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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1874-11-05
NOI ITME XIV

You don't eaIi tb3s one Omega. said
>mudEe, l'H rut che name away. and
when VIC wsnt "a Ell let Won know How
would Martin Lulber do9
im Baptist, am. >mulge' relorted
Mrs. s., ealoriug, don't want any
Lutheran names in this boust. Fer ,our
mothers sake allowcd enc eI nav chill.
drco 90 be called Jonathan Wesley. She
don't poke amy Methodist names on inc
again. u Luther bad been a Baptist The
name might DO. There. Roger William.
Roger Williams Smudgc would sound
we'll Ilo conld write IL Il. Williams
smudge, you see.
Bat be never will cried the parent
with determination, Roger Williams
was a Baptist aud you know, Mr..
smudge, that don't lean that way. IA
sooner call him Tom Paine.
Call him Tom Paine, aud rIIkHl him
50 quick be will forget 10 grow,
lou Ike puritans, Mrs smudgc, CAL
him Mics >landish,
No, sir, | don't want my child to
grow up with any such outaudisb name.
You called our second boy Plymouth
Rock smudgc, aud the name will kin him
before be votes No more pnrltap
names, You're the coufouudeat particn.
lat woman / ever saw, rotorted smudge.
If it had been girl we should have call.
ed her Cleopatra Oetayia.
No, we wouldn't! Our fourth girl
now groaus under the name Of Olympia
Tarpeia, 1t will make her au old maid.
Lets compromise, Smudge You like
strong name-~Goliah, for iustanee--I
Baptist one. Lets call the baby Roger
w. Goliah smudge.
Put the Bible name first.
| won't 10 III
Then we will call him something else.
My father g name was Joshua Gideon,
mcekly suggested Mrs. 5.
What do care Ill was? None of NV
children Shall be called after any or your
ltlhtAN We 4 Hdi hftiitN4 iFnt uN 1ull
back on late name. GaribaIdi, for IN.
stance.
Or lIouapart
Which one?
Napoleon the Third
No; | won't have him called Napoleon,
retorled Mrs s., firmly. smudge you're
the worst individual | ever lived with. --
You won't listen to anything that ! pro-
pose.
Then call the boy Daniel Webster.
always admired the old statesman,
Oar family shan't be disgraced by
Whig name, said Mrs. smudgo. Lafay-
ette is great, good name.
Smudge thought; he was on the eve of
suggesting the name Of the.great French
man, himself
lie must have middle,
Lafayette Williams, said Mrs, $.
There's your old Baptist name again
tell you, Roger Williams shan't In any
form hang TO that boys coat tail
Then you shan't call him Lafayette.
Aud thus the quarrolug over the chris.
teniug continued 70: six mortal hours
Finally the affair was settled Smudgo's
baby Is to face the world with the simple
cognOmen John Smudge.
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Josu niLLisos ALLmr,Ax ron isgs.

The following are q few OF the gems
from this annual.
Half the discomfort Of lie Is the result
of getting tired Of ourselves.
People Of good sense are those whose
opinions agree with ours.
Intellect without Judgment is what ails
about oue.half the smart people Ia this
world
10 iie about q man never hurts him,
bat 10 tell tie lulh about bin sometimes
does.
Christians seems to lle under cover, but
Che d5yii slsnds boldly ont aud dare, tho
world 10 single EomDat.
Reason often makes mistakes, bat con-
saieuee never dalh
Tho mau who is aliwu, eoatesslng his
an.. aHa er,er quitting then, IL the
mu. uusalin stgHef kug oY.
The mau wh0 Ian .et himself to work
al eHnuhlug iu ulnaius uoti.s, las got
otto OF lho best trades kng 0g.
Hav made up ml mind that bnman
.@VgIne.s kgu.isls m hay.a2 d good deal
rg 80, aad ldea keep q doing IT,
Young man, 500 letter be- houest thsn
mHn.Hg, and Is b hsrd work 70 be both
experience j8 lfe thus far hsz been
fhst1 won't gg $3.50 @ and hay mugb ~
enWglh.az ieH over
Abuy yall things ter8 yuTe child 70 be
b04s.t aBj industrious 10 thexe tao
fhinz- dsu'f eaabIe h.m 70 mskr q hggrf
lntHs world, hs s oHly q eyPher. and
uerer Hsl intended i5f a aegeF
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3H@.NE#HE0 t4aH#s8# kH8A Ua8 own 8#NhfN
use Hudson Gor e hundred year, before
lbe pretty so.i.aquest WAS born, More
over. sao poured aud stamped her faoi
wbca she sald it, and lacked allogethe,
Use very wiliul aud p-p,Ned iitlle
beauty which she was.
Tie uoble river hay cleaning for miles
Go thc right and lcf OF her, cased In ice.
The evefgreoHs were grouped 100 grace.
nl green siloua,tes sgalus the dntcd
lawu. The sky was blue, aud The sun.
light merry aud sparkling, as 60. wont
pn g bright winter afternoon.
Bar tbe individual wrapped IN seal
skins (which cmjnenuy became her,)
aud whose name was Kate Dexter, no.
tired none of these thinRs Her tan
taIziug little mouth wa. pouted 10 the
direction OF two specimens Of the other
sex, who were sauuler.ug down the lawn
toward the river with skates in their
hands, aud from wh-m fed on the win
ter wind occasional whirs of smoke,
indicating cigars.
Na rsp,t toll She rspcs,c5 vi,lop,
.,.,,ntng ,Ifs limo and ,to no,t sinh.
silod vtia .u svnrs.s;o, M, Iit,lo
grave aud very womanly took possession
OF the deiaul black eyes.
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talking well, must allow; that is as far
as could sce-and Dick is witty, too.
Tom is horribly stupid, though he looks
so wise. Dick is full of city news.
That house his father left him is lovely,
aud | might 90 right out ia society,
which do adore! Tom can't even offer
me a home in that dull little couutrl
town Of bis, know. To be sure, don't
care SO much about that; I've something
myself But really Dick seems SO much
more of a man than Tom, which is the
great thing, after all. AT least DICK Is
so from bis own conversation. And yet
an yet, under Toms silence there i
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ia merely tbink of kaie here, i1r ja.
stance, ani abe "demmed damp disagree.
able corpse wsHd seary away fast
euoagb Scare me with 4 ghost! Oh,
tbsl's 600 rich. Why. Tom you're no
man l. Yen believe ia ihsm. really be.
Hcye son Ret baif rraekeds thiHking away
lu ftat da8 eeautry town 90 gour. With
nothing baaer 90 do Come aui Eve Ga
Naw 4otk. I'll .baa saa ..ta tl.ee aHd
Shake Ell such nonsense oat 81 g0u ia 4
hurry. To thiuk of 40 toca lhlbQs. to
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
A Hair-owing Tale

The much abused Rev. Florence Nc
Carthy, of Chicago, in recent lecture
on Who Wouldn't be a Minister 2"
said Zone OF the first troubles which
befell a miDister-Rnd 1t was a matter
which they would nevet suppose he
would have any trouble abOut-Has the
management of the hair. Happy is the
minister whose head is shapely and
whose hair naturally falls into elegant
and handsome convolutions. He can
get as many calls and as much salary as
he needs. If the hair is right it matters
little whether his principles be good or
doctrine sound. speak feelinely on
this subject, said the lecturer. Ny own
hair has been the cause, fear, Of much
of ny misfortune. I never thought Of
it until recently but now remember
that the people who ousted me from
Union park church are exactly those
who used to labor with mo about my
hair. Absolutely that church has split
on my hair. After watching public SEN
timent in my church on this subject for
about one year, I can assure you there
were three parties in it on the subject
of my hair. The first insisted on its
being brushed down close. The second
on its being stuck up on end. The
third-the conservative party-on haV-
ing it loosed up. Noticing that these
three parties corresponded to the three
divisions of sermon, L soon fell into
the habit of delivering the first head of
my discourse with my hair as now.
(F'lattened to the head The second
division as now. (Putting his front
locks en- end The third division of
the sermon generally delivered with
my hair brought d5wn to the conserve
tive position quitting his hands through
his hair and smoothing down the more
elevated locks), and even now don't
know that my hair has given entire sat
iafaokion -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
Cost of RefundInE the PublIc Debt.

The secretary of the treasury, in com
pliance with resolution of the house,
reports the cost of reiundiDg the ma
tional debt into the Eve per cent. bonds
authorized by the act of congress July
II, 1870, and jan 80. 1871, etc. The
whole amount of bonds refunded is
1914, ,416, $50, as follows Bonds bear
ing six per cent. interest to bonds bear
ing five per cent. interest, $500, 4ei, $50;
bonds bearing five per cent. interest,
loan of 1858, to bonds bearing five per
cent. interest funded loan Of 1881,
S15, 955, GOO. The cost thereof has been
81, 40, 792. BY the terms Of the agree
ment with the parties contracting for
the loan they were to pay all exp nEes
and to receive for their compensation
the one-haif of one per cent. allowed
by law. Upon settlement with said
parties all expenses incurred by the
government were first deducted and the
balance only paid them The refunds
on account Of the loan Of 1858-Sl3,- :
$50 0OO-and the moneys received from
the Geneva ava d-Sl5, 800, ,C00-were
not made through any contracting
parties, and therefore no commisssons
thereon were allowed. In the adjust
ment Of differences in interest between
the six per cent. bonds redeemed, and
the five per cent. bonds issued IN lieu
threof, the government has received it
proper sallcWance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
Cirn SerEiee Reform.


President Grant has sent the following
message to the Eenate and house of
representatives
Herewith I transmit the report of the
civil service commissioners, authorized
by an act of congress of March 2, 1873,
and invite your special attention there
to. If sustained by congress have no
doubt the rules can, after the expert
ence gained, be 50 improved and enfor-
ced as to still more materially benefit
the public service and relieve the exc
eutive members of congress, and heads
of departments from influences preiu-
dicial to good administration. The
rules, as they have heretofore been en-
forced, have resulted benefcially, as is
shown by the opinion of members OF
the cabinet and their subordinates in
the departments, and IN that opinion
concur. But the rules applicable tc
officers who are to be appointed by and
with the advice and consent Of the
senate, are in q great measure impracti-
cable except IN SO far at they may be
sustained by the action of that body.
These must necessarily remain 50, un-
less the direct sanction of the senate
is given to the rules. I advise for the
present only such appropriations as may
be of adequate help to the work in itl
present form, and would leave to the
future to determine whether the direct
sanction Of congress shall be given 70
the rnles that may perhaps be devised
for regulating the method Of the selee-
ton of appointees, or a portion Of them
who need to be confirmed by the sen.
ate. The same amount appropriated last
year would be adequate for the ensu'
| ing year, but think the public Interest
would be promoted BY authority IN the
executive for allowing small cOmpen'
sation for special service performed be
/ yond the usual Office hours, under ths
act of 1871, to persons called into the
service Of the government.
U. s. GRANT.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
Tha New aInsecticids..

Hot alum water is q recent sugges-
ton as an insecticide. It viii destroy
red and black ants, eOckrOaches, spi-
ders, chintz bugs, and all the crawling
pests which infest our houses. Take
two pounds of alum and dissolve Il in
three or four quarts Of boiling water I;
let it stand on the FIRE until the alum
disappears then apply IL with a brush,
while nearly boiling bot, 10 every joint
and creyice IN your closets, bedsteads,
pantry shelves, and the like. Brush
the eregices in the floor of the skirting
or mop-boards. II you suspect they bar-
Dor vsrmiu. II, IN whitewsshing a CELL
ing. plenty Of alum is added 70 the
lime. il viii also serve to keep insects
at q distance. CockrOaches viii fee the
paint which has been washed in cool
alum water. Sugar barrels and boxes
can be freed from ants by drawing 8
vide chalk mark just around the edge
Of the top Of thsm. The mark must be
unbroken, or they viii creep over IN,
but a continuous chalk lire half an inch
in width viii set their depredatioBs at
uauqht. Powdered alum or boraz vii
keep the ehintz bug At q respectable dis
tauce, and travellers should always carry
q package Of it II their hand bags, 70
scatter over and under their pillows, in
places wners they have reason TO sus-
pect the presence OF such bed-fellcws.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
Roehefort.

In reference to the escape OF Henri
Rochefort and his companions, the
Paris Soir says Eve learn by 3 let
ter from London that the escape Of the
French convicts has already led 70 an
exchange of not-s between the cabinets
Of Versailles aud St james. Accord
ing Co the information Of the Engiisn
government the vessel VAS French
one. htted out By the friends Of the
prisoners, and having on board twenty
five men determined to fight II neeeasa-
~. The convicts to be carried on
we're seventeen IN number, but when
the moment arrived, only Eve could be
ready. the others being engaged on q
piece Of work assigned them The
craft in question, the English authori-
ties declare, had fraudulentiY hcisted
tbe Furlish hagF bat the French author
flies believe it can prove the vessel vas
equipped and prepared in British port.
and that the government there couid
not be ignorant Of its destination (; also,
that as the escape toek place under the
protection Of the flag Of England, that
country should be held responsible"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
Apache Courtship.

Even those copper -colored cut-throats,
the Apache Indians, have a touch Of
delicacy and reverence in them. From
a lecture delivered in San Francisco by
Colonel John q. Carmany, the follow
ing account of their counting customs
IS taken:
Every young girl is at liberty to re-
fuse a suitor for her hand. The father,
mother and brother are prohibited from
interfering in her choice. Her person
is at her own disposal. After 3 brief
courtship the lover makes formal pro-
posal by Offering so many horses.
Horses are a standard of value among
the Indians. As the squaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiya-
lent for her labor.
When young warrior becomes en-
amored, he fastens his horse near the
Wigwam of the squaw whose hand he
seeks, where he is left four days II
she fsils 10 feed and water the horse
during that time, the master IS rejected,
but il she accepts his offer she grooms
and kindly cares for the horse, and then
ties him to the wigwam OF her lover,
as much as to say, g I am willing TO be
your slave and do your work. At the
marriage the sages and sachems meet
together. and the bride is not unfre-
quently loaded with forty to fifty
pounds Of silver and copper trinkets.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-30
A Cold Cnnntru.

Greenland is almost continental in its
dimensions, containing not less than
1000 square mil g, aud is all n bleak
wilderness of ice and snow, save a little
strip extending to "a degrees north lat
ltude, along the western shore. The
coasts are deeply indented with bays
and tiords, which invariably terminate
IN glaciers. The whole interior seems
to be buried beneath a great depth of
snow and ice, which loads up the val
leys and wraps over the hills. Nothing
can be more desolate than the interior.
1t Is one dead, dreary expanse of white
so far as the eye can reach-no living
creature frequents this wilderness
neither beast, bird nor insect The si-
lence, deep as death, is broken only
when the warning storm arises TO sweep
before it the pitiless, binding snow.
This represents the state of the north
ern part of our continent in the ice age.
Some of the Greenland glaciers attain
a vast size. DR.. Kane reports the great
Humboldt glacier as sixty miles vide at
its termination. Its seaward face rises
abruptly from the level of the crater to
height of three hundred feet.
Since ice is lighter than water, when
ever glacier enters the sea the dense
salt water tends to buoy it up. The
great tenacity of the frozen mass ena-
bles it to resist the pressure for time.
by and by, however, as the ice reaches
deeper water, its cohesion is overcome,
and large segments are forced from its
terminal part, and floated up from the
bed Of tn sea, to sail away as iceb ergs.
The glacier evidently crops under the
water to considerable depths, or, 50
long as the force of cohesion is able to
resist the tenacity of the salt water TO
press 1t upwards.
AbOugh Greenland is said to be in
habited only upon the south and west
coast, there is a record of an early set
uement upon the side toward Ic land,
with which there has been no cOmmu-
nlcahon for 400 years The colony was
planted about ! 900 A. D.. and flourish
ed, and maintained intercourse with its
mother country till the beginning of
the fifteenth century. Since that time,
owing to the setting IN of the Arctic
current, and the consequent gradual in
crease Of ic upon the coast, the colony
became inaccessible and the records of
It disappear from history. At various
intervals between 1879, 1851, etc,
down TO our own time, the intrepid
Danes have striven in vain to reopen
communication with their lost colony.
This emerald coast, with valleys we'll
stocked with reindeer and yerdanl
glades, is now shut in by the pitiless
lce-packs, and the fate of its inhabitants
ought to excite the interest of the world.
1t would be very interesting to be in
formed of the condition of this colony
whether the increasing cold has enlarged
The glaciers so as to push the dwellings
ont to sea, or whether the habitations
are still standing, and population has
sprung up who know of the outside
world only by tradition.
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THE FLOOD.
Whole Districts Inundated-Ten Thou
sand People the Verge OF Starvas I
1fOn-AnneaIs for Aid.

Whole Districts InuRdated.Ten Thou
sand Pe9IP1e an 6ae Es5ge f5 d Gi st"rV"-
Late New Orleans dispatches state
that the whole country from Monroe to
the mouth of Red river is under water
and that 10, 900 people in that district
Will soon be on the verge of starvation.
Large numbers of negroes from the
overhowed districts are hocking to that
city. Gov. Kellogg has issued proc
Iamation to officials and citizens of the
overfowed district, assuring them that
the state government has done and is
doing all that resources will allow to al
leviate the sufferings of those who have
been reduced to destitution by disas-
terous crevasses and fOOC s consequent
upon recent heavy rains. He states that
application has been made to the gen.
ersl government for aid, which he has
reason to believe will be promptly re-
sponded to; that the mayor of New
Orleans, president of the chamber of
commerce., and q committee of distin-
guished citizens, are doing all that can
be done to send immediate assistance to
those most IN need, and that appeals
have been made to the great cities of
the north, east and west, which will,
doubtless, In due time bring generous
responses. He states that food, cloth
ing, and money viii be forwarded with
out delay. He advises against send
ing the distressed population TO New Or
leans, already Overcrowded with unem-
ployed people recommends the organ
ization of parish committees for the dis
tribution of supplies, aud that laborers
of inundated districts be assisted in
making their way to parishes which are
not under water, and where their ser
vices are still needed.
In conclusion, the governor says: It
may be that even out of this dire ca
lamity some good may come, through
the attention of the nation at large be
ing so painfully concentrated upon
questions of making the building and
maintenance of levees of the Missis-
sippi, as also the preservation of prop
er outlet for the river a national work.
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Montana Humor.


Here IS an instance Of trus politeness
only too rarely met with. A Montana
man dined ir9Sniiadelphiar recently, and
describes the event in q letter to a New
York friend . After all that fine din
ner they brought IN some glass bowls,
W1th water and a piece of lemon in
each. / supposed it was lemonade !:
and as we had been drinking many
kinds of wine I was glad of it, for I
was thirsty. But when I went to taste
it found it so sour that I asked for su-
gar. The ladies appeared to me to be
smiling at something, but scarcely knew
what. Afterwards I was told they were
hnger-boWls to rinse ones hands in.
Bat, John, nobody washed their hands
after drank my lemonade. call that
thoughtful don't you ?a-Boston Her
The above, which refers to sX"
Biedier, who dined with Colonel A. x.
Mcclure, has been going the rounds Of
the press for some weeks, and the fun
at the expense of the g Montana man y
IS becoming monotonous. About all
there is of 1t is that +" Y" found the
fnger-5Owls gave him an Opportunity to
get OF one Sf his quaint remarks. ANY
body who thinks 50 would drink
lemonade under any circumstances does
not know the boy. And it Is It the
first time ho aud "JOhn have had fun
about a dinner. In '68. he and ssJohn''
Featherson, Jack Simmons, Alex. Beat
tie, and two or three other congenial
spirits, diaed with George NJ. Pinney IN
Helena There was celery on the table,
an unusual thing in those days. The
guests enjoyed it; none happened to be
handed to "X" Said he soto UOce
John, pass that this way" "That
what ?" "That IN the glass thing"
What in the glass thing p "Why
that sage brush they're all eating"
Presently the plates and meats we're re-
moved. "X," who was sitting next
the door, looked nervously down the
table, rose, and said to "John, " Lets
60" Wait" said John, est down" ("
" X " sidled back into the chair, and
looking quite crest-fallen, whispered,
why, John, you aren't going to sit
here and wait for supper, are you ?"
The SADDLE" life these BOYS led IN
those days gave them occasion to play
their surprises" to good effect, and
"X X" has found a good opportunity to
'' the whites - east. But if
any one ever knew him really "caught
out by, or unequal to, the methods
and manners of any society he was
thrown into, we would like TO hear of it.
(We except that dIink of water he took
up in the British possessions three years
ago. )-Ne5O NosEhtOest
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