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Year: 1877

Chinese crime is as curious a study as
French wickedness. Two families were
living under the same roof in Hankow,
and, as a matter of course, the house
was not large enough for them. They
finally separated, one couple moving in
to another house, and the other couple
remaining where they were, with their
son and a young girl to whom he was be-
trothed. Late in October the mother
of this young man received an invitation
to dine with her former dodgers, but de-
clined ON the ground that her husband
and son were away, and she could not
leave the house. The host said he would
remain in her house during her absence,
and accordingly she went to dine with
his wife. A short time after her depart
ure the son returned, and, failing to
gain admittance, clambered through the
window. The first object that met his
view was his bride, who lay upon a bed
with her throat cut from ear to ear. He
aroused his neighbors, and they searched
the house, finding a man lying on the
floor in an upper room with his throat
cut. 1t was the former lodger, who had
invited the young mans mother to din
ner. Beside him lay two bundles CON
tanning nearly all the jewelry and cloth
ing of his wife's guest. He had evident
ly been detected by the girl while he was
plundering the house, and had killed
her in order to escape conviction for rob-
berry; then, realizing the enormity of
his crime, he had cut his own throat
Year: 1877

The pressure upon the United States


Treasury department for official posi-


tions is greater now than at any previous
time within the recollection Of the ap-
pointment clerks. The applications from
all parts Of the country continue to in
crease by every days mail. There have
been at least 1000 discharges from the
department within the past four months,


taking into consideration the reductions
in the bureau of engraving. Yet people
leave their homes and await chances for
appointment. The appointment clerks
say there is absolutely no chance for
them whatever. Demands have been
made that vacancies shall be created for
applicants who are backed by strong in
fuence, but the department in its syste-
matte reductions of late have retained
only competent and worthy employees,
and it is found absolutely impossible to
comply with the appeals that are made.
Year: 1877

BY ELLEN o. PECK.
I'm busy making q little coat,


And as l stitch the seams,
weave bright threafs Of tender love
Into my daily dreams;
And fashion for the little man,


Who the little coat will wear,
a beautiful life in the future dim


With equal thought and care.
stitch the seams snugly and well,


And tightly fasten the ends.
That it may bear the wear and tear
With no ugly rips and rends.
would stitch good lessons into his heart,
And fasten them closely there,
That the coat of his life. TOO, may be such
As in the world will wear,
put in the pockets stoutly. too,


For they will be crammed. know
With stones and strings and wonderful thing
From where'er his feet may go;
And into his mind try to place


A longing for treasures secure,
That as these are crowded they may be full
Of sentiments high and pure.
'Tis nicely lined for the coming cold
And buttons from bottom 10 top;
He wants it to look like great mans coat,
All fresh from the tailor's shop,
For to be a man in strength and years
He hardly knows how to wait;
But few have more aspiring minds
Than my little man of eight.
would line his life with softest wool,
To keep his dear heart warm,
And button it in with tender love,
From every coming storm;
And would have him early choose
A standard higher far
BY which to model all his ways
Than human patterns are.
And now tis done. all pressed and smooth,
And yet my song sing.
lay it down with gentle hand,
As 'twere a living thing
On! would thus smooth down his life
Through early years and late,
And nobly fit for lfe's great use


My little man Of eight
Year: 1877

The pressure OF advertising continues so
heavy that we find IL necessary ON behalf Of
our readers TO issue a dOuble-sheet paper
again on Saturday. As the demand for these
popular dOuble-sheet issues is always so
great as To require the printing of very
large edition beyond our usual heavy issue,
it is Necessary that the paper should go TO
press without delay on Saturday. and adver-
tisers who wish to avail themselves Of the
advantage, of this publication and 10 have
their announcements properly classified and
displayed, should send in their advertise
menis ss early as possible.
Year: 1877

The fate OF the Obelisk on the ocean voyage
to England will rather discourage the New
Workers in their movement to secure the fell
low Obelisk. II will be in order now for
some Yankee inventive genius to show how
an ObeliSk can be fioated across the water
without risk of tie disaster that befel the
English plan.
Year: 1877

One relief society in New York city
extended aid last month to over ten thou
sandpersons


1t is said that the pay of regular SOL
dier in China amounts to about cent
and a-half per day.
Year: 1877

QUARTZ SEAMs.-Quite an excitement
exists in the Deadwood country in rofcr.
ence to the numerous quartz seams run
ming through the bedrock of that section
Mr. Paulsen informs US that fifteen or
sixteen men are at work there prosnect.
ing for quartz and that some of the seams
pay richly. Dick Klhns pounded five
hours in an ordinary mortar and washed
out something over Sc for the proceeds
The veins of quartz thus far found are
generally small but give hope of striking
yet more extensive deposits. Doc. Finn.
Paul Chamberlain and a couple of others
whose names we did not learn left Rush
Creek for the quartz region last Satur-
day, and will try their hand at prospect
ing. Our hopes are that Doc. will find a
ledge two feet wide that will ASSAY n
thousand dollars to the ton from the ton
down, and that he may strike it to-mor-
row.
Year: 1877

OLD TINE INTEREsT.-The Record
Union speaks of a law suit in that citv
which brought TO light some old papers
OF suit against Barton Lee in 1850, in
which Lee had agreed to pay ten per
cent. per month interest. The amount
of the deposit was between ten an eleven
thousand dollars, and the Record Union
says the principal and interest at this
time would be more than $500, 900. We
are reminded by this of the effort made
by A. X. Young to borrow money to put
on the first ditch from Stewart's Fork
twenty five years ago. Young offered to
pay ten per cent. per month to be COM
pounded monthly. Our readers can fg-
ure on what hundred dollars at that
rate would have amounted to at this
time.
Year: 1877

A HEATHEN BRIDAL. On Friday
night last there was quite commotion
in Chinatown, which resulted in Sheriff
Philbrook placing two OF the fair but
frail dcnizens of that lovely portion of
town in Jail for safe keeping. AS near
as we can gather matters it stood about
thus: Some of the Chinese who keep up
the customs OF the Fowery Land in all
their beauty, borrowed sum of money
of couple of Chinese miners here, and
invested in couple of women. To make
the speculation more remunerative, they
concluded to run the women off and sell
them and made arrangements for that
purpose. This came to the ears of Messrs
All Baar and All Hong and they conclud-
cd to block that little game, which was
done by calling in the officers. Next
day they found out little about "Meli-
can man law" and concluded the only
way in which they could secure the
property" in which their money had
been invested, was to marry it. The
two women were nothing 10th to this ar
rangement, and the result was double
Celestial wedding at the Court House.
The parties were anxious that the knot
should be tied good and strong and there


fore would not be satisfied with the ser
vices Of any of the lesser functionaries of
the law, but waited until the return Of
the County Judge who was away that
day, but who. on hisreturn at once pro-
ceeded to fasten them together with
choice "pigeon English" The two
brides were immensely pleased at this
new phase of life, as was evidenced by
the alacrity with which they responded
"Ye,h-ee" whenever there was pause
long enough to permit them to 90 so. 1t
now remains TO be seen whether these
marriages will! "stick" or whether the
heather bridegrooms will sell their wives
when chow chow begins to run short.
Year: 1877

DEATH OF A We are
indebted to w. D. Sutherlin for copy
of the Virginia City Chronicle of May 3D.
containing n notice of the death of II. l..
Potter, who went to the land Of silver
about four years ago. The item gave no
details as to the cause of his death, but
dertaking firms for the privilege Of bury
ing the body. IL seems that each firm
claimed to have been sent for by friends
of the deceased, hence the contention.
Hank" was well known in this county,
especially in the vicinity of Junction
City and Canon City where he held forth
most of the time and where he has still
many friends residing.
Year: 1877

MALICIOUS MIscHIEF.-Some person
or persons unknown were guilty of a
contemplate act last week, in burning
one of the notices posted by McMurry
" Hupp as required 10y law on the
ground Of the Five Cent Gulch Placer
Mlne' for which they are taking the pre-
llmlnary steps to make application for a
patent. What object any person could
have in destroying the notice is difficult to
conceive, and it is an act for which the
offenders will be severely punished if
they are found out.
Year: 1877

LoTs OF EN.--From the New River
men who were in town this week, we learn
that there are more than fifty men at
work on that stream. Messrs Hollis
ter Il Ogilvie will soon have their saw
mill in operation, the machinery being
on the ground.
Year: 1877

WHERE Is IT when the Argondut
came to our Office we welcomed the ad-
vent of new literary paper at the Pa
cifc metropolis and gave it the usual no.
tice. Since then we have not been favor
ed with sight Of the new paper. Send
it along Pixley, unless you intended a
steamboat from the start.
Year: 1877

FILLING UP.-Isaac Pincus has re-
ceived very large lot of new goods
since our last issue and has been so bust
ly engaged in unpacking them and put
ting them away that he has been unable
to fix up a new advertisement this week
Look out for rousing announcement in
our next issue. Meanwhile call and take
look at his excellent display of Spring
and Summer Goods.
Year: 1877

FNHE design of this work, which has been


il very carefully prepared by Judge L. O..
Brldeweli, of COplah county, and which will
supersede the FORM Book heretofore issued
by the undersigned, is to impart to novices
gentlemen not learned in the 'aw above their
fellows" the routine of business required of
WON when they assume the responsible and
then important office of Justice of the Peace.
Under the present Constitution of MlsssSip-
pi, the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in
Civil Suits is raised to one hundred and fifty
dollars, and in all criminal matters their Ju-
rlsdlctlon Is concurrent with that of the Cir
cult Courts in all cases where the punishment
prescribed by the laws does not extend beyond
a fine and Imprisonment in the county jail
The office is certainly one of great dignity, and
the main design of this work is to be of some
assistance to the unlearned Justice of the
Peace by placing the law relating to his Jurls
diction before him in compact form, with forms
and preCedents, covering almost, II not every
case, which can come before him. Notes are
added to many of the forms for the guidance
and information of the Justice, endeavoring
thereby to explain the law and use of the FORM
so that none, however ignorant of the law
generally, can go far wrong.


The law as found in the Code of 1871, and
in the pamphlet Acts since, so far as it is dis
tinctly applicable to the Justice of the Peace or
the practice in his Court will be given full, in
arran ged under appropriate heads. The whole
will be carefully and fully indexed. Alto
gether, we hazard nothing in saying that it
will be the NEST complete Manual for Justices
of the Peace ever published in this. or, per-
haps, any other State, and will he useful to
| every attorney, every public officer, every
merchant, and indeed every citizen. AS the


work will not be stereotyped, and as the edi-
ton will be limited TO the probable demand,
those who would secure copies, should file their


their orders without delay. THE MISSISSIPPI
! JUSTICE will make a volume of about five hun
| dred pages, will be printed on best quality of


paper, and substantially bound. Price, by
| mail, $500. Address,


| POWER & BARKSDALE,
Jackson, Miss.
Year: 1877

"Resign gentlemen, if yOu please! Public
cor party service, as you prefer; but one or
" the other. Doubtless you are good Repnb-
"lican committee members, since you have
"been chosen for that duty. Presumably you
care good officials, since you are chosen and
care yet retained for that duty. But the
country wishes from you no longer this
monopoly of yOnr devotion. 1t observes
with sorrow that you sometimes get broken
"down in moral health under the strain. 1t
proposes that you take little rest, whether
"you want it or not You can get out OF
"ofce, or you can quit managing the party :;
zone or the other" Such is the latest gem
eral order from the President, and it appears
to have been not hastily issued, nor does 1t
come upon us without due notice. Men who
want to run the Government must quit run
ming the party. Either as ofiiceholders or
as party-managers, the brigades who have
been both must commit harl-karl.


This is an extraordinary order. That it re-
ouired remarkable boldness, even those who
most strongly disapproye it must acknowledge.
The entire machinery of the Republican party
is in the hands of the men who are thus re-
qured either TO turn it over to Others or to
surrender lucrative Offices. In times gone by
the control Of the machine has been IA very
comfortable thing to have, as a means Of re-
waIdlng friends, furnishing enemies, command
ing consideration in a thousand ways, and
selecting all officers of the Government, from
the President down. To strip many thousands
Of active men either of their Offices or OF
their control in the party will not make them
particularly happy, whether they choose one
sacrifice or the other. Moreover, 1t plainly
implies that as class they have been mis-
behaving, either as officials or as party lead
ers, or both, and the suggestion is all the more
singing because 1t is true. BY the misbehavior
of officials who were also managers, the party
Year: 1877

Mr.. John McGregDr, n pushing Scotchman, now
residing in the City OF Newark is shouldering his
way TO the front as the Democratic candidate for
Governor of New-Jersey. BY strict attention to
political business Mr. McGregOr has accumulated n
competency, has developed into boss" of rather
high degree, and he may be able TO worry Leon
Albeit into very perspnng activity during the
hot weather. Mr. McGregor's chances would be
more promising if he had not shown during his
career such a genius for getting into unpleasant
nesses with other Democratic bosses; if he had not
SO frequently committed the high Democratic crime
and misdemeanor of trying TO "get even" with
somebody at the expense and TO the peril of the
party. and if in his epistoary correspondence
he manifested less staggering disoyalty to
the laws of orthography and syntax. But after
ALL Mr. McGregor has very positive strength of
his own, and he has, too, claim upon th gratitude
of Senator Mcpherson for some very opportune and
characteristic assistance rendered last Winter. Mr.


Mcpherson, who resides in New-York when he is
not running tor something might go over to New


jersey and give material aid and comfort to his
friend if he would remain in the country during the
summer Assessments, however, threaten to be
rather PERCEPTIONS, and when gentlemen find them
selves burdened with Senatorial cares and honors,
they often give themselves rest from convention
Year: 1877

work until the time is at hand for tho appointment
of their own Successors and Mr. Mcpherson may
see fit to attach himself TO the band of Democratic
exiles who have fed from New-Jersey into Europe
to escape the drafts
Year: 1877

We doubt if peace will be so much talked
of at the Anti-Slavcry Society breakfast i'll
London to-day as Slavery and its happy
disappearance, though something should be
said worth hearing of the evils OF war
when John Bright and William Lloyd Car
lison meet at the table Neither of these
men has, with all his ability, persistence, and
self-devoton been able to abolish war, but IN
Justice to both it should be remembered that
both have done a great deal to make imp0s-
sible wars waged for conquest only. In this
country, fOr instance, we do not believe that
a repetition of the Mexican war is possible
and that it is not 50 is partly due to Mr.. Car
rison and his peaceful disciples Even in Eu-
rope, war, such as it was in the age of Fred
erlck the Great or in that of Napoleon, Is no
longer in vOgue-we mean war waged upon a
great scale. under frivolous pretenses, for the
sake of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. As for fighting SIM
ply for glory, it is pretty nearly obsolete a
century ago nobody except the Quakers saw
ANYTHING specially undesirable in war, though


it decimated a nation or buried it under Il
mountain of debt A gentleman of Mr. Car
lisons pacific views would have been invited
to no honorary breakfast in London then. The
world Is wiser now, and he has helped to make
il so.
Year: 1877

From the accounts given of the destructive
fire at Marbehead, it appears evident that 10y
a grave fault in the original plan OF the reser-
voir the water supply became inaccessible
when it was most needed. 1t is not the inst
time in the history of large fires in American
towns that the loss has been Increased by the
waterworks being Involved in the general de-
stluctlon, but it is rare for this to happen III
the beginning of a fire. Underwriters VIII
have to take this risk into account III deter
mining rates for cities and towns, and must
bring to bear due influence to compel change
of location or the Building of fre-proof walls
around the reservoir, where the danger is great.
The worst feature of the MGrbehead fire Is
that it will throw large number ct work
people out Of employment at a time when
there is not much activity in manufacturing
and the chance of obtaining work elsewhere Is
not promising.
Year: 1877

There is an unexpected break in the bold
front of the Hunters Point manufacturers.
One of the chief OF them has made an un-
conditional surrender, and announces to Prof.
Chandler and the Board Of Health his inten-
ton of Withdrawing his establishment to
Barren Island. He has already begun to tul-
fill his promise by the erection OF buildings.
This is an example which the other Hunters
Point people ought to have the good SENSE to
follow. They might better withdraw now
when they can confer favor on the COM
munity by doing so than Withdraw after long
and costly struggle which will have made them
personally odious. We say this because there
seems to be 10 doubt of the issue of this
contest. For a wonder the blood OF onr
aggneved citizens seems to be up, and when
they get angry they usually accomplish some
thing. Nh Coe has done a wise and credta-
Die act-WhO next2
Year: 1877

In winding up the affairs of the Metropolitan
Fire Insurance Company there are revelations
of something worse than bad management.
The indications are that the annual statements
had falsely represented the assets OF the con-
cern. The cooking of accounts seems to have
been conducted much in the same way as 1t
was with the broken life insurance companies.
If these suspicious are justified, it is to be
hoped that things will be called by their right
names, and that men who have perjured them
selves will not be excused on the absurd plea
of ignorance.
Year: 1877

She is now boarding at the school at
which | visit her, for the purpose of ed
ucating this daughter. She has uniform
ly discouraged any movement that look
ed towards the raising of money by pub
lie subscription for her use. Hence the
proposition made last spring that the
various memorial societies OF the South
should receive contributions on Memo
rial day tor the family ct Stonewall
Jackson, realized only few hundred
dollars.


Mrs. Jackson has determined 10 make
her home in Charlotte, near which city
her father lives. She is now trying to
so arrange her slender resources that
she can build home for herself and
daughter. She much prefers TO suppl.
whatever deficiency there may be 10
her means by her own exer,ions. Were
it not for this preference oftentmes aud
frankly expressed the people of the
South, and of the Union for that mat
ter, would very soon build worthy
home tor the wife and daughter of
Stonewall Jackson
Year: 1877

GLOSS ON SHIRT BosoMs Take two
ouncee of fiDe white gum arabic powder,
put in q pitcher, and pour on it enc pint of
boiling water, cover IL and let it stand all
night. ln the morping pour it carefully
from the DIRE 8 into bottle use one table
spoonful to a pint of starch made in the
usual manner; nee polishing iron also.
Year: 1877

IT IS SAID that in the Encouragement Of the
Senate committees at the pext term Senator
BooTH will be made chairman of the Commit
tee on Manufactures; Senator SARGENT, chair
man Of the Naval Committee, and Senator
SHARON chairman of the Committee on Mines
and Mining.
Year: 1877

sLoNG PRIMER TowN.-Mr. r.
Brown, founder of the original Moni-
tor, was in our city yesterday. He
said he sold the Monitor out because
he could not afford to run nonpareil
paper in ''1ong primer town.
Score one for Moberly the gas city of
the west.


''Mr. r. Brown" never owned the
"original Monitor and, therefore,
never sold it out for the reason given
nor any other.


If the editor of the LEDGER is so
green as to allow himself to be ''sold
out" in that way, he had better stay
indoors or the cows, I'll chaw him.
-Enterprise-Monitor.


Perhaps the lopped-eared gentleman
of the pen (?) editorial department,
of the MISREPRESENTATION thinks that
all the inhabitants of this mundane
sphere are ignoramuses as himself,
OF else he would not have penned
the above. The fact that Mr.. X.
Brown did not start the ''original
MONITOR may be all true, but the
fact that l.. r. Brown did start the
''original Monitor is nevertheless
true. the contradiction of that long
cared gentleman notwithstanding to
the contrary. And although We az
knowledge ourselves green, we have
ntver yet been SO contemptihle and
contaminOus as to sell or principle
to railroad company ormonopoly as
that Enterprise gentleman did in
the railroad strike a few years ago.


Why old man you talk like yo'
was born yesterday.
Year: 1877

Mr.. J. C. Brown, advance agent
for Simons Star Comedy Company has
been in odr city for the past few days
and by his genial manners and square
business transaction hale has won the
confidence of our people. Brown is a
fellow well met and knows his biz.
Year: 1877

Ordinarily the distinctive pearl
oyster resembles the common sort but
is usually about three inches in diane
ter; the pearls are most generally con-
tanned in the shell, but sometimes they
are found in the thickest and most
fieshy part of the creature. y single
oyster will frequently contain several
of these beautiful objects, and it is on
record that one has been known to con-
tain as many as $50. On our American
coast the species producing the pearl
has long been found in the Gulf of Cal
ifornia, adjoining both American and
Mexican territory. These pearls are
of excellent water, or lucidness, but
generally irregular in form.