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TO THE EDITOR.

Kind Editor, If you weve me.
AS full Of faults and frets,
AS deeply in iniquity.
AS covered o'er with debts,
What would you do to cleanse YOURSELF
Or cleanse the world Of you,
To raise the necessary pelf
To pay the balance due?
have lao money in my purse.
No talent in my head,
And what. kind Editor. is worse,
To trade I me- was bred.
might have lived an henest life,
And earned an honest "pile."
And scorned the world. and all its strife
Beneath woman's smile.
Nor brooded Ger what might have been,
Or what might have made
If in the start | had foreseen 5. if
The blessings of trade.
Il might have been" a millionaire,
An author, or sage.
And lived in wealth. or written fair,
ii Or pored -thro' misty age. m ltsa "a
But might have been" and might have
.'i19 made ~ ad pos JAZZ fli 4A
Are myths alike to me.
For naught in science. art, or trade
Can aspire to be-.
Then. Editor, If you were me.
Alasl what would you do
To pay your debts and cease your frets.
And live respected too?
POOR FELLOW.
MEMPHIS, December %, 1874,
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Santa Anna.

Santa Anna is living in seclusion in
the City Of Mexico, going in public but
little in consequence Of his unpopular
ity with his conntrymen. His age has
not brought the average ofin6rmity. He
is ready to talk with foreign ministers
about the active parts Of his life. To a
recent visitor he said that when he led
the Mexican revolution in 1871 he did
not know what q republic was. Iturbide
had just been made emperor, and there
was a strong sentiment against the gov
ernment II was q young man Of
twenty-four, he said and had a volca-
mic head; | cared for nothing and feared
nothing. With three hundred men under
my command l had acquired considers-
BILE reputation along the Gulf in our war
with Spain and now my followers came
around me and asked me to declare o
republic in place of the monarchy
which lturbide had established. But
what is q repuhlic2" | asked. "Vive Ia
republioa," they shouted, Well, you
fools" ] thought, if you will have {
republic we will go in search Of one
And so | led them against Iturbide.n z
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The sanctity Of Clothes Lines Illus
trated

tFnte0.
When Sunset Cox witheringly wished
that Pig-iron Kelley, of Pennsylvania,
might never obtain better knowledge of
female habiliments than that to be de-
rived from shop windows and clothes
lines, he was severe, but supposed a
privilege which no man rightly has. 1T
is doubtful If any full grown male has.
in common with the legitimate indul-
gence in life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. the right to examine critically
clothes line. In the matter of clothes
lines all mankind is put upon its honor,
so to speak, and he who satisfies NOR
bid and sacrilegious curiosity by seeking
to fathom the tempest-tossed mysteries
of snowy linen is as certain OF retribu-
ton as Peeping Tom OF Coventry. The
bad luck Of burglar near Schuylkiil
Falls, Pennsylvania, few days ago,
affords an illustration Of the theory.
This burglar entered the premises of q
Mr.. William Stevenson and there col
lected together whatever he could collect
of any value, and then went out into the
yard. In the yard was display Of
linen hung out to dry, and before the
clothes line the thief hesitated. Upon
the line were wonderful things all frilled
and huted and rufled and cut bias and
cut goring, and all these sort of things.
The thief was fascinated and hesitated
and was lost, for while lingering in the
yard he was discovered from the house
he had just left by the owner, who pro.
cured rife and fred. The msrauder
leaped over the fence and managed to
escape, but there was blood upon the
snow where be travelled, and he failed to
carry his plunder. Thus came at once
the punishment for inspecting too closely
a clothes line. There is big moral for
young men in this incident
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Titled Heirs to AN Americas
Estate.
From the Maryland Journal.


Estate.
From the Maryland Journal.l
Mr.. John R. D. Bedford, conveyapcer,
is now engaged in making preliminary
examination Of large body of land
situated in Allegheny and Washington
counties. Maryland. and,Morgan county,
West Virginia, comprising about 10000
acres, preparatory to Its partition or sale.
It belongs to the representatives Of Mary
Ann, Marchioness Of Wellesley; Louisa
Catharine, Duchess of Leeds; Elizabeth
j., Baroness cf Stafford, England, and
Emily j. McTayish, Of Baltimore, child
rem Of Richard Cation, and granddaugh.
ters Of Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton
Portions Of the above real estate we're
obtained by the distributes in their own
rights, partly from their father, Richard
Cation, and partly from their grandfather,
Charles Carroll, Of Carrollton. Some OF
the distributes new reside in the city Of
Baltimore, one of whom is Francis Os-
borne McTavish; grandson Of Mr..
Robert Gilmer, Of Glen Ellen, Baltimore
county. One tract Of the above, situated
in Allegheny oouaty, named ''Canal and
Railroad, contains 10, no acres; another
in the same county. named Anthracite
Range" over 5000 acres; and various
other tracts in Allegheny and the Other
| counties over 1000 acres each. Some oil
| the tracts have very suggestive names
1 such as Fat Pig Addition "a, Fat
piou s1DsviI Takn IN ~ sTsLa An !
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

ScHEScK's PULMosIC SYRUP. SEA. WEED
Tonic, AND MANDRAKE PILLs.-These deserv-
edly celebrated and popular medicines have
effected a revolution in the healing art. and
proved the fallacy of several maxims which
have for many years obstructed the progress
OF medical science. The false supposition
that Consumption is incurable" deferred
physicians from attempting 70 ind remedies
reconciled themselves TO death without
making an effort to escape from a doom which
they supposed to be unavoidable. 1t is now
proved, however, that Consumption can be
cured, and that 1t has been cured in very
great number Of cases (some of them appa-
rently desperate oncs) by Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup alonei and in other cases by the same
medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, /,
according to the requirements Of the case.
DR.. Schenck himself. who enjoyed uninter-
rupted good health for more than forty years,
was supposed, at one time TO be at the very
gate Of death. his physicians having pro-
nouuced his case hopeless, and abandoned
him to his fate. He was cured by the afore.
said medicine, and, since his recovery, many
thousands similarly affected have used DR..
Schenck's preparations with the same remark
able success. rr
Full directions accompany each, making il
not absolutely necessary to personally see DR..
Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
amined. and for this purpose he is profession
ally at his principal office. corner Sixth and
Arch streets. Philadelphia, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be addressed.
Scbenok's medicines are sold by all druggists.
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Snhterranenr, Fishes.

From Harper's Magazine.l z Ai' @l4 :
In boring artesian wells in the Desert
of Sahara very small fishes, resembling
the whitehall, not unirequently occur,
which inhabt the waters of the subter.
ranean bed Of the desert. They are
identical with species from the waters
of Biskra. The male differ rom the
female in being transversely barred, so
that some authors have regarded it as a
distinct species. The eyes are well
formed, although these fishes live part
of the time in obscurity. 1t seems that
as far back as l849 the Governor of the
oases of Thebes and Gable, in Egypt,
stated that IA artesian well, about los
feet deep, which he had cleaned out,
furnished for his table fishes which
probably came from the Nile, as the
sand which he had brought up from this
artesian well was identical with that OF
this river. In the Sahara. as in Egypt,
these fishes were carried by the waters,
which filtered into the soil down to the
subterranean sheet into which the arte-
sian wells open. Geryais claims to have
established the fact that these subter-
ranean fishes are essentially huviatile,
and that some like them are found in
the rivers Of Senegal and Mozambique,
of Syria and Egypt. of the lberian pen
insula and even America. Their fossil
representatives are not found in the de-
posits of marine origin, and oil that
we know occur in lacustrne formations.
The existence of these fishes cannot,
then, serve as an argument for the
former presence of the waters of the
Mediterranean on the soil Of the north
of Africa.
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ike curious titles. Mr.. Bedford has been
engaged for the last two or three weeks
in his examination of the titles in Al
legheny and Washington counties, and
also Morgan county, West Virginia, and
will also be obliged to visit Annapolis to
examine old land patents and escheat
warrants, so as to determine the quantity
of land, location and the interest Of the
parties respectively entitled.
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ANOTHER
O p p 0 R TU N 1T Y

TO INVEST A FEW DOLLARS. WITH POS
sIBLE RETURNS OF THOUSANDS, is Of
FERED BY THE POSTPONEMENT OF
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KY. TO THR 9TH or
FEBRUARY NEXT. OF THEIR FIFTH AND
LAST CONCERT AND DRAWING. THE
MANAGEMENT ARE PLEDGED TO THE
RETURN FTHE MONEY If THE DRAW
ING SHOULD NOT COME OFF AT THE
DAY NOW APPOINTED.
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"A flinsx in ths Woo.I !,

Gypsies first appeared in England
near the end Of the fifteenth century,
roaming about in bands. and encamping
by roadsides and in lonely places. The
women told fortunesas they do now; and
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Whole Tickets, $50; Halves, s25; Tenth, or
each Coupon. IS; Eleven Whole Tickets. $500.
For Tickets. or information, address
THOB. II. BkAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager, Public Library Building
Louisyille Ky. dkw-9S- -l2i 4
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STOCKS.
MILLIONS ARE MADE

LIVERY WEEK IN WALL. STREET, WE
II issue weekly paper and pamphlet show
ing the various methods of operating in Stocks
and Gold. Sample copy. free. Double privi-
legeS negotiated on members Of the Stock Ex-
change: Stocks bought on small margin.
ers and Brokers. 70 Broadway. New York.
9l-116
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Gro. p. Rowrnn & Co.

conduct an Agency for the reception Of adyer-
tisements for American Newspapers --the most
complete establishment of the kind in the
world. Six thousand Newspapers are kept
regularly on file. open to inspection by QUITO
mers. Every Advertisements 6 is taken at
the home price Of the paper, without any ad-
ditional charge or commission. An adver-
tiser, in dealing with the Agency, Is saved
trouble and correspondence. making one con-
tract instead Of q dozen. hundred or thou
sand. A hook Of eighty pages, containing
lists Of best papers, largest circulations, reli-
gious. agricultural. class, political, daily and
country papers, and all publications which
are specially valuable to advertisers, with
some information about prices, is sent FREE
to any address on application. Persons at q
distance wishing TO make contracts for adver-
tising in any town, city, county. State or Ter
ritory OF the United States. or any portion Of
the Dominion Of Canada, may send q concise
statement Of what they want, together with a
copy Of the Advertisement they desire in
serted. and will receive information By return
mail which will enable them to decide whether
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~ Iafsnai OF the Eepnblte.
From the Cincinnati staf.l ~
Among the Americans who attended a
ball given at the Hotel de Vile, Paris
when John Y, Mason was our Minister
there, was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky
Jack rushed the dress somewhat strong.
and sported epauiettes on his shoulders
large enough to start four Msjor.G .Gener.
ais in business. Jack was the observed
Of all observers. and got mixed up with
party that his friends could not &C
count for. Wherever the marshals OF
France went, there went Jack-and
when the marshals sat down, Jack did
the same. always taking the post of
honor The day after the ball, Jack
called on our Minister to France, who
started up Q conversation in the follow
ing way
Il hear, Jack, you were at the ball last
evening"
II was, sir, and had high old time.
For which you we're indebted, | sup
pose, TO the high old company you got
mixed up with. By the way, how came
you associated with the Marshals?"
Howl By virtue Of my office. They
were Marshsls Of France, while am
nothing else than Marshal Of the Re.
public. l showed my position, and took
poet accordingly"
by right Of your oficel What dc
you mean2"
Read and see"
Here Jack presented Mr.. Mason with
Whitley brown paper, with a seal big
enough for four pound weight.
"What in the name of heaven is this2''
my commission Of Marshal,
received in 1850, when / assisted in
taking the census in Frankfort"
"You don't mean to sayyo travel on
this?"'
~ don't anything else. That
makes Inc Marshal of the Republic,
and / intend to have the Office duly
honored."
Mr.. Mason allowed that Jack was
deing a very large business on very
small capital.
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ELECTION.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
On THURSDAY, January Z, rs,

On THURSDAY, January Z, rs,
TT BEING THE FIRST THURSDAY In
i January. Twill open and hold an election
Councilmen and one School Visitor in each
ward, and one Alderman in each Of the Sec
end. Third. Sixth. Seventh and Tenth wards.
The following Judges, Clerks and Deputy
Sheriffs have been appointed:
First ward Northwest corner Main and
Winchester streets. N fi
Judges Andrew Renkert, James Powers,
| Pefer Mitchell.
GlorEs-John J Duffy. F B Millard.
Deputy Sheriff.
Second Ward-0ld engine-house, Poplar
street.
Judges-John Donovan. S Francioli. John
0lerks--R R B Hutchinson, W H Goodlett.
Deputy Sheriff
Third Ward Second street. opp. Court
| Square.
James Elder.
Clerks-F 7 Prewitt. Frank Blessing.
| Deputy Sheriff
Fourth ward--Under Greenlaw Opera
House.
| yudges-Riehard. 0'Brien, Chas Meyers, W
CierEs-R Meister. II D Sullivan.
Deputy Sheriff
| FIFTH Ward No. IS fernando street.
Judges-A NJ Stoddard, P McNulty, L W
| Marshall.
Slerks-T F Meath. N D Smith.
| Deputy Sheriff
Sixth Ward-51S Main street. corner OF
Vance.
.Judses-W L Marsh. Jos Mulcahy. W I
| Kenneday.
Glerks-Dr J Quimby, B 7 Plummor.
Deputy Sheriff.
seventh ward-North side Beal. oppo-
/ site Orleans street.
Judges-J J Busby, Jos Chambers. Brutus
Alexander.
Gleiks-H @ Harrington. A McLendon.
Deputy Sheriff. fea
Eighth ward--l7s Poplar street, oppo.
site Market house,
Judges-S M JObe, VIM Harrington. II
Finnie. 5l4~ ~, ~.
Clerks-P D Boyle. J G McDavit.
| Deputy Sheriff f0l % fIt.al =
Ninth Ward Corner Fifth and Greenlaw
streets. n T.
Judges--John Larkin, W F Gilman. Robert
| Butcher. Hr NH r N
Clerks Chris Riley, W B Gibson.
Deputy Sheriff
Tenth WMrd-Mtin street, near Carolina.
Judges-AW Taylor, M Fitzgerald, Chas
Glerks-ggohn Patterson. Thomas Curley.
C.L. ANDERSON. aat (
l02-lll Sheriff Of Shelby County.
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Insures at Board rates. Private dwellings
especially desired; pslicies issued for three
years for two annual premiums. At
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A MARSHAL Of the Repnbiie.

MEMPHIS. December 20. 1874.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
A Great Farmer.

DR.. Fl. J. Glenn, of Jacinto, Colusa
county, CAL, has raised and harvested
this year, on his own ranch, 600, 900
bushels of wheat. This is equal to
$4,000 tons, and will load eighteen l 600
ton ships, and ali Of this he has In his
own warehouses ready for shipment
when the water of the Sacramento river
rises sufficiently. The doctors freights,
to put his wheat in San Francisco, will
amount to 100000. In the blowing
season he runs ninety gang-plows, and
in harvest any number of headers. He
threshes his wheat by steam power,
using some half dozen steam threshers.
He has about 200 miles of good board
fence on his farm. But his farming
operations are not confined to wheat
growing alone. BE markets about
800, 600 worth of stock each year. DIR.
Glenn is q practical farmer, and man
eyes all his business himself. He can
mend trace just as well as he can get
the highest price for his grain. -Sdnta
Cruz (Cdl.) Sentinel.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14

The news that the great American
dead head has driven to despair all the
managers of all the railroads, and COM
PEELED them to recognize him as bellig-
erent, is rendered less al .rming by the
further information that one great line
has struck blow at the sleeping-car
monopoly and reduced its rates from
81 for each berth to $1.50. Sleeping
and palace cars are always running and
earning money, their life is longer than
that of other rolling stock, and they are
always filled to their utmost capacity,
so that there is no earthly reason why
their occupants should be charged at
the rate of 81 night, plus fifty cents
or 81 to the orter. Great as is their
convenience for the business traveller
who desires fully to economic his time,
their expense is by no means light on
his pocket, and if so desirable a reform
as reduction can be brought about and
made general, the travelling public, East
and West, will be deeply indebted to
the Illinois Central Company.-Ne'c
York World.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14

toys and sweets, and the evening was
far advanced when the procession was
reformed to go into the adjoining room
where supper was laid.
The room was clear of all the little
ones when Miss Russell, with a doll and
horn of candy in her hands, went once
more to Dots corner.
"Still sleeping" she thought. "I
should have thought the music and light
would have wakened her."
She bent lower, touched the little
hood, and then knelt suddenly, drop
ping her toy and candies, her face pale
as ashes, and the tears streaming from
her eyes.
For cold aad starvation had done
their sad work, and full of the strange,
new happiness surrounding her, little
Dot had found her Christmas in the
world where sorrow comes no more.
The little figure was still in death, the
little face set in marble stiffness and
carried upward upon the wings of
Christmas love, the JOY of Christmas
song, the glory of Christmas light, little
Dots soul had risen to the feet of the
pitying Savior, who loves little children.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
Sit and Set, Lay and Lie.

The two words "sit" and "set are
too often mistaken for each other.
When grammar-class is asked, for the
first time, if it is right to say 'hens
set," the "court SETS" one half of
them, perhaps, will vote one way aud
the other half the other. The Court
means the Judge or Judges ;
the Judge sits, Court sits, the
jury sits, hens sit, birds. sit.
"Setting hen . is wrong hens are not
"setters" or pointers. Set requires
an objective case; we set chair, but
we sit in it. There is similar Difficult.
ty in the use of "lie" and clay" In
families whose hens Z" set +" everything
lays" and all clay abed. The
quoted words are wrong. Lay meani
to place, and requires an objective, Al
"the hen lays eggs;" "Now / lay me.
We should say the book lies on the ia
BILE he lies abed lies low everybod,
lies, If you please, but nobody lays pn
less he hes something to lay.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
A Clear Case of Necessity.

They had little affair of pistols at
Jefferson, Nevada. a week ago SuEday
night, and buried a man named Nc
Donald next day. Mcdonald and
man known as Texas were engaged in
the improving Nevada pastime of
poker, and Texas won the pot fairly
and squarely. Mcdonald didn't like
the idea of losing the money, and
slipped two cards into the pack, claim
ing foul" Texas would not allow
the foul, and Mcdonald proceeded to
choke him. Texas said he was not pre-
pared to fight, and Mcdonald told
him to go and heel him.
self" Texas went off and "heeled
himself with navy revolver,
and came back. Mcdonald fired
two shots then before Texas got ready,
but missed, and then firing became
lively, and those not directly interested
got behind the bar or ont in the street.
Finally Mcdonald got bullet in the
head and fell, and Texas stepped up to
him and shot him twice again. When
they finally picked Mcdonald up, Texas
examined the dead man critically ard
said "Boys, hated to do this, but /
had to - SO it is they still enjoy them
selves, and while the winter evenings
away with playful pastimes and feats of
skill and cheerful griefs.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
Origin of Western GrasshOppers.

i have been much interested in the
papers of MIR. Dodge and others, on
this subject. The origin of these pests
is still obscure, and happily it is likely
to remain so, as it is doubtful whether
We shall be visited by them again for a
number of years.
In conversing with a resident of Mon
tana, recently. he said that several
years ago he excavated the side of a
mountain for stamp mill, which was
placed ON the solid ground, the loose
earth lying in front OF it. The ensuing
spring, the bank of loose earth had a
strange appearance. On examination
it was found filed with grasshopper's
eggs, then being Matched out, of course,
they left when fully fedged, and moth
ing more was seen of them in that
locality.
AS no sign of grasshoppers could be
previously seen, whence could these
eggs have come? 1 only tell the story
as It was told to me. If true, it is, as
Dundreary says, one of those mysteries
that no fellow can find out.-"T OF
IO,Od," an Prairie Farmer.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-01-14
India.

The armies of the native chiefs of
India, together, number $4,000. The
artillery numbers $500 large guns.
Hyderbad heads the list with Sc, 800
infantry, 5000 cavalry, and 725 guns.
Bundelcund comes next with %, 163
infantry, 2,677 cavalry, and 421 guns.
Cashmere has 18, 1876 infantry, 1893
cavalry, and 81 guns. Gwalior has &c.
$50 infantry, 5000 cavalry, and 210
guns Kattywar, Is. 800 infantry, 1000
cavalry, and sos guns Oodeypore, H.
600 infantry and 6.240 cavalry. None
of the rest exceed II, 600. Surat has 1S
guns and no infantry. Cochin has 3
guns Travancore and go cavalry.
Several of the States have no cavalry,
but two or three guns. The moral to
be drawn from this formidable-look
array is, says the Times of India, that
it might one day be turned against old
England, and, as there are just six
times as many native soldiers under the
orders of native chiefs as there are
British soldiers in India, the conse-
ouences might be unpleasant.