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Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08
sad State Of Affairs In California.

lFrom the Hollister Cal) Telegraph
More suicides in San Francisco. The old
story Of destitution from the impossibility of
procuring employment. When will the vul-
lures and interested knaves of California dis
sending broadcast deceptive inducements to
mechanics and laboring men to flock to this
State by seductive assurances that mo wor-
thy man here need ever lack employment for
a single day." Col. Hollister and his Santa
Barbara Press are culpable in this behalf to a
very large extent, and this in the face of the
fact that he swore before the Congressional
Chinese Commission that there is no industry
in California that can succeed except by the
employment of Chinese labor.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08
Save Your Horses Backs.

To prevent saddie-galls, the saddle should
be lined with some smooth, hard substance.
Flannel wooden cloth is bad. A hard, fin
ished, smooth. rawhide lining, similar to
those of military saddles is preferable. Then,
if the saddle is properly fitted to the horses
back, there will be no gals, unless the horse
is very hardly used. Calls should be washed
with soap and water, and then with solu-
ton of six grains of copperas or blue vitriol
to one tablespoonful of water, which will
harden the surface and help to restore the
growth of the skin. White hairs growing
upon healed CALLED spots cannot be prevented.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08

SOME persons who would like to be censid-
cred gentlemen don't know the uses of scarf
pin. It is after the scarf has been tied in q
square knot. to retain the folded-over ends
The pin should, therefore, never be placed
on the made-up ''Stanley," either above or
at the point where the ends cross, but just
below it, with portion of the pin exposed,
10 indicate its purpose.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08

From the Madison fWis.> Democra

tFrom the Madison (Wis.) Democrat.]
Dear little thing; she is only about four
years ola. She was walking down the path
from the west wing of the Capitol to the
gate. Her dress was only an inch or two
below her knees. She came to wet spot,
and with what grace she threw her little right
hand around and grasped her skirts-not ex-
actly lifting them, but gathering them in-so
neatly and nicely. 1t was worth gold to see
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08

If, in the coming ages of the future, some
ambitious DR.. Schlieman will dig down into
simply buile a foundry and advertise for q
foreman, under the impression that he has
struck brass Burlington Hawkeye.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08
ELlOT'S OAK.

Thou ancient oak! who's myriad leaves are loud
With sounds of unintelligible speech,
Sounds as of surges on the shingly beach,
Or multtudinOus murmurs of crowd;
With some mysterious gift of tongues endowed,
Thou speakest different dialect to each;
TO me a language that no man can teach,
OF lost race, long vanished like cloud.
For underneath thy shade, in days remote,
Seated like Abraham at eventide
Beneath the oaks of Mamre, the unknown
Apostle of the Indians, Eliot, wrote
His Biblein language that hath died
And ie forgotten, save by thee alone.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08

IN THE CIURCHYARD AT TARRYTOWN.
Here lies the gentle humorst, who died
In the bright Indian Summer Of his fame!
simple stone with but date and name
Marks his secluded resting place beside
The river that he loved and glOritied.
Here in the autumn of his days he came,
But the dry leaves of life were all afame
With tnts that frightened and were multiplied.
How sweet lite was his how sweet DEATH
Living, to wing with mrth the weary hours,
Or with romantic tales the heart to cheer
Dying. to leave a memory like the breath
OF summers full of sunshine and OF showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08
THE DESCENT OF THE MUSES..

THE DESCENT THE MUSES..
Nine sisters, beautiful in form and face,
Came from their convent on the shining heights
Of Pierus, the mountain of delights,
To dwell among the people at its base.
Then seemed the world to change. All time and
space,
Splendor Of cloudess days and starry nights,
And men and manners, and all sounds and sights,
Had new meaning, diviner grace.
Proud were these sisters, but were not too proud
TO teach in schools Of little country towns
Science and song, and all the arts that please
SO that while housewives span, and farmers plowed,
Their comely daughters, clad in hOmespun gowns,
Learned the sweet songs of the Pierides.
Atlantic M0gazine for Narch.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-08
A ROSARY OF SONNETS.
~ HENRY w. LONGFELLOW.

l.
NATURE
As fond mother, when the day is DER,
Lead by the hand her little child to bed.
Half wailing half reluctant to be led.
And leave his broken playthings on the floor,
Still gazing at them through the open door,
Nor wholly reassured and comfOrted
by promise Of others in their stead
Which, though more splendid, may not please him
more;
So Nature deals with us, and takes away
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
Leads to rest SO gently that we 60
Scarce knowing if we wish to 60 or stay,
Being too full of sleep to understand
How far the unknown transcends the what we
know.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
MEMPHIS TENN. TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 20, 1871

aroused, not to unite them, and
though the license was in due form,
he feared the ill-will of his old
neighbor and declined to administer
the law of matrimony to the anx-
ious and expectant pair.
Meanwhile, learning of the flight,
the old Quaker, Lord Ullin-like,
pursued his truant daughter. "His
horsemen hard behind then rode"
but they rode too late. Allsop took
his trusting bride across the hills
and through the fields and woods
to another justice, who had not
been served with notice, and with
short ceremony he made the twain
one.
Returning on their happy home
ward way, the man and wife about
midnight were overtaken by their
pursuers, and the angry father re-
claimed his daughter and surren-
dered the young man to the officer,
with instructions to them to de-
liver him to the sheriff of Knox
county. This was done, and the
young man was about to be inn
INJURED in our relic of the middle
ages, called a jail, when his geuer-
Gus counsel stepped to the front and
became his bondsman, and allowed
him to return to his waiting bride
But how to get her was the ques
ton. The stern father resisted al
persuasions and so the law was re
sorted to. The squire, who hat
refused to marry the couple, wish
ing to atone for his ungallant con
duct, advised the young man that /,
writ of replevin was the proper pro
ceeding. The only difficulty was il
fixing the value of the property
This was solved by leaving thi
blank, the Squire saying that tn
blank could be filled on the trial
Accordingly, the writ was issue,
and the officer started off after tn,
property. But, meanwhile, befor
the article could be found, it ha,
, run away from the paternal roo
and sought shelter in the house o
, the plaintiffs father. Here, afte
long days of separation, the youn.
couple were reunited for a season
The day of trial came, however
. and Allsop left his young bride an
: came here, not knowing whethe
t from here he should return HON
: Or go to the penitentiary for te
y years.
), Happily, however, the judgmer
a has been set aside, and while IL
d stern parent remains "huffy," I'll
S young husband and his hapr
, bride are to-day enjoying the hone,
moon together.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
ROMANCE AND REALITY.
Knoxville Tribune.I

Knoxville Tribune.l
The case Of Allsop VS.. the State
(from Granger county,, decided in
the Supreme Court some days since,
has connected with it incidents of
almost romantic interest.
Allsop, an inexperienced youth
of twenty years, had an alteration
with a mature man, his superior in
strength, years and skill, and withal
a desperate and dangerous man.
After throwing away his knife and
declining the combat, when his an
tagonist again attacked him, he
threw at him a small scaly stone,
which struck him on the head, and
death followed. Allsop was indict-
ed for murder and placed upon his
trial. AS usual, public sentiment
was divided as to the character of
the homicide, and great interest
was manifested in the trial. Men
took sides, some favoring and others
opposing his conviction. Of the
latter class was an excellent, up
right, thrifty Quaker Of the neigh
borhood, who not only defended
Allsop in the neighborhood and at
the fireside, but gave substantial
evidence Of his friendship in stand
ing as his bail for a year or more,
during which there were two mis-
trials of the case. On the third
trial, last summer, Allsop was con-
yicted of murder in the second de-
gree and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for ten years. But the friend
ship Of the good old Quaker did not
waver; and when the case was
appealed to the Supreme Court, he
still appeared and stood as surety,
and still continued to express his
esteem of the young man and his
confidence in his eventual acquittal.
These good words were not lost,
they fell upon the listening ear of
the Quaker's daughter, to whom
Allsop was by no means a stranger,
and were not forgotten; and though
he was a convicted felop in the eye
of the law, she testified her love by
her fathers good opinion and gave
the young man her hand, but all
unknown to the family.
} Since the sitting Of the Supreme
Court and but few days before his
; case was to be heard a secret mar
riage was arranged,
Allsop,
Mounted on his black marc Meg.
A better never lifted leg"
met his fiance at the trysting place,
and setting her on a pillow behind
MIN they started for the nearest
Squire to have him tie the golden
knot. The magistrate had, how.
eyer, been warned by the old
Quaker, whose suspicious had been
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
DETROIT'S PRETTY BARBER.
How the HOu. T.. Perkins Got
Shaved and then Missed the
Train.

How the HOu. II. Perkins Got
shaved and then Missed the
Train.
New York Sun
DETROIT, November g. This
morning, on a street here, a gentle
man handed me this card: "Emma
Willard, barberess; shaving, ,'sham-
pooing, and hair-dressing, s Wood
bridge street"
"Do you mean to say that you
have a woman barber in Detroitp
| asked.
eyes, sir-two of 'em-and two
as pretty girls as there are in the
city, too"
In few moments l walked up
Woodbridge street, and, sure
enough, there was the sign and a
pretty girl standing by the window
holding a razor. wanted to 60 in
and get shaved, and still could
not make up my mind to do it.
Three times l walked by, and finally
/ formed a courageous resolution,
and hanging my head as a member
Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation does when he goes into the
Mabile or Harry Hills, / plunged
in. 1 trembled from head to foot
as soon as l entered the door. l
couldn't look the pretty barberess
in the face. l couldn't summon up
courage enough to speak to her. In
fact, l had nothing to say. So
stood looking very sheepish.
"Haye a shave, sir" said the
pretty barberess, advancing with q
razor in one hand, and with the
other pointing to the chair.
Yes, shayed!" l gasped, and
flung myself into a chair.
"Why, you've just been shaved?
she said, drawing her silky palm
across my face.
"Have r." l said, and then rec,
ollecting, | stammered, "Ah, yes
shaved this morning early. ! al
ways shave twice day."
"Shave closer" asked the pretty
girl.
eyes, the closer the better"
"Hair cut, too?"
eyes, everything"
And then she commenced. Will
little camel's hair brush she paint.
ed my face with white soap suds
Then she put her little fingers
plump against my face and rubbed
| It all over. She stood behind me
and put her arms around my neck
| saw her in the glass in front, ]
never felt so in my lie. "Wbat
would my wife say to thisY"
thought. '"Still, everybody in De.
troit does it, and why not II" Sc
| shut my eyes and let her go ON
After rubbing her velvet fingers
over my pheeks and chin till tht
beard was softened, she took out {
razor, honed it, and placing one
arm clear round my head and hel
hand against my face to steady it
commenced the downward move
ment Of the blade. Once or twic,
| tried to look the pretty barbereq
in the face, but | couldn't, So
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

drive ont the ironclad. The fleets
Of Europe and America are at the
mercy of the stealthy little enemy
and the best type Of the torpedo
boat carries no crew."
"ENGLAND's FEAR.-Three men
and few pounds of dynamite are
more than a match for the might
lest frigate. Months Of preparation,
hundreds of men, the biggest guns
and all the latest improvements go
down before the apparently insight
ficant assailant. England to-day is
beginning to count the cost of her
expensive and cumbrous ironclads,
and a vague and unpleasant idea is
just shadowing itself on the British
mind that all this preparation for
the defense of the island may have
been useless"
The mysterious hints about tor
pedoes and dynamite are repeated
week after week in various forms,
connected with accounts of new in
ventions for that sort of warfare.
A contributor from Providence
writes as follows;
AS skirmishes, it behooves us to
acquaint ourselves with such appli-
ances as are calculated to crown our
efforts with success. In this con-
nection / should wish to draw the
attention Of the skirmishers gener-
orally to an item appearing some
time ago in the papers with the
caption, "Bottled Death" "At a
recent meeting of the Paris Acad-
emy of science a member exhibited
a small vial Of osmium, the most
deadly poison known. In a short
explanatory address he remarked
that twenty pounds of the meta
would be sufficient to poison the
entire population Of the world
One e-thousandth part Of an ounce
Of osmic acid, set free in a volume
of air of 100 cubic yards, woulC
possess such a deadly influence tina
all persons respiring this air woulC
be poisoned. What makes it tn,
more dangerous is the fact that i
has no known antidote." Som
persons with fue-drawn consci
ences may exclaim that this woulC
be a terrible way Of making war.
Mr.. Rosa, as editor of that pag
of the newspaper, says of the pois
oning suggestion: eve do no
lack men who take the risk of get
ting smell of osmium themselves,
and alludes to somebody's idea tina
cit would be a grand thing if
bottle of that osmium was smashe
in the English house of common
while a full house was passing CT
ercion laws for Ireland"
: The Acknowledgements Of receipt
show that the money comes gene
ally in small individual contribr
tions from all parts Of the countr,
| Many of the donors are womel
who give twenty-five Or thirty CEN
each. Lowell, Lynn, LawrenC
) and other factory towns give mo-
literally.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
Louisville and Great Southern R.R.

1E20 pm. Night Express-Daily except
Saturday-Connects at Milan fol. ST.. Louis
and Chicago, at Mckenzie for Nashville.
Chattanooga, Atlanta and the Southeast,
atGuthrie for Hopkinsville, Henderson and
Evansville, at Louisville ior all points
North and East
HOO am. Day Express-OOnnects for st.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:40 pm. Milan AccommodatiOn-Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
vile, aud on Night train to Nashville.
ROr tickets OF Information, apply at Ticket
Ofice, 2S7 Main, Northwest corner Madison
las. MONTGOMERY, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
aD
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
RAILRoAps.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

C,CHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. I6,
- 1877:
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail and Express. daily. y.ll,50 pm 545 pm
Somerville accom- 'dat'n
daily lex. Sunday)...... 500 pm S.18 G.m
Time Twenty Minates Faster than
City Time.
SOmervIlIe train will stop at reg
MAR and flag stations.
The III. so PIN. Train makes the quick
eat time ever mado to Chattanooga, Knox
Vile, Lynchburg Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular StatioHs, and at
Flag Stations when tagged, except Flag Sta
tions between CollieIyille and Memphis.
Ticket effice 25S Main street and Depot
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A. GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
I. S. DAVAN1,
l3t Assistant General Passenger Agent
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
THE 9 SKIRMISnLNG FuNDO

Money that O'DOnOvan ROssa has
Collected for the coming War on
Great Britain.
New York SUM-
"The skirmishing fund amounts
to-day to $41, 1,724," " said O'Donoyan
Rosa yesterday, in response to an
inquiry.
"In whose possession is it?"
1T is in bonds, and is kept in a
safe-deposit vault, of which | hold
the key"
at is understood, of course, that
this money is to be used for Ireland
against England; but is there any
plan agreed on?"
81 have plans, but to make them
public would defeat them"
"Will you intimate in what gem
eral way the fund is to be ex-
pended ~
"No, sir"
care you under any promise to
the subscribers in the matter?"
"Not any. They have confidence
in me-that is all"
"Is there any organization that
has or is to have control of the
money!"
"Well, there is an organization
at least a number of well-known
Irish Nationalist are banded with
me-"
"Will you give any particulars
about them"
"That would be improper"
Chow much do you expect to
accumulate before beginning opera
tions against England?"
"I cannot say"
GA hundred thousand dollars%
"I do not care to tell"
cat what rate is the fund grow
ing?"
"From $500 to $1,000 week.
1
Last week we received over $780,"
This conversation was held in
Mr.. Ressa's Office, which is a one
rallied inclosure in a row Of others
at 263 Broadway. He sells steam
ship tickets there, and receives sub
scriptions to a weekly newspaper,
as painted sign indicates. An
express messenger delivered an en-
velope, and Mr.. Rosa took out Of
it a five dollar bill-the aggregate
of subscriptions by mill-hands ir
a Massachusetts town, he said.
"To state the case plainly" the
inquirer continued, "you have il
t your possession over $4,000, anC
are receiving contributions at tht
, rate of $500 to $1,000 a week, the
expenditure Of which is to be secret
and for which you are practically
accountable to nobody"
. "That is one way of looking a
; it," was the reply,
"Can get no further information
on the subjectg"
"No, sir. All that l wish to sa,
+ to the public on the subject is saiC
!. in the Irish World. Here is a cop,
d Of the last number"
q The inquirer withdrew, takin,
n along the newspaper. In it nearl
a whole page is devoted to the skir
mishing fund, and it is to its infu
ence, added to Rossa's reputation a
! an Irish patriot, that the money i
raised. The department is heade,
"The National Movement" and i
begins with HMaxims for Skirmish
err" among which were the follow
ing:
D "HUMAN WARFARE.-The shor
p est, swiftest and cheapest warfare
that which does the greatest mi
Z terial damage to theenemy with tn
least loss Of life to either side
{ the most humane warfare"
"CHEAP WARFARE.--This is th
age of dynamite and torpedOes-
sr agencies with which nature hf
:, come forward to aid the weak, tb
poor and the enslaved. Cheap wal
fare! Let this be the motto: Wa
against England With the smalle;
\ number of men and the least poss
a bic expense"
" "REGyLAE WARFARE NEARL
OBsoLETE.-Fleets are now almoi
he useless. AS the ironclad drove OF
of existence the old fashione
wooden ships, so the toFped0es wi
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
MEMPHIS q llTTLE ROCK R.R.
shrOt Line to Arkansas and Texps.
TINE CARBs

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily......;.-b.SO pm. H.SO pm.
Freight train daily lex.
Spndny1 ...,..... ..........7.00 am. $40 pm.
Psssengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad. Mail
t-ains make close connection at Argenta for
points on the title Rock and Fort Smith
Ssilroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman ralace Sleeping Cars on all night
Fer tickets and information apply at Ticket
offices 27s and PSI Main street. and at depot
foot of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or 10 the undersigned
MS. LAY. Q,P. ardT. Ag't, Little Rock
W. II. SMITH. sup't. Memphis Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

All over the world DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup is making its way, and every place
it reaches consumptive people are more
seldom met 1t is truly blessing to
humanity. aud only costs 25c.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

Among the guests present at the regu-
lar semi.monthly dinner Of the New York
Lotos club, on Saturday evening, were
Farjeon, the novelist, and Jefferson, the
actor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

The first frost banished the flies, and
the young man with the straw hat feels
as much out Of place in this world as q
delinquent subscriber would in the next.
Il Rhinebeck Gazette.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

Servant girls in California are expected
to sleep in hay loft, work from 4am.
to 10 p. m, saw their own wood and take
pay when it comes handy to employers
to snare it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
MISSISSIPPI s. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
sCHEDULE;

AN or,l after Wednesday. November Ii.
lIe7- I, aims will run as fOllews:
~ io''' Leave. Arrive.
Main Train lA ily............ 500 pm. 1:05 PIN
Sardis Accom- 'odatlon o.,z
daily lex. Suno.Rsl l-'ll'oU Am s'ho "' m
Freight Train daily 'eA' e.oo a.oo - -
Spffu"'' s'f NJ. BURKE. Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

sat and took it with my eyes shut.
l don't think l enjoyed it. And
still l let her go on. She shaved
me, drew her silky hand all over
my face to see if it was closely
shaven, and then combed my hair.
"Shall | wax your mustache, sir"
she asked.
"Yes, wax awayp
Then she leaned over me till |
could hear her breathe and feel her
heart beat, placed her little fingers
under my mustache and waxed the
ends. Now l never wear my mus
tache waxed, but / couldn't ask her
to stop.
"Therel does it suit" she said,
as she busted off my neck and re-
moved the apron.
eyes, it's jast right-lovelyw /
said, "too sweet for anything? and
then strobe down to the depot to
find the train just gone, and that
this Detroit barberess had caused
me to miss a lecture engagement
and a hundred dollar fee.
No more pretty girl barberesses
for me. ELI PERKINS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

One of the queer institutions OF the
country is an association Of short horn
breeders. The American Temperance
Union wants to engage them New
York World
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20

The cotton mills at Lewiston, Ne, are
doing better business than they have
done for several years.