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Christmas Presents at
Young e. Bro. 2fS Main IT. OF
Stolen Sweets.

Mr.. Sterling Williams, of this city,
and Miss Mollie Meacham of German.
town, we're married last evening by the
Rev. Mr.. Mays, at Germantown. They
came to the city last night in a car
Fiage, making the trip in two hours, to
flank name,oas pbstGcles in the shape
Of pcrturbed relatives, who aimed Ia
check their progress had railway
travel been attempted. To-day. Mr..
and Mrs, Williams were out for a
drive and making calls among friends.
as happy " 81 appearance as newly
married people ever get to be.
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Fresh Spare Ribs,

Venison ROastS and Steaks,
Dressed Turkeys and Chickens.
III. sEESSEA, SIR, d. son,
Cor. Jefferson and Second Streets.
IN
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Just received per Express, the
New York East river and ShreWs-
bury Shell Oysters, also Norfolk,
LynnhaYen Bays and Horn HaV.
bors. HENRY LUERIIMANN.
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just received a laiec lot q hne Lemps
st. Louis bottled beer-the only pure beer
for family use. Fritz pfemfcrt a Co.. 10
W@t CouIt street. Tit
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FROSTED gold sleeve button, engraved
n with tie initial .'E." Return 70 No. 2tt
Main and owner will pay value Of the button.
Bf
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LOST,

I'M the street, IS karat diamond ring, one
~ diamond ring opal in the center, set with
diamonds. One hundred dollars reward will
be given by applying al 10 Madison street, ~
Chief Of Police. 9lf
A CARRIAGE blanket On Saturday night.
fide, bound With silk binding. ReNard paid
jor is return to II. FURSTENHEIM.
9tg3 2l6 Front street.
NBRTiFIGAFE Of stock in Memphis x
" Charlestoa q. j. r.. for go shares, No.
sda. favor w. y. q. Hunes, dated July 2,
1871. Notice is hereby given to all ESrsons,
lot to nssottale for came, as duplicate bss
s. i6O J.A. 0MBEhG.
tposTEn .ol5 .,eoys hutton. esgr.ye5
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BOARD.


ON December 10th, one black horse mule,
" both eyes bad. Owner can set the same
by applying 10 Clark Ellis, one mile from
Wilbur station. NJ. p. 4 n. railroad. xix
miles north Of the city. 70 %
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THE CITY.
LEDGER E

wednesday EyeplpE, Dec. u. 1879.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

The coffee made in this country, says
the Nea- York Times, is much condemn
ed by our people. and we are continual
IL hearing Of the recipe: Get up in the
morning.: % almost anywhere; cali for
4 cup: drinks IL; return home, and
make some totally unlike that. Our
coffee Is not Of the best, but II has vast
" improved within twenty years In
the large Eastern cities the coffee = very
good; but many OF US ere apt 70 md
fault with coffee, g generally made. o.
cause it is inferior to that &f Paris ana
Vienna. where it is q specially O1i-
side Of France, coffee Is NOT usually pal.
atable--we except the Austrian capitai
As all travellers in Europe know.
They who have visited arabia ana the
East will remember that II = not pre-
pared As beverage there a. u y mere
n decoction Of the unroested grams ue-
ing generally drunk. IN syria ana me
region round about. 81 Tee ORDINARY
khans or inns. coffee pos are kep. %
farinaceous coffee. ard this Is the habit
ual refreshment Of the Onentais- N inc
villages and rural Regions 81 tne uniiea
states. coffee II AMI 70 be spoiled BY
boil;ng n New England, Il IL prone
TO suffer from m oPuience o. water' ana
~ ~ West ana Jouth from thickness
and bitterness bvI remaining too long
ever the FIRE. Strkngth and clearness
70 above All des;rIble, and these can not
be had by boiling. STEPPING or leach
ing Is the best mel hod, ana the easiest
way Is to put two ounces Oh the fresn
roasted and fresh Iground beans INTO 4
small saucepan or cofiee-Pot' pour over
IL pint Of boiling water, and allow y
to stand, closly cPvered up. oy the nre.
without boiling. for. hve minutes II
may then be poured on careiu!iy, %
strained through = cloth: returned 70 tne
vessel, previously rlnsed, ana WARNED
again. Soycr Fecommenus .nat tns
weasel should be set on the fire, and
TIA cround coGjee stirred until quite
hot, but not the ueast burned, oeIore w
boiling water shslll Dc poured m TAI
cnt coffee.pots artd percoiat,ng apparA'
tus rarely seem I'd be helpful 70 the nm
cnl;rhscned n nkay be that coffee max
crs In 4 nosts- ate born such. Tners
arc innunerable recipes for coffee, and
they differ as WILDLY ~ the tastes Of ins
drinkers. Almost any one can max
Fee--which nobody cares 70 drink.
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from arrest without due process. either BY
soldiers u che Army or offIcers o. the Cow
eminent. either ~ elections or elsewhere,
the night OF election by the people. unawed
and uncontrolled BY the presence Of troops
Or sr.nsd men q ne eSlis or Of spec.si Dep
supremacy Of the civil over she military su-
thority the right OF trial by turies impartial
ly elected, the absolute acIuiescence In the
will Of the majority; the encouragement o.
agriculture. the cornerstone OF the worlds
industry. ard the foundation Of Individual
il hand maid: the re-establishment Of
the hi metallic system: the perfect equality
Of xOlt and silver a. coin and bullion. with
unlimited coinage and legal tender power
the establishments OF the tarin on q basis OF
revenue only. and NOS for tbs profession @
substitution OF United st.fes notes for ma
tionAl bank circulation. with q repeal OF the
laws authorizing the charter or fnc0rpora-
ton Of any more national banks or the issue
Of any circulating notes by them; the issue
directly by the General Governs nj OF all the
port Of the state Governments In all their
rights a. the most competent administration
for all our domestic concerns and the surese
bul~arks against AL anti-republican tenden-
cies. the preservation Of the General Gov
eminent IN IA whole Constitutional yigor a.
safety abroad. thus making Of the General
and state Governments an indis3ciuble union
OF indesfrucffve sfafcs-
After referring briefly 20 the Greenback
movement. and inviting all Greenbackers %
oin the psmoersslc party: and nos; ~ d,y,a
. crate enemies. the Republicans, senator
Cockrel1 took up the commercial question,
advocating. especially, the improvements O1
the Mississippi River and its tributaries
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

The seal Of commonness, the stamp
OF vulgarify. written upon the greatest
number Of physiognomies We meet with,
i chiefly accounted for in the fact Of the
entire subsection Of the intellect to the
will, consequently the impossibility Of
grasping things except in their relation
u the individual self. II Is quite tho
contrary with the expression Of men Of
genius. or richly endowed natures, and
herein consists the family likeness Of the
latter throughout the world. We sec
written on their faces the emancipation
IL the intellect from the will, the So
premacy Of mind over volition; hence
The lofty brow, the clear contemplativs
glance, the occasional look Of super
natural joyousness we find there, In per-
feet keeping with the pensiveness Of the
other features, notably the mouth
Once a Week.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08
Isolation Is Protection Against Yellow
Fever.

The Rev. DR.. c. X. Marshall, Of
vicksburg, . well known Southern di-
vine. and Mr.. Edwin Booth, . member
Of the louisiana Board of Health, were
conversinx day or two ago relative to
the importance OF isolation in cases Of
infectious and contagious diseases, when
DR.. Marshall advanced some arguments
in favor Of isolation, instancing notable
case during the late epidemic Of yellow
fever at vicksburg-
Four miles from Vicksburg. in . south
easterly direction, Is = very spacious
mansion erected some years ago by
Colonel Latham, Of Madison County.
Captain A. Anter, OF vicksburg, rented
that building and grounds for retreat
from the yellow fever. He carried with
him forty-three white and i've colored
persons. He laid in ample stores for
long Imprisonment. On the day he
entered the place, like the heroic old
river commander he was, he took su-
preme command, and laid down and
published the quarantine laws They
were simple and easily understood. and.
besides, nobody doubted but they would
be executed TO the letter and on the spot
nilnou-I l1 .lzn ~ ~ - -,-,- -
y wounded himself. ne nrsI af'ic,e 2.
ms c1de vas ABOUT = iollows: 49,: 20
until the Board Of Health in vicksburg
says it Is safe for Us 70 return home"
The next was in the same spirit:
should an5 person v,oia,e sals oIue.'
Betsy. superior uoup'e-p1lI Sleu sno -
gan, = fuiiy autnorizsd 10 ny nanas :
execute > oeatn WARRANT On INC o''1''
er. ..:.X,.
Inc neignocrnooa was Prey Inlc.ly
settled ana CaPtaln Anle. qual ns
Avs we're very weu unusLs toou, -
wniie ne = q tenoeF- nsaL.ea - ~o 80 =
ne Is q IearIess = : true Man, an1 ~ 7.
one qnes'io4ed ,as P!oPss ~; =.
purposes ne ne'u 10 NJ nanus Ine Nv.
OF nearly nry souis, wno sokeu n.vIs
% MN lot p,o.ecLlon, .ng e ieso'u's''
$1,000 up % ne responslolll'y. -.
ne maintained nis qualan.lne NE s:
months, ana ouring inst time ana UNI
the nI4rH WAS AU3uNNuE0 not one Iu3lAucI
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gines, which, combined, have 10000
horse power, and operate " trip ham
mers. varying in weight from 200 70
1OO, 900 pounds each. Since 1877, 15.-
0OO canons have been turned out; 800
are made on an average every month.
Daily rs, 900 tons OF coal and coke are
consumed, and 81, 900 gas Jets are in
use. A railroad track with "a locomo-
tives and 700 trucks Is in operation
within the works, and between them
and the nearest railway station. The
establishment has "a telegraph stations,
and fire engines for protection against
conflagration. In the mines connected
with these works there are $500 work
men. Iron ore the company gets from
its own lands in the north Of Spain, 70
the extent Of 100000 tons annually,
which five steamers that 1t owns convey
TO the factories. The company has
built S.27s tenements for its employees,
in which 1920 persons live. The
grain used in the bakeries that supply
these people with bread Is bought by
agents OF the company in large quaint
ties, chiefly in Odessa, the Russian
grain port. Four common schools and
an industrial school for girls and wom-
en- provide the elementary instruci ion
needed by this city Of factory hands
Odds and Ends.
Old maids are match-less.
Captain De Long 70 the Jeanette
crew: " Whatever may happen, gentle
men, / trust you will keep cool"
TO be first rate archer, you must
have an arrow chest and be bow-legged.
And even then your aim won't be first
straight.
-"That beats the Dutch" as the
Teutonic hotel-keeper said when one Of
his guests left him between two days,
forgetting to pay his bill.-Ronss Sen.
tsnsi.
Said he, as he stole one, !" I seal nv
love with kiss" And she, suiting the
action to the word. replied. :" seal
mine with whacks. "-Boston Trans
cript.
A young lady up in Berkshire Co.,
Mass, was stung on the lip BY be-
the other day. We congratulate tina
bee on knowing Just where the honey
was ew Haren Register
Soak a sheet Of paper in whisky
and let the flies get At il. In 10 min
utes you can pick any one Of them NJ
by the hind legs, and their wise looi
Will astonish you.-Defrcu Free Prees
When an entertainment Is eiveI
and it proves to be q big failure
the way TO ease down about il is to Civ
out that it was very select affair. ant
only intended for the elite Bosto'
Post.
Some follows may follow the fickl
goddess OF fortune for whole lifetim
and never get near enough 70 kiss tn
hem Of her garment, while flat-foote
luck pursues Others with . club m
knocks the gilded balls Of wealt
straight into their hands 1t every clip
Rome Sentinel.
A young lady graduate in a neiet
boring county read an essay entifle
Employment Of Time" Her compc
sition was based on the text, Tim
wasted IS existence; used, is life" Tn
next day she purchased eight ounces .
zephyr of different shades and con
menced working sky blue dog Wit
sea green ears and pink tail on piec
Of yellow canvas. She expects 10 hay
It done by next Christmas. Nor-tsfor
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

a Chicago editor shouts: |" We
have killed S04 900 hogs since the first
Of March, The Waterloo Observer
SAYS il that's the case il will hardly
pay to get out . directory this year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

One little RI. Dad station In Florida
has shipped $4,000 crates Of cucumber
this season.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

Personal ana hys
~ B. Cough has lectured 5000
times. -
CHARLES Dickens, is promised for the
~ Ii i said that . daughter OF Bayard
r.vlor 4 likely TO follow In her fathers
| literary footsteps.
Intelligent London critics praise
c.. Rernhardt's acting, but say that
s y, nretensions in sculpture. painting
=. srd literature are entirely hollow, being
ne plainest Of advertising devices.
An illustrated history Of universal
r,erature Is being issued In the Czech
language, edited by vaclav Petru Of
plssn M Bohemia. The first volume
is s,I with Chinese and Sanskrit litera-
ture.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore preached
Inc sermon at the Parker memorial
ssr - in Boston, the last Sunday In
lime. Il was an eloquent sermon on
Immortality, the text being from job
IN man die, shall he live again?"
Captain Henry King Of Topeka has
two GOOD stories in the August maya.
riues-one in the Atlantic, entitled AT
Ksvsmouth Station" the other in
Ser,Jner's, entitled "The Man With q
Hobby" Both Of them are local tc
Kansas as regards the characters and
scenery described.
Carlyle receives an income OF 81
40 year from his books. Tennysor
Gets much more. George Eliot's annu
4 income from her books IL smaller
than the sum mentioned, although wher
her works are first Issued she gets faI
more for them than either Of the au'
| thors named do for theirs.
Miss Mclaughlin OF Cincinnati has
| made three vases in enameled faience
| for Miss Annie Louise Carey, which are
described as "bewilderingly rich and
brilliant" The center-piece Is a dat
Pilgrim jar, of rich iridescent, notified
green, against which the sunlight breaks
INTO thousand prismatic hues and
shining CLEANS. On one side is spray
Of flowers, swaying grasses and mar
nerites. On the other side Is q butter
ay soaring alone into space. The sid'
ysses, which are in light blue, are adorn'
cd whh sprays Of roses.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

$4,000 . year. Lane Seminary. 1t
Walnut Hills near Chicago, reports
el6O, 900 in buildings and grounds and
923O, 900 In productive funds which yield
an income Of $4,000 q year. The pri-
vate donations TO colleges In four years
amounted TO el6,773 900, and the gifts
to theological Institutions during the
same period To e2,371 200, one-half Of
which amount went TO Presbyterian in
situations.
The Medical Committee, which re
Gently made an examination Of the
health OF the school children In Proyi-
dence, hold that pupils are taken too
young hat the vitiated air Of the school
rooms causes consumption that cpl
demic diseases are caught there; that
the premature development Of the brain
causes nervous diseases; that the young
minds are crammed with unintelligible
studies, and that the method Is too arti-
fetal. The Committee hold that chill
dren should not be admitted 70 school
under the age Of Z, and that the hours
OF confinement and mental effort should
be shortened. Children in primary
schools should not be confined TO their
seats more than 20 minutes at time, At
the end Of which they should enjoy an
equal period OF recreation out Of doors
or in doors.
Haps and Mishaps.
William Hathaway and Edward
Ficklin, two young men Of Petersburg,
Ind, were drowned in White River
while bathing.
Charles Brady, son Of James Bra
dy of Newark, o., was caught in the
machinery of Simpsons saw-mill and
instantly killed.
Mrs. Ephriam Jordan, living near
Westville, Ind, was kicked by horse
She lived about four hours and died in
great agony.
Luther MONEYS little of Riley
Township, near Evansville, Ind. was
kicked by horse in the face and head
and fatally injured.
Marion Shoemaker, while assisting at
. raising at Spencerville, o., was in
stantly killed by one Of the guy ropes
breaking, letting the frame fall upon
him.
A family near Quilette, Ont, were
seriously poisoned by eating the pork OF
an animal that had broken into the gar
den and fed on potato vines upon which
Paris green had been spread.
WIN. Highfill was bitten bya rattle
snake near Elizabeth, Harrison County,
Ind, and in an hour was in dying ago
MES. Stripes the color Of the snake ap'
peared upon his legs and body.
AT Upper Sandusky. o., Chas
O'Brien and Jacob Andrews, aged II
and lC years, were instantly killed by
lightning. They, with other boys, hat
been in swimming, and had taken refug'
under tree.
Two children, aged s and 4 years
OF A. b. Brown, farmer Of Riverton
Mich, while playing in the barn wer'
burned to death. An elder sister, age
years, gave the alarm, but too late y
rescue them.
Willie Powers OF Wappinger's Falls
N. ", fell in creek the other morning
and was nearly drowned when rescued
In the afternoon Of the same day he 60
some matches and attempted to Light
can Of kerosene oil, which exploded
and burned him SO badly that he can no
recover.
Foreign Notes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

The tobacco crop of the Connect
cut Valley promises to be unusually good
this year.
Savannah has just shipped to Liver
pool the largest cargo OF rosin ever ex-
ported from this country. 1t contained
$3.50 barrels, which are valued at near
y $4,000.
They are working trains by cleo.
tricity now, and one consisting Of three
carriages, capable Of carrying 20 passen-
gers, Il actually now running at Berlin.
The road is 220 yards long, and the
train travels at the rate os about seven
niles an hour.
Paper is now substituted for wood
in Germany in the manufacture OF lead
pencils 1t Is stepped In m adhesive
liquid, and rolled round the core Of lead
70 the requisite thickness. After drying,
i Is colored, and resembles an ordinary
cedar pencil. The pencils sell in Lon
don to retailers ut about &c cents q
gross.
England imports vegetable ivory
nuts (Phytelephas macrocarpa) to the
snnual value Of ut least half million
dollars, Birmingham alone demanding
4 much as ton q day, while equally
large quantities are worked up in France
and other parts Of the Continent. The
chief use to which the nuts are put IL
ne manufacture Of buttons, rings and
small ornamental arficloa
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school and Church.
The ministers Of Utica, N. ", have
agreed not to preach sermons II funer-
-Dissenters from the Greek Church,
hitherto unrecognized by the State in
Russia, are now TO have entire liberty Of
Worship. This affects II, 900, 900 Russian
subjects.
The ministers Of the Free Church
y scotland have been enjoined by the
reneral Assembly to discountenance
'afies, bazaar lotteries and other SINH
A methods Of raising money for relig-
purposes. 4 Nm
by recent order, emanating from
ne Church Of Rome, Iowa will soon
divided into bishoprics, and will be
snown as the Eastern and Western Dio.
yes. The new Bishop, whose confirm.
won Is daily expected from the Pope,
wv DC stationed in Council Bluffs. The
uner Bishop, Hennessy, will be retain
uat Dubuque.
Mr.. w. +. Forster, M. r., says:
N dealing with the education Of girls
Y me training colleges II has been found
nat they require little driving to work
IMPAIRED with boys, and thus they are
lore susceptible to Influences OF ambi-
aOn and desire 10 succeed. The dan
.er N the training colleges for element
~ schools is from overwork. There
no lear that young women will not
49, al, themselves Of the opportunities Of
"A statement recently made in re-
snu 70 college and theological endow.
rons gives some interesting facts. The
mon Theological Seminary OF New
.ork has 100000 in buildings and
s'"unds, $3.50, 900 in invested funds and
n income Of $4,000 year. The The.
,so gg Seminary At Princeton has
"1o'VOO In property and an income Of
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-08

Prince 1oussupoH, who Is named as
the future father-in- law Of Prince Alex
ander OF Battenberg, is said to be able
to give each of his daughters SIC, co0,-
600. lie had large fortune originally,
and soon after his marriage went to re-
side at Geneva, where he lived very
quietly and amassed great property.
After the statue Of the late Prin 2
Imperial has been placed in Westmin-
ster Abbey, and some other memorial
erected with the fund contributed By the
British Army, it has been resolved 70
devote the surplus Of the fund to the
establishment Of benevolent institution
commemorative Of the Prince. II Is
computed that the army fund alone will
amount to ESQ, 900.
Lord Lawrence, termed "the savior
OF India" recently dead, was the young-
est OF three illustrious brothers, Irish
men OF Ulster. The oldest, George,
still living, maintained British power in
Ajmere The second, Henry, died in
defense OF Lucknow. The third, John,
Just deceased, held against great odds
the stronghold Of the Pun aub, and be-
came Governor General Of India and a
peer.
The German Emperor William, at
his late golden wedding, hobbled round
at the reception with the aid Of an ivory
cane. All his first wedding, fifty years
previously, he figured conspicuously At
mock medieval tournament His
young bride was the Queen Of Beauty,
and bestowed rewards upon the knights
for their feats Of dexterity. The silver
wedding, % years ago, was also cele'
brated with pomp. He had then be-
come Prince OF Prussia and the heir %.
parent to the throne.
Sultan Abdul Hamid has two sons
whom he Is educating on plan closely
resembling the European system, and
very unlike the ancient training Of the
seraglio. The two boys, who are re-
spcctively IL and IA years old, are un
der the charge Of two Professors. who
send 70 the Sultan weekly report 81
their progress. They are taught Turk
ish, Arabian, French and English, gym
nastics and the piano. In the autumn
they will be sent 70 England, where
their education will be completed
principally ut Woolwich Military Acad
envy.
The Krupp gun works Of Germany
are Of immense dimensions. One o.
the establishments employs $500 work
men, and contains 29S boilers and en-
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-26
GOOD PLAN

Anybody en- learn to make none rapidly o. p
for Success. in Messrs. Lawrence d Co.'s new
circular. The combination method. which this
firm has made so success, ful, enables people with
large or small me. ans to reap ali the benefits of
largest capital and best skill. Thousands Of or
ders in var Gus sums are pooled int one vast
amount and Co operated a mighty wh ole, thus
securing to each shareholder all the advantages
OF the largest operator. Immense profits are
divided monthly. Any amount, from S. to S5.>
600. or more can be used successfully. N. 7.
Baptist Weekly september 10th, 1878. says" By
the combination system SIS would make S75, or
per cent; $50 pays $780,, or Z per cent; 300
makes st.GU, or 10 per cent. on the stock. during
the month, according to the market Frank
Lss'ie's Illustrated Newspaper. June 2sth :: The
combination method OF operating stocks is he
most successful yer adopted" Ne,O York Inde-
pendent, Sept. 18th: The combiL auon system is
founded upon correct business principles, and no
person iced be without an income white it is
kept working By Messrs. Lawrence i Co.
Brooklyn Journal April 2sth "Uur editor m ade
. net prUft of $40 rs from so in one of Messrs.
Lawrence & Co.'s combinations" New circular
lnaiIed free) explains everything. Stocks and
bonds wanted. Governme bonds supplied.
Lawrence d Co., Baker, 81 Exchange Place,
N, Y, .sal