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Chancery Court Sale,

QY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF SALE
- entered in the cause Of Thomas KoiTord et
al rs. Martin Kelly ct al, Chanaery Court Of
Shelby county, will, on
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1871 Prizes, amounting 10 s11O. .lON
Write for Circulars or send orders 10
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New Advertisements.

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DOU s. outfit free. Ii. HALLETT & co.
Portland, Maine
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
StOnewalD Jackson

Tie widow of Stonewall Jackson, who
is living at boarding school in Charlotte
county, Va, which her daughter is at
tending, is in very moderate clrcumstan-
ccs, the General haying invested most of
his property in the bonds OF the Coafed-
eracy. Mrs. Jackson, in the course of q
about her husband, SAID:
"N0thing was so certain to him as that a
protracted struggle would wear the South
out. He helieyed that we had but one
hope, and that was to press the Federals
at every point, blindly, furiously, madly.
We must frlghten them, he used to say.
He believed that q fatal mistake was made
when our people failed to take advantage
of the splendid victory of Manassas. l
think he saw q permanent triumph just
beyond that battle. So thoroughly was
he impressed with the importance OF
pushing ahead all the time, and in the
face of any obstacle, that he was consld-
cred frantic His whole correspondence
with me was full of expressed and i'm,
p,ied horror of war and bloodshed. am
convinced that one of the reasons impell-
ing him to the positive and vigorous
course that he pursued was the knoWl
edge that it must speedily release him
from the repugnant work in which he was
Engaged"
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Food Figures

"IIow much ability to lab or can de-
rive by eating pound of potatoes or from
a dollars worth of brady. beer or gin:''
are items which could be turned to large
account by the multitudcs of the toiling
poor. One pound of rice, prepared for
the table, gives 50 per cent. Of nutriment,
and, consequently, relative proportional
ability to labor, compared with other ar
ticles of food. A pound of beef gives
only 26 per cent. of nutrlmcnt. According
to these estimates, therefore, rice as an
article of food, is 100 per cent. cheaper,
100 per cent. more valuable to the COM
mon laborer than roast beet, making a
practical difference of 600 per cent, aside
from the fact that boiled rice is three
times easier of digestion than roast beef,
the rice being digested in about one hour,
roast beef requiring three hours and q
half. There is meaning, then, in the re
puted fact that two fifths of the human
family live mainly on rice. We compile,
therefore. the following tables for prcser-
vation, as being practically and perma-
nently useful. All the economist requires
Is to compare the price Of a pound of food
with the amount of nutrition it affords:
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Condition of Russia i.

Russia covers about one sixth of the
globe, exceeding nine hundred million
square miles. Her population, number
ing about 90, ,00O, 900, comprises more than
a hundred different nationallties. and at
least half that number of languages are
spoken within her boundaries. She has q
debt of not far from twenty five million
roubles, the rOuble being of the value in
our currency of 1911 cents. so that her
Indebtedness amounts to nearly $2,000,-
00O,OtO. Her revenue was set down for
the last fiscal year at 52o,0O0,000 roubles.
No country in Europe, except France
since the payment of her gigantic tribute
TO Prussia, bears burden of taxation
which presses so heavily on the individ"
ual. Fifteen sixtecnths of all the Russian
revenues are wrung from the laboring
Glasses, the estates of mobiles, as we'll as
Church property, being exempt frcm tax
alton. The unhappy monjik. besides his
purchase-money annuity. which is for the
payment of land assigned him by law af-
ter his emancipation, contributes to the
State no less q sum than fifteen roubles
ANNUALLY. or an average of thirty roubles
for each family.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
A Great Blast.

On tho 10 h of April there was to be =
gigantic blast of iron ore at Minneville.
seven miles from Port Henry, Essex
ounty, N. Y. The Port Henry Iron Ore
Company is the greatest mining corpora
ton in the United States, If not in the
world. its annual production being about
$50. 600 tons. 1t had decided to remove
by one mighty blow-up two or three
enormous pillars which formerly support
ed the roof. TEese pillars have been I'M
covered in the excavations. composed of
iron ore. They are from 40 to 40 feet
in height, and from 80 to $50 feet in CIR.
cumference. They are estimated to con.
70 500 tons in gross. The pillars are to
be blown mp by simultaneous explosions, ,
with composition resembling nitro.gly-
cerine. The company has issued three
hundred invitations to prominent engi-
neers, professors of colleges, representa-.
tives of the press, and others.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Lost in the Sea.

Marine casualties have been fearful
during the past four months. The loss
to vessels is far in excess of anything on
record. The losses to cargocs and vessels
are estimated at $4,000, 600; the number OF
persons who found watery grave, about
400. and the number of chip owners ruin-
ed. $50. The number of total wrecks is
set down at l49. and that of vessels mere
ly damaged At 2,053. OF those crippled.
l5s were steamers, 757 were schooners,
29s were brigs, 6s2 were barks, and 2Os
were ships. The severest gales nave oc
CURED along the North Atlantic sea BOARD ,
and if it had not been Tor the signal SER
vice bureau it is certain that the destruc-
ton would haYe been much greater.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
The Next l'Ope.

There are now 66 members in the Sacred
College. Its members were fixed at 20 by
Sextus V. in 1886, but there arc usually
vacancies. In 1860 the Sacred College
had GO members. iu 1864 but 50, and in
1867 only SO. All but of the cardinal,
were created by Pope Plus IN. Four OF
the cardinals are English speaklng-Cul
len, of Ireland; McCloskey. of New
York, and Manning and Howard, Of
England. The Italians in the Sacred
College number Al. against IS of all othe,
natonalities, so that one can figure how
slight are the chances of the next Pope
not being an Italian, or in sympathy with
The Italian.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
BOHEMIAN, NJ. T., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1877.
L01U and Gospel. 20

4 There are twenty.six letters in tn.
Bible.
Wisconsin Episcopallans want the Gen
eral Convention to change the name o1
the Protestant Episcopal Church to th'
"American Branch of the Church Catho.
lic.'
Judge Davis, of New York, deserves ,
crown tor putting stopper on the prac'
Itice of making the estates of deceased par
ties whose wills are contested, pay the ex
penses of the contest.
Thirty-nlne clergymen united with the
Young Mems Christian Association. ir
Montreal, in inviting Moody and Sankey
there when they have finished their work
in Boston, where they will probably re-
main until June.
| 1t is now year since capital punish
mcnt was abolished in Maine, and in thai
thine there have been eight murders.
During the last year that hanging was the
lpena!ty, there was but one murder, and
in that case the guilty man at once took
his own life.
They have a curious way Of deciding
law suits in Siam. Both parties are put
under cold water, and the one staying
longest wins the suit. In this country
both parties arc got into hot water end
then kept there as long as possible. The
result in the end is the same.
A curious practice prevails 1T Havrc,
France, of deyoting to public charity one
franc in each thousand OF the sums received
lat public auction of merchandise or ships.
1t is paid by the purchaser, and last year
amounted TO about $1,000, In Bordeaux,
Tic same is done by dealers in wool and
skin.
The Legislature of New York has virtu.
ALLY adopted Senator Morton's plan for the
election of President and Vice President,
in their Lew election law. The electors
at large are to be voted for on the State
ticket, and the balance are to be elected in
the several Congressional districts.
Inc StanuaIC VI uIunhe"HesS VaIIes Ue-
tween London and Edinburgh. A wit
ness in London court recently testified
that m an is properly drunk when he
Icannot walk. A man in Edinburgh, at
about the same time, gave 90 his opinion
that "a man .4asu't enough till he cannot
speak"
The most notable instance of religious
stir in New York seems to be in the
Mariners Church of the New York Port
Society, in the lower part Of the city.
Since October, 1875, accessions have been
made unparalleled for numbers by any
church in the city; seventy were added on
the last Sunday in February.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Improved Arms.

! The Ordnance Department has from
year to year urged upon Congress the me-
cessity of making sufficient appropriations
for the manufacture of improved srms, 60
as to permit the gradual accumulation of
them in store for use in cast of an emer-
gency. During the ten years preceding
1.-THE late war an average of $2j1 900 per
annum was appropriated for the manu-
facture of such arms, but for several years
'ipast the appropriation for that purpose
has been 100000 or $3.50, 600. 1t is esti.
mated that there will not be more than
s, 600 arms of approved patterns on hand
at the end of the present year, and should
the States draw upon the National Gov
eminent for the full quotas to which they
are entitled the limited stock Of improved
arms held in reserve would be exhausted,
The act of April 90, 1905, makes perma-
nent apnSal appropriations of $500, 900
for arming and equippng the militia of
the United States. and it is urged that it
that sum was necessary at that time. when
the population did not exceed 5000, 600,
at least 81 900, 900 should be appropriated
now, the population having increased near
lily fivefold. Under the act named, the
State of New York is annually credited
with $l6.G92 of the $500, ,O00 but if the
appropriation should be increased to ST.
600. 900, as recommended, she would have
$s3, 9G2, and so with the other States ac-
cording to their population. The style Of
gun now being manufactured is the
Springfield breech- loading rifle, and it is
urged that these guns should be manu-.
featured IN quantities sufficient to render
a gradual accumulation of them in store
certainty. That a better arm than the
Springfield may some day be invented is
not at all improbable, and experienced
ordnance officers contend that magazine
gun will no doubt be the arm of the fu-
ture. But un il such one, suitable for
the military service, has been perfected
and approved, reserve stock OF Spring.
fields is a necessity.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
GeNernZitieS.

Statistics show that of 169, ,6e4 colore,
troops who were mustered in during III
war, only 1914 were killed in action. an,
14,SS7 deserted.
Orders have been given by the Russian
Government to the manager of the I'm
perlal Iron Foundry at Tutu to con struc
without delay 40 900 iron hurs for the &C
commodation of troops.
They tell of a prominent grocer VIII,
carried to funeral an umbrella on which
was painted conspicuously the business O
his house. and held it over the preacher
head while he conducted the services.
The American Naturalist reports tw,
remarkable instances of vitslity in snails
One snail, of the species Bullimus Pal
lidior, lived for two years, two months
and sixteen days without food, and at tn,
end of that period appeared to be II
pretty good health. Another, HELIX
Veatchie, lived without food from 1859 til
1865. Both of these species of snail.
are Indigenous to nearly rainless re-.
gions.
The Philadelphia Times says the dcci
sion of the Supreme Court deals seriou:
blow to the Permanent International Ex
hlbition, now completely organized, and
nearly ready to be opened. A large por
ton Of its capital consists of shares OF
Centennial stock, which has been conf
IDENTIFY rated at 80 per centum or more
upon its face value, the managers sup
posing that the judgment of the Circuit
Court was law. The decision practically
wipes out quarter of million of dollars
from the capital of the Permanent Exhi
bltion, reducing the balance in the hands
Of the Board of Finance to very small
sum. The Times looks to Congress
to come to the rescue of the new Exhibi.
ton.
One Of the notable trees in the Tuileries
Garden in Paris is an old horse-chtstnut,
called the Chestnut of the Goth of March
1t blossomed at that date in 1904, the day
that the first Napoleon caused the Duke
d Enghicn to be shot, and during his
reign the Legitimists Of the city paid 6
yearly pilgrimage TO 1t on the anniversary
of the execution. The tree tlossomed
again on the same day in 1915, when Ma.
poleon re entered Paris on his return from
exile in Elba. and afterward became an
object of pilgrimage TO Bonapartists dur
ing the reigns of Louis XVIII Charles
X and Louis Philippe.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
PoetrY.
For the COURIER.
A May-Day Gift.

'"ee''heart! if could prove by word o
mine,
ny oeed OF mine, how much / love.
Anou wou.dst not scorn this bouonet
| which twine
With strings from out my heart. Abov,
al. other women art thou unto me:
With thee l find contentment-rest.
The hours, without thee, full of misery
weigh like nightmare on my breast.
What makes the earth look briehter-na
ture smile
SO sweet from out her sombre trcss
Upon rue in my heightened hours Of toll
My eyes find naught but loveliness
In all l see. Why does my charmed ear
Hear melody in every sound?
Loye makes the earth paradise appear
Like Adam, l my Eve have found.
NO woman, since long years, has claimed
q thought
OF mine, Courteous respect above.
In thee find all ever sought.
Desired, and lost, in my first loye!
l offer you no treasure boarded up,
No harvest gathered from the tears
OF poverty-no dreg- stained, empty cup.
Foul with the reck of wasted years!
w.
A May-day offering at thy feet lay
The homage of AN honest heart!
Oh! may the memory of the happy day
When first met thee ne'er depart!
0. V.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, May 1, 1877.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
WashlngtOn's Remains Pet
rified.

We Visited Washington's tomb to-day
at Mount Vernon, Virginia, some II miles
from this city, down the Potomac, and we
had the unusual privilege of beholdirg
the mortal remains of the immortal Wash.
lngton. Visitors to the tomb will remem
her that the west wall of the same has
been for several years IN falling condi-
ton, and in great need of repair. A few
days since part of it tumbled into the
tomb. completely covering the sarcopha-
gus of Washington, end also that OF
Martha Washington. In order to repair
the damages in competent manner, 1t was
found necessary to remove them few
feet from their resting place. The one
containing the remains of Martha Wash
|ington was removed first, hut attracted
lno attention. But the unusual weight q
the one containing the remains of Wash
llngton, aroused the curiosity of the oflicia
who was experimenting the work o1
removal, and it was decided to open thu
jsarcophagus in order to ascertain th'
cause. This was done and the remain
were found to be retrided, in tact, a solit
stoue, resembling statue, the feature;
perfectly natural, with the exception o.
eyes and ears. no trace of which can b'
seen. The body is of dark leather!
iicolor, and may be said to be soft sand
stone, which might break should an at
tempt be made to remove it from tn
lsarcophagus.
Edward Baker, an aged colored man
who has resided upon the farm since h
was boy, and who as sisted in removing
the remains from the old tomb to the pres
ent one, informs US that it is 3S year
since their last removal. At that tim
they had rested in the old tomb 80 years
land we're exhumed in state of preserva
ltion beyond all expectation, being solid
|compact mass, with the skin drawn tight
ly to the bones, petrlfaction, no doubt
having commenced its work. The repair
to the tomb will be completed to-day, ant
the sarcophagus is not likely to be open
ed again for century to come, u'.less
indeed, in the case of an accident. as il
the present instance, and petrifactlon viii
have completed its work; ard the remain
of the immortal Washington will then b
as enduring as his memory is dear.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
A Talented Man.

"l our face seems familiar to me, sir, {"
said one man to another on Western
railway train the other day; Can havo
met you before? Was it at the Centennial?
or did see you al St. Louis last fall?"
1T may have been either, sir" courteous
" responded the unknown, "for was
Turkish pasha in the cake and coffee
business at Philadelphia, and subsequent
ly filled a brief engagement at ST. Louis
Jas cannibal. I am now on my way to
California, to become gorilla, if native
talent meets with any encouragement;
but if business is bad l shall either let my
hair grow and enter the lecture field or
get a chuck "A luck board and follow the
country fslrs.' ''Iife," said the other
man. musingly, sis full of vicissitudes."
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Other PeoDze.
Spotted Tail wants a Roman Catholic
agent sent TO his people,

Spotted Tail wants a Roman Catholi,
agent sent 10 his people,
Germany demanding the expatriatior
OF Cardinal Ledochowski, the pope ha.
offered him an asylum at the Vatican.
If man suicides at your door in Chin;
you must bury him, give his relations $40
and 60 to Jail three months to learn bette,
manners than to own house.
A grocer in Washington advertises tha
ne has "whisky for sale that has beer
drunk by all the Presidents, from Genera
jackson down to the present time"
Col. W. w. Hollister might az well
while he IS about it, buy the whole OF
California. He already owns u, 900 acres
OF that blooming State. On his Santa
Barbara farm lie has the triflirg number
of 10000 fruit trees.
The pen with which Francis Marion
wrote the order disbanding his soldiers
after the Revolution is owned by one
Georgian; and another, desccndent of
the General. has Ma,ion's camp chest
WITH us frugal Outht OF silver.
In China. it is SAID that. in order to in.
duce the laboTcrs to hoe about the cotton
plants deeply. the masters formerly USED
to secrete copper coins about the roots of
the plants. The workmen would then
sitt and comb out the soil to find tnem.
1t is said that Mr.. Wendell Phillips
used to lecture IN Boston for $40 and $25
when lecturers less attractive demanded
$3.50; and it is stated, further, that when
he at last raised his price he devoted all
his extra gains to the aid of the freed
men
DR.. Benjamin Franklin invented and
constructed three clocks, and one of these
is owned in the old Kings Arms Inn, in
Lancaster, England. 1t has only three
wheels and strikes the hour. 1t is to be
sold at auction in May with other curious
historical objects.
An English Com pany. with $25, ,OOo. 900
capital, is buying up 5000 square miles
of timber limits in Canada ard purchasing
lumber mills on the Ottawa and Gatlnea
rivers. Sir John Rose, Of Morton, Rose
& Co., bankers, of New York and Lon
don, is at the head Of the company.
1t is stated that the late Rear Admiral
Alden for many years labored under q
heavy sorrow. HIS wife was an inmate
of al insane asylum. She died week
bef"rc her husband, and many suppose
that the news of her tcath, with all the
sad recollcctions of the past. brought on
the attack from which he died.
Ger. Grant doesn't intend to write an
but his name will appear
on the title page of a volume dealing with
his services in beha f of the Union both
during the war and after. The editor of
the book, it is reported, will be Penn
sylvanla cousin of Mrs. Grant, named
Smith. He has all the official records to
work with.
Popular suffrage has been put to novel
test III village of Ava, Japan, which
was harasscd by midnight rcbber,
whom nobody could detect. The b. al of
the hamlet summoned the entire male
population under his charge and directed
every man to write the name of the per-
son whom he suspected and to deposit the
ticket in box. Fifteen ballots bore the
name of Abe Taniher, the rest being
blanks. The distrusted man was so over
come with astonishment that he made full
confession and went to prison.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Turkeys in Europe.

1t is beleyel that turkeys were intro
duced into England from America by
William Strickland, Lieutenant to Sebas-
tian Cabot. in the time of Henry VII.
Franklin always said that the wild turkey
should have been the emblem of the
United States, the log cabin of the pioneer
being in his day surrounded by these
birds, who salured each other from forest
boughs, just as the chanticleer awakened
the English farmers. The first turkey
seen in France was brought thither by the
Jesuits. and served up at the wedding
feast of Charles TX, in 1864.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-05-10
Gen. X'aylOr'S Body.

Another effort is being made to secure
the removal of the body of Gen. Taylor
from the Taylor farm, where he is buried
o few miles from Louisville, KY, to Frank
fort, KY. where it is proposed to erect a
suitable monument over it. just before
he died, Gen. Taylor asked to be buried
BY the side OF his father ON the farm, anu
forbade the removal of his body unless
the body of his father was removed with
il. The wives of both are buried near
them, aud if any of the bodies are removed
they probably oil will be.