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, 1889-05-09
Advice Upon an OscuIatory Subject.

The annexed communication is from
one Of the fair bellies of Port Tow nsend
and we trust that the young men will
give heed to the advice contained there.
in. The editor of the ARGUS is so we'll
up IN such matters that he does not take
any of the advice at heart, in fact, he
feels that in the art OF OSCILLATION he has
no equal. We hope that the young Ia
dies will not all speak at once.
EDITOR ARGUs:-Please give a few
hints to young men who like to kiss, who
try to kiss and who do not know anything
more about kissing than Jim Blair does
about politics, l am getting tired Of
having my hair upset and my corsase
bouquet torn all to pieces by beginners,
and L believe if the dear boys were only
told how to go about it they would not
make such a mess OF it. Tell them
please that there is no necessity Of grab.
bing girl as though she had stolen
pocketbook, and making lurch at her
as though she had accidentally stepped
one foot in q coal hole whilst walking
rapidly along the street. There is no
actual necessity to get a clutch on hre
dress aud try to tear it off, or try TO turn
her over inside of it. There is no ne.
cessity of pulling her head forward with
such intensity that her eyes are endan-
gered from scarf pins and long pencils
protrudiDg from upper vest pockets.
There is no use firing a kiss promis-
cuously at her eye, ear or neck. To begin
| with, the girl is not trying to get away.
Keep cool, bear III mind that you have
the soulful sympathy OF the victim, that
your aims are ideniical-tbat she has as
much at stake as you lave. Keep per-
fectiy cool and collected, gently insert
yopr right coat sleeve ahont her direc-
toiTe costume. and turn har gently to-
ward yoUrma-is .ora. Pace your other,
and yet unoccup4 ara IA such a posi-
ton as the exigencies of the OCCASION
seem to demand, and give q D~Iitie and
soulful pull, as Amelia RiVes Chandler
calls it. By this time the "rosebud
mouth" as you see fit to call it, is turned
toward you. Lean over gently-and
let nature do her work. That's all.
DAISY.
, 1889-05-09
RAILROAD ACCIDENT
4 Freight Train Crashes Into Coach
Containing Eleven Fassengers---fhs
Horses are Crushed to Pieces.

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Containing Eleven Fassengers---Ths
Horses are Crushed to riseeS'
PHILaDBLPH1A, May ga coach con
tanning several persons was struck by q
train, on the Pennsylvania road this
morning; F. K. Wsmsrath and james
Dugan we're killed. three Others injured.
The accident occurred shortly after one
O'Clock this morning. The coach con-
taiued eleven men, who we're members OF
the Masonic fraternity and were return
ing to the city from visit to DR. Dyer
of Bridgesburg, worshiptul master OF the
lodge, to which they belonged. Howard
Gibbs, ono OF the injured, did not belong
to the party, but had been overtsEen ~
the rond and allowed 10 ride With the
driver. This brisf delay, caused by tax
in this extra passenger undoubtedly bad
much to do with the calamity which
followed. Tho night Was hazey, render
ing objects indistinct and it is supposed
the freight train approached the crossing
uDpsrceivsd by those who were in the
coach The engineer wh-p he
saw what had happened, stopped the
train as soon As possible. Stretched up
on the COW catcher, bruised, bleeding,
and inssusible. was johnson, the colored
driverss a sqnare below the crossing the
horses,wese found dead and crushed to
pieces, lying close together. The force
Of the blow must have been terrible, for
the shees were torn fnom the feet of one
of the horses, and the others leg WAS cut
off close to the trunk. Further up the
tEack the wagon was found dashed to
wood. and was. lying on the
track. EStme feet away from it were the
bodies of Womerath and DUNCAN; close
to them lay their fellow passengers,
Smith and Witgus, who were quite
senseless. but the others with the ex-
ception of Drs. Hale and Myers we're
crying pitifully.
, 1889-05-09
Tho Missing Omcer Pound.

NEW YORK, May S.-Henry r. Smith,
paymas.er Of the United States corvette,
ESSEX. who disappeared with 8 sum OF
money, Q portion OF the salary OF the
crew of the vessel. has been found. he
is now at his rauther's home in West
Fourteenth street, too i'll to give any &C.
count Of himself or the Sl2O0 which he
had when be disappeared. It is lsarDsd
that he went TO his mothers house last
Wednesday night In = partly crazy con-
dition, the result Of heavy drinking.
That sauo night he tried to commit sui
eide, bat was prevented by his attend
ants and has since msde no attempt on
his life. Another paymsster arrived
here to-day frsm San francisco. 1t it
said about Smith that he had had some
misu understanding with his wife, and
that this and her expected arrival here
were the cause for his disappear anee
and rash actions.
, 1889-05-09
Governor and secretary ofUtah.

WAsHISdToN, May Arthur l..
Thomas, appointed governor OF Utah, is
a member of the Utah commission; he
is native of Pittsburgh, Pa, and
for several years was clerk in the office
of the clerk of theNat'l house Of represen-
tatives. He was appointed secretary of
Utah in 1877. Elijah Sells, appointed
secretary for Utah, was native repub-
lican in the early days of the party
in Iowa
, 1889-05-09
Tho s.aas. r.rss,ix.tipr..

WASHINGTON, May 8.-The senate COM
mittee to investigate tho alleged owner
ship by the Canadian corporation, and
capital of American roads, reasssmbled
this morning. The first witness was
Commissioner Albert Fink, chairman Of
the Trunk Line Association, who said
that the Grand Trunk Railroad and its
branches, as far ss he knew, vas trunk
line that ran from Chicago to Portland,
Maine.
, 1889-05-09
JustinabIe Homicide.

OAKLAND, (Cal.,) May 7.-Albert Gitt
ner shot and killed Civ. Strope yester
day morning, on the Glenn ranch, tive
miles from Jacinto. Strope, who was q
large man, had twice attacked and beaten
Gittner, much smaller man. Yester
day Strope again attacked Gittner, who
retreated to his room, and warning
him off. Strope followed and caught
Gittner by the throat. The latter seized
a gun and shot his assailant through this
head, which caused instant death. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict of iusti
fable homicide.
, 1889-05-09
The Cruiser Charleston.

SAN FRAScIsoo. May 6.-At five o'clock
this morning., the cruiser Charleston
started on her trial trip; she steamed
slowly around the bay at the rate OF
eleven knots an hour, and at 9:l5 passed
through Golden Gate. She is COM
manded by Captain Charles Goodali jr.,
OF the Pacific Coast Steamship company.
The Charleston will proceed direct 10
Santa Barbara channel and on the way
an informal tcst will beamade; on her
arrival she will be given time to be pre-
pared for Q test which will be severe.
On board the Charleston are only the
-~'-ials and men of the naval board, con-
Zee ReRhsm, Captain
"-aster,
, 1889-05-09
Gone 60 the RSttonl,

ST. JOINS, IN. b. May Six per
sons left st. Andrews Saturday evening,
in sloop, for Diqaast. While still in st.
Andrews Bay, the sloop capsized, and
the little vessel and all wont to the bot
tom. The names ST the lost are A
Flynn, II. Barnes, Thos. Crosan and 8
man named Notnan and his son John.
, 1889-05-09
r.mm.ny Refuses to Salute.

NEW YoRK, May lst.-Some little ex-
citement WAS caused by some of the
Tammany braves refusing or negiectiRg
to salute the procession as it passed by
yesterday. At first shouts for hats off
were heard, but when this had no effect,
The balance of the files were loudly
Kissed, except in few instances when
the proper salute was made. No one
thought the Tammanyites were inten-
tionally disrespectful, but that they did
not know that they were expected to
salute.
, 1889-05-09
- S-----~
y Receiver Asked For.

CHICAGO, May IA bill was filed in
the circuit court by number of pro-
minent citizens to-day, asking for the
appointment Of a receiver for the Home
for 1ncurabies aud an injunction against
the manager. The bill also asks for the
removal Of President Hyganbotham of
the institution and Mrs. Barlow, the
matFoD, for gross violations OF the trust
imposed in them, it is claimed that help
lass inmates have been frightfully abused
and tortured. Thirty cases are cited,
some OF them too horrible for belief.
, 1889-05-09

noon, and while there was shown the
pictures OF Grant, Sumner and Garfield
which the collector had fished up out of
the rubbish. The pictures of these men
OF mark, men, who, during the time this
country was passing through long siege
of strife lent all their energies toward
bringing peace to the country, once dec
GRATED the walls OF the now notorious
building occupied by the customs officers.
1t is said that when tine office was under
the management of the Democrats these
pictures ere placed in the lower floor
among the junk and would have re-
mained there had not the present coIlec-
tor delved deep i'll the mine of hidden
treasure and found them.
1t is unnecessary for me to say that
Collector Bradshaw will have the pie
lures cleaned up and replaced on the
walls.
, 1889-05-09
Valuable Hnrsea Burned.

CYNTHIAEA, KY, May THE stables
OF Capt Moore, near Oynthiana, wa:
burned last night, conusuming twenty.
five valuable horses, one of them. Vor
Wilkes, valued at $4,000, and a coli
among them valued at $4,000; no insur
ance.
, 1889-05-09
A New Board of Directors for the Atehi-
snn Tnneka 4 Santa Fa.

bOUI AVPHAN . oHIlNH II %
BOsToN, May 3.-President Strong and
Director Cheney, Of the Atchison, left fol
Topeka last night TO be present at the
meeting Mays 8. The somewhat surpris'
ing statement was made and apparently
authoritatively thai they will vote COM
pany's proxies for the Kidder-Peabody
ticket; there is q well founded opinion
that Strong will remain president Of tht
company 1t is Learned that new
board of directors will in all probability
be elected. The bankers board, that is
Abel, Morgan & Co. and Brown Bros. &
Co, will both have representatives..
, 1889-05-09
An Ohio Town Burned.

FINDLAY. Ohio, May At midnight
last nighl fire broke out in meat shop
in Beaver Dam, small village 20 miles
west Of this city, and before the flames
could be subdued. almost the entire busi,
ness portiod of the town was burned. Z
, 1889-05-09
a EIre at WiRnspsg.

WIsNErEe, May GA FIRE this morn
ing destroyed ten houses, including the
Nickle Plate and Brooklyn Hotels. The
Jewish Synagogue, Methodist Church
and several other large buildings are
badly scorched.
, 1889-05-09
Frank A. Palmer, Pubic Printer.

WASHINGTON, May 7th.-The president
this evening appointed Frank W. Palmer,
of Illinois, to be public printer, Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, and Hugh S.
Thompson, of South Carolina, to be civil
service commissioners.
, 1889-05-09
Pierre VIII Get Ahead Of Oar Southern

DAKOTA, May Ga corps of surveyors
will leave Pierre, May 10th, to make n
preliminary survey of q line of road from
Pierre to Puget Sound. The Illinois
CeRtrsl is said to be backing the
scheme.
, 1889-05-09

That chap met genial Frank Bartlett
yesterday afternoon busy calling on the
business men and getting subscriptions
to the Fourth OF July fund. AT the time
OF which | speak he had a guarantee of
5000 and he remarked, that unless he
raised $1,000 he would not present the
paper 10 the committee. In selecting
Mr. Bartlett, the chairman did q wise
thing. No man in the community stands
higher in the estimation of the people or
has more friends than he; and with his
name as patron OF anything is a suffici-
ent guarantee that humbug is not upper
most in the minds of the men.
BYSTANDER,
, 1889-05-09

SiDce II Is tie proper thing for news
papers to have IAN cbservant citizen ~
"a nan about towD." and half-dozen
other men to be employed on news
papers the ARGUS, 10 keep abreast
of the times, has engaged the services Of
j. DucewulIGp Higgins, to write for this
paper during the present week
, 1889-05-09

The Republican convention is TO be
held to-day and host of individuals
want TO represent the people San.
Juan and CialIam both want 10 be rep
resented, but that chap on the corner
thinks that as San Juan has not had
very much of the political pie that it
should have a slice of that prepared for
the convention, and the one to eat it
lies between Joe Sweeney and Bowen,
representative business men and men
that would form a good combination
with one of the rising youDg lawyers
that should 90 from Jefferson. John j
Calhoun, a pretty good lawyer too, says
he does not see the necessity for q
lawyer from any of the three counties.
He is a strong Attridge man, and as
Bob is on deck We have sneakiDg idea
that he will ''get there"
That chap on the corner took stroll
the other day through the highways and
byways of beautiful Townsend, and if
there is a board of councils that should
be more ashamed of the roads and side
walks than yours they should so to
cemetery and die. Why one should be
obliged to walk along a street and at
the end of every two hundred Yards come
down with a sudden dull thud is more
than be can understand. Less attention
to liquor license and gambling saloons
ana more to the sidewalks and streets
would reflect more credit on our high
lic1osc friends i'll the council.
THAI chap on the corner heard, while
ip Semitic, that there was to be motor
line here within the next thirty days.
This was three months ago, yet with the
exception of few ties sunk and the road
destroyed for riding or driving, the line
is as much in embryo as ever. 1t seems
as though something should be done TO
push tie thing through. Hades, they
say, is paved with good intentions; your
motor line is a good intention but you
want your street paved With little more
than that. Let the people hear the toot,
toot, Of the engine and see Motor Dooley
on the cowcatcher and they will think that
there is some truth in the prophesies of
the real estate men.
The chap on the corner heard q funny
| story the other day about a young man
| and boat ride. 1t seems the young
| man was about to take a walk but was
| invited 10 take q boat ride which he at
first declined, but when told that two la
| dies. belonging to a strolling dramatic
troupe which recently appeared here,
| would be of the party he consented to be
one of the number. 1t was understood,
! however, that Henry Rothcbild and him
-ere TO be the only gentlemen in
The young man visited the
d it out nicely, spoDging
1t so the dear little
- feet wet.
nhout
, 1889-05-09

That chap wen! into The opera house
Saturday night 10 see the contest be.
tween the singers. Tie first three
! bouts were funny in The extreme; Reed,
a new candidate for pugilistic hOuors az
| fordiUG amusement for tie audience by
| his funny attitudes which, we arg in
| formed, were taught him by a prize
fighter. Another prize fighter will teach
him something different some day.
Regarding Hankins' defeat, Charlie
said he was not prepared for a knock
ont and was afraid of being arrested.
He got the Knockout end the arrest
too. Neither Of the men should have
been arrested, ii was merely for sc en-
tific points apd if the men were violat-
iug, or it was suspected they would yiO-
late the laws, The deputy sheriff should
have stopped the fight when HapkiGs
went down in the second round. 1t
savored very much of farce for the
deputy to arrest the men after the fight
was over. Hankins says he will whip
Cleary anywhere-in a ring or on tie
street. That chap on the corner wants
to be there and trusts that mammals
darling who ran up to Attorney Cal
houn's house and fled the complaint
Saturday night will be excluded from
the diversion.
, 1889-05-09

PHILADELPHIA, May 7.-Philsdeiphia
s; New York 4.
CIScINNATI.-Cincinnati 8; Athletics
, 1889-05-09

Proceedings at Port Ludlow.
, 1889-05-09

Minutes of Republican :
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08
Sense of Equity.

Sir Richard Bethel, whose great
ability as a chancery lawyer made
him lord chancellor, had hot temper,
but its outbursts We're quickly quieted
by an appeal to his sense of equity.
Sir Richard one day ordered his
coachman to take a colt which the
master had bred to a neighboring fair
and sell it for not less than $40. The
man, however, sold the colt for f3S.
Sir Richard was angry, and said to the
coachman:
PAIGE, you have disobeyed my
positive instructions. You are dis
missed"
well, Sir Richard" the coachman
answered, that is very hard. took
f3S for the colt, for if had brought it
back the cost of its keep for the next
three months would have amounted to
more than the difference in the price.
l shant take my dismissal for such a
cause"
Very well. PAIGE, so be it." replied
Sir Richard, struck with the equity of
the plea. The man remained in his
masters service for the rest of his life.
Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08

A woman in West Tennessee went
home from church one Sunday i'm
pressed by moving appeal which her
pastor had made in behalf of minis
ter's widow recently left in want with
six children. What could she give to
relieve this case of suffering2 She
was herself widow and poor She
thought intensel y over the matter, and
that night she prayed over it, but no
way OF raising the money occurred to
her. The next morning when she
went out to sweep off her doorstep
she noticed that the earth on one side
had been freshly thrown up. and
something glittering lay in the dirt.
1t was S. gold piece. During the
night rat had taken it into his head
to dig hole under the step, and one
result of his labor was the resurrec-
ton of that coin. The woman knew
that during the war her husband had
buried his savings, all in gold coin,
under those steps, but he had dug up
the money after the war was over, and
evidently supposed he had recovered
the whole. 1t seemed that he was
mistaken. And now his widow was
not slow to follow the hint given her
by the burrowing rat. She moved the
steps and after thorough search sue.
ceeded in finding $50 Regarding this
money as direct gift from heaven she
sent it all to the suffering family
Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08

The Kent Examiner publishes the
following letter, written by Dickens
on the occasion of the death of one of
Mark Lemons children. The editor
states that it is the letters first appear
ance in print:
MY dear Mark-We are indeed
greatly grieved at your calamity. 1
have no need to tell you, dear fellow,
how constantly you are in our
thoughts, and that l have not forgot
ten, and never can forget, who it was
that watched with and comforted me
the night little place in my house
was left empty. We know you will
both have found comfort in that blessed
relief, from which the sacred figure
with the child on his knee is in all
stages of our lives inseparable. For
of such is the kingdom of heaven
1t is hard, God knows, to lose a child
of any age, but there are many sources
of comfort in losing one so young as
yours. There is beautiful thought
in Fielding's journey from this world
to the next, where the little one he
had lost many years before was found
by him radiant and smiling, building
him a bower in the Elysian Fields,
where they We're to live together when
he came. Ever, old friend, yours
ever, CHARLES DICKENS"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08
A Furious Combat.

The hawk is a vicious and danger
GUS bird when wounded, and will
fight dog or even a man until it is
killed, but it is not often that we hear
of one attacking a man without pro-
vocation. Such a case occurred up in
the state, however.
A man who was driving a team of
horses along country road saw a
large hawk circling around in the air
above him, apparently looking for
prey. Being interested in the move
ments of the bird, he stopped his
horses and sat watching it. Sud
denly he was astonished to see
the hawk swooping down directly
towards him. 1t struck him in the
back and nearly knocked him out of
the wagon, and then flew to the side
of the road, taking with it big piece
of the mans coat which it had torn
out with its talons. The man jumped
from his wagon with the intention of
killing the hawk, but as he touched
the ground the bird sprang at him
furiously. He kicked it in the breast,
but this had no effect, except to in
crease its fury. It rushed at him
again, and picking up stick of wood,
the tn, man man attempted to give it a finish
and too quick, and it soon had the
mans clothing in shrsds and great
gashes torn in his breast and legs with
its terrible talons. 1t attempted time
and again to strike the mans eyes with
its beak, but in this it was foiled, and
finally q lucky blow with the stick
stunned it SO that he soon dispatched
it. He was so much exhausted by the
furious fight that he had to lie down
to recover his strength. The hawk
measured six feet from tip to tip
Philadelphia Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08
Treating ption.

A new method of treating tubercu-
losis, or consumption of the lungs, has
been proposed by NJ Halter. It con-
sists in inhaling dry air heated to the
temperature of from $50 dogs. to 275
degs. Fahrenheit, the theory being that
at this temperature the bacille
which are supposed to produce the dis
ease are destroyed. Old experiments
have shown that there is no difficulty
in inhaling air at these temperatures,
but it seems more than doubtful
whether the effect will be in the least
degree advantageous. Another and
more rational novelty in the treatment
is that described by Dettweiler as in
use at the Folkenstein sanatorium.
The essence of this method is that the
patients are required to live perma-
nently in the open air, to sleep there,
even If the temperature fall as low as
IA degs. Fahrenheit. Thus perfectly
pure air is secured without the break
in the conditions which occurs when
patients live out of doors in the day
time, but are housed at night. The
patients are said to become fond of the
treatment, and the recoveries are
placed at 25 per cent. of the cases
treated. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-02-08
The Australian Boomeranp.

The boomerang of the Australians is
made of hard wood and has the curve
of parabola; is about two feet long,
two and half inches broad, and one
third of an inch through. In throw
ing it the hunter takes it by one end,
holding it so that the convex edge is
forward and the fiat side uppermost.
When thrown it ascends gradually
with rotary motion, and finally be-
gins to retrograde.
The natives of some tribes call the
boomerang wangno or kilie, and the
wood known to botanists as acacia
pendula is generally selected by the
boomerang makers. If possible they
choose a limb that is bent to form an
angle of about 100 to 130degrees. The
weapon returns to the thrower best
when thrown against the wind but
never returns when it has fairly hit
the object at which it was aimed.
Those who are expert can place it
where they wish, and in warfare it is
most effective, striking where it is
least expected, and in hunting it can
be used at distance of 200 PAGES. -
New York Commercial Advertiser.