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The National tribune., 1881-08-27
1.-THE OLD MAN WANTS THEM GUNS,u

During the siege of Nashville a Confederate
battery placed upon hill was seriously annoy
ing part Of Pap" ThOmas's line Riding up to
Colonel James Brownlow, the old man said ::
"Colonel Brownlow, | want those guns, and
want them bad" at the same time pointing with
his sword toward the offending battery Drawing
his sword and stepping out in front of his line
Colonel B. stopped in front of his regiment and
said: Men, the old man says he wants them
guns and says he wants them bad!" Everybody
was silent for moment, and then a six-footer in
the ranks sung out, Boys, if Old Pap wants those
guns he oughter have them. Let's all chip in and
buy them for him, for it looks mighty unhealthy
up that way" perfect storm of laughter swept
along the line, and then the boys started up for
the guns and got them for the old man. though
many poor fellow who started for them never
got back again.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
JUST LIKE A BOY,

A Cambridge boy after a weeks absence in the
country, wrote to his mother: II got here all
right and | forgot to write before; it is very
nice place to have fun. A teler and | went out
in boat and the boat tipped over and man got
me out, and | was so full of water l didn't know
nothing for a good long while. The other boy
has got to be buried after they find him His
mother come from Chelsea and she cries all the
time. hoss kicked me over and / have got to
have some money to pay the doctor for tixin' my
head. We are going to set an old barn on fire
tonight, and l should smile if we don't have
bully fun | lost my watch and am very sorry.
shall bring home some mud turtles and l shall
bring home a tame wOo1chuck if | can get em
in my trunk"
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
A DANGEROUS CALLING.

The brakemen on our roads find it quite diff
cult to get their lives insured 1t is estimated that
there are at least ten brakemen killed through
out the country every day. The reader of the
daily newspaper learns how this class of men are
killed or MANNED while coupling cars and making
up trains, while others are knocked from the tops
ofcars by bridges or slip and fall, injured
killed by collisions. Then there must be at least
three times as many brakemen injured as are
killed, of whom the public knows nothing about
or gets no account.
At the lowest calculation, if ten brakemen are
killed every day, that would be equivalent to
$3.50 during the year, which, added to the num-
ber in jured i'll various ways while on duty, would
give the sum total of deaths and in uries about
14,600 year. These are trightful figures OF a
fatality, loss of life injury to the body that is
attributable either to accidents, carelessness or
negligence.
We therefore venture to assert that it is Il fact
that the public has no idea of the number of ac-
cidents that occur on the various railroads
throughout the country every day; and it is also
true that there is no vocation so fraught with
danger to life and limb as that of the brallemen
on our railroads. particularly on freight trains.
Men on passenger trains, having a great many
lives entrusted to their care, and consequently
a greater responsibility resting upon them, are
more careful
Indeed, the life of a freight brakeman is pre-
carious one. Some insurance agents, in some
parts of the country do not take risks on en-
plOyees on freight trains; but conductors and
brakeman on passenger trains are insured by their
paving an extra per centum. Railroad men SlV
that only about twenty-five per centum of the
brakemen of freight trains die a natural death :
also, that the average life of the brakeman, after
he goes on the road, is about ten years.-BOston
Commercial Bulletin.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27

battle had met halfway and mingled Here was
Chattanooga, but Lookout had vanished! 1t was
Sinai over again with its thunderings and light
nings and thick darkness, and the Lord on
our side. Then the storm ceased and occasional
dropping shots told off the evening till half past
nine and then
A CRASHING NOLLEY AND REBEL YELL
and desperate charge. 1t was their goodnight
to our boys: goodnight to the mountain. They
had been met on their own vantage ground; they
had been driven one and half miles The Fed
era foot touched the hill, indeed, but above still
lowered the precipice.
At ten o'clock a growing line of lights glittered
obIquely across the breast of Lookout. 1t made
our eyes dim to see it, 1t was the Federal auto
graph scored along the mountain They were
our camp-fres Our wounded lay there all the
dreary night of rain, unrepinlng and content.
Our unharmed heroes lay there upon their arms.
Our dead lay there, and surely they slept we'll"
At dawn Captain Wilson and fifteen men of
the Eighth Kentucky crept up among the rocky
clefts handing their guns one to anOther-"like
them that gather samphre-dreadtul trade.'-
and stood at length upon the summit. The en-
tire regiment pushed up after them formed in
miles to Summerton. Artillery and infantry had
all fled in the night nor left wreck behind.
The plan was opening as beautifully as flower.
General Sherman's apprehended approach upon
the other extremity of the line had set the enemys
front all dressing to the right Hardee, of Tactics"
memory. who had been upon the mountain,
moved round the line on Sunday, leaving two
brigades and the attraction of gravitatiOn-to wit,
the precipice-to hold the left, yet further de-
pleted by the splendid march already made upon
the enemy's centre. Then God let down fold of
his pavilion,
OUR MEN WERE HEROES,
and the work was done. The capture afforded in
expressible relief to the army There the enemy
had looked down defiant, sentries pacing our very
walls Every angle of a Federal work, every gun,
every new disposition of regiment, was as legible
page of an open book. You can never quite
know how beautiful was that Gordon lights flung
like royal order across the breast of the noun
tain. One thing more, and all | shall try to give
you of the stirring story will have been told Just
as the sun was touching up the old Department
of Cumberland, that Captain Wilson and his fif-
teen men, near where the gun had crouched and
grOwled at all the land, waved the reg mental
flag, in sight of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
the old North State and South Carolina-waved
it there and the right of the Federal front lying
far beneath caught glimpse of its futter, and
cheer rose to the top of the mountain, and ran
from regiment to reg iment through the whole
brigades and broad divisions till the boys away
round in the face of Mission Ridge passed it along
the line of battle. "The sight of the gridiron
did my soul good" said General Meigs. What
is it? Our flag? Did help put it there?" muir
INJURED a poor wounded fellow, and died without
the sight.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
A MODEL COLONY.

Some Philadelphia Germans have bought 1000
acres of land near Asheville n c. on which to
establish "Teutonc cooperative colonization
society" A town is to be built, with school
houses factories, theatre, and museum, all on
the cooperative plan. A remarkable feature of
the scheme is that "nO beer saloons, churches
ministers, or lawyers will be permitted in the
settlement"
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
AN ORIGINAL YANKEE DOODLE.

Dan Simpson has drummed at sixty annual
parades of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
of Boston, and is ninety years old. He and ST
Smith, the company's fifer, form the principal
figures in the popular painting of Yankee Doc
die" Several years ago BOstOnian bequeathed
his skin for drum head on which Simpson should
play every Fourth of July morning but his patri-
Otic idea has not been realized.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
SING TO NE THE SAME OLD SONG
], :. SLATER.

I've wandered far in many lands,
And sailed the ocean DER;
I've gathered wealth from golden sands
On many foreign shore;
But never has my heart felt JOY
As in the long ago
When in your arms you held your boy
And murmured, soft and low,
The dear old song you sang TO me
While yet my heart was sorrow-free.
Then sing to me the same old song;
But sing il soft and low,
Ard with its strains I'll drift along
To seek the Long Ago.
I've sought for hOnorS far and wide.
And gathered in full store
OF worldly pleasures which the tide
OF fortune to me bore;
But honors pleasures, naught could bring
The dear old happy dreams
used to have. Dear mother. sing
The sweet old song which seems
A waif from childhood's sunny shore,
Fraught with those happy dreams of yo'e.
Yes. sing to me the same old song;
'Tis musical and sweet,
And brings me back Il merry thrOng
Of loving thoughts to greet.
know. dear mother. that your hair
Is slvered DER with years,
And that your face is scanned with care
And tracks of many tears;
But yet TO me you re just the same
You Were long years ago
Ere had conquered wealth and famei-
Then sing me soft and low
The sweet old song you used TO sing
To me n boyhood's pleasant spring.
Yes, sing TO me the same dear song
But sing il soft and clear.
While Love, with tender arms, yet strong,
Brings back each by-gone year.
All, that : IT, Now let me feel
Your hand upon my brow,
While by .our side once more kneel
As / am Ineeling now.
Twas thu: knelt in years gone by,
Twas tins you sang to me
When youths bright banner f1oated high
And life vas pure and free;
Twas thus you sang at close of day
To driyeeach childish care away
Then sng again the dear old song
Wha if my tears o'erfiow?
Don't mind them, mother, but prolong
The music, soft and low.
For there but tears of quiet joy
i she, TO feel once more your boy.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27
Grief bows to earth, but sympathy lifts up
And helps each mOurner drain the bitter cup

Short bounds of life set to mortal man;
'Tis Virtues work alone to stretch the span
The bulb enshrouds the lily; and within
The most unsightly form may folded lie
The white wings of angel.
T. 1t is not strength but art obtains the prize;
And to be swift is less than to be wise"
Unruly murmnrs or ill-timed applause
Wrong the best speaker and the justest cause.
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
Not all ApoOs Pythan treasures hold
Or Troy once held in peace and pride of sway
Can bribe the poor possession of day"
Endure the hardships of your present state;
Live and reserve yourselves for better fate.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27

Boston man claims to have been born with
bullet in his liver; but that's not the question
Just now. Has he been weighed in the induction
balance.-New Haren Register.
He has, and been found wanting-the bullet.
Ed.
The National tribune., 1881-08-27

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fire.
All, I WISH YOU HAD BEEN HERE.
1t needed no glass to see it; it was only just be-
yOnd your hand. And there, in the centre of the
columns, futtered the blessed flag. my God!
what flag is that?" men cried. And up steadily
it moved could think of nothing but gallant
ship-of-theline grandly lifting upon the great bill
lows and riding out the storm. 1t a scene
never to fade out Pride and pain struggled in my
heart for the mastery, but faith carried the day;
believed in the flag and took courage. Volleys of
musketry and crashes of cannon, and then those
lulls in battle even more terrible than the tenn
pest. At four o'clock an aid came straight down
the mountain into the city; the first Federal by
that route in many day Their ammunition ran
lOw,-they wanted powder upon the mountain!
He had been two hours descending, and how much
longer the return!
Night was closing rapidly in and the scene was
growing sublime. The battery at MOccasin Point
was sweeping the road to the mountain. The
brave little fort at its left playing like heart
in fever. The cannon upon the top of Lookout
were pounding away at their lowest depression.
The flash Of the guns fairly burned through the
clouds; there instant of silence, here there
vonder and the tardy thunder leaped out after
the swift light. For the first time perhaps, since
that mountain began to burn beneath the gold
and crimson sandals Of the sun, it was in eclipse
The cloud of the summit and the smoke of the
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16
WowAN.s

The goodness and greatness of men
come oftener from the mothers than the
fathers. In families where there is a fe-
male influence, a happy home is looked
for. There are few exceptions. if intelli-
gence and morality prevail at the hearth.
Woman does not, however, always re-
ceive her due need of praise. Her work
is done quietly and unostentatiously, and
when a man rises to distinction, by trac-
ing back his history it will nearly always
be found that his first lessons were de-
rived from the female side OF the house,
whether they come from a mother, an
aunt, a sister, or some more remote rela-
ton. Our Presidents, without q single
exception, we believe, however humble
their origin, made this their boasts.
There has been no degeneration OF late
years. Judge Black, a political opponent,
says Of General Garield's mother "She
is a sterling, admirable woman, who has
done her life work well under very disad-
~vantageous circumstances. She has heard
it thunder a great many times during heI
life. We are certain to have illustrious
men SO long as there are good and true
mothers in the land"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16
Especial to the SENTINEL

PARIS, March 15.-The Chamber Of
Deputies unanimously adjourned in respect
to the memory of the Gear. In the Senate
Leon Sar alluded to the Gear as one Of the
greatest reformers of this century. Three
cheers from all Sides. One who had lib
Grated millions of slaves. The Due De
Dauffne and Rasquies declared the Gear
had been the friend Of France from his
earliest years, and France would not for
get it. The Senate then adjourned.
New York, March 15.-The ,Herald's
London special says: There was a con-
slant succession of callers at the Russian
Em bassy to-day to express coincidence.
Among them we're ex-Empress Eugene
and various Embassadors and foreign Min
listers at London, Members OF the Govern
ment, Lord ~Beaconsield, Sir Alexander
Gait, Cardinal Manning and Russell
Lowell. The new of the assassination
was received by the Russian Revolutionary
party in London at three O'Clock ON Sun
day afternoon from their friends in Paris,
Genoa and st. Petersburg. 1t was an
nounced in the Social Democratic Halls by
the respective speakers late in the evening,
and was greeted with loud and continued
manifestation OF approval.
ST.. PETERSBURG, March l5.-It is the
prevailing opinion here that the new Gear
OF Russia will find serious obstacles con-
fronting him at the outset Of his reign.
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Robert Il. StrahOru.

Mr.. Strahorn and his accomplished wife
returned to Omaha q short time since,
having accomplished one OF the most ex.
tended trips through the Great West that
has ever been undertaken. The following
brief resume of their travels is from the
Omaha Republican In their travels they
descended into every prominent mine, and
they estimate the number of mines they
visited at 1000. They also made trips
into every prominent agricultural and
stock-raising region. They crossed three
of the mightiest rivers in America-the
Missouri, the Columbia and the Colorado,
at points where they could step over them,
and followed the Columbia for over 1000
miles to the sea. They saw the grandest
scenery on the continent, and Travelled
$4,000 miles-a distance equal to the cir
conference of the globe. They made 5000
miles by stage, several hundred miles on
horseback, 1000 miles by steamer, and
10000 miles by rail. Mr.. Strahorn is we'll
known, is the Chief of the Literary Bu-
reau Of the Union Pacific, and the object
of the trip was to gather valuable and in
teresting information regarding the new
West. He has his trunk full of notes cov-
ering the entire journey, and from which he
will draw the material for a series of pub
locations.
THE best 'bit" cigars in town are the
"Owl," "Trariata" any Pumariega, for
sale at the T. 0. Cigar Stand. n
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IT is refreshing to have the daily rec
ords of crime and outrage committed
against defenseless women varied by &C.
casional reports of those who have the
skill and courage to defend themselves,
and while too great a familiarity with
the use of deadly weapons is not desira-
BILE, every woman living ~insexposed posi-
lions should be so far instructed in the
use Of arms as to be able to protect
herself even to the extent of extreme
measures if necessary. The advantage
of such an education was shown in Chi
cago recently, where a lady, during the
absence of her husband, discovered two
robbers in the house, and compelled them
to give up the articles they had packed
for removal and leave the premises at the
point Of her pistol. Had she not been
armed with a revolver as we'll as a con-
fdence and determination, created by a
knowledge of her ability to shoot if the
occasion demanded, she would not only
have lost a large amount of valuable
property, but run a great risk of being
murdered as well.
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The Springfield Republican says ''The
New York National Banks may as well
understand first as last that while money
is made on Wall street, the laws are
made at Washington. The banks have
chosen to act as if their safety depended
on striking a blow at the complicated
system OF credits centering in New York
City, on which rests the daily ~solvency
OF every merchant. They have squeezed
the market as it never was squeezed by
any but gold gamblers. They will have
their reward. They save their money
but they ~endanger their existence"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16

IL Dakota is divided and a new Terri
tory called Pembina is formed from the
part set off, the remark once made by a
pioneer in that region, concerning its
attractions of climate, will be of interest.
A tourist who was making a hurried trip
came upon the pioneer, who was chopping
upon the PROSTATE trunk Of a tree.
Several attempts were made to extract
information from him, but he continued
his work without vouchsafing the slight
est response. Finally the tourist asked
something about the climate, when the
chopper, striking a particularly vigorous
blow, growled out "Well, all I've got
to say IS, damn a country where it's nine
months Winter and three months late in
the Fall
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16

A WRITER, l%ecturing recently in Balti-
more upon the Chinese and his actual
experience with them in their own coun-
try, said: "Girls in China are believed
to have no souls, and to kill them is not
murder, and therefore not to be punished.
Where parents are too poor to support
the girl children they are disposed of in
the following inner At regular in
tervals an appointed officer goes through
and collects from poor parents all the girl
children they cannot care for, when they
are about eight months old. He has two
large baskets attached to the ends of a
bamboo pole and slang over his shoulder.
Six infants are placed in each basket, and
he carries them to some neighboring
village and exposes them for sale. Mothers
who desire is raise wives for their sons
buy such as they may select. The others
are taken to the Government asylums. of
which there are many all through the
country. If there is room they are taken
in, if not, they are drowned"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16

If the Chicago Times is well informed
there is a coterie of smart young men in
Nashville who no doubt wish that Sara
Bernhardt had never been born. They
supposed she would be the go in the Ten
nessee capital, and that no one would
stop to count the cost. As the tickets
were sold by auction, the house not being
very large, these smart youths bought
many Of them in for S. each. They Sc
cured the two private boxes also at $50.
The house that gave Bernhardt SO, $50
cost the audience but about 50, 600, the
difference coming from the pockets of the
extra clever spectators. The boxes were
held until the close of the second act,
when the disconsolate young men who
had been the victims of their faith in
Bernhardt's drawing powers filed in and
occupied them. The audience took in
the situation and reared itself hoarse.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-16

GENERAL GRANTS very plain speech
to the Directors of the New York Worlds
Fair shows clearly that the whole enter
prise is still in a very problematical con.
dition as to whether it should be held or
not, how it shall be managed, and where
the money is to come from.
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OVER THE WATER.

Adjournment of the Chamber of
Deputfes-Great Number of Call.
ers at the Russian Embassy-The
New Gear to Find Serious Obsta-
cles Confronting Him -Nihilist
Plots are Rife. and Fears of Out
breaks-rhe Deep Laid Schemes
Of the Nthilisus to overthrow the
Russian governmental Clandes-
time Interview with q Delegation
OF Nihilists-Their Demands.
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The postal card has decreased the sale
of writing paper sl2, 600, 900 annually in
the United States.
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There has been less snow at Lake Tahoe
this year than for the past ten Winters.
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FOE RBMT.

A NfoELY.FURNisHED FRoNT ROOM IN
"A the SENTINEL Building.
Eureka, Jan. 81, 1881. fsbltf
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FOR SALE.

THE UNDERSIGNED PROPOSES TO
l. leave for the Northern Country as soon
ss Spring opens. and will dispose Of his one.
hali interest In the Palace Saloon at q bargain.
n6 LUTHER CLARK,
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Travel Interfered with
in Nebraska.


New YORK, March 1.-The Communists
of this city will hold a meeting Tomorrow
evening to sympathize with the Russian
Nihilists. The notorious Schwab Social
lists OF the low order of fugitives from the
Paris Commune in this city, have called a
meeting for tomorrow night, to %sympathize
with the Nihilists and rejoice in the death
Of the Gar. They have cabled congratu.
lations to the Nilihists in Russia.
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NORFOLK tya.), March 15.-On Satur-
day evening, as Thomas Mcpherson, Vim.
Old, VIM. Whitehorst, and a man named
Fisher, were leaving Princess Ann in a
wagon, they were fired into from an am
bush, and Old and Whitehurst instantly
killed. The murder was the result of a
law difficulty.
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BORN.

On Prospect Mountain, March IA, to the viii
of Fred. Uhl. 8 son.
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TO LET,

A HOUSE OF sIx HooMs. BEING Va
a pronsrty formerly owned BY James M ~
demise, situated on Edwards street: mex .sssp
old hospital. This place viii be rented 'n'''
TO . reliable tenant. Inquire o. wurrrON.
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