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Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11

1900 yards Hamburg Edgings, at W. H.
MOORE & CO.'S, very cheap.
Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11

| have a nice assortment of Ladies' Dress
Goods, Black Plumb and Seal Brown Cash
meres, Camel Hair Cloth, French Costume,
Cretonne Mixtures, Lustre Twill, which am
selling very low for cash.
q. W. w. NAUDAN.
Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11

Rubber Boots and Shoes repaired at the
BOOT, SHOE AND HAT STORE: A lot Of
Mems Calf Boots, Congress and Button Cal
tiers coming through next week-hand-nade
and cheap.
Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11

J. MOODY ROTHWELL, having procured
an engine and thresher, is prepared to do
tbreshing at short notice.
Middletown transcript., 1875-12-11

RICE has Christmas goods at wholesale and
retail.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

When you wish to know what the
weather is to be, go out and select the
smallest cloud you can see. Keep your
eyes upon it, and if it decreases and dis
appears it shows the state of the air
which VIII be sure to be followed BY
fine weather; but if it increases in size
take your great-coat along with you if
you are going from home, for falling
weather is not far off. The eason is
this: When the air is becoming charged
with electricity you will see every cloud
attracting all lesser ones toward 1t, unit
it gathers into shower; and, on the
contrary, when the fluid is passin g off
or diffusing itself, then q large cloud
will be seen breaking to pieces and dis
solving.-.Scie'st.fc and Nining Journal.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

PARIsAIN SCANDAL.-I will mention a
curious fact which recently came to my
knowledge respecting the lovely photo
graphed group called ''Alsace and Lor-
raine," which has adorned the window
of every picture shop in Paris for months
past. This group is composed of two
beautiful girls, one wearing the national
costume of Alsace and the other of Lor-
raine, and both looking very doleful, or
one dismal and the other indignant as
the case might be. The representative
of Lorraine was simply a very beautiful
and very placid looking girl, seeming,
her simple attire and high muslin
cap, Like a modest young in
Quakeress but about the personator of
Alsace there was dramatic force and
fire, an energy of action and fitness Of
expression which were quite remarkable.
[ have lately learned that this girl who
personates SO admirably the lost province
is in reality well known denai n,ondaane
Of Mulhouse, and not as one might fond
ly fancy, pure and patriotic daughter
of virtuous Alsace.-Pa1as Letter.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25
ONE HUSBAND WITH TWO WIVES
AND FAMILIES TO MATCH.

Henry Shields, an Opulent flour mer-
chant of this city, died March 18th, 1874,
leaving large estate, the greater part
| OF which was devised to his children,
without mentioning them by name
The will was duly admitted to probate.
Soon afterward a lady residing in the
Eastern district, Brooklyn, and calling
herself Jane Shields, began an action
against the executors Of Henry Shields
for dover, representing that thirty or
forty years ago she married Henry
Shields, who vas then in comparatively
poor circumstances. She had five chill
dren by him, some of whom are dead.
About 26 years ago, when Mr.. Shields
circumstances were considerably i'm
proved, he began to absent himself from
his family. who resided in Brooklyn.
He returned 70 them only at long inter-
walls. He continued. however, to sup
port his wife and family. After his
demise Mrs. Jane Shields ascertained
that he had left lady in New York call
ing herself Mrs. Shields, and claiming
to be his wife, and that she and nine
children borne by her to Mr.. Shields had
inherited a vast estate under his will.
It is alleged that 26 years ago, at the
time when Mr. Shields began to absent
himself from his Brooklyn family, he
married the lady now inheriting as his
widow. He established himself in an
elegant residence in New York, and the
lady with whom he was living was known
as his wife. The nine children before
mentioned were born, and their educa-
ton was conducted in the most expensive
manner. They are said to be highly
accomplished.
The case was before Justice Happen,
in Brooklyn, yesterday.-The Neao Korh;
San, q.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

A Snow PALACE.-At the Clipper Gap
hayward, North @ street, nun Der of
boys have been at work for two or three
days tunneling into a huge snow bank.
In the center of this they have exca-
waited a large chamber. ADJOINING this
there are halls and galleries, and in these
there are numerous windows in the shape
Of port holes. The outside of the drift
has been hewn into shape, and altogeth-
er the place is very elaborate and com
plicated affair. Last evening a grand
reception and concert was given in the
palace, the interior of which was brilliant
" lighted up with candles placed in a
candelabra formed of snow. The palace
and the entertainment attracted a great
number of spectators Last night was
the second night that the snow palace
has been lighted up Virginia (Nev. }
Enterprise.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25
MILITARY HEAD STONE

a MILITARY HEAD STONE. On a
headstone in a West Virginia cemetary
is the follwing inscription: ''Capt.
Oliver Brown, of the artillery of the
Massachusetts, line, revolutionary war
born in Lexington Mass, 1922. He
stood in front Of the FIST cannon fired
by the British in the affray at Licking
ton-witnessed the tea party at Boston
harbor-was at the battle of Bunker
Hill-commissioned by Congress, 18th
of January, 1776-commanded the vol
unteer party that bore off the leaden
statue of King George from the Battery
at New York and made it into bullets
for the Americans-bore conspicuous
part in command of artillery at the bat
ties of White Plains, Harlem HEIGHTS,
Princeton, Trenton, Brandywine, Ger
mantown, and Monmouth. After serv-
ing his country, he enlisted in the armies
of the Son of God and surrendered to
the last enemy on the 18th of FEBRUARY,
1916, in the full assurance of a never
ending peace"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

TBE Cincinnati Enquirer says that a
family in the suburbs of that city hay
ing lost little girl had her body en-
balmed and retained in the house, a
hearse having been employed to be
driven from the door that the neighbors'
apprehensions might be quoted by be-
ieving that the funeral had taken place.
The Enquirer says: ''The body, when
embalmed, was clothed in it's accustom-
ed garments and laid away. Daily the
grief-stricken parents pay visits to the
resting place of their little one, where
she appears as fresh as when the breath
first left her body, and where none but
the chosen few of their immediate rela-
tive are permitted to share with them
the view of the little sleeper. It may
be added that the presence of the body
in the house, although perfectly free
from anything unpleasant, has SO worn
upon the health of the mother that the
father has felt necessity for its remov-
al, but his wife still clings to it and begs
them to let it remain"
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25
IF HAD LEISURE,

eff I had leisure, would repair that
weak place in my fence, said farmer.
He had none, however, and while drink
ing cider with neighbor, the cows
broke in and injured prime piece Of
corn. He had leisure then to repair his
fence, but it did not bring back his corn.
eff had lesiure,' said a wheelright
last Winter, 81 would alter my stove
pipe, for I know il. is not safe.' But he
did not find time. and when his shop
caught fire, and burned down, he found
leisure to build another.
eff had leisure said mechanic,
81 should have my work done in season. y
The man thinks his time has been all
occupied, but he was not at work till
after sunrise; he quit work at five
o'clock, smoked cigar after din amer, and
spent two hours on the street talking
nonsense with an idler.
eff [ had leisure" said a merchant,
81 would pay more attention to ac-
counts" The chance is, my friend, if
you had leisure, you would probably
pay less attention to the matter than you
do now. The thing lacking with hun
dreds of farmers who till the soil is, no
more leisure, but more resolution-the
spirit to do-to do now. If the farmer
who sees the fence IN poor condition
would only act at once, how much might
be saved. It would prevent breechy
cattle creating quarrels amongneig hbors,
that Id many cases terminate in lawsuits,
which take nearly all they are both
worth to pay the lawyers.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

half dried she brought (for he declared
that he must drive that hack hack into
town. pile of great coats and shawls
and wraps, in which she so enveloped
him that when he babe her good-by it
was with difficulty he could climb on
the hack, so swathed and bundled was
he.
It did not take long for him to drive
those horses into the town and leave the
hack at a livery stable ''to be called for, %
and up to this day the sleepy hostler
who opened the stable-door has not ceas
ed to wonder who was the gentleman in
lavender kids that drove hack into the
stable at haf-past two o'clock in the
morning.
1t was just after the hack had driven
away from the house of Madam that her
husband, worn out with the task of the
evening. came home. To him. as he
slipped his tumbler of grog, she told the
whole story, and when she mad finished
she said ''It was such narrow escape!
Just think We might have been up
set and killed."
Indeed you might, he replied, bis
face solemn at the possibility.
"And oh, Ned" she continued; "I'm
SO glad you didn't go to the wedding o.
care you, dear, and why %
Because, love, you never, never
could have crawled up through that lit
tie hack window !" And she patted his
broad back and filed another glass of
groge for him-Sam Francisco Cal.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-02-25

POWER OF IMAGINATION.-A striking
instance of the power of the imagination
over the human organism has just at
tracted some attention in Paris. A poor
old matchmaker, Frederic Stiebmann,
who lived in the Rue des Halles, has
been the prey of singular delusion for
the past few months. He imagined that
his soul had passed from his body into
peculiar watch which he has invented,
and upon which he had worked for
twenty years. son the day that my
watch stops" Stiebmann was wont to
say, 81 shall die. My life has become
subordinated to that of the watch" A
few days ago the watch began to run IL
regularly, at first too fast, then too slow.
81 am very i'll, said the old man, and
he took to his bed. Two days later the
watch stopped. Stiebmann noticed the
upmoving hand, he rose to a sitting
position, uttered cry, and fell back
dead.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

1t takes woman to repu|se travel
ling agent sometimes. In a nelghbors
ing village the other day, a man called
on Mr. c. at his place of business, and
wanted to sell him parlor organ Mr..
G. not wishing to buy, to get rid of him,
referred him to his wife. On the mans
making his business known to the lady,
she asked him if Mr.. c. sent him there.
"Yess ma'am," he replied, "Well, sir, "
said Mrs. c., ''you just go back and tell
him that until he can furnish me with
something besides mackerel to eat. l
can make all the music that is necessa'
ry around this house" The agent con.
Guided that he could not sell an organ
there
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
A FE1iNINa FoaaER


Sr. LaEIs. August 81 A hand
somely dressed young woman called at
the Broadway Bank this morning and
presented the cashier a letter Of in
Production, pulport:ng to be from
Sepley, Endieott & Co, Chicago, and
check Tor $1,000 signed by the same
firm. purporting to be drawn on and
certified by the First National Bank OF
Chicago. She desired to draw thirty
eight hundred dollars cash and deposit
the remainder of the amount The
cashier, suspeeting the woman was at
tempting to swindle the bank, received
The check and Letter, and requested her
to call in an hour, when he would pay
her the money. In the meantime he
sent for an officer. who Swallowed the
woman when she left the bank until
she reached Fifth aud Bladlc streets.
where she was joined by a man, who
had introduced her to the bank officers
two days before The officers then ar
rested both and locked them up. Tel
egrams from Chicago say the check is
a forgery.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
The New Jersey State Treasurer Fraud.

TRENroN, N. J., August 2S.-Ihe
startling fact has just come to hight that
Josephus Sooy, Jr., State treasurer OF
New Jersey, has been guilty OF embez
zling money or property of the State to
an amount which will reach not less
than $4,000. AT midnight last night
the affair came to point, and resulted
in the making of formal complaint,
under oath, by A. L. Ranyon; State
comptroller, before Justice F. S. Mills,
by whom warrant was issued for the
arrest of Mr.. Sooy, which will probably
be executed during the day. 1t is sta
ted that the money was drawn from
time to time from the Pennsylvania
railroad company, upon the agents OF
which Mr. Sooy called and collected the
money sometimes in advance. How he
disposed of it is not known. The pre-
sumption is that he has fallen into the
hands of sharpers. His. securities are
.,bundantly able to reimburse the State,
and will be required to do so promptly
Pn1LADEapH1A, August 29.-Ihe
Mayor, Trenton, accompanied by an Of
fcer Of that city, arrived here to day
and arrested Sooy, the defaulting State
treasurer OF New Jersey, at house on
Rodman street. The prisoner was ia
ken to Trenton tonight. The prisont
made no objection to going, and said
his accounts would be found correct.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
Fatal Accident bv Rail.

WILMINGTON, Del, August PA
terrible railroad accident occurred yes
terday, at Ginn's station, on the Della
ware railroad. A nephew of Governor
Cochran and negro driver had started
with load of peaches for the depot,
and not knowing Of special train, that
was passing the crossing at 6 o'clock,
attempted to cross the track and the
team was struck by the oowcatcher.
Young Cochran was hurled distance
of twenty feet, and the driver, David
Brinckly, was struck and thrown upon
the steps of the engine where he was
dragged for nearly mile. When the
train was stopped he was dead, The
mules hitched to the wagon were in'
stantly killed, and young Cochran was
fatally injured. He died at four O'Clock
this afternoon. The coroner held an
inquest yesterday on the body of Brinck
ly, and the jury rendered verdict o.
censure on the conductor and engineer
of the train.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

A NEW HOTEL AT THE GKEENBRIER
WHITE SuLPnuR-Bya contract just
confirmed by .Indge Jackson OF the
United States Court of West Virginia,
the Greenbrler White Sulphur Springs
Company have leased to Peyton & Co.
for five years sufficient portion of the
grounds, with all privileges thereof, ups
Oh which to erect a new hotel, to cost
$4,000 The lessees are to furnish the
money, and at the expiration of their
lease the building is to be acquired by
the company atits appraised value. The
site selected is within the present in
closure, and almost opposite to and hut
little distance from the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad depot The hotel is to be
kept open the year round, and will be
an eating point for passengers going
east and west 1t is to be finished by
June /, 1876.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
WILMINGTON, DEL, August 80. -

WILMINGTON, DEL, August 80. -
This morning at 1120 o'clock a fire
broke out in one of the evaporators of
the Alden Fruit Drying establishment
at Milford, and although prompt meas
ures were taken to smother The flames
the building was in ashes in short
time. The establishment WAS the
largest in the southern part of the
State, and the loss is a heavy one,
amounting TO from $4,000 to $4,000.
There was no insurance save $4,000 in
a Delaware company. The fire just at
this season falls extremely heavy upon
the employees Of the establishment,
about one hundred and fifty being
thrown out of work, The pay roll of
The establishment Amounted to nearly
$500 per week. The establishment
was owned by stock company and
will probably be rebuilt.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

Edwin B. Smith who has been APP
pointed First Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States, is native OF
NJ anne, and is about. forty years of age
He was graduated from Bowdoin Col
lege in 1852, and began the practice OF
law at Limerick, Me. Mr.. Smith has
been ter number of years the leading
lawyer in York county. He has repre-
scented Saco several times in the Legis
lature, and was speaker of the Maine
House of Representatives i'll 1871. For
the last few years he has been ofiicla
reporter of the Supreme Court.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

CHICAGO, August 2s.-Dr. A. J.
Patterson, in charge of the asy lum
where Mrs. Lincoln is confined writes
to the Tribune denying a recent state
ment that he has given a certificate
that she should be discharged. He
did say that under certain circumstan
ces it might be safe for her to visit h e1
sister at Springfield, but she is at pres
ent more perturbed in mind than when
he made that statement to her son, ant
he denies the story OF her being LOCKED
up. She receives, and has the use o.
a carriage and visits her friends II
Batayie.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
STRAIGHT JACKETS FOR CoNDU oroRs.

STRAIGHT JACKETS FOR CoNDU OTORS.
The new uniform for the conductors
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is gorgeous attire. To prevent spec
ulations the entire suit is without pock>
cts. The coat is to be of blue cloth, is
Of sack pattern, and buttons to the chin,
two rows of brass buttons and gold
stripes running down the front, and the
monogram of the company on the col
lar A leather satche), having two COM
partments, for tickets and specified
change, will be strapped to the eonduc-
tors shoulder. The compartment con-
tanning the tickets will be locked at the
start, and not opened until the end OF
the trip. Many of the conductors threat
en- to resign. Conductor James Fields
one of the oldest conductors on the road
has sent in his resignation.-M y Sun.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

The courtroom at Cynthiana, Ky.
was the scene of the utmost excitement
when the jury in the case of young
Rid gely, charged with the murder of
DR.. c. l.. Donally, rendered their YER
dict. The room was densely crowded,
and the coolest person there is said to
have been the prisoner. When the
foreman rose and answered the pre-
liminary question, every breath APP
peared suppressed. Then he uttered
slowly and with much trembling, "we
the jury, find the defendant not
and before he could finish there arose
such cheers that all business ceased.
The Court and all the officers laughed,
then cried, and then nearly smothered
the boy in the eaeerness of their con-
CALCULATIONS. And when Ridgely was
used up, the spectators went for the
Jurors in like manner
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

A FORTUNE IN a FEATHER BED. 49,
Mrs McGreavy, of Brooklyn, was dis
contented with feather bed which she
had recently bought, and exploring it
Saturday for the disturbing element,
found a small, hard package, which she
threw out of the window. 1t was
picked up by an inquisitive youngster
of the house of O'Malley, neighbors,
who took it to his father to open it.
O'Malley senior did so, when out rolled
lot of gold double eagles and 500 in
currency. 1t was. a very rich strike to
O'Malley, who literally treated all his
friends and CONSIDERABLY returned the
bag to the the exasperated Mrs. Greavy,
whose husband very soon caused the ar.
rest of 0 Malley for grand larceny.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

4 Washington special says: The
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue has
emphatically decided that so far as his
rulings relate to the collection of III
ternal revenue they cannot be reversed
by the secretary nor can any decision
OF the head of the department be ais
lowed to conflict with the instructions
of his Office 1t will be remembered
that Commissioner Pleasanton made a
similar issue when Secretary Boutwell,
was at the head of the department.
Mr.. Boutwell, insisted that there could
be but one head to the Treasury 'le
partment. He had been the first com
missioner, and contended that the law
never was framed to be construed in
favor of recognizing the Internal Rev-
enue Bureau az a separate department
OF the government In this he was
sustained by the President, and Pleas
anton was turned out of oriice. The
present commissioner takes exactly the
same stand Pleasanton did, and even
has rescued to recognize the decision
Of the Secretary on an important mat
er, aud so notified the revenue officers.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
KEE1Y. OF Moron NoroR1ErY, STU

KELLY, OF Moron NoToRIErY, Still
LIVES 1t is now stated that station
airy engine will be completed within two
or three weeks, when a prsvate exhibit
ton will be given to members of the
press at Keeley's residence in Philadel-
phla. The machine is reported under
perfect control, and while an immense
power can be generated in an instant,
yet such improvement have been made
as to allow the engineer to so manipu
late it as to reduce the pressure from
$1,000 to the square inch to zelo.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

Six business houses in New Rochelle
n Y, were burned yesterday. Loss
S50,00O, with small insurance: j 81
Swan & Clark's cottage furniture
manufactory in Philadelphia was dams
aged by fire last night to the amount
OF $4,000; insurance not stated
Miss Fanny Cakes, who was seriously
affected by an overdose of ether, admin
lstered by Long Island dentist, died
on Monday.
Advices from San Francisco indicate
robust and healthy financial situation
there, with wonderful recuperative pow
ers, Notwithstanding the bank collapse
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02
Iowa has a nCnulatiOn of 1850. o.

Iowa has a population of 1,35O,00O
gain of upward of 10000 in five
years Dubuque and Davenport have,
each $4,000; Burlington, 10000; Des
Moines, $4,000. Iowa, unlike Miss
ouri, Illinois and Wisconsin, has no
principal city, and hence all the inter-
ests of the State are tributary to St.
Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

A FIRE at Parishville, St. Lawrence
county, New York, destroyed property
to the amount of $4,000, insurance
$4,000.
The bark and sumac mills of Smyth,
Snyder & Co., at Richmond, Va, were
destroyed yesterday by fire. Loss S23.
900; insurance $4,000.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

vienna, August 30.--Three batta'
lions of the Turkish expedition which
landed at Kleck have reached Mostar,
the capital of Herzegovina. They met
with no exposition on the march. -Four
thousand Servlans have entered Turk
ish territory and encamped at Now,
where they have seized the telegraph
lines. Bands of Servians have appear
ed in the Baker mountains and are
endeavoring to excite the Bulgarians
rise against the Porte.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

The elections Immediately to be
held are as follows: California, Septem
Der /; Arkansas, September 6; Maine,
September13 On the 18th Of Octo-
Der OHIO and Iowa follow. The cleo
tons in Virginia Kansas, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Mississippi, Minnesota,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin all come on November
2, and in Texas on December 7.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-09-02

A laborer named John Mccain fell
from the tower OF East River Bridg &c,
New York, a distance of 2l0 feet yes
terday, and was instantly killed. This
is the fourth accident which has occur
ed on this structure during the present
week