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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
A DESERTED VILLAGE.
The Last shanty of Frogtown. Maryland,
is lettering.

They were talking about dead mining
camps. 81 have seen dead camps"
said the man from the east shore Of
Maryland, land | have seen dead oil
towns, but the deadeSt town | ever saw
was the remains Of the n c prosperous
Frogtown down oil Delaware Bay. It
was once a station on one of the first
railroads built in this country, a line six
miles in length. | passed through the
place last week. The engine stopped
for water or something, and ! saw q
gaunt, hu~ngry-looking girl, clothed in a
greasy calico wrapper, reaching out of
the door of a howell and tearing off a
clapboard. Ii was the last board. All
the rest had been pulled of before for
tirewoOd. and all the other houses in the
town had gone the same way. This was
the last house and the last inhabitant.
As soon rs the gaunt. hungry woman
completes her work Of destruction she,
too, will 60.
They used to have accidents on the
roads in those old days continued the
Marylander, ~meditatively. ''The cara
were wheeled over wooden rails GOV.
cred with thin iron strips nailed down
to the wood. tn" ends of these rails
used to curl up and run through the
floors of the cars and out through the
roof. Usually there would be a man on
the end of EN-, And it sometimes
took several hours to pick him off.
They make all sorts of fun of East.
shore people, he continued, after o
pause, land some Of the inhabitants are
queer specimens, They grow on trees,
you know; some drop off before they
are ripe. and that accounts for the vari.
ETY. of the fruit. You will meet men
with one cheek bone two inches higher
than the other. others with one side OF
their mouths turning down and the
other side turning up; some without
any chins, others with chinS extending
out like horns; some with feet and
hands like hams, others misshapen and
bent and warped and twisted out of all
scmblance to humanity. A new gen.
GRAFTON is springing up, however, and
the latest born are very like other NOR
tails. Soon nothing will be left of the
East-shore men but tradition. ~ Chicago
NeWS.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
A GOOD STORY.
Ex-President Arthur Tells How He Was
Kidnapped at M~arblehead.

Ex-President Arthur Tells How He Was
Kidnapped at Marblehead.
Ex-Prcsident Arthur tells the follow.
ing story: sit is not generally known
that I was kidnapped once, but the
same is true, nevertheless. In the sum-
mer of "a I was taking a trip in a Gov
eminent dispatch boat along the coast,
when one morning we put into Marble
head in order to visit Salem, the an
Gent home of witchcraft. Our time
was limited, and we desired to escape
observation; but no sooner had we
landed than I was recognized. We
hurried into a carriage and proceeded
to Salem, but while in the museum of
that city, which contains many souve-
Mrs of the witches, l wa accosted by
a sad-faced mar with q piercing black
eye, who had come, he said, to ask
me to say a few words to the people
of M%arblehead. l firmly but pleasantly
refused, on the ground of pressing en-
gagements, and was compelled to re-
peat my refusal at least three times be-
fore the sad-faced nan departed. On
the way back to the vessel my
carriage suddenly stopped, and the
door was rudely opened by the sad
faced man, who again insisted that /
should speak to the people of Marble
head. Three times again 7 positively
declined. One of the naval officers
who was with me became very angry,
and shut the door with a slam. The
sad-faced man jumped upon the box
alongside the driver, and we were
driven toward the wharf. Presently
the carriage stopped again, the sad
faced man again opened the door, and
before I knew what to do I found my
self literally borne along by the crowd
to the city hall and into a large room
which was packed with the inhabitants,
Resistance was simply useless. l had
been taken right off my feet. Yielding
to necessity, l said to the sad-faced
man: Well, l will speak for five min
utes if you will let me 60 Five min-
utes it shall be- he replied. l worried
along as we'll as / could, and at the end
of it was allowed to 60 back to the YES
sci. But I can never forget the fact
/ was once kidnapped in Marble
head. --Haypsr's Weekly.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
PRISONS,
An Ohiciat Describes Them in Their True
Light and Is Discharged.

sbhe "" ecu.
A recent volume on Nihilism, by Mr..
Edmund Noble, contains the report to
the Minister OF Justice drawn up by
IAN Imperial State Attorney, named
Biryansky, who was sent to Orenburg
not long ago to investigate the state Of
the prisons and the proceedings of the
law courts in that part of Russia. Here
are a few of his statements:
During my four months inquiry, il
was revealed to me how our Judges
trample the laws under foot; how Gym
ical and wanton is the behavior of our
police; how savagely brute force is
brought to bear upon the weak and
friendless. l lived in an atmosphere of
appalling groans and heartbreaking
signs. / liberated innocent persons
who had been kept in prison by the ex-
ecutive several years after they had been
publicly acquitted in open court,
and who had been secretly
tortured. I convinced my.
self that there was absolutely moth
ing in common between myself and
the local authorities. A black and
bottomless gulf lay between us. They
traticked wantonly with our laws,
converting them into Instruments Of
extortion. Words fail me to describe the
impression made upon me by my first
visit to the State prisons. Hundreds
of human beings find a premature
grave in these loathsome dens. They
die lingering deaths therein, or emerge
from them crippled for life. 1t was
horrible to be compelled to acknowl'
edge that these semi-animate, wasted,
filthy and dun-colored objects, draped
in a few rotten rags, were, after all,
men and women The confined at,
mosphere, poisoned by exhalation:
from every sort of abomination. abso
lutely stopped my breath, so rank ant
fetid was it,
1t is only fair to the Russian Govern
ment to admit that it did not ignore
this terrible indictment against its
prison officials with the same cynica
indifference which it usually display
in similar cases. 1t actually took cog
nizance of the report, and-dismisset
its compiler from his functions at Oren
burg, besides %suspending the Norther,
Messenger, the journal which published
- AtheuYnn.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
WORTH HAVING.
A Power That Bestows upon Its POssessor
Great Influence.

A Power That Bestows upon Its POssessor
Great Influence.
Every person who lives ir a city lives
continually in an atmosphere which is
charged with the germs Of disease. The
same is true, in a less degree, of those
who stay in the open country--true
ever of those who pace the deck of the
ship in mid-ocean. And yet many live
on in good health, defyinG the attacks
of these disease germs simply because
the disease germs can find no weak or
unprotected spotin which to begin their
deadly work. There is a hint in this
for those who are training children
who by and by will have to go out into
a moral atmospherc rs disease-laden as
the air of a great city. See that they
90 out with no weak or unprotected
spots in their %soul-natures. There is a
conquering power in robust bodily
health which throws off, unframed, the
germs of disease; there is a similar
%conquering power in soul health-and
it is a power worth having.-S. s.
Times.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

o"hoo PAOccucucc over Une IamOuS MI.
Erskine as being an enunciator of the
now universally accepted doctrine of
the law of libel. He was the earliest
and most prominent lawyer at the bar
OF Philadelphia and chairman of the
committee that erected Independence
Hall. 1t is a singular and curious fact
that the man who with his own hands
designed independence Hall and at
tended to all the plans for its erection
was the same man who first, in any
land, laid down substantial legal
grounds in support Of the freedom Of
newspaper publications. In a careful
review of Hamilton's career by the late
Judge Cadwalader, he says:
1.-THE high opinion of him rests SOLE
ly upon his argument in the Zenger
libel case, which made a great noise in
the world. The novelty in his day Of
his propositions and Of the reasonings
by which he supported them explains
the ill-natured criticisms that have
been made Of him. His propositions,
which were, strictly speaking, unten-
able as points of Anglo-American col
onial law in that day, nevertheless pre-
vailed with the jury. These PROPOSE
tons have since been engrafted per-
manently upon the political jurispru-
dence of this continent. If that speech
to the jurors, which acquitted Zenger,
had never been uttered, or had it not
been reported, the trainers of the Con-
stitution of the several States might not
have been prepared for the adoption of
provisions like that of the declaration
of rights in Pennsylvania, which is
that the printing presses shall be free
to every person who undertakes to ex-
anime the proceedings of the Legisla-
ture or any branch of Government and
no law shall ever be made to restrain
the rights thereof. The free commune
cation of thoughts and opinions is one of
the invaluable rights of man and every
citizen may freely speak, write and
print on any subject, being responsible
for the abuse of that liberty. In prose-
cutions for the publications of papers
investigating. the official conduct of Of
ficers or men in public capacity or
where the matter published is proper
for public information the truth thereof
may be given in evidence, and in all
indictments for libel the jury shall have
a right to determine the law and the
facts under the direction of the court"
Hamilton urged three propositions.
One hat the jury had in prosecutions
for libels the same right as in other
prosecutions to determine the law as
we'll as the facts. Another was that as
the alleged libel concerned the official
conduct of persons acting in public CO.
paeities the publication was justifiable
if the statements were true. The other
was that true or false, the limits Of the fair
discussion of subjects of general public
interest had not been exceeded. The
two first propositions were innovations
in his day. No mar had ever pre-
scented them before. The third propo-
sition was so old that he only suggested
it, lest he should prejudice his case, but
the lights of after-born wisdom have
since shown that he was right, and to-
day the principles that Bradford and
Hamilton struggled for are everywhere
upheld. philadelphia Times.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
HOW DREAMS COME TRUE.

She slipped q piece of wedding-caks
Uuder the pillow upon her bed.
.Iwonder what / shall dream abOutT'
With a happy sigh to herself she said;
81 wonder If ever Il dream comes true?'
o, busy thoughts, will you fly away
Mine never did that ever | knew:"
But that's no sign they won't some day.
~ hone twill be nice" with a pretty pout
And a little toss Of a golden head,
Then she blew the winking candle out,
And said her prayers and went to bed.
81 never shall dream If l lie awake
U. waking dreams, We are there. no doubt,
But the last thought fades into dreamland's
"I wonder-tuhom-I shall-dream abouta''
T. = i u u Il u
~ What did you dream In the canny spell
or the wedding cake?' a fond voice said.
"~I-don't remember" O., red, red rose!
What have you done that you hang your
headY
Two little hands in a strong, Arm hold.
"Then may ! tell my dream to youF"
A whisper, a shy voice, half afraid
"lsn't it funny how dreams come trhel"
Marion Mdnuilte in N. y. W0rld.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

London would seem TO be fast be.
coming the paradise of domestic serv,
ants. A lady living in Regent
Park, advertising for a cook and house
maid, announces that they will be al
lowed the use of piano and late din.
ner.' They will also be allowed Out
two nights a week and every other Sun.
day. So considerate an employer has
a right to require hat candidates shall
be furnished with highest testimoni.
ais
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

ADMINISTRATIONS is Il great paper
to advertise in-I never saw anything
ike it. Editor-That's what they all
say. Advertiser-Why, do you know
advertised last night for a pocket-Dook
| had lost. Editor-Yes, yes. Adver-
tiser-Well, went home and found it
lying on my bureau. And yet some
people say it doesn't pay to advertise. -
THE Rdmbier.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

An octogonarian named Bohannon,
of Smithton, Mo, died the other day.
after having tasted. it is claimed, for
sixty-one days. His abstinence was
caused by sickness. - 81. L0nis Post.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
AN EASTER TABLE.

The Dates Of Easter for One Hundred n
Sixteen Years.
The following table shows the dates
upon which Easter Sunday will occur
during the next one hundred and six
teen years.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

LOVE is little confidence game, in which
both parties arc tI,en in-by tie clergy.
mau.-Uetr0tt Free IlrsS.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

PEOPLE We must put up wIth-Hotel
keepers.-LoWe Citizen.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

TIE sigh OF the seamstress-A-hem.- st
Paul Herald.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent SINAI
doses OF Piso's Cure for Consumption
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30
A TERRIBLE CONFESSION.
A Physician Presents Some Startlins
FaCts.

The following story-which is attracting
wide attention from the press-is 50 re-
markable that we can not excuse ourselves
il we do not lay it before our readers en-
tire:
To The Editor Of the R,ahe,ter ". y Demo-
cra!.
sIR;-On the frstday of June, 1851. Ilav
ct my residence IN TINS city surrounded by
my friends and waiting for death. Heaven
only knows the agony | then endured, for
words can never describe it. And vet, if a
few years previous any one had told me
that ! was to be brought 50 low, and bv 50
terrible a disease, | should have scOffrd at
the idea. ! had always been u~ucguMpnlv
strong and healthy, and weighed over 2jO
pounds, and hardly knew, in my own ex-
perience, what pain or sickness were. Very
many people who will read this statement
realize at times they are unusually tired
and can not account for it. They ieD' dull
pains in various parts Of the BODY aud do
not understand why, Or they are exceed
ingly hungry one day and entirely without
appetite the II 1t. This was just the way l
felt when the relentless maIady which had
fastened itself ul"n me first began. Still |
thought nothing Of it: that probably | had
taken a cold which would soon pass away.
Shortly after this ! noticed heavy, and at
times neuTaIEI'. pnlH III one SIDE Of my
head. but US it Wnl!l DutGe ON duv and be
gone the next, pad l'j.e attention to II.
Then my stOWu"l Ur@..l get out Of order
and my food often ig..~lt - digest, causing
at times great In~uuyr!Irnce. Yet, even q,
a physician, IG.t MT trlnk that these
things meant anything -er.uu,. IfancIrd I
vas suffering irIA Tit .IIa and doc
tored myself a.. ."-1-t J.. / gu' no bet
tor. | next lrl.r0! q Jo,"..lar ,...vr aud
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

WHEN trains are telescoped the poor pas
sengerS see stars.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

For removing dandrntf and prom"'ingthe
Growth OF the hair. use Halls Hair Remover
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

A DESIRABLE thing in gloves-A warm
lining Boston Courier
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

A sNow-pLow is like a bad hablt=A
GOOD thing to cut adrift- Gy,',. H"aH'"'
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-30

Wooden telegraph poles in Canal
are beng replaced BY poles Of metal
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
NEM..LERSEY.

Tho township elections in County resulted in an
Increased Republican majority In the Board or Chosen
FrcenoIders which will stand twentyfour Republicans
fourteen Democrats aud o. 0 Labor member Republ'
can gain OF two.
PATERsoN.-Thc Board OF Aldermen have appointed a
committee to investigate the charges OF corruption pre-
ferred against Alderman BrImhall.
MoxTCLAR.-The township election Yesterday re-
suited IN the election of the entire Republican ticket by
large maioritics. The No Water Ticket was success
fu by twenty seven majority.
RAHwAY.-At meeting OF the Common Council last
night "A communication received from the Board ol
Finance announcing their refusal to take any furh heT
step I'm tn compromising Of the debt giving as their
reasons for suc action that the Mayor and minority IN
the had refused 10 vote for the payment Of the
necessary penses
Coon GEOI ND.-AIen i. Squires, superintendent OF
the Methodist sunday School states that the article pun
ltsh,d on March Is Incorrect lie says that the enter
niumcnt was rot given by the choir that no stage
was erected and that the church not let to troupe
of colorel Jubilee singers.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
DUTIES OF THE LEyrEy SEASON

Lent is here and society can stop to catch its
breath The pncieut joke about the umbrella Will be
drawn from it's retirement along with dusty prayer
books and paraded with equal ostenatOn People Will
20 to morning lectures aud literary readings instead OF
theatre parties the intensely wicked will deny
Themselves ice cream an1 10 church at least
week day peniteuee and TepOse viii reign Far ones
who have danced themselves into charming state Of
nervous prostTatOn in lOw-necked dresses will now
dance themselves out Of II In quieter costume. The
dashing young woman who irresistible Mt ball and
opera will now yield TO her pensive aud
spiritually inclined sister who combines faith
and works in such moral sweetness and has no
need OF silks and gems set of her hJsca lOvelness.
AT the same time the "horrd' brothers of these fair
danes will rejoice the falling on OF their livery and
GOrsts bills aud eXpend the amount thus saved In quiet
little peutental suppes. with occasional punched
0uarer for the contribution box when they arc trapped
into attending Rest, recuperdtiOn and the ac
cumulatOn OF Easter morning Outht. that will an
initiate that poor creature across the aisle now sum
up the whole duty of many women.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
IyVES1TGA rION BY THE Dock BOARD

At the Dock Board meeting yesterday reSo-
luton vas presented calling for the Investigation OF the
permission given the Staten Island Ferry Company at
the foot OF Whehal-sL to improve Inc Terry
premlses The permit given last Aprli
and was approved by Commissioners Stark and
Laimbeer but opposed by Mr.. NoOrhls. Presl-
dent Koch and Mr. Matthews have since become
members OF the Board, in the places OF Mr. Lambeer
and Nh Voorhis. The resolution cites that the peris-
sion was given with the to make improvements 10
fac ltate rapid transit to Bay Ridge anu Staten
Island, but II IS now charged that the plr-
nose was to secure advantages for the Balti-
moro and Ohio Railroad. The resolution was
adopted by the votes OF Mcssrs Matthews and Koch
Mr. stark being absent. When the permission was gwen
Mr. Wiman appeared before the board and presented the
reasons for making the improvements at the ferry Iho
great number OF passengers he said that were trans
ported during the summer months 20 BAY kuge oI'e III
colomoded the regular staten Island trailc.
have desire TO grant any eXceptlOhal IaVors 10
the Baltimore and Ohio Road said Mr. Koch, although
we were charged before the Board OF Estimate with trying
to get the Washington Market people out To give
that room to tue Baltimore and ONO Road. We desire
to have Mr.. Wman explain the matter tuily 40" IL ap
pears they only going to get GOOD thlng IOr
small price, but they are building up storage on the
Staten Island shore at the expense OF the city,
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
wnAr Is GOING on TO-DAY.

sue of Morgan collection, American Art Galorles'
afternoon and evening ..,..
packsrd's business College anniversary, Academy OF
Music 8 D. III. ,, l., ,uroxcd Dis.
Meeting OF Commissioners OF Parks In Annexed DIS
ttict 3 y. - ,.o-o,,o,ta NJ
Dr. Briggs before Science Matinee CLUB, Hotel Bruins
wick. IL a. - ,.-,t. ,,o..,t,ot @
Society of Medical Jurisprudence No II West Ihirty
Polytechnic Association, American Institute rooms
e. Fornev on Evolution OF tho American
Locomotive" reading room, Grand Central st"uoh' Q
II.
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
DUTY on CARPET WOODS.
EROOkLNN.

Bernard Shine held for the Grand Jury yesterday
charged with assaulting Miss Lonisa {. Keller deaf
ana dumb girl at Thrd-aye aud Thirty ytrst-st
The mortgage Of the Empire and Bay state Telegraph
Company for 100000 to the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company filed yesterday.
W A. Furey chief dispenser OF Democratic patron.
age In this city who III his Office OF Commissioner OF
urors when not otherwise engaged walked through his
preserves the Navy Yard yesterday He denied that
he was trying TO get work there for new men.
Mrs. Mary Felters. Of No. 1ss Harrison ave, whose
husband her about two years ago. had his house
keepe Mary Staub, arrested yesterday Tor assaung
her when She went to see her chilcren.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Ellis Stevens, secretary OF tho
Society for Propayatng the Gospel Among the Jews,
preached the Wednesday service last evening IN
st. Paus ProtcstantLplscopal Church. Marcy'aVe. and
pcun.st
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
CHASED by HIGHwAYMEN.

James r. Uaock, wealthy resident OF west MAUI M ~
,uck l. L. attended the ST. John Prohibition meeting at
Rverhead on Tuesday night He started to return nome
about IL o'clock In his buggy, and nad gone ABOUT o
when he met a wagon containing two men. AS Ne was
passing them they Jumped Out and while one sezed MS
horse brdle the other commanded Mr. haIocK 10 eEo
HIM his money. Mr. lIaOck responded by whipping ms
horse and the animal sprang away IhG TWO mn S 10y
into their own wagon aud gave chase They followed
him for four miles he taking tho road to JameSport ho
during toward his home over lonely roats hs no
was nearing JamespOr ana when his horse was almost
exhausted, they gave up the chase MT halioGh nau @
cashed checks the amount OF several hOusauu uoiS
during the day and had the money Ia his pocket
New-York tribune., 1886-03-11
Nr1yvoRK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY MARCH H. 1886

sauIted him while In tho discharge Of his duty d
examination was act down for Saturday morn.nH Sn S
bail was fixed at 80. 600 each. WlIluuhu ,na.n -
charged with carrying concealed weapons. 80 nar
was accused OF violating corporation oruuvo ~ 81
ryinr Tho hinge revolver found upon MIN Wtnout "
nit on these charges they were held III SoUo o"G o @
examination. Detective CamrDell Iouhu na' socsi,stc s
emblem pawned year ago at A BrOwnS snop .s 10. ou
second-aye., but there was no society u"c VI "' "
fha l1lvc