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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL, DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. '
VOL. XI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY. JANUARYS. 1882. NO. 40.
Hidden Treasures. -There
are gem as bright, an precious,
tying hid beneath the ground,
As thoBO worn by lord or lady,
Gems as fair as ever found.
There are virtuos Just as noble
Hidden 'neatti a load of care
As those blazoned on the banner '
Which the conquering heroes bear.
There are hearts that beat as grandly,
Thoughts that never have a pen,
Treasures locked in sacred caskets
Never praised by tongues ot men.
Rarest gems are aa'cr discovered;
Shallow, hidden in the earth,
In the deepest c&vcs of ocean
Lies the pearl of richest worth.
Search among thy fellow-workers,
Probe beneath the wound of toil,.
Surely thou shall find a diamond '
Bidden deep within the soil.
Hearts are bound in ribs of marble,
Gems are bound in ribs of rock.
Happy be who bursts, the portal, .
Happy ho who the gates unlock.
Bi Emma V. Shalluck.
SACRAMENTO.
It was an odd name for a girl f?aora
mento. So the girl herself thonght as she
stooped down beside a spring at the
foot of a cottonwood tree and lazily
dropped ber pail into the water.
" It ought to have been given to a
boy, if it was a fit name to give to any
body," she said, quite aloud. " But I'm
more boy than girl anyway."
This last was added rather bitterly,
as she looked at her brown, rough
bands and her bare ankles, and thought
of the " boys' work" she had to do.
And it was hard to believe that this
was the best kind of a life for a young
girl like Sacramento. Hero she lived
alone, for her father was down at the
mouth of the canon all day. The gar
den work she was obliged to do, and
the care of the cattle fell upon hrr,
It was not cften that she saw any per
son bnt her father, although now and
then, in spite of herself, she came in
contact with tbe rude men of the mm
insr camp np above.
let Sacrament j nail ber dream, one
that she scarcely dired to own ;" bnt,
it came to her often as she went about
ber work.
She knew that down at Santa Bar
bara and in the towris along the coast
and far, far away across wide stretcher
of inn contineiit to the great taut,
there w r-i t iris who lived lives veiy dif
ferent frjra ber life ; and she dreamed
of such a life fr r herself.
"Oh, if I conM only go away from
here! she crifd out, almost as one
cries for hfln. "If I could only go
down to San Frarcucoand go to f chord
there for a single vear 1 Ah, if I onlv
had five hundred dollars I"
Suddenly there was a step not of a
man, but a horse on the bank behind
ber, and then some one spoke. She
knew 'he voice without looking np. It
was Pete Larrabee, a fellow who lived
down on Hahnemann's plantation, two
miles along the trail. He sometimes
rode hy. He had Tiot heard her last
words at all ; yet strangely enough his
own were a repetition of them.
"Five hundred di liars, Sac," said
ht. "Five hundred dollars in gold I
D'ye want ter earn it ! There's ycr
chance," and he threw down to he'r a
bit cf paper crumpled into a ball.
She picked it up and slowly unfold
ing it ran her eyes over its contents.
$500 Reward.
The above amount Mill be paid foi informa
tion leading to ti e arrest, aead or Alive, of
Walter Homeis, who has worked lor some time
past on Maxwell's ranch. Said Sonicrs i about
eighteen years old and five and a half feet
high, rather good-looking, with Jigtit, curly
hair. L'luo eve and a licht mustache. When
last seen he had on a black slouch hat, gray
business suit with blue flannel shirt, and boot's
with red tops maiked with maker's name.
The name of the county sheriff was
signed at the bottom of the bill. Sac
ramento, having glanced it through,
looked up.
" He's been stealin' horses," exclaimed
Pete " Got cir last night with four
of Max'll's beet somewheres. Thet re
ward won't do much good, though.
Ther Regulators'!! lasso bim an' string
him up long fore ther law 11 git started
They're hevin' a meetin' now np at the
. Gulch. I tell ye, they are mad. They'll
make quick work ef they ketch 'em.
Yer father's there. Ye needn't look fur
him afore right much."
Then, after a word or two more, tho
man rode on; and presently Sacramen
to took U ber pail and with tbe sheriffs
bill still in her hand went slowly up
the bank and aoross the trail toward the
house, tbinkiDg very seriously about the
live hundred dollars all the while.
It was some hours after this, and the
afternoon sun was going down behind
the tops of the mountains, that Sacra
mento, having finished her housework,
iraa preparing to sit down on the porch
to do ber sewing when she was met in
the doorway by a young man she had
never seen before.
And yet he was no stranger. The girl
knew him instantly, although the
slouch hat was pulled down over the
flaxen bair and bine eyes, and the gray
pants, torn and muddy, bad been
drawn out of the boot legs so aa to no
longer allow the rod tops of the boots
with the n aker's name to be seen. It
was the horseth ief .
She did not, however, express any
surprise ds she saw bim. She was ac
customed to the sight 'of rough, evil
men ; and at the first gianee she had
felt that this one could not be either
Very wicked or very dangerons. He
was not much more than a lad, and had
n air of gentleness and good-breeding
about him that six months of Western
life and the miserable plight be was in
at tbe moment bad by n means de
stroyed. Ho seemed to be short for
breath, too, and was trembling as if be
bed been running.
Instinctively be raised bis band to
ward bis bat and then, bethinking him
self, dropped it again.
"Gould yon give me something to
eat. and drink V he asked, in a hesitati
ng voioa. " Anything will do. I am 1
very hungry. I I have bad nothing
to ear, since laRt mpnt.'
" Gome in," said Sacramento, gravely
in ner voice was neither kindness
nnkindness. She was trying to realize
the situation she was in. " Gome in
and sit down."
'men sne went into the closet near
by and began taking down from the
shelves milk and bread and meat, as
she slowly did so turning over the
matter in her mind. Here was this
man who had been stealing horses and
for whose capture five hundred dollars
was offered, in her kitchen. Five
hundred dollars ! " Exactly the sum she
had been wishing for the sum that
would take her down to San Francisco
to tcliool and help ber make a lady of
herself. And this sum might be hers
it sne could in some way secure this
stranger or somehow keep him in the
house until help arrived. Help? Why,
she hardly needed help. He was weak
and exhausted, and in the drawer of
the kitchen table there was a loaded
revolver which she knew well how to
use.
She came out presently and set the
things before him, bringing also a tea
pot from the stove and pouring for him
a cup of tea. Then she went and sat
down by the window and watched him
furtively as he ate.
In spite of his caution be had taken
off his hat whilo he was eating. She
rould better sco what he was like. It
was an almost boyish face, worn, but
not wicked, with the curling hair lying
m a amp clusters upon his rale brow.
In .he hands, small and well-shaped,
and in all his motions and manner she
felt that she could read something of
nis story, Biie Had heard before this
how young lads in the East filled with
romantic notions about Western life
and adventure sometime" left their
luxuriant homes and foe nd heir way
out io tne ranches of the rapine slope.
x erunps he was one or these.
As she looked at him, fancying all
this, and realizing the teirible strait he
was iu, and tho probable dark fate that
was ueiore him, hei heart yearned with
true womanly sympathy ; and her feel
ing found expression before she was
able to restrain herself.
" Oh, how could you do it ? How
could jou do ltV" she suddenly ex
claimed, her voice quite fall of what
she felt.
He lcoked up at her in wonder; but as
his eyes met hers he understood her
"1 did not do it. Upon my honor, I
did not i he said, "it was that man
Dennis.
Sacramento breathed a great sigh of
relief, ilorte Ftealing was held in
that section to be a crime worse than
murder; and t-he was by no means free
from the jjopuJar estimate of its grave
nuiure.
"Oh, I am glad of that l" said she.
"Bnt " She hesitated, and then went
on doubtfully. "But then how was it ?
Why did they fay it was yon? And
why did yon run away'"
"It was Dennis' doings, their laying
it to roe. aa did that to clear himself,
And after that, you know as well as do,
there would have been no use in trying
to prove myself innocent. They always
hang a horsethief first and then con
sider his guilt afterwtrd. I had to run
to save my life.
"Do you know that tbo,re is a reward
ollered for your capture ? '
"I know the Regulators are after me,"
answered the ycung fellow, sullenly,
"They came pretty near catching me,
too, this noon. I jutt escaped them
and came down the canon by the moun
tain trail. I have Lad a hard run for
it, and what with no sleep or food for
twenty-four hours I am about used up,
I felt as though I could not go another
step when 1 saw your houso. You-
you have been very good to me. I shall
never lorget
"tsxxt what are you going to do now ? '
interrupted Sacramento. "You are not
6afe here.
"I know it. But I threw them off
the track at noon, and I do not think
they are within five miles of me. Now
I have had something to eat I will take
to the woods again. I hope 1 may get
away. If I don't" bis voice trembled
and tears came into bis eyes. "If I
don't, I shall get a hanging, I suppose.
Oh, what a fool I was not to prefer
heme to this sort of thing. And yet, I
wouldn t care so much either, if it
wasn't for my father and mother." And
tl ere the poor fellow fairly broke down.
" ilark ! ' Sacramento exclaimed. She
had been crying, too : she could not
help it.
They both listened. In a moment
they heard plainly the sound of horses
coming down the trail. The girl turned
with instant self-possession.
"Uo in there! Ouiekl Ouickl There
is not a moment to lose I Here, take
your hat I"
And handing his hat to him she
half-pushed bim across tho room and
into her own little room that led off
from it. Then she harried ly cleared
the table again, barelyfinishing tho
task as tho horsemen baited at the
door.
There were three of them. One was
her father. Sacramento knew the
other two men by sight. They were
rough, but of the better sort of those
who made up the dwellers in Kelly
Gulch. The faces of all three were
stern and forbidding, and thov evi
dently had been riding hard. Thev
dismounted together.
bc, began her father as be en
tered the door, " hev ye seen anything
of a yonng chap, afoot or a-horseback,
coming this way ?" ,
bacramento had expected tbe ques
tion and was ready for it. And she
meant, if it were possible, to answer it
without a lie.
"A yonng chap 'about eighteen years
of age and five feet and a half high,
rather good-looking, and with red-top
boots on ?' " replied she.
"Yes I yes I That's him I" cried one of
the other men, eagerly. "Have you
seen him f Has be been here ?"
"I was only quoting from this band-
bill," said Sacramento, taking the paper
from the shelf where she bad laid it.
Then you hain't seen bim at oil?'
asked ber father, 't;
I have been right here all day, and
nobody bas gone by exoept Pete Larra
bee. It was be who gave me the bill,
Are yon sure be came this way, the
the horse-thief f
"No; but we didn't know bat he
mighter. The chances is thet he sloped
off to the mountains, meanin' ter go
through Stove-pipe Pass. They'll git
bim, though, afore sundown."
"It's sundown now," observed Sacra
mento. "Then they've got bim now," was
the sententious response. " And we
should be too late for the hangin ef
we Bh'd go back. Leastways "this was
added to his companions "you'd bet
ter come in and have a bite afore ye go."
So presently the three men sat down
to the supper that the young girl
quickly prepared for them. And while
they were eating she herself, at ber
father's bidding, went out to take the
saddle off Bueno, his horse, and give
him bis feed. As she approached tho
door once more a few minutes later she
heard words which caused her tu stop
and listen.
" I don't like ter say anything against
thet kid o' yourn, neighbor," one of the
men was saying, "but it bes kinder
seemed ter me all ther while 'a though
she sorter bed some 'at on ber mind
like. Ye don't 'spose she knows any
thing 'bont thet yonng feller, arter all?"
Sacramento's father laughed at this
as though it was too absurd to be con
sidered. The other, however, was not to be
laughed out of his suspicions.
"Fur we all know," persisted he,
" she may hev bim hid here somewhere
on the premmysiB."
" It's easy enough to see," returned
the proprietor of the said "prem
rrysis," testily. "Where d'ye think
she's hid him ? In her bedroom ?"
As he said this Sacramento, who was
now near enough to see into the kitchen,
aw her father rise from his chair and
step to the door of the room where she
bad concealed tho fugitive. Her heart
almost stopped beating as she saw him
push opsn the door and enter the room,
followed by his companions.
" We 11 make a clus search of it
while we're about it," she heard him say
W11U1I1.
And then she stood I here in terrible
suspense upon the porch, expecting
every instant to hear the shout that
would follow the discovery of the
fugitive. !
But no such shout was heard; and
instead of it, a moment after, the two
men came out again, her father still
laughing at his friend.
What could it mean ? Had the
young man been able to conceal him,
self m the room and so evade their
search ? That was not possible Then
she thought of tho window. Could he
have escaped from tbe room by that ?
ine window was so small she could
scarcely believe that ho could have
crept through it. And yet be must
have done so.
She went hurriedly to the back of tho
houso and then down beyond tho horse
sheas. Ao one- could be seen. She
halted a moment nnder a live-oak tree
just at the edgo of tho garden. Tho
evening was very calm and still, and
the twilight shadows were deepening
iasr. was n the rustling of the wind
in the bongh.8 overhead that caught ber
ear t Mie listened.
"Hist! I am here in the tree."
Tho words came in a distinct whisper
irom directly aoove her.
fciho stood and thought a single mo
ment before replying. Then she said,
ou must get away from here at
once, in an eager whisper. " One of
tho; men snspects something, and
they may at any moment make a 6earch
of the place. I am going into the
house a minute. Get down at once and
go through the garden and across the
trail to a spring that you will find there.
It's at the foot of a big cottonwood
tiee. Stay right there until I coma
Then she went back hurriedlv to the
nouee. ine three men wero still sit
ting at the table, and Sacramento felt
rather than saw that one of them still
regarded ber suspiciously as she came
iu. cm urn uoi Bueaic to mem ac ail,
but went directly through the kitchen
to her own room, and m a moment
came out, went about her work in the
kitchen, and took up a pail apparently
to go to the spring for water.
'1 en minutes later, standing in tho
shadow of tho cottonwood. vonnir
Somers heard a step, and then Sacra
mento, leading bueno all saddled and
bridled, appeared. He started forward.
"Uushr she Baid; "they may conio
out at any moment. Listen to what I
say. Your life depends upon it. You
must rule straight down the trail for a
quarter of a mile. Then, close by a bie
cottonwood, just like this, yon will
strike a path to tho left. Bueno will
know it, once you get him in it. It
will bring you ont, half a mile on, at a
corduroy road that crosses tbe swamn.
This end of the corduroy bas got ont of
order and there are somo iocs laid.
Lead Bueno across and then puJl the
logs away. If yonTcan do that it will
make trouble for those who follow you.
Beyond the swamp is a big plain.
Strike straight across it, keeping the
moon square on your right the moon
will be up by that time and three
hours' riding will bring you to the new
railroad. After that God help you to
got safe aTay !"
bacramento paused and put out ber
hand. "Can you remember ?" she de
manded.
"I can, but I can never forget"
"Never mind that. Here, take this.
It is a little money. You will need it.
Now mount and ride slowly, a little
way, and then for your life."
The young man still had hold" of her
hand. The tears came into bis eyes.
The next moment be was gone.
Xhe next morning Saciamento told
ber father the story and coaxed him
into forgiving ber. And the following
afternoon a man brought Bueno over
from the railroad town : and then she
knew that the fugitive was cafe.
Six weeks later a lawyer from4Janta
Barbara appeared with a letter from
Walter Somers. He was with bis
friends at New York, and be begged
Sacramento to accept, as a gift of grat
itude, at least the amount of the re
ward that bad been offered.
And so it was that she went down to
San Francisco to school that winter,
after all, Youlh'n Companion,
THE FA KM AX1) HOUSEHOLD.
Tim 1'nro of .Too's and. Farm Imitlrmpnts.
Dollar-after dollar dwindle, imper
ceptibly bus surely away on marv
farms during the winter season because
reapers and mowers, seed-drills, plows
and barrows are loft just where they
were last employed to bear the injurious
effects of pelting storms and dry winds.
Tools worn or loosened and calling for
simple repairs are used until past
mending, and yet it is the leisure
season of the whole year.
A few hours spent each day by the
farmer and his boys in the repair shop
ok1, barn cleaning and oiling machines,
painting wagon-bodies and repairing
wheels and axles, replacing rake-teeth,
tightening hoe-handles, sharpening the
knives to reaping machines, making
rollers and stnmp-puJiers, etc., would
not only savo unnecessary loss in actual
dollars and cents, bnt a vast amonnt of
time, anxiety and annoyance in the
spring when the rash of. work leaves
little or no time in which to make re
pairs or supply the place of lost tools,
There are a variety of mixtures that
may be applied to the iron parts of im
plements to prevent rusting, the cheap
est of which is grease that has not been
salted. An excellent article for the
protection of steel or iron may be pre
pared by melting lard and common
rosin slowly together and stirring the
mixture until it cools. When required
in large quantities it may be made m
the proportion of about six pounds ot
lard to two of rosin. If only a small
amount is desired, a piece of rosin the
size of a ben's egg will suffice for one
pound of lard. This mixture can be
applied with a cloth to the metal sur
face, giving it a thin coat. The rosin
prevents tho lard from becoming ran
cid and the grease excludes the air and
moisture.
Previous to applying any protective
wash, machinery should be thoroughly
cleaned and the bearings wiped and
oiled with castor oil or other lubricant.
Castor oil, by the way, is counted among
the best of oils for iron axles. A wheel
well lubricated will not only revolve
readily but runsmnch longer than when
oileel with cheaper sort of grease.
It is also economy to look after the
woodwork of toob and machinery. Al
ternate wetting and drying soon injures
any wood, causing cracking and final
decay. This may be prevented by the
timely and occasional application r f
rome cheap paint. When woodwork
from exposure has become cracked it is
advised to give it a wash of crnde petro-
lenm previous to an external coat of
paint. 1'etroleum not" only improves
all wooden tools, but is alike valuable
for rustic furniture, such as arbors, gar
den chairs and vases that are exposed
to the weather. Oj tar is sometimes
employed as a paint for wagon wheels
A correspondent who has made use of
it in this way says that it forms a hard,
durable black polish, somewhat like
Japan on tinware, and dries in the sum
mer sun on wood in one day and cn
iron in two days. A good black print
for coarse iron wotk, according to the
Amrrican Journal f Jndualry, may 1 e
made by mixing plumbago with "hot
coal tar. Equal parts of asphaltuin
and rosiu dissolved in common turpen
tine, says the same authority, make also
a good' cheap covering for heavy iron
work.
To preservo harness, leather-belting
and the like, keep in some dry, airy
place; take apart occasionally and thor
oughly clean and oil every portion.
Never oil harness until it has first been
r. lieved of aH dirt ; scrape off the thick
est accumulation of mud, etc., witn a
dull knife, then remove the rest with a
wet cloth. If oiled previous to clean
ing the oil soaking through the dirt into
the leather carries with it fine particles
into tho pores of the leather, thereby
rendering it hard and stiff. For har
ness common neatsfoot oil is excellent,
but when mice and rats abound pure
castor oil is better, for these varments
do not like it. Apply the oil with an
old woclen cloth, putting on as mnch
as will rub in and dry readily. After
oiling harness and belting let it hang
for two or three days in some warm.
airy place and expose to the sunshine
when that is practicable. Never keep
leather appliances of any ort in a dark,
damp place. AVio York Worhi.
Farm and Uarden Notes.
Sheep give back to the farm more, in
proportion to what they take from it,
than any other animal.
Do not allow the cattle to tramp over
the mowings when the ground is soft
enough to retain tho imprint of their
hoofs wherever they go.
frequently after squashes begin to
blossom they dry np and die. For this
disaster no one has yet been able to
give a satisfactory cause.
Strawberries are much more prolific
when four or five different varieties are
planted together, although each variety
may be a perfect one, than if bnt one
perfect variety were planted alone.
The opinion bas generally prevailed
that a little bran mixed with meal
would produce more pork than clear
meal, but in some experiments lately
tried it was found that clear meal made
more pork than a mixture of bran and
meal.
Professor Brewer of the Sheffield Seien--
titio school, New Haven, Bays : " On
acc'ount of the value of our straw and
of the stalks of our corn for feeding it
is found that an acre of corn, wheat or
other grain pays as large a profit here
as at the West, and that tbe labor - of
each man is as well or better paid."
The best thing to do with inferior
stock, when the priea of grain aid
other feed is as high as it is now, is to
fatten them quickly, if possible, and
sell them or dispose of them in some
other way. Better give them away
than, by keeping them, to deprive the
better animals of an abundance of food.
A correspondent of the London Live
Stock Journal cured a horse of tbe bad
habit of rearing when mounted by pro
viding himself with a bottle of water,
and dashing tbe contents "with vio
lence on it head" the moment it began
to get upon its hind jeet. A second ap
plication was never needed.
The Flemish farmer scrupulously col-
leots every atom of sewage from tbe
towns, be guards bis manure like a
treasure, puts a roof over it to prevent
rain and sunshine from spoling it; he
aim gathers mud from livers and
canals, and the excretions of animals
along the highways, for conversion
into phosphates.
Store cattle, or dry cows, may be kept
on the poorest forage nntil the cows
come in, when they should have as
good food as can be afforded. So tho
best way to manage will be to feed up
the poorest stuff first. If it is found
that the corn-fodder is injured by the
blackening and mildewing effects of the
rains it should be fed before the hay ;
bnt if it has been secured in good order
before sustaining any damage it may be
as well to feed it last or after the bay
is pretty well fed ont. This is of im
portance mainly as the feeding seasoa
will have to be well extended into sum
mer next year, or nntil soiling crops
can be obtained.
Heel pes.
Griddle Cares. Take a cupful each
of sweet milk and sour milk, a table
spoonful cream or other shortening;
sift a scant half-teaspoonfnl cream tar
tar in the flour; dissolve a hulf-tcaspoon-f
ul soda in a little water; stir in flour to
make a thin batter; have the griddle
hot and buttered, dip on a spoonful at
a time and fry a light brown.
Apple Cbeam. Peel and core one
pound of apples, place them in a stew
pan with eight onnces of sugar and a
pinch of ground nutmeg. Let cook
until tender; pass the apples through
sieve and let get cold. Whisk np rath el
stiff half a pint of cream, add the apple
pulp, a little essence of lemon, one
onnce of isinglass boiled in a gill of
water; mix well together; pour into a
jelly mold and let set. When re
quired dip the mold into warm water
for half a minute, wipe it with a cloth
and turn it, cut on a glass or silver dish.
Garnish with red flowers and slices of
lemon;
Mashed. Potatoes. Boil the pota
toes gently, after having made
them as nearly uniform in size as
possible, by dividing the larger ones,
cr what is better, by slicing all, but not
very thinly. As soon as the fork goes
through readily tnrn the water off (sav
ing that for mixing your bread if you
bake the same day), then mash through
a colander into ihu same kettle or sauce
pan. Add butter and cream and salt,
and with a long-handled spoon beat a
few minutes briskly. Set the saucepan
where it will thoroughty heat again,
and your potatoes will be a noticeable
feature ot the best of dinners.
Noodle. " Noodle," if properly
made, is a great addition to soup, nnd
is preferred by many peoplo to tho best
" A. B. 0. macaroni." For a family of
xour two eggs will be sufficient ; beat
them until they are very light ; stir in
flour as long as it is possible to work it
in ; salt it well ; roll it ont on a kneed
ing-board nntil it is almost as thin as
paper and is perfectly smooth ; put a
clean paper on a chair or table near
the stove and lav the noodle on it to
diy.. It should be prepared early
enough in the morning for it to dry for
an hour at leabt. About twenty minutes
before thet snnn ia tnkon fvnm iha dnvo
take the noodle and stir it over and
over until you have a strip three or foui
irjeben vidp ; fVtpn nitl n tiliavi-. 1nifa
cut it in narrow strips; put these in
iue soup ana jet them cook nom ten to
fifteen minutpR. Went unnn trifli
noodle, and a pinch of curry ) owder, is
a uisu io ue some.wnai considered.
IIcuHf'liolit Ilium.
Alum is one of the bebt additions to
make whitewash of lime that will not
rub ofl'. When powdered chalk is ued,
glue water is also good, but would not
answer for outside work exposed to much
rain.
That rustic black Italian crape inav
be restored by dipping in skimmed
milk and water, with a bit of fine glne
dissolved in it and made scalding hot.
It should be clapped and pulled drv,
like muslin.
Common soda is excellent for scour
ing tin; as it will not scratch the tin
and will make it look like new. Apply
with a piece of moistened newsnacer
and polish with a dry piece. Wood
ashes are a good substitute.
Mildew may be removed from linen
by mixing with soft soap a little now.
dered starch, half the quantity of bait,
anu tne uice oi a lemon, and applying
it to the mildew stain with a unint
brush on both sides of the linen. The
stained article should then be left out
on the grass day and night until the
spot be removed.
Something for Nothing,
All newspaper publishers have had
experience with nien who want to ad
vertise themselves or their business in
newspapers without cost to themselves.
It is pitiable to see the thabbv means
they take to attain the end they have in
view. Men who would feel insulted if
they were called dead-beats, will with
bland efl'routery ask a publisher to
" please mention so and so" (an adver
tisement), or, handing in what is really
an advertisement under the guise of a
communica'ion, they will say, " Here's
a little item that will help you to fill
up with." Men who do this and there
are some in every town call themselves
honorable and would not think of ask
ing a real estate owner to let them use
one of bis bouses a few months for
nothing; nor would they ask bim td lot
them cultivate and use a part of his
farm, without expecting to have to pay
rent for it.
The advertising columns of his paper
is to the publisher what the houeo or
farm is to tho real estate owner his
source of income. Why any one should
expect the newspaper publisher to be
more generous in squandering bis sub
stance than other business men is
something that cannot be accounted for,
except on. the supposition that some
people have an idiotic idea that printers
set up type for the love of f.he wcrk,
and that ink and type and printing
presses are gifts from heaven to sinful
men, who publish newspapers merelv
for the purpose of smoothing the path
way of their fellow men on the tugged
road to fortune, and who hope not for
reward this side of the grave. Texas
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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Eastern and Middle States.
Tree Hon. A. A. Pottengill, for twecy-flve
years editor and proprietor of the daily i.-wl-ard,
died at Bridgeport, Conn, lie had
been a State Senator, Congressman and Jnited
States marshal, and was census commissioner
of Connee'ieut.
Ex-GovEiiNon Au xamjkr H. Bullock, of
Massachusetts dropped dead on the sidewalk
in Worcester, Mass., of apoplexy. He was born
in Worcester In 181(1, and had been succes
sively a member of the Massachusetts legisla
ture, mayor of Worcester, speaker of the Stato
house of representatives, and governor, to which
latter office he was elected in 18C6, and twice
re-elected,
William H. Vanoemiilt gave a reception to
his frionds at his new house iu Fifth avenue,
New York, which cost (3,000,000 to build and
furnish, and is considered the finest private
residence ia tho city. More than 600 men were
employed for a yearaud a half on tho interior
decorations alone, while sixty sculptors wore
brought from Europe'and kept at work two roars.
fTho house is 81 feet front by 115 feet doep, and
four stories high.
ATjoanesville, Fa., the coal breaker oporatod
by J. 0. Haydon ft Co., ono of the largest
breakers in Luzerne county, was totally de
stroyed by fire, together with about 200 tons
of coal. The loss is estimated at (200,000.
Governor Cornell has sent to the Now
York legislature a special message, called forth
by the recent railroad -slaughter at Bpuyten
Duyvcl. The message calls attention to the
need of stringent laws for tho prevontion of
accidents on railroads.
While hhisting at a stone quarry near Bead
ing, Ta., three men were frightfully injured by
a premature explosion, two of them having
their eyes blown out.
Tub one hundredth anniversary of Daniel
Wobstor's birth was celebrated at Boston by a
banquet, and at Salisbury, X. H., his birth
place, commemorativo exercises wero held.
Tub Pennsylvania board of pardons, in ses
sion at Harrisburg, decided against the appli
cations of six immlorur for a commutation of
their death sentence.
South and West.
Mb. Lamau has been re-elected to the United
States Senate by the Misnisaippi legislature.
lNDiANOLA, ill., lias lost in LmsinciH part by
liro, Tho court-house, postofllee and several
other buildings ,il Abilene, Kansas, have also
bmm dustioyed by tho flames.
Another terriblo tragedy is reported froia
Kentucky. .Tames K. Wilmot, a farmer living
near Lanea9tr, killed his mother, aged oighty
iiino, his wife and two daughters, age I about
nineteen and fifteen, made an unsuccessful
attempt to kill a son of twenty, aud thcu
hanged himself in his baru.
Tub flood at Nashville, Touu., inundated
more than 1,000 houses and compelled no loss
than 1,500 persons to abandon their homes
The city was surrounded on tlm sides by
wator. All the piinclpal streats wero ihiodcd,
and houses and barns wero continually pasting
down the swollen river.
Fiuk broko out iu the house occupied by
Oeoro C. Smith nnd l'amily at Clinton, Mo.,
and Mm. Smith, with four daughters, ranging
in age from six to seventeen yearn, perished in
the llamcH. Mr. Smith, with an eight-year-old
daughter and a neighljor's child, escaped.
At Seattlo, Washington Territory, .Tames
Sullivan and William Howard, who had mur
dered a young man named Reynolds, were
taken out of comt by a crowd of 100 men and
baugod. The crowd then proceeded to the jail,
overcame the guards, took from his cell Ben
jamin Payne, under arrtst for killing a police
man, and Strang him up in company with the
other two men.
Ashkrsox .Tonk (colored) was bunged at
Augusta, (Ja., for murdering a yonng merchant
named Haraldou, and at Franklin, Idaho,
Michael Mooney met a similar fate for the mur
der of J. Hinckley, a station agent.
John W.fiooNi:n, in Jail at Ironton, Ohio,
on the charge of having murdered Dr. Joseph
A. Beggs, bookkeeper and chemist for the
.i:!na iron works, was taken from his cell by
a body of masked men and hanged to a treo in
the court -hoiiuo yard.
An unsuccessful attempt was madu to wreck
a special tiain on which Jay Goul l and partj
wero goiug northward toward Sedalm, Mo
The obstruction placed on the track was dis
covered a few minutes beforo it was reached by
the train. A farmer was arrested for the act,
and ttatcd that some of his stock had ben
killed by trains, and thathe attempted towreel
'lie train iu revenge.
Heavy rains caused an increased risinj ol
the Cumberland river at Nashville, TeuiL, and
the inuudation hemmed in the city on nearh
all sides. Ten thousand families wero driven
from their homes. In many instances Hit
people wero imprisoned in their houses by the
Hood and had to be rescued by boats. Munj
acres of business Iioubos and private dwelling
wero iuundatcd, aud the pecuniary damage if
very heavy.
The bark F. I,. Carney, from Navaesa, West
Indies, to Baltimore, loaded with guano, suns
threo miles south of Hatteras inlet, N. C, and
eight of tho ten men on board lost their lives.
A laroe candy aud cracker factory and seven
adjoining buildings iu Atlanta, Ga., have been
destroyed by tiro, causing a lws of (300,000.
Ouo man was buruid to death.
. Mrs. Beukcca Rankin, a wealthy old widow,
living near Newoomorstown, Ohio, becoming
possessed with the ide that she would die it
poverty, arose iu the night aud hanged herself
A collision between two trains on the
Charleston and Savannah railroad, twenty-seven
miles from the former place, resulted in the
death of two men and serious injuries to sev
eral more.
From Washington.
Tub Senate select committee on tho rights ot
women gave a hearing to a large dele-cation of
tho members of the National Woman's Suffrage
convention.'
Colonlx Dudley, commissioner of pensions,
iu an address io the Houbs committee ou pen
sions, said if he had 100 men to place in the
field aa special agents be could eliminate all
pension frauds within three years' time. He
thought such special agents should receive
about (1,100 per year and expenses.
The national board of health has at its meet
lug declared smallpox to D6 epidemic iu tho
L'uitod States. The inspection has been or
dered of several of the most important quar
antine stations, to determine if the rules and
regulations of tho hoard, approved by the
I'rosidtnt November II, 1881, are being prop
crly enforced. ,
Vhk total values of the exports of domeetio
provisions, tallow and dairy products during
December, 1881, were (12,981,978, and during
December, 1880, (15,874,787; for the twelve
months ended December 81, 1881, (133,823,212,
and for the same period in 1880, (143,882,670.
Twbntt States and Territories were repre
sented at the fourteenth annual convention of
the National Woman's Snffrage convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided, and numer
ous addresses in conformity with the priuoiples
of the party were adopted.
The socretary of the navy has receivod the
following dispatah, dated Irkutsk, Russia, from
Engineer Mellville, of the lost .Teannette:
" Melville, Danenhower and eleven men all
well. Melville returned to Arctie ocean; found
log books, instruments and four records left by
De Long. No tidings of eeoond cuttor, Lieu
tenant Chlpp. Search continued during the
winter by Cossack commandant of Bolun aud
Iakntsk, undor directions of General Teller
naieff. Word from Kolyma river that no boat
had arrived to date, November 19. I am ac
quainted with the country where De Long and
party are, and reqmst order to remain, with
two men, to renew the search in March, Danen
hower and nine men to return to the United
States. Dancnhower's sight partly recovered."
Scorctary Hunt replied, giving Mclrillo the or
ders he asked.
Foreign News.
The English t chooner Weathergage capsized
off Honduras, and eight passengers wore
drowned.
A fire in a theater at Rotterdam, Holland, .
created a panic, and eevoral persons leaped
over the balconies ami wero injured.
The London Timet, in its financial article,
says that a break-up of tho excessive specula
tion which has been going on in Europe is now
taking place.
An ineui-roction against Austria has broken
out in tho Balkan peninsula. The rising oom
meuced in Herzegovina, extending to tho bor
der districts of Dahuatia, Bosnia, Albania, and
probably Montenegro. An Austrian army corps
will be dicpatched to crush tho insurrection.
Many men and horses were burned to death
and much property was destroyed by tho burn
ing of a circus in Bucharest, capital of Ron
mania. Tue Holy League, a society formed to coun
teract nihilism, will lie recognized as a branch
of the Runxiau police.
The insurgents iu the Balkan provinces have
slaughtered a detachment of ten Austrian
soldiers and defeated another body of Aus
trian near Ble-lagoia.
A triiie occupying a region near the South
African diamond fields a.id which is allied to
Great Britain has suffered a loss of 150 men
from an attack made, by another tribe which
was aided by Boer mercenaries.
Mas small engagements have taken plao
bitwecii the Au-trian troops and tho iinnr
gents In tha Balkan provinces.
Tti nr.E thousand French troops are reported
to have died in TtuiN, North Africa.
The panh iu Paris financial i-ircles has
rpread to Yiouiu, and many cases of suicide
are rcportt-d.
Tulre are 70,0-JU claims fur ilio fixing of
lair rent hefc.ro the Irish land court.
Two hundred revolting Arabs wo.'o killud iu
nn engagement with Turkish troops in Arabia.
rOBTY-SLYEXTH CONGRESS.
Hpnntn.
Petitions for a commission of inquiry con
cerning the alcoholic liijnor traffic, for an in
crease of pay to members of the life service,
and from citizens of Kansas for woman sum-age,
were presvnto:!.... Hills were introduced pro
viding for a coumiiFxion on tho alcoholic litjuor
traffic; p.-iinitting Ward Hunt, supremo court
justice, t r-tiro; granting a pension toLucretia
It. liartield, etc.... The arrears of pension bill
and the Miui-rnnn refunding bill wero euccos-sivelj-
diH;issud.
Tho bill to retire Supreme Court Justice Ward
Hunt was reported favorably.... Mr. Blair of
fered a resolution instructing tho committee
on public lands to inquiro into the administra
tion of tho land laws and sv-ttems, their opera
tions in the practical disposition of the public
lands, and any abuses and hardships which
may exut in thoir administration, and to ro
port facts and recommendations. Adopted....
Mr. Brown mado a speech on the currency
question, his text being his resolution declaring
the inexpediency of contracting tho currency
by the withdrawal of tho silver certificates, or
tho discontinuance or further restriction of
tilver coinage, and that, gold and silver coin,
based upon a proper ratio of equivalence be
tween tlio two metals, and issue of paper
predicated upon and convertible into coin on
demand, constitute tho proper circulating me
dium of this country.... The Shorman refund
ing bill was further discussed by Messrs. Mor
gau, Sherman, Beck and Bayard.... Mr.
George introduced a bill to encourage agricul
ture and manufactures. It proposes to repeal
all duties and imposts now laid on machinery
lor the manufacture of cotton or woolen goods
or goods composed of hemp or jute; also on all
tools of mechanics which are used solely in
manual labor; also on all agricultural imple
ments and on all iron cotton-tics.
A lively debate took place ou the t herman
funding bill, the participants being Messrs.
Sauisbury, Windom and II ill.... The bill retir
ing Supreme Court Justice Hunt was passed
by a vote of 41 yeas to 11 nsys.
Ilouae.
Mr. Belmont oUereu a resolution asking lor
full information as to the relations of the gov
ernment with South America.... Mr. Roboon
called up the report of the committee on rule
increasing tbe membership of various commit
tocrs of tho House. Mr. Orth offered as a
substitute for the committee's report his amend
ment for the election, at tho beginning of each
Congress, of a commission charged witli tho
duty of assigning tbe membership of commit
tees. A long discussion followed, during
which there was coueiderublo excitement. A
motion Io lay Mr. Itobesou's report ou the
tablo was lost by a vote of HO ncys to 107
yeas.
A bill was introduced for the sale of the
United States court-house at Boston.. ..A bill
was reported for the sale of tho land of the
Miami Indians in Kansas, aud a report was
inade on the subject of mctrio coinages. . . .Tha
report of the committee on rules, proposing an
iucroase iu the membership of cerfciin commit
tees, was further discussed.
The day was chiefly occupied in the disous
sion of the report of the committee ou rules iu
regard to enlarging the committees ot the
House; the report was finally recommitted by
a vote of 159 to 90.
A curious application of electricity is
bow employed in tho Spanish array.
Consent ts wishing to escape military
service hava. it RPcoma. often racwvtar) in
the trick of Lending the body while
i . . . . .
ueiug measured, io as to rring tlietr
stature below tbe limit prescriUd for
the service. To prevent fraud of this
kind ia tbe object of the new device.
When the man ia standing perfectly
erect the backs of the legs at the
knees presa against electrio contacts,
causing two bells to ring, while a thiid
bell ia similarly rung by pressure of the
head. For a correct measurement the
three bells bhoud.ring simultaneously.
The ringing ceases when ther) is the.
least bending.
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