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Cremation an Ancient American Prac.


Cremation is no new thing, even in
this country. There are evidences OF
the habit of burning the dead that ante
date history But the barbarians who
practiced cremation did not do so to
destroy all trace and memory OF the de-
parted. Cremation, as practlced by the
ancient races of this continent, aecu-
rately preserved the outlines OF face
and form. The process was strlklngly
simple. Imagine big unbaked brick,
seven feet long, four feet wide, and
three feet deep. Within this, at equal
distances from ends and sides, is to be
tenderly packed the deceased friend.
The brick is then subjected to the heat
of the kiln. The cadaver vanishes into
thin air, but the monumental outlines
of form and feature remain.
Several sepulchers of this unique pat
tern have been found near the emery
fields of North Carolina. They once
encased the mortal remains of men of
a prehistoric race. The plowshare of
Silas Mcdowell, of Macon county, North
Carolina, first invaded the sanctitY of
this ancient cemety ry.
On page 149 of Prehistoric Races
of the United States, by J. W. Foster,
LII. D. we obtain the following descrip-
ton bearing upon this ancient style of
cremation, viz.
I'm 1921 Mr.. Mcdowell commenced farm
ing. During the first seasons operations,
the plow-share, in passing over a certain por-
ton of a field produced hollow, rumbling
sound, and in exploring for cause, the first
object met with a shallow layer of char
COAL beneath which a slab of burnt clay,
about seven feet IN length and ten feet broad,
which, in the attempt to remove, broke into
several fragments.
Nothing beneath this slab was found, but
examining It's side, to his great surprise
there WAS the mold of naked human figure.
Three of these burned clay sepulchers were
thus raised and examined during the first
year of his occupancy, since which time none
have been found until recently
Col. G. W. jerks, Superintendent of
the corundum mines which have recent
ly been opened in the same vicinity,
gives the following
ga grave has just been opened of the fol-
lowing construction: pit dug over
which the corpse was placed face upward then
over it was nodded a covering of mortar,
fitting the form and features. On this
built hot fire which made an entire shield of
pottery for the corpse. The breaking up of
one such tomb gave perfect cast of the form
of the occupant.
A chance fragment of one of these
brick coffins was plowed up in 1872,
and revealed the impress of a plump
human arm.
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An Elephants Cemetery.

Reports come from Colorado that
Lieut.. Wheeler's expedition has hit upon
an immense deposit of the bones of
mammoths, mastodons and other mon
sters of the elephantine family, which
will be of the greatest interest to the
scientific world. Many of the spec,-
mems are said to be entirely new to geol-.
ogists, while others belong to very rare
and comparatively unknown species
the finding of which in good cond1tion
in Colorado will throw much lgnb on
past eras and formations. More than
thousand birdskins have also been dls-
covered, some of singular var1etle,s,
while of the fishes exhumed i've OF the
species are entirely new. The srecl,,
mems have not yet been arranged anu
classified, but many of them nave a.
| ready been forwarded to Washington
where competent scientists VIII LAKE: =;
them In hand and publish the results o.
their analyses.
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Gorerll0r. 1S72.
Minnesota for Con-

OF the membership of the next Con-
gress, the following were members of
the Confederate States government or
Congress at Richmond: Alexander 81.
Stephens, Julian Hartridge and William
E. Smith, of Georgia Thomas S. Ashe,
of North Carolina John Fl. Reagan, of
Texas.
THE vote for Congress, in the only
Kentucky district (the Ninth) that did
not elect a Democrat, gives John d.
White (Republican), STA; Harrison
Cockrill (Democrat), 8,318. The Con-
gressman elect is only 26 years of age,
graduate of the Law School at Ann
Arbor, Mich.
THE full officially reported vote of
Pennsylvania is as follows Latta,
Democrat, for Lieutenant-Go Governor,
277, 1876; Olmstead, Republican. 272,-
516; Latta's majority, 1879. In the
Legislature the Democrats will have 81
Senators and the Republicans %, with
Ill Democrats and 81 Republicans in
the House, Democratic majority of
II on ioint-ballot. This insures the
election of Democrat to the Senate in
place of Scott, whose term expires March
next.
THE Madison State Journal gives the
vote of Wisconsin by Congressional dis
tricts (there being no general ticket in
the election this year), as follows:
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
The Manly Boy.

What is it makes manly boy? 1t is
not siz4 or weight, for there are some
large, heavy boys that are anything but
manly. We saw one once, big, burly
fellow, about fourteen years old, with a
voice as loud, almost, as that of mule,
but we did not think he was very manly
then we saw him pick up small boy
who was quietly playing with little
wooden wagon, and lift him above his
head, while he screamed in his ear as
loud as he could, and then set him down.
The little fellow was pale with fright,
and cried the big fellow laughed aloud,
and went his way, ha- -ha-lng as ne Went.
and no doubt thinking that he had
done a very fine thing. But he was not
manly.
Nor does the power to smoke cigars,
without getting sick, make manly boy.
Some bows think SO, we know. We have
seen even small boys, nine or ten years
old, pick up stumps of cigars which
men had thrown into the gutter, and
puff away at them, holding up their
heads and stalking along as if to say,
2" Ladies and gentlemen, look at US.
We are men, we are. We smoke, and
we don't get sick" But they are not
men.
A manly boy is one who shows some
good, manly qualities. We do not ex
pect him to be as large as man, or as
wise as a man. But he will be truthful,
honest and well-behaved. He will
never speak of his father as the Gov
ernor," or the "old man : nor will he
speak of his mother as the sold
woman" He will not be ashamed to
have it known that he loves both his
father and his mother; nor will he be
afraid of all the ridicule which silly boys
may heap upon him because of his love.
They may call him '' baby, and say
what they please about being ''led by
his mothers apron strings ;" he does
not mind that, for he knows that he is
right.
He will never engage in low, mean
sport he loves real sport, but will do
nothing for fun that he would be afraid
to talk about at the dinner table. He
does not torment small boys, but is ready
TO help them when he can. His sisters
are not careful to hide their work, their
books, or their toys from him, lest he
should disturb or destroy them he
would never think of that. He is care
ful not to be greedy at the table, or
rude in company, but remembers that
others have rights as well as himself.
Does anybody say that this is very
We'll 10 balh dDOut, Oub GIaI uO OuS ever
yet saw such boys as are here described?
We answer, ''There are such boys,
plenty of them, and wehave seen them. ;"
They are as full of fun as other boys !;
they equal anybody at the different
sports in which boys delight they swim,
and skate, and play ball, and roll hoop,
and run just like other boys but their
behavior is gentle and kind.
These manly boys, when they grow
up, will make real men, and will be, in
the best sense of the werd, gentlemen. "
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Pith and Point.

1LL-GoTTEN gains-Do fees.
DUBUQUE papers got over Janau-
schek's hard name by calling it Jane-uk
Smith.
IF you are going to steal an overcoat,
now is as good time as any, while the
police are on the lookout.
A HORSE jockey bought pamphlet,
"The Question of Races" butecouldn't
find anything in it about horses.
LADIES are said to wear their street
costumes trimmed with bugles, because
they assist them in making their calls.
In spite of the Bacon business Will
lam Shakespeare has succeed in getting
himself elected to the Delaware Senate.
A LITTLE chap in Baltimore amused
himself the other night by pouring tar
into all the street letter boxes. The
mails were late next morning.
IT is said that Anna Dickinson can
miss more lecture engagements than
any other woman living, and it isn't ow-
ing to the size of her foct, either.
THE dethroned King of the Fiji
Islands has sent five turtles to Queen
EASoOA4H, IA uOhCA Va A1AS VIII
ingness to act as soup to her Majesty.
THERE are said to be half dozen
American artists in Rome who are
starving for food, and yet they can't be
induced to come home and go to saving
wood.
THERE is still another point in favor
of narrow gauge railroads. When the
locomotive runs over a man two-thirds
of the body is left in good shape for
identification.
MARK TWAIN undertook to walk from
Hartford to Boston. He made thirty
six miles in five days, and then took the
cars. He says that he has demonstrat
ed that the thing can be done.
els the Platte navigable for steam
boats ?' inquired traveller in q Union
Pacific railroad train of Nebraska man
a short time ago. Navigable for
steamboats, ?''replied the Nebraska man
''no, not even for light draught ducks. -
THE Queen of Portugal, morganatic
wife of Don Ferdinand, in a late visit
to a friend admired a beautiful antique
cameo in his collection of gems, and ne
gave it to her. She took from its place
the brooch she wore, covered with pre-
clous stones. threw it out of the window
and replaced it by the antique gem.
With tastes that have this effect it is
fortunate she has King on hand, even
if it is only the left hand.
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=, CLEAN BEDs.-I insist upon the fact
that a thin sheetis. because of it's contact
Wltn the body, made unfit for use in q few
Gays, thick mattress, which can absorb
ana retain Thousand times as much of
tnese poisonous secretions, needs to be
Purlfied as often, certainly, as once in
three months. A sheet can be washed.
A mattress cannot be renovated in this
way. Indeed, there is no other way of
cleaning a mattress but by steaminR or
picking it to pieces, and thus in frag-
ments exposing it to the direct rays of
the sun. As these processes are scarce
1y practicable with any of the ordinary
mattresses, 1 am decidedly of the
opinion that the good old-fashioned
straw bed, which can every three
months be exchanged for fresh straw.
and the tick washed, is the sweetest
and healthiest of beds.-EEch0nge
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

GETTING MARRIED UNDER DRFIC6L
rrEs.-A young man in Washington,
about to get married, procured the IL
cense the day before the ceremony, and
put it in his coat pocket to be st hand
when needed. Going to the church he
put on another coat, leaving his license
behind him in his room. Reaching the
church and the license being demanded,
he was unable to find it and sent friend
to his lodgings for it. But in the mean
time m his room mate had ppf on .he coat
by mistake, and gone aser to oGeorge-
town with the license. Goingto George.
town after him, he mad returned to the
city. and it was 5nly after long and
weary search Snat he was found, the Ii
cense secured and the marriage cele-
] brated,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

THE ERA OF EcoNoauzING.- proof
that the panic and the consequent
Sc hard times have not hurt the pro-
ducers of\the Northwest, We cite the
fact that, though the shipments East
ward this year were less than last year,
the money paid for them was close upon
the same, being, in round numbers,
$500, ,O00,0 900. Now, Western farmers
have certainly bought less merchandise
this year. Taking into consideration
also the general fall in prices of manu-
factured articles. it is easy to see that
farmers have been economizing, or pay
ing their debts off, in real manly style.
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derly conduct, our claim that we were
only experimenting on the law of grav-
ity, though upsetting the masters
gravity, not doing much toward alleyiat-
ing our punishment. One girl had
tainted away during the scene. She
thought it was Joe, and she liked Joe
ever so much.
She married Joe year or two ago,
and [ happened to meet him last week,
which reminded me of this freak of a
half dozen young rascals.
CHtlds in So. Nicholas.
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Driving Out the British.

In one of the little villages in West
chester county, New York, lived an
old fellow, somewhat fond of his glass
of toddy, and hanging around the bar
rooms of the village taverns, to hear
the gossip, and occasionally indulge,
and sometimes to an excess, of which
he was afterward very much ashamed.
He went by the name of "Old Sam, !"
and was really a very ente rtaining per-
ington, and was, according to his own
story, the cause of the British evacuat-
ing the city.
"Come, Sam,' some village lounger
would say, s'tell us about your driving
the British out of New York"
"Well, now, squire, 1 don't exactly
say that I did do it, but I will give you
the facts, and you can draw your own
conclusions You see, the fact was,
knew the British were in New York,
and knew. and we all felt that they
had been there quite long enough, and
for one. I was determined that they
should be there no longer. One night,
..!tar we had been talking about. it some
time: nsfnre going to bed, I said to
our Iolks, .han ride to the city to-
morrow morning, asad be there before
daybreak and I shan 40 armed = 7
went right out to the stable With a
lantern, three hours before dayGgbt
saddied our old white mare. put to-,
loaded pistols in the holster of the sad.
die, and took my fathers sword that he
carried at BunSer Hill, and got into
New York early in the morning-and
the British left. -
Do you mean to say that they evac-
uated the city ?"
CT mean to say they had retreated-
gone-run away Now, I don't mean
to say that the British knew that was
coming, but do say that it looked very
much like it !''
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A PHILOSOPHICAL tailor in Harrisburg.
Pa, advertises that when people "witii
salloy, irregular, and homely faces ''
are clad In garments of his making.
they are looked upon with love and
veneration, their countenances being
regarded as the index of pure and com.
passionate spirits"
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THE YOUNG FOLKS.
Puss-tn-the-Corner.

Two little hspds hiding two roeuish eyes
D-Ar. slrl4s lead that So wise
DarliaE 1s iauE 4IItR and shouting with giee,
Pay liiE - I5ll -s-444-t III irh
Pa. t. the s1ret-iest feet Ger the floor,
Never was seen tucAi a n avmate before;
Sly htsle one, in way most untair.
Steals III my corner before I'm aware!
Here i'll out play-ground-the sunshiny room
Never has fallen a shadow of gloom:
Darling is teaching me sweet little games,
Wise little noddle know all their names
.Clover-bud mouth held to mine to be kissed
Sifvcr-toned voice-how that voice would be
missed
A corner you We won-did you know this before?
Deep in my heart to be kept evermore!
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The Chicago Tribune has been look
ing over the list of the next Congress
With view of discovering how many of
tAe Congressman who took the back
pay and kept it are elected to it. It
makes out the following list:
Republicans -Bufinton, of Massachusetts,
Conger, OF Michigan; Dunnell, Of Minnesota; ;
DarraA, of Louisiana Kelley, of Pennsylvania;
Packer, of Pennsylvania Hays. of Alabama
Platt, Of Virginia Stowell, of Virginia; Wal
lace, Of South Carolina-10.
Democrdks-Randall, of Pennsylvania :;
Wood, of New York; Ely, of New York !;
Swami, of Maryland; Harris, of Virginia !;
Wadden, of North Carolina; Hancock, of
Texas.
Independent Ranks, of Massachusetts,.
TIE official declaration of the vote
for State officers in Massachusetts,
shows that 96,a a76 votes were cast for
CASTOR, and 9,S44 for Talbott-Gas-
toms plurality, 1902; 99,151 for
Knight, Republican candidate for
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25

SPEAKING of the newly discovered
IS rock" in mid ocean, Spicer infers that
it is the rock in mid ocean that sickens
SO many people in crossing the At
lantic.
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Total. .95,O24 Total. 10000. 93, All
The total vote (1s6, ,435) is s, ,0s9 less
than for President, in 1872, and 3S, 6I4
greater than for Governor, last year.
THE official count of the votes in New
York State give the following as the re-
suit of the recent election
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Governor, 1874.
Bagley, Rep. Ill, 1888
Chamberlain, Dem Jos, no
Carpenter, Pro. 8, ,947
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At st. Louis on Thursday night Of last
week, Senator Schurz made an elaborate
speech on National and State Politics
He said widespread feeling Of distrust
and scepticism had taken the place of the
confidence and hope formerly prevailing in
the public mind. Referring to Louisiana
affairs, he said the Kellogg Government
was usurpation, but the President had
eonstitutionally put down the rebellion
against it, aud there was an end of the
revolution, but not of the disease. The
wrong was first committed when Federal
officers interfered in State politics. He
alluded to the violence in the South, and
argued that the remedy for it was in the
abolition Of the power of the placemen,
and the undoing by Congress Of the usur-
patton in Louisiana. He thought ii would
be nnwise to attempt to force upon the
Southern people system Of mixed schools,
as in the attempt the entire school system
might perish. He thought the solution Of
the most difficult problem of protection to
the colored people lay in their own hands.
Instead ef exercising ever each other a
terrorism to enforce party discipline, they
should encourage individual independence
among themselves, and both parties would
then stand up for them with equal zeal
Mr.. schurz concluded with lengthy dis
eussien Of the financial question.
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South Carolina.

Governor Moses, OF South, Carolina, in
a despatch dated the 25th ultimo, ha:
asked the President for troops to suppress
disorder in Edgefeld county, in that State
The Governor says that for ten days the
lives and property of peaceful citizens in
that county have been threatened with
destruction that armed bands are assem-
bled at various points, and have demanded
the surrender Of the State arms in the
hands of the militia; that he issued a
proclamation on the 22d commanding the
armed bands to dispense within three days,
but they arc still under arms, and the
Governor is powerless to enforce his
orders, except BY the use of the inexper-
fenced State militia, which would hasten a
conflict he desires to avoid. He therefore
asks the President to order Colonel Black
commanding the United States forces al
Columbia, to report to him with such Of
the forces as it may be necessary Ia
employ. In reply to the above telegram
the Attorney General, by direction Of the
President, informs Governor Moses that a
company of United States troops is nov
stationed at Edgefeld, which, it is believed,
will afford adequate protection to the citi
zens. According to despatch from
Augusta, Georgia, the troubles in Edge
field are ended, Fenault, captain of 1
colored militia company, having given W
his arms to Lieutenant Leahy, command
ing detachment Of United States troops
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The colcred voters are power in the
Radical party, and the most difficult prob
lem for It's managers to solve, is how to
control its policy 50 as not 70 give offence
to this element, while not doing violence
to the prejudices of the white voters in
the ranks Of the same party. The Civil
Rights Bin Is two edged sword, which
cuts both white and black, in the Radical
party. Tho negroes generally are in favor
Of il, with,here and there few exceptions,
but their white coadjutors don't like it, ia
the Southern and Middle States. Dir.
John I. EnsOr, the Republican nominee
for Congress in this district, has put him
self upon the record against it, while Mr..
Lowndes, ofthesixth district, voted against
it in the last Congress. This vote so in
sensed his colored constituents that he at
first declined to risk another nomination,
but the white element in his district had
to be conciliated, too, and il he had been
thrust aside on account Of his vote on the
Civil Rights Bill, there would have been
trouble in another quarter, Hence he was
put upon the track second time. But
things are not altogether lovely in the
sixth district, as We learn from our ex-
changes. One of them says
The Republican candidate for Congress in
this District, who voted against his party on
the Civil Rights bill and has been salved over
/ by the Convention which nominated him as a
friend to negro education under "alli' cir.
cumstancs, is having hard time Of 1t with
his colored constituents in his own county.
The AuegdHidn Of this week says: "The
troubled waters Of Republican politics here
have not yet yielded to the modifying effect
Of oily CANNON. "The bubble, bubble, toll
and trouble" Of the seething political eauleron
drew together choice assemblage of "black
spirits and white at the Douglass Club rooms
on Thursday night. The peaeemakers (bles-
that interchangeable laborer in the Republican
vineyard, Charley Shriver, and that no less
energetic Thermometer Of the "man and
BROTHER Willie Brace, late Of the House Of
Delegates Beautifully waved the olive
branch in c. C's. hand, emblematized by o
cheap print of the Slate lamented," and elo
quently gushed the rhetorical bosh from the
4 lips Of our sapient law maker Like Rach
ael weeping, the men who are his '.Leothers'
in Allegany county will not be comforted with
a copy Of Lineoln's picture, and regard that
as a sufficient explanation OF Londes' vote
against ''civl Rights
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sHERIFF'S SALE.

pY virtue Of "a writ Of Fieri Faeias issued
- out of the Circuit Court for Carroll CO..
State Of MARYLAND, at the suit Of John Wine.
miller against the goods and chattels, lands
and tenements Of Evan G. Otto and Jesse
Crumbacker, and to me directed, | have
seized the following properly, viz:-all the
right, title, interest, claim and estate Of him
the said Evan Q. Otto in and 70 all that lot or
parcel Of ground, being part Of tract of land
called "Good lntent,' lying and being in
Hooks Addition to Middlsburg, Carroll coup.
~, State Of Maryland, aud designated as Lot
No. 8, in the original deed. II being the
same lot that was conveyed to the said Evan
G. Otto by David kuode aud wife BY deed
bearing date the 10Th day of April, 1868, aud
recorded among the Land Records OF Carroll
county in Liber J. b. b. No. 40, folio pa,
DC. Also oil that other Lot Of Ground, SIT.
uate and being part of Hooks Addition to
Middleburg,N and part Of tract Of Land
called "Good Intent" il being the same lot
or parcel Of land that was conveyed TO the
said Evan c. Otto by Thomas f. Cover BY
deed bearing date the 10th day Of February,
1873, and recorded among the Land Records
Of Carroll county, in LiberJ. B. B. No. AZ,
folio PAS, &c.
And hereby give notice that on
Tuesday, The ETA day Of October, 1874,
at 10 clock, A. NJ, at the House Of Louis
Lynn, in the village of Middleburg, will sell
said property, so seized and taken inso execu
ton, to the highest bidder for cash.
EDWARD DEyILBISS,
Sheriff.
SheriFs Office, Westminster, Nd. October
., 1874. oct s.ts