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The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Along the Northern Pacific Railroad.

A private letter speaks of the scenes
along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad 81 think it is the finest coun-
try ever saw. The first one hundred
miles from Duluth the scenery was
grand. We follow the Saint Louis river
for about twenty-five miles; they call it
The Dells;' the railroad runs about
two hundred feet above the bed of the
river, and there are large bluffs along
the other side. The bed of the river is
full of reefs of rocks, and the water goes
dashing and foaming over them. We
go over bridges two hundred and fifty
feet high, and they are grand sights. The
first forty miles, after leaving Brainard,
was through woods. We then came to
the Red river valley, and such a valley
as far as you could see! The prairie
was as level as a floor, and [ saw one
field of wheat which they said contained
five thousand acres. AS far as the eye
could see there was nothing but wheat
The man who owned this field has fif-
teen thousand acres more in wheat, and
the average yield will be twenty bushels
to the acre-some say twenty-five. I
saw great many fields which they said
contained from $40 to 5000 acres in one
body.
After leaving the Red river valley
there is a long stretch of country, say
200 miles, of nothing but bare prairie
land, interspersed with alkali water
lakes, which were covered with white
pelicans, swans, ducks and snipes. We
stopped at a place called jamestown for
dinner. 1t is quite pretty place, situa-
ted in u valley surrounded by bluffs, on
or near the James river, from which it
derives its name. Thence we went to
Bismarck, with nothing in particular to
look at except the boundless prairies,
which seemed to stretch to the horizon
Bismarck is situated within a mile of
the Missouri river. The railroad has
extensive warehouses and depots here.
There are several large stores, and any
quantity ofsaloons and gambling houses,
and plenty of fast women. This place is
where ali the freight is loaded on
wagons and taken to the Black Hills.
You can see almost any day a hun bred
wagons leaving Bismarck for the hills
They call them there " bull trains :"
There is any quantity of mosquitoes and
flies here. In the evening it is no un-
common thing to see men walking along
the streets with mosquito bars on their
heads. The men who drive the cattle
wagons all have them, and they look
very fur y.
Manton is TIE terminus of the North
ern Pacific .ailroad. 1t is about three
months old. There are two stores, fif-
teen saloons and two hotels. One OF
the hotels is canvas. There are several
small dwelling houses, and / should
Judge the principal business to be drink
ing whisky, and very poor at that.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Wooden Dresses for Fall.

Dark cloth colors in the new shades
of amaranth, Rembrandt green, prune,
Burgoyne, golden brown and ducks
breast blues are shown in the new
wooden dresses being prepared in the
furnishing houses for early fall wear.
The materials are camel's-hair, cloth,
cashmere and a new fabric called to53e
de sanglaer, which is regularly woven,
yet has rough surface, and resembles
bunting made sufficiently heavy to serve
for warm winter dresses. The trim
mings are satin of the same shade, silk
plush borders, many rows of machine
stitching, wide wooden braids, and gay
contrasting silks in Scotch plaids OF in
most intricate mosaic designs. The
shirring SO popular during the summer
will not be given up, and there will
be the usual variety in plaitings. from
the fine knife plating, like crimping, to
the broadcast killing and box plaits.
The coat basque and plated round
skirt will be one OF the stylish designs
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
An EyentfuI Career.

There has been recorded at military
headquarters, says the Chicago Inter
ocean, a recommendation that George
Phister, Company F., Sixth United
States Infantry, be admitted to the Ma
tional Soldiers Home. 1t appears from
the report submitted by R. III. Day that
remarkable history attaches to this
man. In 1875 at the age of sixteen, he
enlisted in the French army, wherein he
served eighteen years. He was at Water
loo's bloody field soon after the battle
ceased. Subsequently he served in AL
giers under General Bourmand, and later
under the Due de Berri in Spain. He
was in this country when the late war
broke out, and enlisted in the Twenty
fifth New York Infantry, serving two
years through the Peninsula campaign.
and was wounded at the battle of Gaines
Mill. After the mastering out of his
regiment he re-enlisted in the Seven
tenth New York Infantry, and was
again wounded at Bentonville. In 1867
he enlisted in the Forty-second United
States Infantry, being transferred to his
present regiment in 1869. Since then hg
has been in continuous service Durien
the night Of June 30, 1879, he fell from
the steps OF the company barracks, frac-
turing his collar-bone and rendering
himself unfit for duty. Heis now eighty
years old and General Sheridan unites
with the subordinate officers in recon-
mending his admission to the Soldiers
Home.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The Latest Lightning-R Rod Dodge.

A Hillsboro (Ohio) correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette writes: Four or
five hundred or thousand years hence,
when the generations that shall come
after us dig into our railroad embank-
ments or explore the ruins of our pres
ent habitations, among the most mysti-
flying wonders to them will be the use to
which, we put the great coils of metal
rod that lie buried beneath the sod at
the ends, sides and corners of outhouses
and barns. We are not so sure but that
there are m ny good people nowadays
who could not explain. the thing if called
upon. For their information, then, let
us say that it is the new hghtning-rod
swindle; and that farmers in other sec
tions may understand it and be ready to
sign the first paper presented by a
stranger promptly and without detain-
ing him, we will give the method prac-
ticed by the swindlers:
Firstcomes smooth-talking, clipper,
dapper, genteel-looking individual, who
explains the danger from thunderbolts
and the necessity for providing sure and
rapid transit for the subtle fluid. In
order to protect the house there should be
a rod here and a point there, and it all
would cost the trifling matter of $40 or
$50, OF something like it. very difficult
to tell exactly until the work is done"
A contract is signed only mere mat
ter of form, you know'-and the sharper
leaves. This is the first act, and should
be labeled, How and when was struck
by lightning"
In due time the other swindler arrives,
and begins work by digging hole in
the ground and then filling it up with
coil after coil of rod. Perhaps the owner
of the property protests against this ap-
parent waste of material, but as he pre-
sumes it all goes in for the same price he
quietly acquiesces. The job finally is
finished and pay time comes, and so does
contract that looks bigger than barn
door to our country friend, when he
fully comprehends its almost iffimitable
proportions, for it binds the party of the
second part to pay forty-seven and a half
cents per foot for the rod required and
five dollars for each vane. 1t is in vain
for him to kick-they won't come down
single rod-and, rather than invest in
lawsuit, out comes the wallet and the
bill is paid. Some of the farmers in the
northern part of Highland have been
mulcted in sums ranging from $50 OF
$3.50, and still they bite.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The Story of the Sea.

A New York correspondent says:
There is sadly romantic story connected
with Far Roekaway, which any one
can verify, as the poor sufferer is still
alive. Years and years ago a woman
watched with agonizing dread the fate of
a vessel tossed upon the breakers, and
which depended upon the turn of the
tide for its chance of safety. Her hus-
band was on board, and the tide did turn,
and the schooner came safely into port,
but the horror of suspense and anxiety
were too much for the faithful wife, and
she died in giving birth to little girl,
even as its father clasped it in his arms.
The child, however, now and for many
years woman, has always lived in a
state of half idiocy, half insanity, her
sufferings frightfully augmented by each
recurring flowing-in of the tide. There
are times when she is comparatively
quiet, and only means, ike.t the sound of
the sea, but the tidal change wakes in
her the intensest agony. Then she PAGES
the beach wringing her hands, and can
hardly be restrained from throw ing her
elfinto the waves, until the time is past,
and she subsidies into sad$wistful, weary
apathy again. Probably it was upon
these self-same shoals that the hapless
ship containing Margaret Fuller, hel
husband and child, was stranded, and il
would not be .. bad idea to have grottc
sacred to the memory of one of the most
truly repl esentative of American women
as an ornament of the new park.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
A Census of CentenarianS.

1t is suggested in Western newspaper
that there shall accompany the publica-
ton of the next census returns list of
persons in the United States who have
lived their hundred years-the gentleman
ians to be hunted up by the postmasters
and the names TO be preserved at Wash
ington. Should this be done it will be
found almost every village has its Me-
thuselah. Bailey, an English writer on
old age, gives list of 1000 persons as
certslined by him to have lived beyond a
hundred. Vespasian had census taken
of the old people of his empire, and found
30 who were l40 years old; 40 who were
1886; 40 who were 1870; 90 who were 1875 !;
Ia who were ITO, and 81 who were 100
The Cincinnati Gazette found family in
Lexington. Scott county, KY, who live
up to the natural rule that the lives of
animals should average five times their
growing period. The present head of
the family is Kinder Furgeson, who was
born on Sunday, August %, 177l, or l05
years ago. His mother lived TO be I07,
his grandmother JOG, and his great
grandmother l04, further than which the
genealogy is lost. He was married in
1902, and his eldest child, Mrs, Nancy
Priest, is now 81. Kinder has great
great great great grandson living. Kin
der's father lived on the York river, in
Virginia, and he heard Lafayette's troops
march past the house. He served through
the war of 1912 and is now drawing "a
pension. He is in good health now
p9tG[ILletDHSG Times.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The White Africans.

" Are they then really white?n asked a
Paris reporter of Major Serpa Pinto, the
Portuguese explorer of Africa, with ref
erence to his widely-published story
about a white race in the dark CONT
nent Absolutely white" replied the
major. Il have seen young girl Eho
was whittier than | am. They are not
Albinos, because they have black hair
They are hideous and the most savage
people that | have met with In order
to see them | was compelled t. eize two
of them by force. | kept them for some
days and loaded them with attentions.
Then they consented to take me into
heir camp, but on condition that |
should go entirely alone, because they
were afraid of my escort. | went there
and spent two days with them. They
are poor people, withou Industry, living
by the chase and having no ed habita-
ton. Their hair is woolIy, heir fore
head retreating, their eyes resemble
those OF the Chinese, their cheek bones
are prominent, and their lower lip hangs
down. They are very strong, and can
bury an arrow in the body of an ele-
plant" The reporter expressed the
opinion that the majors countrymen
must be proud of his success. All"
said the explorer, sadly, "would you
believe that l have enemies at Lisbon
who have spread the report that all my
stories are but fictionsP" The major is
thirty-two years old, but appears to be
only twenty-five, slightly built, of me-
dunn height, with luxuriant black hair,
straight nose light mustache, an EEK
preston of distinction and intelligence,
and" (still further to quote from the re-
porter) 1.-THE general impression of a
perfect gentleman, with the amiable
Southern vivacity to boot"
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
The English National HYMN.

Some Of the English newspapers have
been discussing the origin of God Save
the King Cor Queen), and after much
discussion it has been settled that DR..
Henry Carey wrote both the words and
melody. He was a poet and musician,
who composed the anthem in honor of
a birthday of George H., and twas per-
given on that occasion (l74O) by the
MERGERS company of London. 1t was
first published in the Harmonic Anqlaco
in l742, and appeared three years later
in the Geaatlenaeaa's Magazine DIR.
Arne says that the air has preserved its
original form. but it's harmonies have
been changed again and again. The
words were changed on the ascension OF
William w., and also on that of Vic
oria. Indeed, its history Is quite an
EVOLUTION of music.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
American Mechanics.

The nicknames of the citizens of the
several States are as follows: Alabama,
Lizards; Arkansas, Toothpicks; Cali
tornia, Gold Hunters; Colorado, Rovers;
Connecticut, Wooden Nutmegs; Della
ware, Muskrats; Florida, Fly up the
Creeks; Georgia, Buzzards; Illinois,
Suckers; Indiana, Hoosiers; Iowa,
Uawkeyes; Kansas, Jayhawkers; Ken
lucky, Corn Crackers; Louisiana, Gre
oles; Maine, Foxes; Maryland, Craw
Thumpers; Michigan, Wolverines; Min
nesota, Gophers; Mississippi, Tadpoles;
Missouri, Pukes; Nebraska, Bug Eaters !;
Nevada, Sage Hens; New Hampshire,
Granite Boys; New Jersey, Blues or
Clam Catchers; New York, Knicker-
bockers; North Carolina, Tar Boilers
and Tuckoes; Ohio, Buckeyes; Oregon,
Webfeet and Hard Cases; Pennsylvania,
Romantics and Leatherheads; Rhode
Island, Gun Flints; South Carolina,
Weasels; Tennessee, Whelps;. Texas,
Beef Heads; Vermont, Green Mountain
Boys; Virginia, Beadles; Wisconsin
Badgers.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Reward of Merit.

1t has become very fashionable nova
days to reward persons for simply dis
charging the duties they are paid to dis
charge or which kindly feelings prompt
them to perform. A conductor on the
Central railroad did some simple kindly
office for an invalid lady on his train,
and was rewarded with an elegant gold
badge. A bank cashier in Chicago hand
led $500, 900 the other day and generously
refrained from appropriating dollar to
his own use. The officers of the bank
presented him with house and lot for
his unexpected fidelity. small boy. in
Rome filled his mothers wood-box with
wood one day last week without grum-
bling. She was so pleased and surprised
that she had gold medal made bearing
the figure of u boy with an armtul OF
wood in bas-relief and presented 1t to
him as testimonial of her gratitude
A policeman in New York arrested Il
drunken man and RETAINED from club
bing him while he was in helpless con-
dition. The humane society has pre-
sented him with a purse of $500. A
poor cripple lay in the middle OF street
in Boston unable to rise. The driver OF
n carriage which came along, turned out
and avoided running over the man, al
though it necessitated his going four feet
out of his way to do it. The city au-
thorities bought him hack and team
of horses and set him up in business, as
a slight reward for his never-to- be- for
gotten act of humanity. He might have
run over the man much easier than he
could have turned out. The engineer of
n railroad train saw n man lying bound
on the track in front. The train was
behind time and the engineers dinner
was waiting Mt the station few miles
further on But the noble man cast
aside all thoughts of making time, and
extraordinarily resolved to save the
man on the track if he had to eat cold
dinner to do it. He might have run
right on, carved the man up into mince-
meat and reach d the station in time for
a warm dinner. When it is taken into
consideration that the engineer had eaten
nothing since breakfast, five hours before,
except four sandwiches, the noble spirit
of the man is fully shown. 1t is little
wonder that the passengers made up a
princely purse for him. A business man
requested his clerk to remain in the store
and attend to business one afternoon
when there was a baseball match be-
tween the Hit-em-hards and the Base
Founders. The young man had made
calculation to attend the match, and had
even bought his ticket. He struggled
with his desire to attend the ball match
anu MS uuly 10 MS eiupLoSeI, anu hopIS
resolved to remain in the store. He
might have attended the match and en-
joyed himself to his utmost, but he de-
MED himself that pleasure and attended
to the duties for which he was paid.
Noble youth, thought the merchant, he
shall be rewarded. And he made him
present of last years necktie. 1t is
perhaps unnecessary to say that in nine
cases out of ten man who does his duty
in a kindly spirit and shows an inclina-
ton to be human, is very likely to be re-
warded, if he does not get more than
four dnllnrs and n half-RO1Lle .Se1lti2leL
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Handsome Peruvian Ladies.

A Lima correspondent writes I have
seen few beautiful faces in my life but
You cannot see these ladies on the
street, for they cover all but the eyes
with a mantle; but in the windows, on
the balconies, in the public gardens and
at the opera you see them at their best.
Last Sunday week there was review
OF 10000 troops in Lima, and / believe
| saw all the people in the city, which
is said to contain 10000 souls. But
Lima is not what it once was Many
ofthe people are rich as of old, and the
splendor of their houses is said to dazzle
the eye. Outside, however. they look
like mass of ruins.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
Unhappy Marriages

The truth is that these too frequent
unhappy marriages are the offspring of
ignorance quite as much as of actual sin
or wrongs. Fools, and especially vicious
fools, have no right to get possession of
an honest woman's life and soul which
they cannot mprehend, and the ele-
waiting influence of which they throw
away even more by stupidity than by
wilfullness. A woman, by her sex and
character, has q claim to many things
besides shelter, food and clothing. She
is no less a woman for being welded,
and the man who is fit to be trusted
with a good wife recollects all which this
implies, and shows himself perpetually
chivalrous, sweet-spoken, considerable
and deferential. The fools and brutes
who abound among us may think such
demands hard; but they are not n"arly
as bad as to live the cat and-do4 life,
missing the dearest possibilities of
human intercourse. .....
w hat right has Il man to expect hap
piness in household who brings no
sunshine into it? What right has he
to look for graces and reinements of
early love when he violates them with
rough speeches, i'll manners, and the dis
regard of those little things upon which
the self-respect of a wife is built and
maintained? The cynic who rails at
marriage is generally one and the same
with the thoughtless egotist who comes
into the presence of his wife careless. stub
born and sour-tenpered. The faith is
horrible which a poor and faithful girl
may endure by encouraging in him
whom she weds not mere actual cruelty
or injury, but stupid incompetence to
understand a woman's needs, dull forget
fulness of the daily graces of life and OBJ
livion of the fact that while men have
the world, women have only. their home.
These cases of masculine ingratitude do
not, indeed, often led to visible catas-
trophe, nor grow into absolute tyranny :;
but they equally tend that way. They
drag down a wife's soul to the point
where she must despair; they change
the sublime meaning of marriage to vul-
garity and WEAKNESS; they spoil the
chance of that best and finest of all edu-
cation which each man obtains who
wins a reasonable good woman for his
companion, and they cost more to a
million households than money or re-
pentance can ever pay back. -E1chuage.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

Advice to the young-Eat oysters only
in the months that have an "r" in their
names and drink whisky only in the
months that have k" in their names
Albany journal.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

A little boy picked up what he thought
was rather pretty pebble while playing
on the bank of the Little Miami river,
at Waynesville, Ohio. 1t turned out to
be a pearl. and he sold it tor $3.50. "a
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

The young man, says the Boston
Transcript, who prides himself upon
looking spruce, should bear in mind that
spruce is ever green. -
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17
A Paragrapher,s Proverbs.

The hindmost dog may catch the hare,
but never bet on it.
A drowning man will catch at a straw
hat. lr [tIE
A close mouth catches no flies, but
nobody but dog wants to catch a fly
in his mouth any way.
Better half loaf than whole day
spent in idleness.
Better an empty house than a bad ten
ant, unless you make him sign tight
lease.
To forget wrong is the best revenge,
particularly If tke other fellow is bigger
than you.
Look not gift clothes-horse in the
joints.
Have not the cloak to make when il
begins to rain, unless you know where
you can borrow an umbrella.
A kings cheese goes half away in par.
ings, because it is out of the question
for the queen to be in the Kitchen all thu
time .-Cmein,1Gti Enquirer.
The Newtown bee., 1879-09-17

When a man puts on airs and swells
around, making people believe that he
owns two-thirds of every bank in the
city, people look up to him and admire
him. Just let the same man in shabby
coat try to borrow few dollars, and
you'll find out how much the same peo-
pie admire-the dollars-Neso York Ea-
press.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-08-12


EE-T The new postage law in relation
to the prepayment of postage went into
effect on the goth ult. Heretofore all
letters insuticiently stamped were for
warded to their destination, and the
amount due was collected off the per-
sons 70 whom the letters we're addressed
Under the new law postnasters are re-
quired to place upon. letters not fully
prepaid the stamp or additional stamps,
now known as the postage due stamps,
and to send to the Office where the letter
is be delivered bill for the amount Of
stamps advanced. The postmaster re.
ceiying such letters and bills returns the
amount. to the forwarding postmaster.
and collects the amount from the receiy-
er of the letter. -
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-08-12

Baltimore-August 7.-Catt'e-.
Very best on, sale this week 00@S 25
that generally ra,ed first qnality 4 50@
5 90 medium or good fair quality 8 II!
"a 12t ordinary thin steers, oxen and
cows 3 25@2 s74 extreme range ol
prices.2 25@5 25 most OF the sales were
from 8 374@4 25. is5s.s
Mich Cows.-Trade is very dull COM
mon cows are very plentiful and besl
CRATES scarce Prices &l8 00@40 90,
as to quality,
Hogs-We quote common hogs 81
4A@54c, with the better grades at 58@
Sic, and q very few choice at 5sc, closing
Sheep-We quote butchers sheep al
3@4tc; few selling at either extreme
lambs at 3@5c. stock sheep, lt@3c.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-08-12
Nttp Abbtrtisemeats,
LEGAL NOTICE,

7 JAMES BUCHANAN and William Buchanan,
y whose postofice address Is Nebras ka
City, Ottoe County, in the State Of Nebraska;
Nancy Jackson aud Oren Jackson, whose
postoface address Is Portland, Multnomah
County, in the State of Oregon, and Melissa
Sperry and Louis Sperry, wbose postoface
address is Bslleville. Wood County, In the
State of West Virginia, will take notice that
Alexander Buchanan as Administrator of the
estate of William Buchanan. deceased, did,
on the 31st day of July, 1879, file his cer-
tain petition in the Probate Court of Mon.
roe County Ohio. against them, the object
and prayer of which is to obtain an order to
sell the following real estate which was Of
William Buchanan, deceased. to pay debts
of said decedent, to wit: The southwest
quarter of section eighteen, township Eve Of
range six, except twenty one acres in the
northwest corner of said tract.
Said James Buchanan, William Buchanan,
Nancy Jackson, Oren Jackson, Melissa Sperry
and Louis Spsrry are notified that they are
required to appear and answer said petitio n
on or before, she 30th day Of September, 1879.
ALEXANDER BUCHANAN,
Admir- of William Buchanan, decd.
augl2,'79td.
SPRIGGs & DRfees, Att'ys.