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The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-04-19
How Counterfeit Notes are Passed.

The counterfeit $40 bills on the La
fayette National bank of Lafayette, Ind, g,
the passage of which brought to State
prison one notorious Italian shower of
the "queer" and his companions, says
a New Haven paper, are O very poor
imitation OF the genuine. The paper
upon which they are printed is also very
poor. Notwithstanding these facts, the
three men-Gulotta, Achille and Hyland
(who only received five years in county
jaiD-got rid of from seven to ten of
them in this city December Is, 1876.
The way in which these men work is as
follows: Three or four come to this city
from New York. One of them carries
the package of money which is to be dis
posed of. He does none of the "shov-
ing," but passes out the bills to his ac-
completes one by one, so that in case of
arrest at most only one will be found on
them. They pass them and return him
the good money they receive at rem
devious before agreed upon. Thenwhen
the city has been worked sufficiently the
men leave town, that is if the police are
not too sharp for them. When the lead
er is suspicious, as he has been upon
nearly every one of his visits to this city
of late, he hides his bundle of counter
felt money and leaves by the next train,
abandoning his friends to their fate.
When two Italians were arrested here
few years ago for passing counterfeit
bills on the Traders bank of Chicago, a
third person was known to have been
with them. After the arrest of his
friends he could not be found, but
package of the bills was discovered hid
den away, in the fence of the First
Methodist church, showing that the
course he had pursued was the usual one
of abandonment and flight. 1t is graft
flying reflection that the men who have
worked this city during the past few
years have all come to grief in this State
through our police.
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Old Drinking Habits in Maine.

The Brunswick (Me.) Telegraph
prints communication, which, speak
ing OF residents of the adjoining town of
Topsham, fifty years ago, says: In one
family of five persons, three of them
would each punish three pints of New
England rum every day the other two
perhaps little less. Why I can be SO
specific, I Was clerk in a store at Tops
ham and had them for customers. An
other instance: We had an old man,
who was customer when I went there
and was there when left, who pur-
chased pint and half of gin every
day, and Saturday three pints. He had
it charged, paid his bill monthly, and
never purchased another article to my re-
collection. His family consisted only
of himself and wife, and she an estima.
BILE woman, therefore he must have used
all of it himself. The average sales at
our store were at lee st $40 a day, amount
ing to $4,000 per annum. There were
five other stores in Topsham, and have
every reason to believe that they sold as
much rum rs we did. Brunswick had
three times as many stores, besides three
successful hotels (Topsham had none).
Think she must have sold at least double
the quantity of Topsham. With New
England rum at forty cents a gallon,
and the best of imported liquors at 81,
in almost every other family in Topsham
there was a drunkard or drllnkards. The
evil became so great that the people
grew alarmed. Two generations OF
my own family on both sides OF the
house suffered severely.
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The Drunkard's Appetite.

There was living not long since, in
Brooklyn, man who had inherited from
a drunken father an appetite for rum.
He was hopeless drunkard. The man
had many noble instincts, and, better
than all these, he had loving, faithful,
brave wife, who made skillful war upon
the demon, her husbands master. Recog-
uizing the fact that her husband was
under an overpowering impulse, that he
longed and struggled manfully to free
himself from the passion for drink, she
bent all the energies of her woman ma
sure to the task of helping him. She
loved and suffered and toiled until at last
the loving and suffering and toiling ac-
complished their purpose. She took her
husband by the hand, and shared with
him his struggle, until, after years
of labor, she overcame his master: and
saw him free man again. Her battle
with rum had been fierce one, taxing
and wasting her strength sorely, but she
was conqueror at last. Her husband
stood upon manly feet, and showed no
signs of falling again. Several years
passed away, and this reformed man fell
i'll of consumption. The distinguished
physician, from whose lips we have the
story, prescribed alcoholic stimulants as
the only means possible of prolonging
his life. The poor wife was in terror,
and begged the physician to recall the
prescription. She told him of her long
struggle and victory, and said the pre-
ferred that her husband should die then,
a sober man, than that he should fill
drunkard's grave year later. But the
freed spirit of the man was strong, and
he undertook to take alcoholic liquors as
medicine, and to confine himself abso-
tutely to such times and measures in the
natter as the physician should prescribe.
This he did, and, during the months thus
added to his life he never once drank
single drop more than the prescription
called for, and he died at last a sober
man, as the wife had so earnestly prayed
that he might. But the end was not yet.
When the loving and patient woman Laid
him in his grave, and saw her long labcrs
thus ended in the victory for which she
had toiled SO hard and suffered so bitter
ly, she turned, in her grief, to the brandy
which had been left in the house, and
drinking it, she fell herself into the pow
er of the fiend which she had fought SO
heroically. And that woman died not
many months later, hopeless, helpless
drunkard.
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Before and After Marriage.

When you see young man sitting in
parlor, with the ugliest six-year-old
boy that ever frightened himself in the
mirror, clambering over his knees, jerk
ing his white tie out Of knot, mussing
his white vest, kicking his shins, feeling
in all his pockets for nickels, lombard
ing him from time to time with various
bits of light furniture and tyoutcrie,
calling him names at the top of his fiend-
ish lungs, and yelling incessantly for him
to come out in the yard and play, while
the unres: sting victim smiles all the time
like the cover of comic almanac, You
may safely bet, although there isn't the
sign of a girl apparent in radius OF
O,OOO miles, you can bet your bottom
doilar that howling boy has sister who
is primping in room not twenty feet
away, and that the young man doesn't
come there just for the fun of playing
with her brother.
They were very pretty and. there was
apparently five or six years difference in
their ages. As the train pulled up ct
Bussey, out on the A. K. & D., the
Younger girl blushed, fattened her nose
nervously against the window, and drew
back in joyous smiles as young man
came dashing into the car, shook hands
tenderly and cordially, insisted on carry
ing her valise, magazine, little paper
bundle, and would probably have carried
her had she permitted him. The passen-
gers smiled as she left the car, and the
murmur went ripping through the
coach "They're engaged" The other
girl sat looking nervously ont of the
window, and once or twice gathered her
parcels together as though she would
leave the car, yet seemed to be expecting
some one. At last he came. He bulged
into the door like house on fire, looked
along the seats until his manly gaze fell
on her upturned, expectant face, roared :
"Come on I've been waiting for you on
the platform for fifteen minutes p
grabbed her basket, and strobe out OF
the car, while she followed with little
valise, bandbox, paper bag full OF
lunch, bird cage, glass jar Of Jelly
preserves, and an extra shawl. And o
crusty looking old bachelor in the fur
ther end of the car croaked out, in unison
with the indignant looks of the passen-
gers: They're married p
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A Bright Little Bourgeois.

We are reminded of one particularly
bright little bourgeoise, whose LIE we
have followed from afar during many
years. When we first knew her, more
than twenty years ago, she was young
and blooming bride, who took possession
of the seat reserved for her at the till in
her husbands shop as proudly as if it had
been throne. 1t was large grocery
shop in the RueSt. Denis, ,andthe business
was fourishing. Madam Ms throne
was fenced off from the shop on three
sides by brass wire retting, leaving only
an opening in front which served as
frame for her bright and ever-pleasant
countenance. There she sat day after
day, with the heavy leather-bound books
and ledgers before her, always busy and
never hurried; with gracious smile for
every customer, and vigilant eye for all
the shopmen. In the summer, when the
Rue st. Denis WAS hot and sitting; in
the winter, when the ever opening door
sent in cold draughts of wind, there she
sat. One would like to think that in the
evening there was some relaxation; but
as every account that was sent in by that
house was in her hand writing, we fear
there was often evening work as well.
After time little girl took her seat
beside her within the sanctuary of the
brass wire netting and played with her
doll, or did some little bit of childish
needlework under the mothers eye. The
doll soon made room for states and copy
books; but still the child was there and
kept her mother company. In time she
took her place now and then at the heavy
books by way of initiation into the mys-
steries. while her mother worked by
her side. Years went by, and Madam
NJ was still there; her eye was as
vigilant, perhaps more vigilant than ever,
but it was less bright; her smile was as
gracious and as unfailing, but it was less
varied and more conventional; in word,
her youth was gone, Utterly passed away
behind that commercial cage of brass wire.
The other day, looking into the shop, we
noticed that there was new master. But
the mistress was not new; the child, the
girl, the woman whose life had been
spent there, now reigned in her mothers
stead. The shop, her dot, herself, had
been handed over together to the same
purchaser. "Her father and mother had
RETIRED" she said. "They live in the
country now, she added, not without
touch of pride. e.-MacmilIan's Magazine.
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A WaterspOut i'm India.

The clouds grew very dark and threat
ening, and Immediately the course OF
the vessel was changed from southeast
to due north, in orderlto run away from
the point toward which the storm SEEM
ed to be centering, which proved to be
on our port bow. Gradually the
clouds, which, by-the-bye, were forming
in strait, grew almost black, and seemed
TO he about three miles away. A breeze
having sprung up suddenly led US to
think we were certain to have our. thus
far, remarkably smooth passage inter-
rupted by an Indian ocean storm, or pos
sibly cyclone. But instead, to our
great pleasure, we saw emerging from
the dense mass of cloud most distinctly
marked waterspout. We could see per-
fectly well tie water rise, in the shape
of a cylinder, to considerable height
from the ocean, when the revolutions OF
the wind grew larger, and the water,
being carried by the wind, spread out in
the form of a funnel, larger and larger,
until it became lost in the clouds.
The spout was drawing water for
about fifteen. minutes when we noticed
that its junction with the ocean was
broken, and it then looked almost pre-
cisely like the lower part of balloon as
it floats IN the air, Tapping from side to
side. Gradually this lower part disap-
peared from the bottom upward, until it
was wholly lost i'll the. clouds. Almost
Immediately afterward we saw On the
surface of the water what looked like
steam rising, out what proved to be the
spray caused by a very heavy fail OF
rain; on it came Gntil it reached MS,
when, for at least thirty minutes, it
rsined es hard as ever snw 10 rain.
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released, and the thongs that bound me
soon held the maniac.
"My husband held me in his arms.
He had Goiselessly approached, and TAX
ing the horror Of my situation in at a
glance, had by the only means at hand
secured the madman, who was the very
patient he had been summoned to at
tend, but who had escaped the vigilance
of his keeper soon after the departure Of
the messenger, who had ROW returned
with the doctor In pursuit Of him. AS
the poor wretch was being hurried
away, he turned to me and said:
Madam, this is plot to rob me of my
reputation. Your husband is envious of
my great skill as surgeon. Adieu! I
afterward learned that the man was
once an eminent surgeon in Europe, but
much learning had made him mad.
When he bound me to that table my hair
was as black as a raven; when I left it,
it was as you see it now-white as full
blown cotton"
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Reminded of q Story.

A distinguished London historian hav-
ing offended the Lancet, that journal
mentions him unpleasantly, and then
continues "We are reminded of the
amusing story of twelve friends agreeing
to have novel dinner at Richmond
Each was to bring, without telling his
friends who it was to be, the most dis
agreeable man he knew. The evening
came. The friends entered one by one,
each unaccompanied by the promised
guest. They had all invited one, but in
each case was he found previously en-
gagged. The eleven thus came in sol-
tary. At length the twelfth entered,
not alone, but with--we Will not fill up
the blank"
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The Russian Army.

A dispatch from Vienna says: The
Press publishes letter from Jassy CIV
ing detailed Ordre de bataite OF the
modified portion of the Russian army
both in Europe and the Caucasus. 1t
says Concentration and organization is
so far ready HAT the forces may take the
field at any moment The south army
comprises an active operating army OF
four eorps d'arn,ee, having an eftec, aac
tive Strength of 1000 men, 32,Soo
horses and 492 field guns; the coast
army with $4,000 men, 16, 400 horses and
ZIG guns, and the corps darmee in the
Caucasus, reckoned at an effective
strength of 10000 men, 25, 900 horses
and 352 guns. This fully corresponds TO
the war effective as systamstiyed by tm
organization Of 1874.
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Smoke Too Loud.

A Danbury woman's fourth husband
was seriously i'll a few years ago.
Watchers from among the neighbors
stayed with him at night. There came
a night which babe fair to be his last on
earth. The watchers took their place in
the sick room. The bereaved wife said
to them:
81 don't think he'll last till morning.
If he drops off in the night you need not
disturb me, for I am going to sleep and
want to have rest, and everything is
arranged. You can take the cellar door
to lay him out on"
Seeing him drive by on load of corn
stalks just now reminded us OF the Incl
dent The unhappy woman spoke too
loud.
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FOi'Saken.

Then all the disciples forsook Him and fed"
If even Thee, the righteous and the holy,
These did forsake,
What wonder human hearts, loving as lowly,
Do sometimes break?
All stand far off in the dark hour of trial,
Just before sleep:
Meath the lips smile we feel the souls denial.
And turn and weep.
Thou weptst not, Lord! John had thy breast
for pillow,
Thou the hard cross;
Yet our weak bosoms heave like sobbing billow
At each light toss.
Sweet summer frieads, farewell. Your fight
you've taken
Small blame, God wot
In the lone hour of death, Thou, once forsaken,
Forsake us not.
Mss Nulock
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The House of Representatives Of
Connecticut passed bill making the
legal rate of interest six per cent. IN the
absence of q contract for different rate
The bill previously passed ilIe senntei
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Many of us spend our youth in letting
down empty buckets into empty wells
and fritter away our age in trying to
draw them up again.
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PROPOSALS.
DRoPOsALs FOR WILMINGTON wa
/ TER WORKS,

DROPOsALS FOR WILMINGTON Wa
L TER WORKS.
OFFICE BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
Wilmington, Del, June n. lS7.
Sealed proposals Will be received at this
once until 8 O'clock, p. M, on
TUESDAY. JULY 10th, 1877,
for the work, material, etc, required for the
completion Of the Cool pring Reservoir, in
This city. in accordance with printed speci>
dcatto"s which can be had ON application
" this Office.
The following are the ARPRox1HA9E esti-
mates sf the material required. and are in
serted In order to give o me idea Of the
magnitude Of the work TO be done.
W,400 yards of cley pudding.
2,fWl yards Of gravel.
l,270 yards Of sand.
:, &358 barrels of hydraulic cement.
z 2h28,1 bricks. @ 5f--4f'
200 lineal feet Of tagging.
Proposals must be sealed, ard must be
endorsed Proposals for completing the
Cool Spring Resel voir," and addressed to
the Water Commissioners, Wilmington,
Del, and may be left ct the oflCe Of John
p. almond. cor. OF Market and Eighth sts.
until O'Clock, p. M, on Tuesday, July
10th, 1877.
T.s JAMES BRADFORD,
CESAR A. RODNEY,
je2S-1Ot Comm issioners.
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FOREIGN.

REL 1EF FOR sT. JoHN-MD1TING IN L1vHR-
POOL.
LONDON, June 2S.-The Mayor Of Liver"
pool in accordance with the expressed desire
of body Of merchants and ship owners
has decided to call meeting to obtain funds
for the sufferers by the st. John dre.
NETTING IN MANCHzsTIR. re-
MANcHEsrHR, JUS - "A town meeting
has been called by the Mayor for Friday for
the relief Of the sufferers by Tho g.. John
6re. Ssss3 ~
\ Il y eio,o svss0sirs1ox.
Y ~ 1(a1 1Usun s1lty " y NJ ~
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"DOMEsTIC.

THE SUCCESS OF THE WHISKY War,
WASHINGTON, June 28.-Advices received
by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
give gratifying accounts of the success It,
tending his rigorous war upon Illicit dis.
tilleries In every section of the country
During the absorption of the attention Of
the Government in the vigorous prosecution
Of porties implicated in the whisky con.
spiracy the opportunity was seized to de,
fraud the Government. The Commissioner
was early informed of the ubiquitous pro.
ceeding, and Instituted active inquiries. His
plans have been entirely successful, result
iog In the capture Of the largest illicit stills
and operators in the country, while other
sections are now under surveillance.
rHB INDIAN wAR-1NAD1QUATE MEANS
f4sfg FOR CHECKING IT.
There Is full In the news from the In-
dian war, and some appreheneioss exist as
to it's threatened dimensions. In the event
of . general war the Government will be
totally inadequate to the demand thus sud.
denly pressed upon ii for troops and means.
It is feared that serious destruction and
murders on the frontiers will be success
fully accomplished by the savsges before
the tide can be checked.
va v5 SUICIDE IN BETHE1EM.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, June 2S.-Andrew
Dietrich, foreman of tho Zinc Works, South
Bethlehem, committed suicide this morning
by shooting himself through the head. He
was guardian for come children, and had
their money depo1ited in the defanct Dimes
Savings Bank. The failure of the bank 60
preyed npon him that It is assigned as the
cause of his rash act. pa
DEATH OF A VETERAN JoURNAL1sT.
NAsuvILLE, Tenn, Suoe 2s.-E. E. Jones
died here Tuesday night in the sixty y>four.h
year of his ago. He was at one time con-,
nected with tho Albion, Of New York; the
Spirit Of the Times, in Porter's day, and
was correspondent of the Freeman's Jour.
nal and Western Watchman. He has had
connection with the Nashville press since
the war. n-. - ts.
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE IN LOWELL
LOWELL, Mass, June 2S.-The large
three-story carriage manufactory of Hill
Brothers, on Middlehex street, was burned
this morning Besides Hill Brothers, the
building was occupied by James A. Burt az
. market; Stephen D. Pepper, wholesale
pork dealer; Asabel Davis, machinery
manufacturer j. Wright & Co., brass
finishers and machinists !; Jack d Co, wood
workers. The loss 10 geo, ,0OO-partially In
sured.
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frR. VITLER'S vEStEYABLE RHEU'
tion Of one Of Philadeiphia's Oldest, physi-
clans, clan " and md is guarani iesd to cure rhsuma.
tisnl. neuralgfs, sciatica, pal n, Backache
&c., Hc.. nr money refunded, by invigoratins
the nerves, purifying the blood, and si..ss nen-
Nv merit it has become standard medl
cine. az q SUFFERING and money saved hx useing
- In time, Remember that DR.. Filter ID
lie only physiCisn IN America devotine
% yeaxS to this one line Of prectlces C0rS
WeSranteds Advlee erAsas. - s5o0tn 1yNFtn
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I. o. R. M.

The Great Council Of Improved Order Of
Red Men of Delaware, will on Tomorrow
evening, dedicate their new quarters In the
Msris Building, Sixth and Shipley streets.
The order win meet at 415 Market street,
and thence march In body to the Maris
building. A grand reunion Of al the
tribee In the city viii b held at the same
|tins, Who VIII meet hsreaftef " ne sams
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creased its contribution to the 81. John suf
ferers to $4,000. 5~[ ..rss !.

creased its contribution to the 81. John suf-
ferer. to $4,000. ya, b~r z
RELIET FROM HALIFAX. H.ii
HALIFAx, June 28.-The cash collections
now amount to $4,000. Clothing Is still
being collected and forwarded.
A large meeting Of Freemasons was held
at which resolution Of sympathy with the
st. John brethren was adopted, and steps
taken to secure donations from al lodges in
the Province. ,9a t1s pl''" g.
DEATH OF AN ITALIAN ASTRONOMER.
PADUA, Suue 2S.-Professor John Savtisr
the italian astronomer, Is dead. Bog ''
ARcHB1sHoP WOOD AN ARBITRATOR.
LONDON jane 2s.-The Post has des-
patch from Rome saying Archbishop Wood
of Philadelphia, who left Rome on Thurs
day last, has been appointed arbitrator IN
the disputed cases of the Diocese Of Pitts
burg and the Ancient Order of Hibernis.
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[NHANGE OF HOURS-WILMINGTON
; & WESTERN RAILROAD-Com
Ing Thursday Dec. 4, 1876, Trains will run
hs follows:
Leave Wilmington 10 20 m, and s 9Op'm'
il cave Landenburg 6 As m and 30 p. m.
[Arrive at Wilmington 7 S. m, and 10
pm. T..
Arrive at Landenberg at Il m. and 6 40
pm.
CONNECTIONS.-Train leaving Landen-
berg at 845 a. m. with train for Ph1ladel-
phia at $40 am. r.4.s 80 s'
Train leaving Wilmington q 1920 m
with train leaving Philadelphia at $40 m
and Pennsylvania and Delaware train leav-
ing Landenberg at l 10 p. m.
Train Leaving Landenberg at 80 p. m,
With Pennsylvania and Delaware train, and
with train leaving Wilmington for Phila.
IA 80 p. m:
Train leaving Wilmington at $50 p m
With train leaving Philadelphia at 10 p.
b..
y. CONNELL. Sup
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PICNIC.

The Quaker Assembly's Picnic at Roser-
dale Park on the Fourth, will be grand
affair. Ladies' Of respectability only, al
lowed on the grounds. The refreshment
stand ID for sale to the highest bidder.
Address, T T Starr, care, 101 W 10Th Street
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THE s. L. A.

Do not fail to secure your tickets in time
for the Shields Library Excursion to Cape
May, Thursday August 10th. The number
of tickets is limited to 60O.
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