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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-25
california Mining stocks
TheeWo0l Market.

BOSTON, April 23-[Reported for the Pressl.-Th
following is list of prices quoted this afternoon:
Ohio and Pennsylvania
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HANDLES and Fine CONNECTIONS,

Boots and shoes: Fine and Medium Goods at
ID low prices. j. H. WETHERELL & CO., .
Sue cessors to CYkUS LOWELL. 225 Middle St.
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Ar at Newport, RI, 23d, sch Fleetwood, from Port
land, bound SOUTH
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TNDERTAKERs, Baskets, Conins,
a. Robes, and every requisite for funerals.
MCKFNNA IL DOUGHER 424 Congress 81
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-25

GROCERIES, Flour, Fine Teas, and
VI Coffee, Pure Spices, Butter, &C., &c.
WILLIAM MILLIKEN & CO., $50 Congress st
GUNS AND FISHING TACKLE.
VI Agent for Du Points POWDER, and
kENDkOCk. G.. L. BAILEY, 221 Middle ISL.
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DIR. II. Il. WILDE,

The Natural Magnetic Physician,
Has returned from New York and is at home
aga in at the
ENITEn ST aTElS HOTEL.
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TAILOR and Draper. Fine Goods and
Il First-cass Work Speciality.
CORNISH O4a Middle Ct
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BOOTS and Shoes, Fine Custom Work,
ID for Ladies and Gents. to Measure.
WHITNEY a. "a Middla ST
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
A Snider,s Ready Wit.

DIR. J. Lawrence Hamilton, OF
London, writes: "The following in
cident, which / witnessed, may pos
sibly interest some of your readers
A boy removed a small spider to
place it in a big spiders web, which
was hung among foliage, and dis
tant some four feet from the ground.
The larger animal soon rushed
from its hiding place under leaf
10 attack the intruder, who ran up
one of the ascending lines by which
the web was secured. The big IN
sect gained rapidly upon its de-
sired prey, the smaller creature
spiders are cannibals, notably the
larger females, who are given to
devour their smaller male lovers.
When the little spider was barrel y an
inch in advance OF its pursuer, it
cut with one OF its legs the line be-
hind itself. so that the stronger in
sect fell TO the ground, thus afford
ing time and opportunity for the
small spider to escape along the es
cending rope of the web. This is
not the only fact which seems to in
dictate that a spiders instinct may
almost equal reason"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
A Texan Shirt.

Editors have first rate time in
Texas. The ladies of a town out
there gave to the editor of the local
paper an embroidered shirt, which
contained a pictorial history OF Tex
as, Including the war with Mexico,
the meeting of the first Legislature,
and also pictures of the cereals of
the state, all worked in red worsted.
The editor never wore 8 shirt in
his life, and he thought it was a
banner of the temperance procession
that was to come off next week.
So he made s. little speech OF thanks,
in which he said he would fling it
out to the breezes of heaven, that
they might kiss Its folds, and that
until his hand palsied it should new
er be trsiled in the dust-neverr p
The ladies didn't understand him,
and when he talked about trailing,
they blushed and said thew were
sorry they made it too long. But q
committee man took the editor aside
and explained the garment to him
in a whisper, and the next day he
appeared at the office with that shirt
mounted over his coat and wrote
four columns of explanation for his
paper. The shirt is much admired
by the small buys OF the town, and
whenever the editor goes for a WALL
they follow him by regiments
studying the history of Texas ano
the fine arts on the back of IT. Elk
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Billings, Advice to Joe.

"By awl means, Joe, get mar
ried, If you have fair show. Don't
stand shivering on the bank, but
pitch in and stick your head under
and the shiveI is over. There
amt no more trick IN ge ting mar
ried after you're ready than there is
in eating peanuts. MenDy q man
has stood shivering on the shore
until the river all ran out. Don't
expect to marry an angel; them hev
awl bin picked up long ago. Re-
member, Joe. you amt a saint
yourself. Do not marry for buty
exclusively; buty Is like ice, orful
slippery, and thaws dreadful easy.
Don't marry for luv, neither; luv is
like a cooking stove. gud for moth
lug when the fuel gives out. But let
the mixture be sum buty becoming
ly dressed, with about $240 in her
pocket, "a gud speller, handy and
neat in her house, plenty NV good
sense, a tuff constitution and by
laws, small feet, a light step; add TO
this sound teeth and a warm heart.
This mixture will keep in any eli
mate and not evaporate. If the
cork happens to be off for two or
three minutes the strength amt all
gone, Joe. Don't marry for pedi-
gree; there isn't much in pedigree
onles it is backed by bank stot ks.
A family with nothing but pedi-
gree generally lacks sense"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
A California Highwayman.

San Francisco Bulletin: One day
in the early part of the month Geo.
Ravens, who lives at Novato, about
twelve miles from here, started
home on foot. expecting, when he
got over the Puerto Snello hill, to
meet wagon that had been sent
tor him, but it did not come in sight
and he concluded to trudge along.
He overhauled person travelling
in the same direction, who, as Ha
vens came up with him, remarked,
you are the fastest walker l ever
struck" and followed it up with a
request that Ravens loan him four
bits, which was politely declined.-
They walked on in company for
some distance, discussing the crops.
legislature, and news from Arizona,
until they arrived at q secluded
spot, when the impecuuious gen
tleman pulled out a pistol and
pointing it at Havens, told him TO
hold up his hands. Finding that
Havens was not armed, he told him
to empty his pockets OF their valu
ables. He then requested Ravens
10 move back a few PAGES until he
could gather in the plumber. He
found bat about three dollars in
money, and exclaimed in disgu st,
This is the fifth time that | have
worked Marin county, and always
struck it rich before. l have good
mid to kill you for luck" He
covered Havens with his pistol un
til they had reached 3 phase some
distance from the road, and then
made him take his boots off and re
main there until quite late in the
night HaveDs reached home about
midnight, with bruised feet, and
was very much exhausted.
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Great preparations are in pro
gress for the Ecumenical Methodist
Conference. This body i'll assem-
BILE in the City Road Chapel, Lon
don, in September, 1881, and will
be composed Of four hundred mem
bers, two hundred from Great Brit
ain and two hundred from the Uni.
ted States and Canada, one hall
ministers and one half laymen. The
English section will include repre-
sentatives from the Wesleyan
Methodist and affiliated confe-en
ces, Primitive Methodist. the
Methodist New Connection, the
United Methodists. Free Churches,
the Wesleyan Reform Union
and Bible Christian Conferences
From the United States and Can
ada there will be representatives
from sixteen Methodist bodies,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
nOctOring an Elephant.

Bridgeport Farmer: The doctor
who came up from New York yes
terday to see the sick elephant or
dered quinine for her. Prof. AIRS
tenstall went down to Fred Stevens
drug store and had four pills built
at a cost of So q pill. The profes-
sor was asked how many grains
there were, and be replied that he
didn't know, as the pills were "com
puted by shoYelfuls." They were
about eight inches long and two in
diameter. After thrustIng one
down the elephants throat with q
stick, and finding she would not
take it, he made her hold up her
trunk and open her mouth, and, al
ter several hard throws, succeeded
10 getting her to swallow it. II
looked good deal like playing base
ball, only the catcher mLffled the
bal before catching it. The baby
elephant seems to feel very badly
about it's mothers sickness. The
mother is better to day, and will
probably get along all right.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Don't read a borrowed paper.
Death from a Spider in the Ear.

Archibald Gibson, Second Lieu
tenant OF the Seventh United States
Cavalry, died of Inflammation OF
the brain, in st. Louis, Wednesday,
believed to be the result OF a cir
cumstance while he was at West
Point. One day, while on q parade,
a spider got into one OF his ears,
which had already been injured by
scarlet fever. BY the rules he was
not allowed to raise his hand, and
stood in the ranks more than an
hour while the spider worked its
way In his ear. When dismissed
his ear was full OF blood and the in
sect could not be removed for two
days. This caused ccrrosior of
the bone next to the brain and gave
him a great deal OF trouble. He
went to his regiment in North
ern Dakota, however, and altar per-
forming considerable service aud
suffering from a severe attack OF
sickness, be came home. expecting
to resign, but, as it proved, only to
die.
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Man..

Extract from an old volume.
The average weight OF an adult
man 10 lao lbs. 9 OF.
The average weight OF skeleton
is about IA lbs.
Numbe of bones, 240.
The skeleton measures one inch
less than the height Of the living
man.
The average weight of the brain of
man is q lbs; of a woman 2 lbs.
IL OF.
The brains of q man exceed twice
that Of any other animal.
The average height OF an En-
glishman is 5 It. 6 in of a French
man. 5 It. L.; and of Belgian 5 f..
ST in.
The average weight OF an En-
glishman 10 $50 lbs; OF French
man 1875 lis; and of q Belgian, lao
lbs.
The average number Of teeth is 81.
A man breathes about 20 times
in q minute, or 1,2O0 times in an
hour.
A man breathes about Is pints
Of air q minute, or upward VI hog
heads in q Gay.
A man gives of 4.08 per cent car
bonic gas of the air be respires;
respires 10 $50 cubic feet of carbon
&c acid gas in "a hours; consumes
IO.667 cubic feet Of oxygen in "a
bours, equal to l25 inches in com
mon air.
A man annually contributes TO
vegetation I24 lbs. of carbon.
The average Of the pulse in in
fancy is 40 per minute, in man
hood, 80; at go years. go. The
pulse of females is more frequent
than that OF males.
The weight Of the circulating
blood 10 about % lbs.
The heart beats 10 times in q
minute; sends nearly 10 lbs Of
blood through the veins and, arte-
ries each heat; makes four beats
while we breathe once.
$40 lbs, or l hogshead 1t pints
of blood pass through the heart in
an hour.
1900 lbs. or - hogsheads 4 gal
Ions, pass through the heart in "A
| hours
1000 OF. Of blood pass through
the kidneys in an hour. l75.OO0, O0C
holes or cells are in the lungs
which would cover = surface thir
ty times greater han the human
body.
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Is your time outg Renew.
A Month of Sun Storms.

N. Y. Sun, Jan. 81: This has
been a stormy month on the sun
Tempests powerful enough to
sweep every living thing from the
lace of the earth have spent their
force upon the great glowing orb,
and their effects have been visible
at the distance of ninety odd mil
lion miles. Those who have not
Looked at the sun through a tele'
scope since 1873. when its broad
dIsk was as free from spots as the
polished gold case OF watch,
would be asJonIshed at the change
10 its telescope appearance. Ii Is
now like the shield OF q warrior,
dented and pierced by many fierce
strokes. On some days an opera
glass, powerful enough to define the
curves of an actress eyebrow has
sufficed TO show the dark nucleus o.
a solar cI clone. Spots larger than
this earth have appeared and van
ished. Day after day tue whole
surface of the sun has1been notified
and wrinkled under the strain oil
lorces SO tremendous that In com
parison with them the strength ot a
volcano seems puny.
Tue spots have gone trooplng
across the disk, with the revolution
of the mighty globe, in groups and
rows, singly and in pairs. Huge
groups have been seen to split up,
smaller spots have been formed ana
destroyed 10 few hours Whether,
as some have supposed, these spots
are caused by the fall OF meteoric
masses upon the sun, or are pro-
duced by the up-rush or down rush
OF gaseous matter, or are the result
of both these causes, the effect upon
the observer is the same. He can
not escape the impression that the
great firehall he is looking at is
the sport of elemental forces OF the
most gigantic power and activity.
There have been only three clear
days during January when, with al
ordinary spyglass, the suns disk
appeared unspottted. These sun
storms are not likely to decrease III
fury for some years yet. The new
spot period is just beginning, and
before it passes astronomers hope
to have learned far more about this
interesting and puzzisg subject
subject than they know now. The
weight of evidence shows that there
is a close relation between the con
dition of the earth's meteorology
Hundreds of telescopes are daily
turned upon the sun from all quar-
tiers of tue earth, and careful rec
ords of observations are Kept.
There has been a vast advance In
our knowledge of the great lumIna
~ since the second Herschel sug
gested, only some twenty years ago,
that the curious bright spots on the
sun known as willow leaves might
be gigantic living beings, whose in
tense vitality made them glow SO
dszzlingly. Yet what has been
learned is slight in comparison with
what remains To be learned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Horrible Holocaust.
Louisville Commercial snao,.,.

Louisville Commercial Special.
CANETvILLE, Ky, Ian. 30.-Infor-
nation of horrible tragedy
reached this place yesterday, being
the terrible death of seven persons
who were burned in a house about
TOUR miles east of this place.
Mr.. Wiley Emery, with his seven
children, are the uufortunate vic
tins. A few days ago he sold a
large amount of stock, receiving IN
payment several thousand dollars.
which he took home With him
instead of placing il in bank.
Two suspicious looking men
have been lurking around the
neighborhood for some time. and Is
is thought that they fret robbed
Mr.. Emery and fired the house 10
destroy all traces Of their crime.
When the nelghbors discovered the
flames 1t was too late to render any
assistance, and the entire house,
with it's inmates, was DESTROYED.
AS no cries for help were heard.it
is inferred that the family were ali
murdered before the house was
fired. The whole country is aroused,
and should the suspected parties be
found, and the murder proven,
short work will be made OF them.
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a Southern Fish Story.

savannah News.
A remarkable circumstance in con-
nection with the recent cold snap
was the effect on the fish along the
coast, large shoals being driven in
shore and in shallow water. Strange
as it may seem. it is asserted that
the fish, particularly bass and trout,
were observed to throw themselves
bodily out of the water on land.
An old negro caught thirty one
very fine large bass in this way at
Raccoon Key, near Warsaw. On
st. GATHERINGS a net thrown in the
water was almost in stantly filed by
fine large fab, and fishermen found
some difficulty in hauling the nets
in. Others were observed to kill
them in the water with oars. This
novel occurrence was witnessed gen
orally all along the islands to the
southwark and in the rivers near
the pOaa at
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
l. your time out? Renew.
How to Train the MEMORY.

Your memory is bad, perhaps,
but there are two ways OF curing
the worst memory. One of hem is
20 read a subject when interested;
the other is to not only read but
think When you Fave read par
agraph or q page stop, close thv
book, and try to remeW Der the ideas
on the page, and not only call the m
vaguely to mind but put them ~
words and speak them out Faith
fully following these two rules, and
you have the golden key of kuowl
edge. Besides iDattentive reading
there are other things injurious To
the memory. One is the hSbit Of
skimming over newspapers, items Of
news, smart remarks, items of IN
formation, political reflections, fash
ion notes, so that all is q confused
jUmbe. never to be thought OF
again. thus diligently culuvating
q habit OF careless reading hard TO
bresk Another is the reading OF
trashy novels.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Hard to Believe.

VIM. II. Ellis, a young farmer liv-
ing near Bloomiugburgh, when nine
years old stepped on a needle. A
doctor failed to extract it, and Ellis
forgot all about it. He is now thir-
ty-two years old, and, feeling a
tickling sensation in his shoulder,
said to his wife; 81 believe there is
a pin sticking in my shoulder" -
She looked and found the point of
needle just sticking through the
flesh. She removed it easily. 1t
was about three fourths of an inch
long, and was broken off near the
eye. 1t was discOlored, except at
the point. Mr.. Ellis says it has GER
tainly worked upward through his
body Augusta News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10

the dogs grip could be loosentd.
Fitzgerald was taken to the drug
store at Jay and Hudson streets,
where his wound was dressed. He
insisted npon remaining with the
workmen until his days work was
done.
After the dog had attacked Fitz
gerald he sprang upon james
Dougherty. The many wounds
and bruises he had suffered seemed
only to add To his ferocity, and he
turned on the next man. Dough
erLy seized a pitchfork and pre-
pared to kill the dog, but the beast
that had attacked all of his Other
victims by crouching back and
jumping, changed his mode of at
tack. he had crouched down
Dougherty might have wounded him
with the fork, but the dog ran with
great rapIdity around Dougherty.
and before the man could turn, hau
seized him by the left thigh. He
bit through three thicknesses Oh
clothing. After short fight,
Dougherty was left bitten and
torn in the yard. He was subse
quently taken to drug store and
his wounds were cauterized and
dressed.
The dog ran around into Thir-
tenth street and down toward the
pier. Alter being pounded and
kicked by dozen men, after run
ming like deer Tor over twelve
hours, he was at the last more az
gressive than ever. Chas. Seilman,
who has charge Of the lumber yard,
pursued the animal around the cor
ner with o revolver. Unlike others
who had attacked the beast, he ran
up within a few feet and fired two
shots in rapid succession. Neither
shot took effect. He tried to shoot
again, but the revolver missed fire.
The dog crouched in front OF him.
Seilman SNAPPED the revolver once
more. 1t missed fire. He threw it
from him and jumped TO one side
just as the animal leaped for his
throat. Before the dog could re-
cover himself Seilman jumped on a
truck that was standing near, drew
one of the upright stakes from its
socket, and fearlessly approached
the dog. Again the animal crouched
anu jumped. Seilman swung the
weapon about his head and brought
1t down on the animals skull. Two
more blows were gwen. The ami
NAL dragged itself back. was about
to make one more jump, when Po-
Iiceman Burk of the Charles street
station, arrived and put an end to
the brute's life.
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Is your time outP Renew.

The rumor that Mrs.. Garfield in
tends TO follow the example Of Mrs.
Hayes and exclude wine from the
White House has created . panic In
the diplomatic corps. The foreign
gentlemen have with dieaculty sur
Vived the past four ysars-rhe prAc-
tlce OF drinking out of a bottle on
the front porch in the chilly night
air being not at all conducive Of
health. II tho same rule - TO pre-
vail for eight years more the diplo-
mats feel that they might as well
take their papers at once. In this
connection, the statement Of A w.
Campbell. Of the Wheeling Intelh-
gencer, who is known 20 DO per-
sonal friend Of General Garfield,
has a powerful interest. lie says;
"Mrs. Hayes has banished vine
from the White House table, and
Mrs. Garfield will certainly follow IL
her footstsps."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Is your time out1 Renew
Marriage or Money.

A singular story comes from In
dianspolis of q clerk in a leading
business house in that city who be-
came so involved that he needed
$500 TO extricate himself from his
difficulties. By some means he dis
covered that a servant girl at one
of the hotels, had by hard work,
saved up q considerable sum of
money, and to her he applied for a
loan. This was readily granted,
and a note with interest and q day
of payment, not six months in the
future, was executed in acknoWl
edgment of the same. The time
came and with it came chronic ina
bility on the part of the maker To
pay il. He pleaded tor an exten-
sion of time, but this the waiter
maiden refused to grant, and in
formed him that he must either pay
the sum at once or marry her.
The woman WAS about forty years
old, and much mOTe than CORES
pondingly ugly, so that the debtor
demurred against the imposition OF
such hard terms. The woman, how
ever, was unrelenting. With her /;
was ither the money or q husband,
and, on the whole, she seemed
quite anxious to choose the latter.
When the hero saw the gravity OF
the situation, be perceived no way
t. escape il and finally capitulsted,
so the marriage was performed one
evening in the early part of last
week. The man belongs TO a good
family, and is said to be greatly
Inundated by the condition o
which he so unwillingly finds him
self in being allied by force ID 3
woman so Inferior to himself in so
cial position and intellect. The
woman was so well pleased that she
rented and furnished = house anc
was reaoy for business before thu
wedding day.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Dir. White and his Sons.

Albany Argus: Four members
of family named White, living in
Whitehall, are remarkable for
weight and stature. The father is
six feet and one inch, and weighs
203 pounds, while David, the third
son, who is just out of his minority,
has the same weight, but acknowl
edges six feet five inches. The uni
ted weight OF the father and three
sons is 751 pounds, and their sta
ture measures an aggregate of TWEEN
ty-four feet seven inches. There
are five younger sons from IL to 10
years who foreshadow proportions
to their elders.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10

A San Francisco woman partial
ly lost the power of speech through
a stroke of paralysis. Taking advan
tage of her incoherent utterance
and grotesque visage, her husband
sent her to sn asylum as a lunatic,
and took possession Of her proper
ty. She was kept IN durance sew
eral months before the truth was
discovered. A jury awarded her
81 600 damapes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Don't read a borrowed paper.
BIoated BondhOIderu.

The Treasury records show
that William II. Vanderbilt owns
$50 600, coo Of United States bonds,
the quarterly interest on Whioh IL
100000. Other members OF the
family have 100000 more, With
a quarterly interest Of $4,000.
Louis McLsne, OF San FrAncisco.
has 100000 bonds. with . quar-
terly interest income OF $4,000. ].
c Flood has 100000 OF bosds,
with q quarterly revenue FROM the
investment OF 100000, aud Miss
Jennie Flood, his daughter, still
unmarried, has In her naue the
sum OF $1,000 600 10 honda, Asd
quarterly pocket money thsrsfron
Of $4,000 ChristinS Nilsson las
$4,000 n SIS OF 1881 aud $4,000
6's OF 1881. Lotta, the actress, has
$4,000 in 5's and Emma Thursby
has $4,000 OF 6's.