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Solomon Valley Pioneer. 5 Official Paper of Ottawa County. VOLUME I. LINDSEY, OTTAWA KANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 187L NUMBER 15. The Whole Story.

BY H. L. BOSTWICK. Oh yes I'll tell you the story. The very words that were said.

You see the supper was cooking. And I was slicing some bread. And Richard came into the pantry. His face was exceedingly red. And he opened his half-shut fingers.

And gave me a glimpse of a ring And then oh yes, I remember. The kettle began to sing. Ami Fanny came in with her hahv Married in Fun A Foolish Joke. For some time past there has been in existence in this city a sort of society or club, composed of young ladies and gentlemen, and formed for the cultivation of their historic tastes, and to prepare themselves for a life of future use-fuln ess upon the dramatic stage, as well as for social enjoyment. The rooms in which they massacre Shakespeare and tear Dumas to pieces are situated on State street, in the heart of the business portion thereof, and the unusual sounds I he cunningest bunch of a thing.

biscuits were cut in a minute ame next me see incident to high tragedy emanting there- I there with her baby. own to tea Led over her glasses iru and me milking. had to say had taken Low IV. Uum-tree, low. of milkers.

ilow. was I The Darien Canal. From the New Orleans Republican. Mr. Joseph Med ill.

of Chicago, suggests that the difficulties which beset the Darien canal, and which have discouraged the friends of that enterprise by their magnitude, may be overcome by scaling the mountains better than by going through them. A canal can be constructed over the tops of the Cordilleras, where the elevation is not greater than 600 feet. The Atrato river can be used until it strikes the mountains, when the canal can be substituted with but little tunneling. Water can be forced into the different sections of the canal by team power, and vessels will thus be elevated from one lock to another by the steady use of force pumps driving water into the canal. The principle has been tested on a small scale, in Illinois, where the canal that connects the Chicago river necessitates a rise of eight feet, and where the water to supply the elevation is supplied by force pumps.

The Welland canal is another instance where a large commerce has been carried on through one of these artificial channels. The highest elevation on the Isthmus of Darien would not exceed 500 feet, and the entire length of the canal would rTot exceed sixty miles. In the rainy season the regular fall of water would supply the canal, and artificial reservoirs might be constructed to assist in keeping the canal properly filled. This suggestion might apply at the Isthmus of Panama, where the elevation is only 300 feet, but there are no harbors at Panama, which is a conclusive reason in favor of Darien. If this suggestion of Mr.

Media's is accepted by engineers, the world will be the better off; for whatever the profits, the Darien route will also give advantage to Tehuantepec, and especially to Nicaragua, wheve the water-power is amply sufficient to support such elevated canals at all seasons. And when it is demonstrated that ships can pass from the Gulf to the Pacific over the mountains, the question of good harbors will then be the only remaining obstacle to locating routes nearer home than the Isthmus of Darien. overhead. A Negro Attempts to Rape a White Woman He is Captured and Hung. From the Paris Kentuckian.

On Friday morning last. Mrs. Martin, residing about four miles from Cynthi-ana, near the Millersburg pike, while standing in a chair washing the glasses in one of her windows, was approached from behind by George, a negro man who was employed by Mr. Nelson Martin as a farm hand. The negro seized Mrs.

Martin, and attempted to violate her person, but the horror of her situation, instead of unnerving her. seemed to endow her with superhuman strength. She did not faint, but fought the villain with might and main, at the same time begging and pleading with him to desist, offering him a fine suit of clothes, all the money she had, and, indeed, anything at her command. But he persisted in his hellish attempt, and his intended victim continued her struggles, and, making one mighty effort, succeeded in freeing herself from the clutches of the gallows-deserving scoundrel. Finding herself free, she ran with the speed of an antelope to the house of the nearest neighbor, Mrs.

-lames Victor, a widow lady, some half a mile distant, arriving breathless and almost in a nude state, the garments which remained on her person hanging about in shreds, the greater portion having been entirely torn off in the fierce struggle. As soon as she could command her voice, she told the story of the attempted outrage, when Mr. Alexander Victor immediately started out, giving the alarm, and the entire neighborhood turned out for the search, and scoured the country day and night, and the villain was captured by Mr. Win. Veach, brought to Cynthiana, and lodged in jail Saturday evening.

About 10 o'clock Saturday night, a body of men, about fifty in number, disguised themselves, repaired to the jail, and demanded the prisoner. Upon the jailor's refusal, he was overpowered, and the negro taken to a tree near the graveyard and hung, neither acknowledging his guilt nor protesting his innocence. It cannot be said that the hanging of this negro was the work of rebel Ku-Klux," for the majority of his executioners were Union men, and the verdict of all is, ''served him right." fer the plum-tree the cliickens new tin to hd ell, he loves me, and we're to be married. Foreign Items. Prince Torlonia has sent the Pope a Peterpenny" of 50.000 crowns.

Small quantities of gold have been found at Strathmore, parish of Halkirk. Caithness. Winter has (November 12) set in with great intensity in the northern districts of England and Scotland. The visits of his daughters to Europe will, it is said, be followed by a visit of the Emperor of Brazil in the course oi next year. Great activity prevails in Woolwich Arsenal with a view of perfecting the British armament of the rest i ve forces bt tore the spring of 1871.

At a horseflesh depot in the Rue de la Roquette, Paris, notice is given: Horse meat of first quality on sale from the stables of Comte de la Grange." The London Court Journal of November 1:2 says: "On Tuesday General Washburne had the honor of an interview with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." The production of "Obernon" at Co vent Garden London, ctt it is said, Mr. Mapleson over 1,000, the opera being placed on the stage with mucl magnificence. The members of the Rothschild family are bringing out, in England, The History and Literature of the Israelites according to the Old Testament and the Apocrypha." Two men have been sentenced to four month's imprisionment and hard labor for obtaining money from weak-minded persons in London towards paying off the national debt of England. A Scotch subscription has been set on foot for the purpose of presenting a wedding gift to her 1 loyal Highness the Princess Louise on the occasion of her marriage, to which all members the Clan Campbell will exclusively contribute. The "richest and most beautiful" synagogue in the world is, we areassured, in process of erection at Turin.

It is a Greek temple in form, mounted on a little elevation, is at the same time elegant and grandiose, and crowned with a bizarre and massive tower, which recalls the vissions of Nineveh and Thebes. A correspondent points out a fact not And that ahrut what he said irom have no doubt otten attracted the attention of the passer-by. But these rooms the scene of so many mock representations, beheld something, a few evenings since, far different from anything before enacted within their walls no less than a comedy in real life. On that certain evening, the members of the club had assembled as usual, but in consideration of it being the holiday season, a motion to dispense with the dramatic exercises, and betake themselves to various methods of social enjoyment, met with much favor, and was unanimously adopted. For a time the minutes flew rapidly by, in the various games usually indulged in at social parties.

These, however, soon became monotonous, and a number of feminine and masculine heads might have been seen in close proximity devising some new mode of entertainment. Their ready wits were for a time unable to discover anything which wTould serve to amuse, until, at last, a young lady, her bright eyes brimming over with merriment and mischief, propsed a mock marriage, "just for fun you know." This proposition was eagerly seconded by another bewitching damsel, and as it seemed impossible that either of them had any ulterior object in view, the new devertise-ment was agreed to by all. Preparations were immediately made for having the interesting cermony performed with all due solemnity. A young law student volunteered to act in the capacity of officiating clergymen, while two other well-known young men gladly agreed to accept the duty of going RACING FOR LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE. BY RED JACKET.

derson adopted the same plan, and off we went again. We were near a place of safety, an oasis in the prairie. The fire is now within a few hundred yards of us: the Indians are writhing in pain they sav thev can't endure the heat. 44 Now, then, one hundred yards, and we are safe," cries Henderson. 44 Oh, dear my clothes are on fire.

Quick. Harry We are safe, safe!" and as our horses struck the edge of it with their hoofs the Indians leaped and ran two feet to our horses' one for about two hundred )rards, while at the same time they were tearing their clothes from their backs. We were now standing on the middle of the oasis, looking at the mighty heavens, and oh what a sublime sight I have seen vessels at sea, and I have seen houses on fire, but they never could be compared with a prairie on fire the flames darting like snakes with their fiery tongues toward the skies, while the heavens themselves seemed to be made of gold from the broad glare of the flames, and the smoke rolling in dense curling wreaths upward, which seemed more like a battle-field, and the wild birds flying to and fro through the air uttering the most piercing screams, and some of them having all the feathers completely burned from their bodies, while others would fly over the flames and look the very picture of gold, and then as suddenly drop down in the fire to perish. Bat see the Indians hugging and kissing us, and pointing to the demon from which they had just at this moment escaped, and insisting on our partaking of the hospitalities of the camp. We thought it a favorable opportunity to cultivate a little good will among some of the tribes, and consented, not without a little fear as to the result.

After a ride of a day we arrived at their encampment, and found the Indians to be amanehes. We were now afraid of being recognized as being of a late party of thre, which they had attempted to capture. We were taken into a hut, and after the squaws had spread some buffalo meat and corn -cake, with some fire-water, we were motioned, with five or six other red skins, to partake of it. We did so with a pretty good appetite. Beds having been made for us, we retired, giving orders to the squaws to wake us' up early.

In the morning by four o'clock we took some breakfast with them, after which we saddled our horses and were just about starting when the old chief heard of us. and sent word by an Indian that he would like to see us. A went into his tent, and after smoking the pipe of peace with him, he gae us to understand that we would always be friends. After shaking hands we parted, to pursue our journey homeward, where we arrived a few days afterward, with plenty of gamr. safe and sound.

In the hot month of July, 182 we started on horseback, trapping. Everything passed very well on that day. The second day we commenced looking for game, which was by no means scarce. The sun had disappeared below the horizon, when we thought it expedient to look out for some good resting-place. We rode lazily through the prairie till we arrived at a -suitable place.

We soon commenced our operations. I had taken our small tent-poles and other utensils off our horses, while Hen-derson was busy cleaning a space for driving them into mother earth. Our work went on gaily, lie whistling "Yankee Doodle," and 1 singing it. He had driven the second pole in the ground when he raised his head, and was looking in a north westerly direction, I ventured to look in his face, and oh I never can forget that look He was as stiff as a reed, standing with his eyes like glass, scanning the vast prairie. His face was as white as the snow.

Harry," said he, "the prairie is on tire," "What! Ho do you know?" said I. 44 Do you not see the Fire King, with through the formula with the young la- I tongue lashing up the blades of Tasting Brandy to ascertain its value by the flavor, aroma and purity, it is stated, is not a sufficient or reliable test. Besides, the mere keeping of the brandy on the palate and inhaling the bouquet will soon affect the brain of the taster, and lead his judgement astray, no mat ter how experienced he may be. A plain and easy method of examining brandy has been suggested, which consists in mixing two parts of water with one part of the brandy to be tested. As the alcohol in the brandy possesses far more affinity to the water than to the deleterious substance, such as noxious essential oils, used in adulteration, the latter will be set free by the addition of the double quantity of water.

The separation of the essential oils will be more promptly affected by the use of boiling water, which also developes the aroma of the high grade brandies. A Cheap Fire Escape. The fearful calamity at the Spotswood Hotel Rich-mon'j. Virginia, where at least eight of the inmates of the hotel lost their lives by the fire which destroyed the building, has started suggestions to guard against the recurrence of such disasters. One correspondent suggests that every hotel should have an alarm bell with a wire rope to be used in such emergencies to give instant and effective alarm.

Another calls to mind a suggestion made vt least twenty years ago in the Ledger, that in all high dwellings and hotels there should be in every room a coil of knotted rope, strong enough to bear the weight of a heavy man, and long enough to reach to the ground, with a stout iron hook or bracket beneath the window to fasten it to. Since that suggestion was made, some prudent travellers have adopted the plan of carrying such ropes in their trunks. A writer to the New-York Tribune mentions a case where half a dozen persons were enabled to make their a burning hotel dies aforesaid. All things being readiness, the two young couple were joined together, strictly in accordance with the text of the service, and were solemnly pronounced man and wife amid the delight and laughter of those who acted as spectators at the success of the plan. Many were the jokes the newly-wedded were made the victims of, and which were heartily enjoyed by the young husbands themselves.

All this was well enough so far. and continued 8q until the time arrived for separating. The husbands had donned their coats and hats, preparatory to their departure, and had already bade the rest goodnight. But at this juncture a change came over the spirit of their fun. The young wives were not going to allow their new made lords to leave them in such a cruel, unhusbandlike manner, and insisted on their rights as wives being given them, claiming that the marriage was just as legal and lawful as though cemented by a real minister, inasmuch as each of them made a public acknowledgment to take each other for better or before witnesses.

The young gentlemen were completely nonplussed by this. unexpected termination of the evenings' enjoyment but of course flatly ref used to consider themselves bound by the farcical service performed. In this interesting state the affair now stands, and will no doubt, if the young ladies persist in their determination, give some of our lawyers work to do. grass?" and he pointed to a red spot, which on closer observation proved to be the flames, sweeping everything, before it. 44 Now, then, quick, for God's sake, or we shall never be able to gain a spot where we can stand without feeling its elaws on us." And we did commence in right good earnest to get clear of the tall grass, and for my part.

I don't think I ever made as quick a move in all my life as I did on that occasion. By the time you could count twenty I had everything on our horses, and as we sprang into our saddles, we had very little hope of escape but still we could do no better than try. 44 Hold on said Henderson. 44 We had better take a goo look at the monster but oh! look, "arry where it has already reached it Jl surely over-' take us. Quick our liv are at risk take a southeasterly dir btion, and we may, perhaps, save ourse res." Neither of us needed kmmands, and we started off on as hrisltta canter as the circumstances would allTv us.

Yes, of generally known. hat Queen Victoria's future son-in-law, as soon as he crosses the border with his bride, will be dissenter in religion: for the Marquis of Lome is a Presbyterian "true blue" a conformist to the state religion on the north of the Tweed, hut a dissenter from it on the sooth. OUTDOOR demonstrations iii favot i France are to be revived by the London (England) democrats. The "Advanced Liberal Association" of Mr. Gladstone's borough Greenwich has come forward with an appeal to the "calm judgment, unbiased sense and brotherly sympathy of the great democracy of England on behalf of tin suffering people of France that country full of mourners for their slain, yet gallantly struggling for liberty and freedom." Sunflowers and Intermittent Fevkk.

Mr. Martin, in a paper presented by him to the Society Therapeutique de France," affirms that the comm sun flower, extensively cultivated, has Ihe effect of neutralizing the unwholesome vapors which are so fatal to health and life in marshy districts. The Dutch, who live only by dyking and draining their low lands, and arc therefore good authority' pronounce sunflower culture a specific for intermittent fever, the scourge of Holland. They arrest that it has disappeared from every district where the experiment has been tried. It is not yet known whether this is the result of its rapid growth, producing oxygen, or whether it emits ozone and destroys these germs, animal and vegetable, which produce that miasma which brings fever its train.

The Cost of War. Professor Leone Levi has recently written a letter to the London newspapers, giving an estimate of the cost of the present war to France. He says that when the war was declared on July 15th, an expenditure of was voted, and three days afterwards another appropriation, amounting to was made. In August $200,000,000 were appropriated, and then a national loan of $175,000,000 was authorized, and finally a second loan of $50,000,000 was negotiated in London. In addition to this the city of Paris has borrowed $10,000,000, and many of the departments and cities of France have borrowed money for local defences.

Large sums of money have also been taken from the Bank of France, of which no report has been made. The expenditures incurred for war armaments for the last three years, it is estimated, amount to $20,000,000, so that if the war should cease now it is calculated that the actual expenditure would exceed seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars. The direct losses to France, caused by the waste and destruction of Fvar. it is estimated, would amount to as Ihtuch as the large sum above stated. by the use of one of these ropes which a friend of the writer was lucky enough to have in his trunk at the time.

He tells the story as follows: "A friend, with whom I was travelling, upon hearing that the hotel was on fire, remarked that he was fully prepared for such an incident, and coolly took from his trunk a coil of half-inch rope, about thirty feet long, knotted every two feet, to give better hold. After seeing me down safely, he lowered our baggage, and only came down himself after helping half a dozen guests down. Ever since then I carry such a rope. It takes but very little room in a trunk, and, as there is no patent on it, every one who can eonven-ientlv spare fifty cents may be able, in Soluble Garnet Dye. A new dye, known as soluble garnet, is coming largely into favor in Europe, on account of the brilliancy of its colors, which are similar to those obtained with orchil, and much more stable when exposed to light and air.

It is the ammonia of salt of isopurpuric acid, ana is forrm I by the action of a metallic cyonide upon picric acid. It is capable of furnishing all shades, from garnet to chestnut brown and, combining readily with other pigments, it can be thus made to give an additional variety of tints. In dyeing wool and silk, an organic acid, such as acetic or tartaric, is to be added to the bath, mineral acids being unsuitable. The dye bath should be tepid or cold in the beginning. Different shades of red and brown are thus obtained, depending upon the concentration of the bath, the nature of the mordant, and course, reader, vou mifet know those circumstances.

In the first place, th grass was as hen in some require some high as our heads, and places it was so thick a strength to get through it a good run, when hi ii em the time ot the operation. tection or Logwood Dve in Wine. etect logwood in wine it is only ne- A scientific writer sa 'he indirect lossses Professor Levi di- The Patience of Job. Everybody is in the habit of bragging on Job, and Job did have considerable pashunce but did he ever keep a districk skule for 8 dollars a month, and board around, or run a country newspaper?" Did he ever reap lodged oats down hill on a hot day, and have all his gallus buttons bust oph at once Did he ever have the jumping tooth-ake, and be made to tend the babe while his wife was over to Parkins" to a tea squall Did he ever get up in the mornin awful dri and tuff it 3 miles before breakfast to get -a drink, and find that the man kept a temperance house Did he ever undertake to milk a kik-ing heffer, with a bush tale, in fly time, and in a lot Did he ever set on a litter of kittins, in the old rocking chair, with his summer pantaloons on? If he could do theze things, and praize the Lord at the same time, all I have to sav is, bally for Job. Josh Billings.

the strong smelling ary, according to the Journal tie nor to place strips of good filtering- such as mint jm Mr aier in an aoueous solution ot neutral and cherrv 1, acetate of copper, and then dry them. quantity of atmospheric mt iiiiii tt iuouuvv in 111. ii a of men and loss of industry. He calculates that the capitalizied loss of 150,000 'men killed and wounded, while the loss of productive power, would amount to $1,250,000,000, and that the loss of national production and trade would destitute of peri and generally seems to be in propof of the nerfume emanateaTTthoro- amount to trance, according to the above calculation, will lose bv ke war three thousand millions ot dol-Irs. besides the indemnify of fifteen said I.

like low grass, and if we can before the flames reach us we because our horses can get it without much difficulty." hundred millions of dollars she may have to pay to Germany. The Professor, Levi, places the loss by the civil war in the United States at six thousand five hundred millions of dollars. He also says that elasticity of character and variety of resources may enable France to recover more speedily than another country could from the effects of this great war, yet nothing can make up for the destruction of the productive forces of the nation. ease of fire in a dwelling house or hotel, to save himself, and probably some others." Eric Judicially Rebuked. At last we have a condemnation, impartial, scathing and unanswerable, administered by a Judge of the Supreme Court to the counsel and managers of Erie.

Judge Rosekrans has performed a service of the highest order to the bench, the bar and the public, by his masterly and exhaustive opinion on the affairs of this disreputable corporation. A history of shameless evasions and illegal delays, of chicanery and impertinence, is laid bare with unfaltering hand and keen perception of moral as well as legal wrong. The entire opinion forms an arraignment of Erie at the bar of all honest sentiment, and its conclusion contains sentences which read like the knell of a stupendous public wrong. The property of the corporation has been treated as if it belonged absolutely to the trustees. The action of the courts and of judicial officers has given countenance to this novel and monstrous doctrine.

This course of proceeding has resulted in a deep and abiding reproach upon the administration of justice." These are words which deserve to be set in letters of gold, and which, let us hope, form the writing on the wall which betokens the coming downfall of an unscrupulous and unblushing ring of public plunderers. Read by the light of Judge Rosekrans opinion, the stay of proceedings granted yesterday, in the Ramsey suit, by Judges Barnard and Cordozo, needs no comment. New York Tinier, oth. A Chicago widow was requested by the dear departed's aristocratic relatives to give a false name when she went out washing so as not to disgrace the family. Such thoughtfulness is the heat at rav back as the wind it along; the flames are about a us.

I listen to the shrill fore, recommended that in marshy districts, and in places infested with noxious exhalations, strong smelling flowers should be planted around the houses in order that the ozone emitted from them may exert its powerful oxidizing influence. So pleasant a plan for making malarious districts salubrious only requires to be known to be put into practice. Coblentz has now the aspect of a French. garrison town. Officers of various descriptions in brilliant uniforms are to be seen in all the streets, although of the two thousand officers sent there, four or five hundred have dispersed themselves in the neighborhood, and very many have assumed civil dress.

There are fifteen hundred officers, including eight generals, who frequent cafes and restaurants. Mrs. Eunice Cobb, mother of Sylvanus Cobb, who writes so many continued of the wild birds, whose notes Iw; av, wnue tne awtui sound oi tne Wine suspected of coloration with logwood may be tested by dipping a slip of the prepared paper into it, and after removal allowing the adhering drop of wine to flow backward and forward over the paper, which is to be rapidly dried. If the wine Vie pure the color exhibited after drying will be gray or rose-red grayish but if logwood be present the tint will be distinctly sky blue. ExiUor's Seientiic Hecorri, in Harper's Magazine for January.

The family headship is solved in Maine. A progressive clerical friend, desiring to know the views of his people in regard to a church matter, requested all the heads of families to rise. Only the brethren responded to the appeal this did not satisfy, and our enthusiastic minister hurriedly added: Now, will will the parts of the heads of families rie?" FAifnr's Drawer, in Harper1 Magazine for January. A good Baptist deacon in Tennessee in a social meeting expressed his conviction- of duty in the following concise, and pithy manner 44 Brethren. I have made up my mind to be religious.

I am getting along in years, and it appears well for old men fo he religious. 1 am a man of family too. 1 have had ten children: five are on earth and five in heaven. Mxptilibrium brethern. equilibrium Editor's Drawer, Harper's Magazine for January.

Baltimore is troubled with fierce fa male highwaymen, who -hoot at folks. ring flames gives us spirit to urge our es. On, on we go the heat is press ing on us. The Tallow-Tree. A popular tree, called the tallow-tree, grows in China, the fruit of which contains a seed covered with a white, solid, fatty matter, which the natives convert into candles.

It is proposed to introduce this tree into South Carolina, the south of France and Algeria, where there is every prospect of its being successfully cultivated. In China it forms vast forests, and gives rise to a considerable branch of local commerce. The Government of British India has introduced it throughout the different regions of the Peninsula, it now being ascertained that it grows equally as well in the Punjaub and the northwest provinces as in China. The fatty matter produced by the tree favorably compares with the finest tallow, and, when manufactured into candles, burns with a clear, white flame of great brilliancy, and emits neither smoke nor disagreeable odor. Appleton's Journal.

The young women of Yankton. Dacota, some time since formed a society, the members of which bounded themselves not to associate with men who drank. Last Thanksgiving day a male biped of that town drunk 22 drinks of whiskey within an hour, and immediately thereafter upon solicitation, drank 12 glasses of beer. His funeral the next day was slimly attended. The young ladies" society is not held accountable.

Keep up, don't lag, for mercy sake, or we are lost! We are within a quarter of a mile of it if we can get there we are safe The heat was now so great we could hardly endure it. I smell something about me burning my jacket is scorching. Hush what is that ahead of us Two Indians who are imploring for help with the cry ef a Me sev, oh sev Camanchee Hold on, Harry we will save them. tones, is an earnest temperance woman, and recently made a speech in Boston The old brick houses, St. George's i which was very interesting and frequently applauded.

London papers remark on the fad that an unexpected feature of the late consecration of two bishops was a choral celebration of the Holy Communion. lace, Hyde Park, Xondon, which are if we can, A London druggist has this cheerful invitation in his shop window: "Come in and get twelve emetics for one shil- turv and a halt old, are to Come quick, one One of the houses was horse, said as the the comedian. 1 ling-' leaped on his back I.