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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-05-14
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ROUGH!

While passing by the old horse trough
heard q hacking hollow cough,
And, turning, met my neighbor Cough
The wind was blowing raw and rough;
Said 1, "old fellow, rather tough?'
"Ah yes" wheezed he, tits tough enough!
He limped along perhaps block,
Then said sharp pains affiict my hough;
Would I were by some sunny Tough,
"or managing the well-yoked plough
Or resting meath the rustling bough,
LuIled by the gently murmuring sough.
But vain are all these wishes, though"
ouoth he in accents sad and low;
ALAS, fear my cake is dough-
With pain heard my old friend through
And when at last we babe adieu
felt his fears would soon prove true
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-05-14
F. A. SHARPER & SON,
Undertakes & Cabinet Makers
A FINE ASSORTED STOCK OF CoFF1NS
AND CAsEETS ALWAYS on HAND.

WE have jasi had completed one Of ;he
w the finest Hcarscs in she STATE. Slth
which an funerals entrastcl 10 oar care vii
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-05-14

UNFOLDING INVITATIONS on Paper or
w Cardboard printed at this office
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

l. CllSlOIlS.a and their heirs entitled
by late laws of Congress. Send two stamps
for laws and copy of CITIZEN SOLDIER, to
NV. Fitzgerald, u is CT I'm Atty, Box.
5S8, Washington, d. G.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

A Minister out west, who has been
troubled good deal over marriage
fees, issued the following circular and
price list: "One marriage, plain, 81.
Ditto, kissing the bride, So. Ditto,
trimmed with one groomsman and one
bridesmaid; fifty cents extra for each
additional groomsman or bridesmaid.
Bachelors past forty will be charged
extra. Maids of same age ten pei
cent. off. Mileage will be charged in
long distance matches. Liberal re-
duction to clubs. Payments in cash /;
no notes or securities accepted. No
money refunded or rebates made for
poor goods. Come early, and come
often"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

An ingenious merchant of Konigs-
burg, Prussia, has been making mon
ey by advertising for feminine cores
pondents with view to matrimony,
and then threatening to publish the
letters received by him unless the
fair writer's paid him to refrain. He
was arrested in the postoffice at Han
over while taking money thus extort.
ed out of letter.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
THE MATERNAL sHINGLE.

When the angry passions gath'ring in my
mothers face see,
And she leads me in the bedroom gently
lays me or her knee
Then know that will catch it, and my
flesh in fancy itches
As listen to the patter Of the shingle on
my breeches.
Every tinkle of the shingle has an echo
and a sting,
And thousand burning fancies into
active being spring;
And thousand bees and hornets meath
my coat-tail seem to swarm
As listen to the patter Of the shingle, oh,
SO warm.
In splutter comes my father whom I
supposed had gone
To survey the situation, and tell her to lay
it on;
To see her bending DER me as I listen to
the strain
Played by her and by the shingle, in a
wild and weired refrain.
In sudden intermission, which appears
my only chance,
| say: Strike gently, mother, or you'll
split my Sunday pants"
She stops moment, draws her breath, the
shingle holds aloft,
And says: Il had not thought of that-my
son, just take them off"
Holy Moses and the angels, cast thy
pitying glances down.
And thou, OH family doctor, put good
soft poltice on;
And may l with fools and ounces ever
]astingly commingle,
If ever say another word when my
mother Wields the shingle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

MIDDLE AGE.--MiddIe age is the one
great test mans character. 1t is the
i've. barred gate which rises suddenly
before him in the middle of his Jour
ney. Some men walk calmly up to it,
open the lock and pass through with
the same equitable, steady step as be-
fore; others spring over it and canter
on frisky, reckless, and ridiculous az
in youth; while some, principally wom-
en-, creep under it, and go smirking
along, pretending that they have never
met II. Single men and women like
these, who ignore their years and try
to be young with the young, have
been butts for ridicule since time be-
gan; boys and girls are savageIy mer
clless on them. And yet this made-up,
waltzing old beau, this wan and worn
woman, coveting notice, aping the
airy graces of rosy girls, how pitiable
and tragical they are! They hare
somehow missed their birthright. They
have not secured the great possession
which makes the middle aged solid
and full, and must they give up their
youth, too? Shall they have nothing?
The desperate hold which they keep
on it is not SO laughable when one
comes to think of it.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
Mature Rejection.
Brooklyn Eagle.

oTOOhlyA 1dBlt.
"My darling, have you thought OF
the happy summer that our lives will
be when we are joined for better or
worse?
ooh! yes, John, I've thought of it,
"And have you thought of the
bright home that we will build on the
foundation of our affection, and which
will be painted with the dying flashes
of the sun and furnished with the sill.
yer and gold that makes the night of
the heavens beautiful"
"Oh! yes, John, I've thought of it,
'Have you thought of the years
that will come to US across the sea of
time, white-capped but blue with
promises of years to Gomez"
"Sure's your born, John, I've
thought of it."
"And have you thought? have
you? have-
ooh! yes, John, more than all the
rest, and John, let us name it after
you"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
Notice Of Final Homestead Proof.
LAND OFFICE AT BOISE CITY,
Idaho Ianuaru 9th 1890 (


AIOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FOL.
" lowing named settler has filed notice of his in
tention to make final proof in support OF his claim
and secure final entry thereof, and that said proof
will be made before the Register and Receiver at
their office in Boise City, Idaho on Friday, March
4th, 1881, viz: John Howe, of Garden Valley Boise
county, Idaho. homestead application No. 500. for
the NE4 SE4 and Lots l, and 2 Sec. 81 and
SW4 SW14 Sec. % Up 9 Z. He names the
following witnesses to prove his continuous resi-
dence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz
William White, of Horseshoe Bend, Boise county,
Idahs. Peter Buck, of Horseshoe Bend. Boise
county, Idaho; William Walch. of Gardsn Valley,
Boise county, idaho; and Jas. B. M cLanghlin, OF
Garden Valley. Boise Comfy, Idaho.
JOHN B. MILLER,
Register.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

Professor Tidy, in paper read be-
fore the London Chemical Society on
March Sd, relates, in reply to Dr.
Franklin, his firm conviction that a
fairly rapid river, having received
sewage in quantity not exceeding one
twentieth of its volume, regains its
purity after run Of few miles, and
becomes wholesome and good for
drinking.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

ald send for instructions, terms, refer.
81 PC, to Edison Brothers, Solicitors
lents. Washington, d. c., who fur
ne same WITHOUT CHARGE. Edison
51lSfs is we'll known and successful
large experience, having been es-
I'D in 1866. If.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

A Dangerous lllustration-Lady WIS.,
itor Ito Scripture class)-With what
weapon did Samson slay his enemies?
After a period of unbroken silence.
Fair questioner-( touching her bloom
ing cheek)-What's this? Chorus
The jor bone of hass, mum.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
POsTOFFICEs.

The following is list Of the postofict
in Idaho Territory:
Ada county.
Boise City, Emmettsvi1le,
Falk 3 Store, Lower Eoise,
Middleton, Payetts Store,
Star, Thurman's Mills.
Alturas county.
Atlantis, Mountain Home,
Rocky Bar, Bonaparte,
Ethels, Arco.
Ketchum. Bellevue,
Braeford, Bullion,
| Galena, saw Tooth.
Bear Lake county.
bennington. Bloomington,
Fish Haven, Georgetown,
Iowa Bar, Liberty,
Montpelier, Ovid,
Paris, Saint Charles.
Boise county.
Banner, Centerville.
Horseshoe Bend. idaho city,
Pi0neerville. Placervilie
Garden valley. 'a'A" ofss-'
Idaho county.
Clear Water, Elk City,
Cottonwood, GranReville
John Days Creek, Mount Idaho,
Shearer's Ferry, Washington,
Cosur d'Alene, Freedom,
Glenwood
A0m01 county,
Fort Lemhi. Gibbonsville.
Challis, Junction
Salmon City. Bonanza City,
Leesburg. Clayton,
Crystal, Custer,
Paranno.
Nez Perce County.
Waha, LapTai,
Genesee. Mos COW,
Lewiston. Mountain Cove
Lidyville.
Oneida County.
Oneida, berry Creek.
Clifton,
Eagle Rock Franklin
GENTLE Valley Malad City,
Mink Creek, Oxford,
Ross Fork, Blackfoot,
Soda Springs, Swan Lake.
Weston. Glencoe
Lava, Market Lake
Soda Springs,
0wyhee County.
Bruneau Valley. silverECity.
Castle Creek.
shoshone County.
Pierce City.
Cassia county.
Albion, Glenn's Ferry,
Goose Creek, Rock Creek,
Salmon Falls, Bridge,
Oakley, Laneville
Washington county.
Brownlee, Council Valley,
Indian Valley, Middle Valley,
Salubria, Weiser bride,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
A STRANGE Story. "A gentleman

A STRANGE SroRY.--A gentleman
from this county recently met General
Grant, when conversation naturally
ensued about Kentucky politics. Grant
asked the Kentuckian how the race
for Senator was going in the Ashland
district, and added that be was for
General Cerro Gordo Williams, be-
cause they had been old chums in the
Mexican war. Grant then told this
story as illustrative Of the intimacy
between him and General Williams:
He said that when he and Williams
were in Mexico they were on one &C.
casion, after the surrender of the city,
on frolic and that Williams had
fine, thoroughbred Kentucky mare and
he Grant,, an Indian pony, which
which they were running at full speed
down the streets Of the city; that Will
liams naturally took the lead and that
in running down the street he met a
Mexican who had pole across his
shoulder with a Jug on each one of it,
IN the common style of carrying water
IN that country; that Williams ran
against the jug and knocked the man
down with great violence. Grant said
ne looked back and noticed that a
crowd had gathered around the fallen
man and rode to see what was the
matter, when he found that the man
was dead. Grant adds that he never
told Williams anything about it, be-
cause he knew that it-wou.d make him
feel uncomfortable. and he believed he
did not intend to kill him, but we sup
pose ne would admit that General
Williams took the chances on doing
SO that he might have little innocent
fun. This story was told US by a de
voted admirer of Grant as an instance
OF his indisposition to make a man feel
uncomfortable unnecessarily. Ler-
'ngion (Ky.) Transcript
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19

The Nihilists are not such extrem-
lists, after all. They desire the aboli-
tion of Siberia as place of exile for
political offenses, but are content to
have it set apart for amateur elocu
tionists and album poets.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
Painting and Paper Hanging.

House, sign and wagon painting and
pape. hanging in the neatest style by John
ii. Runyan. Shop on Wall street, above
postotfice,
IDAHO ~IrY, April 13, 1890.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-04-19
Notice.

-HE FOLLOWING WARRANT WILL BE
j paid out of the Current Expense Fund on pre-
sentation at my office:
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Notice.
TO WHOM 1T NAY CONCERN (!

r HEREBY CAUTION THE PUBLIC NOT TO
/ trust my employee of the firm of Zip Kee Chan,
Placervile as any de BITS contracted by him said
firm will be rspudiated. No person or persons
are authoriz ed to sign the name of said firm ex-
cept myself. CHOCK SOY,
of Zip Kss store, proprietor
Idahe City.
April Is, l8S1-4w
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k1esdays 81 81 FrieaAys
6MAN and CHAS. E. JONES
HEMAN JONES. BUSINESS MANAGER.
in Brick Building Adjoining Masonic Hall. Wall Stree
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~ a tes OF bscrip tfon:
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Ionths. 50 Single Copies. -. ia
a BY Carrier, 50 so per quarter.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05
STATE NEWS.

James Calvin, Of Erie, has been fned for
profanity.
The monthly pay roll of the Cambria
Iron Works amounts to tl03,00o.
Mrs. Araminto Brabson, Of East Noting
ham, Chester county, is 100 years old.
A movement has been started in Brad.
ford to light the city with electricity.
The Monitour Iron and Steel Works, al
Danville, are crowded with orders for steel
rails.
A large buck was recently seen grazing
with cattle near ROssYille, Allegheny coun-
ty.
ped daily from the Cornwall mines IN Leba.
non county.
Great quantities Of forest leaves and
ferns are gathered along the Allegheny
MountIins and sold in New York at large
profit.
Citizens Of York are urging the manage
ment Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany to put that city on the list Of place.
that will be benefited by the proposed fas
newspaper train.
Peanuts are to be extensively raised in
Lancaster county.
All the manufactures at Beaver falls ar,
crowded with orders.
Malaria prevails to an alarming extern
along the schuylkill River, in Chester Co,
Workers in pressed glassware at Pitts
burg areto have an advance Of 10 per cent
in wages.
Foxs hotel, Frances market, Niecet
store, the Tioga House, Blskeley's Drug
stofe, Railing's wagon shop and a number
Of fdwellings were burned at Reed City, Ne
keene county, on Wednesday Of last week
Loss, $4,000.
On Saturday afternoon JOhu Kirshner
was killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Lancaster.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
WILSON, KANSAS, Oct. 26, ISS

WILSON, KANSAS, Oct. 26, 1881.
EDITOR CARBON ADvocATE:-I cannot
refrain from expressing my appreciation
of as" in your last issue. There is
scarcely nothing more true than that men
will pray, aud earnestly too. and yet after
leaving the house of worship they will
sign petition for soloon, because the
saloon keeper is good sort of a fellow.
As an excuse for doing so they say that
''if we don't sign, some one else will, and
he will get the saloon anyhow" While
this is true, can there be anything moro
inconsistent in a professor of religion
The idea that you throw away your vote
il you vote for man who is not elected
is too meagre to bo entertained by any
reasoning mind. You do not throw your
vote away. but you show what side you
are on. would like to know how many
Greenback votes will be cast in Lehigh.
ton at the next election. will venture
the assertion that there are more voterl
thSAC hOW buhu tucio WcAo bOAuo JCnAn
ago, when Sheridan voted for Peter Coop.
eS, 1.-THE same Sheridan, and no more
Ed. ADVOCATE. J and il this be the case,
is it an argument that temperance will moi
increase year after year, until you car
elect your officersf Because you can.
not elect your state officers at the first at
tempt, don't sit down and say II throw
my vote away" but get up and talk and
preach, and above all, live temperance.
Act as though you meant something
When Weaver was q candidate for Presi.
dent, were there not more votes cast foI
him than for Peter Cooper l dare say
there were, Could our noble Governor,
John p. st. John, Ito see whom walked
nearly Is miles) have been elected on the
temperance platform some four or five
years ago2 No indeed, but temperance
became the theme of Kansas, and if we
could not elect Governor, we could
elect a subordinate officer, until now we
boast Of as noble Governor as ever
graced q GubernaioriiI chair. And we
are proud that We are the pioneers in the
grand Prohibition Of cursed liquor.
E, Y. DoLLzSMAYER.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05

The Republicans are especially organ
ised TO capture many scattering Demo
cratic votes. They will offer to trade,
but let no Democrat forget himself.
Let him be caught in no trading trap.
They are ready to give a vote for Noble
for State Treasurer, for vote in favor Of
Republican candidate for county Office.
But. remember that there is no necessity
to trade in votes for Noble, because his
election by large majority is foregone
conclusion. Therefore, simply poll the
solid Democratic vote for the whole Dem
ocratic ticket-nothing more nor less
than the whole ticket.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05

Bogus Democrats and Republicans
are around in the upper end Of the coun-
ty stating that the lower end will support
Sensinger and Reigel for County Com
missiopers, while a flock of the same
''dead ducks" are 10 the lower end stat
ing that the upper end will go it solid for
Gallagher and Harlenlan. Democrats,
this is trick to make you dissatisfied
and either refuse TO vote at all, or ANAL
gamate ON the two candidates named, 80
that they may secure the election of both
the Repuhliea Commissioners, and thus
gain the control of the county patronage.
Democrats, don't be gulled by this clap
trap. Vote only your solid Democratic
ticket, and win we must.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05

containing $3.50 in coupon bonds and
small sum in Treasury notes. Not a
word Of explanation accompanied the in
closed and II IL not known what the OBJ
jeet Of the sender was, Unless coDtribu-
ton to the ''eonscience fund" IA intend
ed. The bonds were cut and mutilated
beyond Identification except as TO their
amounts. As an illustration Of the funny
things that occur: A gentleman resid-
ing in Chicago recently wrote 10 his wife
from New York TO forward some coupons
to the Treasury for redemption and send
the Numbers to him, The faithful spouse
obeyed his request literally. The cou-
pons came 10 the Treasury with the num-
beys cut out and the officials were at
loss to understand 1t until letter came
from the husband in New York saying
that his wife had carefully cut them ont
and sent them to him. instead Of sending
. memoranda Of the numbers as he in-
tended.
Last week tall angular man Of some
sixty odd years came 10 town from Ohio
with sl7, 900 in six pes cent bonds for
redemption, and he made Rome howl
with his demands for gold. He went up
10 the Treasury and taking q stand in the
cash room commenced the delivery Of o
set speech in favor Of paying gold for
bonds. When told that he could have
gold il he preferred il, but that he would
find Treasury checks or greenbacks more
convenient, his worst suspicious were
aroused. He wanted nothing but gold.
He had paid gold for his bonds and
wanted gold in return. So the entire
amount was given to him in yellow coin.
It weighed about seventy-6ve pounds.
The old man sat down and carefully
counted it over two or three times and
then slowed it away in an old leather va
lise. When, with this strapped over his
shoulder, he started down the street stag
gering under the load, an officer was sent
after him to see that no harm came to him.
On all other subjects this old man ap-
peared sane and sensible enough, but up
on this one point an hallucination SEEM
ed to have taken possession of his mind.
He looked upon the Treasury officials
with suspicion, somewhat as did the man
down in Texas last summer who having
q mutilated $40 Treasury note which he
wished exchanged, refused to send 1t un-
til the new one was forwarded. He wrote
that be was an honest man and could be
depended upon, but implied some doubt
whether that was the case with Govern
p1ent officials.
1t is stated that Congress is to be made
the arena for another battle of the spirits
this winter. The whisky distillers are
understood to be in readiness for fresh
effort to get the tax reduced from ninety
to fifty cents per gallon, and the brewers
are intending to appeal for change to ar
ad valorem tax on malt. 1t is no unus
ual thing for Congressmen to wrestle with
this class Of spirits. They are quite ia
miliar with them as o rule. But there
may be constitutional objections to tn,
majority of them voting on this question
it being legislation in which they are per
sonally interested. Dom Pedro.
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[FRoM OUR REGuLAR CoRREsroSDENr. |


WAsHINeroN, D. c., Oct. s., 1881.
Cabinet making has progressed slowly,
II the outsiders were permitted TO take
hand in the business they would have
completed the job in about three days
to suit themselves. Material enough has
been suggested to President Arthur by
the oisinterested gossips for three or four
tirst-elass Cabinets, but somehow he has
not seen fit TO let the selections be made
in this way. Evidently the President has
found what difficult piece of work it is
to construct political edihce that shall
comport exactly with his own wishes
while it also meets the expectations of
the public and satiies the demands of
his own party. There have been many
consultations at thePresidential residence
in which representatives of the stalwart
element are chiefly participants. One of
the great difficulties SO far encountered,
so am credibly informed, is the desire
on the part of the President to SO arrange
that Mr.. Conkling can come in after q
while. The final declension of Ex-Gov-
ernor Morgan, nominated for Secretary
of the Treasury, was a great disappolnt-
ment.
In the course Of the immense business
transacted by the Treasury Department
great many very curious and amusing
things occur. The public at large have
little idea of the enormous correspond
ence received by the different Govern
ment Departments, from I'LL sorts and
conditions of people, in all parts Of the
country. That received by the Treasury
is probably the largest of all. Every now
and then letter come in without signature
and containing money which is ascribed
10 "conscienoe" aud credited to fund
bearing that name. or course there is
no means Of knowing who these eOnsci-
ence stricken people are who have at some
time taken from Uncle Sam that which
did not belong to them, and finally re-
store it for their peace Of mind. They
may be ex-ofioe holders or contractors,
or citizens who have had unjust claims
allowed them. Not many days ago an
anonymous Letter came from Cincinnati
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-05
The .Gazette's" Bob Ingersoll don

The "Gazettes" Bob Ingersoll don't
seem to know the difference between
tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. In com
mittee We simply opposed the pressing oi
ell the honors on one man; while the ex-
tract from our paper which he quotes, is
the opinion of correspondent, of which
we published number, and do not hold
ourself responsible for all they say at any
tine. If the Gazette" man knows any.
thing. he should know that this is rule
in all respectable offices. We publish
the letters as the opinions of the people,
Nothing more-nothing less.