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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-13
London and What London Is.
[Spectator, June IL

[Spectator, June III
There is nothing like London in
the whole world. Here are $780,
900 of people, all crammed together
like sardines, producing no food, fed
by sort of dairy miracle, possessing
visible and movable wealth such as
the world never saw, comprising a
proletariat counted by millions, and
inclosing criminal class of 10000,
and a potential criminal class of un-
known extent, yet coerced by no
visible garrison, regulated by no cen
trail authority, held down by no mill
tary force; and they are all fed, and
all are safe, and all are within the
limits of a most lenient legality, free.
Taxes, royal and municipal, enOr-
nous in their aggregate volume, are
levied without disturbance, crimi-
nails who might fill a corps d armee
are arrested by unarmed boys, and a
rent equal to that of q great State is
collected, and collected with a savage
strictness, withouta q functionary more
imposing than a bailiff. Order!
Just try to levy the rates of Shore
ditch in the working quarters OF Ber-
lin. Freedom! There are fifty pub
lie meetings in London every month,
any one of which would whitcn the
hair of q Continental Prefect, but
which Mr.. Cross hears of without
attention, or does not hear at all;
and we have had demonstrations"
by the dozen, any one of which
would in Berlin have been escorted
by the soldiery. or in Paris have
presaged revolution, but which
here are bITel; described by the re-
perters. What other city on earth is
there where a food-riot or a rent
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-13
Correspondence Gallipolis Journal.
Exposition Topics.
PHILADELPHIA. July l.

PHILADELPHIA, July l, 1876.
Every one who has come to the
Centennial City within the past two
or three weeks came to stay over
'the Fourth" and as the number of
daily arrivals this week have been
greater than at any time since the
opening week, the new hotels have
put out a livelier appearance, and
boarding house keepers have cast off
that look of complete goneness which
has been lurking around the corner
of their mouths for more than a
month past. The Civic parade and
illumination of the Third will be an
ovation without precedent in Ameri
can history. All loyal hearts have
been in a celebrating humor ever
since the opening of '7G, and the
climax of enthusiasm will be reached
as the old bell peals forth midnight
to tell us we have lived as nation
hundred years.
The West Point Cadets, 200 in
number, headed by their famous
band of fifty pieces, marched into
the grounds on the 9th and pitched
their tents on the rising ground just
under Georges Hill.> OF course they
are the Conserved of all observers.
The Colosseum, of which 1 have
already written you was opened to
the public on the 26th, and over two
Thousand entered on that day to get 4
view of "The Siege of Paris; or a
view of Philadelphia from the balco-
nies of the lofty tower"
AS the day is insufferably warm
and the ventilation of the Main
Building is nothing for its architect
to boast of l will make to-day field
day about the grounds, where, tho
although old soils rays are entirely
too ardent to be courted, fresh air at
least can be had, and occasionally a
sniff at the welcome breeze which
always floats across the plateau from
the valley of the lower Delaware.
Just back of the Department of Pub
lie Comfort, the prominent Of which
are an American lunch counter, the
most uncomfortable place in the
world to get even a hurried meal,
and numerous tanks of water, which
had ice in them perhaps while the
painter was labelling them with fancy
lettering "Ice Cool" but have seen
none of that thoroughly American
luxury since, stands the Japanese
Bazaar, neatly enclosed, together with
its surrounding garden of imported
flowers by fence of bamboo and
| bach.
The bazaar itself is low one story
structure, long and of irregular out
line, having three sides completely
closed while the fourth is opened to
the public by its rising of large
shutters hung at the top of paper
curtains.
! The roof is Of thick corrugated
earthen tile, and the ceilings, walls
| and floors are all painted in imitation
Of tile work and the counters as wei
as all the wood structure of The
building are richly ornamented and
carved.
The wares presented for sale il
this unique abode are perhaps no
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-13
Governor Hayes Church Con-
nectiOn.
From the Akron Argus

Now we have it, and no mistake.
Isaac Newton, pastor of the III. E.
Church at Fremont, Ohio, the resi-
dence of Governor Hayes, communi-
Gates to the papers that "Governor
Hayes is not a member of church,
but is a regular attendant on our
services, and, as the discipline of the
NJ. E. Church allows a minority of
Trustees to be men of good reputa-
tion, though not members of church,
the Governor is President of our
Board Of Trustees. Mrs. Hayes is a
member in good and regular standing
in the Methodist Episcopal Church"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-13

The Lincoln Birthday Association
of Buffalo has petitioned Congress 70
make the birthday OF Lincoln Ma
tionsl holiday.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-13

The New York Herald says that
men who play croqust are now called
the third sex.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
ReckIessness with Rifles.

Two brothers named Watson
have been giving remarkable ex-
hibi ions of foolhardiness and
skill in Tony PASTORS Theatre.
They are billed as "noted Western
scouts and sharpshooters." aud
have the look of frontiersmen.
they begin by displaying rifles,
and shooting bullets through
blocks of wood. to prove that the
ammunition and missiles are gen.
uine, On both sides of the stage,
close to the front, thick wooden
pads are placed, for the bullets to
lodge In. AT the beginning of the
display of craftsmanship one
man holds an apple in his fingers
and the other shoots ball through
it from across the stage and next
the man who has risked his fin
gers becomes q shooter in a repe-
tition of the feat, Each in turn
hits the bulls eye of q target ten
times without miss, the bulls
eye being just above the head OF
the brother who holds the "a pile
A potato is placed on ones head
and shot Off by the other, the po-
tato being split to pieces and the
bullet entering the pad in front of
which the holder stands. This
feat is repeated many times, the
brothers changing attitudes ana
holding the rifles in positions
seemingly awk ward enough to in
crease the peril. The brothers
wheel quickly and shoot potatoes
simultaneously off each others
heads.
Yesterday one of the potatoes
was barely grazed, but a second
trial was successful. A Candle
was stuffed with a bullet and,
as elimination, one held a light
ed cigar in his mouth and the 9th:
er shot off the ashes, the distance
being she entire width of the
stage.
The brothers, who profess to
have acquired their skill by long
practice on the plains, use breech-
loading rifles, and handle them
with wonderful quickness. The
younger seems to be the best
marksman-at least he fires the
quickest after getting his weapon
up to aim and rarely fails to hit.
The older sometimes misses.-N.
Y, Sun.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
The Last Time.

There Is a touch of pathos about
doing even the simplest thing "for
the last time" 1t is not alone
kissing the dead that gives you
this strange pain. You feel it
when you have looked your last
time upon some one you have
loved when you stand in some
quiet city street where you know
that you will never stand again
The actor who is playing his part
for the last time, the singer whose
voice is cracked hopelessly, and
who after this once will never
stand before the sea of upturned
faces disputing the plaudits with
fresher voices and fairer forms;the
minister who has preached his last
sermon-these all know the hid
den bitterness Of the two words.
"uever again" How they come
o US on our birthdays as thew
grow older. Never again young:
always nearer and nearer to the
Yery lest-thc end which 70 rni-
yersai, "the last thing which win
4oi4o" ali -..s, tlIns5, and turn
them, LEI US hope, from pains to
Joys. We put away our boyish
toys with an odd heart ache. We
were too old any longer to walk on
our stilts-too tall to play marbles
on the sidewalk. Yet there was
pang when we thought that we
had played with our merry
thoughts for the last time, and
Iife's serious, grown up work was
waiting for us. Now we do not
want the lost toys back. Life has
other and larger playthings for US.
May it not be that these, too, shall
seem in the light of some far off
day as the boyish games seem to
our manhood, and we shall learn
that death Is but the opening of
the gate into the new land ofprom-
-cn
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
Publishing as a Business.

The New York papers publish,
in their advertising columns, po-
litical matter for the party to which
they as representative "Organs"
are respectively opposed; that is.
Republican papers publish calls for
Democratic meetings, Democratic
tickets, THAT may be cut out and
voted as ballots) and Democratic
papers print Republican matter of
the same kind. This is a part of
their regular business, from which
the publishers derive means to con-
tinue publication. 1t is quite an
exceptionable, in any sense, for
many of their readers may desire
to hear speakers of opposite poll
tics, and to know who are the can
didates on the other side. Much
of the old feeling of bitterness and
bigotry with which partisans re-
garded their opponents is passing
away, and it is found that good
men and bad men get nominated
on both sides, and no administra-
ton is exempt from errors and
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
The Man who Knew.

Once in a great while a man can
stand on street corner in Detroit
and ask question that can't be
answered, but such instances are
very rare. Yesterday noon, when
an old citizen made an inquiry of
q crowd at the postoffice, it wasn't
a second before he was ~being an
swerered. Tie started out with
the remark that he was nearly
sixty years 0id, and eadec ~ wask-
ing:
Can anybody tell me why we
have this warm spell called Indian
SUMMER
Yes, SIR was the prompt an
swer. 1t is to give certain per-
sons chance to wash up and get
on clean shirt before winter sets
in good.'
The old resident coughed sever
al times, took another look at the
sky and moved on. After he had
gone about a block he halted, sud-
denly grew red in the face, and
exclaimed:
Come to think of it, / believe
that scoundrel meant to insult me
and / wish / had knocked him
down p Detroit Free Press.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
Anniversaries.

Some people are very fond oil
anniversaries. To-day is he ami.
versal y of one thing, tomorrow OF
another, and the third day of q
third-all events in their own
lives.
Now it is very natural that some
occurrences should be borne in
mind-such as ones birthday, for
instance-thOugh, of our own
knowledge, we should never know
when 1t happens. So it is of other
events of great Importance In our
families, such as certain marriages
and deaths. But beyond this, the
practice of always dwelling upon
the recurrence of ANNIVERSARIES we
think isa disagreeable habit. The
lapse of time necessarily carries
with it so many things it is pain
full to remember, that one who is
always brooding over the past and
dwelling on anniversaries acquires
a melancholy as well as a medita-
tive mood. 1t is like living in a
burying ground. The headstones
of a thousand by-gone scenes are
all he sees.
The storms of yesterday and the
darkness of last night are past. The
fond memories of the loved and
lost we would always most ten
terly cherish. But let the anniver-
saries which enshroud us in the
past be few, while with hope and
trust in the future, we live active
ly and cheerfully in the light and
sunshine of to-day, for tomorrow
we die!
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
Honesty the best Policy.

Those who make such tremed-
Gus outcries against political cor
ruption should spare a little time
and modicum Of breath to what
is going on in other circles. and 1t
will be found that good deal of
old fashioned honesty is wanted
everywhere. The banks have eJ-
pecially suffered from this lack Of
integrlty,a and the President of the
New York Park Bank Is not alone
in his cry of distress, "Who can
we trust 20 If a faithful service OF
eighteen years in one institution
is not sufficient endorsement of q
mans faithfuIness,i 1T would not be
easy to invent test which would
be infaIIible. There gre, however,
idiosyncracies in mans nature
which no plummet can sound or
rule measure. A bank situation
with fair living salary, Is a prize
beyond which thousands of men
with good requirements would
hardly dare aspire, especially now.
This man Ellis was able to live
in brown stone house, and was
only called upon to exercise mod
crate economy in his expenditures
He had charming wife, interest
ing children, parents whose pride
he was, and troops OF friends.
What;outside of this, can any man
compass, whatever may be his
wealth? Nothing but what touch
es upon extravaganza, dissipation
or the luxury of charity. He was
still young and in the full possess
sion Of all his faculties he had
but 10 act upon the adage that hon.
esty is the best policy to realize
its truth promotion had already
reached him, and other steps in
the ladder were before him,
The rock on which this man
split was temptation, and 1t has
wrecked many man before as it
will wreck many hereafter What
is needed is a stronger underlay-
ing principal. The foundations of
virtue should be planted deeper.
SO deep as to excite a quick and
natural repugnance to whatever
is dishonorable and selfish. The
penalties of crime should not be
held up to deter such men as Ellis.
but crime itself. Mon should
early learn that there is q heroism
in civic life as we'll as in war, and
that the virtue of self-denial is one
to be constantly practiced for our
own sakes as well as from a sense
of duty to others. Had Ellis and
those who have gone astray been
thus governed, there would be
less use for prise ls;and a happier
world. His fall is q fearful thing
to contemplate, but q useful one
nevertheless.-N Newark Adv.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
Reaping Il Rich Return.
Hartford Coetrdnt.

Philadelphia is reaping a rich
return for its patriotic generosity
in contributing to the success of the
Centennial Exhibition The Press
of that city estimates that since
the 1st of September one million
dollars has been daily expended
there by visitors, and that this av-
erage continued until the close of
the exhibition, November TO-
And it is something for the city to
be proud of that it has beer able
to entertain such crowds of visi-
tors with so much comfort, and
with.so little complaints of extor-
ton. 1t is very different story
from mat OF Y Jenna.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
Varieties.

AT Rockingham. Va, there Is G
family of five persons who weigh
respectfully, 3l5. 294, 232, and 2lO
pounds.
Thus far in New York 1876 has
been the best year on record for
the export Of domestic cottons
with only two exceptions.
1t is said that there are $4,000
Hebrews in New York, and that
of the number one hundred have
estates valued at 81 100000 or up
wards.
The British Admiralty have Or
dered the immediate construction
of six steel corvettes to serve as
sruisers in the Pacific and Chinese
waters.
A native recently executed at
Bombay, India, for murder, re-
marked to the eXecutioner just be-
fore he was hanged, tn one min
ute what lot | shall know =
There was exhibited at Yves en-
ly, r.. L., several days ago, an eel
four feet six inches long and
weighing seventeen pounds, which
a man had caught wAile fishing
for Goldfish
The New York Bible Society
distributed by gift and sale, during
October; 1923 Bibles and Tesla
meIts, among 1856 families, 231
vessels, and 9l72 emigTants at
Castle Garden.
The Scotch people are horrified
to find that the whisky sold in the
little villages of that country is
adulterated with vitriolic acid, and
committees of investigation are
everywhere appointed.
The cotton manufactures of Co.
lumbus, Ca, consume about 30
bales of cotton per day, or nearly
1000 in a working year. The
mills there are running some 49,
900 spindles and 1200looms.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
The Taste Of Ladies i'm Dress
TLoad0n TsleornDh

LNf'N|f" 'IVt'j
First-rale artists have delegated
the unquestionabIe attributes
which belong to them in the di-
rection of the public taste in dress
to an occult fraternity of manu-
facturers, man-miliners, pattern
draughtsmen, commercial travel
ers and shopkeepers. Philistines
of the Phiiistines, who know
naught of the simple elegance, who
deride the dictates of convenience
and often those of decorum, and
who are continually racking their
brains In quest Of some new varie-
ty of the Outre and the bizarre.
Never did a more homogeneous
thought animate those self-ap-
pointed arbiters of the toilet than
when 1t occurred to them to at
tach to ladies' dresses trains TO be
worn on ordinary occasions In the
open street, in the country or at
the seaside. A train, as an Access
sorry to gala or ceremonial attire
may be tolerable and even impos-
ing, walking dress, it is absurd
and elegant. There is, happily, a
growing feeling in favor Of out
door exercises among ladies. The
existing feminine costume, how
ever, answers in front tn the re-
markable terse definition suggest
ed by Punch-'Trousers with one
Leg, while the unhappy being,
bribbed, cabined and confiued in a
kind of mummy case of silk or
cloth, has flo .ndered behind her
an avalanche of train, tumbling
about in shapeless masses or
streaming rearward in ungainly
zigzags. They would hail as q
benefaction a return to the sweet
short costumes of five or six years
since. which, binding nature fast
in fate,' at least left free the human
legs and feet ; but as yet the mys-
terious brotherhood Of man MILL
ners and fashion mOngers persist
In encouraging trains and in frow-
ming upon dresses scarcely cover
ing the top of the boots and the
fashions menace society with an
Eruption of trains even more por
tentious than those of the past.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
A Thrilling Scene.


| find it in my scrap book, clip
ped and pasted there a score of
years ago. Anything touching the
Austrian cavalry had charm for
me at the time,a as I sjust home
from that part Of the world. had
witnessed the evolutIons al drill of
the cavalry Of every European ma
ton except the Russian, AID the
Russian bore the palm. 1t is
grand sight-twenty or thirty
tho Asand horses, and where every
horse knows and understands the
slightest note of the bugle, sweep
ing over broad plain, and chang
ing position like an enormous ma
chine guided by an unerring mas
ter hand. 1t must be seen to be
appreciated. Words cannot re-
produce the picture. On q certain
OCCASION an event transpired which
lent an interest most thrilling to
the military scene. It was re-
view held In Vienna, on the occa-
sion of the fifteenth anniversary
OF the establishment of the order Of
Maria Theresa.
Not far from thirty thousand
cavalry were in line. A little
child-a girl--of not more than
four years, standing in the front
row of spectators, either from
fright or some other cause, rushed
out into the open field just as a
squadron of huZZars came sweep
ing around from the main body
They had made the detour for the
purpose Of saluting the Empress,
whose carriage was drawn up in
that part of the parade ground
Down came the flying squadron,
charging at mad gallop. down
directly upon the child. The
mother was paralyzed, as were the
others, for there could be no rescue
from the line Of spectators. The
Empress uttered cry of horror,
for the child's destruction see med
inevitable-and such terrible des-
truction-the stamping to death by
q thousand iron hooffs!
Directly under the feet of the
horses was the little one-another
instant must have been its loom
when Staiwart huZZar, who was
in the front ranks, without slack
ening his speed or loosening his
hold, threw himself over by the
side of the horses neck sliced and
lifted the child, and placed it in
safety upon the saddle bow, and
this he did without changing his
pace, or breaking the correct align
ment of the squadron.
Ten thousand voices hailed with
rapturOus applause the gallant
deed, and other thousands ap-
plauded when they knew. Two
women there were who could only
sob forth their gratitude in brokon
.accents-the mother and the EN-
press.
And proud and happy moment
it must have been for the huzzar
when his Emperor, taking from
his own breast the richly enamel
ed cross of the order of Maria The
resa, hung it upon the breast of
his brave and gallant Trooper
C." IN AZ. !. Ledqer,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18

So many spiritual mediums have
recently been detected in cheating
and publicly exposed that the ghost
ly cause has seriously suffered. OF
course, those who originally believed
In Flint's teapot and SHADES slate
will probably hold fast to their fam
tastic faith, but unless the spirits
liberate Slade from the house Of cor
rection, or by some other equally
skillful feat repair their damaged
regulations, the number of future
proseiytes to spiritualism will be ex-
tremely small. -Net0 York Times.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
A Sharp viii Maker.

A wealthy man died suddenly
without leaving will. The widow
DESTROYS of securing the whole of the
property, concealed her husbands
death, and persuaded a poor shoe
maker to take his place. Accord
ingly he was closely mufiied in bed,
as if very sick, and a lawyer was
called in to write the will. The SHOE
maker, in a feeble voice, bequeathed
half of all the property to the widow.
"What shall be done with the re-
mainder?" asked the lawyer. "The
remainder" replied he, III give and
bequeath to the poor little shoe
maker across the street, who has
been a good neighbor and a deserv-
ing man.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18

What is Da Costa's Radical
Cure? Ask any Of the hundreds
of former dyspeptics who have
been restored to health by its use,
and they will tell you it is the
very fountain Of health.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18
One Good Service that Cant
Renders.

Lne more we see anu IND out
about cant and hypocrisy, the
greater is our respect for the reali-
ty which cant and hypocrisy af-
feet. Cant serves as a wedge to
open the minds of the reflective to
a broader and truer conception of
the greatness and grandeur of sim
cere religion.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18

A good man and a wise man
may at times be angry with the
world, ct times grieved at it but,
be sure, no man was ever discon-
tented with the world if he had
his duty In il.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-11-18

Who is a good man ? He who
respects the DEGREES of legislation
and bows to every positive law
and moral obligation.