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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1885-01-13

Clear. out Rats. Nice. reaches. nlcs, ants. bel
bag. skunks ohipmunks. gophcrs. i,c- Al
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1885-01-13
D Rornn ON IIrn -

Hacking. Irritating coughs, Colds, SORE rhroa
curcd by Rough on Coughs 1roches, l'e
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1885-01-13

Ladic. who would retAla freshae.. and ,
yacity don't fail 10 try Wells Health ksne'
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
A Novel Industry

/: Since crocodHes and alligators have
supplied leather merchants and man
ufacturers with their skins in order to
satisfy q freak of fashion, they have
been hunted and destroyed to such
. degree that American traders are
casting anxious glances toward the
once happy hunting grounds on the
Mississippi, from which the cuirassed
game is rapidly vanishing. The
practical Yankee, however, is not to
be beaten by either crocodiles or alli-
rators, and, where once the crocodile
frolicked in freedom, it is now kept
in enclosures, where it grows and
multiplies apace. Crocodile farms
are becoming common. The largest
animals are killed and skinned, their
flesh being used to feed their hungry
descendants. That these breeding
places are of no mean dimensions is
shown by the fact that the owners OF
one OF them supplied tanner at st.
Louis during the current year with no
less than five thousand alligator skins.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
The Upright Man.

To delineate the character of an
upright man, man OF integrity, is a
plain one, and easily understood.
He is one who makes ii his con-
slant rule to follow the road OF duty,
as his conscience points out to him.
He is not guided merely by affecta-
tons, which may sometimes give the
color OF virtue to a loose and unstable
character.
The upright man is guided by a
fixed principle OF mind, which de-
termines him to esteem nothing but
what is honorable, and to abhor what
ever is base and unworthy in moral
conduct.
Hence you find him ever the same,
at all times the trusty friend, the af-
fectionate relation, the conscientious
man OF business, and the public
spirited ,'itizen.
lie assumes 10 borrowed appear
ance.
lie seeks no mask to cover him,
for he acts no studied part but he is
in truth what he appears to be be,
full of truth, candor and humanity.
In all pursuits, whether business
or political, he knows no part but the
fair and direct one, and would much
rather fail of success than attain it
by reprolchful means.
He never shows you smiling
countenance while he meditates evil
against you in his heart.
He never praises you among your
friends and then joins in traducing
yon among enemies.
You will never find one part OF his
character at variance with another.
In his manners he is simple and
unaffected; in all his proceedings
open and consistent.
Such is the man of integrity.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
Matrimonial Music.

This is not the time to get married.
The gentle spring tie 'em is the best.
A rainy day picnic and a broken
MARRIAGE engagement are in one re-
spect alile-postponed on account Of
the weuder.
Homo rules-Wives.
a fashionable Galveston lady read
in a newspaper that President-eleet
Cleveland was well Of and bache-
lor. "Of course he is well off if he is
not married." was the brutal reply
OF her husband.
Eulalia (sentimentally) "Oh, mol
l have no desire for great wealth. l
should be happy, very happy, as the
wife of a noble bread-wnner.
George practically "And l should
be happy, very happy, as the hus-
band Of a good bread maker" She
concluded to learn.
"Well, Dobkins, are you going to
the club to-night?"
al haven't made up my mind vet"
"Haven't Why it's time 10 be
there now"
II know. but my wife hasn't got
back from the woinan's meeting yet"
"Ah, see. You can't make up
your mind till your wife brings it
homev
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
A Kansas Jury.

A man had been found dead in
the streets OF Topeka, with hole in
his head.
In accordance with customs OF civ
llizatlon, coroner's jury sat on him,
he being too dead TO object, and got
verdict and two dollars apiece. The
deliberation OF the jury was cool and
remarkable for its shfewdness one
man who had been acquainted with
the deceased and remembered that
he once refused 20 give poor woman
some old back number undershirts,
to make dish-raes OF, thought he died
oil ossliication oil heart.
After wrestling about twenty min
utes with hls thoughts, one gentlc-
man with consumptive complexion
boldly announced that it was his
opinion formed after much consider
alton, that the man was dead because
he had died. Many OF the jury
seemed to be OF the same mind, but
one man shook his head wisely and
said he knew the deceased intimately
and he hal every reason 10 believe
that he had been killed by selfish
motive. lie knew that he owed sew
era! dollars around town and it was
his candid opinion that he had died
to cheat his creditors. He was more
firmly convinced in this belief as
the man had long been a deacon in
the church of which he was mem-
Der.
A lawyer, who formed one-twelfth
Of the august body, said he had often
read of people dying with their boots
on and rs the deceased in this case,
was found with an extra large pair OF
unremoyed boots attached to him, it
seemed very plain that that was the
cause of his abrupt demise.
"A large man, who wore Il 3 hat
and vest that measured % inches
around the waist, arose and looking
hard At the foreman advanced the
idea that some dissolute person had
given tho dead man stiff. The ex-
ceedinglv stiff condition in which he
was found satisfied him that his
theory VAS correct.
A muscular chap, that smelt like a
cowboy believed from the very pro-
nounced manner in which he was
iound dead, that he had refused to
pay his election bet.
There was physician in the gang
who had remained silent up TO this
point when he arose and thrusting
his left hand down into his pocket and
running his remaining bread winner
through his long shaggy hair, said in
deep, determined tone, gentlemen,
I've heerne what has been said.
You're ideas are good, hn. seems ter
me thet any fellow with the sense ov
a tew-year-old bull cud tell thet thet
ere cuss had been knocked out by er
large hole fred by some party tew
this ar body unknown. Thar's ther
hole, thet proves thet such ere thing
as er hole do exist an in a hole o.
that ar size taken head first wud par
alyze emmy o. us. Now 'tdon't make
eLny difference who fired thet M
hole, all we've got ter dew is ter
prove thet ther man is dead an draw
our money"
This was new idea TO most OF the
jurvmen and they agreed at once;
rendered n verdict accordingly and
adjourned TO n neighbofing saloon TO
deposit their fee i'm advance.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
How to be EntertAips.~.

One of the most important rules in
the science of manners is that you
preserve an almost absolute silence
concerning yourself. Play the COM
edy, some day, of speaking OF your
own interests to ordinary acquain-
tances, and you will see ieiened at
tention swiftly followed by 'indiifer-
ence and then by WEAKNESS, until
everyone has found a pretext for leav-
ing YOU. But ii you wish to group
about yon the sympathies OF all and
to be considered charming and
agreeable fellow, talk to them OF
themselves, seek some way OF bring
ing each into action in turn; then
they will smile at you, think well Of
you and praise you when you are
gone.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20

: The reign Of George Ill. of England
was the most openly dissolute period
in the history Of Great Britain. Cab
inet ministers slept under the wine
table, the head OF the church was
swollen with excessive drink, and the
duke OF Grafton, accompanied by
women OF most disreputable charac-
ter, visited the theatre, Haunting the
handkerchief OF vile perfume in the
faces Of honest people. 1t is related
by George Otto Trevelyan that one
day the king remarked to one of his
iavorites:
"They tell me, Sir John, that you
are fond OF glass of wine."
"four informers have done me
great injustice" replied Sir John.
"They should have said bottle, your
majesty"
1t was then that gout attained its
highest degree OF perfection. A man
who did not wear split shoc WAS
only under protest admitted into the
circles Of polite society. A 'buck"
of forty-fve was considered an old
man. ''Oh, yes," men would remark,
"the bishop is q pretty good sort Of
fellow, but did you observe that il
was about as much as he could do to
stand up under gallon OF wine, good
wine, toO?" Sir Phillip Francis,
whom many suspected Of being the
author OF the Junius letters, upon
awaking at night and finding himself
SOBER, would Immediately get ont OF
ped and proceed to get drunk again.
LORD Wymouth, after spending for
tune and becoming utterly worthless,
was appointed secretary Of state in
recognition OF his abilities as drunk
ara. One night at q great ball, the
beautiful Miss Parthenia Stoveall APP
preached the lord chancellor and
said:
my lord, will you please take me
:. Why 20 early, my dear miss?"
"Well, you see, am as full as
goose and papa thinks ought to CO."
George Ill, although he was man
q fair means and pretty good credit,
did not join in the general h,larity.
There WAS difference between him
and the prime minister. George gave
up wine before drinking it; the min
lister not until some time after he had
drunk it: The king realizing that
good health greatly depends upon
the stomach, ate cold sandwiches
while the ladies and gentlemen high
in the realm ate hot tripe. fried sn,,-
sages and other indigestible articles
nj pO,y RI 1v st;ak E,,.~ =. 4i.L
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
Whites and Blacks In the South.

In his new book Judge Tourace
elbows, by a series OF tabuiatcd statis-
tics, drawn from the census by dec
AIDES down to 1880, that the colored
race is increasing at greater ratio
than the white race in the South that
Il already numbers one to every two
OF the white population, taking all
the States together; that in eight of
these States it averages pa per cent.
less than one TO one that in three OF
the States it averages 81 per cent.
more than one to one; while by the
increased migration of whites, added
to the greater reproductive powers OF
the blacks. the disparity increases at
an even more rapid rate.
A nit of History.
The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20
rKnns OF SUBSCRIPTION.


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The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1885-02-20

When Won visit or leave New York CITY. save
Na'rrars cvrrossnge ard cnrringe hire. ard stop
Z the Grand '1nun Hotel. opposite Grand CIR
'rel penp' Flerrn' rooms, ft'ed nv at cost
OF onc milton do'lars, reduced TO 81 and up.
Yards ner d'v. rurepean plan. Elevator Re :
.lnsant si'rried with tho hest Horse cars
s.agas and elevated rai'road to all depots Fim.
i es car ''ve hetter f,r less money n. the Grand
U'n,on Hotel than at any other frst-cass hotel
In the city jan 23lyr
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25
DEMOCRATIC RELICS.
Their Abundance in Washington
Weston Coming Home.

II is marvellous how many men still roam
the earth who were on very familiar terms
with Thomas Jefferson and voted for Andrew
Jackson. A large number of these relics of
antiquity are in Washington. Gen. Joe
Weems. of South Carolina, is a type of the
kind referred to, grand and venerable pile
of flesh, lowering with years, who in his
mind is a great political war horse from
way back. Last evening he paralyzed
group of comparatively young Dem
Ocrats AT Wizards by saying that he
made his debut on this continent under
the auspices of Christopher Columbus, and
that when he landed the first man he saw
was John Harmon, of Detroit, who presented
him with an ear of corn.
The Michigan delegation here at present
rested in its labors to-day very largely, with
the exception Of John j. Enright. who secur-
ed private and very satisfactory interview
with Secretary Manning this afternoon.
/. NJ. Weston, having done all that he
hoped to do in Western District matters,
started for home to-day via New York.-Eree
Press Washington Special.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25

There will be = trotting meeting Al Mime
spolis, MINI. June q. = and -.
Fifty seven head Of trotting stock vii be
offered for sale A. Commodore Kiftson .
Midway farm. near II. Paul. MINI. on June
70.
The bar PAGER Honesty that vou the z -
pacing rsca ~ Suffolk on the 18Th inst i= said
- have paced TRIAL IN PIT. HE record nov
r. 2.2A-
A circuit composed Of the Elnnira n y.
Wiuiamsp0rt and -. Mary'- Pa tracks
has been made ~ and purses Rggregating z
= 40 offered.
TIE report that the American Jockey Cab
has trouzbt the old st7d farm nesr Trenton.
y J., for race track = denied - the o-rn-
ere II the farm
The tot-i smosnt rselized ~ ere Br8ce A.
Woodward sale st Lexington. Ky. or Nay
ll. wss 81 ~ foT 6ftT seven head. sr
sveraz. Of x3IQIa
TIE North Hudson Driving Coarse s=so-
ciation ~ Nev fcrs - building q half relie
trsck rot fsr from the Forty q, coDd st-eet
fsrry. = is expec1ed - hs competed - the
midds - fane.
a ths trotters. -ssdstars ard carT1aa-s
hor-es heIonzrrz - fh% estste - fhe ss-s
Dan Nace uit5 b- -ai3 sf aucF5on tfe lss1 a
fhis ninth. ~ NIlssm tset1a. sf ffe Mscs
Stables. No 81 We<f fIetietk sf-eef NsV
York.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25
PLACE FOa g ID RAPIDS.
One Likely 10 be Made BY Malcom
Hays Resignation.

Special to the Detroit Free Press.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-The prospects that
Assistant Postmaster-GeneralH Hay will in
few days tender his resignation on account
of failing health has revived in political cir
Giles here the attempt made in the early days
of the administration 10 secure the office for
a Michigan man. While the discussion was
going on the Pennsylvania delegation pre-
sented the name of Hay, and as he was
personal friend of the President he
was appointed. The name of Gen.
J. G. Parkhurst, of Coldwater, was at
the period alluded to urged for the position.
Ii is possible that, as the General is already
booked for the Pension Office at Detroit
that il would complicate matters somewhat TO
push him for the first position named, but
while the attempt 10 push forward Park
hurst for the position might cOmplicate
affairs here and possibly might delay action
IN other important matters, II would un-
dOubtedly dispel certain complications and
beat Cummings in the State. Ii would give
Pond, of Ann Arbor, Mckinstry. of Jackson,
and Farra, of Mt. Clemens, fresh or ance TO
get what they desire. IL Is thought here that
If Hay does resign, and there Is the slightest
chance for Michigan man TO fill the vacan-
cy, that the Grand Rapids district should be
favored with the honor of presenting can
section that really needs and deserves en-
couragement. Kalamazoo has many able
men, such as Charles s. May and
Nathaniel Stewart, who could be utilized
for the place, but as it has already been re-
membered by the administration in the ap-
pointment of O. w. Powers, it Is possible
that il would not be considered. The same
argument made against the selection of a
candidate from this locality would also ap-
ply TO Detroit and the Upper Peninsula, for
have they not been well taken care of in the
appointment of LOthrOp az Minister 10 Russia
and Swineford as Governor of Alaska? If this
line of argument in which sections are TO
control Il worth anything, then Western
Michigan and Its many worthy Democ ats
must be taken into consideration. Michigan
Democrats here in Washington Interested in
the welfare of the State are 10th 10 name any
particular man for the position in case va
cancy il made. That j. r Meter for the
leading Democrats of the State to settle
among themselves.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25
SALES or Tne NEW BIBLE.
Not very Eager Demand tor the Re
sised Old Testament.

from the As~ lork SOn
large sale Of the revised Old Testament
op the day Of its frst delivery was nOt Al
Brothers and Thomas Nelson q Sons. The
distribution Was not even 50 large a. had been
anticipated from the nrm OF Nelson Sons,
al Bleeeker aud Mulberry streets, shortly after
Wednesday midnight truck Loads set out for
the large retail hOlses Ia the city and d
towering truck load Was hurried 10 the
Grand Central Depot 10 MI orders from
firms Ia Canada. Ii Il certain, write repre-
sentatlyes of the Canadian tirnls 10 the New
York importers, that copies Of the revised
edition can be received IA Montreal aud
Quebec by way of New York before they can
be received ia the regular eOurse of trade
with the mother country.
First 10 receive copies at the Bleecker
street house were members Of the repub-
fishing firm of Funk q Wagnalls. The cop
les were ripped tO pieces, and composltOrs
were Immediately set 10 work on the frst
stages of cheap edition. The distribution
by Nelson 4 Sons WAS entirely 10 trade cen
tres. Mr. Houston, the business manager,
said yesterday:
"We are not ready 10 tell the public the
number of copies of the Old Testament we
sent out o-day. Ii il not gDod business pol
icy 10 do 30. Orders from cities III the III
terror continus 10 come in to day, aud they
will continue for some time The demand
for the book II not eager"
Randolph sold about 80 copies of the re
vised edition yesterday, which Is probably
more than any other retail bookseller sold.
At Harper Il Brothers employees were up
all night receiving and repacking Old TeSta-
ments in cases. Cartmen swafmed about
the doors in the rear of the Franklin Square
House at early dawn, and scattered III all di-
rections. Retail booksellers had agreed TO
open their doors an hour earlier than
usual TO receive the cases The
city order of the plea edition
sold by Harper & Brothers is large. Half a
score of trucks also turned down streets
leading TO railroad express routes, and the
packages were sent TO inland cities. Ii was
estimated at the counting room of Harper
i Brothers that in the city about 100000
copies in all were distributed yesterday TO
retail stores.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25

SPARTA, Mich, May 25-Donovan's Ten
last night. They were favored with a
crowded house, and should they ever come
here again they will be well patronized'
They 20 from here 10 Newaygo. Mr.. A.
Betterly. mine host Of the Commercial, de-
serves much credit for procuring rs 40 good
an entertainments; for ne ran All the risks,
having 20 guarantee them their price before
they would come.-The grading of streets is
the order of the day. and Street Commis-
sioner Pease has done a splendid job on the
south half Of Maple street.-Nan Wiltenderg
u pushing the work on his residence. having
the roof on already, and from present ap-
pesrances II will DE one Of the finest houses
in towu.-Dr. :. d. Hinman has broken
ground for q residence on Washington
street
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25
BANK BURGLAR CAUGHT
REMARKABLE CAREER or CRIME.
Gustasus kindt. alias French Gus.
Captured bs the New York Police
Stolen Property Recovered.

MN l0RK, May z4-(Tustavus klndt, alias
''lsOdcre Marshal, alias French Gus, 4" one
of the most noted bank burglars Ia the
country, who has served several terms Ia
state prison, was arrested yesterday by
Central Office detective on charge OF rob
bing, during the past week the safe of Smith
& Co, wholesale grOoers, at a. Park street,
and the safe OF q. b. Horton. heather mer-
chant, al 50 Frankfort street. of bonds,
money and gewelry, amounting 10 large
sum. A considerable amount of the stolen
property together with complete kii of
burglars tools, which kindt confessed be
longed 10 him, we're found yesterday al the
residence Of her daughter, at sl3 East
Twelfth street. Inspector Byrne also
learned that kIndt had within the past few
days entered into a conspiracy with "A man
named Frank Mccoy 10 rob
the Butchers and Drosers' bank, of
this city, soon as favorable
opportunity presented itself. hIndt's career
OF crime extends over nearly quarter of
century. lie was arrested ia 1850 for rob
bing Wheeler. Fahey a Co, of Brooklyn, of
watches, and gold and silver bars 10 the
amount OF 81, 900. Ia 1877 he robbed
pawnbroker's shop in Montreal of $1,000,
besides silver ware, watches. etc. de robbed
the safe of the New York and Canada Rail
road IN the Piattsburg depot IN 1873, of
large sum. lie has been confined IN Sing
Sing prison several times, and escaped from
that Institution twice. The prisoner il a ma
tive OF Belgium, about 10 years old, stands
nearly SIX feet III height and weighs 800
pounds.
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25

Judge Brown gave decision April q
wherein he said that turniE seeds should -
considered agricultural seeds. and eshbaze
sseis should he cisssed under the hsf - ssr.
den seeds. The Secretary II the Treasury VS.
not laite ssFis6,sd with the raIinE. afectinz =
II Dos lsrze iadEstry. ard rn0sr tne
advice of the Attoraey-f-aDersi. has taken
ant VII ~ el--o~ s1aInsf g1dze 8r7wn e
decision The question - - nauch interest
% seef-r-er ar3 fsrniers VII. trs-efo-s -
definitely settled by the ~urrafns 9lonrt -
the lnIEad ,.rafes.-- pst~0sf NssCS
Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-25
a COLOSSAL SCHEME.
D. M. Richardson Proposes a Ship
Canal Around Detroit.


Canal Around Detroit.
ID. NJ. Richardson yesterday broached to the
Board of Public Works subject which he
has had at heart for long time past, and
which in his opinion will earn for this gener-
alton the thanks of many generations to
come. 1t il this: short distance above
the city comes in Conner's creek; short
distance below the city the River Rouge
empties, and into IL empties Baby's creek.
Conner's creek on the east and Baby's creek
on the west, "a they reach their respective
sources, gradually converge. The land
between them is low and marshy:
it is, in fact. practically swale.
This s at distance of about four miles
from the Detroit river, or a mile beyond the
boulevard. The proposition Is, IN short, TO
dig canal at public expense joining these
two streams, and dredging out the streams,
so that they and the canal shall be navigable
by ordinary lake vessels and steamers.
current of living water can be induced to
flow through this canal 10y means of build
ing a dixie or break water from the mouth of
Conner's creek. santing upstream out TO
the channel bank. BY csIis means the water
will be forced in and current created. Mr.
Richardson thinks that by making this canal
Detroit will become one of the greatest COM
mercial and manufacturing centers on the
continent because II will have such unrivaled
facilities.-The Sunday NelCS.