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3U stablished. 184£3.
Clarksviile, Red. Riyei? Comity, Texas, February £5, 1881.
New Series ISTo. 16, "V^ol.
3.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
J. A. Bagbt
j. w. hakeh
A. I'- Corner
E. M. BOWKKS—
s. VV. hakman...
r. c. (jlJAVKS
J. K. Johnson
0. l. mookman
uaviu kaj.nky
County Judge.
Sheriff.
County Clerk.
Distric t Cle-k.
Comity Attorney
Assessor.
Collector.
Treasurer.
Surveyoi
JUSTICES AND COSSTABI.E3.
t. j. McBicinu
J. K. White
k. m. fosev,
J. n. buuoe,
J. T. Fleming, Justice Peace, Precinct No 1.
J- C. Ukown, Constable, J'reeiiict *' I
A J. Huooks, Justice Peace, Pveciuct No 2
Levi Blizzakd Constable, Precinct " 2^
h. Mcallister Justice Peace, Precinct No 3.
N." M, IIowison Constable, Precinct " 3
li. W. Townes Justice Peace Precinct No 4
W. P. Ulanton Constable Precinct " 4
F .M. White Justice Peace Precinct No 5
J. C. Womack Constable Precinct " 5
J D. Moweky Justice Peace Precinct No
J. T.JOYNE Cocstable, Precinct "6
Justice Peace Precinct No 7
Constable, Precinct " 7
Justice Peace Precinct No 8
Constable Precinct " 8
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
W. A. Mauldin Precinct No 1
Muses S. Gkant, Precinct •' 2
F. M. White, Pieeinct .J
J. T. Gitooiis, Preeinst " 5
COURT DIRECTORY.
T)18TI<ICT CoURTwili l>e held in Red River Conn
tyon the 17th of May, lc81, and on the loth o
KtiVemlier, 18el.
R R. Gaines, Judge, E. M, Bowers, clerk.
J. W.Uakkk, Sheriff, S."W. Harman.Co. Atty.
Covnty Court of Red River County, held on the
third Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
tember and NovcihIkt 1881.
J. a. Baoby, County Judge, A. P. Cokley, Clk.
Justice's Court, Precinct No.l held on the last
JI,,inlay in each month.
J. T. Fl :wing, J P., J. C, Bitows, Constable
justice's Court,. Prnemct 3to. held on th"
first Saturday in each month.
A. J. Bkooks, J. P-, Levi Blizzard, Constable
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 3, on 3rd Saturday
in each month.
Henry McAllister, J. P., N M. HowisoxCon.
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 4,4th Saturday
jn eat'h month.
It W.t0wne6, J. P. W. P. Blantox, Constable
Jjstices Court, Precinct No. 5, on 2d Saturday
;in-«ach month.
P.M. White, J.P., J-C. Womack, Constable
JusrtoM'3 Couur, Prodnet No. 0, on 1st Satur-
day in each mouth.
J. R. Mowery, J. P. J. T. Goyne, Constable.
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 7, oa 4th S.itur
da in each month.
Tl J, McBriue, J P, J, R, W iiite, Constable,
JI'stice'h Court, Preciuct No, 8, on the 2nd Sat
nrday in each month. e
E.'M. Posey. J P. J. N, Bitkok Constabl
M. L. SIMS.
w. j< mcdonald.
SIMS & McDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
clarks ville, texas.
'Will practice in tlio Courts of the 5tli District
' luut in ilio Supreme and Federal Courts held ni
the State. ttf.
a. m. taylor. e. 3.'chambers.
TAYLOR & CHAMBERS,
> ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Clai'ltsville, Texas.
Will practice in the Courts of the County
anil ot the (!th Jiulici.il District, also the Su
jimnia and Federal Courts of the Slate.
Q.EO. F. BURDTT?
lawyer,
CIjAliKSVILI.K, TEXAS.
h . Gt. lane,
PHYSICIAN mid SUKUKON.
C LARKS VILLE, TEXAS.
? •; Nov. 1st 1870. no.I
W- RUSH, M-1>-
Paris, Texas.
IJspreial attention given to the treatmen
!i of the diseases of the Eye, Ear, auil
Throat (Catarrh.)
Ollico hours from 7 to lO a. m:
no.49-tf.
jTw uaiisricy.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
CLAlilCSVILLE TEXAS,
offers liis services to the public, in all binuche
of his profession.
Ho will be found at Goldberg's drni* sti re, or
at his residence, Nortk of tlie square.
Nov. 1st 1879.
DENTISTRY
DR. Z. B. MOORMAN,
Resident 33eiitist
Can always be ionnd at the Bank building
office up stairs. All work warranted. Teeth e£
tracted for fifty cents, all other work in propor-
tion.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st. no-l-tf.
p.w.johns,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
clarksville, texas.
Tenders hid professional services to the peo-
ple of Clarksville and vicinity,
Office at Goldberg's Drug* Store. Can be
found at night at the residence of Mrs. Alice
claik. North of the stjuar?. no.2-i
A. FITE,
dealer in
SEWING MACHINES
Sells the singer machine as Agent, and
repairs all machines, for which
n<-ssary material and attachments always on
hand.
< >tiice at Statlevs ICnddlerv
no.lt>-tj.
CITYBAKERY
AND RESTAURANT
mrs. kreeland has ir. connection with lie
Restaurant a oakery, where can he fouud fre.nL
itivud, Caki's, Pic*, ad in fact everything iu that
inc. no.l.-It
"cTw.bloss.
WAGON MAKER AND REPAIRER,
Puts up a wagon with Bois'd-
'arc wheels, that will outlast
•three Northern Waarons. Re-
liaiis done in the \ ry l>rsl manner. Shop on
alain Stu u, Last ol'the Jail. no.lu
Ed. Standard :—It i.s a principle in
law I believe, that an accessory to a crime
is held to be equally guilty with the prin-
cipal or the direct participant in crime.
It'that principle will hold good iu the
one case it will or ought to in any case.
It is a fact admitted l y every thinking
man, that the liquor traffic i.s the origiua
and direct cause of more than three-quar-
ters of all the crime committed through-
out the land. It is the yery foster mother
of murder, tlieft, robbery, and in fact
there is no crime or violation of law,
scarcely iu any use, but can be traced di-
rectly or remotely to this whiskey busi-
ness. Now it these be the lacts 111 the
case, the inquiry naturally arises, who are
the principals and who the accessories in
these crimes and violations of law. The
man that is drunk and reckless, and
dou'tcare what he does, is held in law as
the principal iu the act, and right enough
as far as it goes (;t man being drunk is no
justilicatiou for his crimes, he knows well
enough what he is doing, but liis worst
passions are iuiiamed and wrought up to
a pitch of recklessness, by the maddening
drink that he does not care what he doe3)
but it does not go far enough; the dealer
iu the accursed traffic ought to bo held
equally responsible as au accomplice. I
know the l*w does not hold the seller re-
sponsible, but it is simply making a dis-
tinction without a difference. It is like
dividing hairs twixt north and north-
west. Half the laws are weak and lame
in many respects, particularly so in this
case; and strict and exact justice will
never Be done until men are held strictly
responsible lor the direct and legitimate
results of the business they are in. But
it is agreed by a great many men that
prohibitory laws are of 110 avail, that they
do 110 good, that • here is more whiskey
sold and drank, than before the passage
of such laws. Now that is the weakest ot
all arguments. It is so like setting up a
mau ot straw to be knocked down with-
out much effort. Will auy man in his
sane senses ague for a moment that there
can be more sold anil drank under a
strict prohibiting law, than if the busi-
ness is thrown wide open, and a place
found ou every corner for the sale ot it.
It is an idea that is utterly tit variance
with reason and common sense. But we
don't expect that any law that cau be
made will entirely suppress or destroy
this infernal business. And for many
reasons there is no crime that we have
any knowledge of, that is fully suppress-
ed by legal enactments. The law prohib-
its murder, yet murder is done. It pro-
hibits tlieft, robbery, arson, gambling
and all other crimes, and yet all these
laws are violated with impunity. Then
we don't have officers of wtegrily and
character enough to protect our rights
and enforce our laws. They are too often
found in the interest ot the whiskey
ring. There is 110 use in disguising this
lact, it is as true as that the sun shines
at 110011-day. Now these being the facts
iu the case, are we to erase from our stat-
ute books all enactments against crime,
and sutler men to run wild in crime, de-
bauchery and depradations agyinst'socie-
ty. Is there any man who will argue
this for a moment. Just so in the liquor
traffic, (which is the festering hot bed
of debauchery, the nursing foster mother
of crime and degradation) we don't ex-
pect to make a clean sweep of the busi
ness, by a prohibitory law Men will do
wickedly, have doue so iu all the past
history of the world, and will to the end
of time. There is always a large class
ot men who will evade and violate law by
every trick and device that ingenuity
cau devise. Tliev will do it behind
screens and painted windows*, iu under-
ground cellars, and other secret places,
but because this is so, are we to relax
our efforts for the suppression of crime?
Surely not, we know that certain classes
of men, our judges, lawyers and doctors,
our mechanics and merchants, can and
will have driuk, under any law we may
havt. But the laboring masses can't get
it. Have we gained nothing ? Surely we
have. But why is not the traffic fully-
suppressed. For two reasons principally:
that public sentiment is not educated up
to the point of suppressing all crime, the
Christian World, in a measure, are the
dead weights, that prevent our rising to
a higher moral plane. So many profess-
ing christians being wine bibbers and
whiskey drinkers, thus setting a worse
example and proving a more corrupting
influence on the moral sense of the com-
munity than the whiskey seller or his vic-
tims. By their acts they crucify the son
of God atresh, and put him to another
shame. What a fearful anil deadly in-
fluence such curistians have on the
yonng who are growing up around them.
Oh, thou spirit of wine! for want of a bet-
tor name we wi'l call thee devil. Oh! al-
cohol, thou child of hell, what hast thou
done, or rather we might ask tlieqiiestion
what hast thou not done ? What crimes,
what sorrows, and anguish, and real (leg.
radation and death sire perpetrated by
thee? Could we with ink the^ ocean fill,
and were the skies of parchment made.
Were every stalk on earth a pen. Were
every man and woman a scribe by trade,
to write what alcohol has done would
drain the ocean dry. Nor conhl the
sctoll contain the whole though stretched
from pole to pole. In the second place
our legislators are moral and politica
coward.*. They are afraid ot the whiskey
,nity they will legislate till around about
it, hedging it in, making a pretence of
limiting its evil influence, and yet doing
it no special harm. They are afraid to
legislate in .lead earnest for the destruc-
tion of the vile excrescence that is poi-
soning and destroying our moral, social
and political fabric, but 110 hesitation in le-
galizing and licensing au infamous crime
tor purposes of revenue. Fastening a
crime 011 us that fosters 1ii othar cii/nes)
for purposes of revenue. We hear it said
that prohibitory laws infringe on personal
liberty, and individual rights. They de-
prive ha of the liberties that our fore fa-
thers fought for.
Liberties that our fore fathers fought for!
that we must treat the subject very gin-
gerly, we must handle it tenderly and
with gloves on, we innst use a great deal
of moral suasion, we must talk of i„ in
gentle and subdued tones, and all that
kind ot thing. What are these liberties
so Tauntingly spoken off It is the liberty
to make drunkards, paupers and crimi-
nals, to scatter the seeds of ruin and mor-
al degradation, broad cast over the land,
the right tor a man to get drnuk and dep-
redate 011 society, perhaps iu his insane
deviltry to murder the wife ot liis bosom
or the children that he has begotten; the
right to become a convict in a States pris-
Meals Sei'ved at your House-
011, to exhibit himself 011 the gallows a
spectacle tor the gaze of a curious multi-
tude. These are a few ol the rights and
liberties that the advocates of free whis-
key claim that our fathers fought for, and
fol which they are so alarmingly afraid ot
being deprived, and these things are the
direct and legitimate fruits of the traffic.
You never knew a virtuous, kind, charita-
ble. generous act, as the result ot the
business. Never! Never. The very na-
ture of the business forbids it. Our Ca-
nadian neighbors are more observant of
law, than we of the great American re-
public are. There, law means law, and
the officials are mtii ot integrity of char-
acter enough to see that the laws are en-
forced, they can't be bribed with a d.ink
of whiskey to shut their eyes to a viola-
tion of law. Take Toronto for instance, a
eity of seventy thousand inhabitants.
Oue of the most quiet, peaceable, orderly
and law abiding cities 011 the continent,
or perhaps 111 the British empire. The
drink shops are promptly closed by the
law at seven o'clock 011 Saturday night,
and remain shut until six o'clock Monday
morning; and when they say closed, they
mean closed. In the interval you don't
sec men slipping in at the back doors, fill-
ing themselves with whiskey, and then
exhibiting themselves 111 drunkenness on
the streets, as is the case with us. It is a
city ot churches. Instead of the obsene
songs and jests of drunken re\elry to dis-
turb the. quiet of the Sabbath, yon hear
the songs ot praise and worship. The
majority of laboring men own their own
homes. These are the legitimate results
of even a partial prohibitory law. How
infinitely better a law o'" utter and abso-
lute prohibition. Our laws as a rule are
good enough if our officers would enforce
them, but the business behind the screens
and painted windows is what's the mut-
ter. If public sentiment was such that
we could impeach and thrust out of office
a few ot these unfaithful servants of the
people, for noil performance of duty, we
might have a far better condition of
things, than we do have. We hear many
speculations about the operations of a
prohibitory iaw, many conflicting repoits,
but they came from afar, even from
Maine, and by the time they reach this
far Southern country they are doubled
and twisted, and garbled and falsified,
that we don't know anything about the
truth or falsity of thein. Even the people
ot Maine would not know they had origi-
nated or started.from their land of sober
and steady habits. But it does not mat-
ter about speculations and theories.
What we need is a stringent prohibitory
law, with an efficacy that will enforce it,
aud may heaven speed the day when we
may get such a law. Yours &c.,
Morality.
ring, of loritig jdaee and position. Tonp-
i' -i-.se the mora! sentiment of the comma-
Frozen in a Sleigh-
Carhondale, Pa., Feb. 7.—John GIov
er, Sr., who has been farming near Ararat,
Pa., for thirty-two years, visited Starruc-
ca bn business last Saturday. O11 return-
ing home, in company with his son and a
gentleman friend, they were overtaken
by a very severe wind storm. Few words
passeil between tliem on the way. ar
riving at the Glover homestead at eleven
o'clock in the evening young Glover ask-
ed his father to get out ot tile sleigh and
let him put the team away. Keciving no
response he went to his father and found
him cold and stiff. The old man had per-
ished with the cold. He was sitting up-
right in the sleigh with the reins 111 his
hands. The team had traversed the roads
in that vicinity so many years that they
required 110 driver. Glover was bom in
Liverpool, England, in lie came
to this country fifteen yeats later, and
since lie settled at Ararat he has been
one of the most prosperous tanners in Sus-
quehanna count-.
meals at private houses!" one of the ca-
terers was asked.
"The lowest price is $7 per week for
each person, two ineals a day, this includes
at least two kinds ot meat, or poultry, en-
tires, and deserts tor dinner, with frequent
changes in the bill of fare. If a lunch is
required we serve that with the other
meals for $S in-r week."
"Do you cook speci.il dishes when re-
quired!''
'•Yes, a family can have food cooked to
their taste, and 011 extra occasions they
may have game, birds, and anything that
the market affords, with, of course, an ad-
ditional charge tor extras. Some families
pay s8 or $10 or more per week per per-
son. They do not seek to save money so
much as to avoiil the bother of cooking iu
i he house. But most customers desire to
be served at the lowest rate.''
"How do you keep the food warm!"
"We have special tin vessels with lamp
heaters. This enables us to send ineals to
any part of the city and serve them as
fresh as it they came lrom the kitchen.
We send many meals by elevated railway
or horse cars. i know of one family that
pays $75 a week tor meals served in this
way.''
'•How about the dishes?
"Sometimes we supply our own dishes.
In that case we take tiiem away about an
hour after each meal. Sometime families
iireler to keep and care for their own dish
es.
"As to service at table, do vou supply
that!''
"Often families who prefer not to have
servants 111 the. house require us to send
some one to wait at table. There is, of
course, extra charge for that."
'•Do you think the plan is growing in
favor V
"Very much. There i* no question that
for the same style of living, it would cost
more to keep house in t he old way. There
is economy in lire, in hffior, and above ail,
in the services of a skilful cook. Few fam-
ilies can afford to keep a good cook. The
experience required to make a skilful cook
can only be gained by opportuniti s to
cook a great variety of food. Tins oppor-
tunity is not afforded in small families.
Often the maid-of-all-work does the ook-
ing. This brings to mind the old adage
that the jack-of all trades is master of
none. Ifa woman is to be a good cook,
she cannot waste her time on washing
and ironing or general housework. You
might as well try and put a csrpenter to
making a watch as to pu. a general house
work girl to cooking. Site only spoils
your lood. Coouing is just as much a
trade as any other occupation, and sensi-
ble persons are beginning to find that out
If you cannot afford to get it done at home,
you may afford to employ a caterer who
makes his or her living by serving others
otas good taste as yourself.—[n. y. Sun.
Mulching.
Chip dirt, drift hay from the edges of
the marshes and all refus ■ matter that
can be collected about a farm, if not used
iu the compost heap, makes an excellent,
mulch for orchards. Mulching, says a
writer, has all the. benefits of ploughi ig,
with none ofits disadvantages keeping
the surface mellow with 110 damage to the
roots by the plough or to the trunk or
blanches by the team. 1c keeps down
the grass and invited the earthworm to
work and make the soil tine, and rich. It
tends to retain the moisture for a much
longer time, and remedy in a great mea-
sure the evil effects of drought. The,
fruit which talis upon it is not bruised. it
is the way nature adopts to manure i>nd
forest trees.—New England
To persons of moderate means desiring
to live comforiably in the city there are
often, if not always, two nnsolvable prob-
lems—house, rent £ ml domestic service—
and many expedients have been resorted
to in efforts 10 solve them. The result ash
been the building of many Hats, the stab-
lislinient of family hotels, the suppeort of
many restaurants, the success of many j
lodging houses, and various othar metli j
ods of evading old-fashioned housekeeping, i
In spite ot all these, expedients there yet!
exists an unsupplied desire for the com
forts of home. Beats are so high and good
servants so scarce that veryjniany are de-
terred from keeping house for themselves.
Don't laugh please,! f this class are constantly on the
... .. . . „ ; lookout for some new solution ot the prob
leni. They transfer their custom from one
restaurant to another, and from one betel
to another, ever sighing for something
more like home. They are always eager
to seize upon some new device to meet
their wants. a few years ago Prof. Blot,
an enthusiastic French artist in cookery,
ui.dertook to meet the palpable want by
by supplying meals ready cooked, served
at private houses at slated hours. Some
how tlis Professor laiied. There was a
general agreement that the plan was ex-
cellent. It saved house rent, because the
room occupied by kitchen and servants
was saved. The wages of servants were
saved, and the bother of preparing meals
at home was avoided. At the same tim.i
all the pjrivacy of home was secured.
Although Prof, l'dot failed in his at-
tempt, tiie lesson of his experiment has
not been lost. Other artists in cookery
have been trying it since with more suc-
cess, and now there are three or four ca
terers who make ;t their business to sup-
ply families with meals ac their houses.
"What is the usual price for serving
. H. IIIIITTW,
Keeps constantly on hand a full assortment ol she if and heavy hardware.
-SASH AND DOORS
QUEENSWARE, STOVES, AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
AGENT for all kinds of Mill and Farm machinery, Avery Plows. Iron, Wa-
gon wood work, and Wagon Irons, Nails, Bolts, Cutlery, Augers, Chisels, Tah'v
iitcl er and Pocket Knives—every Tool warranted.
flic celebrated Hall's Gin. Steam Engines, Saw Mills, Sorgo
Mills ke. &c.
DISTOiYS & LIPFIMOTTS SAWS,
ii .SI. BHUTAN'S PEERLESS AXE
Avery Plows and Double-Shovels.
IVLitchel Wagons Always onH.and
FINE GUNS AND AMMUNITION.
.JLi W J±jj|
Headquarters for Tin "Work.
FMI ^iswiaieat.
Tin Roof'ug and Gattering-, a specialty—all tin work warranted.
Srslls for cash, consequently can sell cheaper ikanyene else,
The Pleasures of Freezing-
Jasper Pal-ley, a Cattaraugus County
farmer, nearly froze to death recently.
When found lie was insensible in the bot-
tom of his sleigh. lie was rubbed with
snow and otherwise treated to revive the
em;illation. After a good deal of thor-
ough manipulation and rubbing Perley
was brought around, when a tew doses of
whiskey sufficed to restore him to nearly
his normal condition. He thanked his
restorers very heartily, and gave an ac-
count of his misfortune, which affords
some inkling of the sensations of people
who freeze to death.
When he felt 110 longer able to hold the
reins with any grip he determined to seek
shelter in the first house until .veil warm-
ed . liis tongue became still", then liis
arms, sharp chills ran down his back, and
finally it seemed as though his whole body
was being congealed, causing an almost
total cessation ot the heart's action. This
condition of extreme suffering, and de-
spondency speedily gave place to a leel-
ing of grateful warmth, suffusing the sys-
tem and causing an exhilarating glow.
Ky 1 his time he had reached a house, but
he drove 011 thinking that nothing was
now to be feared. The sleigh, instead of
crawling along at a snail's pace, appeared
to glide through the air with great, swift-
ness, and the horses fairly flew like pig-
eons. a sense of exultation tilled the Cat-
taragus farmer's breast as lie urged the
horses to still greater speed,and the woods
011 either side were passed so quickly that
they became indistinguishable black lines.
Then the sleigh bells sounded lainier and
fainter, until the chimes disappeared in
the distance, the farmer fell gradually in-
to a delicious slumber, which came near
being the sleep that knows 110 waking,
and he knew no more until brought back
to life under the vigorous treatment,—[x.
y. Sun.
<■111 ich tlu
Farmer.
Accounts of greut. snow slides begin to
come fiom the Rocky Mountains. O11
Wood River, Utah, focr men were found
Miffocated iu a cabin that had been cov-
ert d twenty feet deep. In Montana a
herdot two-hundred cattle was buriid
and killed.
The snow in the West has been parti-
cularly damaging to the sheep men. One
firm who are wintering theii flocks near
Copperopolis, Mo itana, have lost nearly
half of them. They have hay, but the
sheep drifted away from it during a storm
and they now find it impossible to get
their sheep to the hay or the hay to the
sheep.
German colonists on the banks ot tiie
Velga, in Russia, are in extreme destitu-
tion. and a St. Petersburg journal pub-
lishes a pitiful account ot their sufferings.
St. riSTEESiiUKG, Feb. 10, 1SS1.—An j The number of the destitute is stated atj
Orenburg newspaper reports that the dis- 1200,000, and there are very few well
tress is so great among the Ural Khirgiz j enough oil' to furnish even the mostj
tribes that they are selling their male meagre aid to their impoverished neigh j
children for gvain aiul leaving the girls to bors. The russian authorities do
pensh by cold ami hunger, for their relief.
Mark Twain having been asked to con-
tribute to the newspaper issued at. the
fair in aid oi abused children in Boston,
wrote: "Why should 1 want a Society
for the Prevention ot Cruelty to Child re, ir*
to prosper, when I have a. baoy down
stairs that kept me awake several houis
last night with 110 pretext for it but a de-
sire to make, trouble ? This occurs every
night, aud it embitters me, because I see
now how needless it was to put in the oth-
er burglar alarm a costly aud complicated
contrivance, which cannot be depended
upon, because it's always getting out ot
order and won't go; whereas, although
the baby is always getting out of order,
too, it can nevertheless be depended on,
for the reason that the more it gets out ot
order the more it does go. Yes, i am bit-
ter against your society, tor i think the
idea ot it is all wrong; but if you will
start a Society for the Prevention of Cui-
elty to Fanners 1 will write you a whole
book.''
Col. StepheiifOn of the United States
Geological Survey lias turned another
page in the long-sealed volume of Ameri-
can antiquities. a large village of cliff
dwellers has been discovered between
Jemez Mountain* and the Rio Grande
River, in New Mexico. The eiifts rise to
a height troui fifty to five hundred feet.
Some of them contain two, some three,
and others as many as live lines of dwell-
ings, rising line above line, and back to
ward the mountain, tier above tier. The
houses on top of the cliff* 111 the abandon
ed city are rectangular in form, but the
caves are circular, being ten or fifteen
feet in diameter, with arched-roots. With-
in the excavations aie numerous small
rooms. Before each line of dwellings
there appears to have been pavements
sometimes four or five feet in width, on
the broadest of which Col. Stephenson
toiiul imprints of feet. Many pictures
and hieroglyphics adorn the face of the
rock.
Sunflower-
Sow Sunflower sect's iu the spring
around tumble-down sheds or any unseem-
ly spots that you wish to hide. After
they are well up and have received one
heeing they will need absolutely 110 atten-
tion. The seeds, as we have before said,
are excellent for poultry, both for increas-
lije pro
of the ii'
milage.
A young Woman's Fight with Bears.
Lottie Merrill, the female hunter of
Wayne County, Pa., has just had another
adventure worthy of record, and one
which came so near costing lier her life
that she will probably in the future never j
resume her masculine sport. a few days
ago just after the great sleet storm which
swept over the country Lottie determined
to go deer hunting. Donning her snow
shoes she started to cross Drig Swamp, a
dense mass of scrub-oak and laurel. When
she bad reach the center, of the marsh she
discovered the toot-prints of a very large
bear 011 the crust. She followed the trail
out of the swamp for about two miles,
when she discovered the den which the
animal inhabited. Entering the cave
she found two little cubs 011 a bed of
leaves in oue corner. The cubs were
about the size of kittens and were easily
captured.
Lottie was just emerging from the cave
when she was met by an immense she
bear. The bear had heat d the cubs yell
and was making all possible speed to res-
cue them. Before Lottie could draw her
ritle to her shoulder the aniin.tl was upon
her and grasping her in her paws, gave
her such a terrible squeeze that she faint-
ed, when the bear thinking her dead, re-
leased her grip. She tortunately regain-
ed consciousness quickly, and when the
old bear was playing with her cubs the
plucky hunter drew her rifle and shot her
in tlio side. Tflie bullet did not strike the
animal's heart, and as the brute dashed
at her again Lottie drew her hunting
knite and with one bold stroke nearly
severed the bear's head from the body.
Lottie was just congratulating herself
011 her successful escape when the. dead
bear's mate made his appearance. Lot-
tie's rifk' was unloaded and she was to-
tally unprepared for a second encounter,
but determined to '-tight it out." The
struggle was a long oue. Fortunately
the young lady was not incumbered in
her motions by petticoats, for in all her
hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons
of doeskin with a long blouse. When,
finally, Lottie thought the bear was dead
she stooped over to cut his throat, and
the animal, with one stroke of his mon-
strous paw, tore the clothing almost com-
pletely from her body. Durinsr the pro
tracted struggle the bear had reached
the edge of a cliff* fully 100 feet high and
sloping at an angle of more than 45 de-
grees down to the Wallin paupack Creek.
As the animal grabbed Lottie lie com-
menced sliding 011 the slippery crust down
this almost perpendicular slope. Lottie
was carried with him, and every foot cf
distance traversed added to their velocity
When they reached the loot of the slope
they struck against a tree, completely
killing the bear aud breakiug two of Lot-
tie's ribs, her left arm and one of her
limbs. She managed, however, to crawl
about a mile to a house, where, she le-
ceived medical treatment. The first bear
killed weighed when dressed 48.j pounds
and the male one 4s4 pounds. Lottie,
who is improving slowly, has the. cubs in
her possession, but she says it will b
some time before she will take another
expedition of this kind.—Damascus (Pa.)
Cor. new York Times.-
At Princeton, hi., Faunv and Ida Wells
went sleighing with Abraham Martin and
Henry Dufiield, iu pairs. a bottle of
whiskey was passed around several times.
Revolvers were fired into the air to pro-
duce a sensation along the load, when it
Tvns flisrovprt'd F;!!ii v '?;MI ! "« } |r111 -
i el DuliicM '• ••juinlfcil.
A Long-Lost Mother Found.
For five years "Grandma'TIamilton had
lived at the Home for the Friendless—
olind and feeble aud wanting to die. She
was- too good go to the poor-house aud
had 110 money to go to the Old Ladies'
Home; so the management gave her a
room and the fairies or the other good
angels brought the old lady a comforta-
ble rocking-chair and other articles of
furniture, and there she Bat locking aud
knitting life to its close.
One day a lady in sealskins and jewels,
rang the bell and asked: ''Is Mrs. Ham-
ilton in!"
No, they said. There was 110 Mrs. Ham-
ilton there. The lady could not mean
"Grandma" Hamilton? In all the five
years gone nobody had called for her!
But, ves; the richly-dressed lady would
like to sec "Grandma" and while they
went lor her, sat and sobbed on the sofa.
When they led the old lady iu, the lady
iu sealskin ami jewels burst into team,
and throwing her arms aioiind her neck,
sobbed out: "Mother, mother, don't you
know Louisa f'
Oh, no," said the old lady, peering with
her blind eyes and shaking her head,
"my daughters Louisa aud Lizzie are
both dead, and you canuot be Louisa.'1
"But, indeed, I am ; anil Lizzie is living
too, and for a year Ive been looking for
you everywhere, and now I've found you"
—and while they wept on each other's
necks, Mrs. Grant, the Superintendent
and Miss Bowman, the matron, withdrew
and left (hem to talk it over.
This was only a short time ago, and
next day the lady came in a carriage
again, and "Grandma,'' having taken the
night to "get her things together,'' bade
gooil-by to the Home and went away all
wrapped iu fur lined robes, to wait iti
ease aud happiness till Death comes to
bid her cease her rocking aud her knitt-
ing.
Aud the explanation ot it all is that fif-
teen years ago Louisa married and went
to California; Lizzie stayed in Ohio, and
"Grandma," with a little competence,
came to Chicago. After a while, by one
of those inexplicable com! iuatioiia of
mistakes that sometimes obtain in this
mysterious world they all came to be-
lieve each other dead, aud "Grandma,''
having lived out her competence, drifted
to the Home for the Friendless. Louisa's
husband grew rich iu California, and last
summer there came to her the faiutest
whisper that "Mother" was not dead. She
started to search for her, and after going
all through Michigan aud Ohio where
they had lived—and where by the way,
she found Lizzie still living—she at
length found a family iu Euglewood (a
suburb of this city) who had seen "Grand,
ma" Hamilton at the Home for the
Friendless—and thus she found her moth-
er,—Chicago Journal, February.
a St. Louis boy stole a horse aud
sleigh and for three days drove out every
afternoon. During that time the i oor
beast did not have a mouthful ot food
or water and when rescued was almost
dead with hui.gerand fatigue.
a vicious Indiana boy met a little sev-
en-year-old school girl, and as he had a
dead blacksuakc he luthlessly wrapped
it about her neck. The physicians r«*i ort
that she is incurably insane.
Mr. Dennis F. Murphy, Senate reporter
for thirty years, says that ltoscoe Conk
ling is the most eloquent orator whom he
has reported since the days ot Daniel
Y.'< b.-ler.
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