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Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

No doubt the present system of build
ing is Justly accountable for many OF the
disasters which occur from falling HOUSES
and walls. Rapid instead of solid build
ingseems to be the orde rof the day. The
walls of many modern brick houses are
90 thin, and the cementing materials so
imperfect, that few of them would stand
if it were not for the support they receive
from adjoining houses. 1t must be adj
mitted that our ancestors, if slow in their
construction of public and private edi-
fees. were at least sure. Five hundred
wears is not considered old in European
structures. The strongest dwellings IN
America to-day are some OF those which
were bnilt in Maryland and Virginia, IN
the last century, of bricks brought from
England. Most of the houses then built
will probably outlast many OF modern
construction. 1t is true that In our large
cities, and in Baltimore at this time, there
are some very solid modern edifices II
existence or in course of construction TO,
special uses, but better system OF build
ing for general purposes, and a more
thorough official supervision of insecur'
structures are essential to the safety O
the public baltimore Sun.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

Charles Warren Stoddard writes
/" The cemetery at Bologna is called the
most interesting in Italy probably 1t Is,
with the exception of those at Pisa and
Naples and dozen others. 1t is notable
for one peculiarity: the poor, as usual,
are buried where the ground is not other
wise engaged. A Carthusian monastery,
erected in 1885, has been pressed into
service; the cloisters are lined with
ancient monuments of the thirteenth,
fourteenth. fifteenth, and sixteenth cent
uries, gathered from suppressed
churches and brought hither for heaven
knows what purpose. This is an ingen-
ious mode of starting burying ground,
and seems to be much in vogue in Italy,
though Bologna has surpassed her sisters
in the stone-snatching line-the body
seems to be the last thing to be consider
ed. Fancy a dozen long corridors tha
cross one another at right angles, ant
wherein the footsteps echo loudly ant
even whisper sounds harsh /; overhead
the arched roof is lit with rows of half
moon windows. Everything that can b
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

choose for life. The marrying instinct
seems dead, or rather never to have been
born in them. l have known at least
one such person in this country. They
do not seem to be thought of as out of
place but, ON the contrary, they move
into fit places in the great social or
ganism, easily and naturally, and ere ac-
cepted without remark. A late article in
one of the leading papers of ouc own
country remarked that an almost entire
change had taken place in this country,
in current speech concerning unmarried
women who are passed 30; that where
as, twenty years ago, and always before,
they were called sold maids" and the
phrase was q term of reproach, now it
was rarely if ever used, and the reproach
which used to be cast upon such persons
has almost entirely passed away
Correspondence of the IVOmdn's .l0,U-
nal
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

made of marble is marble; everything
is cold, colorless, hard, and uncheerful /;
for on both sides of these long, long
corridors are ranged the tombs of the no
bility and of the afiiuent, four deep.
Even wealth doesn't seem to purchase
privacy in this country the dead are
packed away in the mortuary halls Id I'M
comfortable close proximity. There is
merely square panel in the wall, with
the initials and a wreath of immortelIes,
inclosing the photograph of the deceased,
in very many cases. At the corners, or
the crossings of the arcades there are
round chapels with vaulted roofs, and
here are grouped statues and reliefs.
Some of the statues are well enough, and
some of them are not worthy even of a
cemetery, where one expects to see all
that is tasteless anil horrible. There
is the usual proportion of yawning tombs
and obtruding skeletons of flying an
gels, who look uncommonly heavy on
the wing; and of mourners whose un-
comfortable attitudes awaken sympathy
in every breast. This cemetery, under
cover, with its immense collection of
tombs and monuments, has taken the
glow from the once brilliant interior of
the abbey, and even that chilled us,
Notwithstanding all its painted prayerful
monks and rosy Madonnas.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
THE TRUE STORT" OF GEORGE
W4SHINGTON.

Says the Brooklyn Argus: About
one hundred and thirty years ago he
was little boy, and used to go around
hunting for wasps' nests. 1t was the
experience he gained when the wasps
used to 60 hunting around for him,
that enabled George to endure without
finching the hardships of his future
life.
He was born of rich parents, and the
fact has commonly been supposed to ac-
count for his possession of a hatchet,
but the truth is that his father kept a
hardware stone. 1t was the detection of
George, in the act of chopping water
melon vines with this hatchet that laid
the foundation of all his subsequent
greatness. Convinced that it would be
useless to attempt to prove an alibi, little
George said:
Father, you know you stole those
vines-they never grew there of their
own accord"
Blushing deeply, his parent replied:
"George, if you won't say word about
it to your mother, I'll forgive you."
George held up his right hand, and,
catching upon his pale white brow the
last rays of the setting sun, exclaimed:
Father, cannot tell a lie, but for your
sake I will not tell the truth. Hereafter,
NUNS the word"
Thereupon they both knelt down in
the long, wet grass, and solemnly dedi-
Gated to their country their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor. "
Then George arose, cut off the claws Of
the British lion with one stroke of his
sword, became the father of forty
millions of people, and expired, at an
advanced age, of fatal attack OF diph-
liberia.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
IBLIND ST4TESM1N1 IND HIS WIFE.


The visitor to the House of Commons,
waiting at the door of the strangers
gallery, and watching the members of
Parliament as they file in by the main
entrance, will no doubt have his eye par
ticularly arrested by tall, fair-haired
young man, evidently blind, led up to
the door by young and petite lady with
sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks.
She will reluctantly leave him at the
door. The British Constitution would
be quite upset were woman to invade
the floor of the House of Commons after
the chaplain's incantation has been
heard, even so far as to conduct her
blind husband to his seat; so she has to
consign him to a youth who stands
waiting to lead the blind member to his
place.
As she turns away many a friendly
face will smile and many pleasant word
attend her as she trips lightly up the
stairway leading to the ladies' cage,
near the roof of the house. The whisper
passes around, "One day, perhaps not
far of, she will take her seat beside hel
husband, AMI remain there" And GER
tain it is that when ladies have the
suffrage, the first female member of par
lament viii be the lady of whom write
Mrs. Fawcett. Not one-half of th'
members of that body are as competen
rs she to think deeply and speak finely
on matters of public policy, while no
the daintiest live doll moving abou
London drawing-rooms surpasses her Il
the care of her household, her husband
and her child.
The two whom have mentioned ar
as well-known figures as any who ap
. proach the sacred precincts of the legis
lature. The policemen bow low as the
pass; the crowd in the lobby make
path; the door-keeper, Mr.. White, tn
/ most amiable Cerberus who ever guarde
/ an entrance, utters his friendly welcome
The strangers ask Who is that and
/ dozen bystanders respond, Professc
Fawcett. "-Harper's Weekly.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
INSANITY'S SUICIDE.

Horrible Case of Self Murder at an In
sane 4sylam-Hoir Female Patient Cut
Herseff TO Pieces.
From the official report of the Super
intendent of the Fulton (Io. Asylum
we take the following account of the
most extraordinary suicide of lady pa
tient:
She was highly interesting lady. who
had given the most striking evidences of
recovery for some time before so salts
factory, indeed, I had notified her hus-
band she could with safety return to her
home in ten days or two weeks.
The morning of the mournful occur
renee, when the assistant physician was
in the ward, she conversed as nationally
and pleasantly as before, and was much
amused at some ladies in the hall, who
were in playful mood. In twenty min
utes after leaving this hall and while in
the adjoining one, the attendant, almost
overcome with excitement, called me to
witness the most unexpected calamity
that has ever happened in this asylum.
The unfortunate lady, when not OBJ
served, went into the room of a recovered
patient, took pair of old, rusty scis-
sors, with both points broken off (the
only scissors in the ward to which she
had access), and passed into the water
closet, which, of course, attracted no at
| tention.
After remaining about ten minutes,
the patient from whose rooms she had
taken the cissors also went into the
water-closet, and, Mortified at the appall-
ing sight, had the great presence of mind
| tostand at the door and call an attendant.
The piteous-looking lady stated that find
ing it impossible to stab herself with the
scissors (both points being broken off),
she caught the flesh Of the abdomen be-
tween the fingers of one hand and con-
tinued cutting with the other till she
penetrated the cavity. She then cut in
q line downwards five or six inches, drew
out the small intestines and severed piece
after piece, till the whole nearly filled an
ordinary wash basin. | was notified as
soon as possible, and during my long as
sociation with the insane never have
been so greatly shocked, nor has any
accident ever happened for which 1 was
so unprepared.
My first question was why she had
committed the deedl Her reply was
she did not know; but after a few
moments reflection, said the thought
came into her mind that she had neither
friends nor money, and it would bt
better to put an end 70 her existence
Very soon this delusion left her, and al
my sympathies, already deeply moved
were, if possible, intensified, while sh'
desparingly expressed her deep regret a
her own act, aud the probable effect upol
her aged husband and family.
After this, her greatest concern was t.
know whether she would be responsible
for her deed. Everything in our powe
was done to alleviate her sufferings. Sh'
lived between eleven and twelve hours
continuing rational till short time be
fore she expired.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

THE most profitable form OF mother-In-
awism is reported from Council Bluffs.
The young couple had long gremained I'M
comfortable under the apprehenslons
that the aged lady was a witch, but sub
seauent events proved it. Mother-in-law
approached her son and his wife, when
the latter drew the solemn circle OF the
holy church around her with a new silver
quarter, and then hammered the old lady
with family Bible. "At this, says the
veracious chronicler, 6 the old witch
nead apparently burst, scattering quarts
of fire and silver" The fire was, OF
course, no object, but the silver would
have a fair market value. The chromclel
omits to state whether the old lady re-
covered from her "burst, and whether
she has continued to yield specie IN re
tuYn for biblical chastisement- ms III
timed silence issespecially annoying, be
cause many devoted son-in-law wo''lf
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
DIsAPpEARAycE OF OLD Maids.

There is growing up in England a
large class of women who do not marry,
but who apparently wish not to marry.
They deliberately devote themselves to
literature, to teaching, to some trade.
generally an artistic one, at any rate to
some occupation that gives a livelihood
and tends to culture, and this they
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

THERE is said to be more ice IN the
Ohio river, between Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh, than at any previous time in the
last sixty years.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

ADELINA PATTI has a passion for
poodles. She has flock of them, seven
in number, all in an unnatural state of
whiteness.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25

The Shah of Persia has just sent in his
adhesion to the Convention of Geneva
for the protection of the wounded on the
field of battle.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
STlRTLIyG TRAGEDY IN Il COURT
ROOM.

ROOM.
A st. Louis dispatch says: y thrilling
murder was perpetrated this evening at
4 o'clock in the Court of Criminal Cor
rection, while the court was In session,
in which boy, Charley Woodson, some
seventeen years of age, was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen by a boy thir-
teen years old, named Robert Boat
wright Young Woodson was on trial
for the killing of little brother of this
boy Boatwright. The trial had pro-
gressed for over an hour, when Mr..
voulaire, the attorney for the State,
proceeded to introduce evidence to the
effect that the defendant had acknowl-
edged the killing of Boatwright. To
this the defense objected, claiming that,
as the confession was made through fear
/ it should not be admissible. 1t was then
decided to argue the point before the
Judge, and the jury retired until the
question could be settled. Soon after
the jury had left the courtroom, and
while the attorneys were gathered about
the Judge discussing the point in ques
ton, young Boatwright slipped up te
the side of the defendant, and exclaim
ing, % You have killed my brother;
will kill you," he plunged an ugly-look
ing butcher-knife into the boys abdo
men, and forced it in the whole length
of the blade. The boy fell back from
his chair on the floor i'll dying condi
ton, his bowels protruding in frightfu
manner. Young Boatwright was in
|. stantly grabbed by one of the deputies
and placed in the lookup. DIR. O'Briel
; happened to be present, and immediate
" made an examination of the boy
: wounds, which were pronounced dar
! gerous, but not necessarily fatal. Woo
: son is colored boy, son of Elder Wood
, son, the noted colored preacher OF thl
t CITY
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
him dead.

rejoice to learn some method of putting
the old lady in the way of supporting
him dead head, or even split-head.
Marshall County Republican., 1875-03-25
HISTORICAL ITEMS.


SEWING machines were invented and
brought into use in this country by large
tailoring establishments in 1S4S.
THE first public free school on the Pa
cifc coast was organized on the I'd of
October, twenty five years ago, by John
G. Pelton.
THE use of ,ce by kings was begun by
King John in 1109. Before that time
sovereigns used the singular person I in
all their edicts.
THE original manuscript of Washing
toms Farewell Address was sold at auc-
ton in Philadelphia, to a citizen of New
York, for $1,000, Feb. II, 1850.
THE first sovereign who adopted the
phrase, In the year of our Lord" was
Charles the Third, Emperor of Germany,
in S79. 1t is now the accepted mode of
designating the year in all Christian
countries.
THE Rialto at Venice, renowned,
single arched bridge, mentioned by
Shakespeare in his Merchant of Ven
ice," was built in 1870 across the Grand
Canal, near the middle, where it is the
narrowest. With of arch 80 feet, height
"a feet.
THE Thames Tunnel Oondon) was
opened throughout for foot passengers,
March 25, 1S43. It's length is 1,30O feet,
width 35 feet, height 20 feet thickness of
earth beneath the crown of the tunnel
and the bed of the river, about Is feet.
The tunnel was begun i'll 1925.
SKATING is OF great antiquity. 1t is
first mentioned in work entitled the
' Edda, written eight hundred years
ago. A hero of those days, Kolsen by
name, boasted among his accomplish
ments, that with ease and grace quite un-
equaled by his friends or enemies, he
could traverse the snow on "scatees" OF
wood. In Holland and Norway, skates
were made use of two hundred years ago.
In "Carr's Remarks on Germanie, " pub
lished in 1858, passage descriptive of a
battle closes with the following lines
'.The nimble Dutchmen with their sea
tees did shoot down the French like
ducks diving under water, so long as the
ice would bear them" II is recorded
that in 1908, at Groningen, "two young
woman, in the contest of scatees, did &c
thirty miles in two hours" Skates were
in use in England six hundred years ago
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TAKEN UP ON BAYOU RAPIDEs BY
l. Henry Martin, ONE BROWN MARE,
branded i on the right shoulder, V on
the left hip, diamond on the left shoulder,
She is six or seven years old, and apprais-
ed by A. Heyman and E. We'll to BE- worth
$50 in currency. % '''@ ''-<'
The owner of SAID animal is hereby no.
tilted to come forward, prove property,
pay charges and take the same away. or it
will be sold i'll sixty days as the law d.
racts. c. +. HOSEA,
Nov. fS-tt. Parish, Ranmnr