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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-11
Ar EI2ipr0vr.as 1T.

The keepers Of lottery shops-in
Chinatown-are said to have adopted 4
system of trap doors by which they can
suddenly disappear, when police Off
c,rS stroll in. An ingenious Mongolian
has taken out caveat for an improve
ment on even this ingenious device. 1t
is contrlvanca by which, as the lot
terry agent disappears through the floor,
4 woodeH arm upon which is hooke ed q
twenty dollar roll is thrust up just in
front Of the astonished officer, while at
the same instance the blinds are pulled
down and the door is softly shut -
S. f. Report
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-11
Clothing, Hats and I1umishing Goods

have on hand fine selection Of Gents BOYS
and fnu hs' lothtnS Of tn" finest quality
ana lat st styles these goods were
PIT IN last Fail they all fresh
ana no shelf-wOrn trash.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-02-11

The Eureka Lealer says that Hon.
G. w. Merrill will not be candidate
for Attorney General
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
Forestry.

There is plan afoot for holding in
Cincinnati national convention in the
interests of forestry. 1t is proposed to
invite the participation of the general
government, the State governments,
scientific societies and schools of scien-
tific learning; and the suggestion is made
that delegates should be sent by railroad
and transportation companies and State
agricultural societies. It is urged that
the country has suffered great injury
from the destruction of the forests, and
that the injury will very soon grow to
alarming proportions unless something
is done TO encourage the planting of trees
and also to prevent their wastefal de-
struction. It is impossib BILE to exaggerafe
the importance of this subject. The de-
struction Of forest trees goes on in this
country at q constantly increasing rate.
and very little effort is made, in any di-
rection, to replace the trees so cut down.
The general government can promote the
work of tree planting upon the public
lands and by offering inducements TO set
Tiers 20 do SO; the State governments can
do even more, and the agricultural socie-
ties, by presenting the subject in forcibio
shape, can persuade individuals to action.
In Europe the matter receives the careful
attention Of the central governments, but
here we must depend chiefly upon indisi-
dual effort, which can, however. be IN
fuenced by wise legislation on the part
the State.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
suppressIng she Cooked Hat.

Gen. Campenon has decided to sum-
press the legendary cooked hat of the
gendarme and to give him helmet or
shake, according to the regiment to
which he belongs. There is to be uni
fication of head-dresses The cavalry
are to wear the helmet with the long
horse hair plume, and the infantry viii
have the shake, while the old bonnet de
police or forage cap will be compelled to
give way to the KEPT. The gendarmes.
for whom NJ. Theirs professed such pro.
found admiration, are not pleased with
the change which is to be made. They
consider that the cooked hat is as sienif-
icative OF the functions they are called
on to fulfill as the gilt emblem of Office
with which the baliffs touched their pris-
oners on the arm in olden times when
they arrested them in the name
OF the law. They say that the criminal
has often been awed into submission by
the sight of the head dress they wore,
and that with the helmet they will be-
come simply soldiers, and be shorn of
more than half their prestige. Twenty
eight Of the legions of the gendarmerie
have worn for many years past the old
cooked hat, while the gendarmes station
ed in Corsica wear the shake, and those
who are on the Algerian service wear the
fez cap, the same as that which distin-
guishes the colonial cavalry. During q
certain period under the empire, the
gendarmerie of the Seine and those of
the Guard wore the bear-skin OF the
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
Caoned Civilization ana Things.

Some years ago the New York Tribune
in facetious mood alluded to the Great
West as a place where 'a kind of canned
civilization" existed. This implied that
it was an imported substance, but we of
the West did not know so we'll then as
we do now that it also implied the exist
ence of poison, of edibles at least, not
native where the evil was dispensed. It
is perhaps not the least of the benefits to
be derived from railroad communication
that the consumption of metallic canned
edibles from one to seven years old will
be lessened as agriculture develops and
facilities are had for obtaining fresh
from more genial climes those pro-
ducts which the inner person Graves and
the coy sun does not perfect in Montana.
It is being demonstrated by chemical
analysis and medical investigation that
the picket-line of civilization has been for
years feeding from plenteously to almost
exclusively on subtle and dangerous
poisons developed by the acids of canned
goods acting on the can. A late issue of
the London Lancet, one of the highest
medical authorities, contains statement
of analysis showing: That one-pound
can of prepared soup contained one-half
grain of poison. and pound can of oys-
ters seventenths of a grain of poison
held in solution, ,and this was pronounced
by the chemist an ''irritant poison. :"
Well established cases of poisoning from
the free use of canned goods have been
cured; others still exist; who can tell
how many deaths have occurred where
the cause was not even suspected? May
it not be that the catarrhs, throat and
other diseases which especially detract
from the sanitary excellencies of "the
West are to some extent induced or ag
gravated by these Eoisons? Certainly
no good results from the absorption of
irritant poisons, and it would be well, if
not discontinuing the use of metallic
canned goods, to procure those as re-
Gently packed as possible. The older the
goods the more poison developed. It
might be we'll for laws to be enacted
where goods are put up requiring at
least the years of canning to be stamped
into the cans, and it would certainly be
advantageous for merchants handling
fresh goods to have that evidence appar-
ent. We have been led to make this
mention by the known existence 10 Mon
tana now of dangerous cases of poisoning
from the use of canned goods and it may
be an intimation of value to others.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
RosEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1882

to what particular cause or causes this
highly successful system of agriculture
is due, whether to the strictest economy
on the part of the people, or to certain
particular advantages they may possess
which the people of other lands as o
rule do not. It would be interesting to
know what methods are followed for
keeping up the fertility of the soil,
how phosphoric acid carried out of the
country in the bones of their cattle is re-
turned to- the soil. It is not unlikely
quantities of sea weed and other forms
OF marine vegetation are thrown upon
the shores and utilized by the farmers.
It is reasonable, too, to infer that they
are very careful to save everything that
can be used to fertilize and improve the
soil. We waste enough fertility in this
country, which, if saved, would make a
people rich. Boston barbor probably
receives and washes out to the sea,
enough of the elements OF food plant to
give the whole State pretty good dress
ing as often as the land gets ploughed by
our present system of farming. N. Y.
Farmer
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

grenad;er, but these cumbersome head
dresses were returned to the stores in
1870. when everything tending to remind
the Parisians that Napoleon III. had
ever reigned over them was hidden
away as recalling the defeat France had
sustained. The cooked hat, the last
vestige of that military legend
which was inseparable from the name of
Napoleon the Great, was served out to
the national gendarmerie about the end
of the year 1870. It was worn according
to the taste of the owner, either fore and
aft or crosswise. Louis Philippe de-
cided that the gendarmes should wear
their cooked hats crosswise, SO as to dis
tinguish them from the general officers,
who had the same head-dresses and some
do say that the citizen king was de-
lighted with the idea that the head-dress
which had distinguished le petit cap
oralr would continue as the distinctive
mark of the gendarmes and sergents de
vile, who were deputed to seek ont and
arrest thieyes andzEsins inala The hu-
sard de La guillotine, the cant term for
gendarme, will no longer be distinguish
able by his cooked hat, which gave, Kim
such martial and imposing appear
ance, and he will inspire no more re-
spect than the ordinary soldier.- Paris
Letter to London Globe.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
Stories About Blind Men.

Three men, two of them blind, were
drinking together one night, in the
room of public house, and, as is too
often the result of such conyivial meet
ings, one of the blind men quarreled,
and came to blows with the man that
could see. Here was likely to be bat
tie not by any means on equal terms.
But the other blind man was equal to
the occasion. That the man who could
see should have no undue advantage
over his less fortunate opponent, up
jumped the blind friend and turned off
the gas, and SO they pommeled each
other in harmless way for time. We
have given an illustration of the warlike
passion. As an offset, we could give
many illustrations of that gentler pas
sion, love, for the blind are eminent dis
ciples of Cupid and Hymen. As rule,
a respectable blind man has no difficulty
in getting seeing wife, and very often
with good looks, to boot. And when
we consider the delicacy of touch in the
finger tips of the blind, the latter is not
to be wondered at. Blind men, how
ever, do not always marry wives who
see. We know of many instances
in which both husband and wife
are blind and have managed to
rear families without the occurrence of
any serious mishap to either themselves
or their children. And the cases are
rare in which the latter are defective in
sight. Only lately the marriage took
place of blind couple somewhat ad-
vanced in years, she being his second
wife, and he her third husband. The
marriage was not wanting in the ele-
ments of romance, for in their young
days they had courted and parted, blind
in double sense. We will conclude with
a courtship, but in this case will not
vouch for its truth. A blind man on sew
eral occasions met widow, who was not,
however, like himself, blind, ard latterly
concluded that she would make him a
good wife. He resolved that he would
pop the question without loss of time.
Accordingly one evening found him in
the widows house for that purpose,
when his suit was entirely successful.
But SO elated was he with his success that
on leaving her door, he forgot he was up
a flight of stairs. The staircase window
being very low, and happening to be
open, he felt the air on his heated brow,
and at once stepped out without think
ing where he was, and so fell into the
court below. The widow hearing the
noise, ran down, greatly alarmed, but
was fully reassured that no bones were
broken by his remark: Maggie, We hae
a big step to your door. - Chambers
Journal
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

To my mind there is only one solution
for the mysteries of life, and only one
support for the days of terrible afflict,o ON.
The only relief I can find is in the cer-
tainty that this life is not the end, but
simply and only the preparatory school
for the real and the endless life that is
beyond. The moment that I accept this
truth fully and hold it firmly, I find
solid ground for my feet and light for
my sorrowing soul. Then discover that
the whole journey of the believer is ''por-
toned out" to him, and that the dark tun-
mel on the road is just as surely appointed
wisely as is the most fowery mead or the
happiest walk over the "Delectable
Mountains. Nay, more. When we reach
heaven we may discover that the richest
and deepest and most profitable expe-
riences we had in this world were those
which were gained in the very roads from
which we shrunk back in alarm. The
bitter cups we tried to push away con-
tanned the medicines most needed. The
hardest lessons that we learn are those
which teach us the most and best fit us
for service here and glory hereafter. It
is the easiest thing in the world to obey
God when he commands us to do what
we like, and trust him when the path is
all sunshine. The real victory of faith
is to trust God in the dark and through
the dark. Let us be assured of this, that
if the lesson and the rod are OF his ap-
pointing, and that his all wise love has
engineered the deep tunnels of trials on
the heavenward road he will never desert
US during the discipline. The vital thing
for us is not deny and desert him. DIR.
Z. L. Cuyler.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

The American Sunday School Union
gives the following statistics in regard
to its work of 81 years, 69,847 schools
organized, containing 447 $50 teachers
and 1859 ,037 scholars; 100 ,402 cases Of
aid to schools, having {, ,720, 900 MEM
bers; value Of publications distributed
by aales and donations, 81 600 600.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

Charles Reade tells us that the late
Justice Leist, while an attorneys clerk,
wrote his Practice" which became a
manual for attorneys counsel and
judges, and at the same time he was q
student at Gray's Inn. As Mr.. Reade
says: Here was student Of Gray's
Inn, supposed to be picking up in that
inn q small smattering of law, yet to
diversity his crude studies, instructing
mature counsel, and correcting the
judges themselves, at whose chambers he
attended daily, cap in hand, as an attor-
ney's clerk. There's an intellectual
otch-potch for you
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18

It is hard to personate and act 8 part
long, for where truth Is not at the bot
tom, nature will always be endeavor1ng
TO returns and viii peep out and betray
itself one time or another.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-03-18
Notice.

H1iee lehsrsby given to whom It nay concern, thai
5Iz 0taeEsKned has been awarded the contract for
Ed III Dapeias county Paupers for tao period Of
f <t<51 All persons In need Of assistance from said
f<T MN Azef procure certificate to that eject
M ~ eszftbor Of the County Board and present Il
8 ~ i9lipWlng named persons. who are author
~ xiz care for those presenting such eertiacatet
[.e, EosebuKg L. L, Kellogg Oakland; Mrs.
<N4irH Glass. Dr. ScrogEs Is authorized to
-1'fss ekd to all persons fn need Of the same
&. s. |sHe zeF1e<ed raupers Of Douglas county.
HM. b CLARKE, 6upt. Of Poor.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-06

The annual meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad
Company took place at Cleveland on Wed.
nesdav. The President, J.N. Mccullough,
submitted his usual yearly report OF re-
ceipts and expenditures. 1t does not, how
ever, include an exhibit OF the business OF
the line for the year. This will be pub
lished later lie says on this point:
The usual supplementary report, giving
the result Of the years business, will be
prepared when the proper data come to
hand, and wilt be published in connection
herewith in pamphlet form. Present indi-
cations point, Notwithstanding low rates
both in freight and passenger traffic, to
about double the surplus $500, ,0OO) shown
Tor the previous year in the earnings OF the
property over all expenditures for account
ofinterest, dividends and sinking funds.
We fail to see in these remarks the data
on which the Cleveland Leader OF yester-
day bases its regrets over the decline OF
prosperity on the road. The Leader says
The report shows tho road to be iii not so
prosperous a condition rs could be wished,
but nevertheless in little better condition
than in 1880" Considering the war, we
think the report shows that the road is do
ing remarkably well. The Pennsylvania
road will net about SlOO,0OO, it seems, over
and above the expenses OF the lease This
ought to be gratifying to the stockholders,
Us it shows that the capacity of the line to
earn its dividends under adverse circum.
stances is practically undoubted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-06
nLAINE AN HEoRErARY.
YieWs Of Diplomats In wasbIDgton
AbOnt His Foreign Policy.

About His Foreign Policy.
WASHINGTON, January 5.-Now that Mr..
Blaine has retired from tho Cabinet and
from public life, the members Of the diplo-
matte corps are willing to talk more freely
rs to his foreign policy, and is plain that
II was regarded with anything but
admiration. Personally the recent Secre-
tary Of State was popular among the rep
resentatives OF other countries stationed in
Washington, but in his official relations he
was thought to be more out Of his element
in the State Department than in the Sem
ate. The impression he left among the
diplomatists was Of man who proposed
to deal with foreign nations as with an op-
posite faction in popular assembly. His
attitude toward Great Britain excited spec.
ial wonder. Speaking Of this matter-the
correspondence Of the Clayton. Bulwer
treaty-a foreign Minister said: "That
would have led the country into serious
trouble had it not been for the fact that it
was evident from the tone Of the news.
papers that the Secretary did not represent
the best sentiment OF the country. As siti is,
there will be more or less correspondence.
but the equilibrium will not be disturb
ed" This gentleman added that the mem.
bers Of the different legations read the
leading newspapers carefully, and keep
themselves and their Governments inform.
ed us to the state Of public opinion in this
country on all subjects Of great political
importance. 1--WE have our estimate OF
your public measures and men, md try 10
maj Ike our knowledge Of both us thorough
and accurate us we can"
A member OF another Legation, speaking
more particularly Of the South American
imbroglio, said that Mr.. Blaine could
mnclr more safely bully Chill than Great
Britain. To be sure Chill had ut present n
greater naval strength than the United
States, but the superiority OF the in
herent powers Of the latter nation was SO
strife, even il immediate successes were
well neigh certain, for she WOnld be obliged
subsequently to pay for them with usury.
Hence Chill would probably yield to any
reasonable moral pressure from this coun-
try. To exercise such m influence won Id,
however, be none the less hazardous ex-
pertinent, us it would lead no one knows
whittier.
Upon the whole, the aggressive policy
marked out by the late Secretary impress
ed many Of the diplomatists us uncalled
for, ill-advised, dangerous, and even ridicu-
lons. Some OF them compare it to the ''im-
perial" policy OF Beaconsfeld, which, il
persisted in, would, they say, have involved
Great-Britain in serious continental COM
plications for which she had no desire and
was not prepared. They are inclined to
give sigh of relief, therefore, to find the
State Department again in charge OF man
who will be disposed to carry on our dip
lomatic, business consistently with the
traditions left by Seward, Fish, and
Eyarts.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-06
WHEELING, WEST VA. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY g. 1882
during the argument Of the case Of Guiteau
TO the Jury: No visitor will he allowed To

during the argument Of the case Of Guiteau
to the Jury: No visitor will be allowed "a
stand IN the northeast corner Of the room,
THE jury Is in this corner), No one Is to en-.
ter there after the argument is commenced
each day, so as to pass between the counsel
and the jury, though visitors may be ad-
mitted who are invited To seats on the
bench. All persons leaving the court room
during theargument must pass out through
the south door, TO avoid passing between
the counsel and Jury, and for that object a
passage way Is TO be left between the trial
table and the audience south. The pas.
sage way Is to be kept sufficiently clear to
allow passing in.and.out space before the
jury. The Marshal Is charged with the ex-
ecntion Of the foregoing directions:
The counsel for defense in the Guiteau
case will present their law points to Judge
Cox tomorrow morning. His Honor will
rule upon them Saturday Immediately after
the opening Of the court. Mr., Davidge will
then mako the opening argument for the
prosecution, which will probably occupy
the entire day. kir. Scovilie viii reply for
the defense on Monday, and will bs follow
ed by Col. Reed and Guiteau, who will be
permitted to address the jury II he desires
TO do so. Judge Porter will make the
closing argument TO the Jury.
Mr.. ScoVilleremarked this morning that
he did not think the arguments would con-
sumo more than four days II this expeCta-
ton Is realized the case will probably 20 to
the jury not later than Thursday next.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-06
CAUGHT FROM A cADAvER.
The Smallpox Scare Mt KcokuL, Iowa
Status OF the Cases.

kEoKUE, IA, January 5.-There are nc
new cases OF smallpox. One death at the
pest house to-day. Dr.. Hills, Presi
dent Of the Board OF Health o.
Keokuk; having been addressed by the
President ofthe Board Of Health OF Hanni
baI relative to the smallpox, answered:
G. 2. Smith, n. D., President Board o
Health, Hannibal, No:
DEAR SIR-In reply to yours bearing date
oil December 81, 1881, enquiring about the
smallpox in this city, answer that there
is n limited number OF cases, confined
entirely to medical students, and has nc
apparent tendency to spread among the
citizens outside Of the students. 1t origin
ated from an affected CNdnver within the
medical college. There are nine cases in all
four OF whom have been removed to the
pest house three miles from the city. Two
died and three are in the city and doing
well but too sick to move. The medical
college has been closed BY order OF the
Board OF Health. You may rely on this as
being n true statement of the situation al
this writing. Every means is being used
to head it of and stamp it outat once with
agood hope OF success. Citizens are being
generally vaccinAted. The town is quiel
and business is moving in its channels
Thanking you Tor your inquiry, ! have tht
honor 10 remain,
Yours respectfully,
LSigned d. B. HILLS,
r. President Board OF Health,