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INTERESTING FOREIGN MOTIFS.

.
Lord Beaconsfeld Is suffering from the
gout
John Locke, Liberal member OF the House
OF Commons for southwark. is dead at the age
IS.
The Very Rev. Frederick oakley. Roman
Catholic divine, and writer on religious sub
jects is dead, at the age 7s.
Intelligence has been received ut Paris that
the Abbe de Baize, in attempting to cross
Africa, has died at Ujjl.
Three deaths from starvation occurred last
week in the neighOorhood of Parsontown
County Of LOuth, ireland.
by the firedamp explosion In the colhery at
Nelson, saxony, on Thursday OF last week.
ten miners were killed and eight injured. Nine
persons who were in the pit at the time of the
explosion, are unaccounted for.
The Increase Of infectious diseases in 81.
Petersburg is exciting some apprehension, the
mortality from that cause for the week ending
January II being 0 per cent. of the whole NOR.
tality, or twice as great as usual.
Tho London Standard has the following
from Vienna: "It is reported that the Czare.
witch recently reported to some Polish mag.
nates Il shall be pi oud to wear your glorious
crown. Communicate this to your cuuntrymen
King"
The Monde, the organ OF the Papal Nunco
at Paris, referring to the mission Of MI
Charles s. Parnel to the United States, says
by the mouth of n Protestant, Catholic lie.
land calls Protestant England to account
whoever outrages Justice paves the way fol
terrible exDntions
In the case Of Adjutant Baranoff, who was
eaU nd hp ,rsffo IN In ad
the naval force for insulting languaee in refer.
ence to the Minister Of Maine, the Car has
ordered that he be placed on ha II pay instead Of
be1ng dismissed, thonSh it is probable that he
will receive the command of one of the RUS
sian cruisers in The Prcific.
Paul Devaux, the Belgian politician is dead
at the age Of74
The dyers of Bradford. England, have
struck for reduction of hours Of labor.
The Marquis of Alglesev, Liberal member
of the House of Peers. is dead. ut tho age OF 40.
Heavy rains have caused the rivers in Sici
iy to overflow. doing great damage to the prnp.
erty.
"A ton gun which has been tried at Spez
zia attained n rauge of 10000 meters with q
charge of 900 killogrammes.
Eight Hon. William IL. Smith, first Lord OF
'"0 xN"iiiii "itf' L'Deiui CONSERVATIVE speak
ln8 tih westminster on FRIDAY night, con
demned the Opposition OF certain Liberal poll-
ucians 10 coquette Wlth the Home Rulers.
-lhe hlng OF the ,Belsians has conferred
the Leopold cross on Rosa Bonheur' She is the
hrst woman who has thus been honored. The
KING OF spain recently sent high order TO the
same artlst' one never Oelore conferred upon 9
lady.
-The ST Petersburg GdIos again states thai
negotiations Tor the establishment of an inde
pendent Polish kingdom, under Prince Radzi
WILL have been unsuccessfully made between
representatives of Russia and of the Polisl
National Government.
"A rich landowner near barcelona. b,s wife
three daughters. n son and ms women servant
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HE WON THE BET.

A mesmerist at Hartford found crowd
of hotel loafers making fun of him and his
show bills, and offered to give free exhi-
bition of his skill. He bet one OF the party
that he could SO place him under mesmeric
influence that, with his finger on his nose,
he could not leave the room without taking
his finger down. The other man took the
bet The mesmerist made him shut his
eyes, made few passes about him, put the
victims arm around an iron post, and made
the hand grasp the nose of the man. Then
with few more mystic passes, he told him
to open his eyes. The crowd awarded the
bet to the mesmerist, and the other fellow
was induced by the force of circumstances
to set 'em up.
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WHO MADE THOSE TRACKS.

On one of the rocks brought to Franklin
KY, TO use in the foundation of the court
house, were found numerous human tracks
plainly defined and unmistakable. The
stone is about three feet by six, and one side
showed as many as a dozed of these human
footprints. Some of them were misshapen,
as if having been made in soft clay and
crowded by contiguous tracks, but many
were in most perfect formation. None
were barefoot tracks, but evidently made by
fashionably shaped shoes. On the stone
were also seen one bovine track that was
clearly defined, and one that was somewhat
out Of semblance. In some Of these tracks
there had been an after formation of rocks
which with a chisel was easily removed.
The stone came from the Vermont quarry.
The question that naturally arises is, who
were the people that, wearing shoes with
fashionably high heels aud well-rounded
shanks, made their tracks in the soft blue
clay that Afterwards Solidihsd into Ibonsf
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HOW FAMILIES ENDUREINVER.
MONT,

Some two years ago a physician in town
was called to visit a patient living out Of the
village. He drove out, and as he was hitch
ing his horse the door opened and a young
woman with child in her arms came out
They greeted each other, and she said,
"0h, you are the doctor come to see grand
mother. She's pretty sick. You'll find her
in the house." He went in and found a
woman about 40, who said "You will find
grandmother IN that way" In the room
to which he was directed he found an aged
white-haired lady lying on the bed. She
was quite deaf, and did not notice his ap-
proach until he sat down and began to feel
her pulse. She turned and said, "Oh, you
are the doctor. / am not sick. It's mother
you want to see. You will find her in the
next room." So into the next room he
passed, and at last he was in the presence
of his patient, whose daughter, grand
daughter, great-grand-daughter, and great
great. granddaughter he had encountered.
He found her so reduced by disease aud old
age-she was 81 years old-that he saw no
chance of her living more than week. He
told the family so, but at their request left
medicines and directions. Some three
weeks after he was driving by and saw an
old lady picking up chips. He pulled up
his horse, intending to ask when his pa
tient had died, when she looked up and
said ooh, YOU are the doctor who came to
see me when was SO sick" She is still
living, as "chipper" an old lady of OF as
you will often see.
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A SHADOW.
"1n perfect love is perfect trust"

"ln perfect love is perfect trust"
So says a maxim old;
And yet the saying is not Just,
When all the tale is told.
There never yet love was born
Into this world, without
A silent shadow on It's dawn
The shadow of doubt.
A shadow which is scarcely seen,
And yet as swiftly flies
AS objects which may come between
Our vision and the skies,
And vanish, leaving in their track
No token and no trace,
Nor ever in their paths turn back
To mar the days sweet grace.
But through the shadows that are past,
Through all loves wavering doubt,
The perfect trust shall dawn at last,
To cast the shadows out,
Though darkening clouds, which overbroo
The sunlight shall appear,
And loves transcendent interlude
Shall Danish every fear.
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A REMARKABLE STORY.

Not long ago well-known collector Of
curiOsites in Paris, who had devoted con-
siderable sums of money to the gathering
together Of bank notes of all countries and
all values, became the possessor of a Bank
of England fve-pound note, to which an
unusually strange story was attached. This
note was paid into Liverpool merchants
office in the ordinary way Of business sixty
one years ago, and its recipient, the cashier
of the firm, while holdiSg it to the light to
test its genuineness, noticed some faint red
marks upon it which, on closer examma-
ton, proved to be semi-efiaced words,
scrawled in blood between the printed lines
and upon the blank margin of the note.E .Ex-
traordinary pains were taken to decipher
these partly obliterated characters, and
eventually the following sentence was made
out "If this note should fall into the hands
of John Dean, Of Longhill, near Carlisle, he
will learn hereby that his brother is lam
gushing a prisoner in Algiers." Mr.. Dean
was promptly communicated with by the
holder Of the note, ana he Appeared 10 the
Government of the day for assistance in his
endeavor TO obtain his brothers release from
captivity. The prisoner, who, as it subse-
quently appeared had traced the aboye sem
tence upon the note with splinter of wood
dipped in his own blood, had been a slave
to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years, when
his strange missiye first attracted attention
in Liverpool counting house. His family
and friends had long believed him dead.
Eventually his brother with the aid of a
British authority in the Mediterranean, sue
ceeded in ransoming him from the Dey, and
brought him home TO England, where he
did not long survive his release, his eonsti-
tuition having been irreparably injured by
exposure, privations and forced labor in the
Dey's gallies.
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A CHAPTER OF HORRORS.

While travelling through Switzerland, re-
Gently, with his wife, physician, resident
of Gratz, witnessed a small railway station
within the Helvetian frontier truly tragi-
cal and thrilling episode of domestic life,
which he has impaired to the leading journ-
al of his native town. A young doctor, re-
Gently appointed to the post of town ply
sician in the Swiss bourg, which became
the scene of the tragedy, had for some years
carried on liaiSon with married lady.
Shortly after his appointment, however, he
contracted a matrimonial alliance with q
young lady of respectable family, and was
just starting upon his wedding trip with his
bride, when his former mistress appeared in
the station, and flung herself down upon
the rails as the train commenced to move.
The engine passed over her body. mangling
it horribly, and the bridegroom was sum-
moned in his medical capacity to the spot
where the unfortunate woman's remains
had been deposited. Unnerved by the ter
rble sight, he uttered loud cry and fell
upon the platform in a state of insensbility
Some of the bystanders acquainted his bride
with the cause of the suicide committed al
most bofore her eyes, whercupon she turned
with loathing from the senseless form oi
her husband, and at once went back TO her
fathers house, leaving DR.. -- to the in
dignaton of the crowd assembled in the
railway station. A spirited endeavor was
made to lynch him, from which he was res.
cued with great difficulty by the police and
station officials. To complete the horrors oil
this dismal story, the husband of the un-
fortunate lady who persisted under the
wheels of the locomotive went raving mad
upon hearing of her awful death and itI
cause, and is at present the inmate of q
lunatic asylum.
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OH, HEART

Oh, heart that beats as other hearts
Have beat of yore!
linger here for her, my love,
Outside of her fathers door.
look and watch, and, waiting, yearn
To see her at the gates,
And know with loves full tidal turn
My being palpltates.
There is beauty in the night,
A glory in each star.
wait her coming for the light
Which beameth still afar-
The love.light which shall shed its rays
Across the coming hours,
And over all the future days
Shall scatter fadeless flowers.
She comes she comes The air grows bright
Her loving face 1 see;
And even night is no more night!
When she is here with me.
oh, stars of heaven with joy look down
Upon our perfect bliss.
She crowns my life with loves pure crown,
And gllds it with her kiss.
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DIFFERENCE IN WOMEN.

A young married woman from England,
who had remained long enough in this
country to feel perfectly at home, told q
friend that English timidity so clung to her
that she could hardly go into Boston, fve
miles, to do her shopping, without having
her husband or brother to escort her on the
railway. The difference between her and
the American woman-'who,Lt a call Of duty
or even pleasure, would take her travelling
bag and set of for Colorado without fear Of
harm-is hardly greater than the difference
between tho tongue-tied women Of fifteen
years ago, in reform meetings, and the vot-
ing women Of to-day.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-02-14
The New Food Medicine
Truly a Wonder.

The Quichna Coca Co. prepare from the es.
seEce of the Sacred Peruvian Plant COCOA
LEAF the most useful Nerve Tonic and Lie
Sus, amer known to man. They have named IL
COCA BITrERS, but hope the name will not
cause 1t to be classed with the so-caled Bit
ters." which have done so much harm-physl.
cal and moral.
COCA BITTERS has the power of sustaining
life and strength + days without food.
Exposure to storms, long fatigue and malar
ious poisoning cannot harm those who use CO.
Ca BITTERS.
This is q marvellous life invicOrant, entirely
without reaction II cheers but not nGbrates.
For the cure OF Dyspepsia Indigestion, Nerv.
business, SICK HeadaChe. WEAKNESS, Great De.
bllity. Lack of Energy and Power, Liver Com.
plants, Chills and all Fever, COCA BI1TERS
stands unIivnled and lone.
From me 0tHcidt report Of lieut. HeTndOn, u.
S. NJ: "Ihe Peruvian natives who use Coca,
perform prOdigies of labor without fatigue. A
powerful tonic for the nervous system, but not
injurious to the health"
The wonderful virtues of this new fOod-medi
cine cap only be glanced at here Get circu-
lar and iufOrm Yourself 1uliy. No remedy ever
received such endorsement.
COCA BIpTERS-coucentrated essence Of
Sacled Peruvian Coca-sOld by all leading
druggists AGdress,
QUICRUA COCA co, New York.
SMITH, KLINE Il CO., Agents. Phila
Dee. o7-l3W
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Mrs. Partington says

Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as
they are regimental to the human cistern
but put your trust in Hop Bitters, which
will cure general dilapidation, costive hab-
its and all comic diseases. They saved
Isaac from severe extract Of tripod fever.
They are the ne plus uaum Of medicines
Boston Globe.
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-"What decoration is that you are wear
ingY" said an Austrian sergeant to a new
recruit. The man blushed deeply, and re-
sponded "It's 3 medal our COW won at the
cattle show"
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H. V. MORTIMER, Proprietor.
VOL. VIII, No II.
Railroad Guide.
DHILA. g. READING RAlLRAOD.
Arrangement of Passenger Trains.


NOVEMBER 10TH. 1879
Trains leave ALLHNTOW n as fOllOws;-
(vIA PERKloMEN RAILROAD -.
For Philadelphia at E4;sO, o4b, ll'4O' AIM anu
SIS p. IN.
For Philadelphia at tl3O a. m.,s.s6 p. m.
WA EAST PENNA BRANCHl
For Reading, $50, 0O5 M, l2'lO' A'So ana S'Oo
For Harrisburg, 5O,9o5 M, la.lO,4.ao ando.o
For Lancaster and Columbia, $50, so5 am. and
Sow D. !" SUNDAYS.
For Reading Harrisburg, and way points, 800
CVIA BETHLEHEM.)
For PHILADELPHIA from l.. V, Depot ass, o.l2,
ts42 a. IN ,Iz.N35.4j, s.24 y. m. SUNDAY 400 p. IN.
For Phiiadeluhia from l.. & s. Depot IS 4s a.
u" Trains aims FOR 70 ALLENTOWN leave as follows;
WA PERKIoMEN RAlLRoAD.l
Leave Philadelphia, 74O ~ M. LOO, "l.SO dnd 5.SJ
SUNDAYS.
Leave PHILADELPHIA S.Op a. M. and ais p. m.
WA EAST PENNA. BRANCH
Leave Redoing7.25, lO.SO a. m.,2.OO' S5'' end0'i5
Leave cave Harrisburg, SIS, Sos and o55, a. M, Las
Leave Lancaster, sos a. NJ, 100 and $50 p. m
Leave Columbia ~ g. u N VI LOS and $40 p M
Leave Reading, 7.2O a. m.
Leave Harrisburg, $40 ain.
WA BRTHLEHBMl
Leave Philad eluhia 200, S Is, 9.45, go, "5.l5
800 U. IN, Sunday 80 q. IN, 500 y. IN,
Trains marked thus ~ run to and from depot
9th and Green streets, Philadelphia other
trains to and from Broad street depot. Trains
Via Bethlehem" run to and from Berks St,
Depot, except those marked ttl.
Tne GAS II. m and $3.50 D. m. trains from Allen.
town, aud the 7.4o a. IN. and 53l p. m. trans
from Philadelphia, have through cars to and
from Philadelphia. -
Geiler0i Manager.
G. @. HANCOCK, Gen'L Pass. & Ticket Agent
nov. Is.
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"A sehoolmaster at johnson, Iowa, has
been fined for whipping girl pupil beeauH
she corrected his misPronuneiatoa Of
word.
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The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11
Last Sunday evening Mr.. Levi

Last Sunday evening Mr.. Levi
Rogers, who lived in Gum Swamp,
after having been absent from home
all day, returned, unsaddled his
horse, and, as he was in the act OF
stepping upon his gallery, ne re-
ceived in his throat and breast a
huge load of buckshot from the
gun of some unknown fend. 1t Is
thought from the charge OF lead
found in his body that he died in
stantly. No clue to the perpetrator
of this cowardly and atrocious
crime could be elected by the jury
of inquest. We are sorry that such
hell-hounds live in our parish, and
we hope that in this case the old
adage that "murder will OUT may
be fully exemplified.
Mr.. Rogers has many friends
who deplore his tragic fate, and
who are anxious to see justice
meted out to the sneaking scoun-
drel who shot him down.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11
DIED.

On the morning of the 9th inst. ,
little MARY, daughter of A. c.
and Muggie McMeans, aged IL
months and 9 days.
We deeply sympathize with Mr..
and Mrs. McMeans in this their
hour of deep affection. The blight
ing hand Of death has taken from
them their little pet and cast his
gloomy mantle over one of earth's
sweetest and brightest flowers.
Their innocent bud, just unfolding
in superior loneliness, has been
transferred to a more congenia'
clime-to that bright land ''where
sorrow never enters and flowers
never fade"
"Oh white-robed angels, We came una.
wares,
And waited our darling away;
But over the river, beyond the bright
stars,
She basks in the sunshine to-day.
ooh soft little hands, like the pearly
rose leaf,
Lie on her innocent breast.
And sweet baby fingers are holding
pure flowers .a...s
For ever and ever at rest" s.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Mr.. Isaac A. Ross died in this
town last Saturday night, at the
residence of his uncle, Maj. E. K.
W. Ross, aged 46 years. Mr.. Ross
was an intense sufferer for several
months prior to his death, but bore
his sufferings with Christian forti-
tude and resignation. In the death
of this truly good man the commu-
nifty has sustained a severe loss.
He was extremely popular among
all classes of people, and deservedly
50, for he had big, kind heart,
that beat sympathetic to every call
of distress. Peace to his ashes.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11
Can't Be UndersOld.

am selling for cash, with full
set attachments, Sewing Machines
as follows:
New American, 2 drawers and
drop leaf $35; agents price $40 to
$50.
New Wilson, 2 drawers and drop
leaf $50; agents price $40 to $50.
Singer, 2 drawers and drop leaf
$3.50; agents price $40 to $50.
Have real beauty in Wilson's
3 drawer No. 5. Come and see it.
Wilson, American and Singer
needles always on hand.
j. S. HANDY.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

We learn from Mr.. j. G.. Weaks,
Census Enumeration for the Fourth
Ward, that there are over 800 in
habitants within the corporate limits
of Bastrop. The limits of the
town, should, we think, be ex-
tended so as to take in the thickly
settled localities Immediately out
side of the corporation. This
would swell the census list of Bas-
trop to something over one thou
sand.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Our genial friend, DR.. j. H. Nc
Cormick, Of Monroe, paid Bastrop
a visit this week, and remembered
the CLARION to the tune of So for
another years subscription. The
Doctor has quit physic and farming
and is now associated with the pop
ular house of Sholars & Key. He
will be pleased to see any of his old
Morehouse friends, when visiting
Monroe.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

We are in receipt of a letter from
Capt. T. C. Butler, of the steamer
Ollie B., denying that any such
man as that found dead in the
bayou near Mr.. Ward s, some weeks
ago, was ever in any way come ,ted
with his boat. We are glad to make
the statement; and at the same
time, we can assure Capt. Butler
that no one dreamed of thinking
that HE was responsible for the
mans misfortune.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11
Mr. p III Topoc Ir S,lacoH

Mr.. R. H. Jones, Jr., placed on
our table on the 9th the FIRST cotton
bloom of the season. This speaks
well for the first year of Bob's man
agement of his fathers plantation.
He speaks boastingly of his corn
crop, and promises plenty of cotton
blooms by the last of this week.
Bob is a good friend of ours, and
we sincerely congratulate him upon
his successful farming.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

The election last Monday fol
municipal officers passed off quietly.
The following gentlemen were
elected :: S. H. Stivers, Mayor
and Messrs. j. S. Handy, J. T.
Dalton, Jas. Campbell, W. R. Nc
Creight, and H. D. Vaughan,
Councilmen - all present incum-
bents except Mr.. Vaughan, who
succeeds Mr.. J. S. Heller. The
latter declined to accept a re-elec-
ton.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

We had the pleasure of hand
shaking this week with the 9Th
Wards popular member of the Po-
lice Jury, Mr.. j. NJ. Sharp. He
was the first to tell us of the fine
crops in his ward, the citizens of
which are justly deserving of pros
perity and plenty !; for no better
and more hospitable people live
upon the face Of the earth.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Mr.. Mckee, the vigilant pastor
of the Methodist Church in this
place, has singing class which
meets at his church on Wednesday
evenings and makes very delightful
music. The pastor teaches his class
flee of charge, and there is no rea-
son why everybody in Bastrop
should not become melodious
songster.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Judge Norwood, who is now To-
Gated in West Carroll parish and ia
a leading member Of the Floyd Bar,
is on visit to Bastrop. We were
glad to hear, through Judge Nor
wood, of the successful law-prac-
tice of our old friend, T. j. Polk.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Our energetic townsman, Mr.. J.
D. Howell, will subscribe $1,000 to
the Monroe & Bastrop Railroad
whenever Canvasser Washburn calls
on him. Mr.. H. is q wake
and active citizen.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Messrs. j. f. McGowen, r. w.
Milestone, Willie Moore, Mat
Grayson, ]. P. Daily and Mr..
Boozman, of the 9Th Ward, were in
town this week. Mr.. Daily says
that he has never had q better crop
of both cotton and corn in his life.
He also informs us that the burning
of his gin house recently was the
work of an incendiary.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

will keep constantly on hand,
until new crop comes in, fresh corn
meal, made OF Morehohse corn, to
be received regularly every Satur-
day. [jl1-4t.] J. T. DALTON.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

Mrs. Flournoy, nee Miss Ophy
Stivers, formerly of Bastrop but
now of Avoyelles parish, is visiting
her brother, DR.. S. Fl. Stivers, this
week.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11
TT SINGS FOR ALL.

Messrs. Macy & Jones have fitted
up a Singer Sewing Machine Depot
in the Parsons Office, and are pre-
pared to furnish machines to the
citizens of Bastrop and Morehouse
parish Call and see them.
The Morehouse clarion., 1880-06-11

The editor returns a thousand
thanks to Mr.. w. J. Haynie, his
wife, and many others, for kind
acts rendered during the week. We
shall ever remember such deeds as
an oasis in our life's pathway.