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JIEXItY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
ELK COUNTY-THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Two Dollar per Annum.
VOLUME III.
RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY,
MARCH 27, 1873.
NUMBER 4.
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Miscellaneous Selections.
RE SV ROAM.
nr BALL1K A. BROCK
The sun sinks in the west)
The stars are shining now, to sink, amain)
.ine moon, that hides beneath a cloudy vest
But all to rise again.
Th The "ower9 ""turnn die!
n hat la i most bright this morn, to-night may lie
i,cwn Aeuiu-B somuer pan.
Hut spring will bring aitain
1 he flowers to life from out their winter 1wil.
And o'er earth's snow-clad, dreary, trackless
piitin.
Fresh beauty will be shed.
Yon stalwart, sinewy form,
Now pulsing proud with manhood's noble trust
Now thrilled with Honor's smile, so rich and
warm,
Must low lie In the dust.
tn.w Yon. tw'ty. proudly rare,
With cheeks line heart of young rose In the
spring.
Whose brow is like the lily-petal fair,
Whose sweet lips gladly sing
The heart's full songs of Joy
As do the birds amid their native trees
May in another world her voice employ,
Kre comes the spring-tide breeze.
Yon little cherub gay,
With waxen arm that wields a monarch's
strength,
Must have the dead leaves o'er Its tomb to play.
Must sink to sleep at length.
.,.. Ypn eye of sapphire blue,
W ith smile in which a mvriad stars are set,
With look of love-light tender, pure, and true
Must fold In darkness yet.
. Yes, nil must sink to sleep,
Must sink to sleep in Death's remorseless gloom.
Ihe hearts that Joy, the eyes which, aching
weep, '
All, all sleep In the tomb.
nut spring's warm breath will call
Dull Nature from its long night of repose:
The ice-bound rivulet again will fall
In showers upon the rose.
The naked, shivering trees
Will smile again in summer's robe of green,
And flinir their branches to the laughing breeze,
Bright in their dewy sheen.
And though I lay me down,
And sleep my sleep beneath the murmurous
main,
And mermaids weave for me a coral crown,
1 yet shall rise again.
Wherever 1 may make
My final bed upon this earthly mould,
There comes a time when I from sleep shall wake.
When Death shall loose its hold.
Why should we quake with fear,
And trembling cling to this poor, suffering clny,
When lying calmly down to rest us here,
Reveals eternal day?
Reaurriam, spirit frail,
Say to thy heart when shrinks It sore with pain,
When close the eye upon lile's changing vule,
'"Tis but to live again I"
Ajipletons' Journal.
Vt'ORK VERSUS HERB-TEA..
BY P. THORNE.
Mrs. Whitaker was much troubled
about Susan. All summer she had been
in a pale, languid, half-live condition, with
no strength, no appetite, no interest in
anything.
Mrs. Whitaker, having a never-suIB-ciently
gratilied passion for doctoring,
had at first rather enjoyed this opportu
nity of trying the virtues of the various
roots and herbs that hunt? In dry. dusty
bundles from the garret rafters. Susan's
life had been made a burden to her with
doses of thorough wort, pennyroyal, tansy,
dandelion and burdock. There was
always a big bowl of black, bitter herb
tea standing in the pantry, which it was
equally the object of Mrs. Whitaker's life
to induce Susan to take, and the object of
Susan's to escape.
And still Susan lay around the house in
an exceedingly limp state, reading novels
with a languid interest, studying her
symptoms in the "Family Adviser," and
cutting out such scraps of poetry from
the newspapers as dwelt on the hollow
ness of the world, unappreciated loveli
ness, and early death.
Ned Whitaker, Susan's younger brother,
was decidedly skeptical on the subject of
her illness. "It's enough to make any
one sick to do as Sue does," said he, en
ergetically. "If she'd get up a little ear
lier in the morning and do a little house
work she'd get well twice as quick as she
will now, dosing and coddling."
" A great deal you know about it," re
torted iiusan, with considerable vigor for
an invalid; "I like to hear boys talk.
They know so much in their own esti
mation." " See here, Sue ! What if that interest
ing young school-master should hear you
speak so to your dear brother t It don't
sound very angelic."
Sue said nothing, only blushed a little,
and assumed that plaintive, meekly in
jured look, which says plainly, "lou'll
be sorry for this when I'm cone."
" Fudge, Sue !" said Ned, quite unim
pressed. " .Don't iook so spooney," and
off he went, whistling ana banging the
door.
It was a fact that there bad been agood-
iookii sr young scnooi-master, tne previ-
ous winter, a school-master who had not
loved, but flirted and " rode away." Per
haps husan, naving nothing else to do,
had pleased hersell by fancying she was
in love with this gay deceiver. A girl
must do sometning. Mrs. Whitaker was
one of those indefatigable, irrepressible
women, a scrupulously neat and exact
housekeeper, who loved hard work for its
own sake, and " didn't want any one both
ering round." .
At one time, Sue had quite a mania for
cooking, Dut Jttrs. w nitaKer, alter wit
nessing her awkward struggles with the
bread dough said :
" Come, let me take It. It's easier for
me to do it myself than to see you. If
you'll keep the sitting-room in order, and
take care of your own room, it's all I'll
ask."
And now Mrs. Whitaker thought Susan
so delicate she rclievi d her of even these
light duties, and left her with nothing to
do but realize, in her own experience, the
truth oi tne saying,
"A miU-stone and the human heart are ever
driven round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must
themselves be ground,"
to know all the weariness of an empty,
aimless life.
ed in a state of discouraging about-the-
sameness. Mrs. w nitaKer thought she
would drive over and consult Aunt Deb
bie Dunbar.
Aunt Debbie was a woman of vast ex-
fterience in sickness. She had brought a
urge family of her own successfully
through ail the mumps, measles, and oth
er ills infant flesh is heir to, and was now
experimenting on a yearly increasing cir
cle of trranduhildren. besides actiner as
adviser-general for the whole neighbor
hood. What Aunt Debbie didn't know
about doctoring was generally considered
not worth knowing at au.
As Mrs. Whitaker drove up she descried
Aunt Debbie's ample form out in the
crarden. bending over the sage bed. At
tint sound f wheels, she straightened UD
nushed her sun-bonnet back and peered
sharply through her spectacles to see who
was going Dy.
"Well. I never!" she exclaimed, as Mrs.
Whitaker drove Into the yard. "If it an't
you, aitss w nitaKer i i was lest tnimuu-
aboutyou. How dtm ye do? Seems as
if I hadn't seen yon for an age. Cum
right along in, and Kiah'llput your horse
out."
"Thank you, but I've only come for a
call ; I can't Btjop long."
- nen, now a ye an dew at homer"
asked Aunt Debbie, after she had ushered
her visitor Into the sitting-room, rolled up
one green paper curtain, and settled down
to her knitting. Aunt' Debbie could al
ways talk easier with her knitting-work
in hand.
"Pretty well, thank you. exceDt Su
san. I came over partly to see you about
ner. ene aon't seem to got along as I
should like to have her."
" Miss Haskell was tellin' me, last Sun
day, how ailin' Susan's ben, this summer.
From what Miss Haskell said I should
think she's a good deal as my Melissa was
five years ago. I cured Melissa with bone
set." "Susan's been taking that, more or loss,
all summer."
"Does she cough any ?"
"No."
" Because if she did, colt-foot tea is a
grand thing-. Ain't she bilious?"
" I shouldn't wonder if she was."
"Well, now if she was mv irirl. I should
give her a good dose of blue pill to begin
with, and follow it ut with a smart
course of castor ile or salt. I should
keep right on with the boneset three times
a day 'tis very strengthenin' and I'd
have her take a raw egg in half a glass of
cider every mornin' before breakfast.
That's one of the best things I know of
for weakly folks. Is she narvous aboat
slcepin' f"
"les, she is, rather."
"There is nothiu' so good for narvous-
ness as hop tea. Give her some every
night, the last thing before she goes to
bed, and make her a hop pillow. I guess
if you follow her up thoroughly you'll
bring her out all right. There's nothin'
like bein' thorouGh." said Aunt Debbie.
with the emphatic air of long experience.
After much further advice. Mrs. Whita
ker set out for home, burning with zeal
to "follow up" Susan with all Aunt Deb
bie's prescriptions. What the conse
quences would have been to poor Susan,
one shudders to think. Fortunately fate
kindly interposed in her behalf.
It seems a clear case of one "born
n the woods to bo scared at an owl."
that the old Whitaker horse should take
into his ancient head to be frightened
at a mowing machine. But such
was actually the fact. As he was iorrsrinar
along, head down, apparently lost in
memories of his far-away youth, he came
suddenly upon Deacon Foskett's rattling,
clattering mowing machine. Un went
his hcid, one snort, one jump sideways,
and uway he plunged down the hill,
twitching the reins from Mrs. Whitaker's
hand by the suddenness of his unexpect
ed start. A big rut at the foot of the hill
over goes the wagon on top of Mrs.
Whitaker and Deacon Foskett and his
hired man run down the hill to lind Mrs.
V hitaker with one les broken, a SDraincd
shoulder, and any amount of bruises and
wrenchings.
What was to become of the Whitakers,
now that the main spoke of the domestic
wheel was useless? They hire a girl, of
course, suggests the intelligent reader.
But hiring a girl in Tully was no such
trilling matter. A small factory in the
villapr al.ienrh.pfl nil the American eirls of
wiu viuuuiy, wiiu wuuiu uiuerwisu nave
worked iu families, and there being no
Catholic church within 10 miles, the Irish
gin wno couia he induced to live on a
farm was a rara avis, indeed.
Mr. Whitaker devoted a week to driv
ing over the hills in different directions
in pursuit of various myths of possible
ffirls that vanished into thin air on
closer inspection. Now Mr. Haskell had
heard of a very nice girl over in Benham,
Franklin Lester's wife's sister, wh i was
anxious to secure a place. By the time
Mr. Whitaker had readied Benham the
nice girl had engaged to teach a district
school. Arrived at home he found Mrs.
Goodman had sung to Susan the praises
of a certain "widow-woman" on Stony
Hill. Mr. Whitaker hies him to Stony
Hill to find the widow eone to keen house
for her brother.
" I declare," said Mr. Whitaker to Su
san, as he returned, girlless and dispirit
ed, from his long drive, " I believe if I
wanted a wife I could get six easier than
I can one girl!"
"Don't try any more, father." said
Susan. " We can get along somehow.
Ned and 1 can do the work.""
" That's soj?' said Ned. "We'll make
a bully team."
" won't he so low, wed," said Susan,
who had undertaken the somewhat dis
couraging task of "elevating" Ned. Boys
resent "elevating," especially by their
own sisters, and accordingly Ned rather
exerted himself to be slangy in Susan's
presence.
But now a feeble wail was heard from
the bed-room where poor Mrs. Whitaker
lay, fevered and helpless, on her restless
couch.
" l'ou must get a girl, father," she re
monstrated. "Susan can't do the work.
It will kill her. She isn't strong enough,
and besides she don't know now. Oh
dear, if I could only get up and take hold
myself! I can't be reconciled to lying
here when there's so much to do !"
To soothe his wife, Mr. Whitaker
promised to try once more, and finally
one night drove into the yard in triumph.
seated on a small, hair trunk, the owner
of the trunk, an actual "girl" in vromria
persona, band-box in hancf, sitting In state
on ine st-ai ueuiuu mm.
The new girl's namo was Luna, "pale
Luna," Ned called her. She was tall and
bony, wore her hair cut short in the neck,
and rejoiced in a bass voice that was a per
petual surprise to the lamuy. .Luna soon
developed ways, that, if not "dark" were
decidedly uncomfortable. Ned always
declined pie, after he once saw Luna, as
she cut each piece, drawing the knife-
blade through her mouth, to "cleanse"
it. No matter what she had previously
been doing, she stirred Mrs. Whitaker's
Deet-tea with her nnger without going
through the ceremony of washing her
hands, and tasted it freely with the same
spoon soon offered the invalid. She told
Susan she "liked to make bread, it takes
the grind ofl vour hands so nice." I In.
der her administration, the appetites of
tne w nitaKers awinaied alarmingly. Su
san, who saw the most of Luna's cookery,
lived entirely on crackers.
When Mrs. Whitaker heard that Luna
prepared the potatoes for dinner In the
wash-hand basin, and put the best tea
knives soaking in the bottom of the pan
while she did the other dishes, tea knives
whose glossy handles were Mrs. Whita
ker's pride, ner indignation knew no
bounds.
" I won't have her in the house another
minute 1 I can't sleep till she is out of
it : l tie idea I My Dest tea-Knives : I've
been so particular never to damp the
handles, and always kept them put away
in tissue paper, and now they're ruined !
Do get her out of the house before she
spoils everything In it, and poisons us
ail!"
Luna went. Susan cleaned up the house,
and prayed, whatever other calamity
might be in store for them, they might at
least be spared another girl. Susan was
much better now. Her mother's Illness
had taken her out of herself, and obliged
her to make some exertion. She went
Into housework with a will, equally
pleased and surprised to find herself really
good for something. Ned helped her all
he could, and novel were some of the ex
periments of what Ned called the "new
girls."
Onctlay, Susan decided to hare baked
beans fofdiuner. She put something like
two quarts boiling. By and by, looking
In the pot, she was dismayed to find It
full of beans to the brim. She took out
nearly half, but still the beans continued
to swell beyond her wildest forbodings.
Ned came In to dinner to find an Immense
dish of beans crowning the dinner-table,
while several pans of the same agreeable
edibles. In various stages of doneness,
were standing around the kitchen.
"Whe-t'w!" exclaimed Ned. "You're
a 'good provider, Sue, but seems to me
you are rather overdoing this bean busi
ness. I feel about beans as the old lady's
hired man did about liver. He liked it
well enough for 50 or CO days, but didn't
care about it for a steady diet."
"Don't laugh, Ned,'' said poor Sue,
looking anxious and exhausted. "I've
had a really dreadful time with the things.
1 positively believe three beans would
have been enough."
Susan usually had very good success
with her bread. But one day there arose
an unforseen complication. The sponge
had soured in the night.
"Ned," she said, "did you ever notice
how much soda mother uses when the
sponge is sour? I'm sure I don't know."
"Nor I. guess she just stirs it in till it
tastes all right."
She put in a large tea-spoonful of soda.
Then she and Ned both tasted and smelt
It.
" 'Taint right yet," said Ned, with an
air of wisdom and experience. "Dab in
some more."
In went another spoonful. Another
testing by the cooks.
"It tiistes smarty," said Sue. "I be
lieve I shall put in another spoonful."
After getting in four spoonfuls, they
concluded it would "do."
The bread came out of the oven a deep
yellow-brown in hue, and exhaling an
overpowering odor of soda. Sue' made
biscuit for tea, and the pigs reveled in
new bread for supper that night. Ned,
being implicated, swore solemn secrecy ;
and as he used afterward triumphantly to
observe, "it didn't kill the pigs, either."
But Stuan's experiences were not all so
disastrous. Mrs. Whitaker was quite
astonished t see how well things went
on. She really began to think Husan was
a natural cook." Daughters oi sucn
notable housekeepers as Mrs. Whitaker
are apt to be " natural cooks." Order
and method is the rule of the house, and
they adopt, instinctively, " mother's way"
of doing things. A certain deftness and
skill is hereditary with them. Perhaps,
if Susan had, as she sometimes wished in
the old dreamy days, been an " author
ess," her proudest triumphs would have
given her no- deeper thrill of pleasure
than when her father said :
" Susan, this is really a capital squash
pic. If your mother don't look out,
you'll beat her yet. Just give me another
piece."
une day JNei astonished .'sue with a
bona fide compliment.
1 l ou're growing handsome, Sue." said
he.
Sue thoualtt Ned was maKUlg lull OI
her, thereby, for once, doing hiin an in
justice. For there is no surer cosmetic
and Deautnier tnan nouse-worn, wnen not
carried to excess.. No amount of dumb
bells, flesh-brushes, " constitutional"
walks and drives gives the energy, the
brisk circulation, the cheerful tone to
body and mind that comes from the vigo
rous, varied exercise of house-work. Hue
liew briskly around the house now,
singing as she made beds up-stairs,
with the fresh morning air sweeping
breezily through the open windows, now
sweeping the sitting room, now kneading
aougn. now out in uie giruen ior vege
tables, all this varied work bringing ev
ery muscle into play the more healthily,
Decause not done iienoerateiy ana with
' malice aforethought."
" How do vou feel, to-day. Susan?"
queried Mrs. Whitaker, anxiously.
l really don't Know, mother," re
plied Susan laughingly. "I haven't had
time totninK."
And so Sue had grown plump and rosy.
had a buoyant step, a light and sparkle
in her eyes, the radiance in looks and
spirit that comes from a sound mind in a
sound body.
One Monday, Sue was In the clothes-
yard, trying to hang out the clothes. Sue
was short, and the line high up, and the
wind blowing a gale. It certainly was a
provoking wind. It blew Sue's sun-bon
net on, ana her cuny Drown nair into all
sorts of wild tangles and tousles, and the
table-cloth she was tryin to hang up
kept flapping baukall over her. Sue stood
on tiptoe, straining her arms up, and
struggling in vain with the refractory
table-cloth.
Let me help you. Susan." said a.
pleasant, manly voice.
aue extricated nerseii irem .tne mazes
of the tAle-cloth, to find Charlie
Goodman beside her. Charlie was
working in his south lot, which iolned
the wiutaKers' garoen, ana seeing his
neighbor's distress hud come to the res
cue, like the kind-hearted tellow he was.
"Oh, thank you, Charlie," said Sue.
with perhaps more color in her cheeks
than the wind was solely responsible for
It was so vexations to be caught looking
so ! And Sue hastened to roll down her
sleeves, and conceal her blushes under her
sun-bonnet, while Charlie hung up the ta
ble-cloth, and let tne line down within
her reach.
It is as pleasant for a woman to be
helped, as for a man to help. She felt
quite a glow oi gratituue to unarne.
now nice it is to ue ran:" she said,
"I'm ever so much obliged to you."
"Not at all. I'm glad to do It. A little
body like you ought always to have a tall
man round somewhere handy, to help
her," said Charlie, looking not unad
miringlv down on the flushed face and
tangled brown curls under the sun-bon
net.
. "Nonsense, Charlie!" laughed Sue
slvlv. stooping to pick up a clothes-pin.
Charlie went back to bis work wonder
ing he had nver noticed before what a
pretty cin sue w nitaKer was.
Somehow, Charlie found a great deal to
do in the south lot, that fall. Any de
ficiency on his part, hitherto, in "notlc
ing" Susan,, was more tban atoned for
now. lie always had an eye out in the
direction of the Whitaker mansion. The
number of errands he discovered that
necessitated his "just running over'
there, was really surprising. Of course,
he was often thirsty, and obliged to step
into tne Kitcuen ior a unuit oi water,
Then, nothing could be more natural
than that he should stop and chat a few
minutes with t?ue.
Rogers might often have found a pleas
ing' model for a statuette group, Illustrative
of New England life, hi the Whitaker
kitchen, consisting of Sue In a big bib-
apron, that only served to tot off her
piump, rounded form, with sleeves rolled
up, a pie-plate gracefully poised in one
nitie nana, with the other demy cutting
the edges of the crust, listening with rosy
cneeKs ana aowncasi eyes to cnarue
who looked manly and handsome, in spite
of his shirt sleeves and overalls, as he
leans, straw hat In hand, against the
pump, and talks with his lips, or
the
weather, perhaps, with his eyes
of far
different topics. T,
The interest Charlie took In Mrs. Whit
aker's health was truly . touching. He
called so often to inquire for her, and lis
tened so politely to all her symptoms,
that Mrs. Whitaker took a great fancy to
him, and was always telling every one
what a remarkably nice young man Char
He Goodman was; on which occasions
Sue irenornllv discovered she had an er
rand in the kitchen, or anywhere out of
the room. In short, Charlie not only
loved his neighbor as himself, but a great
deal better.
As for Sue, the memory of the young
schoolmaster had faded like a morning
dream. She came to feel such an Interest
in Charlie's prosperity, that, rather than
have him waste so much time, she con
sented, Inthe spring, to move permanent
ly over to the Good man how e. Sue made
as brisk and blooming a matron as one
often sees, and " they lived happy forever
afterward"; as happy, at all events, as is
possible In a world which sometimes has
sharp trials for evth the most
loving and united hearts.
If any one still asks what cured Susan,
I shall reply by quoting Miss Alcott:
" Love and labor, two beautiful old fash
Ions, that began long ago, with the pair
in Eden."
Railway Collisions.
Collisions between railway trains excite
more public Indignation than the giving
out of a -wheel, rail, engine, or bridge.
Opinion never spares the hapless engineer;
he ought to have crept slowly around
that curve; to have slackened speed at
that tunnel ; to have whistled oftener for
the extra train. Does the public ask
itself what moves an engineer to jeopard
his good name, his happiness, his life?
As a smash-up does him no good, and is
much more horrible to him on the track
than those in easy chairs at home, as he
sustains a heavy responsibility of life and
property, how happens he to be so ready
to dash into danger?
The truth is that railway companies
foster rashness in their engineers. On
great roads, whose pair of crowded tracks
cannot hold the prodigious tralllc that be
sets them, we see a hundred trains run
ning day and night, the year around.
Look along yonder steam highway at this
moment ; a freight train is drawn up on
the siding at every chief station, waiting
for the express or the mail to dash ahead,
when it will pull out in hot pursuit, and
travel as far as possible before the next
succeeding passenger train forces it to
sw'itch off and let that, too, goby. Tracks
and turn-outs are loaded with trains, all
in haste, because delay makes trouble ev
erywhere, and only so can the work of
overcrowded roads be done. Hence, an
engineer's ambition Is to drive a " smart"
engine, t. ., one that picks up Its load
and starts off rapidly, especially if it be
also a " good steamer," which last is the
nrenian's chiei desire, a ireignt engineer
who baulks at the quick dashes between
passenger trains, who loses time by cau
tion, may lind himseit turnea on the road.
can't make tne schedule timnr i say
you mutt make the time; and if you can't
till lb, 1 IV 1U get oMohO(Jy wiin nan '
Where such language) is used, the engi
neer, in desperation, takes chances he
would otherwise shun. And this is doubt
less the reason why, if he survives a
Btnash-un. lie is usually not dismissed or
degraded, though till public wrath blows
over he may be transferred to di'tant or
less conspicuous duty. To sacrifice him
would breed trouble among the road
hands, who know better than the public
how the' disaster arrived. Anxiety to get
something and somebody that will "make
time" causes, on certain large roads, a
curious shifting and swapping of engines
as well as engineers, from one duty to
another, instead of keeping a set of train
hands and locomotives inthe same duty
until worn out. Engineers are goaded to
what we sometimes call " incomprehen
sible" folly. Whizzing ahead at a mile a
minute at night time, when a stone, fallen
telegraph pole, broken rail, or sunken
sleeper, may pitch the train from the
track, Is enough to suggest caution ; but
caution is stilled Jn trying to get more
out of the engine than can be got, and to
"make" a schedule tune that cannot be
safely made. April Galaxy.
Origin of a Plague Epidemic.
Thk plague that for the last two years
has been raging in Persian Kurdistan had
Its origin, according to the report of a
commission sent to ascertain the nature
and source of tha disease, in the opening
oi some oia caves, wnicu iorty years ago
served as burial places for the victims of
a lormer epidemic. The nrst appearance
of the pestilence was at a village situated
some o.uuu leet aDOve tne level or the
Blac't sea, and containing in all about 150
families; 130 persons were attacked, of
wnom iuo died. " ine village," says the
London Times, "like all other Kurdish
villages, was abundantly filthy within,
but it was well supplied with pure water
from the hills, ana the houses stood apart
from each other, freely exposed to the sun
and wind. The history of the mode of
seizure of the two persons who had been
earliest attacked with plague one of
whom lived to tell his own story was
obtained by the commission. There could
be no suspicion of contagion brought from
elsewhere, as plague was not known to
exist either in asm minor or in .Persia In
the summer or autumn of 1870. One of
the persons earliest attacked was seized a
few hours after he had been engaged in
the work of excavating a cavern for har
boring sheep among the hills near the
village. While thus engaged he had dis
interred a quantity of human bjnes. The
other person had also been attacked soon
after removing some human boies which
he had found In a neighboring eavern in
which flocks were sheltered. Now, the
commission ascertained that the places in
which these bones had been fcund were
the spots where the dead wh had died
from an attack of plague which had de
populated some of the villages f the dis
trict forty years before had been buried.
During 1820-'33 It Is well known that
plague was widely disseminated in north
western Persia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.
The recent outbreak In Persian Kurdis
tan, in short, followed almost Imnediatelv
upon the opening of the two oU plague
pits, and the commission believes that to
this opening the outbreak owed Its ori
gin
-An exhibition of "shockUg bad
hats" has been got up at Bruges, In Bel
gium, the proceeds to be given for the
benefit of " the Society of the Shamefaced
everybody flocked to see theshoekiig bad
hats, which were, however, in somi cases,
really interesting from an historical or
Pnnr." "hA nnnnn tftnlr Biirnr1ilnf1r
archaeological point of view, and valuable
to the student of the comparative icience
of fashions. There was no entrance fee.
but some of the promoters of the under
taking were always present to eollect
money from the visitors ; and the sum re
alized dv sucn means amounted to
thousand francs. ,
General News Summary.
Personal and Political.
The President has sent to the Senate
the following aWltional nominations :
Postmasters A. E. Blount, Cleveland,
Tennessee; A. G Sharp, Chattanooga,
Tennessee ; Mrs. Julia C. Wooiford, Jack
son, Tennessee ; John D. Lewis, Pulaski,
Tennessee; Arthur D. Downs, Wyan
dotte, Kansas ; Simon Matz, Hayes City,
Kansas ; Fred L. Eicliter, Council Grove,
Kansas ; M. B. Baldwin, Elgin, Illinois ;
Gustavus A. Pfrangle, Aurora, Illinois ;
William C. Stewart, Marengo, Illinois;
Samuel W. Price, Lexington, Kentucky;
BcnJ. L. Winans, Newport,Kentucky ; B.
H. Crapster, Shelbyvllle, Kentucky ;
John M. Stockton, Maysville, Ky. ; A. B.
Hilpp, Lebanon, Ky. ; John J. Karnew,
Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Jno. B. Tyre, Wabash,
Ind. ; II. M. Reddington, Elyrla, Ohio ;
Thos. W. Collin, Coshocton, Ohio ; H. B.
Clark, Newark, Ohio ; Henry Stevenson,
Greenville, Ohio.
The Republican State Convention of
Rhode Island has nominated Henry How
ard for Governor, and Chas. C. Vanzandt
for Lieutenant Governor.
Oakes Ames has been banquetted by
his townsmen.
The latest footing up of the New Hamp
shire election, gives Straw, (Rep.,) 400 ma
jority for Governor, and Small, (Rep.,)
300 majority for Congress, in the First
District. The contest in the Second Dis
trict Is very close, both parties claiming
to have elected their man. In the Third
District the Democratic candidate is
elected.
Col. Harry D. Cook, David A. Brown
and John M. Pearson have been con
firmed by the Illinois State Senate as Rail
road and Warehouse Commissioners.
Right Rev. Bishop Mcllvalne, Episco
pal Bishop of Cincinnati, died at Flor
ence, Italy, on March 14.
The following additional nominations
have been sent to the Senate : George W.
French, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Dakota; W. David Noggle,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Idaho ; J. P. Kiddar, Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of Dakota ; W. W.
Brookings, Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of Idaho ; S. S. Johnson,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Wyoming ; Thomas A. Spence, Assist
ant Attorney General for the Post-office
Department. Postmaster nenry King,
Topeka, Kansas. Surveyor of Customs
George II. Sliarpe, New York. Col
lectors of Internal Revenue L. Weltzel,
First Ohio District ; John W. Ross, Fifth
Indiana ; Col. E. Nott. Fifth Iowa.
Judge Richardson has been appointed
Secretary Boutwell's successor In the
Treasury Department.
The entire Cabinet resigned, on March
17, and were immediately reappointed,
and snortiy uiRinmao confirmed by the
Senate.
The President sent the following nom
inations to the Senate : John Gofforth,
Assistant Attorney General of the United
States ; P. C. Shannon, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Dakota ; James G.
Palen, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of New Mexico ; Geo. W. French,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Dakota ; A. "A. Armstrong, Marshal of
Minnesota; Coles Bashford, Secretary of
Arizona Territory ; Frank Hall, Secretary
of Colorado ; Wm. G. Ritch, Secretary of
New Mexico ; W. II. Fitzpatrick, Regis
ter of Land Office at Topeka, Kansas ; A.
J. Simmons, Indian Agent at the Milk
River Agency, Montana; Charles Del
lengbern, Naval Officer at New Orleans.
Postmasters J. R. Jackson, Union Oily,
Ind.; D. W. Voiles, New Albany, Ind.;
Wm. A. Harroll, Washington, Ind.; D.
Grass, Naplerville, Ind.; F. M. Morrison,
Sandwich. III.; Ed. Smith, Batavla, 111.;
Wm. II. Stillwell, Humboldt, Tenn.; Jos.
DeLavche, Memphis; Mrs. L. A. Carey,
Ashtabula, Ohio; J. F. Curren, Dela
ware, Ohio; A. M. Ellsworth, Lowell,
Mich.; E. W. Merrel, Muskegon, Mich.;
A. B. Turner, Grand Rapids, Mich.; A.
Reynolds, Grand Haven, Mich.; J. II.
Morris, Albla, la. Surveyors of Customs
W. II. Ilollldiiy, Wheeling, W. Va.; Wm.
Evans, Parkersburg, W. Va. ; Philip
Hornbeck, Evansville, Ind.; T. Steele,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Geo. Fisher, Cairo, 111.;
W. T. Sitter, Alton, 111.; J. P. Luce,
Louisville, Ky.
Commodore Vanderbilt has Just given
$500,000 to establish a Methodist Univer
sity In Tennessee.
Senator Bogy, of Missouri, de-ires an in
vestigation into the circumstances attend
ing his election, and announces that he
shall suspend his functions as Senator un
til such investigation is concluded.
The President, on March 18, sent to the
Senate the following additional nomina
tions : E. A. Thomas, of New York, As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Wyonolng Territory ; Jason B. Brown of
Indiana, Secretary of Wyoming ; Hiram
Latham, Surveyor General of Wyoming ;
B. F. Campbell, Register of the Land Of
fice at Vermillion, Dakota. Collectors of
Internal Revenue Isaac II. Duval, Eight
eenth District of W. Virginia; S. H. Bal
ley, Fourth District of Michigan ; Alexis
Cape, Sixteenth District of Ohio. Post
masters Robt S. Kendrick, Chattanoo
ga, Tenn.; W. S. Krake, Ravenna, Ohio ;
Wm. Jackson, Rock Island, 111.; James
Newby. Cambridge City, Ind.; P. Cha
ner, Upper Sandusky, Ohio; It. J. Thomp-
kins, Mt. Carroll, 111.; F. M. .Cassady,
Winterset, Iowa.
The Rhode Island State Democratic
Convention has placed Charles R. Cutler
In nomination for Governor, and Samuel
H. Wales, for Lieutenant Governor.
In the Massachusetts Legislature, the
resolution to rescind the action of the pre
vious Legislature, whereby Mr. Sumner's
course In regard to battle flags was con
demned, was defeated on March 19, by 49
yeas to 167 nays.
Ex-Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina,
has been commissioned Assistant Secreta
ry of the Treasury in place of Judge
Richardson promoted.
Crimes and Casualties.
Col. Theodore Tyner, of the firm of
Eoot & Tyner. of Buffalo, N. Y., has
been arrested charged with committing
forgeries to the amount of $30,000.
John Marlon Osborne was hung, at
Knoxville, 111., on March 14, for tho mur
der of Mrs. Mathews, at Yates' City, In
August Jast. Previous to his execution,
ho confessed that he had committed the
deed.
George Driver, who killed his wife, at
Chicago, on the morning of November 30,
1872, by shooting her with a pistol, was
executed In the County Jail of that city,
on the- afternoon of March 14. He ad
dressed the bystanders from the scaffold,
stating that whisky had brought him to
his untimely end, and advising them to
shun it as they would the deadliest
poison.
Rev. Dr. Huston, charged with Immor
ality, has been expelled from the M. E.
Church South, by the annual conference,
now In session at Baltimore.
Thomas F. Anderson, the cashier of the
Lumberton Bank, at Franklin, Pa., on
March 14, burned a large quantity of bank
notes, bonds and balk papers, and then
deliberately committed suicide. It Is gen
erally supposed that his irregularities in
conducting the business was the cause.
The business portion of the town of
Elyrla, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the
evening of March 15. Loss $200,000.
In the town of Worth, near Chicago,
a building was burned on the morning of
March 15, In which an old man eighty
years old and a young child perished. In
a crevice in the wall w as $10,000 in bank
notes, which were consumed.
A labor riot at Evansville, Ind., on
March 17, resulted in the killing of Con
rad nartnian, a moulder, and the arrest
of Louis Buzan and two others on the
charge o murder.
Charles Hunt, a well known tobacco
nist, of Indianapolis, Ind., committed sui
cide at his store, on March 17, by shooting
himself through the head. Cause, finan
cial troubles.
The dye house of Dutchess' paint
works, at New Hamburg, New Y'ork,
burned on the morning of March 18.
Loss, $50,000.
Twenty-five buildings were burned at
Macon, Georgia, on the morning of March
18.
One Lansey, a rough, stabbed Albert
Goctz, at Chicago, on March 18, and in
flicted such Injuries that he expired al
most instantaneously.
noratio Otis, Secretary of the Erie Rail
road, Justin White, Assistant Treasurer,
and John Hilton, Auditing Clerk, have
been suspended and will be dismissed for
Irregularities in the performance of their
duties.
A New York grand jury has indicted
James L. Austin, jr., the issuer of the
counterfeit railroad stock.
A collision occurred on the Hannibal
& St. Joseph Railroad, near St. Joseph,
Mo., on the morning of March 19, caused
by the misconstruction of a telegraph or
der from the train dispatcher. Both loco
motives were badly shattered and tho en
gineer, fireman and brakeman of one of
the trains, killed.
Domestic Intelligence.
Gold, in New York, closed, March 20,
at 115.
Col. Whitley the Chief of the United
States secret service, telegraphs from
Jacksonville, Florida, that there has oc
curred at Lake City Fla., a serious affray.
The postmaster and county officers have
been driven from the town. The ring
leaders have been arrested and an investi
gation is making.
Gov. Dix, of New 1 ork, has decided
not to interfere in the case of Foster, the
car-hook murderer, and he will therefore
be hung on Friday, March 21.
The President has signed a postal con
vention with Sweden and Norway.
Counterfeit stock of the Toledo, Wabash
& Western Railroad and of the Pittsburgh
& Fort Wayne Railroad, has been ncgo.
tiated in Wall street. The amount is said
to he $30,000.
The Irish laborers lately employed on
the boulevards, In New York, on March
18, marched in force against a lot of Ital
ian laborers who had replaced them at
lower wages. They were dispersed by
the police.
News from Abroad.
A report prevailed in the lobbies of Par
liament, on March 13, and was generally
credited, . that Disraeli will inform the
Queen that he la unable to form a minis
try, and will advise Her Majesty to call
upon Earl Granville to preside over a
Provldonal Cabinet until July, when a
dissolution of Parliament should bo or
dered.
The latest from the English ministerial
crisis Is to the efTect that the Earl of Der
by is trying to form a cabinet, with a poor
prospect of succeeding.
The new treaty between France ana
Germany providing for the evacuation ot
the French provinces has been signed and
published.
The Spanish government has received a
dispatch announcing that 3,000 Carllsts,
concentrated at Vera Becu, were routed
by Gen. Nardas, after a sanguinary battle
which lasted seven hours.
It Is now stated that Gladstone will
resume the premiership of the English
government.
Mr. Gladstone had not, on March 10,
succeeded in reconstructing the English
Cabinet.
A serious riot has occurred at Wolver
hampton, near Birmingham, England,
between Englishmen and Irishmen. The
dispatch says that at least 3,000 persons
were engaged In the riot, and knives and
firearms were freely used.
The yellow fever Is prevailing at Rio
Janlero, to an alarming extent.
The court martial in the case of Marshal
Bazalne, charged with treasonable con
duct In the surrender of Metz, has de
veloped so little evidence against that
officer, that President Thiers advises that
the prosecution be abandoned, and that
Bazalne be released from custody.
Congressional Senate.
On March 13, a resolution was offered
Mid referred, to pay Messrs. Ray and McMiUui,
of Louisiana, for tha unexpired term ending
Msrch 4, im. . . .It was voted not to reoelve peti
tions by a vote of 20 to 1. . . .The 8enate resumed
the ounsidrnitlon of the Caldwell case. Mr.
Alcorn moved thnt Senator Caldwell be expelled,
lie anld ho Introduced the resolution to save
time, but he did not abandon tho report of th
Commute e on Privileges and Elections. Mr.
Loan concluded his remarks In favor of Cald
well. He insisted that the testimony against
him was nnworthv of belief. Mr. Alcorn as
serted that the testimony against Cnldwell was
Incontrovertible, anil that the Senate was Insulted
by the sending there of ft Honator chosen under
such Influences. Mr. lluckinKhnm Insisted that
the means used by Mr. Caldjvrll were corrupt
and against nubile policy, arfa should make his
election void. Without llnal aotion, the Senate
went into
executive session,
adjourned.
On March 14, after the usual discussion
on the propriety f receiving petitions, the Sen
ate resumed the t inslderatlon of the Caldwell
case. Mr. Scott st d he could not agree with the
Com ttee in decla, ing the election of Mr. Cald
well old. He should not yield to the clamor
whicl demanded the sacrifice of ft victim any
more than he wonld shield a friend if he had
committed a wrong. Mr. Morrill, of Vermont,
argued thnt the Senate was the guardian of the
rights of ft State. The Senate was bound by
every sentiment of truth and justice to fee that
seats should not be made merchandise of by tho
enterprising traders ef any State. Mv. Scnurr.
argued that the provision that each House shall
be the judge of the election returns of its mem
bers, goes not only to the forms but to the essence
of the election. He said Caldwell could never
have been elected but for the corrupt use of
money. He stated that be should vote lor the
resolution declaring that Caldwell was not duly
elected, ftnd ifthat tailed, should vote for his ex
pulsion. Without final action, the Senatowent
Into executive session, and ultem ards adjourned
until March 17.
On March 17, the Vice President sub
mitted papers and documents signed by members
of the Missouri Senate and House of Keprescnta
tlves, alleging that there was corruption In the
elect on of Senator Hoev I referred to Committee
on Privileges and Elections. .. .A resolution di
recting the Committee on Hides to inquire into
Uie expediency of amending the rules, was offer
ed and luid over. . . .Senator Houtwell was sworn
in by the ice President Ihe Caldwell resolu
tions were taken up. Mr. Salisbury said that the
proper remedy in the case of Mr. Caldwell was
expulsion, because the Senator was indissolubly
connected with transactions which tainted his
character. Mr. Pratt said he should vote for the
resolutions of the Committee. The conduct of
Caldwell was immoral and corrupt and impaired
file freedom of elections. Mr. Hayard said the
Senate could only ascertain whether the Legisla
ture of Kansas had chosen the Senator, and be
yond this it could not go. 'lTiere was nothing in
the nendinir case which could justify the passage
of the resolution declaring the election invalid (
nut the power 01 expulsion was near, in vinuica
tion of the honor and dignity of the Senate. The
discussion was further continued by MesBrs.
Conkling, Sherman and Thurman, when, with
out reaching a vote, the Sennte went into execu
tive session, and soon after adjourned.
On March 18, Senator Bogy, of Mis
souri, detailed the circumstances attending tho
recent Senator ial election in that State, and an
nounced that he should suspend his functions as
Senator until the threatened investigation was
concluded The Senate resumed the considera
tion of the Caldwell case. Mr. Norwood said the
Senate has an undoubted right to declare void an
election procured by bribery and fraud. Mr.
Thurmau said tho result of his examination
of the case was that Caldwell's election was thor
oughly corrupt. Mr. Carpenter, of the Commit
tee, said that he dissented from the finding of the
Committee. The Senate, without reaching a
vote, went into executive session, and soon after
adjourned.
On Marcli 19,Senator Wright moved that
the Senate consider his amendment to the Kules,
previously offered, that the previous question may
be demanded by a majority vote. The resolution
was discussed at length by several Senators, and
finally defeated by 3!i yeas to 30 nays. . . .The Com
missioner of Agriculture was instructed by vote
to send his anmiBl report to the. Senate. . . .Tho
resolution favoring the appointment of a com
mittee on the levees of the Mississippi river, with
leave to sit during the recess, was dvclarrd out of
order The Semite resumed the consideration
of the Caldwell case. Mr. Conkling spoke at
lengiu, cruieising ine report oi ine committee,
and insisting that the Senate was without power
to declare an election void, even if acts of bribe
ry were proven. The utmost the Senate could
do was to expel the ofl'cmling member. Hefbre
the coni'.lusi.ii of Mr. Conkung's remarks, the
Senate adjourned.
Breach of Promise.
" When Greek meets Greek, then comes
the tug of war" is an fid saying ; as old
perhaps as breacln s of promise, for which
those said "faithless Greeks" were so
fumed. No woman of true refinement
no woman who ever truly loved and
true love must titht r be the nflVpring of
true refinement, or true refinement the
oflspringof true love no refined woman
who loved truly could ever bring her
hero into open court and h-al her wound
ed feelings with a plaster of as many bank
notes as a jury composed of twelve of her
ountrymen awarded. No man of honor
could ever bo arraigned for a'promise of
marriage broken ; therefore, it is well, per
haps, for the restriction of evil-doers that
unprincipled men should find the women
they would trample on now and then
coarse-minded enough to make them pay
in hard cash for such damage as they
might have done to some. Ex.
-rSome of the papers are al ready beating
the bush for candidates for the Presidency
after General Grant's second term. Tho
Cincinnati Commercial expresses its pref
erence for Elihu B. Washburne, our Min
ister to France, as the successor of Grant.
THE MARKETS.
KEW YORK. March 21. 1873.
BEEF CATTLE S.M) $11.00
HOGS Live S.M
ft. 75
7.11X
7.50
10-i
8.3
1.68
t6
Dressed 6i5
(01
SHEEP Live.
U.0I)
COT TON Middling
FLOCK Good to Choice.
WH E AT Spring No. 2. . .
COKX Western Mixed. . .
OATS Western, Kew....
lflX(a
7. 5 m
1.63 (3)
4b (3)
4
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It lfc western.
SA (Al
POKK Mess, New 10.00 (a) 10.2)
LAUD.
8X
CHICAGO.
BEEVES Choice 5.6S
Good 5.25
Fair Grades 4 .75
Medium 8.75
HOGS Live 4.50
6.2)
ft. AO
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4.f
6. 0
4.62X
SHEEP Good to Choice 4.37
FLOCK White Winter Extra 8.25
lo.no
(a) 7.75
Spring Extra S.50
GRAIN Wheat Spring No. 1. 1.26
Soring
No. 2.
1.19X
31 X
2.V
64X
74
Corn No. 2. .
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Rye No. 2...
llarley No 2.
LARD
PORK Mess, New
BUTTER Choice
EGGS Fresh
Sl(o
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73
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1.70
25
18
27
20
CINCINNATI.
FLOUR Family 7.75
7. 0
1.70
40
38
95
18
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CORN New ,
.... 3
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85
18
OATS New
BARLEY
COT I ON-rMlddling .
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15.25 ( 15.50
ST. LOU13.
COTTON Middling t 18
18X
BEEF CATTLE Choice 6.75
Good to l'rime . . 4.25
HOGS Live 4.40
FLOCK XX 6.00
B.25
4.110
6.75
1.88
34
28 X
1 67
75
WHEAT Winter No. 2 1.85
CORN No. 2, Mixed 3S4
OATS No. 2 25 4
RYE No. 2 6B (9
BARLEY No. 2 70
FORK Mess, New 15.50
16.00
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Un-washed .... 33
MEMPHIS.
COTTON-Middlmg
17S9 18
FLOUR Family 10. 10 & 10. Mi
CORN New (o
OATS New 46 47
NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR Choice and Family. .$ 9.50 (9 10.00
CORN Mixed 61 A 65
OATS 4' ( 48
HAY Choice 30.00 81.00
I'ORK Mess 17.(0 & 17.2V
BACON Sides. B C4 10 -
SUGAR 7 9X
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