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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02
DYING In SecInsian.


There died recently in secluded, but
richl appointed home, a few miles from
Cincinnati, man of singularly romantic
and eventful career, whose acquaintance
the best people in several CITIES years
ago were proud to own. His Name was
James Robb, and his business, when in
active life, that Of q banker. OF humble
Pennsylvania birth, he aspired to pos
sess great wealth and to dispense it with
refined and lavish hand. Before
reaching his fortieth year the dream
was in process of dazzling realization.
Four great banking houses In New Or.
leans, st. Louis, New York and London
were his. In New Orleans q museum
covering half square was built and be-
came the scene of the most extended
and bountiful hospitality ever known in
this country. The collections of art
works which it contained were remark
able, not only from their number and
variety, but for the refined taste, exhited
by the owner. During this period he
was abroad portion of each rear and
formed the acquaintance of many dis
tinguished Europeans. With the Queen
of Spain singular friendship was
formed, and it was through their.
joint enterprise and investments
that the city of Havana was
supplied with gas. One of his daugh-
ters married Spanish noblernan. In
1867, while abroad, and during a great
business depression, his banks failed.
fastening home he promised his credit:
ors who would give him time to settle
dollar for dollar, and the promise was
fulfilled. He was opposed to the war
and wrote many articles in support of
his views, and when it was seen that war
was inevitable, moved to the North and
lived in afduence in New York and Chi
cago. He was at one time the President
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad and
placed it upon paying basis. Some
years ago, desiring to go into retirement
he purchased and fitted upthe secluded
home where dsath overlook him. The
house contains many rare works of art
and a fine library. He lived almost
alone. The few of his old friends who
invaded his retirement were treated
with the same old hospitality and were
urged to protract their visits. To such
he would say, IT have learned to love
seclusion and I'm satisfied with books.
But it is believed that learning to feel
thus after life of such great activity
cost him struggle that shortened his
DAYS.
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Foreign NEWS.

The harvest in England has been hampered
by cold winds and heavy rains, and the crop
will be below the average.
AN Arab fanatic who ran amuck" through
the streets of Susa, calling on the Arabs to join
him in holy war. was brought before the hey
Of Tunis, who had him hanged forthwith.
STANLEY, the explorer, is reported to be lying
dangerously i'll in Africa, and to have little
faith in his recovery.
ACairo Egypt dispatch says that news has
been received at Soudan Of an affray between
the population and the soldiery, caused by the
preaching of false prophet. One hundred and
twenty Egyptian soldiers were killed.
THE French elections have resulted in an
overwhelming victory for the republicans The
irreconcilables and advanced radicals were
beaten on every hand and the Bonapartists also
suffered.
The ameer of Afghanistan is actively organ
izing fresh army and the hill tribes are join
ing his standard. Ayoob Khan, the pretender,
has issued proclamation in which no styles
himself as the conqueror and ameer of Afghan
istan.
The annual harvest reports for Europe and
America, prepared by M. Estienne, of Paris,
show that in France wheat is below the aver
age in England wheat is ten per cent. below
the average barley ten per cent. above and
oats twenty per cent below the average; in
Austria and Hungary the crops are good /; in
the Danubian provinces of Turkey there is an
average crop; in Russia wheat is good and
barley an excellent crop; in Germany the crops
are below the average, and the same is true OF
he crops in Belgium, Spain, Italy and Switzer-
land.
AMONG recent arrests in Russia is that Of an
officer of the general staff who is accused of
betraying the governments plans to the
Nihilists. Although the prisons are filed with
persons accused of political crimes very few
are brought to trial.
THE body of French aeronaut, who assembled
in balloon from Montpelier, was found few
days afterward on the sea coast, frightfully
mutilated.
A LONDON dispatch says that the Archbishop
of Canterbury orders the clergy to offer special
prayers for the harvest, as there is in many
parts of the country reason for much anxiety.
FROM 100 to 800 natives are dying daily of
Asiatic cholera at Bangkok, Siam.
DURING landslip in the village of Tatarini,
Moldavia, sixty-ive houses disappeared, but no
lives were lost.
FOURTEEN thousand men are at work on the
Mexican Central railroad, and seventy five
miles Of track have been completed.
CANADA's total customs revenue during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1881, was s1s,-
500, ia
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" Gooa for FIies.v

'sSay, do you know what's good for
fies?" queried Woodward avenue
butcher as he entered drug store the
other day.
81 guess I can put you up something
for about quarter, was the reply.
When the dose was ready the butcher
was told to pour it out on plates and
set them on the counter, and he hur-
ried it away to give it trial. In about
an hour he sent for the druggist to come
over. The ten thousand flies in the
shop before the dose was fixed had been
multiplied by four.
Great lands but Tn being carried
off by flies r. exclaimed the butcher as
he waved a long knife around his head.
well, why don't you get something
to kill 'em OFF,
Didn't I, but it hasn't killed one.''
''Of course It hasn't. You wanted
something good for flies, and I gave
you clarified SYRUP It's the best stuff
to draw flies and keep 'em contented
ever heard Of. Why didn't you tell me
you wanted Hy-killer Detroit Free
Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02
jefferson DAVIS Library.

The following is from an interview of
a Philadelphia Press reporter with Mr..
Davis, at the Iatter's home "Here Mr..
Davis arose, put on his hat, and invited
me to walk over to his workshop. We
passed down the steps together, and a
walk of a few yards brought us to the
cottage to the left of the house. He
threw open the doors, so as to give free
access to the fresh sea breeze which was
blowing off the Gulf, and we took
seats in the cozy little library, which
Mr. Davis had fitted up for himself,
where he could have perfect quiet. The
tables were filed full of papers, great
punches of private letters lay about, and
many other evidences of work were
everywhere apparent. The walls were
neatly decorated with pictures, and an
easy lounge sat in one corner of the
room.
Hanging over the mantel-piece was
the large engraving of the Christian
martyrs being fed to the wild beasts in
the Coliseum at Rome, and the angels
lowering over the scene to receive their
spirits. To the left was an old painting
of great value, its beautiful lines almost
obliterated by times representing the
scenes Of the Orucifixion. To the left
was the only portrait of military officer
that saw about Mr.. Davis home, and
that was of Albert Sydney Johnston.
This hung in a neat frame little to the
right of where the ex president sat
while at work. Over the mantel-piece
and upon the walls were many small
photographs of friends tastefully ar
ranged, and the whole place wore an
| air of quiet comfort.
"sThis is my Workshop said Mr..
Davis, when we were quietly seated and
he had given me cigar and lighted one
| for himself. Most of my books here,
he continued, glancing around the room,
are reference works; my best literary
works are in the house. | cast my eyes
over the well-filled shelves, finding the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Appleton's
Encyclopedias, the Annals of Congress,
the State Papers, the abridgments of
the debates Of Congress, and q thousand
other well-known works fit for reference
or study.
"It was apparent enough that this was
the favorite place of the man who had
borne SO conspicuous part in the his
tory of the country, and who sat in the
midst of these works often dreamingly
looking off on the waters of the Gull
when not busy with his pen. Perhaps
the most marked feature of the little
library is the number of military works
that crowd its shelves. Almost every
prominent book written upon the war is
there, more or less decorated with bits
of papers between the leaves, showing
that they have all played something o.
part IN the production of The Rise
and Fall of the Confederate Government.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.


An ithaca On. - paper publishes detailed
charges to the effect that Shinkel, the Cornell
stroke, was in league with certain betting men
and that he sold the Vienna race in accord
ance with that arrangement.
FROM some mysterious clews received New
York detective agency was led to believe that
the body of A. T. Stewart was buried in an
obscure part of a Brooklyn cemetery, and a
vigorous search was instituted, but without
success.
New York capitalists are taking steps to
give the city an underground rapid transit
railroad
GREENBAcK State conventions were held on
the same day in Utica N. T., and at Worcester,
Mass. The New York convention nominated a
ticket headed by Epenetus Howe for secretary
of state, and the Massachusetts ticket has at
its head Israel w. Andrews for governor The
platforms of both conventions repudiate and
stigmatize the two old parties, monopolies
generally, national banks railroads, etc., and
generally conform to the previous Greenback
platforms.
AT the convention of the Pennsylvania Asso-
citation of Deaf Mutes at Harrisburg addresses
were delivered by Governor Hoyt and ex-
Governor Curtin, both of whom complimented
the deaf mutes ON the marked progress they
had made in mastering the silent language.
THE National Prohibition Alliance, through
its president, the Rev. H. A. Thompson, D. d.,
late candidate for President on the Pro-
hibition ticket, and secretary, Mrs. NJ. McClel-
land Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa, has issued call
for national conference of Prohibitionists in
New York, October IS and 10.
ONE of the buildings of the powder manufac-
tory Of Watson, Burrell & Co., at Warren, Me-,
containing nearly a ton of fine sporting powder,
exploded the other day, demolishing the build
ing and blowing in the ends Of the packing
house and of two other buildings filed with
powder. Samuel Mank, of Warren, who was at
work in the building, was blown nearly 400 feet
and instantly killed.
FIVE thousand barrels of beer and other prop
erty worth $4,000 were destroyed by fire in a
Philadelphia brewery.
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Alaska's Burial Customs.

The dead body is laid on logs or sticks
of timber raised couple of feet from
the ground and then covered in with
other timbers and stones, giving the
whole structure somewhat the appear
ance of a square pen or pile, with up
right posts or sticks at the angles. On
these funeral piles are placed one or
more mementoes of the departed, gem
orally some implement or weapon used
by the dead man or woman in lifetime ;
in the case of a hunter, the weapon in
the use of which he excelled. Upon
one mausoleum saw rife, bidark0,
seine, spears, arrows, darts, ETC.; and
upon the bier of q female was placed q
kantag, a wooden bowl or dish used to
contain food. Such articles are relig-
iously devoted to this purpose, even
though they are all the properly left by
the deceased. A widow may be in want
and son without rife or a seine with
which to procure subsistence, but the
burial customs of the tribe must not be
neglected. These mementoes are never
disturbed by the superstitious natives,
but, left to bleach and rust through the
A1OV1o S0doOilc3 GRADUALLY SO w etcChJ
The wooden parts of the funeral pile
rot away, leaving the bones of the dead
exposed to view. I saw one such case,
where the grinning skull looked out
between the cracks of his crumbling
prison, seeming to invite the raids Of
the bone sharp. But the bodies OF the
dead are not always treated with consid-
Grafton. Sometimes they are rudely
thrown out upon the tundra and left to
be destroyed by dogs or wolves. A case
of this kind occurred near one of the
stations here. An Indian woman died
in a tent, and when the Indians were
ordered to take the body away they
threw it out upon the adjacent tundra
and left it as food for birds of the all
and beasts of the feld.-Sa,e Francisco
Chronicle.
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springfield Mass. Republican,

In one of our New England exchanges
We observe that VIM. I. Filley, Esq,
Attorney at Law and Asst. Judge Police
Court, and late County Commissioner.
was restored to perfect health and ac-
tiyity by the use of st. Jacobs Oil. He
had suffered with rheumatism for years
intensely; but by the recent use Of the
remedy he was, as stated, completely
cured, and says the Oil deserves the
highest praise.
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IGonvernaur IN. " Herald. ]

With great pleasure we can recon-
mend as radical cure for rheumatism
st. Jacobs Oil. This wonderful remedy
has been extensively used by large
number of people who daily testify to
its marvellous effects.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02
REsCuEn FROM nEArH.

William Cough1in, of Somerville. Mass, says: Ii
the fall of 1876 taken with bleeding of the lungs
followed by severe cough. Host my appetite and
flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 WIS ad.
mitted to the hospital The doctors said had hole
in my lung as big as half-doIlsr. At one time re-
port went around that was dead. / gave up hope
but friend told me of Dr. WILLIAM HALL's BALsAN
FOR THE LUNGS. 1 got bottle, when to my surprise
commenced to feel better, and to-day feel better
than for three years past write this hoping every
one afflicted with diseased lungs viii take DIR. W.T.
LIAM HALI's BALsAM, and be convinced that con-
SUMPTION CAN BE CURED. can positively say it has
done more good than all the other medicines have
taken since my sickness.
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In the case Of Captain Howgate, charged with
embezzIement from the government civil
action for $101, 900 has been brought, and all
his real and personal property seized by the
marshal's officers.
GEonoE W. RIcas, the well-known Washing
ton banker, died the other day, aged sixty-eight
years.
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No man can do good job Of work, preach a
good sermon, try law suit well, doctor patient
or write good article when he feels miserable
and dull, with sluggish brain and unsteady
nerves, and none should make the attempt In
such condition, when it can be SO easily and
cheaply removed by little Hop Bitters. See
C Truthsn and sfProverbs.n other column.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prostration
and all forms of general debility relieved by
taking MENsMAN's PERFORMED BEEF Tonic, tho
only preparation of beef containing it's entire
nutritious properties. Itcontains blood-making,
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties
is Invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether
the result Of exhaustion, nervous prostration,
overwork, or acute disease, particularly il
resulting from pulmonary complaints CaswelI,
Hazard & Co. proprietors, New York
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vegetine.
A Home in the Celestial City.
MINNEAPOLIS, MIMI, December IS, 1878.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, December 49, 1878.
81. R. STEVENS, Boston:
doctor gave me some poisonous medicine, drove the
disease into leg, and it broke out, and has been
from two to ten running sores ever since. could
not sleep fourth of mig hit in six months and
great many nights was compelled to get up and take
opium-a piece as large pea-to deaden the pain.
l have tried everything could hear Of; in fact,
have paid out hundreds of dollars, and found no
relief until commenced taking VEGETINE and now
can go to bed at eight o'clock at night and sleep
until seven O'Clock in the morning. and no occasion
to waken from pain. was used up perfectly dead
inwardly, and frequently when would get up would
be dizzy, and have to put my hand on something to
keep from falling; but since commenced taking
VEGETINE it has all disappeared, and feel like aael0
man. My honest conviction is that it VIII cure my
leg entirely, from the present looks and feelings.
shall continue taking VEGETINE, and recommend it
to all whom come across: and hope the man who
introduced yEGETINE into the United States will have
a home in the Celestial City.
W. s. LEACH.
Mr.. Leach is gentleman well known here, and is
the owner of the celebrated Turbine Water Wheel
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

Rev. G. A. Harvey, D. D., is the popular tinar-
ciai secretary Of Howard University, aud is
specially fitted TO judge of merit and denlerit
In recent letter from Washington to q friend
he said g have for two years past been ae-
quainted with the remedy known as Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and with lis re-
markable curative efficiency in obstinate and
SO called ineurable cases of Bright's disease in
this city. In some Of these cases, which seemed
to be in the last stages, aud which had been
given up by practitioners of both schools the
speedy change wrought by this remedy seemed
but little less than miraculous. I am con-
WINGED that for Brghts Disease in all its stages,
including the first symptoms, which seem so
slight, but are SO dangerous, no remedy hereto
fore discovered can be held for one moment in
comparison with this''
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

When a person makes it hot for you,
there is consolation in the fact that a
GOODNESS is apt to follow. Statesman.
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UNITED STATES HOTEL,
ANDREW E. VOORHEES,, : Prop'r
West Side the Park,
MORRISTOWN, N. J.

This Hotel so favorably known through
Gus the State, has passed into the charge of
the undersigned, whose long experience in
the business warrants the assurance os
knowing how to satisfactorily cater to the
wants of the travelling public. Three years
experience at the Mansion House, this
city, affords me thorough appreciation of
the requirements and wants of the resi~
dents of this and neighhoring counties A
good table, well stocked bar and attentive
servants, will insure comfort and conven-
fence to both permanent and transient
guests.
ANDREW E. VOORHEES,,
United States Hotel
e. Good Livery Stable in the rear,
ana AN Omnibus from the Hotel meets ey~
cry train.
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SCOVILL'S
Blood e LIVBR SYRUP,

q peerless remedy for ScrofuIa, White
SWellings, Cancer, Erysipelas, GOut,
Chronic Sores, Syphilis, TumOrs,
Carbuncles, Salt RhegH, Malaria,
Bilious Complaints, and all diseases
indicating an Impure Condition Of
the Blood. This Grand Remedy is q
compound Of vegetable extracts, the
chief Of which are SARSAPARILLA
and STILLINGIAs The cures effected
by SCOVILL'S BLOOD AND LIVER
SYRUP are absolute. and their
record is undisfigured by failure.
For sale by all Druggists.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

If you want to make seaside hotel.
keeper as mad as Texas steer, circu-
late report that q shark has been seen
near his bathing grounds.
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WARRANTED FOR 81 YEARS
AND NEVER FAILED

AND NEVER FAILED
TO CURE Group, Spasms, Diarrhea, Dysentery and
Sea Sickness. taken internally, and GUARANTEED
perfectly harmless. also externally Cuts Bruises
Chronic Rheumatism, Old Sores, Pains in the limbs
back and chest. Such a remedy is DR.. TOBIAS
VENETIAN IMMINENT.
gE No one once trying it Will ever be without it;
over 600 physicians use It.
25 Cents will Buy Treatise upon the
Horse and his Diseases Book of 100 pages. Valuable
TO every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken
Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION,
$50 Worth Street. New York.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

On train from Florence to Pisa
robbery of $4,000 was committed by
brigands last month.
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vEeETINE is now prescribed in cases Of Scrofula,
and other diseases Of the blood by many of the best
physicians owing to its great success in curing all
diseases of this nature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02
Is Gents win Buy

Treatise upon the Horse and bis Diseases.
Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner
Of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent post
paid by New York Newspaper Union, $50 Worth
Street New York
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

A fight of white butterflies that filed
the air ike snowfakes was seen recently
in South Florida.
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Diseases multiply beget one another. For
instance, in c0mpanionship with dyspepsia ore
usually found biligusness and constipation. A
trivial tsocalled) indispositioh, If disregarded,
grows apace, and growing gives rise to others.
Thus the whole body gets out Of order, the
nervous system Is shattered, and strength
and flesh rapidly wane. Prompt medication,
therefore, is of the utmost importance. Among
medicinal means Of arresting disease, Hostel.
ter's Stomach Bitters stands eminent. It
checks the further progress Of all disorders of
the stomach, liver and bowels, reviVes the vital
stamina prevents and remedies chills and fevef.
increases the activity of the kidneys, counter
acts tendency to rheumatism, and is gen
uine stay and sOlace TO aged, infrm and nery-
GUS persons. The article Is moreover derived
from the purest and most reliable sources.
There never were so many Americans
In London as at the present time, and
the innkeepers are correspondingly
happy.
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vEeEr1NE. For eradicating al impurities OIL
the blood from the system it has no equal Il
has never failed to effect cure, giving tone and
strength to the system debilitated by disease.
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a ministerial Statement.

Austin, Tex, has a. female deputy
sheriff.
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new RICH BLOOD!

pnrnOnA' YWrgntIVe FlIIA make New flch
Blood and will completely change the blood In the
entire system in three months. ANY person who
Will take one pill each night 'FRONT.' to 2weeks may be
restored to sound health if such thing be possible
Sold everywhere or sent by man for letter stamps
|. S. JOHNSON & Co.,, Boston, Mass.'
formerly Bangor, Me.
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out rats. mice, reaches, dies, bed-bugs. 15c.
See advertisement of P. o. Vickery for agents
in another column. Mr.. Vickery is Mayor Of
the city of Augusta, Maine, which is a suro
guarantee that all will be Justly dealt with
The soft and silky appearance given to the
hair by the use Of CARBoLINE, the natural hair
restorer and DRESSING as now improved and per-
fected, is the subject of general remark by all
who have witnessed its effects.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-09-02

Kangaroo tail soup is now canned in
Australia and exported in great quaint.
ties