and to the manor born,"
threescore years ago. Excusing herself
a moment, she returned bearing on her
arm a1 silk dress, once white, but now
limp and yellowed by the touch of time.
The dress deserves description t It "was
narrowly gored on the front and and
side breadths, an quite short. In the
back there was a large cluster of deep
gathers.. The waist Jine was relegated
almost to the arm-pjs; and the very
short bodice was cut out square in the
neck and edged with old-fashioned lace.
The waist was laced nn the back with a
flat silk cord.' The ideeves were long
and close, and finished with frills of lace
at the wrists. ''This was my wedding
dress,", she said. "My father rode a dis
tance of more than thirty miles on horse
back to buy the silk of which it is made.
Its cost represented my savings for more
tuan four years in butter and cheese
making. I cut and made it
with my own hands. My pattern
was the bridal dress cf our pas
tor's wife, who the year ; before
had come to us a young bride, from the
shores of Massachusetts Bay." ' Holding
up one of the sleeves, she said: j."Here
is a stain . upon the silk. One of mv
bridesmaids, in adjusting my modest,
home-made bridal veil, pricked, her fin
ger with an intrusive pin, and from the
tiny wound fell a single drop of blood,
of which this blemish is the sign and
token. To me it was but a trifle; to her
it was a grievous mishap, whioh clouded
her evening's happiness. Milliners,
dressmakers, books and plates of fashion
were luxuries of which we heard some
times, but never counted among our
needs or possessions. Such changes as
ruled the hour in cities and in fashion
able circles found their way by tardy
stages to our villages and hamlets, and
li ine styie oi dress or bonnet was
a marked departure from our own,
it cost some courage and the crossfire
of go&sipping tongues to adopt and wear
it. Ine wives of ministers and deacons
were usually the first to sit in judgment
on all fanciful and new-fledged modes of
apparei. it was well witu tne new
wrinkle if this tribunal gave to it a tacit
or positive approval: otherwise it was
doomed at least for a season. Perhaps
lite passed quite as nappily then as now
unr wants wero few, our sympathies,
cares, pleasures, and bereavements were
as an open book, known and read of
kindred, friends, and neighbors; and if
borne life and life in society and,' in the
world of fashion has had in latter life its
charms and attractions, so that in the
day when a drop of my laughing young
friend 8 blood left a stain upon this wed
ding dress, we lived in a world whose
horizon wa3 broad enough for our wants,
encircling homes, alas! whose hearth
stones are now desolate, but which were
then abodes of quiet but satisfying . hap
piness and peace. .
The Brakeman. v
The brakeman is a man who is em
ployed by a railroad company to stand
upon the top of a freight car and work
both hands at the engineer, and ; to help
stop tne train wnen it is necessary.
Next to being a bareback rider in a
circus, the small boy pants to be a brake
man, so he can sit on the wheel of the
brake and chew tobacco while the train is
running at fall speed. The fact that a
brakeman is often seen pegging broad
cast over the land with a wooden leg or
minus an arm, often causes people to be
lieve that he is an old soldier, or has
served a term in a baseball club.
There are two kinds of brakemen the
passenger and s xrei&nc. ine passenger
brakeman is a gentleman of considerable
leisure, and by the nonchalant way in
whichhe comes into'the cars and tramps on
the oonductor.
He does not have much else to do but
slam doors, growl at ;the porter, and,
when the tram arrives at the station, to
yell "Ponooyahy when he should say
".fontcnatouia." , r
The freight brakeman is an entirely
different man. He is grim, silent and
dignified. He seldom speaks except to
curse the green hand on the rear end of
the train, whom he affectionately refers
to as a "pudding. Despite his faults.
however, he works hard and often rises
to a position of importance. u!ms n
day he tries to use his body as a coupling-
pin, ana yuis. . . 1 1
At night, when a freight train is side
tracked at a meeting point, and all his
companions are squatted on a piie of
cross-ties, the brakeman is m his glory.
ue tnen discusses "ad libitum the af
fairs, of the road,' and criticises every
one, from the president down to the
most humble official. He does not hesi
tate to say that if the president can't mn
a road any better than he does, he should
go on somewnere and drive a canal hnn.f.
After he had said this and other things
concerning the asininity of the officials
in general, be turns to one ' of his com
pan ions and says:
' "Jimmie, did you ever know that old
leiiow, JJiiiMcttinty, who has just been
appointed superintendent of the J. K.
, "VVbat, McGinty? Of course I've seen
him; and yon bet he's a fine old plum to
be superintendent." ?
- "Well, I should think he was. I was
brakeman on the southern division of the
I. C. & N. when he got his first job old
Matt JohDson was pulling us and Mc-
uinty was -so. green he didn't know a
draw-head from a switch frog. No mat
ter how sIowi old Matt - Johnson booked
up that fellow couldn't couple a car,
and sometimes .for f half an
hour we . were - backing' np
and going ahead, nntil you could hear
Matt Jones curse two miles off. I'll be
blamed if I don't think he tried to kill
McGinty. He used to come back and
jam the' draw-heads under the cars, but
when he pulled " ahead again McGinty
would step out without a scratch on him,
A road, I tell you, is mighty - hard up
when it will take such a thing as Mc
Ginty." . , , -
At the conclusion or. such a speech the
whole crowd of brakemen will review the
history of McGinty, and finally, without
a dissenting voice, will arrive at the con
clusion that he Is a "line old plum. The
brakeman is to be admired for the re
markable manner in which he gets wind
of various and ; sundry plans which the
management intends to place in opera
tion, and wish to keep quiet.
Tne brakeman will sit on tue end of a
cross-tie, swap opinions concerning the
wisdom of the president m concocting
such a plan before the la-de-da clerks in
the general office to obUin the merest
tinkling of it. If an appointment is to
be mide be 'will tell you the name of the
man and the time the appointment is to
go into effect."
all sonrs.
A man who reads a work of fiction will
get novel ideas. Jioston Courier.
The champion light 'weight A Cam
bridge ton of coal. Harvard Lampoon.
Some men are so lacking in hospitality
that they will not even entertain an idea.
The watchmaker should be successful
in a loot-race that is. be can make
food time. 7
A servant girl in the 'top story of . a
mammoth hotel is often nearer heaven
than she thinks. Boston Courier.
It is said that David JDavis can't draw
himself to his full height without lying
down. Louisville Courier-Journal. '
Nothing will check redundant mau-
riages in Mormondom but a laiiore m
the supply of , women, is the way the
Chicago Times puts it. f .
Herr Most has unfurled his red flag in
Cincinnati. Most and ; his sanguinary
rag are safe so long a3 he keeps out of
the bull pastures.
Sealskin is so much in 'demand this
year that old ladies can have no reason
able doubt as to what ! became of their
cats. Somerville Jouroal.
"Mother!" cried Johnny, who was
emptying a jug of milk, "I've found out
what gave the jug its name!" "What do
you mean J ohnny f V W hy, don t you
near what it savs when the milk comes
out? Jug-jug-jog." r
They have a nice old lady, in South
Boston of V the genuine Partingtoniau
variety. She reoently alluded to the ill
ness of a triend with, "You see he had
digestion of the lungs, and then it set
tled into ammonia. Somerville Jour
nal. ; ' 'v
After New Year's. Good chum to
Hard man, '85, who has. come in a little
hilarious) --"Why, George, I- thought
you had turned over a new leaf!"
George "Yes, sho Thiol sho have; but
I'm just turning back t look at th' f hie I
'J
pictures. Harvard Lampoon. .
Testing a Trotting: Team.
An Appleton business1 man wanted a
span of horses, and he wanted pretty fast
ones, but be didn t know much about
that kind of stock.. A hOxse dealer had a
team "that was reported pretty fast, which
he could sell cheap. The dealer took the
team to drive a little, and got a friend in
with him and they went up the track
while the merchant stood on the judge's
stand and timed them. The team went
around pretty good, and the merchant
looked at his watch and got into the
wagon. The friend asked him wh-t time
they made, but he said "never mind."
He drove down to the horse dealer and
paid him the money for 'the horses and
drove off with his friend, and when they
turned a corner and got out of Bight of
the dealer, the merchant said to his
friend: -
"That's the best bargain that was ever
made in this state.'"
The
friend looked astonished and
"What time did they make, hon
asked:
estly?'
The merchant said: "Thev trotted in
three minutes without a break."
The friend looked as though he was not
much surprised, and finally said: "That
is not so bad, but it isn't fast. That' is at
the rate of a mile m six minutes."
The merchant turned pale and said:
"Why, how's that?"- "
"Oh," savs the friend, with a vawn
"if1. . t,i vi i ti
.u a uwi uiuo birnua. vuu SuOW.
The friend bad to hold the mfirohftnt
in the buggy seat, he was so faint, and
he offered all , sorts of cbromos if the
friend would never say anything about
it, and we presume he has not. The team
is delivering groceries cow, and hauling
slabs from a mill.
The Way Girls Walk.
The conventionakgirl has to bring her
adaptability into play just as much
when she selects her etyle of walk as she
does in deciding upon the style of her
hat or the Btuff for her gown. Congruity,
too, plays an important part in her street
appearance and is an important factor in
her success. The plump girl, who is all
rich, ripe, round curves and massive
ness, can bound along with a quick,
elastic step that would be ridiculously
out of place in her lank and sweetly
sesthetie sister. The first can trayel with'
that easy spring away that is as sugges
tive of physical luxury and solid com
fort as a pineapple fiber hammock under
an apple tree; the other must
glide her very appearance sug
gests the frailities of her struc
ture and the possibilities of her being
jarred out of shape in the bounding pro
cess. Every woman has a peculiarity of
gait essentially her own. To one who
watches the crowd it became a question
whether, with a proper description of
the steps and motions of the body, it
would not be proper to classify each girl
with a properdegree of accuracy. The
matter-of-fact girl brings down her feet
with such prosaic lofee that she is read
ily distinguished. So. -too, is the ro
mantic young lady, whoso step itself is
suggetive of rope-ladders and mysterious
moonlight. There is a go-ont-among-the-heathen
goodness of pait that will mark
the evangelistic damsel ton blocks frjia
a prayer meeting, and the "quadrnp
dante-pelrum-sonitu-quatit ungula eau
pum" step of the literary woman, has an
onomatopoea abont it that proclaims her
&t once.Loaiavilla Journal.