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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-05

to prizefghter, "Brush" was not ready
to tackle" 1t certainly startled us,
for we all knew the old dogs mettle.
Now occurs my great difficulty as a
faithful chronicler of my own and the
others experiences. What followed
was instantaneous but what was it :?
Nobody saw anything, and yet everybody
was, at the same moment, conscious of
something that passed right through
the two rooms from the back to the
front, and out OF the front room into
the passage. The candle on the table
was famed, as by person passing rap
idly through the apartment. Tom and
myself did not feel the actual contact !;
but still we knew that something had
had the touch been recognizable by the
ordinary sense. Finally the door of the
front room was thrown wide, just as that
of the back room had been, after which
it closed with bang, and left us star
ing at each other in blank and utter as
tonishment. AS soon as it had closed,
Brush" timidly emerged from his
corner, buried his nose in between my
knees and rs plainly as he could, with
out articulate words, besought me to get
up and go.
Still nobody spoke. By common con-
sent we all arose, took candle with us
right out into the front garden before
we extinguished it, turned our heads
toward the city, and tacitly agreed to
walk home. In plain English, we had
been scared out like the rest.
When we got to the village church we
say that it was not yet quarter past
twelve. Our ghost experience had been
"brief," if not delightful. The
night in the ghost chamber, properly
so called, had been matter of minutes
only.
1t was not until we had been toned by
good squirt on the road that we found
our tongues. When we did, however,
we agreed, one and all, that no imagina-
BILE form of horror, no apparition, how
ever hideous, could have so knocked us
over as that invisible yet palpable pres
ence of something-that complete evi-
dence of personality unaccompanied by
any of those appeals to sense or sight
by which, in our present condition, and
under ordinary circumstances, such per-
sonality is proved. Even Brush, - who
usually rampaged' y about the roads
during anything like noctural ramble,
expressed his sympathy by dangling to
our heels. 1t would have been interest
ing if he could have found tongue to tell
us what was the impression made on
his senses by night in ghost-cham-
ber.
l have not the slightest explanation to
offer of this circumstance. l can only
say we are none of us anxious to sit
again; and Tom Chester has decided
not to hire the villa for dark seances. 1t
is a pity, perhaps, to spoil good ghost
story by anything like an anti-climax;
but the practical man who got the key
for us never passes any of us on the
street without expressing the tenderest
regard for our salubrity, and fervent
hope we will not endanger our health or
nerves by sitting in a thorough draft"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-05
SPRING AND WINTER.


The world buds every year,
But the heart just once, and when
The blossom falls off sere
No new blossom comes again.
All. the rose goes with the wind.
But the thorns remain behind
Was it well in him, if he
Felt not love, to speak of love SO?
If he still unmoved must be,
Was it nobly sought to move so7
Pluck the flower and yet not wear il?
Spnrn, despise it, yet not spare it?
Need he say tina. was fair,
With such meaning in his tone,
Just to speak of one whose hair
Had the same tinge as my own?
Pluck my life up, root and bloom,
just to plant it ON his tomb?
And she'd scarce SO fair a face
$50 he used to say as mine;
And her form had far less grace,
And her brow was far less fine;
But twas Just that he loved then,
More than he can love again.
Why, if beauty could not bind him,
Need he praise me, speaking low?
Use my face just to remind him
How no face could please him now?
Why, if loving could not move him,
Need he teach me still to love him?
And he said my eyes were bright,
But his own, he said, were dim;
And my hand, he said, was white,
But what was that to him?
For" he said, sin gazing at you,
seem gazing at a statue"
Eyes !" he said, he had grown wise now,
lie had suffered much of yore;
But a fair face to his eyes now,
Was fair face and no more.
Yet the anguish and the bliss,
And the dream, too, had been his.
Why those words, n thought too tender
For the comnlonpaces spoken?
Looks whose meaning sccm'd to render
Help to words when speech came broken
Why SO late in July moonlight
just to say what's said by moonlight.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-04-05

THAT relic of barbarism, impriso nment
for debt, is by no means SO generally
abolished as people suppose. The
Hartford Courant informs us that ten or
twelve debtors have been lodged in the
Jail of that city during the past winter,
and three are confined there now. Con-
sidering what a fuss was made some
years ago about the injustice of this
method of collecting debts, it is not en-
couraging to consider that the world
is going on very much in the old way.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Carlists have again entered the
town of Estella.
Cincinnati municipals contemplate a
visit to the Pacific slope.
The Texas Republican State conven-
ton assembled at Dallas yesterday.
A young girl was run over and killed
by locomotive at Cincinnati yesterday.
They had a thirty-two. thousand. dol
lar fire at Calvert, Texas, on Saturday
night.
Eighty cities of the United States are
now blessed with the free-delivery postal
system.
Cincinnati boasts of having received
the highest premium at Vienna on the
subject of pOrk-packing.
A disastrous fire recently took place in
the city of Valparaiso, causing loss of
five hundred thousand dollars.
The Wawassets examination is still
going on at Washington, but the main
facts have already been printed.
The will of the late duke of Bruins
wick leaves the whole Of his landed and
personal estate to the city of Geneva.
The towns of Petiorea, QuintiIla, Lig-
ma and Laranasch, in Chilli, have been
greatly damaged by earthquakes.
William Sisson, of Washington. Geor-
gia, killed a negro man in that place on
'aturday night last, and made good his
escape.
The members of the iron and steel in
stitute of Liege, in Belgium, have been
invited to a meeting in this country to
take place in 1874. - =
Letters are pouring into Washington
pleading for executive clemency in be-
half of the Modocs. The writers should
have their heads rubbed.
Six tons Of gold coin, brought by
treasury officials from San Francisco to
Washington, have been forwarded to
the New York sub-treasury.
"Australianp Kelley and "Bappy,'
Jack mauled each other at Little Rock
on Monday, scoring twenty y-eight
rounds, and quit, leaving the battle un-
decided.
All the tribes in the northern norton
of Sumatra have left their pepper plan
tations and gone to the assistance of
the Atcheens in their resistance to the
Dutch invasion.
Charles Ames and Jane Reid. both
colored, are on trial at Paris, Kentucky.
for producing an abortion, resulting In
the death of Nora Curtis, another col
ored woman. 81
Charles Stark, a wealthy citizen of
Manchester, New Hampshire, and a
grandson of General John Stark, COM
mitted suicide Monday night. He was
seventy-tEo years cid. 81
Abram Benson was fatally shot, yes
terday, at Auburn, New York, while at
tempting to escape from jail. He es-
caped with the Berry gang, last Marcel.
at the time Jailor Fields was killed.
A destructive fire was reported early.
yesterday evening as having broken out
at Quebec, and at noon was raging. No
furtker report was received, however,
and the extent of the confagration Is.
not known.
Shreveport first-baled yesterday
twenty-five cents-raised by the came
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LOUISIANA.
Letter from Governor McEnery On the
Present Condition OF Affairs in
the State-A Blue
Lookout.
If the Government Of the State Cannot
be Rescued from Kellogg, it
Should be Turned Over
to the United
States.

New ORLEANS, August 19.-In re-
spOnse TO a communication from Monroe
parish as to the proper course to be pur-
sued regarding Louisiana affairs, Gov
ernor McEnery writes letter advising
q State convention in December and the
appointment of a committee to appeal to
congress. After reviewing the Kellogg
usuTpation, Governor McEnery says
that "the present deplorable condition
of Louisiana demands her rescue from
utter ruin; the adoption of one or
two regiments, either for the rescue of
her government from the ignorance and
corruption pervading almost every de-
partment by the united action of the
intelligent and honest people of the
State, or an utter surrender of the State
TO the federal government, trusting that
that government may institute an
honest home government that will
save the people the confscation
of their property now gradually going
on, and consequent and evitable bank
ruptcy and ruin. To any one educated in
the theory and genius of our government,
the latter alternative Is hard to accent,
but any government promising better
future, however irregularly instituted, is
preferable to one promising certain i'm
poverishment and general bankruptcy.
When people find themselves surround
ed as we are, by desperate and
circumstances, commerce
decaying, agriculture demoralized, capi-
tai, with MercuTial wings, in fight resl-.
ize the depressed and deprecated fifty
per cent since the Kellogg rule, ard
in fact all values on the decline
all this in a State of bonnl-
less resources, and simply ard
alone due to the fact Of bad, dishonest,
government, possessing
neither the confidence of the people at
hone or abroad, it is natural that they
will accept relief from any hand that e:I-
tends 1t, and will not stop to enquire us
to the regularity or irregularity of the
authority exercised, but hope that fate
is not so impervious that we
shall be driven to accept no
desperate remedy. Let rs hope better
of those who hold our destiny in their
hands. Let us appeal earnestly to con-
gress, trusting that that honorable body,
casting aside all political prejudices and
party rule, will do simple justice to a
much-wronged and injured people,
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ADDITIONAL MARKETS.
MOBILE.

MOBILE.
MOBILE, August 19.-COtton irregular;
middlings, lS@1SIc; net receipts, All
bales; xports-cOastwise, 364 bales;
sales, 176 bales; stock, 7201 bales.
. SAVANNAH.
SAVANNAH, August 19.-None offer
ing; middling, lie; net receipts, lSl
bales; stock, 992 bales.
CHARLESTON.
CHARLESTON, August IS.-Demand
good; offerings very light; good ordi-
nary, 15C9154c; net receipts, 81 bales;
sales, 100 bales; stock, 6763 bales.
GALVESTON.
GALVESTON, August 19.-Cotton quiet;
middlings, 174@17Se; low middlings,
lie; good ordinary, Ice; ordinary, 1870
1870; net receipts, 24S bales; sales, $50
bales; stock, 1879 bales
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

A special from Hampton, Georgia, 10
the Atlanta Herald Of Sunday says: s'(S.
w. Dupres was cut in nine places, two
to the hollow, last night, by Sam Mas
sew. Massey fled to his fathers in
Gwinnett county. Dupree is yet living.
The cause is that Dupree was overseer
of the road and wanted Massey TO work.
He refused to do so, and got mad and at
tackled Dupree With a knife Dupree is
one of our best citizens, and Massey ives
living on Dupree's land. Dupree is a
nephew of C. L. Dupres, executor of the
viii OF L. ]. Dupree, Of Oglsthorpe
county. Massey Is about twenty-five
years of age, weighs about one hundred
and forty pounds, and about five feet In
height. He is ofdark complexion, from
sun-burn."
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BAGGING AND TIES.


WE have in store and to arrive full stock
w Of the Best Brands of BagganE,
which we will sell low TO THE TRADE, de-
livered in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville or
here. Being Manufacturers Agents. We are
prepared to give orders pTompi attention, and
at the very lowest market rates.
The bulk OF our stock will consist of the
following well known brands:
Phoenix, "a lbs, so, o. and 100 yard pieces.
d. N. q Co, Xxx, % lbs, 81 yard pieces
Magnolia, % lbs. % yard pieces.
J. t1ebhart, q in triangle, % lbs, 80 yd. pcs.
K.Y.P.Y., 2 lbs, 50 yard pieces.
KY.P.Y., 81 lbs, 81 yard pieces
Laudeman, 2 lbs. 80 yard pieces.
Anchor, "a lbs, 30 yard pieces.
Diamond, 2 lbs, 80 yard pieces.
]. H, lbs, 50 yard pieces.
J. H., 21S lbs, IS yard pieces.
j. H, "a lbs % ard pieces
Baling Irvine, lb. hanks, 50 ID. bundles.
We have also on hand a large stock of Ali
gator. arrow aud BugIau iron sizes. which
we can furnish To THE TRADE at the lowest
prices, in quantities to suit.
COCHRAN. CERoDE & CO..
au,5 No. 3GS Front street.
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GALVESTON
FUNERAL NOTICE.

GREEN-The friends and aequsintances of
the late MAJOR ]. C. GREEN are invited to
attend his funeral, from his late Tesidenee,
No. 81 Exchange street extended, at fur
O'Clock this "WEDNESDAY afternoon Car
riages in attendance
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SELECT SCHOOL,

AIRS. MARY RICHARDSON'S School for
vi Girls and Boys, will open at her resi-
dence. I0S Jones avenue, on MONDAY, SEP
TEMBER lsT. Tuition, IS per month, in ad-
vance, for all English branches. Extra charge
for Music. euH
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

Waco, Texas, was visited by a very
destructive rain Storm. A special TO the
Galveston Commercial says: Jones
* Grand, livery-stable men, had two
very fine horses drowned in Hog creek.
The creek showed no signs. Of be-
ing swollen, and a COW was standing in
II drinking when they drove in. A tor
rent of water four feet high came sud-
denly rushing down, and before they
could get out the buggy was smashed,
and the two men carried quarter Of 8
mile down the stream, whece they were
rescued"
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NV ADVERTISEMENFH.
OId FoIks At Homo.

A N adjourned meeting Of the Association
n VIII be held on
goth inst, at 5 o'clock p-En-,
In the Chamber OF CoInmeree, to appoint
and complete the arFsns emeuts
for the Annual Barbecue on the iith Septem-
Der. Citizens desiring to become members,
and also 70 participate in the barbecue, must
hand in their applications for this meeting,
as II will be the last opportunity.
auI9 p. PRESCOTT, Secretary.
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Ell ANHLLHI
COLLEGE
HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS.

rJJHE Twenty-Fifh Annual Session Of this
1 popular School for Young Ladies, will
commence on Monday, September s. 1873,
with full corps Of teachers in every depart
ment.
The distinguishing characteristics of this
school, and such as should be studiously re-
garded by parents in sending their daughi ers
away from home, are the superior zeal and
experience of the teachers, moderate terms,
and the remarkably good society and good
health of Holly Springs.
NO CHOLERA, or other malignant cpl
demic, ever visited the place.
Send for Circulars, or inquire further OF
au4 WIN. CLARK, A. NJ, President.
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Administrators Notice.

HAVING been duly qualified as Admins
III traitor Of Lucy Gray, deceased, all per-
sons having claims against said decedent are
hereby required to exhibit the same within
the time limited by Law, or the same will be
barred and all persons indebted 70 said estate
are notified to settle forthwith.
c. CRONIN, Admir- 372 Shelby st.
Memphis, July 26, 1873. aul9
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The President will celebrate his
silver wedding on Friday next at Long
Branch.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

The Daily Appeal has a larger etrcu-
IRtiOn than all she other Memphis daily
papers combined.
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SOUTHERN RXPRRSS co.
NOTICE.
l. MESSENGER WILL BE PUT on THE
Memphis and Paducah Railroad,

August 18th. and win run from MEMPHIS to
and return, until further orders
Express for this road closes at s:9Op.m.
Rates low. For Information apply at Office,
No. 80 North Court street.
auls HUGH a. HAMILTON, Agent.
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NORWICH UNIVERSITY.

A MILITARY COLLEGE. established In
"a 1874. Has a preparatory department,
thorough Classical, Scientific and Military in
siructinn, including Modern Languages and
Civil Engineering. Good discipline Loca
ton very healthy. Terms, $3.50 a year Year
Is73-74 begins August 18th. Send for q circu-
lar Address PROF. CHARLES DOLE.
au20 Northfield, VT.
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The hOrse-shoers of Brooklyn are on
strike
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MISSISSIPPI.

MLfSD1OJAA Ae
Progress Of the ReYOlution-The First
Negro Declaration Of Indepen-
dence-Their,First Fourth
Of July.
State of the COuntry-Its Fields, and
Fences, and PeOple-HOW the
People Look, and how
they Talk.
The Danger that Threatens, and Way
Of Eseape-Will the People Avail
Themselves Of it!
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

Shreveport first-bsled yesterday
twenty-five cents-raised by the came
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

Is not an lnslgnincant Dorder Town. 1t
is doubtful, however, whether being the
property Of two States has con-
tributed to its advancement. Pos
sibIy an undivided Jurisdiction
would be found more advantageous.
There Is but little activity IN political
opinion in East Tennessee, though on
the Virginia side the notes of prepara-
ton for an intensely hot campaign are
already heard. Both parties will do their
utmost, being headed by their strongest
leaders. Intimate friends Of Ex-Pfesi-
deRt johnson say he has not the
slightest idea OF being a candidate for
governor. They all intimate, however,
that they would Ike TO see him In the
senate. But the political situation is 5
problem which am glad il IL not La my
province 10 solve.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-31
PROPOSALS.,

sealed proposals will be received q Ne
city clerks ONCE until Z O'Clock pm. sf
Thursday, the l?th day OF June, A. D., 1878,
for furnishing the materials or doing ~
work, or both, for the construction oi tAs
following described sidewalk or either OF
them, W.:
ON the sou,hwardiy side OF seventh erSss
from the westerly line OF the Sidewalk now
existing on the westerly side Of " ashingt0o
svenue, 70 the eAsteriy line OF the sidewalk
now existing on the sastsrty eide Of Walnut
street, and on the perthwardly side Of ala
seventh street, from the westerly line Of ~
sidewalk now existing on the westerly hds
Of Washington avenue, 70 point o.
hundred feet esstwsrdly from TIE sastsfty
line OF tho sidewalk now existing On tAo
esstwardly side Of Walnut street.
Said proposals shall 10 directed 70 ~
city council, and will be opened d . meet.
ipE OF the council q the time above naAad.
Ali proposals shall 10 made 10 sccordaasS
with the provisions, requirements 80
specincsvIOuS VI aiss~s. No. 80, sppsovsd
April ~, A. D., 1878, which 0fdinapc4 10
new on die 10 my ONCE, subject 70 exARliAAs
ton - any slime.
The city council reserves the right 20 rss
jcct any or all bids. ~ J. AowL1y,
City Clerk.
CAIRO, Ills, May 30, 1878. 6Si.iSe
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice IL hereby given that ssslsd pro,
posals will be received st my once, q sAs
courthouse In the city Of Cairo, fer lower
INK the fence around the court.house %
that the present bsse board Of said fcses
will be even with the sidewalk, and 70 arp.
ply all missing pickets, furnish sails sd
nsil them On and all other TIMBER nscssNSy
to putting said fence In good condii 10.
The manner Of lowering said fence 10 " b.
by cutting. the present posp % u ~
ground and drawing out that portion u ~
post remaining 10 the grousd, .aad ibea
lower the posts into the ground q the sAsaH
place. Said fence must be straight md OF
. uniform height. Also 10 lower Tie 'iAes
walk next TO the fence level with he r,Rus
lar sidewalk. The bids for doing saia w0yk
win be opened % 10 O'Clock an. Of Thur.
day next, and the contract AWARDED BY SAe
county court-should either Of The BIDS -
sccepted.
The court reserves the right 70 reject NJ
and oil bids. JACoh u. LYNCH,
County CLERK.
CAIRO, Nay 10, 1873
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
The BOARD OF HEALTH LOOKING
AFTER THE SANITARY CONDI-
TIOS OF THECIrY.
ORDERS IN REFERENCE TO THE DIS
POSITION OF CARCASSE>

!. II is hereby ordered, that when any
horse, mule, COW or hog shall die within the
limits Of the city OF Cairo, II shall be the
duty ofthe owner or keeper of such animals
TO have its body removed forthwith a mile
beyond the city limits, and buried In hole
Of sufficient depth, or disposed of tor some
useful purpose, or east into the river Snto
deep water, one-half mile below the city
corporation line.
=. That no person shall, In part or wholly
NIL up any lot or parcel Of ground within
the city limits, with street scrapinr,. ma.
nure, ofal, or any foul or fecuen, matter.
3. That all persons keeping sIsuyh,sr
houses, stables or dairies, or other place. in
which animals are kept, for either pleasure
or profit, or for any purpose whatever, shall
keep the same clean and wholesome ny tho
removal of all manure and other onen,iva
matter NJ least ance a week
BY order OF the board OF health Of the ci,y
al Cairo. May 20, 1873.
o3o8l. JOAN WOOD, Chairman.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-31

Those who attended Johnson's circus last
night say that il was, considering the cir
cumstsnces under which the performance
was givea, an excellent entertainment. The
performers are good In all their undertak-
ings, and were loudly spplsuded by the
audience. The ciown-whatever his name
may be-is tip.top, and his witty sayings
are enough 10 keep one laughing all the
time. The concert after the circus perform
ance 10 said 70 have been very good. There
will be another exhibition tonight, when
oil those who contemplate attending may
| expec, TO see a good performance. Owing
TO the fact that Mr.. johnson lost a very
large canvass by fire in Louisiana, aud his
new one from New York not having yet or.
rived, he Is unable 10 seat his audiences as
comfortably - he could desire, but better
arrangements will be made to-day, and TO-.
night lot him have such IN audience rs his
entertainment deserves.
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NoTICR !
TREsPAssERs.. NUIsASCEs...

All persons having buildings, fences or
lumber upon the strip Of land known % the
Illinois Cep'rsl railroads 100 feet strip, situ-
ated between Ohio levee and Commercial
sverde, Cairo, Illinois, as also oil persons
Who have thrown or placed, or caused to be
thrown or placed upon said strip Of land,
any rubbish, tin cans, oyster shells, slops,
manure, garbage or other material what.
ever, are hereby notified TO remove tho
same forthwith and within ten days from
this date, and TO forever hereafter desis,
from such like trespasses and nuisances up.
on said land or they and each Of them will
be prosecuted TO the full eptent OF the law
THs ILLINOIS CENTRAL X. X. Co.
by Green 4 Gilbert its Attys
CAIRO. Ills, May 20, 1873. 5-3l-1t
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The ghost has been walking again. On
Thursday night the rascal made his ap-
pearance on Walnut street dressed in
white drawers and = fremsn's hat, and
last night was q black man. The grocery
keepers complain that the ghosts appear.
ancs has injured their business-that they
now sell no goods after o'clock. All the
women, children and . number of the men
Of the Fourth and Fifth wards, are KEEP,
in mortal terror by this peculiar and con.
stantly appearing appsrition. Mr.. Nc.
Hale, please induce one of your policemen
to shoot the rascal, and mako him . rea
ghost.