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Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23

V elk e hroma azden liberalG a
denokratd odbyvati se bude dnes, dne
23. zafi, ma Public Squarn. Jest 2adouc
no, abychom posledni shromazden. repu-
blikand, .iez hylo nepopirateln4 skv6l6.
zastinili. Vzhiru ma Public Square!
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23

Operni skola. Schdze pan1 a
dam, ktefiz mini nGastniti Sc
operni skoly p. Alexina, iiz tento zaloziti
hodla, necht dostavi Sc zytra 3. hodind
odpoledni do sine Peruna.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23

M imotadni / valna schIze sp. ces
tiskdrny bude Sc odbyyat-ve 6tvrtek dne
2s. zah 1916 sini Peruna. Nechf Sc
kazdy akcionaf dostavi.
h. +. Erhard,
zapisnik.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23

Rad .SVORNOST7 uspoiala pom.
deli. IL. fiina velkolepy plesv sini V
Rychlika.
Pokrok. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-1878, 1876-09-23
Mistni zpravy.

- Mydlarna Duncanova vyrabi
vyborna mydla lueebni toiletni pro po-
tfebu krasotinek. C
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13

and child in the moment of their direst
peril. Being strong swimmer he kept
himself afioat in the vicinity of the
wreck, and just as he had secured for
himself door, some white object drop
ped into the water within four feet of
him: He Immediately grasped it with
a wild hope, that was gratified at once.
1t was his own darling baby, who had
been thrown overheard, to save her from
the fire, by Edwin NJ. Stafford, member
OF the Tenth Indiana cavalry. This
Stafford was saved by our boat, and was
my guest on the Essex for three days
after the accident; and from his descrip-
tlon of the little girl had recognized
them 80 readily Mt the steamboat land
ing. Mr.. Ennis kept himself aaoat by
means of the door until he reached a
point somo ten miles below Memphis,
where he was rescued by an old colored
man, who lived on an island near by,
who took them to his cabin and nursed
them through five days of Gelirious in
sensibility. Upon regaining his mind,
Mr.. Ennis hailed the first boat bound up
stream, and was taken on board and
brought to Memphis, where he landed
with the faint hope of finding out some
thing in regard to his wife. Ten min
utes' walk brought us to the Overton !;
the meeting that followed I shall not
attempt to portray. Tho entire family
were reunited. Mr.. Ennis had saved
his money, and ten days afterward they
took passage on q steamer for Cairo.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Fashion Notes.

Silks will be higher priced in the fall.
Striped stockings are no longer fash
ionable.
Dress skirts are becoming longer and
tighter,
Lace and ribbons arc the faverite
trimmings just now.
Polonaises are intended to supersede
bas ques in the fall.
Turkish toweling is used for the most
stylish bathing suits.
The new sleeves are coat shaped, very
tight, and have quaint, narrow cuffs.
Grass linen and crinoline are used for
the long slender bustles now in fashion.
White dresses and delicately sprigged
muslins are much in vogue at Saratoga.
Low Newport ties are worn in prefer
ence to- button boots in this warm
weather.
Dark blue and cardinal red is the
fashionable combination in color at the
moment in Paris. ..t
Cardinal colored parasols of foulard,
trimmed with cream colored fringe,
grow in favor in Paris.
Dark red silks are brought out for
petticoats, to be worn under long polo
naises of dark and quiet colors.
Blue black or ink color, seal brown
and myrtle green are the colors most
frequently seen in the new silks.
English tourists, both gentlemen and
ladies, wear white scarfs around the
crowns Of their straw and Leghorn hats.
Old fashioned looking gauges that
suggest the idea of their being fshed up
out of ones grandmother's trunks arc
all the fashion for tunics.
Crinoline muslin bustles, made with
four crinoline founces on q crinoline
foundation, are worn by ladies who can
not look well " with "only one petit
coat"
The favorite fan of the Parisian this
season is navy blue silk, mounted on
tortoise shell sticks, and ornamented
with paintings of Indian and other bril-
liant plumaged birds.
Cherries, currants, and other small
fruits are used, not only for bonnet and
hat trimmings, but are scattered in
punches and sprays among the draperies
of white muslin and tulle evening dresses.
Every girl has four sets of ribbon
bows and sashes to wear with her white
and sprigged muslin dresses this sum-
mer-one set of cardinal, one of blue,
one of black, and one Of straw color or
maize. 49, s
The new polonaises are PRINCESS
dresses looped SO as to show only
sm.M part of the jupon or petticoat ON
each side. The only ornaments which
relieve the plainness are one long pocket
on the side and q very large bow in the
back, both placed very low down.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Hotel Keepers Trials.

The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune says: The old saying,
" he can't keep hotel" has more real
significance than most persons imagine.
Tba trials of hotel keepers at seaside
hotels this season are unusually great,
owing to the hard times and the necessity
of strict economy. One of the promi-
nent Saratoga hotels has changed stew
ards three times already, and good,
first-class persons in this capacity are in
demand. Lately one of the Long
Branch stewards took one drink toe
many, and all day Sunday (while it was
raining in torrents, and everybody was
cooped up in the house) kept the wait
ers, kitchen help and proprietor In an
uproar. The man became abusive, the
cooks refused to work, the walters were
panicky, and when he drew q pistol and
threatened to shoot tse proprietor, the
engineer and porter had to interfere and
disarm him.
Another hotel keeper, presiding over
q magnificent hotel on the sound, found
himself tho other morning minus cooks,
chambermaids and walters. The help
had been on spree the night before,
and it being pleasant, engaged the owner
of q sloop to take them across the sound.
Getting over was easy enough. When
they undertook to return the wind had
lulled into q dead calm, and they were
powerless to move. It was eight o'clock
in the morning before they returned,
and tho indignation of the landlord may
be imagined. Far from having an easy
time of it, the hotel proprietors out of
the city are so dependent upon their
help that it is source Of continual
xiety with them lest their walters or
cooks should fail them. Most of the
hotels have standing arrangements with
intelligence offices especially devoted to
hotel service to send them q force of
walters at few hours notice. Add TO
this the dread of bad luck in drawing
boarders and poor season, the summer
Boniface is to be pitied.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Only One Kind Of Matter.

There are many eminent chemists,
Prof. Cooke among the number, who
believe that, instead of there being sixty
four elements in the universe, there is
but one. That this one universal ele-
ment assumes more than sixty forms
(according to the velocity with which
molecules, or their arrangement, or
number, is not more wonderful than the
changes which some of our so-called
elementary bodies suffer in their allotro-
pic notifications. Sulphur, phosphorus,
and carbon are, to o certain extent,
protean but they are distanced in the
allotropic race by isomorphous hydro
carboIs. DR.. Wurs defines organic
chemistry as the chemistry of the hydro
gen compounds, for he believes that IL
is protean hydrogen, with It's ever
changing atomic volume that makes or
ganic chemistry 80 complex.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Cremation.

Not more than five hundred persons
met at the Cremation Congress held in
Dresden in June. All tho German gov
ernments except Saxe-Gotha are said to
be opposed to cremation. The Saxon
government has refused to accept large
sums bequeathed to the charitable insti-
tutions of Dresden by Professor Eber-
hard Richter because he had attached to
the legacy the condition that his body
should be burned. DIR. Richter died o
short time ago, and his body, which has
been embalmed, will bo sent to Milan to
be burned. The minister of the in
terror, who has forbidden the cremation
to take place in Saxony, is the same
Herr Nostitz-Wallwitz who allowed
Lady Dilke's bouy to be burned ut
Dresden two years ago.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Wanted to Leave.

a Calcutta paper relates that a knit
mighar in the employ of gentleman in
that city, having the other day COM
pleted his month and feeling disinclined
to remain in the service of his employer,
probably because he had better en-
ployment elsewhere. feigned illness at
the endof his month and took leave earlier
than usual. The following morning his
employer was waited upon by host of
people, men and women, who, claiming
relationship with the servant, attired
themselves as if in mourning and, ex-
bibitipg the deepest emotion, announced
with tears in their eyes the death from
cholera of the unfortunate man, at the
same time begging the master to pay up
his Dues" which were urgently re-
quired to defray funeral expenses. The
master, sympathizipg with their distress,
"paid up" and even offered to meet
the charges attending the demise, when
it was ascertained that the man reported
dead was IL perfect health, in good
spirits, and employed elsewhere.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Coins OF the World.

Tho following is the value in round
numbers, i'll cents of our currency, oi
the coins of the world
Australia-Gold, pound, 532, sover.
eign, 4S5,
Austria Gold, ducat, 22S, sovereign,
675, crowd, 664. Silver, old dollar, lO2,
old scudo, 104, old form, fifty -one, new
do, forty-eight; new dollar, seventy.
two, Maria Theresa dollar, 1C2.
Belgium Gold, twenty-five francs,
472; silver, five francs, ninety eight.
Bolivia-Gold, douhloon, 1859; sill.
yer, dollar, sovonty-nine, half dollar,
thirty niue
Brlzil-Gold, twenty milreis, l,O9O;
silver, double malreis, 102.
Central America-Gold, two scudos,
36S; silver, dollar, 100.
Chili-Gold, doubloon, 1859, ten
pesos, 915; silver, old dollar, JOG, new
do, ninety eight.
Denmark-Gold, ten thaler, 700; sill
Yer. two regisdaea, 10.
Ecuador-Gold, four escudos, 755.
England-Gold, pound or sovereign,
4S6, do, average, 4S4; silver, shilling,
new, twenty-three, do, average, twenty
two
France-Gold, twenty francs, new,
3S5, do, average, 3S4; silver. five francs,
ninety yeight.
Gcrmany-Gold, ten tbaler, 100,
krone, 664, ducat, 22S; silver, old
thaler, seveuty-two, now do, seventy
three, form, sixty-tivc.
Greecc-Gold, twenty drachms, 344;
silver, five drachms, eighty-eight.
Hindostan-Gold, Mohur, 7O8; silver,
rupee, forty six.
Italy-Gold, twenty lire, 3s4.
Japan-Gold, old cobang, 444, new
do, 357; silver, it-zebu, thirty seven.
new do, thirty three.
Mexico-Gold, doubloon, average,
1852, new do, 1861; silver, dollar,
average, 106, new do, 107.
Naples Gold, six ducati, 505; silver,
scudo, ninety-tive.
Notherlands-Gold, ten guilders, 500;
silver, two and onehalf guilders, lob.
New Granada-Gold, doubloon, Bo-
gotta, 1861, do, Popayan, 1857, ten
resos, 967; silver, dollar, ninety y-seven.
Peru-Gol3, doubloon, 1855; silver,
dollar, old, 166, do. of 1858, sixty-four,
half do, thirty eight.
PortuRal-Gold, crown, $50.
Prussia-Gold, ten thaler, 797, crown,
664; silver, thalcr, old, seventy-two
new, seventy three.
Rome Gold, two and one half scudi,
26O; silver, scudo, 105.
Russia Gold, five roubles, 397; sill
v. r, rouble, seventy nine.
Spain-Gold, 100 reals, 465, eighty
do, 1856; silver, pistereen, twenty.
Sweden-Gold, ducat, 223; silver, rix
dollar, Ill.
Tunis-Gold, twenty-five piastres,
299; silver, five piastres, sixty-two.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
How They Live.

Some of the most crushing dandies
who loaf in the parlor door at the fash
ionable hotels at Long Branch, Olive
Logan tells us, when the Saturday night
chop is on, faultless in attire and
killingly eyeglasscd and mustached.
might be traced to humble abodes in
tho bnck region behind the theatrical
scenes when they saunter homeward in
the hour approaching midnight. They
some times condescend to join the dan
GERS on the floor, and they bathe at the
fashionable hour with great assiduity,
but where they cat md sleep can only
be cnpjectured. They are just as we'll
bred, well hammered, and well appear
lug gentlemen as any Mt Long Branch,
aud arc just rs well received by what is
there called society.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
A Dog Case.

A dog case, tried in the circuit court
at Saginaw, is fully reported in the
Michigan Larger. The plaintiff raised
berries for the market, and had little
dog that industriously drove away the
birds from the crop. The defendant
owned n big dog, and one day the little
dog chasing birds into the defendants
premises, was bitten by the big dog, and
mortally wounded. The plaintiff proved
tho uncommon value of his dog, and de-
manded damages. The defendant justi-
fed the conduct of his dog under q
statute which says that it is the duty of
every police officer or constable to kill
unlicensed dogs. The plaintiffs dog
was not licensed. The Judge, in his
charge to the jury, said {: cit does not
appear from the record, and the court
will not presume, that defendant g dog was
either de j,tre or de facto apolice officer or
q constable and that if he held neither
of thcsepositions ut the time, then clearly
it was not his duty to act in so summary
and severe o manner. 1t does not salts
factorily appear that defendants dog
had sufficient intelligence or discretion
to act in an official capacity in such
cases. AS an officer, if he claimed to act
in that capacity, he only had the right to
kill plaintiffs dog in case he found him
going at large not licensed; and whether
defendants dog had examined the re-
cords and ascertained thereby that plain
tiff dog was not licensed, does not ap-
pear. Even if the plaintiffs dog had no
collar on, and the defendants dog killed
him, not because in not wearing collar
he was violating the law, bat because of
some malice entertained toward him,
then it is clear that he could not after
ward come in and justify under this
statute"
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
The London Tailor.

The death of Poole, the great London
tailor, reminds the Sun OF some inter
esting "reminiscences. In order to be-
come one of Poole's customers, it was
necessary to be introduced and vouched
for by some patron in good standing;
but when once admitted to the magic
circle, the customer was treated like q
brother. Poole's shop was, in fact, q
free clubhouse, and every morning some
of his resident customers dropped in to
drink the free sherry, smoke the free
cigarettes and read the papers. Gus
toners who lived out of town employed
Poole's as a sort of friendly agency to
procure them anything they desired,
from book to dozen of wine. Gus
toners who lived in other countries de-
fed the revenue authorities; for it was
quite the thing for Pool to ask Lord
This to cake with him in his trunks to
Paris, Vienna, or New York, Captain
That's trousers, or coats, end the re-
quests we're never refused. Better than
all, Poole never sued for an account. If
you paid him cash, you astonished him
very much, and he deducted fifteen per
cent. from your bill. If you did not
pay him cash, he charged you five per
cent. interest, and let the account run
along until you were ready to settle it..
"Poole was better than father to
me-" said one of his noble patrons.
He dressed me for nothing till I came
Of age, and then loaned me the money
to pay his bill"
The practice OF Poole's American
customers has been to have their clothes
sent over i'll, care of travelling friends,
and to pay their accounts when they re-
,IxsSf
isticd with this arrangement. Long
bills meant more clothes, and his profit
upon an Americans outfit on London
and the Continent was not to be des-
pissed. On the other hand, his custom
ers did not hove tho trouble of pprchas-
ing gold or buying bills of exchange in
order to settle their accounts promptly.
In this way many of them have run up
pretty largo debts, extending over two,
three, four and five years. Now the
great Poole is dead, and his executor in
sists that these accounts must be settled
forthwith. The first application is a
civil letter, requesting a remittance of
tho account with interest to date; but
the hand of iron beneath the glove of
kid Is shown in tho concluding phrase,
"that needless litigation may be avoid
cd"
Tho peculiarities of Poole's clothes
were the excellence of materials and
workmanship. Wear them out, hang
them away for few months, and they
turned up again apparently as good as
new. In this respect his garments were
unequaled. AS to cut, his strength was
i'll coats. He conld never build trousers
to rival the New York and Paris tailors,
and of late years the best dressed men
in London have ordered their coats and
waistcoats from Poole and their trousers
from others.
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
II I Should Die To- Night.
II I shonld die to-nipht

If should die tonight,
MY friends would look upon my quiet face,
Before thy laid 1t in its final resting place,
And deem that dea.h had left it almost fair
And laying snow white flowers against my
hair,
Would smooth it down with fearful tenderness
And fold my hauds with lingering caress,
Poor hands, 60 empty and 30 cold tonight.
If I should die tonight,
My friends would call to mind, with loving
thought,
Some kindly deed the icy hand had wrought;
Some gentlo word the frozen lips had said;
Errands on which the willing feet had sped;
The memory Of my selfishness aud pride,
My hasty words. would all be put aside,
And 30 should be loved and mourned tonight.
II should die tonight,
Even hearts estranged would turn once more
to me,
Recalling other days remorsefully;
The eyes that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon me as Of yore, perchance,
Aud soften, in the old familiar way,
Foe who could war with dumb unconscious
clay2
80 might rest, forgiven Of all to night.
Oh friends, pray tonight
Keep not your kisses for my dead. cold brow
The way is lonely, let me feel them now.
Think gently Of me; am travel worn;
My fs;terng feet are pierced with may q
thorn.
Forgive, oh! hearts estranged; forgive, 1
'plt ad
When dreamless rest is mine shall not nc ed
The Loneliness for which long tonight
The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-09-13
Agent for Them.

In thriving town of Michigan, q
year or two ago, when the country was
full of agents, and almost everybody was
agent for something or other, certain
infant of that town being blessed by the
advent of baby brother, was very in
quisitive as to where the little stranger
came from. Being informed that DIR.
s. had brought it, he stood i'll a brown
study for moment, when, with the in
telligent look of one who has solved q
difficult matter, he asked : "Say, pa, is
he agent for hem2"-Harper's
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-04-07
Miscellaneous.
TIE CASE OF JACQUES LA BRlIN.

When lawyer wishes to impress the
minds of a jury with the conviction that it
is extremely dangerous for them to convict
anyone on circumstantial evidence alone, he
rehearses long list of instances in which
such proof has turned out to he delusion
and snare, and prominently among these
there figures a garbled account of the trial
and conviction of Jacques La Brun. This
same case has often been related by lay
writers, who, ignorant of the true principles
on which the rules Of evidence are based,
insist that direct testimony only is to be re-
garded as of any weight. The true history,
however, of the trial of the unfortunate lie
Brun, gives support to no such theory. On
the contrary, had his judges paid Il proper
regard to the weight of crcumstantial evil
dence, he would have been acquitted. Here
are the facts in the case, us set forth by
Nj in his great collection Of Causes
Celebres, published years ago.
Madame Mazel, residing in Paris, had
passed the meridian of life, and was possessed
of an ample fortune She employed re.
tinue of servants two footmen, coachman,
Jacques lie Brun, who bad lived with her
twenty years, and was her butler, and three
female servants, composed her household
A man called the Able Poulard lived with
her on footing of intimacy which did no
honor to her reputation. In the course OF
the summer of 1890, she had taken from lie
Brun master-key, which opened all the
doors in the house, and gave it to the Able
Poulard for his accommodation in coming
and going at all hours, lie Brun had du-
plicate key which he continued to use. On
Nov 80, 1898, the first Sunday in Advent,
Madame Mazel, who was very punctilious
in the exercises of religion, went to vespers
She left her house attended by lie Brun, on
whose arm she leaned, and the two footmen
followed her. As soon as she was in the
chapel, lie Brun quilted her and went to
hear yespers himself at the Jacobins, in the
Rue st. Jacques. Madame Mazel, upon hel
return, supped according to her usual custom
tete-a-tete with the Able Poulard. Al
o'clock she went to her chamber. The
maid, as was her usual custom, put the key
on the chair, after which they all quitteC
the room, and lie Brun who went last, drew
the door after him and shut it. He ther
went into the kitchen and took the key o
the street door and locked il; ; he took it OF
the hook, but finding himself cold, he laiC
it down on the table while he warmed him
self; and, being fatigued-possibly, too
having drank more than he was accustomed
to--he insensibly fell asleep, When h
awoke he heard the clock strike one. III
ran up to lock the door, which, to his sur
prise, he found wide open, and, when he ha,
done SO, took the key with him to his room
| So passed the night away.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-04-07
1t Don't Pay.

1t don't pay to have fifty men poor and
ragged, in order to have one saloon keeper
dressed in broadcloth and flush of money.
1t don't pay to have these fifty men live
on bone-soup and half rations, in order that
the saloon-keeper may flourish on roast tur-
key and champagne.
1t don't pay to have the mothers and chill
dren Of twenty families dressed in rags and
starved into the semblance of emaciated
scarecrows and living in novels, in order
that the saloon-keeper's wife may dress in
satin and her children grow fat and hearty
and live in bay-window parlor.
1t don't pay to have one citizen in the
county Jail because another citizen sold him
liquor. . ...
1t don't pay to have ten smart, active
and intelligent boys transformed into hood
lums and thieves, to enable one man to leat
an easy life by selling them liquor,
1t don't pay to give one man, for fifteer
dollars quarter, license to sell liquor
and then spend twenty thousand dollars Oh
the trial Of Tim Mclaughlin for buyin,
that liquor aud then committing murder On
der its influence. ..