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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1890)
The PEOPLE Know ÌNSERTED IN he Telephone-Register iieinv rii e A est ----- THE VALUE OF----- A NEWS MEDIUM hwi/rvB HAT IS ONI’. OF ITIE RFANoNi WHY THF TEI.EPHONE ItEGlRTEIt EN.IOVH THE I.ARG ( EHT * I Itrll.ATlON OF ANY NEWSPAPER PUB I.IHHED IN YAMHILL WUNTY .ifircrtixerx xhouM Ivep I hi» tit mintl. fantini erirfewre of fit's fifi ron hr *rr» al hi» nJUer Circwteteii Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , F ebruary so , isso . H. BALLINGER. Hit YAQUINA ROUTE ATTORNS? AT LAW. OrepaPacHaiM Office in Fletcher building. Third Street, McMinnville, Oregon j. r. CAl.HRBATIt. —AND— OREGON DEVELOPMENT COM- PUNT’S STEAMSHIP LINE. K. K. OOVCHKB. Calbreath & Goucher, 99ft Miles Shorter— 90 hours less time than by any other route. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. M c M iwnviujc , • . - O kkgo . n , • aWFinit elate thningh iisnneagvr itn«i tirialit line from Portland and nil point, in the ’vil lamette valley to end from Sun Fttnelsco (Office over Braly's Bank.) Time S c I h M ii I o (except Bundavs). Is«ave Albany 1 30 pm l^ave Yaqutna S:45 am LeaveCorvailta i:40 pm taaveCorvalli.lO:^ am Arrive Ya«|ntnn 3:3i' pm Ar -ire Albany 11 ;10 ar O. ¿k C train» connect at Albany *n«l •'nr- VMM. The above train* connect at Yaqi isa with the Oregon Vevelopcmout Go’s. Mat of fitrnai- ahiin t etwecn ) aqalna and Sail Francisco. N. H — Passenger* from Portland and all WII- ametto Valley Lh'lnta ran mako clone connec- tern witk «he trains or th» YaqvtxA Rows el Albany or Onrvallta, end if «leatineil to San Francisco, should arrange to arrive at Ya«|nina the evening before date ot tailing. The Oregon Pacific steamboats on the Willamette River division will leave Port land, south-bound. Monday. Wtstnerilay and Friday at « a tn. Arrive at Corvallis Tuesday . Thursday and Saturday at 3 ri p. >n. I.eave Corvallis, north-bonml. Momlay. Wedne«<tay and Friday at X a ni Arrive at Portland Tuesday. Thursdnv ami Satnr- day at .3 30 p. tu On Monday. Weilnexdav ami Friday both north an«l south-bound boats lie over night at Nnlem, leaving there at 6 a m. Paeeenger and freight rates always the low est Fot mfotsMlion, apply to Mea*ra Hl'I. MAN* CO,. Freight and Ticket Agents, 2« and 2U9 Front strest. Portland, Oregon; or to C. C. BOGVB, Acting Gen'l. Frt. * Paas. Agt , Oregon PacNe R. K. Co., Corvalita, Oregon. C C H. RABWEI I , Jr., Genl. Frt. * Paw. Agt.. Oregon Pevelopmeat De.. Montgomery etreet. Ran Franciece. Cal. S. A. YOUNG, M. D. Physician & surgeon. Mi'Mitntvm.*, Otkfciios. Office and remitene* vn l> strvrt *Bs promptly an*w*ml day or night AU C. MICHAUX 1»R. Practicing Phyaician «nd Surgeon. IAFATFTTE. OREGON. Jaa.n. W. COMMERCIAL HOUSE, (Formerly Cook House ) McCALL & HOLMAN. Proprietors. »1 00 to $2.00 Pts D ay . This Hotel has been thoroughly reno- vated. and is setting the best table in the Board valley. Meals. 23 and 50 cents and lodging, $5.00 per week. HEWITT BROS DK\l.KK* IX OVERLAND TO CALIFORNIA. B ooks , stationery VIA taathern THF ANO SCHOOL SUPPLIES. HUIT SBASTA ROTTE! Time Between Musical Goods and Instrnmtits of all Kinds. Portland and San Francisco, 30 HOUKSt California Express Trains Run Daily In building fcrinerlv oo-upieil by Me Minnvillc News Co BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SAN FRAN CISCO I LKAVZ MONEY TO LOAN AKRIVV. Portland 4 iO p m SanFranciwi ■ 45 pm 3su Fran. 7 tri p m Portland 10.43 pm Local Patevturer Daily, except Funday trxVK. ' AMIVI Portia.id . x «>an> Eugene 2 40 p m Eugene 9 vri a miPortlamt 3:43 p m -OK Improved Farm Property Pullula« hffd Slerptn On Short or I-ong Time in tfrims to suit taiwest Rate« ami no Commissions Tourist Sleeping Care, For aroommodation of 8e«toHd Class Pas senger» attached to express trains. Tbc S P Company's Ferry make« con nection with all tbe* regular trains on the East Side Division from foot «if F «treet INSURANCE NE8OT9ATED. ?all on or address W. T. SHURTLEFF. At J. 1. Knight A Co.’» MeMinnvile. Or Pariti«- Company'* Liam, «Il «toc IMVtSKMI Between Portland and Carvallia. Mail Train Daily, except Sunday, uun I Anatvx McMinn’ 10:13 am Corvalt!« 12:23 pm i <'««resili* 1 :«> P ni McMinn' 3 44 p tn McMinn’ 3:44 pm Portland . 6:3o p IB ■ - ......... •_ I E. ’ IA/DIPUT VV II II III 1 IllllMBII Has the most complete stock of harness in the countv. At present 12 set of sin- «le harness, hand made, m price* ranging from *12 to *30 and t> set of team harness as cheap I AS ANY PLACE IN THE COUNTY Can be seen on the hooks in my shop. I have competent workmen employed to do all kin :is of re|>airing and to make any harness ordered I also keep a fall sto« k of oil and niblier robes, lap robes, horse covers, saddles, etc. A .‘nil line of extras for repairs ron«tantly on hand. J. B. ROHR, j At Albany ard Corvallis «-onnect with train* of Oregon Pacific Express Train Daily, except Bunday LBAAK. CKRtVK Portland . 4 JO p m ».tip m McMinn’ 5:43 sm . 9:00 a m Through tickets to all points Routh and East via California Ticket affil e* No 134. corner First and Alder xtreete, Portland. Oregon corner Front and F ««tveeta, Portland R KOKHI.ER. E. P. KOGERS. Manager Asxt. G F. A P Agt If so be sure and call for your tickets via the The Oaly Sigs Writer is the Cossty. Home, fitted itp in the Neatest and Most Artistic Style. De-igns furnished for Decoration« —THE— w ib w It is positively the shortest and fin Mt ite to and the east and south and — Chicago „___ _________________________ national bank . line the only sleeping and dining car through Conner Third ami <' streets, in Bralv block. tine to M c M innville M’M INN VILLE, OREGON. Vraas*« -ta a General Banking Business, Pvondent........ Vice President . Cashier Its magnificent steel track, unsurpassed J. w. COWLS train service and elegant dining and sleeping cars has honestly earned for it the . .LEE LAUGHLIN title of J. L. STRATTON The Iloyal Route Bell* Sight exchange and telegraphic transfers on Portland, San Franco and New York. I’oUactbin* matter all neceesibie points. Others may imitate.but none can surpass it Intcre-t allowed on dme deposits. Our motto is “always on time ’’ Office hours from 9 a m. to 4 p m. Be sure and ask ticket agents for tickets via this celebrated route and take none others. W H MEAD, G. A No. 4 Washington street, Portland, Or M c M innville TRUCK AND DRAY CO., CARLIN A HIGH, Proprietors Goo«i. ot all description, moved and care ful handling guaranteed Collections will 1« made monthly Hauling of a 1 kinds done « heap S eed 1. l)e>cripure tor i 8 jo wii* be maJe.i FhEEto Ji applicant*, and to last season'» cua- t a tn erx It i» better than ever. Ev ery )>er»on Dung Garden, Flower or Field SEEDS should tend for it. D. M. FERRY A. CO. DETROIT. MICH. ^A m H c POWDER Absolutely Pure. The St. Charles Hotel Plumbers Supplies! PEOPLE'S MARKET. Raw & Boiled Linseed Oil, Railroad To all Points East & South & a JL Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, East, North «P South, 7«. A Beautifully has done for the IVorM «luring the past ed in the IXipatrh the day after she sent two ami a half years has made it necex- the communication asking for the writer's aarv that her (»ereonalty should l>e kept name. Miss Cochrane sent her name as much ax (Kxwible a secret. But the and received a letter from the editor re public interest in the young lady has be questing her to write an article on the come so great that the IForM to-day re subject of girls and their spheres in life lieves the intense public curiosity by for the Ihipalrh. She did this. publishing her portrait. At the same The article was printed an«! the same time that the public learns what Nellie week she received a cheek for it and a B!y l«x>ks like, it seem*, well to sav some request for something else. Her next thing about who and whet ahe is. subject was “IHvorce” ami at the end of It is easier to say wliat xh«> is not. The the article up|«eared the now world-fa B'orM aud Miss Bly have kept the secret mous signature "Nellie Bly.” Miss well, and moat of tlie printed matter Cochrane assumed it by the suggestion about this young lady has become entire of Mr. Geo. A. Madden, managing editor ly from hearsay. In the first place she of tlie lUtpatch. who got it from Steven la not “Helen Finnegan.” Nor is she a Foster’s popular song. The divorce ar “widow." Nor—so far as the World ticle attracted attention. It wax timely knows—is she engaged to many any ati'l contributed to causing the salutary body. Nor is she "anywhere from thirty change which was made shortly after in to forty-five years old,” as various journ the marriage laws of Pennsylvania. 'tYiix powder never vanes. A marvel oí als have slated. Nor is she "a brazen Then Miss Cochrane wrote to the editor purity, «trength au«l wholesomenex«. More ecouotuical than the ordinary kinds, ami faced, masculine woman who forces her setting forth the value of a series of ar cannot be sold in uuiupetitlon with multi way in search of news." All oí these ticles about working girls. She was in tude of low test, short weight alum or phos phate powder. Sold only in cans. R«'v*t. things have been aald of her an«l nil of vited to the office an«l made arrange R akish Pnwnxa C o . lot. Wall 8t.. N V. them are false. ments to accept a salary an«l devote her life aa time to tbe Dinpalrh. Taking an artist Nellie Bly is known in private | Miss Elizabstb Cochrane, She i« an un with her she went through the factories married woman, twenty-three years o! and worksho|Hi of Pittsburg and describ Sample rooms in connection. age. Rhe lives quietly in an uptown flat ed and pictured the condition of the with her widowe«! mother The kind of working girls. The articles made a big Is now title«! up in first class order. work that she has «lone has made it bit and were imitated by writers in al- Accommodations ax good ax can be necessary that ahe should know as few tnoet every large city of the land. Later found in the city. ptiople as poasibte, and on that account Miss Cochrane became aociety editress her private life has been a very quiet l <>( the IHupab-h ami also looked after the 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. one. Rhe has accepted no social atten I dramatic and art departments, all for a tion, but among the few |>eople with I Rfllarv Rnlary rii of HO *10 ib«r per week. Maaa Ideas kont kept htilv bob- wliom she has «-ome in contact she has ' bing up in her brain all the while and gainol liking for her two most distinctive one of them took strong hold of her All kinds of Plumbing Supplies can I* qualities—her frankness anil her gentle mind. She wanted to go to Mexico to found at my shop, and I am ready ness. Free from affe«-tation and loud write about its fxMiple. At this time she to do all kinds of work in con no ness, ahe is popular with all who have was leceiving |15 per week. tion with the city water works. Rhe went, Satisfaction guaranteed Shop ot>- known tier, except the people she has and her letters printed in the /W»p<ifrk posite the City Stables P. D. GI.EN'N made uncomfortable through the col were full of interest and were widely of the World. copied. She had never been out of her TRIPLETT & BOND. umns Miss Cochrane is a good-lookinx bru- state liefore, but she traaelle<l every Proprietors of the nette, of medium lieight, and slight where in Mexico that a railroad could graceful figure, who does not look nearly take her. Her mother was her cotn- Th«* neat«' it place in the citv Animals so old as the re«*ordx make her. Her ap |>anion on thetrip. Returning to Pittsburg carefully wle. ted for killing -Insuring the pearance is girlish, and while Contact she became dissatistleil with that field, finest meat Poultry, etc . Iiought and with lhe wori«l in her journalistic capai i- quit the Dwpa/Jh and came to New mild Highest market price paid for every ty has given her thoughts and manners York. thing. She did syndicate work for a a serious cast, ami the far-reaching uxe- while. One day she lost her Isvcketbook fulmess of many of her ta«ks has make I and all tfie tnonev she |<oseesscd, about her feel that newspaper wvmen have *100. She was too proud to let her earnest missions in life, still there is a friends know, or to g«> home, so she sat MAMvruTt aia* or glint of the sunshine of youth in many of «town and thought. her ways and a jolly light-heartednc** at She finally applied for an engagement times manifests itself, whirl, shows that nt the Iforfd office, with a lettei of intro there is a strong, bright link betw«>en duction. She asked the privilege of go her looks and the girlhood that radiates ing in the Iralloon the IForM was then Oil Calce Ts/teal and through them. Rhe is not so old, either, sending up at St. ixiuis. This suggestion as far ax years are concerned. Miss was not favorably receive«! on account of C«x-hrane was borne in 1867. That’s not the hazardous nature of the undertaking. Hnuniil Elnxwed. so very long ago. is it” Her birthplace She called again and pluckily suggested Siri Front Street. Portland, Oregon. was Cochrane's Mills, a settlement in a trip to Europe and return in the steer Armstrong county, l’a.. named after her age. for the pur)>oxe ot writing up the ex Fmm Terminal er Interior Peint» the father Mr. Cochrane owned flour mills perience of an emigrant, Ax she had there and a large tract of land. He had «tone no writing for the H'orM a.« yet Mr. ■ numerous employees who built house* in Pulitzer preferred that she should try a the neighborhood on his propertv aud local story at first, and he personally these compose«! the community. Her suggested the Insane Asylum ev|>o«e. father wax not a miller, as might tx* xup- Miss Blv did this with such marked xnc- poeed from the fact oi his owning flour < exs anil originality of treatment and at mills; he wax a lawyer, and for several tracted so much attention that she was la the Line to Take terms filled th«* office of associate judge immediately given a permanent place on of Armstrong county. The family lived th.. H’orM staff. It is the DINING CAR EOUTE It ran* first at the Mills and then moved into a This was three years ago. Her achieve Through VESTIBULED TRAINS house built for them at Apollo, about ments since have been many and bril Every Day in lhe Year to ten miles distant. While Miss Cochran«* liant Scarcely a week passe«l that she was still in her first decade her father had not some novel feature in the IForfd. died. He was stricken suddenly with Her fame grew ami her tasks enlarged No Change of Cara paralysis and paxse«l away w ithout lieing until they culminated in the wonderful »r HUH« nils able to make a will. This involve«! the tour of the world in 72 days, f> hours, 11 , unxurpa«*«Hl family estate, which is still unsettled minute« and 14 seconds, which lias made PlLLNlUhRmnGROONSLHTERS and in the hamlsof administrators. Miss her tlie l«est-known and most widely (Of Latent Equipment,) Cochrane's education ta-gan at home. talkedof young woman on earth to-day. ToiRisT siiirnu («s Her first instruction* were given her by , She has worked hard ami she deserves Best that can I h > construe ted ami in her father, from whom she received in all her success. which accommodations are for hol ders o< First or Svoml-cpiss Tick spiration in the direction of study. He et«. and Salaries of Chorus Girls. was a broad-minded, high-principled HEiUW Mi rov HEX. gentleman, cultured and polished, and, The chorus girl receives a salary vary A Continuous Line connecting with all appreciating all the advantages of educa-1 ing with the character of the company lines, affordiug direct and unin tion, be gave his children the full dene- in which she is engaged. Tlie first-class terrupted service. fit of every advantag«* he possessed in companies, such ax McCaull's Aronson's, Pullman N«>x,per rc*crv alien« < an lw «ccur- «*! in advam <’ through auy agentof the road that way. When Miss Cochrane was old Duffs, Conreid A Hermann’s, Carleton’s Thrttiidi r" an ‘l ,r""' •’»inu enough to leave home, she. wax sent to a and several others pay their chorus girls II1IUIISII TirLei\ lirAriSjn Allierj , , al1 England vn«f Europe can !>« purchased at any ticket boarding-school at Indiana, l’a., where from $15 to $25 per week while “on the office of Inis conmany. she remaineil from 1879 to 1881. She road,” ami about (;! less when they are Full information «-oneerning rates, time of train*, route* and other details furnished was obliged to leave this institution on stationed in one city ior four weeks or on application to anv agent, or acron nt of threatening heart disease, and more. Of course, this is not a large sum A I) CHARLTON. later, when arrangements were nearly to live on while traveling through the Asst General Passenger Agent. Ge neral «»nice Of the Company, No, 1X1 completed to send her to the Blairsville country, but all the girl lias to buy out of Flr«t 9«., Cor. WahlngVon, I'ortand, Or. Seminary, the doctor said one year's it is her hoard and clothes and occa study would probably cost the girl her sional medicines and luxuries. But she /•.rrS life. She was anxious to continue her manages to live well. It is quite a com studies, but she didn’t want to die. She mon thing for three or tour girls to club remained at home and her waking hours together for the season. When they not given to books were devoted to horse reach a city in which they stay a week Á back riding and light out-door exercise more, they rent a furnished room con ON SALB which greatly improved her health. Sho taining two beds, and with tbeii portable —TO— became so skilled in equestrianism that oil stove and cooking utensils they pre DENVER, she soon had the reputation of being the pare their own meals. In this way they best horsewoman in Armstrong county. sometimes live for |2.50 or (3 per week. Her literary taste was general. She hail When playing in towns less than a week no favorite study, but seemed to have an they go to cheap hotels, rarely paying inordinate mental appetite for all kinds more than $1.50 per day, and more fre ST PAUL, ST. LOUIS. of information. Stories of travel seemed quently paying |1. If they have a long AND ALL POINT* to give her a great deal of pleasure, and trip to make, they usually take posses if she liked any one class of books more si on of an ordinary coach, and dexter than another, it might be said that she ously transform it into a sort of sleeping- preferred books of travel. .Sentimental car, where they rest nearly as comforta ---- AT---- creations she had no fondness for. This ble as if in a Fullman without paying OIS-, appears strange in face of the fact that anything for it. I have known several when a very little girl she wrote love who have gone all the way across the GEO. S. TAYLOR' Ticket Agt. and fairy stories by the score. She wrote continent and back several times without them on the fly-leaves of books and on having spent a night in the berth of a Corner First and Oak Sts. loose scraps ot paper. For whole hours ' sleeping-car. They inure themselves to at night she lay in I hm I unable to go to i the discomforts of traveling, cheap board sleep because of the tirelessness of her ing-houses and the like for the sake of a imagination, weaving tales and creating comparatively small salary. Almost heroes and heroines, amply for her own without exception there is some one at ex delight or the gratification of the young home awaiting the savings effected by II companions to whom she would relate such economy. them. It was her wont to get the girls of the town together an«l tell them these The lailroad repairers who returned stories; it was easier to make up some yesterday from the vicinity of Oregon story to tell them than to repeat an old City think it will be a good many days story. So activ«i was the child’s brain before trains are running through to and so strongly her faculties eludeil sleep Portland. Below Oregon City, in the that her condition became alarming and Clackamas bottom, one entire section of she had to lie placed under the cared j track of five miles is washed away. To physicians. She had no idea then oi [ repair this will require several «lays, and publishing anything. It was not until as the floo«l has not yet gone down it will she and her mother went to Pittsburg at be some time before laborers can do the solicitation of her (lire«* brothers, much to the track.—Statesman. who are there in t ie rubber business, I that she entere«! the professional fiehl of literature. She was a gieut newspaper reader, and one «lay she saw an article AKE TO? GOING EAST? ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO. H onnf . Sin. anil Ornamental Fainter Remember Paper Hanging ami Inside Fur nishing a Specialty Work taken by Contract or by the Day. Fx- perteheed men employed. Third Street. McMinnville. Oregon. THE STORY OF NELLIE BLY. in the Pittsburg Ihipatrh headed "What FOUGHT AGAIN*!’ FATE. An Authentic Biugntphy of th«* Girls Are Good For.” She wrote a reply to the article, giving her imagination a Eventful Career of u Cont'cdei- World’s Olobe-OInller. ate Natal Oflleer Just pretty free rein, and though the reply The nature ot the work that Nellie Bly wax not published, a paragraph appear Clotted. i MEMORY vol . II. tion which lten<l hn«l taken out wrought only failure. About flint time the ram Webb lav in the Re«i river, above Alexandria, liead, ax her commander, lifted her up as a cruiser, and in April of 1865 left Shreve port. She ran the gauntlet of fire from Federal gunboats at night and escaped. Ten miles above New Orleans Read sent men ashore to cut the telegraph wires. Unfortunately messages from Fort Don aldson ha«l already apprised the Federal* at New Orleans of his approach. But nearing the city Read hoisted the I nion ensign al hall mast—Prescient Lincoln was then dead—an«i the trick was not discovered until she bail almost a clear field towards salt waler But meeting the Richmond, Head said further effort would lie useless. The Webb was run ashore and then it was saure gui p»ui. The men were caught by cavalry, and on May 10 the captain found himself in Fort Warren again. <hm Kirby Smith’s surrender ended their imprisonment. (.'apt. Read settled in New Orleans, al though his love of the ocean did not per mit him to lie much of a landsman. He chose navigation as a profession, and served his country by guiding its mer chant ships safely through storm and sea. and rebuilding and extending its commerce. He commanded a number of ships sailing to different points, and finally became connected with the fruit trade and the Royal Mail line tietween New Orleans and British Honduras. His special charge was the city of I*allas, and he commanded her for six or seven years. He spent several years in South Amer ica. About a year and a half ago Gov. Nicholls, recognizing tbe worth of the bold fighter of the Arkansas, the Webh, the Florida and the Clarence, appointed him one of the board of Harbormasters of the port of New Orleans. It looked ss if the brave sailor bad found a “snug harbor" at last. With a goo«l position, tbe esteem of the community, and a home upon which rested the blessings <>t peace and love and perfect companion ship, it seemed as if Capt. Read would meet old age at anchor in the pleasant harbor of rest. But tlie enemy pursued him under the very guns of his changed career and quiet prospects. 1 lisease over took him and made hint unfit for service. But the warrior who braved a thousand dangers did not surrender calmly. For many weeks he was confined to liix bed, but bore his pain stoically. He would not give up hope. For a few days lie rallied, got out of bed and said: “lam going to ask the governor for leave of ab sence for a month and go up to Meridian. Mass. 1 think 1 will recover there, so as to return to my poet." Hix hopes was vain. Although he was scarce fifty years old, Capt. Read's hair was white as snow. NO. 3. AN KPII1EMl(' OF SUICÍDE. M c II km I s of Destroying Life that Are Now Popular In Paris. Serenity in old age is lieatll iftil. but some of ua find life too hard to l«ear un til we reach that tranquility. All around me, here in Faris, is evidence of this dis taste for life, thia craving for the rest of the grave. An epidemic of suicide baa sprung up like a plague, coming no one knows whence. On some «lays the list mounts up to ten suicides, while the ave rage numlier is two or three. The city is marked out for the scourge, v.itli its despondent |>opulace, its many solitary griefs, and its uproar drowning the sound of so many sobs, ftespairing men come there to die, just as they wonld throw themselves into an ocean. But never, I repeat, has the contagion of «leath seem ed to claim so many victims. Some, in their misery or madness, throw them selves from the bridges, and their tiodies are found in the Seine, caught under the boats. Others prefer the rope; a few bang themselves in some park in the suburbs, at Vincennes or Boulogne, bnt the greater number spare themselves this journey by tying tbe rope to the nearest beam. Men have hanged them selves l«hlnd doors, in garrets, along corridors and latterly one has been found who, simply to avoid the trouble of as cending five flights of stairs to his lodg ings, suspended himself from the railing of the staircase. Of poisoning there are fewer instances; only women still swal low laudunum or the phosphorus from a bundle of matches, although the latter is sometimes a successful means of suicide. Women too, sometimes open an artery, while in a bath, and death puts them gently to sleep under the tepid water. A girl sixteen yearsfof age, driven mad by disappointment in love, chose last week to die in this way. As to charcoal, it remains tlie solace of the poor, a cheap and ever ready cure for all the ills of life. Wlienever an odor burning issues from under a door in the faubourgs inhabited by the working-people, the first cry is “Suicide I” They break in the door, and sometimes arrive in time to save some poor wretch struggling in the agonies of death. Suicide by the knife is more rare, for it requires too much «-ourage to plunge a gleaming blade into tlie flesh. A more suitable weapon is the pistol; it demands only a slight movement of the finger—even a nervous contraction of the muscels will suffice. Moreover, in case the revolver is used, if the first shot miss fire there sre still four or five balls to complete tbe work. Last of all, the public monuments are no longer used for this deadly purpose. Scarcely one or two instances, each year, can be cited of persons who have thrown themselves down on ths pavement from tbe towers of Notre Dame or from the summit of tbe Column Vendome, and only the closest precantion has saved the Eiffel Tower from suicidal popularity, ft is a fine death—this tremendious jump, this leap into space—thus to plunge into the »or- tex of Eternity. One woman, after eight days vainly spent in seeking for work, obtained on credit a bushel of charcoal, to which she set Are, and then lay down, clasping in her arms her two little children. Tbe next day the three corpses were found, stiff and livid, and locked in a close em brace. Two old people of eighty years, husband and wile, in their despair re fused to wait until death should come to them ; they were eager to go and they wanted to go together, so they inflicted horrible wounds upon themselves with a razor. Capt. C. W. Reid, chief of the board of harbor maatrira of New Orleans, who died last Satnr.fay, had an eventful history. He wax born in Yazoo countv, Miss., in May, 1340. The sea was his hobby from boyhood, and when he wav old enough he was admitt M to the Annapolis Naval to-ademv from Mississippi, and was grad uated a mi<lshipn>aii. He wax a bust ling boy, an one neeLic, ambitious, deter- mineil youth, i.n'l a «lashing, fearless man. When lie p.H away his diploma and weut into activ«« naval service it was on lioatd the Powhatan, then stationed at Vera Cruz. Mexico- There he was when that Mississippi, along with Routh Carolina an«l the rest, had nailed tbe bars to the masthead an«1 cried out upon the Union. March 14, D01, a «lay after the Powhattan anchored in New York, he left her and hurrying to Montgomery, Ala., the Confederate capita 1» offered hit services to Jefferson Davis a n«l Mr. Mal lory, se«’retary of the Confederate States navy. Then « ame the echo of the <-*»inon fir" ing U|xm Rumter. The war waa on, and the martial youth of the South were ris ing to re|>el the Northern foe. The South ha«l few sailors and Read was a welcome addition. May 1st he reporte«! at New Orleans for service on board the McRae. She never ran the blockade, but was or dered to Kentucky. Young Read at New Madrid, Islaml No. 10 and Fort Pillow showed the mettle that was in him. When Farragut and Porter entere«! the Mississippi the McRae went to the «1» fense, and was set on fire by the ene mies’ shells at the battle of the forte, When the dea«l and wounded had been earned from her Read saw that there was no more work for him at the Crea- cent City. He wanted to take a crew, get tbe ram Resolute afloat an«l go raid ing up the coast of New England, but in stead. was sent to Richmond, and help ed to ere«'t the batteries for the blockade oi the Potomac. Then he went to Fort Pillow to report to Commodore Pinckney and thence on a recruiting tour to Vicks burg. The pretty confederate gunlioat ztrkan- sax ha«l then been launched. She was hurriedly put in order, after tbe evacua tion of Fort Pillow, and Lieut. Read had orders to run by th' gunlxnta above Vicksburg an«l the Brooklyn and the mortar schooners below town, proceed down the river, destroy any stray vessels of the enemy in tbe road, coal ship at New Orleans, (>a»s Forts Jackson and St. Philip at night, and pioceed to Mobile bay and raise the blockade. This bold plan could not tre aecom- plished, but what Read and his mem- Kight« and Liabilities. mates did do won the plaudits of all the Sooth and covered them with glory, Tbe Burton TV. Hotter, a lawyer of Wor Caron de let, the Tyler and Queen of the cester, Mass., read a paper to a company West were encountered. It was a hot of farmers the other «lay. In substance fight. Oue of them was left on the mud he said the common theory that the flats, the Confederate historians say, an«l farmer has absolute dominion on and the other two went skurryiug away. The over bis farm is a big mistake. He Arkansas was in bad shape when she simply holds it in trust for tbe uses of steamed into the Mississippi to meet tlie stMiietv. The farm is liable to annual combined fleets of Farragut, Port?« and taxation and the amount depends upon Davis, but Read was undaunted. His the needs of society. Tbe whole farm vessel got hot shot from a dozen broad or a portion of it may lie taken from him, sides. Many of her men were kiiled, but against the owner’s consent, for tbe pur on her passage down the river she put pose of a railroad, a highway, a reser holes in half a dozen of the Federal voir, a mil! privilege, or a schoolhouse, ships. a pest-house, a cemetery, a park, or for So they made their way to Vicksburg. some other public use. A man may not Read wanted to go ahead down the river maintain a private nuisance on his own then, even crippled as they were. After premises. But the farmer has rights. them came the Federal fleet. A fierce, As the law now stands any person who Cleveland's Quiet Life. awful night attack was made. The Fed enters upon the land of another without eral fleet went on to N«>w Orleans and his consent, either expressed or implied, Mr. Cleveland walks up Broadway ev the battered Arkansas was left for a tar is guilty of trespass, whether enclosed or ery afternoon without attracting any at get for tbe guns of the Y'ankee boats for not, and although no material injury is tention. He drops into the Fifth Avenue days. It was in such quarters and such done. If tbe trespasser without permis Hotel in the nest of the very busiest company that Rea«l learned his first hard sion willfully cute down, carries away, men of the world without causing a rip lessons of war. girdles or otherwise destroys timber ple of excitement. He lunches every Then he was on the Florida and ran wood, underwood or trees, the owner day in a small restaurant near his office the blockade at Mobile. She «lestroyed can recover in a civil suit three times on lower Broadway, and not one person fourteen prizes and boarded three while the amount of the damage done, if the out of a hundied recognises him. He Lieut. Read was connected with her. parlies are worth anything, and if im takes his turn in a little Italian barber Among them wax the Jacob Bell, laden pecunious they may be tried for criminal shop on Park row, the same as any other with tea. from Foo Chow. She and car offense. No other has a right to hunt or man, without attracting the slightest no go were valued at $1,500,000. In one of fish on another’s ground any more than tice. He waited fifteen minutes recently the prize boats, the Clarence, Mr. Rea«l he has a right to play ball or cricket to lie shaved, and took lite place of a niaile one of his most daring raids. He there.’ No person has the right to pick burly ’longshoreman in the barber’s stopped a number of craft laden with berries, fruit or flowers on the roadside chair, chatted affably with the artist as provisions for Farragut and others of the of a farm any more than he has in the the razor glided over tbe ex-president’s Northern forces. That was in May, 1863. (armor's field, and those who buy and face, picked up his own hat, brushed his One of these was the Taconv. Read consume such berries, fruit or flowers own coat, paid his 15 cents, and walked adopted her anil burned the adandoned are liable for prosecution for receiving or out of tbe place without even the barber assuming ownership of stolen goods. Clarence. Whoever malicio usly sets tire to, burns suspecting who he was. He goes to the Up the coast they went an«l spread or does injury to another’s woodpile, theater with his wife, attends concerts alarm over lhe coast of New Englaud. fences, gates, grass, grain, or other pro«i- and tatures and o»»«n occupies a |«w in Reail had become on the Bea what Mor ucte, is liable to a fine of $500 and five St. Bartholomew's church on Sunday years’ imprisonment. It is against the gan was on land. Armed vessels were law to paint or affix to any fence, struc morning; but tie is not stared at, seldom leaving Northern itorts in search of the ture, rock or tree, the projierty of an pointed out, and has ceased to be a curi Tacomv, which kept on at business, <ai>- other, the words, device, trade mark, ad osity. ft is not that New Vorkers intend turing the Byzantine, the Londonderry vertisement or note, without first obtain any disrespect to the ex-chief magistrate, ing the permission of the owner. The the Archer and at last the revenue cutter disfigurement of fences, trees or build ft is simply a phase of New York life. Caleb Cushing right in Portland Harbor. ings by the posters of quacks, showmen The big men come here, mingle with the This boldness coBt the marauders their or traders of ail kinds is a criminal of little men. and are swallowed up in the vortex. They soon forget their own im liberty. He was taken, with his nien, fense. Posting a notice on one’s own portance and probably enjoy life more premises, forbidding trespass on enclosed and Bent to Fort Preble. Artemus Ward or improved property, is sufficient notice for not being so conspicuous. visited Capt. Read there and presented to others. The law does not require any Hebrew Progress. him with his book and a bottle of whis one to build a road fence. Cattle or other key, “both of which,” said Read in a domestic animals must lie driven along It is evident #to all casual observers the highway with care; if they do dam letter, “were duly appreciated.” age their owner is not liable to trespass that the Hebrews are progressing much From Fort Warren, whither they were if they are removed as speedily as pos more rapidly in wealth, numbers and transferred, Reid and his companions ef sible. A farmer has the right to drive influence than ever before. Look, for fected an escape in the night, let them off his premises and into the highway instance, at the fact that four new syna any animals trespassing thereon, or he selves down by strips of canvas to tbe inav take any animals to the town pound gogues were opened within the si>ace of water, made a raft of jugs, tin cans, an or other suitable place of security, but he ten days. New York now contains forty old target and what not. They were must feed and water the animals if they seven synagogues—a larger numt>er than caught and brought back by the sentries- need it, and notify the owner of his do can be found in any other city in the ings, and state the amount of damages world. The Hebrew imputation ten Read was afterwards exchanged and and his charges if he wishes to recover years ago was 4(1,000, but now it is sent to join the James River Squadron. anything. A man has no right to kill doubled. Tne Hebrews are patient and He was engaged in the desperate at another's fowls, cats or dogs when tres industrious and are so economical that tempt to relieve Richmond, ft xas then passing on his premises. A farmer has they can defy competition. Some trades the right to protect his premises against they almost entirely control, and one the beginning of 1865 and there was the trespass of trees growing on adjoin who traverses East Broadway will notice gloom over the South. Grant’s armies ing lands, by cutting off all protruding that almost «very building contains a were bearing down upon Lee but a for- I roots or overhanging branches up to the Hebrew estab'ishment for the manufac forn hope remained to the confederates. dividing line of his land, but he may not ture of millinery. You will find Jews convert any of such roots or branches to in the richest and ale.? in the |>ooreM If the James River squadron could dis his own use, without ¡laying the owner ! employments, and yet even in the latter perse the Federal fleet at City Point ami the full value for firewood or other uses. ! they will contrive to save money. Tlie destroy Grant’s base of supplies, Lee’s The fruit upon the branches of every tree advance of the Hebrews, indeed, is one ! trained veterans might mass u|>on the belongs to the owner of the trunk of the of the most striking features of the me tree, even if the branches overhang an- tropolis, Here is one point that speaks I military lines tightened around Rich I other’s land. A farmer lias the right to volumes: The Hebrew children took mond, perhaps break them, and gain ; protect his premises from all surface j the prize for the best drill in the centen- new strength for further struggle. Read j water by an embankment, if need be, or i nial parade. How strange indeed it ■ seems that all of the youth that marched , conceived a daring enterprise, but it had l the stoppage of the mouth of a culvert in that grand column could not equal | built by the town. It will thus be seen ¡ to be abandoned. lheir plans were lie- j t|lat the fanner has rights as well as lia the little Jew s in precision of step anti Corr. Troy Thnr>. trayed to th«* Federáis, and the expedi- bilities. an«l that the law protects him. j grace of motion.-.V. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. !