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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-11-29
GOLD PENS, PENCILS,
AND TO0TgzPLCkS;

n. B-FOLEY'S CELEBRATED BANK
PENS
Also, Mabic TOdds and Edw Todd's;
Best make and quality of Silver-plated
BASKETS, WATERS, BUTTER DISH
ES, CASTERS, VASES, &c;
Knives, Forks, Spoons, Ladies', and many
other articles too numerous to mention. In
short, everything in stock Will be Offered ct
a sacrifice, as after New Year do intend to
make change in business.
Though my dealings during the past thir-
ty-sy years in business are generally well
known, would respectfully ask all to give
me call and convince themselves, that |
mean what / say.
Respectfully yours,
CITAS. II. O. FOX.
Sole Agent for the Rockford Watch; also,
Foley's Pens.
P. S.-Delinquent debtors arc earnestly
requested to settle old accounts forthwith
after January 1st, 1884, cost Of collecting
will be added. c. II. o. F.
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Maryland News.
Run Oh Il Drug Store.

Never was such rush made for any
Drug Store as is now at NJ E Leather
mans for Trial Bottle of DR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. All persons affected with
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Sc
we're Coughs or any affection Of the
Throat and Lungs, can get q Trial Bot
tie Of this great remedy free, at the
above Drug Store. Regular size 81 CO..
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1883-11-29
COMMISSIONERS MEETING.

The Board of County Commissioners will
meet at their office in the Court House,
G., Mondag, Nov. 26, 1888,
at II o'clock, A. NJ, to settle up, as far as
possible, all contracts made by them, Of
which all persons interested will please take
notice BY Order,
L. A. GITTINGER, Clerk.
nov 20 1t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29
BREAKFAST CHAT.

MATTHEW ARNOLD complains that American
hotels are too expensive.
JOHN W.. GARRETT has presented to the State
of Maryland a copy in oil of the original por-
trait of Lord Baltimore in the possession of the
Earl of Verulam.
POPE LEO XIII daily dimes at q cost of thirty
seven cents, on q simple soup, a little bread, a
leg or wing of a chicken, six or seven grapes
and one pear. with a big glass Of best Marcia.
Mr.. WHITTIER says a number of his early
poems that were published are lost, and he has
even forgotten the titles Of some of them. Here
NAV be q clew to the author of Beautiful
Snow"
THE venerable M. Gambetta, father of the
| great Frenchman who died last New Years
morning. has just been married to a woman who
had long been a servant in his family, and is
forty five years old.
MRS. BoNAPARTE, the wife of Colonel Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte, has assumed the "Mme.,"
| so long used in connection with the name of
Colonel Bonaparte's grandmother, who died in
Baltimore not many months ago.
w. d. HowELLs is now ~forty-six years of age.
He is a little under the medium height and COM
pactly built, with a tendency to comfortable
stoutness as the years roll by. The portraits of
the popular novelist rarely do him justice.
"GAIL HAMILTON" or Mary Abigail Dodge.
which is her real name, is a plain, brown-eyed
lady, short in stature and inclined to stoutness.
She is said TO be very fond of dress, adopting the
most advanced styles, not invariably suited to
her advancing years.
Of" says W. Mattieu Williams, 81 were living
in the midst of LONDON, Birmingham or Man
chester, or any other large city, I would reck-
lessly d~isfgufe my premises by reno wing a pane
of glass from the window of every room, OF
knocking o hole through the outer wall. and
placing in the opening there created a frame OF
serim gauze. with q glass door for closing, OF
partially closing it in extremely cold weather
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

on. In law the tendency is to an interpreta-
ton removed from technical exactitude and
more in accordance with common sense.
The strait-jacket of prejudice will not be
worn longer than to realize that it restricts
without reason and kills advance
ment toward greater knowledge. Let
the fires of intelligence spread
and consume all the e~nginery Of
cruelty and oppression. Let the people be
religious because they are intelligent and be-
cause religion commends itself to the intelli-
gence as good. Let US be free to take on new
ways in all the departments of human ex-
perience, in that, by chance, even better
things be found. 1t is not enough to blind
ly lay hold of innovations because they are
Innovations; but if they commend them
selves to the judgment, it is folly to decline
them on account of lopg-seated prejudice, or
because a musty precedent to the contrary
stands in the way. Progress, even through
fire, is the ~watchword of the day.
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per cent. OF the registered pupils attend
school. OF these so per cen are in the
three lowest grades. Less than 4 per cent.
reach the high-school, and only one of these
graduates. The average school life is but
four years, which President Thompson
thinks is little enough time to teach the
branches which all agree must be taught.
He says;
eff all the 20 per cent. of the boys and
girls who enter the grammar schools can
of arithmetic that will stand the test
of a promissory note, and of per-
centage, the addition of five col
umns of figures, mainly sevens
and mines, absolutely correct; if they can
write an ineligible business letter, and read
aloud the daily paper so distinctly and pleas
antly that plain people can follow them
without too much effort; if they can find the
place on the map where the last battle was
fought, and locate and give the facts of the
important countries in the world, with the
routes of m and travel; if they have
enough historical knowledge to trace the
growth of our country, and tell the story of
liberty-when this is done the voters will not
make any complaint as to the Introduction
OF manual training"
President Thompson closed his essay with
Prof. Jevon's remark that the main object
of education is not to promote success in life
in any technical sense, which is the business
of the professional schools, but rather to
raise the standard of life ITSELF"
1t is the old question of whether public
school education belongs mainly to thoughts
or things, to man or to nature, to the mind
or the hand. President Thompson puts him
self on record as being well satisfied with the
present situation, and whatever the teachers
of Indiana thought six years ago, they are
evidently not now prepared to attempt
manual training i'll the common schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

THE sweetest wedding on record is one which
ago. Mr.. Sinclair, son of a wealthy Louisiana
planter, met Miss Lizzie Jones at a candy-pull-
ing party, given by one of their mutual friends.
Miss Lizzie was a blonde, beautiful and eight
cen; Mr.. Sinclair, young and susceptible, ex-
cessively susceptible indeed, as matters turned
out. He was charmed with the young lady, and
was liberal with taffy. The object of his admi-
ration was not averse TO taffy, but took all he
gave with a return in kind. Before the close of
the evening festivities, Mr.. Sinclair asked Miss
Lizzie to marry him, which she promptly agreed
to do then and there. With both hands full of
candy, they stood up and were married by a
minister, who CHANGED to be present, After a
tour of a few days the pair returned to the
brides home for a visit previous to going to New
Orleans to live. Here Mr.. Sinclair met his wife's
younger sister for the first time, and discovered
that she was his affinity. She was more beauti-
full and more blonde than the other, and the
sweetness of the molasses-candy wedding cloyed
upon the young husband as he realized this fate
full fact. Unfortunately the younger girl was
not a deceased wife's sister, but Mr.. Sinclair did
not permit this circumstance to stand in his
way, but exercised his Establishments so sue
c~essfully that the sister eloped with him last
cunning for the Notwithstanding Louisiana youth,
and when they find him he will not be treated to
taffy.
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Tim of unrequited affection for a period of
years. There are some objections to this
mode of gaining a livelihood, but there is no
doubt that it is gaining in popularity. Like
all other lucrative calIings which women
have discovered, they are not allowed to en-
joy it alone, men being frequently heard of
in the same line of business, As a general
thing, however, they do not find it profit
able, and the field will probably be open to
women until their sisters sit on juries,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29
JANE CARLYLE's NEW YEARS DAY.

One of the most pathetic pictures in Jane
Carlyle's life, as related in the Letters and
Memorials is her own account of the man.
ner in which she spent New Years day in
1868. To the carping critics who complain
that Mrs. Carlyle lived a life 'rooted and
is certainly a silencing reply. With such a
relentless taskmaster as Carlyle to furnish
such distasteful labor at such unseemly
times, how could she live otherwise? In her
touching little poem to a swallow which had
built under their caves, she says:
"For well thou managest that life of thine,
While l? Oh, ask not what L do with mine.
Would L we're such!"
In a letter to a friend, DR.. Russell, Mrs.
Carlyle tells the story of her New Years
day:
"On the New Years morning itself, Mr.. G.
got up off his wrong side,' a b~y-no-means
uncommon way of getting up for him in
these overworked times; and he suddenly
discovered that his salvation, here and here
after, depended on having Immediately and
without a moments delay a beggarly pair
OF old cloth boots hat the street-sWeeper
would hardly have thanked him for, lined
with flannel and new-bound, and repaired
generally and one ofmy women, that is, my
one woman and a half, was to be set upon
the job! Alasl a regular shoemaker would
have taken a whole day to it, and wouldn't
have undertaken such a piece of work besides,
and Mr.. G. secuted the idea of employ
ing a shoemaker as subversive of his
authority as master of the house. So, neither
my one woman nor my half one having
any more capability of repairing generally
these boots than of repairing the Great East
ern, there was no help for me but to sit
down on the New Years morning, with a
| great ugly beast of a mans boot in my lap,
and scheme and stitch and worry over it till
night, and next morning begin on the other.
There, you see, were my two days eaten up
completely and unexpectedly, and so it goes
on, always a something as my dear mother
used to say"
Well might Carlyle groan, and say "Ah
mel" when this boot-mender had passed
aWaY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

THE Methodist ministers of Philadelphia, at
their last meeting, discussed the topic, of Sum
day newspapers. Whenever preachers run out
of anything else to bounce, the newspaper press
is a sure reliance, the shadow of a great rock in
a weary land, so to speak. One Of the Philadel-
ph1a clergymen said there were more Sunday
papers read in Methodist families than copies of
the Christian Advocate Another said he would
not be dictated to with regard to the papers he
should read, and remarked that Monday papers
were made on Sunday. Another stated that he
had been Informed by railroad men that it was
the religious community that kept the trains run
ming on Sunday, and he argued if it was wrong
to purchase a Sunday paper. it was equally
wrong to ride on a street-car. Without express
ing an opinion on the immediate topic of de-
bate, we may venture to remark that it is not
the ultimate of wisdom to spend much time in
sewing new cloth on an old rent. There are
questions of much moro vital interest that
preachers could discuss than Sunday news
papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

THE Journal will publish on Monday next
the usual list of open houses for New Years
calls, both in this city and in other towns and
cities In which the Journal circulates. For
the guidance OF persons sending the lists to
This Office we give a sample of how they
should be prepared:
Doe, Mrs. John, No. - street; assisted
by the Misses Doe, Miss Mary Roe and Miss
Anna Smith. From A. NJ. to - P. NJ.
As it is leap year, a number of gentlemen
are preparing to receive their lady friends.
LISTS of such 'open houses will also be pub
lished, if furnished. We already have some
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

a LONDON doctor thinks be has discovered that
dreams are the result of not wearing night-caps,
and advises the use of that useful but not orna-
mental article of dress, or undress. The next
question before the people who sleep is, shall
they continue to dream sweet but unhealthy
dreams, or shall they disgrace themselves in hid
eous night-caps when they woo soft slumber2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

GOOD housewives of temperance principles
who have denied themselves the pleasure of sea-
soning their minneapolis with brandy, can hence
forth use as much of that liquid as they like,
and no harm to anybody. A New York chemist
declares that no alcohol can possibly remain in
a pie after it is baked, and the flavor impaired
TO the pastry by the addition OF liquors comes
simply from the non-injurlous essential oils.
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papers.

The holiday expenses of some men are of a
magnitude almost Beyond credibility. Under
the generous impulse of the occasion men scat
ter money as though flinging handfuls of
earth. Now, there is N. W. Fitzgerald, of Wash
ington. His output of solid cash on Thursday
last was just 1920, 900, and it went just as
e-e-easy. Filled with a genial love for all man
kind, he went and dismissed five libel suits, and
thus made five defendants richer by the sum
named.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

HE President received eight gold. headed canes
and six silk umbrellas with gold and silver
handles among his Christmas gifts. DO people
take Mr. Arthur for an octopus or u hydra
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

THE people of Boston are not troubling them
selves about the coinage of standard dollars, but
they CO want an issue of half-cent coins. Boston
is q little town for half a cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

headed monster2 ~Insatiate President, would
not one umbrella suffice to keep the rain off, or
a single stick keep the dogs away4
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

THE New York Graphic has found can empty
street-car conductor" On Christmas, too.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29

A Boston school teacher reads choice extracts
from "Peck's Bad Boy to her pupils. Shades OF
Emerson and 10. Cook
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-29
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

md oPERA-HoUsE-"The Romany Rye matt
IA and nNnninn
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XNELISH'S OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, thompson
IN the New Jane Eyre matinee and evening.
PARK T~HEATER-The Two Johns comedy com
pany, matinee and evening.
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THE DAILY JOURNAL.
TWELVE PAGES.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

KEW YoRK-Fifth Avenue aad Windsor Hotels
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Breptano's LOIS Pennsy.va-
MIA avenue,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01
City Board of Education.

Board met last night pursuant to ad
iournment. Present Messrs, Brousseau,
Crawford, Kurtz. Gibson and Patton.
Minutes of the last meeting read and
approved.
Application of Miss Mary F. Bogg'
for position as teacher received and
referred to Committee ON Teachers.
Bids for purchase of school properties
were received as follows;
For the Spring street school property,
Jno. Bryson bid $4,000; for the Bath
street school property, Andrew Bris
walter bid 81, 100, II. w. o'Melveny bid
50, $50, and Messrs, Jno. B. and William
Niles bid s5, LOG.
A communication was received from
Messrs. Brown & Mueller withdrawing
their bid of $50, 900 for the Spring street
school property.
On motion, all bids for both properties
were rejected and the President ill.,
structed to return the checks to the
bidders.
On motion, the Secretary was in.
structed to continue the advertisement
for sale of school properties until next
Monday evening at 7:3o o'clock P. M.
On motion, the matter of engaging a
teacher of elocution for two months
from next Monday, at salary of s76
per month, was referred to the Com.
mittee on Teachers, with power to act.
On motion, the appointment of Gaspar
de la Guerra by School Census Marshal
Nicely as Assistant was appointed.
On motion, the Board adjourned till
Monday, May :. 1888, at7;9or.M.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01

WE have at times been astonished at
the lack Of professional comfy which
distinguishes certain editors in admit
ting ill-bred and brutal communications,
respecting their professional brethren,
to their columns. For years we have
aimed TO contain our own naturally lively
impulses. Sometimes we have found 1t
difficult to restrain the old Adam; but
when it comes to contributor, we sit
upon him instanter and remorselessly.
The idea Of allowing every half-baked
son of sea cook-we beg pardon for
the slang-the entire to our columns. to
vilify q member of the profession with
whom we don't sympathize, has never
approved itself to this journal Such
communications have always been tossed
by us into the waste basket. We have
thought that~e have owed this to the
dignity Of profession which so many
vulgarians have sought to degrade.
There is at least the advantage, waving
all higher motives, in such course,
that, il ones patience shall prove at last
to have been overborne. a long careor OF
self oontainment will, in the end, justify
very lively and energetic reprisal. The
bird that fouls its own nest has been,
from time immemorial, the object OF
rcprobation, but this insensate fouling OF
the time in which one lives is as nothing
in baseness to the conduct Of a man,
calling himself an editor, who admits
every dirty blackguard who walks the
streets into his columns, in order to vii
ify his superiors in what ought to be an
honorable and self-respecting profession.
If the infamy is repeated, we shall give
a larger license to our own correspond
ents, whose liveliness we have heretofore
rcpressed.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01
Wednesday. the 3Oth day OF May
1888, at 10 o'clock An,
NOTICE.

Application will be made IN the Mayor and
Council Of the city Of Los Angeles on SATURDAY.
May 5th, 1888, for quit-claim deed from said
city to T. A. Edwards, Of all that certain lot.
parcel or tract OF land lying and being situate in
the city and county OF Los Angeles, State OF
Cal fornla and particularly described as follows,
to-wit:
Commencing at the northeasterly corner OF the
Bumiler tract in the souIhery line Of Buena
Vista street and running along the said line OF
Buens Vista street nortn 65i' cast sl5 Os feet l.,
the official line Of the Los Angeles river on the
westerly side Of the same; thence down the river
along the said official line south o. q east 6l0Us
feet; thence s bo3' west 81 feet; thence north
So, west o z tho Bumilir tract 69s Get t. "a,
place OF beginning, coutaiuing 3 10 acres vi land
Reference Is made to petition, map and abstract
Of title filed with the undersigned Any person
having objections to the issuance OF such deco
must fle suoh objections in writing with the ur.
dersgned bel re tho day named for making 81 h
apph, ion.
W. W. ROBINSON,
Clerk Of the Council Of the City Of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, Cal, April 30, 1883
5tmyl.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01
Passengers Due This Evening

The following is the list of passengers
by the Southern route, to arrive in Los
Angeles at 4:45 o'clock this evening,
specially telegraphed to the HERALD
from Casa Grande, Arizona, at 10
o'clock last night.
Juan f Ames, Mexico; Mutually
Los Angeles; Chas J Simond, Havana,
Cuba; Isidor Pulaski, Mrs Isidelon and
child, New Orleans; Percy Ross, Kansas
City; John Lunday, F P Huntly, Major
Creasly and family, Mrs + T Simpson,
S p Clark, Tucson; Henry r Gosser,
New York; Mrs J Thompson, Chi.
cago.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-05-01
Notice of Sale.

Nctico is hereby given, That in pursuance Of
an order Of the superior Court in and for the
county OF Los Angeles. state OF California, made
on the S0th day OF april, 1888, in the matter Of
the estate Of A. q. Caldwell, an nsolyent debtor,
the undersigned, Lesser Jacoby. assignee in in
solvency Of said insolvent, will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder, for cash In U. S.
gold coin, on TUESDAY, the sth day OF May
1883, at ~ o'clock NJ, at the store OF said A b
Caldwell, In the village OF SpadrA in said county,
the following personal property, to wlt
All of the goods wares and merchandise con.
tained in the said store OF the said A. b. Cald.
we'll, In said village Of Spadra, in said county,
being a stock OF general merchandise, such as Is
usually kept in general country store; also
store fixtures, consisting OF safe, show cases,
scales, etc.
Dated Los Angeles, April 9Oth, 1888.
l.. JACoBY,
Assignee in Insolvency OF A. b. caldwell, an
lnsolyent myltd