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Year: 1878

The old servant iwho had been with Col.
Lewis, Tor many years, and was greatly at
tacned TO him, could not be cOmfOrted after
his masters death. He wept and mOurned
as II he had lost a near relative. After the
colonel had received his mortal wound and
knew that he must die he instructed his at
tendants to tell the old servant TO go To his
mothers, where he would lind "A home for
the balance OF his days. Accordingly, after
all the business of his master at Fort Dodge
had been settled, lie started with a heavy
heart for his new home. He said he knew
he would have nee home IN which 10 spend
bis last days, but that would hot bring back
his O d master.


There Is nothing that speaks palmer of the
true man than the disinterested devotion OF
I. 800
Year: 1878

There seems to be some trouble between
the bus company and the hacks at the Union
depot. Why cannot the city authorities set
tie this matter permanently By giving TO the
bus and train wagon the place most convent
ent for them to receive and deliver the Uni
ted States mails from and to the train, and
assign a place tor hacks and express wagons
This course Is taken in all other cities and
ks Ia "A charm
Year: 1878

demons poured over the threshold. /
knew that had no time for deliberate
movement. They would instantly dis
cover the mode of escape, and either cut
the rope or else fire down upon me. i
had taken the precaution to draw on my
heavy riding-gloves and my hands thus
protected did not suffer as much as might
have been expected. With my eyes fixed
on the open window, i slid rapidly down,
and struck the earth with q Jar that
wrenched every bone in my body.


Quick as lightning / was seized by
Bose, and dragged some PAGES on one
side, and close against the face of the
cliff. Not second too soon, for down
came volley, tearing up the earth at
the foot of the rope, where moment
before had stood.


Thunder they will escape After
them, down the ropel'' yelled voice,
almost inarticulate with rage. And
saw dark form swing out and begin
the descent


"Now, Mars Ralph, J" whispered Bose.
significantly, and with quick aim l
fred at the swaying figure.


Without sound the man released his
hold and came down like a lump of
lead, shot through the brain. Another
had started in hot haste, and was more
than halfway out of the window, when
suddenly the scene above was brilliantly
Lit up by the glare of a torch. Again,
the warning voice of the watchful black
called my attention to the figure now
struggling desperately to regain the
room, and, as before, L threw up my
pistol, and covering the exposed side,
drew trigger.


With convulsive effort the wretch,
springing far out into the empty void,
turned once over, and came down with
rushing sound upon the jagged rocks
that lay at the foot of the precipice.


A single look to see that the window
was clear-we knew there could be no
path leading down for a long distance
either way, or they would never have
attempted the rope-and we plunged
headlong into the dense forest that cloth
ed the mountain side. We got clear, it
is true, but with the loss of our animals
and baggage; for the next day, when
we returned with party of regulators,
we found the place heap of ashes, and
no living soul TO tell whittier the robbers
had fled.
Year: 1878

Of the famous General Stark, whose
victory over the Hessians, at Benning-
ton, VT, during the revolution, was Gel
ebrated with much pomp last August in
that town, the Manchester IN. HI
Union says that his business habits at
home illustrated his energy and severe
vigilance and ability to hold his own in
an emergency as forcibly as did his con-
duct in the war.


Many instances are related of the Gen.
erals shrewdness and quick wit. 1t is
said that he very rarely came off second
best at repartee, so ready was he with a
sharp reply fol any occasion. While ON
his farm, in his latter days, it is related
that one day he walked out in a field
where his men were haying. The work
was badly done, and the General was
not slow to notice this fact and comment
upon it. Among the men was one nam
ed Whitaker, who was frequently the
butt for the jokes of his fellow-workmen.
The General passed over the field, and
finding a spot particularly bad, asked
sharply:


Who moved that swath S'


Whitaker" said the man nearest
the General, with a wink at the Others.
Passing on, the question came again and
again:


"Who moved that swath-and that
oney"


Whitaker was the invariable
reply.


General Stark made no comment, but
went away. When evening came, the
men collected for their pay and the Gen
eral, after slight mental calculation,
paid Whitaker sum which was equal
to the amount due the whole number.
"Ain't you going to pay us, General ?"
was asked in chorus by the others.


s. Well" said Stark, in his high-keyed
voice, ''as near as 1 could find, Whittak-
er did all the work, and so gave him
all the pay"


The men found that the laugh had
been turned against themselves, and it
is presumed that Whitaker divided the
funds equally.
Year: 1878

When the lovely Springs returning,
JOY and gladness ever bringing,


Forget not me.
When the birds are sweetly singing,
And the air with music ringing,
Through the earth of mans rejoicing,


Forget not me.
In the bright and balmy morning,
When from sleep thou'rt gently waking,


Forget not me.
In the calm and lovely evening,
Daniel before thee, thou fairy, kneeling,
For thy hand so humbly pleading,


Forget not me.
When thy heart so full of feeling,
Answers yes to Daniels pleading,


Forget not me.
When the wedding march is pealing,
And the echo is resounding,
Thou to wifehood art advancing,


Forget not me.
In days Of sorrow and of mourning,
Look for the morrow's coming,


Forget not me.
Pray to Him who is SO loving,
And the Helper will be moving,
For thy every want supplying,


Forget not me.
Now if thy love be turning,
Toward one who's gently yearning,


Forget not me.
His heart so often signing,
For the love for which he's trying,
His affection meier Disgusting,


Forget not me.
Year: 1878

the movement TO restore the fax
Ex-senator Morton and S. Wllkin--
son ,.of Minnesota, used to be in the
habit of saying on the stump that
the whole State Of Minnesota did not
pay into the Treasury as much mo
ney OH account of income tax as one
man in the city of New York-A. Z.
Stewart. At this time it is asserted
that the South and West will have
to pay little tax on incomes if the
law is re. enacted on liberal basis.


Both sections named particularly
the WesO are in favor OF u reduction
of the tax on whiSkey and tobacco.
The West is united Oh the whiskey
question, and the South on the res
duction of tho tax on tobacco. If
they unite, there will be POW ertul
party for the North and East to over.
come. The argument Of the whis-
key and tobacco men is the old one,
namely, that the rate OF lax should
be sc adjusted that it should not
be 80 high on ono side as to cncour.
age fraud, nor so low on the other
as to deprive the Government of
revenue: The manufacturers and
dealers in these two commodities as
sert that the tax is now too high, and
that q greater revenue would be de,
rived from smaller tax than is now
received.


There is also much talk about re-
storing the duty on tea and coffee.
Those in favor OF it (and there is q
large party behind the movemeni)
say that it is useless to deprive tho
government Of SO large n revenue
unless it benefits ~ large class of
people. They assert that when the
tax was taken off the price Of teH
ard coffee went ZIP instead of down,
and that the talk about q "free break
fast table, is all nonsense. The cut
ting off Of the TAX benefited only
those heavy dealers WHO had dis
counted tho passage ot tho act. IN
stead of benetiling the poor man it
increased his expenses. Those who
oppose the restoration Of tho tea and
coffee tax say that the effect Of such
law would be to send the price of
tea and coffee up Fl ON 10 to 20 per
cent, and that the movement is in
the interest of those who control tho
market, and those who have nm i'm
mense stock on hand, or have con-
tracted for its future delivery at
present rates.


The question Of internal taxation
and customs tariffs are likely to be-
come very important during tbo
present session Of Congress.
Year: 1878

The Wytheville Dispatch, edited by
1--WE know who" comes out in a
flaming article to show that McMul-
lin should not be elected. Here is
what it says, but if it had only put in
a word for party unity aud party dsi-
cipline it would have been complete.
i ED. NEWS.


Neither eau we the jury find fer
Gov. McMuIlin, because he is the
chronic candidate OF TIE Stete Of Va. );
he is the standing candidate for every
office within the gift Of the people,
from the highest to the lOwest-from
Governor OF the State to Overseer of
the Poor. We the jury have fallen in
to the habit of writing our verdicts
against McMullin from bare repeti-
tiOn, that we can write no other now I;
and besides too we cannot write our
verdict in favor of grand colossal
National Bank, that would make the
rich richer and the poor pOoreI, and
besides from the very nature of things
we cannot write our verdict in favor
of one who exacts twelve per cent. in
terest when the law under which We
live denOunces it as unjust aud ruin
Gus.
Year: 1878

According to the usual custom
which has become a law to the Con-
servative party, that party, through
Its representative men, appointed by
the people, met in Convention in
the town of Wytheville, on the 8th
day of August last, for the purpose Of
nominating a candidate to represent
the people Of the 9th Congressional
District of Virginia in the 46th Con-
gress of the United States. That
Convention selected me as its standard
bearer, and on the day succeeding my
nomination | entered vigorously upon
the work and prosecuted it with all the
energy and ability of my nature, full
~ intending to meetthe people at every
public place in every county in this
Congressional District, but, before |
had completed the canvass in the 9TH
county, | was Frustrated with chillS
and fever, which rendered me unable
to fill many of my appointments and,
as | cannot now visit all sections of
the country and discuss the questions
involved in this canvass before the
whole people, have concluded to ad-
dress you this circular-letter, setting
forth my views in plain and unvar-
nished manner.


The first, and most important issue,
is money. Money we want, money
we need, and money we must have in
order that the languishing industries
of trade and commerce may be reviv-
ed that the property and products of
the farmer may bring remunerative
prices, and the laborer find employ
ment at living wages. Gold and silver
are thestandard of fallvalues in the Uni
ted States, and, if the Government
had a suficienCy of coin to meet the
business wants of the people, no other
currency would be needed or wanted,
but as this is not the case, and perhaps
never will be, it is the duty of the Gov
ernment, through its Congress, to pro-
vide the people with a sound, whole
some paper currency, in suficientquan-
titles to supply the deficiency equal in
value with coin, if that end can be
attained. | have from the beginning
favored an increase in the volume of
the old legal tender greenbaCk money
which money, as every one knows,
was issued on the faith of the Govern
ment This money, however, never
was upon gold basis, or upon a ba-
sis equal to gold, which means one
and the same thing, and never can be,
because it is not a legal tender for i'm
port dues or interest on the public
debt, exceptions which any man can
see by inspecting legal tender green
back bill. The initiation which pro-
pose will be a new issue, and that IS
sue l propose to base on the faith of
the Government, to be redeemed at
its pleasure, but receivable without the
exceptions now made, which will
make it full and complete legal ten
der for all debts and dues, whether to
the individual, the government, or
Year: 1878

Augustus Shell has been nominated
by the democrats OF New York for
Mayor Of that city. His election is a
certainty.


The \. Y. Herald announces the
discovery of a great conspiracy IN
Louisiana. The organization Is secret
and the members sworn To vote for 40
one for any office unless he be mem =
Der Of the party. The object is TO car
~ the election at all hazards aud the
name of the organization il The Red
Warriors Ii Is said to the greatest
sensation of the times


The failure of the Bank OF Glasgow
is said to be the biggest steal Of the
age, and it, history the most shame
ful in the whole history of banking.


The Lynchburg VirgjHidn and Ne1cS
of week before last detail terrible &C
cident in that city. a cO.ored cungre-
CATION at church wedding became
alarmed at the fall OF a bit of plasterIng
and a panic ensued, resulting in the
death of about ten and the wOunding
of thirty.


The Directors officers OF the Bank
of Glasgow Scotland have been arrest
ed for their splendid steal which
eclpses anything on record in Yankee
dom even.
Year: 1878

seem to be destitute of any feeling in
the matter. Mrs. Rogers is now living
with her husband at her fathers, in
Powell Valley, and has lost none of
her gaiety. She seems to be perfectly
unconcerned about the tragedy
Year: 1878

Mr.. Peace says he then determined
to rush and see what would be jack
sons fate. Accordingly he took a by
path up the mountain, and reached
the top some ten minutes ahead of the
party, and there concealed himself
near the road. Soon the party came
up and stopped near where the par
son was concealed, and he plainly
overheard their conversation. Jack
sou, falling on the ground, implored
most piteously for mercy, saying if
Year: 1878

fury, and he was IN the act Of striking
her with his clenched fist, while the
poor wife begged piteously for her
thwarted, ruined life.


Arising with a strength born Of sud
den danger, Martha caught the uplifted
hand and stayed the blow. Affrighted
at the sudden turn in affairs, the mon
ster turned away in terror, and ran of
into the woods as though pursued, as in
deed he was, by demons.


Martha soothed the suffering mother,
put things to rights again as best she
could, and by high noon of the follow
ing day was on her road again, this
time an inmate OF the diligence in
which she had last beheld her little ones.


81 have seen in my dream that God
will yet bring order out Of confusion" ,"
she said, as, resighiug herself 20 her sol
itary ride, she lived the dream over and
over again, a dream in which, above all
else, though she had not seen, but felt
it, beamed the radiant, loving face Of
Kingston GreensbOrough.


ITO be coutinuedI
Year: 1878

\ new type-setting machine has been
contrived by a German inventor. By
means Of a lever, which is worked by a
series Of notes, something like piano,
the letters are raised out OF a box in
which they are kept, and placed in a
position fixed for them. BY employing
a very simple mechanism, a second set
ting apparatus can be adjusted, and by
this arrangement the sentence is twice
set in the same time. The machine is
claimed to possess the advantage over
all others OF the sort, of uncomplicated
construction, so that it is not only easy
TO be worked, but performs the setting
i'm a quick and correct manner. From
all that appears, however, in relation %
this machine, its efficiency is not likely
to come into serious rivalry with hand
composition.
Year: 1878

RElIE3IBRANCEs.-A fire old High
lander told me last year how the year
before he had gone back to the glen he
had left half a century ago, where no
man knew him or remem bered him.
But said he, "I heard of one woman
alive, up the glen, whom I had thought


we'll of as a lassie, and she of me, in
shy way; till, you see, we had no trOth
between Us 10 make things sure, and so
the strain Of time and distance broke
the thread. I settled down hereaway,
and the memory Of it was all but dead,
until / heard her name. Then, I said,


4 will 90 up and see her. / wondered
whether she had also lost all track of
me- for il was rather sad, We see, to be
left out in the cold in this way. She
came to the door, a white-haired wom-
an, so altered it was hard to mind her
at all. She looked at me in wonder
ing way, gave one sharp cry, and said


'Johni Is that you, after ALP I asked
her, after while, how she knew me;
and she answered, The heart never for
gets. John, don't you mind what good
friends we were2 / saw the laddie and


heard him speak when I saw your face
and heard your voice." Memory flashed
out into remembrance, and made all
old things new for her, as she sat in the
near neighborhoOd of that inheritance
I IN life where there is no marrying or
giving in marriage, but where men and


women shall be as the angels OF Cod
Year: 1878

Nothing is more pleasant than to
have mind stored with knowledge on
almost every subject, on which we can
draw az any moment, and the response
Is prompt and correct. Such wealth
cannot he inherited; it must be acquired
by constant study and reflection.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 1873.
VERY LITTLE HOPE FOR THE SILVER BILL


THE LAST RESORT.


Since it 10 generally believed that the President will
veto the Silver oil the strongest advocates of the
measure in the House admit that there Is but very
little hope any, of passing the Senate The
resort will be to advocate its being put upon ap-
preparation bill, particularly the Executive, Lsssia-
tive and Judicial Appropriation BILL the failure Of
which would block the business OF the government.
THE RETIREMENT OF NATIONAL BANK NOTES
AND THE POSTAL SAVINGS BILL BEFORE THE
4. RANKING AND CURRENCY COMMITTEE.


Tho Banking and Currency Committee, at It's meet
ing to-day, rsconsdered tho vote by which 1t in
structed Chairman favorably report the pill re.
firing national bank notes and substituting therefor
United States notes. The committee then proceeded
70 amend the bill originally agreed upon, requiring
that two-thirds Of customs duty shall be paid in
coin and one.third in legal tender notes It is also
proposed TO make the notes interchangeable, or
redeemabe, In legal tenders. to maintain their
value Tor all business transactions.


majority Of the members OF the committee mot
tonight at the Metropolitan Hotel to consider the
features OF tho Postal Savings bill which was but
slightly changed from the draft prepared by the sub
committee. These are the two measures now on





perfected be reported when the committee is
next called, which It is expected will DO some day
next week.


THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE DEMO-
Gratis.


A caucus Of tho democratic members OF the House
Is TO be called after adjournment to agree
upon plan for tho selection and appointment OF ex
ports to be employed in the several Investigations
be bogun into the expenditures OF the several depart
ments of the government 1t is proposed that these
experts shall be the of House not OF
any particular committee. and this that the best
vico may be obtained for the WORK assigned them.


VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER ILL.


In the Senate to-day the Vice President announced
that he desired leave the city would not occupy
the chair alter today's session for several days. He
therefore requested the Senate to designate Pros.
dent pro tempore. Mr.. Wheeler has been suffering
severely with NEURALGIA and he leaves horo tomorrow
Tor Pit.sburg, to spend few days with relatives in
that city.
Year: 1878

WARRINGTON, Feb 25, 1873
THE VETO OF THE SILVER BILL-LEoIsLATIoN


TO FOLLOW IF IT is SUSTAINED.


The veto message will be sent in to Congress- Is
now believed, about Thursday or Friday, probably on
the latter day.


Some Of the republican silver mon this evening pro-
tess 10 believe that the viii be sustained 1t
understood that IT Il should prevail and tho bill fail
the republican anti-sver men will Join with the
silver men OF their party at once, bringing q
now silver bill. authorizing the coinage OF silver dol
lars receivable at their real market and at
their nominal value for all debts contracted before
the date Of the bill. Senator Kernan IS plan to coin
silvcr dollars and issue them in redemption OF the
smaller legal tender notes also meets with favor.
In fact. . number OF members In both houses,
moderate silver men well some opponents Of
the present BILL arc preparing discussing bills 10 be
introduced in the prevails. Ono or .wo per-
sons who profess to know the Presidents mind on
the silver question say that the will show him
70 be strongly opposed making silver legal
kot value he will insist that past transactions
must be held sacred.


THE REPEAL OF THE RESUMPTION CLAUSE.


II is understood that the Senate Committee on Fl.
nance will bring up at their meeting tomorrow
Ing tho question Of repeating the specie resumption
slause. majority OF tho committee are
In favor Of its repeal, but compromise
WILL It Is thought be had to the effect that the ob
gapion TO resume specie payments shall reasserted,
but the date at which II to be begun is TO be struck
put that to say tho committee SIN favor of the
Maine law but opposed to enforcing It,"
Year: 1878

WHAT JAMES COOK TOLD THE POLlCE-IHRkE MEN,


BROKEN WAGON AND AN INDIA RUBBER BAG.


A man of middle age, very much excited,
rushed into the Police Headquarters at Newark abou9p
IN yesterday and said that he had important informa.
ton TO communicate to detective. Sergeant Edward
Bergen, the officer in charge, asked him the nature
Of the revelation he wished TO make, when
the stranger replied with broad English accent, It's
about Sewars body" Sergeant Bergen, believing that
the man was insane, treated his informant with
Indifference which only made the man more vehement
In bis demands q detective. He accordingly
turned over TO Detective Fischer, but until arepOrlcr
had had brief conversation with him He said
his name James Cook aud that he was employed as
ant Cemetery on the bank oi the Passaic River;
that while at work yesterday afternoon he found ON the
shape of bag one end OF which was open.
snd that 1t emitted horrible stencil which
nosed body At the ne thought nothing strange Of
his discovery. At o'clock the swltchnan near the
wdnt 10 supper soon aftcrward Mr. Cook noticed
rOwbOat containing three men, gong mp inc river IN
men wearing a high hat. Finally the boat stopped AT
the upper end Of the cemetery, thc man WIN
bushes In a short time lie returned win tue wheels
and broken body of buggy, ana placed thrih III Tue
boat which he again entered, and the men rGwed away
AZ as Cook was relieved Dy the switch,
man he visited the spot where the man had
diseInbarked from the boat winch was at that
part of the cemetery formerly the home oI FRANK
Forester" In bypath over which vehicles had never
been known to pass he noticed traGHS made Nv rarSe
wheels and further on he iouid the splnttets oI
broken wagon AID part OF par OF lhlLS rms US,
covery the finding OF the rubber blanket ana
the strange conduct oi me thrcc men ~
the row-boat aroused his suspicious, and he made
haste TO report the same To me police auAoil,i,s.
Detective Fischer VIII accompany Cook to the cemetery
this morning and investigate the case thoroughly. Tie
police authorities very reticent and seem to be
greatly annoyed at the discovery made by me reporter
Information OF Cooks whereabouts u kept from the
porters. That the police authorities are excited by
Cooks story evidenced Dy their recence and activity
last night.