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O I N I N
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notice,n Ind thee beat style, and at St. Paul prices.—
5c °*ra»*n and Norwegian, as well as
in English, and warranted to give satisfaction.
L. W. COLLINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
Office on Second Floor of BeWt Block.
D. B. SEARLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Office in EdelbrocVa Block.
H. M. ATKINS,
A O N E
AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ST. CLOUD, MINN.
Office in Belts Block, over Btuseir* Store.
EDWIN M. WRIGHT,
ATTORNE A LA W
FERGUS FALLS, MINN.
JOHN COOPXB. J. HlNCHILWOOD.
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.
Particular attention given to Repairing
O S So W A E S
that have failed to give satisfaction after
being repeatedly worked on by incompeten
workmen. oct22tf
O S A E S E E S
(9CCCESSO* TO W. H. LAMB,)
Dealer In
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
Wall Paper, Toys, Notions, A
8T. CLOUD, MINN.
DR. WM. FRCESCH,
a PHYSICIAN,
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
WHEELOOE & COLLINS,
S I I A N S
AND
S E a E 0 1 S
CLEARWATER, MINN.
E. K. JAQUES,
SURGEON DENTIST.
WEST'S BLOCK.
ST. CLOUD MINNESOTA.
O N A
Practical Tinsmith and Dealer ln
Parties needing Guttering, Spouting, or
any kind of Job Work will find it to their
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 E I
O S O N Sc O
(Late of STBOHO a ANDXBSOW,)
A.i& E TSc^w S
S West Third Street, ST. PAUL.
Cheap Carpet Hall of The
State.
Large Stock Constantly on Hand.
J. MATHIAS
Nos. 246 & 248, 3d St., St. Paul, Minn
St. Cloud Quadrille Band.
The undersigned will furnish first-class
music for balls. Special attention given to
supplying private parties, with from two to
five pieces, as may oe 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 doors east of the
Catholic Church.
IF YOU WANT SOME
or TBS
BEST LANDS
IN
S E A N S O N
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AT
CHEAP RATES,
Addngsa'
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Post Office Box 2334, New York City
VOL. XVIII.
BANK O ST.
CLOUD.C
Does a
General Banking, Exchange
—AND—
Real Estate Business.
JAB. A. BELL,
President.
J. G. SMITH,
Cashier.
ROSENBERGER BROS.,
Dealers in
HARDWARF.
ALSO
S a in a
Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron
Ware.
of all kinds made to order on short notice.
Corner St. Germain street and Richmond
avenue. St. Cloud, Minn.
F. H. DAM,
Manufacturer of
SASH AND DOORS
IBLIZSTIDS,
Moldings, Casings,
A E S
STORE FRONTS,
SCROLL WORK,
PUMP TUBING, &e.
Window & Door Frames,
INSIDE & OUTSIDE BLINDS,
CORNICE, 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.bUls,for sale
All Orders by Mail Promptly Filled.
A L1BEPAL DISCOUNT 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
E I 1 E S O W O
CHURCH LODGE HALL
furniture made to order, on short notice.
I
to the trade sent on application. All goods
delivored at the depots or within the city
limits FREE OF CHARGE.
As we manufacture all our goods we
Guarantee Satisfaction.
l©"Highest market price paid for Dry
Lumber.
BARNARD & COPE.
Factory 4th street, East Side, arerooms
6 Centre Block.
8 E E S O E S
Manufacturers of
Parlor, Chamber and Office
FURNITURE.
The Woven Wire, Hair, Moss, and other
Mattresses, and Feathers.
FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS.
Sole Agents for Fisk^s Patent Metallic
Burial Cases and Caskets.
Corner Third and Minnesota Streets,
vl7n42-ly ST. PAUL.
Established 1855.
W, R. BURKHARD,
Manufacturer and Dealer id all kinds Of
Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Fishing Tackle,
AND OKKXKAI. SPOKTOfQ GOODS.
Price lists forwarded to Dealers on application.
Orders solicited and promptlyfilledaadsstisfoction
guaranteed. ... '.'-••
23 E. Third street, St. Paul.
MADISON HOUSE,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Centrally located, Elegantly Furnished,
O I HODBUTE.
The Commercial Hotel of the Oity.
HOTEL FOR SALE.
I offer for sale, at a great bargain, the
SAUK VALLEY HOUSE,
with furniture, etc. This is one of the meet
favorably located hotels in the city and is in
good condition for the accommodation of
farmers and travelers. Inquire on the
premises of H. KAMMEEMAIER.
St. Cloud, June 17th. 1875. 3m.
[Of the Quality
Printed to order at the
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E O E N
Send One. Dollar, With your address, qualifications
and: reference to the Employment Bureau, Opera
Howe, 81. Paul, and have the sunssnteNd ontheirKeclprocatins
Register. They are supplying great many in
ererr branch of Industry, with situations erery
1 week, #ep!6-4w
6 •Historical
F.& W. Powell
Dealers in all kinds of
Shelf and Heavy
HARDWARE,
Iron, Nails, Class,
BLACKSMITHS' TOOLS,
Agricultural Implements.
M0LINE PLOWS.
Minneapolis Plows.
TIN, COPPER, AND SHEET
IRON WARE.
St. Germain street, St. Cloud. Minn.
Reliance Works,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Edward P. Allis & Co.,
FOUNDRYMEN,
MACHINISTS,
Mill Builders,
AND
IF^IR/iKnrSIIEIE&S.
Manufacturers of Superioi
STEAM ENG-INES
ex
French Burr Mill Stones,
CAST IRON WATER A«I GASV
EXEEI
.- 1 .»••
SOT"Everything in our line made and
sold. Illustrated catalouge of machinery,
130 pages, sentjf^e. bn,appB^j^uJ2
RAYMOND & OWEN,
Manufacturers of
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,
2^0*UXi!Di:rrGrS7
CASINOS, STORE FRONTS, BRACK
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
TUIR/iEnrlTGr-
Including House Brackets, sawed to any
given rake.
ORNAMENTAL YERGE BOARDS,
of any pattern, Plain and Ornamental Stair
Brackets.
Orders solicited and prompt attention
given. Goods shipped in safe condition.
OFFICE AND FACTORY LOWER TOWN,
v!7n35-tf St. Cloud, Minn.
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
OP
Cooper & Hinchilwood,
ST. CL0TJD, MINN.
O S A E
No. 53. Corner lot, with lj-story 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 onin
terms to suit purchaser.
No. 55. A dwelling house in lower town,
opposite the Normal School.
Good barn, well, etc. Will be
sold 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 sawn
mill will be sold very cheap,
and on easy terms.
X. S I E
(Successor to Spicer A Carlisle,)
Manufacturer of and Wholesale and' Retail
dealer, in
A
Sign of the Big Red Bedstead, St. Germain
street
Wanted:Apts.,town
MEN and WOM
EN in every city,
and county to
CUITM.forWm. Redheffer's 'Patent Iilghtntaf
churn and Egg Boater.—
Se Ua at sight and pays large profits. Send for cir
culartomanufacturer, W. H. Chick A Co., Ill K.
Second Street, St. Louis. sep30
THE HOPELESS.
*BOM RKTNK.
My loro and I were floating
Alone In our light canoe,
Tho night was calm as we drifted
Out on the waters blue.
The spirit isle in ita beauty
Was glittering in rosy hate,
Enchanting sounds were trembling
Through wondrous elfin mace.
It rushed o'er the moonlit waters,
It waved in mysterious glee,
But we—we drifted onward,
Hopeless, upon the sea.
-Trarulaie.d for THE JOURNAL by 6.8.
FROM HEINE.
When all is lone and dreary,
When life 1B sad and bleak,
And but my spirit kisses
At night thy tea'fill cheek,
Then come where I am sleeping,
Where elder and roses grow,
And cool thy throbbing temples
Among their dreamy glow.
Confide thy longings and sorrow,
Thy griefs and thy hopes to me,
And I will faintly whisper
What I have dreamt of thee.
-Translated for TUB JOURNAL by C. &
DEVOURED BY A CUTTLE-FISH.
Terrible Discovery On the Bottom of th«
Sea—A Victim of the Schiller Disas
ter Found ln the Clutches of sv Sub
marine monster—A Brother in Search
of a Sister—Heart-Rending Scene Un
der the Ocean. NsJ'-k- )?.=3- JSKHS
From the New York Mercury.
A Plymouth (Eng.) correspondent
writes: A most remarkable occur
rence conn^fieJSitCtfifijfrreck of the
steamship Schiller has just come to
but also because it leads to the strange
t^iP^W^^^^S^ Ixisfence of
carnivorous monsters inhabiting the
boJtlom.oTtKesea.ANaturalists must
read this account upon its publication
in the Mercury with interest, inasmuch
as it will explain why so few of the
bodies of human beings "drowned in
foundered ships ever come to the sur
face, While portions of wrecked ves
sels are often found .floating even in
raid" ocean, not' oiie in a thousand" of
persons losf is""ever discovered yet
natural causes, such as the develop
ment of gases by internal decomposi
tion^ should bring the corpses to the
surface* in a floating condition. I
^he^orld j&.to believe what tw a of
the-divers who went downto the bot
tom last week to examine the wreck
c^.fjigSjsytlfe^Wthe Keterner Led
ges, tell of what they saw, and which
experience a third young man, whoordinary
was with them, confirmed with his
life, the explanation is now made that
there are monsters of the deep who
live on human flesh. The sjory is a
brief one. Mr. Frauz Hauser, whose
body was buried a few days ago atsubscription
Penzance, near Land's End, was a
native of Luxemburg.. Hi mother
and two sisters were on the Schiller,
intending a visit to their old home,
while he remained in Iowa.
N
exhausted and it "was agreted•
Upon
the news of the wreck of the vessel he
became so deeply affected that he fell
into a raging fever. When he be-ty,
came convalescent he made inquiries
whether the bodies of his relations had
been found. obtained no satis
factory information in the States, and
at last resolved to make a personal
effort on the spot came across
the ocean, and at once went to Pen
zance, where at last he gained the
certainty that neither of the three
corpses had been recovered. There
upon he employed two experienced
divers, purchased a complete diving
armor, and submitted to a course of
training under the instructions of the
two men he had employed. A soon
as able to move about under the water
and accustomed to the heavy suit he
determined to descend into the seathe
where the Schiller had gone down
and search for his mother and sisters.
Several descents were without success,
though the remains of the vessel were
seen, yet no body could be observed.
But one day as the three men were
silently moving about among sharp
pointed crags and reefs, and being a
considerable distance away from the
wreck itself, Franz Hauser was start
led by the sight of what appeared as
the head of a female form. It seemed
to hang from the top of a reef some
ten feet high. directed the atten
tion of the others by pointing towards
it. Slowly the three stepped forward
in the direction of the reef. Nearing
the spot a pitiful and heart-rending
scene presented itself. What was
supposed to be a female head was such
reality, yet little of the body to
which it belonged could be seen. Th
corpse was firmly held in the clutches
of a gigantic cuttlefish, which, with its
enormous arms and extended suckers,
clung to it and to the sides of the
rock Jike a wild beast feasting on its
prey. The sight, say the two sur
viving divers, was shocking, yet awe
inspiring. They describe the cuttle
fish as having a circular central body
that could not be less than four feet
diameter of a greenish black hue,
with alternating bright and dark
spots and a slimy surface. I twas
rounded like a dome, and it seemed
as if a portion of the human body had
been absorbed into it by the tremend
ous power of suction this monster is
believed to possess. Its arms—the
divers counted eight—were apparent
ly of immense strength, being over
twelve feet, long, and judged to be
not less than a foot in diameter
where they joined the body. Some
of these arms clung to the unfortun
ate victim, others held fast to the pro
tuberances of the rock, and several
were swinging through the water like
the trunk of an elephant, but twice
its size.
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1875.
Such was the view the three divers
had as they approached this reef, and
Franz Hauser* rnacU a sudden spring
forward towards but he was held
back. His associates knew that by
going any nearer they1 would .expose
themselves to attack from the mon
ster, for which J^bey were unprepared.
They gave the signal to the boat and
all three were immediately hoisted up I
Having the covering' removed from
his head, F#anz Hauser declared that
he had recognized in the female face
one of his, sisters, and. he was deter
mined to descend again to rescue her
body from being devoured by the
submarine monster.A' His wish was
not gratified, however, he being tooi
nervous and his strength
%too
Th offering of a structure to the
I Almighty, as the gift of an organiza
tion of devoteses who have not paid
for it, and do not own it, strikes the
mind as a very strange
thing, yet it is safe to say that not one
church in twenty is built in America
without incurring a debt, larger or
smaller. A more commodious and a
more elegant building is wanted. A
is made that will not
more than half cover its cost, and
money enough is borrowed to com
plete it. The whole property is mort
gaged for all that it will carry, the
financial authorities are saddled with
a floating debt which they can only
handle on their personal responsibili
and then comes taxation for in-said
terest, sufficient to keep the church
always in distress. This sort of
church enterprise is so common that
it has become commonplace. The
children of this world do not build
railroads with capital stock paid in,
but they build them with bonds. The
children of light really do not seem
to be less wise in their generation, in
the way in which they build their
churches. Indeed, we think the lat
ter can give the former several points
and beat them for the paying suc
cess of a church depends upon more
contingencies than the success of a
railroad, and its bonds really ought
not to sell for more than fifty cents on
dollar "flat"
If we seem to make light of this
subject, it is only for the purpose of
showing how absurd a position the
churches have assumed in relation to
it. It is not a light subject it is a
very grave one, and one which de
mands the immediate and persistent
attention of all the churches until it
shall be properly disposed of. In the
first place, it is not exactly a Chris
tian act for a body of men to contract
a debt which they are unable to pay.
It is hardly more Christian to refuse
to pay a debt which they know they
are unable to discharge. It can hardly
be regarded as a generous deed to be
queath a debt to succeeding genera
tions. The very foundations of the
ordinary church-debt are rotten.
They are rotten with poor morality,
poor financial policy, and personal
and sectarian vanity. Does anyone
suppose that these expensive and
debt-laden churches were erected sim
ply for the honor of the Master, and
giyen to Him, subject to mortgage
Seribner't Magazine.
—The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith says,
in the Baptist Union, that he once
dismissed a congregation on a hot
day, just after the op—iing hymn,
with these words: "Dear brethren,
I do not.believe that the Lord is
pleased with our attempt to obey one
law of His ordaining by the violation
of another. It seems to me that the
law written upon the fleshy tablets is
as binding as that which was engrav
ed upon the tables of stone. I will
not preach this morning! I recom
mend that you each go to your house,
and in the briefest time take your
place in the bath room, and, turning
on the cold water, sit down and qui
etly meditate upon the goodness of
God. Receive the benediction!"
—Said one roan to another: "If
thil was not Sunday, how much
would you take for that lumber?"
"If it wasn't Sunday I'd tell ,you,"
was the very proper reply.
_-_.
much
tomakajtttn
atfa^mpine^td^y^ortlie day after
But, in the1 morning,
feyouhg
Hauser
Was delirious, and he lingered a
paroxysmal condition for sbme days,
till death closed bis,- eyes,: The. -two
survivors of his ^xpe^ition.under the
sear have made sworn. statements of
the truth of these factet and it is be?
]J«V^tha^:Bp:me'pit^ta:1^a haB:be^A
sent to the British authorities of the
Admiralty for a complete and thor
ough scientific search of the: entire
vieinity of the Retarrier Ledges to as
certain whether these tremendous crea
tures do feed on human victims of
shipwreck:
1 0 9 1 3
i*tfi. vj.fj mn .*«M»v/I ..': .::•: I sjx'ft
CHBRCH-DEBT8.
Th© way :n which -church edifices
are built nowadays really necessitates
a-riew formula of ckdicatioi.::JBow
would this read? "Wecledicate this
I edifice to Thee, our Lord and Master!
wegiyeJtjtQ ^feTJiftlir5^«M ,cft^8f(an^
kingdom, subject to a.mortgaa^oConC
hundred apd fifty, thpusan4
:dp'lars
(ei&a.pOOJ. We bequeath it to ou?j
children, and pur children's ..children,
as the greatest boon we can confer on
them(subject to the. mortgage afore
said), and we trust that they will
have the grace and the money to pay
the interest and lift the mortgage,
Preserve it from fire and foreclosure,
|we pray Thee, and make it abundant
ly useful to Thyself,—subject, of
•course, to the aforesaid mortgage."
MOODY'S STIUKIX0 ILLUSTRATIONS.
A Hartford mother lay dying. She
said she had a message for her seven
children. I believe true-hearted
praying mothers are Heaven's best
^ift on earth. The children were all
brought in one after the' other, and
turning to her husband, she said, "I
charge you, sir^ to bring. all these
children home with you," If- there
is a man on earth I honor it is the
father who makes sure that his child
ren are to go with him to glory land.
In the last war a soldier lay upon
the field of battle, deadly wounded.
He was heard saying, "Here! here!
Jierel" .and when asked what he
wanted, answered, ^Hush-slwsb, they
are calling the roll of heaven and '. I
answering to ray name." Soon
he was gone: When Miss Field was
Singing- "Home of .th Soul I
thought of this ineiteritpr a dying
man who, making his will sa^l
wife and child! -3 giveyou&islrome^
stead." Th little child stood by the
bedside and said, ?'Papa| have you a
home in the world* you are going to
IfyOU should be summoned there this
night' Bave.yoWa'horae there?^hin
of a homeless, -Christless soul. N
belittle boy in Northfield's cheerless
street to-nighthomel«ffl,butwhat8lrbuld
taken into any house. A man iriust
be born of the Spirit before he enters
heaven. A unre^enerate man "in
heaven would not remain there -I«
would-not be EeaventoliimJ .Ftriink
where our fathers had twelve tempta
tions we hayerfifty a with your
children beforeVtheyJeave their homes
for Ibe cities. See that they are: .con
verted. Ralph Wells once told me
of two fathers. -One had a sick chUd
to whom he s$id, "Do yon know you
are dying, my boy?" ^Will I die to
night?'' said the child. "Yes."'
"Then I will .be with Jesus, Don't
cry, father. When I get,t heaven
I will go straight to Jesus and saywel|
that ever since I can remember .you
tried to lead me to him." I would
rather have my obild bear such testi
mony as that than have, a monument
of pure gold reared above pay grave
from earth to heaven.••„ There was
another father the world calls him
rich, but oh, how poor he is Hi
dying boy requested him to pray for
him and he could not. Now he
would give anything to call him back
and make one prayer. A a meeting
in Michigan once, an old man rose
and said he was, sixteen years before,
a missionary in a heathen country.
His wife died and three children was
left to him. The oldest, a daughter
of ten years, asked, when it came
Sunday, if she should take the other
children into the bedroom, as mother
used to, and pray with them. So she
led them away—her little brother and
sister. noticed when they came
out of the room they had all been
crying, and asked why. The eldest
that they had all prayed in turn,
and when it came Nellie's turn (the
youngest,) she had not been taught
yet by her mother to pray, but sheYorker
folded her hands of her own accord
and said, "Dear Jesus, you have ta
ken away my mamma, and I have no
mamma to teach me how to pray.
Won't you come and make me good
That little child before she was four
years old gave unmistakable evidence
that she was a Christian. Oh, moth
ers and fathers, won't you teach your
little children to pray, that at last
your names and theirs may be found
written in the Lamb's book of life?
N. Y. Herald.
"WHY POSTAL. CARDS GO ASTRAY.
Although the Post Office Depart
ment does things on a magnificent
scale so far as establishing fast mail
trains is concerned, it is capable of de
scending to very small transactions
when dealing with the people. For in
stance, "a rule" has been established
that if anything whatever except an
address is wiitten or printed on the
side of a postal card intended for the
address, it renders the card unmaila
ble, unless prepaid at the regular let
ter rate. If, however, by any inad
vertance on the part of a local post
master the card should be forwarded
to its destination without such pay
ment, it is charged with double rates,
An announcement to this effect has
just been put forth from Washington
in consequence of numerous com
plaints which have been received at
the Department. In one case a Chi
cago firm complained that six cents
extra postage had been charged be
cause on the lower left hand corner
of its face the date, "Sept. 13, 1875,"
was written. In this case the Chica
go firm had the satisfaction of being
informed that they were entitled to a
rebate of one cent, as the postmaster
should have given them credit for the
original cost of the card, and collect
ed only five cents extra for the date.
Probably not one in ten thousand
has ever heard of this rule, and
thousands of postal cards have failed
to reach their destination in conse
quence of its enforcement.
—She was languishing on a sofa,
watching him affectionately as he
skipped briskly about the room put
ting things in order. Finally she
said in a low, sweet tone of voice:
"George, darling, I don't believe you
will ever be a great man." "Wh
so, love he asked, wheeling a chair
round on one of its legs, and graceful
ly stroking it with the duster. "Be
cause great men always have such la
zy, good-for-nothing wives."
AWOKDJPOBTHE WOMKM.
W do not hesitate to say -that the
average woman, educated in the bet
ter class of schools in this country, is
ij better s6hpiar, and a more capable
apd, accomplished ^person, than the
average college graduate of the other
sex What we want is cheaper
Schools of an equal excellence. The
farmerV boy goes to college, finds
cheap tuition, wins a scholarship per
haps, boards in commons, earns mon
ey during vacation} and gets through,
while his sister stays at home, because
the only places where she can get an
equal education are expensive beyond
her means. There is no college that
needs to be so richly endowed as a
woman's college. Women are notrate
men^Quarrel with, tbe fact as we may,
Wfl they cannot get along so cheaply
and with such self-helpfulness as men
while goirij* through the processes of
their eo^ifcatip.n,^ Ifwear to have
women's colleges, we must have weli
rpaid professors, philosophical appara
tus, cabinets, collections, art-galleries,
laboratories, and they must be pro
vided Tor by private munificence.
Provision should be made, for the
poor, so that high education shall
come within the reach of all. There
is not a woman's collegej or an ad-formation
vanced public institution for the ed^count
ucation of women, that is not tonday
in need of a large endowment, for the
purpose of bringing its advantages
within'the roach/of those whose
means are small. '•'.".
Now we commend thh matter par*
ticttlarly to rich women. There are
many, scattered tip and down the
country, who are wondering what
they shall do with their money when,
and even before, they die. To all
these we beg the privilege of com
ntending this great object. Let theAs
boys' alone. They have been pretty
Wken care pf'already, and thekilled
men will look after them. I is for
you, as women wishing well to your
Own sex, and anxious for its elevation
in all possible ways, to endow these
institutions that arej springing up
about the country in its interest, so
that the poor shall have an equal
chance with the rich. You can great
ly help to give the young women of
all classes as good a chance as their
hrotJier8ienioy, and you can hardly
claim a great deal of womanly feeling
if you don't do it—Scribner for Octo
ber.
••MODKHATELV-GOO» STEPPERS."
A good joke is told of a wealthy
New Yorker, with an eye for a good
horse, who, shortly after betaking
himself to his summer residence on
Long Island, in April last, was sitting
on his piazza oue fine morning, and
noticing a pair of fine steppers that
were being driven on the road in
front of his house. The team con
sisted of a bay and a gray mare, and
the driver was an unassuming, quiet,
well-behaved young man. The New
noticed them again on theincomparable
following day, and was more impress
ed with their fine style and graceful
step, and he decided at once to buy
them. Accordingly, on the next day
he stationed himself at his gate, and
when the team came jogging by, he
signaled the driver to stop. "That's
a pretty fair team you drive," says
he. "Yes, they are moderately-good
steppers," was the response. "Are
they for sale asked the New York
er. "Well, yes I would sell them,"
was the rather hesitating reply.
"Send them along down the road and
back, so that I can see how they
move," says the New Yorker.
and down they were senta few times,
and at length the gentleman seemed
satisfied, and signaled the driver to
pulL up. "I like them," said he,
"pretty well, and will buy them if the
price is not too high what do yon
ask for them?" "Sixty-five thousand
dollars," was the reply, very coollely
given. The gentleman opened his
eyes and mouth in astonishment, and
Charley Green "drove off with Lulu
and Fleety Golddust at a 2:25 gait,
leaving the old gentleman to wonder
at the high price of good fair road
sters.—Spirit of the Times.
QUITE A UTTLE ROMANCE.
W hear of quite a rommtic affair
in private life, the parties to which
reside in the upper portion of this
country. In 1866 a Mr. took to
himself a young wife to adorn his
household. After living happily to
gether for four months, the young
bride, without any apparent cause,
took a notion that "she wanted to see
her mamma," and left the husband
solitary and alone. Time rolled on,
but the recreant wife did not return
to cheer his desolate home until last
Sunday morning. Thus, after an ab
sence of nine years, though husband
and wife were living within 5 or 6
miles of each other, the wife volun
tarily returns. I may be possible
that she learned of a recent visit of
her spouse to this place when the ser
vices of an attorney were procured to
file a bill of divorce on the ground
of desertion. Our legal friend was
seated at his desk on Monday morn
ing, drawing up the bill in question,
wuen a note was handed him notify
ing him that his services would not
be required, as the wife had returned.
—Zwnpkin Oa.) Independent.
-TT-:—•
—Contentment is said to be better
than riches, but the latter is good
enough for yeciiwriter.-?-Whitehall
Times,
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NO,, 12
ODIANOLA.
The JJeath Boll of the Drowned City
Swelled to Four Hundred.
MEXICAN BOBBERS HORRIBLY MU
TIIiATING THE 1KAX.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 23.—The Times'
southern special says parties who ar
rived from Indianola last night, and
who were there during the terrible
cyclone fully confirm the most sensa
tional reports of the destruction of
life and property there. Out of 300
houses only five are left standing.
During Thursday night, when the
-0»rm was at its height,. the water in
the city rose over six feet in fwq
hours. The wind was blowing at the
of eighty-eight miles an iou?j
driving the water and' breakers
through the city at the rate of fifteenj
miles an hour, sweeping everything1
in ite way ttad covering the plain in!
the rear of the city for ten miles to a
depth of leven feet. Several small
settlements, mumbering a total popu
lation of one hundred and fifty, were
also swept out of existence, making,
with the 250 lost at Indianola, a to
talof
FOUR HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The gentleman conveying! the in
gives a most bxtrrowing^c
of the destitution of the surviv
ors. When- they left Indianola on
Monday afternoon ninety bodies had
been recovered. The stench in the
city from the putrefaction of thes6
dead, with the stench from dead^ani
mals, was most intolerable! It is al
so stated that a party of Mericans
Sunday began Tobbing the dead bod
ies washed to the plains four to six
miles back of the city, the scoundrels
chopping fingers, hands and ears from
men and women to obtain jewelry.
soon as this was heard of in the
city a party of citizens went out and
five Mexicans whom they
caught at the devilish work.
AXOTHRR VILLAGE GONE.
N E W ORLEANS, LA. Sept, 23
Christain's Point was entirely swept
away by the storm.
The United States revenue cutter
lying atVelasco was capsized, and
was carried to sea, having, as suppos
ed, been abandoned by the crew.
THE ROMANCE OP THE GRAND DWrtE
ALEXIS.
The young wife of the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia, son of tlTe Czar, has
just been divorced by the Tribunal of
St. Petersburg. She was a Hessian,
and in that quality had been accept
ed by the Empress Maria Alexan
drowna as a maid of honor. He
majesty was rapidly captivated by
her young countrywoman, who speed
ily became her favorite. Another
conquest of still greater importance
awaited the young lady in the Mus
covite Empire. Not absolutely pret
ty, but endowed with that grace
which bewitches more than beauty,
possessing a charming figure and an
elegance, she inspired
the young Grand Duke with an irre
sistible passion. One evening the
Empress saw enter her apartment
the maid of honor bathed in tears,
who, throwing herself at her Majes
ty's feet, avowed her love, and be
sought the Czarina's consent to the
marriage. That same night the
young lady was put into a railway
carriage, and, under good escort, con-
—a*
—It is said that Isaac M. Singer,
the sewing machine man, has left a
fortune of nineteen millions of dol
lars—fifteen millions in the United
States and four millions in Europe.
During the last twenty-five years of
his life he spent a great deal of mon
ey, but he made a great deal more.
The magnificence of his estate forms
a striking contrast with the poverty
and privation in which he began. A
one time he was a strolling actor in
the West, and after he had left that
profession and invented his sewing
machine he was in such a state of des
titution that one day hejiad only six
pence left in the world. After much
deliberation he bought himself a din
ner of pork aud beans at Sweeny's
with this money and with the vigor
derived from this nourishing repast
he went on to accumulate the nine
teen millions he has left to his heirs.
a
—"I lived with" him nineteen
years," says an Indiana applicant for
divorce, "and all the clothes he ever
bought me were a bunch of hair-pins
and a tooth-brush." You can see by
this what a hard time she had to keep
well dressed,
KI1CCATIOXAC SUGGESTION'S.
The use of the text-book is briefly
discussed by the Kew-England Jour
nal of'Education, which says "As a
rule, it may be stated that a teacher
ir-noA prepared to use textbooks
mest-wisely-natH-lre is able- t©- dis
pense with them entirely in the un
folding of any topic of, study. The
teacher who grasps the subject under
diseussipn need not to refer: fo books
either to aid his memory or to increase
his knowledge, and he $rho does not
know the subject in advance of his
pupil might as well change places
with hiin, or both together become
disciples,-"' The Journal also says in
regard to the teaching, of the English
tongue: "Thepupil's writing, spel
ling, use pf capitals and italics, syn
tactical forms, and general style of
expression, are not. transcended in
importance by anything else learned
in the school. And so long as he
has been Hsing the language with no
reference to correctness whatever,
and with so many associations and
influences operating agajnst it, that
your work of scouring that correct
ness is undertaken at a tremendous
disadvantage. Now, of all forlorn
hopes, the most -forlorn- and fatal is,
that you are~tb"'succeed in teaching
the pupil to *read and write the En
glish language correctly'.' by carry
ing the people through the class study
of an English grammar. I should
be borne in rnihd however present the
practical parts of this study are in
that of the other branches. Hence,
in all the studies and exercises, eith
er oral or written, keep tbe pupil at
tentive to the English. -not al
low inaccuracies to appear and go
"uncorrected in any of those directions.
Devise also, on the basis of each study,
such- exercises as will especially teach
those-points."
A CHILD RESCUED FROM A PANTHER.
Last Monday morning, a man and
wifer who live about Smiles- east of
Willis, left home on business, leaving
their house fn charge their eldest
chird.'about 12 years of age. To
wards noon the child heard the hi:
fant, aged 14 months, which had
been laid while asleep on a bed in an
adjoining room, utter a horrid screech,
upon which, she immediately ran to
its relief, and imagine her feelings,
upon opening the door, to see a huge
panther with the babe in its mouth
leaping "From an open window, imme
diately over the bed. But she, like
a true heroine, sprang upon the bed
and then out of the window, scream
ing at the height of her voice, and,
upon being joined by the other chil
dren about the house, pursued the
panther at her utmost speed. They
followed about forty rods, to a pair
pf bars which separated the clearing
from the forest, at "which place the
girl states that she approached to
ta-ithin15 or 20 feet of the panther,
when itrelinquished its bold of the
child, leaped the bars, and made its
way to the woods. The infant was.
picked up, much strangled from its
rapid movement through the grass
andsand, which had filled its mouth
and eyes, but soon recovered and is
now well, save a few scratches about
its body which have the appearance
of having been made by the panther's
teeth. These marks are very plain,
and there are several blood blisters
where the teeth in slipping came ia
contact. The girl states that the
panther dropped the child once be
fore arriving at the fence, and it is
supposed the giving away of the
clothiug was the cause, as it was much
torn.—Houston Texas Telegraph
A ROYAL COURTSHIP.
Napoleon I. was always in too
great a hurry. This characteristic
quality especially showed itself when
he set about committing that most
profitless of crimes, the divorce of
ducted to the frontier, while the 'Josephine. first thought of mar-
Grand Duke Alexis received orders
to rejoin his ship. But the Czar had
reckoned without the determination of
the two lovers. The prince escaped,
rejoined his fiancee beyond the Rhine,
and married her in German territory,
notwithstanding the paternal fulmina
tions and then left with her for
America. The romance lasted two
years, and nothing could bend the
determination of the Emperor nor re
store the son to his favor, when the
influence of the Empress, being
brought to bear on the son, determin
ed the latter to accept the father's
conditions. I twas decided that the
Grand Duke should consent to a di
vorce, resume his situation in the
Russian navy, and that an annuity
should be settled on the heroine of
the romance. It was immediately
after that the Prince wa9 in London
with the Czar. The formalities of
the divorce were completed last week.
—OalignanV8 Messenger.
rying the Grand Duchess Anne, sis
ter of the Emperor of Russia. Be
fore Caulain court, the French Am
bassador at St. Petersburgh, had had
time to sound the Czar on the subject,
Napoleon had changed his mind and
decided on an alliance with the
House of Hapsburg. Such being the
case, his course was clear enough
viz.: to insruct Caulaincourt not to
press his suit too eagerly, to show no
disposition to smoothe away difficul
ties, and to allow the negotiation
gradually to fall to the ground. In
stead of this Napoleon sent a letter,
probably without precedent in the
annals of courtship, in which he or
dered his ambassador to present a
kind of matrimonial ultimatum to
the Czar, demanding a catagorical
answer, before the expiration of tec
days, to his proposal. Of course this
was to eusure a refusal, and so to set
the Emperor at liberty, but at the
cost of affronting the only monarch
on the continent of Europe whom
Napoleon had reason to fear. Three
hundred thousand Erench soldiers
were to pay with their lives for this
piece of brainless impertiueuce. But
such are the natural""results of imper
ialism, or the government of a nation
for the benefit of an individual.
Will France return to this rule
Greenville Murray, in the Galaxy for
October.
a*
HOW "THE RAVEN" WAS WRITTEN.
Poe then occupied a cottage at
Fordham—a kind of poet's nook just
out of hearing of the busy hum of the
city. had walked all the way
from New York that afternoon, and,
having taken a cup of tea, went out
in the evening aud wandered about
for an hour or more. His beloved
Virginia was sick almost unto death
he was without money to procure the
necessary medicines. was out
until about ten o'clock. When
went in.he sat down at his writing
table and dashed off "The Raven."
submitted it to Mrs. Ciemm for
her consideration on the same night,
and it was printed substantially as it
was written.