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The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-05-24
THE YOUNG CUBAN.

One evening, Just after the eight o'clock
gun had fired, l was seated in the Cafe Fer
nando, in the Gale de Santa Maria, Ha-
vana. smoking Spanish cigaritti, and
watching the crowd of persons passing in
and out, or pacing up and down the hall,
in that earnest, conversational manner
which characterizes the Spaniard.
/ sat quietly smoking when Young
Spaniard-- 1 had seen in the United
States--passed my table. at once pro-
nounced his name. He stopped, and, after
regarding me for an instant, a bright, warm
smile of recognition lighted up his fine
countenance, and he sprang forward, and
clasped me in his hands, while he express
ed, most cordially, his pleasure at meeting
me again.
He took a seat by me, and after l had
told him how long ! had been in Cuba, and
where 1 was living, he answered my inqui-
ries by informing me that he lived within
half a league of the walls with his mother,
and that his house was at my service as
much as if it were my own. Having thank
ed him for his hospitable offer, We talked of
our former schoolmates; for we had been at
school together near Boston.
Young Carlos de Armas had been popu-
lar with us. He was of slight figure, but
perfectly symmetrical, with the most ele-
giant shaped hand and foot / ever beheld.
His hair was as glossy black as the ravens
wing, and flowed with silvery beauty about
his neck. His features were delicately
chiseled, and full OF expression and ener
getic beauty. -.
"You will 60 ont with me tomorrow ?"
he asked. 81 remain in tonight, to attend
the opera, where you must go with me. !
will take no refusal, mi amigo Americano &"
he added, with his captivating smile, as he
laid his jeweled, olive-colored hand upon
my arm.
I was about to consent, for had come to
Havana for my health, which, having been
entirely restored in that delicious cline,
had some days leisure before l eontem.
plated returning to the States. But as
was in the act Of replying, richly dressed
officer of middle age and naughty air came
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MatrimOnY by Mail.

A man writes from the far West to
Miss Jennie Collins, of Bofin's Bower,
Boston. Enclosed in his letter is $5, to
be used for the girls aided at the Bower.
After explaining the design of this en-
closure he proceeds as follows: While
writing, I wish to ask if it is not possible
for you to do me favor and at the same
time, perhaps, assist some good woman
to find home. I am bachelor of
forty, neither rich nor good-looking, but
/ am in business and doing well. was
born in the State of New York, but l
have lived sixteen years in California,
and nearly two years in this State. AS
you have probably guessed ere this, I
am in want of wife, and would ask you
if among your acquaintance you could
not pick out for me nice, virtuous, and
true woman, one who has no home and
would appreciate one of her own and a
kind and loving husband Gas I would try
to beg to protect and provide for her. 1
do not care how poor she may be, as far
as money is concerned; but would have
her well educated and accustomed to
good society, for should take her among
those who would meet her with open
arms, and / should introduce her among
the best society, both here and in New
York. I would not object to nice little
widow, provided she was homeless,
young, virtuous, and in every way
good woman. You will probably wonder
why I do not 60 among friends and
acquaintance to pick me out wife, and
I will tell you the exact truth. Ispept
ten months two years ago visiting my
friends East, but the marriageable ladies
all seemed to be well to do and to live
in stylish happy homes, better than l
was able at that time to give wife
Then I would sooner give some good
woman home who now has none than
one who is already in possession of II good
home and otherwise well provided for
I believe it is in your power to put me
in correspondence with some lady
who would like to find home and
husband, always provided, of course,
that We we're suited to each other, and /
will, of course, give her undoubted proof
that 1 am what represent myself to be.
To these and similar epistles Miss Col
lins always makes suitable replies, and
in some cases she is really the good
genius who makes easy the first steps to-
wards happy homo. In one instance
gentleman wrote to her for a wife, and
while she was considering what she
should do about the matter there came
to her a girl who was an orphan, an edu-
Gated girl, but like so many others, not
trained to any particular calling. The
letter containing the request was handed
to her, and she answered it. The gen.
tleman saw from her reply that she was
not only young woman of education,
but of strong common sense, SO he ar
ranged for an interview with her. This
interview took place, and they were mar
ried after brief courtship. OF their
after life Miss Collins knows nothing,
but she believes that the marriage was
happy one, in spite of the somewhat
peculiar manner in which it was con-
tracted.
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A short time ago a lady residing at
Clifton, England, having an income OF
s5,OOO year, was so struck by the de-
votion of young crossing sweeper to
his mother that she proposed to him,
placed him in the hands of tutor for a
couple of months, and when he had been
Intellectually veneerel and polished,
married him at Wells cathedral, The
s1psriment was not success, md the
laay ls new suing for e divorce.
The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-05-24

The United States navy at the present
time consists of 146 vessels.of lou, ,l51
tons measurement.
"That portable stove saves hall the
fuel" said an ironnonger. "Falx thin,
I'll take two of thin, and save 1t all,
replied his customer.
"Give me fifth-story room, next the
skylight, so I can get ont one way at
least" said traveller as he registered
his name at a city hotel.
An unsuccessful lover was asked by
what means he lost his divinity. "Alas!
cried he, 81 fattered her until size got
too proud to speak to me.
What is a young man to think when
he meets young lady shading her eyes
from the sun with q piece of music, the
title of which" kiss Me Good Night
is turned in full view?
The Pacific Coast States make a loud
wall against the tramp nuisance. The
climate is very favorable to these people,
as they can sleep out of doors comfort
ably eight or nine months in the year.
Previously to the invention Of hats,
both men and women generally wore
close-knit woolen caps; the mans hat
was invented at Paris, by Swiss, 14O4,
first worn in England in Henry Wills
time and first manufactured in London,
1910.
There are now sixty-nine daily, weekly
and monthly periodicals IN Bengaiee
and Tamil, the two languages OF India
in which the greatest Literary activity Is
shown. Twelve of these are devoted to
Mussulman interests and about twenty
to Ckristian.
When Buffalo young lady so writes
q correspondent parts from her beau,
who is too basllful to understand the
nicer usages of his position, she will say:
civilian, if you were to kiss me you
might be afraid ma would hear it. But
if I creak the gate she won't know the
difference T.
A bow in Cumberland county. Penn,
forty years ago lost shilling tnat ms
father had given him to pay his teacher
for school.booE. Last month the boy,
now nearly fifty years old, learned where
Lis old teacher IL living, and sent him a
letter detailing all the circumstances
connected with the unpaid-for book, ana
inciosing the amount of the little debt,
with TO ty years interest.
AbombsheT was plowed up in Morgan
county. Tenn, few DAYS ago, which
had been firedfrom oneof General George
Morgan's cannon during his retreat from
Cumberland Gap in 1862. The finders,
to test its keeping qualities, took it home
and mt IL in the fire. A man about two
miles away OIL hill reports the exper:-
ment highly successful, but the actors
In the snone have not ger been hear"
from;
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Called by the Angels.


The farmers wife is sitting alone
In the dusk Of winters day,
While over the hills the shadows fall,
And over the meadows gray,
And the cares Of many busy hour
Steal fast from her heart away.
Her eyes have wandered through mist Of tears
To the churchyard under the hill,
Where the snow, like the wings of brooding
dove,
Lies soft and pure and still,
And where her treasures, so long ago,
She laid at the Masters will.
And, ah how oft, as the days 60 by,
She starts, as her listening ear
Has almost caught on the passing breeze
Voices so sweet and clear.
'f'Iis the angels calling" she thinks. "Ah,
me!
1t is weary waiting here"
The farmer comes from his work, at last,
In the dusk Of winters day.
Aad he sits him down by his faithful wife,
And she parts his locks so gray,
And looks in his face with loving smile
That years steal never away.
And back again, as her dim eyes turn
To the hills where the shadows fall,
She thinks "My treasures are lying there.
But He has not taken ALL
Since one is waiting beside me still
Till the angels voices call"
Bat the weeks are slow, and the aged two,
In the dusk Of many day,
Will watch the shadows come and 60
Der tho meadows cold and gray,
Ere they, at the Masters will, may lie
Where their treasures are laid away.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

On Dannbe's stormy banks I stand,
and cast a wistfhleye tward Turkey
fair and unhappy land, where cor.
respondents lie.--Erchangc.
The Toledo Blade asks, GLOW to
do up shirts 7" Well, if you have not
got more than two, you can do them
up in a brown paper pocket parcel.
A Baltimore belle just from vassar
College, when told by waiter in a
restaurant that they had no goose.
berries, exclaimed, "What has hap.
pened to the goosc?" The waiter
wilted. 4
ooh, dear said she, sweeping
away with her broom, "what shall
do ? here it is IL o'clock and l havnt
this room swept, the beds are moi
made and the breakfast dishes are vel
to wash. Oh, dear, was ever a wo.
man so pressed for time as / am ~
Then she suddenly stopped, leaned
on her broom, and listened for hall
hour, trying to catch the points of {
quarrel which was going on between
a married couple in the next-dool
house. The study of feminine char.
acter is hard one.--Philddelphit
Bulletin. Ill, .s
"Shy as girl! !" This is a pretty
and pertinent smile. This morning
a bevy of young girls were passing
the office, eating peanuts and snap
ping the shells over their,heads, whel
a couple of boys in a wagon cam'
along, when one of the shy maiden
said: t
"Want peanut, Billy?"
eyes," answered the expectan
William.
"Stand on your head, then, and III
give you one,' she cried back.
And then all the maidens lifted NJ
their voices in a voluminous scream
and William gave the horse such
lick that filled it with CONSERVATION
DanJuYy Neacs. as.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
TICE

Will give us all sorts of weather dur
ing August therefore it will be well
for you to cut this out and use it for
reference when you wish to appoint
q day for an excursion, lawn or pic
mic party. The following are the
professors predictions:
From the LIST to the 3D., clouding
and threatening weather, with heavy
rains and storms in places.
From the 4th to the 18th, clear or
fair.
From 7th to 10th, clouding and
threatening, with severe storms in
places.
| From nth to 18th, clear or fair.
From l4th to 18th, clouding and
threatening weather, with heavy
storms in places.
From 10th to oath, clear with liabil-
ity to frost north of the 10th parallel
of latitude.
From 25th to 28th, variable, gener
ally clouding and threatening, will
rains in places.
From 28th to 30th, generally clear
Both to 3lst, clouding and very
threatening, with probably heavy
storms about the 3lst.
The warmest days will be about the
i
Sd, 9th, 18th, Goth, 26th and Both.
The cooler days will be about the
18th, 18th. 18th and 22d.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

"The mild idiot whose chief bust
ness it is to predict the'overthrow OF
the republic" as the New York 1ri
bune puts it, has great time at pres
ent. Yes, we know him; pinched
face, mild voice, rather seedy habili
ments. world never been able to ap-
preciate his abilities. Meet him Of
ten. 4sToll you so; country going to
the dogs; this is your popular gov
eminent, pah What are we. sir
Whittier are we drifting? Corrup
ton OH every side; hard times; in
competent men at the helm; look q
Greece, Rome and these fellows--nt
go !. must give in; PUNK, PUNK
PUNK, PUNK. - Inter Ocean.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
To consumntIves.

|
Consumption, that scourge Of humanity, II
the great dread of the human family. in all civil.
lied countries.
feel confident that am in possession OF tht
only sure, infallible Remedy, now known to tn
Profession for the positive and speedy cure OF tina
dread disease, and its unwelcomo concomitants
Wis Catasrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Nervous DebiIifl
&C., &c. Twenty-eight years experience, ~ Z
busy practitioner, 10 the best Consumption Hos
pitfalls Of the Old and New World. has taught mi
the value OF this medicine In the cure of o.
Throat and Lung Complaints.
Those suffering with Consumption Or any Of thu
above maladies, by addressing me, giving symp
TOMS they shall be put 10 possession Of this grsa
boon, vifhom charge, and shall have the benef
OF my experience in thousands Of cases success
fully treated. Full directions for preparation
and use, and all necessary advice and instruc
tion for successful treatment at Your ownhoms
will be received by you by return mail, free o
charge, by addressing
DIR. JOHN y. BURNETT,
1877 Jefferson Stveets
apll WHY l.OUlsvILLE, Ky.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

A dangerous counterfeit Of the sill.
yer half dollar is in circulation. 1t il
said to be plated with silver and hal
fooled one of our bank cashiers. Il
resembles the genuine shah dollar
has the genuine ring, but has no min
stamp upon 1t. Our bank officers say
they have never seen anything like i
before, and a number Of our mer'
chants have been .roped in by receiy-
ing them.--KeokuE Constt tuition. '.,s
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

The Bloomfield Democrat says -
"Each division Of the st. Louis Kan
go City and Northern railroad got a
mile Of new iron, during the month
Of July. This division. between
Kirksville and Ottumwa, under the
sncisnt management Of John Fox,
vim consume its mile in the neigh
borhood of Ottumwa and Burton"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

On Wednesday evening, Sarah
Brown, colored woman, of Keokuk,
severely cut colored man named
Henry Harris, with razor. The Gate
Citu says the wound extended across
the back of his head from car to ear.
1t was about five inches in length, and
half an inch or so in depth--simply
a scalp wound and not dangerous
one. The girl was interviewed and
her statement of the affair obtained.
She says that through Improper in
tercourse with Harris, under promise
of marriage, she became pregnant,
and that he then refused to fulfill his
promise. Yesterday was the day set
for the wedding and she had every
thing in readiness for the event.
When the time came Harris declined
to comply with his promise, and told
her he would have nothing more to
do with her. She therenpon armed
herself with a razor and resolved to
kill him. She expressed the hope
that she had killed him., and said the
minute she knew he was dead she
was willing to be taken out and hung
for it. Harris is barber, and has
worked in Keokuk several years.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
Dangerous Insurance.

Women are going into the insur-
ancc business. And when a comely
woman enters mans office, bitches
up her chair, places fair hand or
his arm, and begins to talk about pol.
icies, he feels as if his life ought to be
insured pretty soon. And this feeling
is greatly augmented should his wife
drop in unexpectedly during the in.
terview.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
ASK YOURSELF THEsEQUEsTIoNs

Are you respondent sufferer from
Sick Headache, HabituAl Costivoness,
Palpitation of the Heart? Have you
Dizziness Of tho Headp Is your Ner-
vous System depressed? Does your
Blood circulate badly? Have you q
Cough? Low Splrits? Coming up of
the TODD after eating? sc sc. All of
these and much more are the results
of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and In
digestion. GREENS AUGUST FLOWER
ia now acknowledged by all Druggists
to be positive cure. 2, 4O0, 600 bottles
were given away in the U. 8. through
Druggiststo the people as trial. Two
doses will satisfy any person of lite
wot derful quality in curing all forms
of Indigestion. Sample bottles lOcts.
PECULIAR size Is cts. Sold positive by
all first-class Druggists in the U. s.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

w. III. Needham has sold his inter.
est in the Oskaloosa Herald to Geo
r. Leo and VIM. L. Leighton, who
together with H. G Leighton, will
continue Its publication. We regret
tat Mr.. Needham retires, but wei.
como the new proprietors to the edi.
torial profession and wish them
abundant success.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

The Directors of the State Agricul-
tural Society announce that all propo-
sitions for games Of chance will be
rejected, and also that all forms Of
gambling will be excluded from the
fair grounds at the coming State Fair
ct Cedar Rapids. Right.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

The Bloomfield Republican says =
1--WE zee men every day, who car
buy three or four cigars, and yet can
not pay $3.50 . year for news
paper. just 90. There are hun
drsds of that kind Of people every
where.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

The latest, grsa tcsa. and most reliabIs
remedy ever put together by medical science for
Rheumatism, Wounds, swellings. Burns. Csked
Breast &C.. is the Centaur Lintmdnt. There are
two kinds. What the White Liniment is for the
human family, the stronger kind--which As vel
low in color-is for spawned, lame and strained
horses and animals. Their effects are wonderful.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

VIM. Evans, an old friend Of the
COURIER, living in Highland town
ship, met with quite an adventure
Tuesdaycvening. 8 Wtien hesobserv-
ed the storm approaching he took ref
uge by the side of haystack. Be
fore the storm was over the old gen
::.eman fell asleep, liglltning stsi.ea
the stack, set it Of" fire without even
waking Uncle Billy. He looked 9
little discouraged when pulled out
from under the burning stack, and
even went so far 7as to iAqnite who
set the fire. We are glad he was not
hurt es afta
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

There 10 no Disgusting the fact that
Des Noines is infested by a lot of
lawless and graceless scsmps, who are
too lazy to work, cheeky enough to
beg, and mean enough to steal. Sc
the Rsgtstsr says.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
An Err Of Good Times.

Money for everybody! These are
the happy tidings announced by the
kentuckys Cash DisEibption Co.
"$3lO,OoO win be sdistrinlted bysthem
on August 3Oth, or money will be re.
funded" The lucky ones will not
only not have to "strike," but can re.
tire upon competency. $40 will Sc
cure it. Send for tickets at once, to
G. W. Barrow q Co., General Mama
gers, Courier journal Buildings Lou.
isville KY; or Thos. III. Hayes& Co
General Agents, No. 697, Broadway
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

The Oskaloosa Herald says: There
are already six printing offices in that
city, which is barely large enough to
support two, and yet we learn thai
some people are not happy but are
CRYING for more.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08
JoTTrlros.

The Bloomfield Republican is now
fourteen years old.
One of our exchanges says "feaver"
is bad in that locality. sskfs (!
BROKEN GLAss.--R. A. Glass, of
Iowa City, has filed petition in
bankruptcy. ,
DR.. c. s. Acheson, for 90 years
prominent citizen of Abba, died,
last Sabbath, of apoplexy.
John Bosley, a brick maker, suicid-
ed in Sioux City, on the 25th, by TAX
ing an ounce of laudanum.
The COURIER Office is the place to
get good Job Work done. Our steam
presses can knock it out lively.
The average Fairfielderls Gisgust-
ed with Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage as q
lecturer. They think we have some
Iowa scrubs who are fully as elo-
quent as he is. 96fst ass{Eysfa
The Ottumwa Fire Company pro-
pose to have grand dance on the
evening of the l1th of September, at
the City Hall. They are making
grand preparations for the occasion.
| We heard we'll posted man say,
yesterday, that corn in Dayiscounty
would be so abundant as to sell fol-
fifteen cents per -bushel before the Is,
, Of next January Baoosnf field Demo
J crdt.
GooD.-Nick Baker gives it as hi
opinion, based upon the authority Q
y a great many farmers, that there vii
be three times as much corn raise
: this year in this county az there wa
n last. fs 1855 a4W s}a 81 3
ri The Z. b. & Q. railroad compan
!" are receiving freight again to a
: parts of the East and West the sam
~ as before the war, and business abor
$ their freight depot is unusually liyt
a. ly. GsEEftE S1Es4
=, The st. Louis Kansas City IL MOI
= thern railway is now finishing up tn
= last Of the new bridges betwee
Coatsville and Ottumwa. This don
IS the entire line will have new bridge
is from one end to the other. fsss'vs
II WE print to-day an exceedingl
thoughtful and sensible article fro'
80 the Chicago Tribune, which we hoT
" every reader of the COURIER wi
carefully read and study, who hs
in not already read it in the 1SibWne.
at Zulauff e. Schwabkey are having
,g good run of custom work at gth
"a Wooden Factory, enough to kee
e, them busy all the while. They al
IL turning out excellent work and "
n are glad to say are receiving goo
III reward. ss3W $3.50 ss
- The Treasurer Of the Local Editor
% Association is whooping up the boz
!. for fifty cent scrip to pay accrue
:, expenses. He should move to D.
Moines where he can get two glass
:. for five cents, and be able to III
- within his salary.-State Register.
Vi Mary Knapp declines to be'a cand
he date for Superintendent of publ
schools in Decatur county, again
ng Miss Josie Kellogg, who at prese
NO fills the Office. Miss Kellogg h
he many friends in this city who q
fe. testify to her fitness for any educ
he tional office. .@,.
Try DRowNED.-CharlieF Flanders, ag'
his 5 years, son of AlonZo and Jenn
up. Flanders, formerly Of this city, q
his grandson of J. A. Milligan, of Il
lrt, city. was drowned at Bayfield,, w
vas consin, on the 30th of July. No pr
ticalars have been received as to hi
say the sad accident occurred. d
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-08

We learn fromthe Fairfield Ledge,
that "a man named McNsHy was kill.
ed by the southern bound express or
the Southwestern, Saturday night
near Seymour. He was lying on the
track with his head and arm on the
rail. Both members were severed
from the body" -
On Monday night, Chris. Smith
hotel keeper, at Perlee, had his righl
leg badly crushed by train.