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Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29
MY REPLY TO DEAR BRET's mADRrGAr

NJ ~ bEhh bhEl mAbhl'ALt
Thy epistle, dear Bret, I've received,
And trust thou'lt not think me too bold,
If frankly acknowledge I'm grieved
AT the thought that to thee I've been cold
How sweetly thou managest wooing!
What n way to my heart thou hast found
Abandoning billing and cooling,
Thou tell'st me where fossils abound
Forever hencefOrward I'm thine,
To view 0rnithchnites I'm signing;
Don't delay-for rAmble | Dine),
To find them in stu am dying.
Tridactylous, struthious and huge,
With phalanges nicely indcnted,
Entombed when Dame Nature with rouge
The mari and the sandstone beds painted
If thou wilt but extract me femur,
With matrix Just near the trOchanter,
I'll abandon all maidenly tremor,
And at once name the day, thou enchanter
I'll only make one stipulation:
That avoiding hotel, inn and tavern,
We improve the time hOnOred lunatiOn,
And our honeymoon spend in cavern.
There I'll labor, content in the fettcr,
To find, happy thought if can,
A dear second husband and better,
A petrited pithecoid man.
-Lonios Nature.
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From the Burlington Hawkcye.
No, my son, the world docs not owe you
living. The world does not need you
yet-you need the world If you can con-
vince the world that yol are necessary to
its well being, its happiness, its pleasure,
its moral existence, then the world will
begin to claim you and make room for
you in the body pews with the softest
cushions and easiest foot. stools. But
don't fall into the common error of sup
posing that the world owes you a living.
1t doesn't owe you anything of the kind.
The world isn't responsible for your be-
ing. 1t didn't send for you to come here,
and in no sense is it obliged to support
you now that you are here. Your living
is here-a good comfortable living.
Plenty to eat, plenty to wear, an abun-
dance of good healthful, hard work, rip.
ples of laughter and sprinkles OF tears,
hours of happiness and moments OF heart
ache, days Of labor and nights Of rest,
duties TO be performed and rewards to be
won, and here it is,son-disappointments, is,
struggles, success and hOnors, but the
"OIlu uotAn owe you OHc VI Iltuli Hot
one.
You cant collect your living as
you would a debt, by simply presenting
your lawyer the account to sue. You
have to work for it, son, and work like Il
Trojan, too. When you hear man say
the world owes him living, and he is 60
ing to have it, make up your mind that
he is just making himself good excuse
for stealing living. The world doesn't
owe any man anything, son. 1t will give
you anything you earn, and you just look
out over the world and know that all the
plunder you can gather together in honest
work is yours and no more.
lfyou can't get any, why none of it is
yours, and if you can reach out and carry
away ten times as much as your neighbor,
why it is all yours and he has no right to
wall and whine over his bad luck and
want you to divide. And, my son, in all
human probability, you will not want to
divide | hope you may, but it is very
likely you won't.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29


This morning, as little Ed ellison wal
going up town accompanied by larg,
Newfoundland dog, his usual attendant
the dog ran into the street and was kick
ed or the head by horse. Gibson, think
ing that the dog bad received his death
burst into tears, and wcpt pitifully. HI
had the dog placed on the sidewalk, anC
went to work like young surgeon to helI
him. The dog had only been stunned
and soon got up, wagging his tail, ant
frisking knowingly about his young mas
ter. Said the little fellow, rs he patteC
the animal and prepared to move away
"That dog ! love better nor anything. H,
took me out Of The Kaw river with hi
teeth three years ago, and I'd fight 70
him.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29

The late Caleb Cushing is said, besides
his serious studies, to have read more nov
els of every sort than any man of his time
He read them in English, French, Ger
man, and Spanish, though French novels
were his favorites, especially those pro-
duced during the long reign Of Louis xiv.
He had dcvOured most Of the Gallic fiction
lying between the interminable tonnes Of
Nine, De Scuderi and the ideally-elegant
social pictures of Nine. De Lafayette,
down to the works Of Balzac, Georges
Sand, SOulie. Kar, Musset, ,Gautler, Sou.
vestre, Fuval, Murger, Champlleury,
Feydeau, FlavbeIt, Dumas, Hugo, and al
the rest, 1t is said that he could remem-
ber long passages from Duclos, Provost,
and SADIE; could recall the plots and Incl.
dents and name the characters Of hun
dreds OF romancGs which he had not open
ed for 25 years. One OF his associates has
expressed the opinion that he must have
devoured at least 5000 novels, as he could
master one of ordinary size in three OF
four hours, and has been known to get
through with dozen week as mere re-
creation to his strictly intellectual labors.
1t is odd that man who had sucn taste
for dry statistics and prosaic facts, fol
such writers as Scaliger, Grotius, Putteu-
dorf, and Nlebuhr, should have taken de.
ligt in "La Sophie" and 'Le Paysan Par.
venu." But Cushing was full OF oppositeS
and inconsistencies, though in all his var
iatons and tergiversations he was unde'
viatingly loyal TO his conception of self-in'
tprpst
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troll of the industries Of the country.

troll of the industries Of the country, In
all the cOuntries-of the old world this cred
itor class have usurped the government
to protect its interest, and to rob produc-
tion, and In this country it is almost
ready to scize absolute power as its only
safeguard against the intelligence and in
dependence of the people. The struggle
is at hand, and it will be terrible, twill
be struggle of giants, the Samson Mon
ey Power on one side, and the Hercules
Labor on the other Let 1t come.
"You have broken our sword, not our pow
er,
o, sampson, of long golden hsir!
But we'll send out n thought to the millions,
And you, not We, shall despair"
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HofrH
THE FOSSIL LOVERS.

Miss Ann Gelica kindly sends us her reply
to Bret Hartes Geological Madrigal," whicl
she assures us was addressed to her. To en-
able the reader 10 understand the younJ
ladys reply We prefix "Dear Bret's" verses:
GEOLOGICAL MADRIdAL.
[Aftcr shcnstonel
l have found out a gift for my fair,
know where the fossils abound,
Where the footprints of AJeS declare
The birds that once walked on the ground
Oh, come, and-in technical speech
Well walk this DevOnian shore,
Or on some Silurian beach
Well wander, my love, evermOrc.
I'll show thee the sinuous track
BY the slow moving annelid made,
Or the Trilobitc that, farther back,
In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid.
Thou shalt see in his Jurassic tomb,
The Plesiosaurius embalmed;
In his Ooltic prime and his bloom
IguanodOn safe and unharmed!
You wished-I remember it WELL
And loved you more for that wish
For perfect Cystistidian shell
And whole holocephalic fish.
And Oh, if earth's strata contains
In its lowest Slurian drift,
Or Palnlzoic remains
The same-'tis your lovers free gift
Then come, love- and never say nay,
But calm all your maidenly fears,
Well note love, in one summers day,
The record of millions of years;
And though the Darwinian plan
Your sensitive feelings may shock,
Well find the beginning of man
Our fossil ancestors in rock.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29
vanderhIlt,a personnl Taxes.

From The Now York Times
Shortly before Commodore Vanderbilt's
death, his personal estate was assessed by
tbs Tax Commissioners at $4,000, 900.
After his demise 1t was assessed to his ex-
ecutors, but they claimed that the transfer
of responsibility to them was illegle, aud
th,y announced that they would take le-
gal proceedings in order to secure exemp-
tion irom the tax, which, based on the
valuation of the property, amounted to
s 79,75l IS. They have however, paid
this sum at the tax office, together with in
terest on the same, amounting TO 5 1884
so, making total Of s99,le6 70.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29

Did you ever know any person to be Ill,
without inaction of the Stomach, Liver, or
kidneys, or did you ever know one who was
well when either was obstructed or inActiyel
the kind that Hop Blttss would not cure,
vour nsishbor this same onsatlon.- Ti,nas,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-29

Empress velvet, a new material which
has q heavy silk RIB on the outside and q
woolly inner surface, 10 used for the new.
at wraps
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GOSSIP.
News and Notes About Persous and
Things.

Mayor Hyde has returned in good health
from his European trip.
Mr.. Gustavus S. Bean, the newly appoint-
ed Warden of the State Prison. will be in
stalled as soon as the valuation of the prison
property can be made.
pretty new pen-wiper initiates a shawl
strap. The cloth is arranged in three differ
ent colored rolls-for instance, red blue and
gray-and padded by odd scraps until about
half an inch in diameter. Small STRAPS of
enameled cloth, similar to those used for
shawls, fasten the tiny luggage together. A
few threads of gold-colored silk represent
the buckles.
The price of Christmas cards this season
begins at two cents and leaves off at the bot
tom of ones purse. But let no one turn up
his or her nose at the two pennies for of those
there are a hundred pretty kinds.
On leaving the Wing office Mr.. Owen was
the recipient of a handsome silver fruit dish,
with the following inscription: "Howard
Owen, from the boys in the Wing office
Bishop Peck, president of the Maine Con-
ference, preached in Portland yesterday, at
the Pine street and Chestnut street Metho-
dist churches.
The Portland Company have an order from
the Maine Central for one hundred freight
cars, and they are doing work for most of the
neighboring roads, the Eastern road being
especially liberal in their orders.
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DECEMBER WEAIHER.-vennor makes
weather predictions for December "a fo,lows
december will, in all probability. omen with
little snow, but the weather will he cloudv
threatening snow falls. There will probsh,v
De some snow from about tn. 4tb of Tho
month. With the second quarter of the
month colder weather will probably set in
with falls of snow, but good sleighinp need
not be expected until after the middle of the
month. There will be spell of mild wealth.
er about the 18th and 14th. After a brief in.
tervai of mild weather, during which more
snow Will fall, the third quarter of the month
VIII probably see clustering and cold wealth
er. The last quarter of the month will bring
miider weather, but will terminate probably
with heavy snow falls and stormy weather :.
in fact heaviest snow falls will be toward the
end of the month, and snow, and snow block
AIDES may be looked for, the snow falls ex-
tending far to the southwark, possibly as far
as Washington, with very stormy weather
around New York and Boston,
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Gardiner Local News.

An effort is being made by some of our
prominent young gentlemen to have series
Of entertainments given in this city They
are to consist of lectures bv some of the
most prominent and talented lecturers of the
day. Messrs. o. b. Clason, Geo. Heselton,
and Warren Whitmore are soliciting sub
scribers for the entire course six in all.
The object of this is to make the management
come out whole" in the affair The course
ticket is offered at the extremely low price of
one dollar and a half. Single tickets are
thirty-fve cents. Such a laudable project
should receive hearty support from our
literary men. \ rare treat may be expected
each evening, as highly interesting subjects
will be chosen. If enough Of subscribers are
found to cover the expenses the plan will be
carried out Fly you happen to be visited by
the solicitors you will not regret it if you
put down your name. The affair well merits
success.
r. II. Gardiner, the photographer, has
some fine large portraits on exhibition.
We heartily endorse his suggestion that they
would make an excellent Christmas present
Pinafore will be given at johnson Hail.
December 2nd, by the Augusta Pinafore
Company. Judging from the number of
times the play has been rendered in this city
it seems that it would be little ''stale,' but
Pinafore is one of those entertainments which
''never grows Old" So without doubt it
will be heartily supported.
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MARYLAND.
Protest Against Railroad Rates.

BALTIMORE, November q. The Corn and
Flour Exchange has adopted resolution pro-
testing against the notice of the Baltimore
Ohio railroad, given yesterday. of an advance
on storage of wheat in elevators, to take
effect Dec 6, and committee was authorized
to wait upon the officers of the company and
protest against execution of the notice.
Resolutions were adopted by the meeting in
which it was stated that in 10 days the
pressure at the elevators may be relieved;
that there are now 300. 900 bushels of wheat
less in the elevators than 10 DAYS ago.
with shipments largely exceeding receipts,
and therefore no good reason now exists tor
the notice or its execution. The committee
will wait upon the company Monday. In the
meantime the company say that if the pres
sure in the elevators is relieved and no
blockade occurs, the reason for their notice
will be removed and the order will not go
into effect That it is not intended or con-
templated that any charge for demurrage for
wheat in cars shall be made. and that the
notice was and is to keep their road and ele-
vators open for shipment Of wheat from the
west and not to permit the facilities for
storing and moving wheat to be monopolized
by any parties. That in pursuing this course
they simply followed custom well under
stood and enforced in the west whenever it is
necessary to keep open the channels of trade.
Suspension.
Israel NJ. Parr Son, one of the largest
grain houses in the city. have suspended.
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winthrop Locals.

Winthrop Locals.
Thanksgiving passed off quietly. There
was prayer meeting at the Methodist vestry
in the forenoon. An alarm of fire was given
lust at dusk. In an incredible short time
scores of citizens were on hand, each with a
bucket of water. The interior of. the store
occupied by Ruel A. Rice as hardware and
grocery store, seemed to be sheet of fire.
The flames were quickly extinguished. Mr..
r. was unpacking a crate of crockery and the
light was sitting on the floor when it exploded,
scattering the burning fluid in all directions,
setting the straw on fire in the crate, making
large and quick fire. But slight damage
was done. A gentleman from Boston who
happened to be on the street at the time the
alarm was given, was greatly pleased. and
complimented our fire brigade very highly.
The following gentlemen have been drawn
to serve as jurors in the L. s. court at Port
land, next month George +. Fairbanks,
Reuben T. Jones, Simeon G. Davis, Charles
A. Wing.
b. F. Maxim of Wayne, raised 22l bushels
of sheled corn on acres of land last season
Who says farming don't pay in Maine: His
son. ii y ears of age, all alone, receiving nc
help from anv one. raised ! gil pounds OF corr
on one-eghth of an acre last season.
The Methodists are talking of selling theil
parsonage and purchasing one in better
locality. 1t would seem to be high time foI
move in this direction. Compelling pastors
to live too near public nuisance is not pro
motive of Christianity.
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Owen Dow, little fellow whose parents
reside on the east side of the river, did
not come home to dinner Friday. This
alarmed his parents, and their anxiety in
creased as nightfall brought no little boy.
Diligent search was made. The boy was
employed mornings at w. f. Potter's res
taurant doing chores, etc. On Friday. after
finishing his work, he started off accompanied
by dog belonging to Mr.. Potter. Sat
urday, morning Mr. Seth Clark came across
the dog some miles from the city, on the Sid
ney road. but the boy was no where to be
found. BY this time his parents were almost
frantic with apprehension. Mr.. Potter start
ed out in search, and met the lost one con-
tentedly riding toward Augusta in his uncle S
wagon. He had walked out to Sidney where
he had relatives, and there remained over
night. His parents were overjoyed at his
safety.
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If DIR. Johann Faust, from his little print
ing office in Gutenberg, could have looked
down the dim vista of the years, how his stout
German soul would have been amazed at the
almost miraculous growth of the art of print
ing from movable type, Of which he is the
reputed inventor. On the table before us
lies beautiful volume of over 600 pages
the american Newspaper Annual" pub
lished by N. w. Aver & Son. Philadelphia.
1t is the most thorough compendium of val
liable facts to advertisers and business men
generally that we have ever seen. As its
name implies it is a complete encyclopedia
of all the newspapers published in the Uni
ted States and Canada-their circulation po-
litical bias, and distinctive features. A spec
ial feature of this work is the arrangement OF
the matter according to geographical sections,
instead of alphabetically. In the matter Of
giving calculations, the publishers declare
they know neither friend or foe. The book
also gives the population of towns and coun-
ties from the New Census of 1880, as far as
possible. It is handsomely printed and
bound. We have examined the work thor
oughly; and can cheerfully say that. as far
- Maine is concerned at least, it approaches
nearer to perfection than any similar book
which we have ever seen.
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Saturday afternoon. about one o'clock.
george Farney, aged nineteen, son of Isaac
Varney, Esq, of Manchester. in company
with another boy, Harry Weston, went on
Lake cobbosseecontee to skate. The day
was beautiful, and the ice smooth and tempt
ing They ventured out farther and farther.
until they were half mile from Hammond's
grove and one-fourth that distance from Long
Point All at once the weak ice cracked
omniousiy, and moment later young Var
ney, who was ahead, plunged through into the
ice cold water He uttered wild shrek as
the waves passed over him. He was a good
swimmer, and managed to keep at the surface
while his companion sped to the shore for
help. Weston had time to go twice to the
edge of the pond and procure rails to shove
out to his drowning comrade. The bows
sufferings in the frigid water must have been
excruciating. He was so benumbed with the
cold that his palsied hands could not grasp
the profered aid, and he sank for the last
time just as help was nigh. The body was
recovered a few hours later, in thirty feet of
water
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NOVA SCOTIA.
Marine Disasters.

HALIFAX. November 81. Steamer Bris-
bane is ashore at Bechscie river Four OF
the crew are dead: the remainder are badly
frozen Brig Pamlico was lost, but the crew
were saved. Schooner Wasp is ashore at
Ellis bay; crew and passengers saved. The
keeper of the light house urges that steamer
be sent Immediately with provisions, etc,
for the crew of the Brisbane. Schooner
Celestine, with several telegraph workmen
on board, is reported in the ice.
Steamer st. Lawrence, at Pictou, from
Georgetown, =. +. L., lost her foremost on
the passage. Seven vessels loaden with pro-
duce are frozen in at Summerside. Barque
Holly Helen, grain laden, went ashore al
Summersde, and will probably be a total
loss Schooner Royal Arch, cargo of coal,
struch reef off Port Lebar, in a snow squall
Thursday night, and is a total wreck. Crew
saved
Schooner Guiding Star was seized al
Monckton for failing to enter at the custom
house. Schooner Daniel Yorke, Dorchester
for Newburyport, Mass, with a cargo OF
coal, went ashore in Apple river, Cumber
land county, Wednesday, and became a tota
loss. Schooner Princess of Wales, previous
ly reported, got clear of ice and arrived a,
Chariottetown. An effort will be made t.
make another trip to She,fiac. Boats arc
running regularly between Charlottetowr
and Pictou.
Steamer Nebo, Capt. Gordon. has arrived
with the crew of barque Oriana, wrecked or
Schooner Point, Cape Breton. The sea wa'
running so high that the crew were forced to
jump overheard, whence they were rescued
in half persisted condition by the Nebo',
boats The men had been six days on decl
with no water and had subsisted upon a few
raw frozen potatoes.
Barque Moselle of Prince Edwards Island
, bound to Hamburg. encountered the gale o
Sunday. Lost foremost and put in at Sydney
| Crew suffered frightfully from exposure. The
cook was frozen to death and six men 81
badly frozen that they were sent to the hos
| pital. Some may not recover. The captain
reports number Of other vessels badl,
damaged by the gale and others totally dis
| abled.
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", moore our crayon artist,i is prepar;no
" enlarge his business. He i. b.v;no ,.e
siaph rooms over the American Ex-
Press ONCE remodeled and fitted up. He
WIN nave the best of light and instruments.
'A". can be had, and intends to do as fine
"ork In The photograph line, as can be had
nus ''oe OF Boston. This new branch Of his
business with his crayon portrait work, will
give the artist all he can do The room, will
'e opened the first or second Week in Decem.
Der.
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Mail Matter Burned.
NEW YORK.
The MOrey Letter.

NEW YORK, November -. 1t is stated
that the clue that the envelope of the Morey
letter had been addressed to Edward Fox,
lately an attache of the paper in which the
Morey letter was published. was followed up.
but as Fox recently has gone TO Nova Scotia,
inquiry was postponed.
Raid on Lottery Dealers.
The police this afternoon engaged in a
general raid on lottery dealers throughout
the city. The raid was ordered by the police
commissioners, for the purpose of breaking
up the game in the city.
Steamers Overdue.
Thirteen steamers are still unheard FROM
one of which, the Silesia, from Hamburg
has 900 German passengers on board. Three
are Liverpool steamers, having quite a num-
Der of cabin passengers The Silesia is now
seventeen days out.
Passion Play Abandoned.
Manager Abbey, out of Difference to pub
lie opinion, announces that he shall not pro-
duce the Passion Play.
Railroad Accidents.
BUFFALO, November -. BY collision of
an engine nth construction train here to-
day. one man was killed and two fatally in
jured.
"A train ran off the trestle at Holland, in
juring three fatally and seriously iniuring
five other men.
The St. Louis express ran off the track
seven miles outside of this city, ten out of
thirteen cars leaving the track Two per-
sons were seriously injured.
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Murray Quinby, the eleven years old son
of Rev. DIR. Quinby, met with a peculiar
accident, Saturday afternoon, while skating
on the Mill Brook. One of his young COM
panions, not seeing him, skated violently
against him. The shock was so severe that
Murray was thrown down and for a mement
stunned He was taken home, and apparent
ly was but slightly hurt. After lying down
for short time, the boy went into the
kitchen and stood up by the stove. Shortly
after his father noticed that he looked
peculiarly, and spoke to him, but received no
reply. He had relapsed into insensibility
again, and remained in a lethargic condition
for over two hours. Yesterday he was very
comfortable. This accident should be a
warning to boys to use caution in their
sports.