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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22
GOLD IN ALASKA.

Enthusiastic Reports Which Should BE
Taken With a Grain of Allowance.
The whole of Alaska Territory is
more or less gold field needing capital
to develop it, quartz of low grade, but
in immense quantities, being found on
every hand The Treadwell mine on
Douglass Island, almost opposite the
camp, is an example of this. They
have the largest quartz-mill in the
United States, viz: One hundred and
twenty stamps working night and day,
and averaging over fifty thousand
dollars per month. There are rich
diggings, both placer and quartz, four
miles from Juneau in the basin, but
owing to its inaccessibility and the lack
of water and capital invested to bring
it in, they are not worked to one-tenth
of their capacity. There are good
diggins almost in the town on Gold
creek, but the same obstacles render
them valueless and idle.
The Yukon river excitement has
broken out with increased vigor.
Hughes, the explorer, started for the
new diggins, closely followed by at
least dozen different parties of ex-
plorers and prospectors. Hughes is the
man who returned to Juneau last fall
with sixty-two ounces fine as the prod
duct of eleven days work. From
latest information the new find is
located on Stewart river, in the North
western Territory. There are rumors
of a large party of Montanians who
have started for it from Benton, Mon
tana, but they will never reach it that
way.
There is only one route: from Frisco
to Portland, from Portland to Juneau
City via steamer Idaho, from Juneau
to Chilcoot, thence by portage over the
divide to the lakes. There they build
flat-boats and glide peacefully down the
chain of lakes to the river and the
mines. Miners wages here are four
to five dollars per day. Carpenters
have more work than they can do at
five dollars per day, as over twenty
new buildings are going up and more
are having the foundations laid. A
new town has been started on Douglass
Island, directly opposite Juneau, keep
ing three small ferryboats running.
would advise no man to start here
without money, as, although provisions,
etc, are cheap, yet it takes money to
loutfit and to pack said outfit over the
divide, but a man with capital of
two hundred dollars can make the
Yukon country with ease, and from all
reports, and the undisputed fact of the
gold being brought out from there by
Hughes and party, it will be his own
fault if he don't make profitable in
ivestment. San Francisco Examiner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

"IsN'T that Mrs. Holmes2 1 thought the
doctors gave her up, She looks we'll now. -
~She Is we'll. After the doctors gave up
her case she tried Dr., Pierce's rFavorite
Prescription and began to get better right
away. heard her say not long ago, that
she hadn't felt so we'll in twenty years
Shedoes her own work and says that life
dead almost" Thus do thousands attest
the marvellous efficacy of this God-given
remedy for female weakness, prolapsus,
liberation, leucorrhpa, morning sickness,
weakness of stomach, tendency to cancer
Gus dilease,- nervous prostration, general
debility and kindred affections.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

"A most singular piece OF family
enterprise in the way of marrying and
giving in marriage recently occurred
IN Blount County, near the Knox
County line, even taking in the father.
william Madison, who is a sprightly
lad OF about sixty years. His two sons
married into the Brown family, and
his daughter, Jane, was caught on the
ny by Pleasant Gentry few days
after. This left the old man all alone,
and SO he concluded to get married,
too: He wooed and won Mary Blount,
and last Saturday they were united as
one. Thus the whole family changed
hands within the space of few weeks.
CHATTANOOGA Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22
CARP PONDS.

How They May be Constructed to the
Best Advantage and at Small Cost.
The cultivation of carp is of sufficient
Importance to fully warrant the con-
struction of ponds for the purpose.
But there already exist, on many farms,
ponds used for the collection of ice and
for watering live stock, which could be
converted into carp ponds at nominal
cost. There are also many hollows
and depressions in the land that, by
throwing up breastwork, could be
made to answer the purpose admira-
bly,. 1t is very desirable on several ac-
counts to have your pond so you can
draw the water off any time you wish,
so the fish can be sorted and for de-
stroying the enemies to carp. By
draining the ponds once year the in
truders can be removed. The best de-
vice to put in pond to drain it, is a
cast-iron pipe (they are the cheapesD
six or more inches, according to the
size of yourpond; get it long enough to
go clear through your dam and pro-
ject about two or three feet at each
end. Make a large wooden plug,
drive it in the pipe on the inside Of
the dam, and when you want to drain
your pond, get pole and drive the
plug out of the pipe. When the pond
is dry you can drive it in again.
Never build a pond where large
stream of water flows through it, be-
cause it is liable to break your dam and
wash all the spawn and small fish
away, when there is great amount of
rainfall. Build beside such stream
and let the water in at the upper end
of the pond, through a tile with net
ting over it so other kinds of fish can
not get in with the carp or they will
mix and be valueless in little while.
In building a breast, clay soil is the
best, but other soil will do After you
have decided where to build your dam,
get scraper, such as you use in work.
ing the roads. A tongue scraper is the
best, as you can handle it better. Pillow
up about eighteen or twenty feet wide,
the length of your dam, and scrape all
the sod and soil to the outside, then
pillow again, and then scrape till your
dam is as high as you want it. Always
keep the clay, if there is any, on the
inside of the dam. When your dam is
done seed it down to white clover, as
it will not freeze out as quick as other
kinds will, and when it is in bloom its
beauty alone will pay you for your
work without the profit on the fish.
When you make an overflow, get a
pipe and put an elbow on it. The
pipe should be large enough to carry
the waste water off. Put the long end
of the pipe in your pond and the short
end through the dam. 1t will draw the
cold water from the bottom of the
pond instead of warm water from the
top, as the warm water always rises to
the top of any pond or vessel. Carp
thrive best in warm water. 1t should
be shallow on the out edge of the pond
and three and half to four feet deep
in the middle, sloping gradually, so if
there are any children about they can
not step off into deep hole suddenly.
If person makes any size pond you
can have pleasure boat on it, which
is alone worth the cost of the pond
r. II. Israel, IN Ohio Farmer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

mouth, sallowness or yellow color of skin,
feel stupid and drowsy, appetite unsteady,
frequent headache or dizziness, you are
"bilious," and nothing will arouse your
liver to action and strengthen up your sys-
TEN like DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery." By druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

DO Yo'U know what time it is9' asked
passenger on the elevated road of the
stranger at his side eyes" replied the
other, after CHANGING at his watch. And he
resumed his paper Tid-BitS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

Delicate diseases of either sex,
however induced, speedily and permanent
ly cured. Book of particulars 10 cents in
stamps. Address, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buff
falo, N Y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

My little girl was cured of rheumatism,
after having suffered about three months,
by the use of Athlophoros. Ihave faith in
the remedy and am glad to recommend it to
all suffering with the disease. M. G. Warn,
of Merchants National Bank, Toledo, o.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

If you want to keep from spending your
money give it to your wife. She'll spend it,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

hon. BrLA FLINT, Life-Senator of the
dominion Parliament, Canada, found st.
Jacobs Oil to act like charm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

In the soft lexicon of love-youth's i'm
mortal xt-book-ope and one makes one.
Philadelphia Call
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

AN English magazine writer makes
bold to say that table manners are best
disclosed by observing how one eats
asparagus, oranges, artichokes and
grapes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

LUxURIANT head of hair adds to beauty
and comeliness. Use Halls Hair Remover.
Rememberl Ayers Ague Cure is war
fails
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

truth is mighty, but doesn't prevail
here" is what a Philadelphia man has
tackled above his gas meter.-Philadelphid
Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

GERTRUDE-"How cruel Why did you
snub that poor little manr' Maud-"Why,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

=" Chambermaids" in Mexican
hotels are male Indians, termed mazos.
They are deft and quick, and will hire
themselves to stranger in the capital
for three dollars per week, giving their
employer undivided and very welcome
service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

BURGLARS think haul the best thing in
house.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

notwithstanding her great agri-
cultural resources, California imports
onions and eggs from east of the Rocky
Mountains. Indeed, the Australians
ship onions to San Francisco and find
ready market for them.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

WHEN blacksmiths begin to strike horse
shoes are turned out faster than ever
Chicago Mail
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

The River Sanpo, which descends
from the Himalaya mountains and flows
for nearly one thousand miles along
the southern border of the Thibet, has
been the subject of more geographical
controversy than any other river in the
world.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

MAN is obliged to die before his will
amounts to any thing, but that of woman
is always in force.-Lige Broom.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

THE painter doesn't mean to be insulting
when he gives his paint the lyel-Pactfc
Jester.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, ESQ
Glenn's Sulphur S0Sap heals and beauties. Csc.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns & Bunions
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

How DOES a matchmaker differ from a
jailors The one sells watches the other
watches cells.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

If a cough disturhs your sleep, take
Piso's Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

"BUFEALoEs are bred in Kansas" it is
said. They are meat elsewhere. Prairie
Farmer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

In answer to Joe Cooks question: "I
life worth living2" we reply that it all de
ponds on the liver-Puck
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

A N1eHTGowN is nothing but aapsack,-
Evansville Argus.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

THE worm must be contagious or the
early bird would not catch it.-Chicdgo
Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

FACT is the lubricant that makes sliding
down the baluster of life easy.-PittsburyI
Commercial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

WHY is a dog exhibition called a bench
showi Only the higher courts should be
thus dignified.-L0Weu Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

TREATING man cooly-Inviting him to
drink iced lemonade -LOaeR Cttizsn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

The baker is the only loafer entitled tc
respect. -NationaI Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

THE four-year-old child aptly described
Imagination as looking at things you car
not see.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

WHEN an idler enters the sanctum of a
busy editor, and the editor says: "Glad to
see you're back what does he meant
Rsek's Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

A RoAD-BED is for the convenience {
wheels when they are tired.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

SICK infants on railroad cars remind us
of the tower of babe-ill.- Whitehall Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

SAVE your wagons, your horses and YOU
patienoo by using Frazer Axle Grease.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03

mo; butrve got scene I'd like you
to hear. His lordship challenges the
Irish member in the lobby of the House
and
ssDid you make lord of the Coster?"
..Was it the Coster story read your
All, had hard luck with that. You see
l engaged him to q Coster's daughter.
Well, as he got along, of course, that
wouldn't do, so Ihad to kill her. Then
he became engaged to green-grocer's
daughter. As he got further up in the
social scale she had to be slaughtered.
Next it was . governess, same old story.
She had to 60. At last I got tired sacri-
ficing innocent and estimable young
women in the different stages of the
ascending social scale, and as story
can not be written without the love-
thread running through it. and as l saw
1 would soon be slaughtering young
ladies of noble families (Which is
against English statutes. You know l
abandoned my Coster. He became
rather an Objectionable cad, anyway.
and got tired of him. Arthur was
right about him. A Coster is all well
enough at his barrow. but | find it
doesn't do to introduce him into good
society. But now l have one of the best
plots ever had-not that l count much
on plots-and my Irish member is one
of the most clear-cut characters l have
ever-."-Luke SHARP, IN Detroit Free
Press.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03
He WAS: LONESOME.

Asd FllgAt OF the Only Man In Dakots
Without Title.
'sGimme . ticket! Gimme q ticketr'
shouted . wild-looking man. rushing
into the railroad depot in . leading Da-
kotA town.
''Where to, pleased" asked the polite
ticket agent
Il don't care. anywhere. anywhere to
get out Of the territory! Gimme one
somewhere quicker'n lightnin'r'
s.How would one to Chicago"
TOO late-don't want one.'' and he
tore ma6ly ont Of the door and knocked
over baby carriage - he clutched the
rail OF the last ear. ~ it. went past the
platform, and swung himself on.
The astonished t;cket-seller looked
through his window and said:
Colonel who was tat fellow and
what WAS tho matter Of hime's
s.Blanked il / know. Major. Arc Won
acquainted With him, GENERALLY" turn.
ing to anyther man.
Newer saw the dashed fool before.
Hqr 3 Il with you. Judgef" be added
addrea1ing man BY the door.
1eg. gentlemen. know him. and /
dont blame him for wanting to 70. Hs
, ~ only man II Tho Territory With
- = ttles 1as11ias %. ~ EeK
- T. f.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03
SHE NEVER oosslPs.

hate this Roesiping about
Folks who have gone asery;
] always hold my tongue unless
I've something good to say.
Now there's the case OF Peter Smell
(What, have you never heard?:
He had some money left in trust
To him, and stole third.
Oh dear how fast the news did spread
OF that poor fellows fall;
But Just said: s.He's not SO bad;
He might have stole II all"
And when Jane Ann McDonaldson
(What. really, don't You knowgs
She that Is Mrs jackson now
Ran of with Pafsey Rowe,
Her first-he died soon after-who
Was but q peddier's lad
land you had better b'lieve her pa
And ma were awful madl.
Her friends all cried: "How shocking
who'd
Have thought 1t OF Jane Anns
lonly said: HE might have been
A rags and bottle man"
And young Mulroy, who drinks q pint
why. surely. you've been toldO
OF something strong each day-'tis that
That makes him look so old
Has one to take his part. Turn
The sad fact into sport.
When It Is mentioned, with: "a pint
Is better than a quart"
For won't gos .ip-that won't
It's never been my way;
I alv avs hold my tongue unless
I've something good to say.
Harpev's Bassr.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03

"A farmers wife living mp among
the New England hills had q longing
all her life TO see a hippopotamus- s
circus and menagerie visited neigh
boring town. and she harnessed up her
old horse and eagerly logged over the
rough roads. When she stood in front
Of the cage where tho huge beast was
confined, all she said was: nv! ain't
be plaine"-MsW yerk Life
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03
A GREAT NOVELIST.

IA Avn 4SA1As0A
Why the "Qndoubted Genius
Never Became Famous.
To a friend of mine who is well &C
quainted with several noted authors,
and who is literary man himself,
once expressed desire to know the
methods Of work adopted by men who
had made themselves famous. In the
course of the conversation that ensued
he said:
~ win, if you like, take You to SEQ .
friend of mine, who is one of the most
remarkable of English novelists.
"Who is hep'
There would be no use in my tell
ing you his name. You never heard of
him."
"A coming celebrity, ehp''
'.You can judge better Of that when
you know him. have just received .
note from him, saying he has COM
menced . new book, and he wants me
to call so that he can read me the first
chapters
Il sec. You want to shove the hearing
Of them off on me, do you?"
mo. will sit it through. It is sure
to be good"
We went up st Martins lane and
turned down one of those streets that
might have led into Soho square, and
then again might not You can never
tell Just where those streets win land
you. Coming to one of those old brick
houses built in II something, we rang
the bell, and rather untidy girl OPEN
ed the door and expressed no surprise
IS we passed her and went up the stairs.
At the very top my friend knocked, and
some one shouted in hearty voice
'scome." from. the inside. When the
door was showed open I saw man
OF about forty seated at rough pine
table, with a cup of coffee at his elbow
and some broken biscuits beside Il. On
the floor and upon the table were white
leaves of manuscript paper that had
been written and careless1y flung aside.
There were hundreds of pages. and it
looked az if the table had boiled over.
letting the white paper pour over each
end on the floor. There was absolutely
no more furniture in the room besides
that table and the chair he sat in, ex-
cept fingle wooden bench. ON which
lay the coat and vest of the man in his
shirt sleeves
One window, high. deep. narrow,
dusty and partly set in the roof, gave
Hat SSw3xk B. Al
Through IL eomi-obscure panes could be
seen the clmney-p0tted roofs and the
spires of part of London.
The author sprang to his feet when
he recognized my conductor and ex-
tended his hand in : hearty. unreseryed
manner that made me like him from the
first
Arthur. my boy, I'm awfully glad
TO see you. Any man except . bill
collector who win climb those stairs =
. friend indeed.n
Il have brought with me an apprecia-
tive fellow whom would like you to
know. Mr.. Luke Sharp. whose fame
al over the world makes the mare
mention Of his anne sufficient introduo-
tion. Sharp. Mr.. Boning."
Mr.. Boning shook hands with triNe
Of embarrassment
.You don't mean to say you've never
heard Of him. Boning!''
We'll. ron know, Arthur, I very cal.
dom read ANYTHING. and, in fact-''
Never mind. Mr.. Boning, !" said.
That = his one and only ioke-at
lcot b thinks it's = joke. BE intro-
ducee No - & were celebrity. and
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-09-03

selves subordinates."
IL he.no right In doing ity He saves tb :
business. The Lord seems to let N 20 on
in life, guided by our own skill, and We
make miserable work Of It. God comes
down TO our shop or our store, and says:
"Things are going wrong, leone TO take
charge. am master and know Whit In
best, and proclaim my authority.s We
are msrely subordinates.
It Is like boy at school with q long
sum that he can mot do. he has been
working at It for hours, making figures
here and rubbing out flgures thcre, and IL
10 all mixed up; and the teacher, looking
over the boys shoulder, knows that he can
nos get out Of It, and cleaning the slate.
says: begin again" just so God docs
TO rs. Our Affairs get into an incs tricable
entanglemsnt, and he rubs everything out
and nays: "Begin again.n II he NOT
wise and loving in so doing.
think the trouble 10, that there n m
large difference letween the divine and
the human estimate ~ to what 10 enough.
have heard OF people striving Tor that
which 10 enough. bat never heard Of anv
one who had enough. What God calls
enough for man, man calls too little.
What man calls enough, God says ID too
much. The difference between . poor
man and . rich man II only the
difference In banks. The rich man puts
hia money In the Nassau Bank, or the Park
Bank, Or Fulton Bank, or some other hank
Of that character, while the poor man
comes mp and makes his Investments n
the bank OF Him who runs all the quar-.
The Washington critic., 1886-12-31
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard will shortly
90 to Europe to remain until next fall
THOMAS A. EDISON is at his home In
Orange, N. j., recovering from q severe at
tack OF pneumonia.
SAMUEL GoMPERs, president of the new
Federation OF Trades, is SO years of age and
q cigar maker by trade His parents were
Hollanders.
Miss EMILY BARToL, daughter of the
Rev. Dr. Bartol of Boston, has completed
her drawings for the portrait Of Frederick
Douglass. 1t is said to be faithful like
ness.
The annual statement of the savings
banks of Massachusetts, shows aggregate de
posts of S201, ,107, 800. Their percentage of
earnings to assets was 46l or about $l4,-
000,0CO.
Mr.. JAY GOULD is to give grand ball
soon to introduce his son George and his
bride into the inner circle Of New York
society. The ball is to be extremely grand,
and, II possible, throw the Vanderbits into
the shade.
Miss MARGARET TERRY, daughtar OF
Luther Terry, the artist, and half sister to
+. Marion Crawford, the novelist, was mar
red in Rome, Italy, last Tuesday, to Win
throp Astor Gambler, son of eN-Congress-
man Gambler of Massachusetts,.
CHAUNoEY II. ANDREWS of Youngstown,
whose daughter is engaged to be married to
John y. Logan, jr., is millionaire and an
iron manufacturer Of Youngstown, o. He
is a brother Of Wallace Z. Andrews of
Philadelphia.
JonN e. REID, who has been for sixteen
years the managing editor of the New York
Times, was yesterday presented by his news
paper friends with S400 ring. Among
| ihc donors were Charles A Dana, Henry q.
| Pearson, Amos j. Cummings, Thomas l..
| james, William IL. Robertson, Truman a.
| Meiriman, Rufus Hatch and Thomas Z.
| Acton.
A gun ia like q bank cashier,
Not only cause II has its stock,
But that It's apt at going Off
TO generate little shock;
| Herein tho, is q difference
| To which your reason will assent,
The gun is often charged with shot,
The cashier with embezzlement.
| Yonkers Gazette.