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Paul Revere.

Paul Revere was no mythical charac-
ter, as some uniformed people suppose.
The fact that much is made of trifing
incidents by poets and historians, who
lack the honesty and industry essential
to a veritication of mere allegations, and
their too common disposition to idealize
tends to create a suspicion on the part of
the public equivalent to rejection of
their plainest statements.
Paul Revere was the son of Huguenot,
served an apprenticeship to the trade of
goldsmith, and learned to use the BURN
in celebrating designs on his fathers sill
verware in the city of Boston. He not
only employed his BURN to advantage in
caricature, but he started furnace for
copper smelling, and cast church bells
which concentrated the victories of the
republic. He discovered that iron fast
enings did not adjust themselves with
copper sheathing in ship building. He
commenced experimenting, introduced
the use of copper bolts and spikes, and
finally, at Canton, sixteen miles from
Boston, established the Revere Works, a
source of fortune to him and his children
The World, in lengthy account Of his
life and public services, says that in 177C
Revere published print of the massacre
in King street, and in 1774 another of the
landing of the troops in Boston. In 177G
the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts,
in session at WATERFOWL, having resolved
again (the colony had only been out Of
debt one year on account of previous
issues), Paul Revere came to the front in
his practical character. He engraved
the plates for the money, made the press
and printed it himself. This done he
was called to serve in another capacity
The Massachusetts, Congress wanted to
know something about the manufacture
of gunpowder, of which it was likely
there would be need pretty soon. There
was only one powder-mill in the country,
and that was near Philadelphia. Revere
was sent to inspect the mill. The pro.
prietor refused to let him take any draw.
ing, specification or memorandum, but
kindly consented to show him through
the mill in full operation. This was
enough for Paul Revere. He returned
to Massachusetts,, constructed powder
mill, and soon had it in successful oper.
alton.
From which it will be seen that Pau
Revere was eminently practical in his
day and generation.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Louisiana Legislature.

NEW ORLEANS, April 24.-Both Houses
adjourned sine de. In the Senate a resolu-
ton suspending Clinton from Office was
postponed, Is to 10.
But few, IL any, of the reform measures
were finally passed. A bill appropriating
Sl17 900 for the expenses Of the extra ses.
sion, ETC., was passed.
Bills were passed by the Legislature re-
ducing the expenses Of the Metropolitan
Police from 5000, 900 to $499, 900 per annum
restricting the publication of laws to the
official journal Of the State, hetofore pub.
lished In several parish papers. This bill
saves the State 100000.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
Job DOwling's Funeral.

s. s. Cox writes the following in
Harper's Monthly: Many years ago l
was one of party in Washington City,
when South and North We'd with each
other in convivial life. Another of the
party was General Dawson, member
from Western Pennsylvania, whose
homestead was Albert Gallatin's old
home. He was an admirable story-tell-
err. recall somewhat sadly, now that
he is gone, how well he illustrated the
laziness of class of Virginians. The
story was part of his Congressional
canvassing. On one occasion he got
across the Pennsylvania line into little
village OF Virginia. He was in the midst
of a group around the tavern. While
treating and talking, a procession APP
preached which looked like funeral.
He asked who was to be buried? "Job
Dowling," said they. "Poor- Jobv'
sighed the General. He was good
natured, good-for-nothing, lazy fellow,
living on the few fish he caught and the
squirrels he killed, but mostly on the
donations OF his neighbors. $50 poor
Job is dead, is he?' "No, he amt dead,
zactly," said they. "Not dead-not
d. Yet you are going to bury him p
"Fact is, General, he has got too infer.
nal, ALFRED lazy to live. We can't
afford him any more. He's got so lazy
that the grass began to grow over his
shoes---so everlasting lazy that he put
out one of his eyes to save the trouble Of
winkin' when out gunnin'." But
says the General, "this must not be. II
will disgrace my neighborhood. Try
him a while longer, can't your Cant
too late---coffin cost $1.25. Must 90 on
now" About this time the procession
came up and halted, when the General
proposed if they would take Job out he
would send over a bag of corn. On this
announcement the lids of the coffin
opened and Job languidly sat up; the
cents dropped from his eyes as he asked
"Is the corn shelled, General ?" "No,
not shelled." "Then," said Job, as he
lazily lay down, ego on with the
funeralW
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06
THERE are 2.OOo. 600 bee-bives in the

THERE are 100000 bee-hives in the
United States. Every hive yields on an
average little over % pounds of honey.
The average price at which honey is sold
is 25 cents pound, 80 that, after paying
theiro own board, our bees present us with
a revenue of over $8,800,000. Over
%, 250, 900 pounds of wax are made and
given to us by these industrious workers.
The keeping of the bees is one of the
most profitable investments that our
people can make of their money. The
profits arising from the sale Of surplus
honey average from so TO 200 per cent. Of
the capital invested.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

How long will locomotive last and
be serviceable? An engine has been on
the Reading road since 1857, and has run
in that time 475,733 miles or an average
of nearly SIT 900 miles year for twenty
eigh. years. Probably there is very lit
tie of the original engine remaining ex-
cept the frame and minor parts. An
other engine, made in London, England,
in 1888. isstill doing duty.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

DISEASED LUNGS ARE GREATLY ON THE
INCREASE IN THIS COUNTRY.-Thc sudden
changing of weather has done much to give
rise to Consumption. But thousands bring
it on by their own imprudence, such as wear
ing damp clothing and going from the warm
room into the cold air and checking the pei
spiration, which causes irritation of the
Lungs, and then matter or phlegm will col
lect, which nature will Try to relieve by
coughing. II nature does not raise the mat
ter with ease, and stop this inflammation,
tubercles will soon form and consumption
will soon follow. Aliens Lung Balsam will
cure consumption if it is only taken in
time.
IT, .o1o r. III LoJ;o;na naoIoro
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For sale by all Medicine Dealers.

G ELECTRICITY rs LIFE.-All nervous dis
orders, chronic diseases of the chest head,
liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches
and pains, nervous and general debility, etc,
quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing
book free, by Volta Belt Co., Cincinnati, o.
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C1arkc's short and Easy Method Of Double
Entry BOOk.keeplnR.

Is the title Of a complete little work just
issued from the press, handsomely printed
on tinted paper, and containing fun instruc-
tons for learning bookkeeping, so simpli-
fed that any one may master the science
without teacher. Sent postpaid, on re-
ceipt of one dollar. Address w. s. Clarke,
143 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

TuE Rev. DIR. s. @. Bartlett writes in
the Independentan article entitled "The
Answers of Jesus" in which he discusses
the novel theme of Christ as humorist.
He measures the faculty Of clever retort
displayed by johnson, Lamb, Talleyrand,
Lincoln, Franklin and Sheridan, and ar
CUES that Christ far surpassed them in all
his sallies, that must have been received
by the crowd with smile or an ill-sup-
pressed laugh, at the expense Of the
Scribes.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

The State Sheep Show and Sheep
Shearing Exhibition will be held on the
fair grounds of the Trotting Park Asso-
citation in Rochester the first week in
May next, when it is expected that ex-
hibitors will be present and compete for
prizes from the different States and the
Capodoc
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

Farmers and stock raisers have frequently
told us that they have seen very good results
from giving &criddn's Cavalry Condition
Po,rders to cows and swine before and after
they drop their young. The powders put
them in good condition, and give them
strength to care and provide for their suck
lines
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

Why should any one buy soap half
rosin or clay, when Dobbins' Electric
Soap, (made by Cragin & Co., Philadel.
phia, is for sale ? II costs but trife more,
and will 60 five times as far. Try it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

There could scarcely be better evil
dence Of the extraordinary excellence of
the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs
than the fact that they are so largely ex-
ported to Europe, where they are so
highly appreciated as to find large sales
in competition with instruments made
there by labor which does not cost half
as much. These are the only American
organs largely exported.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

The Chinese wistaria is a remarkably
fine climbing plant. The largest known
plant is in New York, and covers wall
one hundred and fifty feet long and :our
stories high. A strong plant will make a
pleasant shade for an ordinary piazza in
a single season.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

We have often wondered whether there is
a person in the country who does not know
and appreciate the value of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Lniment as family medicine? 1t is
adopted to most all purposes, and is the best
pain destroyer that can be used.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

CHINA has very singular plant
called the chameleon flower, kind of
creeper of the convolvuli tribe, which in
the morning is deep blue, at noon
pink, while at night it becomes quite
white, and soon afterward fades away.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

Mrs. MARY SELLER and Mrs. Barbara
Rabb, of Milton, Massachusetts,, are
probably the oldest twins in New En-
gland, being eighty-fve years of age.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

DIR. TUFTS Liver Pills increase the powers o
digestion, excite the absorbcnts to action, and re
move all Impurities from the system.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

Pomeroy & Co. make the best Elastic Truss
ever invented. Address 744 Broadway, N. Y.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

BURNETTs COCAINE is the best and
cheapest hair dressing in the world.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

WHAT are the Dark AgesY Ladies'
ages.
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TNOR VALUABLE INFORMATION address l..
IL M. HARRIS, Box $3.50, Boston, Mass.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-05-06

| On n 70 S2J Per Dny-send for "Chromo'
DIO catalogue. J. ii. Buford's Sone, Boston.
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Disasters by Fire.

mann, and next to the Bodmann the Louis
vile. In moment the tug-boat Ella Wood
NO. came up and commenced to throw
water on the burning vessel, but without
eject. The flames spread SO rapidly that it
was apparent that nothing could save the
Kyle, and Il seemed as il the boats on both
sides would inevitably take fire. The eddy.
however, drifted the Kyle up stream, and
some persons on shore, seeing the danger,
cast off the hawsers by which the Exporter
and the Bodmann were tied mn.
This, however in the end proved disastrous.
SO rapid was the progress of the flames and
so intense their effect that the Exporter took
fire the moment that the Kyle touched her,
and the people on board, having no other
refuge, jumped on the Bodmann. This boat,
however, was also caught in the fiery tolls,
and the three burning vessels drifted together
into the stream, where, in. q very few mo-
ments, they were consumed TO the waters
edge. Mamy persons jumped overheard and
were drowned....At Bennington, VT, the
paper mill OF Geo. Benton q Sons was con.
sumed. Loss, $75, 5000; insurance, $35, 900. .....
dispatch from San Jose, CAL, reports the
burning OF st. Joseph's Catholic church
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
At Bowmanville, Ont, a recent fire de.
stroyed the block owned by William Nc.
Murtry, and occupied by McMurtry Il Co.,
dry goods and groceries. Loss. $1,000. .....
Logan's tannery at Pictou, Nova Scotia.
was recently burned down, and the loss is
set down at $4,000, with $4,000 insur-
ance.
verandah Hall, occupying block on
North Fourth Street, between st. Charles and
Washington avenue, in st. Louis, was
burned the other day, involving loss
70 various occupants Of the building Of
100000. ~
Reports come to hand of large fire in
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. All the newspaper
Offices, banks, telegraph Offices, Harding's
Opera-house, the Postoffice, the Universalist
Church, all the hotels but one, and nearly
all OF the business portion of the city, are
gone. IL Is utterly impossible TO estimate
the loss. Two men have been killed by fall
ing walls. The city was in the widest state
Of frenzy. The burnt district Is nearly
mile square.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01
The Mountain Meadow Massacre.

The first nstnllment of the evidence
in the trial of John ID. Lee, the Nor
mon leader of the Danites who massa-
cred body of emigrants at Mountain
Meadows, Utah, in 1857, is before the
public, and confirms the story hereto
fore given of that horrible crime. Not
only this, but 1t seems to point unmis-
takably to the guilt of the whole Nor
mon Church, in Utah, including
Brigham Young, who was mt least III
accessory after If not before the fact.
For nearly twenty years this terrible
misdeed has rested unavenged. The
bones of the poor victims have whit
ened in that far-away desert, and the
few infants spared from the general
butchery have grown to be men and
women, ignorant of their parentage
and unconscious of the terrible tragedy
which marked their entry into Nor
mon life. The secret has slept well.
"Go,n said Brigham, "and let the his
tory of this affair be u sealed book to
all of you" They were forbidde to
talk of 1t even among themselves, and
so that day became as one lost from
the calendar, and suspicion only
guessed at the awful secret.
But with those who participated in
the foul murder II was not forgotten.
The shrieks that rent the startled air
on that fatal morning, the piteous ap.
peals for mercy which almost wrung
pity from the unconscious earth, were
scared into the brains of the perpetra.
tors, and would not be hushed. The
years fled away, as II anxiou0 TO cover
up and hide the awful crime, but in
the minds of the guilty wretches II
was always rising through the rubbish
heaped upon it by the charitable hand
of time, and, like the ghost of Banquo,
confronting them. "Vengeance Ii
mine; / will repay, saith the Lord.
How these ominous words, carved
upon the rude stone that marked the
scene of the massacre, have haunttd
the murderers through all these years
none can know. But the day of reck
oning has come at last the tale Of
treachery and blood Is told, aud retrl
button Is at hand, For many year,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01

"A most brilliant light has been
produced 10y London chemist by Il
very simple G;ethod. He finds that,
when common sal.petre or nitrate OF
potassium is heated to u temperature
somewhat beyond the point of fusion
in n hard glass tube or porcelain cap
sule mounted over spirit lamp, and
small pieces Of sulphur are then sue.
cessiyely introduced, a dellagration en-
sues accompanied by the emission of
an intensely powerful white light,
which is maintained az long rs any of
the sulphur remains floating as u mol
ten gl0bule in the fluid nitrate. The
cost OF this light is, of course, very
triiling, both ingredients being exceed.
ingly cheap. Thus, one ounce of nitre
melted and fed with sulphur at the
rate of eight or ten grains ut time,
will keep upa brilliant light for ten
minutes, at the expense for material of
one cent
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01

the government has tried, hy various
means, TO deaden the upas tree that
has grown aud fastened itself upon our
western borders, but the effort has
proved lruitlesS. It would not Ice
surprising il that which statutes and
penalties have failed to accomplished
were now tn he achieved 10y an act of
the MOrmOua themselves. II, ~ is
most probable, the evidence in this
trial duplicates the prophet and chief
priests OF MOrmondom, MS instigators
OF the horrible slaughter of Mountain
Meadows, the just sense 0t the civilized
world will demand in terms that can
not bc denied, the destruction of the
unhOly system that begat the deed.
Sleeping in their tar-0ll graves, tho
band Of unfortunate emigrantS have
seemed pOWerIcss, Unconscious, caring
nothing for Justice, dreaming no dream
of vengeance. But through the chang
ing seasons their dumb mouths have
Weakened pity, and their silent tongues
welded mysterious influence, more
potent than words, and stronger than
the curses Of living men. Had they
then n mission to perform through
martyrdom? Were they the chosen
and fatal instruments TO SOW through
their own blood the seeds Of destruction
TO the one relic of barbarism on this
continent? We do not know. The
seal that shuts in the mysterious work
ings Of providence has not been re-.
moved, but in this, as in other great
tragedies, the hand of an unseen power
seems to have guided the footsteps of
man, and to be leading him to con
summation now apparently long de-
termined and fixed upon Inter
Ocean.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01
Alfalfa.

The Manhattan lndustrialst says,
and we commend what 1t says to the
careful attention of our farmers For
stolidity, persistence and strict atten-
ton to business commend us to the
plant called alfalfa. Neither drouth,
cllinch bugs or grasshoppers seem to
disturb its serenity. We have one and
Il half acres upon the college farm that
was seeded April sth, 1915, to alfalfa.
To-day, June 9TH, the ground is COM
pletely occupied with n dense, even
growth Of this valuable forage. From
this mass we have selected plants that
measured sixteen inches above ground.
The roots broke of at ten inches, and
doubtless extended several inches be-
low this point, If alfalfa keeps its
good name during the coming season,
many acres will be seeded in this vi.
entity in 1876. Who knows but what
the introduction Of alfalfa may mark
the turning point in our agriculture,
just as the introduction of clover and
turnips one hundred and fifty years
ago marked new era in the agricul-
ture of Great Britain?
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-01

RACED ill to-day, when it was extin,
gulShod by rain, Twu-thirds of the
place is destroyed. The inhabitaut,
were panic.strlcken during the fire
and He'd to fields for protection. Bry.
Duck comprised u population ofthir.
teen thousand.
The Grand Bail NJ Gui,dhnII
LONDON, July 3l.-Thc grand ball
given by the Lord Mayor to the may.
ors and other civil dignilanes from
abroad, took place Mt Guildhall last
night and was II magnificent affair.
Neatly thirty-tive hundred persons
were present, including all the distin-
guiShed guests which were at the ball
the night before. The hall was finely
decorated, although there was but lit
Tie time to prepare for the ball, fellow
ing so soon after the banquet. No
member of the British Ministry at
tended the ball.
HOchcfort and De Cnssngnnc Seeking
tile Field Of Honor.
LONDON, July 3l.-rhe Times reports
that Henry Rochefort, on the 10Th
inst, sent letter to Paul De Casa.
gnac, calling on him to come to Gen
eva Immediately with his second
The cause Of the challenge is certain
article in LePays. De CassagnaG re-
Piled with an excessively abusive let
ter giving R0chefort choice OF wea-
pons and appointing Prince AleXan-
der De Wagron and Count Won't
son his seconds. NJ. Nj. Perrin
and Ordivercs having consented
to act rs RCchefort's seconds have met
those of NJ. De Cassagnac in Paris to
arrange the terms of the duel. They
claim the choice Of arms and place
as their principal is the insulted party.
He has not only the choice of weapons
but the right to determine the distance.
They then demanded that the combat
ants should meet with pistols at dis
lance OF five PAGES to shoOtat the word
Of command. NJ. De Cassagnac's see
onds said this was simply murder for
when arms OF the combatnnts were en-
tended the muZHlcs of their weapons
would almost touch.
Rocheloits representatives refused
10 admit these objections. They said
heir principal having considered the
Importance of the case, had been par
ocular about the conditions. The
friends of the NJ. de Cassaguac then
proposed that the distance be thirty
PAGES, each combatant to be allowed to
advance five steps after the word was
given, the time Of firing to be optional,
md the shooting to continue till one
If the parties fall.
Rochetort's seconds declined this
and the matter rests there. |
LONDON, July 3l.-The Daily News
las dispatch stating that articles
nave been drawn up and sigued by sec
)nds Of both parties, declaring it inn
to settle the conditions of duel
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
OFFICE or THE DALLAS lIEHNLD
July 81, 1873.

OFFICE or THE DALLAS HERALD
July 81, 1873.
Gold, lOSGlle. Silver. lOi
EXGhangr-nOmvstic, y per cent discount
Sillins - per cent prcmium, Foreign quo
tatons nominal.
Wheat, No. 2, per huShcl, 0lc; No, 3, zoe.
oats, per huShel, BIC.
Corn, per bushel, in shuck, SOMSoc; shellod,
UOr.
Hay. bal"d, new crop, per ton, w OO@li %
LOOSE do, ~ 0OHl0 90.
Potatoes, per uushel ST %.
Onions, per hushel, 1l4l OO,
Barley, &c per buShol
Bran VI % per ton.
Rye, Gl0sUjd per huShol,
Hides, dry illnt, per pound, honyy, l3H4ll;
dry tlnt, per pound, light, S@lO green, 5ct
dc sailed, bW6l4c.
ordinary, lOIsc; good ordinary,
Nc; low mtldling, rye; middllng, ls4c;
good midding l3Ac.