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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29
One way to Dispense with Cemeteries.

DR.. Frank Richardson, writing to the
London Times, gives the following extraor.
binary account Of . village in the North
of England: 1.-THE interesting letters
which have appeared in your columns
during the last week or two upon the mode
of committing Earth to Earth tempt me
to send you the following instance Of a
district in which that unpleasant process
is postponed In q singularly unusual man.
ner. The large parish Of Alwinton- with
Holystone is situated upon the southern
slopes Of the Cheviots, includes the upper
vale Of the Coquet, and extends about
twenty miles in length and several in
breadth, comprising A, 472 acres It's pop
ulation has decreased from 1896 at the
census Of 1861 to 1,272 at that of 1871.
The occupations of its inhabitants are
almost equally divided between the tend
ing Of sheep and the cultivation Of cereals
upon lands which rest in nearly similar
proportions upon freestOne and porphyry.
During the year 1874 six deaths occurred
In this parish, being at the rate Of Al per
thousand-one Of those deaths being that
of an unfortunate young shepherd who
persisted In the recent snow storm. This
mortality was lower than usual; during
the previous ten years the number was 100
An annual average Of 10 per thousand.
OF these 108 deaths there were 10 between
10 and 80 years Of age, and, curiously,
20 above 80 years, considerably more
than one-quarter Of the total deaths thus
occurring in people above eighty years
old, or 273.8 per 1000. Now, Il there
anything exceptional in the ages OF the
inhabitants to account for this low DEATH
ratat The aged and very Young. among
whom proportionally the mortality is
highest, exist in large numbers. Within
two miles Of my house l know nine octo-
genarians, and tenth--our parish clerk
died last week at the age of eighty
three. In this village of Harbottle, with
1870 inhabitants, there are thirty-seven
children under fourteen years of age, and
during the last twenty years no child has
died, and for nearly four years no one
until the case just mentioned. l may
add another instance of the large pro-
portion of children existing and their
immunity from death. A farmer in this
parish and his three shepherds, who have
occupied their present situations nearly
thirty years, have among them Al children,
and not o single death has occurred In
these families. The inhabitants have
abundance of plain, substantial food, ex-
cellent water, good residences as rule,
and regular but not severe work in pure,
bracing atmosphere, and are highly intel
ligent and generally abstemious. / am
indebted to the Rev. A. Proctor, who has
been upward of forty years the esteemed
vicar, for the confederation of the statistics
of the parish which l have now given
you.n
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29
A Duel ct Four Feet.

In 1881 Col. Duvall, candidate for the
Senate in one of the upper Senatorial dis
tricts of Mississippi, became involved in
a personal affair with young Cunningham,
of the famous fighting Cunninghams Of
South Carolina. Cunningham was not
twenty-one. He was small, handsome
youth, with long faxen hair, bright blue
eyes, and very amiable, gentle manners,
but Of most dauntless determination and
cool courage. Cunningham had chaL
lenged Duvall, who had fought before,
and was regarded as an adept in the duel
10. Duvali, in a spirit which was consid-
cred as bordering on braggadocio, accept
ed the challenge, but prescribed the terms
that they should fight with pistols at four
feet off. He evidently mistook his man II
he imagined that such terms would be re-
jected by Cunningham. The parties met
opposite Vicksburg. An immense con-
course assembled to witness the affair. The
boyish Cunningham excited universal
sympathy, mingled with pity and admira.
ton, when he appeared in the field. He
looked younger and more boyish than he
really was. There was . serious design
on the part Of the spectators to interfere
and prevent the fight between full grown
man and mere boy. But Cunningham
and his friends, by their determined con-
duct, prevented all such interference. The
parties were soon stationed in their places,
just four feet apart by exact measurement.
Cunningham fixed his eye upon his an
tagonist with that peculiarly gentle smile
characteristic of him. Duvall, though
doubtless brave man, could not but feel
and manifest some nervousness on the oc-
casion, as he had prescribed the perilous
and desperate terms on which the combat
was to be determined. Attention" was
called, and, the parties declaring that they
were ready" the word was given, and
both fired at the word lone" Duvall
fell, shot through the heart. Cunningham
stood coolly in his place, unscathed. An
involuntary hurrah" arose from the
spectators at the issue of an affair which
had enlisted their feelings 50 warmly in
behalf of this young David of this combat.
-Neu Orleans Bulletin.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

Nellie Grant was hardly pretty girl,
except with the loveliness Of fresh youth,
but her side faoe-she has retrousse nose
and round chin--is charmingly piquant.
Her chief beauty 10 her arms and neck,
which are perfect In contour and white as
alabaster. This beauty of form she inner
it's from her mother, who has such pref
ty foot that tho young officers on her hus-
bands staff used to compete for the honor
of helping her in and out of her carriage
Just to see it. The only accomplishment
Nellie ever boasted of was dancing, and
that she did divinely. She was not litera-
nv, or artistic, or conversational, and she
never pretended to be; but when Charles
Summer, her fathers enemy, died, she
went out to the green. house and gathered
with her own hands flowers for the cross
she sent to Ills coffin. So II was for such
little acts--for sort of sincerity about her
that despised to assume what she did NOT
possess-that people here, even without
any personal acquaintance, had an affec-
ton for her, and they regard her withAn
interest far removed from idle curiosity
WdaAin0ton Letter in tho World
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29
Women as Artists.

The Baltimore Gazette, speaking OF
women artists, says: THAT the ranks of
the painters should be recruited from
among women as well as from among
men In natural and right Reasoning
merely from natural laws, a woman should
have all the delicacy of touch, all the ar
tistic sense of beauty Of color and har-
mony Of effect, and especially the subtle
sentiment, REQUESTS 10 make an artist. In
certain branches of art she might not be
able To command success. But art has an
infinite variety. 1t is az wide as nature
itself, rs varied as man and mans life
as high and vague and imaginative as the
unseen world and all the airy creations Of
fancy. All women, because they study
art, may not be Rosa Bonheurs or Angelica
Kaufmans. They may not even reach
the level Of Miss Hosmer, and may be
compelled to forsake the Congressionally
fower.strewn paths Of the Winnie Reams.
They will undergo process of sitting as
men do who make art a profession They
must have the same qualities, love OF art
for arts sake, vivid perception Of the
salient points of beauty, def hand, a
true eye, and, above all, perseverance. The
poet may be born, not made; but the artist
has TO be born and made too. All that we
have said is, IL will be seen, no discour.
agement To woman artist Who has
DETER, more supple handsY Whose ideas
of beauty and fitness respond more quick.
ly TO CIVILIZATIONS Who can be educated
TO love and appreciate art and ar.
tistic arrangement, and the great
lection of q flower and the wavy
fa1l ~ ,xy,v, "A -, ,1nI
the gathering storm of a summers day ?
Her impressions are quick and vivid.
Why should she not, then, be painter
She has insight; why cannot she put the
insight into tangible form, with technical
skill, proper color, light, shade, pespect-
i've, correct drawingY And still if she
cannot do this the time Is not thrown away
for the woman who has studied art
We do not speak Of painting as an elegant
amusement, delightful occupation OF
spare hours, as0urce of qualification In pre-
serving memorable places, persons and
many of the smaller pleasures of memory
which ordinarily fade away and are lost
to US. We might very we'll do this, but il
il not the intention with which we started
out. That was the pursuit of art as q pro-
fession by women artists. In doing SO we
have dismissed from contemplation all
who have no special talent. Such per.
sons had better abandon art at once
It's ranks are crowded enough. There is
room for more, but not at the bottom
Half way up the pressure is relieved, and
ct the top of The ladder there is no com.
plant of want Of elbow-room Therefore
II is of those who have at least some apti.
tude for art VIC spoke when we said that
its study was not time wasted, even To
those who cannot hope to attain the high
est station.o
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29
Laaunted Mine.

The Little Emma mine, about six miles
southeast from Helena, is one Of the most
promising silver.bearing lodes in this
Vicinity. There is shaft sunk on the
lode to depth of 125 feet, and several
tunnels have been run along the lode.
Twelve men have been working might and
day shifts) for some time past. Recently
new man was employed. He was an en-.
tertaining talker, and possessed an mex
haustiblc supply Of ghost and fairy tales,
with which he helped 70 while the long
winter evenings away. A pump had been
In use for some time, as there was water at
the bottom OF the shaft, and for the pur-
pose of hosting the water horse was
kept going on his endless round, little
distance from the mouth Of the shaft. One
night beam or something got loose,
struck tho horse on the head and killed
him. Next night, while the miners were
at work in the breast Of the tunnel, some
seventy feet from the shaft, an unearthly
voice was heard at the shaft. The miners
listened for some time. The weird tone
penetrated all the tunnels, and went echo
Ing in a wild, ghostly monotone into their
deepest and darkest recesses. With fear
in their hearts, and crow-bars and picks
in their hands, the miners started for the
shaft, where they arrived in safety, and
were hailed by the man at the top, who
wanted to know what that unearthly yell
Ing meant The miners were now thor
oughly aroused. There was q ghost
in some Of the tunnels, certain,
but as they had only an hour or
20 to work 1t was three O'Clock In
the morning) they concluded to 60 back to
the breast of the tunnel, but using the pre-
caution to detail couple of men TO keep
Q sharp lookout through the gloom OF the
drift. At intervals the sound would be re-
pcated; now loud and piercing-again
soft and low dying away with sort OF
mournful wall through the tunnels. Their
labors done, the men were rejoiced to find
themselves on the surface, with broad day
light around them. 1t was great relief
to be free from the gloom and ghostly
sounds Of the shaft and tunnels. The next
day and night the sounds were repeated,
and the majority Of the miners were salts.
fed that the mine was haunted. Some OF
them proposed to quit and come to Helena,
as they could discover no legitimate cause
for the disturbances. At last, after week
which appeared an age to some OF the
men--one of the miners claimed that he
had discovered the ghost. 1t appears that
the shaft was few feet deeper than the floors
of the tunnel, and, when the water raised,
the bucket, which was attached to the
rope by an iron hook, kept drifting from
one side of the shaft to the other, and the
iron hook, sliding and rasping on the iron
bail of the tub, made the ghostly noises
heard by the miners. The majority ac-
cepted this explanation as satisfactory.
But some of the men still think that
ghosts and hobgoblins hold nightly revcls
in the tunnels Of the Emma pine.--
Helena independent.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

An uneasy feeling pervades society with
regard TO its footmen. 1t Is confidently
stated that there exists an association OF
London footmen, under the rules of which
these " faithful and attached domestics'
are bound to stay in no place under any
circumstances for longer period than
two years. Even If they lose wages by
the change 1t must be made. The rules OF
the association are like the laws of the
Modes and Pcrsians--they are unalterable,
This cuts society to the heart; for moi
only are the magnificent creatures treated
with the utmost consideration by their
EMPLOYERS, but they become the possessors
of many family secrets, which, conveyed
from one household to another, tend Ia
loosen rather than consolidate the bonds
of affection which unite, or ought to
unite, every Christian community. In
the meantime Jeames will do we'll to aci
cautiously in the matter of combina
ton. Already he is being superseded In
MANY families by the parlor maid, who
II is found, makes less noise in waiting
pives far less trouble, and with the excep.
ton of his carriage duties" is as serv.
ant his equal in every respect. He will
also do we'll to ponder over . terrible ex.
ample which was made last century of .
large number Of servants who combined
against their employers. In the Annua
Registor of 1850 1t Is stated that "neal
Atty English servants who lately wen,
over with their masters to join the English
troops In Germany having resolved tc
raise their wages and perquisites, theiI
masters discharged them; they then pro
cured passes to return to England; but
the affair being known on their arrival Al
Sheerness by the Captain of the Princess
Royal man-of-war, he sent his long-boa
ashore and pressed them into His Majesty'l
service" There Is at the present moment
in many quarters strong feeling in favor
of compulsory military service. The
present Government Is very strong, which
Is Q temptation TO become inscriptions
What more likely than that 1t should
avenge the wrongs Of society by com
mencing the experiment with the Londor
footmen Poll Mall Gazette.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

I'm the last twenty years the product OF
butter and cheese in the United States has
been more than doubled. Last year It
amounted to CSC, 600, 900 pounds of butter
and 200 0OO, 900 pounds Of cheese, ofwhich
more than one-fourth Of the butter ana
nearly one-half of the cheese were made
by the State of New York. The cheese
factories number about 1000, employ
about IS ,0OO, 900 capital, and use the mix
Of three fourths Of million cows. Inc
American Grocer states that the produc,,
ton this year is likely to greatly exceed
that of last year, but does not believe tnas
the production will even exceed me de-
mand.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

lime comes, and he has informed one ~
those deacons confidentialIy that he tbints
that bad dream must have been caused h,s
eating too much sausage at supper.-Na,
AdeIey, tn ". y. Weekly.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29
A Monster Shark.

IT will be recollected that in late Issue
we announced the stranding OF an immense
shark at Shankin, In the Isle of Wight.
The skin of this huge fish has now arrived
in London, having been purchased for the
British Museum. The difficult operation
of taking the skin off so gigantic Great
ure has been admirably carried out by
Mr.. Gerard, Jr., whose ability in prepar-
ing skeletons for the British Museum is
well known. Its total length Is twenty
nine feet, its circumference fifteen feet at
the largest part. Its teeth are exceedingly
small and not the least like the large white
ivory teeth seen in sharks of museums
they are set with interspaces one from the
other, and about the size Of cats teeth.
This is the basking- shark--squalus mart
mus, cet0rinus marsmus, squartus etephds,
sailfish, hoe-mother or homer of Orkney,
sunfish, west coast of Ireland. 1t is not,
however, to be COMPOUNDED with the sun
fish-o7thdg0riscu naola-that Is, the shape
Of the sun. The huge sharks appear in
considerable numbers in the spring along
the northwest coast Of Donegal and Clew
Bay. The Sun-fish Bank Is probably the
first shoal water made by the fish coming
in from the Atlantic. Little or nothing Is
known of the habits of this fish, which Is
probably the largest among known sharks.
Couch records one taken in Cornwall
measuring thirty-one feet eight inches. 1t
is supposed that they swallow their prey
alive. The Irish fishermen spear them
for the sake of the oil which Is to be OBJ
tanned from their liver. This fish, when
floating on the water, is frequently taken
for the whale on account Of Its somewhat
sluggish movements; hence 1t Is also called
the basking shark. It is supposed that
the present specimen had lost Its way,
being bound probably for the west coast Of
Ireland London Daily Ne,os.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

The London Lancet says The great
est strength can but retard the day when
anxious labor, prolonged through the
hours which should be those Of rest,
strains the physical powers too far, and
the constitutions of the strongest gives way
1T last under the high pressure Of states
mans life. Against such high pressure
only the unvarying habit of regular and
sufficient rest can preserve in health and
energy those who work with the brain.
The long-continued and unimpaired power
Of one Of our own Prime Ministers is well
known to have been in great measure
due to his habit of spending one-third OF
his time in sleep, habit with which he
would allow nothing to interfere. Who
can say how much would be gained in
length of life and useful energy could our
professional classes follow his examples"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

There are said TO be no less than 1000
men now in, or on the road to, the Black
whole United States army or more to drive
such body out The soldiers will be
10th to fire upon miners and the miners
will be slew to shoot at soldiers.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

The public records of Ireland do not
show an official misdemeanor for the last
$50 years. They are either very honest
people or else they do not keep their books
posted.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

Among the voters q Brissos; <. s l.:
the other day was . man named Jonn
Bullock, aged 1N years. He voted LOT
Washington at his second election, ana y
every succeeding Presidential election pu'
one.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

The following is next to an infallible
rule for predicting what the weather Is to
be tomorrow: "If you wish to know
whether 1t will storm or not, all you have
to do 10 to find the storm vortex and see
which side of it is the most moist. Multi.
ply this by the square of the latent heat,
subtract the time Of day, and divide by
the weathercOck.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

England exported last year 8, COS, 000,.
600 yards of cotton cloth, equal to nearly
2,O41 AGO miles, or enough to envelop the
equator Of the earth forty times.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

"A Montana Justice of the Peace doesn't
splurge any when he marries couple
He says: ARISE, grab hands-hitched-
six dollarsl" And that's all there 10 to
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

This il the season of the year when
the householder can discover what has be-
come Of napkins, towels, handkerchief
and pillow-slips which the girl can't re-
member of seeing.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

Gave Spring, Ca, Is so frightened over
its six cases of smallpox that the schools
are all suspended, and no one will take
letters from the Postoffice for fear OF con.
tagion.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-29

No grief is 50 acute but time anchor.
ates ik-CGcsro.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-02

The reliable Leslie Taylor, Allen Jumel
master, Chas. Brusle clerk, leaves this even
ing without fail for Donaldsonville, Plaque
mine and Baton Rouge. The Taylor returns
down the Coast on Monday and leaves again
on Wednesday
The Carrie V. Kountz will be found at the
landing this morning from st. Louis and is
to return this evening. w. E. Gere COM
mands
Louis, b.ings barges 2 OF ice, B OF produce,
etc. One of her freight items is II, 234 pack
ages Of -four.
The Glencoe follows next, and is to leave
for st. Louis on Wedn esday.
Capt. Gus is coming. His Tom Parker
passed Memphis Thursday.
The GAINESVILLE is to leave Little Rock to-
day.
The G. FL Durfee had not arrived up to
dark last evening, but will doubtless be found
at the landing thus morning The Bart Able
relieves the Durfee this trip.
STEAMER ST. MARY-This model steamer,
the pride of her owner and master, Capt
Fred. Probst, is advertised in this morning s
issue to enter the Lower Coast Trade on Sat-
urday next, going to the Sunrise Mill on We'd
nesday and Forts jackson and st. Philip on
Saturday, leaving at IL NJ. When the St.
Mary quit the Lover CG asst a few months ago
she lett pleasant recollections behind, for she
was not only a fine boat, but she had clever
man in command. Since then the ST. Mary
has been renovated, and Capt. Probst under
took to make her even finer still, and that he
has succeeded in so doing is the verdict Of
every one who has visited her He claims her
to be the finest boat ever in this trade, and
we believe there are many On the Coast who
| will agree with him.
The lightning Willie, F. A. Blanks master,
leaves TO-DAY at 5 for all landings Oh the
Black and Ouachita to Ouachta City.
Capt. Joe. Holmes, of the Rapldes, tele-
graphs that she will arrive on Sunday and
| return on Tuesday.
The fayorite M ,ry Houston will arrive on
| Sunday and leave on Wednesday for Louisville
and Cincinnati.
| The regular Memphis and lend packet Hi
| nois leaves Vlcksburg every Monday at T.
| NJ. Mark Cheek master, and the pleasant Joe
Spears in the office. Zee advertisement il
| another column.
The new side-wheel steamer W. j Bagby Ii
for sale as she now lies near Morgan's Ferry
on the opposite side For particulars inquire
Of NJ. W. Joyce III Gravier street.
The Col A. z. Kouns, from Red River, is
due to arrive to-day.
| The Stella Block leaves to-day for the
Lower Coast.
by Telegraph
MEMPHIS, Oct. l, 1S75.-To Burdeau .
Wayne: Steamer Mary Houston will arrive
Monday night. Leave Wednesday.
| CHAs. MILLER Master.
| MONROE, La. Sept. 30.-To Adams u Work
| 8 Commercial Place: Leave here with three
hundred and fifty bales VIII arrive Sunday
Leave on Tuesday. JOE HOLMES,
| Captain Steamer Rapides
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-02
MARINE NEWS.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN,
Saturday Morning October =.

Fisared Yesterday.
Holland brig HendeIika, Bronserno, for Rotterdam
Geo \ F0sdick eco
Arrived.
British steamship Vanguard, Gil from Liverpool
Sent g. to Ocean Zerega Geo I'D dist 80
Bar kentine Feetwing Smith SO days from Liverpool
to master-P.int
Schooner J q Whipple, days from Uula, 10 U LOIRE
Pic Tier
srEAM eoLTs.
Fleta Pickett from Washington
Bee Sylnmes from st Louis. with barges
Stella Block Basset. from Lower Coast
Natehez Leathers. from Vicksburg
Waloon. Vallette from Lower Coast
Iberia Sheldon from Lower Coast
pfiole O'Prv from Lower Coast
Annie b, Rpfs, from Bayou Baratarla
Josephine Cozzens. from Union Plantation
ARRIVALS AT THE NEW BAsIb.
Steamer j y CAN'T from Tangipahca
Schooner F NJ Pippo. from Covip2ton
Schooner Perseverance,, from Amite river
Schooner Simms, from Wadesboro
Schooner Elizabeth Ann from Springfield
Schooner j Wightmau, from Tlcktaw
ARRIVALS AT THE OLD BASIN
Schooner Cphelia from Blind river
Schooner Tiger, from Horn Island
Schooner Modesto, from Bayou Lacombe
Schooner L go Sons from Tchefuncta river
Schooner Alciope. from Blind river
Schooner Lille Dunn from Blind river
Schooner Victoria No 3. from Tangpahoa
Schooner Josephine No =, from Bayou LacOmbe
Schooner Rosavier from Tchefuncta river
Schooner Geo Pandeiy from Blind river
Schooner G ementine from Blind river
Schooner Camelia from Blind river
Steamer AIaItiue, from Tchefuncta river