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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05
Ups and Downs OF Life.
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"A UeiCA~AI III tA1S CIty Sl4teen years
since failed in business for about $ll, 600.
He turned out all Ibis property to his
creditors and went to clcrking. Three
years since he lost his wife and daughter,
leaving grandson. The doctors told
him he ought to lead an outdoor life or
he would soon follow. No capital to
start on, he returned to his boyhood oc-
cupation, went out twenty-five miles
from the city, built him camp, burnt
charcoal and shaved pail hoops for a
livelihood. A visitor this summer found
him more than a mile from any inhabi-
tant, with cozy camp, nice garden and
the grandson, seemingly taking the world
easy, his whole effects not worth more
than $25. A few weeks since an officer
arrested him for one of three old debts.
He offered all of his money ($l3) to be
released. The officer had no alter
native but to take the. man.
AS they were riding through the woods
he jumped from the wagon and escaped.
This was the last seen of him, but the
following letter was recently received:
''RocHEsrER, N. H., Dec. 10, 1875
Mr.. Officer am in free land. If the
State of Maine considers it crime to
owe, let them establish whipping. post
la Delaware; administer proper pun
ishment for the crime, not imprison. The
creditor being the one who dictates the
length of the sentence, the man who ez.
plates the punishment of whipping can
return to his labor and support his fami.
ly. If the Sl3 would have paid the ex-
penses Of taking the poor debtors oath
T,h 1,,11 ~ hcU 1ock
Please send the boy here by rail next
Monday.
A Row i'm Secretary BristOw's Office.
Washington Telegram, 9th, to Chicago In
ter-Ocean.]
An exciting affair took place in Secreta.
ry Bristow,s rooms to-day at the Treasu-
ry. Sam Felker is here from Chicago,
and has offered to tell all ne knows about
the Chicago whisky ring. In converse
ton with Bristow, Felker used Wilson'S
name very freely, and said some very
saucy things regarding him. Wilson re-.
scented it, the lie passed, and ink bottles.
paper weights, and other missiles flew
across the Secretary's office with danger
Gus rapidity. Felker stood behind the Sec
retary's desk with his hand on his revolver
and kept up canonading of oaths, while
Wilson cantered around the room in a
terrible passion, skirmishing with great
activity, but avoiding general engage.
ment. 1t was so ludicrous that the BY
ISLANDERS had no desire to stop it. Sew
eral newspaper men witnessed the battle
from behind sofas aud other screens. But
the Secretary brought his batteries to
bear on the combatants and silenced their
g,ns. Outsiders were excluded from the
room, explanations and reconciliation
took place, and Felker was allowed to
continue his story. tits not known what
he told, bat there arc whispers that he
has confessed to having oecn in the en-
ploy of the ring and ascertained certain
facts which he is willing to communicate
to tho government if it is made to his ad-
vantage.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
Altogether too Clever at Drawing Wills,

A London correspondent of the New
York Times writes The evidence which
has come out in the law case about Lord
ST. Leonards will, will read like farce.
1t seems that his lordship-the "Old
Surgeon" of Thomas Moere-was ex-
tremely proud of his cleverness in un-
derstanding the law of property and
drawing wills. He was perpetually brag-
ging about his will as model Of artistic
perfection in that way, even to the wO-
men servants in his house, and scarcely
ever talked of anything else. His
daughter Charlotte said he used to read
all his legal works to her in manuscript,
observing that if she could understand,
that would show that the general public
ould. When he made his will be said,
There, l have done the last earthly
thing wish, and he talked about it to
everybody. To the footman who signed
it as one of the witnesses, he said,
Charles, according to law, no person
can touch this property without your
signature to the will, and he was always
firing off little lectures on the law of real
property, on the slightest provOcation.
Indeed, he had favOrite song about an
old woman who hid her will in secret
drawer, but the housemaid who heard
him singing il could not rccollect the
end of the story; however, in Lord ST.
LeOnard's own case WAS that after his
death the codicils were found, but no
will. 1t is said that he us to keep the
precious document in the pocket of his
dressing-gown, in which he desired to be
buried, and that by accident the will
was inferred with him. Another theory
| il that the will was stolen by some one in
the interest of his grandson, the heir to
the peerage, with whom he was offended
at one time, on account Of marriage
engagement which did not come of, aud
in order to punish him he altered his
will, reducing the lands going to the
peerage. A third theory is that the old
lord, either from weakness Of mind OF
because he had forgiven the young heir
but was afraid to excite the anger of hi,
second son and daughter, by making 8
new will in his grandson's favor, himseli
destroyed that which he made, and lefl
the law to take its course. The case il
still going on.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
Travellers Tales OF Florida.

There is but one civilized spot in
Florida, and that is Jacksonville.
There is but one civilized spot in
Florida, and that is st. Augustine.
There is but one spot of any kind in
Florida, and that is Enterprise.
Whatever else we do, we must avoid
the river for dear life's sake.
Whatever else we do, we must settle on
the river Immediately.
Northerners cannot be out after sun
set.
Northerners can be out all night if they
like.
We need not carry rubbers, because
when it rains in Florida the sandy soil
soaks the water away.
We may leave our rubbers at home, be-
cause it never rains in Florida.
1t is hotter on the river than it is by
the coast.
1t is just as hot on the coast as it is by
the river.
The thermometer has been known
to run to one hundred degrees in De-
cember.
The thermometer never rises above
ninety degrees in July.
lCc bOuttluicS lOIue III lOIlud NJ Ill y
time.
There is nothing to eat in Florida.
There is as much to eat in Florida as
there is at home.
You don't want anything to eat in
Florida.
Carry your muslin dresses if you wish
to avoid immediate dissolution.
At your peril 60 without your furs.
You will find il difficult to sleep, be-
cause of the barking of the dogs in which
the South abounds.
Never heard dog bark in Florida.
You may be annoyed by the sound OF
passing on the hard shell roads of ST.
Augustine.
They never shoe the horses in st.
Augustine, because the roads are drifting
sand
It takes four days to go to Florida.
1t takes two days and three nights To
go to Florida.
1t takes week to 60 TO Florida.
There is malaria in Florida in March,
There is malaria in Florida all the yeal
round.
There is never any malaria in March,
Atlantic for January.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06

Says the Kansas City Times: Kansas
City, as we'll az most other cities has,
within the past few years, developed
several cases of double marriage of the
Enoch Arden type. The latest instance
of this kind has been brought to light
within the past week. The circum-
stances connected with the affair, as re-
lated TO Times reporter, are about as
follows: Six or seven years ago Mr.. Cul-
vert and his wife with enc child, then q
babe, lived at Missouri City, on the oppo-
site bank Of the river, q few miles below
this city. This man and wife, as is usu-
ally the case with newly married people,
had their little ups and downs, their
spats and quarrels-life with them was
not all sunshine, but was mixed with a
fair amount of clustering, stormy wealth
er. During one Of their domestic misun-
derstandings, when words we're running
high, and blows seemed imminent, Mr..
Culvert suddenly packed his knapsack
and departed for parts unknown, leaving
Mrs. @. in full possession of the field with
the additional ratification of having the
last word. From that time until week
or two past Mr.. G. was never seen by
those who knew him except on one occa-
sion year or two after he left, when he
passed through Missouri City on the cars,
and saw and was seen by his wife, but
gave her no sign Of recognition.
About three years ago, Mrs. Culvert,
believing herself deserted forever by her
husband, and he without doubt, dead
and buried, married a Mr.. Brown, to
whom she had become greatly attached,
and with him and her child, now about
four years old, came to this city to live.
Her second matrimonial venture proved
to be successful one, and the twain
lived together in harmony and happiness,
and were blessed with children. Their
present residence is on the corner of
Sixth street and Grand avenue. Last
week, while the family were at breakfast,
there came knock Mt the door, and in
walked Mr.. G., the original No. l hus-
band. The No. husband recognized
him at once, and turning very pale, be-
gan to beat retreat, making for the
back door. No. 1, cOmprehending at a
glance the condition of things, begged
No. 2 to remain, saying that nobody but
himself was to blame for the present
state of affairs. Meanwhile Mrs. Gull
vert Brown fell to embracing and kissing
her first husband. After the first excite
ment was over and quiet was restored,
Mr.. b. asked Mr.. G. to breakfast with
them, and they all sat down and finished
their meal, not however, without many
sly and embarrassing glances from all par
ties toward each other. After full ex-
PLANTATION had ensued, the twice married
lady decided to cling to Mr.. Brown,
with whom she had passed many happy
years. Mr.. Culvert is, however, treated
sa member of the family, brings sweet
meats TO the children of both, and
takes great delight in relating his expe-
riences by land and sea, as he has during
his absence wandered the world over and
visited many foreign lands. Like SEN
sible Enoch Arden, he does not propose
to pine his life away for joys departed,
but to enjoy all that is left to him Of his
former domestic happiness.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
The Indians Of Newfoundland.

Red Indian Lake was once the head
quarters of the aboriginal Indians of
Newfoundland. Here they retired before
the guns of the "pale faces" and made
their final stand. Here was fought their
Waterloo, some eighty or a hundred
years ago, with tho Micmacs of Nova
Scotia. The POOR Boeothicks were ut
terly routed, and men, women, and
children were slaughtered ruthlessly.
For a time they fingered about the
shores Of the lake, but either death over
took the last Boeothick here or the
remnant passed over to Labrador. The
tribe is now extinct. Thirty years ago,
Mr.. w. b. Cormack visited the lake with
the view of opening friendly communi-
cation with them, but he found only the
molderiDg remains Of their wigwams,
and their places of sepulture. No one
visited the spot since, till Mr.. Murray
explored IL on his late expedition. He
did not succeed in finding single me-
mortal Of the race. Their haunts are
nov overgrown with thick brush wood,
and the wooden platforms on which their
dead were laid have long since rotted
away. The sites of their wigwams can,
in some instances, be discerned. The
chief peculiarity wss that trench. four
feet deep, was invariably dug round the
fireplace, inside the wigwam. This wa,
lined with moss, and was probably their
sleeping place. Traces of the deer-fences
they erected for entrapping deer In theil
periodical migrations are visible for miles
along the Exploits, and prove that they
must once have been a numerous and
powerful tribe.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
The Boss BulliOnist.
Washington Correspondence N. Y. Graz

lWashingtoD correspondence n. Il. traphic.J
To-day saw old General Sutter, on
whose land gold was first discovered in
California, stepping out of car on the
avenue. A more pitiable instance of
great old age, uncOmpensated and neg
lected, never knew. II was in his
mill-race near Sacramento the precious
gold dust was first seen by the Ameri-
cans. He is native of Switzerland, but
he went to the Sandwich Islands to cul-
tivate oranges, and thence to the Pacific
Coast of America, where he took large
tract of land under Mexican grant,
with the hope that the United States
would soon stretch out to him. But it
came, like Jupiter to Danae, in golden
shower, and the rush of miners trampled
over his fields, killed his herds, and made
desolation in place of the fair estate they
had found. From that discovery came
the most enormous tribute ever paid to
man. The present years yield of gold
in California can not be less than $780,
000,0 in specie, and while this immense
runnel of wealth has been flowing for
more than quarter of century, and
great merchants and bankers have been
made by its possession, poor old Sutter,
on the brink of the grave, is unable to
find an ear in which be can tell HISTORY
He is now more than eighty years of age
and lives in little cottage at Litiz
Pennsylvania, where he is educating his
grandchildren ut German school. The
whole world has been exercised by
Ralston's fate and Flood and O'Brien'
fortunes; yet here Is the man at the
source of the whole romance with scarcely
q place to lay his head. He is kindly
gentle old person, but he has passed hi,
age. Some morning during the seesior
there will be an announcement of hi
death, and then perhaps Congress will
give the tardy stint of its generosity :,
the "golden farmer" He has claim
for damages here. tiutn
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
Our Latter Day Boys.

The Columbus Gazette makes these CO.
gent remarks upon one Of the evils Of
the day: The greatest evil prevalent
in the United States to-day, is the do
mestic one of rearing boys" and with
our false democratic pride the evil is
bound to grow. We boast of our Amer
ican independence. and scorn to ape the
manners and customs or domestic falla-
cies of European people, yet We will per-
nit the boys to grow up in idleness, hes
itatiDg to apprentice them to any
particular trade or calling, ualess it be q
professional one, fearing that any ap-
proach to labor will injure the Juveniles
chances for good society or social ad-
vancement. Parents will pinch and
sacrifice their personal comfort, in order
to give their boys chance to be some
thing, and families in the most ordinary
circumstances exhaust every endeavOr
to initiate the customs and inclinatiOns
Of people worth their millions, in the
rearing of their offspring, and the result
is invariably disastrous, both to the boy
and his family. Initiating the prOdigal-
ity of his richer associates, habits of ex-
travagance are formed, and the desire to
appear rs good as his ncighbor grows
stronger, and the plain simplicity Of his
more humble home becomes by contrast
unbearable, and repeated appeals T., the
depleted family purse are not all realized,
and the seed il sown for domestic broils
and unpleasant scenes, and then follows
the ultimate abandonment of home, pa
rental heartache, and the boy goes out
into the world carrying with him the
secret Of his domestic poverty, his nature
embittered, and he, utterly destitute of
the means or ability whereby to make q
living such as he Graves, too proud to do
manual labor. and incapacitated to do
else, amounts to-what? And this,
more than any other, is the cause of 10
much idleness in the country to-day.
The cities are swarming with young men
destitute of employment, 80 destitute
from the fact that they will not avail
themselves of such employment as Offers,
simply manual labor.
We need not lay all this to dissatisfied
farmers sons, who, tiring of the farm,
seek the city for more & nteel work.
The cities send out hundreds of these
idlers where farms send out one. And
to this cause more than any other, that
is, through the desire of parents to keep
up Appearances, and thus inculcating
into their sons desires and habits which
are beyond their means to ever realize
we can attribute the present cry of hard
times, the existence Of so many tramps
and the alarming increase of crime.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
Young England.

The rising generation in Great Britain
appear likely to equal, If not excel, their
.sires In those manly qualities for which
the latter are now distinguished.
Scarcely q day elapses without S6me
child being brought before Magistrate
charged with drunkenness; and there are
not wanting symptoms to show that the
children of the present day are emula-
ting their fathers In the commission of
aggravated assaults. Two boys, factory
workers, living at Sclkirk, named Viii
son and Leonard, severally aged fourteen
and thirteen years, were charged 10 the
Galashiels Burgh Court, Wilson with as
sault, and Leonard with being drunk and
incapable. 1t seems that on receiving
their fortnight's pay the two children
went 0h ION q spree" TO Galashiels,
where, after spending some time In =
public-house, they sailed out separately
into the streets for little amusement
Wilson whilcd away his time pleasantly
enough. He first knocked down b little
girl named Mary Burnes, aged eleven
years, dragged her about the street by the
hair, causing her nose "a. bleed, and
otherwise maltreated her, He next
seized upon . little boy Of twelve named
Peter Mack, who imprudently intsrfered
on behalf Of Mary Burns, knocked him
down and attempted to strangle him.
The police ut this juncture interfered,
and the high spirited youth was taken
into custody. Leonard's adventures dur.
ing the afternoon remain mystery; but
on the following morning he was found
lying helple@ly drunk In the streets
Wilson was fined f1. or seven days i'm.
risonment.-PaN MdH Gazette.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
TEE PRESS GONE MAD.

---
With man who has not fortune great
30 she pouted and waited,
And scorned TO be mated.
She's maiden yet-age forty eight.
-NeW Yvk Commercial Advertiser
..t...,r
- can not bo boughti
I'll marry man Who Is poor;"
But the man he drank beer,
Died driving keer,"
And twelve orphans went out from her door.
n ,,
And be aged forty-eight,
Than 70 marry the average man
For there's trouble ahead
For the maiden who'll wed
The very first person she can.
Louisville Courie'~ otrndi.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06

Jesse Spencer is one of our colored
citizens, Born in slavery, he was, through
the kindness of his master, manumitted
at the age of twenty-one. But Jessie
married q slave girl, and here was the
source Of his trouble. Three children
were born of this marriage, and the con-
dition of the children following that of
the mother they were held as slaves.
Jessie worked hard and purchased the
freedom of the oldest, and bargsined for
the purchase of the other two and his
wife. The sum demanded (t1 ,500) locked
like mountain of money to poor Jessie,
and he turned his eye to California with
the same hope Of sudden wealth which
has lured 20 many hither. Jessie crossed
the plains In 1852, and the year follow
ing received letter from bis wife stating
that she had escaped from the house OF
bondage, and with her two youngest
children had reached that haven of the
colored race, the Canadas. shortly after
receiving the letter Jessc's cabin, with
its contents, was destroyed by fire, and
the address from which Il was written in
Canada lost. Nor from that day to this
has Jesse been able TO find . Clue to the
whereabouts of his wife or children
Shasta (Cdi.) Courier.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
The Peasant Girl at a Bull Fight.

INOrforpohutnte NeW IoTk boukof.I
One Of the moot thrilling scenes ever
witnessed in the amphitheater at Cadiz
transpired in the autumn of 1871. II
will be understood that the really thrill.
ing scenes on such occasions are not OF
blood. Blood is too common thing In
bull fight, for rivers of it, be II brute
or human, to thrill the ordinary audi
ence. Notice had been posted on all the
public places that on certain day the
bull called GEL Moro" (the Moor) would
be introduced into the arena, and that
when he should have been goaded to the
utmost fury, young girl would appear
and reduce the animal TO quiet subjec.
tion. The people of Cadiz had heard OF
"El Moro" as the most magnificent
bull ever brought to the city, and it soon
became known that the girl thus adver
-tised to appear in so strange and daring
a part was a peasant girl of Espara, who
had petted the-bull, and fed it, and cared
for it during the years Of its growth. On
the appointed day, as might be expected,
the vast amphithsater was filled to over
flowing with al anxious, eager crC Cwd.
The bulls had been killed and dragged
away, and then the flourish of trumpets
announced the coming of the hero Of the
day. With deep, terrific roar, "El
Moro" entered upon the scene. He was
truly magnificent bovine monarch
black and glossy, with eyes of fire, dilat-
ing nostrils, and wicked-lOsking horns.
The picadOres attacked him warily, and
hurled their banderillos (smaH, dart like
javelins, ornamented with ribbons, and
intended to goad and infuriate.) The
bull had killed three horses of hand, and
had received eight banderillos in the neck
and shoulders. when, upon a given sig
nal, the picadores and matadOres sud.
denly withdrew, leaving the infuriated
beast alone i'm his wild paroxysm of wrath.
Presently soft, musical note was heard,
and directly afterward girl, not more
than fifteen years of age, with the taste
full garb of an Andalusian peasant, and
with a pretty face, sprang lightly into
the arena, approaching the bull fearlessly,
at the same time calling his name:
Moro! Moro! va voy
At the first sound of the sweet voice
the animal had ceased his fury and
turned toward the place whence the
.und came, and when he saw the girl
he plainly manifested pleasure. She
came to his head and put forth her hand,
which he licked with his tongue. Then
she sang low, sweet song, at the same
time caressing the animal by patting him
on the forhead, and while she sang, the
suffering monarch kneeled at her feet
Then she stopped and gently removed
the cruel banderillOs, after which, with
bar arms a round 90 FL Moro'sO neck she
led him toward the gate of the torrit.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-06
Excitement over the Elections.

A Paris dispatch says that the excite
ment over the Senatorial election in
France was very great everywhere.
Paris is never slow to catch the signifi-
canoe of political movements, and now
that the Left has 10 handsomely beaten
the Right, and, under scrutiny, have
shown the strength of Republicanism,
the sensation is very intense, notwith-
standing the report that Bonapartists
had assisted the Left in obtaining VIC
tory by electing Senator's for life. They
will dispute the validity of the Senate
rial elections by expiring the Chamber.
The majority Of the right was really dis
solved by detection Of the Legitimistz
The feeling is intensified by the fact that
out of eleven life Senators elected by the
Assembly seven are Republicans. Presi-
dent MacMahon is highly dissatisfied
with the result of the elections. The
Left expect that in the spring they will
obtain Office, which cannot please him.
The effect on MacMahon would be the
same as the effect of Democratic sue
cess on Grant. The Boune has become
very greatly alarmed over the result Of
the elections, for the success of the Re
publicans causes disturbance Of con.
servative financial interests.