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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-04-13

The celebrated case Of Thomson
Trosper vs.. the City of Salina, which
was once tried In our District Court
and a judgement Of $1,000 damages
given Trosper. and which was taken
to the Supreme Court on error, has
been reversed In the latter court.
Judge Foster IL entitled to much cred
1t for the manner In which he has
managed the case. His Supreme court
brief was regarded by the lawyers
here as about the strongest ever gotten
up in this county. The judge gains
another well-earned laurel. The case
will be retired. The principle ground
on which 1t was reversed was
the refusal of the court to discharge
the juror J. NJ. Taylor on account
Of his prejudice. The $l2A al
lOwance for "mental suffering" Is
also over-ruled, on the ground that no
damages are allowed In such cases.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-04-13

We have very few particulars to add
to those we gathered last week just as
we went to press about Wednesday
storm. One party afiirms that he saw
1t form on the line between Falun and
Summit townships. about twenty-five
miles southwest Of Salina, and that it
then had the regulation funnel ap.
pearance and bore off to the North
through the hills at great speed. Mr.
J. A. Banker informs us he supposed
the storm formed near his place. Mr..
Banker lives four miles and half
northwest of Salina. The storm knock
ed his chimney and granary down.
1t passed within about seventy-five
yards of Mr.. Yount's place, who lives
northeast Of Mr.. Banker. Charles
Smith, living seven miles northwest,
had his barn and house unroofed, and
the blacksmith's shop was torn down.
Leaving Mr.. Yount's place. 1t crossed
the river and reached successfully the
houses Of NJ. c. Page, L. ID. Hill and
n. b. Dwinnell. Mr.. Hills house
was cheap board house. 1t was en-
tirely destroyed. Two Of his children
were injured but not seriously. His
wife and two other children, who
went into the cellar, escaped without
injury. Mr.. Hill lost some corn aud all
his household goods. Mr.. Pages house
was a stone structure. The roof only
was taken off His farm machinery
was considerably broken up. Mr..
Dwinnell's house-a small building
was rolled over and split in two. The
family were in the cellar. The house
was fully insured. Mr.. Aug. Krouse,
of this city, who was doing some work
ut the farm house of Mr.. Rinehardt.
north of the Solomon river. saw the
storm as it passed near Rinehardt's
place. Going three-fourths of a mile
il struck Mr.. Donahaue's
story aud half house and tore il all
to pieces. The house was occupied by
n renter. The man. his wife and
were injured-the lat
ter quite seriously. The storm from
thence went almost directly north.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-04-13

Easter Sunday was appropriately
observed by some of the churches.
In all the forms Of Christian
worship there is none more beautiful,
impressive or suggestive than Easter
festivals Of song and praise. Easter
Sunday Is set apart by all creeds in
memory Of the Christian passover and
festival of the resurrection of Christ.
1t comes at an appropriate time:-
when the SHOWS of Ice and winter
have just departed, and the budding
flowers and songs of birds have come.
There was fine display Of flowers
and plants at the Episcopal Church.
The service was very interesting and
the remarks of the Rector very appro-
pirate. The music was especially good.
At the Catholic Church there were also
very handsome floral decorations
The usual masses were celebrated, and
Rev. Father Msurer delivered q ser
mon after High Mass. In the Eng
lish Lutheran Church, twenty-five
new members were received-sixteen
by confirmation. Another source of
Joy was the presence of Rev. A. J.
Hesson, OF Pa, who has moved TO
Salina and will be q helper in the
Lutheran Church.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1882-04-13

Dividend b. Jeha osis &ce.
] hereby declare for the creditors Of
John Gels 4 Co. . dividend Of i've per
cent, payable April sth, 1882.
low C.E. FAULKNER, Assignee.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
Utah'S "Cape May"
BATHING IN THE BRINY WATERS OF THE
NOTED SALT LAKE.

A letter from Salt Lake City says:
do not think that ever said anything
about the lake 10 you, so Iii give you
some idea of our "Cape May" 1t is
about sixteen miles from the city, on
the Salt Lake and Nevada Railroad, and
takes about an hour and "A quarter TO
reach, owing to the slow speed made by
the cars. 1t is large body of water
with no apparent outlet, fed by several
large mountain streams of fresh water,
is about twenty miles long by three and
six miles wide. 1t has several island
mountains, which are under very little
cultivation principally as stock
ranges. The water is extremely salty.
Take three gallons of water, evaporate
it, and you will have gallon of salt
with soda and other minerals combined.
There is no living thing in the water;
it is as clear as crystal. You can see
the bottom in the deepest portions
plainly. Owing to the salt the water
is dense, so that it is impossible to siuk,
nor can YOU make very rapid progress
il swimming. One thing, it is a diff
cult matter to learn to keep feet and
arms under at the same time. You go
air. 1t is dangerous, though, to one
unaccustomed to it. For instance, you
must keep the mouth closed when swim
ming. If you inhale ever so little OF
the water it will cut the lungs and
bring on bleeding, which, IN several IN
stances, has proved fatal IN few hours.
At first the water gets III the eyes, and
it seems rs though they were being
burned. / remember the first time |
went in. l supposed it was no worse
than ocean water, so jumped in.
When i came mp and opened my eyes
well, no one had to tell me to shut
them. l thought would lose my eye
sight Even yet | cannot get NV eyes
accustomed to the water. The railroad
runs train out every evening at 5:45
o'clock, which gives one a little over an
hour for his bath aud to get back. Ex-
cursion tickets are fifty cents. From
seven to eight hundred go ont every
night. There is also train i'll the
morning, which enables families To- go
and spend the day. There are three
places, "Black Rock, :" Garfield Land
ing" and Lake Point. Garfield
is the favorite resort, as the bathing IS
better. The bathing is the only y.attrac-
ton, as the shore is destitute of trees or
bushes, the only shelter being the dane
ing platform, which has roof. One
end of the platform is devoted to
lunches, having long tables on which to
spread your luncheon. We enjoy the
bathing, although you cannot dive into
the surf, and ON stormy days there IS
quite n surf.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
In a Barher'S Chair.
TRtUArPHs AND TRICKS OF THE TRADE-A
MAN WHO ESCAPED A SHAMPOO FOR
TWO YEARS.

'If You did nothing but shave at ten
cents countenance. would vou ever
get rich?" asked Cincinnati Press
man of a leading tonsorial artist. drop
ping into a reclining position. ''Sister
Maria, mol" was the reply. ga man
might make living nj it if he got
ough to do all the time; but look how
much we loaf. Saturdays and part Of
Sundays are the only days in which we
work all the time" Having thought
lessly pulled the string, the reporter
listened to the following before he
could escape:
where we make is on shampoos,
hair-cuts and dyes If it wasn't fo-
these, man conldn't earn his salt
BARRIERS in some places are paid more
on account of their persuasive powers
in inducing customers to submit TO cuts
or shampocs than because of superior
workmanship. | knew one barber who
got twenty dollars week because be
never let man escape for less than half
dollar. That sort of business will
work in shop where there is b G
transient custom, but it would kill en-
ordinary shop. Transient shops gener-
ally charge fifteen cents for shave.
There are tive fifteen -centers in Cincin-
natl, but it's only because they are
hotel shops and a little tony. You
can't get any better shave there than in
most Of the ten-centers. I've always
said that there wasn't frst-class shop
in town. That is, a genuine 'toDsorial
parlor, like those in most large cities.
/ don't think there's tive-cent shop in
Cincinnati. unless it's out III Bohemia.
No, we never feel bad if a customer
skips one of us to wait for another.
People are so whimsical and have to be
humored. Some think that the 'bOss.
or the man who runs the head chair, is
the best barber III the shop. One day,
here, four men were waiting for the
boss, and three of us jours. were loaf
ing around reading the papers. Oh
course, he was mad enough to fieht,
but it wouldn't do to show it. Good
BARRIERS are always in demand, but they
are rowing set and tramp around q
great deal. Wages vary in different
cities-ten dollars a week being about
the average in Cincinnati. OF course,
every boss expects his men to suggest
further improvements in the way of a
trim or dry shampoo, and there is a
standing reward in this shop for the
man who first gets a shampoo on one oi
our customers who has been here regu-
luarly twice q week for over two years
and still holds out. We never expect
to get the reward, however, for a man
who won't be convinced in two years is
past even BARRIERS hope. The bar
ber's lot is not wholly happy one, and
the only fun we have Is to loaf hard
customers on each other. Just let q
tough old grizzly come in for scrape
and then notice what extreme pains
each man will take with the occupant oi
his chair in order to outlast the others. y
BY this time the reportorial moustache
had been beautifully waxed and curled,
only to be ruthlessly disheveied by the
operators towel as he rubbed off the
powder and mildly calculated, "Nextl''
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
CARRADINE'S LOVE.
BY MARTIN HANDEL.

Carradine sat alone at his easel, paint
ing; and as he painted, he thought.
Eight years before, when he was a poor
and struggling boy. Just entering on
that race which must be run by every
aspirant to art and its honors, there
happened to him something which
neither time nor toll had ever been
able to efface from his memory. As he
was passing along the streets a wreath
of fragrant roses suddenly fell off his
head, and, looking up in wonder, he
beheld, reaching ont from the en-
broidered draperies of an overhanging
window, a child, with fairy-like pro-
portions, with great, dark eyes, and
long curling, black locks, who stood
smiling and throwing him kisses
from her curved lips, colored like a
pomegranate. While she still gazed. q
nurse had come forward and drawn the
child away the curtains were closed.
and he saw the little creature no more
Such was the vision that the artist
had carried so long in his memory; in
his memory only, for he had no second
glimpse of the child. That very day an
accident occurred which kept him a
prisoner in his room for some weeks.
and when next he went ont the house
was empty, and a placard with great
tiaring letters announcing it for sale
stared him in the face, from the same
window in which the little white robed
elf had stood waving her hand and
smiling TO him. In course of time other
faces appeared there, but they were
strange faces, and among them was
never the one for which he looked.
Now, as Carradine sat painting alone,
he thought of all this; OF the struggle
that had ended at length in success; of
his hard unfriended boyhood, and of
the beautiful child with her fragrant
rose-cIown, which had seemed almost
like a prophecy. That rose wreath, dry
and withered now, was all that was left
10 him Of the fair vision, but when
one morning, i'll turning over an old
portfolio, he had come upon it 10y chance,
1t spoke to him of that by-gone day
Just as eloquently as when its blossoms
were fresh and full
Eight years ago, " he said, thought
fully, letting the shriveled circle slip
through his fingers slowly. "She must
he near sixteen nOw-if she lives. If?
No, do not doubt her living presence
= somewhere. l wonder where she is
now, and what she is like at sixteen 2"
With that, he placed the wreath be-
side his easel and began to pant. The
face, as 1t grew on his canvas, presented
young girl in the dewy morning blush
OF first youth, with shadows in the great
dark eyes and half smile about the
bright curved lips, like an embodied
summer sun shower. 1t was thus that
the artist pictured his ideal OF the child
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
THE RIVER AND HARBOR ELL.
ny WALT QuEyEpo.

An honest farmer. from an inland town.
Whose cheek was good for any such amount he
Might sign his name
One day. tired of his lowly occupation.
Vowed by the goodness gracious godarna-
ton!
He'd change the same.
"Hed once bin chosen Jestis ov the Pease,
n Constable. N Squire, n Freebooter. but
these
Wus much too low.
Wern't high enough fur one ov his ambition.
An 10y the great Jewhitaker darEition
He'd make show
'' An LET ther people see wot kind ov stun
John Boggs wus made oy Certain he wus
rough.
But he was straight
An meath his coat there beat an honest heart
An 'gainst bis fellcrs he could take his part.
Now you jest wait
To make the story short. he was elected
To COngress-just as every one expected
And took his seat
And was most paralyzed with indignation
BY seeing how the "rulers of the nation
Wus on the beat.
He stood il for n month, and then one day
He made up his mind that it didn't pay
To be too straight:
/" His honest neighbors though. how they
would frown :"
His heart was in his throat he gulped it down
Ii was too late.
A colleague, from county near his place.
had scrutenized John Boggss face
And saw the glow.
And knew he " had him :" then drew near his
chair
And whispered in his not unwilling ear
What's found below:
" Thar amt no creeks nor bridges in your town.
Build them yerself dam up, or break EN- down,
It's all the same
Come, thunderatioD. John. don't be a noodle
II you don't, some one else will get the Doodle.
Who cares for fame?"
Jonn saw the point, and said In last No
Inc dag and date l really disremember-
Twas thereabout-
/ spit upon the doorstep in my yard
1t was an awful spit. n l tried hard
Ter rub it out
"But twarn't no go, n then for fear that
Nance
Might come across ii with her searchin' glance
n make things hum,
spread acrost il an old hunk ov stone.
An that's the nearest. Peter, ! must own,
Ihet kin come"
The thing was fixed, and now upon the
books
There can be seen by any one who looks
\ paragraph
Which shows that Old Stone Bridge and Spittle
Creek
Cost $4,000 in a week.
And then they laugh.
And when "John Boggs is written as 'the
late,
And he, perchance, draws nigh to Heavens
gate.
He will regret it.
He'll find that Spittle Greeks rs wide as sin.
And that the Old Stone Bridge has just caved in.
Don't You forget it,
Sunday Dispatch
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
The Fortunate Butler.

The butler of a certain Scottish laird.
who had been in the family number of
years, Mt last resigned his situation
because his lordship's wife was always
scolding him
"Ohw exclaimed his master, ''if that
be all, ye've very little to complain
of.
perhaps so, replied the butler, ''but
| have decided in my own mind to put
up with it no longer"
$50, then, said his lordship, "and
be thankful for the rest of your life that
ye're not married to her. = @amberS's s
Journal.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12

Liberal arrangements made with clubs
Correspondence solicited from all parts of
the county.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
The Democratic Messenger.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY
LITTLETON DENNIS, Proprietor
AT SNOW HILL, WORCESTER co., MD.

Subscription. 81 Year in Advance.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12

TAKEN IN.-A peddler on an Iowa
abroad concluded that, i'll tho intervals
of regular business, he might win some
money from passengers as a three card
monte operator. After practicing with
the cards until he considered himself
an adept, he chose a green looking man
for first victim; but this person was
professional gambler, and the peddler
quickly lost $3.50, for the recovery of
which he has brought suit.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12

An honest farmer. from an inland town.
Whose cheek was good for any such amount he
Might sign his name.
One day. tired of his lowly occupation.
Vowed by the goodness gracious goldarna-
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for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each
subsequent insertion.
A liberal discount will be made on quarterly
six months, or yearly advertisements.
Local notices will be inserted at 90 cents per
line.
Marriage and death notices inserted tree.
Obituary notices inserted at half advertising
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All advertising bills are due after the first
Insertion, unless otherwise agreed upon.
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Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12

FAILURES. s.-There were 597 bust
ness failures in the United States and
Canada for the past half year. During
the corresponding period of 1881 there
were but 1852. The liabilities were, in
round numbers, $50, 600, 900 to the $40,- :
600, 900 of last year.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-12
ATLANTIC HOTEL.
(LATE ENGLIsH's.)
CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND. VA.
WI MATTHEW'S 4 Co. Proprietors

The undersigned beg leave to inform thei,
friends and the general public that they have
leased aud refurnished the above elegant and
eommodlous house, and are now prepared Ia
accommodate permanent and transient guests
in frst-class style.
Large airy rooms. Home comforts
Fine Sea and Bay Fishing. Cunning and
Bathing, etc. The table is provided with Wild
Fowl, Terrapin, Fish, Oysters. Grabs, and all
the luxuries of the season.
Pleasure boats of all kinds. guides. fishing
lines, decoys. ponies, etc, always ready for
the use Of guests.
First-claes Bar attached. Choice wines.
liquors, ales, beers and cigars.
Passengers for Chincoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City. the
terminus of the Worcester Railroad. morning
and evening. Connection may also be made
daily at Nashville. All who visit the Atlantic
may rest assured that they viii receive cour-
teous treatment and excellent fare.
Your patronage is respectfully solicited
W. j. MATTHEW'S d 90.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-02

was not very large. His humor made him
a great favorite with the Toodles family.
There was little nine by seven daily
paper published in Poughkeepsie. The
editor called on Mr.. Shaw one day and
said that the man who could talk as we'll as
he could talk ought to be able to write
we'll, and he wanted him to contribute
something to his paper. Mr.. Shaw told
him that he had never written line for
publication in his life. But the notion
pleased him, and he thought it over, and
then wrote series of between twenty and
thirty short pieces that have made his
name a household word in America since.
For six months he continued his contri-
buttons every week. Nobody noticed them
outside of Poughkeepsie. One day Mr..
Shaw read one of the essays of Artemus
Ward on subject that he had treated in
one of his short essays. He read it over
and over and over again; and the more he
read 1t the less he understood why Artemus
Wards writings should be SO popular and
his pieces had fallen still born from the
press. SIS it the bad speIlings" he asked
himself. He made up his mind that it
was the bad spelling and nothing else that
had given wings to Artemus Wards humor
and made him famous, and that it was his
own loyalty to Webster's Unabridged that
had weighted his humor down and kept
his name in obscurity. So he took his
essay ON the mule. ''The mules favorite
animal with me-" Josh once said to me;
che has treated me pretty rough and I've
treated him pretty rough; we understand
each other"-and without changing a
word he ''slewed round the spelling," as
he expressed it, and sent it to the New
York Era, weekly paper of not large
circulation at the time. Before mailing
it he signed it ''Josh Billings Josh
was IN honor of an Old comrade Zone Josh
Carew) of his western life; Billings came
by inspiration, as it were." His POUCH
keepsie pieces were anonymous. The mis-
spelled Essay on the Mule" was printed,
and instantly went the rounds of the
press" and the name of Josh Billings be-
came famous before he had written a
single essay excepting those he had printed
in the Poughkeepsie paper. He simply
translated them into his peculiar phonetic
system of spelling. As soon as he saw
that everything he wrote was widely re-
printed, he thought he ought to make
money by his pen, and so he sent one of
his very best short essays to a Boston
paper. The editor wrote that he could not
afford to pay more than dollar and half
for it. Josh regarded this sum as rather
small pay. But" he added, II thought 1
should like nest-egg. ana told the editor
to send it on. Then opened an account
with Josh Billings, and made my first
entry with this item: Essay in Boston,
$1.50.'' As soon as he became famous he
was engaged by the Neao Yorh; Weekly-a
rival of Bonner's LedGey-at 500 week
for half a column of his essays and say
ings. He has published his books with
rare shrewdness. No bookmaker I know
has ever turned over his writings into SO
many shapes and made money BY them on
every turn.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-02
$4,000 REWARD.

Win be paid for the detection and convio-
hon OF any person selling or dealing in
any bogus, counterfeit or iD,itation HOP
BITrHns, especially Bitters or preparation
with the word HOP or HoIs in their name
or connected Herewith, th.t = intended to
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inc have cluster of GREEN Hops (notice
his) printed on the white label, and are
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Diseases. Beware Of all Others, and Of al
pretended formulas or recipes Of HOP B11-
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they are frauds and svindlas. Whoever
deals in any but tho genuine win be prose
euted HOP Buxs M1o. Co,
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jSta36iss9 Eighteen Women.
ICndon Times


A singular criminal has just been dealt
with at Bremen and Strasburg. This was a
man by name Theophile Mary, a hair
dresser, born at Barr, whose vicious ten
dency took the form of infiicting slight
stabs with dagger on young women. Al
Strasburg he attacked no fewer than
eighteen. nearly all of whom he struck
on the breast. He made his
first appearance two years ago
when for month ne spread
terror among the inhabitants, all efforts to
capture him failing. He then vanished
from Alsace, and some time afteward
turned up at Bremen, where he again dis
tinguished himself by his dasta-dly at
lacks. Here, however, he was soon arrest
ed, sentenced to seven years. imprisoh-
ment, and handed over to the Strasburg
authorities to be dealt with there.
The eighteen young women whom the
prisoner had wounded (none of them, for
tunately, severely appeared as witness es
against him. An expert declared him in
possession of his senses, asribmg his acts
to morbid vanity, and the court SEN
tenced him to one years imprisonment, to
be added to the seven years given him at
Bremen. The man is thirty one years Of
aOe.