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A Eix- Year Old Heroine.

The DanviIle, (Ky.,) Adooeatc relates the
following instance Of Juvenile heroism and
presence of mind in little girl six years of
age. 1t says: On the first of January,
Davy Skinner, aged six, Jimmie Weather.
ford, aged four, and Agnes Weatherford,
aged six, went out on . pond on the farm of
Colonel Weatherford to skate. The ice
had been gathered off of half the pond that
day. There was no one present but the
three little ones. Davy struck out and
moved right over into the water four or five
feet deep and disappeared. The little boy
tried to rescue him, but failed, while little
Agnes, with rare presence Of mimi, walked
up TO the edge Of the ice and waited for
Davy TO come up, and, when the top of his
head came IN view, she seized him by the
hair and drew him ont. a wiser and wefter
boy
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POETRY.
SoUL-MUSIC,
By CONSTANCE KENMORE wooLsos,

BY CONSTANCE KENMORE wooLsos.
The sweetest notes among the human heart -strinps
Are dull with rust;
The sweetest cords, adjusted by the angels.
Are clogged with dust.
we pipe and pipe again our dreary music
Upon the self same sLraina,
"hllc sounds of crime and fear, and desolation
Come back in sad refrains.
On through the world we go an Army marching
With listening ears,
Each longing, signing, for the heavenly In,laic
He never hears;
Each longing, signing, for word OF comfort
word of tender praise,
word of love to cheer the endless journey
Of earth's hard, busy days.
They love u.s. and We know it this sufices ..
For reason'e share.
Why should they pause to give that love expression
With gentle care
Why should they pause? But still our hearts are
aching
With all the gnawing pain
ot hungry love that longs to hear the music
And longs and longs in vain.
We love them, and they know it if we falter
With fingers numb,
Among the unused strings of loves expression,
The notes are dumb
We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sorrow,
Leaving the words unsaid,
And side by side with those we loved the dearest.
In silence On we tread
Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in silence
Its fate fulfls,
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
BEYOND the distant hills
The only difference of the love in heaven
From love on earth below
Is: Here We love and know not how to tell it,
And there we all shall know
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The WORD :. FEMALE.''-Theu use of this
word or woman is one of the most unpleas-
ant and inexcusabie of the common peryer-
sions Of language. 1t is not criticism,
although it is much more in vogue among
British writer's and speakers than our own.
With us, lady rs the fayorite euphenism
for woman. For every one of the softer
and more ambitious sex who is dissatisfied
with her social position, or uncertain of it,
seems to share Mrs. Quickley's dislike OF
being called a woman. There is no lack Of
what is called anthorative usage during
three centuries for this misuse of female, as
may show, should I undertake the discus
sions of Americanisms, so called. But this
is one of those perversions which are not
justified by example, however eminent. A
COW or a SOW, or any she-brute, is a female
just as a woman is; as o man is no more a
male than bull or boar; and no woman
calls herself o female without thereby shar-
ing her sex with all the brute creation.---
Resf0l Nesv- Yorker.
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A New Mitrailluse The Most Formida-
BILE Battery yet Invented.

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Jan. 29.--Taylor's
new battery gun was tested this afternoon
near this city. The inventor is James
Patton Taylor of Tennessee. It is claimed
that in simplicity, compactness, and rapidity
OF firing it excels any mitrailleuse or Gatling
gun before invented. It's barrels are twenty
four in lumber, and are arranged in two
concentric circles-eight in the inner and
sixteen in the outer. They are also regu-
lated SO as to radiate their fire, covering
horizontal line of twenty two feet at dis
tance of five hundred yards. This would
bring down every man in column standing
within this boundary. The barrels project
from a combination of breech cylinders
which safely enclose all the internal
mechanism and protect it efectually from
dust, dirt, or dampness. The gun fires
with great rapidity and in two modes, viz:
by filsilade or by volley, at the pleasure of
the operator. The cartridges are fed into
the barrel from suitable charging cases,
which are introduced into the interior of the
breech cylinders.
The test to-day was made in the presence
ofjournalists and others. The results were
astonishing. In firing single barrel at a
distance of five hundred yards, bullets were
repeatedly sent into an eight-inch bullseye.
In firing the fusillade the twenty balls
were distributed on a horizontal surface
twenty-five feet long at a distance of a foot
apart, and firing by the battery the same
results were accomplished. The rapidity
of the fire was remarkable, being at the.
rate of seven hundred balls per minute. AL
present were convinced that the gun was
the most formidable light arm weapon of
war yet invented.
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A TERRIBLE scAFFoLD SCENE.
A Murderer's Head Torn from His Body
by Hangman's Rope.

A large throng collected on Friday last
to witness the hanging of Marshall Morton,
at Martinez, the capital of Contra Costa
county, California. The crime for which
he was sentenced to death was the unpro-
voked murder of Valentine Eischler, near
Antioch, several months ago. After he had
taken his place on the drop and had been
asked whether he had anything to say, he
at once entered into full confession of his
crime, but charged the wife of his victim
with having instigated it. After his spirit
ual advisers had given him their last word
of hope and comfort, the trap was sprung,
amid the solemn silence of the multitude
The body fell four feet and rested but a
moment in mld-alr.
To the horror of even the most hardened
man who gazed upon the awful scene, the
head of the criminal separated from the
trunk and the two parts of the body fell to
the ground almost at the same instant, but
two Or three feet apart The rope with
which the hanging was done was much too
thin for the purpose, and the force of the
fall was more than sufficient to whip the
light cord through the neck like the cut of
cimeter. To those who stood near enough
to hear the horrid snap of the rope as it
made its way through the flesh and broke
the bone of the neck, the sound was more
sickening than the sight of the headless
body, and many stout-hearted man closed
his eyes and ears as he turned and rushed
headlong from the spot.
Mrs. Eischler, the widow of the murdered
man, has not until now been definitely con-
nected with the crime for which her para
mour has suffered death. A short time
after the murder she became a raving
maniac, and is now in the Asylum for the
Insane.
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CHAPTER III.

Three months had passed away, and
jeremiah, with a bold heart, away in the
promised land, was toiling to gather wealth
for himself and his darling Kate. But all
that's bright must fade" One evening, as
he returned from his daily toll, letter was
handed him, which told in words of fvid
fire that Kate was married. We will not
attempt to describe our heros grief; it was
too heart-rending for even soul of adamant
to witness unmoved. Suffice it to say that
victuals lost their attraction to jeremiah;
sassengers were at discount. and his face
from incessant grief, wore down and became
thin and spare as butchers cleaver.
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A Convenient Way to Measure Land.

1t is frequently desirable to measure a
given plot Of ground or q portion OF a field,
and simple method, such as the following,
for which we are indebted to an exchange,
will be of use to many of our readers Sur
veyors are not always at a convenient dis
tance to attend to such little jobs; and even
when they do reside in the immediate
vicinity, one does not always care to incur
the expense incident to such small job.
IF the lines are already established, the plot
can be measured with sufficient accuracy
for all practical purposes by means ofa neat
rod-pole made as follows: Procure stick
of pine, whitewood, Eastwood, or almost
any other timber, one and half inches
square and sixteen and half feet long.
Dress each end tapering from the middle,
so that the pole will be one and a half inches
square at each end. Such pole viii be
light and quite stiff. Now, graduate one
side with the marks representing feet and
inches, and graduate another side to indicate
a surveyors links. A pole one rod in length
must be equal to twenty-five links. To
divide one side correctly, let mechanics
compass be adjusted, SO that the points win
divide the distance into twenty-five equal
spaces or links. A line can be measured
with such pole nearly as accurately as with
a surveyors chain.
Now, then, If a person does not under
stand how to multiply chains and links, let
him compare the measurement by square
feet. In one acre there are 43, 500 square
feet ANY intelligent school boy can meas
ure the length and bredth of square plot,
multiply one by the other, and divide the
product by 4S, SOC. which win give tie num-
Der of acres, and the number of square rods
representing the fraction Of acre. fit is
desirable to measure a triangular plot, two
| sides of which lie at right angles, measure
these two sides, multiply the distance in
feet one by the other, and divide that
product by two. which will indicate the
number Of square feet; then by II, 500, and
the quotient win represent the number of
acres
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The Stickeen Mines.

A correspondent of the British CoSonsst
Victoria, B. Gu writes as follows concern
ing the Stickeen river mines: "Ihaye just
returned from the Dease lake mines, and
thought you might feel interested enough
to like a small description of them.
FIRST, Bucks bar on the Stickeen river is
about the head of canoe navigation. There
you leave the river to yourright and follow
the left hand bank till across the first and
second north forks and come to the third.
Then you follow it till you come to a low
divide to the north, where you cross over to
the lake. The whole distance is about so
or IS miles from Bucks bar to Dease lake;
and from the mouth of Stickeen river to
Bucks bar is about the same distance as
from the Skena to the forks; but the stickeen
is better river to canoe on Down the
lake to Dease creek is about 25 miles, and
| down 10 miles further is Hilbert creek.
No doubt you viii hear all about what the
miners have made, and what prospects they
got. As for myself, think I have got
about as good claim as any. got "a. Is
in the first four pans Itried there. Irocked
one day and took out nine ounces and four
teen dollars on the bedrock. The gravel
pays well, too. The diggings are from one
to five feet. Deep creek is about tho same
size as Germansen creek, and Thibert creek
about the same size. / like the looks of
the country well, and they are the easiest
mines to get into that have been found in
British Columbia mines yet. Everything
locks favorable for large mining camp.
| am going 10 start up in February from
Fort Wrangle. | have got all my grub on
Bucks bar, and / intend to sleigh it in
from there on the ice RS. II Minsaa Press,
February 7ti,.
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Henri Rocheforti Is not dead after all.
A French paper says, Mt least, that he is
safely installed at Nnmbo, little pictur-
esque valley in New Caledonia. The adj
ministration has had constructed at that
place certain number Of wooden huts for
those of the eonvicts who would be glad to
remain quietHos devote themselves to labor.
Roehefort appears submissive, and desirons
nc living TRANQUILITY and forgottan,
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Of the roots Of an old pine stump; while not
half mile from this place, in the most
aristocratic wigwam of the Nez Perces tribe,
dwells the discarded jeremiah with his
dusky spouse. He has a strong taste for
deep colors, beaded buckskins and camas
roots, and it is said, is the happiest man in
existence. Such is the truthful history of
jeremiah, the disappointed Webfoot.
LEWISTON, W. t., March 2stt, 1862.
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Failures il, 1878.

The annual circular of Dun, Barlow &
Co., shows the comparative failures for
from 1870 to 1878 inclusive. Averagin ing
them in chronological order, we have the
following aggregates:
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TIE COST OF 4 PLEASURE.

Upon the valleys lap,
The dewy morning throws
4 thousand pearly drops,
To wake single rose.
Thus often, in the course
OF life's few feetins years,
A single pleasure costs
The soul thousand tears.
--WaliGn Ca!len Bryant in st. Nicholas.
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cial disasters Of that year. There were s.
1888 failures last year against 4,069 in the
previous year. OF the increase in liabilities
under the head of failures last year, New
York is chargeable with S71, ,o0o, 900, while
in the entire country outside of that city,
the excess of liabilities over the previous
year is only $s6, ,0oe,0 600. In the city Of
New York the liabilities were greatly in-
creased by the suspension of a number Of
bank firms. Several Of them have since
resumed operations, and Of course win pay
off all Liabilities.
& The comparative failures for four years
in California are shown by these figures:
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Two neighbors had . long and enven-l
oned litigation about spring, which they.
both claimed. The judge. wearied out
with the case, at last said: What is the
use OF making such a fuss abort D little
watera' Your honor will see the use Of
i" replied one Of the lawyers, & when
inform you that the parties are botl, milk
men::'
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CHAPTER III.


We viii uew return to the incenstant
Kate, whom we left standing alone by the
pig-sty; but we will not find her there now,
for, like sensible girl, when her little feet
became chilled by the damp ground, she
returned to her room and went to bed. And
now, far away in the " Big Willamette, !"
Gods own country, where pretty girls and
big red apples grow spontaneous, in that
land of flowers and frog ponds, and on the
banks of the romantic Long Tom, where it
goes winding it's way to the broad Pacific
like restless man to eternity, in rude log
cabin, dwells the inconstant Kate. But life
has not all been sunny dream to her; for,
often, as its realities are forced upon her
once happy vision, she sighs and drops a
tear over her dirty brat and her husband $
ragged breeches.
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CHAPTER w.

CHAPTER Nv.
One more chapter, indnlgent reader, and
this thrilling narrative win be brought TO a
close. 1t is melancholy task. indeed, to
trace up and follow to its last resting place
the sad relics of broken heart; but we
must hasten to the conclusion. Far away
on the banks of the beautiful Salmon, not o
thousand miles from the snow clad hills OF
Florence, is lonely turf-green mound,
upon which the pale sunshine, in dog days
loves to linger in melancholy silence. That
little mound, indulgent reader, was formed
many, many years ago, by the turning UP
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RernIar advertising payable quarterly as due.
transient advertising payable in advance
1Dhcal Notices so per cent more than regular
dyertiscmeuts.
zeal advertising Is cents for the first insertion 10
renrs per line for each succeeding insertion; lines
ronntcd in Nonpariel measure
lob Work payable on delivery
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BOARD 0FAPPEALa.
oRaANIzAr1loN YEsrERpAY.

= ORGANIZATION YESTERDAY. s1!I
In accordance with the Instructions Of Governor
Shepherd the Board of Appeals assembled yea
terday morning In the room lately occupied BY the
superintendent Of Assessments OF taxes, in the
west wing Of the City Hall. for The purpoee Of
hearing appeals from the valuation returned BY
the assessors upon new buildings, improvements,
ac, erected during the year ISIS, for the tax for
the fiscal year ending June 80, liza Atno'elock
the. board WAS called to order; present, Messrs.
Moore, Taylor, MITCHELL Matfingly, Garden,
Mr. Tsyior moved that MT. Geo. A. Bohrer be
elected chairman and Mr.. John T. Givpn tempo.
rasy secretary: Adoptsd.
his commission, but had not been duly qualihed;
whereupon the usual oath WAS administered to
moved q M
elect permanent secretary outside Of the men,
bership Of the board. Doubt being expressed as
% sSs Of e eSs.s 20 @ ~
Mr.. Moore moved that, IN the opinion Of the
board, It has no power to reyersc or change any
Ss deal year n july !I i Sasa 0r
The motion Of MT. MoQls WIS sfterNardl With
aEa a Ed p .ssf ths s:.s= .A..e
Columbia bsrequired to inform the board whether,
under any circumstances, Il has the authority TO
revise and change the is.es.ments Of any prior
have been made IN returning or entering upon the
valuation books any such Assessments, and
Whether o. no: Tie agshosty e revision On the
Overlooked, which nay have been retarnsd fSr
the 's HCs soSsF asss <: % Of TIL.
board be directed to request Mr.. Morgan, the as
scsor Of taxes, TO detail clerk from his Office to
The SosFd then ss procs.asd e su:nsse md ~
from y o'sioeE, q r., TO o'clock, ?. m, fof the
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rTkt4 t5SSJ /.
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%; !. s..i hsis GO hearty, ia pr0nisss % i've
Tns whole p..ssr II arr.sss ID Pst.r.s.rr dur.
|tcsaty.six psessas q jail on diasFest sAafgeeT
.,3ne qlsas.tsr Hsyen s..onnses TIE sss9.n
was ens o. d. Doss saeesssfsl ~ in ~ sSunty.
a yel0nle thorenghbrsd fouS-ysat-oll selt
eelonslng g Col. J. ". FAIRFAX, lost 10 life By
Se.sis1 = sss esisosfs a. 81 - fs.:su - :
u = sasa that Wien WIN. Jones. Tho alleged
murdeer Of young Durkfn, was brought % Cul.
sss s = a., 80 s. % = q: Is:
THs Sssdusa.ne class Of IA v,rxiu.. xn,,.,y
a:ss sssfs !. q: s.,a: 81 e.
nual eo0DeoeoDeat In July ns1t. "A f-f4ffE
On The Nam Of Mr.. DAVID Warner, near Mon.
s:ss A!sa e sSSSn.y nays been s'.eoysr:d
kind, rsssmblinE very much Ifsihn marble.
The stoekhelder., meeting Of TIA Frederieks-
burg ana GordonsSiIs rsilrosd has passed . reso-
tract for the completion Of the road, and thsn ad-
joarnea stns tje. - - 80 - sssss slfs
Ths 0reenvills correspondent Of the Petersburg
siy I s:s sSS. sns se si S.:
By Judge Goedvyn toappsar q the Circuit Court,
Great synpsthy d felt Tor Dr.. Jonss IN he
county" 1900 -5f,-- 49,
Ths staantm spectator says: Wednesday
aavAPn1 davns IN a Wtll0I haakaf nAaflv
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-10
ST. PAEgECRs DAY
FOR ITS APPROPRIATE
OBSERVANCE IN WASHINGTON. -

PREPARATIONS fUH lis ATTRIBUTABLE
OBSERVANCE IN WASHINGTON.
The anniversary Of the birth Of St. Patrick,
whose memory 4 h0npyed md EsysTed everyxhsSs
by every true lrishman, and which occurs on the
nth, (this day week YIN BE- cslsbratsd With BE-
coming honon In this city, and It IL anticipated
that the parade, which will be participated In By
nearly an Of the Catholic societiea (nfteen having
pOsins: Mf. John +. Kelly, The chief marshal,
has prepared the following programme and line
Of march for the occasion: -. fs :,
The different societies participating IN the pa
,sas On 81 ssy y. 4; e. o.
that day, with the right Of the line resting aboat
midway the square on Louiaana avenue, between
Sixth and Seventh streets northwest The pro
es..,SU vii move e, e eslosn = n sSSnas r
Fourth street west along Fourth street 70 street
First street, to Nov jerssy svssss, siooe New
Jersey ayssus % street notth, along , strsst 70
tol street, along East Capitol street to Fourth
street east down Foarth etrest 70 Peunsylyanls
avenue, along PeunSyivaufe avenue to fts inter
section with street couth, teenee around the
MIA avenue, along Peansiyyaais aysnne % the
Executive Mansion, where the Pfesidsnt nd Cab
met will rsvtew the lroeesden; continuing the
march they VIII Preeeed along Pernsylvaais ave.
will contrib1te to the support Of the litele cees,
proceeding along HeAnsyl sania aysnue to Bridge
street, along High 70 Gay strest, through Gay
turning over &c Ssdss y Wy y q :srsst; Along
n to Twenty fourth 6trset, along Twenty. fourth
% X strest, along Kto Seventeenth street. down
ss.sntss.sa r e 4 Hsss sMoSSh II to Ninth Ninth
Pennsylvanis svsnne y LelishNA avenue, WheFs
the procession win Be dismissed.
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give cad Ksg6gtn ed ~Tns Eyaffng HymR.n
.TAs He6s6sas - several rasiages q Sefip-
North BaStlH eharch. $50. b. -, 80
The usial xoutino business hlvfne been dispossd
r. the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. theme Of diDcussiou
for the ey0ain9, aal bsieAy eslorPoA 10 the prn.
| eiples Il TIE baptist denominatioo, among which
we're seaklibefty" and the tetai separation Of
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y tbs Sel1txy. The prsflemk clnsed By suxgeei.
ing the Point WhstheE - The Baptlsts believed In
10 Total expiration 81 Church and State, Il Was
proper b accept gyatuity rom the Stntctn the
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DLsrR1or Il(PR0Ex1lTNTS.

The Board Of Public Works ysstsrday issued
the following orders: The cleaning Of the Adams
sewer, from IL month 70 New jersey avenue; the
and parking On New Jersey avenue, between B
aud H strsets, also for parting around the circle
at the intersection o. New jersey and 1assachu-
!: - f N:s lssi9 sals ''''