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VOL. XLVJ
RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 28, 1875.
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who,S5S," NO. T.
Mall Time Table.
GOING NORTH Including all placessup
pllod Irom the Chicago 14. K., and the 1 1.
Wayne It. Uncloses at 100 a. in.
GOING SOUTH-l. Including Cincinnati
and all points beyond,closeat7:30a.m.
2. Including all places supplied from the
Cincinnati Railroad, bsi p. m.
GOING EAST Including all places sup
plied irom the Columbus K. R., and
all Kastern and Central states, closes at
10)0 a. m. Via Dayton and Xenia Rail
road, closes 6:00 a. m.
GOING WEST 1. Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond, closes 10:00 a. n.;
2. same as above, closes 7:) p. m.; 3. In
eluding all points supplied by thelndi
, anapolis Railroad; also, Chicago and all
points west and northwest, closes 3:00
- p. m.
ToWebster, WllliamshurK and BloominRs
: port, on Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, at 2:00 p. m.
To Cox's Mills. White Water.Bethel and Ar
ba. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
at 12.-W m.
To Abihton, Clifton and Liberty, on Mon
day and Friday, at 71)0 a. m..
To 'Boston, ISeechymire, Gool win's Corner.
" and Collese Corner, on Tuesday and
Friday, at 12:30 m.
MAILS ARE OPEN
At 80 a. m. from Indianapolis and Clncin-
. nati and beyond.
At 11:00 a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
through mails.
At 4:00 p p from East via Columbus Rail
. rond,Jiud Dayton and Xenia Railroad.
At 70 p. m. from North, via Chicago Raii-
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.
At 8:00 p. m. from Indianapolis and beyond.
Office open from 70 a. m. to 7:30 p: in.
On Sandav, from ShOO to 1010 a. m.
Dec. 1 1874. ; B W. iAVIS. P. M.
RAILROAD TI 51 B-T A BL C
PllUbarg, Cincinnati and St. I.oain
Railway.
- PAN-HANDLE ROUTE.
COITDlWSEI TIME CARD. WLUMBl'S AND IN-
, DIVISION S.OV.30. 1874.
GOUT'S WEST.
J- No. 2. No. 8. jiNo. 6. j No. 10
Prttsbarjr.
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No. 3.
No. 5.
No.
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Knicbts'n o:59ami 8:34 pm
9:35am
11:00am
11:45am
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1:31pm
4:55 pm
6:05pra
6:42pm
7:15pm
8:20pm
8:45pm
Cambri'ge 6:37 am! itt pm
Richm'nd 7:loam iod pin
Oreenv'le.i 8:23am Ho. 9.
Brad Jon- 8:50am 70 am
Pio.ua 9:17 am 7:27 am
2:00pm
2:42pm
9:13pm
Urbana 10: 10 ami 8:40 am
3:52pm 10:11pm
4:45pm 10:53pm
60pm ; 1 1 :55pm
2:20am! 735a in
Mil ford 10:50 am 9:40 am
Columbus :ll:50am'll0 am
Pi tlxluinf.J 7:15 nm' .
Nos. 1. 2, 6 and 7 run Daily,
All other trains
Daily.except Sunday.
Richmond and Cnleag-o Dlvlnion.
Nov. 30, 1874.
aotsa HORTH,
. No. 2. t No. 8. j j No. 10.
5?5U lmssLz?Am ?m - I
Mirst'n.f jll:16am ... ; 10:52 pm J
wCaftlel 11:50am . 1131 pm i
deroon. I 1:10 Dm ; '12:18 am
Newcastle
30 pm!
l:. am
3:10 am
6:20 am
89 am
Logf.nsp't.
Crown Pt-
4:tw pm
730pm
90 pm
Chlcago .!......
GOING- SOUTH.
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No. 1.
No. 3. I
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Crown Pt 9:40 pm
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230 pra,.
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58 pml
5:38 pml.
630 pm
935 pra!.
Kokorao... 2:60 am
Anderson-i 3:42 am
Nawr'BKtlc 4:38 am
Haaerst'n.! 5:08 am
Richmond; 5:50 am
Clrx nnat.! 9:00 am
ITo. Id leave Richmond daily. No 1 leaves
Chicago daily. All other trains run dally,
except Sunday.. , 5.
j . ' i 1 ' 1 r? '
Little 911am! IMvIsion.
'T GOTJHi WEST.
1 No. 2. No. 4. No. 6. No. 10.
Pittsburg' ;0 pm . 1:60am 7:50am
Ores June . 98 pm 7:23 am 132 pm
Colnrab' 12:00 nt. S0am 10:05 am 8:40 pm
fjonton l5am 6:00am 11:08am 4:34pm
Xenia 2:20am 7:10amil2:15 piu 5:35pm
Morrow 3:40 am 8:28am 133pm 6:37pm
Cinclnatl 5:15am 10:30 am 2:50pm 8:00pm
Xenia 730am1230pm 5:45 pm
Dayton. ? .. ... :10amf 1:15 pm 6:45pm
Richm'd- 10:00am! 3:20 pm
Ind'polis. ... 130 pm' 6:30 pm' .
t, GOING EAST. - A , . , f t .
No. 1. No. 3. No. 5. I No. 7.
Ind'polis f. ... .. t.;. 9:35am1
Richmnd' 12:40 pm
Iavton.. 8:15 am . 2:45 pm ..
Xenia ft: 40 am 3:45 pm
Cincinnti 70 am 1:20pm 7:10 pm
Morrow... 838 am .i 2:48 pm 8:40 pm
Xenia 9:35 am 12:50 am 3:50 pm 9:45 pm
London..' 10:4.1 am 23 ami. 53 pm 10:55 pm
Colnmb s 11:45am 35 ami 65 pm 11:55 pm
Drew June 1:58 pm 535 am 8:31pm 22 am
Pittsburg 7:15 pm 1230 pm 230 am 7:25 am
Nos. I, 2, 6 and 7 run Daily to and from
Cincinnati. . All other Trains Daily.except
Sunday. W. L. O'BRIEN,
Genl Passenger and Ticket Agent. .
C R. Jt Ft. Wayne Railroad.
GOING NORTH.
GOING SOUTH.
O R ml & ex.l00 am I Portland ac. 90 am
Portland &c 40 pm G R m'l & ex. 6:25 pm
M. W. HOBBS. M. D.4
Practitioner of
Medicine & Surgery,
Gives special attention to the study and
treatment of all fliseases and
injuries of tbe
EYE AND EAR.
He hopes to merit a liberal patronage.
OOIce and Residence, Xo. 21 Sonth
Fifth Street,
RICHMOND, INDIANA.
4 Mm ,
JJART Jk DOBBIX8,
House, Hign and Ornamental
PAINTERS. GRAINERS, Etc.
213 9flatn Street,
18- RICHMOND INDIANA
PAT'rXTT'Nl ALL PERSONS
i.-ALJi', -LO. desiring to secure
Patents for their inventions, or obtain ad
vice in PATENT CAXKrt, 'on reasonable
term-, will do well to address
' ' WW. H. FISHER, .
Counselor and Solicitor in Patent Cases
, , 4 W. Fifth street, Cincinnati, b.
Mend for Circular. Satisfaction :naran
teed- .- t - -' ' 48m
QPI to OA prr, ,Uay at home- Terms free.
-J 'Jy' Address G. Htinson to
Jan.l9,l.Sba. jiyl , .. . Portland, Maine
Al'OrSTrS B. TOCSO,
ATTORNEY AND NOTARY.
Office in room over Georee W nrni
CJrocerv.FJchiiioud Indiana.
TnE BIG BONANZA.
A River of Silver on a Red or Gold
8300,000,000 In Sight Will These
Mines Work a Revolution In the
Value or Sliver and Cold Through-
; out tbe World ?
Cor. of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Virginia City Nev., March 22,
1875. Let me, in the first place, cor
rect a false impression respecting the
"Big Bonanza." The California and
Consolidated Virginia mines are lo
cated in Virginia City, State of Neva
da, and not in the State of California,
as is erroneously written by the ama.
teur correspondents for many Hastern
papers. The great bonanza is in the
northern end of the Comstock lode.
Beginning fourteen feet from the
southern boundary line of the Con
solidated Virginia mine, it extends to
its northern line, a distance of 5S6
feet; thence through the entire length
of the California mine, a distance of
600 feet; and has been traced a further
distance of seventy feet in the adja
cent Ophir mine. This body ore is
160 feet wide at the point of discovery
in the Consolidated Virginia mine,
and, like a great river or lake, gradu
ally expands to a width of 1,300 feet,
the extent of the present discovery.
For more than 100 ieet the ore assays
from JroOO to -SOO per ton. and m a
few instances it goes as high as SI, 600
per ton. A sample selected from the
"heart of the bonanza" assayed $8,000
per ton. This sample is 90 per cent,
pure metal and about 44 per cent,
gold. It is termed "horned silver,"
in mining parlance, and is about ot
the consistency of worked putty ana
easily sliced with a pen-knife. This
husre lake of silver will aveiace an es
say of $100 per ton, on the basis of
which estimate there are about
- ? : $300,000,000 in sight
more than can be extracted and
worked into bullion within the next
two years.' Even now bullion is being
sent to the Eastern mints for coinage
These two "bonanza" mines the
Consolidated Virginia and California
arc working as many men as can
find foothold on their silver founda
tions, and extract each about 400 tons
of ore daily, including Sundays.
Until about a year ago work on the
California mine was suspended, and
the mine practically abandoned the
stockholders considered further de
velopments almost useless. Every
minings superintendent has a theor',
every one differing from all the rest;
Superintendent Mackey was confident
of the wealth of the mine. Finally, a.
new board ot trustees listened to his
ideas, and he was instructed to go
ahead. The mine was then 1,400 feet
deep, no average pay ore ever having
been found, and the total stock, 103,
000 shares, nominally quoted at about
$8,000,000, or 70.per share, used
mainly for "bulling" and "bearing"
purposes, without reference to its
main intrinsic value. Within four
days after the "bonanza," was found
the mine increased in value $10,000,- i
000 and within thirty days the Cali
fornia mine, 600 feet of ground, was
valued at $55,000,000.
The same applies to the Consoli
dated Virginia mine, adjacent. The
discovery of this rich body of ore in
the one led to the development of the
other. , -They are both worked and
owned by the same companies, and
are about equally valuable the same
body of ore, bearing the same degree
of richness, running through both.
This body of ore was discovert d at a
depth ol 1,500 feet from the surface
how deep it extends is unknown.
Prospecting at present is confined to
its length and width. It may "peter"
out at a depth of twenty or thirty feet,
and again it may extend to a depth of
as many hundred feet, increasing in
richness with its depth, until it be
comes pure silver, or even gold; and
then again it may not.
Here, in a little mining town in the
western wilds of ; Nevada, lying adja
cent to each other, are the two richest
silver mines in the world, owned and
controlled by about twenty men,
whose respective interests in the same
are valued at over $10,000,000. One
year ago those same values were not
estimated at so many thousands. But
ten years ago these billionaires were
men of moderate means, and a few
were miners laboring at $4 per day.
Was fortune ever so fickle? W ere
men ever so fortunate ?
TFIE CELEBRATED SUTRO TUNNEL,
or the "Great Bore," as it is called by
the opponents of the scheme at Wash
ington, is a projected tunnel, eiht by
five feet square, commencing in a val
ley at the base of the foot-chills, and
extending to Virginia City, a distance
of four miles from the point of com
mencement. It is then proposed to
extend the tunnel a mile (or farther,
if profitable) up and down the Com
stock Lode thus giving the tunnel
the appearance of the letter T- or,
more correctly, that of a cross. It is
to tap the mines on its route at a level
of about 2,000 feet from the surface.
The tunnel is completed about one
third of the distance, or one mile and
a t hird, at a cost of about $2,250,000.
The object of this tunnel is to save
time and expense in hoisting ore to
the surface of the earth. As, for ex
ample, the famous Savage mine, now
2,100 feet deeryinstead of hoisting ore
that great distance as at present,
would, when the tunnel intersects at
the 2,000 foot level, only have to hoist
it 100 feet to the tunnel level when
the ore would be transported to the
mill by the railroad traversing the en
tire length of the tunnel. The mine
could then be explored to a depth of
2,000 feet or wore, which, under the
present system of working, it probably
could not be with profit to the owners
and comfort and safety to the miners.
A royalty of $2 per ton is asked by the
tunnel companjT. A large number of
mine owners contend that the present
method of hoisting ore, though slower,
is the cheapest. And this is the ques
tion, in a few words, between the
mine owners and the Sutro Tunnel
.Company, which is periodically
brought before the statesmen at
Washington. . 5 , j- f
' THE "DIAMOND DRILL '
if one of those strong inventions of
the enemies to "outsiders." Those
who are on the "inside," and who are
allowed to examine mines, can bore
into a "bonanza"and tell how far the
ore extends and its quality, 'thus in
forming themselves when to buy or
sell fetock, while those ol the stock
holders who are called "outsiders,"
or who are not in the ring, are left in
the dark as to the extent of the body
of ore, or its richness, except as daily
developed in its face. Their source
of information before the introduction
of the "diamond drill" was limitedto
leaky miners and confidential superin
tendents who could uot always be
relied upon. Under this new system
of exploring for hidden bonanzas, an
outsider has about as many chances
as he would in a game of three-card
monte probably less.
, "POINTS ON STOCKS"
are obtained through friendly suer
intendents and trustees, who are "on
the inside." Everything is consider
ed fair in stocks, and, in two out of
three instances, the best way is to act
the reverse of the advice "confiden
tially" given, where socalled "points"
are given to reward friends as well as
to punish enemies. As an instance :
Mr. Sharon, our newly elected United
States Senator, has a tried and trusted
(?) Japanese body servant, the first
letter of whose name is Ah Kce.
Frequently he would, on solicitation,
advise Mr. Ah Kee how to invest his
surplus change, which advice would
generally prove satisfactory. Ah Kee
also learned a "point" from the femi
nine sex, and utilized the keyhole in
listening to Senator Sharon's private
conversation with his brokers. De
tecting this, Sharon urged his broker'
to purchase an unlimited quantity of
a certain stock. Ah Kee left his key
hole and immediately brought his
hidden wealth to bear, borrowed all
he could, and advised his Celestial
friends to do the same. A few days
later Kee's countenance indicated
that he was sick of stocks and
"points," and his friends were very
solicitous as to his whereabouts, but
sought in vain. As a recompense his
wages were-increased, but he takes no
further interest iu mining matters.
THE MINERAL WEALTH OP NEVADA
is not alone confined to silver and
gold. It also abounds in coal, lead,
borax, sulphur, soda, copper, antimo
ny, and iron and salt mines ot great
productiveness, the latter "of which
cannot be worked profitably owing to
a lack of transportation to market.
A few garnets and other precious
stones have been found in the silver
mines, but these articles are as rare
as they are precious.
The development of the mines of
this State is just begun, and their
productiveness of the past few months
may be reasonably taken as an index
for their future wealth.
The French Financier's Ianhter.
From the St. Iouis Globe-
Several months ago a rich financier,
a speculator on the Jfourse, learned
that his only dauehter was quite fond
of a wealthy ypunar man, who was
himself not averse to occasional oper
ations. . She made the confession her
self French girls do not carry on
love affairs clandestinely but said, at
the same time, that she was not par
ticularly enamored of him.
She added: "You know. nana, that
you have given me a worldly educa
tion, and 1 have profited by it. 1 am
not a bit silly about Monsieur .
.But he is amiable, cultured, asreeable.
domestic, and most of all, he has a
handsome property. He would make
a good hushand, i think, lie likes
me, 1 am sure. . 1 shrewdly surmise
that he intends to propose to you for
my hand. If he does, I shall accept
him for the reasons stated, unless you
seriously object."
Papa, tor some reason or other, did
not relish the prospect of having Mon
sieur ; for a son-in law. So he
said to his daughter, "You would not,
Claudine, entertain the idea of be
coming the wife of this gentleman if
he were poor, would j'ou?"
"Not for a moment, my dear papa,
I hold that marriage with poverty is
insupportable. I regard Monsieur
's fortne fully as favorable as
I do him. Indeed, I do not separate
them."
"You're a sensible eirl. vou do
credit to my training. I'm proud of
you. There's no cause for haste in
this matter. I love yon devoutly. I
would not thwart your desires. Wait
a few weeks and see how 3Ionsieur"
developes."
THE FATHER'S PLOT.
Three days later the young gentle
man proposed for her hand, and she
asked a little time to consider, to
which he readily consented. Her
father remembering her opinion that
money was indispensable to matrimo
ny, determined to ruin the suitor.
To this end he pretended to take him
into his confidence, urging him to buy
largely of a certain stock, because it
was sure to advance. The father be
ing a high monetary authority, the
young man gladly and gratefully re
ceived and acted upon his advice.
The result was that he was ruined,
the stock having steadily and rapidly
declined from the moment he had
purchased it. He then withdrew his
proposal of marriage, unwilling that
the woman he loved should be the
wife of a beggar.
Claudine's father, rejoiced at the
lover's adversity, remarked to his
daughter : "You see, my child, how
wise it was for you to wait. The young
fellow could not raise five thousand
francs to-day on all he has left. Such
affection as you had for him must be
completely cured by his great re
verses." THE GIRL'S HEART.
"So far from it, papa. I find I never
loved him till now. His misfortunes
have touched my heart. The noble
manner in which he has acted reveals
him to ine in a new light. I feel that
now, more than ever, he needs my
sympathy, comfort and affection."
"But you would not marry a bank
rupt a man who can give you no
position, no material comfort noth
mg? HOW IT ENDED.
"But I should have something,
Eapa, throuh your kindness. I should
e too happy to share it with him."
Then the father, flaming up, de
clared he would not give Claudine a
sou, if she should marry the miserable
beggar. He told her how he had
ruined her suitor, the purpose he had
in doing so. They had hich words.
She rebuked him for his treachery;
he charged her with filial ingratitude.
In less than a week she had eloped
with her lover, and they were married
and living happily, though hunibly,
together in Havre, trying to begin a
new life, when the lather sought them,
asked their pardon for the past, and
begged them to return to Paris, to
make his home theirs.
An elopement is a rare thing in
France, particularly among what the
English would call respectable people.
In Claudine's circle it caused a com
motion, but when she returned hither
with her husband and father, her
friends were delighted, and pro
nounced the affair a capital comedy.
I understand, by the by, that elope
ments are not nearly so unusual as
they were wont to be in this country,
and that the French ascribe their in
creased frequency to the influence of
manners and customs.
Claudine's disobedience to paternal
authority will be freely forgiven by
the romantic in consideration of her
loyalty to her lover. If she had been
from the other side of the sea, her
devotion, generated by the troubles
that had befallen him would not have
been remarkable. But over here de
votion from such cause is very rare,
if jou believe the satirist and cynics,
and awakens general astonishment.
End or the Crosa-Examtualioii.
What Mr. Beecher has to eay in
court, in regard to the charge against
him, is about all said. He has passed
through one ot the most tryiDg exami
nations ever experienced by a witness.
Though opinions differ as to the man
ner in which he has borne himself,
and many insist that his answers have
been in some instances evasive, we
think all must admit that his testi
mony as given in the direct examina'
tion has been unshaken. It is hard
to undergo such a fierce fire of cross
questioning as that to which lie has
been subjected, without falling into
errors and contradictions, even ad
mitting that the witness is entirely
innocent. That he should . pass
through this without one serious mis
hap, as he certainley has done, nd
still be guilty, as charged, seems ab
solutely beyond relief. It would make
out Mr. Beecher not only the remark
able man which his friends claim, but
one of the deepest, wiliest, craftiest
persons who has ever appeared in any
court of justice. Does his prior life
make such judgment of his character
reasonable? Does his previous con
duct in this very matter in which, if
guilty, he committed the most absurd
blunders, lend to such an interpreta-
j tion a degree of probability'? lie
trusted the evidences of his guilt in
the hadds of a third party. Did this
display the craft and cunning of an
1 adept? He passed over to a friend of
his accuser the very letters which are
now brought up in judgment against
. him. Was this the act of a man veised
in the philosophy of deceit? We sub
mit that his course in this whole affair
is entirely incompatible with the the
ory of his being the wily witness
; which he must be, to sustain himself, '
if guilty, against the overwhelming
i power brought to bear against him.
I We have said manv times before, andl
now say. the only way of explaining
the history of Mr. Beecher himself,
and this story may be briefly summar
ized as follows :
1. Mr. Beecher was led to believe
from the reports of Bowen, from Des
sie Turner, and others, that Tilton
was false to his marital vows, as he
was false to his early religious teach
ings, and that he had become so lost
to honor as to even be guilty of per
sonal cruelty t -j his family. On these
representations he advised the dis
charge of Tilton from the Independ
ent, and, with Mrs. Beecher's approv
al, the separation of Mrs. Tilton from
her husband.
2. On tbe word of Moulton, who
declared that these stories were fahe,
and who in a measure explained them,
he became convinced that In had
greatly wronged Tilton, and that, in
short, he had been guilty of base in
gratitude toward one who had served
him in times of need most faithfully.
3. Combined with the abuse, Mr.
Beecher was given to understand that
Mrs. Tilton had transferred to him
the love which belonged to her hus
band, and he therefore saw himself in
the light of having robbed Tilton of
his wife's affections, as well as having
contributed to his financial ruin.
Feeling that he had thus been guilty
of the deepest ingratitude, he was
horrified finally, by being confronted
by a written confession of Mrs. Tilton,
in which she charged him with having
made improper proposals to her. To
mend the wrong he believed he had
committed, and to stop the publicity
of this disgraceful scandal, Mr.
Beecher wrote those letters of con
trition, furnished Tilton with means
to begin anew his career in life, sought
to heal the family dissensions, and
bring back the peace and prosperity
which he charged himself with having
driven from Tilton's home. There is
no passage in any of Mr. Beecher's
letttcrs which cannot be reasonably
interpreted on this theory, while there
arc numerous passages which cannot
be thus explained on the theory of his
criminality. As with the letters, so
with the actions of the parties Til
ton, Moulton Mrs. Moulton, and Mrs.
Tilton, as well as Mr. Beecher. All
are consistent, it Mr. Beecher's ex
planation is taken; all are inconsistent,
if the charge of the prosecution is
considered. We do not wish to be
partial in the judgment of this ease;,
we have tried very hard not to be so;
but the conclusions we have formed
from the evidence thus far given seem
to us to exclude the probability and,
we may even add, the possibility of
guilt in the sense charged. What re
mains to be developed we shall soon
see. Inter-Ocean.
The New York Tribune honors it
self, when it says: "General Grant
honers himself in the generous and
graceful words with which he ays
deserved honor to General Spinner,
on the occasion of the veteran's retire
ment from the Treasury Department.
He says : 'I wish to say how much 1,
in common with the great mass of
people ot this country, appreciate your
zeal and devotion to the arduous du
ties you have been called upon to per
form in the last fourteen or fifteen
years. In retiiing from these duties,
I hope you will find rest and restora
tion to vigorous health so long denied
you. You take with you my wishes
for your welfare and happiness, and
my confidence in 3-our patriotism,
zeal, and ability. But few men have
performed more labor for. the public
than you. None have retired from
their labors retaining a stronger con
fidence in the public mind for con
stancy, integrity, and unselfishness.' "
- It nay do no harm to say right here
that -Paul Boyton's lite-saving dress
is not tight-laced.
National Baaks.
The total annual taxation paid by
the national banks is not less than 4
per cent, ou the aggregate of their
capital and surplus. There are some
features of the national banking sys
tem which show it to be by far the
best system of finance ever adopted in
this or, we might say, any other coun
try. In the first place, notwithstand
ing some failures, the system of gov
ernment supervision of the manage
ment of the banks inspires confidence
in depositors, and for that reason the
deposits in (he national banks are
larger, by probably $100,000,000, than
they would be in an equal number of
private or State banks with an equal
amount of capital. This increase of
deposits is practically an increase of
that much money offered in the mar
let; and we believe that if the nation
al banking system were abolished, tbe
loss of confidence in the stability of
hanking would cause a permanent de
crease of deposits sufficient to-make a
permanent advance in the rates of in
terest for money. We do not wish to
be understood as claiming that the
national banking system is perfect.
There are many features of it which
need amending; but we believe its
general principles are superior to
those of any other banking system
now in operation in the whole world
cf commerce. Inter-Ocean.
ILovine ThronKh Darkneas
into
Light.
, They were married in the morning,
and immediately stepped aboard the
cats for a bridal tour to San Francis
co. They attracted considerable at
tention on the .way by their hnpy
moon ways, and created a good Jeal
of quiet fun among the goodly number
of ladies and gentlemen who were
passengers. In due time the cars en
tered a tunnel, and all for a few uio
siicuts were c?nveloid in darkness
All too soon the cars emerged ".into
die broad glare of the noonday, eub,
;md our loving bride and groom were
Iiscover-ed-Jocked in .each other's
arms and exchangtnc khmcs at a rate"
seldom seen in public.. "feepassen
ger8 look in the situatiM hi abutr
pecond, and a shout went up tkat
nearly threw the train from the track,'
and brought the conductor to the
secne on the double-quick. "Pass it
round," yelled a big man who was on
liia way East to his wife. "Go back
to the tunnel," said another man to
the conductor; and as the newly-made
husband settled back in his seat he
was heard to say : "Sarah, I thought
tunnels were longer. Duma railroad
company, anyway."
For Spelling Schools.
The following is a verbatim copy of
the rules and regulations drawn up
by .'he School Board of a certain dis
trict in Michwran, and published m
the local moer. If anybody believes
the buchstabiereaheber, or spelling
mania, is not epidemic up in that re
gion, let him read and be convinced :
1st) School to commenc at nine
O'clock a. iu. and close at four p. m.
School to be kept quiet during School
hours.
2d) No Swareing nor quarling at
recess nor noon times at School. !No
throwing of stones or enow balls
around the school house or in it.
3rd) No Children to be allowd to
ctfme to school with sore eyes or other
Catching Deseses. No Schollars al
lowed to goe into the neabcring
houses cxept it be ncssiery.
4th) No ink to be allowed to be
Spilt or thron about on the Desks of
any of the School- furniture. No
scratching of Desks or marking of the
same in any way or any of the School
furniture.
5th) Children must render strict
Obedence to thair teacher.
6th) All children that willful brake
any of these Rules must be punished
by thair teacher in any way she may
See fit provided it Shall be in accord
anc with the primary School laws.
Sing-nlar Petrification.
While hunting in thetules near the
6ink of Chache Creek, on Monday
last, Mr. Abe Green, an old tule hunt
er, discovered a petrified goose stand
ing upright, with its legs buried about
one-half in the adobe soil. He thought
at first it was living, and creeping
closely up fired his gun at it, but the
bird did not budge an inch. He
thought it very strange, and walked
up to it. He found it dead, and in
trying to pick it up was astonished at
its immense weight. It had turned to
stone, and a mark on its wing near
the forward joint showed where the
shot had struck it, knocking a piece
off. He managed to raise it up out of
the ground, and when he'laid it down
a riece dropped from its breast, dis
closing a hollow inside, from which
pure, clear water commenced running.
Its feathers were very natural, and its
appearance was life-like. "--Tolo (Cal.)
Mail.
The Secret or Being SfyIIh.
From careful and extensive obser
vation I have come to the conclusion
that no woman can be really stylish,
who apparently knows what to do
with her hands.
She may have wealth and position,
she may paint and powder her face,
have elegant clothes, and wear the
mask vail just below her nose, but if
she appears to know what to do with
her hands, she is lost. They abso
lutely must hang in listless, graceful .
(apparent) helplessness; but not all
the time; they must wander aimlessly .
about, as if seeking a resting place
and finding none; and they must come
together occasionally with a touch
like melting enowfiakes.
My dear girls, my word for it,
there's the whole secret. . - '
You may have everything, do every
thing, be everything else, but, if you
seem to know what to do with your
hands, your case is hopeless there
will be an indescribable "something"
lacking, you never will be stylish.
Gale Forest.
"Women lack nerve,' indeed, Mr.
Spinner I A woman with the dyspep
sia has more nerves to the square inch
than a New Jersey swamp has mos
quitoes. 4 01
Young Pomeroy, the boy murderer,
of Massachusetts, is studying Latin in
his cell. A dead language will be a.
tonvenient thing for him to know af
ter his execution.
The St. Louis Dispatch styles a
spelling match "a jaw-breaking row."
. MComlnfr or the Iord" Adventiata.
i The Chicaeo Tribune contains
j detailed account of the meeting of
Adventists, in that city, on Monday
I night, April lyth: lhe Kcene was a
remarkable and. in some resnects
touching one. About one hundred
and fifty of the Adventists assembled
in their hall, including both sexes
and some children. Th'o band was
led by Elder Thurman, an old man of
protound t;onviction, pure lite, and
lwg devotion to the. faith. In the
'hall a substantial sunner was spread.
and it was confident!' believed by
those present that Christ wouJq ap
pear in person, partake of the supper
with them, and point the way to glory.
Early in the evening a thunderstorm
of Borne violence came up, with sharp
lightning. 1 he joy ot tbe Adventists
at this event was unspeakable, for
they interpreted it as a sure sign of
the coming ol the Jjord. JJuring the
prevalence ot the storm the excite
j ment ran very hich. lhe evening
i wore on, and at U o clock all 6at down
j to supper. There was a shade of sad-
ness on ineir iaces at ine non-arrivai
of the expected guest, but hope was
not yet lost. 10 and 11 o'clock came.
The stoim was over, the lightning had
ceased and the stars shone out serene
ly. Fatigue and hope deferred began
to tell on the deluded baud, but still
they kept up heart. About midnight,
when some were asleep and others
were fast losing hope. Elder Thurman
rose, and, with tears streaming down
his face, confessed the failure of his
predictions. He declared that for
thirty-two years he had devoted him
self to studying the prophecies, and
they all, without exception, pointed
to tho 19th ot April as the time of the
second coming of Christ.- He had
proven his calculations over and over,
and there could be no mistake and
yet there was some mistake. He
could not fathom the mystery nor ex
plain the failure. He only knew he
nad done his duty, and that all his
life-work had come to nothing. He
declared the burdeu of his disappoint
ment to be greater than he could boar,
and asked for a speedy release from
ihis sorrows. During his remarks
thero was sobbine and subdued ex
vcitement. Mffay cX.tbose presont had
j given away their furnifurtKaol broken
: up their-lodgings, expecting to-have
' no farther use for them. Now they
; were houseless and homeless in the
j world, their hopes shattered and their
faith destroyed. In reply to a ques
tion what his future plans were. Elder
i Thurman said he had none, his course
I was run. liemg asked 11 he should
j continue the publication of his paper
I he replied, mournfully, "There is
j nothing to publish it for; my work is
: done. I do not know what I shall do,
where I shall go. It was the har
! mony of those dates that convinced
me that Jesus was the Christ, and
j now 1 do not know what to believe."
! As the night wore on the assemblage
i broke up and the unhappy fanatics
! A i 1 1 A- . . - - .
went ineir several ways, niter juojecis
for sympathy than ridicule, more de
serving of respect than contumely.
How l'ofttage Stump are Made.
In printing, steel plates are used,
on which two hundred stamps are en
graved. Two men are kept hard at
work covering them with the colored
inks and passing them to a man and
girl, who are equally busy at printing
them with large rolling hand presses.
Three of these little squads are em
ployed all the time, although ten
presses can be put into use in case of
necessity. After the small sheets of
paper upon which the two hundred
stamps are engraved have dried
enough, they are sent into another
room and gummed. The gum used
for this purpose is a peculiar compo
sition, made of the powder of dried
potatoes and other vegetables, mixed
with water, which is better than any
other material, for instance, gum
arabic, which cracks the paper badly.
The paper is also of a peculiar tex
ture, somewhat similar to that used
for bank notes. After having been
again dried, this time on little racks,
which are fanned by steam power, for
about an hour, they are put in be
tween sheets of paste-board and press
ed in hydraulic presses, capable of
applyins a weight of two thousand
tons. The next thing is to cut the
sheet in half; each sheet, of course,
when cut, contains a hundred stamps.
This is done by a girl with a large
pair of shears, cutting by hand being
preferred to that of machinery, which
method would destroy too many
stamps. They are theu passed to two
other squads, who, in as many opera
tions, i-erforate the sheets between
the stamps. Next they are pressed
once more, and then packed and la
beled, and stowed away in another
room, preparatory to being put in
mail bags for dispatching to fulfill
orders. If a single stamp is torn, or
in any way mutilated, the whole sheet
of one hundred is burned. About
five hundred thousand are burned
every week from this cause. For the
past twent- years not a single sheet
nas been lost, such care ban been ta
ken in counting them. During the
progress of manufacturing, the sheets
are counted eleven times.
The President of the Berlin society
for promoting the burning of corpses
has applied to the Ministry of State
for the suspension or the removal of
the police order by which cremation
is forbidden. The Ministers of the
Interior and Pubnc Worship have
replied that the prayed for permission
would be illegal, and it is not in their
power to grant. For the present there
is no intention to apply to the Legis
lature for an alteration of the law in
this matter.
He had a jockey-style of cap on, a
leather band around his waist, his
trowserlegs tucked inside his boots,
and was aged 15. "Milk and spelling
matches tor babies," he exclaimed,
curling his upper lip; but as for me.
gimme baseball!" -
Detroit Free Press: A near-sighted
man was riding in a Woodward ave
nue car the other day, when a lady
opposite bowed to him. He returned
the bow, raised his hat, smiled sweet
ly, and was just wondering who she
was, when she came over and whis
pered in his ear : "Oh! I'll fix you
for this, old man !' Then he knew
it was his wife. ''
Queen Victoria should at once
make Paul Boyton a Knight of the
Bath, as he can't become a Prince of
Wales. Boston Post.
A patient waiter a'young doctor.
An affecting sight barrels in tiers.
-Private Dalzell has become a tomb
stone ageut. -
The stamp of civilization the postal
stamp.
The latest thing in front door locks
night-keys.
A Boston hotel bed is the thinnest,
hardest bed in the world.
Democratic voters will now emerge
from the bed of Pogue'a run. Ind.
Jour.
It is a woman's duty to be four
weeks cleaning house, no matter if
she could do it in three days.
A Port Jarvis man offered his
house for $2, but no one would buy it.
It was floating down the river on the
ice.
A Troy Coroner can run a mile in
five and a half minutes, even when the
inducement is only a six-shilling fee.
The Wisconsin farmer who left a
candle burning in the barn so as to
scare thieves away has no barn to
watch now.
Silver is so plenty in Arozona that
when a man gets paid off for a three
months' job he has to hire a wagon to
take him home.
In the Brooklyn DaraeTanh. rub'
lished yesterday, for "moral young
woman," read "rural young woman.'
Courier Journal.
The Worcester Press ventures to
hint, from Arsene Houssaye's batter
ing allusions to his relatives, that he
must be "wathei an ass."
An Eastern college professor tried
to make his wife live on a diet of veg
etables, but she played roots on him
and went home to her mother. .
It is now announced that Mr. Ev-
arts' fee is to be $20,0Q0. Let us see;
that will be about six shillings a day
at present prospects. St. Louis Globe.
If some fatal epidemic had carried
off every candidate for office in this
city, Sodom and Gomorrah wouldn't
be deuce high. Marquette Journal.
Tbe average masculine stomach in
this eouutry craves liquor, and ocirty
must be revolutionised before a Ut
ter state of thing? exist." Kate Field.
Boston wujd like to know '"re
women tiersonsr it g ot i f conse
quence, however; iT'theyi hot they
are very excellent substiK tes. Ko
chestcr Democrat. .
Mr. Carruth, dir editor orthe Vine-
land Independent, in whose head the
ball still remains, is going to change
the name of his paper to the Bulletin.
It has been discovered that shaky
firms usually belong to the Millerite
persuasion, because they all keep the
day of their going up a profound se
cret. .
A Vermont church congregation al
lowed their church to be sold on a
mortgage, but then the preacher had
run away, aud the deacons were off
hunting coons. ; , ;
It is said that nothing will cure a
poet's affection for his idol ! sooner
than to catch her at the dinner table
excavating the kernel of a hickory
nut with a hairpin. -
Tom Allen, the prize-fighter, is
roaring around again, and it seems as
it he never would be quiet until some
woman has knocked him down with a
broomstick. ,
A Minnesota Sheriff carried a bul
let in his head ten years, and when
they removed it the other day he be
came foolish. They are looking for
some one to shoot him again.
George Williams Curtis intimates
that he manages Harper's Weekly,
and not Thomas Nast. Tho latter
will get him into a cartoon presently,
however, and he'll wish he'd never
been born. Rochester Democrat.
It is feared that Spinner's resigna
tion will cause a panic in the rural
districts where the impression pre
vails that his signature symbolizes
the American eagle struggling with
the serpent of rebellion.
The Prince of Wales, it is announc
ed, will make a visit to India during
the cold season; but unother an
nouncement is that he will go to the
Artie Circle, which is a higher eircle
even than he has ever yet moved in.
When they want to find out in the
country if a girl is courting or not, an
old lady steps in and remarks: "I
say, there ain't no one sick in this
here house or nothin', is there? I
seen a light burnin' nigh on to 12
o'clock last night; but I don't smell
no camphirc nor .nothin' around."
Tbe meanest man in this city lives
on Jackson street. He cuts the ac
counts of the Beecher scandal out of
the paper, every morning, and hides
them in the Bible, to keep his wife
and mother in-law from reading them.
He says: "They never look in that
book," and he tells them "the dog
chaws the paper full ot holes." ,
Two good-natured Irishmen, on a
certain occasion, occupied the same
bed. In the morning one of them in
quired of '. the other: "Dennis, did
you hear tundher, last night?" "No,
Pat, did it really tundher?" "Yes;
it tundhered as if hivin and earth
would come togither.'' "Why then,
didn't yo wake me, for ye know I can't
slape when ittundhers."
Father Taylor once prayed for all
the musicians and opera singers, and .
especially for , the beautiful young
woman (Jenny Lind) who had just
landed ., on our , shores . to gladden
American ears with her songs. As
he closed, a long, lank fellow rose
from the pulpit steps and asked
whether lhe preacher supposed a per
son who died in an opera-house could
go to heaven. Father T. replied;
YAH good people will go to heaven,
hut a. fooL will not, even though he
dies on the steps of a pulpit," . .;
A physician of New Bedford, Mas .
saehusetts, recently performed the opv
eration of taking out a man's right:
eye, and found among the fragments
of the membrane of the eye a shingle
nail, perfect in all its parts, one-half
an inch in length, (and originally
three-quarters of an inch), which had
been in ' the eye forty years, and had
destroyed the sight during that time.
The' iris had become completely ossi
fied. ; ' -
Judge Fullerton has not entirely
recovered yet. a He is but so-so."
All the cheese in Connecticut this
year will be made of hickory, i
'Oysters R not in order after this
month. ."' - -
The Centennial motto:' "1 came, I
saw, I Concord."
The Springfield Republic has a fe
male compositor that' ' weighs 160
pounds, and yet she bothers t he-foreman
for "fat" every day. : ! - ; ,
It cost a good deal for consumptive
patients to go to Minnesota, last win
ter, but most of them returned dead
heads. r .' '.
"Consumption is an economical dis
ease," said John Henry, with a cold
on his lungs "you can furnish your
own coughm'."
"It takes only the letter r to make
Mary marry," says an exchange. But
Quiz remarks that it is just as effec
tual to let her b, r
Another of Daniel Boone's rifles
has turned up in Salina, Kansas.
That makes just 2.784.923 of them.
i,u luuitxu i-iaw.a jci iu near irom.
A printer in Philadelphia i father
to twenty-six children, ranging Irom
antique daughters to full-face bour
geois boys, and nonpareil babies in
small caps. He ought to start a fam
ily paper. - "
The Chinese will never come to any
good. They celebrate their holidays
by paying their debts, which is just
reversing-the Christian order of pro
ceedings; hence the term, hollow-day
holiday. "
Civilization is advancing the dura
tion of human life. As many live to
seventy years now as lived to forty
three, three centuries ago. And if i
astonishing how ; very few die after
they get to be a hundred. -
We are not going to coin a word.
It is a good deal easier to say "inflat;
lble than capable of hem:; in
although Webster gives nosfrthority
for it. But thi-ee are?ndier days
than lived in.
Tbe tailors assin despair. Linen
i d 'is tors, aftervtbe Ulster pattern, are
t to be wom-this summer, rendering all
otLerc-iothicg entirely superfluous.
Irvlh artistic poi&t of view they are
unexcelled first-rate for hanging
purposes. i ; ; . -
Said a colored Georgia preacher:
"I tar's robbin' and stealin' all around.
Dar's de Beecher business, de Wood
hull business, Sumner is dead, torna
does come whoopin' around, de Freed
man's Bank has busted, and it 'pears
as if de end was nigh, mighty clus at
hand." -
The Chicago Tribune, whose editor
is old enough to know better, is wor
rying itself over the third term prob
lem; and yet it makes fun of the sec
ond advent, which is, by comparison,
a thine reasonably to be expected. .
St. Louis Globe. .. -I 1 r
The New York Tribune goes back
on its f riends thus: "Impartial ob
servers of the course of the Democrat
ic party during the past winter, espe
cially in the Western States, are not
overwhelmingly impressed with the
conviction that the good of the coun
try demands a restoration of the De
mocracy to power."
A Bakersfield man dropped into
the postoffice and wanted to know
how much merchandise he could fend
in one narcel. ..."Four nounds." was
the reply. Then he blandly said he
thought he would send out to Arizona
four pounds of those red toy-balloons,
inflated; but he had difficulty in get
ting out of the door in time to doige
a mail bag. Alta California.
The Hon. ' Andrew ; J. Hamilton
died at Austin, Texas, on Sunday, the
11th inst., and was buried with be
coming honors from the Capitol the
following day.-' General 5 Hamilton
was an able lawyer and a popular ora
tor, and has been closely identified
with the history of Texas for the past
thirty years. During the war he re
mained true to the tJnion, and latter
ly has been known as a Liberal lie.
publican. f-f : ,
a- o
Always the Same.
When a woman enters a butcher
shop to selec t a piece of meat for din
ner she has made up her mind to take
mutton roast. Therefore, when the
butcher rubs his hands and asks what
she will have, she promptly replies :
"I'll take some of that mut " ,
- i .1 TT I 1. i
cue stops tuere- iter eye nas caugut
sight of a ham, and she suddenly de
cides to take ham. !
"Is that nice ham ?" she inquires.
"Best ham I ever saw, madam.
How much?" :
"Well, you may give me three
p .. Well, I don't know, cither.
My husband was saying he'd like some
sausage. Have you any real nice sau
sage !"
"Plenty, madam, t Now, then, how
much sausage will you have?"
"It's pork sausage, is it?" - .)'.-.
"Yes, madam." .
"Well, I suppose a pound would be
enough for-our; small familv. but
but" f d i , ;
''Shall I weigh a pound, madam ?" ;
"I was just wondering if a veal pot
pie wouldn't suit him better," she
answered. - "Yon . have veal T cnn.
pose?" r , , r
"Oh, yes, madam.-. HereV a splen
did piece of veal -as good a piece as I
ever saw.",- "s -t ;---
"Yes that does look like nice veal,"
she says, lifting it up. . , '" "
"And you'll take it?" f
"Let's see," she muses. 'Y- no,' I
guess not. I guess I'd belter, take
, , , , ...
"Niite chops how much ?" he asks.'
"One of these sliees will weigh a
pound, I suppose ?" -; w .--.
"About a pound, madam." ; -, :
"And. it was a young hogj. , fS.
"Quite young, madam."
'And you'll cut the rind off?'1
"Yes, madam." 3 im,. -.t
m " Well,", she says, heaving a deep .,
sigh, "I guess you may. give me some i
beefsteak some that a nice, ana be
sure to cut all the bones out V - " '
And she's only been: half an hour
coming to the point. Detroit Free
Press. . s,-.,.
: , , .
Nevada brides" 'won't stand iuchT
foolishness "at-a wedding. Recently. ,
one of them while going ujy the aisjo ' '
f the church stopped short and tick
ed all the-flkinj)ff: the shins of a1
tMAmtmin wtin IrniTni tr til
. -..:;. T , , " v , jr f.