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VOL. 9.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1875.
NO. 22.
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KEBKCCA DKGUGB I.OUUC NO.
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t.iv evening"! each Ainth, iaSicar
at7' uVbwfc, in tv Odd
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are invited to sitteil
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vited to attend.
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W. Y. MOUjE L AND,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW;
OREBO.VCITV,. OHECOX.
OKKIt'iS Main Ktreet, opponitn tU
Court 11 o a ho.
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OHE33N CITY, - j - OREGON.
OFFICE "hnrnian'shriek, Mainst.
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JOHNSON & yicCOWN
mOHH AND I'OUXELOBS IT-LAW.
Orogon City, Oregon.
fc-VUl practice In nil the Court of the
Stat?. Sjictal att"iit!n; Rivon to caj-js in
tu lT. M. land u.n.r. at ir-gon city.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
UliEGOX CITY,
OREGON,
OFFICE Over Tope's Tin Store, Main
trect. 21mar73-tf.
Dr. a. PARKER,
1ATE OF POTlTr.AMD, OFFERS HIS
.4 services as Physician and Surgeon to
the peoj.irt of Claokamas county, who may
at any tim be In need of a physician. Ho
has op-nod an office at Ward it Harding's
rrug Store where ho can i be found at all
tlma of the day when notiengaged in pro
fosnlnnnl calls, lt-sidente. Main Street,
"A1" but onf above lUCauil-Md's store.
0tob;rit, 1K74. ! tf
JOHN M. BACON,
IMPORTER AN'nPF.AT'iER Sf)
ry, etc., etc. pa'3
0i tty, Oregon.
CV-At Charman A Warner's old stand,
ately occupied by S. Ackernan. Main st.
0RE30N CITY BREWERY.
Hnnrv Unmhal f
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OYSTER SALOON
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LOUIS SAAL, Proprietor.
Main Street, OrejfoW City.
OnT )IVAJ P'E SERVED FROM
Ta,??d Th7itnl8datr..'7ur,n- the Winter
FRr- Vest qualities of
t! . ICH nd ' AMERICAN. CAXblEsl'
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I now OiTt this stock of Goods
at Prie far below any other
house In the .State.
Times nr-i hnrd and money
searcj and I will give every one
the worth of their money.
I also keep a full assortment
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Cutlery,
Jewelry,
Net ions,
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Toy,
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OREGON STEAMSHIP CO.'S
STEAMBOAT NOTICE!
Str.KN.COOKE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTLAND
everv day Except Sunday,! atJ4 o'clock,
A. M. Returning, will leave Portland for
Oregon City at 2 J o'clock, P. M.
Str. ALICE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORVATXIS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
Str.DAYTON,
Will leave OREGON CITY for McMINN-
VII.I.K. LAFAYETTE and DaYTON. and
all points between, every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday of each week. Ijeaves
the I'.asin at 8 o'clock, a. m., and connect
with the train at Caneman at i), a. sr.
Str. ALB ANY,
Leaves ORE(ON CITY for HARRISRURG
and EUGENE and all intermediate points
every week.
Str. Fannie Patton,
Leaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and
all intermediate points bet ween twice ev
ery week. J. D. BILES, Agent.
Oregon City.February, 141. 874.
CALL AND SETTLE.
All persons indebted toihe undersigned
for professional services are respect
fully requested to call and settle their ac
counts to the 1st of January, 1875. I desire
all my accounts closed at the beginning of
the New Year, and those knowing them
selves Indebted will confer a great favor on
me by maKlng early payment.
FO RESALE.
THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS Hl3
premises, in Oswego for sale at a bar
gain, for cash. There is fine dwelling
and out buildings, orcrvarujinu atxnittHrea
acres of laid. Finely sttuated for a-board-r
in house for the Bairas Employed In- the
Iron Wofks.; i -' ;2 J. W. ftAI?E.--
Oswego, sept, in, 1371. sw
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THOMAS CHARMAN
ESTABLISHED
1853.
DESIRES TO INFORM THE CITIZENS
,r ot ?w?n ?ity..flnd of tne Willamette
Valley, that he is still on hand and doing
business on the old motto, that
A Nimbi Six rence is Better Mian a Stow
Shilling, .
T have Just returned from San Francisco,
where I purchased one of the
LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED
STOCK OF GOODS
ever before offered In this city ; and consists
in part, as follows :
Boots and Shoes,
Clothing, Dry Goods,
Hats and Caps,
Hosiery of Every Description,
Hardware, Groceries,
Paints and Oils,
Sash and Doors,
Chinaware, Quoensware,
Stoneware, Crockery,
riatedwaro, Glassware,
Jewelry of Various Qualities -And
Styles, Clocks and
Watches, Indies and
Guilts' Furnishing
Patent Medicines, Goods, Fancy No-
Rope, Faming tlons of Every
Implements of Description
All Kinds, Carpets,
Mattings, Oil
Cloth, Wall Paper, etc..
Of the above list, I can say my stock Is the
MOST COMPLETE
ever offered in this market, and was seleted
with especial care lor the Oregon City trade.
All of which I now offer for sale at the
Lowest Market Rates.
No use for the ladies, or any one else, to
think of going to Portland to buy goods for
I am Vetrrmiix.nl to Sell Cheap and not to
allow myself to be
l.XDERSOLD IX THE STATE OF OREGON.
All I ask Is a fair chance and quick pay
ments, believing as I do that
Twenty Years Experience
in Oregon City enables me to know the re
quiremenlanf the trade. Come one and all
and see for yourselves that the old nand of
to
THOMAS CIIAUMAX
cannot be beaten In quality or price. It
would be useless for me to tell you all the
advantages I can offer you in the sale of
goods, as every store that advertises does
that, and probably you have been dlsap
Iointed. All I wish to say is
Comr, and Sccantl Examine for Yourselves
for I do no wish to make any mistakes.
My object is to tell all my old friends now
that I am still alive, and desirous to sell
gods cheap, for cash, or upon such terms
as agreed upon. Thanking all for the liber
al patronage heretofore bestowed.
TIIOS. CHARMAN,
Main Street, Oregon City,
Iegal Tenders and County Scrip taken at
market rates. THOS. CHARMAN.
y50,000 lbs wool wanted bv
THOS. CHARMAN.
FALL 1874,
Is your time to buy goods at low prices.
ACKERMAN BROTHERS
are now receiving a large stock of
FALL & WINTER GOODS,
all of the latest Styles, which will sell
AT LESS THAN PORTLAND PRICES.
Our stock has been bought for cash, and
wo will sell it at a small advanco above
SAN FRANCISCO COST.
TE WILL SAT TO EVERYBODY RE
TT fore you purchase or go to Portland,
come and price our goods and convince
yourself that we do what we say. Our stock
consists in part of
Fancy and Staple
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Hats, Boots and Shoes,
Ladies and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
Notions, Grocer-
i e s, Hard-
. .. ware
and a great many other articles too numer
oura to mention ;
ALSO
DOORS, WINDOWS,
PAINTS AND OILS,
. ETC., ETC.
We will also pay the Highest Market
Price for
.Country Prod tree.
Oregon City, Sept. H. IS74. tf I
The Rival Babies.
Uncle Luther Beeclier's grand co-.
operative baby show, Avbich was to
have been one of the features of the
poultry and dog exposition at Young
Men's Hall, is not visible to the nak
ed eye as yet, but it came very near
making a start on Saturday after
noon. Two women with babies en
tered the parlor, set aside for the
little popsey-wopseys, and taking
seats on opposite sides of the room,
proceed to stare at each other coldly
and suspiciously. One was a tall
female --with auburn hair, and the
other was a little lump of a woman
with very black eyes and a determin
ed look. Although they" were alone
in the room, neither spoke, but they
commenced to unpack t heir offspring.
The auburn-haired lady finally pro
duced from the midst of innumer
able wrappings a pale, scrawny
looking infant, wearing considerable
gold chain and an expression of set
tled melancholy. The other baby
was a chip of the old block, so to
speak a corpulent cherub with puf
fy cheeks and big eyes, who proceed
ed to suck its fat thumbs with much
composure.
The silence was becoming oppres
sive when the tall woman broke it.
She remarked with affected solici
tude: i4 What is the matter with your
baby, mum? The poor little thing
looks quite unwell."
The little woman's black eyes
snapped, but she answered with
forced composure: "Minerva Ger
aldine was never sick a day in her
life, madam, and she is sixteen
months and ten days old. Has yonr
little one been ailing long?"
The tall woman's hair began to
raise up, but she pretended to be
looking to see wl.ere the pin was
pricking her sad-faced babe, and
made no reply. Presently she wound
the infant's gold chain around her
finger in an abstracted manner, so
that the other woman would see it.
The rival mother produced a coral
necklace with a blue locket, and care
lessly clasped it about Minerva Ger
aldine's neck.
Then the other, in tones of alarm,
exclaimed: "Why, Alphonso, have
you lost your little gold ring?" Al
phonso, who was about thirteen
months old, vouched safe no reply,
but only looked sad, and his mother'
after a irief search, produced the
ring from a needie-case, and with a
glance of triumph forced it on hi3
linger.
The little woman was pale, but
compressed her lips with stern de
termination.' Reaching down into
her basket she brought out a silver
mug and a wax doll with real hair.
She trembled with excitement, for
she had shown her full hand. She
won; the silvery mug settled it.
' Did you inteud to put that over
grown monstrosity ou exhibition
here?" inquired the fiery-haired fe
male, glaring wildly at her rival.
" Why don't yon hire but your
living "skeleton to a side-show?"
screamed the little woman, her eyes
snapping with rage.
" Woman!"
" Creatine!"
It looked as if there might be blood
shed, and a humaue reporter who
had overheard the wrangle rushed in
to interfere.
" Is my little darling a monstrosi
ty?" " Is my Alphonso a living skele
ton?" Both interrogations rang out si
multaneously with a shrillness that
drowned the yelping of the cannies
and the crowing of the prize roosters
in the next apartment.
' Ladies," said he with an expres
sion of great solicitude, "they are
both angels. But, for Heaven's sake,
do not detain me, for I have just
been exposed to the scarlet fev- "
And each exasperated female
clutched up her baby and nnrsing
bottle and basket and bounced out.
He was alone. Detroit Post.
Southern Society Girls. This
life of gayety does not seem to em
barrass Southern women in the least.
They are, from their tenderest years,
educated in social calisthenics up to
this point of endurance. Southern
children are oftcner in the parlor
than inmates of the nursery, and pass
the hours which should be cradled
rocked, among the evening guests,
talking, eating, and flirting with
amusing grace and maturity. Their
complexions suffer, as does their
health in after years, and the rush to
cosmetics, to cover up deficiencies in
coloring, is as necessrry as their use
of quinine or health-sustaining med
icines. But they have the easy,
elegant, unconsciously graceful man
ners of well-bred women of the
world, whom no exigency surprises,
and who look upon the world as
hung with "roses for their especial
plucking. You never see a South
er society-girl act awkwardly, or
look miserably out of place, as did
E cor Joe Gargery, when dressed in
is Sunday clothes. They - act nat
ural, because are as much in their
element as are swans on the breast
of the river. ,
Qutxk as .Well. The Vicksburg
iterald, in noticing th,e rumor of im
pending changes in the Cabinet, and
the possible appointment of " Boss"
Shepherd as one of the' President's
constitutional advisers, suggests that
if any thing should prevent Shep
perd from ' taking such a position,
there is a number of first-class em
bezzlers, forgers, and swindlers
among the Grant office-holders lin
Mississippi who. would answer the
President's purpose quite as .well as
theate jioss of the defunct District
Board of Public Plunder.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TIM TVRRS TTY OF CALIFORNIA.
A Good Story, True or Not.
One of our leading citizens who
recently returned from Philadelphia
tells a little story which proves the
truth of the old adage, "many a true
word is said in jest." It appears
some days since Governor Hartranf t,
Bob Mackey, Russel Erret, Senator
RutanT Secretary Quay, and some
half a dozen other prominent politi
cians met in the city of Brotherly
Love. The question of how the
evening should be spent came up for
discussion, and it was suggested that
the party should visit Birch's min
strels. ; The proposition was readily
agreed to, and a boy was dispatched
to buy tickets for the distinguised
party. When the messenger arrived
at the box-office the number of the
tickets asked for created surprise,
and in his curiosity, the treasurer
asked who they were for. The boy
informed him that Governor Hart
ranft, Mr. McKey, &c, had determ
ined to visit the theater that even
ing. As a matter of course the re
sult was that the seats were reserved
for the party in the very front row.
The news of the intended visit of
this distinguished party was at once
communicated to the management,
and it was determined to have some
fun at the expense of the leading
politicians of the State.
Promptly at eight o'clock the par
ty arrived and were taken to their
seats by a gentlemanly usher. The
first part of the performance, consist
ing of songs and jokes, was thorough
ly enjoyed by the gentlemen, and
the curtain having descended was in
a few minutes rung up for the sec
ond part. As it rolled up and the
stage came to view, an aged darkey
was seen seated at a desk with a huge
rattan in his hand, and a collection
of books before him. Across the
scene was the inscription, "Scool for
Boys." In a minute in came a num
ber of badly clothed, delapitated col
ored boys, who took their seats op
posite the old man's desk. Having
rapped for order, the scoolmaster be
gan to call the roll. He did it in
this wise: "John F. Hartranft, stand
up! Bob McKey, get up dar! Cum
'ere, Quay! Erret t, cum to do front,"
and so on, until, he had called' the
names of all the gentlemen who were
occupying seats on the front row.
The audience, which was a crowded
one, soon found out where the joke
came in, and as they picked out one
and another of the gentlemen whose
names were being called, the applause
became exceedingly uproarious.
When the names of all the distin
guished visitors had been in this way
announced there was still one person
left sitting on the bench.
Said the schoolmaster: "Is John
W. Forney here?"
Chorus of scholars: "Yes, sah."
"Where is he?"
The pupnls turned and pointed to
the colored individual still seated on
the bench.
"Yon John W. Forney, stan' up!"
"No I won't."
"Stan' up directly and join your
class."
"Xo I won't."
"If you don't get np and get inT-o
the ring, you'll never get a cent as
long as you live."
The hit was tiken in an instant by
the audience, and cheers burst forth
all over the house. So general was
the applause that the act had to be
repeated before the people would be
satisfied. It is said the only persons
who did not enjoy it were the occu
pants of that front row of seats.
Alfonso XII. Colonel Hay, of
the New York Tribune, whose former
residence in Spain gives him author
ity on Spanish matters, expresses a
very uncomplimentary opinion of
the new king, as will be seen below:
He is a youth of seventeen years, not
strong either in mind or body. Ho
is universally regarded as illegiti
mate. He has no claim whatever
upon the throne except that he is a
son of his mother, who was a bad
woman as queen. Her mother was
like herself, and her father, if possi
ble, worse. For four generations the
line is utterly corrupt and worthless.
Since Charles III, no one can point
to a good reigrn we may almost say
to a good action of a Spanish sov
ereign; of course we except the un
fortunate experiment of Amadeus, of
Savoy, who was a gentleman at least.
But Charles IV and his son Ferdi
nand were not gentlemen in any
sense of the word. They were cow
ardly, treacherous, untruthful, weak
and personally dishonest. Queen
Christine and Queen Isabel were not
ladies; it is not possible to call them
so without casting derision upon the
name. They were unfaithful rulers,
unfaithful wives, not honest even in
money matters. .The last of the race,
Don Alfonso, has this bad blood in
his veins. It is the only claim to the
crown he seeks.
Has Done -the Business. The
Arkansas Report has done the busi
ness for Judge; Poland, as the Ne'w
York Tribune, predicted it would.
One of the household organs at
Washington has published a picture
of the Judge sliding down an exceed
ingly slippery hill into the Demo
cratic camp. If the organ wishes to
have it understood that every person
who prefers truth to the prosperity
of the Grant party thereby places
himself in the ranks of the Democrat
cy, it forthwith gives that party a
tremendous body of . recruits, for
with Judge Poland stands all of the
Radical press whose influence is
worth considering. :
It is very cold weather j and yet
lovers do not see the sense' of hug
ging a stove. Brooklyn Argit-t.
Clrfl Rights for All.
The New York World begs to call
the attention of radically philan
thropic Congressmen to the urgent
need for still further supplementary
legislation to secure equality of civil
rights for all citizens of the United
States, more especially as regards
hotel accommodations. The con
venience of our colored brothers be
ing, as was fit and proper, first con
sulted in this respect, there yet re
mains a large class of the community
whose claims to respectful consider
ation are wontonly disregarded by
the proprietors of places for lodging
or refection. It is an undeniable
proposition that if an honest son of
toil should desire to expend his
weekly wages upon luxury for the
inner man rather than outward
adornment, and for that end should
resort to the Westminister or the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, he infallibly be
excluded for no better reason than
his lack of personal neatness and his
noble scorn of those factitious con
ventionalities of deportment which
belong to effete despotism abroad.
If, failing the ease which these inns
should be made to afford him, he
seeks only a sumptuous repast and
repair to Delmonico's, there too, his
soiled apparel and tho unabsterged
sweat of his brow would'secure the
rejection of his orders.
The arbitrary and unrepublican
autocracy of hotel-keepers extends
even to the fair sex, to doubt whose
perfect propriety has been declared
a penal offense by special statute. It
is notorious that in so-called "first
class" hotels an unprotected female,
though she be arrayed in the most
gorgeous attire, bedected with jew
els and perfused with odors, may
vainly apply for lodging unless she
add uce vouchers for her respectibil-
ity.
This, the Hvrhl submits, is not as
it should be. The avowed object of
the admirable devised Civil Rights
bill is to prevent invidious class dis
crimination, and if Sambo and Dinah
are to be secured in the enjoyment of
all the social prerogatives of abstract
manhood and womanhood, we see no
reason for withholding equal legal
protection from Patrick aud Hans
and M lie Phryne.
The Republican party, says the
New York World, as it steps down
and out from its sixteen years of rule
in the House of Representatives, pre
sents the country as its valedictory
with a bill imposing thirty-five mil
lions of dollars of additional taxes.
After a severe parliamentary struggle
a tax and tariff bill was passed by the
House in lieu of the one reported by
the Committee on Ways and Means,
though it retains some of the essential
features of the old measure. The
final passage of the bill by 133 to 113
is due to the party pressure brought
to bear in its favor, to the concessions
which were made to the whisky in
terests, and lastly to the parliamen
tary manumvering of the Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee.
The concession to the whisky inter
est by abandoning the proposed tax
on whisky in bond, and lowering the
ratio from 1 to 90 cents per gallon
on all distilled spirits hereafter man
ufactured is, however, the essential
change which saved the bill. Dele
gations representing the large Illin
ois, Kentucky and Ohio whisky in
terests were in the lobbies and even
on the floor of the House, working
earnestly with their respective repre
sentatives against taxing distilled
spirits on hand, in bond, or other
wise in store. The other features of
the original bill are in the main pre
served. The tax on tobacco is in
creased from 20 to 24 cents a pound;
on cigars the duty is incaeased from
$5 to G a thousand; and on cigar
ettes from 50 to 75 percent, ad valor
em. The increase of 23 per cent, on
the present duties on cigars and the
restoration of the 10 per cent, duty
taken off in 1872 on woolens, steel
and iron, glass, &c, are retained as
in the Committee's bill, so is the pro
visions relative to goods on ship
board on tho 10th of February, and
there is an additional section exempt
ing bolting clothes from duty and
the receipt books of saving banks
from the tax which would be assessed
on them under the Little Tariff act,
approved February 8, 1875.
What an Arkansas Paper Said.
They can't say that Arkansas papers
are not opposed to lawlessness. The
Dardanelle Independent says of a man
who hit a woman with a gun-barrel:
We have not language at our com
mand to express oui contempt for
this cowardly, bully. He should be
kicked out of the respectable houses
of this town into the streets, and out
of the streets into the woods, and
out of the woods into the adjoining
mountains, where he should die, his
death unhonored and unsung; , but
the scream of the night-owl, the wail
of the panther and the dismal bowl
ings of the mountain wolves should
chant and sing his lullaby, and bis
bones should never be gathered" up
with songs of praises and buried
with pomp, speech and splendor be
neath the cedar, but should lie there
ou the cold . and cheerless mountain
side, and bleach that memory might
forget.
A Pennsylvania bull caught sight
of Dan Rice's elephant going to wa-'
ter and charged him. The man who
owned the bull - said there was ndth-'
ing worth saving except the ring' in
the nose and that was badly bent.
Billy Birch on Congressmen.
"Ad," said Mr. Birch at the San
Francisco minstrels. "Ad. where is
your brother Ebenezer? I hain't seen
him around for a year or two."
"Jbbenezer? said Mr: Rvman. re
flectively. "Ebenezer has gone away
for a few years."
"Anything happened to him?"
"Well, yes. To tell the truth.
Billy, Ebenezer fell into bad habits.
Ho lost that fine perception which
enables a man to distinguish between
his own property and that of his fel
lows', so that he forgot himself at
times, and became obsorptive to that
degree that he scooped in, as it were,
any little portable article - he came
across
no matter to whom it belong-
ed."
"Your narrative grieves me," said
Mr. Birch. "It lacerates me deeply
to know that Ebenezer should have
so lost ms memory, ana i suouia
think it would have made trouble."
"It did," said Ad. "The people
called on the police. Ebenezer pro
tested at the trial that his prosecutors
were trying to blackmail him, but
the Judge said that Ebenezer had
been stealing, and he sent him to
State Prison for five years. By the
way, Mr. Birch, I have not seen your
brother Eliphalet for a year or two.
I do sincerelv trust that nothing has
happened to Eliphalet.
"Liph?" said Mr. Birch. "Liph's
all right. He went to Congress a
couple o' years ago, and he's a steal
ing yet. N. Y. Sun.
The Holladay Family. "Fay,"
the Courier-Journals Washington
correspendent, in a recent letter to
that paper says: For beauty, I will
name Madam de Bousiere, nee Polly
Holladay, daughter of Ben Holladay
of California. She looks like a hero
ine of a romance, and there was a
suggestion of her dash in her maiden
name Polly Holladay. Somehow
one is reminded, of the English ac
tresses of the style of Peg Welling
ton, or some of those brilliant crea
tures who were possessed of great
natural beauty, which they enhanced
by dress and coquetry, and were
proficients in music and dancing.
Three years ago, all the Holladay
family came to Washington. They
took a furnished house, which they
occupied just six weeks; but in that
time they gave a German and many
other elegant entertainments. Mrs.
Holladay was a very handsome, dig
nified lady. The eldest daughter,
the Countess de Pourtelles, was of a
perfect type of beauty, and Miss
Polly magnificent. At the German
which they gave, Miss Holladay en
tered the parlor from tho ball-room
just as the President arrived. She
gave him a warm greeting, and then
tore a few flowers from a bouquet,
twisted them into a boutoniere and
made the President almost blush as
she fastened it in the button-hole of
his coat. She was not in the least
embarrassed, but he was very much
so.
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Large Cheese. An Ohio paper
announces that a monster cheese is
to be made in that State for exhibi
bition at the Philadelphia Centennial.
It is to weigh fourteen tons, and will
measure thirteen feet in diameter
and eleven feet in thickness. It will
be made in May, 1876'. It is becom
ing the custom in various localities
abroad to cut up large cheese for the
Christmas market and in England
the advent of big cheese from here
is looked for with i uteres!. The In
man steamer which left New York a
fortnight ago, took out a number
weighing from 300 to COO pounds
each, one weighing over 1,200 pounds
and one weighing 2,200 pounds. The
make and cure are said to be perfect.
The art of making these large cheese
appears to be well understood in
this country.
A peculiar libel case is to be tried
before the Chester County (Pa.)
Courts. A William Benner posted
a notice on his property forbidding
a neighbor named Lewis H. Ham
mond, or his family, from trespass
ing on his grounds. Hammond re
taliated by a similar prohibition of
Benner from his grounds, adding
the words, " As I have only, four
turkeys left." And therein lies the
alleged libeV
A sailor's wife had just received
intelligence that her husband had
perished at sea. She was visited by
a neighbor who sympathized with
her on her loss, and expressed a fear
that she ' would be poorly off.
"'Deed I will," said the widow, "but
ho did all he could for me he saved
me the expense of his buryin'."
Sarah .Yates, of Arlington, had al
ways been a strong minded girl, and
opposed to matrimony. Recntly,
however, she received an excellent
offer of marriage, and compromised
with her principles in this style:
" Mr. Bates, I have reflected upon
your proposition, and concluded to
submit to the .humiliating sacrifice
you demand." .
Ax Anxual Gem. A gentleman in
the cigar business sends his annual
gem to the editor of the Detroit Free
Presn: . .. .... -,
Tis autumn, and the leaves are drv,
; And rustle on the ground,
Producing in 'ards of cigars .
At a trifling cost per pound.
The Courier-Journal- says that a
"former reader of the New. York
Ledger, with his wife and five chil
dren, is starving in a 6x12 room at
Indianapolis;" Probably he took
the Ledger's advice and married - for
love. - -
-: Mrs. Lydia Bradley, of Peora, Hl
inois,, lias just been elected firstr di-.
rector qf tne First .National .Bank of
that city. She is a wealthy widdtv
and a large stockholder of the bank.
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