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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06
KEEPING A GOOD NAME.
When Once Lost, y DiNlcult Thing to Re-
gain-A Few Thoughts for the Young
People.

gain-A Few Thoughts for the Young
People.
Folly has hardly another form so OBJ
jcctionable as that of carelessness, real
or apparent, about ones reputation.
When young man behaves as he
were willing to be believed '.fast." he
may be guiltless of any real disposition
towards dissipation, but he can not
complain if the more desirable of his
associates gradually withdraw them
selves from intimacy with him. When
young lady. no matter how innocent
of anything worse than determine
zion to amuse herself at all hazards,
condcscenls to llirt with gentlemen, or
to indulge III boislerous behavior in
public places with other girls. she
must not be surprised if, before long,
she become aware of less heartiness in
the greetings of the acquaintances
whose society she prizes most, receive
fewer invitations from anybody, and at
last perceive, with painful clearness,
that she is actually. even if undemon-
stratively, avoided, except by those
whom she does not wish to meet.
Parents often are to blame for not
guarding their children more carefully
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
THE LAST AND BEST.

Said the Child to the youthful Year:
"What hast thou In store for me,
D giver of beautiful gifts what cheer,
What Joy d0st thou bring with theeY
my seasons four shall bring
Their treasures: the winters SHOWS,
The autumn's store. and the flowers 6
spring
And the summers perfect rose.
" All these and more shall be thine,
Dear child-but tho last aud best
Thy self must earn BY strife divine.
II thou wouldst be truly blest.
"Wouldst know this last best gift7
'Ts q conscience clear. and bright,
A peace of mind which the soul can liz
To an infinite delight.
Truth, patience, courage and love
II thou unto me canst bring,
will set thee all earth's Ills above,
O Child, and crown thee Kingw
Cello Thdrter. IN st. Nichotda
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

THE late King Alfonso of Spain kept
in his private apartments in Madrid tho
veil and wreath his first wife (who. it
will be remembered, died only few
months after their marriage) wore at
her first communion, and also the veil
and wreath she wore at their wedding,
several pictures of her, and some toys
with which he and she used to PLAY to-
ge.her as children, His present wife,
so far from Directing to his tender men,
DRY of her predecessor, named her lirA
daughter Mercedes fos that i.-f.tc1
young lsdy.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

The announcement of the Bureau of
Statistics that the expectation of bread
stuifs from this country has fallen from
1888, 45l, 1861 in 1914 to $ll9, 639, l2l, or
. decline Of nearly eleven per cent,
will provoke the attention of the farm
ers in the United States. It means that
their market is circumscribed by that
amount, and probably means that the
competition of India and Australia is
cutting off some of the foreign custom
ers of the American farmer.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

The oldest man in Congress is John
T. Wait, of Connecticut, who was born
in 1911, and is seventy-four years of age.
The youngest man is VIM. McAdoo, of
New Jersey, who was born in Ireland,
October 25, 1852, and is thirty-two years
old Next to him comes Charles Voor-
bees, Of Washington Territory, who is
the son of Dan Voorhees,, and who is
also thirty-two years of age, but who
was born in June instead of October.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

ON the first Of the new year a new
excise law goes into effect in Russia,
under which the sale of liquor is re-
stricted to hotels and restaurants. Un-
der this law some $4,000 grogshops will
be closed. A fee of 1926 is exacted
from the establishments which are al.
lowed to sell liquor. This is the Amer.
lean high license system applied to q
nation IafKearly 10000, 900 Of people.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY

THERE has been an srmistice declared
between Servia and Bulgaria. Servia is
whipped. She started to run over Bull
garia. and got the worst of the fighting,
because the Bulgarian Prince happened
70 be brave man and q good soldier.
Hing Milan, Of Servia, will do well Il
be retains his throne. - -
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

. IT is said that the probable origin Of
the term "bloody shirt is to be found
in the fifth volume of "Gibbon's Rise
and Fall of the Roman Empire" Tie
third successor of Mohamet, Gilman,
had been assassinatcd by one of the
Arabs factions. Moawya, who reigned
few years later, revenged the death
of Gilman. Gibbon says (volume 5,
page 1919: 1.-The sacred duty of pur.
suing the assassins of Gilman was tho
engine and pretense Of his ambition,
and the bloody shirt of the martyr was
exposed in the mosque of Damascus
etc.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

A TAX of 100000 has been put on
Barnum's wild animals at Bridgeport,
Conn. Barnum is mad, and says wild
animals are not taxable property; that
II any one thinks they are domesticated,
he invites him to go into the tigers or
hyena's cage and tost them. A ques-
ton hero arises: If they are wild ami
mails, could Earnum be held RESPONSE
BILE for any damage they might do?
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06
The wild duck ia nrOha bly the most

The wild duck is probably the most
destructive of all the enemies of the
trout, for it confines itself entirely to
feeding on their spawn. Always glut-
ton, when duck finds the spawning
beds of trout in the small streams that
feed the main water, it will soon devour
thousands of eggs and shovel the en-
tire contents II the breeding places into
its stomach. if not molested. One
flock of wild ducks can easily destroy
the entire breeding prospects of any
trout in a short time.-Ch;cago In!es
Ocean.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

Dakota has prepared herself for en-
tering the Union. She has adopted a
State Constitution and elected State
officers and Legislature which has
Just elected two United States Senators.
II is thought, however. that she will not
glide into the slsterhood as easily as was
anticipated, as she will likely meet with
opposition In the House.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

THERE are $4,000 stamp collectors in
New York, and the number is constant
ly increasing. They call themselves
philatelists word not found in any
but the newest editions OF the dictiona-
eies. The most valuable stamp known
is one that was issued by the postmaster
Of Brattleboro, VT, in l847, and was
only in circulation for few months. Il
is now worth 800.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

LIEUTENANT GREEDY believes that
there is an ocean fifteen hundred miles
in diameter, round about the pole, that
never freezes, and conjectures that the
pole itself is the center Of an ice-capped
land, covered with ice from one thous-
and to four thousand feet thick. These
conclusions are rejected by prominent
Arctic authorities in England.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

A MINE in Mchigan-the Calumet
and Hecla-is said to. be the richest and
most prolific copper mine in the world.
It has built up an industry in which
over 2,0oo men and two nourishing
towns of 1000 inhabitants find employ
ment the whole year. The dividend ac-
count exceeds S2,0Oo,OOO. Only virgin
copper comes from the Lake Superior
minas
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

The New Haven News makes the
startling announcement that there is, in
oil parts of the country, noticeable
falling off in church attendance. An
item in an Eastern society paper may
offer no explanation, but it is at any
rate to the effect that Sunday maps at
home are becoming fashionable.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06

We've got no time to waste on OBJ
scure mud hens, like the Mirror, the
mental paralytic of the Mail, the double
distilled idiot of the Decatur Post, and
the arrogant and self-conceited dude Of
the Nait.-Pdrfs (Tsx.) Balance Wheel.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-01-06
A GREAT WORK.


Drsinius Of Enormous Marshes UndeP the
Direction Of the kussisa Government.
Few people are probably aware of
che great engineering undertaking in
which Russia has been engaged for
years. draining the Pinsk Marshes.
These are 80 extensive as to secure
special designation on the ordinary map
Of Europe, being, we believe, the only
case of the kind, and in point Of area
are very much larger than Ireland.
Situated on the Russo-Polish confines
they have become famous in Russian
history as q refuge for all manner of
romantic characters, and have remained
an irrcclaimable wilderness in the midst
Of Q prosperous, corn-grOwing region
up to within the last few years. in
1870 the Russian Government first took
in hand seriously the abolition of
this wild expanse, which, owing to be-
ing perpetually more or less submerged
and covered with jungle growth of
forest, prevented not only cOmmuni-
cation between the Russian districts on
either side, but also between Russia and
Austro- Germany. Consequently large
staff Of engineering officers and several
thousand troops were drafted into the
region, and these have been engaged
on the undertaking since. Up to the
present moment about four million
acres have been reclaimed, thanks
to the construction of several
thousand miles of bitches and of
canals so broad as to be navig-
able for barges of several hundred tons
burden. Just now the engineers
are drawing up the programme for
next year, which comprises the drain
age Of 100000 acres by means of the
construction of 100 miles of bitches and
canals. OF the 100000 acres already
reclaimed, 100000 acres consisted of
sheer bog, which have been converted
into good meadow land, 100000 of
"forest tangle," which have been pre-
pared for timber purposes by cutting
down all the underwood and thinning
the trees, 100000 acres of good forest
land-forest GASES in the midst of the
marshes - hitherto inaccessible, but
which have been connected
more or less with navigable
canals and thereby with the dis
tant markets, and finally 100000
acres have been thrown open to cult
ton. although only 1870, 900 acres have
been actually occupied up to now. Be-
sides making the canals and bitches the
engineers have built 179 bridges, bored
1872 wells from forty feet to eighty feet
deep, and 425 wells from twenty feet to
forty feet, and have made a survey OF
10000 square miles of country hitherto
unmapped. When their task is finished
Russia will have etfaced from the map
of Europe one of the oldest and tough
est bits of savage nature of the cont.
nent, and a few years will suffice ia
render the Pinsk Marshes indistin.
guishable from the rest of the cult
waited region of the sources of the
Dneiper. From an engineering, geo.
logical and scientific point of view, the
work is one of special interest, and
capable globe-trotters, anxious for 8
novel theme, might do worse thar
spend few months amid the fading
Pnsk Marshes, describing the changes
i4 progress. -Engineertng.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
State of Louisiana.

To the Returning officers of the Parishes of
Caldwell. Franklin, Jackson, Ouachita
and Richland:
WHEREAS, by the resignation of the
w Hon. Calvin III. Moore and Thomas
Y, Aby. Senators from the Twenty-third
Senatorial District of this State, vacancies
in the General Assembly of this State.
And whereas it is made the duty of the
Executive to order an election to supply
such vacancies.
Now, there fore, I, Samuel D. McEnery,
Governor of the State of Louisiana, have
thought proper to issue this my proclama-
ton. directing an election to take place in
the parishes Of Caldwell, Franklin, Jack
son, Ouachita and Richland, constituting
the Twenty-third Senatorial District of this
State on day to be named by you, for
two Senators to represent the Twenty
third Senatorial District of this State, to fill
the unoxpred terms of the Hon. Calvin
III. Moore and Thomas Y. Ably, resigned;
and / do hereby direct and require you
and each of you, the said returning officers
and all other officers therein concerned, to
cause said election to held and conducted
and the returns thereof to be made in the
manner required for general elections.
Given under my signature and the seal
of The State of Louisiana, at the city OF
Baton Rouge, this 4th day OF January A.
ID. 1886.
S. d. MCENERY.
BY the Governor:
OSCAR ARROYO,
Secretary of State.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12

LITTLE Rock, Feb. 49,. Last Thurs
day evening, in Ashland township,
this county, man named Ben Holmes
was shot down by Cecil Thompson.
Magistrate George M. Barrow, of that
township, held an inquest on the re-
mains of Holmes on Saturday. The
news has just been received and it
seems that Thompson had a step
daughter named Florence that Holmes
was counting. Holmes was married
man, his family residing in this city.
So Thompson in,erposed and objected
to Mr.. Holmes visits and Informed
Miss Florence of his decision, but the
giddy girl encouraged Holmes and he
continued clandestinely to meet her.
Thompson went to Holmes and warn
ed him to stay away. Thursday the
two men met in the woods near
Thompson's house and had lorg
quarrel, which ended in Holmes draw
ing his knife aud threatening to cut
Thompson's throat. Thompson was
armed with an ak and kept Holmes at
distance. He ordered Holmes never
to enter his premises again. Holmes
said he would see the girl or die in the
attempt. On entering his house Thomp'
son got his gun, returned to the door,
saying to Holmes, who was standing
at the gate: off you curse me and my
family / will shoot YOU" DWELL, blaze
away" returned Holmes. Thompson
pulled the trigger and filled bis anita
gonist full of buckshot, from the effects
of which he died Friday night. The
coroner's jury returned verdict tha'
deceased came to his death from gun
shot wounds from the hands OF
Thompson, who is now in jail.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
JUDGMENT.
The State Of Louisiana, Parish of Qua
cbita, Fifth District Court

The State Of Louisiana, Parish of Qua
cbita, Fifth District Court.
Mrs Mary f. Behen
VS.. NO. 254S
Joseph Il. Behen.
By reason of this suit having been reg
ulary reached on the docket, taken up
and tried; and by further reason of the law
and the evidence being in favor of the
plaintiff and against the defendant, it is
ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the
community of acquets and gains, hereto
fore existing between the plaintiff, Mary
E.. Behen, and the defendant, Joseph K.
Behen, be dissolved and terminated, and
that the said plaintiff be separated in pro-
perty from her husband, the defendant, as
aforesaid.
1t is further ldered, adjudged and de-
creed, that the said plaintiff be declared the
owner, in her own right, of personal pro-
perty, consisting of wardrObes, furniture.
jewerly, money, silverware, horse and
buggy, ETC., to the value of one thousand
dollars, and that she be authorized to re-
sumo exclusive control ot her said para
phernal property.
1t is further ordered that defendant pay
the costs of this suit.
Done and signed in open Court, this Goth.
| day ofSeptember, 1855.
II. w. RICHARDSON.
Judge Fifth District.
| A true copy: s,-
]. s. JONES. by Clerk Fifth District
Court.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12

"Here is a doctor who claims that q
man can live for two or three weeks al
time upon water alone" III can
testify TO its truth. Several different
times in my life 1 have lived from
two TO three weeks on water"
"Good heavens why?" Had to; !
crossed the ocean.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
THE HAPPY FAMILY

Consisting of large number of foreign
and domestic animals living in harmony
together. Prof. Glorie's Silver Cornet
Band will parade just previous TO the
afternoon exhibition, in their beau iful
Chariot, through the principal streets.
Remember One Ticket Admits to both
PaviiiOns.
Admission, % and SO cents. Doors open
at and p. M. daily.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12

The sharpest dodge in the real es-
late business comes from "DakOta, the
land of handsome women" The town
of Dunleith having offered $500 and a
town lot 10 the first baby born within
lis limits, a lady living some Zoo
miles distant went over, gave birth to
a bouncing boy, pocketed her $500
ard the deed for the town lot, and
finished up the entire transaction in
less than 48 hours.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
COAL. COAL. COAL

Having made arrangements with Coal
Dealers, by which am enabled to furnish
Coal in any desired quantity delivered at
reasonable prices, / respectfully. ask the
patronage of the public. Orders left at the
Offices of the OUACHITA TELEGRAPH,
Monroe Bulletin. or O'Kelly's store at
give Points," win receive prompt atten-
ton. +. HABERYAN.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
EXPOSITION
MONROE THUR. and FRI. I8, 10.

An extraordinary convocation OF Skilled
Arenic Talent associated with an attract
i've display of Living and Natural Wonders
and an Exhibition of the Most Wonder
fully Educated Animals in existence. Ac-
ceptably presenting Canvass Entertain,
ment of Fresh Features III new and
pleasing form.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12

Yankee to Englishman Dragging of
the Thames: Why, look here, mister,
THAR amt enough water in the whole
of the Thames to make a gargie for
the mouth of the Mississippi.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12

The matrimonial bureau at Castle
Garden is a unique institution. Just
at present the demand for wives is
greater than the supply. Several ap
plications sent there lately for wives
could not be filed, although there are
no restrictions. The honest grangers
Of the boundless west seems to yearn
forconnubial happiness and are willing
to run very large risks.
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1886-02-12
DAILY TELEG GRAPH.


Whenever a-Misslssippian tells lie
1t isgeperalIy ROBUST and healthy and
can walk, but the moment Georgian
hears OF It, SO great is the rivalry be
tween the two States, he girds up his
loins and uuloads a. "whopper" that is
so strong At has ribs and a backbone,
and brAthes = Not slong ago, a man
livlnguesf Hllis$ille, Miss, said that
the cold wave ia january swept over
that STATE so quickly that the ponds ir
the swamps were frozen stiff before the
snakes living in them could duck their
heads under the water. He further re-
marked that he amused himself for a
whole day by walking on the ponds
and kicking of the heads of the snakes
which stock UP out Of the ice. This
story travelled from one place to an
other until 1t reached George, where,
for time, 1t, 10 use the language OF
the prize ring, knocked out everything
IT met, but finally a noble Georgian
invented muscular lie that climbed
4 ON the collar Of the Mississippi pro-
dizzy, and literally pulverized and
1 smashed 1t into the earth.ss
The Georgia man said that while
chasing q fox across an abandoned
cotton field his horse and himself fell
into an old we'll about seventy feet
deep. The fall killed his horse in
stantly, but be escaped without injury,
: and at once commenced looking around
Tor way to reach the surface OF the
tRround, To his dismay he discovered
That II vas impossible for him to get
out ~ climbing the steep walls OF
!, earth that shut him in, and he COM
menced bowling for help at the top Of
his voice, but none came. On the
morning Of the second day the strench
from the carcass of his horse was
y stiHiug, and he had made up his mind
to suffer a horrible death, when he
noticed number of buzzatds lowering
I. about the top Of the we'll. Finally the
q birds aliehted in the well, and bright
idea dashed through his brain, and ht
determined to make the buzzards peal
him up to the ground above. AS they
settled on the carcass of the horse hi
seized them by the legs, until he hat
three Of the bnzzards firmly grasped il
4 each hand when he gave them vic
lent ssshew,'' and they flew up, carry
Z ing him with them, but they did no
stop when they got out of the well, Blu
X continued to soar upwards until he wa
Mortified to find that he was fifty ysrd
q above the surface of the earth. Sud
denly, however, it occurred to him t
release one buzzard from each hand
Thish did, and to his great joy hi
weight dragged the remaining buz
yards slowly down until he was safel
landed on terra firma, when he at ono
dropped on his knees and returne
thanks1n prayer.
When the story OF the Georgia TO
.huntcr reached the ears of the Missis
sippi map, who launched the col
weather lie, it made him feel so utterl
~ mean and worthless that he sold o,
and went TO Texas.
The matrimonial bureau at Cast
Garden is a unique institution. ia
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-08-20
Facts about the Mule.

1t is said that mule cannot bray if
you tie a weight to his tail and hold it
down. This was touchingly illustrated
in the cavalry movements that preceded
the second battle OF Manassas. General
Stuart, with large force of cavalry
maneuvring around the retreating army
of Pope, got caught between two col
ulnns of the Union troops, and was
obliged to conceal himself in a dense
wood between two parallel roads along
which the enemy were retreating. He
had to lie low all night until the col
umns passed by. Messengers that the
Union generals sent to each other
through the woods were captured and
held with as little noise us possible.
One great difficulty was to keep the
mules in the ordnance and commissary
wagons from braying and thus calling
the attention of the foe. For this pur-
pose Stuart ordered man to be detailed
to stand by each mule and whack him
with a stick as soon as he offered to bray,
for a mule, like an orator, requires a
certain preparation before beginning
his neat and appropriate exercises.
There is preliminary protest made
with the ears, and certain solemnities of
the nostrils, an expression of sorrow
overspreads the countenance, then the
tail is lifted. A bray does not break
forth from the lips of the mule. T. be-
gins way back in the abdominal viscera
and comes gradually up. Now, as soon
as the cavalry mules began to prepare
for u bray. hack ! whack would go
the sticks, and the bray would be sup
pressed-and thus all night. 1t was
said that this was needless severity, for
it would have suiliced 10 tie brick-bat
to the tail of each mule.