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work Of the Police Force During July.
A Family Disturbance.

Mrs. Nellie Morgan, wife of John Nor
gan, moulder, and living just opposite
the Union Office. called at this Office this
morning and wanted her husband pub
lished." She says that since they were
married, l6 years ago, they have never
lived happily together; that this was
owing to his unreasonable jealousy; that
he deserted her last winter, bat returned
this spring and since that time has done
nothing to provide for his family; that
last Thursday he left her house and since
then has circulated many false reports as
to Ler character, and the character of her
daughter, "LoveY." She requests the pub
lie not to put any faith in the stories, and
emphatically denies their truth She says
her husband has left town to avoid arrest
for his abuse and for circulating the mali
ciOus reports, Let us have peace.
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CITY.

1t will pay to keep your Harness in good
condition. Use Frank Miller's Prepared
Harness Oil.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1877-03-13

TIME UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE
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prepared, with the most approved machinery.
70 sink AFtesian Wells in any part Of the stHte
on the shortest notice.
All orders or communications on the sub
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t,h heuntatp, will recsive prompt attention.f
CAHOON q PALMER,
Battle Mountain. October Q. 1875.
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The Chinese Language.

The Pekingese proverb which says
that "the jargOn of southerners is like
the chattering of BIRDS" aptly illus
trates the wide gulf which separates
the spoken languages of the different
parts of China. 1t is scarcely an eX-
aggeration to say that to a Pekingese
the speech of Canton man is as unin-
telligible as the cawing of his native
crows, and the same or nearly the
same may be said of the dialects of the
outlying provinces. 1t is even ru-
mored that his eXcellency Kuo, the
Chinese envoy who is now among us,
and who is native of IIupih, had con-
siderable difficulty in making himself
understood by Prince Kung and the
northern members of the Tsung-li va
men. These remarks apply, however,
only TO the spoken languages; the
written medium is the same all over
the empire, and it is probable that at
the beginning of the Christian era the
same might have been said of the colo
quial tongue. Historians agree in stat
ing that it was subsequent to that pc
riod that dialects first began to appear,
and we find that, when once they OBJ
tained separate existences, the di-
vergence between them and the pa
rent spoken language continued to in
crease until they became crystallized-
if such an expression can be applied to
living dialects-in their present forms.
Many causes have tended to perpetuate
the existence of dialects in China,
among the chief Of which are the ply
steal features of the country and the
very slow and inconvenient means at
the disposal of the natives for travelling
from place to place. 1t is enough to
trace on the map the principal noun
tain ranges and to mark the limits and
extent of the plains to be able to Judge,
roughly speaking, Of the dividing lines
between the different dialects and of
the area over which each Is spoken. To
illustrate the effect Of these barriers 1t
is only necessary to compare the SINH
larity between the dialects spoken on
the great plain of northern China,
which includes the provinces of Chill,
Kiang-su, and parts of Gan-hwuy, Ho-
nan, and Shansi, with the strongly
marked varieties of speech in the one
province of Fuh-kien. There, where Il
succession of mountain ranges intersec
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-10-25
The Beauties of Trade.

We are proud of the present age as
the triumph of trade and mechanism.
And we know the high genius and aim
of trade. Trade thinks only on good
balance, and is proud of good balance,
be it got out of the follies and vices of
men or in whatever way. Trade is thin
ming the country, crowding the towns,
swelling dukes incomes, .fattening dis
tillers and brewers, disiguring and re-
ducing the human physique, blighting
the tenderness of relations between man
and man, checking you off the values of
the different sorts of intellect and in
spiration. And, thanks to the extreme
nicely of our mechanical arrangements,
we are cut down into the most frac-
tional existences. AS if the diSjectd
membra left on field of battle were
made to spin into some sort of galvanic
life! In the higher provinces, too,
your intellectual men are distributed
into departments and sub departments
as writers or speakers, while life in the
walks Of fashion is game Of consump-
ton and show. And when cn the part
of busy men the days arduous en-
deavors toward the continuance of
sublime human life are accomplished
and leisure is left for reflection, then
glass Of beer, a pipe, cards, coffee and
cake, a game at billiards or whist,
novel from the circulating library, is
illimitable scope for the spiritual facul-
ties.-Popular Science Monthly.
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the province, are TO be heard at least
three very distinct dialects, namely,
those known as the Fuh-kien, the Chin
chew, and the Annoy dialects, besides a
multitude Of less widely differing
tongues. The province Of Kwang-
tung lCanton) is subdivided into almost
as many dialectic areas, and that from
the same cause. The physical features
which have thus marked of the dialects
form serious impediments in the way
of travel, and when the wretched means
Oftransport-boats, horses, sedan-chairs
and springless carts-are taken into ac-
count, it may fairly be assumed that
many hundreds of thousands of China
men live and die in their native viii
lagos and towns without ever going be-
yond their immediate neighborhOods.
The arrival in such a province of a
traveller from distant province is as
the advent of foreigner, and his speech
is as little understood as though he
came from Europe. But though dia-
lects have their Inconvenience they
have also their value. In them we find
embalmed many words and sounds
and words which have either become
obsolete or have dropped out of the
Mandarin language, and just as in some
dialects Of our own language the Old
English plural en- is in use, at the pres
ent day, so in the dialects of China
may be recognized the old finals, p, I, 4,
M, which have been lost in the speech
Of the northern provinces of the EN-
pire. For example, the character for
bamboo, which in the Mandarin Ian
guage is pronounced chuh, is read at
Canton chuk, exactly as it was sounded
at the time of Confucius: and again,
the Mandarin Ch'Uh, "tO 90 out" in
moder Cantonese, as it was in ancient
Chinese, ch'Ut. Taken as whole, how
ever, the Cantonese have not preserved
the old pronunciation as faithfully as
the natives of some of the more central
provinces, notably in Kiangnan, and
marked deviation from the old standard
is the exchange of the old soft initials.
q, d, b,dj, ., DE-, : and j, for the hard
initials, 4, I, p, ch and Is, with or with
out their aspirates. The four tones of
the ancients have also been increased
to nine in modern Cantonese. These
tones present a great difficulty to the
student ofcOlloquial Chinese; but from
the nature of the language they are as
essential for the explanation of speech
as is "the use Of compound syllables,
pretiXes and sufilXes, declination and
conjugation, in the case Of the English
language, or the varied infections
which enable us to determine at once,
for any Greek or Latin word, the gem
der, the case, the number, if that word
is a noun or adjective; the mood, the
tense, and the person, if ii is a verb. y
The Saturday Rerielg.
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CLEVELAND, TENN, OCTOBER %, 1877.

be married now, could you?" suggested
she, half in jest.
"Of course not-how absurd ~
laughed Clara.
"lhe very thing! Louisa, you're a
trump" exclaimed Frank. 81 haven't
parted with what was to be the wedding
ring; here il is on my watch-chain,
ready for USE"
"I'll warrant Clara's saved her veil, -
said Louisa.
Frank pleaded so ably, and Virgie
and Louisa, not to say Clara's own
heart aided him so nobly, that about
two hours later Mrs. Harmon's guests
had a surprise. just before supper a
whisper ran around that something, no
one could say what, was going to hap
pen.
Suddenly the band struckup the famil-
lar wedding-march; the bishop, in full
canOnicals, entered the parlOrs, fol-
lowed by Mr.. and Mrs. Harmed, Mrs.
Learoyd and Virgie Ormsby, and Frank
with Clara i'm bridal attire. leaning on
his arm.
The few solemn words were uttered
the ring that had been in readiness six
long years, was slipped on Clara's fin
ger, and when the twain was made one,
Frank pushed aside the flimsy veil,
creased and yellow with six years
waiting, and pressed husbands kiss
upon her lips.
This pleasant episode did not spoil
Mrs. Harmon's party, you may be sure.
Everybody exclaimed:
"Dear Mrs. Harmon, you are always
so successful with your entertainments.
Mrs. Harmon's party is with us syn
onym for all that is delightful"
So Frank and Clara Learoyd think.
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Woman's Heart.

There is a period in the early life of
every true woman when moral and in
tellectual growth, seems for a time to
cease. The vacant heart seeks for an
occupant. Theintellect, having appro-
priated aliment requisite to the growth
of the uncrowned feminine nature,
feels the necessity of more intimate
confpanionship with the masculine
mind, to start 1t on its second period
of development. Here, at this point,
some stand for years, without making a
step in advance. Other marry and as
tonish In a few brief years, by their
sweet temper, their new beauty, their
high accomplishments, and their noble
womanhood, those whose blindness led
them to suppose woman devoid of such
traits.
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Foreign Baths.

There are baths which are cheerful,
not to say gay, and baths which even
verge on the dissipated, while others
have an air of solemn business about
them that must be excessively depress-
ing to nervous invalids. Thus, at HON.
burg and Baden Baden even now that
the gambling administrations whichcon-
ducted everything so magnifcently
have been legislated out of these places,
you have still a sense Of light and
cheerfulness. There are rows of gay
houses with blooming flowers and gor
geous sun blinds, whence you hear the
strains of pianos, lively with the chan
SonetteS of Offenbach; people sip their
cups at the springs in the gardens, as
they might refresh themselves with an
ice, or hook and seltZer water; while
those who lounge along in bath chairs
seem to do so rather from listlessnes
than necessity. There is plenty of
pleasant talk at the tables dhOte, and a
conspicuous absence of care-wOrn faces.
The hours of the foreign visitors, at
east, are far from being unconsciOnably
early. You are not disturbed by the
brusque movements of your next-doOr
neighbor, while yet in the middle of
your beauty sleep, and there is no gen
eral eclipsing of the light Just as you
begin to feel wide awake in the eve
ming. And there are baths, on the
other hand, which we do not care to
particularize, where impressions of dis
ease and death grapples are irresistible.
Patients in each stage of dilapidation
and decay shock yonr eyes at every
turn, and if you take a stroll along the
paths in the crowded cemetery, you
move among the lines of elaborate tomb
stones, erected to the memory of the
strangers who have remained there.
But, between the two extremes are the
baths that combine these opposite char
acterstics. The waters are guaranteed
sovereign specifies for certain grave
complaints and critical cases; there is
no mistaking the heart-wearing anxiety
with which patients are devoting them
selves to bathing and drinking; yet, at
the same time, there is a strong infusion
of the lighter elements, which increases
the chance of successful treatment by
throwing rose-colored streaks across
the invalid's horizon. There are baths
for which nature seems to bave done
nothing but provide the waters that
may be incidentally invaluable, while it
has left all the surroundings as gloomy
as possible, offering not even SEM
blance of healthful distraction. You
find yourself buried alive in the depths
of some little valley, or locked away |
into some sombre gorge, where lower
ing woodsand frowning precipices shut
out the sunlight save for an hour or
two at MONDAY. Or you must lead the
life of lizard on a sun-burned, stove |
strewn plain, which suggests the notion
of an Arabia PetrGa, rather than of any |
landscape in Europe. While on the
other hand, you may find all you have
gone in search of in mountain valleys
like that of the Upper Engadine, where
your hotel is in the very ante-chamber
of the grandest Alpine scenery, and
the breezes that sweep down off the
snow peaks and the glaciers come laden
with all that is most invigorating.
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The sand has played preservative
part in Egypt, and has saved for future
investigators much that would have
otherwise disappeared. Miss Martneau
says, in her eastern Life:" "If l
were to have the choice of fairy gift,
it should be like none of the many
things fixed upon in my childhood, in
readiness for such occasions. 1t would
be for great winnewing fan, such as
would, without injury to human eyes
and lungs, blow away the sand which
bur,es the monuments of Egypt. What
scene would be laid open to them
One statue and sarcophagus, brought
from Memphis, was buried 130 feet be-
low the mound surface. Who knows
but that the greater part of old Mem
phis, and of other glorious cities, lies
almost unharmed under the sand Who
can say what armies of sphinxes, what
sentinels of colossi might start up on
the banks of the river, or come forth
from the hillsdes of the interior, when
the clouds of sand have been waited
away?" All will be discovered In good
time; we are not yet ready for II; 1t Is
desirable we should be further advanced
In our power of Interpretation before
the sand be wholly blown away. But
In truth 1t will need a high wind to do
it. begin when.it may -Scotchman.
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Mrs. Harmon'S Party.
BY FRANCES f, wADLEIGH.

Mrs. Harmon did not like to have
any of her pet plans marred; in fact, it
was something to which she was quite
unused. Hence the frOwn (Of disap-
pointment, not of anger which dis
turbed the accustomed serenity of her
fair brow when both the Ormsby girls
said they feared they must decline an
invitation to large party, which she
was to give the following week.
90, but indeed you must come, girls !!
/ positively cannot take any refusal, "
urged she.
"Thank you, dear Louisa" began
Virgia.
"If you really thank me, you'll say
yes," interrupted Mrs. Harmon. "Have
you any reason for your no9 Surely
neither Julious nor / have offended
you?"
"No, indeed" exclaimed the sisters,
earnestly.
81 hope not"
'The truth is, neither Virgie nor l
have decent dress to wear" said
Clara. During the warm weather our
plain lawns answered very well, but
we are positively destitute of party
dresses; even our black silks are shah
by"
"No, they are not; with awhile over
dress"
eve should disgrace your guests {!
We don't care as far as we are con-
cerned, but"
"Then youmust come! Ifmy guests
don't like your gowns they can gohome.
Really, have selfish motive in in
slsting," said Mrs. Harmon (who had
not selfish bone in her body, in a
confidential tone. "If you do not come
those gossipping Chatterton girls will
say did not ask you because, having
hired musicians. / did not need your
nimble fingers to play dancing music
for u.s."
Clara and Virgie laughed, their kind
friends ruse was so transparent, and
promised to attend if they could make
their dresses at all presentable.
"That Is right. o, | forgot to tell
you why we are giving large party so
early in the season; our cousin, Frank
Learoyd, who has just arrived from
Europe, and Mrs. Learoyd, my cousin
Franks wife, will be here next week.
We hope they will remain with us all
winter. and know you will like her
ever so much," said Mrs. Harmon,
moving towards the door.
Although one of the kindest, best wo-
men that ever lived, Louisa Harmon
had not much tact or penetration; there
fore she did not notice that at the mem
ton of Frank Learoyd's name Clara
Ormsby turned as white as the handker-
chiefin her hand, and dropped suddenly
into chair, regardless that her guest
was standing, and Virginia started as
IL shot.
"Learoyd, did you sayH" asked Vir-
gle, calmly stepping between her sis
ter and Mrs. Harmon.
eyes; wender if you ever knew
FrankP He used to live on Fifth ave-
nue., near Forty-sixth street; his father
was immensely wealthy, and this Frank
was the only son; therefore. and"
eyes, did know the family, | think.
You say he is your cousinH' continued
Virgie. ~.
ole is my husbands cousin, and"
To Clara's relief other visitors entered
and Mrs. Harmon went away.
Late that evening, while Virgie was
wondering what effect the return of
Frank Learoyd, Clara's first ana only
love, would have upon their lives, Clara
said:
"virgie, we must go to Louisa'sparty
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UP IN A TREE.
BY CLARA c. DoLLIvER.

Little brown lady
Up in tree,
Smoothing her feathers,
Looking at me;
Up in the morning
First peep o day,
Getting her breakfast,
Working away;
Stops by the window,
Shaking her head,
Calling me lazy,
Lying in bed.
Little brown husband,
Up ia a tree,
Singing the sweetest,
Z er could be.
Sings Of the morning,
Sings Of the air,
Sings Of the sunshine
Everywhere
Very fine dandy,
Golden red
Never get handsome
Lying in bed.
-Four little children
Up in tree,
Yelling and pining;
Never did see
Babies 80 hungry
Babies 80 bad,
Mouths so wide open,
All very sad;
Come, little mother,
They must be fed,
Scold me no longer
Lying in bed.
Little brown lady,
Would we're thee,
Housework and household,
Up In tree
Little brown husband,
Would were thee,
Nevermore worried,
Up in tree!
But, o brown babies,
You must be fed
Think I'd rather be
Lying in bed
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

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do not doubt but that genuine piety
is the offspring of peace of mind IL en-
ables MS to bear the sorrows of life, and
lessons the pangs Of death; the same
cannot be said of hypocrisy Brtgere.
, 1877-10-12
A, II. STEPHENS,

MS yraws As 70 PRESIDENT HArEs' TENURE.
Et,s Tork Sun. OF. g.
In a recently published Interview with Alex
ander II. Stephens, the following wRs given as
an expression OF hts scntimcnts: "'l'herc Isn't
much comfort for tho forlorn few who are still
clinetuR to tho fraud cry. think Mr.. hayes'
tenure Is flrmcr than that Of any PrcsidcnA ever
inaucurated In the United States. lie lloldshIs
Office bT tho highest judicial authority In the
land. Eren II l thought their decision wrong,
which do not, should bow to It a. would to
any decree from tic Bcnct.'' A discussion hay
Ing nr,Acn among number Of Brooklyn lawyers
~ 10 tho truth OF this report, ex-jildgc John
Lynch, Mt their rcqucAt. wrote TO Mr. Stephens
for un altlrsnance Of denial OF It. 1lts apswcr
EAsr stxrr.Tnun7n srnEEr, New Yonk
Ctrr, Oct i, 18T7.-lfessrs. John Lynch and
ethtr&-nEAn Sins: Your note OF yeatesdny lust
received. What said was In substance ~ fol-
lows: think Mr. IIaycet Tenure iets nssatIn bio
than that os my Preside Mt ever inau9nrated in tho
United states. Tho others nll held bJ prima
jfd1s cases. The matter Of lie tenure u ffs 3D.
jadtcasa. lie ho1da !,ls cnlee by tho Judgment Of
tho highest tadicia! tribunal eyer created in th1s
tionally created; and though thought tier DO
cislon wronR, ret bow to its authority. and think
ill good, law abiding cItizcna should, ~ to every
other Judicial decree consttsutlonally rendered.
Considerations Of ''frnud" or ''ukurpatDp, I"
therefore. In connection With his tito now ut.
terry out Of the question. Fcry respectfully,
ALKxAxpxn II. STErtlExs.
, 1877-10-12
caurc Of Tho failure I. dnIl times Anl eSt'aor, r,

cnu*c Of tho failure Is dnll times and eStfnor-
dinary losses. A meeting OF tile creditors IS 20
he held totlay.
:. sss FRAxe1.co. Ost. IA number ot eEe,l.
itors ot the Pt,nccr fnnk arc einleavnrfnE to
fnrcc that concern into bankruptcy. t Is ascer,
taInct that duncan. President. recently e;lsst g.
amounts sugreCatfng 100000, Which 1caas many
p snsrest tat hc Ia. *n;cted IN exaH'na S.s %,
date, tic drafts un T. H. Brown Il Co.,, Inc
New York axeney pf tho 'nnk, a9gtcease ab9Ms ".
*:s}. non. Thcsu Wi[l, Of conrsc, ron,c bark stis-
honore,l, anl make IL further demand against
the as*ets OF the concern.
.ss<csni Df.p.leh II ~. chtr1oe Tribune. .
QUrscr, Ill, Oet. lt.-Thc Assigned nf the
Gcfman-4tmerisan Bank, of This city, whstn sus-
pcn1cd yesterday, published card to-day, IN
wh!sl he stairs h.t T., exnn,nnton hI 2, tso
Tic liabilities, and the urc,II.ors aro a. r TINT
thry will l,u l'ad III full. Tho affair lias not .c.
ea.oned any disposition to make run On t'io
uther savnEs.bat.ks. '...
ronrLANp. Oct. 1i.-1lus.cil, lewis Il Co.
haye suspended, owing to ',casy iossea conhe-
otlcnt Upon tho depression IN the lumber tra'ie
fn south America. Liabilities very large.
, 1877-10-12

my friends, Tamnsny has complete control q tho
Democratic state ticket THIS ycnt. In tho eastern
prmuc.a.s nriy MT probation. and WIN will either
stay away iron, tho polls ent'rrI. or vote the Rc.
ppsnns nao,y o o n tho
within The charmed clrs'e whom. ! ovcrhear,l n
ro,tc! through rral.tr.csing The ste ofl In tnch
,i,7ay fa.on that Il woulh puzzle TaMn,anr In:
aan IN following tho tortu"ns course nt thssf ssf
wosIA mt ii ID this stats. ,,
MI s s e1. ssn2 Il he 9sfe sone.n ' r,y
md that thcre disfen.!ona viii canse the defeat cf
the party IN the cunning election. honest'y be-
know Of no mnn within Inc Republican rank4
who wonhl By ary acsion or word inlurc of hurt
the Administrator Thrrc sse always nen nnd
sSs sor r'esn' Of th sty 9s Rses
ana =; Ike n,Ir .an1 :, az GSr
more than one nc osea:,on fcIt myself hound 10 II.
mon'sssic With President Lincoln on c1trrme
sentative ia Consrcts. Feeling a. lid. that was
,'onresls, and in 30 dining tnoald mo ny own d.:
erfs'n erfe n PPmen woa bc nosd p,ompty BY
ny constituency At he po1l. lat + !. n1t e. eo IT
the ss q s a !:
taii ,hat il THRU. N.'!op. ot tho Church of
thsr Individual views Of ihclr Thirty nInc different
nsstclcs Of faith, there could not be u'oments =
doaht they would, one and sll, differ or some m
rnIican pasty wishes to sce tho lrcstdent succeed
The maintenance and scntments Of the rarty nsc
useful. iftheJ are not essential ~ ihe country.
hut thcro ase desrnslonH In our ranks that may
bc t!ignihcd with that name. Their Is merely a
difference Of ortn!an ~ Z, thc policy pursued by
Tho President In ratntnR lesfred cnl. .
Ut,no 1tA1IrY aha1t 1tHVR been ff(nh dn1