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The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-22


The quidnwacs have been quite merry for
happened to ex-President Pierce, in this
gentleman came here to call upon his friend
DR.. Loring, he went to one of the livery
stables to procure team to take him over
to the Dr's farm. He was accordingly fur
nished with one of the best animals III the
stable, and jumping into the vehicle, gath
cred up the reins for fair start. The
mare, however, as the story goes, which had
never before manifested any obstinaey or
viciousness, or ill-temper, happening to
look around, on getting into the street, and
to see that Frank Pierce was in the vehicle,
determined that the ex-President was too
great a load for her to carry, and stubborn
ly refused to bulge an inch. No persuasion
or force could indulge her to start, and
she was actually taken back to the sta
BILE and another animal substituted. By a
singular coincidence, the mare has been
known by the name Of Topsy.
But this is not the end of Topsy's per-
formances. Shortly after this occurrence,
young Republican wanted horse for a
short tour around the city, and the same
being given him, she started off kindly, with
out any show of repugnance. But upon
her return, being delivered to Custom
House officer. who desired to follow in the
track Of the ex-President to the Doctors
farm, she again stubbornly refused to go,
but made not the least objection to the Re-
publican, who once more tried her temper.
Topsy's sagacity is now established beyond
all question. The Lady Jane Charmer is
the name Of the animal which considered it
honor enough to be driven by ex-President
Pierce.-Sdlem Register.
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V Some nine years since, letter was
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was absent, and on his return one of the
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MODERN DEFINITIONS.

Hard Times-Sittin on a cold grindstone
and reading the Presidents message.
Loye---A little word within itself, init
mately connected with shovel and tonss.
Progress of Time-A peddler going thro'
the land with wooden clocks.
Politician--A fellow who culls all his in
formation from borrowed newspaper.
Rigid Justice-Juror on q murder case
fast asleep.
Friend-One who takes your money and
then turns you out of doors.
Patriot--A man who has neither property
or reputation to lose.
Honesty-Obsolete; term formerly used
in the case Of man who had paid for his
newspaper and the coat upon his back.
lndependence-Owin fifty thousand dol
lars which you never intend to pay.
Lovely Women-An article manufactured
by milliners--
"Who wants but little here below;
And wants that little for show"
Dandy-A thing in pantaloons, with a
body and two arms--a head without brains
tight boots--a cane-a white haniker-
chief-two breaches, and a ring On his lit
tie finger.
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OR EIDE.

OREIOE.
This is the name of the new metal which
has recently made its appearance under a
French patent, granted in this country in
March last. 1t resembles gold in many re-
spects, and may be used in a pure condition
or as base for gold plating. Its cost is
about eighty cents per pound, and yet its
appearance is such that it would readily be
taken for gold by most casual Observers
1t is not pure metal, but compound of
several metals, refined to such degree that
it does not easily exidize or tarnish. These
qualities make it a valuable reauisitien t.
the metallic arts. When tested with nitric
acid, ebulition takes place, but no spot re-
mains. This quality, though valuable for
utensils, makes it a dangerous metal for
dishonest men. 1t can be used in counter
feiting gold SO readily, that it will be ex-
ceedingly difficult to detect counterfeit from
true coin. When placed side bv side with
gold, it requires close scrutiny to decide
which is gold and which oreide. In France
. law has already been passed to prevent
frauds. by compelling, under severe penal
ties for neglect, all manufacturers Of
"oreide' to stamp the word upon the ar
ticles produced.
A manufactory has recently been started
IN Waterbury, Connecticut, capable of
turning ont any quantity of the new metal.
1t Is said that great deal Of the late i'm.
ported gold-chased ware is nothing but ORE
ide!
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FOR SALE.

EV6 DALI -7--~~-s.i
AoIots in Howard Addition.
II good Lots in Mullins Subdivision.
100 Lots in the Railroad Addition.
10 choice Lots in HalPs Addition
Several fine lots central portions Of the City very
desirable for residences. Several fine tracts Of land
within an hours ride OF the City with timber and water
~ Also lots and shares in Omaha City, Bellevue,
DeS,to Tekamah Logan N. T. and Junction City Iowa
u. Also 100 Of choice land two miles east OF
Soux (ity ON which is about 40 acres timber. nl-u
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CoOsvT.A AkOks y, iowa.
WILL GIVE PROMPT ATTENTION TO
w any business entrusted TO his within the
purview Of his profession His facilities investsa-
ting Land Titles and importing correct information in
regard the condition Titles Lands and Town ta
In County superior 70 th0se
ed other in this part u the State He 10
preparing, and will shortly have competed abb
strzct all the Deeds record " lands the County
and to lots in Council Bluffs and in all the principal sd
ditons thereto The abstract Of Titles lots Is
ranged that the Of each and grantee FROM
the first down to the present time, be At
view with the date Of each deed the date OF filing for
record the book and page where recorded and also all
the material defects apparent on the record The ab-
stractof titles 10 lands s also very conveniently arr
ranged. He will also procure from the record an abb
stract Of each deed s recorded that he will be
enabled " give persons desiring the whole
chain from the entry in the Land Once down to the time
the information is desired.
He is also procuring from the Land Once list Of all
the Lands entered in the County showing by whom
tered, when entered, whether with cash Warrants
scrip the number Of acres in each tract and the amount
paid therefor His charges for examination Of titles
will be reasonable
Persons living at distance can have an abstract Of
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mail BY enclosing fee Of two dollars and dollar
for each additional lot tract Of land be included in
the same abstract
He Is also prepared to execute with dispatch,
veyances VI every description. Office Broadway in
second story Of Haggs New Block nearly opposite the
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
A Difference of Opinion Between
the Washington Union AMI Forney.

The Washington CaIoH, in the course of
some continents lie otter day. observed,
That all STATE laES. ,rkeiAer organic or
otherle,se, ,rhIrh prohibit citizen of one
Slate from settling IN another, and bringing
his siave property aeih aim. and most espe,i-
Ciiy declaring II forfeited, ere direct violations
Of The original inteafiOns of q Government
which, as before stated, is the protection of
person and properly, and of the Consti'u-
tlun vi the United States, WHICH recognises
property in slaves, and declares that 1.-The
ciuizens of each stale shalt be entitled 70
all the privileges and immuniiies of citizens
in the ssvera. States" among the most esA
sentiaI OF which is the protection of per-
son and property"
F.rnsy OF the Phi!ada' pLia Press, extracts
as above and Comments to TIE following ef-
feet:
If these doctrines are 20 be carried out
in Pennsylvania, there would not oe nJush
Democrats lett 10 FL al omnibus
There is not Congressional district IN
this State that would not unanimously y reject
any man offering himself with such doctrines
on his banner. Such opinions, however,
are in happy sympathy with support u he
Calhoun minority Convention.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24

PROGRESS OF THE AGE.--The great deeds
done by men of Old, and the accumulated
discoveries of the ancient sa -es, have all
been surpassed in the last hall century
Before the year 1900 there was not single
steamboat in existence, and the application
os steam to machiney was unknown. Fui-
ton lunched the first steamboat in 1907;
now there are three thousand steam 'oats
traversing the waters Of America, and the
time saved in travel7is equal To seventy PEI
cent, and every r.ver in the world is high
way for their encroachmen!s. In 1890 the
word .'raiiroa;I" had not been coined, and 10
travel forty miles an hour was an impUs-
siblity. In the United States ;hcre are
now sume twenty-five thousand miles of
raj road, costing IN the neig ghbUrhcol Uf
seven hundred and fifty millions OF dollars,
and about lhiriy-seven thousand miles Of
railroad in Eagland and Aueriea. Thc To-
comotive will now travel in as many hours
dstahce which in 1900 repaired as many
days to accomplish. In 1900 it took two
weeks TO convey Intelligence between
Philadelphia and New Orleans, now it can
be accomplished in minutes by the electric
telegraph, which only had its beginning in
1913.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
Costly Pocket liandkeIchiels.

The extravaganza and prodilgaiity ofthe
aristocracy of Europe may be estimated
from the following, which we clip from the
Paris correspondent of the Memphi BaIie-
tin, who writes:
The young Countess MIrie Dorethee de
Castelline has just been united to Prince
Frederic de Radzi will, a PruSsian officer
Portions Of the lady's wedding equipment
or houSSeau-have been exposed in Paris.
In this collection there was a number of
rare handkerchiefs; SO beautiful are they
that one could think they had escaped from
the slender weavingS of fairies. ard not
from the mortal hands of sewing women -
| counted in the window where they were
displayed no less than sixty handkerchieis,
costing from two to three hundred dollars
each. On some o. them the embroiderinI
OF the arms OF the house alone cost eighty
dollars. The arms of the houses Castellune
and RaGziwill were interviewer and sur
mounted by the crown OF the Prince; all
this was in pure gold. The Threads were
metallic, malleable, pure, and So arranged
as not to dim in washing. There were sew
en cashmere shaw:s, of seven different col
ors; one was of white, embroidered With
gold and tu: quese.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
Balloon observations in War.

In tine early part THE wars o. the French
Revolution special department of the
Ecole Polyiechnique trained officers in the
principles of the management of balloons
The battle Of Fleurus, gAined in 1874 by
General Feurus over the Austrians, has
been ascribed principally to the accurate in
formation conveyed by a balloon observaio-
ry. The eronauts, at the head of whom
was the celebrated Guyton Morveau, mount
ed twice in the course of the day, took de-
liberate 1bservationssand made them known
by prearranged telegraphic signs. When
ascending the second time they were dis
covered, and cannon brought to bear against
The balloon; Intellectually, however. for the
latter soon ascended out of range of the
shot. Balloon observers also accompanied
the army of Napoleon in the Egyptian expe-
ditisn, but were subsequently laid aside =
Fhere are no prsctiral impedments in the
employment Of balloons in this manner
a balloono of thirty Feet in diameter is am
sple when pure hydrogen is employed to iR-
On the
field ol Battle. hydrogen for this purpose
was generated by the French by transmit
ting the steam o. water through red-hOt
iron pipes. The apparatus was portable,
like cavalry shoe.ng Jorge, and could in
fate balloon thirty feet in diameter in
about two hours.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
A Shipload of Coz pses.

We take the following paragraph from
the Berlin correspondence of the New York
Times, dated November llth:
The lne-of-battle ship ,Lefort, which
lately capsized in broad MONDAY in the Bay
OF Finlaud, when closely surrounded by nu-
merous vessels Of the fleet on their way
from Revel to Cronstadt, mas since been ex-
anined by English divers, at the order OF
the Russian Government. 1t will propably
be still in the recollection of your readers
that the vessel had, in addition to about
eight hundred troops and crew, full four
hundred passeng ers on board, chiefly wo'len
and children, VINO, with the quantities OF
bulky mouse furniture, occupied the whole
bctwee decks. Out of consideration for
these unwoned passengers the PORTFOLIOS Of
the man-oG-war had been left open, and
when sudden squall came on could not be
! closed in line; and SO, when the wind took
! her the vessel keeied over, filed, and at once
! caps:Zed. Such persons as were on deck
/ at the lime were, of course, at once washed
away but the divers found no less than ], =
/ 600 curpses in the cabins between decks,
and in tine hoiG OF the vessel, all clinging
! to some portion of the timbers of the ship,
or to each ether. The horror of this tea'-
lul sight appears 10 have been aggravated
/ by the circumstance that the bodies were
already lar gone in decomposition, and, with
few excepliuns, the eyes Of ali the corPses
were wide open and giaring. The effect OF
this dreadful spectacle on the divers was
such that one .! them was totally unable
for many days 20 recount the ghastly scenes
he had witnessed down in that hive OF putre'
tying corpses, and ON his persisten. refusal
to repeat his visit there was sent home.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
Monster Shins.

! The New York Times, in aluding to the
| fact that the monster steamer, Legiathau
soon to be launched in England, is 10 be
sent to Portland, because there is not water
of sufficient depth on the bar at the entrance
of New York haTbor to float her, expresses
some fear that 'the great commercial cntre-
pot of the New World" will lose her boast
ed supremacy. 1t thinks if the Leviathsn
should be successful, she will be followed
! ey otsrF vessels cfrfili lsSger sise.Fszs-s--
'.Already," continues the Times, ga bigger
ship than The Leviathan has been projected
in England-a ship to which the monster
will, herself, appear as a minhow. And this
new monster is OF spec ial importance to the
citizens of New York, for although it is pro-
posed TO make her 5000 tens larger than
the Leviatnan, she is to sail faster, and dralo
less ,vdter. An engineer of Liverpool Bamed
Glare, has come forward with propositions
for building an iron screw and paddle stean-
ship, by way of testing principle, greatly
the superior of the Leviathan. His experl-
nent is to be tried on a Scale of startling
magnitude, and he has already exhibited his
models, which are attracting the attention
of scientific men in England. He proposed
to build ship 1000 feet in length, 10 feet
beam, and only 80 feet from deck to keel,
making her perfectly fiat bottomed, and her
sides nearly square. In size she would be
90, 600 tens. and yet so light would be her
draught of water that she could easily enter
our harbor by way of Sandy Hook"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24

GREAT CHALLENGE-RAcE FOR 5000, C 90
The Georgia sportsmen some time 81 &c
sent forth challenge 10 the worl!--inteni-
ed Tor Great Britain, oil cuGrse--to run a
match race of four miles and repeIt for
100000 Il side, over the Ten Broerk course
AT Savannah The Georgans propose. in
case the British acccp' the challenge, and
their horse is beaten, 10 refund live per cent
oil the purse, OF $4,000. to pay expenses-
The l. nlon.s Sunday Times insists that a
company shall be Formed IN England 10 ac-
sept the challenge and test the superiority
OF the horses Of the two countries. Tie
Times calls upon Lord Xet and to b, com
the champion ui the British turf aud send
out his noble horse Skirmisher "to do bait .
against the American ce'ebrities.''
The indications are that match will be
made fer next season, and, if SO, we may
look for the creates and most exciting race
which the world ever witnessed,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-24
The Niinia kiie Eli.

TIE weigh; .. ,he u Tie btlt is about
oue-aud-a halI ounces, aGd the weight of
POW der lor tae charge about one-tenth as
much. 1 he cu-t.ldge is 81 constructed tnat
iuoased in psPer. and creased by dipping il
in talIow, 1t slips ea,iy into ,hs oorrel til
ii arrives al the charse. In this respect the
Minie has greatly the advantage in saving
u, time und labor o. forcing down the ball
with the fa.uroi Taese balls have ranss
oil ten hundred 10 twelve hundred yards.
" In IN elevated "bsck sight" perfectly
wI:hn the commnn4 .: ;he marksman, and
Just Is ,asi used IS any short range or
poiut-blsad shot.