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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14

you for Congress, you would be under
everlasting obligations to me-"
3Yes"
"Well-"
"But you see if 1 should get you the
Postofice I would be paying OF the obi
CATION"
Certainly"
''And promised that the obligation
should be everlasting. I must keep my
promise, SIR"
'S'happy moo years.
"See here, Bob, I thought you had
sworn of"
$50 have"
'But you're full as tick now"
Yesh; got full frs thing this mOrnin'
t'heIp me swear of"
Flows that?"
'fW'y don y'see? # I was sober 'nOugh
I'd 60 out maxim calls t'day, an y'kRoW
mos o. tn ladies set out wine. 'FEaid
might be tempted Fbreak my resi- utiOn."
81 say, George, what do you pay for
these cigars?"
Fifty dollars a thousand"
splendid cigar, George. Smokes
beautifully. Very fragrant. But $50 is
/ a good deal Of money to pay for cigars"
"Why, that's only cents apiece"
"Ah that's so. Was thinking it was
so cents apiece" I thought it was q
| dreadful price for such a miserable roll
Of dried cabbage. I don't see how you
can smoke the things.
The Boston traveller looked as if he
doubted the Texans story.
WAL, VIVA dye mean by seUt1n' an
lOOkin' that Way?" asked the Texan, feel
ing around behind.
81 am firmly convinced that you are not
a man of veracity, that your whole mar
rative is a base fabrication from begin
ming to end"
"Waal, that's all right, stranger. I
thought you was gOin' ter say 1 Wuz q
liar, an 1 want ye tknOW we uns don't
take that down hyar."
"How many calls did your sister have
yesterday" asked Miss Fixup as she met
little Johnny TOughnut Of the street.
None"
"What, not any?'
"Nary one. Ye see she got all ready
for 'em and had a lot o. cake all baked
and lots o. oysters fixed up bully, an I
list sneaked out and hung a basket on
the front door. We're havin' cake an
oysters fur every meal now. It's cold
day when 1 git left On cake an oysters"
'Look here, John Outlate, where have
} you been till this time O'night?"
''Been Wa'zhin' tn ole year out, in
(hic) dear"
Couldn't you watch the old year out
without getting drunk as a fOOl?"
'tTell ye how 'tWaZh, M dear. y see
tn ole year was gOin' away, an l thought
mebby I'd never see it again"
ooh, shut up and come to bed"
Hotel Clerk-Here Johnny. go up and
see what the gentleman in No. $40
wants.
Boy returns.
'He wants a monkey wrench and 9
can of OIL"
'sWhat fOrP"
"He was out calling yesterday, and he
wants to screw his hat on"
Little Willie stood looking at his
papa's New Years calling cards.
Papa, why don't they have New
/ Years in the SUMNER
! 'Why should they my SOM"
| ''SO's this poor old man without any
/ clothes on wouldn't have to come out IN
! the cold"
"I tell you all men are liars"
ooh, not so bad as that"
/ eyes, sir; every one of them"
GLOW about George Washington"
"He told the truth just once, and il
was so remarkable an act that they made
it a part Of history"
''Doctah, I weally cawn't see why
should have such teWible rushes o.
blood to the head"
Simplest thing IN the world. Nature
abhOrs a vacuum"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14
NJ viii he Observed thqf tl

1t viii be observed that the Executive
Council allowed as personal expenses to
Col. Frank Bacon, United States Com
missioner for Kansas, for board and tray
cling expenses 81, 49, postage and tele-
graphing, $500; clerk hire, 800. How
much then, ifanything, ought TO he al
lowed to the lady commissioners for ike
purposes? The writer has expended
out of her own funds, expenses incurred
in work already done, 800. The
amount expended by Mrs. Wilson Is not
known to the writer. If the articles in
boxes herein before mentioned are
not placed on exhibition there
is no arrangement under the man
agement for their return to the
owners. The proper action to be taken
under the circumstances is a matter
worthy of serious consideration. From
observations made at New Orleans the
writer has every reason to believe. and
does believe, that Colonel Bacon, United
States Commissioner for Kansas, has
been and still is actively engaged in the
full performance OF his trust. 1t is not
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14
WEARING OF THE GREEN.

Oh! Paddy dear and did you hear -
The news that's going round
The Shamrock is forbid by law 20
Grow on Irish ground.
no more st. Patrick's Day wen keep,
The color can't be seen
For there's bloody law against the
Wearing of the green.
went with Happy lander. and he took
Ne by the hand
And said, Rows poor ould Ireland,
And nov does she stand2
she's the ElQst distressful country thai
Ever you have seen,
There's hanging men and women there for
~ wearing Of the green
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14

Then, since the color we must wear is
Englaud's cruel red,
Sure Ireland's sons viii near forget the
Blood that they have shed.
You may take the Shamrock rom your hat,
And cast il on the sod
IL viii take root and flourish there,
Though under foot It's trOd.
When the law can keep the blades Of grass
From growing as they grow,
And when the leaves in Summer time
Their Verdure dare not show,
Then viii change the color
wear in my caubeen;
But till that day, please God, III stick
To wearing Of the Rreeni
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14
A Lakeside AIusIng.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
"Avaunt, villain"
The man thus addressed powerfully
built young fellow Of twenty-five years
or so. with strong limbs and bright blue
eyes that even in this moment Of shame
and degradation looked unhinchingly in
to those of the girl who stood before him
In all the regal splender Of her peerless
beauty of face and figure-started back
with a cOnvhlsive, shuddering movement
from the effects of which her shame
seemed to Writhe as if in moral agony;
and then recovering the self possession
which had mOmentarily deserted him,
placed an arm in such a position that it
prevented the outlines of his face from
being plainly seen, and stood there like
a lion at bay.
Two years before our story begins a
solitary horse mackeral might have been
seen swimming leisurely across the
Atlantic Ocean to open the summer sea-
son at Newport. And what a summer it
proved to be for Violet CaryIl Coming
there in all the freshness of her youth
full beauty she had seemed, in contrast
to the habitues Of the place, ike a lily
growing white and pure and stately in
bed Of roses from which the early splen-
dor of freshness had forever fed. With
heart unfettered, a mind Of unusual
vigOr, and a soul as pure and stainless as
the life record of a girl who has never
learned to play the piano, Violet Caryll
has met at Newport the man IN whose
presence she felt for the first time that
indehable sensation of joy-that thrill Of
representative emOtiOn-Whlch marks
the beginning Of an epoch in the life of
every girl-an epoch which In the future
shall be looked back upon as a time
when ali the world seemed filed with
sunshine, when every day that died upon
the horizon, purple rim seemed crowned
with the stars of jOy-that festal time
when Love, warm-lipped and glowing,
sits enthrOned upon the ClOud-6pped
summit Of a soul whose corridors are
/ lighted for the first time by the glorious
sunburst Of changeless affection and
/ whose parching thirst for kisses, and car
] esses and lOW-spOken words Oftenderness
/ Is forever quenched by the hmpid, purl-
/ ing stream Of a passion that can never
/ die.
! It was at a fets cl0mpetr8 that Violet
/ Caryll first saw Rupert j. HetheringtOn
/ She was standing near a pOrtiere through
\ which the chicken salad and nickle size
/ sandwiches were soon to be brought
when suddenly her escort BERTHE Cecil
a young man who hoped to be promoted
/ to the ribbon counter the following
Winter-Observed what seemed to him
like a blush pass quickly over her face
and, looking ia the direction indicated
by her eyes, it did not take him long tC
discover that Violet was gazing earnestly
st Rupert HetheringtOn.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14

But ii at last the color should
Be torn from Ireland's heart,
Her sons with shame and sorrow from
The dear old soil viii part.
I've heard whispers Of a country
That lies beyond the sea,
Which rich and poor stand equal in
The light of freedoms day,
On Erin, must we leave you, driven
By the tyrant's hand?
Must ask mother welcome from
A strange but happier land,
Where the cruel cross of England's
ThraldOm never shall be seen,
And where, thank God ! wen live and die,
Still wearing Of the green.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14

Boston Evening Record. ---=a --t
when Marx Twain was serving as
private secretary to Senator jim Nye, Of
Nevada, he replied to a letter from some
of the Senator's constituents asking for
a subscription TO aid in building q church:
'What you want is not a church, but
nice, large, strong, new jslt.0 SO hIr-
RandaH says to the. Southern people:
What you want is not cheaper BLANKETS,
clothing, sugar, sat, acroGkery. lumber,
coal and iron, but cheaper Whigkey and
tobacco, 3" IS Mark lost his place.
Randall VIII lose his labor
1t has been estimated that the com
mon house fly moves its wings $50 times
per second, or 1880 times per minute.
drunkenness is now said to be con
tagious disease.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18

The police have reported to the Govern ment that 2, 900 Anarchists reside in Switzer- land, and that they are chiefly of foreign birth.
 The French in Tonquin have had to strug- gle against large bodies of hard fighting Chinese.
 In consequence of the recent dynamite ex- plosions in London the admission of visitors to the galleries of the House of Commons is hedged around with extraordinary restrictions, and the privileges of the members, as well as of the press, are much curtailed.
 Earthquake shocks were felt at Torre del Campo, about forty miles north of Granada, Spain. They were severe enough to do serious damage to the hospital
 The Pope intends to proclaim the canon ization of the English martyrs, Sir Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher.
 Two Anarchists have been arrested at Reichenberg, in Bohemia. A printing press, some revolutionary documents, and a quantity of dynamite were seized.
 The proposed great anarchist meeting in Paris, says correspondent, proved a iasco.
 Tho English government has substituted charge of high treason for the previous charge against the alleged dynamiters, Gun ningham and Burton.
 Great military preparations are being made in England to reinforce Lord Wolseley in Egypt.
 The butcher who murdered the CItholic Viear-General of Gibraltar, and who is sup posed to be insane, burst into the office where the Vicar was sitting, and severed his heat from his body with butcher knife.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
About Being Good.

"Dar' am sunthin' bout bein' good which pays fifty cents on de dollah, |" said Brother Gardner, of the Lime Kiln Club, as the triangle sounded. "I could name 8 thousand instances whar' de good hev bin purtected in jist az strange ways as dis one. De odder mawnin' as I arose from de couch in which I had slept as sound as a bar1 O pork, dis ki7ered tracks all around de house in de snow. While I slept an dreamed of angels Q burglar sneaked up an fo'ced open de kitchen doab. Muffin prevented him from enterin' my bedroom an' rob- bin me of $6 in cash, hoss pistol, Q lawn mower an duebill on Ieadin' hardware store for sixty-seven cents. He paused in his mad career. De ole wo- man probably turned ober in bed jiat den, an de fellow slid out into de guilty darkness. .
 "Ebery day of my life I diskiber dai it am better to do good dan to go aroun' like & ragin' lion. In de fust place, de good man hain't afraid to sass back on a purleeceman. He doan' hev to do any dodgin' or hidin'. When anybody knocks on his doah he am ready to yell Come in ? instead of hidin' under de bed. No officer lays for him on de co'ner, an nobody frows brickbats al him as he passes de alley.
 "It am my advice to you to be good midlin' good. Doan' be so good dat all de tramps in town will feel at liberty tC roost on your front steps O nights, but be good huff to gin Providence chance to watch your wood-piles while you slumber. ."-DetrOM Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
His Friends Didn't Know Him.
BEN: rERLEY PooRE TELLS OF A PIERCE
 ENCOUNTER IN CONGRESS YEARS AGO.

BEN: rERLEY PooRE TELLS OF PIERCE
 ENCOUNTER IN CONGRESS YEARS AGO.
 William B. Campbell and Abraham P. Maury, two Whig representatives from Tennessee, had lively fight in the House, behind the Speakers chair, just before the final adjournment of the sec ond session of the Twenty-fifth Con- gress, on Sunday morning, July 9, 1888. It grew out of the irritation consequent on the process compelling the attendance of members at the session of the pre- ceding night. Mir. Maury was brought in by the Sergeant-at-Arms, arraigned and excused on the payment of fees. He thought, however, that his colleague had directed the Sergeant-at-Arms where to find him, and they had some words which ended in blows. Mir. Campbell had the best of the encounter, and he would have knocked Mir. Maury out oi one of the large windows, which opened to the floor and which was then open, had he not, to make his blows more ef- fectual, clutched his antagonist by the hair with his left hand, while he struck him in the face, blow after blow, with his right fist. Mir. Maury was pitiable spectacle when Mir. Campbell was dragged from him, and his best friends could not recognize his features, so blackened, bleeding and swollen were they. The difficulty was subsequently, arranged without resort to the code ot honor
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
SLAIN BY AN EXPLOSION.
Ten Men Killed and Twenty MnnRIed nG
 Coal Mine.


 At six o'clock Tuesday morning the little town of Brazil, twenty miles east of Terre Haute, Ind, in the center of the Indiana coal region, was shaken as though by an earth quake by terrible explosion. One of the boilers at the Central Iron and Steel Con- pany's rolling mill had exploded while between fifty and seventy-five men were in it's imme- diate vicinity. The wreckage of the surround ing structure was piled twenty feet high. Men ran out of the spacious buildings of the mill, some bearing marks of wounds and 80 fright ened that for 8 few minutes they scted like madmen. The awful roar of escaping steam which followed the first report terrified the inhabitants of the place who had been reused from their sleep by the noise.
 The change from the night to the day turn was being made when the boiler exploded. The building, covering 75 by 50 feet, was in ruins. The other boilers and their brick foundations were heaped in the mass, and on top of all had fallen the immense brick smoke slack. As the men dug into the debris the moans of their fellow-workmen could be heard above the roaring of the gale.
 Here and there was seen the form of man, and as one was removed another was found A half dozen wounded were taken out of the splintered timbers of the fallen building, and were carried to neighboring houses. Under the mass of boilers and brick were found tour roasted and scalded bodies of men whose death, judging. from the posi- blOub HI WulCn bu6 DOQ4CS we're IOuuQ, ana their condition must have been instantaneous. One was that of a puddler who had just gone to work. In lifting him the flesh with the clothing fell away from the bones, and all sem. blance of human form was lost. The little heap fell from the bands of the workmen. The remains were gathered into box and carried away.
 Another body was roasted almost beyond recognition. The other two were recognizable -one as 8 workman and another as a tramp. Soon a fifth was unearthed, with signs of life in his scalded and bleeding flesh. This man died within half-hour.
 Seven men are now dead and three more are expected to die. Three employees were killed, the remainder being tramps. Eight others were seriously injured.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
Made Mad by a Lottery.

Lotteries are so much in vogue in France that no sooner is one drawn than several fresh ones are started. The drawing of the prizes may be productive of some excitement, pleasurable or other wise, on the minds of ticket holders; but it appears from recent very sad case of sudden insanity that the disappointment at not winning prize is sometimes too much for weak minds. The case in question is that of young woman of humble station, earning her living in
 Paris. She had bought ticket-only one-in the Decorative Arts Lottery, re. gently drawn, and this fimsy scrap of
 paper she was sanguine enough to be- lieve would prove the foundation of her fortune. When the list of the winning numbers was published 1t was eagerly scanned by the poor girl. who for some days afterward remained in despondinp state of mind, for the castles in the air she had been building on the strength of dream or presentiment-which led her to choose a certain number had vanished. Subsequently she lost her reason completely, and, leaving her homo, rushed wildly through the streets waving the unfortunate ticket in her hand, shouting that it was the winning pumber and that the big prize had been stolen from her. The police had to in- terfere and take her to the station, whence it is likely she will have to be transferred to an asylum for the insane
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
TRAGIC DEATHS IN THE PIT.
Thirteen Miners Killed by a COllIery Ex- 2 plosIOn in NOvn Scotia.


 Vale Colliery, six miles from New Glasgow, N. S., was, on Wednesday night, the scene of an appalling calamity, involving the death of thirteen miners and the mangling of several others. The disaster was caused by frightful explosion, and had it occurred during the day the loss of life must have been frightfully large. There were only twenty-two men at work Wednesday night toiling with their picks 2,000 feet below the surface of the earth when low rumbling sound startled the mining set-
 clement, followed by report resembling an earthquake.
 The explosion had taken place in the new
 slope of the colliery which was being sunk at
 the Mclean seam. AS soon as possible Man
 ager Greene descended the shaft, but found it impossible to get near any of the imprisoned
 miners, who were fast being suffocated in their
 living tomb. After several efforts 8 rescuing
 party succeeded in reaching party of seven
 men who were with great difficulty brought to
 the surface alive. The next attempt at rescue
 resulted in bringing to the surface the black
 ened corpses of three miners. Many hours
 had been consumed in these efforts and it was
 now nearly daylight.
 Later in the day the rescuers reached the
 foot of the shaft, where to their horror they found ten more corpses and two men in an al- most dying condition. They were all brought to the surface as quickly as possible, the in- jured cared for tenderly, and the dead pre- pared for burial.
 1ue eCeuee aAouAu bAO huobA VI tAO 5nnAs as the cages bearing the bodies rose slowly to the surface were heartending in the extreme. One of the survivors gave 8 thrilling account of the catastrophe. While the work was pro gressing as usual the workers were startled by a low rumbling sound, followed almost imme- diately by terrific explosion. All the lights were extinguished by the concussion and the twenty-two men were hurled in various direc- tions. Some were killed outright, but the ma jority of deaths was caused by suffocation. The groans of the dying and the appeals for help that could not reach them were frightful to hear but gradually the sounds ceased as one after another of the thirteen men breathed his last and the remainder abandoned all hope of rescue.
 The managers of the mlne and others att tribute the explosion to the sudden opening of or coming upon heavy feeder of gas, which, rushing out, was at once ignited by the lamps carried in the caps of the men.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18

There was intense feeling shown in all the public offices in New York, on Tuesday, when 1t was learned that Judge Freedman, in the Superior Court, had decided in favor of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt and others in the suit brought to punish Mayor Edson for con- tempt in sending in the name of Rollin Squire for Commissioner of Public Works in the face of an injunction issued by Supreme Court Judge prohibiting the Mayor from doing SO. Judge Freedman, in a lengthy opinion,
 finds that ex-Mayor Edson is guilty of con- tempt of court, and he directs that for the wiful disobedience and the contempt of which the defendant stands adjudged guilty, he be im- prisoned in the county jail for the period of fifteen days and that, in addition thereto, he pay fine Of S250. And he further directs that the order to be entered and the commit ment to be issued be presented for settlement on 8 notice of two days to the attorneys for the dnRandank
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
What the Poor Pay.

It has been estimated that the poor buying in small quantities incur un. necessary expense in the following ratio: For an ounce of washing soda the poor trading at email shops in New York pay cent; grocer will deliver it for 3 cents pound. For four by the pound they pay sum equal to S9 90 @ barrel for Q S5 article. They buy butter at the rate of $5 a tub, while would cost g. 50. A half pound of sugar costs them cents, while a pound would be but cents more. For a 25.cent tea they pay 40 cents. For 15.cent coffee they pay 30.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET

NEW 1Ohh mAhhEE. The Wholesale New York market quotations show:
 BEANs-Prime. s2259s2sO; fair to good. S2.00@ $2.20 per busheL
 BUTTER -N New York sold at 30@32c for choice in pails, and 20G2Gc. common to good Western Creamery gold at 28@3lo, and the common Western at lS@l9c-
 CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 121&912s<c; do. fair to good, g@10c.
 Eaos-Quotations ranged from 27c. for or dinary, to 3Oc. for New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania
 FLOUR -Superhne, S250@$29O 90; Western $3S50S5. 90, extra New York, S3. 60C0S4. 35 HAY Shipping. 60@70ci clover. 60970c- salt. COG; straw. 70@75c.
 HoPs-New York, 16@17c; Eastern, 11@l3c; yearlings, S(a11c; olds, -@- PoRk-Clesr Back, s15.5O9s16.Ooi dressed #nEftT Spring No. 8, s1@s21lc., Mil waukee, No. 2, s7ci amber. s-@s-i white, SIC. 6S8c. CoRs-Ungraded Western Mixed. 49I5a51ci Steamer Mixed. 493I@5oc. in elevator. 5lo. delivered No. ?, 50g95O1&c. in elevator. 5l2s@ ivered.
 R7E~state, 7O@7 16o.
 PHILADELPHIA MARKET. FLoUR-State family. S3.509$3.75; rye flour S3.62l[0S375; wheat, State, $-.-@9515c.; amber, S0.0Oi corn, yellow, 50oi mixed States 49c.
 PErRoLEUM-Refned. 7sSc: crude, 6Ac- WooL-State and Western xx, 46@50oi \ 47@48c. medium, 50@51c-; coarse, 45o-
 BOSTON MARKET
 FLOUR - From s2. 2.S5@s3.25 for low and medium. to S4. 25@S4 90 for choice Minnesota Corn. 55l7(056c. for mixed and yellow. BUTTER - Common, 10c @l4ci Vermont dairy, 23@25c. choice creamery, 28935o CHEEsE-125S013c
 BEANs-$I. 75OSIS1
 HGY-Choice, s1s@e19. CATTLE MARKETS
 BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. s415a S5.70; hogs fair to good, S5.10@S625; best $5.35.
 EAST LIBERTY. PnN.-Best cattle, s-@ &-; medium to good, s-@$--; common to fair, S-@$-; Hogs. Workers, x5.00a s5-10 1, PhiladelphiaA s1259S540 Sheen
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
InrrnIIu AsfnnIshnd-

Mir. James Brunt, Deputy Sheriff, Baltimore, Maryland, writes: In an e1- perience of thirty years I have become acquainted with numerous so-oalled specifies for coughs and colds, but never before experienced such surprising eff cacy as was obtained from the Red Star Cough Cure. I WAS attacked with a severe deep-seated cold and cough. I suffered for some time, and tried this valuable remedy. I was completely cured by the use of one bottle.
Connecticut western news., 1885-02-18
RnrnInuin nria-n..nn-

The British steamer Welbury, Capt. Patton from Baltimore, Jan. 17, has arrived st Fal- mouth, England. One of her boats was smashed and she was damaged in various ways during the voyage. She reports that on Feb She passed the British bark Erinna, Captain Smith, from New York, Jan. IT, for Antwerp, which was on fire. Her rudder and masts were gone and part of her stern had been burnt away.