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The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-07
A New Search for Charley : Ross.

Un t-"tE ,i1t 35I --Gs ~ tHH tFG0".
0oThea negotiations between p. r..
Barnum and Christian X. Ross, tho
father ofthe kidnapped Charley, by
which tho former is to offer $40 900 for
tho return of tho child, and tho latter
TO promise not to attempt any prose-
oution of those bringing him back,
were finished in this city yesterday.
Mr.. Barnum's original proposition
was that no should offer the reward,
and, if tho boy was secured, some ar~
rangement should be made for oxhi.
biting him, by which Mr.. Ross should
have q large share Of the profits, and
thus, perhaps, restore his estate of
$4,000 which he has spent in tho
search. Mr.. Ross made no answer at
that time, but returned to Philadelphia
TO consult with his wife and her broth
ers, who are wealthy, and met Mr..
Barnum in the Haynes House yoster-
day to accept the offer, with tho con-
dition that, if tho boy is found, it shall
be discretionary with the family eith~
or to reimburse Mr.. Barnum or ar
range for tho child's exhibition. Tho
railroads and telegraph companies
have given Mr. Ross tho FREQ uso of
their facilities, but ho has neverthe-
less spent all his means, and is prac~
tically bankrupt. The family cling
to tho hope that the child is not doad,
and base it largely on tho ascertained
fact that he was living at the timo
the abductors were killed on Long
Island, fyo months after he was
| stolen.
Mr.. Barnum has published tho fol-.
lowing:
l will pay $4,000 in cash for the
delivery to me alive of tho kidnapped
child Charley Ross, or for information
that will lead to his recovery. most
solemnly7 and sacredly pledge my
word of honor and my reputation as
an upright business man not to at
tempt for myseIft to discover tho idon-
tity OF the person negotiating with mo
in this matter, nor to convey to. any
other person any hints or CLOVIS by
which any accusation, or oven suspi-
cion, shall bo directed against them.
The parents of the child unto with
me in this pledge, and agree, if their
darling child is by this means restored
to them, to abandon all attempts to
punish any person connected with
kis abduction or concealment; they
1 agreo never to appear against such
parties, and with, myself will uso ev-
cry endeavor to shield them from ex>
posure. For tho last three years these
parents have suffered more than death
and, now that the real abductors arc
dead, it is hoped that the persons who
have tho child in custody will be will,
ling to accept this reward and immu.
nifty. The reward shall bo paid in
current money as soon rs tho child is
identified by its parents. AS an adj
ditional security to the person Gring~
ing him, q reasonable time shall elapse
between his delivery and tho public
announcement OF tho fact, that tho
parties delivering him shall havo evs
cry opportunity to avoid discovery.
z. 4. BARNUM, Bridgeport, Conn.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-07
The Cottontos is a. foOlomoVarious

The VCott0nt0t is a. fool oinesarious
other ways-4in the Amode,' for exam
pie, Of buying HE GOODS There caa
be no plainer business proposition
than tbis-that when /" man has
cheated and deceived you repeat
edly, common sense. requires that
you shall drop him instantly and
deal with him no more forever. Duty
to yourself and yopr. family demands
that you should, never forget osnd
never forgive in, this case, And what
is true in busipessris equally true in
politics, is mote g Your political life
depends on your answer tothis ques-
ton. But what does your CottontOt
do9 Coming to town and finding
some adventurer with lot of auc-
tion goods or a compromise stock, he
quits the old established1houses we'll
known to him, and spends the very
money due to these houses in buy
ing trash and shoddy from this ad-
venturer. Finding himself cheated
again, he simply laughs, and says,
81 tell you these chaps are smart;
they are keeners, they are; but if the
old established house so much as
disappoint him, he darnus it as "an
inferna,, unprincipled Yankee con-
cern." ....... ....,,...
Here, then, is the source Of nearly
all our woes-this Oottontot rdevo-
tion to single crop and the accom-
panying over-smartness. The cure
is plain enough; and it has been ad-
mirably formulated by one of your
city papers il the aphorism, "Bread
aud meat first; c,tton last The
mission Of Southern journalism is to
put this motto at the head of every
paper from No, folk to Galveston
and to keep it there. l would print
it in indellible ink on the toreheads,
tattoo it iu the arms, and brand it in
the palms of The Cottontots. But the
press has not been. idle in this good
cause, for already we sec the effect
fits labors. Mr.. John OF, one of
the ablest, and certainly one of the
most useful, men in Virginia, 1tnrn-
ishes MS with the cheering fact, viz:
"In 1876, the West packed 104 ,915,-
967 pounds less pork than it did in
1875. This is the reason assigned
by Western journals: The provision
trade, owing to falling prices during
most of the year, proved less Profita-
ble than usual; and. on account OF
the political complications 5in' the
Southern States, tile demand f3radis-
tribution has been for several months
interfered WITH" Ohio2 Mr.. West.
your excuse methinks is somewhat
thin: we are raising our own pork;
that is the whole secret. But will
the curejust indidicated shfiice4
doubt. It is fact which the press
will do we'll never to forget that the
increase in our provision crop ia due
much more to the low price of cotton
than to the wisdom of the Cc,ttontot.
and if cotton again touch 20 cents, he
wlrdFops corn nfins tantef / soiit @oald
bsih Wifgipiaffli flif Aia sl6w ,tsdss ii
tobacco should accidentally double in
value. There is, as | we'll know
personally, no cure Tor folly. Bray
a Cottontot or a humorist in a NOR.
tar, he will be Cottontot or bumo.
rist still.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-07

At a prayer meeting in Provi"
dence church recently, Deacon
arose and expressed himself thusly:
"My friends, with great sorrow and
regret have just learned of the de"
cease of our beloved Brother.
Let us now sing "Praise God from
whom all blessings fow.'"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-07

Shakespeare asked "Whats in "
name?" If he had been studying
Eastern war maps he would have
found that thirty-fve cunsonants
and three vowels we're in most of
them.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-07

If the maiden State is Miss, aud
the religious State Mass, the sickeet
State is surely III.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Vision OF a Magnificent Future.

Citizens of New Orleans, and of cities
along the Mississippi and its tributaries,
have organized chartered corporation,
with a capital of FIVE millions, for the
purpose Of excavating slack-water ship
canal from New Orleans itself to deep
water in Barrataria Bay. Galveston and
cities along the Southern coast of Texas
would be enriched by this ship canal,
which lessons the commercial distance
between New Orleans and Galveston
nearly one-half, and for the reason that
it would lessen the cost of traversing
this distance in sailing vessels more than
half. But the great end effected would
be discovered in the reversal of the COM
mercial map of the South. Trade, traffic,
and travel from the Ohio and Missouri,
and the whole wealth of the country on
either side of the Mississippi, the. very
day that Cowdon's slack-water canal
may be opened, would be turned South
from the East. The new and the old
Northwest would alike come down the
river and down the railways across
Arkansas and Texas TO find access TO Flu.
rope, the West Indies, South America,
and Mexico through the Southern sea-
ports, and through these would the
South receive the products and mer-
chandise of the exterior world.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
FORTY.FOURHH CONGRESS-.

In the Senate, December 81, Mr.. Freling.
huysen presented the petition of large
number Of soldiers of the late war, asking
the passage Of the House bill for the equal
ization OF bounties. Referred. IL was de.
cided TO adjourn from the 22d to the 26th
inst. IL Is understood, however, that when
the Senate assemblies, il will transact no
business, but will adjourn until the I'd prox.
The Chair appointed as the especial com.
mittee authorized by the recent resolution
OF Mr.. Edmunds, to devise means for the
proper count of the vote for President and
Vice-President in connection with a similar
committee OF the House, Messrs. Edmunds.
Morton, Frelinghuysen, Logan, Thurman,
Bayard, and Ransom. Business was
then suspended, and the Senate then
Senator Caperton. Appropriate remarks
were made by Messrs. Davis, Wright, Withers,
Edmunds and others, and, as further mark
OF respect, the Senate adjourned ....I In the
House, after much opposition on the part
of the Democrats, IL was decided to in.
struct the New York Election Invest
igating Committee TO investigate the charges
Of Mr.. Hewitt against the New York Post.
Office. Mr.. Hewitt paid high compliment
TO the integrity and usefulness OF Post.
master James, and exonerated him from all
suspicion in the matter. Eulogies upon the
late Senator Caperton, OF West Virginia,
were then pronounced, and, as n token OF
respect, the House adjourned.
IN the Senate, December 20, IL was re-
soived TO investigate the appointment OF
Cronin rs Presidential Elector by the
Governor OF that State. After the
transaction OF some unimportant Blu.
sness, the Senate adjourned until Tues.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
The Love OF Tobacco Has Rights.
NEW York Tribunc.I

There is considerable intolerance
among men and women in regard to re-
ligion, and there is nearly as much in
regard to tobacco. Those who love it
are too often intolerant in forcing their
weed, their clothes, and themselves upon
the noses of those who abominate it, and,
on the other hand, those who hate it are
quite as often intolerant in abrid ging
the pleasure and interfering with the
rights of those who love it. A news
paper reporter entered Stafford book
store two weeks ago to purchase book,
and the stationer abruptly asked him il
he had any tobacco about him. The re-
porter said he had, and on being asked
to leave the shop moved toward the door,
remarking that he was not previously
aware that the bookseller had such an
antipathy to tobacco, and suggesting
that he should place In his window a
card advising persons in the habit of car
rying tobacco in their pockets not to en-
ter his shop. The stationer seized him
by the collar of his coat, and in vio-
lent manner pushed him into the street
as far as the gutter. The reporter at
once took the case into the Petty SEES
sions on the charge of assault. On be-
half of the defendant it was urged that
mplainant ought to have Immediately
left the shop when requested, and that
the smell of tobacco was very objection
able to the bookseller. The Mayor re-
marked that the same objection might
apply to the smell of onions; that the
magistrates were of opinion that an I'M
warrantable assault had been committed
and therefore sentenced the stationer tC
pay fine of FIVE shillings and costs.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Charcoal for Removing Hair.
Rural New Yorker. |

The Panama Star reports what it calls
u very important discovery that char
coal, animal or vegetable, is a better
agent than lime for the removal of hair
from hides, preparatory to tanning. An
exchange assures us that the depilation
of hides with charcoal seems likely TO
supersede altogether the usual lime pro-
cess. As is we'll known, charcoal has
the property TO take up large quantities
of oxygen from the atmospheric
air, and the oxygen in this form
seems to exert q chemical influence on
the fatty substance present in the neigh
borhoOd of the glands of the hair roots.
An oxidation takes place in the pores
of the skin, which destroys the glands
and loosens the hair. Finely powdered
charcoal is mixed with sufficient water
to make a thin paste, and the hides i'm.
mersed for four or five days and well
turned.
Hides treated with charcoal need no
other operation. as in the case of the lime
process, and after being washed with
water, they are ready for tanning. An.
imal or vegetable charcoal can be used
in any quantity, having no deleteriou'
property whatsoever. For each hide
six to ten pounds with the necessary
quantity of water are sufficient, and the
temperature to be maintained is sixty o.
seventy degrees Fair. This informa
ton may be of great value to the people
of the interior Of the State, who occup.
themselves in the tanning of that common
leather, known in South America as suela
There is always a great demand for thi
leather in the manufacture of saddle
and accOuterments for the cattle-mel
and travellers, also trunks, shoes
chair-bottoms, and other articles Q
utility.
The demand is 60 great that the suela
have, most of them, to be brought from
Guayaquil, Payta and other foreigl
places, where it seems they can be pre-
pared more cheaply than by our nativ
workmen. By the use of charcoal
which is much cheaper and more readil
obtained than lime, the tanners will b
placed OH a more advantageous footin
for producing the suelas at a consider
ably less cost than hitherto. They vii
then be able to sell the article at
cheaper price and yet secure quite 8
much profit as before. 1t is a matter G
surprise, that so remunerative trade q
the tanning of hides into leather ha
not yet become leading industry j
this State. Hides can be had in gres
abundance for this purpose, and til
bark for the conversion of hides int
leather, can be obtained all along tn
sea-shore, and of the best quality. TIL
maugrove or mangle, the bark of whic
is thus used, is present everywhere o
| the coast
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

day next, for want OF quorum. .......:
In the House, bills to remove the political
disabilities of Geo. s. Hawkins, OF Florida,
and A. G. Myers, of Maryland. were passed.
A resolution directing the Appropriation
Committee to report in the Deficiency Bal
provision to pay the widow of Speaker Kerr,
sum equal TO the pay and mileage OF
the Speaker, from the time OF his death until
the end of the present Congress was ADOPTED.
The Speaker then announced the following
committees to ascertain and report what are
the privileges powers and duties OF the House
of Representatives in counting the votes
| for President and Vice.President: Knott,
Sparks, Tucker, Marsh, Burchard of Illinois,
Seelyc, and Monroe. On counting the
electoral vote: Payne, Huuton, Hewitt,
Springer, McCreary, Hoar, and Willard.
| Adjourned.
The Senate met at noon, December 20,
fifteen Senators being present. Before the
reading of the journal, Mr.. Morton, Chair.
man Of the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, said il was important to have
another member added to that committee
as the great body of the committee had
gone South to make investigations ordered
mittee assigned to dutyin Washington now in
the city. He therefore moved that another
member be added to the committee. Agreed
to, and the Chair appointed Mr.. Mitchell
of Oregon, as q new member. The Senate
went into executive session at 1915. Wher
the doors were reopened, the Senate ad
journed until Friday next.
The House, on December ~, had three
hours session, which was devoted to gen
eral debate upon the Louisiana question
1t arose upon the request of Gen. Bannin!
that the proceedings of the Cincinnati I'll
den meeting, forwarded in the shape Of
memorial, be printed in the record
The political paper which formed the basi
of the debate, covered the preamble an
resolutions of the citizens meeting at Pike
r Opera House, Cincinnati, on the goth Q
r December, at which the Hon. Henry Star
( berry presided. After warm discussion !
, which Banning and Garfield took an activ
part, the memorial was referred.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Why the British Arctic Expedition
Failed.
London Sanitary Record.


Without desiring to violate official
secrecy, we may point out that the causes
which prevented the late Arctic expedi-
ton from penetrating at least much
nearer to their goal are now pretty
clearly made out, and have great pub
lie interest extending beyond the range
of Arctic exploration or merely retro
spective information. The expedition
failed relatively because the commanders
of the sledge parties failed in the most
vital matters to observe the instructions
given to them for the maintenance of the
health of their men.
1t seems incredible, but it appears TO
be absolutely true, that the sledge parties
started without any supply of lime-juice,
and that each man was expected to drag
over the rough and mountainous ice a
weight averaging upward of four hun
dred pounds per man-just double the
amount of exertion which could reasona.
bly, have been expected of them. Under
the continuous influence of want Of
lime-juice and excessive exertioD the
joints of the men began to swell, and the
characteristic blood illusions to appear
with intense depression and lassitude
The swellings were rubbed with liniment
as if they were bruises, and even when
the presence of scurvy was but too ap
parent, there was not any store of lime
Juice to be used as medicine. No won
der that when the remaining men still in
health had to pull along the two sledge'
and the scorbutic invalids, they pro
crossed only mile day.
If the Admiralty will produce the
copies Of the instructions for dietaries
the logs of the sledge parties, and the re
port from medical authorities on the
same, it will be made apparent that al
unfortunate neglect of the sanitary in
structions given before starting very
nearly crippled the expedition. For al
reasons, past, present, and future, i
ought to be understood that the precau
tions against scurvy enjoincd by law il
the mercantile navy are as urgently nee
esssry and should be as stringently en-
forced in the Royal Navy.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Household Helps.

BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING
Butter your dish we'll, and strew the
bottom with currants and candied peel ;
then place alternate layers of bread and
butter in rather thin slices, and the peel
and currants, until the dish is nearly
full, observing to have currants at the
top then pour over, slowly and equally,
n custard of sweetened milk and two or
three eggs, favored to taste, and bake In
a moderate oven for about twenty
minutes.
BOILED GoosE.-Dress and SINCE It,
put it into a deep dish, cover 1t with
boiling milk aud leave it over night. In
the morning wash of the milk, and put
the goose into cold water on the fire;
when boiling hot take 1t of, wash it in
warm water, and dry with cloth. This
process takes out the oil. Fill the body
with dressing of bread crumbs
seasoned with pepper, salt, butter and
two chopped onions If relished, and Q
little cage. Put the goose into cold
water and boil gently until tender.
Serve with giblet sauce, and with
pickles, or acid jellies.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
Something About Insects.
[St. Nicholas for January.l


An old friend of mine, an enthusiastic
philo-apiarian, told me that being at a
friends house one dry summer, when all
the fields and flowers were scorched up,
he saw thousands of bees busy in the
fields of clover then in bloom.
81 wish my bees were here" said my
friend.
Probably they are" replied the gen.
tlemen.
"What at forty miles distance 2"
eyes" said his friend. con your re-
turn home dredge the back of your bees
with flour as they issue from the hives in
the morning, and we shall see."
This was done, and his friend wrote to
him directly: "There are plenty of your
white,jacket bees here in the clover"
ants follow their nose much more than
their eyes. In my garden saw train OF
ants ascending an apple-tree; go up by
one track, and descend by another. AS
in ascending they passed between two
small shoots that sprung from the bOle,
l stopped their passage with piece OF
bark. The ants did not see this OBJ
struction with their eyes, but ran bump
against it, and stood still astonished
Soon crowd of them had thus been
suddenly stopped, and were anxiously
searching about for passage. BY vari.
Gus successive starts forward, they even
tually got around the obstruction and
reached the track on the other side
The line of scent was renewed, an6
thenceforward, on arriving at the barri
cade, they went, without moment,
hesitation, by the circular track. thel
took out my pen-knife and pared ava,
a piece of the outer bark on the opel
bOle where the ants were descending
The effect was the same. The scent hat
been taken away, the ants came to
dead stand, and there was the same con
founded crowd, and the same spasmodi
attempt to regain the road, which bein
effected in the same way, the scent wa
carried over the sbaven part of tn
bark, and the train ran on as freely a
| hnf
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04

CRAWFORD (Kan.) Ne,os: A case fell
under our observation few days ago
wherein certain parties contracted a
debt of forty dollars, and from time to
time the interest was added until the
amount was two hundred aud nine dol
lars and fifty-two cents. Then mort
gage of sixty acres of land was given to
secure payment. A few days ago the
debtors made sale of forty acres at three
hundred dollars, and paid of the debt,
which then amounted to two hundred
and thirty.four dollars and sixty-six
cents which had grown from the original
one of forty dollars. Theparty who held
the mortgage was rather misery in his
way, and the parties owing the debt
may certainly be thankful that they
escaped with even small part Of their
former home.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-04
The Florida Recount.

Tallahassee, Dec. 27.--Attorney- General
Cooke made O canvass of the vote this
morning, after the other members of the
board refused to canvass. This gives Drew
407, and Tilden 81 majority. This can.
vass he fled in the Clerks Office,
in obedience to the order of the
Court. Subsequently the other members OF
the Board agreed to recanvass, and the full
Board met at four o'clock this afternoon.
They have just concluded their canvass,
and have given Drew majority of 1876, end
the Hayes Electors FOG. Cooke files pro.
test, The Court reassembles tomorrow.