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The Polk County Itemixer. lHHl’ KD «V E R Y H A fl'K U A Y J. H. M cO A lN . M u b H crlp tlo n M a t e « : Singlo Copie* Otte Y e a r ............................................ f i “ • - Hi* Mouth* ....................................... 1 “ “ Thru« Mouths...................................... ttingle Number................................................................ 80 86 75 10 NEW PRICES. NEW GOODS. FR O F E S 810N A L CARDS. w. j . M c D a n i e l , m . d DC. VO L. UB8CKIFTION MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCK ., P HY S I CI A N AND SURGEON, Dallas, Oregon. Offio« In connection with Jap. R. Miller * I>ruf Store. The Largest Stock and Cheapest Goods ! ! DK. W. H. RU BK LL, T> E . N T 1*3 T , My love and I went wandering hand in hand, Upon the gray seashore one winter day; The small white waves crept slowly toward the land. Then turned again like children in their play, But to return once more, methoughfc they’d greet My love, and lay their homage at her feet. rneywould kiM thy L et, my dear,” I "E'en natur. jearn» to i<»y the boma/a due; .. ,. . .. °ride"*P W°° th« from th* And dw'ui ih«e lik. their kiudrad. ay, nn- Dallas, Oregon. DONE IN FIRST-CLASH STYLE. A U< Office WORK one door north o f J.D. Lee* Whit« Brick. N L. BUTLER JO H N T. D A L Y D A L Y & B U TLEK , trm«. F or P e o p l e . o f P o l k C o u n t y ! the A T T O R N E Y S A T LA W , L P RO M PTLY ATTKN U TO A L L l i z < l i L entriiHtud to them. Office on M ill Bt. U f l L buaine** opposite Court House, Dallas- I take pleawnr* in announcing to the public th»t my E. J. D AW NE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, and Notary Puplic* SPRING Q F E C IA L ATTENTION G IVEN |TO COLLECTING k l and loaning money. Always prepared to loan from 9100 to 92,600 on personal or real estate security. OiUce in (iriswold's building, opposite the bank, Salem, Ore gon. • STOCK ! Is now open and ready for inspection. J. H. TOWNSEND, ATTORNEY AT LAW, In M y In d e p e n d e n c e S to n e Dallas, Oregon. ON M A IN STREET, OPPOSITE Court House. Collections made a specialty. O FFICE THE You will find the FIN E ST GOODS and the L A R G E S T ASSORTM ENT of GENERAL MERCHANDISE E. B. B K lPW O R TH , i. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Kept on the West Side o f the Willamette, outside o f Portland. —AND- Notary Public, Albany, Oregon, IL L P RACTICE IN AL L T H E COURTS IN THE State. Ail business entrusted to him promptly at tended to. Office in O 'Toole’s Block, Broad-Aloiu St., W M. L. Pipe* Dalh CMo N i Independence. BELT My & PIPES. Millinery Department Is complete ru every respect and in the'hands o f a competent Milliner. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, L tf' W ill practice in all the Courts of the State. Office up stairs in Court House. In my Perrydale store Yon will find a CO M PLE TE ASSORTM ENT of CHAS. P. SULLIVAN, A t t o r n e y DALLAS. a t L a w , OREGON. G E N E R A L M E R C H A N D IS E Proiiii»! A tte n tio n r a i d to ISnsIn«***. Suitable for the Country Trade. You will also find a L IN E of O ff ic e On Main Street, two doors north o f Postofflce Millinery of the Latest Styles! DR. J B. JOHNSON, D o x lt iH t * Having returned to Independence to permanently locate, is prepared to do all kinds of dental work. F illin g and treating a specialty. Office in vandnyn & Smith's new brick, up stairs. TR* 'IT T . ^ Produce taken in Exchange for Goods at Market rates. O. A. JO H N S T R U IT T & JOHNS, Give me a call before purchasing elsewhere, and SEE MY GOODS and G E T T H E P R IC E S !! Attomeys-at-La'w, EZRA D ALLA S, OREGON. ON House. O FFICE M ILL STREET. NORTH O F COUR auglt5 DR. I. T ALL I ASK MASON, R F .SI \jE N T D E N T I S T , Dallas, Oregon. (Late o f Eugene City ami Sheridan. Nitro Oxide or Laughing Gas administered. up stairs over H. V Butler's store. D a l l a s , Not. 17. 1882. Office A. E. SCOTT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Iiate o f Oakland, t'al., has permanently located in POPPLETON. a Is that you do yourself justice by buying goods where you can get them the cheapest. I know it is the praclice among a great many merchants to sell a few leading articles at cost, but they must make it up on something else. I intend to strictly adhere to very LO W P R IC E S in everything I offer for sale, and in DRESS & FAN CY GOODS, D ALLAS, OKEUON. CLOTHING Will be found at all times at B. M. Smith’s Drug Store. Z . T . D O D S O N , M . D .. PHYSICIAN, SURCEON. ' W. H. HOLMES, Attor- ay and Counselor at Law, Salem, Oregon. john —AND— OBSTETRICIAN. Hastpermaneutly located in Dallas, Oregon. Office in Hyde's drug 1 M c D owell Furnishing: Goods, Etc., Etc. There is no doubt or question but I shall sell them very much lower than the same goods have ever been offered in this market. M T Pi ease to call and price the goods and you will see that I am in earnest. M. M. E L L IS , Real Estate Agent, Successor to D ALLA S, OREGON O A R T IE H DESIRING TO BU Y OR SELL REA L 1 estate, will do well to consult me. Office two doom west o f Jap. R. Miller's drug store. J . L. C O L L I N S , W . C . BURNS S l MORRISON, D a lla * . M AN I F A iT I RF.KS AJTD D E A L E R * IK O re g o n . H SOUCITOR IN CHANCERY. At the Moat Reasonable Ratea ! Conveyance o f commercial men a specialty. WILSON & HAY, BURNS A MORRISON. Prop’ ra. Dealers in T H E B E L T H O T 73 X ! Drugs, Patent Medicines, PETER C O O K , .................................P r o p r i e t o r . S T A T IO N E R Y , 'I n d e p e n d e n c e , O r e g o n . 4» P ERR YD ALE, OREGOK UPHOLSTERED WORK. ALBUM PICTURE FRAMES, WALL BRACKETS. AND WINDOW SHADES. E K EEP A CO M PLETE HTOCK IN O UR LIN E W and will sell as cheap as the same goods can be go in Portland D o not take our word or other peaples word for it, but ooroe and see our goods aod learn our AU kinds of W o rk in our lino dono on Short Notice. We also keep a large and well selected stock of m c BELT HOUSE HAH CHANGED HANDRAND will be m a m » firstd a s « house in every respeet r Which we will furnish at Redueed Prices Salesroom on MAIN STREET, two doors north of Vanduys A Braith. m iE P E S D B S C E . OREGON. ROWELL & SON, DALLAS CITY MILLS, B1 acksm iths, W I L S O N 1 H O L M A N , P H 0 M I E T 0 R S . DALLAS, \ WM. STAIGER, DEALER IN OREGON, « R | NOW READY TO DO ALL KJNDfl OF Blacksmith work in tb<dr Hne of Horn .ten in the M t *tjW and on tb* Use amt let live piar. Yon will BED S, Caskets and Cases on hand, Perfumery, Fancy and Toilet Articles PIGAR8 AND TOBACCOS. K M T I R K . M P R IX U And all kinds o f HOHHKS. CARRIAGES AND LIVEKY a s bf . e n i n p r a c t i c e o f h i s p r o f e s s i o n H 91. L IE S & LAWRENCE, LIVERY AND SALE STABLE. H. Attorney and Counselor at Law in this place for about twenty fire years, and will attend to afi business. 4 iffio*, opposite the Dallas Hotel, com er o f Main and Court street. Dallas, Polk County. Oregon Brown, D A LLA S, OREGON, M ARCH 8. 1883 Having i ----------- pared to do all kiwoi- 4 C ris t and C u s to m W ork Fraaptljr «ad 1» • m U M xtn n mmnnrr Ota. m . Mil D allas . Oregon, Jan 5, 1883 y Dallas, November *4. 1881 W P. WRIGHT, A U C T IO N E E R And County Surveyor. M ONEY T C LO AN I H E A D -S T O N E S , Executed in ItRlinn and American One to Ten Thousand Dollar*. hne : Fr^te one •» Av» year* : Term* Marble. Easy Alan «vary variety 64 C— Truitt & Johns. Sw 1 then the enviona lea came nearer by, And waahed her footatapa from the dark ling shore; It would not eren let them silent lie, Lest other touch than this shdnld sweep o’er. “ Bo, dearest!” said I, “ would thy love should be Bat mine alone, aa mins is hut for thee!” Like a lightning flash the instinct A sell-fish m an--The pogie peddler. of love, the resolution to save Bell in A maiden effort—Trying to catch a CHILDREN'S JOYS. some way from his1 immediate attack, husband. sent a sudden thought through the A Hartford bicycle-making firm The children's world is full o f sweet sur bruin of the agonized spectator. prises; . calls itself the "Overman ~ Wheel tel Com The Hindoo murderer, in his posi Our common things are precious in their panyJ’ Man Overwheel Company sight; tion on the outside of the ship, was would be more appropriate. For them the stars shine, and the morning under the yard, although about forty rises The willing domestic doesn’t like To show nsw treasures of untold delight. feet below him, while the girl, stand ing two feet from the rail, was within too much show of authority in her A dance of bluebells in the shady places; easy reach o f the native, whose arm mistress. That is to say, the ready A crimson blush of snnset in the west; amk body, as already stated, were maid is not made to order. The eobwebs, delicate as fairy laces; The sudden finding of a wood-bird's nest. drawn back from the bulwarks to A Southern ex-Congressman had Their hearts and lips are fall o f simple give force to the meditated blow. his pocket picked on a Macon train The young man, therefore, deemed last week, losing $5,000 by the opera praises To Him who made the earth divinely it would be an eusy matter tc reach tion. The thief is said to be Macon sweet; the Hindoo in the only way it could tricks. There dwell among the buttercups and dai now be done with sufficient rapidity sies, The New York Journal recently And find his blessings strewn shoot their to prevent the accomplishment of his feet. deadly purpose—a way at once novel published a list of well-known act resses who excellod as cooks. From But we, worn oat by days of toil and sorrow, and desperate, and which would, the “ cue” to the miaine seems but And sick o f pleasures that are false and perhaps, involve his own destruction. vain. In a word, not hesitating to risk natural. Would freely give oar golden hoArds to bor “ Yes,” said Miss Squigglehorn, life or limb for the woman lie loved, row One little hour of childhood’s bliss again. Lieut. Winfield resolved to drop "pa was a professional man, as you down from near the end o f the mizzen- have heard; he used to draw very Yet Ha who sees their joy beholds our sad topsail yard upon the Hindoo, forty large houses.” |N. B. “ Pa" was a ness: feet below, a^iid thus dash him from building mover.J And in the wisdom o f a Father's lo v e He keeps the secret of the heavenly glad the rail iuto’ the sea, perhaps killing There is .a rumor from Germrny ness— | himself, ere he could deal the fatal that a learned chemist has discovered Our sweet surprises wait for us above. lifted dirk. He a wonderful oil that will restore blow with the upm ted i rill cry—a warning youth to old age, etc. It must be a would utter a shrill A FALL FOR LIFE. to ¡. the crew—as he cleaved the air, species of O live oil. thus rousing them, perhaps, in time A young man urged, as one of the The merchant ship, Druid, from : to meet the [attack of the robbers, :>mbay for London, lay becalmed off and insure the further safety of Bell reasons why a girl should marry him, that he ha<i n collection of over 4Q0 the west coast of Hindoostan, be 1 and the ship. tween Goa and Mangalore, where the The emergency admitted of no de different Linda of wood. She sa:d if Ohants Mountains were seen, tower- lay. The young man clutched the it was kindling wood she’d think .o f ing in savage grandeur thousands of yard-arm near the end, hung by it it. The woods were full of woodcock feet in air, with wild torrents leaping for a second to make sure he was in a down th . rocks, flashing through the line with the Hindoo beneath, then, gunners on Wednesday. One voteran dark green shrubbery, and rushing just a i the dirk was about to descend, sportsman shot live.—[Newburyport Five woodcock gunner« with the din of distant thunder. he let go of the spar with a long, wild Herald. “ If the wind does not rise before cry that pierced every corner of the bagged in one day must be a good to morrow morning we will have to j ship, and down he went, cleaving thing for the birds. —[Lowell Courier. anchor,” said the captain to Robert , through the air with terrible velocity. Bjauty should be only taken at its Winfield, a handsome young naval There was a whirling, rushing sound, face value. lieutenant on leave of absence from | then a loud thud as the heavy boot- Marie Barnes, daughter of the the frigate stationed at Bombay. *1 heels of the falling body crushed Evangelist, has lost her heart in Ten- don’ t want to lay the ship’s bones on upon the head of tho native ere he uoa&ee. Name of the finder not the coast, nor do I like to get too could use his knife, dashing him stated. near it. I have heard bad stories of from the rail into the sea, and killing A man named Darling lives in the natives there; at any rate, I be him instantly. Fargo, and when any one calls to him lieve that almost every Hindoo is a The watch heard the warning cry on the street every young lady with thief and murderer by nature.” of the lieutenant, and before the in three blocks blushes ai d looks Belle Upton, daughter of Major other natives could recover from their Upton, who was on his way home surprise at the occurrence which had around. “ Mercy!” exclaimed Mrs. F., as she from his India regiment, on sick so suddenly and unexpectedly broken leave, heard the words, and, shudder upon them, the decks were alive with ,caught sight of tho cameleopard, ing, drew closer to her invalid father. the whole crew, and the entire,' g wig" Ajust look at that beast! what a long neck!” “ Yes,” replied Fogg, “ the A quick glance was exchange;! be of robbers beat a hasty retreat. tween her and the young naval lieu Meanwhile Bell UptOHf'-hàd been most remarkable case of soar throat tenant, whose reassuring look seemed so bewildered by that sudden, fearful le v e r saw.” At this season of the year the good at once to dispel her fears. cry she had heard, and the subsequent Major Upton, noticing the glance splash of the bodies in the water, deacon goes quietly to the drug store and frowning, said to his daughter. tLat not until the boat was lowered soda fountain, and gets his whisky, “ Come, Bell, let us g o below.” and the lieutenant, .who had been syrup-titiously Winfield had been a suitor of Bell's struggling iu the sea, was brought Church fairs and ohurch picnics since she came to visit her father at aboard and into the cabin, to explain are very much alike. You always Bombay, some months before. The in a faint voice how he had saved her hate yourself for going, and yet you girl, favored him, but not so the life, did she clearly comprehend all always go. major, who preferred her to choose a chat had happened. Rosebud lips and pearly teeth are wealthier lover. Then she throw herself down by often met witn in novels, hut the au Bell was very beautiful, with a form the prostrate form ¡of her lover, and thorn never destroy the impression of of unrivaled grace, brown eyes, a hung over him in agony, fearing that the words by telling how often the clear, pearl-white skin, with little he was fatally injured. Boon, how owners of the lips and teeth use them color, and dark golden hair tnat fell ever, the doctor gave cheering infor to eat onions. in rippling masses over a pair of mag mation to the contrary. Since it has become popular for nificent shoulders. The lieutenant The yotiÿg man had sustained a girls to attend baseball matches, they watched her admiringly until she dis fearful shock from hia contact with have picked up enough o f the talk of appeared in the cabin. the Hindoo’s body, but aa that body the game to speak of those lovers who “ No barm shall befall her, not hud offered little resistance to hia go away at night at a reasonable hour while I live,” be thought, as he now downward progross when ho struck as short stops. • glanced uneasily toward the coast, j it, being simply driven before him An exchange informs its readers “ W e have arms aboard, have we not?” i into the sea, his lower limbs, although that servant girls are flocking to he added aloud, to the captain. partially paralyzed for the time, were China. American servant girls always “ Ay, ay, air; but it is not likely we not broken. He had, however, fallen were death on that kind of crockery shall be attacked. W e are full two dangerously near to the rail. A roll China needs to keep her weather eye leagues from the coast, and before of the ship to the other side, ere he open or the domestic may succeed in we are near enough to be boarded a could let g o of the topsail-yard to breaking her. breeze will spring up, I have no j descend, would have caused him to Peter has lost his best girl. He d ou b t” fall on the bulwarks, when o f course accidentally touched her with a A few hours later night closed he would have been killed, round the ship. The sky was covered “ Never before,” said the doctor, match. She had on a quantity of by thick clouds which obscured the “ did I hear of such a daring perform- powder and—went off. A Brooklyn woman has been ar moon, and seemed to betoken that a fance.” breeze wonld spring up before long. “ Ay!” exclaimed Major Upton. rested, charged with stealing an ac Meanwhile, the ship having drifted “G od bless himl Here, ftell, he shall cordeon. A woman wicked enough a league nearer the coast, the lieuten- | have you, girl, for he has earned yon.” to steal an accordeon would do worse. aut thought the captain very careless He put both hands of his daughter She would even play on the diabol not to have more than his one lookout in the lieutenant’s, and turned his ical instrument. *«♦ posted forward on so dark a night hea<l away to hide a few tears upon Before eleven o ’clock the quarter- his bronzed cheek. BAYINQS OF SA OIB . deck was deserted by all save the Immediately after the young ung man The greatest events of an age are officer o f the watch, a lazy fellow had been brought aboard,/in offsh ore who was now stretched on the car . . . . .. , breeze sprang up, enabling the cap its best thoughts. penter s chest half asleep, while the tajn j.pa{j seaward. In due time The lowest ebb is the turn o f the watch forward, as W infield (who ve8Bei reached her home port, tide. stood leaning over the rail amidships) when the lieutenant, who by this On% can not always be a hero, but could perceive by the light of a lan time had fully recovered from the one cbd always be a man. tern in the fore rigging, lay reclining effects of bis fall, claimed bis lioaiiti- It^is a species of agreeable servitude on the hatch, eome of them snoring. fnl and willing bride. to be under an obligation to those wo Not feeling sleepy, the lieutenant esteem. resolved to go aloft on the mizzen- It is no small fault to be bad, end topsail yard, and watch for the first A touching romance was happily sign of a breeze. Arrived on the rounded out ai 1’ hiladelphia lelphia on Mon Mon- seem to; it is a greater fault to itom yard, the darkness was so intense that day. Aa the steamer British Crown good, and not be so. he could not see the waters belov% swung up to the dock an old woman, A coquette is a woman 'thout any although be still Razed in that direc who bad bten walking the deck since heart that makos a fool o ’ a man that tion. Was it reality or imagination? sunrise, leaned over the taffrail, ain’t got any head. He thought he could detect the dim ejaculated, “ That’s him!” and dis The truest, mark of being born with outline of something shooting aronnd appeared in the cabin. At the same great qualities is tieing born without the ship’s stem. moment an elderly man on the dock envy. He wss about descending when, shrieked, “ That’s my Benedicts!” We think our civilization is near its the moon parting the clouds, a flood and ambled np the gang plank, fol meridian, hut we aro yet only at the lowed by a liody guard o f friends, of silvery light was poured down on cock crowing and the morning rtar. the ship and water, revealing a sight and rnsLed after the retreating wo- Many a man with an ambition to into the cabin. Twenty eight that filled the yonngman with horror do great things does nothing at all —a scene so sudden and unexpected years ago a scene as sad as this simply Decanse lie feels above doing that his heart seemed to stan 1 still. Joyfulgwa* enacted by the same pair the very little things which be is While he was aloft Bell Upton had. on the dork at Liverpool, when come ont on the quarter-deck, and Thomas Barbour bid farewell to Bene capable of doing. As in onr lives, so also in our now stood with her back to the rail, dicts Price, and set out to find bis abont two feot from it, her head fortune among bis relatives beyond studies, it is most becoming and most bowed as if in deep thought, so that the sea. His people at home had wise to tamper grarity witn cheerful her beautiful white fare shone like made their union an impossibility ness, that the former may not imbue polished ivory in the bright moon for the time being; and although our minds with melancholy, new the lig h t Then nDseen, nnbeard by the their ages were then respectively latter degenerate into licentioasnees. A politician thinks of the next ng girl, a Hindoo, with a long, forty two and thirty five years, they « b o d y naked to the waist bad concluded to await the removal by election; a statesman o f the next clambered up the aide from a large time o f the family obstruction* to th* generation; a politician looks for the cano« containing balf-a-dozen o f his course of true love A month ago a success o f bis party; a statesman for companion*, and hail contrived to letter from Miss Benedict« announced that of his country. The statesman glide, serpent-like, on the outside of that she at last was free to redeem s satisfied to drift. the ship until be had gained a posi the pledge she bad kept so well. Honiiiiieiits, Tablets WILSON A HOLMAN. ROWELL A SON They »hall not tonoh t h ..!” Then I took her hand. And d r .« h.r nearer to the wide safe land. f ry and oil ai»r Yu woilltl only h«Lt»fi the girl'. to deaoend, no matter how quickly, by means of one of the back- stay*, would be no use, aa she must ' perish before he could reach the deck and attempt to stay th . deadly hand. There was no time to Ipse. In throe second, the dirk would descend and the girl would be killed at one Stroke, so that the murderers com panions, who bad-already begun to The only negative that we accept asoend the.veasel’s ride, could pounce on the drowsy male occupant, of the with anything Tike good grace in this world is the photographer”», and even deck, and, slaying them, make them lect half he hafti selves musters o f the ship almost the* we demand proofs iruvider. The before a warning oould be giveu. Woman’s sphere—A bull of yarn. f j doom; ooking one. H e stood grave" still as a church among the chips near the wood-pile at our back door while the mate, an expert rigger, with plenty of voluntary help, was packing. I was just then laying the soup-Done keel of a dinner and cleaning up the kitchen after breakfast. * There was one pack-saddle and one riding-saddle ou the male, strung along amidships, I remember. Not much mule was to be seen bet ween ears, tftil and hoofs when the mate had knotted the last tie of his hampers, belayed the spar liue, ship shape, and swufig his long leg like a derrick from our big chopping block over the animal all ready to make sail. He had on a pair of weighty Spanish spurs, and some declared afterward that the mate would have got safely under way if he had not grazed the mule’s belly with the flukes of one of those anchors. But this will never, probably, be known. In one instant the mass of hard and woodefi ware, with the bags, was in fearful commo tion, and snot up into the air. I thought the whole concern would tumble down through the canvas roof o f our kitchen and spill the dinner of forty people. But I guess the mule had canvassed the whole business otherwise. As the dust settled and our wits gathered froifi smazement and affright, the mule, clean as he was born, was seen calmly cropping weeds that grew where we flung slops; the mate, with surprise and bruises struggling for maatery on hia face, was gathering himself out of our wood pile. A spare boot, parted from its fellow, first fixed his wandering gaze, and a smell from the wrecked demijohn helped restere his sense to his quarter o f an acre o f scattered property. He said, simply: “ I guess I'll sell that mule,” and we heard afterward|that he chartered an cx team for his freight. The reader jnust- understand that a bucking mole or horse cun develop a perfect hinge in his back that is not reckoned in ordinary equine oste ology. I have thought since that this mule’s back hinge must have come between the two saddles, for at the post-mortem examination of this par ticular mining expedition it was dis covered that the girths o f the saddles found upon the ground were neither broken, unbuckled nor untied, but simply shed or shucked off. O f a score of observers no one saw exactly how this war done, the movement was so rapid and such a dust was flying. The mule was for a minute the in- viable center of a storm-cloud from which radiated, as from an explosion, the fifty or sixty articles I have en umerated. — [Correspondence Hart ford Courant. In this i pair o f They weigh " up Troy weight, and are so that a crumb weighing the dredtk part of an the bar. All the silver received weighed upon these scales, and I are looked upon by the i itor as one of the sights of tntion. All the bullion first go«* to melting department and is i alloyed and run into ingots ard fineness,*'which means o f ’ silver and 100 parts of The copper ia put in to and without this alloy the a great loss by natural tear.” There is a new a ay af melting, and this assay must prove that the composition is exact and correct The loss of even the three- hundredth part of an ounce between the weighing and the melting rooms must be accounted for. After the assay the ing turned over to the coiner, wno them into strips by means o f : erful machinery, abont three feet long, and • wider than a dollar. The is designed to be the same as a dol lar, but is sometimes too thiok or too thin. The strips are then passed to the puncher, who feeds them under his pnnch as fast as you can count, and the smooth, grepsy blank ' fall into the box below. To if the blanks ili*y Are j the) ut I Ith . way tbrough the mint, and the light ones will form parts of new ingots. Yon think of a silver dollar aa a perfectly fiat surface. Hold one to your eye and you will see that it is eonoave. I f the. letters and orna ments were even with the rim of the dollar they would soon wear off. The cencave is to protect them. From the adjusting room blanks go to the machine to h e concaved and then to the bath. The silver is .greasy and blackened, and the bath is to remove this and restoie the luster. After beifcg treated to an acid bath, the trays filled with blanks are placed in a red hot oven and subsequently placed in a revolving cylinder with sawdust. When they* REPORTERS’ ENGLISH. emerge from this they shine like Carious examples of mixed meta stars. Here are the smooth, round pieces, phor are occasionally seen in leading articles; but for odd perversions and and to make dollars of them they are strange phrases the reporters and sent to the stamp presses. Th writers for the sporting newspapers poi werful machines feed themselves at are unexampled. Lately a paragraph the rate of 285 per P« minute, and jf the coins vou will arqieared in one of them headed— you pick up 'P one of de complete and tne other “ Dastardly conduct of a steam tug;” find one side in another, we were told that “ the side still blank. They are picked up concert was witnessed by a fashion and fed to a second inaehine and now able and intelligent attendance;” in yonr dollar is complete except on the a third that “ after a fruitless search edges. A smooth-edged coin would the whole of the lost money v as found wear away faster than one with • except a pair o f old boots.” A de milled edge, and hence the larger de scriptive writer informs hia readers nominations are milled. It is no use that “ owing to the influence o f Jupiter to try to guess how it is done, for Pluvius, the ground was very soft and forty-nine out of fifty persons would sloppy, but as the day wore on, the miss it. They are dropped into * glorious rays o f old Solomon dis cavity in a powerful maohine sipated the damp.” A man was sum ranged to fit them, and the coins moned, we are told for "w ilfully an ing fiat upon one side, are sqne noying a telegraph signal;” a man the same as if a tube abut up onfall was fined five shillings Tor “ knock sides of your finger at once, ing at a door ond disturbing the in mills the edges. The pressure on habitants of an empty bouse;” a rail each dollar in stamping and punch way porter was remanded for in ing is about eighty tons. Uncle Sam contracts for his silver solence to a passenger, the magistrate remarking that he bad never heard of bullion the same as a private i ual doee for his vegetable*, a greater instance of official polite ness” a young lady witness in an agrees to take all the ore assault case deposed to being “greatly by two large Colorado mines, and exasperated by the defendant's want any supply which an individual may o f abiration;" and a race horse is wish to dispose o f finds a ready sale. described as a “ weedy ill conditioned The mines ship by express at excrescence, quite unfit for equita own expense, Imt in Bending away tion.” These, it will bo remembered, money the Government pays aU The New Orleans mint are not printers’ errors, but writers’ charges. makes about 84X1,000 silver dollars elegance—[Printers’ Register. per month. This is about the only coin made there of late years. The LOOKING FOE JOSEPH. dollars are sacked up, 1,000 in a and stored in the big vault He was hanging around the Grand wanted for shipment. Mem* Central Depot the other day, beg died o n recklessly as if it ging money to carry him to a town value. You meet men ai in Massachusetts. rying great trays loaded “ What do you want to go there you Bee wheelbarrows for” asked one. full bushel going in “T o see the owner o f a great fac tions, but you do not see tory ,” was the reply. kept by the chiefs of “ What do yon want of him?” ment. These “ Well, I saw in the papers that he fraction o f an had been running the factory at the time it is lose left the last six months, but kept sacked np in the uing on acconnt o f sympathy for the employes is employee. detection would “W elir down. “ Well, I’ ve got a brother There ia where in that State, aad I n that’* the man: that's exactly him. The old woman out in V/is conain was buried at the expense of the town, the old man is in the poi boose, and the other seven o f lived on root beer and injun the laat year, hut it wonld be like Joeeph to loee $40.000 a keep bin employee fat ai dressed. I ’ve got a bet o f a calf against a e o n Joseph, and I ’ m bound to I bay* to fly.” S