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Newspaper Page Text. - i -r--- - L ORIGINAL DEFECT! VF DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 111. OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1878. NO. 12: jrl WSX I tl IJMP Jit, , jy JIp SpC'? ! f1nir , in JUJ I r - Mr THE .ENTERPRISE. A C A L N'E WS PAPER ;";-y-' ' OB THE rurnf,Halart. nnn an J Fatuity Circle jfjjj'UED .EYBRY THURSDAY. -: ...'.s.e.'iSs 5? wagy'f!l''.--'l,Bim- y&??ima8 County. OlMKfch "?VwtiiejBuUdiug. Main Struct. r - - alaile Oopy. nix months, in advance!!.'.'.'!'.!. l so 1rm or Adf rrtUlnic Transient advertisements, including all legal notices, per sijuare of twelve lines, uu week... j 250 1 or each subsequent insir. 00 One Column, one ear...J !".".'.".! ViO 00 Half Column, one year .":."..'."."" 60 00 Quarter Column, one year 1!!!!!!!!!. 40 00 Uvminem Card, one square, one year'.!!!! ."! 12 00 . ii.a Krr. in uli'i fwa t r. SOCIETY NOTICES. OREGON LODGE, No. 3, I. O. O. F. ja-eia every rnursuay Evening, at- 1 o'clock, in Odd Fellows' Hall.t ','" jnaiu ourn. aienioers or the Order are invited to attend. ' By order of N. O, REBnE?CA EGR.?E LODGE, No. 2, i. ' , " me second and . ?l Eveninga of each month at TJ o clock, in the Odd Fellow' Hall Miunber ot the Degree .re invited to i nTLS ENCAMPMENT, No. 4. hi.9 .y ' "dd Fellows' Hall onf) " . 5 ln na 1 hlri1 Tuesday of each mouth ttu" gtd sUndiu re Invited to MULTNOMAH LODGE, No. 1 f A. M.. holds its regular eonimuni- tn each month at 7 o'clock from the 20th of beptember to the 2Mh f t. ...... . iV -vuiB kuc r mi. inn -1 1 1 j . x T) o'clock from the at'th of r.r. h .'. S Vtt-'i f !Pm,Tr- B"thr i" Kood Btandini ar, lavltwd to attend. By order of w. M. BUSINESS CAHDS. WARREN N. DAVIS, M. D., PIiyNiviaii and Nurgeon, Graduate of the Culveraity of Pennsylvania. Officb. at Cr-irr Hoi'bb. CHARLES KNIGHT, CAXBY, OBEQOX. lMi.ysioian and Iruisl. -Prescrlptiona carefully filled at short notice. . ja7-tf PAUL BOYCE, M. D., IMijMfi'ian and Surgeon. N'EW EiiA, Clackaiias Couxtt, Chronic DUeaaea and DUeasea of Women and mtldren a specialty. Omee Hours day and night; always rrady when d"y muwas.-7d.tf DR. JOHN WELCH, QDEXTI S T . OFFICK IS OREGON CITY OREGON. Highest cash price paid for Couuty Ordera. E. L. EASTMAN, ATTOILY K Y-AT-LA W , OREGON' CITY, OREOOX. Sp' ial attention given to bu-jiness in tha V.H Laud Office. Oflice in Myer's Brick. JOHNSON & McCOWN, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS AT LAW OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will practice in all the ConrU of the State. Hpeclal attention given to canes in the I'niW 3SUtea Land Office at Oregon City. 5apr'72- J. P. W AIII), OEOIlttK A. HAKDIKC. WARD St HARDING, Dugisls ana Apotliecaries, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A GENERAL assortment of Ir ugH and Cliciiiifal.s, I'rrfiimrrr, Koapa, 4'otiiti, aid llruKlm, ru.-. Miorli. Mbouldrr Brarei t'anrv mid Tnlle-i Artirlm. ALS0-: """ Lanipt-hlnineit, Cilia. Fu(It, I'alnlo. Vaaroialirs a nil Itye Ntuiru. PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC., ETC. V. Physicians' Prescriptions carefully com pouuje j, and all orders correctly answcretl. ajk. open ac ail notirs of tho night. hV. All account niuat le iUt monthly. novl.lST.'.tf WARD Jk HARDING. W. H. HIGHFIELD. Km tabliaho l 1 11 00 One door North of Pope's Hall, MAIN HT., OKEUOX (ITV, OREGOV, Aa assortment of Watches, Jewelry, and SatU Thomas' Weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. 7RepairinI done o short notice; and tbauaiul for past patronage. laaii I'aiU for County Order). JOHN 1YT. BACON, DSALtl lit BOOKS. STATIONERY, ICTCBE FRAMB8. MOULDINGS AND MISCEL- I LANEOCS GOODS. FK1HCI MADE TO ORDER. Omaooir Crtx, Oanaox. mJAt the Post Office. Main Street, west side. novl. '75-tf A. C. WALLINC'S iMoneer Book Bindery Httock'a Building, cor. of Stark and Front Sts.. POKTtAXP. OKEOOir. BLANK BOOKS RCLED AND BOUND TO ANY daaired rattern. Music Bocks. Magazines. ?tpapr. etc.. bound in every variety of style ua to the trade, oratrs irum iu V'oniptly attended to. novl, '75-tf OREGON CITY JBREWERY. vinf BurahaaaJ the abov Brewery, Ua to inform the public that they arel bow preuartd to manufacture JTo. li HAUty OF LAGER BEER. good as can be obtained anywhere in the State. soliutuj and promptly filled. IIKLH A BROTHER IP-DRAW AX A.XUEL DOWS. Some one has given the beautiful idea that when ever we obey the Master's commands by helping those poortr and weaker than ourselves, those bearing heavier burdens, we may feel sure that we draw down angels to bless and support us. This suggested the following lines : Help a brother up I Ye ought to know Of the paiu that tills his heart with woe; The heavy cross he daily bears. While darker and deeper the way appears; If plenteous mercies to thee have been shown. Help thy brother up ! Draw an angel dowu. nelp thy brother up 1 Why do ye btand All the day idle ? Lend cheerful hand, A'ow while the thickest or the fiht Needs loyal ones to npbnM the right; - ' 4'"r "tter thp" T"- i "' i-o ie thee renown iie.j, u orjtiier up I bixw an Angel down. Passing along through life's valleys sweet, Where the reaper bind the ripened wheat. Scorn not (lie woci of love to share ! .Leave not your blrrdens for others to bear ! If ye wish for a blessing your lives to crown. Help a brother up ! Draw an angel down. The toilers are few; the harvest bends ; And prayers like incense sweet ancends. That not in vain shall thousands wait. For their passports beyond the " pearly gate." Strive daily that heavenly merit to own Help a brother up .'Draw an angel down. Best Heart. AT THE LAST. Thtre must be something after all this woe; A sweet fruition from the harrowed past; Rest some day for this pacing to and fro; A tender sunbeam and dear flowers at last. There will be something when these days are done, Something more fair by far than starry nights A prospect limitless, as one by one Embodied castles crown the airy heights. So cheer up. heart, and for that morrow wait ! Dream what you will, but press toward the dream ; Let fancy guide dull effort through the gate, And face the current, would she cross the streani. Then when that something lies athwart the way Coming unsought, as good things seem to do 'Twill prove beneath the flash of setting day A nobler meed than now would beckon you. For lifted up by constant, forward strife, Hope will attain bo marvellous a height. There can be nothing found within this life After thla day to form a fitting night. So heaven alone shall ever satisfy. And God's own light be ever light enough To guide the purified, ennobled eye Toward the smooth which lies beyond the rough. There will be something when these clouds skim by A bounteous yielding fr0ta the fruitful past; nweei peace ana rest upon the pathway lie. E'en though daath and flowers at the last. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY 'That were a fanny thing which hap pened to Jack Itodgers, sir," said the old sailor, "and if I didn't know that it actilly happened, I'd be inclined t doubt it; but me and Jack was ship mates for so long a time that I couldn't be mistaken into him, and I know that this thing which I'm a-goin' to tell you about did actilly take place. "You see, sir, me and Jack was ship mate!) fast in the North American, Black Ball packet, the time she went ashore on the Jersey coast and was lost, and arter that wo was together in the Ox ford , the Cambridge, the Moutezuma, when she was new, the Westminister, London Packet, and mayhap some others; and we got to be'ehums like, asin' each other's dunnings with per fect freedom. It wer'n't likely then, that I'd be mistaken in Jack whatever a woman might say. "Arter 1 took the fever and went off to Calif orny, me and Jack broke tacks, I goin' off for a long board into the Pa cific, and we lost track of one another. About a week after that, though, I falls in with a chap by the name of Ned Mor gan up to the mines, and says he to me, says Ned, 'You recollect Jack Iiodgers,' says he, and says I, 'Of course, I does, and says he, 'He's nicely fixed, and says I, 'As how?' and says he, 'He's spliced to a woman as keeps a public house in the Scotland road to Liver pool, and has knocked of goin to sea altogether.' "Well, sir, I were right glad for to hear this, 'cause Jack were a nice chap, and I didn't crive him much thoucht arter that for years. "Finally, I come over this side tho land, and ships into the Isaac Webb, Black Bailer, for Liverpool, havin' a good passage of eighteen day?, and ar rivin' of a Saturday and dockin' the same tide. Next day bein' Sunday, I gets my best dunnage and I starts for to take a walk and have a look at the old places where I had been used to cruise in former years. Passin' across tho square of the Exchange, nigh at hand to the Nelson monumen, who should I come athwart but Jack Ilodgers. "'Why Jack!' says I. " 'Why, Tom, says lie, 'how goes it?' j pays lie; and then he turns to me quite serious, and says ho, 'Tom Peters,' says he, 'ain't you mistaken? Am I me, or ain't I me; and am I somebody else?' "Well, I thought Jack had been a hystin, and I says, 'Steady, my lad, steady; don't let her yaw about too much; it's all right, old chap, and I'm glad to see you, and if so be as you hadn't enough aboard I'd say come down to the widder's and have a dram and talk over old times.' "Says he, 'Tom, you thinks I'm lush.' " 'Well,' says I, 'goin' for looks I should say no; but goin for talk, am I me or ain't I I, or what do you take me for? I'd say yes.' "Says jack, 'Let's git at this, be?in nin with the fust. Am I Jack Itod gers? "Says I, 'Who else, lad?' "Says he, 'There's folfes in this town as says as how I'm a alibi ; not Jack Rod gers at all, bnt Bill Williams, the hus band of a widder and the father of her children.' "Seein' as Jack, to the best of mv knowledge and belief were sober, I says to him, 'This here's all Greek to me, but if yon likes to go down to the wid der we'll have a pot of beer, and if 'twill ease your mind for to spin the yarn I'm convenient. "So we goes down to the widder's, d bein seated in the snutr. orders an pipes and terbacker, and of course mugs of ale; and Jack reeled it off to me, as nigh as I cau recollect, in this hre style: "Arter we parted in New York,' says he, I ships into the Washington, along of Captain Page, and comes out here, makin' a line run out of sixteen days and fine weather all the time with the exception of a snifter from the s'uth'ard issin' the tail of the Banks. We'd been in, I s'pose, about a week, when J one night I takes a stroll tip Scotland roadway, and I comes to a little public house, and feeling a little dry, I goes in for to have a drop of ale. There was a tidy lookin' lass behind the bar dress ed in deep mourniu , and as I steps up for to giv' my order, she jist clasps her eyes onto me and give a yell, and down she goes into a fit like. Jist then, out cornea a little gal from the inner room, and as soon as she makes me out she sings out, 'It's daddy, it's daddy,' and out of the door she rushes, and I heard her callin' to the folks next door, and next I know'd she come back with a wo man, who fas'ens onto me with her fists, say in', 'Goodness gracious, Mr. Wil liams, you oughtent to come onto her so sadden; why ever didn't you come in to our house fast and let me break it to her gradual. Then she goes behind tho bar and 'tends to the lass there, mak ing the little g&l git her some water for to bring her too with. Then she tells me to go inside for a bit till she gits her all right. Well, Tom, of course I seen there were a mistake somewhere, and I goes in to wait for the proper time of explainin' matters and gettin things to rights. " 'It were a tidy little room inside, nicely furnished and everything snug and shipshape -about it. "Arter about fifteen minutes in comes two wimmin, and this here one in black she jist makes for me and gives me sich a huggin' as any man might be proud to receive, callin' me her 'dear husband' and sich talk as wimmin will go on with when welcomin", until I were completely took aback, and whichever way to fill, bless me if I know'd. It ain't one of my fail in's to be backward in responding but this here were sudden and altogether so rum that I s'pose I were a bit backward, and arter a bit she kind of huqg off, see ing which I says to her, 'I am extremely obliged, marm, 1 m sure, to you and to this other lady, and I wishes with all my heart as I were the man you take me for, but truth is truth, and I ain't, and that's a fact.' " 'Oh, Willie, dear,' she says, laugh in' and cryin at the same time, 'don't joke with your own true wife that's so glad to have you home agin arter mourn in' you as dead and gone.' " ' Well, it went to my heart, Tom, to have to undeceive her, but I never did and never will sail under false colors, and so settin' her down away from me, I says, 'This here are all a mistake, marm ; I am t Bill at all, but am just plain Jack Ilodgers, at your service, as is at pres ent afore the mast into the ship Wash ington, as can be proved by all hands oa board of her, officers and all, and I'm sorry to say it madam, but truth is truth, and I tell you true, I never seen either of you afore in all my born days.' "'Oh, Mr. Williams, Mr. Williams!' says this other women; 'to think of your denyin who you are when we all know you so well; you ought to be ashamed of yourself to try this poor dear so;' and then she goes off a-cryin along with the other one. " 'Tom, if ever I were in a quare day, I were in a quare day at that present time, and whatever to do or say I'm blowed if I knowd.' At last, in very desperation, I says to her: "'Savin' your presence, marm, as you mayn't like to talk of sich things afore strangers, did your husband, what I'm took for, have any particler marks on him by which you'd know him?' " 'You know you have,' she says, 'you unnatural man; you've got a mor frodito brig upon your breast at this identical minit.' 'When she said this, Tom, you might have knocked me down with a feather. You remember prickin' that identical craft onto me when we was 'fore the mast in the Adirondack, and of course there was no denyin' it, and I says: 'You're right, ma'am, as to the brig, though how yon knowed it is more than I can tell; but for all that, I give you a sailor's honest word that from the day of my birth till this present writin', I've been plain Jack Ilodgers and nobody else. Wife or child I never did have, leastwise to my knowledge.' " 'Then,' she says, 'do you mean for to deny that we wasn't married in the little church in Egmont street by Mr. Churchill?" "I does deny it," says I, "and he'll deny it, too, if he tells the truth." "Will you go there with me?" says she. "He knows you well." "I will," says I, "with great pleas ure, for I feels sorry to have you so de ceived ;" and away we went, all three of us leavin' the little gal for to mind the shop. Of course I thought that bein' a man, and not bein' so interested like, he would at once see that I wern't the man they took me for, but jist as soon as ever he claps eyes onto me he reaches out his fist, and says he: "Why, Williams I'm delighted to see you turned up again all right. We thought you was at the bot tom of tho sea." "Says I, 'I'm sorry, sir, but this here is all a mistake; I never saw you afore, and I never seen them wimmin afore." "Then her what claimed me went on at a great rate to the parson, and he said as how I needn't deny my identity, for he knew me well, and there was plenty more that would swear to me anywhere." "Whatever were I to do, Tom? I be gin to be staggered myself begin to think I'd got changed somehow, they were all so sartin. I'd read about sich things, you know, of folks beia' turned by witchcraft into other folks, and I weren't sure but what somethin' of the kind had happened to me, that there morfrodite brig were the most stagger in' thing of all. Howsomever, I says to the parson, "You say your sure you spliced me to this woman ?" "I am as sure as I can be of anythin in this world," says he. "And your're sure," says I to her, that you was spliced to me by this gen tleman?" "You know I was," she sobs. "I'm blowed if I do." says I, "and so for form's sake, if this here gent will jist go through with it agin, why then I'll know it as well as you two." T COURTESY "Well, he wouldn't for a while, sayin that the marriage ceremony were too sacred a thing for to trifle with; but af ter a while, seem as J iere so set onto it, he done it. "There, marm." says I, givin her rousin smack: "everything is all right now, and whether I'm Bill Williams or Jack Ilodgers don t make a lia portu of difference. I intend t . be a husband to you to the best of my natural ability "This here were about three years ago. and I must say ve never had the least occasion for CrVsgret it. She insisted as I shouldn't go to sea no more, not on no account. Fust off I thought I'd bring . some of the chaps from the Washington up there for to convince her that he d made a mistake, but then I thought what's the use of nnsettin her mind, and so I didn t, and we've lived very happy. Of course we has our tiffs time and agin, bein' as I sometimes get pinin' for a sea life and hast a bit too much. At sich times she puts it to me for trying to deceive her, and we have it over this old question of whether I'm Bill Williams or Jack Ilodgers, which I'm sometimes in doubt about myself. And now, if you re sar tin as I am and always have been Jaok, I wants yoa for to come up and see the old woman and convince her that I m right and she's wrong.,' "Says I, 'Jack, speakin as a friend, my advice to you is, let well enough alone; if she thinks as how you're some body else, and is happy in thinkin so, and if you're happy in harm' her think so, it's my opinion you'd be a blasted fool for to want to mate her think other, "That's all very well," slid Jack, 'for you as ain't in my place; however should you like for somebody to l continually at your elbow a-telling jou that you weren't yourself at all but were some body else. As for the old woman, I'm married to her straight Enough, and she's all right whether I'm one man or t'other, but I don't want her to have the best of me, and I wants yol to come up and convince her.' j "Well, I wanted for to se the woman, and so arter another mug up we goes. I finds it a out-and-out fiu place, with all marks of prosperin' and Jack's wife were sich as any many might be proud of. As soon as wo went it he says to her, 'Mollie' her name bein' Mary 'here's my old chum, Tom Peters, as I've often told you about, and as prick ed that identical morfrodite onto my breast, and as is willin' for to take his aflidavy as I'm Jack Ilodgers and not Bill Williams.' " 'Hold on,' says I, 'let hei go easy,' says I, 'which I wishes to ssy, marm, not havin hearn you yarn until to-day, did in old times call this here man Jack Ilodgers; but hearin' of youryarn, and seein' how much better you nust have known him than ever I cculd have done, and not wishin for to contradict a lady, I, of course, chimes in with you, and decides this here question in favor of Williams. " 'You see, I seen this wew the best way for to fix it, and I weren't going to be no jarty to matrimonul broils. Jack give right in to onst, &ni says he, 'If you turns agin me, 'taint no use; henceforward and forever nore I'll swear I'm Bill Williams on a stack of Bibles as high as tho maintop, and he done so. Fortunately for the domestic peace of that family the real Williams never turned up. I used foi to go and see 'em every time I were in Liverpool, and was glad to see that they kep a prosperin'. She never wouldn't let Jack go to sea no more, and in a few years of stayin' ashore he got bo fat and lazy that he didn't want to go. What, suited him best was to sit up in the bar astern of a long pipe and watch the missus serve, and in a year or two he filled out and made as respectable a fig-ger-head for a bar as one could desire." .V. Y. World. Bonmpart in Italy 1196. At last Bonaparte appeared. He was in the uniform of a general in command, and wore his boots, but without sword, hat or scarf . His demeanor was grave and cold. He listened in silence to the preamble of the Piedmontese General, and his only answer was to ask if he had not a copy of the terms he had named, and if they had not been accept ed by the Xing; and upon some com plaint of the harshness of the terms, he added: "Since offering them, I havo taken Cherasco; I have taken Fassano; I have taken Alba. I do not advance upon my former demands. You ought to think me moderate." On some anx iety being shown lest His Majesty might be forced into some measure contrary to the delicacy and loyalty of his prin ciples toward his present allies, Bona parte exclaimed in a solemn tone: "God forbid that I should exact from you any thing contrary to the laws of honor!" To the endeavors that were made to prove to him the slight advantage that he would obtain from certain of the con cessions required, and especially from the crossing of the Po at Valencia, ho replied with some sharpness: "When my Republic confided the command of an army to me, she thought I had suf ficient discernment to determine mat ters conducing to her interest, without having to take counsel with the enemy." Except for this slight sarcasm, in which his tone was raised, and seemed bitter and harsh, Bonaparte was always cold, polished and laconic during that por tion of the audience that preceded the preparation of the articles. At 1 in the morning ho drew out his watch, and seeing that the discussions were being protracted without coming to any deci sive results, he said to the Commission ers: "Gentlemen, I' give you notice that the general attack is ordered for 2 o'clock, and if I am not assured that Coai will bo placed in my hands 1efore the end of the day, this attack will not be delayed for a moment." He added: "It may happen to me to lose battles, but no one will ever see me lose min utes, either by confidence or idleness." Recollections of Marquis Je Beaure gard. OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, Curious Discrimination of Beos and Butterflies. The remarks of Sir John Lubbock in a late lecture on the relation of insects and flowers, leads to the inference that in his opinion the brilliancy of color rather than the odor is the attraction. My observations lead me to suppose that it is not the color, but the particular odor of each variety or species of flowers which induces the visit. With great interest, not unmixed with curiosity, I have observed '(my attention was at first casually excited) that bees particularly, and also butterflies, visit a distinct va riety, and for the time confine their at tention to it, settling on and sucking the honey of that variety only; that is, a bee settling on a scarlet geranium will not go from it to another species or va riety, but give it's attention to th par- i: i , , . - K ticumr variety ouiy irrespective oi color, whether scarlet, pink or white, never going irom a scarlet geranium to an other scarlet flower, even if in contact. Whatever the species of flowers it is the same pelargoniums, petunias, helio tropes, lilies, etc. The visit is from pe largonium to pelargonium, not from pelargonium to geranium (both crane's bills) and from lily to lily, irrespective of color. I never remarked s bee go from a lily to an amaryllis, Sr the re verse. Tbe object of this distinctive selection appears to be fertilization. The indiscriminate admixture of the pollens of distinct varieties would prob ably frustrate the ends of nature and lead to monstrosities of barrenness. What would be the effect of the admix ture on its own stores is a distinct ques tion. So far as the insect is concerned, doubtless the fact has relation to it's own economy. Whatever be the reason, there appears to be the harmonious ad justment of two facts under the rela tions of one law. If the color, and not the odor, was the attraction, the visits would be indiscriminatelv made to all flowers of a brilliant hue. The obser vation of the lecturer as to flies being attracted by stinking plants or carrion 1 seems to prove the facts suggested.'; Flies settle indiscriminatelv on all pu trefactions, and will go immediately irom a flower to offu or from offal to a flower. With bees and butterflies there is certainly a discriminative selection guided by odor; I have also remarked that some flowers are rarelv. if ever visited by bees. 1 havo never in the books I have read met with this observation, and when so acute and distinguished an observer as Sir John Lubbock pusses over the cir cumstance, I presume either the fact has not been observed, or, if observed, has been considered incons :quential. The observation may be worth nothing, but in these days of minute science, when every infinitesimal variation is noticed and invested with importance, there may be a significance in the fact which escapes me, but which, with others may have its value. So far as I know, the occurrence is invariable; be ing so, the inference is that odor, and not color, is the attraction. I have called the attention of others to tho oc currence, who have, watching the re sults, always come to the same conclu sion as myself. Corr. of Nature. How a Wedding was Spoiled. The Chicago Tribune relates that a young couple were recently to be married in a church in that city, and the guests had all assembled to witness the interesting ceremony. The bride, attired in all the gorgeous hnery customary on such oc casions, alighted from the carriage, and the groom stepped blithely and lightly after her, and upon her long trail. As he did so the fair lady uttered a low cry, and exclaimed, sharply, "Oh, dear, how awkward you are!" The young man's face colored as he stumbled off the rich garment, but gave the lady his arm and walked into church with her. The ceremony proceeded, the minister asked the bride if she would accept the groom for her wedded husband, and re ceived the usual affirmative answer, and was about to interrogate tke young man, when the latter impulsively and unexpectedly said to the bride, "Oh, dear, how awkward you are!" and turu ing on his heel walked out of the church without another word, leaving the would-be bride and the assembled company in utter bewilderment. The young man rode off in a carriage, and the rest of the wedding party, after re covering from their astonishment, left for their homes. The occurenre was an actual one, and has occasioned a great amount of gossip. - Ploughing the Bed of the Ocean with a Michigan Plough. During the past summer we witnessed deep-sea ploughing in She harbor of Belfast, Maine. The bottom cf the bay is cov ered with a tenacious, clayey deposit, into which the steam shovel penetrates with difficulty; and to loosen it a huge Michigan plow was set at work under the water, drawn by steam power on shore, using a wire rope to form con nections. The water at high tide was about twenty feet deep when the plough was working. The man that held it was encased in the diver's armor, and sup plied with air by a flexible tube connect ing with an air-pump on board of a ves sel floating above. He came up at our request, and after removing his air tight helmet and conversing a few mo ments, was again put in connection with the pump, and disappearing under wa ter, went on with the ploughing. This to us was a novel proceeding, and, so far as we can learn, it was the first experi ment of the kind ever made. Boston Journal of Chemistry. "Rise early, if you wish to become rich and conquer an enemy." "What is the most beautiful thing? The uni verse. The strongest? Necessity. The most difficult? To know ourselves. The easiest? To give advice. Tha rarest? A true friend." Dox't forget your pocket book if you go to the fair. No credit is given. Boston Post. V b.o Owns the Wedding Presonti Husband, or Wife ? Mrs. Kate Welsh, widow of John D. Welsh, Jr., who died in Cuba in April, 1874, sued her husband's exeoutors to recover $1,500 worth of silverware and other articles which she claims are her property. The executors said in an swer that these articles were wedding presents to Mr. and Mrs. Welsh at their marriage, made principally by his friends; that Mr. Welsh and his wife had separated by mutual consent four teen months before his death, she tak ing her paraphernalia and also some articles of silver which he claimed were his; and that by his will he gave his property and the guardianship of his four-year old child to his executors. The case was tried yesterday before J udge Larremore in the Court of Com mon Pleas. At the close of the plain tiff's case Mr. Bartlett moved for a dis missal of the complaint, claiming that as the presents were made to the hus band and wife jointly, they by law be longed to the -husband, notwithstand ing the law of 1848 enabling married women to hold property in their own name. Mrs. Welsh's counsel, in re ply, claimed that as the evidence show ed that they were made a few hours be fore the marriage, Mrs. Welsh had be come vested in at least an undivided one"-half interest in them as a single woman, and by tho law of 1838 that in terest was continued, notwithstanding her marriage, and upon the death of her husband she, as survivor, became sole owner. Besides, wedding presents were generally made to the bride and not to herself and her intended husband jointly. J udge Larremore refused to dismiss the complaint, and the jury gave plain- j tiff a verdict for the return of the ar ticles or their value, which was assess- ' ed at 3216 44. New York World. An Anti-Teetotal Government. According to an old resident in Rus sia, who writes in tho Pall Mall Gazette, the Russian Government is implacably hostile to the temperance movement, fearing that it will diminish the princi pal source of its revenue. By the latest returns, the liquor duties yield to the Imperial exchequer, the vast sum of 800,000,000 roubles, (3100,000,000) a year. The notorious impecuniosity of the Government has induced it to treat teetotal leagues as illegal secret socie ties. The most summary measures have been taken towards forcing the people to contribute to the revenue by their intemperance. Policemen and soldiers are employed to llog the teetotalers into drinking; some, who doggedly held out, have had liquor poured into their mouths through funnels, and were im prisoned as rebels. The clergy, at the same time, were ordered to preach against this new form of sedition, and the press-censorship has laid its veto upon all publications in which the im morality of the liquor traffic was de nounced. Recently a Polish school master was condemned to sweep the streets, in a convict gang, for raising his voice against "King Vodke." In Russia no one can now advocate tem perance principles with impunity. Insensible Destruction of the Bbain. The annual report of the Super intendent of Longview Insane Asylum quotes, with indorsement, the following remarks of a former Superintendent of the Worcester (Mass.) Lunatic Hos pital on alcoholic drinks as an exciting and predisposing cause of insanity: "The brain can not be kept for years in a constant, though it may be a slight, abnormal condition without altering organic character and rendering it li able to at least functional disturbance, which constitues insanity. Many of the cases of softening of the brain and epi lepsy result directly from the use of in toxicating drinks. In still another way, also, imtemperance should be regarded as the cause of this diseasa, namely, by its effects on the offspring of those addicted to it. The habitual use bf alcohol is felt through more than one generation, and though the father may not become insane his children will have an additional tendency to insanity, especially if they pursue the same course, as they are likely to, for the ap petite is also" transmissable. A large part of the idiots and imbecile children are born of intemperate parents." The term imtemperance, as here used, means simply the habitual use of alcoholic drinks, and this physician means that this can not be kept up with out changing the organic structure of the brain, and that habitual drinkers, although such as call themselves tem perate drinkers, are unfit to propagate their kind. A Conductor's Singular Mistake.- Conductor Herkins' train from New York Saturday evening, says the New Palladium, was delayed half an hour by a singular accident. Our readers may remember our account, a year ago. of the Harlem conductor whose hat blew out of the baggage car door, and who reached for it so eagerly that he follow ed it and was so injured by tho fall as to be laid up for several months. This same Conductor Budlong was collecting fares Saturday in the tunnel on the train which leaves the depot on the Harlem Road at 2:20 p. m. Passing through the last car, he walked on, thinking he had another car to visit, and walked right off the end of his train, falling on the track. It is very dark in the tunnel, and the rolling smoke made it impossible to see that there was not another car. The engineer soon dis covered that Budlong was missing. He telegraphed back to the depot and Con ductor HeTkins' train was held back, so that it might not run over Budlong's body. An engine was at once sent up through the tunnel to look for it, and it tra found on the track. Budlong was un conscious and badly hurt, but it is said that no bones had been broken. A neglected wife may keep her sor rows to herself, but a neglected liver will not. Rome Sentinel. Responsibility of Hotel X i adlordsi A law case of interest to hotel proprie V, tors was decided last week in. the eouriik of New York. It not only involved tbr, '4 loss of over 3,000 worth of familj je?J 1 els of Major-General Winfiefd S. HanJ 3 cock, but also a very important, quesfl tion of law governing the extenfcof the"' J responsibility of the landlord of .a hobjfdn? for the loss of property belonging taitir guests. It seems that the Genwafcort? ed with his family at'TEff SLCl5ud"" Hotel in this city in 1873, and during this time a lot of jewelry was stolen from their rooms. The defence set up by the Messrs. Rand, the proprietors of the St. Cloud, was that if such loss did occur and the property was of the value claimed by the plaintiffs the defendants were not liable because of the neglect of plaintiffs to deposit the property in the hotel safe, and also on the further grounds that the plaintiffs were not guests within the meaning of the Hotel law, but were permanent boarders, for whose losses defendants were not re sponsible. The Court says: ''In a boarding house the guest is under an express con tract at a certain rate for a cert in period of time, but in an inn thei u is no ex press engagement; the gue t being on his way is entertained from day to day according to his business upon an im plied contract." This principle is also amply sustained by other authorities. It was decided that the General and his family were not guests of tho defend ants, bnt only boarders, and therefore that the defendants were not liable for the losses sustained, no proof having been offered that the defendants were guilty of a gross negligence. The case, therefore, was decided in favor of the Messrs. Rand. How the French Vote. A corres pondent of the London Times, writing j from Bordeaux, Franco, gives the fol lowing description of how electious are conducted in that country: "The process is perfectly simple and neat. Electors walk into the Marie as men go -on 'Change, and at the gate the friends of the candidate or his agents offer a plain white paper with the candidate's name. In the hall where the votes are taken, the Mavor and his bureau, with out any civil or military guard, sit with the ballot-box before them, lhe eU-c-' tor offers his numbered elector's ticket, the Mayor tears off a corner of it, calls out the registered number (which is then crossed off bj his secretaries), takes from the elector the white voting paper folded , and drops it it into the urn. In this way long files en queue pass on in one even stream, and the process goes on with immense rapidity. The law forbids the presiding officer to take a voting paper open, or in any way marked outwardly; no armed force U permitted in the voting hall; the ballot box has a double key, and must be opened immediately upon the close of the poll. Electors have the right to be present without any interruption from the moment the box is first locked up, after examination, until the final count ingoutofall the voting papers in it, and in practice the whole process goes on under the eyes of the public. The only possible falsification of the process, even an very benighted districts, in volves a plain breach of law under the eyes of electors; and, since the new Cham ber will in any case have a itepuuiican majority, which will be the sole judge of all disputed elections, and every eleo- tor has an absolute right of objection, if the voting is anywhere improperly maneuvered, it can only be in plaices where there is not a single Republican elector who has the spirit to enter a protest." Reception of Osman Pasha at the Russian Camp. A correspondent at Plevna telegraphs concerning Osman Pasha's reception by tke Russians: Grand Duke Nicholas rode up to U&- man's carriage and for some seconds the two chiefs gazed into each other's faces without the utterance of a word. Then the Grand Duke stretched out hi hand, shook the hand of Osman Pasha heartily, and said: "I compliment you on your defence of Plevna. It is one of the most splendid military efforts in history." Osman smiled sadly, rose painfully to his feet, in spite of hia wound, and said something which I could not hear. He then reseated him self. The Russian officers all cried, "Bravo !" "Bravo '."repeatedly, and all saluted respectfully. There was not one among them who did not gaze on the hero of Plevna with the greatest ad miration and sympathy. Prince Charles of Roumania, -who had arrived, rode up and repeated, unwittingly, al most every word of the Grand Dake, and likewise shook hands with Osman, who again rose and bowed, this time in grim silence. . He wore a loose blue cloak, with no apparent mark on it to designate his rank, and a red fez. He is a large and strongly built man. The lower part of his face is covered with a short black beard without a streak cjf gray, and he has a large Roman nose aad black eves. "It is a grand fet,M exclaimed Colonel Galliard, a French military attache; "I was almost alraul of seeing him lest my expectations should be dissapointed ; but he more than ful fills my ideal." "It is the face of a great military chieftain," said young Skobeleff. "I am glad to have seen him. Osman Ghazi he is, and Osman the vic torious he wiil remain in spite of his surrender." Ham Toast. Arthur' Home Maga zine pronounces ham toast, made in the following manner, very nice: Melt in a stewpan a small piece of butter, till , it is browned a little. Put in as much finely-minced ham as will cover a large round of buttered toast, and add as much gravy as will make it moist. When quite hot, stir in quickly, with a fork, one egg. Place the mixture over the toast, which cut in pieces of any shape you may fancy. Adah was the the first Senator. He paired with Eve, and ale the apples in the Senate. i III (! t h i r Pi I I: