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Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
Earth's Lone ChiIdren-'We wa
Grave board for HB.'

IlbHl NHc DNtoit
A boy, not over II years 1ld, "H-
pinched face betrayed hunger, 'nd who's
clothing could scarcely he called hy th
name, dropped into carpentcr N'.
Grand River Avenue the Other Ja', NnO.
after much hesitation explainrd 'r '
foreman:
I'VE want to get gravc-board for IA.
She died last winter, and the graves ai.
so thick that we cant hardly find hons no
more. We went mp last SUNDAY "ud y'
come awful near not finding it. We
thought we'd git grave-boa,j, SO we
wouldn't lose the grave. When So,
thought we'd lost it, Jack he r.cu, ru
Bud She cried, and my chin trempl"I 30 |
could hardly talk!
Where is your father asked the car
pcnter.
"Oh, he's home, hut he ncyo y- nu
there with us, and we shant '... H'1
about the board guess he l,t.1 u'
for he wasn't home when she died. and ''
wouldn't buy no coffin, nor rylunl
Sometimes, when We are sttm ur tn
doorstep talking about her, and 'HcE 'U.
Bud are erwin, and I'm rcmcmhrun HH.
She kissed us all afore she died .' .g
we'd better quit that, or we'll get ".u
bad for us. But we sleep up stair, m
we talk and cry in the dark all w" ~u
to. How much will the board |,
The carpenter selected Someth u' 81. 10
the purpose. and asked:
Who will put it up at the gra
We'll take it up on our cart "pl"
the boy. "and guess the graycyen. un
will help us put it up.
you want the name painted nn 0'n
you?'
"Ycs. sir, We want the board whit" n.
then we want you to paint on thai 3, w
our ma. and that she was toriy-ou"
old. and that she died the 2nd oi Np.
her. and that she's gone to liea 3d..
that she was one Of the best motu.n o.
was, and that we are going to be ..
our lives and go up where she is y.' w
die. How much will it cost, sir;
"IIow much have you got?
We'll said the boy, as he brought nN
a little calico bag and cmpticd its COM,
on the bench. Bud drawcd the n,i. Pc
the woman next door and eanri tN"N.
cents: Jack he wcrdcd in the ga i. n
earned forty cents, and he found h.rmH
in the road; | run Of errandS ANA ll',
kites and fixed boys cart and hrn.
carry some apples into 4 store 90
earned sixty-hvc cents. All tha m.
hundred and thirty cents, sir, ann "
don t know we've got it, cause "" .".
hid in the ground under stone.
The carpenter meant to he ibe '
he said:
; "A grayc-board will cost at lea &, '
3 dollars. ,
: The lad looked from his little
metals to the carpenter and back
how many weary weeks had pasS
: the first penny was earned and sa''o
, suddenly walled out
Z Then we can't never, never w..
| and ma $ grave will get lost. "
= But he left the shop with tears OF
= ness in his eyes. and when he En
e Yesterday little Bud and Jack W. N'
r him. and they had Il cart. There
only il hcad-bOard but one for th'
. the grave as we'll and go
= npntn" ....'
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A Terrified BARBER.
"
From the Boston Journal.

From the Boston Journal.
A New-0rleans delegate to the Nations
Convention of the German Order Of Harug-
ari, now being held in this city, relates the
following incident: He entered New
York barber's shop for shave on his way
hither, removed his coat and hat, and took
chair. The tonsorial artist proceeded to
give his face a good coating of lather.
About the time this operation was com
pleted the delegate felt chilly and asked, if
there was not too much draft through the
shop. The barber thought it was very
warm, whereupon the delegate remarked
that he probably felt cold on his having
Just come from a warmer climate. The
barber suddenly paused in his operations
on the strop, his razor suspended above it,
and inquired where he was from. New
Orleans, " was scarcely pronounced in re-
ply whei. the barber began a retrogade
movement accompanied with wild gestic.:
ulations. The terrified manipulation OF
the razor besought his customer to "get
out" and take his belathered visage with
him. The plausible statements Of the del;
egate failed even to get the man to sponge
the lather on his face, and he was oblige
to : r~fc,,n that office himself. He, +
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% ... exhibition OF 1861
lowed that the results of that operation
were not as flattcring to trade, French and
foreign as has been anticipated and all
the great economists now agree that the
too frequent repetition of international
fairs really intcrlcres with the regular
business of exhibitors, whereas, if they
were only organized at intervals of twenty
or ivc-and-twenty years, they would he
fruitful in results, and would mark a real
progress in arts, manufactures, and COM
mcrcc. As it is, we have always the same
competitors in the field, and whether it
was ut Paris in 1861 at Vienna in 1873, at
Philadelphia in 1876, or again at Paris in
1873, we see the same great firms COM
pcting with the same machines and the
same important products. Neither Wen
ma, Philadelphia, nor Paris has really
gained anything by their shows. Living
has become more expensive; failures have
become more numerous, and all steady
going tradcSmen view with disapproval
the constantly recurring manifestations,
for participation in which, however, they
cannot abstain without sacrifice of their
professional and even their patriotic duty,
but from which they invariably come out
with serious losses. The compilcrS of the
1867 report came to this conclusion, and it
is to he hoped that those who will be in
trusted with the same duty now may be
equally sincere; unfortunately, party opin-
ion seems to stihe the voice Of conscience
and, in order to prove that II republic can
do better than an empire, the truth will
he withheld, or so disguised that under
the mirage of splendid conception and ex-
ecution will be hidden the fact that the
exhibition of 1873 is the greatest financial
failure of the nineteenth century.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
The Union Dead.

A great many unofficial reports have
been published of the loss of life during
the late war of the Rebellion, but the
latest official report gives what can be
accepted as II correct record. The grand
to,aI lost from all causes is put down at
2l6,233, of which only l75, 764 have been
identified. A deuth-roll of 36, S6S men OF
the entire amount lost is the total known
to have died in captivity, Of rebel
prisoners of war q 1876 remains are known
to have been buried, but the statistics OF
losses on that side are incomplete. There
are seventy-two national cemeteries fol
the Union dead, in addition to which are
800 local and post cemeteries, The larg-
est of these is at Vicksburg, Miss, which
contains 17,0l2 graves, The Others are
located in Memphis, Tenn, 1883 graves;
Fredericksburg, Va, $1,000 graves; Sails
bury, N. c., 12,ll2 graves; Arlington,
Va, Gen Lees former homestead, 1851
graves; Andersonville, Ga, 1896 graves;
Chattanooga, Tenn, l2,064 graves; New
Orleans, La., 1920 graves; Marietta,
Ga, 10000 graves, and Beaufort, S. c.,
10000 graves. The one near Richmond
contains 6,276 graves, of which $3.50 are
unknown, mostly prisoners. With few
exceptions, the cemeteries are repcrted in
good conditiyn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19

correspondent of the Fresno lCj
E,. ~, thus describes the fall mad
-iay 'on'S Creek. mountain tOrt
me Sierra, that discharges into tn
joaquin River, in the eastern T
Fresno county: Here are the fall
Stephenson Creek rrShcs over the pt.,
dicular walls of rock to the river below.
We could hear the ruShingwutcrs distinct
" when within five miles of them, and
now We had arrived at the spot where the
water began its descent We tried at nu-
mcrOuS points to obtain a view of them.
but without success. We therefore re-
turned to camp. and after laying in II ill.,
eral supply of ammunition for snake bite
etc, we started ON foot for the falls. Trio
distance from the camp was three milcie
vet it took us six hours to make the trip.
After weary journey we finally came in
full view of the "Blasohydalia" Falls.
and were well repaid for all our trouble.
The scene was almost indeScribable. The
toaming torrent falls upon benches of
about 800 feet apart, and the maddcning
waters pitch and foam as though they
could not fall fast enough. From these
benches is continually shooting upon the
prccipitOus walls adjoining cloud Of
spray and mist that gives to the whole a
fringe of pompouS grandeur. At length
the water finishes its descent and passes
from the Observers eye intoa subterrancan
passage 500 yards in length, and again re-
enters its old channel, passing on to form
a part of the great San joaquin River, and
b. forgotten in the sea. The opening, rs
near as we could discern, is through solid
rock and our presumption is that after
penetrating the rock the water discovered
a loose strata-pcrhaps of sand-md for
ced its passage On our return trip secur-
ing a rock as near round as it is possible
for nature to form, we rolled it over and
found it took 81 seconds for its descent;
allowing i seconds for the sound to re-
turn, we have 8 seconds of perpendicular
descent. The square of time, multiplied
by 81 will give l,O29l9 feet, which | be-
licyr ts he n close apnrOXimatiOn,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION.
A Brief sketch of its Origin, Members
and Labors in the South.
From tnn Dostnn Herald

A Brief sketch of its Origin, Members
and Labors in the South.
From the Boston Herald.
Numerous letters have been received ask
ing for information in relation to the
Howard association which has been brought
into notice so prominently during the past
few weeks. In reply, we still state that it
is one of the noblest institutions in the
land and is composed Of heroic and benev-
olcnt gentlemen, who have for years been
bound together by the grandest of human
impulses. This organization was formed
twenty-five years ago, when the city OF
New Orleans was almost dcpopulated by
the dread visitation of the yellow fever;
and when, during the month OF August,
1853, it swept away j,26O souls, and out OF
II population of l2j.0O0 that remained
in the city during the epidemic 29,02O
were attacked, and S,lOl died. In many
of the smaller towns OF Louisiana the NOR
tality was terrible. At Providence, lA.,
the population was reduced by flight to
about 400. OF these 80 sickencd and l6I
died At Vicksbug the fever also ragged
terribly. In reduced population OF
about 5000 'h""c wer" 2, 100 cases md 800
deaths. In Jackson. Miss, to $40 who
remained, $50 took the disease and III
died. In other localities, people were
dropping in the streets; stricken districts
were burricadcd, and ingrcss and
cgrcsS denied; physicians and
nurses could not he obtained, and through
ont that section Of the country Il perfect
reign OF terror prevailed, Such was the
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19

Most boys go through Il period when
they have great need of patient love at
home. They are awkward and clumsy,
sometimes strangely willful and preverse,
and they are desperately conscious Of
themselves, and very sensitive to the least
word of censure or effort at restraint. Au-
thority frets them. They are leaving
childhood, but they have not yet reached
the sober good sense of manhood. They
are an easy prey to the tempter and the
sophist. Perhaps they adopt skeptical
views from sheer desire to prove that they
are independent and can do their own
thinking.
Now is the mothers hour. Her boy
needs her now more than when he lay in
his cradle. Her finer insight and serener
faith may hold him fast, and prevent his
drifting into dangerous courses. At all
events, there is very much that only a
mother can do for her son, and that son
can receive only from his mother, in the
critical period of which we are thinking.
1t is well for him if she has kept the fresh
ness and brightness of her youth, so that
she can now be his companion and friend
as well as mentor, 1t is q good thing for a
boy to be proud of his mother; to feel COM
placent when he introduces her to b'1 -ys
rades, knowing that they cannot :. 2 II
ing what pretty woman she'd INV I
fuf, winsome, and attract fH9 ~ 1
Always SiS MySthCr nope ond rCT% motSssr, GSs Pcr,p
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
5HsteiianM.
THE SHERIFFS MISTAKE.

4, rr,.,dc or ,ir. an ,he crc,, Plains.
~" y.",., ',,,a' y,,',, Va, e,,,o, vor,nry
''V'" ,,'r,', Wv w." t,',,'" ,,;j tho sho,sT
hlr S'r"'Sc'S' N"'" INV '',''''"'
suddenly setting down MS tn-cup oi reg
ulatiou whisky untouched, and Shuifling
IN thc door,
The Sheriff was safe man to believe,
tbouch how Inc made ont ANYTHING in the
binding clare of evening sunlight that
flooded ihc level prairie west of Buffalo
Station no one but a professor of optics
could have told. The old man had the
eve Of an EAGLE,
Two on EN-. with Il pack pony" he
added; and inst then a sudden sunset Shad.
ow swcnt across fine lonely waste, and we
saw them too,
Thrv were ,bout a quarter of "A mile
away brad;n" for fine station and its sin
,,In continuation LuiIdinr of store. dining
room tovn,,, and Grirbt.housr. They
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19

! Jl Martin IIm SIC "' u.U
ard o'm1- havoc" .. ...
pa .pntw ... ...
Gr!.. N.... b., .vt il hidden
+. Cas-. me nils some five miles north
of the Badger Mine, they came upon
veritablc shrphrrlrsS among the foothills.
Whatever of the romantic which is usually
attached in the mind to thoughts Of such
an adventure. in this instance give way to
the stern realities of the case. There We"
no "Iiliry creature with her crook, tend Ng
her fathers flOckS, - but II woman 'wr q
killed. and wry, and Ofthrcc-Scorc years,
leading herd of from 20 TO 300 goats She
was clad plainly, it not neatly, in an
apron like IL schoolgirls, armlcss and
open in front-"simply this and nothing
more. She was making her hrad-quar-
tcrs within the incloSurc of three rough
stone walls. with an old wagOn-cover over
onc-half the top, and the front being want
ing. Her couch would scarcely do fer Il
Morphcus-wooing contrivancc fora modern
belle. 1t was half Il blanket and Il sack of
wool for pillow. The food on hand con-
sisted Of II pound and Il half Of -four
which she used by mixing it in water and
drinking it in place of tea or coffee. She
had also two dried up slap,iacks. on one
of which she was nibbing. She added to
these luxuries such portions of the
flesh of her kids killed by coyotes as
she was able to recover, But the boys APP
pear to have caught the aged shepherdess
away from home. She told them where
she lived. and invited them to call. II
was five miles away, over the mountains.
In the course of their wandcrings they
found the place, and accepted the invita-
ton accordingly, although the mistress of
the mansion was not at home. They found
there eight pounds of beans and about us
many OF bacon, eight chickens and nary II
rooster among them. She explained this
to them ON their return. She got hungry
in the spring, and killed the rooster, as
the hens were laying, and she did not
care to eat them up. They also found
there sort of dress, and the other half of
the old ladys blanket. She refused to
talk much Of her history Or tell her name.
She said, however, that she used to keep
the house on the other side Of the desert.
At the time of the Reese River excitement
her husband left her., and she had never
seen hm since. She then lived with Sam
Dildine, but he had gone off and left her,
taking twenty-one head of her cattle, and
she did not know where he or her kline
were. She started in as shepherdess with
one goat of her own and two others which
were given her, and from these had sprung
in six years her entire herd, besides all
whici, had died and been killed by coyotes.
This shows the advantage of herding in
Nevada. When the prospectors left her
they gave her provisions enough to last Il
couple of weeks.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
>shts and Measures.

,n IN. I'"SO lines N, ,.
byNreaSury department at ashlhgtoh
a ndeayOrlng IN quiet way to bring
bout uniformity in weights and measures
tr..d IN tba liHnrart st,tos Trod.,r,ou
n,;'.s,,,...''',.. ,i,.,. I;g -,
20. u''s country "'c 'l'ce ''"erc'.' SYSTEMS
'l weights. GrocerS and provision and
coal dealers employ avoirdupOiS weight
jewelers. troy weight; and druggists.
3 .lccaries weight. The latter howry-
. ,uy their goods by one weight and re.
1cm by another Practical chemists
.rc French system of weights in assay
ID in CONDUCTING analyses. In truth,
H.. re empioycd in nli scientific inycsti.
With thn cyccntion oftbn metric
..., of weights if is hard to sav that we
any standard of comparison, The
,,unois pound is less than the troy
... Inf thn trov ouncr is greater than
r,irdupois ouncc. Even in the same
...y nf weights thc same word does NOT
.., n, same sipni6cotion in nll narts of
nor.,trv, fon of coal in Prnnsylyn.
. . JI0 pounds, but in A ward in Chi
... Il is only } 600 Taken to ones
,rniu a romnarntiyrlv recent fine
..nl ave bcrn .uhstitntcd formra,urcs
....,tiny tbc nuantitv of most solid
la. ,.u,,s. Wheat is no LONGER measured
a b.lt tbushrl. lint weighed on a scale.
,w,..Iil, ak of fine bushrl however. as
.u,r,.l, II was actually in use, The word
t.I.a. moi Irsipnntr a measure of c,ppcity.
4 wG.,ht If does moi ,iuuify so many
...... ,- ,rt 50 many pounds. unfortunately.
.y,. the numbcr of nounds which
... r,ma A LEGAL bushel of any substance
samr in all fine states. I'm some
bu>hcl of oats wrirhs
u...- pounds but in others
ten pounds more. Barley
...., he way from thirty-two TO Gfty
nd. one State A husRrl of buck.
.a,. for forty.two pounds. and in
,..1.- wo. Some states have rstaG,
Blt ght for r,1yt 0. me farm prod.
... md oti,r, for only n few of
.u.. b. some states custom governs,
,.,. .nars the statute. Where custom
adj, .n + shall constitute a bushrl, il
..t... the same throughout a state,
.i.t ttlers came from different 10.
hits. has outlivcl lis usefulness
nitbout n,con;n,, me- rathor a
'r;nIJ" IJ", ,'9 =, 10 I"','s' Nv ,o "
"A .mI, tcnJy 'I +" cnnf'ye m W. Tho h.,
,..n n, Moor @ rrnrosrnt. @ a measure r,o m ot
i a,y Ike tbr anndl" il one. r% covered
.,,,. nj nf usn Measures of cn,
ur.. forn,rly ,lmo,t mn;ynr,,li,.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19

lu D..
compare. ...f. "l,'
accuracy all HI
measures. The It,
might be shortened six Ii.
ing our computation of Wei
urcs as simple Il, that Of our mo-.
saving in attcr.litc would he greater
/ school.
1t is not. ordinarily, very hard, to make
change from difficult to an easy meth
od of doing anything. It takes an Ameri.
can who visits England a long time ito
get the hang" of the money used there;
hut such is not the case with the English.
man who visits this country, Every per-
son can comprehend the decimal system Of
weights at once, and can learn and Ls'
come accustomed to the new names in =
short time Should congress adopt tie
metric system in all government operations,
it would 90 far toward inSuring the gener-
al introduction. The change would not
make it necessary for every trader to pro-
cure new scales. Nothing would be re
uuircd but to alter the Scale-beam, which
is by no means difficult operation. by
fixing a time in the future when the new
system would come into use, people would
bc prepared for it. Americans are noted
for using every kind of labor-Saying ma
chine. and il is somewhat remarkable that
they have not adopted a laborSaving sys-
tenn of weights.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
Yellow Fever in the Past.


From the New York Tunes.
Bad as the yellow fever now is in the
Southwest, it is not so bad as it has been
in that quartec. In 1853 the scourgc was
much worse. In New Orleans, for exam
pie, the maximum OF deaths per day so
far attained has been l03. August % of
that year there were 254 deaths from the
pestilcncc, and on no day of that month
were there less than 10 deaths, while
most of the time they averaged at least
lS0 daily. The resident population was
not then, it is estimated oyct -t,0OU, and
of these l2,000 died = season. compared
with which tho sent morNliW. dis.
tressing thor j. small, In lS22,
when thc fever prevailed here,
there At panic: the city was
fencel the City Hall Park--tbe
infected ,n. 4 was ,in the three lower
ward merchants, bankers, profess
sional men, and the municipal govern.
ment moved to the village of Greenwich,
now one ofthe upper wards; and vet, de-
spite ie alarm, barely 300 persons died
Just heiore the close Of the last century
the fgcr herc destroyed $500 lives, and
then New } orI5 had moi more than 10000
peopl 20 mortlity Of ore in every TWEEN
ty inhabltmte We hear now much more
of the aY4 IN 1872 than of the fever In
1903. Tow fortunate thot We so readi.
ly fore 9th our solrows and our calam.
itiesp
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
.,n II loose girth-yas.'

Y, ,,n II loose glrth-y2S.
The SOgcrS is in the Hundred Horn
Gulch, he went on, speaking rapidly.
Slide iOrrcd an bring 'cm up. MAY the
big wolf of Devils Run dcvour me il
them amt two of our men. -
knew the Sheriff too well to hesitate
or question further. As girthed my po-
ny in the shed, a shadow hoatcd across
the doorway and was gone. When | rode
out the two strangers were cantcring of
TO the SOuthwarl. pointing for the Rcpub-
lican River, and aS | gave my pony rein
and galloped in the opposite direction, |
saw the Sheriff mounting his big gray
mare, which had been tied to the corner
post Of the store
The Sheriff and party of soldiers from
Fort Hays were on the watch for the train
robbers who had stopped the west-bound
train at Big Springs eight days before,
and who were supposed to be striking for
the Texan border with their rich spoil.
The soldiers, as the Sheriff had said were
posted in Il ravinc known as Hundred
Horn Gulch, Il few miles from the station,
and where the main trail from North
Platte crossed the railroad track.
lie sun WaS just ullplhS "Hch roue
up 10 ihe S'a',oh aheau OF the troopers
The Sheriff, who was studying the writ
ten description OF the marauderS by the
waning hight, put himself at our head
without word, AM! we tralled OIL, a long
line oil creaking' illngIing' hooi-beatlng
clamor through, the WINDY silence and
gloom OF the darkGnlng pralrle.
The ride was Il long one, Tor our quarry
had an hour start OF u.s. and the moon
rose globe OF coppery IRE and found us
stu ST. clanklng on. l had joined the Sher'
Ill ana the icader oi the soldiers. we
were silent trio until yentured:
Are you certain, sheriff; OF our men?
sure as lhe mooon,, SAID the Old man.
tersely, drinking IN the sweet ar oil the
sublime night with sigh, which seemed
to say, Let me alone. ! know what In
about, and won I ps questioned
silence again.. me Drisk breeze was
blowing riited clouds across the face OF
the moon, nothing the dm PLAIN witt
imtastic shadows; ,Su4Idenly theSe clouds
swept away A iull clear burst OF hight
Hooded the prairie and not hali Il mlC
away we saw three moving ingureS winch
IN the now maryyeelousily-6rlIlGnt. lunar IL
lummatlon, could easily be distinguished
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19

M, 2.
New ~. .'U Of
ring in the ton '., "..
put it there becaus, ....
thieves wOuldn' he apt .,
servant who was dusting the
the curtain, and away went the dlo
ring out the window, and now its owne.
mourns for it as one without hope. 4 most
worthy lady not long since died at her
home, not ii thousand miles from Cincin-
natl, and after her death the family found
a large sum of money hidden away in an
ancient band.box full of old hats and bon
nets 1t was her savings for several years,
and nobody knew she had had it till after
she was dead. Whenever Il woman dies
who, like John Gilpin's wife, had fru-
gal mind, her anxious and afectionate
heirs will do wisely to look for her savings
in all places in which money would not at
all be likely to be hidden.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1878-09-19
Guess I've Got a Cherubim. ;

lay From the Buffalo Express.
Capt. James Slocum was trawiiiHr
IL I' bluefsh in Warren rivNrss upon re
rs; huge fishhaw'- ,...,,,,,.,,..
hat bait ar' '"s' S'"'' ''N' a. ''''' 0'e''
INN n MS lie parties DESIRING to sell our
lor m Us, can send for our Trade Journal
living description OF uur leading articles,
De sure aid yet the Original Good
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