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jr. , '' DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE,. AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 11. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876. NO. 9. o o o 'i j o i 3 cT f i I o THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR THE Farmer, Business Man, and Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. TROPUIETOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY. OFFICE In Enterprise Building, one door south of Masonic Building, Main street. Titiiim of MaliNcrlptlon : Single copj-, one year, in advance $2 50 Single copy, Bix months, jn advance.. . . 1 50 Trrnm of Ailrrrlilns: Transient advertisements, including all leiral notices, per square of twelve lines, one week $ 2 For each subsequent insertion 1 One column, one year 120 Half " " GO 50 00 00 00 Quarter " " 40 00 Business Card, one square, one year... 12 00 SOCIETY NOTICES. OKEGOX LODGE, No. 3, I. I. O. Ft meets every Thursday eve injf, at 1i o'clock, in the Odd Ft'l-rt lows' Hall, Main street. Members of the Order are invited to attend. By order of N. G. lfiEKECCA IEGlti:E LODGE, X' . .1 T f f 1? mnnla . . Second and Fourth Tuesday f,,-fj evenings of each month, at 7Mnir"?r o'clock, in the Odd Fellows' Hall.'11-'" Members of the Degree are invited to attend 3IUL.TN03IAII LODGE, 2s o. 1, A. F. & A. M., holds its regular com munications on the First and Third. Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from the 20th of September to the 20th of March; and 714 o'clock from the 20th of March to the 20th of September. Brethren in good standing are invited to at tend. By order of W. M. FALLS EXCA3IP3IENT, No. 4, I. O. O. F., meets at Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tuesday of each month. Patriarchs in good stand ing are invited to attend. BUSINESS CARDS. J. W. N0RR1S l'kygician and Snrgoon. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE : On Fourth Street, at foot of Cliff Stairway. tf CHAS. KNIGHT, CASBY, ... OREGON, Physician and Druggist. J5F"Prescriptiona carefully filled at short notice. ja7-tf PAUL BOYCE, M.D., Physician and Snrgeon, Oregon Citt, Oregon. Chronic Diseases and Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Office hours day and night; alwavs ready when duty calls. Aug.25,'70-tf DR. JOHN WELCH, DENTIST. OFFICE IN OREGOX CITY, OKEC.OJI. Highest cash price paid for County orders. JOHNSON & McGOWN, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, OKKGOX CITY, OltECSOJi. Will practice in all the Courts of the State Special attention given to cases in the U. S Land Office at Oregon City. 5aprl872-tf L. T. BARIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ORKU02V CITY, OHF.OOX. Will State. practice in all the Courts of the Nov. 1, lS75-tf W. H. HIGHFIELD, ZEZsta.'toia.sls.ea. sim.ee One door North of Pope's Hall, HAIX MT OHKOX, CITY OKECOS. i?3? An assortment of watches. Jewelry, and Seth Thomas' Weight Clocks, all (of which are warranted to be as repre sented. IrRepairing done on short notice; and thankful for past patronage. . On-li p.l for Comiry Orrterw. JOHN M. BACON DEALER IN Books, Stationery, riCTUKE FRAMES, MOULDINGS AND MISCELLANEOUS GOODS. Oregon City, Oregon. STAtthe Post Office, Main Street, east side. novl-'5-tf IMPERIAL MILLS. Lallocque, Savier & Co., OREGON CITY. Keep constantly on hand for sale Flour, Middlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties purchasing feed must furnish the sack. J. H. SHEPARD, Boot and Shoe Store, One door north of Ackerman Bros. EefBoots and Shoes made and repaired as cheap as the cheapest. Nov. 1, lS75-tf MILLER, CHURCH & CO. PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR At all times, at the And have on hand FEED and FLOUR to sell, at market rates. Parties desiring Feed must furnish sacks. no12-tf TO FRUIT-GROWERS. rpiIE ALDEN FRUIT PRESERVING -L Company of Oregon City will pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE For PLUMS, PEARS and APPLES. Mr. Thos. Charman Is authorized to pur chase for the Company. L. D C. LATOURETTE, Pres't. THOS. CHARMAN, Sec'y. Qegon City, July 28, 1875-tf OREGON CITY BREWERY. HENRY HUMBEL, 1. 1 A LNO purchased the abovel ---. iJreWtTV. wislip tr inform t lii!s Public that'he is now prepared to manufac ture a No 1 quality of As good as can be obtained anywhere in the owe. Orders solicited and promptly filled. II ip of II viriri:? I have an aunt, a genial dame, Three-score jears old; Erect and stately is her frame, Of portly mold. Her life is flawless, all agree, In thought and act; But she is very deaf, and she Denies the fact. From her town-mansion I can ill Myself absent, Since I am mentioned in her will To some extent. And oh! the torments I go through, Whene'er I call! I wonder how I manage to Endure them all! I tell her it's a pleasant day. With tones of joy . She murmurs in the blandest way: "You funny boy!" I ask about her coujh, and sigh. Through all my soul When laughingly informed that I Am very droll! I say "Dear aunt, I'm glad your eyes Pain you no more." She answers, "Yes, but exercise Is such a bore!" "What novels, auntie, have you read And liked, of later "Upon religious matters, Fred, I can't debate." "You ought to see the nice new play At Booth's, j-ou know." "I seldom go to funerals; they Depress me so." "Dear aunt, I'm real hard up again, And felt that you " "A cup of tea? Just ring for Jane, I'd like one, too." And thus the smooth, colloquial stream Flows swiftly by; And if I venture one good scream, My aunt will cry: "Speak lower, Fred, I must exhort! It sounds so queer To have you talk as though you thought I couldn't hear." Edgar Faiocett. How His Ship Came In. I ran across what first struck me as a very singular genius cn my road from Springfield to Boston. This was a stout, black-whiskered man, who sat immediate ly in front of me, and who indulged, from time to time, in the most . strange and unaccountable mauoeuvers. Every now and then he would get up and hurry away to the narrow passage which leads to the door in these drawing-room cars, and when he thought himself secure from observation, would fall to laughing to himself in the most violent manner, and continue the healthful exercise until he was as red in the face as a lobster. As we neared isoston tnese aemonstrations increased in violence, save that the stran ger no longer ran away to laugh, but kept his seat and chuckled to mmselr, with his chin deep down in his shirt-collar. But the changes that those portmanteaus underwent I He moved them here, there, everywhere: he put them behind him, in front of him, on each side of him. lie was evidently getting ready to leave, but, as we were yet twenty-five miles from Boston, the idea of such preparations was ridiculous. If we had entered the city then, the mystery would have remained unsolved, but the stranger at last became so excited that he could keep his seat no longer. Some one must help him, and as I was the nearest to him he selected me Suddenly turning, as if I had asked him a question, he said, rocking himself to and fro in his chair the meantime, and slapping his legs and breathing hard "Been gone three years !" "Ah 1" "Yes, been in Europe. Folks don't ex- pect me, but I got through and started. I telegraphed them at the last station, they've got it by this tune." As he sua this he rubbed his hands and i changed the portmanteau on his left to his right, and the one on the right to the left again. "Got a wife?" said I. "Yes, and three children," he observed, and he got up and folded his overcoat anew, and hung it over the back of the seat. "You are pretty nervous over the mat ter, are you not?" I said, watching his fidgety movements. "Well, I should think so," he replied; "I haven't slept soundly for a week. And do you know," he went on, glancing around at the passengers and speaking in a low tone, "I am almost certain that this train will run off the track and break my neck before we get to Boston. ell, the fact is, I have had too much good luck for one man, lately, lhe thing cant last; it isn't natural that it should, you know. I've watched it. t irst it rains, then it shines, then it rains again. It rains so hard you think it's never going to stop, then it shines so bright you think it's alwavs o-oin"1 to shine; and just as you are settled in either belief you are knocked over Dy a change, to suow mat you know nothing about it." "Well, according to that philosophy, said I, "you will continue tohave sunshine because vou are expecting a storm. "It is curious." he returned, "but the only think which makes me think I will rret through safe is because I think I et i won't." "Well, that is curious," said I. "Yes." he replied. "I'm a machinist mndrt a disoovprv nobodv believed in it O ULUt LL1 1 1 . T Uiv " Vrf J T " - -" -., - out mortf'a"-ed my home an went, Tvprnhndr laucrl.P.l at me ever vbodv but my wife fine little woman said she - r . '. , ivould work her lingers on betore l suouui rrivf? it un. Went to Ensland no better 0 ... thorp: came within an ace ot lumping on London Bridge. Weat into a shop to psirn monev to come home with: then met the man I wanted. To make a long - . . . story short, I've brought 30,000 home with me, and here I am." . - . - - "Good for you I I exclaimed. "Yes," said he, "$30,000; and the best of it is she don't know anything about it. I've fooled her so often, and disappointed her so often that I just concluded I would say nothing about this. "When I got my money, though, you better believe I struck a bee-line for home." 'And now you will make her hannv ." iHlU 1 "Happy!" he replied, "why you don't know anything about it. She's worked like a dog while I have been erone, trying to support herself and her children de cently. They paid her thirteen cents a piece for making coarse shirts; and that's the way she'd live half the time. She'll come down there to the depot to meet me in a gingham dress, and a shawl a hun dred years old, and she'll think she's dressed up. Oh, she won't have nice clothes after this oh, no, I guess not!" And with these words, which implied that his wife's wardrobe would soon rival Queen Victoria's, the stranger tore down the passage-way again, and getting in his old corner, where he thought himself out of sight, weut through the strangest pan tonine, laughing, putting his mouth into the drollest shapes, and then swinging himself back and forth in the limited epace, as if he was "walking down Broadway, a full-rigged metropolitan belle. And so till he rolled into the de pot, and I placed myself on the other car opposite the stranger, who, with a port manteau in eachhaud, had descended and was standing on the lower step ready to jump on the platlorm. 1 looked irom his face to the faces of the people before us, but saw no siirns of recognition. Suddenly he cried: "There they are!" and laughed outright, but in a hysterical sort of way, as he looked over the crowd. I followed his eyes and saw at some dis tance, standing back as if crowded out and shouldered away by the well-dressed and elbowing throng, a little woman in a faded dress and well-worn hat, with a face almost painful in its intense but hopeful expression, glancing from win dow to window as the coaches glided in. She had not yet seen the stranger, but a moment alter she caught his eye, and in another instant he had jumped the plat form with his two portmanteaus, and making a hole in the crowd, pushing one here and there, and running one of his bundles plump into the well-developed stomach of a venerable old gentleman in spectacles, he rushed towards where she was standing. 1 think l never saw a tace assume so many different expressions in a short time as did that ot the little woman while her husband was on his way to her. She didn't look pretty. On the contrary, she looked very plain, but somehow 1 lelt a big lump rise in my throat as I watched her. She was trying to laugh; but, God bless her, how completely she failed in the attempt! Her mouth got into the position, but it never moved alter that, save to draw down the corners and quiver, while she blinked her eyes so fast that I suspect she only caught occasional glimpses ot the broad-shouldered lellow who elbowed his way so rapidly toward her. And then as he drew close and dropped those everlasting portmanteaus, she just turned completely round, with ler back toward him, and covered her tace with her hands. And tnus sue was when the strong man gathered her up in his arms as if she had been a baby, and held her sobbing to his breast. There were enough gaping at them, heaven knows, and l turned my eyes away a moment, and then I saw two boys in threadbare roundabouts, standing near, wiping their eyes and noses on their little coat-sleeves, and bursting out anew at every fresh demonstration on the part of their mother. When 1 looked at the stranger again he had his hat drawn down over his eyes; but his wife was looking up at mm, and it seemed as if the pent up tears of those weary mouths of wait ing were streaming through her eyelids. Springfield liepublican A Bird and Doo Stoky. The follow lug incident is so improbable and yet so interestingly truthtut that we preier to verity it sulhciently to remove all cavil. Dr. Hunt, at Irvington, has an English pointer dog, who is the admiration of the neighborhood and the terror of tramps. Jfadame has canary birds. One of them escaped and the usual stern chase suc ceeded. The bird made a long detour. closely followed to her occasional resting places, until nearly an hour had been wasted, while the pursuers had grown to six in number, we might say seven, for old "Dash" had been "at heel" and was interested in the result. Suddenlv the bird flushed, sailed swiftly across the street, with Dash hard after her. The bird was flying low, all the pursuers try ing to call oil jJash. but he kent on. made a sudden leap in the air, caught the bird in his mouth, as an Irviusrton bov would a ball on the fly and then dropped to cnarge. ' Ot course the bird was eaten up and swallowed ut course not. Mr. C. W Harrison ran up, and there was the bird tenderly imprisoned within the capacious jaws in iaau, ana tne oia ieuow promptly I surrendered Dickey to Mr. Harrison's nanus, witn iiaruiy more than a rullled ieatner. me auair vas wonueriul in two things, the accuracy ot the catch, and the i & lug- tive in the only spare room he has his capacious mouth. Newark Daily. Birds and Lightuouses. The bright-! ness of the lamps in the light-houses of our coast frequently produce great de- struction among the birds. As they fly along the beach in the gloom of evening, ' or seek the shelter of the land when the ocean breezes blow too strong for their comfort or pleasure, they are dazzled bv it th briliancv ot the lishts in the towers I - - - . . and irequeuwy uy ummiy Mgninst tne building, crushing and breaking their .1. i .ri. i .in: a - . . bones, and oiten Kiinug mem instantly. un eunesuay eveuiutj; vusl uuuiuei s new against the tower at Mary port and were V f . . 1 .-J 1 I ...... . 1 A.I A. i.1 killed, or so uuuiv uimseu mat mey crawled away to die. It is said one of 1 the light-keepers swept on in tne morn- I . i - i i i : j , i' ii a. ing six nunareu ueau unus iroui me iop of the tower, and that many others were I "1 a.1 4. . I . 4 A. scattered on me gruuuu at n icci. Jacksonville Union. Haying spent all their spare change at the Big Show, people will now begin to economize. 1 COURTESY Shoeing Horses. Half of the lameness among horses is caused by bad shoeing. There must be a level bearing ot the hoof for the shoe, so that tlle "se's hoof can stand upon the will be in pain, and something,somewhere in the foot or leg, will finally give way, and the horse become permanently lamed. If the heels are cut down too much, as is frequently the case, the joints of the hoof are on a constant strain, and some of them will sutler and succumb sooner or later. If the heels are left too high, and the toe is cut down too much, the strain will come in a different way, and will be injurious. If one side of the hoof is lower than the other, the foot must suffer. The constant study of the shoer should be to get a nat ural bearing. He must have an eye and a taste for the business. The horse can not talk or complain even; and he must study the horse's foot, read authors in re gard to it, understand its anatomy, and notice how horses stand without shoes. All that is wasted of the shoe is, to pro tect the hoof from the ground. It don t want to be cut and burnt, and opened and slashed away at as though it was a piece of wood. It is most delicately organized, and it requires a delicate hand to adjust the shoe so that the horse shall stand easi ly and naturally upon it. Not one blacksmith in twenty is fit to shoe a horse. He is rough, unlearned, has never studied the anatomy of the horse's hoof, with its complex joints ; cuts away the frog, slashes out the bars, puts a red-hot shoe on the foot, and seems not to care whether it will give the horse ease or pain, so he nails on the shoe ana gets rid of the job. Any farmer, with a little observation, could put a shoe on his horse much better. He could have a portable iorge, and do his own shoeing in rainv weather. There is no mvsterv about the iob. Has he not as much brains as the smith? Has he not seen shoeing done all his life? What has he eye3 for but to see how that and everything else is done? It is strange, however, how some people pass through life. Having eyes they see not. Farmers must use their eyes, and be more self-reliant and self-sustaining. With a portable forge, enough could be saved in a year to pay for it; and the boys and hired men could learn to repair scores of jobs that have to be sent off miles, perhaps, to be repaired. If anything is too complicated, take it off and see how it is repaired, and then you can attend to it next time. See how horses are shod, and you can shoe them as well as anybody. Rural World. Been to the Centennial. A bashful appearing man stepped into the Enquirer editorial room the other evening, and edging up to tne table oi the managing editor, hat in hand, said, in a hesitating way : "You like little items for your paper, I suppose?" "Certainly," replied Mr. Cockenll; "a newspaper, like lite, is made up oi little items. What have vou to offer?" "Well," said the bashful man, playing with his hat-baud, "my name is Smith, John Smith, and I've just got home." "Glad to see you back again, Mr. Smith," Baid Cockerill;"been gone long?" 'I have been," said Mr. Smith, with a tremor of pride in his voice, "to the Cen tennial, and if you want to make a little notice " "What!" cried CockeriU, springing to his feet, "you've been to the Centennial? And you've got back? Give us your hand, I'm delighted to see you. Spear, let me introduce you to John Smith. John has been to the Centennial !" Spear shook hands very warmly with Mr. Smith, and then ran to the aperture communicating with the reporter's room and shouted, "Oh Sliauunessey, come in here, quick here's a man that been to the Centennial !"' Then O'Shaunnessey bounced in, fol lowed by his assistants, all of whom em braced the bewildered Smith warmly, and expressed the gratification it afforded them to meet a man who had been to the great National Exhibition. Word got down stairs, somehow, and Joe McDowell, Bill Small and Uncle Joe Shadenger came up stairs at a tearing rate, to gaze upon the individual who had been to the Expo sition. It was too much for the modest man to bear, and murmuring something about making an item on his return if they wanted to, he hurried out just in time to meet on the stairs the foreman and thirty-two compositors, all eager to get a glimpse of the man who had "been to the Centennial. Cincinnati Saturday Niglit. Money-Making Pkinces. A letter from Perugia, Italy, says: "There is a Count of Perugia, married to a Bonaparte Princess, who is a type of the rich and un- popular aristocracv. He sows and reaps and sells his grain ; works his land to the I best advantage; is a bourgeois in money- making, but not a bourgeois in liberality lie never builds, never gives to the poor. never contributes to public improvements; so wnen ms carriage unves uy tue laoor ers look sullen, llis brother, who led the same self-interested life,was murdered on the highway a vear or so ago, as he urning from some market town, where he had been making advantageous business sales for this class of people do not scorn trade when it brings money, al- tnougn tney are high nobility. 1 he l'rince del Drago, of Ii me, whose wife is aunt to the iing ot bpain, sells his oil and wlue as any other trader, not with his own bands, to be sure, but he nas nis i ' ' ""i m auu ma uuy-vi;cjjci3, rents apartments also, and is quite 1 ..I-T l 1 - iY -. , , milu veiJr uu PttI 1 T nnw rtAA 1 -kj-v.- 11 1 unnvbts n.uuu ana zu,uuu alligator skins are tanned yearly, which are con sumea Dy Doot ana stioe manutacturers . j.1 il . it . i . . . . m every pornou oi uie united Dtates, as well as exported to London and Hamburg The alligators formerly came almost en tirely from Louisiana, and New Orleans was the great center of business. The Florida swamps and morasses are now the harvest fields, and Jacksonville, in that State, the great depot. OF BANCROFr LIBRARY, Close Shave. On Saturday last, says the Welland Telegraph of Nov. 13, four men, whose names it is not necessary for us to give, were coming from Hog Island, a little out of the Chippewa river, in the mighty Ni agara, but a very short distance above the rapids, when owing, report has it, to hav ing on board too much of Gilchrist's Cal ifornia bug juice, they capsized their lit tle bark, and were at once hurried on by the rushing tide to the verge of that far famed cataract. Three of the men suc ceeded in grasping with a dead-like grip the hull of the boat, seizing the fourth man and vainly endeavoring to get him to hold on to some of the ropes attached to the sails, but he was too heavy by too potent doses of the California nicotine, and failed to comprehend his danger. His companions, every time he broke loose from their grasp, managed to get a fresh hold. Time was getting very short, and the mad waters running at perhaps twelve miles an hour, waited not for their prey, but rather seemed anxious to get them into the fatal rapids, which they were fast approaching. At this critical moment one of the steam tugs employed in towing mud scows in the Chippewa river, was headed by its captain, who had just observed the position of affairs, to wards the drowning men, with all the head of steam on it could carry. Head ing off the wreck the tug hove to in the hope of catching them in their mad flight, and ropes, buoys, etc., were hastily got hold of to throw to the poor fellows. Here comes the most wonderful part of it. Just as the yawl struck the tug and was secured, the four men vigorously struck out for the shore, swimming in good style for dear life, their cold bath evidently just commencing to awaken them to a sense of their peril. The one of the four who had been the most troublesome reached land first, and straightway re paired to the nearest hotel to complete the ducking inside that he had got out side. In this he was quickly followed by his chums and when safely ensconced by the cheerful stove, jokes passed freelv round on their narrow escape. The cap tain of the tug succeeded in saving the boat, sails, etc., from certain destruction, and he deserves great credit for his prompt action on the scene of such apparent peril. Pompeii. The annals of the world supply, in the wav of antiquarian research, nothing more wonderful and strikingly affecting than the discovery of this long-buried city, above which, year by year and cen tury after century, the yellow corn has waved in the soft southern winds, and the vine put forth the purple grape. And in speaking of Pompeii the neighboring cities of Herculaneum and Stabas must not be forgotten, though originally places of far less importance, and, from the dis coveries which have been made, present- ng few features of interest compared with the first mentioned. Older places than either of these have been traced out and made tolerably familiar to us bv the traveler and artist, but very partially and chiefly by their architectural remains only; when, however, the superincum bent weight which had so long pressed down the cities of the Italian plain was by slow degrees lifted, there was revealed to the living the life of a world which lad existed nearly 1,700 years earlier, n its public and domestic aspects re vealed, too, with a vividness sometimes as appalling in its reality as it was inter esting for its historic value. A marvelous chapter, in the annals of Roman life in the hrst century ot the Christian era, is that we read in the story of the exhuma tion of Pompeii, and of which - so much to be seen in the museum ol JNaples. The subject has filled a conspicuous place n the literature of Europe during the century or longer, as tresli discoveries have been made iroui time to time. The Dome op tiie United States Capitol. A curious fact concerning the dome of the Capitol building, Washing ton, is rarely reterred to. It is in rela tion to the expansion and contraction of the iron produced by the heat ol the sun. This causes the colossal sphere to swerve from its perpendicular and to bend to the influence of the day-god as faithfully as the lovely Clytie turned her sweet face toward Apollo; so that in the morning the inclination, although so trilling as to be imperceptible, is westward ly, and in the evening in an easterly direction. 1 he altitude of the dome of the Capitol makes that buildiug the highest in America, it being 2875-2 feet from the floor of the basement story to the crest of the statue. There are only tour edihees in the world which tower higher toward the clouds: St. Peter's, at Itoine, is 45S feet from the pavement to the top'of the cross outside; St. Paul s, at Lionuon, 4U4 ieet; tne Ca thedral of St. Isaac, at St. Petersburg, 3G0 feet; the Hotel des Invalides, at Paris, in which is the tomb ot the great Napoleon, is 322 feet high. In the United States the steeple of Trinity church in New York is next in height to the Capitol, Hunker Hill Monument second, Washington Monument, in Baltimore, third. Fishing for Rats. Recently severa' lads were seen to enter the main sewer on the left bank of the Seine at Paris, by one of the barred outlets to the river. A po liceman, curious to know what they were about to do, followed them, and fouu them seated by the edge of the turbi current fishing for rats with a strong line and hook, the latter baited with a morse of bacon partially fried. When taken to the Commissary of the Police they ex plained that they sold the skins of the water rats at Irom twenty to thirty cents each, according to size,for manufacturing into "kid" gloves for ladies. One of them who was not fishing, when ques tioned as to his means of earning a live lihood, stated that he was "un flot" (a wave) that is to say, in the evening atone of the theatres, he passed back and for ward beneath canvas painted in shades of blue to imitate the motion of waves at sea; but the official detained him for vag aboudan-e. considering the calling in question too vague to give a living. r A I t - - i ' The Horrors of Modern Warfare. A correspondent of the London Tele graph writes: "Thus they came on, and presently opened so fearful a rifle fire that the bullets fell around us all like hail. As yet our infantry were quiet; not a rifle wis heard, and the foe was coming nearer to the semi-circular trenches of which I have before spoken, s.uddenly there is a movement in the bushes, a shoit note from the bugle, a rattle of bayonets and steel barrels, and then a little cheer. Our men are moving, the supports aie taking the emp ty trenches, and the rest of eacli battal ion is m the reserve lines. All at once such a fire pours forth as envelops you in smoke, and makes that still advancing column stagger. Yet only for a minute; there is a counter-cheer and a rapid rush. Whirr! how the bullets fly past them; with what shrieks do the shells bound in ! See, the Servians are standing still for a moment, fireing yet, but coming no nearer to the mountain. Their line is gradually- being fed, too, and they are extending every moment. It is only the fear of the shells and bullets which make them hesi tate. Perhaps not only the fear, but rather the effect, for now they are falling fast; without the aid even of a glass we can see that they are strewing the ground by hundreds or staggering away to die. Harder than ever is our fire, as theirs weakens, and the more determined, too, are our men, for they now quit the outpost trenches and are advancing upon the bewildered enemy. Volley after volley from the foe fails to stop them; they leave many a comrade on the ground, but on they go, till at length the Ser vians, seeing their red fezes coming nearer and nearer, turn and fly, deserting three thousand of their number, whd will never see home in Russia or on the banks ot the Danube any more. , Not one was there but might have been the hardy father of a numerous family. I did not see a boy among them. One I noticed in particular and lie was but a type of the rest a tall, well-niide, broad- shouldered warrior, who, having fought to his uttermost and received a wound in the stomach, had lain down upon the road to Derbent in hope of succor. Unhap pily lor him, ineuds were tar away, and his comrades had hung in fantastic lash ion, on a tree hard by, a Circassian who, having fallen into their hands, had been first tortured and put to death. I was looking at him as I rode by", wondering if he were yet alive, when, horrible to re late, there came upon the sceue four Chirkessoes. They, too, had seen their dangling comrade, and they thirsted for blood. At this moment the wounded Serb raised his head and rolled his glassy eyes around m hope of descrying help, down sprang a Circassian, andwiiha lit tie dagger pierced the dying man through and through, cut off his right hand and ipped him up as he . lay upon the ground. Fortunately, his end was neur and he expired; but even in death he was a handsome giant, this victim to the bar barous war which Russia has caused and waged." A Manufacturers' "Ring" in Gernianj. The establishment of "rings" for the purpose of dictating prices in the market, which commenced in the United States, is now becoming universal, and a re markable attempt in this direction has, according to the Neue Freie Presse, been ately made in Austria by a select circle i Bessemer bteel manutacturers. oSine of the most important producers of rail way metals have entered into a compact to distribute among each other a given percentage of all the contracts for rail way metals which may be giveu out in Austria between the present time and the year 1878. The plan of operation is to beastollows: I he subscribing farms are to arrange among themselves which ot them are to tender for contracts offered either by the Austrian Riilroad Com panies or by the Government. The price is to be fixed according to close calcula tion (it the cost of production and of transport from the works to the destina tion of the metals. Spurious tenders at higher prices are then to be seut ia by the remaining firms, thus ensuring the acceptance of the tenders sent in by the selected firm or firms, 7,000 tons being the limit assigned by the agreement to the contracts to be received by the as sociate firms. This snug little arrange ment is not likely to be interfered with by reign competition, inasmuch as no or der for railroad metals has since the crisis been placed out of Austrii by either the Government or the R tilroad Companies, the object of this restriction being the employment of the Austrian working class-es and the support of the existing establishments. Uutortunatelv, one of the smaller Bohemian firms has, in the most unprincipled manner, lately tendered, at lower prices than those fixed by the "ring," and this frustrated their scheme for the present. Boston Journal. How She Felt. The painful suspense ot the last three or four days has not been confined to men alone. All the women have been more or less agitated and in stores and on street cars have dis cussed "the situation" in a lively manner Two females, one apparentlv an old maid, met in the postolfice yesterday, and the married woman remarked: "Well, there is a great deal of excite ment." "It is terrible terrible," was the re ply. "Why, you seem to be really nervous over it." "Srj I am dreadfully nervous. sincerely hope and trust that no unworthy man will make me a proposal ot mar riage during this period ot suspense for I'm so dreadful excited that I I ?' "You might accept?" "No: in my agitation I might throw the chance away !" Detroit Free Press It is estimated that there are now in operation in the United States no les3 than 800 mner mills, which are valued at $40,000,000 of capital invested, with a total production of 70,000,000. These mills give employment nominally to 20o 030 people, whose earnings are footed up at $10,000,000 annually. Padded With Diamonds. About a month ago, a man named Daniel Goldschmidt arrived at this port from Germany on board of the steamship Oder, having in his possession consider able baggage, which, in connection with some circumstances occurring on the voyage, aroused the suspicion of the Cus tom House authorities, and the baggage was seized and placed in the public stores, where it now remains awaiting a thor ough examination. The barrare has been claimed several times siuce, but kept back for further developments, which have come with more than antici pated expectations. On the 12th inst. the steamer Abyssinia- arrived at Jersey City. While in quar antine. General Nichols, deputy surveyor, Mr. m. V. Leggett, one ot bis aids, and a number ot other inspectors, made an examination of the passenger list, which revealed the fact that Mrs. Daniel Gold schmidt was one of the number. On pri vate information received a sharp look out was kept on the lady, and as soon as the steamer was moored to the dock, Mrs. Margaret C. Steele, one of the oldeslr of the custom house inspectresses, was di rected to take charge of Mrs. Goldschmidt and her companion. c In making the usual declaration re quired to be filed to the deputy surveyor and his aids, and sworn to by the pas sengers, Mrs. Goldschmidt deposed that she had nothing dutiable among her ef fects. She was taken into the cabin, and Mrs. Steele, having her suspicions aroused by the plump appearance of the lady, at once surmised that the filling out of the bust was anything but natural. On disrobing the lady passenger, Mrs. Steele found two protuberances of a bulbous form coveriug her breast, which con tained, in the cotton padding, the follow ing schedule of valuables, estimated to be worth at least $ 20,000: Ten coral bands, one pair of gold earrings, one gold pin, one pair of enameled earrings, one pair of pearl enameled earrings, seven pairs of diamond studs, three coral studs, one pair diamond earrings, two pearl crosses, one watch ring, one diamond breastpin, one pearl breastpin, three small pieces of jewelry, twenty-five goral beads, twelve gold clasps, one gold watch, chain and pencil attached; one open faced lady's watch, one hunting case lady's watch, one pearl amethyst pin, one cluster diamond ring, one gold chain and piece of chain, one diamond brooch, one diamond pin with solitaire pearl ; one cameo, pearl and diamond pin, one pearl, diamond and stone brooch, one diamond and pearl brooch, one diamond cross, worth about 1,500, one diamond pin with pearl pendant and center, valued at $1,000. Some more goods oL, similar import were also found on Miss C. Odell com panion and nurse of Mrs. Goldschmidt's two children. The astonishment of this lady at the thorough search made of her person by Mrs. Steele may be better im agined than described, and on her report, Inspector Leggett seized also her trunks and hand-baggage. This consisted of nine pieces ; w hich were sent at once to the public stores, and yesterday afternoon turned into the seizure-room of the Cus tom House Deputy Collector Dudley F. Phelps, of the seizure division, received the papers yesterday, and ordered the captured goods into the seizure-room. The above seizures, however, is not the concluding part of the story. There is still a sequel connected therewith, which involves the apprehension of 00,000 worth more jewelry and diamonds, be sides involving the parties implicated in the attempted smuggling in a civil suit as well as a criminal action at law. It appears that Mr. Goldschmidt had been engaged in business at Manheim, Duchy ot liiiden, Havana, and failed. A few days before his bankruptcy, it is alleged, he procured a large stock of valuable jewelry and diamonds as in the regular course of business, and made away with large portion thereof Coming to this country, and caused his wite to follow nm with the balance in her possession as above described. The creditors in Europe, on learning of the flight of Goldschmidt, invoked the aid of their govern ment,and on dispatches received here, a suit for the attachment of the goods was obtained from the courts for the 20,000 worth of jewelry found on the lady's person, and three bags full, valued at $00,000, which could not be traced by the State officers, but are now in possession of the Uuited States customs authorities. New York Herald. GcNrowDEK. By equalizing the pow er of every individual man, gunpowder made an end ot the oppression ol the weak by the strong, as was the case dur ing the reign of feudalism, in the middle ages. Phj sical strength no longer gave entire superiority to its possessor, and the powerful soon found that he had to prac tice justice, even to the lowest and fee blest of his neighbors and dependents. Gunpowder is truly a great civilizer. It put an end to the barbarous and demor alizing hand-to-hand fights, and has thus made wars less ferocious and less de structive, as it decides the battles with far less destruction of life than was for merly the case. Even the improved ap pliances of the present day, the cannon of enormous size, the mitrailleuses, Gat ling guns, needle guns, breech-loading rifles, etc., murderous as they look, and able to kill many men iu a shorter time before, have, strauge to say, an effect con trary to the theory, by which they would naturally be supposed to have the result of augmenting the list of victims in bat tles. Statistics of all the recent battles in which all these appliances were used have indeed shown a much reduced slaughter of human beings, in proportion to tne number engaged, than was the case in battles fought before these ap parently very destructive and murderous inventions were adopted- The School Board of Boston have repealed the ordinance by which corporal puuishmeot was allowed to be inflicted in tht? girls' grammar and high schools of that city. We find self-made men very often, but self-unmade ones a great deal oftener. 4