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The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12
How Boys Marbles are Made.

Almost oil the "narbles" with
which boys everywhere amuse them
selves In season and out of season,
on pavement and In shady spots, arc
made at Oberstein, Germany. There
are large agate quarries and mills in
that neighborhood, and the refuse ID
turned to good account in providing
the small stone balls for experts to
"knuckls" with. rirc7
The stone is broken into small
cubes by blows Of q light hammer.
These small blocks Of stone are
thrown by the shovelful into the
hopper of q small mill, formed OF q
bedstone, having its surface grooveda
with concentric iurrows; above this
l. the runner which is Of some hard
wood having o level face on ita low
or surface. The upper block ia
made to revolve rapidly, water being
delivered upon the grooves OF the
bedstone where the marbles are
being rounded It takes about FL
teen minutes to finish Q bushel Of
good marbles ready for the boys
knucklss. one mill will turn ou'
ieo, 900 marbles per week. The very
hardest 'crAcksrs" % the boys call
them, are made by = slower process
somewhat analogous, hovsvsr. TO thu
other. efla II 4isE =
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12
The Mysterious Baby.

On Sunday night. near Lockbart,
ihere occurred one Of those mysteri'
ous happenings which Ia in The high.
est sense sensational. Mr. John w.
Parker puts rs in possession OF these
facts in reference to the sffir: This
gentleman and wife wers ar used
after retiring by q knocking at the
door, aud they arose TO answer the
summons and on looking out found a
baby on the steps wrapped in q
shawl, with package Of nice cloth.
ing, bottle OF milk and nursing
bottle near IL. A note to the follow.
ing effect was found in the package
benevolent Friends:-l leave to
your care and protection my little
babe, Claudia Town, born April 10,
1884. believing you will caro- for II
and love It. You need have no fears
Of its psrentags; they are good.
If lis father lives it will be called
for in due time, and you will be am.
ply rewarded for any kindness and
attention you may give the little
one" z-
The baby is handsome and
sprightly girl, and was beautifully
dressed. As the wee one was taken
in, some person was seen to retire in
the darkness. but was not near
enough to be identified. Nopossible
clue can be obtained 10 reference to
the little creature, but it is thought
she came from distance, Mr.. Par
ker has very properly and benevo-
len,ly decided to rear and nurture
the little elf, for which he deserves
great praise. Meridian Mercury.
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12
Clippings for the Curious.
Affected simplicity Is refined in.


Affected simplicity Is refined in.
posture.
According 10 the security you offer
to her, fortune makes her loans easy
or ruinous.
vico stings.us even In our pleas
urss but virtue Goes lies MS even IN
ouy pains.
A scheme "A on foot for establish.
ing turtlc park, on the coasts OF
Provence, Algeria. and Corsica:
Hs who does bis best, however lit
tie isalways to be distinguished from
him who docs nothing.
The Spanish gvpsies aacrt that
they know the dance which Hsrodi-
ass daughter performed before
Herod.
In the middle agcs, women were
not physicians but sometimes surge
ons Of more than ordinary ability.
Ho who receives good turn
should never forget Il; he who does
one should never remember 1t.
There are no persons more solici-
tious about the preservation OF rank
than those who have no rank as oil.
Excess of ceremony was always
the companion OF weak minds; 1t ~ o
plant that will never grow in d
strong soil.
Misfortune has in It ct least tbiS
good, that It corrocts all those little
passions which agitste tho idle and
corrupted.
Courage is evidenced in words as
much as in doeds, and In acts ofomis'
sion not less than in those OF COM
mission.
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12
"Take Something"

Take your time.
Take trouble like q man:
Take comfort If you can.
Take care OF your health.
Take fortune If its left to you.
T.ks pains to do your work we'll:
Take hint when II is intended
for you.
Take hold Of any work that comes
in your way rather than be an idler.
T,ke pains to ind out both sides
OF a story before you come to o de-
cision. -.'>
Take pleasure rs you 60 along In
life, unless you prefer 10 do without
it altogether.
Take pain, mover I, fall in love
with a girl until you find out Whist
she thinks about 1t; IL may save you
from making fool Of yourself.
Take pains TO further tho interest
of your employer IL You want your
employer for yours.
Tske the s1nshino sent iu your
life as something to be gratefulfor'
don't darkcn It with shadows OF your
own making.
Take q COSY little 1at and 60 to
housekeeping q: oace. II the girl
you are after prefers to wait for o
brown stone front and three servants
lei her wait. but unless you are nat
yourself, you won't wait for her.
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12

The Carhpyilis tIn.) Democrat
says: Tho youngest son Of Gen Leo
is . suScsssiui fsrmsrnssr Ribhmoed'
and the youngest 500 d Gen. Grant
is q slams duck in Wall streee
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12

Among the other remedies tor liOs
on live stock which are going the
rounds Of the press, It Il claimed
that ths watst in which potatoes
have been boiled is quits ehicGcioas:
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12

Afscsation h certain daiormiiy.
by forming themselves on fantastic
rodsls the young begin with being
ridiculous, and oitsu end With being
yicieuat ~ "a az,
The Hazlehurst signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1883-1885, 1884-06-12

a company has bsar ofsaiissd at
New Orleans for the msnufscturs o.
paper from The refuse .! suear eSu"
, 1884-06-24


Mr.. Conkling, | see. denies much OF the al
legged interview with the Rev. Mr.. Snyder, of
st. Louis. l do not wonder at his denial of
tho words the amateur reporter put in his
mouth, especially that part which makes
Conkling opposed to the electoral commits
sion. Mr.. Conkling on two occasions dis
tinctly told me that he was the author Of the
electoral commission scheme OF 1877. l never
count-given to me as l sat smoking with
him in his library, while no chewed the end
of an %unlightsd cigar-of his talk with Grant
and Sherman over the perils that would
probably environ the Inauguration of Hayes.
Grant was depressed, terribly so, and said he
only wanted to get away from Washington
without having to shed ~blood-Rny-
thing and everything for peace. Sherman
was full of fight; he believed in his artillery
and could end any row in half an hour with
his regular batteries. Conkling walked up
and down the room the conversation took
place in the evening at the White House,
listening to the two generals and saying
nothing until they had finished. Then he
stopped in front of Grant, and. reaching out
his forennger, iinpressively (e acted it all
out to mel, unfolded his plan for an electoral
commission. When he had finished, Grant
jumped to his feet, grabbed him by his
hand, and said: That's it. It's all right,
Sherman. Conkling has saved u.s." Conk-
ling got sick OF his electoral scheme before it
finished its work, mud lodged the vote on
Louisiana; but he has not only always
claimed to be the father Of the job, but that
it was the only way to get out of the diff
Guilty and avoid civil war.
, 1884-06-24
Pointed ~Pararr,phs.

Ex-senator Dorsey has not achieved in
his variegated career such a reputation for
veracity that he can afford to accuse any,
body offdsehood - philadelphia Record.
George William Curtis stepped on a
banana peel, and his coat tail was not
padded enough to protect him from the
usual results. = Chicago Inter Ocean.
NO" said druggist, there is not
such an awful profit on a glass of soda
water. You see, the wear and tear on the
glass amount to something.
A Chinese doctor is practicing upon the
sick at Deadwood, Oak, and the railroads
have had to put oil extra trains to send
the corpses home to their friends in the
East--Burliagtoa Free Press.
Amy" said the high school graduate
to her friend yesterday, Il gave Sue the
frigid vibration this morning" ''You
gave her what p asked Amy. ''The frig.
id vibration replied Mildred. "What
in the world is that p asked Amy in as
Constituent. "What you call a cold shake,
you know, explained the high schoo'
girl.
Benjamin f.. Barkis'' is what they
now call the man from Massachusetts,
Cincinnati Times Star.
Bob Bnr1ette's latest suggestion is.
"My on, whisper it not 10 the marines,
but bear it in mind yourself, that a man
never gets half seas over unless he sails
, 1884-06-24
JNo.

THIS is the season Of the year when the
American colleges scatter about their
titles. They are usually not very particu-
lar whom they afflict so long as the recip-
tents are upon good terms with the facul-
ties or happen to be exercising a brief
power. Princeton has just conferred the
title of LII. D. upon President Arthur.
The degree has often been less worthily
conferred, but nevertheless the question
naturally arises, what has Mr.. Arthur
done to deserve the title? The only ma
tural inference is that Princeton felt that
in honoring the President of the United
States they were honoring their own in
stitution. Harvard has annually been in
the habit of comforting the degree of
LII ID. upon the governors of Massa-
chusetts. They drew the line on Ben
Butler, however, and the only reason
under heaven that animated the faculty
was petty spite. No one doubted his
ability or his requirements, but he had
fought the blue bloods and Harvard would
not grant him the distinction. The title
could add no distinction to a man of Ben
Buffers caliber, and as be himself said,
he was able to translate it, which is more
than many who have received the honor
could DO. He is a strange man in this
country who does not covet a title.
, 1884-06-24

with the crew. What crew ? Corks crew,
my son eorks crew. Bottle hat up in
your scrap heap; it may work in handy
some day"
"A Vermont editor, in publishing one Of
Byron's poems. changed the word 20
gods!' to 20 gosh!' because the former
was too profane for his reader. - Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Fort Worth, Tex, is a r%ustling town.
1t has a white elephants cattle exchange,
a variety show of beautiful blondes, a
gambling saloon, and five hundred gin
mills. There is now some talk of build
ing a church.
, 1884-06-24
THE CATTLE INDUSTRY.
Notes of I~ntercs Regarding
LIv stock.


Dr. Moore, who goes to Wyoming to-
day, will receive 5000 head of cattle on
his ranch in the northeastern part of the
territory. -Denrer Tribune.
Three years ago doubling people began
to say stock cattle are all too high. The
prices must tumble. Then y~earling
steers were going at slI. Now they are
worth SIS and still up they go.-Denver
Tribune.
1t is estimated that 5000, 900 sheep
have been killed by the drouth all over
Australia this season, with a proportionate
loss in cattle and horses. In one part of
Queensland no rain excepting a passing
shower has fallen for seventeen months.
But few of the 1000, 900 of sheep of
Colorado now remain unshorn. Very lit
tie of the clip of 1884 is yet sold, yet
some few car loads have gone forward TO
market. Many of the larger producers
will wait before shipping to see if the
railroads are not going to give them a
little better rates. -DenUer Tribune.
The Cattle roundup, under the manage
ment of the Wyoming Stock Growers
association, for Uinta county, is just
finished Only one maverick was found,
which was sold for $50 to james Carroll
1t afterwards proved to have originally
been the property of Mr.. Carroll, though
under the law he cannot claim his $40
back after the animal has been condemned
and sold as a maverick. x hieftain.
Mr.. Fred Meyer, a well known man in
nearly all the far west territories. and a
former resident Of this county, is now at
the head of an immense enterprise. He
is president of a company, recently
formed, which has purchased the famous
Church Island, situated in Great Salt
Lake, comprising about 1900 acres,
which they will convert into an immense
cattle ranch. They will be entirely free
from all interference or mixing of stock,
and where thieves cannot break in or
steal, They will bring off, from time to
time, such cattle as they wish to market,
in large steam ferry boats. - Uiata Chief
tain.
In the ours of developing Il country
like our great West there are necessarily
a great many large perquisites extended
to moneyed- corporations. Railroads come
in for vast land grants. Live stock com
panies with large wealth are allowed the
, 1884-06-24
For fine watch repairing,
DAVID MILLER, 18th street.
A Lawyers opinion OF Interest to n

j. A. Tawney, Esq, a leading attorney
of Winona, Mimi, writes: After using
it for more than three years, | take great
pleasure in stating that | regard DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
as the best remedy in the world for Coughs
and Colds. 1t has never failed to cure the
most eyere colds | have had, and invari.
ably relieves the pain in the chest"
Trial bottles of this sure cure for all
Throat and Lung Diseases may be had
free Mt Gray & Pearse's drug store. Large
size. Sl.OO.
, 1884-06-24
AmerlonnIrin= Partisan Journalism

New York World.
The two young newspaper men who are
making a tilt just at present in the way of
Americanizing Partisan journalism are
named Chamberlain and Ives. The former
is a son of the late Ivory Chamberlain, and
for a number OF years be acted as the private
secretary of Jamss Gordon Bennett. The
holder OF that position must be a crack
journalist. because Bennett likes TO imagine
himself an editorial writer, and is forever
suggesting subjects which his secretary has
to write out. Chamberlain got 1O,OO0
year and all his expenses for travelling with
Bennett 1t is said that some of his former
employers money is invested in Tho Paris
Morning News.
Ives, who has a slice of the property, used
to be in New York journalism. He went to
that city from Buffalo, where his parents
reside still. He is a tall, slim young man,
with an olive complexion and n big black
eyebrow that runs straight across his fore
head. There is a strain of Indian blood in his
veins. Some years ago he married the lovely
and accomplished daughter of Mr.. Frank B.
Carpenter, the artist. He went abroad to
work in London for the Associated Press, and
distinguished himself by hunting Oakley Hall
to his London hiding-place when that erratic
individual ran away to England some years
ago. Ives was then snapped up by The Her.
aid, whose work he did in London for two or
three years.
Finally Mr.. Bennett ordered him to Paris,
Dublin, San Francisco and New York in
quick succession, countermanding each order
Just Us Ives got under way. That was too
much for the young mans Indian temper,
and he sont in a hot letter of resignation, to
which Bennett replied: al have received
your impudent communication, and its
contents are quite satisfactory to me-" Then
Ives wrote back; "Glad to know you think
me impudent. l have been told that all I
needed to make "a lrst-clnss Herald man WIS
a complete stock of that article On the
whole, Chamberlain and Ives are the kind Of
young men who seem likely to make journal
ism hum in Paris.
, 1884-06-24
THE SONG.

After the battle, the peace is, dear,
After the toll, the rest;
After the storm, when the skies are clea-.
Fair is the oceans breast.
Out in the golden sunshine
Throw we the net and line;
The silvery chase to-day
Calls US to work away,
So throw the line, throw-Yo, heaye hoi
Fishers must work when the treacherous sea
Smiles with a face of light,
Though the deep bed, where their fortunes
be,
May DO their grave ere night
Out in tho golden sunshine
Throw we the net and line;
The silvery lines to-day
Flash in the silvery spray,
So throw the line, throw-Yo, heave hoI
, 1884-06-24

1 hIls Cof. LONDON News
The funeral Of the Paris chiTonnier who
suddenly died at the indignation meeting
passed Off quietly. Fortunately, papers
proving his identity We're found on him, and
the transfer OF the body to the morgue was
thus rendered unnecessary. Fhe burial-place
OF his part of Villetto being almost out of
town, there was no occasion to take the
corpse through the crowded quarters. The
deceased was 20, and when laid out his head
rosembled Blanqui's. The hovel in which he
lived was on the top of a wooden shed, ap-
prooched by outside stairs, bare, reeking
with damp, but not dirty. Aristocratic Paris
went To visit this Stun, and word-pictures OF
1t are given in all the boulevard journals
The body of the old chiffonnier was hid ont
on a straw mattress. a holy water font was
over his bed, and a crucihx placed ON his
breast Notwithstanding this sign Of Cathol-
icisn, his brother ragmen, who subscribed
to give him a decent burial, insisted on its
being civil. They placed on the coffin a
black bead crown bearing the inscription.
"a nOtre ami" aud an immense one of i'm
moTtelles.
About u thousand poor people, comprising
some blind and decrepit, led.by ragged cfil.
dren, attended the funeral. An old ragman,
one Trolley, made a speech of concentrated
vlgor AMI good sense which astonished the
reporters. 1t sharply contrasted with a
frothy one delivered by NJ. Roche, a Socialist
journalist, who attempted to inflame the
chifonniers by telling them that the project
ure quailed before policemen but would not
yield to ragmen. Another chifronnier de-
scribed his interview with NJ. Poubelle, whom
he called IAN empty-headed man, inflated
with vanity and Indifferent to misery" He
caused u future candidate for n seat in the
chamber 10 read some verses he wrote in
honor Of the defunct All the while heavy
rain was falling, and tho poor people re-
turned to their wretched homes sadly
drenched
, 1884-06-24
what You Must ak to Washington.
Indy Cnrrcsnnndnnt l

The gentleman coming TO Washington, un-
less he wishes to miss a most instructive por-
ton of his stay here, must bring an evening
dress suit Ewallow tail and white or black
necktie.) This warning is not SO unnecessary
as might be supposed. The suit may be
forgotten or purposely left at home, the
gentleman not intending to visit, and then
on arrival he is embarrassed that he cannot
go properly dressed exactly where he ought
to go. The lady should bring a good plain
black silk dress, with illusion or pretty lace
for neck and sleeves. This, with long light
or tan-colored gloves md a few natural
flowers, will pass for a stranger on any occa-
sion that may offer. Here the unexpected is
the inevitable, and it is well to be prepared.
, 1884-06-24
Budd DObIe and Goldsmith Maid.

Budd Doble, the turfman, was grutified TO
a high degree when he visited Goldsmith
Maid in Trenton the other day. "Did she
know mef' said Mr.. Doble. "Bless your soul,
the minute l entered her stall she came up to
me and rubbed her head against my arm and
face. She neighed and frisked around the
stall like a colt, and did everything but
speak. You remember, she had an unusually
long tail. l used to teach her TO lie down so
that her tail would be clear OF everything. l
asked her TO lie down this time, and you
would have laughed to see her turn round
and round and switch her tail about until 1t
was just so and then lie down with it eI-
tended on the clean straw
, 1884-06-24
ADVICE IN HoUsE-BUILDINe.
Love and Enjoyment in n Little
Three-Hoom Cottage.
[Bill Arp in Texas Siftings,'

Ahree-hoom COttage.
tBin Arp in Texas S%iftings.1
Il wouldn't build much OF a house il l was
you, Bill / wouldn't have any spare room.
Just have enough for your family, for | tell
you, my friend, wherever you put up martin
gourds the martins are sure to come. I've
been all along that road, and l tell you its
better to be lonesome than to be run over
with company.
"Don't you remember, Bill, when / had my
little three-room house, and was runnin' NV
little store and maxim a little passed. of 6lthy
lucre, so called, and me and wife was right
happy and didn't know it, and wife sorter
hankered after a bigger house and wanted
to swell a little too, and SO / strained my
credit and snapped off the little house. for q
liner one with seven rooms, and gave my
note for $1,000 to boot, and then wife wanted
n bay winder built, and another coat of paint
and some now furniture, and our low coun-
try kin come up to spend tho summer,
and wife she gave parties and swarrays to
their girls. aud it was dance and ride and.
frolic, and eat and cook and sleep, and wife's
little love letters come up TO the store for
something or other a dozen times n day, and
at night | was tired aud sleepy and powerful
blue, for l couldn't see my why out OF all this
business, and wife said l must set up with tho
company, and L had it to do, for they were
all over tho house, and mighty nigh under it
and on top OF 1t, and they wore me out before
the summer was over. When we had our
Little house l could take off my coat and my
shoes, and lazy around, and stick my feet on
the banister and do as l pleased; but wife
said that wouldn't do now, and so l done my
best to please her; and by and by trade fell
off and 1 couldn't meet my notes, and the
Teller sued me, and matters got worse and
worse, and l saw the big house had to 20,
and went all around town trying to sell it,
but nobody wanted it then, for there was a
sort Of money panic in the land. couldn't
sell it at all for no price, but one day the
sheriff came along and sold it just as easyl
+No, Bill, l wouldn't put up them martin
gourds. If they don't ruin you they will
bring n power Of discomfort and make you
wish you could find n lodge in some wilder.
mesa lonely roost in some Okeefenokee
swamp. You are getting old. Bill, and can't
stand it Wife and have got back to a two
room cottage now, and We are happy. Low
country kin are a very good thing and l love
'em, but they don't know how poor we are
unless we live in a poor house. Itell you, my
friend, that one of the most pitiful spectacles
in all nature is a poor man with a rich mans
ways. If he don't live in hell he does in
purgatory, for I've tried it. Don't build
much of a house, William, for the Lords
sake,r"
, 1884-06-24

THE B. & o. Red Book for the Democratic Ma
tlonal Convention IS out, and 4 capital compen-
dlum Of political Information II Is. About every
thing one can seek for In becoming thoroughly
posted rs regards the Presidential past IS en-.
braced within the sixty odd pages, while in
point OF Typography the little book is a gem OF
clean, clear-cut work No charge is made for
them by the b. so and the only requisite IS
the inelosing OF a two-ccnt stamp 10 q. X Lord,
Baltimore with the application Tor a copy.
, 1884-06-24
An Unhonored Dictionary Man.


Chicago News
1t is claimed for tho late James hates
Percival, ex-stnts geologist of Wisconsin,
hat he was the compiler OF Noah Webster's
dictionary, his labor on which was wholly
unrequited. Yet he died in a miners cabin
in western Wisconsin, "unwept, unhonored,
aud unsnug.n The only remuneration which
he received was a bare subsistence, which
probably did not eSssel $500 a year. a place
to live, and his necessary working tools and
books of reference. He was a graduate Of
Yale college, and was appointed state geolo-
gist of Wisconsin by the late Gov. Barstow,
Of that stataL
, 1884-06-24

HENRY G. VENNoR, the weather proph-
ct, who died a few days since, once stated
that the grounds on which he based his
predictions were: First, on the principle
of recurring periods in the weather at ir-
regular but as~certainable intervals; second,
from a close study of charts of the Win
tiers for past seasons, embracing a period
of fifty years; third, from upward of eight
cen years out of door and camp life and
original observations of the habits of birds
and animals; fourth, from impressions
intuitively formed and not describablc. -
, 1884-06-24

THE movement to do away with the un-
warrantable extravaganza of printing un-
delivered speeches in the Congressional Re
cord was summary squelched i in the House
yesterday by a vote of l62 to II. Fresh
young oratory is to have some show in this
land of freedom after all.