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Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
PLAGUE-STRICKEN PEOPLES.

What the Typhoid Epidemic Has Done at
Plymouth, Pa.-The, Wonder That it Has
Not Done Worse-Appearence of Black
tongue Diphtheria at Paris Roads, Pa
Whole Families Attacked.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 26.-The
committee Of citizens appointed to raise
funds for the relief of the sufferers at
Plymouth, Luzerne County, met at the
Office of the Mayor yesterday. Mr.. A. J.
Drexel, treasurer of the fund, reported
that the contributions up to noon yester-
day amounted to $40, 1924. A report
from the infected district showed that the
whole number of cases in the borough
since the epidemic started was 905, with
a total OF 90 deaths. At present there are
l34 convalescents in the town. The
whole number of families in destitute
circumstances is 246.
An analysis of two jugs of water taken
from the river and from a well made by
Prof. kedzie, showed that both the waters
were unfit either for drinking or culinary
purposes. The examination of this wa
ter awakens surprise, not that many are
sick in Plymouth, but that any should be
well. Police Surgeon French and DR..
Shakespeare, of the Philadelphia Hospital
left for Plymouth yesterday afternoon,
for the purpose of inquiring into the
wants of the afflicted people.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 25. - The
epidemic at Paris Roads, Pa, is spread
ing. Another child of Nicholas Trux,
who has already lost two, is not expect
to recover. Ida Gardner, the step
daughter of Kennedy Trux, who lost five
children, and whose wife is insane, isnot
expected to live.
At Hanlin's Station, the entire Bilder-
back family and one other family were
attacked.
A prominent physician from New York
City arrived at Paris Roads yesterday
morning, and in the afternoon held
consultation with physicians there. He
pronounces the disease black tongue
diphtheria, and says it is the most vir u
lent he has ever known. Fears are en-
tertained in the neighborhood of Paris
Roads that the epidemic will become gen.
eral, and sanitary measures are being
adopted.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, SATURDAY. MAY 80 1885
EXPORTS from the United States the
past four months exceeded the imports by

EXPORTS from the United States the
past TOUR months exceeded the imports by
$52, 7,61S.
THE Communists have resolved to at
tend Victor Hugo's funeral and carry red
nags. A riot is anticipated, and prepara-
tlons will be made to meet it.
IHE nail manufacturers Of the United
States meet in Pittsburgh, Pa, to arrange
the scale of wages for the next wear.
The Emperor of Brazil has sent his con-
dolence to Victor Hugo's family.
w. A. TOWERS and Thomas A. Lee, of
Kansas City, Mo-, are in Washington
looking after the interests Of Missouri in
the pleuro- pneumonia scare.
WHEAT speculators at Chicago are do
! ing very little business, but talk hopefully
OF the future Heavy receipts have de-
pressed corn prices.
NELLIE BEETTELL, of Elizabethtown, N.
| T., went to the woods to gather green's
several days ago. Her dead body was
found on the 25th. 1t is supposed she got
lost and starved to death.
COMMUNISTS had their little day in Paris
on the 25th. The police allowed them to
celebrate the downfall of the commune.
The trial of Adolph Spreckels, son of
Claus Spreckels the sugar king, for shoot
ing M. H. DeYoung, proprietor of the San
Francisco Chronicle, November 10th last,
commenced on the 25th
DURING heavy thunder storm in the
vi cinity of Fergus Falls, Minn., lightning
struck barn twelve miles from the city,
killing Charles Gunwold and August
Strassman. A horse, cow, colt and calf
were also killed. The barn did not take
fire.
The nine residents of the Welsh Noun
talns in Pennsylvania, recently arrested,
charged with harboring the Buzzards,
were given hearing at Lancaster on the
25th. All were discharged with the ex-
ception of Mart Buzzard and Henderson
Mar shall, who were bound over for trial.
The contract was awarded for furnish
ing postage stamps to the United States
to the American Bank Note Company, Of
New Y York, at $103, ,959.61 per annum.
JAMES EARLY, of Vicksburg, Miss, tells
a story that corroborates recent state
ments Of others concerning the suffering
and i'll treatment of Iaborers in Guate-
mala.
In view Of the alleged prevalence of
yellow fever in the northern Mexican
States the Secretary of the Treasury has
been requested to reappoint the sanitary
inspectors on the border line of Arizona.
He will probably comply with the request.
A CITIZEN of Boston offers to become
one of 100, or of 200, or of 500, to contribute
the $50, 900 needed to complete the ped
estal of the Bartholdi statue atNew York.
SMALLPOX is raging in Shenandoah,
Page County, Ia, and special police are
out guarding the houses infested. Nine
teen houses have thus been Guaranteed.
The Mayor and the President of the Board
of Health have the disease.
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA has broken out
among the cattle in various parts of
Pennsylvania, and fears that it will be-
come widespread are felt. There is danger
also that the outbreak of fpleuro-pneumonia
in Newcastle County, Delaware, may
spread to Pennsylvania. Several herds of
cattle in Delaware are now affected.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
GENERAL GRANT.
His Perfect Goodness Under Exciting Cir
cumstanccs.


cumstanccs.
/ After the war broke out General
Grant bought house at Burlington. n.
j. The place was convenient to this
city, and the General, whenever oppor-
tunity afforded, could easily call in on
his family. When the strife ended
number of admirers bought and fur
nshed house for him on one of the
principal thoroughfares. I do not
know that he ever had opportunity to
dwell in it. He made his home here in
| later years with Mr.. George w. Childs,
one OF his nearest and dearest friends.
Just before the house was presented to
him he was given great reception by
| the Union League, which had done
giants service in the Union cause. He
there met for the first time many Phil
adelphianS to whom he afterwards be-
came warmly attached. 1t was great
night Men crowded upon him, women
showered him with praise and bless
ings. But the old soldier never for an
instant lost command of his emotions
OF all the throng he was the only one
who was calm.
He is an icicle," exclaimed old Nor
ton McMichael, father of the present
Marshal McMichael. But the next
night Mr.. McMichael met him at din
ner party at the residence of the late
Henry G. Carey, the distinguished
writer on economical subjects, and was
charmed with the soldiers sunniness
and amiability. 1t was on these in
formal occasions that the General al
lowed the pleasantries of his nature to
come out. Emerson says that the best
and highest conversation comes only
Of intercourse between two. Gen
eral Grant seemed to be living
truth of the proposition. His
habits were such that he went about the
performance Of any set duty, even the
making of an after-dinner speech,
bluntly and directly, and when it was
completed he rested. But when you
got him quietly smoking in corner, or
he was fluent, cheerful, keen and full
Of sound thought. To strangers he
was patient and reserved. He never
became embarrassed: 1t was a singu-
lar habit of his never to make sugges-
ton to visitor at loss for word,
but to wait very coolly and patiently.
until the right expression was found:
When he had done all upon any sub
ject that cous& be. done, DE Worried no
more, but ressred serene ana hopcftrff::4
81 have often wondered, General, y said
gentleman to him one night at
gathering, "whether you ever slept
while you were in the Wilderness"
when | had made all my plans fol
the next day." answered the General,
II slept very peacefully, always"
He said once that when Mcclellan
was in Ohio, and before he himself had
been called on or suggested, he went
to Cincinnati and threw himself in the
way of Mcclellan, hoping that his ser
vices in the Mexican War would be I.
remembered, and that be would DC
asked to take a place on McClellan'a
staff. He was not asked, and he went
home, feeling deeply disappointed, but,
as usual, avoiding the least display Of
feeling. Philadelphia Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
THE DEBATABLE LAND.

Interest Created by the Visit of the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs in the In
dian Territory-A Delay Asked Pending
the Territorial Election.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, May 25.-An In
dian Territory special says: The Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs have az
rived, and their visit is creating great
interest. They began their work at Mus
kogee, Greek Nation. The most import
ant question other than the sale Of
Oklahoma and the Cherokee strip will be
that of citizenship. The Indians say
their territory is being overrun by whites
claiming Indian blood. Many hundreds
have been declared intruders, and or
dered to leave, but the Interior Depart
ment has interfered and prevented theif
eiectment. The proposed sale OF lots
in the western portion OF their territory
is being warmly discussed. An outright
sale is generally opposed; but It's advo-
Gates claim it is gaining ground. In
the Cherokee Territory there is wide
diversity of opinion, and COM
munication, signed by many leading
Cherokees, has been sent to the Presi-
dent, asking that he defer sending the
special committee, who will negotiate for
the purchase, to the Territory until after
the election of the new Legislature in
August, so that the measure can be
brought before the people and deliberated
upon during the campaign. Although
there is no decided stand yet taken by the
leaders of the five tribes, who must unite
in decision, the opinion prevails that
Bushyhead, principal chief OF the Chero-
KEGS, favor sale. McCurtain, Governor
of the Choctaws, is also said to be in
sympathy with the movement TO dispose
If fha land
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The Significant EtymoIogy of What Is De-
nominated the Most Splendid City in the
World.

The Significant EtymoIogy of What Is De-
nominated the Most Splendid City in the
World.
The town Of Herat has several names
in Persian 1t is called Hiri Hira,
Hiriva and Hirat. The dialect Of the
country and native thereof are both
called Hiravi, and anything belonging
to the district is styled Hiriva. All
these words take their origin from the
sound hir or har, akin to the Bengali
word ar-ya, "a husbandman," and the
Sanskrit ar-ya, ''the Hindu" par-eXcel-
lence, or agriculturist, as opposed to
the nomad. Ar means to plow, and is
the same as the old English verb to ere
Uatin errare, to err, to go), and 1T was
the source not only of the word agra,
as applied to the Hindus, but of Iran,
the name Of Persia itself, and Of Aria,
the district of Herat, which must thus
have received its very name on account
of its abundant fertility and agricul-
tural resources.
The origin Of Herat can be traced far
into antiquity. To the ancients, the
province Of which it is the capital was
known as Aria and Ariana. The name
was, in the course of time, gradually
changed to Herr, a name which still
survives in the river flowing to the
south Of it, Herirud, the river Of Herr
and the latter to Herat. Tradition has
brought here Nebuchadnezzar and Sem
iramis There can be no doubt that it
was the gate through which Alexander
the Great passed to the conquest of
India.
Eastern proverbs give an idea Of the
estimation in which Herat is held in the
oriental mind. "Khorasom, runs
one, lis the oyster shell of the world,
and Herat is the pearl. Which is the
most splendid city in the world? If
you answer truly you must say Herat"
said another, when the city was at the
height Of its splendor.-Phtladelphla
Times.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

ruv East Indian Government asks loan
"a ., 0l) ooo from England for railway
extensions.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
uews from Everywhere

,r,py WHITNEY insists on another
7hG'.,h 11Ja-ongh test Of the Dolphin.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

1orycu and Chinese diplomates are
.,,inr rapid progress with the treaty OF
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Tur New York Times attacks MI LOT
;or,s administration of the Agricultural
Department..
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

REL has been turned over to the police
authorities at Regina, Northwestern Ter
rtorv. His American citizenship will cut
no figure in his trial or punishment.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

TIE President does not seem to be in
any haste about. filling the Italian mis-
sion. There are several applicants, as the
Italian court is rather desirable one.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The workingmen of Quebec, in a meet
ins on the 2jth, passed a resolution re-
questing the Government to prohibit the
importation of Chinese labor in the Do
mlniOn.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

.s1ovEe CoLMAN will be present
,pn Wool Growers Convention in st.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Tur st. Peters burg police recently ar
rested eleven Anarchists ana seiNou -n'
Nbilist documents.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The United States Consulate at
Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, is without
flag This is probably the only case
On record where q branch OF the United
States Consular Department is not
represented by the National ensign. -
Chicago Times.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The subscription to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company's issue Of s., 100000 in
four and half per cent gold bonds have
already exceeded in London six times the
amount Of the loan.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

IL accordance with notice recently Civ
en- bv the English Government, troops in
The Soudan are being "concentr ated for
poSsible service elsewhere"
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

People of Washington are greatly agl-
.o.a1 obont the alleged impurity OF the
water supply Of the city.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The Macldn- Gala Cher election fraud
caso of Chicago will have to go to the
united States Supreme Court, on account
Of disagreement on one point by Judges
Harlan and Gresham.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

REPORTS received by tho Commissioner
Of griculture from all over the country
Indicate a shortage of 117,o0o000 bushels
in the winter wheat crop.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Tu1Rry THOUSAND rifles are being made
- pirn,inrbam, Eng, to fill an order from
tbe Ameer of AfghanIstan.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Wet and dry seasons so differently
affect the wings of butterflies in India
as to cause broods of the same insect
to be taken for distinct species
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

PoUNDMAKER, the bad Indian of the
Northwest, having learned of the capture
Of Riel, wants to stop the war. He is
begging for terms.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Ell MAHDI is retiring his troops every
where He himself is retiring toward
Job ell Etiri, leaving his steamers at Sabat,
on the White Nile.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

A rUMoR was circulated IN Paris on tne
o2J that the Emperor Of Germany was
dood Il was wholly unfounded.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

GLADSTONE says nothing has been set
tied regarding arbitration Of the Russo
English trouble. Political circles in En-
gland are agitated over reports of new
LiSsensons in the Cabinet.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

TIE Mohammedan population of the
region of the upper Congo are threatening
trouble and interference with the ''march
of civlization."
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

IT is semi officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

METHODS adopted by Mexicans in try
ing an American railroad engineer for
running his engine over a Mexican have
called forth formal protest from the
American Consul Mt Eagle Pass.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

HAVING finished their business in New
York the United States Senate Inter-
State Commerce Committee has moved on
rBOstOn.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

a PROPOSITION is before the Dominion
Parliament to grant aid to the families OF
,.oI,rtaers killed or wounded in the North
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

IT i said a son Of Mana Sahib, the
Fast Indian butcher. is an officer in the
Russian army, and is treated with prince
" honOrs.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

Mrs. REBECCA MERRAoT and Mrs. Mar
saret NJ. Cooley, sisters, were sentenced
W Madison, Wis, to two years in the
,~a'eajiary, for perjury, in endeavoring
20 establish az alibi for brother CHARGED
with burglary.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

II Italian Government circles It is de-
.;' 'na' Italy has any intention of evac-
taS ing the Soudan because of the preva-
tr]e n.'oO X typhus fever among the Italian
lops aO Aassowah. 1t is also denied that
10y. 10y. intends to relinquish her colonial
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

,.J.L li-l I'lo troops from Suakim have been
,,..t, '0" " remain i'll Egypt, in ac cordance
teiesran from the British Govern
atp ,-' me Guards will so into garrison
,ioI t''i1eli' aud tho other troops at Abas-
SIea, near Cairo.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

q All the mules were hoisted from the
s4iiSylYana colliery at Mt. Car mel, Pa,
-, ~ zZd, and it looks as though the
r-,II IlAei whereby 700 men are made idle,
t,. .u continue for long time. The eigh-
',i s.oa per cent. reduction also affected the
.ss'"efy superintendents, in consequences
7. = "alch they tsndered their designations.
VISA plcaic for the mules anyhow,
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

1HE Treasury Department on The 10Th
r.. lIua'ed $4,000 ounces of silver bullion
~ -; UeilVery at the New Orleans mint for
1T o,-i'Se INTO silver dollars. The price paid
u.s. 0ue and quarter cents per ounce
G,D liver 'nan the lowest price fixed by bid.
"eIS the previous week.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30

The Rapid Increase of the Colored Race In
America, Demonstrated by Secretary
Allen of the Freedmen's Aid Society
Some Startling Figures for Political Econ
omsts to Ponder.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-02
TRAINING THE GIRLS.

| would nave all mistakes, of whatever
kind, made by girls during their education,
made at home in their fathers house, and
at his expense, or at the expense of the es-
tate he left. | would have them taught
the full value of a penny, as well as that
of a dollar. would nave them learn how
to buy a calico apron or a silk dress, and
how to make them; and the difference in
money and quality between a penny lace
and a Honiton; how to select a cabbage or
a bee~fsteak-to the end of the list of edi-
bles and dry goods, all at their fathers ex-
pense.
His money should also teach them how
to do all kinds of homework. that they
may never be at the mercy of dishonest
servants, more ignorant than themselves;
that their husbands may never long for
their own mothers cooking, or that of any
other woman's. | would have them learn
to keep a correct account of whatever
money is given them to keep or to spend,
also of whatever comes into their hands TO
spend for others, so that the future Eliza
beth may answer her husband without
bushes or hesitation when he asks her
what she did with the - cents he gave her
the week before.
So long as the girls will be born and
persist in surviving the measles they
should be allowed, nay, made, to share
equally the advantages i'll life with the
boys: and to that end be drilled i'll all the
methods known to make them honored and
honorable women as sisters. daughters,
| wives and mothers in the home or else.
where. Whatever training is good to
make a boy win honestly in the race OF
life is also very excellent for the girl, who
as a woman will. under the most benign
conditions, have to bear the greater burden
All this, which might be considered a
part of the milleuium, can only be brought
about by the good sense and self-denial Of
the men who nave the key of the universe
in the palm of their hands. The key ism
willingly given up. What has been said il
not new. Nor can anything new b.
thought or said on the subject until womel
are more willing to do by each other AM
their children as they so need to be don
by.-Odelia BliaR, H. d., in Inter- Ocean
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-02
SISTERS As CoNFIDANrES.

Sisters are awfully useful things to have
sometimes, when they are real fond of you
and no other outside fellow has captured
their affections. Sisters never give you
away, and they always stand by you when
there's any trouble on hand. | do not
think sisters stand by sisters as strongly
as they do by brothers. But it is only
those poor fellows WHO never had any, or
who nave been separated from them most of
their lives, who know and appreciate their
value. If fellow wants a confidante let
him go to his sister. There are many little
things in life that a man can not consult
his mother about; but there ought to be
precious little in an honest mans career
that he cannot conide to his sister. She
has no jealousy that will color her ad
vice. no s~eIf-interest that will prejudice hel
course. She never gets too angry to bs
spoken to, never allows her own cares Il
prevent her from doing all that is affection
ate and nice to the brother who trusts her
-.SaR Francisco Chronicle.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-02
EFFECT OF ADVERTISING.


In his address to the editors of Indiana,
Colonel Pierce, Of Chicago. presented the
following thoughts with reference to adj
vertising, which are worth remembering.
He said: And in presenting a beautiful
Der the advertisers as well as the readers.
A man likes to have his advertisement
pleasing to look upon, catching to the eye
and indicative generally of the advertiser.
This class of patrons are so important to
success they should receive every encour-
agement. A man never realizes the full
benefits of advertising till he has placed
the matter before the amt people fifty or
a hundred times. The first ad. is good.
but the one-hundredth is worth more than
five hundred times as mich as the first.
Some one has said thai the
First time a man looks at an advertise
ment he does not see it.
The second time lie does not notice it.
The third time he is dimIy conscious of
it.
The fourth time he family remembers
something of the kind before.
The fifth time he half reads it.
The sixth time he turns up his nose at
if.
The seventh time he throws the paper
down impatiently.
The eighth time he calculates: There's
the COMPOUNDED thing again"
The ninth time he wonders ifthere's any,
thing in it.
The tenth time he thinks it might pos
sibly suit somebody else's case.
The eleventh time he thinks he will ask
his neighbor if he has tried it, or knows
anything about it.
v~ertiser can make it pay.
The thirteenth time he rather thinks it
must be a good thing.
The fourteenth time he happens to think
it is just what he wanted.
The fifteenth time he for long time re-
solves to try it as soon as he can afford
it.
The sixteenth time he examines the adj
dress carefully and makes a memorandum
of it.
The seventeenth time he is tantalized to
think he is hardly able to afford it.
The eighteenth time he sees painfully
how much he is in need of that particular
article.
The nineteenth time he counts his money
to see how much he would have left if he
bought it.
The twentieth time he rushes frantically
forth and buys it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-10-02
VOL II.
Is 1T ANYBoDY's BUsIN Esse

Dedicated tothe Old Maid no Lives Opposite.
Is it anybody's business when Il young man
goes to call,
If he enters at the kitchen or the parlor or.the
hall?
Is it a%nybody's business. but the girls he goes
to see,
What that young mans name and station may
happen for to be?
Is il anybody's business if he stays till it is
late?
Or anybody's business If she follows TO the
gate?
If he kisses her at parting, and she does not
seem to grieve,
Is ii anybody's business save the mans who
takes his leave?
If he comes to take her walking, on Il pleasant
afternoon,
Is it anybody's business that they do not come
back soon?
If by chance they come together upon the
public street,
Is it anybody's business If she bushes when
they meet:
If he goes to see her Sundays, and often stays
10 tea,
Is it anybody's business what his business here
may be?
Is it anybody's business what sort OF beaushe
got?
Or anybody's business if she loves him or does
not?
Is il anybody.s business? Iwould really like
to know.
If it's NOT, I'm sure they're many who try to
make it so.-Geo6rey Oamphnia Life.