THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED
Saturday Mornlnss,
BY THE
DOUGLAS, COUNTY PUBLISHING CO.
THE INDEPENDENT
HAS THE ' -
FIHEGT JOB OFFI02
IM DOUGLAS COUNTY.
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CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS
And other prJniicg, Including
Large and Heavy Posters and Showv
-"- Hand-Bills.
.Neatly and expeditiously execufed "
Ar rortTi.. ruicES.
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One Ter....
9a ro
. I 50
fttx Months.,
Tare Horn lt....
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These are the term for those paying: In advance.
The Ikdiu'Esdrnt offer fine inducements to ad
Tertlser. Terms reasonable.
vol. r.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1883.
NO. 51.
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SbJ. J ASKULEK
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER,
OPTICIAN.
AND
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Dealer In W-tchea. Clocki, Jewelry,
Spectaelra and tcyrgiassea.
And a Fall Line of
Cigars,
Tobaccos and Fancy Goods.
The only reliable Optometer in town for the
proper aoj'tmeai cf Spectacles ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacle and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of post office, Rose
bun?. Oregon -
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
HOSEBURG, OREGON.
OFFICE-ON JACKSOS STBEET,
CFPOHITB THE POSTOFFICE.
MAHONEY'G SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
Jus. Mahoney, Prop'r.
. '
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dorj
las county, and the best .
hixXiXahxv T.nri
in the Elate kept in proper repair:
Parties traveling on the railroad win find this
place very handy to visit daring the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Give me a cell.
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JOHN
FRASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OKGGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the best stock of
lurnltare south of Portl-nd
And all of my own
manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Reside t3 of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
J6 ALL WORK WARRANTED.-t
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND, - - OREGON.
" ' ' ' ' v ' " ' '
Richard Thomas, PropV.
THIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for number ot years, and has become very
poptxlarwith the traveling public. First-class
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with ; the best the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Railroad.
- srr.s:lSSfc,
AYINQ ON HAND A LARGE LOT OP FINK
Sjipanish Merino
I offer the ame for sale, Cheap for Cash, at my
Farm in Douglas county, six miles from Roeeburjr
HENRY CONN, Sr.
H. C. STAHTONi
Dealer in
Staple Dry Coodsl
Keeps constantly on hand
ment of
a general assort-
! EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
SCHOOL
B O O IS
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY, TOYS and
e FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
BUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
1U" k.LM
BS!
ALLEHDS OF BM QUALIIY
ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and Goods shipped
with care.
Address. Ilacheney & Bene,
Portland. Oregon,
Hotice,
Notice Is herey given, to whom it .ay concern, that
the undersigned has been awarded Uie contract for
keening- the Douglas county Pauper for the period ot
two years. All persons in need of assistance Irom aid
county must firtti procure a certifies te to that effect
from ant inem!er of the County Board, and present H
to one of the following named persons, who are author
ized to, and will cure !or those presenting such certificate
W. L. Button, Roseburjr ; L. L. Kelloiri, Oakland ; Mrs
Drown, Lookup Glass. Dr. Scroggs is authorized to
hirnlsh medical aid to all persons in need of the tame
who have been declared paupers of Doulas county.
WM. B. CLARKK Supt. of Poor.
Rflssstran, Or. Feb. IS. 1880
' The inost forcible , expression of intol
erarjce was tittered a short time ago by a
Scotch clergyman of the Free Kirk, who,
referring to the introduction of an organ
into a neighboring Established Church,
declared that "soon they would pet a
concert every Sabbath in the old Kirk.
The devil wouhr have hia bandmaster
there to discourse Bweet music to them,
and the captain, like a cursed pirate,
would hoist his false colors to lure souls
to destruction."
LATEST NEWS SUMMAEI.
II Y TELEGRAPH TO DATE.
Prince Henry, of Pcssia, arrived at
St. Thomas, Cuba, on the 22d. c
Four flouring mills were destroyed by
fire at Hamilton, Ohio, on the 22d. -
It is stated that Henry Villard left
New York for Portland on the 22d.
John McCullough, the tragedian, who
has been ailing for some time, has fully
recovered. - ;
The remains Jof Charles Soehner, a
German, were cremated' at Washington,
Pa., recently. 1
Cardinal Manning has issued an ap
peal, asking for a collection for the dis
tressed people of Ireland"' ' , - -
One hundred and thirty-five head of
cattle perished in the flames of a large
fire recently at Shipm&n, 111.
The President has appointed Thos. J.
Sherwood, of Marysville, Cal., receiver
of public moneys at that place.
Six persons were severely, if not fatal
ly injured, in a gas explosion recently in
a colliery near Shenandoah, Pa. :
Queen Victoria met with an accident
on the 17th, in which she injured one of
her limbs, and lis now confined to her
rooms. i
Four prisoners confined in the peni
tentiary at Boise City, Idaho, overpow
ered the guards and made their escape
on the 22d. r
The New York" Public of the 23d says
the business transactions for the past
week show a decided increase over the
same week one year ago. -
An eruption of Mount Etna has begun
on the 21st, accompanied by an earth-v
quake, causing a panic in the vicinity
Several houses have fallen.
.The Eureka cotton mills at Mount
Aiery, N. C, were destroyed by fire on
the morning of the 22d. Loss, estimated
at $20,000; insurance, $15,000.
.The Chicago cigar makers at a recent
meeting resolved to go on a strike aboui
May 1st, if manufacturers did not give
them a raise of one dollar per thousand.
Eev. Lawrence Walsh, treasurer of the
Irish national land league, of New York,
cabled $30,000 for the relief of victims of
famine in the west of Ireland on the
22d. : , '
""Eev." J. Gilfiillan, Protestant Episco
pal missionary of the White Earth reser
vation, pays the Indians suffered severe
ly from the ravages of smallpox during
the winter.
A Halifax dispatch of the 22d says
that there is the greatest freshet on Corn
wallis river known for years. Trains
ceated running on account of washouts
on the roads. t -
The steamar Burgundia arrived at its
pier at Brooklyn on the 22d, bringing
the body of John Tloward Payne, the
author of "Home, Sweet Home," back to
its native land.
It is rumored that Salmi Morse will
produce his "Passion Play" at Louisville
during the latter part of the summer,
providing he can obtain a license from
the city authorities, t
A Tucson dispatch of March 25th says:
The Apaches ore still east of the Magda
lena. Some say there are 15 Apaches,
and others say 200. Three men are re
ported killed this evening.
General Diaz and party from Mexico
have been banqueted at New Orleans,
St. Louis, Chicago,' aev York and Wash
ington, visiting Niagara Falls and a nam
ber of other places of interest en route.
The estimated expenditures of the
dominion of Canada for the financial
year ending the outn oi June, is
$45,006,145. The amount voted for the
present year, fending the 30th of June
next, is $54,837,264..
The New .England milK producers, re
cently assembled at Boston, discussed
their grievances against the Boston con
tractors and inspectors, and charged
adulteration by the middlemen. The
price fixed was 35 cents per can for eight
and a half quarts, on the cars.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press of the 21st
publishes a lengthy article from Mon
tana as to the flock of that territory,
stating that leading stockmen have been
interviewed and say that the winter has
been most favorable for stock, not count
ing a loss of more than five per cent.
A Vienna dispatch of March 22d sayd:
The recent demonstrations of a reading
cub of students in memory of Wagner,
have led to twenty duels among the stu
dents, the combatants being German on
one 6kle ami Anstrian on the other.
One of the participants was severely
wounded.
A Tombstone dispatch, of March 22nd,
says: This afternoon a report -reached
this city of a terrible conflict between
cattlemen and Mexicans, in which about
six men were killed and two wounded.
It occurred at Morrison's ranch, on the
Barbacomari. thirteen miles from Fort
Haxecha.
It is rumored that Captain Kortz, late
master of the Tacomff, will appeal from
the decision and sentence of Inspectors
Freeman and Biliman to Supervising In
spector C. C. Bemis. It is said the Cap
tain considers his suspension for two
years unjust, and! his proposed appeal
will be for the purpose of lessening that
term. -- : -
In the senate of the New Yorklegisla
ture recently a bill prohibiting contract
labor, and the bill regulating the use of
convict labor, and the bill giving the
convict a share of the product of his la
bor. were all killed. In the house the
bill prohibiting the manufacture in pris
on of shoes, stove and iron hollow ware,
was lost, while the bill prohibiting the
manufacture of stoves by convicts got
only as far as the committee of the
whole, which, it is thought, will be the
limit of its progress.
A number of improvements are con
templated by the: life saving service of
the Pacific, including improvements at
Cape Gregory station, near Coos bay
Among other things, a boat-house wjfll be
constructed at a more accessible point.
It is also proposed to connect that station
by telephone with Empire City. A new j
building will be constructed at the
station at the mouth of the Columbia, to
which a life boat, wagon and a number I
of Castor patrol lights and other supplies j
were recently shipped.
Lord Haldon died on March 25th.
Jerome Holt, a negro, was hanged at
Graham, N. C, on the 23d.
Gen. Charles Craft died of heart dis
ease at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 23d.
A fire in the Catholic cathedral, Brook
lyn, N. Y., destroyed the drapery and
grand altar. v
Sigismond
elected as
March 25th.
Lacroix, a radical, was
Gambetta's successor, on
The image across tne St. John river.
St. John, N. B., was carried away by the
ice gorge on the zdd.
Oakland, like San Francisco, has an
empty treasury, and no funds to pay its
salaries for the present month.
At Jjuiutu Minnesota, Marcii zotn, a
fire destroyed 13 buildings and contents.
Total loss, $47,500; insurance, $35,000.
Capt. Carey ,who commanded the party
of English soldiers with Prinos Napoleon
when he was killed in Zuland, died re
cently. ..: ": :.- '..
Alaska is to have a mail route from
Haines to Juneau, a distance of 150
miles. The mail will be carried by canoe
monthly.
Williams' sewing machine manufactory
was burned at Montreal on March 2oth.
Loss estimated at from $200,000 to
$300,000.
A statement prepared by the treasury
department estimates the reoeipts for the
nscal year ending June 30. load, to be
$4P5,C00,000. ;
Patton, the brakeman of the Southern
Pacific train accident at Tehachapi, and
tried on a charge of criminal negligence,
was acquitted.
The East Hampton, Mass., Catholic
church, a brick building just finished,
was burned March 25th. . Loss, $30,000;
partly insured.
irranKU. Hamilton, wnue ioc&ed up
in a Duiiding at Eldorado. Kan., for
being drunk, set fire to the same and was
burned to death.
Wm. Banks and Green Cunningham,
colored, were banged at Lafayette, Ga.,
on the 23d, for the murder of H. H.
Eudd last January.
A frightful accident occurred at the
San Francisco gas works on the morning
of the 23d, in which Horence O Halloraa
was burned to death.
Sam Bran nan and others.reprc sensing a
New York company, propose erecting
smelting and milling works in the Yaqui
river, near Konora, Mexico.
Commissioners from several little
states in. Central America have under
consideration the terms of a projected
federation of their governments.
The issues of standard silver dollars
from the mints for the week ending
March 24th, was $218,495: for the cor
responding period last year, $188,500.
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, of Boston,
has been appointed special agent of the
Indian Bureau, to investigate the condi
tion of the Mission Indians in California.
A Vienna dispatch of March 25th says:
Several localities at the foot of Mt. Avart
were destroyed by snow avalanches. It
is stated that 150 persons were killed and
100 injured.
A Braidwood, Illinois, dispatch of
March 25th says: Explorers entered the
Diamond mine to-night for the purpose
of making a search, so far as possible.
ior tne uouies oi toe arownea miners.
it - 1 3! 1 1 i
A late dispatch says the eruption of
Mount Etna is increasing in violence. A
new crater has opened, and the lava
threatens to overwhelm Nicholas and
other yillages. People are fleeing from
their homes, and troops are assisting to
save property.
A strong effort is making in the south
toward conversion to Mormonism. A
presiding elder of the Mormon church
has recently arrived in Nashville. Tenn..
and is arranging for the emigration of
j a - tt i .
converts to utan. jib aays there are
now 90 Mormon missionaries at work in
the south.
Iron ore has been offered in the Pitts
burg market during the past few days by
the iiepublic Ure company for $8 50 per
ton, delivered at Cleveland, SI 50 per
ton less than last year. This, it is be
lieved, will break the ranks of the ore
producers, who were then united in hold
ing up the price and fighting the blast
furnace men.
The London Mark Lane Express of
March 25th says: In wheat and flour
there was only a holiday trade, and prices
were only nominally unchanged. The
same may be said of foreign maize, which
was lower. Barley was in little demand
and quiet; foreign, unchanged. Oats.
lower; foreign, dull. .
The statement of the TJ. S, treasurer
of March 24th shows gold, silver and U.
8. notes in the treasury to-day, as fol
lows: Uold coin and bullion, $182,610,-
755; silver dollars and bullion, $106,
487,192; fractional silver coin. $277,795,
519; total, $361,625,388 Certificates
outstanding: Gold, $40,075,940; silver,
$60,705,370; currenoy, $9,875,000.
Business failures for the last seven
days, ending March 23d, as reported by
N. G. Dun & Co., of the mercantile
agency, number 195, egainst 265 last
week, a reduction of 70. New England
state, 175; middle, 39; western. 57; south
ern, 38; Pacific states and territories, 12;
New York city, 8; Canada, 24. Total.
195.
A Winnepeg dispatch of March 24th
says: word has reached here of the
wrecking in the latter end of August,
while going across the Great Slave lake
from Fort Eesolution to FortEae, of the
British Circa m Polar expedition, de
tailed to take polar observations last
year. ' No lives were lost, but considera
ble hardship was endured. The expedi
tion arrived at Fort Eae, its destination,
September 2d. They placed their instru
ments and have taken two observations.
A St. Louis di?pa ch of March 23d
says: Eeports of the winter wheat crop
from more than 200 counties in those
parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
i Kansas, Missouri and Texas, where win-
J ter wheat is grown, show that m Kansas
! and Missouri the condition is good and
tne acreage tuny equal to last year,
Tennessee', and Illinois give fair reports;
.Kentucky and Indiana, especially the
latter, show considerable damage; from
Texas the reports are meagre, but good
as far as they go.
How the Fates Wort Against Poor Jones.
It has sometimes been doubted t has
there is a divinity which shapei our endt
rough hew them how . weinay, but
there is one man in this cityi who be
lieves he is foreordained, predestined,
predetermined to suffer. . Poor Jones!
he seems to spend his whole life in offer
ing to Mrs. Jones -an excellent woman,
by the way a series of apologies for
doing things he never did, arid he no
sooner gets out of one scrape than he
plunges into another. If Mrs. Jones
has a fault it is that of loving Mr. Jones
too much for his own good ; and being so
particularly fond of him hetself, she
imagines every omer woman mjust De, so
at time i Jones finds his life hardly worth
living. , : :
It always happens, too, at some time
when he is in a peaceful, pious frame of
mind, walking firmly in the paths of rec
titude and flourishing like a bay rum
tree. For instance, just a few nichts
ago he said,af ter supper, that he believed
he d go down town a few minutes and
look at the new electric light, !and Mrs.
Jones asked him to mail some letters
for her, and he started out, whistling
"l want to De an angel."
On the way down it occurred to him
that he might as well stop at the barber's
and get shaved, and he did so. I Then he
went to look at the light, and as he
walked Jong the .sidewalk, where it was
as bright as day, he saw a lady jn front of
him drop a folded paper ott of her
purse. He started ior ward, pi( ked it up
and presented it gallantly to the lady,
saying:
"Madam, you dropped this jftst now."
Now. the most that he expected was a
grateful "thank you;" but instead of that
the womangave a terrible screani, grabbed
hold of a policeman who was sauntering
by, and, pointing out Jones, shrieked:
Jones attempted to explain, but the
policeman told him to hush up or he
would club him, and then asked the wo
man if he should arrest him. She said
n-n-o, she would hate to have to appear
in court against such a creature as that,
and so after taking Jones' name and
number he let him go.
Jones went home; he had tasted enough
adventure for one evening, and was glad
to get back into the no-place-like-home
atmosphere again, but when his wife saw
him she held up both hands.
"Why, Jeptha! she exclaimed; "how
you look! where s your collar and tie
gone to?"
"I I I don t know!'' stammered
Jones, who had forgotten all about the
barber shop where he doubtless had left
them; "h-h-ham't I got them on?"
"Why. no ! andyon look so aueer.
Did you mail my letters?"
"Xy-yes, gasped the wretched liar;
"of course I did."
"I don't believe it !" said Mrs. Jones,
in a voice that nearly took Jones out of
his boots. "I know those letters are in
your pocket at this very moment! Let
me feel."
Jones had a wild thought of rushing
out into the night and cold and leaving
Mrs. J. to find out all she could, but he
hesitated, and the man who hesitates is
lost.
"There they are," she said, in a tone
indicating that she had found a roll of
million dollar bills, "and but what s
this?"
There was an awful silence, and you
could have heard a meeting house drop
as Mrs. Jones, with a calmness born of
desperation, unfolded a piece of white
paper and read :
"To Madam Blank, fine French milli
nery. Dr. One pink satin evening bon
net $30. Eeceived payment.
Saeah Blank fc Co.
It was the wretched piece of paper he
had picked up and which fate had helped
him to thrust into his pocket to form one
i i . , i , i i
in. mi iron uuaiu ui uuvertsw uiruum
stances. We will draw a veil over, the
subsequent hilarities of that evening and
merely refer to the atmosphere of Betsy
and-I-are-out gloom which has enveloped
"no-place-like-home" ever since like the
dense smoke from a glass factory. Jones
.i'ii i . it i j
i3f8ii a strong Deiieyer in mauuoai uea-
tiny. Detroit Post and Tribune.
What the frlnee of Wales Blight Do.
The outlook before the Prince of Wales
is not very brilliant. At forty-two a man
gets weary of the eternal round of soci
ety, and it may be believed and hoped
that the Prince is! sick of the empty-
headed "set" of the past, and tnat bear-
hghta between his butts and buffoons,
Aylesfords, Cronmels, etc. have , ceased
to have charms for him. But the career
open to the eldest soil of a puke Is closed
to him. Nothing, as matters stand, can
change his position save the abdication
or death of the Vueen. indeed, he is
even worse off than his brother-in-law in
Germany, since he has at least actively
and honorably participated in real life in
the army, from which the Prince of
Wales is kept back by etiquette and con
demned to pass his days in christening
steamboats.inangurahng docks and open
ing new wings to hospitals delightful
tasks, doubtless, yet which, nevertheless,
must after a while be apt to pall, and we
can wen imagine tnat a vista or some
twenty years more passed in that fashion
may not be altogether cheering. And
yet the Queen is quite likely to live as
long as that, and those who know her
well assert that she will never resign; to
be Queen is, in fact, a confirmed habit
with her, acquired very early, and
likely to be held on up to the last.
for we don't Jay aside habits
as we grow old. If the Prince gets dis
contented with having in fact no career
worth the name until he reaches sixty
two he may, perhaps, yet astonish' the
world by a startling, new departure, and
no one could help him toward one bet
ter than a statesman who has given so
many in hia time as Mr. Gladstone
suppose, for example, as these two pace
the sands at Cannes some afternoon this
week, the Prince, were to say: "I'm sick
to death of this playing at work. I want
to have some share in political life. Can
not something be found for me?" and the
Prime Minister replied: "Well, sir, un
less we could make some arrangement
by which you could be permanent Vice
roy of Ireland, I see nothing, and I sup
pose you would not do that," and then
the Prince were to rejoin: "Wouldn't T?
I'd be delighted to' do it, and take my
chance of dynamite and daggers with the
rest. If Spencer can stand it, why can't
I?- Even if I am killed, there are the
boys, Alfred and Arthur." Why, in this
case, we can imagine that Gladstone
might produce another of those startling
transformation scenes which the public
has learned to expect from him. Wind
sor castle would frown, but the country
and her colonies would cry, "Hooray for
a plucky Prince. Only give him a
chance and you see he is as brave as his
brother-in-law Fritz. N. Y. Times. -
The Betrothed,
There was once in this conntry a youth
and a handsome girl who had been court
ing for many years, and were betrothed
to each other, and had pledged them
selves to remain faithful to each other
even after death. .
; Now it came ,to pass that the young
man went at last on a long, long voyage,
and died in foreign lands. So that his
sweetheart knew nothing of what had
happened to him.
Yet in tho night he returned to his na
tive village, and entered the stables of
the young girl's parents, and took there
from a white mare, and rode her to
where his sweetheart slumbered with
friends at a great distance off.
And the dead man rode to the door of
the'house, and knocked upon it, so that
the folk within were aroused and cried
out: "Who is there?"
"It is a young man sent by the parents
of the girl who is living here to fetoh her
home."
"Ah !" said the dead man's sweetheart,
"mamma must have sent him." For she
knew the voice.
"Aye," answered the horseman, "fof
to-morrow is our wedding day."
She mounted upon the white mare be
hind him, and they started.! But on the
road the youg man said to lier:
"The moon lights thee; death is with
thee art not afraid ?"
"Nay." Bhe answered; "with thee I
cannot fear."
And he complained of a strange pain
in his head.
"Bind thy handkerchief," she said,
"around thv forehead." '
He answered that he had none, and
the young girl gave him hers, which he
tied around his head.
So they rode to the house of the maid
en s parents, and she dismounted and
knocked upon the door, that they might
open unto her.
Who is there ?
'It is I, your daughter, whom you did
send for'
"By whom?" I
"By my own betrothed. I rode hither
behind him. On the way be told me
that he had no handkerchief, and I lent
him mine. He has gone to the stable to
unsaddle our gray mare."
They went to the stable; and the be
trothed was not there. But the white
mare's flanks streamed with sweat.
When the young girl learned that her
lover was nowhere to be found, she
knew that he was dead; and she died also.
But long afterward, when the body of
the dead sailor was disinterred in order
that the lovers might be buried together,
they found the maiden's white handker
chief bound about tho skull.
The White House Lady.
Not being a senator or member or in
any way related to these eminent men. I
was not present at the President s recep
tion and I don t know wnether I ought
to print what a young lady who was
there writes to me about it. But as it is
a good-tempered criticism perhaps it
may as well go in. Here is what the fair
one "takes her pen in hand" to say; "I
desire to make no invidious comparisons
when I say the present regime at the
White House is several degrees more
formal than during the period when Mrs.
Hayes enacted the role of 'first lady.'
Her Saturday afternoon receptions were
delightful features in the social whirl
and every caller felt personally welcome
when held in her warm grasp or gazing
into her bright, sparkling face. The
presentations to Mrs. McElroy are not
followed, as heretofore, by introductions
to the several members of the receiving
party, and one wanders rather helplessly
along the long line of beautifully dressed
women, unless perchance some familiar
face causes a momentary stop and snatch
of conversation. The woman of social
standing has hitherto stepped in the rear
of the receiving party, if she so desired,
in order to witness the incoming human
stream or to meet the friends sure to be
gathered there; but the man who is
stationed at the end of the receiving line
guards the entrance of this desired
haven as effectually as the angel with the
flaming sword protected paradise, un
less, perforce, the person desirous of
entrance is on intimate terms with some
member or the party assisting in the en
tertainment of callers. It may be per-
""J "n0t io w
the stiffness and coldness of the social
atmosphere and the small numbers in
attendance." Washington Capital.
How (Jould Does Ills Work Easily
Oliver Ames asked Jay Gould a few
days ago how, with such apparent frail
health, he could manage such a world of
business as his vast possessions repre
sent. Mr. Gould faintly smiled and
replied: -v.
"Is it difficult for you to manufacture
shovels? Do you worry about each Bhovel
and each man's work?
"Oh. no," said Mr. Ames: "I have got
that bo organized that the business runs
itself. It doesn't give me any trouble."
"Exactly," said Mr. Gould. "It gives
me no more trouble to handle my busi
ness than it does you to handle yours.
I have organized the whole machinery so
that I get results before me every day of
what is being done, and the whole thing
is very simple when it comes into my
hands. Atlanta Constitution.
"I'm a reporter," said an un salted
youth to the baggage master, as he
planked himself down cn a hand-truck
near the car. "tfot anything new ior
me?" "Oh, I upset a can of varnish on
that truck just before you sat down, but
as the item is already covered, it will be
stale . before yon can get at it." The
news gatherer was pried off with a coupling-pin,
and sent home by slow freight.
Drake's Traveler's Magazine.
A Bad li'fe-nislory.
By the death of an old man named
Jacob Augustine, several days ago, near
the village of North Lima, Mahoning
County, this State, the particulars of
a sad life-history were brought to light.
Augustine had lived a remarkable life.
Born within the boundaries of the town
ship in which he died, he attained the
age of seventy-nine years without spend
ing a single night a doz an miles from
113 home, and only once had he visited
Youngstown, the county-seat of Mahom-
ing County. He was looked upon by his
neighbors as an eccentric man, and the
fact that he never married was usually
alluded to in a joking manner.
A few days before bis death Augustine
sent for the village 'Squire, who drew
up the celebrated will and was appointdd
executor of the instrument. The docu
ment was signed and sealed, but after
the testator's death it could nowhere be
found. The house in which Augustine
had lived and died was searched from
cellar to garret. Every nook and corner
was carefully inspected, and a queer
collection of relics was the result. - Old
Spanish, Mexican and American coins 1
bearing dates earlier than 1800, were
found hidden away in all sorts of odd ;
places, together with some of the earliest !
issues of greenbacks and notes on State j
banks. The searchers were about to j
give up in despair of finding the lost
will, when they concluded to again over- j
haul the contents of a chest which had i
been looked through several times. It
was packed to the top with a curious
collection of clothing in various stages
of usefulness.
At the very bottom of the chest was a
package wrapped in a sheet. This,' on
being opened, disclosed to view a suit of
clothes carefully folded. It was shaken
out and examined. Such a suit! It was
made of brown home-made cloth, such
as was worn in the days of the forefathers.
The coat was of the swallow-tail cut, and
the pantaloons had the peculiar flap so
stylish in early times. Each garment
was supplied with brass buttons, fas
tened on with home-made linen- thread.
eacli button being stamped, "Warranted
orange." In one of the sleeves of the
coat were found $6 25 in money, and the
will. The strange suit of clothing was
taken to the village store and displayed
in a window, where it attracted consider
able attention, many unfeeling people
gazing at it and indulging in coarse jests
and laughter. One old man gazed long
and attentively at the relic of bygon6
days and turned away with a tear in his
eye. It aroused within his heart sad
memories, to which he gave vent as fol
lows: "That suit has a history. 'It was in
tended for poor old Jacob's wedding out
fit. When he was twenty -one years of
age he engaged himself in marriage to
Gotliebe Wealandt, the daughter of a
neighboring farmer. Mrs. 1 Augustine,
Jacob's mother, favored her son's choice,
and with trne womanly prido wove the
cloth and made a wedding suit for her
boy. Gotliebe's father, however, was
opposed to the union. He said his
daughter should not marry Jacob Au
gustine. He broke up the match, and
at the same time broke the young peo
ple's hearts. . Jacob did not murmur.
He . laid his wedding suit away in the
chest, where it has retrained from that
day to this. Jacob never married. His
father, mother, brothers and sisters died,
and he was left alone, but he has gone to
join them now."
"In the little cottage on the outskirts
of the village," continued the old man,
"may be seen a picture of wretchedness
which plainly tells the remainder of this
sad story. In that cottage lived Got
liebe Wealandt, now an old woman. For
fifty-eight years she has grouped in men
tal darkness, her reason having been de
throned by the cruel interference of her
father in her girlhood's love-affair. She
is not long for this earth, and when the
last sod of earth resounds on her coffin
lid, the two spnls so long kept asunder
will probably join each other in Para
dise." Cleveland, Ohio, Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
Artists and Their IH-Foriune In Mar
riage. Our sprightly and nervous friend
Sarah, the actress, is henceforth, if we
may believe the gossips, to call herself
Sarah Bernhardt without an Damala at
tachment M. Damala himself persists
in his recently determination to "go for
a soldier," being convinced that a actor's
career is not the proper thing for him.
He has been living for some time in an
atmosphere overcharged with electricity,
and he covets the calm of some cool gar
rison retreat, where he will have nothing
to go through but one dress parade daily.
Considerations "of honor and dignity,"
h6 says, prevent him from remaining in
! Paris any longer. What does the divine
Sarah say to all this? Merely that M.
Damala has judged it prudent to retire
from the stage. It is whispered that.the
marriage m London not being recognized
as valid in France. M. Damala recedes
his marital rights, and the lady proceeds
on her erratic route alone. Otherwise,
they say, how could M. Damala have en
listed in the foreign legion, in which
only single men are received. These
"artistic marriages" all end badly. Be-
hold now the gushing, although some
what mature diva, Hortense Schneider,
the inimitable creator of the "Grand
Duchesse" first and most successful of
the types of opera bouffe; see her in the
act of breaking up a marriage to which
she had fled as to a home of refuge.
Some time ago she married an Italian
country gentleman, Light Bionne,
and went : away to ; compara
tive seclusion in Upper Italy,
For a few months she amused herself in
superintending the castle and in learn
ing the tricks of housewifery; but pres
ently she became homesick for the cool
northern air of Paris and the bright
mornings in the oderous alleys of the
Bois. So she suggested a return to the
modern Babylon. But the husband said:
"Nay. We will go up to Paris for three
months yearly, and while there you may
do what tou please I will n3ver com
plain. But the remaining nine months
of the year must be passed on my estate.
The result was a quarrel, and now the
Italian courts are called on to separate the
discontented pair.Schneider will doubless
have to leave with her separated husband
a large slice out of her L very comfortable
fortune.
Mme. Bernhardt has had her temper a
trifle soured by her many money losses
of late, and more especially by the pain
ful necessity of having to sell her jewels
in the auction rooms of the Hotel . Drou
ot. As she has always been excessively
charitable, she 13 haunted by beggars
wherever she goes. Day before yester
day, when getting out of her coupe at
the door of the Vaudeville theater, she
was accosted by a sniveling old woman
who had made frequent drafts upon her
purse. "Oh, my sweet lady," said the
crcne, "do help me once more!" Sarah's
hand sought her portemonaie, but she
had left that useful article at home.
VJtlave you a five frano piees?" she said
to her coachman. "No, madame, not a
arm '
"Then what shall I do!" blubbered
the old woman.
"Sell your diamonds," answered Sarah.
as she gathered up her skirts and hustled
into tne theater. .Paris uorr. Bosten
Journal, vj
Astrological Frealctloas for 18S3,
In 1883 Mars will be the ruling planet.
The influence of this heafenlv bodv
upon the irascible humor in man and
and animal is well known. Particular
care should be taken by persons of anat
urally impatient disposition to
avoid outbreaks of temper, especially"
during the opposition so f Mars to the moon
which occur on or about February 21.
March 22, April 19, May 17. June 15.
July 14, August 12, September 10, Octo
ber o, November 6, December 3 and 31.
At such times, also, bulls should be ; re
strained from running at large, and wa
ter should j be frequently thrown upon
dogs to see if they manifest any symp
toms of hydrophobia. Jupiter is sta
tionary on St. Valentine's Day, and en
gagements made then may be fatal. The
conjunction of Mars and Mercury on St.
Patrick's Day indicates that large
amounts of money will be collected for
the liberation of Ireland. The first days
of May will be lovely, with a little rain
at night. . Poetry of some merit may.
now be written, and a thorough revolu
tion in dress and cooking expected. On
the 9th events fatal' to domestic happi
ness will be extremely liable to Joccur.
Startling developments in aristocratic
families will now be made. No destruc
tive frosts will happen in this month,
and corn-planting will be earl v. From
the 2d of June to the 13th 6f July, a
severe drought will take place. On "the
19th, a European sovereign will die. On
the 27th an ocean steamer will take fire,
with great destruction of life. The 4th
of July will be again signalized this year
by an event of great National importance.
On the 17th, however, an instance of
serious official misconduct will come to
light. Much-needed rainy weather will
begin on the 13th, and henceforth the
summer will ba intensely hot. 1 The as
pect of the asteroid Melpomene now in-
Ldicates special disaster to members of
college faculties, a railroad accident be
ing the probable danger threatened. The
19th will be a day of peculiar horror.
August will be fine till the 24th. Es
caped lunatics should be very cdreful of
their behavior during the whole month.
Fits and the falling sickness will be quite
general after the 14th. On the 3d of
October avoid trifling, as it is one of the
frosty, A new washing machine will be
patented on the 11th. Scholastic
Annual.
The Strongest Man.
ProfessorE. A. Proctor found at Eeno.
Nev., a man who claims to be the strong-.
est man, in me woria. his name is An
gela Cardella. He is an Italian, aged
38, and stands five feet ten inches in
height, weighing 138 pounds. His
strength was born with him, for he had
no athletic training. He differs from
other men chiefly in his osseous struct
ure. Although not of unusual size, his
spinal column is double the ordinary
width, and his bonea and joints are made
on a similarly large and generous scale.
He can lift a man of 200 pounds with the
middle finger of his right hand. The man
stood with one foot on the floor, his arms
outstretched, and his hands grasped by
two persons to balance his body. Car
della then stooped down and placed the
third finger of hia right hand under the
man's foot, and, with scarcely any per
ceptible effort, raised him to the height
of four feet and deposited him upon a
table near at hand. One or two power
ful Irishmen waylaid Cardella with in
tent to thrash him, but he seized one in
each hand and bent them together till
life was nearly hammered out of them.
He was of a quiet and peaceable disposi
tion and his strength inherited, :for he
states his father was more powerful than
himself.
Call the Kext Case, Sir."
Forty years ago Eatonton was a fast
town. Gambling of all kinds, cock-fighting
and horse-racing was the rule, as it
is the exception now. Why, sir, at one
term of the cdurt 1845 or 1840 the
Grand Jury returned one true bill
against forty persons John W. Ashurst,
Solicitor-General, and a number of
Erominent lawyers included in one
atch for gaming. It was in this case
that it is said Judge Cone made himself
famous. When the case was reached all
of the defendants rote and pleaded guil
ty. Juge Cone fined each of them $10
and costs and lectured them severely
upon the uselessness ; end immorality of
such habits and the viciousness of the
example which they were, setting for the
youth of the country; then, commanding
the defendants to take their seats, with a
solemn face but a merry twinkle in hia
eye, he 'turned to tfce clerk and said:
"Now, Mr. Clerk, enter after these cases,
'State of Georgia vs. Judge Cone, gam
ing special information by His Honor;
plea of guilty,? and fine him $100 and
coats. Call the next case, sir."- Eaton
ton (Ga.) Messenger. ;
Some men are ever ready to ofTer a
remedy for everything. The other day
we remarked to one of these animated
apothecary shops: "An idea struck us
yesterday"," and bef are we could finish
be advised us: "Bub Che affected parU
with arnica 1" Ex. - -'y;?'.
The Woman's Bo ird of Missions re
ceived during the year 1S82, $131,843.