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RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 21, 1875.
Bfall Tine Taale.
GOING NORTH Including all Plff U6P'
piled Irom. the Chicago R. B., and the Ft.
Wayne R. K.JclosetlOOa.m.
GOINO SOCTH-l. Including Cincinnati
and all points beyond, closes 7. in.
2. Iacludln PTPf1'?1 from th.
Cincinnati Itailroad, 6:00 p. m.
uaivq EAST Including all places sup
nMed Irom the Columbus ft. R-, and
all Kastern and Central States, closes a t
10:00 a. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail
road, closes 6.-00 a. m.
GOING WEST 1. Including IndianapoHs
and all points beyond, closes 10:00 a. in.;
2. same as above, closes 7:30 p.m.; 3. in
cluding all points supplied by the Indi
anapolis Railroad; also, Chicago and al l
points west and northwest, closes 3:00
p. in. -
To Webster, Williamsburg and Bloomings
port, on Tuesday, Thursday and batur-day,at2.-00p.
m.
To Cox's Mills, White Water Bethel and A r
b, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
at 12:00 m. ., ' " r ' -
To Ablngton, Clifton and Liberty, on Mon
day and Friday, at 7:00 a. m. :
To Boston, Beechymlre, Goodwin's. Corner,
and College Corner, on Tuesday and
Friday, at 12:30 nr. -.f,' -f
r MAILS. ARE OfTiN 'v .'
At 84)0 a. m. from Indianapolis and Cincin
nati and beyond. - .
At 110 a.m. from Cincinnati, way. and
through mails. - - " ., n
At 40 p.m. from East Tia Columbus Rail
road, and Dayton and Xenia Railroad.
At 70 p. m. from North, via Chicago Rail-
road and Fort Wayne Railroad. -
At 80 p. m . from Indianapolis and beyond.
Office open from 70 a. m. to 730 p:ra.
On Sunday, from WW 'to WMrn. '
Dec 1 1874. B. W. DAVIS, F. M.
RAILBOAD TIMB-TABiai. ' -
Mtteonra-. t'lnelaaatl and St. Lonli
Hallway.
PAN-HANDLB ROUTE.
OONDKNSED TIME CARD. OOfcCMBUS AJTD IN
DIANAPOLIS mVISIOH MOV. 30. 1874.
GOING WEST.
NO. 2, 1 NO. 8.
No..
No. 10
Pittsburg.
2.-00 pm!
7u0am
3:40pm
4:46pm .
5:26pm
6:19pm
6:40pm
7:12pm
8:16pm
8:55pm
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Mil'ord.I.)
LTrbana....
Plqua I
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pm
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2:02 am 730
3:12 am 8:45
8H) am ".15
12:11pm
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Brad Jun
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3:40pm
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56pmj
am
6H am 11:12
q-M am'123
8:am 10
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pm
6:30pm.
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GOING BAST.
iNo. 1.
No. 3. No. 6.
3. jy
pmflT?
No. 7.
Kniitbts'n; 5aam
Cambri'ge, 6:37 am
96 pm
ll:4oam
6:42pm
7:16pm
8:20pin
8:45pm
Rihm'nd
7:15anllOA5 pm
12:25pm
llpm
ftnwnvlej 83aml Mo.
Brad Ju.n 8:50am 7:00 am
Plqua . 9:17 am! 77 am
ITrbana.. 19:10am 8:40 am
2:42pm I 9:13pm
3:58pmjl0:llpm
4:45pmjl0:53pm
6.-00pmill;opm
2:20am 7:25am
2:00pm
Mil ford UO-JOaml 0:40 am
Columbus jllaO amiUsuO ami
Pltt8burgJ 7:15 pm'. . J
Nos. 1.2, 6 and 7 run Dally.
All other trains
Dally, except Sunday-,
Kieki
and Cnlemrn Division.
Nov. 30. 1874. i
GOING NORTH.
No. 2. NO. 8. - NO. 10.
Cinclnnat 7:30 am .., 70 pm
Richmond . 10:30am 10:10 pm
HMRrat'n 11:16am 10t52 pm
Newcastle 110 am 11:21 pm
Anderson. 1:10 pm 12:18 am
okomou. ..... .. , 30 pm 1: am
Logansp't. 4:00pm 3:10 am
Crown Pt 7:20 pm 6:20 am
Chicago - 90 pm 80 am
1 v Goura booth.- vv rr: H
Chicago i 7SjO pm 8:20 am,
Crown Pt! 9:40 pm 104 am . .-.
Logansp't.; 12:45 am 10 pm
Kokomo.l 20 am 220 pm
Anderson.! 3:42 am 4:11 pm ;..
NewCatle 4:38 am 58 pm .
Hagerst'n. 58 am 5:38 pm
Richmond 5:51) am 6:20 pm
Cincinnati 90 am 925 pm .
No. 10 leaves Richmond daily. No 1 leaves
Chicago daily. All other trains run daily,
except Sunday. - :
- iattio Hlaml Division.
Nov." 30, 1874."
- r. w eoiNo west. s. :;i
No. 2.
No. 4.
No. 6.
No. 10.
Pittsburg
D res June
Columb 's
Ijondon
Xenia
Morrow
Cincinatl
Xenia..-.
Dayton
Richm'cL.
Ind'polls.
210
98
pm
1 - am
7:50 am
122 pm
3:40 pm
4:34 pm
5:35 pm
6:37 pm
80 pm
5:45 pm
6:45 pm
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7:23 am
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GOING EAST. .
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Dayton. -J
Xenia j
Cincinnti;
Morrow...
Xenia I
London...
Columb 's
Dres Juno
PitUburg'
12:40 pm
8:15 am
9:40 am
70 am
8:28 am
9:35 am
2:1.1 pm
3:45 pm
120 pm
2:48 pm
7:10 pm
8:40 pm
9:45 pin
10A5 pm
11 -.55 pm
22 am
7:25 am
10:43 am
11:45 am
l:5pm
rt:,iu pm
faoetpm
6-.e pm
8:31 pm
220 am
7:15 pin
Nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 run Dally to and from
Cincinnati. All other Trains Dailv,eeept
Sunday. W. L. O'BRIEN,
Qenl Paswnger and Tieket Agent.
C.
4t Ft. Wayne Railroad.
GOING NO HTM.
GOING SOUTH.
O R m'l A ex.l00 am Portland ac... 90 am
Portland ae....40 pm I U R ml & ex. 625 pm
Practitioner of . ; , .
Medicine & Surgery,
Olves special attention to the study and
treatment of all diseases and
injuries of the
EYE AND EAR.
He hopes to merit a liberal patronage.
Oflle and InMnice, No.
24 South
utn Ktreet,
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
47-3m
JAKT Jt OOBBIS8,
Moose, Htgn and Ornamental
PAINTERS. GRAINERS. Etc.
SIS Main Street,
RICHMOND INDIANA
PATENTS. deng
Patents for their inventions, or o
PERSONS
vice in PATENT CASKS on reasonable
term-, will do well to addrew
WW. H. FISHER.'
Counselor and Solicitor In Patent Cases
s , 44 W- F1th Cincinnati, b.
Send for Circular. Satisfaction guaran
teed' 48-3m
$Tk to StO A P1" Dtt" t home. Terms free
" " Address O. Stixson 4 00
Jan. 19, lva. ly Portland, Maine
rcsTc m. TosjKcs, r , - '
ATTORNEY AND NOTARY.
Office In " room over Ueorre W H. .
grocery. Richmond Indiana!
THE PARADOX Y OF TIME.
A Variation on Ronsard. '
I A3 temps s'en va, le temps s'en va, ma
(ime!" . -
Las! le- temps,, non: mala nous nous en
' allons." .rf tr t, Ronsard.
Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
A lap, time stays, we go;
i Or else, were not this so,
What need to chain the hours,
For youth were always ours?
Time goes, yon say? ah, no!
Ours is the eves' deceit
: Of men whose feet
- Lead through some landscape low;
We pass, and think we see
The earth's fixed surface flee; -'
Alas, time stays we go!
Once, in the days of old,
Your locks wete curling gold,
And mine had shamed the crow;
Now, in the selfsame stage,
We've reached th silver age;
Time goes, yon say? ah, no!
Once, when my voice was strong,
I filled the woods with song J
To praise your "rose" and "snow,"
My bird, that sung, is dead;
Where are your roses fled?
. Alas, time stays we go! :
See, in what traversed ways,
What backward fate delays,
The hopes we used to know;
Where are our old desires
Ah, where those vanished fires?
Time goes, you say? ah, no!
f How far, how farjoh, sweet,
, The past behind our feet
Lies in the even glow!
. Now, on the forward way,
. Let us fold hands and pray;
Alas, time stays we go! -
Good Words " Apstin Dobsos.
The Vision or Joseph IXoac.
v: Thinking probably the foUowing
vision of Joseph Hoag, a well remem.
bered minister of the Gospel, of the
Society of Friends, would be interest
ing to the readers of the Palladium,
we here inclose a copy of it for pub
lication, which is taken from the Stu
dent's Magazine, of June. 1861 :
. in tne year 01 loiw, proDaDiy in
the eighth or ninth month, I was one
day alone in the field, and observed
that t ha sua. shone clear, but a mist
ecupseu lue urigntnebs 01 its smnmir
As I reflected on the singularity of
the event, my mind was clothed with
silence.' the most solemn I ever re
member to have witnessed f or all my
faculties were laid low, and unusually
brought into silence. I said to my
self, what can all this mean ? I do
not recollect ever before to have been
sensible of such feelings. And I heard
a voice from heaven saying, this that
thou eee'st that dims the brightness
of the aun is a sign of the present and
coming times. I took the fathers of
the country from this land of oppres
sion. I planted them here among
forests; I blest them and sustained
them, and while they .were humble I
ted tnem, ana tney oecame a numer
ous people. But 1 they have become
proud and lil ted up, and have forgotten
Me. He who nourished and protected
them in the wilderness, and are run
ning into every abomination and evil
practice which the old country was
guilty of. and take quietude from the
land, and suffered a dividing spirit to
come among them. Lift up thine eyes
and behold. And I saw them divid
ing in great heats. This division be
gan in the church on points of doc
trine. It commenced in the Presby
terian Society, and went through the
various religious denominations, and
in its progress and close its effects were
nearly the same. Those who dissent
ed went off with high heads and
taunting language Those who
kept original sentiments appeared ex
ercised and sorrowful, and when
the dividing spirit entered the Society
oi Friends, it "raged in as high a de
gree as in any I have before discovered,
and as before, those who separated
went with lofty looks and taunting,
censuring language. Those who kept
to ancient principles retired by them
selves. It nextappeared in the lodges
of the Free Masons, and set the coun
try in an uproar for a length of time.
Then it entered politics throughout
the United States, and it did not stop
until it produced a civil war; and an
abundance of blood was shed in the
course of the combat. The Southern
States lost their power, and " slavery
was annihilated from their borders.
Then a Monarchical Government arose
and established a National Religion,
and made all societies tributaries to
support its expenses. I saw them
take property from Friends to a large
amount. I was amazed at beholding
all this, and I heard a voice proclaim
ing; this power shall not always stand.
But with this power will I chastise
3Iy Church, until they return to the
faithfulness of their forefathers.
Thou seest what is coming on thy na
tive land for their iniquities and blood
of Africa, the remembrance of which
has come up before me. This vision
is yet for many days. -
1 had no idea of writing it for many
years, until it became such a burden,
that tor my own relief 1 nave so writ
ten. '-- -
The Atlanta Advocate gives the
following statement of the progress
and present condition of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the feouth. In
1870 there were 629 traveling preach
ersand in 1S74 there were 1,158, being
an increase of 529. In 1870 the members
and probationers were 153.900, and in
1874 were 211,248,. an increase of 57,
348. In 1870 there were 857 churches,
and in 1874. 1,656, an increase of 790.
Of the membership, 164,000 are col
ored, who own. $1,340,000 worth of
church property, not including par
sonages and schools.
Says the St.' Louis Globe: The
population of St. Louis is at least fifty
per cent. greater than the population
of Cincinnati, but the people of Cin
cinnati are at least fifty per cent,
fonder of voting than the people of St.
Louis. Thus we find that the former
city, with about 300,000 inhabitants,
cast 36,793 votes for Mayor on Mon
day while on Tuesday; the total vote
of st. Louis with a population of at
least 450,000, was only 29,071. Cin
cinnati, however, has twenty-five
wards and fifty-three voting places,
while St. Louis has but thirteen wards
and thirty-one voting places. This
gives the Democrats of Cincinnati
oppdrtunities for repeating which are
not enjoyed to the same extent by
their brethren of St. Loui.
-v ' fcnow on tha 16th of April. '
Urit and Manner.
In a town near Boston, some years
ago, lived a man named Ezekiel Dol
drom, who had a son, also named
Ezekiel. Ezekiel, senior, sometimes
made and mended boots and shoes,
and sometimes caught fish to sell. A
salt water creek ran not far from his
house, whence he took large quantities
of eels, spearing them in the mud in
winter and bobbing for them in sum
mer. .-!
On a certain occasion the ladies
connected with the principal evangel
ical church of the place suggested to
the pastor that he should take young
'Zeke Doldrum in hand and endeavor
to reform him, for he was certainly,
intheir estimation, a very bad boy.
Accordingly one day the clergyman
waited upon Ezekial, senior, whom he
found in his shop, and informed him
of the object of his visit, lie would,
like to have Ezekiel, junior, attend
church, and also join the Sunday
school.
"Parson," said the parent, having
listened attentively, I d let Zeke go
to meetin' every Sunday if he wanted
to: but, sir, I don't believe that there s
a boy in town that's cot more manners
than 'Zeke out there skinning them
eels " .
"Yes I see him."
"Now you see me call to him."
And raising his voice he shouted :
"'Zeke! Ezekiel!"
"What, sir?" responded the boy,
looking up.
"D'ye hear that, parson? Ain't
that good manners?"
"That is very well," replied the
clergyman, "as far as it goes. '
.-"What d'ye mean by 'as far as it
goes?' " demanded the parent, rather
tartly. "That boy, sir, always speaks
respectfully when he's spoken to.
Just you see again." And once more
Ezekiel, senior, raised his voice:
"'Zeke! Ezekiel!"
"Say look here," cried the boy,
leaping up and shaking his fist toward
the shop, "none o' that, old chap.
Just you shut; up yer blasted old per-tater-trap,
or I'll come in there and
bust yer head !"
For a brief space the old man was
somewhat disconcerted, but quickly
recovering himself, he tapped his vis
itor upon the arm, saying,
. "Ye 6ee. parson, that boy ha got
frit as well as manners. Just yc lot
im alone, and see if he don't make a
man to be proud ot one of these days."
It may be unnecessary to add that
the good parson relinquished further
reformatory efforts in that quarter.
A Temperance Sermon.
The Coroner held an inquest, yes
terday, on the body of a man named
Henry Menke, fifty-one years of age,
found dead at his house, at No. 63
Hughes Btreet, between Main and
Sycamore. According to the testi
mony of the wife of deceased, the par?i
ticulars are thesa : He was a druuk-
ard, and abused and neglected to sup-
Iiort his family, forcing the wife to
eave home last fall, but inducing her
to return on his promise to reform
and do better. The promise was soon
broken, and domestic affairs became
worse than before. For the last two
weeks Menke did not live with his
family, but staggered home at night
and slept in the cellar.
Last Tuesday he asked his wife for a
drink of water and said that he was
burning up inside." Mrs. Menke
called to mind his frequent threats to
take poison, and inquired it he had
taken anything of that kind. He
made no answer, and went away. She
afterwards found a box of ratbane in
the cellar, from which it was evident
her husband had been taking liberal
doses. On Sundav niffht he went to
the rear yard, and meeting his wife,
said he had terrible pains in his stom
ach, and wanted water. Se gave him
a cup of coffee. He went into the eel- .
lar and she saw him no more until a
o'clock yesterday morning, when she
found him lying helpless in the yard
trying to vomit. His clothes were
covered with filth. She tried to get
him in the house, but her strength
being unequal to the task, she went
after his brother. When she returned,
half an hour afterward, her husband
was dead. The Coroner's jury re
turned a verdict of "suicide by taking
rat poison." Cincinnati Commercial,
April 13.
The Independent has hit upon a
new and striking style ot religious
teaching:. Its last number contained
some matters of theology and kindred
themes set forth in conundrums; and
very natural that mode of expression
seems when we consider how like a
conundrum is the problem of time and
eternity. V hen the Independent
asks, How was Moses put in the ark
of the bulrushes?" and answers, "He
was pitched in," we recognize a praise
worthy effort to popularize scriptural
history. The following are similar
examples of this mode of fixing sacred
history in the minds of the masses :
Y hat is the difference between No-
ah 's ark and a Mississippi flatboat?
One is made of Gopher wood and the
other made to go for wood..
At what time of day was Adam;
born? A little before Eve. .
It now appears that J ohn Mitchell,
who was lately elected as a member of
the British Parliament, from the
County Tipperary, Ireland, was'a citi
zen of the United States. In 1853, at
the county court of San Francisco, in
California, Mitchell reported himself
for naturalization, and declared on
oath that it was his bona fide intention
to become a citizen; and in 1860, at
Washington, he applied for full letters
of naturalization. The proof of this
would have unseated Mitchell in the ,
British Parliament, if death had not
stepped in and settled the vexed
question.
; The Ohio Legislature, just ad
journed, did not make a good record.
Its time was mostly taken up investi
gating charges of corruption against
its members. The Indiana Legis
lature has left a very bad odor, and as
for the Pennsylvania Legislature it
was simply a disgrace. The late
"wave" gave the control of all three
bodies to the Democrats. The turn
wave is swelling. Vincennes Times.
The national debt was reduced to
such .an extent the past year as to
cause a reduction of 3796,082 in the
interest. While the reduction has
been at a slower pace than was an
ticipated, it has been steady, and quite
as fast as the interests of the country
demanded. "
- Senator Morton.
The arrival in this city of the dis
tinguished champion of Louisiana in
the recent two years' struggle before
Congress excited a warm interest
among all classes of our citizens.
There is not a Republican in this
State, old or young, rich or poor, black
or white, who would not esteem it a
special privilege to grasp the great
Indiana Senator by the hand and
thank him for what he has done for
us. There were many callers at hia
rooms in the hotel, though thousands,
denied themselves the pleasure for
fear of being deemed intruders, and
of adding to the fatigue of one who
has earned the right to a brief season
of repose.
Senator Morton was first heard of
by the Union men of this city as one
of the "good governorsji byr which
phrase - those State executives were
designated who were prominent in
assisting President Lincoln at the be
ginning of the war. Whoever may
hav been his eolleairnes in the Tecu-
! liar works which gave them all this
popular appellation, Governor Morton
J wa8 worthy of being called the chief.
tor it is in our recollection that none
. .." .V . .
) excelled him in zeal for the cause or
, in the thoroughness with which he
discharged his official duties. Gov
ernor xates, of Illinois, and Randall,
of Wisconsin, were in the same cate
gory, and he must have been worthy,
indeed, who could claim to be the
equal of these sterling and unflinch
ing patriots. To stand at the head of
such a trio is an honor that has fallen
to the lot of but few men in this world.
Governor Morton has represented
' his State in the Senate for eight years,
I and though his associates will com
pare favorably tor ability with tne
best of their predecessors, he has for
a long time been recognized as the ac
knowledged leader of that august
body., h ortunately. for his own euc-
' cess and the country, there were other
Senators as true as himself. Without
such men as Cameron, Chandler,
Howe, Frelinghuysen, Anthony ,Conk
ling. and other faithful and able coad
jutors, the struggle would have been
a vain and hopeless one, not only in
the contest over reconstruction, but
in the support required by the Presi
dent in enforcing the laws passed to
give effect to the constitutional amend
ments. Senator Morton has maintain
ed the cause of the Republicans of
Louisiana almost single-handed. He
stood quite alone in the Committee on
Privileges and Elections on the policy
to recognize the validity of Governor
Kellogg's title Mr. Carpenter and
three other members proposed a new
election as the best solution, while
Messrs. Trumbull and Hill gave their
votes for McEnery. We all remem
ber the gallant struggle in the Senate
whieh finally resulted in defeating
Carpenter's election bilL The able
and ingenious Senator from Wisconsin
virtually abandoned his ow.n project
before the vote was taken, and came
very near to deceiving us into the be
lief that his great Indiana antagonist
had made a convert of him. The
work thus begun in 1873 was finally
brought to success in 1875, by the
t formal recognition of Gov. Kellogg by
both Houses ot Congress.
We can not contemplate the picture
which this State would now present
had Senator Morton been less devoted
to the grand principles for which ho
so gallantly contended, or less able to
cope with our formidable enemies.
We are too th ankful for the triumph,
and profoundly grateful to the brave
men through whose untiring exertions
and eleeple83 vigilance we are indebt
ed for it, to turn to the dark side
which might bave been presented to
us. New Orleans Republican
The Hew Ueuw Law Opinion of
Attorney deacral Husklrk a
Certain Potntts.
j In answer to certain inquiries touch
ing the operation ot the new liquor
license law, Attorney General Bus
kirk hag furnished the following
opinion:
Dear Sir Your letter of the 30th
ult. has been received. You request
therein my opinion construing certain
portions of the act to regulate the sale
of intoxicating liquors, ete , approved
March 17, 1875.
I have given the provisions of the
act a careful consideration, and have
ai lived at the following conclusions:
1. That after the close of the regu
ular session in June next of the
Board of County Commissioners ot a
county, it will be unlawful within
such county for any person or persons,
directly or iudi rectly, to sell, barter
or give away for any purpose of gain,
any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors
in less quantities than a quart at a
time, or sell or barter any intoxicating
liquor to be drank or suffered to be
drank in his or their house, outhouse,
garden, or the appurtenances thereto
belonging, without first procuring
from the Board of County Commis
sioners of such , county a license, as
provided for in the act, having given
twenty days' notice, etc.
2. That the holder of a permit
under what is popularly known as the
"Baxter law," after the close of the
session of the Board of County Com
missioners in, June next, . cannot
lawfully sell, barter, or give away, for
any purpose of gain, spirituous, vinous,
or malt liquoTS, in less quantities than
a quart at a ti me, or sell or barter any
intoxicating liquor, to be drank or
suffered to be drank in his house, out
house, garde n, or the appurtenances
thereto belonging, unless he shall
have procured a license under the act
of March 17, 1875. Respectfully, etc.,
C. A. BtTSKiRK, Attorney General.
IiMW Wlnltw SMllM.
The most convenient way to pievent
loose window sashes from rattleing
unpleasantly when the wind blows is
to make four one -sided buttons of
wood and screw them to the stops
which are nailed to the face casings
of the window, making each button of
proppor length to press the side of
the sash outwards when the end of
the button is turned down horizontal
ly. The buttons operate like a charm.
By having them of correct length to
crowd the stiles of the sash outward
against the outer stop of the window
frame, the sash will not only be held
so firmlythat it cannot rattle, but the
crack which admitted dust and a cur
rent of cold air will be closed so tight
ly that no window strips will be re
quired. The buttons should be placed
about half way from the upper to the
lower -end of each stile of the sashes.
1. Indui trial Monthly. . .
Brfffht Xolnta fn Waahlnfton life.
A bright little soul, who supported
herself in the ; departments for some
time, is Miss Serit Brady, whose
charmingly entertaining letters to the
newspapers hare familiarized her to
many firesides.. She is somewhere in
th youthful twenties, on its sunniest
slppo. with small, round, well formed
figure 'eyes full of life and light, and
LoqTOrflatiou' sparkling with bon mots.
one ten ner t aesx over a year ago to
try her fortune-; in journalistic fields,
but witha promise that if unsuccess- .
ful'she could return to the protection
of Uncle Sam's rooftree.
She "was visiting ; some friends in
New York who were personal friends
of A-T. Stewart, the prince of dry
goodism. Her friends and self were
invited by his highness to visithis pal- 7
aoe- prior to its -grand opening. Miss
Brady, pencil and note Dook in hand,
accompanied the party from basement
to Mansard roef, listening attentively'
to everything, said and shown, and .
after reaching home went to her room
and wrote a very interesting letter of
all she had seen and heard. She then
enclosed the MS. to Mr. Stewart, and
asked him if the statements therein
contained were correct and satisfac
tory, and whether he would object to
her using them for publication. The .
reply of the veteran milionaire was
characteristically to the point. Ex
pressing his pleasure at the charming
manner in which ehe added lustre to
his name and business, he begged her
to accept a slight testimonial of his
esteem in the ihape of a $100 bill.
Miss Brady's mother was a Cuban,
and the little lady herself first saw
light under tropical skies, which two
facts account for the glowing depths
of her dark eyes and her versatile
fancies. .
Among the guests accommodated at
Mrs. Webb's house in Georgetown
was a certain legationist, Baron Yon
Havre by name. He passed through
the Department along with a party of
friends, and was arrested by the sight
of a fair sweet face crowned with a
golden glory, bending industriously
over some piece of writing. He look
ed so long that his companions chaffed
him upon his sudden smite. He re
turned after a few hours spent with
his friends, and inquired about the
beautiful girl, and was soon afterward
an inmate of her house on the Heights.
The half sister, who dressed well,
visited, and did nothing, laid claim to
the nobleman's attention, and the
mother did all she could to assist her
daughter, but the Baron had eyes and
thoughts for the neglected maiden, .
who rose so early in the morning and
marketed, and made her pretty, simple
dresses with her own nimble fingers,
and went patiently through summer
heat and winter snow to her desk in
the Government office. So he offered
her his hand, his heart, and his fortune
of $50,000 per annum, and she became
the lovely- bride of a nobleman in
every sense of the word. I remember
how beautiful she looked in her filmy
white stress with a silken light sheen-
ing through its ' lacy , meshes, and
pearls, whose years numbered as many
as the beads which formed the neck
lace. I saw a picture of her, taken
from an oil painting, after she had
lived as a happy bride and beautiful
mother in far off Germany. She sat
in a half covered arbor, with a half
wreath of flowers falling "carelessly
from her lap to the ground. Her arms
and neck are both bare and perfectly
free from ornament, yet so exquisitely
moulded that jewelry would merely
take away from them their beauty.
Her beautiful hair is parted "one
moonbeam from the forehead to the
crown, and combed smothly back
from her lovely Face. She is the idol
of her husband, and the admired of
all the nobles. Chicago Tribune.
C'onirreaa Then and Slow. .
I entered Congress fifteen years ago,
says Senator Conkling. From then
till now my opportunity for seeing
both before and behind the scenes has -been
improved with diligence, and
nothing is more certain , than the
change for the better in the executive '
departments, in both wings of the
capitol and in the Supreme Court.
In 1859 a large, proportion of, the
House of Representatives ; went ; ha
bitually armed with deadly weapons.
Drinking to excess was surprisingly
common. Large numbers in both
houses were often, long before even
ing, unfit to do business. Liquor
was kept, as fare as 1 : knew, in every'
committee room in the capitol book
cases doing duty as side boards.
Gambling and other - dissipations
were very common among public men, '
and vice and debauchery were the
topics of loud and unclean jest. Venal
lobbying was too palpable and preva
lent to be overlooked, and on all
sides lax practices prevailing which
now would be scarcely credited. All
this is changed for the better in all
respects. Liquor is not tolerated in
the capitol. Formerly every cabinet
officer, and many others, rode in a
public carriage as a matter of course;
now every cabinet officer, who merely
allows the old custom to go on, finds
himself trumpeted through the world
as a great offender. George Wash
ington, when President, rode with
six horses, and with out riders.
When he wished to use horses he
ordered them from the war depart
ment, at the public expense, ana out
riders also.
Varnish for Iron Work.
Coal tar has come into general use
for coating common iron work
black, but for nice machinery a var
nish is desired to give a neat and fin
ished look. The following is said to
be very sfiperior tor this purpose:
Take eight pounds of asphaltum and
fuse it in an iron kettle, then add five
gallons of boild linseed oil, one pound
of lithrage, one-half pound of sulphate
of zinc add these slowly or it will
fume over and boil them for three
hours. Now add one and a half
pounds of dark umber and boil for
three hours longer, or until the mass
becomes quite thick, when cool, after
whieh it should be thinned with tur
pentine to proper consistency.
Whew I Slary Chambeilayne trets
six thousand dollars, for her disap
pointed . affections,' notwithstanding
the damating testimony that she
climbed a twelve foot ladder when
she was thirteen years old.
Six hundred people were killed and
some three thousand wounded during
the recent cyclone in Georgia and
South Carolina. . -
I To Make Snlnc lea Durable. ' -
Those who have experience, says
: that the durability of shingles may be
doubled by dipping them into gas
tar and rosin boned to a pitch
while the - mixture is hot. The top
need not be coated. This substance
fills all of the' pores of the wood so
perfectly "as to make the shingle im
i pervious to water; in fact, they are
claimed to be next to slate m point of
durability as roofing material. ' i .7.
"This spelling school furore has been
of great help to at least one Detroiter.
He has been courting a girl for three
years past and hadn t the courage to
speak his mind. As tbey were seated
on the sofa the other night she refer
red to the spelling school excitement
i and said: i ,
juairimony is an awiui long word
to spell, Isn't it?,,
He leaned over grasped her. hand,
and the next morning had arrange
ments made to be married on the
Fourth of July. Detroit Free Press.
"When can I get a chance to put
this baby to sleep," once asked a lady
emigrant of Kit Carson, who was con
ducting the train. "Well, ma'am,"
says Kit, reflectively, "I don't just
exactly know, but I should think it
would be when we get to the Rocky
Mountains."
HonaenoM Helps.
Sally Lunn for Tea Four eggs, one
quart of flour, one cup of sugar, two
tablespoonfuls of yeast, one spoonful
of butter. Make a thick batter with
sweet milk. Pour into a tin pan 'and
set aside to rise; then bake. ' -
Gingerbread One and a half cup
sour milk, oue and a hs.lf cup molas
ses, salt, two-thirds cup shortening,
one and a half teaspoons saleratus.
Then stir flour enough to make a stiff
batter.
Rennet Whey Take. of new milk
one quart, rennet a large spoonful.
Heat the milk and add the rennet.
Boil until the curd separates and is all
taken off. This forms a very agree
able nutriment.
r
Flannel Cakes Two eggs, one quart
of sweet milk, one teacup ot boiled
rice, two teaspoonfuls of cream -of-tarter,
one of soda, and sufficient flour
to make a good paste. Fry on a grid
dle, r? ;:-... : s ..
Corn Starch Cake The whites of
two eggs well beaten, one cup sugar,
one of flour, one of corn starch, half
cup sweet milk, half cup thick cream,
two teaspoons of baking powder. ,
Sprigs of wintergreen or 1 ground
ivy will drive away red ants; branches
of wormwood will serve the same pur
pose for black ants.
The Grand Duke Alexis, has
thrown all the Russias into a white
heat of excitement - by , marrying the
f irl of his choice, in defiance of all the
aws of that powerful country, and the
express commands of his imperial
father, his recent travels around the
world didn't wean him from hid love,
and he has proved himself a man, say
ing in substance he didn't care a cuss,
he would have his choise or none. His
bride is the daughter of a rich old Ba
ron. They were married under the rites
of the Greek Church, which allows no
divorce, and the Czar is in a peck of
trouble about getting his son out of the
scrape; and the joke is, Alexis don't
want to get out of it.
Orifrln or tne Shamrock Emblem
: The shamrock is the white clover of
Ireland, and it came to be the nation
al emblem from an incident in St. Pat
rick's preaching. One when preach
ing, a pagan chief asked him how God
was one and the Trinity three. Then,
to explain it, the preacher plucked a
shamrock from the green soil at his
feet, and held up the trefoil before the
listeners,saying,"behold,three is one." J
lhe chief, it is said, saw the illustra
tion, believed,' and was baptized, and
his whole tribe. . '
Governor Tilden is coming to the
front as a, Democratic candidate for
the Presidency. The Enquirer grum
bles that New York is trying to play
the part so frequently played by Old
Virginia, by wanting this thing all the
time McClellan in 1864. Seymour in
'68, Geeley in '72, Tilden in 1876. But
there is on.e difference. - When Old
Virginia had the monopoly, the can
didates were always elected. New
York's chosen sons, on the contrary
since lodb are always doomed t de
feat
f
Didn't Know When to Die.
' Some men don't know when to die.
By way of an illustration of this taet
we have the case of James Lick, of
San Francisco. About a year ago,
being in ill health, he made prepara
tion for dying by bequeathing two
millions of dollars to charitable and
scientific 'purposes. Of course the
press and public were loud in praise
of the munificent gifts of the good old
man, and all but his relatives prayed
that his pathway to the grave might
be that of pleasantness and peace.
But he neglected to die which was a
great mistake. And he rallied and
improved in health which was a
greater mistake, and when he recov
ered he wanted to undo his good
work which was a till greater mis
take. Having failed to prevail upon
the trustees appointed to administer
his estate to resign, he had a deed of
revocation recorded, and thus a great
question is raised tor settlement in
the courts. It will not take the law
yers long to get the whole of this im
mense estate into their little pockets,
and Lick, like Mrs. Partington's hus
band, will "die detested" and the
estate be settled by the Judge of
Reprobates." Springfield Republi
can.
The Mexican authorities tell a dif
ferent story about the border troubles.
asserting that a persistent and orgin-
lzed robbery ot their cattle has been
going on for years, and that American
Judges, sheriffs and Aldermen figure
prominently among the robbers. Ht is
proposed to put a check upon the raids
of both sides by extending our extra
dition treaty with Mexico, so that the
offenders can be pursued and arrested
wherever found. It is not at all improb
able that wrongs have been committed j
and sffered on both sides, but a pacific '
settlement of the question is reason
ably certain; and tne warlike turners
are purely sensational. .,..,'. I
Temperance Convention.' ' -
A District Temperance Conven
tion was held daring Thursday and
Friday of last week,' in the r Meth
odist - church of our. city,J 'It was
principally presided over by Mrs.
Valentine and Miss Julia Newkirk.
The former the President," and the '
latter one of the Vice Presidents,
of " the district. ' The temperance
district includes six counties, name- ,
ly: Fayette, Franklin, '. Dearborn, f
Union, Wayne and .Randolph. It
is the same as the Congressional '
District-'' ' - ' ' . ;
. Among' other distinguished lady '
orators present,' was. Mra Wajlace,,
of Jndi&napolig, and widow, f G&v. 1
Wallace. ' She addressed the con-;
vention on Thursday evening. ' Her ,
address, or lecture, was regarded
as very fine by many who heard it.
It was carefully prepared and Very '
well delivered, although Mrs. Wal
lace did not meet the expectations
of all the people, some of whom
have heard a great deal of flatter
ing commendation of her abilities
as a temperance lecturer. She did
honor, however, to herself and the
temperance cause. We noticed Mrs.
Dennis, Mrs. Tapen, and several
other ladies whose names we could
not obtain. D. M. Dunbar, Rev.
Whalen. and Rev McMahan and
Mr. King, of Liberty, were in at
tendance on Friday. Connersville
was not so well represented, how
ever. Some of the Quaker sisters
noticed it, and said they could not
account for it. Well, we don't?
know why our sisters don't take a
greater interest in the cause. We
hope the sisters from . abroad will
infuse a new life into them upon
the subject Brothers Pye, Tevis,
Harrison and Wood were present,
and each gave utterance to some
sound words- of encouragement to
the sisters."
On Friday afternoon at four
o'clock, there was a children's tem
perance meeting held. It was
largely attended, and several ap
propriate addresses were ' made,
and some fine singing indulged in.
The little ones were all pleased and
resolved to make good temperance
men and women. V
On Friday night there was a mass
meeting addressed by Mrs. Valen
tine, of Richmond, and then ad
journed. ,
A committee presented the fol
lowing preamble and resolutions,
which were, adopted, . after, some
discussion: , . " " .
. Whereas, The gigantic, intoler
able and destructive evil of intern-'
perance rests upon our Nation; and
whereas, its votaries are more than
ever in earnest for its continuance, '
and are using all possible means to
make if respectable by law;1' and
whereas, it becomes the friends" of .
temperance to be united and per
sistent in their 'efforts for the sup-
pression of this evil; and whereas,
God,jn his providence, has called
the wonien of our land to redeem
the Nation from this ' curse,' there
fore, " ' " ' ' 1
Resolved, That our convictions
of the enormity of this evil 'are
greatly increased by the fearful ar
ray of statistics before us, as well
as by its terrible results through
out society, we feel urged by every
religious and patriotic sentiment, to
increase our zeal for the overthrow
of intf mperance .
Resolved, ; That as God has al
ready blessed the ' efforts of Chris
tian women of the land, to rescue
the Nation from this curse, we will
continue to pray for success. -
Resolved, That v we earnestly in
vite all Christian men and women,
and all. lovers of our country,' to
unite with us in this good work. '
Resolved, That it is the duty of
every minister of the Gospel of
Christ to proclaim uncompromis
ingly against the evils and sin' of
intemperance, as it is stated on
Apastolic authority that no drunk
ard shall ) inherit the kingdom of
God. ;.. t h- - ' - t;-f - -itt : ... t,
Resolved, That we will by grace,
continue, to . battle as ' Christian
women may, for the entire removal
of alcoholic drinks from our midst
believing , that nothing short. ; of
entire prohibition, will meet the
demands of a true and just God.
Resolved, That we deeply sym
pathize with all who have been so
unfortunate as to be led astray by
intemperance, and we earnestly de
sire their reformation.
Resolved, That we also sympa
thize with all families who have and .
do still suffer from this evil, and we
assure them of our efforts to help
them to recover their unfortunate
ones. ;
Resolved, That the Vice Presi
dent of the respective counties and
townships in this district, be re
quested toaet upon - some plan of
juvenile organization that will open
up an opportunity for instructing
the youth in reference to this great
evil and educating them in temper
ance views and principles.
A vote of thanks was tendered
the citizens of Connersville for their
hospitality. Connersville Times,
April 13. : ;
At an amateur minstrel enter,
tainment at Woodbury Falls, N. Y..
a rough in the audience hissed a
song. The performers at once left
the stage and invited the critic and
his friends to go out into the street
and fight In the contest that en
sued the tambourine man was shot
and a banjo player was stabbed.
Revels of Mississippi, the . first
colored Senator, has become a D. '
D. and is pastor of, a Methodist
Church, t -i . .. . :."
. Orthonranfcy an OUnoenj. ''
:We may as well take it for ' granted
that the American citizen , cab not
spell. .. This has. been abundantly dc- . ,
monstrated by every . spelling-match
which has recently occurred in .the
country. One citizen may fail on '
"tyranny,'.' and another on "fieve."
and still another on "withhold," ;and
the word on which one citizen fails .
may be very simple to both . of his ,
companions, bat down they all will go
on one thing or another,! and we- feel i
the truth of the scriptural, assertion J,
that "there, is none, perfect; ,no, not," .
one." It maybe that .these sntelling-' '
matches, which are beneficial in "more-'
ways thanu neiou fthtr. publc hviii
eause us Jto suspect that e possess a ,
Ttfry absurd and harbaVous. language
It will decor 'to man that an idiom ,
employed bo largely by the people of '
the earth ought to have some defined '
rules of ' orthography ' and pronunci
ation. If the English language , has
these, it is very difficult to learn what
they are. - Why shonld we spell offv
o-f-f, and "cough" c-o-u-g-h? 1 Why,
should ' we employ' each - barbarous '
ways of 8f filing mnemonics, pneu
matics, phthisic, ptarmigan, and other
words that might be mentioned?
Absurd as is our established form of '
orthography, however, it is very-respectable
when compared with our
mode of pronunciation. About the ,
best deed that the Rev. Florence. Mc- ;
Carthy has done in Chicago was to
introduce, a week or so ago, a -pro- ;
nouncing match, condacted onithe '
principle of spelling tournaments, and
which was equally profitable and
amusing. We hope to see , more of
these matches. If they do not lea l to
reforms in orthography and orthoepy,
they will at lea3t increase ouv pro
ficiency in the present system. There
is no good reason, however, why im-
Erovements should not be made in
oth branches. If parity or similitude
were to be observed in the slightest
degree, r-o-n-g-h would not be pro
nounced ruff, while s-l-o-u-g-h is pro
nounced 6loo. And if ' 1-o-u-g-h
spells sloo, why does not t-o-u-g-h
spell too? And while we are about
it, why wculd it not be a good deal
more sensible to spell these words as
they are pronounced say, r-n-ff,
ruff; t-u-ff, tuff; s l oo, sloo; t-h o,
tho, instead of though, etc. Perhaps
the interest now being manifested
will develop improvements in ' these
respects, and in that way be of more
than passing benefit to the public- '
Inter-Ocean.. i .is
Kenrc. .',
. ' The scene occurred "6n a railroad
car on the Union Pacific Road, in
which two men were gambling, while
the rest of the passengers looked on.
One of the gamesters was a type of the
professionals who "work" the road
a desperate triokster,- sleek- and ugly;
the other was a rough, grizzled miner,
fresh from the mountains and carry
ing abundance of money. The game
draw poker was for large stakes, and
I)layed silently and watchfully. Final
y a huge pot accumulated. Lach man
had evidently a good hand, and "was
resolved to stand by litr' Each man
raised the ' other, until finally the .
miner "called," The gambler showed
his hand three aces and two queens' .
t the same time covering the money
with his hand, r The miner uttered)
not a word; he merely took two ot his
five cards and laid down. They "were"
aces. This meant five aces t in ; the '
pack. The gambler had dealt. -Then ?
the miner reached back like Iigbtum
ft.
drawing a huge navy revolver.1!
cocked it and placed the muzzle- be
tween the eyes of . the gambter. JNot
a word was spoken, but each off he
two men looked steadily into the. eyes
of the a other.- Soon the gambler's
hand upon the money-began to draw
back, and the gambler's ferm as well.
The revolver followed. The gambler
steps into the aisle, and at this point
passengers inthe" car seemed to lose
their interest in the game, most of them
trying to get under the, seats. -rl'he-gambler
backed down the aisle toward
the door, and as' he passed out the :
muzzle of that huge .; revolver -till -stared
. him in . the face. Then the
miner put up his pistol, pocketed the
money,' lit his pipe and was as the i
other men. : Not; a. ;word had been i
spoken from the time the "call.' wa3
made. It was merely one of the rare
occasions where a gambler , on : . the .
Union Pacifie mistakes his man. s
Origin of Well-known Pnraae.'
' The phrase "biting the duet"-, is
not, as many would suppose, a mere
figure of speech, but originated, doubt
less, from a certain fact in reirard to
men slain in battle while engaged in a
manner to cause strong muscular ac
tion. "In regard to the matter, the
following ' interesting paragraph oc
curs in the last volume of Kieglake's .
H istory of the Crimean War :" .
"It would seem that this muscular
action (biting the dust) is apt to occur
when a man has been .arrested by
death in the act f strenuous bodily -exertion;
and no doubt an artillery
man, while hotly engaged and vehe
mently serving his gun, must in gen
eral be much harder at work than. an
infantry soldier, busied with his tire
lock. In ancient times a large pro
portion of the slain were killed in the
act of exerting their strength to the
utmost, and then it was that 'biting
the dust' became almost an equivalent
for the being killed in battle. How
ever hotly enged, a modern infantry
soldier does not commonly exert, '
while halted, any great amount of '
physical strength and the instances
in which he literally bites the dust' :
are comparatively rare." , .. . " ,;
A new rendering of now you' see
him. and now you don't : To be a
lawyer, jurist and statesman, one must
do something to encourage the chances
ot the Democracy . to overthrow the
Republican' party.' When " Senator
Christiancy b poke and voted against
the admission of Pinchback, he was
endorsed by the Democratic press as
a lawyer, jurist aud statesman of the
highest order. .When he voted for
the resolution approving the course
of the President as regards the Lou-.
isiana difficulty, the Democratic press
had nothing to say about him.
Tt is calculated that there are more
than fifty million bushels of wheat in
the Northwest still to come forward,
if. avis confidently stated, the yield of
1874 was fully equal to that of 1873.
This besneaks considerable liveliness
in the trade daring the present sea
son. ' ' ' y - ' - u
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