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Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

Chairman A. M Kelley, of the Virginia Funder Democratic State committee, appears to be a suitable man in the place he occupies. He has lately written letter in which he frankly says: There are other things even more valuable to me personally than the right of creditors. I do not own State bond, and never owned one. But if owned thousands I would regard my interest Tn the supremacy of the white people vastly more valuable than my interest in the public securities And to secure that, if had to let go my hold on either, would drop the interest of the creditors without 8 sigh. Such believe to be the feeling of any rep resentative Democrat in the State. On that basis hope the day is not distant when we shall again hear the steady fsotfan of the stalwart Southwest she comes back into the Democratic camp, and comes to stay. There could be no more welcome sound to those who love Virginia
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10
PROCTOR, GROSS 6 MAGUIRE
 Have made extensive preparations nstome they of Early Spring Purchasers of Dress Goods,
 das spciaB we " Monday Morning, March 5th,
 One lot of beautiful styles and splendid quality Dress RI@IdsI
 -2 Cents Per Yard. These and ree
  The andgre special oferngsis ONE LOT ALL WOOL SHOODAS, all the yard These OUR DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT Flannel sgiti9gs Gol Jersey CioCn ho"ies' ~ OUR BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT db1s for Spring inuding full line and Wecanspe $15O s. We but We yard, aebe
If you wish to secure CARRIAGE ROBE

THURSDAY, MARCH Sh as
 $1O5O Robes former $9 Robes, Robe former price $75O S5 former price
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

Germany does not mean to be caught un- prepared in the event of another war. The sum of $13, 900, GOO voted for the reconstruc- ton of the fortresses of Strasburg and Metz has all been expended and further sum of $150, 900 will be asked for soon. Previous to the war of 1870 Strasburg had only for tified rampant, but the Germans have provid- ed 1t with twelve detached forts, nine of which are on the Rhine, and all of them are completed except the external works of Mundelsheim and the Altheimer Kof. Around Metz the ramparts comprise nineteen bas- tions, surrounded by ditches and protected by thirteen advanced works. Metz, in addi- tion to this strong defense, is surrounded by eight detached and independent forts, distant on an average about two miles from the cen- Ire of the city, and forming circle fourteen miles in circumference. These forts. are named after the German Generals who dis tnguished themselves the most during the war of 1870, and two of them are provided with armor- plated turrets
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

doctor in Cleveland declares that the use of arsenic by women is increasing. They eat in two forms, the white powder and Fow- ler's solution. Either preparation produces plumpness of face and beauty of complexion. Its influence is principally on the capillary surface of the skin, which produces the plumpness. In plain English, water is the influence at work, and in the end it shows itself. The skin assumes watery trauspar- ency, which, in its turn, gives way to ghast- liness and whitening of the lips. Arsenic eating does not tend to drowsiness It has none of the soporiic or happy effects of opium, morphine or absinthe, and only van ity has prevented many woman from aban. doning the use of the drug after being as- sured of it's injurious effects. Arsenic eating is on the increase in the East as well as in the West.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10
CORRESPONDENCE,

Our Washington Letter-Alexander H. Stephens-The Last House of Congress Senatorial Eccentrieities-Wash Houses, tstha Season." etc., etc.
 WASHINGTON March L
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

The recent low prices in Cottons are unchanged. Cotton Cloth has been cheaper since before the war (except for short time in 1875 and prices are more likely now to advance than to recede It is good time for thrifty people to lay in large supply We have large line of new Prints and Shirtings
Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-10

-Hdlckeye.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Farragut COnquering Himself.

Farragut's own story of his self-con-
quest is exceedingly interesting. when
l was about ten years DID," he says,
.'when l accompanied my father as
cabin boy to New Orleans with the little
navy we then had to look after the
treason of Aaron Burr, l had some
qualities that l thought made a man of
me. 1 could swear like an old sailor. I
could drink as stiff a glass of grog as If
1 had sailed round Cape Horn, and
could smoke like a locomotive. / was
great at cards, and fond of gambling in
every shape. At the close of the dinner
one day my father turned everybody
out of the cabin, locked the door, and
said to me-: David, what do you mean
to be?" Il mean to follow the sea-
Follow the sea! Yes, be a poor, miser-
able, drunken sailor before the mast,
kicked and cuffed about the world, and
die in some fever hospital in a foreign
land No. l said, I'll tread the
quarterback and command, as you do
No, David, my boy; no boy ever trod
the quarterback with such principles
and habits as you have. You'll have TO
change your whole course of life If you
ever become a man. MY father left me-
and went on deck. 1 was stunned by
the rebuke. ApOor, miserable, drunken
sailor before the mast! kicked and cuffed
about the world, and to die in some fever
hospital! That's my fate, is it7 I'll
change my life, and change it at once.
will W. utter another oath. l will
never drink another drop of intoxicating
l will never gamble; and. a
God is my witness, l have kept those
three resolutions to this hour"
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Autumn Novelties.

The most pronounced novelty of tho
season is the Crusader cloth, a beautiful
" fine, but firm, warm fabric, woven in
many cOlOrs into broche figures of q
mediRl character, shields, escutcheOns
helmets. battle-axes. swords. daggers-
coats of mail, crests and heraldic devices
of all sorts. The Parisians are using
these clothes for jackets, with a hauberk
bodice and full pilgrim sleeves, or long,
loose Crusader cloaks. with sleeves a Ia
religieuse, or made up in the new Mo-
liere coat, revived by Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt and called by her name. The
dramatic artists will welcome this nov
city with enthusiasm. The Gobelin Of
tomans, with their graceful designs in
subdued colOrs on dark. quiet grounds.
will be much worn by conservative
women of the best taste and with suffi-
cient means to crafty the same. The
velvet broche serges and Ottomans, with
scattered figures and blocks Of velvet
chenille on wool grounds. will also be
favOrites with this class of ladies. The
new chevOit effects, woven in stripes
and bars for one part of the costume and
plain for the other, will take the place
of the mixtures so admired last season
and which are not brought out this sea-
SOL Grecian cloth, a wool fabric, is
another high novelty. 1t is a brOche
stuff. with Greek designs of a severely
classic style, which will be appreciated
by artists and theatrical people.
A new color that clamorS for favor,
both in dress goods and millinery. is
known as ''Judee," a deep purplish
shade of crushed strawberry. New
greens awaiting introductions are "Cres-
son." a water cress made of green, and
''Grenonville," a frog green. Anumber
of brown shades will be revived under
new names and the same may be said
for yellow. A fire-red hue, to be
launched on the public as soon as the
weather is cool enough to admit of it,
has been christened ..Infernal."
All sorts of velvety materials will be
popular for bonnets, during the latter
part of the autumn season. heavy vel
vets. plain and figured pushes and
flowers in shaded velvet being among
the garnitures that promise the greatest
popularity, wall-flowers, dahlias, chrys-
anthemums and dark velvety red and
orange colOred nasturtiums taking the
lead.-Piiadeiphia Times.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Trining With His Health.

s.How are you, old man? Got q
light? Thanks. You appear to be
rather hoarse this morning. You must
have caught q sever cold"
The party to whom these words were
addressed was 3 gentleman who is re-
markable for being invariably short
of funds.
..Hoarse! Yes" was the reply, II
have caught . dreadful cold. The fact
is, [ am hoarse all over, but you can't
guess how 1 caught such a cold if you
should try for a week"
Perhaps you got caught in a draft"
'.Well, you came nearer the mark
than 1 supposed you would. got my
self into a p~erspiration asking people
to endorse my draft, and they all gave
me the cold shoulder, and that's what
gave me such . cold. l absorbed SO
much cold from those cold shoulders
that if it hadn't been for the hot weather
I would have been down with rheumatic
pneumonia.-Teras Sytings.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Announce mslt 1!
REDUCTION IN PRICE.

We offer the JOURNAL in combination
with the american AgriculturiSt, the best
farmers magazine in the world, for 81
a year, which includes postage on both.
IN ADDITION, We will send free to ey-
cry person who takes both papers, =
Magnificent Plate Engraving of DUPRE'>
last Great Painting, IN THE MEA.
llll wv NV on exhibition in New York,
and offered for sale at $1,000.
TIE eminent Artist, Us CHURCH,
writing to a friend in the country last
October. thus alludes To this Picture:
"....I was delighted this morning to
see offered as a Premium a reproduction
of a very beautiful Picture. IN THE
MEA DOW" by Dupre. This Picture
is an Educator
This superb engraving H. Gy II inches,
ercluSire OF tcide border. is worth more
than the cost of both Journals. 1t il
mounted on heavy Plate Paper, and sent
securely packed in Tubes made expressly
for the purpose. When To be mailed, 10
cents extra is required for Packing, Post
age. etc.
II subscriptions may begin at any
time, and the AgriCultu iSt furnished in
German or English.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Appearance OF O Tornado.

As the tornado sweeps onward in ita
course, it rises and falls with a series OF
bounds, and, with a swaying motion,
describes q Zigzag course, 10 forming
a chain ofloops, and again shooting off on
an obtuse angle, varying in the speed of
its forward motion. which may be any.
where from ten to thirty miles an hour.
At the same time it is rapidly whirling
on its axis in the opposite direction from
a screw, or the hands of a clock, the air
revolving around the vortex necessarily
attaining a speed of several hundred
miles an hour. First widening, then
contracting, now bounding above tho
tree-tops, and again descending to
sweep the earth bare of every object
within its reach, the aerial monster
surges onward. The largest forest
trees, mere playthings in its grasp, are
plucked up by the roots, or snapped of
like Pipe-stems; substantial buildings
are first crushed like egg-shells. then
caught up in the votex and the debris
carried sometimes for miles, before it
is again thrown off by centrifugal force,
and falls by gravitation, anywhere,
everywhere, as soon as released from
the monsters grasp.
1t is difficult to accurately describe
the tornado's appearance and work,
even for those who have been eye-wit-
nesses, OF who have personally passed
through the horrors its coming brings.
While accounts differ as to its appear
ance and behavior. as witnessed from
different points of observation, and IN
der different circumstances, all substan.
TALLY agree that it is c~one-shaped, its
motion rotary, that its apex resembles
fire and smoke. and that vivid lightning
and heavy rainfall usually accompany
it. In rare instances. electricity, in the
form of st. Elmo's fire. will precede the
vortex, and a white. steamy cloud will
follow. 1t will be observed that the
form of q tOrnado-cloud is nicely illus
trated by the '.proof-plane' used in
teaching natural philosophy. The
small end of the plane is most heavily
charged with electricity, and, the nearer
it approaches to a perfect point, the
greater will be the accumulation; q high
tension is caused, and the electricity
must escape by some conductor. So,
in the tornadO-cloud, the smaller the
point or stem the greater the force ex-
erted when it meets the earth.-GeorQs
c. Smith, in Popular Science Monthlu.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Sweet Sixteen and Sixty.

About six months ago, says the Vic
tOria Post. the steamshipfrOm San Fran
cisco brought a number of hands from
the railway works at Yale. Among the
number were two who seemed to be
much attached to each other. The
elder was a man about sixty, quite plain
in appearance. but evidently a we'll
educated gentleman. The younger ap-
peared to be about sixteen years of age.
with a remarkably winning face. wear
ing a large hat, drawn well over his
' small hands and natty little foot.
With the party these two left Victoria
for Yale and Immediately commenced
work on the road, the supposed boy
doing his share of the saving and chop
ping with the rest and gaining many
friends by his gentle and unObtrusive
manners.
After a few days the elder of the two
became sick and he had to be removed
TO the hospital, where he was followed
and nursed by his devoted little COM
paniOn. The medical attendant sOon
discovered that the supposed youth was
4 young lady and the wife of the sick
man. She was Immediately taken to
the house Of lady residing at Yale,
where, after discarding her masculine
attire and assuming more befitting gar
ments, she disclosed the fact that with
her husband she had eloped from San
Francisco, where her father and STEP
mother resided. They had objected to
her choice and wanted her to accept the
attentions Of man she disliked. Her
lover persuaded her to leave home, and
after being married they took the
steamer for Victoria-the young wife
disguised as a boy in order to elude
pursuit.
The enthusiasm and admiration of the
rough men with whom the young lady
worked knew no bounds when they
learned that their quiet little companion
wgs a girl, and that she had endured
the hardships of q camp life in order
to be e her husband. The husband
returned to San Francisco q fortnight
ago, leaving his wife with some kind
friends at Yale. Having secured .
house and furnished it, he wrote for his
young wife to come, and the brave little
lady sailed away from her new friends
to Join her husband.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14

or ten inches below the surface where
the harrow could not reach it, where.
in consequence of this, it lay in Jumps,
and where the wheat did not reach it by
its roots till its season of greatest need
was past. No wonder farmers
then said that a dressing of manure
benefited the second crop more than the
first, for the second blowing brought it
to the surface. But in this day of agri-
culture the farmer must have quick re-
turns. The sharp competition, the
universal practice of better methods.
have made the profits of farming more
precarious. and the farmer cannot
afford to wait two years for a return
from the n he has applied. The
principle represented by the phrase
'.nimble nickel is as important to be
observed on the farm as in the store
and counting-room.-John Meloy, in
Prairie Farmer.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Sam Patch's Last Lean.

The fate of Captain Webb at the
rapids of Niagara having awakened a
melancholy interest in similar occur
rences, q correspondent of the Union
has been at the pains to furnish the fol-
lowing in relation to Sam Patch's ex-
ploits in this place. clipped from a city
paper of an early date:
We have often been requested by
travellers and others to republish tho
particulars of Sam Patch's last leap
from the falls. but not having in our
possession any newspaper files of that
year, we are unable to do so. In answer
to an inquiry in u daily yesterday,
Mr.. Henry Scranton, of this city, has
furnished us from his private journal
the following: The first leap took
place on Friday, the 9Th of November,
1929; distance, one hundred feet. He
went down in fine style and rose to the
surface amid the huzzas of the multi
tude. The number of persons present
was estimated at 1000 to 5000. The
last and fatal leap, which took place
ono week after, was advertised in the
Anti Masonic Inquirer as follows:
'.Some things can be don as well as Others"
HERE'S NO MISTAKE IN SAN PATCH.-Of
the truth of this he will endeavor to convince
the good people of Rochester and vicinity
next Friday, November Ii, at We O'Clock p.
M. Being determined to 'astOnish the
Jerseys, he will have q scafold twenty-five
feet in height erected on the brink Of Genesee
Falls. in this village. from which he will fear
Is feet. Sans bear mt three o'clock precise
ly) will make the same jump and follow his
master. thus showing ~conclusively that ..some
over, Sam hopes that all the good people who
attend this astonishing exhibition will con-
tribute something toward remunerating him
for the seemingly hazardous experiment.
The following is the Ant,-M Masonic In
guirer's notice of the exploit:
1.-The ominous expression contained
in the reckless Patch's advertisement
has been fearfully indicated. 1t was
indeed his last jump He jumped
from \ staging twenty-five feet above
the brink of the falls into the abyss
below, from whence his body has not
vet been recovered. A variety of rea-
sons are given for the fatal termination
of this presumptious feat. All, how
ever, concur in saying that Patch, from
some cause or other, did not retain the
position while descending or strike the
water as he did on the former occasion.
1t was q daring and useless exposure of
human life. which. having resulted dis
astrOusly, creates q train of painful
reflections. We would not dwell upon
this distressing scene, and yet we can
not Danish it from our thoughts. We
still see the frail mortal standing, as it
proved. upon the brink of eternity!
The terrified imagination follows him
from the giddy height, through the thin
air. into the deep, dark chasm below!
1t fingers but a few moments of breath
less and agonized suspense! The waters.
troubled q moment in swallowing their
victim, are at rest! The expiring bub-
bles that the spirit has de-
parted, leaving the body in the dark
bosom of the ocean buried! The null
titude shrink away abashed and re-
bukedr-Rochester IN. ~ Union.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
Little Miss Micklen's Adventure.

At dusk last evening a very little girl,
with golden hair and blue eyes, toddled
through Twenty-fourth street and sat
down on a stoop near the corner of
Sixth avenue. Her little red hat rested
on the back of her head and her cheeks
were tear stained. She was scarcely
three three years old. She pressed to
her breast a small white-and-black kit
said:
Use 'faid we'se lost, Pussie."
BY and by she began to CIV, and .
passing policeman finding that she had
strayed from home brought her and her
kitten to the Police Central Office. where
she was placed in charge of Mstron
Webb. At nine o'clock an excited man
q into the Central Office and said ia
little daughter was lost He wa sent
to the lost children's department, where
he recognized his daughter. he said
his name was Elias Micklen and that he
lived ut S54 Greenwich avenue. He had
never seen the kitten before.-N. 2. Gvn.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14
How Railroads Make up Their Schedules.

One OF the most laDOrlOuS tn.l&SS COL
nected with the management % a rail-
road is the instituting Of changes in the
timetable governing the running Of
trains. Instead of it being done with
pen and paper, as many suppose, the
entire running arrangement of all pas
senger and freight trains, their crossing
of other tracks or passage of other
trains, their stops and lost time are cal
culated by simple, common pins and
spoOls of different colored threads. Be-
fore a timetable or schedule is pre-
pared the time chart is first perfected.
To prepare q time chart a large sheet of
drawing paper is first stretched on q
smooth surface and mounted OF an
easel. The chart is ruled either for two,
five or ten minute time by horizontal
lines and perpendicular cross lines.
The s'time' is marked above the hOri-
zontal line, and the distances, or sta
tons and terminals, down the first per-
pendicular line. For illustration, IL
midnight is the mark on the first hori-
zontal line, and each hour is marked
until the twenty-fourth, or the follow
ing midnight hour is reached On the
last horizontal line. Between the hour.
lines the space is divided into minutes
and graduated as fine as desired. On a
two-minute chart the space between the
hours is divided into ten minutes time
and the ten minutes time into two
minutes time. The hour lines are
made heavy. and the lesser lines
are of a lighter shade to dis
tinguish them. The one terminus of
the road-Milwaukee. for instances
marked on the first line beside the first
time-mark, II midnight. The other
stations follow down the perpendicular
line until the other terminal is reached.
Then all is ready to prepare for the run
ming arrangement, provided the pins
and thread are ready. A blue thread
means q passenger train, a red thread .
freight train. and if the trains of other
roads use part of the track they are
designated by a different colored thread.
1t is calculated that the running time
shall be, say, twenty-five miles an hour,
and for the purpose of illustration the
tracing of m passenger train will an
swer the purpose of explaining them all.
A passenger train leaves Milwaukee at
eight a. m. A pin is placed on the hor-
izontal line at the eight a. IN. time-mark
and the end of the blue thread fastened
thereto. If the train runs without
stopping for fifty miles. the blue thread
is stretched over opposite to the station
at which the stop is made, and directly
under the ten a. m. time-mark another
pin is stuck and the blue thread wrapped
about it to keep it taut. If this is .
stop, say of forty minutes, the blue
thread is stretched to the 1O:4O a. m.
mark on a direct line with the same sta
ton, and another pin stuck and the
blue thread wrapped. The train starts
and its entire course is thus timed and
distributed along the road. If the rail-
road has say forty or sixty passenger
and freight trains running daily, the
time-chart, when it is completed, looks
like a great spiders web stretched out
with pins. But little work then remains
to transfer the time and stations to the
timetable and the schedule is ready for
the printer -MilUaukee Sentinel.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14

One of the most singular sentences
wei imposed was by Judge Krekel. of
of the United States District Court, re-
Gently. An illiterate prisoner was sen-
fenced to Jail until he could learn to
read and write, and another offender
was sentenced until he could teach the
former the art. In a little over three
weeks the prisoner appeared, able to
write a fair letter at dictstion, and both
men were discharged.-S. Louis Globs.
The Columbus journal., 1883-11-14

CT itss6 wasn't feelin' we'll after %
much weight comm onto it at once"
"Weii. how did You get out?" ssks1
ono of the bystanders.
"Why, I had to stay there" said old
Jake, It'll old man Westbrook went
over to our house and walked up my dad,
and borrowed q saw, and come back
and sawed me out, and as soon ash
got loose broke for home, right through
the rain without any umbreller.
for I was afraid the old man might 60
for me for KILN his hog. >1d takin'
his girfhome from the spellin'
"And how about the rice?" asked one
of his hearers.
.'Oh, that was pretty much worked
off by the rain agin' got home, but
every body found out about it anyhow.
Mirandy never could keep nothin',"
and with a melancholy air, old Jake
Strengthened himself up and walked
pensfvely away.-Burlington Hdwkeye.