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iiimrtiyiriwr Wim -- mm Marshall GTnuntti JiEnualican VOLUME 22 PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1878. NUMBER 27. r A THE REPUBLICAN. BY SIDERS & PIPER. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Space, i 1 w. 3 w.' 4 w. Im. t mJ mj 1 yeai 1 inch i 10 1 OO1 i M 0 5 00 W M oo inches.. 2 0 3 ix 4 ft 00 0 10 00 15 00 S inch'.. . 3 00 4 00' 4 5tV So 50 U 00 SO 00 4 inches. . 1 5 M 0.1 3 OO lo o 14 00 ' M 50 J4 column 5 00. 7 00 00 10 00 12 0 00 3S 00 X column 7 00110 oo Ii so 1 00 oo 30 00 50 00 1 column.. 10 004ft 00 uv 30 0040 00 40 00.100 00 Pour change allowed, if reasonable time ia giv en. Eitra changes by paying for type-setting. BasinoM cards, S lines, SS.oo per annam. Business notices, to headed, et solid, 10 cents par line for first insertion, and & cents for each nheeqae-t insertion. General Legal Advertisements st legal rates. Special rates given to regnkr advertisers. Mo deviation will be made from these roles. Communications uon subjects of general or lo cal interact are solicited. Oar Job Rooms are supplied with every facility fordoing printing neatly, cheaply and prompts and we respectfully solicit your patronage, guaran teeing satisfaction. LOCAL DIRECTORY. Clerk Auditor .... Sherif Treasurer... Recorder.... bjrvevor School Superintendent . Commissioners t COUNTY OFFICERS. Daniel McDonald A. C. Thoniiieon. L.C. Fink. A. L. Thomson. J. B. N. Klinger. ..A. V. North. .W.E. Bailey. , Hiram Ram k Howard Barnaby ...James Abrains Basjalsr sessions of the Commissioners' Court first Mondays in March, June, September and December JUDICIAL OFFICERS. Circuit Judge Sidney Keith. Circuit Prosecutor P. O. Jones. Sessions of the Circuit Court, 1st Monday in March, Sd Monday in Mar, 5th Monday in Septem ber and 3d Monday in December. CITT GOVERNMENT, Mayor Amaaa Johnson. Clerk David E. Snyder. Treasurer James A. Oilnore. Supt Public Schoula Roscoe A. Chase. City Council meets second and fourth Mondays In sack month. CHURCH DIRECTORY. CHRISTIAN CHAPKL. Preaching at 1 0:90 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 19:15 p. m. H. V. Reed, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Preaching ever Sabbath at 10:30 a. m., and at 7:30 p. m. Sab bath achoo 1 at 13:10 p. m. Prayer meeting, Wed nesdays at I p. m. Seats tree. O. A. Little, Pastor. MKTHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Corner Lal'orte and Center streets. Preaching every bablth at 1040 a. m., and T:S0 p. m. Sun day school at 140 p. m. T. QL Suinger, Pastor. KKFOKMED CHTJRCH, Services in Ue Lu theran church the first and third Sundays in each mouth at 10d0 a. m., and at the Jacoby church at a p. in. J. B. Henry, Pastor. ST. THOMAS Episcopal church. Divine services every Sunday at louS a. m., and at 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12:30 p. ex. Seats free. J. J. Faude, Rector. CATHOLIC (St. Michael's) CHURCH. First KJ service, 7:30 a. m. Second service at 10 a: m. Vespers at 3 p. ex. O. Zurwellen. Pastor. MASONIC. PLYMOUTH COMMAN DER Y, K. T.t NO. M. Stated conclaves the second Thursday in each nooih. J. VV. Houghton, K. C. C. K. loan. Re corder. PLYMOUTH COUNCIL, NO. 1, R. A. 8. M. Stated convocations the second Wednesday in each month. J. F. Langenbaum. T. I. If. PLYMOUTH, CHAPTER, NO. 4, R. A. M. Stated convocations the first and third Muu days. j each month. J.M. Confer, M E. H. P. SJ PLYMOUTH, LODGE; NO. 14; A. P. A. M. Stated communications first and third Fridays in each month. A. L. Kw;ve, W. M. J. Brownlee, Sec. KILWINNING LODGE, NO. 4M, A. s A. M. Stated communications the first and third Tuesdays in each mouth. R. A. Chase, W. M. C. S. Sutphen, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, EASTERN STAR meets the first Wednesday of each month at Masonic Hall. Mrs. C. O. rjuiiUi, W. M. A. EUng- vc, Sec. ODD FKIXOWI. AMEBIC! LODGE, No. 1, L O. O. F., meets every Thursday evening at 7:3o p. m. Resident and visiting brethren are cordially invited to at tend, 11. G. Thayer, N. G. U. B. Reeve, Sec PLYMOUTH ENCAMPMENT, NO. IIS. Stated meetings second and fourth Mondays in each month. H. Speyer, C. P. J. A. Palmer, Scribe. FIRE COMPANIES, ADRIATIC ENGINE CO. Stated meetings second Tuesday in each month. W. U. H. Cnlien, Sec. E. K. Barnhill. Foreman. 1'ORRKNT HOSE CO. SUted meetings second . Tuesday in each month. J. W. Palmer, For- PROTECTION HOOK AND LADDER CO. SUted meetings first Tuesday in each month. Henry Speyer, Korman. LOAN ASSOCIATIONS. PLYMOUTH BUILDING LOAN SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, NO. 1. Board of Directors meet first Monday of each month. D. l Arm strong, Pres. C. E. Toan. Sec PLYMOUTH BUILDING, LOAN & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, NO, ft. Board of DirecUrs meet first Monday In each month. W. B. U Pres. U. A. Brown, Sec DENTISTS F. M. BURKET, Dentist, Office over A. Becker's grocery, opponlte Post Office. All work warranted to give entire satis faction in every re spect. Diseases of the mouth and teeth successfully treated. Teeth extracted without pain bv the ass of nitrons ox.d gas. Consultation free. Price of artificial teeth reduced from $B to $10 a se4 and waraatad to be of the best material. I am in Scuta Tftssiaj at Waisuj i M Wt, DR. A. 0. HÜM E, i DENTIST! Office In Second story. Post Office Building Teeth from one only, to a full set, so cheap that the rich and poor can all Preservation of the Natural Teeth A SPECIALITY. DENTIST! Office over Parks Bros Law Office, Gano Street. Plymouth, Ind. PATENT MEDICINES. VEGETINE IS Ri-COMMENDt.D BT A. T.T. PHYSICIANS, Valley Stream, i eens Co., Lonu Iblaxd, N. Y. Mr. H. R. Sterens Deab Sin. I take the pleasure of writing you a small certificate concerning Vegetine prepared by you. I have been a sufferer with the Dyspepsia for over forty years, and have had the Chronic Diar rhoea for over six months, and have tried most everything ; was given up to die, and did not ex pect to live from day to day, and no physician could reach my case. I saw your Vegetine recom mended to cure Dyspepsia. I commenced using it, and I continued doing so, and am now a well wo man and restored t jxrfect health. All who are afflicted with this terrible disease, I would kindly recommend to try it for the benefit of their health, and it is excellent as a blood purifier. By Dr. T. B. Korbe, M . D. tor Mas. Wat. U. Koaaxs. Vegetine When the blood becomes lifeless and stagnant, either front change of weather or of cli mate, want of exercise, irreirular diet, or from any other cause, the Vegetine will renew the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a tone of vigor to the whole body. VEGETINE For CANCERS and CANCEROUS HUMORS. The Doctor's Certificate. Read It. A-hi.e v. Waciusoton lo., Ill , Jan. 14, 178. Mr. H. R. atSSSBsSI " Dear Sir, This is to certify that I have been suffering from a Kose Cancer on my rixht breast which grew very rapidly, and all my friends had given me up to die, when I heard of your medicine, Vegetine, recommended for Cancer and Cancerous Liu mors. I commenced to take it, and soon found my elf beginning to feel better; my health and spirits both felt 'he benign influence which it ex erted, and in a few mouths from the time 1 com menced the use of the Vegetine, the Cancer came out almost bodily. C'akiue DkFohbbbt. I certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs. De Forrest, and consider her one of our very best women. Da. 8. H. Fowls. All Diseases of the Blood. If Vegetine will re lieve pain, cleanse, purify, and cure such diseases. restoring the patient to perfect health after trying different physicians, many remedies, suffering for years, ia it not conclusive proof, if you are a suf ferer, yon can be cured? why is this medicine per forming such great cures?. It works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It can truly he called the Great Blood Purifier. The great source of disease originates in the blood; and no medicine that does eot act directly upon it, to parity and lenovate, has any just claim upon public attention. YEGETINE I regard It as a Valuable FAMILY MEDICINE Jan. 1, 1878. Mr. B. R. 8te'eni Dear Sir, I take pleasure in saying, that I have used the Vagetins in my family with good results and I have known of several cases of remai kahle cure effected by it. 1 regard it as a valuable family medicine, Truhr yours. Rev. Wa. McDonald. The Rev. Wm. McDonald la well known through out the United States as a minister iu the M. . Church, Thousands Speak. Vegetine is acknowledged and recommended by all physicians and apotheca ries to be the liest purifier and cleanser ot the blood yet discovered, ana thousands speak in its praise who have been restored to health. VEGETINE The M. D's haye it. Mr. II. R. Steve Dear Sir. I have sold Vegetine for a long time, and find It gives moet excellent satisfaction. 8. B. DsPrikst, M. D.. Druggist, Ilazleton, Lud. Left Behind. VEGETINE. Prepared by H. R. Stevens, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is sold by all Druggists. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Dr. J. M. JENNINGS. 1)HYSI IAN AND 8UBGEOX. office with Dr. N. Sherman over Lauer' s Store, on Michigan street, Plymouth, Ind. Residence on Center street, opposite Catholic church, bm noe AMASA JOHNSON ATTORN KY AT LAW. Prompt attention given to collections, settlement of decedents' estates and guardianships, aeeds, mortgages, and other con--racts drawn up and acknowledgments takes. Of fice ovrr Buck A Toan 'a Hardware Store. P. O. JONES, Attorney at Law A Dit. Prosecu to. Prompt attention given to all claims and col ections left in his care. Office in corner of Sear's brick block. Plymouth Ind. C. H. RLE VE, ATTOKNEi AT LAW. Loeated in 184, Collections and conveyancing a speci lity. Buys and sells real estate on commis lon. Insures lives and property in A. 1 oom antes. Desirable real estate for sale In the city and adjoining. Novl-7S DR. I. BOWER. 1)HY8ICIAN AND SURGEON, will be . pleased to recoiye patients at his oftVu. No. 61 tichigan street, where he may be foend a all tlm6s. except when professional -ly absent, his residence being at the same place. July ist. 187S. em Wm. N. BAILEY. M. 0., PHYSICIAN SCROEON. Thirty years praetice. Graduate of two Medical col leges, and six years Surgeon in the army of the U. S. (vol, senr.) Can compete success fully with any quack In the United States. Thankful for past favors, is still In regular practice, and only requires to be better known to have an extensive one. Office in Sears' new brick, cor. of JflchLgan and LaPorte streets. Plymouth. Ind.. July 1st, 187, ly TraeU J- O . S. D- A J. W. PARKS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Notarlea Public and Authorized War Claim Agents ; Offices at Bourbon and Plymouth. Indiana. Especial attention given to the settlement of decedents Estates. Conveyancing, and the collection of Soldiers' Claims for Pensions : will attend promptly to all professional business en trusted to them, and practico in v Arshall sad adjoining ooeatiea. Plymouth office on Gano street between Michigan and Center streets. Bourbon offlcsoverirror printing office, ttti We started ia the morning s morcing fall of glee. All in the early morning, a goodly company, And some were full of merriment, and all were kind and dear; But the others have pursued their way, and left me sitting here. My feet were not so fleet as theirs, my courage soon was gone, And so I lagged and fell behind, although they cried, "'Come on P They choered me and they pitied me, but one by oue went Dy, For the stronger must outstrip t lie weak ; there is no remedy. Some never looked behind, but smiled, and swift ly, hand in hand. Departed with a strange sweet joy I could not un derstand ; I know not by what sliver streams their roses bud and blow, Bat I am glsd-oh ! very glad they should be hap py so. And tome they went companion less, yet not alone it seemed, For there were sounds of rustling wing?, and songs or else we dreamed ; And a glow (rum lights invisible to us lit up the place, And tinged as if with glory each dear and parting face. So happy, happy, did they look, as one by one they went. That we, who missed them sorely, were fain to be content, And I. who sit the last of all, left far behind, alone. Cannot be sorry for their Bakes, but only for my own. My eyes seek out the different paths by which thev went away. And oft I wish to follow, but oftener wish to ay; For fair as may the new things be, the farther thiBga they know, This Is a pleasant resting-place, a pleasant place also. There are flowers for the gathering which grow my path anear, Tne skies are fair, and everywhere the sun is warm and clear; I may have missed the wine of life, the strong wine and the new, But I have my wells of water, my sips of honey dew. So when I turn my thoughts from those who shared my dawn of day, My fresh and joyous morning prime, and now are pa saod away, I can just see how sweet all is, how good, and be resigned. To sit thus in the afternoon, alone and left be hind. Harper' t Baxar. M IHM.AI', HOMEOPATHIC Physician and Dentist and Dr. J. A. Dunlap, regular physician ana surgeon, respectfully offer their services to ths public. Office in Corbln's block ; real, dence on East Gano street. WILLIAM B. HESS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Plymouth. Indiana. janly l JOHN B. BENDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND MOTAKY PUBLIC, lALCOiT BLOCK. P1TS0UTH. IND. special attention given to the auttles&eot of es tates, and partition of lands; also the collection of claims and foreclosure of mortgages. Bemittances prompt. lynl A. C. 4 A. B. CAPRON, Attorneys & Counsellors AT LAW, REAL ESTATE ACENT8. PPICK .. SliKKI.KK'S BLOCK. Ta PLTOUTH, IND. J. D. MoClassm O. K. C'basst, MeClaran A Chaney. ATTOKXBY8 AT LAW. Will practica In all the court In the state. OSes is WhsilsVs block, over Btcker A WSM dry goods store, Plymouth, DR. J. T. COKE. PHY8ICAH SURGEON. Tenders his pro fessional services to the eitisens of Wai, nut and vicinity. All calls promptly attended to. unarges reasonable. ly jnyn ONLY A BOOK AGENT." 25 extra fine calling cards IS cents; As tinted Dnswi io cents, t. Lamsoa, X'lymoulh, lad. Miss Jessamine Rad just emerged, yawning, from her bed-room, al though the sun was five hours high, and its merry zigzags of gold were penciling the casements, after a pat tern which no artist under heaven could hope to imitate. And Kitty, the colored maid who had accompanied her mistress from Mobile, and regarded this Northern climate as a very Polar region, was attending her with chocolate, Vienna bread and a broiled chicken's wing. Georgia Jessemine was on a visit to her father's cousin, Mrs. Dartley. Major Joseph Jessemine, her father, had been a well to-do planter in Ala bama before the war, but he was neither more nor less, at present, than a genteel beggar, and Mrs. Dar Hay's invitation to Georgia had been hailed with delight MI only wish she had asked me, too," said the Major. So Georgia Jessemine was supplied with an elegant wardrobe (purchased mostly on credit) and sent North to seek her fortune. Mrs. Dartley was a rich widow, who lived in a handsome bouse, scattered her money to and fro with a liberal hand, and dwelt in a perpetual whirl of balls, parties, soirees and recep tions. And into this sort of life Miss Jessemine plunged, as you may have seen a bee dive joyously into the deep bill of a honeysuckle. "If I can only make a good match here in New York, I never need to go back to that tumble-down old house in Mobile," said Miss Jessemine to herself. And this pondering, she devoted the entire energies of her nature to the attaining of the aforesaid "good match." Claude Dartley, her cousin, came under that head. Claude was hand some, witty and wealthy. But Geor gia was a little afraid of Claude. She never could quite understand wheth er he was laughing at her or not But iu spite of all that, she smiles sweetly on Claude, as first and fore most among the "eligibles" on her list, and had built sundry castles in the air, whereof he formed the foun dation. Last night, at Mrs. Pen field's mug icale he had been especially devoted, and Miss Jesse mine's spirits were high, as she drank the foaming choc olate and nibbled r: the Vienna twists. In a minute, however, a blue-rib-booed maid came to the door. "Miss Jessemine," said she with a little apologetic courtesy, "would you please come down to the parlor? There's a young lady there, asking for you. "A young lady?" repeated Georgia, staring at the opposite elock, which recorded an hour too early for fashion able calls. "Where is her card, Fan ny?" "She didn't send up no card, miss," "Did she call for me by name ?" "Well, miss, she asked for my mis tress first, and then when I said she was gone to Signor Arditi's to sit for her portrait, but you was in, she said might she see you a minute." Georgia Jessemine glanced down at the folds of her rose colored cash mere morning wrapper, and then at the opposite mirror, to see If the braids of her rich black hair were in order. "I suppose I must go down," said she said slowly, "but if it should be one of those tiresome subscription collectors, or patent dress-supporter venders " Katy made a grimace at Fanny as the door closed behind the rustling trails of Miss Jessemine's rose color ed dress. "De young misses, she done tink nobody hab do right to lib but her self," said she. "öbe dat selfish de good Lord ought to have created a little glass globe ober her, to keep off de rest ob de world." Meanwhile Miss Jessemine sweep ing down stairs into the drawing room found herself face to face with a pale lovely giri.ln rather shabby mourning, who carried a morocco traveling bag, and held two or three volumes in her ether hand. "Did you ask for me?" she deman ded superciliously. The young lady bowed. "I have undertaken the agency of a new publication," said she hurriedly, and not without embarrassment "Lane's Life of Martha Washington" and should be happy to put down your name as a subscriber. The price Is "Pray don't trouble yourself to go on," said Georgia, coldly. "I never subscribe to any such thing. And I think it the bight of insolence for you to come here pushing yourself into the presence of your superiors on such a pretext as this! How do I know that you are not one of those sneak thieves, who make their way into people's houses in order to car ry off their valuable parlor orna ments?" The young lady had colored scar let at first, and then grew deadly pale. "Miss Jessemine " she said. "That will do," tartly interposed the haughty Georgia. "I don't care about any discussion with you. At all events, it is highly unfeminine to go about peddling things, like any common peanut woman! And I beg that you'll not repeat it in this house." She pointed imperiously to the open door, and poor Amy Horton, who, among the slights and snubs in cident to reduced means, had never yet received a verbal castlgation equal to this, hurried from her pres ence with cheeks aflame and eylids wet with unshed tears. "There,' said Miss Jessemine to herself, as she went up stairs again ; "I think I've paid her off for bringing me away from my half finished break fast. As for you, Fanny," to the damsel in the blue ribbons "if ever you admit such a person as that again, I shall certainly request Mr. Dartly to discharge you." Fanny tossed her head and would have made a pert rejoinder, had she darod, for there was not a servant in the Dartley household that liked Miss Jessemine. But it so chanced that Claude Dartley himself, looking over the morning papers in the li brary, had heard the whole interview, through the parlor door that Georgia had neglected to close. Involuntarily he rose and came for ward, resolved to do what in him lay for the healing of the cruel wound in flicted by Georgia Jessemine's un womanly words. " Pardon me," said he, " but may I look at the publication you have for sale? I am very deeply grieved that my cousin should have treated you so rudely, and" But as she glanced wistfully up in his face, he started back with an ex clamation of surprise. "Amy Horton! Can it be possible!" " I did not expect to see you here. Mr. Dartley," said the girl, hurriedly. ' I asked for the lady of the house. I did not know who lived here." " But, Amy, I don't understand this. Toa General March's niece and adopted daughter selling books for a livelihood!" "It does seem strange, don't it?" said Amy with a faint smile, "But you don't know all. Uncle March is dead, and all his property has gone to his second wife. I was only a depen dent, and I could not endure that sort of life; so I am striving to main tain myself. I came to New York, because I thought I could do better here than in a smaller city, but but I am almost discouraged." Claude Dartley took her hand and gazed reproachfully into her face. "Amy," said he, why did you not let me know when you were in trouble? Had you forgotten our old friendship?" "I thought I had no right," she fal tered. " No right, Amy ? Would you have let yourself drift away from me for ever?" And Amy Horton hung down her bright golden head and faintly mur mured: 44 1 don't know." Mr. Dartley was in the inner oftics of the law chambers of Messrs. Falk land, Burgh & Co., that afternoon, when Miss Jessemine rustled in, with a strong smell of "Jockey Club," and and a Little tinkle of affected laugh ter. Mr. Burgh, the only representative of the aristocratic young firm, rose and bowed low. "Pray exouse our cigar smoke, Miss Jessamine," said he. "Oh, that's nothing," said Georgia, taking the leather-covered chair that he offered her. " I am so glad that I found you in. I want to put your name down for some tickets for Aunt Belle's charity charades. Very pri vate and select Five dollars a ticket And I shall expect you to take at least half a dozen." "Consider my limited means, Miss Jessamine I" pleaded the young law yer, with a comical screwing up of his eyebrows. " Oh, you must," insisted Georgia, relentlessly. Tve undertaken to sell fifty, and I never go back on my word. " Who's that in the inner of fice? Mr. Falkland? Whoever it is must give me a round subscription." She had just started up to go into the other room, when her purpose was anticipated by the appearance of her cousin Claude on the threshold. "Oh, its Claude!" cried she radiant ly. " Well, I can scarcely levy a trib ute upon him, after all he has given toward our costumes and scenery." " Stop a minute, Georgia I" said the young man quietly. You are sell ing tickets now. Will yoa allow me to ask wherein consists the differ ence between you and the young Lady whom you so grossly insulted in my mother's drawing room this morning? Will yoU let me repeat your very words, that it is highly unfeminine to go about peddling things like any common peanut woman 1" Georgia colored high. " Claude," stammered she, " I I am very sorry. I didn't know you were within hearing; and it was only a book agent, after all." "There you are mistaken," said Mr. Dartley, with stinging coldness. "It was Miss Amy Horton, the young lady who is shortly to become my wife." And Georgia Jessamine knew that she had committed a fatal mistake. She went back to the tumble-down house in Mobile, and there she re mains yet tob proud to work for a living; and although Amy has written her a kind invitation to visit her, Miss Jessamine has not the face to accept it A Heroine or 1812. There is an interesting story con nected with Cedar Point, Scituate Harbor, Mass. The heroine is Miss Rebecca Bates, a bright, genial old lady of eighty-four, whose memory continues remarkably clear. The story, taken from her own lips, can be depended on at thoroughly reliable. Her father was Captain Simeon Bates ; he was light-keeper at the time, and was the first who lit the light in April, 1811. In the spring of the fol lowing year English cruisers were numerous in Massachusetts bay, and on one occasion the launches of an English frigate were sent into Scitu ate Harbor. They set fire to vessels at the wharves, and towed out two, at the same time threatening to de stroy the town if any resistance was offered. After this event a home guard was formed, and detachments were stationed on Cedar and Crow points, and in front of the village, with a brass piece. When there was no sail in sight, the guards were al lowed to go off to their farms. Nothing to occasion alarm occurred again until the following September. Rebecca, at that time eighteen years of age, and her sister Abigail four teen years old, and still living, were sitting toward evening sewing with their mother. Capt Bates and the rest of his large family and the guards were all away. Mrs. Bates told Rebecca it was time to put on the kettle. As Rebecca went into the kitchen she for the first time per ceived an English ship of war close at hand and lowering her boats. "I knew the ship at a glance," she said. "It was the La Hogue. ' 0 Bebeoca!' says I to my sister, 1 the La Hogue is off here again! What shall we do? Here are their barges coming again, and they'll burn up our vessels as they did afore.' You see, there are two vessels at the wharf, loaded with flour, and we couldn't afford to lose that in those times, when the embar go made it so hard to live that we had to bile pumpkins all day to get sweetening for sugar. There were the. muskets of the guards. I have a good mind to take those out beyond the light-house and fire them at the barges;! might have killed one or two, but it would have done no good, for they would have turned round and fired the village. I'll tell you what we'll do,' I said to my sister; 'look here,' says I. 'you take the drum, Pll take the fife.' I was fond of military music, and could play four tunes on the fife. 'Yankee Doodle' was my master-piece. I learned on the fife which the soldiers had at the light-house. They had a drum there, too ; so I said to her, ' You take the drum, and I'll take the fife.' ' What good 'U that do? says she. 'Scare them,' says L 'All you've got to do is to call the roll , I'll scream the fife, and we must keep out of sight; If they see us, they'll Laugh us to scorn.' I showed her how to handle the sticks, and we ran down behind the cedar wood. So we put in, as the boys say, and pretty soon I looked, and I could see the men in the barges resting on their oars and listening. When I looked again I saw a flag fly ing from the mast-head of the ship. My sister began to make a speeeh, and I said. 'Don't make a noise; you make me laugh, and I can't packer my mouth.' When I looked again I saw they had seen the flag, and they turned about so quick a man fell overboard, and they picked him up by the back of hi neck and hauled him in. When they went off. I played 'Yankee Doodle.'" Is not this hero ine, who saved two ships laden with flour, and perhaps other valuables, from destruction, entitled to a pen sion? She has five brothers and sis ters still living, the eldest eighty-five, I and the youngest seventy-one. Her grandfather was one hundred years and one month old at the time of his death. Harper's Magazine. Pastime. When acorns are short out West the hogs are put at half-mast. Ex change. The woman who maketh a good pudding in silence Is better than sbe who maketh a tart reply. Troy Whtg. The fmtive goat! and aportive cows Can nevar, nevar kuit their browso. Hem J erteil Republican. If your foot is asleep, do not be alarmed; the poet tells us that the sole is not dead that slumbers. Syr acuse Sunday Times. The air is so balmy that the young woman who is taking piano lessons can have the window up. This is very gratifying to us. Danbury Keirx, The eighth wonder of the world is that the Chicago papers do not attri bute this infernal electoral muddle to St. Louis, is as much as Mr. Tilden was nominated there. Oil City Der rick. A teacher in Gratiot County, Mich., lately wrote to an apothecary at the county seat for catarrh snuff in the following items: "Please send some of that, she can try it by return mail." There hasn't been a Western town upset by a tornado, or rent in twain by a cyclone for a whole day. Go West young man. go West nd blow up with the country. Oil City Der rick. Tin rweet when the berriea ara ripe. And the Uly pada bead seath the snipe To ait at roar esse With your fair Kloise, And give ths mosquito a wipe. Wild Oats. An Indignant man who had chased a horse-car a long distance had only breath enough left to say to the con ductor that he "never need fear the fate of Lot's wife, because he never turned to look behind." Boston Transcript A Mississippi paper explains the landless condition ot many of the peo ple of that State on the ground that, while land costs but 10 cents an acre, whiskey is but 15 cents a glass, and most people prefer to fork over the other five cents and get the whiskey. "What do they set hens for?" he asked. "To hatch chickens," she re plied, promptly. "What do they set milk for?" he queried. "To hatch calves," she said, and she said it in a way that caused the St Paul chap to close the conversation. Stillwater Lumberman. A member of the Missouri legisla ture once asked a convict in the state penitentiary what brought him there. "Whisky, and quickly turning the question, said: "What brought you here?" The statesman replied quiok ly," Whisky brought me here." Whis ky had done a great deal for recruit ing both the great assemblies at the state capital. This is a boy's composition on girls. He says: "Girls are the only folks that has their own way every time. Girls Is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several thousand girls If she wants to do anything. This is all I know about girls, and father says the less I know about them the better off I am." Two sweet ?ttle girls sat upon the sidewalk in front of the Post office, one of them nursing a large wax doll. Her companion asked in tones of deep earnestness: "Does oo have much twouble wif 'oor baby?" "Oh, doodness, yes," was the reply, "she ewies mos' all 'e time. She's jes' cwied and cwied ever since she was born. Ts jes' discouraged, an' I don't fink I'll ever born any more." Elko (A'eu.) Post. Praise Tear Wife. Praise your wife (if you have one, if not get one) and give her a little encouragement; It wont hurt her. She made (or will make) your home comfortable, your heart bright and shining; food agreeable. At least thank her, if nothing more. It will do her good and you too. There are many women to-day thirsting for words of praise, the language of en couragement, Through summer's heat through winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so ac customed have their fathers, broth ers and husbands become to their monotonous labors that they look for and upon them as they do the dally rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beautiful by an appreciation of Its holiness. Pending the Black Hawk war, among a small band of regulars as sembled at Dixon's Ferry. Rock Riv er, 111., under Gen. Atkinson, were Lieut Col. Zachary Taylor, subse quently President of the United States, Lieut Robt. Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumpter, Lieut. Jeffer son Davis, and private Abraham Lin coln, of Captain Lee's company of Illinois Mounted Rangers. Anderson and Davis were young Lieutenants, just from West Point and Lincoln was a tall and r oylsh-looking young man of twenty-two. So The Sain of Democracy. The Democratic party went into the fight. Ana goi moet awttuiy clawed : it lay on it- back in s helples pliirht, And veiled, incessantly, Fraud P And all day long. In time with its song, Its arm the thin air sawed ; And it shrieked and called. And howled and bawled, "r,-r,-a,-u,-d-Fraud !" Ita tongue was struck with a withering Might, It could sine hut a single song; And all thrsujrh the day with all of its might, ji aepi up me same aing aong. From Randall down To the party clown. They all in chorus jawed , And loud and long As a depot gong, They shrieked aod shouted, "Fraud - It never varied a aioaie note. Aud it never rjansed for breath : But with this ose word it split its throat, i in i. jKuua Ii eil io acaia. It deviled Hayes In various ways. While the file itaetf It gnawed ; Nor ceased to rant Its only chant, "Fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud '." So all of its Me in noise and strife. TJiis sorrowtnl path it trod. didn't know how to spell it, but never ceased to yen it, "F-r,-o, -double d, Frodd !" So it died at last. And its grief was past ; In the grave ita own Bios pawed ; They buried it deep. Where the hickories weep, Aud wrota oil its tombstone. fc Fraud." Burlington Ilutcktye, It Items of Interest. Prof. Newman, in a recent article in the Contemporary Revietc, says better English is spoken in Ireland than in England. The rice crop of this country Is coming to the fore again. South Carolina has an estimated yield of 44,000 tierces this year, and Georgia 26,000. A little green bug Is destroying the blue grass In Kentucky. Great fields are said to be ravaged by it, the grass looking as if it had suffered a protracted drought Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkens, the mother of Mrs. Surratt, who was executed in Washington in 1865, died near Sur ratsville, Prince George's county, Md., on the 7th inst,, aged 80 years. Edison, the inventor, is studying out the theory of vibrations, and de clares that he will yet see the day when, with a simple tuning fork, he will be able to tear down a three story house. Ralph Waldo Emerson Is described as wearing the air of a student and inquirer. His features are sharp,"his hair thin and gray, and his eyes twinkle with kindly humor. He lis tens to one as though he was being Instructed. The orowned heads of Europe have their personal afflictions as well as state caree. The Emperor stillsuffers from his gunshot wounds, the Pope has had a faintiug fit, and the Em press of Russia lies at the point of death. Twelveyears ago and more, thou sands of hoop-skirts were manufac tured annually In this county. Now the business is completely dead, not a single manufactory being in oper ation, It Is said that the telephone has been successfully adopted by the Central Pacific Railroad, as a means of communicating between stations over the mountain division. They are principally for the use of traok travelers. It Is not, perhaps, known that an excellent harbor is being formed by the action of the sea and of the river at the Eilla mouth of the Danube. This is why the Russians are so an xious to obtain posession of Reesara- bia and of this mouth. John Jasper, the colored divine who insists "the world do move," boasts that he can baptize more con verts in a day than any other preach er living. He baptized four hundred and ten in six hours last Sunday. The feat caused more excitement in Richmond than did all his astrono mical sermons. When the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad is complete it will have forty-one wrought-iron bridges, the ap proaches being also of the same ma terial. The largest, that across the Ohio River near Reaver, will be 1, 400 feet long, with viaduct approach Of 1,000 feet additional. Manufactu rer. The recent growth of Paris is in remarkable contrast with former years. In the reign of Henry LL, dur ing the sixteenth century, it contain ed about 12,000 houses. About 200 years later, In 1750, the number had Increased to 23,000. In 1817 there were but 26,761 ; In 1834, 39.000. In 1878, after a lapse of only forty-four years there are 75,274. There is a report current that the Bonaparte, Orleans, and Bourbon in terests are to be privately advocated during the European congress by gentlemen deputed for the occasion, the hope being entertained by the monarchical parties in Fiance that the conservative reaction will shortly set In at Berlin, and that monarchy may then have another chanoe at Paris. In Markland, Mich., a few days ago, the boys got up a show two cents admission aud after amusing their audience with feats of tumbling, etc., it was announced that one of the performers would shoot an apple from the head of another. The boy took his place, with the apple on his head, but Just as his companion was about to shoot, he felt It slipping, and putting up his hand to secure it, was shot through the hand. The widow of Tom Corwin died in the room in which she was married 56 years ago. She was born in the last century, in Pennsylvania, con nected with a distinguished Virginia family the Randolphs and through out her 83 years of life continued to widen her circle of affectionate friends. Her maiden name was Roes. Her father's family came to Ohio 59 years ago. The up stage from Summit, Nava da, was captured by Indians on Tues day of last week, and MoCutchen, the driver, killed. The only passenger, named Hamilton, escaped oa one ot the leaders. The rest of the horses were taken and the stage gutted. The escaped passenger gave the alarm along the road, and the settlers are all crowding into Camp McDer- mit. The road is all stripped from Winnemucca to Owehe. The stage contained several boxes of arms and ammunition for parties in Idaho. The demagogues who have preach' ed socialism in Germany, communism in France, charitism in England, and trades-unionism in America are all of one stripe, and the teachings of such men all lead to the same general ends. The people follow them, so long as they can be kept fooled and blindfolded. But they.will turn upon them as the worst enemies, whenever some deed of crime and violence startles them into wakefulness and knowledge of the truth. Philadel phia Bulletin. Ben Hill says the only bargain made among Southerners as to the Presidential question was simply an agreement among forty-two South ern members of Congress, who hon orably pledged themselves to each other that they would oppose all of' forts to defeat the count or to pre vent the decision of the electoral eomissioners from taking fall effect. This agreement, he says, had no con nection with the Wormly Hotel con tract. The steamer Paraguay recently ar rived at Havre from St Nicholas, on the river Platte, with a cargo of 55,000 carcasses of sheep, which, it is stated, although shipped on October 7, were in the same condition as when placed on board. Immediately on being killed and dressed, the sheep were hung up in the chamber of the vessel especially constructed for the pur pose, and kept at a temperature of from 26 to 28 deg. the element em ployed in refrigeration being am monia. After a six months' voyage, the carcasses presented the appear anoe of marble, and it is asserted that on being thawed out the meat will ke p fresh for eight or ten days How Whisky Pays. Some years ago we had in our em ploy a man who, several timee in the day, ran out of the office to buy a drink of whisky. Every time he went out, the cashier was instructed to drop ten cents into a drawer to our credit At the end of seventeen months, the man who had gone out so often had drunk himself out of a good situation; and the drawer, when opened, was found to eon tale 1409, which we loaned to a young mo chanlc at seven per cent interest. He used it to purchase a set of tin ner's tools. On the 15th of February, 1876, he returned it to us with Inter est, saying in his letter that he has now a wi'e, two children, and prop erty worth $5,000. The other fellow Is a bummer, hunting for food. Pomeroy's Democrat. - .aasjl))jta-j)SJaaajsai The New York Times has discover ed a new mechanical force. A far mer in the neighborhood of Middle town, Conn., having placed a pail of milk in a spring of water to coo1 over night, went there the next motu ing and found, it is solemnly asser ted, instead of sweet milk and rich cream, a large bullfrog sitting in con templative mood upon a roll u? trash butter floating calmly in a pail of buttermilk. The sole explanation is that the frog had Jumped from the water into the pall and, in trying to extricate himself, had by diligent and continuous strokes of his long legs, churned the milk into batter. This will knock oleomargarine into the shade if it should be generally utilised. There are sections where frogs are plentiful, and taw labor of churning would be cheap, Onoe give this idea to the farmer boys and girls who have long groaned over the task of pulling up the heavy dasher of the churn, and frog g cry butter will be as common as the most famous brands of "Wes tern Reserve," "creamery," or the "grass butter" of yellow and gold that tickles the fastidious taste of city customers. One of the oldest, most enoentxic, and wealthiest residents of Salem, Conn., Nathan Minard was found dead in his bfd recently. He was 90 years old and y careful painstaking had amassed a large fortune. Twenty years ago he dug his own grave, built up the sides neatly with chiseled stone, covered the chamber with a large slab, and filled in the whole with earth. He also purchased his coffin at the same time, and these preparations for his burial have, in accordance with his request been used.