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About The Douglas independent. (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1883)
if THE INDEPENDENT THE INDEPENDENT IS ISSUED Saturday Mornlnes, -BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Nsc Months Tlirwe Month).. ... 50 .... 1 OO Those re the term for those paying in advanre The Indkpkndknt nlTer- fine inducements to ad- Vertibers. Terms reasonable. . J ASKULEK PRACTICAL "WATCHMAKER , JEWELER, AND OPTICIAN. ALL WORK WARRANTED. Dealer In Watcnc, Clat-Ua, Jewelry, And a Ftill LiDe of Cigars, Tobacccs and Fancy Goods. The 'only reliable Optometer in town for the pr.lK r artju-tment cf f-pectaelea ; always on haud. Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec- tacles and Eyeglasses- v OFFICE First door south of post office, Rose curs, Oregon. , liAHGE N BERG'S Boot and Shoe Store, On Jtkan Street, ooprite the PoRtoffice. Keeps on hacd the largest and best a&soruuent of F.nfttern aiil Nun Prn(!to Fnoiit aud Miot4, tialierti, KlipikerM And everything In the Boot and 3hoe L.lne and SELLS CHEAP for CASH. Hoots and Shoes Made to Order Per ft ct Fit (xiiarantced. I use the Best of l entber and Warrant all my woik. Ill5rAIlHN IVeatiy Done Cn inert Kot.ce. I keep always on hand TOYS AVD NOTIONS. KWMusIcal Itistrumerti Pi VloMti Ptrlra Ppe- DR. M. W. DAVIS, DENTIST, ROSEBURG, OREGON. OFFICE-OS JACK0:; fcTP.ERT. . Up Ktairf, ovt r 8. Msrks & Co. '8 Kew Store. EV.AHOfEY'5 SALOON Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland Jns. Mahoneyi Prop'r. Tha finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Docj las county, and the beat BILLIARD 'X'uIwXIIjS la the Stat kept in proper repmln Parties trareling on the railroad will find &k place rery handy to riait daring the step . ping of the train at the Oak land Depot. Gire me aoall. ,- v Jab. MAnOIEY. JOHN FR ASSR, Home Made Furniture, WILBint, OREGON. Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc., Constantly on hand. FURNITURE. I have the best stock of luruiture font h of Portland And all of my own manufacture. No two Prices to Customers Residents of Douglas county are requested give me a cull before purchasing elsewhere. to JEST ALL WORK WARRANTED.- DEPOT HOTELr OAKLAND, - - OREGOIf. Richard Thomas, Prop'r. rpHIS HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED for a number ot years, arid'has become rery popularwith the traveling public. Firat-clasa SLEtPlNC ACCOMMODATIONS. And the table supplied with the beat the market affords. Hotl at tin; drxtof the Railroad. H. C. 5TAWTON, Doalcr in Staple Dry Goods! Kcejw crnst.intly on hand tnent of a general assort- ' EXTRA FINE GROCERIES, WO'JP, WILUHV AM) tjLASSWAUr, ALSO Crockery jiiuI Coinlage A full stcx-k of SCHOOL BOO its Such as required by tle Public County Schools, AH kt nils of STATION Ell Y, TOYS and KASCY AUTICt.ES, To suit both Young and Old. lUYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS, shes 1'lnrks on Portland, and procures n Francisco. Jurni Irsrfs on AUKlm FBBM QUALITY A I. OR DERS ior.iptly altcrulfil to ami Goods whipped with' care. A dd !'?!, Unchcficy & IJcno, Portland. Oresror. 1'rofeasor J. H. Tico, tlie well known weather irojhet. died suddenly Novem ber 30th, at his residence in the suburb of Chilton Hall, St. Louijs. A vVaterbury, Conn., diepatch of Nov. 2Sth eay: Public indignation against Truman J. Smith, the Watertown farmer who assaulted his wife and broke her leg because.their children were all girta, culminated last night in a visit to bis bouse by twenty young men, witb the iutention of tarrinc: and feathering hira. Hmith fired into the party and Myron Hard was painfully injured. THE VOL. VHI. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. DTf TELEOEAPU TO BATE. The Chicago Evening Journal build mg was destroyed by fire on December 1st. ine new produce exchange at New Orleans was formerly dedicated .December laj. Decrease in the public debt during ixovemDer 5fi,vzi,U7t, decrease since June 30, 41,306,146. O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, was found guilty of murder by the jury and mo juuge sentenced mm to death. Hon. John J. Carlisle of Kentucy re-r ceiveu me uemocrauc caucus nomina tion bf the bouse for speaker of the forty eighth congress. , , . The postoffice department has advices that all mail matter going west over the Northern Pacific is now distributed be fore reaching Portland. Exports of specie from the port of New York since the 1st of January were $15, 564,997, against S44.184.401 forth cor responding period last year. The excess of exports over imports of merchandise during the month of Octo ber, 1883, was 615,051,586: twelve months ended Ootober 31, $162,410,944. Fire at Carbondale, 111., recently totally destroyed the State Normal uni versity. No lives were lost. The build ing was the finest of the kind in the state. Bigelow; president of the national col lege of pharmacy, Washington, D. C, and thirty-feight students have left the institution,1 in consequence of the admis sion of a colored man. George J. Goschen, member of parlia ment for Ripon, has accepted the speak ership for! the house of commons, and Speaker Brand retires on a pension from the government of 5000. Secretary Folger has designated Port land, Oregon, and Port Townsend, Washington territory, ports to which merchandise may be shipped in bond in transit through the United States and from Britijh possessions. Secretary Frelinghuysen has received a telegram from the United States minis ter at Paris, stating that the Official Journal will publish a decree canceling the prohibition of the importation of American pork into France. A Cairo dispatch of Nov. 27tb says the government has sent a note to the con suls and powers declaring that no changes can be legally made in the stat utes affecting the Suez canal without fresh concessions from Egypt. A large portion of the town of Rat Portage, one hundred miles east of Win nipeg, was burned recently. Ten busi ness houses were destroyed. Buildings were blown up with gunpowder to check the flames. The loss is not ascertained. Notwithstanding "the precautions which the city authorities of San Fran cisco are supposed to take, Chinese lepers manage to find their way there. Dr. Foye, of the Twenty-sixth street hos pital, reports that two more lepers have just been admitted, and two others will be brought in. All of them arrived here last month. Fire at Oceola, Fla., Nov. 29th, de stroyed two-thirds of the business places and burned five residences. The fire occurred at daylight, from the upsetting of a lamp in a store, and driven by the nortuwest wind swept around two sides of the public square, consuming every thing in its course. Loss, 8200,000. In surance, $80,000. A dispatch from Monroe,Indiana,Nov. 27th,' says: Last Saturday Roe Scott, after two years' separation from his wife, returned to her house near Eaton, 12 miles north of here, aad insisted that she should live with him again. She re fused, when he stabbed her to death with a knife. He then killed the child and took a dose of morphine from which he died eoon after. Nathan Morris, a wealthy Quaker re siding near Montgomery, Parke county, nd., became crazed by the loss of $30,000 in Chicago options, drove his aged wife from home and set fire to his residence and store, totally destroying both. There was a recently purchased stock of goods in the store valued at $3000. Morris left with $125 in his possession, and his whereabouts are unknown. A Baltimore dispatch of Nov. 30th say 8: About noon to-day, Mrs. Riall; married, living on Biddle street, cut the throats of her two girl-children, aged respectively four years and eighteen months, and cut her own throat. The children soon died, and the mother, though yet alive, is not expected to live. She says she does not want to live. Do mestic infelicity preyed upon her mind. The family occupies a good position. Mrs. Riall is about 28 years old. A Chicago dispatch of Nov. 28th says: In the town of Lake this evening Fritz Ruammel went to a house where Emma Lavouve was employed as a domestic, and after an altercation, shot her in the head, killing her instantly. He then turned the revolver to hia own temple, fired and fll dead. Cause, the girl de serted him for another man. The man had a wife and four children in Cali fornia, from whom he was divorced last year. In making improvements on Colonel Hiii's grave, Plymouth, Mass., recently, the skeletons of pilgrims who came over on the May Flower and buried daring the first winter have been discovered. A grave which was opened contained the skeleton of a middleagtd man, five feet nine inches in height. In another grave the skeleton of an elderly man was discovered. These are the only graves of the first settlers positively iden tified. Tablets are to be placed to mark the location. Detective Finnegas, of the United States secret service, now in San Fran cisco, reports that a large quantity of spurious standard dollars are in circula tion. The counterfeit is of white metal. It is dipped in silver wash.and the die and milling are nearly perfect, but they lack the ring. In a lot of $12,000 taken to the sub treasury by Wells, Fargo & Co., twenty of these counterfeits were found. Ihe counterfeiters are supposed to be Italians, operating principally on rail road lines. J fx jJi ROSEBURG, Nearly 3000 Mormo at New York from abroad during the past Ex Governor Stevenson, of Went ViV gima. died at Parkersburg, November itu. ... Windsor theater in New York city was uawuyau uy tire xvovemoer mh. Loss $ow,UUU. Sojourner Truth, colored lecturer and sibyl, died at Battle Creek, Michigan icucutjy. xx was iuo years old. Dobie & Co., ship builders at Glas gow, Scotland, have failed. Twelve hun dred workmen are thrown out of emplcy- John Richardson,' and John Landseer.' miners, were instantly killed near Wvo- ming, Pa., recently, by an accident to a bucket. Thomas A. Dovle was elected mavnr of Providence, R. I., for the fifteenth time, after three years intervals, bv a majority of 2358. Rev. Warren H. Cud worth, pastor of the Church df Our Savior. Unitarian, of East Boston, dropped dead while taking part at the Thanksgiving services in Ma verick church. Miss Ellen Gladstone, the premier's daughter and vice-president of the North Hall, Newham college, is a dark haired, quiet English girl who looks as though she might be twenty-five. A Zanesville, O., special says: Evans Davis put a cap on a gun which he sup posed was not loaded, and pointed it at ine breast of nw eight year old son. He then called the four year old boy to pull the trigger and shoot his brother. The gun was loaded and the boy was killed. j.ne ratner is trantic. A dispatch from Harbor Creek, Pa., November 28th, says: About 5 o'clock this afternoon the Lake Shore train tro ing east struck and killed Peter Rataskusky, a Polander, aged 40. who at tempted to steal a ride on the west bound freight train. He leaves a large family in iunKiru, JNew lork. A Worcester, Mass., dispatch of No vember 28th says: The rear car of the Boston, Barre and Gardner train went down an embankment, just after leaving JNorin Worcester station this afternoon. Between twenty and thirty passengers were in the car, and all were more or less injured, some seriously. Recently a hunting party , of Dubuque, Iowa, composed of Fred Jankel and two sons and James and Richard Harly, con nected with the Daily Democrat, went out in a boat to an island in the Miss issppi, several miles south. As they were returning a storm arose, the boat was swamped and all were drowned. A meeting of the Louisville board of trade to take action on the question of sending a representative to the conven tion at Washington, January 16, to con sider the matter of a national bankrupt law, after prolonged discussion, resolved to send a memorial to congress upon the subject, and no delegate to the con vention. Secretary Teller has rendered the fol lowing decision in a case recently re ported to the general land office from Washington, in which a squatter was ac cused of trespassing and cutting timber unlawfully on public lands: The accused, although a squatter, is rightfully owner of the land if he intends to make a home on it, and take it, under the settlement laws, when the land is surveyed, and he is allowed to do so. Whether he is, or is not a trespasser, does not depend on how many trees he cuts, but on the bona fide character of the settlement. If he takes land in good faith he is owner thereof, to all practical purposes, al though the title may remain in the gov ernment. A Pittsburg dispatch of Nov. 26th says : intelligence was receivea to night of a bloody riot at the natural gas wells at Murraysville, Westmoreland county, twenty miles east of Pittsburg, between laborers of rival gas fuel com panies, resulting in the death of one man and the serious miurv of four others. A burning well at that point is claimed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Co.. and also by Milton Weston, a Chicago capitalist. The Pennsylvania Fuel Co. has been in possession. This afternoon a gang of thirty laborers in the employ of Weston, made their appearance armed with shotguns and clubs. Their inten tion was to take possession of the well and the property surrounding. To reach the well they would be compelled to re move a large pile of lumber. Laborers of the Pennsylvania Fuel Co. were dig ging a trench for a pipe, but as soon as the object in view was made known, C. V. Haymakei, member of the Pennsyl vania Fuel Co., ordered the men out of the trench. They were unarmed, and in order to hold the lumber piie, sat on it in a body. Weston's forces moved for ward and ordered the laborers to leave. The latter refused to go, and after a threatening demonstration the attack ing party raised their guns and fired. The assault was unexpected and the result frightful. When the Bmoke cleared up, Ha v maker and three others were lying on the ground. Haymaker dead. Three others, whose names have not been ascertained, were seriously and probably fatally injured. A ecene of the greatest confusion ensued. The work men of both parties engaged in a pitched battle, in which a man named Keifer, who belonged to the Weston party, was seriously injured, and many others slightly. The Weston forces, being armed, finally put the Pennsylvania forces to flight, and at last accounts were in possession. The sheriff has been called upon. The Weston forces sur rendered to the sheriff and posse as soon as they found they were officers, but at 3 o'clock this morning the prisoners made a break for liberty, and fourteen escaped. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the whole Weston party. Information mada against them charges murder. An inquest is now in progress. The inquest was concluded this evening. Testimony elicited proved that the at tack on the Haymaker party was most brutal and unprovoked. It "was shown that Bowser killed Haymaker; also, that he gave the order to fire and that the Haymaker party were unarmed, and acted entirely on the defensive. The verdict rendered charges Bowser with murder, and the other with felonious as sault with intent to kill. t f" OREGON, SATURDAY, THE WISH-RLG. a young rarmer wno was very, un A m . lucky sat on his plow a moment to rest. and just tnen an old woman crept past and cried : "Why do you go on drudg ing aay ana nignt without reward ? Walk two days "till you come to a great fir tree that stands all alone in the for est and overtops all other trees. If you uu ubw n down, you can mase your Not waiting to have the advice repeat- u, me iarmer snouldered his a, and started on ins lournev. Sura enonirri after tramping two days, he came to the nr tree, wjuch lie lustantlv vreaivWl tn cut down. Just as the tree swayed, and oeiore it leu with a crash, there dropped out or its branches ?a nest containing two eggs. The eggs rolled to the srround ana uroto, and tnere darted out of one a young eagle, and out of the other rolled a gold ring. The eagle grew larger, as ii oy enchantment, and when it reached the size of a man it spread its wings as it to. try their strength; then. soaring upward, it cried: "You have rescued me; take as a reward the ring uiai lay on tne omer egg. it is a wish ring. Turn it on your finger twice, and waatever your wish is. it shall be ful uuou. Aut rememoer mere is out a fill -J n't , .i single wish in the ring. No sooner is that granted than it loses its power, and is oniy an ordinary ring. Therefore. consider well what you desire, so that you may never have reason to repent your cnoice. bo speaking, the eagle soared high in the air. circled over the farmer s hea I a few times, then darted, like an arrow, toward the east. The farmer took the rinsr. placed it on his nnger, aud turned on his way homeward. Toward evening he reached a town where a jeweler sat in his shop behind a counter, on which lay many cowy rings tor sale. The Iarmer showed his own and asked the merchant its value. "It isn t worth a straw," the jeweler answered. Upon that the farmer laughed vry heartily, and told the man that it was a wish ring, and of greater value than all the rings in the shop together. The jowelar was a wicked, designing man, and so he invited the farmer to re main as his guest over night, "For," he explained, '.'only to shelter a man who owns a wish-ring must bring luck." So he treated hb guest to wine and fair words, and that night, as the farmer lay sound asleex, the wicked man stole the magic ring from his finger and slipped on, in its place, a common one which he had made to resemble the wish ring. The next morning the jeweler was all irapatienna to have the farmer begone. He awakened him at cock-crow, and said: "You had better go, for you have still a long journey before you." As soon as the farmer nad departed the jeweler closed his shop, put up the shut ters, so that no one could peep in, bolted the door behind him, and, standina: in the middle of the room, he turned the ring and cried: "I wish instant! v to possess a million gold pieces!" No sooner said than the great shining gold p;eces came pouring down upon him in a golden torrent over his head, shoulders and arm. Pitifully he cried for mercy, and tried to reach and unbar the door; but before he succeeded he stumbled j and fell bleeding to the ground. As for the golden rain, it never stopped till the weight of the metal crushed the floor, and the jeweler and his money sank through to the cellar. The gold still poured down till the million was complete, and the jew eler lay dead in the cellar beneath his treasure. The noise, however, alarmed the neighbors, who came rushing Over to see what the matter was; when they saw the man dead under his gold, : thev ex claimed: Doubly unfortunate he whom bless ings kill. Afterward the heirs and divided the property. I came In the meantime the farmer reached home in high spirits and showed the ring to his wife. "Henceforth we shall never more be in want, dear wife,' he said. :'Our for tune is made. Only we must be very careful to consider well just what we ought to wish." ' j The farmer's wife, of course, proffered advice. "Suppose, said she, "that we wish for that bit of land that lies be tween our two fields!" That iworth while," her husband replied. "If we work hard for a year we 11 earn money enougn to ouy it. "So the two worked very hard, and at harvest time they had never raised such a crop before. They had earned money enough to buy the coveted strip of land and still have a bit to spare. "See," said the man, "we have the land and the wishes as well." j The farmer's wife then suggested that they had better wish for a cow and a horee. But the man replied: ! "Wife, why waste our wish on such trifles? The horse and cow we'll get anyway." Sure enough, in a year's time the money for the horse and cow had been earned. Joyfully the man rubbed his hands. "The wish is saved again this year, and yet we have what we desire. How lucky wo are!'' ' But now his wife seriously adjured mm to wish for something at last. "Now that you have a wish to bo granted, you slave and toil and are con tent witn everything. You ; might be king, emperor, or even a gentleman iarmer, wnn chests overflowing with fcmu, uuu juu uon t Know what you want. We are young and life is long," he answered. -'There is only one wish in tne ring, and that is easily said. Who knows but some time we may sorelv need this wiso? Are we in want of anything.' llave we not prospered to ail people s astonishment since we nos- sessed this ring? Be reasonable and pa- tient for a while. In the meantime, consider what we really ought to wish La w ' m. , , , And tha. was thend of the matter. iL?f JfS?6 "- the rinS had oZSL and I g -"o the house. fSTilt3 Were ovei" ! fhe ioor farmer tlCOUr8e .f few yeft t k p Thorr Port-, afieFJ Sn the d? , Tl h m afield during the day, as ,f he, too, had MM II H I 1 II J7 ay. DECEMBER 8. 1883. to earn his daily bread; but after supper "w i on us poren, contented ana comtortable, and return the kindly greeting or -tne folks who passed and wno wished him a respectful good even Bo the years went by. Sometimes, wnen tney were alone, the farmer's wire would remind her husband of the magio ring, and suggest many plans. -Lut as lie alwavs anawnivwl that, (hav had plenty of time, and that the best tnougnts come last, she more and mora iituy mentioned tba rin? an nf loot tne good woman ceased speaking of it al- I O I " " " .MOV bugotuer. j.o ue sure, the farmer looked at the ring and twirled it about as many as twenty times a day: bat he was very careful not to wish. After thirty or forty years had passed way, ana tne iarmer and his wife had grown old and white-haired, and their wish was still unasked, then was God vptv uieu peaceimiy ana Happily. .1 : -1 . . , . .. J w tu luem.anu on Uiesama mtrht hv 1 i ii , .'. . - j weeping children and grandchildren Burrounued the two comns: and as aha wisned to remove the rinc frnm th suit nana as a remembrance, the old. est son said : "Let our father take his ring into the grave. There was always ujjoicijr uuum it ; pernaus it was some dear remembrance. Our mother. too, so often looked at the ri n cr aha mav 6ieu it to aim wnen tney were young." , oo the old farmer was burial xaith tne ring. Which had been HnrmniWl tn be a Wish -r ine and waa nnt . . . " Ik Drought as much good fortune into the nouse as heart could desire. Sk TiVhn las. Pere Hy achat he. Pere Hyacinthe has iust arrived in this country where he intends to remain for several months. He will deliver a number of lectures for the benefit of hi church in Paris before concluding hid visit. This celebrated French divine is a very important character in the relig ious history of the ace and religions history is, to a great extent, the essential part of all history. His position is a peculiar one. While he professes loyal tv to the ohurch of his fathers he insists upon a liberty of thought and action whiob that church has never accorded to its followers, and especially its priests. Accordingly he has withdrawn hia vow of celibacy and taken unto himself a wife. He has denied the infallibility of the pope and rejected evervthinar in Ca tholicism which he considers supersti tioas or corrupt. Such a reuunciation cost him a great sacrifice. He was the priebt of that magnificent sanctuary of God. called Notre Dame, idolized by his people and favored of the high dignita ries at Rome. Declaring his Convictions "as if there were nothing in the world but his conscience and God," he has braved the anathema of the pope and suffered the contempt of his fellows. The position of Pere Hyacinthe has baen taken as prophetic. Some say that he is the first indication on the surface of an agitation that is troubling the deep; that like John the Baptist and Martin Luther, he is the forerunner of crreat changes. The question of his influence is one which is engaging the attention of philosophers, and one with which we, as as a simple chronicler of facts.have noth ing to do. Pere Hyacinthe was born at Orleans. a commercial town of France, in . 1821. From his early boyhood he displayed great diligence and aptitude, and when a student was far in advance of his fel lows. When he assumed the robes of a Dominican in 1840, the church of Rome had seldom seen a more promising devotee. At the conclusion of four years of theological study he went on his missions like the rest of his order and surprised both the laity and the clergy with his eloquence. He was made pas tor of Notre Dame, and was reputed to be the most eloquent preacher in France. une who never visited that church in those days can hardly appreciate his power and popularity when in the zenith of his fame. For hours before he began to preach crowds poured down the long aisles of the great ohurch and jostled each other in their eacrerness. A hnsh pervaded the building when Pere Hva- cinthe ascanded the pulpit, and as hia impassioned voice rang throueh the aisles and arches the great throng were electrified. It was at this time that those liberal ideas which he has since championed, began to manifest themselves in his ser mons and he was denounced as a heretic by Louis Veuillot, because he said that the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant re ligions were the three great religions of the world. In 1869 he issued a mani festo to the Superior Orier of Barefooted Friars at Rome against the religious dis order of X ranee and alleged abuses in the Catholio church. This created great excitement. He was excommunicated, and since then he has stood alone,preach ing in little chapels, sometimes in the heart of the great city and sometimes in the villages around it. In 1872 he was married in London to the daughter of Mr. Araory Buttterfield the widow of Mr. Edwin R. Mem man of New York city, and their domestic life appears to have been most happy. The greater part of his life has been spent in seclusion and he knows little of the world. His simplicity is said to be childlike, and his humility most remark able. Indeed his laok of worldly wis dom seems to have led him into many blunders, which better diplomacy would have shunned. His chapel is on the Rue d'Arras, in Paris, and he visits America for the purpose of raising funds to assist him in his labors there. Alexander Edwin Sweet. The ponderous and long drawn leader of former davs is now broken up and ad- ministered in homeopathic doses. The editorial message is more pleasing to the taste of American readers when delivered in this manner, especially if it be flavored with a little wit. We have in mind a number of persons who furnish the salt of American newspaper literature, and Mr. Alexander E. Sw,t. of the Texas Sif tings, is one of them. Somebody has briefly described him as a Canadian by birth; an American by adoption, and a paragrapher and funny man by instinct, His father was a prosperous merchant of (1 II MH II if JLUJ.U--JL o NO. 35. St. Johns, New Brunswick, where Alex- ?o?,er 1)0111 on tbe 28th ot March, 1841. Eight years later the family re moved to San Antonio, Texas. He at tended school for two years at Pough keepsie, New York, aDd in 1859 set sail for Europe, where he entered the Poly technic institute at Carlsruhe, Germany. He studied there for some two years, at the conclusion of which time he married a handsome German girl of Baden, and returned to America with his education arid his happiness comnlete. Tfc wna aunng the war, and he immediately mounted a horse in the Thirty-third regi ment of Texas cavalrv. pally on tho Rio Grande and in the In dian nation. He was in the Confeder. ate army some two years, and at the close of the war began the studv of law. His journalistic career bee-an in 1879, when he became editor of the Sr. Antonio Express, still retaining hia prac tice. Two years later he was made city attorney of San Antonio through the appointment of Governor Davia. TT achieved ho ftriking success in news paper work before he became connected with the Herald of San Antonio, soon made famous bv his funnv naravranha Not loner after he t to the Galveston Newsand his work Bad an immediate eflect on the popularity of that journal. His paragraphs were widelv copied and truly humorous. To the writer Mr. Sweet says: "I was conneoted with the Galveston News until May, 1881, when I removed to Austin and formed a partnership with Mr. .1 Armory Knox for the publication of a weekly newspaper to be called Texas outings, the prosperity of which has ex- coeaed our most sanguine expectations. Its circulation is now upwards of 70 000 or three times as much as anv twonanera iu ma bouiu. xne name is peculiar, and you may do interested to know how I ujreucu buuib upon it. in loiu i was llAnnAtln. Am. . L T W the ban Antonio correspondent; of the lialveston News. The manaffincr editor or the News bad a mania for aliterative . . J - r-9 head lines. He published the Houston correspondence under the heading of 41 TT a T-r . .... . O xxonston nappeninsrs " the Dallas let ter appeared as "Dallas Doincrs." and m v ou Antouio letter was dabbed "San Antonio Sif tings." My jokes were cred ited in northern papers as "San Antonio Siftings." So the new imnflr wan christened Texas Siftings, a name which, like that given the steed of Don Quixote, is sonorous and full of meaning." Mr. Sweet is a member of the Sweet family which emigrated to New England from the mother country in the latter part of the seventeenth centurv.- The Sweets have inherited a skill in surgery wuicu, according- to tradition, was ac quired by one of their forefathers from an old French volume cast ashore by the sea after a wreck. They have since been dubbed "the natural bone setters." The Approaching Comet. Professor Carpmael caught a glimpse the other night of the new comet; but, as it was only a few minutes in an open ing in the cloudy sky, time was not af forded for measurements of brightness and dimensions. Professor Carpmael says the nucleus was not well defined, but a tail was perceptible apparently a few minutes in length. The comet, which was discovered September 5th, by Professor Brooks in the constellation Draco, is still in the samo constellation, but it is brighter for its distance from the earth, than it was at the same dis tance during its last appearance in 1812. It is still in the constellation in which it was first noticed, and is making but slow progress across tbe heavens, and but slowly increasing in brightness. Its further path, from its present position in the northwest heavens, will be across Lyra and Cygnus and Pegassus, till, about the end of January, it disappears below the horizon in the south. It will reach perihelion, the point in its orbit nearest the sun, on January 25th, when it will be about 60,000,000 miles from the earth. It will be visible ta the, naked eye about the middle of Doaem ber, and will rapidly increase in bright ness after the end"of November. Al though it will be brigh ter than at its last appearance, it will not be nearly as prominent an object -in the heavens as the great comets of last year and 1881. The comet reached perihelion Septem ber 15, 1812, and the interval between then and January 25th, its next perihe lion, will be 71.5 years. Calculations made in 1812 predicted its return in 70.6 years, so that our present celestial visi tor is overdue newly nine-tenths of a year certainly not a very surprising lateness in a visitor who calls so seldom. Toronto Globe. Chinese University Examinations Ihe Chinese have a peculiar way of conducting the examination of candi dates for their universities. There are three trials allowed on the ninth, twelfth and fifteenth days of the eighth moon and eash lasts two days. During this time the applicant is confined in a cell about eight feet square. " In it are two boards, the one to sit upon and the other to serve as writing desk and eating table. Besides this "furniture" there is a teapot and cup for refreshments, the eatables being handed in by the exam iners through the gratings on the floor; but ho one is allowed to speak to those in charge. As the cell is scaicaly large enough to lie down in, those students who are unfortunate enough to be above the average size, are compelled to sit up during the forty-eight hours of solitary confinement. The ixammation is con ducted wholly in writing. A girl of 17, arrested in Chicago for wearing a man's dress, explained that she merely changed garments "so - as to get a living easier. For three years she had been , employed on lake boats as steward, watchman or cook, lived roughly without being suspected, and was only detected by an accident at last. "By working on the boats in men's cloth ing I can earn $1 75 a day without extra hard work. If I wore woman's clothes, I would not be allowed to do the work, and would probably have to wash pots. I know I have violated the law, and may go to the work house for a long time, but, to tell you the truth, I'd rather make bricks in the penitentiary than bend over the wash tub. HAS THE FINEST JOB OFFICE IK DOUGLAS COUNTY.. CARDS, BILL HEADS, LEGAL BLANKS And other printing, tnclndlnff Large and Heavy Posters and Showy Hand-Biils, NeaUy tad expeditiously executed i The Fenobscot Indian The Penobscot Indians at Oldtowa Me., says a letter to the Boston Journal, received the annual visit from the gov ernor and council, - and things were found in far better condition than among the Passamaquoddy tribe, visited some time since. This tribe is a good many ' years in advance of the other in civiiiz i tion, owing, perhaps, to their being nearer to tne seined portion of the state, and the work being done among tht m by ' the Catholic priest and the two sisters who care for their education ia calculated t to Lave a marked effect upoo4 their fu ture. n the day the tribe was visited thirty children were in the school, and these were examined in reading, arith metic and spelling upon the blackboard, in all of which the nunils arnnitt,l themselves better than was expected by anybody present. The most advanced class is working in percentage in Robin son's arithmetic, and though they some times express themselves slowly on ac count of their slight command of the English language, their actions show that they understand the work before them. V The schoolhouse, the church, and every thing under the care of the .sisters is maintained in a scrupulous state of neatness, and this characteristic has ex- " tended to the houses of the Indians, which are generally quite neat outside and inside. Quite a number of the In dians have acquired considerable prop erty, and their houses are carpeted and furnished with good furniture, as well as sewing machines. In the crovernor's house the parlor floor was covered with Brussels carpeting. There are about 300 members of the tribe, and all give a good deal of attention to agriculture, be ing ready to work and raise all they can. This tribe has formed a part of the history of the state for nearly 300 years, and a mission post and church has been maintained at Oldtown ever since about 1608, but the population of the tribe has continually decreased from upward of 8000 souls in 1625, to the small remnant of the present day. Those now remain ing have intermarried with white people to such an extent that they have become very light in complexion, and have con siderably lost the distinctive Indiau characteristics. The labors of tbe Cath olic church have doubtless been just as earnest among the Passamaquoddy tribe, but to their isolation is undoubtedly duo much of their present condition, as they- have not mingled enough with the whites to imbibe more than the bad habits, so easily learned, but so difficult to get rid of. , ALL SO UTS. " A handsome woman pleases tho eye. but a good woman charms the heart; Stay not until you are told of oppor tunities to do good; inquire after them.1 "Yes," said the merchant, "I'm in a. great hurry. I've got to go and wait an hour in nrbarber shop." A Little Reck man found a cake of soap and lor days carried it as a cun-. osity, as nobody could tell what it was. "It's a weigh I have," remarked the butcher as he let his hand rest on the scales while weighing the meat. ''What is that man's name who is talk ing so loud," said a customer of a beer saloon to the Teutonic proprietor. "I don't know vat hees name vas." said Hans, "but hees beesnees vas a dead beat." At the roadmaster's office a few days since a report of material nsed ' was re ceived with this indorsement: "Charge to Mrs. Lane's account." Investigation proved that miscellaneous account was intended. Pat was quite right when . he said that it is a gret-t blessing that night never' comes on in the middle of the day to in terfere with an honest man s work, but always when the day's work is over and a fellow is all tired out. Martin Luther's Home. A correspondent, writing from Wit tenberg, Saxony, a short . since, says: Ihe Lutheran influence or reverence for the great reformer reached its hight when we reached the old Augustinian Monastery, now a Lutheran nniversity, passed a court yard and entered Luth er s house and his sitting room. The ' black, terra cotta. stove, -so handsome, made from his own designs, his carved study table, his chair in the window and his 'dear Kathis' by his side, the fres coes on the wall are just as he left them; the bas-relief of himself after death and his coat of arms, a black cross op a red heart over a white rose large and in full bloom. In this room he studied and re ceived his friends; here his first child died whom he mourned so deeply. The house is large and has a Lutheran semin ary for clergymen; these rooms all con tain souvenirs moro or less connected with Luther; the most interesting is the fac simile of his German bible. I have cabinet pictures of Luther and Cather ine Von Bosa which must be natural since taken by Lucas7 Cranch, hi3 friend. These are from bronze statues of Luther and Melanchthon in the market place. I was sorry not to have the 'Schonberg Cotta Family' tc read. Elsie describes Luther life in Wittenberg so vividly. Melanchthon's home, with the room in which he died, i very near s,nd connected by a private garden gate."1: Ouida has developed a painful anxiety, which she is endeavoring to alleviate by letters of inquiry to the London papers, to learn why people who love and suffer should not be continually presented and described. As all people suffer and most people love, the question is not far from being, "Why is not everybody to be per petually written about?" which ought to be a poser for even so voluminous and perpetual a scribbler as Ouida Howells and Mark Twain are to com bine and write a book on American ' humor. We shall get out of the busi ness right away, while we are yet safe. American humor won't stand much more writing about. Lowell Citizen Three young ladies attached to tha .Russian court have been arrested oa a charge of being connected with" a nihilist I conspiracy. .