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Year: 1875

TIE BEE AS SCAvENGER.-ThOse
who study the habits of bees find inf
mite delight in observing the vigilance
ard pains they exert to keep the hive
scrupuiously clean and free from every
thing offensive. If death happens to
occur in the very numerous family, the
undertaken is dispatched at once to the
scene. and the corpse is hurried to
burial with haste that might be re-
garded as indecent if it were not abso-
lutely necessary in household where
the thermometer stands at seventy while
it Is zero all out doors. The body is
hustled out of the place sans ceremony
and flung over the outer periphery, and
no more attention paid to it than to SO
much base refuse. But there are ext
geucies occasionally arising in the hive
which sometimes tax but never frustrate
the ingenuity of bees. Such a one, for
instance, as the obtrusion of q mouse.


Now it is veraciously related that a
mouse found its way into the hive OF
one of our amateur bee men, not long
since, and, no doubt, created dreadful
commotion among the honey-gatherers
But be that as it may, the intruder was
found dead and completely imbedded in
wax, leaving the astonished amateur to
theorize that the mouse, having sweet
tooth, crept into the hive to steal honey,
but unfortunately aroused the inmates,
and before he could find his way Out
again was stung to death. By and by
decomposition set in. and Mr.. Mousey
began to disseminate bad smell. which
bees cannot tolerate; but finding it i'm
possible to hustle him over the ramparts
as they do other nuisances. they went
energetically to work and sealed him. in
fact--so that not the slightest oder es-
capped to make the hive unpleasant fo1
the high~toned, extremely neat and
cleanly inhabitants.
Year: 1875

T The row in the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives last Monday
fills us full of hope for the people down
East. Little by little are they adopting
the manners and customs of the West.
By and by, when the thing is more
general, when a Speaker of a Legislature
gets to putting on airs they will prance
up to him with revolvers and out he'll
90. law or no law.
Year: 1875

~ Owing to the many cases Of
shipwreck in which the survivors are
for days at sea in open boats with but
little water if any, to drink, the ques'
ton as to the best method of allayine
thirst when the there is nothing but ses
water at hand, is one of great impor'
tance. The examiners of the Londor
Board of Trade think the best way is te
keep the clothes, especially the shirt
soaking with sea water.
Year: 1875

ILLNESS OF Ex-senator NYE.-The
following concerning ex-senator Nye is
from the Pittsburg Dispatch:


Ex. Senator Nye, Of Nevada, one of
the best-looking men and most humor-
GUS and eloquent orators whom the
United states Senate has contained in
our day, is now lying at the residence
of his eldest daughter, in New York
city, o complete wreck. He has had
softening of the brain. Nye was the
finest orator in the State of New York
for the Van Buren party in the earliest
days of Free oil. He was the Police
Commissioner appointed by the State
Government to daprive Fernando Wood
of police authority as Mayor of New
York. Nye arrested Wood in person in
the midst of imminent danger of a
bloody battle between several thousand
police on one side, representing the
city, the ether the State authority.


He was the FIST Governor of Nevada,
and was elected to the Senate. Nye
was a splendid Senatorial looking man,
with white hair, noble brow and pro-
file, and native dignity of person and
countenance He took fair rank among
the best orators of the Pacific Coast
such as General Baker, Starr King, and
Tom Fitch. His career was consistent
one for human freedom, and it was
enlivened by such an abundance of
anecdote. sentiment, ard good impulse,
that, although poor and careless about
money, Nye had almost as many friends
as any man of his time. 1 once heard
Joe Medill tell with delight of night
be spent with Nye, Theodore Tilton,
and one or two other brilliant conversa-
tionalists. "Old Nye," said Medill.
''could go on and invent anecdotes while
the other fellows were remembering
theirs, and his were the best even then. "


A few months ago Senator Nye was
struck with vertigo on the street and
taken home. 1t was noticed soon after
wards that his mind was astray, and he
could not answer questions with any
correctness. Lucid intervals occurred
for days, and then the intelligence would
grow wayward again. Two or three
days 6go he imagined himself dead and
waiting for his coffin. He suffered no
pain whatever, but his physicians pro-
nounced his disease to be probably
incurab,e softening of the brain, that
would soon relieve him from help and
pity.
Year: 1875

w This is the way the La Grande
Sentinel proposes to do it in future: We
have ordered q machine that is said to
capable of producing two full local col
umns of interesting items (that never
occurred) which willlprobably arrive by
the next pack train from San Francisco.
We never stood so sadly IN need of such
a machine before. We would as leave
climb Mt. Hood backwards the coldest
night that has howled across the "drea-
~ moor this winter, as to undertake
to fill our local columes with interesting
reading when nothing of interest has oe-
Cured.
Year: 1875




By section 8 of the act of Feb. 2S,
1871, it is made the duty of United
States marshals and their deputies at the
polls, where votes are cast for represen-
tative in Congress, to keep the peace and
prevent any violation of the so-called
Enforcement Acts, and other offences
against the laws of the United States,
and upon requisition of the Marshal of
Louisiana, in view of said armed organ
izations and other portentous circum-
stances, caused detachment of troops
to be stationed in various localities in
the state to aid him in the performance
of his official duties.


THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.


The officers and troops of the United
States may have supposed that it was
their duty to act when called upon by
the governor for that purpose. Each
branch of the legislative assembly is the
judge of the election and the qualifca-
tion of its own members; but if mob
or body of unauthorized persons seize
and hold the legislative hall in a tumul-
tuous and riotous manner, and so pre-
vent any organization by those legally
returned as elected, it might become the
duty of the state executive to interpose.
if requested by majority of the mem
bers elected to suppress the disturbance
and enable the persons elected to organ
ize the house. Any exercise of this
power would only be justifable under
most extraordinary circumstances. and
it would then be the duty of the COVER
Year: 1875

nor to call upon the constabulary, or, il
necessary, the military force of theState;
but with reference to Louisiana, it is to
be borne in mind that any attempt by
the governor to use the police force Of
the state at this time would have un-
doubtedly precipitated a bloody con-
hict with the White League. as it did
on the l4th of September. There is no
doubt but that the presence of United
States troops upon that occasion


PREVENTED BLooDsHEp AND LOSS OF


LIFE.


Both parties appear to have relied
upon them as conservators of the pub
lie peace. The first call was made by
the democrats to remove persons obnox-
ious to them from the legislative hall,
and the second was from the republicans
to remove persons who had usurped the
seats in the legislature without legal
certificates authorizing them to their
seats, and in sufficient number to change
the majority. Nobody was disturbed by
the military who had legal right at
that time to occupy seat in the Legis-
lature.
Year: 1875

On the same day another large body
of persons published in the same place II
paper, in which they used the following
language:


I'VE, the undersigned, merchants of
the city of Shreveport, alive to the great
Importance of securing good and honest
government to the state, do agree and
pledge ourselves not to advance any sup
plies or money to any planter the com
ing year who will give employment or
rent land to laborers who vote the radi-
cal ticket in the coming election"


THE RETURNING BOARD.


l have no information of the proceed
ings of the Returning Board for said
election, which may not be found in its
report which has been published, but it
is matter of public information that a
great'part of time taken to canvass the
votes was consumed by the arguments of
lawyers, several of whom represented
each party before the board. / have no
evidence that the proceedings of this
board were not in accordance with the
law under which they acted. Whether,
in excluding from their count certain re-
turns, they were right or wrong is a
question that depends upon the evidence
they had before them; but it is very
clear that the law gives them the power,
if they choose to exercise it, of deciding
that it was prima fdcie, and that the per-
sons whom they return as elected are en-
titled to the offices for which they were
candidates.
Year: 1875

IhE


Respecting the alleged interference by
the military with the organization of the
legislature of Louisiana, on the 4th inst !,
| have no knowledge or information
which has not been received by me since
that time and published. My first in
formation was from the papers on the
morning of the 9th. / did not know
that any such thing was anticipated, and
no orders nor suggestions were ever Civ
en- to any military officer in that state,
upon the subject, prior to the occurrence
| am well aware that any military inter
ference by the officers or troops Of the
United States with the organization of a
state legislature, or any of the proceed
ings, or with any civil department OF
the Government is repugnant to our
ideas of government / can conceive OF
no case involving rebellion or insurrec-
ton, where such interference, by author
ity of the general government, ought to
be permitted or can be justified, but
there are circumstances connected with
the late legislative embroglio in Louis
lana which seem to exempt the military
from any
Year: 1875

They showed pistol shot wounds, the
great majority in the head, and most of
them in the back of the head In addi-
tion to the ffty-nine dead bodies found


some cbarred remains of dead bodies we're
discovered near the court house. Six
dead bodies we're found under a ware
house, all shot in the head but one or
two which were shot in the breast. The
only white men injured from the begin
ming of these troubles to their close were
Hadnot and Harris. The court house
Year: 1875

lNl6NilONAL WhoNG


In that matter, knowing that they had
been placed in Louisiana to prevent do
mestic violence and aid to repress it.
The revolution was apparently, though
it is believed, not really abandoned, and
the cry of federal usurpation and tyran-
ny in Louisiana was renewed with re-
doubled energy. Troops have been sent
to the State under this requisition of the
governor, and as other disturbances
seemed imminent they were allowed to
remain there to render the executive
such aid as might become necessary to
enforce the laws of the state and repress
the continued violence which seemed in
evitable the moment Federal support
should be withdrawn. Prior to and with
a view to the late election in Louisiana.
white men associated themselves togeth-
er in armed bodies called White Leagues
and at the same time threats were made
in the democratic journals of the state
that the election should be carried against
the republicans at all hazards, which
very naturally greatly alarmed the col
ored voters.
Year: 1875

SOME four tons of high grade ore from the si yer Prince believed to be worth over S2. 900, per ton are on the way and will be here to day or to- morrow. Mir. Hougbtelin assures us that every stroke of the pick, thus far, has only tended to confirm the original estimate of the vast richness and extent of the mine.
Year: 1875

THE NEW GRADE.-Geo Lount is making good grade on the hill opposite Lindsay's Gar den. He has q narrow gage railroad constructed 10 run the dirt down and fill in at the north end what he excavstes from the top of the hill He had all accident or two last week and ditched his car once or twice, but be is spunkyand is up and at ii agaiL.
Year: 1875

A few days ago we were furnished with slip
OF paper on which is printed matter to the ex-
tent of about column OF the True NORTH
ERNER with the request that it be published
II purports to be an obituary notice Of l. NJ.
Singer, of sewing machine fame, who recently
died in England possessed OF colossal
fortune. (as stated in the article), wrung out OF
the laboring public as profits on sewing ma
chimes. The article is sent out by the Singer
Sewing Machine Company not so much me-
mortal OF the late Mr.. Singer. as an advertise
ment Of singer sewing machines-not the bes;
but the highest priced machine in the market


They used the obituary guise to secure its
gratuitous insertion in the newspapers OF the
country. They might have shown little lib


erahty by sending along 4 ." complimentary
ticket emitting the holder to ride to the
next town on 4 singer peddling cart. Who
knows but that might have been considered q
sufficient remuneration for advertising that
great and wealthy corporation z Who knows
Year: 1875

For the last few days the tramping vaga-
bonds have been quite numerous, but when
they reach town they cautiously keep Off the
pus'ness streets but lurk around in the out
skirts and beg from house to house. Renewed
vigilance on the part Of the officers is absolutely
necessary to drain these internal vagabonds
ana thieves from the State before winter comes
on or we shall have them on our hands.-De-
troit News
Year: 1875

Takes place tomorrow afternoon, and
We urge our readers to attend the polls
and thus evince an interest in the cause
of education. Where the elections are
given little attention candidates lacking
the necessary fitness and qualifications
are sure to be selected to run for posi-
tions they should never occupy. There
is no salary attached to the position OF
School Director, and unless the people
show that they appreciate the services
rendered, gentlemen best qualified for
it will not yield to solicitations to sub
NIT their names to decision at the
polls. We would not urge unpleasant
partisan strife for the position; but the
most men who are qualified for the du.
ties Of the Office would see more honor
in being defeated after the receipt Of q
large vote than in being elected by q
very small one. But aside from this the
election is one OF the most important
character that parents can attend, ant
they should show that they appreciat,
it as it deserves.
Year: 1875

By easy stages the story reached the
time when Beecher made the famous
visit to Mrs. Tilton when she was ly-
ing sick in bed. She had sent for him,
the respondent. He went up to her
room on the second floor and saw her.
What was said between themy Witness
threw his head forward, bent it in
thought for moment, flushed little
and said he could not exactly recollec'
the terms of the conversation they had
and there were mysterious wink'
amongsplaintiff's 8 counsel. When telling
of the second visit the witness said t
girl met him at the door and said Mrs
Tilton did not care to be seen that day
and sent message in the words, cal
will be well in tho future"


Here long argument between the
counsel ensucd until near the close o
the court.
Year: 1875

Don PkpHo, imperial master OF Bra
zi, it is announced, is about to resign his
his great position and grand honors and
to retire to private life. He will visit
Philadelphia next year and participate
in the Centennial ceremonies, but, de-
nuded Of his purple, he will be only a
sorry guest. Imperial Css:ar, dead and
keep the wind away, and so Don Pedro
may be useful to dispel boredom in 1876
Year: 1875

Stop that Cough MANY hesitate
90 try a remidy for a disease, on ac-
count Of the expense, connected with
the uncertainty Of its benefting them;
while at the same time, had they con-
fdeuce in that remidy, the expense
would be the least objection: With
this fact in view, we make the follow
ing proposition Any person suffer-
ing with cold, cough or sore throat
that will call at T. j. Wood $
Drug store and purchase a bottle of
HALE's CoUGH CORDIAL, use one
half Of it, and if they then conclude
that it is doing them no good, they can
return the bottle and receive back
their money.


No medicine ever sold in this vicin-
ity, has produced such magical results.
Don't fail to try it.


ORANGE WILLIAMS, Prop,


46-6m GAINESVILLE Wis
Year: 1875

Building Stone-I am prepared
to furnish builders with any quantity
from one to five hundred cords Of as
excellent building stone as can be fur
nished from any quarry in Wood Coun-
ty. Apply to


IF HENRY OsTERMAN.
Year: 1875

1 ~ AsAs
Don't whisper in the sick-rsom.
When the doctor comes to see you,
remember how many pairs of stairs
he has to climb every day, aud 60
down to him if you are well enough.
Whom you are sitting up at night
with a patient, be sure to have some
thing to eat, / ( you wish to save your
self unnecessary exhaustion.


Remember that sick people are not
necessarily idiotic or imbecile, and
that it is not always wise to try to per-
suade them that their suffsrings are all
imaginary. They may even at tim es
know best what they need.


Never deceive dying person except
by the Doctors express orders. 1t is
not only wrong to allow any soul to
60 into eternity without some prepa-
ration, bu. how can you tell but that
he has something he ought to tell or
do before he goes away?


If you have q sick friend to whom
you wish to be of use, do not conten t
yourself with sending her flowers and
jellies, but lend her one of your pic
lures to hang in place of hers, or q
bronze to replace the one ct which she
is SO tired Of staring.


Don't have needless conversations
with the doctor outside OF the sick
room. Nothing will excite and irri-
tate nervous patient sooner. IF you
do have such conversation, don't tell
the patient that the doctor said 'tno-
thing" He won't believe you, and he
will imagine the worst possible.


In lifting the sick, do not take the m
by the shoulders and hips, and drag
them up on the pillows, but got some
enc to help you. Let one stand on one
side of the patient and the other op-
posite, then join hands under the
shoulders and hips, and lift steadily
and promptly together. This method
is easy for those who lift, and does
not disturb the one who is lifted.


Do not imagine your duty is over
when you have nursed your patient
through his illness, and he is about the
house, or perhaps going out again.
Strength does not come back in a mo-
ment, and the days when the little
things worry and little efforts exhaust
when the cares of business begin to
press, but the feeble brain and hand
refuse TO think aud execute, are the
most trying to the sick one, and then
comes the need for your tenderest
care, your most unobtrusive watchful-
ness.-Scribnc, for September.
Year: 1875

RIVALRY IN CRAPE.-i learn from news
paper that SO kanses widower was tarred ard
feathered the other day because he didn't wear
deep enough mourning for his departed
spouse" This reminds me of the contest that
has been raging in our village between Brown
and Jones, Both of them lost their wives
on the same day, and alter the funerals
Brown appeared again in public with three
inches of Grape on his high bat, while Jones
had only two. Jones wasso much afraid people
would sthink he didn't mourn for his wife a
deeply as Brown grieved for his that he add
ed four inches of Grape to his hat, where
upon Brown, apprehending that people
would believe that he thought more lightly
of his loss than Jones did of his, put eight
inches of Grape on his hat Then Jones. de-
.ermined not to be outdone as mourner
for the dear departed and put on so much more
Grape that it extended considerably above the
top of his hat crown. Whereupon, Brown
became excited, and. cutting the crown from
an old hat, be dovetailed it on his new
one, and swathed it in Grape to the summit.
Jones was unwilling to display envy, but
the memory of Mrs. Jones was so sacred to
him that he enveloped his hat 10 pasteboard
four feet high, and wrapped it all in the
Year: 1875

from Mr.. Lincoln, and the whirligig of time
yesterday brought the target before the eyes of
aSentinel reporter. 1t is now faded piece of
paper about four inches square. Near the CEN
tire is blackened hole through which Mr.. S.
said the President, having got the range sent
five or six bullets in succession. A little
to the right is another spot pierced by two
bullets, and just below third perforation.
These with in radius of about two inches.
At the left lower corner piece of the paper
is Clipped out, and another at the right
centre, while the post I'll around the paper,
Mr. S. said looked as it had had the small
Year: 1875




if a stranger should drop in Us he left, and
take the vacated chair, he would soon get up
and leave it, feeling that he was polluting
his form by occupying the seat lately
used by so great villain.


Numbers seven and six possibly may 60
out together If, perchance, they should
steal around to back window and lis
ten, they would both get off respectable
distance from each other, and hang closely
to their respective watches and pocket
books.


Numbers FIVE, four and three get tired out
and start for their homes, when numbers
two and one have the whole field to them
selves They are in no manner behind their
former companions in slandering their friends:
Finally as the two remaining ones bid
each other goodnight, they each remark to
themselves something like this 'Well, it's
lucky for me the id rascal didn't steal my
pochet-book.


The female gossip is dangerous piece of
furniture to have in the community, but
when we see lot Of old malo hens sittings
about a store store, suffering from an at
tack of ehinorhorea, we feel that anything
that the average gossip might say, would
be praises such US few deserve, when
compared to the venom of a gOssipng male
hens slsnder-poisoned tongue.-Whiteh0H
Times
Year: 1875

Tns GossPING MALE HES.-Twelve gos-
siping men will sit down together about a
store stove and like a lot of dissecting physi-
clans, lay out and literally pick some one to
pieces. One of them will go out, when
lust as he closes the store door, the eleven
will proceed to dissect his private character.
After while smother will step out, when
the ten left, will walk through their former
compatriot in SANDER, leaving his character
in about the same condition as was the chap
who was shot through brush fence. An
other one, perhaps, thinks it time to go
home, when he, too. will soon be per
forated and rraduced by the remaining nine
Number eight soon drops off,
Year: 1875

The greed for money on the part Of the
detectives led to worse abuses for, not con-
tented with securing large rewards for the
discovery of stolen property, some of the
officers even descended to levying black kmail.
Indoing this the detectives were comparatively
safe; for, in the eye of the law, the tes:i-
mony of thief who has teen convicted and
imprisoned is not taken in contradiction of a
reputable citizen, or sworn officer of the law
However, it is earnestly believed By those
having intimate knowledge of detective life
that there have been men on the force who
compelled professional thieves to pay them
tribute for the immunity extended in not
arresting them for crimes not expiated. 1t is
also true that the men who were suspected
of these practices are no longer in Office,
though they are some ugly stories afoat
about some who are still on not duty. 1t is
quite certain that there have been detectives
on the force who were conspicuous for the
absence of arrests. One man for over FIVE
wears never went on the record as securing a
conviction, and he seldom even made an
arrest on his own responsibility, usual
" acting as the second Of some more
entcrprising officer. Yet he retired with
competency and owning considerable real
estate