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The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-12-23

Within the past week We have heard
of two more incendiary fires, On Sun
day night, the 9th instant, Mr.. Thos.
". Blease, living in the Big Greek
section, had his store house and stock
of goods entirely destroyed--entailing
upon him a very heavy loss. An out
house containing corn, fodder and for
age, belonging to Mr.. Jesse Riddle,
has also been burned.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
Avoiding u Middleman.

A lodge of cur grange friends in
Clayton county had need of a barrel of
good whisky for domestic and medicinal
purposes, and We're rightfully determin-
ed to avoid the monopoly prices OF
middlemen in purchasing SO COM
mittee was delegated to come to Du-
buque and purchase it of one of our
Wholesale houses, which they did on
reasonable terms, and took it home on
the cars. On the day of its arrival the
members of the grange repaired with
their stone jugs to the house of the head
Granger, where the barrel was stored.
and the liquor was distributed among
them, each paying for his share at the
wholesale rate mt which it was purchas-
ed. This was well enough as far as it
went, but the next day a Collector Of
Internal Revenue, who had been scent
ing the flavor of the good spirits from
afar. pounced upon the head Granger
for retailing whisky without license,
and threatened to place him under an
rest unless he complied with the re-
qlirements of the Internal Revenue law
in this regard, and he was compelled to
pay S25 or $50 to get rid of the gentle
man and his unpleasant exposition of
what Uncle Sam provides. es.-Dubuque
UCraid.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
National IS HOnOro

At Il peace meeting held at Cooper
Institute, that distinguished and emf
nent divine, Chancellor Howard Crosby,
presided. In his opening address he
forcibly and eloquently inveighed
against the fashion of making boys adj
mire tyrants and warriors by painting
them in our histories in cOieu,' de rose.
Boys, he said, should be taught the
truth, that wars are cursed things and
of the devil, and that Caesars and Napo-
Icons are simply tigers let loose.
All the great wars that desolated the
earth at various times were sustained
aud maintained to their bloody end by
so-calied honor, IL sentiment which in
this interpretation was only synonym
for crime. A nation sins, and, rather
than acknowledge its error, it persists
in it to the end. This feeling of
honor" was the fruitful source of in
Vulnerable outrages. He condemned
the homage accorded to great military
heroes as highly iniudicious. He spoke
of the intrigues of the Third Napoleon
which occasioncd death and misery to
millions He counseled the honor OF
peace and good will among men us most
conducive to the advancement of
Christianity
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
No Bureau for Blunders.

A first-rate story is told OF a very
prominent man, who lived in Detroit
forty years ago, and who at that time
owned more steamboats, than any other
man in the West. Like many of the
pioneers who acquired great riches, he
was very ignorant in all that books
taught, but his learning was more like
wisdom. He had, at the time of our
story, Just completed a splendid new
warehouse at Buffalo, and wanting a
suitable clerk to take charge OF it he
advertised for one in the papers. The
next morning early candidate for the
position presented himself, a rather too
hashy young man in appearance, but
the following conversation occurred:
"Young man, when you make mis-
take in any of your books, how do you
correct it ~"
The young man explained, in pro-
fuse manner, how he should make it all
right.
GA good way, no doubt, to do it, :"
replied the old man, "bnt shan't want
you"
Very soon another aspirant put in an
appearance. A similar question was
asked him, and in long and eloquent
manner he pointed out the remedy in
all such cases.
All the reply was, "Young man, 1
shan't want you
Some three or four others dropped
in during the day, and to each one the
same question was put, and they all
had some smart way of covering up
errors in their books.
The old gentleman was entirely
ignorant himself of the art of book
keeping, but he had wisdom in all
things, which is often more than a
match for learning.
Just at the close of the day plainly
dressed man, with bright eye and a
brisk step, called for the situation.
"Take seat, sir, said the old gen.
tleman 81 want to ask you just one
question. When you make a false
entry on your books, how do you go to
work to correct it?"
Tuning upon his questioner a cold,
sharp look, the young man replied:
/ don't make those kind Of mis-
takes, sir!"
"Ah, my dear sir, you are Just the
man | have been looking for all day,
and, in a few moments after, the man
who corrected his blunders by not
making them, was installed in the office.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11

despair was Master Coville. Such n
spectacle rs that young gentlemen pre-
sented when he appeared was never be
fore seen in any family, we are certain.
There was candy in his ear, and in his
eye winkers, and down his back, and in
his pockets, and on his clothes, and
there was candy in the inside of his
jacket sleeves, and so much of 1t, that
he could not, trying his best, get that
garment but part way on. And as tor
his hair, no pen can describe it and Il
steam plow wouldn't attack it. 1t was
just simply matted with candy. Had
he plunged headlong into a hogshe I'd of
the molten article his Uranium would
not have been more thoroughly smeared
with it. Where on earth that boy had
been, and how he ever got such quanti-
ties over him, no one could tell. To a
mind of ordinary business capacity, it
would have been a very difficult matter
to decide which should be saved, the
boy or the molasses. Mr.. Coville no
sooner saw him than he checked
mouthful of invectives with Il sudden
ness that made him gasp, and dropping
into chair, fell to staring at the strug
Cling and besmeared youth with all his
might Mrs. Coville, with greater
presence of mind, went for him at once.
and taking him by his sound ear, shook
him till he ratified and snapped like a
pepper of corn. All efforts to get a
comb into his hair were 1lnavailing, and
made desperate by its resistance the
disgnsted parents clipped it off-the
father sitting on the struggling arms,
while the operation was performing
With his hair thus cut the miserable
boy was nearly driven to the verge Of
despair, but finds some consolation i'll
feeling of an iron bolt which he con-
stantly carries in his pocket, and which
he designs driving, at the first favorable
opportunity, against the skull of GER
tain insurance agent who was at the
party D0a1bu,y NcaCs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
Is Chicago Ruled by Drunken Mob!

If the Jo,unal, of that city, tells the
truth, yes. In recent issue it says:
"The decent citizens of Chicago,
who may be inclined to feel indignant
that our Common Council chose to
recognize the will of Il low, coarse,
boorish and drunken rabble to the
prayers and petitions of 10000 pure
minded women, as offered at the Coun
Gil Chamber on last evening, should not
be too severe on that worse than worth
less body of men. 1t should he borne
in mind that the mob that howled and
screeched around the City Hall and
through the streets, on last evening, is
ruling Chicago, and that it directly
elected our present Common Council,
and owns majority of the men in it,
and that tlese men dare not do any
thing else than minister to the pleasure
of that mob. on pain OF losing their
little offices at the very next turn of the
political wheel. Such calamity, to
most of these men, would be equivalent
to social extinction, as they are hardly
fit for anything else than to be Chicago
Aldermen"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
CrOm well.

Oliver Cromwell, the stern soldier
and religious enthusiast, was still the
most tender and devoted father and
husband. While England was ringing
with his successes at Dunkirk, news
was brought him of his best loved
daughters illness.
His kindom and power were all for
gotten, while he watched day and night
by her bedside. Young, beautiful. be-
loved by all, the Lady Elizabeth died,
and her father, worn out by sorrow and
disease, laid his head upon his own
death bed.
Forgetting his own sufferings and the
change so soon awaiting him, he spent
much time in prayer for the church.
Soon came the night which ushered
in the 3d of September, which he had
always termed his fortunate day" the
anniversary of two of his most impor-
tant victories. 1t came amid wind and
storm and tempest. Houses were I'M
rooted, trees half century old were
uprooted, and the shores we're strewn
with wrecks. But about the bed of the
dying soldier all was peaceful and Sc
rene. You heard from him no shouts
to his battalions, no urging of his sol
dier's on to victory, but instead, such
exclamations as, "God is good" "He
will not leave me-" And so his fortu-
nate day" continued to he fortunate to
him, and as its sun set, he finished vic
toriously the last great battle, in the
sixtieth year of his age, 1858.
His body was embalmed, and amid
all possible pomp and magnificence he
was buried in Westminster Abbey,
where he lay in peace, till one of the
basest of Epgland's kings tore him from
his resting place. Cromwell's dead bo-
dy was hung upon gibbet and after
wards beheaded. His head, thrust up
on a pike, was placed upon Westmin-
ster Hall, and there for twenty years
exposed to the peltings of the pitiless
storms. Finally, by some violence, the
pike was broken and the head thrown
down. 1t was picked up by Il common
soldier, and, strange to say, is now in
the possession of daughter of Hon.
Mr.. Wilkinson, ex-member of Parlia
ment for Buckingham. 1t is said that
the features are quite perfect, and even
the large wart over one of the eyes, a
distinctive mark of his face, is still Wis
ible. The pike also may be seen, the
upper part of iron nearly rusted off, and
the lower wooden part in splinters. AS
our authority says, it is curious keep
sake for a lady, but when raised from
its numerous costly envelopes, and held
in ones hand what world of thought
it suggests
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
IiulilOr.

A NOISY piece of crockery-The cup
that cheers.
A YOUNG lady, talking about wigs, said
she would rather dye than wear one.
"MY wife," said critic, is the most
even-tempered person in the world
she's always mad.
WOMEN like to have husbands named
William, for then they can always have
Will of their own.
WHEN is young mans right arm like
unto gospel preaching? When it makes
glad the acaist places.
A MAN who wanted to be minister
said he believed he had been called "to
labor in the Lords barnyard."
VAssAR Instructress-" Miss A., give
an example of doubtful affirmative p
Miss A. Gnnocently)-"Ask papa"
WHAT is that which the rich man
wants, the poor man has, the miser
spends, and the spendthrift saves =?
Nothing.
SIAM is an ungallant country. There
the first wife may be divorced, and after
that every wife may be sold for cash, or
traded for yellow dog.
"BUILDING castles in Spain, Mr.. s.. ?"
said the landlady to Spicer, who was
thoughtfully regarding his breakfast
cup. "No, ma am, said Spicer, "only
looking over my grounds in Java.
UNREMIrrING. A gentleman was
warmly eulogizing the constancy OF an
absent husband in the presence of his
loving wife. eyes, yes" assented she,
che writes letters full of the agony of
affection, but he never RENTS me any
money!" 81 can understand that, said
the other, for l know his love to be
unrenaitting."
WE find the following touching verse
in the dignified Baltimore american
.Ihe train that brought his wife came down
And then went sweeping on.
But woe to him, his wife had brought
His mother-in-law along.
He lived, for life may well be borne
Ere sorrow breaks its chain,
But this last streak just settled him
He never smiled again"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11

The Spectator, in it's notice of NJ.
Pouchet's work, "The Universe, ="
says: "Man generally fatters himself
that his anatomy is about the highest
effort of Divine skill; yet that of the
insect is far more complicated. No
portion of our organism can compare
with the probOscis of the common fly.
Man can boast $40 muscles. Lyonet,
who spent his whole life in watching a
single species of caterpillar, discovered
in it 4, 000 The common fly has 5000
eyes, and certain butterflies 25, 600. NJ.
Pouchet treats it as an established fact
that so fine are the sensory organs of
ants, that they converse by means of
their antenna. Consequently, the
strength and activity Of insects far
surpass ours in proportion. In the
whole field of natural science there is
nothing more astounding than the
number of times a fly can clap its wings
in second. AS a fly passes through
space at the rate of six feet in second,
it must in that point of time vibrate IFS
wings 800 or 600 times. But in rapid
flight we are required to believe 5000
is moderate estimate. The mind is
stupetied if it attempts to realize these
results.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11

DIR. Brown-Sequard, the eminent sur
geon, who attended Senator Sumner
during the last years of his long illness,
delivered "a lecture the other day i'll
New York, in the course of which he
said
When Mr.. Sumner first came under
my care, he was suffering from de-
rangement of some fibres of the nerves
AS YOU all know, he had received blow
upon the head. His spine, as he was
sitting, was bent in two places. His
bent spine had produced the effect of a
sprain, and when saw him in Paris he
had recovered altogether from the first
effects of the blow. He had them two
troubles one was that he could not
make use of his brain at all. He could
not read newspaper or write letter.
He was in a fearful state. It seemed to
him as if his head would explode, as if
there was some great force init pushing
the parts away from each other. In
deed, his emotions were fearful to me.
l told him the best plan of treatment
would consist in the application of
moxas, the most painful application to
the skin. | asked him if he would not
take cloroform to dull the pain or re-
move it altogether. | will always re-
member his impressive assent when l
said that He said: Doctor, if you
can say positively that L will derive Just
as much benefit if | take chloroform as
if | do not, then l will take chloroform;
but if there is to be any degree what
ever of greater amelioratian in case |
don't take chloroform, then l shall not
take it." 1 didn't have the courage to
deceive him. | told him there would
be more good if he didn't take chloro-
form, 50 l had to submit him to the
martyrdom of the greatest suffering
that can be inflicted by medical prac-
tice, and burned him. | thought that,
after the torture of the first time, he
would afterwards use chloroform but
for five times after, in accordance with
his own determination, the operation
was performed without it. A never saw
a patient before that would submit to
such thing. The only explanation for
his conduct was this. AT that time he
was much abused. Report had reached
him that some of his countrymen at
home considered that he was amusing
himself in Paris, pretending to be ill,
and he wanted to return as quickly as
possible. A few days, therefore, were
of great importance to him; so he
passed through all that terrible and
most intense suffering, the greatest |
have ever had the misfortune to intiict,
be it upon man or animal [ have men,
toned it on this account, only to show
what kind of II man he was.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
Phase In the Life of the COnntr
Publisher.

In recent issue of Hd,per's Weekly
was capital illustration of character
istic phase in the life of the country
publisher. There is still another feature
of his newspaper career which the pencil
can hardly do justice. 1t is when, as
the hour of noon is about to strike,
stranger appears in the sanctum, and
making his name known, is invited to sit
down. 1t is country Office, remember,
and much different from city Office in
the treatment of stranger visitors. The
country editor--in common with all
members of his professionals addicted
to hollowness of stomach about this
hour. That organ commences to be
sociable and grows rapidly more press
ing in its attentions. He looks nervous
iy from the clock to the stranger, who,
having dropped few interesting hints
about the weather, has settled back with
view to making n pleasant and mutu-
ally advantageous call. He wants his
dinner badly. 1t won't do to 60 with
ont taking the stranger along and as he
remembers that the children were un-
usually cross in the morning, and that II
contemplated set of new crockery is not
yet ordered, and cannot remember of
anything special having been ordered
for dinner, he sees quite plainly that it
won't do to take him home with him.
His answers are necessarily brief and
wandering. He looks at the clock, then
at the stranger, but finding him still
settled, he falls to shaking the papers
on the desk, becomes preternaturally
engrossed in the study of the back of
an envelope-suddenly recalls himself
seeks the clock again, and lnvolunta-
rily sighs.
81 hope amt bothering you any?"
says the stranger, crossing his legs.
go, no, gasps the publisher.
pretty busy all the time, I sup
pose?" says the stranger, taking out his
toothpick, and swapping it across his
thumb.
"Well-no'h-not-very," he replies,
with a CHASTITY attempt at smile.
Another silence follows. The stranger
picks his teeth, the clock ticks ominous-
ly, the papers on the desk rattle spas
medically, and the editor twitches as if
he was sitting on base-burner. 1t is
half-past II, and visions of several clam
orous children, and a waiting and i'm
patient woman, and cooling dinner,
makes the resemblance of the chair to a
burner appear most striking. The
unhappy and ravenously hungry man
becomes desperate, and that nervous
that he feels like crawling up through
his own scalp and jumping off. He makes
hasty effort to smooth his face into a
glow of hospitality, and turning it upon
the visitor, he says:
81 am about to go to dinner, and
would like to have yoW company, if you
can put up with
Aud here the visitor hastily strikes in
=" Much obliged, I'm sure, but have
an engagement to dine at l o'clock,
and only dropped i'll to pass away the
time"
The hungry editor goes to his dinner
he doesn't skip along, but he walks
with thoughtful tread, as if he was
trying to devise some extraordinary rem
cdy for some extraordinary emergency.
Ne,Us.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
The Extent to which Death Supports
Iifn

In 1870 there were in the United
States 1896 professional undertakers,
of whom twenty were women. The
deaths in that time were 26O, ,673, so that
to the average undertaken there fell 131
cases. Besides the undertakers, there
were 9, 1865 coffin makers, who, of course,
depend upon the undertakers for sales.
These classes together make 4, 1851 per-
sons who lived by the deaths of 260, 763
persons. Doctors and dress-makers
aside, therefore, under our present
methods, about sixty deaths avail to
keep one person alive for year, or one
dead body is a guaranty of six days
sustenance to one person, or one days
support for six persons. Or, to take
another view of the case, if each of these
bodies were allowed a full-sized grave,
the whole would occupy about POP
acres, and each of these acres would
support abouty twenty-five persons for
a year, which is better yield than that
of the best wheat field. Now, it is very
hard to see how death can be more
literally utilized than it is under the
present system. AS was said, by every
one that dies six live, and that, too, ex-
elusive of shroud- makers, trimmers,
milliners, dress makers, livery y-men, and
others who make their appearance at or
send their wares to the house of mourn
ing. If the cremators should establish
their methods, several of these classes
would be without vocation-save as they
cried out against the change. The. ..un-
dertaker would resolve himself into a
monopoly and burying would be done
by the gross at a convenient season, the
coffin would be abolished and 2,365
persons at once thrown out of employ
ment, while under the new regime peo-
pie would lose satisfaction that the
present contemplation of post mortem
utility might afford. That in our ma
tional poetry we should have to substi-
tute the hot, hot urn" for the cold,
cold grave" is only one instance of the
subversion of ideas that would follow.
- JTurffDrH (Oar0nf
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11
Cheap Fares.

1t is proposed in Massachusetts to
have third class cars for workingmen
attached to railroad trains. In England
the running of cheap cars, the rate of
fare being one cent mile, has proved
very successful. To English railroad
charters condition was in each case
attached that at least one train daily in
each direction must be run on which
the fare was not to exceed a penny n
mile. This provision was virtually dis
regarded by the railroad companies un-
ill 1872, when the Midland attached
penny mile cars to all it's trains. The
Northeastern and other roads followed
the example of the Midland. The re-
suit has shown decrease in first and
second class travel, and an enormous
increase in third class, with large net
gain to the companies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-11

And then began the judicial perplexities
of the problem. According to the Los
Angeles Express, the husband was first
sued for retaining the woman from Aus
tralia under his roof He proved that
she was his lawful wife, and the suit was
abandoned. 4 suit was then brought
against him for unlawfully living with
wife number two. He was acquitted
under the law, which declares that "tbe
marriage of person having husband
or wife living is void, unless such former
husband or wife living was absent and
not known to such person to be living
for five years Immediately preceding
such subsequent marriage-ln which
case the subsequent marriage is void
only from the time its nullity is ad-
judged by proper tribunal" He was
then prosecuted for bigamy, but the
law provides that "no person shall be
held guilty of bigamy whose husband
or wife shall have been absent for five
successive years without being known
to such person as being living" SO he
again escaped. A fourth suit was fin
ally brought to dissolve the second
marriage. That failed because not
brought by one Of the Interested par
ties. They were appealed to, but re-
fused to take action. At apublic meet
ing of the now fairly frantic citizens it
was proposed to petition the Legisla-
ture to pass II special act dissolving
Oades' last marriage But Oades, who
was present, Immediately arose to ad-
dress the meeting, and told them that
that was no go, for by the twentieth
section of the fourth article of the Con-
stitution of California it is expressly
provided that ono divorce shall be
granted by the Legislature. AS Oades
produced the book itself, this argument
was unanswerable. 1t was then pro-
posed that the Legislature should be
petitioned to call Constitutional Con-
vention for the purpose of annulling
one or the other of Oades' marriages
but Oades produced the Constitution of
the United States and read the tenth
section of the first article, which ex-
pressly provide that emo State x 4
shall pass any law impairing
the obligation of contracts" and
marriage he said "was we'll settled to
be contract, and, therefore, no earthly
power could deprive him of his vested
right in his two wives" And thus the
case stands at present-one of the most
remarkable examples of legal and social
contradiction ever known in a civilized
country.