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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

ice, in careering out of ST. Johns Bay.
had for brief time impinged and hung
on the Jagged rocks. Later on intelli.
gence was received that sealing steamer
had picked up some forty or fifty others,
and had landed them safely at Cape
Spear. A screw steam-tug, stanch and
strong, built especially to battle with
ice, which had been sent to the rescue
by the Government, also returned, bear
ing seven of the lost sealers to shore.
At last, as one man after another was
restored to his home, the conviction be-
gan to spread that awful as the tragedy
had been there was deep cause for thank
fulness that so many had escaped.
The harvest of seal so mysteriously
sent to the southern shores of Newfound-
land brought with it a certain amount
of prosperity to many who are accus-
toned to privation and suffering. The
life of the fisherman of the North is a
peculiarly hard one. They can not sup
ply their necessities by any kind Of
agriculture, for their soil will yield moth
ing; they are unskilled in trade and
manufactures, and are usually the VIC
tins of the merchants who bring the
necessaries of life within their range.
Their only reaping ground is the tickle
sea, which gives or withholds its treas
ures with a mysterious caprice.
per'S Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

Church, all in good repair, only the
steeple was a little bent. 1t was good
haul, strangers
"Did you ever get the elephants P"
inquired an Oyster Bay man, who
claimed to have walked over to Great
South Beach on the backs of school of
blue-fish.
"0nly nine of 'em. Only nine or ten
OF 'em, stranger. started sewin' cir
Gle in the church, and when the elephants
heard the cacklin' they thought it was
chickens, and l got eight thousand
pounds of ivory, besides six pounds that
was on gold plates, and job lot o. old
sun-bonnets and shin-bones and p'inted
elbows tibet only need assortin' for the
market. 1t strained the church so that
l sold it secondhand to the county for
water-works, and it irrigates the whole
deestrict."
"Won't you try something morep"
queried an EaqIe reporter who had Skin
mished around the outside of the crowd
during the relation of these marvels.
"Jest drop tablespoonful of prussic
acid into couple O. pints O. hartshorn.
You'll hev to excuse me from goin'
heavy, | got some business this after
noon. come down fer Calling gun
to see if l can't git some o. them eight
eyed lions that's been stealin' whales
cut o. my aquarium. My old smooth
bore cannon busted the other day under
a charge o. cook-stoves the baby had
rammed in to kill sea-sarpint which
was stealin' milk from pet COW he had
been trainin', and the discharge busted
the usefulness out o. gorilla 1 had been
raisin' to carry tramps to the pigs.
Otherwise, would jine you, gentlemen.
| want to git home pooty early, cause a
couple of my devil-fsh broke loose yes
terday, and my wife don't like to go
down cellar while them sea-spiders is
slingin' eighty-foot legs for fresh meat.
Then the baby is liable to get among the
tarantulas and eat 'em up.''
"Where do you live?" asked the
Eagle man. Where's your homer"
81 am naturally Nevada man." re-
piled the stranger, "but it was too tame
out in them parts for my folks, and so
we moved to New Haven, Conn, more
fer the sportin' than anything else.
Come up and see me any time and take
a hyena hunt with me. Won't cost you
cent, and when you git back there
amt man on Long Island as will want
to talk hunt within forty mile of where
you're tellin' about you're experience.
Glad to see you all at my house, gentle
men," and the orator bowed gravely
and retired.
1t was an hour before word was
spoken, and then the Oyster Bay man
began to speak about quails; but the
rest looked at him so sadly that he stop
ped short, and silence reigned profound
until the proprietor of the saloon closed
up.-Br0obly7a Eagle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
A Mighty Hunter.

SITS all very well, strangers, for you
to chin about gittin' lots o. quail and
ducks, but whar 1 live we call that yer
slim shootin', now you hear me. Only
gals shoot birds out my way"
81 suppose you have much larger
game" suggested an admiring bystan-
der who had been telling how he bagged
some robbins over in Jersey in the fall
of SO.
"Now you're talking language-b'ars,
buffaloes, elephants, camels, giraffes,
kyotes, mastodons is nothing fer us to
git. l laid in stock O. jack tigers year
afore last that would make you fellers
weep with latter fer to see 'em, and peo-
pie come for thousand mile to see my
coral o. polar bars, captered right onto
my own premises"
"Won't you take little something's"
asked man who had heretofore para
lived the mob with his wild duck sto-
RES
"You might stir little sheet-light-
MIN into some assafedity, and gimme a
squirt o. vitriol into it, observed the
stranger. 'I'm accustomed to power
full stuff, but l got hurt in a seal fight,
and hev to drink pooty light now."
"Tell us about it!' chorused the mob.
The stranger slipped in silence mo-
ment and then opened up: "You see
the elephants had been stealin' my hens
for some time, and jest sot trap for
'ern; 1 bought a steamboat and took off
her hog-chains for slip-noose, and
fastened one end around a hole about a
quarter of mile thick; l know'd no
dog-goned elephant could start that |;
then 1 put an ostrich that my daughter
had killed on her way from school in the
loop, and went to bed about four o'clock
in the morning heard row and found
I had got buck seal in the trap; he
showed fight and l went for him, and
fer nearly week it was hard to tell
which had the best of it; finally downed
him, and out O. that seal got 'leven
hundred ba'rls o. lie and nigh unto O
souar mile o. skin, good fur, and worth
sic yard, but it crippled me finan-
cially."
Howl" demanded breathless lis
tener.
ain the fuss tibet yer seal knocked
over my house and buildin's and tore up
nv arabic sile clear to bedrock. Couldn't
plant thing"
Wont you try another drinkp''
asked sympathizer.
Gimme a little powdered sulphur
and half a dozen red peppers in some
nitro glycerine, will yerp Doctor says
I got to be keerful for month or six
weeks. l got sdtiar', though" he con-
timed. ~ kim out ahead. When l
Got to open tibet ostrich found q four
teen-acre farm, well stocked and watered,
eighty-two miles o. barb-wire fencin',
three hundred ton o. hay, and Baptist
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
PITH AND POINT.

The singer is better than most NOR.
tails. He is happy when he finds his
cake in do. SiP-Loa0eN Courier.
Spring chickens and maple sugar
are always in season, without any re-
gard for spring.-N 0. PScayurae.
Why is a fellow with bad cold in
the head like Niagara FallsP Because
he's catarrh-racked.-N. z. NewS.
"A bonnet to be in the hight of fash
ion now must not be the shape of any
other bonnet Philadelphia NeWS.
Everything has to pay up some
times; even the little chickens have to
shell ut.-SteubenUille Herald.
We are glad to see that the usual
full-grown panther is around this year
on time, and has been killed in various
parts of the country. Chicago Tribune.
"A circus proprietor advertises his
show as the greatest thing under can
vas. This is a mistake. The greatest
thing under canvas is the ham.-PhiLz-
deLphia Chronicle Herald.
1t is supposed that when winter WAS
going out it collided with spring coming
Ill, anu Ju6 SCdSOuS WoIc 81 Uduly LII
escoped that it is difficult to tell t'other
from which. -NorriStoa0n Herald.
"A professor at Cornell, lecturing on
the effect of wind in some Western parts,
remarked: 'sIn travelling along the road,
/ even sometimes, found the logs bouEd
and twisted together to such an extent
that mule couldn't climb over them,
so | went around. ~ College Journal.
Sweet flowers that from your sunny hooks
Give welcome to the verna sun!
How joyous, as each bright eye looks
Alolt doth seem the life begun.
How eloquent We seem of days o
When lovers near yourhau VIII chance'
And she your dainty forms will praise
And he up sodded cliffs will prance
And get-much verdure on ms pants.
-YoRkers Gazette.
Two Cincinnati ladies, who had
lately returned from trip abroad, were
exchanging opinions in reference to the
famous pictures they had seen. "Glve
me the Reconnaissance school OF art"
exclaimed one, $50 full of sympathy,
of poetry; so different from the Pre-
Rachelite.' "It's very true what you
say" observed the other, "but as for
me, just dote on the Dustledorp school,
the paint is so much fresher. "-Broo6-
I'm Eaqle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
An Austrian Diana,

The Empress of Austria is one OF the
greatest horsewomen of the age. There
are few men in the world who can keep
up with her in ride across the country.
1t is true she carries only III pounds,
while the average weight of horsemen is
100 and over. She prefers Ireland on
account of the roughness of the country
to hunt in; but the land disturbances
this year have forced her to go to Eng
land. So she has settled at Comber-
mere Abbey for six weeks. She hunts
four times weeks, and no lady in Eng
land can keep up with her. She is not
afraid Of the most fiery steed that any
man dare mount. She expects to spend
100000 before her return to her own
country Denaorest'S Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
An DYL.

know a spot,
Where she I love oft spends her lonely
hours,
All spangled over with forget -me-not
And other flowers.
See this and that
Upon my brow, all bumps that have been
made
OF late; the frequent and ferocious gnat
Infests the shade.
A quiet nook, ..
Save for one little silver ring of sound,
The baby chatter of a tiny brook,
ALPS silence round.
With hopping gait
The lively frog provokes a female scream
/ hurry to the rescue, but too late:
He passeth as dream.
Bend, branches, bend,
Entwine in leafy canopy above,
Let not single raindrop e'er descend
Upon my love.
This really is
Inf--slightly damp, love dost not find
it so?
And am subject unto rheumatic.
think we'll go!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

"A New Haven Comm firm sends
thousands of the red American fox skins
to Russia every year. These skins,
which are used in the Muscovite country
to line costly garments, are contributed
to considerable extent by Maine, Yer
mont and New Hampshire. That we
should send furs to Russia is as odd as
that we should send wines to France
and yet both these things are done. :
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

Mr.. Russell Sage, one of New York's
men of millions, said to a reporter the
other day: eyes, | began at the bottom
of the ladder, in Troy, N. Y. When /
was young man my wife assisted me
to earn living by making collars and
cuffs for Trojan manufacturer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
Mouth Penmanship.

The way in which one-half of the hui
man anatomy can be trained to perform
the functions of another which has been
lost or disabled, says the st. Louis Re-
publican, has seldom had a better IL
Lloyd, of Dalton, Mo-, who has schooled
his mouth to do the legitimate work of
his hands in writing. The writing thus
executed is of the best quality, that
which in other men would be called the
"hand " being free and flowing, with
each letter formed after the most ap-
proved pattern. Mr.. Lloyd is mer-
chant in Dalton, dealing with whole
sale firm in this city. The following
letter written to them, which Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Vermillion keeps as a
curiosity, was yesterday shown by him
to a reporter:
DALTON, Mo.
GENTLEMEN-Your bill of goods of the
9th inst. at hand, for which receive thanks.
On your bill you make comments upon nv
crippled condition, and express regret that
am in that condition of helplessness. for
which am thankful. You also say that YOU
think some public mention Of it would not
be inappropriate. In answer, though not
desiring to bring myself into notoriety, /
will make this statement as % qualification to
my friends: | was member of Capt. Hi.
Bledsoe's battery, under the command OF
Gen. Sterling Price, and at the battle of Lex
ington, Mo-, which occurred on the DIST day
Of September, 1851, 1 lost both my arms
while loading red-hot shot. l have since
then attempted to perform all my duties in
life and bear with patience my affection .
with "never give up the ship' for my mot
to. 1t is true that l write with my mouth
was forced to learn to write thus in order to
conduct my business properly. If this letter
can be Of use to YOU or any others, YOU are
welcome to do with it as you please. YouYs,
very respectfully, II. l.. LLOYD
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRE-
TARY OF THE INTERIOR.

The annual report of Secretary of the In
terror Kirkwood is largely devoted to q fresh
discussion of the "Indian Question" He
strongly recommends that a liberal provision
be made by Congress for teaching the Indian
yonth our language; that upon just terms
to the Indians the number and area
of existing reservations will be greatly
reduced; that such reservations as are
not well adapted to farming, without irriga>
ton, efforts should be made to teach the In
dian to become herdsmen instead of endeavor-
ing to try and make them farmers that Indian
titles to reduced reservations be individualized
and thoroughly protected by law, and that the
more civilized reservation Indians be encouraged
to abandon their tribal relations by setting uP
experimental forms of local government among
them, as nearly alike as may be to the system
of county government prevailing in the States
and Territories in which the reservations are
respectively located.
There are now in tho Statos and Territories
west of the Mississippi River, 1Q2 reservations,
great and small, on which are located in round
numbers 224, 900 Indians. If all the Indians
west of the Mississippi were gathered up on
four or five reservations, our Indian affairs
could be managed with greater economy to the
Government and greater benefit to the Indians.
The Secretary recommends that Congress be
asked to create commission Of
three or four eminent citizens to visit
during the next year reservations west Of
the Mississippi River, Tor the purpose
of recommending to Congress, if they shall
deem it wise, the concentration of Indians on
four OF five reservations, to be selected in diff
ferent parts of the West, on which different
tribes shall be located, and if this SHALL in the
judgment of the Commission, not be wise, then
to recommend the concentration of exist
ing small agencies where that can be properly
done, and the reduction of the area Of others
to dimensions proportionable to the number of
Indians now located thereon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
An Old Time SwIndler.

J. Howard Welles, who threatened to kill
Jay Gould should he refuse to give him pointers
respecting the movements of stocks, it now
turns out, is an old army officer, and at one
time swindled the Government out of between
S1,000,00O and $2,OO0,00O. He was Captain
and Commissary of Subsistence, and was for
long time in charge Of the purchasing depot at
Baltimore and did his swindling in about the
following manner He went to a dealer in
flour, for example, and purchased one thousand
barrels, for which he received vouchers in
duplicate when he paid the money. He filled
out the first voucher in full, but said to the
dealer that his clerk would fill out the duplicate
at his leisure. Welles was so large apurchaser,
and transactions of the kind were so common that
no question was made by dealers Of the pro-
priety of the action. After getting his dupli-
cate vouchers Welles filled out the one signed
in blank, making the purchase appear as ten
thousand barrels, and this raised voucher he
turned into the accounting office. He carried
the ten Thousand barrels on his property returns
and books, and made his books and accounts
agree with scrupulous exactness. 1t was, in
fact, impossible to detect his frauds, except by
checking off his stores, and this was work of
months. When it seemed probable that his
frauds were about to be discovered, he sailed
for Europe, and was never heard of again until
upon the present occasion. When an officer in
the army he spelled his name Wells but now it
appears ho spells it " Welles."
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
OUR INDIAN POLICY.

In his annual report Price, Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs, says at the outset that he de-
sires to ''urge with earnestness the absolute
necessity for thorough and radical change OF
the Indian policy in some respects " and par
ticulars. at must be apparent to the most
casual observer that the system of gathering
Indians in bands or tribes on reservations and
carrying them victuals and clothes, thus reliev-
ing them of tie necessity of labor, never will
and never can civilize them. If white men
were treated we treat the Indians the result
would certainly be a race of worthless vaga-
bonds. 1 wish to call attention to the tact
that in almost every case it Is only non
laboring tribes that go on the war-path. and
stubborn facts of history compel me to say the
Government is largely to blame for this. We
feed the White River murderers, and compel
the peaceable Uintahs to largely care for
themselves. This, of course, induces the In
dians to believe that if they are to get favors
from the Government they must refuse to
work, refuse to be orderly and peaceabie, and
must commit some depredations or murder,
and then q commission will be appointed to
treat with them, and pay them in goods, provi-
sions and money to behave themselves"
The Commissioner recommends the prohibi-
ton of the introduction of liquor on the Indian
Reserves by authority Of the War Department; /;
Incidentally he suggest, as more effectual
remedy for the evil Of drunkenness, that Con-
gress be asked to prohibit the manufacture or
sale of ardent spirits in any of the Territ ories
of the United States) I; and among other things
that laws be enacted to extend to the Indian
Reservations the criminal laws of the States
and Territories in which they are respectively
situated.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
The Irfalu Land Court.

Dublin dispatch of the 14th inst. says :
One of the most remarkable scenes ever wit
messed in connection with the administration of
law in this country was presented at the Office
of the Land Commission Saturday, which was
the last day for receiving applications for re-
duction of rent for November. After this re-
auctions count from the nextrent day in March
or May. Over $4,000 applications were made
during the day and night. The Court sat until
midnight, and applications came from all parts.
One lawyer presented 1, 200 from Ulster; an
other LOCO from Galway, Tipperary and Cork.
About 1 900 came from Kerry, and 200 from Dom
egal. In fact, there was not a county in Ire
land but sent applications. There are now
over 10000 applications before the Commits
sion. Batches of fresh cases came by almost
every train. Curiously enough, among the
latest arrivals, about IL o'clock, was pile from
Parnells own county, Wicklow. Yet it would
be mistake to consider this rush of cases
breakdown of the influence of the League,
Thousands are not paying, although all that
majority of the latter class ask is liber re-
duction. 1t can only be q question of time
when they will come into Court after they find
the Court giving reductions on demand. Mean
while there may be much trouble with the
most contumacious tenants.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
The Fuel OF the Future.

Tho National Gazette makes the fol-
lowing announcement in regard to the
use Of petroleum as fuel: "We shall
soon be able to announce wonderful
stride in the mechanical appliances for
using liquid fuel for generating steam
In both marine and land boilers. The
matter is in the hands Of practical men,
who will soon demonstrate they can
make from twenty-eight TO thirty gal
Ions of crude petroleum, costing from
eighty-fve TO ninety cents, do the work
Of ton OF coal, costing from 81 to
si.25, without dirt or smoke, and when,
as in the case of large steamer carry
ing from forty to forty-five men in the
fire-room, one man in each will be abun-
dautly able to keep up uniform pres
sure Of steam nc all times. Liquid fuel
is the intervening step between coal and
electricity, which will in due season fur
nish motion for the world
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
A Sweet Thing Does 1t up Brown.

A curbstone broker while standing in
the door Of a livery stable on Sixth
street, addressed strange young lady
as "You sweet thing" The sweet
thing turned on her heel as quick as
flash and struck the insolent fellow such
blow with her parasol that she sent
his cigar flying out of his mouth. A
second crash with the sunshade knocked
the conceit so completely out of tho
curbstone fiend that he yelled for mercy,
and dashed away toward one of the horse
stalls for protection. The enraged young
lady followed the coward and demoral-
lied speculator and banged him at every
bound, until in desperation he threw
himself on the floor and almost kicked
the plaster off the ceiling in his efforts
to ward off her blows. After beating the
fellow until She was tired, the "swect
thing" folded the shreds of her parasol
around its bent and battered ribs and
walked away, followed by the prayers
and admiring glanoes of every ono who
had witnessed the atfair.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-11-24
6 TAX NOtiS."

1t sometimes happens that the horny
handed prospector knows little or moth
ing of the forms required by law
when locating a claim, and in such in
stances the honest old boys just drive
ahead and do the best they know how.
A grizzled old bunch of antiquity struck
q lead near Gunnison, Col, and left the
following notice written on an old en-
velope and stuck in split stick:
"TAK NOTISr'
The undersigned CLAIMS this lede with
all its diffs, spurs, angels, sinosities,
ETC., ETC., from this stalk a 100 fete in
each direcshun, the Same being A silver
barring load, and warning is hereby given
to Awl persens to kepe away at their
peril. Any pesons found trespasing on
this. Clame will Be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law. This is no munky
talk butt I will assert my rites at the
point OF the sticks shutter if legally Neces-
sary to talk head and good warming. Ac-
cordin to law post This Notiss.
"JoHN SEARLE."