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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-27
Literary Charades In Rhyme.

Below are q number Of ingenious
charades, each couplet describing the
name of we'll. known author. They
were contributed to the New York
Graphic, and their solution will prove 6
pleasant pastime for the home circle ol
q winter evening. The answers will be
found appended:
1. My last little spear, my first = field Qr
My whole the gad with which farme,
drives his oxen.
Q. My first is chopping with heavy N,
My last denotes departing g-making tracks
3. NV first q bees note singing on flower,
My last fash Of lightning in shower.
L. To wed near by his name appears to be
mean;
The wholo suggests the use Of Gretns
Green.
S. He never was known Of his songs to boast
He Is greater than many and less thar
most.
6. He earned q sage's purple gown,
But always wore tho garb Of clown.
Z. This narne-obserye Il very we'll
81 Itis'a kind Of bread and ahotel.'s ~
g. My first may bes4ound on saltrvasss
slope;
My second in sociables, papers and soap.
9. This, which the shrewdest, most ingenious
man
Could never make, a small pig often can.
10. Aud this (although not very nice, It's true),
The last named author always Likes to do.
II. Look on this name-a sunbeam in between
stocking and tormeptor, you have seen.
u. Au adverb and additions to house;
The whole dog does when he can't get
loose.
10. My last is to think and my first barking
louder;
Ny whole, you hear people inquire for his
powder.
IA. A letter that partakes Of food,
And thus obtains livelihood.
is. A carbonate mound, petrifed, II you will
An anthracite range, a bituminous hill.
l6: Although he seldom would complain,
His name is an internal pain.
II. My first is visible line, q signal to convey;
My second goes to its wedding, but never
goes away.
1S. His dual syllables will represent
4 stately tree and what one should repent.
10. His motto always YVES, as have heard,
Be virtuous first and wealthy afterward
20. His name you'll not find difficult to guess
The leading part in music and tress.
81. A.poet Of great worth and fame,
Yet sick brink will sound his name.
%. Another margin this; but let me tell you,
It is not sick and has some little value.
%. Just half book my first will represent;
The rest is not lease, but is rent.
"a. Three Of my first in Englands royal
group;
The last a Cockney calls his feathered
troop.
rs. II names show tendencies, here is another
Who must have loved to wait upon and
bother.
2G. This is a vowel which is often read,
But never hears single word that's said.
a. Philosopher and savan both together,
And yet his name is lighter than feather
2S. NV first is curse that people used to fear,
The rest a homestead-meadow lying near.
90. This name, if pronounced by himself, is re-
yealed,
When Yankee child teases its mother to
yield.
30. In his name two syllables See
A fop and mountain is he.
81. His name it is used to gain power.
And bis readers all laugh by the hour.
81. He wrote charming poetry-all his works
show it,
And yet he was only three-fourths of q
poet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-27
A Picture OF City Life.

Mary Murphy, aged twenty.eight
years, Of No. .3O5 East Forty.si1th street,
was found dead in her bed by the pol ce
of the Nineteenth precinct early this
morning. She had been dead some
time. Across her body lay her husband.
Morris Murphy, drunk. When arrest
ed by the police he could give no ac'
count of the death of his wife. The
polics locked him up and sent for tn.
torcter; -~Netl York Eve.li1g Post:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-27
Sun Spots.

The phenomena of sun spots are now
familiar; multitudes of people have seen
them and everybody has read about
them. It is veil known that the surface
of the sun is not that uniform dlsA Of
light that it was formerly supposed to
be, but abounds in CULTS, dark chasms,
up rushing streams of flaming gases, and
lurid prominences, sometimes 100, 1000
miles high. But these striking effects
are not uniform; the sea of solar fire,
like our own oceans, is sometimes vio-
lently agitated and sometimes quiet.
The spots are variable, being now many
and enormous in size, and again few apd
small. This periodicity. moreover. 's
proved to be regular.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-27
ASSWHRS TO CHARADES.

l. Hawthorne; q Hugo; 8. Humboldt; l.
Marryatt; 5. Moore; 6. Motley; 7. Ruskln; 8
Shelley; 9. Hogg; 10 Waller; II. Socrates; 12
Howells; IS. Bacon; IA. Keats; Is. Coleridge
1G. Akenside; II. Mark Twain; 18. Beeoher; 19
Goodrich; 20. Muloch; Il. Virgil; %. Edge.
worth; %. Voltaire; "a. Dickens; Is. Cervantes
Dumas; 80. Beaumont; 81. Lever; 80. Poe.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
TIE LAST SCHEM L.

A novel and funny sort Of scheme
has been started in Washington, it is
said, for forming an Enlisted Labor
Association. Congress is to pass a law
authorizing the enlistment Of 100000
volunteers for agricultural purposes
Uncle Sam is not exactly to give ev.
cry man farm at once, but the whole
party are to start on grand reserva.
ton of public lands ont West and the
government to furnish imrle ..ents
seeds. &c. Each mans pay is to be
the same as soldiers pay. A great
city is also to be built in the midst
thereof. At the end Of five years
each man receives his discharge and a
title to lG0 acres of land, or a build
ing lot in the CITY.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03

John Mcmahon, the champion wres-
tier, has arrived at Chicago from San
Francisco. He has issued challenge
to wrestle any man in America, collar
and elbow, best two in three, back
falls, for $1,000 to $4,000 a side.-
Wright and Mclaughlin preferred,
the match to take place either in New
York, Boston or Chicago six weeks
from the signing of the articles.
A freight train on the Little
Schuylkill railroad, branch of the
Philadelphia and Reading road, ran
off the track near Port Clinton, Sat-
urday morning, badly wrecking the
locomotive and number of cars load
ed with grain. Shortly after the &C.
cident had occurred fire broke out,
destroying several Of the cars and
blocking the road, compelling the
transfer Of northern-bound passen.
gers.
The mail from Mckinney was
Jumped Thursday afternoon about
% miles north of Fort Fetterman,
Wyoming, by twelve masked men,
They succeeded in surprising the two
soldiers WHO were acting as escort,
getting the drop" on them before
they had an opportunity to draw their
weapons. The horses and arms Of
the cavalrylnen were taken and the
mail thoroughly ransacked. Messrs.
Tillotsor and Snyder post-traders
here and at McKinsey, were passed.
gers on the mail wagon, but having
been robbed Of upward Of $500 II few
days before, while on their way from
Old Mckinney to the new post on
Clear Fork, the highwaymen secured
very little booty from them. This
part of Wyoming is infested with
horse thieves, robbers ard sconndrels'
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
HER OWN FIGHT.

England was a big dog in the fight
between Russia and Turkey, although
her bark was probably worse than her
bite. She was very loud in war-talk
but after all she never lost drop Of
blood; when the struggle was oyer
there could not be found the slightest
smell Of fire on her garments. New
ertheless she got as her share a very
choice cut of Turkey. But England
has now fight Of her own on hand.
Lying between her great realm OF
India and Russia is AFyhanistan. Its
chief ruler is called Ameer. He has
recently refused to allow the British
Mission to Cabul to cross his terrific
~. 1t is bold and daring insult on
the part of the Amer. 1t is more
aggravating to England because the
Ameer is undoubtedly acting upon
the instigation Of Russia. lie is only
the puppett of the Gar. Tie Ameer
must be punished. 1t is a coming
fight in which Russia will be in ex'
actly the same position toward the
Ameer as England was to Turkey
There must be war. But the ques-
ton is whether England will put the
fight on the shoulders Of her army in
India or whether the great home gov
eminent will also be involved. Time
will tell. That European war is far
from being settled.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
TIE MONEY AGITATION.

The whole country rings with the
discussion of lie great money ques'
ton. Hard money, honest money,ab-
soute money, fiat money, nothing else
is worth talking about. Meantime
between man and man no article is
more scarce or harder to col ect. Ma
tional bank notes or greenbacks are
either of them good enough, hut trade
is dull and business men are sorely
lamenting that they don't sell much
and cant collect bills of what they do
sell. Well, it is all along of our not
! wing rnrrcn.l enough, cries the ma
,lv.,al politician, don't you see we
must have more greenbacks. And
so the hard-up business man, and the
broken-up manufacturer, and the tar
mer with big crops and low prices, and
the discontinued working man and
the greedy ohice hunter are all e|o-
ouentIv invoked to pool their issues
aid 90 for better times under the
preenbacl. banner. Dennis Kearney
is played out but Ben Butler is on the
stump east and west, not quite so pro-
r,re hut inst as clamorors against
lord'y capitalists and bloated bond
holders. The fierce revolution rolls
forward and capitalists are scared
at its threatening consequent
ces. They hold their money
back from business enterprises and
are glad to hide it in safe Govern
ment loans. Consequently times den t
grow better very fast. The old party
leaders and candidates are half be-
willered, shifting, dodsing and wrig-
ling, while they quake in their shoes
not knowing who or where the green
back lightning will strike with most
fatal effect. Everywhere the polltl-
cal situation is unsettled. The green
back vote must come from the ranks
of the two old parties. But just in
what proportion the old parties are
each likely to lose votes IS the puz'
cling question, and will be up to the
November election.
We take no part nor side. All we
have to say is, that the greenba'k
movement if successful will bring
about great and radical change IN
our national finances and currency
twill work complete revolution
1t is for honest, thrifty, conservative
voters of the old parties to say
whether it is advisable or not to up
set our present national banking sys'
TEN, and do away with our present
paper currency, based upon a gold
and silver foundation. That's all.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03

A young man named Petit, flag.
man on the Virginia Midway road,
was run over and instantly killed at
the west end of the tunnel in Alexan-
dria, Va, Thursday morning. One of
the arms AMI the head were found off
from the track and the rest Of the
boiy horribly mntilate1, the heart
and part Of the entrails being torn out
and thrown about 20 feet from the
track and part OF the arms and I'm
GERS thrown against the wall OF a
house so.uu distance III.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
THE SHERlFFALTY.
To the Voters Of frederick Coz

To the Voters Of Frederick County.
GENTLEMEN Having received very
fattering support for the nomination for
Sheriff in 1877, for Which l tender my
grateful Acknowledgements, | again an
nounce myself as Il candidate for said office,
subject to the action of the Republican
Nominating Convention of 1879 and re-
spectfully and earnestly solicit your sup
port. d. ), g. HAkleOCA.
SEP 5lf
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
PUBLIC SALE
VALUABLE Farms.
SATURDAY. ct obcr 10, aS7S.

at ~ o'clock, NJ.
vINhc undersigned will otfra at public SALE
/ on the premises, two first class farms
situated in Frederick county, Md, on the
road leading from Emmittsburg to West
minister, about three miles from the former
place, and miles from st. Joscphs' ncad
envy. No contains 10 acres and IL
pcrchcs more or less, adjoining the lands
of Joseph Zimmerman, VIM. Gardner, .Jno
Ohlcr and Others This farm has due pro.
portion of excellent timber and meadow
and is not to be cXcclled by any in the
county for productivcncss. The improve.
ments consist of Il one tw0-story
WEATHER BOARDED HOUSE,
with back building, brick summer kitchen
large bank barn, wagon shed, corn crib
hog pen, wood shed, and two never failing
wells of water convenient to the buildings
fine orchard of choice fruits of all kinds
No. 9 adjoins No. |, and lands of join Oh.
Ter, AllisOn's heirs, Jos Zimmerman and
others, contains 81 acres, 1872 pcrcncs more
or less, in the very finest state o! cultiva.
ton. The improvements consist of a large
frame
BRICK CASED HOUSE,
with basement and cellar under the whole
building, new barn, wagon shed, carriage
house, corn CRIB. wood shed, a never fail
ing well of water at the door, Il variety
of choice fruit, such rs apples, peaches
pears, grapes, sc. These farms are situa.
ted in one CT the most beautiful valleys of
Frederick county, convenient to churches
and schools. II is seldom such an OppOr-
tunity IS presented to procure choice
farm. Persons desiring to view these
firms, are requested to call on John Long,
residing on No. or the undersigned liv-
ing in Emmittsburg.
Terms of sale as prescribed by the Court
One third cash on the ratification of the
sale by the Court, the balance in two equal
annual payments, bearing interest from
day of sale The deferred payments to be
secured by mortgage on the premises.
JESSE Ii. NUSSEAIt. EXr,
sep cots of Chas. Werlich, decd.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1878-10-03
TRUSTEE SALE.

10y virtue of an order Of the Circuit
- Court for Frederick County, sitting
as Il court of equity, the subscriber us trus-
tee. will sell at public sale, on
Saturday. October ). ISIS.
at two O'Clock, p. M,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10

by the strikes, and came west. Had
always 1mnanded salary of three
dollars per day at his trade, but had
since often worked twelve hours for
one, and was willing TO do so vet if
he could only find work and was
well. lie is certainly pitiable OBJ
icct, and is only one of thousands in
similar circumstances. Such scenes
of destitution and suffering are of
daily occurrence. As we write there
sits near us Il poor German on an cr-
rand Of mercy. He came from Ohio
about six months ago with a wife
and three children, and had been re-
duccd TO poverty by ill-hcalth; and
this gloomy Monday morning he is
looking for the hand of charity that
will pay the last sad Office TO his
dead child, ON whose cold, immobilc
CHASTITY little coun.cnancc death hls
placed the unmistakablc stamp of
want.
Would il not be well. while talk
ing of charity, 10 cast an eye at the
surroundings of home?
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10

A good circus clown gets from 800
to $3.50 week, and the best bare
back rider gets 800 Il week. This
is enough TO empty the theological
scminarics, whose graduates expect
10 work for souls, and Us much OF
$500 Il year as they can collcct-BWr-
HHgtOa Hdwkeye.
No wonder: "Thcrc are seventeen
sculptors and painters from the Uni
ted States now residing in Rome
read Mrs. Bemis from the ncwspa-
per. ''Il'm - grunted Mr.. Bcmis,
mo wonder couldn't get painter
TO whitewash that shed" Mrs.
Bcmis glore an awful glare at him.
ROchidad courier.
A CoNrRACT MADE.-Thc Com
mander of the Faithful was about 10
uniform his hosts, and Il gigantic con
tract for cloth was ahead. A CON
tractor presented himself to the Min
lister of War, prepared to make his
tender.
allow much yard 7" said the
Minister, softly rubbing his fingers
and thumb together.
by the beard OF Allah y said the
contractor, who was short-sighted
40 liras delivered f. o. o., and may
goats dctilc my grandmother's grave
if make more than b liras profit Il
yard"
Come again tomorrow" said tho
Minister of War, rather courtIy, and
the second contractor presented him.
self.
"What do YOU charge yard"
"By the thirty-nine mcums, lC
liras, which leaves me 10 liras yard
profit.
"A-ah," said the official brighten,
ing up, God Is great. just wait Il
minute ill see this other slave.
How much do you want for your
cloth, ell 7"
Sovereign Lord replied tho
third contractor, falling upon hi
face, while Il wink shot over his lief
eye; the slave of thy foot-stool ha,
some cloth all wool and warranted
not to shrink, which will lay upor
the altar of my country for 80 liras I
yard"
And the profit thereupon," salt
the official in voice choked will
emotion, "is"- SIS % liras yard.
Oh my soul, Oh my lamb" re
piled the Minister, 1.-THE contract II
thine" And clapping his hands, hi
babe the Nubian slave who appeared
go bid his JekJekrS begin cartins
sand for his new palace.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10
Determined to Find Quarters,

a poor unfortunate tramp, whose
clothes have been worn to threds
barcfooted, holloway ed, lean and
hungry, called at the Jail yard last
Saturday and begged Mr.. Gordon TO
take him in and give him quarters.
lie was kindly informed that they
had no authority for depriving him
of his liberty, and only under II
charge of crime could he gain en-
trance into one of the cages. lie went
of, with his head cast down rs if in
deep thought, going down in the di-
rcction of the depot. Shortly after
wards he turned up town, and while
passing Lcvy's corner took pair OF
common pants, suspended from one
of the show-pcgs in front of the
store, folded them under his arm,
and lcisurely walked away with
them. When he had proceeded half
way across the block an officer over
took him, and nj the information that
he was under arrest and would have
to go to jail, the poor fellows cOlln-
tcnance lii up with smile of graft
tude that clearly betokencd great
joy ut the success of his piece of
w VIZ WV l'''i ~
low this morning, and he said the
only object he had in stealing the
pants was TO find shelter aud get II
bite of something to eat. lie said he
had been suffering with ague so long,
caused by night exposure TO all kinds
of weather that he was unable 10
work, and several times had fallen
down and remained unconscious for
hours. And the poor fellows bag
gard features, and the bronzed tan
on his hands and feet, plainly told
how true was his story. In fact, he
talked like one whose mental facul-
ties had been disturbed by hunger
and disease. lie gave his name rs
John Brown, was an iron moulder
by trade, and had helped TO cast
many propelling screw for ocean
steamers. lie said he had worked at
his trade faithfully fourteen years,
principally between Philadelphia and
Chester, Pa, but was thrown out OF
employment about six months ago
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10
A Novel Feature

Presents itself To those who use Parker 5
Hair Balsam, In the discovery of Its rare and
remarkable merits Many have written MS
expressing their delight In the fact that II
works like a charm. Its disinlectant proper
ties in chemical combination rendering II
hrathful, cleansing and healing are bearing
fruit, and the beautiful hair 1t produced with
the clean, healthy scalp, entirely freed from
Tor which we have reason to feel proud A
patron assures Us that he has used twelve diff
iercnt Hair Preparations and that Parker 5
Hair lIalsam surpasses them all. To hair
that ha. become gray or faded, 1t restores that
beautiful natural color OfyOuth, and produces
yigOr aud luNurance that surprises every
one, Buy bottle from your druggist, u. r.
Graves, aud test Its merits.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10
A Turkish Bath

In your own room for cents. This is Sc
cured by cheap apparatus recently patented,
for the production of Turkish and Napor
Baths, at the cost of the alcohol that supplies
the heat. 1t has proved more effective than
ing rheumatism, Asthma, Catarrh, skin Dis
eases Dyspepsia, and all Nervous and DeDili-
tating Maladles. Pamphlets free.
LuBIN's PORTABLE TURKISH BATH Co,
Is East It'll ST., Cincinnati, o:
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10
lllaeo Examincr.
Pleasant Paragraphs.
The Pestilenoe In New Orleans,
1858.


The night hath come,
And Ger the trembling city, stlll the curse
Hangs BROOD <, DER the music IL hath stilled
In many hearts and homes.
The sickly moon
Hides, shuddering, her sad a1d dimmrd face
Among the shrOud-like clouds that ragged
hang
Tpon the limbs of the distressed night.
Asup from the devoted city there doth rise
The ceascless sound of one incessant PRAYER.
Clogged with the cry of anguish, aud the vail
Uf !hc chlldless oncs aud orphans
Lone aud dark.
And still, for want of any human voice,
A thousand dwellings from against the skies
Where once the laugh of children aud the
songs
That burst from the light hearts of mothers
fllcd
The cchoing halls with gladncss
Behold
In yOn poor room light has lickcrrd out:
liut, ere II icd from those damn, dingy walls
A human spirit left Its home of play
On iis dead mnther's breast the sleeping babe
Lies Ike blossom ON u blightei bought
oh doeth 1t dream that II hath lost what
Here below, can never be- replaced?
LIST God
How the childish ilesh docth creep at that wild
which leaps upon the foul aud covering air,
Like the deepair of AN % 'ermnstcrcd heart
'l'h tht ihihH Ahht II lis inc
shrek
OF sick mother DER dying child.
Mother weep not for NEWELL meet up
there 20
A fearless wife clings to the stricken form
OF him in whom Is merged her very self,
As If she would resist, with her embrace,
The fell Destroyer's grasp. Poor loving
thing
The man Is gone thou lovest-that but clasps
The chair he wore.
The watcher stars grow pale.
From the far East "a herald, clad ia gray,
Pruclaims the morning, blllshing from her bed
Like young bride is getting timid up
10 meet the eyes that watt her. Up on high
with Il continuous melody from Earth
To heaven, the awakened birds take hight
And dcwy mouths of flowers send welcomes
out,
Fragrant to greet her In.
Still the curse,
The yellow plumed destroyer flaps his wings,
And, AS he wheels and and circles In the air,
\ thousand shadows from his pinions fall
Upon the earth below. lInrshly he screams
And fixes In the heart bis burning buak.
Death, with grim smile. has east HIM from
Ills wrist, and bid him swoop.
Forever gone
The old, the youngi the rich, the poOr.i grave,
gay;
The bad the good the homely and the fair
Cane To Il COmmCd end.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10
LYNCH Il McCLELLAND,

Wholesale and retail dealers In Stoves and
linware, Wood and Willow ware, Hollow
ware, Glass and Qupcnswafe Cutlery, and
iolls diminishing goods generally.
With Increased facilities for purchasing, we
Will sell all goods to lie found IN first class
House Furnishing Establishment In Central
Texas.
We especially invite all to call anil price
goods handled by us before purchasing.
our motto Is "first class goods ON small
margin and will not be undrrsUld by any
house In Central Texas
We are prepared Ia M orders from country
merchants at lowest figures, aud will dupli-
cate any bill made In Texas
auJOdw1m LYNCH a MCCLEIIAND
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-10

MIR. Richard Holland, Of Butler county,
Mo, writes al have been practcing medi-
cine over twenty years, and must say never
used anything in my practice equal to DR..
lIarter's Fever and Aguc Specific. fully IN
dorse It, and say to the public, that as u
Specific for fever and ague 1t has no equal. -
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