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ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Office in EdeibrocVs Block.
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ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Office MI JBelT* Block, over RutseWt Store.
EDWIN M. WRIGHT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
FERGUS FALLS, MINN.
JOBS COOPXB. J. P. HINCHILWOOD.
Cooper & Hinchilwood,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
Office on Washington Avenue, two Doors
North of Postoffice.
T.CLOUD, MINN.
A. F. ROBERTSON,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
St. Germain Street, St. Cloud, Minn.
Particvlar
attention given to Repairing
O S & W A E S
that have failed to give satisfaction after
being repeatedly workedon by incompeten
workmen. oct22tf
I A I I E S E E S
(succEssoa TO w. H. LAMB,)
Dealer In
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
Wall Paper, Toys, Notions, &c,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
DR. WM. PRCESCH,
PHYSICIAN,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
WHEELOCK & COLLINS,
S I I A N S
AND
S O E I S
CLEABWATEB, MINN.
E. K. JAQTJES,
SURGEON DENTIST.
WEST'S BLOCK.
BT. CLOUD MINNESOTA.
T. J. BONHAM,
Practical' Tinsmith and Dealer in
TTgrWARE.
Parties needing Guttering, Spouting, or
any kind of Job Work will find ittotheir
advantage to give me a call, as I make this
work a specialty.
ST. CLOUD, MINN
O. O. HINES,
"PAINTER."
Shop on Washington ave.
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
A I
S O N 4 O
(Lateof STBOKO Amnso*,)
A E N S
0 Wwt Third Street, ST. PATH,.
Cheap Carpet Hall of The
State.
Large Stock Constantly on Hand.
J. MATHIAS
Nos. 240 A 248, 3d St., St. Paul, Minn
St. Cloud Quadrille Baud.
The undersigned will furnish first-class
music for balls. Special attention given to
supplying private parties, with from two to
Ave pieces, as may be desired.
Charges reasonable.
GEO. E. FULLER
St. Cloud, July 7,1874
ST. CLOUD
MARBLE WORKS.
Josephh Hershbach,
Dealer in
Monuments and Gravestones.
Also, Contractor for all kinds of
Stone Cutting to Order.
St Germain street—two doom east of the
Catholic Church.
IF YOU WANT SOME
OP THE
BEST LANDS
IK
S E A N S COXJ2VTY,
AT
CHEAP BATES,
Address
a IT.
Port Office Sox 2834, New York City
VOL. XVIII.
BANK OF ST. CLOUD.
Does a
General Banking, Exchange
—AND—
Real Estate Business.
AS. A. BELX,,
J. G. SMITH,
President.
Cashier.
ROSENBERGER BROS.,
Dealers in
A W A
A1SO
a ii a
S to
Iron
Tin, Copper and Sheet
Ware.
of all kinds made to order on short notice.
Corner St. Germain street and Richmond
avenue. St. Cloud, Minn.
F. EC. A
Manufacturer of
SASH AOT DOOR
S
IBLIIltf-lDS,
Moldings, Casings,
BRACKETS
STOBE FBONTS,
SCROLL WORK,
PUMP TUBING, Ac
Window & Door Frames,
INSIDE & OUTSIDE BLINDS,
COBNICE, STORE DOORS,
PRIMED & GLAZED SASH.
A N I N
Resawing, Scroll Sawing and Job Work
of every description done to order
Dressed Flooring, Siding, Pickets and Lum
ber ripped to bills, for sale
All Orders .by Mail Promptly Filled.
A L1BEPAL DJSSCOVirr TO DEALERS.
Office and factory on Washington ave
nue, next door to the bridge, St. Cloud
Minnesota.
BARNARD & COPE,
Manufacturers of all kinds of
FURNITURE.
Special attention given to
I N E S O W O
CHURCH LODGE & HALL
furniture made to order, on short notice.
to the trade sent on application. All goods
delivered at the depots or within the city
limits FREE OF CHARGE.
As we manufacture all our goods we
Guarantee Satisfaction.
JB@"Highest market price paid for Dry
Lumber.
BARNARD & COPE.
Factory 4th street, East Side, areroo ms
6 Centre Block.
8 E E S O E S
Manufacturers of
Parlor, Chamber and Office
FURNITURE.
The Woven Wire, Hair, Mass, and other
Mattresses, and Feathers.
FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS.
Sole Agents for Fisk's Patent Metallic
Burial Cases and Caskets.
Corner Third and Minnesota Streets,
v!7n4a-ly ST. PAUL.
FIRE JEWELRY
AND
S I I W A E
E. A. BROWN,
Dealer in
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SILVER
AND PLATED WARE
5 E. Third Street, St. Paul, Minn.
Established 1855.
W. R. BURKHARD,
Manufacturer and Dealer In aU kinds of
Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Pishing Tackle,
AMD OENER\h SPORTING GOODS.
Price lists forwarded to Dealers on application.
Orders solicited and promptlyfilledandsatisfaction
guaranteed.
831!. Third street, St. 1'aul.
GARRISON'S
MADISON HOUSE,
OIWCMHTATI, OHIO.
Ceitrally located, Elegantly Famished,
CHARGES HODEBATE.
The Commercial Hotel of the Oily.
MADAME C. MEARS,
Assisted by MLLE L. SEE.
ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN
Boarilii aid Day Sclool
For Young Ladles and Children,
222 Madison Avenue, New York.
WILL REOPEN SEPTEMBER 22,1875
•^Circulars sent on application.
C. F. & W. Powell
Dealers in all kinds of
Shelf and Heavy
HARDWARE,
Iron, Nails. Glass,
BLACKSMITHS* TOOLS,
Agricultural Implements.
M0LINE PLOWS.
Minneapolis Plows.
TIN,
COPPEE, \$D
IRON WARE.
SHEET-
St. Germain street, St. Cloud. Minn.
Reliance Works,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Edward P. AUis & Co.,
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FOUNDRYMEN,
MACHINISTS,
Mill Builders,
AND
Manufacturers"of Superioi
STEAM ENGINES
French Burr Mill Stones,
CAST IRON WATER AND GAS
FIFE!
8@fEverything in our line made and
sold. Illustrated catalouge of machinery,
130 pages, sent free on application.
RAYMOND & OWEN,
Manufacturers of
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,
MOTTLipilSrC^S, .'^
CASINGS, STOBE FBONTS, BBACK
ETS, SCROLL WORK,
Window and Door Frames,
Inside Blinds, Architraves, &c.
Planing, Matching, Re-Saw
ing and Scroll Sawing
Done to Order.
S A I A I I N
Balusters & Newell Posts,
made to order.
All kinds of
SCROLL SAWING
AND
Including House Brackets, sawed to any
given rake.
ORNAMENTAL VERGE BOARDS,
of any pattern, PlainandOrnamental Stair
Brackets.
Orders solicited and prompt attention
given. Goods shipped in safe condition.
OFFICE AND FACTORY LOWER TOWN,
Vl7n35-tf St. Cloud, Minn.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
OF
Cooper & Hinchilwood,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
O S^LE
Uo. 53. Corner lot, with l§-8tory house.
Good well in kitchen, good barn,
and good picket fence, with fruit
trees, &c, in yard. Good location.
Will be sold cheap for cash, or ex
changed for good land.
No. 54. Lots 4, 5 and 6, in block 40, St.
Cloud City. Good well and small
barn on premises. Good location.
Will be sold very cheap, and on
terms to suit purchaser.
No. 55. A dwelling house in lower town,
opposite the Normal School.
Good barn, well, etc. Will be
Bold very cheap and on easy terms.
No. 57. Two-story house, containing 13
rooms. 2 lots, on which are fine
fruit and shade trees, good well,
cistern and barn. Very desirable
neighborhood. Must be sold.
No. 58. 160 acres land in Benton county
good timber 20 acres meadow on
a- nice little stream running
through the place 40 acres in
crop good log house and stable
a good well and within half mile
of school house, store and sawnot
mill will be sold very cheap,
and on easy terms.
I I 8 I E
(Successor to SJUcer St Carlisle,)
Manufacturer of and Wholesale and Retail
,, dealer in
A.11 in
Sign of the Big Bed Bedstead, St. Germain
street.
ALL
ORDERS
FOR JOB PRINTING
TBGMPTLT FILLED
THE OFFICE
SLEEP.
When to soft sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
Xo roaydaybreak,—little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day.
We are clean quit of it, as is a lark
So high in heaven no human eye may mark
The sharpswift pinion cleavingthrough the gray.
Till we awake, ill fate Can do no ill,
The resting heart shall not take up again
The heavy load that yet must make it bleed:
For this briefspace, the loud world's voice is still,
No faintest echo of it brings us pain.
Ho will it be when we shall sleep indeed
T.e.AMrich.
IN SEPTEMBER.
Feathery clouds are few and fair,
Thistledown is on the air,
Rippling sunshine on the lake,
Wild grapes scent the sunny brake
Dizzy songs the crickets sing,
Wild bocs wapder murmuring
Butterflies float In a dream,
Over all the swallows gleam
Hero and yonder, high and low,
Golden-rod and sunflowers glow
Hore and there a maple flushes,
Sumach reddens, woodbine blushes
Purple asters bloom and thrive,
I am glad to be alive.
MUSICAL JEDAUCTION IN OUR
SCHOOLS.—
How is this great' power of music
to be controlled and brought to bear
most directly, most efficiently, on our
people That nation is the best-edu
cated in which knowledge is most dif
fused, in which the results number.
Only so far as any art or science be
comes apart Of popular education can
that art or science become a power,
and influence, in a land. Of the
growing desire among our people for
a higher musical education we have
many signs in the frequency of festi
vals and choral unions and the num
ber of musical associations. We
Americans are a conglomerate race,
made up of the best of every people
under the sun, so transfued that the
origin of even a single family
scarcely be traced without an
ment of Celtie or Teutonic race
covering itself. Perhaps this is
source of the musical taste so widely
spread among us as a people. We
say taste, not culture we are not yet
a cultivated people in any true sense.
Asa national characteristic, to be
song and music lovers belongs to the
Irish and German races rather than
to the Saxon. It is rare to find a
German or an Irsih girl without an
ear for music. In our Western States
and centres of population the Ger
mans instinctively gather, in remem
brance of the father-land, into Sang
vereins, preserving the songs and
musical traditions of the old land,
while they welcome gladly any thing
fresh and worthy from the new. The
marvelous achievements of the school*
festivals in the Music Hall in Boston
are largely due to the fine voices, the
quick perception, of the Irish, either
byjbirth or descent, who constitute a
majority of the pupils in our public
schools.
cau
ele
dis-
the
No one thing has done more for
music in the past twenty years than
its intrduction as an integral part of
of our common-school education. In
the large cities and suburban towns
little seems left to desire in that di
rection. From the time children at
the age of five enter the primary
school till at the age of sixteen or
eighteen they graduate from the high
or normal school, niusis is as much a
part of their training as the multipli
cation-table and spelling-book. The
next generation will see what we fore
see, and reap the harvest this genera
tion is so wisely sowing.
If, as we contend, music is in iteelf
purifying and elevating, if it can dis
place and crowd put baser pleasures
by giving innocent recreation and ex
citement to a people that must be
amused, a people who must be busy
for good or for evil, we can not have
too much of it. It can not enter too
largely or too deeply into the system
of common-school education.—Har
per's Magazine for October.
A COMMENTARY ON PANICS.
The Almeda Independent says:
We have already mentioned the loss
of a large number of sheep in the
hills back of Mission San Jose, be
longing to Mr. Ashurst, but was mis
informed as to the mode of their
death. It was not by rushing down
a precipice, but in another and most
singular way that the misfortune oc
curred. The sheep, to the number of
about 2,500, were quietly feeding on
a hill about 3 miles east of Mission
San Jose, on Sunday afternoon, July
4, when a man, who had been a
short time working for the owners of
the sheep, suddenly uttered a loud
yell, which had the effect of fr ighten
ing the sheep. They immediately
commenced running down hill as
fast as they could. At or near the
bottom of the hill a large patch of
poison oak was growing, and they
rushed pell-mell into it. Here their
legs got so entangled that they could
move. Meanwhile the others be
hind came rushing down upon them,
until they were piled in layers, six
deep, one upon the other. Of course,
the most of them were soon suffoca
ted and dead.
One of the owners came to the
spot within ten minutes afterward,
and with the aid of a Spaniard suc
ceeded in pulling out and rescuing
about fifty head. But the number
that lost their lives in this strange
way was 700 in all. It is supposed
that the yell given by the hired man
was for tbe purpose 'of starting
the sheep off to camp.
—A fire at Poderdam, Prussia, last
Sunday, burned 100 buildings, and
made homeless 300 families.
ST. CLOUD. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875.
NASBY ON INFLATION.
Its Progress at "Confedrlt Roads"
—The Trouble that Mr. Per
kins Started.
Present Status of the Great Idea In the
Place Where It Is Being Tested.
From the Toledo Blade.
CONFEDKIX ROADS, WICH IS IN
THE STATE UV KENTUCKY, Aug. 11,
1875.—I hev hed trouble enough
with the unenlitened people uv these
Corners, for the past week, to neerly
drive me mad. Indeed I shood hev
bin in a loonatic asylum ere this, hed
I not bin sustained and soothed by
an onlimited faith of the correctnis
of the doctrine uv the Ohio Dimocri
cy, ez regards money. And feelin
that I wuz assistin, in my humble
way, in puttin them doctrines into
practia, I determined not to go mad,
but to persevere even unto the end.
But the perverse people are doin
ther level best to drive me crazy and
I am not shoor ,that they won't suc
ceed. 'I bought a pair uv horses uv
one uv em for $8,000, and paid him
in our money. He thot he'd rather
not tech it.
"When will this be redeemed
•be askt, innocently.
"Any time you want it,"
plied.
"In Wat?" he retorted.
j. "In other notes onto the
bank," sez
4 "And how will you redeem
notes sez he.
"In jist the same way," sez I.
"Then all there is uv it," sez he,
"yoo go on takin up one note by giv
ing another, and' all uv em without
interest nor nothih."
"That's it eggzackly," sed I. "Yoo
see, can't yoo, or are yoo an ijeat that
money means faith. Now, ef the
proud finatishel institooshin in wich I
am the head, ishoos its note, you
must hey faith that it will pay, and
so long ez yoo -hev that faith, and
everybody else hez that faith, so that
they take it for money, yoo never
want the money on it. So long ez
money is taken, yoo don't want it re
deemed, for it is good enuff, yoo see!
Our money is made good by faith—
and ez long ez it is sustained by faith
it will go. When the notes you hev
wears out, come to us and we will re
deem em with new ones. But every
one must hev faith. Cant yoo see it?
EVERYBODY MUST HEV FAITH!
Faith, in the ishoos uv this
Bank uv ourn is necessary to its suc
cess andstability. Faith in our money
is ez it is in Religion, the substance
uv things hoped, for, and the evi
dence of things not seen, only more
so. Wait till I get $8,000 from the
printin offis, and take em for your
horses, and go your way. Hev faith."
I re-
same
them
Perkins, that was the farmer's
name, took the money and went his
way, ponderin ez he went. He
walked down to Bascorn's with deep
lines uv thot onto his face, wich re
solved itself into a expreshun of de
terminashun ez he entered the door.
"Ken yoo sell me a barl uv whisky
to-day,—a entire barl sed he.
"Cartinly," said G. W., smilingly,
"Certinly, Mr. Perkins. It's only
worth $40 a gallon, or $1,680 per barl
this mornin."
"I'll take a barl'" sed Perkins^
"All rite," wuz G. W.'s response.
"I'd es soon sell a barl to wunst ez by
the single drink."
So G. W. and his wife, and oldest
son Jefferson Davis, rolled a barl up
into Perkinses wagon,and Perkins re
markt that he wanted to pay for that
likker on the spot. Boscom smiled
pleasantly. There wuz nothin so
pleasant Perkins continyood, ez pay
in for things wen yoo git em, ez it
saves bookkeepin and vexashus troub
les uv all kinds.
"Give me pen, ink and paper, G.
W." sed this outrageous Perkins.
Nonplushed, Bascom did so me
chanically, and^ Perkins ran his
tongue out, ez people do in the Cor
ers when they attempt writin, and af
er thirty minutes uy intense labor,
with sweat a rollin from his brow
fearful, he handed Bascom the foller
in dokeyment:
CONPEDBIT ROADS, Sept. 1,1875.—I
promise to pay G. W. Bascom sixteen hun
dred and eighty dollars.
jEHiAii PERKINS.
"Wats this askt the astonished
Bascom, with an expreshun of intense
disgust usurpin the place of the smije.
"Pay for that likker," replied Per
kins, calm ez a Joon mornin.
"But this aint pay—its your prom
ise to pay, and you ain't got time
nor place fixed for payment—yoo
aiht got no interest exprest nor noth
in. Wen do you perpose to pay it
"Never, G. W. never. Under
this new mdispr^lirn, promites to pay
is money. All ii wrjiVt is faith.
So long ez yoo blt^ that that pa
per is money, wat do you want uv
money With faith enuff that pa
per is money. I hev bin figgerin
this matter out in my intellek ever
sence I hev been takin your bank
money. It's all the same. Ef I hev
faith in yoor money, yoo must hev
faith in mine. When this note wears
put come to me and I will write yoo
a new one. And don't keep it too
long—I shel take pleasure in written
yoo notes often, so that they will al
ius be. new and pleasant to look
at. How pleasant it is, Bascom, to
pay as yoo go How much better I
feel to pay on the nale, and how
much better yoo must feel to hev
yoor cash wen yoo deliver yoor
goods."
And Perkins, drove off with the
likker lite-hearted leavin Bascom
dumbfounded in the door uv thegro
sery, gaspin with astonishment and
blind with rage.
Perkins didn't stop with a barl uv
likker. He hot a pair uv pegged
boots for $80, and pade for em in the
same way, and- a kag uv nails, and
two soots uv close, and calico dresses
for his wife and dawters, and a box
uv paper colars and a neck-tie, things
he hed never dreemed uv hevin be
fore, and he got so eggscited at his
success in finanseeiin that he went
home drunk ez a biled owl.
But the misery uv all this is, every
cuss within 5 miles, seenin Perkinses
success is doin the same thing,-and an
immense volyoom uv wat I may call
indivijjle currency is afloat. And
they is seriously thretnin to vote to
hev the corporashen take the staff
for taxes! The idee uv takin money
for taxes that aint printed, and that
heznt got no President and Casheer
and Board ov Direkters! There is
sieh a thing ez carryin this thing too
fur.
But prosperity continoos her stimu
late rain. We ishood thirty thou
sand dollars uv our money last week,
and the benefishal effeck is visable.
Wheat is now $12 a bushel, licker $1
a drink plain, and $1,50 to them ez
takes sugar in theirn, pegged boots is
$80, cotton sox $4, and town lota
well, any price that one chooses to
ask for em. The diggin uv cellars is
going on satisfactorily, ez is enything
else that we kin pay for in our own
money. But I tremble with appre
hensions. Wat will happen when
they come to want the lumber and
nales and glass, and other things
wich hev to come from Looisville 1
That's the gost that hants me.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
President uv the onlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
QUEEN VICTORIA AT HOME.
The good, motherly Queen dances
in the hall of Balmoral with her re
tainers and household servants, makes
her own tea when out on picnics,
spins in the cottages of her tenants,
and has herself photographed in the
gracious acts bestows "warm flannel
petticoats" on poor old women with
her own hands, and tells us ail about
it in her own book. The Prince of
Wales goes everywhere, dines with
everybody, and drives a drag^—for all
the world as though he were no
greater man than the President of
the United States. The new court
dress for gentlemen is a simple half*
military costume. Gaudy liveries
are going out in high places, so that
lackeys look less like lobsters and
lizards than formerly, and I doubt
not that, long ere it is ready to fall
to pieces from sheer old age, like the
Deacon's "one-horse shay," tbe Royal
state coach will be remanded, Tritons
and all, to that Valhalla of old
state coaches, the first hall in Ken
sington Museum, and the Monarchs
of England will cease to lumber
along on wheels like to those of Pha
raoh's chariot, but may drive through
the streets of London, even on the
grandest state occasions, with celeri
ty, comfort, and quiet elegance, like
other sensible well-to-do folk.—Oraee
Greenwood in the New York Timee.
RAO MONEY AND ITS VALUE.
"Well, bub," replied Bijah, as he
finished hanging up the broom, "this
currency question bothers many be
sides you* though it's clear enough to
me. You see that twenty-five cent
scrip, don't you
The boy remarked that he did, and
Bijah placed it on the window sill,
weighted it down with a peach stone,
and continued:
"That bit of paper is marked
cents/ but is it twenty-five cents
it anything more than apiece of
per?"
"I dunno," solemnly replied
boy.
"Has that bit of paper any real
value beyond its being a promise to
pay?" demaned Bijah.
"What paper
"That 'ere twenty-five
ftKIXl
'25
Is
the
He stopped there. Some one had
sneaked up the alley and slyly stolen
both scrip and peach stone.
"Never mind," condoled the boy,
it hadn't any intrinsic value."
"It hadn't, eh?" growled the old
janitor: "I just want to catch the
wolf who absorbed it!"—Detroit Free
Press.
—The Philadelphia Press com*
plains that children are sent to school
when too young, and deprecates the
blunder of allowing them to bring
the school home with them. It says:
"When the doors of the schoolhouse
close in the afternoon upon the school
children they should literally close
out from them all that pertains to
school until the opening next morn
ing. A teacher should be a teacher,
not simply a mere hearer of recita
tions. Lessons should be learned and
taught at school—never at home.
The teacher has no right to impose up
on parents the most annoying part of
her work. She has no right to take
from the child a single moment of the
few hours it has out of school."
-—The weavers of Fail river, Mass.
have voted almost unanimously to
return to work on the manufacturers'
terms as soon as ihe mills can be
opened.
A COLORADO HAILSTORM.
The prevalence of terrific storms in
different parts of the world this year
has not been satisfactorily explained.
Here is a story told by the Denver
News:
At Potter station, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, on Friday night, a
train wasjust pulling out from the
station when a storm commenced, and
in ten seconds there was such a fury
of hail and wind that the engineer
deemed it best to stop the locomotive.
The hailstones were simply great
chunks of ice, many of them 3 and 4
inches in diameter, and of all shapes
—Squares, cones, cubes, &c. The
first stone that struck the train broke
a window, and the flying glass sevrely
injured a lady on the face, making a
deep cut Five minutes afterward
there was not a whole light of glass
on the south side of the train the
whole length of it. The windows in
the Pullman cars were of French
plate three-eighths of an inch thick
and double. JThe hail broke both
thicknesses, and tore the curtains into
shreds. The wooden shutters, too,
were smashed, and many of the mir
rors were broken. The "decklights"
on the top of the cars were also de
molished. The dome of the engine
was dented as if it had been pounded
with a heavy weight, and the wood
work on the south side of the cars
was plowedasif some one had struck it
all over with sliding blows from a
hammer. During the continuance of
this terrific fusilade, which lasted
fully twenty minutes, the excitement
and fear among the passengers ran
very high. Several ladies fainted,
and one lady, Mrs. Earle, wife of the
Superintendent of the Mountain Di
vision of the road, went into spasms,
from which she did not recover for
over an hour after the cessation of the
storm. Several persons sitting on
the south side of the cars were more
or less injured about the head and
face.
As soon as the storm abated a lit
tle, the matting in the cars was hung
up in front of the windows, and the
train moved ahead, the drifted hail
stones proving an obstacle for some
miles. At the next station strips of
tin were procured and fastened over
the windows the entire length of the
train. The cars have been run into
shop for repairs, and the damage will
amount, it is estimated, to several
thousand dollars.
A RAPID CHANGE.
The rapidity with which females
adapt themselves to the circumstances
and fashions with which they are
surrounded, and especially the fash
ions, is simply marvelous. On Mon
day last, a lady, who employs several
domestics, got a new table-girl, just
arrived in the city from rural dis
tricts,—a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked
damsel, who blushed whenever any
of the male members of the house
hold looked at her a girl whose hair
was combed smoothly back from off
a tanned forehead whose dress had
sleeves to it, came up to her throat
and down to her feet On Tuesday
her hair went up on to the top of her
head, and was coiled up over a—
something on Wednesday she cut
the sleeves off her dress, turned it in
at the throat, pinned it back, and
humped it out behind, and could look
all the men in the house square in
the face for half an hour without the
hue of modesty showing through her
prepared chalk complexion. Yester
day she completed her degradation
by cutting off all but an inch or two
of her front hair.
AN ARGUMENT FOR RELIGIOUS TOL
ERANCE.
The following is a characteristic in
cident in the life of Deacon Bolles,
who was an eminent type of the age
in which he lived, for personal and
private worth, both as a man and
Christian.
When the Baptists of Hartford be
gan to hold public services, an over
zealous member of Dr. Strong's socie
ty called upon him and asked him if
he knew that John Bolles had started
an opposition meeting.
"No," said he, "when, where
"Why, at the old Court House."
"Oh yes, I know it," the doctor
carelessly replied "but it is not an
opposition meeting. They are Bap
tists, to be sure, but they preach the
same doctrine that I do. You had
better go and hear them."
"No," said the man, "I am a Pres
byterian."
"So am I," rejoined Dr. Strong
"but that need not prevent us from
wishing them well. You had better
go
"No," said the man with energy,
"I shan't go near them. Dr. Strong,
ain't you going to do something about
itr
"What?"
"Stop it, can't you
"My friend," said the Doctor, ser
iously, "John Bolles is a good man,
and will surely go to heaven. If you
and I get there we shall meet him,
and we had better, therefore, culti
vate a pleasant acquaintance with
him here."—Church Union.
—The Grand Duke Alexis, third
son of the Emperor of Russia, who
some years ago, owing to & secret
marriage with a lady of the Court of
the Empress, had incurred the dis
pleasure of his father, has. now
divorced from his wife.
NO. 1
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A GHOST WORTH HAV1NO ABOUND.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer
says that city possesses a wonderful
materializing medium. The story is
as follows: "It was only a few weeks
ago that the person to whom we refer
became conscious of his peculiar pow
ers, but since the discovery he has
continued to exercise them and they
have rapidly developed. Thus far
the seances have been held in the
presence of a small party of his ac
quaintances, in a darkened room
which, with the exception of a small
table, is utterly destitute of furniture.
No believer in spiritualism had yet
attended these sittings, so that it can
not be said that any of his audience
were unduly prepared to give cred
ence to the genuineness of the mani
festation, and yet all the spectators
with whom we have conversed are
convinced that there was no collusion
or trickery in the effects produced.
One of the remarkable feats perform
ed by the spirits is the bringing upon
the table a supply of fresh tropical
flowers. The flowers exhale a beau
tiful fragrance, are fresh with dew,
and of varieties which cannot be pro
cured in this vicinity. The members
of the circle the other evening were
also regaled with splendid cigars
dropped upon the table by spirit vis
itors, and the medium himself was
refreshed a day or two ago with a
plate of ice-cream furnished by the
same mysterious agency. The me
dium can also materialize the spirits
so that they become visible to those
in the room. The spirits also play
on musical instruments and write
messages on the wall and table, which
to the ordinary observers are mere
hieroglyphics, but to the spiritual
vision of the medium are really intel
hgible."
WHIMB LANDIS WAS NOT REMOVED
only a
but on
During
Branch
President Grant has not
nice appreciation of humor,
occasion is apt at repartee,
his recent vacation at Long
he was called to Washington on pub
lic business, and while there was
handed for signature several commis
sions of postmasters. There were al
so presented to him a number of pe
titions, among them one from citizens
of Vineland, New Jersey, for the re
moval of Mr. Landis from the post
mastership. Mr. L., it will be re
membered, is the gentleman who in
an informal and impromptu manner
"promoted" a small globe of lead into
the brain of Mr. Carruth, the editor
of the Vineland paper. The Presi
dent asked,
"Is there any irregularity in Mr.
Landis's accounts
"Not any," replied the pleasant
voiced Postmaster-General.
"Is the office well conducted
"No complaint on that score."
"Intemperate habits
"Nothing of the kind charged."
"What is the objection
"The petitioners say he is rather
obnoxious, and that a change would
be satisfactory."
"Well," replied the President, with
the slightest possible twinkle at the
P. M. G., "he doesn't appear to have
done anything but shoot an editor,
and I don't see how I can remove
him on that"
The papers remain on file in the
archives of the republic.
E N E O S 1 W A 1 S
The French papers tell a good story
of a true Gavroche of Paris who was
found bathing illegally in the Seine
by a zealous Sergeant de Ville. The
urchin swam like a fish, and the po
liceman not at all. So the latter, spur
red on by zeal for the public welfare
and by the hope of capturing the re
ward of one franc offered for such
captures, crept into a boat and tried
to nab the lad as he floated by. The
result was that over went the boat,
and into the Seine the Sergeant de
Ville. Little Grvroche dived after,
brought him up, and took him drip
ping ashore. "I will let you off,"
gasped the grateful officer. "Indeed
quoth Gavroche, "but I shant let you
off. For I have saved your life, and
that is worth, by the law, 25 francs to
me. So come along, sir, to the sta
tion, and let me collect my salvage!"
^m
A GENEROUS OFFER.
4'Uncle Pete" was asked to sub
scribe fifty cents to his parson's salary
yesterday.
"Can't do it, I tell ye Kase dere's
mighty hard times 'proachin' on
hyar!"
"Oh, no, Pete, de craps is good,
and we hab plenty money dis Win
ter!"
You'se a fool! How kin dat be
when I hear Mr. Jeemes up dar atde
bank say dat de Chloraforney Bank
done busted, jis like dat Freedman
bank did? Can't 'scribe nuthin',
honey, but I'll lend de preacher my
wood saw and buck, ef he wants to
yearn somefin."
This proposition was not accepted.
—Atlanta Constitution.
—Life and limb are again feeding
the rapacious reaper. Two boys near
Cresco Iowa, were driving a machine.
One discovered a prairie chicken.
He told the other to hold the horses
while he shot the bird. The dis
charge of the gun frightened the
team, which threw the boy in front
of the sickle bar, and both legs and
one arm were severed. Both feet
Ias
were found on the ground precisely
he stood when they were cut off.
MISCELLANEOUS.
—W W. Heath & Son, leather
dealers, Boston, hajy suspended.
—Measles, whicWaroke out on tho
Fiji Islands some months ago, has al
ready reduced the native population
one-third, and still prevails without
sign of abating.
—The thieves who robbed the safe
of Sargent & Co., Boston, of $17,000
have returned through the mails the
entire amount, save $73.
—All the axes and buck-saws found
in the ruins of Pompeii are of light
make, as if constructed for woman's
use. Those old ancients knew their
little business!
—A large part of Galveston, Texas,
was under water Thursday night,
from the effect of an unusually high
wind from the north. No great dam
age was done, but some of the wharves
were somewhat injured and a consid
erable number of people were obliged
to vacate their houses.
—A defalcation of $60,000 has
been discovered in the accounts of
the Louisville gas company. A dis
position to keep matters quiet is man
ifested, and all that can be learned is
that G. D. Marshall, late cashier, is
the guilty party. It is understood
that a settlement by which Marshall
transfers his personal and real estate
property to the gas company has been
effected. No prosecution will be
made. Marshall is well known, and
the fact of his defalcation occasions
general excitement.
—Some, forty years ago Thomas
Emerson, President of the Windsor
(Vt) bank, was suspected of robbing
it of about $50,000, the loss of which
caused the institution to fail. He
was tried, found guilty, and confined
in Windsor jail for many years. On
Thursday, Sept. 2, as Col. Harlow
was remeving an old brick oven in
his house, which was formerly -occu
pied by the Cashier, Kittridge, he
discovered somewhere between $40,
000 and $50,000 of the missing mon
ey in a brick vault under the oven.
The people of Windsor now believe
the Cashier took the money instead of
Emerson.
A BUSINESS HAIC-STOBM^
Corn Husked and SheUed Potatoes Dog,
Washed, Peeled and Hashed—A
Load Story Well Told.
Special to the Pioneer-Press.
Monticello, Minn., Sept. 16.—
One of the most fearfW hail and
wind storms I ever witnessed visited
this town about 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. It came from the north
west, unroofing buildings, blowing
down chimneys and carrying destruc
tion before it. One farmer came to
town this morning. He says he rode
through drifts of hail two feet deep.
Another that the hail cut down his
corn, husked and shelled it. Also it
dug his potatoes, washed, peeled and
mashed them. I have often heard of
great hail storms, but was always in
credulous. Now I am a believer.
Some of the stones were quite as big
as hen's eggs. It is estimated that
one-third of the windows in town
were broken. The hardware and
drug stores are doing a lively busi
ness this morning selling glass and
putty.
CHANGES AT NIAGARA.
Correspondence Boston Transcript.
My first visit to the falls was made
some fourteen or fifteen years ago,
since which time I am able to detect
quite a change in the appearance of
the cataract, especially in the config
uration of the Horseshoe. There is
not so much water coming over the
American Falls as there was twenty
or even ten years ago and the edge
of the cliff of the Horseshoe, east of
the point where the Terrapin tower
once stood, is now almost dry. The
Horseshoe has lost its old shape, and
instead of presenting a grand half
circle, now assumes the form of three
sides of a square. More water ap
pears to fall over the Horseshoe
than a few years ago, and the day
will probably come when the Ameri
can Falls will disappear. I am sus
tained in these views by Mr. DeWitt
C. Bartelle, artist, of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, who has recently spent
a couple of weeks at the falls mak
ing sketches for a grand painting,
which will be sent to the Centennial
exposition. Some years ago he
painted a view of Niagara, and he
discoveres the changes wrought by
time in this stupendous cataract
which I have mentioned.
THE RAPIDS OF THE ST. LAWRENCE
No tourist who has ever sailed
from Kingston to Montreal, will soon
forget the thrilling emotions produc
ed by the passage of the boat over the
rapids of that majestic river. The
wild plunging of the waters approach
ed with so much dismay is speedily
viewed with feelings of pleasurable
excitement. Should the vessel strike
a rock, disaster might ensue. Acci
dents have,however, beenso rare in the
navigation of a century, that no dan
ger is apprehended. The first catas
trophe in along time happened last
month. The steamer Algeria, run
ning from Toronto, struck a ledge of
rock at the Cedar Rapids, and. be
came unmanageable. All was con
sternation among the passengers. Af
ter remaining there all night, they
were all safely taken off tbe next
morning in row boats. The wild
dashing of the waves through the
hours of darkness filled every mo
ment with a terrible anxiety.
—?It is seldom easy to see the hid
den benefaction in that which is an
apparent affliction. A boy who was
"confounding" the mosquito was told
by his pastor that "doubtless the in
sects are made with a good end in
view," when the young scamp replied,
"I can't see it, whether it is in view
or not. At any rate, I don't like the
end I feel."