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The Mineral argus., 1885-05-07

necessity for cowboy-or man in an,
other occupation that is not an ac
knowledged coward--carrying IL gun
when he is going off the range into q
town or settled community. As usual
with gun men, they got thoroughly
soaked with ''red-eyc." and desired Ia
convince the spectators in general and
Tom in particular that they were
bad. Beset by none but the one
person, both of the cowboys pulled
their guns, and not only fourished
them in dangerous and threatening
manner, but struck Newcomb over the
head and neck with them inilicting
several severe cuts and bruises. Being
unarmed, Tom was forced to take his
medicine" During the fracas Com
ings dropped his gun which an inebria-
ted individual attempted to pick up
but was prevented from so doing by
Clay, who shot over his hand, the ball
passing through the pantaloons of W.
II. Ford and lodging in the front of the
Bullion, and during the confusion re-
covered the gun. Tom appealed to his
friends, in fact made it lively for the
boys to keep him from getting a gun,
but, to their credit be it said, no one
gave up" knowing full well that in his
excited and angry condition he would
shoot one or both of the cowboys, and
in all probabilities get shot.
With Newcomb's attempt to get a
gun the cowboys started on dead run
for Saunders livery, where their horses
were stabbed, secured the same and
were about to light out when Constable
Mills appeared and arrested them. An
attempt ut resistance was made but
given up, their guns taken from them
when they were taken to the Justices
and arraigned before Justice Sharpless
on complaint Of Constable Mills for dis
turbing the peace. Trial was post
poned till Monday when all three were
fined so and costs.
Had the complaint been made by an
eye witness of the fracas when at its
height, it would have been for carrying,
drawing and handling in Il dangerous
and threatening manner, "a deadly
weapon, with intent to do great bodily
harm, as applying to the cowboys,
while the complaint made was proper
in Newcomb's case. The result would
have been Messrs. Cowboys would now
be committed or under bonds to appear
at the next term Of court, the effect of
which on these bad men with a gun"
would be most wholesome and proba-
bly, induce them to leave their "pops"
to home wien going to town.
Because II man uses abusive language
IS no excuse for pummeling him with
a six-shooter. 1t is to be hoped the |
next coward that makes a gun play |
will be arraigned under the proper
One sent over the road |
will learn hundred much needed I
esson.
The Mineral argus., 1885-05-07

a 5oton propeller for navigating
the waters o. Lake Pend dOreill.
passed west on a Northern Pacific flat
car last week
The Mineral argus., 1885-05-07
CHI G. a q g.
COTTAGE:
ORGAN

Has attained standard OF ezcellerce which
ndiniss Of no superior.
IL contnins every Improvement that inventive
genius. skin and inoney can iroauec.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
A 3,SOO-ACre Vineyard.

Leaving the city of Sacramento the
road follows the Central Pacific as far
as Fosevile. 1t then strikes north to
Maryville, from there to Chico, passing
towns with names Ceres, Cana and Soto
until it comes to \ina, where We
stopped over night to look at one of the
81, 900 acre ranches of Senator stan
ford. The valley is well watered, not
only by the Sacramento, but by in
Vulnerable small rivers and creeks that
empty into it from both sides. The
Sierra Nevada is q high wall on the
east the inner oast Range on the we t.
This vast estate of $4,000 acres is all
in one tract and lies on both sides of the
Sacramento, and is watered by Deer
creek and other streams. Farm houses
and stables are scattered all over it,
and it would take whole week TO ride
around it. Thirty eight hundred acres
of this land are planted in grapes, and
three years from oday it will produce
more wine than any other vineyard IN
the world. 1t is hard to tell what
Senator Stanford will do with all of his
wine. At the age of > years each acre
will produce five tons of grapes, and
each ton 15O gallons of wine. Let some
one cipher out how many gallons this
will Le to the $500 acres, ami how
many tubs it will re iuire to hold them,
and how much of an army it will take
to pluck the grapes. Talk of California.
There is no eni to her riches.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
ADVICE TO SCR esLER5.
4 Pew Rules which Writer, viii do welI
to Heed.


There few rules that all young or
old writers will fpd to their advantage
to observe The first is Make your
article, whether prose or yCrsc. - iricl
as possible. In this ru,y age. when
people are obliged to post thcmscl Is
upon such variety Of topl ;, when the
headlines only of the All ng dailirS are
often all We find time to read o; current
events, and when our magazines seem
fairly bursting from their covers with
the quantity of their diversified con-
tents, it becomes necessary for the
wlsrSt and most gifted to cOndCnSe their
ideas if they would command attention.
The ra ority of realing people Will
pass poem Of column in length, Int
VIII pause to en- Oy IA sonnet of fourteen
linrS even when not 10 erS of poetry.
A long Sto.y is ignored, while the short,
column sketch is sought after to while
away an idle moment The editors of
literary periodicals. understand this, and
therefore ii lengthy article is often re-
lcctcd without even an exam nation.
No matter what its mer Is, their read
crs do moi want il, and they know it.
Another rule worth Observing Is, save
your trOn LcSt idea or phrase for the
climax of your article. This leaves yOnr
,rtc or reader with a goo impr, Sslon
Oi your p Dwcr, and makes him look for
your name again. And so you gan a
pont. Many II writer ruins Il good ar,
t,clc and >pollS IA pleasant impression
which he has made by Il weak or unsus-
tained EN- ling
And, hnaly. if you feel that you have
anything to say To TIE world of import
ancr to it or yourself keep on saying it
until the worId Listens. 80 sure Us there
is any truth Or strength in what You
have 10 offer so surely will you win an
audience at last. The world is selfish,
an it desires to be- amused and enter
tanned. 1t is ever on the alert for new
singers aud new orators. If 1t lies in
yOut power TO do anything well and if
YOU are lricf, forciUle and persistent,
you Will be heard and rccoSni. ed at
last
once heard public speaker say, 'lf
man talks to an audience an hour,
and has not made an impression, he had
better conclude that he is boring in the
wrong place. or that something ailS the
glulct. 80, il, after year, OF persist
cIt q ort to win som reco milton an |
success i'll literature, you find yourself
no nearer the goal, you may lie justified
in supposing you have mistaken your
calling.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
lPall Mall Gazette. |

We are not gang of cutthroatS, with
the morality of thugs whate er The
Times may believe; and We are moi
going to spend 800, 900, 900 poun :
sterling and Kill 300, 0OJ human beings
over a pettifosginy wrangle for fifty
miles of uninha tied strppe, over VIII ch
but for the order established by Russia
no human being dare wander. Apart
from all questions of morality, We are
not going to rush into war which al
the very best could do US no good when
it can be honorably and satisfactorily
avoided by referring the dispute to arbi-
tration.
ussia and England are linked to-
i:ether by destiny for better or for worse
they have got to keep common
house in Asia, and nothing that either
Of us can do can turn the other out OF
doors. Divorce is impossible, and as
we cannot kill our Ru> sian partner, we
had much better try TO get on with hin
as best we can by treating him reasona
bly,. The solution of the central Asian
question can only be- found in an An
glo- russian alliance; it will only be
rendered infinitely more costly and diff
hcult by an Anglo Russian war.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
ADvERTIS EMENTs.
RAILROAD TINE TABLE.
Illinois Central Railroad.
GOINH NJDETII

HOiNN NOETU.
NJ EXFEESSs-I.caves N. o. .g:I3 n. IN
Arrives BrOokhaveu, 2:;1- u. ~
Arrives atJaekson, $40 y. M
No. I ENrREss-Leaves n. o.. 200 u. m
Arrives Bruokhaven, Il:IO u. M
Arrives At jackson, LAC q. M
No. MAIL-Leaves N. o.. $50 u. m
Arrives BrOokhaven, 10:27 y. IN.
Arrives at Jackson, 1880 a. IN
GOING SOUTH.
No. ENPR.-l'vcs. jackson. 1925 n. m
Leaves Brookhaven, 1857 a. m
Arrives at N. o., 700 a. H.
No. ). EXrR-lcavcs Jackson. lib u. m
Leaves Brookhavcn, 3:27 y. m
Arrives at n. Orleans, ,S:I5 p. m,
No. ; MAIL-Leaves jackson. Il ~ n. m.
Leaves BrOokhaven, $3.50 a. m
Arrives New Orleans, 900 a. M
Nos 5 and 4 make stops only mt Canton,
jackson, Crystal Springs, Hazlehurst,
Brookhaven, McComb City, Tangiplhoa,
Amite aud Hammond,
No. will not stop at flag stations.
Nos. |, 2 aud ) do the local travel.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
No mixed going north leaves Brook
haven ut 9:05 A. NJ
No. mixed going south leaves Brook.
haven at 2:5s =. NJ
~ Mixed Freights do not run on Sun
day and none goes south on Monday.
&c. CLARKE, Gen. Manager.
. w. COLEMAN, A. G. 7. AseAt.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
BAD Air of Tenement Houses.


OF the air we breathe there are two
kinds the breath We take III, which Is,
or oIght TO he, pure air compose on
the whole, Of oXyg n and nitrogen, with
a minute port on of carbOnic acid, and
the breath We give out, which is an i'm
pure air, to which has been aided,
among other matters which will not
sup. ort life, an excess of CarbOnic acid.
This car onic acid gas when warm is
lighter than the arr and ascrnds When
at the Symr tcmp..r turc as common air
it is heavier han that air and dcnccnds,
lying arc Inl thc floor, usL It's it les
Of;,.n in tie bottom of old wells or
brewers watts. a. stratum of 20 son,
killing casionaIly the mcn who de-
sccnd into t
Hen e, a word Of admoni;lon is ad-
dressed to those WHO think nothing of
ST. ering on tnc o0r.
The poor in all glrat cities are too apt
i'll times o. distress to pawn tnelr bed
strad,. Those who go about doing
charitable work among them Shoald
never let this happen. ccp the led
Stca |, whatever else may go; save the
sleeper f.om the caroOnic acid stat IN
which rs Close OH the floor Ill cold
wealth 7.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
AN OLD LAoYs ReeoLLscrlons.
I Trip to Bait .m"re-The First Steam
boat-Johnny Cake Beaux.
IIlnlAirr,rrl. A,,,l.ri..nrn

Speaking of women, there lives in
Fast Nottingham, few miles over
Mason and DixOn's line, in PehnSyl-
bright memory. despite her ~ years of
! agc. Her name is Mrs. Amelia rultOn.
>he was born near Using SUn, &c il
.ounty, Md, in 1888, and has lived
through the administrations of all the
presidents, from Washington down. A
visitor found hor in a chatty mood re-
Gently.
-. uring Gen. Lafayettes visi: to this
country in ls24," she said, 1T was the
custom of the girls and women of my
leighborhood TO wear lafayette caps.
they were generally made of alico, and
looked quite pretty. %, ! never rode
in the cars, but have seen them often.
When | was young all travelling was
done in sail oats and stages. % go to
Baltimore by water over seventy years
since We went to Fort DEPOSIT, which
at time was composed of only two build
ings. John CrcSwell kept tavern in one,
and John Reynolds store in the other.
| The commander of the sail boat was
| Capt Gilmore, who was kind, clever
/
comfort of his passengers. The boat
was not very large and had but ono
apart lent, and each person had to take
| tn ir pro iSiOnS with them. rrco.lcct
on one trip the wind was contrary. and
we spent two days and two nights on
the water before atimore was reache l..
Tie price of the trip was 81, | re-
member right.
was in ! atmore when the frs
steamboat was launched. and of course
everybody thought it wonderful thing.
Many years ago, harleStown, not far
! from North asst, was place of i'm
pOrtance. The mail was carried from
/ there to Using sun, and the carrier
! rhargpd - cents for each letter he de-
! lvere,l at the latter place Then hardly
one family in ten would get Il news
paper, and to receive letter was con-
5idcrcd big event Each spring and
! fall fair was held at ChariestOwa.
People from all lartS of the country
would Eo:k to it and buy hats, tonnets,
ribbons shawls and otter thin=s
When | was a girl we used to mix
cornmeal and spread it on board
which was pla ed cforc the big open
fireplace, and let it bake. This we
called .ohnny cake. In the winter even
,ngS we did not sit down and wait or
bca X to come and take us slciShlnr', as
the girls do nowadays. We placed
three large spinning wheels i'll row,
and we would SIT and spin b; the ght
Of pine knots. When the bcaux came
we would get up and give the chairs,
and know more than one chap must
have got some flax on his clothes while
We We're spinning. ! have my wheel up
in the garrct now, and sometimes feel
like having it brought down stairs to
rig it up and show the yoLnS folks how
we made linen in ny girlhood days y
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
A Great Wash Day.

lIlr'S Cor. B'ISt N transcript
We have just had mi carcme such
rs Paris has not witnessed for several
years. uriHg the afternoon the boule
wards were so thrOnged by sight seekers
that one could only move at small
space. The mi-careme Is the great fete
of the washcrmen and WasherwOmen.
ONE of your readers may ask what men
have to do with the wash-tub In
rance they have much to do with it,
Here men claim their right TO wash and
scrub, Just as women ,laim their right
to vote and to shoot their enemies
Both sexes latter your linen to pieces,
burn it with sulphuric acid, and grind
off your but ons in perfect amlty. But
on the mi-careme there is not man nor
woman who would condescend to sOok
at wash-tub. In the word of soap
and soda it is the day of days. Then
you must expect to see your buxom
laundreSs attircd as much dccollete
Juno in cavacade with her hus' and
as Jupiter or Apollo by her side. In
the evening the washhouses arc turned
into bathrooms.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
Two StatementS


! read yesterday, two statements:
one was that there is scythe factory
in New England which turns out l., 900
dozen scythes year, and the president
cf the company tempers all the scythes
that leaves his works. because no other
man can do it so well. The other fact
stated is that there is another man so
famous for making knife-llados that a
knife with blade of his workmanship
is double in value. These facts illustrate
my thesis that We must put our whole
mind into our work in order to do it
well; the active human intellect being
superior TO all machinery, all mere
training and all mechanical habit
Genius and talent are nothing without
application, and application means
putting mind into WORK.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21

How m"ny persons have reflected
upon the expense viii h changes of
weather in the civili cd temperature
lUn O., aS.pn To say nothing OF the
i'll O, Ene clothing hy su den show
erS. let rs coHslI,r what a cost is in
hiy;c upon the 60 ..mun.ty by un. lcas-
AM N,'a,hyr which i, torrS"cn.
.\u umbrella lasts il r,'Sp2I table CON
dhon through certain nun"er of
rainy days, according to its ual;ty.
Let ) Ia>c -" r,,iny days as an aver
age. ct lis also suppose, for guess,
that en- cay which is rainy all over
the country, !, 10000 Umbrellas are
brought INTO use
Tln each OF these umbrellas las lost
per cent, say cents, OF Is original
va uv, an in the aggregate the UNI
lreiiaS used are not worth 30 much by
) u,"o0 al ni.ht S they were IN the
morning These amounts are mere
crosses, hCt they serve TO show tic
prinvip.o.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
The Bread of Persia.
London NewS.l

persian bread" writes our ccrre-
spondcnt now in Afghanistan, lis II
very peculiar production. 1t is made
in large flaps, in somA cases about n
yard long. If ever the rersians reaca
the advanced state of morning newSpa-
pers they might have them printe On
their hrea |, so that they c0uid rea the
news while they eat and swallow every
thing literally. On seeing these largo
flaps have often thought that they
must resemble the Hack -mith's lGat her
apron which was the old standard OF
Persia; if the bread is not made after
that model they have managed to pro-
duce an article very like it, not only in
size but in color and toughness at the
same time"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21

Washington Cor Baltimore American
Tricycling in Washington is steadily
growing in popular favor. 1t has some
devoted sui pooters in fashionable cir
cles. There is a tricycle. club whose
president is an assistant secretary OF
state. The ladies find that graceful fig
ures show to good advantage on a tri-
cycle, and the result is that you may
see, almost any day, half-a-dozen
cycle parties out on the road. Some
times three or four bicyclists and a
couple or more tricyclists go together.
One well-known gentleman here has a
family tricycle., on which his wife sits
by his side, while two children are
perched up behind. Double tricycles
are very common.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
known by Their advertisement.
Boston Globe

Ii is natural for II man To seek chan.
nels for advertising III lapers that arn
read by those who viii be kelly to
patronlle him. The result of thi, is
| that the dealer in agri ultural imple-
mentS puts notices i'll farming paper,
dry goods and grocery advertisements
appear in the daiies, and spacialtles IN
medicine, scien e. theology and law can
ne found most plentifully in journals
devoted to those topics.
/ o loving this apology We scan the
college papers to see what class OF men
lcIrn most for the undergraduate coin.
| own here i'll left hand corner w0
find sporting house that keeps guns,
fishing tackle and dogs, Just above it To
the right is Il man who sells pens, ink,
stationary and cologne, especially the
last, which he displays in big type, and
below him is u 5U-ccnt notice of Il book
seller. surely, say We, the booksellers
lack enterprise Oh they would put out
more Honey.
Having completed the small ''ads, ;"
VIC look at the full page display notices,
beautiful i'll cuts and fancy letters and
ind them what. Tailors and draperS,
and tailors, and more tai!ors, all
through every paper. When wo
think this over. and remember that
men put their adyertiSt ments where
they will do the most good, and when
we look at crowd of students comm 1;
out for stroll radiant in style aud
inely We understand it all and know
that the tailors are right. Then W.
throw down the papers aud read Sartor
i.eSartu5.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
White Teeth Not White.
Boston Buc get.

There are 10 such things as white
teeth, as can lie proved by contrasting
those called white with snow, raw cot
ton. or marble Roughly, teeth can be
divided, us regards color. into blue,
gray and yellow, with hundreds Of dit
fercnt shades. Tha apparent white
ness is due to the complexion and the
hue OF the lis; and the ''glistening
worries" of the negro are, as a rule, so
exceedingly yellow that they would dis
figure white person 1t is the black
skin, hair and eyes that mako them
look white.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
a Village Comm Iuity i'll Russia.

The latest pertinent in the organiza-
tion of in;;u try comes from EusSia,
where t...o employees at the large engi-
Leering works telonging to the rm of
Struve " CO. have recently been planted
in complete settlement somewhat like
/ u!iman City in the states. The work
men, of whom tn, re are between %
and 1000, are all lodged in small cot
tages, most of which are made to ac-
commodate two famil.e es on.y, while the
public institutions Gf the colony include
a rcfectory, laundry, a no ptai, a
benefit society, a technical school, and
a co operative store. The employers
contribute handsomely to the lcneit So
cicty, but charity in any other form is
quite unknown in the place, and the CO.
operative society pays a fonrishing
dividend. 1t would lie curio if
Russia, which is a survival of the past
in its village communities of an agri-
cultural type, were also to be a pioneer
of the future in village communities Of
an industrial type.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
A CELESTIAL BU -.IAL.
A Salt Lake Chlnaman Inferred with the
Ceremony of His Native Land.
Snl InEl Herald

Sat Lake Herald
Al out O clio K on Sunday afternoon
the itiens in the ne;ghborhool of the
precincts of Plum valley were enlivened
by the strains OF music Ly the fireman
band, under the leadership of ro-
fessor Cushing. They were discourSing
airs on the occasion of the funeral serv-
ices of one Chin Choo, all aged China
man who had died and who was about
to lie laid away by his fellow heathens
IN good style. shortly after the strains
OF music had died away the procession
cane down into second South, filed
right to Main street, up block and east
and north to the southeast corner of
the city cemetery
In the lead OF the procession were
some of the dignitaries o the T>e Iip
company in carriages, then tramped a
number of flag-fcarerS, with colOrS OF
red, white, black, green, yellow and
pink, variously distributed an in all
manners of Jagged and unscemly shapes.
he hearSe, with heather in the seat
with the driver, distributing slips of
Taper to keep away the devil" then a
II mber of Chinese on foot, and brin"
ing up the rear was a wagon cOntainlrz
a hine>e band OF three instruments,
which played an incessant, rattle, racket
and din from the starting point 20 the
graveyard.
ArriN ed at the cemetery, the cere
monies were gone through with in true
Oriental style, and to many who
witnessed them were amusing, nonsenS-
ical, and ridiculous; yet they were
Observed and carried on with all the seri-
business and solemn.ty imaginable BY the
penny colOred mourncrs. The custom
AIRY roast pig, .oSs paper and burning
candles were among the accessories, an
the way in which they were manipulated
was enough to make tie first mention, d
laugh.
4 bottle of corn juice, or .ui e of a
stimulating nature-probably bug Juice
was passed around, and the smacking
lips and blinking eyes told the lockers
on that it was IA relish; slices ana
chunks of the brown porGer and last
Spr ng 5 rooster were east with Lavish
hand into the Nawning gulf which al
ready held the corpse of Chin Choo. A
disposition was also made of the dear
departed loose change, clothing and
other minor ct cetera>, when the earth
was piled in and the ceremony of the
burial was at an end. \ large number
of citizens We're attracted by the novelty
of the proceeding
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
The Art OF Talking.


There is not by any means lack Of
talk, this is abundant. GoSsip and
scandal and slang We have an over
abundance of, but of conversation,
sensible talk, there is a sad want of
that. The American people have been
dubbed as nation of takers or rather
of twaddlers, and there is much truth
IN the assertion, but the same may be
said of almost every other nation under
the sun. There are few really good
takers, men from whom in ordinary
conversation yoI can gather fund of
knowledge, and who are entertaining
as well. You need not long be in the
company OF a man until you are aware
of his weak points. II his general de-
meanor does not betray him his tongue
will
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-05-21
The Luster Of Pearls.
iExchaage.

Pearls deteriorate by age, contact
with acids, gas and noxious vapors OF
all sorts. This is especially true o.
pierced pearls Various means tor ro
storing them have been tried, but ex-
perience shows them to be useless.
The best way to preserve pearls is to
wipe them with clean linen cloth after
being worn and deposit them, wrapped
in linen, in a closed box or caSket.