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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-09

The State Register closed the
sixteenth year OF its existence under
its present able management last
Sunday. Its growth has been phe-
nomenal and it is to-day the equal
of any paper west of Chicago;
indeed is a lively rival OF the great
newspapers of this age. 1t is sur
prising TACT that in the sixteen years
OF the present management more
money has been paid to the en-
ployes in the Office of publication
than has been received for both adj.
vcrtising and subscription from the
citizens Of Des Moines, 50 that the
paper has not only been a credit to
the capital city, but has also fur
nished more money for circulation
among the people than has been
given to its support. The Register
is a paper which every citizen of
the state should take pride in sus-
taining. --.-.---.----
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-09

List OF unclaimed letters lying in
the posioflicc at Audubon, Iowa, for
the week ending Saturday, Dec.
4, 1886:
Morley Albright T.P. Brown
Mr.. Charles Belt II. Cooley
Mrs. James L.. Cook Erastus W. Bennett
Mr.. o. Eden VIM. Frnham
q. u. Henderson Mrs. Sarah Lowe
Helen Jane Miles John Miller
Frank o. Morris Mr. Hear On Mortianj
MIR. George Smith I'M Spinner
Subject to be sent 10 the dead.let-
ter office in thirty days. Persons
calling tor the above will please say
"advertised."
L. S. FOSTER, Postmaster.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-09
SnAaOon Gouuly Rtpublifau.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE

Entered 1.-THE Audubon Post. Office as mail matter
OF the second class.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
THE PAwNBaoKER HABIT.
The Depths to Which ii Reduced
Promising Man.

This awful pawnbroker habit-says
Bob Burdetto, one could fill whose pages
with stories of the misery and destitution
1t has caused, the lives it has ruined, the
families 1t has broken up. remember q
young friend, brilliant young lawyer, of
one of tue, oldest families IN Dakota,
blessed with beautiful wife and one son,
boy. His wife was full OF promise,
which gradually went TO protest as he fell
under the deadly influence Of the pawn
shop. In an evil, thou htless hour,
his merry companions ent.ced
him into the lar OF the de-
stroyer, and scarcely knowing what
he did. he soaked bone-handled revolver,
the gilt OF his sunday school teacher, for
81. "It is only this once,' he said. Alas,
1t was the taste of the blood to the tiger.
Again and again be fell, and again and
agaln he SAID: alt is only this once"
Never was toat maddening thirst
to be allayed. 1t was not
that he wanted money; it was
pawn something. Once he came to me
with bloUdsnOt eyes ard feverish lips.
"Lend me your watch,' he said. "F0r
what ?" asked. 40 pawn" he said
hoarsely; ~ know place where | can
get 40 cents for it," "No," | said, 81
cannot part with my watch, but | Will
give you twice 40 cents" "No, no,
noW he fairly screamed. 81 do not
want any mans money. nave money"
and he showed me four or five large discs
Of metal which IN the United States pass
for dollars, "but must pawn something
or l shall go mad, mad-bai hap My
heart was moved by his a0ject misery and
| reluctantly gave him my hand made
Waterbury gymnasium, thinking that
could nave the grndst0ne moved into my
study fer my daily exercise. He thanked
me Hereby and Was gone. He got 10
cents on The watch, aud then put up the
ticket at another shop tor 10 cents more.
lay by DAY the habit grew upon him.
Night after night his heart-broken
wife would sit up embrodering Bay
eauX tapestries by the dim light of
solitary tallow candle, which fl ckered
low and titIuily IN its socket all night
long, while he loitered away the bOurs,
held by the cruel fascination OF a pawn
shOp. Often his friends would find him
proving the streets at night stark naked,
with every pocket full OF money, having
put his clolhes in the glittering perditiOn
OF the pawnshOp. Once he So far forgot
himself, In the delirium caused by week
OF pawning, as to strike his fraI young
wife with his clenched fist, because,
while there wasn't II crust OF bread in the
house, and she and the boy had been fur
two days without food, she refused to let
him have her sealskin CLOAK and diamond
earrings that he might hang them up IN
the deyourlng vortex OF the abyssmal
pawnshop. He never did it again. The
nsuited wife le7 him have it with the roll
ing pin, until general case OF iuflamma-
tory rheumatism would have felt like a
soothing ON ment TO him. AT last, when
be had put up everything be had in the
world, he got on train and went down
into Texas. A train r0bber boarded the
car, drew a revolver and shot three balls
into him. He puI up his hands and died
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
Senator Harris Kind Act.


There was the most friendly feeling be.
tween President Arthur and Senator
Harris, OF Tennessee. The reason for this
friendliness, while 1t surprised politi-
clans, has never been explained. 1t was
toe result of a kindness done MIR. Arthur,
while Vice President, by the Senator
from Tennessee. After the Inauguration
of Garfield there was special session OF
the Senate called, over which Arthur as
VIce-PresidenJ presided. several OF the
Republican Senator'S who had aristocratic
ideas rather looked down upon Mr.. Ar
thur, whom they considered a 'mere
politician" and3t tool of Senator Coax
ling. Mr.. Arthur. knew nothing OF par
liamentary law, Certain Senator'S deter
m ned that they would convince the Vice
President that. while the law gave him
the power TO preside over their delibera-
tons, he was net their equal. They
determined TO make him appear
ridiculous in the eyes OF the people of the
United States by decisions he would be
forced to give. frsg5r li
Senator Harris, although a Democrat,
with that chivalry that eharacterizes the
Southern gentleman, when be heard OF
the plot, deter m med to save the presiding
officer. He had never met Mr.. Arthur 10
private life, but be walked up to The Pres
ldeut's desk and under cover OF explain
ing something to him In letter which he
held. he told The Vice-President what was
proposed. He advised him to let the Sen
afOrs talk, and when his decision upon
this particular question was called FOR. 10
decide q certain way and stick to 1t.
Vice-President Arthur took the adj
vice OF his friend from Tennessee and
astounded the senators with the clear
ness OF his decision, and nothing OF the
kind was repeated while he was their
presiding officer.
The Senate adjourned that session
without elect NJ q president pro tenn,
proceeding heretofore unknown. The
reason for this was that the parties were
evenly divided, David Davis holding the
balance of power. Arthur, through his
influence of several of the Republican
Senators, had the Republican caucus de-
clare that they would support Harris,
although Democrat, Tor president pro
tenn. Senator Bayald was candidate,
and he sent friend 10 Senator Harris 10
get Dim 20 announce himself as not SEEK
ing the place. Senator Harris Obliged
the Senator from Delaware, and with
drew. Then the Republi ,aus refused to
agree TO the holding OF an election, and
the session adjourned.
1t was the peculiar position the success
sor to the Presidency would be placed In
If Arthur had also been assassinated be-
fore the Senate met again in the follow
ing December that prompted the Dill
passed by the following Congress gov
erning the Presidential succession.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
Mark Twain's Lost Idea.
From the Pitts5uro DisDatch.

PFU" Oto 4 TbsOU'U E|tSOUiChs
Mark Twain says that the funniest
thing he ever wrote came to an untlmely
end and was lost entirely to the world.
| was in his early We>tern days, when
be was a reporter on the Chronicle OF VIr.
guia City, New. In those DAYS when the
saloon was the social centre OF the town,
and the opening OF each new one q matter
OF general interest, it was the custom for
the proprietor Of new venture in LIQUID
refreshments to send a basket OF his
choicest wares to the newspaper Office,
and tor the editor to return tue c0mpli-
ment by giving glowing account of the
opening. One day basket OF unusually
cnOice wines from a saloon that was TO be
OF an unusually aristOcratic order in
spired Mark with brilliant idea. He
wrote few lines in straight, good Eng
lish, bntthe next began to he pretty badly
mixed, and as he represented one bottle
alter another as having been samp led, AZ
proved and emptied, he drifted on into
worse and worse confusion. until he
finally brought up in an Inextrcable
tangie OF incoherency, such as might be
supposed to possess the brain of q man
who had drank basket OF mixed wine.
But when the paper came out he
searched IL o Ter and over in vain for his
cherished article. 1t was not there. BuL
az did find b. ief paragraph, setting forth
In the most commonplace, convent ional
way imaginable the fact Jhat a basket Of
wines had been received from MIR. -.
that they were very fine, and that "we
bespeak for him the liberal patronage he
deserves" With tire In his eye and pro-
family on his lips Marx started on an in
vestigation, and soon settled the blame Cd
the head OF one OF tue printers.
"Wby," said the fellow, II couldn't
make head nor tail out OF the copy, and ]
concluded Mr.. Clemens must have been
pretty full when he wrote 1t. j heard the
editor say last week that If he got drunk
again he'd discharge him, and l thought
II that stuff got into the paper ned have
to 20 sure. So tore 1t up and wrote this
myself. just thought 'd save his place
for hin II could"
Before this honest friend, whose zeal
for his welfare had not left a piece OF his
priced article as BIZ as a nIckle, Mark
could say no more. But he could not re-
produce 1t. IL had been the swIts and
brilliant inspiration OF the moment, and
was completely gone. But he moUrned
long over the fate OF what he always be-
lieyed 10 be mis- most brilliant produc-
tom
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

OF u e line of travel, ard ia. consequently.
aot so we'll known. A few wears ago this
dsngy little eel ar was one Of the sstou IN
e . uiVes In New York, and the reputa-
Hoh VI the place was that they killed at
ieas' one man there every night for prac-
uce; out the license was revoked, traffic
swept past ltand toward Chatham square
ana tne lower Bowery, men did not care
!" go TO place where they could get
notblhg stronger than q doubtful brown
lqu'u called by courtesy sarsparilla, and
tue pace is comparatively forgotten. |
uoht know what keeps it up. never, by
any cnance, saw any one go in or come
GUT. a halt dozen women, dressed in
discarded opera chorus costumes, lounge
ABOUT on the ricketv settees and three or
lour lat dogs are curled up under the big
sneet iron stove. MY curiosity was
plqued and have dropped into the place
number OF times to see il anybody ever
ana go there. 1t was always the same,
tne women were sitting In the same
places where had seen them last. When
entered two or three would unlimber
ana amble up to the bar, drink their
sarsparllla' in a periunctory sort of
way, and waddle back TO their seats In the
corners. There is something weird about
tnis forgotten little den which always re-
MINDS me OF the wicked ogre in the fairy
tales, who, growing old and tOothless ard
lat, hved on, doing no harm but steepe
IN mis- own tngranged yiilainy. In it's
quiet IL is marked contrast to the noisy,
Drawing places further up the street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
A Specific Against Hunger.
Paris DisDatcA 10 London Times.


Talking about fasting men, the follow
ing recipe. according TO the philosopher
EpimeDides, who lived Tor fifty years 10 a
cavern with no apparent means of susie
nance, is a specific against hun er /:
Cooked squills, or else onions, 10 be finely
chopped up and mixed with a fltu part
of oily grain sesamums and fifteenth
part Of poppy heads. This compound TO
be ground up together with some honey
and shaped into balls Of about the size OF
a large olive, which Is about equal to that
OF small walnut. People cannot starye
IL they eat one bail at about s O'Clock and
another at about 4. This discovery surely
is worthy OF u fair trial. 1t may be added
in this connection that a Paris comic
paper learns that the government, in view
OF It's financial straits, instead OF as usual
giving a SUN Of money on New Years
day to small officials, clerks and menlals,
will present them as a New YEARS. GIT
several TASKS OF Succ's wonderful bev-
eraRe.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
POOR JACK TAR ASHORE
A CHRONIC VICTIM OFTHE CITY
5H HARPER.

The Methods by Which Jacks Savings
Are Captured-The Sailor Dives on
Cherry street, he Fe sttye Sbouter-
A Good Way to Preserve sobriety.
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Much is told in
the newspaper press of the ingenious
wlles of the city sharper for entrapping
the innocent rustic, and one would almost
gain the idea that the countryman formed
the main prey or the metropolitan crook.
But far richer field Tor their evil ingenu-
ity is among the sailors who come ashore
at the port, and it is field which is thor.
oughly worked. With the granger the
schemes are more varied and more skill
full, for poor Jack is an innocent, open-
hearted fellow, and the hook which
catches him needs hardly to be baited.
1t is true that the sailors boarding
houses, where murder was a part of the
daily routine and where the mildest treat
ment accorded TO the newly landed tar
was to drug and rob him and hustle him
aboard of an outward bound vessel, have
been in measure put down; that is to
say, they do not carry on their neiarious
business as openly as they used to do, but
there are other methods, which are almost
as sure ii less violent, of obtaining his
hard-earDed wages. His path on shores
10 set with snares, and il is more owing to
good luck than good management if he
chances to escape them.
That portion of the city bounded bv
Fulton and Chatham streets and the
Bowery is the habits at of Jack ashore, and
the cases are rare when he gets beyond
these limits. He rarely has money enough
left to go any further. The Cherry street
boarding houses and groggeries get
lions share. and if he escapes the clutches
of the young ruffians who infest this
malodorOus locality he is pretty certain
10 be robbed Of the rest by some Bowery
nymph du pave or Chatham Il beg it's
pardon, Park row dive keeper.
The sailor dives, as they are known, are
an unpleasant feature of metropolitan
life and are a study in themselves, They
line the lower end of the Bowery and ex-
tend along the lately nam d Park row al
most as far as Printing House square.
One is type of all the others-dingy, foul
smelling and with a tawdry effort in the
direction of gilt and red magnificence.
The brawny shouter at the door is in nine
cases out Of ten graduate OF Sing Sing.
our great criminal university, which
through some mysterious system of mis-
management seems to invariably make a
man worse, more accomplished vi lain,
after a stay with its grim walls. Bill
boards decorated with the cOarsest litho-
graphs of supposedly beautiful young
women clad in the most abbreviated Co.'S
tunes, and wItbin-I must begin a new
paragraph to describe the interior.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
A CHERRY STREET ALLEY.

AS you pass the shouter who's exerting
the full power of a pair of stentorian lungs
ana varied and picturesque cabulary
In describing the attractions OF the place,
generally closing with land thirty be-u-ti-
ful lady cashiers" you push between a
pair of swinging doors aud are IN long
room, the air of which is thick and heavy
with the fumes OF bad tobacco and worse
whisky. On me side is a short and dirty
bar presided over by Orawny ruff IN VINO
eyesyou sharply to discover whether you
are sucker" as they call their ordi-
nary prey, or s'fly "copper"" in other
words, detective. He has pretty quick
and accurate Judgment of human nature,
and as be decides you are neither for him
nor after him, you are allowed to pass in
peace and seat yourself at one OF the
moist and beer-stained tables. Not 30.
poor Jack. however, who stumbles In
after you. already under the influence Of
Cherry street whisky. Tue proprietor
glances sharply down the room and two
or three blowsy women arrayed in short
skirts which display their legs as far a.
the knee and much chea . finery, clust-r
around poor Jack as be stands unsteadl v
at the end OF the bar. He must "treat." be
drinking dive whisky, cheerful decoc-
ton Of fusel oil, raw spirits and various
chemicals; they "Rhine wine," which is
generally cold tea or very weak cider q.
This cold tea game is a simple and eftica-
cious scheme for getting the customer
drunk while the harpies remain sober
enough to rob him. 1t also benefits tire
proprietor of the house, who charges ID
cents for less than one-tenth OF l CENTS
worth OF tea. After the unfortunate has
treated once or twice at the bar be is
steered back to one OF the greasy tables,
and 10 there piled with liquor until be IS
stupid, when his pockets are skilltully
picked and he Is thrown into the street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

TYPICAL MUSICIANS OF SAILOR TOWN.
My readers. even New Workers., will
doubtless think that this picture is over
drawn; in fact, no one Knows so little of
the seamy side Of New York life as the
average New Yorker; he believes, in a
vague way, that such places do exist, but
he has only faint notion of what they
really are. He glances carelessly over
the three-line items in his morning pa
pers OF the drunken sailor who was
drugged, beaten and robbed in a dive,
though in very truth the ''drugging" was
probably the natural result of dive
whisky. The item conveys no picture to
his mind, he does not think of the unfor-
tunate, foolish victim, of the days of ex-
posture and danger which the money
represented, but he burries on TO the pO-
litical news and votes blandly and blind
IL for the men who license these bells on
earth, and under whose powerful protec-
ton the dive keepers grow rich.
Once in a while some crime is commit
ted which New York law, lax as it is and
corrupt as are many OF the men who are
appointed to enforce it, cannot ignore,
and then there are raids organized aud
great show of prosecuting a Jew scape-
goats Is made. Invariably the real of
tenders escape. They are rich, own real
estate and have power in local politics
which prOtects them.
The story which / have told is so true,
so common, as to seem almost common
place. In fact, it is impossible to de-
scribe the hideousness of these places.
The ietid air, the noise of many drunken
voices, the frequent scuffles, when BY
chance poor fellow realizes that he is
being robbed and he Is hustled to the
door, beaten insensible and thrown an
inert, bleeding mass into the gutter
these cannot be described.
Do you ask why they are not broken
up?
Politics. money. ALLAN FORMAN.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
The MAYOR OF Madrid, received in audi

The Mayor of Madrid, received in audi
ence by Queen Regent Christina recently,
in formed her majesty thai the one thou
sandtn child since the death OF her late
husband, King Alfonso, had been bab-
tiZed with that name. The GU zen Re-
gent, touched with this exh bition OF sy M
patty on the part OF the Madrllenes, on
the occasion OF the birth OF the "th0u-
sandth" child, who was tue son Of a
hardware dealer, sent It gorgeous cos
tune adorned with the most costly laces,
a silver goblet and a little book in which
was written: "To the one thousandth
Alfonso from a woman who has been
made happy by two Alfonsos"-hvr late
husband, the King Of Spain, and his baby
son, the heir-apparent.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
"Con.umption Can be Gu ed.

DIR. j. S. COMBS, 0weusville, Ohio,
says: 81 have given scoTTs EMULSION
of Cod Liver oil with Hypophosphites TO
four paiients with better results
than seemed possible with any remedy.
All we're hereditary cases OF Lung dis
ease. and advanced to that stage when
Coughs. pain in the chest, frequen,,
bteai hing, frequent pulse, fever and
enaciation. All these cases have IN
creased in weight from 10 to % lbs, ana
are not now needing any medicine"
Peutv OF Christmas bargains left at b. II
49,. A. ~, - fa1 lnnQrpaa
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
One Cent a w ord.

ADVERTISEMENTS. IL Words or
more, in THIS column { the best in the pGpc')
inserted for ONE CENTA WORD, Cash
IN AdcdRce, each insertion.
Everybody tcho has any ,OGnt to supply
anything to buy or TO sell, any business or
accommodations to secure; indeed. any ,otSh
toordtffp, should advertise in this coltspln.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
White and COlOred silk HanlkGrChiGfS,

This limited space prohibits our going into
detail a. TO prizes ard qualities OF these
goods. Parties in endi"g to purchase goods
in tins line will ind IL to their interest TO ex-
anime our stock before buying elsewhere.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

At some of the dives there is stage at
one end Of the room upon which the
beautiful lady cashiers" appear in turn
and sing serio-c' mic songs to Tue accom-
psnIment OF a cracked piano. In others
there is clear space in the middle OF the
room. where, when the patrons reach the
ierpsicborean stage OF Inebrity, they con
dance. The piano is always there. aud is
always manipulated by a fat, berry and
perspiring German. This popularity Is
80 marked that have sometimes fancied
that the dive piano players must all belong
TO one family.
Some of the dives are on the level OF
The street and some are ia damp
and unwholesome cellars, but one
is type of them all. There is
one funny little place, not far from the
Hrooklyn bridge. which 10 Just little out
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
For Throat Diseases and Coughs.

BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRocHEs, like
all really good things, are frequently imi-
tated. The genuine are sold only IN boIes.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

CERMAG CANARfEs; warranted nne
" songsters: nj o, Cages, cases OF Stuffed
Birds. ETC.. at MOBILES
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

DELE OF BALTIMOKE--A Beautiful
ID Complexion. Ladie-, use Nine. Soma
lea's Partisan Nut OIL and Mikweed Powder.
IL removes and prevents wrinkles, beauties
and preserves the complexion, ant keeps u
you hful For sale at DAVID PORThRs,
l22 Broughton street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
Crohan & Dooner.

n. B.--We have inst opened a choice assort-
ment of LADIES' and Gentemen's SILK UNI
brelIas, In Gold, silver and Oxidize% Han.
dies. CROHAN n DOOVER.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

IF you are IN want Of Lap Robes, Horse
Il Blankets. Wagon. Buggy orTeam Harness,
Ladies'. Cents or Boys Saddles and Brdles,
Mill or Tin Betting Of any kind. Trupks and
Travelling Bags ON the cheapest 10 the
finest grades, you will find nice, well eelec-
TED stock to choose from at w. Is. NELL Il
co - 100 Congress- street.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26

IF YOU WANT your Clpthing Renewed.
l. Cleaned. Repaired. Braided, Dyed, Re-
modelled, Altered, 20 YOUR satisfaction. g. TO ..
WHITES. corner Jefferson ana state streets,
and yOu will be sure to get ~.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
At Ace, soc, Soc and 75c:

rs dozen Gentlemen's Plain White and Col.
ored Bordered Bemstitehed Handkerchief.
Thee goods are the la test productions of tho
most celebrated European manu- aoturers-.
the greater part of them in one half dozen
boxes. the patterns In each box are well as
sorted.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-26
At Soc, 40c, SOC and 75c:

We have the la gest assortment ever ex.
hibited In this city, both IN White. Colored.
Bordered and Fanny Embroidered Handker-
ohlels. An Inspection Is respectfully solicited.