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Year: 1877

the conductor q severe wound in the
arm. Nevels was then asked if the
reported duel really took place. He
replied that it certainly did !; that
they met on the ground near Fair
Bluff at 10 O'Clock on the Friday
morning; that they exchanged four
shots, he (Neyels) receiving one
wound in the pistol arm, and his
antagonist three separate wounds
one on each side of the breast
(high up), and one in the left arm.
He said the agreement was that
they were to fight until one or the
other party should cry enough" +"
but that when his competitor re-
ceived his last shot he dropped, and
could not stand up further to face
the music. NeVels stated that
Moody had challenged him to fight
two or three times before, but he
had told him he didn't want to
shoot him.


The seconds were armed with
double-barreled Shot-guns, and their
appearance suggested the idea that
they were a party returning from a
hunting expedition. They were
very calm, as was the principal, ex-
hibiting no evidences of undue
excitement, and when the latter
left the train at Marion he walked
off very deliberately, with his hand
in his bosom, and his appearance
excited no remark or attention. In
fact, our informant states that, for
dueling party, returning fresh
from the field, both principal and
seconds exhibited remarkable cool
ness.


The Republican principal,
Moody, with his party, remained
behind, the impression being that
he was too badly wounded to be
removed to his home.


The distance between combat
ants was fifteen PAGES.
Year: 1877

I.-That upon our Annual Carnival visit.
all political strife shall cease, and ger tie har-
mony prevail among our subjects


lI.-Ihat We will enter aud take possession
Of our good city Of Memphis, at high noon on
Year: 1877

One would think that, cold and


- the Arctic regions are known to
inhabitants would need every COM
could be imagined In the way of


But no. The nrst thing the Z


does in his hcme building is TO 81
tho snow and zee from . spot Of er.
right size for his house. This b,
ss smooth ss he can, leaving one ell
higher than the other. The higher q
serve as parlor and bedroom; the


vorkshop and Kitchen. Around til
spot Of earth blocks Of bard froLsr


laid In such q fashion that they for
round roof, resembling In shape thu


hollow ball. BY way Of q windev
square Of rather thin and clear leo u
ths wall. On the side Of the house
posed to wind is Q long and very loF
wsy leading TO the open Air. This 7
10 low that the inmates Of the hous-
crawl through Il on their hands an
The door Is only q loose block Of snc y
huts do not appear 10 be very charm
dences, but there are two good thin
them. One is, that the high viiid
dssolAte region cannot possibly bio
over, though they may bury 10 in u
other good thing 10 that NO one ip'
lived In longer than q season. Tho 7
quimauI are, unfortunately, very Z
pie and II they lived ever 80 long in o
they would never clean it. But t.
house finally cleans itself in the N
ough manner, for - soon as the va
OF, summer coma 1t melts away, an
mates must set about building a seal
thst viii ah0ltsr than till winter coin
Year: 1877




MINERAL PoINT, WIS, Aug. 2Sh, ~.


Ea Tibune In perusiog the
Waupun Lender few days ago |
discovered that the Supreme Court
has recently decided that license
for the SAFE Of intoxicating liquors
applies to certain place or building
in the city or town where said license
is granted, and does not give the
privilege of selling in any other place
or building bat that recognized as
their regular place of business. This
seems to be right and proper, for if
there was no limit, one person might
take out license for the whole city,
and represent the many others as
dgencies Of his. Our annual Fair is
near at hand 1t has been the Gus
tom in past years to allow the sale
of Intoxicating liquors on the
grounds. You will remember that
you, as Deputy Collector, demanded
Of them additional Government tax,
which they paid, but our city au-
thorities allowed them to slide along
on their regular license Their ex
cuse then was they thought the Ii
cense covered the city, but now, by
higher author.'y, that excuse is
removed, We .ook TO those in
authority to carry out the law that
is what they have been chosen for
A large proportion, if not Il majority
OF the members Of the Fair Associa-
tion would, we believe, if the ques-
ton was submitted to them, vote
0gdiHSt granting permission for the
sale Of Intoxicating drink upon its
grounds, but if the officers and ex-
ecutive committee have not the cour-
aseto do 50 we hope our city officials
will see to it that the tar is enforced
and a new license taken ont by those
who may receive permission to sell.


A MEMBER


OF the Association.
Year: 1877

900 DELINQUENTS.- There are on
the TRIBUNE list 500 persons in ar
rears-ior from one year to six-aggre-
eating the snug sum Of about $500.
This money we very much need it
is our due, and shou'G be paid.
Every subscriber who is in arrears
knows it. and we want each such to
consider this intended for his espccidl
case, and respond promptly by COM
ing or sending the amount due: or,
II he does not know what the amount
Is, send enough to pay for year at
least, and the amount will be duly
credited and receipt sent therefor
stating how his account stands.
Such as find mark Of pencil on or
around this notice are to understand
that their particular attention. is in
vited to it. w. II. BENNETT.
Year: 1877

A YOUNG damsel of Warren sent
twenty-five cents and postage
stamp in reply to an advertisement
that appeared in an eastern paper
of "llow to make an impression, y
and got for her answer: "Sit down
in pan of dough-"
Year: 1877

Doctor cures. The front room of his
suite he is fitting up for parlor and
furnishing it luxuriously but not gaudily.
In the rear of this is his room for cleans
ing. filling, fitting and repairing teeth,
and here are all his tools for tins art
embracing every new improvement.
Still back of this is another room,
where the teeth pulling operations are
to be carried on, and back of this again
is the laboratory. Between the rooms
for filling. ETC., and that for extracting
teeth is the gasometer, and the tube
therefrom is so arrenged that it may be
used by patients in either room. One
advantage Of the Doctors apartments
is that the patients in the extracting
room may groan, halloo, or even scream,
without being heard by and frightening
those who are waiting in the parlor for
similar treatment; and then they can
make their exit by the back door and
avoid the observation of waiting pa.
tients. In short, we never have seen
better arranged rooms, and the Doctor
may confidently expect a multitude Of
callers and patrons, for his skill is un.
questioned. 't
Year: 1877

-. The following is from the St Paul
Pioneer Of Thursday last I'D
!, l. The express train on the river divis-
ion Of the Chicago, Milwaukee e. St.
Paul road due here at 6:lO yesterday
morning, was delayed near Lake City
so that it did not reach St. Paul till IL
o'clock in the forenoon. This delay
was caused by a most diabolic attempt
to throw the express train from the
track. Fortunately, however, the at
tempt was frustrated and no doubs
many lives were saved. When the ex-
press train reached point just below
Lake City it was found that freight
train that had preceded it two or three
hours had been partially thrown from
the track. IL IT,.


Upon examining the track it was dis
covered that a large stick Of wood had
been closely wedged in at the frog of
one of the switches. It was very evi.
dent to all that the stick could not have
got into the position in which it was
found except by being designedly placed
there by some person whose purpose
was to wreck the express train. Who
ever put the stick there probably had
no idea that the freight train would pre-
cede the express. The result of the &C.
cident to the freight train was that the
engine and two or three of the freight
cars were thrown from the track, and
the rails, ties and track we're torn up
for number. Of yards. The engine
drove along through the sand for about
twenty-five feet, and then giving up the
struggle laid over on its side and became
quiet. So far as brief examination
indicated, the engine was not injured to
any great extent. Conductor Howard,
of the express train, Immediately collect
ed force Of men and laid new track
around the wreck, and after about five
hours work brought the train along in
safety. 1t was a very narrow escape,
indeed, and the passengers were very
thankful that they escaped the terrible
death that many of them would have
met had not that freight train gone on
before them.
Year: 1877

The expectation of American butter has
hitherto been limited to the poor grades,
on account of the difficulty of preserving
the article. 1t has now received a great
impetus, like the expectation of fresh
meat, from the improved methods of pre-.
servation. 1t is stated that the New York
dealers are constructing immense refrigera
tor store-houses, where choice butter can be
kept for consumption or expectation. A
refrigerator recently completed is frame
building, 65 by As feet, and feet in height,
cooled by 200 tons of ice, and with a
capacity of 10000 packages. Another firm
makes use of the greater specific gravity of
cooled air. The second, third and fourth
stories of square are converted into a
refrigerator, with the ice in the fourth
story, the floor of which is in Stats, allow
ing the cool air to descend and flow
through the whole building.


According to late report of the National
Butter and Cheese Association the exports
of butter and cheese last year from New
York alone were more than lO4,OO0,OOO
pounds, the shipments of butter reaching
1O,500,000 pounds. The trade in both
products is rapidly increasing. 1t is es.
timated that by the use of properly re.
frigerated rooms in steamships saving OF
from five to three cents per pound would
be effected upon the exports of butter, thus
increasing the volume of business at the
same time that better profit would be
made by the shipper.


In this connection it may be of interest
to mention that the complaints of dairy
men in New York that the butter trade has
been interfered with and injured by the
manufacture of artificial butter led tc
action in the Legislature of that State
which passed bill to protect dairymen ir
the manufacture of butter. According tc
its provisions it is a misdemeanor punish
able with fine of 500 for a person to sci
or expose for sale in New York any article
or substance in resemblance of butter, no
the legitimate product of the dairy, anc
not made exclusively of milk or butter
Manufacturers of oleomargarine and othel
kindred articles are henceforth obliged tc
stamp every tub or package of this product
"Oleomargarine." The bill has Just beer
signed by the Governor.
Year: 1877

In recent address over tho remains of
a middle-aged parishioner who had lost his
mind and his life by his close attention to
business, DIR. John Hall said


The strain upon the brain of our business
men during the past year has been tremen-
dous. Is it wise to allow ourselves to be so
given over to the absorbing interests of
business as to incur this great risk? Is it
wise to throw ourselves into business with
such force that the strain may snap the
thread of life? A mans real life is not
merely enshrouded in business. 1t is in
his relations to his family; to his imme-
date circle, and to his friends, so that he
has peace within, and a wellfounded hope
In God. Men of business, said he, keep
your business in hand; possess your bust.
ness and do not allow it to possess you, so
that you may, as far as possible, avoid the
causes which of late years have given us so
many struggles and heartaches. | have
not passed all my life with business men
without knowing the temptations by which
they are surrounded. l know we'll how
hard the pressure continues upon you, and
| ask you to take God with you, so that you
may be preserved in health and enabled
to feel that your real position and your
riches are incorrupti6le, may not be taken
away. Let there be feeling among us oi
how weak are we; how little we know
what is in the womb of the future. Let us
believe the words which the Lord speaks tc
us, and whether we be successful or not in
this world, let us believe together in God
let us be brethren together in the mystic
relations of his providence, and when we
are called, it may also be said of us, "BlesseG
are the dead who die in the Lord, for theil
works do follow them."
Year: 1877

To regain or to recover health, persons
should be relieved from all anxiety con-


cerning diseases. The mind has much
influence over the body. For person to
think that he has disease may produce
that disease. This we see effected when
the mind is intensely concentrated upon
the disease of another. 1t is found in the
hospitals that physicians who make a
specially of certain diseases are liable to
die of them themselves; and the mental
power is so great that sometimes people
die from disease which they only have
in Imagination. Persons have been known
who have become sea.sick in anticipation
of voyage, before reaching the vessel.
We have known person to die from i'm
agination that he had cancer in his
stomach, when he had no cancer nor any
other mortal disease. A blindfolded man,
slightly pricked in the arm, has tainted
and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Reading a medical
book containing descriptions of certain
diseases has often produced the symptoms
even among young medical students
while they at last got the disease unless it
was stopped by commonsense treatment.
Therefore well persons, to remain we'll
should be cheerful and happy; and sick
persons should have their attention drawn
as much as possible from themselves, and
directed upon subjects cheerful to con.
template. Notwithstanding the mind is a
product of the impressions upon the senses
with which the body is provided, and
therefore greatly under the influence OF
the bodily conditions, it has, in its turn,
some influence over the body and its
sanitary conditions-and this to greater
extent than is generally recognized. Every
one knows for instance, how the appetite
can be increased, diminished or even des


troyed, by thinking about certain things


or by joy or sorrow, surprise or fright


Above all, let every one avoid mental ex


citement. Nothing wears out the body
sooner. Therefore, if you wish healthy
body and long life, keep up moderate
activity of body and mind; but, above all


avoid anything that will cause excitement
Year: 1877

In Newton County, Mo-, Jesse U. Lynch
has been sentenced to an Imprisonment Of
60 years, and his wife to one of 33 years.
Lynch was the founder and preacher of a
new religion, and pretended to cure the
sick by laying on of hands. The couple
travelled with child which was taken
sick. Lynch affirmed that it was possessed
by a devil, and to drive out this evil spirit
he and his wife pitched the child across
a room to each other. The poor thing
frequently fell, striking the floor, during
this performance. At last it struck joist,
which crushed its skull and so killed it.
The fanatics were arrested, and though a
plea of insanity was set up they were con-
victed. The woman is represented to be of
prepossessing appearance, and entirely
under the control of her husbands will.
Year: 1877

We do not know the author of the fol
lowing but he breaches a practical business
sermon.


You want capital, do you? And suppose
you had what you call capital, what would
you do withit You want capital? Haven't
you got hands and feet, and bone and
muscle and brains-and don'tyou call them
capital? What more did God give to any
body? "Oh but they are not money" say
you? But they are more than money, and
no one can take them from you. Take
hold of the first plow or hoe, or iackplane
or broad-axe that you can find, and 90 to
your work. Your capital will soon yield
you large interest. All, but there's the
rub. You don't want to work, YOU want
money on credit that you may play the
gentleman and speculate, and end by play
ing the vagabond. Or you want planta-
ton and negroes, that you may hire an
overseer to attend to them, while you run
over the country and dissipate; or you
want to marry to some rich girl who may
be foolish enough to marry you for your
good looks, that she may support you.


Shame upon you, young man Go to
work with the capital you have. If you
can't make money upon what capital you
have, you could not make it if you had q
million dollars in money. If you don't
know how to use bone and muscle and
brains, you would not know how to use
gold. you let the capital you have to be
idle and waste and run out, it would be the
same if you had gold you would only
know how to waste it.


Then don't stand about like great help
less child, waiting for some one to come il
and feed you, but go to work. But if yor
can't or won't manage the capital God ha.
given you, you will never have any moro
to manage.
Year: 1877

She was young and fair, and tear
glistened in her eyes as she laid her curly
head on his shoulder and exclaimed:


40 George! think if found you did
not love me should die"


"My darling" he answered, passing his
hand gently round her dimpled chin, "
will always love you. Do you think I
would marry you if did not feel sure of
it? In few days at the altar l shall vow
to love you all my life, and 1 will keep my
VOW"


A lovely kind of beautiful happiness
played for a moment like sunshine on her
lips, and then she whispered:


40 George like to hear you talk like
that; you have been SO good to me. You
have given me a diamond locket, and a
gold watch and chain, and rings that an
angel might wear outside her gloves and
not be ashamed; and if thought that one
day you'd be sorry you'd given me all these
nice things and want them back again il
would break my heart"


He held her gently against his manly
breast, and answered with quivering
voice: "Oh, my darling there is nothing
on earth that could happen that would
make me repent giving you few tokens O
my love, or make me want them bach
again"


She sprang from his arms like joyou
deer, she shook back her sunny curls, ant
with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex
claimed:


80 George! you have taken a load from
my heart. I've come to say that l cam
marry you after all, because I've seen some
body | like better, and l was afraid you't
want your presents back again"
Year: 1877

A PRETTY LITTLE RoMANCE.-Ten years
ago handsome young man passed through
Monticello, Ky, and was noticed by a
young girl sitting at the window of the
most aristocratic house of the town. She
fell in love with him at first sight. She
had wealth, culture and beauty. He was
poor, and was then on his way to seek a
fortune as a cattle herder in Texas. After
many ups and downs, he found himself the
owner of silver mine in New Mexico.
The girl bloomed into rarely beautiful
woman, with literary ability, and became a
contributor to the Apostolic Times. She
learned who the unconscious object of her
fiIncy was, and they corresponded through
out the ten years. She never wrote word
OF her personal attractions or family, nor
did he speak of his good fortune. A few
weeks ago he wrote her promising mar.
riage, and soon followed his letter to her
Kentucky home, where he saw her for the
first time. Recently they were married,
and Miss Anna Berry, that was, learned on
reaching Silver City, that her husband, r.
B. Metcalf was the greatest capitalist in
New Mexico.
Year: 1877

OLD CLoTHEs.-Old clothes pass into the
hands of two distinct dealers, and by them
are turned to n valuable use. These
dealers are the men who buy old clothes,
and the men who pick them out of the
street. There are about one hundred old
clothes dealers in the city who have shops,
and who send men out to collect old
garments. Many of these sell the old
clothing for small advance to one or two
large concerns. In one of the large shops
men and women work early and late for
the trilng pay they receive for the stitch,
stitch, stitch, by which they put in some
kind Of shape the old clothes that their
master has bought up the day before.
These clothes after being purchased by the
"boss," are assorted and secured, and are
then cut and sewed into shape, and made
to resemble new garments. They are ther
packed into boxes and sent to an agent al
the West, who disposes Of them to the bes
advantage, the advantage generally being
the realization OF about seventy per cent
on the original cost. The other dealer, HI
who picks up the scattered rags, takes then
to large warehouse, where busy men as
sort, weigh and price them. The buyer o
these rags has them carefully assorted ant
washed, when they are packed in bales an'
shipped to the different factories, who bu,


them for the purpose Of making them int


paper.
Year: 1877

HEALTHFULNEss OF MILK.-If any one
wishes to grow heshy, pint of milk taken
before retiring at night will soon cover the
scrawniest bones. Although nowadays we
see good many fleshy females, there are
many lean and lank ones who sigh for the
fashionable measure of plumpness, and who
would be vastly improved in health and ap.
pearance could their figures be rounded with
good, solid flesh. Nothing is more coveted
by thin women than full figure, and
nothing will rouse the ire and provoke the
scandal of the "clipper builds" as the
consciousness of plumpness in rival
In cases of fever and summer com
plant, milk is now given with excellen
results. The idea that milk is "feverish
has exploded, and it is now the physician
great reliance in bringing through typhoi,
patients, or those in too low state to b
nourished by solid food, 1t is a mistake Il
scrimp the milk pitcher. Take more mill
and buy less meat. Look to your milkman
have large-sized, well-flled milk pitcher
on the table each meal, and you will hay
sound flesh and save doctors bills.
Year: 1877

A GOOD DISTINGUISHED potatoes with
cream is plain and capital dish Peel
and chop fine some boiled potatoes; put
into a stewpan with pint of cream, a
little salt and three ounces of butter; set
on fire, stir occasionally, boil slowly for
five minutes; mingle well with wooden
spoon, and serve in a hollow vegetable
dish.
Year: 1877

In some parts of the world the days are
four months long, and when boy of six
years accompanies his parents to church
for the first time, he thinks he has struck
one of those days sure.
Year: 1877

A lady was engaged in domestic affairs
when some one rang the street door bell,
and the Catholic servant girl was hidden to
say her mistress was not at home. She
answered, eyes, ma'am, and when con-
fess to the priest, shall l confess it as your
sin or mine?"
Year: 1877

"Is he a good doctor?" asked one
gentleman of another. "Well, people call
him so,'' replied the other "but as far as
my experience goes, if l was patriotic
man, and there was going to be a long war,
l should like him to have charge of the
enemy wounded"