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The Portland daily press., 1881-01-05
OVER STOCKED.
During the month Of January, 1881, we
shall offer at cost or less than cost,

During the month Of January, 1881, we
shall offer at cost or less than cost,
Mems sEng. CIR. walkingfast Waterproof Balls.
for. S3.75
Mems Eng. CIR. Congress. s..................... 3.75
Double Sole Calf Congress. .............. 200
Extra~fne Calf Button Boots .......... 400
Newark Hand sewed French Calf Button 500
Wescott Calf Cloth top Congress Boots. 3.75
Small lot of Newark Congress (narrow). 800
Ladies' American Button Boots ........... 200
French Goat very Stylish. sh.............. 1926
50 Pebble Goat Button n.................. 200
Extra quality Newport Ties and Button
Shoes. ............................ 1.25
Serge Boots to wear under Rubbers.... LOO
Fancy Slippers from S1.25 to $3.50.
Misses School Button Boots .......... -. LIS
I" Am. Kid Button Boots. 1.5O
French Kid Button Dancing. ......... ESQ
Children's Button and Lace Boots... ........ 80
Grain Boots School. ..........-...... LOO
Large lot Ladies' warm Slippers rs cts. to 1.5O
Mems Best quality Buckle Arctics .......... 1.50
Wool Lined Alaska. ................... LOO
Heavy Rubber Boots. ots................... 2 so
Pure Gums OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800
Ladies' Int. Sandal Rubbers best quality. 40
Ladies' and Gents Canadian Overshoes.. ESQ
and many other Goods in proportion.
Those who are acquainted with my stock will ap-
preciate the prices named above.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-05

Ohech....'.......... ..S3OOU0
By this solution the amount is accurately
divided, and the principle involved in the
first part of the transaction is carried out in
the second, as A. pays the second year 12 per
cent. interest on just the amount he owes B.
at the end of the year. 1876 LIS.
The Portland daily press., 1881-01-05
Losses to Shipping in 1880.

The following shows the number of Ameri
can vessels lost in each month during 1880
with their class and estimated value:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-18
Belshazzar Smith and His Brother Bill.

Belshazzar Smith had very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during
one ofhis somnambulistic saunterines he
would charge out of the window and
Kill himself, SO they persuaded him to
sleep with his little brother William.
and to tie one end of a rope around his
body and the other around little
William.
The very first night after this ar
rangement was made, Belshazzar
dreamed that a burglar was pursuing
him with dagger. So he crept over
to Williams side of the bed, stepping
over Williams slumbering form, jumped
out on the floor and slid under the bed.
He staid there awhile and then. his
nightmare having changed, he emerged
upon the other side of the bed and got
under the cover in his old place.
The rope, it will be observed, was be-
meath the bed, and it was pulled taut,
too. Early in the morning Belshazzar.
about half awake, scrouged over against
William. To his surprise the move
ment jerked William clear out of bed.
Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the
cause of the phenomenon, and at the same
time his brother disappeared under the
bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was
scared and he diyed beneath the bed
stead. As he did so, he heard William
skirmishing across the blankets above
his head. Once more he rushed out.
just in time to see William glide over
the other side. Belshazzar lust then
became sufficiently conscious to feel
the rope pulling on him. He compre-
hended the situation at once and olsen
gagged himself
Perhaps little William was not mad.
he was in the hospital undergoing re-
pairs for about three weeks, and when
he came out he had a strange desire to
sleep alone.
Belshazzar anchors himself to an anvil
now
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-08-18
Horse Points.

All agree, says writer in the Agri-
cultural Gazette, it is action in the horse
that sells. This is obtained when we
have the complemental power in the
muscles, the greatest leverage from the
bones and quality in the tendons; health
In the llgaments and truth in the dispo-
sltion of the limbs. We adiudicate on
the horses headquarters as a whole.
All horses with any pretensions to quail
1ty or family possess length and
stralghtness from the hips to the tail.
This is especially graceful and horizon
tai in the thoroughbred.
l. Length from hip to hook is the cri-
terion both of speed and power; all
horses of value are ..well let down., in
their quarters, affording increase Of
length and volume in the muscles.
power and speed accruing. The haunch-
bone and the thig hbone-the first strong
and long, the second strong, of AVERAGE
length; this naturally varies with breed,
but in all classes it is most important that
the thigh ''be well let down into the
hock;" muscular development here
cannot be too .'irnmense. ," Good gas
kins afford material help for GETTING
through the dirt.
z. At the articulation of the haunch
and thighbone we find the stifie in situ.
A good one. without exception, is high
up, abutting the flank. This is the con-
centration of power in all classes; it is
certain sign that the haunchbone is
well sloped forward, and that the
thighbone is well carried back.
.. The hook we have previously de-
termined on, but as in the foreleps. r
counsel young beginners to avoid weak.
lll-deflned knees; so here, have as little
to do with horses whose os calcis. or
point of the hook is ill-defined. Re-
member puff and gum is weakness. Sc
cure hooks that are well defined. The
os calcis contributes leverage; it is evil
dence both of power and speed.
The hind cannons or metatarsal-
bones must individually be straight.
with just soapcon of inclination for
ward. They should be fiat and short:
breadth under the hook here is STRENGTH
the sign of quality. Feel tendons alone
their course, that the legs. as in the
fore, are clean in the tendons (broad
and flat); the sesamond bones. at tn.
upper back portion of the fetlock Joints.
well pronounced.
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4or non,tq Rfadtrs.
GRAssH0PPER AND spARHDW

grasshopper lay in the garden one day.
near Cabbage ! mea cabbage-rose-
And his eyes hal no snap, ani his legs they
were stir,
Anu turned uefy much up were his toes
Dear me!
His funny, incuryated toes.
along came bird-Mrs. Sparrow her name
AND sne paused and shook sadly her head.
ana sand, "Once at hops none could beat YOU
Even Icould-because you are dead
49, Dear me!
"But you shall not lie there unburied. for Off
Through the night have you sang loud and
shriil
And watched while / slept; so if nobody else
Will bury you, g. H., will
Dear me!
'Tis sad thing to do, but will"
Wide she opened her mouth-he was gone in a
trice-
Then she quietly hoped out of sight;
And the cabbage rose laughed till half its
leaves dropped,
AS think with good reason it might
Dear mel
With the very best reason it might.
--ltrgdra Eti1,ge, IN Hdrpers YOung People,
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The Deceitful Kangaroo.

Lamb-like as is the face of the kan
CARGO, tender and soft as are his ewes.
he is by no means as gentle and tender
as he looks. Like the heather Chinese.
his conntenance bellies him, and there
are few more exciting and withal dan
gerous sports than kangaroo shooting.
10 the hunter seeking for some new
sensation, a visit to the wilds of Aus
tralia In search of kangaroos can be
recommended. 1t requires fleet horse
to run an " old man. down if he gets a
fair chance to show tail, and stronp.
well-trained dogs to tackle him when
brought in bay. Inside his soft, dewy
lips are strong, formidable teeth, which
can bite severely. His forepaws, weak
as they seem, can lift dog high in the
air and crush him to death: while.
when, lying down, his favorite fightipo
attitude, he can kick with his powerful
hind legs in manner that rapidly
clears circle round him, and woe be-
tide the man or dog that comes within
reach OF those huge claws, which can
make flesh wound deep enough to
MAIN the one or kill the other. OF
course, we here speak of the great kan
CARGO. the boomer, or old man, of the
colonists. AS a matter of fact, there
are some thirty different kinds OF kan
garoos mhabiting various parts of Aus
traila, and one species peculiar to New
Guinea. They vary in size from the
tiny hare kangaroo of South Australia.
the most agile of its kind, which is but
little larger than rabbit, to the sew
eral giant species, whether black, red,
brown or gray, some of which stand
nearly six feet high. - London Globe.
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been so much questioned pointed out
the existence of this danger, about
which there is, indeed, no question.
That which has happened to one sun
may happen to another, to our own
sun, for example | coupled this state
ment with another, to the effect that
the comet of 1913 seemed likely to be
soon absorbed by the sun. 1t appears
more than probable that the comet seen
in February, 1880, was no other than
the comet of 1913, returning earlier
than had been expected because re.
tarded by the resistance of the solar at
mosphere in 1913. If so, the next re-
turn of the comet would occur after a
yet shorter interval, the next yet SOON
er, etc., the comet which already APP
proaches within 10000 or $4,000 miles
of his surface. approaches nearer and
nearer at eacn return, till in no very
long period it would be totally absorbed.
But where | thus indicated the danger
which the absorption of some comets
might threaten, and the probability
that the comet of 1843 will before long
be absorbed by the sun, also showed
that this particular comet will in all
probability be absorbed without doing
any serious harm if any harm at all. It
was. it would seem, checked in its course
during the visit of 1843, yet no harm
followed. 1t must have been still more
etfectually interrupted during it's visit in
1880, yet again no effects of any inn
portance were noted. 1t follows that
the entire mass of the comet is SO insig-
nificant that no mischief is likely to re-
suit from its final absorption, even
though that took place at it's next
return, instead of being probably pre-
ceded by many successive partial
absorptions.
So far as that comet. the only comet
known to travel on path closely APP
preaching the sun. is concerned, there
is either no danger at all or very little,
and, as to those comets which, if they
fell directly ON the sun, would cause
mischief, not one is known which has a
path approaching him within many
millions of miles. There is, then, no
recognized danger of this kind, except
such as may be thus represented. There
may now exist unknown to us and
travelling somewhere in inter-stellar
space, comet of the more dangerous
sort, whose path chances to be such
that eventually that comet must fall
directly upon the sun. But to this dam
ger-such as it is-our solar system has
been exposed during the whole time
over which history extends in the past,
over the whole time covered by the
geologic record, and for millions of
ages before either the historic or the
geologic record began. We have no
reason to believe that that will happen
during millions of years to come which
has not happened during millions of
years which have passed. In other
words, there is no danger which science
recognizes as likely to arise from
comets. IN Y Herald.
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recapture was problem that for time
baffied all efforts at solution. Janitor
Mlngay, however, who always "comes
up to the scratch in an exigency. util-
lied the hose. and. turning a stream of
water on the feathered fugitive, the lat
ter soon dropped and was eagerly
caught by boys who were watching the
sport. The new janitorial method of
catching birds is deemed equal to the
old-fashioned one of sprinkling salt on
their tails.
A long legal contest at Holland,
Conn. was ended in the breaking of a
will because the testator was q Spiritu-
alist. Calvin Hall was for the twenty
three years preceding his death a firm
believer in Spiritualism. He built two
meeting houses for congregations OF
that faith, and his conduct was LARGELY
controlled, as he declared, by spirits.
some of whom came to him visibly and
audlbly, while others communicated
through mediums. In other matters he
was not peculiar. and he did not relv
on all the supernatural advice which he
received, for he believed that MANY
spirits were liars and tools; but he fol-
lowed the directions of several of these
ghostly counsellors implicitly, even in
the making of his will. The contest
ants proved these facts in court, while
the other side introduced expert testi-
mony to establish Halls soundness of
mind Judge Martins charge was ex-
ceedlngiy cautious, and he did not discuss
directly whether Halls religious views
indicated an impairment of intellect.
but simply told the jurors that they
were to judge, from the evidence.
whether he was mentally capable of
making will. The verdict DECLARING
the will invalid was agreed to without
delay.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07

ed, but more agreeably SO, issued
forth to learn the canse Of the up
roar.
"Good people, good people," he
cried, rubbing his hands, "whatmean-
eth this? "Haye the windows Of
heaven opened "
"Nay, nay, parson!" exclaimed
the Squire; ''but the Lord has open
ed Brother Us heart, and that
so great agift could have issued from
so small q receptacle is one Of the
wonders Of the saving grace. Cues
ton it not, but take it and keep ye
warm.n
The minister had roaring fires that
winter, but it was long before Broth
or T. recovered his equanimity.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07
LUCK OF ONE DAYS FISHING.

Ono morning. when spring was in her teens
A morn to poet wishing
All tinted in delicate pfnks and green's
Miss Bessie and | went fishing.
10 MY rough and easy clothes,
With my face NJ the sunshines mercy
She with her hat tipped down TO her nose,
And her nose tipped--vice versa.
with my rod, my reel and hooks,
And hamper for lunching recesses
She with the bait Of her comedy looks,
And the seine Of her golden tfesses.
We sat down on the sunny dixie,
Where the white pond lilies teoter,
And went fishing Ike quaint old Ike,
And She hike Simon Peter.
All the noon lay In the light Of hcreyes,
And dreamily watched and waited
Bat the Ash we're GINNING and would not rise,
And the batter alone WAS bated.
And when the time for departure came,
The bag was fat as q founder,
But Bessie had nearly hooked her game,
hundred and eighty FOUNDER.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07

WHITE LINEN REMNANTS-Just re-
w ceived large lot of White Linen Rem
nants from | to yard pieces, which will be sold
very low, at RoseDfield's.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07

Columbus Republican James Hall,
a farmer, living on the line between
Bartholomew and Brown counties,
was in town to-day with his face in a
very unpleasant condition. He is
the owner of a dog which is apdicted
to the very wicked practice of suck
ING eggs. James is of an inventive
turn of mind, and conceived bril-
liant scheme fer curing the canine of
the fault. He took an egg, broke a
very small hole in the shell, and af-
ter extracting the innards, filed it
with gun-powder. Then he caught
the dog and holding his nose down to
the egg with one hand, he touched a
match to the charged hen-fruit with
the other. 1t went off. The dog went
off, too. In fact, they all went off.
The dogs head was nearly blown to
pieces, and the boys face was badly
lacerated by the explosion and fear
fully burned by the powder. He will
try some other cure next time.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07
ROBERT Il. LEES DESCENT FROM
ROBERT BRUCE.

From the Historical Paper by William Winston
FODtaiDc,
Recently, while collecting material
for writing a biography Of Major
General Alexander Spotswood, Gov
ernor Of Virginia from 1910 to 1873 ]
discovered that through him Robert
L. Lee, of Virginia, was seventeenth
in direct descent from Robert Bruce,
of Scotland Moreover, that of the
FIVE heroes who particularly distin-
guished themselves on the q oriOus
field of Bannockburn, in driving back
the invader of their beloved country,
B9e, through the same channel, was
the direct descendant of four, namely:
King Robert, Thomas Randolph, Earl
of Moray, Walter the high steward,
and Sir Robert de Keith, Great Maris-
chal Of Scotland. These facts have
never been brought ont in any of the
biographies Of Lee. Indeed, until
now, they wete unknown to any of
the descendants of Governor Spots
wood during the present century. ]
know this to be the case for ! have
often eonversed with my paternal
grandmother, whose maiden name
was Martha cambridge, a great-grand-
daughter of Governor Spoiswood, Oh
the subject of the ancestry of the
Spotswoods. She was quite antigua
~, and knew many Of the traditional
ry tales Of "the Knights of the Golden
Horseshoe their romantic ride over
the blue mountains of Virginia down
to the cold waters of the silvery Shen-
andoah. The old lady, with pardon
able pride, used to tell us children, of
her ancestor, the Governor, being on
the staff of the Duke of Marlborough,
and of his being wounded in the
breast at the battle of Blenheim,
August -, 1904; of the Governors
grandfather, Sir Robert Spotswood, of
whom the Earl of Clarendon SAYS:
"The Scots put to death several per-
sons of name who had followed the
Marquis (of Montrose) and had been
taken prisoners, among whom Sir
Robert Spotswood was one, a worthy,
honest, loyal gentleman, and as wise
a man as that nation had at that time
Whom the King had made Secretary
of State of that kingdom.)n
She once read to me Sir Walter
SCOTS account of Sir Robert Spots
woods execution; and | well remem-
Der how her eyes Indignantly flashed
when she came to Sir Roberts calm,
but whitening reply to the canting
Puritan minister, who interrupted his
last devotiOns. With the exception
of some dim ancestral traditions Of
the old border Barons of Spotswood,
and more especially Of one William
Spotswood, q man of great bravery,
who accompanied King James ". in
his unfortunate expedition into Eng
land in 1914, and poured forth his
LIES blood with his royal master on
the fetal field of Flodden, my grand
mothers family lore did not extend
much beyond Sir Roberts father
Archbishop Spotswood, Primate of
Scotland, who crowned King Charles l..
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-07

An old couple were walking down
street the other day reading signs,
when they ran across one which the
old manread thus 'Johnson's Shirt
Store" ''Well, | declare !" exclaimed
the old lady, Il wonder how he tore
it kokomo Tribune.
, 1881-04-29

TILE children Of the King Of Denmark are
certainly not in very pleaaapt situations ut pres.
ent, Ills aon 0eorglo4 l.. King Of 0reeoe, hos.
Judging from all appearances, bis oh0!ce DO.
twoun Two horus ut tho tlllorna. IN which he Ia
pHcod by tho iticonlpeteeoy Of bis advisers and
tho trcachery Ut tho Powers. lie will probubly
havo to uhooso slthor to los0 nla throuo through
rebellion Of bis onruRed aublsuts, or tU 'furtet
Ills Drown by an unsucu9sstuI war a2ainst tho
Turks. ucorgios' slster .Dngmar, now Maria
Feodorowna, Czarlun vt all tho Russlas. has
fallon, according to lato dispatches, a hopoloas
victim to aeuto hystos!s, because tho NihIlIstd
threatened hsr with death aud tho Kidnapping
OF hur Oldest boy In daso she did nut prevent tho
hanging Of tho woman pesowGkaja and tic
man 6haljRbow. IIor othns sister, Thysa. ID
married L, tho ex-Orown Franoo OF Hanover, tho
Duke OF Cumberland, aud AhaEoa hls vain hopo
Of being tho succusaor to tho Ducal crown OF
DspnswIek. Aud hqr uthor ststar, Alexandra, IL
tho vito OF tho Vrinco at Wales, who uelrly
broke hor heart with hs proagaoy. lIe has 70.
formed little, hut cannot b considered q
knight Of virtue. Tho fate Of hur poor sister at
g. Petersburg aud tho Grlek Ut her ststcr~n-
law, tho Duthess Ut Htllnhurx, uaushtor Ut tho
assaslnated Car, nlso tho constant toar for tho
safety Of hor brother Qoorg!os. King Of 0saoco,
cause her deep sorrow aud llsteess. All four
tho shrao alstors and tha brothsr-dusaEvel a
potter fate. They arc distinguished tor thelr
Kindness and ualturo, and upon tho'r moral ifc
Eesta not q blemiah.
, 1881-04-29

TltE following does npt excuse the acts OF
Nthillsn but soea far to explain IT. exlssonoo a
4 revolutionary party. There u TO class Of the
European nobility which cu1oys such extensive
personal pF!vtleGas, possessss such Immense
wealth, eoeurud through oliuiAl corruption In
bIgh places and gifts from tho Cars, and which
exercises such powess. ~ tho nobility OF Rusaia.
They number about S0Ao 900 souls. and own over
one- half OF the cultivated spil OF the EmplFe,
the people Of which arc to-day moro outttlad
to tho uanle of "serfs" thau that OF "s4bteots,"
In fact, thu act OF emancipation of Alexander
tho Second il nothing but tbs same old serfdon
tll0s ln RuS4lR who own to-day from
bAdU, ID 7010u0 asrts, although tho Law
4oes not protect than In that species
, 1881-04-29

a,-,., ...-.xa l., h., r.,..,x . . H. 7rx,,
No gltl gu! oxpeGt W 20 Vucel. " wv Mny
Al tnss year tesusaas ""!es" sae ""s y "7@asA1o
sacque'
Now that Atna DICKINSON llas declaed not
10 appear. Mrs. LanRtry can come overNTlth per-
1eos oouhdoaee'
Washington people Are now trying to dis
cover who vtnnte Roau1-iIo1ie's statue of Far
raRut looks like.
: Mrs. Liver1noro Is going to tako hor hus-
hand an n trim "a Eurone for ths summer. Thia
ID very kind Of her.
: King John of Abysstnia l,as been suc-
gagged by bis sop Moulctekatu. There seems
to he samethtne In mime after nil. y :
,ru 1r..,. u.,,..,,, ,.o.,.. t,,,,,,, .t,. II. ..o
.'.,4 4 t.',.,, s..'.su twa ,g as ~
~ 's,t.s s..t ~ ~ ~. t..s
o'. %'-'.''$' Nv - ~ s9'A' ~ .A ;,
a ooy nus oeea arrestea IN Ucttolt TOT
eseas1nR oop!es VI tae PaPess puotsnca 'r ,saoso
1soh tno 49uas stsps y. Iss.aeaees. Aas.e ~" ~
.. soue Ea'o' ~ s ~ "n ... au p'oa o4 ~
% nn,a.~,,o', " @ ,.,'sa", n' ~ s ~, .,.,o -, ...,.
which T. Il oIs,mct, WA wilton sv nrteht pyes %
tho lndluu 0irl, nut people who ARC posted on
tha Indian ouostIon know that tho dauvhtt,ra Of
tue forcgt arc too busy picking buRa out Of their
mar 'o"f''c pooxs' =.
A Detroit paper says that 4 well-kn0Wn
hlcyolo-Fider Ut that city n /" seriously Ill With
braIn toyer." II pools weso to DO sold on this
thscs lint thc s,uctnrs hn,s 9,taunnscd t,,c csse
sr.,nrt~ r,r.,r- ~, n nn,o.snrv rrr-oouI.it ~
h.st,, yovor 'ee@e''>''' F'e'e'~'''' ~
~ "nss,......, !" .a.., ..t.,. t.
beaut|tul e1oe9, says 1AaVloh 1ou1-