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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
FIRE

The Cincinnati WoFkhOusc Visited
By the Devouring Elements and
Partially Destroyed.
CINCINNATI, August 2s.-Perin, Calf Il
Co, hardware mandatory at the work
house, was partially destroyed by fire to-
night Perrin, Calf & Co.'S loss is estimated
at 5000; fully insured; to workhouse,
s. 900, insured for $l5, 800. The fire origi-
mated in frame blacksmith shop adjoining
the hardware mandatory, and is supposed
to be incendiary. Only twenty-five convicts
were employed in the burnt building.
CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE.
One hundred and sixty cigar makers, in
the employ Of Krahn, Triss & CO., struck
to-day, alleging as the cause that the jour
neymen were able to make only five dollars
per week. This they claim is due to the
fact that women have been employed who
work twenty per cent. cheaper than men,
and they further demand the removal Of
women from the works. The facts are that
only 10 women are employed by this firm,
who find them fully as good as men, and
sometimes better, and they are paid the
Jane wages. 1t is alleged that the real OBJ
sect Of the strikers is to force the women out
OF all the shops, when all the male cigar
makers in the city will Join in a general
strike for an advance of wages, and
the removal of the apprentices. A
party of strikers endeavored to gain admis-
sion TO the factory this afternoon, but were
driven away by the police. The firm have
not vet decided what course they will pur-
sue 1t is reported that the strike will
probably occur tomorrow at Newberger 4
Bros mandatory.
BIGANY.
Sarah A. Davis, who had procured
Utah divorce from her first husband and
married second time, was to-day found
guilty Of bigamy, in the circuit court Of
Campbell county, Ky, and sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06
GENERAL. GRANT AMONG APPRECIA-
TIVE FRIENDS.

To those who have believed i'll Grant and
seen in him the greatest English speaking
Captain since Wellington, there is deal OF
satisfaction in the manner of his reception Oy
the nobility of Great Britain. 1t was mag
nificent thing for the present Duke OF Well
ington to insist upon Grants receiving his
first attentions at Apsley House. The signit-
canoe of the attentions showed him there IS
made all the more emphatic by the serving of
the banquet in the Iron Dukes Waterloo
Chambers. 1t was equivalent to saying This
is the great living Captain who alone is wor
thy to be ranked with the hero of Waterloo :,
There is much that is tender and hearty and
brother-ike in the way he is received. The
majesty of the realm takes hearty and sym
pathetic part in doing him honor. The Prince
of Wales makes him personal guest and
the good Queen has given the Lord Chamber
lain orders that so far as General Grant and
his wife are concerned, there is to be no cere-
nOny in their visits to the Palace They
have a standing invitation to all the entertain
ments of the court This is almost unprece-
dented. In short the sovereignty of Britain
graciOusly recognizes the most illustrOus rep
resentative of the sovereignty Of the mted
States. They seem to feel that this simple
and unaffected man can be thus honored and
that it is but an exchange, upon equal terms,
of the courteses of solid friendship. This
puts all the forms of diplomacy to shame.
This brings the best of 0lIr own life and the
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

When Judge Pratt had been hauled up to
answer to a charge of participating in bunko
game in New York, he was self possessed,
dignified and stately. George Marston and
James Harvey were the parties who had been
arrested with him. 1t was at los East Four
teenth street that the revil thing was done.
At the.Jefferson Market Court was where the
Judge and his confederates were fetched to
answer for their wickedness. Judge Pratt
being seated close to the Justices desk was
asked by that functionary:
Have you been on the premises of these
men?
q have" the Judge said, in scarcely
audible tone.
Have you any evidence to give against
them"
q have not.
"Would it tend to eliminate yourself!
Possibly it might
That will do.
Then Judge Pratt turned and walked back
to the Justices private room, with the same
deliberate step with which he had entered
the court. The Justice called up Detective
Wood, and asked him whether he had any
other evidence against the two prisoners,
" Nothing positive" was the answer, and
they were then discharged
So the SIM saws
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06
BEN BUTLFR ON RUTHERFORD THE
GOOD.

Any impression which may have obtained
Il Judgment that bald Ben Butler has
lapsed into a condition of milky insipidity
Will be dispelled by perusal of the following:
New York, June 3-The Worlds WASH
ington correspondent says a delegation
called on Ben Butler to-day to bespeak his
influence for a candidate for office Butler
replied Gentlemen, you have come to the
wrong man. | have no influence at the
White House and no disposition to ask a
favor of the President. Ii you want your
friend appointed 60 and ask C0rcoran, Cen
eral Gordon and others Of their patriotic
antecedents. The President sent for Cor
coran and requested him to name the man he
wanted for a COmmissiOnership and he
modestly mentioned Archibald Campbell, for
he is a great statesman and has instituted
new departmental more money to be spent
on elections | have heretofore contributed
to the extent of my means for the purchase of
lanterns and the painting of transparencles
but this tax is no longer to be endured.
The people are hereafter to rush greedlly at
the polls, tramping over each other. II you
don't want to ask Corcoran to ask the Presi-
dent, as it is generally understood that both
the Republican and Democratic parties are
deceased and the old Wing party has been
born again, 90 out to some graveyard and
transcribe the names of defunct members of
that organization from their tombstones to
your petitions and you Will stand chance to
get what you ask for. When | went to New
Orleans | had assigned to the care of my staff
and self distinguished surgeon. He fell
herocally at his post, victim of his profess
sonal and patriotic duty. Not long ago | re-
ceived very touching letter from his son
asking for an appointment to Annapolis. |
| went to see the President, and showed him |
the young man letter. | told him the story |
of his fathers life and death. | said to him |
, have nomination in my district, but |
would have to smuggle the boy through.
Others do this; | won't The President
said, have three appointments this boy
shall have one of them. | left, satisfied that
the appointment would be made ; but when
the appointments were announced this boy
was not one of them. The fathers of two of
them had contributed about as much to the
preservation of the Union as Corcoran or
Gordon.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The Chico Cal, Record of the 1st has the
following: We hear the opinion expressed
that the wheat product of this county will be
as great per acre as that of any previous sea
son, and a larger acreage has been sown than
usual. Even the winter-sown is coming for
ward, under the influence of the cool weather
and filling nicely
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The rattlesnake attains great size in Flor
ida. Sometimes they have been found twelve
feet long and as big round as a stove-pipe.
The editor of the Palatka Herald declares he
once saw one of these serpents with lifty-two
rattles on his tail A correspondent of the
New York Sun says there two kinds of
rattlesnakes in Florida. One of these "the
ground RATHER is very small and black and
deadly. The other attains to the dimensions
above described. There seems to be queer
character known to this Sun correspondent,
called Judge Conner After relating several
anecdotes Of snakes, he tells the following
yarn:
A more remarkable story is that told con-
corning the wife of Judge COnnOr. She is
deaf and this intensiies natural dread Of
rattlesnakes, as she cannot hear their notes of
warning. Some time ago her husband and
neighhor were dOctoring a sick colt She was
standing i'll the path, holding some camphor
and a bottle of liniment She felt something
cold and scaly coiling around her leg. Draw
inc aside her dress and looking down, she saw
a rattlesnake gazing steadily i'll her face, slip
ping out its red tongue, and waving It's head
to and fro as high as her hand. The blood
rolled away from her heart. She screamed,
and jumped aside 50 spasmodically that the
snake lost its hold and was left on the ground
1t is possible that the serpent was trying to
t,.scnate her but her deafness barred out its
low musical sound. As the Judge and his
neighbor ran up the path she stood trembling
with terror, on the point OF faint.
She bit" said the neighbor in low tone.
8 He didn't bite me, she retorted, without
however, hearing what he said.
'She's bit - the neighbor repeated, " but
she was SO skeert she didn't feel it,
- Are you sure he didn't bite you, Mary!
asked the Judge.
- No, he didn bite me, | know he didn't,
she replied.
And she was right. She pleaded for the
life of the snake because it had spared her
but the Judge, to use his own expression,
"moppcd hell out of it,
If there are but two kinds of rattlesnakes
in Florida they miss variety which is found
in Death Valley in the Pahranagat country
the horned rattlesnake, Parson White
brought one of those oddities with him when
he came in from the Pahranagat expedition
Of 1866
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

THE JEFF DAVIS PLACER DIGGINGs. The
Ward Reflex of June ; informs US rs follows
concerning the new gold mine in White Pine
County:
Now the statement comes that at least 5000
acres of placer ground is known to exist
around Jeff Davis Peak. If true, verify the
days of old and the land of gold have come
again A mining man of long experience
gives it as his opinion that it would prove
paying investment to bring in water at a cost
of from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars
to one gulch alone High up on the eastern
slope of JEFF Davis, if we are correctly III
formed, there is a lake, not of the dimensions
of Tahoe, by any means, but a lake from a
half to one mile across. This may be consid-
cred provision of nature for the working of
the placers lately discovered, but, like all the
things that nature ever gave to man, she in
variably places some obstacle in his way.
The obstacle III this instance consists i'll the
fact that the lake is on the wrong side of the
mountain In order to utilize its waters it is
highly necessary that tunnel should be run.
Besides this water there are other sources of
supply, but as to its availability we are not
informed.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Beecher does the courageous thing when
and how he sees fit. Not i'll all respects do
we admire his doings and sayings but there
is an independence of thought and inclination
about him which is very acceptable, On
Sunday May p Miss Jetfrys Lewis, the lead
ing lady at Days Fifth Avenue Theater at
tended morning service at Plymouth church.
After the service she walked arm in arm with
Mr., Beecher to his residence and dined with
him. This is sensible and enlightened-on
both sides
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The Silver State of Monday furnishes the
following interesting facts relative TO the
business of raising Angora goats
c. ?. Bailey, importer and breeder OF
Angora goats and President of the Angora
Glove and Robe Company of San Jose, Cali
fornia, informs us that he has purchased lot
of land from j. W. McWilliams of Battle
Mountain, which he means to utilize as a
goat ranch. He intends to stock it i'll a few
weeks with 1000 AngOra goats, for the breed
ing of which he considers this country border
ing on the Humboldt peculiarly adapted
The tleoces and skins of these animals are
now utilized i'll this country, the former in
cloth and the latter in gloves, robes, mats
etc. The 1eeces are shipped East, and are
worth in Massachusetts 10 cents per pound.
Mr.. Bailey says he has realized as much as 50
for single fleece. The skins of the wethers,
which are butchered for 1Rutton, are manu-
featured at San jose and the demand for the
articles into which they are made exceeds the
supply. Should the raising OF these goats in
Nevada prove as successful and remunera-
tive as Mr.. Bailey anticipates, it will UNI
doubtedly become one Of the principal pur
suits III this part Of the country.
Mr. S r. Swift of this county has been
engaged for several years in the breeding of
-hese goats. We know that they thrive well
n the sage-brush lands, and that the mutton
derives no unpleasant flavor from this pun
gent food, AS to the profits of the flceces
md pelts we are not informed
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

1t was the killing of Dick Todd by W.
Dodd, at Phoebe that was the first murder
committed in that once enterprising camp.
This is stated by the Record as correction
to the unjustifable claim set up by the biog-
raphers of George Hirsch that his killing of
Harry German was the first an-killing there
Let the truth be told though regulations suf-
fer!
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

A swmdling game OF dice practiced upon
the enigants who travel by the c. P. rail
way, seems to supersede the three-card monte
game Uhe Reno Gazette of Monday tells of
an emigrant being beaten out of $50 by this
process
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Long haired Johnny has been found guilty
in White Pine County of killing Charles
B9llo. Manslaughter, was the verdict of the
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The farmers around Florin, Sacramento
county, Cal, complain that a new species o
bug, which devors pear and ounce leaves
has appeared in that vicinity
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The largest Oregon salmon of the seasol
weighs "a pounds.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Sonoma county, Cal, has wild oats that
measure nine feet and three inches high.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

CENTIPEDEs are the last luxury taken in by
the PiOchers.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Orange trees in and about Santa Rosa,
Cal, have grown from one to two feet this
spring.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

The HOLSTER, Cal, Enterprise states tina
there are peach trees in that section loadet
with fruit, but entirely leafess.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Quite number of immigrants from Swe-
den, Denmark and Norway have arrived in
Oregon. They make good citizens
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-06

Ripe peaches, fine in size and quality, are
being shipped from Newcastle, Placer county.
California
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20
For Kansas and Colorado

take the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad, extending from Kansas City and
Atchison, on the Missouri river, via
Topeka, the capitol of Kansas, through
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where direct connection is made with the
Denver 4 Rio Grande Railway for Colo
RADIO Springs, Manitou, Denver, Canon
City and all points of note on the Denver a.
Rio Grande. The track is excelled by
that OF no road in the west, and the pas
senger equipment embraces all the modern
improvements for comfort and safety.
Through express trains leave union depots,
Kansas City and Atchison, daily, on the
arrival of trains from the east, and run
through to the Rocky Mountains, with
Pullman Sleeping Cars attached. For
maps. circulars and detailed information
send to [. j. ANDERSON,
Gen. Pass Agent,
Topeka, Kan.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20

The Chief of Police was visited by a
sharp nosed keen eyed woman, who car
ried a chrome, l0Xl4 ia size, 10 her hand,
aud who placed it before him and asked:
Are you judge of chromos aud oil
painuDgs2'
We'll, | can tell what suits me-" he
replied,
Can you tell one from the other?"
Eyes, m"
And what DO you call this?"
That is chrome"
He wanted to say that it was the worst
one he ever saw, but he didn't.
Now, you are sure, are you?" she asked.
Certainly am."
well. that makes me feel good deal
better. | bought that yesterday of an
agent for a chrome, and he had scarcely
left the house, when some OF the neighbors
came in and said he'd swindled me, and
that it was nothing but an oil painting.
thought Ia bring it down and get your
opinion, and you say it's chrome, do you? p
Il dc"
''All riebt-thanksl I've always been
an enthusiastic patron of art, and if that
man had got four dollars out of me on false
pretenses, it would have kind O set me up
against the old masters
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20

pies the face lost manhood Ladies
wanting the delicAte nttene write. Pleasant
home for patients book FOR the mion-arrisge Guide
which tells you ali about these diseases who should marry why
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-20
The 99ailg arsas,
lock ISLAND. ILLINOIS
TYPOS as ACTORS.
The Theatrical People who Began Life
in Printing Offices.

The Theatrical People who Began Life
in Printing Offices.
'Printers2" did you say, remarked DIR.
Stuart Robson inquiringly of the Sun re-
porter, few nights ago. as be was on the
way to Boston train. why my dear
boy, all our leading actors have worked
with the stick and rule at the case. LIS
the most natural thing 10 the world for
printers to become actors and for writer's
aud players to rub elbows together"
How DO you reason out your theory"
Setting type is composition. A printer
couldn't write an 1ngrammatical sentence
il he tried. So with writers. Writing is
but another word for acting. Both are the
literature of thought, if you will allow the
expression. It's art: and it's the most
natural thing in the world. should fancy.
for printers to drift from the case to the
stage or the editorial sanctum.'
who of the actors Of the present day
are printers by trader"
Let me see." said Mr.. Robson, mus
ingly. There's J. H Stoddard, one of
our best old men; he was typo, and a
good one, too. Then there's Montague of
Wallack 8; tne wouldn't think to see him
bowling up Fifth avenue behind his span
of bang tail thoroughbreds that he was
once a printer.
is that SOP" queried the reporter. II
heard that he was in some way connected
with noblemau, and that he has had the
exceptional advantages of good surround
ings and university education"
You've been misiDformed, my boy.
Montague, the gallant that half Murray
Hill is breaking its heart over, was type
setter on the London Era, and that at not
avery remote period, either Then there's
Harry Crisp and Lawrence Barrett; both
were printers Barrett had an humble
origin. but he has been studious, and is now
one OF the best read men in the profession.
John Moore, of the Fifth Avenue Theatre,
is another typo. Joe Jefferson, the best
actor of modern times, once earned his
bread at the case. So did that capital
comedian, W, Ii. Crane; as did William
Warren of Boston and Charles Burke Of
Philadelphia. OF dead actors who
achieved world wide fame, William E.
Burton and James w. Wallack, Jr., be-
longed to the craft John Parselle was
compositor. So was your humble servant,
but think was better printer than |
am an actor. / believe Neil Bryant was a
tlyboy; and | am sure Barney Williams
was one. Steve Fiske, of the Fifth Aven.
ne Theatre, had something to do with
| newspapers, but | am not certain that he
was ever employed 10 composing room.
Theodore Hamilton, another good actor,
was sub. printer for years. I had al
most forgotten Charles Fisher. He used
to stick type like race horse. Not long
ago he told me that he went into printing
office for the FIRST time 10 thirty years.
He said he found the situation Of all the
boxes readily except the receptacle for the
interrogation marks; and that wanted to
kno what the mischief | was doing there p