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Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
How Political Thieves are Made.

Boss Tweed is now undergoing investi-
cation before an investigating committee
of New Y ork Aldermen, and he tells how
political thieves are manufactured. lie
testifies that the first combination of
which he recollects was formed in the
Board of Supervisors, and for the purpose
of giving the Democrats the appointment
of the inspectors of election, in 1859. In
order to create Democratic majority on
that occasion, one of the Republican
Supervisors was bribed to stay away The
money to pay him with-$2, ,500-was
promptly paid by Isaac V. Fowler, then
Postmaster of New York city, and shortly
afterwards large defaulter to the Govern
ment and a fugitive from justice. Ofcourse
Fowler, liberal man, with an accommo.
dating and adjustable conscience, felt en-.
titled to recoup himself in this sum of
$500 from the public purse, and stealing
for the party naturally led on to stealing
for himself.
In the same way Tweed confesses that
his own Ring-the Sweeny Connolly Hall
Tweed ring-was originally only social in
its character. ave used to take our din
ners every day in this building he said.
We paid the keeper of City Hall for
three or four years to give us our dinners.
That was kept up socially and finally it
formed itself into political organization
for politics entirely. We met only for
the purpose of dining" reiterated Tweed,
cor talking politics. Money was never
mentioned there. l want that distinctly
understood. Them said Tweed, 81 was
elected to the State Senate. | found it
was impossible to do anything there with.
out paying for it, and money had to be paid
for passage of bills up there. That was the
way the combination began its formation
By raising money to pay for our protection IN he
city," Thus the Tweed ring like all others
had its root in the patriotism of partisan
ship. They stole for the good of the party
before they stole to fill their own pockets
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Scene in Texas. Hotel table: "Good
morning, stranger; it looks like rain Yii
stranger: think not" A shot is heard
and the stranger is rolled out of the back
door, Moral; Texas is a fine grazing
country. ee
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Nature has turned out a good menny
fust rate jobs, but an honest man she seems
to seldom duplicate.-Josh Billings.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

A mans dearest object should be his
wife; but alas sometimes it is his wife's
wardrobe
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

An irishman, fresh from the country,
saw a turtle for the first time and at once
made up his mind to capture it. The
turtle caught him by the finger, and he,
holding it out at armslength, said, "Faith,
and ye better let loose the how'll We have.
or III kick ye out. Of the very box We sit
in, be jabers."
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS-Additi0nAl L. those
above leave smyrna for Clayton 1915, A. NJ. C9n and
~, n Leave Clayton for smyrna rs, a. NJ > 70.
60 ana Hl". r VI to make connection with Trains
(North and south from Clayton
II. I. KENNY Sn1,t
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

The death of Brigham Young has glutted
the widow market Cincinnati Saturday
Night.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

1t is consoling to think that Charley Ross
will soon be big enough to find himself.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

The Oldest sort of fire escape on record is
the fond husband, who lies abed mornings.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

His Majesty, King Mtesa of Africa, il
clothed in nothing but dignity.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

Sweet meets-Two fond lovers in first
embrace.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19

A waste of Putting it in depot,
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
Phila., Viii. & Bait. R. R,
DELAWARE DIVISION.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT

on and after MONDAY, August 9th, ~ .,,,,,...
excepted trains will leave rs follows "!A
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
Junction & Breakwater,
Br0akWatGr & Frankf0rd and Worcester R. R.
y CONNECTION WITH TIE
OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
CHANGE OF TINE.
u snI-rIIuK Apn
%GRTUNv

on aud after THURSDAY May 3lSt, lS7G tSun.
days excepted trains will run as follows.
JUNCTION BREAKwATER r. r.
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
Maryland G. Delaware r. r.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
GOING SOUTH.

On and after MONDAY Angus 9th, 1877, trains will
run daily as follows, Sunday excepted
Smyrna times., 1877-09-19
Kent County, Smyrna & Delaware Bay RR.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENTS.
Connecting with Delaware R. R. at CLAYTON

On and after Monday, July ID, 1877, until further
notice, trains will run rs follows.
GOING NORTH No l. No >
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
The Improbable i'm War.

The New York Evening Post says: Every
man who has ever been in the thick of a
fight knows that, to all appearances, the es-
cape of any man so placed is utterly improb-
able, if not we'll nigh impossible also. Bull
lets fly around him thick as hail; shells burst
and solid shot scream around him for hours.
That some one of the thousand missils shall
hit him seems inevitable, and yet in very few
battles does one man in ten sustain any sort
of injury. The writer of this article has
seen 13-inch mortar shell fall and explode
in mortar pit Is feet square, in which eight
men were standing, without doing harm to
any one of them. Ninety-nine times in a
hundred such an occurrence would kill every
man so exposed, but in this case the utterly
improbable thing happened. In another case
within the writer knowledge caisson with
seventy pounds of powder in it, exploded
without injuring man who was sitting on
it at the time. Improbable things of a con-
trary sort happen not less frequently. To
draw still from the writer's observation, a
man lying in mortar pit fourteen feet deep,
lying close to the revetement too, was killed
by musket ball which came not less than
thousand yards, and passed through the mans
lungs. 1t had probably struck pebble or
some other object which caused it to fly up
ward, and afterward to fall behind the high
parapet At any rate it killed the man.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
Young Chickens.

Those who have had experienc in raising
chickens know how uncertain o business it
is. They have been told not to count their
chickens before they are hatched but they
know by sad experience that it is not safe
to count them after they are hatched-often
not until they have reached considerable size.
It is not unusual in some cases for half the
brood to die before they are two weeks old,
and no man, or woman either. can guess at
any reason that satisfies as to the reason why.
May it not be from a deficiency of animal
food? Corn-meal, boiled potatoes, and simi-
lar substances compose the leading articles
for young chickens; but there is no reason
why these birds should be exceptions to the
ordinary rule with birds in general. Almost
all young birds are fed chiefly on animal
food. Even those birds which, when they
become matured, live chiefly ON fruit or
seeds, feed their young on worms, grubs or
insects. All day long the parents fit back
ward or forward in attendance on their
young /; but always in connection with ami
NAL food. At least so nearly always that it
establishes the rule We are not sure but we
have seen catbirds with cherries once in a
while about their nests; but even this, if so
at all, is very rare. The bulk of all the food
of young birds is animal food. Germantown
TeleQrUDh.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
The SutrO Tunnel.
[RecOrd-UniOn.1 ]

Record Union.
The question is now whether the Comstock
mines shall compromise with Sutro for the
use of his tunnel. At present there is good
deal of reluctance to come down to his terms,
but it looks as though the "Assyrian" had
rather the whip-hand of the mine owners. In
the event of refusal on their part he can
put in his dam, shut off the escape of all
the water now flowing through the Tunnel.
and await the consequences calmly. What
these consequences would be the mining
superintendent best know but we are in
clined to think that even the mines which
are claimed to be ''Quite dry" " and which are
therefore said to have no need OF the Tunnel,
might, in such case, prove to be rather un-
comfortable for the miners to work in. OF
course it is not difficult to settle the question
whether the Comstock can get along without
Sutro, and from present appearances he in
tends to settle it by practical experiment, if
the mine owners are obstinate. Meantime
he will have resort to the Courts, and will no
doubt insist upon all that is nominated in
the bond" despite opposition and expostula-
ton.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
A Swiss Colony I'm the South.

A Swiss colony settled On Cumberland
mountain, Tenn, in 1878. This colony,
which consists of 115 families, making to-
tai of about 700 people, purchased 10000
acres of mountain land at 81 per acre, and
now, although only four years have elapsed,
each head of the family has comfortable
home, surrounded by an orchard and garden
and decorated with profusion of mountain
flowers. There is large store that is man.
aged for the colony, members Of which. get
goods from it at wholesale cost; the colony
has its own school, churches, doctors, ETC.,
and the members their own candidates to
govern the districts in which they live. The
colonists already have dairies and cheese
factories in successful operation, and all their
products find ready sale and command fancy
prices. They have splendid herds of cattle,
and their barns are built as carefully as their
houses. There is also colony of Swiss near
Greenville, s. c., about as large as the Ten
nessee colony, and it is prospering finely.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
Hint for POverty.Cursed Bellies.
ISan Francisco POst.]

lSan Francisco Post]
The other day a groceryman at Vallejo
gave large party, at which the daughter OF
the carriage painter, who lived next door,
created decided sensation. 1t was not that
she was more handsomely attired than the
other ladies present, but that when she gy-
rated in the "dance of death she was OBJ
served to display the only pair of piok silk
stockings in the room. She left the house
for few moments at the expiration of the
dance, and in the next waltz exhibited pair
of light-blue dittoes. An hour later her
crushed and exasperated female friends be-
held these supplemented by further hose of a
delicate chocolate shade. And so it went on
until her miserable rivals determined to fol-
low her the next time she disappeared. They
traced her to her fathers paint shop in the
back yard, where she was discovered, brush
in hand, and about ornamenting her neither
extremities with fine artistic coat of light
salmon. The exulting spies rushed back with
the damaging news, but it was too late. The
men were all too tight to understand, the
music had gone home and the lights were
being put out Thus it is that fraud and du-
plicity triumph while honest simplicity
walks around with a darn on its calf and q
hole in its heel.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
A Terrible Fail.

AT about 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning
Michael N. Walsh fell from a cage in the
main shaft of the Imperial Consolidated
mine, Gold Hill, and was instantly killed.
He is supposed to have fallen about 600 feet,
no one being with him on the cage at the
time of the accident His mangled remains
were found in the sump at the 1300-foot level.
The top of his head was cut off, also his left
foot and one arm, and hardly q bone was
left unbroken in his whole body. His body
was wrapped in canvas, fastened to plank,
and thus brought to the surface, while the
several limbs, and what ever else could be
collected were sent up in box. In falling
his body doubtless bounded from side to side
in the shaft, striking against the timbers.-
Virginia Enterprise, 18th.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
LIEUTENANT BIDDLE.
A Young Philadelphia Soldier Killed
by the Ncz Perce.
philadelphia Times. ]

Among the officers reported killed in the
last battle with the Nez Perce Indians was
Second Lieutenant Jonathan Williams Bid
die, Il young Philadel phian. He was about
twenty-five years old, having been out or
Princeton College only little more than
year, since June, 1876. After he graduated
lie applied to Gen. Grant for commission
in the regular army, and on August 81, 1876,
was made Second Lieutenant of the 9TH
Cavalry. The young soldier went straight
into active service. He came of military
stock. Jonathan Biddle, his grandfather,
was the first military superintendent of West
Point, and subsequently member OF Con-
gress from this city. HIS father was Capt.
Henry J. Biddle, Assistant Adjutant Genel-
al on the staff of Gen. Mccall, in the Penn
sylvania reserve corps. Capt. Biddle was
educated ut West Point, and when the war
broke out was member of the firm OF
Thomas Biddle g. Co., bankers and brokers
in this city. In 1861 he entered the field and
engaged in active campaigns, rising to dis
tinction for gallant conduct in the most des-
perate battles of the war. At the battle of
New Market Cross Roads,, during the PENN
sular campaign, he was severely wounded
in the charge lied by COL Seneca G. Simmons,
who was himself left dead on the field. In
the movement that followed Capt. Biddle
could not be taken with the army, SO he and
many others fell into the hands of the Con-
felerates, and were taken to Richmond,
where he died on the Goth of July, 1862.
Young Jonathan Williams Biddle inherited
the martial spirit from these, and acquired a
liking for the study of natural history from
his uncle, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the
Smithsonian institute, Washington. On the
plains he thought that he could crafty both
desires. His mother resides at 1923 Walnu,
street, but is now at her country place near
Paoli. Mr.. Alexander Biddle, of the Penn.
sylvania Life Insurance Company, is an un.
Gle of the brave young man who SO unfor.
tunately fell before the savages.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
Eggs for Winter Use.

1t is foolish plan to be seeking the best
method for putting down eggs.'' This used
to be deemed one of the first tests of thrifty
housekeeping the number of eggs put down
for winter use. But much better way is to
have your eggs the year round. If the hens
have enough to eat and of the right material,
they will lay in winter as we'll as summer.
Farmers always expect to feed some grain to
the fowls; then if they would save all of the
waste meat that accumulates in the fall to
feed the hens in the winter, they would be
repaid in fresh eggs. This makes good work
for boys. in saving such refuse in some out
building, to chop up and use when needed
american Poultry Journal.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
Lie Never.

Not long ago, on an English steamer, four
days out from Liverpool, q small boy was
found hid away behind the cargo. lie had
neither father nor mother, brother nor sister,
friend nor protector among either passengers
or crew. Who was he? Where did he come
from? Where going? Only nine years old;
the poor little stranger, with ragged clothes
but beautiful face, full Of innocence and
truth Of course he was carried before the
first mate
''How came you to steal a passage on
board of this ship?" asked the mate sharp
MY stepfather put me in," answered the
boy she said he could not afford to keep me
any longer or pay my passage to Halifax,
where my aunt lives. want to 90 to my
aunt" ...s
The mate did not believe the story. He
had often been deceived by stowaways. Al
most every ship finds, when one or two days
out at sea, men or boys slowed away among
the cargo, who try to get passage across
the water without paying for it. And this is
often troublesome and expensive. The mate
suspected some of the sailors had hand in
the boys escape, and treated him pretty
roughly. Day after day he was questioned
about his coming, and it was always the same
story-nothing less, nothing more. At last
the mate got out of patience, as mates will,
and seizing him by the collar told him unless
he confessed the truth in ten minutes, he
would hang him on the yard arm-a frightful
threat indeed.
Poor child, with not friend to stand by
him! Around him were passengers and sail
ors of the midday watch, and before him the
stern officer with his watch in hand, count
ing the tick, tick, tick of the minutes as they
swiftly went There he stood, pale and sor-
rowful, his head erect, and tears in his eyes;
but afraid ?-no, not bit
Eight minutes were already gone.
''Only two minutes more to live" cried the
mate. ''Speak the truth and save your life,
boy" ,o,.o .o, .,o child ,oo.;nc ~
into the hard mans face.
The officer nodded his head, but said moth
ing The brave boy knelt down on the deck
and with his hands clasped and his eyes
raised to heaven, repeated the Lords prayer,
and then prayed the dear Jesus to take him
home to heaven. He could die; but lie
never. And then all eyes were turned to-
ward him, and sobs broke from the stern
hearts.
The mate could hold out no longer. He
sprang to the boy, told him he believed his
story, every word Of it. A nobler sight nev-
er took place on ships deck than this-a
poor, untriended child, willing to face death
for truths sake.
He could die; but lie-never! God bless
him! And the rest of the voyage you may
we'll think he had friends enough. Nobody
owned him before; everybody was now ready
to do him kindness. And everybody who
reads this will be strengthened to do right,
come what will, by the noble conduct of this
dear child. ..... -....
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
AN AUSTRIAN ARCHITECTS
ASPIRATIONS,
An Economical Project to Remove the Cap
itol to the Yellowstone Valley for
Eleven Hundred .Millions---0nly
Ten Per Gent. Commission
Wanted.
From the Washington Republican,


About a week ago there arrived ON the
shores of the United States gentleman who
reioices in the euphonious patronymic OF
Hampel He came directly from Vienna, his
bosom swelling with a desire to let the be-
nighted denizens of this vast country profit
by the experience of one who had dwelt
among and studied the architectural and other
beauties of Austria's imperial city. His pur-
pose is lofty, for he proposes removal OF
the National Capitol. Now, it is true, we
have had a Reavis who wanted to do this
identical thing, but he is mere pigmy In
point of enterprise, when compared with our
Vienna friend. Reavis was modest enough
to merely propose to shift the Capitol to St.
Louis, but Hampel wants to found
SPANKING NEW CITY
located in the grand region about the Yellow
stone. AS to the cost of the enterprise, too,
Hampel is not mean at all. Reavis wanted
for his project merely paltry sum OF about
$3.50, 900, 900 or 5000, 900, 900, and even then
could not furnish the exact figures. Not so
brother Hampel. He has figured it down TO
a nicely. His new Capital OF the ''home of
the free and the land of the brave" which is
to cover site of Sc, ESQ, 900 square yards in
extent which is to be divided into six ''zones, ~
according to the relative value Of the real
estate,
WILL COST EXACTLY 81, ,152, 900, 900.
Hampel proposes to furnish the general plan
for the arrangement of the 'New Washing
ton y will provide in uetail the minutest mat
ters connected with the municipal govern
ment of the city says that his project is in
| tended to incite new commercial activity by
the founding Of the real Capital of North
America, and prophesies that this new city
will be destined to become 1.-The Mecca of the
entire civilized world" And for all his brain
labor and physical exertions in attending to
the minor details, Hampel asks but the trit1e
of ten per cent. of the amount necessary for
the enterprise! The thing is cheap at half
| the price! It is understood that Hampel
COMMUNICATED HIS PLAN
by letter to Secretary Schurz, and has since
his arrival acquainted that gentleman with
the minor details of the same.
A gentleman of the intensely practical ten
denotes of the distinguished Secretary of the
Interior will doubtless not hesitate to recon-
mend to Congress to enter upon the project
proposed by Hampel, and it is to be hoped
that our National Legislature will not fail to
seize the glorious opportunity of founding a
''Mecca for the entire civilized world"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08

A well-to-do bachelor, who had been his
client years ago, left by his will a handsome
little competency of about 916, 600, says the
London Truth, to the distinguished French
lawyer, Maitre Allou. On being informed
of the fact by the family notary, Maitre Allou
asked for complete list of the relatives of
the deceased gentleman, with an account of
their private means. When he had got it he
made a selection of The poorest and most de-
serving, and divided the bequest between
them. Truth asks how many lawyers in this
practical century are likely to be guilty of
the same offense.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08

COMMENTING on recent statement in this
column to the effect that Prof Hall, the dis
coverer of the moons of Mars, began life as
a carpenter, correspondent says: ''Tbat is
very probably the reason why it was he who
first saw the satellites, and it not only adze to
his honors, but augurs we'll for future aspir-
ants to astronomical fame though tbs plane
that his case is the exception, rather than the
rule. We square away to let any other
craft compass this that can. We have done
our level best.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-11-08
AN OLD UMBRELLA.
BY Z. p. CRANCH.

BY e. p. CRANCH.
An old umbrella in the hall,
Battered and baggy, quaint and queer
BY all the rains OF many year
Bent, stained, and faded-that is ALL
Warped, broken, twisted by the blast
OF twenty winters till at last,
Like some poor close-reefed schooner cast,
All water-lOgged, with half mast.
Upon the rocks, it finds nook
Or shelter on an entry hook;
Old battered craft, how came you here?
All, could it speak, 'twould tell of one
Old Simon DOwles, who now is gone
Gone where the weary are at rest
OF one who locked within his breast
His private sOrrOws DER his lot,
And in his humble work forgot
That he was but toiling bark
Upon the billows in the dark,
While the brave newer ships swept by,
Sailing beneath prosperous sky,
and winged with opportunities
rate had denied to hands like his.
pam old-fashioned wight was he
rs rs !hese sport-lOving days could zee.
ne IN youth had loyed and lost
!s mis ioyai true-love. Ever since
p nle ioleiy NE was fecked and crossed
". .....- AA'sAAACiess SQaOOW.Cl0CSs
,r, re, never murmur from his lips
Io.d Oh ms darkened souls eclipse.
often think | still can hear
Ills voice SO blithe, his tones of cheer.
AZ, dropping in to say, s'good-dav
tie gossiped in his old-man's. way'
And yet We laughed when he had oo,o
we youngsters couldn't understandw
No matter if it rained or shone
lie held the umbrella in his hand
Or If he set in the hall,
Where other shedders of the rain
Stood dripping up against the wall,
Ills Yves too shabby and too plain
10 tempt exchange; all passed il by,
Though showers of rain were pouring down
And all the cutters of the town
Were torrents in the darkening sky.
He never left it once behind,
Save the last time he crossed our door.
ObliviOus shadows DER his mind
Presaged his failing strength. Before
The morning he had passed away
In peaceful, sleep from night to day.
And here the old crown umbrella still
In Its old corner stays to I'LL
Inc place, as best 1t may, of him
Who, on this wild ond wintry night,
II surely with the saints of light;
T1r TGs,, whom my eyes grow moist and dim
"hiie this simple line idite.