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rret J. B. Dixor. Kec. and Treas
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MABSH HOUSE,
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FlaeEngllsU, Fier.cn, Scotch and Fancy Cloths
Testings, Etc., Etc.
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Handler. Frank E. Johnson, Lather Hoadley
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ESTABLISH3D IK" 1856.
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IN NEBRASKA.
William M. Hoover.
Does a general Rsal Etate Business. Sells
Lands on Commission, examines Titles,
makes Deeds, Mortgages, and all Instru
ments pertaining to toe transfer of Real Es
tate. Ifas a
Complete Abstract of Titles
to all Reaf Estate In Nemaha County.
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At Tlio
OROCERYAND PROViSIO
y STORE 03F Hi
T. Le Joiner
Is the place to gat
Groceries,
Provisions,
Confections,
Fine Cigras,
Toilet Soap,
Canned Goofa,
Fresh Butter,
JEtc, Etc., Etc.
Wo also kePD all tho best brands of!
flonr. and everything usually kept lnl
a urst ciass grocery store.
We have in coa-
FEED STORE
, necilon with our
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THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE.
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IU I WIS xliW food to properly as
CUnE CONSTIPATION, binalatc Thnsthesys-
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TI?""VJOi rjP I by their toalcachonoa
I U I I O rtiLi 'ho d!g-tiTO organs,
CLiRF PH PC regular and healUiy e-
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CURE BILIOUS COLIC. 8 ?' nence thc
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giRhceas of the livtr,
chronic coastlpation.
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53 Murray Street,
NEWrOKK.
QHARLES HELMER,
FASHIONABLE
Boot and Shoe
Havlnc bought the cus
tom shop of A. Robison,
lam prepared to do work
of all kinds at
Reasonable Rates.
SRepalrlDg neatly and
2K2a?iy proinpuyaoue.
IK 8faop-No. 62 Main Street,
MrcnenvHle, JVebraska.
Firs! National Bank
Wt 1 3fep EEgP
Vfesvf
T0NSOBIAL.
The old Barbershop No. 7 la now owned
and ran by
J". JEl. Hawkins.
It Is the best fitted shop In the city, and the
place la'generally patronized by tho
people. Mr. Hawkins keeps
asnohlhtants who are not
Experts at The Business,
and gentlemanly and accommodating In
their conduct. All kinds of
T0KS0BIAL WORK
dono'promptly and tatiafactlon guaranteed.
THE BEST DYZS
tnado are always in preparation.
ls now proprietor of the
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HFMIil
and Is prepared to accomodate the
public with
GOOD, FRESH, SWEET
Gentlemanly and accommodating clprks
will at all times be In attendance. Your
patronaae solicited. Remember the place
tho old PascoeHbop, Maiu-st.,
SSroivnvitle,
- JVcbrasfca
T jQi- Jt60 jc ,
&
Undertaker
Keep a fall line ot
mmmmm
Ornamented and Plain.
Also Shrouds for men. ladies and Infants.
All orders left with Mike Felthouser will
receive prompt attention.
3- Bodies Preserved and Embalmed.
r,G 3Iain Street, BR0WXYILLE, XEB.
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QSEFH BODY
Proprietor
Old Reliable
MHT MET.
Give Hiui a Call
And you vrill be well
Served wltli tUe best
the Market affords.
3STO. 43.
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A area Palmer.
Ecbt. Johnson
NEW RESTAURANT.
Palmer & Jolmson.
First Door West or the Did National Bank
BuIMla?.
This firm, havlnsc fitted up these roomB wll
run a first class restaurant, where pood
warm meals can bP hud at all hours. They
give their customers the best viands In the
market, including fresh ousters served in
tiny manner called for.
Try the New Restaurant
All OrdersTor an Ex press1 Left Tvilh
Them trill be Promptly attended to
ABBOTT & EMERY,
Workers In
W ood andlronj
at the old place, fo"t of
COLLEGE ST.
WAGONS,
MACHINERY,
PLOWS, ETC.,
promptly repaired.
All kinds of
BLACKS1HITHING
done to order, and
Satisfaction Guarantied.
T ETTER HEADS,
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Neaxly printed atthisofflce.
TWISTS I E.U csuUj id U U. S. fci rU Dm
" Cjciopwlli r Thmj, Horth KiKrirUf- Ij isUcrifttOK.
Te .uth iM. with food ntr.x; funkb tU cviitt tnt
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BESIEGED BY INDIANS.
A Thrilling Chapter of Border War
fare. One nf the mopt remarkable fights
in the annal- nf Indian warfare took
place eleven years ago. whan, Con
gress having authorized the employ
ment f frontiersmen against the In
diana, then very troublesome. Gen.
George A. Forsyth, then and still up
on Gen. Sheridan' staff, was selected
to head an expedition of fifty picked
men from the Kansae horder. He set
out from Fort HayeB Aug. 27, 186S,
Lieut. F-. H Beecher. a nephew of the
pastor of Plymouth, being second In
command. After scouting eight days
and seeing no Indiana, though signs
of them were everywhere apparent,
Forsyth reached Fort Wallace and
proceeded to refit his command. On
the 10th of September the Indians at
tacked a train near Sheridan, a btnail
railroad town eight miles from the
fort, and Forsyth's party was sent
after them. So closely did he pursue
thesavages that they broke intosmall
squads as is their custom under sucii
circumstances, and scattered. Having
lost the trail, Forsyth pushed on
to the Republican river, where he
found the trail of a small war party,
which grew constantly larger as be
followed it, till at last it became a
broad and well beaten road, along
whieh evidently large droves of cattle
and of horses had been driven. No
Indians, however, were to be Been.
At 5 o'clock ou the evening of tiie
eighth daj' out thecommand went in
to camp on the Arkansas fork of the
Republican, which just at this point
divided and surrounded a sort nf
inland a strip of eund and gravel
about 100 yards long, around which
flowed the "river," if that name can
be applied to a stream some eight feet
wide and two or three inches deep.
There was only one day's provisions
left, but Forsyth, feeling that he was
within striking distance of the hos
tiles, resolved to go on next day. At
dawn of the morrow the guard gave
the illarni, "Indians!" and the fron
tiersmen started up, each grasping his
rifle with one hand and his horse's
lariat with the other, that the Indians
might not stampede the animals. Six
Indians dashed up, rattling hells,
shaking buffalo robes und firing their
guns : a few shots dispersed them, but
the four pack mules bad broken loose
and galloped awjjy with their prpclous
loads, and three horses that had only
been hpbbled escaping with thm
Some of the men started out in pur
suit nf the Indians, but Forsyth, un
derstanding that the stampede was
only the prelude to an attack in force,
ordered them" back and bade all sad
dle ud. They were still tightening
the girths when Grover, the guide,
placing his hand on the commander's
shoulder, exclaimed, excitedly, "Oh,
heavens, General, look at the In
dians!,' "Well might he be excited," says
Custer, who has so vividly told the
story. "Over the hills from the west
and north' along the river, on the op
posite hanks, everywhere and in ev
ery direction they made their appear
ance. Finely mounted, in full war
paint, their long scalp-locks braided
with eagle's feathers, ami with all the
paraphernalia nf a barbarous war
party, with wild whoops and exultant
shouts, on they came." Forsyth In
stantly ordered his men to lend their
horses to the "island" and lie them tn
the few busheB that grew there in a
cirole, and lying on the sand within
the line nf their animals, sell their
lives as dearly as possible. Thus be
gan the fight, the Indiana in turn dis
mounting and crawling on the sand
up to within a short distance of the
inland, to open almost at point-blank
raime a galling fire on the party from
Spencer and Henry rifles 8" soon as
it was daylight a-td th Indians cold
be distinguished, it was found that
they were surrounded by nearly a
thousand warriors, Brules, Sioux,
Cheyenuea, and Dog Soldieis.
The first care of the besieged was to
intrench themselves by thinwing up
witli their knives little mounds in the
form of a circle. Ere this work had
been accomplished two men had been
killed and several wounded, Forsyth
among them. A Minie ball, striking
him in the thigh, ranged upward, and
inflicted a very painful wound. A
little while after, an he lear.eiljforward
to caution some men about firing too
rapidly, another bullet struck him
betweeu the knee andankle and shat
tered hit. left leg. At the Bame in
stant Dr. Movers, who, the firing be
ing too hot to allow him to attend to
the wounded, had taken a rifle to aid
in the defense, was shot through the
bead. The hills surrounding the fight
were thronged with women and chil
dren, assembled to torture the cap
tives they were confidant o.f making,
all chanting war-songs and filling the
air with whoops and yella, while
round the circle of fiuhting men rode
the medicine-men and'ehiefs encour
aging the warriors and cursing tbe
frontiersmen for skulkinglike wolveB.
If the scouts were now beginning to
drop the Indians, the Indians' fire
was telling on the encampment,
"There goes the last horse, any
way!" one triumphant Indian shout
ed at 9 o'clock. Shortly after this
about 120 "Dog Soldiers," supported
by some 300 or more mounted men,
mustered just beyond rifle-shot. and.
headed by the famous chief. Roman
Nose, prepared to charge the scouts.
"Superbly mounted, almost nakpd,
although in full war-dress, and paint
ed in the moat bldeoaa canner, form-
ed with a front of about sixty men,
they awaited the signal of their chief
to charge, with apparently tbe great
est confidence." At his order the dis
mounted Indians poured a tremen
dous fire upon (he American, per
forming the part of artillery in sileno
ing the fire of th besieged, and pre
paring tbe way for the assaulting
column. 8aysCu8ter:
"Seeing that the little garrison was
stunned by the heavy fire of the dis
mounted Indians, and rightly judging
that now, if ever, was the proppr
time to charge, Roman Nose and his
band of mounted warriors, with a
wild, ringing war-whoop, echoed by
the women and children on the hills,
started forward. On they came, pre
senting even tq.the brave men await
ing the charge a most supprb sight
Soon they were within the range of
the rifles of their friends, and, of
course, the dismounted Indians had to
slacken their fire for fear of hitting
their own warriors. This was the op
portunity for the scouts. 'Now,'
shouted Forsyth, and the scout,
spring to thir knees and casting their
eyes coolly along the barrels of their
rifleB, opened on the advanoing sava
ges a deadly fire. TJnohecked. un
daunted, on dashed the warriors;
steadily rang the clear, sharp reports
of the riflt-s of the frontiersmen. Ro
man No"e falls dead from his horse.
Medicine Man is killed, and for an in
stant the column, now within ten
feet of the scouts, hesitates falters.
A cheer from the pcouts. who preceive
the effect of their well-directed fire,
and the Indians begin to break and
scatter m every direction, unwilling
to rush to a hand-to hand struggle. A
few more shofs and the Indians are
forced back beyond range. Forsyth
inquires, anxiously, 'Can they do hot
ter than that. Grover?' 'I have been
on the plains. General, since a boy,
and never saw such a charge as that
before.' 'All right; then wearegood
for them."1
In repulsing the savages I tie scouts
had lost heavily, among the killed
being young Beecher. The Indians
kept up a continuous fire, but by this
time tiie miniatureeartii works affordr
ed a good shelter. At 2 o'clock and
again at sunset tiiey charged the
scouts, but, having lost their best
leaders and being dispirited by the
unexpected stubborn resistance, they
were more easily beaten bank each
time with heavy loss. At dark they
cpaspd firing, and Foray h could "take
stock." Fournjen had been killed,
four o'hers-wer.eumortally wounded,
ten others "Jiad .rpbgii&dj wounds of
less gravity injall. twenty-three of
fifty-one men had been hit. All of
his horses had been killed, his sup
pile" were exhausted, he was without
medical stores, the Indians had com
pletely invested him. and the nearest
post was 110 miles away. On the oth
er side of the account he hail beaten
the Indians, had plenty of ammuni
tion, water could be had by digging
in the sand, aufl the carcasses "f forty-odd
mules and horses stood for the
commissariat. A- well wa9 dug, the
wounded were made ap comfortable as
possible wtb -.blankets, the earth
works wer'sCfengthened with the
dead animals and saddles, and lurgp
quantities of horse and mule meat
were cut off", and buried In the sand.
Two scouts, Trudeuu and Stillwell,
the latter a slight, beardless I103' of 19.
were selected to run thegauntletof the
swarming Iudians' and carry dis
patches to Fort Wallace. 110 miles dis.
tant. and. crawling nut into the sand,
as soon as It was dark, were seeti no
more.
On the seconcd day of the siege no
charge was attempted, hot the- In
dians kept up as heavy a fire as po-si-ble
to tease the scouts into uini; their
ammunition, but the Americans were
now well sheltered, and only answer
ed where a bullet was Iikel3' to tell.
At night two more scouts were sent
nut, but failed to elude the vigilance
of the Indians, and were driven back
to the encampment which placed a
gloomy look upon the probable fate of
Trudeau and Stillwell. Th Indians
kept up the firing during the 19th,
hut about noon their women and chil
dren fctired from the nills a hopeful
sign. Later they sent in a flag of
truce for a parley, but the frontiera
nien were too wary to be entrapped.
That night Forsyth sent too more
messengers, bnjiiivan and Ply ly, with
dispatches asking for assistance. "I
am on a little island." the message
read, "and hayestill plenty of ammu
nition left. W-e are living on mule
and horse meat.'and are entirely out
of rations. If it'jwas not for so many
wountled I woud comoin ami take
the choices of whipping them, if at
tack'&fv They are evidently sick of
theLfbargains I can hold out for six
dayBlpnger, if absolutely necessary.
Oije fourth day the main body of
IndjaiiB departed, Reaving a small in
vesting forbOLTTh wounds of the in
jurednver rudely- dre-sed, shelter
were constictlcl und soup made from
hon-e-flpati. On the sixth day. how
ever, the first trails of gangrene set
in, and the ntife party wan almost
overpowered with the intolerable
stench from the carcasses of the dead
horses. Foad-there was none. For
syth assernt led the men and bade
those who would go and leavs the
wounded and those who preferred
staying in camp. 'and taking their
chances of aid coming from the fort.
All voted to Jtay together till tlieend.
They lived on putrid horse-flesh rub
bed with gunpowder for two more
days. On jhe 25th Col. Carpenter,
with.the catalry, came up from Fort
Wallace, wiicb Trudeao andStillwall i
had reaehed in safety. "When he
reaobed the Island he found the de
fenders in tbe most pitiable condition,
yet the survivors were determined to
be plucky to the last. Forsyth him
self, with rather indifferent success,
affected to be reading an old norel
that he had discovered in a saddle
bag ; but Col. Carpenter said his voice
was a little unsteady and his eyea
were somewhat dim when he held out
his hand to Carpenter and bade him
welcome to 'Beecher's Island,' a
name that has since been given to tbe
battle-ground."
Of the fifty-one men who went Into
the fight eight were killed, eight were
disabled for life and twelve others
were wounded. The Indians, who
were seventeen to one, admitted sub
sequently a loss of seventy-five killed.
A MINISTER IN 3IANA0LES..
Ills Alleged Intimacy with a Female
Member of His Church Causes
Him Trouble.
Special to tho Inter Ocean.
New Yokk. Jan. IS. The Tribune
has a rather amutdng but sensational
clerical scandal. The Rev. William
M. Trumbower, a student of the Syr
acuse Theological Seminary, was ap
pointed in April last to take charge of
the M. E Church at West Hoboken.
The new pastor was eloquent in the
delivery of hia serrannt), and this
made him a favorite with the elderly
portion of the congregation. He was
agreeable and pleasant, and withal
prepossessing in appearance, and this
made him a great favorite with the
younger members of his congregation.
He was 23 years of aeennd unmarried.
Just before Christmas a young lady
made a remark reflecting on the char
acter nf the pastor. Shesaid thatone
Sunday evening while returning
from ohureh, sh walked behind him,
when he was in company with Mrs.
Sarah Boh, In whose family he was
then boarding, and overheard Mr.
Trumbower make use of very famil
iar language in hisconversation. Miss
Du Bois repeated the remarks she
had overheard to some of the church
members, and at the next church ser
vice the pastor took occasion to speak
against tiie Bois family. He charged
Miss Du Boia with having "set her
cap for him." and. failing to succeed
in her schemes. Had put forth these
storips for the purpose of injuring hi
standing and reputation. The up
shot of the affair, which at the time
created much feeling, was that the
Du Bois family withdrew from the
church, and. at asubsequent meeting
the Rev. Mr Trumbower apologized,
and the rqatter wan dropped. Theaf
fatr had hpen published in the news
papers, however, and Joseph Boh. the
husband of the pastor's landlady,
grew suspicious of the relations be
tweeu his wife and his boarder. He
at once began keepinir close watch on
the movements of both. At an early
hour on Saturday evening Mr. Boh
told his wjfe that he "guessed he
would go to New York" to do some
marketing. She quietly assented,
und the hustiand left tbe room, but
did not leave the houe. He cautious
ly removed his shoea in the hall, and,
lying at full length on tiie floor, lis
tened to the conversation that passed
between the young pastor and his
wife. mong other things, he heard
them discussing a plan to elope. At
thin point the husband, unable long
er to restrain ills wrath, hurst open
the door. He at once ordered the
pator to leave the house, which the
latter, without waiting la put on his
hat. made haste to do Mrs. Boh
started after him, when her husband
seized her. and a desperate struggle
ensued, which resulted in her esca
ping. She fle-I into the street, with
her husband in hot pursuit Boh
was rapidly gaining upon her. when
tiie pastor stopped, and polling a re
volver from his pocket, cried, "Srand
hack. man. or I'll shoot!" Boh halt
ed, aud the pastor, followed closely
by Bob's wife, disappeared in the
darkness. They ran to the house of
Trustee Daniel P. Westervelt. Here
the church choir was practising. The
pastor excitedly and breathlessly told
that he was being pursued by a mad
man, and asked protection.
Boh had the Rev. Trumbower ar
rested on a charge of assault witii In
tent to kill, and the pastor passed Sat
urday night in the lockup. In tbe
morning one of the trustees went his
hail on condition tnat he be allowed
to lock the young minister up in his
house. This was done, and the min
ister passed Sunday locked up in tbe
trustee's front parlor.
Population Statistics of tho Globe.
The population of the globe may be
roughly assumed at 1.421.000 000. di
vided thus: Europe. 309 000.000;
Aia. 824.0000 000; Africa. 199.000.000;
Oieania. 4.000 000; America. 85 000.
000 It has been calculated from the
mortality tables of known countries
that the annual number of deaths
throughout the world N 35 693,350, or
that in other words 97.790 persons die
paoh day. On the other hand, the
balance of population is more than
kept up by births at the rate of 104.800
per day. Seventy new lives are ush
pred In pVtv minute of the 24 hours.
London Times.
A weatprn editor avs one hog Is
worth a d"Zn lov letters, and thev
cannot be Introduced as evidence In a
breaoh ofpromlte nit either.
Z0E0ASTEB,
A LECTURE DELIVERED IN' THE
UNITARIAN CHURCH BY RET.
IT. E. C0PELAND, SUNDAY
EVENING, DECEMBEU2S.
Where the Idea of the Derll Came
From.
Thirteen hundred, or aa some au
thorities assert, 3.000 years before
Christ, Zarathrustra, or, as he is com
monly called, Zoroaster lived in Bad
ria and taught that system of religion
commonly known as Maglaniam.
whose sacred book is Zend, Avesta.
We know nothing of thia Chaldean
prophet, but his words formed the re
iginn of the Medes and Persians,
whioh is atill believed and practiced
by the Paraees of India ft people dis
tinguished for purity of life aud gen
eral benevolence.
The first peculiarity of the religion
is that it iia,s no temple and no image
of deity except the fire, which was
kept burning night and day by the
Chaldean priests. Those fire worship
pers, aa they have been called, looked
upon fire simply as an emblem of dei
ty, the purest and most spiritual of
which they could conceive.
In tbe Zend Aveota, the most an
cient of all sacred books, we read that
from that time proceeded forth Or
mazd, the good god, and Ahriman,
the devil ; for 3.000 years they reign
together over the universe; for the
next 3,000 vears Ahriman rules alone;
for the next 3,000 years they contend.
and then Ahriman forever conquered,
Ortnazd la to rule forever more over
an earth purified by fire. We read
that into Eden where the Chal
deans first dwelt, whioh bad two
months of winter and ten of summer,
there entered a 6erpentofice who so
changed the climate that these seven
mouths of winter and three of Bum
mer, which change compelled the
first men to migrate to a warmer coun
try, and the Chaldeans settled in the
vale of Cashmere, the Hindoo belong
ing to the same race settling in India.
Science has proved that S.imarcaud,
now for seven long months bound in
chains of ice, was formerly a tropical
region, and indicates that region as
the Eden from which the Aryans
were compelled to migrate. The
Zend Avesta teaches that victory is
assured to Ormazd in the great battle
between good and evil by tho aid of
Methra or Sosiooh a Savior, whose
powerful efforts are aided by the acts
and thoughts of all good men. Ahri
man shall finally be conquered and
the earth be purified by fire, which
Ahriman sends to destroy Ormazd
and all the good; but which fulfills
the purpose of God and results in a
final conquest ot evils.
Judgmput Iw passed on all men, who
clothed with tbe old bodies, go, the
good, to Paradise, the bad to hell;
there the bad shall be tortured for
three days, and these purified shall
join the good on the renewed earth,
aud Ahriman a No purified, all evil
shall end and hell be abolished.
The kingdom of Heaven on earth,
gained largely by tbe efforts of all
good men and women, in conjunction
with the Savior, U a fundamental doc
trine of Z roasters. To advance thia
result men must be pure in thought,
word and deed ; purity of life is all
important, whence a multitude of
commands concerning purity of body
and mind.
Here we have in sacred books the
oldest in the world, many of the doc
trines supposed to be peculiar to Chris
tianity, art a bodily resurrection, a
Savior or Messiah, a final judgment, a
kingdom of Heaven on earth, a devil,
and a good God, who finally abolish
es evil. None of these doctrines are
found in Judaism until the return
from captivity; tiie devil before that
time was unknown, so that we may
assert that the devil was an invention
of the Chaldean.
We find also in the Zend Avesta an
account of the fall of man, a serpent
in Paradise, only in this case an ice
serpent, a flood, and a creation much
resembling similar accounts in Gene
sis, and when we remember that tbe
Zend Avesta was written hundreds, if
not thousands of ypars before tbe Bi
ble, we cannot well avoid the conclu
sion that these religious id us in the
Bible were borrowed from the Chal
deans. Even if we suppose them original
with the writers of tbe Bible, we must
grant to the authors of similar Ideas
in the Zend Ave6ta an inspiration
from God. Either, then, the writers
of each of these sacred books were in
spired or neithpr. And since tbe
Zend Avesta is far the oldest book,
the authors have the first claim to be
called inspired writers.
Wehave traoed home to the Chalde
ana the idea of a Devil, and unless we
are prepared to admit that Zoroaster
was a. son of God. inspired by the Al
mighty, we must reject the common
idea of tiie Devil as of purely human
origin. Omaha Ncuss.
Remedy for Chokixg Cattle.
Remedy for choking cattle Is oppor
tune about this timo, when they are
-more than usually exposed to tbe
danger of getting an apple, potato, or
small turnip Btuok in the gullet. A
certain remedy la said to be to open
the mouth of the choking animal and
throw upon its tongue, away back, a
tableapoonful of saltpeter, then let
tbe beast go, and the obstacle will
' either pass out or in, In a very short
time,
k Toper's Terrible Death.
TheScuylervIHe(N". Y.) Standard
relates the following:
While comingin tills direction with
a load of oabbagea in the afternoon,
Henry Paris, with whom was An
drew Patrick, near Gannon's me)
Warren Haigbt, a meat peddler, rid
ing homeward with a team of horses,
having been out during the day sell
ing meat. Ashe passed Paris remark
ed to Patrick ; "That man is on fire'
Patrick said, "I guess not ; I didn't
see anything." Paris said, "I know
he is on fire, for I could smell fire."
They turned around and looking back;
saw a horrid spectacle.
Haight was the center of a pyramid
of fire, tbe flames and smoke rising
far above his head. The horses were
on a keen trot and the poorsot, who
was being devoured by fire, was
screaming wildly for help. Patrick
jumped oqtof (he wagon and rushed
hack shouting to the Gannons, who
were just then emerging from a pota
to field, and they stopped the team
and extinguished tbe flames tbaC
were eatiug up the man's life, by
throwing blankets over him. He was
taken home, but remained in a drunk
en stupor until midnight, when ha
aroused sufficiently to explain that be
had been drinking heavily in Schuy- .
lervllle; that some one had lighted
his pipe for him, butthat it had slip
ped from his mouth aud setbis clothes
on fire ; and that he could have pub
out the flames when they first started
only that be had on a tightly-buckled
belt which in his stupid oondition ho
could not unfasten. His clothes wera
of cotton material well daubed with
grease, thus affording rich fuel for
tbe ghastly conflagration. In tho
morning he died. His chest and
body were a solid mass of charcoal,
and a great hole, reaching nearly to
the bone, had been burned in bis leg:.
Haight was a peculiar man. Ha
was keen, tolerably well informed
and bad an extraordinary memory.
He could make money easily, but In
variably spent it for whisky, and tho
town periodically interposed its be
nevolent stores between hia famiiy
and starvation. Whisky kept hia
poor and whUky killed him. If ever
a man died "as the fool dletb" it was
this Haigbt, who was so drunk while
sitting on his own funeral pyre that
be could nut raise bis hands to save
himself. One man who saw him
while burning, says it was the most
awful sight he evr witnebsed. The
jjjmaajuahnil nuaKI -.lvftafl o- IhAiiah
it was a barrel of tar burning, and ho
all the time screaming for help. Tho
horses had turned out on the side of
the road and stopped. He was taken
home by one of the Gannons. About
midnight he became conscious, and
told hi j wife where he got his whisky.
He was forty-three years of age, and
leaves a wife and six children, all
girls.
Jfovel Courtship.
A young gentleman, happening to
sit at church in a pew adjoining one
whioh a young lady occupied for
whom be conceived a sudden and vl
olent passion, was desirous of enter
ing into a courtship on the spot; and
the exigency of the case suggested
tbe following plan : He politely hand
ed his fair neighbor u Bible open with
a pin stuck In the following text
second Epistle of John, verse fifth
"And now I beseech thee, lady, not as
though I wrote a new commandment
unto thee, but that whioh we bad la
tbe beginning that we love one an
other." She returned it, pointing to
tbe second chapter of Ruth, versa
tenth "Then she fell on her face and
bowed herself to the ground and said
to him, why have I found grace In
thine eyes, seeing that I am a Strang
er?" He returned the book, point
to the thirteenth verse of the third
Epistle of John "Having many
things to write unto you I would not
write with paper aud ink, but I trust
to come unto you and speak face to
face." From the above interview a
marriage took place.
& w "
Worthy of a Senator.
General Garfield was in Cleveland
when he was nominated for the Sen
ate, having refused to go to Columbus
to conduct his canvass in person.
When the news reached him be ex
pressed deep gratification, but said be
was not surprised. Speaking to a
Leader reporter of tbe reason which
kept bim at a distance, he said: "I
belive in lifting political canvasses of
this kind to a higiier standard. Of
course, there are cases when it be
comes necessary fora candidate to ap
pear in a fight. If I had been person
ally assailed it would have been my
duty to go, and I held myself In read
loess to go if It became necessary In
that way ; but to make myself a solic
itor of votes, I could not do it. I
would rather have lost the place than
secure it in that way. Besides. I wish
ed to keep myself from becoming en
tangled with pledges and promises, so
that I might go into the Senate with,
my whole freedom and aot with Inde
pendence on all questions." .
Bran Is. a valuable food for horses
in reducinUbe Inflnmatory effect of
stimulatin&fnod. Made into mashei
It has a cooling aud laxative effeot,
but used in excess, especially in a dry
Estate, It Is aptjto form stony secretions
nthe bowels of the horse. Stones
.produced from the excessive use of
bran have been taken out of horias'
aftertJMta, weighing raasy pound;.
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