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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-04-08

"MusICAh AND LITERARY EvTERrA1v-
MEM. "-Such is the title oi an entertainment
given in this place on Wednesday evening
last, by the "l!arpcr's Ferry Students"
(c"Iored.) of Storer CoIIege-Rev. n. G
Bracket, Principal Direcrcr-and to which
we we're favored with complimentary tickets
The music, we understand was suci! as to. re.
h"ct credit upon those engaged, and the re-
nalnGer vi the programme was veil executed
CLEAN UP.-Now that Spring has dawncd
upon US, our streets should be cleaned. and
the accumulated filth of the long winter re-
moved. Pavemcnts should be repaired. and
the piles OF dirt in and around the cutters
should be car'ed away. y little attention to
ud'neSs on the part of some people 10 front of
and around their premises. would much i'm
prove the appearance Of the t,wu.
PASSION WEEK.- Schedule of services
during Passion Week in Zion (EpiscopaD
Church:
D"Hy Morning Prayer GAS o'clock, A NJ.
Tuesday and Thursday - o'clock, p. NJ.
Wednesday and Saturday, o'clock, p. NJ.
Good Friday, IL o'clock, y. NJ.
MARTINsBURG DAILY INDEpENDEST.-
The first number Of this new paper has been
received. 1t is a neatly gotten up, attractive
and interesting publication. and we trust will
merit the liberal encouragement of the citi>
Of IL
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
Deeu.Sea Discoveries.

One of the discoveries made by the
deep-sea soundings of the Challenger
expedition, which arrived recently at
Bermuda from the Azores, is a noun
tain ridge that extends from Greenlaed
to the month of the Amazon, on the
coast of South America, and includes
the whole volcanic region of the Azores.
This ridge is nowhere more than two
miles below the ocean level Toward
the east it is divided between Europe
and Africa by an immense valley from
two and half to three miles in depth.
The valley reaches north of the equator
as far as the fifty-second degree of lati-
tude If this valley were not under
water it would present view of whose
magnifcence no idea can be formed,
for in the north it extends to the gigan-
tic mountains of Cape Verde and the
Canary Islands, the latter of which,
with the Peak of Teneriffe, would be
26, 900 feet in height. Madeira would
command, from height of 10000 feet,
view of this valley and another
stretching toward the Mediterranean.
On the western side of the ridge is a
vast undulating plain, which extends at
an average depth of two and three-quar-
ter miles to the American coast. Ber-
muda, which rises now only 200 feet
above the ocean level, is in fact an iso-
lated column $1,000 feet high, which
would overlook an amphitheater of at
least 500 miles In radius. Between the
West Indies and America, and in the
vicinity of the Azores, bhe water is of
uniform depth and warmth. There was
not much animal life found in the great
depths. The blind crs kacea appear to
belong to the Western hemisphere; in
this part these animals require many
eyes. A sea carmel was caught which,
singular to relate, had four eyes, two of
which were in the front knee joints.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

The usual routine of European life in
India is TO rise at "gun-fre" Give
o'clock, go out for an airing in boat or
palanquin for two full hours, battle and
dress at eight, take breakfast at nine,
lunch at one, and slesta from two to
four, when everybody retires, and,
whether one wishes to sleep or not, he
is secure from interruption, and as the
full benefit of being en- disha5ille for
the two most oppressive hours of the
day. At four the second bath is taken !;
at five all go out in full dress in open
carriages, and after rapid drive over
some of the public thoroughfares, the
horses are walked slowly up and down
the esplanade, where all the fashionable
world assemble at this hour to see and
be seen, and exchange passing courte-
sizes or comments. At half-past six,
"the course" is deserted, and brilliant
ly-lghted dining-rooms are thronged
with guests eager to test the quality of
the rich and varied delicacies Of which
an oriental dinner consists. This is
the principal meal of the day, and, oc-
cupying often two or three hours. it is
made not merely an epicurean feast, but
also an intellectual and social BANQUET.
Strong coffee, served in the tiniest of
porcelain cups, follows the guests on
their return to the drawing-rooms. and
music. conversation, reading and com
pany fill up the hours till midnight,
when the third bath is taken immediate
~ before retiring.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

An honest, healthy, sun-browned man comes slowly
home at night,
Halts, tired, before his cottage meath the tempting
shade to rest,
Removes his broad-brimmed hat and shows a face
that's soiled, but bright,
And fans it with zest.
squad of noisy little Hessians. troopirg down
the lawn
For full two hours have watched the sun, as,
sinking in the west,
1t brought this hour for mirth and strife for who
should first be drawn
Unto the farmers breast.
The gayest hour of all tho hours of all the day is
this: N'' 80
Care flies as each and all are to his shaggy bosom
pressed
The baby arms and baby mouths are pleading for
nis kiss
The sweetest and the best
They care not papas" face is soiIed his old clothes
failing fast:
They know not of fatigue that brings the perspi-
ration so,
And whitehairs to his raven locks and wrinkles-oh
so fast
Aud money-oh, so slow.
They know not that its too much toll makes ma
mas" cheeks white;
That there only lilies where the roses used to
The toll will end for her but when it takes her from
their sight
Better they should not know.
They know not of the atchless love that gave their
little life;
They know of the love that tolls that they may
live and grow;
They know not of the grinding of hard tines and
of the strife
But fan mers know.
Only such toll for love, for babes for home, for
life, for bread;
Only such tender pleadings goad him on from day
to day:
Only such ceaseless, whitening msddening toil-oh.
terror dread
Can keep the "wolf" away
And while this dismal specter gaunt stares at him
day and night,
You swelling, strutting millionaire, behold how
fat he grows
On this same farmers tolls and fruits and blood
Oh, tits not right
But tbs the tTuth-God knows.
Oh, money kings, oh, railroad kings! Ipray re-
duce your freights.
Oh Ceres fair if thou dost rule DER farmers fates
to-day,
Shell your gold when corn is sold at decent Chris
tidn rates
Ever so much pray.
This cannot last, relief will come; twill come be-
cause it must:
One cannot grind his brothers throat beneath his
heel of power;
With terror's rod the tyrant cannot ruleif God is
just
But just one little hour.
God only knows when tYrant's throne may tumble
ON his head:
he only knows the fate that rules our lives from
day to day.
"Prayer moves the Hand that moves the world"
comforter hath said
And We can always pray
Renosita, Hss. FArNEI,'s GIRL.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

sippi near Rock Island and Keokuk, or
of the falls of the Ohio at Louisville.
Or it would build one hundred manu-
featuring establishments in this country
that would cost 100000 each, and give
employment to %, 600 workmen.
If one-half of this huge sum, torn
from the hand of industry mainly by
the machinery of incorporated monopo-
hes, had been left in the hands of the
people, how much better would it have
been for the world! The haunts of
vice and folly in Paris and other Euro
pean cities might not have been as well
supported as they now are-the seedy
Counts might not have made as eligible
matches with ambitious and wealthy
American ladies as they now may-but
the money would have remained at
home, to be expended in laudable and
useful purposes.
About this mania for running to Eu-
rope, there is one ridiculous feature. 1t
is this: Not one-half of the native
Americans that go there have travelled
their own country, or can give Euro
pean inquirer an intelligent account of
its climate, resources or institutions
Industrial Age.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
How Indians Escape their pursuers.


During the early part of the flight
every precaution is adopted to prevent
leaving heavy trail, or one easily to
be followed; to this end, instead OF
moving, as is customary, in single file,
thereby leaving a clearly defined path,
each warrior moves independently OF
his fellows, until all danger from pur-
suit is safely passed, when the party
falls into single file, and, with the chief
at their head, moves along in almo {
unbroken silence. If during an attack
upon the frontier settlements the In
dians should encounter unexpected and
successful resistance, necessits.ting a
premature withdrawal and flight on
their part, they still resort to stratagem
In order to secure THEN safety. In ac-
cordance with plan previously formed
and understood by each member of the
party, and specially provided for an
emergency, the war party finding them
selves about to encounter successful re.
sistance of the part of the frontiersmen
beat hasty retreat but instead Of
taking their fight in a single direction
and in one party, thereby leaving an
unmistakable clue for their pursuers,
the entire party breaks up into smaller
bands, each apparently fleeing in an
independent direction, few of the best
mounted usually falling behind to at
tract the attention of the pursuers, and
give time to those of the party who are
burdened with prisoners and captured
stock to make good their escape. In
such an emergency as this a rendezvous
for the entire party has been previously
fixed upon. Its location is usually
upon or near some water-course or
prominent landmark, distant perhaps
thirty or forty miles thither all smaller
parties direct their course, each by
separate and usually a circuitous route.
Should either of these smaller parties
find themselves closely pursued, or
their trail being followed and all efforts
to throw the pursuers off prove I'M
awaiting, they relinquish their plan of
uniting with the others at the estab-
hshed rendezvous, as that would i'm
peril the safety of their comrades, and
select new route leading neither in the
direction of the rendezvous or of the
village, in order not only to elude but
TO mlStead tnelr purSuerS. Then en-
sues long and tiresome flight, until,
having worn out or outwitted their pur-
suers, of whose movements they keep
themselves thoroughly informeI they
make their way in safety to tES vii
lage. At the latter outlooks are con-
stantly kept on some prominent hill to
watch the coming of the absent warriors
and give notice of their approach. A
war party returning from a successful
raid into the settlements, and bringing
with them prisoners and captured
stock, is an event of the greatest I'M
portance to every occupant of the vii
lage. Having arrived within o few
miles of the village, and feeling safe
from all danger from pursuit, the chief
In command of the war party causes a
signal smoke to be sent up from some
high point along the line of march, well
knowing that watchful eyes near the
village are on the alert and will not fail
to observe the signal and understand
its meaning. Custer, an GALAXY
for December.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
How Indians Climbs Trees.

In South America even the weakest
woman may be, not uncommonly, seen
plucking the fruit at the tree-tops. IF
the bark is so smooth and slippery that
they cannot 60 climbing, they use other
means. They make hoop of wild
vines, and putting their feet inside.
they use it as support in climbing.
The negro of the west coast of Africa
makes larger hoop, round the tree,
and gets inside of it and jerks it up the
trunk with his hands, little at time,
drawing up his legs after it. The Ii
hitian boys tie their feet together, four
or five inches apart, with piece of
palm bark, and with the aid of this fet-
ter go up the cocoa palms to gather
nuts. The native women in Australia
climb the gum trees after opossoms.
Where the bark is rough they chop
holes with Ratchet; then one throws
about the tree rope twice as long as
Will go around it, puts her Ratchet on
her cropped head, and, placing her feet
against the tree and grasping the rope
with her hands, she bitches it up by
jerks, and pulls herself up the enor-
nous trunk almost as fast as man will
climb ladder.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
Advertising i'm Dull Times.

The Milwaukee Wisconsin relates the
following:
ssAftss tho orasL AZ, ~, uIeu every
body was almost scared to death, and
the croakers predicted that the coun-
try had gone to smash, dry goods
house was opened in this city, which
proceeded ON the principle that in or
der to reach the boarded money in the
pockets of the people, the proprietors
must sell at very reasonable prices and
advertise very largely. They worked
vigorously upon this principle. Their
brother merchants who did not adver-
tise predicted that the new corners
would be ruined, as they paid too much
for advertising. Nevertheless, they
persisted. In single year they paid
five hundred dollars in gold to the
Daily Wisconsin for advertising, and
at the end of seven years they retired
from business with fortune of one
hundred thousand dollars, while other
merchants on the same street, some of
them opposite their store, had failed.
And the New York EUening Post
says: eve remember a similar in
stance among our own advertisers in the
panic of 1857. A merchant continued
his advertising in our columns during
the whole period OF stagnation, and not
withstanding many predictions that if
wouldn't pay" His testimony after
wards was that his sales were steady
and his profits satisfactory, while many
merchant around him wEo could Mt
afford to advertise, saw his clerks stand
idle behind the counters"
A financial panic does not mean that
no one has any money. There is plenty
of money in the country, and those who
hoard it are just the ones to be eager
for the "bargains" which fall in
prices hold out. But to buy they must
know where to buy, and the merchant
who tells them viii receive their cash.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

.MaSter-Dudley w. Adams. Waukon, Iowa.
OUerseer-Thomas Taylor. Columbia, s. c.
LectiTer-T. A. Thompson, Plainville, Mimi.
Setcdrd-A. ]. Vaughan, Early Grove, Miss.
Asst Stetcdrd-G. W. Thompson, New Bruins
wick, N
Chaplain-Rev. A. b. Grosh Washington
d. C..
TredsUer-F. NJ. Mcdowell, Corning, N Y
Secreta'y-O. H. Kelley, Washington. D. c.
Gate Keeper-O. Dinwiddie, Orchard Grove
Ind.
Ceres-Mrs. d. ". Adams, Waukon, Iowa
Pomond-Mrs. o. II. Kelley, Washington
ID. G.
Flord-Mrs. J. c. Abbott Gainesville. Iowa
Lady asst. Seirdrd-Miss c.. A. Hall. Wash
ington, ID. @. =
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
THE FARMERS REVOLUTION.
of the Press.

v~fce of the Press.
nrroFo->E the farmers have depended
upon causes they did not inquire into
for demand for their products. They
busted themselves only in the question
of producing, depending upon the uni
versal demand for their staple produc-
tons to furnish them money and buyers
for their crops, and that policy was
good enough until combinations were
formed on gigantic scale to control the
price of their products, without regard
to the supply and the demand. Solong
as the price was regulated by these
universal and unerring laws, the farmer
was content. But now We come to the
occasion, SO to speak, for the formation
of oranges among the agricultural
classes. The farmer is of necessity
compelled to rely upon the railroads,
canals and navigable rivers as means of
transportation of his products to the
market. So long as there was an open
competition among common carriers the
farmer had no cause of complaint. But
as the great aggregation of capital con-
tinues through the manipulations of
stocks In New York, one road after an
other is swallowed up by monopolies,
and competition is destroyed. Thou
sands OF miles of the most important
and, heretofore, parallel and competing
lines fall into the hands of single in
dividual, or small ring of men. What
was the situation of the farmer? On
the one hand there was a combination
of manufacturers and dealers fixing the
price he should pay for everything he
mad to buy, and on the other hand was
gigantic railroad combination, dictat-
ing, in utter disregard of justice and
equity, price for everything he had to
sell. For a long time the farmer en-
dured the one. He was content to pay
what was demanded so long as he was
free to fix the price on what he had to
sell. Notwithstanding there was no
union or compact among them, there
was still some consolation and defense
in this. But when the agricultural
classes were not consulted, and had no
agency in determining the prices neither
of what they bought nor of what they
sold, the instinct of self-preservation
| impelled them to organize.
| Courier.
WHILE the farmers are seeking some
way out of the wilderness of their OPP
preston, and looking for weapons In
their own organizations with which to
beat down monopoly, it might be well
for them to leave the shadows alone and
deal blows only against those who are
in the flesh, and who have real Drawn
and muscle. We do not believe that
the movement now going on in favor of
Western interests is ephemeral. Its
roots, we know, lie deeper than the sur
face. The causes that produced it have
been at work for long time, and if
they do not succeed in breaking the
hold of Eastern monopolists upon the
country, the movement will have been
commenced in vain, and the disenthrall-
ment of Western interests put off for at
least decade longer.-H. Louis NO.
Dispatch.
NEED we centrali;e the government
any further in order to check the des-
potism of railroads? -. The
| farmers have been goaded into making
this demand, and we are not prepared
| to censure them on this account. They
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18
Foreign Travel.

1t is estimated there are over $780,
100000 spent annually in Europe by
Americans or residents of America
About one-third of this sum is expend-
ed by former citizens of Europe, who
are revisiting their native land. The
balance is expended by pleasure seeking
and fashionable American people. The
majority of these are the veriest snobs
on the face of the earth. BY accident
and sharp practices they have made
money fast, and they want to go where
the great masses of the people won't
recognize them as genuine shoddy.
There is not one in ten of them. can tell
the difference between the statue of
Venus and one of Hercules, or an oil
painting from chrome. 1t seems that
the panic has brought these would-be
genteel folks to grief. The failures of
the banks from which they took drafts
has caught them without funds, and
they have had to telegraph for material
aid to get home. We hopethis may have
the effect to check the insane desire to
take run to Europe by every fraudu-
lent public officer. or Indian agent or
trader, or watered-stock railroad OPP
orator, or ring contractor. The excuse
has been, hitherto, that the living and
hotel accommodations In Europe were
so much cheaper than in this country,
that it was part of economy for peo-
pie of leisure and wealth to go there.
This year it is different. The hotel prices
throughout Europe are more than they
are in America.
The 500. 10000 spent mainly in an
idle displa, of ignorance and dissipa-
ton N Europe, by citizens of America,
would build 10000 miles of narrow
gauge railroad, or 5000 miles of the
common-gauge road in this country. 1t
would build a canal around the falls of
Niagara, open the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi so as to make it navigable for
any vessel that sails the ocean, or would
remove the Instructions in the Missis-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

Master of the Kansas State Grange,
was elected to the Office at it's
first meeting, which was held in July
last. During the past few months, he
has, with the assistance of the Secretary
of the State Grange, George Spurgeon,
organized nearly 500 subordinate
oranges. Among the fruits of the or
ganization in Kansas, it may be men.
toned that the prices of agricultural
implements and other necessaries have
been lowered from 80 to 40 per cent.
below the former figures. Mr.. Dunn
BAUD was born in Pennsylvania !; he is
now As years of age. With his fathers
family he removed to Ohio at an early
age, where he remained until he was
eighteen. Ia 1864 he settled in Kansas,
where he is widely known as an extern
sive farmer and useful man.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

THE recent horrible poisoning case in
Montreal, in which a dozen people
drank up nearly half a gallon of vinum
colchici upon the supposition that it
was whisky, has very useful moral for
inconsiderate drinkers. The above peo-
pie, who are now all in the cemetery,
found this drug, and, supposing it to be
intoxicating liquor, went in and made a
night of it, carousing and drinking in a
manner which it would not be compli-
mentary to the lower animals to call
british. The whole miserable crew,
men and women, died before morning.
The most of the whisky sold nowadays
is sure to kill sooner or later, but little
social parties of this description, who
devote night to drinking and make a
serious and energetic business of it,
should be particular in ascertaining
whether they are drinking the right
poison.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

mint water, eleven drachms; spirits of
nutmeg, one drachm. This preparation
actsas tonic and stimulant, and parti-
ally supplies the place of the accus-
toned liquor, and prevents the absolute
physical and moral prostration that fol-
lows from a sudden breaking off from
the use of stimulating drinks. 1t is to
be taken in quantities equal to an ordi-
nary dram, and as often as the desire of
o dram returns.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

South CARoLISA.-A correspondent
draws a melancholy picture Of the de-
cadence of South Carolina. He esti-
mates that over 90 per cent. of the
farmers have lost money since the war,
and mentions one 3,000-acre tract OF
land that has been sold four times under
the Sheriff7s hammer since 1865. Be-
fore the war, he says, the taxable prop
erty OF South Carolina was valued al
about S46S, 500, 600; in 1870 it had
! fallen to SS4, 000, 600, and the decrease
has been steadily progressing up to the
present time but the taxation before
the war was only little over $500, DOC
annually, while the taxation in 1870 was
about 81, 100, goo, yet the State taxation
debt has increased from 1000, 900 to
something between SIG, 900, 900 and
so, 600, 600
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

The Master of the Wisconsin State
Grange is Col. John Cochrane. There
were twenty-five oranges in the State in
October, 1872 Now there are over two
hundred, with goodly number of
councils. Col. Cochrane, in company
with Mr.. James Brainard, Secretary of
the State Grange, has travelled over
more than 1000 miles in Wisconsin to
conduct the ceremonies of organization.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

may be wrong in the mode of relief
they suggest, but if in error, it is an
error of the head and not of the heart
We do not believe the staunch farmers
OF the West mean to increase the powers
of the General Government so as to in
terfere with the liberties of the people.
They would not deliberately jeopardize
their own interests. They are the peo-
pie, and Capitalization would directly
affect them Wilmington (N. c. Star.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-18

This estimable lady is the wife of d.
w. Adams. Master of the National
Grange. She has taken very great in
terest in the success OF the order, and
the degree of "Ceres, in the National
Grange, was conferred upon her at the
last session of that body. The admis-
sion of ladies into the order has proved
very important feature in the organ
ization.