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Rear Admiral Wilkes.

Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, who
died in Washington Cd. o. early
Thursday morning, February 8, was
born in New York in 1901, and was, there
fore, about seventy six years of age. He
was distinguished for professional ability,
scientific requirements, and high sense
of honor. He was appointed a mid.ship-
man in 1916, and served on the Medit-
erranean station in 1S19'20 and in the
Pacific in 1929! In 1926 he was COM
missioned as Lieutenant. He was ap-
pointed to the department of charts and
instruments in 1880, and was the first in
the United States to set up and observe
with fixed astronomical instruments.
On August, 18, 1888, he sailed from
Norfolk, Virginia, in command of a
SO uadron of five vessels and store-ship,
to explore the southern seas. He visited
Madeira, the Cape Verd Islands, Rio de
Janeiro, Terra del Fuego, Valparaiso,
Callao, the, Paumotou group, (Which he
surveyed and explored), Wallis Island,
and Sydney in New South Wales. He
left Sydney in December 1889, and M ade
important discoveries in the antarctic
regions. In 1910 he thoroughly explored
the Feejee group, and visited the Ha-
waiian Islands, where he measured the
pendulum on the summit of Mamma Loa.
In 184l he visited the northwest coast
of America and the Columbia and Sacra-
mento Rivers, and on November set
sail from San Francisco, visited Manila,
Sooloo, Borneo, Singapore, the Cape of
Good Hope, and st. Helena, and cast an
chor at New York on June 10, 1912.
Charges preferred against him by some of
his officers was investigated by court
martial, and he was acquitted all except
illegally Furnishing some of his crew, for
which he was reprimanded. He was
made commander in 1S43. He pub
lished Narrative of the United States
Exploring Expedition, 1882" &C vols.
Alto, also vols. 8vo, New York, 1851. J
Of the remaining eleven volumes, Civ
ing the scientific results of the expedi-
ton, he was author of that on meteor
ology. In 1849 he published Western
America, including California and Ore
gon "(8vo, Philadelphia), and in 1857
his Theory of the Winds" (Svo New
York. He was made a captain in 1856.
In 1861 he was sent to the West Indies in
the frigate San Jacinto to look after the
Confederate steamer Sumter; and on
November 9th he took forcibly from the
British mail steamer Trent, in the
Bahama channel, Messrs. Slidell and
Mason, Commissioners of the Confeder-
at, States to France and England, and
conveyed them to Boston. For this ac-
ton he received vote of thanks from
Congress; but his course was finally dis
approved by the President, and the Com
missioners were surrendered TO England.
In 1862 he was commissioned as Commo-
dore and placed first on the list. While
in command of the fotilla in James
River he shelled and destroyed City
Point on August %. In 1868 he COM
manded special squadron in the West
Indies, and captured many blockade
runners. He was Commissioned as Rear
Admiral on the retired list July rs,
1866.
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How peaceful and joyous emotions in
the heart blend in harmony the past
with the future, making the one beauti-
full, that it has been, the other beautiful,
because it is yet TO be, and both, with
the now, only part of Gods great
eternity. Obi / do believe, in SO living,
that all life will be beautiful to us, or
that we shall ever be blessed with the
peaceful consciousness that God is nigh,
that His tender, loving, perfect presence
is ever over and about us and in us, too;
for "the second man" or that which is
spiritual ais the Lord from heaven"
the Bible says, and how beautiful to feel
this, for il draws us into close fellowship
with God and Christ and makes us feel
really His children,
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vaneed him the money necessary to fit
cut his band of treasure-seekers is known
only to himself and the capitalists, but
it is certain that he has the means to
push his enterprise. He left there to-
day for San Diego, having two strangers
with him, and other men from Michigan,
enough to make up band of twenty
five,, are to meet him in Chicago.
Reynolds has traversed the State and
hunted uphis old cavalry comrades, and,
as none of them will interview" on the
subject, they must have taken solemn
oath Of silence, and feel confident that
they have 2 big thing ;9 in prospect. II is is
furnished the money, and as he has the
reputation of being both miserly and
shrewd,, it is fair to conclude that he had
plain evidences of great profit from the
HE .It -f -..i-
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THEY wear ill-ftting falsh teeth in
Nebraska. A man in Cheyenne tested
barrel of apples by biting one of them,
went away, and after an hour or so,
came back TO find the apple which he
had bitten. He said he had lost his
false teeth somewhere, and thought they
must be sticking TO that apple. He was
! right,
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-08

JUSTICE BRADLEY's father was char
coal burner In Schoharie County, New
York. Joe carted the charcoal and
when the team was resting he read
law.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-08

The Pope does not seem to be prodi.
gal in the expenditure of moneys coming
into his possession, If there be truth in
the statement that he has thirty-two
millions of dollars to his credit in the
Bank Of Italy.
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BY HENRY @. WATSON. !!


By HENRY G. WATSON. s.' -
There's ripple upon theface ofthe sea,
And the sunlight shineth through i.'l
Like the laugh In the eyes OF my darling girl,
When the souls light CLEANS through the blue.
There's restless beat for ever ana ever-n'
A beat the sandy shore s.af
Like the pulse of my burning, passionate heart,
For thedear one adore.
Uts yts.-H
There's murmur comes up from the troubled
A murmur sweet, cad, and low, Nl'
Like the scngI sing I'm my innermost soul, ~
To my love wherever go. ..a.'4N
The wind blows hither and thither at will
No one its path shall tell 5i''''..
My thoughts like the wind, all unfettefed, would
But they fold their wings meath spell. s.
ASpellis arouia and about me always. i.
y A weird and q beauttul charm; y.
II brings me bright visions In shadowy night
And day dreams glowing aud warm.
1t whispers song with glad refraip,
And the words shape themselves TO the air-
OF what were life we're It not for the smile,
And the love Of my lady fair
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A WINTER SONG.

Summer Joy are Ger /; -
Flowrets bloom no more
Winter winds are creeping i..f
Through the snow-drifts peepiny,
Cheerful evergreen
Rarely now is ever seen. 80
Now no plumed throng t't
Charms the wood with song, 70
Ice-bound trees are glitteriDg, 'f}l.
Merry snow birds twittering,
F0ndly strive TO cheer -' d.
Scenes 80 sad and drear.
Winter still I see
Many charms In thee; -tf..l. :.
Love thy chilly greeting,
Snow storms fercely beating, ~fs
And the dear delights
OF the long, long nights.
Holly (174S, 1776).
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So sad, so sweet, the days that are no
more.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
WHO OWNS THE OTHER osELIsKa

THE CITY OF TRIESTE MAKING CLAIMS
THAT MAY DASH soMH TOO sANGUINn
HOPES.
The gratifying announcement was
made yesterday by the World that one
of New York's most liberal and large
minded citizens, "identifed with New
York as well by the name he bears by the
vast interest he controls" has promised
to bear all the expense of the Transports
ton of the obehsk, known as one of Gle
opatra's Needles, which the Khedive of
Egypt has so generously offered to make
a gift of to the city of New York. The
other obelisk is on its way to England,
and the conveyance of its companion to
the United States is represented as an as
sured fact. The needed money Is ready
and is placed by its donor at the disposal
of Mr. Henry q. Stebbins. In view Of
these circumstances, the information vol
unteered by an Austrian newspaper, the
OsserUGtore TriestinG, may be of some in
terest. 1t says:
OF the two obelisks ON the seashore at
Alexandria, known as the "Needles Of
Cleopatra" the one that is upright has
long been the property of the city Trieste,
and now that England has had the other
shipped for London, the people of Trieste
are proposing to go and get theirs. Tho
English years ago wished to take both
for the purpose of setting them up in
Trafalgar square, but Herr Laurin, the
Austrian Consul then at Cairo, interpos-
ed objections, and asserted and maintain
ed the right of his native city to the own
ership of the one now remaining. The
obellsk belonging to the English, which
is now af1oat an the sea in a cylinder and
is being drawn by steamer toward the
British Isles, will not cause an outlay for
transportation of more than about f3 GOO;
and now comes a correspondent of the
OSserUatore Triestidnawith thebuggestion
that the other obelsk can be brought to
Trieste for even less. The experience
gained in the transportation of the En-
glisn obelisk may be turned TO advantage
with ours; the same means of conveyance
can be Employed; The Khedive has prom
ised the Austrian Consul all the assist
ance in the shape of worKmen that may
be needed to get the obelisk to the sea;
and the management ofthe Lloyd Steam
ship Company has volunteered to furnish
a steamer. A subscription to meet the
of the undertaking is on foot in
this city.-N. Y Sun.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
A MAN TRUE TO THE POLE.

The following story of an absurd
young man who does not know enough
to turn his bed around is told by the
Lancaster Examiner: ga curious case
is reported from the western end of
our county, and we have no reason to
doubt its authenticity. We withhold
the afflicted party's name because he
does not, wish to gain notoriety. Our
informant describes this phenomenon
as follows. A young man of 18, living
very close to Mt. Joy, lis in himself a
sort of human compass. At his home
he sleeps on a bedstead whose head
board is due south, he retires aud
arises at early hours, but in the morn
ing invariably finds himself turned
completely round in the bed, with his
head pointing northward. He has
slept in beds away from home, and in
all sorts of positions, but when in the
arms of Morpheus the change of posi-
ton always occurs, and when he
awakes his head is seeking north po-
larity. Another curious physiological
freak with which this person Is aff1ict-
ed is that Immediately preceding a
rain or any change In the weather he
experiences extreme pain in his feet
and limbs, This certainly is an ac-
complished young man-highly gifted
with the combin ed conveniences of
compass and barometer"
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
THE READING TATTooER.
he Is CAUGHT m PHrLADKLPHfA AND

Some days ago Chief Jones, of Phila-
delphia, received letter from Chief Gull
len, Of Reading, stating that tramp
named Billy Kelly alias sBilly the Bum"
had been in that city tattooingp people.
He had all the apparatus necessary, and =
for small sum operated ON those who
desired The truth was that hexwas af- I.
ficted with vile blood disease, and as !.
he mixed the colors with his saliva, he
had communicated the disease TO over
two hundred persons. DR.. ,Maury, Of
Philadelphia, went to Reading 10 inves-,
tigate,, and found this to be the case.
he found also that the man had been in
Philadelphia and inoculated q number Of
persons, some Of whom are now in the
Almshouse Hospital. A strict watch was
kept for him, and yesterday, at Second
and Union streets, policeman Stevens
met a man whom he thought was the
party wanted, He spoke to him of tat
tooing and found he was the man and
arrested him. Kelly, who says his given
name Is James, has books, needles, col
ors, diagrams, ETC., upon him. He was
taken to the Almshouse for identification
by some of his victims, and will be Civ
en- hearing before Alderman Carpenter
to-day. The District Attorney says he
can be held for assault and battery, and
under the common law for spreading vile
diseases. --
At one o'clock, p. m, to-day, Kelly
was taken before Magistrate Smith when
be said he had been prowling around the
country doing nothing in particular for
his livelihood. DR., Maury testified that
the case first came under his notice from
patients in the Philadelphia Hospital,
and that he was then informed of Kelly
being in Reading. He stated the result
Of his visit to Reading, and that he now
had fifteen patients from there at the
hospital. He showed great sores in the
mouth of Kelly, and said he was very
dangerous man to be at large, as is al
ready shown by the hundreds of persons
inoculated. He suggested that he be
sent to the House of Correction, where
he himself would attend him, as his case
was one useful to science. Kelly was
ordered to the House of Correction for
two years.-Phild. Chron., Monday,
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
appointed, and at 4 o'clock the drawing
oi tsats was lproeeeded with, after VIII icR
tho HOUSE adjourned. ,la Zoo lase1aiai
PERSONAL.

{ Vice President VIM. A. wheeler reached
day. III, -, ~ - =, -
s Miss Emily Faithful has started pen
success, l'oH 9'I n q lur 7lTfle' '57''
:. Alfred Gather, the possible democrat
ic Senator from Ohio, is q native Of
Mary land. y Y' suid isei lo - N el
Colonel 5. s. Mills, sheriff ofBaltimore,
who has been confined to his room
FOR several weeks, is improving. iie
Jefferson Davis has hearty com pleted
his memoirs, upoH which be has SO long
been actively engaged. n ~ .i'tt. .
General Kilpatrick will lecture in Cum
berland before the Grand Army of the
Republic on the 23d instant. yd
DIR. John C. Polk, who was grain i'm
spector under Governor Lo we,died re-
Gently at bis residence near Abingdon,
aged'61 .ytnoo nsgJ wa ,Lrat' ~ :
Mrs. Sarah Ellen Whitman will recate
an Originsl poem at the dedication OF the
Roger Williams statute at Providence to-
morrow. "oilu ,d,.iI Hols.H y
General Mcclellan will deliver an ad-
dress to the Meade post, g. A. B., In
philadelphia, in day or two, and pre-
sent banner in behalf of the ladies of
Philadelphia. - -t.7'''ii' ~
Hon, Thomas A. Hendricks will resume
the practice of his profession, and again
become member OF the law firm he
withdrew from before his election to the
vice presidency. "l'
The cashier of an Iowa postoffice, Miss
Minnie Hodges, has disbursed "a ,000, 900
during six years and never made mis-
take. And yet they say an Iowa post
mistress will read all the postal cards, and
occasional glances at the "interior'' Of
sealed letters. .-n ....
Joseph 7. Smith, M. D., prosector Of
anatomy in the university of Maryland,
has received from the president, Rev. A.
M. Jelly, the appointment to the chair
of anatomy ,physiology and lawsof health
in New Windsor college. DR.. Smith has
entered upon his duties.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
Y Estimated, not vel figured up closely.
l,2sO, ,OOO,OOO[ *EstImated.

To arrive at the amount of corn sent
abroad, 1t is proper to count in that
which goes In the compressed form OF
pork. Our annual hog product exporta-
ton Is about 1000, 900 hogs. AS it takes
about fourteen bushels of corn to fatten
each hog, that will be equivalent to about
56, ,000, 600 bushels more of corn to be ad-
ded to the exports annually, as sent in
the form of animal food. We also send
great deal barrelled up in the shape of
whiskey. Corn meal is included in the
Iesdmate, reduced to bushels.
The receipts of wheat at Western lake
and river ports, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Toledo, Detroit, Montreal, st. Louis,
Peoria, and Duluth, during the four
weeks ending Oct. 6, from the new crop,
were 1908, ,375 bushels against z ,157, ,597
for the corresponding period Of last year,
showing an increase of 5.941 ,778 bushels.
The shipments from those ports In that
time were II ,024 ,058 bushels, an increase
of 4 300 $50 bushels, over the correspond
ing period of the year before. Califor-
mia has been this year an exception to
the rest of bhe country. Her crops have
fallen off. Between July and Sept. "a
of this year her exports of wheat were
4.011 900 bushels less than during a cor
responding period of 1876.
Tnat the alarm occasionally expressed
over the probability of other seuboard cities
taking away our grain trade has not been
altogether baseess, seems pretty W, II de-
monstrated by comparison of the figures OF
their receipts and ours, during the period OF
activity in movement OF the crops to sea-
board last year and this, between May
aud Sept. !. Last year the receipts of -four
and grain at Boston, Philadelphia, and
b fillmore during that time amounted to
"a, 748, 1893 bushels; at New York to but
81, ,65S, 1853. This year, during the cor.
lime, those ports received 49,
2l2,38l bushels, and New York, 3l,323,3l5
bushels. From that showing 1t appears
that, while both having suffered a decrease,
New Y rk receipts have fallen off only
333 1858 bushels, while those Of the other
ports named have declined III ,536,6 The
records of receipts show that The water
routes bringing grain and -four 10 this port
have held their own within about "a 900
bushels and the falling of has been the re-
ceipts by rail.
The increase in England's importation of
breadstutfS from this country In the yenr
ending Aug. 81 1877, amounted to almost
rs much as the average OF her importations
: -uring tue ten years preceding. OF corn
ilone she took out 80, ,000,0 900 bushels. Her
.otal importation was about $4,000, 900
bushels, Of which 60, ,000. 900 were from this
,ountry, and 20,000,C00 from soptheas tern
Europe The importa. lion of corn into Ger
many, France, and the United Kingdom
PROMISES TO increase largely, as of late years
! general tendency to resort to it as food for
tock, instead of oats aud cut iced, has been
tits found to be one~third cheap
II in England, than tue material hitherto
Employed for that use. Germany's sup
ply will, however, be drawn mainly from
Hungary.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16

John P. Stagg, of the New Orleans
Times, is stopping at the. .Carrolton hotel.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
GEN ER-AL NEWS.

Gen. Pope announces. 1.-THE surrender of
a hundred and eighty Apaches, includ-
ing three chiefs.
A fire in the town of Clam Lake, Mich,
yesterday, destroyed square of build
ings, causing loss of $4,000.
Senator Morton was removed from
Richmond, Ind, to his residence in In
dianapolis last night without unfavorable
results.
The Light House Board gives notice
that the automatic slgnal buoy moored
off Cape Hatteras, N. c., has disappear
ed. 1t will be replaced as soon as pos
sible.
Samuel W. Garfield, President of the
Nyack, N. Y, yesterday, for completely
in the embezzlement of the banks funds.
He waived hearing, and was commit
ted in default of bail
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
REP UBLICANS GOING OYER IN
CT UBS TO THE WORKINGMEN

In Philadelphia the Twenty-ninth ward
the Republican club have turned over
about three hundred torches, with the
transparancies that were used for Stok-
ley, when he was the Republican candi-
date for Mayor. Two Republican cldhs
in the Thirty-tirst ward have passed their
torches, "WIde Awake caps" and other
campaign paraphernaIia into the hands
of the WOrkingm1n. Five other Repub-
hcan clubs at recent meetings delegated
their leaders to wait upon the progress
committee to see what terms of secession
could be agreed upon.
1t is said that since the Ohio election
the Greenback men in other parts of
Pennsylvania have received assurances
from leading Republicans that they would
not only vote the Greenback ticket, but
they knew of thousands of other Repub-
cans who would also vote that way.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
THE /. H c GRAIN lAl!IIN YIEEg@ 1871.
THB LARGEST CROP THAT THE
COUNTS 7 HAS YET PRO
: 80 d. ~ DUOED.ny- sof3n.. ..ts
Figures that Promise O Golden Fu-
ture-New Works. Importations
Compared with her Sister Cities
p shipments Across the Atlantic. d +.

ture-New Nork's Importations
Compared with her Sister Cities
/ shipments Across the Atlantic. b
The grain crop of the United States
Ibis autumn Is a vast increase over that
OF any preceding year In the two princi-
pal cereals, wheat and corn, to 325, ,OOe-
0O9 bushels Of the former, and 1880, 900,
0Oo OF the latter, according to the careful
estimates of Mr.. Walker, the statistican
OF the New, York Produce Exchanges.
Ihe movement Of this enormous crop,
has Just begun to be felt, as up to the
past eight weeks the exportatlons were of
last years crop, but the sudden increase
already noted gives good promise of 4
golden future. During the brief period
mentioned our exports of wheat from the
ports of New York, Montreal BostoD,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
and Portland have aggregated II ,425, 1888
bushels, against an expectation from the
same ports during a corresponding peri
Cd Of last year of 3 ,9SS, ,95l bushels, show
Ing an increase of 7.588,237 bushels.
There has also been an increase of 7OS,-
234 bushels in Interpretation of rye dur
ing the same time, and in peas an In
crease OF 81 400 bushels. In corn alone
has there been falling off to the extent
OF 1888, ,054 in that time.
The following table presents the in
crease of production and expectation in.
the TWO leading cereals in the past ten
years:
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
What Randall's Victory Means.

OPPOSITION TO EXTRAVAGANT APPRO-
PRIATIONs AND CORRUPT SUBSIDIES.
WASHINGTON. Oct. Alt seems now
to be generally conceded that while
Mr.. Randall's victory is one of the
most overwhelming ever achieved in
our political history, it ia also one of
the cleanest. He goes into the chair
hampered by no private engagements
of any kind. He has entered into no
ordinations and made no pledges,
ann it is asserted that no living man
can rise up to claim the performance
of any. promise with regard TO the
distribution of the Speakers ptronage.
A Senator. caused Mr.. Randall to be
approached early in the summer with
q proposition that he could be given
certain votes on condition that he
would promise to make a single APP
the appofntee to be named by the
Senator, but the Senator was Informed
that Mr.. randall had made no promi-
ses to anybody and did not intend to
make any, and he has ever since Bit
terly opposed Mr.. Randall's election.
The :ruth is that Mr.. Randall's can
didacy was the only one that had
ideas, principles, and party policy he
hind it. His nomination by such a
tremendous vote on the first ballot
means simply and only thai the Demo-
cratic party is not going to abate its
opposition to standing armies,extrava-
CANT appropriations, and the corrupt
Republican system of subsidies to COR
porations. Mr.. Randall was fiercely
opposed by all these interests and by
all the Rings and organized lobbies rep
resented here, ann his triumph is the
triumph of the better elements of the
party and the country.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16

OUTRAGEs NORTH AND SoUTH.-The
Newark IN. j. Advertiser a strong re-
publicanj )urnal, remarks that "outrages
occasionally occur at the north which, if
done at the south, would taiRt it
throughout as savagely disorganized."
Reference is made to lynch law of the
most revolving kind which was lately ap-
piled at Waterford, Pennsylvania, to a
woman. She was taken from her bed at
night, tarred and feathered, and ridden
upon a rail for mile and a>half, The
Advertiser remarks that, though q bad
woman doubtless, a community which
G n permit such doings in its midst
should be relegated to heathendom, ana
that Pennsylvania has too many blots
upon her name already TO permit Of
many more, and especially in the shape
of such outrages on decency as 6his. The
law and order population of Pennsyls
vania are not responsible for these
crimes, but they should reflect that
neither are the mass Of the Southern
people responsible for the work of bad
elements in their midst.-Bah. Sun.
The daily gazette., 1877-10-16
Morton Was Ready,
[Bdltimore Gdzette.l

Among the papers left by Andrew
johnson is an original letter from Sena-
tor Morton, requesting that Jefferson
Davis be sent to Indiana for trial. . A
single sentence will show its animus:
"There will be no difficulty In getting a
jury that will do justice to the Govern-
this that Senator Morton had the "sour
apple tree" already prepared Mr.. John
sons reply was very guarded, and raised
a question of jurisdiction of Indiana
Courts to try the Confederate President.