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The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
Oueer Picture of Merrie England
 in the Fifteenth Century.

It ia A strange picture--full of deep shadows-this England of tue niteentn century, as portrayed by the clumsy hands of chroniclers, and those more faithful limners, the writers of the Pas ton letters. Amid the frequent .appari. tiops ot armies maybe dimly descried the growing Independence of pariia. ments, and tsle importance of units o' labor, bar,led together and protected py charters often bought at a high price fropi .ecessitous ssovereigns. The laborer wss perhaps in material comfort not very .nuch worse off than he has been since, but then there was no peace or rePoee from incessant .1mult. Owners of beeyes and sheep and fields of golden grain were only too glad to get their corn cut, and their beasts slaughtered salted, and safely bestowed behind four walls, whence marauders might not win them without a costly struggle. The annals of the Paston family tell is that state of private war between great lord ana one or more of his liegemen or neighbors was regarded as no unusual phenomenon. If the small suffered from frequent oP. precision, the great were no better oil. for those who escaped the field of battle were only reserved for the headsman. Such intelligence as existed was devoted to the career of arms-the church having sunk into ignorance and sloth, in which the spectre of Lollardiy by turns stalked abroad and slunk into byways, awaiting the day wben the voice of Luther should repeet in thunder the tinid murmurs of Wicl;ff and his followers. whose utter ances could by TO means be done away with and abolished. An age of igno- rance WAS naturally supeIstitious. Adam or U tells us of the burning of the first heretic in Smithield, and we also see that worthy ecclesiastic, lawyer, and politician-ohe of the foremost men of his time-marveling at the spontaneous ringing of the four bells at the corners of St. Edwards shrine at Westminster; at the strange flow Of blood from the spring into which the head of Llewellyn.ap- Gryffud had been thrown; at the comet which forcto'd the death of Clan Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan; and the apparition in the air of the arms of that potentaie, to wit, "a serpent azure, swallow ing naked man, gules, on field argent.' But as G1rkness, like light, is rarely absblutely complete, it is possible to de cry through the mirk the brilliant soiuier Of Asincourt. Sir John Fs.tolf-- from wbom Shakespeare was once absurdiy supposed to have drawn his i'm mortal Fal, laff-Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. John Tiptoft, the butcher" Earl of Worcester, and Antony Wood vile, busily engaged in collecting manu- scripts; work to which the Duke of Bedford contributed in lawless but whole sale fashion by seizing the royal library at Paris, and carrying it off to this country during his regency.-AA the Year Round
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12

1T will inquire" 1" he said "but Beat rice, calm yourself Remember how of ten we have been deceived before"
 We shall not be deceived again, All fred"
 Marco Silvedo sat at his cottage door, smoking short pipe of some dark. fra grant wood an old, wrinkle-faced Itali- an, with tkin as yellow as parchment, iron grey hair and keen black eyes. Two or tbree children, as dark as himself, were playing round him. and when Mrs. St. Leger noted the roddy crimson hue of health in their cheeks, She knew what was means by the words 'pomegrante blossoms
 Mr. St. Leger alighted, and began to talk to the old man in his own Ian guage.
 "Are these all your children, Signor Silvedo P
 .'Yes. Signor. all. Two are with the saints in glory, three are here."
 Beatrice, listening from the carriage, felt the blood grow ill around her heart. Was the fainy light oi hope that had be- gun to dawn on her life horizon but 8 deceptive mirage, after all?
 Mir. St. Legel was abor ito re enter the carriage, when the old Itailsn arose pc litely to his fces.
 The sisnor and signora would honor him by pal taking oi q glass of bis own wine? Nav. he would receive TO refusal. Elena- Nella!"
 A tall, slerfer girl of fifteen or there. abou.s came ,o he toor---a girl w'sh a skin as fair as dfif.ed snow, ar0 b're, serene eyes. She looked wonderinsly a. the strangers.
 Hrs. St. Leger uttered low, smoth. cred cry. All the changes thas had passed over Nelly's head had rot sltered her to the mothers wistful, loving eyes. She was ihe little Nelly" of the weary long years ago.
 "Nelly! Nelly" she cried, wildly "don't you remember your mother?"
 And Nelly St. Leger, with the flood gates of memory wide opened in hel heart fell eobbing on her mother 3 breast knew I had mo,her once, before sailed across the sea, she faltered, ir Italian; but thought she had forgot ten mel"
 Marco Silvedo, wfo had been gazing in blank astonishment from one to the other, now care forward and tod how the cbild had been left at his door enc chill November night, how and by whom he did not know, nor coull the be. wildered child tell him.
 "I bad just bulied my youngest child" he said, "ard it seemed as if the good saints meant this one to take hel place. l shall miss her sorely, though ] don'r grudge her to the signor."
 Kathleen starding at the door as the carriage rolled by the next day, with Nelly sitting between her father and mother, smiled darkly to herself.
 "I had meant that my revenge should have lasted still longer she said to herself; "but the poor lady can not live long-and, after all, she was not to blame. Besides, when little Kathleen died, buried almos, all the bitter smart in her grave. Let tbem be happy while they can."
 For Kathleen knew that she was amply avenged.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
Blue Glass.

Hsw are we to explain the marvellous cures that have appeared to be effected by the blue glass treatment? We are inclined to think that the sunshine which did not come through the glass was the curative agent, rather than that which traversed the colored panes. We believe in the benefcent influence of sun. shine-the pure, natural article and not merely the residual rays that get through the Pleasonton strainer. We do not doubt the honesty of the general, nor that he really believes he is improving on the divine gift of sunlight by his blue-glass filter; but, even fiji were d deliberate deception, we could forgive him for it 80 long as he requires only one blue pane to several colorless ones. Anything that will induce people to let the sunlight into their houses is to be welcomed, if there be spice of quack- cry in it. We have no doubt that many who are now taking their daily sun-bath, innocently tempered by tho
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
The New Loan.

The popular subscription to the new loan are being made with greater rapidi- ty than was anticipated by the secretary of the treasury. At the outset he esti. mated that Sl5,000,000 would be taken in this way, but he now thinks that the total will considerably exceed that sum, and may go 10 s20, 1000, ,000, or even high CT. It is probable that the orders on the last few days of the thirty during which the bonds are offered for sale at par, will be greater than those for all the rest of the time. It naturally takes a little iime for the merits of the loan to become fully appreciated. The advantages of investing idle funds in the new bonds will scarcely be fully got before the pub lie by advertisements and newspaper ar. ticles until the thirty-day limit has nearly expired,
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
What a Spaniard Thinks of the Capitol.

The Epoca of Madrid gives up whole page to letter from Senor Alfredo Esco- bar describing the capitol at Washington. It may be worth while for our readers to know what an intelligent foreigner from a land in which the art of architecture has wrought some of it's grandest and some of it's gloomiest marvels thinks of the pride of Washington. He does full justice to its exceptional site, but oi the building he says |" the Capitol at Wash ington surprises, but it does not tascinate- Born of different schools of art and dit- erent nationalities, and in a country where art has no temples and the usefuF takes precedence over the beautiful, It. could not be expected to be either Par thenon or Vatican. But when the critic passes judgment on tn: first verses of child he does 1t lndul- gently, and the capitol is the work of nation in its childhood. The esplanade in front is as grand as the es. planade of the exposition, or as the grand stand at Epsom Seen from aiar or from the west, the capitol resembles the royal palace at Madrid, used as basement for the escurial; seen ifom tl,e cast it re. sembles the Madeleine at Paris thrice mapnified and crowned with the cupola of St. Paul's at London Senor Esco- bar thinks little of Greenoughs Wash ington, and still less of the other sculp. lures about the building, but he cordially admires the great bronze doors of Ran dolph Rogers cast by Muller at Munich, and thinks them the best of all the 6e- tails of the building. He is severe upon the low and narrow entrances, and upon tue absence of anything like really grand and ample stairway, and thinks the dome more appropriate to railway station than to national legislative hall of the first rank But, as he rather sar- castically observes: "American traveleis who visit the capitol never cream for moment of troubling themselves about the merit of the frescoes which, ,adorn it's cupola. The guide-book tells thelo that these frescoes cover five thousand square feet and cost fifty thousand dollars, ana that is all they care to know. Ii Rome, London and St. Petersburg possess finer domes than Washington, neither of them possess the electrical batteries which illuminate the night ses- sions of congress. To be sure, any dome in the world might easily possess these, whilst Washington could not get posses sion of such frescoes as those which adorn the vatican, nor yet ot such dome as that of St. Peters, even if Washington should build a brand-new capitol"
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
pITH AND POINT.

IT. i, said that Cstey Hall can now . re, turn without fear of a.ess. ..ha tas to Europe is no place for man "hy the diff. put on eyeglasses to distingulsn .nd thc ference between bis plate Of peer '>A' ' mustard bottle.
 A RECENT lawn party in Chicago, was dispersed by hail storm. HOW some folks can be so reckless as to hold lawn party and not supply the guests w'.h warmers and buffalo robes, is one oi the mysteries found nowhere except ln American society.
 CINCINNATI lately lost justice of the peace who used to banish prisoners to Kentucky for sixty-one days, instead of ending them to jail.
 RISE ye at five o'clock a. m. and walk ont and commune with nature. Jus, about the time you get to committing a voice will call from the back door "There! you didn't bring home any meat for breakfast
 WHAT" asks an exchange, are the causes of drunkenness" wei: we can't answer for all of them, but we be- lieye whisky causes great deal of It; whisky. sir resolutely stuck to VIII cause about as large drunk as anything we know of, although judicious mixing m of various drinks will accelerate matters if a man is in hurry. co HEAVENS. save my wife p shouted a man, whose wife had fallen overpoard, in the Hudson river, recently. Ihey succeeded in rescuing her. And her husband tenderly embraced her, saying 1sMy dear, if you'd been drowned what should I have done? l ain't goIrg to let you carry the pocket.book again !" PHILOSOPHER say every married man should have dog in the house. A dog will scare off robbers at night, eat up scraps of meat, and when you come home ont of humor and find supper an hour Tn arrears. yorl can give vent to your wrath hy kicking the animal clear cross the room.
 l OuR forefathers were content to spread their frugal repast upon the hare bark that they striped from the forest trees, but the aristocracy of to-day not only insist upon having as xteen-dollar exten. sion table, but stick up their noses if poverty compels them to use sheet TOT a table-cloth.
 THERE WAS only one cigar left in the box. and there were two young hopeiu's struggling for it. The first little boy cIutched it, but he said consollngly to his brother, 'Never mind. Dick, I'll smoke it till get sick, and then you can finish it." And the heart of the other little boy was comforted.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
A Big Rat Tran.

The Sacramento (Cal) Record Union of June reports the following extraor- dinary rat catcher: The kitchen and store-room of hotel in this city have been infested by rats, and it became evident, also, that hogshead in whics swill was kept furnished the rodents an opportunity to fill their stomachs when other sources failed. Tuesday evening the hogshead was almost entirely enptied, little food being left in the bottom to serve as bait. All the holes were stopped up, and when the mammoth trap was finally set it was so arranged that as many rats could enter it as de- sired, but there were no means of escape. A few minutes after it was set, three or four rats sprang into il, and, not finding much food, became hoggish, and began fighting for the possession of what there was. Their squealing attracted more rats, and when the trap was examined be ore midnight, it presented singular spectacle, being apparently one fourth filled with the pests---little rats and bio ones, gray headed fellows, and others that had scarcely sprouted their nous taches all squirming, scratching, squeal- ing, and biting. Soon afterward they were killed, when the number disposed of proved to be one hundred and six.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
A Days Crimes.

One days doings in this glorious TO public foot up: A mysterious bank robbery at Mount Vernon, Illinois; the execution of murderer at Dayton; the hanging of three murderers at New Or leans an awful murder at Mount Vernon, Ohio the murder of saloon keeper at Auburn, New York, by his mistress, followed by the suicide of the murderess; the suicide of a most worthy young man at Zanesville; and the con- fession of would>be suicide at Franklin, New Hampshire, that he put corroHvs sublimate in q mug of cider, which his sisters drank"
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12
Thiers has a beautiful library of

Thiers has beautiful library of twenty thousand volumes, and it is lighted from the top. His eighty years have hardly slackened the rate of his labor. He is up by daylight, brews his own coffee, and is closeted with M. Bar tholemy Saint Hilaire when the busy quarter around him is still silent. He is great economist of his time and health, and sleeps twice in the course of the day. His drinks are milk and coffee, and he eats plain meats. When he wants to gather strength for long effort in the tribune, copious glass of coffee appears before him,
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12

cerulean admixture of Gen. Pleasonton, sre receiving more of the direct sunlight in day than they have been in the habit of getting in a week or month before !; and We must be pardoned #, not look ing at the subject through blue glasses, we ascribc the benefit they derive rom the bath to that single fact.-Boston ,yournul Of Chenustry.
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-07-12

England does not intend to contract any more Alabama claims. That Turkish iron-clad, which was nearly finished i'm an English ship-yard when the war broke out, has had to stay there. The govern ment immediately took means" to prevent any infringement of the neutral ity laws, Us Secretary Bourke expressed
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
DALLAS, TEXAS.
SUNDAY MORNING i'jtijJ JUNE ~,
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Oh, amt II awful hot !

Oh, aint II awful hot
Didn't the Knight Templars look
nice on parade.
60 10 church to-day and hear the
gospel preached.
The Lamar Rifles cleared nearly a
hundred dollars from the proceeds OF
their entertainment
"A nine year old boy was translated
the other day from Fort Worth TO n
home among the angels, The water
melon was not quite ripe-i S..
lowing TO the excitement last eve-
ming, the lecture OF Howe Y. Peyt0n,
upon the subject "The Age In Which
We Live" has been postponed until
Tuesday evening.
Five men were arrested yesterday
morning for running their horses In
Fast Dallas, and were waltzed up be.
fore his honor, the recorder, and tool,
their medicine.
Services under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian association AT
the Texas and Pacific compress, thip
evening, at 8 o'clock, The Rev. W.
A. Allen, OF Iowa, will oiliciate, Al
are requested 10 attend,
There viii be preaching NJ the
Tabernacle, by Rev. w. A. Allen, pas
tor, Mt / o'clock am, and also at
o'clock pm. Sunday-school at hall
past two O'Clock, singing thirty min
n,sa at the opening of service.
"A large number OF the clerks and
business men of the city, are now
boarding at the National hotel. They
find the board good, and price reasona'
BILE. The energy and enterprise Of
DIR. Cole is filling want long felt In
Dallas.
Moro students hive entered tn,
Commonwealth Commercial College
B27 ELM street, during this month thar
Mt any corresponding period for tire,
years past. This speaks well for Col
onel Giles, who is now president OF tn,
institution.
The Congregational church hold
their services Ia The hall of the Young
Mems Christian association, near the
Lamar street Methodist Episcopal
church. Sunday school at $50 am.
Preaching at II o'clock, by Rev II. M.
Daniels, pastor,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
Kew on Ilosa Avenue,

Lust evening, about nix O'Clock, u
difficulty occurred on Ross avenue, ut
the Trinity foundery, A negro and u
white n M got into quarrel and the
negro struck at the white man, who Ii
moulder, with bar Of iron. lie
lodged, aud tho blow fell on Ills
shoulder, stripping the flesh from the
bone and knocking him down
lie got up, seized hammer, and hit
the negro on the head and knocked
him down, making big hole In hi
skull. Both parties were arrested, and
will answer for their fun to the author
ities. a number Of darkies came In
and for time the thing looked pretty
serious,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24

aud kept by q man named Inlue'
striking futile Ia tho hack and passing
through his body, thence through lhe
counter across tho rooln, passing on
through the opposite wall, and pelie'
traled through The wall Of the post
office. II had terrible force, futile II
morlally wounded lIe Ia n man Wen
liked by all who knew him, lie cam Q
to Dallas two years ago from Saginaw,
Michigan, aud boarded for some time
at the N, Charles lie finally pur'
chased property In Terrell, aud re'
moved there with hia family lie
leaves wife and two children, who,
but few days before, had gone north
on u visit,
We learn that the man futile har
since died Of his wounds,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
Change of Base.

Mr.. Charles Wurzburger, the well
known and accomplished caterer who
has been running the st. Charles res
taurant, at 5l2 Main, has bought out
the Merchants restaurant, across the
street, and takes possession to-day.
Both friend Charley aud his incom-
parable dinners are well known In
Dallas, too much so 10 require any ex-
tended commentator from us. Char
ley assures US that In his new quarters
no will be we'll situated to render per-
feet satisfaction to his patrons. 1t Ia
one OF a Frenchman's natural gifts 20
understand the artistic preparation OF
good food, and this is no exception to
the rule. We can assure our readers
aud friends that everything in and
about the Merchants will, from this
on, be In complete order. Let all who
enjoy good eating, good wine and
courteous treatment try the Merchants
under the new management, and we
wager q dinner upon their te.ng salts
fled. dim
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24

All nervous, exhausting, and pain
full disease speedily yield to the eura.
tive influences Of Pulvermacher's Elec.
trie Belts and Bands. They are safe,
simple, and effective, and can be easi.
ly applied by the patients himself
Books, with full particulars, mailed
free. Address Pulvermacher GalvsniC
company, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
FROM THE WEST.


Letter from COmanche Jim.
To the Editor of The Herald
FoRr GRIFFIN, TEXAS, July ~, 1877.
A young man named Harvey was
recently shot accidentally by n
buffalo hunter named Long. Harvey,
after lingering week the wounded
man died, apparently without much
suffering, The hunter, Long, although
u poor man, honorably paid the doc
tors bill, nm exceedingly heavy one,
and all incidental expense incurred
from the effects OF the shooting,
On the fourteca,n of March, John,
an Indisr chief OF a small band OF
Lipans, shot n Mexican through the
hand for taking, ~ it was presumed,
undue familarities with one OF his
sqHaws.
The buffalo crop must be still very
heavy, at least Judging from the hides
that roll into the town daily.
COMANCHE JIM.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
Consolidation.

Notice IL hereby given that Mesars.
CASTOR ~ Thomas having purchased
one half interest in tho stock OF the
Exchange bank, the two banks will
bo consolidated on and after the 10th
instant, under the name OF Exchange
Bank and will continue the bank
ing and exchange business ut the
present banking house Of CASTOR n
Thomas, on Main street, north Of the
courthouse, In Dallas, Texas, where
business pertaining TO either bank
will he attended ~.
q, NJ, sWlNK,
President Exchange Bank,
uASrON 4 THOMAS,
Juueluu WVWlt
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24

Last evening the Main street cars,
which have been in the shop for some
time, undergoing repairs, were placed
on the line again. They have. been
reprinted, cleaned and fixed up till
they look like new. The workmen
who did the painting are entitled TO
credit for the excellence Of the work.
manship. The cars are all neat and
clean now, and We hope the manage.
ment will see that they are kept 80.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24

Attempt "a Rob 10 Railroad Express.
TOLEDO, June 23.-An attempt was
made last night to rob the express car
on train number six, bound east, over
the Airline division OF the Lake Shore
aud Michigan Southern railroad.
Shortly after the train left Leg0nier,
Indiana, the car was entered by four
men, who accosted the messenger and
were about to bind him, when they
were confronted by force OF officers
aud express men, headed by chief
Of police Purdy OF this city, who
had been notified that an at
tempt was to be made to rob
the car, and had concealed himself
aud his men in tire car A short but
desperate struggle ensued, resulting IN
the capture OF the entire band, who
we're brought to this city and lodged
IN Jail. All are young men, residents
OF Noble county, Indiana. The train
was not stopped. None of the passen-
gers wereaw anything unusual had
occurred during the trip.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
nIAlrININ Omrl.

No court yesterday, Our reporter
found the court room deserted and on
asking the cause he was told that his
honor was at home, receiving guests.
A brand new boy made his appearance
ut the judges house last night, and
claimed proper attention. We con-
graduate his honor. All doing well.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
a HydrOphobIa Case.

PorrsvnLE Pa, June %. The Hy-
drophobia case at Mahoney City, Penn
sylvania, attracts much attention. Mr..
Josler, the victim, is still living. When
offered water or ice he ia seized with
commissions, and suffers dreadfully.
He was bitten some months ago by a
pet terrier.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-06-24
Tnx.Pnxers Iaak aut.

The county collector informed our
reporter yesterday, that the grand,jury
would takeiup the matter OF delin.
qusnt Taxpayers, and go for them for
this present quarter, instead of waiting
till the next quarter was due. There
fore we recommend all interested par.
ties to be governed thereby.