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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

Gone nom the household, the father has gone;
Gone, and the dark void never be hlled,
The house is desolatc, saddeued, and lone,
Its sunshine clouded its atmosphere chilled.
None but begoavCd ones can N easure the loss
Haught but experience fully reveals
The mll tide Of woe, when earth seems but dross,
As the destroyer The hearts treasure steals.
Scarcely home has been favored as thine,
Hardly n household unhroken so longi
have missed treasures, all taken from minei
Gone, ana now Joining the angelic throng,
And this Is the thot that brightens the gloom,
Hope ofrcuton when oerths scenes are oeri
Lining the shadows surrounding the tomb
Cheering the way to the evergreen Shore
10 n n, s., By Adry Dgie cdrer, 1874
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25
NEEDY ACTORS,
Eminent Stars Who are willing TO Coo
tribute 10 the Fund for their Benefit

The arrangements for the performances in New
York for actors fund day." on April 8, are being
pushed forward with unusual success. The COM
mittce continue to receive on all hands evidence
OF the aud assistance from the
profession in the new project and are In receipt
OF many offers of help from individual actors, as
well as personal money contributions, Mr. Joseph
Emmett, the popular impersonator Of Fritz, has
sent drai for 81 900 from Chicago to the commit.
tee, the proceeds Of performance he had given,
and very welcome and substantial evidence of
his Endorsement Of the fund and its PURPOSES MIR.
John II. Raymond also telegraphed to the com.
mittee to draw upon him for SlOO as his own per.
sOnal contribution to the fund and II is an.
nounced in his behalf that he will give special
performance in aid of the fund. Mr.. Lawrence
Barrett is another actor whose generous indOrsc.
ment Of the committees work the actors generally
have gratefully noted, Mr.. Barrett has written to
the committee that he will produce his new play
THE Counterfeit PrcsIntmcut,' in one Of the
New York theatres on the iund day. lie has
never produced this play IN that city, Other net.
Ors and actresses have similarly signifed their de-
sire to appear In Brooklyn there is reported the
same activity among managers and actors on
behalf ofthe project IN the metropolis, and work
is going forward there with similarly hopeful
DrO misses of success.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

Republican France, while restoring the Gardens
of the Tuierles for the use Of the people, has d.
creed the demolition OF the palace OF her rulers
The buildings for over three hundred years have
been the silent witnesses Of the national fortunes.
They we're commenced by Catharine dc Medcis
ON the ground where In olden times all the tiles
OF Paris were manufactured. Hence the nan
tttileries or tile shops. Henry w. continued what
Catharne had commenced but neither stayed for
any time in the new palace After the lapse Of 4
century Louis XIV, on reaching his twenty second
year, was taken with caprice TO live in the Tni-
cries, and Il was then that the buildings We're iu-
ished. Tho grand monarch, however, genera W
resided at Versailles. But when he died mis- young
son became for a time the occupant or the Iple-
reg while the Regent celt brated his famous ofgles
at the Palais Royal As Louis grew older he weht
to Versailles with Madame de Pompadour ana lne
Tuieres was turned into an opera. house' Ml ,SlSe
the Royal Academy of Music lnstalledlselL a. l''P
French comedy disposssesed the opef1 hiu VS. s
possession OF the palace. Louis XVI, ihAue ~ ~
habitallon and lost his crown there hap9leNll 10
Louis XVIII, and Charles \. suceessiNeig oceu'
pied a. and Napoleon III, carried out ihe hiufel-
dous undertaking OF uniting the Iuienes WIN lhS
Louvre. His work was to be soon alet u,eitltqyeI,
In May, 1871, the immense pie OF punuluss N"A
almost completely Quilted by Gre on The uay follow
Ing the entry OF tho republican troops ih1o faiN'
| lhe last act Of the expiring Commune.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

~ take your paper" Jess so. But that doesn't
entitle you to half column Of free advertising,
the free run our exchange list nor an equal share
In all our belongings. You take your own paper,
not ours, If you pay for III aud you take II for
your own benefit and generally without the
slightest idea that your patronage is Of any adyan
tage to u.s. We print newspapers MS business
transaction, and you buy them because you need
them. There is no debt of obligation incurred on
either side. II you Ike the paper and think you
can afford IL you viii continue TO take II, and II
we can afford II we will continue to furnish 1t,
But when you think, or fancy you think, you have
because OF these business relations you-entirely
mistake the plan of journalism This is addressed
TO no especial person. but is given rs n sort of gem
era reproof for what seems TO be u prevalent no.
| ton among no incOnsiderabe elass who imagine
| that because they take the paper they therefore
| change,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

"Talking about mean mon," said the man from
Calayeras, "the doddingest, most out'and-out
cantankerously dog. mean critter ever saw was
old Dick shubine Why, up on the Feather, in
'6s. he actually ran away with my first wife, just
after had paid him u loan Of $4,000"
"That was pretty hard blow"
- ou bel Il was hard didn't mind so much
about Maria / was pretty sick Of her anyway.
Rut the gall OF the man TO wait till the note was
paid before he skipped Now, II he'd only busted
the day before Il came aue might have agreed TO
call II square. hut no, sir; be was one Of those
mean eusses that don't want anybody else 10 have
q show He was a hog, sir, hoois and all."--Saa
Francisco P0a.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

Canada has become more emphatically dairy
country than the United States. With a popula-
ton Of 100000 they manufacture annually co.
100000 pounds Of cheese, equalto u pounds per
capita; while we, with 100000, make 800 1000 600
pounds, or pounds per capita. With popula-
tiOu not exceeding one-enth Of ours their exports
nI hnIInr arc nhnnl ono. hnlf MS nrenL ms nnra
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

General steedman's attention was called yestor-
day to the extract from the New York sun pub
lished in the Telegram, IN which the editor Mr.
Dana, denied that he had told General Steedman
that ROseorans' head would fall iu,o the basket
within two days after his arrival at washington.
General s. says that Dana lies.-7O 2e'egrdm,
March rs.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25
Very Thin.
GONE.

Colonel Cook resigns because, ho says, that Pres-
dent Arthur will not push matters rs Garfield did.
Very thin,-Omdhd RCDubiicdR,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

REPRESENTATIVE,
C,Ja
views and spirited of The National Rpbh in
G. M c.,
Teras
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25

Is in
" viz anu D'"''O 'A'D' " ' 'D0 ~ H. H RDDLEBERGER.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-03-25
PROSPECTUS
The Weekly National Republican,
WASHINGTON, D. c.
WASHINGTON, D. C.

A Double sheet of Eight Pages, Ffty-sx Columns
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
Coolies Acting Like sheep.
From the san Francisco Pos j

8" Ii you have the patience to watch
them, you will be amused, and perhaps
astonished, TO see how like sheep these
coolies are" Deputy Custom Inspector
Brown said to reporter yesterday
morning, as the coolies from the Devon
shire were being landed and searched.
The sheepish characteristic remarked by
the official was the blind. stupid persis-
tence OF each coolie in doing exactly as
the one before him was doing. At one
time it was desirable to have part Of
the Cinnamon leave the sea-wall shed
through another entrance than that
through which the first landed were 60.
ing. 1t would not only have greatly as.
sisted the officers, but would also have
been o great convenience to the China
men themselves, as it would have avoided
the snarl and crowd and confusion re-
sulting from packing all the Cinnamon
into express wagons near one of the shed
entrances. Accordingly the custom
house officers attempted to divert part
Of the living stream pouring in tumultu-
GUS and noisy haste over the steamers
side on to the wharf to another part Of
the shed. 1t was useless. The aid Of
interpreters was invoked. The coolies
were plainly told in their own language
to go in q certain direction. Still use.
less. Those crowding on the wharf
went in the same direction they saw the
ones preceding them go, and nothing
could prevent them. They were pushed
argued with, even struck by the exas-
perating whites, but it was as if a sheep
herder had endeavored 10 reason with
his scurrying, witless, panic-stricken
flock.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
Australian vastness.
IErom the Edinbur0 Scotsman. l

ESiiuuuIH bcoerhiAusl
1t is not easy to grasp the enormous
practically unlimited space within which
the colonies have room to grow. The
colony Victoria--the smallest and at the
same time the most po2nlous and highly
developed Of the continental group-is
about as large as Great Britain; New
South Wales has an area about five times
that Of England, but it is not half as
large as Queensland aud only third the
size OF South Australia. Western Aus
tralia 10 even larger and more empty Of
population; after measuring acres with
South Australia, it would have almost
sufficient land to furnish New Zealand
and Tasmania, and yet New Zealand
compares in area with the British Islands
and Tasmania is nearly rs large as Scot.
land. The acreage under crop in the
Australian colonies in 1880 was 9, ,50O,-
600 acres. That seems o respectable to-
tai; vet il seems ridiculously small when
We compare il with the illimitable extent
Of land yet lying waste. To take the
case OF New south Wales, while there
are 636, 900 acres under cultivation and
II. 500, 600 inclosed, there $50, 900, 600
acres, much Of 1t excellent land, still un-
alienated. Even at the present rapid
rate ct which the land 10 being fenced, il
win occupy $50 years to dispose OF it all.
This colony alone contained the extraor-
dinary number Of 81. acc, zoo sheep In
1880, besides 2, $50, 900 cattle and nearly
AOO, 900 horses. Bafore the close Of the
next decade Il 10 expected that the sheep
stock Of New South WNles will run e
between 20, 900, 900 and % "a 900 head
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION: {:


The supreme court OF errors OF Con-
necticut has decided that where person
contracts with another for chattel not
in existence, but to be made for him,
and pays the full price in advance or
from time TO time, he acquires no title in
the chattel (unless q contrary intent is
expressed) until it is finished and de-
1ivered. The case was based upon these
facts: The contractor failed when part Of
the work in making special tools was
done; bat those who ordered the tools
had paid the whole contract price, and
brought suit to recover from the as
signee. The Judgment was against
those ordering the tools, on the ground
that no title ever became vested in
them, since inspection and acceptance af-
ter the work was done were needed to COM
plete the bargain. The purchasers had
the right to reject the tools after their
completion, for cause; and while the
money had gone into the contractors
pocket, the articles in question still be-
longed to the manufacturer. The de-
cision is fresh warning against paying
prematurely.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
A REVIVAL OF WHALING.

The whilom active but long defunct
and fast decaying whaling industry has
developed a spark Of promise which leads
New Bedford paper to brightly picture
the future OF the business. 1t says the
increase in the price Of the sperm-oil
from 80 cents, which was the gallon price
in 1881, to s1.07 per gallon, the prevail
ing price at the present time, has en-
couraged the whaling merchants in no
little degree. The prospects are that the
increased activity of trade which this ad-
vance in price evidences will result in
the reiutrodnction in the whaling service
of vessels now lying at wharves and
which would have been otherwise been
sold for other uses. The home stock of
sperm-oil at the outset Of this year was
about 16, 500 barrels, as against 1850
barrels last year, while in Europe it was
$500 barrels, as against $500 in 1881.
This makes the total reduction here and
abroad II, 900 barrels as compared with
the previous years stock at the same
period. The prospect is that the impor-
tation of sperm-oil will be reduced to
5000 this year as compared with 1881,
when the importation reached $4,000.
The total consumption of sperm-oil last
year was $4,000 barrels, "a, coo being
utilized here and $4,000 abroad. Under
the circumstances there should therefore
lie "bare" market on January / Of
next year, provided the consumption
reaches the figures Of last year. There
was consumed in England in 1877, when
sperm oil was 81. ID per gallon, au amount
of sperm-oil equal to the consumption of
any year during the last five, when the
price was below that figure. From this
fact the journal quoted infers that the
price of the oil will not only not fall be-
low 81 per gallon during the year, but
may even advance from $1.07 to S1.25.
This promising condition of the traffic
will, in all probability, draw back to the
arctic fleet of whaler vessels which were
withdrawn from the work when the
whaling was Improbable.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
Comparative Values Of Gems,

Scientists speak lightly OF colored
gems as alumina found in nature crys-
talized and colored with oxide of IRON,
and "valued at enormous sums" 1t
hardly raises the more precious in esteem
to know that the emerald, ruby, sapphire
and amethyst are almost the same chem
icslly, or the emerald and aquamarine
only differ in color, the former being alb
solutely priceless, while the latter has
no determinate value. Pearls are sold
by the grain. All other precious stones
are sold by the carat, which weighs four
grains. Diamonds weighing less than q
carat are more valuable than rubies,
sapphires, or emeralds of the same
weight. But all the colored stones ex-
ceeding q carat are more valuable than
diamonds, and the difference in value in
creases very rapidly with the increase Of
size. II ruby is very perfect, and Of a
rich, dark color, it commands an extrava-
CANT price. A fine, three-carat diamond
might be worth from $500 to 81, 900, ac-
cording to the quality, while perfect
tnree-carat ruby would find purchaser
at from $3, ,0OOto 5000. Rubies weigh
four carats have been sold in eastern
cities for $4,000. Scientific writers
class sapphires and rubies simply as
sapphires. The red sapphire is ruby,
and the blue ruby is q sapphire. The
present demand for rubies exceeds the
supply. II is not exactly known where
those came from that are now finding
their way into the market, but it is pre-
sumed that many are taken from old or
naments in family collections. Sapphires
are very rare and scarcely less valuable
than rubies. They make an exquisite ap-
pearance, properly arranged, and having
small diamonds as foils. They are apt
to show dull color at night and those
are consequently most sought after
which sparkle by gasight. Large and
perfect stones are OF fabulous value.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has fine
sapphire, considered worth S160, 900.
Sspphires and emeralds are rarely set
alone, but with smaller stones, COM
manly diamonds, which throw their
beauty into relief. Expert jewellers are
not agreed as to whether the sapphire or
the emerald is the more valuable, but
the last, perhaps, maintains greater
popularity. It's value increases rapidly
with it's size. The wife of q railroad
king purchased q fine ten-carat emerald
Q dozen years ago for 5000, which is
now worth probably $40, ,0O0. II is worn
in ring as q solitaire and needs no foil
to enhance its extraordinary beauty.
There said to be many rubies and emeralds
in this country worth from 81, 900 TO &5,-
600 or even more, which are in the pos
session Ut connoisseurs.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
Deer Caught with lsrists.


s. S. Bailey, of South Ford, Cal, tells
US of an exciting deer chase that oc-
Cured on his ranch last Sunday. Mr..
Bailey, L. H. Mcbride and Charley VIII
hams were in the barn saddling their
horses preparatory TO taking ride. Mr..
Bailey's little daughter called out to
them that there was band of deer COM
ing out Of the swamp. They looked out
and saw seven deer coming across the
fields and making for the hills. The
three men were Immediately in the sad
die and started in pursuit. They sue
ceeded in cutting of two of the animals,
and lively chase ensued. The excite
ment seemed contagious aud in few
minutes there were fifteen men in pur-
suit Of the deer. Some Of the South
Fork boys are very handy with the rope
and never ride without their riatas. In
less time than il takes to tell it, these
useful articles were brought into use and
the vaqueros had two fine deer tied to
the fence. They wereleft there until all
who wished had q good look at them,
when they were bntchered and the meat
distributed among the captors.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13

responding 10 orders. The multitude Of
pieces Issued in o single year gives an
idea Of the use the public makes Of this
insignificant coin. The circulation Of
pennies is so general at the north, and
the European nations have recognized
90 clearly the adaptability for general
exchange purposes Of the minor divi-
sions of two and one, that it is quite
curious TO observe how the south has
kept aloof from handling the trifiing and
yet most available conveniences for exact
bargains. II, as most of US think, the
south is to increase and prosper, the
more il is unlike its old self and resem-
bles the north in manufactures, in indus
trial policy and in the minor details
which prevent waste and contribute to
the wealth OF community, it is not be-
meath the dignity of the subject to init.
mate that the relatively unimportant
matter Of using the same money as the
north, in the lowest divisions Of coin,
may be sign that the popularity and
reserve Of old days are passing away,
and that even penny is counted at the
south worth saving and worth earning.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
THINNING THEN OUT.

If reports are well grounded the
British government is at work upon o
new method of solving the Irish prob
lem, viz: that of shipping the impover-
ished and malcontent population of the
green isle to the broad acres of the west
ern hemisphere. Admitting it to be
fact the New York Times says: Irish
men in this country have an opportunity
of doing something which will reflect
everlasting credit upon them. Nearly
all Irish immigrants have come from
rural districts. They have been born
upon farms and accustomed to work as
agricultural laborers. Hitherto these
men have been landed upon our shores
and have helped to increase the misery
of tenement-house life in cities and to
swell the catalogue of crime. If there
was properly organized Irish Colonial
ton Society much of this evil could have
been prevented. With millions of acres
of government lands to draw on for set
tlement, it would at any time have been
a comparatively easy matter to ship
thousands ef hearty young Irishmen and
women to new districts and give them
the means of tilliug land which, after
a few years of hard work, might
become their own property. The hunger
for farms in ireland has been the most
fruitful cause OF trouble with landlords
and agents. The Irish come to America
with this feeling strong upon them, and
it seems a thousand pities that they
should be allowed to recruit the worst
classes of the community when it is SO
easy to put them in the way to become
valuable producing citizens of the re-
public. We can see what the Germans
can do in the way of building up the
northwestern states. They come with
money in their pockets, and do not wait
in New York long enough to fall prey
to the attractions of city life. Irishmen
are not go happily situated in money
matters, and having friends and ac-
quaintances in big cities remain in them.
1t may be said that there ale already a
considerable number Of Irish benevolent
societies, but not one OF them has risen
to the height of arranging to furnish
free transportation and homes for immi-
grants in purely agricultural districts.
If the land league had undertaken a
work of this kind even in connection
with its original purpose, it might have
secured the voluntary support of thou
sands of Americans who Lave no interest
whatever in its crusade against Irish
landlords.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-13
MurderOSls Deeds.

Thomas Fishburn, q farmer near Grafton,
o., who had been immured in the insane
asylum, killed his wife with a stick OF wood and
disappeared on tine 7th inst. Next morning he
was found dead in a nelghboring field, having
slain himself with knife.
AT Surrey County, Va, on the Sth inst, Mrs.
Gray and Mrs. Jones we're fatally poisoned by
drinking coffee in which arsenic had been
placed by some unknown person.
Patrick Skslley, Of Hopkinton, Mass, while
laboring under tit Of despondoncy on the 7th
inst, chopped of the head Of his sixteen-yeir-
old boy.
Joseph Heis, an Allegheny City, Pa, saloon
keeper, murdered his wife on the 7th and at
tempted suicide.
mob broke open the jail At Winfield, West
Va, on the 9Th inst, and took therefrom
negro named Joseph Smith, who outraged q
the prisoner they hung him to . tree.
Developments since the slaughter OF Jesse
James have led to the discovery Of the body Of
Wood Hite in q spring near Richmond, Mo. II
is believed that Dick Little and Robert Ford
were conc, rned in the murder.
Theo. Gebhard, drunken brute, living In
New York city. brained his nine-year-old son
fused to 60 for beer. The miserable wretch
then cut his own throst and died.
Soldiers entered Jews liquor store at Dou-
bra, Russia, on the 6th inst, and quarrelled
with the proprietor, whom they killed. They
then murdered two sons and an infant. They
wound mp their orgie BY outraging the mother
and the daughter and plundering the house.
At New Albany, Ind, on the 9Th inst, Lee A.
Beercham. assistant superintendent Of street
car company, had an alteration with driver
named Chas. Chapman. aud shot him fatally.
Near Marengo, Kansas, on the 9Th, Chas.
Mcmillan, Scotchpan, killed Nellie Lapham,
daughter Of his employer, and then suicided.
Patrick Meehan, the first settler in the town
Of Glencoe, Buffalo County, Wis. was found
dead in the streets Of Arcadia, ON the morning
OF the 6th inst, shot through the body and
with bad bruise on his right temple. Meehan
and companion named Olson, were In town
electioneeriug and were returning home, be-
fuddled with liquor, when the shooting 90
CURED. The affair Is wrapped In mystery.
Richard Long, alias Jinso n, who outraged
three -year-old girl at Kokomo, Ind, Ind, was
taken from Jail, on the night Of the Sd inst, by
. band Of masked men. and hung. His last
words were Hang me decent"
At q station near Marquette, Mich, an un-
known man murdered his mistress and then
killed himself. Both bodies were discovered in
their hut.
A Bohemian named Joseph Jonas shot his
wife dead on the streets Of Omaha, Neb., on
the Sd inst, and then sh ot himself through the
heart, Domestic infelicity,