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Established 1842.
Clarksville, Red Eiver County, Texas, J an. 9, 188G.
jSTew Series, ]N~o9
I
County .Directory.
W. E. Wootten County, Judge.
J.R. Johnson. Sheriff.
A. P. Coiley, Comity Clerk.
K. M. Howurs, District Clerk.
U. F. Con ley, County Attorney.
W. K. Hamilton. Assessor.
David Kainey, Collretor.
0. L. Moorman, Iriasurer.
J.T. Fleming, J. P., precinct no 1.
J. C. lirown, Constable, "
W.A . Manldin, J. P., precinct no 2.
J. A Dickson, Constable. "
J. E. Horner, J. P., precinct no i.
W. J. Grant, Constable, "
li. W. Townes, J. P., precinct, no 4.
.1. E. Dixiley, Coustal>le, " _
F. M. White, J. P., precinct no 5.
1. J. Kuckner, Constable, "
F. M. Uiddings, J. P., precinct no B.
K. W. Mowery, Constal>le, "
P. W. Senter, J. P., precinct no 7.
Kol) S. Pope, Consta' <le, "
E. M. Posey, J. P., pi eeient no 8.
J. A. Birge, Constable, "
cot'ntt commissiokrrs.
Precinct no 1 G. K. Cheathain.
" " 2. J. W. Baker.
" " 3. 8. H. Teel.
" " 4. J. F. Grooms.
A HIGHER LIFE IK A LOWER.
What Poverty Did tor Two Rich People Born
Out of Their Spheres.
M. L. AIMS. W. J. MCDOXALD.
SIMS & McDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Courts of the th District
nnd in lite Supreme and Federal Courts held in
the State. no.l-tf.
E. S. LOOK, M. I>.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
CLARKSVILLE, RED RIVER CO. TEXAS.
Special attention given to Surgery, nml disease
ef women anil children. Office one uoor South of
the Post Ollice.
Oct. 4tli le79. no.l-tf.
It. Q-. -LiAJSTE.
HHYSIC1AN
Nov. 1st 1879.
and SUKGEON.
Clarksville, Texas.
no.l-tf
;p.w. jexmsrs,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS.
Tenders liis professional services to the peo-
ple of Clarksville ami vicinity,
Office at Goldberg's Drug Store. Can be
found at night at tlie residence of Mrs. Alice
Clark, North of the square. no.2-ii.
J. W Y.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
CLARKSVILLE TEXAS,
otfers his scrviccs to the public, in all branches
of his profession.
He "will 1m found at Goldberg's drug sU re, or
at his residence in south Clarksvillo.
Nov. 1st 1871). no.l-tf
DENTISTRY.
DR. Z. B. MOORMAN,
Resident Dentist,
can'always be tound at G. C. Baker & Bio's store,
office up stairs. All work warranted. Teeth ex
tracted for titty cents, all other work in propor-
tion.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st. no-l-tf.
For Rent!
Oue hundred (1(10) acres of tlie
GORDON PLANTATION,
___ on Red River.
Large and comfortable dwelling, and good
tenement houses. Cistern water, with litters.
Land in good state of cultivation.
Houses in excellent repair. For 1880 or a
term of years to a desirable tenant.
Apply to M. B. Morrison,
no6-4t. Clarksville, Tex.
CITY BAKERY
AND RESTAURANT.
MR . FREELAND has in connection with hei
Restaurant a bakery, where can be found fresh
Bread, Cakes, Pies, and in fact everything in that
line. no.2-tf
NOTICE TO EVERYBODY
Now is your time to get Goods Cheap!
J. P. DAXtE
Oilers to the Public, the cheapest lot of
CLOTHING, DRY GOODS
N" otions,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND
GROCERIES,
to be found at any honse in the City. Call and
ee for yourself. nov. 1st 1870, no 1-tf-
C>. AV. GAITHER,
W1TCHM1KBR & JEWELLER.
South-west corner Public Square, with J. P
Palo, has just received atiue assortment of Jewel
ry, Spectacles, Eye-glasses, Sun glasses,
Gents Chains, Charms, Rings.
Sowiug Machines, Needles and oils, lie has
the latest improved tools for repairing Watches,
Clocks and Jewelry.
Uft.l'lain Gold rings made to oriler. All work
promptly done and warranted.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st, Bii). no-l-tf.
THE PALACE DRUG H0USE7
O. C. MARSH,
Dealer in
DRUGS,
SEIIIfflS, CBEltlCALS, PALMS, OILS
and ©lass.
PAINTERS' SUPPLIES.
Agent for the Southern White
Lead Company.
Clarksville, Toxa.«.
It was Saturday night, and a German band
sat at a round table in tlie rear nioin of a
lieer-tunnel on the east side, smoking long
pipes and drinking schooners of beer. The
bine smoke twined slowly in and out of the
festoons of cobwebs that hung from the ceil-
ing and veiled in a thin mist a figure ot Ger-
inania, who from one of the low walls threat-
ened the party with a large sword. One of
the band, an American and the clarinet play-
er, sat moody and silent, with his gaze fixed
on the floor, while his companions sliuiUed
their feet with a grating noise on the sanded
floor, and narrated amnsing stones when
their lips were otherwise unemployed.
The clarinet player was philosophizing and
ruminating, and he was therefore in a gloomy
state of mind. Despite his well-worn clothes,
he was a man who would not have failed to
attract attention in any assemblage. His
short chestnut curls clustered thickly on his
well-shaped head, even nt- that vulnerable
spot, the crown, and made his white brow-
whiter still by contrast. His face was tanned
by exposure to the weather, and a heavy but
silky mustache partly concealed the outlines
of a chin that was a trifle too heavy to be
beautiful; but his nose 'vas straight and not
more highly colored than the rest of his face
and his large brown eyes had a soft and
dreamy expression, that never failed to find
its*way to the hearts of the snowy-capped
maids who, with their young charges, gather-
ed around the blind in the streets. "Shar-
ley," as his companions liked to call liim, had
made the fortunes of the band with those
eyes of his. Formerly a cheese sandwich had
satisfied their cravings and left no room for
discontent; now broiled sausages and even
Haiubnrger steak were not unknown to them,
and unlimited beer had become a necessity.
Instead of snatching a few hours' sleep on a
shake-down in a cheap lodging-house, each
man had now a bed in his own corner of a
room in Elm street.
"Sharley" was very different from l.is com-
rades in one respect. Money was of no value
to him, excepting to supply him with the
barest necessities of life. While the other
members of the bund squandered their daily
earnings in feasting "Sharley" contented hinil
self with the coarsest fare, and with the in-
difference of a stoic deposited in a savings
bank the money he -did need for his actual
wants. It may be wondered how it happen-
ed that Charles Brnckbauer, to call him by.
tlie name by which he preferred to lie known,
came to cast his lot with such seemingly in-
congruous company, and a brief glance at his
past history is necessary for the elucidation of
the mystery.
Cliarles had been the petted son of a mil-
lionaire who had added greatly to the already
large fortune left him by his father. Charles
had been a bright boy and had had every ad-
vantage that wealth could control, but there
was some strange trait or twist in his char-
acter that no one could understand, ranch
less explain. While he was fitting for col-
lege he ran away twice to figlit the Indians,
although the trashy and sensational l'tera-
ture of the day had been carefully kept out
of his reach; and in his sophomore year • he
oined the crew of a canal-boat, and it was
only with difficulty that he was persuaded to
return to college. He graduated, not with
honor but still not at the foot of his class,
and his father immediately took him into his
business and encouraged him to go into so-
ciety. But Charles disdained the drudgery
of the desk, the polite frivolities of the draw-
ing-saam, the favors of the German, and the
bewitching glances of young ladies at fash-
ionable fairs. He joined an athletic ulub
and attended horse-races; butlie still felt
there was something wanting. This some-
thing was not, as might have been supposed,
the possession of a maiden's heart, for
Charles had met a young lady • whom he
thought he could have loved, but she was the
daughter of a rich banker, and Charles felt
that he could not place himself in sympathy
with her surroundings any more than with
his own surroundings in his father's house.
One sultry summer evening Charles, hav-
ing been called by some business to the east
side of the town, entered a lager-beer saloon
and called for a glass of Apollinaris water.
Tlie barkeeper had never heard of this bever-
age and suggested a schooner of beer instead.
Charles accepted the suggestion and, while
waiting for the froth, which constituted the
greater part of the contents of the glass, to
subside, he glanced around tlie room. In a
corner he saw tour men, who, to judge from
the instruments beside them, were wander-
ing musicians, and they seemed to be onjoy-
ing themselves mightily. As he watched
their unconstrained manner and heard their
hearty laughter and noticed their general in-
souciance, a sudden longing that ho could
not shake off took possession of him. He left
his beer untasted—and well ho might, for it
was now flat and tasteless-and hurried homo
but the next night and the night after that
found him in the same place, and at last
Charles knew that tlie detect in his lifo was
this: he had been born to be one of the lower
classes.
One night Charles missed tlie clarinet-
player. On inquiry he learned that the man
had been arrested on suspicion of something
connected with an overcoat. Charle's musi-
cal education had not been entirely neglect-
ed. Ho could play on the flute aud the Ger-
man accordiou, and a sudden impulse induc-
ed him to oiler himself in place of the absent
musician. His offer was accepted without
hesitation, and from that moment, so far as
liis fiiends'vere concerned, he became a "mys-
terious disappearance." He never returned
to liis father's house, nor. did he make any
sign to let his distressed family know that lie
was still alive.
On this Saturday night, then, Charles was
recalling his past life in a dreamy way and
musing on it. Said he to himself: "Here it
is coming on to Christmas, and according to
all ideas of propriety I ought to be at home.
Home! What is home ! It is like heaven—
the conditions to his liking with which a man
surrounds himself—and I am happier here
than I ever was in the old time. If I don't
follow this life I'll have to take to one tliaf is
w orso, and I don't like vice. I know that
"° -'tf! people would say that my instincts are low
t
and my tastes vulgar, but I can't help it. It
must be because my grandfather began life
as a pedler and that I am "breeding back,"
or else that the savage or the primitive man
in my nature is cropping out. I have only-
one regret, and that is about Margaret Bishop.
Why wasn't she born a pool girl 1 Then I
might have known her and could have loved
her. But to many a simple votary of fash-
ion, and be doomed to a life of balls and re-
ceptions and theatre-geing and dressing—ev-
erything full-tlress all the time—it would
have killed me at last."
While these thoughts were running through
Charles's head he was brought to another
sense of himself by a hearty slap on the
back ;and the adjuration, "Komm, Sharley,
konun! We must go by dot barty und blay !"
Charles arose and shook himself, and then
picking np his clarinet left the beer-tunnel,
followed by his comrades.
Alter walking some distance they paused in
front of a tall house, still on the east side,
but further up town than the beer-tunnel, and
after glancing at the flood of light that was
streaming from the lower windows they enter-
ed and tapped at a door. The door was
thrown open and a shout ot welcome greeted
them. Charles, followed by his companions,
moved towards the rear of the room, where
chairs had been hastily placed for them, but
suddenly started back and exclaimed, "Mar-
garet—Miss Bishop—you here !"
"Charles—Mr. Briggs—is this you /" ex-
claimed a young lady who had arisen at his
approach and turned deathly pale.
"Let us leave this place,'' exclaimed Briggs,
for such was his real name. us go into
tlie conservatory—fool that I am, there is no
conservatory here—come to the back door
and tell mo what this means."
Margaret followed him into tne hallway
and putting her hand on his arm, said:
"I live in this house; come to my rooms.
We will be undisturbed there."
Charles accompanied Margaret to lier sit-
ting room at the top of the house. The apart-
ment was smal! but neatly furnished and on
every side there were indications of a wo-
mau's gentle and tasteful hand.
"Now, Miss Bishop," said Briggs in a tone
almost of authority, "Why are you here T"
"Do you not know! Can you not guess?"
asked Margaret.
"1 know nothing," he answered briefly.
"Have you not read of my father's failure
and—and death V
"I never read tlie papers," answered Briggs,
"but do you mean that your fortune has been
swept away and that you are reduced to pen-
ury T"
"No," exclaimed Miss Bishop, the hot blood
mantling her; "I mean nothing of the kind.
I am supporting myself by honorable labor,
rather than to stoop to those butterfly friends
of former days and ask them for favors. I am
a working-woman," she added proudly, and
then she asked, "But what are you doing
here as an humble musician t"
"My father lias not failed that I know of,"
answered Briggs, slowly, "but I felt a longing
for that higher life which is unknown among
the children of wealth, and which is only to
be sought for among the lower classes. I
longed to know those exalted feelings which
make the gypsy happy in his rags, the Ger-
man contented over his schooner of beer, the
Irishman peaceful over his pipe, the American
satisfied with an occasional grumble at those
in authority."
"You reflect my sentiments exactly." ex-
claimed Margaret, eagerly bending foward.
"I have sometimes thought that I was not
meant for the narrow round of gayeties in
which I moved and that I was destined for a
nobler, a larger and a fuller life."
"And I, idiot that I was," exclaimed Briggs,
"never saw this! I thought you a mere child
of fashion."
"I hope your new life lias had its desired
effect of opening your eyes to many tilings,"
said Miss Bishop, archly.
Briggs threw himself at her feet.
"No, no," she exclaimed; "that is not the
Way they do in this higher life of ours," and
crossing the room 6he seated herself on a
lounge.
Briggs was by her side in an instant, and
stole his .arm around her waist. She leaned
her head on liis shoulder and he was about to
kiss her when the door was flung violently
open and one of the musicians stumbled in.
"Hi, you, Sharley," he exclaimed, "de
beeples want some music and de vomans all
say, 'So many mans, and no valzer.' Come
quick already."
"Will you dance, Maggie," asked Briggs.
"If you will be my partner, Charley," she
replied, in a low voice.
Briggs drew some change from his pocket
and glanced at it liartily.
"You will have to hunt up another clarinet,
Jacobs," said he; "I'm going to be a society
man to-night."
LYNCH LAW IN COLORADO.
Denver, Dec. 28.—Sam Woodruff and
Joe Seminole—the latter a half-breed In-
dian—who murdered K. B. Hayward, a
farmer of Jefteron County, on Sept. 10.
were taken from the jail at Golden and
lynched, at 1 o'clock this morning-, by
150 masked men. The murder for which
the men were lynched was a cold-blooded
and cowardly one. Seminole and Wood-
ruff stopped at Hay ward's house, near
Golden, and employed him to take them
to a cattle camp in the mountains. Be
started out with the men, and was never
seen alive again by liis family. Search
was made for liim and his team for sever-
al days, and three weeks later his body
was found under a culvert, a short dis-
tance from Denver. A clue was obtained
as to tlie direction iii which the men had
gone, and it was closely lbl lowed. It was
discovered that on the night of the mur-
der the men had driven into Denver and
put up tlie team intending to sell it next
day. On tlie following morning the sale
of the team was made for $1S5, $10 of the
money being paid in cash and the rest in
a check. The men then hired a team,
which they took a short distance, and
and
TAKING THE CENSUS.
The Population cf Berlin.
A Serious Difference
[Washington Post.] j A report just issued by the municipality Nathaniel Gosch, a Virginia colored
The census of 1SS0 will be a remarkable I °.f Berliu Sives some interesting informa-; individual, eomplaiued to a magistrate in
piece of literature. It will be an accurate | £>10ft th the population ol Philadelphia ol the outrageous way iu
and exhaustive report of births, deaths, I e,l(' tbe seventeenth ; which ho had been treated by John Fisher
codfiish, coai, oil, lumber, honev, beeswax, j cuntury, when London and Paris each a North Carolina "dark-" lie told his
I • . • I . . 1 7 . ' /-•/" 1 llAl
political representa-
tion. In 1850 the law was changed, and
has since then demanded the name, sex,
age, color, birth-place and occupation ot
each individual. Ability to read and present century, its population had al-
write is also included, and thus we get rea<iv risen to about 150,000. It mcreas-
the basis of educational statistics, which !e(! further after the close of the war
will be more fully ascertained this year Napoleon and during the long peace
proceeded
then cut loose tlie horses
on horseback. •
Deputy Sheriff T. Jeff Carr got a clue
as to (lie direction iu which one of the
men (Seminole) had gone, and he was
followed to the Pinte Agency, in Dakota,
where he was arrested. He made a con-
fession, giving a description of Woodruff
who seems to have been the principal in
the murder. He says they were riding
along with Hayward. Seminole being on
the front seat with Hayward, and Wood-
ruff on the back seat. Woodruff got into
and argument with Hayward and struck
him a blow which almost knocked him
out of the wagon, but before befell Wood-
ruff seized him by the throat and choked
him to death. Woodruff then told Semi-
nole to take the reins, and, throwing the
body in the bottom of tlie wagon, they
drove on until they came to the culvert
where the body was fouud. The body
was then thrown out ot the wagon, and
Woodruff placed it under the culvert.
When the body was discovered the neck
was broken.
Deputy Sheriff Hawley,acting npon the
confession of Seminole and a description
of Woodruff, went to Big Grove, Iowa
thirty miles east of Council Bluffs, where
Woodruff has a brother living. He found
Woodruff there and arrested him at the
muzzle of a shotgun, and brought him
back to Denver. Seminole was arrested
on Oct. 10, and Woodruff on Nov. 26.
When the murderers were brought here,
Mrs. Hay way and her two daughter came
down from Golden, and identified them as
the men who liatl gone away with Hay-
ward.
"If our Southern friends,'' says the
Louisville Farm Journall, "who have
heretofore only raised the black raspber
ries would plant a few of the Turner red
oues they would soon dispense with the
blacks. The Turner grows as easily as a
brier, and will stand anything, either
heat or cold, good treatment or ^ bad.
"If we wanted strawberries in quantity
regardless of size or flavor, we would
plant Ducliesse, Crescent and Captain
Jack, and we would be sure to have them.
If size and quality were the object, then
Long-fellow, W arreu, Cumberland Triumph
Black Defiance, Sharpless, Miner's Boy-
den and Charles Downing. For a late
berry, we know of nothing better than
Kentucky."
New Ouleans, December 30.—The
cotton-seed oil factories in this city are
reaping this fall a golden harvest. Their
products—oil and oil cake—have risen
largely iu value, while the manufacturers
have been paying only the old price for
the raw material. Every 450-pound bale
of cotton when ginned yields about half a
ton (1,100 pounds ot seed, which are sold
to the factories at $15 per ton. Hero the
oil is expressed anil the refuse is sold as
oil cake—chiefly exerted to Europe for
stock food and used by the sugar-planters
as a fertilizer. Before expressing the seed
they are first linted and hulled. The lint
extracted is sold to the white-paper fac-
tories and the hulls are used for fuel and
as fertilizers—thus is every part of the
cottou fruit utilized.
than ever before
Experts are already iu the field obtain-
ing statistics of gold, silver, iron and cop
per mining. The working force is now
taking the census of the great lakes, get-
ting the statistica ot the fisheries and the
fishing population.
"Under the census act of 1S79,'' said
Gen. Walker to a Post reporter, "we are
required to investigate nearly every
kuown industry—railroads, life and fire
insurance, telegraph and express couipa-
les. Agricultural resonrces, timber cul-
ture, all manner of social and industrial
statistics are now being collected. Effort
is being made to secure accuracy and re-
nuder the great elector aud the two first j when dis yah nigger comes up to me an'
Prussian kings; and in the time of Fred-! ses: 'Look yar, cle man, what ye, goin
erick the Great, at the beginning of the j roun' sayin' I was a democrat nigger lot"
'Go 4wav, chile,'I ses, jes' dat waj^l done
say nnflin' 'bout yo'.' 'Now, ole' hoss,sjiy
'dat am too extenuated by a long shot,
kaze I heerd dat yo" bcou makiu' all kin's
ob side remarksb'out me an'de lady which
l'ze payiu' 'tent ion to, an' ef'vo' don'
that followed, but at the end of I860,
though the municipal district of Berlin
had beeu considerably
not contain much more than
habitants. During the
that followed, however, its population j dei up I,ze a
was almost doubled. This has not been
the case with any town of the same size
except New York. Since 1877 the popu-
lation of Berlin has been over 1,000,000,
and it is now the largest city in Europe
after London and Pans.—fFiom the Phil-
adelphia Times.]
isuict oi uernn ize payin teniion to, an' el yo' don slop
extended, it did j it de fust ting yo knows I'll j'es' carve yo'
han 500,000 in- j powk to' you.' 'G' way, boy!' I ses ;don'
sixteen years j yo' agriwate me,kaze when I gets me «laii
its population der up I,ze a bad man.' 1 jes' say dat
London Telegraph, Dec. 4 : A correspond
ent of the Western Morning News gives an
liability iu the reports. An eminent g;eo- j interesting description of the voyage of the th6 11,a ,strate-
i tli a mi Am in op Crocodile. In the course of his observations,
jedgc, for to scar him, but bless yo heart,
it had de opposishiou 'feet, fo' he lips
out a razah an slashes me all ober like do
mutton lb' dey hang her up on de stawl.
Yes, sail, an'ef 1 liad'ut been fo' de o!e
woman which jes' den made her'pearanee
at de do' wif a kittle of bilin' waistli dat,
i "'gger would hab carded me into bonnet.
> ribbons, suah
"What have you to say, Fisherf'ask-
ed the *
logist is now working up the quarrying
industry; socisd scientists are busying
themselves with the statistics of cities,
persons and reformatory institutions. A
specialist who lias devoted years to the
subject will prepare the report on cotton
cultivation. These, will be, standard re-
ports when finished. There is nothing so
misleading and incoherent as inaccurate
and incomplete statisticl."
"How many supervisors will there
be?"
"One hundred and fifty. That is the
number of districts into which the United
otates is to be divided. Each supervisor
will then divide his district into enumer-
ation districts. The actual work of enu-
meration is all to be done during the
month of June."
"And by condensing the work you will
get more accurate results?''
"Certainly. And we draw the lines
still closer and take the census in all cities
where the population is over 10,000 with-
in two weeks. We shall try to avoid the
June exodus, which would, very natural-
ly, cause people to be counted twice, if
the time were not limited."
"But has not the 1st ot June always
been census day?"
"Theoretically, but practically, the
work took five w.ontlis. When examined
the statistics on which the mortality ta-
bles are based are very unreliable. In
very few States is the registration of
births aud deaths rigidly enforced. Pro-
bably Rhode Island and Massachusetts
have the best management in this respect.
Many of the States have admirably con-
structed laws, which are not enforced. In
these mortality statistics physicians will
be employed and accuracy as regards the
census of health will be secured. We
have sent out 00,000 blanKs to physicians
and boards of health."
"What pay will the Supervisors re-
ceive?"
"They are to have $500 each in full ser-
vices and expenses, with clerk hire at
the discretion of (lie Department. New-
York will be entitled to eleven supervis-
ors, Pennsylvania, ten, and the other
ates according to the work to be done.''
"How many persons will be doing cen-
sus work during that month of June?"
"About 20,000.''
"And how much will it cost!"
"The amount is limited to $3,000,000.
That is $300,000 less than the last census
cost. It is a good investment. In the
one matter of the fisheries, for instance
he says: "On Scpteiulier 21 the ship crossed
the equator early in the morning. On the
following night a curious curious circum-
stance occurred which would hardly lie cred-
ited. The ship was stopped by jellyfish,
which, shortly after 1 o'clock, .appeared in
myriads as far as the eye could reach, and
the thousands of luminous bodies floating
upon the water gave the appearance of a
scene from fairyland. Some of the fish got
into the strainers of the condensers and
blocked the holes so that the water could not j
enter, and the result was that the vacum
went down and then disappeared entirely.
The condensers afterwards becoming so heat-
ed that we had to stop steaming altogether,
take oil' the strainers and clear them. Three
attempts were made to steam and each failed
from the same cause. In this way we were
delayed no less than five hours,: but at day-
break the tisli sank and the ship was i ble to
proceed. The same thing occurred agaiu on
the following night, the ship being delayed
four hours."
London, Dec. 31.—A dispatch to the Daily
News, dated Cabul, December 2<>, sayB the
Mohammedans are abandoning Cabul, fearing
that the retribution will be visited npon
them, as they all sympathized with the ene-
my. The Hindoos, who remain in Cabul,
say that a region of terror existed from the
15th up to the time it was abandoned by the
lebels. Every shop and house was gutted
except those belonging to the Mohammedans.
Women were stripped publicly and men
were shot in the streets. The total loss of
j the enemy ia and near Cabul i:- placcd at
12000.
i The snow is fast ineltiii".
'Don' gat nuffiu' to say," replied fhe
prisoner, doggedly, "'cebt ef he don' stop
interview]u' wit' my 'fairs he better jine
do army, dat's all.
One thousand dollar
bail.
The late "Most Noble William John
Cavendish Scott-Bentinek. fifth doke of
Portland," spent much of his time aud a
great part ol his income, in putting his
magnificent seat of Welbeck Abbey
iu the most perfect order for receiving
and entertaining guests iu ducal style:
but owing mainly to the state of'his
health lie kept no company, and gave no
entertainments on any occasion.
H audieds of laborers were employed
upon his estate at good wages,but on "one
condition—-no one was to speak fo him
or salute him. The man who touched his
hat was at once discharged. The village
doctor and the parson had the
same orders. The tenants were informed
of the Duke's wishes,and if they met liim
tliey were to pass him as they would a free.
1 he Duke's life was a sad one; during
the latter half of it he suffered from the
most frightful disease, leprosy, which he
contracted in the Holy land/
Th# Louisiana Sugar Interest.
The Louisiana papers are discussin -
the Sorghum movements in the WesL
Some of them admit that it means busi-
ness, warn the Louisiana planters that
they will soon have to compete Willi it,
and urge them to prepare to do so suc-
cessfully by cheapening their processes,
Others affect to think light of it,and take
the view that, sorghum sugar can never
compete with cane- sugar. One remark
Louisiana sugar can be
a cost of only $40 si hogshead
I and two hogshead per acre, worth ftlCO
can be raised on good lands, the ~ * '
! that as long as
! made, at
i , , , Loiiisia
Savannah, Jan. 3.—General Grant |na l,lanters hare no reason to be alarmed
held a reception yesterday moruing sit the sorghum business in the West.
City exchange. A number of old West But the Louisiana planters should re-
Pointers, citizens and colored people call-1 member that while they assert and reiter
ed. The city authorities gave the party ate the capacity of their State to supply
an excursion down the river, below Fortall the sugar needed in this coniUi v it
Jackson. In the afternoon the party does not supply more than one-tern h <>i i*
were taken to the Bonavenetursi and | Tbe other nine-tenths must bo iiii{ oi'!ed
Thunderbolt. Iu the evening Grant, j from abroad. There is a very imin rj am
Sheridan and Fred Grant diued at the j difference between what Louisiana-an d.;
residence of General H. It. Jackson, and I and what it actually does. Besides if a
met Generals McLaws, Wayne, Lawton Louisiana planter can make $100 i
| and other ex-Consederate officers. At wort h of sugar and molasses at a
i night the aldermen gave a serenade to, only $80, why do they demand a
Denver, December 30.—Up to last
uight nothing has been heard from the
commission. Communication between
Lake City and Los Pinos has not yet
been broken, but there has been no news,
official, since Friday night. Gen. Hatch
was to have left tor Cliue's rancho, thirty
miles from Los Pinos, yesterday morning,
but whether he left or stayed, is not
kuown. The anxiety is intense, and there
are fears of another massacre.
Mount Pleasant Patron: Mount Pleas-
ant is booming. Business in every de-
partment lively. The merchants can not
get their goods shipped fast enogh to
supply the demand. Last summer there
were ten vacant business houses and sev-
eral dwellings—now there is not a vacant
honse in the place, two large brick houses
being erected, and there is a strong de-
mand for both business and dwelling
houses. If the railroad was here it would
Like a halt dozen more business houses
to transact the business necessary.
Cincinnati, Jau. 2—w. H. Adams
was shot and severely wounded in a sa
loon near Ceutral avenue, last night, by
his brother-in-law, ex-Mayor Harris. The
quarrel grew out of a family leud.
London, Jan. 2.—J. McLear, of the St,
Rollox Chemical works, in a letter to the
Times, says that be has produced carbon
in the diamond modification, aud asks a
suspension of judgment upon the letter of
Mr. Maskelyn, of the Britishjniuseum, un
til he cau show the latter that his coitelu
jjions were premature.
When the, question came up we did not j^Kll!^a^ Screven house. Tlie ex-
know anything about the value of our in-11 resident responded briefly, acknowledg-
shore fisheries. Canada had her statis- It,le compliment and regretting his
tics. Our fisheries were really more val-1 J*"01''' stay in Savannah. The party will
liable than hers, but we had no figures to | ]e!,ve at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Flor-
prove it. Accurate knowledge of that i '"a'
fact would have saved us between one j — —
and two millions of dollars which wo paid ] Savannah, Jan. 3.—Gen. Grant and
to Great Britain.'* ; party left here at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
"What classes do msike most mis-1 Representatives of the various industries
takes?'' j of the city csilled on him this morning iu
"The illiterate, because of their crude I company with the major and collector,
ideas of the length of time. It is a curious
Boston Herald: As David Mesenthaler
the well knowu stockman of Whitestone
township, was driving his cows to the
baru a fey mornings since, he was struck
by an a;rolite and instantly killed. It ap-
pears as if the meteor lisui come from a
direction a little west of south, and fallen
obliquely at an angle of CO degrees, for it
first passed through a tall maple, cutting
the limbs as cleau as if it had been a can-
non ball and struck the man apparently
on or uiider the shoulder, passing clean
through him obliquely from the right
shoulder to above the left hip, and buried
itselt about two feet in the soft black
ground. The poor man's head and legs
were uninjured, but the greater part of
his body seems to have been crushed into
the earth beneath the terrific aerolite,
which is about the size of a common pa-
tent bucket and apparently of a rough
shape. It]appears to be formed of what are
called iron pyrites.
Texas recently had quite a party ot im-
migrants from Englsind move within its
boundaries, and who would have
made the State a valuable acquisi-
tion, but the poor Englishmen bad beeu
humbugged. The country had been mis-
represented to them, whereas if the truth
had been given without a tendency to
coloring, no doubt thousands of worthy
husbandmen from the dissatisfied districts
of Britain would have become citizens of
Texas, but as fraud was at the bottom ot
getting theiu there they certainly did
properly in returning to New York, where
temporary residence will be made until a
proper place to emigrate to be decided up-
on. The result of this over-reachiug ot
some immigration agent ought to be a
waruiug to others. Let them describe
truthfully and settlers will surely go
among them, wherever they may be, there
are people for all cliines.[Sioux City Cos-
mopolite.
Of the six hundred English immigrants
to which the Cosmopolite refers, not
more than a dozen—anil they unacquaint-
ed with the arts of agriculture—returned
to New York. This is the more remark-
able V/iieu the difference of the farming
systems in Englaud aud Texas is contem-
plated, and goes far to show the incom-
parable natural advantages that Texas
offers to the agriculturist.—[Galveston
News.
fact, that the very old arc inclined to ex-
iigerate their age. When they are hope-
lessly past the point where they can take
pride in youth they become proud of their
aje. Now, here is a memoranda taken
from the New York state, census. Four
reports are compared with the age as
given at each date; 1800, 70; 1S05, 83;
1870, 90; 1S75, 102. This the record of a
woman. Here is another, who reported
her age at 84; when the census-taker came
around five years later she was 106 years
old! |One gets rather shy of centenarians.
They are found in the newspapers most-
ly-
"And who are the people who under-
state, their age?"
Well, of course, you know, ladies ususil-
ly sifter a certain age."
There are several societies in Loudon
which furnish wedding portions to Jewish
girls of the poorer classes. They are en-
dowed by wealthy members of the faith,
and poor Jews with daughters make week-
ly contributions, from sixpence down to a
penny, in the names of their girls. Once
a year, before the Passover or before New
York's day, there is a drawing by young
women who are engaged to be married,
the prizes ranging from $250 to $1000, sic-
cording to the capital of the society and
the number of candidates. There are no
blanks—each candidate draws something.
On the occasion of si wedding the Jews of
the neighborhood often contribute towsird
the bride's dowry. Young men on seek-
ing wives make a point of lesirning wheth-
er the girls they fancy belong to any of
these societies.
London, Jau, 3.—The military commis
sion at Cabul reassembled to try prison-
ers, ten of whom have been sentenced to
be hanged. One was proven to have kill-
ed Mr. Jenkyno and Cavanaliri of the eni-
bassv.
Advice to a Young Man.
San Francisco, Jan. 3.—Wells, Fargo
& Co's annual circular giving the product
of precious metals ot British Columbia
and the receipts in Sail Francisco by ex-
press from the west coast of Mexico din-
ing 1879, places the aggregate product of
gold at $32,539,920;silver $38,823,812;
lead $185,709. The gross result is less
by $5,805,121 that of 1878. Califor-
nia shows si. decrease in gold of $140,442,
and in silver of $5S9,146. Nevada shows a
total falling off of $13,184,235.
The yield from the Comstock mines be-
ing $8,830,562, against $21,295,043 for
1878.
The product of 1S79 of the Eureka dis-
trict is $5,808,261, against $5,981,406 in
1878.
Utah shows a reduction of $598,774.
Colorado shows an increase of over $8,-
000,000, chiefly from the Leadville dis-
trict. It has been exceedingly difficult to j to get it. Broken friendships ii u
arrive at the actual production of Lead- al starvation, loss of social
ville, two of the most reliable rejiorts, deprivation of generous
varying more than two million dollars, j
ami the circular adopts the average.
o ii..
cosf lit
, - - .. ,11'otccl -
ive duty ot two and a halt cents a pound
on sugar to secure them against (ori-cu
competition? If sugar making in that.
State is sis easy and profitable sis is assai l
ed, there is uo need for this protective
fluty. It is the excessive price of sifar
aggravated by the two and a half
per pound tariff, that has prompiod the
present sorghum experiments in the. West .
The insisses want to increase their eon
sumption of sugar, bnteannoi afford to do
so when it costs them seven to
cents a pound. Tlie sorghum exp
ters assort that it, can be made to vict.l
good sugar ata cost of three cents a
pound; and ii the, facts shall bear out this
sissertion, the Louisiana planters 'nay a:;
well prepare for a struggle to maintain
their supremacy. It will not lie long !>.•
fore sugar-making will becomean <■*.< ■<>
lished business in many parts of ih<
and then the days of dear sugar w
numbered.
eleven
liiaen-
Wesr,
'1 be
Burdette: You can probably be rich
my son, if you will be. If von make
your mind now that you will be a rich
man, and stick to it,' there is ve v iii lie
doubt that you will be verv wealthy toler-
ably mean, loved a little, "hated .i great
deal, have a big funeral, be blessed in
the relatives to whom you leave the m„Rt
reviled by those to whom you lea >, !<
and vilified by those to whom you Ic,. vi-
nothing. But you must pay for it in
Wesilth is an expensive tiling, li
all it is worth.
If you want to be worth a million do!
lars it will cost you just a million
"leetit-
enjoymenf.
impulse, tin
smothering of manly aspirations a lin:-
j ted wardrobe and scanty table, a lorn l v
— i ; home because you fear a lovely wis, and
Patron of Husbandry:—The interest a beautiful home would be expensive, :i
which the Clement Attach mentis exciting j hatred of the heathen, a dresid of the i ou-
among the farmers of North and South I tribntion box, a haunting fear of t li
in.
:ts
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, is simply man's snd society, a fretful dislike of
wonderful. They are becomingthorough- j people because they won't keep then
ly aroused to the importance of the „uew! ery out of your sight, a little sham
process" system, aud hundreds are daily evolence that is worse than none
visiting the little factories in North and I you can be rich, young man, if
South Carolina, And manufsicturers of I willing to pay the price.
J the North are waking up to the impending Any man can get rich who
(revolution in the cotton manufacturing| think it is loo expensive. True, .
Boston, Jan. 3.—Bishop Gilbert Haven system of the country, and are sending j be rich and be a man among m- :
--- -- --- their agents down to investigate the little | and christian and grand and tru
wonder. The next thing will be, these| serving God and blessing humani;
capitalists aud manufsicturers will get that will be in spite of your wealt
control of the patent, aud leave our plod-1 not as a result of it. It will be I
ding farmers in a worse condition than I you always were that kind of a rn
ever. But the farmers, if they will act in j But if you want to be rich, if that «
time, can easily organize co-operative as- j breadth and height of vour ambition
sociations, concentrate their capital, and I can be rich if you will pay the n
secure complete control otthis great in-1 Aud when you arc rich, son, call :it>
dustry, which ts destined very soon to be at this office sind pay for tlr- ;t.;
the leading and most profitable industry) We'll let the interest compound l oin
Tupelo, Miss., has hatched a chicken
with three eyes. The odd eye is located
where the bill joius the head, and looks
as perfect as the others, which occupy
their proper places,
ot the Methodist Episcopal church, died
at the residence of his mother, in Maiden,
this evening,
New York, Jan. 3.—A weekly state-
ment of associated banks shows the fol-
lowing changes: Loans decreased, $S78,-
000; specie decrease, $350,100; legal ten-
ders increase, $033,800; deposits increase,
$24,900; circulation increase, $15,700; re-
serve increase, $271,457; banks now have
$471,825 in excess of legal requirements.
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