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HILLSBOROUGH, SIERRA COUNTV, N,M. J'JiT IP, 1885.
NO, 20
VOL. 2.
WASHINGTON LETTER. - . , .
"(From oar ResoUur Crref)iondfBl. )
V asjunutox, July 4, 1885.
While walking through the Na
'o?y Yard the other day, I met Oom
.odoie Sieaxd. "This, said the
(Jomodore, holding up a chocolate
colored, sil-sided prism no inch
.nud a half iu .diameter, with round
hale through it, aud weighing over
two ounces, "this is a groin of the
.celebrated cocoa oowder of which
you have head so aucU." "Is it
m iae of cocoa ?" 1 asked. "No,
there is probably uot a particle of
45ocia in it. It takes its name from
its color, but its composition is a
profound secret. It is made abroad
and furnished the tli a world at a
reasonable rate, but I think we
shall booh be able to make it our
selves. There aio experiment
going forward here which we ex
pect to be cuowned with success.
The particular points of excellence
of the cocoa powder over the old.
kind are thut it burns Blower id
the beginning and more rapidly
toward the en J. .In other words it
has a tendency to burn more rap
idly under increasing pressure.'
With the black powder it is a dif
ficult to keep down the pressure,
but it requires high pressure to
make cocoa burn rapidly." "is
the cocoa powder economical?"
.No, I cannot say that it is. It
takes a good detd of it to impress a
high velocity to a projectile. But
when everything, is properly ad
justed it is not impossible to give
a velocity of iuoro than 2,000 feet
per second to a projectile." I
thanked the Cowodore uud was
glad to note another evidence thut
pur Jiavy was waking up.
Numerous stories have, been
published m regard to the physi
cal coudition or llou. MalcoJm
Hay, first Assistant Postmaster
General, lie certainly has the
appearance of being in poor health,
iie sits in an armed easy-chair,
with his head resting languidly
back upon the cushion. He is
very pale, and his voice sounds
like that of d sick man, or of one
who is just recovering from a se
yera illness. I aiu (old, however,
that he is not by any means so
bad oit i.ti he lifitJ "" hie ' uppoafautJ
of being. lie is really no worse
than he has been for a number of
years past He is a very consci
entious man, and attends to hie
work very dilligently and careful
ly. He is not a strong man pby.
sically, to be sure, but he carefully
husbands his strength aud accom
plishes a great deal, fie works at
his correspondence every night
after he has gone home, and thus
works off very much more than
would be supposed. '
A good story is told of one of the
recent western eppoiutees in the
Treasury Department. Ho had
only just been installed, when,
happening into one of the other
offices, he beheld a silvei tray and
pitofu'r. His own room was fur
nished with aii ordinary earthen
pitcher and tumbler, Tlie silver
tray took his eye, and, returning
to his room, he wrote a requisition
for one upon the Secretary. The
Secretary read the requisition and
returned it with the verbal mes
sage: "Tell Mr.-r-that be let
ter get the prairie mud off his
boot-I.eel before he sends . to me
for silver trays."
Mr. Hiy it pTTjfhjr of a civil
Bervioe reformer in his way. He
does not always please the Con
gressman aud Senators, who have
sometimes crowded him pretty
hard for appointments for their
constituents. He is determined
that Congressmen shall be held
responsible for the resommenda
tions which they make, and has
sometimes been rather pointed in
the questions he has asked. He
jaanifestlp believes ia doing Jjusi
ness in a business-like way.
Postmaster General Vilus is the
last uian ie the cabinet, who was
expected to be a civil service re
former and yet 1 was tola uy a
candidate for office to-day that he
lectured nearly every one who calls
upon him on this subject It is
extremely difficult to see the Post
niBnter Gneral at all. and when
.one does see bim it is only for ft
minute, and it is rather uiononton
ousto have thati minute occupied
with a lecture on civil service re
form. Bnt that is the . wavery
often," said this gentleman.
The single . rate ltUer postage
law, which reduced the rate to two
cents an ounce, laslead of two cts.
for each half ounce, as heretofore,
has made very little chauge'in the
business of the Department. But
the ohauge is in the line of a reduc
tion of taxation and will be uni
versally welcomed. The present
limit Stops the "flow of affection,
description and business often at
the most interesting point Under
the naw law, some of the favorite
and well-word excuses for. Cutting
a letter short become' unavailable!
but as the act Bays nothing against
a sputtering pen, or thick ink, or
the mail closing, or the end of the
sheet, or the baby waking up, cor
respondents still have sufficient
resources for: excusing themselves
when they get tired of writing. 1
L.
.MueJVnej and 117 phlidren
"I want you to write something
in this bible," said Lawsou Law
rence,. .colored, aud a regular sub
scriber of the Mail, He was ac
companied by an' aged" ""uncle,"
whose hair was gray when the gray
hairs of girls were golden in the
sunlight of youtli and it was for
him the bible-writine was intended.
"Hi is 103 years old," said Lawsou,
and at this the reporter was all
ear, as usuol. Inquiry of Uncle
Nero developed, according to his
statement that he was born in
Trenton district. North Carolina,
May 7, 1792. and would t conse
quently be 103 years of agepn the
ytli of May, 1885. He said he
came to Eufaula "daring Jackson's
war," end when Eufaula was Trvui
tou. The Indians were encamped
about Montgomery! and he bought
a pony of them for $.. His pres
ent wife, "Henry kringle s sister,
is 50 years old, he having married
her when sue was a 'gal,' its he ex
pressed it. She is his ninth wife,
and, in reply to the question as to
how many children he had, he said
lie hail been accused of having 117,
aud it was not for him to dispute
it, Last year he cultivated twenty
acres of laud and raised an abund
ance of peas, corn, and potatoes.
This year he is cultivating cotton.
He lives within a quarter of a
mile of White Pond, this county,
where he has been for the Inst
eleven years. He labors during
the week and preaches on Sunday,
being pnstar of Mount Zion Meth
odist -church. forr.ejghfc years
Eufaula, (Ala.) Mail,
The First Silver Coin,
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country was me oia-iaBuiuuc
1 1 ' , . :ntsslanera proceed in go,
wheel cent. . The first issue wa .if
1793. and then, were three men wanted, '
r'M "! A.Uw use of
of the year 1815 Uiere has bee Q
no bretk iu the issue of cents froi,hjw .
that time to the present It w' Whithsm, J P conrt
in 1794 that the liberty cap wa Q J
changed to the fillet-head, an , ;
these were issued regularly t,e Ta'fova salai v for
thirteon yers, when the GoddeoI(lijig
of Liberty appeared on the coi,e TafoV4 fo? ,
with thirteen stars surrounding n, proilRte jU(ig,t
A cent of the issue of 1799, In goy, vyeb8tcr s jary as
condition, is worth $40 to $50,probate cf;rk for 6 .
Nueinismatist mouth,
la Honeingrr work on
Hermosa rciid,
. '- (1 FUi.k wort; on ITrr-
IN ALLEGED JBEL1C.
A Fragment orihe Robe Worn by Our
J' Savior natd to Lxlst.
I was prtaeut on Whit Monday
at a religious ceremony of a very
remarkable kind, says n Pitris cor
respondent of the London News,
which is celebrated every year in
.the pjtr!! viiiiioh of Argsutcail, a
email town upon the banks of the
Seine, j ist outside Paris, l' or ten
days every y;'.nr, from Ascension
dav to Whit Monday, casket, oou-
Gaining cue of the supposed frag
ments of the robe or tunic worn
bv our Lord iust before his cruci-
fixioii U carried id procession along
tho aisle of the , church, and the
congregation are afterward admit
ted to view it in the vestry. Many
of your readers will doubtlebs be
aware that what is said . to be the
exterior robe worn by our Lord is
preserved in the church of Treves,
in Germany, but that at Argenteuu
is alleged to be the inner garment
which the Savior wore, and for
which .tha ilomau soldiers enst
lots. The holy tunic is inclosed
within a double shrine, and is oi ly
exhibited in its entirety at rue in
tervals, as it is placed under seal
by the bishop of the diocese (Ver
sailles),' who alone hus authority,
ntidfer tlffe uoue. to break them.
Xlurty years ogo the seala were
broken by the then bishop, us the
late pope had expressed a wish to
have a fragment of the sacred gar
ineut. uud at the same time two
other fragments were cut out of it
and -winced in two small shrines,
which the faithful aie allowed to
kiss, kneeling, at ; the altar. The
BBiils affixed in 1854 begun to orum
tile away about three years ago,
and thep ..were renewed by the
bishop of Versailles just before
the Whilsuu festival, among those
present being the parish priest of
of Argtnteuil, who tells u.e that
the holy tuuic is made of camel's
hair, being dark . brown in color
uud very-much like the garment
which he. An.bs of the present
day .wear, next to the skin. He
adds thut it wua examined through
41. microscope, ami that all win
ware present, unanimously agieed
tluit tliB: could detect nut (.tains
but trace? which they are convinc
ed are of "blood. Beyond remark
ing that tht re u no inherent im
possibility iu a camel's hair gar
ment being preserved for eighteen
ecuturIes,T do not feel called upon
td'exprets'auy opinion as to the
authenticity of this relic, which,
however, is yeuerated as such by
nil catholics, and believed by them
tu.lmve.beeu the means of efi'ectiug
many -.'miraculous cures, muong
others those of the eldest son of
Lord Clifford, tho Marquis d'llur
oourt. and the Com te de Damns,
who was for ninny years a com
panion of the Coiule de Chainbord.
A Kappf -Go-Lucky Yai.kee Farmer.
1 We ran across an old New Hamp
shire farmer hist week iu one of
our rambles who had lived 05 years
on the farm where he was bom.
He 'guessed' ho had about 500
acres tt land a large ebar of
which ja mountain pasture. A
small brick cottage and two barns
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thought he was making something.
He said he thought the whole
place was worth $6,000. Ho had
raised a family of ten boys aud
giils, all of whom are still liviug,
and he had twice served in the gen
eral .court, aud olways voted the
democratic ticket. It . whs a fair
illustration of the happy-go-lucky
Yankee farmer, who seldom lias
any system or imln'g in any c
his busines as would run a maim
farturer.or a merchant. Lowell
Courier.
Kansas Wheat Kalnod by It a In.
Paosa, Ens., July 5. Another
heavy rainstorm visited -this sec
tion last night, continuing all
through the day. It seems to have
been general throughout eastern
Knusas nud western Missouri, and
this is the sixth day of almost con
tinuous cold rains. The work of
gathering the wheat crop is brought
to a complete standstill. Wheat
in stacks has been ruined ruined,
and estimates plac the loss in
Kansas alone at 1,000,000 bushels,
besides the damage to the grain
yet in the fields. Corn will prob
ably sustain little injury, but it is
backw.uk twenty days as compared
with the latest senson for twenty
yesrs- The state board's Inst es
timate of 10,000,000 bushels of
wheat was based on allegod im
provements in southeastern Kan
sas, which was expected to partially
offset disasters in the great wheat
belt of the center. This estimate
took no ncconnt of tha week's
storm and the immense damage
to stacked wheat
Way Tlldi'a Sercr Married.
One of his friends tells me that
Mr. Tilden in past years had semi
occnsional differences in his house
hold, sometimes vnlgarly called
rows. After one of these, Smith
M. Weed drove up in front of Mr.
Tilden's Gramercv Park house.
Mr, Tilden got in with Mr. Weed,
to whom he presently related his
troubles in ties-air. He capped
thedimax by say ns he slapped
his companion on the knee: ly
t huuder. Weed, I'd get married if
1 wasn't afraid to." N.x, Tribune.
The White Houne.
Tho W hite Houso covers about
one-third of ui acre, and it has cost
up to the .present time about 5r2,
00'),000. It is modeled after a cas
tle in Ireland, and theachitect.who
was a South Carolina man named
Hobun, got $500 for drawing tho
plans. When it wa9 first built,
swiiy back in the nineties, it cost
SHOO.OOO, but the British burned
out its iusidt, and its cost hns since
added to that sum about $1,700,000.
In it all tho presidents since Wash
ington have lived, and each has
added to its beauties and its ex
pense. John Adams bought the
the first biHiard table Vihich was
used in it But in John Adams's
time it was only half furnished,
and Abigail Adims used to dry her
clothes in the big east room. Vear
bv vear, however, the furnishing
has gone on, until pow It is a sort of
museum of art and beauty,- Wash
ington Star,
Take a slip of paper and plce
thereon m figures yovr oge in
years, dropping tho months, weeks
anddavs. Multiply, the sum by
two; then add to the result obtain
ed the figures 3768; and . then di
vide by two. Subtract from the
result obtained tho number of your
years on oarth, and see if will not
obtpin figures you will not be like
ly to gorget.
The City of Mexico has sixteen
daily papers.
Ss:bsftribe for tb ADVOCATE.
THE HOUSE OF HANOVER.
Story ot riillip or Konltfsniark and the
Mother rtleorir II. or Eagiuud.
When that adventurer, Philip of
IConigsmark by name, appeared at
the court of Hanover he received a
commissiou as colouel in the ser
vice of the elector. 'Philip was
handsome, a dandy, and a great
tiiiuin.- H Imd been, when a Jad,
a page at the court of Celle, and
there Supha Dorothea, as a child,
had known him. The unhappy
woman received him as an old
friend; they met often in the pres
ence of Sophia's maid, their only
confidante, and Boon the princes
found that she loved him with uil
tho strength of lior passionate na
ture, aud every duty was forgotten.
Among the busy, slunderous
tongues of the court that of the
wicked old coutess of Platen was
bitterest oud loudest Through
jealousy of Konigsmaik, who had
betrayed and insulted her, she
caused tho guilty pair to be watch
ed, and, iu consequence, Sophia
Dorothea received reproaches und
threats from her husband. At this
period Konigsmaik begged and
obtained his dismissal from ear
vice, ahd the princess, taking ad
vantage of her husband's absence
iu berlin, flew to her father at
Ceile aud prayed him to allow her
to return home. Hut George Wil
helui, perhaps not knowing the
danger which threatened his
daughter, bade her to return im
aiediately to Hanover. The un
happy woman now saw only one
course open to her. She consent
ed to flv with Konigsmark to
Vmlfeubuttel. The 2d of July,
Ki'Ji, was tho time decided upon.
The evening before, Konigsmark
came to confer with the princess
uiion their last p'ans and left her
nt midnight, As he stepped into
the corridor he found four guards
awaitiu!: him, who had been plac
tid there upon an order procured
from the elector by the Countess
Plated and who endeavored to seize
him. . He defended himself val
iautlv and out his . wny through
them to the entrance of the Ititter-
saal. Hers he wink back, mortally
wounded. As he lay upon tho
Hour the old countess of Platen
in me from her apartments, and
when he saw her he cursed her
ith Ida lar.t brcatbi
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woman stamped in fury upon his
mouth with her heel, In tl.o pal
aco was horror,- and in the city
dark rumors Hew from mouth to
liiniitli. Iu ordet to silence slaii
der the dead body of the wretched
man wasqdielly uud quickly dis
posed of and silence imposed upon
nil. So well whs this observed
that no one knows where the body
of KonitrHiuark was laid. It is true
that remaius supposed to be his
have been found when alterations
about the palace hsve been mad
but ns the ground uixin which it is
built was in formar years uie uur
ial ground of tha monks there can
l no certainty iu retard "to them.
After the murder of Konigsuiatk
Sophia Dorothea was taken to her
angry father at Oelie, who sent her
to his castle ot Aliiaeii. , un me
28th of Dhoember, 1CU4, she was
legally separated from her hus
band, who tind already ascended
the throne of England aadajrge 1.
Her son, (leorga II., always be
lieved in his mother's inuocence,
as well ns many others, who before
the divorce endeavored to cause a
reconciliation. However, letters
which have Iknmi found written by
Sophia to her lover tend to prove
the contrary.
At the auo of 28 the unhappy
Sophia Dorothea forsook the world
aud became a prisoner in the cas
tle of Ahldcn. Duriug the thirty
two long yeat which she pMeu
hero her only consolation was in
the love of her" mother, which never
failed her, and in her deads of
charity to the poor 'in the neigh
boihoodof Ler prison. She died
on the 13th of November,; 172ti,
and was burind at. Celle, in the
darkness and silence of night, and
without courtly pngeant Yet So-
S)hia Dorothea was honerert by
ate as the ancesstress of the En
glish and Prussian bouses. Bos
ton Transcript
Th rutnri of Ksw Ycrk. .
A striking' article in the Seiitnmher
Cititurg in V. C. Coinuii' inmtlrv,
"Will Nw Tork be tho Final Worlii
Mi'trnpolUP" wlitoh he uiiwit In the.
i 111 iiu at I ve. "Tlia pivot of tli whole
iluvelupmont of the metropolis," lie
i.iyi, "it on tlie emttem idu. at the
linvur euil f Maalinttnn IxlitmL ilnre
ii Ihe poiTnnneot finiwehil 'Oontur. It
will not move, for all the world ccki it
where It is. Wall trett will psssorve,
ii chnraitU'r n lotisf ns the oo.imetrop.
endtims. liuakra, cxclmngn,
ocks, insurauce, capiud, ami incr.,
chHiiitise brokorago, spiKHilation, and
timiiioiid aad'oommcrcsnt gyg trwa--
'iil part? f the world, will fircin nrun4
lriiiitv i:t.jroli until lis wans cmiooio.
Uliloe of ritllroad and mmiflg cora
panius, of steam and other shipping, of
Milearanhs, ol stoplo imports and ex
rirts (itorcs and wureliousos rovvdnd
ntn Uia Uislinico sua mr uio grenwr
pari oa iho Jeraey ilats) next center
closest nrotimt tho hnnuchil hub, at
tendnd by luanntacturlng aud miscal
tnneous corporations, , hi wyeri wlthuut
umber, -broken, courts, iiowspapora,
and, fardier up, tho importers of lor
eijiu aad atrems of domustlcs maautno
tures. The phvsioguomy of this part of
Hit) city is rixud, ami will onlr beoom
omi' pronounoou in lima uy mo urowu-
di!.' out ot umau inamuaciurinr concerns
nud warehouses fortho slVMrtiro of heavy
products. The jolib njr trade will con
limie its march up town, and parliapn
bait around I he Hudson Hiver Tuuuol
Depot to be opoued near V ashlngtoa
Square. The retail (iry-ffoods trade,
(ollowiujf liie tide of fiiaiilonalilo life,
will go northward until Mopped or
turned bv tho cornel of (Mntrsl Park.
"After litinuos and foroisrn eumuierr a.
fashionable tritdo and society will even .
tnally be ttih chief feature of the cen
tral eitv. 'iho! r.ontratiiation . of iru
metropolitan coiumeroo, which is to
mnko lower New York the London of
the future, will mnkc upper Now Yotk
its rariiv Ewilusive souioty ln Nonv
York oau soareely be said to have any
iixed and dintinot habitat at present
U U la trmisulonary iodninjre, iomms
about, as it were; ready poised to tak
imr for some ohuiee newinrtr. weH
wallud from vulgar; intrusion,- Where
that qunrtor i to be, however, can
hardly be a question. One suitable spot
remains, and that is at oiioq so benuti
ful, w isolated, and so admirably adapt-"
ail. that ouo is almost cohstrnlnwl t
believe Mint tho ininieplibiliUus of tlb
limateil snobbery nro. not beuwnlli thc
Pi ovldonco mat cares lor iiie sparrow,
Koiir. or' live1 square miles have boou
laid out by Nature, on tho neuiusulur
upper fslremity of Iho island,. between
the lluibion and tho Harlem, at nn elo
ration of from titty to a hundred feet
above plebeian street grades, expressly
for the court" quancr oi mew iora
future aristocracy. It Is a rblae aitout
t mile wlile, will) nbnipt sides and ft
iroad topj overlooking at once, ou
sither hand, the rnnjiiiilleenoe of the
Hudson beneath the Palisades, and the
romantics nooks of the llarleva and
Spuvten Duyvil, with the glituiring
renehos of Long Island Sound; swept
by tho purest nirs from land and soaj
almost self-drn!gd. and dralnod again
uf drainage at its bu; iuacoussiblo, la
4hort, to the odors of the conmiou
world, to the heavy wheels oi commerce,
and to the oaierprise of inoculative
bu ldui'8." . , . . , ;
Casllo Haven, In Dorchester. tn the
Choptank, Is a lino old ostate and man
or house, commanding' one of the
most conspicuous sites iu all Maryland.
The tall and Imposing home anu t
suitly Lonilmrdv poplars on the law
can bu seen for miles from up and down
the river nnd they loom up asconspleu
ous olijee's from the opposite Talbot
shore. Castle IJnven, as an estate and
residence, goes away back into colonial
times, and, like some other old place,
has hanging about it some weird and
fascinating stories, . Mr. Phillip Le
Ct.mpto is the occupant' of Cistle Hav
en. Ho is a practical man interested
In farming the ostate, and thinking in
finitely more of crop! and stock than
of ghosts nnd spirit. Hut the ghost
has tt'aiu bum about It, nil the same,
and has given on Indubitable manifes
tation of his presence. Ono day last
week Mrs. Leoompta was having din
ner preoared in the kitchen, lining a
hnvv So. D cook stove. While the
dinner was preparing and the stove
wa covered with boiling pots nnd kot.
ties and other cooking ntcnsiU, Mrs.
Leeoinple went out, leaving no one ia
the kitchen. When she went back a
few minutes afterward she found tnnt
the stove bad been turned over nnd wm
then with its legs In tho air, while tho
pots nud kettles and other cooking
utensils were in their proper places oa
the move, but were jesting on the floor.
Th fire in the stove was burning as us
ual, tho boiling water In the pots and
kettles staid ia and kept ou boiling,
nothing had fallen from tha store or
was disarranged while it was turned
over, and there sat tho stove, complete
ly reversed, with its feet uppermost.
The stove-pipe remained in it plsoo oa
the stove and in the chimney nnd was
di.iwiug ns tuuid, but It had to bclakeTi
off before the stove could bo righted.
This stransru occurrence is the wonder
of Castle Haven ".ml the whole neigh
burbtwd around, Easton (Md.) Ledger.
Among tbe notable brligos In the
world is the ono at Langang. China,
This strnatnro is some five miles Ing,
end has not less than 3J0 arobes. Over
the pillar of each arch reolines a lioa
made out of a single blook of marble,
and yet twenty-one feet long, Tbe
roadway of i hit bridge is seventy tout
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