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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

THE house of representatives very prop
erly yesterday passed heavy appropria.
tion to be Immediately available for the use
of the lighthouse board in consequence Of
the tremendous floods in the Mississippi
xraltav
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

MAGICIAN, the assailant of QUEEN VIcTo-
RIA, has been committed for trial on a
charge of high treason. 1t will probably
be but short time before the dispatch of
justice in England will carry MAcLEAN on
to the gibbet, while we are still worrying
over GuITEAU's bill of executions.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

One of our foreign exchanges remarks
that "JupGE REAGAN, of Texas, who was
the Confederate postmaster-general leads
the free traders in the house,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

THE increase in our population within
the last eighty years has been nine-told,
and by the close of the century, by the
same rate of increase, we may look for 90
0)0 OOO peOple
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

IF there were any bottom to our streets,
Iocomotion would be delightful during this
beautiful weather, but alas! it is only to be
seen, not enjoyed, as we cannot yet get
about with and degree of ease or comfort.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

ALASKA is said to be in the same stage OF
civilization that New England was about
300 years ago They are burning witches
in good style and right along up in "thc
nurchasen
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

A FEW corner lots in New York city are
rather desirable One of them on Broad
way, about 100 by 300 feet, has changed
hands for the snug little sum of $lS5,O)o.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11
Mur'er WIN Out

Nkw yonk, March io.-The Herald's
special from Charlottesville, Virginia. says |,
The ccrcnsr's jury made the most search.
ing investigation into the mysterious
murder Of John A. Nsssie
and his wifs. reported sesieriay. bui
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

From Newport there comes information
OF extensive Preparations for the coming sea
son. Alteratlons and improvements srr In
prcHtesx u the Ocean house aud the anal.
~ hotels q none ofw which will thers be an y
change Of proprisloe
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11
INDICATIONS.

For the gulf sta.es Northeast tosouthwest winds
aud partly cloudy weather,;loca rains on the
coas I; rising followed by falling barometer and
slight change in temperature
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

MoRE cabinet changes are again posi-
lively predicted in Washington, but Just
where and when, no one can say.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11

WINDSOR, March io.-MacLcan. the
queens assailant, was committed for trial
on charge OF high treason.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-11
Special Notices.

s<kNErfLY a Manufacturing Jewel
ets are the Agents for shs Celebrated MedIca,cd
Glass spectacles for Dallas Texas Beware Of
counnffcih. None genuine unless stamped
with my name. HERO. norsAu.
Sc 81 Charles street. New Orleans. Crescent Ctr
Spectacle %. 0is.im
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
What Strange Manners.

Once man went into house to make
visit, and his little dog Jack went
with him. The man took off his hat
and coat and laid them on a chair. and
told Jack to wait for him. So the little
dog sat down to wait while his master
went into another room.
The little dog had never been in that
house before, and after sitting very still
for minute, he looked about to see
what sort of place it might be. He
had been sitting on footstool, for he
was rather short, and on looking around
he saw another little dog. AS Jack was
a very polite dog, he stood up and said:
Good-morning, sir.
The other opened his mouth, but did
not say word. 1853
"Good-morning, SIR" said Jack
again, but the other only opened his
mouth again, and did not answer.
AS Jack was a stranger in the house,
he thought it best to say no more, so he
smiled and waited for the other to
speak.
"He may be deaf" said Jack, after
while, "but, dear me! / wish he would
say something or sit down. I'm tired of
standing.'' All this he said to himself,
and then he smiled again in kind way.
|
still he did not speak.
''It's beautiful day. said Jack.
The other opened his mouth, as if he
meant to say it was truly a lovely day,
but he never said word.
eff you'll excuse me, I'll sit down."
said Jack.
As the other did not speak, Jack sat
down on the footstool. At once the
other dog sat down, too.
Really! He's very strange! I'll stand
up" thought Jack.
But, just as Jack rose, up jumped the
other dog!
Jack thought now that the other dog
was making fun of him, and so he
frowned. But the other frowned, too.
Jack began to be angry, and walked to-
ward the other dog. who began at once
to walk toward him. tive q great
mind to tell him how rudely he behaves"
thought Jack. ''He is very bad dog,
and now he looks very angry"
just then, Jacks master called him,
and as they left the room, Jack turned
and made face at the other dog. But
at the same time the other dog turned
around and made a face at Jack!
"What strange mannersr' said Jack,
as the door closed. "Tn never come to
this house again!'-St. Nicholas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02

began. He slept peacefully through the
night, watched by turns by MN. Con-
neau, Filou, Clary, and the doctors. He
was able to rise from his bed in the
morning, and felt relieved. Another,
and it was hoped final, operation was
to take place at noon. The Empress
had visited him as usual. At haf-past
ten Sir Henry Thompson approached
him. A sudden change became appa-
rent. The strong, regular pulse fell
rapidly; the action of the heart failed.
The doctors were alarmed, and in a few
moments the Empress was at her hus-
bands bedside, but he did not recog
nize her. Some stimulants were ad-
ministered, and the patient rallied for
moment. And then the Able Goddard
administered the last sacraments of the
Church, amid the weeping of the kneel-
ing gentlemen and ladies of the house.
hold, who had gathered about the death
bed. When the Empress 1eant over
him and embraced him, the Emperor's
eyes fell upon his wife; he could not
speak audibly, but he raised his lips to
kiss the devoted and heroic companion
he had taken to his heart at the height
of his glory, and who, had comforted his
exile; and then he passed into his long
sleep. He had breathed his last when
his son arrived from Woolwich. It was
a quarter past IL on the 9th day of JAN
uary, 1873.
The Emperor's last words, family ad-
dressed to DR.. Conneau, were, ''Etiez
vous Sedanp''
The poor young Prince arrived from
Woolwich only half an hour after his
father had passed away. The Empress
met him at the door of the death cham
Der, and taking him in her arms, cried
-s'I have only you, Louis, left! Prom
Je,rold's Historyof Napoleon III.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02

There sat Freddy on the floor OF the
dark retreat, the saddest specimen OF
nervous prostration that ever disgraced
the United States uniform.
"What on earth has the boy got on!'
inquired Tom, with all of that COM
placency which Freddy couldn't bear.
Freddy, having been rescued, began
to show unmistakable signs OF feeling
very much ashamed about something,
which might have been sufficiently ex-
planned by his ridiculous plight, without
Lucy's giggling right out.
=. Why. Freddy, did you put those
things on?'' asked his mother, turning
to Lucy. .--s.,
81 believe he was going to scare
Tom, answered Lucy, coyly looking
over toward the little veteran. .szs
Hes a bad man. humorously
sneered Tom, in way that was just too
provoking for anything.
"That will do, Thomas,'' interrupted
his mother; {. and now, Freddy. l think
there's been soaring enough for one day,
and you may take off your uniform"
They went back to the kitchen, all
but Lucy. At her Freddy cast per-
fectly lurid glance. :" You needn't pre-
tend to stay and sympathizep" said he.
8 / know you.'
Then Lucy, too, went away, but care
fully propping the door open first, posi-
bly, as a last sarcasm. ae7
Chow mean, mean, MEAN, women
are!n gritted Freddy between his teeth
as he rose-John W. Snyder. in Wsde
l4gHHEe
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
Vas He Not Right!

Our esteemed contemporary, the Phil
adelphia Times, has some observations
upon the discussion concerning Mr.. Til
den as possible candidate for President
in 1884; and of these observations the
following seem to us to merit especial no.
tice:
LIT is not doubted that Mr.. Tilden is feeble
physically. but he is worth dozen dead men
yet. As mis- recent letters prove. He will never
elected he didn't become President. The men
he then allowed TO cheat him out of his office
will never forgive him for the wrong they did
him. and the party that gave him more than a
quarter of Il million popular majority won't
fight for the man that won't fight for himself"
The first thing to be said upon these
points is that if in 1880 Mr.. 1ilden had
allowed himself to be nominated, he
would in all probability have been
elected. General Hancock came very
near being elected; and yet his NOM
ination presented no such issue and
raised no such popular enthusiasm as
would have followed the nomination Of
Mr.. Tilden. The reason why Mr.. Til
den was not nominated was that he re-
fused; and the reason why he refused
was precisely the reason stated by him
in his letter of refusal.
We are told by the Times that "the
party which gave him more than quar-
ter of million popular majority won
fight for the man that won't fight for
himself" We can only understand this
as meaning that in 1867 Mr.. Tilden
should have declared himself President,
and should have maintained his title to
the Office by fighting.
In our Judgment, this would have
been terrible mistake. The course
adopted by him seems to us altogether
wiser, more patriotic, and more Iauda-
BILE. In the temper of the Republican
party and the country at that time, and
with the unanimous determination of
all the officeholders and of the great
mass OF the Republican voters to main
tain their party in power by every
means, such fighting would doubtless
have inaugurated one of the most bitter
and sangunary of civil wars. 1t is to
the immortal honor of Mr.. Tilden that
he shrank from this dread alternative,
preferring to refer the question to the
tribunal of history and to the justice of
the future. That justice has already
decided in his favor. There is no Ion
ger any disinterested and well-infOrmed
man who doubts that the installation of
Hayes in the White House was utterly
fraudulent; and although Mr.. Tilden
has not enjoyed the opportunity of re-
forming the Government, he can at
least carry with him to the last the re-
Election that he deliberately submitted
to the EXTREMIST wrong which partisan
malignity could inflict, rather than seek
through fighting to enforce a claim
whose Justice time and the evidence of
truth have now firmly established.-M.
r Sun
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
Our Young Folks.
PARTNERSHIP.

IA little girl addresses the mother of her pet
kitten.l
You need not be looking around at me so:
She's my kitten, as much as your kitten, you
know,
And T Il take her wherever wish her to go!
You know very well that, TIE day she was
found.
If hadn't cried. she'd have surely been
drowned
And you ought to be thankful she's here safe
and Solndi 1872 49,
She is only just crying because she's goose;
IN not squeezing her-look, now my hands
are quite loose;
nd she may as well hush, for its not any USE
And you may as well get right down and go
way!
You're not in the thing we are going to play,
And. remember, it isn't your half of the day.
You're forgetting the bargain we made-and
SO soon!
In the morning she's mine, and yours all after
noon,
And you couldn't teach her to eat with a
spoon?
So don't let me hear you give one single new
Do you know what will happen, right off, if you
do?
She'll be my kitten mornings and afternoons
-Mdrgdret VGndegrift, In st. Nicholas
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
Organized to SubsidiZe.

We have seen that Speaker Keifer
made no mistake in the makeup of the
Committees of the House. They have
been constructed throughout on per-
fectiy logical plan and with view to the
accomplishment of certain specific ends.
1t will be interesting to the people to
observe their harmonious operation as
the session progresses. The Committee
of Ways and Means is so constituted that
there will be no serious effort to reduce
the enormous surplus in the Treasury
and thereby remove portion of the bur-
dens of the taxpayers. The Committee
of Appropriations is SO constituted that
there will be little obstruction in the way
. of a most generous expenditure. 1t is
probable that the taxes on matches and
bank checks will be removed, but there
will be no serious diminution of the
Treasury surplus.
The Committee of Commerce is formed
on the same generous system. Page,
of California, the Chairman, is well
chosen. and he is supported by ma
jority who will favor the most liberal
appropriations for rivers and harbors,
and all sorts of subsidies for the sake
of restoring the languishing commerce
of the country. In such a commit
tee the magnificent projects of John
Roach will receive most hearty
welcome. For a long time the patriotic
soul of John Roach has been deeply
grieved because the starry flag of his
country floats over so small number
of ocean steamships. In order that this
National humiliation and reproach may
no longer exist MIR. Roach is willing, in
consideration of liberal subsidy from
Congress out of taxes wrung from the
people, to establish lines of steamships
so that the American flag may no long
.er be a stranger in the great commercial
ports of the world. 1t is very true that
the English and French are doing the
carrying trade at much less cost than
this magnificent plan of subsidy would
involve.
It has been suggested over and over
again that the restrictive provisions OF
tthe ancient Navigation laws be re-
peaied; that the privilege be afforded
American citizens to buy ships where
they pleased. and that the heavy duties
upon materials that are used in ship
building be reduced. If American ship
building could not be made prosperous
:hy these methods, at least the removal
of restrictions upon purchase would
enable the stars and stripes to float
. over more ships than at present. But
such experiments for promoting the
carrying trade of the country would not
require enormous expenditures of pub
lie money, nor would they afford any
subsidy to John Roach. which is the
main consideration, Capitalists who
would float the flag must not be per-
mitted to buy ships where they can be
/: bought the cheapest, for that would be
in violation of the prevailing economic
idea that there can be no commercial on
industrial prosperity in this country I'M
less the people are heavily taxed for 1T;
Hence all such suggestions may as wen
be dismissed at once. 1t is plain enough
that the Committees of this Congress
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
RuSsia's Gift to Prussia.

Daring the brief occupation of Berlin
by the Russian Army in 1850 the invad-
ers plundered the Royal Arsenal of its
more valuable arms and trophies OF
war, and carried off their booty to Rus
STA. Among the objects peculiarly
precious to the Prussian Army that were
thus "annexed" was splendid car,
presented by Frederick William I. thirty
years previously to his corps of field
artillery for the accommodation of their
drums and colors on extraordinary oc-
casions, such as reviews or grand
parades. In shape resembling shell,
and painted bright scarlet, this car,
drawn by four gray stations, with tiger
skin trappings and tall red and-white
plumes, used to precede the artillery
column during its march past the salut-
ing flag, surrounded by the so-called
IS Janissary Music," in which his Ma
jesty took such especial delight. The
head drummer of the artillery corps oc-
cupied the back seat, having in front of
him two huge silver drums,
suspended in sling, and behind him the
four standards of the corps. Frederick
the Great refused to take this costly
euuipage with him when he started
from Berlin at the commencement of the
Seven Years War, never dreaming that
the Russians would succeed in bouncing
upon his capital behind his back; and
so it fell into the hands of Muscovite
General, who conveyed it to St. Peters,
burg, where it was deposited with great
pomp and ceremony in the armory of
Fort Petropavlovsk. Gar Alexander
III. has lately intimated his intention to
restore this interesting relic of Prussia's
early military Ii history to its rightfa1
be brought to Berlin by Russian guard
of honor. and deposited in the Arsenal
on the Linden avenue, from which it
was forcibly removed nearly a century
and a quarter ago.-Loedo's Daily Icte-
1r1Dh
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
The Last French Emperor's Death.

The Emperor believed that universal
suffrage would redress his wrongs, con-
found his calumniators, and re erect the
Empire. He was confident that the
millions of the people who had respond
ed to his appeal in the spring of 1870
were still true to him. But when the
news of the elections reached him at
Chiselhurst he was overwhelmed with
grief. He uttered not single complaint.
It is not on record that he gave way even
momentarily to anger; but he was struck
to the heart, for he truly loved the peo-
ole from whom the blow proceeded.
For some days he renamed in deep
melancholy; and then his patient spirit
reasserted itself, and he turned to his
little study by his bedroom, where he
worked, with the portraits of the En-
press and Prince Imperial on the desk
before him, at his dreams for the good
of the many who had just spurned
him. =.
His disease had been aggravated by
the ply steal exhaustion of the campaign,
and especially by the hours he had spent
In the saddle at Sedan, so that he moved
little beyond the bounds of the park
about Camden Place. He went in the
summer of 1872 to the Isle of Wight,
but the good gained was only Temporal
ry. He would walk by the hour up and
down the long corridor of Camden Place
with his arm on the young Princes
shoulder, while he talked with him of
men and things, intoxicating those kindly
sentiments and generous ideas which
time has already compelled his enemies
to concede to him. After the midday
breakfast, at which the little Court met
for the first time in the day, he would
sit in the morning-room in his arm
chair (the arms supported by eagles) by
the wood fire, and talk cheerfully with
the Empress or with any visitors who
had come. 1t was a small circle in
which the imperial couple moved, but it
was one of steadfast friends.
At the close of 1872 the Emperor's
medical advisers agreed that an opera
ton had become necessary, and it was
fixed for January 2. Two operations
were successfully carried out, but the
state of the patient gave rise to serious
doubts as to the ultim ate results.
On the evening of January 8 the En-
peror's case appeared more hopeful than
ON any previous day since the operations
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
The Frozen Tundra.

The northern coast of Siberia, between
Cape Chelyuskin and Behring Strait, is
probably the most barren and inhospit-
able part of the whole Russian Empire.
For hundreds of miles back from the
Arctic Ocean the country consists almost
entirely of great desolate steppes known
to the Russians as tundras pronounced
toondras), which in summer are almost
impossible wastes of brownish gray
Arctic moss saturated with water, and
in winter trackless deserts of snow,
drifted and packed by polar gales into
long, hard, f1uted waves. The Siberian
tundra differs in many essential partic-
ulars from all other treeless plains. In
the first place it has foundation of per-
manently frozen ground. Underlying
the great moss tundras which border the
Lena River north of Yakutsk there is
everywhere a thick stratum of eternal
frost, beginning in winter at the surface
of the earth, and in summer at point
twenty or thirty inches below the surface,
and extending to depth of many hum
dred feet What scanty vegetation,
therefore, the tundra affords roots itself
and finds its nourishment in thin layer
of unfrozen ground-a mere veneering of
arabic soil-resting upon a substratum
five or six hundred feet in depth of per-
manent and impenetrable ice. This
foundation of ice is impervious, of
course, to water, and as the snow melts
in summer the water completely satu-
rates the soil to as great a depth as it
can penetrate, and, with the aid of the
continuous daylight of June and July,
stimulates dense luxuriant growth of
gray Arctic moss. This moss in course
of time covers the entire plain with a
soft, yielding cushion in which a pedes-
trian will sink to the knee without find
ing any solid footing. Moss has grown
out of decaying moss year after year and
century after century until the whole
tundra for thousands of square miles is
a vast, spongy bog. Of other vegetation
there is little or none. A clump of dwarf
berry bushes, an occasional tuft of coarse
swamp grass or a patch of storm and
cold-defying kedrovnik diversifies, per-
haps, here and there the vast brownish-
gray expanse; but, generally speaking,
the eye may sweep the whole circle OF
the horizon and see nothing but the sky
and moss.-C0r. N. Y. Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02
The Eternal Fitness Of Things.

The well-known saying that woman
is no older than she looks, amiable and
consoling as it is, has not been altogeth-
er harmless. Acting upon this assump-
ton, many woman has arrayed herself
in q manner which is not only entirely
unbecoming to her face, but has ten
dency to make her ridiculous. Who has
not trembled for friend when the ma
MIA seized her to color her hair-and
then, as her good sense admonished her
never to do it again, walked trembling
by her side. while she wore the changing
hues from black to greenish white? and
who does not rejoice at the decree which
makes it possible for gray hair to be not
only honorable but fashionable alsoP
There are other things which need the
strong light of common sense thrown
upon them; the colors chosen for dresses,
the style of the hats and bonnets, the
dressing for the neck demand attention.
What pity it is that women with thin
faces and necks do not all understand
the softening effect of lace: white next
the throat and black outside of that.
Plain, rich dresses emphasize the grace
which should at fifty be even more adj
mirable than at twenty-five or thirty.
One is disposed to wonder at if not to
criticise Thackeray severely for making
Henry Esmond marry Lady Castlewood,
whose daughter was his first love; and
he is pardoned only when we remember
that her lovely character and the beauty
of her face are represented as existing
without the aid of those artificial applf-
ances which disfigure some women even
at the present day, when good sense is
the rule and not the exception. The
"eternal fitness of things should be
studied by every woman; and she might
make sort of golden text of this
sentences: No woman looks SO old as
one who tries to look young. The little
girl who tries on her mothers apron and
SO has on long dress in front, and the
traditional ostrich which hides ito head
in the sand, are no more absurd than is
the woman who persuadesr herself at
forty that she looks eighteen.-N r
EUeniag Post.