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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-16

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with consunmsts skill can't get the hang
If q NOV shovel.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-16

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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-16

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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-16

lie Wtuiu hdNt Wof tbC icbt
hurdle-race likewise. If he had not fallen
voice; Fred danced well; Fred here. Fred
there, Fred everywhere. In the last let
ter il was said how poor. daring Fred.
had fallen with 'Blackbird' at the last
steeplechase, and had broken
his collar bone" Yet he did not give mp
the race but came in third, Mother
had insisted on his remaining here to be
nursed by us till he gets well. He sends
his best love and viii write as soon as he
is able
These letters were sealed up and depos-
tied in the archives of the British consul
late at Yokohama Inquiry was made
officially at Limerick whether Mr.. Alex
ander Young and Mr.. Frederick Millner
had been known there in 1855 or 1856. In
due course Of time the reply came. but
brought no satisfactory answer TO the
questions. Alexander Young was quite
unknown. A Young man called Freder-
lex Millner. had lived at Limerick at the
date mentioned. After bringing shame
and sorrow to the daughter of an honored
family. he had left the town in secret and
had never been heard Of since.
As Alexander Young left no property OF
anv value, no further inquiries were made,
and he Was soon forgotten. He was buried
very quietly. and James Webster, the con-
stable Of the English consulate, and Fred
alone accompanied him to the grave.
After the funeral the dog returned 70
Yokohama. For several days he searched
anxiously for his master in his old lodgings
and near tn e new-made grave but he coon
n r.l 4 - 4
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-16
Dayarl TayIss's ~1sosa-

1t certainty doe- APPEAR 40.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
The Truth About the South.

Here are the rawlings of q fool, who
is publishing newspaper called the
Lemars Sentinel, up in Iowa:
The South is essentially barbarous,
and any system of government that
ignores this primal truth is doomed
10 failure.
The soil, the climate, and all the
natural forces that mold human ac-
ton lead with terrible directness to
brutishness.
Even when gilded by the acces-
sories of education, the Southern
gentlemen is nothing but a painted
Hottentot. u
A Southerner can no more absorb
the civilization of the century than a
mule will voluntarily submit to
harness.
There is but one element of govern
ment he respects, or can respect
power.
Hand him an olive branch and he'll
kick you in the stomach-go at him
with a club, and he'll down on his
narrow bones in the minute.
Ignorance of this great truth has
placed the capitol in the hands OF the
rebel brigadiers.
1t is now late, but not too lato to
apply the true principles of govern
ment TO the Southern savages.
And to do'this is the mission Of
"a n u,ort;cp
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
Scaling the Alps.

Every one, says the Saturday Re-
view, who mas visited the valley of
the Arve, has seen aud wondered al
the Aiguille de Dru, and probably
TO most of those who have looked at
it an attempt 10 ascend it must have
appeared about as hopeful an UNDER
taking as an attempt TO climb up an
ebelisk would be. By a considerable
number, even of those who know
how way could be found through
the most forbiddipg craggs, the Dru
seems to have been thought inaccess-
ible; but q belief in the possibility Of
scaling the mountains has been enter
lained by a few sanguine men, and
notably by Mr.. q. Il. Dent the secre-
tary, we believe, OF the Alpine Club
who has continued to maintain his
opinion in spite of facts strongly cal
cilated to shake his confidence in its
soundness, At length he has been
able to vindicate triumphantly the
justice of his views for last summer
he succeeded after repeated attempts,
in reaching the summit of the famous
Aiguille. 1t was then, therefore, an
error to regard this peak as inaccessi-
BILE, but il must be said that it was an
error for which some excuse must be
made, for it certainly appears from
Mr.. Dents account that the mountain
was nearly as difficult as q mountain
could be without presenting to the
climber absolutely insuperable OBJ
stacles. The Dru Is but small
mountain, being only 12,5l7 feet high,
but its very remarkable form places
tiff the expression may be allowed
in the first rank of Alpine peaks !;
and how much its wonderful steep
ness has impressed mountaineers is
shown by the fact that, during the
time when the Alps were being sub
jugated, it was left in peace. Not
till 1873 was a serious attempt made
on it. The attempt made to scale the
Dru in 1873 seemed TO have excited
tho ambition of members of the AL
pine club, and between that year and
1878 not few assaults were made on
this peak. After All unsuccessful at
tempt from the northern side in 1875.
Mr.. Dentldid uot again try the noun
tain until the last year, when he ar
rived at Chamouni with what lie calls
the "fixed determination" to climb
the Dru, or, so far as might be possi-
\ BILE, to prove its inacessibility. There
is but one first ascent to be made in
the Alps, and most Of the peaks have
been assembled and most of the passes
crossed many times. 1t is impossible
to suppose that men will continue for
long TO find anything interesting in
devising "new routes" and TO solving
. problem which may thus be des.
cribcd Given mountain, to find
the worst way to the summit. A GER.
tain number Of travellers will proba-
bly, continue to take pleasure in fol-
lowing beaten tiacks, but energetic
traviers il unable to betake themselves
TO the Andes, the Caucasus, or tht
Himilays, will most likely CRAFTY
their appetite for hard work and ad
venture by dispensing with guide:
and making their way unaided to thu
, tops of difficult peaks and over til,
most trying passes.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
A Yellow Fever Romance.


Last year when the epidemic was
raging in Memphis, among the Oincin-
natl physicians who rendered their
services and lives to Health Officer
Minar was young DIR. Collins, of this
city, an unusually bright and intel
lectual man, who was making preca
rious living at his practice, not
through lack Of ability, for of that he
had abundance, but from the lack OF
patients.
His services, together with those Of
five others, were accepted and on GER
tain evening they all went to the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad depot to take
the 9:3O train for the South. Young
Collins, in taking leave Of the Health
Officer, who had gone down to see the
little band off, said' doctor, | will
either make reputation in Memphis
or never como home again" He ar
rived in that city, and reporting to
the Howard Association for duty,
was given an assignment in part Of
the town where the disease was carry :
ing people off by the scores.
Among others that he attended was
the family of wealthy planter. He
was successful in bringing the children
through the sickness. .one of whom
was beautiful and intelligent young
lady.
Within a short time the Doctor
himself, worn down by unceasing la
bor, was smitten with the scourge, and
lay tossing feverishly in his small
room. The young lady, hearing Of the
circumstance, went to his house and
nursed him tenderly through his ill.
ness.
1t is almost needless to say that by
this time the youthful pair became
mutually attached, a proposal and
acceptance followed; to which consent
was unhesitatiugly given by the
parents. They wore afterward mar
ried, the father investing his new SON
| in-law with handsome interest il
his large plantation. DR.. Collins il
now one Of the rising young physi
clans of Memphis, and is the efficicn
Secretary of its Board Of Health.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
A Whale Thresher.

The schooner Martha, from Geor.
gia's Banks, brought, with a cargo of
fish to this port yesterday, the lar
pest whale thresher remembered by
old market men TO have ever been
seen in this city. 1t was caught in
pound net at Woods Hole, Mass, OH
Tuesday and was killed with lance.
The last one exhibited in Washington
market was fifteen years ago, and it
was SO small specimen OF it's kind
that some fish dealers believed that 1t
was species of shark. The fish that
arrived yesterday was exhibited by
G. A. Lewis. 1t was very nearly
fourteen feet long and monopolized
the entire iropt OF the stand. Persons
stopped to examine it, and all day
long throng was pressing around
it. .Half of The length OF the curious
fish was body, and the other half
tail. The tail iapered of gradually
and had been looped up by a rope
attached to a beam above. The
weight of the creature was 600
pounds. The naked skin oil the back
and sides was uniform blush drab
color from the snout to the tip OF the
tail. The tail was as much separate
part of the body as aa dogs tail is
of its body, which appearance made
it resemble o land or amphiGious an
imal more than fish. The eyes
were as large as cows, and could be
rolled in their sockets. The mouth
was comparatively small, and the
teeth short, sharp and of a uniform
length in both jaws. Sticking
straight up from the middle of the
back was a dark fin, eleven inches
long, of the same color as the body,
tough and compact, yet neither bony
nor hard. The medal, pectoral, and
caudal fins. They flared out horizon
tally and were set low. On the un.
derside the body. was of o mottled
salmon color. The fish yielded like
caoutchouc to the finger, but on re-
leasing the pressure the skin sprang
back TO Its original form. The body
from end to end seemed mass OF
cortilage. The long tail is used by
the animal like arawhide in attack.
ing its enemy, the whale. 1t forms q
sort of alliance with the sword fish
the latter thrusting its sword into the
whale from below, aud the thresher
attacking it from above. The thresh'
ers run in schools, and from ten tc
twenty will attack whale at once
Those who have witnessed a comba
between thrcshers and whales say
that tits an exciting spectacle. Th'
water flies in showers of foam in al
directions, as the threshers hurl them
selves at the whales like animated
cowhides. For hours they rain blow
on the head and sides of the huge an
imal. Between the piercing thrust
of the sword-fish and the fail lik
blows of the thresher, a whale rarel
escapes. From the carcass the victor
get their food for many day after
ward. Through the little slit in tn
side of the tlresher exhibited yestel
day oozed blood as red as that of
land animal. The gills were four !
number on both sides. The fish ist
be stuffed.-N. Y. Sun.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
Glass Thread.
Builders Monthly

To mako fine glass thread, the
glnss is brought 10 state of fusion, n
glass rod dipped in it and thus u
thread pulled out, which solidiiies
first in its thinnest parts, and SO eau
ses thread OF uniform thickness 10
be obtained. II this thread is placed
over hot metallic cylinder, and thu
latter revolved, any length of thread
may be obtained; the thread may be
obtained finer by revolving the eylin-
der more rapidly. The heating Of
the cylinder has the effect of anneal-
ing the glass to some extent, while
the rapid cooling, if wound on n cool
cylinder. would make II more brittle.
A bundle of such threads look like
bunch of silk, and 1t has therefore
been called glass silk. Its usefulness
to chemists and druggists has lately
been brought to the notice of the
French Socile de Pharmacie by NJ.
Limousin. 1t is now largely used iu
Germany, and especially In Austria,
for flltering liquors in laboratories.
In the microscope the threads are as
fine as those of silk or fibrillae of cot
ton; they break more easily than the
latter, but are excessively supple.
From the unalterabilily of tho sub
stance it is very well suited for I'll
tering acid or alkaline solutions, even
concentrated, and various other sub
stances, such as nitrate OF silver, al
bumen, collodion, Pehling's liquors,
etc. 1t affords great rapldity of flow,
with good filtration; itdoes not, likc
filters OF paper or tissue, communi-
cate organic matters TO the liquids,
altering and perhaps giving them a
lisagrceable taste. 1t is much pref
cradle to asbestos, which, from the
arrangements of its parallel fibres.
cannot be formed into q flexible ball,
and which lets fragments pass that
float in the liquid For analysis it is
very advantageous, allowing of q
ready determination of insoluble
matters deposited; also by calcina-
ton and fusion of the glass may be
found the volatile principles fixed in
the passage of the liquid, unmixed
with empyreumatic products. Not
withstanding the price Of glass silk is
slill high, It'll no great expense TO
use ii, as its excessive lightness adj
mits Ola considerable number of fill
trations being made with a small
weight of it.; besides, it may servo
an indefinite time, if after each opcr-
alton il is thoroughly washed with
water and dried in the air.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
Special 0s1r I!

We are happy 10 announce TO the
people of Christian and adjoining
counties that we have arrangements
whereby we can offer several valua-
BILE premiums TO our CASH subscrib-
ers. We are desirous of doubling
the number of our subscribers we
want three thousand and have them
we will, if inducements will avail
anything.
We shall distribute, on the last day
of four next county Fair, premiums to
the amount of about FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS among those subscribers
who have paid ~ for subscription
10 the SOUTH KENTUCRIAN.
Each person holding our receipt for
that amount will have fair oppor-
tunitv TO get one of the premiums
named below.
Those parties who have already
paid their subscriptions for year
will be entitled to q like privilege
and should present their receipts at
our Office to be numbered and regis
tered, otherwise they will be left out.
For the benefit of those subscribers
who were unable on account of finan.
cial circumstances 10 pay by the first
of June, we have extended the time.
little while longer, in order that all
may stand OH equal chance.
The following is the list of articles
to be given as premiums:
FIRsT-Ore stem-winding. STEM
setting, solid, Is karat gold watch,
with elegant Is karat, full length,
solid gold chain. Can be seen at
Mills Jewelry Store, on Main
Street. This premium worth 1925.
SECoND-Latest style, open-top,
homemade, seasoned hickory, best
made buggy. Can be seen at Blu
menstiel, McCamy & Bonte's Carriage
Factory. This premium worth $l25.
THIRD.-One Wheat Drill, best
made, worth $75.
FoURTH.--One extra finished, sea-
son timbered, light running, durable
wagon, warranted first-ciass, and eve-
ry part made by N. G. Forbes, and
to be seen at his factory, worth $50.
FIFTH.-One triple silver set, latest
style, elegantly engraved and per.
feet model of convenience and beau
ty. To be seen at Howe's Jewelry
Store, corner Main and Spring streets,
worth $50.
SIxTH.-One celebrated Oliver
Chilled Plow, used by nearly every
prominent farmer in Christian. To
be seen at c. &. Shanklin's Agricult-
ural Implement House, worth $l3.
SEvENTM-One widely known and
popular Elephant Plow, manufactured
by the Hopkinsvillo Plow Factory,
and to be seen there. This premium
worth $40.
EIGHTH--One Wrought Iron to-
bacco screw, made by NJ. Hanna q
Co. This premium worth $40.
NINTH-One Box Laurel Wreatl
Cigars, sold by S. II. Turner. Thi
premium worth $5.
TENTH-Onc box fancy Frencl
, Candies, sold by S. II. Turner, and 4
be tasted, tried and tested there. Thi
premium worth So.
ELEvENTH-One years subscription
to the livest county paper in South
ern Kentucky, to be selected by thu
J holder of the ticket entitled to thi
, premium.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
What the South Gained by the Ex-
ira Session.

The Southern Democrats are feeling
very iubilant over the result Of the
extra session. They say that they
have gained out of the Legislation
that has been accomplished. and boast
of it to show their influence in Con-
gress. They claim to have accom-
plished seven important results as fol-
lows:
Limiting the power of the Pres
ident to use tho military at the polls.
9 The repeal of the test oath.
3 Changing the method of drawing
Jurors in the United States courts.
A The qualifications Of tho law au'
thorizing the appointment of deputy
Marshals at elections.
5 Creation of the Mississippi rivel
commission, which is the beginning
of a grand scheme Improvement o
that river.
6 Removal of duty on quinine,
7 Appointment of yellow fevc
commission.
All these results have been accom-
plished, and they include everything
of Importance that has been done thi
session. 1t is also a remarkable lac
that this is all the South has asked.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

To make Japanese cement, mix
the powdered rice with little cold
water, and then gradually add boiling
water until proper consistence is ac-
quired. being careful to keep it well
stirred all the time; lastly. it must be
boiled for one minute in clean sauce
pan. This glue is beautifully white
and almost transparent, for which
reason it is well adapted for fancy pa
per work, which requires strong and
colorless cement.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
Ohio Rules All.
New York SUM-

The fraudulent President. the Sec
retary of the Treasury, the Chief Jus.
tice Of the United States, the General
and Lieutenant-G General Of the Army
and the Vice Admiral Of the Navy all
hail from Ohio. The Executive, the
purse, the sword and the head Of the
judiciary are thus united in a single
State. The real Ohio idea is to get
and to hold office.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

The latest sensation at Rome is q
bicycle race on the Via Appia, be-
tween two ladies who both belong
to the best society aud are celebrated
for their teauty. They appeared on
their iron steeds, arrayed in the most
coquettish of Spanish hats, vests,
and tights. The winner was Nine
Lo CHAT, the pretty wife of the first
Secretary Of the Belgian legation.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
A Compliment to Dentists.

OF all professional men, dentists
should be the neatest, and as a class
they are; Those who require CRATE
full, refreshing, delightful arma, while
working about the organ smell,
should wet their hands in DR.. Prices
Floral Siches. Its fragrance is not
only as pleasant as can bO imagined
but decidedly stimulating.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

When somebody suggested 10 the
late Mr.. Allen. of Ohio, that he
should re-cnter politics and strive
for the Presidency, ho is reported as
saying: Leaving the Senate. gentle
men, / retired to my home and gave
myself to study-proiound study.
deep study-and after twenty-five
years of companionship with my
books, ] came to the conclusion gen.
tlemen, that to be President of a little
patch of territory on third-rate
planet, by Cd, was unworthy the
ambition of a statesman and o
scholar.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
THE SOUTH KENTUCKlAR.
ADVERTISING RATES.
NEWS SUMMARY.

During July there were paid for
arrears of pensions $S,694, 600, which
exhausted the special fund held for
the redemption of fractional currency.
OF six carrier pigeons looscd, at
Columbus, Ohio, at $50 A. NJ. one
arrived in New York city next morn
ing at 11:l8 and another at 2:50 z.
NJ.
Eight million bushels of Pittsburs
coal is now coming down the Ohio
River in one shipment. This is tho
largest consignment of coal ever
shipped at one time.
St. Louis has received an order for
one and a half million bushels. of
wheat for Germany. The German
rye crop is short and this will increase
the demand for other grain.
A dispatch from Petersburg, Vir-
ginia says that Capt. Daniel Dod-
son, poisoned with his entire family
the other day by ice-cream. is dead.
His family remain quite i'll.
The Russian chamber Of commerce
manifests much concern at the extra
facilities afforded the United States
for exporting wheat by deepening the
mouth of the Mississippi. .e.f
Henry and Alexander Covert,
brothers, quarreled at their breakfast
table in Columbus, Ind, drew revol-
vers and fired simultaneously across
the table. Both were killed and the
inn keeper didn't get his pay.
The London Daily News is author
ity for the Statement that in conse-
quence Of domestic bercavements Mr..
Walsh, Minister of the United States,
has resigned, and will sail for homo
about the goth of August.
DR.. Hugh j. Glenn, the candidate
for Governor Of California of the new
Constitution party, cultivates $4,000
acres of land and has 10000 acres in
wood. He owes 100000 on it, but
will clear half of that this year.
The new gazetteer of Kentucky just
published, shows that in the state
there are the following: t
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

Four hundred aid fifty female dent
lists in the United States and three
times that number said to be studying
the profession.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

Eight million bushels of Pittsburs
coal is now coming down the Ohio
River in one shipment. This is tho
largest consignment of coal ever
shipped at one time.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

During July there were paid for
arrears of pensions 1864, 600, which
exhausted the special fund held for
the redemption of fractional currency.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12

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somethin for the New Year.

The world-renowned success Of HOsteter's Bitters
aud their continued popularity for quarter Of cen
fury a stomAchic is scarcely more wonderful than
the welcome that greets the annual appearance OF
Hostetter's Almanac. This valuable medical treatise
is published by Hostetter Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa,
under their own immediate supervision, employing
81 hands in that department, Ten cylinder printing
prcsses, folding machines, job presses, &c. are
running about eleven months in the year on this
work. and the issue Of for 1880 will not be less
than ten millions, printed in the English German,
French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish, Holland, Bohe-
milan aud Spanish languages. Refer to copy OF It
for valuable and interesting reading concerning
health, aud numerous Testimonials as to the efficacy
" Hosetters Bitters, amusement, varied informs
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-12-12

OF TIE TRInUSEs share in all this those speak
most Enthusiastically who have seen most Of the
struggle II will faithfully portray the varying phases
Of the campaign now beginning. 1t will earnestly
strive that the party Of Freedom Union and the Pub
lie Faith may select the man surest to win, and sur
est TO make good President. But in this crisis II
can conceive Of no nomination this party could make
that would not be preferable to the best that could
possibly be supported by the Solid South and Tam
many Hall
TIE TRIBUNE Ia now spending more labor and mon
ey than ever before to hold the distinction 1t has long
enjoyed Of the largest circulation among
the beat people. 1t secured and means to retain
1t, by becoming the medium Of the best thought aud
the voice Of the best conscience Of the time, by keep
ing abreast Of the highest progress, favoring the
freest discussion hearing all sides, appealing always
to the best intelligence and the purest morality, and
nhicnh u the innnrnni-