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Tic case OF tho South Park Commissioners "a.
Dunlovy aud othors, WIS concluded On Saturday
Aftor more than throe weeka trial. The jury re-
turucd verdict Of #45G, .50 or S. $50 an zero
for swamp lands.
European Hotel, has come in contact with tho
provisions OF the Civil-Mghts bill. A,ueglo mas
refused a meal 1t his place yesterday, and,
making complain! to United States Commissioner
lIoyua, warrant was iBauol aud aervcd Gil Mr..
Durke. lie intends to tost the constituttonailty
Of tho law.
An aulac1ous robbery ran committed on :
Madsson street car yesterday evening about
o'clock. Mr.. Thomas q. Kirk, Of tho lrou-houso
OF Kirk i Barker, wns hustled by crowd Of
thieves md Ills gold wstci, and chain 1crked
array from him. The thief escaped, hut bits de-
Bcription laH beon Furnished to tho police, and
hia Art5st Is expected.
At Ma1tluo'a Wcss~Side Hail, on South Ada
street, Saturday eSening, iu opposition to the
Municipal Incorporation bill pending before tie
Legislature. Speeches wcro made by Aid. Camp
hell. the Hon. Willard Woodward, and NJ. Andre
hfatteso,,, against tue bill, and tue mestius waa
adjourned until no1t Tuesday night.
Yesterdays TRIBUNE contained startling
eKpoBo OF the mannor In which Tho County Poor
House s lnaungoti. A Tribune representative
spent four days among tho inmates in disguise.
Ih4 tH4tAucta OIL CflnlsnAl QeEl6cE AnQ &nu68
which ho collected. and the acencs OF wrotched-
meas which, be actually Witnessed, mado up
| narrative that should provoke Indignation and
secure roforu1.
The testimony given on SATURDAY. afternoon
before tho jury OF inqueht into the Wilcko muir
der waa untmportant. The jury returned vor-
dict that the deceaaed cntne to bis death from
blows by batodot In tho hands Of aomo person
or persons unknown to tia fnry, and that, In
their belief, the Witness Flora Crandoll is poe
| session Of knowledge In tho case, and shontd ha
! held over to tue Grand jury as N accompllcc.
Tho Firss RoGiment Illinois State Guards held
| = uoeting on Saturday oyoning at thelr aFmory,
| on Lnko street. 4 new company N0s reported
to have boon organized, and Capt. ]. T. Sawyer,
| lfrst Lieut. E. Norton. Second Lieut., George
| Dohuer, wore elected pflcorB thereof. An elec-
ton Of regimental officers wla held. tho follow
ing bslng aocte TO tho otlces indicated Eespect-
iroly: Colonel, 4. G. 3IcClurg: 1iouton.nt-
| Colonel - Hubbard; Major, Jamcs II. Hay
niB.
Judge DicLey, Couose1 10 ths Corporation, has
prepared nn opinion oil the b-aail-oat question,
| In which he ssra that tho Common Council may
| lawfully paBo any reasonable ordinance for the
| protection and comfort Of passengers On horse
cars; but II Is not 10 clear whether tho to1mn OF
the existing ordinance will be bold by tho courts
to requlre tho employment OF tHo pornous To
each car, there bo,ng no e1pross requirement. 10
that effect. In his opinion, prudence would oug-
gest tho passage OF another ordinance on tho
subject, moro explicit Ia terms.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

her two children. And he stretched out
his arms and cried:
"Oh, mother, sister and brother, am
here take mer
And they answered, "Not yet" and the
star was shining.
He grew to be a man whose hair was
turning gray, and he was sitting in his chair
by the fire-side, heavy with grief, and with
his face bedewed with tears, when the star
opened once again.
Said his sisters angel to the leader;
" Is my brother come p
And he said
Nay, but his maiden daughter"
And the man who had been the child
saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a
CELESTIAL creature, among those three, and
he said:
My daughters head is on my sister,
neck, and at her feet there is the baby o.
old time, and can bear the parting from
her, God be praised!''
And the star was shining.
Thus the child came to be an old man
and his once smooth face was wrinklcd anC
his steps were slow and feeble, and hi
back was bent. And one night as he la!
upon his bed, his children standing arounc
him, he cried as he cried so long ago.
:" see the star!''
They whispered to one another, He i
dying
And he said:
. am. My age is falling from me lill
a garment, and move toward the star as
child. And, oh, my Father, thank the
that it has so often opened to receive thcs
dear ones who await mel
And the star was shining; and it shine
upon his grave Charles Dickens.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

told" said Smiths wife, "and after twenty
years in our family I think she can be
trusted "But-" "Are you people COM
ing to supper?" shouted voice from the
diningroom; and, late as it was, pleasant
meal ensued.
What more passed between husband and
wife this chronicler knoweth not but he
can declare that Smith disappeared from
bachelor parties in the Temple precincts
and also that if there is a happy, round,
pleasant-looking little woman in the neigh
borhood of Bayswatcr, it is Smiths wife.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07
WHOLE NO. 1854.

OK THE WRONG LAY-A huckster wko
deals principally in butter and poultry, in
variably asks little more for these luXuries
then any Of his neighbors. When askedhis
reasons for SO doing, he always replies after
this fashion:
" "Well, sir, that's an extra quality of
butter 1t was made by my wife's aunt, sir
-ons Of the best housekeepers in theStatc.
Those chickens are a superior article, sir.
They were raised by my wife's aunt, sir,
and what she doesn't know about raising
chickens amt worth knowing"
This popularity has been remarked by
his customers, and they are in the habit Of
commenting on it quite freely behind his
back. The other day very solemn looking
individual entered the store, and walking
up to basket Of eggs, inquired:
What do you ask for eggs?"
Fifteen cents dozen," was the bland
reply.
"Fifteen centsr' exclaimed the melan-
choly customer. why, can buy them
anywhere at ten-but maybe your wife's
aunt laid these eggs?'
The owner of the hen fruit hung his head,
looked thoughtful a moment, and replied I:
"Take em along at ten!''
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

You boys ought to be kind to your little
sisters. l once knew bad boy who struck
his little sister blow over the eye. Al
though she did not fade and die in the
early summer time when the June roses
were blooming, with words of forgiveness
on her palid lips, she rose up and hit him
over the head with a rolling-pin, so that lie
couldn't go to Sunday-school for more than
a month on account of not being able to
put his best hat on.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

Well, now, this is one of the prettiest
stories of the day. The Rev. DR.. Furness
of Philadelphia, that excellent man tells it,
and of course it must be true. Not long
ago lady called upon the Doctor. He
mentions that she was of "a very interec-
ting and lovely appearance" but that has
nothing to do with the story. He had
married her some years before. She told
him that Heaven had not blessed her with
children and she believed the reason was
because her husband didn't give the Doctor
any fec. This she insisted upon paying
then and there-possibly with interest.
The clergyman like a sensible man took the
money; and now, he tells us, that honest
lady is very happy with her little boy
Brother ministers, says the Doctor, take
heart! Providence looks out so vigilantly
for the marriage fees, do not concern your.
selves about any sublunary matters, but
give yourself, heart and soul, to the good
work of sowing the truth"
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

LEMON CAKE.-Three cupfuls of powdered
white sugar, one cupful of fresh butter, one
cupful of milk, five eggs and four cupfuls of
flour. Beat the butter and eggs separately,
the whites to a stiff froth, and then dissolve
little soda in the milk; mix all together ;
then sift the flour, and put in by degrees,
and add the juice and grated pcelo afresh
lemon. This cake is delicious.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

Gone or THR SERMONs."-A rough, hard
featured preacher, who made up in sincerity
whathe lack ed in education, hourished in the
West somo thirty years ago. He reported
to have wound up flaming sermon, on one
occasion, with the following magnificent
peroration:
any brethren and sisters ef mans
full of religion you can't hurt him There
was the three Arabian children; they put
'em in a firery furnace, hetted seven times
hotter then it could be hct, and it didn't
swinge hair on their heads And there
was John Evangeler; they put him,-and
where do you think, brethering and sisters,
they put him? Why, they put him in a
caladronic of bilin lie, and billed him all
night, and it didn't faze his shell And
there was Daniel, they put him in a lions
demand what, my fellow travellers and
respected auditors, do you think he was
put in lions den for? Why, for prayn',
three times day. Don't be alarmed,
brethering and sistern doubt if any OF
you, will ever get into lions den =
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

Bonnets have more upward tendency
than usual this season. Railroad companies
whose lines run to the summer resorts, arc
having roohess cars built for the accommo.
dation of the present style of female head
gear. Upon nearing a bridge or a tunnel,
signal will be given for the ladies TO duck
their heads to prevent their bonnets and
hats being knocked off.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

"Mr JONES'" said Mrs. Jones, with an
air of triumph, don't you think marriage
is means Of grace?"
"Well, yes" growled Jones; @ "Isupposo
anything is means of grace that breaks
down pride and leads to repentance.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

a simple mode of keeping butter in
warm weather is to set over the dish con.
tanning it large flower-pot or unglazed
earthenware crock, inverted. Wrap wet
cloth around the covering vessel, and place
the whole where there is draft of air.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

My face is rugged, but I'm wealthy
will you have me?" said he. "Yes, indeed,
it's knotty, but it's NICE" said she.
Husband" What's the use of going ont
this muddy weather." Wife-"what's the
use of having striped stoekingsga
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

a BIG CHURcH.-Mr. BecIwith, Of the
Cambridge, Nd, Chronicle, was in Brooklyn,
n. Y, recently, and attended Talmage's
church-the Brooklyn Tabernacle, it IS
called. Mr.. Becllwith thus writes:
The tabernacle is a new and beautiful
ediice and has a seating capacity for nearly
four thousand. When we tell our readers
that it was packed last night, they may
form some conception of the immense au-
dienccs that Mr.. Talmage addresses. The
organ is located where the pulpits of chur-
ches are generally supposed to be, and is a
huge affair, being fully half as large as the
Southern Methodist church of Cambridge.
1t is presided at by Prof. Morgan, whose
mastery touch calls forth the divinest
melody. They have no choir. The hymns
are raised by Mr.. Arbuckle with a silver
cornet, the entire congregation joining in
the singing. This is novel feature of the
exercises at this sanctury and one that
would be considered by old fashioned Nc
thodists a sacreligious innovation.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

Mr.. Wendell Phillips should be very
happy just now. His marvellous imitation
letter is calling out for him more good
round abuse than he has enjoyed for a long
time. And he does enjoy it.
Smyrna times., 1875-07-07

A single Goldfish produces more than q
million Of eggs in season,
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05

up the savages To commit more than one
massacre OF tire s..iti-rs; and dozen OF
them utteripg yell of fury, started ia
pursuit; while the Others, noticing my
swaying about on the animal which 1
rode, began to think that ] had found
something in the race for life. In fact
the pain was rising and falling and shuf-
fling about so that it took great amount
OF nerve and equipoise to sit as ought.
They got me into Fort Laramie, however,
with Uncle Sans promissory notes all
safe in my breast pocket; with my boot
full Of blood, and the CALLING flesh wounds
in my shoulder accounted for the odd
manoeuverings of the plain while was
on horseback
After a brief but desperate conflict,
Bill Wolf was brought in, and passed
over to the proper officers ITO have and
hold, until there should be meted out
to him the measure which he had given
Others
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05
aow Mr.. LINcoIH FoRcAvE VI

An editor of weekly paper published
in n little village in Missouri, called at
the White House, and was admitted to
Mr.. LincOln's presence He told Mr.
Lincoln that he was the man who first
suggested his name for the Presidency,
AMI pulled from his pocket an old, worn,
defaced copy of his paper, exhibited an
item on the subject. ''Do you really
think" said Mr.. Lincoln, THAT an
nouneement was the occasion of my
nomination. Certainly" said the ed
itor, ''the suggestion was so opportune
that it was at once taken up by the 9th
er papers, and the result was your nom
ination and election"
"Ah, we'll" said Mr. Lincoln with
sigh, and assuming a rather gloomy
countenance, II am glad 10 see You and
know this, but you will have to excuse
me; am just now going to the War De-
partment to see Mr. Stanton" "Well,
said the editor. Il will walk over with
you" The President; with that apt
good nature so characteristic of him, took
up his hat and said, ''COme along"
When they reached the door Of the
Secretary's Office, Mr.. Lincoln turned to
his companion and said, Il shall have to
see Mr.. Stanton alone and you must ex-
euse me" and taking him by the hand,
ne continued, "Good by: 1 hope you
will feel perfectly easy about having
nominated me; don't be troubled about
it; 1 forgive you, = Washington ChrOn-
icle.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05

PURE EXPRESSIONS. Ss.-Every word
that falls from the lips of mothers and
sisters especially should be pure and con-
else and simple: not pearls such as fall
from the lips OF a princess, but sweet,
good words, that little children can gath
er without fear of soil, or any regret or
pain through all their life. Children
should be taught the frequent use of
good. strong, expressive wor,ls-wCrds
that mean exactly what they shouli ex
press in their proper places. If n child,
or young person, has n loose, fluns-to-
gether way of stringinS words when en-
deavoring to say something. lie should
be male to ''try again." and see il he
cannot do better. 1t is painful to hear
many girls talk. They begin with ''My
goodness,n and interlard it with $50
sweetr aud $50 queenly," and so many
phrases that one is tempted to believe
they have no training mt all, or else their
mothers We're very foolish women There
is nothing more disgusting than the
twaddIe of iII-bred girls; one is provoked
often into taking a paper and reading
and letting them ripple and gurgie on,
like brooks that fDw they know not
WHITTIER Ny heart warns with love for
sensible girls and pure boys; and after
all, If our girls and boys are not this, |
fear it is not our own fuult-fOr this
great trust rests in the hearts and hands
of the woman of our Land. If we have
a noble, useful purpose in life, We shall
infuse fine right spirit into those around
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05

have been broken with grief as they see
a darling son becoming a drunkard-
They cannot tell us how many white
hair-. have gone down in sorrow to the
grav'.. mourning over drunken children.
They cannot tell us how many hard
fought battles the drunkard in his sober
moments, has fought with his terrible ap-
petite; how many times he has walked
the room in despair, tempted to commit
suicide, because he could not conquer the
demon. And finally, we cannot search
the records of the other world, and tell
how many souls have been shut out from
that holy place, where no drunkard en-
tiers, and banished to the regions Of eter-
nal despair by the demon of drink.
What man, what woman, what child
would not vote to have the whole street,
with its awful traffic in the Internal stuff,
sunk to the lowest depths of perdition,
and covered ten thousand fathoms deep
under the curses of the universe?
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05
SALOON LEGISLATION.

The first fruits of saloon legislation
have ripened, and the Senate has plucked
its cluster. That body, on Wednesday
of last week, passed the bill to so amend
the Adair law as to require notice to be
given to the saloon-keePer before action
can be commenced under the law. No
person who is not married to the saloon
interest need hesitate to pronounce this
amendment glaring fraud, and a fla
grant outrage upon the population of
our commonwealth. The only object of
this amendment is to kill the Adair law,
but preserve its rattling skeleton as a
pretense. Why add to the burdens and
prostrating tolls of the drunkard's wife,
by requiring that no liquor seller can be
made liable for the injuries he causes to
her family, unless she shall first serve le-
gal notice upon himl Aside from the
ignominiOus principle at the foundation
of such a law, there are physical obsta-
cles, which may prevent many suffering
victims from complying with its condi-
tions, and all such will be left to the
mercy of fate, without the slightest
means of protection or redress.
So thoroughly and minutely has this
feature been discussed in all the details
of its operations that no one needs to
be informed upon any part of it. 1t
seeks to build up about the saloon n wall
of protection that shall be invulnerable
to the assaults of those who advocate
safety and sobriety.
But look at the logic of such law.
The criminality of the tr affic is not in
the sale or furnishing of liquor to drunk
ards, except in such instances as when
notice has been served. The declaration
of the law would be that only furnish
ing contrary to notice is wrong. With
such law upon our statute books, sa-
looms will multiply and thrive, and be
beyond reach of harm; the innocent vic
tins of the great curse will be fettered
by law. and rendered helpless to do any
thing for their own protection, and Sc
ciety can stand by mute and powerless.
-Oberlin ReIos.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05
Good Advice.

eve are a young married couple with
two children. Before marriage we were
both fond of society. Now, our means
being reduced, am not able to dress, so
that have slipped out of society. lam
very happy at home, but l want, too.
He is away all day at the city, except of
evenings, and occasionally all night, so
that see very little Of him, and it grows
worse and worse. During my last con-
finement he was away very often at
young peoples parties, though l begged
of him not to go. He says he gets but
little recreation; get none. We never
have a disagreement: he is certainly the
best and kindest of men, and we love
each other dearly. Am unreasonablep
You do right not to quarrel. This would
not make home attractive. We wish it
had been your husband who asked us
about the propriety of his conduct. We
should have said: young man, you
are making one of the greatest errors of
life. You are doing what must, in time,-
wean from you one of the most faithful
of wives. Your admiring friends do not
love you; but she would die for you.
When at last she has grown weary of car
ing foryOu children alone, and has be-
come peevish and discontented, nervous,
detected and discouraged, you will see
that no fool made so poor bargain since
the world was made. You do not mean to
be heartless, but you are cruel, and if
you 90 on in this selfish and cruel So
eiaI desertion of your wife, you--pleas-
ant and witty young fellow that you are,
will commit scarcely less than a crime.
We beg pardon for harsh words-but
this answer is not meant for one hus-
band, but hundreds. We say to every
one of such men-you are in fair way
to be a wife-murderer. You are killing
IA loving heart by inches. You have sell
fishly and thoughtlessly betrayed the
confidence of a woman who did not Inar-
ry you expecting to be left in solitude.
-CbTiStifJI Union
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05
The WADE HAMPToNs.

Among the few splendid mansions
spared by the army of Sherman, still
stands the old Hampton house, built by
the head oil the family, soldier of the
revolutionary war and of the war of
1912. He was the first Wade Hampton,
of South Carolina. Springing originally
from the Cavaliers of England, who
filed the world with their fame, and
whose descendants still walk the elrth
as its highest type of genius, his imme-
diate ancestors settled in Virginia, and
from thence he came to South Carolina
and to Columbia.
The mansion aud its grounds occupy
one square, or four acres of the city.
The house is of the old style of archi-
lecture. / have seen hundreds of others
i'll the South presenting a much finer
external appearance. But the chief at
traction of the place is its shrubbery-
its rare trees and eXOtics. 1t looks like
an earthly paradise.
He was twice married. BY his first wife
a son was born to him, whom he called
Wade. Two or three daughters were
/ the result of his second marriage. John
s. Preston married his daughter Caro-
line, and Ex-Governor Manning married
his daughter Susan. He accumulated
vast estate around him, and is said to
have owned one thousand slaves. l
have often, when boy, heard old peo-
pie say that he owned SO many slaves
that he did not know them when he met
them, and that they were constantly in
Producing themselves t. him. But be
this as it may, when he died he left all
or nearly all of his property to his son.
When the successor to the house and
to the estate read the will he did what
few men ever did before or since. He
tore it in a hundred pieces and then
made an exact and equal division of all
his fathers's property between himself
and half sisters
As soon as the war of 1872 broke out
this Wade Hampton offered his sword to
General Jackson, and was assigned a
position on his staff He was one of
his aids at the battle of New Orleans
Like his father. he was thrifty and add
ed greatly TO tlls-cstItte, making pureh-
ases of large tracts of land in the valley
of the Mississippi, which even yet remain
in the family, believe. His step-moth-
er lived to a great old age, and did not
die until some time just before or during
the late war between the States.
The third Wade Hampton is the one
living today, who so distinguished him
self during the Confederate war. He has
been twice married, and is now a wild
over His first wife was a Miss Preston.
By this marriage three sons We're born
Wade, Christopher and Frank. His son
Wade served ON the s:afT of General
Joseph Z. Johnson. Preston was on
the staff of his father, and was killed by
his side His second wife was n daugh-
ter OF Senator McDuffie.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05
Sunday Bsading.
RESIGNATION.

What better poetry have We nowadays
han the following, written by Paul Flem-
ming, in 1909:
Let nothing make thee sad or fretful,
Or too regretfuL
Be still
What God hath ordered must be right;
Then find it in thine own delight
My will.
Why shouldst then fill to-day with sorrOw,
About tomorrow,
My hearts
One watches ali with care most true,
Doubt not that he will give thee, too,
Thy part
Only be s;eadfast; never waver,
Nor seek earth's favor,
But rest;
Thou knoves. what Cops will must be
For all his creatures, so for thee,
The hest
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-03-05

WILL HAMILTON, the half-wit of Ayr,
was hanging about the vicinity of loch
which was partially frozen. Three young
misses were deliberating as to whether
they should venture upon the lakes sur
face; when one of them suggested that
Will should be asked to walk on it
first. The proposal was made to him.
''Though I'm daft, I'm no i'll bred, y
quickly responded Will. "After you,
leddies."