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Extraordinary Enterprise.

A quarter of a century ago there was
a memorable contiagration at Sacrament
to City, Cal, by which the entire busi-
ness portion of the city was laid in
ashes. When the great fire was at its
maximum fury wealthy merchant
named McNulty, who owned some of
the heaviest business establishments in
the city, gazed for few moments upon
the work of destruction, and then, in
stead of folding his hands and weeping
over the disaster, he went to the nearest
livery stable, hired q fieet-footed horse,
rode like John Gilpin during the re-
mainder of the night, and before day
light the next morning had purchased
every foot of lumber and every saw-miil
at Grass Valley and Nevada City.
There is, possibly, no human being on
earth who would think Of running off
by the light of his burning property in
order to literally make his fortune out
of the disaster except an American.
McNulty did SO, however, and almost
Immediately realized out of the sale OF
his lumber fourfold as much money as
he had lost by the great fre.-Grass
Tallcy onion.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
FASHION NOTES.

Long loops of ribbons, called Louis
XIII. bows, are seen on imported
dresses.
New chatelaines consist of pieces
of ivory bound with silver, and linked
together.
An odd design for shawl-pin is
mermaid of mother-of pearl, studded
with steel beads.
! "A thick rouleau of satin is now used
to finish the edge of the flowing train of
handsome dresses.
Among novelties in buttons are
those in polished bone, inlaid in quaint
designs with silver and gold.
"A new style of bracelet is made of
delicate flexible spirals of gold in one
continuous piece, made to fit any arm.
Beautiful silver combs of the most
elaborate fligree work are worn; others
have engraved bands of gold or silver.
The "Balsamo -" hat, named after
Dumas last play, is simply trimmed
with long veil caught with bunch of
flowers.
"A pretty bracelet for young girl
is a slender band of gold with small
palm leaf on top, made of diamonds
and torquoises.
The Trianon hat, with large bow
in front, made with plain or striped na-
bob gauze, is worn in Paris with panier
costumes.
"A charming pin for blonde is
true-loVer's knot closely set with tor
quoise, diamonds in the center, ard
fringe of dropping pearls.
-Handkerchiefs, with center of rose
colored or pale blue cambria, and hav-
ing white border scalloped to match,
are a novelty.
-Monograms are in favor again, and
are embroidered on slippers, collars,
handkerchiefs, mitts and parasols in the
gayest colors.
-Glass-covered medallions, contain
ing japanese scenes wrought in gold
and enameled with high colors, are the
latest style of clasps on costly bracelets.
The brocaded materials are gradu-
ally reviving the stomacher, and in a
short time, it is predicted, we shall see
the waists of dresses as short as in the
days of our grandmothers.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
school and Church.

The Indiana Medical College hav-
ing shut its doors against female stu
dents, medical college specially for
dianapolis.
The organ of the English Ritualists
says: "Our quarrel with the Roman
Catholic is chiefly on matters of detail,
but our quarrel with Professionalism is
about first principles.
The experiment of the American
Bible Society in issuing five-cent edi-
ton of the New Testament has proved
a great success. In order to meet the
demand, 1000 copies have to be printed
daily.
The Oldest Protestant Episcopal
Church now in use in New England is
at Marblehead, in Massachusetts. From
the parish records it appears that the
church was erected in 1714, though the
parish must have been founded some
years before that date.
Henry Varley, the evangelist, who
visited this country several years ago, is
creating a great sensation in Australia,
where he is warning in his sermons
upon the low wages paid to factory girls,
charging most of the sin and shame in
that country to this cause. His motto
is: "The pure Gospel and good wages. :"
The Baptists have opened mission
at Nablous, which is the ancient
Shechem, close by which is Jacobs
well. This mission is under the charge
of YouhanRa Ell Karey, a native Syri-
an, and covert from the Greek
Church. He was, after conversion,
baptized in the pool of Sloan by an
American Missionary. He was educat-
ed in London and is said to be remark
ably well qualified for his work.
The Methodist Bishops urge it as a
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Charles G. O'Neil, aged %, an employee
Of the dry-goods house of VIM. Barr & Co.,
st. Louis, committed suicide i'm New York
City on the I'd, where he had gone on busi-
ness for the firm. No cause is known for
the act.
Orville Grant, brother Of General Grant,
has become insane and is now confined in
an asylum at Morristown, n. j.
A Convention of Freethinkers has just
been held at Watkins, N. Y. During its
session several of its leading members were
arrested upon complaint of the orthodox
citizens, charged with selling and circu-
lating obscene and sacrilegious documents.
The parties were held to bail in the sum of
81 900 each, to await the action of the Grand
jury.
The Vermont State election, held on the
Sd, resulted in the election of the entire Re-
publican State and Congressional ticket, by
a somewhat reduced majority. The Gov
ernor- elect is Col. Redfield Proctor, of Rut-
land.
The New Hampshire National Greenback
Convention was held at Manchester on the
5th. Warren G. Brown, of Whitefield, was
nominated for Governor.
The Vermont State election, held on the
Sd, resulted in the election Of the entire Re-
publican State and Congressional ticket, by
a somewhat reduced majority. The Gov
ernor- elect is Col. Redfield Proctor, of Rut-
land.
The New Hampshire National Greenback
Convention was held at Manchester on the
9TH. Warren G. Brown, of Whitefield, was
nominated for Governor.
The steamer Reliance, running between
Jacksonville, Fla, and Savannah, Ga, ex-
ploded her boiler on the night Of the 9th.
The first engineer, VIM. Moulton, second
engineer, Josiah Armstrong, and second
mate, VIM. DARTS, were killed or drowned.
None of the passengers were seriously hurt.
Several Of the crew were injured by steam,
and George Edmondson, cook, fatally.
The Maine election, held on the 9th, re-
suited in the reelection of Selden Connor,
the Republican candidate for Governor, by
a somewhat reduced majority. There is a
large increase in the Greenback vote and a
decrease in the Democratic vote. The Re-
publican Congressman appear to have been
elected in the first three districts, but in the
Fourth District Powers, Republican, is de-
feated by Ladd, the Democratic Greenback
candidate, and in the Fifth Hale is proba-
bly, defeated by Marsh, Greenbacker.
Later returns from the Vermont election
indicate that Barlow, the Greenback candi-
date for Congress in the Third District, has
beaten both of his competitors, and is prob
ably elected, although, as it requires a ma
jority vote to elect, another vote may be
necessary.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
FOREIGN.

On the 1st of September Mexican edict
went into effect abolishing the coma libre,
except as to Matamoras and New Laredo.
The edict also prohibits commercial inter.
course at other points. The people on the
Mexican side are much exasperated, es-
pecially at Camargo and Mier, and have sent
violent and threatening protest to the GEN.
tral Government.
A most appalling disaster occurred on the
evening Of the Sd, on the River Thames
The excursion steamer Princess Alice, re-
turning from Gravesend with some 500 per-
sons on board, a large proportion of whom
were women and children, was run down
off Barking by the Bywell Castle, a screw
collier, and in less than five minutes went
down bow foremost. The number of lives
lost is variously estimated at from GOO to
700, although the precise number
will probably never be ascertain
ed. A survivor describes the scene
as the most terrible that can be imagined.
Some small boats and another excursion
steamer rendered what assistance they could,
but of the hundreds of shrieking victims
who remained floating in the water after the
steamer sank, but handful comparatively
were saved.
There was an impressive funeral ceremo-
ny at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris,
on the Sd, in celebration of the death of NJ.
Theirs. Deputations were present from all
parts of France. Nine. Theirs spent f30,-
900 in preparation of the ceremony. The
music was rendered by $500 performers.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 4th says that
%, 600 Austrians, with fiotilla, are advanc-
ing to relieve Gen. Szapary. They can not
reach Daboj before the end Of the week. 1t
is thought the insurgents meanwhile will
make a desperate attempt to capture the
place.
The release has been ordered by the Brit
ish Government OF the Fenian convicts,
Condor and Melody. 1t is understood that
both have signified their intentions to take
up their residence in the United States.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


"A new volume of Whittier's poems
will be issued the present month.
Miss Emily Faithful is lecturing in
London on the Extravaganza of Mod
ern Life" and the nobility go to hear
her.
John Walter, proprietor of the Lon
don Times, is named among several
English gentlemen likely to become
peers.
DIR. julius Auerbach, of Woods
burgh, l.. L., brother of the German
novelist and to whom he dedicated "On
the Hights," died few days since of
injuries received by being thrown from
his wagon.
Prof. Tyndall has been dwelling in
the heart of the Alps all summer,
whittier he was ordered by his London
physician. He has been compelled to
abandon his scientific researches for the
present.
-"Thomas Bentzon," the writer of
the ReUue de Deur MondeS, who has
done so much to bring American litera-
ture to the notice of the French public,
is Mime. Blanc, the separated wife of
wealthy banker.
The marriage of the late Queen
Christina, of Spain, to private soldier
and her rapid advancement of him from
the ranks to almost regal position, sug-
gested to Offenbach the characters of
the "Grande Duchesse," and Z" Fritz"
Prof. Charles Crandall, of Cornell
University, has just been married to a
blind lady, Miss Jemima Robbins, at
Bridgewater, n. Y. They had been
playmates and schoolmates through
early life. Miss Robbins lost her sight
by excessive study.
Samuel r. Crocker, the founder and
editor of the Literary World, died at
South Boston recently. He broke down
year and a haf ago from overwork,
which resulted in hopeless insanity and
} analysis, from the effects of which he
died. He was only 40.
%. V. Shearer, city editor of the
New Orleans Times, who died of yellow
fever, was Il native of Alabama He
was formerly connected with Mobile
paper and again with the Vicksburg
Herald. He began on the New Or
leans Times as news editor and after
wards became city editor.
Cardinal Nina, the new Pontifical
Secretary of State, is &c years old.
From his earliest years he showed de-
cided ability. He is tall in figure, of
handsome presence, and of somewhat
forid complexion. In manner he is
courteous and unaffected, mild in dis
position, and frank in speech.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
Five Children at One Birth.

Mr.. Cassidy, an employee of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, living be-
tween the Highlands and the ancient
City of Bladensburg, has just attained
his Immortality, and the newspapers
throughout the country will speak of
his virtues. All the people living in his
vicinity, especially the women, are
greatly excited over an event which sell
dom happens in this world, not even in
the houses of Kings, and many a man,
married for years but still heirless, will
wonder what sort of man Cassidy is,
and "upon what meat does this our
Cesar feed?" Mrs. Cassidy has just
given birth to five children-three girls
and two boys-and all of them remark
ably we'll. They are very small, but
still perfect in their organism, and may
live The mother is, happily, out of all
danger, and able to receive the congrat-
ulations of the neighboring friends.
This is one of the most remarkable cases
in modern times Washington Post.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
Science and Industry.

Two hundred thousand well grown
roses will make an ounce of oil.
"A little sugar added to any writing
fluid will make good copying ink.
I'm Lumpkin County, Ga, 14O gold
stamps will be running before the sea-
son closes.
Two hundred stem-winding Ameri-
can watches have recently been sent to
India for railway service.
The sponging fleet from Key West
netted over S100,000 for their gathering
on their first trip of the season.
Mr.. Bowers process of protecting
iron from rust by coating it with a film
of magnetic oxide has been tried at Dud-
ley, in England, and has proved to be of
so satisfactory a character that there is
reason to believe that henceforth iron
structures may be regarded as practical
ly indestructible.
Prof. James Thomson, of England,
has recently constructed machine
which, by means of the mere friction of
disk, cylinder, and ball, is capable
of effecting variety of the complicated
calculations which occur in the applica-
ton of mathematics to physical prob
lens. By the simple process of turning
a handle, an unskilled laborer may, in a
given time, perform the work of ten
skilled arithmeticians.
"A bread-fruit tree is now acclimated
and in bearing condition at Sacramento,
Cal. The fruit is shaped like a pear,
four inches long and three in diameter,
and has cantaloupe flavor. The milky
juice of the tree makes the toughest
meat tender if stepped in it for ten min
utes. The same effect is produced if
meat is hung in the tree, the vapor of
which acts upon it.
Oatmeal is an important and valu-
able article of food. With the exception
of Indian corn, it is richer in oily or
fatty matter than any of the other cul-
tivated cereal grains, and its proportion
of protein compounds exceeds that of
the finest wheaton flour. So that, both
with respect to its heat and fat making
and its flesh and blood making princi-
Pile, it holds high rank.
"A company has just been organized
in Jersey City for the manufacture of a
new motor. 1t is something like the
Keely motor, but the inventor, Mr.. Win
ters, claims that he has his motor under
control, and that it performs all the du-
ties of steam. Cold water is poured
into one cylinder, q set or pumps, valves,
etc., are put in motion, and the motor
is generated and appears in another cyl
inder.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
Odds and Ends

From the Burlington Hawkeye.I
-One of the walters at Duabar's De-
pot Restaurant has learned to play
tune on the gong. Will Mr.. Edison
please hide himself or go away and
chew iron for awhile.
When we read that "Gen. Szapar-
itz is fighting at Doboj," We feel like
calling on merciful Heaven to stop this
cruel war while there is any of the al
phabet left.
1t was thought to be big thing in
ancient times when Ajax threw off his
ulster and defied the lightning, but now
almost any man raises thunder if his
dinner is cold, and the poets never say
a word about it.
There may be "land that is fair
er than this 1--WE do not deny it, we will
not controvert the statement, but we1l
bet thousand dollars there is no land
where hackman can carry you q
shorter distance for more money.
-" "Why does lightning so rarely
strike twice in the same placer" Prof.
Workman asked the new boy in the
class in natural philosophy. "Huh,"
said the new boy, sit never needs to." :"
And it is little singular that nobody
had thought of that reason before.
Some recently discovered inscrip-
tions on burned bricks bring to
light the astonishing revelation that
King Ahasuerus hanged Haman because
he invented the ACCORDION and put the
price down to one dollar and seventy
five cents, so that every young man
might have one.
We have just thought of plan for
paying off the national debt in six
weeks. Let the Government levy a
light tax, not to exceed three mills on
the dollar, on all the poetry written in
the United States, and let every poet
name the value of his own poetry. That
will do it, and we won't change the
Government a cent for it either.
Richard Grant White is at last in
perfect harmony with all the rest of the
English-speaking world on one solitary
phrase. In common with the most cul-
tured and most illiterate of the land, he
says, "My baby is teething," and in
triumphant disdain asks for the man or
woman who would dare say, "My baby
is being toothed."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14

Gambling in England, whose evils
were staid for n time by the prompt ac-
ton taken by the Government in clos
ing Crockford's and similar places, has
again revived. Another generation of
men has risen up, and all the "young
bloods" play. Even drawing-rooms
are again being used for a ruinous sys-
tenn Of gambling, and "ladies in So
ciety" are again taking to the " delight
fully wicked pastime."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14

"preclaim with its utmost energy that
the law of holiness in the New Testament
is law of holiness for men under all
conditions and under all circumstances
of life. Many of the religious guides
and teachers of the people address them
selves too little to the conscience and
aim at other ends than the formation of
character in the principles of Christian
righteousness; therefore the land is
daily humiliated by financial crimes,
frauds, defalcations, and betrayals in its
trusted citizens.''
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
Foreign Notes.

The Italian Government, on the oc-
casion of the Inauguration of statue to
Giordano Bruno, proposes to republish
all the works of the philosopher.
"A Brussels paper announces that the
King of Holland, 81, contemplates mat
rimony with his niece, Princess Eliza
beth, of Sake -Weimer- Eisenach, "a.
"A peerage was offered to Lord Odo
Russell as a reward for his services as
one of the British Plenipotentiaries at
Berlin, but he is reported to have de-
clined the honor.
1t is stated that Turkey derived from
Cyprus revenue of 81, 100000 a year,
and that under an improved system of
government much larger revenue can
be raised.
-Tourgueneff says: "In a century
there won't be king in Europe, except,
perhaps, in England, and there will be
nothing but a pageant political num-
my shown to the populace at so much a
head"
In Newcastle, England, on the reg
lister of St. Andrews Church, is the fol-
lowing entry: "April "a, 1893, were
buried James Archer and his son
OtepHeH, WuO, III bHo luOHtu VI MAY
1868, were drowned in a coal-pit in the
Gala Flat by the breaking in of water
from an old waste. The bodies were
found after Sc years and Il months"
AT late council of the Spanish
Ministry, the question of the young King
Alfonso's second marriage was, accord
ing to report, considered. 1t was
thought that, though the project might
be premature, its speedy consideration
for dynastic reasons was essential. The
youngest sister of the late Queen Mer-
cedes is the lady named. The subject
is to be again discussed at a Ministerial
council early in September.
The two rooms occupied by Voltaire
in his chateau at Ferney have been kept
lovingly and reverently as he left them.
His little sleeping apartment, with its
truckle-bed and its walls hung round
with portraits-among them Milton and
Newton-is exactly the same as when he
died there a century ago. Unclipped,
too, by Cooks tourists knives is still the
black sarcophagus in which his heart is
interned.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14
Haps and Mishaps.

Hiram Spencer, of Geneva, Wis,
was fatally gored by bull on his farm.
Walter Kestring's 2-year-old son,
of Bedford, Ind, fell into an open cis-
tern and was drowned.
Pierre Bohman had both legs torn
off by falling into threshing-machlne
at st. Clair, Mich.
George McGrath, railroad man,
accidentally shot and killed himself
while out cunning near Alliance, o.
Mrs. Mabel Hosmer, aged 78, of
from her clothes being ignited by a spark
from her pipe while smoking.
Marshall Jones, aged 40, was in
staDtly killed at Pittsburg, Pa, while
placing machinery in the Exposition
Building, by an iron fy-wheel, weighing
5000 pounds, falling on him.
John Sauer, aged 25, of Morely,
Mich, went to sleep on the track of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
while intoxicated, and was run over by
a freight train and instantly killed.
"A boy named Larry Haberodt, while
playing in wheat bin at Gilead Sta
ton, o., got into the spout, and, being
unable to get out, was covered with the
grain and smothered to death.
Mitchell Jackson, son of Esquire
Jackson, of Chesterville, Knox County,
o., was thrown from his horse, on
which he was carrying cross-cut saw
He struck his head against a stump and
landed with his stomach on the saw
teeth, receiving injuries from which he
died within five or six hours.
The vitriol vat of the National Guano
Company's Works at Spring Gardens,
Md, caused the fearful death of George
Rush and John j. Bailey last week.
They were standing on plank over it.
to make repairs on pipe, when the
plank broke, plunging them into its
liquid fire. Bailey was completely sub
merged and died at once, but Rush clung
to the sides of the tank, and lived till
the next morning.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14

Why is it, do you suppose, that
COW always laughs when she meets
milkmanP
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-14

Beautiful evening dresses are made
of embroidered net.
The anti-monopolist., 1878-04-11
The Anti-Monopo1ist

committee to interfere with the state
organization of the National party,
but to assist them in forming q per-
feet and uniform organization. TO
this end the national committee will
furnish weekly lists of councils char
tered in each state to the executive
committee Of that state. it there be q
state organizations: and, by the instru-
mentality of this system Of councils.
secure the organization OF states now
unorganized. From these local coun-
ellis the organization of counties, cities
and states will be developed as the ne
cessities of each locality may demand.
The National committee will pub
lish promptly campaign song book,
aud it invites contributions from song
writer's. The songs should be accom-
panied by the music, or should be set
to popular airs. The committee feel,
that this crisis should bring forth
such songs as similar struggles in be-
half of human rights have inspired.
The committee urges that local Or
CARNATIONS be perfected rapidly, and
that tickets be nominated in localities
where there are spring elections. A
success in a city, or town, or town
ship, or in a village, is often the key
to more important victories. The re-
cent gratifying successes OF the Ma
tional party in local contests in New
! York and Pennsylvania are encour-
aging to the workers in the cause
everywhere. These gains in the east
may be equalled and surpassed else
where by active and Jealous work.
The committee respectfully requests
that Greenback and Labor local or
CARNATIONS now in existence apply for
charters as National councils that the
unifcation of interests secured with
such harmony and enthusiasm by the
Toledo convention may be utilized.
The national committee invites
communications from the executive
officers Of all state organizations OF
the National party, that there may
be cooperation and harmonious ac'
| ton.
All communications should be adj
dressed to
d. B. STURGEON,
Chairman National Ex. Com.
Toledo, March u, 1878. Toledo, O.