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Dom Pedro and Victor Hugo.

The following is new anecdote about
the emperor of Brazil:
He recently paid visit To Victor
Hugo. After long interview, In which
the two celebrities conversed upon divers
topics, the emperor asked permission Of
the poet to repeat his visit, requesting
him to fix day. receive my friends
every day." said Hugo, politely, "and
we have dinner at 8 o'clock"
After the lapse of some days, one
evening at about half-past O'Clock, the
door.bell OF the poets house was rung,
and gentleman in dress coat and white
cravat presented himself. " Whom shall
| announce said the servant. "Dom
Pedro de Braganza," replied the visitor
As yet there was nobody in the parlor.
The host was informed OF the arrival.
have come TO dine with you" said
the emperor In democratic style.
Soon the guests sat down TO table.
The repast was charming. Dom Pedro
gave some very curious travelling i'm
pressions. Victor Hugo, for his part,
spoke with that simplicity 40 full of
warmth, of which those who have not
the honor of being intimate with him
have no idea. When the emperor took
leave of his host, lit was rather late,-
the latter said to him, smiling with his
fine and arch smile, Sire, could not
possibly tell you how happy ! am that
we have no sovereigns like you in
Europe" "And why said Dom
Pedro. Because" replied Victor
Hugo, both myself and my friends
would be very much puzzled TO find any
thing had to say of them"
Dom Pedro burst out laughing, and
took leave OF his friend like a good-na.
tured and sensible man. Messages Fran.
CO. american.
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Great Hebrew Bankers and the Silver
Question.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Graphic outlines new and
curious theory broached in Washington.
He says:
A combination to depreciate silver has
been projected by the great Jew bankers
of the world. These people have studied
the whole question OF currency in very
practical way, and understand 1t not only
much better that the community at
large, but better also than the Christians
associated with them in business. They
realize that the demonetization Of silver
means an era of low prices. In other
words, the artificial enhancement Of the
price of gold REDUCES the measure OF
prices all over the world. BY their d.
rect action upo1unhofpvernments OF the
Scandinax iermany, and the
United rast bssnte2ar
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Joseph Selignan.

Mr.. Joseph Seligman, the banker, is
the lion Of the hour, even that of the
tribe of Judah. He is a man of great
wealth, great liserality; entertains with
marked hospitality is a man Of distin-
guished business talent and Of great
probity. He is one Of the syndicate,
director in many banks, vice.president Of
the union league, and In religion radi-
cal, being a leading member of Prof.
Adler's congregation. His history, az
told by those who know him well, is an
interesting one. He came from Germany
and landed on our docks all unknown
and penniless. His first job was 10 carry
a va1ise up the wharf. He Invested the
coin earned in some papers out OF the
profits Of his papers he purchased small
stock OF goods, which be carried around
in a try. lie established route, eg
I,rtlcles at a lair price, and those
BRAIDED with him once TRADED = q
iuu- I1ae Gpirit Of H., Nv
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FOREIGN.

Fifteen hundred personsieeing from
Adler to III. Turkish lines, iron fear of the
Russians, have perished from 'anser'
Some days since the EnlAh govern
ment dispatched feet Of 'sva iron-clsds
aud one frigate to Bssika bay. The move
ment is regarded with great dsetisiaction
by influential Turks, who cOnat'r it simply
a'asisn that England is prepaHng to seize
"er share Of the pluuder.
In consequence of the reinsurance of
England, the porte has sent ippsrative Or
"ers to the commander Of the Bla'k sea fleet
10 render the blockade more sissssal.
Japan is not making very sisfactory
ne'awsy in crushing her rebsli'a' saigo'
eon'es'ediy the military genius d she en-
pre-, has secured ammuniton md supplies
abundance, and has no, only Stepped the
imperial army, but hsmmsd It IN on the
'and side All over the cssnpq here are
outbreaks that annoy the so,srnsnt, and
ancrd aid to the brilliant insuruL
SIR Stafford Northcote sA stand
"sa,ns' ~, Gladstone for the Lord RsorshiI
Of Glasgow University.
The The French pretender, tsis d,
Shamoord Henry VI, is about sue .
Assn'les'o' In France they are e &c
iS"eo To the Counts msnife, n.
hia0ns u 1874, in which h. sross.
l still ls-sdy 10 give up the ,hrcnet s.
spasr The dela,ion thar Is
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10 lazy summer, swsrthy, ia the sun
Lies painting, with bare breasts, upon tho hills,
swsthing her limbs IN ha1es warm aud dun,
Where spendors into dusky spendors run,
Aud sultry glory all the heaven o'eidlis.
Not white diwpe siirs amid ih. corn,
Not low ripple shiverS through the leaves
since, wrapped in gold and crimson CLEANS nnshorn
taine. flashing through the east, the regal morn;
No thtoated twiticrings gurgle round the caves.
Flooded In sunny silence sleep the kline;
In languid mnrmurs hro0kiets float and flow
! he quaint farm gables Ia the rich light shine,
Aud round them iasmined hone ysuckles twine,
And close beside them sunhowers burn and blew
Amid the grosing heal lie ine down,
Ana into visions sNaTms the moied air;
Gleains ur ec'oTc me many famous town,
iiiiared and crested with regal crown
outshimmering In an orient purple glare.
lol lowly rsdmore burning in It's ssnds--
baalhsek and Babylon; see slow streams
Gliding by mosque and mnaret-see CLEANS
Of seas in sunset-slips Of strands
And drowsy Bagdad buried deep In dreams:
see swartby aonarchs flushed in purple rings
oi silken courters. through hali-open doors
Catch the spice odors, snd cool of Springs
Leaving forever In a maze Of wings;
See Light forms dancing over pesrly floors
Sleeping seraglio's srre and tremulous dome
Winkng in drowsy splender all the day.
zee forest haunis where thick the lions roam,
See thirsty panthers spsshed In bloody foam,
Leap terrible us ligbtnings ON their prey.
Or stand with Cortez on a mountain peak
Above the Aztec city-see unrolled
Gem-threaded shores OF Montezuma weak,
See the white temples swarming thick and sleek
And sunny streets stretched up by towers of gold
See silken sails float by, nmbroslsl,
Laden with spices, up Persian glea;
or stand on Lebanon. mid oedafs tall,
Or hear the soft and silver fall
OF water down jut Of Darien.
But 10 waking shiver in the trees,
And voices mid the hay-cocks In the glen
The sun Is settling; aud the crimson seas
Are shaKen into splenjor by the breeze,
And all the busy world is up again.
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The Turkish Troops on the Danube

al do not wish," writes correspond
ent to the London Telegraph from Rust
chuk, to boast of our troops here their
fighting hereafter will tell its own tale I;
but may remark that those who believe
them to be emaciated, ragged, and miser-
able, are terribly deceived. ] am aware
that it Is tine fashion to imagine them
underfed and ill.clothed that it is popu-
larly supposed that the Turkish soldier
lives like Bushman--upon what he can
grub up from the ground, and that, if
ever he gets full meal, 1t is after having
gone on for a long time with very poor
meals indeed. But let me give you an
idea of how they are kept. will take the
amount Of food served on the last night
for to-day's rations to the battalions of
infantry here. There were $4,000 pounds
Of bread, $4,000 pounds OF meat, $500
pounds of rice, 700 pounds of butter,
and 5000 such like delicacies. To every
horse, too, was served out s pounds of
barley and IL pounds Of hay, and this,
be it remembered, was no extraordinary
ration. The fact is that for the present
we have plenty and to spare, though how
long il will last is of course not for me to
say. All I wish to remark is that at
this moment we are in excellent fighting
trim, and if we have no vodka to wash
down the excellent bread which Is sserved
out, it Ia because the Turks are teetota-
iers of the strictest sort, and need no
stimulant to make them fight well.
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II is saitthst one-half the horses sold
by public auction in Denison, Texas, are
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THE FOREIGN WAR.

The Russians have issued general
order stating that they are warning only
| against organized force, and any wandering
parties not coming within that designation
in military sense, will be dealt with sc-
cording to martial law.
The Turks are concentrating about
shumla, in order to take the Russian adj
vance to the Balkans in the flank. The
Russians will probably 60 forward until the
Turks come out of Shumla, and then face
about and give them battle in the open
country.
4 battle was fought July 5, in the
vicinity Of Biela, lasting twelve hours. The
Russians were repnlsed with considerable
loss, and fell back on Sistova.
IL is officially announced that the
Russian losses in the crossing Of the Dan
ube at Sistova were 800 killed and 400
wounded
The Roumanian government, before
sending troops across the Danube, inquired
how Austria would regard such step, and
was informed that "a long as the Roumanian
army respected Servian neutrality, Austria
would remain Indifferent to its movements.
Thirty thousand Turkish troops have
embarked for Trebizond to reinforce the
army in Armenia.
All newspaper correspondents have
Deen ordered to leave the Russian head
quarters Immediately.
A correspondent attributes the fol-
towing sensational utterances to the Prince
of Wales; 1--WE shall inevitably have war
before year is out; that for England war
is an affair OF days; for France, perhaps, of
months but still inevitable"
The Osceola times., 1877-07-21
OsCEOLA. ARKANSAS SATURDAY. JULY o. 1877

gitimists have chance in France. and that
somehow or other he, the representative of
the medieval nobility, may hoat into power
out of the present political complications.
The Comte de Paris ORLEANS pretender)
labors under a similar mistake.
The Osceola times., 1877-07-21
rH 4 WEST,

News reaches us OF q I5s,,, which
passed over Of Pensaukee, Wis,
July p'n, lDdt three houses standing
A lfner hotel, the largest brick summer
resort hotel in northern Wisconsin, was
blown down and eight persons are known
IA have buen killed, twenty wounded and
i've missing. There were some guests at the
ho,s, of whom no account has been made.
rhe losses are heavy. The storm tore
up large trees as though theshey had been
weed. and whired them 10 the sir like
feathers. The tornado was pt over 1000
fee, in width, and lasted but two minutes
It's velocity and power were rrifs.
The Osceola times., 1877-07-21

1t won't do for young lady to poke a
sun umbrella at the wheel-house on a
billy goat, especially If her dress fits
tight, the goods are thin, and the
weather's hot. One did yesterday, and.
when she picked hese e13(p out Of the
gutter and went off etse. q words to
herself, she discovsl ~ ~ -
was busted in forthe .nat
tions and in 60GmGas
frsm-the naeiu
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II is said that one-half the horses sold
by icSuction in Denison, Texas, are
stolen property.
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Is SUMMARY.
TN u aOUTu.

PROPOSES TO mount a few of
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10 lazy summer, swsrthy, ia the sun
Lies painting, with hsre breasts upon tho hills,
swsthing her limbs IN ha1es warm aud dun,
Where splendors into dusky anlendois run,
Aud sultry glory all the heaven o'eiiilis
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-28

There has grown up a sort of COM
mon law of obligation, recognized mu-
tuallv by the press and by the people,
by which the people expect that the
press, as distributors of useful intelli-
gence, shall inform them, as well what
is to be avoided as what Is to be sought,
as well who is to be suspected as who
is to be confided in. And a newspaper,
as a garnerer and distributor of news,
is a public monitor, and it is its duty to
admonish the people against frauds and
shams, and impOstures and dishonesties.
1t is to be a beacon as we'll as a guide
and whenever a public newspaper,
through its diversified appliances for
the collection and distribution of in
formation, discovers anywhere in public
life and in public avocations, whether
1t be a lawy err, or a clergyman, or a
physician, a man who, instead of secur-
ing the public welfare by honorable
methods and practices, simply prOwl:
about in the back yard of his profession,
and uses the means and Instrumental
ties which honorable title gives him to
pander to his own lust or avaTice, OF
any other vile passion, and that paper
fails to send out some admonltory voice,
and sound some signal Of warning, it i.
-ecreant to every principle of duty and
responsibility, and should be stigma
tized by the public 1t pretends tC
represent and to serve.
/ cordially, however, give my assent
TO the doctrine that a newspaper has nc
right in its endeavors to minister to the
public to sacrifice private character
The public too has a stake in the goot
name of its citizens, and he who de-
flames a good citizen does it at his owl
peril. The public press should incul
cate the sentiment that he who mali
c~lously or wilfully or wantonly o,
carelessly even, and falsely, charges
man with a crime, is a foe to society
and an enemy to the law. The Law
recognizes this, and always has, so tina
from the earliest history of civilization
and in the rudest stages OF society w
have found the law furnished protection
TO every man in the full and complete
enjoyment of a well earned reputation
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-28
A Timely Warning.

He was an elderly mar of remarkably
thin features. His dress consisted of a
high crowned hat, a worn black suit, a
pair of capacious shoes, and a dirty
white neckerchief sufficiently limpid
and scrambled to disclose the greater
portion of his wiry throat. He entered
a saloon on Pearl street, and after salu-
ting the bartender, and making some
comments on the 'disagreeableness of
the weather. backed up against the
stove, and proceeded to take the cheer
full warmth Thereof.
A second party entered the room.
He was a young man and his makeup
styled him a verdant country youth.
He approached the bar and signified
to the waiter that he wished for a glass
of whiskey ,whichwas placed before him
After paying for the beverage he rested
one arm upon the bar, and was pass
ing the glass to his lips when the thin
man sprang to his side and in an excl
ted voice cried:
young man, be ware =
Wh-wha-what?' said the country
man az he, half frightened emptied a
portion of the beve rage out on the floor
Set down that cup, continued the slim
man. It's loathsome dregs are remorse,
disgrace and DEATH,
NO faint, tits whiskey,' said the
youth, and again attempted to imbibe /;
but the slim man held his arm and
yelled;
set down that cup. A demons spirit
is hidden in its sparkling potion
is there p inquired The verdant, star
Ing hard at the thin man, and setting the
glass on the bar.
'The evil is contagious and the infec-
ton DEATH continued the slim man.
you don'tmean itY' replied the other
in a frightened voice.
"Distllled by fire that scarce is quen-
ched, it kindles fire in the soul that
burns and burns, stillburning until a
bleak "desolation of all that is pure and
noble resumed the thin man. Set down
that cup or fear the overwhelming woe
of drunkard's DOOM y
'Oh, my JENNY moaned the young
man, turning pale, and leaning on the
bar for support.
Look forward with hope; but beware
continued the thin man, there are fas-
cinations which charm one on, where
virtue shrinks with horror.
There are enticements which draw
the wayering from the road of honor,
and which even beguile the innocentto
the abandonment OF all that adds beauty
to the youthful character, or honor to
the name Of man. The rapids are surging
around you; hear you not the thunder
of the tallY'
But there was no one to answer his
question, the young man had fled, and
The thin man turning TO the bartender,
said:
1T would he a shame to throw away
that whiskey these hard times, and 80
drank il himself.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-28
The Fiend Of the Jungle.

The tiger, the tyrant Of the Indian
jungle, has the precedence over his
feebler or less dreaded congeners. Skirt
ing the base Of the Hlmalayan range,
extending east and west for many
hundreds of miles, is a tract Of land
covered with jungle, called the Teral;
this Is his chosen home. Graded in the
long, feathery grass Of the jungle, he
gambOls about In his infancy playful as
a kitten, and usually attalns when full
grown the length of nine or nine and
a half feet. Wild hogs, deer, and all the
larger species Of game, are his usual
prey; but sometimes a pair of tigers
will take up their abode within a mile
of a village, sallying out from their lair
every three or four days to pull down a
bullock or a buffalo, always selecting
the latest In the herd. The strength
of their muscular fore-arms is enor-
nous. Captain Baldwin says: 81 re-
member In Assam a tiger in the dead Of
night leaping oyer a fence nearly five
feet high, seizlng n of the largest
oxen, and again leaping back, dragging
the bullock after him across several
fields and over two hedges" In his old
age, when his teeth becomes worn he not
unfrequently becomes a man-eater; and
such is the devastation he then occa-
sions, that whole villages are sometimes
deserted, and extensive districts laid
waste from dread of these feline
scourges. In these disastrous circum-
stances the advent ofan English sports
mar with his rifle and elephants is
hailed as a o d-send by the whole
neighbOrhood. A tiger often when
brought to bay ''splts" exactly like a
cat. Contrary to the received opinion,
tigers seldom roar; but at night the
forests resound with the hideous din of
their cries which resemble the cater
wauling Of a whole squadron OF
gigantic tom-cats. In making a charge
the tigers utters a series Of short,
vicious, coughing growls, as trying to
the nerves as the most terrific roar
Chambers Journal.
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How a Boy Enjoys Spring.

These are the days when a boy starts
away from home at seven o'clock in the
morning, with a market basket and a
case knife, to 60 to the woods to get wild
flowers, and comes back any time after
dark, without any handle to the basket,
with a broken knife, the rim of his hat
gone, his trowsers rent in every variety,
hungry as an Indian and tired as a
tramp, and after he has eaten enough
supper for six men, and has failed in
three decentralization to get past you
and go to bed without washing his face
and hands, replies to inquiries about
spring flowers by pulling out of his
pocket a mile and a half of string, five
fish hooks, two spools, four walnuts,
vintage of '76, a birds wing, part of a
squirrel skin, a thorn three inches long,
a big tooth, buckeye, and wan, wilted,
crumple little bit of something which
on close inspection proves to be the
remains of a violet.-HGBkeye.
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Truth.

There is an innate principal in the
human heart which causes men to love
truth and regard it rs something par
tic. The images of a lively fancy or
the fairy forms of the ideal world may
delight for a moment the restless mind
but truth alone can impart n spirit
which partakes of It's own dignity sim
plicity and eternity. Those who are
charmed with finely wrought tales, inn
aginary Joys and woes, and are wont
10 feel the immortal intellect with airy
nothing feel too painfully the INSULT
cheney Of fiction to supply the n%ecessi-
ties of the soul, and though such seldom
becomes the lovers and defenders of
truth, they are accustomed to regard 1t
as u treasure which possesses the power
of mparting a lasting satisfaction to its
pOssessor.
SO spontaneously does the love of
truth spring up in the human heart,
that the system of error, however
studied and specious, would meet the
appreciation of mankind, did il not as
sumo the garb of reality, and present
itself to the inquiring mind as the OBJ
iect of his search.
Truth, then, may be regarded as hav-
ing an original abode In the human
soul aud doubtless that man stood on
the earth, and held sweet converse,
and cherubim and seraphim, saw 1t in
full perfection and loveliness. But
when the ~polluting and destroying in
huence of sin introduced disorder and
confusion into harmonious universe and
marred the beautiful symmetry ofman's
moral constitution, preJudiced in part
gained the ascendency over the princi-
pie, and obtained q seat In the heart,
there to defend error and counterfeit
truth.
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