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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01
A VALUABLE DOG.

He Enables His Master to Spend His Days
 in Blissful !dIeness.
 A Detroiter who was skirmishine along the river Rouge the other day with gun, met farmer and dog or the road near the Woodmere cemetery, and as the two men stopped to speak the dog ran down the highway about twenty rods, sat up on end and began to bark.
 Whats the matter with your dog?' asked the sportsman.
 "Oh, nothing. He is simply getting ready"
 "What for?''
 ''For you to shoot. Whenever any of you folks come gunning around here I set him up at twenty rods for quar- ter a shot,"
 ''You do, eh? We'll, you can say goodbye to him at once, for I'll kill him at the first shot, Here's your quarter. "
 ''Off-hand shot, you know?"
 ''Of course"
 The sportsman got ready, and the farmer chewed away at a twig and gently whistled, ''Mollie Darling.n The rifle cracked, the smoke flew away, and the dog frisked around in high glee.
 Better try another" suggested the farmer.
 ''Tll do it! I'll try hundred! Here's dollar, and that dog has seen his last spring break-upn'
 It was repeating rifle the man had, and he blazed away again and again un- til he had fired the four shots The dog chased his tail around circle, and the farmer said:
 "Mebbe it isn't your day for shooting, you know?"
 'Mebbe it isn't, but here's another dollarr'
 He cracked away another four times, and as the last shot rang out the dog came toward him on a trot, ears cooked up and eyes looking around for rabbit tracks.
 ''Well, I guess I must be joggin' along" said the farmer. "Tm very much obleeged for"
 Mot by durn sightr' shouted the hunter. ''Tve got five dollars left, and I'll blow every cent of it in on that pup! Send him back!'
 Stranger, the limit on this game is two and quarter. You've struck hard pan."
 'I'll give you fifty cents shot,
 Not to-day. In fact, John Henry won't stand over nine shots without bolting."
 "Say a dollar a shot," shouted the hunter.
 Cant do it. I'm making eighteen shillings day of that dog, and I don't want to play dirt on him. If you are down this way tomorrow whistle for me and mebbe I Il raise yer bluff. Come, John Henry"
 '.Five dollars for a shot!" desperately shouted the hunter.
 Not at present. Come out to-mor- row. Come heeled to shoot all day. Goodbye, stranger!''-DetroI Free Press.
 A horse-thief was hanged the other day by lynchers in Arizona, and the local editor, in describing the event, re- marked: ''Jim departed this life with his accustomed lively snan '
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01
PITH AND POINT.

The general complaint about the self-satisfied bachelor is, that he is too much "a man after his own heart" in- stead of some oman's.-LJe.
 A proverb has it that interest blinds some people, It never blinds the man who holds the note upon which the in- ierest runs, we believe.-M '. Graphic. -Algernon: Your poem ''The rain Sell down in torrents, is declined. One about the rain failing upward'' would at least have something novel in it. Philadelphia Gull.
 A writer describes beauty as hay ing "an exquisitely nodded face, of which two dark hazel eyes are the cen- tral feature" Where is the nose situat- ed?-Burlinqton Free Press.
 It is said that girl who can shed three or four tears at critical mo- ment, and follow them up with quiver- ing sigh, can marry all around a good looking blonde who does nothing but try to blush.-N. '. Ledqer.
 -"Sam, you are not honest. Why did you put all the good peaches on the top of the measure, and the little ones below?" ''Same reason, sah, dat makes de front of your house marble, and the back gate chiefly slop bar'l, sah. "-N. y. Times.
 Employment Agent-Want girl who can cook? Distressed Man-Guess we'll try one who can't cook. All we've had lately were experienced in the busi- ness. don't believe it's safe for man to be starved longer than three weeks at stretch. -TEd-BitS.
 Strict Secrecy! Dentist: "Oh, madame may be perfectly easy in her mind. We dental surgeons always make point of observing the strictest confi- dence. Only last week, for instance, 1 supplied Countess Pampmann and Bar oness Borgheim with complete set each, and not soul living knows word about it. ."-Montreal Witness.
 -"What kept you so late last night, Archibald?' demanded Mrs. Spotcash. ''Takin' inventory" replied Spotcash. "I knowed it." she replied; ''smelled it on your breath the minute you came in. You'll keep on takin' it till you get in the lookup and disgrace your family, and then I hope you'll be satisfied. "- Brooklyn Edgte.
 Miss Clara-O, Ethel, expect to have the loveliest spring hat, and all 1t will cost will be the price I shall have to pay for the ribbon. I shall trim it my self. Miss Ethel-Have you the frame? Miss Ck ra-O, yes. I was rummaging in the store-room this morning, and what do you think found? Miss Ethel T have no idea. Miss Clara-One of last years peach baskets. s.- Chicago Tribune
 Be observing:
 If you your lips
 Would keep from slips
 Five things observe with care
 Of whom you speak,
 To whom you speak,
 And how, and when, and where.
 If you your ears
 Would save from jeers,
 These things keep meekly hid
 "Myself'' and q"
 And "mine" and 'my,"
 And Ilow ''I' do or did
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01

A horse-thief was hanged the other day by lynchers in Arizona, and the local editor, in describing the event, re- marked: Jim departed this life with his accustomed lively snap"
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01
Be observing

If you your lips Would keep from slips Five things observe with care Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. If you your ears Would save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid "Myself'' and q, And "mine" and "my," And How "I'' do or did.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01

She lived chaste, spun wool, and she kept her house.-Leigh Hunt, from tue German, i1a Denaorest's Magazi'ae.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17
BASEBALL GOSSIP.

But two men-Anson and Brouthers-have
led the League batsmen for more than one
season, and the former in 1879 made an aver
age which has never been equalled, viz. 4O1
Ross Barnes, however, had previously made
4O3.
Brown, Of the Pittsburgs, did thing rarely
seen in baseball the other day. He was caught
mapping at third by Catcher Peoples, of the
BroOklyns, but the umpire, Kelly, failed to
see the play. Brown said that he was fairly
caught, and walked in.
II Washington makes deal for the Lucas
franchise, it will keep Shaw, Madigan,
Keefe, Baker, Gillgan, Houck, Knowles,
Carroll and Hines Of its present team and
Denny, Glasscock, McKinnon, Boyle, Myers
and Healy, Of the st. Louis club
Long John Reilly, Of the Cincinnatis, says
that "if civil service authorities want to find
out whether a man has the heart disease or
not just have him appointed a base ball man
ager, and il he doesn't drop dead inside of a
week he is a sound man"
There is considerable talk Of the reinstate-
ment Of Umpire Connolly, who was recently
removed by President Young. Connolly was
considered by many people in this city, Chi
cago, Boston and Washington to be one Of
the best umpires in the country.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.
The new grounds of the Philadelphia club
will be the finest in the country. The man.
agement has just entered into a contract for
the erection Of a grand stand, having walls of
solid brick on stone foundations. with iron
columns and an iron truss roof surmounted
by private boxes and gothic turrets. The
contemplated cost Of all improvements will
aggregate about $1,000. The management
has leased the grounds for ten years, with the
3lOO, ,OOO at the expiration OF that time, the
ground rent being $1,000 year.
A Pittsburg man who has been timing the
pitchers says that Terry is the swiftest in the
association. He held the watch on Calvin
and Hecker and found the ball Travelled from
pitcher to catcher in seven-eighths of a second
The Phillies have not yet been beaten three
consecutive games by any club.-Sporting
Life. All, indeed. Well, do you know there
Is an impression i'll this district that on May
IL, at Recreation park, the Detroits beat the
Phillies l to D. On May 10 they drubbed them
again to 2 and added insult to injury on
May 20 by downing them = to 0-Detroit
Free Press.
Jim White was asked while i'm Boston
about his salary in Detroit, and he replied
that he would be ashamed to state how much
he got. The amount is believed to be not far
from s. 500.
Ramsey has twice this season struck out
seventeen men-once recently in a twelve
inning game with the Baltimores, and again
on Monday last with the Nets Ramsey and
Hecker are tied for the strike-out record of
the association. In 1854 Hecker struck out
seventeen of the Pittsburg players, and then
lost the game. In the National league
Sweeney and Shaw have each struck out
nineteen men in q nine-inninx contest.
once in an extra-inning contest.-Philadel-
phia Times
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17
ENoYMlON.

i ll6Sv slowly falls yon sickle from ON high
Through evenings silent sky,
Flashing splendor from its curved blade
On the low-lying shade!
Now in and out the narrow cloud that bars
Its pathway from the stars
IT slips, and with golden glory shines,
Nearing the mountain lines
Hay, tbs no sickle which some unseen hand
Lets fall upon the land;
1t is the jewel of q lady's crown,
As she steps lightly down.
Night after night, down the aerial stair
She stealeth unaware;
Leaving the empire which she ruleth above,
And all her state, for love.
Behold, her feet have touched the rocky
sleeps
Where the young shepherd sleeps,
And larger burns her jewel as she moves
In search Of him she loves.
And now it fades, and glimmers, and is gone
Happy Endymion.
While here the world in sudden shadow lies,
She bends above his eyes
Atlantic Monthly.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17

sheep Washing Has Got tO 60.
That picturesque rural rite, sheep washing,
has got to go. Indeed it has gone, to q great
extent, already. The Wool Journal says it
does not know a single argument in its favor.
The practice was inaugurated at an early day,
and it is relic of old times when the wool
shorn from the small focks in the eastern
states was largely used up at home. Then it
was necessary To wash either before or after
shearing, to prepare it for carding or spinning.
Those days are past, and both the sheep and
their owners ought to he glad dofit.-Exchange. Of
The Ex-khesiive's Wicked old Mother.
The mother of ex-khejive Ismail Pasha,
who died a few days ago at Cairo, was one Of
the most wicked old women imaginable She
was noted for her depravity, and the men
who once entered her palace at the Abbassieh,
just outside OF Cairo, never emerged there
from again On several occasions her car
riage was Pelted with stones and she herself
mobbed by crowds of women, some Of whom
demanded their SONS, others their husbands
and brothers. Latterly she had become ex-
ceedingiy devout-Chicago Tribune
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17


A Washington street orthopedic artist,
speaking with me to-day about trusses and
hernia, told me Of queer suggestion made
to him few days ago by a prominent Chi
cago Unitarian minister who called ON him
to see about a truss for another person. In
the course of the conversation the fact had
been commented upon that hernia was not,
properly speaking, a rupture at all When
ever there is a weakness in the muscles of the
lower abdomen and an interstice occurs, even
three-quarters of an inch in diameter, the
peritoneum, sack which contains the intes-
tines forces its way through the oriflce, and,
little by little the intestines follow, making
an outside bunch.
When this was explained to the divine, who
was, Of course, an ardent disciple Of Darwin,
his eyes became fixed on the floor for q few
moments in deep thought, and then, his coun-
tenance lighting up with the joy Of q new
discovery, he said to the truss man: by the
way, has it never occurred to you that this
weakness in the muscles Of the abdomen,
which exists i'll one out Of every seven men
that walk the earth, resulted from the human
family strengthening up and becoming bipeds
instead of quadrupeds! 1t seems to me that
We have great argument here for the do
scent Of man from the lower animals" The
truss man says it may be so for all he knows
Horses, dogs, cats, and even canary birds are
often ruptured, but in their case it can always
be traced to accident and mechanical force,
not to congenital weakness Jour
nal
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17
STALLS TO RENT
PALATKA GENERAL MARKET.
evAppy to <SNI. IN H..
seS-'f On the premises.
Cleaning and Dyeing.

HAVING HAD AN EXPERIENCE OF %
III years in two of the largest dyeing and
printing establishments in the North-viz.,
the New York DyeinR and Printing Establish
ment, aud Barrett, Nephews y Col am now
prepared to- clean or dye Ladies' Dresses of
n kinds, such as silks, Satins, Nelvets, and
wooliens OF the most de icate colors; Cloaks,
Wraps, Shawls, Sacks, Mantillas, Laces, Rib
bons, GLOW eS, Furniture Covers, ,Lambrequins,
etc. Gentlemen's Coats, Pants, Vests, ana
Base Bal Suits cleaned or dyed and made to
look equal to new. Goods receive! and re
turned by mail or express Work done ut
New York prices. JOHN T.. PARKER,
Interlachen, Fla, Office opposite depot.
se1-lm
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17
or PHI and Ointment Celebrity.

Whether the late Mr. Holloway, Of pill and
ointment celebrity, did good in his lifetime
with his pills and ointment may be disputed
by doctors and patients; but there can he no
question about his doing good after his death.
He left handsome sum Of money to found an
asylum for better class lunatics, as you may
know, and besides that, being much impressed
with the necessity OF a higher education for
women, left 3, 3,5OO,O 900 to build and endow q
grand college for $50 girls of the upper mid
die class. The building Is said to cover more
ground than any college in the world Every
girl will have bedroom and q study to her
self. Lovely grounds, laid out in terraces and
tennis lawns, surround the building, and
many Of the gentlemen who went down the
other day to a private view Of the place, pre-
vious to the opening Of it by the queen,
would not have objected to be turned into
girl students just for a few years, and peace
fully study and live in place 50 well worth
living in Her majesty commanded that the
epithet of ''royar' should be applied to the
college at once, instead OF after the opening
ceremony, as is usual Seldom indeed did an
establishment better deserve the title.-Max
O'Relrs London Letter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17

Zone of the essential points OF success In
my profession said dAapidated old tramp
who was talking to a reporter from behind
the bars Of one Of the cells in the city Jail
this morning, sis to keep the hands in good
ORDER You don't understand what mean,
ehs What 1 mean by keeping the hands In
good order is this: OF course, in tramping
from town to town, a man is liable to be ar
rested for vagrancy ut any time. He must
tell story of how he has just been thrown
out Of work and is looking for employment,
which, as yet, he has not been able to find
In nine cases out of ten the judge will ask him
to show up his hands, and when he does pro
duce them they must be horny and tOilworn.
Catch on, do you!
$50 you see it is part Of my business to keep
my hands looking as though they belonged to
a man who was accustomed to work 3G5 days
in the year. For that purpose carry with
me this small piece of hickory wood, which is
round and very smooth. About twice day
l take it between my palms and rub them so
that the friction will make them hard and
callous- In that way, you see, produce the
real result with very little trouble and an
noyance. There is a bottle of brown liquid
which use occasionally for staining the back
part of my hands a beautiful sunbrown color,
and there you are. When 1 show up my
hands and tell the judge that am a hard
working man, thrown out of employment by
the strikes, what can he do but believe me!
The trick has saved me many a day in jail,
and fatter myself is a strictly original idea,
though it is spreading rapidly. The profess
son you see, is beginning to realize that it will
never do to show up to "a hard-hearted police
judge a pair of tender, ily-white hands,
RsAa
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-17

The average cast OF contested Enelish
elecIioI - IA
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-23
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Democratic Probate Convention - Solid Robertson delegation Tn, Business Q utckIy Dispatched.

Democratic Probate Convention - A Solid Robertson delegation - The Business Q utckIy Dispatched.
 The Democratic town convention to elect delegates to the Probate convention was call ed to order in Town hall last evening shortly after 8 o'clock by MT. 0. T. Driscoll, chair man of the Democratic town committee.
 Charles Kleiner, president of the Board of Councilmen, was selected as chairman of the convention, and James F. Bree was chosen secretary.
 The chairman of each ward delegation was selected as the committee on creden. tials. The committee retired and after 6 short time returned and reported full dele gation from each ward.
 Hobart L. Hotchkiss moved that each oi and that each of the three remaining town wards be allowed to nominate each one alter. nate.
 This motion created considerable discus sion, there seeming to be feeling on the part of some of the delegates that there was ''cat in the meal" and that they were going to be deprived of some of their rights. Mr. Hotchkiss' mot on prevailed.
 motion that each ward delegation retire
 
 delegate, the same to be thereafter ratified by the convention, was passed
 The chair selected MT. Moran of the Third and MT. Cameron of the Ninth for teliers.
 William A. Wright was then placed ir nomination as delegate from the First ward and the voting proceeded. There were sixty. seven votes cast, of which William A. Wright received sixty-six votes and Stephen Blakeslee l.
 For delegate from the Second ward, Will liam s. Pardee was placed in nomination. MT. Pardee received 66 votes and was declar- ed elected.
 It was then voted that each of the remain. ing ward delegates name it's candidate and that then they be read and that each delegate answer yes or Ro as his name is called to the list of delegates as read
 The delegates as selected were then read as follows: Third ward, James J. Lawton; fourth, Thomas Brennan; fifth, William Sul- Ivan; sixth, Thomas Leddy; seventh, John F. Coogan; eighth, Emerson Edwards; ninth, Allen F. Cameron; tenth, Henry D. Phillips; eleventh, Timothy F. Callahan; twelfth, James E. Connors; thirteenth, E. O. Boards ley, alternate; fourteenth, Henry M. Sher- man, alternate; fifteenth, John F. Rowe, al- ternate. After the list of delegates had been perfected the roll was called and each ward delegate as his name was called answered yes or no. The call of the roll resulted in the unanimous vote of the convention for the delegates named
 The convention then adjourned.
 The delegates elected are said to be solid for Colonel A. Heaton Robertson for judge of probate, which virtually insures his nomina- tion in the general convention
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-23
Matrimonial.

Yesterday afternoon at half-past o'clock Miss Lottie M. Swift of this city was married at 201 Orange street to MT. Francis Gurney Stewart, president of prosperous manufac- turing company of St. Louis. The bride, who is very accomplished young lady, was simply but beautifully attired in white cord ed silk, with tulle veil and jessamines. The rooms were lbeautifully decorated with potted plants and flowers and in the front parlor was large arch of palms, under which the bridal party stood during the. ceremony The ushers were MT. Clarence B. Damn and MT. James P. Bogart, of this city. The happy couple received many elegant presents and the groom's gift to the bride was one thousand dollars. After collation. had been served MT. and Mrs. Stewart left on the S:38 p. m. train for New York. The best wishes of their numerous friends will follow them through life.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-23
LOCAL NE " s.
Rrief Mentien.

k$ftO1 M9nt10ns
 Get moistening roll at Dorman's.
 The committee on sewers meet this even ing.
 Harper's for October is received and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son.
 The Naugatuck bicycle club have adopted olive green as the color of their uniform.
 Ex-President Arthur will return from New London to New York next Monday. Rumor says that James G. Blaine will speak in this State before long in New Ha- ven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Meriden and Norwich.
 John Fryer, of Downes' City Hall restau- rant, has returned from his two weeks vaca- tion spent in Bangor, Me-, and reports very cold weather.
 Just after the close of the New Haven races, October 19 and 20, there is to be a meeting at the Derby trotting park, and $500 distributed in purses.
 Two children, Michael Reynolds, aged F, and Lizzie Murphy, aged 16, were sent, through Probate court action, to the School for Imbeciles in Lakeville yesterday.
 Some of the heavy machinery at the works of the G. M. R. Shoe company, Naugatuck, vas broken Monday and the works are in consequence of the accident shut down for this week.
 An Essex correspondent writes to the Hartford Times that "Judge James Phelps positively declines to be considered as can- didate for Governor, and is in favor of the nomination of Senator Cleveland, of Hart ford"
 Col. George Woodford, of Iowa, will de- liver a lecture on Personal Liberty" at the Quinnipiac rink, Fair Haven, under the auspices of the W. O. T. U this Thursday evening at 9;15 o'clock. The Social orches- tra will furnish music.