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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

DR.. Do Lewis select company is on a
starring trip through the east. The troupe
drew a crowded house yesterday at Ithaca
under the shadow of Cornell university.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Tt comes like drawing teeth to let the
ranking privilege go, but Mr.. Tyner, after
thinking the matter over, concluded TO
withdraw his motion to reconsider the vote
of yesterday. And very discreet in Mr.
Tyner, it was too, all thiHgs considered.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Having routed the entire party influences
arrayed against him, General Butler is now
saluteG by the knowing ones as the coming
man-even the presidency is written in
chalk on his door sill, as a sign that the
angel Of chance has not passed him by.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Memphis people o go on foot, Tor tne
horse Car drivers have ceased striking their
horses IN order to strike for higher wages.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

That universal plaster for political sores'
impeachment, is to be applied to state
Treasurer HAYES, of Kansas.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Mark Twain, in his "Innocents Abroad
thus describes the duchess OF Edinburg as
she appeared about seven years ago:-"Dur-
ing the imperial reception whoever chose
stepped forward and spoke with the modest
little grand duchess Maria, the Cars
daughter. She is fourteen years old, light
haired, blue-eyed, unassuming and pretty
Further on the historian says of the grand
duchess, ''She had no heels on her shoes.
. . . L was glad to observe that she wore
her own hair, plated in thick braids against
the back of her head, instead ofthe unc1melv
thing they call a waterfall, which is about as
much like a waterfall as a canvas covered
ham is like a cataract. Taking the kind
expression that is in the emperor's face and
the gentleness that is his young daughters
into consideration, 1 wondered if it would
not tax the cars hrmness to the utmost to
condemn a duplicating wretch to misery i'm
the wastes OF Siberia If she pleaded for him.
Every time their eyes met / saw more and
more what power that weak, difident
school girl could WELD il she chose to do il.
Many and many a time she might rule the
autocrat OF Russia, whose highest word ia
law to seventy millions of human beings.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
Spiritualism.

Seance in Detroit Free Press Office
did you hear dat ?" whispered John
son as there came a rap on the table.
sc De speerit OBJ Mr.. Crockett am pres
ent. Would you like to spoke to him p
The reporter answered IN the affirma-
tive, and after little thought he asked
Z" Is that really you, Dave ?" There
came two raps on the table, and John
son nodded his head. rs it true, Mr..
Crockett, that you used to make one
shirt last you three years ?" Awful
silence followed-silence that could
have been cut into chunks with knife
and chopped up like hash. Mr.. John
son rolled his eyes up as if in agony,
but he couldn't fetch a rap. De
speerit am offended" he whispered !;
"Fpoke sunthin else. "Mr. Crock
ett," continued the reporter, "haven't
you always felt q little ashamed over
that story of yours about capturin2 a
panther by climbing a tree and splitting
tobacco Juice into his eyes?" There
was one loud rap, signifyiDg that the
spirit thought the story was all right
Mr.. Crockett" said the reporter,
care you aware that there has been a
great change in this world since you
left It ?" Two raps. Eyes. a wonder
tul cnauge. IheIes hunoTedB OF men
nowadays who can tell two lies TO your
one, and they don't feel pulled mp
about It. either. How about that story
of your shaking eleven bears ont Of one
tree?" Silence again. Mr.. johnson
rolled his eyes, breathed hard, and
twisted his face into all sorts Of shapes,
but Dawes spirit wouldn't answer.
Yes, Mr.. Crockett, " continued the re
porter, eff you were alive now aud
should be found loafug around Detroit
with your old red shirt and nOccasins
on you'd be hauled up for a vag IN
| less n five minutes, and the judge
would make it sixty, sure" Continued
| silence prevailed,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
Painted Beanties.

A New York correspondent 'goes on"
as follows Since the early days of
paint, powder, and court-plaster patches
the ladies have not disguised their natu-
raj compilations as completely as they
are doing at the present time. Not
long ago one could tell lady the mo-
ment ne saw her now it is impossible
to tell Murray Hill belle from one Of
the den1i-D1OHde. Your own cousin.
perhaps your sister, too, blacks her
eyes and paints her face after the fash
ion which We used to think belonged TO
an entirely different class of society.
I am utterly surprised when looking
around me at the theatre or opera to see
persons whom 1 know to be ladies
painted like ballet girls. One is utterly
bewiidered at the matinees. The young
ladies who follow the fashions appear
with their faces painted, and often en-
amelled, their eyes blacked, and some
times with their lips painted red after a
peculiar French style, and their hair
brought down low on the forehead, and
plastered in regular scollops an inch
above their carefully corked eyebrows.
Then their lips are so heavily loaded
with a salve-like preparation that talk
ing becomes an impossibility and kiss
ing utterly ont of the question. Over
this conglOmeration they wear a thin
veil of the palest gray. sometimes dot
ted with black, which heightens the
effect to an astonishing degree. Under
all this stuff they may have a most
beautiful complexion, but that is not
the fashion, so they cover it out of
sight but preserve 1t by bathing their
faces in cold cream on going to bed.
To say that these ladies look downright
fast would be doing them scaDt justice.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
What He Wanted.

They had a live lord at the Westmin-
ster, New York, the other day, attended
by a full ll-blooded English valet. The
morning after arrival John put in an APP
pearance at the office and accosted Dick
Rayner, who WAS "on duty" with
g Haw I say, young man, can 1 have q
fy?"
With an imperturbable countenance
the clerk blandly responded:
" Rather late in the season for flies,
sir; might scare you mp a cockroach, or
few croton bugs.
The Briton stared for a moment at
the serious face of the hotel man, and
then, with a CLEAN of pity breaking
over his ruddy countenance, said
'' don't want any bloody hinsects,
you knaw-want-w a brougham. -
ga broom? Yes, sir chambermaid
will accommodate you. Better let her
do the sweeping, though"
''Haw, yaas. I don't mean that kind
of broom, bat One-horse brOugham. "
"I don't think there are any one
horse brooms in New York, said his
tormentor, blandy, "but there, as a
street-sweeping machine seFapsd by IN
Sixteenth street, there is q two-horse
broom"
Good gracious ! I don't want any
such blarsted machines as this /; want
q one-horse ve'icle, We knaw, something
to ride in," said John, desperately.
"Oh, yes" said the clerk, his face
lighting up as If he had just caught the
idea of the other. Front, a coupe
for l, ,012 right away"
Thanks" said the valet, his dis
turbed features settling in the calm ex-
preston Of the trained English servant
again, {" that will do you have such
blarsted hod names for things in this
country that sometimes don't know
whether I am on my ed or on my 'eels, "
and he marched OF, to report to his
master that he had 50 hengaged an Amer
ican koop pay"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24

F"~sad FIDItois IN Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and
bo,,-7o, whose @ crops were DESTROYED hv o-rass
tbi; Gle I 5h ioi4 TO leave and be absent from
-s TIL May, 1876, without prejudice to
''iell 81 rights. Passed Adjourned -
DECEMBER 14-Under the call of
s.a'es' Diiis were introduced as follows Bv
MI Iremaine-A bill in relation to indictments
ior hoei IN the District Of Columbia Rv Mr.
Aiofight-For free banking, and to retire LEGAL
.ell lenders BY -Speer-R Reducing letter most
re- W Que csnt...By Mr.. StOrm-1o amend
az oiat5Iutloh concerning the official term Of
- - PRESIDENT. 80 BY Mr.. Neglsy-For the i'm,
PIoVement Of the ALLEGHENY MonongeIieio
- - emo emo MYERS. By Mr.. Smith-For the re-
Ilct OF inc southern states bv 2 conoDroy,i.Sa
VIZ VIZ. setuement of their debts By Mr.
uIu,Lely-to or committee to inyesti0sfa AZ.
PoiiIical and legal condition of the soutIer,,
s.-eos- by Mr.. Saylor-To preserve the free
navigation Of the Ohio river Py Mr. TncIJ
- 70 repeal the law requiring the prepayment
VI newspaper postage. 81. By Mr. May1ar5
10 amend the national BANKING act ~, NJ
nuIDert-Io aid in the construction Of p nar-
TOW Gange railroad from Tidewat er to st. I.ouis
an an Cnll,eoago. Mr.. Caldwell offered resolu-
J'on calllng on the secretary Of war Fo,, a AZ -
tailed statement Of The nunobcrs Iocati,, -
use OF troops IN Alabama and the distribntior
OF provisions authorized bv conarass snoo1,-
We NJ destitute people along the Tombigbee and
maIflOr rivers in Alabama Adonted NJ
Field introduced bill to incraase tagstio,, -,
Ioreign products and to facilitate resumDfion
OF specie payments. 90 Mr. Harris offered
@ DlI alloWlng the payment OF one-half OF ali
import duties in legal tender notes or national
SahA e notes Referred. 30. BY Mr.. Farwell-For
Iree banking and resumption of specie nav
nehts Mr.. Young offered bill for the set
leIneht OF accounts for carrying mails in the
southern states prior to 1861, the amount NOT
20, 20 exceed 500. 600. Referred. Mr. Speer
OHered a resolution as to limiting the time for
the Withholding from the Congressional
teeord Of remarks delivered in the house. Re
ierred- Mr.. Mckee offered resolution for
the appointment OF a select committee of five.
70 proceed 70 NIcksburg and investigate and
report all the facts relative to the recent tro1b
les IN that state, especially in Warren county
Adopted. Adjourned
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
WHICH Is THE aIARTYR4
BY ROBERT browsing.

BEFoRE.
Lett NJ igbt it out friend things have gone too
God must judge the couple leave them as they are
Mhlchever ones the Ruiltless, TO hts glory
Ana whichever one the guilt's with, to my story.
Why, you would not bid men sunk in such a slough
strike no arm ont farther stick and stink as now
Leaving right and wrong to settle the ernbrofnent
Heaven with snaky hell IN torture and enrichment.
Which Of them's the culprit, how must he conceive
us but decent to profess ones self beneath her,
san ole must not be too much in earnest either
Better sin the whole sin, sure that God observes;
Ihen 60 live his life out life win try his nerves
"nen The sky which noticed aIl, makes no disclo-
And the earth keeps mp her terrible compogure,
Let him pace at pleasure past the walls of rose,
Fluck their fruits while grape trees Craze him as he
goes,
For he gins 10 guess the purpose Of the garden.
with the sly mute thing beside these for a warden.
What's the leopard-dog thing constant to his side
leer ana lie in every eve on its obsequious hide
When will come an end Of all the mock abeisance
Ald the price appear that pays for the misfeasauce
So much for the culprit. Who's the martyred 1nan2
Let him bear one stroke more, for be sure he can.
He that strove thus evils lump with good to laaven
Let him give his blood at last and get bis heaven.
Once more-Win the wronRrr at this last Of all
DaTe 70 say. % I did wrong, >" rising in his faTq
No ?Let 90 then-both the fighters to their places
While count three, step you back many aces.
AFTER.
Take the cloak from his face, and at first
Let the corpse do It's worst.
How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can;
And absorbed in the new life he leads
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance-bOth strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise Of the change.
Hal what avails death to erase
His oHense-ny disgrace?
would we were boys Of old
In the held-by the fold
His outrage, Gods patience, mans scorn,
We're so easily borne.
I stand here now, he lies in his place
Cover the face.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
The Value of Brains.

The innumerable articles which ap-
pear continually on "How to AXE tho
farm pay" says The Germantown Tel
egraph, are enough TO make a horse
sick. People should know by this time
that fortunes do not grow. but are
made. Once in while a person may
stumble over a fortune, as lightning
strikes tree but these are providen-
tial occurrences and are not in the every
day hands of man. A man may have
the most fertile soil and raise the big
gest kind of crops but il he has not
brains enough to know how to go about
selling what he has to the best advan-
tage, somebody else will reap the best
profit. not be. Or he may have the best
knowledge in the world as to where the
best market is, and the best knaok Of
finding out who will give the best
prices; but If he has no judgment as to
what crops to raise, or how to grow
them, he does not get along. How to
make the farm pay is altogether matter
of brains. It is no more OF a practical
question than how 70 make the mill
pay, or how TO make the store pay. Not
more than half the men IN the world
have any brains to spare. The other
half have more than they need. They
spare a little for those who are short,
bat charge a big interest for the use
fdaraoF
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
Pompeiian DiseOYerles.

The Pail Mall Gazette says sThe
diggings at Pompeii are just now going
on with vigor. What has been brou ght
to light In the course of so many years
is really, after all, only q small part Of
the city, and every search below the
ground adds something to the stock. It
Is certainly startling, as the spade and
basket are busily at work, to come sud
denly on a large painting of Orpheus
with the beasts listening 10 his music,
fresh brought to light after its lucky
imprisOnment of eighteen hundred
years. The charm is perhaps a little
broken when We find that the columns
of the newly discovered house are, like
those of so many of the houses of
Pompeii, no real columns at all, but
masses of brick covered with plaster.
Bat the picture is certainly one of the
most striking among the moral paint
ings in the buried city. It is TO be
hoped that nothing will induce those
who have the management of these
works ever to fall back on tae old bad
way of carrying everything of to the
museum at Naples. a painting or any
thing else loses more than half value
if carried of from the place for which
it is meant. In a museum it IS simply
d 5pbclMeH II us Owl place IL - part
of a whole. For objects which, for any
cause, cannot be left on the spots where
they are found the museum which is
forming in Pompeii itself, not that at
Naples, Is clearly the right place. For
the rest, the simple course is that which
is now followed, that of roofing IN the
buildings where perishable objects, like
paintings, are found. Leda showing
her children to Tyndareus is worth ten
times as much in her own place, on the
wall where she was first painted, than
if she had been carried of TO keep com
pany with Briseis and Iphigenia among
a crowd Of ether objects which were
never meant to be seen altogether"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
Lifr-SaVing Rats.

Among the many varieties OF hte-
saving apparatus invented during the
last few wears for use on the sea, two
RATS. known respectively as the Mon
itor and Ammen, have recently received
especial attention The Monitor raft
consists of two strong vulcanized rubber
cylinders, twenty-five feet long by
twenty-six inches in diameter, covered
bv stout linen canvas or duck, TO sus-
tain the pressure, and supported by
wooden frame, fitted with seven
thwarts or seats, and cushions filled
with cork shayings The frame thwarts,
etc are 50 arranged that when folded
mn the raft occupies a space of about
nine nv two feet. The cylinders are
inflated by bellows at one end. The
,,rourietors set its buoyancy at five
TONS. the time required to initiate 1t at
from four to six minutes, and its weight
45O mounds. One of the most interest
inc experiments with a raft of this con-
struction was made in January, 1867,
when twenty-five soldiers and all their
equipments, with four days ratlons, an
officer and four sesman, were landed
from a vessel anchored three miles
from shore, pulling with four oars at
the rate of five miles an hour, and
shipping no water. The Ammen RAFT Is
fitted with oars, mast and sail. 1t
consists of two cigar-shaped cylinders
made of cedar, put together in slaves
like a cask. These are hooped with
g,,lvanized iron and sustained in posi-.
ton by a system of framework OF
LIGHT wood, so arranged that the whole
thing can be readily taken apart and
mt together in few. minutes, leaving
the CYLINDERS intact and in form to
throw over in case large buoy should
be wanted. This raft is put on board
of many United States vessels.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
WHAT He SAYS OF US.
bret Horte's Views About Men an
Things in the south,

Bret Horte's Views About Men and
Things in the south,
Gath writes from Washington 10
the Chicago Tribune:
The poet Bret Harta, the most feIic.
ltoUs shOrt-story writer since Hawthorne
has Just returned from the south, where
he has been lecturing at Atlanta, Ma
con, Muedgevhle, and other places.
His refined nature and indifference TO
politics gives him some value as q critic
of things below the line OF war. He
said to me:
"Those people have suffered beyond
any idea have entertained, but I do
not see how the present generation is
to recover. l never got rid of the idea
that l was in a foreign country and
often proceeding to talk with some man
superior III his neighbOrhood, found
that we had no point of agreement as
to a primary principle. Our very
thoughts have been planted in unlike
soils.
Entering a cemetery of the confed-
crate dead in -" said Harte, "I
was touched with this remarkable sign
over the portal I'VE mourn our dead,
Perkins and Smith
''I called my friend, the town-man's
attention to the powerful context of
Perkins and Smith, and then the
matter was explained. They were a
couple of Yankees, looking out for
something to speculate in, and by that
time the country had been picked clean;
so they began to stir up the impulses
of patriotic bereavement and organize
confederate cemeteries. Poor fellows !
They are in the infancy of that kind of
sharp-Wittednes which has built mp
the riches of the north.
"Their women of the superior fam
lies, =" said Harte, ".surpass ours in real
intrinsic strength, and are very far su-
perior to their mon. I never heard
such English spoken as at some of the
private houses I visited. Propriety
without frigidity, and classical amia-
bility, met me very frequently. At the
same time, some of the little conve-
niences, without which we cOald not
get along, are wholly absent from
households otherwise very perfect.
Their cuis ne might be remedied.
'' Georgia is a superb state, with
such latitude of climate and scenery
that it reminded me of California. I
saw some views there, atmospheric,
horid and scenic, that 1 never saw sur
passed. Aud, in character, costume,
aud that nameless aerial relation of
people aud things, which makes effects,
the south is much better adapted to
illustration in literature than the north.
Why, at --, as 1 sat in the hotel
in that drowsy, satisfying air, | felt
that, if 1 were to stay there a year, I
would be just like the rest of the peo-
pie, and want to put my legs higher
than my head, and hardly talk, SO
much was the effort"
Harte Thought that one evil of Jhe
south was the surplus of political dis
cussion. The press was not enough a
news press, but redundant in cOntro-
versy and political personality. He
also thought the northern people were
Ignorant of the south. "For my part, y
he said, 4" had not the faintest idea of
the country"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
NUMBER 81.
TRANSlroRY.
How the Astronomers TaservIevvs q Oar
NefahhOr NeHun.

How the Astronomers INTERVIEWS q Oar
Nets n hor NeHuHs
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived from Prof. David on, chief as
tronomer of the American expedition to
Nsgaski, Jaran:
During our observation of the transit
of Venus, the weather was unusually
cloudy and unpromising. The time at
which il was calculated the transit would
begin, passed away without our being
enabled to record the exact moment Of
the first contact With Trustworthy re-
suit. After. about a quarter Of an
hour before Venus reached the stage Of
her second contact. the observer at the
equatorial caught a glimpse of the sun
and planet. He was quite successful
in taking several measurements Of the
planets cusps during the interval be-
tween the first and second contact.
Shortly after the second contact, fur
ther measurement Of the distance be-
tween Venus and the suns western edge
we're made with the microscope. In all
there were taken $50 micrometie meas
urements Of the line between the cusps.
Besides these, thirty-one micrometric
observ atoms were made OF the passage
of both edges Of the sun across the me-
ridian of the stations, and similar views
of the ripht and left rims Of Venus in
crossing the same line. Eighteen mi
crometic surveys we're made OF the re-
spective declinatioDs of the sun and
planet by observing both the upper and
lower limbs while passing the meridian.
About sixty excellent photographs Of
the transit, during the various periods
of its recurrence, were taken. Extreme
good fortune attended astronomy, for,
Just as Venus departed from the sun,
the clouds began to gather and threat
ened rain towards the close. We we're
enabled to telegraph the difference of
longitude TO VladevOstek, so that the
location OF the position here is defn-
itely determined.
Prof. Hardness, of the United States
naval observatory, sends the following
regarding the observations of the transit
of Venus at Hobartown, Tasmania.
Although the weather was bad, our OBJ
servations at the time of the transit
were partially successful. We succeed
ed in taking 113 photographs OF Venus
during her passage over the disc Of the
sun.
The transit of Venus was successfully
observed at HobaTtown, Adelaide and
Melbourne. and at points IN India,
China and Japan. The American party
only partially succeeded at Hobartown.
kilograms in regard to the transit of
Venus say that the observation failed in
Orenburg, Casen, UraIsk, AstrachaD,
Merth and Tifis, but we're entirely sue
cessful at Yokohama.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-12-24
A Hindon Strike


The labor problem has assumed a
novel form at Surat, In India, where a
number of Hindoos recently struck for
higher wages. The men who thus re-
sorted to the passive policy we're the
tom-tom players, whose occupation It is
to rattle away before the idols and at
tract the attention of the wooden gods
to the prayers of worshipers. It is no
light task to manipulate tom-tOm all
day, especially with a pair of google
eyes in a wooden head upon a man,
and the natives employed by the priests
would submit to the work only on con-
dition of what IN India is considered
decent wages. The priests refused the
terms, locked out the presuming tom
toulists, and are endeavoring, Il Is re-
ported, to get reliable Caucasians for
the business. It would be q novel bat
by no means an unluclzy occurrence
we're some eastern traveller 10 report the
spectacle of some adventurous and II
reveTeut brother Jonathan pounding
away on q tom-tom as one phase OF his
restless existence. Meanwhile, the idols
have, as yet, visited with no pestilenee
the striking natives who declined 20 aid
IN their worship without money and
without price