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The New York herald., 1879-10-30
A MURDERER's CONFESSION.

BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1
OTTAWA. Ont, Oct 30 1879.
Clark Brown, the West Winchester murderer. who
is to be hanged Friday morning. has, it is stated.
made full confession, which is now under seal and
in safe keeping and will be made known after the
convict's death
The New York herald., 1879-10-30
GEORGIA STATE FAIR.

MACON. Oct. 20, 1879.
The state fair was largely attended to-day. About
orty-nve thousand people were ON tho streets aud
The New York herald., 1879-10-30

Finished first; set back for running
Finished second; set back for running.
FINISHED third but given the heat; time.
In addition to the postponed" twenty eight purse
tho thirty and "thirtythree classes will DO
called this afternoon.
The New York herald., 1879-10-30
GENTLEMEN'S DRIVING PARK.

FIRST DAY OF THE FALL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE WINNER OF THE ''FoRTY-FIvE'' PURSE
THE ''TwENrY-E1GHr' CLASS POSTPONED
AFTER FIVE HEATS
The annual fall meeting of the Gentlemen's Driv-
ing Park formerly Fleetwood) inaugurated
yesterday under very pleasant auspices. The
weather delightful the track fair and the at
tendance large. Two events were the pro-
gramme, the first of which was o purse of $3.50
for horses that beat 2:45. Nine responded
to the summons of the judges. these being Charles
Levinas' chestnut gelding Syracuse DR.. Hurd's bay
stallion Bay Lambert. John Hazlett's bay mare
Stella g, Thomas Corrs chestnut gelding Clarmont.
L. d. Clark's bay gelding H. John w. Driscoll's
bay gelding George Cadmus. James G. Smiths
brown gelding John Hill. I. J. Goes black mare
Emma and II. L. Whites brown gelding George
NJ. Emma was the favorite against the field. and
the bookmakers offered to 1 against Hill, 10 to
against Cadmus. 20 to against Clairmont. and
almost willing to offer any odds against the balance
The result was surprise. Clairmont winning the
in three straight heats. Cadmus took second
money and Bay Lambert third.
The ..twenty-eight race followed. purse $780,
and eight came on the track. These were John
Murphy's black gclding Newbrook. John
H.zlet.s bay geldins Fitzgerald. J. L. Tuck
j. ID. Coles bay mare Martha. William Morris
black gelding Tom Malloy. Thomas Waddngton's
roam marc Diana. william Saryents pay geiulnB Dan
Smith and l.. II. Hurd's bay gelding ii X. Before
the start Smith the favorite. the bookmakers
offering even money only against HIM, while to
offered against Dora to against NJ X, 10 to
against Newbrook and 30 to against Fitzgerald and
Others. Five heats were trotted without satsfac-
tory decision, and darkness coming the
necessarily went until to-day NJ X won the
first heat. Dora captured the second by head from
NJ in brilliant STYLE Dora finished first. NJ II
second and Ncwbrook third IN the third heat, but
the judges set back Dora and NJ for running and
gave the heat to Newbrook. Dan Smith landed the
fourth and fifth heats very prcttily.
SUMMARY.
GENTLEMENs DRIVING PARK (roRArEBLY FLEET
WOOD. NEW York, Ocr 30, 1s79-FIRsr DAY
TIE FALL MEErING-FIEsT RACE.-Purse $3.50, for
horses that never Leaf 2:45; mile heats, three in
ivc, in harness. S125 to the first. 500 to the second.
eill,. tl.o ,,rt and :. .t,,t ti,.,fa anrth
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
ARE WE TO LOSE NIAGARA FALLS

A writer from Niagara says: Those
who want to see the horseshoe fall
of Niagara must, | fancy, come out
soon, or they will not be able to form
an idea of what it was, for think it
is going to change its form more
quickly than it has done for century
past. Already great change has
taken place in its appearance. About
two wears ago the shoe was rent i'll
twain, and Il vast rent made III the
toe of the cliff over which the great
river falls. The consequence is that
instead of driving straight down a
cir cular wall of water, the course of
the column is radely broken in the
middle, and a foaming torrent COLA
pses in jagged gorge of the cliff.
thus splitting the cascade into two
sides of IL horseshoe, with cataract
in the center. Much more mist, too,
is produced by the cataract than was
formerly occasioned bv the sheer fall
of the horseshoe, and the view of the
fall is consequently obscured. The
river might have fallen for centuries
over this solid weir of hardest schist:
hut fissure having been made in
Natures masonry it is not unlikely that
the river Will continue its eXcavaf
ton, begun near Lake Ontario, and
do its work more quickly than of late
Now that q breach has been made il
the fortress, it seems certain that the
volume of water, acting as a pcrpe
tual battering-ram on the wall of eacl
side of it, will soon detach Other
portions of them, and thus alter th'
whole form and character of th,
famous Horseshoe falls.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
POSITION IN SLEEP.

A writer to the Christian at Work
insists that position i'll sleep is of
great importance. He says:
"The food passes from the stomach
at the right side, hence its passage is
right side. Water and other fluids
flow equally on level, and it re-
quires less power to propcl them on
q level than upward.
The heart prOpcls the blood to
every part of the body at each sue
cessive beat, and it is easy to see that
if the body is placed in Il horizontal
position the blood will be sent to the
various part of the system with great
er ease, with less expenditure of pow
er, and more perfectly than if one
portion of the body were elevated
above horizontal line.
eff one portion of the body is too
low, the blood does not return as
readily as it is carried thither hence,
there is an accumulation and disten-
ton. and pain follows. -.,t
eff person goes to sleep with the
head but little lower than the body,
he will either soon wake up, or will
die with apoplexy before morning,
because the blood could not get back
from the brain as fast as it was carri-
ed to it.
1.-The savage uses log of wood or
a bunch of leaves, civilized man a
pillow, and if this pillow is too thick,
raising the head too high, there is not
blood enough carried to the brain
and as the brain is nourished and
lnvigOrated by the nu,riment it re-
ceives from the blood during sleep,
it is not fed sufficiently, and the re-
suit is unquiet sleep during the night,
waking up in wearincss, without
rcfreshment, to be followed by 4 day
OF drowsiness and discomfort, and
general inactivity of both mind and
hOly -
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
CLOSE OF THE EVENINGS FESTIV.
TILES.
ErOm the Providence Iunn.nnL L

ti.l
"Say, you Illuminated clock up
there I'm talking to you, am. Your
face is like my nose. 1t begins to
rcddcn early i'll the evening, and keeps
on growing red until midnight. You
are an old fraud, you are, with YOUR
hands folded like Pharisec: YOU
would strike twelve times when a
man is down, and l am almost al
ways down at midnight, and thar is
when yon strike twelve. Iou are "a
dead beat. You beat Oid Father
Time. It's time your career was
wound up. Everything YOU do is on
tick, and you run your face all over
town. If you wasn't clsokc-rull YOUR
skinny hands would trccz.. Why
don't you put on pair of gloves,
put out your light and go home. |
cannot stand that reb uking rcd eve
OH me much longer. Hello: there's
the moon climbing right up overyour
head, and. by Jupiter there's two on
EN-. Two moons is eXtravagant. 1t
exceeds the appropriation. Wonder
where they got that other moon ?
Looks a little sickly as though she
had been shut up in & luma,ic asylum.
Well. III be chawcd up by crows if
that amt the Great Dippcr up there.
How | would like to sousc it into the
milky way and skim the cream of OF
constellation or two. Good might,
everybody. Guess better crawl into
that sugar hogshead over there. II
reminds one SO of Sweet. Sweet
Home Good night"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
A LADY'S RESPONSE TO THE TOAST
OF 1.-THE MEN,

Mrs. Dunway, of the New North
west, at literary reunion at Salem,
Oregon, "toasted" the gentlemen as
follows:
God bless 'em. They halve our
joys they double our SORROWS; they
treble our expenses they quadruple
our cares they excite our magnani-
nifty they increase our self-respect
they awake our enthusiasm; they
arouse our atfections;they control our
property, and Out-mancuver US III
| everything. This would be very
areary world without 'em. In fact,
! may say without prospect of sue
cessful contradiction, that without
'em it would not be much of world
anyhow. We love 'em, and the dear
beings can't help it; we control 'em,
and The precious fellows don't know
it.
AS husbands, they are always con-
venicnt, though not always on hand ;
as beauX they are by no means
s'matchiess." They are most agree
able as visitors they are handy at
state fairs, and indispensable at oys-
ter saloons. They are splendid as
escorts for some other mans wife,
and as friends they are better than
women. AS our fathers they are in
exprcssibly grand. A man may be a
failure in business, n wreck in con-
stitution, not enough to boast of as a
beauty, nothing to speak of as a wit,
less than nothing as a Legislator for
woman's rights, ard even not very
brilliant as member of the press
but if he is our own father we over.
look his shortcomings and cover his
peccadilloes with the divine mantle OF
| charity. Then, as our husbands, how
we love TO parade them as paragons
In the sublime language OF the in.
spirea poet:
| ''Wc'll lie for them,
We'il cry for them,
| And il we could we'd fly for them
Wed do ing but die Tor them.'
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
TERRORISM.
From the St. Louis Republican.

From the St. Louis Republican.
TIE reports that have been scatter
ed broadcast through the north rela-
tive to democratic terrorism in Delta
parish, La, during the late election
prove to be wholly unfoundcd and
shallow Vaccinations of the enemy.
Not so. however, with the bloody
tragedy at ST. Martinsville, which,
being a family affair and on the wrong
side, has been kept remarkably quiet.
The story rs told by the New Orleans
Picayunc is this.
"About O'Clock Wednesday after
noon, in st. Mnrtinsvillc, two BROTH
ers, Ernest and Onczyphore Della
houssaye, were killed by Emile De-
tiege, colored. The two Delahons-
sayes had just returned from BreauX
Bridge, where they had been looking
after the interest of their father, who
was a candidate for the sheriffaltv o.
St. Martins parish. As they alighted
at the courthouse i'll st. Martinvilie
the mulatto Detiege approached then
in a thrca, ening attitude. Onezyphort
Delahoussaye said to him: Il am no
armed, but will be in five minutes.
AT that. moment De:iege fired AM
severely wounded his brother, Ernes
Delahoussaye. and turning immedi
a,cly, he fired and killed OncZyphore
After this Deticge turned to Ernes
and shot him in the arm, at the sam
time kicked him III the breast, and a
he lay upon the ground fred the thir'
shot, killing him instantly. Th
sheriff made no arrest, and Dctieg
is at large. Detiege was also can
didate for sheriff, and is said to hav
been elected. All parties are reput
ljcans.D
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
THE OLD WAYS AND THE NEW.
From the Philadelphia Press. |

sS.
I'Ve just come in from the meadow. wife
where the grass is tall and green,
hobble! out upon my cane to see Johns new
machine:
1t made my old eyes snap again to see TINT NOW
NOW,
And heaved a sigh for the scythe swung some
twenty years ago
Many and man. 8 the day I've moved, meath the
rays OF the scorehing sun
Till thought my poor back would break ere INV
task Ter the day was done.
often think OF the days of toll in the fields all
over the farm,
Till feel the sweat my iwrInkled brow and
the old pain come III my arm.
IL was hard work, 1t was slow work, n-swinging
the old scythe then;
Unlike the mower that went thro' the grass like
death through the ranks OF men,
stood and lOnk-d till my old eyes uched amazed
ut its speed and power
The work it took me day to do II done in one
short hour.
j John SAID hadn't seen the half; when he puts
it into his wheat
ia see 1t reap it, and rake it and put it in bun
die, neat;
Then soon ! Yankee will come aop" and SET f.,
To reap and thrash it, and bag il up and send 1t
into the barn.
John kinder laughed when he SAID it, but said
to the hired man,
"l've seen So much in my pilgrimage thrn' my
three-ScOre years and ten,
That wouldn't be surprised to see a railroad
in the air,
Ora Yankee in u flying ship a'goins most any
where
There's difference in the work done and The
work my boys now do;
Steady and slow in the good old way worry and
fret i'll the new.
But somehow think there WAS happiness crowd
ed into those tolinS days
The last young men of the present won't see tiu
they mend their ways.
To think that should live to see work done
in this wonderful way,
Old tools are little service now. and farmin' is
almost play;
The women have got their SEWN, machines
Their wrinsers and every sich thing
And now play crOquet in the doOryard or sit il,
the parlor and sing.
Iwasn't you that had SO easy times wife, in the
days so long gone by; >
You riz up early and sat up late u toilipr fo,
you and L;
There We're cows to milk, there was butter to
make, and many Il day did you stand
A-washln' my toil-staIHed garments and
wrinslng them by hand
An, Vile, our children will never see the hard
:. work We have seen,
for the heavy task and the long task is done with
machine.
No longer the noise of the scvthe | hear. IN,
| mOwer-there, hear it af;ir
| A-rattiln' along through the tall stout gras.
| -, win the noise ol Il railroad car.
| Well. the old tools now Are showed away: the,
stand a-suthcrin' rust,
| Like many an old man I've seen put inside Will
| only 4 crust;
| When the eye grows dim, when the step is weak
r when the strength goes out OF his arm,
| The best thing poor old man can do is to boI,
| the deed of the farm.
Ihere Is one old way that they can't improve
| although it has been tried
By men who have studied and studied and wor
ried till they died;
1t has shone undimmed for ages like yo,J re
fined from its drOss-
| us The way 10 the kingdom OF heaven by TN
! simple way OF the cross.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
ARCTIC EXPLORATION.

The house committee on naval affairs
has instructed its chairman to report
favorably Mr.. Conger's bill to authorize
and equip an expedition to the Arctic
regions. The bill should become
law. The United States has been penny
wise in this matter. England, Sweden
and other countries have been much
more liberal. What has been accom-
plished in the American name has been
done by individual enterprise. This has
been creditable to Americans, but not
to the liberalIty of the government
Having now IN expedition entering the
Arctic seas by way of Behring strait, an
expedition fitted out by Mr.. James Cor
don Bennett, it is an auspicious time for
| congress to send another American ex-
pedltion by the old beaten path, through
Davis strait. Well equipped and pro-
vsioned, with two able corps in the
field ut once, the United States would
stand chancee OF plucking victory
from the nettle danger, where SO mauy
have failed. Our large whaling inter-
ests, probably the largest that any coun-
try possesses, the cause of science, and
new commercial interests which NAV be
developed, would render the expense
of such an expedition a small matter
when considered with relation to its
benefit. The st. Louis Republican. in
recent issue, advises against The pas
sage of this bill rs unwise and extrava-
giant, but in subsequent number uses
this language prof. Nordenskiold's
observation in theArctic seas have recent
tly been published in outline, and, though
but few details are given, the general
results are momentous to science. The
mere question OF the practicability OF
the northeast passage" Tor purposes of
Siberian trade is quite insignificant be-
side the higher problems of terrestrial
physics which his researches open and
help to Solve-problems in whose solu
tion the welfare of all nations is con-
cerned. One of the most important of
these is the origin of the polar waves
of air which in winter sweep down from
the Arctic basin or from the Siberian
coasts, and, passing over the United
States, dominate its weather from Mon
lana to the Gulf of Mexico. The obser-
vatlons taken on the Vega during
the long winter night of her polar prison
north OF Behring strait reveal the unex-
pected tact that the .scold waves, which
swept over the ice-bound vessel came.
not from the direction of the pole. but
from the interior OF Siberia; :.the coldes,
winds" thu Swedes report, "came from
the southwest and west, that is to say
from ths Siberian plain" The inference
forced upon geographers and meteorol
ogists by this apparently unimportant
discovery obviously is that we must lool
to the same continental quarter for th.
eXplanation of the climatic extreme
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON D. c., Dec. 20, 1879.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER:- one sense
this is the best behaved congress we
ever had. 1t attends to business. In
dlvidua! members push their ideas on
various subjects to the front in the shape
of bills and resolutions, but so far no
time has been spent in the consideration
of anything bnt purely business matters.
Later in the session of course, when the
appropriation bills are passed or are well
on their way, the desire for political dis
cussion will make itself felt irresistably
but the intention OF the democrats now,
and the desire of many intelligent re-
publicans is to have as little OF mere de-
bate on political subjects as possible.
Contrary to common opinion even a
week ago. the house disposed of
four appropriations before adjourn
ing over the holidays. They are such
as vary little from year to year, how
ever, and usually excite little discus
sion. But it is thought the approprla-
tion committee will report the more
important bills, also, in such shape that
no reasonable fault can be found with
them. by the republicans.
Aside from these bills the other mat
ters are or ought to be easily dis
posed of. So far as the Indians are
concerned, think the house and senate
az we'll prepared to vote upon questions
relating to them. as they will be later in
| the session.
There is majority of representatives
favorable to turning the whole control
of the savages over to the war depart
ment.
There is almost unanimity in the de-
| termination to vote liberal sums tor i'm
provements OF the Mississippi and its
tributaries.
There is the same unanimous opposl.
ton to voting subsidies. A clear ma
jority in both houses oppose any finan.
cial legislation of any Importance cx.
ccpt the authorizing OF a four per. cent
refunding bond, With these matters
disposed Of, as it would seem they
might be early in May. the plan o
Speaker Randall to adjourn by the mid
die OF that month may be realized.
Eastern dispatches received last nigh
indicate that the legislature of Maine
will be democratic in both branches
The radical National Republican speak.
of this as Crank official villainy." L
calls the honest and amiable cover
nor OF Maine. a scoundrel for issuing
certificates of election to such person!
as appeared to him to be elected. Repre-
sentative Frye is especially angry, an,
says democrats and greenbackers will
be buried beyond resurrection mex
year. l shall not attempt to express tn,
feelings OF other radical statesmen here
Where Mr.. Frye makes his mistake i
IN supposing that there is an actual re
publican majority in Maine, and that th
gentlemen who have this year vote,
against radcalism are to be whippe,
back into party lines. But he will fine
that bulldoz!ng will not be longer coun
tenanced in Maine politics. HILTON.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27

The deep sea dredging conducted by
the American Fish Commission, between
Saybrook and the Bay of Fundy, has
brought to light more than fifty varieties
OF fish previously unknown. ut least IN
American waters. Many kinds Of these
newly discovered fish are quite pa.ata-
BILE. The dredging expedition IN charge
of Prof. Verrill, of Yale, has carefully
studied the habits and histories of the
different fish and animals found, and had
sought to learn the localities where each
species most abounds, their food. time
and circumstances Of breeding, and par
ticulars concerning their migration.
Fishes have been opened, and the con-
tents of their stomachs examined, to see
what they eat This is very mpor-
tant part of the investigation, and the
most that is known in this direction has
been learned through the researches of
the commission. This point known, the
reason OF the presence or absence of a
particular fish IN any locality could be
readily determined. In places where
herring have been found in large qnan.
titles one season, none could be discov.
cred the next, on account of the disap.
pearance OF their favorite food Their
diet is shrimps. The latter exist on al.
most invisible crustacea, and these again
on microscopic creations. The presence
OF the microscopic life would bring the
crustacea, to be followed by the shrlmps
and the herrings, and the whales, ano
the sharks, in the order named. Thu.
is seen the important part the most MI
mute things may play in the economy o
nature. A knowledge of these fact!
will teach the fisherman not to destroy
the food supply OF his prospective prey
1
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
LET 1T PASS.

From All the Year Round
Be NOT swift to take offense;
Let it pass
Anger is foe TO sense
Let it pass
Brood not darkly o'er wrong;
Which will disappear ere long;
Rather sing this CHEEKY song
Let il pass
Let it pass
Strife cOrrodes the purest mind;
Let il pass
As the unregarded wind,
Let it pass.
Amy vulgar souls that live.
May condemn without rcprieve;
TIs the noble who forgive.
Let it pasS
Let 1t pass!
Echo net IN angry word;
Let it pass!
Let it pass.
Since our joys must pass away
Like the dewdrops Oh the spray,
Wherefore shOufi our anger stay?
Let it pass!
Let 1t pass!
If for good you've taken ill;
Let it pass!
Oh, be kind and gentle still!
Let 1t paSSi
Time at last makes all things straight;
Let us not resent but wait,
And our triumph shall be great;
Let it pass!
Let it pass!
Bid your anger to depart;
Let it pass!
Lay those homely words to heart;
LET it pass!''
Follow not the giddy throng;
Better TO be wrCnged than wrong;
Therefore sing the cheerful song
Let it pass!
Let ii LaSs!
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27

A late medical writer considers the
proper position to assume during sleep
to be that OF lying face downward, as in
that position only can all the organs Of
the body freely perform their proper
functions.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
SERENE DOMESTIC SKIES.
[Cincinnati Commercially

ICTICIIIII'tlI CVIIIiII'I CIsfI.l
"I predict" said Caudle the other
day to his bosom friend, ga mild Will
ter" Son what grounds 2! MY
wife and her mother have gone 10
Europe to stay Till spring"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
a r ALEXANDER,

TTORNEY AT LAW. viii practice san,,,;ns IN tne
WIN also attend promptly to the collection OF
aims and to investigation OF un ttles of 70 VIM
state, ONCE over the Banking house oi "
Morrison & Co. H---
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
IN z. nYLAND: xEserHoS nYLANp,
aRNnY C. WALLACE. WIN. IL. chiL
WALLACE e. CHILES,

A TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT
n Law, Lexington, Mo. Office, front room
$se court house. Will practice in the courts OF
LAFAYETTE and surrounding counties, and also IN
the Supreme court of the state OF Missouri, anu
he o. s Circuit and District courts Tor the
Western District of Missouri.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
r., A. HlCkLIN.

TToRNEY AT LAW Will practice ms ms
n profession IN the courts oil LaaE 0 cue ,n, anu
s1nnnrapnn,iIng counties Prompt attention given
r. ali business entrusted to his care omce oNei
Su,,les q Co.'s Drug Store, front room
<'e'~AA~S