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Year: 1873

From private information from Clarksrllle,
we learn tha Mat and Tom Wallace of john
son County, have applied for and obtained
change of trial TO this county. They are in
di.ted for three or four different ehargcs-
murder in first and second drgree, etc.


We also learn. that on the morning of tho
10th inst, Judge Withers received a note from
some unknown source, ordering him. the
Sheriff and the Jury to leave the County in
ten days or he the writer with others, are
bound to have their lives and property, and
to exterpate the whole batch OF them.'


This threat produced no other feeling than
contempt, and excited more determined el-
fort to put every law breaking desperate
through at every sacrifice. There will be no
peace in johnson, until all of this class of
men feel the full force Of an outraged people
and the law. even if the lives Of every one of
them pay the forfeit As they sow, SO let
them reap.


Judge Withcrs, we have every confidence,
will do his duty. faithfully, iearlessly and law
fully, and will receive hearty support Of all
good men Of the State.


We tcalso, in the Little Rock papers that
III. c. Barrow OF Clarksvillc, attorney for Sid
Wallace who is condemned to be hung. was
to make application to the Supreme Court on
Friday last for new trial in his case.
Year: 1873

1t may be well to state that the letter
necessarily omits all reflections on the
Spanish Government, but before his
death Fry gave utterance very forcibly
to his opinions on that subject, his ST.
lence only coming with his death,
Year: 1873

Russia, but II Is too small 10 appear to
good advantage, and does not fully ana
truly represent us. Upon the whole,
our machines are universally admired
and commended, and although many
Of them are similar to machines ofthe
French and English, yet we furnish
more that is really novel than amy
other nation, and some even so so far
as to say that there is really nothing
new outside of America. But, per-
haps, HAT would be carrying self
praise u little too far.


England, our nearest neighbor, sends
some fine specimens of heavy machih-
cry, such as those for cutting oil bars
of cold iron from four to six inches in
width and an inch in thickness, and the
work is done with as much ease as one
would cut heavy writing paper with II
pair of shears. Other machines are for
punching holes through great heavy
plates of cold iron, and still others are
making bolts, pressing them into form
and putting heads on them, all mt one
motion. The washing of wool is here
progressing very satisfactorily by
large machine apparently without an
attendant, while the next machine
makes it into thread, and the next
wcavcs it into II fabric.


The French exhibit machines for
manufacturing cotton cloths Of Vali-
Gus styles. Belgium sends locomotives.
One of them, rs large as two ordinary
ones, has the appearance of two hav-
ing been driven into one, so that but
one smoke stack is lett for both, while
the other parts remain quite distinct,
there being six drive wheels on each
side, and the whole weight of the loco
motive rests upon the drive wheel, as
indeed is generally the case in Europe.


Germany could not be truly repre-
sented without 1howing their nachin-
cry for brewing beer and we could GER
tainly ask for no greater display in this
direction.


But our heads are aching with the
whirl and noise, our eyes tired OF look
ing at half mile of machinery in full
motion, and we will leave this Pandc-
monium for this time, thinking it bet
ter TO see few thing well than to give
a careless glance toa multitude of OBJ
iccts.
Year: 1873

WE learn something new every day
about the postal cards. The latest val
uahle piece Of information is that they
cannot he sent at the ordinary rate
when written over the si'ie intended
only for the address. lUi may write
YOUR letter and crowd M much ~ pos
Sihle in a microscopic hand upon the
blank side but let no word trans
gress the Opposite face. else the
hnl letter postage must hg fnfthcominl
to save your letter from cOnfiscation.
A case Of this kind was bnnught to The
f0stmaster General, vine decided 'thal
any additional matter other than thg
address on tho fa,n Of O postal card
rendeFs Il nnmailal,le except al letjei
Rates OF postage
Year: 1873

minutes. so that might rest my hands,


which were cramped with holding the
rod so long which he did, and gave
me fifteen minutes rest. when l re-
sumed the rod. The fish now seemed
somewhat spent, for he came to the
surface and dounced about so that we
could see his large proportions. Still
could not get him alongside, and /
told Joe to try to paddle up to


him, but he Immediately darted
away from us and headed


mp stream, keeping a parallel course
about fifty feet of, so that we could
see him perfectly through the clear
water. After many efforts, however,
he grew more tame, and Louis pad
died the canoe very carefully up to
him. while Joe stood watching his
chance with the gaff, which he put
deep in the water. At hast I got the
fish over it, when with a sudden pull
the gaff was driven into him just be-
hind the dorsal fin; but he was so
strong that I thought he would have
taken the man out of the canoe. The
water few in showers, and the big
salmon lay in the bottom of the boat!


Icould hardly believe my eyes. That
tremendous creature caught with line
no thicker than q lady's kair-pin! 1
looked at my watch; it was eleven
o'clock, Just four hours and half.
Well, I have done enough to-day,
Joe; let us go home to breakfast"
Arrived at our camp, we weighed the
salmon and measured him-twenty.
four pounds, and forty inches ]ong-a
'nale fish, fresh run from the sea. the
strongest and most active of his kind.
Year: 1873

"There is Alfred Sutton home with his
family to live on the old folks" said one
neighbor to another. "It seems hard,
after all his father has done to fit him in,
business, and the capital he invested to
start him 50 fairly. 1t is surprising he has
turning out 80 poorly. He is ; steady


young map,ro bad habits, as far as know !;
he had a good education, and was always
considered smart; but he doesn't succeed
in anything. am told he has tried 4
number Of different sorts Of business, and
sunk money every time. What can be
tue trouble with Alfred, l should like to
know, for don't want my boy to take his


turn"


"Altred is smart enough" said the 9th.
or, sand has education enough, but he
lacks the one element Of success. He
never wants to give q dollars worth of
work for dollar Of money, and there is
no other way for a young man to make
fortune. He must dig if he would get
gold. All the men that have succeeded,
honestly or dishonesty. in making
money had to work for it, the sharper's
sometimes the hardest Of all. Alfred
wished to set his brain in motion, and let
it take care Of itself. No wonder it soon
ran off the track, and q smasl.up Was the
result. Teach your boy, friend Archer,
to work with will when he does work.
Give him play enough to make him happy
and healthy, but let him learn early that
work is the business oflifc. Patient, s:lt.
denying work is the price Of sue :ess.
Ease and Incidence eat away the price of
capital only, but worse still, all mans
nerve power. Present qualification tends
to put off duty until tomorrow or next
week, and SO The golden moments slip by.
1t is getting to be rare thing 70: the
sons Of rich men to die rich. Too often
theJ squander in half score Of years
what their fathers were lifetime in
accumulating. l wish could ring it in
tho ear Of every aspiring young man that
work, hard work, Of head and hands, is
the price Of success."-Country Gentle.
Year: 1873

Fun for SpOrtsMcn-A Mig Eisl,-Livc-


ly Work.


From an article on Salmon fishing in
Canada, by s. G. Clarke, in tho May
number of Lippincott's Magazine, we
extract the following:


Salmon pools are the places where
the salmon rest in their Journey from
the sea to the headwaters Of tho river.
They are usually in spots where there
is strong but not violent current,
perhaps six or eight feet deep, running
Oft to shoal water on one side of the
river. The pools have been found by
the Indians, who search for them by
night with torches, which shows the
fish as they lie near the bottom, and
they do not differ materially in appear
ance from other parts of the river
where no salmon are to be foand.


The salmon is what is called ana.
dronsous-that is, though IN inhabitant
Of the ocean for. most of the year, it
asoends the fresh water rivers in sum-
mer to spawn. In this function it is
guided by curious instincts. The fe-
male deposits her eggs in swift shallow
water at the heads of streams, in
trenches dug by herself and the male
fish in the gravelly bottom; but it
must not be fresh gravel it must have
been exposed to the action of water for
at least two years, or they will have
none of it; and if freshet should
bring new gravel from the banks, they
will abandon the place, and seek for
new spawning grounds. It is only
when the salmon are resting in these
pools that they will take fly.


It may not perhaps be generally
known that there are two schools
among fly. fishers. The "formalists +"
or entomologists hold that the natural
flies actually on the water should be
studied and initiated by the fly maker,
down to the most minute particulars.
This is the old theory, and whole H.
braries have been written to prove
and illustrate it, from the Boke of
st. Albans," written by the Dame Ju.
llama Berners in 1886, down to the
present day. The number of insects
which we are directed to initiate is
legion, and the materials necessary for
their manufacture are of immense va
riety and difficult to procure. These
teachers are the conservatives, who ad-
here to Old tradition. On the other side
are the "colorists," who think color
everything and form nothing they are
but a section, though an increasing
one, of the fy-fishing community.
Their theory is that all that fish can
distinguish through the watery me-
dunn is the size and color of the fly.
These are the radicals, and they go so
far US to discard the thousand different
flies described in the books, and con-
fine themselves to dozen typical var.
ieties, both in salmon and trout fish
ing. Where learned doctors disagree' !
!, for one, do not venture to decide;
but when I remember that on some
days no fly in my book would tempt
the trout, and that at other times they
would rise at any or all flies, it seems
10 ma that the nrincinal nneation ia |
Year: 1873




We publish q long communication this
morning in regard to the political si!ua-
tion in this State. We do not feel pre-
pared just at present to accept or dissent
from the views Of the writer as to the ex'
pediency Of calling o convention next
year to amend the present Constitution.
We intend however TO give his sugges'
tons on this point further consideration.
1t is a very important step to take, to call
an other Convention, and one not to be
taken without a general comparison Of
views throughout the State as to Its ne
cessity.


AS to a liberal policy on the part oil the
Republicans toward those whom we es-
teer. the better portion Of the Democra-
cy, we concur in the views Of the writer.
The people of West Virginia care nothing
in particular for the Republican or Dem
ocratic parties so far as a partisan contest
Is concerned. The most intelligent
people with US. as In other States, are
looking to the future instead Of the past.
They want parties TO show their hands
with reference to the new issues that are
developing througout the country and
that will take practical shape in future
elections. There has not been time for
years perhaps when the ties OF party
bound people soloosely as at present. We
hail the fact as an omen Of good in both
our State and National politics. The salt
Of the country is its independent thinkers
who hold the balance Of power. II we
were all blind partisans the situation
would be full OF encouragement. We
should be cursed, world without end, with
political jobbers in and out Of Congress
and in and out ol every State Legislature
n the Union.
Year: 1873

.!YANKToN, D. K, Oct. ga motion to
admit Wintermute' 10 bail was argued Of
length in the District Court this morning.
The prosecution at first claimed that no
such application should be made or con.
sidered until the prisoner had pleaded TO
the Indictment. The Judge sGidhe would
consider the question before acting on the
question, He heard the. argument on the
main question and reserved his decision
until tomorrow. The defense In the
course Of their argument claimed their
readiness and even anxiety that Winter.
mute be tried at this term and that no did
not desire continuance. y
Year: 1873

which will draw the $4,000 Capital Gift payable in
greenbackD I'm the Third Grand Gift Concert for the
bsnsht Of the Public Library Of Kentucky az Library
mott was just about the same length Of time previous
TO the last Concert that the capital gift bought The
giltS, which make n vast aggregate
Year: 1873

above mentioned. The Platte does not
run very rapidly, but the boat had acquir-
ed such wonderful speed in its descent
from the mountains that it far outrode the
current. A Mr.. Walsh, who lives on a
farm near the drift where the boat lodged,
discovered the boys still in the boat, which
was nearly full of water, and took them
to his home. They were restored to their
overjoyed parents the following even
ing, after having accomplished the most
perilous journey, in the quickest time ever
before made by any human being who es-
capped alive. The distance travelled was
one hundred and forty miles in two hours,
but how it was ever done, or how the boat
escaped being dashed to pieces upon some
of the huge boulders or rocky cliffs which
everywhere intercept the course of Clear
Greek, is nothing short of a providential
miracle. Probably not again in thou


sand years could the journey be made with
the best appliances. and.by the most skill
ful mariners.-Central City (Col.) Coach.
Year: 1873

\ TERRIBLE BoAT R1DE.-.Clear Creek
is a miniature river that runs through the
canon Of the same name. 1t decends upon
a down grade of four hundred feet per
mile, with here aud there fall over a
rocky precipice fifteen or twenty feet in
height Large boulders, forty and fifty
feet in diameter, and weighing thousands
of tons. impede its dashing progress every
two or three hundred yards, while its
curves are so sharp and so frequent that
the stream can nowhere be seen for dis
tance ola thousand feet. Granite cliffs
two and three miles high project over it on
either side, and give frightful, romantic
and dangerous appearance to the rushing
torrent beneath.


Just below Black Hawk, on the side
of the stream, small reservoir has been
constructed in which is kept an ordinary
skif. Last Sunday two little sons of Mar
tin f. Walker, aged respectively ten and
twelve years, got into the boat, and were
spashing the water with stick, when the
fastenings gave way and the boat went
drifting towards the rapidly running cur
rent. The little boys soon discovered their
danger, but we're powerless to avert it; SO
they clutched hold Of the sides of the boat,
and with pallid countenance awaited
their DOOM Soon the boat was caught by
the current and began descending at fear
ful rate over Black iiawk rapids they
went like an arrow, clearing distance OF
sixty feet at single dash. Lighting
| again On the torrent surface the boat SEEM
ed to have gained new impetus, and shot
| by the powders aud around the rocky
points with the celerity of sunbeam.


At a distance of about six miles below
the starting point, conductor Gibbons, who
was standing on the rear platform Of the
down G. G. train, saw the boat coming
and Immediately stopped the train. All
hands repaired to the waters edge, and
did everything in their power to arrest the
flying boat, but past them she went like a
bullet from a rife, and was out of sight in
moment. The conductor then ordered
the engineer to put on full head of steam
and follow as rapidly as possible, which he
did, constantly sounding the alarm of dan.
S0i' LIZ Oiu noo S0o ouoSnOA StiMPoO VI
the boat, but the alarm brought the en-
pIoyees at Beaver Greek Station to the
lookout, and quickly making slip moose
they sought to throw it over the bow of
the boat as she came under the bridge.
This they succeeded in doing, but could no
more hold it than they could have held a
thunderbolt, and over Beaver Greek Falls
she went with the speed Of the lightning.
The falls are about thirty feet high, and
at the foot are number of large boulders
but the velocity ofthe boat was such thaI
it cleared them easily, and struck the wa
ter some twenty feet beyond.


From here no one saw the boat, or its
living freight, until it reached point one
hundred miles below Denver. Through
Golden into the Platte River, and under
the Denver bridges she went, unnoticed
) nor slackened her pace until she lodget
in drift at the distance below Denver
Year: 1873

JACK IN fORT.-


"'Longside of an enemy, boldly and brave


He'll with broadsIde on broadside regale her;


Yet he'll sigh to the soul DER that enemy's grave,


SO mobiles the mind of sailor"


Probably those who most thoroughly COM
prehend his nature are the boarding house
keepers, who, however desperate on oc-
casion, invariably try to cajole before they
venture to force. As soon as a ship ar
rives in the lower bay the touters Of these
worst of men board her, if, under the new
shipping law, they can evade the deputy
commissioners, and stealing into the fore
castle, demand the sailor to tell where he
intends to lodge while in port. A burly
confederate stands near the touter, and if
a ready answer is refused, the sailor re-
ceives an unexpected and stunning blow in
the face. When he RECEIVERS he finds the
principal demonstrating with the confeder-
ate for his brutal Interference, and appre
ciative Of the timely sympathy, Jack
surrenders himself to the wolf, one of his
best qualities thus becoming a means of
his own destruction. Perhaps before the
ship is fairly moored he is euticed ashore,
and driven to one of the gloomy dens in
Cherry, Water, or Roosevelt Street, where
he has no more hope than schoolboy in
gambling house His stay in port may
be week or month, according to the
amount of wages due to him but his
treatment will be the same as long as his
money lasts, and when it has gone he will
as surely be cast adrift. Formerly he
seldom touched his own pay. The board
ing house keeper made a triaing advance
when the sailor landed, and as seven or
ten days elapsed before the ship-owners
paid off their crews, heavy bill against
him for food, lodgings, and raiment had
been run up. The money accruing, there
FORE, from a winter voyage around the
Horn or across the Atlantic fell by power
of attorney, or less legal instrument.
into the hands of the boarding house keep
er. If the bill represented larger
amount than the wages, Jack was shipped
off at once, an advance note, payable sew
eral Edays after sailing, having also been
extorted from him. At present, under the
benehcent shipping act, the sailor is paid
in person before the Commissioner at the
end of his voyage, and the boarding-ho
heepeF cdu neece MIN no more directly
than by extortionate charges. But that
our seameu unnnnerinn~LIy IiOa III
boarding houses is not the most telling
charge that can be brought against these
wicked institutions. More vital Importance
attaches to the fact that sailor within
their doors is far removed from every
agency of physical and spiritual good, and
that with each successive voyage he be-
comes less able to perform his duties on
shipboard, more nervous in the perilous
moments when life and treasure depend
upon his courage, and further behind the
comprehension of the many recent scientific
discoveries tending to simplify ocean nav
igation-From Jack Ashore" by w. H.
RIDEtNG, in Harper's Magazine fer July.
Year: 1873

THE ASSUMED DANGERS OF SHOOTING THE
RAPIDS In contradiction of the lessons
hastily drawn by many newspapers from
last months wreck in the Lachine rapids
of the steamer Renaud, the Ogdensburg
Journal offers the following facts and
opinions:


"Up to the time of the completion Of the
st. Lawrence canals, the navigation of the
rapids was considered dangerous to large
crafts, for the simple reason that none tried
it. There being no way to get back after
going down, those which were below them
had to remain there, while those which
were above could not be spared from the
places they supplied. The opening of the
canals revolutionized navigation and the
rapids, which before were considered dan
gerous, have proved to be as safe as any
other part of the river. Among the many
hundred thousands of tourists who have
taken the shoot, we cannot now recall any
serious loss of life Several steamers have
struck the bottom or sunken rocks, and in
three or four instances have sunki; but, as
in the Renaud accident, which appears to
be the most serious Of them all, such cases
were unattended by the loss of life, and in
but two by the loss of the boat. If we
take the trouble to look up the record We
shall find that in no other one hundred and
forty miles of navigation of the lakes and
St. Lawrence, stretching from the head of
Lake Michigan to the gulf, has there been
greater immunity from accident or less loss
of life, and if this proves anything, it
proves that shooting the rapids is conduct
ed with more care and attended with less
liability to accident.


"In 1859 the Canada and America, fif-
teen hundred ton steamers, which were
afterwards employed by the United States
government in the Paraguay expedition,
shot the rapids of the St. Lawrence in per-
feet safety. In 1861, the New York, the
famous flag of truce boat, of the James
River, the Northerner and Niagara also
shot them in safety. All of these boats
named were leviathans compared with the
class of boats now used, and where they
went in safety the others should navigate
without danger In the extreme low.water
era OF 1872 there was some risk in making
the trip in iron boats, because strike was
certain to sink them, while wooden boats
could strike and proceed without ill effects.
With the present stage of water no acci
dent can be apprehended from striking the
bottom, and such an accident will only oc
cur from recklessness or imbecility of cap
tain and pilot.


"Of course the shoot is attended with a
good deal of excitement on the part of the
tourist who takes it for the first time on &C
count of the peculiar and charming sensa
tion it produces, but the crews of the boat
which 60 down regard it with no more con
Germ than squirt through smooth water


Because the Renaud was mismanaged, o.
failed to obey her helm, will and should M