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The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

LABoURcHERE, of London Truth, says :; Hast week expressed hope that we should soon nave hotel in London run on American principles. l am glad to hear that such a hotel is being built on the site of the Dukes Theater in Holhorn U
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

CouNT JoURDENIL, a descendant of one of the oldest houses of the French legiti- mist nobility, has been arrested for steal ing carriage and pair of horses at Spa. After selling them he quilted the
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

THERE is some talk about removing the President. An attempt was made to re- move Andrew Johnson when he was president, but nothing ever came of it.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

TIE old convent in St. Augustine, Fla, whose buil6ingno man remembers is be- ing demolished to make room for new structures.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

A BosroN paper says that vacant dwelling houses in that city are scarce, and rents are advancing under the fall demand.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

IT is proposed U name a new avenue on the crest of Meridian Hill, from Fourteenth to Nineteenth streets, in Washington, Garfield avenue"
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

THERE are five hundred and eighty five Chinese children in the San Fran cisco public schools.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

THE eggs sold in Cincinnati will this year undoubtedly reach the figure of 5,000,00O dozen, or 6o,000,000 eggs.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22
NOTES OF THE DAY.

TwESTY-FoUR white women have mar ried negroes in Boston in one year.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

CHICAGO Tribune inventions q would like you to make an item to the effect that my war-paint this season will be Sam Tilden with one hand tied behind me."- John Keilg. "So John Kelly has dug ap the hatchet, has he? When l open my fall stock of hardware and cut lery Mir Kelly will think he is imall retail dealer on back street. ."-J. &. Tiden.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

TIE grass widows of Trumbell county, Ohio, are to hold reunion this month.
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22
SECURE A HOME---LANDS! LANDS!!

THE undersigned, agent for the fine grant of | lands made to the Little Rock Fort smith Railway, now offers for ssle any and all the railroad lands lying in Pope county.
 These lands embrace some uery fne tracts, in- cl.ldi,l9 RIVER BOTTOM, PRAIRIE AND UPLANDS, aud aa easy opportunity is Acre offered of securing q chedD fdrm on edsy terms. Correspondeuce solicited from those seeking homes in MILD, HEALTHY CLlMATE, and in new country which is rapidly develop ing, and offers many advantages.
 To those who have Improvements on railroad lands, would say, no time should be lost in coming forward and entering into contract for the same, My instructions. are to sell ANY AND ALL LANDS, and delay in making application may entail loss upon you.
 am prepared to give full information in re- gard tO any of these lands in Pope county.
 Cbme eariy aud enunliHe Dty Plat aud iia of prices and secure q ciedp farm.
 JAMES POTTS, Agent. Russellville, Ark,
The Russellville Democrat., 1881-09-22

xA bibbed apron IS worn flower on hunting expeditions.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07

Shiek Ell Mochsen, a holy man directly
descended from the great prophet of Islam,
has just died in Tunis. lie never wore. any
other garment than woolen shirt and
always slept on the roof of his 'hoase. He
was grave and abstemious man, and yet
his favorite pastime was the damaging OF
his neighbours house property. Every now
and again he would sally forth from his own
dwelling, armed with crowbar, and pro-
ceed in the most solemnly energetic manner
to pry large hole in the wall of some
mansion which happened to have taken his
fancy. AS soon as he had completed his
self-set task the inhabitants of the perfora-
ted abode quilted it, and it became his prop
erty, the original owner being literally in
demnified by the Bey for all loss incurred.
Whenever Ell Mocsen called upon the Bey,
His Highness greeted him with kiss upon
the cheek, an honor seldom accorded by the
great man to his own near relatives. Every
body in Tunis was afraid of the holy man;
which, considering the character of his
amusements, is scarcely to be wondered at;
and his death produced an extraordinary
sensation throughout the city. lie had
scarcely breathed his last when his woolen
shirt was carried to the Bey, who, with adj
mirable self denial, declined to keep the
whole of so invaluable relic. but had it
cut into pieces, one of which he kept, dis
tributing the remainder among his great
officers of state
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
CARLYLE'S "REMINISCENCES.

"By special arrangement" with the Amer
ican public, the Literary Revolution will is
sue beautiful Acme edition. elegant cloth
binding, of the "Reminiscences of Thomas
Carlyle" price 30 cents, postage cents
and it can be had Of the nearly 2000 book
sellers who are agents of the Literary Revo-
luton in all parts of the United States.
Thomas Carlyle, more than any other
man of the nineteenth century, taught the
American public. and people of good sense
throughout the world, to despise pretense
and humbug, whether exhibited by monarch
or menial. Sensible people who want a
good book at an honest price will buy it
where they find it. There is in this country
no law which gives to foreign author, as
it gives to an American, the right of the
monopoly of the publicatian of his book.
If publishers choose to pay a foreign author
anything, they can doit only as ''donation,"
because he can give them in return no pro-
lection from competition. Readers have
the privilege of making such donation, if
they choose to do so without paying it to
the publishers and trusting to the possibility
Of their paying it to the author for them.
There is no donation included in the price
above named. Readers who want to COM
bne possible donation, and positive
price, can get an edition of this same book
from other publishers at from two to eight
times the price. Address for catalogue,
American Book Exchange, Publishers, New
York.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
BURBANK'S POLYTECHNICS.

Mr.. A. P. Burbank, so pleasantly remem-
bered for his delightful humorous and dialect
readings, few years ago, brings to us on
Wednesday, the 18th inst, an entertainment
of a high order of excellence, and an entire
novelty in the line of stage presentations.
The first part of the evening is devoted by
Mr.. Burbank to his regular Humorou, and
Dramatic Recitals, and in this field he stands
without a rival. Later in the evening come
the new features, consisting of the most
beautiful and striking dramatic and descrip-
tive poems, songs, legends and stories, pro-
fusely illustrated by the most noted artists
of the world. the pictures being thrown up
on large screen by means of the Phaedro
scope, as Mr.. Burbank recites the lines.
The possibilities of this entertainment
may perhaps be measured by the fact that
the Shaksperean recitals are illustrated hy
fac-similes enlarged to heroic size, of pic
lures that cost for one edition of the great
poet. $500, 900 to produce.
A world of beautiful illustration of the
worlds best thought and fancy, and present
ed in Mr.. Burbank's happy manner is in
store for the patrons of the Polytechnic at
Music Hall on next Wednesday night.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
The elopement of an Omaha schoolmis.

The elopement of an Omaha schoolmis-
tress with pupil about third of her age,
resulted in what the pair claim is perfectly
happy marriage, though the boys parents
are trying to bring about a separation. In
Pittsburg case the disparity in ages was Of
the reverse kind, the man being sixty and
the girl sixteen. After being joined by a
clergyman they took lodgings at hotel.
where son of the bridegroom found and
separated them, compelling the old man to
go home. A Utica couple had a married
man for its male half, and in the pocket of
the girl, when her parents overlook her, was
his written promise to marry her as soon as
he obtained divorce from his wife. A De-
troit man eloped with and married two girls,
believing that their knowledge and consent
would make his polygamy harmless in the
eye of the law; but he has been made aware
of his mistake by arrest as bigamist. A
girl whose mother kept a boarding house at
St. Thomas, Ontario, did not desire to e!ope
without her wardrobe. So she induced her
sweetheart to engage board at the house
and bring i'll two empty trunks, in which
her clothes wero surreptitiously packed
When all was ready the boarder moved out
with his baggage, taking the girl along.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
THE STATE SCHOOL TAX.

Comptroller Anderson has completed the
apportionment of the State school tax for
the current year under the law passed at the
last session of the Legislature. This law
changes the manner of determining the
amount of tax to be raised each year, by
providing that instead of tax of two mills
upon each dollar of the taxable property in
the State there shall be raised sum equal
to four dollars for each child in the State
between the ages of five and eighteen years,
as shown by the last school census, and that
this tax shall be apportioned by the Comp
troller to the several counties on the basis of
the taxable property as shown by the last
abstract of ratables. Under this act the
amount of tax to be raised this year is one
million three hundred and twenty-five thou
sand seven hundred and forty dollars ISL,
322, 740), there being $50. 6S5 school children
in the State. The amount of taxable prop
erty in the State as assessed in 1880, is $5lS,
1918 81, and the amount in each county
rs we'll as the amount of tax apportioned to
the respective counties is shown by the fol-
loUipu Statauopt.-
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
A law recently passed by the Legislature,
nd which ha q haen siuned nv the GovernOr

A law recently passed by the Legislature,
and which has been signed by the Governor.
is intended to greatly benefit employees in
cases of the bankruptcy of their employers.
The law provides that the employees who
have not received their wages when receiver
is appointed, may request the judge or the
Chancellor who appointed the receiver, to
have their wages paid at once. The law
then directs the judge or Chancellor to refer
the matter to some Master in Chancery to
ascertain how much is due to the employee.
This Master then reports to the court which
thereupon issues an order to the receiver
requiring him to sell at once enough of the
property of the bankrupt firm, if there is
not enough cash on hand, and pay the en-
ployees without further delay. 1t will be
seen that thus the employees can get their
pay within day or two after the bank
ruptcy of their employers, and they will not
be compelled to walt weeks, months and
sometimes years before they secure it.
The new law provides that the employees
shall be paid first, and that their claim shall
have precedence over the claims of any
other creditor. The justice of tho law and
the great benefit accruing Hereunder to the
laboring classes is apparent.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
CUMBERLAND
Mutual Fire Insurance Go.

The Cumberland Mutual Fire Insurance Com
papy, a. the meeting of the Board OF Directors held
on Thursday, the 10th day of March. 1881, the fol-
lowing was adopted
After thirty years business in which the
collection of the cash deposit In ten years has
paid all losses and expenses of the Company, the
prevalence of incendiary fires which the Company
has suffered directly and indirectly within the past
few years. having exhausted the reserve fund.- there
is now need to call on the deposit notes.
1t is therefore ordered that on all policies for the
term of ten years that have been issued more than
one full year; on all notes upon which five per
cent was paid at their ISSUE two and One-half per
cent. be assessed; on all notes upon which ten per
cent was paid at issue OF policy, five per cent. be
assessed-being one-half of the original cash de-
posit on every policy; and on policies i-sued for
five years. the Fourth part of the original cash
deposit be assessed.
1t will thus be seen that the amount collected on
each will be very small, while the pumber of mem
bers aud amount of notes, will make such fund
as by our experience of the past another call may
never be Leeded
Payment to be made on OF before the 18th day OF
May next at the Office of company, or as may be
otherwise designated
81. B. LUPTON, Secretary.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
THREE THOUSAND LIVES LOST.

a strong shock of earthquake at Scio in
the island of that name, on Monday. de-
stroyed many houses and seriously damaged
nearly all which were left standing. Later
details say that many of tue Inhabitants
ere killed and that the remainder are en-.
camped in the fields. Many of the neigh
boring villages were destroyed. During
the panic which ensued the Eastern Tele-
graph Company's Office was pilaged. Shocks
were also felt in the Island of SYRIA and at
Smyrna, but no damage is reported. The
effects were also felt at Tsesme, and the
number Of persons who were killed and in
jured is estimated at 5000. The shock was
also felt at Carasto, Eubola and at Timos.
At Syra one house fell
The Island OF Scio, which has been so ia
tally shaken, is possession of Turkey, off
the west coast of Asia Minor, and four miles
west Of Cape Banco. from which it is sepa-
rated by the Strait of Scio. The length of
the island from north to south is 80 miles,
and its greatest breadth is 1S miles. It's
area is sos square miles. The surface is
very much diversified. Scio is naturally one
of the richest and most beautiful islands of
the Levant. Tho principal products are
wine of superior quality, mastic, silk, wool,
cheese, figs, lemons, oranges and other fruits
Less corn has usually been raised than is re-
quired for home consumption. Previous to
1892 this island was the best governed and
most prosperous in the Grecian Archipelago
and had thriving silk manufactures and
considerable trade with Constantinople,
Syria and Egypt, but in the above year.
some of its inhabitants having Joined the
Samians in their revolt, nearly all the pop
ulation, comprising from 1870, 900 to 130, 900
persons, were massacred or sold into slavery,
and the buildings and plantations were for
the most part destroyed. Within months
90, 200 Sciotes, without distinction of age or
sex, were put to the sword, $4,000 were sold
into slavery, and 5000 sought safety in other
parts of Greece. By the end of August of
that year the former Christian population Of
104. 900 was reduced to 2,O00, and since then,
although there have been other efforts to
dispute the supremacy of the Turks, the
crescent has still remained in the ascendant.
Scio, or Kostro, the capital, is near the mid
die of the east coast, and in 1875 had pop
ulation of IA, 500. 1t las harbor, is de-
Tended by castle, and manufactures velvet,
silk and cotton.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
FUN AHEAD. THE CIRCUS rs
COMING

Our citizens may all prepare for Grand
Holiday on Tuesday, April 18th, that being
the date advertised for the Exhibition by
Batcheller and Doris Great Inter-Ocean
Largest Show on earth, at Bridgeton. This
gigantic consolidation OF 10 Colossal shows
in one, has been absorbing by purchase for
the past three years all the smaller shows in
the country, and has increased in size so
suddenly that the public have scarcely ascer-
tanned the fact which is undisputed that the
Batcheller and Doris Combination now own,
control and exhibit more show property than
any other similar organization in the coun-
try. They make specially of advertis-
ing and exhibiting exclusive features and
novelties which cannot be duplicated or seen
in any other show, and in addition to an i'm
mense menagerie and museum and circus,
such as possessed by none of the other
shows, call attention to sCme features which
have never before been exhibited, such as
the seven ton, two-horned, black hairy, Rhi-
noceros. the only one ever imported to Amer
lea; not the only Rhnoceros, remember, but
the only one possessing two horns and Gov
cred with n coat of black hair two and a
half inches long; also. the wonderful mon
ster of the deep, genuine Egyptian Bova-
apus, which they positively assert is the
only one ever in captivity and recently i'm
captured in the Mediterranean, off the coast
of Alexandria, Egypt. These two rare ZOO
logical specimens have already attracted the
attention of scientists, and will probably
only be exhibited with travelling menag-
erie the present season. Almost fabulous
snms have been offered Messrs. Batcheiler
& Doris to secure them for one Of the lead
ing geological gardens. Another exclusive
feature possessed by no other show is ZaZel,
better known as the Human Cannon Ball.
who is fired from massive mortar seventy
five feet into md-air, and afterwards walks
a wire the size OF knitting needle, stretched
across the top of the canvass. Her perform
ances are pronounced by all who have seen
them as the mCst exciting and miraculous
ever witnessed. In addition to these novel
ties, they have the only group of Native
Zulus ever in this country, a genuine band
of savage Sioux Warriors, direct from Sit.
ting Bulls Band, Prince Satsuma's Royal
japanese Troupe of Athletes, Jugglers AID
Necromaucers, Morris Band of Georgia
Jubilee Singers, Mdle Sara, the renowned
French Bareback Equestrian (first appear
ance in America), Romeo Sebastian, Cham
piOn Bareback Rider of America, w. j.
Morgan, the fearless Hurdle Rider, the Gel
ebrated Siegrist Children in Gymnastc exer-
cises, and Grand Double Circus Company,
all exceeding in their various specialties.
The Grandest Street Demonstration, free to
all, ever witnessed in this country will be
made at 8 O'Clock on the morning of exhi-
bition, and will actually eclipse anything of
the kind you ever saw. Excursion trains
will be run on all railroad and steamboat
lines at greatly reduced rates of fare, to
bring in the multtudes.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
We have received from Rev. J. E. La

We have received from Rev. J. E. Lake,
of Seabright, N. J., copy Uf the ''Ocean
City Annual" containing th, first annual
report of the President of the Ocean City
Association. 1t is a pamphlet full Of valu-
able information. We clip tho following
from its pages:
"Ocean City has strand drive seven
miles long, and 200 feet wide at low tide,
hard and smooth. Ocean avenue, running
along the front of this magnificent ground,
is 20 feet wide, giving an unobstructed view
of the surf, like the famous drive at Long
Branch.
1t is located in Cape May County, N. j.,
about six miles south of Atlantic City and
fifty nine miles from Philadelphia, and has
been known hitherto as Peck's Beach. 1t
has frontage on the Atlantic Ocean Of
about seven miles, conceded to be the finest
beach on the coast for bathing and driving.
Great Egg Harbor Bay and Thoroughfare
Sound, which separate it from the main
land. afford. without exception, the finest
fishing and boating privileges on the Allan
tic coast -
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
NEW CHANCERY REGULATIONS.


Chancellor Runyon has made the follow
ing rules and appointments, which are of
interest to the Bar of this city and State:
Rule No. 209-Hereafter it shall not be
necessary for defendant, in order to obtain
affirmative relief i'll the suit, where he could
obtain it by means of cross bill, and do, s
not require an answer on oath, to file such
bill, but he may set up in his answer matter
which would be the prol er subject of a
cross bill and pray and obtain relief in and
on the answer. The matter set up as a
cross claim must in the answer be prefaced
by a statement that it is set up as cross
claim. Where the cross claim is made
against codefendant, copy of the answer
shall be served on such codefendant in five
days from the date of filing.
Rule 210--Any objection to bill or an
swer or any part thereof may be made and
adjudicated upon a motion, without the
filing of IL demurrer or exceptions; but the
notice of such motion (Which shall be ar
eight days notice. must state the particular
ground Ur grounds Of objection.
Appointments-Mo will hereafter un-
til other order, be heard as follows:
Alternately by the Chancellor and one OF
the Vice Chancellors, at the Vice Chancel-
lor's Chambers, in Newark. on every Mon
day, beginning with the 4th of April, 1881.
Alternately by the Chancellor and one of
the Vice Chancellors, at the State House in
Trenton, on every Tuesday, beginning with
the 5th of April, 1881.
Except during the sessions of the Court
of Errors and Appeals and the Summer va
cation, motions will be heard by one of the
Vice Chancellors as follows:
At Jersey City, at the Law Library rooms,
on every alternate Tuesday, beginning with
April 10Th, 1881.
At Camden, at place to be provided, on
every alternate Wednesday, beginning with
April 18th, 1881.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07

The story is told in English journals of a
young woman who answered an advertise
ment for an English governess to reside
abroad. In reponse she received call from
lady who informed her that the position
was in St. Petersburg, where three children
were to lie taught. Inquiry at the Russian
Embassy in London was satisfactory, and
the young woman was taken to St. Peters
burg, and, greatly to her surprise, to the
Winter Palace, where apartments were
assigned her, and she was received the next
day by the Gar, the Princess Dolgourouki
and their three children, whom she was in
formed she was TO teach. The sudden
death of the Emperor occurred ten days
later, and the young lady has been thereby
thrown out Of the position she SO siugularly
cecurad
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
The report which is going the rounds of

The report which is going the rounds of
the State papers that Henry c. Kelsey and
Henry s. Little had purchased the True
american, the Democratic organ at Trenton,
and were about 20 placce it under the edito-
rial control of VIM. S. Sharp, Esq, is alto
gether untrue. Mr.. Sharp is not that sort
of man. He is Republican at all times
and under all circumstances, stalwart of
the stalwsrts. There is no danger of his
ever wanting to edit Democratic news
paper. The item was probably started by
some person who desires to injure Mr.. Sharp
in business way. The designing party,
whoever be may be, has failed in his object.
VIM. S. Sharp is not only one of our best
Republicans, but he has the finest printing
establishment in Jersey. and is doing more
first-class job printing than any other half
a-dozen Offices in the State.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07
GENERAL NOTICE.

Reader, if you owe us for subscription,
job work or advertising, please consider this
notice a personal appeal to PAY UP. Pay
ments have been extremely slow this Winter.
Our pocket-book needs ''stuffing' now
worse than does a turkey at Christmas.
Between this date and April first there are
a good many dollars that we want paid in.
You owe us; we have earned the money,
and now want it. Any subscriber who is
not more than one year in arrears need not
consider this notice intended for him. We
are after tn. old timers. Fork over.
March 9Th, 1881.
The above item from the Hunterdon
Democrat is pointed, but deserves perusal.
Those of our subscribers who have not paid
what they owe tho printer will confer a
favor by taking this advice, and settling up
old scores.
West-Jersey pioneer., 1881-04-07

A dispatch from Cannelton, Ind, says :
s.News has been received of the killing of
Richard Welch by his son, Montgomery
Welch, at Derby, Perry County, Sunday
evening. The father had fired several shots
ing he met Montgomery and his mother,
who were returning from visit to lawyer
for the purpose of prosecuting Welch. The
father drew revolver and said one must
die. The son shot first and the father fell
dead. The deceased man was farmer in
good circumstances