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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-04-24

From the above surplus Of $500 900 II the
Society has declared a reyersionary dividend
available on settlement OF next annual premium
10 participating policies proportional to their
contribution to the surplus. The cash value Of
such reyersion may be used on settlement Of
premium, when the same becomes due.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
A Bad Boy.

THEY say that the chief astronomer at
the Washington Observatory was dread
fully sold few days ago. A wicked boy,
whose Sunday School eXper fence seems
only to have made him more depraved,
caught FREELY, and stuck it, with the aid
of some mucilage, in the center of the
largest lens in the telescope. That night,
when the astronomer went to work, he
perceived a blaze of light apparently in
the heavens, and what amazed him more
was that it would give a couple of spurts
and then die out, only to burst forth again
in a second or two. He examined it
carefully for few moments, and then be-
gan to do sums to discover where in the
heavens thateXtraordinary star was placed
He thought he found the locality, and the
next morning he telegraphed all over the
universe that he had discovered a new
and remarkable star of the third magni-
tude in Orion. In day or two all the as
tronomers in Europe and America were
studying Orion, and they gazed at it for
hours until they were mad, and then they
began to telegraph to the man in Wash
ington to know what he meant. The dis
cOverer took another look, and found that
the new star had moved about 1S,000,0 ,000,-
600 miles in twenty-four hours, and upon
examining closely he was alarmed to per-
ceive that it had legs! When he went on
the dome the next morning, to polish up
his glass, he found the lightning bug
People down at Alexandria, seven miles
distant, heard part of the swearing, and
they say he infused into it much whole
souled sincerity and vigorous energy.
The bills for telegraphic dispatches
amounted to $4,000, and now the astrono-
mer wants to find that boy. He wishes
to consult with him about something
M0r AdLer
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
OUR OWN.
IF I had known in the morning

IF had known in the morning
How wearly all the day
The words unkind would trouble my mind
That said when you went away,
had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;
But we vex our own with look and tone
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the kiss of peace,
Yet 1t well might be that never for me
The pain of the heart should cease;
How many go forth at morning
Who never come home at night
And hearts have broken for harsh words spoke1
That sorrow can ne'er set right.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometimes guest;
But oft for our own the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.
All lips with curl impatient,
An brow with the shade of scorn.
'TWere cruel fate were the night too late
10 undo the work of the morn.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
The Strange HallucinatiOns of a
Young Man.

THE Davenport Qowa) Gazette vouches
for the absolute truth of the following,
though for obvious reasons all names
are suppressed:
One of the leading citizens of North
Davenport had an only daughter, who
was betrothed to a young man of fair
promise, clerk in leading commercial
house at Dubuque. His visits to the city
were regular, and arrangements had been
made for an immediate union, when the
bride-elect was stricken down with ty-
phoid fever, and, in spite of all that skill
and care could do, died. The Gazette re-
porter says: "We saw her in the coffin,
dressed for the bridal of death, not for the
consummation of all earthly love. We
witnessed the agony Of her lover as he
bent in speechless, fearless abstraction
over the satin-lined burial-case."
After the melancholy journey to Oak
dale, the young man returned to Dubuque
Nervous fever set in, and peculiar hallu-
cination seized him that his lost one was
present in the room draped in the same
garb which had enveloped her clay. All
remonstrance was in vain. He minutely
described her dress, her appearance and
her position in his chamber Even when
his parents or friends. would sit or stand
where he declared her to be he saw her
glide away and take another place. This
went on for weeks, and the patient was
gradually sinking under the physical and
nervous excitement, when friendly ruse
was tried to cure him of his ecstacy.
Coming to Davenport, his mother found
that the funeral garments were purchased
of G. & NJ, and made by Mrs. B. She
procured the material, had it made up in
fac-s5male, and, returning, young lady as
near in height and appearance as could be
found was dressed to resemble his de-
ceased love, and during one of his fevered
and brief slumbers was introduced into
the room, taking her seat in shaded cor
ner.
His awakening was anxiously watched,
and sanguine hopes of removing his hal
lucination were indulged in He woke at
length, and, turning his eyes in the direc-
ton of the pious fraud, stared with fixed
eyeballs for few seconds, then raising
himself almost upright in his bed, flung
his arms aloft, and shrieking irf an un-
earthly voice: "My God, there are too Of
them" fell back and expired.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
VOLUME XI.
Miscellaneous Reading.
IRISH COQUETRY.

SAYS Patrick to Biddy, GOOD mornin', me dear
It's q bit a sacret I've got for yer ear:
It's yourself that is lookn so charmin' the day
That the heart in me breast is fast slippn away
'''Tis you that kin father Miss Biddy replies,
And throws him a glance from her merry blue
eyes.
''Arrah thin cries Patrick, its thinkin av YOU
That's maxim heart-sick, me darlint, that's
thrue
Sure I've waited long while to tell ye this same,
And Biddy Maloneyll be sich foine name''
Cries Biddy Have done wild yer takin' pray:
Sure me hearts not me own for this many dayl
" | gave it away to good-lookin' boy,
Who thinks there is no one like Biddy Moll0y;
20 dGnt P4taeT % I me- Pat st be aisy says she.
- It's a bit of flirt that ye are on the sly;
N not throuble ye more, but I'll bid ye good-by''
= Arrah, Pathrick,'' cries Biddy, IAN where are
ye goin'?
Sure it isn't the best av good manners ye're
showin',
TO lave me SO suddint!' "Och, Biddy," cries Pat,
" You have knocked the cock feather just out av
me hat!"
Come back Pat" says she. "What for, thin?''
says he.
" Bekase meant you all the time, Sr says she.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29


Three cars of an express train on the South
Side Railway, Long Island, jumped the track
on the 25th, and about fifty passengers, mostly
women and children, were injured-none
fatally
woman eighty years of age, named Rebec-
ca Prentiss, was burned to death in the recent
fire at Belfast, Maine. A dispatch of the
25th places the pecuniary loss by the fire at
about 100000; insurance, $125,000. Relief
was being received by the sufferers. The
Mayor telegraphed, in response to inquiries,
that the city would accept with gratitude
whatever pecuniary aid might be offered.
The State authorities of California have
.sked that the Modocs who are charged with
grave offenses committed prior to their cap
ture, other than those sentenced to be hanged,
be delivered to them.
Mrs. James Cook, wife of coal miner at
Hewlett, ILL.,, was fatally burned, a few days
ago, by endeavoring to kindle fire by pour
ing coal Oil on it.
An engine on the Chicago, Rock Island 81
Pacific Railway exploded near Atlantic, Iowa,
on the 25th, instantly killing j. Dyson, head
brakeman, and severely scalding the engineer,
George Crane, and the fireman, Henry Nor
gan. Some pieces of the boiler were thrown
fourth of mile.
An erroneous statement has been published
regarding the forthcoming Michigan State
Fair. It is to be held at Grand Rapids on the
18th, 10Th, 18th, 18th, 10Th and Goth of Sep
tember
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
Awards to American Exhibitors.

NEW YORK, August is.
THE HerGlds special from Vienna
gives the following:
Among those who have been awarded
medals of merit are Aultman, Miller 81
Co., of Akron, Ohio, moving machines;
Bullock & Co., Cincinnati, and McCor
mick, Chicago, reapers; Deere & Co., Mo-
line, ILL.,, agricultural implements North
ern Pacific Railway and the States of Ala
bama, Indiana and Tennessee for min
erals; Burkhoult & Co., Cincinnati, oils;
G. Fox, Cincinnati, starch Gest & Atkin-
son, Cincinnati, oils; Proctor 65 Gamble,
Cincinnati, soaps; Emil Scheffer, Louis
vile, pepsine; Stein, Hirsch & Co., Chi
cago, starch; Wilson, Hinkle g. Co., Gin
cinnati, books; William Resor & Co.,
Cincinnati, stoves; Pope Brothers, Gin
cinnati, holdings; the cities of Cincin-
natl and Chicago, the printing house for
the blind; John Grassien, of Cincinnati,
stoves; American Institute of Architec-
ture, for plans of building ;Astor Library,
New York, for promotion of science:
Cooper Institute, New York, for improve
ment of working classes; Sanford & Co.,
Cleveland, account books; Bureau of En-
craving and Printing of the Treasury De-
partment, Washington; James Landy,
Cincinnati, photographs; Henry Mossler,
Cincinnati, paints and colors; Henry
Richman, Cincinnati, photographs; Will
son Sewing Machine Company, Cleveland;
Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh, shafting;
Rogers Wheel Company, Cincinnati,
wheels.
The prizes were distributed at the I'M
perial Riding School by the Archduke
Ramer, at one O'Clock, who, facing the
other Archdukes, read short address, in
reply to which Archduke Charles Louis
stated that he had received his Majesty's
command to publicly have read a list of
names of exhibitors to whom diplomas
had been allotted by jursrs. Baron
Schwarze then read the list and returned
thanks.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

nounced by the officers of the railway CON-
pany to be utterly false, and the entire story
made out of whole cloth.
man, calling himself Baker, was arrested
at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 2Sd, for passing
counterfeit $500 greenback The paper
of the counterfeit is much heavier
and coarser than the genuine, the
vignette of John Q. Adams is little
darker, the upper lip being somewhat blurred.
The ink on the back is a shade darker. The
lathe work is not so distinct. The numbers,
which are generally a pale red on counter
feits, are perfect. 1t is also perfect imita-
tion of the silk mixed paper now being used
by the Government and is we'll calculated to
deceive
An Indianapolis dispatch of the Gath says
the cholera had entirely disappeared from that
city.
Mr.. 7. r. Allen, Master of the State Grange
of Missouri, recently reported that there were
500 Oranges in the State, with an average
membership of seventy-fve.
Mrs. Sarah Johnson, of Little Rock, Ark,
was bitten by a rabid cat about year ago, and
died recently of hydrophobia.
The steamer George G. Wolf was blown up
at st. Francis Island, in the Mississippi, on
the evening of the 22d. Twelve persons were
lost, and many were injured. The lady pas
sengers were all saved.
An accident occurred on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad on the oath, four miles west of
Cameron, w. Va, by which three or four Ger
man emigrants were fatally injured, and fifteen
or twenty wounded. The accident was caused
by the spreading of the track, which threw the
tender, express car, and one passenger car
down an embankment and all the coaches off
the track. The coach that went over the bank
some fifteen or twenty feet contained some
seventy or eighty men, women and children.
The car turned bottom upwards, the trucks
with it. Some of the emigrants became en-
ragged, thinking the conductor and engineer were
trying to kill them, and set upon the officers
of the train with stones, and they had to flee
for their lives.
A recent Washington dispatch gives the fol-
owing statement of the receipts and expendi-
lures of the Government by warrants for the
quarter ending June 90 1879.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

I want to give simple remedy for a
felon. Burn copperas on shovel until
it is soft and can be made fine. Then mix
small quantity of it with enough of the
yolk of an egg to make a plaster Only
mix enough at once for one plaster, as it
soon becomes hard. Put a new one on
whenever it gets stiff, and the felon will
soon come to an end. So many people
suffer SO long with felons, l think any
thing that will help shorten their career
ought to be knoWn.-Cor Western Rural.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

The Ames company, Chicopee, have
nearly finished one of their largest-sized
lighthouse lanterns, and will ship it to
Cape Fairweather, Oregon, in a few days.
1t is twenty feet high and sixteen feet in
diameter, which makes quite lantern.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

1t is easier to be good business man
than a poor one. Half the energy dis
played in keeping ahead that is required
to catch up when behind will save
credit, give more time to business, and
add to the profit and reputation of your
work,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

AN apple tree in Blackstone, Mass, at
tracts much local attention from the fact
that two good-sized apples, touching each
other, have grown directly from the
trunk, few feet above the ground, and
so close to the bark that it is dlEcult to
distinguish any stem.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29

The three-card monte-neers are infest-
ing the Pacific Railroad.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
Washington City.

A correspondent of the ST. Louis Re
publican writes: 1.-the last time 1
saw Washington it consisted of numer-
Gus rivers of yellow mud, which a few
misguided people called streets. Here
and there along the edge of these rivers
you would see the top of a brick set on
end protruding from the ochre- colored
ooze, and these casual and desultory
bricks were what the Westinghouse
called sidewalks. In various localities
there were unoccupied tracts of land
which resembled neglected sheep pas
lures or baseball grounds late in the
fall, and these eye-sores were what
passed for public parks in this beauti-
full capital of the proudest Republic ON
the face of theearth. Well, things have
changed since then, and so changed that
a man no longer needs pair of India
rubber boots to go calling in, and it no
longer requires an accomplished aero
bat to navigate the sidewalks. Many of
the little parks are fenced III, sodded,
and provided with shade trees, arbors
and seats. Altogether, Washington is
no longer an ugly, unsightly, and dis
agreeable town, but has improved SO
that one can stay here and fancy him.
self not altogether removed from the
confines of civilization.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
A. III. Stephens Speech on the Salary
Repeal Bill.
Washington Dec. 1D Cor. Chicago Tribune.I


Washington Dec 1I Cor. Chicago Tribune.l
The shrill, piping voice of
Alexander H. Stephens was heard claim
ing the floor, and hush fell ON all the
House. Mr.. Stephens spoke for forty
minutes, double the time allowed by the
agreement of the House, and was listen
ed to with the deepest interest, the mem
bers crowding about him on all sides.
HIS supported himself by crutch and
the desk behind him, and in all his
speech he stood facing the Republican
side of the House. The fact that he
was speaking went over to the Senate,
and many members of that body came
over to hear him. Prominent among
them was Roscoe Conkling, who stood
in Mr.. Stephens front, listening with
the closest attention. The scene was an
interesting one, and the orator, pale and
emaciated. with black velvet skull-cap
ON his head, looked like one who had
turned back from the verge of the grave,
under some irresistible impulse which
gave him new life, to mingle with the
affairs of an age to which he did not be-
long. His whole. argument was what
longing to the ante-war class of states
men. He defended those who took
their back-pay from the charge of cor
ruption, saying that they did only that
which was their clear legal right to do.
He regarded the outcry against the in
crease as public clamor, not the genuine
cool judgment of the people, and said
that statesmen ought not to be swayed
by the pressure of the hour if it was not
right, Tut should oppose and reform
error. He would not say what he
thought the services of a member Of
Congress were worth, but he pointed to
the fact that skilled labor in many in
stances commanded higher remunera-
ton than brain-labor, which he ranked
higher and worthy of more consioera-
ton. He said in his valedictory on the
floor of the House in 1859, when he
thought he neverwould hold a seat on the
floor again, that Representatives should
receive at least so, 900 year; Senators,
S15,000 Justices of the Supreme Court,
$50, 1000; the Chief Justice $4,000, and
the President 100000; and in those
days the cost of living was much less
than now. His speech was delightful
incident in the House proceedings. He
spoke fuently, and with well-modu-
lated voice, and was never at loss for
choice language in which to clothe his
ideas-bearing himself all the while
with the grace of one conscious of his
own power.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
Suffering Among the Paterson Mill
Operatives.

Bread or blood is strange cry to be
raised in this happy land but it has
lately, nevertheless, been heard from
the mill-operatives thrown out of en-
ployment in Paterson, n. ]. Crowds OF
excited laborers have there to be daily
dispersed by the authorities, who appear
to have found it necessary to augment
the police force to preserve order. The
benevolent societies of that city are do
ing all in their power to alleviate the
suffering, from 1000 to 1900 persons
being now taken care of by them. Those
operatives who are fortunate enough to
own houses and lots are mortgaging
them in order to support their families,
while others who are not so fortunate
are exchanging their furniture, ward
robe, watches, etc., for food and fuel.
Children are begging in the streets, and
many pitiable cases of individual dis
tress are reported. The number of
adults out of employment is 5000. The
48 establishments of Paterson employed
10000 hands, and the pay-rolls show
reduction of 5,75S workingmen. Sew
eral of the leading firms talk of start
ing silk mills, and the city offers to sell
500, 600 worth of bonds, the proceeds
to be used as relief fund during the
winter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
Juggernath Sacrifices.

A Calcutta letter of Sept. % to the
London Times says:
Two more deaths from an idol-car are
just reported from village in Madura,
near Cape Comorin. This is surprising,
for the object of the recent discussion
in Bengal has been to reduce the Jug
gernath cars to the small size and light
ness of those of Madras, which are made
of bamboo. The Bengal Government
is now issuing the final orders on this
subject, after its correspondence with
the Government of India Magistrates
of districts are instructed to take all
steps necessary to prevent danger to life
or safety on such occasions, to ascertain
in each case that proper precautions are
taken by the parties concerned, and to
see that no one is compelled to drag the
car against his will. They are warned
to avoid the scandal of the past season,
and not themselves to undertake the me-
chanical arrangements necessary to the
safe dragging of the car. The next fes-
tival in June and July will, fear, show
a repetition of the accidents of past
years, unless the magistrates do what
this order really means them to do
suppress the 40-foot cars as adangerous
nuisance under the Criminal Procedure
Code section, from which there is no APP
peal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
Grassland on Cox.

One of the amusing features of the
debate in Congress on the bill to repeal
the Increase of Salary Law was lively
passage-at-arms between Grassland, of
Kentucky, and Cox, of New York.
Grassland, who had been nettled by
some of Cox's remarks on his fellow
members, went for him in a lively man
ner. As he proceeded to excarite Cox
the members did not give much atten-
ton to him, but finely they gathered
around him, and greeted with shouts
of laughter his home thrusts on the vul-
nerable member from New York, He
reviewd Mr. Cox's conduct in putting
the money back on the day of Mr..
Brooks dsath, and INDUCED in good
deal of sarcastic remark Mr.. Cox at
tempted to reply, but got badly worsted.
Afterward Mr.. Grassland read from The
Globe the act passed on motion of Mr.
Cox changing the name of the ship In
dustry to the VIM NJ. Tweed, at which
the House was convulsed with laughter.
He expressed desire to know whether
this was the vessel that was to have
taken the dewdrop, as Cox is now called,
to Europe last spring. Cox could not
reply to this, Mr.. Grassland also ex-
hibited picture of ram named after
Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, and inserted
in the agricultural reports. This set the
House to laughing at that unfortunate
member again.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-12-25
CONGRESS-.

THURSDAY Dec. 11.-Sendte.
Wilson being alb Mt, the Senate proceeded to the
election of President pro tenn, with the following
result: Carpenter wis.,, 30 votes Thurman (O.),
16 blank, 2 Summer addressed the Senate in
favor of his Finance bill, providing for the substi
tuition of compound interest for legal tender notes,
etc Gordon (Va) introduced bill restoring the
privilege of free exchanges between newspapers
through the mails. "A resolution was passed au-
thorizing the Transportation Committee to hold
sessions during the holiday recess. Gordon offered
a resolution requesting the Postmaster-General to
report to the Senate what amount of expense, if
any, had been saved to the Government by the
abolition of the franking privilege. Howe intro
duced bill relative to the liquor traffic. II au-
thorizes the Pfesidene to appoint five Commission
ers, without pay, to examine the economic moral,
criminal, and scientific aspects of the liquor traffic,
and to report to Congress its effect crime, social
vice. pauperism, and the public health Adjourned
to Monday, Dec. 10.
House.-Orth Qnd.) offered resolution provid-
ing for survey to ascertain the practicabiity of
ship canal connecting Lake Michigan with the
Wabash river. Adopted. Parker offered resolu-
ton instructing the Committee Elections to ex-
anime and report on the best mode of electing the
President Passed. .Hoar offered bill to estab-
lish educational fund. Ii enacts that the net pre-
ceeds of sales of the public lands shall be for
consecrated and set apart for the education of
people the provided that this act shall not repeal
impair, or suspend any law authorizing pre-empton
homestead entries, abridge the power of Con-
gress the public domain, nor interfere with
granting bountylands to the soldiers and sailors of
the late war. A resolution was adopted calling
ON the Postmaster-General for such information re-
garding the Postal Savings Bank and Postal Teie-
graph projects as he may have in his possession
The Salary bill came up, and discussed until
past the usual hour for adjournment, when the pre-
vious question on its third reading moved, and
resulted: ayes, 100; nays, 145. So thu House
fused to second the previous question, and Kasson
who had reported the minority bill, obtained con-
troll of the subject He yielded to Ortiz. who moved
to recommit the bill to the Select Committee with
instructions to report a bill ng the salaries at
what they shall certain to snaw been the average
pay and allowances of the Forty-frst Congress- ex-
elusive of any estimate of the franking privilege
FRIDAY, Dec. 12.-Sendte. in session.
House-After some business of an unimportant
character, the House proceeded to the consideration
of the measure in regard to salaries, the result of
which was that the matter was recommitted to the
Select Committee, with instructions to report bill