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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26
MEs. GARFIELD.
An Interesting sketch Of the Com
Ing Mistress Of the White
House.

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She is an accomplished hostess. A
well r. an accomplished woman-thev'r
two very different things. Living a. tn
6arfieIf's have had 10 live. ia the mos
econo'nical way. doing without elegan
CLOTHES. fine furniture. sumpfuons food
good. new and rare old books. deare
than All else 10 them, they have con
tr'butcd more 10 make Washington
winter life pleasant and profitable thar
many other families who have snpple
Imenfed less taste and culture with more
money. Mrs. Garfield's receptions have
been the largest ever held by the wife oi
ia rnerc representative. They have far
surpassed those OF more ambitious SEN
aiors' wives. and have approxima,ed
those Of the ladies of the supreme court
and cabinet families. in size merely. In
attractions they have stood abreast Of
any of lhem- This simply because Mrs.
fairfield j. sweet-tempered. cultured.
refined woman, in whose smile ii IL a
pies sure 10 bask- When we consider
ihat- without allowing her manifold cares
70 interfere with the performance Of her
50 LA duties. she has managed her estab-
lishmenf alone, and personally conducted
the training Of her boys for college, we
can conceive her superiority, with all
her Snriai success. 20 the mere Society
ieaaer' Gen. Garfield is The president
Of our literary society. and during the
past year II has met al his house. II was
more pleasantly entertained there than III
iad ever been before. Mrs. Garfield ex-
cried even her latent social powers that
night hnd Il was difficult for her guests
TO break away from her delightful par Y
iOrs. The latter. ES7RE NOUS. were and
are furnished in the style Of Noah. That
makes no difference. OF course. although
The contrast between them and those
which soFne or tie guests had left all
home was marked. There was some-
thing really pathetic 10 meet in tie in
formation telegraphed from Cleveland
that Cen and Mrs. Garfield were pur-H
-hasinw furniture ard O scal-skin sack. 4
''oweycr. they can afford 70 crafty their
ssfcS tar four yesrs now. and forget the
ninched past. What we here rejoice int
! ihai. when Mrs. Hayes steps out and K
sirs- Garfield steps into the White Housclt
N the fth 0f March next. there will bels
70 ahrurt turning in the course Of thcla
residential or rather the Mrs. Presi-lt
crtiai. social customs and DEGREES. !
Whether the diplomatic corps has its
elicase palate tickled with lemonadelo
nd water AZ state dinners or not. wei,
my hc sure that whisky and the White
louise divorced four wears ago will moth
\ rfnniicd in unholy bonds daring Mr. \
'sFfieIds administration. II is needless !
, say that Mrs. Hayes will be missed
he will be missed by many Of whomIt
se world knows nothing, wants 10 know \
oihing the naked, hungry. sick and in,,
rison. unto whose wants she has min !,
tered All 50 quietly but regret will
81 be 20 poignant A. II wonId be werer !,
'e 20 Be succeeded BY an interior wo-
an
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26
Garfield's Grief Over the DeGol-
yer Fee.


Speaking To me yesterday about Gen
eral Garfield. one Of his friends said :
The only thing ia Garfeld's life that he
really regrets was taking the fee in the
DcGolycr pavement case. The Credit
Mobificr transaction never rested on his
conscience, as he relied on the good in-
tcntions OF Oaks Ames to do him ben
eft, and not an injury. But the Defsol-
yer fee was not capable Of that Kind az
defense. II was large fee to take for
such triiling service. while in the
Credit Mobilicr case the pitifnl sum of
money which went 10 his credit clearly
showed that he mcdiiated nothing rapa-
cicus: and" continued nv informant, -
have observed that Garfield has sad and
constrained appearance whenever Dick
Parsons. Of Cleveland. approaches him.
| was once talking with him when Par
sons came up and called Garfield %, and
| saw by the light OF The lamps IN the
'lepot look la Garficld's cyo a. 10 OBJ
served Parsons at once dramatic aud pro-
found, AZ Ii he was in the presence 80
that person who had thrown coil
sr.und him and vof = mortgage on liz
character aa.l soul
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

ff"m 'he Little Rock Gszette.
The other day several men wcre stand
ing on a street corner. talking when .
handsomely dressed lady passed.
You NAV not believe me sail : m.r
named Spriggins. '.but ] have ,ad nv
arm around that ladv.s
lon arc vile sandcrer. cir" ex-
claimed Young Mr.. Paperasc. and. draw
l,ns on. he strucS Mr. Spriggins heavy
dow petwern The eyes. Both parties
We're instantly arrested, and when Mr..
SprigSins requested tha the lady be sum
'noneh' policeman caught up with her
ann requested her presence in court.
which had just convened in afternoon
session
"Judge,"sai Papcrage, "while several
hcqualntanccs and myself were standing
on The street talking. this lady passed.
lhen 'his man. pcinting 10 Spriggins.
remark ed that he iai put his arm around
ner' The lady Is nothing to me, Judge.
ont 'ny. mother was lady. and nv sisters
are ladies. aud ! have always made Il :
po'"t '" c'ass:se man who speaks i'll Of
"Mr. Spriggins,r remarked The Judge
"did you say that YOU had put your arm
around the adyl'
Yes. sir
Then the genilcmandid right in strik-
Ing you. Ladies are not safe II, J,i,,ls
hock 50 long as ssch ruiiians are allowed
to insult ihem.r
Judge. allow t'c lady 10 steak.. re-
qnested Spriggins.
Certainly. You will please make your
II didn't hear the man when he said
hat he had put hls ran around me. and
y passed Oh do not know what oc-
:urred
Excuse me for being blunt. but
put"
no yon mean 10 nsk IL The man ever
'nt his arm around nles'
Yes
Then. must say that he has,
For few moments there was a deen
ilcrce, OILY ris urbed by a boy who
licked at the plastering with . ahorscshoo
What right had he 10 put his arm
round your" stammered the Judge.
Because" answered the woman. he
; ny husband
When the court adjourned, the men
ook beer. and " the courtadjourned."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

The Official canvass in New York city.
completed. shows that Hancock had Al
2S5 over Garfield that Weaver got 6lO
votes, and that Dow was voted for BY
70 persons. The returns as canvassed IN
Albany show that outside New York
city the majority for Garfield is 62,2lS.
Garficld's majority in New York State il
therefore 2O's2S. Gracc's majority for
Mayor is 2,o45.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

A SURE INDICATOR. The Boonvillo
Enquirer truthfully says;
The men who advertise in their homo
paper are the men who do The business
OF the town. You can pick up any news
paper, and III five minutes tell who are
the men that do the buying and selling
and keep alive the Interests Of town.
A newspaper invariably reflects tho
worth, enterprise and intelligence Of the
where iii published.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

An exchange thinks "thcrc are more
WAYS than one 10 keep husband home
evenings. The wife might put up key
Of beer la one corner Of the dining room.
cover the floor with sand, and hire one
or two dirty fellows 70 iill tho place full
OF smoke from vile cigars. A woman
with any kind oftack can make home as
cheerful as beer saloon
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

st. Louis-prof Woodward, supcrvi-
sor OF census, completed his work of re-
the ciiv. and announces
officially that tho population Of 81. Louis
on the lst OF June. isSO. was 3JO,9l5
This is an increase Of 26.7i9 over tho
census yakcn by Supervisor Solomon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

Henry Ward Deeciicr says that he
would rather sleep with the rotten body
of dead man than with the Democra;in
party. Laying tho virtues Of the party
aside, how woud I; compare with Mrs.
Tilton p Doonvilie EnQnircr.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

"A marriage license was returned 10
the County Clerk az Onawa. lows, with
. request that tho fec paid for II be sent
back. The writer explained that the
girl had cIoped with another fellow.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

In breaking tho ground for Meth
odist church. IN 81. Louis, a hundred wo.
men took part in the ceremony. each
tossing some earth into cart with 4
polished brass shovel.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

California g'ycs /, votes TO Hancock
sn,l to Garfield. Terry. one of the Han
cock electors heing defeated b. reason o.
his unpopularity in the killing Of ths
late senator BrvdcfcL-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

fAIf~ ~ a ~Nt4i- : s"NsT
FOR square lOlire~ or les. week, 81 O.
Isch subsequent insertion. ~ CO..
f.on ger atverriss sncnts NJ the samerare.
fr.~finn over cvcn square or square.
roaarei a. square These are the terms
f,rf-arsient advcrfisemeni-;a reasona-
a,ie hr.lnctlon will be made 10 regular
-lyrriisers-
Notices OF appointment or aiminis-
Gators and ic gaI norices OF ike character
10 be paid IN advance.
AvSorSc~G CANDIDATES
Far Township Ofscers. each sl.Oo
r.r County $50
For District. cir~ui;. Or State 500
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26
orrNINN NoTrs.

John T.. Martin, president; w. Il.
|Nisbet, vice-president; George Weaver,
secretary; II. Hennihg, treasurer, and II.
". Branham, general superintendent.
Mr.. George Weaver will have the i'm
mediate supervision Of the freight aud
passenger traffic.
The telegraph line will he pushed for
ward 10 Gentryvillc and Dale immedi-
ately, and to Huntingburg and Jasper rs
soon a. sufficient subscriptions to the
enterprise have been made.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-11-26

Gin yle Srb-cripsion. for fisiy Sos., 81 n
yor six months. :: %
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

ORIGIN OF THE TERM "PR1NTER's DEVIL"
When Aldus Manutius set up in business as
printer in Venice, he came into possession Of
a little negro boy. This boy was soon known
all over the city as "the little black devil"
for at that time negroes were not often seen
in Venice, and some of the most ignorant
people believed him to be either an embodi:
ment or an emissary of Satan, who aided
Aldus in the work of his profession. One
day Manutius, desiring to dispel this strange
and spreading opinion, displayed the young
imp publicly to the poorer classes, making
this short but characteristic speech: "Be 1t
known to you and all Venice, that I, Aldus
Manutius, printer to the holy church and the
doge, have this day made exposure to all Of
the printers devil. And if any think he is
not like us, flesh and blood, they may come
and pinch him, and they will find that though
he is black, he is human"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04
UNWORTHY OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

Mark Twain says 1--WE left the train for
Switzerland, and reached Lucerne about ten
o'clock at night. The first discovery made
was that the beauty of the Lake had not been
exaggerated. Within day or two l made
another discovery: This was that the lauded
chamois is not wild goat; that it is not a
horned animal that it is not shy that it
does not avoid human society and that there
is no peril in hunting it. The chamois is q
black or brown creature, no bigger than a
mustard seed. You do not have to 60 after
it; it comes after you. 1t arrives in. vast
herds, and skips and scampers all over your
body, inside your clothes. Thus it is not shy
but extremely sociable. 1t is not afraid Of
man on the contrary it will attack him. Its
bite is not dangerous, but neither is it pleas
ant. Its activity has not been over stated.
If you try to put your finger on it, it will
skip thousand times its own length at one
Jump, and no eye is sharp enough to see
where it lights. A great deal of romantic
nonsense has been written about Swiss cha
mois and the perils of hunting it, whereas the
truth is that even women and children hunt
it, fearlessly. Indeed everybody hunts it.
The hunting is going on all the time, day and
night, in bed and out of it. 1t is poetic
foolishness to hunt it with gun. Very few
people do that. There is not one man in q
million who can hit it with a gun. 1t is
much easier to catch it than it is to shoot it,
and only the experienced chamois hunter can
do either Another common piece of exag-
geration is that about the scarcity of the cha.
mois. It is the reverse of scarce. Droves of
1OO,OO0,O0O chamois are not unusual in the
Swiss hotels Indeed they are so numerous
as to be great pest. The romancers always
dress up the chamois hunter in fanciful and
picturesque costume, whereas the best way to
hunt this game is to do it without any cos.
tune at all. The article of commerce called
chamois skin is another fraud. Nobody could
skin a chamois. 1t is too small. The crea-
ture is humbug in every way, and every
thing which has been written about it is SEN
timental exaggeration. 1t was no pleasure
to me to find the chamois out, for he had
been one of my pet illusions. All my life it
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

A CURIOUS FAcr.-Bands of music are
forbidden to play on most of the large bridges
of the world. A constant succession Of sound
waves, especially such as come from the
playing Of good band, will excite the wires
to vibration. At first the vibrations are very
slight, but they will increase as the sound
waves continue to come. The principal rea-
son why bands are not allowed to play while
crossing certain bridges, the suspension bridge
at Niagara, for instance is that nat. If 5 iHlGwea %se
step with the music, and this regular atep
would cause the wires to vibrate. At the
suspension bridge military companies are not
allowed to march across in regular step, but
required to break ranks. The regular trot-
ting gait of a large dog across suspension
bridge is more dangerous to bridge than a
heavily loaded wagon drawn by a team OF
large horses. .....
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

p@ One of those rough-clad, big-hearted
miners who come into Santa Fe occasionally
to lay in supply of grab, stepped into the
postofice of that town recently, and, seeing
in the window three letters held for postage,
picked one up, and, looking at the address,
said, in tone of great astonishment: why,
this letter is for lady in Denver! eyes, :"
said the clerk. "And you are holding it
here?" in a tone of greater astonishment.
"Why, of course" answered the clerk: don't
you see it hasn't any postage paid I" In a
tone of utter contempt for the man who
would not forward letter to woman, paid
or unpaid, the miner said: "Give me some
stamps" 1t was done; he carefully put
stamps on all the letters in the window-put-
ting two on that of the feminine gender, to
make sure that it would 60 all right-and
stalked out of the Office with the concluding
remark, hurled at the head of the astonished
Pino, Pinto: Strikes me there's some -
mean people in this town p
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

KEEP IT TO YoURsELF.-You have trou.
ble-your feelings are injured, your husband
is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not
pleasant, your friends do not treat you fairly
and things in general move unpleasantly.
Well, what of it? Keep it to yourself. A
smouldering fire can be found and extinguish-
ed but when the Goals are scattered, who
can pick them up7 Bury your sorrow. The
place for sad and disgusting things is under
the ground. A cut finger is not benefited by
pulling off the plaster and exposing it under
somebody's eyes. Tie it up and let it alone.
1t will get we'll sooner than yor can cure it.
Charity covereth multitude # sins. Things
thus covered are often cured without scar !;
but once published and confined to meddling
friends, there is no end to the trouble they
may cause. Keep it to yourself: Troubles
are transient, and when a sorrow is healed
and past, what comfort it is to say, "No one
ever knew it until the trouble was all over"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

"What are you doing here?' demanded.
Come to lokee see. Think hear some mans
hoppee out the window said he blandly.
"'Well said I, you 60 down stairs and
fetch me glass of water and lemon to my
room.'
Cali litel, my WILL said, All Lee, as he
glided down the stairway. AS soon as ne
was out of hearing l took hold Of the window
and telegraphed:
"sYounker is awake and coming up stairs.
Go hide in the closet till he comes back
"'All right answers the upstairs window.
"Then l went up stairs softly ip my stock.
ing feet, and softly turned the key in the hall
closet, after which I telegraphed to the down
keep cliet down there. .Younker is
up here talking to the old one. Hide in the
library till he comes back and goes to bed:
"Does he suspect anything?' came back
from down stairs.
"No,' answered. "He is telling the old
one he is gong to Frisco early in the morn
ing. Hide! He is coming down stairs
"'All right" came back.
"And arousing Mr.. Stamford, I told him
how matters stood, and we descended down
stairs and turned the key in the library door.
The desperate heard the click of the lock,
and, becoming frightened, raised the window
to Jump oue, but leaned out of the hall win
dow and ordered him back. For an answer
he turned and fired on me, the ball grazing
my cheek and Sitting my ear"
Here the narrator pointed to long scar
on his left cheek and his cut ear, and con-
tinued
"The next minute fred, and the villain
fell headlong into the garden. We then re
turned up stairs and secured All Wing, from
whom we stripped the paint and other dis
guises revealing one of the stage coach rob-
6ers. All Lee whom we found in the gar
den, had proved to be the other one.
"The ladies made their appearance, terribly
frightened, and ere an explanation could be
given, Blanche rushed to me, her face pale
with fear, and catching me by the arm, cried :
"'Oh, Charles, are you hurt :"
"'Ouly, scratch, Blanche said, In
low tone, but she did not hear me, for she
had tainted in my arms.
"The next day we notified the authorities
to whom we delivered our prisoners, and gave
bonds for our appearance in regard to the
killing, from which the coroner's jury exono.
rated us by verdict Of justi6able homicide.'
"It was nearly noon before l again saw
Blanche, and then she tried to avoid me; !;
but, drawing her arm in mine, led her to
the pretty summer house and said:
"'Blanche, I love you! Do you love me
in return?'
"she hid her face against my breast and
whispered:
"'Ob, so much!
"Three months afterwards we were married,
and I never hear window rattle without
thinking Of the warning it twice gave me,
being the means of saving number of lives
and gaining me lovely and loving wife.
"This, gentlemen, is true story, and you
can repeat it as such without fear for the
names I have given you are fictitious, it not
being necessary to give the true Names"
Such was my fellow. passengers story: Half
an hour later we parted, each going his own
way. We never met since, but being re.
minded of his story by rattling window,
have endeavored to give his story just as he
told it. names and ALL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

MARRIED MEN.-Hear what Miss Bremen
says about married men. $50 good was he,
that I now take the opportunity of making
confession which I have often had upon my
lips, but have hesitated to make for the fear
of drawing upon myself the hatred of every
married woman. But now l will run the
risk-so now for it-some time or other peo.
ple must unburden their hearts. I confess,
that never find man more lovable or more
captivating than when he is married man.
A man never so handsome, never so perfect,
in my eyes, as when he is married, as when
he is a husband and the father of family,
supporting in his manly arms, wife and chill
dren, and the whole domestic circle, which,
on his entrance into the marriage state, close
around him and constitute part Of his home
and world. He is not merely ennobled by
his position, but he is actually benefited by
it; then be appears to me to be the crown of
creation and it is only such man that is
dangerous to me, and with whom am in
clined to fall in love. But then, propriety
torbids it. And Moses and all European leg
islatures declare it to be sinful, and all mar.
ried women would consider it a sacred duty
to stone me. Nevertheless, cannot prevent
the thing. 1t is so, and it cannot be other
wise; and my only hope Of appeasing those
who are excited against me is in my future
confession, that no love affects me so pleas
antly; the contemplation Of no happiness
makes me so happy as that between married
people! 1t is amazing to myself, because it
seems to me that I, living unmarried, or match
less, have but little to do. But it is, and al
Ways was so.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

sg At Bath, England, there has been dis
covered, about thirty feet below the present
surface of the earth, perfect Roman bath,
eighty feet long and forty feet wide, the whole
of the interior being lined with lead three
fourths of an inch in thickness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

had been my dream to see him in his native
wilds some day, and engage in the adventu.
rous sport of chasing him from cliff to cliff.
1t is no pleasure to me to expose him now,
and destroy the readers delight in him and
respect for him, but still it must be done, for
when an honest writer discovers an imposi-
tion it is his simple duty to strip it bare and
hurl it down from its place Of honor, no matter
who suffers by it. Any other course would
render him unworthy of the public conf
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04
THE SENATE PIE STAND.

The Senate pie stand, says the Washington
correspondent of the Hartford Times, was
kept by crippled lady named Mary Burch
She has been there for many years, and has
probably made money. During the time
Mary has kept it she has had as customers
many of the leading men of the nation. Sen
ator McCrary, of Kentucky, the most huro
GUS speaker that has been in the Senate since
the days of Nye, was regular customer al
Mary's stand so also was Zach Chandler
David Davis could be seen there every day
the Senate was in session, drinking his glass
of milk and eating his piece Of pie, for which
Mary charged him eig hit cents Chandler wa:
great pie.eater; Senator Vest, Of Missouri
was also frequent but not regular consumer
of Mary's famous pies. l remember one day
of hearing Senator McCrary invite Senator
Ransom, of North Carolina, up to Mary's
stand. Said McCrary, whose strongest point
was his economy and saving-he saved, it is
said, $4,000 of the $4,000 he received as
salary for the eight years he was in the Sen
ate-"Ransom, you have lunched me several
times, now come and take a lunch with me. v
Ransom accompanied him, expecting, o1
course, to be led down to the restaurant, but
McCrary walked direct to Mary's pie stand
"Mary," said he, "give us two glasses of milk
and FIVE cents worth of ginger cakes" Turn
ing to Ransom, he asked, innocently: "Ran'
som, do you like ginger cakes" Ransom
said be did, but he drank the milk only, while
McCrary consumed the five cakes. Another
day he met Conkling walking along the hall
Stopping him, he said: "Conkling, have some
thing" Conkling said : "Certainly:" Nc
Crary went over to the stand, and, handing
Mary two pennies, said: "Give us two Of
those long sticks of candy" Taking the
largest, he handed Conkling the other, and
the pair walked off, One day Mary was
asked if Senator Davis ate in proportion to
his size. She answered: mo, he don't eat
much, but he is good pay, which is more than
some of them" Senator Davis, besides his
million dollar farm, has at least another mil
lion dollars lying around. Mary made a
cake which was known as the two.cent cake.
1t was made of better material than the ordi-
nary penny cake. Chandler was noticed
munching on them, one day by friend, who
asked if he could stand such food. "Stand
it !' he replied "no, I don't stand it. My
liver is too active, and I eat these to stop it a
little"