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Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
FACTS ABOUT SILVER.
Mining Statistics of Other Countries-The
United States Ahead.

Mining Statistics of Other Countries-The
United States Ahead.
According to Humboldt, the value OF
the silver PRODUCED in Mexico and Peru
from 1892 to 1903 was "a, 152, CSC, 900 ;
thai of the product of Europe during the
same period being about 5000, 900, 600.
Total, "a, 352, $50, 600.
Another authority gives 81, ,244. $50, :
794 as the value Of the production Of
Mexico end South America from 1903 to
1S4S, aud 1926, 900, 600 as that of Europe I;
total for both continents of 81, $780,
$50, ,794.
For the period between 184S and 1868,
Prof. Blake estimates the production of
silver as follows: Mexico. $3.50. 900,
600; South America, $500, ,000, 900 |;
Europe. Sl60, $50, 600; United States,
$73, 900, 600; Australia, $40, ,00O. 600.
Total product Se13, 400, 900.
Hitherto Mexico has held the first
place ss the great producer of silve- !;
but henceforward she must be content
with the second, the United States, in
consequence of the discovery and Sue
cessful working of the rich Nevada
mines, having reached the head of the
list.
From 1868 to 1875 the value of the
product of the various countries was
United States, S163, ,000,0 900; Mexico,
$40, 600, 600; South America, $50, 0O0,-
600; and the rest of the world, exclud-
ing Of course, Japan, China and India,
$63, 600, 600, a total of 1922, 900, 900.
Here is brief synoptical view of the
value of the products of the silver mires
of the world from the period of the dis
covery of America to the present time
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
In 1876 the number in business, the
percentage of failures and the average
liabilities were as follows |:

An examination of the al owe table
confirms the impression, which has been
very general, that trade in the Western
and Southern States has been less dis
astrc rs than that of the Eastern and
Midc Q States. 1t is a significant cir
cumstance that the failures in the Mid
die States are in ever,s 81 names re-
ported in business, while in the West
ern States the proportion is In every
~ but the comparison between the
East and the South is even more signifi-
cant, for in New England, with all its
wealth and solidity, in every % has
yielded to the pressure of the times,
while in the South, with all its poverty,
It's political and other disabilities, the
percentage of failures is only in every
Ga. Even in Canada, where there is a
geld basis, light taxation, freedom from
political complications and all other Ia
voring conditions, the above showing Is
indicative of much greater pressure
that in the United States, the failures
in the Dominion Deing / in every ~.
In England no very accurate figures are
obtainablc, and none of course as yet for
the past year, but for 1875 return was
made of 1,700 failures among $4,000
firms prominent in trade, indicating 1
failure for every 36 firms reported In busl-
ness, with an average liability OF $87, $40.
The figures for the United States, showing
failure OF in every 63, with an average
liability of S2l, 900, indicate that the
pressure of the times has been either
not so great in this country as elsewhere,
or that il has been borne with less dis
astrous results.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
Yanderbilt's Whist,

The great passion of which he was
possessed was card-playing. In former
years the games were always played at
either the Union or Manhattan Clubs,
and consisted only of whist, of which he
was very fond. Those whe have PLAYED
many games with him state that be was
q very adroit and clever player. He had
a most remarkable and wonderful
memory of the cards after they had been
played. He always received poor play
with frown, and praised a good cne
He once had for a pai tusr William
Cooke, q railroad man of Bridgeport.
He ds,lkred that Mr.. Cooke made the
best play he had ever seen during his
long experience in the game. Hearts
was trumps, and the Commodore long
suit was spades, the whole of which he
held, with the exception of the king and
card of smaller denomination, which
were held by Mr.. Cooke, without the
Commodore's knowledge. It was the
Commodore's lead, the trumps having
been exhausted, and he was debating in
his mind how TO capture or get rid Of the
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
Not Ready to be Buried.

A few days ago aresident Of Bucking-
ham county, named Bnjamin Winter,
who has an unusual propensity for tax
ing medicines of various kinds for real
or imaginary diseases, swallowed dose
OF opium, mixed with some other drugs,
and when found by his wife was believed
to be dead.
Accordil gly, the usual preparations
were made for the burial, but owing to
the weather the supposed corpse was
kept unburied longer than is customary.
Finally, however, the coffin was follow. d
to the grave by procession OF friends
and neighbors and, In obedience to an
expressed wish of some person present,
who desired once more to behold the
face Of the departed, the lid of the cof-
fin was removed.
A wonderfully unexpected scene was
the result, for as soon as the cold ar
touched the body the eyes opened, and
the supposed corpse was found to be
alive. 1t is further stated that Mr..
Winter actually walked back home -
Lynchburg Va.) Nesos.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

"Oh, they're not legal laws only
social customs and usages. Ill tell you
just what / mean" She laid the roll
ing-pin aside, with an emphatic bang,
placed her foury arms akimbo, looked
very earnest and determined, and quite
regardless of the fact that she and DIR.
Gibson were in love with each other.
Now, at party, when a lady sits alone
in q stuff chair all the evening, not
dancing, simply because she hasn't any
partner, and can't ask any one, oh, you
know, DR.. Gibson, you know"
How it is myself" /" interpolated he.
How it was at Mrs. Campbell's the
other night. If L had been Anna Rad
cliffe, or Dora Collard, I'd have asked
some of you men to dance with me-"
"Then you think women should have
the privilege of asking for whatever
they wisha" he retorted, with half a
smile.
She answered that she thought just
that.
"Well, Matty, 1 quite agree with you.
l not only think they should have this
right in such case you mention, but
also in more serious affairs. For in
stance, women might with perfect pro-
priety, make proposals of marriage"
Now, such an idea had never entered
Matty's foolish little head, and she siezed
the sugar box with great embarrassment.
The doctor went on, with much gravity
81 am aware that it would be very
unconyeltion,i proceeding, and / am
afraid that no woman will ever be wise
enough to take the initiative /; and yet /
an persuaded that in many inetances it
would be the most natural and bsauti-
full thing she could do
He was looking unconsciously up at
the blue sky shining through the fi'agree
work of vine.leaves above him. 1t was
evident he was thinking in the abstract
only, but faitering little "Dr. Glib
son" recalled him to the concrete. And
there stood Matty smiling, blushing,
dimpling, ready to extinguish herself in
her brown gingham apron.
CDR. Gibson, / like you ever so
muchl" she faltered, bravely, but breath
lessly.
The doctor jumped through an open
window, and made his proposal over
again. Sunday Times.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
POLAR ENTHUSIASM.

Capt. Howgate Elaborates His Project
for Arctic Discovery - Capt. Tyson In
dorses the Plan
Capt. II. w. aowgate, in a recent
letter, says his polar colonization scheme
naturally divides itself under three
heads, as follows:
l. The organization of q properly
equipped expedition, with ample means,
both to maintain a colony and to pros
ecute efforts to reach the North pole.
To this end Congressional aid is to be
sought, and bill has been introduced
into the lower house and properly re-
ferred. This provides that $50, 900 be
appropriated, to be used under the di-
rection of the President, in organizing
one or more expeditions, with view to
establishing a temporary colony some
where north of the Slst parallel for the
pp, pose of exploration that suitable
putbic vessels be selected and officers
detailed for the EXPEDITION, and that the
National Academy Of Sciences be invited
to assist with it's advice. In case this
bill fails to pass, the necessary funds, it
is hoped, could be raised by private sub
scriptlon.
2. The Establishment and maintenance
OF tie colony. Proper material for shell
ter, ready to be Immediately put up,
should be taken by the vessel carrying
the hecolonists. With this precaution they
could be made as comfortable as the sig
nal service officials at present are at the
summit OF Pixies peak or of Mount
Washington, although the exposure OF
these last mentioned would be for o
shorter period. Proper food should be
provided in proper quantities and suffi-
cient variety. Fre,h meat in proper
quantities can be had in the immediate
vicinity Of the proposed colony. With
proper food and shelter there is no
trouble about keeping men even at such
lat;sudes in robust health.
3 Explorations toward the pole.-The
officer in charge being on the spot would
be able to take advantage of all favor
able opportunities, and, no doubt, in
three years time or less, would discover
the pole itself, if such feat is within
the reach OF human efforts. The vessel
taking the colonists should return imme-
diately, and the colony be provided with
sledges and small boats for their pene-
trations northward.
Capt. Tyson, of the PolAris party, en-
Enthusiastically lndorses Capt. Howgate's
scheme. He characterizes it as the most
practicable yet devised, and thinks the
scientific societies of the country ought
to memorialize Congress in favor of the
bill before mentioned. If the United
States, he sayr, proves too niggardly to
prosecute this enterprise, England or
Germany viii undoubtedly move in the
matter and secure the honor of accom-
plishing the desired result.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
How a Prisoner Convicted Himself.

The French bar has just lost in M.
Chaix- d Est Ange one of its greatest
masters. His greatest triumph, per-
haps, and one of the greatest triumphs
ever achieved at any bar, was achieved
In the case of man called Benoit,
whom he was prosecuting for parricide.
Benoit had all along persisted in de-
claring he was innocent, and there was
nothing but circumstantial evidence
against him. M. Chaix-d' -Ange re-
solved to employ one of the most start
ling and dramatic figures of rhetoric
ever used in q court of law. Turning
to the'prisoner, he placed the scene Of
the murder In vivid and striking lam
guage before him. "There," he cried,
"sat your father, quietly reading the
newspaper, near the window. He could
not see who came into the room. You
stole in on tip-toe and crept close be-
hind him. You paused one moment,
and then raised the hatchet -
Yes, yes !" cried Benoit, "thats it
that's how did it'll" What the re peat
ed iDterrogatories OF the examining
magistrates had failed to elicit from the
murderer was forced from him by the
eloquence of the barrister Manchester
Guardian.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

Business Failures During the Last Year,
and the Liabilities.

and the Liabilities.
Dun, Barlow e. Co.'s Mercantile
Agency, of New York, have just pub
lished their annual circular of statistics,
showing the number of failures that
have occurred throughout the United
States and the Dominion of Canada
during the last year, together with the
arnosfiitsof iiaiyil;ties The number re-
ported in business in 1876 in the United
States is given at $50. .099 and 81, 2S2 in
the Dominion of Canada. The number
of failures during the year in the United
States was 9,092, the amount of liabili-
ties being s191 III, 786. The number
of failures in Canada was l, ,72S, the liza
bilities being s25, ,517,9 ,991.
These figures Indicate an increase in
failures dnring 1876 of 1850 in number
as compared with 1875, which, in its
turn, showed an increase of nearly
1000 over those of 1874. the Gabili-
ties OF 1876, Notwithstanding the In
crease in the number of failures, show
a diniinution, and the average amount
of Indebtedness last year in each failure
is much lower than for many years pre-
vious. The average liabilities in 1876
in the United States was $21 ,020. OF
the 1902 failures in the United States,
SS7 we're in New York city, the average
liabilities being S37,479. The total
number of failures in she United States
during the four previous years was as
follows In 1875, total failures, 7,740.;
average liabilities, $25, $50; in New
York city, 95l failures average liabili-
ties, s5i, ,769. In 1874. total failures,
{, 1880; average liabilities,s S26, 1927 in
New York city, 645 average liabilities,
$50, $40. In 1879, total failures, 5, 1873 );
average liabilities, S44, ,0S5; in New
York city, 644 failures average llabili-
ties, sl43, ,843. In 1872, total failures,
4. .O69; average liabilities, S29, ,996; In
New York city, 3S5 failures average
liabilities, S53, ,724. The circular then
says: The marked reduction in the
average liabilities OF 1876 indicates that
the wider the wave of trouble extends
the greater the number of small traders
It includes. 1t may be interesting to
discover in what section of country the
pressure has been the most Sc
7ere, and with that view the following
able is presented
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

Between 1900 and 10000 alligator
skins are tanned yearly, winch are con-
sumed by boot and shoe manufacturers
in every portion of the United States, as
well as exported to London and Ham
burg. The alligators formerly came al
most entirely from Louisiana, and New
Orleans was the great center of business.
The Florida swamps aud morasses are
now the harvest fields, and Jacksonville,
in that State, the great depot. The ALI
gators often attain length of eighteen
to twenty feet, and frequently live to a
very old age. The hides are stripped
off, and the belly and sides, the only
portions fit for use, are packed in bar
rels, i'll strong brine, and shipped to the
Northern tanner, who keeps them under
treatment for from six TO eight months,
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
A woman,s Fight with a Hawk.

The wife of Samuel Kieffer, residing
near Lienbach's mill, Ruscombmanor
township, about one mile from Fleet
wood, killed large chicken-hawk the
other day by main strength. Mrs.
Kieffer, who Is about 65 years cf -.
heard a noise among the chickens>
tho barn, and upon going out discovered
hawk perched upon an old rooster
weighing about five pounds, and trying
TO carry the chanticleer into the air.
Mrs. X. ran, with the intention of
frightening off the hawk. The latter
showed no inclination to leave, but per-
sisted in holding on to the rooster with
its claws and fluttering greatly. The
old lady, not at all apprehensive OF dan.
ger, seized the hawk by the neck and
strapgled him. The hawk showed bat
tie, and lacerated her hands with its
claws in n terrible manner, but she
clung unto the neck of the bird until
life was extinct. The hawk measured
five feet four inches from tip to tip OF
the wings. (Pa.) Etgte.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

king, SO as to run out his suit. He at
length led the ace, on which his partner
played the king, thus giving the Com
modore the control of the suit. II the
small card had been played, his partner
would have had the leading card in the
suit, and would have been unable to re-
turn the suit afterward. The Commo-
dore often referred to this play, and de-
clared it was the finest he had ever seen.
-NtW York Tribune.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
A New England Oath.

81 swanny" does such universal duty
as an oath throughout New England
that the expression merits some atten-
ton as pathological curiosity. No one
can sojourn among rural New Englsnders
for any length of time without being
driven to speculate as to the origin of
the phrase. Could it have come down
through ages of gradual elimination from
some highly respectable pagan formula,
such as "I will swear by any OF the
gods" for instance2 This seems not
wholly incredible supposition, and lifts
the seeming vulgarism at once to the
level of condensed classic. ."--Srt6-
uer.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

There are some things, says the New
York Tribune, that are almost as good
at second hand as when bought new
Furniture, for instance, that has been
carefully kept, is more priced by many
people than that which is fresh from
The shop. Diamonds do not lose their
luster or their value by being handed
down through generations OF fair
women. Fine laces are treasured -
among the most precious Of heir looms:
Even food served mp the second
time might be quite as savory and nu-
tritious as when first brought on the
table, and a nice garment made over
new is not despised but second hand
airs it to be for q moment tolerated
What is second hand air IL is AIR that
has passed through one, two, or more
rairs of lungs, to which 1t has largely
given up its most precious element, and
from which il has received q load OF
effete animal matter in the shape OF car
bonic acid gas. one of the most poison
ous of gases. 1t has also received the
exhalations OF tbe body, and has become
to a greater OF less extent loaded with
excrementitious matter, and more ntted
to fertilize barren land than to sustain
. 1.fa
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
NUMBER 7.
TIE rALEooKrsr,c SEA.

Oh, Captain Mares was sailor bold
OF Englsnd's proud Nsvee,
And he sailed 20 the Lend Of perpetual cold
That borders The Arctic Sea-
" Hill hessily beat fhose feliers,' he said,
That came from ArneYikee,
And show the way 70 the Arctic Pole
To al that come after me-
So he ssiled away to the frozen North, 9 -rrt
And No Smith Sound went be:
TIL AZ last he came TO the end OF bis rope
In latitude eighty-f1ree, ~
Hits awful cold hup 'ere IN The hice,"
Said this Captain bold, said he
.sBut shouldn't 60 back since that felles 'Ayee
Came nearly ~ far ~ me. rr rrrr f.s..
"Hi1l marx hts Istitude twenty hack nd
aud say mistake made be,
An,s call his blasted Hopen Pole @F
there's more in : name than Shakespeare thoasht
Z Though . poet grand wss he,
And the R. @. 8. VII medal beetow
For my PIsocrystic Sea-
So he healed HIS sheef and bore away tr
And quickly home came he,
with many Z story dark and dread
(lf his Psleocry site Sea. IL. 49,
And nov It is left fer some Hsu q Hayes,
To sssi witt one liSSis american shir e.
Through the Pseocrystic Be-.
nkte
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

Thus, in the short space of six years,
the value of the silver produced in the
region west of the Missouri reached the
enormous sum of sl75, 2l4, 1872, or near.
ly fifteen millions more than Europe
produced in the twenty years between
184s and 1868.
The relative values of silver and gold
at the English mint from 1874 te 1868,
according to Prof. Henry G. Baird of
Philadelphia, were as follows:
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
VOLUME XXI.
CAws AND EFFECT.
BY WASHINGTON GLADDEN..

Nine metaphy ysicians, perched aloft
On the top Of dry pine-tree.
Have talked all day in 4 marvellous way
or divine philosophy
40 wild Coleridgean ramblers they
All over the realm of laws
They stick TO their text, however perplexed
The doctrine (snd practice) Of cavs.
The biggest crow, on the nearest limb,
Gave first. with never a pause,
4 clear, profound, Deliberate. sound
Discourse Of proximate caws.
A theologue in a cassock clad,
With a choker under his i>ws
And cold in his head, either ssIng or said
A treatise Of second caws.
A feh-hawk Lit on the top-me ct limb
With pickerel in his claws,
When small and great began to debate
Concerning efficient caws.
And when, the close, the congress rose,
/ saw tie old crows pause,
And what they said, as they dew o'erhead
Had the sound of final caws.
No longer n me, oh Philosophy,
Thy <evutee expect;
In spite of thy laws. here's = chain of csws,
Ane Dot one single effect.
-Harpcs Magazine for February.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
PLYMOUTH IND,

when they are ready to be cut up. So
far. the leather has been mainly used
in the manufacture of boots and shoes;
but handsome slippers are also made
of IL.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

GIoRDANo Bruno, who was burned in
Rome for his pantheist, in 1900, is TO have
q monument if money enough can be
raised. Six hundred dollars have been
subsc, ibed,
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
irand total since discovery of

Grand total since discovery of
America ................. 81, ,157 430, 794
The principal OBJ ect of the report of
Wells, Fargo & G.. is to demonstrate
the vast impor anc of the mining inter
ests of the trans M ssourian region. To
impress this the m IRE deeply, they fur
nish tabular statement of the value of
the metallic produce of the States and
Territories on the Pacific seaboard for
the six years ending with 1876:
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01

MANY of the titled ladies' OF France
purpose spending the winter st MADRID
instead OF at Paris, in order to lend
eclat TO the coart Of real, blue b'orded
sovereign Of Bourbon descent. nrmeiy.
Alphorxo XII.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
Startling Revelations.

And tine disparity tends to increase.
Marshall County Republican., 1877-02-01
Pith and Point.

IT is the want of motive, ssys George
Eliot, that makes life dull and maksz
men feel old.
If there is cowardly trait in human
nature more disagreeable than any other,
it is whining.
Now Is the time to subscribe 80 cents
to the poor fund, and IS to the baseball
club which is to scoop the world next
spring.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08

District Court, which meets
next week, will draw a large
number of freedmen to the Court
house, and still farther delay the
farmers in getting out the little
cotton left in the fields by the
recent rain storms. There are
only Is colored men drawn to
serve as jurors, but the proba-
bilities are that every day dur
ing Court there will be a hun
dred or so field hands loafng
about the Court house, waiting a
chance to get on a jury for a dol
lar day in parish scrip, or
about sixty cents in greenbacks.
1t is a sad commentary upon the
intelligence of the colored peo-
pie, but court rooms and politi-
cal meetings stand first with a
majority of them, and work
somewhere about last.-[Cou-
shatta Citizen.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-08

Washington, Nov. 6.-Mr. Ellis
had an interview this morning with
Secretary McCrary and Gen. Parke,
acting chief of engineers, in regard
to the raft in Red River above
Shreveport. Measures will be taken
to day to ascertain the extent of the
obstruction and relief from the gov
ernment was promised Mr.. Ellis.
HOuse.-Gen. Gibson's levee bill
provides for the creation of CON-
mission to continue the survey of
the Mississippi and its tributaries
and to decide upon the proper meth
cd for retaining the overlooked
lands. Bonds are to be issued for
Si5,G00,OOO, to run thirty years and
to bear 4 per cent. interest; tax to
be laid on all lands reclaimed and
on the tonnage of all vessels navi
eating the stream, to constitute a
sinking fund to redeem the princi-
pal and interest of the loan.