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Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-05-15
Shocking!
RUGBY, Tenn, May 9th, 1884.

RUGBY, Tenn, May 9th, 1884.
Editor Plateau Gazette:
l was pleased to see your mention Of
our excellent turnpike to Sedgemoor in
late issue. The recent adventures of
a certain Rugbeian between Glen Mary
and this place form good comment on
it. | am told he confirmed his &C
quaintance with the County RoadQ) by
several precipitous descents from his
buggy, and was finally capsized in the
creek.
Fortunately for himself this adven-
turous traveller was prominent teeto-
taller and ex-officer of the l. o. G. 7.
Merely to be seen at Glen Mary would
compromise some of our characters in
the eyes of the Rugby probities, let
alone such eccentric modes of progress
sion on the return.
Yours, truly,
O. d. V.
P. S. His poor dog never returned
till the middle of next day, unlike his
master, being quite incapable of keep
ing the road.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-05-15

Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Thompson's Eye Water
Petitt's Eye Salve
Halls Balsam
Pinkham's Compound
Jayne's Expectorant
Chinese Liniment
Davis Pain Killer
Schefer's Pepsine
Ayers Pills
Roback's Pills
Jayne's Pills
Railways Pills
Wright's Pills
Railways Ready Relief
Allcock' 8 Plasters
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-05-15
9anziA Me4ulSltes
PERFyMgRY.

A carried stock kept Of the best and leuling
requisites IN most families.
Marking Ink (Fardon's), Black Ink (Fardon 81 :,
Soaps (Colegate's Il Eastman's), Rays Cement,
Rose Tooth Powder, Camphorated Chalk, Tooth
Brushes London made), Hair Brushes and
Combs, Tooth Paste (Fardon's).
Calvert's Carbolic Soap, Cold Cream Ear.
don's), Glycerinc, Absorbent Cotton, Davidson's
Syringes, Rose Water, Eau do Cologne Assorted
Perfumes, Camphor and Glycerine Cakes,
Nursery Bottles, Face Powder, Violet or Nursery
Powder, Mucilage (Fardon's) Insect Powder,
Rough on Rats, VIC. Paper, Essence of Ginger,
Lime Juice and Glycerine Pomatum, vaseline,
Plate Powder, Court Plaster, Coated Pills of ali
Kinds, Coloured Inks, Puff Boxes, Puts,
Smelling Bottles, &C., &c.
Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1884-05-15

All of the above will be Sold at
LOWEST MARKET PRICES,
With a Special Discount on Large
Cash Sales in proportion to amount
of goods purchased.
Thanking our many friends for
past favors we hope we may receive
a goodly share Of patronage in the
future, and will guarantee satisfac-
ton and full value for the money on
all purchases.
N. H. TUCKER,
Manager.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, January Decrease
Of the public debt IN December, $11. 743,
337; decrease since June 30, 500, 048, 4S3;
cash In treasury, 1916, s74 200; gold certif-
Gates, $l09, 1893, Gil; certificates of deposit,
ST, 560, 0OOO refunding certificates, $3l5, $50;
legal leaders, $346, 6S1 ,0l6; fractional cur
rency, SO, 7s9, 42s; cash balance available
Jan. /, 1884, SAP, 47s, AS.
Total interest bearing debt January J.,
1884, $l,276, SS5, 100; matured debt, SIS,
1873, 795; legal tenders, $346, 739, $3.50; certif-
Gates of deposit, s14, COG, coo; gold and sill
yer certificates, 5000, s30, 531; fractional cur
rency, $3.50, 42s; total interest-bearing
debt, 1863, 2l9, 655; total debt, 1851 ,243,
600; total interest, So, IT., $685. cash in treas
ury, 1916, 874 200; debt, less cash In treas
ury, S., 49S, 041, 723. ...r
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Utah's Prosperity.

SALT LAKE, December 3l.-The
Tribune's annual report on Utah and adj
joining territories shows increased prosper
ity and growth. The total bullion product
of the Pacific coast is placed at $65 ZOO, 600.
Utah produced $4,000, 200 the past year.
since the opening of the mines by the Cell
tiles, $40, goo, 600. Utah's population is
600. Salt Lakes population is %, coo.
1t has increased 1000 since 1880. The new
buildings erected in the city the past year
number 900, costing 81, 800, 600. The miles
Of railroad constructed number l43. The
Mormon emigrants for the year were 5000.
Assessed valuationof the territory, $50,
nnn 0no
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

not be neglected under any circum-
stances, unless his health proves hlm to
be unequal to his tasks. His school
hours for the first year are not long, but
he must be in his place promptly at 8
o'clock in the morning, remaining until
10, and at 1880 O'Clock in the after
noon.- remaining until 2:30. Then he
brings home his lessons for the morrow,
which, with the assistance of his parents,
he must prepare to answer for on the
next day. The second year of his
schOol-life is little more severe. The
schools open at & in summer and in
winter, and long before children of his
age are awakened in America, 1.-THE
streets are full of little ones hurrying to
the different schools. This early class
is dismissed at 8 and 9 o'clock, and the
children are then expected to assist
their mothers, or, as Is more frequently
the case, from 10 years of age upward,
they 60 to the great factories or work
shops where they ar apprenticed and
learn a trade. Indeed, the school hours
are fixed thus early in order that the
children may not only receive an edu-
cation but also learn how to make o
living and help their parents to keep
the wolf from the door.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
THE INN OF THE BRASS BULL
A Kitchen Hearth on Which Fire Has
Been Kept Alive q Century.
Hartford COurant.

Hartford COurant.
The old inn known as the "Brass
Bull". at Thompson was burned last
week. 1t was the oldest house in Wind
ham county, q large wood-colored edi-
flee of the clean to- period, which
greatly antedaated the Revolution, hay
ing been built in ITO. Over the door
WAS miniature bull of old-fashioned
hammered brass, which was also swal-
lowed up in The flames. In the days of
the then great New York, Hartford and
Boston turnpike it was changing sta
ton for the stage horses, and when the
stage route vanished ut, the approach Of
the railroads it feebly held its own as q
summer resort. 1t had little diamond
window-panes, wide fire-places, and
outer doors cut in halves, after the orig
inal New England style, which suffered
|. the lower part of the door to be used as
a breastwork against the onslaught of
the Indians From its situation on the
apex of Washington Heights, a charm
ing birdseye view in the different states
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
even across Connecticut to the blue line
made on the southern horizon by Long
Island, in New York state, was to be
gaiued.
The most famous of local traditions
sprung from this ODD house. 1t was cut
up in all sorts and number of odd
shaped rooms, and the fire on the kitch-
en- hearth had burned for more than one
hundred years, In fact, this was the
source of the old buildings ruin, for
the continual heating of the stone
work in the great chimney charred the
oaken floor timber above, until finally
the flames burst out and consumed the
structure. For one hundred and fifty
two years it was used as hosiery,
and 1t was the occasion of General
Washington's sojourn at the ''Brass
Bull" that led its courtly proprietor to
dub the hill whereon it stood Washing
ton Heights.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Washington's Retirement.

Des Moines Register.
TIE centennial anniversary of Wash
ington's resignation of his command as
general Of the continental armies, &C.
Cured on Sunday last. The resigna-
ton took place Indianapolis, which was
the temporary capital of the young re-
public, but the room in which the scene
was enacted was improved out of ex-
;stence only six years ago. The great
ness of the man was never exhibited to
such advantage as in this voluntary
surrender of his commission just as
complete success crowned the long
struggle in which he had been the
most conspicuous figure. His address
SIS he appeared before congress for.the
purpose of resigning was brief and
modest. He spoke as follows:
Mr. President-The great events on
which my resignation depended having
at last taken place 1 present myself
before congress to surrender into their
hands the trust committed to me, and
to claim the indulgence of retiring from
the service of my country. Happy in
the confirmation of our independence
and sovereignty, l resign the appoint
ment accepted with diffdence, which,
however, was superseded by q conf
dence in the rectitude of our cause, the
support of the supreme power of the
nation and the patronage of Heaven.
l close this last act of my official life lbg
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Thlnness Long Drawn Out.

4uWSukSS CpeCldI jill
Isaac S. Sprague, the living skeleton,
who is 40 years old and has been re-
duced by atrophy to 40 pounds weight,
said this afternoon in regard to a ru-
NOR that he had given his body in the
interest of science to the Harvard med
ical college: Eyes, the story is true,
and all arrangements have just been
completed. l have agreed that when
l die they shall have my body =;
they will first cut it open and make q
post norton examination to find out if
possible why l am so thin; then they
will put the body i'll alcohol and place
it in the museum of the college, where
it will remain, but I'm going
to need it myself for the
present; they can't have it till 1 get
through with it. My body will be pre-
served in the museum there as that of
Calvin Edison in the Albany Museum.
Edison died at the age of 45, weighing
only forty-five pounds. The doctors,
when they cut him open, found that his
thinness was caused by the narrowing
of the thoracic duct, a trouble with
which other members of his family were
affected. His face and neck were ema-
ciated like the rest of his body, but
NINE are not, so my thinness is prob
ably due 10 something else. The phys
icians pronounce tito be an extreme case
of progressive muscular atrophy. 1t
has been going on for thirty years,
while the longest other case on, record
is that of a man who died after having
the complaint for ten years
Sprague is in feeble condition, and
it il believed he cannot live much
longer.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
How the German Boy is schooIed
German Letter N hicnSo News.


From the hour of his birth until he
has reached the mature age of 6 years
he is under the constant supervision of
his parents or his nurse. He plays as
children play all the world over, but his
games and pastimes are not rough.
From the moment his sensitive mind is
capable of being trained, he learns obe-
dience and politeness He is not 4
years old ere be will bid stranger
good-day or good vening, raising his
little hat and making his little b,,w at
the same time. Between and he is
allowed to mingle freely with the chill
dren of the neighborhood, but his play
ground is always circumscribed accord
ing to the size of the garden in the rear
cf the block. At the law compels his
parents to send him to school.
From that time on. ne is a person Of
some responsibility, for his lessons must
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
The Navy.

WASHINGTON, January 1.-The
port of the committee on navy yards
attention to the depreciation in the miliyfiy
marine of the country as a consequence of
the deeadenee in the merchant marine, and
SAYS: In 1870 the tonnage OF the United
States engaged in foreign trade amounted to
8, 546, 257 tons, placing US second in the list
of maritime countries, and our fg hing ships
commanded universal admiration. In the
twenty ye~rs just passed, while the tonnage
OF our great commercial rival has increased
30 per cent, our tonnage has dropped to
1882. $40, placing us third on the list OF
maritime countries. Our carrying trade
has been wrested from US, and we have not
single fighting rhip to bear our flag upon
the sea. The United States would, in an
ticipstion of war, require five naval rende-
vouz, viz: one at Narragansett Bay, at Key
West, San Frat cisco and on the lakes.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
NO ALLIANCE WANTED.
The C.. Q. Declines to Engage in
Any r cup.

CHICAGO, January 4.-The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy declines to enter the
new western railway alliance on the terms
accepted by the four other Iowa roads. This
L. the result of two days. conference be-
tween all the roads In the interest, which
closed this afternoon. The session to-day
continued from 10 a. m. to Up. M, all the
roads being represented by their general
managers. The proposition advanced TO
Burlington was that 1t should Join the new
pool on the same terms as the Northwestern,
but this General Manager Potter, Of the
Burlington, said he WAS prepared to abso-
lutely decline. This emergency had appar-
emily been guarded against, and the Bur.
iington was II Iuested TO state on what terms
it would negotiate. A counter proposition
was then suggested that, In order to main
tain rates and prevent war, two distinct
pools be formed, covering the competitive
business on the line Of the Union Pacific
road as far west as Denver, the Union Pa
cife and its four present allies, the
Northwestern, Rock Island, Milwaukee
& ST.. Panl and Wabash, forming one
pool and the Burlington and its
branches forming the second pool. To
this the Burlington was not prepared to re-
turn an answer, and an adjournment was
taken on the 18th inst, to receive the Bur-
lipgton's ultimatum. In case the Burling-
ton should decide TO negotiate on the terms
outlined. it is stated that its negotiations
with the Union Pacific will necessarily be
prolonged, in view of the numerous points
touched by the two lines as direct COMPETE
tors. As result OF the conference, it is
now positively shown that the fixed policy
Of the Burlington management Is
against forming part Of the new
alliance and signing the twenty-five
years. compact. In this view the possibility
of the board of directors of the Northwest
crn and Wabash failing to sanction their re-
spective roads has been raised, but SO far as
it has been possible to ascertain, the facts
are not deemed possible that any OF the four
roads 10 he alliance will withdraw. The
likelihood of the Burlington entering into
any compact with the new alliance, even on
the proposal for separate pool, is deemed
very lIncertsin. As far as official express
sion is willing to go, the Burlington, in the
event Of new alliance beiug maintained,
will pursue a policy independent of any
compasts or pooling arrangements what
ever.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Mourning a Dead Dog.

Pf,iladeip ia Times.
s.He was the b-b-best doggie that
ever lived!" sobbed Mrs. Clark, last
evening as she pressed her handker-
chief to her eyes. "F-f-for eighteen long
years he has been my companion and
ch-eheered the goo-goo-gloom of my
rapidly waning existence. No one ever
had a bad word against Carlo he CHI
charmed every one with his innocent
ga-ga-gambols," and the bereaved lady
cast a desolate glance around the par
lor and then out the window, which
looked out upon Rittenhouse square.
"And such wise dog" she con-
tinued with pride, as she dried her
tears. "When he went out with the
nurse for his constitutional on bright
days he would never notice dog that
did not wear collar or blanket-ah
he had true aristocratic feeling. 1t
nearly broke my heart when he died of
an indigestion two weeks ago-but we
shall not be parted. / at once had his
poor dear remains taken to an en-
banners establishment in New York,
and they have just finished their mel
ancholy task. You can see him in his
little coffin in the window of a dog-fan-
cier store on Eighth street, below Locust,
looking just rs natural as ever. l shall
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

A famous general and arch8ologist
was one day walking in Central park,
when he encountered little girl who
seemed in great distress
Upon asking the cause of her trouble
he found she had been hunting all the
morning for four-leaved clover, but
had hunted IN vain.
"And why do you wish so much to
find one?'' asked the great man.
because l have been promised 80
cents foris.'
''Little GIRL said the great man, as
he seated himself in the grass by her
side, 81 will give you what you seek. -
Plucking b three-leaved clover, he
cunningly attached to it four leaf by
means of an almost invisible wire
which he drew from his pocket. Smil-
ing sweetly upon the child, he said
SNOW, run with this and get your 50
cents; then come back and we will di-
vide
'sBut, sir, this is not real four
leaved clover, and
"Tut! my child. Is your friend an
Americana
eyes, sir.''
"Then run and get your money, for
Americans enjoy being humbugged.
They prefer quantity to quality. But
should they discover The fraud-that is,
the restoration-you must stick to it
through thick and thin, and black and
white, that the leaf belonged there
orlginally-now ge.''
The little girl went, but she soon re-
turned with so cents, of which the great
man retained 40. Placing the remain
ing penny in her chubby hand, he said,
with friendly smile, '.Be virtuous and
you will be happy" and, turning away,
he strobe proudly across the lawn and
disappeared within the recesses of the
Metropolitan museum.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
I KNOW.


At yonder turn In tangled woods
The mountain brook is lost to me;
And yet know 1t stu flows on
And downward to the sea.
From out the nest the robin sweeps,
With song, into the waste of air;
And yet know he will return,
For still bis nest Is there.
The thoughts have of one love
Go hence, and SO are lost to me;
And vet know thew pass to Him
~ Who dwells beyond the sea.
How wend the waters TO the sea,
f, How, finds the bird again its nest:
Or thought Der leaps the continents
Upon loves high behest?
I cannot see, / cannot tell,
IT'S past my finding out;
Yet il L know, il / believe,
Oh, wherefore can doubt?
IA. D. +. Randolph in the Congregati
alist.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
Testimonial to Heroic Iowa Girl.

WASHINGTON, January 3.-The Iowa
legislature is TO present Kate Shelly on JAN
uary 10Th, the day on which it will take pos
session of he capitol at Des Moines, with
handsome medal Of the value Of $3.50 aud
500 in money, in recognition of her heroic
act I'm preventing, on the night otsjuiy 8,
1881, at risk of her lie, a disaster on the
Chicago s. Northwestern railroad, near
Moingona, Ia, which would have resulted,
but for her, in an appalling loss of human
life. The medal has been prepared by Tif-
fany & Co.. of New York, and represents
Kate in the act of crossing the railway bridge
over the Des MONIES river. Above are the
words; .'Heroism, Youth, Humanity iii
on the reverse OF the medal is the follow
inscription: presented by the State
Iowa to Kate Shelly, with the thanks of
general assembly. In recognition OF
courage and devotion of a child of ff1
wears, whom neither the terror OF the
ments nor fear of death could appal in
efforts to save human life duringth the teri
storm and food in the Des Moines VALLEY
the night Of July 6, 1884,"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

have placed in my vault in Wood
land cemetery"
The Times reporter went down to look
al him, and there in small glass-top-
ped coffin in the window, with his feet
tucked up and his tail curled in, lay all
that remains of the lamented black-and-
tan Carlo Leander Clark.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

You can rent sealskin secque in
Chicago for $50 g season. This is
cheaper than house rent, for woman
can live in q sealskin sacque on the
street all winter Norristown Herald.
A new hen's-nest has been patented.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

"No," SAID fond mother, speaking
proudly of her 25-year-old daughter,
MARY isn't old enough to marry yet.
She cries whenever anyone scolds her,
and until she becomes hardened enough
to talk back vigorously, she isn't fit for
O wife,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10

The beautiful sn-. Beg pardon.
The handsome and correct thing in the
way of shower of eongealed rain is at
present going on.-[Pittsburg Tele-
graph.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-10
General Fremont in 1850.

Nev York IIibIne.
Some time ago Mrs. Fremont remark
ed to lady that she remembered the
time, probably in 1856, when her hus-
band the general walked on Nantucket
beach considering which presidential
nomination to accept, overtures coming
to him from the democratic party, which
had anticipated the strength of Fremont
in the pending republican convention.
Mrs. Fremont said that the democratic
nomination meant success while the re-
publican domination undoubtedly meant
defeat, but with the principles General
Fremont sustained he decided to take
the republican nomination.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
In the Lime-Kiln Club.

Trustee Pullback offered the follow ing resolution
 "ReSotUed, Dat when a pusson has bin tried in due form, convicted by an honest jury an sentenced to prison by a Judge in whom the people have cont- dence, de criminal should stay dar' until his sentence has expired"
 Giveadam Jones moved that the roll be called upon the vote, and this being done Shindig Watkins was the only name marked as opposing the resolution.
 "Dis >resolushun kivers a subject of deepest interest to de people at large, !" said Brother Gardner when the vote had been pronounced. GA robber or em- bezzler or defaulter or thief or even mur- derer kin sit down with piece of chalk in one han an shingle in de odder an- make clus figures on dis matter. De murderer strikes his victim an makes break. De papers howl, de detectives rush am de public talk of lynchin'. If he am not picked up right away dar' am a fusilade agin' de officers. When he am caught dar' am great anxiety to push him to trial. When he am tried an con- victed dar' am a heap of sweet talk bout de majesty of the law. He gifts, say, fifteen y'ars in prison. He orter have bin sent fur life, but it was shown dat he was drunk, or his grandfather was insane, or his great grandmudder had allus acted a leetle queer. Befo' a var has passed away somebody begins to pity. In de course of two or free y'ars de prosecutin' attorney begins to relent. A petition am drawn up an de jury finds dey was mistaken, de Judge diskivers dat he sentenced de wrong man, an de Gub'ner am asked to exercise de par donin' power to restore perfeckly in- nocent man to society ?"-DetroH Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1884-04-16
He Nearly Lost his POcket-bOOk.

Tuesday I was down town" says the bad boy, 'tand an old farmer was walking along in front of me, and 1 saw him drop his pocket-book on the side walk. yelled to him and pointed to the pocket-book, and told him he dropped it, but he told me to go to the hot place. It was April fool day, and he thought was fcoling him, and be went on laughing, as much as to say no town boy could play any jokes on your uncle Ike. Well, I picked up the pocket book, and it was a fat one, and l fol lowed the old farmer, and pulled his coat and told him here was his pocket book, but he hit me side of the jaw and said to go away or he would maui me. I never felt so mean since my girl went back on me, but I didn't want to keep the old mans pocket-book, and didn't want to be killed trying to deliver it to the owner. So ran ahead of him and stopped and opened the pocket-book, and bills as big as my wrist, and showed them to him, and asked him If he knew whose pocket, book it was. What do you think the old granger did? He took the pocket-book with one hand and took me by the neck with the other, and called me thief, and said ought to go to State prison, and he took me into a stairway and set me down and stood on my coat tail so could not get away, and kept me until he counted all the money in the wallet, cussin' me between every ten dollars he counted, and when he found it was all there, he put the wallet inside his shirt and gave me a lecture about boys growing up to be thieves, and finally he gave me this lead nickle, took his foot off my coat-tal and let me go, and then tried to kick me as I ran away. don't think that was right. Only for me he would have lost his wal let and probably have gone crazy over | the loss