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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
A Trick of Heller's.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial tells the following story of
Robert Heller's skill in sleight-of-hand
tricks: "Lager- was the leading
beverage in the Cincinnati Sketch Club.
One day there were gathered some 20
artists, ministers, doctors,
poets, musicians, men of letters, in fact,
all professions were represented when
Heller announced the fact that hewould
make disappear full glass of lager,
not by the usual method-that was, that
he would make disappear this glass and
the beer, and it would be found in the
rear pocket of some one of those pres
ent, and he would be unaware of its
presence. A moment! 1t was not in
Heller's hands, and where had it gomez
Every eye was intent on Heller, and
crowding closely around the performer.
Mr.. Samuel N. Pike, who was languidly
leaning against the mantel-shelf, smok-
ing, and quite unconcerned, some 20
feet away, put his hand in his coat
pocket Gas we all did, not knowing but
that each was the victim) and withdrew
it hurriedly, dripping with beer. The
veritable glass, half full of the frothing
fluid was in his pocket
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
GENERAL.

Gold sold at par in New York on Dec. II,
for the first time since the suspension OF
specie payments in 1872.
Lieut.-Col. b. S. Alexander, senior officer
of the Engineer Corps, U. s. A., died in San
Francisco on the 10th, aged 50.
The failures are announced Of Fox, Wal
ker & Co., of the Atlas Engine Works, Bris-
tol, Eng, with liabilities of eco, 900; of Zu-
bind & Co., iron ore importers, of Cardiff,
Wales, and Newport, Eng, and of Hirsch,
Stockholm, with 5000, 900 crowns liabilities.
The President has nominated L. Bradford
Prince, New York, to be Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of New Mexico; Au-
gustus j. Cassard, Louisiana, Consul at
Tampico.
Gustin Z. Colburn, q former Washington
correspondent of the New York Times, and
later ul-General to Mexico, died OF
consumption at the City of Mexico on the
I'd inst.
Among the names mentioned in connec-
tion with the Berlin mission, made vacant
by the death of Bayard Taylor, are ex-Min-
lister Washburne and Judge Lawrence, OF
Illinois, and Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsyl-
vania. 1t is understood that George w.
Curtis, of New York, could have the mis-
sion if he desired it, but will not accept.
Governor Anthony, of Kansas, during his
recent visit to Washington, secured the as
sent of the Government to the surrender to
the State authorities of the Cheyenne Chiefs
who instigated the recent massacres. He
also succeeded in securing from the Seere-
tary of War additional troops for the pro-
lection Of the southwestern border of the
State
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
FOREIGN.

A sensational report comes by cable of the
discovery of important evidence bearing up
on the recent attempted assassinations in
Germany, Russia, Spain, and Italy, from
which 1t would appear that the individual
assassinators were only the tools of Com
munistic society, having its headquarters in
Switzerland, the object Of which is, after
getting all the Kings and Emperors out OF
the way, to set up universal European Re-
public, based upon the most radical Com
munistic principles. The Society is said TO
be composed Of men OF intelligence mad
brains-professors,s scholars and politicians
and its ramifeations extend into the high
est societies Of the various countries in
Europe, and even the armies are suspected
to be not entirely free from its dangerous in
fiuence.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

March, 1876, to the present time. The letter
states that there were no balances on loan
accounts standing to the credit of the
United States Treasurer in any Nation
al bank from March, 1876, to January, ISIS,
and fncloses q list of National Bank depos-
itories with the balance and loan account held
from February, 1S1S, to December, ISIS. The
banks which held such balances had been
made repositories under the law. The large
balance held by the First National Bank,
New York, was caused bv the temporary de-
posits of the proceeds of AZ per cent. bonds
and large subscriptions of that bank to the 4
per cent loan. After some little discussion,
the House adjourned to January.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
Science and Industry.

Charles Francis Adams has bought
land at Kansas City, Mo-, worth $4,000
and will build there a cotton mill and
cottages for the workmen.
Nine samples of sugar were recent
ly analysed at Richmond, Va, and only
three found sufficiently free from miner
al salts to be wholesome.
Diamond Creamery, at Monticello,
Iowa, took the first prize, 800 in gold,
at the International Dairy Convention,
New York, on sweepstakes, and first
prize, $50, for best butter.
M. Dutertre, of the School of Agri-
culture at Gregnop, France, has invent
ed a sucking apparatus with india rub
ber teats for bereaved lambs, who are
thus fed, greatly to their satisfaction,
four times day.
An American egg preserving COM
pany has been established at Shanghai
for some time. The object is to pre-
serve eggs in such manner that they
will be useful for cooking at any time and
in any climate. The business is entire
ly export, chiefly to England.
"A mandatory of paper bricks ha:
been opened somewhere in Wisconsin
The bricks are said to be exceedingly
durable and moisture proof. They art
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

On Thanksgiving Day Messrs. Joseph
Smith, of Burlington, Edwin Henderson,
of New Hartford, and Douglass VIII
iams, of Southington, and their wives,
celebrated their golden wedding togett-
er at New Hartford, Conn;
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

"A young officer thought to puzzle
the editor of lie Figaro by asking him
when two men of equal age and rank
met which should be the first to bow.
The editor calmly replied, "The more
polite of the two"
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
WEST AND SOUTHWEST.


A Minneapolis dispatch says Porter
Guernsey, sged Is, SON of prominent
druggist, and Florence Wyckof, aged 16,
daughter of Presbyterian clergyman at
Lake City, while skating together the even
ing of the 14th, were drowned. The bodies
were recovered.
The United States Supreme Court has af-
frmed the decision of the Supreme Court of
the State of Kansas In the case of the Kansas
PacifciRailway Company versus the Missou-
ri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, in
volving the title to $1,000 acres of land in
Kansas. The decision is in favor of the
Kansas Pacific.
Mr.. b. II. Eddins, Judge of Elections at
Bartlett, Tenn, has been convicted by the
United States Circuit Court at Memphis of
fraudulently stuffing a ballot-box with
Democratic tickets at the last Presidential
election.
Rudolph Fink, of Alexandria, Va, has
been elected General Manager Of the Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad, vice Col. NJ.
Prichard, deceased.
Nine murders are reported to have been
committed in Western Nebraska in single
week, and the Governor declares that owing
to want of money he is powerless to bring
the assassins to punishment.
At Meridian, Texas, on the evening OF
Sunday, the 18th, while most of the citizens
were. at church, band of 80 masked men
forcibly entered the jail and riddled with
buck-shot two Of the prisoners, Mont. and
Tom Harrels. ~ 49, .-s
On the 18th, as George Rowland was quiet
ly riding into the town of Caldwell, Texas,
he was met in the street by Sidney T. Hud-
son, who, deliberately raising a shotgun,
fired and shot Rowland dead. Hudson al
legged Rowland had seduced his sister.
The body of Michael Nephl PIX in a
restaurant, was found under the ruins of o
block Of small tenements at Fort Worth,
Texas, on the 10th. 1t was supposed he was
murdered and the murderer set the house
on fire to cover up the crime. A man named
saffroe, proprietor of the restaurant, was
arrested on suspicion.
Lee Armstrong, residing near Benson
KY, was out hunting with a man named
Lillis, and while Lillis was attempting tc
climb a stone fence his gun accidentally
went of, and the contents lodged in youne
Armstrong; abdomen. He died in an houl
afterwards.
The t3tal receipts of hogs at Kansas City
from January / to December is, were 4O4,
$50, against 1860 for the same time las
yesE Since the opening Of the beef packing
scaAon there have been 14,6l3 head of cattl
kille{ II by packers ana dressed-beef opera
torsN
Governeay Gerber, of Nebraska, has Offered
a reward of $4,000 for the apprehension o
the gang Of villains who burned Ketchun
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
School and Church.

President McCosh, of Princeton
College, in his address before the
Princeton alumni at Pittsburg lately,
said that during the last ten years he
had received in donations of various
amounts for that institution the sum of
30, 800, 900 from unknown sources.
I'm sermon preached at Conners-
vile, Ind, on Sunday, Elder Burgess of
Butler University illustrated the immor-
ality of the times by the remark that
''formerly one sermon converted 5000
persons, while now it takes 5000 SER
mons to convert one sinner"
The girls are bound to come to the
front. Lima Berger, young Swiss lady,
has just taken the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy at Berne University, after a
brilliant examination, and two other la
dies, American and Austrian, have pass
ed as Doctors of Medicine.
"A remarkable revival of religion is
going on at Fall River, Mass. Hun
dreds of men and women, with some
children, have been converted, includ-
ing some of the most intelligent of the
population. On the streets, in offices,
shops, banks, stores, mills, conversions
are neutrality-suspicious. is the universal
| topic of conversation.
This is the way our Sunday-school
children are sometimes taught to sing.
The verse is q sample from a new book
of praise:
| love to see my teachers smile
love my classmates, too;
| love TO learn my lessons, while
I've nothing else to do.
The love of learning, according to this,
is something that will do to sandwich in
between hours for which there is real
employment The children who sing
this rubbish are not supposed to make a
business of study. They study only be-
cause they have nothing else to do. The
Superintendents and choristers who in
troduce this sort of hymnology into their
Sunday schools can not be too severely
censured. Better fill up the time by
singing "Grandfather's Clock" or
"Johnny Morgan"
The Cologne Gazette says that a
committee of experts having examined
the document known as "Luther's
WILL" which is in the possession of the
Protestant Church in Pesth, has declared
it authentic. The document found its
way, with number of manuscripts OF
the learned theologian, John Benedict
Carpzoino, to Hungary, and came into
the hands of a private collector, rich
proprietor named Jankovicks, from
whom the Archduchess Maria Dorothea
obtained it for 400 golden guldens. She
presented it to the Protestant Church in
Pesth, in whose archives it has since
lain, nobody being positively certain
that it was authentic. 1t is hencefortf
to be deposited in special case in the
National Museum at Pesth.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

Parliament has adjourned until Feb. 1:
after passing, without division, Earl Stan.
hopes resolution for he betrayal of the
expenses of the Afghan war from the In.
| dian revenues.
The English Court ha, been order ed TO &C
into full mourning for TX weeks on account
of the death Of the Princess Alice.
Alarming destitution prevails through
out the Island Of Grea Britain. In the
House of Commons, on TIN night of the 18th,
the Home Secretary, answering the inquiry
whether it was true, as reported, that we
are now face to face will such a crisis of
distress as this generation has never
KNOWN" acknowledged he distress to be
great, but thought the rported suffering
exaggerated. Nevertheless, distress-meet-
ings were being held at all the large cities,
seeking to provide means fr relief.
Near Gallipoli, the Afternoon Of the 10th,
the steamer Byzantin, fror Marseilles for
Constantinople, sank in a cdlision, and $50
lives were lost. OF 164 pers'ns on board, IA
only escaped.
1t was officially telegraphel from Berlin,
on the 10Th, that Bayard Tayor, Minister of
the United States to Germany, died at
O'Clock that afternoon. The faal symptoms
came on suddenly. He had ben out of bed
and was transacting business With officials
of the American Legation the lrevious day.
His death was peaceful and painless.
The funeral of the late Prncess Alice
took place at Darmstadt on tn 18th. The
Prince of Wales and Prince Leopold were
present as Representatives Of Qeen victo-
ria. The city put on general appearance
-
were fired in the parks during he funeral
ceremonies.
1t is officially reported that distractions
have been sent to the Russian Mission at
Cabul to withdraw. 1t is rumord that the
Ameer has fled, leaving his sol, Takoob
Khan, in power. The British forcs are ad-
vancing from Jellalabad.
The loss of life by the sinkin; of the
steamer Byzantin was Fortunately not so
great as at first reported. The stamer Ri
naldo, with which she collided, his arrived
at Constantinople, and her captain reports
90 persons saved from the sinking essel.
The Imperial Government has addressed
letter of coincidence to the Legation of the
United States at Berlin, expressing Irofound
regret at the death of Bayard Taybr. The
publish leading articleseulogis-
tic of the late Minister. The funeralservices
took place on Sunday the 22d, with imposing
The remains will be transported
to America.
Great excitement exist In st. Petersburg
on account of the Government efforts to
suppress meetings of students. The lecture
halls have been closed, and all meetings are
in the universities as veil as
outside. The carrying of arms is prohibit
ed except by express authorization.
The Duke Of Cumberland and the Princess
rhyra, of Denmark, were married with
great pomp at the chapel of Christiansborg
Castle, Copenhagen, on the evening of the
list.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

John Russell Young will arrange
Gen. Grants account of his travels for
publication.
Ex-senator Alexander Ramsey has
presented his private library to the Min
nesota Historical Society.
james f. Anderson, of Louisiana,
celebrity, has taken the city editorship
of the Eureka (Nevada) Sentinel.
Buffalo Bill has made, it is reported,
about S135,O00 on the stage, most OF
which he has invested in cattle, having
in all $500 head.
lii Kwei, q Chinaman, who visited
this country under Government orders
during the Centennial, has put his ex-
periences into four volumes.
Maria Fechter, daughter of Charles
Fechter, is said to be charming actress.
She has taken to the dramatic stage, the
weakness of her voice obliging her to
give up the opera.
Mime. Nilsson will be installed as
Grand Mistress of the ancient charitable
Masonic order of the eastern Star, "
which is composed of ladies of rank and
distinction whose husbands belong to
the fraternity.
Miss Helen M. Mcdonald argued
her own case about an Infringement of
her patent for an improved dress pro-
tector in the United States Court in
Boston the other day, Gen. Butler being
one of the opposing counsel.
Mr.. Joseph jefferson, the actor,
finds time amid his numerous theatrical
engagements to indulge his taste for art.
He has recently finished two pictures
which are pronounced by competent
critics to excel his previous Efforts
Ne1O York Tribune.
Amer Stere Ali can not read, but
has accumulated much information
from conversation with his attendants,
who have been better educated than
himself, and through clerk, whom he
has maintained for many years, to trans
late articles from the English newspa-
pers of India. His ideal man is Napo-
leon.
The drunkenness of Edgar Allen
Poe was under discussion by Rich
mond temperance society. A speaker
dwelt on the poets disgraceful death.
DR.. Mason, who attended him in his
last illness, replied: "He died like a
gentleman. For days before his death
he utterly refused stimulants of all kinds
to allay his nervous excitement, and
died a sober man, truly penitent for his
past career"
1t was rumored that Burbank, of
the New Orleans Picayune, was to write
Il book on yellow fever, entitled "Jack
and l." Referring to this, he says: "I
have no intentions of writing book of
any sort, much less on the subject of
yellow fever. Of that 1 have had
enough. Its record is written in this
city on 1000 new graves, on vacant
chairs, in broken family circles, on sable
garments and sorrowful faces. There
is no fun it it.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

I also larger than the clay article. Paper
is now also used for making barrels.
Straw pulp is run into a mold made in
the shape of half barrel, cut vertically.
The barrels are higher and two thirds
cheaper than those of wood, and flour
will not sift out of them while in transit
The slaves are three-eighths of an inch
thick.
Another form of type-setting ma
chine has been contrived by German
inventor. By means of a lever, which
is worked by series of keys, some
out of box in which they are kept,
and placed in position fixed for them.
By employing a very simple mechanism,
second setting apparatus can be ad-
justed, and by means Of this arrange
ment the sentence is twice set in the
same time. The machine is said to
claim the advantage over all others of
the sort, of funcomplicated construction,
so that it is not only easy to be worked,
but performs the setting in a quick and
correct manner. From all that ap-
pears, however, in relation to this ma
chine, its efficacy is not likely to come
into serious rivalry with hand Compost
ton.
Maj. Henry Howell, of Sarnia, Can
ada, is claimed to have invented a
new process of refining petroleum with
out the agency of heat. A sample man.
ufactured from American petroleum of
45 gravity is stated to be very brilliant
and white oil of 4S gravity and 1872 fire
test. The yield from the crude was 93
per cent. But the most extraordinary
claim for this process is not merely that
the means used are entirely mechanical,
but also that there is no production of
gasoline or benzine, and the entire pro-
duct is standard white illuminating oil,
far superior to the oil refined under old
methods. This new process, if what is
claimed for it be true, is just precisely
what the producers have been looking
for. 1t will be saving of at least $780,
000, 200 per annum to the region, and
will settle the little differences now ex-
isting between the producers and re-
finers-that is to say, if they secure the
exclusive privilege of using this wonder
full process. How the lighter parts of
crude petroleum can, by mere me-
chanical process, be retained so as to
stand a fire test of 122 degrees, is some
thing truly wonderful, and is simply
equivalent to a mechanical decomposi-
ton of a chemical compound. The full
particulars of this extraordinary process
will be locked forward to with deep in
terest by the entire trade.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1878-10-01
BALTIMORE MARKETS.
an OUNCE MENT rs
To the Voters and People generally, Of
the End Congressional District.

In announcing myself as candidate of the
''Hnucnai Greco "sck, L6b"r Ia!ty,' III tins Lie-
leading prInCipieS and proportions Shall mann
tain before tnem.
people: sGoU!d I.cver have b.cn farmed out TO
Ger! Orai ions; and, IN accordance with the 0Fin-
ions of Jefferson and Caiio-n, should ne prompt
~ reclaimed, aud +Ncrted i'll both ITS Issue and
management, by The nation only.
2ad. That Nancy, in i;s constitution a&d true
nature, in NOT matter cyii, SILVER, VrIpa-
per-" but in tie mObO!:Z3d. cooperative, or (-X
ecu!ive power Of tie people to elect thc'eX-
changes of labor and property, aud may by mstT
stamp-''imspG ard super sci1p'IoEs'- be e%ertcd
BIZ Il currency of gold, s'ycr. or parer or the
three jointly, aud equally. made full legal ten
deis for all duce. rubIic aud private
3rd. T.lat all the gold. a"d all the silver we
suDplc1neuled with green backs or treaSurv-notcs.
up TO a volume of currency adequate to the Dc
mnuds Of commerce. trade. and exchanges, upon
the cash pTncp e.
4th. That, through bureau to be established
in the Treasury deORitment OF the national go
vernment. and bureaus i'll tho several states,
grcenbackS, or treasury notes, should be loaned
BY the general government TO the States at ono
per ceut H., and bv the States TO the counties ut
TWO per cent. and by the counties to the people
ut three per cent, upon their securities to be de-
cldcd on and DECLARED by Congress: me money
loan he returned at tie option of tie borrower:
thus relieving The people, and discriminating
usury. without HSurV laws
9TH That this relief to a suffering reoplc can
not uo obtained through ell her of the I'D parties
and hence the necessity of = combination of tue
masses of the people of both parties into ncto
r!y for their own safety and relief. The Re
publican party is avnwcdly hard money party,
and tire Democratic party, even if at the nth
hour, 1t adopts the grecnback system. IS ..di-
vided house" and cannot give relief: The
Northern members of the party are all for hard
money. and many leading members. also. Of the
South-as Bayard, Lamar. and Ben Hill Of
GEORGIA.
With the announcement of these general prin-
cples and propositions for tho consideration of
the voters an" people of ths District, and others I,
and 10 be as brief as possible. will now conclude
by saving that 1t is my purpose to visit e> cry
requested. or there is an opportunity. and to
confer W it'll and be questioned by tho people at
large upon their vital inter ests III this great and
just cause and movement.
Most resnrctfuily, yonr fellow citizen,
August 6, 1878 JNO. A THOMSON.
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