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f It t r 4 R THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY, M. Iv. TURISTER. & CO. Proprietors and Publishers. X3T0FFICE Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Per year Six months ... Throe months Single copies . 1 03 BUSINESS CABDB. D.T.Maktyx.M. I. F. J. SCUUG, 31. D. Drs.HABTYN&SCHUG, U.S. Examining Surgeons, mnsiiltation- iu German and English. Telephones at otlice and residence,. COLUMBUS, NEBBABfcA- 42-v J. F. WII-SO". 1. ., PHYSICIAX& SUB&EOX. WM-.e. of women and children .pe- cialty. '"t.v,b;r,cla,!:,Pelenhone ly occupied by Dr. Uonesteel. Telepnone exchange. 01,1. A AWBAIiGH, ' DENIAL PAISL0R7 On comer of Eleventh and North streets, over Ernst's hardware store. F NOTARY PUBLIC, ll. Street.-' dour neht of Hammond House, Columbus. Neb. Jtfl-y . kki:ih:k, A TTOJiXEY A T LA W, Otllce on Olive St. Columbus, NebrasKa 2-tf V. A. MACKEN, DKAI.EK IN Domestic Liquors and Ciijurs. Columbus, Xeb. Su-y Forciijn and Uth street. M cAI.LIKTl'K 1IKOM., 1 TTOHNEYS AT LA W, Office up-stairi- in McAllister's build iug. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary Public. TOHI TUlO'l'llV, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Keens a full line of stationery and school supplies, and all kinds of legal forms. Iu'ures against lire, .lightning cyclone ,! tornnrioes. Office in Powell's Block, Platte Centci. l!-x .1. M. MACKAKI.AND, Att::T asl K:ry PsWc. II. R. COWDERY, C:Ui:r. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFARXjAND & Columbus, COWDBRy, Nebraska. i i. iti:3r."Eis, 3i. iK, (Successor to Dr. C. C. A. Uullhorst ) HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Kciilar graduate of two medical col lege Olliic up .-lairs in briek building north ot Stale Hank. ' j. .i. .iiaucsha:. Justice. Count u Surveyor, Notary, Land ami Collection Agent. SST Parties desiring surveying done can uotilv 1110 lV 111:111 ai 1-iauu tm.., -- M-Olll p 11. Ki.sriiK. Ilth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sell Harness, Saddles. Collars, Whips, Blanket, currv Combs, Brushes, trunks, valis.es, buggv'tops. cushions, carnage triinmiiir". &V.. at the lowest possible prices. Ue pair pn mptly attended to. R. II. I.AWKEXVI; DEPUTY CO. SURVEYOR. Will do general surveying in ,J a"e and adjoining counties. Olhce with h. I . Smith. C01.U.M1US, NKHRASKA. 17-tf I S. M.UKDOUK & SON, tj Carpenters and Contractors. Ilavehad an exteuded experience, and will guarantee satisfaction iu work. All kinds of repairing done on .short notice. Our motto is, Oood work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tunitv toestimate for you. iSTShop on 13th St., one door west or Kriedhoi Ar Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-V O. C. SHAJSTNOT, MANUFACTURER OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Boofinjj and Gutter ing a Specialty. SShop on Olive Street, 2 doors noTth of Brodfcuhrcr's .lowelry btore. a IV. CI.AUK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some tine tracts iu the Shell Creek Valley, and the uorth ern portion of Plntte county. Taxes paid for lion-rosidents. Satisfaction guaranteed. -U J" lOK.W51BUS PACKMG CO- COL UMB US, - 2TUB., Packers aud Dealers in all kinds of Hog product, cash paid for Live or Dead Hogs or grease. Directors. R. H Henry, Prest.; John "WiggiuB, Sec. and Treas.; L. Gerrard, S. Cory. tames .SAm.Jio:s, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 6mo. N OTICE TO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt., Will be in his office at the Court House on the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, and for the trausactton of any other business pertaining to schools. 567-y in presents given atcay. Send us r cents postage. rjvsirsS anu uy man 3011 vmi get free a package of goods of large value, that will start you in work that will at once bring youin money faster than any thing else in America. All about the $200,000 in presents with each box. Agents wanted everywhere, of either sex, of all ages, for all the time, or spare time only, to work for us at their own homes. Fortunes for all workers ab solutely assured. Don't delay. H. Hal lett CO., Portland, Maine. nnn VOL. XV.-NO. COLUMBUS STATE BANK! COLUMBUS, HEB. CASK CAPITAL, $75,000 DIRECTOR.' LKANDKR GKItRARD, Pres'i. Geo. W. Hulst, Vice Pre$'t. Julius A. Rkeu. i M. H. Henry. .. $.E. Taskeh, Cashr.zfr:. k of Deposit, Dlecoaat aad Eschai fjellectloi all PolatM. ih Promptly .tlade oi Pa It. latere! oh Time lco- 274 HENRY G-ASS, UNDERTAKER ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES AND DEALER IK Furniture, Chain, Bedsteads, Bu reau Tables, Safes. Lounges, Sec, Picture Frames and Mouldings. ISTHepairlng of all kind of Upholstery Goods. 6-tf COLUMBUS, NEB. HENRY LUERS, DEALER IK WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Pniiips Repaired on short notice JSrOne door west of Heintz's Drug Store, llth Street, Columbus, Neb. S HELP for working people. Send IU cents postage, and we will mail vou free, a toyal, val uable sample box of goods that will put vou in the way of making more money in a few days thau you ever thought pos sible at any business. Capital not re quired. You can live at home and work in spare time only, or all the time. All of both sexes, of all ages, grandly suc cessful. r0 cents to $." easily earned every evening. That all who want work mav test the business, we make this un paralleled offer: To all who are not well satisfied we will send $1 to pay for the trouble of writing us. Full particulars, directions, etc , sent free. Immense pay absolutely sure for all who start at once. Don't delay. Address Stikson & Co., Portland, Maine. A WORD OF WARNIX6. FARMERS, stock raisers, and all other interested parties will do well to remember that the "Western Horse and Cattle Insurance Co." of Omaha is the only company doing business in this state that insures Horses, Mules and Cattle aainst loss by theft, accidents, diseases, or injurj', (as also against loss by lire and lightninc). All representations by agents of otherCompanies to the contrary not withstanding. P. W. HEXRICII, Special Ag't. 15.y Columbus, Xeb. NO HUMBUG! But a Grand Success. R. P. BRIGHAM'S AUTOMATIC WA- ter Trough for stock. He refers to everv man wuo nas 11 in use. uauunur leave orders at George Yale's, opposite Oehlrieh's grocery. 9-6m J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public with good teams, bugsic and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. Also conducts a sal" stable. Ai rpetAKSrr HOUSE, PLATTE CENTER NEB., JOHN IFfiOA5, Proprietor. The best accommodation for the travel ing public guaranteed. Food good, and plenty of it. Beds clean and comfortable, charges low, as the Iewest. 13-y A PRIZE. Send six cents for postage,and receive free, a costly box of goods which will help you to more money right away than anything else in this world. All, of either sex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely sure. At once Augusta, Maine address. True & Co., LYON&HEALY State A atenree Sts-Chlcaee. VOl MmijnttU U say miiirm lb AMD CATALWHUB, I far tM W !. zM amm. iKtruorau, sviu, Ufa, Emm. IflMM fcfuwu. up-i Sua. Drna Xrt Sufli. sad ik, Butty imrai nihil ba kau li rcfcalaawJMada, can nr utm aai SBBaW Bi0iE iolitnlns rHERFS BLUE SKY OVERHEAD. The earth is dark and drear. There are perils In the way; thousand little trials To encounterjevery day: But though full or gray and gloom The path our feet may tread, Look up, traveler. There1! blue sky overhead 1 We Journey to the right. And ire journey to the left Aad strive to find the treasure Of which we are bereft; When hope has ceased to smile. And the heart Is filled with dread. Look up, traveler. There a blue sky overhead I The shadows dark may lie All around us like a pall: And on sad and somber scenes May our level glances fall; But above the things of earth Is Love's azure curtain spread; Look up, traveler. There's blue sky overhead! The summer days go by. With sweet memories In their train. The autumn days draw ntgh, And the earth is drenched with rata: ers But when dear deligbts are past. And the leva of lite seem fled. r-Lok up. traveler, . - There s blue sity overnema: Though underfoot the thorn Ana briars may abound. Though death and desolation Encompass us around. Though all the springs run dry That once our pleasures fed. Look up, traveler. There's blue sky overhead! Jouptdne Pollard, in N. Y. Lata. CURIOUS TRAIT OF ANIMALS. The Peculiar Fear of Doss Mani fested by Panthers. A Comical, Though Costly, Illustration of the Dread Hogs Have of Bears How the Porkers Were Kept Out of a Corn-Fleld. I have often wondered why writers on natural history, traits of animals, etc., have not noticed or commented on the antipathy, or rather terror, that some of our wild animals have toward some one other particular species. From observation, I know that a panther has a deadly horror of a dog that a person accompanied by a dog, b.o matter how small, is safe from a panther's attack that any dog can tree a panther and keep him there ss long as the dog will stay and watch him. Hunters who have treed a panther with dogs do not hesitate to move close to and under the tree, seeking a good shot; knowing that the beast will pay no attentiion to them he will hare his eyes continually on the dogs. Some years ago while staying on a plantation on ttie Colorado' River, in Fayette County, Texas, a fine illustratiou of a panther's fear of a dog occurred. The old mother of the planter went daily to the garden to gather vegetables for the family and was always accom panied by a small dog of the fice variety. One daya party of hunters passed, and as they rode by the garden their hounds struck a trail in the road, sprang over the garden fence and ran a full grown panther from amoug the pea vines. At that time the old lady was not ten steps from where the brute was concealed. He had visited the garden so often that, in the two weeks that had elapsed since the garden had been worked, he had beat down a plain path from where he rejnilarly scaled the fence to the pea patch- The universal belief of all was that he came daily to seize the lad', but that he was afraid to do so on account of her being always accompanied by her dog. One night I was one of a party of coon hunters on White River, Arkansaw. After a long, weary chase the dogs treed their game, and when we arrived we found them under a tree too large to climb or to think of cutting. So we lay down on the ground and slept until the light of day awakened one of the party, who naturally looked up in the tree as he opened his eyes. He at once gave a tremendous yell, sprang to his feet, screamed "jump, boys, the tree is full of panthers!" and dashed off at full speed. We followed in no time to a safe distance, then returned back close enough to see three panthers in the tree. And we had slept under that tree for several hours. Fear of our dogs had undoubtedly kept them from molesting us. Having no fire-arms, we decided that the occupants of the tree were not the kind of "coon" we were after, and after considerable trouble in getting the dogs away, left the camp with the "cats" in full possession. The hog has the same dread of a bear that the panter has of a dog, and the bear has the same fear of a man. I speak by the card as to the bear found in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, (and I venture the assertion that to-day there are more bear, panther, wild cat and deer in those three States than in the same sized territory in any other part of the Western continent. .Let a bunch ot nogs "on the range come onto a bear's track, or signs, or anything that has the scent of a bear about it, and a stampede will begin right then, the duration of which will depend on the wind of the hogs, for they will run themselves down oefore stopping, and that particular locality will be avoided until they forget all about it, and a bear is good for a ten mile run if, in his wanderings, he runs afoul of a man or his track. Acquaintance with these facts is turned to advantage by the farmers who raise hogs in the swampy, vermin abounding regions of Louisiana. The panther and bear are both as fond of fresh pork as a negro is of watermelon, and are a serious drawback to successful hog-raising in that section. The farmers persistently hunt thevar aint with dogs and try to keep them at the minimum. As an additional precau tion, the half wild bunches of hogs are taught that thev can iret swill everv day by coming home for it and while eating it are, by the use of a mop on the end of a long pole, sprinkled with human offal which makes them safe from brain's attacks as long as the scent lasts, for one whiff from a properly per fumed porker is enough to run a bear through two counties. I witnessed a most comical, though costly, illustration of the hogs' dread of a bear in the Teche country during the war. Convalescent in hospital -I eagerly ac cepted the invitation of a gentleman to spend a few days on his plantation or Bayou Teche. The evening we arrived I heard the planter "blowing up" his overseer for not having the hogs, that ranged in the timber bordering the swamp, out of the corn-field. The next day the hogs got in again, and again the overseer "caught it" "Johason, I know the fence ispooc and iihoaW hare been renewed Jttt. winter, bnt there's no chance to do it now and I insist that yoahavetheoUsin it chinked so-'aa to keep the host mi,' or they wQT de stroy the crap. ' ' COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24, During this lecture two of the plant sons roue up witn uiesmuui bear that they had just killed on the edo-e of the swamp, near the corn-field. Johnson's eyes glistened as he saw the fresh skin. "All right, Mr. Parker, Pll keep them hogs out of the field now." was his reply. "Very well. Don't vou kill them, though!" "No, I'll not kill them." That evening Johnson succeeded in tolling a large boar into the lot. He was penned and sewed up in the bear skin. The next day the hogs made their regular raid on the corn-held, and then. with all hands present to witness opera tions, the boar was turned into the same field. Scared badly at his "surround ing" he rushed at full speed for his comrades for countenance and pro tection. Terrified at the sight of an apparent bear charging towards them, a stam pede ensued among his comrades, and the finest scrub race occurred right there that I ever witnessed. "Booh! booh!" was the starting sig nal and away they went at full speed, closely pursued by their supposed ene mv. The nearer'the bear got the faster the bunch ran. When the leading ones ot to the hole in the fence, where they ad crowded in one at a time, a few got through in regular style; but the balance were too much pressed for time by the demon in pursuit to await their turn they charged the old fence, which gave wav" and into the woods, headed m the direction of the swamp, hotly pursued by their handicapped comrade, they disappeared. Two years afterward while walking down the strand in Galveston I was ac costed by the negro porter of a drug store, who reminded me of having seen him at Mr. Parker's, his old master, the time they sewed up the boar in the bear skin. "I remember vou now. Nelson. How long after I left Mr. Parker's was it that the hogs came back?" "Guess them hogs mus' be runnin' vet. niass'r. or all got drowned in de swamp," was Nelson's reply; "at leas' we neber seed lud nor bar of a single one of 'em back dar up to de time I lef, 'bout two months ago." Arkansaw Traveler. A NAPLES TAVERN. The Good Things of Life Which the Ne- apolitan Knjoys In an Inn. Few people live so sparingly as the poorer Neapolitans, and none enjoy a feast more. Every now and then the small tradesman feels that he and his family must have a "good time" for once in a way. Almost anything will serve as an excuse, but if possible he likes to have a religious sanction fot the excess, and this is generally easy enough to Hud. Besides the great festivals of the Church, there are the days of the Saints after whom he and his wife and his children have been named, which he is, of course, bound to celebrate by partaking of an extra amount of good cheer. There is mid Lent, which is always remembered, even if the fast lias not been strictly ob served, and a number of other davs in the calendar at once suggest macaroni, meat and merriment. Now, pleasure for a Neapolitan means a rapid drive 111 a"n overladen cab ami an immense dinner, both of which maybe had by an excursion to one of these little country taverns. To render his happiness com plete an illumination and a display of fireworks are also required: but these, of course, can only be wit Sesed when one of the churches in the vicinity celebrates the annual festival of its patron. At other times he is obliged to be content with a cab and what Sie tavern supplies. The arrival of such a family party at once awakens the whole household. The landlord, who treats his habitual guests with indifierence -and welcomes the single wayfarer with a civility so cold as to bo rather dubious, at once blossoms into high spirits and -affability. The land lady springs from the seat in which she has" been dozing since midday to fall into raptures over the children, the cook fans the lire, and the waiters shake off their languor and begin to move fables and benches from one end of the yard to the other, for no purpose but that of exhibiting their zeal. As soon as the first effervescence of the recep tion has passed off the viands are dis plaved, all of them in an uncooked con dition, except the piece of beef that is fished out of the pot iu which it is sim mering over the fire and cut in half in order that there may be no doubt as to its quality. Then the dinner is ordered, and the new-comers retire to the yard and choose a table, which is imme diately covered with a linen cloth, coarse but scrupulously clean, and sup- 8 lied with huge hunches of bread and ttle jugs or bottles of wine. In a min ute or two more dishes of sausage and raw ham cut in thin slices, of olives,. pickles, anchovies, and, it may be, of sardines, appear, and the feast begins. It consists of macaroni, a fry, stewed meat, beefsteaks and dessert, in which, besides all the fruits of the sea son, celery and the white hearts of the Italian fennel are always included if they can be procured. The poorest Ne apolitan would think it inconsistent with his dignity to celebrate a family festival in a tavern with fewer courses, and generally a boiled fish is inter polated in Ihe bill of fare, aud roasted fowls or game and some sweet dish are added. Of each of these viands a quan tity is provided which fills the observer with astonishment, and yet very little is left when the waiter changes the plates. It must not be forgotten, however, that as soon as each of the party had been helped once to a dish a full plate of it is sent to the cab driver, whom the author ities of the hostelry have been instructed to supply with wine. As nothing but this wine and a piece of bread is entered on the bill as having been consumed by him, the master of the feast has the unalloyed satisfaction of feeling that he has given a fellow-creature a good din ner without any expense to himself. This is an especial pleasure to the Ne apolitan, as it flatters two of his strong est passions, his generosity and his thrift. An Englishman is at first in clined to think this practice a little unfair, but he may rest assured that the landlord is no loser by the transparent strategeni which puts everybody into a good humor. Saturday Review. mm The Baptists of Italy have united under the name of "The Christian Apostolic Baptist Union of Italy,' Rev. James Wall, of the English Bap tists, is President, and Dr. Taylor, American, Vice-President. Evangeliz ing committees have been formed, a paper is to be published and a hymn ana.tnne book immediately prepared. The first watch was about the size of a dessert-plate, and was used a a fckt cltk.eton BwiftL FIRST National Bank! colu: XJBl. Aitkeriied Capital, Paid ! Capital, Sirplis aid Profits, $250,000 50,000 . 6,000 officers and DinacTona. A. ANDERSON, Prvf. , SAM'L C. SMITH, Vice Prett. O. T. ROEN, Cashier. J. W. EARLY, HERMAN OEULRICH, W. A. MCALLISTER, O. ANDERSON, P. ANDERSON. Torelgn and Inland Exchange, Passage .Tickets, ana Real Estate Loans. .vol-lS-ly ' COAL LIME! J.E. NORTH & CO., DEALERS IN Coal. Hair. Cement. Boek Sping CosI, $7.00 per ton Carton (WyomiBg) Coal 6.00 " Eldon (Iowa) Coal 5.00 " Blacksmith Coal of best quality ways on hand at low est prices. al- North Side Eleventh. St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14.3m BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US. NEB. SPEICE & NORTH, Qenaral Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. R. Lands for sale at from S3.00 to S10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten yean time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at low price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate In Pitte County. 621 COLUMBUS, -HEB. UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and City Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and low rate 0 Interest. EtTFinal proof made on Timber Claims, Homestead and Pre-emptions. S3TA11 wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine my list of lands before iooklnz elsewhere B"AH having lands to sell will please call and give me a description, terra, prices, etc. 0"I a'so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several first-class Fire insurance companies. K. Y. OTT, Solicitor, speaks German. NAHIIKL C. SMITH, :Mi-tr Columbus, Nebraska. LOUIS SCHREIBER, 11 All kinds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Buggies, Wtg ous, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed Also sell the world-famous Walter A Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. zarShoD opposite the " TattersalL" on Olive St., COLUMBUS. Blacksniilli aiifl Waaon Maker initpl 1884.- HORSEHEADED PEOPLE. A Feor Name Well-Stack To Is Better Than the Prettiest New One. When the first white settler entered the Chemung Valley, about one hundred years ago, they found the skulls of hundreds of horses piled in mounds on the spot where this village now stands. According to the tradition, these skulls had belonged to horses in the army of General Sullivan when he made his his torical raid upon the hostile Indian tribes, in 1779. On the return march of the victorious armv from the Genesee country a portion of the troops en camped, here. As he intended to go down the Chemung with his forces on rafts.General Sullivan ordered the killing of all superfluous horses. Wild animals devoured their carcasses, and subse quently the skulls were heaped up by the Indians, where the first settlers found them. On account of this inci dent the settlement received the natnu of Horseheads. In 1837 the village was Incorporated, and the name was changed by the Legislature to Fairport, against the wishes of most of the people. For eight years they petitioned regularly to have the original name restored. This was done in 1846. No .stranger ever comes here whose first question is not: "Why is this place called Horse- heads?" Citizens are always lying in wait for strangers, and as soon as the invariable question comes it is their delight and recreation to tell the story, with much detail, about General Sullivan aud the horse-skull mounds. In fact, competi tion in retailing the story has come to be so close among enterprising Horse heads people that the one who gets thf ear of strangers first and most frequent ly is looked up to with envy by his fellow-townsmen. The wide-awake citi zen has even reduced the thing to so exact a science that he does not wait until the stranger asks the entire ques tion. The man who alights from the oars here and besrins his tirst utterance with Why" or r What" or 'Will vou." need speak no further, for the citizen, lying in wait, launches the story of Sullivan and the horse skulls at him at onoe. The man who is now looked upon as the smartest one in the place is a distinguished citizen who sat up for the three a. m. train the other night. Two strangers alighted. They were so sleepy they did not stop to ask why the plaoe was called Horseheads. The wide awake citizen collared them. " I see you want to hear the story about Sullivan and the horse heads." said he. -'Give me your valise; I'll tell you the story as we" walk over to the hotel." It may well be supposed that the fact that a strong effort is now being made to have the name of the village changed has raised a howl of indignation here. It seems a capitalist from another plaoe wants to become interested in manu facturing on an extensive scale in Horse heads. He visited the place a day or so ago to look over the prospect and talk with a Horseheads capitalist. After walking about the streets awhile, and being unable to find the man for whom he was looking, he stepped into a sa loon to ask where the man lived. There were four citizens in the place. The visitor approached the man behind the bar saving:" "Will you kindly tell me " That avus as far as he got. The four citizens were on their feet and on all sides of him in less thau a second. They all addressed him: "In September, 1779, General Sul livan, on his return from chasing the Indians in the Genesee country, en camped on this very spot" Then followed the story of the horses and their skulls. The capitalist was speechless with surprise. "They got it all mixed up," said the saloon-keeper. "Order your drink sent to the back room and 1 11 come in and tell you the story slow and straight." The visiting capitalist hurried out. Meeting a boy on the street, he said: "My son, can vou tell me " "Oh, ves," said the boy. "In Sep tember, 1779, General Sullfvan " The visitor dashed wildly down the street and met the mau he had come to see. This citizen explained the state of affairs to him. Then he declared that he wouldn't put a dollar of his money in Horseheads unless the name was changed. Some of them want his money, and are working hard to induce the people to petition the Legislature to change the name. Patriotic citizens, however, are outraged at the suggestion. As one walks along the streets he sees groups of residents discussing the sub ject. "It is sacrilege!" some of them ex claim. "Here, where General Sullivan camped in September, 1779, after ." .Then if he doesn't pas;ou he will hear the rest of it. The movers in favor of a ' new name want to have the place called North Elmira. Uorseheuds (x. F.) Cor. X. Y. Times. THE TYPE-WRITING GIRL. Fact aud Fiction About the Successor of the Stenographers. The stenographer is rapidly being succeeded by the type-writer. Men are too clumsy to acquire great facility at this aort of work, and it seems especially suited to women. Tho advantages which it possesses over the older fashion Is that the work is finished when the operator has reached the end. A large element of uncertainty enters into life when one employs a stenographer. With the type-writing girls it is differ ent As a rule they are busy copying Supreme Court papers, which, by the way, they lay aside without the slight estregret, and they are apparently the only people who "look with contempt upon the Supreme Court, and begin at once to prepare for work. The prepa ration is the longest part of it After a few general remarks about the weather, she removes her rings one after the other, looks at them carefully, places them in an ordinary row beside the type-writer, pulls a hair-pin out of the forward part of her bang, examines it, and then thrusts it with unquestioned belligerence into the back of her head. Then she yawns prodigiously, leans back in her chair and says she Is ready. When you begin she suddenly remem bers, rises from the machine, goes to the wash-stand, tovs with the faucets for a few moments, touches the ends of her fingers to the towel, then comes back by the way of the mirror. I have become convinced by long experience that the average female type-writer never rtlly cares to wash her hands. It is a strategic subterfuge for the purpose of affording her an op portunity to look in the mirror. She returns, throws herself carelessly into the chair, and briskly puts a sheet of paper into the machine. Having done this, she withdraws the paper turns it around and puts it in in that way. This to system they sever depart from WHOLE NO. 768. under any circumstances. She is not ready yet." however. At this point it becomes necessary to open a small drawer at the right baud side of the type-writer, fish out a more or less showy purse, glance critically and some what sadly within, throw the purse back again, and bring forth an ink orasor, a rubber, a fruit knife aud a half eaten apple or peach. Some one will probably interrupt her fr a fiuiet chat, and after that, if ypu are still there, you will be thoroughly startled. Once under way, an expert "type-writer is fully as fast as the.average stenogt-apher,and when you have liuished diclatingyou may take the manuscript away with you. 1 have 00 .served one peculiarity about the female type-writer. She never makes a mis take. It is always the machine. If she puts sixteen vowcK in the word 4tbrough,"she tir.st hiu the keyboard violently, then raises the roof of the structure, pokes at the type with her first finger, indulges in some airy crit icism of J manufacturer, brings the whole thing together violently agajb, and continue to make the most grievous and absord errors with a face of utter satisfaction ami unruffled high spirits. She eventuallv marries the managing clerk of the" law office. Brooklyn KILLED BY ELECTRICITY. The Fate of a Mux Wh ICeckletsly Han dled an Electric Current. John McGowan. a molder, with two friends, stepped into the electric-light works bust evening, aud obtained per mission from one of the meu iu charge to go through the works. McGowan declared that he knew considerable about electricity and its workings. They entered the genera? r room from the engine-house and goin over the north west corner of the room stood before a thirty-light dynamo. They stood before the machine "for a few minutes, when MoGowan was observed to bond down aud reach out hi hands. Instantly he was drawn close to the generator and did not uttor a sound. lie was dead. In the front part of, and well under, the dynamo are two brass roils about four teen inches long. To reach these one has to make a special effort, as other parts of the machine protrude beyond them. They are known as the positive and negative rods, the former receiving from the generator the electric current and conducting it to the insulated wire which carries it out to all the lamps in the circuit belonging to the machine. The negative rod receives the current from a similar wire that returns it from the lights and is thereby conducted back into the geuecrator. The circuit is thus made complete. These two rods spring from a cylinder on opposite sides when they arc about four inches apart. Then thev extend downward forming a cone and are nearly two feet apart at the widest point McGowau caught hold of the positive and negative rods and was killed as quickly as he did so. Instead of going out over the circuit the elec tricity took the shortest route, and was passing out of the generator to the posi tive rod where McGowan's rijrht hand was, and on through his body to his left arm and back to the negative rod and into the machine, and so on around. One of McGowan's friends attempted to seize him. " For God's sake, don't do that or you'll be killed instantly," shouted Engi neer Wagoner as he shut down his engine and, in his excitement, pulled the plug in the switch-board which breaks the electric current This last act could have been of no benefit to McGowan, even if he were not already dead, as ho was at the dynamo and had formed a complete circuit before the switching-off point was reached. The contraction of the muscles of the body was so great that his legs and arms were drawn out of shape, and his head was drawn forward so that the chin pressed tightly against the chest As soon as the engines could be stopped and it was considered safe he was taken away from the rods. So firm was the attraction that pieces of his skin adhered to the rods. Syrucuse Herald. A REMARKABLE BRIDGE. A Structure Built by the ltouuni When France Was Caul. Distant about an hour's ride by rail from Avignon is the Pont du Gard (or "Bridge of the Gard"), a great bridge, or aqueduct, built here by the Romans at a time when this part of France was occupied by the soldiers and colonies of that people; and, next to the Colosseum at Rome, it is considered the grandest and most perfect piece of Roman archi tecture now standing in the world. It is an immense stone bridge, stretching across the whole valley. It consists of three rows of arches, one above the other. In the lower row there are six verv lanje arches; above this is a longer row of eleven smaller arches; and over this, thirty-five arches still smaller. On the top of the upper row, and forming the summit of the bridge, is a covered aqueduct or water way. At a little distance this vast bridge seems almost as entire and perfect as when first built, and we can hardly realize the fact that it has stood there for nineteen centuries. It was erected solely for the purpose of carrying water across the vallev. and was part of an aqueduct, twentv-nve miles long, con structed by the Romans to-conduct the water of the springs of Airau to their town of Nemausus, now the French town of Nimes. Great stones project at regular inter vals from its sides, to the top of the sec ond row of arches. These served as supports to the derricks and other ma chines by which the massive stones were raised as the building progressed. We can also see the square indentations in the stone-work which were made there to support the scaffolding of the Roman masons. F. R. Stockton, in St. Xiclio las. Under the Spell of a Locomotive. A large moose deer experienced a singular fate a few miles west of Matta wa, on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Wednesday. While No. 38 mixed was coming oast at a high rate of speed the driver thought that he observed through the morning mist a dark object a short distance ahead. Ever' effort was made to bring the train to a standstill, but without success, for the next moment the obstruction was struck and sent fly ing from the track. It proved to be nothing less than a large sized moose deer, which, becoming bewildered at the sight of the approaching train was utterly powerless to move from the spot Death must have resulted instan taneously, as its side was literally smashed to a jelly. The antlered mon arch weighed " 750 pounds, and is said to be one of the largest speci mens of the moose killed in that locality for several years. Cer. Toronto Glob. kates of AifcYEitTisarve;. ESTBusinesa and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. J57 For time advertisements, apply at this office. JSTLegal advertisements at statute rates. 22TFor transient advertising, see rates on third page. ETAll monthly. advertisements payable RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. The United States Methodist Epis copal Church has ninety-seven confer ences and includes 25,000 clergy and 1,850,000 members. Thev are complaining in Texas that all the professors for the State Univer sity are chosen from other States, and that only the porters and bell-ringers are taken from home,. Chicago Jour' nal. The "Berlin Society for the Propa- Sation of Christianity Among the Jews" as existed for sixty-four years, and was the instrument for bringing one thou sand ehildrcn of Israel to the knowledge of the Messiah. --Rev. James White was recently installed minister of the Presbyterian Church, Stonebridge, Monaghan, Ire land, in succession to his father, who presided over the congregation for tifty-four years. The church was founded nearly two hundred years ago by Patrick Dunlgjj. from Ivirkeowau, Scotland. Out of 350 Congregational churehes in Massachusetts, 163 have responsive, reading in some form; in 100 the peo ple unite with the pastor in repeating the Lord's Prayer: in sixty-one there is ohautinr in some form, generally the " Glory be to the Father," and in ten the Apostles' Creed is repeated. Bos ton Post. The English Baptist Handbook tor the current year reports that while tho Jast ten years thore has been a decrease, in tho numberof Baptist churches in En gland the number of scholars in Baptist buudav-schools has increased by about 100,000. Its total number of scholars now is 437,187 over against 804,802 church members. A missionary in Georgia writes: "In live years I have organized 231 Sunday-schools, with teachers and scholars; visited and aided 84 schools, having 9.G89 teachers and scholars; de livered 1.3G1 addresses; visited G,385 families; distributed 3,401 Bibles and Testaments, and other publications to the value of $90; traveled 24.8U0 miles in my own conveyance." -V. 11 Exam iner. Tho librarian of tho YounrMon Christian Association in New York is thus quoted: "We are nowkecpingopon on Sunday afternoon and evening, and the library at such times is well patron ized. We "rive out no fiction, but re strict the reading to more substantial matter, such as the Bible, history and theological treatises. There is a demand for li"ht reading, but we do not respond to it' A year ago, say the Cunyregation alist, at the completion of fifty years from the establishment of the tirst Con gregational church in Australia, a grand jubilee was celebrated at Sidney, and an etl'ort was begun to raise a fund of S75.0U0 for denominational purposes. At the expiration of a year 90.000 has already been seeured. " The money U to be used in paying debts on churches, anil establishing a fund for aged and iuiirm ministers. WIT AND WISDOM. A kindness can never be concealed, not even by repaying it If all would realize that cruelty u as bitter to other-; as it is to themselves, there would be less of it practiced. To be happy the passion must bo cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel ancholy; a propensity to hope and joy is real "riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. Hume. "There is nothing impossible to tho determined spirit," sa; s :i philosopher. Evidently that philosopher never tried to reach "up behind his shoulder to get hold of the end of a broken Mi.spender. Sotncrvillc Journal. " What's the price of this two-foot rule?" asked a carpenter's boy in a hardware store, one morning. "Thirty six eent' was the reply. " Well, it's too high. Why, I can get a much longer 'two-foot rule for half that" "Have you any good reason why vou won't believe the witness?" asked the justice. "Yes. sir." "Isn't he liou it in money matters?" "Yes, sir." "Doesn't he pav hi bills and keep his promises?" "Yes. sir." "Then what i- it?" "He's a fisherman." -V. Y. Grapkie. - "You can do anything, if you havo patience," said an uncle who had mado a fortune to his nephew, who had nearly spent one. "Water mav be parried iu a sieve, if you only wait" "How long?" asked "the penitent spendthrift -Till it freezes," was the cold reply. X. Y. Independent. On one of the lirbt very warm days a little girl with a pretty but close un bonnet on went out to "pick lowers. Her curly hair was clinging close to her pThk. sweaty little forehead as she came in. clutchin"r in iier rosy lingers a few "innocents,'' two or three half-grown, violets, and some short gnus. Shu threw oft" her sim-bonnet. and said: "Oh, mamma, it's dwefi'ul warm. 1 link it's nios' time to pick fan-,.'" -Harper's Bazar. -Pa," said a Boston urchin of S.. "couldn't Daniel Webster -knock out Sullivan in three rounds?" The Bos ton father did not look surprised, a perhaps a New York father would, but wtid: "Not much, my lad." "Wa. Dan au n. g. slugger." pa?" "Panic Webster wasn't a slugger at all, mf bo. What are n talking about? 'He was a lugger! What did that man you were talking with call him tho great expounder' for, then? x- eh'tnne. 'I love vour daughter, oir," said a bashful .swain to hi- steady company's parent before he had mentioned tho subject to the girl. "I'm glad to hear vou sav , wa the old gentleman's respoiAc. Good; give me your hand on that!" exclaimed the pleasure-seeker. "Well, hadn't ou better ask my daughter for hers tirat?" wa the wio suggestion. The young man decided that" he had, and "immediately sought the girl to see if he would suitor. Yonkcrs Statesman. A Humming-Bird's Umbrella. In front of a window where I worked last summer was a butternut tree. A humming-bird built her nest on a limb that grew near the window, and we had an opportunity to watch her closely, as we could look" right into the nest from the window. One day there was a very heavv shower coming np, and wo thought we would see if she covered her youn- during the storm: but when the Ifrsi 2rops fell she came and took in her bill 0110 of two or t!rec large leave growing clo'e to the nest; then she flew awav. On looking at the leaf we found a hole iu it, and in the side of the nest was a small stick that the leaf was fast ened to or hooked on. After tho storm was over the old bird came back and unhooked the leaf, and the nest was perfectly dry. H. A., in American xSports-man. a
