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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-12-02

A LITTLE girl in Mt. Vernon street cut
Ter finger a few days since, and the fond
mother ordered John 10 run quickly to
Charles street and bring a doctor. "If
one amt ill.," were the orders, "leave
word and go to the next" John obeyed
orders, and twenty-one doctors called in
the course of an hour.-B0st0n Journal.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
THE BROKEN DOLL.
BY E. T. C.

Blue eyes, with their long dark lashes
Half yelled in fearful mist.
And q, such pitiful qulver
On the sweet little mouth kissed;
Twas only a childish sorrow,
And yet how keen was the smart,
AS she held up her precious dolly,
Broken-the pride of her heart.
In my arms / folded her closely
AS whispered with confident smile,
"Don't cry, dear, I'll soon have it mended;"
But her tears fell faster the while,
And she sObbed, 80, thank you, dear auntie,
But that wont do, for you see
II you mended IL ever nicely
IL would always be patched up to meF
She had spoken, that sorrowful baby,
A deeper truth than she knew,
And thought with her head on my shoulder
Of lis meanings as sad as true;
thought of the shattered treasures
We prize in msturer years,
OF the hopes, the loves, and the friendships
We mourn with such bitter tears.
thought how we gathered the fragments
With labor as fond Z was vain,
Just TO find that the marks of the mending
Could change all our pleasures to pain;
Just 10 learn that the patched mp treasure
Could never be precious again;
And L sighed as / thought of the heartaches
Our broken dolls'left in their trainI
All me! what a dismal story
Our lives would tell at the best,
II content with our fair, fratl playthings,
We made them our stay or our rest;
If we looked not above for our treasures,
Unshadowed by time or decay:
And this is the lesson our Father
Is teaching US day by day!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
CLEOPATRA's REPLY,
BY ]. A. H.
From the Spectator

From the SPECTATOR
: have a thousand slaves, tits true.
Who somehow do their duty,
And all the service left for YOU
Is, TO report my beauty.
But It's service which, to me
Heaps vanity on vanity.
MY other slaves may say I'm stern,
While you reflect me smiling;
Could you but look beneath and learn
w nat mean those looks beguiIing-
They only mean assembling care.
And struggling vainly with despair.
Mine eyes are dry, my heart is dust.
All memories turned 10 sadness:
And yet know that smile must
Poor substitute for gladnessI
80, tnat my smiles no harm may do,
III give my latest smile to you.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
THE RUINED COTTAGE.
tsEw HAMPSHIRE HILLsD
BY A. F.
rrrom Harper's for juno. J


from Harper's for June-l
AtnightfaIl, coming throgh the wood
We reached a hiIlIOp's gloomy brow,
Where one unpaint d cottage stood,
Neglected., dark and low.
No lamp ann 1uncad a living soul
The chfmney's blue, reluctant thread
Alone BETRAYED y burning coal
OIL where all seemed dead.
Until, observing cnriOusly,
And gazing back as on we went.
One little pale face we could see
Close to the window bent.
When late we reached the village street,
Cheerful and twinkling here and there
The house-dog ran 10 lick our rect
Sweet was the household air!
Yet in my mind saw all night
That chlId's face watching by the pane,
And passed once more that weary way
And fingered there again.
at dawn rose, and walking forth,
Met one who tOiled upon the road,
Morning or evening nothing loath
With talk to ease times load
He knew the young man once, he SAID,
Who brought his wife home to that farm
Now all his decency il dead,
And devils round him swarm.
For he would drink when morning came
And drink before the noon was past,
And afternoons were all the same,
long as his means would last.
Master of numerous herds was he;
All gone. his endless thirst TO feed.
His Wife-ah! weary days had she,
And bitter grew her need.
Now she will have no trouble more;
Her griefs have ali been laid u sleep;
But devils round his chamber floor
Their endless dances keep.
He hardly lifts his heavy head:
He lies in wretcheduesS all day;
And when the night comes, 1t Is said,
Begins the devils play.
-sWere there no childrt ~" inquired,
And shuddered as / spoke the words
While two young maldens, nealth-lnspifeo
Went singing by like birds.
All, YES! Alasi one little girl.
1 wonder where the child IS now?
He drowned in such a dreadful Whtrl,
Can not much further CO.
The morning sun-wss brave and gay.
And birds were filling earth with song,
While still my heart repaSsed that way,
That rocky hill Of wrong.
Still sits the child beside the pane,
And gazes on the clOuded sky
Her solitude il mine again,
And mine her agony.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
NEBRASKA.
LINCOLN,

After carefully looking into the matter, !
do not spprehend there will be any great
damage done by the locusts this season. but
to deny that they have made their appear
aDce in any locality is simply to deny a
demonstrated fact. Early in the season, sew
ersl cases were reported in the western
counties of the finding of thousands of eggs.
The cold weather following that time, how
ever, has had salutary effect, and millions
of eggs ave undoubtedly been destroyed by
this agency. In those parts OF the state
where the pests were last seen last season,
there are reports Of the temperance OF
thousands OF small hoppers, ready for their
summer work, and in q few places they have
attacked the tender sprouts of the small
grain. In Nemaba and Richardson coun-
ties this is the more noticeable; while on
the Republican, and in one or two western
counties the same state OF affairs exists. A
correspondent of the State Journal, gem
tleman who has visited all portions of the
state lately, thus writes to that paper in re-
gard to the matter: GAS we have already
admitted, it is undeniable that the locusts
may do more or less damage to the small
grain. But as yet the little pests are con-
fined to a small portion of the state, prin-
cipally along the Missouri river, with pos
sibly a few on the Republican, and rarely
elsewhere. Indeed, friends from Franklin
and Harlan counties, on the Republican,
where the season is about as far advanced
as anywhere in the state. report few or no
locusis in that region. few are reported
at Paramount and Sutton, but elsewhere
along the great divide between the Platte
and the Republican, none appear. There
are few, if any, along the Platte. Thus far,
at least, the developments are not alarming
generally, and the probabilities are that
most localities will escape altogether, and
that all may avoid serious damage, by q
little effort and combined forethought, es
pecially if exerted at the right time"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
CLEOPATRA's MIRROR.
From the Snectatnrl

From the Spectator.l
1o~ have a thousand slaves who-do
Unwillingly their duty:
ana one service have for you
10 image back your beauty;
but That one service is so sweet.
would in 1t my life might fleet.
Your other slaves say you are stern;
always see you smiling,
ASfrom me some new grace Won learn
Your lovers for beguiIin1
Ihoss slaves, did they but win asI
-FOUR smiles, would dare thrice DER To die.
On, would you that all lands should pass
Beneath your firm subjectionI
linen deem the world your looking-glass.
And made for your reflection.
Did you but smile on men as me
The whole world should in bondage be,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL THURSDAY. MAY 27 1871

that he was going in search of fresh fields
and pastures new; but DO left his trunk TO
be forwarded by friend. The lady found
out when the trunk would leave, and made
up her mind to keep it company, and the
stsgs that carried it likewise carried her.
Alta Californian.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27

Eugene expects to spsnd the balar es of
her life at Chiselhurst. She likes it because
1t is convenient to the spot where the sre-
mains of the late emperor are resting. "He
was a good husband to me-" she remarked
the other day, as she stood before parterre
of flowers with a sun-bonnet on her head
no fault to find with Louis, but you never
saw such man as he was for bursting off
shirt-buttons. Brooklyn Argus.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27

Captain Eads has examined the jetty
ground at the mouth of the Mississippi, and
thinks in twelve months he viii have
twenty feet OF water there.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
FROM MISSOURI.
WARRENsRuRa

The last of the grasshoppers were Matched
out here on the 10th. Those Matched two or
three weeks since have eaten nearly all the
wheat and oats in the county, and have
destroyed all the corn in the same localities.
The grass is nearly all gone. Potatoes, on
ions and garden sass" of all kinds, are dis
appearing very fast. Everything looks
gloomy.
PLEASANT HILL.
Grasshoppers are now Matching out on the
north hill sides. Hitherto they have not
damaged trees, but are getting into all kinds
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27

gradually stripping them. They are much
thicker in this county, Cass, and are DANA
ging it more than the surrounding counties.
The heavy rain of Saturday night did not
diminish them perceptibly. Prof. Reilly
says the grasshoppers Matched out this year
will not reproduce, and there will be very
few in 1876.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-27
THE GORMANDIZERS.
EATING THEMSELVES TO DEATH.
TIE GREEDY GRAssHoPPERs.

THE GREEDY GRASSHOPPERS.
THEY GO FOR GARDENS AND STRIP THEM OF
THE SUCCULENT SASS-THEN DESCEND
LIKE THE WOLF ON THE FOLD INTO THE
GREEN FIELDS OF GROWING GRAIN AND
PARTAKE OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT-THEY
WOULD FAM FEAST ON THE FRAGRANT
ONION PEEL AND WEEP OVER THE DEAD.
The Chicago Times has the following
specials from various points in the south
west:
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
Making Glass Elastic.
A Wonderfa Lurention that is Kept a
Profound Sec.t.


AT a meeting Of the New York Acad-
emy,of Science last night, Prof Thom-
as Eggleston of the School of Mines
gave brief account of his experiments
with NJ. La Bastie's new elastic glass
The process which removes the brittle
ness of ordinary glass consists in i'm
mersing it at red heat into bath of
fatty substances, which the inventor
keeps secret, and in slowly cooling the
glass therein. The lecturer threw three
pieces ofprepared colored glass on the
floor, as we'll as some watch crystals,
neither of which broke, although thrown
vigorously ten or twelve feet Various
glass plates similarly projected remain
ed entire; but the Professor showed the
only way of breaking them, by spinning
one fourteen feet high i'm the air. and al
lowing it TO impinge horizontally and
with its whole surface. when il shivered
into thousands ofpieces. In the exper-
iments recited by the lecturer it requir-
ed thirty-six shocks of pointed steel
cylinder falling from ten to twelve feet
high on the same point of a prepared
glass two ounce ball to break it. On
prepared glass placed Mt angles in hot
houses the falling cylinders had no
effect.
In resistance to direct pressure the
prepared glass far surpasses the best or
binary, strips of the latter on knife edg-
es bearing at the utmost 81 weight of %
pounds, while narrower strips fthe new
did not break under sixty pounds weight,
but often required much higher pressure.
With ordinary supports half inch tenn
pered glass three inches long broke on
ly ut 2l0 pounds. The resistance the
new material to fire is remarkable. a
plate on which n heat of 5000 degrees
was brought to bear only began to bulge
after 81 minutes OF such intense heat.
while ordinary glass broke within five
seconds. Its applicability to optical
purposes has rs yet not been fully test
ed, but although extremely elastic, La
Bastie's glass is so hard that it resists
the diamond.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
TRTUMPH.4NT SUCCESS!
Grand Finale Of the Texas
Bonanza.
The Whcelsc Of Fortsse RoliAsy Ten Hours
AID Ten Minutes.
No. $50. SCI Wins tho
Capital Gift.
The Great Drawing Gives En-
tire Satisfaction.
The Terds Gin Concert Association more
Popular than Erer.
MONSTER CONCERT!
OVER 10000 PEOPLE PRESENT!

The long.looked.for day is past, and
the Gigantic Scheme of the Texas Gift
Concert Association has had
GRAND AND SATISFACTORY FINALE.
Early on the morning Of May 3lst,
the streets OF our city were thronged
with men. women and children. vending
their way to Forest Park. which has so
recently been improved and benefited
by the above association, to witness the
opening and impressive ceremonies Incl
dent TO the distribution of their Grand
List of Gifts. At o'clock precisely,
the Commissioners and Judges were
sworn in by U. 5. Commissioner, Chas.
4. Maurice, and Hon. j. w. Jennings
then made the opening address. lie
spoke feelingly on the liberality and en-
terprise of the managers of the associa-
ton in complying SO faithfully with
their promises. The beautiful and sub
stancial improvements were then turned
over to the city.
AS the speaker retired amidst inn
mense applause, the committee which
had been chosen by the ticket holders.
composed of the most distinguished and
prominent men of Texas, took charge of
the distribution. The tickets and pri-
yes had been previously examined and.
placed in the wheel by the committee,
and everything was declared satisfacto.
~. If ever any misgiving had been en-
tertained by any one then present, con-!
corning the good faith and fairness of
the management, it was entirely and
permanently dispelled and perfect trust
and confidence was depicted in the coun.
tenances of ALL Nothing could have
been done more fairly and honestly than
the distribution was conducted.
AS the distribution proceeded, the
widest enthusiasm prevailei-cheer az
ter cheer was given as the large: prizes
were drawn.
The management may we'll feel proud
of the satisfactory manner in which they
have conducted this Grand Scheme
Their position 20 the public has been
peculiar and by nc means enviable.-
They have labored earnestly and hon.
estly for its success. and faithfully have
they discharge every obligation to the
public.
We understand the
SECOND GRAND CONCERT
is already on the way, the object of
which will be to erect a Grand Masonic
and /. O. Q. +. Temple. Now their sue.
cess is certain, and tickets must sell
rapidly. 81
A list OF TIE tickets drawing prizes
will be sent to every ticket holder as
soon rs published.
No. 325,4S2 draws the second prize.
No. 167. 597 " - third :.
The success and good faith manifest
ed by this association in this their first
augers well for their future
eforts.-Dennison Daily CyesSet.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18

y REAUNGSCENCE OF THE EARLY DAYS
or TIE WAR-NORFoLK. June H.
Captain Brown. Of the schooner j. c.,
arrived here to-day i'm charge of the iron
safe of the United States man.of-war
Cumberland, which was run into and
sunk in Hampton Roads by the Confed.
crate ram Virginia in 1862. Divers had
been at work ON the wreck ten years.
having in view the recovery of this safe.
The lRcly man had only been at the
wreck forty-cight hours when he found
the safe buried in or 4 feet Of mud
The water ut this place is seyenty-cight
feet deep. BY the explosion Of q torPe.
do the safe was cracked and il was hois-
ted on deck. \ few pieces Of gold coin
dropped ont.
1t is generally believed that the safe
contains between 100000 and 100000
in gold
Lofn--Tt is estimated that more than
500, 900 has been lost by different par
ties in trying 90 recover dis treasure.
The safe and treasure belonging to Cap.
tain Brown and O. +. Maltby. oc this
city. and Herbert Smith. of Detroit.
Michigan.
While Captain Brown was searching
the wreck he came across n petrGcl hu-
man body i'm q perfect state. Il was
uuhurt by crabs or fish, md tic flesh
was extremely hard.
a Mhc>HcHNr CGor or WHEAr-A
gentleman who returned from King
George on Saturday informs us that he
saw o four hundred acre field of wheat
ON The Gaming estate, lthe property
Of the late VIM. Taylor SMITH whicl
F. promises q yield of twenty bushels pei
acre -Erciyicis'nrg Her0H.
- James IT. Grant. of Warren coun
. ty, Virginia. having mode prospecting
tour OF three months through Caliror
mia, Utah. Wyoming. Kansas. &C.. ha,
returned home. saying that Inc would moi
I give onc good farm iu our beautiful Val
/ ley for all the land west Of the Missouri
river if he was compelled to live upon it
/ Winchester Times.
/ "a The bounty system has set On,
/ people Of Minnesota 50 vigorously 81
work destroying grasshoppers that a
MankatO $50 bushels were captured anC
burned in one day.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
Capture and Escape.

In August, 1872, two prisoners, nam-
ed foust and Jenkins, escaped from the
Penitentiary. Information subsequent
ly reached Mr.. Withers, then sheriff OF
Gilmer county, that the parties were
lurking in that neighborhood, and fol.
lowing up the information he had re-
ceived, he captured Youst. who was re-
turned to the Penitentiary. jenkins
kept clear. But about two weeks ago,
III. l.. Brannon, United States Deputy
Marshal, ascertained his whereabouts
and obtained assistance, arrested him
and lodged him in the Jail of Gilmer
county. Word was Immediately sent
TO Captain Bridges, superintendent of
the Penitentiary, and that gentleman
reached Chenille on Sunday night, the
23rd. Upon examining the cell in which
jenkins was confined, Captain Bridges
saw that there was no possible chance
of his escape, and returned TO Ruddelrs
Hotel until morning. Judge OF his sur
prise, however, when daylight arrived,
to learn that the prisoner had escap-
ed. Upon examination IL was discov-
cred that the lock and key Of the cell
Gt was n drop lock- were both gone
showing beyond n doubt that jenkins
had been let out. The cell or cage is
said TO he the strongest in the State
and the key was hanging up in the bed
room OF the Sheriff. Captain Bridges
was justly indignant and while he at
taches no blame TO Sheriff Hays. yet he
is confident that some person familiar
with the Court House and its surround.
ings opened The doors and let The pris.
oncr FREE. Is will be seen BY our al.
vertisihe columns. reward OF $50 Is
offered for the re-capture OF Jenkins
WeSiOn Democrat.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18

MRs. LINCOLN's CoNDITIoN.-Mrs.
Mary Lincoln, widow of President Lin
coin, who was recently adjudged insane
in Chicago, is receiving treatment under
the care of DIR. Patterson, ut his resi-
dence, Bellevue place, situated at Bata-
via, one of the most beautiful villages
in northern Illinois, about 81 miles from
Chicago. Mrs. Lincoln with her atten-
dant. a young lady formerly school
teacher, selected for this position on ac-
count of her kindness and intelligence
occupies two very pleasant rooms in the
part of the house reserved for the pri-
vate residence of the doctor and his
family. and has no reason to be aware
that any other patients are in the house.
She takes her meals in her rooms or at
the doctors private table rs she chooses,
drives and walks ont when and where
she plcases, but when out is always ac-
companied by either Mrs. or Miss Pat
terson or her special attendant, for all
of whom she expresses q great liking
Such has been the influence of the quiet
and pleasant surroundings that nothing
whatever has occurred to render neces-
sary anything more than prudent super
vision and this isgiven by pleasant com
partnership, without any appearance ofre-
straint. At present her arrangement ex-
hibits itself mainly in general mentlc
feebleness and incapacity, and it is not
yet possible to give an opinion rs to her
restoration.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
Attempted outreqe IN Anne Arundel.

ANNAPOLIS, June 14.-While the COR
oners jury was hearing testimony at the
county jail to-day as to the lynching of
the negro Simms for an outrage on Miss
jackson, officer Jubb arrived at the pri-
son with William Thomas, colored.
charged with attempting an outrage up
on Miss Henrietta Stinchcomb, white
lady, living in the third district OF this
county. 1t is stated that yesterday a.
bout shutdown Miss Stinchcomb was
passing through piece of woods on her
way home from visiting neighbor,
when Thomas grasped her, but she es-
capped and was pursued by him. Thomas
once made similar attempt upon lit
tie white girl about fourteen years old,
but was not arrested for it, The priso-
ner is about twenty-five years old. This
attempt happening SO soon after the O.
denton outrage and the subsequent lynch
ing of Simms, has created profound
sensation here. Sheriff Carr fears an
other demonstration by lynchers. and
States Attorneys Revell has ordered
him to use the whole body of the coun-
ty as posse to prevent another exhi-
bition of lynch law.-Bdltimo,e San.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18

Thus far bat few people in this Sec
ton have been heard to express any re-
greet for the course taken; on the con-
trary, there are expressions denoting a
general feeling OF satisfaction. as the
county'will be saved the expense of n
trial and the preparations for and carry
ing into effect an execution under the
Correspondents Washington Star.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
ASSASSINATION Of a Notorious Desperate

CINCINNATI, June 14.-Tom Niece
han, notorious desperate, made fa-
nous by the tragic end of his counsel,
Hon. {. l.. Nallandigham, who lost his
life in explaining some points in the
trial of Mcclellan for the murder of n
man named Myers, was assassinated i'm
his saloon at Hamilton, last night. Al
though shot with several bullets in the
right temple and side of the face, Niece
han had strength enough to get his re-
volver TO defend himself, but fell dead
on reaching the end of the COUNTER
There is no clue to the murderer.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
FRESH SUPPLY.

A FRESH arrival of choice Calicoes and ca
~ tunades, just received from the East arl
fer sale, by
GILKESoN. PUGH & VANCE
Romney, June is, 1875.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
FISH FIsHll FIsnlll

4 SUPPLY of good HERRING just recdv3
"A and for sale. Those who desire 90 e.,
SUPPLY, will call ~ once
GILKESON, PUGH & VANCE.
Romney, June lie, 1875.