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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC PL ATFORn.

The platform made by the democratic
state convention is document worthy of a
careful psrusal and of close analysis. 1t
meets the demands of the times. 1t is clear
and succinct. 1t admits of no controversy
;ls to its meaning. 1t is in harru Dy with a
vast majority of the people OF all parties, and
is therefore the platform for til campaign
If 1875. II Indiana wins decisive victory
upon the democratic platform, and that
such will be the case no we'll informed man
enteriains doubt, the Indiana democracy
swill be in position to dictate to the ma
tional democratic convention when il meets
TO arrange Tor the presidential campaign of
1880 II is worth while therefore to study
with care the declarations Of the democracy
Of Indiana. They are absolutely right upon
all the leading questions Of the times. They
command the approval of thinking men of
al parties. and 'he more they are studied
The more popular they will become with the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06

rAnnie Brewster,s Roman l.ctte

Annie Brt wsters Roman Letter.
A person who has seen the Sscra SindOne
tells me il is q dark white material that looks
ike silk levantine; il Is little over four
metres long and metre and q half wide. 1t
is neither silk. linen nor cotton, and as il
PASSED unburt through the Chambery fire of
1882, il is believed 81 be made OF smiante or
asbestos. II Is lined on one side with linen,
on the other with six. and has twOSiik loops
At the upper end. There is qnife a smell IL
brary OF hooks written on the S3cra Sudsrio
or n0ons, By learned men from tle first
days ri the chu'ch up to the present time,
and many beautiful historical incidents are
attached to the story Of this sacred shreud Of
Jesus Christ
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people OF all parties. The demo-
cratic platform of Indiana fills the
bin, and the principles set forth
will meet with hearty response throughout
The entire west, south, southwest and north
west. Not line should be crossed nor
word changed. In standing by the platform
the probabilities are that victory will be
achieved
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06

Salem Democrat. Put up good. substan-
tial brick buildings on the burnt district.
Don't waste money by erecting Few bonfire
structures that will be n disgrace to the
town aud of little profit to Anyone. Ii lot
owners are not able 10 MAKE creditable i'm
provenents lst them sell u men who have
the money aud ENTERPRISE 10 do the work.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-06
DEMOCRATEC STATE TICKET FOR

For Secretary Of State,
j. G. SHANKkIN of Vanderburgh County
For Auditor of State,
MAHLON d MANSON Of Montgomery Co.
For Treasurer of state,
WILLIAM FLEMING of Allen County.
For Attorney General,
THOMAS W. WOOLLEN of Johnson County.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction,
J. II. SMART of Allen County.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25

cured. asked the proprietor if the oil
would still absorb the perfume, and he
said yes, for jessamine and tuberose.
The strong odors of the orangeefower
and the rose render fewer infusions
necessary, and, indeed, for some low
grades of oders there are not so many
infusions even as 10. Then, again, the
warming of the oil draws out the per-
fume much faster, but the delicate char
acter of the jessamine and the tuberose
is opposed to such a course, and for them
there is different procedure. Numer-
GUS shallow trays are used, which are
provided with wire grating, over
which coarse cotton cloth is stretched,
which has been previously stepped in cold
oil. The flowers are then delicately
placed up . : ssit s5iot1 .sis1 renewed day
by day, and sometimes, if the blossoms
come in fast enough, twice day. am
glad to think that the beautiful star.like
blossoms of the jessamine are not plunged
into the dark-hued, greasy mass, that
looks exactly like boiling sugar, for it
was destructive of all romance to see the
fate of the roses. But the manner in
which the iessamine is cultivated is not
what one would call picturesque. In
stead of trailing over some protecting tree,
as in India, or upon a summer-house or
long walk, as with us, it is cut down
like vine, and is restricted to number
of shoots which send out sprays thickly
covered with flowers. This murderous
process makes the plant SO very sensi
i've, that it has to be covered with earth
from October to the end of March.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
A Story About Moody.

Moody was preaching at the New Ha-
ven Tabernacle upon Salvation" and
its perfect freedom, and replying to Ger
tain supposed objections, when he made
the following illustration: "You have
only got to take it, that's ALL" Here
Mr.. Meserve turning to the pastor of
the Davenport Congregational Church,
who sat close by,) "if l were to offer you
my bible, you would accept it, or would
you notr' Certainly" said Mr.. Me-
serve. "Then take it" said Moody,
I" it's yours" thrusting the bible he had
using into Meserve's hands. elisa free
gift, take it. The illustration brought
down the house as Mr.. Meserve put the
book-a copy which Mr.. Moody had long
used-into his pocket. He has since re-
fused 800 for it, as it is deemed val
liable keepsake from Moody's notes and
marks therein. Now l happen to know
that the whole transaction was utterly
unprecedented on Mr.. Moody's part,
and that he greatly valued the book, yet
the illustration was SO effective thatn
ing could induce him to take it back.
Hence Mr.. Meserve is having duplicate
interlined bible bound UP for him.
SpTiagfeM ReDublicnn.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
A French Fancy.

One Of the pretty fancies of French
people is to make colors the expression
Of sentiment. They hold that violet is
analogous to friendship, blue to love, as
suggested by blue eyes and azure sky. A
bunch of violets would, therefore, tell a
lady's sutton that friendship is all that
he has right to expect. Red figures,
ambition: indigo, the spirit of rivalry;
green. the love Of change, fickleneas:
black, fayoritism; white, unity, ,iniyer-
salty. In addition to the seven print
tive colors, gray indicates power, brown,
prudery; pink, modesty; silver gray
(semi-white), feeble love; lilac (semi-
violet, feeble friendship; pale pink,
false shame.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
The Valley of Wales.

Prof. Craig, of University College,
Wales, has been walking about the
Welsh Valley, which Shelley visited in
1872. He found there an old woman,
who, as little girl, had seen Shelley.
She said:
ooh! there was very strange gentle
man used to come here, he who put the
f5 note on the boat"
This made me prick up my ears, re-
membering Hogg's tale about the 95
note Shelley set sailing on the Serpen-
tine; and I asked her what she meant.
1t came out that this visitor, who must
surely have been Shelley, used to do a
great many strange things. He used to
go about with a very long pole to keep
out of the rocks and from the bank his
little wooden boat, "about so long 81
that is. about a foot, and that she herself
saw him put a s5 note on it to sail it
(Which got lost), but it was brought to
him afterwards by a man. Ishowed her
a likeness of Shelley, bad one, in that
little Dugdale's two volume Shelley.
She said it was something like him, and
that he always used to have his neck
bare and his shirt open Gust as he is
always painted), but not so open as in
the picture.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
GREELEY'S WOOD FARM.
The Forest Where the Sage Of Chappa.
qua usesi to Weld the Axe Sold.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Among the recent entries of real estate
sales at the land Office in White Plains,
is one for $50 acres at Chappaqua, sold
to A. J. Quinby for $4,000. The prop
erty is memorable as being a portion Of
the Greeley farm, though not imme-
diately connected with the old home
stead. This still remains in the posses
sion of Mr.. Greeley's daughters, Ida and
Gabrielle, who are living at Tarrytown,
Ida with her husband, Col. Smith, and
Gabrielle as member of the household.
Many who were privileged to visit Mr..
Greeley at his Chappaqua home will re-
member the hill farm, or the woodland
known far and wide from the mention Of
it in the Recollections Of Mr.. Gree
ley. When bit of leisure offered itself
from grubbing his eleven-dollar cab
bages, or carrying out his radical ideas
on pruning, Mr.. Greeley would harness
up nondescript vehicle, known in the
whole country around as "Greeley's
ark, " and drive out about two miles to
the eighty-three acres just now Sold 1t
was an unsightly and forsaken looking
bit of landscape as the eye of man ever
fell upon. Some few spots of it might
have been turned to possible use as a
sheep pasture, but the rest was strewn
with boulders and filled with ruts. Mr..
Greeley had planted over the whole plot
a crop of locust trees "agricola arborem
seret," etc. and these had come up in a
rather promiscuous fashion. Mr.. Gree
ley drove his stout piece of horse-fesh
among them, in his short-sightedness
paying not the slightest attention to
such trifling obstacles a holes a yard
deep, boulders as high, young saplings
of overhanging boughs, though his
guests were apt to be of a different
mind, and all the time would talk on
about the great advantages of forest
planting from politico-social scientific
view. When no visitor offered him a
victim he found his way out to the
wood farm and chopped about with an
axe. To-day the plot is covered with a
scrubby growth Of locusts as big as a
MANS arm
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
The Hanging Basket.

A Boston rector gives each child in his
flock on every Easter pot of flowers to
cultivate through the year. He believes
flowers have refining influence. In a
majority of instances they do, but where
man uses the pots for his cigar stumps
and the women uses them for broken
hairpins and empty spools, and where
the man has to lug them in from the
frost every night in the fall, and dig
hoies for them in the spring, it may be
questioned if they have strictly re-
t;ning influence. We may go as far as
to say that we have known rustic
hanging basket to break up a fam
lily in one winter. Perhaps it was
because the basket was not hung high
enough to clear the head of the man Of
the house. Still that was the disastrous
effect. And it was only brief summer
ago that one of those same baskets, hang
ing on the front porch of our own resi-
dence, caught into the scalp Of an ed
itor on the New York Herald, and set
back the better part of his nature full
five years. We can't always tell about
these things.-Danbury Neacs.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
Defrauding the Bank Of England.

A few days ago an old gentleman,
white haired and apparently very re,
spectacle, walked up to one Of the pay
ing cashiers desks in the Bank of Eng
land, took chair, mopped his forehead
put his umbrella on another chair, and
complained of the heat. He then asked
the clerk for check, and begged him to
be so good as to fill it up-92O was
enough, he said. He then signed it,
and in reply to the question, GLOW he
would have itY he answered, :" In gold.n
The 90 sovereigns were paid over to him.
He put on his hat, huttoned up, and,
wishing the cashier very good after
noon, walked slowly out. The check
was signed Blower" On examination
Of the signature book it was found that
no such man had an account there.
The cashier had been in the bank %
years. Blower has not yet been
seen.-L London Truth,
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
" WE'LL"
M ~ III

"Well!"
81 will tell her."
He rose from his seat and walked up
and down the room. Then he came
back, and, leaning on the mantel-piece,
stroked the yellow hide of Bowse with
his slipper.
"Make her quite understand that he
wants her for his wife. She may live
where she likes, and how she likes, only
it must be with him."
81 will tell her."
essay he has grown old, but not cold;
that he loves her now perhaps better
than he did twenty years ago; that he
has been faithful to her through life,
and he will be faithful till he dies"
The Californian broke of suddenly.
The widow answered still
81 will tell her."
"And what do you suppose she will
sayw he asked, in an altered tone.
"What can she say but-come!"
"Hurrah
The stranger caught her out of her
chair as if she had been child, and
k1SSeu HeT.
"Don't-oh, don't" she cries out. ~
am SANS Maria" .-..-
Well am Maria's SamW
Off went the dark wig and the black
whiskers-there smiled the dear face she
had never forgotten. / leave you to i'm
agine the tableau-even the cat got up
to look, Bowse sat on his stump of tail,
and wondered whether he was on his feet
or his head. The little widow gave one
scream, and then said
But stop! Quiet people like you and
me, dear reader, who have got over all
these follies, ard can do nothing but
turn up our noses at them, have no bust
ness here. l will only add that two
hearts were very happy; that Bowse con-
cluded after awhile that all was right,
and SO lay down to sleep again-and that
not a great while afterward there was u
wedding at the house that made the
neighboring farmers stare. Widow Cobb
had married her first lover
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
He Dared Not Drink.

It was bridal scene. The wine cup
passed from lip to lip. One gentleman,
who thought himself cured of his drink
ing habits, refused.
"Can't you pledge friendship in So
cial glass?" pleaded the bridegroom.
81 dare not; l cannot"
Then the beautiful bride, with be-
witching smiles, and eyes that were
brighter than the jewels On her fingers,
held out the poison to him, saying:
"Surely, you will not refuse me?"
The color mounted to his cheek He
faltered. He yielded to the Gree of the
banquet. The first taste fired his lust
and he ceased not till he was a sot again.
A few years later, one quiet summers
evening, a wretched outcast reeled into
the open door of pleasant home, when
a lady was just drinking glass of wine,
allowing her little one to sip. The vag-
abond sprang forward with a maniac S
frenzy, dashed the cup to the floor, and
shouted:
Murder him if you will, but not with
that! Look at me! You made me what
1 am. l was respected and honored.
You tempted me at your wedding. Now,
there is not a reptile would not gladly
change places with. I must soon stand
before Gods bar. On your head rests
my blood!"
! A gurgling sound was heard in his
throat. He fell at her feet corpse. He
sleeps in nameless grave, the victim OF
a cruel though thoughtless seduction
Prot. Thewi7g's Handbook.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
How Perfumes are Made.

A correspondent Of the N. Y. Times,
writing from Vence, France, gives the
following account of the manner in
which perfumes are made at that place:
When the roses were weighed, and a
tall Venetian, standing beside the pro-
prietor with his hand full of coppers,
had paid everybody his SOUS, the flowers
were repacked in baskets by the three
handmaidens Of the establishment and
taken below. Here were watts half filled
with warm oil in some instances, and in
others with warm grease, made by mix
ing lard and beef suet, most carefully
prepared and cleaned in the winter
months. To every three cstyees, or yats,
was man armed with a wooden paddle,
and as the girls poured the rose-blossoms
into the oil and grease. they stirred
about until the whole was one hideous
wretched paste of a dirty brown color.
The men who manipulated the grease
had warm time of it, for it offered con-
siderable resistance to the paddle, and
the perspiration fairly poured down their
brows as they worked their spatules.
Twenty-four hours the leaves remain
soaking, and then they are packed into
coarse linen bags and put under power
full press, which squeezes the perfumed
oil into stone gutter, from which it
pours by pipe into straining-bag, and
thence into vat. To warm the oil and
grease, precautions have to be taken.
They are not placed in communication
with the fire, but are lodged in huge
copper boilers half filled with water,
hxee in :. range, which occupies oiia
entire end of the apartment. When
warmed to blood heat the oil and grease
are poured into three respective envees,
and the operation with the paddle is re-
peated with fresh roses. Twenty-Five
times are roses poured into the watts
before the oleaginous matters are suffi-
GENTLY saturated to be sent to the great
perfumers and chemists as n,atieres pre-
mieres For orange flowers from 10 to Is
infusions are necessary, according to the
quality demanded. The violet demands
It le.st 30 h,..tt fae the s-4.e e
of the jessamiue and the tuberose there
is an immense diversity of range. The
best qualities, however, demand go in
fusions, but when pefumer wants the
best that can possibly be made, there is
no limit, and the operation Of infusion
is repeat - long ~ blossoms can be pro-
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25

GIVE are going to make it hot" OBJ
served an enthusiastic young Democrat
to an older and more sedate member Of
his party on School street, the other day.
" Yes" answered the other, with tinge
OF sadness in his tone, " for ourselves"
FULL INslDE.-The following has ap-
peared in very Irish paper; "Purse
lost by a poor woman who has sick
woman who has sick child containing
lbs. and letter." No wonder the child
is unwell-Fan. m 755 - .7=
A BALTIMORE man has been arrested
for playing ghost by dancing around at
night on the tops of houses in his
night-shirt, his object being to depreciate
property in his neighborhood so that he
could buy it cheap. IL
In behalf of tramps, it is mentioned
that Mr.. Smith, of Stamford, Conn.,,
with his wife, got out of bed to answer
to the call of a tramp, and that while
they were gone there fell upon the bed
mass of plastering which would have
probably killed them both had they re-
NAMED. ,s
Twelve years and more ago thou
sands Of hoop-skirts were manufactured
annually in this country. Now the
business is completely dead, not single
hoop-skirt mandatory being in opera
tion-and thousands of goats are deprived
Of their principal article Of ffeod-Ne,vis-
torn Herald.
DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. Young
housekeeper: "Pm afraid those soles
bought of you were not fresh. My hus-
band said they we're not nice at ALL"
Brighton fisherman: "Well, marin, that
be your fault-it bean't mine. Eve Of
fered 'em to yer every day this week, and
you might a. lad em O Monday if you'd
a loiked w-Punch.
A TRAMP saved a night-train on the
Kentucky Central railroad from destruc-
ton, by signaling it with his shirt that
he had stripped from of his back ard
set on f,e.- Exchange. The heroism of
this act can oaly be adequately measured
when we consider the scant crop of
shirts in the profession. = Konkers Gazette
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-06-25
GOLD IN GEORGIA.
The Rich Deposits on the Chestatee,
Chattahe4chee, and Etowah Rivers.

s!s2sYAn04cASN,A MeA SssS"Ah sAsSSHSs
From the Gainesville Eagle.
The gradual development of the min
eral belt extending through northern
Georgia proves that, when a sufficient
amount of capital shall have been in
vested, the mines will yield an amount
of the precious metals commensurate
with the outlay. Within the past forty
wears these mines have been worked by
the natives, from time to time, in the
most superficial manner, with the rudest
appliances.
The history of early mining in
Georgia is replete with incidents. Large
amounts were taken from the surface
and from shallow pits near Dahlonega.
From the Passmore vein, over $50, 900 in
gold was taken out in twenty days from
the soft slate. On the John G. Calhoun
property, situated on the banks of the
Chestatee river, upon coming to the
gravel of tie former river bed rich de-
post of wash gold was found, and in
twenty-three days, from one pit, $40. 900
was derived.
A remarkable gold vein, known as the
Boly Fields mine, was opened in the bed
of the Chestatee river. The vein was
discovered by following up the gold de-
posts on the river, The vein was mar
row, but very rich, and bearing in places
as much as half its bulk in gold, in rag
ged, irregular masses. When this vein
was found, the gold was visible for foot
or two only; but as the excavation pro-
crossed it was found to extend for several
feet, and could be distinctly seen by per,
sons standing on the bank. The most
magnificent uncrystalized specimens
ever seen were taken out of this deposit
before the depth of fifteen feet was
reached. Their beauty was greatly en-
HANGED by the perfect preservation of the
rock, not a particle of rust or decompo,
sition being apparent. In blasting the
compact rock of which the vein is com
posed, $4,000 worth of gold was thrown
out at single blast. Many of the rocks
which could easily be lifted in one HAND
were valued at hundreds of dollars.
At the time these discoveries were
made the mines were being worked in the
most primitive manner, with no means
of controlling the vast amount of water
which accumulated in the shafts which
were sunk on the lots, on the banks O.
the Chestatee river. Hence, after the
shafts were extended below the wate1
level and became flooded, they were de
serted, and remain as an evidence of thu
inutility of working mines without cap
ital, without knowledge of mining
and without the proper appliances.
All along the banks of the Chestatee
Chattahoocbee, and Etowah rivers, il
Georgia, where the slate bedrock pitche
into the rivers, evidences of rich golt
mines are apparent to the Informed
miner. Even the clayey slime which
accumulated on the banks of these river
contains what is known as -four gold
and it is the general impression tina
when the river beds are properly worked
they will be found to contain an abund
ance of gold. Recent development
prove that the gold mines of Georgi
will compare favorably with those o
California and the territories.