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Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

WHEN n man is sitting on sofa on n
fine evening with "A pretty girl, and the
conversation is beginning to get decided
ly interesting to both, it is terrible to
them to have a nail work out of the pas- =
ter and let chrome Of Washington
crossing the Delaware down on their
heads.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

No matter how indu gent man may
be, no matter how sweet a disposition he
may have, he will feel con siderably put
oGt, if not totally wild, wnen he discov
eres that his wife has been driving nails
in the wall with ais razor strop.- Uncle
Sam.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

A NOVEL DUEL.-A challenge re-
Gently passed between two mechanics IN
Madrid. A piece of money was cast up
and the loser was to place himself on
the Mediodia Railway, and let himself
be crushed by the locomotive. 1t was
carried into effect, and the tailor, who
lost, was cut to pieces by the mail train
from Toledo.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

THE Agricultural Society of South Car
olina affirms in its report that State can
make more money in wheat, hay and oats
than in cotton, and produce as much
grain to an acre as in the West.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

Ina little town in Missouri a ladv
teacher was exercising class of iuyen .
ilos in mental arithmetic. She commen-
ced the question. "If you buy a cow for
Slo-" when up came little hand.
"What is il Johnny?" "Why, you can't
buy no kind ofa COW for $40. Father
sold one for $50 the other day, and she
was regular old scrub at that.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

"WHY did you not admire my daugh-
terP said lady to gentleman. BE
cause" said he, 81 am actually no judge
Of painting" "But surely" rejoined
she, "you never saw an angel that was
not painted"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

Two men started out on wager to
see who could tell the biggest lie. No.
commenced: "a wealthy county eli.
"whereupon No. 2 stopped him
right there and paid the forfeit.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

HoUsEKEEPERs may be glad to know
that tables spoonful ofammonia in one
gallon OF warm water will restore the
color Of carpets,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

He was good man. His voice was
ever lifted up in behalf of the right, and
his very last breath was used in-bIow-
ing down the barrel of his shot gun TO see
if it was loaded. 1t was.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

THERE was nothing but n plain slab at
the head Of the mound, but the simple
inscription upon it tells its own sad story:
" He was umpire in close game"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19
THE EYES THE Eyes !
DIR. +. III. PARDEE.
Oculist and ArlI'ist.

A ETER A PROTRACTED BLIND
IA ness Of more than five years, Dr. Parder
has made himself thoroughly and scienilical.
ly acquainted with all Diseases Of tho Eye
and is now practicing with success not sur.
passed in the United States.
All operations performed, such as StrabisC
mus, or crOss-eye, Cataract by linear extraoI
tion, Depression or A bsOrpti0n Pterygium, c.
heshy membrane growing over the eye, Redue
tiOn of Staphyloma, or buging out of the eys
Artificial Pupil, Fistula, Lpchrymalis or clio
ing of the tear p'ssagc, and all detormitiesse ei
the Lids etc.
Artificial Ey inserted without the least
pain, and possessing all the movements and
constantly on hand and for sale at reasonable
prices. The Doctors Eye Bath for the troat-
ment and cure of all nervous diseases is USED
all over this cOast.
Thankful to those physicians who have sent
him cases Tor operation, he hopes that his uni
yersals success will warrant y continuation oil
their confidence. His celebrity as an operator
is co-extensive with his success, as patients
are presenting themselves, for treatment and
operations, fToGl N ew York and Boston, almost
monthly. Many patients can be seen at the
Doctors Office daily, in different stages of re-
covery.
0rrIcE-62I Clay street, (Over the CLAW
Street Savings Banli), San Francisco.
TAKE NOTICE." Il Lsar Is rot
be believed though he sp. axis the Trufh
Reports are in circulation through the upper
country that have retired from business, that
j have gone to tho Atlantic States that | am
in Europe, &c, &c. TO those interested | will
say that the report has been gotten in circula-
tion for the furtherance of other parties, who
are trying to obtain, illegitimatey, an eye
practice. The rel 0rt has been started by an
itinerant mountebank, and without the least
truth, as am at my Office daily, and attending
to about sixty daily patients.
E. IL. PARDEE, OcuIist,
62l Clay Street,
my25-lY. SAN FRANCISCO.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

WHAT is the difference between the
weather and the baby? One never rains
but it pours; the other never pains but it
roars.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

A YOUNG lady's prayer book is so
heavy now that it takes Il young man to
carry it home from church.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19

MAINE youngsters are picking potato
bugs at ten cents thousand.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-07-19
SOCIETY NOTICES.

Trinity lodge, NO. ~, r. II. VI"
Hold their regular communications at Ma
SONIC HALL, Weayerville, on the last Saturday
of each month. Hour of meeting, 7 o'clock
p. JAS HARVEY. w. M.
NJ. L. GRIFFIN Secretary. ian2.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26

N. C. Coppinger. Many of the new cases re-
ported were of several days standing and
not previously handed in. The exodus con-
tinued; nearly every prominent business
house in the city was closed, and the streets
were nearly deserted except by the fleeing
citizens.
At the requestof Representative Young Of
the Memphis (Tenn.) District, the Secretary
of War on the 21st ordered sent to Memphis
1900 tents and rations for 10000 people for
20 days, to be used in aid of sufferers from
yellow fever.
The Tennessee State Board of Health, in
session at Nashville, on the 2lst, declared
quarantine against Memphis for the whole
State.
The brig Akbar, from Havana for New
York, was recently spoken at sea with the
Captain and three men sick with yellow
fever, one man having died the day pre-
vious, and her former Captain having died
in Havana. A navigator was put on board.
A sailor of II. M. s. Bellerophon, who
died of yellow fever, contracted at Jamaica,
was buried at Halifax, N. S., on the 18th.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
Recalled tO Life.

The recall of a country girl to life by
a sisters shrek is one of the local topics
of the journal, of Evansville, Ind.
The young lady had been quiet i'll for
weeks, and was thought to be dying of
consumption. She had grown so weak
and emaciated that her strength was no
more than a child's. One afternoon,
while lying upon her couch, her sister
came in from walk and sat by the bed
side. A conversation began, and the
invalid began to speak. AS she uttered
the first word, she felt bewildering
weakness, aud sinking flutter of her
breath. Her eyes became fixed, the
lower jaw dropped as in death, and the
body became motionless, while con-
sciousness disappeared. The sister
leaped from her seat, and ran to the
door shrieking to her mother that her
sister was dead. The sound of the
shrek penetrated through the veil of
death, and reused the sinking faculties.
The blood, which had congested in the
lungs, was sent back by the nervous
shock, and gathering her strength by a
strong effort of will, the invalid opened
her eyes and awoke to life again, breath
less and amazed at the thrilling peril
she had escaped.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
SANITARY PRECAUTIONS.
Suggestions by the National Board Oi
Health.

suggestions by the NATIONAL board OF
Health.
The Executive Committee of the National
Board of Health invites the attention of all
State and municipal authorities and santa
~ organizations to the fact that they should
without delay endeavor to secure the best
sanitary condition Of places and people un-
der their charge. Whatever opinions may
be held as to the causes Of yellow fever
and of the recent appearance Of that
disease In Tennessee and Missis-
pippi, 1t is wise to act as If
It were disease due to . specific particular
production, transportable, and may be de-
stroyed by exposure to temperture above
$50 deg. Fahrenheit, or by chemical disin-
fectants Of sufficient strength, IL brought
into immediate contact. 1t Is also prudent
to assume that the growth and reproduc-
tions of this cause are connected with the
presence of filth, in the sanitary sense of that
word, including decaying organic matter
and defective ventilation, as well as OF high
temperature. The cases of yellow fever re-
Gently observed should be considered as due
to causes surviving from last years cpl
demic, and not to recent importation from
other countries. 1t follows that there Is q
liability to appearance of other cases in
places visited by the epidemic of last year,
and that there Is danger Of the spread Of the
disease to the North and East. The object
of the present circular Is to advise
that all cities, towns and villages be
at once made clean in sanitary point
Of view. The first step towards securing
cleanliness is to obtain reliable information
as to what parts of the place are clean and
what foul. The results of careful sanitary
inspection in almost any city or town will
show the existence of collections of decay
ing and offensive matters, previously un-
known, and which every one will admit
should be promptly removed and destroyed.
Such inspection, to be of value, must be
thorough and made by pesrons COM
petent to recognize foul soils, water
and air, as well as the grosser and more
palpable forms of nuisance. They should
also be made by persons who would report
fully and frankly the results of their OBJ
servations without reference to the wishes
OF persons or corporations. When the
whereabouts and extent of the evil is known
the remedy is usually almost self-evident,
The National Board Of Health will furnish,
on request, blank forms as a guide for such
Inspections.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
What We Would Do.

The prodigies of good we should ac-
complish under certain circumstances
are somewhat marvellous. If we pos
sessed the money of this one, the leisure
of another, the strength and talent of a
third, the firm health of our neighbor,
the education of our first cousin, the ex-
perience of this friend or the happy
temperament of that, mankind would be
largely benefited by our example, we
fondly believe. We build castles with
materials belonging to others, which
would be perpetual rebuke if they could
only descry the towers thereof against
their mental horizon. 1t is a kind OF
amelioration of our own infelicities and
imbecilities to perceive how little the su-
availed them. We are not glad that
they have wrapped their talent in nap
kin instead of putting it out at interest,
but we fancy 1t excuses our own short
comings in degree: if they failed, with
such odds in their favor, what could be
expected of us, already overweighted
for the contest by poverty or infirmity,
or by want of proper trainingp If we
were as rich, for instance, as our great
uncle Cresus, how differently we should
employ our surplus income! We should
send anonymous bank bills to genteel
and INDECENT families we wot of; we
should increase the welfare of certain
good clergymen sub r0sa; we
should replenish the coal bins
of widowed washer-women; we
should order no end of water-color
drawings from the young wom-
en- who are trying to keep their heads
above water, we should even do violence
to our own aesthetic taste, and purchase
some of the crude work of artists not
born to fame; we should plan pleasant
surprises for poor shop.girls and teach
ers; we should pay seamstresses little
more than they demand, and remember
the birthdays of poor relations. The
value of our gifts should be great in
proportion to the slender means of the
the recipient; we should not only edu-
cate certain youths who show signs OF
talent, but lend a helping hand to those
who gave no sign, as being in the great
er need OF development, it may be; we
should, moreover, have no picked-up
dinners and wear no patched garments,
while the naked and hungry are always
with us. What languages we should
master, what sciences should we not
make our own, if we possessed the leis-
ure of certain acquaintances! Does any
flower blossom whose times and seasons
we should not knowp or any bird fly
whose habits and notes we should not
recognizep What acquaintance we
might cultivate with the literatures of
the wide werld, and what time might
we not lend to the teaching of othersp
But the chief danger in thus considering
the mote in our neighbours eye lies in
the fact that we are apt to become so
engrossed in the analysis as to ignore
the responsibilities of our own position,
and leave room for others, even less IA
vored of fortune than ourselves, to find
similar causes of dissatisfaction in our
use of our own advantages .-Harper's
Bazaar.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26

A CALIFORNIA correspondent writes
Paper bricks, now being made in Wis
consin, strike us as exactly what we
want here. One of our paper-mills
made few, which need but touch to
bring conviction. 1t is papier-mache
compressed. San Francisco shanties
will soon tumble to pieces. Yet brick is
Objectionable in this damp atmosphere.
No country on earth has more or better
fibrous material. Aquatic rushes cover
all our still waters, and one of our mills
uses that material for its pulp. Then
we have the paper cactus in vast forests,
in our southeastern deserts, which ex-
GELS all others for bricks. Such houses
would need no plaster, and they would
be easily moved on wheels. The soles
of all Chinese shoes are made of paper
after this fashion. Their shoes have more
sense than ours. They are made with
out elevated heels, and so shaped other
wise that neither corns nor bunions can
be generated.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26

the "A passengers on board were rescued.
The ship was total loss.
A Berlin dispatch says the cholera has
made its appearance in Smolensk. The ter
rible epidemic diphtheria continues its raw
ages in Bessarabia, where the Governor has
ordered the universal fumigation of the
dwellings and clothing of the peasantry.
In consequence of the depression in Lam
cashire, England, large numbers Of opera
tives are emigrating to America.
The new German tariff 1t is estimated will
give the Government $50, 100000 more than
hitherto. The support of the German States
was secured for this measure by amend
ments providing for the distribution of the
surplus revenue amongst the States.
plot to wreck the Queens train be-
tween Windsor and Osborne, on the 10Th, is
said to have been discovered and thwarted.
A pilot-engine was started over the road in
advance Of the Queens train and removed
the obstructions that bad been placed upon
the track. No arrests made.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed Ferry's second Educational bill,
which provides for excluding the religious
element from the Superior Council of Edu-
cation.
By the capsizing of yacht at Toronto, on
the 10th, Mrs. Octavie DeLisle, Emily La
Rue, Louis Lefebre and son, Louis Gauvin,
Sewer Garneau, Ferdinand Blais and DIR.
Ernest DeLisle were drowned.
GENERAL.
July crop reports to the Department of
Agriculture show a slight falling off in the
condition of cotton, as compared with last
months report. Corn crop in bad condition
in all Southern States, on account of
drought; in Texas not one-half a crop.
Northern States generally report fair crops,
while Northwestern States show very high
average. Spring wheat is largely affected by
drought throughout the entire West, but
New England reports are up to the
average, and California not much below.
There is a very nice yield of winter wheat
throughout nearly all the Southern Atlantic
States, particularly in Georgia, where suffi-
cient has been grown for home consump-
ton. Texas shows a short crop on ac-
count of drought and loca storms.
The New England States have good crop;
Middle States belowthe average. The small
crops of Alabama and Mississippi are in
good condition. Northwestern States give
very favorable reports, while the Pacific
States are much above the average. There
is a decrease in the acreage of tobacco
throughout the country and the crop is not
up to the average.
Ex-senator Ramsey of Minnesota, 1t is
stated upon what seems to be pretty good
authority, is to be the successor of War Sec
retary McCrary.
A quarterly commercial report shows that
the number of failures in the country for the
second quarter of 1879 has been smaller than
for any previous quarter in five years, and
that there is an increase of over 20 per cent.
in business.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26

Sole Agents for the sale of Holman Liver
Pad Oompany's Remedies in Keytesville, Mo.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
school and Church.

The Boston School Board have vot-
ed against reducing teachers salaries.
The State University at Oxford,
Miss, had 319 students last session.
There is a movement to make plain
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26

Odds and Ends.
The removal of the duty on quinine
ought to diminish the number of Shak-
er5.
IT'S now the busy housewife,
In piercing accent cries:
" Philander Simpkins, shut that door,
Or you'll let in all the fiies.'
Nothing surprises young man
more than the shape of his head as he
sees it it for the first time after his hair
has been cropped close.
"A man of genius, says the Yonkers
Gazette, rarely amounts to much until a
jealous few in the same line of business
proclaim him fraud.
ger in the town. Toe young lady of the
house was much put out by her wanting
to go to church Sunday morning when
she wanted her aid in dressing. 81
don't see what you are so anxious to go
to church every Sunday for" she petu-
lantly observed last Sabbath; "you
can't know any fellow in Danbury. -
Danbury Nes0s.
Sarah Jane Hote, of Mount Morris,
N. Y, owns 113 cats, and her neighbors
never utter a word of complaint. This
is because she has no neighbors. They
are camping out in the woods, and real
estate in the neighborhood of Sarah's
premises can be bought for a song. 1t
is quite likely that nitro-glyceride fac
tory will be established next door to the
cat foundry.
-"Bub, did you ever stop to Think"
said grocer recently, as he measured
out half peck of potatoes, "that these
potatoes contain sugar, water and
starch?" "Noa, didn't" replied the
boy, "but heard mother say that you
put peas AID beans in your coffee, and
about pint of water in every quart of
milk you Sold" The subject of natural
philosophy was dropped right there.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
AT Kokomo. Ind. John De Vana

AT Kokomo, Ind, John De Vana,
while fooling with revolver, acci-
dentally shot Freddie Wilson, his play
mate, the ball entering his body just
above the left lung.
Frankfort, Ind, Charles Talbot, a
young man, fell from the wagon and
pitchfork penetrated his abdomen, caus-
ing fatal wound.
AT Canal Winchester, o., two boys,
named Burgoon and Selby, aged and
IA years, were playing with a revolver,
when Selby shot Burgoon, inficting a
mortal wound.
While playing baseball at Provi-
dence, r. l., John Campbell, II years
of age, was struck in the stomach by a
bat in the hands of William McClane,
and died in short time.
While colored boy, aged II, was
bathing on Judge VOLTS plantation,
near Dublin, Ca, he was bitten on the
foot and hand by moccasin snake.
He died in great agony.
"A 3-year-old child of James Shan
nahan, at Dudley. Iowa, drank bot
tie of carbolic acid, which had careless
ly been left in its way, and died three
hours later, in terrible agony.
Mrs. G. Krauss of Mendoza, MINI,
went into her cellar to get some pro-
visions, and being gone long time her
little daughter went to see what had
happened her. She was found lying
dead at the bottom of the steps with her
neck broken.
"A little 5-year-old son of James
Cramie of Utica, Mich, ran in front of
the moving machine and struck one of
the horses, starting them up. Before
he could get away the knives caught
and literally CIT him in two. He died
in few minutes.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-26
Haps and Mishaps.

Near Fredericktown, o., William
Frey's child fell into boiler OF hot
water, and was scalded to death.
"A family at Racine, Wis, were poi
oned from eating pigeons which had
been wrapped up in paper which con-
tained arsenic.
Mrs Ellen McDermett, residing in
Harrison County, Ind, was bitten on
the arm by large black spider, and
died in great agony six days afterward.
Thomas j. Hilbert, drugclerk at
Detroit, Mich, was fatally wounded by
the explosion of self-cocking pistol
while engaged in making up his bed.
, 1879-08-17

clTuATION WANTtD-BY A FtRST-CLAsS GUS
. tom cutter, being used to fine trade f1rsl .clas3
references given Address for one week 81 1l1ouHes
c1TUAT,oS WANTED-As ENGINEEK; 70 YEARS
SeIpeFience. Good references given. Address = Si.
T,Ih.aza ofRs
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-16
DISS0L i TION
Co. TNER HIP.

THE firm of RICHARD & WELSH
l. ANS is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. All persons knowing them
selves indebted to the late firm, either By
note or open account, will please make
prompt settlement Of the same by the Ist
of October next, as after that time all un-
settled accounts and notes will be placed
in other hands for collection.
The entire stock Of Dry Goods, Notions,
Carpets, &C., belonging to said firm, will
be sold at reduced prices, in order to close
up the business.
Both partners will be found, until Oc-
tober lst, 1T their old stand, aud either
will sign firm name in settlement.
JOHN /. RICKARD.
JOHN +. WELSHANS.
August 0. 1879. If