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Spaniels.
"A woman, a dor, and a vaInut trf.
The more you beafem.th - better tliey b'.'
From th; London Queen.
Onr -women are in clanger of bo
coming tyrants rather thau slaves,
anj the demands made by the weaker
are growing al:xtost as excessive a3
have been in foretime the require
ments enforced by the stronger. lint
with all this the nature which sotie
call womanly and others spaniel-like
still exists among us, Heaven be
praised! and we have yet left to us
a fey low-voiced, pentle, tender
hearted women who lind their high
est joy in self-suppression and affec
tion, in giving up their own desires
for the good of others, and devoting
themselves to the service of those
they love.
Neither rancor nor revenge enters
into the soul of her whom her derid
ers call a spaniel, her admirers wo
manly, lilveii where she has been
ill-treated she can forgive; and the
divine precept of seventy times seven
seems to her a law of loveliness by
which greater things are to be attain
ed than the childish pleasure of man
ifesting "a high spirit" and a deter
mination "not to be put upon." Sho
asks for nothing be3ond the leave to
love, the privilege to bless; and the'
who are most sorrowful are they who
lie nearest to her heart, and for whom
her soul goes out with tenderest
yearning. To her the joy of life is
found rather in loving and worship
ing than in being loved and worship
ed; and, were she able to choose, she
would prefer to lie in the shadow of
her husband's greatness rather than
that he should be overshadowed by
her own. What gifts and graces be
long to her she uses as ihnvers in the
chaplet with which she crowns her
beloved; and. for his sake rather than
her own rejoices in her beauty, her
wit, her acquirements, her intellect,
as making his life the richer because
hers is the lovelier. If trouble come
upon them, she is brave that he may
not be saddened; if trouble comes
between them, she bears her share in
silence; and oven when ill-usage
rouses her to dignity, self-protection
and defense, it never rouses her to
resentment or retaliation. To the
offer of repentance she answers back
with forgiveness; and only repeated
failures can convince her that
her trust ha- been misplaced, that
her tenderness is misunderstood,
and that if she would be true to her
self and her ideal, she must abandon
all hope of influencing to better
tilings that terrible failure the real.
And this is the hardest lesson which
life can set a woman cf this kind to
learn; the bitterest chapter of that
whole tear-stained book of experience
in which we all have to read our daily
service of sorrow and disappoint
ment. nt it is learnt after a time
even by the "spaniel;" and when re
pentance has become a mockery, her
forgiveness refuses to be its sport.
It is the old story of the pitcher and
the well over again. After repeated
jonrneyiugs the day of final destruc
tion conies; aud the poor fool who
trusted to the indestructibility even
of Christian forbearance, womanly
allowance, gets for his reward a
handful of clav fragments instead of
the pure water from which ho thought
to drink his fill when and however
he desired.
People make grand mistakes about
the morale of the spaniel woman.
They do not see her motives, and
they therefore project an impossible
and non-existing indivi luality from
the false base-lines which they have
imagined as the plan on which she is
built. Take a woman of natural affec
tionateness and of unselfishness ac
quired by principle a woman who
desires to be just in her judgments,
not warped by the purely personal
effects of actions, and wishful to see
things as they are in themselves, not
only as they touch her well, such a
woman almost certainly appears as a
spaniel to those who know her merely
superficially, who do not give her
credit for principles, and who see
onlv the broad facts of temperament.
Unselfishness, acquired at cost and
practiced with daily striving, is read
off as servility a quality which no
one need give himself the trouble to
"manage" a quality which is the
camel whose patient strength no last
straw can break. Decause she accepts
patiently she is handled roughly, and
then there is blank amazement and
outcry when she shows herself capa
ble of being hurt, when she refuses
to allow herself to bo pained simply
for another's pleasure, not for his
good, nor yet by misadventure.
Winle she could sav to herself. "He
did not mean it," she looked up to
her master with patient, loving eyes,
and bore the pain that had been in
ilieted wit!, out oven a whine of re
monstrance. When that pleasant
fancy is no longer possible, and she
knows herself to be the mere victim
of his caprice, the sport of his cruel
ty, the subject of a worse torture
than bodily vivisection, then she
ta,ces iier stand and keeps it; and the
person most amazed at the repudia
tion is the or.e who has caused it.
-lien l.e finds that the caresses once
so powerful., f.dl dead; that the sweet
words, on -o n ,.ompellirT charm, are
like dry husks rattling futile v in the
air; that flatteries and fondnesses,
the food of love in the days gone by
,,ai inev are
snares for the fond, lovino-
-mere
heart.
iiucs uv AY UK' 11 It
is expected that
s!jr shall become once
to the conqueror; and then the pr
spaniel woman, too often br'd,
more a prey
oor
neaneu, lases refn-e in the barren
peace of self-re-peot. and breaks for
ever the spell which had Bolouboth
bound and blinded her.
But with this lovinpr. selr-rcpress-ivo
and tender-hearted woman the
woman whose nature is afiectionato
and whose unselfishness is a matter
of principle there is also the true
spaniel; the woman who has abso-
lutely no self-respect .anywhere, but
who "lets herself go" as the very
sport aud creature of stronger man,
without the power to repress, on the
one hand, or assert on the other, and
whose want of womanly dignity is
her shame and not her glory. Pass
ive, unresisting, she seems almost to
offer herself as the slave whom the
overseer may lash at his pleasure,
sure of no complaiut to bo made to
men or angels. As a woman of the
lower class, she is half-killed by her
brutal husband, whom, however, she
shields from the observation of in
trusive justiceand swears he is a
good husband to her, barring tho
drink. As "the drink" is his normal
condition, it is rather puzzling to
know what time is left for him to bo
the good husband of her legend; but
that this is her pleasure to believe is
manifest from her life, dive her the
power of escape, and sho refuses it,
preferring her brntal master, even
with the chance of being kicked to
death, some dark night, when tho
drink is more potent than usual, aud
there is no one by to save her, rather
than leave him for security of life
and its attendant loueliness apart
from him. Even her children do
not rouse Miis kind of spaniel woman
to active measures against her mas
ter; and the story of GrisehU is re
peated, to this day, in man' a court
and alley, where the happiuess and
well-being of the family are sacrificed
that a masterful brute may have his
fling, and not be let or hindered in
his course. Women of this kind have
been known to follow their husbands
and lovers to Austrailia, in the days
when transportation drafted olf our
homo villainy and made a clean sweep
of felons. Hearing always the marks
of former ill-usage, a ltd knowing, if
their dense wits could know anything,
that the future would repeat tho past,
instead of thanking ITeaveu for their
deliverance, and accepting it as the
turning point for better tilings of
their lives, they hugged their chains
only the more closely, and gave up
everything that life held dear and
precious for them here at home, to
follow their proprietor to exile.
A Jeaii-Ycar Anecdote.
Tho story of the marriage of Lam
artine, the great French poet and
statesman, is one of romantic inter
terest. The lady was of an English
family named Birch, and very
wealthy. She first fell in love with
the poet from reading his "Medita
tions Poetiques." She was slightly
past the bloom of youth but still
young and fair. She read and re
read the "Meditations," and nursed
the tender sentiment in secret. At
length she saw Liarnartine in Genoa,
and her love became a part of her
very life. Xot long after this she
was made acquainted with the fact
that the poet was suffering, even to
unhappiness, from the embarrassed
state of iiis pecuniary affairs Miss
Birch was not long in deciding up
on her course. She would not allow
the happiness of a lifetime to slip
from her if sho could prevent it.
Sho wrote to the poet a frank and
womanly letter, acknowledging her
deep interest and profound respect,
and offering him the bulk of her
fortune, if he were willing to accept
it. Of course, Lamartine could not
but suspect tho truth. Deeply
touched by her generosity, he call
ed upon her, and found her to be
not only fair to look upon,
but a woman of a brilliant lit
erary and artistic education. Ho
made an offer of his hand and heart,
and was promptly and gladly accept
ed, and in after years Alfonso l)e
Lamartine owed not more to his
wife's wealth than to her sustaining
love and inspiring enthusiasm.
How we Show our Ixdepkndexc e.
It is beginning to be noticed that
in this Centennial year we are the
victims of a mania for imitating the
English in everything that will bear
imitation. Thus we take English
names for our hotels, our yachts,
our horses, and everything t hat re
quires a name. English fashions in
men's clothing have long been a na
tional nuisance. It has even deeend
ed toshamc of our own honest Amer
ican goods. Ask a tailor for Ameri
can cassimere aud he will shrug his
shoulders and decry the quality.
Let him have his own way and he
will show you American goods and
tell you they are English and ail
right. Take tho coaching business,
and it is "aw, aw, me! and demme!
or inv bid or miladi" to a degree pos
itively sickening. The lady passen
gers on tho Pel ham coach must wear
English-made costumes and ape En
glish styles. The men must tip a
fee to driver aud guard though the
first is a wealthy man and the. latter
well pa:'d for his horn-blowing with
the same grace that he would fee a
boot-black in tho Langham in Lon
don. This is an extraordinary way
of celebrating American deliverance
from British tyranny.
The American vandal has gone to
the Centennial with his family.
The Ledger has seen him and his
tribe in the art galleries, and says
they "seem to think it necessary to
feel the tine pieces of sculpture with
their hands, to tap the statuary and
bronzes with the ferrule- of their
parasols and sticks in order to make
suro of the materials they are made
of. and to poke their umbrellas at
the paintings to giva emphasis to the
points of the observations they
make."
His teeth began to chatter over tho
ice-cream. He buttoned up his jacket
and swallowed another mouthful,
that settled it. He jumped up from
the table and started to where the
sun could shine on him, exclaiming,
"Whoopee! Plenty cold glub! No
cookee miff! Fleeze belly all same
like ice wagon.
Ilov- tho Indies Fish.
There's generally about six of them
in the bunch (says an exchange),
with light dresses on, and they have
j three poles with as many hooks and
j lines among them.
' As soon as they get to the river
they look for a good place to get
down on the rafts and the most vcti
turesome one sticks her boot heels
in the bank and makes two careful
step-downs; then sho suddenly finds
herself at tho bo torn with both
hands in the water v.d a feeling that
everybody in this wida world is
looking at her, and sho never tells
anybody how she got there. The
other girls, profiting by her example,
turn around and go down the bank
j on their hands and toes, backwards.
Then they scamper over the rafts
until they lind a sh allow price whero
thev can see the n-h, and shout:
"Oh! I see one."
"Where?"
"There."
"Oh! inv, so he is."
"Let's catch him.'"
"Who's got them baits?"
"Y u lazy thing, you'ro sitting -on
my pole."
"Show mo the wretch that stole
my worm."
All these exclamations are gotten off
in a tone that awakens cv&ry echo
within a mile round, and sends every
fish within o acres square into gal
loping hysterics. Then tho girls by
snpei human exertions manage to
get a worm on the hook, and "throw
in" with n splash like the launching
of a wash-tub, and await the result.
When a silver-fin comes along and
nibbles the bait they pull up with a
jerk, that, had an unfortunate fish
weighing less than fifteen pounds
bsen on the hook, would have land
ed it in the neighborhood of o or -i
miles in the country. After a while
a feeble-minded snnfitm contrives
to get faster ed on the hook of a tim
id woman, and she gives vent to her
tongue:
"Oh! something's got mv hook!"
"Pull up, yon little idiot!" shout
five excited voices as pole;; ;i ml hooks
are dropped and tliey rush to the
rescue. The p.ii-1 with the bite gives a
spasmodic jerk, which semis the un
fortunate sunny into the air tho full
length of 40 leet of line, and he
comes down on the nearest curly
head with a damp flop, that sets the
girl to clawing as though there were
bumblebees in herhair.
"Oeh! murder.' take it away. Ogh !
the nasty tiling!"
Then tliey hold up their skirts and
gather about that fish as it skips over
tho logs, onnali the time holding the
line in both hands, with her foot on
the pole as though she had an evil
disposed goat at the other end. They
talk over it.
"How ever will he get off ?"
"Ain't it prettvV"
"Wonder if it ain't drvV"
"Poor little thing; 'let's put it
back."
"How will we get the hook from
it?"
"Pick it up," says a girl who backs
rapidly out of the circle.
""Good gracious, I'm afraid of it.
There, its opening its month at me."
Just then the sunny wiggles off
the hook and disappears between two
logs into the water, and the girls try
for another bite.
But the sun comes down and fries
the backs of their necks, and they
get their headaches in the party and
they all get cross and scold at the
fish like so many magpies. If any
unwary chub dares show himself in
the water they poke at him with
poles, much to his disgust. Finally
they get mad all over and throw
their poles away, hunt up the lunch
basket climb up into tho woods,
where they sit around on the grass
and caterpillars, and eat enough dri
ed beef and rusk and hard-boiled
eggs to give a wood-horse the night
mare; of which they compare notes
about their beaux until sundown,
when they go homo and plant envy
in the hearts of all their muslin de
laine friends by telling what "just a
splendid time" they had.
EoiiUbiTY of Hats. I myself have
eaten rats (says an English clergy
man) . aud found them good eating.
I was on board ship at the time, and
it was found necessary to smoke the
hold out to get rid of tho rats that
infested the ship. Three hundred
and ninety rats were found suffo
cated round the ilres. A French
third mate, who was on board, pro
posed to cook, and actually did
cook, some of the finest of them.
These I tasted, and indeed ato of
them. Chiefly the hind legs were
eaten. They were exceedingly white
delicate and tender, and, as far as I
remember, put me in mind of chicken,
with a slight flavor of game about it.
I would not object to eat them per
fectly prepared, and should regard
such food as n great boon after sr.lt
juuk and pickled pork of six years'
storing. Speaking of this'to a coun
try friend of ours a lady sho in
formed me that her husband once
had a pie mado of rats. They were
caught in a barn where the wheat
was just threshed, so that they were
very nice and tender from their feed
ing. A wealthy, untitled Englishman is
a suitor for the hand of the Marquis
of Lome's sister, and he attended
the ball given to the Prince of
Wales by the British Minister in
Madrid. The Prince does not ap
prove tho matrimonial choice of his
brother-in-law's sister, aud expressed
his dissatisfaction at seein" the
young man at the ball. Tho Minis
ter ascertained that the objectionable
guest had not been formally invited,
and ordered him to leave.
Seven members of tho Boston bar
have been convicted of crimes within
a vear.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TTMnrcDQ TTY m? r.tT.TFfYRrlTA.
A Patriotic Jury.
Mr. Charles M. Lee was a well
known criminal lawyer of Rochester,
New York he summed up a case with
a superfluity of gesture and an afflu
ence of perspiration that wonld have
astonished oven John Graham in his
vehement and melting moods.
Lee was defending an old Revolu
tionary soldier for passing a forged
promissory note for some thirty
dollars.
There was hardly the faintest
doubt of his guilt, but Lee contriv
ed to get before, the jury the fact
that the accused when a dare-devil
of nineteen was c::o of the storm
ing party that followed Mad Anthony
Wayne in his desperate assault ;
on Stony Point, and helped to carry
the wounded general into the. fori
during that terrible light.
In summing up, Lee, after getting
over the ugly points of tho evidence
as best he could, undertook to carry
the jury by escalade, on tho ground
of the prisoner's Revolutionary ser
vices. He described in graphic language
the bloody attack on Stony Point,
tho impetuous valor of Wayne, the
daring exploit of client, and wound
up with this stunning interrogatory:
"Gentlemen of the jury, will yon
send to the State Prison, for passing
a contemptible thirty-dollar forged
note, an old hero of three score and
ten, who, in his yoith cheered the
heart of his country, in tho darkest
hours of the Revolution, by storm
ing Stony Point?"
This was a poser.
The chins of some of the jury
quivered, but the foreman, a bluff
farmer, put on an air which seemed to
say, that storming Point was a good
thing enough in its line, but what
had that to do with passing this
forged note?
After boing out a couple of hours,
the jury returned to the court ro mi,
v.-hen the clerk went through the
usual formula:
"(Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon a verdict?"
' Wo have."
"Do you find the prisoner at the
bar guilty, or not guilty?"
"Xot guilty, because he stormed
Stony Point!" thundered the stal
wart foreman, who, it was afterwards
learned, v.i.s the last to come to an
agreement.
Tho audience applauded, the crier
rapped to order, the district attor
ney objected to the recording of the
verdict ami tho jndgo scut tho jury
on again, telling the foreman, in a
rather sharp tone, that they must
find an unconditional verdict of
guilty or not guilty.
After an absence of a few minutes,
I hey returned, when tho foreman
rend en d a simple verdict of not
guilty, adding, however, as he drop
ped into his seat:
"It was a good thing though,
judge, for the old Revolutionary
cuss that he stormed Stony Point!"
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Chances of J.ifc.
From some elaborate tables drawn
up by Dr. Parr, it wonld seem, as far
as can he made out. there arc certain
very critical periods in our carter.
A baby, for instance, has a very
small chance for growing up. But,
on the other hand, the period be
tween the tenth and fif'eoth years
inclusively i ; that in which the death
average is the smallest. At about
thirty-five we must begin to take
care of ourselves. At this period
constitutional changes set in; our
hair and teeth begin to fail us; our
digestion is no longer what it used
to be; we lose the vigor of youth and
neglect out-door exercise; above all,
the cares of life begin to make them
selves perceptibly felt. It is this
time that deaths from suicide take a
marked place in the returns of mor
tality, and there is also considerable
reason to believe that habits of in
temperance are apt to suddenly de
velop themselves. The picture, how
ever, has its sunshiny side. It wonld
take, of course, a professed actuary
to deduce from Dr. Farr's tables their
exact result. It appears, however,
that if a man tides over his fiftieth
year he may make tolerably certain
of living to seventy; while, if he
roaches his seventy-fifth year, there
is a very strong presumption that he
will either turn his ninetieth birth
day or very near it. A still more
interesting question is opened by the
series cf tables which show the aver
age mortality in different professions
and pursuits. Gamekeepers are, for
obvious reasons, the healthiest class
of our whole population; clergymen
and agricultural laborers come next,
and aro followed by barristers; solic
itors ami business men are less fortu
nate, while at the extreme end of the
scale come unhealthy pursuits, such
as printing and file grinding.
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The Last of Two Culprits. Jim
Kavanagh, formerly member of Con
gress from Montana, was telling the
other day that on one occasion there
were seven standing on empty boxes,
and with ropes round their necks,
under the limbs of a tree, just ready
to bo hanged. Ono of them, a Ger
man, began to cry bitterly' as he
thought that he was about to die.
Tho man next to him was an Irish
man, who was much bothered by the
German's weeping, fio hitching his
foot to ono side, ho gave the Ger
man's box a push, leaving him swing
ing in the air, and said: "Stop, you
big sucker, won't you?" But the
sarno act toppled over his own box;
he could not regain his footing, and,
with a laugh at. the trick he was play
ing on the German, he, too, swung
into eternity.
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A Passaic father wants to know
"what will keep a respectable but
poor young man from hanging round
the front of the house?" ' Tell him
the girl is sitting on the back fence.
Detertinp: a Murderer I)y 3Iean
of Bloodhounds.
The London papers publish the
details of a remarkable murder, the
perpetrator of which has been de
tected in a most singular manner.
The victim was a little girl aged only
seven years and the s;ispected mur
derer was a barber named Fish. The
trunk of the body of the victim was
found in an open field, and the dis
covery of the skull was made in a
most extraordinary manner. The
oilicers secured the services of the
owner of two bloodhounds and set
out with the dogs and their owner
to the place where tho trunk of the
body was found, to see if any seen!
of the remaining portion of the body
could be found. The dogs did not
appear to scent anything. They
were taken to where 'the legs of the
child were found, but without any
result. They returned and it was
then decided to have the dogs taken
to Fish's shop and the shop of a bar
ber named Whitehead, who also had
been suspected. The detectives en
tered the premises of the two barbers
simultaneously, and one of them re
mained at Fish's shop while the
other establishment was examined.
From the movements of the dog the
poli?e had no reason to suppose that
anything was concealed there, and
the dogs proceeded to Pish's prem
ises, in which there are two rooms
below and two above. The blood
hounds immediately on entering the
house began to sniff all round, and
evidently scented something. Then
the officers and dogs went up stairs,
and the bloodhounds at once scented
up the chimney of the front room,
and the owner of the dog put his
iiand up the chimney and palled
down from the recess of the draught
hole the skull and some other por
tions of a child wrapped in a paper
covered with blood. From a medi
cal examination it was evident that
the head had recently been burned,
and but two teeth were remaining in
the lower jaw. The prisoner was
fairly overwhelmed and confessed
that he committed the murder and,
without being aided by any one,
mutilated the body and dispersed
tho remains.
A ;ood. Time 1o Improve or Uuy
Sheep.
Sheep are now cheaper than at any
previous time in the history cf the
State. Large numbers have changed
hands at one dollar a head, and still
they are offered for sale. Establish
ments are being constructed for kill
ing sheep merely for tho pelts and
tallow. The causes of this depres
sion in tho price of sheep are the
low prices of wool and the scarcity
of range fr large Hooks. The
former cause will undoubtedly pass
away as a change in the manufactur
ing interests of tho country improve
and wool regains its former price.
But tho latter cause the scarcity of
range for large flocks will continue
and grow more each year as agricul
ture and cultivation take possession
of tho now unfilled and vacant lauds.
The present circumstances are most
favorable to tho improvement of our
Hocks Let our sheep owners, while
reducing the number, improve the
quality of their sheep, and they will
in the end b the gainers by the
operation. Now is a good time also
for farmers generally to invest in a
few sheep to bo kept on their farms
after the manner of the Eastern
farmers. Every farm should have a
few sheep on it to supply the family
and tho workmen with fresh meat,
and to act as weed killers on the
fields and summer fallows. Every
farm of one hundred and sixty acres
can, if well managed, keep in good
condition fifty head of sheep upon
what is ordinarily wasted, or on what
ordinarily requires a good portion of
tne time and labor of one man to
keep in subjection, namely, the
weeds. The meat and wool of these
sheep and their increase can be made
at net profits. Fifty sheep can now
be bought for fifty dollars less than
the average meat bill of the medium
farmers of the State. The increase
from fifty ewes will furnish the
fresh meat in the future aud save
this fifty dollars, and the wool will
sell for enough to buy the farmer two
or three suits of clothes each year,
while the sheep will save the wages
of ono man on the farm by consum
ing the weeds. Sacramento liccord
Unlon. Playing for JIcav3 Stakes.
Washington gossip says that the
biggest game of cards ever played in
this country took place recently in
that city. Two politicians of nation
al reputation, a member of a great
banking house in London, and John
Chamberlain, the well known turf
man, sat down to a quiet seance at
'draw,' in one of our leading hotels.
The play grew heavy as time passed,
and tho interest became so intense
that the sitting lasted thirty-six
hours, at the close of which Cham
berlain was w inner to the amount of
8110,000. He celebrated his victory
by a grand dinner a few nights after
ward. Precautions were taken to
keep the affair secret, but it leaked
out notwithstanding.
Many years ago gamblers say that
a game involving nearly a3 large an
amount of money was played in this
city. The game was "Boston," and
tho contestants were Ben "Wood and
John Morrissev. vr. Y. Star.
There is never a raider who does
not intend to make a handsome ex
penditure some day; death comes,
and tho intention is carried out by
his heirs. This is the history of
more than one king of my acquain
tance. Yoltalre.
Mexico offers f.0.000 to any one
who will establish a woollen factory
there with a capital of $100,000.
AH Sorts.
The widow's might: Her tongue..
"Wise men argue causes, and fools
decide them.
The cats, of the Isle of Man aro
without tails.
A truism: An expensive wife makes
a pensive husband.
The favorite flower for weddiug
bonnets Marry-gold.
Next to a diary the most difficult
thing to keep is a lead pencil.
A clear conscience is the best law
and tempsrcaice ths best xhysic.
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Many adorn tho tombs of thoso
whom, living, they persecuted with
envy.
Advice ro fishmongers in warm
weather "Deal gently with the her
ring." A printer invariably gets out of
sorts when he reaches, the bottom of
his case.
Marriage is described by a French
cynic as a tiresome book with a very
fine preface.
A friend that "sticketh closer than
a brother" during warm weather
your flannel shirt.
Why is "naming the day" for tho
wedding like a naval battle? Because
it's a marry-tiine engagement.
"Your qvumd m friend,"" was the
way a young lady of Chicago signed
a letter to a former schoolmate.
Ho who leaves but one cat to grow
where two cats grew before is a public
benefactor, and deserves the blessings
of the community..
Young men, as a general thing,,
don't like a set-back in life; but a
"pull-back' in life makes all the dif
ference iu the world..
A woman in Macon, Ala., had twins
twice, and then triplets; and after
the last lot her husband ran away,
and has not returned.
Dupes, indeed, are many; but of
all dupes there are none so fatally
situated as he who lives in undue
terror of being duped.
Electricity has replaced gas in
lighting a railroad depot in Paris,
and the experiment is satisfactory as
to practicability and cheapness.
How to raise cats: First catch your
cats; then put them into a barrel, and
explode a can ot nitro-glyeerine un
der them. It never fails to raise
them.
And now comes a Boston woman
who, to out-do her fashionable sisters
with their twenty-button gloves, has
invented and wears forty-button
stockings
In a French translation of Shake
speare, tho passage, "Frailty, thy
name is woman," is- translated,
"Mademoiselle Frail tv is the name
of the lady."
A philosopher asserts that the rea
son why ladies' teeth decay sooner
than gentlemen's is because of tho
friction of the tongue and the sweet
ness of the lips.
Montreal burglars have added
chemistry to their curriculum. They
apply a test to silverware, and leave
plated articles with a note to "Shiey
thes yere at catts."
When Fuchs received the news
that he would not bo hung he buried
his face in his hands, burst into tears,
and murmured, "Veil, dot's good. I
guess ve haf some bier."
A wag, in "what ho knows about
farming," gives a very good plan to
remove widows' weeds. He says a
good-looking man has only to say
"Wilt thou?" and they wilt.
At a recent address to female can
didates for confirmation the vicar of
Kensington.England , requested them
to so arrange their hair that the bish
op might really lay his hands on their
heads.
"I could kill you for two cents!"
shouted an enraged man to an offend
ing neighbor. It was an ugly threat,
but it sounded good. It shows that
we are getting clown to ante-bellum
prices.
Blonde hair is growing less popu-
lav every year. It seems that a bru
nette always has the advantage of
being able to button her shoes with a
hair-jun and put it back into herhair
without wiping it.
To destroy potato bugs mix ono
gallon of prussic acid with three
ounces of rendrock, stir well and
administer a tablespoonful every hour
and a half until the bug shows signs
of weakening. Then stamp on him.
An enterprising firm of photo
graphers advertise a new series of
photographs in miniature. This
ought to take. Most of us have
friends of whom it may be said that
the less we see of them the better wo
like them.
It is asserted by an eminent En
glish physician that by the timely
administration of the hypophosite
of lime or soda, consumption can bo
stamped out as thoroughly as small
pox by vaccination.
Smith and Brown, running opposite
ways around a corner, struck each
other. Oh, dear! how you made my
head ring," said Smith. "That's a
sign it's hollow," said Brown. "But
didn't yours ring?" "No." "That's
a sign it's cracked," said his friend.
An impecunious but ingenious
tramp has left the colored population
of Georgetown, Texas, poor in pocket
and soro in body by initiating them,
at two dollars and'a half a head, into
"a lodge of Free Masons." The prin
cipal part of the ceremony, next to
pavin"- the fee, consisted in tying the
, candidate on a tame, iace uownwara,
j and branding him with a hot poker.
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