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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-03
Iuccndiary Fires at Scranton,
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Two Hundred and Forty-two Clerks
Dismissed from the Departments

WASHINGTON, September Zone
hundred and twenty-four clerks, out
Of the eight hundred employed in War
Department and its various bureaus,
were to-day discharged on account OF
the recent action OF Congress ordering
a reduction in the clerical force Of the
Departments. The dismissals In the
department Of the Comptroller of cur.
rency Is thirty-one, in the bureau OF
Internal Revenue fifty-three and In
the post office thirty-three.
The bonds called in by the Treasury
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-03

HALIFAX, Septem Der BY the cap
sizing of the yacht Cynett, during the
race to-day; w. r. Fayher, the owner,
and Samuel Upper, inspector of in.
,ernal revenue, were drowned.
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De Stefano Brothers, 3l3 Main street
are selling Messina lemons ct forty
cents per dozen, and oil kinds Of fruits,
nuts, confectionery, etc., at bottom
ilg,ires'EAd.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-03
Skinned Win Railroad Funds.

CHATHAM, Ontario, September a.
William Carruthers, station master on
the Great Western railroad, has nh.
seconded. 1t Is rumored he mbenzled
about $4,000,
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Ranney Deeiines te Mako the Congress.
siOnRI Race.

CLEVELAND, o., September 2.--Hon.
Il. Ii. Ranney to-day declined the Dem.
ocratic nomination for Congress on &C.
count of ill-health.
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AlfeInnfesl Suicide.

COLUMBUS, Ca, September IA
A. J. Calhoun, a post-oflice clerk, who
was detected taking money from reg
istered letter, attempted suicide to-day.
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FIRE RECORD.
Glen Rock House, n Popular summer
Resort, Raised.

Glen Rock House, n Popular summer
Resort. Raised.
Boston, September 1.-The Glen
Rock house at Bingham, well known
summer resort, burned this morning.
Loss Sl50,0O0; Insurance not stated.
The guests saved their baggage.
Inccndiary Fires at Scranton.
SCRANTON, Pa, September 1.-The
coal breaker at Plymouth, Delaware,
OF the Hudson Canal Company was
burned yesterday by incendiaries. Loss
not stated insurance $4,000. A large
number of men are thus thrown out OF
employment.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-03

from Belgrade, says the Turks conGen.
trated on the left bank of the Morova,
at DeroratS, and on the heights near
Techrllz, and yesterday commenced
an attack on heServian position. The
engagement became general between
Advont2 aud Jacovat2, and continued
until II O'clock last night Both sides
maintained their positions. The bat
tie was resumed today, but the result
ia unknown.
The Times correspondent at Bel
grade, says the heavy mortality among
Russian officers, at Fort Gsipes, gives
rise to the painful rumors that II IL
generally believed that all have not
met death at the hasds OF the Turks.
Grants Reply 60 the Emperor of Pras.
STA,
BERLIN, September THE reply Of
President Grant to the Emperor's let
ter Of congratulations on occasion Of
The centenary Of American lndepend.
ence was presented to-day. The Presi.
dent speaks OF the close friendship be.
tween the two countries, aud hopes
the relations will continue.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Need of a Commercial Highway

A friend has placed in our hands a.
copy of the Pacific Tribune, published
at Seattle, Washington Territory. It
contains a number of articles tending
to show the rapid growth of that fruit
full section of the great northwest. The
coal trade is rapidly developing, large
deposits of a Superior quality having
been discovered in that region. Three
mining companies having been formed
at Seattle, and the aggregate shipments
by way Of Puget Sound, to California
and other places during the year 1875,
were about 10000 tons. The growth of
this trade was Marked being almost
1000 tons in December, against less
that 1000 tons in January of that year.
The export trade of Puget Sound to
foreign countries during the year aggre-
gated 100000, an increase over the
previous year of 1886, 343.
Lumber, live stock and farm produce,
sent to British Columbia, constituted
the main bulk Of the exports, Peru and
Chill coming next in order. Washing
ton, Oregon, British Columbia and
Alaska are noted for their excellent
timber, and under favorable conditions
the lumber trade of that region would
be almost illimitable. The wheat pro-
ducing countries are Of wide extent,
and the quantity Of the grain is unser-
passed. With a great highway like the
Northern Pacific, opening up that
wealthy region to the enterprise of the
world, a great city, rivaling San Fran
cisco in Importance, would soon be
built up on Puget Sound. The elements
of wealth are there in abundance, and
the completion Of the Northern Pacific
Road would go far to unlocking these
sparsely settled territories into populous
and prosperous states. In helping this
enterprise the government would nee
essarily benefit the whole country
PiHsbmg Commercial.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
Cutting His Eye Teeth.

Mr.. Seelye, the Amherst professor, is
meeting with strange adventures in the
course of his Congressional way, his in
itiation into the ways and stratagems
of the professional politician being a
constant series Of surprises to him. A
story has just got out about all incident
which happened during the debate on
the Diplomatic and Consular bill last
Monday, which illustrates finely the
species of information the professor is
daily acquiring about that life, from
which he has heretofore been entirely
cut off. It seems that either Springer
or Cox had been making a comparison
between the simplicity Of Ben. Franklin,
when a minister to France, and the pre-
tentious display affected in these latter
days. Prof. Seelye leaned to Judge
Kelley of Pennsylvania, who sits i'm
mediately in front Of him, and told him
of magnificent embroidered satin suit
which Franklin had worn when he was
minister, and which is now preserved in
a glass case in the WadsWorth athena-
UNI in Hartford, Connecticut. Kelley
had never seen or heard of the suit be-
fore, but when he rose to speak few
minutes afterward, Mortified Seelye by
telling the house how pleased he had
been few years before, "when visiting
WadsWorth athen8um, to inspect the
elegant embroidered and brocaded court
dress of Ben. Franklin. - Washington
Dispatch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
Soothing Medicines.

The abuse of anaesthetics and sopo-
rifles, such as ether, chloroform, by
drate of chloral, opium in it's various
preparations, and other similar medical
ments, is becoming SO serious that
many medical periodicals, and, indeed,
the best physicians everywhere, find it
necessary to advise against the prac-
tice To one who is suffering from con-
slant pain, or pure inability to sleep,
there is doubtless strong temptation
in the knowledge that relief may be OBJ
tanned at once by the use of drug
But it must be borne in mind that pain
and sleeplessness are only symptoms.
They are natures admonitions of the
existence Of disease; and to stifie them
is like removing sentry because he
disturbs us by cry of danger
A little thought will show the mis-
chief likely to ensue from the use Of
these drugs. All pain exists in the
nerves, and the medicines which re-
lieve pain can only do SO by acting on
the nervous system. The nerves are
the warders of the body, and the dam
ger is, that they will either be made in
sensible and incapable of performing
U11Cl OlnCC, VI Will w
and thus new disease will be brought
on more serious than that which previ-
ously existed s
The discovery of anesthetics has
been truly called one Of the greatest
boons that have been conferred on suf-
fering humanity. But in proportion to
their value is their liability to abuse:
Their proper use is in surgical opera
tons, and as a temporary appliance for
relieving pain, until other methods Of
subduing the disease from which the
pain proceeds can be employed to adj
vantage. They should rarely be used,
except under the directions of a med
ical man. Physicians are always glad
to employ any proper means of alevi-
ating patients suferings; and when
they dissuade from the use of an anas-
thetic or other medicinal agent, we may
be sure that it is because experience
has satisfied them of its injurious eff
fectS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
A New Thing in Directories.

A new idea in city directories has
been struck by the compiler of the di-
rectory Of Lexington, Kentucky.
Among the entries are the following:
Kidd, John W., the polite and gen
tlemanly omnibus agent, K. G. R. r.,
boards at the hotels.
Cassius NJ. Clay Tankersley, priv
LEGGED character, and an inoffensive cit
izen; home, City Work House.
Lizzie Thompson, alias Murphey, re-
puted widow; house on alley near Pine
street
Miss Almar Thurman, the best spell
er in the city, house No. 81 Walnut
street
Nancy Anderson, colored, alias odd
Boss, rag and paper gatherer
Blueford Cotton, colored, idiot,
house No. 1876 East Short street.
Green Crews, reputed preacher" by
profession, porter.
William Jackson, lazy man, Wickliff
street.
Louis Marshall, colored, sickly.
Frank c. Mclean, adjudged unsound
of mind
Blueford Cotton is not the compiler
Of the Directory Cleveland Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
Honesty is the Best Policy.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Persons engaged in the sardine trade
in France are finding out that fraud is
not always profitable in the long rum
This export trade, says Consul Clipper
ton, in his commercial report On Nantes
for the past year, was found to have
fallen off to such a great extent that
information on the subject was sought
by the Minister of Comm cree from the
French consuls abroad The United
States being the principal buyer of this
article, were applied to in the first in
stance, and the unpleasant truth was
revealed in dispatch from the French
consul general al New York last Feb
ruary. 1t seems that the herm etically
closed boxes containing, it was fondly
believed, sardines Phuile" could no
longer be depended on for the nature of
their contents. Spurious fish, such as
mon species, were introduced while
the oil was of very inferior quality.
1t was discovered that at least 40 per
cent. Of the importation was spurious,
and as natural consequence the gen.
eral demand for sardines fell, and a
large stock was left on hand. The Or
binary yearly production of sardines
is between 100000 and 100000 cases,
each case containing 100 boxes, Of
which it is estimated that France con-
sumes 10000 cases, or On an average
one box for every five inhabitants.
With a view to protect the buyers in
future from being cheated by fraudu-
lent contractors, a syndicate has been
lately formed to watch, as far as it is
possible, that the rules and regulations
agreed to by the trade are complied
with, and having full powers to grant a
mark or certificate guarantying that
the merchandise is of a sound and
marketable quality-the quality to be
determined each season and to be con-
sidered as accepted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
CarDets.

Carpets were in use, at least of some
kind, as early as the days of Amos,
about 800 B. C.-Amos H., 8. They
were spread on the ground, on which
persons sat who dwelt in tents: but
when first used in houses, even in the
east, we have no record. In the twelfth
century, carpets were articles of lux
ury; and in England it is mentioned as
an instance of Becket's splendid style
of living, that his sumptuous apart
ments were every day in winter strewn
with clean hay or straw, about A. d.
1160. The manufacture of wooden car
pets was introduced into France from
Persia in the reign of Henry ". be-
tween 1889 and 1910. Some artisans.
who had quilted France in DISGUST,
came to England, and established the
carpet manufacture, about 1850. With
us, as with most nations, Persian and
Turkey carpets, especially the former
are most priced. Our famous Axmin-
ster, Wilton and Kidderminster manu-
facture is the growth of the last 100
years. The weaver's, otherwise called
the Dutch loom engine, was brought
into use in London from Holland in or
about the year 1876, since when the
general principle of the loom has been
infinitely varied by mechanical in
genuity.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01

The Misfortune of Being Only Able to
Count Three.

Count Three.
Communication to the Portland Advertiser.
There must be odds in crows as we'll
as in deacons. Your correspondent,
whose letter was published yesterday,
describes the performances Of some
crows of his acquaintance who could
only count one; | have known others
which counted three with ease and &C
curacy A farmer in Maine, who had
large cornfeld in which the grain was
just sprouting above the soil, was great
ly annoyed by the depredations of
crows, which used to congregate in
great numbers in clump of trees near
the boundary wall, and after vocifer-
ously talking the matter over for a
while, swoop down among the spread
ing rows This was some years ago,
before farmers and others had learned
that the crow more than pays his board
by destroying the insects which are
much more expensive pensioners upon
the agrlculturlst than crows; and the
farmer vowed vengeance upon the
corn-pullers, and laid in wait for them
often and long without success. In the
centre of the cornfield was a small
that whenever he was in the building
although he was quite concealed from
the crows they would never come
down to be shot. AS soon as he left
the field, however, they would come
down by hundreds. They could evil
IDENTIFY count one. The idea occurred
to him to further test their skill in
mathematics. The next day he took
his son to the shanty, and after time
sent him home, thinking that after the
crows had seen one person leave the
field they would suppose the danger
past, and come down. But they wise
ly kept aloof, and not until he had
himself started for home, did they VEN
ture to alight in the corn.
The next day he took two persons
with him, with the same result; first
one person left the field, then another,
the crows cawing their approval, but
remaining in their safe position, and
not until the third person had been
seen to depart from the field, would the
cunning creatures trust themselves
within gunshot OF the building The
next day half dozen persons entered
it. Presently one Of them went back
across the field. The crows mentioned
the fact among themselves, but kept
their distance among the trees. An
other person went away with the same
result. Directly third emerged from
the building. The unhappy crows,
having reached the end of their math-
ematical rope, came down in platoons
to their deferred breakfast, unaware of
the three armed enemies still remain
ing in the building, who at once opened
fire upon the poor birds, whose great
misfortune was that they We're unable
to count more than three.
This experiment was tried repeatedly
with six, seven and eight persons, but
the crows never failed to take the posi-
ton that there could be no more than
three, and when three departed they
invariably descended to their doom.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
Friendship.

The point that we wish to make is,
that we should not expect to to have
the sentiments and actions of our
friends and companions always equally
satisfactory to us; and after we have
once made up our minds that, on the
whole, we like a certain person; that
we like certain or all of his ways. opin-
ions, tastes, neutrality-suspicious. it is
that draws us to him, it is rather fool
ish to be rejudging him too severely
every five days on new ISSUE After
a man is once a member of the Nation
al Academy he should not be subject
to the annual weighing in the balance
of the Academy's Hanging Committee.
You may say that after you have
known a man we'll for thirty years
and that is long lease for d friendship
in this mutable world-it is idle to talk
about it's being possible for him to sur
prise or disappoint us. But did you
ever hear Of " the old mans disease p
avarice? Do you suppose that an af
Fiction like that comes to the surface
late in life, if the seeds have not been
deep in the soil all the time? But that
is a hard and cruel question. Let us
I0oIlOI opCdh VI o. uIOIS t)lCdoIllS duu uO
less surprising Development There
was an old woman about whom we
once wrote, to prove by example that
it is the disagreeable young folk who
make the disagreeable old men and
women, and that sweet girls and boys
need not be troubled by the nightmare
Of sour and grabbed old age. The
woman we wrote about had lived out
and down three husbands, and was
about as unpleasant an old Cos
sip as you might meet ia days
journey; yet the traits of her age were
only the traits of her youth, stripped of
whatever charm youth must have lent
her. But presently, after we had held
up this aged person as warning and
consolation, what does she do but fall
into her second childhood, and develop
one of the sweetest and gentlest dispo-
sitions with which mortal ever blessed
his or her neighbor. All she asked was
her doll and her prayer-book, and all
went merry as a marriage bell. No;
we never know our friends And, Gu
riously enough, while we are going on
with our discoveries concerning them,
they are making the same observations
upon u.s. and are having the same sur
prises and disappointme nts-The Oh
Cdbi71et: iScril)ner for FeE9YynrU
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
THE FIRESIDE.

BY NATHANIEL COTTON.
If solid happiness we prize
Within our breast this jewel lies.
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow
From our ownselves our joys must aow,
And that dear hut-our home.
Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers,
We who improve his golden hours,
BY sweet experience know
That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below.
Our babes shall richest comforts bring:
If tutored right, they'll prove spring
Whence pleasures ever rise;
Will form their minds with studious care,
To all that's manly, good, and fair,
And train them for the skies.
In this art of living lies,
To want no more than may suffice,
And make that little do.
For, if our stock be very small,
'Tis prudence to enjoy it ALL
Nor lose the present hour.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
The Day of Jubilee.

A drag driven by an elegantly attired
lady, and with trim and neatly-dressed
colored boy perched on the footman's
seat behind, was passing through the
streets, when it was espied by an old
negro woman. Dress de Lord" she
exclaimed, raising her hands as she
spoke, ''Bress de Lord, | never expect
ed to see dat. Wonder what dat Guild
young gemman pays dat young white
'oman for drivin' dat kerridge? |
know'd it'd come, but never 'spected to
lib to see it. Dis nigga's ready to go
way now"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
Circuses i'm Paris.
From the London Orchestra.

Paris possesses at the present date,
according to the Journal Oficiel, four
circus establishm ents, exclusive of the
hippodrome, the menageries, and the
mum erOus establishments where sing
ers, gymnasts, wild beast tanners, rope
dancers and clowns ply their avoca-
tons. The taste of the Parisians for
such amusement dates very far back
No public tete nor royal entry ever took
place in the middle ages without being
accompanied by exhibitions and shows
Of strength and agility. In the year
1885, on the occasion Of the entry Of
Charles VI. and Isabeau Of Bavaria, a
Genoese, according to the old chroni-
clers, won the admiration of the whole
populace. A rope having been stretch
ed from the towers Of the church Of
Notre Dame to one Of the houses on
oese descended from the towers of the
church along this rope, holding in one
hand a torch and in the other a crown,
which the moment the queen passed,
he managed suspended from the rope,
to deposit on her head. He afterward
returned along the rope to the towers
of the church. X It would be
easy to multiply examples of exhibi-
tons of this kind, and to find in the &C
robats of the olden times the counter
parts Of the rope-walkers and gymnasts
of the present day, the only difference
being that the former were obliged to
exhibit their dexterity in the open air
Nicolet. the founder of the Gaiety
Theatre in Paris, was the first to offer
them the opportunity Of an indoor ex-
hibition in the year 1914. In his thea
ter the e,atr' dctes were always occupied
by the performances Of rope-dancers,
ambou rine-players and acrobats, an
arrangement which pleased the specta-
tors immensely. Sixteen years later
in 1880, an English riding master, the
well-known Ashley, accompanied by
Benoit Guerre, De Balp and other Eng
fish riders and jugglers, after having
travelled through the greater part Of
France, and having made large profits,
conceived the idea of fixing his troupe
permanently in Paris He accordingly
opened, in the Rue Faubourg du Tenn
pie, an establishment destined for the
performance of horsemanship This
w l.
an immense success.
The Ashley Circus was transferred by
Fraconi to the gardens of the Convent
Of Capucines in the year 1900, but the
construction of the Rue de la Paix sub
sequently obliged him to abandon this
place. He then built in 1907 new
circus called the Olympic, between the
Rue Saint Honore and the Rue du
Mont 1habor, but the erection of the
new treasury in the Rue de Rivoh soon
compelled him to forsake this site. and
he returned to the old riding-school in
the Faubourg du Temple. A fire hav-
ing destroyed this establishment, nu-
merous subscriptions were got which
enabled him to erect the Ampitheatre
du Boulevard, which later on became
KIN wn as the National Circus, where
grand equestrian pieces and military
tableaux, called mimodramas, were
produced. The Circus Theatre was
pulled down by the tumbril of the de-
molishers, and new theatre construct
ed in the year 1914 by the architect
Hittorf in the Champs Elysees for dra-
matte equestrian performances in the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01

summer time, SO that the equestrian
performances were not entirely inter-
rupted. This circus, being, however,
only open from April till October, it
was found necessary to erect another
theatre, and a new and grand estab-
lishment was built on the Boulevard
des Files du Calvaire, which was inau-
gurated in the year 1852.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01

A NICE DISH FOR DESERT. Pare and
halve few apples. Place them ON a
dish with little butter, lump of
sugar and little jelly, filling the place
where the core was taken out. Place
in the oven and haste carefully while
steWing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-01
A Very Superior Man.

The sight Of an uncommonIy fine
mortal, inspired the Shelby Kentucky
Sentinel with the following personal: A
gentleman came up to us the other
day, whose appearance made us glad.
The dashboard of his shirt was orna-
mented with studs about the size of
crab apples; his hair was divided inn
mediately upon the meridian, by civil
engineer, no doubt; his luxuriant NOUS
tache hung over the entrance to his
provision depot like a great sorrow, and
his large and spreading ears waved like
swinging tavern signs as he related to
us the virtues Of the house he repre-
scented. He was from Cincinnati, and
represents the interest OF starch fac
tory.