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ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17; 1883.
NO. 49.
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PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN. .
ALL WORlTwARRANTED.
Dealer In Wteh. Clocks, Jewelry,
... Spectacles Eyeglasses,
And a Fall Line of
Ciaars. Tobacccs and Fancy Goorfi
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The only reliable Optometer la town for the
proper adjustment cf Ppecucles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south cf poet office, Rose
bury Oregon. ' -
DR. M: W. i)AVIS,
DENTIST,
R03EBUP.G, OREGON.
OFFICE-OK JACKSON STREET,
CPPOSITB THE P08TOFFXCK.
r.lAHONEY'8 SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jat. Mia. honey, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dosf
Us county, and the best
BILLIARD TA.BL13
in the Btat kept ia proper repair:
Parties traveling on the railroad will find tUa
place rery handy to visit daring the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give m aeaU.
Ja8. HAnONEY;
i JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
UlLBHt,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
rilRMITIIRC 1 ltve tlie best stock of
rUillll I UilC. lurnltureHOUth of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WOKK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL
AAKLASD, - - OnKOOJC.
Richard Thomas, PropV.
rpHIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number of years, nd has become rery
populArwith the traveling .public. First-class
SLEfePJNC ACCOMfV.OOATlONS.
And the table supplied with the best tiie market
affords. Hotel at the dei)t of the Railroad.
AYINQ ON HAND A LARQK LOT OF FINE
Spanish Merino
. BUCK!
I offer the ame fjr bale, Cheap for Cash, at my
Farai in Dcnglas county, six miles from Roseburg
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STAfiTOSMi
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand
nent of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full Block of
SCHOOL B O O.KS'.
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kind of STATIONERY, .TOYS nd
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on Pan Francisco.
SEEDS I aE5DS !
Al L ' RISKS OF BkSST (111 ALU Y.
ALL ORDERS
Tromptly at t ended to and CSooda shipoed
with care.
Addresa, Hacheney & Reno,
Portland. Orecon,
notice.
Notice is hereby tfven, to whom It ay concern, that
tbe undersigned h been awarded the contract lor
keeping tbe Douglas county Paupers for trte no ol
two years. All persons 'n ed ot awU uice irom aia
county must first procure a certificate to that effect
Irom an? member ot the County Board, and present it
to one of the foltowin named persons, who are author
ized to.iind will care for those presentint' such certineate'
V. L. Butten, Roseburg ; L. L. KeUogjf, OakUnd ; Mrs
Hrown, Lookinif Glass. Dr. Scrogg is authorised to
Ornish medical aid to all persons in need of the same
who have been declared paupers of Doufrlas county.
Y3I. k CLARKE, Supt. ot Poor.
Bosswjjw. Or. Feb. 16, 18S0
" Blackberry PuddiDg7A simple but
good,: blackberry pudding ia made by
taking half a cnpfnl of butter and lard
mixed, one cup of sugar, one egg, one
cup of sweet milk and two tcaspoonfnls
of baking powder. Beat the sugar, but
ter and egg together till light; then add
the sweet milk and flour, enough to make
a batter of medium thickness. Then sti
in as many blackberries as you can afford
to put in. 13 f net put much juice in.
Keep that to flavor mintemeat with.
Bake for an hour.
LATEST HEW SUMMARY.
BY TEIJCORAJPH TO SaT.
The Greenbackers held a state conven
tion at Detroit on the 8th.
Alameda county, Cal., has a depleted
i treasury. --J-. .v-,';.
A fire in San Jose on the 8th destroyed
property to the amount of $30,000.
Indian inspector Pollock has tendered
his resignation, to take effect on the 31st
inst. .
The wool market at San Francisco is
active, and Oregon wool is eagerly sought
after. .-.v-v
Amorg the important bills that failed
to pass congress is that of the river and
harbor bill.
The German Lutheran church ftas
burned at Logansport, Ind., on the 8th.
Loss $32,000. j
A dispatch of the 9th from Helena,
Ark., states that the river is falling, and
the worst danger over.
Twenty miles of the Denver & Rio
Grande road to build yet to complete the
line between Denver and Salt Lake.
The strike oij the Centralia iron mill, at
Centralia, III. j in progress since the be
ginning of the year, was settled on the
8th. ;
At Brooklyn, N..Y., on the 8th inst.,
Ida H. Hosmer, three feet tall, was mar
ried to Bobt. Hussa, three feet six-inches
high.
A prematura explosion at the Evandale
coal mine, near Canton, Ohio, recently,
fatally injured: Justin Farrell and Louis
Langley. .: , j : -
A party of miners got into a general
affray al"PoddyfTenn., on the 8th, which
resulted in fatally stabbing three men,
Posey, "Wells and Davis.
The state Democratic executive ' com
mittee of Georgia called a convention to
convene at Atlanta on April 10th, to nom
inatea candidate for governor.
John Kinney, tlie so-called king of the
New Mexico rustlers, and a noted out
law, was captured on the 7th by Capt.
Jas. Jr. Black and his company.
The funeral ceremonies of ex-Senator
Alexander H. Stephens, who died on the
3d inst., were performed on the 8th, a
large attendance being present.
At Belmont,!NevM on the 8th, W. E.
Mayo, colored J was seriously stabbed in
the right arm and abdomen by N. Weis
miller. The latter was arrested.
Lady Florence Dixie, in a letter to the
London Times', charges Biggar and Par
nell, as trustees of the land league fund,
with not accounting for 15,000.
AtKashville Tenn., on the 8th, a large
fire destroyed property to the value of
$300,000; insurance $125,000. - The
bodies ot three men weie taken from the
ruins. : ;.;;.;- j
A Madrid dispatch of March 8th says:
The mayor of Xerzes has received a letter
containing a threat to poison the drink
ing water if th prosecution of the "Black
Hand" society jis continued.
Jos. B. Loomis was hanged on tie
morning of the! 8th at Springfield, Mass.,
for the murder of David Sett. The
doomed man confessed the crime, and
stated that rnm was the cause.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, recently
pardoned Clarence Hite, a noted mem
ber of tbe James gang, who pleaded
guilty to a train robbery, February, 1882,
and was sentenced for 25 years.
Geo. Carson alias Hey wood, was ar
rested in New York city on, the 8th,
charged with the robbery of $70,000
worth of bonds from the office of the
Guarantee Safe Deposit company of Phil
adelphia. - j
Mrs. Gries, while out driving near San
Buena Ventura, Cal., on the oth, was
thrown out of tlie carriage, and a horse
stepped on her; forehead, causing death
in a few minutes. Mrs. Gries was an
early settler. : j
The Democtatic state convention held
at Lansing, Mich., on tbe 8th, nominated
John.W. Cbamplen of Grand llapids,
for judge of the supreme court, and Ar
thur L. Clark, ;of San Ilac county, for
regent of the university. ,
Tne body oj air. o?rereant was cre
mated at Washington, Pa., on the 8th.
Mr; Sergeant made the lare bell placed
in the tower of Independence hall at
Philadelphia in the summer of '76, which
was first rung upon the ushering in of
the Centennial Fourth.
The . statement of the United States
treasurer shows gold, silver and United
States notes in the treasury as follows:
Gold coin andjbullion, $178,761,784; sil
ver dollars atid bullion, $104,920,939;
fractional silver coin, $27,598,721: United
States notes, $48,266,446; total, $358,-
517,920. Certificates outstanding: Gold,
$43,122,800; silver, $68,624,320; cur
rency, $10,805,000.
A statement containing the receipts
and expenditures of tne postomce depart
ment for the third quarter of the calen
dar year, which ended September 30th,
1882, shows: lieceipts, $10,545,932; ex
penditures, $10,188,969; surplus, $356,
963. During the same quarter of 1881
receipts were $9,490,706; expenditures,
SVhOob.oiu; excess ot expenditures over
receipts, $196,104.
Following is a partial list of the bills
passed this session at Washington : To
rectify and estaDiisn a title to tne united
States site for a military post at El Paso;
to amend an act repealing discrimination
of , duties on goods; to reimburse the
states of Oregon and California for
moneys paid in the suppression of the
Modoo war; extending the time for filing
a claim for horses lost by othcers and en
listed men; to amend sections 1926 and
1927 of the revised statutes so as to ex
tend the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace in Washington, Idaho and Montana
territories: to 1 suppress earning in the
District of Columbia; to encourage hold
ing the world's industrial and cotton pen
tennial exposition in 1884; to admit free
of duty a monument to George Washing
ton ; providing for binding a compendium
of the tenth census; regular appropria
tion bills, civil service bills, tariff bill.
The total number of bills and joint reso
lutions introduced in both houses during
the session of the forty-seventh congress
was 10,o50, of which 650 passed both
houses; 1500 bills remain upon the house
calendar, of which 22o have passed the
senate. Reports of debates cover 10.715
pages in the Congressional Record.
McGlover and Maione were hancred in
New York city on the 9th.
k The report of an attempt made . to as
sassinate Blaine proves groundless.
Jas. Otis Morse, a well known civil
engineer, died at New York recently.
Prince Gortschakoff, ex-chancellor of
Russia, died at Baden-Baden on the 10th.
A London dispatch of th9 9th says that
Yobt, a wealthy New Yorker, committed
Biiicide.
It is believed the Marquis of Lome
will be succeeded by Hon. Vi . E.
Forster.
The postoflice at Shoshone, Idaho, was
robbed on the 10th inst. of money and
registered letters.
- James and. Michael Cody were killed
on the 9th inst., at Brooklyn, by falling
through a coal chute.
The 93d anniversary of tbe Forsyth
street M. E. church, New York, was cel
ebrated on the 11th inst.
The worst wind storm : of the season
visited parts of Dakota on the 9th, and
all business was suspended.
Ex-Gov.ft Spragne, of Rhode Island,
was married to Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert, at
Staunton, Va., on the 9th.
The steamer Navarre, on her way from
Copenhagen to Leith, was foundered on
the 8th, and several lives lost.
Senator David Davis, ex-president of
the. senate, was married to Addie Burr, at
Fayettsville, N. C, on the 13th.
Heaviest snow fall of the season at
Montreal, Quebec, and other parts of
Canada, cn the 10th and 11th inst.
Great suffering and sickness prevails
at nearly all the places along the Ohio
river, and an earnest appeal is made for
aid. ' 4-.
General Sherman comes to the Pacific
coast early in the spring, intending to
visit the coast of southern California and
Mexico.
In the,examination of the ill-fated Ta
coma, Capt. Korts was convicted of gross
negligence and his license ordered sus
pended. .' ft
A fii$ at Bnena Vista, Cal., on the 9tb,
destroyed a block of eight buildings,
including Hiller A; iialleck s bank.
Loss, $35,000.
Clearing house figures at San Francisco
show a falling off of $2,000,000 from
Jan. 1st to date as for the corresponding
time of last year.
A drunken father in Hall county, Ga.,
named Herring, poured a shovel of hot
coals on his infant child and burned it to
death recently.
The roundhouse of the A., T. & Santa
Fe road at Dodge City, Kan. , was de
stroyed by fire on the 11th. Two loco
motives are ruined.
A Deadwood dispatch of the 11th inst.
says that in a lodging house at Browns
ville eleven men were borned to death
and four seriously injured.
A scow containing 30 laborers was
struck by a schooner along the Jersey
City shore on the 9th, and seven of the
party are reported drowned.
A. E. Kent, of San Francisco; of the
class of '53 of Yale college, gave $60,000
to that institution recently, for the erec
tion of a chemical laboratory.
Jemmy Elliott, the prize fighter, who
was killed in a quarrel recently at Chi
cago, was buried in New York city on the
11th, 1000 people attending the funeral.
A bill passed the senate of the Arkan
sas legislature, changing Dorsoy county
to De Sota county. It wa3 named for ex
Senator Dorsey during the reconstruction
era." -
A large party gathered to witness the
trial at London of tbe electrical train
car. it ran a distance of four miles suc
cessfully, and fulfilled the requirements
of the board of trade.
A German servant girl, in Philadelphia,
alleged to be crazy, in the employ of
Samuel May, attempted to murder Mrs.
May and her child on the 10th, inflicting
serious injuries on both.
Moses T. Ray, bookkeeper and assis
tant cashier of the Merchants' and Plan
ters, bank, Montgomery, Ala.1, fatally
shot himself recently. J A deficiency of
$10,000 is found in his accounts.
A Tuscarora (Nev.) dispatch of the
11th inst. says: The stage which arrived
here last sight was stopped a short dis
tance from town, the robbers taking
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s box and emptied
the pockets of the driver.
Dispatches from the east of the 10th
and 11th reports a heavy wind 'and rain
storm and a high tide along the coasts of
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, and
as far southwest asNew lork city, but
little damage is reported.
A German by the name of C. E. Ers-
graber, of San Francisco, committed sui
cide recently while on an east-going train,
and was taken from tlie cars at Ogden
in a dying condition. His remains were
sent back to San Francisco.
A Gloucester, Mass., dispatch of March
Oth says: The less to those dependent
on fisheries, by the storm scare, is $125,
000. It is a great loss to business inter
ests as well as to fishermen : themselves.
Over 300,000 pound of fish might have
been taken.
, The Pacific mail company has refused
to accept as passengers for China 17 Chi
nose lepers confined in the pest house at
San Francisco, unless the supervisors
guarantee the fares for their return in
the event of the authorities at Hon Kong
refusing to transfer them to the Lazaiette
at Canton. :
V Business failures the last seven days
ending March 9rh, number 521, as against
272 list week. These are distributed as
follows: New England states, 217; mid
dle states, 40; western, 80; southern, 57;
Pacific coast and territories, 1; Canada
and provinces, 27; New York city and
Brooklyn, 19.
Experiments will soon be made with a
view of introducing electricity as a mo
tive power on the eleyated railroad in
New York city. , Thesa experiments will
be conducted -by Stephen B. Field, the
electrician. Mr. Field has been at work
experimenting with the electric motive
for a long time, and claims the priority
of his.idea to both Siemens, the origina
tor of electric roads in Britain, and Edi
son, whose road at Menlo Park has been
running for an experimental purpose for
two years.
The Goldsmith of St. Lo.
In the village of St. Lo there dwelt a
certain Pedro Riz, of whom it was said
that he came from the confines of Gran
ville, took up his residence in this little
town, and by. dint of energy, esonomy
and hard savings amassed a large
fortune. As age advanced upon him the
desire of .increasing his wealth did not
abate.
One evening, rather late, as he was re
turning from the home of one of his
friends, he was suddenly attacked by two
men, and in the affray received a severe
wound in the breast. His cries for help
so frightened the villains, who feared
the city guards, that they fled , leaving
the wounded man staggering toward his
abode. As he slowly proceeded, he ar
rived at the residence of a goldsmith,
through whose windows and door flared
a bright, flickering light. This gold
smith was endeavoring to recompense his
loss of wealth by smelting the baser ores
into the more valuable gold. ' An im
mense fire glared on an elevated hearth,
and above was suspended a large cm.
cible, into which he was vainly pouring
f chemical mixtures and compounds upon
the melting ores, murmuring: "This to
success."
Just at this moment the bleeding Pe
dro staggered into the apartment.
"What! you here, good friend, and at
this time of night! What ails you, Pe
dro?" said Maxcelly4 advancing toward
him."
"Maxcelly, I am dying!" exclaimed
the unfortunate man. "A murderer has
killed me." With these words he fell
dead at the jeweler's feet.
Thoroughly taken by surprise, the af
frighted Maxcelly stood gazing in stupe
fied terror at the dead . body of his
visitor. So long had he remained thus,
that the smoldering embers and dark
ened room obliged him to light his
torch, and with respectful care he placed
the body . on the pallet . of
straw, murmuring almost inaudibly:
"Such is the uncertainty of life."
While still cleaning the blood from off
the garments of Pedro, the terrible con
viction flashed upon him that to himself
would be attributed the murder.
Trembling in every nerve he approached
the corpse, and fumbling m the pockets.
drew forth therefrom a bunch of Bix keys
the only article contained on the person
of the miser.
The bewildered Maxcelly reflected
upon the course to be pursued. Thus he
sat until suddenly aroused by the solemn
tones of the cathedral bell, tolling the
hour of midnight; as the sound died
away he arose, a malicious smile distort
ing his features,and as though to find so
lace in his thoughts, ho began to com
mune with himself: "I shall be accused
of this murder: my sense of - conviction
tells me this, even now as I cas my eve
upon that pallet of blood-red straw I
cannot overlook the conviction that
the pallet of straw may prove my ao
cttser. Pedro has wealth; I am poor.
Pedro does not need this wealth. I have
a wife and childrenjwhy not be the thief
as well as the innocent murderer? These
keys are the disclosers, no doubt, of
riches; these keys are mine; so shall the
gold be mine also:" saying which, the
still fearful Maxcelly lifted the corpse in
his arms and bore it. down a narrow
flight of stairs; here laying it gently
down. hA ascended for his torch; grasp
ing a large spade, he again went below;
placing his torch in a crevice, he tore up
a portion of the planking, and began dig
ging zealously a large hole, fully six feet
below the earth, into wfeich he deposited
tbe body of the miser ; carefully covering
it with earth, he restored the flooring,
and viewing his work with a somewhat
distrustful eye, he proceeded to hia !&
boratory. Here attiring himself in the
apparel of Pedro, he seized the keys and
started for his goal.
Arriving at tne tenement of tne miser
he unlocked the massive though molder-
lng door, and ascending another dilapi
dated staircase ho encountered another
door. This also yielded to the keys
Entering, Maxcellv now drew forth his
dark lantern and by its light discerntd
an old bed ard a large chest in the corner
of the apartment. After carefully lock
ing the door he proceeded to examine tho
chest. Within the larger was found
smaller chest; within this another, and
still another was found within the third
This Maxcelly proceeded to open, and
raising the lid he almost yelled with
surprise and joy. Again viewing the
treasure, he exclaimed: "Lucky dog"
that yielded this to me!" And
grasping the Case he took therefrom seven
small bags, upon each of which was
marked "two thousand pounds.' He
thus addressed the remaining jewels
"You pretty, sparkling gems, I leave to
lull suspicion ; gladly would I receive
you all. but fear cause me to be mod
est." Saying this he relocked the
chest, and placing three of the bags in
the scanty bedclothes, he took the
remaining four beneath his cloak and
sped quickly to his home. Once again
he returned, and placing these three also
beneath his cloak, he arrived at his
dwelling at the hour of two. Here.stow
ing it away in a cavity of the earth, he
retired, well satisfied, to rest.
Already had one day elapsed, but no
rumor in reference to the miser's disap
pearancc. The second day gossip began
to imply that something had happened
On the third day the house was broken
open, and everything found, as they
thought, unmolested. - The jewels were
appropriated by the government, and
after a few weeks the matter died away,
and Pedro, the miser, was- almost for
gotten.
Meanwhile, Maxcelly still continued at
his crucibles, and at the end of a month
or six weeks he indicated to his wife that
he intended to go to Paris to dispose .of
; his
manufactured ore, leaving her ten
pounds for her support until his return.
He remained ; from home two months;
about that time, on his return, the whole
town of St. Lo was in an uproar at his
success.
Maxcelly thus continued to live upon
his theft, and bought himself an estate,
and removed with his family thereto.
Among those who came to dwell at the
estate was a neice of Madame - Maxcelly,
a young and beautiful girl, with whom,
a. 1 1- . A 3
almost uncon&ciously, tne enraptured
husband fell deeply in love, and ere long
we hear of a secret marriage between
Maxcelly and the pretty Saise. They
fled with their united fortunes for other
ands, to enjoy uninterrupted their fu
ure bliss.
The deserted wife to whom the hus
band, a short time before, had disclosed
the secret of his success, determined to
disclose the affair and bring her faithless
spouse so the death-block. Accordingly
the officers of justice were informed, and
it was freely circulated that Maxcelly
cad robbed the miser Pedro. There, be
neath the cellar floor, as described by
a mm a . m m .
tne wile, was found the skeleton of poor
Pedro, and as circumstances stood, with
no witness to the contrary, he was also
accused of the murder.
After a lengthy search, this man of
fortune a favor was found in tne city of
liidin burgh, enjoying a life of ease, -with
Saise. He was brought to St. Lo, ac
companied try his wife, and there found
guilty of theft and murder. He loudly
protested against the conviction of mur
der, acknowledging himself a thief, to no
avail, for he was beheaded before his
wife and children. He kissed them each,
and then bent pis head to the block.
His pretty Saise fled from France, and
was never heard from asrain. The de
serted wife condemned herself deeply for
tne tnougntiess revelation sue nad made.
All the property was claimed by the an- j
thorities, and the wife and children. were
eft without means to procure bread.
The unfortunate widow, through anxiety
or the little ones, became insane. Dur
ing lucid moments, she constantly mur
mured: -Oh, the fickleness of varied
ortune !"
A Newspaper Palace.
The Philadelphia Telegraph prints the
following:
The staff of the Public Ledger occupy
the finest rooms of their kind in the
country and probably iu tho world.
They are located on the fourth floor, and
witn jur. uuud a usual generosity nave
been fitted up not only with comfort.but
unusual elegance and taste.
The reporters room proper has walnut
and ash desks for eighteen men, with
cane seated revolving chairs and Turkish
rugs. The floor is also of walnut and.
ash of unique pattern. Over each desk
is a costly brass chandalier combining
both gas and electric light. In the cen
ter of the room are round tables for du
plication, assignment and time books,
together with a box system for holding
sketches of prominent citizens, descrip
tions of noted buildings, ..churches, ves
sels, etc. . -
City editor Mc Wade's room i3 a per
fect jem: It 13 carpeted with a beautiful
Axminister and hung with old-gold
tapestry curtains, suspended on brass
rings from bars of beaten copper, the
folds being caught up with massive brass
rings. . lhe chairs are of Austrian bent
wood and the rocker ia a wonder of ease
and elegance. The city editor's desk.ex
1 .1 - 1 ..'.I. .
pre.iBiy uesigneu ior its purpose, 18 a
marvel of 'drawers, . pigeon-holes,
etc. A richly-covered lounce and otto
mans of - beauty are provided, together
with an expensive mahogany table, and
a smaller desk is provided for assistant
editor Spangler. This room is partitioned
from the mam room by stained class set
in lead, which has not been equalled in
design and beauty rn this city before.
The wallpaper on both rooms is rich and
costly, and the chandeliers are of cut
glass and brass. - '
Adah Isaacs Menken's Husband.
Picking up a quarter here, a half
dollar theie.when he is fortunate enough
to meet some one who knew him in his
better days, D. K. Russell, once a well-
known commedian, manages to eke out
out a miserable existence. . Partial
paralysis had almost deprived him of the
power of speech, work being thus put
out of the question for him. He is to be
seen occasionally around the Lindell
Hotel, and the fact that he has not
starved to death is largely due to the
charity he has received there. Sickness
and hardships have made him a wreck.
"He has been a well-known actor in
time," said one of his acquaintances one
evening. "He was one of Adah Isaacs
Menken's husbands I believe the first.
For awhile he ran a theater in Kansas
City. For several years he plaved in St.
Louis, in the old Deagle's varieties,
which stood on Sixth street, between
uocuss ana c. unanes. Me is very
anxious now to get to the Forrest Home
in Philadelphia. He is really a worthy
object of charity, and deserves anything
that can be done for him." J St. Louis
liepubiican.
Crime, of
Farming.
After all, perhaps it is well that Frank
James is to be proved innocent. As long
as he was thought to be guiltv, he was a
sort oi nero m the eyes of the vicious
class. His supposed deeds of bravery,
his reckless daring, his expertnes3 with
the pistol, his wild, bunted life on the
highway elicited the warmest admira
tion of the rougher element of society.
Now that he is to be cleared, interest in
him and his exploits will wane. The
roughs will consider him no more than
themselves, and will transfer their affec
tions to eomeone whom they know to be
a desperado. Mr. James declares that
he will not lecture when he becomes a
free man. - It is well. Nobody would
desire to see him. While people might
go in droves to see a man who had been
a murderous highwayman for twenty
years, they would not evince the slight
est interest in a man whose worst crime
had been farming in Texas. f Atchinso
uiooe.
Several parties in Cleburne city grati
fied their curiosity recently in a walk
half a mile south of town to visit perhaps
the largest cat ranch in Texas, or, fori
that matter, in America. The cats, we
presume, ore .the property of Col. R. J.
Chambers. In the summer ' of 1881 the
wheat on the farm was threshed and a j
considerable quantity of straw was left
in rail pens. A few cats at once took
possession of the pens. They have
multiplied until now at least 500 cats,
black, white, yellow, gray, spotted in
fact every color known to the feline
tribe, to say nothing of kittens can be
seen with but little trouble by visiting
i the pens.
S Professor Max Muller, in his lectures
at Cambridge, assigns a very recent date
lo the whole of the so-called classical
: Sanskrit literature.
The Frfctle-Faccd tilrl.
"Ma's upstairs changing her dress."
said the freckle-faced little girl, tying
her doll's bonnet strings and casting her
eye about for a tidy large enough to
serve as a shawl for that double-jointed
young person. !
"Oh, your mother needn t dress up for
me, replied the female agent of the mis
sionary society, taking a self-satisfied
new of herself in the mirror. "Run up
and tell her to come down just as she is
in her every-day clothes, and not stand
on ceremony."
"Oh, but she -nasn t got on her every
day clothes. Ma was. all dressed "Up in
her new brown silk, cause she expected
Miss Dimmond to-day. Miss Dimmond
always comes over here i to show off her
nice things, and" ma don't mean to get
left. When ma saw you coming
she' said, "The dickens!" and I
guess she was mad about something.
Ma said if yon saw her new dress, she'd
have to hear all about the poor heathen
who don't have silk, and you'd ask her
for more money to buy hymn books to
send 'em. Say, do the nigger ladies use
hymn-book leaves to do their hair up on
and make it frizzy? Ma says she guesses
that's all the good the books do 'em, if
they ever get any books. I wish my
doll was a heathen." ' ;
"Why, you wicked little girl, what do
you want of a heathen doll?" inquired the
missionary lady taking a mental in
ventory of the new things in "the parlor
to get material for a homily on worldly
extravagance.
"So folks would send her lots of nice
things to wear, and feel sorry to have
her going about naked. Then -she'd
have hair to friz, and I want a doll with
curly hair and eyes that roll up like
Deacon Slider back's when he says amen
on Sunday. I ain't a wicked girl .either,
cause Uncle Dick you know lies
been out West Md swears
awful and smokes in the house he
says I'm a holy terror, and he hopes I'll
"be an angel pretty soon. ; Ma'U be down
in a minnute, so you needn t take your
cloak off. She said she'd box my ears if
I asked you to. Ma's putting . on that
old dress she had last year, 'cause she
said she didn t want you to think she Was
able to give much this time, and she
needed a new muff worse than the queen
of the cannon ball islands needed religion.
Uncle Dick says you oughter go to the
islands, 'cause you'd be safe there, and
the natifs'd be sorry they was such
sinners anybody would send you to 'em.
He says he never seen a heathen hungry
enough to eat you, less twas a bund
one, an you d set a blind pagan s teeth
on edge so he'd never hanker after any
more missionary. Uncle Dicks awful
funny, and makes pa and ma die laugh
ing sometimes."
"Yoar Uncle Richard is a bad, de
praved wretch.and ought to have remain
ed West, where his stvle is appreciated.
He sets a horrid example for little girls
like you.
"Oh, I think he's nice. He showed
me how to slide down the banisters, and
he s teaching me to wmstie wnen ma
ain't roand. That's a pretty cloak you've
get. Do you buy all your good clothes
with missionary money?; Ma says you
do." !,-.. :
Just then the freckled-faced little girl's
ma came into the parlor and kissed
the missionary lady oa the cheek and
said she was glad to see her. The little
girl's ma can't understand why a lady
who professes to be so charitable as the
missionary agent does should go right
over to Miss Dimmond's and say such ill-
natured things as sne did, and she thinks
the missionary is a double-faced old
gossip. Boston Globe,
A Great People.
Mr. Edward Clinton, chief clerk of the
grain department of the Erie Railway,
has but an imperfect appreciation of the
respect due to the majesty of the law.
Mr. Clinton lives in Passaic, and his
son a boy nine years old, broke by acci
dent the window of a candy-shop. The
owner of the shop made a complaint and
Justice of the Peace, James A. Norton
issue 1 a warrant for the arrest of the
terrible child. The child and his mother
were both frightened into fits, and Mr.
Clinton hurried to the justice to beg that
for this once the eye of the law might be
induced to wink, seeing the smallness of
the offense, the greater smallness of the
pane and the greatest smallness of all,
that of the boy. But Themis was inexor
able, or at least, her representative was.
Not Ryleiff before Nicholas, not Regulus
at Carthage, showed a loftier soul. The
die was cast and the constable must have
the boy. On which Mr. Clinton; repre-
hensitly forgetting the citizen in the
father, swiftly seized and violently
tugged and twigged to and fro that op
portune and noble feature in the counte
nance of the magistrate which, by divid
ing." maintains an impartial balance in
the eyes of Justice: "and blood f 'twas
from the nose began to flow." Unto
them, seriously conferring together in
this wise, entered many alarmed and
anxious citizens, and among tuem tue
constable, who rescued the law of the
land, in an unseemly condition, and pre
vailed upon Mr. Clinton 1 to accept the
hospitality of the town irassaic. Thus
the majesty of the law has been vindi
cated and society saved in Passaic, the
bandage also, for this pressing occasion,
having been removed from the eyes of
Justice to the nose thereof. Truly we
are a great people.
Cheap Living.
. Old Walker, who lately died, and who
sat for the old men in the la3t two pic
series, used to live on ten cents a day.
and his only income for a number of
years was $2 dollars a week. He bought
stale bread and sopped it in warm milk.
He trained his stomach, after years of
discipline, io go w oeu nungry, suc
ceeding somewhat better than the man
m the Greek fable, who taught his horse
to live without eating, and, when he had
thoroughly educated the animal to the
diet, he up and died. Dr. Tanner starved
on water for forty days, and an Italian
lived on a teaspoonf ul of wine and a raw
egg for a r number of years. Yet these
are exceptional cases. There are thous
ands and thousands of families in the
city who constitute the deserving poor,
whose weekly income is from $5
to $6. They are not drinking families,
and how do they manage? One says:
"I receive $G a week. I am a fireman in
a large factory I have a wife and three
children. I bring all the money home
on Monday night. That is the
day we are paid ; on, for ' for the
men will get drank on a Sunday with no
work. I give my money to my wife.
She saves $1 for the landlord. Three
bushels of coal goes all ; the week, and
costs us sixty cents; one pound of coffee
goes a week that's twenty or twenty
five cents, and a pound of sugar for
eight cents, or sweetening (meaning
coarse molasses) for ten cents a quart;
stale bread you get two loaves for four
cents that costs us about fifty cents a
week. If my wife goes to market she
goes late and buys the refuse vegetables
and potatoes. Then we only have two
meals a day. I'a-n up and off before five
o'clock, as I Lave to start all the fires,
and I have a enp of coffee and piece of
bread, and my wife puts up a cold snack
and any meat that's left over .from the
day before, for my dinner. The children
get along most anyhow during the day.
At night I hayj a warm supper a stew
and soup, generally; and as , for clothes,
I wear three cheviot shirts a year, and
my boss has given me an old coat, ' which
keeps me- warm, for an odd job I did'
him. The children go barefooted in the
summer, and in winter we save enough
to get them shoes. Thank God,- since
my baby died M small-pox f ve had no
sickness in my family.
A Fir st Kali n ay iU4e.
A young lady well known on Wood
river, who wasljorn and raised in Idaho,
and had never seen a steamboat or rail
way car, recently left for a trip south.
and much interest was expressed hera
by her friends as to her first impressions
of the onter world. She always evinced
such an even demeanor thai many friends
believed she would pass as an old trav
eler, but a letter just received from her
escort proves that a voung lad v. even
one of Idaho's fairest, and one that can
calmly regard the wild Indian on the
warpath, is unequal to tho occasion of
calmly passing through the surprises of
modern progress. - ? ;
She became skittish at the approach of
the evening lightning express, with its
great bull seye headlight, and actually .
pranced when the train neared the de
pot and blew a long, shrill whistle. Her
friends could not quiet her or coax her,
and finally, rather than be left, they
blindfolded the young lady and by main
force landed her safely on the tram.
The letter remarks it was fortunate the
windows were so small,as she frequently
attempted to get out, and could not be
ceUvinced that the telegraph poles, the
hills and houses were not all whirling
past her as she sat in the car, and every
time they crossed a bridge she shut her
eyes, believing the cars were flying in
the air across the rivers. j Wood River
Times. ' .
Jle Dare Kot Drink.
It was a bridal scene. The wine cud
passed from lip to lip. One gentleman
who thought himself cured of drinking
refused. ;
"Can't you pledge friendship in a
social glass?" pleaded the bridegroom.
"I dare not; I cannot.
Then the beautiful bride with bewitch
ing smile . and eyes that were brighter
than the jewels on her fingers, held out
the poison to him, saying: v
"Surely you will not refuse me?
The color mounted to his cheek.. He
faltered. He yielded to the circle of the
banquet. His first taste fired his lust
and he ceased not till he was a sot again.
A few years later, one quiet summer s
evening, a wretched outcast reeled iuto
the open door of a pleasant home, when
a lady was just drinking a glass of wine
and allowing her little one to sip. The
vagabond sprang forward with a maniac's
frenzy, dashed the cup to the floor and
shouted:
"Murder him if you will, but not with
that! Look at me! You made me what I
am. I waa respected and honored. You
tempted me at your wedding. Now.
there is not a reptile I would not gladly
change places with. , L must soon stand
before God s bar On your head rests
my blood."
A gurgling sound was heard m hia
throat. He fell at her feet a corpse. He
sleeps in a nameless grave the victim of
a cruel though thoughtless seduction.
Mankind's Mistakes.
It is a mistake to labor when you are
not in a fit condition to do so.
To think that the more a person eats
the healthier and stronger he will be
come.
To go to bed at midnight and rise at
daybreak and imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained.
To conclude that the smallest room in
the house is large enough to sleep in.
To eat as if you had Only a minute to
finish the meal in, or to eat without an
appetite, or continue after it diss been
satisfied, merely to satisfy the taste.
To believe that children can do as
much work as grown people, and that
the more hours they stuay the more they
learn.
To imagine that whatever remedy
causes one to feel immediately better (as
alcoholic stimulants) is good for the
system, without regard to the after
effects.
To take off proper clothing out of
season, simply because you have become
heated. ::
To sleep exposed to a direct draught in
any season.
To think that any nostrum or patent
medicine is a specific for all the diseases
flesh is heir to. j Index,
Tjbtje Beauty. The truest beauty
13
tot that which suddenly dazzles and fas
cinates, but that which steals upon us
insensibly. Let us each can up to mem
ory the faces that have been most plea-
sant to us thos3 tnas we uvb wt
best to look upon, that now rise most
vividly;before U3 in solitude, and often-,
est haunt our slum.ber3 and we usually
find them not tho most perfect in form,
but the sweetest in expression.
Connecticut is rapidly advancing in
the cultivation of oysters. About nicetv
thousand acres are now planted, and
thirty steamers aad many sailing vessels
are engaged in the trado.