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A Mistake ALI Around.

A farmer living near Washington, n.
j., was awakened early one morning by
the noise, of some one entering his
house. Spring from his bed he sailed
out to meet the intruder, and as ne en-
tered the kitchen he SOW the form OF 9
man standing in the room. Determined
to defend his property at all hazards, ne
called to his hired man, who slept in an
adjoining room, and seizing q chair
aimed d deadly blow at the burglars
head, The darkness interfered with bus
aim, and the chair struck the upper part
of a door, and splntering to pieces, fell
at his feet. Before he could recover
himself, the hired man made hie ap-
pearance, and mistaking his employer
for the burglar-who had suddenly dis
appeared-struck him with another chair
and knocked him down. Lights were
soon produced and the whole family
aroused, when it was discovered that the
supposed burglar was an employee on
the same farm, who had been out on a
sparkling" expedition, and had en-
to gain access to hisroom with
out awaking the family. His employer
informed him, as he caressed the bruise
on his body, that hereafter he should
take nightkey or keep better hours.
He thinks he will. -
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Are We 10 Have an Indian War I

In an article on the Indian question
the New York Herald says It looks as
though we are to drift into a war with
the Sioux Indians, of the Black Hills,
unless something is done to avert it.
The. Dakota, or Sioux, is by far the
strongest Of the uncivilized tribes Of the
West. Gen. Custer computes that in
case of war they could put from eight
thousand to ten thousand warriors in the
field, but the number has been raised by
others familiar with Indian affairs to
fifteen thousand. - Contrary to the case
Of other tribes they have increased in
numbers during the past twenty-five
years and are well armed. They are as
brave III fighting as Indians generally
and as cunning as serpents. They are
led BY able chiefs, and but for the fact
that the leaders of the different bands
are almost as jealous OF each other as
Of the whites we should have had war
along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad long since. 81. aa
j.. The irruption of adventurous miners
into the Black Hills as soon as the win.
ter is over will probably lead to trouble,
the NEGOTIATIONS with the Sioux for the
purchase of tie bills last year having
come to naught. While many OF the
shrewd old chiefs, who would like to-
make what they would think q good bar
gain with the government, will try to
restrain their followers, it is to be feared
that some of the young braves OF the
rovino bands will descend on the
miners and so precipitate hostiitles.
Blood once shed on the border means
more blood to be shed, and unless the
government is very alert we may lind
ourselves in the midst of q war to which
the Modoc struggle will be mere baga-
telle, and which will cost millions in
money and possibly thousands OF lives.
It is, Of course, correct to take the best
military precautions, and General Gus
ter Is q good man to intrust with them,
but the best efforts must be made to
prevent hostilities by seeking fair peace
terms with the Indians. In the present
depressed state of trade rapid increase
of territory available for settlement is
not our greatest desideratum, but while
these grand regions remain to tempt
those VINO have failed in the East we
may be certain that the energy which
hard times keep latent will endcayor to
assert itself ont there. ''' '''''.' =:
The cry of "gold " raises an insatiate
hunger at any time: and now it is likely
to be- doubly effective, no matter how.
miserably the diggings may "pan out. "
Danger will not deter the adventurous.
The prudence of neither Indians nor
miners can be relied on. While there is
yet time let the government do allin its
power to prevent q war. This is a na.
tional and not political question. "a:
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One hundred years ago; American
independence. -
Two hundred years ago King Philip
(the Indian) defeated and slain habeas
corpus in England.
Three hundred years ago; massacre
Of st. Bartholomew ; Spanish Armada
preparing. .......-
-Four hundred years ago; printing
invented Isabella the coming queen.
Five hundred years ago; the days OF
Tamerlane the Turk, and Chaucer the
English poet. .'" 49,. -
Six hundred years ago Baliol and
Bruce, Richard Bacon st. Thomas
Aquinas, House of Haspsburg founded.
Seven hundred years ago !; Richard
Cosur de Leon and Saladin, sultan OF
Egypt, measuring swords in Palestine.
Eight hundred years ago; William
the Conqueror. ...!.....,.'1
Nine hundred years ago Hugh Capet
the Frenchman.
One thousand years ago Alfred the
Great. .: ....-' .. =
Eleven hundred years ago; Charlie
magne and Haroun, Al Rashid.
Twelve hundred years ago Mohame.
danism making lively work in Constanti-
nople and other places. T.. .. :.
Thirteen hundred years ago Old
Chosroes, the Persian, lives by murder,
and the Pope is made a secular Judge
among kings. ,'.- .:' .'.H
} Fourteen hundred years ago; the
Saxons lively in Britain Clovis estab-
fishes the French monarchy, and the
Visigoths conquer Spain.
Fifteen hundred years ago /; the
Roman empire, having legislated many
years in favor of capital and against Ia
bor, begins to fall to pieces. =.
Sixteen hundred years ago; the world
has nothing better to do than to broach
and denounce heresies and get up
religious prosecutions. .. -.
Seventeen hundred years ago Marcus
Aurelius, Tacitus and Plutarch.
Eighteen hundred years ago Jerusa-
lem destroyed, and Herculaneum and
Pompeii buried. ..-..
Eighteen hundred and seventy y-si1
years ago all the world at peace and
Christ born. i...
Six thousand years sgoI Adam rose to
the dignity of large real estate owner,
but by poor management was driven
into involuntary bankruptcy.-Chicago
Journal of Commerce..
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but liftin' me dirt for me second pan
whin he raised his head from the watur
and says: Pete, have ye struck ita'
sez he. I'll niver strike pick into it
agin'. No more will. That frog is no
human frog"
Pete kept his word; he never mined
in the canyon again. He left for Six
mile canyon to hunt place not haunted
by demon frog, and he had not mined
many weeks before he and his partner
Pat Mel Laughln-struck it struck It'll
struck the great Oomstock silver lode,
the hidden treasure house Of the gnomes,
and the wonder of the whole mining
world. He was, as he always believed,
driven into this great good fortune by .
"goblin frog" 49,
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Internal Machines, ;

In connection with the recent dyna-
mite horror, a recent article. in the
Scientific american upon this subject
is of particular interest at this time.
Thomas continuance is described as
consisting of four zinc boxes containing
dynamite, and placed above one anoth-
er. Between the second and third
were placed q clock, SO arranged as to
cause thirty-pound hammer to strike
a blow, every ten days. Three years
ago m attempt, fortunately unsuccess-
full, was made to ship an internal ma
chine on, board. OF one Of, the Message
ries Inperiales steamers at Bordeaux,
consisting essentially of q needle-gun,
which was to be fred at q fixed period
by train OF clookwork, and thus e1-
plode quantity Of nitro-glycerine.
The coal-shen is more familiar, consist
ing merely of q hollow .braas casting,
containing some explosive substance,
and made to resemble lump Of coal.
Rats are of two kinds, one for iron
ships and. one for wooden ones. The
".iron rat" consisted Of a pig Ut iron,
similar to those used for ballast, but
followed out on one sideso as to contain
q hollow boring tool filed with acid,
aud 80 arranged as to act on the ships
side by the motion of the sea, sooner or
later making dangerous leak in very
inaccessible place. The "wood rat " is
much more ingenious, consisting OF O
box containing two upright cylinders,
connected with another disposed hori-
zontany., The upright cylinders were
partly filled with water, and the horizon:
tai one contained q piston, OF. plunger,
provided with a stufing box. The mo-
ton Of the, ship sent the water into one
and the other nprightcylinder alternate
", producing lateral motion in the pis.
ton, which was geared to ratchet drill
provided with an atger. When q; hole
had been made In the ships bottom the
auger dropped out, clearing the hole for
the admission Of water and impairing
the evidence Of the nature Of the ma:
chine. Fieschi's apparatus for. the as.
sassination Of Louis Philippe was an
arrangement of thirty-Ave gun barrels,
80 coontriyed as to-. be fred all OF once,
while Orsini's bombs were simply hand
;RrenadeH. ..t >. .j;... ... .-~ :"
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How it WOuld Look.

A bill has been introduced into the
California Senate which provides that
call original articles or correspondence
hereafter appearing in any newspaper Or
serial" /" published in that State, "shall
be printed in said newspaper or serial
with the full real name Of the author Of
each article Or correspondence. "
"Fancy," says the Inter- Ocean, "see-
ing something like the following in the
daily issue OF q metropolitan news
paper: -, =.
John Brown is stopping at the Brevoort
House. JOHN JABFER JENKINS. =.
The school teachers were paid yester-
day. II arl.n PETER ADDISON WATTS.
Sarah Jones was arrested yesterday
for stealing q frkin Of butter. "
.'!..A O. ABRAHAM BARTHOLOMEW.
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American .Offlcers In Egypt.

Viii wastold the other dsy by very good
authority. says an American officer serv-
ing in Egypt, that there .is q Russian
general Here intriguing with the Viceroy
to have the American officers dismissed
and himself and some Of his fellow
countrymen appointed in their places;
and my informant added that the general
said that the 'viceroy +, had taken his
proposition into consideration. .r; The
general may be very old, but he must be
very simple not: to know that q Turk
never says. no. He is too polite, and
out of pure kindness OF heart leads you
| to believe that he is going to do as you
want when he has not the slightest idea
of doing anything Of the kind. The
reasons which weighed with the khedive
when he selected American officers to
raise the standard Of his men are quite
ss potent to-day as they we're SIX years
ago. Tho khedive chose American ofi-
GERS in preference to Europeans for two
reasons; first, because they were easily
obtainable on the conclusion OF the civil
war, and secondly, because he thus
aVOlueu WCuuu1uS ouo ooAo"'o oeoSoP'A
bilities of any Of the great powers.
Further, il the event of complications
in Europe, American officers are not
likely to take sides nor have, any
other desire than to serve his highness
Loyalty. The appointment Of a Russian
general In the place of Gen. Stone would
be tantamount to q rupture of relations
between England and Egypt. 1t is
quite probable that the viceroy made
the usual stereotyped diplomatic reply
to the Russian general, that in case he
saw it to the advantage Of his govern.
mont to have the generals services he
would not fail to avail himself Of the
generals offer, and upon that the old
general is building his castles in the air.
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BY WA. LEE AND HUGH WILSON,.
Loss In Delays.

The following quaint but forcible verses ar
y Robert Southsll, poettof the reign o
Elizabeth, executed at Tyburn, for his religion
in the year 1895:
shun delays, they breed remorse,
Take their time, while time is lentthee;
Creeping snails have weakest force,
Fly thy fault, lest thou repent thee; ::
Good is best when soonest wrought,
Lingering labor comes to uaught.
hoist up sail while gale doth last,
Tide and wind stay no mans pleasure;
Seek not time when time is past,
Sober speed is Wisdom's leisure;
After wits are dearly bought
Let thy fore-wis guide thy thought.
r n a
Time wears all his looks before,
Take thou hold upon his forehead : e
Whom he flee he turns no more;
And behind his scalp is naked;
Works adjourned have many stays,
Long demurs breed new delays.
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Fresh American Beef in England.

For the crop year ending November
1, 1875, there were shipped from New
York to- Great Britain, Of pork, 46,947
barrels of packed beef, 60,883 barrels
and tierces, more than one-half Of which
went to Liverpool. During the same
year the total foreign exports of pork
from New York amounted in pounds to
8, 600, 100, against 81, 1852, 300 pounds Of
beef. The total exports Of beef from al
other United States ports foot up 4, 374, :
237. A very considerable amount of
the pork sent abroad goes from other
ports; namely, "a, 642, 448 pounds,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-04-05
A Destiny above Dolls.

We met little girl crying as though
her heart would break, "What's the
matter, sissy2" we asked. " Brother
Dick stole my doll and gave it to Lizzie
King" she said; "and she don't need
any doll, cause brother Dick and her
are going to get married and run away
and start q circus" She toddled on,
with the big tears running down her
cheeks, while she munched section OF
gingerbread that seemed to have no
effect whatever in calking up her sor-
rows,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-04-05
A Warning.

Beautiful, yes but theIblush will. .fade'
The light grow dim which the blue. eye
wear; &C.,. =.
The gloss viii vanish from curl and BRAID
And the sunbeam die in-the waving hair.
Turn from the mirror and strive to win
Treasures Of loveliness still to Last;
Gather esrth's glory and bloom within,
That the soul may be bright when youth
e. psst, Peg. ..--'. Hrs. osgood
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Pete. quietly Laid down his crevicin!g
spoon, slyly gathered two or three big
rocks, then softly, on tiptoe, began
stealing toward his little persecutor. and
just as the frog cried" "Struck itT Pete
let drive at him with a rock go huge that
it could have been hurled by no lesser
Ajax, missing his mark, but raising q
great commotion in the pond. n 'n.'T
Thinking he had given his bad angel
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19

THE LAW DErIED. The Alexandria
papers report the marriage last week,
in Washington, d. c., OF a white wo-
man named Heatwole to a negro man
named Adams, both of Orange county.
The woman belonging to family that
was respectable in this county and
Madison, her brother having been kill
ed in the late war, gallant and good
soldier in Company c. 18th Va. Infan-
try. She had been consorting with
negroes secretly for some years past,
but now that she openly defies the law,
we hope the proper authority will take
her and her spouse in hand the first op-
portunity, and assign them proper quar-
ters in some house of correction, 1t is
the duty of every good citizen, white
and black, to resist miscegenalion to
the bitter end 1t is destructive utterly
Of any race.-GordonsviRe Gaseiie.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
State Of West Virginia,
jefferson County, Set. :
MAY TERN. 1876, COUNTY COURT
9TH DAG.)

Ara Couaty Court continued and held
II for said County,
THURSDAY, TIE 18TH DAY OF MAY,
1876,
On motion the Court went into conSid-
Grafton oi the question ot confirming the
action ufthe Cour; rr-di>trictinS the cOun-
~ i'm November and January last. The
agr> and noes being called for, the vote
was Il follows:
ANE&.-JuStires O'Bannon, Avis. Kern
Hrn&lc, Washington and Cockerill.-
e ayes.
NOES.-Ju>ticcs Rcntch, Smith. Helm,
Ri>,lcr. Daniels. Fleming, Herr and
Iichtstine. ) noes. Therefore it is con-
Sidcrrl and ordered by tn" Court that the
said action of the Court be not confirmed,
hut that it be- set aside. and the vote being
taken bv ave. and noes on the question of
the COUNTY. remaining as heretofore diNi-
d"l into seen Districts, resulted aS fol-
lows:
ANE~.-Iu~ti.cs O'Blmon, Rentch,
Nmi.h, Helm, Kern, Daniels, Fleming,
Washington, iIrrrauJ l;ighlStine. llaye>.
NOES.-JuStirc, Ucnhle, Rissler and
Cp.hriN. noes.
Therefore it is ordered by the Court that
thi, County remain a. heretofore divided
into seven Districts.
\ topy-Tnste
I. \. MOORE.
June 10. l27j-,f. Clerk.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
sagacity of Circus Elephants.

A correspondent of the st Louis
Globe-Democrat, describing the ex
perience of menagerie after the late
storm in Iowa, speaks as follows OF the
sagacity of The trained elephants:
Assistant Superintendent Boyce sent
large force to repair damages and
relieve the circus train, and the task
was great-every bridge gone and miles
of track under water ard washed out
The road was put in temporary repair,
and the train started in three sections.
When about ten miles out trestle
sunk, and five cars of the third section
capsized in the soft mud. The first
car contained horses, the second an elk
and camel, the other three the five per
forming elephants. The roofs were
cat away and the first two cars easily
emptied, but the elephants were all
in a heap and giving emphatic ex-
preston of their discontinue. To get
them out was not 50 easy, yet with the
intelligence and sagacity which charac-
terize the semi human brute 1t was ac-
complished and they received not
scratch. They obeyed every instruc-
ton, kneeling down, putting ont one
leg, then another, turning and twisting
with all the Intelligence OF child,
eclipsing in marvellousness anything
performed in the ring. When relieved
from their perilous situations they gave
expressions of joy which were emphatic
and unmistakable. They fairly laughed
all over.
The remainder OF the trip was made
overland, and this the animals enjoyed
hugely, as the night was cool and the
moon bright. The missing bridges on
the route gave the elephants repeated
opportunity for indulging in sport.
They arrived here before the train; cars
had to be provided for them, but ordl-
nary cars were too low. Finally two
were found which were about an inch
higher than the largest elephants back,
"Jack," the largest was called first to
mount the platform. He noticed the
strange car, and gave careful. scrutiny,
seized the doorpost with his trunk and
gave the car powerful shake, mounted
the platform and cautiously walked in,
headed 10 the front, rocked the car side
ways, and then bumped his back. Ills
back struck the roof limbs, when he
crouched ard marched out Of the car in
jify. The keeper remarked: "He
won't go back there again 1t was
decided to remove the root limbs. which
was done, the five elephants closely
watching the operation. When this
was done, "Jack' was again invited to
to take a ride. He promptly assented,
entered the car, rocked it and swayed
it and then bumped his back. Find
ing it all right, he tlumpeted his assent
marched around it few times, and
went to eating hay, Each elephant
tested the car himself.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
DRUGS! DRUGS !

THE undersigned having purchased the
L Stock and Fixtures of his father, DR..
X. p. Magrudcr, will carry on at the old
stand on Main Street, ShepherdstoWn, w.
Va. firstleIass Drug and Prescription
Store. where VIII be found ut all times the
purcst Drugs, Chemicals and Spices. Pre-
scriptions and Family Receipts, carefully
prepared at all hours day or night. Pure
Wines and Liquors, guaranteed pure for
medical purposes. Fancy Goods OF all
kinds; PerIumcry, Soaps. Tooth, Hair and
Nail Brushes. Would call special atten-
ton to my fine Cologne Water, which is
both delicate and lasting. All first-claSS
Patent Medicines warranted genuine. y
full supply of Paints, Oils and Narni>hes,
also Paint Brushes, which will be sold
cheap for cash. \ fine assortment of To-
bacco, SegarS and Snuff. Best fire test
Goal Oil, Chimneys, Lamps, Burners,
Shades and Wicks. Warranted fresh and
genuine Garden Seeds, and many other
goods belonging to Il first class Drug trade.
The public patronage is respectfully So
liCted.
X. l.. MAGRUDER.
y. Il. Night bell next door west of store.
April IL, 1876. If
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19

Leaving HUSBAND AND CHILDREN
FOR CoNSCIFNcE SAKE.-A curious case
OF awakened conscience is thus reported
from Hamilton, \. Y: 'On Thursday
morning last Mrs. Charles Randall qui-
etly Informed her husband that during
the period Of twelve or thirteen years III
which they had been married she had
not been to him what wife should be,
and she had made up her mind to leave
this part Of the country. She had Civ
en- the matter much thought, and decid-
ed it was, from all considerations, best
that she should 90 away and leave him
and her three little ones to live in peace
and happiness. The wife calmly pre-
pared breakfast, left the mornings work
unfinished, packed her trunk, kissed her
children, and departed, the hired man
accompanying her to Brockport, where
she took the P NJ train for nobody
knows where. -Courier-JOund. r.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.

A hundred years hence,
What change will be made,
In politics, morals,
Religion and trade!
In statesmen VINO wrangle, .-.
ride -on'the fence -----
How things will be altered
A hundred years hence.
The heads Of the ladies
Such changes may find
We do not speak now ...t
Of mutation of mind,
From three bushel bonnets
To snug little hats,
The scoops, Navariuoes,
The gypsies and flats.
With furs and with ribands
With feathers and flowers,
Some fashioned by artists,
Some plucked from the bowers,
But heads will be changed too,
In science, aud sense,
Before we have numbered
A hundred years hence.
Our laws will be then
Uncompulsory rules
Our prisons be changed
Into national schools.
The pleasures Of vice
Are a silly pretence,
And people will know it
a hundred years hence.
All vice will be seen,
When the people awake
To rise out of folly
'Tis all mistake,
The Lawyers and Doctors,
And Ministers, too,
Will have, | am thinking,
But little to do.
Their careful attention
They then may bestow,
On raising potatoes
Or turnips, you know,
Or any employment
They choose to commence.
For arts will be many
A hundred years hence.
And you and I, reader,
Where shall we be found?
Can any one tell, ,
When that time will come round
In transports of pleasure,
Or sorrow intense,
Well know how it is then,
A hundred years hence.