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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

with the other Hannibal, both ofwhom
achieved national fame afterwards -
The junction had been formed, and the
procession was nearly in readiness to
move, when, unfortunately, the two el-
cphanto were brought together, and
they Immediately proceeded to test
,hoir pue.list.c a7compiishmcnis.-
Their Keepers interfcrcd and succeed
ed in parting them, and Hannibal qui.
eted down, but Columbus wos not to be
50 easily satisfied Ile stood piaring a.
round for few minutes, and then hit
| his Keepers horse fearful blow with
his trunk, and followed u by ihrusting
| his immense tusss lover six feet long,
Though tboapiu'sls body. The keeT.
er VIM Crum, fell with lis Lorso, and
the elephant attacked him, picking
him up with his trunk and dasbing
him against the ground with such @
force as to break half the bones in his
body and causoinstout death Colum-
bus then marched along the line until
he reached the lama cage, which he
upset and demolished, killing tho Ia
ma Ills next movement was to make
n dive for John Robinson and Arthur
Crippcn, both Of this city, who wero
connected with the service, but these
gentlemen being on horsebsck, suocee.
dcd, although with great trouble and
danger, in escaping Columbus now
passed the caravan ut run, and soon
met a draymon driving two mules
both Of which fell victims to his rage
as did the driver, who attempted to es'
cape by running, but was overtoken.-
Passing through Algiers, the elephant
soon came across q negro man sitting
on fenco, and tore down the fence &c
get at him, and then tore him piece
meal. The negro was q slave, and Co.
lumbus' owners were required to pay
81, 500 for killing him. Further on,
bout nine miles from his starting point
the elephant met a Frenchm0n and ;
party Of negroes, whom he attempted
to demoralze also, but here ho meth hi,
match, and after combat oC nearly
an hour ho gave up and was chained
having first received threo hui cts from
rifle, just beneath tho right eye
! he wounds occosioued no inconvcn
ionce, however beyond producing run
ming sores, which lasted till Columbus
death, which was caused by his falling
through bridge at North Adams, il
Massachusetts,, in 1861 and brcakinl
his neck, In his rampage the oicphan
killed nearly dozen horses, mule,
and COWS ana calves, for which his ow
ucrs were compelled to pay about $50,
= 600. The circus and menagcrie com
pany wcrc composed Of one huudrc,
and eight men, Of whom but three ar
known to DO living at present, they be
ing John Robinson, circusmGn, an,
Arthur P. Crppen, watchman at tn
D I. /. @. depot in this city, and Loui
Pirrir, dry goods merchant at Iaurc
, Irj.anc, all :hreo of whun w.tre7sc
/ the disaster, and were compelled Z
: observe extreme caution to prosery
I their own lives. Mr. Crippon subs,
} qnently had both arms broken by CC
lumbus while assisting in shipping hin
in Philadelphia --tCin, Chronicle,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

abusive TRADES against a pubicscr-
want. lfho is not provided with
thoso necessary articles, perhaps he
might be able to sponge them off ot
one Of his self-sollcited candidntca
for the position Of
SEc. MoRgAS Co. 40. 5cctEtT.
January 10Th, 1870.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

THE comments of tho English
press on that portion Of President S
Message relating to tho Alabama
elaine, is conclusive OF Que thing,
that however improved tho ;cmpor
of tho british Government and pco.
plo may be, there is 10 disposition
70 recedo from tho position takon
years ago on the question. Any
domagos that may DO awarded by
arbitration will be paid, but no ap-
ology need bo expected. The Brit
ish Government was justified in re-
cognizing tho C0nfedera,es rs bell
igcrents, and as for the msdWected
sympathies Of q portion Of the
English people, tho Government IL
not responsible, and that 10 the
whole of it. If the English pross,
therefore, reflects the sentiments o!
tho Government, thero IL small
hope that Secretary Fish or Mr.
Motley will make much Roadway in
negotiation, unless it 10 determined
to accept money and waivo apollo.
gy.- Cincinnati Commercial De
Gem heI 2Sth.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21
A HUNDRED Years TO Come.

No man over appears 70 think
how soon he must sink INTO ohllY
ion-tha. we arc one generation Of
millions. Yet such is the fact
Timo and progress have, through
countless agcs, como marching
hand in hGni-thc ono destroying,
the other building up They sovm TO
create httle or no commotion, and
tho work OF destruction ie as easily
accomplished az child will pull 20
pieces n rose. Yet such rs the fact
a hundred years hence, and much
that wenow sec uround u7 Will have
passed away. II Is bat the ropcti
ton Of i.ite's story wc arc born,
we die and hence wo will grieyo
over those venerable ,pilos, finding
tho common level Of thor proto-
types in Naturc-ulumato death.
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come
No living soul for us will weep,
A hundred years TO come;
But other men our land will I'LL,
And other men our street will tiIl,
And other birds shall sing as gay,
As bright the sunshine as to-day,
\ hundred years 10 come.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

"CLERK, said a tall Keutuckian
to a hotel Official, "ths young wo-
man and me havo oloped. Have
ye any uarryln facilities around
here p
The clerk replied in tho affirma-
tive, and the two were 'splicod" in
less thanan hour. The bridegroom
was evidently not yet satisfied, and
fingered around tho hotel book.
Clerk said BIO, eon6dentially,
at length, "hadn'tyO better change
tho register, aud give rs one room.
now we'ro married ?"
"lt's already DONE" replied tho
clerk you're marked for tho same
room"
"Wcll, clorls," replied the Ken
tucklan, quickly, "wCn't you just
show me up, then, for am awful
sleepy
The oldest lady in Norwich, Conn
ecticut, is aged lO6, AndthS oldest man
, in Michigan Is lO4
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21
AN Old TIME INAUGURA
TEOi.


Hayes has brought from the draw
er, in which il has lam for twenty.
ought years, an Inauguration Ball
Ticket, issued m 1912, when Wilson
shannon tho Democracy in bis
person having rlghted the wrongs
ot 1910, elected him for O second
term Governor Of Ohio The old
American Hotel-"Kelsey's Amer
lean" az it was known throughout
thu longth and breadth Of the land,
for il was the model Hotel Of the
West--be,ng the Democratic head
quarters, WAS the place chosen 20
Jance Governor Corwin ont and
Governor shannon in, Tho ticket
OF invitation was Hs follows
INAUGURATION BALL.-Tho pleas
ure OF your company is respectfully
solicited Mt Ball, to be given in
honor OF tho Inauguration of Gov
ernor Shannon, at the American
Hotel, IN Columbus, on tho evening
Ut Wednesday, December Ii. 1912.
sJaoob Meda1y, r p. Spaulding,
sTimothy Griffith, az. NJ. stanton,
William Treyit, L. d. Potter
sJohn BIough, Charles Morris,
& d. Preston, G. A. Hall,
&c. j. hcNulty, II. g. Rrlsh,
A. G. Thurman, 81, W, Hewden,
J. @. Cassell, John DmnhAm,
sJGmes Parker, j. B. Steedman,
j. W McCorkle, l. d Griswold,
William Parry, 'Jos'ph Newman,
sThos. J. Morgan, 20. $. Withcrby,
sWm. ". Stark, -. W. Gray,
Managers
Those marked with X are dead
With thOso names host Of Old
time rocollecrions naturally come
Onsshalf of the owners OF tho names
on tho list arc numbered with the
dead, Edwin NJ. Stanton being the
last.
OF tho living, Judge Thurman Is
now United States Senator from
Ohio, J, w, McCorklo has ropre-
sOntod tho State Of California in
Congress, Judge Potter is s,il u re,
sident of Toledo, and Charles Nor
ris Of Mlamai county, where they
then resided, James b. Steedmar
won distraction in tho war, and re-
turned with tho rank of Il Major
General. G. A. Hall ia u residen
Of Mount Vernon, and DR. Trovitt
Of Columbus. These are still tru,
TO the Democratic principles 0
their youth.
Judge r. P. SpAulding has repro
sented the Cleveland District II
Congress, as leading Radical, anc
DR.. Il. D. Griswold the Oborlin Dis
triot in tho last State Senate, As I
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

leading Negro Suffrage Radical, Of
tho blacklist type.
Men change, az interest dictates,
bat principles are unchanged as un.
changcable. -[Ohio Statesman.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-01-21

Governor Hoffman on FEEDER
81 AtEnirs ara on the GcOr
gi0 tBliI.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-31
l0riginal.
BOOK OF TRAVEL SKETCHES.
no. xv.
THE TRAITOR GUIDE.
BY AIrcH.


tConcludod.l
"The last hour of this days march was
along the crest Of ridge running up to
the foot of the mountains, from which,
for three or four miles, an unobstructed
view could be had of the entire course of
the route traversed during the day.
Several times my attention was at
tracted toward Luis, by certain strange
uneasiness apparent in his manner
Often. when he thought my attention was
directed in another quarter, ! observed
him eagerly and anxiously scanning the
country below, along the course of the
route we had passed, as though he were
expecting the arrival of some one in that
direction.
This act was in nearly each case fol-
lowed by a quick glance of intelligence
between himself and the woman. This
singularly suspicious behavior was OBJ
served with painful concern on my part,
though strove to suppress any outward
sign Of alarm that might lead them to
suspect that had noted anything un-
usual in their conduct.
Even after we had gone into camp IN
the evening | could not fail to observe
the same degree Of restless anxiety in
the fellows manner The woman was
more wary and cautious, and more than
once was detected in administering a
look Of reproach to the other, which
seemed to pierce him through.
And shortly after dark, while | was
engaged in preparing the skin Of a
strange species Of flying squirrel which l
had captured. the two stood several
yards hehind me, on the opposite side Of
the FIRE, engaged in an earnest whispered
conversation, though neither appeared 70
be observing or thinking Of the other.
This mysterious behavior had now gone
so far as 10 fully convince me, in con
nection with other evidences. that the
villain, aided by the woman, and 1 knew
not how many e-hers, was bent upon
nv destruction, in order 70 obtain posses
sion Of my money aud property. No
doubt many another had already fallen
victim 20 bis issssszte avariee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-31
ANNOUNCEMENTS.



Judge of First Circuit Court.
C. w. HEISKELL Ia a candidate for Judge
Of the First Circuit Court Of Shelby county.
PIT. SCRUGGS is n candidate for Judge of
the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
Election. 18th Of May, 1870.
Judge of Second Circuit Court.
We are authorized to announce J. A. AN
DERS0N as candidate for Judge of the
Second Judicial Circuit Of Shelby county.
Atty General of Criminal Court.
We are requested to announce MOSES
WHITE as candidate for Attorney General
Of the Criminal Court.
We are authorized to announce, b. NEW
TON HART as a candidate for the Office of
Attorney General of the Criminal Court, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic IConven-
tion Of Shelby county. Election in May.
We are authorized to announce JOHN s.
KERR as a candidate fore the Office Of Attor-
ney General of the Criminal Court:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-31

There is no American poet more sincere
than John G. Whittier. How beautiful ant
true are these stanzns from his poem Of " NJ,
Triumph" in the April Atlantic:
o living friends who love me!
U dear one gone above me!
Careless Of other fame,
leave to you my name.
Hide il from idle praises,
Save it from evil phrases:
Why, when dear lips that spake il
Are dumb, should strangers wake itf
Let the thick curtain fall;
better know than all
How little have gained.
How vast the unattained.
Not by the page word painted
Let life be banned or sainted;
Deeper than written scroll
The colors of the soul.
Sweeter than any sung
My songs that found no tongue;
Nobler than any fact
Ny wish that failed of act.
Others shall sing the song,
Others shall ring the wrong
Finish what | begin,
And all fail to win.
What matter, / or they?
Mine or another's day,
60 the right word be said
And life the sweeter nader
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-31

The following anecdote is related Of
the French sculptor, Carries Bellouse-
He was showing his atelier TO a work
man. who innOcently asked, " Is the art
of seuIpturr a difficult one2" THAT de-
pends. Take for example, bust
Ike this" said the visitor. 1t is as
simple as possible" Is it really2 ]
wish you would show me. With
pleasure. You first take q block Of mar
BE. then q chisel. and at once proceed
TO chip the block away till there is
nothing left but the bustl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-31
RAILROADS.
Memphis and Louisville R. R.
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.
TAKES EFFECT FEB. Z. 1870.

The 2.5 pm. train from Memphis leaves
daily. The 400 am. train leaves daily except
Sunday. Since the completion of the Ohio
river bridge at Louisville. the omnibus and
ferry transfer at that point Is avoided.
Sleeping cars run through on the 2 .45 p. m.
train from Memphis 70 Louisville, connecting
AZ Louisville with Silver Palace sleeping and
day cars. running through from Louisville to
Philadelphia and New York without change.
Berths, sections or state-roOms can be engaged
in through cars 70 New York at Ticket Office.
2S7h Main street.
Trains connect for Nashville and St. Louis
as follows:
Leave Memphis......-...... 2.45 pm. 100 an.
Arrive at Nashville. 800 am. 800 pm.
- - 81. Louis. pm. LOO pm.
Ticket Office. 2s7is Main street. near JefIer-
son; and at Depot, head Of Main street;
Jas, SPEED, Ticket Agent. e-62-i
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NOTICE.
n O II L @ e (!

OFFICE PEopLE's INSURANCE CoMPANY.)
No. 16 MADISON STREET,
MEMPHIS, TENN, March "a, 1901 3,
u,HE STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS COMPANY
are hereby notified that the annual election for
seven Directors. to serve the ensuing year, will
be held at the Office the Company on Wednes-
day, April 9th. 1870. between the hours of 10
am. and pm. Stockholders can vote in per-
son or by proxy.
2o-s1 J. A. SIMMONS, Secretary.
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LABOR.
FFE FSS SFS
Two THE WORKING CLASSES.

i
We are now prepared to furnish all classes
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of the time or for spare moments. Business
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this notice may send their address, and test
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To such as are not well satisfied, we will send
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Eight lines of nonpareil. solid, constitute a
square.
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according to the SPACE occupied, at above
rates-there being twelve lines of solid type to
the inch.
Notices in local column inserted for twenty
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Notices of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line.
Advertisements published Mt intervals will
be charged one dollar per square for each in
sertion.
To regular advertisers we offer superior in
ducements, both as to rate of charges and
manner Of displaying their favors.
All bills for advertising are due when con-
tracted and payable on demand.
All letters, whether upon business or other
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PROPOSALS..
n o II @ e .

N o II i G e.
c,EALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
y ceiyed by me until the 10th day Of April
next, for the grading (per mile) to be done on
the Poplar street road turnpike. Profile to be
seen and information given at the Office of
Mohn Il Robinson, engineers. The Company
reserve the right to reject any or all bids
H. A. MONTGOMERY,
For Shelby Co Turnpike Company,
1895 At Shippers' Cotton Press
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10
THE indian PROBLEM.

The advent of the chiefs to Washington has
brought out the feeling of the people upon the
Indian question. We are glad to see that it is,
on the whole, temperate and just, and that the
country is Weakening to the fact that this
problem is the gravest and most important
which it is called upon to face. determination
is still urged by such army officers as are able
to see in it only service for themselves and full
pay for a prolonged period, and by certain
editors to whom extreme and final measures
are always welcome, as they save them the
trouble of thinking. There is, however, de-
spite the awakened attention of the people to
the general issue, great miscOnception of the
importance of this visit of the chiefs. Sew
eral of our contemporaries gravely advise
/" the Offering them of snowy presents,
$50 dear to the Indian heart, and
the subsequent terrifying of them by the dis
"play of arsenals, review of regiments" &c.
We conceive that the time is past when the
gift of few beads or tobacco pouches would
blind the judgment of such men as Red Cloud
or Spotted Tail. The effort to scare them
too, reminds us forcibly of the camOr and the
painted monsters of the Chinese, by which
they hoped to drive back the English bar
barians. These men have probably as clear
an idea as ourselves of the relative strength
of the red and white men. "0ur natiOn,n said
Red Cloud, dis melting away like the snow on
" the side of the hills where the sun is warm
"while your people are like the blades of
al grass in Spring, when Summer is coming
"You are great and powerful. We are but a
"handful."
There is a marked change in the spirit and
tone of this last protest of the Indian tribes
from any that have been made since the days
of the first encroachment of the whites. There
is apparently a fuller comprehension of the
power with which they have to cope, and q
remarkable absence of any former attempts to
conciliate it by humility. The statement of
the wrongs done to them is calm and mod
crate in tone, but almost hopeless of redress
This savage, though his skin be red, sees more
plainly, perhaps, than the men to whom he
talks, that the two races are brought finally
face to face, and the issue for him and bis
people will most probably be death. We do
not think that snowy gewgaws, or state din
ners, or warlike tOm-tOms, will affect him very
deeply
We have no wish to put out Of sight the In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10

We are favored with bit of special plead
ing for the reGnactment of the Income Tax III
the statement that the pending bill reduces
the assessments to about Sls,OOOOOO, dispenses
with fifteen hundred Deputy Assessors, ana
finally, that as the Assistant Assessors usually
sit in their Offices and wait for taxpayers to
come forward and beg to be assessed, only a
small fraction of this decreased amount will
be collected at ALL In other words, the bill
encourages in their idleness the Assessors, and
in their duplicity and evasion of the law the
tax-navers. 1t seems to us that higher
morality would dispense with the idierS ana
remove temptation from the taxpayers by
dropping the tax altogether.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10

dian outrages on the border. The amount VI
butchery and theft has been very equ'hy
balanced between the redskins and the WINES
The savages naturally are savages, ana tne
pioneer settlers are assuredly not saints. Inc
innocent have suffered in consequence on botn
sides. But these are surface matters, winch
will adjust themselves when the OASIS Vi III
Justice is set right. Underneath lies Tue l'ilii,i-
nent problem of the false position winch 'he
nation holds to these people. Shall we pay
this creditor the debt we owe him, or nd our
selves of his importantly by taking him by
the throat and strangling him and his little
ones There is to us terrible pathos in the
words of this Indian, spoken in behalf OF his
neople. Pathos, however, should have no
power to interfere with justice; but we COM
mend his calm statement of the case to the
cTayest consideration of those whose office 1T
is to adjust his claims especially his recognl-
ton of the ineradicable distinction between
himself and them which we are so apt to keep
ont of sight. "The Great Spirit has raised
me in this way. He raised me naked. The
Great Spirit has raised you to read and write
" and put papers before you; but am not So
Half of our maltreatment OF the Indian mas
arisen from ignoring this simple fact.
We hope that there will be no disposition TO
either palter or practice diplomacy with TINS
deputaton. If the answer be given IN the
same dignifed and just spirit as the complaint
and grasp the position as fully, we may nope
for the best results. The Indian question
trenches as deeply on human rights as did that
of the negro, and the onus of guilt is as heavy
upon us as Slavery. The ordinary argument
that the savage must from inexorabie law OF
nature give way to the civilized man, is our
old friend "Cursed be Canaan" in new gulse.
1t is the very problem that vexed us for nearly
a century, gigantic wrong rersoS expedlency.
The result of our error in the first case stepped
us to the lips in bloody war; We can come
to its choice of the second with experience OF
wounds not yet healed to guide us. AT least
let us recognize the importance of this question
and bring to its decision the coolest reason
and best thought which the nation can COM
mand, and not leave it to the chance settle
ment of a few hot-blooded soldiers and
aggrieved frOntiersmen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10

The Spanish story of bribery and corruption
by the Cubans in Washington, i'll their efforts
to obtain a recognition of their belligerent
rights, is again denied by an accused member
of the House Mr. Mccormick of Missouri is
not less positive in his denial of the story, or
plain and emphatic in his language, than was
Mr.. Fitch, who denounced the rumor as lie
on Wednesday. The Spaniards in Cuba and
in this country appear to fabricate on impulse,
and frequently exaggerate when the plain, I'M
vanished truth would better serve their pur-
pose. In celebrating and exaggerating they
they have but one successful rival-a certain
callow Geographic news association OF this
city. We suggest for the mutual benefit OF
the rivals that the long bow is most danger
ous weanOn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-10

We wish we could distrust as unworthy of
belief the story which comes from Baltimore
of an act unworthy of humanity. Certain
women of that city, assembled ostensibly to
decorate the graves of Rebel soldiers, devoted
their fairest flowers in greatest profusion to
the grave of John Wilkes Booth. Such an act,
conceived in malice of those they call oppres-
sors, not out of sacred regard for those they
profess to believe heroes does the assassin
no honor. 1t simply serves to deprive
of all the grace it possessed that
sentiment which suggested the strewing
of the soldiers graves, and to proclaim
these surviving women unworthy of the
men whom they urged and cajoled to death.
The people of the North have shown no such
disrespect as this to Southern soldiers. They
believed them misguided, but they knew them
to be brave, and no man or woman ever
thought to fix, by act or word, midnight
assassin higher in public esteem than the most
umble of Rebel slain.