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Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
Baroness Burdett- COutts.

[ happen to have by me copy of the
will Of the Duchess of St. Albans, from
whom Angela Georgina Burdett inherit
ed her money, and in it the testatOr
directs that in case the said Angela
GeOrgina dies without a male heir, or
marries an alien, naturalized or not,
her share in Coutts' Bank shall 90 to
a male heir of one of five different per-
sons specified in order. As Angela has
been a partner in COutts' since 1888,
and been in receipt of an enormous in
come, and as she received from the
Duchess vast properties that are not
affected by her marriage, she would be
called well-tixed' in any town in
Worcester County. Her matrimonial
troubles will not come from lack of
money. The Baroness was the daugh-
ter of Sir Francis Burdett, gallant
gentleman, member of Parliament for
Westminster, and one of the most act
i've Liberals of his day; her mother was
daughter of Thomas COutts, the bank
er in the Strand, one of the richest men
in England. Another daughter of Mr..
Coutts was the wife of the Earl of Gull
ford, and another was married to the
Marquis of Butte. In his eighty-sixth
year poor old Coutts married Harriott
Mellon, beautiful actress of the The
ater ROYAL, Drury Lane. He lived sew
eral years after this event and never re-
gretted it. His wife was affectionate,
grateful and discreet; she was beloved
by his family, and at his death inherited
an enormous property and a partner
ship in "COutts'. Several years after
the death of her old husband Harriott
Coutts, in her forty-eighth year, fell in
love with boy Aubrey De We're, Duke
of st. Albans. His Grace was only
twenty-four, but the enamOred lady
made him a present of f30,000 of old
Coutts' money and became the Duchess
of st. Adams St. Adams proved a
sensible gentleman and his wife was q
happy and devoted woman. At her
death she left the Duke great stores Of
plate, jewels, furniture, wine and
spirits and an annuity of E10, 200.
The greater part of her estate, including
G2,O0O,OOO and the partnership in
Coutts', went to Angela Georgina,
youngest daughter of Sir Francis Bur
dett, who then added Coutts to her
name. Angela was a homely girl, and
i'll 1877 was moi a very healthy-looking
old woman. She is probably willing to
give up her interest in the famous
clearinghouse in the Strand and devote
herself to her young American lover
Cor. Worcester (MrSS. Spy.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
Victoria in Uniform.

In the year 1910, Victoria, then a
young Queen, rode out on horseback
with her young husband by her side to
review her troops in Windsor Park.
She was attired in a military costume,
with a riding habit made with broad
collar turned back from the bosom, show
ing a little waistcoat of white pique with
turquoise buttons. A high military stock
Of black silk supported her chin, above
which not the smallest symptom of white
collar was perceptible. On her head
she wore military cap with the wide
spreading crown, already indicative Of
the German influence which was so soon
to penetrate every department of the
royal life and preside over every other
taste from the color of a ribbon to the
choice of Minister. The cap was Of
dark blue cloth and had a FURNISHED
leather peak in front. Not vestige Of
hair was seen about her forehead or
down the side of her face, and but for
the stray lock behind, Just above the
ear, she might have been taken for
some young Woolwich cadet. The blue
ribbon across her bosom and the bril-
liant star above gave finish to figure
which would otherwise have appeared
hard and coarse. The other day-ex-
actly forty years had passed-the same
Queen reviewed her troops again in that
same Windsor Park; but had the same
observer been there he would have be-
held, instead of the fresh young girl to
whom even the stiff, hard collar and the
peaked cap failed to give hardness of
expression, worn and grieved mat
ronly lady, still mindful of the regret
she had vowed for her departed love,
clad, although not quite in widows
weeds, still in garments Of such somber
shape and hue that the observer was
made to feel the sorrow by which the
royal wearer was still borne down.
London Letter.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
Scripture Measures.

According to Maimonides, a cubit
was the measure of forty-eight barley
corns ("Sepher Torah, TX, 81, whence
from actual measurements of barley
corns made in Syria in 1872, Lieuten-
ant Conger obtains the result of sixteen
inches for the medium cubit. The
span, therefore is eight inches-the ex'
treme distance stretched from thumb
to the end of the little finger by an
average hand. In these dimensions 1t
is to be noted that the Syrian and the
English long-measure barley-cornS
agree, and, if we with our Western
hands can span nine inches, that Jews
and Arabs are smaller than we are
The zcreth, rendered in our version
" hand-breadth," will in this case be
five and one-third inches, which is the
ordinary span of the four fingers and
the regal, ten and twO-thirds inches
A furlong freSahJ thus becomes fifty
five and half yards; a Sabbath days
journey (tehun), eight hundred and
eighty-eight yards, or half mile; and
a days journey, eight thousand three
hundred and twenty-five yards, or four
and three-quarters miles. Y Inde-
pendent.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
THE DRUM.

o, the druml
There is some
Intonation in thy grum
Monotony Of utterance that strikes the spirit
dumb,
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere,
Thy rumbling palpitations roll in upon the
ear.
There's a part
OF the art
OF thy musiothrobbing heart
That thrills a something IN US that awakens
with q start,
And, in rhyme
With the chime
And exactitude Of time
Goes marching on TO glory to thy melody sub
lime.
And the guest
of the breast
That thy.rollfng robs Of rest
Is patriotic spirit az aContlnentai dressed;
From the gooms
OF century OF tOmb5,
And the blood he spilled at Lexington In hV-
ing beauty blooms.
Wear the glise
OF nature pure and wise;
And the love Of them is lifted to a something
That is bright
Red and white
With blur of starry light,
As It laughs in silken ripples to the breezes
day and night.
There are deep
Hushes creep
Der the pulses az they leap,
And the murmur, fainter growing, on the
silence falls asleep,
While the prayer
Rising there
whistle sea and earth and air
As heritage to Freedoms sons and daughters
everywhere.
Then with sound
AS the thunderings resound,
Come thy wild re'erberations in throe that
shakes the ground,
And cry
Flung on high
Like the flag It flutters by,
Wings gapturously upward till it nestles In
the sky.
o, the druml
There Is somo
information in thy grum
Monotony of utterance that strikes the spirit
dumb,
Asue hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy rumbing paptstions roll In upon the
james ". Raey, IN N. 7. Sun
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
Pneumatic Dispatch.

1t would appear from some recently
issued statistics of the French telegraph
service that the system of closed or letter
kilograms is already largely in use in
Paris. This method of communication
consists in blowing the telegram paperit-
self through apneumatic tube instead of
manipulating its contents verbally
along the telegraphic wire; and it ap-
pears that the pneumatic system at
present at work in Paris has a total
length of 1850 metres, and that it is
worked from six sations at which are
located steam engines having total
power of 1853 horses, besides six water
moters. The service comprises a main
system with double line, at which ter
inmate seven supplementary systems
with branches, trains running every
three minutes on the main system and
every five minutes on the supplement
tary systems. The system was intro
duced on the 1st of NAV 1870 and i i IS IS
now possible to communicate from one
part of Paris to another and receive
reply back for little more than half
franc, or about one-fourth of the cost of
an ordinary telegraphic message in
London. The extent TO which the
pneumatic service is used in Paris may
be judged from the fact that something
approaching 100000 dispatches of all
kinds pass over the system every month.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist ministers of Boston
have requested the city authorities to
intermit giving free concerts on Sum
day in the public parks.
Forty common-5chool teachers in
Hardin County, Kentucky, had their
certificates revoked for failure to attend
the Teachers Institute, as required by
law.
The New Orleans schools remain
in a miserable condition as to finances.
The city is endeavOring to conduct the
schools at an expense OF 100000 a
year, when its income is only 5000, 1000.
The gospel tent "Glad Tidings,"
which is supplied with one thousand
folding chairs, is to be pitched in Sara
toga for gospel meetings in charge Of
D. j. Moody and other evangelists.
Missionary work is earnestly called
for in the valley OF the Yellowstone
River. The difficulty is to find men
who are willing to go; yeta church now
vacant in Brooklyn, n. Y, has thirty
seven candidates on record already.
"A service was recently announced
at St. Matthew's, Sydenham, London,
" for children of the upper classes"
Upon which an exchange makes the
pointed suggestion that the words Of
Christ should be amended soas to read,
Suffer little children of the upper
classes to come unto me-"
Several years ago a benevolent
Frenchman named Jeanson bequeathed
q million of dollars to the City of Paris
for the creation of school in which the
children of the Sixteenth ArrOndisse-
ment could receive a classical educa-
ton. The work of building this new
edifce, which will be one Of the finest
in the capital, was begun few days
ago.
Some wealthy Presbyterians, princi-
pally from Ohio, are talking of forming
colony on Lake Chautauqua, close be-
side the Baptists. The Baptists have
erected a spacious Tabernacle, with
room for 5000 people. If the Presby-
terian colony should be formed it will
Oc VIII du dIl oil ClHCAC lOl IHC uSO VI
this building for public services at times
when the great Baptist gatherings are
not in session.
Housewife, Pa, was busy oil town
but declined to such an extent that St.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church
lost nearly all its members. The build
ing was good one and there was need
for it at Bradford, which is now the
center of an active oil business. There
fore it was taken down, carried piece
meal to Bradford and there rebuilt. 1t
has now been dedicated and is an ele-
giant and commodious house of worship.
The Esquimaux of Little Whale
River, Hudson Bay, have a new church.
1t is an iron building, twenty feet by
forty, and was sent from London in Sec
tions ready to be put up. 1t was nearly
two years on the way, but on arrival
was put together in couple of weeks.
Eight Esquimaux members have been
added to this church by baptism, and
thirty more are under instruction with
view to admission. Baptism by i'm
mersion is not greatly in vogue among
tina ESnIlimauX
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
Board by the Wholesale.

Yesterday afternoon shortly after the
arrival of the train a man entered a
hotel in this city and asked the clerk,
who stood busying himself with patent
blotter, the terms upon which he could
engage board.
Owing to the location of your room
sir. Big demand for our rooms. Feed
well?"
81 don't care 50 much about the eatin'
part" replied the man. "Pm forty
odd year old, and have been eatin' about
all my life. It's glttin' to be an Old
thing to me. Well, say, give ME a re-
spectacle room-hOw much'll you
charger"
just yourself, sir?"
"Well, in manner"
Twenty-Five dollars per month, in
case you are alone"
"You see, it's this way: Mywife will
be with me, but as times are pretty
tight, IcOncluded to arrange it this
way: I'll take breakfast, my wife will
take dinner, and we'll throw up-wet
or dry for supper. By that means we
can both get board for one price. 1
reckon I'm little the best manager
you ever seed"
Fifty dollars for the two"
81 don't understand that sort of
'rithmetic. Both together we'd only
eat the meals allowed for one person.
1t don't hurt bed any more for two to
sleep on it than for one. I've got bed
out in the country that was presented
to my wife when we got married and
I'll be dinged if it amt just about as
good as new. It's one of those old
fashioned beds, with high yaller posts
with knobs on the tops as big as young
pumpkins. I'll furnish the room with
this bed and one chair. Ny wife can
set on the floor. | have lived in the
country all my life and havin' made
little money last year, l concluded to
come to town and splurge a little.
Thar's woman down in the country
that has all the time been buckin agin
my wife, and to get away with her we
have concluded to board at a hotel"
Fifty dollars per month is our low
est rate"
How much by the year? I'm goin'
into this business right"
"Six hundred dollars"
This is wholesale business with
me. How much for ten yearsP"
"Six thousand dollars"
That's gettin' down to it. How
much for twenty years?"
Twelve thousand dollars"
"All right Mark me down for a
snack right now and check it off for
twenty years"
d" See that card?" said the clerk,
pointing to the hotel maxim of persons
without baggage are required to pay in
advance.
80, I've got the baggage" and the
man lifted up a carpet-bag,
THAT won't 90"
" Won't you take this as securityp"
" No, get out of here
"But / want to board here twenty
years"
"Go on your way"
"Tll leave your snide hotel, sir, but |
first let me show you" He lifted up
The carpct-bag, opened tand displayed |
$50, 900 in Government bonds.
You can stay, SIR" !
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16
PUYGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The man who threw up his hand"
must have been very sick.-B0St07s Id
UertlSer.
The young man who lives beyond
his means will in time find himself lit
lie SHORTY 0. Picq3RlHe
Where DO all the pins go2 Half a
score Of them 90 down every time a
ten-strike is made.-BOStOn advertiser.
The last census shows that Rhode
Island is entitled to another Alderman
in both wards.-Bwrlingt0n HalCb-Eye.
When a Chinaman was saved from
drowning by being pulled from the
water by his pig-tal, he feebly muir
INJURED. Il thank queue"
"A little girl noticing the glittering
gold filling in her aunt's front tooth,
exclaimed: " Aunt Mary, l wish l had
cOpper-tOed teeth like yours"
In the hour of gloom the thought
thst all men have to die is very COM
forting to the man who keeps funeral
hacks for hire.-RhiLadslphia Chronicle
Herald.
You NAV have noticed that the flies
never bother a speaker, no matter how
dull he is, but invariably attack the
oyerworked sitter who is trying to get
little sleep.
Just now the newspapers are teem-
ing with the paragraph Don't drink
ice water when you arc hot" and it IS
one that should be regarded by all.
The time to drink ice water is along in
the dead Of winter, when it is a tight
scratch to keep from freezing to death.
Buffalo Express.
The manner of newspaper report
ing in French provincial village: IAN
accident, which might have resulted
fatally, happened yesterday to Madame
la Marquise de Bonbeck, aged eighty
years" Editor r-in-chief making cOrrec-
tions: "We must put her down forty
five or she will stop her subscription"
A new song is called Why does
mother stay so longr' Perhaps she
went to the circus and concluded to re-
main and witness the "tirst-claSs " con-
cert given in the ring at the conclusion
of the circus performance" Only ten
cents admission! Procure your tickets
from the young gentlemen as they pass
through the audience. ."-Norr5Stot0n
Herald.
"A promising youth of only seven
summers, who had been accused Of not
always telling the truth, cross-examined
his father, " Father, did you use to lie
when you were a boy?" mo, my son, ,"
said the father, who evidently did not
recall the past with any distinctness.
Nor mother, either?" persisted the
young lawyer. mo; but why?" so,
because | don't see how two people who
never told lie could have a boy that
tells as many as l do.n
1t was a Mississippi River boat, and
the mate was evidently annoyed about
something. Garry it forward, you
lunk-hesded son OF a sculpin, orI hope
70 be gee whitley gaul busted to jude
if DOM maui the slammed head off n
ye with capstan bar, you hog-backed
molHgrubber, YEP And the deck hand
looked up in profound admiration and
said; "By George, Cap, if l had your
culcher | wOuldn' t be runnin' as mate
for no man in these waters; I'd be
acommandin' boat of my own"
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16

mo, l believe not. 1t takes 3,
much money to put up at this be,g
Guess I'll 90 around and put up A. !,
wagon-yard."
Ever since Cain gave Abel a clip VIA
a club people have lost money by ny
observing the laws of politeness.-LGg,
Rock (Ark. Gazette.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16

The MormOns are working on their
new temple. 1t is now twenty years
since it was commenced and "a, 900, 900
has already been expended. The build
ing is being constructed of Utah granite
and when finished will be the largest
church ediice in America. 1t will re-
quire s2S,OOO,0O0 to complete the
temple.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16

The Rev. Charles Dana Barrows
of Lowell, Mass, took some of his
friends out on coaching excursion
He drove very fast, the day was hot,
and the exercise killed one of his horses
while the other three barely survived.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16

Considering the number of passen,,
gers transported, the list of killed and
wounded on the railroads of Great Brit
ain is exceedingly small. Last year
there were only 100 passengers killed
and 1,S07 wounded, and this included
seventy-three who were killed hN the
falling OF the Tay Bridge. ~ ~.
Sharp County record., 1880-09-16

Those men whose brains are few
but active, are the most successful in
business.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
THAT MYSTERIOUS DUEL.

WASHINGTON, August 1O.-Some
further light is thrown upon the mys-
terious duel which occurred in the out
skirts Of this city last Friday by evi-
dence developed to-day. A man and
boy have been found who met the car
riage driving along the Glenwood
Cemetery Road toward this city on
Friday morning, about 8 o'clock, and
saw it stop at the spring on the edge
of Berry's Woods, near the Sprague
Place, when four men got out. One
man was in his shirt sleeves, his right
arm being quite bloody. Water was
procured at the spring and the man s
arm was washed and bound up, and
getting into the carriage, the party
drove on again. These witnesses say
that the man who appeared to be the
doctor Of the party told the driver to
hurry up or they would miss that Vir-
ginia Midland train. This makes it
probable that the parties to the duel
were Atrangers, who came here to fight
from Virginia, and left town at once.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
A Man Who Can Eat Glass.

The San Francisco Chronicle says !:
There is residing in this city at
present q Slavonlan laborer, named
Geritsa Mattovich, who has exhibit
ed an ability in masticating and
digesting glass and crockery ware
that appears almost Incredible. On
Monday evening last he entered
restaurant kept by one of his
countrymen on Commercial street,
and, for the amusement of some OF
the habitues of the place, he con-
sumed nine ordinary glass tumblers,
and then washed the vitreous meal
down with glass of claret. The
surprised spectators of the astonish-
ing exhibition could hardly believe
their senses. One doubling Thomas,
with the intention of convincing
himself that there was no trick in
the matter, purchased three other
glasses of larger size, and laying
them before Mattovich, invited him
to eat. Mattovich promptly accept
ed the invitation, and in about the
time required for the consumption
OF like number of cream cakes the
three glasses disappeared down his
throat. AS an additional proof of
his capacity for such uncommon food
he wound up his performance by
quickly demolishing common sized
dinner plate.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
Dudley F1eId Dead.

This well-known lawyer, the son
of the eminent jurist and publicist,
David Dudley Field, died suddenly
yesterday morning at Stockbridge,
Mass, whittier he had gone to spend
his vacation. He was only 46 years
of age at the time of his death, yet
for many years he had been almost
as conspicuous 10 the courts as his
distinguished father. He was the
nephew of Cyrus W. Field, Judge
stephen j. Field of the United
States Supreme Court, and Rev.
Henry NJ. Field, editor of the Evan-
gelist. Many of the important cases
with which his father, as senior
counsel, has been identified during
the last quarter of a century, were
also participated in by the young
lawyer, who was one of the most in
dustrious, studious and accomplished
attorneys that ever adorned the
New York Bar.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
FIRE AMONG LUMBER-LADEN
VESSELS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-An explosion
which occurred on board the bark
Nictaux, laden with $500 barrels
Of naptha, at Pratt's oil works, First and
North Thirteenth streets, Williamsburg,
on Sunday night, resulted in the almost
total destruction Of the Nictaux, while
the barks Cyclone and Antoinetta were
damaged abeve deck only. Yesterday
morning q number of floating barrels Of
burning oil from the Antoinetta ignited
q number of vessels unloading lumber
at the pier connected with the yards Of
the American Export Lumber Company
ON the north side of Newtown Greek,
and q confagration seemed imminent
from the fact that the creek was almost
unnavigable on account Of the numer
Gus vessels lying in it. At last some
cool-headea captains commenced work
in the right direction, and one by one
the vessels were got out into the stream,
with the exception Of schooner, three
barges and lighter, all lumber laden,
and which will be total wrecks.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
A Desperate Character

CHICAGO, Aug. 10.--A special from
Jacksonville, ILL.,, to the Tribune says
that Tom Beckett, formerly miller of
this place, shot and severely wounded
two officers who attempted to arrest him
yesterday afternoon. Some time age, his
wife separated from him on account of
alleged cruel treatment. Lately lie
tried to get her to him, and when she
refused lie seized and carried off her
infant child, taking it to Quincy, where
1t died few days after.
Yesterday morning he forcibly
entered the house OF his mother-in-law
In search OF his wife, but failed to find
her, and after exchanging pistol shots
with her brother, he fled. He was
found in corn field, and began firing
on the officers. A Deputy Sheriff was
wounded In the groin, and Detective
Freese In the brest. Beckett. was shot
In the leg before he surrendered.
The daily gazette., 1880-08-11
WKINS' CASE,

Things begin to look little bri ghtel
for letter.carrer James l.. Hawkins, ,and
his friends now hope he will be rein.
stated to his official position, notwith-
standing the opposition of Postmaster
Pyle.
Yesterday, Mr.. Samuel Smith, of Ne W
York, special agent Of the Treasury
Department. was IN Wilmington, giving
the case thorough Investigation. He
was called upon by number of citt-
zens, who gave Hawkins the best kind
OF an official character. Mr.. Smith went
> Washington last night, and upon his
eport will depend the fate of the sus-
pended letter-carrier.
Hawkins contest enters Into the fac
uonal division now existing in the
ranks of the Republican party in this
State, and his cause is espoased by the
ate CoMmittee. Judge Fisher and
Harry Cannon, OF Dover, were in town
yesterday, and held long conference
with Levi q. Bird, Esq, and r. Lewis
Armstrong, doubtless in relation to the
light of Hawkins against the post-otiice
ing.