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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-09-17
THE NOTED GRAVE ROBBERS.

Our readers will remember the account
given in these columns of the robbing OF
the grave OF the Hon. Scott Harrison, in
Ohio, last May, the body being found in
the dissecting-ro room Of the Ohio Medi-
cal College. Public indignation justly
brands any man as scoundrel WHO will
rob the grave of the dead. But there
are two noted grave robbers in the coun.
! try, so far from being the subjects of the
peoples wrath, are universally lauded
for their virtues. The reason is plain.
While the former class steal the dead
bodies of our loved ones to submit them
to the dissecting knife, these only rob
the graves to restore the living victims
to our hearts and homes. Their names
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dissolve
ry and Pleasant Purgative Pellets-are
household words the world over. The
Golden Medical Discovery cures con-
sumption, in its early stages, and all
bronchial, throat, and lung affections
Pleasant and Purgative Pellets are the
most valuable laxative and cathartic.
fuckers NoMINATfoN.-Sp
of the Hon. Ran. fuckers unanimous
nomination for Congress the Lexington
Gazette says:
"This brings to happy close all con-
troversy in the Conservative Party in
this District. It is well merited tri-
butte to one who has proven faithful and
able in every position of trust to which
he has been called by the people. 1t
also settles the questions, which at one
time threatened to divide and distract
our party. Individual ambitions and
individual opinions are hushed and
every discordant voice is stilled. The
schemes of Radical and Independent
Agitators have been brought to an in
glorious close, and united party stands
ready to meet its enemies in the coming
canvass"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

immediately there was wild commotion.
-Tne cows knew IN d gererat, way some
thing about aogs,s but? an animal half
dog and half bird, withsa towering ban
ner Of Whalebone and wire and muslin
floating in the aummer wind, was to
them q new and terrifying spectacle
They eyed the approaching terror mo-
ment,3 then tossed their heads, turned tail,
and broke in q wild stampede for town.
The frantic herd burst from the end of
the lane into the main road just as grave
and serious ex-minister Of the Cos pei
whose sands of. life had nearly run, ETC.,
clme driving along. Him the COWS heed
ed not The dog, with his phenomenal
attachment waving up and down, was be-
hind and they cared for nothing in front.
One jumped across between the horses
and theyehielestwo Others dashed against
the wheels. capsized the Elder into ditch
full Of muddy water, and left the buggy
standing on its beam end with two wheels
in the air Then the horse caught sight of
the dog ran after the COWS. smashing the
vehicle to atoms and distributing it along
about two miles Of the public high
way. The cows reinforced by the flying
stced, carried the village like an invad-
ing army, and such, was the terror and
surprise of the people that they have since
done little else but talk about it. The
minister crawled out Of the ditch and be-
gan lega, proceedings against the boy.
who came into town by side street and
slipped up the back stairs supperless to
bed. The dog with the hustle saw that
he had overdone the thing, and crept under
Aearn. The problem that absorbs Evan
ston is where to classify the crime of that
COY under the statutes of Illinois.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
A California Critic.
San Jose Herald-Arpus


William G. LIE Duo, an obscure author of
Washington, D. c., has forwarded to us a
large volume Of poems in the blankest
KIND OF verse on the most absurd subjects.
We suppose he wants us to gush about the
tender pathos, rhythmical measure, and
elevated sentiments of the following:
The chinch-bug is confined in its depreda-
tions
10 the grasses and cereals; alternate
Your timothy, wheat, barley, corn, etc.,
= Upon which it fourishes, with any of
Inc numerous crops upon which it ca mot
Andyou materially affect its power for harm.
Or maybe he would like to have full
some compliment on the. classic beauty of
such incomprehensible trash as this:
Bombus pennsylvanicus is figured,
These insects are destroyed
ny vollcellous, conOps, or tachlna,
And several species of anthom1a;
Anthras (aiptera) anobrium, beetle,
Meloe and tslylops (coteopteri),
Antherophagos (Holy Moses save us),
and also by he chaIcis, or four-winged 8y
This last elegant epic is illustrated by
gaudy cuts Of Rocky mountains locust.
Washers and patient horse power bug crush
ers, stolen from the patient-ofi art gallery,
to say nothing of two full chromos Of
creeping, crawling, and flying monsters of
terrific and demoniacal aspect, that must
have been conceived by some fearfully and
wonderfully intoxicated artist in the very
crisis of the jim jams. The book ought to
be suppressed at once. It is not only most
execrable piece of literary biaderdash, but
the extracts given above show that its tend
sency V TO corrupt the morals of the youth
lof this country and pander to tho vitiated
taste for the sensational and false views of
.ll l created fine their minds by unrestricted
persual OF the San Francisco papers. That
fhere. naN Up no mistake, we will state that
this pernicious volume is entitled "Deoart-
ment Of Agriculture, 1877"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
20 DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER.
Total .s47.2as 1o7 ,s4s.72s.3l4 se3.s52.4 A.

Total S47 226, LOT S46, 726,3i4 S93952, 421
The returns from California, Nevada. Color
ado, Montana and Utah, the largest bullion
producing States and Territories in the country,
have been compiled from reports made by ex-
press companies and State. officials, and from
the other States and Territories from the best
known and most reliable sources of informa-
ton obta1nable. A considerable amount of
gold bullion, produced chiefly in California and
Colorado; does not appear in the returns made
by the express companies; in California being
taken direct to the mint at San Francisco by
the owners, and in Colorado being shipped from
the State t trough Private hands. estimate
that this would add to the gold product as
above given of California at least 81, 500, 600,
and to that of Colorado 100000. These
amounts added to the foregoing returns would
bring the total gold production for the year to
$50,226 l07.
The records of the mints show that i8,075,-
1876 of domestic gold bullion was actually
deposited, and the reports of the customs
authorities exhibit $2O5,3l9 of domestic bull
Hon ported, thus leaving about $4,000 900 of
the estimated production Of the country unac-
counted for, an amount most likely consumed
in manu- factu1s and also held by private par
ties, particularly in the Black Hills region and
other remote mining sections of the country.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
The Dog that Worried the Cows that
Nearly Killed the Pars0n.
Springfield CAfass J Republican.

Springfield (A1sss Republican. - ,:',>t
j a thrilling occurrence is reported from
Evanston. ILL.,, and, as it is probably the
first instance on record in which the hustle
of lovely woman became an implement
of crime, the case is thus immortalized by
the Cleveland Ieader. There was boy
in that town named Daley. The bow had
dog, which he was accustomed to take
with him on his daily excursions to Ger
tain suburban pasture fields to drive home
the cows. On the 9th inst, young Daley
found, on his way to the pasture, some
thing white and rufhed and mysterious.
BE did not know what it was, but ii was
too beautiful to throw away, and the hap
,py thought struck 15im that it might be
intended as an ornamental portable avn
ing for dog. So he calledPhis dog and
tied the gay device around bis body just
behind II the fore legs. This held the wavy
frills Of the tournure aIoft like a. canopy.
Thus caparisoned the dog pranced taiopg
gayly in front Of his master to where the
COWS were quietly grazing in the field.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
Hunting Sharks.
London Dail> News.

Not year, indeed hardly a month, passes
but shark spoils British ship of one or
more of her hands. While the vessel is in
the harbor, or riding in the ofing, man
tumbles overheard, or is capsized from a
boat, or attempts to swim ashore, and is
torn in pieces by sharks within sight of help
and sound of human voice. The Alice
Davies, of Liverpool, has just returned to
the Mersey, and in her clog" is duly recorded
q terrible catastrophe of the kind. She was
anchored off small river, known as the
'Probolingo, on the coast of Java, and one
of her crew, a Welshman; of the name of
Owen, went With four others to bathe.f They
were all good swimmers, and Owen who
was the most skillful, had ventured some
little distance from the vessel, when he was
suddenly heard to utter piercing shrek,
A large shark, rising suddenly from the bot
tom,. had bitten him Immediately below the
fifth rib, and literally torn him. to pieces,
A rope was thrown to him, but his injuries
were SO terrible that he Immediately sank.
His companions escaped uninj ured, but of
Owens body no TRACE was recovered. The
shark which attacked him was, wo are told,
judged to be fifteen feet in length. Such
dimensions, although large, yet are not I'M
usual in the Japanese seas. . i., -.
:. The shark is not so much the tiger as the
yulture Of the sea. Like the vulture, he
hesitates to attack anything with life in it;
but, if hungry, becomes for the time pos
sessed with courage not his own. We
shall never e1terminate him, and his pres-
epce. in tropical waters must always re-
main constant source Of danger. Mean
while he has at least the merit, that when
ever he may be found he affords q certain
rough species of sport. There is no better
sport than fishing for a shark with g. hook
the size of pitchfork, and. q huge piece of
pork by way of bait. Happening the crea-
ture is also an exciting amusement, although
seldom 'practiced. y OF late years, too, the
shark has been hunted in novel and scientific
ways. There is no better form of rifle prac-
tice than to shoot at him from; over the
stern, with explosive bullets. If you miss
him; he still follows on; if he is hit, a-great
hole is rent in him. He rolls slowly over
on his back, displaying his cruel, gaping
jaws and vast expanse of white undersurface,
and his brother sharks, coming up from
around, quarrel and dispute frantically over
the carcass: But, however, of all modes of
shark chase, because most scientific, and
consequently most amusing, is that recently
adopted in her majesty's navy of combining
torpedo drill with shark fishery. 4 minia7
ture torpedo is inclosed ID: a bait of,iunk or
pork, and lowered with proper care The
battery is duly charged, and at the moment
the huge fish seizes, and, as = pike-fsher
would say, pouches that tempting morsel,
Che circuit is completed. The, effect is in
stantaneous. The head: and jaws of the
monster are blown into fragments, and a
bubbing circle in the water makes the spot
where, few seconds is before, his dorsal fin
showed above the Wa1es. t-te.[-@E-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
not get home until after daylight. Perhaps

not get home until after daylight. Perhaps
TIE gghflsinaini can Recount Tor hts stfanee
hardness on th s morningof all mornings,
and we know of no bettergplace for him to do
this than in the open court. gss i. xaz.sss f.
Now for Mr.. Train. Is spade was nm
doubleday used 70 remove the earth from the
casket that held thSlemains. Now observe.
One week before MI. ESteWart's remains were
stolen, Mr.. Traine Stepped into GU hardware
store in New York and purchased short
handled spade, telling the salesman he would
call on the following Saturday and pay-for
it. The salesman said they did strictly
cash business, but Mr.. Train pulled out a
pocket blackboard, and showed him that the
age had evoluted beyond tho cash system,
and intimatad~ that if he was not permitted
to purchase the spade $on 4 true business
principles heawould cut the psyehologic wire
between the establishment and its patrons,
and it would certainly shoot the Niagara of
before sunset the next day, He
was permitted to take the spade. As if adj
ditiona1 evidence were needed against Mi.
Train, our attention has sbeen called the
fact that on the day before the CHASTITY rob-
berry he was seen sitting on his accustomed
bench in Madison square, and was heard to
repeat the blowing lines from the grave
yard scene il Ham1et:g sfST,~s :
"A pick-ax and spade, spade.
For-and a shrouding sheet;
Oh, pit of clay for to be made
For such a guest 10 meet"
gSsNowiet US tpr,rpur attention to, Mr.. White
law Reid. r. will Be- remembered that "a
copy of the New York Herald was found the
morning of the robbery at or near the vio-
lated tomb. Nov, mark the following facts:
On theseyenipgs preceding the morning of
the dastardiy Outrage Whitelaw: Reid was
seen going into the Tribune beer sa-
loon reading. q copy of the New
York Herald Of the same date as the one
found. Asstew ruoments later Mr.. Reid
emerged from the saloon, looked cautiously
about him, and, when hessupposed no one
was Watching placed three scardamon seeds
in his mouth and walked rapidly away.
These are the r3ck-ribbed and everlasting
facts. We leave the rest to the police and
Judge Hilton, who offered the reward. Ad-
dress as usual. '"''Ssasssassra
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

"A little fellow, at whose home hens had
been kept but d few weeks, visited 4
,neighbors to find o. playmate, when, be
was informed that his young friend was
suffering from the chicken-pox. The
lady of the house, in tones of curiosity
and selicitude, askede the & ittle fellow &c
they had the chicken-pox oyer at his
house. mo" replied the youngster
grave,y, 1--WE haven't had our hens long
enough yet"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
A Horrible Night.

On Wednesday Mrs. Martha Gilbert, whose
husband has small farm in the swamp near
Camden, N. j., was attracted by the contin-
ued barking of strange dog. Upon the
approach of Mrs. Gilbert it crouched at her
feet as though: it had something to COM
runicate. Mrs.: Gilbert tried to take the
dog to the house, but it refused to stir in
any path except narrow muddy one that led
directly into tho swamp. j Mrs. Gilbert got
her husbands boots, and struck out ON
the little dogs trail. After going about a
quarter of mile she was brought to a sud
den halt by the sight of mans head and
shoulders protruding from the black
mud few: feet from the edge Of
the path. The mans head was bent
forward, the eyes closed, and the face black.
His arms were extended, one grasping low
tussock and the other resting few inches in
the mud, stretched straight out. Mrs. Gill
bert tioundered into the mud to ascertain
whether or not the man was living. She.
herself began to sink, and was only able by
the: exercise! of her whole strength to get
back on the path. When she did get back
she summoned her husband. Mr.. Gilbert,
with two men, hurried to the rescue. The
man was in the same position and still un-
conscious. Mrs. Gilbert said the left arm
was buried little deeper, and that the
whole body had sunk perceptibly during the
time Of her absence. After an
hours careful work the body was
hauled ont into the path. 1t was still
warm; the heart was beating family. It was
taken to the house and rubbed with flannel
Consciousness was fully restored after a
while, and then the stranger told that his
name was Charles Yopp, . cigar maker of
Trenton, and that he had been hunting for
water crosses in the swamp In attempting
to push himself from tussock to tussock to
reach 2 particularly fine 8 water-cress, he
dropped his has ket in the mud, and, without
a;thought of sinking deeper than the. tops of
his shoes, be had jumped off into the mud,
but his legs went down into the black de-
posit as though it were water he caught
ct the = tussook, and = was about to
gain q firm hold When. he eank
deeper and deeper. There seemed to be
something below pulling him down, With
the darkness his strength returned, but. AZ it
seemed to him the tussock had moved two or
three inches from his band, he exhausted
himself with cries that were only answered
BY the whine Of his little dog ii, the path.
It was calculated by him in his frenzy that
he was sinking at the rate of one inch
every hour. Stupor fell upon him toward
the middle of the night. He was buried
nineteen hours. On Thursday Gilbert took
the old man homo. For . While Il was
thought that his body would ct its strength
and vigor back, but on Friday he grew
weaker, and on Saturday morning Coroner
Murray was notified Of his death. ;.
E-- =. ( r. &
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
Partisan Women: "a Legend"

i. The eagerness, the fury, the frenzy Of
the Partisan women, especially as shown
at balls, remind mo Of the legend Of ! the
dead dancers, known with us,
as the Willis. These are Young ladies
who died before their wedding day, but
whose unsatlsfled love Of dancing has re-
NAMED 20 strong tllst..they aacend from
theirgrayes every night, and, assembling
in great hosts on the highway abandon
themselves, during the midnight hour, to
the widest dances. Adorned with their
wedding dresses, with Wreaths Of flowers
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

81 aFor what am TT he said, in q CONVEX
sational way, to his Sunday,school class
Of little boys what am I but another
ing field with little airi Without it I
could not be would collapse il short,
I'm only "a bladder vas what
the good little boy said. The class sd
journed sire die
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

-onstheir- heads and spark ling rines~on,
their pale hands, the irresistibly beautiful
Willis dance in the moonlight and their
movements grow wilder, and more impet-
uous as they feel that the hour vouchsafed
them drawsto its close, and that thew
must again desvend TO their cold, lev
graves. --Hsins. sEi,.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

Well fed fowls Of any breed, and such.
i as have allthey need for their comfort and
thrift, from chickenhood upward, make
excellent poultry for market, or for the
! private table. And there Is no percepti-
bic difference in the taste Of the flesh of
any sort of domestic birds. 30 far as we
could ever distinguish. Poultry World.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

;. A writer in the Scientific american
says that after the electric light shall
come into general use, the gas companies
may proftably use their works in "ak-
ing non-illuminating gas for cooking and
heating.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

American cutlery now goes largely to
Australia, South America and Europe.
We are pushing England also in pocket
cutlery. OF the two million dollars
worth of pocket knives sold here, Eng
land supplies only ono million dollars
worth, while not many years ago nobody
would look at anything but an English
knife
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
EMI6OELL48EtIUN.

Tha October yield Of precious metals
Of the Pacific coast is estimated at $2,e50,1O
the lightest Month for years.
a distinct earthquake shock is reported
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28
Coinage Of Money.


& The annuals report of the director Of. the
mint contains some matters of INTEREST," in
addition to what has already been published.
The coinage ofthe different mints during the
fiscal year weresas follows: Qra! I
S. MINT PHILADELPHIA.
Isl; Pieces. Value. Value
Silver coinage Grade dollrs) 2sse,oio s,ss7olS %
silver coinage STANDARD s.srs:sse@s9 =
silver A' Coinage fractional @'0''0' %'''0o %
coln) ............... l6,190,240 6,516, 3l5a So
Minor coinage. ;3o59,soo s06sI 90
Total. 81 ,s2l,ss4 2,73ss1e 50
MINT FRANCISCO.
Gold coinage. 2,1oo,loo 41,oss,5oo 90
Silver coinage Grade dolrsl 8,5s20oo 1852 600 90
Silver coinage lstandard -
dollars .Ss. ......... 2,552,00O 2,552OOO 90
Silver coinage, fractional
coiD..... :.:.:......... $4,000 2,Js4opo 90
Total: 5es,1oe> s54,so7 800 90
MINT AT CARSON.
Gold coinage! -: ..:....... 64,S48 sss,6s0 90
Silver coinage Grade dol'rs) 100000 410, 600 90
Silver coinage STANDARD
Silver Coinage fractional '''' *'''' w
COM observation-disclosures. 5,63O,O0O 1,039,OOO 90
s Totalk.s 49,. - -zaoss4s s s,47s,eeo 90
Total coinage .:.5e, 1882 ss1, 12o, 400 so
The earnings Of the minis and assay offices for the
year were $20s4, 1869; the expenditures, s., 529
302.17.
70 DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER.
All available MEANS have been employed to
ascertain as accurately as possible the domestic
production Of gold and silver and the follow
ing are the estimates and actual returns which
have been furnished of the outturn from the
various States and Territories during the last
fiscal year, the aggregate of which, however,
appears to be some What below, in gold, at least
the actual amount deposited at the miuts:
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-11-28

4 young man, whose parents lived in
the country, procured employment in this
city, says the Philadelpaia Item, and after
q sojourn Of aeveral months received a
letter announcing the illness of his father
The sickness was not considered Of a
serious nature, and a speedy recovery
was anticipated. A week or ten days af-
ter the receipt of this letter the young
man dreamed that as the hands OF a
clock were indicating half past / o'clock
his father departed this life. He got up
in the morning to find q small picture Of
his father that had been hanging on the
wall lying on tho floor, face downward.
The strange dream and stranger incident
regarding the picture did not impress him
or cause a toreboding of his fathers death.
He went to the breakfast table. A tele-
gram lay at his plate. He opened it and
read that at half-paat o'clock his faith
er had died.