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Year: 1876

t,yo per cent a month ON the shares while they
should be held by him, take them at par. AT
Parks request Gen. Schenck subsequently agree
ng 70 reduction of one and half per cent, Gen.
Schcnck had gwen his note to Park for 10000


For I3 months, Gen. Schenck continued, he and
the other stockholders received 1i2 per cent
month. At the time he made this agreement there
had been no organization of company. At the
time of its execution there no suggestion what
ever that he should have anything to do with the
management of the Company. Afterward, however,
MFR. Park and Mr.. Stewart thought he ought TO be
one of the directors Of the proposed company. Gen.
Schenck dissened from this, but 1t was urged that
they wanted somebody sojourning in London to
protect their interests. This seemed to be plausi-
bic reason, but he still objected, saying he
doubted the proprety OF his having any
thing to do with the management while
there in representative capacity unless he
could be satisfied that there were precedents OF the
kind If this should be done another condition
would have to be complied with. He must know
the names of ali the directors, as he had thus far
heard the name Of only one person who had been
asked or agreed 10 become a director On the 80 OF
November the names Of such persons were FUR
nished to him. He was not acquainted with any OF
them. but he learned that there were among them
members Of Parliament and other gentlemen in high
position The precedent for a Foreign Minister
holding an office in joint stock company found
in the Minister from Portugal, of the Oldest and
most respected Of the Diplomatic Corps, who was
President Of a tramway company In Lisbon, the
stock Of which was being put on the market. Gen.


Schenck said he had nothing to do with the prepara


ton of the prospectus of the Emma Mine Company.


Gen. schenck then reverted to his correspondence
Year: 1876

Stop up to a citizen and tell him that
his father mud grandfather were lunatics.
aud see how quickly 10 will crook his
qltow. Yet, lot that citizen shoot some
body, and he will bless you II you'll
help him prove that all hio ancestors
wore not Only crazy, but the biggest
fools in Tho neighborhood.
Year: 1876

blood, which take the place of those
which have been consumed on previous
labor, since the very act of thinking
consumes or burns up solid PARTICLES, as
every turn of the wheel or screw of the
splendid steamer is the result of con-
sumption by fire of the fuel in the fur
mace. The supply of consumed brain
substance can only be had from the
nutritiye particles in the blood, which
were obtained from the food eaten pre-
viously; and the brain is so constituted
that it can best receive and appropriate
to itself those nutritive particles during
state of rest, of quiet and stiffness, of
sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing
in themselves; they goad the brain and
force it to greater consumption of its
substance, until that substances has been
so exhausted that there is not power
enough left to receive supply, just as
men are so near death by thirst and
starvation that there is not power
enough left to swallow anything, and
all is over.
Year: 1876

When Mark Twain, in 1867, resigned
the clerkship to the United States SEN
ate committee on conchology, it was
partially caused by his tender of the. fol-
lowing advice concerning the treatment
of Indians in the West: 81 next went
to the Secretary of War, who was not
inclined to see me at all until he learn
ed that was connected with the gov
ernment. If had not been on import
ant business, i suppose would not have
got in. l asked for a light (he was
smoking at the time) and then told him
had no fault to find with his defending
the parole stipulations of General Lee
and his comrades in arms, but could
not approve of his method of fighting
with the Indians on the plains. / said
he fought too scattering. He ought to
get them more together-get them to-
gether in some convenient place, where
he should have provisions for both par
ties, and then have general massacre.
l said there was nothing so convincing
to a Indian as general massacre. If
he could not approve of a massacre, /
said the next surest thing for an Indian
was soap and education. Soap and edu-
cation are not as sudden as massacre,
but they are more deadly in the long
run; because half massacred Indian
may recover; but if you educate him
and wash him it is bound to finish him
some time or other 1t undermines his
constitution; it strikes at the foundation
of his being. Sir" 1 said the time
has come when blood-curding cruelty
has become unnecessary. Infiict soap
and a spelling book on every Indian
that ravages the plains, and let them
dieft' -
Year: 1876

Mr.. Sickles has, within the past year
or SO, been twice to Europe, and made
it his business, among other things, to
ascertain all he could on the subject of
soda.


The demand for carbonate of soda is
immense. About one million eight hun
dred thousand pounds per annum are
used in this country alone, the most of
which is imported. 1t is used as firix
in the manufacture of glass, for bleeah-
ing purposes in the arts generally, and
for cooking.


The soda deposits in this territory are
sulphate of soda, or what is popularity
known as glauber salts. A hundred
pounds of it contain about 54 pounds
of water, % pounds of sulphur, and "a
pounds of soda.


The process of converting it into car
Donate of soda, is as follows: Take a
ton of the sulphate of soda, mix it with
about ton Of fine coal, and a ton of
lime stone, and then roast it in a fur
mace, something like the furnaces, at
rolling mills, for about six hours. The
water and sulphur are thus.expelled, and
the carbon which was in the lime unites
with the soda, forming carbonate of
soda. 1t is then dissolved, settled,
poured off and boiled, and then again
roasted, and thus purified and convert
ed into the ordinary soda of commerce.


The ordinary furnaces used for this
purpose have capacity of about fifty
tons per week to the furnace, and the
number can be increased to any extent.
Three furnaces would require about
thirty men to run them. 1t is desired
to put up works there of a capacity to
run from three to five hundred tons per
week.


Mr.. Sickles has conditionally compile
ted all the arrangements, so that upon
a telegram from him to Europe men and
means will be forthcoming at once.
And it is the intention to commence
and prosecute operations at once.
This is going to be an enterprise of
great Importance to our territory and
will utilize one Of our resources and
give employment to several hundred
men. AS it will also furnish one of the
principal and most expensive of the
materials for the manufacture of glass,
paper, &C., there is no doubt these lat
ter enterprises will soon follow.
Year: 1876

An Editor in Reading advertised the other
day that he would take good dog in pay
ment of one years subscription for his paper.
The next day forty-three dogs were sent to his
Office. The day afterward, when the news had
spread out in the country, 400 farmers had
sent two dogs apiece by express, with eight
baskets full of puppies, all marked c. o. D.
In the meantime, the offer found its way into
neighboring States, and before the end of the
week there were 5000 dogs tied up with ropes
in the editors front and back cards! The as
sortment included all the kinds, from blood
hounds down to poodles.


"a few hundred broke loose and swarmed on
the stairways and in the entries, and stood out
side the sanctum and howled, and had fights,
and smiled under the crack of the door as if
they were hungry for some editor. And the
editor climbed out the window, up the water
SPOUT, and out on the comb of the roof and
weps. There was no issue of the paper for six
days, and the only way the friends of the emf
nent Journalist could feed him was by sending
lurch up to him IN balloon. At last some
body got a barrel of arsenic and three tons of
beef, and poisoned the dogs and the editor
came down only to find on his desk bill from
the Mayor for $1,000, being the musical tax on
dogs at 81 per head He is not offering the
same inducement to subscribers now, and be
doesn't want dog.
Year: 1876

A traveller was crossing mountain
height alone over almost untrodden
SHOWS. Warning had been given him
that if siumber pressed down upon his
weary eyelids, they would inevitably
be sealed in death. For time he
went bravely along his path. But with
the deepening shade and freezing blast
of night, there fell q weight ubon his
brain which seemed to be irresistible.
In vain he tried to reason with him.
self; in vain he strained bis utmost en-
ergies to shake off that fatal heaviness.
At this crisis of his fate, his foot struck
against heap that lay across his path.
No stone was that, although no stone
could be colder or more lifeless. He
stopped to touch ii, and found hn-
man body half buried beneath a fresh
DRIFT of snow. The next moment the
traveller had taken a brother in his
arms and was chafing his hands, chest
and brow, breathing upon the stiff,
cold lips the warm breath of living
soul; pressing the silent heart TO the
beating pulses of his own generous bO-
som.


The effort to save another had bro't
back to himself life and warmth and
energy. He was man again, instead
of a weak creature sucCumbing to y
despairins helplessness, dropping down
In dreamless sleep to die. He saved
a brother, and was saved himself."-
English Hearths and English Homes.
Year: 1876

Bow low the head, boy; do reverence
to the old man. Once like you, the
vicissitudes of life have silvered the
hair, and changed the round, merry
face to the worn visage before You.
Once that heart beat with aspirations
co-equal to any that you have felt-as-
pirations crushed by aspirations, as
yours are, perhaps, destined to be.
Once that form stalked proudly thro'
the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau
ideal of grace; now the hand of Time,
that withers the fewer of yesterday,
has warped that figure and destroyed
the noble carriage. Once, At your age,
he possessed the thousand thoughts
that pass through your brain-now
wishing to accomplish deeds worthy
of nook in fame, anon imagining life
a dream that the sooner he awoke from
the better. But he has lived the dream
very near through. The time to awake
is very near at hand; yet his eye ever
kindles at old deeds of daring, and the
hand takes firmer grasp at the staff.
Bow low the head, boy, as you would
in your old age be reverenced.
Year: 1876

sed its edict, and declared that they should be
separated by the stronger, firmer bars OF the
State Penitenta-y, the woman sought and OBJ
tanned the privil .ge of the officers to marry
him before he was taken from her. The neces-
sary arrangements were made, and the two
strangely beings were married in the
Jail, the ceremony being performed by JUS
tice of the Peace The witnesses were the


prisoners, who were ordered to remain at the


rear end of the ball, and a few persons who


were permitted to look inside through the


CRATES Of the front door. 1t WAS Equeer spec
tacle. and shows what woman will do for the


man she loves There was Sandy, alas Mel


vile. or. as she claims. Melody, that being the
name under which he was married, just ready
to be shackled preparatory to starting for Fort
Madison. where he is to serve q term of i've
years imprisonment. There was woman.
Young, and of rather attractive appearance.
clinging to criminal, willing and anxious to
bear his name and share with him all the oblo-
quy attached thereto. But then such is wom-
ans nature. and such has it always been from
the time of Eve. Az they stood there assu-
ming the obligations of the marriage VOW, the
thought was well defined in each mind how
differently it would have been had the rela-


ton of the parties been reversed, and the wom-
an the criminal instead of the man. The
chances are, in q case of that kind. that the


maa, even if he had been the cause OF commit
ting the crime, would have deserted her in tie
last extremity, and left her to bear her disgrace
alone, aHd probsbly have felt secret joy that


he was able to place the blame all on her. But
then man can't be blamed; his old forefather


Adam set him the example years ago.
Year: 1876

A young lady in this city and soldier who
was stationed here tecame acquainted. The
couple met quite often after the acquaintance
was formed, and a strong attachment, ending
in an engagement, followed. The young man
presented his betrothed with an elegant ring
Soon after the engagement the regiment to
which the soldier was attached was ordered to
report to the front at once. The news of the
intended departure was hard blow for the
young people. Both were patriotic, and they
parted as hundreds of others did during the
rebellion. After the departure the billet deux
were received and sent in rapid succession
This state Of affairs went on for something like
a year; then, alas, it came to sudden termi-
nation. One day the young lady received a
very cool letter from her lover, so much un-
like all other letters she had received that she
at once wrote to him, saying she wished to be
released from her engagement, but giving no
reason for the change in her affections When
the letter was received by the soldier in camp
he was utterly confounded. He had never
written any but words of kindness and affec-
ton to her, and why she should treat him so
cruelty was mere than he could tell He grieved
for some months over his disappointment, and
at last left the army and went to California to
trough it," and. if possible, forget his sorrow.
Here he remained until a few months ago,
when he Unexpectedly received letter from.
an unknown source. 1t was the diving con-
fession of an old comrade, who had caused all
the trouble and on his death bed had confessed
that he had got hold of the lovers letters and
destroyed them, sending others of his own
manufacture to the lady in this city. He had
palmed OFF his writing by copying the original


He being an excellent penman, this was not a
difficult matter. When the confession was
fully authenticated the man at once started for
this city to find his first and only love. BY a
few inquiries after reaching the city he learned
her residence, and, better still, that she. like
himself, had remained unmarried. He made
haste to call upon her, and, to his SURPRISE dis
covered the ring on her finger where he had
placed it fourteen years before. A few words
of explanation made them as near and dear to
each other as ever, and, to cut long story
short, it was arranged that they should be
married at once, and the wedding is to take
place the present week at one of onr city
churches. The happy couple will start at once
Tor the Centennial.
Year: 1876

the President" In choosing President the
vote shall be taken by States Each State
shall ave one vote, land a quorum for this pur-


pose shall consist of member or members
from two-thirds of the States, and majority
of all the States shall be necessary to a choice.
Should not the House of Representatives
choose President whenver the right of choice
shall devolve upon them before the 4th of
March next following, then the Vice Presi-
dent shall act as President, as in the case of
death and constitutional disability of the
President. The person having the greatest
number of votes shall be Vice President, if
such number shall be a majority of the whole
number of electors appointed; if not, then
from the two higest numbers on the list the
Senate shall choose the Vice President. Two
thirds of the Senate shall vote No person
constitutioually ineligible to the Presidency
shall be eligible to the Vice Presidency.
Year: 1876

from the Omaha Herald.


There is morbid sentiment in society thai
in kind of an abstract manner gloriies 8
great criminal, and he who can boast of ''one
virtue and thousand crimes" has a hold upon
the memory of the public that can not easily be
shaken off. In like manner the plebeian boor
who burned the Temple of Diana was more
famous than the royal architect who reared it.
An instance in point was the marriage in
Council Bluffs yesterday of Sandy, alias Geo.
Melville, whose swindling games and greater
crimes, and his frequent marvellous escapes
from death by bullet and halter, have made
him famous throughout the entire West. Be-
witched by the strange fatalities that have al
ways followed the man, discovering some good
points that cleaned out of his dark career of
crime, and admiriRg ia him those very quali-
ties that have made him an outcast in society,
a woman has followed him, often with her
presence and always with her love, and yester-
day she sealed the compact existing between
them by marrying him under most humiliating
circumstances.


To those who have not the prior knowledge
of him. Sandy will be remembered by the peo-
pie of this community by his attempt, in con-
nection with Clinton, to swindle an old man by
selling him lot of spurious gold coins in ex-
change for greenbacks. 1t will be remembered
that the men were both arrested and were tried
before the United States Commissioner at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, and SANDY" sentenced to five years
imprisonment in the Iowa Penitentiary.-
While awaiting trial, or rather while being con-
Quoted to the Justices Court for the prelimi-
nary examination, Sandy attempted to escape
from the officer in two different instances, and
was shot at and hit by the officer, in the latter
case being wounded 50 badly that it was re-
ported that he could not recover. As these
troubles collected around Sandy, the love of
the woma7 who has at Last married him grew
the stronger, and she haunted the Jail like. q
specier, finally gaining the permission Of the
officer, she entered and nursed him through
the hours when his life was despaired Of, and at
last, when the stern decree of the law interpo
Year: 1876

THE Reading (Ps.) Eagle says: Two
bellies of this city lately came home
from Philadelphia shorn OF their wealth
of raven tresses. After they had taken
in ali the points at the big show and
had made many purchases, before they
knew it they had spent all their mon
ey, and what was worse, had lost their
return excursion tickets. They had no
friends in Philadelphia and no time to
write to Reading. They therefore re-
solved to make . raise; so they skipped
away into barber shop and struck o
bargain for their back hair. The shaw
er offered 1915 each for what they had.
In short time they were nicely shoru,
and thus they were able to get back TO
their native land.
Year: 1876

PINBAoKs are not to be so strict as hereto
fore. Paris decides that they may relax so as
to permit lady in full dress to walk and sit,
but not so slovenly as to allow her to pick up
her handkerchief, which therefore she will
not drop this winter except as particular mark
of esteem to some favorite gentleman of her
acquaintance
Year: 1876

The C.liiorni., cereal crop this year
will reach the most sanguine estimate
which has been made OF it. The sur
plus of wheat available for export will
be fully 100000 tons TIE enormous
aggregate Is Illustrative of extraordinary
enterpriS', as well as vast prodI tive
capacity.
Year: 1876

THE female footmen IN the New York
walking match completed fifty miles in twelve
hours If they prove they can walk better
than men it will give many poor fellow
chance to rest in street cars.
Year: 1876

The city is in feverish state of excitement
regarding the political situation, and business
is to a great extent interfered with. Notwith-
standing the crowds at the Centennial, the
streets are thronged with people anxiously
scanning the bulletin boards and inquiring for
the lates news. The political excitement per-
vades the crowds at the Centennial also, and
dispatches giving the latest indications are an
nounced from time to time.
Year: 1876

Judge Lynch is above the weakness
of the civil law maxim that it is bet
ter to let ninety-nine guilty men escape
than to hang one who is innocent.
Even up in the Indian Nation, where
the native sense of justice OF the
children of the forest has been furnish.
ed by attrition with the institutions
and usages of our boastcd civiliza-
ton, mistakes will be made. A man
was taken from a train at Colbert
Station sometime since and hung
on charge Of horsc-stealing. 1t
turns out that the victim Of the mob
was innocent of the crime charged
against him, and his relatives IN Kcn-
tucky have visited che scene of the
outrage and taken steps to ferret out
and punish the mprdcrers.
Year: 1876

The exquisite purity of the homespun
Swiss linen is constant wonder to the
American traveller. And yet scarcely a
wonder If he chances to see 1t by the lake
side, say at Brienz, on ksunny morning,
and watch the proceedings of the little
Swiss maiden in a straw hat and black
velvet bodice with the silver chains, who
is plying her occupation of laundress.
She has padded the boat far out into
the lake, and is letting it drift with the
current. In the boat beside her is a pile
of freshly.washed linen glistening in the
sunlight. But its whiteness does not
content her. As the boat moves lazily
along, each separate piece Of linen is
thrown into the lake, and trailed slowly
through the blue water, blue as ever
painted. Still she Is not satisfied. She
takes perhaps three or four handkerchief
in her hand at once, and literally throws
them overheard, in such q manner that
the spectator on the bank cannot but
breathe fervent hope that they may not
be his own property. But before he has
time to frame his wishes into words, she
has caught them again with dexterous
sort of legerdemain, and the process is
repeated again and again. And all the
while the black velvetb tbodiced maiden,
with the glittefing silver chains and pins,
and round white arms, If she be a true
Brienz maiden, Is singing like very
nightingale.
Year: 1876

The five thousand dollars, gold, reward
offered Ly the Direct Gable Company for
the discovery of the people engaged in
breaking their line, does not come mo-
ment too soon. 1t is incredible that these
breaks should occur 80 frequently and
in such unlikely places by accident, and
it is high time for the public to know
who is planning or paying for them.
The Direct Gable has been the source OF
a very great benefit to every man seek
ing telegraph communication with En-
gland or the Continent. 1t at one time
secured four-fold reduction of the rate.
Itmaintains that reduction to the press,
and also considerable reduction for the
general public. The whole community
Is interested in seeing that its gallant
effort to maintain It's line gets at least
fair play. II will be discreet, 1t may be
added, for rivals TO stop their suggestion
that the accidents are due TO inherent
defects in the cable. The cable hasbee
submerged some years, has stood every
test, and has proved its quality. II does
not become those who profit most by the
malicious breakers to be too officious In


offering impossible explanations'-Ne~


York Tribune.
Year: 1876

The Lower House of the Rhode ISL
and Legislature has passed, by unani-
nous vote, a bill declaring that hence
forth no land owned by and used for any
church, school or charitable institution
shall be exempt from taxation. s
Year: 1876

AN innkeeper in one of the towns of
New Zealand, owing to a threatened
drought, lately had an artesian well
bored in his yard, and at the depth of
two hundred and seventy feet water was
struck. 1t rose freely to the surface, ac-
companied by a large volume of gas SINH
lar to that which has been found in
many parts of this country; SO that the
inkeeper's enterprise has been rewarded
not only by an abundant supply of good
water to set before his guests, but a
means of lighting his house at night at
almost no pecuniary expense.
Year: 1876

II Is never well to be too sure, you
know.


Douglas had caused his picked men TO
approach the castle by walking on their
hands and knees, with long black cloaks
thrown over their bodies, and their lad
ders and weapons concealed under their
cloaks. The men thus presented very
nearly the appearance of herd Of cattle
In the deep shadows, and completely de-
ceived the sentinel, who was probably
thinking more of the music and dancing
below than Of the watchful enemy who