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COMPANION, gavo won't to anot!,or scrlcs Of Ak

compnn!on, gavc won't to another scrles Of az
plGsivs 1Rughs.
hsaed Mr. S1m(g,lrr wI,nt hn know nl,out It.. flo
unmarked that IL I'LL not atluunt IN much,
though f was yrry laughal,lc., hlra. nobart
Ind walked up townrls Weber " a
luz that she meant mischief, turned and
hurried ont Ut thu tinor, accompanied by JUGS.
SUI, WHO was also afrall tlmt she ''hodctl no
guod" On their ,,lsappcarascn from The room
hands held OIL to the knob to prevent her from
opening II, which they wcru afratl elotntGht do.
After while they wuut awnyt ntI t!lat was oil
there wns Ut Il. "liut" concluded Mr., shaf:
laughing u tl.c picture Of tho sceno passed be-
ny this time tlIo procession had reached tho
corner Of Washington md l.a9a1le streets, an.l
all turned IN tho direction Of Mr. Jueasells Of:
ticc, exespt tho reporter, whute duties called
him elscwlero.
r. 3. WEBER.
Mr. Weber Ia man about 49 years Of nHa,
md, UP to The time Of the shouting, had sx
ccllcnt health. I1a las bccn mnrrlcd for several
years, but has no children. Although
very we'll known among the German resi-
1tnts Of Cnicago hts nRma waa not
specially familiar to Americans. except In bus.
ness circles, until Inst year, when he, after hla
return from Europe, began, with great perafst-
ency. to follow up and try to secure tue !ndtcs-
mcnt Of Mr. Henry Grrencbauln. Weber was
ono OF the Stockholders Of the German Swings
BANK. and was enraged not only at thu loss Of
biz. stock, but over the possibility Of being
called on 10. pay an asacasnent to make
good the claims Of creditors. 1Io had Mr..
1rcenehsum brought before Jueticu De
Wolf, whrre there was a long and tedious
esatnIuattont which resulted IN MI. Greene
banm being held to tas Gralnl Jury, which body,
however, FILLED to. find m Indictment against
httu, for Mr.. Weher's Judgment Ind unguca-
ttonably hcon biased good deal by his persouat
feollnEs n tlie matter: After time, he recon-.
ualse mn examination Of the German National,
report regarding which l!e recently submitted
Has to have started for Europa At 10 o'clock
last night with three of his sisters children,
who were to rcmaln abrond IN order to complete
their education. His wife Is there now, md
hus been nbsEnt for Bomo time. Hs had settled
up all bis affairs, and was lcavIng his suit IN
such condition thnt his attorneys could easily
attend to Il during his abscnre. Ills testimony
wns just about 10 De taken when tile shot was
| fired.
, 1879-05-02

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, 1879-05-02
THE PHYSICIANS,

After DR.. aeifrert Ind been amt for. which
co 1,,css.r A., ~, rnnucut ,ho snno.,r1 M,
Wv" "aesseu .. WV u4o uou1s"t t'o 6aoo'.'s "
eatFea, LUG "oahaeo man was removed Into
Col Andcrsen's private oicc and placed on
lounge, Tho medical man soon mada tits ap.
pcarspco with tbs iueyttable porkct.caso. which
ho opoued, looked over for an Instant, md then
made an examination OF the wound. This hc
found to be- about three inches above
TIM naval and ono inrh In t}e Ian Thc
hi, nns.nd thro,1,, ~. i1,o.s,nsa II at.ra,'a,
W., un't pissaeu 'n.ousn tu 'nsest'ss ~ u'as'ona!
l'he. ABOUT ioaf inches from tia canal, h1lu
lodged 10 the spinal column. 1twaR evident
tlmt nothing could be done to rolteyu him until
after 1,,a ra,nnvnl.to hts home. A carr,orc ,v,s
No. "asm, s 'l.naa w ,.a ''O.mo r,sSos mas
sposo,S sn.a'.noo' 'ns s,.s ~oanaea ,aan was
helped doWn-sta!rs, lifted carefully Into
tho vehicle, ena uccompan!ed by Dr.. Hciifcrt.
driyen tq hls l. rssidente, NJ. N4 + North
Lasa1e DFf bax.Ss aMa IfaTman a It. Mliis5
promptly, md, after coaau1tatlon, calmly ind
frankly told the wounded man and bis friends
that the chances ware all a9ainst his recovery,
anti TINT IT 10 should 40 60 It. would be nothing
, 1879-05-02

THE SCENE.
The following diagram Will Riva = clear idea
Of the sronc Of tho shooting:
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
Manifestation of Friendship.

Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
A friend gives MS the following little
aneCdOte as Illustrative of the neighbOrly
love of the people of Texas: He and a
Texan, who was contemplating the pur-
chasing of a ranch somewhere in Truckee
Meadows, were out Oh horseback looking
at the farms and cattle ranges along the
river. As they leisurely followed the
meanderings of the stream they presently
saw two horsemen on the opposite
bank. AS the two parties approached
each other the Texan with our friend re-
cOgnized in one of the men on the OppO-
site bank of the river an old friend and a
man who was one of his nearest neighbors
at home. The two men were evidently
delighted to meet each other, and their
only regret appeared to be that they en-
countered one another In place where
it was impossible for them to clasp and
snake hands, the river not being fOrdable
on account of its swittneSs and the rocky
and treacherous nature of the channel,
while the nearest bridge was five
miles above. Both men lamented these
unfortunate circumstances very much
but at length a way of getting over the
difficulty suggested itself to the dTOVer,
whose pet name was ''Broncho Bill"
81 say, SAM" cried BrOncho, ''it's lit
tie rough for old friends and neighbors to
meet away out here, thousands of miles
from home, and then to have to part in
OlliS way OOJ OuI DASJol Will yer
81 hey" cried Sam Callers carry her. !"
"GOOd! That's some comfort; eff we
can't get across this yer stream to shake
hands, why thar's nOthin' to prevent us
from takin' a shot at each other. Jst ride
up to yer left there rod or two. Thar
now, just one good old neighborly home
shot -
The men rode aside, and bang bang /
went their pistols.
eyer smashed the pummel of my sad
dle,'' cried BrOncho; Eyer see the cussed
hoss shied little jist as yer turned loose,
or yer might A-plumped me goOd.'
o g. ''You done better, Bill; yeu got into
the flesh of my left arm bout half an
inch. Good mOrnin' to you, safe jour
ney to yer, and tell the folks at home we
met and had good time together"
"Thanke yer an the same to you. Bet
Pll give 'em good account of you"
Sam then turned to our friend, and
with tears in his eyes said: "God bless
him 1t is a great comfort to meet an old
friend and neighbOr like him away Out
here in this wilderness place. A kinder
more accOmmodative and agreeable gen.
tleman never lived. l wouldn't a-misseC
s9ein' him for $50.''
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
More Liquor and Less Law.

The friends of law, order and Sabbath
observance were oyeFpOwered at the cleo
ton in Newark, n. J. But they have no
reason TO be disheartened, for the election
was made TO turn on politics as we'll as
morals, and was therefore not a simple
fight between the friends and foes of the
Sunday laws.
For a long time the good people of
Newark,-and there is no city where the
good people are more courageous aud
faithful,-have been struggling to sustain
the American principle of quite, restful
and orderly Sundays: interfering with
no mans wishes to spend the day as he
will, if he does not violate the law of the
land and disturb the peace. But an i'm
mense German population has set in and,
united with the inevitable Irish people,
have made power that demands lager,
whisky and open saloons on Sunday, and
/ six other days in the week besides. The
! city charter election coming on, the Re-
Dublicans put in nomination for Mayer a
man who represents the law and order
/ party, and the Democrats set up for the
same office a German citizen who fairly
/ represented the other side. The German
/ vote in Newark has hitherto been claimed
bv the Republica party, bur now it was
/ given with the Irish to the Democratic
candidate, who was elected by some 5000
! majority.
This temporary defeat Will not prevent
the law and order men from demanding
the strict enforcement of the law as il
stands. They will labor under increased
difficulties, now that the majority OIL
numbers is against them; but law is OF
their side yet, and in New Jersey law can
be upheld and enforced.
The result also shows the importance
of separating, if possible, a question o
this kind from party politics. There il
not doubt that the good people, friends
of the observance of Sunday as a day o
rest, and opposed to vice and immortality
are largely in the majority; and if a vO tt
were taken on that question, pure ant
simple, the right would prevail. Bu
party ties are so strong that many citi
izens hold it to be their duty to go will
their party, even at the expense of suci
an issue as this. The Germans and tn
Irish do not feel any pressure of tina
sort. The motto of the Irish agitation il
England at the present time is, ''MOT
liquor and less law.'' It is also the err
of the foreign element in our population
1t is a fearful cry. And when we see tn
rapid growth of this element in on
| political parties, the necessity is force
/ upon us of combining all good citizen
(without destination of pOliticts) in asso
citation to preserve, by votes, the mori
bulwarks of society.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
Allies aL5e for a, That.

To the Editors Of the n. Y, Evening Post:
You have lately taken occasion to point
out the detrimental influence upon Amer
lean manners of certain French habits
of life and conduct. Premit me to direct
vour attention to certain encroachments
of English ''society manners" which ara
apt to exert a cOrrupting influence upon
the less thoughtful of American women.
I refer to the habit of instructing SER
wants to tell white lies-such as MRS. A
is not in'' when in fact Mrs. A is in.
The writer lately had occasion to observe
the prevalence of this habit of prevarica-
ton. He called to account a lady who
had been detected in this system of lying,
pointing out to her that it was wrong in
itself, wrong to instruct servant in the
departure from truth, wrong in the eye
of God. to whom she was in the habit
of praying. But he was told in reply
that there was no wrong at all in the Gus
tom; that it was an Established custom
of good society," recognized in the best
society in En- gland and eminently proper
that the writer's education had been
sadly neglected and that his manners
clearly lacked polish if he failed to per
ceive the propriety of the custom.
Now, Messrs. Editors, although
know what you think on the subject from
the fact that you have invariably defended
truth and honor and battled against all
manner of deception, beg that you will
| give publicity to your opinion on this sub
| iect so that in telling the truth the BRAIN
! less followers of custOm-those persons
who are unable to disingage themselves
| from noxious customs and fashions Sc
| long as they are Gin fashion" may have
the rock of your authority to. stand
upon. A. B.
New York, Oct 6, 1879.
A lie is a lie, no matter what the OBJ
| ieCt may be for which it is told. and SER
wants who are instructed to lie for theil
| employers very often better the instruc-
| tion and take up the practice on theil
own account.-Eds. N. Y. FUe. Post.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
Gxpstes in California.

There are at least 1900, 900 Gypsies in
Europe. OF these Scotland has about
100000; England, 6O.000, and Ireland
perhaps half the latter number The
number of genuine Gypsies in the United
States has never been officially computed.
The number now in this State is probably
not less than 400. OF men, women and
childred living in tents, or other movable
habitatiOns, the number is perhaps nor
more than 100. The remainder live, to
all intents and purposes, like other peo-
pie, and are known TO be Gypsies only by
persons of their own race or others who
learn the fact accidentally. At the pres
ent writing there are few nOmadic Gyp-
sizes within the limits of San Francisco
but there are perhaps 200 persons of
Gypsy lineage in this city who live in our
very midst and practice their various
calings just like other folks, and nobody
is the wiser or any the worse therefor.
Some of our beSt-knOwn fortune-teIlers
are of Gypsy origin, and most Of them
affiliate more or less with their own race
and kindred. Some of the many fruit
peddlers who hawk about our streets are
Gypsies; but so far as the writer has been
able to ascertain none of the 6 tins to
mend" pedestrians with whom this city
is afflicted belong to this peculiar people j;
though, strange to say, our noun 6 tinker"
is derived from the Scotch * tinker, D
which is the popular term for Gypsy in
the land of cakes. " Swapping horses
and telling fortunes seem to be their chief
provincial stock in trade. In various
parts of Europe Gypsies excel as artisans,
but it does not appear that the same pro-
| tlciency has been imported by them into
this country. A few of the Oakland
! Gypsies understand trades, learned in
! one OF James Crabb's trade schools. The
eldest son of Noah is a basket maker, and
makes also great many clever trinkets
from nuts, cones, leaves and the like
These trinkets are sold throughout Oak.
land by his mother, Britannia, who varies
the mOnOtony of her daily round by tell.
ing the fortunes of her patrons.-SaJ
| Francisco Chronicle.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30

At the late Social Science meeting at
Saratoga, Mr.. Wines, of the Bureau of
Charities of Illinois, gave it as his delib-
crate opinion that the inmates of our pris-
Ons, as a rule, have no conscience, and
don't think their sentences Just, and he
gave am amusing account of an interview,
which he witnessed, of the Governor of
Illinois with a noted criminal who had
asked for pardon, and yet who defended
his practice of burglary, claiming that it
is rs fair and honorable profession as
law or medicine. He laid down the AK
iOm that the strongest in the community
are successful, and accumulate at the eX-
pense of the weak, and claimed that he
gained his booty by his skill and courage
and strength of purpose just as truly as
do the so-called honest men. If his sue
cess was by force, theirs was by tricks.
And such, Mr.. Wines declared, was the
theory of ninety-nine out of one hundred
criminals. And the greater part of them,
in his Judgment, might properly be
classed as insane or idiotic, though it
might be difficult to draw the line Con-
gregatjoRa5ist.
There is no insanity or idiocy charge
able to the criminals. They are sharper
in their wits than many who have under
taken % befriend them. Their insensi-
bility to the criminality of tn cir lives is
the natUr Il result of the efforts made by
a certain class of philanthropists to re-
lieVe them of all the penal consequences
of their crimes. No sooner are they SEN
fenced to imprisonment for violating the
laws of the land than systematic efforts
are made to make them as comfortable as
parlOr bOarders, and so much of maudlir
sympathy is expressed in their behalf
that they come to imagine themselves, al
stated in the paragraph quoted above, tC
be victims of persecution, uniustly de-
prived of their liberty to pursue theiI
chosen profession of burglary or some
other criminal course. They have ne
conscience in regard to their guilt, be
cause conscience has been educated ou
of them. We quite agree with Prof
Wharton, in his recent essay, that it i!
time that criminals were made to feel theil
punishment.-N. Y. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
A Pioneer Editor.

The oldest editor west of the Mississippi
is William +. Woodruff, who will be
eighty-tive years old next December. He
is as hale and sprightly in mind and body
as the majority of men who have attained
no more than three-quaTteTs of his age.
He was born on Long Island, learned the
printers art, and was iOurneYman at
Nashville at the time Arkansas was
erected into a territory, March 2, 1919. 1t
struck him that this section offered a
favorable opening for one who desired to
grow up with the country. Accordingly,
he purchased aquantity of old type-in
"pi," and that had been thrown aside as
almost wOrthless-and with a wheezy,
wooden press, upon which the first paper
in Tennessee had been printed, he en-
barked upon a keelbOaU at Smithland and
nOated down the Ohio to Montgomery
Point, at the mouth of White River, in
Arkansas, which was then the depot for
freight and travel from the interior of the
territory. Here he engaged a couple of
cottonwood canoes, and at the end of six
weeks from starting reached his destina-
ton, Arkansas Post, then the site of the
territorial government. On the 10th OF
November 1918, he issued the first number
of the Arkansas Gazette. The edition wa,
less than hundred, and he started with
out single subscriber. There were fOul
columns to page, n few advertisements
ten and correctly printed.
This paper was the first printed in Ar
kansas, the fifth started west of the Missis
sippt and the oldest one published cOntin
uously by the same name. There wer
two at st. Louis, one at Cape Girardeau
one at NatchitOches, La, and one for
short time at NacOdOches, Texas. Tn
Missouri Republican is the representative O
the old st. Louis Gdsette, established il
1908, its name being changed in 1925
All the other papers had an ephemera
existence.
The arkansas Gazette was issued in
little log cabin, and young Woodruff wa
publisher, editor, foreman, composition
prOOf-reader, pressman, ball-bOy (the
had no rollers In those days. mail cler
and carrier. The paper was printed o
an old Ramage press, and Arkansas Pos
at that time numbered less than half
dozen cabins. There were only five cOun
ties in the territory-LawTence ATkar
sas, Hampstead, Pulaski aud Clarl
There are now seventy-fOur. The priC
was So a year in advance or $4 at the en-
of the year.
The next season Mr.. Woodruff wa
Joined by a partner, but ne withdre
shortly after, went to New Orleans an
died of yellow fever. Soon after, the sill
of the territorial government was II
moved to Little Rock, whose entire pOpU
latiOn was less than a half a hundred
The Gazette establishment was worth, pc
haps, $50; to-day its appraised value
$50 ,0O0.--Letter to philadelphia Times.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30

Bismarck is often discontented, and in a
period of dependency he is said to have
exclaimed 'In satisfying my ambition /
have made nobody happy" The COM
pany at his Varzin residence protested
mo" He continued: "And what a
number of people have east into misery
Without me three great wars would have
been avoided; $4,000 men-nay, much
mOre-wOuld not have been killed, and
such u number of families, of fathers,
mothers, brothers, sisters and wives would
not have been plunged into mourning
However, that account is to be settled be-
tween God and myself so far as the here
after goes. What happiness have de-
rived from all my success? Little OF
none; and have reaped endless worry,
vextation, hatred, pain, grief, overwork
and care.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
The Gear and His Coat of Mail,


A gentleman who has visited St. Peters
burg, pictures the life of the Gar OF all
the Russians as something to be by no
means enVied. He says that the Winter
Palace, which is the Cars ordinary resi-
dence, is but splendid prison of state,
where 6 900 titled jailOrs stand between
/ him and the outer world. 1t is town
within Il town. Its inmates are Yerita-
BILE population, duly graded in the minut-
est subdivisions of official rank. The
CZar often breaks bounds, and, indeed up
| to a late date, he continued the habit of
all his predecessors of going out on foot
| every day. But the recent attempt on his
| life has changed all that and made him
more lonely than ever. He has now fallen
| completely into the hands of his advisers
and their advice, in default of better, is,
| that he shall increase the distance be-
! tween him and human nature. The late
attack on his life by the Nihilist Solovieff,
would have been successful but for the
fact that he wore a shirt of very fine
strong chain mail under his coat. 1t was
made for him by Leblanc. of the Boule-
ward Magenta, a well-knOwn Paris arm
orer, who supplies the theatres for their
mimic wars, but who also knows how to
turn out work that would bear the brunt
of a real one. Leblanc's first imperial
customer was the Emperor Napoleon Ill,
and it was probably through the recon-
! mendatiOn of some friend of the Emperor
| that Alexander, at the beginning of the
present troubles, was led to apply to Le-
blanc for one of his patent safety suits
The armOrer's own story is that a gentle
man sought him out, and with some mys-
terry asked if he could make a coat of mai
that would turn a revolver bullet. He
was doubtful himself of his own powers
in this respect, though he had already
provided Napoleon with an undershirt
warranted to turn the edge of a knife
But an experiment was made with one ot
his best suits, and it was found that even
a Colts army revolver made no impres
sion on its serried rings of steel. This ex
plains the miracle of the EmperOr's pre-
servatiOn. Leblanc has other iIlustriou;
customers, among them Prince Bismarck
and the confidential distribution of his
business cards seems to be a common
courtesy among the pOtentates of Eu
rope. But the wearing of q coat of mai
can hardly be conducive to unalloyeC
cheerfulness of disposition.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30

Mrs. Bayard Taylor offers for sale
"CedarcrOft," the country residence
erected by her late husband at Kennett
Square, Chester County, Pa. The farm
consists of $50 acres, part in wood and
the remainder under cultivation. The
house is IL large and handsome structure,
erected under the supervision of Bayard
Taylor. Such perfect country resi-
dencc seldom is offered for sale.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30

The man who fell off the fence into the
brambles was much nettled by the occur
renee. eve hope thistle be appreciated, -
says a punster. Weed have said the same
thing.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30
RATES 0F TAXES FOR 1879


PURSUANCE 9d9 & &9 lsP& &
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-10-30

Only n small portion of the State Of
Texas is cultivated, the rest being used
FOR graVeyards. ds.-Ahdatd Constitution.