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Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Coal Consumption of London.

The growing wealth and population of
London have played, perhaps, the prin-
cipal part in the wonderful growths of
the coal trade. Without citing ancient
statistics, I may mention that in the
four years ending in 1872, the quantity
of coal actually consumed in London in
creased by more than three-quarters of a
million Of tons, the total for 1872 being
nearly six millions. Another curious
fact is that, during the four years in
question, occurred not only the increase
cited in gross consumption, but very
notable increase in the consumption per
head, and this in spite of the high prices
which ruled toward the end of that
period. Thus, in the year 1869, when
coal was sold retail at about twenty-five
or twenty-six shilliugs Per ton, London
ers consumed twenty-seven hundred
weight per head and in the year 1872,
when prices varied from thirty-six to
fifty two shillings per ton, they actually
burned twenty nine hundredweight per
head of the population "a convincing
proof, if any were needed, that, despite
the halo which surrounds the "good old
times" and the frantic shrieEing Of
idle people with fixed incomes, the
great bulk of the nation is getting bet
ter off every year. .-AUthe Year Round.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
A Joke on Henry Clay.

The Carlisle (Ky.) Mercury has this
story A relative of Gov. Metcalfe has
furnished us with the following incident
which will illustrate the habit "Old
Stone-hammer had OF playing practi,
cal jokes. Some time before the intro
duction OF railroads Gov. Metcalfe repre-
sented in Congress district of which
Nichols county was a part. Mr.. Clay
was secretary of state under President
Quincy Adams. 1t was the custom to
make the trip to the national capital in
private conveyance. 1t was in the days
of Mr.. Clay's greatest popularity that
the two distinguished politicians agreed
to travel to Washington in Gov. Met
calfe's carriage and, all the arrange
ments perfected, they started together
from the latter's " Forest Retreat
home, in this county. While passing
through the State of Pennsylvania, Mr..
Clay told Gov. Metcalfe that he had re-
ceived intimations that in certain town
they were approaching he would be
honored with an ovation by the citizens.
Just before coming to town Gov. Met
calfe, who had eli along been driving,
suggested to Mr.. Clay that he take the
lines and drive. as he himself was tired.
Mr.. Clay readily consented, whereupon
the governor took tho back seat IN the
carriage. The honored statesman drove
the team successfully into the town and
they were met by large concourse OF
people. Gov. Metcalfe aighted from
the carriage, was cordially welcomed,
and replied that he was glad to meet
them, ETC.; and at this the crowd fairly
hoisted him upon their shoulders and
triumphantly started with him to the
place of reception. Looking back al
Mr.. Clay, who still sat in the carriage,
somewhat nonplussed, the governo,
cried "Driver, take those horses to
the stable and feed them"
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
The Winds.

Every one who has attempted, by the
computation of thermic or baric wind
roses, to arrive at a sharper characterl-
zation of the peculiaritieso OF the separate
winds, has fallen upon a difficulty that
has almost destroyed bis interest IN such
work; which is the perception that frt-
quently the same wind direction, at the
same time Of the year, occurs with quite
opposite characteristics. This discrep-
ancy has received considerable elucida-
ton from Koppen, who, by careful
use of the synopt:c weather charts OF
Europe, has shown that it makes great
difference whether asouthwest wind, tor
instance, blows outward from center
high pressure, or ia drawn inward to q
center of low pressure.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
In the Arctic Regi ms.

DIR. Hayes says that wintering in the
Arctic regions is not so terrible a matter
after all. He adds: l would observe
that the public sympathy becomes very
needlessly excited when an Arctic voy-
ager takes the field. The dangers and
privations. are greatly exaggerated, and
it happens sometimes that men are
forced to consider themselves heroes
whether or no. 1 have never met with
any one who had ever been to the Arctic
regions who did not want to go again
sure proof that it is not such terrible
thing after all to sail among the ice
foes and icebergs and to winter near the
North Pole. 1t must be confessed that
the moral and mental strain of the long
winter is a severc ordeal; but this can
be alleviated by cheerfulness and good
discipline. Travelling with sledge,
through deep snowdrifts and over
rough ice hummocks, day after day,
with no shelter in camp but snow hut,
when the thermometer is down in the
zeros, is most certainly wearisome to
the flesh, 3" but it need not be dangerous.
Shipwreck and disasters in various ways
may and do happen to "try mems
soul s." but these come elsewhere, and
so often, that passing paragraph In a
newspaper disposes of them, while the
exceptional experience of an Arctic trav-
eler is more striking because of the mys-
terious nature of his surroundings. WI
are all awed by the contemplation O
what is unknown and which seems mac
cessible; but actual experience quickly
dispels Il illusion,
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Detroit Free Press Currency.

A Chicago paper has found out that
men drink to pass away the time. What
do they swear for?
The chap who is quoted as being Gas
honest as the day is long" had better
take back seat until next spring.
It is proposed in Cincinnati that when
tramp asks for bread to give him--not
stone, but hammer to break stone
with.
"stick pin there says the Phila-
deiphia Chronicle. That's played.
The Old man always feels of the chair
now before sitting down.
Probably one of tue most trying times
in mans life is when he intro iuces
his second wife, seventeen years old, to
his daughter, who is past twenty.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that
public thieves must be locked up. Don't
be s., Inpatient. The land can't be
covered with jails without warning.
If you want to make $40, 600 in hurry
invent an ink for the government which
can't be rubbed off Of postage stamps.
Only 1000 persons have tried it, and
there is every chance of success.
Those chaps who are running lot
terry swiDde at Denison, Texas, would
look nice coming out of creek fifteen
or twenty times on cold morning. All
that is needed is for some one to throw
them III.
1t is wicked TO throw dice for turkeys
and chickens. We say this knowing
thrt every man III the country who has
seen some one else come in aud "beat
that throw by one" will fully coincide
with the assertion.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30

becomes convinced that she knows more
than she is willing to tell of the murder.
This induces him to go with the aount' 8
mother to the inn of Pierre Michel,
where he examines Pierre, his servant
Moulinet and Rose Michel herself. His
suspicious are confirmed, and, after en-
deavorirg by all fair means to induce
Rose to fell the truth, he at last resorts
to the EXTREMIST measure and condemns
her to the rack. In the last act we learn
that torture has been Intellectual, Rose 8
love for her child enabling her to con-
ceal the truth. The Count de Vernay IS
condemned to die, and is to be executed
at dawn, but he has one last interview
with Rose, who has partially recovered
from the. effects of the torture. Finding
all appeals fruitless, and believing De
.Vernay innocent, De Marsan determin es
at the last moment that the count must
escape.
Rose pledges her life to the effort,
and secures the services o. her hus-
band, supposing, as she does, that he
will be only too glad to save his second
victim.
But Pierre, fearing that if the count
escapes he will leave nothing undone
to discover the real culprit and thus
clear his own name, betrays the plot to
the guard; and just as the count is
about to leave the prison he is arrested,
and Rose, discovering her husbands
treachery, denounces him In moment
of supreme agony, thus saving the life
of the count. They are about to arrest
Pierre, when he, breaking through the
guard, is about to fly, bu is shot by the
guard and falls over the parapet OF the
prison. The Count de Vernay, touched
by the heroism of Rose, and grateful
for her timely aid, makes an appeal to
Bernard which induces him to consent
to the marriage of his son with Roses
daughter.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Hans Andersen's Love History.

It was on his long journey through
Zealand, Funen and Jutland, that he
met a young girl with whom he fell
deeply in love. but who, unfortunately,
at the time was engahed to another man,
and as Andersen never met another
woman whom he could love as he loved
this girl, he remained unmarried all his
life. Many years later, a peasant girl,
who had heard about him as a great and
world.renowned poet, whom all men
honored-and who, I believe, had also
read some of his stories-took it into
her head that he was the one man she
wanted to marry. So she started out
for Copenhagen, where Andersen was
then living, W Mt to his house, and told
him her errand. You can imagine how
astonished he must have been at being
told by young, handsome girl that she
wished to marry him. 81 should be SO
very good to you," said she, "and al
ways take good care of you" "But,
my dear girl, I don't wish to be mar,
RED" answered he B.; and she departed
as suddenly as she had come.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
What the Coroner Wanted.

Our coroner, Barney Maginn, says
Max Adeler, called in at old Pestle's
drug store the other day, and leaning
across the counter, he whispered into
Pestle's ear, in particularly confden.
tial manner:
"Kin you tell me what kind of p'ison
kills man quickest 2"
"What do you want to know for n
asked Pestle.
"Well, I just want to know for curl.
osity. Something that when you give
it to fellow reels him right off. A
couple of kicks maybe, and howl OF
two, and then lays him out like lamb. u
"There are several drugs which would
have that effect, such as -
81 want it sudden, you understand,
and no smell or taste. Something you
can just drop little in his liquor, and
he'll roll over and drift off into eternity
before it gifts to his stomach. Something
like that"
"Prussic acid might do that, or cor
rosive sublimate, OR -
"Well, give me a quart of the prussic
acid, quick as you kin"
Cant do it, MIR. Maginn, until
know what you want it for" said Pestle.
"Why can't you9"
"Because it's against the law"
"Well, if I tell you, you won't give
me away on it2 Won't blow it round
town or anything, will youa"
"I dunno; it depends on what it is. I"
"I'l trust you, anyway" said MIR.
Maginn. "Come closer, SOS nobody
kin hear. You know Jim Berry, dom
you?"
eyes"
"Well, Jim's invented patent life
saving machine for jerking drowned
man out of the water and pumping his
stomach out, and I'm going to p'ison
Jim before he introduces that there ap-
paratus to the public"
"Mr. Maginn, I certainly shall not
sell you prussic acid for any such pur-
pose as that; you must be insane"
SHOW look at the thing" said Mr..
Maginn. 81 make my living by people
falling overheard and getting drownded.
That's my principal source of income;
cut that off and I'll starve to death.
Well, now, here comes along man who
wants to bring these remains back to
life, and float me out upon a dark and
dreary world without cent. Oughtn't
to kill him9 I think I ought. Self
presentations the first law of nature.
Give me couple of quarts of that there
acid. You won't, won't youl Oh, very
well! very well, old man! But your
time'll come. There'n be some other
man p'isoned some day, and then If I
don't put the jury up to bringing in a
verdict agin you and clap you in Jail,
then my names not Barney Maginn."
Then Mr. Maginn went out to buy
shotgun with which to annihilate Mr..
Berry.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Intriguing Divorce Lawyers.

Several New York divorce lawyers, toe
impatient to wait for customers to come
to them, have sent out agents to Gus
toners. The emissary goes, provided
with circulars autographed in imitation
of written manuscript, to an interior
city, whence he mails them to wives ot
drunkards or Of such other unpleasant
husbands as he can learn about by per.
sistent inquiry. Many of these circulars
are in the following language
Mrs. --. My Dear Madam: ]
trust I may address you confdentially
upon a subject which, we are informed,
you are particularly int rested in at this
time. I have been sent to -- by ou1
people, one of the largest law firms in
New York, to write to you personally
relative to obtaining for you an imme,
diate divorce, which we understand is
your desire. We have full power to act
in this State, and our many years ex.
perience in this business enables US to
60 to work at once and procure you a
full divorce in half the time required by
your own city lawyers and our prices are
not as heavy. Besides, we keep it from
the public. We can get you what you
want in three weeks, and you need not
fear of getting your name in the papers
if you don't want it. No matter what
the charges are that you may bring
against your husband, we can get you a
full divorce. And then, instead of
living a life of misery, you can once
more become free woman, and do just
as you please. We have many years ex-
perience in this business, and all you
need to do is to reply to this letter, and
state when and where private inter
view may be had with you alone, or with
some intimate and confidential lady
friend of yours. would prefer, how
ever, that you be alone when we talk
about this matter. At least until we see
our way clear. I assure you that no one
excepting yourself who is known in this
city is aware of such letter as this
having been written you, so you need
not be alarmed that your husband will
ever know word about it. He need
not know until 1t is too late for him to
do anything that would stop you from
getting your divorce. Please reply as
quickly as possible. I have written to
you plainly in the hope that you will
understand everything. Address your
letter to the New York post-of6ce, Station
D; where I will receive it and return
to this place two or three weeks from
date, when will call to see you at your
house or wherever else you may suggest
in your reply. Write to the firm Golf
dentially and without fear. Put your
letter in the inclosed envelope, which is
already addressed, and oblige,
Yours, respectfully.
The lawyers described as 81 the largest
law firm in New York are generally
represented to be one firm in the city,
but this peculiar branch of the divorce
business includes several concerns, and
the agents are operating in most of the
Southern and Western cities. The
promised divorces are, it is probable,
generally obtained, but in several report
ed instances the agent has received a re-
tanning fee and never been heard of by
the client afterward. .-NeW York Sun.
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
A Grateful Lawyer.

BIT. Reynolds, of Winnebago City,
Mimi, having been elected to Office, Is
grateful, and indicates it by a card say
ing: Agreeable to promise before
election, / shall be pleased to give any
person who voted for me (taking their
word for it) legal advice free of charge
for two years. For any town which l
carried, or nearly carried, I will with
pleasure prosecute or defend suits, or
do any business they may desire for two
wears free of charge. The consequences
to Mr. Reynolds may be embarrassing
in case two OF his supporters fall out and
90 to law. ..
Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-30
Christmas Carol.

Pile on the Christmas logs
Higher and higher;
Chee'ily, cheerily,
Clackles the fire.
Now let the bells ring out
Merrily, merrily
Now let the children shout
Cheerily, cheerily.
Let no harsh voices sound
Drearily, drearily;
Let nsught but JOY abound
Merrily, merrily.
Now let home voices sound
Brimful of meaning;
Now let bright eyes abound,
Rsdiantly beaming.
Let not q note be heard
Breathing Of sorrow
Let not a soul bring here
Care for the morrow:
Pile on the Christmas logs
Higher and higher;
Cheerily, cheerily,
Cracbles the fire.
Herald of future bliss
Joyously dawning;
Hail to thee, hail to thee,
Bright Christmas morning.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07

The invention of the Cresco firm,
by which to utilize the waste straw,
hay, stalks and weeds, by converting
them into fuel for cooking and heat
ing, was put to test yestesday. The
stove is little larger than common
cook stove, as the bulk of fuel must
necessarily be greater. 1t is arrang-
ed to insert the fuel in the back end,
and heavy plate settles upon it TO
prevent too rapid consumption by
preventing the air from striking at
the top or bottom. The draft there
fore is about the sides, and the pile
is gradually consumed in TO the
center, giving steady, durable heat
by which few pounds Of the rubbish
will accomplish the cooking Of a meal
or the baking of batch of bread.
The amount required to warm an or
binary sized room is astouishingly
small. A damper is arranged to be
changed, turning the heat in one
direction to bake and another 10
cook. To prevent litter in the house,
and also to save time in feeding the
stove, press is used, which is also
very useful invention, and can be
made at very moderate expense
Dubagae Times.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07

An eminent lawyer OF Boston tells
the following joke: A ilashlly-
dressed young sprig entered Ben
Buffers office and was requested by
Benjamin to be seated. The request
was complied with, and the young
man was asked TO state his business.
s.Well, Mr.. b., what would be the
first thing for me to do in order TO
learn the profession Benjamin
fixed his weather eye upon the mob
by dressed young man and surveyed
him from his fashy necl<tie to his
highly polished boots, and exclaimed:
"The first thing you had better do
would be to go and roll in barn
yard An answer came as quick as
the suggestion in the following terse
language: IF should come and
study two years in your office,
wouldn't it do just as well?'
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07
Grapes and Mud - Medical
Agents.

At certain towns in Switzerland
grapes are grown solely as medicine,
and the vineyards are put to no other
use. Instead of drinking water, as
at other places, the patient is sent
out to eat grapes, and must pick
them himself from the vines. Where
the doctor ordinarily instructs the
patient to drink SO many glasses of
water, he is here instructed to eat
just SO many punches of grapes, and
no more. 1t is assumed TO be dan
gcrous to go beyond the doctors pre-
scription single grape. As strange
as it may appear, invalids experience
the best Of good effects from the
''raisin cure" or at least think that
they do, and go away very well sat
isfed.
Another popular treatment is
found at the mud baths of Schwal
bach and other places, where the
patients are immersed in soft black
mud up TO their chins, and remain in
the bath for some hours. Most of
them have . floating table before
them upon which they keep books,
cigars, or refreshments, according to
the tastes Of the patients. After re-
manning Two or three hours in the
mud one is washed off with hose
pipe and put into tepid bath. The
operation is continued the next morn
ing, and is repeated until the patient
is cured OF tired.-Neec York Times.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07
Mark Twain, in a letter to the in

Mark Twain, in letter to the in
yentor of a mosquito net, talks in
this way about the only thing worth
talking about, now that the third
term is gone; "There is nothing
that just and right minded mau re-
ioices in more than to see a mosquito
imposed on, and put down, and brow
beaten, and aggravated, and this in
genious continuance will do il. And
it is rare thing to worry fly with
too a fly win stand of and curse
this invention till language utterly
fails him. ! have seen them do il
hundreds of times. like to dine
in the air on the back porch in
summer, and so | would not be with
out this portable net for anything.
When you get it hoisted the flies
have to wait for the second table. w e
shall see the summer day come when
we shall sit under our nets in church
and slumber peacefully, while the
discounted flies club together aud
take it out of the minister. There
are heaps of ways getting precious
enjoyment out of these charming
things, if had time TO point them
out and dilate OH them little.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07
SHERIFF SALE.

By virlne Of n special Execution tn me d.
rected. issued from the Office of the Clerk of
tn. Circuit Court, IN and for the county of
Cedar ANA state ot Iowa, in favor OF Lydia A.
.a,uaorn and aaatnat Jamaa hc Wolf ct nj,
| have levied upon the following property
as the property OF the said James De Wolf
ct al. to-wlt:
The north half 20, OF the north-e east quar-
ter + u OF the north west quarter ~, OF
section number twenty-1eyen t27l, In town
snip number eighty-two tS2l. north of range
number two e.. west of the 5th r. NJ con-
aiming twenty acres, situated in Cedar
county. Iowa.
A nd shall offer the same for sale at the
Court House door, in the town of Upton, I'm
said County, on saturday the 9th day oil
October A. D.. 1875, at one o'clock. p. IN
OF said day, to satisfy said Execution and
costs that may accrue thereon.
Dated this 9th day of September. A. D.
ls7j.
JOHN ID. SHEARER
2s83 sheriff of Cedar county Iowa
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07

In a recent issue of Bronlow's pa.
per the old fellow says: 'onr con-
temporary O: the Press and Uerald
in a recent issue, gives its surmses
as to the age of the editor of this
paper. We will inform our neigh
Dor that on the 29th of last month
We were seventy years old. When
the painful duty devolved upon us Of
writing the obituary of the late ex-
President johnson, we had lived to
speak kindly of the large number of
politicians in Tennessee whom we
encountered and fought on our advent
into public life. That the Lord has
been SO merciful to us, and so long
preserved us in the midst of great
dangers in prisons and out of it, we,
in part, attribute to the fact that we
never voted the Democratic ticket.
We were first a Federalist, then a
Wing, now a Republican, and, by
the blessing Of God, we stand ready
TO oppose anything or anybody APP
pearing under the guise of State
Rights repudiating Democracy"
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-07
sheriff. Sale.

BY virtue of a special execution To me dir
ected ISSUED from the Office OF the Clerk o.
the Clfcuit Court in and for the 60. Of Cedar
and State of Iowa, in favor of John NJ. Weth.
ereil, aud against II. =. Hayhurst
have levied upon the following prop.
erty as the property of the said f. ). Hay.
hurst, tu-wit
Lots number twenty-five t25), and twenty
six t26l, in Joseph steers addition To the
town nf West Eranch, Cedar county, iowa
Also one Al Ito acres more particularly de-
Scrihpi in the plat of West Branch
And shall offer the same for sale at the
Court House door, in the town of Upton, in
said county. on Saturday the ath day al
October, a q. lsG5 at one O'Clock y. M of said
day. to satisfy said execution and costs that
NAV accrue thereon
Dated this 9TH iav ~ Septem Der a. a. ls75
JDH \ ID. sHEARER
SSw3 sheriff If Cedar county Iowa