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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
The Peach Crop.

One of those inexplicable occurrences
in fruit raising which every grower has
observed is prominently brought to
notice this season. For n period of seven
years the peach tree has remained bar
rem of fruit in New England and the
Northern States, and for this no salts
factory reason has been assigned. The
present season every tree is crowded
with fruit, and for this result we have no
explanation to offer worthy of trust. 1t
matters not, so far as our observation
extends, where the trees are located
whether on the top of hill or on
its northern or southern declivity, ar
whether in low land, or in dry or wet
soils; all present the same pleasing
aspect; the branches are borne down
with healthy fruit. The theories, so
readily formed and widely disseminated
regarding the cause of this caprice of
the peach tree are in fault; not one of
them is worth considering. We had
cold weather and wet weather, and deep
SHOWS for period, and no snow for u
longer period, during the winter; in
short, no meteoric condition can be rea-
sonably assigned for the prolific con-
dition of the peach trees. Ii is II freak
of nature, or, perhaps better, il results
from II law of nature not well under
stood. Our peach crop this year prom
iSes to reach at least 800 bushels, and
the trees are perfectly healthy and the
fruit in excellent condition. Boston Jour
nal Of CHenIjSfyfy.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
school and Church.

The Tennessee University at Knox
vile is about to have endowed Il chair
of athletics and gymnastics.
1t is stated that one-fourth of the
Congregational ministers in Vermont
are without pastoral charge.
The Jewish temple in Vicksburg,
Miss, has been offered to the Baptists
of that city until they are able to rebuild
their church, recently destroyed by fire.
The Chicago Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church, of which the Rev. Cnas.
A. Everest is pastor, has paid off its en-
tire debt of 100000.
The Baptist Missionary Union has
appropriated S275, 900 to cover expenses
for the year 1S79-S0. Fifteen mission,
aries and teachers are supported by the
Union.
The public schools of Halifax are
said to be in an excellent and efficient
condition, and the system is crowned by
well equipped and vigorous higl
school
Mr. Holloway is actively proceeding
about the erection of his proposed col
lege for women in England. The whole
cost, it is said, will be more than -,
100000.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

| The President, by executive order, has
restored to the public domain 8. 80, 900 acres
| on the northeastern bank of the Missouri
River, corresponding in general outlines to
] the area Withdrawn by the executive orders
of January IL and May s, 1870, now revoked.
Small sections of territory Immediately adj
| joining Grand River, Cheyenne, and Indian
Rock Agencies, are still withheld. 1t was
intended when the orders now revoked were
issued to keep the whites from pressing too
closely upon the Sioux Indians. but i'm prac-
tice it was found the orders did not prevent
trespass by reckless frontiersmen who prey
ed alike upon peaceable whites and Indians,
hence the lands are again thrown open TO
settlement.
President Hayes has accepted invitations
to attend the Agricultural Fair to be held at
Neosho, Kansas, on Sept. -, also the Indi-
ana State Fair to be held at indianapolis
during October. --.-
1t is reported that the National Admins
tration has decided TO commence an active
warfare against the Mormons, and Secretary
Evart has issued circular to foreign Gov
ernments, warning people against emigrating
to this country to join that sect, as Mormon
: ism is hereafter to be prosecuted as a-erime
in the United States.
Charles Beardsley Of Iowa has been ap-
pointed Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, in
place of Judge Tabor resigned. Mr..
Beardsley is the chief editor of the Bmling-
ton Hutrkeye.
Cob j. 7G.sBrownlow, special Revenue
Agent in Tennsssee, has been removed.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23

real fame is only harmed by attempts to
make an aristocrat of him.
For two long hours he hardly held
his eyes off the ponderous machinery,
but at last he was ready to go. Taking
one last look, he walked up to the engi-
neer and said: essay, mister, this ERE
injun runs by steam, doesn'titP' ''Why,
of course,'' was the answer. Well, L
thought so more'n half an hour ago.
continued the man, ''but it's Just as
well to be sure about these things. There
are so many wind-mills nowadays that
one can't be certain of nothing. ''-Htd-
son IN. Y. Register.
SC Chevaliers of the press! Down
with the despotism of the Dictionary!''
Glass in American history stand up
Read! Gwen Jorj Uashingtun wuz at
Vale Isorj, hiz trups wur in ned ov fud,
klothing and liker. 1t wuz we're kold
wcthur and fu ov them had shuz on thar
fet. But Jorj Uashingtun's krrj nevur
fald, and at last Kongress sent him
supliz, and he chact the eneme ovur to
NJ Jerze and wipt him at the batel NV
Trentun." That'Il do, boys. Run out,
now and play.-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
Odds and Ends.

The seaside and mountain belts of
canvas are from two to four inches wide.
I,1o.; f,o,,, +bo s,,ou Of tba o,.ar-
'hi'oh - iau, natnho,,T nonsI ioclyay
aSS en.lcn+soei p''tno''i,' hn ,nni 80 5 H.
cIip' lrin@ipah!ll' e.c'' ii,sNe .'n,i, .ii'
piitce ol !ur,l' Ihceiise vi ioii'iei ''''''H'
'ote"oe"''''e iieT"'"'
- Marriage with tinge of romance
Is what they call 1t III Kansas when the
old man rides after the couple ana snoots
the hat off the bridegroom head with a a
bullet from AN army carbine' DetTo''
Free Press.
Secretary Thompson. having learned
how to fuI the bobstav of a man-of-war,
is roina to make the Navy something to
be proud of, which it hasn't been since
they tore down the tattered ensign of the
old Constitution GraDbic.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Alexandre Hesse, an eminent
French historical and portrait painter,
is dead, aged 20.
Anna Dickinson will make a second
venture as an actress next month, ap-
pearing in San Francisco, in Il play of
her own writing.
Boston has n " Library Delivery Com
pany," which, for five cents volume,
will draw for its patrons books from the
Public Library and the Athenaum, and
return them to those institutions at the
proper time.
The Old Testament is being printed
in Aneityumese, the language of the
most southerly of the New Hebrides
group, the expense having been met by
the natives. The British and Foreign
Bible Society is doing the work.
1t is said that Charles Reade, the
novelist, keeps two secretaries at work
reading and clipping murders, poison
ings, accidents, robberies and other
ssunco mournful tales" which furnish
him with the hint or substance for his
stories and plays.
-Fechter, the actor, was of cosmo-
politan lineage-one grandfather a Ger
man, the other an Italian, his mother
born in Flanders, his father in France,
and he himself in London. He madeh is
three signal successes in three Ian
guages.
The Pope has intrusted Cardinal
Hergenrother with the reorganization of
the Papal archives at the Vatican, SO as
to make them more accessible for his
torical research. The Cardinal has al
ing documents for publication.
1t has been commonly said that the
cold water poem, 1.-The Old Oaken
Bucket" was inspired by glass of
brandy. A writer in the Boston Herald
aflirms the truth of the story, and tells
it as a personal recollection. Samuel
Woodwork, the author, was printer,
and was employed in an office in Cham
bers Street, New York. One day he
dropped into Mallory's barroom, in
Franklin Street, to get some brandy and
water. The liquor was excellent, and
Woodwork remarked that it was supe-
rior to any thing he ever tasted. No."
said comrade, :" there was one thing
that you and | used to think far sur
passed this in the way of drinking"
+" What was thatP" asked Woodwork,
obviously. s'Fresh spring water that
we used to drink from the old oaken
bucket that hung in the well, after our
return from the hay field on a sultry
day in SUMMER The rhythm of the
phrase, "The old oaken bucket that
hung in the well,' struck Woodwork
at once, and the picture of the well Mt
his boyhood home came to his mind.
Within few hours he had completed
the poem.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
Foreign Notes.

! King Alfonso has been thrown from
his carriage and had his arm broken.
Prince Bismarck's medical advisers
have advised him to pass the autumn in
an English watering-p place.
The ex-Khedive, Ismail Pasha, is
reported to have been SO afraid of poison
during the past few years that he ate
only of food prepared by his own
mother, and conveyed to him in box
of which she and he alone kept keys
AT length there seems to be some
prospect that an end will be put to
duelling in the German universities.
The authorities at Leipzig have made a
formal prohibition of these encounters,
and provided for fining innkeepers who
permit them on their premises.
Some of the victims of the Glasgow
Bank swindle pine and die, and the
papers occasionally refer to those who
have gone to an untimely grave. X.
Callwell, of Inverness, was year ago
worth S350,000. His thirty shares in the
bank made him penniless at 20 years of
age, and he was lately found dead in his
bed.
-Ismail Pasha, the deposed Khedive,
wants to return to Egypt and reside, and
a demand for permission has been made
in his behalf by the Sultan. England
and France have word to say about
that, and no answer to the demand will
be returned by the present Khedive un-
til those Governments have been heard
from.
The story goes in London, on what
| claims to be authority, that Mrs. Lang
try, one of the professional beauties, de-
rives much, if not most, of her personal
expenses from large commission from
the sale of her photographs. Sone of
her admirers and friends Justify This,
and her husband, who is delighted at her
social success and is poor, does not OBJ
ject.
The pay of Bismarck from all
sources, both as Prussian Minister and
rs Chancellor of the empire, is only
S13, 800. The highest salary of a Prus-
sian Cabinet Minister is $4,000. Pen
sions are on the same moderate scale,
the pension amounting to as many eight
ieths of the salary which was being re-
ceived at the time of retirement as there
have been years spent in the service ef
the State. Ten years are added to the
record of service in all cases where mis-
conduct has not called for eensure. But
where the salary exceeds $4,000, only
the half of such excess is taken into ac-
count.
Next after white dresses gingham
suits are the popular attire at the sum-
mer resorts. Those of gray-blue in
stripes, bars, or plaids, are most seen,
and are usually trimmed with many ruff
flies of the gingham, and with the coarse
figured effective wash laces known rs
Byzantine, Russian, etc. Many of these
have the belted round waist that has
been restored to favor, and the long,
| round Overskirt that continues to be
worn, season after season, no matter
what novelties are introduced. The
ginghams of mixed pink and blue are
still very stylish, and are worn both by
blondes and brmettes. Color runs riot
in these dresses, and the more quaint
the contrast the better young ladies like
it, One of the prettieSt suits is of brown
plaid gingham, with trimmings of pink
batiste knife-plaitingS edged with mar
row Breton edging.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23

The Wallace Congressional Committee
commenced taking testimony at Boston on
! the 18th.
/ The number of immigrants who arrived at
New York during the year ending July 81 4,
| 1879, was 1903, 245; for the previous year the
number was "A 139.
Walter Paine, third Treasurer of the
American Linen Company of Fall River,
Mass, has used and lost S 100, 900 or more Of
the company's money in private stock specu-
| latiOns. Paine is brother-in-law of Dur
fee, another defaulter, and is about - years
old.
Five persons We're killed by collision ON
the Atlantic City Narrow-gauge Railroad,
in New Jersey, on the 18th. They were \.
f. Worthington, conductor: +. Wood and
Jacob Deginther, brakeman; j. Smith, news
agent, and Charles School, deal mute.
Bishop Odenheimer (EpiscopaD of New
Jersey died on the 18th, aged 62.
A London telegram Of the 18th announces
the death of Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of
General Grant.
J. Z. Frye, wealthy leather dealer in
Boston, was found murdered in the base
ment of his residence, No. 15 Joy Street, on
the morning of the 18th. He had bullet
hole in his head, another one i'm the region
of the heart, and six or seven ugly wounds
in the back and neck, made either by a knife
or a revolver. The crime was probably the
work of burglars.
Bob McCorkle. colored, was hanged at
Taylorsville, n. c., on the 10Th, for the
murder of j. Wesley Wycoff, white man.
The murdered mans wife, white woman
of more than average intelligence and of
very prepossessing appearance, was convict
ed as an accessory to the crime and is now
undergoing a life sentence i'm the Peniten-
tiary. The evidence disclosed the fact that
Mrs. Wyoff and the negro, who was a coarse,
repulsiye fellow, had become too intimate,
and that the murderwa committed with the
knowledge and connivance of the unfaith-
full wife.
Wm. w. Roach, Cashier of the Citizens
Bank of Washington, ID. c., is a defaulter
to the amount of $50, 200. His bondsmen
pay So, 200, and he himself turns over his
own property to the bank.
A tank containing Is, 200 barrels of oil, at
Parker's Landing. Pa, was struck bylight-
ming and burned, together with an adjoining
tank containing 30, 900 barrels, on the 18th.
Five men We're badly injured. .. .5,.,
Four persons, Joseph Pierce, w. Shur-
hart, Kate Rafter and Louise Cook, lost
their lives by the burning of the Locust
Grove Hotel, at Bath, Long Island, ON the
night of the 18th.
fremont Temple, Boston, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th. Loss
about 500, 900, covered by insurance.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
GENERAL.

The annual session of the National Cotton
Exchange began in New York on the 18th.
The annual report of the Executive Council
declares that during the last five years cot
ton culture in the United States has out
stripped the most sanguine expectations.
The problem of free labor has been virtually
solved, and the South must be regarded as
the future reliance of the cotton manufac-
ture of both America and Europe. Taking
the average Of the last few years, but 81 per
centum of the cotton crop is manufactured
i'm the United States, 90 per centum going to
feed the mills of Great Britain and cOnti-
mental Europe.
The National Cotton Exchange elected
John B. Laffitte President, and the follow
ing Executive Council: w. w. Gordon of
Savannah; W. NJ. Gwathmey of Norfolk
w. II. Gardner of Mobile; W. NJ. Sente~ Of
ST. Louis; w. NJ. Moody of Galveston; $.
7. Taylor of Cincinnati; Geo. G.. ,Jurey of
Charleston; +. l.. Denis of Houston, and
l.. Z. Campbell of Yicksburg.
The August returns to the Department of
Agriculture show slight decline in cotton
from the condition in July. The average
condition for the whole country Is 81, IA loss
OFF, per cent. since July /. The condition
of spring wheat is 81, against 80 in 1873, or
: per cent. better than last year The decline
during July was only 10 per cent. against 81
per cent. in 1873. The severe drought
which prevailed in the large tobacco-gro
ing States-Nirginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, and MISUNDERSTANDING the months
Of June and July was Il great injury to the
crop. The average for the whole country is
] only u against 81 last year ut the same date
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
FOREIGN,

\ serious riot occurred at Belfast, Ire
land, during Catholic procession on the
night of the 11th. Twenty-Five persons were
wounded.
The steamer Corsica, from Cardiff for
New York, and the steamer Semiramide,
| from Boston for Liverpool, both iron ves-
sells, came into collision 100 miles off Fast
net, and the Semiramide went down. The
crew were saved.
The recent storm is Denmark destroyed
over 100 farm-houses, killing 30 persons,
and doing incalculable damage to crops.
The United States Consul at Manchester.
England, says the failure of crops i'm Great
Britain is much more serious than Is gener-
ally supposed abroad. The demand in Eng
land for meats and grains from the United
States will be enormous. Business gener-
ally is greatly depressed. Last year more
than 81, 900 persons We're supported i'm Man
chester by the public. The coming winter
will probably witness still greater destitu-
ton.
Parliament was prorogued on the 18th.
The following is the new Austrian Minis
try: Count Taafe, President of the Council
and Minister of the Interior; DIR. Won Sire
mayr, Minister of Justice and Public Wor-
ship; Baron Julius Van Horst, Minister of
the National Defense; Herr Falkenhayn,
Minister Of Agriculture; Herr Weidenheim,
Minister OF Commerce; Herr Chestek, Min
J ister of Finance; Herr Ziemialkowsky and
Herr Prazak, Ministers without portfolio.
4 serious riot occurred i'm Quebec, on the
18th, between the French and Irish. growing
out of strike of ship laborers. Twenty
six men were more or less seriously injured.
The military We're called out to quell the dis
turbance.
The announcement from London of the
death of Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of Gen.
Grant, is not true. The mistake arose from
the death of Mrs. r. w. Sartoris, formerly
adelaide Kemble.
At Lurgan, Ireland. on the 18th, 200 po-
lice charged on mob with fixed bayonets.
The police We're beaten back, and 20 of their
number injured. Rival mobs fired at each
other with rifles. One leader of the Catholic
party had some dynamite, which exploded,
injuring him fatally.
BY recent accident on the Argentan and
Granville Railway in France, IL persons We're
killed and 81 wounded.
James MclIenry, who has been prominently
connected with American railway enterprises,
notably the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway, has failed in London for nearly u
million pounds sterling. Mr.. McIIenry is
an American by birth but has resided abroad
for many years.
DIR. William o. Mosely. Jr., young and
talented American physician, native of
Newburyport, Mass, was killed recently in
the Alps by fall from precipiee.
van, in which eight persons were rid
ing, was overturned at Nogent- t-sur- Mame,
in France, and all the occupants were killed.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
A TRUE GYPSY STORY.
Finding n Long Lost ChiId-The Fa1lacy of
Circumstantial Evidence.
From 10 New York Herald

CireumstantiaI Evidence.
From the New York Herald
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Aug. 10.-The
sequal to the mysterious disappearance
of child in this city is now being de-
veloped, and the facts, as they come to
| light, transcend in some particulars the
story of the loss of Charley Ross. 1t is
another illustration of the fact that,
while circumstantial evidence may be
overwhelming, innocence may yet pre-
vail. During the term of Mayor Kear-
ney of Wilkesbarre (now deceaseO,
several years ago, lovely child, 3 years
of age, strangely disappeared from its
parents home on Brewery Hill. The
mother was distracted and seemed to
support an accusation of the neighbors
that the father, Morgan Thomas, had
murdered it in order to rid himself of
the responsibility of its maintenance.
MISLEADING CIRCUMSTANCES.
Mayor Kearney at once set himself
about ferreting out the matter, put his
force of detectives upon the suspected
parents track, and privately informed
his immediate friends that he was con-
vinced of the guilt of the father, and
would soon hang him for a cruel MUIR
der. He believed that he had in his
possession sufficient evidence to more
than substantiate the story told by the
neighbors and by himself, that the parent
had murdered his child and successfully
disposed of the corpse. The father at
first Indignantly repelled the charge.
His character until this time had been
untarnished. When he discovered,
however, that the wife of his bosom ap-
peared to entertain like suspicion, he
gave way to apparent remorse border
| ing on insanity In the meantime the
Mayor was active, and was formulating
a theory, sustained by an almost in
vincible train of evidence tending to
show the guilt of the PROSTATE parent.
| The Mayor was truly sincere in his con-
victions, but ere he had completed his
| investigations he was suddenly struck
down by death.
FOUND IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTY.
Years have passed by and the circum-
stance has long since ceased to be theme
of wonderment. A few weeks since
peddler, an old acquaintance of the fam
lily to which the missing infant belong
ed, CHANGED to be travelling in the vicin-
ity of Tunkhannock, in the adjoining
county, and discovered the ong-lost
child. He at once conveyed the intelli-
gence to the parents in Wilkesbarre and
they repaired to- the place named and
fully identified it, but the people having
it in charge refused to give it up. The
parents returned to Wilkesbarre, and,
procuring warrant from Alderman
Donohue, are now in quest of their child.
Efforts willsbe made to punish thei1ab-
1na
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23
EAST MD SOUTHEAST.

At Fincastle, Va, on the 18th, Mr.. James
Stevens, a highly respected citizen, shot and
killed his wife in a fit Of jealousy. Four chill
drcn are left unprovided for, as the father
fled to escape arrest.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23

The present capacity of the Mime
apolis mills is 10000 bbls of flour per
day. Buildings are in progress by
which this amount will he doubled.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-08-23

-Dauphin gray is II new shade of yell
lowish gray that will be worn in the fall.