Brookville Independent du lieu suivant : Brookville, Kansas • 1

'V .) vr I' 0 rAl rrAY rr Yl rrAY 1 DEVOTED TO THE LOCAL INTERESTS OF BBOOKYILLK AND VICIX1TY. BROOK VILLE, KANSAS. NOVEMBER 11, 1880. VOL. I.

NO. 51. IRiPiTiririrlLrtmi i II I II II II II II II II II II II II terminated by an award to the State of a from among sold them rights and recipes for working THE INDEPENDENT. NUBBINS OF JOTS. M1T0MK OS1 OCCUKRENCKS IN ALL FARTS OF TUE WORLD.

A few years ago the greatest steamers did not exceed 350 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, 11,500 tons in tonage, or 4,000 horse itower. Now the City of Berlin of the Inmen line is 488 feet by 4LI fwt, and theirnew steamer, the City of Rome, building of iron at Barrow, will be still larger, having a length ol 540 feet, a breadth of 52 feet, and a gross registered tollllL'C of fi 00(1 'I'liu ('iniunl pr.ol .,1.:.. HUM SUIT (ill MAI, PKNSK. It was my happy lot to meet I'pon a late While seeking of the summer's bout, Agreeable evasion, By visiting at a resort Of fashion where, 110 mailer A maid whom there was none to court, And very few to flatter. Her head had not the gracelul poise Of Aphrodite's statue; Her hair reminded you of boys; Her nose was pointed at you, KKEVITIKS.

It transpired In Keoknk lawsnit Unit the tleremknt had sent his wife to the poorhouse and niariied his fut Iter's di-voreed wile. i i Peru and Bolivia ure ttbout la enter into eottfedeiiition, nnd beeotne one eonntry, Hag and government, and to he known as the United States ol Pern anil Bolivia. A stalwart woman got employment In male attire as a farm hand at llutfh-inson, 111., but the farmer disi'haitred her on learning her ses. She has brought suit to recover wages for the whole eon tract. There is at Elgin, 111, Society of Pandemonium, ''devoted to the noisy reeOiimlionof nuptials," in other words, an organized band of scrainuleM with horns tin palm, and other implement of noise.

Marv Anderson is furious because druggists have been using her advertising busts for the purose of displaying elec trie stomach pads in their show window. She considers it a degradation of high art. Amo.no the Sisters of Mercy who accompanied the Russian army are two and a beauty with a fabulous the Servia. now building at Glasgow, is mo icci oy ou icer, with over indicated horse nou'pr nn.l ill possess a speed in advance of the very fastest ship at present afloat in the mercantile marine. Nature's Remedy.

It is evident flint a city people suffer from diseases of the liver. uvircic, ut Kiuiivys. luuney-vvoit is natures remedv inr 11 if.ni nl .1.... cannot prepare the dry can now procure it iu liquid lorm of any druggist. Globe-Democrat.

Vegetine Purifiest tlio Blood, Renovates and Iu- viKorates ine Bjstein. ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and Din- retac. Vegetine fa made exclusive! (mm of carefully selected barks, roots and herbs.and sironfiiy concentrated that It will effectually eradicate from the system everv taint ni Scrofulous Humor, Tumor, Cancer, Cancerous nuuiur, r.rysipeias, ban lineiim, Syphilitic Dis-eases, Canker, Faintness at tbc Stomach, and all diseases that arise from Impure blood. Sciatica, Inflammatory and Chronio Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout and Spinal Complaints, can only be effectually cured through the blood. ror leers ana Eruptive Diseases of the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches, Bolls, Tetter, Scald-head and Ringworm, Vegetine has never failed to effect a permancut eur.

For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness. Leucorrhoea, arising from Internal ulceration, and uterine and General Debility, Veoetine acts directly upon mecausj. of these complaints. It Invigorates an! strengthens the whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allavs inflammation mm ulceration and regulates the bowels. tor Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costlveness Palpitation of the Heart.

Headache. Wins. Nor. vousness, and General Prostration of the Ner vous system, no medicine has given such perfect satisfaction as the Vegetine. It purifies the blood, cleanses all of the organs', and possesses a controlling power over the nervous system.

The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine' have induced many nht siclans and nnnth(wn whom we know to prescribe It and use it In their own tamiiies. In fact, Vegetine is the best remwiv vol ais. covered for the above diseases, and is the only re liable Blood Purifier yet placed before the public. Vegetine PREPARED RV H.R STEYEXS. BOSTON.

MASS. Yegetino is Sold by All Dr. John Gull's FOR THE CURE OF FEVER AND AGUE OR Chills and Fever The Dronrictor of this celchratprt justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offered to the public for the SAFE, CERTAIN antl PERMANENT emu nf Amu. and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long suinamg. lie rciers to tne entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth ol the assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure ifthe directions are strictly followed and carried out.

In a leat many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and wnoie lamuies nave been cured a angle bottle, with a pcrlect restoration of the general health. It is however prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in Bmnller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difl'i-cult and long-standing cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient, however, require a cathartic medicine, alter having taken three or four doses of the tonic, a single dose ol BULL'S VEGETABLE 1 AMILV ILLS wil be sufficient. The genuine Smith's Tonic Syrup must have Dr.

John Bull's private stamp on each bottle. Dr John Bull only has the right to manufacture and sell the original JOHN J. SMITH'S TONIC SY-Kl'P, of Louisville, Ky. Examine well the label on each bottle. If my private stamp is not on each bottle do not purchase, or you will be do- eelved.

Dr. JOHN BUILT, Slanufacturer and Vender of SMITH'S TOfilC BULL'S SARSAPARILLA, BULL'S WORM DESTROYER1 The Populat Remedies of the Day. PrinHpnl Offct S19 Main SI. LOUISVILLE. KY TUTT3 PILLS SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER.

Loss of Appetite, Bowels costive, Pain In the Head, with a dull sensation in the back part, Fain under the shoulder blade, full. ness after eating, with a disinclination to exertion of body or mind, Irritability ot temper, Low spirits, with a feeling of hav-in neglected some duty. Weariness, Dizziness, Fluttering at the Heart, Dots beforf the eyes, Yellow Skin, Headache generali; over the right eye, Restlessness, with fit- lul dreams, highly colored Urine, aiaS CONSTIPATION. TUTTS pills arc especially adapted to inch cases, sink ledose fleets such a rhauice of IccI'mk IU 10 astonish the sufferer. SOLO KVKRYWHRRK, PRICK 21 CPNTS ffico, 35 Murray Street, New York SMITH'S TONIC SYRUP, VCrUlCtOI I no suit was Drougtit to recover back taxes alleged to be due the State.

J. Cowle, special census agent for t.on. Walker, has finished tlio statistics ol the fruit trade ol'Chiraga for the year. The total trade foots up over and Is for the year beginning June, closing may ulst, this year. A terrible fight occurred in the Grove house saloon at Hannibal.

One Schaflor shot Charles Coouecsd through the hand, when the latter struck Shallcr with a beer glass, fracturing his skull. Schaflor lies in a very precarious condiiiou. Tlios, Johnson, the alleged murderer of Daley, at Middleton. has been caught. He has been concealed In a sewer ever since the murder was committed, and the rain raised the sewer, so that he had to come out or be drowned.

He was immediately taken to Hamilton. Mike McIIugh, a notorious desperado, was shot and mortally wounded by OIHcer White, of Hie police force, at Bloomington, 111. McIIugh was on a drunken spree and was severely clubbed while resisting arrest. He started out with the intention of killing the officer and was shot as stated. Samuel Miller, a farmer, near Fulton, Ohio, went on a spree and came home and went to whip his hired boy, Harry Deaters, aged 18, Forcing him into a corner with a spreading stick he said he would kill him.

Dealers then picked up a olub and, in self-defense, struck Miller a blow from which he died. IHK SOL Til. One licaro was killed and thirteen wounded iu Edgerield, S. on election day. Peter Wright, colored, was hanged at Liberty, October 29th, for the nmrder ot M.

Matipin, white, iu June, 1879. -Virginia has evidently given the Fund- er Democrats a handsome majority over both the Republicans and Readjusters Two persons were killed and. several injured bv the explosion of a boiler in the mill ot Jasper Smith at Guntusville, Tenn. -Mr. W.

A. Shaffner. a prominent citi zen near Mulbery, Lincoln county, hanged himself. He was 55 years old and was considered insane. -A suit by George M.

Pullman against the Baltimore and 9hio railroad company, involving the validity of the sleeping car patent, is on trial -The Mississippi river steamer Robert Mitchell was sunk at Fox Island with a cargo of cotton and breadstufis. The Arkansas river packet Ouachita Belle sunk near Austin, with cotton and general freight. Collector Clark, under date of Atlanta, Ga telegraphs "I have seized within the last thirty days thirty illicit distilleries, two teams and about 1,000 gallons of spirits. Nine ot the distilleries were in the notorious Red Oak neighborhood. As soon as stills are torn out in that section others are at once set up and the illicit work resumed." HUtory of the Beard, A French paper gives same notes on the history of the beard.

In the earliest Pagan times the primatiye deities were represented with majestic beards. In France they played a great role from the role of Pharamoud downward. Under Clovis the beard of Ihe king was an object of veneration, aud indeed, every individual was more or less sensative regarding his beard. It is related that after the great battle of Tolbiac, Clovis sent a deputation to the defeated Alaric le-questing him to come and touch the vic tor beam as a token ot alliance, far from accepting the invitation in the spirit in which it was offered, the enraged King of the Huns seized the Frank-ish emissaries by their beards, and hauled them out of the room by their revered locks. The unfortunate envoys returned rather crestfallen to Cloves, narrated what had happened, and swore "on their beards" to avenge the affront.

In subsequent reigns the beard was the object ot numerous enactments, and the fashion ot wearing it was ciutngea as ire- quently. Sometimes it was worn long, sometimes elose-clipjed, new peaked, new plaited, or even decorated witn pearls aud gold trinkets. Even in the sacred atmosphere of Rome itself, beards were the objects ot considerable discus sion, uinerent ropes lam uown tuner ent rules on the subject. One, Pontiff, enacted that no beards were to be worn; another as stringently directed that the razor was never to be applied to the chin. Saint Clement of Alexandria, Cyprian, Jerome and Chrysostom engaged in ve hement controversies about the mode ot wearing the hair about the face in the fifteenth century.

In France the final triumph of beards dates from the Renaissance, when the example set by the great artists, who largeiy indulged in these ap pendages, was cioseiy touowea oy tne sovereign aud other magnates of the land. Under Henry III. shaven chins were the mode, the mustache being worn long and dropping. During Henry reign beards cut square again came into fashion ana mustacnes were cunea; while under Louis XIV. beards were acain tabooed, and the moustache worn alone, and in the two following reigns the razor was in lull use.

Lnaer tne Republican regime, as also under those of the Empire and Restoration, no beards were grown. They came in again, how ever, with the Revolution of loU WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. KANSAS CITY. CATTi.E.-Extra prime steers. 1,300 and over, lair to prime, $3.

81 4.00 native feeders, average 1,000 to 1.200, $3.2 native stockers, average 800 to 1,000, $2.703.104 native uows, lair to good Texan steers. 3.00. Hods. Common to choice, stackers. i3.20Gi3.90.

Gbain. Whiter wheat, No. 1, 85ic; win ter wheat, No. 2, winter wheat, No. 3, 7(Uc.

Com, No. 2 mixed, 30Jc; No. 2 white, 34c. Oats, No. 2, 27ic Rye, No.

2, 71c. Gknebai. Produce. Apples per barrel, liuHcr, choice HfelOc; medium grade, Cheese, Kansas prime, Hams, 11 Jc. Imrd, 8c Kggs, per dozvii, 12(3 12Jf.

Potatoes, 40.50. Houses Auction horses and good, Auction horses nnd ponies, extra, Plug horses, very common, $lf Plug horses, un 4ti(o ring hor ses. extra, $i'i0 Plain heavy workers Uood heavy workers, Fair to extra heavy workers. Broke Mui.es. Mules lolH hands high, Mules hands Mules 14J 15 hands high, $00 jI5; Mali's H1W hands high, extra, 7J (u) Mules ir15 hands high, $100 Mules 14(n 151 hnnils high, extra, $115 $140; Mules 15i If.

hands high, $140 to Mr. Inn ordered his good and faithful slave to tell all callers that he was not at home. The bell rings, and the usual question, "Is Mr. Inn at home?" was propotindeJ. The servant replies, "Mr.

Inn is out, but he is always Inn when he's out and out when he's in," and closes the door in the stranger's face as he beats a retreat in blank-verse amazement. charms and perlorir.ing miracles. 10 ac (pure the "card charm" three or more go to a grave, ono kneels at the head and prays, one or more stand at the foot and curse, the balance dig down and get the bones aud fill up the grave again, the praying and cursing going on all the time. Then all join in a game of cards on the grave and all have acquired the "charm." They put the bones in a poke or string them" and wear them about their bodw and. as they expressed it.

"we have good luck." They lick du.it of human liones and wet tne tips ot tneir fingers while they handle or play cards, and have "good luck." They rub the cards against the bones about their body for "luck." And they swallow the dust for "good luck" in any undertaking. Rumor has it that they said: "If a black mnn will take a dose of the dust of a white woman's bones he can then charm any white woman and do as he pleases with her." We do not vouch for this, as the prisoners never mentioned this particular charm to the Sheriff after they were put in jail, but they spoke freely of the others, and said they did not 'see that they had any better "luck." Itoscoe Conkling How he Is Regarded by Ilia Fellow Townsmen. A correspondent of the Boston Herald says Senator Conkling is not a popular man at home. He courts seclusion from the mob ot his fellow citizens, and is iarely seen down town. His little theatrical trk-ks are noted with quiet amusement by the people.

When be arrives at Utica lie mounts the seat of a baggage or express wagon, taking a bee line for his house, tine old stone mansion surrounded by tree3, and fronted by a beautiful lawn. At home he guards himself like a night-blooming cereus, not allowing his local political aid-decamp to be unduly familiar. He is an indefatigably industrious man, and particular as appointment of the day to suit his avocations. A light eater, temperate in all his habits, his dinner is his only substantial meal, during which he will not be interrupted for any cause. When he unbends to his retainers he is social and fairly genial.

The "Duke of Utica" is not altogether inconsiderate of popular approval. One of his oditiesis, on going away, to take a seat in an ordinary passenger car very ordinary on Vanderbilt's meanly managed road but, whenjthe train has left Utica, the Duke removes himself and his traps to the parlor car. He would like to be thought democratic in his ways, though nature is stronger than inclination. With all his weaknesses, Senator Conkling has strong points commending hira to the people. He is honest, and, as politicians go, truthful, but no newspaper man with a soul could consent to conduct his official organ.

He tolerates no dissent, and "despises the dissenter." His followers must be his careful echoes their eyes his faithful mirrors and their hands his faithful ministers. It is his nature. A Judge of the supreme bench of the state tells me that when Conkling was a young man at the bar he was pugi listic and overbearing, although in those days he was not so exclusive, and stood around the corners with the boys. The Utica shop keepers are careful not to criticise my lord's ducal ways, not that the imierial senator would stoop to retaliation, but his henchmen would be likely to refuse their patronage to any tradesman who dared sav aught against "The Duke of Utica." 'Yet the anti-Conkhng Republicans cherish a secret pride of the curled darling of New York. They like his pluck, his aggressiveness, and his party pride, which outwardly symbolizes the inner conviction of every New Yorker that their great state is the biggest thing in the whole Union! There is the greatest possible difference between Mr.

Conkling and his brother-in-law, ex-Gov. Seymour, who is the soul of geniality and kindness. The hitter's sister, who'is the senator's wife, was sweet and amiable as her husband is not. Gov. Seymour has a quiet little joke at the expense of is brother-in-law.

He remarks that he finds it useful to hnve a bad reputation, for when he speaks to an audience of Republicans they are surprised to find him a decent sort of a fellow, and to prove one's self better than one's reputation is a kind ot triumph. "But my brother-in-law has not this advantage," adds Mr. Seymour, with a laugh. Determination. A woman with a will can make her way in the American world.

In L'lster county, New York, there is a woman of real grit wno inherited lourteen years ago a large estate, consisting principally ol farming property, heavily encumbered with debt. It was the old homestead and she could not bear the idea of seeing it pass into tne nands ot strangers, and was determined that it should not. Although then only twenty-four years old. and with no moro practical knowledge ot Itte than un ordinary country lass, she assumed sole charge of the estate, determined to clear it of debt. Having ail old mother sixty-three years old, a half-sister, also helpless from old age, the two orphan children of a deceased brother, and a Drotner in the last stages of consumption to provide fpr, this made her.task doubly hard.

A little exper ience taught ner that it was impossible to support her large family and keep up the interest arising lrom tne heavy indebtedness of the estate from the re-ources of the farm. She was engaged to teach in her own neighborhood a district school at $8 per month, and her salary i 1 dm lituciiuii. uiuu ttuo laiDeu iu tpiu pui month. She has continued school teaching ever since, directing the work of her farm, and during the summer vacations going into the h.irvest field with the farm hands to pitch on hiy, rake, bind, etc. She has earned from teashing school over 13,500, paid off the debt of the old homestead, and greatly improved the property.

She has been an extensive stock raiser. Her wheat crop this year averaged forty-two bushels to the acre, the largest yield in the counry. A short time ago Bhe learned that a brother-in-law living in Pennsylvania was in destitute circumstances. She went to him and found him helpless from an incurable disease, with a family depending noon him. "Ben," she Baid, "what can I do for you?" "Nothing, Libbie," was the reply.

"You have your hands full already. Ve will have to go to the county house, I suppose." "Never, Ben. as long as I live. Come and enjoy the comforts' of the old homestead with me. I will keep vou and your family as long as you live." She says she has enough to do without having to support a husband toq, which she might have to do if she were to marry.

Terms, $1.50 Per Year, in Advance I A MS SIMONS, KPITOUS AND PKOl'RIEK'HS. 1'ublished Every Thursday Morning. K. P. ii.

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kamai KASTERS BOI'SII. No. 2. Mull and Express Mtt a. m.

4. Kansas Express l. in. .1, K. Agent roSTOFFICE D1KECTOUY.

Mulls closes a follows: For the East, al o'elnvk, a. ami at o'clock p. ui. for I lit? West, at it o'clock, p. iu.

L. 0, WARNER, P. M. CITY IMKWTOfiY. Mavor K.

N. Motrin Clerk K. B. Ingraliam Treasurer Warner harli'S Dranger I V. CuinplHill.

Ci.niicilineii a a. K. Carrel. I luH'hh Rushey. j.

Police Judge Joseph Moore. Mai-hal J. i. SCHOOL OFFICERS. Director ITerk Treasurer Oliauncy Tafij E.

N. Steams. MethodUt Church-Preaching every Sunday by the pastor. Rev. F.

H. Baker. Also preaching In this church by Rev. s. Wrftiht.

Congregational ininl.ter. Baker in the morning one ami Wright in the evening; the next Sunday Wright in the morning and Baker iu the evening. Ac. Methodist Sunday School at a. ni I niuu School at 2 iM p.

in. Catholic Church Father Ign. Lager, pastor. Services second Sunday In each mouth. Early mass at 8 and lWW o'clock a.

in. BUSINESS CARDS, J. V. BULLA RD, Proprietor of the City Shaving Parlor BATH KOOMS. HairCiittlng.

Shavingnnd Shainpooning neatly done. Best accommodation for Bathing. Brookvillk, Kansas. T. B.

SELLER, M. Physician Surgeon. Office one door west of 1'alace Drug Horo. Residence In the weft part of town on Ander-sou Avenue. Call and Consultation promptly1 attended 10.

BitonKViu.E, Kansas. E. STEARNS, iu. Physician and Surgeon Office Andeisnn Avenue, three doors wet ot Perry street. Brookvii.i.e, Kansas.

L. C. Notary Public AMI AGENT I). P. RAILWAY LANDS.

Office at the Pnslofflce, BBOOKV1LLE, SZJi.a. J. C. SPARKS, Fainting, Graining, Frescoing, VAPERHANGING, All orders promptly attended to and satis (action guaranteed. Residence and shop corner Fourth and Palmer i aireets, BROOKYII.LE, KANSAS.

J. C. TAYLOR, Proprietor of The Kansas Pacific House, BROOKVILLE, KANSAS. A first-class House in every respect, HoTfii. Near the Depot.

Grand Central Hotel, SAUNA, KANSAS. Onlv Hotel in Central Part of the City FREE 'BUS between Hotel and Station. Ac-cominal ions can lie furnished to any part of the city. J. M.

ERICSON, PROFIlIETOlt1 AY. II. GENTRY'S ivopv fin1 Jllll! UUU 1VVU UlUUlVi BROOKVILLE, KANSAS, Has a good, warm stable, with plenty of feed on hand at all times. CAEEIAGES Both single and double, jTOB HIRE CHEAP-Good, gentle saddle horses. Huiu Bud Foretgu lutclllgene Carefully CoDiplled-reroooul, Social suit Politl.

Ml Potpourri Various Doing the World Over. WASHINGTON Collector Young telegraph from N. t' Monday, November Mil, as follow: Jarvis, Democrat, is elected (iov-crnor by nearly 5,000 majority, lluhbs, in the Second district, is elected to Congress, a Republican guin of 8,000 on the vote of 1870. The Depart ttient of Ptate is advised by tele irnins from Mr. our nilmstei to Chill, and Mr.

Cliristiancy, mini-tor to Peru, that the conference between the belligerent powers, under the good ollices ol the Vnited has closed without any result. Totaf coinage at the. United States mints iluritiR October: Gold, 13.078,8:15; silver, During the week ending Nov. 1880, there were distributed standard silver dollars; durum the corresponding week of 187ft but 327.2S2 standard silver dollars were distitbuted. Tlio Signal corps station ut Caie Henry, North Carolina, reports to the chief signal officer as follows: l'he British steamer' Sandringhatn, 787 tsns, Captain John McKey, from Galveston to Glasgow, cargo of cotton, is ashore a half a mile south of this station.

8he is in fourteen feet of water, and will probably get oil'. Tlio hearing In the case of Samuel B. Perry, exo lus leader, on a of habeas corpus, sued out to prevent his removal to North Carolina as a fugitive from justice on the charge of raising school teachers' certificates from to 45, was resumed before Judge Wylie in Chambers to-day. Goorge-K. Bagsby, agent of the State was cross-examined bv Jeremiah Wilson, Judge Wylie stopped the questions, which implied political motives lor the removal of Perry, saying his duty was to decide on the case as presented, and he would not presume that ex cessive punishment or persecution would be Inflicted on the man it returned, as the eyes of the whole country were on him now, and as his party were in a majority he would not be without friends.

A lively exchange of views took place between Merrick, lor the State, and Wilson, regarding the administration of law in North Carolina, existence of ku klux, etc. Prof. R. T. Greener asked in behalf of the petitioner, if Bagshy had ever heard ot the ku- klux, but the question was ruled out.

Marshal Fred. Douglass was called to testify as to the state of the country, but he ha'd not been iu Lenoir county. Arguments were then proceeded with and were in proirress, when the hearing was ad Journed until Monday. 'Ut(SONAl. IKI POL1T1VAA.

Horace Maynard leads in the contest for Senator from Tennessee. John A. Kasson, of Iowa, may be Speaker Randall's successo. Edmunds and Devons will doubtless have scats on the bench of the Supreme Court Colonel John 1). Hester, of Philadelphia, president of the Veteran Associat on of 1812, fell down stairs in an apoplectic fit, and very shortly expired.

Thursday, November 2.1th, has been designated by the President as the day of National thanksgiving, and the proclamation will be immediately Issued. Nebraska Republicans have already trotted out ex-Senator Hitchcock for the Secretrry of the Interior. He was a classmate of the new President at Williams College. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late Presi dent Lincoln, who arrived from Europe, is at the Clarendon hotel.

At the hoiei it was said the lady is so ill that no one is allowed to call upon her, and cards are not even sent to her room. UKNRKAL OKKlGN NOTR8. Healy is Parnell's candidate for Parliament Irom County Wexford. -The Methodist board of missions has appropriated $17,000 lor work in China. Now comes the Duchess of Montrose with a winning ot on a rcent horse race.

Garfield's first remark on election night was: people believe in the nationality of the government." There are heavy operations in British consols, which are selling at par, the highest price since the Crimean war. A farm laborer in Canada, named St. Marie, having lost his savings through the perfidy of a friend, hanged himself. Turkey has appointed a censor ot telegrams, who will not permit cipher messages to pass over the wires in the empire The Turks recently compelled Admiral Smith, on reaching the Dardanelles with the British war-ship minora, to await a permit to pass. Parnell.

in his soeech at the Land- league meeting in Dublin, Thursday, said if the detectives visited his country house lie wonld throw them into the river. John Baotist Narbonne has been ar rested at Lachute, Canada, for shooting and inn Ins brother. Alexis JNarDonne, live years ago. The prisoner confesses the crime, and savs he was urued to do so by his mother, in order that they might get the brother money. THE KAsT.

Two steamers from Europe brought in $627,250 in French gold. -Aocordins to The Public, the general business of the country is larger and more healthy than one year ago. Bv one train tipping over aeainst an other Providence and Worcester road twenty freight cars were wrecked; no per son hurt. John C. Davis, wholesale dealer in tea andcofl'ee, 141 Front street, New York, is reported to have tailed and disappeared to avoid ins creditors.

A woman of CO and her son of 30 years have been jailed at Westtield, for inv cest, to which they pleaded guilty, llie husband made the complaint. Two trains were wrecked by a collision near I.vnn, and one man killed Three engines and a large number of cars were smashed near iiatavm, a. George II. Lehman, until recently agent tor l'ase. harco ac i hiiadeinhia, pro prietors of several patented scales, has absconded, being a defaulter to the extent of about $1,000.

lie gambled in stocks at va rious bucket shops in town. Tur. wksx. The Citizens' National bank has been opened Cincinnati with $1,000,000 capital Three brick buildings in thebnsiness part of Fort Dodge, were burned; total loss, insurance, jai.uuo, Samuel Hanway, a Republican, treas. vtrer of Marion county, Indiana, has been round a delimiter in the sum ot Runners sent out from Fort Stanton brought in twenty -four Muscalero Asachts who desired to surrender.

Seventeen of the party were squaws and children. Cincinnati will probably have no baseball club in the field next year. Clapp and Nolan have signed with the Clevelands, and Carpenter and Jrurcell have had oners from orcester. The case of the State vs. the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway has been A Derby hat, the sellsame sort The fashionable male owes Money for, she used to spoil As angels do their haloes.

She seldom walked In silk nil I re, But only in flannel Nor yet in "oils did she aspire To figure, on a panel: Because she could not but see She was not tall, nor slender; Nor did she deem her curves to be Superlatively tender. Some prudish dames did her abuse With censure tierce and scathing Becanse she, happening to lose Her stocking while in bathing. Deemed such a loss of little note, And simply tied the plagued Stockiu around her little throat And reappeared barelegged. I do not think that for' the pelf Of eligible boobies, Or for the chance to deck herself With diamonds and rubies, Or for her standing in the books, Ot prim and proper ladies, Or for their disapproving looks, She cared a hoot from Hades, Though competent to hold her tongue, When circumstance demanded Speech, she was, for one so young, Astonish ly candid. She sang the vulgarest of songs, Which sung by her were funny, And never brooded on her wrongs Nor hoarded np hf money.

'Tis true this careless damsel's fame At last grew somewhat shady But if the man disposed to name Her fast, or not a lady, Will in the present writer's way Considerately toddle, This writer thinks that person may Get punched upon his noddle. HDIA.N BOXES FOR LUCK. Playing Cards Ovei Rifled Graves to Get a "Charm "Ghastly Superstitions, Vernon (Ala.) Clipper. One Sunday morning about half-past 1 o'clock, Sheriff Lacy was called up by armed men, who demanded the keys of the jail. When positively refused "they placed a guard at bis door and told him not to come out, as they did not wish to hurt him.

Tin then proceeded to the jail, broke open the doors ham mering tne cage awhile, were heard call ing: "Come out there; come out there several times. Then ten or twelve shots were heard, though mostly pistols, and the men, thought to be about thirty in number, marched away. Vt hen they were gone Lindsey Port wood, Dudley Brothers and Wesley Richardson were found dead in the cage and the door of the cage broken open. They had been committed ten days before for violating graves. Coroner W.

T. Mailer summoned a jury aud held an inquest. Dr. Wil liam a. crown, examined tne uooies in the presence of the jury and made out a statement in writing ot tne nature and number of the wounds, and stated that they all came to their death by shot wounds.

Thomas R. Nesmith, solicitor, summoned and examined before the jury every person from whom it was sup-i 1 1 1 1 1 1 Eoscu any testimony cuuiu ue oouuneu, ut no discovery was made as to who committed the crime. The citizens of Vernon met and prepared good plain coffins and dressed the dead in neat suits and gave them decent burial. The col- lored people relnsed to aid aud seemed to have a superstitious fear of coming near the dead. The crime committed by these unfortunate men and the facts and manner of its discovery are about as follows: One day last month a negro named Dock Poe, being sick and thinking he was about to die, unburdened his con science to his nurse, an old negro woman named Jule Dobbins, and named the above three as engaged in the told that some of the human bones they had been operating with were about the house.

Aunt Jude, thinking that Poe would die, and being superstitiously alarmed, communicated her information to a white woman. Ihe white people, finding that several graves had been dug into, became excited and were threatening summary vengeance. Some prudent citizens obtained a warrant, and succeeded in arresting the three named above for violating graves, foe being sick.they did not disturb him. The prisoners, when arrested, separately confessed the crime, and each told about the same story. Each was taken to the graves separately, and each pointed out the graves they had opened.4 The prisoners were theh taken before a magistrate, who, upon their full confession, committed them to jail.

The citizens who had the matter in hand had great difficulty in protecting the prisoners until they were lodged in jail, and for several days afterward the Sheriff and citizens of Vernon feared something like what has now happened, but all seemed to have become quiet. The people afterwards opened and examined the groves. One, in which a man had been buried about thirty-five years, had been dug out to the bottom and the decayed bones were mixed with the dirt to the top and some of them were found out of the grave. The negroes said they did not take any of them because they were too much decayed. The other was that of a Mrs.

Tom Poe, who had been buried about two years. The left hand of the corpse had been pulled on at the wrist and was missing. The right arm had been pulled off at the shoulder and was corpse was mangled and turned about in the coffin. The lid had been merelv laid back and the grave filled. The negroes said they liad taken away the hands Thev all" had bones about their persons which they said were from Mrs.

Poe's hands. These bones are now in the possession of Sheriff Lacy, and are said not to belong to the same human hand. It is believed that several other graves have been dug into. The grave. vard where most of the digging has been done is at or near Poplar Spring Church, in the southwest corner of this county, and all the graves molested were the graves ot white people.

The cause of this strange conduct as related by the negroes themselves, is as follows: During November and December last a negro by the name of Jerry Vaughn, fortune. These women maintain out of their own means the well appointed ambulances to which thev aro attached. It is officially announced that the Atchison, Topcka and Santa Fe Railroad will be completed und connected with the Southern Pacific about January 1, 1881, thus opening up a new through route between the East and the Pacific Coast. i A California firmer got considerable fun out of what had been an annoyance by placing a stuffed deer in his grain field. The hunters, after emptying a large amount ot ammunition into the animal, and discovering the fraud, nev er trespassed again.

TnE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and the Pullman Car Compa ny are involved in a lawsuit at Baltimore. The railroad people are building a large number of drawing-room curs after the Pullman model, claiming that the patents are invalid. Thk work of removing the obelisk was slightly delayed recently, uy the breaking of two of the iron bolts into which the purchase for turning the monolith were hooked. The workmen kept at their task all night, despite this drawback, and succeeded in turning it twenty-live degrees. Is Russia, all the sons and daughters of princes inherit their title.

Tlrey are, consequently, as plentiful as sparrows. It is said that there is a village where every inhabitant is a Prince or Princess Gallitzen. The title of Prince in Russia is about equivalent to that of Esquire in England. An express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the track while round'. ing a curve near Conemaugli, on the 21st.

The express and baggage cars were badly smashed and one of them burned, Charles McCloskey, express messenger, was crushed to death by an iron safe. Two passengers were injured. The American Bible Revision Com mittee has completed the revision of the English version of the New Testament, and has transmitted the result of its la bors to England. The British Committee will meet in November for linal action, and the revised New Testament will be issued in February, 1881. Pom Pkdro, Emperor of Brazil, wished to test a certain railroad brake.

He had one adjusted to a car, and started off for a trial trip. The engineer soon Baw what seemed to be a big rock on the track ahead, and applied the brake, stopping the train within a few feet of the obstacle, which proved to be of pnste-board. Miss Smith was to have been mamed at Springfield, but she disappeared on tlio morning of the wedding day. and various were the conjectures as to iter conduct. She has written from an adjoining State to her affianced husband, saying that she fled because she was scared, but that she is now rendy to face the clergyman.

Leon Belmont, a handsome young person, went to Minneapolis two years ago, claiming to be a nephew of August Belmont ami Hie heir exjiectant to a large estate. This was fraudulent, of course; but worse ltumbugery has been exposed. Leon made love to the daugh ter of the hotel keeper, and engaged to marry her, thus avoiding the payment of board. The swindler turns out to be a woman in trousers. Justice Smith said, on opening his court at Connorsville, Tenn.

"William Henry Smith is airaigncd for assaulting his father." The magistrate had on the previous day knocked his father down with a club, and it was himself that he was now arraigning. Ho continued "The evidence is conclusive, and I'm not sure but I ought to send myself to jail for ten days. But, as this is my first ofl'ense, and I certainly had a good deal of prov. ocation, I will simply impose ft fine of ten dollars." 9.