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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

PRICE sS CENTS PER BOTTLE.
For sale by all druggists and country mer
CHANTS. 'e'
rhoMpsoN, GEORGE eco, Sole Agents
pallss snd Gaiv,siou eN"''
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

Messrs Polk. Mile ( Co, Richmond, Va,
The Vest Pocset Cure FOR dyspepsia has done
nue. more good than any, medicine ever tried
NY father. who Ia o regular pny.icisn, en-.
dorses u. "hatwill V u take for the rscne,
cansell quantities or IL In this section.
ope 1t may nud It's way into every ,onthern
vme. W. N. WISDOM.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

Messrs. Polk, Miller &Co.
Gentlemen: Please send me another bottle
OF Vest Pocket Cure for Dyspepsia. | have
used the trl b tile and have no hesitation in
saving | believe 1t superior to ANYTHING
known TO the public.
l.. W. CHALK,
Pilot Point, Texas, May 25. lS1e
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

M'sSrs. Polk, Miller 4 20.
Gents Enclosed nlease find ~ csn.a o.,
which pie So send ny return mail two bottles
Vest Pocket Cure, | think II IS the b's, ma a.
iue for dysp.pis | ever trlcd TIE two bo,.,ss
send fora,e Tor two other pnrtl,s
Respectfully, GEO. ELLIOTT
Navasota. Grimes Co Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

Bishop D, Doggett, Southern Methodist:
II Is an EXCELLENT corrective Of Indi. estlOn
! have. used 1t with proMpt and beneficial re-
suits.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15
LOTTERIES.
La. S. l..
TAKE HOTlCEl

This is the only Lottery even voted nm r.,
people a Stau, and under late 0ecisioyn' ae
ne U. Z. supreme Court at WashinetonUn Of
the only Legal Lottery now In the IN is
states, all other cha tiers having hal nited
pealed or having no existence Zen re.
opportunity to Wit o fortune. Grand dis,r,Sdlld
tion, Class Il, ut New orleans, Tno.li.ou.
May 10, Issl. lS2d Monthly bIaw,aasy
Louisiana State Lottery COmnsnr
fhis Institution was regularly ,ncor,l
by the Legislature of the State tor Ednaav,i,ated
and Charitable purpc 'es In 1865, for the tasm
twenty-five years, to which contract the ,m erh OF
BILE faith Of the State Is pledged which dsi9a-
been renewed by an overwhe!ming popuisr sI ma
securing It's franchise In the new cpnsf,pt'ts,
adopted December I'd, A. D., 1879, WITH
tai Of 200, OO0 to which 1t has since dcapi.
reserve fund of $3.50 900. Its Grand Singi. W .
Der Distribution will take place MONTH"; ~ MuIn.
second Tuesday. ltnever scales or nos, On the
Look at the following Distribution. f'''pohes.
CAPITAL PRIZE SS0.0O0.
100, 900 Tickets al Two Dollars each
Lob.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-15

Rev. Robert Watts. A. M, Va:
have used the mixture In my family for
ten years, and have taken II for a dysnspsis
collie which ,reateaed my life, and was eur a.
,aune any d etwtth' NJ hurt. ! have recon-.
results. Il Is the best tonic aud co rectiye
ever knew. For prost alton from dyspeps,a
or liver disease II Il Invaluable,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26

i. I
DIR. Hsrs, foreign electrician, has
shown that = = possible 10 telephone six
hundred mDW.
a IN. Adler has Just been awarded
5000 francs BIZ the Paris Academy Of
telegrsphy. rs also telephony.
Vines arc said to extract yearly
from the soil only about three -fourths Of
the quantity Of potash and phosphorus
acid that the cereals take up. ~
Paris has oxygen gas works caps-
BILE of supplying about IL 900 cubic feet
of oxygen daily. Nothing 10 known as
to the method of producing the gas. -
the establishment Is still In its expert
mental stage but IL the oxygen Il OF the
purity claimed, and can be sold Ct q rea-
sonable price, the enterprise bids fair TO-
succeed.
M. Lefranc has called attention in
the journal de Pharmacie 10 wooden
mattresses a. possibly fertile midas for
disease. In large city such mattresses
may represent millions of heeces that
have been only partly cleared Of grease,
and have, moreover, been affected by
long use through successive generations.
They are rarely efficiently purified, and
might become an active medium for the
propagation Of infection. .I.
"A suggestion tn employ artificial
lights for the capture aud destruction Of
noxious insects has found considerable
favor. A medal was awarded at the
last exhibition Of agriculture and in
sociology in Paris for lamp especially
adapted for catching insects. The cleo
trio light has been found to be very
effective insecttrap, and its eventual
coming into use for this purpose In bug
infected gardens and orchards may be
regarded rs among the things that are
possible.
M. Muntz's experiments (the iodo-
form reaction) show that alcohol Is TO
be found in all kinds of water, except
very pure spring water. Rain and river
water contain about one gram per cubic
meter; snow and cold rain little more.
1t also exists in the earth, even poor
soil, in the quantity of 100 to 200 grams,
giving the iodoform reaction. The.
diffusion of the substance In nature Is
for on the theory Of the de-
struction of organic matter by various
agents of fermentation.
"A thermometric bureau has been
established in connection with the Win
chester Observatory Of Yale College,
for the more accurate graduation and
of thermometers. The Their
mometers in common use are, as rule,
not graduated with any approach to
scientific accuracy, and the best Of them,
however exact they may be when new.
increase their readings rapidly within n
few months, 50 rs to become rs much
as % in error In the course of year.
This is matter of particular Importance
with clinical thermometers, Of which
several thousand are bought every year;
and to instruments Of this class special
is paid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
grnu Gonntg &egister
BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
TWO JOURNEYS.

- 20 on a journey far away"
He said-and he stopped and kissed me
then 81
ssOver the ocean for many day
Goodby and he kissed me once again,
But only q few short months had fed, !.
When againsI answered my husbands
kiss;
. could not tarry away" he said:
ssThere is never a land as fair as this"
Again stood by my husbands side,
7 go on q journey, sweet, o-day;
Over the river the bOatmen glide
Good by: / shall linger long away"
" All, he will come back soon, know"
said, as stopped for the parting kiss;
" He can not tarry, he told me so.
There is never q land so fair as this.
Bnt many month and many year
Have fiown since my darling went away,
Will he never come back to meet me here?
Has he found the region of perfect day2
Over the ocean he went and came;
Over the river, and fingers therei
Oh, palfid bOatman! call my name!
Show me the region SO wOndrous fair.
-ArgoSy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
PITa AND POINT.

The weight of the world-about
twelve ounces to the pound.-Dctroie
Free Press.
"A move in the right direction pre-
vents collision when teams meet.--N. o.
Picayu,se.
"A tooth pulling shop Is known rs n
sore gum mandatory Philadelphia
Chronicle Herald.
=" What Is the moon good forP''
asked Prof. Miller. .What are its prin-
cipal usesP'' And the smart bad boy
looked up from the foot Of the class and
said, ITO rest the gas companies" ~
darlington Hawkeye. ,,.....
The man who knows the most Is not.
an owing man.-Afan Is like q carpet
when he is kept down by tax.-MIan 10
like a pin; the size of the head does not
indicate how sharp and pointed he may
be- Whitehait Times.
Specimens of the mephitic plant
known rs skunk's cabbage are sold in
the streets of New York under the at
tractive name of California lilies, and
they smell SO much better than the
streets that there Is quite demand for
them. Anything is welcome ms change.
Boston Post.
Tight lacing caused the liver Of an
Indiana woman to grow fast to the
epigastrium, causing her death. Ladies
can not be too careful in guarding
against such q calamity ~ this. When
tight lacing must be INDUCED in the
epigastrium should be removed and
locked up in the bureau drawer for safe
ty. Chicago Tribune i1
She was n young lady fresh from
boardiDg-suhool, and she went into tho
laundry TO learn how to iron shirts. She
did not succeed very well, and she said,
"Oh, Katy, shall never be able to get
MISS" was the answer, '.you want TO
put little elbow grease on 1t" "Please'
get some for me right away, Katy" was
the innocent response. Boston. Courier.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26

be burned at all for the present. In her
energetic language unadorned, Margaret
Pencorrow hurled anathemas at them,
but they only laughed, and suddenly the
girl vanished through the crowd with
Mark Brathwaite.
Where had they7 gone For several
moments their disappearance was not
noticed, but suddenly broad sheet of
lightning that lit up the whole coast,
showed the girl and the boy running as
hard as they could down the shore in
the direction of the Needle Rock The
tide was coming in fast, but it was evil
IDENTIFY Meg's object. to get near the rock
before it. Why? They learned pres
emily. A loud hiss, a blaze of red light
and up went edrocket; then another;
then third. Three danger signalsrose
rapidly, one after another, under the
eyes of the enraged wreckers. Then all
became black again. The storm rum
bled away, and no more blue lights were
burned out at sea. Margaret had rushed
off with the red rockets, which had prob
ably warned the distressed ship to keep
clear of the treacherOus coast. Anyhow,
the ship was not wrecked nor heard OF
again.
Nor was Margaret Pencorrow ever
seen again or heard of. Mark Brath-
waite, returning pale, exhausted and
half-crazed at daybreak, announced
that she had suddenly been swept away
by a wave, but whittier he knew not,
though he had swum, and Owed, and
sought for hours, risking his life twenty
times. "God knows where she went!"
he cried, sobbing. -
And doubtless God did know.
At present there is no more Needle
Rock off Polloot. Lady Blanche had it
blasted, and fine lighthouse has been
erected where it stood, to warn vessels
Of the other dangerous rocks in the vi
entity. It is called '.The Margaret
Lighthouse and Mark Brathwaite is
the keeper. London Truth, ......,s
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
Throwing the Hatchet.

In the fourteenth century tho situa.
ton OF Public Executioner to the City Of
Florence became vacant, and, rs II was
a place Of considerable emolument,
there were three candidates, A day
was appointed for public display OF their
several abilities. The first candidate,
with knife, cleverlv separated the head
OF the victim from his shoulders. He
was outdone by the rapid stroke of the
second, whose glittering broadsword
struck terror into the hearts Of the sur
rounding multitude. The third and least.
promising held in HIS hand short.
Ratchet, and, when the victim was ex-
tended with his head on the fatal block,
approached him, and In allow whisper in
quired il he was n swift runner and IL
he could swim we'll. On being answered
in the Affirmative, he desired him TO
spring of his feet aud cross the river.
The executioner then put ON q fierce
look, swung his weapon round his head,
but, instead of making Il descend on the.
devoted creatures neck, struck IL with
great force into the block! Shouts OF
execration rose from the crowd, and tho
trembling wretch, astonished at his won
derful escape, had nearly gsined the
opposite bank OF the river before any
steps were taken to pursue him. He
mad scarcely, however, gone ten yards
on dry land, when the executioner, TAX
ing steady aim, threw bis Ratchet with
such effect that the body continued rum
ming Some time after the head was off
From this rather improbable incident
the common phrase of throwing tho
Ratchet Is said 70 be derived.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26

"A citizen of German extraction re-
siding in Virginia City, New, recently
made preparations to visit the country
of his fathers. In order, however, to
show his patriotism and his love for this,
his adopted land, he wore q pair of
boots in the soles of which he had caused
thin layers of earth to be placed. Wher-
ever he goes he win now say, 81 stand
on American soil.n
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26

God hears the heart without the
words, but He never hears the words
without the heart.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26

Always there is black spot in our
sunshine; 1t is the Shadow of Ourselves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
Locomotive Bell.Ringing by Steam.

Railroad men are just now greatly in
terested in novel appliance to locomo-
tives, whereby the heretofore laborious
task of ringing the bell at crossings and
while approaching towns and villages,
which has devolved upon the fireman,
to the manifest neglect, in many in
stances, of his other duties, will be auto
matically performed by steam power,
easily regulated and controlled. The
not infrequent loss of life hereabouts,
as well as through the Western country,
where grade crossings are as q rule un-
protected, has set railroad men to think
ing, as in majority OF cases verdicts
against the road employing the careless
firemen have been recovered. 1t seems
strange that so simple an application of
steam, of which there is always sur
have ere this been made. The device
consists merely of small cylinder con-
tanning revolving piston. connected
directly with the bell yoke by means of
shaft. The motion is regulated by q
valve and cutoff, SO adjusted that by q
slight movement, it is thrown "off the
CENTER" and Instantly set in motion.
The bell then rings continuously until
checked by a similar slight movement.
1t is in constant readiness for use, steam
being s'on" continually after the firing
of the engine, and is thus instantaneously
available in cases where it is desirable
to give warning. The device is easily
applied to locomotives, of whatever
make. There are districts in the West
through which for miles the firemen are
required by law to ring their bells con-
tinuously, and, at the same time, are
required to keep their fires up to the re-
quired standard. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
John Fans, of Henry County,

John Fans, of Henry County, N.
c., thinks his stomach is the same as
that of chicken, and that it is neces-
sary for his digestion to swallow after
eating handful of gravel. He keeps
the gravel in water to keep it cool, and
regularly swallows a handful after each
meal. He has been swallowing gravel
for many years. Once he had to call in
q physician, who extracted the gravel
from his body. He is As years old and
seems to be in good health.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09
The SAND BLAST.

Among the wonderful and useful
inventions of the age is the common
blast. Suppose you desire piece of
marble for gravestone; you cover
the store with sheet Of wax No
thicker than wafer, then you cut in
the name, date, etc., leaving the
marble exposed. Now pass it under
the blast and the sand shall cut it
away. Remove the wax and you
have the cut letters. Take piece
of French plate glass, say two by six
feet, cover it with fine lace and pass
it under the blast, and not thread
of the lace will be injured, but the
sand will cut deep into the glass
wherever it is not covered with the
lace. Now remove the lace and you
have a delicate and beautiful figure
raised on the glass.
In this way beautiful figures of all
kinds are cut IN glass at small ex-
pense. The workmen can hold their
hands under the blast without harm,
even when it is cutting away the
hardest glaes, iron or stone, but they
must look out for finger nails, for
they will be whitfield off right hastily.
IF they put on steel thimbles to pro-
tect the nails it will do but little
good, for the sand will soon whittle
them away; but if they wrap piece
of soft cotton around them they are
safe. You will at once see the phil
osophy of it. The sand whittles
away and destroys any hard SUD-
stance-even glass--..but does not
affect substances that are soft and
yielding, like wax, cotton, fine lace.
or even the human hand.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09
Is THERE TO BE A COTTON PLANTING
ARlST0CRACY?

The smll farmer who was to retreiv,
the disaster of the South, and wipe ou
the last vestige of the planting aristoc
racy, between which and the people
there was alwaysa lack of sympathy
by keeping his own acres under his OWL
supervision, and using hired only as a
supplement to his owns still held tc
be the typical cotton-raiser.
But the observer who cares to look
beneath the surface will detect signs OF
reverse current. He will discover
that there is beyond question a sure
though gradual rebunching of the small
farms into large estates, and tedency
towards the re-establishment of land
holding obligarchy. Here and there
though all the cotton State, and olmost
in every country, are reappearing the
planter princes of the old time, still
lords of acres though not of slaves.
There is in Missippi one planter who
raises annually $4,000 bales of cotton
on twelve Consolidated pltnaation, aggre-
eating, perhaps, $4,000 acres. The
Capeheat estate, on Albemarle Sound,
originally of several thosand acres,
had $52, 900 worth of land added last
year. In the Missippi valley, where
more than anywhere else, is preserved
the distinctive plantation, this re-absor-
bing of seperate farms into Que owner
ship is going on rapidly. Mr.. F. G..
Morehead, an authority on these lands
says that not one third of them are own
ed by the men who held them at the
close of the war, and that they are pass
ing, one after the other, into the hands
of the commission merchants. 1t is
doubtful if there is neighborhood in
all the Sonth in which casual inquiry
will not bring to the front from ten to
dozen men who have added farm
after farm to thier possessios for
the past seveal years, and now own
from six to twenty places. It must
not be supposed that these farms are
punched together and run after the old
plantation style. On the contrary,
they are cut into even smaller farms
and rented to small troopers. The
question involved is not whether or not
the old plantation methods shall be
revived. It is the much more serious
problem as to whether the lands divid-
ed forevever into small farms shall be
owned by the many OF by the few,
whether we shall have in the South a
peasantry like that of France, or a ten
antry like that of reland.-Henry w.
Grady in Herper's Magazine.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09
GENERAL NEWS.

John Miller of Douglas county in plowing
over the site of granary burned by the In
dians in 1855, found a quantity of wheat in
good state of preservation.
The New Idrian mines haye at last COM
menced operations. A large number of
hands are engaged in tunneling and work on
the furnace is being pushed rapidly.
The county court of Lane county last
week reduced the tax levy SO that the county
tax is to be 81 instead of liz mills on the
dollar, as before ordered, :the county judge
dissenting.
At the request of the common council at
Pendleton, Judge Macarthur has postponed
the holding of the circuit court for Umatilla
county until the smallpox danger shall have
passed away.
The work of setting grade stakes for the
Northern Pacific Railroad between Portland
and Kalama has been completed. The sur
veys for bridge across the Columbia river
have conferred at the mouth of the Kalarda
river. The river there is only 1900 feet in
width, and the deep water channel but four
hundred.
The smallpox having abated the O. r.
& N. Co. has resumed freight and pass
senger traffic to Dayton, and through that
point to Texas Ferry.
The number of river steamers belong.
ing to the O. r. & n. Co., is II, which
are assessed at total valuation of $l63,
400 The number Of ocean steamers is 4,
valued at $435. 600 and the number or
barges is 6, worth $1,000. They make a
total valuation of floating property of
s6l6, 400.
Hon. M. C. George, Oregon's Represen-
tative in Congress, has been admitted to
practice in the United States Supreme Court
at Washington.
Congress is to be petitioned for a $4,000
appropriation to be expended in clearing
Lewis river of snags and bars to point
above Cedar creek.
The following vessels were owned by
the Pacific Coast steamship Company, and
were included in the reported sale to Willard:
Eureka, little California running to Sitka,
Idaho, Dakota, State of California, Senator
Duncan, Orizaba, Ancon, Los Angeles, and
the vessel Queen of the Pscific, now
building by Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-12-09

preston that the territory belonging
to the United States extended as fan
west as the Pacific Ocean. But Mex.
leo was claiming the Pacific Coast on
the south, and Russia was claiming i,
on the north, and these claims over.
Tapped. At much later period it
was held that onr territory extended
to the Pacific Coast, taking in the
territory now included in the State of
Oregon, and part of that included
in Washington Territory, the boun-
dary line being finally fixed at a
point much further south than the
United States originally claimed.
The political cry of sffty-four forty
or fight" did not establish our claim
to the territory now included in
British Columbia. Louisiana belong
ed to the French. The boundary
line was the middle of the Mississip-
pi River. Florida was a jungle in
habited by Indians. The territory
included in the great State of Ohio
is not even marked on this map. The
Great Lakes of the northwest are
well-defned. Beyond the Mississip-
pi River there is a blank. Nothing
was known of it which would justify
the geographer in noting any of its
physical characteristics. Perhaps
there were better maps of that date.
But this one is founded on the s'de.
finite treaty concluded at Paris Feb
ruary 10. 1868, with great improve
ments."
Eigbty-seven years ago, when this
map was made, the physical features
of two thirds of the continent of
North America were not known.
The best map then published contain
ed no more than a mere conjecture as
to the vast country beyond the Mis-
sissippi River. Two thousand miles
Of the north coast of the Pacific is
figured only as a mere conjecture.
The ocean itself was dotted with is
lands which never existed, and the
more important groups were entirely
omitted. A map like this serves to
impress one with the fact of an ex-
traordinary development. The FIVE
millions Of population have become
fifty millions. An Empire has been
founded on the Pacific Coast VIII ,re
bays and rivers were not figured on
the maps used in the schools fifty
years ago. We smile at the crudity
of his old map. What small coun-
try it was within the memory of
some now living? What a country
will it be within the observation Of
some who are now studying geog
raphy in the common schools of the
land? The maps of the country We
are using to day may seem as crude
to the next generation, to those who
shall be living hundred years hence,
as the old map is to rs who examine
it to-day.