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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
FASHION NOTES.

Monkey muffs are coming in
vogue.
-Tulle illusion Is the popular bridal
veil.
Bridal slippers may be either of
white satin or white kid.
Dark wine and garnet are the favor
ite colors for children's hosiery.
Bridal gloves are of cream or pure
white kid, with from 8 to II buttons.
Satin ribbon is used more than gros
grain for bonnet trimmings and strings.
Underwear of spun silk in cardinal
red are among the choice novelties in
hosiery.
"A novelty and luxury is the perfum-
ed glove; the odor is made delicate and
lasting.
Amber shell necklaces and bracelets
are much sought for, and are costly Or
naments.
Natural flowers only are worn IS
bouquets for the hand or corsage on
dress occasions.
1t is said that a few fashionables
are trying to revive the use of powder
in the hair in Paris.
Street wraps are either long sacques,
heavy ulsters, or fur-lined circulars and
doltnan visites.
White and cream-colored satin is
worn under white,and cream colored In
dia muslin ball dresses.
Masculine looking rough gray mix
ed ulsters are worn with rough gray
mixed felt hats to match.
Solitaire diamonds with a crown
setting of gold or platinum are the un-
rivaled fashionable earrings.
Fancy necklaces are in daisy, aster,
pansy, forget-me-not, and flat basket,
rosette, and oblong link patterns.
-French-heeled boots or slippers for
dancing are made of the material of the
ball dress or its trimmings.
Pendants are the popular ornaments
in jewelry, either in the form of lockets
or crosses of various forms.
Short ball dresses are de riguer for
young ladies in Paris, and are also adopt
ed by many young married women.
Domestic ideas are represented in
lace pin brooches in the form of shovels,
tongs. pokers, dustpans and brooms.
Cream color Is shown in all shades,
from dark Alderney cream twenty-four
hours old to full cream just off from
milk white.
-Corsets of satin, white, blue, red,
rose color, and gray are worn over car
dinal red spun silk underwear by fas-
tidious and luxurious women.
-Tortoise-shell ornaments for the
hair or neck, and brooches, bracelets,
and watch cases of carved Neapohtan
shell are very fashionable.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
Trichina.

Some investigations have just been
completed by two Chicago microscopists
as to the prevalence of trichin1 in the
pork that comes to our markets, that
seem worthy of record. Some time ago
DR.. William T. Belfeld, Demonstrator
of Physiology in Rush Medical College,
and Mr.. H. T. Atwood, Vice President
of the State Microscopical Society of
Illinois, were asked by the Commits
sioner of Health, of Chicago, DR.. De
Wolf, to examine specimens of pork
taken at random from the hogs being
slaughtered at the different slaughtering
houses. Specimens from one hundred
hogs were carefully examined, and in
eight trichina were found, the number
VARYING according to estimate from
thirty-five to thirteen thousand to the
cubic inch of muscle. This is doubtless
approximately the average of infection
of the pork brought to Chicago for pack
ing. The trichinous disease among
hogs-if disease it is-must be much
more prevalent now than ten or twelve
years ago. Then an examination of
quite o large number of hogs in behalf
of the Academy of Sciences showed only
about one in fifty infected.
N6SSrS. bolu6lu anu AbWOOu nave eA-
perimented with rats and other animals,
to which they have fed trichine, and
have reached the conclusion that, taken
in small numbers and not too frequently,
any animal or man may eat these worms
with impunity. A rat weighing two
ounces was fed at intervals of two or
three days few trichine for six weeks,
when it was killed. 1t was full of live
trichina-which, immersed in warm
water, would move vigorously-the es-
timated number in the rat being 100, 900.
During the six weeks the rat appeared
perfectly healthy. DIR. Beltield felt SO
sure of the innocuousness of small num-
bers of the worms, that he made a prac-
tical test by himself eating twelve tri-
china three weeks ago. He has not ex.
perienced any unpleasant symptom to
date. He believes large per cent. OF
our population are really infected with
trichin@. 1t is a fact in confirmation OF
the theory of these observers, that many
of these infected hogs have received the
trichina without symptoms of dis
ease, certainly without any damage
to their fattening qualities. 1t is surely
impossible that eight per cent. of all the
hogs raised for market could get sick
with symptoms approaching in severity
those of severe human infection, with
out such panic among farmers as
would be noticed by the whole country
Some experiments with different
agents used for the destruction of the
worms showed that the best inexpensive
agent was sulphurous acid; very little
of this acid, mixed with the brine il
which pork is preserved or picked, will
kill all the trichine, without, of course
any damage to the pork for any purpose
The lowest per cent. of the acid requir
ed to be effectual has not yet been de
termined.- Medical Record.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
Amputated, but Troublesome.

Nearly week has elapsed since the
readers of the Democrat were informed
through its columns of the painful and
serious accident which befell Mr.. Dick
Boaz, from the effects of which he lost
the lower portion of his left arm by am
putation. The surgical operation was
performed by Drs. Ansell and Burts,
who made a very neat and satisfactory
"job " of it. The next day following
the accident, some one or two members
of the family took the arm, or that por-
ton of it which was amputated, and
buried it about two feet deep above the
last resting-place of one of his little
children. Not long after the arm was
buried, Mr.. Boaz commenced to COM
plain of experiencing a cold, chilly feel
ing in his left arm. 1t seemed to him
as though he still had it. His COM
plants became so constant and bitter
that it actually alarmed his attendants,
knowing well that the object of his COM
plant was buried beneath the ground.
Finally, Boaz could stand it no longer,
the cold in his missing hand and wrist
became so intense that he inquired what
they had done with it. They informed
him that it was buried. He ordered
them to dig it up Immediately and bring
it in the house.
1t was done, and bottle of alcohol
was prepared for its receptacle. AS
soon as the missing member was ex-
humed and brought into the house, the
cold which had nearly driven him wild
disappeared, but pretty soon he COM
planned of a feeling as though his hand
and fingers were cramped, when The
source of the complaint was traced to
the fact that the alcohol bottle, in which
the hand and arm was contained, was
too small, and necessitated the turning
in of the fingers and closing them in
toward the palm of the hand. 1t proved
to be very annoying and made him so
restless that his folks were compelled to
send in yesterday and purchase large
bottle into which the arm and hand can
be placed without cramping.
This is one of the strange freaks OF
nature, instances of which have been
cited in medical journals, but none ever
came under the notice of the writer be-
fore.-FOrt Worth (1eGdS) Democrat.
SPONGE CAKE.-1 cotfee-cup sugar, ]
coffee. CUP flour 1 eggs, l lemon.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
The Rev. Thomas Aitken, pastor o.

The Rev. Thomas Aitken, pastor of
the First and Second Presbyterian
Churches in Sparta, N. Y, though now
in his 80th year, is still preaching every
Sabbath. Of late years he has been
subject to turns of fainting. Recently
he was taken with one in the pulpit, of
unusually severity. He was carried out
of it and ministered to. For some time
it was thought his labors were ended,
but after while he revived and said:
81 must go on with what 1 was saying"
which he did, conducting the service to
its close. His people have proposed to
release him from the afternoon service at
the Second Church during the winter,
but he is reluctant to accept their kind
ness. 1t is nearly 40 years since he be-
gan to serve them, and his heart is so
deeply in his work that he is 10th to dis
continue it.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
The Teller Committee.
The Teller Committee, consisting of 5,


ators Teller. .Eirkwood, Cameron, Randolph
and McDS began an Investigation OF the
late ge. 'ection in South Carolina, at
examined y. re from Charleston County, and
il admitted by both Democrats
and Republicans that all election officers
recommeI dation of the Democratic
committee; that three Commissioners were
Republicans; that the managers of the differ
cnt precincts were exclusively Democrats and
United States Supervisors ut the different
polls were not allowed to have clerk, there
being provision in the law for such a per-
son. 1t was also testified that the Democrats
Supervisors had no clerks, and c.erks of Re-
publican Supervisors we've excluded from the
polling places by order OF the Democratic
Committee.
j. N. Gregg, w. j. Elfe, Jno. NJ. Freeman,
j. j. Young, and number of other Republi-
can United states Supervisors OF Election at
various polls, testified that a large number of
tissue Democratic ballots were Illegally de-
posted in the boxes mt their several polls.
ana that the excessive ballots were drawn
out as required by law by IA bnndfolded d
manager, the larger number of those with
drawn being Republican ballots. These tissue
ballots we've used generally throughout the
State. number Of Democrats testified re-
garding the tissue tickets, denying that they
were fraudulently voted, but that they were
provided for cOlored Democrats who expect
ed intimidation from their own people and
wished to vote secretly.
Evidence regarding intimidation of color
ed Republicans hy the Red Shirts. a Demo
cratic organization, was given by various
witnesses, Republicans, which was Offset by
Democratic testimony of intimidation OF col
ored Democrats by their Republican breth-
rem.
THE LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION.
Considerable additional testimony of the
usually contradictory character has been
taken at New Orleans by the representatives
appointed by the Teller Committee to con
tinue the investigation into the Louisianf
election. The general tenor of the testi
mony of witnesses on the Republican
side is to the effect that there was n conspiracy
on the part of the Democrats to break up ne
witnesses testified that such evidence wa;
unqualifiedly false; that the negroes organ
lied and armed, and that whites acted only
for the preservation OF the peace.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
THE OFFICIAL. REPORT.

CAMP SIX MILES NORTHEAST OF BLUFF
STATION, January %, via FORT RoBINsoN.-
Gen. CROOK, Omaha: An affair with Cheyennes
took place yesterday about $3.50 p. m, mt a
point ten miles east of telegraph line from
Robinson TO Hat Creek, and i've miles north
of the stage road. The Cheyennes fought
with extraordinary courage and fierceness,
and refused all terms but death. The
officers of the troops behaved with
great spirit. Those engaged were Capts.
Vessels and Lawson, Lieuts. Chase, Hardie
and G. w. Baxter, 81 Cavalry; Lieut.. j. Bsx-
ter, 9th Infantry, and Dr. Pettys. Among the
wounded are Sergt. Reed and Private De-
boisse, Co. II, Sd Cavalry. The troops return TO
thestation at once. The Indians killed were
seventeen warriors, four women and two
children, nine captured, two of whom were
not wounded. One man of the wounded will
probably die. Evans commanding.
ISignedI GEO. CROOK, Brigadier-Gener
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01

of but one other Northern State, while
it Is the rule in Southern States.
Ten of the County Superintendents
of Illinois are ladies. 1t is claimed that
they equal the men in duties requiring
legal and financial skill, and surpass
them in promptitude and in the moral
purity of both teachers and pupils in the
schools which they manage.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
Foreign Notes.

Foreign Notes.
Miss Wedgwood, descendant of
the famous potteryware manufacturer,
has offered to provide a. home for train
ing the young pauper girls OF Stoke-on-
Trent as domestic servants.
The Marchioness of Lorne has sent
word home that she likes Canada and
Rideau Hall very much. An agreeable
home is kept up by the presence around
the Governor-General's house of SEN
tinels in the familiar uniform of the
Coldstream Guards.
-Nine-tenths of the thousand million
dollars which France borrowed from
English bankers in order to pay Ger
many are now held in the shape of ma
tional bonds by Frenchmen at home.
As fast as the foreigners would sell, the
bonds were bought UP on the Paris
market, and thus, though France still
owes that vast sum, she owes it in bulk
only to her own people.
"A cooperative store has been es-
tablished in Paris by English capitalists,
which employs about 80 persons, and
deals in almost every thing required by
housekeepers. The capital is $500, 900.
The London cooperative societies re-
port handsome profits. One concern
upon sales of S5, POO, 900, is said to have
realized S130,000 clear of expenses,
though selling about 20 per cent. below
the ordinary retail prices.
Germany has just launched her first
homemade iron-clad-the Chamaleon.
This is vessel of 1000 tons displace-
ment, with S-inch armor, draft of 10
feet when fully equipped, engines of 700
indicated horsepower and 35-ton gun,
the prQjectile from which will penetrate
16 inches of iron. This small vessel
carries more formidable weapon than
does any English man-of-war in COM
mission, the penetration of the 3S ton
guns of the Thunderer, and Devastation
being only IA inches.
The gossip going round the press
as to strong previous attachment of
the Princess Louise for ga clergyman,
her tutor" points to Canon Duckworth,
her brother Leopold's tutor, not hers.
1t is quite possible that, like most young
girls, she may have had passing fancies
before she fixed her affections on the
Marquis of Lorne. The same stories
ran around about alleged tender pas
sions of her mother, the Queen, before
her marriage with Prince Albert. Vic
toria's favored ones were said to be Lord
Elphinstone, Lord Fitzallen, then in
the First Life Guards, and afterward
Duke of Norfolk, and Lord Alfred Pa
get, the father OF Capt. Paget, who mar
ried Miss Minnie Stevens. Elphinstone
and Fitzallen were sent away, the first
to an appointment in India, the second
to travel in Greece, where he married
the present Duchess Dowager, daugh-
ter of Sir Edmund Lyons, the British
Minister at Athens. Lord Alfred, not
being deemed dangerous, was continu-
ed as equerry, position which he has
continuously held.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01

Furry felt hats and bonnets are the
most worn.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Roscoe Conkling from New York and j.
Donald Cameron from Pennsylvania, both
Republicans, have been reelected to the
United States Senate; Connecticut elects o.
II. Platt, Republican,; North Carolina, Gov.
Il. B. Vance, Democrat; Florida, Wilkinson
Call, Democrat.
George S. Hillard, Of Boston, the well
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
Haps and IIishaps.

haPs anu
While Miss Wuestle, of Ironton,
o., was standing near stove, her dress
caught fire, fatally burning her before
it was extinguished.
WIN. Rafferty,, messenger of the
Cheyenne and Black Hills treasure
coach, in removing pistol from the
coach, dropped it, and the hammer
striking the brake-block, discharged the
weapon, killing him instantly.
The bowlins=alley of Samuel M.
Ives, at Boone, Iowa, was burned on
the night of the Esd. Mr.. Ives, in at
tempting to save his books and papers,
perished in the flames. His absence
was not noticed until after the fire, when
his body was found, burned beyond re-
cognition.
Henry and James Broadwell, aged,
respectively, II and 13, whose parents
reside at Lincoln, Neb., were suffocated
by coal gas while sleeping in close
room heated by a soft-coal stove. A
younger brother, who fortunately slept
near crack in the side of the house,
escaped with his life.
"A Mr.. Cavanaugh, at Millersburgh,
Rice County, Mimi, on returning home,
laid his revolver on the table, and his
eldest son took it UP to examine it. His
little 5-year-old brother came up, when
the revolver was accidentally discharg-
ed, the ball passing through his bowels.
George Davis, 10 years old, living
at Center Point, Iowa, was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of his
gun while hunting rabbits. Mounting
stump to obtain a good shot, he slip
ped and fell. The gun, striking the
stump, was discharged, and the entire
load entered beneath the chin, passing
through his head.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01

SPONGE CAKE.-1 cotfee-cup sugar,
coffee cup flour eggs, lemon.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-01
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll, it is
said, made S26, 900 last year by lectur-
ing.
Mr.. Henry Watterson, of the Louis
vile Cenrter-Jourpdl, is about to make
a lecture tour in the South.
One little boy at Hartford, Conn.,,
devoured 1O2 story books from the Pub
lie Library during the last six months
of 1878, and one little girl 112 novels.
Charles g. Came, leading editorial
writer of the Boston journal, died few
days ago, aged So. He was a graduate
from Yale in 1S49.
Mrs. d. G. Croly ("Jennie June'O
is going to lecture before the young Ia
dies OF Lasell Seminary, Auburndale,
Mass; on the 4" Esthetics of Dress"
Charles G. Leland ("Hans Brett
man y has just completed, for Lon
don magazine, novel entitled "Eben-
ezer," in which all the characters are
American negroes.
Prof. Swift of Rochester has been
for years carrying on his astronomical
studies in an old cider mill, but the citi-
zens now propose to build him an OBJ
servatory, the plan of which he has ap-
proved.
Here is another Boston notion, and
good one. Miss G. Alice Baker is Civ
ing free Saturday lectures at the Old
South Church, on "Early Colonial His
tory" to children between the ages of
10 and Is years.
-" Les Bebes d'Helene" d'Habber-
ton, I" La Refine de Saba" par Baylen
Aldrich, and "Le Predicateur Ambu-
lant," and "Le Maitre d'Ecole du Flat
Greek" " de M. E. Eggleston, are books
just published in Paris.
Billy Ballou, a companion of Mark
Twain in Nevada, and one of the lat
dead. He was gold adventurer in the
early days of the Pacific coast, but usu-
ally had bad luck, and latterly became
a drunkard. He had a thorough edu-
cation, and was, at his best, clever
writer for San Francisco newspapers.
1t is authoritatively and regretfully
announced that Bayard Taylor had not
even begun to write his life of Goethe.
He had collected vast materials, but his
notes are unintelligible to any one but
himself, and will be to a great extent
lost. His plan comprehended three CO.
pious volumes, but his life-work was
ended before the first page of this last
great task had been written.
Anna Dickinson returns to the lee
ture platform, according to the Phila-
delphia Times, because she must earn a
living. Although she for n long time
received 5000 a night for lecturing, she
spent money generously, and finally lost
all her savings through an unfortunate
investment in Western land. A friend
lent her the money with which to make
her unsuccessful venture on the theater
stage, and she desires to repay the loan.
Miss Dickinson received hundreds of
letters from friends advising her to give
up the stage.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-20
a Curious Accident.

Il Freight Train Frozen Fast TO Tres
tie bridge.
A correspondent writing from Weeds
port, n. Y, under date Of February ID,
says
A most remarkable accident happened
to a train on the SOU hern Central Road,
near here last night. Two loaded freight
and Thirty empty coal cars, drawn by
good locomotive, left FAR Haven and
proceeded safely until the crossing Of
Muskrat creek was reached. Here 1t
was found that the water backing up
from Seneca river, which is unusually
high for this season, bad overtlowed the
track about four inches. When almost
across the trestle, the locomotive drivers
refused to "bite," and the train came to
a standstill. In moment every wheel
was frozen in its place. The train had
entered the water just as 1t was on the
point of congealing, ana the instant the
tram stopped the conducting properties
of the iron proved All atficient aid to
complete the work. Af,er several hours
chopping about the drivers and trucks
the engine was loosened and came to
Weedsport. From here two engines
were seut Just after daybreak. Arriving
at the creek, third engine, from Far
Haven, was seen Oh the opposite side Of
the creek. Then the chopping and
shovelling of ice began. The two ell
eines would hitch OH to one car, literally
jc-k it out, and the workmen cleaned
the track of ice, only to have it again
covered by freezing water coming up
from below. After the first Start every
thing once loosened had to be kept NOV
ing lest the ice should once more fasten
it. After the cars had all been started,
the three locomotives undertook to shove
them up the grade and out of the slough.
But this was not so easy. A MIN OF Ice
constantly formed on the rails, causing
the drivers to slip. The train moved
one way and stopped. The whistles
screached, and it swayed backwards
One minute of idleness, and the ice
would fasten every one OF the l5O wheels
again. The engines shook, ratified
Jumped on the icy rails. Where the
throttles were not drawn with perfect
concert of action, there would be jar
as if everything would be torn III shre ds
At last, when the iron giants seemed
ready to give up for very exhaustion
lin the last thrust of two rods the steaii
in our boiler ian down fIOm 13O to lO'
pounds to the inch the wheels hugge'
the rails, and the train was moved ciea
of the water. The watches showed
O'Clock.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-20

EtLpnIA, WILMINGTON d
fINORE RAIL ROAD.
Noyem her 10. 1873.
mi leave Wilmington as follows
Arhia and Intermediate Stations,
| 10 w a. m, 2 30, %oO, ~,
lpnia Express) 900, $50, a m.
I'd New YorH, z37, 7 05, $50. a m ,
he and Intern ediate Stations,
Sre and Pay Line, 7.0S, a. m.
bre and Washington " ol, 2 10, S39.
= I0,, 5,ls, 1925, p. IN.
br Delaware Division, leave for;
kstle. D. 70, 9.l5, a. IN. l.05, 8 30, I'm.
hon and Intermediate Stations,
Oi, $50 p. m.
and Intermediate Stations 9.i5
p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
1phia and Intermediate stations
5.O0. $50, p. m.
Shia and New York, 200. a. IN
and Washisgton, 1851. 2 II
per Information passengers are
j the time tables posted at the
n. r. KENNEY,
SnpeTintendent.
The daily gazette., 1879-02-20
~ TINE TABLE.

.vr wILMINGTon.
5Ns Lsn2 LIZ. 2s7, 7.06, s.O, 100
pdelphiaa' e 81 IL 80, $50, a.oo,
90 q; "a H., y m. = on sundays; 2.os.
70, 20; : a.. + + i6, 8 80, Q 40, P m; 30 aa
WWo,pk n, ~ 2.37, 9.50,a m, IL 30, o. - ~ m no'
forsa sa,,ndays: 2 0Da m. . 20, pi ~ ~,
nion nd Washington: 1851, z.lo,
pore s ~ ,.oi, SIS. 10 26,p m.'sun-
pasil,,9.,,' 81, 9,l"'',si5ts s. p m; no sunday
| castle: $40, sI5 a m; ioo' . 10 p
l. sasdfRy r. r r.: si0 q m; oo' 9 80
sunaaSS \ Northern X. r.: $40 q
ington m. no sunday train. mo
"Restsrn K. r.: 10 20 q MO oo
snndays: 10 80 a m,v,rou m,
Is ARki. 20 "A. a "a. 8 10 I 06 m !;
laoe1 - Is, Il 81, 8 81, : oi, o ~. 20 o a. 10
o.; u; II Is pm; on sundays 10 '''
~ -s5. 10 p. II 10 p m. ,o. ,o.,
n, ~ / o5, 8 "a a m; IL ~; " o. o.
~ v, 10, J, m IN Sundays IL a. oo
z P m' . Of, 5 40, Q ~. m; u q
~ silnGpsy q 50 p m; on Sundays 2 o. a m
M; m;;oo,op; 20, q m u q, ZSs,
i, na n m; on Sundays; . "a a III ) 's'
peposit' 900 a m ; no Sunday
castle; $40 am; IL 10 mi
" mn" m, no Sunday trains.
80 pare r. r.: $50 IL 10 q III
iaN' NV no sunday trains.
WI miueton & Northern n. NJ: o'
y, ! ss D m; no sunday trains.
n,ape "a, re- Western X. r.; DO q m
y, aNa an SUNDAYS; 8 Npm.
h, ww,I.MINGTON W. LEAVE PHIL
~ ADELPHIA..
.,reei and Washington ave
'so sa 70. 10 80, II 45 a m; 80, 80
;s I A rs. 3 IS. II 30 pm; on sun
'9 a. m; 8 oO,9 As, II 80, p m.
~ ~ second and Market streets
~ m l2 IL, 3 55, $50, II 80 p m
'tays. Q 30. II 80 D m.