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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17
Listen to This, Girls.

DR.. Carbally, an eminant physi-
clan aud chemist, testifies that the
cosmetics which the fashionable
bellies of the present day are SO
fond Of using and deem so indis-
pensable to their beauty. are the
most deadly enemies h their vital
system. Paralysis, that fatal aud
frightfpl form of bodily irG' nifty,
is said to be the result of the con-
tinual use of the paints or washas
used for enamelling Or otherwise
artiflciallv whitening the skin.
Chief among these fearful aux'l>
iaries of the toilet is that white
horror, .laird's Bloom Of Youth.
which is SO extensively used by
the ladies of society, married and
single, for 'making up their com
plexions. The salts of lead con-
taiued in this preparation, which
is the means of producing that
pea,ly white, polished appearance
of the skin, on applying it, is the
active agent of paralysis, and any
person who uses it, or any other
lotion or powder containing these
salts, is tampering with her life.
DR.. Carbaliy further tells US, Sc
riously, that the peculiar droop o
the hands sarcasticaIly called the
kangaroo style,' aud which was
supposed by the community to be
a mere freak of fashion, really ant
truly had its origin in partia
paralysis of the exterior muscle o
the forearm, produced by the u,
OF those outward poisons. Somi
fashionable belle, no doubt, hat
suffered in this terrible way fo
her folly, and all fashionable gees,
OF her acquaintance followed sui
by crooking their Wrists ant
dropping their hands, like so ma u.
hens with their wings broken.
We learn also that all powders
paints and liquids which impart
polished, sciutillating whiteness t
the skin, contain metallic poison.
and are extremely perilous. Th
more beautifal the more danger
Gus.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17
First Porcelain Factory in the United
States.

The first mandatory of trans
lucent porcelain in the United
States has recently been establish
ed in New Orleans by Mr.. Eugene
Surgi, who has engaged the servi- !
ces of Mr.. d'Estampes, formerly
director OF a porcelain factory at
Vierzan, France. The latter had
already started the business in
New Orleans in a small way, but
was importing bis kaolin from
France, being ignorant that kaolin
of the requista quality could he
obtained in this country. The firm
of capitalists who took over .he
business of Mr. d'Estampes tor the
purpose of conducting it on a large
scale caused a search to be made
for the proper kind Of kaolin. and
ultimately found it in Robertson
county, on the line of the Houston
aud Texas Central railroad. The
6rst batch OF the new porcelain
cas- just been drawn from the kiln
and is said to be of excellent ware
though tlittle off color from the
dampness of the new kiln. In
white glazed pottery ware, for or
dinary domestic service, the fac,o
ries at Trenton, Baltimore and
elsewhere are turning out table
and chamber services equal to the
best of the kind imported, and the
demand is such that two new es-
adjustments have recently beer
opened in Baltimore, and the dec
GRAFTON, which until lately wal
done in Trenton, is now done here
by art workmen brought on fo
the purpose: Baltimore Sur.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17
Scientists tell us that ra,n-wate

Scientists tell us that rainwater
brings down yearly about twelve
pounds of ammonia per acre of
ground. To supply an equal
amount of snlphate Of ammonia,
at 6 cents per pound, would cost
the farmer $2SS, and this is, there
fore the manurial value of. the rain.
To this, however, must be added Il
certain quantity ef ai'rie or nltFops
ae!i.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17

a. new .booksdis .oHtt 'enG G3aa,
"Links in Neteccs's hifeA Rsboes
Was probably a sausage 4ake,a.
daughter. What IN evsnffnl Gle
mysterious life shs must shAys
led
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17

"Isa't your husband aa little
bald?" asked one lady of anostssr.
in u store recently. "lnsre isasS u
bald hair in his head}', vas -Eth e
has,y reply of the wife. s.a
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17

A detachment Of the Seventy
first New York regiment st New
Orleaus, visited the gIaYes OF the
Coniede,a,e dead aud decorated
the nouumen: with AosaloHAi uks,
yesterday. T4 - sfat rAT
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17

The youth who allows his sweet
heart to rule him is q miss guided
young man:
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-03-17

" ~ S&5sa1sEss sssssas9s sss'sae'ssa >
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
MEN AND SPIDERS,


I FLUNG stone into a grassy field: 4
HOW many tiny creatni es there may yield
u eho .Ilsh their petty lives through that
To me a pebble, 'tis to them a rock. q.
1isan.ic, cruel. and fraught with sudden
Aione tore down a white and glittering pal
And the small spider damns the giants NAL
Who wrought the wreck--b1asted his pretty
Who knows what day saunterer. light of
An idle wanderer through the fields OF space.
Large. limbed, big Drained, to whom our puny
Seems small as insects; one whose footstep
On some vast continent islanded by stars
Who knows when he, just leaning DER the
May fling stone and crush our earth to bits,
And all that men have builded with their
All. what loss You say; our bodies go,
But not our temples, statues, and the glow
Ngiorious canvases; and not the pages
our poets have iliumtd through myriad ages.
What boots the insects loss? Another day
win see the self same ant hill, and the play
Ofnght ON dainty web the same.
The spiders work is not original
But what of ours? All friend. think that all
we do IS Just the same thing over and over.
Take Life: you have the woman and her low
= - olO as E4den, nothing new IN that!
Take Bniiding, and you reach ere long the
s Eat - 81, sf III
Nile desert sands, by way of France, Rome
"a Greece.
And there is Poetry-our bards increase
In numbers, but, before John Keats, the robe
OF Song was worn by Shakespeare, Dante Job.
No. no. The forms may change, but even
they
Come round again. Could we but scan it
We'd find in the heavens some little, busy
planet
Whence all we are was borrowed; and il
to-day
The imagined giant flung his ponde-ous
~ St,ne, @3 Y s#eFs 80
And We and all our mighty schemes were
done, yt#
His were scant remorse and short lived
trouble 80 f1t@e
As mine for those small creatures in the stub.
-R. " Glider, IN .Scribner's Monthly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24

LETTERS are sometimes lost and found
In an odd way. A letter containing
money and directed TO . New York
man, was, with others, given TO the oar
rier to deliver. Soon after, tho man 10
whom the letter was addressed COM
planned that it had not been delivered.
An investigation was made, but without
any Satisfactory result. The next year,
during the season OF 'spring cleaning"
the mystery was solved. Tho oilcloth
in the hallway was taken up, and ON tho
floor, close 70 the front door, was found
the letter which had 90 long been miss
ing. The place had been closed when
visited by the carrier, and In thrusting
the letter under the door he had pushed
it beneath the floor covering. Some
years ago, young man was discharged
from a Connecticut post-ofiice on st,s-
picion of dishonesty. The suspicion
arose from the unaccountabled disappear
ance Of some money letters from the Box
rented by an insurance company. When
the cool weather of autumn caused the
president Of this company again 70 wear
the light overcoat which he had laid
aside at the end of spring, he found
these letters in one Of the pockets. Then
he remembered that he must have
taken them from the Office one Sunday
morning, on his way to church, Alter
ward forgetting them, and putting away
his overcoat for the season. Thus IN
innocent young man had suffered nom
the criminal carelessness Of snothsr.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
A Mothers Sad Meeting With Her
Four Sons.

ONE of the sa6dest scenes ever wit
messed in the Missouri Penitentiary
transpired to-day. A mother met four
of her sons wearing the striped suits as
convicts within its walls. Their names
and crimes, as recorded on the Peniten-
tiary rolls, are: James Greenwade, aged
80 years; ten years for robbery; re-
ceived November 80 last. Luther Green
wade, aged 26; seven years for robbery
and larceny. Breckenridge Greenwade,
aged 25; seven years for robbery and
larceny. Henry Greenwade, aged 20;
ten years for robbery and larceny; re-
ceived day before yesterday; all from
Bates County.
The father and mother of these men
live in jefferson, near Mount Sterling,
KY; keep hotel there, and are
tolerabiy we'll to do in life. Four or
five years ago the elder brother came to
Missouri and bought Alarm near Butler,
in Bates County. The younger brothers
followed soon after, and the four lived
together on the place, the oldest being
married. Neighbors looked upon them
as people of means, and respectable.
For two or three years all sorts of devil
ment was perpetrated in and about
Butler. Persons were waylaid and
robbed by disguised men, mails were
rifed, burgiaries committed and hogs
stolen. At length suspicion conferred on
the Greenwades, and they were watched
by officers and citizens and at last caught
'.dead to rights" Mail pouches, cut
open and rifed, were found in the
cellar, and other stolen property on
their premises. Conviction was
easy, and they were landed in the Peni-
tentiary. At the time stated the mother,
hearing her sons were in trouble, posted
in haste to Bates County, only to learn
that they had all been convicted of
crimes and taken to the State-prison.
With her daughter-in-law and the lat
ter's two children she reached Jefferson
City to-day and at once proceeded to the
Penitentiary. The meeting with her
sons was terribly affecting. and it is as
serted Deputy Warden Bradbury for
once in his life gave way to the melting
mood.
"My Cod" she exclaimed, ''that q
mother should live to see four of her be-
loved boys in such a place!" ?
The officials were kind and tender to
the afflicted ones, but they had at last
to use force in separating the mother
from her SONS, and induced her to leave
them after a visit of three or four hours.
Mrs. Grcenwade, ST., is woman of
not over fifty years in appearance, well
hammered, strong-minded and intelli-
gent; but the fearful realization was
more than her mothers heart could bear
unmoved, and she gave vent to her
shame and sorrow in q manner more af-
fecting than was ever before witnessed
within the prison walls. She left for her
Kentucky home this evening, taking her
daughter-in-law and the children with
her. $50 81
There il one moro son, who will
doubtless never disgrace his name, for
he is minister OF the gospel in good
standing. One of the convicts is in the
Prison Hospital.-Cor. So. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A MAGNETIC sand, imported from the
Isle of Bourbon, auis Shusn found Neef'
lforbihan, Is said BY M. Edard 10 NAVE
the property of rapidly reyiving plants
which had shown pronounced symp-
toms OF decay through disesse. -
The experiment of running . locomo-
tive without brakes has just been sue
cessfully tried BY the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western. Railroad Company.
An spplianos by which power was ep-
piled against the piston wa. used.--~
DIR. OSCAR JENNINGS, q physician OF
standing IN Paris, writes 10 the London
Lancet that in the treatment Of mental
disease he has constantly used music,
which Gains and soothes the mind, and
! is too precious an agent to be negiected.
Concerts form apart of the regular
treatment In many asylums. II win b
remembered that Saul found sasisfac-i'
ton in music. a f,ae 49, .rus ~ N nan
DIR. CZECH, Of St. Petersburg, suggests
to inventors the desirabilitys of securing
some apparatus which will collect the
fine volatile oil of the coffee bean, ono
half of which Is lost by the present mode
of roasting. The beans contain TO IL
per cent. Of this oil, which has all tho
flavor of coffee, and which would, II
saved, form an excellent material for
liquors. In 1873 the quantity of coffee
roasted is estimated at about 1885,
tons. a"' i.HfQ'a u'stI e'P
MICA has been applied TO new use,
that of fashioning il Into middle soles TO
boots and shoes. The invention con-
sists of sheet of mica imbedded in thin
coatings of cement, and placed In the
boot or shoe under and adjacent TO the
in-sole, the upper leather Of the shoe
tapping over its edges, or next under the
filing, or between the filling and tho
outer or bottom soley and covering the
upper space from the toe TO the instep.
To obviate the dangers and troubles
caused by high steps 70 passenger
coaches, Miss Skerritt, Young lady OF
Albany, N. Y, has invented and pat
ented q folding step which when low
cred comes within Q foot of the ground.
When the train Ii ready TO start the
stops are turned out Of the way by means
of lever, which always holds them Sc
cure. This renders them free from Ice
and cinders, and in descending from
them one is in no danger Of slipping.
Another important feature 10 that when
folded these steps prevent passengers
from jumping off or on the cars. The
Delaware g. Hudson Railroad Company
is testing the invention. fbiHi-. ~
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24
PITH AND POINT.

SHIpwREcKEp. sailors never need
starve while there Is blight OF rope
left.-LoiceH Cuizen.
THE world is filing up with educated
fools-mankind read too much and learn
too little. Josh Billings. san rt irNr'
"wHAr Is fame ," asks the Philadel-
phia american. Fame Ii the result OF
being civil to newspaper men.-Boston
Post. I..,, ...
ARKANSAS women love to whistle
Boston Post. And what Is more lovely
than tulips well Observation-Disclosures
Bulletin. -r f1Tm@ ii.ir
No.matter about the strike of the loo
cutters up the Hudson. The ice crop Is
large and well set, and the harvest will
be immense, unless an untimely frost
should nip the blossoms.-Asdrcscs
Queen. fl'". goo f'i nisti OF
WHAT becomes OF all the sold wsr
horses after the campaign IL over and
the President is elcctedf DO they 60
back TO the ploughe And echo AnswsJ
"neigh; they go to the trough."-Bur-
lington HGsckeye. pa
THE young men of this 8 are ling In
appearance, and are un led for gazing;
they are 80. of fashion,. and do not
need ~->-a lamp-post to keep them
selves perpendicular.-Nyack CITY and
Country. t" 'i'
"MANAeEMExr Of the worlds fair"
is troubling New York just now. lf1t b.
q problem that Adam struggled With
when there was only one worlds fair,
and she got the best Of him.-Nes0
Hauen Register. is.t taaia'E @dT
GLIMPSE of future event: An i'm
mense ship carrying the Washington
Monument from the United States, theof
an ancient and abandoned country, 10
the grand republic of Africa, TO be eel
up in the big square In the City Of Tim
buctoo. But, we may euchre tho vsns
dals after all by not completing the
monument. Hal 'hs! We shall prove
too much for posterity. We are q won
derful people.-N. y. Gruphic. go
THE Textile Record has an engraving
of an improved self-acting-mule," IT.
is generally understood that all mules
are self-acting, and IL Is with pleasure,
that we note any improvement In the;
animal. The Improvement seems 10 do.
away with the familiar appearance Of
the mule; in fact, the picture makes ID
look more like spinning machine than
q mule. Still Il n to be presumed that
the kicks are softened like the gentle
tanning of an autumn Eephyr.-Dstroii
Free Press. = lr- ~ r'.a ~ nr1II
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-24

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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28
HOW CONGRESS PASSES A BILL.

In reply to correspondent who asks
New York Journal of Commerce says
"One branch of Congress passes a bill
and sends it to the other. IL the latter
adopts it precisely as 1t is passed it then
goes to the President for his approval.
But If the bill is amended or changed
on lis passage in the other branch, It is
sent back with such changes to the
House in which it originated. LII these
amendments are there adopted II then
goes to the President, but IL not adopt
cd, or adopted only in part, 1t comes
back again to the second branch, where
the vote is to recede from the amend
ments or to insist upon them. If that
body insists, then IA Committee of
Conference is appointed, and notice
being given to the other House like
com mittee is appointed, and these two
committees meet. If they agree on a
report, then the bill as reported is voted
on again in each House. If they disa-
gree, each reports, and sometimes a
new committee is appointed, and some-
times the bill fails. But II il passes
both Houses, then the President signs
it, If he approves; if he disapproves,
he returns it within ten days to the
House in which it originated, with his
objections. If that House passes it
again by a two.thirds vote it goes to
the other branch of Congress, and If il
passes there by two-thirds vote it be-
comes law There is no arbiter be-
tween any of the parties.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28

his work. He said that he had made
a history that would stand all the tests
of time and criticism, because it was
true, and that he had put in perma-
nent record defense of his people that
would command the verdict of pos
terity. He seemed to feel as man
who has had a sacred duty weighing
upon him as a burden, and who had at
last honorably lifted it from his shoul-
ders. He gave five years of almost
unceasing labor to the work. Night
and day during the most of that time
he has been in the seclusion Of Beau
'voir, in his little study, careless of the
hustle and worry of the outside world,
at work at his selfappointed task"
The first volume of the work is al
most entirely taken up with a constitu
tional discussion of the caues that led
to the war. The latter half of this aud
the last volume treats of the conduct
of the war. Both volumes will be il
lustrated with portraits of the promi-
nent men who figured on the Confed-
crate side. The work is dedicated to
the widows and orphans of the men
who died for the cause. the introduce
ton affirms. briefly the confederated
character of the Union and the neces-
sity of seperate sovereignties under
general direction. sy,,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28

600, and then, becoming less cautious
| in his operations, has found himself
with q, 900 shares of stock on hand
when. there came crash, and lost all.
Stocks go down so much easier than
| they advance that the profits of a
twelvemonth may be wiped out in
twelve hours.
for sArise. He can understand that
payis 40 for Erie and selling it for 40
means $500 profit, less missions.
But selling stock to buy it again at a
lower figure and deliver to the per-
son to whom he sold confuses him.
Nevertheless, it is a saying of wall
street that more money is made on
the short than the long side of the
market, and shrewd operators work the
market both ways.
The fifty men who come and go in
our brokers' Office represent almost as
many different callings in life. Ten of
them, probably, are professional specu-
lators. The other are lawyers, insurance
men clerks, statesmen, &c. One is a prac-
tising physician, and there are two or
three officials under the city Govern
ment and an officer from one of the
harbor military posts--afl intent on
making an honest dollar outside their
regular vocation. Generally it ends in
disaster to them. Sometimes this dis
aster tempts to peculation, and moral
as well as pecuniary ruin results.
Some of them never buy more than
100 shares of stock at q time, and
others never less than 1 200. The great
majority of wall street operators trade
in from 200 to 400 shares. Opiaions
differ as to whether prices will advanre
or recede, and frequently one WI! be
buying stock for an advances while
another is selling against decline.
Standing over the same telegraph iu-
dicator may be one man VIM hopes
that Erie will go up and another who
hopes it will go down. Some men are
lucky, always making profitable turns,
and others. are always losing. All are
intensely fascinated with the fiuctua-
tionS.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28
PACIFIC COATS LAwLEssNEss.

There is something simply appalling
| in the license to murder and rob which
seems to have grown up in California.
Law has very largely got to be mere
mockery. The only criminal who is un-
fortunate In being punished is the hum
Ole fellow who steals something to satis-
| fy the pangs of hunger of himself or
| family. If the sum stolen mounts up to
| the thousauds,t there is no earthly danger
| OF punishment. Ifthe crime of violence
assumes the gravity of murder, inn
| munity of punishment is assured as q
matter of course, unless the murdered
man had friends enough to make the
| country too hot for his slayer. If
things progress thus much further, no
sensible man can doubt but that resolv-
ing society into its original elements,
which the substitution of the rude JUS
tice of the vigilantes for trial by jury,
would be far preferable to the present
state lof thing. We have at length
devised a fine and high-sounding name
for everything. Stealing, is kleptom-
ania. Drunkenness is dipsomania.
Shameless disregard of the marital
right is no longer called adultery, but
finds apologists under the cuphemistic
title OF nymphomania. Red-handed
murder is homicidal mania or tran.
STORY insanity. And SO we, so-called
Intelligent and civilized people, mas
querade in our progress towards sheer
anarchy. Ii there is one thing more
than another which California needs,
1t is II bracing up of her moral tone.
There /, hardly genuine moral pulsa-
zion in our body polite. We are
relaxed aud nerveless, and in state
which more resembles moral syncope
than anything else we can think of.
Nothing could'more cmphatically illus
trate the little real belief there is in
revelation or in the Christian code of
morals than the light thrown upon our
daily life by the records of the so. called
courts of justice.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28
WHAT nEsWoRE OFF ON.

1t was just three O'Clock in the after
noon-just the hour when old soakers
put down their mid-Watch dram. Seven
aia,,o ,,,bo, ono or tbeno s,,ddo,I, 20
s'oNS ~@" inv =" ' 70
marked
HTberc comes Jim. Poor fellow,
leel sorry ZOE hiin'
HW Whap5 the matter with Jim ~
asked two or three Mt once
,tII ,,,o,o Ier ~, tho n .s. ,,,,,l,
seems bound to stick to it,"
tSuore Off oh . He floesn,t IooIr 90 if
, =, =,
ne nad the Sanu TO SUCK IL OUT.
him feel awful bad to be invited up TO
the bar, but Jim is in earnest this
time" .
Jim entered the place, nodded to all
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28

Dentistry.
DAINLESS extraction of teeth by the aid
L of nitrous oxide gas, administered by DR..
d. Beatty IL Son, dentists. Can refer to
work of 20 years standing in Monroe.
Office over the Bank.
Monroe, La, December II, 1880.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-01-28

G, J, BOATNER. NJ. LIDDELL.
Fsoatner 81 EitsdelR,
4 TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT
N Law, Monroe, La, will practice in all
the Parishes of North Louisiana, in the
Supreme Court at Monroe, the Federal
Courts, and in the Land Office Department
of the General Government.
Office fronting northeast corner of public
square. January ), 1879.