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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30
For Young Readers.
SANTA CLAUS WIFE.

Much you have heard about old Santa Claus,
But naught, L think, of his good-natured
wife,
And must tell you of her, dears, because
In sweetning life for you she spends her
Shes small and plump, her eyes are brown and
bright,
And in a cave she lives that's full of TOYS.
Where, with her servant-elves, from morn till
night
She's busy working for the girls and boys,
Yes, quite three hundred days out of the year
Never idle hour have they,
For well they know there would be many Il
tear
Should sugar-plums fall short on Christmas
day
And oh! and oh. the sugar-plums!
Some brown, some red, and some as white
As sIrow-'lakeS when they first ali@ht;
Some holding grapes, some holding cher
Some bits of orange, some strawberries.
Some tasting Ike peach or rose,
And some that dainty nuts inClOSe:
Some tllled with cream, and some with
spice,
And all so very. very nice.
Aud oh. and Oh. the sugar plums
Those funny. funny little elves;
They cram the boxes and the drums
The bags the baskets and the shelves;
I hey heap them high upon the floor,
In closets pack them two miles long
And when Their is no room for more
They sing Jolly eltish song;
And pretty Mistress Santa Claus.
With sugar sticking to her thumbs
An tiny fingers, lau9 rs aloud
To think of that great eager or lwd
OF smiling girls and smiling boys,
Await NJ for her husbands TOYS,
AMI Oh! and OH the sugar plums!
And nov, swcethearts, when merry Christmas
comes,
And you greet Santas gifts with loud ap-
plauSc.
Remember who sent you the sugarplums.
And give one cheer for Mstress Santa
Claus.
-MdIUTygf E1ifjU0C
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

Texas farmers are coming to realize
the fact that there is more profit in wheat
growing than in cotton culture, and are
acting upon their newly acquired light
1t is not always the farmer who sows
the most acres who raises the best crops
or the most bushels. They who rest hall
of their land alternate years have the
best success. -ETcbnnqe.
Onions cut up with food for chickens
are said to be an effectual remedy fol
chicken cholera. A little ground ginger
mixed with their meal once every day OF
two is also beneficial when symptoms OF
cholera appear
p "A correspondent of the Germantown
{ Telegraph keeps rats out of his granarv
by daubing all the angles on the out
side of the building with hot pine-tar,
to the width of three or four inches,
and also any seam Or crack where a rat
ormouse can stand to gnaw This is
certainly cheap eXpedient-if efficient,
. The Rural New- Yorker, says the re-
tail fruit stands of large cities often give
valuable hints to inquiring hortcul-
turists. A few days ago the proprietor
of one of these stands said to the writer
that he was selling two barrels of Ben
Davis to one of any other kind of apple
because ''they are the only kind not
WOrm-eaten.H
: An experienced housekeeper fur
nishes the following recipe for tapiota
cream: One cup of tapioca soaked I'M
til soft in two cups of cold or lukewarm
water. If the water is lukewarm, and
kept warm, it will soak in less time
Boil one quart of milk; beat together the
IyeIks of three eggs, one cup of sugar
land teaspoonful of salt Stir the
!tapiOca into the milk, and when boiling
add the beaten eggs and sugar, Re
move from the fire, add fayoring, stir
in lightly the whites beaten, and pour
into serving dish. Serve cold
! One Of the first things for an or
chardist to learn, says the Weekly TJib-
une, speaking of the art of pruning, is
to distinguish fruit buds and spurs from
those which produce mere wood, The
object then is to secure a fair annual
growth of each, taking care that an eX-
cess of wood does not smother the fruit
buds, but that all are spread or placed
so as to have fullest possible light and
free air on their leaf surfaces. The fruit
itself is generally best when screened by
the shade of leaf If tree does not
make its proper average of new wood
growth in any year, it viii decline unless
the fruiting is reduced.
Hop plants can be used for various
purposes. Thus the wires, or twigs, are
of service for basket and wicker-work.
and the leaves furnish food for farm
stock and sheep, from the tendrils vege-
table wax is obtained, and from their
Juice coloring matter. The young
shoots, too, are eaten, tasting, when
boiled like asparagus, and when bleached
they can be made into strong paper and
cardboard; from their fibre, in Sweden,
yarn and linen are spun, and the ashes
are used by the makers of Bohemian
glass; while from the flowers, which give
AN agreeably bitter taste to beer, a tine
!ture is derived, and medicinal extract;
and pillow filled with hops will often
cause sleep, and is great specific with
Old-cOuntry danes,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30
Nothing Mean About Him.

AT nine o'clock yesterday morning an
old woman sat in the Michigan Central
Station Wiping the tears from her eyes.
1T was nobody's business in particular
to inquire whether she had fallen heir
to a million dollars or was travelling
through life with a broken heart, but
one certain man stepped forward after
time and made some inquiries. Then
he passed around among the crowd and
said:
Gentleman, here is a poor old woman
who wants to get to Columbus to her
friends Let's take up collection
In the course of four or five minutes a
purse of three dollars was made up.
but when he had counted it, the man
said:
gentlemen, let's chip in enough
more to buysher a new dress. I'm a
poor man; but here's quarter for the
old lady"
The purse was now increased to near
ly seven dollars, and the woman had
just pocketed the money when a man
stepped forward and said to the collector
of the purse:
'Why, Banks, is this you?"
"Of course it is.
'And that woman is your own wife"
''Well, Mr.. Knickerbocker, replied
the man as he buttoned his coat, cit q
mighty mean man who won't chin in a
quarter to buy his own wife u dress and
help her off on q visit" Detroit Free
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30
Former Nastiness.

In the time of James |. so little re-
gard was had to cleanliness that the
s'dunghilr' within the castle precincts
chad increased to such n size and big
ness that it was in length ninety-eight
yards, the depth CT it was ten yards, and
the breadth of it thirty-two yards, some
27,000 tons of filth having thus been
allowed to accumulate. In the seven
!teenth century the greatest plague was
one of eleven epedemics; it alone caused
1000 deaths, and it led, by the almost
complete desertion of the town and port,
to a ruined trade and wasted treasury. -
Nature.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

OF DR.. George w. Wiener, the Bal
timore ocul st, who d ed some days ago
in Denver, Col, it is related that IN Eu-
rope he once treated wealthy gentle
man with such success that the patient
at once wlied all his property to the
doctor Years alterward the man died,
his own daughter found herse disin-
herited, and t c fortune came to DR..
Wiener, The girl, left a pauper, wrote
to DIR. Wiener, appealing for aid. He
at on e went to the Consul of the coun-
try in which she iyed Che was then in
America , intending to transfer the for
tune to her, but was tod that the trans
ter could be legally effected only IN that
country Thereupon he immedately
to k passage for Europe, AMI placed the
entire fortune in her hands
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

| it was the twins, Of course They Al.
ways did all the MS hief that went on
in that house. If anything was lost
from Rob 5 diamond stud down to the
roliing-pin. somebody was sure to say,
! The twins must have had it.
On this particular u ternoon the soft
est OF summer showers had BEEN lgNgns
and few bright drops were still COM
ing down through the leaves and the
sLnsh ne, when they were seized with
such longing to 90 out right into the
midst of the shower that the appeared
at the foot of the stairs both shouting
I coaXing petitions at mamma.
She looked out OF the w ndow at the
few bright drops, and laughed and
said:
kate, put something around them
and let them run out; they think it will
be something wonderful to go out in the
IA n.
Now Kate was a grown-up sister OF
the twins, and she had Just come up
stairs after long mornings work in
the kitchen and dining-room. She
was tired; she hated to 90 downstairs
again.
She thought of the little blue cape
hanging in the hall, and OF the old
brown shawl by the door, or ON the hook
by the window, or Somc,0h-re: She
couldn't remember Just where What
matter which of these old wraps they
took?
Take anything you can find, chill
dren, she called out, land wrap your
selves up and 90"
ooh! oh!' squealed the children in
delight.
Then came the next petition:
MAY we take a umbrella?"
Yes; take any of them from tle
rack"
Well, they obeyed
Now it happened that the upper front
room 0 the twins home belonged to
Miss Stella PiersOn, who boarded with
their mother; and it happened that
Miss Alice fletcher was her very dear
friend, and had Just run up the stairs to
call on her, leaving her India shawl on
the hook in the hail. 1t was damp, so
she flung it there to dry, leaving her
pearl handled, gold-tipped parasol
standing on the umbrella-raoh for the
same reason.
liz" were lut wv MS W hIlpN lldl
anything they could find" did not COW
er NJ IS Alice's India shawl and pearl
handled paraso? Anyhow, they chose
Just these things and sailed forth, and
were so delighted that they went out OF
sight of the house; and the IA n, not
be no over its frolic, came suddenly
down in what might have been
cal ed tor ents, and brought the wind
with it, and between them and the dust
turned into mud, the twins and the
India shawl and the white lined para
sol came home in sad plight.
eve couldn't help it, they walled
(thc twins did, | mean. The wind
blew and bicW, and shocked us so, and
twisted the lumbela wight wound and
wound; and the shawl was too heavy
and kept dragging and slipping, and
then the lumbella turned itself wight
wrong side OUT
Mother, they really ought to be
whipped" said the indignant Kate
THE parasol is simply ruined, and the
India shawl is a sight to behold"
Then did the TWINS cry ont:
"N e couldn help it. She told us to
take anything we could find; and we ust
looked them and went We found EN-;
we did h'HiY."
Il don't know, said the grave moth
err, ''it it comes to a question OF pun
ishment, which ought to have it. The
twins, it seems, obeyed Just what was
told them. and it seems their sister Kate
did not. 81 The PaRSH
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

When Col. Charles Thomson Jones
was young his grandfather gave him this
advice: Sonny, there are two or three
things which would advise you never
to do. One is never to quarrel with
minister, and the other, never to wrestle
with chimney-swcep. In the first case
the people will be sure to be against YOU.
and in the other you'll become soiled
and dirty from the contact"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

One of our Illinois exchanges warns
the public against u fellow who is
tramping through the country selling
powder, which he alleges was made by
Edison, for the purpose of increasing
the illuminating power OF coal oil to
mat OF the electric light. He asks three
dollars a box for ii. OF course it Is a
fraud. - Chicago HeraH.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

About Sl3,500 has been raised by
subscription, in Rhode Island Tor u
st tue of the late General Burnside.
The State has appropriated Sl.',0 0 for
the same purpose, conditioned on the
raising of S2O,00o by private subscrip-
ton, and it is proposed that the city
OF Providence should give -. 600 toward
the Oh ect. 1t is thought that S5O,OOo
viii be sufficient.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

No one knows the danger of rail
load travelling more than tramp. At
least three hundred of them have been
killed within a year while stealing rides.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18

probation of good thing. We are sat.
isfied this new departure of tn North.
western will meet with substantial re,
sponse by the travelling public Of tho
northwest.
Inthis respect rs in many others, the
northwestern takes the lead Of all com
petitors, as it Is the only line running
dining ears Of any description, north oI
Chicago. The advantages of dining cars
can be stated briefly as follows: First
" they are rum with the train You can
take yo,Ir time in eating without fear OF
being left again, the meals served will
equal those tn be had ut any of our first
class city hotels. Then the time usually
taken for meals can be used in running
consequently, shorten up the time be
tween distant paints in proportion.
Tile price fixed upon for meals is very
reasonable, considering the quality and
quantity furnished for seventy tiv,
cents. The names If the cars on the
northwestern lines are, Leland" "Dcl.
monico," Brunswick" illinois" wis
consin," and Minnesota" Try the new
dining cars.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
Eat As You Ride.

The Chicago 4 Northwestern railway
comes to the front again in a manner to
attract the attention Of all who ever
have occasion to patronize railroads.
The facilities and accommodations they
have heretofore offered in the way of
passenger train equipment have been
ample; the day coaches, parlor cars,
chair cars and sleeping cars not being
cxcelled by any, and ON March LIST, they
added to the above list, and at the same
time to the convenience and comfort OF
its patrons, new and elegant dining ears,
to be run upon the trains Of its Chicago.
st. Paul 4 Minneapolis line, between
Chicago and st. Paul.
These cars are complete i'm every par.
ticular and constructed for use
upon this line, consequently, with a
thorough knowledge of the needs of the
line. This company have for some time
been operating dining cars between Chi.
cago and Council Bluffs. Ia, and their
success has prompted this move, they
having demonstrated the fact that the
public are not slow to show their APP
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
PILES! PILES! PILES!
A Sure Cure Found ut Last No
One Need Suffer!

a sure Cure for Blind, Bleeding, Itch
ing and liberated Piles has been discov-
cred by DR.. Williams, IAN Indian rene.
dy,) called DR.. Williams Indian Oint-
ment. A single box has cured the worst
chrome cases of - or :D years standing.
No one need suffer five minutes after
applying this wonderful soothing medi-
cine. Lotions instruments and eiectua.
ries do more harm than good. Williams
Ointment absorbs the tumors, allays the
intense itching, particularly at night
after getting warm in bed,) acts as a
poultice, gives instant and painless re-
lief, and is prepared only for Piles, itch
ing Of the private parts, and for nothing
else.
Read what the Hon. j. VI. Cofinberry
Of Cleveland says about DIR. Williams
Indian Pile Ointment: | have used
scores of Pile C,Mes, and il affords me
pleasure tn say that ! have never fulnd
anything which gave such immediate
and permanent relief as DR.. williams
Indian Ointment.
For sale by all druggists or mailed on
receipt of price, Sl.OO.
HENRY g. CO., Prop'rs,
81 Nesev 81. New York.
MOVES BROS. & CUTLER,
ST. PAUL, MINI,
Wholesale Agents.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
From, a Washington Special.


Guiteau's hangman SAYS: the rope
Guitean is to be hanged by is three,
quarters of an inch in diameter, and ol
manila. The prisoner stands on the
trap, and after the drop the head is sup.
posed 10 be on u leve! with or just below
the floor Of the platform. / always test
the ropes with Il 2o0-pound sand-bag al
a drop Of seven feet. | talk with Gui.
teau every day. never have spoken to
him directly about his coming death,
but he makes fun Of it when talked Ia
on the subject. His brother paid him
n visit to-day, and he told him how to
dispose of his hat and clothes. Some OF
those | have seer executed exhibit great
courage before death. 7 think that Gui.
teai, when he fees that the thing is set.
ted and he knows that there Is no more
hope of getting away, will not go upon
the scaffolI game. ! think he will die
like a cur. The scaffold il now ready
and the rope prepared. When | prepare
the rope, the first work is to get it linn.
her and the notches out of il. Then
rub it with tallow where it goes around
the neck will not uso any one Of the
ropes that have been donated in hang.
ing Guiteau. / will use one Of my own
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
District officer
Il. y Land OFFICE

Julgc--Hon. G. G. Moody.
Attorncy--A. w. HASTE.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
SturRia Kicks.

A Washington special SAYS: Gen.
Samuel ID. Sturgis, colonel Ofthe seventh
cavalry, and brevet major general Y. s.
~, has addressed Il request to the adj
jntant general Of the army for "A court Of
inquiry to investigate and report on the
merits OF the accusations against him,
which has been revived in the form Of a
petition TO the senate and house of re-
representatives. by one DR.. Gessner. of
Fremont, Ohio, who wishes to have him
relieved ~ governor Of the Soldiers
Home to which position he was appoint
ed by Garfield last year through the in.
tiuencc of Judge Advocate General
Swain. Gen. Sturgis commanded an
expedition in May. 1864, organized at
Lafayette, Tenn. for the purpose of
operating against the rebel forces under
Forrest in northeast Mississippi, with a
view Of creating a diversion i'm favor of
Si,erman's army, then engaged in a
campaign against Atlanta. The expedi-
ton was a disastrous failure. Gen. Stur-
gis' command was routed, lost all its
artillery and wagons, and several thou
sands killed, wounded and prisoners
He was accused Of drunkenness, row.
ardice and incompetency. There was q
board Of investigation, but no court 81
inquiry. Recently there seems to be a
widespread movement in the west to
revive the charges against General Stur,
ris. In his request for a court of in.
curry he cites many officers who ex.
"norate him from these charges. Hi.
appeal is printed and closes with a let.
ter from General Grant, written i'm 1865
recommending General Sturgis for the
brcvet rank of brigadier general.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18

President Arthur is as polite ~ if he
had come to the presidency not by cleo
ton but by birth. Mr.. Bancroft the
other day invited him to dinner, adding
that lac feared the etiquette ofthe White
House would prevent the president from
accepting the invitation. To which the
president replied in writing accepting
the invitation, and saying: 81 am al
lowed to accept invitations from the
cabinet, the supreme court and-Mr.
George Bancroft" No Prince could
have bcttered this.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18

Clerk Of Court--X. \ Burke.
Commissioners--A. y. smith, Geo. II. Clark and
Geo. &. BOlarf.
Sheriff.. 7. Code.
Register Of Decds-E. IL, Flynn.
Treasurer--S. r.. Shankland.
!AssessDr--W. ). Thornby.
Judge OF Prdbate--J. i. Thompson.
Coroner-C, w. Hitchcock.
Jupt. of Pub. Instruction.. 4. Bliss.
Justices ofthc Peace. VI. Lewis. Custer W.
q, tioocii, kidviilc; Denis MctinIre, junction
City A. II. Arnold, Battle River.
Constables--Wm Quinn. Custer: Il. A.. Parsons,
Buffalo Gap; G.. VI. Joiley. Battle River.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
County OffycSs~.

Registcr--Chas. NJ. Webb, Dcadwood.
Recciver-E. T.. champlin. Dcadwood.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-03-18
rERMs-ALwAys ~ ADVANCE.
r~Enrrronr.fr or.ycxms.

tiovernor-N. Il. Ordway.
S,cretary--ccOrge n. Hand.
Chief Justice--A. J Eigcrtun.
Associate Justices-Gidcon q. Moody, A. II.
Barnes and J. r.. Kidder
u. =. Attorney--Hugh J. Campbell.
L.. :. Marshal--JOhn X. Raymond.
u. =. Surveyor Gcneral--Cortes FeSscfden.
Delegate u Congress--R. r. Pettigrew.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-11-03
DOWN IN THE MOUTH.

Chronicles New York special says; De
spondency is universal among the republi-
can leaders in New York The Republi-
can State committee has addressed letters
to the chairmen Of the county committees
in which they say: The campaign is now
drawing to n close, and in some respects it
has been an exceptional one. Your State
Central committee has been called uDon to
meet an unusual amount of disatfection in
our own party as well as to contend against
the united and it is to be hoped, over
confident democratic opposition. The task
has been a heavy one Ii is fallacy to ar
que that any question: of rival factions or
organizations is to be settled by the ap-
preaching elections.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-11-03
ANOTHER FiRE.

BALTIMORE. Oct "A fire at three
o'clock this morning partially destroyed a
building known as Arlington variety
theatre John Pearson, young man, was
burned to death, and Miss Georgia Supple
one of the attaches of the place was
seriously hurt by jumping from the roof
of the front building, Madame Busteed,
lessee of the place had an ankle sprained
in jumping from the window. Jas. Kenny
an employee, was badly burned about the
head and face. Several others were slight
ly injured The fire originated in the
stage Destruction of the property is
small
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-11-03
THE ASHLAND HnRROR.

ASHLAND, KY. Nov. 3.-The buildings
are festooned with Grape and all business
is suspended. The funeral of the three
victims of Wednesdays violence took
place at 10 o'clock. Six of the wounded
are not expected to live. The citizens are
very indignant against Gov. Blackburn
and Judge Brown. The latter mas fled
from the town. At the citizens meeting
last night steps were taken to raise funds
to pay the expenses of the killed and
wounded. There is still great excitement.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-11-03
FOREIGN.
Sudden and Hasty Meeting
of the English Cabinet.
A Candid King.
Discovery of a Vein of New
Metal.
Discovery of Explosives.

BERLIN, Oct 3.-Exports from Ger
many to the United States have reached
the unusually large total of $4,000, ,000
marks.
PARIS, Oct. 3-The revolutionary mani
festos posted lastnight were of communistic
origin. Explosive materials were dis
covered in the coal depot and telegraph
office.
VICTORIA, Nov. 3.-Agents of the Cali
fornia syndicate steamer prospecting the
northern end of the Island for coal and
mineral with the view to heavy invest
mept of capital, a vein of new metal, worth
four shillngs an ounce in Lonuon. has
been discovered on the coast range.
DUBLIN. Nov. 3.-P. J. Smyth. mem
Der of parliament for Hpperary, a moder-
ate Irish nationalist, has written letter
defending Lady Florence Dixie, in which
he takes tae ground that not only mem
bere of the Land League but Ion subscrib-
ers as well, are entitled to criticise the
disposition made of the fund.
BERLIN, Nov. 3.-The statement of the
Imperial bank of Germany shows a de
crease in specie of 2.480 600 marks
MONTREAL. Nov. 3.-Labor troubles are
cropping out here again, higher wages be
ing demanded The ship laborers have
and a large of government police had to
be kept on duty on the wharyes all last
night to prevent from being maltreated to-
day All the cotton weavers in the mer-
chant companys mills No. 800 struck for
scale of piece work made out by them
selves.
LONDON, Nov 3.-The king of Ccrea
has issued an edict frankly declaring that
the disorders in his dominion were evident
" due to his own mal-admiaistration of
government affairs, and ordering that the
insurgents VITO have been captured be re-
leased This step has been taken by the
king for the purpose of assuring the allie
glance of his subjects to himself if the
governments of China and Japan sho uld
renew their attempts to annex Corea.
LONDON, Nov. 3-The Engli sh cabinet
council having been suddenly summoned
to meet to-day, it has not yet transpircd
for what purpose this hasty meeting has
been called