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and may probably be compared with the
bowlder pavement so familiar to our
readers. 1t has been down from fifteen
to twenty years and remains about as
good as ever. Then they have several
miles of a Sandusky limestone pavement,
which has been down for from three to
fifteen years, but it is rotted by moisture
and worn through by travel. Another
pavement, composed of Medina sand
stone, is rough, though serviceable, its
chief objection being its high price.
There are many miles of rectangular
block pavements, including the Nichol-
son, Ballard and others, which were all
rotten and worthless within six months
from the time they were put down.
What they regard as perfectionin paw
ing, however, is accomplished by their
round cedar block pavement which is
not a patented pavement and which has
been laid at an expense of from 30 to so
cents per yard; Within the last five
years they have put down twenty miles
of this pavement, and it is said that
within the whole city not one rotten
block can be found. This pavement
combines the durability of stone with
the smoothness of composition pave
ments, and although the transportation
of cedar to some cities would be a
strong argument against its general in
PRODUCTION, it is question whether in
the long run it would not be the cheapest,
smoothest and most durable pavement
that could be put down.
The noise which results from travel on
our bowlder pavements, and the little
pleasure derived from driving over them
on account of their roughness combine
to make a smooth and permanent wooden
pavement very desirable, but the expert
ence of our citizens when'they attempted
to deviate from the bowlder of our faith
ers has in every instance been discour-
aging We might take hint from the
sagacious Detroiters, who, having the
forests of the Northwest at their COM
mand, have improved their opportunities
for experiments, and if there is any vir-
tue in the round cedar block pavement
for which they claim so much, let us by
all means get the benefit of it.
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TALE OFF TEaE REHElLH0N,

A Lychburg man performed late in the
siege feat never heretofore recorded, and
of courage worthy of the honest Irish blood
that flowed in his veins. Major Mike Con-
nell, having resigned his commission in
Memphis regiment as having passed the
age of service, undertook to convoy large
purchase of sugar from somewhere in Lou
isiana to its owner in Virginia. He had
man9uvred it as far as Vicksburg, and
there the siege settled on it. After await
ing its issue from week to week, being sat
isfed that he could accomplish no good by
remaining, and was only one more month
to be fed out of next to nothing, Major
Connell decided to make his escape. He
intimated his purpose to the numerous Vir-
ginians in the city, and to other friends,
and received from these a great budget of
letters, which was all his load. Waiting
for stormy night, he laid himself fiat in
the bottom of dugout just large enough
to hold him, and was pushed out to take
the chances Of the Mississippi's arrowy
current He drifted, by good luck, be-
tween the gunboats and guard boats
around them, and late next day was swept,
by turn of the stream, to the east bank
near Rodney, and struggled through
swamps and across bayous to terra irma.
Borrowing somebody's mule (on what
terms history is silent), he made his way
painfully across country to the nearest sta
ton on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
whence he took cars for Mobile. His let
ters were mailed, and a six weeks brain
fever was the penalty paid for his hardi-
hood. Not many letters have seemed to
come 70 nearly out of the grave as did
these missives to their astonished recipi-
epts.
Other people went and came between the
garrison and the world outside. Others
started who never reached their destina-
ton; some were captured and some de-
serted. General Johnston had ten dis
patches from Pemberton during the Siege,
but the number received from>him was
smaller. How these messengers made
their way in and out have no means of
knowing; perhaps through the woods and
between the intricate system of hills and
wales that surround the city, and perhaps
in disguise as citizens of the country. One
of the deserters was youth named Doug
las, native of Illinois, who had lived sew
eral years in Texas, and was supposed to be
'loyal"-our way. 1t was he who re-
freshed the correspondents with the news
that Mrs. Pemberton Gn Alabama) had
been killed by mortar shell. There were
reports, from time to time, of the fitting
of Lamar Fontaine, one of the numerous
poets for whom the authorship of GAN
Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" is
claimed, between the garrison and the out
side world / do not know if they were
true or no. Philadelphia Times.
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AN EQUIVALENT.

A doctor who had cured patient quick
ly was paid his fee, and shortly afterward
bought some goods, for which he did not
pay. The bill was presented; the doctor
called and said they were square. "How is
that?' asked his patient. ''You sell
goods" said the doctor, "for cash or its
equivalent? eyes" said the patient
Sand thirty days is equivalent to cash,
isn't itf" The merchant assented. "Well, {"
continued the doctor, II cured you thirty
days sooner than I might; consider that
your equivalent" The patient. hasn't quite
got it through his head yet, but he will, in
time,
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In the Convention yesterday all inter
est centered in theFesolutions To en-
dorse or not to endorse was the all
absorbing topic, and to the consideration
of this subject all else yielded. When
the issue came it was found that fifteen
QUITO twenty members of the Committee
on Resolutions favored full, clear and
emphatic endorsement of the President.
The other five were men of sense, and
the endorsement came with the unani-
nous approval of the Committee. 1t
was slightly toned down out Of Difference
to the five, but it nevertheless came in a
shape so explicit as to be satisfactory to
the most earnest supporter Of the Ad-
ministration.
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THE MAN WITH A sCE1EME.

He might have been disgusted polia-
clan who had aimed high and dropped sew
eral points short, or he might have been a
preacher in small way, who had got un-
settled in his convictions and wandered
from his fold; and then again he might
have been an amateur doctor of an expert
mental turn OF mind, that had led to his be-
ing chased out of the community where he
last voted. II was hard to tell, but at the
time of which we write he was unmistak-
ably a man with scheme.
He went into large dry goods store,
with confident smile, and, making his
way to the head of the house, stated, with
an air of mystery, that he desired private
interview upon the most urgent and i'm
portant business. He was led to the prl-
vate Office and told to unburden himself.
"Would you like to make clean million
in three monthsp" he asked, with smile
that romped oil over his face.
"Well, should rather say So" returned
the merchant.
''It can be done as easy as going to sleep,
sir, by little plan that have"
"Unfold," said the merchant, breaking
an apple in two and offering him half.
"What's that you say2" queried the man,
drawing his chair up closer.
Explain-elucidate- up-and be
in hurry about it, too; this is my busy
day. What have you got, anyway"
"You want to, know my plan ?" said the
man, glancing uneasily about, to make sure
that they could not be overheard.
'That's what you wanted to see me
about, I believe. Go ahead with it,"
"Can't do it, sir. Must have bonus
first and guarantee that if you use it
which you will be sure to do-that you will
pay me 500 for the right to do So"
"Whew!" exclaimed the merchant.
"That's drawing it mild. But excuse me,
sir. I never make blind investment.
Good day."
II guarantee that you can pull in mil
ion-a round million-clear profit in ninety
days; yes, you can do it in thirty, and not
a particle of risk. It's dead sure thing
"Don't want it, tell you. I've got
more than can attend to now"
"rll let you try it with five thousand
and trust the rest to your generosity after
ward"
"You really must excuse me, sir. I can't
see it."
"Well, then, give me thousand or go
across the street. You're robbing your
family to refuse it at that"
"Wouldnt touch it, sir, unless l knew
all about it, and that, too, without any
bribery"
''say five hundred then. It's like pick
ing up fortune at that price"
'No, I tell you, I don't want it.
Wouldn't touch it any price,"
"Give me S. on it, then. That'u make
1t binding, and I know you'll treat me
square,"
''Not cent"
''Tll take it in trade. Give me pair Of
pants and box of collars"
''Eot to-day"
"Well, then pair of suspenders."
At this moment the porter came in, in
answer to summons, and hustled the man
with scheme into the street. The last
seen of him he had cornered lame peanut
seller, and was talking him crazy with q
dodge that he had for getting the market
by the horns and running the price up tc
twenty cents quart. Breakfast Table.
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AMONG the "marks" of noted criminal
now in one of the Washington Peniten-
tiaries are the following, all being done in
India ink: The American coat of arms
figures of q sailor and a girl dancing; q
female pirate, having at her feet an Ameri-
can coat of arms, with spread eagle on
top; q rooster; figure of Hope, with an
American flag; large ship reefing top
sails; Q figure called Onward. partly flu
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THERE is very little consideration in a
fly. If that one at Burkville, Virginia,
had steered clear of the gravy, Mr..
Miller would not have been killed, and
his widow would not now languish in Jail
for murder.
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NO NECESSITY FOR FURTHER
TRIAL.

saco juryman, in the trial Of crimi-
nal case before the Supreme Court recent
ly, grabbed Es hat and started for the
door when the prisoner entered plea Of
mot guilty" The Judge called him back,
and informed him that he couldn't leave
-atil the case was trisd. ''TTied?' uneried
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A WOMAN at Los Angeles, CAL, who
came there with the Mission one hundred
and ten years ago, when, as she says, she
was thirty years of age, gives no evi-
dence of dissolution. Her hair, it is
true, turned gray some years since, but
it is now renewing its blaakness, and hei
sight, which was failing, has returned tc
her. If the spring of perpetual youth is
not at Los Angeles, it must bubble W
somewhere close around there.
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ished; an Indian girl; an anchor and
shield; fireman on fre-plug, and boy,
the hose very large; another American
coat of arms, very large, not completed;
an eagle and shield; a very large ship
under sail, and lighthouse.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-13

THE country would rejoice at seeing
Gen. Fremont in even better place than
Governor of Arizona. The old "Path-
finder" is sometimes visionary, and has
spent much money with more profit to
other people than himself, but he de-
serves well of the country, and is held in
no low estimation.
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Ex-Gov. CLAFLIN, of Massachusetts,
describes Stanley Matthews as "a very
indiscreet man, who talks too much and
writes too much and 'sloshes' around
too much"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-13

THE Emperor of Germany is laid up
with wounds; the Pope is in bad state
Of health; the Empress of Russia has a
serious fever, and the Gar is not feeling
very well himself, while Prince Gort-
schakof is just toddling from a sick
couch. 1t looks as if there are too many
doctors in the old country.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-13

THREE HUNDRED of the four hundred
Mormon recruits, en- route for Utah, are
women. They are of promiscuous ages,
but candor forces the acknowledgment
that none of them are pretty.
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ONE of DR.. Franklin's favorite ex-
pressions was: "He paid very dear fo.
his whistle" An African Chief ex-
changed fine water cooler and six wo-
men with Stanley for a toy whistle, and
he still thinks he has the best of the bar
gain,
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WHEN the anthracite coal fields of
Pennsylvania are exhausted we can an
mex Mexico. The anthracite coal of that
country is of superior quality.
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CINCINNATI wEsTwooD (NARRow-GAUGEl
Daily, except Sunday.
Leave c.. H. & D. Depot S:53 m. 61s p m
Leave Robbs (Westwood), 5:48 M, T.3s m
1898 D m, 1858 p m 6;03p m ..r.fggA
Leave Brighton, 6:iSa m, 9:O3 am, 20s m5;lt
m, 64:3 pm.
Sunday trains s
Leave Robb's (Wcstwood), S:38 a m, n: :23 q, m
1923 D m, 2G3 m, 4:53 p m, and 6;3 3 pm.
Leave Brighton, 9:33 m, HOS m, 2S m.
A2:3S m, 6:03 p N, 1913 p IN.
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ANDERsoN's boyhood days were never
enlivened by the possession of "little
hatchet."
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ILLINOIS girls are organizing archery
clubs. The arch rogues.
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DETROIT, MICH, laughs all outer enc
mics to scorn. They have a Gatling gun
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THE happiest man of them all was
Ampt.
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the juror; "why, he acknowledged that he
is not guilty.
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TREY endorsed.
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ROAD TIM H
Corrected to Accord with Cincinnati
Time.

CINCINNATI SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
spot corner Mclean avenue and Gest s
The Osceola times., 1878-01-26
OSCEOLA ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY

silver dollar. He claimed 1t as thing which
did not admit of doubt that at the time when
the silver dollar was demonetized the silver
dollar OF 4l2h grains was more valuable
than the gold dollar. He argued that it was
to the interest Of the United States to make
both gold and silver legal tender for all
debts-both public and privste-particularl
nov when this country is such large pro-
ducer Of silver. He attributed the great de.
preciation in real estate in Germany to the
demonetzation of silver by that country.
He contradicted the theory that vast in.
crease In the production OF silver in this
country had been the cal use Of the fall in the
value of that metal, and alleged in denial OF
it that India, Japan and China alone had
taken in the course of trade during last year
sl05 100000 of silver, which was about $25,.
100000 more than the entire silver product
OF the world. He criticised the sermons of
Beecher and rockingham, and in conclus-
ion said we are laboring to get back TO the
dollar which has been tried in every con-
ditiOn, and under every variety of circum-
seance in this country, and has not been
found wanting; we are directing our foot
steps in the pathway lighted by the lamps OF
experience; We are not pioneers, we are
only seeking for old paths made luminous
by the footprints of the fathers of the re.
public; they betoken us onward they say
to us this is the way, walk ye in it. He who
has been watchful student Of history can
not mistake his way. II we be attentive
listeners, we may hear from every passing
breeze that is waited to us from the masts of
commerce, from the field OF husbandman,
from the hum OF the loom and from the ring
of the anvil words of encouragement to pur.
sue steadily the silvery pathway that shall
conduct our nation TO the goal OF financial
prosperity. The committee rose, and the
house adjourned.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-26
Our Gold Coinage and Exports.

The madness OF the effort to resume
and maintain specie payments on . gold
basis only is abundantly illustrated by
the relations shown to exist between our
exports and our imports of gold during
the last eleven years, including 1877.
We have imported during that time gold
TO the amount OF $l43, ,674, ,166, and have
exported In gold and bullion no less than
$499, ,659, 1893; in Other words, We have sent
out OF the country 1855, s85, ,S27 in gold
more than we have brought into the
country. This amoLnts TO eS2, ,S62. 34S
per year; while this country's entire an
nuai production amountstoonly S35, ,000,-
OOO-tha. Is to say, the drain Of gold
during the eleven years has left In this
country less than $3,0O0,00O q year.
This drain is certain to continue unless
the act dcmonetizipg silver is repealed.
In that act congress declsred its purpose
TO compel resumption in the metal which
was not only the dearest, but which was
in constant demand In those markets Of
Europe with which we have the most
intimate commercial relations. Unless
that act is repealed, resumption i clearly
impossible.
The annual report Of the directoEs Of the
mint shows that our gold coinage during
the eleven years before mentioned was %
follows: .@a
The Osceola times., 1878-01-26
LAMENT OF THE DEFEATED CANDI.
DATE.

Ihe polls are all closed and the votes are all
countea,
But I'm counted out, by the latest advices.
I would that never the hustihgs had mounted
My case is fororn, now I'm over the crisis
/ hardly think mortal could work with more spirit
Than ! did. The boys will not question this
statement.
drank with them, swore with them, promised
them places;
And "treated" " them all without stint or abate-
ment.
And what have gained by my &C i've exertions3
A cough indigestion, defeat and the blues,
While the oemagog que named by the opposite party
Looks happy and fresh as he stands In my shoes.
To think Of his drawing my precious per diem,
Aud reaping the haIvests the lobby will s0w!
To fancy him starting the ruinous nessure,
And being bought of makes me desperate grow.
The neat lttls billsl'd prepared with much study,
Ingeniously SEEKING to make them do harm,
viii he on my shelf Ike the dead soldier musket,
And fail to occasion the slightest alarm.
My day-dream has vanished my hopes are all
blighted,
To be great statesman s no longer my aim;
And, really, Ican't say that politics suits me-
The way they're condueted's sin and a shame,
There we're frauds am sure, in the choice Of my
rival;
That money was used might try to show;
And while may fail in defeating his title,
They'd give me fee to keep quiet, you know.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-26

concluded that the only way In which
the field glasses and other plunder can be
secared, is by attaching line toa rock,
and then firing it over the top of the
pyramid from q mortar.
One Of the small rocky islands OF the
lake is alive with rattlesnakes. 1t is sup
posed that the first Of the stock were
waited TO the island on a raft of tules or
driltwood. Doc. Wood, who has visited
the island, says there Is millions In it,"
The reptiles have their homes among the
rocks and live on the eggs and young Of
water fowl, and upon the dead fish that
are cast ashore upon the island. Mr..
Wood says that the stories that have
been told of the snakes rushing in body,
kissing and rattling, to attack any man
landing on the island, are untrue. He
found that whenever they were disturbed
they ran away and concealed themselves
in the crevices of the rocks, just as would
have been done by any other snakes
Nevada Enterprise.
The Osceola times., 1878-01-26
FOREIGN INrELLIGENCE.

A Prussian military journal says that
France can put on war footing l,73S,OO0
men and 209,4C0 horses.
A steamship from Boston is taking out
consignment OF American robins for accl.
matization in Yorkshire, England.
The highest wages paid to the train
men on the railways Of Austria are given to
engineers, and the amount is s627 year.
The American workmen who went to
New South Wales, Australia, wish they
hadn't Hardly dozen of one party OF 362
are earning as much as they did at home.
The excitement in England on the
subject OF hydrophobia had not subsidized at
the date of the last mails. Thirteen fatal
cases thus far this year had been registered
in London; last year there were six; in ten
years preceding, an average OF two per year.
The panic there has not resolved itself, as
here, into war against the Sptz.
The Turkish fleet has started off on
another cruise, and is engaged in shelling
some small towns on the northeastern coast
of the Black sea. Asa naval power, Turkey
is failure. Equipped with the finest iron.
clads afoat, nothing of any moment has
been accomplished by them during the en-
tire war. The Danubian fotilla was early
mnzzed by Russia, and although much was
predicted of Hobart Pasha's career on the
Giack sea, he has been a cipher through the
contest, and his squadron might as well have
been in the South Pacific for all the good 1t
has done for the Turkish cause.