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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-01-11
MISCEL
ScR1BNER'S MONTHLY.

ANEOUS.
scR1BNER's MONTHLY.
4 ,Sa,;1l Story iy DIR. HOLLAND.
Nee Story bV SANE HOLM.
Long Story from BRETE HARTE.
Brilliant array 0f Contributors.
CLARENCE COOK On Furniture and Decorations
H. ii. STopDARD, on AuthOrs.
Extraordinary inducements to New Sub.
scribers.
500 Pages for SI.OO! &C., &c.
The Publishers Of ScRIuNERs MONTHLY in their Pros
pcrtu inst Issued promise for tho ensuing year more
brilliant array of contributors, and in the
variety and beauty Of its Illustrations already conceded
by the critics to he inner THIN am rhich hare hitherto
appeared in oHg american nsaqazine.'
DE-. HOLLAND the Editor will write the serial story
of lii" year which will lie autoLogralical in form, and
will he illustrated by Miss Iiaocll. 1t is entitled
Arthur Bonnicastle, and will deal with of
the most difficult problems Of American Life. II will
he commenced in the November Number.
There will be a new story by SANE HOLM The
One Legged Dancers.
BRET HARrE, The best lcriter Of short stories nor
iiriag will contribute characteristic story, entitled
The Epic of FiddIetOwn, which will be illus
,r,ted by Sheppard
r. H. STopp,RD will write n series of enterta;ninc
papers about Authors, their Personal
Characteristics, Home Life. Families.
Friends Whims, and WAYS, A series of
Portraits of Living American wrtrers
is also promised.
f,,,.,.,.- c,o, al, H.,
the Decoration OF American IIomes.-
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
Gaping A CAPPER.

An enterprising gambling house in
Denver recently hired rather fresh
young man from the States to do little
Gaping" He soon spotted q burly
man of rustic dress and manners, who
looked for all the world like an honest
ranchman from down the Platte river
and just dismounted from wagon-load
of potatoes round the corner. The cap
per drew him into conversation, and the
rustic dropped on the game at once,
was piled with numerous social glasses,
and rather extensively inveigled into the
lair Of the tiger. When the ingenious
youth called the attention Of old King
Pharaoh himself to the prize he had in
tow, that potentate rudely asked him,
What the HI did you pilot the CHIEF
Of police in here for?"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

statement at South Bend: what grazing Of
perjury his Testimony before crosn-examna-
ton on the 7th instant
And how unfortunate that this. the meanest
of all the Credit Mobilier traffickers, in 80
secure from punishment. Iie was speaker
OF the House when he first put foot in these
muddy waters, but nearly four years since he
was transpanted from the House to the SEN
ate and 1t is out Of the question for the House
to cbastise him now Of its own power. Since
no has been in the Senate no new dereliction
has come to light, and ia contemplation Of law
he is unassailable by that body. Impeachment
being only for officers Of the United States
and Representative not being an officer, ~
was many years ago decided in the Blount
case, the House and Senate cannot combine
for his arraignment and trial. There seems
no way of reaching him unless 1t be by the
reflex action Of an expulsion Of his guilty
associates who are yet within the jurisdiction
OF the House. The vice-President of the
United States is out of his own mouth con-
victed Of fraud, jobbery, malfeasance, and
something very like perjury, and yet 30 anon
alous is our system-or rather, let us say, 80
little were such crimes ever imagined as pos
sible when our Government was framing-the
knave may smile and smile and BIO an un-
whipped villain still.-Nen York World.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

As every living creature manifests an
instructive fear of death, an opinion pre-
walls that dying is overwhelmingly pain
full. There may be conditions of dis
ease, violent spasms and dreadful
wounds, so terrible to bear that the
spectator is impressed with the idea that
expiring is the acme Of agony. But
persons of distinguished attainments in
science, in the act Of dying have watched
their own failing pulse, and have de-
scribed their own sensation as being
eminently free from physical suffering.
Julius Cesar desired sudden and
unforeseen death. Nelson wished to die
in battle. Both had their wish.
Strange as it may appear now, for GEN.
turies it was a custom in England to
snatch the pillow from under the dying
head to hasten their departure in
other words, to put them out of misery.
The mind appears to be occupied at the
expiring moment with thoughts that
have characterized their lives. Napo.
Icons last words indicated he supposed
himself in command. Horace Greeley
said, II know that my Redeemer liv'
eth" which shows his mind had beer
exercised on religious subjects. Schiller
was asked how he felt-for he was dying
"Happy," was his answer. DR.. Arm
strong died calmly while speaking OF
medical subjects.
Psychologists believe death is who'll,
and entirely free from suffering.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

Miss Emily Faithful writes to the
Freside Companion in answer to the
question, What can be done for poor
single women ?" give them all trade.
She thinks telegraphy, photography,
photography, wood engraving, watch
making, type-setting, among the more
appropriate vocations for women. In
England, owing to trades-unionism,
women will not be admitted to learn or
follow the trade of matchmaking,
though one extensive matchmaker said
that woman's delicacy of touch was a
necessity to him, and he therefore sent
to Switzerland to have the part of his
work done which required that delicacy.
Miss Faithful found great difficulty in
finding employment for female wood en-
gravers in England. She says that
Eve want schools of design and tech
meal schools. At present we women
are nowhere in the race, not from in.
herent deficiency, but from the absence
Of special training"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
THE CHEAP POSTAGE BILL.

The lower house OF Congress has passed the
Cheap Postage bill reported not long ago from
the Postofiice Committee. The bill reduces
letter postage to two cent for each half ounce
or fraction thereof, declares magazines and
newspaper manuscripts to belong to the third
class of mailable matter, fixes the postage on
daily newspapers at fifteen cents per quarter,
and requires prepayment Of postage on all
printed matter, or mailable matter, of the Sec
ond class except on weekly newspapers within
the counties where they are printed or pub
lished, which will pass Though the mails free,
as heretofore. Az it originally came from the
committee the bill restricted the newspaper
franking privilege to "weekly newspapers
within the respective counties where the same
are actually and wholly printed and published"
The words " actually and wholly" which would
seem to have been inserted for the purpose Of
discriminating against those ..weeklies which
are printed partly in the cities by auxiliary"
establishments, and partly at the place Of
publication, were very properly stricken out.
Country publishers who print their newspa-
pers actually and wholly" in their own
Offices have a right to their own opinion of
"country nsides," or country outsides," Of
course, but Congress has no right to force
their opinion down other peoples throats If
people choose to subscribe and pay for papers
printed on the auxiliary plan, they have per-
feet right to do so, and publishers have per-
feet right to supply the demand for papers Of
this description. 1t is not for Congress to in
quire of publishers where they have their print
ing DONE They may have it done in their gar
rets, or in their cellars, or they may pay others
for doing it thousand miles away, il they
please Congress has nothing to do with the
business Chicago Times.
Our Chicago contemporary takes a
correct and sensible view of this matter.
He might have gone step further,
however, and added that it was bit of
impertinence, to say the least, on the
part of certain members of Congress to
attempt to defle our national statute
books with such manifestly unjust
piece of class legislation-a piece OF
legislation more in keeping with the
dark ages than with the liberal and en-
lghtened sentiment of the present GEN.
tury. It is a matter with which Con-
gress nor any other Legislative body has
no sort Of concern, and in meddling with
which they are stepping wholly beyond
the pale of their legal prerogative. L
Congress possesses the legal right t.
dictate to the publisher the mode, man
ner and place for the execution Of thu
mechanical work of his paper, it pos
sesses an equal right to enact that h
shall use straw paper instead of RAJ
paper; that he shall use large type in
stead of small type that he shall use I
bad quality of ink instead of good
quality; that he shall use hand pres
instead of a steam press and altogether
that he shall furnish his patrons wit
an inferior paper instead of agood, read
able sheet. For, in reality, the out
rageous discrimination attempted woul
have amounted to this, and nothin
less.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
THE BONAPARTES.

A correspondent of the New York
World calls attention to the vicissitudes
which the ashes of the Bonapartes have
undergone. The dust Of the first Napo-
leon rests in Invalides. Josephine is
buried at Malmaison, and the King of
Rome at Schonbrum. Joseph, Lucien,
Charles and Jerome, the brothers Of the
Emperor, lie in different parts Of Europe.
Charles Marie Napoleon, Of Corsica, the
father Of the whole family, and Napoleon
Charles, the eldest son of Hortense and
Louis, are buried at st. Leu. Napoleon
Louis, the elder brother of the late EN-
peror, is also buried at st. Leu. The
remains Of the late Emperor himself are
deposited at Chiselhrst. The changing
scenes of their lives are in keeping with
the fate which seems to fellow them after
death. ft
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
THE DEA TH-BED SCENE OF NAPO-
LEON III. N


The last scene in the life of the late
Emperor of the French was, according
to the latest news, singularly touching.
As we said yesterday, there was evidence
that he was conscious to the very last.
Twice over, in his last moments, he
spoke to the Empress in very feeble
voice. The last life sign was smile,
when the Empress knelt and kissed her
dying husband. In addition to the
Empress there were present the whole
household of Chiselhurst. The Prince
Imperial, who had been summoned from
Woolwich, was fifteen minutes late. The
poor boy was deeply affected, and, with
streaming eyes, kissed his dead father
frequently. The Emperor died quietly !;
there was no sign of pain. The EN-
press, completely overcome, tainted at
the bedside. When all was over, the
Empress refused to leave her dead hus-
band, and for several hours remained at
the bedside on her knees in prayer. The
dead Emperor, the sorrowing Empress,
the weaping Prince Imperial, the house,
hold looking on in sorrow-it was sad,
sorrowful, but, withal, a beautiful ia
bleau. In his last moments the de-
throned Emperor was not without the
consolation of friendship. - London
Times.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

SOME MEN, without medical knowledge,
advertise their unskillful preparations to cure
every disease. which is impossible; nor can
thew always cure the same disease While DIR.
Pierce Family Medicines have their legitimate
range, and have proven the most valuable
curatives ever given to the public, yet he il
fully competent to use any Necessary auxiliary
treatment, that all may recover His private
practice Is enormous. Patients from every
quarter wait on him, while thousands are
treated by letter, and special medicines sent
by mail or express. A small outlay will secure
his valuable services. Address, with stamp,
Dr. II. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, for q printed
list of questions, to assist in describing your
case. w
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28
MANUFA CTURE OF COLD LEAF.

The process of gold-beating is ex-
ceedingly interesting in its various de-
tails, aud is one which requires the ex-
ercise of much judgment, physical force
and mechanical skill. The coin is first
reduced in thickness by being rolled
through what is known as q "mill,
machine consisting of iron rollers oper-
ated by steam power. 1t is then annealed
by being subjected to inteise heat, which
softens the metal. 1t is next cut up and
placed in jars containing nitro muriatic
acid, which dissolves the gold, and re-
duces it to q mass resembling Indian
pudding, both in color and form. This
solution is next placed in jar with
copperas, which separates the gold from
the other components of the mass. The
next process is to properly alloy the now
pure gold, after which it is placed in
crucibles and melted, from which it is
poured into iron molds called ingots,
which measure ten inches in length by
one in breadth and thickness. When
cooled, it is taken out in the shape OF
bars. These bars are then rolled into
what are called "ribbon," usually
measuring about eight yards in length,
of the thickness of ordinary paper, and
retaining their original width. These
"ribbons are then cut into pieces an
inch and quarter square, and placed
into what is called "cutch," which
consists of pack of French paper
leaves resembling parchment, each leaf
three inches square, and the pack meas
uring from three-quarters of an inch to
an inch in thickness. They are then
beaten for half an hour upon q granite
block, with hammers weighing from
twelve to fifteen pounds, after which
they are taken out and placed in an
other pack of leaves called "shoder. F"
These leaves are four and half inches
square, and the gold in the "shoder y
beaten for four hours with hammers
weighing about nine pounds. After
being beaten in this manner, the gold
leaves are taken out of the shoders =
and placed in what are called "molds.' =
These "molds" consist of packs OF
leaves similar to the other packs, and
, made of the stomach of an OK. Afte1
being made ready in the molds," the
gold is beaten for four hours more with
hammers weighing six or seven pounds
, each. The leaf, after being taken out
I of the "mold," is cut into squares o.
three and three-eighths inches, and PLACED
, in "books of common paper
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

Adoniram Podge got liberal price
For the truck that he took to town;
The top OF his measure was always nice,
But shabbier deeper down;
And the wood was straight on the top Of his load
And crooked and gnarled below;
But the heavier part, on q rutty road,
Will always shake down, you know.
Adonirams Bible was worn and old
From the usage that it had got;
But piece Of knowledge that was never told
Was whether he used it or not;
II so. his memory served him wrong,
For he was not much Of q door
To the needy and friends who came along
With the story that they were poor.
capital man..in church was Podge-
To groan when the minister prayed;
And he knew to T the collection dodge,
And how much money he paid;
And he had, in frame, in his old front room,
Kept clean and neat by his wife,
Apsper which stated certain sum
Had made him . member for life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

A FOND but prudent mother in Chat
tanooga makes grave demand that the
city authorities shall reimburse her for
the funeral expenses of an unknown
corpse which she buried in mistake for
her son, who has since returned home in
good health.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

Adoniram Podge was lank and lean
As q withered up stalk Of corn;
And his face was solemn as ever was seen
Since the days when Adam was born.
lie lived ON farm on the edge Of town,
And he managed to keep on his legs
by boarding up money and sailing 1t down
When he sold his butter and eggs.
His face was a. long a. piece Of chalk,
And his eyes were little and gray;
And he hacked when he opened his mouth to talk,
And twitched In an awkward way.
His voice WAS sharp as steel spring trap,
And his head WAS minus Of hair;
But he covered it mp with an old fur cap
That his grandfather used to wear.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

A BITTER CoNTRovERsY.-The temper
ance organs are waging bitter war on
the manufacturers of alcoholic bitters,
and their attacks are resented with equal
bitterness by the latter, who seem deter
mined to prosecute the quarrel to the
bitter end. In the meantime q novelty
in tonic medicines is making immense
progress in the confidence of all classes
and conditions Of society throughout the
United States and British America. We
refer 20 DR.. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VN-
EaAR BrrERs, and we call it novelty
in tonics because it contains no alcohol
an article heretofore considered essen
tial in medicinal invigorants. The alb
stemious portion of the community
approve the omission, and as the new
remedy is curing dyspepsia, biliousness,
nervous affections, and, in fact, a ma
iority of the diseases, external and inter-
nal. which prevail, it is difficult to see
how the more self-indulgent portion OF
our fellow-citizens can conscientiously
object to it. One thing is certain If
ever there was what the French call
"grand success" the sudden and con-
tinually increasing popularity OF the
VINEGAR BTrrERs deserves that name.
The advocates of temperance point to
the salutary effects produced by this in
alcoholic restorative as a proof that
spirituous stimulants are not needed for
medicinal purposes-a position which
has been recently taken by many eminent
medical practitioners.-[Com.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

A PRETTY specimen of the devil fish,
which Victor Hugo has immortalized, is
in the possession of gentleman who
lives near the coast of Florida. He has
it carefully preserved, and tin its hor-
rid claws-had quite as carefully, when
caught, a diver. It is an immense
thing, and is four feet in diameter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

The post n,ortem examination OF the
body of Gov. Geary, Of Pennsylvania,
discovered no pathological lesion Of any
of the organs. The conclusion was that
he died from syncope, caused by nervous
prostration, the result of overwork and
malarial cachexy. His brain weighed
561 ounces.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

SAN FRANCIsco mechanics and manu-
facturers are sending out articles fol
exhibition at the fair in Hioga, japan, in
March.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

A RISING Chicago artist is painting a
picture Of Death as large rs life.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

And he keeps the Bible, 30 worn and old,
And he reads it, without doubt;
But the leaf containing the rule Of gold
Il somehow or other torn out
And blotted all the verses which speak
Bad things Of the trickery doer,
And fwixt ito covers twere vain to seek
For word of chser to the poor.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

NEw ORLEANS is rapidly recovering its
former importance as commercial city.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-02-28

Adoniram Podge kept hired man,
And he fed him on cabbage and beans,
Which were kept cooked up in an old tin pan
Along with some pg-weed green's;
And he made him work from the break Of day
Till the sun took its final lurch,
And locked him then Of a quarter his pay
That the savings might go to the church.
Adoniram finally died one night
And left the farm to his son,
whe follows rs near as true son might
In the course his father run;
And he daily drives to the market town
With the mare and her spawned legs,
And he boards up money and salts it down
BY selling his butter and eggs.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-06
SaWdust.

The London Fci1, one Of the highest
authoritios, says Of sawdust Hitter
the horses on il to the depth OF nine
inches, raking off the damp and soiled
surface, every morning, and spreading
evenly Il little fresh, removing the
whole only four or five times II year. Its
advantages appear to be many, OF which
/ will state Il few which give it, in my
estimation, its greatest superiority over
straw. 1t is peculiarly beneficial to the
feet, affording them Il cool, porous stuff
ing, II substitute for the soil Of earth we
always find in the hoofs Of II horse at
grass, aud presents the nearest resem-
blance to the horses natural footing
the earth. We never had a diseased
foot since the introduction Of sawdust
ia the stable, now some years since.
Horses beddod on sawdust are also
frccr from dist and stains than when
An ordinary litter, simply because saw
dust is II better absorbent, perhaps, and
testify their approval Of it by frequent
ly lying down for hours in the day. 1t
has also the recommendation Of being
,meatable-m advantage which all in
charge OF horses with the habit OF eat
ing their litter will readily admit"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-06
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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-03-06

ynE NEw WORLDS GRAND Remedy
The Old World has played its part in
vegetable medication. But the botany
Of the New World is us yet imperfectly
explored. Our new and most important
revelation from the land of wonders
California-haa astonished the scienti.
tic, and accomplished such cures Of dis
eases Of the. stomach and bowels, bill
iOus complaints, malarious ~fevers, ner-
vous affections, aud all diseases proceed
ing from a visiated condition Of the
blood, rs have never before been wit
messed.
Before WALKER's CALIFoENIA VINE
TAI Buffers all the alcoholic and mine
raj medicines are rapidly falling into
disuse. They can not resist the over
powering evidence brought forward
every day, OF the immens superiority
Of this medicine. Not n drop of ny
variety OF distilled or fermented liquor
or mineral poison ever enters into it's
composition. 1t is u gentle aperient, a
tonic, derived from entirely new vege-
table sources, an unriyalled %stomachic,
ndmerabic in Ill pulmonry diseases
and, in fact, 80 near to universal rene
dy as botanical discovery and scientific
Fki!Irsn hope to attain. DR.. Walker
consider it II cure for all diseases not
organic, and really the great variety Of
diseases to which it is successful seems
to warrant the opinion. Every family
needs such a remedy. It saves pain,
anxiety, ana doctors bills. We know
what trouble il is to keep the bowels Of
children III order, and any remedy that
will strengthen and regulate their weak
aud variable digestfons must be a do
nestle blessing.