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The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04

?" FAHmt VIZ, Nov. Isl, 1851.
Mn j. 7. RyAx. nar Sir 4 have BEN using YOU pnnp Tor several nouihs
anil haHng previously usd The ordinary chain anil bucket pumps, do not hesat
to my that your Patent Pump h Lx superior to any | huvr ever 9 or urd.
now be induced TO use amy other pump though ! NIGH, st 20. half the
prize Of yours Respectfully, In Bpprnr.
Capt Il H. Taylor. Roter jackson, DR. y. G. Dunln. srbr Dros, NJ. At n r.
Co, a. Goodwin, Memphis, Col Geo H. Hunt, H. r. Jcnkfns, W D. I.hh. Rev.
numisr that AZ. using The pumps. Very Truly Yours ticrJi5ml ]. r. lYas.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04

Joxn and Miller, the latter col
orel. will 10 hung At Aberdeen,
usrh ID. fof the munler Of tho
Walker brothers.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04

NEw YoRk City had a million
dollar ERE Tuesday, in which about
n doron newspapers wcrc burned
out and several lives lost.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04

Is i
ta a WINNING
IirN
Tlp En auIt N fa af'
lfil liHt afwf ft
ta+fffV N m0i n m.ifpe.
we've hHili DO uis Fiaif
fasf Htsl AIeHu orunig sfaI
fr adglefti im mh
FaltiIln luniiH tunly, tmH
wi unn eass n small pR
eupfamf etlH snd fedfml court
lnu IN stssipn ~ Jish an
The naughty pulfnasi ini'
play bta ball n SUNDAY
The students " The A " " co.
Wv afe having mcRslut
T. u Harrington N west pint.
lma invented O. lnmpfoHoctpf
The State Grange myors iho 20
ponl VI the agricultural lien law
sroalm f. without % marshal and
the llenld mys wants one bndly
Thcr viii hr b rpcclnl term 4
Federal court ~ Oxfrl IA March.
In Monroe county slx bridges
were destroyed by the late over
dow
A hunter In Tippah county kill
cd six wild turkeys at one shot last
week
This ~ the only state in the
United States without u national
bank.
The eolored people Of Holly
Springs have organized a temper.
ancc society.
Thirty-nine members were adj
died 10 the Methodist church in
Okolona last year.
Meridian, by an amendment to
her charter, has lcgislaicd her Oh
noxious marshal out ototlicc.
On the 2Gth ult., 81 hands were
suspended from work at the rail
road shops in Water Valley.
Monroe county warrants are
worth IS cents on the dollar, and
Clay county warrants 90 cents.
Twenty colorcd people from
South Carolina settled near Ed
wards, Kinds county, recently.
Fifty laborers are at work in Tho
Water Valley cotton factory, an'
fifty more will soon be employed.
Tuniea county sent four convict
to the pcnit,ntiary last week. Tn
grand jury found twenty true bills
The Water Valley boys will
sling-shot attachments are maxim
themselves an annoying nuisance
The Governor offers q reward {
slOCs, for the arrest aud convictioI
Of the murderer Of General W. /
Tucker.
Eliza Chambers was fined slO
land cost by the Mayor Of Niek'
burg last week for keeping an ~
signation house.
i At Chester on the 9th ult
Judge Wm. Price shot and kille
Capt Hamp Turner in q qharre
over Il trivial matter.
The exodus of colorcd people |
the Mississippi bottom is genera
in the counties on the line Of Oh
Mobile & Ohio railroad.
). Two men in Yazoo county In,
, spent s25 at law over the dispute
, ownership Of a hound dog, and sti
the case is not settled.
:. SUBMITS two papers-the Time
and Intelligcncer, and the Seutin.
have consolidated under the nan
4 Of the Times and Sentinel.
On December LIST, 1881, the
were SIG convicts in the pcnite.
tiafy-W white males, 1855 color
Z males, 81 colorcd females and : Il
dian males.
!. A few days since in pontot,
county, Jack sappington viii
rldriying his mules and wag'
through a creek, drowned his wi
sister and one Of his children.
=. The Herald and the sub-soil
4 and Democrat, Of Corinth, are CO
Il tinually at war with each oth'
/. II they 20 much further VIC THU
l. they will fight sure enough.
'c An effort is being made TO Ia
several sections II land nom G.
RI hcma county and add them TO Gu
N man county and change the e,t
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04

sn,ii-ros continue. TO ,rrcsd
with alarming rspsd.ly.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04
Through Cars

slccpcrs on Night Tnu
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
THE TWO-HEADED GIRL.

Mile Christine, the two-headed girl,
who some years ago attracted consider
sble attention from DIR. Pancoast and
other prominent members of the medical
fraternity, is at present guest OF the
Great Western Hotel, on Market street,
above Thirteenth. On Saturday, when
her agent presented himself at the CASH
ier's desk to settle the week account he
was surprised to find that the bill read:
ssThe Misses Christine" and that board
was charged for two persons.
"How do you make this out p asked
the agent, as he looked at the bill and
then at the cashier.
ssThe lady has two heads, has she not?"
said the cashier.
The agent admitted that such was the
case.
"And she las two mouths ?" continued
the hotel man.
Again another affirmative nod.
"And she eats with both of them 2"
persisted Mr.. Cashier.
eyes," broke in the agent, "but she
only takes half meal to each mouth.
'That's all very fine," responded the
cashier, "but you can't come that racket
on us. She's got two heads and two
mouths, and she gets two meals served
in her room. Now. if that don't consti-
tute her two persons then I'd better go
out of the business"
The head waiter was called, and cor
roborated the statement concerning the
double feed. Then the agent hied him
to an upper apartment and demanded ap
explanation from the double headed lass
which developed the fact that, while two
meals were actually served, one of them
was devoured by voracious curiosity
that occupied an adjoining room. Some
what of similar affair occurred on the
Pennsylvania Railroad few weeks ago,
when o conductor, who had not spark
of humor in his system, gravely demand
ed two fares for the monstrosity. 1t was
only with considerable difficulty that he1
agent managed to convince him that,
although there were two heads, four
arms, four legs and two minds, it was
only one woman. After some demur the
conductor agreed to accept the single
| ticket, but up to the time that the train
reached the depot he had failed to solve
the arithmetical conundrum as to how
one and one could be simply one.-PhH
adelphia Record.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23

Tom SHER1DAN.-It may be said that
young Toms reputation may be fairly
traced to single well known reply, or
retort, of his, which has been consider
ed of such excellent flavor and quality
as to confer fame. This is his well.
known answer to his fathers threat ''to
cut him off with shilling" and which
took the shape of, "You haven't got ii
about you, sir?" Now, in this, when first
heard, there was something so une1pect-
ed and original Git has since grown fami-
liar to u.s. something in the compounded
insinuation, the implied doubt as to bis
parent being able to command the coin
in question, and the eagerness to secure
present cash at the sacrifice of his inner
itance such as it was; there was some
thing that so piqued the public in all
this that it came to be accepted that the
person capable of such flight must be
wit of the first water and capable OF
other efforts.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

The following statement of William j. Cough
lin of Somerviile. Mass is so remarkable that
we beg to ask for It the attention of our readers.
He saws: I'm the fall of 1876 was taken with
a violent bleeding of the lungs followed by a
severe cough. 1 soon began TO lose my appetite
and flesh. 1 was so weak at one time that I
could not leave my bed. In the summero of 1877
/ was admitted to the City Hospital. While
there the doctors said had hole in my left
lung us big as a half dollar. / expended over a
hundred dollars in doctors and medicines. Twas
SO far gone at one time a report went around
that was dead. | gave up hope. but friend
told me of DR. VIM. HALLS BALS0M FOR
THE LUNGS. laughed at my friend. thinking
that NV case was incurahle, but got bottle
TO satisfy them, when to my surprise and graft
fieation commenced TO feel better. My hope,
once dead began to revive. and to-day feel in
better spirits than have the past three years.
Il write this hoping you will publish il, so
that every one afflicted with Diseased Lungs
will be induced TO take DR. WM. HALLS BAL l.
SOM FUR THE LUNGS and be convinced that
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. 1 have ta-
ken TWO bottles, and can positively say that it
has done more good than all the othe- medicines
/ have taken since my sickness. My cough has
almost entirely disappeared. and shah soon be
sbeu % 10 10 work" Sold by druggists.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
THE THIEF OUT-WITTED.

To beware of how you contide in you,
friends is given in the tale of, a miser.
who said to his friends:
81 have now 1000 rubles, which will
bury outside of the city, and will not
tell this secret to any one besides your
SELF
They then went out of the city, and
buried the money under tree. Some
days after, the miser, going along to the
tree to see ii his money was safe, found
it had disappeared. At once he suspect
ed his friend; but he dared not question
him, as he was sure that he would never
confess it. So he had recourse to this
stratagem; going to him, he said:
|. ga great deal of money has come into
my hands, which l want to put in the
same place. Ii you will come to morrow,
we will go together
The friend, coveting the large sum re
placed the smaller In the meantime
the miser went and found it, and having
secured his money, he determined never
again to confide in a friend.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
alanitowo1 pilot.
Do GARTER SNAKES EAT FISH?

Forest and Stream: Well, if you will
allow me point and consider crayfsh in
the category, I can answer yes. While
on the upper Allegheny, not long since,
I stepped out upon log which project
ed into the river and began washing my
hands in the water Suddenly perceiv-
ed !. quick movement in the river just
beneath my hands, which seemed to rise
out of the water in a strange sort of way,
which could not understand; but in a
moment more the mystery was solved by
the head of snake popping up ard
showing that it had just caught the cray.
fish by the tail.
kept perfectly quiet while the snake
watched me for minute or two, and
then, concluding that looked too good
natured to hurt it, it commenced on its
meal. 1t was a garter snake about six
teen inches long, and slender for its
length. / could not see what it could
possibly want with crayish, for I did
not suppose, it was insane enough to I'M
agine that it could swallow such a bunch
IF shell and claws. But it went right at
it as though it understood its business.
Swaying it's head (Which remained on a
level with the surface of the water) from
side to side, it worked its jaws as though
with a sucking molten, rubbing its throat
occasionally upon a little stone in the
water, and the tail part of the body of
the crayfish was soon comfortably past
the Rubicon.
But now came the tug of war, for here
was the head and shoulders and huge,
large claws which were now to be dispos-
ed of The snake seemed to realize that
If had need of all its powers in order to
complete its enterprise. 1t paused for a
lest and breathing spell, and I could
readily imagine that it was splitting on
its hands for the finish. Then it COM
menced again, and such swelling and
swaying and comforting would have made
circus clown sick with envy.
And all this time the poor crayfish
didn't offer a single objection. 1t SIM
ply looked out into space with vacant
stare, aud didn't seem to have the least
interest in the proceeding. 1t had doubt
less been crossed in love at some no dist
ant period, and considered the world a
hollow mockery, from which it was q
blessing to be freed.
Gradually its shoulders were drawn in
to the cavity, then its head sunk slowly
out of sight, and the last saw of that
luckless crayfish was one of its huge
sharp claws illustrating dissolving view
as it was drawn into its living grave.
Then that snakes jaws closed like 4 rat
trap; it worked its body, pushing its vic
tim down further-just as you have seen
boy work his throat when choking on
an overdose of dry sponge cake-licked
It's lips with its tongue a few times, wink
I'd its eye at me as though to say,
| There, you can't do that, old man, and
then wriggled away under the log to di-
gest its well earned meal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23

Sores. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in
the Bones, Side and Head, Female
Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhea, arising
from internal liberation, and Uterine
disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis
eases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Emaciation,
General Debility, and for Purifying the
Blood.
This Sarsaparillais a combination of
vegetable alternatives - Stillingia. Man
drake, Yellow Dock with the Iodides
of Potassium and Iron, and is the most
efficacious medicine yet known for
the diseases it is intended to cure.
Its ingredients are so skilfully COM
bined. that the full Alternative effect of
each is assured, and while it is so mild
as to be harmless even to children, it is
still so etfectual as to purge out from the
system those impurities and corruptions
which develop into loathsome disease.
The reputation it enjoys is derived
from its cures, and the confidence which
prominent physicians all over the coun-
try repose in it. prove their experience
OF its usefulness.
Certificates attesting its virtues have
accumulated, and are Constantly being
received. and as many of csc cases are
publicly known, they furnjsn convincing
evidence of the superiorit OF this Sar-
sapariila over every otter Alternative
medicine. So generally 5. its superb
GRITTY to any other nedicin known. that
We need 60 no more than to assure the
public that the best Qualities it has ever
possessed are strictly maintained.
PREPARED by
Dr.. J. c. AVER ( CO., Lowell. Mass,
Practical a,si .8n"iVfirGI Chemists.
SOLD By ALL DRUGGISTS EvEgYwuLGE
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23

How Our FORESTS DIsAPPEAR.-The
manufacture aud shipment of timber is
the leading industry in Washington Ter.
ritory, employing great many work
men, and al immense number of large
saw mills. operated by steam and water
power. A large feet of ships and some
smaller exporting steamers convey the
timber to San Francisco, East Indies,
Europe, Australia, South America, Egypt,
Japan, and China. The timber shipped
from one district in western Washington
Territory in 1876, by vessels, without
reckoning the home consumption, equel-
led 1000 railway carloads, or 1000 rail-
way trains of twenty cars each, and in
1878 amounted to $50, 900, 900 feet. Tim
bered lands well situated for logging pur-
poses sell at from eight to twelve dollars
per acre. Three miles from river tim
Der lands can be had from two to three
dollars per acre.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
SHE THOUGHT 1T WAS JUST TOO
LOVELY.

An Oil City young man was reading in
the Derrick, about recent doings in the
Arctic regions, and his best girl was sit
ting near by, watching the wagging of
his moustache as the words rolled out.
She was evidently more deeply absorbed
in the moustache than the story. He
continued:
''She arrived at the mouth of the river
Lena about three months ago. The
Jeanette was crushed"
"What?" quickly asked the girl start
ing up.
"'Jeannette was crushed by"
"Oh, but wasn't that just too lovely!
Only think, to be completely crushedl"
"What are you talking about, dear
est?'' asked the young man in surprise.
81 was saying how grand it was to be
crushed. Did you Say it was Lena or
Jeanette that was crnshed?"
| "Jeannette, of course
.tOh, how I wish 1 had been in the
Jeannette's place"
Then the press of business necessitat.
ed turning down the gas, and the meet
ing closed in harmony.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
S Statement
lnDER,a.s,OAT a.''

y
st HAVE been afflicted for twenty years with
4 an OBSTINATE skin disease. Called by some
NJ DIS Psoriasis, and Qjaers Leprosy, commence
ing on my scalp and, IN spite OF all could do,
with theeIp vi Ghei most 8iilll doctors, it slow
" but surely extended until year ago this winter
It covered nv eltire PeFsoR in form of dry scales
For the lest three years L. have been unable TO do
any labor. and Suffering Intensely all the time.
Every morning taere Goald be nearly dustpanfni
OF scales taken from the sheet ON my bed some ..
them ialf ds iaEgeas the envelope containing this
letter. In IAeYatEer part Of the winter nv skin
commenced cracking open. / tried erythings,
aimostg tiisff could De thought OF. without any
lief. The I2In OF June / started West, in hopes /
could reach the hot Springs / reached Detroit,
and was so los thought j should have 10 20 10
the hospital, bat finally got as far as Lansing,
Mich. where | dad sister living. One DR.. -
treated me about two weeks, bHi did me no good
Ali thought / had but short time 10 live. | ear
nestly prayed 10 die. Cracked through the skin
ali over my back. across my rib, arms, hands,
limbs feet badly SWOLLEN, toe nails came OF, I'M
ger nails dead and hard bone, hair dead, dry
and lifeess old straw. Oh, Iny God! how / did
suffer!
.'My sister, Mrs. E. Ii. Davis, had small part
of box OF Caticura in the house She wouldn't
give up; said " Z Will try Cutlcura." Some WAS
applied on one hand aud arm. Eureka there was
relief; stopped the terrible burning sensation
from The word 60 They Immediately got the
Cuticura Resolvent (blood puriherl, Cuticura and
CutIcura soap lthe great skin eures) com
menced by taking one tablespoonful OF Besovent
three times q day, after meals; had bath Cnce a
day, water about blood heat; used CUtiCura soap
freely; applied CutiCUFA morn ny and evening
from the time / LEFT, aud my skin smooth as
this sheet oi paper.
HIRAM E..CARPENrER
Henderson. jefferson Co, y. Y.
Sworn TO before me this 18Th day of January,
1850. A. Nj. LEFFINGwELL
pt he Dpag
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
A RURAL ROMANCE.

New York, Feb. 15.-The Herald has
q special from Baltimore saying: "a
wedding took place in the Dorchester
district of Danerest County, Maryland.
on the 9th inst, under circumstances
which have probably never found par
allel in this country. On the date named
b. e. Whyte, aged II, and of excellent
character, married pretty little brunette
named Ella Shores. aged IA, thus giving
to the girl a second husband within the
| period of two years. 1t appears that on
Feb. 5, 1880. precisely two years ago
from the date of the last marriage, the
residents of Dorchester were grately ex-
cited on learning that Sydney Shores,
farmer aged Is years, had married Ella
Shores, the IL yearold daughter of his
deceased wife by former husband. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Zach
Bowen, Methodist Episcopal clergy
man, who, as shown afterward, was de-
ceived by Shores as to the girls age, and
did not know that she was the step
daughter of her husband. At that time
there were numerous threats of lynching
the wretched bridegroom, and a mob
visited his house one night to hang him.
Shores, however, who was an old soldier,
showed fight and they desisted. After
the old man had lived with the girl as
his wife for four days, the county auth
critics took cognizance of the affair and
arrested him and the Rev. Mr.. Bowen.
Justice Robinson, of Princess Anne,
committed them to Jail in default of bail,
and the girl was taken charge of by
friends and removed from Shores house.
The feeling against Shores was further
aggravated by the fact that his wife, who
was the widow of his uncle, had been
dead only one month when he welded
the girl. Some months after Shores was
tried by the county courts, convicted of
misdemeanor, aud sentenced to pay a
fine of $500 and stand committed to Jail
until it was paid. The clergyman was
acquitted on the ground that he had not
known the facts of the case. Shores,
being poor man, could not pay his fine
and doubtless would have been in Jail at
the present time had he not succeeded
in escaping last year, since which time
he has not been heard of.
Meanwhile the girl wife, through
friends, applied for divorce, which APP
plication was heard last fall and granted.
Throughout all her trouble Whyte, her
second husband, displayed the utmost
solicitude for her, and finally induced
her to marry him last week, as stated.
Mrs. Whyte, despite her youth, is well
grown for her age, and an unusually pretty
girl, we'll educated, and intelligent. Sew
eral prominent residents of the county
have taken an interest in the welfare of
the young couple, and will assist in es
tablishing the groom in business.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-02-23
PRINTING POSTAGE STAMPS.

The number of ordinary postage
stamps issued in 1881 was 954, lbs, 40.
and value s24, 04O, 643. The method of
printing postage stamps is as follows:
The printing is done from steel plates,
on which 200 stamps are engraved, and
the paper used is of a peculiar texture,
somewhat resembling that of bank notes.
Two men cover the plates with the color
ed inks and pass them to man and girl,
who print them with large rolling hand
presses. Three of these little squads are
employed all the time, although ten
presses can be put in operation, if ne
cessary. The colors used in the inks are
ultra marine blue, Prussian blue, chrome
yellow aud Prussian blue (green), YER
million and carmine.
After the sheets OF paper on which the
900 stamps are engraved bave been dried,
they are sent into another room and gum.
med. The gum used is made of the pow
der of dried potatoes and other vegetables
mixed with water. Gum arabic is not
desirable, because it cracks the paper
badly. The sheets are gummed separate
ly. They are placed back upwards upon
flat wooden support, the edges being
protected by metallic frame, and the
gum is applied with a wide brush. After
having been again dried this time on lit
tie racks, which are famed by steam
power for about an hour, they are put in
between sheets of pasteboard, and press
ed between hydraulic presses capable Of
applying weight of 1000 tons.
The sheets are next cut n halves; each
sheet, of course, when cut contains a
hundred stamps. They are then passed
to the perforating machine. The per-
forations between the stamps are effected
by passing the sheets between two cylin-
ders provided with a series of raised
bands which are adjusted to a distance
apart equal to that required between the
rows of perforations. Each ring on the
upper cylinder has series of cylindrical
projections which fit corresponding de
pressions in the bands of the lower cylin-
der; by these the perforations are punch
ed out, and by simple continuance the
sheet is detached from the cylinders, in
which it has been conducted by an end
less band. The rows running longiru.
dinally of the paper are first made, and
then by similar machine the transverse
ones. This perforating machine was in
vented and patented by Mr.. Arthur in
1852, and was purchased by the Govern
ment for $4,000. The sheets are next
dressed once more, and then packed and
labelled and slowed in another room, pre-
paratory to being put in mail bags for
dispatching to fulfill orders. If single
stamp is torn or in any way mutilated the
whole sheet of 100 is burned. Five hun
dred thousand are burned every week
from this cause. The sheets are counted
no less than eleven times during the pro-
cess of manufacturing, and SO great is
the care taken in counting that not a sin
gle sheet has been lost during the pact
twenty years.