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The New York Herald Experiment.
~ suggests in connection with
proper precautions to insure safety
in case of the burning Of public
halls, that one cheap and effective
preventive of harm in case OF fire
consists in letting people know
where are the ways of escape and
how they are to be used. No matter
how many doors and windows a
theatre has, people never think OF
getting out by any but the few and
narrow passages by which they got
in. Every door and window avail
able for exit should bear a conspi-
cuous placard announcing the fact
and telling how it may be opened.
Had such information been familiar
to the audience of the Brooklyn
theatre many of The victims might
have escaped. 1t is also within
the law to prevent the accumulat-
ing Of people about the doors of
crowded buildings. 1t should be
made the duty ofthe police to force
people away from burning build
ing as fast as they escape, instead
of allowing them to form o circle
as near the flames as they dare to
stand and thus prevent others from
getting away.
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Frauds enough to vitiate the &C
ton of the South Carolina Re-
turning Board have been already
discovered by the committee OF
Congress now at Columbia. 1t has
been admitted by member of the
board tina. the contents Of thirty
ballot boxes from strong Democratic
precincts were not counted at all.
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illusions he will be sustained by
the committee, by Congress and
by the country. He is as fair
man as there is in the Congress of
the United States. Free Press.
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.UANCERY SALE.

I
In pursuance and by virtue Of a decree Of the
Circuit Court 81 tho United States for the Eastern
District Of Michigan in equity, made on the eighth
day of November n d. 1876 certain cause there
in pending, wherein James H. Burr is complainant,
and Elisha Harrington, Elizabeth Harrington,
William Jonney Tina A. Jenney, William Z.
DoZsctt, Henry ID. Bassstt, ID. Hobart Hills and
Charles H. Crane are defendants: Notice is here
Nv given that | shall sell ~ public auction, 90 the
highest bidder. on saturday, the tenth day OF Fob
rusIy, a. d. 1877, at twelve o'clock noon OF that
day, ~ the front door, on Griswold street, of the
Post Office building. in the city Of Detroit in said
District. the following described real estate, wit:
All the following described property situated IN
the city of Alpens, county of Alpena, and state
Of Michigan, 20 wit: Lots number one H. two o.
three 49,, four "a, and five t5l, in block number
nine g. in said city, according 10 the recorded plat
thereof, together with the tenements, hersdita-
mcnts a. spporteuances thereunto belonging or
in any WIZ appcItaining or thereupon situated.
Dated December 20 1876.
ADDISON MANDELL,
Master IN Chancery, Circuit Court Of the
United states for the Eastern District
of Michigan
Moore, CANFlELD & WARNER,
Solicitors for Complainant. 2slw7-3-S.90
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Geo. III. .Savage 6 Co.'S, Column
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A Candidate who Refuses TO be
Counted in.

The following letter was forward
ed to J. Madison Wells, President
Of the Louisiana Returning Board,
by Mr.. John j. Long, who was
counted in as Representative from
the parish of De Sofa:
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~. as TO which do not know the
facts, but will assume that it was
rightly rejected, as it does not alter
the result to which | should have
come. q,
The two last precincts disposed
of l2l Republican and 436 Demo-
cratic votes, and deducting these
and the 2l0 in Archer you can get
the following results:
Tilden, s 800
Hayes, ]'''"
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Famine in Iceland.

A famine in a portion of Iceland is fear
ed. 4 letter from Copenhagen announces
that the last mail from Iceland brings some
very serious news, being nothing less than
the report that some 500 people, inhabiting
the small group of islands called the West
man Islands, are probably dying from star
walton. On account Of the i'll success of the
fisheries last year it was feared that the
supply Of food would run short during the
winter, and small coaster was sssent to the
capital Of Iceland, Reiklavik, to ask gift Of
five-and-t twenty quarters of corn, and an ad-
vance of 1000 crowns to buy another ive-and
twenty quarters were given as a present, and
with these thirty quarters the boat return
ed to the islands shortly before the winter
set in. About month ago a bottle was
found on the coast, which, when opened,
contained letter from the resident medical
man on the Westman Islands, stating that
there were only supplies for one week more,
after which famine was inevitable The
sea is SO dangerous in this neighborhood
during the winter that all direct commu-
| nication between the island and the main
land is nearly impossible. Most likely Il
steamer will be dispatched from Copenha-
gen, the expenses being raised by public
subscriptions.
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Vanderbiit's Career

Cornelius Vanderbilt, in the year 1910,
when only sixteen years of age, and New
York had but so, 900 people, began his career
as captain of sail boat which used to run
from the beach at Whitehall to Staten
Island, carrying passengers at eighteen
cents each. From that day TO this, through
a period of sixty six years, Vanderbilt has
been steadily engaged in carrying freight
and passengers by land and sea, by steam
boat and railroad. His first vessel was the
Charlotte, launched in 1915, by himself and
brother-in-law. With the Charlotte he
eoasted to South Carolina. In 1917 he was
tween New York and New Brunswick, New
Jersey, at which latter Mrs. Vanderbilt
managed a hotel. In 1929 at the age of 35,
he was worth $4,000 and determined to
start for himself. The first steamboat he
ever built was the Caroline, which finally
went over the Niagara Fall. To-day those
who are most familiar with his affairs rate
him at from $40, 900, 900 to ss0.000,000 1t
is understood that the bulk of his fortune
will go to his son. William Fl. Vanderbilt.
Mr. Vanderbilt first married in 1918, Miss
Sophia johnson, the daughter of a aneighbor
living near his fathers farm on Staten
Island. She bore him thirteen children.
He married a second time at the age Of 10,
q lady from the South, some forty-five years
younger than himself. The old gentleman
looks hale and healthy.
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FIDELITY OF A SwITcHTENDER. A
switchtender had just taken his place to
change the track in order to turn train
which was in sight SO as to prevent a col
lision with another train from an opposite
direction. At this critical moment, on
turning his head, he discovered his little
boy playing on the track of the advancing
engine. He might spring to the rescue and
remove him safely, but then he would not
have time to turn the switch, and hundreds
of lives might be lost by his neglect. In
an instant his resolution was taken. ellie
DOWN. he shouted to his boy, and the child,
happily accustomed to obedience, promptly
threw himself on the ground and the whole
train thundered over him, the passengers
little dreaming how much their safety had
cost that father. The trembling man
rushed forward fearing to find only man.
gled corpse, but no words can express his.
joy at seeing his child alive and unharmed.
The next day the Emperor, having heard
of the circumstance, sent for the man, and
presented him the medal of honor for his
bravery.-Berlta Tolks6lGtt,
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POET T 'RY..
THE RULE OF SUCCESS.

There's rule with the printers, when type they ar.
g sticking
That is often repeated, the trade to advance
Giving speed, when applied, to the musical clicking
| OF the letters and points in their magical dance.
| AND the rule it is this, Jot it down in your creed
Never make false motion if YOU wish TO succecd
Ii the gaining of wealth is your earnest intention
have an eye ON the cheats never buy to be sold:
Lay up slowly and sure, it will make detention
IL you PICK up the dross in the place of the gold;
Let the rule of the printers be ever your creed
Never make false motion if you wish to succeed +,
In the books of the age do you hope to be finding
Inc wisdom OF seers or the thoughts of the muse
1t is well, but remember the gold-tmseled binding
Oft covers the worthless-to read it refuse;
Let the words be of gold on the pages you read
Never make false motion if you would succeed u
In the choice of your life ever act with discretion
Pressing on in the pathway that nature designed:
For you each have " call be it trade or profession
ana success VIII attend when that mission YOU find
For the rule still applies of its precepts take heed
" Never make false motion if you would succeed So
If the syren of pleasure doth whisperinviting
That the wild oats of youth must be sown if YOU
win"
utn away ifoA Aer counsel, q frost ever blighting
WIN come as you gather the pleasures of sin.
AS ye SOW shall ye reap" take the rule your creed
Never make false motion if you would succeed. ~
In the journey before you there's no time for delaying
Every moments mint that is coming your life;
Then be sure before action your conscience obeying
And you'll rise as you conquer amid the worlds
strife
And this rule you will bless the best in your creed
"Nevcr make false motion if you would succeed.
SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON
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How WILLIS WAS TURNED OUT OF
CHURcH.-Apropos getting out ofchurch,
DR.. Edward Beecher tells this story of N.
P.zWillis and the Park Street Church, Bos-
ton: During a revival at Andover, while
laboring under great excitement, Willis be-
lieved that he had become Christian and
joined the church. After few months he
came to the speaker and told him that he
had made mistake, and asked him if he
could not be let out of the church. The
speaker told him he would do what he
could. He laid the case before the church,
but found they were held strictly by the
usage-letter, death or communication
and the speaker told him that If he wanted
to leave the church he would have to do
something SO bad that he would have to be
put out. So the poet went to the theatre,
and that was considered bad enough to ex-
communicate him, and Mr. Willis got his
release.
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Colonel Sellers Bonanza,

John T. Raymond has recently vouch-
safed to st. Louis interviewer some inter
estlng information regarding the success of
"Colonel Sellers" Mr.. Raymond started
out with the play at Rochester, u year ago
last September, but it was "no go,' and
Raymond at once made up his mind to do
a rash thing. Without a cent in his pocket
he broke for New York. Not q MANAGER
would touch it. "All right" said Ray
mond; "Pll be my own manager Ibor
rowed some money, paid weeks rent in
advance for the Park Theater, got up toll
cradle company and opened out. I had
Mark Twain on hand to make speech.
That attracted a full house-not a paving
one, but house full of the literati of New
York. Between the third and fourth acts
Mark lounged out to the foot-lights. He
was as solemn as mule. During the whole
OF his twenty minutes speech he never
cracked smile, while the audience was
roaring as an audience never roared before
at fusilade of inexpressibly funny hits.
When Sellers came in to finish up the
act the applause was deafenlng. Every hit
took. That night a thousand people adyer-
tised Sellers, his mules, hog, corn and
eyewater speculations. From that time on
we couldn't keep people away. Thehouses
increased nightly until there was no more
room for an increase. | played it 1870
nights, took a short run to the other large
cities, came back to New York and played
forty nights more, and the next season ev-
cry theater in the country was offered to
me on my own terms" Now Raymond
walks into st. Louis, stays two weeks, and
takes out for his share of the proceeds of
"Colonel Sellers " vagaries $4,000. This
rate of accumulation, which is steady with
"sellers," continued for forty weeks--the
average length of the "season ''-brings
him in s12O, 600 year. Five or six years
of this kind of work, with the proceeds of
each snugly invested at good rate of in
terest, makes bloated bondholder out Of
Sellers" and causes him to look at the
world as not altogether unlovely
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Don Carlos Farewell Proclamation

Don Carlos issued the following procla-
nation to the Spanish nation when he fled
across the French frontier:
Spanjards: DESTROYS to-day of staying
more bloodshed, I have discontin-
ued struggle, glorious, it is true, but for
the moment useless. If I am obliged to
yield to the force Of circumstance, neither
my heart is weakened nor my faith shaken,
and keep untouched my rights, which are
the rights of legitimacy in Spain. Con-
fronted by the great superiority of num-
bers. and still more by the sufferings of my
faithful volunteers, against whom all had
been summoned, I am obliged to sheathe
my sword. According to the traditions OF
my family, shall tread the path Of exile,
but never would I lend myself in dishonor-
ing and disloyal con0enios, contrary to the
dignity of every one who, like myself,
knows what he signifies and what he rep
resents.
You know all the sacred principles by my
| stainless banner. While upheld it with
a firm hand at the head of my battalions,
beheld the fall Of the monarchy, and of
the republic, violently implanted against
the Spanish nation, and, although success
has not crowned my efforts, it is no reason
why the power of our enemies should take
root, because the works of the revolution
are destined to perish by the very fact OF
the revolution itself. My banner remains
furled till God fixes for Catholic and mon-
archial Spain the supreme hour of redemp-
tion, which cannot fail to be decreed in the
designs of Providence after SO many sacri-
fees. Now, as always, have faith in the
work of salvation. for which that Provi-
dence destines me. Now, as always, am
ready to sacrifice myself for my fatherland,
which love with SO strong love and to
which owe so much. Your King,
CARLOS.
PAU, March /, 1875.
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The Army and the Indians.
Philadelphia Times, April z,

The military committee has reported the
bill to transfer the Indian Bureau to the
War Department. There are many unan-
sWerable reasons why this bill ought to
become law, and if it did not aim a deadly
blow at one of the worst and strongest rings
i'll the country it would meet with little op-
position. It's effect would be an immediate
and obvious economy by setting our unem-
ployed or half-employed army officers at
work, and thus avoiding the necessity for
employing and paying a lot of politicians
OF other civilians as Indian agents. A fur
ther economy will be effected IN the matter
of transportation. The Committee found
that the rates paid by the Indian Bureau
for the transportation of supplies to various
points on the frontier are about double on
an average those paid for the same service
by the Quartermaster's Department of the
er1nJ. 1t is idle TO reply the Indian bu-
reau could contract as cheaply if it would
1t is enough that it doesn't and so long as
it is run by politicians whose motto is s to
the victors belong the spoils,'' it will, con-
tinue to be extravagant. But more I'M
portant than all else is the consideration
that by bringing the rigorous discipline of
the army into the management of Indian
affairs the enormous populations and swim
dies by which both the government and the
Indians have been continually robbed, and
the latter freqently provoked to hostilities,
can be stopped Or reduced to minimum.
Army officers besides being governed by
strlcter laws than any civil agents have a
pride and esprit du corps which operate as
powerful restraining influences. Then they
hold their positions during good behavior,
While the agents appointed by our Delanos
and Chambers, even when nominal defer
ence is paid to the recommendations of re-
ligious bodies in selecting them, must be
dependent upon the favor Of partizan ad-
ministration, which, at the best, can only
maintain them in Office few years, so that
they are tempted to make hay while the
sun shines. The army officers are all edu-
Gated and presumably honorable gentle
men, peculiarly well qualified by their
training and experience to deal successful
ly with the savages. They are out there
among them, and are now charged with the
duty of keeping them in order. The ring
which runs the Indian Bureau profits by de-
frauding the Indians in furnishing the sup
plies guaranteed to them by sacred treaties,
and profits again by the wars which this
sort of treatment provokes. Our bungling
system consists of alternately feeding and
lighting the savages, maintaining two
separate, rival and costly establishments
for these purposes, while the army could do
them both, and ought in the nature of
things to have the whole charge and man
agement of wandering tribes, for whose
subjection in case of dsaffection it is re-
sponsible.
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DEFINITION OF WIT.-Sometime it lieth
in the past allusion to an old story, or in
seasonable application of trivial saying.
Sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,
taking advantage from the ambiguity of
their sense or the affinity of their sound.
Sometimes it is wrapped in dress of hui
morous expression; sometimes it lurketh
under an odd similitude; sometimes it is
lodged in a sly question, in smart answer,
in quirkish reason, in shrewd imita-
tion, in cunningly diyerting or eleverly re.
torting an objection; sometimes it is couch
ed in in bold scheme of speech, in a tart,
in lusty hyperbole, in startling meta
phor; sometimes it riseth from lucky hit
ting upon what is strange; often ii consist
eth in one knows not what, and springesh
up one can hardly tell how. Itis, in short,
manner Of speaking by which pretty
surprise in conceit or expression doth affect
and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some
wonder and breeding some delight thereto.
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EVANGELICAL CORNER.

The Centennial handkerchief is three cor
nered.
A friend Of ours knows woman SO cross
eyed that when she weeps tears from her
left eye, they drop on her right cheek.
Said young doctor to lady patient
You must take exercise for your health,
my dear" "All right" said she, "Tn
jump at the first OFFER" They were mar
ried about six months afterward.
Spring MISUNDERSTANDING shortcakes
will this year be cut bias and rather fuller
in the crust than usual. Those in two
shades of saleratus, trimmed with the ma
terial, will be much in vogue.
It is now denied that the widow of Stone
wall jackson nad ner Iurnlture sold for
debt. She is now living in Charlotte, North
Carolina, in comfort, surrounded by her
relatives and large circle of admiring
friends.
Two years ago young man married
girl with such fiery red head that he had
to look at her through smoked glass. But
she is even with him now. Since marriage
his nose has become such bright scarlet
that she uses smoked glass, too.-NorrSs-
toaon Herald.
That was shrewd girl, and not devoid
of sense either, who remarked, when other
girls were making fun Of her short skirts,
and affected to be much shocked at the ex-
hibition thereof at party: eff you'd only
pull up your dresses about the neck, where
they ought to be, they'd be as short as
mine ~ She was not troubled any more by
them.
A Detroit lady purchased jacket at
Woodward avenue store the other day, and
the clerk said he would send it right home
inside of half an hour. In about four hours
package boy appeared with the garment,
and the impatient lady exclaimed; "You
boys are the greatest nuisance in town! I
suppose you stopped to play marbles or
hunt up a lost dogp' "Indeed / didn't"
he replied. "I went up home to change
hats, and ma she had to try ON the jacket
and parade before the glass. Then Katy
put it on to make call, and when she got
back ma was determined to walk over on
Woodward avenue to show it off, and got
here as quick as could. ."-Detroa Free
Press
When lovely woman, touched by folly,
Is panied to find her hair turned gray
What charm shall sooth her melancholy2
What magic drive the i'll away?
Tile only art her age to Danish.
And hide her years from mortal eye,
To make the marks of time to vanish
And do it surely is To dive