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THE Philadelphia 2in,c5 speaking
of cgotistca characters, hits the
nall square on the head and drives
the point home:
There are men so egotlstical, that
il amounts to an incurable disease,
and causes them to be not only
changeable aud unstable in their
plans and designs, but utterly un-
trustworthy as friends. You can
not rely upon the most solemn
pledge or promise made you by a
diseased cgotist, much less can you
tell the sincerity of any of his pro-
iessions, or opinions. He is one
thing to-day, and another to'mor-
row. He is blown about, and
whired around by every little spurt
OF public opinion, prompted by his
vanity and selilove, TO seek the
popular side, and IN all that he says
and does, selfseoking, self.loving
eootism is the motive power which
wmrls and shifts such changeling
about, to face every direction that
the breeze seems to be blowing.
lie has a halfway, ghmmerng eon-
sciousness that his weakness is
known and derided, and this ac-
counts for the other side of his
character, namely, feminine spite,
and propensity to tattlc and back
bite.
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THE 0SCEOLA Times.
LEON ROUSSAN,
f d tor and Proprietor
OUR TICMEIT.

Z d tor and Proprietor
OUR TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK,
of Pennsylvania.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JAMES II. ENGLISH,
OF Connecticut.
DEMOCRATIC ST ATE TICKET
FOR GOVERNOR,
T. J. CHURCHILL,
OF Pulaski.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE,
JACOB FROLICH,
OF White.
FOR AUDITOR OF STATE.
JOHN CRAWFORD.
OF Howard.
FOR TREAsURER OF STATE.
WM. E. WOODRUFF, JR.,
OF Pulaski.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
G. b. MOORE,
OF Pulaski.
FOR COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS
D, W. LEAR,
OF Ouachita.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE,
E. ii. ENGLISH,
OF Pulaski.
FOB SUPERINTENDENT OF PUELIC IN
srRUCTIoN.
J. l.. DENTON,
OF Phillips.
FOR JUDGE PULASKGCHANCERY COURT,
ID. W. CARROLL,
OF Jefferson.
FOR CLERK PULAf Ill GHANCEGY COURT,
J. W. GALLOWAY, =
OF OuacEita.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS STATE
Al LARGE,
G. W CARUTH,
OF Pulaski.
ID. W. JONES,
OF Hampstead.
FIRST DISTRICT,
A. G. BREWER,
OF Crttendcn.
FOR CONGREss-FIRSr DISTRICT:
HON. POINDEXTER DUNN.
OF ST. FRANCIS COUNTY.
FOR STATE SENATOR.
JOHN b. DRIVER,
OF Mississippi.
FOI REPREsENrA1NE
j.. NJ. NCNElGH,
OF Osccola.
49,
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FOR JUSTICE OFlTHE PEACE.

We are authorized to announce james Iiston
as a candidate FOR Justice Of the Peace for Mon
roe township, at the election IN September next
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PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

We are authorized to announce J. \. BAR
LOW. uf Clay cuufty ilr 'roseeutiHH Attorney
of This. % 2nd Judicial Dhtric', at the election
m September next
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FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR.

We are authorized to announce u + JACK
son as a candidate for County Assessor at the
election IN September ucSt.
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FOR CONSTABLE.

We are authorized to ann ounce Edward Parry
as q candidate for Constable Of Monroe Town
ship, at the election In September next
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CEOLA, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 2G, 1880.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

tary: the Nevada bank, treasurer, and w :.
II. Patton superintendent. The secre-
tary's report shows the receipts for the
fiscal year to have been 81 1927 1856, OF
which 81 ,094 ops was from bullion, and
$2O6, ,906 from assessments. All the above
has been expended, with the exception OF
$58,778 cash on hand. There was 30,227
tons of ore worked from December, 1879,
to June, $780, The assay value of this ore
was $460S, and it yielded S3S5s. The as
say value of bars produced was $570, 1853 In
gold and $613,041 IN silver.
Fatal Accident.
WHEATLAND, July 20.--A large body OF
copper ore i'll the San Francisco Copper
mine at Spencerville gave away last even
ing, crushing man by the name of w.
B. Case. He cannot survive.
Thief killed.
OREyILLE, July 20.-A Portuguese, aged
about % name unknown, was shot at the
Spring Valley mining company's fiume,
at Cherokee, last night, while in the act
of robbin; the iume. by two boys aged
abont l. and IL who owere on night watch.
The man was killed instantly.
The KaIioch Murder Case.
SAN FRAscIsco, July 24.-In the super
ior court this afternoon, I. NJ. Kalloch
was arraigned for the murder of Charles
DeYoung. The accused was allowed until
Thursday next to plead. A motion TO set
aside Indictment will be made, and argu-
ment upon the motion is set for week
from Saturday.
Fatal Explosion near Tuolumne City, Cal.
MonEsro, July 24-Ye yesterday afternoon
an engine owned by Moses May, used as
a threshing engine on the farm of j.. V.
Davis, near Tuolumne City, exploded.
The foreman, j. S. Dooly. was blown fifty
nine yards froul the engines and the separ-
ator was was blown about thirty feet from
its place. Dooly died few hours after.
Eight other men were more or less i'm
jured. one probably fatally. The field
was set on fire, and the stack they were
threshing was consumed, but 10 further
damage sustained by fire.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

New METHOD OF CONSUMING SMOKE
1t is well known that the cause of smoke
is that the fresh air, entering the incan-
descent coal from below through the
CRATE, has often all its oxygen consumed
before it has passed half way through the
layer Of coal, SO that the upper part of
the layer cannot burn, but is simply
heated by the underlying incandescent
coal, while the products of the COM
bustion of the lower layer of burning
coal pass through the upper heated but
not burning layer, and carry with them
the combustible gasses evolved by the
heat, but which cannot take fire from the
want of free oxygen. In order to furnish
these combustible gasses ascending
through the upper layer of coal with the
necessary oxygen to burn, Mr.. Benja-
min F. Sherman, of Ballston, Spa, NY.
has devised means of producing air in
the furnace with downward injection
upon the fire by a vertically adjustible
arrangement of pipes, which may be
placed close to the Goals or further from
them, according to the requirement OF
the case
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31
PACIFIC COAST.
scheme to Raise the Price Of Coal at sam
Francisco.

Scheme to Raise the Price of Coal at Sam
Francisco.
SAN FRANcIsco, July 22.-Wholesale
and retail coal dealers have formed a
combination, TO go into effect August lst,
raising the price SO cents per ton, the re-
taller who departs from this standard to
be fined $50 for the first offence, $l00 for
the second, and for the third debarred
from procuring any coal from wholesale
yards.
Ten officers and thirty men of various
regiments of the regular army of the de-
partment of California, began rifle prac-
tice at department headquarters yester-
day for positions in the Creedmoor team.
The shooting thus far is very good. The
ten making the best scores will be sent to
Creedmoor to conteu1 in the national
tournament, to come off at an early date,
not yet fixed.
Child Drowned In a Barrel.
Maggie ]. Corbett, three years old. was
drowned in beer barrel partly filled
with water this morning in her parents
yard on Stevenson street. The little one.
while playing over the barrel, fell in head
foremost and was dead when found.
Important Pacific Coast Measures.
SAN Francisco, July 20.-The chamber
| of commerce, at the regular quarterly
meeting to-day, adopted resolution ask
ing the congressional delegation to adyo-
cate liberal appropriations for extending
| the work of the U. S. geographical and
! Typographical surveys west of the one
| hnndredth meridian; and for marine
| survey OF the coast from California to
i Alaska.
yartoloid i'm San Francisco.
Two cases of varioloid were discovered
yesterday on Brannan street, between
Fifth and Sixth avenue, and removed te
the pest house. Both were women and
light cases.
Death OF e. C. Fellows.
E. c. Fellows, assistant general superin.
tendent of the Central Pacific railroad
died this evening at Oakland.
The Union conscfidnfed.
San FRAScIsco, July 20.--The Union
Consolidated stockholders elected the Ole
| officers yesterday. as follows: Rober
Sherwood, president; George Wallace, L
i r. Drexler, Cornelius o. 0'Connor and Chas
! H. Fish, trustees; ]. NJ. Burlington, secre
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

If piece of wood be placed in de-
canter of water and the focus of large
burning glass is thrown upon it, the
wood will be completely charred, though
the sides of the decanter through which
any way affected, nor the water percepti-
bly, warmed. If the wood be taken out
and the rays be thrown On the water,
neither the vessel nor its contents will be
in the least affected; bat if piece of
metal be put into the water. it soon be-
comes too hot to be touched, and the
water will presently boil. Though pure
water alone contained in transparent
vessel cannot be heated, yet. if by lit
tie ink it be made of dark color, or the
vessel itself be blackened, the effect
speedily takes place.
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Little Duties.

A letter carrier in one of our large
cities q few months ago, found on reach
ing the post office, after long round of
delivery, letter in his bag overlooked.
1t would have taken him half an hour to
return and deliver it. He was very tired
and hungry. He thrust it into his
pocket and delivered it on his first
round the next day.
What consequences followed? For
want of that letter great firm had failed
to meet their engagements; their notes
had gone to protest.; a mill closed, and
hundreds of poor men were thrown out
of employment.
The letter carrier himself was dis
charged for his oversight and neglect.
His family suffered during the winter for
many necessaries of life, but his loss
was of small account compared to the
enormous amount of misery caused by
his single failure in. duty.
Another case: A mechanic who had
been out of work long time in New
York went last September to collect q
small sum due to him. The gentleman
who owed it, being annoyed at some
tritie, irritably refused the money. The
man went to his wretched home, and,
maddened by the sight of his hungry
wife and children, went out to the back
yard and hung himself
The next day an old employer sent to
offer him permanent position. Here
was life lost and family left paupers
because bill of dollar or two was not
paid at the right time.
The old Spanish proverb says: "There
is no such thing as q trifie in this world. -
When we think how inextricable the
lives of all mankind are tangled to
gether, it seems as if every word or
action moved q lever which set in motion
gigantic machinery, whose effect is
wholly beyond our control. For this
reason, If for no other, let us be careful
to perform promptly and well the duties
of ife-even the most trivial.
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A PeonIsIxa YorTnA A ecepes<zce ms
der the charge Of the BridESszer EirE-
iand) Board Of Guardians, hes nsz1lfs
extraordinary powers Of inFent[oH. 1<
rumor has got abroad thai the mse:<T -
punish . refractory boy, bad lctksz 4IH.
In the dead-fiouse that Nhll6 fa<sF <45
In bis clothes, and tilen iax do@1 a he
coffin himself; that by-ands ~ <ozzz o-s
came 10 give the prisoner fcQ1 zc4 &
fered ii to the newly 6fzese8 ccfrsz
when the lively urchin II ~ <<I-z
raised himself and spoke, fir 1tea<z= <5<'
The person 20 nsuch that Ae 1f9FP26 rae
food and bolted. The seaetef ~ z1ze'
cation. and traced Il 70 kn1 6l=c z<<1{
boy whom he had hsd to Ts01<5 { u = <6
the guardians for c0ndnct nr2<tcE5c| s
panpef and an inm2fS 1f tt< Hfzl<
house.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

The Rev. Simmer Latham was engaged
at $500 year as pastor of the Baptist
church at East Ware, n. b., but major
ity of the members we're not willing g
pay him even t!1zt meagre salary, and Il
vas voted to dismiss Ei:n. He intends to
sue for the $500 ct the end Of the year
and therefore prepares every week two
every Sunday to deliver, but aIuays finds
the door locked.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

A LIoN's SKIN FOR A DoLLAR.-An
Arizona paper relates an exploit by
Mexican, which, for downright foolish
ness. puts to fight any of the daring
performances of the heroes Of Beadle's
"yaller-backs. 1t appears that the
Mexican, accompanied by his dog, was
on his way to Tempe to do some trad.
ing, when the dog treed large Cal
ifornia lion. The man was unarmed.
save with a large butcher-knife. but,
nothing daunted. and knowing where he
could sell the skin for q dollar. he
whipped out his knife and started mn the
tree after this specimen of the king of
beasts. Slipping up within reaching
distance, he plunged the knife into the
animal just behind the shoulder. which
so startled him that he leaped to the
ground and WIS instantly bounced by
the dog, when the man hastened from
the tree, sprang upon the beast, and
planted home-fhrust through his
heart, without further damage to himself
than having his hat torn in pieces. The
lion measured about eight feet from the
tip Of his nose TO the tip Of his tail. and,
had he got one good blow at the man, he
would have mashed him into jelly. Mr..
Edwards informed us that this same
Mexican killed one of these beasts,
about three months ago, that measured
over nine feet from tip to tip, using no
other weapon than . small pistol and q
knife, and that he came near losing his
life in thas encounter. Mr.. Edwards
pays him one dollar each for the hides,
and Is tanning them for boot leather
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

A SHREwD PARRoT.-A family living
in Nashville has parrot noted for its
wonderful powers of initiating the human
voice. The family also has daughter
whose especial duty is the care of the
parrot. The Young lady has young
man, recent addition to Nashville
society. The young man called at the
house of his lady love one evening and
pulled the door-bell. The parrot, sitting
in an upstairs window, heard the jingle
of the bell and called out: $50 to the
window" The young man was startled
He looked at all the windows below and
found them closed. He pulled the bell
knob again. Next door, shouted the
parrot in a voice not unlike the young
lady's. The young man looked up and
down the street in puzzled sort of way,
as if it had suddenly dawned upon his
mind that he had made mistake in the
house. Concluding that he had not, he
again rang the bell. $50 to the house!''
cried Poll from his perch in the upper
window. "What house?" exclaimed the
young man, angrily. 1.-The workhouse!"
shrieked the parrot. The young man
left in rapid-transit time.
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Hand BaIs.
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The enterprising publishers a z8
ADze ical 1azicnlIus1z have x1etazl
offered prizes for essays setting fezfl, &
prac icability and profit of ksS1iH9 ii
COW, even for families living s. q
and towns. The first Of thee 81
they published in the June numb
the subject they say:
Every family On farm, of
keeps one or more COWS, but
that the dwellers Ia Villages,
many cities. can and sh0uld
COW. Good milk Is tie best q
for young children. and II ee
way in saving butter bills.
preparation Of palatahle, not1s
of many varieties. Actual
the economy Of keeping onf
Two to five families, aecol
and numbers. can readily nm
one COW kept, dividing the
penses, and thus aixsys
pure, rich milk st Yery mc
The suitable refuse from The
three or four families would
way toward reducing the cs
chased food. In ruraI village
pasturage can be obtained 1eA
which, with daily feed Of go
will furnish q large supply Of =
st low cost. A boy can Be sc.
small price to drive the COW 10
ture IN the morning, and refurn
night 10 the stable. A stEble
can always be obtained at q trifIins
and be kept clean. There are e
plenty of gardeners or farmers who
gladly take the manure away 80
quently IS to preventit being ANUS
or disagreeable.
We have no doubt that al residents>
Villages, manufacturing towns, ETC., can
by arrangement like the above, secar<
an abundant supply Of pure, rich, fresh
healthful milk at less than thres cent
per quart, and at the same time sd
greatly to their home comfort, and sax<
the health, if not the lives, Of their littll
ones.
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VOL. 5.

The morning sun was dancing over
the floor in double-shuffles as His Honor
fell into the station, his face flushed. his
hair wet, and his general look one of
goneness. "Bijah, did you ever see such
a scorcher?" he family inquired, as. he
famed himself with his hat. "This ere
weather, replied the old janitor, as he
stood his broom in the corner, sis freez-
ing compa red to some that I've experi-
enced in Mexico. Why, Judge, I've
seen it SO hot in Santa Fe that ink boiled
in the inkstand while / was trying to
write letter to my mother. was sun
struck seven times in one day while
driving an ice wagon" 'tMr. JOY, said
His Honor, as he rose up and moved to
his desk, IT was in hopes your late ILL
ness would be taken by you as a solemn
warming, and ] am grieved to find you
still treading the same old path. :"
Wasn't ever in Mexico?" demanded
the old man as his face grew red. 1--WE
won't argue the case. / am sorry for
you." A bootblack behind the stove
here began to grin. Biiah walked over
aud seized his hair and gave him lift in
the world and whispered in his ear,
Boy, want you to understand that I've
been in more Mexicos than you've got
hairs on your scalp and any more grins
around here will lose you the top of
your headP-I Detroit Free Press.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

A BOYS TRIoK. The things which en-
ter the head of boy being unaccounta-
BILE, will not attempt to explain what
induced Frederick Leach, young lad
living in the rear of No. 80, North
Square, Boston, to stick his head through
between the iron pickets of the Hancock
school yard gate few days ago. His
head went through all right, but when
he was minded to move back he was
stuck. He turned his head up sideways
to see If some fellow had closed up the
top of the pickets. The pickets appear
ed grimly stationary. He struggled
backward until his ears were nearly
peeled off. Then he bethought himself
of story he had heard, wherein it was
asserted that mans head was bigger
than his body, and, hoping that it might
be likewise with himself, he struggled
ahead until half his jacket buttons were
stripped off. That also failed, and it was
at that moment that the neighborhood
was apprised. in tones of the most
dolorous, of the calamity which had be-
fallen Frederick. A crowd gathered,
lifted the boy up, pulling and pushing
him till he was warm with friction. A
thoughtful person asked him how he got
in there. At last the gate was broken
and once more Frederick held his head
mp.
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MHsIc

The world has no gratitude; no mem
ory for aught but disagreeables. And
vet I know not why one should speak Of
her 30 hardly, making her, as it were,
the scape-goat of individuals--so meek
and unrevengeful as she is too. sup-
pose the cause is cowardice; collective
hatred. too. has all the relish without
the bitter after-taste Of personal ami
mostly. But to continue. The world
hates all musicians because they make q
noise. She classes them with Germen
bands. barrei-organs, paper boys, old
clothes men, the irresistible sparrow,
the matutinal quack of the park-haunting
duck. and the town-bred chanticleer,
who. by growing throughout the night,
forfeits his only claim to respect. Musi.
clans violate the peace of the domestic
hearth; their art is an obtrusive one.
The poet who recites his verses and tears
his hair is not, though his rawlings equal
those Of the Cum@an Sibyl. as rule, au-
dible through that razor-like partition
which, as in Swedenborg's other world,
separates many Heaven and hell; but
the abortive efforts of the tyro-musician
cannot be restrained by the thickest and
hardest of walls. Shut the window and
door. the detestable fat notes drift down
the chimney with perplexing persever-
ence. Do what you will, short of stop
ping your ears with wax, you cannot es-
cape those unsirenish sounds. The only
resource left to you is to fly to your piano
II don't ask if you have one-has a
prize-fghter fists? Did Fitzgerald pos
sess pair of pistols?- fly to your
piano and revenge yourself upon your
unoffending neighbor on the other side.
Thus the musician is not only the direct
means of destroying other peoples COM
fort, but is indirectly the author of null
titudinous evils, and consequently an OBJ
ject of universal execration. Would not
the composer of Home, Sweet Home, :"
whoever he may be, turn in his grave if
he knew that his innocent composition
was daily torturing the most Christian
souls into mingled thoughts of hatred
and revenge? The Persians have doubt
less lived to curse the king who, in mis-
taken kindness. when he saw his subjects
dancing without music. introduced L, 600
musicians and singers from abroad. The
Go,nliH Ha9nziae.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-07-31

MANS AGE.-Few men die of age.
Almost all die of disappointment, pas
sion, mental, bodily toll or accidents.
The passion kill men sometimes, even
suddenly. The common expression
choked with passion has little exaggera-
ton In it, for though not suddenly fatal,
strong passions shorten life. Strong
bodied men often die young weak men
live longer than the strong, for the
strong use their strength, and the weak
have none to use. The latter take care
of themselves, the former do not. AS it
is with the body, SO it is with the mind
and temper. The strong are apt to
break, or like the candle, TO run, the
weak to burn out. The inferior animals
which live temperate lives have gener-
ally their prescribed number of years.
The horse lives %; the OK 10 or %; the
lion about 20; edog 10 or II; the rabbit
3; the guinea pig or ytars. These
numbers all bear similar proportion tc
the time the animal takes to grow to its
full SIZE. But man, of the animals, is
one that seldom lives this average He
ought to live hundred years acrording
to physical law, for five times twenty are
one hundred; but instead of that he
scarcely reaches an average of four times
his growing period; the cat six times; the
rabbit even eight times the standard Of
measurement. The reason is Obvious
man is not only the most irregular and
the most Incorporate, but the most
laborious and hard worked of all the
animals He is also the most irritable of
all animals; and there is no reason to be-
lieve, though we cannot tell what an ami
NAL secretly feels, that, more than any
other animal. man, cherishes wrath to
keep it warm and consumes himself with
the fire of his own secret reflection.
SPARRows FIGHTING WITH SroNEs.-A
citizen of the West End, in every way
worthy and reliable, has sent us the fol-
lowing interesting statement of Q singu-
lar fact he has often observed in refer
ence to sparrows: The writer has son
who has pigeonsbox. Out Of . whim
he fastened upon the front of it piece
of looking glass, perhaps fourth OF q
square foot In size Some English spar
rows built in this box, and took mp all
their spare time in fighting the image Of
themselves in the glass. They would
| fight by the hour, and pant with labor
and heat, flying violently against the
| glass, taking breath, and trying again and
| again. They were not observed at first
to do so, but lately they take q good
sized gravel IN their mouths and strike
| the glass again and again with ell their
might There Is no doubt of the fact.
We have picked mp the gravel occasion
ally when they would drop it. Some-
times the gravel is as large IS dried
black-eye pea. The writer's idea Is that
i this ia their vvav of firhfino when tie