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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15
A Strange Pfesentiment.

A late number of the Louisiana Jour-
nal says: Ernest, a bright boy of seven
years, Oldest son Of Mr.. Samuel Temple
ton, gatekeeper on the Prairieville
gravel road, just below this city, met with
an accident on Thursday of last week
which resulted in his death soon after
ward. About noon on that day be
mounted a wagon loaded with wood, with
the intention Of unloading it. The lad
seized stick and was in the act of throw
ing it to the ground, when he lost his
equilibrium and fell, head foremost, to
earth. His cries brought his father to
his assistance, who led him into the
house. The boy did not seem to be
much injured. He was conscious, ex-
planned to his father how he fell, pointed
out his bruises, and conversed nationally
for an hour, when he suddenly lost con-
seriousness and remained in that con-
dition until his death, which occurred
shout six hours after the accident.
The night preceding the above sad &C
cident Mrs. Templeton, the mother of the
child, had strange presentiment OF his
death. EARLY in the evening, while the
child was asleep, she approached his lit
tie bed, and looking earnestly into his
face, burst into tears.
The grief of which she was overcome
was iAtense and uncomfortable. 1t at.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15
A BUTLER BOTTLED.

New York Special to Cincinnati Enquirer. |
Ernest Delacourt, a fine-looking man about
IS years old, now in Wards Island Lunatic
asylum, says, in letter to Howe & Hummel,
the lawyers: II am now confined as a lunatic
in this asylum, after being confined for two
months in the State asylum at Middletown.
was formerly butler in Rhinelander Stewards
family, and was arrested at Highland Falls in
September on charge of disorderly conduct,
taken from Newburg Jail, and from there sent
to Middletown. The whole case grew out of my
affection for daughter of the family employing
me. They adopted this means to get rid Of
me. I have now been transferred here. I
have not now, nor did ever have, any trace of
insanity about me-" Mr.. Howe obtained a
writ of habeas corpus, and the case will be
Thoroughly investigated. Delacourt's story, as
told to his counsel, is that last summer he was
at Highland Falls, the summer residence of
Stewart. He became infatuated with Miss
Stewart, and claims that she reciprocated his
affections. He further claims that the lady in
question used to meet him clandestinely, and
agreed to elope with him. When every arrange
ment for q runaway match had been COM
pleted, he says, it was discovered by the young
!adys father, who, fearing social scandal,
summnrily discharged him. Having some
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15

money, he did not leave the village,
but continued to meet the young lady
secretly. Delacourt says that while
walking on the main street Of the village about
the middle of last September he was arrested
by the local constable, and charged by Stewart
with being disorderly character as stated in
his letter. He was sentenced to ten days i'm
prisonment in Newburg jail, and says that when
his time expired was taken to the State
Homeopathic insane asylum lunatic, where
he was detained until about ten DAYS ago. when
the officers of the asylum refused to keep him
aay longer in custody, because they were con-
WINGED that he was not insane He then saws
he was brought to this city and placed on
Wards Island. Though he claims he is not in
sane, he says he will become so if compelled
to associate much longer with lunatics.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15
In Absence.

III AUS61Ct.
God keep you, dearest, all this lonely night!
The winds are still, .r.a...
The moon drops down behind the western
hill
God keep you safely, dearest, till the light!
God keep you still. when slumber melts away,
For care and strife
Take up new arms to fret our waking life;
God keep you through the battle Of the day
God keep you! Nay, beloved soul, how vain,
How poor is prayer!
God keep you every time and everywhere!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15
Good Might.

FROM THE GERMAN OF THEODORE KoRNER
Goodnight!
Now the weary rest by right
And the busy fingers bending
Over work that seems unending,
Toll no more till morning light
Good night! .... ..
Go to rest!
Close the eyes with slumber prest;
In the streets the silence growing
Wakes but to the watch-horn blowing.
Night makes only one request
Go to rest!
Slumber sweet!
Blessed dreams each dreamer greet,
He whom love has kept from sleeping
In sweet dreams now DER him creeping
May he lis beloved meet
Slumber sweet!
Goodnight!
Slumter till the morning light,
Slumber till the new tomorrow
Comes and brings its own new sorrow
We arein the Fathers sight
Goodnight!
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15

The supreme court of Iowa having decided
that the owner of dog is liable for the bark
ing of his dog if thereby damage is done, has
also established the rule of property in dog
by giving man $75 whose dog was maliciously
killed by a neighbor. the animal being proven
a valuable one.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-15

Wet pepper throws off great quantities
of carbonic acid gas. Five sailors re-
Gently lost their lives in the hold of an
English vessel loaded with pepper, part
of which had been wet with rain.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
SIgnOr Be amid, the Artist, Narrowly
Escapes Death.

One hundred and fifty feet above the
floor of the Capitol at Washington, next
the ceiling, hangs a scatfold up to
which every day an old man is drawn
in q wooden cage. He spends the
whole of daylight at this height, paint
ing the preposterous figures which con-
stitute ''art at the Capitol" On Thurs
day his chair slipped from under him,
he rolled to the edge of the platform
and went over. He grasped the rail
ing and a cross-piece near it, to which,
in spite of his age and size, he chung
until his assistant came to his rescue
and with great difficulty dragged him
back, just as his hold was relaxing. In
another second he would have fallen to
the stone pavemel below and bee N
dashed to pieces. The shock 80 alarm
ed him that he has not y ct resumed his
work. 1t is perhaps to be hoped that
it has cured him entirely. He is the
notorious Brumidi, who has been en-
gagged at the Capitol for twenty-five
years in decoration, which is at once
the CONSERVATION and the despair OF
artists. He still continues the produe-
ton of those mysterious allegorical
figures in our cOuntry's history which
bear about the same relation, both 10
art and and history, as the animals in
ohildren's Noah's arks do to either !
theology or the natural
sciences.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
Mr.. MARY Wall err and the -Four Young
MtssisstppAans'

The journals of the country have not
omitted to chronicle the most remarka.
BILE events in the life OF our honored
fellow-citizen, DR.. Mary Walker, but
they have somehow left q gap IN her
annals, and failed to record one OF the
most interesting of her adventures.
We will give it on tho best authority
our own:
In the peaceful hamlet of Port Glib
son, Mississippi, there were two young
men who were "friend and partner" to
each other, and both worked in the
office of the railroad company. Ono
day, when they had gone through the
freight for all the bananas and oysters
they could eat, time hung heavy on
their hands; they conceived the idea
of writing letter to the celebrated
DR.. Mary. They wrote, informing her
that a Women's Rights Society had
been formed in Port Gibson, and that
1862 80 had been collected and appro-
priated for the purpose of paying some
distinguished light of the cause to lee
ture before the society. They had no
idea whatever that the eminent physl-
clan would come, and only desired her
autograph. But she did come-all the
way from Leavenworth, Kansas-and
when she found out that she had been
sold her language was not altogether
professional or dignified. She paraded
the streets with crowd of negro men
and children at her heels, and hired q
hall and lectured--after vainly trying
TO extort money from the boys who
wrote to her, as we'll as from two more
who received letters from the same
postoifice box, but who had nothing to
do with the matter in hand, she left
in disgust. 1t Was ten years ago.
OF the four young men mentioned,
one remained in Port Gibson, one, is
prominent clergyman in st, Louis, one
practices medicine in Vicksburg, and
the other is newspaper man in one OF
our large cities.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18

JOHN AND MARY.

JOHN AND MARY.
They were husband and wife, anC
they looked tenderly at each other ~
they stood side by side:
A man may smash the stove and things
! And black fond wiie's eye;
And she may pound him with cluD,
But true love cannot di0.
"It was all mistake" explained
Mary AS beginning. :,
81 can make oath it was" added
John.
at might have been" said his Hon
or, "but the officer says you were hay
ing a terrible row."
"Row your Honor?' said Mary;
"why, we are the peacefullest two folks
on Division street."
81 want to see the man who says I'd
strike me darlingl" added John as he
put his arm around her.
Didn't you, sir, take an ak and
smash the stove"
II did, your Honor, but why did l
do it? Because, sir, the stove smoked,
and was giving ventilation"
"And you smashed the table and
chairs?"
eyes, did, but they were old furni-
ture, sir awful old. I'd been trying
to give them away, but nobody would
have them"
"Well how did your wife get that
black eye?"
"How, sir? Why"
"a silver flew and hit me, of course, "
she put in.
Eyes, sir; silver flew and hit her,
and l was about to run for the drug
store when this policeman came in.
"WelI l am glad you love each other
so dearly continued the court as he
picked up benumbed house-hy on the
point of his pen. MARY can go home
and pick up the chair-legs and splinters
and broken crockery, and you can go
to the Work House for thirty days.
Great guns, sir! but 1 shall die if l
have to leave Mary that long!"
"And | can never, never live thirty
days without seeing John!"
"Well, we'll take the chances" re-
marked the court, and John was towed
into the corridor to wait for the wagon.
Mary shed few tears, but after get
ting out doors she quickly recovered
her composnre and said:
"When come to think it all over
guess it's best, for poor john is extrav-
igantly fond of seeing my eyes in
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
His New Flying Machine.

An enterprising saloon-keeper OF
| Grand River avenue is always on the
lookout for any novelty that may draw
customers, and perhaps this fact may
have been known to a bland faced old
man who entered the place the other
day and confdentially began:
IF could draw a crowd of 100 men
to your place here what sum would you
be willing to give me"'
"What do you mean?" asked the
saloonist
eff it was known that 1 had in my
possession a flying. machine, and that it
was to fly from your door here on a
certain day and hour, wouldn't the
novelty be sure to collect thirsty
crowdP
Eyes, 1 think so. If you have a
flying machine and want to show it off
here tomorrow night I'll give you n
dollar, and if the machine is a success
perhaps I'll buy it.
well, sir" continued the old man
in whisper, 1--WE got the boss! She
flies from the word go! All I've got to
do is to toss her into the air, and away
she sails. It's right down fine and no
chance for failure, and I'll be on hand
at o'clock to- morrow night"
The matter became noised about, and
next evening there were fifty or sixty
people in and around the saloon to wit
ness the experiment. The old man
arrived on time, having some sort of
bundle under his arm. and he collected
his dollar of the salOonist and secured
several treats fl ON the crowd. When
everything was finally ready he stood
on the walk clear of the spectators and
said:
Gentlemen, l warrant this thing to
fly. l didn't invent it myself but l
am now acting as State agent to dispose
of county rights. Hundred OF men
have spent years of anxious thought
and thousands of dollars in seeking to
invent flying machines, but this one
leads them ALL She will now fly.
Please stand back and give her a chance
to rise"
The crowd fell back and the man let
fall the cover, hiding his bundle, and
gave an old speckled hen toss into the
air. She uttered dismal squak, sailed
this way and that, and finally bumped
against q telegraph post and settled
down on the roof of low Sued, cack-
ling in an indignant manner at being
turned loose in a strange neighborhood
It was full minute before the crowd
was sure that it was hen, and during
that minntelthe old man is supposed to
have run a distance of seven blocks. A
few tried to overhaul him, but it was
no use.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
ATTACHMENT NOTICE.
The State Of Mississippi, Kinds county, IS.

The State OF Mississippi, Kinds county, IS.
THERE IS PENDING IN THE CIRCUIT
i Court for the First District of said county aud
State, Il suit by attachment, in favor of Newman
and Jones, against James MGGnth and James
Compton, heretofore doing business under the firm
name Of Mctirath and Compton, returned at the
July term 1879, and continued until the first Mon
day in January, 1885, for the sum OF ($l87 SOY one
hundred and eightysegen dollars and fifty cents,
with interest from the 10Th day Of March, 1879
Now, il the said defendants, McGrath Compton,
do not appear and plead to the in said court ut
Jackson, on the first Monday of January 1880
Judgment by default will be rendered against them
and the property attached will be sold and the eff
ects applied to the payment OF the plaintiffs claim
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
[sEAL.l my hand and the seal Of said Court, at
jackson. this Both day of September 1879.
b. f. EDWARDS, Clerk.
By A. R. GRREN, D. C..
Brown, plaintiffs Attorney lOct4-4t
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
HON, L. q. q. LAMAR.

An exchange mentions that Col. Lamar
will make several speeches in the canvass.
We are glad to hear this. The foolish at
tempt to decry Lamar for his financial
views and his independence of instruct
ions, is passing away. AS to his views on
the money question we say nothing, as
time alone can vindicate or condemn the
various theories advanced by learned men
and lettered fools on the way to pay the
national debt and relieve the pressure Of
contraction. But as to his bold and states
man like stand on the question of the right
of the Legislature to instruct their Com
gressional representatives, we think it is
eminently proper and highly commendable.
Instructions like these are totally repug>
nant to the theory of any government that
delegates to Its federal representatives the
power to legislate for the whole people.
The legislation of Congress, on a financial
point is for all the States and Territories,
and Col. Lamar, to have been subservient
to the wishes of any one Legislature, irre>
spective of the others and of his own hons
est convictions, would have disgraced him
self and lost his character as a national
statesman. Those who have SO blatantly
condemned him should look to the common
law of England, upon which our laws and
institutions are based, and to any received
writer on constitutional law in England or
America. Even in France, where the Ro
man or civil law attains, which we believe
does not breathe that exalted spirit of JUS
tice and freedom, eminating from our COM
mon law, it is related that the election of q
member of the French Chamber of Depu-
ties was annulled because he (the member)
had contracted an engagement to vote for
a certain measure. We have referred to
the common law because the masses never
having made it study, are frequently
ready TO condemn any position that, at first
glance, may seem to initiate against the
sovereign voice of n State. But a little
reasoning and little insight into the spirit
Of our institutions, and broader view of
he relations of the States to each other,
will enlighten us on great many questions,
md especially the one of the right of in
truction to representatives. New Albany
Democrat.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
WOnd ormI Results rom the Use o
MRrl.
New ORLEANS, Sept. II, 1877

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. IL, 1879
Rev. Il. r. Strickland
My DEAR SIR-Your favor OF tho 9th
inst. received few days ago, also box
containing very fine sample of the Byram
Shell Mari, which find upon an examina>
ton to be be about the same quality as the
Shiloh Shell Mari of Cumberland county,
New Jersey and is beyond doubt the best
natural fertilizer in common use in that
region of country. It's application on lands
that would not produce more than 8 to 10
bushels of shelled corn to the acre has en-
riched 1t so as to yield, under good cultiva>
ton and management, over 100 bushels
of sheled corn to the acre.
My grandfather Benjamin Davis OF
Deerfield, New jersey about miles from
the Shiloh Mari beds, began its use more
than forty years ago, on lands well worn out,
and as Lis crops increased his neighbors
began to use it, and use it freely; and the
fertility of the soil, to-day, is not excelled
in any State of this Union. My second
cousin. Ephraim Davis, still living on the
farm adjoining the farm my grandfather
lived on, and where he died, produced on
single measured acre of land fertilizcd with
Mari, red clover and oats, one hundred and
ten bushels and one peck of shelled corn
of extra good good quality.
From my knowledge of the application
of Mari to worn out lands, and my obser-
walton, running back forty years or more,
may be able to give You the best methods
of its application to poor and worn out
lands. Yours very truly,
r. D. CARL; M. D.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18

There was to have been a grand Greenback
barbecue at Oak Ridge yesterday. Whether
had occurred or not, we had not, up to a
late hour last night, been able to learn.
| We hope it did, however. To the misguid-
ed supporters of empty Greenback theories,
it must haye been, to say the least of it an
agreeable deviation from the programme
which heretofore has been the governing
feature of all their various gatherings. AS
we were led to believe more than three hun
bred people we're expected to be present on
the occason-all possessing appetites which
the riches of the Golcondas can not pur>
chase. We would like to have been pres
ent; for more interesting sight could not
be than to have witnessed the gallant "three
hundred" discussing the merits of the
"meats and things" before them. 1t is sell
dom that these deluded people have an OPP.
portunity of going through the various
courses of complete bill of fare; there's
fore, we should look with leniency upon
them when they commence at the top of
the ladder. and work their way down
through various degrees and excellence of
provender to the bottom or base of supplies.
1t must have been truly touching to behold
the ''three hundred'' beef to the
right of them, pork and mutton chops to
the left of them, sardines, mackerel and
hash in front of them and ginger-snaps and
pie in the rear of them; keeping one eye
ON the near dish, and the other Oh the vari-
Gus off uns, only resigning the one when
the other doomed up before them "like
pearls in the depth of the sea-" II would |
have been an instructive study to have
watched them at such banuuet. Pie
chicken pie is their strong hold, and pound
cake is no slouch but where there must
have been so many good things, it would
be unfair to attempt to discriminate. At
this moment beautiful vision rises to our
minds eye. The next Senator, the Hon.
John t., is seated at the banquet table. He
towers high above the common herd. With
his own good right hand, he cleaves the
luscious tulkey-bird in twain, and feasts
like lord of high degree, while servants
hasten at his beck, and vie each with the
other to see the entree we'll bestowed. But
low, how changed the scene! How fleets
ng are the moments of calm delight! ,
We see him again He is seeking the quiet
shades of cheap eating house, and in sub
lued tones, breathes softly in the ear of the
waiter this simple legend
''PoRK AND BEANs'
To which the waiter replieth
''No PoRK!"
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
THE Pocket Veto. ..

Gov. Stone has had published a pam.
phlet defending himself from the
charges Of the Clarion and others, for
his Pocket Veto" Of the bill regulating
tariff of charges ON railroads. 1t is well
written, and adds another proof to what
we have always known to be true Of
the man, that he does nothing without
a reason, and when his convictions are
formed, you might as well try to tear
Gibraltar from its foundations in the
sea, as to try 10 induce him to go
against those honest convictions. Mis-
slssippi never had a Governor, more
faithful and earnest in the discharge of
his duty, and the sun never shone upon
o man of more unyielding integrity and
grander courage than J. NJ. stone
Ripley Sentinel.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-10-18
Moorish beauty.
Tiusley's Magazine

The prevalent leanness of limbs which
characterizes the Moorish race collectively
has peradventure led them to consider that
loneliness and embonpoint are identical
Feminine beauty in Morocco far from being
merely skin-deep, is measured by the
camel-load; and, fat being more esteemed
than features, the homeliest damsel of
twenty stone is more admired than one
hundred-weight of what would seem to the
eye of Europe, perfect prettiness. As wives,
therefore, are valued like whales, for their
blubber, the Moorish belle seeks from diet
the charm denied to her by nature. Taking
as her model the Hottentot Venus, Fatima
process of cramping very similar to the
mode of fattening Strasburg geese. After
every meal she molds with her fingers the
crumb. of new bread-sometimes mixed
with fenugreek, into pellets (called harrabe)
of the shape and size of Eleys number
twelve central-fire cartridge. This ammuni-
ton is rammed downed her gusset with the
aid of green tea or other beverages and by
stutfing down from fifty to one hundred Of
these boluses daily for about mounth, the
fair martyr to Moorish materialism acquires
breadth of limbs which render locomotion
vanity, and getting up stairs vexation of
spirit. With irrepressible mirth l have
watched Jewish matron five feet by four
feet making the ascent to the upper story
of her house, propelled by three per-
spring Israeltes. Beneath her elephan-
tine tread earth trembled, ceilings cracked,
and chairs not expressly manufactured 10
sustain her ''too, solid flesh" shrivled sud
denly, as if smitten by thunderbolt, into
infinitesimal chips.