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Year: 1875

Napoleon had another magnificent
crown made for himself in 1904. 1t was
this crown that he so proudly placed
upon his head with his own hands in
the cathedral OF Notre Dame. 1t Is Il
jewelcd circle, from which spring sew
eral arches, surmounted by the globe
and cross, and where the arches join
the circle there are alternately flowers
and miniature eagles of gold. After
his downfall, itremained in the French
Treasury until it was assumed by an
other Bonaparte, when Napoleon Ill,
made himself Emperor in 1862. 1t is
now in the regalia of France, which
have only just been brought back to
Paris from the western seaport to
which they were sent for security dur
ing the Prussian invasion, just as the
Scottish regalia were sent to Dunnot-
tar. If we may judge from some OF
the German photographs of the emper-
or William, the crown of.the new Ger
man Empire is of a very peculiar shape
apparently copied from the old Car
lovingain diadem. 1t Is not circle,
but a polygon, being formed of fiat
jeweled plates of gold united by the
edges, and having above them two
arches, supporting the usual globe ana
crOsa
Year: 1875

At Fort Madison, Iowa, there may be


seen going about the streets with the ut


most freedom a gray-haired old man,


the only feature of whose appearance dis


tinguishing him from the city fathers is


the uniform dress of the Penitentiary.


This costume is in strange contrast with


the rest of a not unattractive exterior,


and it brands its wearer as an object of


curiosity TO corner idlers and of dread to


little children. 1t is the mark of Cain,


indicating that the hands which protrude
from it are stained with human blood !;
it is the badge of murderer who escaped
hanging only through technicality of
the law.


The old man is known by the name of
tinctisn of having been the first white
man to commit capital crime within
the borders of Polk county, Iowa.
When last he crossed the county line, in
August, 1854, he was an immigrant in
the prime OF life, journeying westward
with his young wife Ruth, in search of
home. They never found done. In an
evil hour jealousy thrust itself between
them and the husband, in a moment of
madness, struck murderous blow of
which he has never ceased to repent.


A trial in those days and in that spar
sely settled region, though fenced about
with some formalities, was comparatively
rapid and positively decisive. Fouts,
when brought to the bar, was confronted
with an unimpeachable witness, who swore
that she saw him stab his wife again and
again with knife, despite the deponents
entreaties to desist /; and that after his
victim had once escaped from him and
taken refuge in the house of neighbor,
he obtained excess to her there by delib-
crate cunning and deceit. Neither the
deed nor the malice aforethought could
be controverted by the Vaccinations of
counsel. Fouts was convicted of murder
i'll the first degree and sentenced TO be
hanged. Less than fortnight before
the day appointed for his execution, how
ever, a reversal of judgment was OBJ
tanned and a new trial ordered, which re-
suited, III the then cooler state of popu-
lar feeling, in his condemnation to the
Penitentiary for life.


For the first ten or twelve years of his
he lived like the convicts
but little by little the warden came to
have more confidence in him and to allow
him greater liberties, until now he is un-
der no restraint whatever, and transacts
much of the official business of the insti-
tuition both inside and outside its gates
He really needs no watching, for he feels
no temptation to abuse his privileges
With his wife's death the last link that
bound his desires to the world was sew
cred. The half-score of years that fol-
lowed permitted the rest of mankind to
outrun him in the race of life. He is, to
all intents and purposes, dead to social
life the hands of the century-clock have
been turned so far back for him that they
can i'll no manner regain their wonted
place. Persons who know him say that
he is so sensible of his isolation that
nothing would induce him TO forsake the
Penitentiary-not even full pardon
those gray, grim walls, SO repugnant to
the sight of men who have never forfeited
their freedom, encompass the only home
he cares for.--NetO York Post.
Year: 1875

SHocK1Ne.-Speaking of disagreeable
surprises makes me think of the literal
little girl who was told by her prudent
mamma that Mr.. Jenkins was to dine
with them, and that she must be sure not
to make any remarks about his nose.
The unfortunate gentleman had lost that
very important feature, and at dinner the
child stared at him in puzzled way, and
at last said in loud tone to her mother:
"Why, mamma, 1 don't see why you
told me not to say anything about Mr..
Jenkins nose, for he hasn't got any
Christian Union.
Year: 1875

One of the most curious features of
the edifice is the roof, the superfcies of
which is fifteen thousand metres. The
part covering the stage is conspicuously
novel in construction. A heavy rain
storm might have had disastrous effect
on so vast surface. From the ridge to
the edge, the waters are held in check
by two dams, which gently regulates the
flow and directs it into two immense
channels, whence the food rolls into
large gargoyles and harmlessly passes
away.-,Scribner for May.
Year: 1875

| SbiOi'C III CaSh cSiOoi uuiibS tuC
year is 6S, and the average number
belonging 43. This last is, accord
ing to the reports at hand, slightly
above the average, that being about
40.


In respect to tardiness we have
succeeded in arriving at very sat-
isfactory results, and this without
any serious restraints or penalties.
Our per cent Of tardiness is not
above one half that of some of the
best sch ools In the State which /
recently visited, and not Is what
it was here three years ago.


You are doubtless aware that
we have a course of study in use
which contemplates ten years for
its completion; that this fixes the
limits of the work for each term,
by defining the pages at which to
begin and end each term during
the entire course, yet it is made
quite possible for any pupil, anx-
ions for more rapid advancement,
to gain promotion, as ehown by
the fact that Is per cent. of the
pupils have been taken from their
classes and placed in higher ones,
during the year; while only about
2 per cent. have been placed In
lower classes. 1t will therefore be
seen that if pupil does not make
satisfactory advancement, it is not
want of fexibility in the use of
our course of study.


According to our records we
have received 143 visits from metfi-
bers of the Board of Education.
This result is extremely gratifying
as proofs of the deep interest you
have shown in the welfare of our
schools; and it is to he hoped that
this interest will by no means flag,
but will rather increase until there
shall no mystery whatever hang
about the machinery Of our schools.
If each member of the Board should
make it point to visit i've schools
during each month which would
seem an easy matter, this would
make for the year, $50, instead of
of 143. We further earnestly
urge that you make no hesitation
in expressing your opinion or CIV
ing your advice in all matters
where your judgement would sug-
gest improvement or change, and
In so doing our educational inter
ests which, it would perhaps be
supeifluous to say, are secured to
no other, would be materially ndA
vahced. Make your visits on the
very coolest days in the winter and
you will fiud our school rooms, with
the thermometer at 66 to 20, as
comfortable rs any place in town,
or, il on one Of our hottest days,
then you will find them the place
where fans are rarely of any ser
vice. A more general knowledge
Of this fact on the part Of parents,
ought TO correct Che numerous
absences attendant on these ex-
tremes Of temperature. We make
no hesitation in saying that we be-
lieve our school rooms, with our
bon stove and maple wood, are far
better and more uniformly located
and much better ventilated than
the majority of dwelling houses
Much has been said from time tc
time about the foul air and bad
ventilation Of tho school rooms
and the chemist has bottled mp ani
snelyzed The deadly poison; bu'
Year: 1875

Soft Is the sound of the boatman's oar,


As IL dips the moon-lit tide;
Sweet is the song that floats out from the shore,
From the lass who would be his bride.
Soft are the moonbeums spread out on the bay,
AS the boat floats slowly along;
Sweet are the whippoorwill's notes fur away,


But sweeter that echoing song.
soft are the ripples that kiss the fair boat


And play round her rudder and keel;
And sweet are the echoes that lovingly float,


And the raptures those beating hearts feel.
Softly the dark Icon goes sailing away,


As the boat skins the blue waters wide
Sweetly the music floats over the bay,


And rests on the siivery tide.
Soft are the ripples that kiss the white sand,


As the boat is nearing the shore;
And sweet isthe Joy as he clasps the fair hand,
And they dream Of the futures bright store.
Still softly the zephyrs are kissing the tide,


But the years have gone by in their fight;
Yet sweet does the love In these true hearts abide
While the cradle ia rocking tonight
Year: 1875

THE New York Herald has been interview ing General Sherman in reference to his me mors and the next Presidential election two subjects which just now command an unusual share of interest. According to the Herald interviewer, the General expressed himself as confident that Grant does not want third term, and that his letter on that question was perfectly frank and sim cere. But although Sherman is quite posi- tive that Grant has had enough of the Pres idency, he says: He might like to see one of his friends elected to the office
Year: 1875

in algebra somehow, making the daughter
X, the aunt y, the first cousin a, and the
motherin-law b. Then, it seems to me, if
you multiply the aunt by the daughter, and
divide the first cousin by the mother-n-la law,
in some way or other, or else extract the
square root of the cousin and subtract the
result from the aunt, keeping the daughter
as a common denomination, and at the
same time making a decimal fraction of
the mother-in-law, perhaps the result
might he satisfactory. But | am not GER
tain. l am poor in mathematics. l wish
that Prof. Tyndall would subject it to a
chemical analysis.
Year: 1875

The heaviest snorer we have heard of
is the man whose wife woke him up the
other night, during tempest, saying
she did wish he would stop snoring, for
she wanted to hear the thunder-Green-
field Gazette.
Year: 1875

The visit of the Directors along the
proposed route, last week, was not as
satisfactory as they had hoped for
There was quite general desire to have
the road, but equally as general an ex.
pectation that somebody else would
build it for them. This ungenerous at
litude of the interests between this place
and Woods6eld induced the Directors
to take the preparatory steps for adop-
ton at the next regular meeting of the
Board of the following resolutions, viz !:


1st. That the present stockholders
and all who may subscribe before the
road shall be opened for traffic between
Bellaire and Woodsfeld, shall be con-
sidered preferred stockholders, and shall
be entitled by such preference to draw
back of one-third on all freights shipped
by them or to them, and on all their
passenger fares. This privilege to con-
tinue till the drawbacks and dividends
united shall equal the stock subscribed.


81. That steps shall be taken to pro-
vide such amendments of the Charter
as the exigencies of the Company may
require. ~


The preference indicated in the first
resolution, it will be seen, is not to be
in the usual form of dividends prior to
the declaration of dividends on COM
mon stock; but to operate directly upon
the trade and travel Of the stockholder
This resolution will be made sweeping
in its influence and will make the stock
worth premium as soon as the road
shall go into operation, and will thus
make quick returns to the laborers who
may, as they have proposed, take part
stock for their work on the construction
of the road. To the produce dealer,
the lumberman, the cattle dealer, and
Others who may have heavy freights to
ship over the road, the advantage Of the
preference will be very great. When
the non stockholder finds that he has
to pay one-half more for freights and
for his passenger fares he will be dis
posed to make an outcry about "The
Ring but he is warned in time. He
can now get into the ring if he chooses.
1t will be a ring" of rather unusual
character, for it will include all the
stockholders.


The second resolution is, in the first
place, designed to leave Beallsvile and
Armstrong; Mills out of the charter
Not that they will be excluded from the
line if they subscribe their due share
toward the enterprise; but to provide
for locating the road upon some other
route, if such other route shall more
promptly furnish means necessary to
build its due share of the line. The
Directors consider the Company tortu-
nate in having at least one alternative
line of promising character. The en-
gineer is now making the necessary pre-.
liminary EXAMINATIONS.


Another purpose included in the sec.
ond resolution is to have the amend
ment of the charter authorize the extern
sion of the road from Woods6eld to
the Muskingum River and to Athens,
where it will have connection with the
Marietta and Cincinnati, the Columbus
and Hooking Valley, and the Athens
AMI Pomeroy narrow-gauge. As the
people in the country between Woods
field and the Muskingum River are al
ready agitating the question to some ex
tent, there is no doubt that by the time
the road is completed to Woodsfeld The
country will be quite ripe for its exten-
sion.. .,.. -, =,
Year: 1875

This township is we'll named, for tits
upon very high ridge, from which the
water flows into Wills Creek on the
northwest and west, into Sunfish Creek
on the east, and into various tributaries
of Little Muskingum on the south. A
hill on the land Of George Flock, a half
mile southwest of the village of Lewis
vile, is one of the highest points in the
county 1t is 130 feet above the upper
seam of coal, and about $40 to $50
above the lower coal found on the South
Fork of Wills Creek. A distant knob,
in the direction south, 25o east, is lit
tie higher The Lewisville bill is on the
Marietta road, and, as usual in south
eastern Ohio, the road runs over the
highest point! The following section
was taken in passing from the Lewisville
bill down to the coal seam on the South
Fork of Wills Creek:
Year: 1875

The following from an exchange con-
tains but few OF the difficulties met
with in the management of newspapers:


By some unaccountable misapprehen-
sion Of facts, there is 3 large class Of
people in the world who think that II
costs little or nothing te run q newspa-
per, and il they buy copy from news


boy, when too far from the Office to
come and beg one, they are regular pa
irons aud entitled TO unlimited favOTs.
MUn call every day at newspaper offices
to get a copy OF the paper, just from the
press, for nothing, who would never
dream Of begging pOcket-hsndkerchief
hOm dry goods store, or piece OF
candy from q cOnfectioner, even upon
the plea Of acquaintance, having bought
something once before. One paper Is
not much, but hundred day amounts
to something in the course Of time.
But this is small drain compared
with the free advertising a news
paper is expected to do. Some
men who have paid two dollars at sn
early period OF life for an advertisement
worth four or five, appear to think they
are stockholders in the establishment for
e,erDity. They demand the publication
of al marriage and funeral notices, Obit-
usries, and family episodes, for the next
forty years, gratis. Speak of pay and
they grow indignant. "D0n't patron
ize your paper?p eyes; but you receive
the worth OF your money for what you
pay" but" says the patron, ''it does
not cost you anything to put this in"
which is just as ridiculous as to ask
man TO grind your ak on his grindstOne
aud graciously tell. him it won't cost
him a cent. 1t takes money to run a
newspaper as well as any other business.
No paper will succeed financially that
carries q deadhead system. Any men
ton Of the peoples affairs that they
are anxious to see in print is worth
paying for, and when printed is gen.
orally worth as much as any other
investment of the same amount.
The newspaper business is very exact
ing on all connected with it, and the
pay is comparatively small; the pro-
prietors risk more money for smaller
profits, and the editors and reporters and
printers work harder and cheaper than
the same number of men in any other
profession requiring the given amount
Of intelligence, training and drudgery.
The life has its charms and pleasant SO.
sociations, scarcely known to the out
SIuS NOIAu D"I IL hoo tSo ColhOSS wa
and anxieties and exhaustion, which
are also not known to those who think
the business all fun. The idea that
is q. charmed circle,
where the favored one3 live a life of
ease and free from care, and 60 to the
circus at night on free ticket, and to
the springs on free pass in thesummer,
is an idea which we wish exploded
and theoretically. Business
is bGsiness, and the journal that suc-
ceeds is one that is run on square busi-
ness footing, the same as banking or
building bridges, keeping hotel or run
ming a livery stable.
Year: 1875

in Jackson's honesty that hewas able TO
cover up all evidences of his crime. 1t
was discovered yesterday afternoon by
a special agent OF the treasury depart
ment, who had been instructed to exc
anime into discrepancy Of some forty
five thousand dollars in the accounts of
the Louisville office. Jackson was q
prominent member Of the church and
fepreseB tative from the tenth ward in
the board OF school trustees, and esteem
ed and respected by all who knew hiGl.
It is found that he hiss been living for
some time in a style which his salary OF
two thousand dollars per snnum did net
warrant. He had 10 give Good to Col
lectOT Buckner for twenty-five thousand
dollars, and there may be sufficient
property found to indemnify the collect
or for his loss. The news Of the def4l-
cation created R profound sensation in
the city. Jackson leaves 8 young wife
and several children.
Year: 1875

We fad the following code sections,
which we publish for the benefit OF our
county officers, whose duty it is to ad
vertise and sell all lands:


NOTICE OF FIDUCIARY OR JUDICIARY


SALES OF LAND.


SECTION 2l45-Every person whose
duty it is to sell in s fiduciary capacity
or under judicial orders or process shall,
in the absence Of any special provision
on the subject, in the authority under
which he acts, publish such sale at least
three different times in some newspaper
published in the county where the saleis
to be made, the first Cf which publics-
tiOns shall be at least thirty days pre-
vious to the sale.


MODE OF PROCEDURE IN ATTACHMENT


CASES OF NoN-RESIDENTS.


SECTION disqualification shall be
made for four successive weeks in q
newspaper published in the county, if
any, and if not, in some convenient
newspaper, to be designated in the Or
der, the last publication to be a. least
one week before the time fixed for the
detendsnt's appearance.
Year: 1875

CONCORD, July 16.-Hon. VIM. A.
Foster, chief justice Of the circuit court
OF this State, while riding in Pullman
car from Boston to Concord lsst even
ing, was shot in the right arm through
an open window as the train was pass
ing Merrimac station. The shot was
doubtless fired by q tramp in revenge
for bsing put off the cars the night be-
fore
Year: 1875

How THE Sun MOVED BRIDaE.-Duripg
the recent building of a bridge 10 Holland, one
OF the traverses, four hundred and sixty feet
long, was misplaced on the supports. It was
an inch out of line, and the problem was how
TO replace it. Experiments proved that the
iron work expanded small fraction of an inch
to every degree of heat received. 1t was no.
tlced that the night and day temperature diff:
tered BY about twenty FIVE degrees, and it was
thought this might be made to move the bridge.
10 the morning one end of the pieces was bolt
ed down securely aud the other end left free.
10 the heat OF the sun the iron expanded, and
toward night the tree end was loosened. The
ooptract'on then dragged the whole mass tho
other way. For two days this experiment was
repeated, and the desired place reached. The
contraction snd expansion of iron bars By fire
heat has frequently been used to move heavy
weights over short distances. Broken walls and
strained roots and arches have been brought
luto place by simply heating iron roads till thew
expanded, then taking the slack by screws and
nuts, and allowing contraction by cold to Dull
the wall or roof iuto place.
Year: 1875

Somebody has been crying hard
times out west, and the country is
beginning to believe there Is some
thing In 1t. What nonsense Hard
times and money scarce in Iowa
Ridiculous! Iowa was never richer
than she Is to-day. The State is out
Of debt, and the people comparative
ly so. The surplus crops of the past
year have brought fair price. Hogs,
cattle and corn have and still are
bringing big price. Wheat may be
a little down, yet there is profit in
wheat at the present prices.


There Is plenty of money in Iowa
but 1t is being boarded. 1t is not
coming out and doing good as II
ought. People are economizing too
much. They call it economy, but II
Is parsimony, sort of picayunish-
ness which makes man appear
mean. 1t is wrong. A man has nc
right to wear rags on his back, when
his purse is full. He has no right to
make his wife cling to the old bon.
net and the old shawl, when she has
helped him put good part Of tina,
money In his wallet. His boys and
girls are entitled to neat and tidy
and warm clothes, and that big roll
Of greenbacks are fraudulently held II
the necessities and even many Of the
luxuries Of life are withheld from the
| family.


But anyhow you please, the times
are not hard, nor is money scarce
Money may not be plenty in the
channels of trade, but the piles In the
stockings and behind the chimney
are bigger than ever. And These
piles want to be reduced, and that toe
ut once. And it ought to be pena
offence Ia Iowa, with the unprece
dented surplus crops which have
been converted into money, for Q
person to complain OF hard times
Take the best times the country ever
saw and let every other man whine
about the scarcity OF money and the
hardness Of the times, and money
panic would follow as certainly as Il
the country was depleted of money
and every other man turned out o
employment.


! Tie right kind of talk--the righ1
kind Of public woulc
bridge over even a threatened crisis
How much greater the good to talk
right when money and business are
right. Let US look a little more
cheeringly upon the times. For what
the family needs and for what they
have been used to having, buy and
keep on buying, and you will find
that the more you buy, spending
your money judiciously, the more
money you will have. This Is our
New Years sermon.
Year: 1875




Pinchback, the U. s. Senator
chosen by the present Legislature,
on pretended Legislature OF louisa
ma, after bounding about the door
of the Senate chamber like a foot
ball for few weeks, not knowing
whether he would get in or not, has
finally been informed that he is not
wanted there. The resolution for
his admission was laid upon the
table in the Senate on the 18th inst,
after a continued session OF twenty
nine hours, by vote of S9 to u,
both Iowa Senators voting with the
majority.
Year: 1875

southern people may have officers Of
their own choosing to do the work OF
the U. 8. Government among them,
to arrest men guilty of crimes against
the Government. They want such
men as Caperton and Gordon and
Marmaduke and Forrest to make the
laws, and the same sort Of men to
enforce them. And of course they
are as mad as bear with a sore head
whether their wishes are gratifled or
not. 1t is great pity Grant will
not take counsel from Evans and
Mccormack and allow them to die
tate to him in such matters as the
appointment of United States Mar
shals for the several little districts In
Arkansaw.