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Suicide.

There are various ways of
getting. out of this troublesome
world, and some Of those who
shuttle off this mortal coil and
making their exit from this
sphere the work of their own
hands, adopt novel expedients.
Take the case Of the San Fran
cisco washerwoman for instance
who, while rejecting on the ills
that she bore in this world and
the grievous burdens Of the daily
struggle for existence, stuck her
head IN the suds and held it
there >until she was defunct,
passing over the border damp
and soapy. A Eureka woman,
who had brooded over her tolls
and tribulations until she was in
that unhappy state Of mind
when suicide seemed to offer her
the only relief, made a miserable
fasco, and now lives to still en-
dure, withstanding her at
tempt at self-murder. Her hus-
band would stay out all night,
play pedro, and otherwise con
duct himself in a very undutiful
manner, and to cap the climax
of his cruelties, refused to pur-
chase her one of those sweet
hats Just imported by Myers u
Franklin. When he left the
residence to 60 down town and
see a man, she determined on
death, and took for that purpose
a bottle Of corrosive sublimate
from the closet where the family
drugs were kept. Composing
herself carefully on the bed and
as gracefully as if she had been
a California Theatre actress, she
drained at one gulp huge COB
let full, dropped the glass to the
floor, folded her hands on her
breast and calmly awaited death.
She had anticipated the most ex-
cruciating pain, as the terrible
corrosive substance should act
en- her in'ards, and marveled
greatly to find instead a sensa-
tion of delicious bliss stealing
, 1877-12-08
Useful KnowIedee,

A man walks 8 miles an hour. A
horse trots Z. Steamboats, run IS.
Sailing vessels make 10. Slow riv-
ers flow 4. Rapid rivers, 7. Storms
move36. Hurricanes, 80. A rifia
ball, 900 miles minute. Sound.
LAB Light, 10000. Electricity.
$50, 900.
A barrel of -four weighs 1876
pounds A barrel of pork, 200. A
keg of powder, 25. A firkin of but
ter, Sc. A barrel of rice, 600. A
tub Of butter, 81
Wheat, beans and clover seed. go
pounds to the bushel. Corn, rye
and fax seed, Sc. Buckw6eat, 50.
A bushel of rice, 60. Barley. 4S.
Oats, 30. Coarse salt, S5.
Sixty drops make a teaspoonful.
Three teaspoonfuls. one third of an
ounce.
Four thousand eight hundred and
forty square yards make an acre. A
square mile, $40 acres. To measure
an acre: 209 feet on each side, max
ing square acre within an inch.
There are 1850 languages.
One person dies at each pulsation
of the heart.
A generation IS Is years.
Average life, 81 years.
, 1877-12-08
Telegraphic News.
EASTERN STATES.

KITTY Hawk, Dec. 1.-The bodies Of
Commander Ryan, elliott and Loomis
have been found and will be buried II
miles north of Nsgs Head. Forty
other bodies have been heard from
along the beach.
The signal service observer at the
wreck of the Huron. reports that divers
have successfully examined the wreck.
The upper works are all gone. The
berth deck floats nearly to thu spar
deck; can't get into the wash room.
The spar deck is entirely submerged.
The port side is eight feet under water.
The ship seems logged about four feet.
The signal service observer at Cape
Henry reports a messenger sent to no.
tify the crews of the life saving stations
between Cape Henry and Kitty Hawk
to patrol the beach, returned and re-
ports he had been informed by the crew
at No. 4 station that the crews and clti-
zens between stations Nos. 4 and 5 had
found and buried 81 bodies washed
ashore since the wreck of the Huron.
The bodies were horribly mutiiated- SO
much SD that identification will be al
most impossible.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The Times special
from Springfield, Mass. says Bowles'
illness the past two months has been
chiefly known to intimate friends and
the past few days his condition has been
very critical without a general knowl-
edge of the fact. Hence the news this
morning that he was at the poirt of
death caused shock as public calam-
itv. About / 80 this morning be was
found half unconscious and speecbless,
and immediate death threatened. but at
4 o'clock he was able to apeak freely
and evidently realized bis situation. He
expressed himself as without fear of
dissolution. The present shock is not
necessarily but probably fatal, as others
are expected. He himself says there is
scarcely one chance in million for re-
covery. He is without pain and his
mind is clear.
DETROIT, Dec. L. Two years ago Ly>
man Blackman, farmer living near
Birmingham, Michigan, decided his
farm to his son Henry, on condition
that he should support his parents and
sister. He failing to do this. bis father
started for Pontiac to day to get ont the
necessary papers revoking the deed. In
his absence Henry quarreled with his
mother and sister, which resulted in his
shooting and killing them both and set>
ting fire to the house and barn. He Is
now in Jail at Pontiac.
ATCHIsoN. Ks. Dec. IA brick builds
ing, filled with boots and shoes. was de-
stroyed by fire last night. Loss $20,-
coo. fully insured.
The Missouri river at this point is
frozen solid.
CLEVELAND. Dec. q Charles R. Ma
gill. cabinet maker. y years old, killed
his mistress. Mary Kelly. in house of
i'll fame this afternoon. Jealousy was
the cause of the murder. The murder
er gave himself up and was taken to the
canfral StatInn
, 1877-12-08

y VERY rapid, safe and easy way
to make money, Is to procure terri
tory to introduce the latestuseful in
vention that is wanted every day, by
every one, everywhere, who has a
not full sized sewing machine.
with table and treadle, for only
Eighteen Dollars,
MANUFACTURED BYTHE PEERLESS MFG
CO. OF PHILADELPHIA,
does the same work as a machine Won
pay eighty dollars for, rapid, smooth
and firm work, and makes a seam so
strong the cloth will tear before the
stitches rip apart. Agents only need
show them in operation to sell in
every house they enter. Thirty dol
lars and upwards cleared daily by
smart agents. No such machine
was ever offered at any such price.
HIGHEST AWARDS AT CENTENNIAL Ex-
HIBITIoN. THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES
USING THEM
Demand increasing every day
where they become known. Mir
listers. judges, lawyers, editors tail
ors, machinests, &C., reccomend
them perfect. Rights given free to
first applicants. If there isno agen-
cy in your place write for it or buy .
machine for your family or relative,
there is none better or so cheap.
Machines sent to all parts of the
country, on receipt of price, $18.
Read advertisement beginning.
ied&w1y
, 1877-12-08

The New York Herald thus
sensibly hits off the swindling
silver bill the passage of which
is now pending in Congress:
The dollar Of our dads is a
nice, bright, large silver coin.
The worlingman will be obliged
to receive it in payment for a
dollars worth of hard work, be-
cause he can't refuse legal mon
ey. When he carries it to the
butchers, the bakers or the
grocer's he will be able to buy
n1nety-two cents worth Of meat
or bread or groceries with it and
no more.
1t is just to "pay every man
in his own coin" But it is a
swindle to pay our creditors in
our daddies' coin and so cheat
them out of eight cents on every
dollar we honestly owe them.
The contractors want the "dol-
lar of our dads" It's good
enough for them, they say. Be-
sides it will enable them to swim
die their laborers out of eight
cents on every dollar they earn.
"Give us the dollar of our
dads!" " cry the western farmers,
"it's good enough for us-and
then we can pay off our debts at
ninety-two cents on the dollar.
, 1877-12-08
Joseph's Submission.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter- Ocean, writing from St. Paul.

A correspondent OF the Ch1cag0
Inter- Ocean, writing from St. Paul.
says:
I suppose that the story of Jo-
seph's surrender has grown monot-
onous to most persons; still l cannot
refrain from giving Joseph's reply
to the demand for surrender made
by General Miles. Joseph, when
he surrendered, stepped up to Gen.
eral Howard, who was standing by
the side Of General Miles, and hand
ed him his gun. Howard shook his
head and said: mo, Joseph. al
though I have followed you for
nearly 5000 miles, | cannot take the
glory from him who deserves it..
There is the man to whom You must
surrender" pointing to General
Miles. Joseph. turning to Miles,
with a sad smile handed him his
gun, and through an interpreter,
said: "Tell General Howard I know
his heart. What he told me before,
I have in my heart. I am tired Of
fighting. Our chiefs are killed.
Looking Glass is dead. To-hool-.
hool- -Shuta is dead. The old men
are dead. 1t is the young men who
say yes or no. He who led the
young men is dead. 1t is cold and
we have no blankets. The little
children are freezing to death. My
people. some of them, have run
away to the hills and have no blan-
kets, no food. No one knows where
they are-may be freezing to death
I want time to look for my children,
to see how many of them I can find.
May be I shall find them among the.
dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am
tired; my heart is sick ard sad.
From, where the sun now stands I
will fight no more forever"
, 1877-12-08
Suicide as a Remedy.

Voltaire says the worst use to
which society can put man is to
hang him. The worst use to which
a man can put himself is to send a
bullet crashing through his brain,
to cut his throat or tu take his own
life by some other violent means
When man is hanged it is gener-
ally for some offence against the laws
of heinous character, and while it
is true society after the operation
has no further use for the carcass,
the punishment is usually deserved
and the example is likely to be ben
eficial. When a man kills himself
it is for what he no doubt regards as
a good reason. sHis health is bad !;
his business does not prosper; his
wife leads him an unhappy life; he
has been drinking too freely; he has
lost all his money; his sweetheart
has Tilted him; or. if Frenchman,
the weather has been unpleasant and
depressing for a week or ten days.
A man with a dissipated wife kills
himself after murderings his three
children. A young lady with dis
sipated husband poisons herself. A
simpleton, whose sweetheart has de-
serted him, jumps into the river
from ferryboat and is drowned; !;
and so on through the list.
Now, the world is world full of
ups and downs: of sickness and re-
covery; of success and failure; OF
wealth and poverty; of backsliding
and reform. The man who is de-
pressed by sickness. probably
through a faulty digestion, may be-
fore long hit upon a remedy and be
restored TO health. The bankrupt
of this year may. with good courage
and industry. be the thriving bust
ness man Of next year. Money has
wings, and flies from full pockets to
empty ones in mysterious manner.
Dissipation may be overcome and
infidelity compensated. 1t is better
to wait for these changes than to
rake Improvement impossible by
swapping off the thread of life pre-
maturely. A sick man can take no
worse medicine than cold lead,
poor man can never be rich after he
commits suicide. A Tilted lover if
he dies is certain never to find a new
sweetheart more constant than the
old one. The poor husband who
killed his babies and, himself had
better have sent his wife to an ine-
briate asylum. The old sayings, "It
is long lane that has 30 turning"
and daylight always comes after
darkness" oughtto be fatal enemies
to the suicide mania. Brave men
believe that "while there's life
there's hope" Cowards only seek
forgetfulness in self-deftruction.
There can be no real necessity for
suicide, except in the case of the
Partisan during spell of bad wea-
ther, and in this broad country,
where there is elbow room for every
body and where no man of courage
and energy need despair of living,
the crime ought to be unknown.
, 1877-12-08

Some of the prayers of eccen-
tric men have been worth re-
peating. Adam Scott had a boy
Rob, who was great terror to
him. He prayed very earnestly
for him, and once in this wise:
30, Lord, ha' mercy on Rob. Ye
ken yoursel he is a wild Gallant,
und thinks nae mair O commit
ting sin than a dog does O lick
ing a dish; but put thy hook in
his. nose and thy bride in his
CAB, and gar HIM back to thee
wi a jerk that he'll no. forget
the longest day he has to live.
, 1877-12-08

The discussion as to co-educa-
ton of boysand girls in the pub
lie schools has recently been so
warm and bitter in Massachus-
etts that the subject has been
revived in New York and Brook
lyn. In Boston the Latin school
is an institution supported by
the public. The argument to ex-
clude girls by the presidents of
six Of the leading American col
leges, including Harvard and
Yale, was that the moral atmos-
phere Of a boys school is not a
fitting one for girls, and that the
moral tone of the Latin and
Greek classics, while it does not
hurt boys, is bad for girls. To
this powerful argument against
coeducation Hon. Charles Fran
els Adams added the weight of
his opposition by declaring that
he believed some shocking scan
dial would ensue from it, which
would drive us back into the Eu-
ropean system Of separate
schools. On the other hand,
Mrs. Zina Fay Pierce put in a
plea for coeducation on the
ground that the taste and refine.
ment of girls have the effect of
softening the hardness and of
lessening the coarseness Of boys
when trained together.
, 1877-12-08

over her whole system. Her
spirit was wonderfully exalted,
her vision rose and roamed at
will through all the gladstone
memories of her happy past. "I
had not dreamed" she said,
upeak,ng with difficulty, for her
voice was failing fast and her
stterances ciogged, II had not
dreamed that death wash sho
easily. | would have done it
often had l known ting?
o, death! wherish thy stin?"
O, grave wherish thy victoryis.
At this juncture her husband
entered.
"What in dernation are you
doing Molly? What makes your
face so red?"
"Goo' by, John; going to die.
Taken c'roshive subfate. For
give yer everything
corrosive hell and damnationl
Why, that's ten dollar brandy
that l bought down at Clark 4
Botto's. l put that label on so
that you wouldn't drop on the
contents.
Molly was too far gone to un-
derstand the explanation, but
when she woke up in the morn
ing with a splitting headache
she said that she never realized
before how dear John suffered
after one of his periodical
drunks. The husband now hides
his flask behind the family Bi-
ble7 the only place in the house
where it is safe from molestation.
, 1877-12-08

On the 18th inst. the House of
Representatives adopted reso-
luton calling upon the Secretary
Of State to inform them what
amount of indemnity had been
paid this government by the
government of Spain on account
of the execution of Ryan and
others connected with the ,Vir
ginius, at Santiago de Cuba, on
November 4, 1873, and what dis
position had been made Of such
funds as may have been receiv-
ed. The Secretary has replied
that the sum Of ST., 200 was re-
ceived; that $4,000 have been
paid to certain relatives of those
who were executed, and that
claims for $1,000 have been
passed on but not yet paid. The
remainder OF the money has
been invested in United States
securities. No money was paid
to the representatives of Gener-
al Ryan, as it was not. shown
they were entitled to any.
, 1877-12-08

At the recent marriage of the Bar.
oness Wallersee, niece Of the EN-
press OF Austria, at the imperial
palace at Goedoello, among all the
great ladies who we're present, not
one wore train to her dress, and
not one was to be seen who did not
wear her own hair only. but ar
ranged in the plainest fashion.
, 1877-12-08
The Army Question.
from tho New York Herald.

The discussion IN Congress as to the
expediency of Increasing or decreasing
the army. consequent upon the intro
duction of the Army Appropriation
bill, shows that even in the Sonth there
is quite diversity of opinion on that
subject. The following are the views
of an ex-Confederate general, who at
present is very prominently connected
with the Military Department of Vir-
ginia. He says 1t is wrong to increase
the army. 1t ought to be cut down. :
Relieve it from guard duty a: the forts
and arsenals of the United States, and
put every man in the field in active ser
vice. and it is more than ample. The
experience of the last ten years in the
South shows that the federal central
power cannot be trusted with large
military force. and the events of last
summer demonstrated that the State
militia have been allowed to fall into
such weakness aud contempt that it is
useless in emergency. Now as standing
armies are dangerous to liberty, SO the
right 10 use and skill in use of arms is
Its surest protection. Increase this ar>
my to so, 900 men and it will be but the
beginning of Jsn increase to 100000
Then the government will be changed.
the revolution will have occurred before
the people know it. Property will be
safe and society will be orderly aud
peaeeable: but liberty. the right of peo>
pie to govern themselves, will be gone.
The government will govern; the party
in power will perpetuate itself by the
array; moral or physical changes will
only take place after armed conflicts.
You will see great pressure brought
to bear on Congress to increase the ar
nag by the great property interests. rails
roads. mining interests and manufac-
lures. They will demand protection for
property, no matter at what cost. 1t is
the form in which the struggle between
labor and capital will appear in Con-
gfess. Capital is afraid Of labor and
seeks an increase of the army to Tro>
ect it. We cannOt allow this"
, 1877-12-08

The brakemen, track hands
and laborers on the great rail
road lines get the starving wa
gesof eighty cents a day. When
they receive their pay in the
blessed "dollars Of our daddles"
they will get seventy-four cents
day, losing SIX cents for some
body's profit. The high officials
will, OF course, he paid in gold.
, 1877-12-08

The Catholic Rerieao speaks in
somewhat boastful terms of the re-
cent conversion to the true faith OF
three persons, two of whom were
Episcopal ritualists. This is all
very we'll; but it seems not quite ne
cessary to add the hope 'that many
others will be happily removed from
the terrible darkness and bleakness
of the Protestant night" It does
not help us any to call others hard
names. The world belongs to the
Church which works hardest. and
neither Protestant nor Catholic has
"a right to complain, except when it
blames itself for the success of
the other. Men have somehow
come to feel that the true orthodoxy
and the one that is most needed Just
now, is the orthodoxy, Catholic or
Protestant, that enables one to keep
his books straight and restrains him
from raising a check whenever he
wants to raise money.
, 1877-12-08

A Vermont judge has given wife
murderer time for repentance by
postponing his execution two years,
three-fourths of which are to be
spent at hard labor and the balance
in solitary confinement.
, 1877-12-08

Give us the dolIar of our
daddies!" cry the silver luna
tics. We wish we could give
them some of our daddies' sense.
, 1877-12-08

Certain newspapers of Iowa advo
cate the re-establishment of the gal
lows there, but the weightier public
opinion is against it.
, 1877-12-08

The Galveston Neacs is a strong
organ of the American griev-
ances against Mexico.
, 1877-12-08
PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH

Rev. p. W. Mscfe. preached from
the text, For we know that if our
earthly tabernacle were dissolved, we
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PERSONAL PoINTs.- Miss Lizzie Bown,
oil Plttsburgh, Is spending few weeks
with her brother, Mr.. W. ]. n. BoWn, on
the Island.
Tommy Cockayne's band played for a
large picnic given by the Catholic Church
Of Zanesyille yesterday, about seven miles
from that city up the Muskingum river
Mr., John Miller, the Sixth Ward dry
goods merchanty lost about $3.50 worth
Of goods at Pittsburgh during the rail-
road riots.
Mr.. Q. W. Heaton, formerly manager
Of the old P. & A. Office In this city, has
recently been added 10 the force In the
4. Up. telegraph office, under the Mcclure
House.
Hiram KinSey, formerly proprietor Of
the old Grant House, has been engaged
by J, II. Watkins aS miller for the "City
Mills" Mr.. KinSey brings an experience
Of forty years In the manufacture Of flour
DR.. Livingston, OF Bridgeport, has re-
turned from an extended Western trip.
The sinking Of the Mallie Ragon at the
foot Of Crows Island will delay Captain
Booths trip TO Arkansas springs for a
few days only.
Captain J. II. Stewart and A. McFilley
were the Katy Hooper pilots.
DR.. Hszlett and family, Miss Sue
Linch and MIR. Cash Evans yesterday left
for Chautauqua Lake, to be absent about
three weeks.
Miss Myrtle Lauk, Of Philadelphia, Is
visiting friends in this city.
Mr.. james Quarter has been appoint
ed deputy clerk OF the Circuit Court
The appointment Is good one, and will
be creditably filled.
Mr.. Thomas Brown, Of Stcubenville
was in the city yesterday.
Henry Mccain, Of Zinesville, is'in the
city attending the bedside Of his sick
daughter at The residence Of Mr.. VIM
Collins, on Main street. Ills daughter Ia
not expected to live.
Jacob frost, Of the firm of JOSEPH 6
Wolistein, Of Cincinnati, Is in the city
Jake is well acquainted in town and will
be met warmly by his numerous &C.
quaintanCes.
The many friends Of Henry Hork'
heimer, Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, will be glad
TO learn that he is now on the improve
Henry is an old Wheeling boy, and was
badly injured by n runaway several
months ago at Sunbury, about rs miles
from Zansville.
Mr.. james Marshall, one Of our old
Wheeling Boys, son Of Robert Marshall
Sr., is engaged in the grocery business al
GAINESVILLE, and reports business exlrS
good.
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MocoSNE1svlILE, O., May 10, II.
On. E. A. FARounAR, Dear Sir-I
have been troubled with dizziness, veal,
spells occasionally, palpitation Of the
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