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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01
H. MURPHY.


"Well Pat, said All Orange county Physician
tn complaining Irish patient some ycars age,
'ior that pain IN your chest NOu had bette 70
home ana Il OIL u mustard plaster. ] c,i :
think this III mute OF anything better An by
the way aided the doctor turning TO q trieu l.,
"l with somebody wO ld invent real good
plastcr-somethng actually holpful for such
case. As PaD's. Mavhe they will some inc w Icn
its too late for m" to use / ."
When BENSONS tAPCINF POROUS
PLASTER was placed on The market HnOut ten
wears ago the DOCTORS hope became n tar .
Because OF the rare medicinal virtues IN II, ts
rIpd action and sure results, the Capcn, {
tISt disp'aCing the slow acting plnsiers OF
former days, for all affections to which plasr.
il very applicable. Price % cents. In the mid.
die Of the gen tlnr in cut the word CAPCINE
Seabury IL johnson, Chemists, Now York
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

A Sea Cow was recently caught
near Roekledge, Florida, that weighed
over two thousand pounds.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

Stanford, Connecticut, had quar-
ter, of million fire on the 14th,
caused by spontaneous combustion.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

In letter to the Columbus papers,
Capt. JOHNSON, of the steamer Lille
Lou, which was sunk several days
since in the Noxubee river, states
that the damage is not as great as
was at first expected, and he hopes
to have his boat repaired and aAoat
again in few days.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

THE Boston Herald has discovered
the meaning of the mystic letters
ok. X. K" 1t says they stand for
Kelley, Kasson and Keifer, the ruling
trio of Radicals in the House Of Rep
resentatives.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

'f''V J 'G'0
whole 1lckCts,r2 IlnlrTte Ic:s ~. ~ Tickets $50
30 Tickets 100 Dollars.
Remit Money or Bunk DRAFT in LETTER, or
'end 10y Express. Don't suHd by Rayislr-rJ
Letter or POStoficc Order orders OF ~ and
upward by Express can he seat Ht our evr- -lre,
Address nll orders to X, NJ. BOARnhiAN,
COurer-JOurnal Building. LouIsvILLE, Ky.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

in the evening, and delightful time
was spent by all present.-CoI"nadu
Iadee.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

SEVENTY miners we're drowned in
an Illinois coal mine last Friday.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01

Telephone to Eckford's Phoenix Drug
Store for your PAINTS and OIS.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
One of Sothern's Characteristic
,JOkerS.

A story about Lord Dundreary." As
we all know, he was great practical
joker on or off the stage, here or in
England. One night he arranged with
his brilliant manager, Goodwin, while
he was playing at the Globe Theater,
Boston, that at certain point in the
performance Goodwin should interrupt
him, pronounce him humbug as g.
humorist and a stick as an actor, and
that much brilliant repartee should flow
therefrom, to the mystifcation of the
audience and the amusement of Messrs.
Sothern and Goodwin. Goodwin par
took heartily of the spirit of the Joke,
and at the proper moment, dressed in
full evening costume and somewhat dis.
guised, he rose in one of the stage boxes,
interrupted Sothern, called him a de-
fusion and snare, and wanted him to
stop right there. Sothern. who enjoyed,
it even more than Goodwin, talked back
smartly, and a rafting controversy fol-
lowed in which Sothern evidently had
the sympathy Of the audience. Imagine
the latter'sdelight and Goodwin's aston
ishment when policeman, who was not
in Goodwin's half of the joke,
marched in under secret orders from
sothern and removed the disorderly
gentleman from the box, from the house
and to the police station, amid the
cheers of the crowd. Some time after
midnight Sothern visited the station and
had his now disgruntled accompice lii
erated.-| Philadelphia Record.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

tanned misty idea that the west was in
a state Of semi rbarism, she is sur
prised to perceive how easily, even
gracefully the western woman wears the
usual costumes OF private life, and ap-
pears to be familiar with the ordinary
amenities Of society. ssMary x. is real
y very nice" patronizingly remarks
Lady Clara We're de We're. Indeed T
should scarcely know from her accent
that she was nota New England woman -
This languid declaration is intended as
a high social compliment. Does the
western wanderer appreciate its force?
It is feared not. Her own standard of
education and ideals of life being SINH
lar to those of progressive life anywhere
else, she is both amused and amazed
that she is regarded with compassionate
approval through the eyeglasses of a
Lady We're de We're. The keenest COM
edy of the day is the idea of the west
held by the Boston woman who has new
er left her native New England. kuowl-
edge, whether literary or social, is sup
posed by this order of women to be
purely regulated by geographical boun-
carries. An amusing instance
Of this was that of a
Boston woman who, in writing of tray
elers' customs stated that western peo-
pie always folded their napkins at a
hotel table with scrupulous care" With
equal truth she mig ht have predicted
that western people ate with their knives
or read the morning paper in church, or
promenaded the streets bareheaded.
The idea of making good breeding
thing defined by the isothermal lines is
absurd enough for first class comedy
There are plenty of Western people
who are ill-bred. There are an abund-
ance of eastern people who are also ILL
bred, but the cause in this place lies
deeper than in the longitude. The west
ern woman finds it condensed inspira-
ton for the year to pass the summer
here, and with her well-grounded intel
ligence, her strength and clean intel!ec-
tual discrimination, her spontaneity and
receptiyity to ideas; in the power to
transmit these ideas into outward work
and realize them in actually living,-in
all this, she perhaps brings to the east as
! much, even, as she takes from it's histor-
ic stores of wisdom and culture.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

Orleans, an got dar. an she took on a
load for up ribber AM busted kher biers
at Nachez an killed cherry soul abcord
I spects de ole way am de safest way"
*'But don't you know enough to Shout
der sack and bring it .aboaZdp'
'sSart'n.",
s.And can't you do it without being
called scorpion? .:. .-,. :
"Sartin: but dar's de mates. S'pose
lie gwine to git up kick an frow all de
mates outer work an let DER poor wives
an chil'en suffer wild poverty? No, sab
PIE no SIGH man. Dem mates am
hired to cuss an call names, an hit us
wild bar'l hoops an rush US up an down
an isn't gwine to raise fuss an cit
HIM discharged. Dey has got to have a
chance same us, an amt bit down
on 'em case dey happen to be BON
white. If T."
''Now niggers, move this bacon! !" sud-
denly called the second mate, and as
the dusky crew gathered round him he
"All you niggers grab chunk! Lift
'em up-walk along-drop 'em down
all you sinners pass alongl"-Detroit
Free Press.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
The Multicharge Gun.

New York Tribune's Reading Special.
What is intended to be one of the
greatest improvements in modern wsr-
jare is the Lyford-Haskel multicharge
gun, which was finished at the Scott
foundery in New York recently. It has
been undergoing construction for over
two years, and has been shipped TO San
dy Hook. There it will be tested in the
presence of leading officers of the army
and navy of the United States and for
eign countries. The last congress made
a SPECIAL appropriation for this purpose.
Since.the invention of cannon, four hun
dred years ago, they have all been con-
structed on the same principle, that Of
containing all the powder in the breech,
and the Lyford- Haskell has the first
deviation. The weapon underneath
contains four pockets which each hold
twenty eight pounds of powder, while
the breach itself only eighteen pounds.
AS the projectile starts from the breech
the force Of this entire one hundred
pounds Of powder is concentrated on it,
one pocket after another rapidly dis
charging its contents. The gun is TWEEN
ty-fve feet long and weighs twenty. five
tons. 1t is rendered doubly strong by
steel lining, and it is thought can send
projectile through a solid piece OF iron
twenty-four inches thick. 1t will shoe,
from twelve to fifteen miles, and is in
tended for both harbor and naval de-
Tense.
The present gun was manufactured a.
cost Of over fifty thousand dollars, and
Mr.. Haskins has personally supervised
'rs construction. The projectiles with
which it is loaded weigh from one hun
each. A company with az ea n,iE P Of ten
million dollars has been organized for
the manufacture of the gun. Ex-Gov.
Cornell, ex-senator PIatt and ex-Insur-
ance Commissioner John F. Smythe, OF
New York, are interested in the COM
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
AFSMING THE ENEMY.
The Way a Couple OF Morgan's Guer-
alias Fooled Capt. Jackson.

The Way Couple OF Morgan's Guer-
alias Fooled Capt. Jackson.
st. Louis Republican. ~a Z: q.
Capt. George M. jackson, speaking of
the Gen. John Morgan reunion, said to
a Republican reporter that he couldn't
help but;think how he, Union Captain,
nnwittingly helped to arm two compa-
MES of Morgan's regiment during the
war. It happened in this way: H."
said the Captain, volunteered in thu
Fourth Kentucky Union regiment, of
the Colonel. l was mustered in at Camp
tain. felt pretty large, wore the Cap
tain's straps on my shoulder and d tail
hat with feather as large as life, being
then but twenty years Old. T asked aud
obtained Through to visit Cincinnati.
There I met two old friends, named
Cole and Kelly-t the former now living
at Upton, Missouri. One of the boys
asked me if I couldn't get them a
permit to purchase pistol and ammu-
milton In the city, as they were not
known in the city and desired me to
certify that they were all right. l said
there viii be no trouble about it. I
took them to the headquarters of Gen.
Burnside, who was then in command,
and the official who had the granting of
permits. Seeing that I was sound. hav-
ing Union Captains shoulder-straps
on, and after showing them my fur
Tough, he said, II will give your friends
permits to purchase all The pistols they
need which was done. Il parted with
Cole and Kelly, but on crossing the riv-
or ] found they were carrying their car
pet-sacks heavily loaded down. I asked
what they had in there that was heavy,
and they laughingly prevaricated, and I
did not care to be too inquisitive.
subsequently learned that with their
permits obtained as / have just stated,
they made several trips to Cincinnati
and procured $50 pistols, with the nec-
essary caps and ammuniti with which
they armed two full companies OF John
Morgan's brigade, Of which they were
nembers. I kept the matter to myself,
and Burnside was never the wiser ior it,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
The PIarIle of HISTORY.

The threatening cholera epidemic has
called attention to the great plaques re-
corded in history, and a glance at some
grateful feeling from the comparative
freedom from pestilence in late years.
The earliest plaques of which there are
any account are those described in Exc
dus, occurred in Egypt l49l B. c.. In
534 B. c., there was plague at Garth
age SO terrible that parents sacrificed
their children to propitiate the gods. In
1877 &. c., in the Greek islands, Egypt
and Syria, people died at the rate of
persons died daily. Another ague at
Rome, A. D., 256, took off 5000 a day,
In 430 Britain was scourged so that the
living we're hardly able to bury the dead.
During the years 746-749 Constantine
pie lost 100000 of its population. At
Chichester, England, in 772, $4,000 peo-
ole died, and in 1884, Scotland lost 40, 900
people. Ireland was sorely visited in
ll72 and 1904, and again in 1889 At
that time 200 were buried daily in Lon
don. In 1907 London lost 80, 900 citizens.
There wasa fearful pestilence in Oxford
in 1471. The dreadful Sweating sickness"
occurred in London III 1906 and again in
J517, In most of the towns half the peo-
pie died, and Oxford was depopulated.
In 1922 thousands were swept away in
Limerick. The sweating sickness revisit
ed England in 1928, and again in 1851.
In 1603-04 30,578 people persisted of
plague in London. Constant inople again
lost 200 900 people in 1911. In 1925 Lon
don lost 35,417 inhabitants. In 1852
Lyons lost so, 0o0 In 1856 400, 900 peo-
pie died at Naples in. six months. In
| 1864 London's great plague took eff 6S,-
500 inhabitants. In 1920 10000 people
died at MarseilIes. In 1873 $4,000 in
habitants of Bossora, Persia. died Of
| plague. In 1892 100000 persons died of
! plague in Egypt. In Barbarv 5000 peo-
! pie died daily, and in 1879 247 900 peo-
pie persisted at Fee. Asatic cnolera first
appeared in England at Sutherland,
| October 26, 1881, and in North America
at Quebec, June 8, 1882, and in New
! York June %, 1882 1t revisited the
| United States in 1884, slightly in 1S49,
severely in 1855, and again lightly in
1S66-57. In lS29-3o 9o0,0y0 people died
, of cholera in Russia and Germany. In
164S-49 53,2o3 people died of it in Eng
| land and Wales, and in 1854 these coun-
tries lost 2o,o97 and Naples 10000 per-
sons. In 1865 $4,000 people died of
cholera at Constantinople.- Inter Ocean.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
The Song of the Mates.

For five long hours. as the boat fin
ished her loading at Vicksburg, the first
mate kept up monotonous:
eli! there, niger! Niger, what you
doing? Out of that gangway, niger
Pass along! Pass along! Up that gang
plank! Hi! there, niggerp'
And for five long hours the second
mate stood at the boat end of the gang
plank and sung out to the long, dark
line CARRYING sacks Of cotton seed meal:
"C:oss over--down this side! Cross
over-down this side! Come along mig.
ger-down this side! Oh! there, Eph-
rain, cross over!" 49,
II. And for five mortal hours sort oil
third mate was stationed in the star
board gangway, and he drawled out:
"Out o that gangwaY, niger! Walk
right up, Charles Henryl G'way from
that WATERFALL, you black rascal! Out O
that gangway, scorpions! Bring along
them sack, you niggersW
, And for five never-ending hours an
other mate of some sort gravitated be-
tween the warehouse and the boat, and
kept shouting: " ...,... .. ..y
5 Now, you niggers, pass along! Now
you niggers, pass along! You, there,
Abraham, pass along! You, there, Will
liam, work your wings! Pass alongI Pass
alongl All you niggers, pass along!"
q After the steamer pulled out I went
down among the crew and asked one o.
them why it was that such proceeding
were deemed necessary while. loading o.
unloading. i. j. III + 145
Wall, boss he answered /, as he fin.
ished swallowing pint of river water
IS dey say dat q boat once run up an down
de ribber wild q captain who didn'
drink, mates who didn't sW'ar, an 6
crew dat. worked like cats an didn'
need no orders. She loaded heah flu
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

coming more and more OF q question
what man is, and what man can do,
than what affxes and suf6 xes have
gathered to his name. Last year, at the
time of Harvard commencement, was
in Boston, and saw a parade OF soldiers,
and heard band of music, and was
told it was the Lancers, in great flourish
escorting the governor to Harvard col
>lege, whore the degrees were to he be-
slowed. All Boston smiled atzthe time
honored imbecility, and if this year the
habit of playing soldier-boy is broken
up for all time, there will come practi-
cal advantage out of the angry discus
sion as to whether Benjamin F. Butler
ought to have conferred ON him title
which he has already received from
other colleges.-Dr. Talmage in Frank
Leslie's Sunday Magazine. i - ~
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

can progress. There are fifteen other
such scenes-the landing of Columbus,
Cortez entering the Temple of the Sun
in Mexico, Pizarro on horseback cor
quering Peru, the burial of De Soto in
the Mississippi, John Smith and Poca-
hontas, the Landing of the Pilgrims.
PENIS treaty with the Indians, industry
in New England, Gen. Oglethrop and
tbs Muscogee chief, the battle of Lex
ington, Declaration of Independence
surrender of CORVALLIS, the death at
Tecumseh, the American army entering
the City of Mexico, and group of gold
miners at work in California. These
paintings are being finely executed, and
from the rotunda they look as though
they were stucco rather than fresco.
Their estimated cost is $4,000.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
Learned Titles.

We have had great excitement about
the refusal on the part Of Harvard COLI
1ege to confer the title :os LII D. on Gov.
ernor Butler of Massachusetts, thus
turning Us ale from tiisssli usual custom. T
think the whole land IS more impressed
/. than ever before with the fact that
!. learned les amount to very little
ssanyhoW. ssS yer knew d, legal gentle
man helped III his ofession by an LII
SsD. !, or q clergy by 8 .. %. I, or q phil
4 Dsopher by ID rs IA IS. IS s. Some OF the
unsuccessful LAWYERS Of the land have
/ the lang collegiate app dage to their
\ names. and they arc ministe " 10 do
not know how to preach W no are doc
tors of divinity. In this land ii III be-
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24
The Western Woman i'm Boston.

She has arrived. She has come for
material. Boston is her clover-feld
from which she gathers the elements Of
the honey which sweetens lie during
the.ten months Of the year that she does
not live in Boston. When the western
woman arrives she selects a quiet board.
ing place whose essentials to her are
that it be within easy walking access of
the Common and the Gardens, of the
Museum of Fine Arts and Public Libra
nv. Usually she has friend at court
who introduces her at the venerated
and venerable Athen@um, which at
once becomes her special enthusiasm
and the pro tenn. center of her universe.
The Western woman will know more
about Boston in a week, historically con-
sidered than many who lived a lifetime
under the shadow of the Gilded Dome
She makes q pilgrimage to Bunker Hill
and getically climbs the monument.
She passes a day in the quiet
shades Of Mount Auburn. She spends
long and lovely mornings in the Harvard
College Library. She walks in the Pub
lie Garden In that enchanted hour when
the electric light flames forth in it's white
brilliancy against the sunset glow that
burns low in the west. She finds out
what the Woman's Union is doing. and
notes plans and projects for future med
itation. She goes to the Concord School
of Philosophy, not to attempt weak
imitation Of funny sayings about it, but
to catch its real Significance and enter
into the modern spirit of metaphysical
research. She touches a great many ag-
gregations of pretenaon and sham With
that little diYining rod of hers, and in
telligent study has given her something
of the assayer's poWermentally to
discriminate between the true gold and
alloy of life. She remarks that the an
nual statement regarding the go, 600
Rsuperfuous women Of Massach usetts ID
again making its summer tour in the
newspapers. and she scrutinizes society
d little to see where the so. 900 super
huousp are. In writing to q Western
journal she naively observes that thev
all seem to be elosely occupied in furth-
.ering and supplemen ting the work Of
the male majority 81 Il.
The Bostonian par excellence is apt 81
late to be d little at fault in her estimate
of the western women. Having enter
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

remarkable counterfeit coin has been sub
sl.itted by the secret service division to the
superintendent Of the Philadelphia mint It
is a $5 gold piece, and the report upon it
states that it is 832-lOOO fine, the standard
for coin being 900-lOO0 fine, The CON-.
which is considerably worn and abradedI,
is now worth 463 cents. As far as
can be judged has been piece of remarka.bl
fine rfeiting the finest, in fact, tba1 has
ever come into the hands. OF the treasury Of
Eclals.@ 1t is believed to be relic Of the early
mining days Of California, when bars of pure,
or nearly pure, gold were made by the various
minis on the Pacific coast and freely circulated.
10 those days the secret service 3as in an I'M
developed condition, but since Yearly all OF
these pure metal counterfe1ts have beec
setzed or uaad By jewellers. al. S @l.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

The new oil region at Macksburg, o.,
where the Decker well flowed 100 bar
rels il less than four days, is being
flooded with speculate rs, one of whom
has leased 900 acres of land.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-07
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farm MISCELLANY.

President Abbott. Of the Michigan
Agricultural College, states that no less
Than 90 per cent. ofthe graduates of that
institution adopt farming or some kin
.dred occupl tian''a as their calling, and
that OF those who spend but a Year or
two at the college, a very much larger
number return 10 the farm. y l- I'd
A suggestive note concerning the veg
etabla garden we take from the Massa-
chusetts PloughnIan: THE rule is. the
people of New-Rnglani plant their gar
lens too early to get large crops. Plants
that come up and grow rapidly will pro-
duce much more than those that, after
being above ground a few DAYS, stop
growing and staad a long time, without
making any ~perceptible progress. Every
man who can do So, should have two
gardens, u in which to grow a few
early vegetables, ana the other to plant
tor the main crop. The first should be
located IN a warm, dry place, the last on
moist, rich land. The early garden
should be planted soon as possible after
the frost is out, and the late garden not
much before the first of June"
Says Professor Roberts Of the Cornell
University Experimental station: Thin
seeding frequently does we'll, until the
freezing and thawing of early spring,
when it suffers more han thick seeding.
II the weather of late spring, is not fav-
orable, the thin seeding does not tiller
as It should. OF tillers SO late, that there
'sa large number of small heads on
short stalks, in the standing grain. One
bushel of good seed would be ample
Tor an acre, if all the conditions were
most favorable: but they seldom are,and
1t is wiser to give a liberal sowing of the
grain, than to run the risk ior the ad-
vantases of a thin seeding.
The Atlanta Constitution says: "The
money made by farming is the cleanest,
hest money in the world. 1t is made in
accordance with Gods first law-under
the honest and genial inluences-away
from the faint ottrade or the fierce heat
of specniation. 1t fills the pockets OF
the farmer at the expense of no other
man. His gain is no mans loss; but the
more he makes the better for the world
at large. Prosperous farmers make a
prosperous people. Whatever benefits
Il agriculture benefits the common.
wealth. H}