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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1.-THE Commercial Ind
Gator reports: Wheat low S0ld@S0lac cash, Sic
February 1874 dSSc May. Corn lower; 39lic cash,
39sc February 80 78c May. Oats duh and nominal at
Soc
LIVERPOOL. Jan 17.--Cotton steady and
changed; sales 10000 bales; speculation and export
LOCO bales: American $50 bales.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18

Rye-No. 2, nominal and nothing doing
Bran firm; $13 bid, no sellers.
RECEIPTS BY RAIL PAST FoRTY-EIGHT HOURS.
Corn, 5000
GRAIN IN STORE.
Jan. I6 1884
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-18
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

MS 1NvAR1ABIY IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREPAID
BY THE PUBLISHERS
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
A Land for Tramps.

A Halifax letter to the Boston 7rdU- eler says: The hospitality of the people of this district is a strange contrast to that which goes by the name among their city cousins. Here is an instance of it. Soon after entering this settled portion of the country we come in sight of little dwelling by the roadside. The door is wide open, and we can see as we approach that the table is invitingly set for supper. As we are about passing along a woman appears at the door, and after a glance at us utters a kindly "Come in." It is a long way to our destination yet, aud as the bracing air has given us a somewhat elephantine appetite, we of course take advantage of the offer. According to the rules of local etiquette, however. there is no neces- sity of waiting for an invitation, but when you are passing house at meal time; you must walk right in and seat yourself at the table. It makes no diff. ference if you are perfect stranger, black, white, or copper colored. Nc honest stranger need fear to starve while travelling through this part of the country,
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
4 New Idea.
country.

A new idea has been started in bee keeping. It has long been a grievance among farm-rs that a neighbor should keep large number of bees without any pasturage of his own and gather honey from crops planted and sown by others. It might not be that any loss or damage was inflicted, but it was a clear case of reaping where one had not sown and gathering where one had not scattered, and therefore had large ele- ment of injustice in it. No doubt the unfounded charges against the bees that they injured the crops and the fruit, es- pecially grapes, were thus originated, and more from prejudice than any real belief. A Mir. Hetherington, of Scho- harie county, N. T., is one of the most extensive bee-keepers in the world, and it is said keeps 2,500 swarms, large number of which he puts out among farmers to whom he pays a rent for the use of the pasturage, clover, buckwheat, etc, grown upon the farms. This is 6 new departure which will commend it
 self to farmers who do not keep bees, as an example which other bee-keeperr might follow.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
A Newport Wardrobe.

Apropos of matchmaking at Newport, I feel it my duty to give transcripts of two accounts that found penciled on the inner surface of the wardrobe door in my hotel room. The first account may have been founded on fact, but the last one is very evidently a parody on the one preceding it, it's author being prompted through a spite of fun to add something to the romantic writing on the wall. Both are set down in the true nc. countant's style, the former iu a femi- nine hand and the other in hand that is unmistakably that of a man. They read as follows:
 Expenses of trip to Newport Watch stolen on steamer, diamond pin stolen on steamer, diamond ring stolen at ball, forty dresses generally spotted, one violent cold, one sprained ankle.
 Per contra Half hours pleasant con. versation. It doesn't pay
 The other is phrased as follows:
 Cost of visit to Newport Ten weeks board s450, paid for carriages S350, paid for wine s13i, paid for flowers 800, ct ceteras s650.
 Credit-Affections and hand of tn, daughter of millionaire.
 Balance-A life of iudolent ease. No Q bad investment after all | !
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
A Photographers Story.

"An old man came in at II a. m. He was right from the country; had mud on his boots, and all the other testimony. He was goin' west to his 'darters, and wanted picture to take with him, you know. knew all about it, and soon had him in the chair, the iron clamps behind his ears and the camera gun aimed at his gray head. He was quite nervous about something, and asked me to wait. T want my picture drawed of to look like this, he said, as he pulled a a tintype of young man from his pock- ct. The same pose like, you know he said, as he told me that it was his son, who had been killed at Stone River. He was dear, good boy, he was,' said the old man, with weak voice and sigh, 'and I'll soon be with him.
 "I got him in position while he still held in his hand the dead boys picture. I went through the usual ceremony, telling him, All ready now, right still; and as took the cloth from the table, turned my back to prevent any embar- rassment. In thirty seconds I said, That will do.' He never moved. You may rest now,' said; but he sat still and held the precious tintype as il wrapt in thought. Thinking he was deaf, I touched him on the shoulder. Still he did not move, and I noticed a fixed stare in his eyes. He was dead. He had died in the chair, and I had the negative of dying man. Of course ] got help and sent word to his friends The doctors said he died of heart dis ease. developed the picture, ant started as saw the face of a dead mar look at me from the collodion coating It was nervous day for me I can tel you, and I have always been careful witt old people. - Cincinnati Times Star.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
An Onion Tract.

The Chester onion meadows in Orange county. New York, comprise 700 acres, and lie on either side of the Erie Railway track, between the stations of Greycourt and Chester. When the railroad was built through that part of the county the tract was swampy waste, into which thousands of tons of earth and stone had to be dumped, and hum dreds of piles driven to make a founda- ton for the roadbed. The wide stretch of decaying and noisome vegetable mat ter was an eyesore to the surroundings, and the owners of it felt the ownership most unfortunate. It could be put to no use, and it was considered waste of money to pay taxes on it It remained so until about twenty-five years ago, when William Conklin, who owned a large portion of the tract, drained a small corner of it, and found that he had plot of the richest soil as the result He seeded it to onions, and was rewarded with an unheard of crop for this climate and general soil. This led to the gradual draining of the entire tract, which now is valued as high as S1 ,0OO an acre. Last year 10000 bushels of onions were raised on the Chester meadows, which sold for more than Sl25, 900. The crop this year, it is expected, will be very large. The odor of the growing onions is apparent long distances away from the meadows from the time the tops at- tain height of few inches until they are harvest ted in the fall.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
The Greatest Depth Of the Ocean.

On Oct. 90, 1852, Capt. Denham of the British Royal Navy sounded in lati- tude 36 degrees 49 minutes south, longi- tude 37 degrees 6 minutes west (albout 1,150 miles due east of Cape San Au- tonic, s. A., the nearest land being the coast of Rio Grande, 900 miles NV. by W.) and touched bottom at 7,706 fathoms.
 An iron ball weighing )0pounds was used as a sinker. and the line was nine hours and twenty-four minutes running out. The ball sank as rapidly the last mile as the first following for friction and buoyancy of the line), showing their was no increasing resistance from increasing density.
 Itis believed this is the greatest deptf yet measured, being trihe more thar eight and three-quArters miles
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27

could see that every vestige of color had left her face, but she did not move a muscle. Then her eyes slowly left the snake and came up to mine.
 Looking back over the nearly thirty years which have elapsed since then can see the look in her eyes yet. We had sometimes talked about meeting death together. Now it lay between us and in more horrible form than we had ever dreamed of. Yet the look of per feet confidence in me which my wife's eyes almost spoke was something a man does not see more than once in life. time That look seemed to say, for baby's sake, and like a flash became as cool as am at this moment. I could not speak but my wife understood that she must keep perfectly quiet and jump. When the time came, slowly and with infinite care I raised my head till 1 could look down the bed to the floor beyond. My wife's eyes followed mine, and we both saw the dog. The hideous eyes of the snake swayed to and fro, and I knew that what was done must be done quickly. l looked at my wife and she realized my plan. Her eyes filled with tears but gave consent. With a prayer for help moistened my lips and gave one short, sharp whistle. The snake, think, didn't know what to make of it, but the dog, Leo, did. As quick almost as thought he sprang to his feet and bounded on the bed. To this day I've never been able to understand why the snake did not strike when the dog moved, but it did not. As the dogs body rose in the air my wife caught hold of the baby's garments and rolled out of bed. I rolled out on my side, grasped my rife. which stood at the head of the bed, and turned. The dog and the snake were rolling together on the bed. I caught sight of the snakes head and fired, and the reptile was past doing any harm. The dog staggered of the bed to the floor, shivered, moaned once or twice, looked from my wife to myself with more love than I ever saw before or since in any animals eyes and died.
 ''At daybreak the next morning we buried the dog and started for the village. sold my mill and house to man who was visiting my cousin, and before sunset we were on our way to Massachusetts. built another mill in the East, and we prospered and grew rich. Other children came to make our home happy, and there are grandchil. dren now. We have enjoyed life, and enjoy it now. But I tell you, young man, that if poverty stood on one hand and even a glimpse of Skinner Hollow on the other, we would take poverty cheerfully and think we had made goood bargain Y"
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
Local News a Speciality.
THE BLOSSOMED BUD.
BY WILL CARLETON.

Twas babe-a three-month old That Death had come to see It was white and still and cold
 As any babe could be. But its features softly traced
 A life that God had planned; Some one dreaming this had placed A rosebud in it's hand. Deeply wept the parents when
 That spirit fluttered free They were sad and wretched then, As parents oft must be. Each the others picture borne Saw in the tleeting face. When that heart from theirs was torn, It left 80 large place. But when last in it's repose They kissed it mournfully, That small bud had grown a rose, As sweet as rose could be. With it's soft breath it perfumed The sad and solemn hour; And it smiled and glowed and bloomed, grand and perfect flower. Then those hearts grew strangely light, And bade their doubtings flee They were full of hopes as bright As stricken ones could be. And the pastor gently said,
 'sThis tells to our dim eyes, That your darling is not dead, But blooms in Paradise"
 -Haper'S Bdzdr.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
A Profitable Little Farm.

''A little farm we'll titled" has been too much considered as fanciful dream of poet rather than as fact worthy of notice by working farmer. But few of us have learned what the ultimate productive value of a well-tilled little farm may be. An example is given to us by 27-acre farm near Fairport, N. Y. The product this season of this little farm, well titled, is 200, 900 cabbaees and 40, 900 celery from 22 acres, all of which have been either sold or contracted for at prices which will realize SS,600. Five laborers are employed on this small farm, and three teams constantly, but five at present, when thousands of cab bages are shipped daily to market. Having made market for his products and excelling in the quality of them, they are sold in advance on contract at good prices. Tue crops this year con- sist of but few kinds-Henderson Early Sammer and Early Jersey Wake field cabbages, a new and remarkably fine cauhfower named Hendeson's Early Snowfall, and the Golden Dwarf Celery. Success in this case is met by the selection of excellent varieties, as we'll as by skill in cultivating them.
 No farmer having as much as 100 acres under cultivation, or use, can work it profitably by his own labor. A well-known farmer who has become rich flor farmer-by his excellent management of farm no larger than this, says it has paid him to hire three men on his farm and spend his whole time in experimenting and training them. This is no doubt true when n farmer is thoroughly acquainted with his business and has the requisite tact to manage hired men. It will not do for farmer to hire men and work with them, telling stories and listening to his mems stories and stopping frequent. ly to smoke and exchange jokes. The more men he keeps under this system, the poorer he will become. One of the present pressing necessities for farmer is to learn how to command hired laborers and direct their work SO that every blow tells to overlook all details, small as we'll as large, SO that his direc- ton may serve to make his mems labor worth enough more to pay him for do- ing this. Fork Times.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27
A Journey to the Sun.

As to the distance of 93, ,00O, 900 miles, a cannon ball would travel it in about fifteen years. It may help us to remem- Der that at the speed attained by the limited express on our railroads, train which had left the sun for the earth when the Mayhower sailed from Delft haven with the Pilgrim Fathers, and which ran at that rate day and night, would in 1884 still be a journey of some years away from its terrestrial station. The fare, at the customary rates, it may be remarked, would be rather over S2.- 500, ,000, so that it is clear that we should need both money and leisure for the journey. Perhaps the most striking it. lustration of the suns distance is given by expressing it in terms of what the physiologists would call velocity of nerve transmission. It has been found that sensation is not absolutely instantane- ous, but that 1t occupies a very minute time in travelling along the nerves; so that if a child puts its finger into the candle, there is a certain, inconceivably y small space of time, say the one-hun- dreth of second, before he feels the heat. In case, then, child's arm were long enough to touch the sun, it can be calculated from this known rate of trans mission that the infant would have to live to be a man of over hundred be- fore it knew that its fingers were burned. .-September Century.
 IN politics cheek wins its way where modesty might despair.
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27

DIsAPPEARNa.-An exchange says There are few New York editors still left in the New York newspaper offices, but their disappearance is only ques- ton of time. One by one the rising tide of the Western invasion will engulf them. Enervated by the luxurious life of the metropolis, what show have they against the stalwart children of the prairie ? Yet they had their merits, these ill-fated New York editors, and the future historian of iournalism-suppos- ing him to have any sentiment in his make-up-will drop tear on the page which records their catastrophe
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27

INFINITE toll would not enable you to sweep away a mist, but by ascen ding a little you may often look over it al- together. So it is with our moral im- provement; we wrestle fercely with vicious habit which would have no hold upon us if we ascend into higher moral atmosphere,
Connecticut western news., 1884-08-27

IN politics cheek wins it's way where modesty might despair.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
Female Ushers.

Anew York theatre employs female
u>hers who look like the most denure
and clrcumspec: French nurses one sees
n the parks. They wear black dresses.
white frllled caps and long white nurses
aprons. The idea of employing female
a>hers IS borrowed from Europe. In
London and Paris all the theatres
employ theh. ln~Paris the kind OF seat
the spectator gets depends upon the i'm
preston helmakes upon the lady usher.
The seat checks are not numbered. but
meet the purchaser to a certain section
o. chairs. If the usher is satisfactorily
tipped she picks out the best seat in the
section. In London the girls distribute
bills OF the play and get a s~ixpence for
each bill. Not TO give the sixpence IN
return for the bill, if such an omission
ever occurred, would be considered ont.
ragtouS.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
How He Does 1t.
III WONDERFUL FEAT OF THE: PALACE
CAR PORTER EXPLAINED.

It's wonderful what practice will do
for a man" remarked a gentleman on a
Pullman sleeper, one evening. "Now,
| have observed a peculiar thing on
sleeping cars, which goes to show how
ever a common mind may be trained to
perform almost incredible feats of mem
mory and precision. On this car there
are at least twenty gentlemen. While
we are asleep the porter will gather up
all our shoes and dump EN- in a pile in
the gents w~ash-room, where he will
polish them when he gets time. There
viii be shoes that look Just alike, and
many of the same size, but IN the morn
ing every man of us will find his own
shoes and nobody else's beneath his
berth. Now, we all IONS ider ourselves
superior to the colored porter, but /
venture to say that none of us could do
a thing like that. It's a wonderful ex-
ample of what training will do for the
memory"
Next morning, sure enough, every
mans shoes were in their proper place,
and the gentleman again called attention
to what he considered 80 remarka BILE.
"Here, porter" he exclaimed slipping
the grinning f~unetionary a dollar note to
loosen his tongue, "tell us how you
do it ?"
eyes, sah," says the porter: cts JUS
as easy when you get 'customed to it.
Takes a pow'ful sight O practice,
though"
"That's what I told you," remarked
the gentleman to his companions, tri-
umphantly.
Eyes, sab, it takes a pow'ful sight O.
practice. It was TWO hull weeks afo' 7
could learn to chalk tAe numbahs of de
berfs on de sOles of shoes without maxim,
mistakes. Thank We, boss Chicago
Wfrui0.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
Musical Sand.

A paper read before the Science Asso-
citation on "Musical Sands" was of
popular interest. 1t is the joint work of
Miss Fl. Darlington Bolton and Alexis
A. Julien, but was presented by the lat
ter. An interesting account was given
of the wide distribution of this sand,
some of it having been found at Far
Rockaway, at Long Branch and other
points of the eastern coast of the United
States. Mr.-Julien showed some of this
sand to the audience, and also explained
its peculia rites. When put in a bag
Gin this case it was a stocking) and sud
dely compressed it emits a sound which
is not unlike that produced by a violin
when the finger rests lightly upon the
string. It is not a sustained sound
though, but ceases when the highest
point of compression has been reached.
1t is not easily distinguishable from
ordinary sand, and it retains its peculiar
properties only under certain conditions
of the atmosphere. It never emits
sounds when wet, and it does not regain
its after it has once had its
music squeezed out of it. Bathers fire.
quently experience a tickling sensation
on the soles of their feet, when walking
barefooted, or ever with bathing-shoes,
on the beach. The sensation is due to
the presence Of musical sand. Mr.. Ju-
lien thought that the sand might have
electrical properties, but he was not pre-
pared to support this proposition. The
study of these phenomena had occupied
him and his colleague for several months,
in the course of which they had ex-
aInined and found musical sand to exist
in different parts of the world. He
hoped. at some future time. to give more
satisfactory data concerning it.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08

'he King, and the Catholic newspapers
vie with the democratic ones in lauding
his course to the skies. The King and
Archbishop have fraternized from the
start, and the feeling is general that
a rapprochement between the Church
and State is nearer to-day than before
IN many years. The total number Of
deaths in Naples is now considerably
over 1900. all have occurred since
August 90. Naples passed Toulon on
the 9th and Marssilles on the 18th in its
CHASTITY record Of death, and in another
week, at the present rate, it will have
as many deaths as all France.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08

About thirty years ago, a prominent
physician by the name of DR.. William Hall,
dis severed, or produced after long expert
mental research, a remedy for diseases of the
throat, chest and lungs, which was Of such
wonderful efficacy that it soon gained a wide
reputation in this country. The name Of the
medicine is DR.. Vim. Halls Balsam for the
Lungs, and may be safely relied on as a
speedy AM positive cure for coughs, colds
sore threat, etc
Mr.. Morosini will take up his abode in Venice.
where there are no coachmen.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08

MASON HAhLIS commenced as melodeon
makers IN 1854 They soon introduced the
improved instrument now known as the
organ, or American organ. as it is termed in
Europe The new instrument proved SO su-
pellor that 1t soon took the place of every
anans else 70 .h,s country Icing adapted and
manufacture by all who had previously
made melodeons. and many others who were
INDUCED TO the busines by the
rapidiy growing demand. Now about 81. 900
american organs are made and sold yearly.
those by the Mason & Hamlin Company have
the best. The same makers are now nrodncino
improved Upright P~ianafortes, which they
believe, are destined to rank as high as their
organ have done.-Boston TrarelIer.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
Tho Little Huckelberrv.N

There are very few who do not know Of this
Mite BUSH growing alongside our mountains
and hlils but very few realize the fact that
the Itt!e purple berry, which SO many of us
have eaten N most every shape, there is a prin-
e1ple IN Il having q wonderful effect on the
bowels. DR.. Biggers' Huckleberrv Cordial !.
the GREAT SOUTHERN REMEDY that re-
stores the little one teething and cures Diar-
rhra, Dysentery and Cramp Collie. For sale
by al druggist at 50 cents a bottle.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08
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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-11-08

Its Is, brIttan says: A a rule ph7sieian.
ne Iemaie constitution. and they s dom rrre
'he diseases 10 which 1t is always lisb,e IN orr
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70 restore organic harmony aud to s,rsnsrben
,he ,nfeeb!ed powers OF womanhood. and fer
~ y .heseW We are Ind. hted TO persons out
~ 80 Ieui@a1 prof. sslon- Among the
very oest OF these remedies I assign = nror1;-
neHs place 70 Mrs. Plnkham's vegetah}. con-.