THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THE v
FINEST JOB OFFICE
! IS DOUGLAS COUNTY.
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CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And ether rrla. tug, including ' - . r
Large "and Heavy Posters and Showy
: Hand-Bills, -
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One Ter..
.81 so
. so
Hix. Month
Tli ree lUontUn.'
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I Neatly and ex radltiouslv executed '
These are the term for those psylnz In advance.
The Independent offer fine Inducements to ad
vertiser!. Terms reasonable. ;. " .
VOL 7.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. MARCH 24. 1S83.
NO. 50.
A.T rOUTL. A. IN 13 PRIC338.
THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED .
8atorday MonUngf
c BI THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
m
bub
LI iJijiO
a . j a n If U L E It
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER. - JEWELER, AND
rvrTTrTa"w
ALL WORlTwARRANTED. :
Dealer in ''Cehi. Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Kyrgiasses,
And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobacccs and Fancy Coads.
Tbe - only reliable Optometer In town for the
proper adjustment if Fpeci&cles ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of poet office, Rose
Lnrsr. Oresron.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST.
R0SEBUR6, OREGON
OFFICE OS JACK?OS ST&EBMY
CrPOSITB THE POSTOFFICK.
MAHONEY'8'; SALOOW
Nearest to tbe Railroad Depot, Oakland '
Jag. IMaboiiey, Prop'r.
Ths finest of wines, liquors and cigars la Doj
laa county, and the best
IJILLUIll) TA.XJJL.13
in the Stats kept in proper repair:
fartte traveling on the railroad win find this
place very handy to risit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Gir me acall.
J AO. iaAHONEY.
JOHN FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc
I
Constantly on hand.
ETIIPrJlTIIPir 1 x-t Mock of
rUii 111 I UnC. juruit are south of Portlaua
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me & call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK "WARRANTED. -a
DEPOT HOTEL
dAKXAND, - - ORKUOW.
Richard Thomas,. Prop'r.
rpHIS .HOTEL flAS BEETf ESTABLISHED
, for a number ol years, nd has become very
popolarjrith the traveling public. First-class
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Jtailroad.
JIJAVIKQ OK HAND A LARGE LOT OF FINK
Spanish Merino
I offer the ame for sale. Cheap for Cash, at my
Farm in Douglas county, six miles from Boseburg
HENRY CONN; Sr.
H. G. STAFJTOfJ,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly ou hand
lllt'llt of
a general assort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
HCIIOOL
BOO ItS
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATION KRY, TOYS and
PAXCY ARTICLES, j
To suit both Young and Old.
DUYS AND SELLS' LEGAL TENDERS,
MM furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco, ")
SEEDS
Ala
ALL KttDS F $m QUAL11T
A X- I. C 12 XK It s
I'roinptlv attemletl to and Goods shipoed
with care.
Address. liitcheney & Reno.
Portland. Oregon.
Hot tee.
T.m i herot r riven, to whom it .nT concern, tht
the unjeriignwl his been a wanted th contract for
L..nin9 th. iv.ii. liii rnimtv PauiieM for the period Of
two yearn. All jwrsoiia in need of asIt.-nce ironi aid
innoi r,isr. i.mr-iir a eel tififtite to that efieet
wwi.i'j . r ...
t,. mumiivr nt the Count v lioani. and present
to one of the following named persons, who are author
ized to, and will care 'or tli'we prescnun aucn cwtuiw
llrown. Looking Hi. Dr. 8croK?s w authorized to
iuniiah medical aid to all parsons In need of the same
s.wUo hare been ueeiarea naupere j v.uS.. ""-j-
WM. R CLARKE, Suyt. of Poor.
twdn Or. reb.- 1ft, vm
A Ban Francisco dispatch of March
, 13th says: Elish Delaheol vt beaten in
ft most brutal manner this evening by a
policeman, receiving .injuries -which may
prove fatal. Returninc home from work.
lie heard hia wife screaming, and saw her
xonghly handled. He remonstrated with
the ofScer and demanded an explanation
The latter tnrned upon hinixand beat
him with his clnb over the head, and
when Delaheof startetl to ran, fired a shot
at him. 4
an Biimi.ii a
LITEST NEWS SUMMAltY.
BT TELEGBAPH, TO DATE.
The Northern Pacific track was com
pleted to Bozeman Search 15tb.
An attempt was made to blow up the
Jewish bank at Taganrog, Russia, re
cently, with dynamite.
in tue race Dec ween cue uxiora ana
the Cambridge crews on the 15th, the
former wod by three lengths.
Charles Stuart, of San Francisco, com
mitted suicide on the 15th by shooting
himself through the heart with a shot
gun. ... :- . . 1 . ---j,.
The house of two maiden ladies named
Judson, in East Hart ford, Conn., burned
on the 15th. Both perished in the
flames. I
At Evansville, Ind March 15th, the
steamer Enquirer going up, collided
with the Dora Cobler, coming down. The
latter sunk to the boiler deck, caught fire
and burned to th4 water's edge. All
aboard escaped. J - '
Peter Mackei and Frank Kiser engaged
in a shooting recently at "White Oaks, N.
M., caused by the latter's intimacy with
the former's daughter. Kiser received a
mortal wound in the breast, and Mackel's
hip was shattered beyond repair. ,
The Bepublicani state convention of
Bhode Island met jat Providence on the
15th. Every town was represented.
Augustus Osbourn Bustal was nominated
for governor by acclamation;, Oscar J.
Ratbbun of Woonsicket wa3 nominated
for lieutenant governor.
A Berlin dispatcl of March 15th says:
The hog product decree goes into force
the month after its promulgation, as sent
to the reichstag. The semi-official press
represents the measure as purely a sani
tary one. The liberals denounce it as
protective in its ohftracter.
In northern Ohio south era Michigan
and some parts of Indiana, farmers are
in mucn doubt about tue outcome or
their winter wheat, j There has been very
little snow on the grotfffd, and they are
afraid the repeated thawing and freezing
will have killed a good deal.
The U, S. treasury department has de
cided that of the 73,000 recently appro
priated for the state of Oregon to reim
burse that state for expenses incurred
during the Modoc War,' only $12,000 can
be paid under the law, as there still re
mains due to tbe United States from
Oregon $30,000.
A San Francisco! dispatch of March
15th says: Louis Jansen, coachman of
Walter F. Hawlev, was killed this after
noon while attempting to prevent the
carriage from being I smashed by a run
awayteam. Swain Lilgenberg, a carriage
maker, was dangerously wounded by
being struck by one of the frightened
horses.
A case of rape aud;retribution occurred
near Mountain Home, Idaho. Wm. Gib
son had a man, name unknown, working
for him three days. Gibson was out
looking after cattle,; and on his return
learned that he had outraged his eight-year-old
daughter and fled. Gibson pur
sued, caught the man on tue stage, took
him therefrom and tiking him back along
the road some distance, shot ani killed
him. I "...
A New York Herald dispatch of March
15th says: Besides agents employed by
Prince Bismarck in London to negotiate
for the purchase of 10,000,000 acres of
land in Mexico, it his been learned that
the prime minister has also a very active
representative engaged in the same busi
ness, bo many Hermans are annually
emigrating to the new world that the
German government! desires to purchase
land for the purpose of settling a colony
in order to keep Germany's emigrants as
much as possible under the supervision
of the government arid controlled by Ger-
man jaws, negotiations are. pending iot
another lot, 9,000,000 acres, some of
which is located on the coast of the Gulf
of Mexico. Dr. Bejdleck will sail for
Europe on tbe Arizoha in order to fur
ther consummate his plans. A syndicate
of English capitalists are interested in
the scheme. t
Latest news fron Washington state that
work of tbe geological survey will be re
sumed this spring on; a larger scale than
ever
before. Important scientihc re
searches of survey have heretofore been
confined to territories. At the last ses
sion, congress authirjized the officers - to
extend their operations into states, and
the work will now be prosecuted upon a
much broader and more comprehensive
plan. The object of the survey is to
make an accurate history of the topo-
grapoicaj, geological mmercuogicat, ana
other economic resources of the United
rectly. explorationsjin older states, as
well as territories, are necessary. In
states where local geographical survevs
have been made the libors of government
scientists will be greatly lessened. Con
gress appropriated $280,000 for the work
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tula year, ana operations win ue Deun
in California, Colorado, Nevada, Minne
sota, Virginia, North) Carolina, Tennes
see, Kentucky, Arkansas' and Texas.
Operations in California will be upon a
large scale.
A London dispatch
of March 15th says:
A terrible gas explosion in the local gov
ernment board offices at Westminster
occurred at 9 o'clock io-nigbt, destroying
much property. Thd report was heard
in the house of commons and caused an
alarrdi The concussion was so great that
it shook the side galleries and the re
porters' galleries. It being dinner hour,
but four members el the house were in
the hall. The Duke jof Edinburgh was
in the peers gallery, and seemed alarmed.
The speaker rung the bell and asked the
cause of the alarnv No one was injured.
The wildest rumors are afloat. The re
port resembled the discharge of an 80
ton gun. It is believed the explosion
was caused by dynamite, and was a de
liberate attempt to blow up the govern
ment office, and undoubtedly the woik of
Fenians.; Adjacent streets were filled
with myriads of fragments of glass, and
heavy plate glass was; lying in neaps on
the ground. A stone weighing 200
pounds was found projected against the
King street police station, making a hole
the size of a man's he3. There was also
an attempt made to blow up the Times,
a uauiaier uumaimug -explosive material
was found behind the buildiner. with, it
is rumored, a lighted Ifuse attached.
The treasury department of Mexico
values its landed property at $3,000,000,
000. .
The state of Maine passed a bill through
its legislature restoring capital punish
ment. ,-:;-
Joe Jones, of Oglethrope, Ga., shot
his wife on the 17th, killing her in
stantly.: The Continental Guards of New Or
leans contemplate visiting Massachusetts
in the summer.
In the house of the Illinois legislature
a bill was passed recently to punish wife
beaters by whipping.
:'- The woolen mills at Mexico, Mo., was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$50,000; insurance, 30,000.
The shoe finding manufactory, owned
by Cbas. E. Merrill, Portland, Me., was
destroyed by .fire on ' the 16th. Loss,
40,000. - . :
K fire at Detroit, Mich., on the morn
ing of the 18tb, destroyed the round
house of the Wabash road. Loss nearly
60,000.
Latest news at Washington from China
states that every action possible is taken
by that government to drive Americans
from the country. ' '.
Ex Gov. Kirkwood, secretary under
President Garfield, was thrown from his
carriage on Sunday last at Iowa City la.,
and received severe injuries.
The bill to sell the state debt of Ten
nessee at 50 cents on the dollar passed
both houses of the legislature and is
awaiting the signature of the governor.
Obey E. Owen, defaulting teller of the
Third National bank, St. Louis, managed
to steal from that institution over $200,
000 since 1875. He is sentenced eight
years.
The steamboat Grand Isle was burned
at Wilson's landing on Black river re
cently. The cargo consisted of 300 bales
of cotton and 2000 sacks of seed, all of
which was lost.
The New York Public of March 14th
says business throughout the country for
the past week shows an increase of 49
par cent, over that of the corresponding
week one year ago.
Ex-Kepresentative K. P. Flower, of
New York, has returned to the treasury
458 50, the amount overpaid him on
account of salary and mileage as member
of the 47th congress.
The ship Dunstaffnage, from Calcutta,
via Dundee, for Liverpool, has been
wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire.
Fifteen men besides a number of women
and children were drowned.
The Mexican government has declared
a forfeiture of the grant of 36,000 acres
of land in lower California made to David
Ferguson three years ago for colonization,
owing to non-fulfillment of contract.
The remains of John Howard Payne,
the author of "Home, Sweet Home," is
expected in New York city about the 23d
inst., from thence to Washington city,
and be buried June Vth. the vise anni
versary of the poet's birth.
Business failures the past seven davs
ending March 16th. 225. as against 2o2
last week. New England states had 22,
middle states 37, western? states 70, south
em states 46, Pacific States 8, New York
city 11, Canada 31; total, 225.
A freight train accident on tbe Chicago
& Northwestern road on the 17th, near
Woodbioe, la., resulted in throwing the
engine and ten cars loaded with cattle oft
the track, and killing Engineer. Geo. L
Saith and Brakeman Len H. Lertig.
A Berlin dispatch of March 13th says:
The salvage steamer has returned from
the scene of the wreck of the Cimbria.
Divers report that a number of bodies of
tbe victims are jammed against tbe gear
of a life boat on deck. Entrance into the
cabin is closed by a compact mass of
bodies.
Senator Dolph expressed himself ia
the New York Mail and Express that
Oregon would be affected only by two
reductions in the new tariff bill iron
and wool. The reduction on iron would
be to the interest of railroad, building in
this state, while that on wool will slightly
reduce the price on that staple.
Hon. Jeremiah Sherwood, who arrived
in California in 1847 as lieutenant of
Company E, Stevenson regiment, after
ward clerk for Samuel Brannon at his
store at Sutter's fort, when the first ex
chansre of gold dust for merchandise were
made, died at his residence in New York
on the 15th, of pnuemonia, aged 60.
The President has suspended Judge
Wilson S. Hoover, associate justice of the
supreme court of Arizona, pending an
5Ati0 bv the department
of jus
tice onchargeB-' of cor;upt prac
practices in
accenting bribes. Judge Hoover is well
known in Washington, from his connec
tion with the Dickson star route bribery
case. .
At Forest City, Cal., March 16th, a fire
started below Scullen's hotel and spread
so rapidly that in a very short time all
the business houses in town were ablaze.
A strong easterly breeze was blowing. E.
Miller, hotel keeper, was burned to death
in Huntzen s store. Losses run into
hundreds of thousands, heavily covered
by insurance.
T- T T tT . 1 v i t .
xtev. u. x. namiuon, Method ist mm
ister of Westerly, Bhode Island, who was
temporarily stopping at the College
Palace hotel, New lork, is missing. He
was on a lecturing tour, and was last seen
in New York on the evening of the 13th.
It is believed he has been foully dealt
with. He is 26 years old, of' medium
height, dark eyes, and has a wife and
three children.
A commercial circular shows that the
number of hogs packed at Chicago for
the year ending March 1. 1883. was
J 4,223,000, a decrease of 878,000 compared
with the preceding year. The falling off
is attributed to the decreased supply of
hogs in the country, higher prices and
restrictions on "exportations, making
packers cautious. Cattle slaughtered
tbe past year, 1,774,578.
At the annual meeting' of ; the stock
holders of the St. Louis & San Francisco
Kailroad company on the 13th directors
were elected as follows: .C. P- Hunting
ton, Leland Stanford, Jay Gould, Bussel
Sage, Jesse Sell gman, Edward F. Wins
low, Jas. D. Fish, Wm. F. Buckley,
Horace Porter. A 3. Hatch, Walter L.
Frost, R. S. Hayes and Charles .A Bod
"THE OLD LOG CHURCH.
WILL VISCIIEB.
On olden walls, in memory's halls,
With roses round it clingiag, .. .
A picture rare of antique air
The old log church is swinging.
Of timbers rougk, and gnarled and tough,
It stands in rustic beauty,
A monument to good inleut
' And loyal, Christian duty.4
The forest trees, kissed bv the breeze
Of early autumn weather,
Stand grimly by, and seem to sigh
And bend their boughs together.
Down bv theNuiil,' and up the hill,
And through the hazel' thicket,
And o'er the mead brown pathways lead
Up to the rustic wicket.
And by these ways, on holy days,
The village folks collected.
And humlily heard the acred word,- -
And worshipped unaffected.
Sweet fancy's art and poit's heart
Can seethe old-time preacher
And village sage now turn the page
As minister or teacher;
For in church, with dreaded birch,
On week days he presided,
In awful uiein, a tutir Been,
'Twist lore and licks diyided.
But where it stood, in dappled wood,
A city sprung to life,
And jolly nohe of barefoot boys
Is lost in business rife.
With years now flownthe children grown,
Were launched on life's mad biliow;
The pretty maid is matron staid.
The master's 'neath the willows.
SNAP WELL'S BOARDER.
'Heared about the old Button wood
Place a-being sold?" inquired Mrs. Spar-
rowgiass, who was spending the day
with the Widow Snapwell.
"ihe Uuttonwood Place? No! Wal.
that.is newsl Who bought it?" queried
the widow: eagerly, as she carefull v
basted a frill of Spanish lace in she neck
of her new polonaise.
"Why, a man named Flowerdale. they
say. And he s a-gom to repair it up,
Nathan Scudderse's wife says. Must be
awful rich if he does, for the old house
is putty well run down. It's a good
farm, though. Mr. Sparrowgrass thinks
it s the best one in the hull Big River
Bottom."
The new purchase furnished a suffi
cient subject of conversation till supper
was over, and Mrs. Sparrowgrass had
rolled up her knitting, donned her shawl
and worsted hood, and taken her depar
ture, with many injunctions from her
hostess to be sure and ''come back
again." After which, Mrs. Snapwell fell
into a brown study over the new polo
naise, while her pretty niece Eustachia
gathered up the tea-things, and gave Sv
Hodges, the hired man, his supper in the
kitchen.
"Put away them crulls and the black-
berry-jel first," commanded the widow.
"oogrum meriassps and ginger-cake is
good enough for a hired hand'"
"xes, it must be him that put in the
advertisement for country board," she
pondered.going back to her sewing. "It's
tbe very same name Flowerdale and
he wants to git board som'ers in the Big
River Bottom. Of course, it's him I"
"A bachelor, the advertisement ays.
Prob'bly forty-five ;or fifty years old.
Wal, I'm on the shady side of f thirty
myself , and I think I'll answer it. It's
about the only chance for a lone woman
lide me to earn an honest penny," she
added, her gray eyes .brightening at the
prospect -before her. "I'll answer the
advertisement right off, ' she declared ;
and if he comes.I can hx tbe spare bed
room for him to sleep in. And I'll haye
Sy Hedges put up some more shelves in
thebnttery, to set the milk and butter
on. It'll take up too much of Eustachia s
time to be a-runnmg out to the sprtng-
house after 'em. Sy is a mighty good
hand to fix up things, though I hev to
complain and grumble as if he didn't
'am bis salt, or he'd be a-wantin' more
wages.
Whatever may have been the Widow
Snapwell's faults, procrastination was
not one of them, and her plans were soon
carried into enect.
Mr. Flowerdale had engaged the room,
paying a month's rent in advance, and
Sy Hedges had put up the shelves in the
buttery, for the accommodation of the
milk and butter.
Sy slept in the top of the house.
"It's mighty cold up there, these
nights,"' he confided to Eustachia, as he
stopped at the stove one morning, when
she was baking griddle-cakes for break
fast. . i -
But the widow was in the pantry in
specting the plum preserves, in honor of
the expected boarder, and her sharp ears
had caught the man s words.
"Mighty cold, is it? she snapped out,
tartly. "111 warrant 'taint a patchin to
what you ve been ; used to, Sy Hedges,
and I don t want none of your sass!
"And you are as much to blame as he
is, miss, she continued, as Jur. Hedges
slipped out of the kitchen door, with the
tin milk-pail in his hand. "Ypu are
alius a-talkin' to him, and encouragin
his impudence, .
"I I didn t say anything, aunt,' stam
mered Eustaohia, blushing confusedly,
as she thought how frequently she had
talked to Sy, and remembered the admir
ing glances that had lurked in his honest
brown eyes.
And in truth it was not strange jif
Eastachia's soft little heart was slightly
touched by the owner of the brown eyes,
for she had small chance of falling in
love with anyone else.
"iou ham t got time to be a-galhvan
tin' about with beaux," declared her
aunt. "And if you had, I wouldn't hev
'em a-foolin around here. Poor girls
like you had better attend to their work,
and if Providence wants 'em to marry,
He'll give 'em a chance. If not, they
may be sure they was meant for old
maids, and taint no use to fuss about
"But I don't want to be an old maid!"
pouted pretty Eustachia to herself, as
she naked aud scoured, milked and
churned, and did the chores.
That; was before Mrs. SnapweU had
hired a man to do the outside work.
And now that Sy Hedges had come she
wanted still less to be an old maid; for,
somehow or other, in spite of the widow's
hawk-eyed vigilance, there were plenty
of chances for conversation with him.
It was astonishing how many errands
he made to tbe kitchen in the course of
the day, to fill the woodbox and chip
basket, or get a diink with the long
handled gourd, thatliung just over tbe
cedar-wood bucket on the kitchen
table.
And, somehow or other, Eustachia's
cheeks had acquired a chronic habit of
blushing on the most singular occasions.
Tbe sound of a quick footstep outside
the kitchen door.or a gaily whistled tune
from the cornfield or barnyard, would set
them to glowing under the drooping
lashes like a whole garden-bed of carna
tion pinks. ;
. . - w
"Eustachia !"
, Mrs. Snapwell shook out the flounces
of her new dress, as she opened the door
of the kitchen,' where her - niece was
washing up the dinner dishes.
"I'm a-going over Ao .Mrs. Deaotm
Mar f cram's," she continued , with a
sharp glance at Eustachia's suspiciously
rosy cheeks. "And if Mr. Flowerdale
should come while I'm gone,. show him
into the best'Toom, and run over after
me immediate. Do you hear. And
don't be a-trying to set your cap at him,
fur he's a-well-to do man, and wouldn't
even look-at a poor girl like you. Your
cheeks hev got so blowsy of late, you
look like a fright, anyhow."
The tears sprang to Eustachia's eyes,
but she turned to her work, while her
aunt flounced oui of the house, snappish
ly clicking the gate-latch as she passed
through, i
But if the widow considered Eustachia
a fright, f Sy Hedges thought the rosy,
dimpled bheek and flax-gold hair the
prettiest in the wide world.
"And so your boarder hain't come
yet?" said; Mrs Deacon Maform, as the
two ladies sat in the cosy parlor.
"No, but be s paid handsome fur his
room, and 1 m expectin' of him all the
time," said the widow, biting off her
thread, so as it would go through the
needle.
"Oh, aunt," cried Eustachia, bursting
into the room, flushed and breathless.
"Dear mel I must go then," and with
hasty excuses the widow quickly donned
her wraps and hurried off. "Is he nice
looking?"
I think he is," said Eustachia, eager
ly. "He looks like Sy!"
"Like Sy, smiled the widow, scorn
fully. "The idee of comparin' a rich
mau like him to a hired hand! you go
into the kitchen and git supper as soon
as you kin !" she ordered, as they reached
the house.
And changing her frown for a bland
smile, she entered her best room.
A tall figure reclined in an easy chair,
with a book in bis hand. The widow
stared, then frowned.
"Sy Hedges, what dovoumean, by
a-settin' in here?" she demanded, wrath-
fully. "You'll git your walkin' papers
this very night, fur a lazy scamp? And
where's Mr. Flowerdale, I want to
know!"
At your service, madam." retnrned
Sy, politely rising. "My name is Flower
dale."
"But, but what " stammered the
widow.
"I had a fancy to make the acquaint
ance of nvv neighbors as a poor man,
explained Sy, "and I am not sorry for
the experiment.
It was a sore trial for Mrs. Snapwell
to see her cherished air castle tumble in
ruins at her1 feet, but she had to put up
with it
And Eustachia found that Providence
had not intended her for an old maid,
after all, for she was married to Mr.
Flowerdale before the month was out,
and went to live on the old Buttonwood
Place.. , . '
The following recipe furnishes the
most elegant and efficient remedy for
coughs, colds, bronchitis, hoarseness,
etc., that has ever been' made in troche
form: Take the best quality of powdered
cubebs, licorice and gum arabec, each
one ounce. To these add, of oil of anise
one drachm and of oil of cubebs of a
drachm, rubbing them through the
other ingredients. Now add V pound of
powdered sngar and mix the whole thor-'
oughly; than moisten with just enough
warm water to make a stiff mass. 17ust
a smooth board with a little powdeied
licorice root so the mass may be rolled
out with a rolling pin, the same as pie
crust, and as thick as a half dollar; cut
into troches about y of an inch square,
dust with a little licorice root and leave
them to dry. ' If you have not used too
much water they should be dry in from
24 to 36 hours.
A woman says: "Trousers positively
excite my wrath, they are so outrageously
ugly. Take a pair and bang them up
anywhere on a nail, the back of a chair.
What mean, contemptible looking things
they are ! Look at those long, helpless,
dangling legs ! One almost expects to
see them run off with themselves to hide
tneir conscious ugliness, ui course
they are soilea and slovenly: they must
be, for they are too tight to be held up
like our poor, much-abused skirts, and
quite long enough, when the streets are
wet, to receive all the muddy, flying
drops of the boot heels. Indeed, so little
respect have men themselves for this de
testable garment that I have more than
once seen them rub out the accumula
tion of dust with a blacking brush."
Expensive Weather Peck's Sun is not
pleased with the weather and declares that
the expensive weather bureau that the
government is keeping has given the ut
most dissatisfaction lately. The mana
ger of it, General Hazen, has all along
predicted an open winter, and we are
having a winter that is very much closed
Hereafter, when an open winter is pre
dicted, the man who predicts it should
be compelled to wear his summer clothes.
The best way to get along with weather is
to close up the weather office, send the
generals to fight Indians, and let every
man guess on the weather for himself.
With forty million people gnejsing at
the weather, some of them must hit it
pretty near right, while one man may
guess all around it.
A newspaper communication that ex
aggerates as wildly as a circus poster is
not always signed Truth." Sometimes
the signaturb is "Veritas. Nornstown
Herald.
A Western Adventure.
I remember that the far-away reports
of rifles roused us from sleep in the gray
of dawn, and as we stood on our feet and
listened more intently, we could now and
then catch the echoes of an infernal war
whoop. r
There were twenty of us, miners all,
and we were in the foot hills of the
Rockies, not more than half a mile from
the great Overland trail. .
"Boys, them sounds means an Injun
attack and a butchery," whispered our
leader as we listened; and without -another
word we picked up our traps and
headed forthe spot at a half run.
Two immigrant families, farmers from
Indiana, who had started for the land of
gold and had separated from the train
from whim or accident, had encamped in
a bit of green valley beside tbe trail.
There were thirteen souls of them, and
one mignt wonaer ii tne Dravest among 1
mem aid not shudder with fear as the
night crept down and the howl of the
wolf came from the rocky hills.
The men had seen their danger, and
both had set. out to act as sentinels
through "the long night. Hour after
hour had passed away without an alarm,
and just as dawn was breaking the mer?
ciless savages, creeping along like snakes,
had found one of the sentinels asleep.
A thrust from a knife finished him so
quickly that he did not even throw up his
arms. Perhaps he uttered a single cry,
or a groan and alarmed the other, for thV
second was shot while running toward
the wagon.
Then, with both men dead; came the
rush upon the women and children.
Only fiends could do such work as was
done there, and when we came to look at
it the strongest men in the party grew
white and faint. Every head but one
was scalped, and no doubt the scalps
had been taken while the victims lived.
The bodies were hacked and gashed
hands and arms severed, brains beaten
out children flung into the camp-fire.
and the spectacle . was - one to live in
memory when all else had been forgot
ten. - :; . ;
The fiends had finished their work of
butchery before we were near enough to
open fire, and it was poor consolation to
save the wagons. While all the bodies
were yet warm, life had departed from
each and every one. We were collecting
them in a heap, to make ready for burial,
when a sudden wail startled everybody.
"Ow-ow-ow-ow!" came the sound, and
each man looked in the air above, and on
the ground below.
: "That 'ere noise proceeds from a baby,
or I'm not the father of thirteen children
back in Ohio!1' exclaimed Jackson, as he
made for the nearest wagon.
He was right. Down beside a chest,
almost smothered under bed quilts, was
a year-old boy baby, but alas! when he
was handed out we found that he had
been fatally wounded bv a bullet. Jack
son sat down on the grass and chirped to
him and rooked him to and fro, while the
rest of us looked on in wonder and
doubt, but in a quarter of an hour the
baby was dead. He had gone to sleep
tbe night before in his mothers arms, a
battered old rattle box clutched fast in
his tiny hand, and he never let go of it.
There it was in his hand as death stiffen
ed his fingers around it.
Well, there was a general : breaking
down when we saw that the little one
was going. He threw up his hands.
gasped once or twice, and then settled
back with such a smile on his face as ba
bies wear when their dreams are sweet.
Old Jackson was crying like a child, and
some of the men hid from each other
behind the wagons. It was a long time
before the old man arose, laid the little
body among the prairie flowers, and
huskily whispered:
"We 11 bury him by himself. One of
them bodies out there was his mother,
but as we can't tell which from which
we'll make no mistake.
There was one large grave for tbe mu
tilated remains, and when the earth had
been pressed down above them and rocks
had been rolled down to prevent the
work of the wolves, we went to the cen
ter of the dell and there, under a lone
pine we hollowed but a resting-place for
baby. When all was ready,-Jackson
took the body up in his arms, dropped
his hat on the grass, and look around
and said:
'Hats off, men ! We are nearer seein'
angels this mornin' than any of us will
ever come agin !
Slowly tenderly grievingly the little
form was laid away, and it was Jackson's
coat that came off his back to cover it
before the earth was filled in. Every
single man in our band took the shovel
by turns to fill in and round up the grave
and protect it, and before we went away
there was a head-board to mark the spot,
and on the board a knife 'had engraved
the single word: "BABY !" - I
The Yenos Fly-Trap.
This interesting and curious plant is
indigenous to the Bandy savarnas of the
Eastern Carolinas, and is not found else
where, so far as known. Near Wilming
ton. N. C, it is found in large quantities.
growing in tnrfy, sandy bogs. The nar
rowly circumscribed geographical sec
tion to which the plant is confined is re
markable, nor has any other species of
the genus been found elsewhere on the
globe. 'v 1 ;::v'o.i.;;-;
Few species of plants nave Deen, to so
great an extent, the subject of scientific
iavestigation and speculation as this odd
ity. Charles Darwin held that it . was a
carnivorous plant, and thrived much
better wi.th animal food than without;
against which so celebrated a botanist as
C. de Candolle claimed that, while the
leaves entrapped insects, and held them
firmly inclosed until entirely absorbeidor
decomposed, "the' absorption, of an mal
matter is no direct advantage to the leaf,
and not necessary for the development of
the plant." A question which,! as yet,
has not been positively settled. , -
The Dionrea muscuula is undoubtedly
one of the most curious plants in exist
ence. Whether animal food is necessary
to its welfare or not, it is extremely in
teresting to watch Its movements, v
The Venus Fly-trap or simply Fly
trap, as it is usually called belongs to
the natural order D roseracecej or Sun
dews, all of which have the tendency to
entrap insects, but not to so marked a
degree as the Dionroa. The petioles, or
leaf-stalks, are broadly winded, while
the leaf itself consists of two hemispheri
cal lobe3 or sections, the edges of
which are' fringed with hair.
Near the center of each half leaf,
on the .upper side, are generally three
.extremely-sensitive bristles, which are
so arranged that an insect can hardly
traverse tbe leaf without coming in con
tact with them. The slightest irritation
of these causes the leaf to close suddenly
like a trap, the hairs of the edges inter
lacing and holding the unwary insect
captive.
The Dion sea can be readily cultivated,
and will be found a source of much
pleasure and amusement- It should be
planted in peat earth mixed with Sphag
nnm, chopped fine, and some sand, in
small fiower-pots, set in a saucer of wa
ter. During the season of growth the
plants should be watered copiously every
day, and kept moist at all times, though
not deluged. It : requires but a moder
ate temperature, and maybe successfully
"grown in an ordinary living room, pro
vided the air ia not very dry. In a War
dian case, or under a bell glass, there
should be no difficulty to grow it in any
warm room, as the plant needs no sun
and but a moderate amount of light, i Its
small white flowers "are produced on a
slender stem, ten to twelve inches high;
but in order to produce strong plants,
the flower-buds should be pinched out as
soon as they appear. C. R. Hexamer in
American Garden. .
Foiled on Egs.
A stranger within our gates yesterday
stepped into one of our restaurants, and
walking up to the bar murmured to the
host: : ' , ..-
"A trifla of rye and a raw egg, if you
please." -
.No eggs in the market, was the re
sponse.
".No eggs? 1 tbmk, sir; you are mis
taken. I just now aw a box full as I.
came down the street. I presume you
have got whisky? If you will excuse me
a moment m just step out ana nuy my
own eggs."
The stranger disappeared only to re
turn a minute later with a loo of
triumph in his eye and a bundle in his
hand, which ; he deposited upon the
counter. ;
"There are plenty of eggs in town, sir,
if you would take the trouble to look
around a little," remarked the strangelr.
The bar-keeper, considerably taken
aback, opened the bundle only to find
that his customer had purchased a dozen
china nest eggs, of which a bushel or
two are displayed tbe.jpear round in one
of our stores.
Deeply mortified at this revelatio.the
stranger, slowly recovering from the
shock, mechanically laid a dollar on the
bar, and faintly whispered: -
"Keep the change, friend; only tell me
what time the first stage leaves for the
railroad." Helena Herald.
A Joke on Sam Cox.
The only time Sam Cox was squelched,
not counting the "shoo fly" of Ben But
ler, wss when Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois,
did it in 1862. Mr. Cox had been mak
ing a long and exhaustive speech in the
house on tariff. Tbe members were all
tired. In the middle of the speech the
solemn form of Mr. Lovejoy arose, got
the eyes of the speaker, and said:
"Mr. Speaker." '
"The gentleman from Illinois,'! sdd
the speaker.
"I arise, Mr. Speaker," said Lovejoy,
to a question of priivlcge."
"Does the gentleman from New York
yield the floor," asked the speaker, ..ad
dressing Mr. Cox. r
"I will yield for a question of informa
tion, and not otherwise," said Mr. Cox.
"I do desire to ask a question for in
formation," said Mr. Lovejoy,
"Very well, Mr. Speaker," said Mr.
r-t llT '13- -A H .1 - . .
uox, a yieia to tne gentleman irom
Hlinois."
"Tbe gentleman from Illinois now has
the floor," said the speaker.
Mr. Lovejoy now arose slowly and ma
jestically. "Mr. Speaker," he said slow
ly, "I arise for in-for-ma-tioh. I wish to
ask the gentleman from New York a
question." 1
Mr. Cox "Let him ask it!" '
"I wish," said Mr. Lovejoy, "to-ask-tho-gentleman-from-New-York-if-he-has-not-got-'most-through?"
Loud laughter all over the house,
when Mr. Cox moved an adjournment.
Why a Georgia Widow Last H er Season.
There is now living in a county below
Athens a lady who was for many months
deranged from a singular cause. It
seems that she had beea married but a
short time when her husband was bitten .
by a spider, from the effects of which he
died and was duly buried. After re
maining in the ground a short time, it
was decided by his friends to remove the
remains and the grave was accordingly
opened for this purpose. One of the
resurrectionists, more inquisitive than
the others, decided to Lave a look at the
body and removed the coffin lid for that
purpose, iou may judge the Burpnse
and consternation of tbe beholders when
they discovered that the corpse had
turned entirely over and was lying on its
face. There was no other sign, however.
that deceased had oome to life in Ms cof
fin, and it was agreed to reirfler the re
mains and say nothing about it to any
of the family. But one of the number,
however, made it his business to inform
the widow, and it Lad BUch an effect
upon her mind that she was a raving ma
niac for many months. Athens Banner
Watchman.
Kate Middlesworth, of Norwood, O.,
f was noted for her beauty and reckless
ness. The richest young man in the
place wished to marry her, but she re
jected: him because she preferred Pat
Heery, a railroad switchman. To her
svrprise and indignation, Pat was not
transported with delight by the distinc-
ttnn "and hfl ma.da no her mind to kill
him and herself. She obtained
revol-
Ver and started for the switch house, in
tending to shoot him through the win
dow, but in nervously cocking the
weapon she accidentally discharged it
into her own head.' ;
A committee of both homns of parlia
ment will be appoint3l to inqniro as to
the expediency of the c.isstruct.'ca c tLu
channel tunnel.