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Year: 1876

WASHINGTON, July 0, 1919


GRRss-THx CONDITION OF BUSINESS IN BOTH


HOUSES.


Mono OF the members of Congress approximate
the time OF adjournment although is supposed that
at least two weeks will eIapse before that
result s reached. As the Senate expect to complete
the examination OF all the for The prosccu.
ton In the Belknap impeachment before the close
Of this week. and the number Of witnesses for the
defonce must be lew, should there be admission Of
the coed character of the accused up to the time
of the discovery Of his transactions with Marsh is
supposed that the tral will be concluded within the
next ten days There Is however. as to this no GER
tanty Meantime the Senate Will necessarily attend 10
much legislative business The House is much further
advanced in business than tho Senate latter having
yet act the River and Harbor Appropriation BILL
the bill making further provision for the distribution
OF the unapproprated moneys OF the Geneva award tho
bill designating plan tor the Pacific railroads repay
the govern ment the moneys advanced their bonds
&C. and the bill for the equalization OF bountics Ills
not supposed, however, that the Senate will this
session the two bills last for want Of
time, as they would Involve much discussion. Tho
Morrison Tariff bill will, Of course, DO further con-
sidcred BY tho House at this session. There are
other important bills on the calendar, among them
the bill 10 carry out by execution the provisions
Of tho fourteenth amendment to the constitution
corning citizenship, AMI to define rights Of
of the United States in foreign counries to
declare the country north of the North Platte and
east OF the Big Horn Mountains, in Wyoming, open to
exploration and settlement and to provide the pro-
lection OF the Texas frontier the Lower RIO Grandc
THE sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL


POINTS OF DIFFERENCE ADJUSTED


The Joint Committee Of Conference the sundry
Civil bill were in session seven hours to-day. They
adjusted many OF the difficulties the committee on
the part OF branch OF Congress meeting
that Of tho other half way. II Is supposed
they will dispose OF the bill Tho point
OF difficulty is the provision OF the bill repeating all
parts Of the Revised Statutes regisra
ton Of voters and the appointment OF supervisors OF
elections and deputy ard special deputy marshs and
touching tho supervision OF elections
Year: 1876

The advent In Memphis OF q woman


so marked leader Of the times as Mrs.


Woodruff confessedly il, could not fail


TO arouse our people to renewed interest


In her-her past history aud present
course as the priestess Of freedom for


women, The interview with her by one
Of the APPEAL staff reported in our Fri-
days issue, made this manifest to de-
gree which invit. d from us in behalf
Of the public q complete history Of the
most remarkable woman Of our day
remarkable for the influence which she
wields despite furiously adverse public
opinion, and for the persistency, If not
bravery, with which she speaks as only
q woman can FOR woman. Thu impelled
we detailed another member of our staff
yesterday 10 interview Mrs. Woodruff,
and learn from her own lips the story Of
her eventful career from childhood to the
present hour. To this she cheerfully
yielded assent, and we give below the
result-a result, let us say, that will have
for the reader q more than ordinary fas-
cination, and fully prepsre him or her for
the event Of to night. Thus introducing
this interview, we may be permitted to
say en- D1ssoHt that this woman, standing
alone upon the platform In behalf Of
man as well as woman, with the courage
TO speak out all that Others timidlythink,
Is hSndsome If face, with seemingly Wig
orous constitution, and 8 healthy phy-
sique, the result, no doubt of the care and
cultivation OF body which she eI joins
upon sll OF her sex. Self-possessed, lady
liEe and dignifed, convinced believer
in what she asserts is her divine mis-
sioD, q mistEess Of language and choke
full Of ideas, she leaves but one impress
sion on these who meet her, and that is
good, all good. Treating in the most
nonchalant way, the delicate questions
involved in the family relation, she nev-
eI once either forgot herself or remem-
bered that she was in the presence of
men. The absence OF squeamish-
ness and the freedom with which
she defies ordinary convention
slities Of speech, while preserving the
delicacy and dignity of her womsnhCOd,
is one of the most surprising character
istics OF this woman, who though candid
and open.heaIted as day, is yet not alto
gether revealed-holding back nothing
of words or opinions, is yet full Of sur
prises. Her resources Of mind upon the
topic which she has made her own are
wonderful, and she clCses an exhsustiDg
interview OF over three hours ss
fresh as IL II was but about to
begin. Far from subscribing to all she
says, we cannot withhold a tribute to
ber courage, fortitude and endurance
to the heroism which has survived ad-
versity and persecution, and to her ad-
vocacy of a policy that has at last found
Endorsement in one way or another in
many Of the leading periodicals and
presses Of the country.
Year: 1876

cases and in front Of the doors. Some
one in the aUdie1C5 took up the
cry Of fire, and il was re-ech0ed from
near the door bysome one who eaught
glimpse Of THE red glare from the
stage. There was an immediate rush
for the front doors. A child was pushed
down the steps and screamed, and inn
mediate1v affar a man thrust his arm
through the window, and the scream
and the crash was enough to set the
manic In fnII force. The scene was ter.
TibIo one jp the narrow vestibule lead
inc To ine street. The people in the
rear mad with fear pressed upon these
ia front, shouting and eursing. Terror
stricken men struck down helpless wo-
men and children in front, or climbed
over their heads, to the top of the stair
case ard precipitsted themselves upon
the screaming and bleeding mass Of
children and women In hehallway. The
scene in and about the Operahouse after
the accident was heartrending. The
news Of the catastrophe spread like wild
fire over the city, and from every direc-
tion came people hurrying to the scene
until the squares were impossible.


THIRD DISPATCH.


The latest reliable report from the
operahouse disaster is that one woman
was killed. A number Of children were
seriously if not fatally injured in the
stampede OF the vast audience to get to
the doors. 1t seems that there is no
foundation in the report OF the gallery
falling, hnt that the stampede was
caussdS by an alarm OF fire, csussiessly
raised by a mischievous boy In the gal
lory. 1t is almost impossible to obtain
reliable details OF the disaster, as the
streets for squares arefilled with anxious
friends and relatives.
Year: 1876

In answer to the inquiry, Can Il
life 'licy be safely transferred pay
able to mans wife with assent Of
both partIes?" the Journal Of Coia.
merce answers that "it is generally un-
derstood that policy taken but by
a husband on his own life in favor cf
his wife may be assigned as security
to third party by the deed of both
parties and the consent of the under
writer
Year: 1876

NOT OFFICIALLY NoTlFIED.-Up to
noon to>day, the Street Commissioner
had not been officially notified to carry
into effect the changes ordered by
Council. Work on Walnut street
was suspended this morning, on &C.
count of the rain, but whether the
contractors will obey the request of
Council and stop all work for the
present, is not yet known.
Year: 1876

1t costs something for colored man
to be democratic in South Carolina.
The blacks of the South have been Sc
long considered the exclusive property.
of the Republican party, that it is as
much as black mans life is worth to
run away from his masters. Chamber
lain and his gang have enacted SUM-
mary and murderous fugitive slave
law.
Year: 1876

History Of the Chnrlcy Ross Abduction.


Mr.. Ross the father of the lost Char
ley Ross, has written book giving the his
tory of the abduction. It will contain por-
traits of Charley and other members Of the
Ross family, the fac-similes Of twenty -four
letters written by the abductors Of the boy to
his father, and will give in detail the work
done by the detectives and himself in the
grown prematurely old in fruitless efforts to
find his child, and the object in publishing
the book is to obtain means with which to
continue the search.
Year: 1876

Gen. Sherman says that all the avail
able troops in the north aud west have been
ordered to the Indian country, and that the
number will be amply sufficient to defeat the
hostile tribes. He does not believe, however,
that the Indian question can he settled until
the government enters upon the policy Of de-
priving the Indians Of their ponies, and COM
pelling them to 80 on foot. When this is
done the Indians will be comparatively power
less, and those upon their reservations will
never venture to leave them to go upon the
war-path. In regard to the reported death Of
Sitting Bull, Gen. Sherman says it will make
hut little difference whether it is true or not.
for the Indians have fully twenty As capable
warriors to command them in case of battle.
Year: 1876

ROMANCE FROM REAL LRK.-A ro-
mantle incident occurred on the last
voyage to New York Of the Inman
steamer City of Berlin. 1t seems that
q young British officer had become en-
shared by the charms of one of our
pretty American girls, while she was
making the tour to Europe, in company
with her father, stepmother and sister.
An engagement followed-the parents
consenting, after satisfactory inquiries
and the happy party embarked for
America, where the young couple were
to settle after marriage, the captain hav-
ing left the army and his native land
with the purpose of becoming an Ameri-
can citizen. The first part Of their voy-
age was coIeatr de rose, the young peo-
pie being inseparable; but q few days
before arrival, papa, upon some frivo-
lous pretext, and without any previous
warning, declared that the engagement
must be ended, and, tn the grief of the
young people, and the indignation of
their sympathizing fellow-passengers,
confined his daughter to her room, and,
on the arrival of the vessel, hurried her
off at once to her home in Buffalo, with
out permitting her TO communicate with
her lover. This strange action Of the
father seems the more unreasonable, be-
cause the young gentleman was known
by him to be an eligible part as regards
position, reputation, appearance and
means, and a distinguished service in
India. We hope the affair will yet ter
inmate fAvorably for the young couple,
as in such affairs the obstinate father is
apt to experience the truth of the old
adage, Love laughs at locksmiths."
Year: 1876

BLACKBOARD JouRNALIsM.-Said Hor-
ace Greeley: There is nothing easier
than to edit q blackguard paper, and
nothing more difficult than to get up a
newspaper free from foulness and black
guardism. Fish women and bar-room
loafers are skilled in the art of bandying
epithets and bespattering each other
with dirty words. 1t requires no brains
to do this ; but it does require both
heart and brains to print q newspaper
that o descent man or woman can read
without blush.
Year: 1876

INTERESTING SPIDER SroRY.-Ouite q
crowd gathered yesterday at carpenter
shop in this city, where a scene was
transpiring that filed the spectators
with astonishment. Near q bench in
the shop hung o medium-sized mouse,
head downward, and around its body
was coiled a single thread Of o spiders
web, which reached to q corner Of the
bench above, and had its fastening
there. On the mouse's tail quietly sat
the spider, which seemed t. be manipu-
lating the thread, and working it as
with pulley. When caught, the mouse
was on the ground, and, after five or six
hours work, the spider managed to
hoist it about an inch, and there it
hung. The statement concerning this
singular affair is, that the mouse was
accustomed, when on predatory ext
cursion, to emerge from q hole under
the bench, and pass to an inner room.
The spider laid trap in its path, it is
coniectured, and yesterday morning, as
the mouse was making its daily rounds,
it was caught and securely held in the
net set for it, the spider taking up DO
sition on its tail. Though the mouse
hung suspended, dead weight, the
thread did not give way, and there it
hung, helpless, between earth and


heaven. At night the carpenter closed


up his shop, and dropped the curtain on
the show, but the spider was still at
work, and had completed about an inch
inthe elevation.-MetO Orleans Picdyune.
Year: 1876

THE PosTAaE STAMP. = The New
York BUening Post says: For the in
formation of a large number of our cor
respondents who have manifested great
interest in ths attempt of little Sunday
school girl of this city to collect one
million of cancelled postage stamps be-
fore the first of July, we are able to say
that their kindly offered assistance Is
not needed. The little girl is certain to
collect great many more than the re-
quired number Of stamps by the time
specified, and thus to secure her prom
ised annuity. It may be of interest to
persons who regard it as awell-nigh inn
possible task to collect million Of de-
faced postage stamps within few weeks
TO know that we have had stamps to the
number of nearly q million offered to
uswithin less than week for this little
girl-one correspondent alone Offering
to give her six hundred thousand al
once, and o well known business firm OF
this city promising from two thousand
to three thousand a week for any length
Of time.
Year: 1876

DR.. L., of the New York veterinary
establishment, says that generally horses
seem to understand that what is being
done to them is for their good, and they
will often bear bravely the infiction OF
necessary pain, even when 1t causes
their great frames to tremble in mute
agony. At times, however, they mani
fest as much nervous dread OF pain as
human beings show, and then it becomes
necessary either to control them by
powerful apparatus or to administer an
aesthetics. In the latter case, pieces OF
sponge saturated with ether or chloro-
form are inserted in the animals nos
trils. Frequently two ounces OF either
fluid will be found sufficient to plunge a
powerful horse into utter unconscious
ness, while again a pint may be admins
tered without procuring the desired de-
gree of angsthetization. Horses show q
keen appreciation of pleasant flavors,
and an excellent memory for bad ones.
They also have very fair knowledge Of
the flight Of time. When horse is 60.
inc through q course of medicine he will
show that he knows when the hours ar
rive at which he is to take dose almost
as well as his doctor does, and if he has
taken a dislike to the potion which has
been given him, he will stubbornly re-
sist any attempt to get more of it into
his mouth, while on the other hand, II
he has found it sweet or otherwise pleas
ant favored, or even simply tasteless, or
II he ia allowed to sniff at it and find
that il is not the stuff to which he OBJ
ieots to, he will open his big jaws and
take it down as gracefully as horse
can be expected to swallow drugs.
Year: 1876

Burns and scalds are among the most
common of accidents, and perhaps there
are none for which moro remedies have
been suggested and employed. With
some of these remedies it is the duty OF
all of US to become familiar, that we
may know what to do in an emergency.
It is thousand pities to have the chance,
once in q lifetime, of playing the part OF
the good Samaritan and lack the SKI.
The first thing to be noticed is, that j.:
moving injured people great care sho!ld
be taken not to add to the effect OF Vn2
shock which the system has already ex'
perienced. In removing the clothes
there must be no tearing off of the
burnt or blistered skin, which affords a
useful protection for the injured sur
face. The next thing is to cover the
burnt or scalded parts with material
that will exclude the air. Flour answers
we'll. and should be freely applied. Or
common whiting, reduced by cold water
to the consistence of thick cream, may
be spread on light linon rag, and ap-
piled to cover tho injured surface. The
case it affords is instantaneous, and it
only requiras to be kept moist by occa-
sional sprinkling of cold watei. Cotton
wool, if at hand, may be wrapped
round the injuries, or lint, or linen rags
stepped in water may bo used. These
may be covered with oiled silk. A
mixture of linseed oil and lime water, in
equal proportions, may be applied with
rags laid over tho burns. The more OK
tensive the surface involved in the acci
dent, the greater care should be taker
not to expose it to atmospheric in
fuenee, which increases the pain, and
also adds constitutional depression
Should the sufferer be greatly exhausted
give brandy or other stimulant !; if the
pain be excessive and irritating to the
nervous system, ten drops OF laudanun
should be given until professional aii
can be obtained.
Year: 1876

Mrs, samuels, the mother OF the
James boys, the famous Missouri
marauders, has left Clay county, Mo-,
and gone to Texas. On leaving she
said "I hope I shall at last find peace
and rest in the new home hope to find.
I am very old now, and not the woman 1
was thirteen years ago, when trouble
came upon me and mine with the war.
NV husband was hung by the Federals,
and Jesse, then boy fifteen years Old,
was whipped by the same gang until
speechless because he would not tell
where his brother Frank was. As for
nv family, here is all there is OF it. Dr.
samuels is old and helpless. My little
bow is unable to make living yet. He
is the next to the boy killed by the de,
tectives at the time they threw In that
hand grenade. Then there is my daugh'
ter. She was brought home from
school to do the sewing for the family
when I lost my arm. Besides THESE
three helpless members of my family, l
have an old colored woman who mas
lived with US on the farm over there IN IN
Clay county for thirty years: She Will
never leave us; she is too old to do for
herself, and will not take her freedom:
Then i have an old paralyzed oolored
man belonging to the family. I must
keep him as long as he lives. And then
a little child adopted by me, and old
Aunty. make mp my family. There.
vou see, are eight of us, all helpless and
all harmless, and why we must be hunted
ont of the home we have lived In tor
thirty wears T cannot understand.
Year: 1876

There seems to be more natural ditfi-
Guilty for the woman to learn than the
man. There is o sweet tooth running
through her sex which affects her taste
and renders her less trustworthy. She
is less exact, at least in the pursuit OF
this vocation, and does not reason as the
man does. If he fails he thinks and
tries to find out the cause Of the failure,
which she is less apt to do. He gives
pounds and ounces as to quantity where
she gives approximate handfuis. me
man is more particular about the food
which he consumes himself, which
makes him more careful about what ne
prepares for others. Many women are
content provided they have ice cream
and sweet cake, or something equivalent
thereto. Count de Najac, man OF some
authority concerning the table in Paris,
AYERS that the interest and traditions OF
the kitchen can only be confined Win
safety to men, and that If the women
Guests at a table were not under the eye
Of the stern sex they would begin dinner
with the dessert. AS may be conceived
this is u painful mistake for French
man to make, but sense OF duty douot-
less rises above all other conslderatlons'
Notwithstanding, even if men be su-
nerior to women in this calling, If any
widespread movement is to como about
the movement must come from them' Tor
the the kitchen is virtually in their hands.
Year: 1876

Dan Sheppard, o workman on the
South Pueblo water works ditch, Colora-
do, some time since, the Denver Nea0s
says, was bitten by tarantula. Shep-
pard was sleeping in a cabin on the
Grayback ranch. He had made his bed
on the floor, and had scarcely gone to
sleep when he felt something pinch his
left shoulder and then run across his
face. He tried to catch it with his
hand, but it escaped him. Severe pains
beginning to shoot from the shoulder,
Sheppard became convinced that he had
been bitten by tarantuia. He then
ran up the railway track to NJ. I.
Robinson's, about mile distant, In the
hope of getting some whisky for use as
an antidote, but unfortunately Robinson
had no whisky on hand. He then re-
turned down the track and went to q
house near where he was bitten.


Sheppard is a stout, powerful man,
but by this time he was nearly exhaust
ed. The pain had passed from his shoul-
der down his left side, then into his
legs and up his right side, until his
whole body was affected, and he was in
state of tho most e1cruciating agony.
A neighbor Immediately mounted hls
horse and galloped to Pueblo, eight
miles distant, for a supply of whisky.


In the meantime Sheppard returned
to his cabin, and in short time, from
the action of the poison, he became al.
most insensible, and his body, head and
limbs became frightfully swollen. In
Just two hours and half from the time
he was bitten, the much needed whisky
was received from Pueblo.


Tho poisoned man was now in very
critical condition, unable to movo, aud
evidently at the very gates OF death.
The whisky was Immediately admins.
tered, and he speedily revived. About
quart was given him, when, rs Shep-
pard himself says, he began to feel him.
self the strongest man in Colorado, and
it was with difficulty that four men
could hold him. It soon became evident
| thai the whisky would prove all etfectual
antidote to the tarantula poison.


Sheppard is now recovering rapidly,
and though he is still weak, and has lost
some thirty pounds in weight, there is is
little doubt that in week or so lie will
be all right again. :,


It is a little singular that, although
the effects were so terrible, the bite it
self left mark 80 small as to be scarcely
perceptible. Although the whole OF the
rest OF the body was badly swollen, the
spot bitten was scarcely affected.
Year: 1876

There was at this time at the cape q


person whose eccentriGties attracted


universal attention-Dr. James Barry,
staff surgeon to the garrison and the
governors medical adviser. Lord
Charles described him to me as the most
skillful of physicians and the most way
ward of men. He had lately been in
professional attendance upon the govern
or, who was somewhat fanoiful about his
health, but, taking umbrage at some
thing said or done, he had left his pa
tient to prescribe for himself. I had
heard 30 much of this capricious, yet
privileged gentleman, that had great
curiosity to see him. I shortly afterward
sat next him at dinner at one of the
regimental messes. In this learned
Pundit I beheld a beardless lad, appa-
rently about my own age, with an un-
mistakable Scotch type of countenance,
reddish hair, high cheek benes. There
was certain effeminacy in his manner,
which he always seemed striving to over:
come. His style of conversation was
greatly superior to that one usually
heard at mess tables in those days OF
non-competitive examination. A mys-
terry attached to Barry's whole profess
sional career, which extended over more
than half century. While at the cape
he fought duel, and was considered to
be of a most quarrelsome disposition.
he was frequently guilty of most fla
grant breaches of discipline, and on
more than one occasion was sent home
under arrest, but somehow or other his
offenses were always condoned at head
quarters. In Hart's "Annual Army
List " for the year 1866 the name of
James Barry, M. D., stands at the head
of the list of inspectors general of hos
pitfalls. In the July of that same year
the Times one day announced the death
of DR.. Barry, and the next day it was
officially reported to the Horse Guards
that the doctor was a woman. 1t is
singular that neither the landlady OF her
lodging nor the black servant who had
lived with her for years had the slightest
suspicion of her sex. The late Mrs.
Ward, daughter of Colonel Tidy, from
whom had these particulars, told me
further that she believed the doctor to
have been the granddaughter Of Scotch
earl, whose name I do not now give, as
am unable to substantiate the correct.
ness of my friends surmise, and that
she adopted the medical profession from
attachment to an army surgeon, who has
not been many years dead.