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VOLUME II.
CLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIB^.Y, OCTOBER 24, 1879.
NUMBER 25
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The Clare   County  Press.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY AT
Clare, Clare Cqtjnty, Mica.,
—BY—
jVAHO P. GOODEKTOUGH.
AvaLve*rJLislragr "Klate**.
The following Table of Advertising. Rates has
been carefully arranged according to a plan based
on space -required and time continued. Special
care is taken to set up and arrange advertisements
in a systematic manner, thus making them more
attractive than when jumbled together.
 TABLE OF ADVERTISING   RATES. '
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s inch gi.oo
z in      1.50
3 in       2.00
4 in 2.50
% col 3.00
ji col 6.00
x  col 10.00
Busi-qjEss Cards, 3 lines $5 per* year; each additional line, $1.
LkGal "Notices—Rates prescribed by law.'*}
Local Notices—10 cts. per line each insertion.
All Aih'ertising payable quarterly in Advance.
r.50
2.50
3-5°
4-5°
6.50
10.00
2.25
3-7?
5.25
7.00
1.000
15-00
3.00
5.00
7.00
•  9.00
13.00
20.00
3-75
6.25
8-75
11.25
16.00
25.00
4.50
7.5°
10.50
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19.50
30.00
9.00
14.00
20.00
25,00
35-QO
50.00
I5-00
20.00
30.00
35..QO
50.00
80.60
BUSINESS CABDS.
E. D. WB"EATO"N". C. "W. PERRY
WHEATOM & PERRY,
■OTiAKE,       -      - -   " MICH.
All businsss intrusted with them will receiv
prompt attention. Collections made and Real Ee
tateboughtand sold. Office Maynard*Block,Main St
WM. H. EliDEF, JEWEEER AKD
V V       dealer in Wall Paper, Books and Stationery, Sewing Machine Fixtures, etc., Clare.
O.E0. W. JEFFERIES, Judge oh?
\JT Probate and Justice of the Peace, Clare.
Special attention given to making Collections. Of-
ce ok Main Street.
{TXEO. J. CUMMINS,      ~~^
Attorney-at-Law and Solicitoi,,
Gourt Mouse Building, Farwell, Mich.
C.
C. CASTERLIN,
Attorney-and-Counselor-atrLaw, and
Counselor & Solicitor in Chancery,
(hurt Mouse Building, Farwetl, Mich,
"OT 0. DODGE,. Justice of the
l\ l\ o Peace and Notary Ptblic, Vernon, has-
good farmin-g- lands "fob sale
Cheap.   Titles Perfect, -
Terms Easy.
EL 0. Dodge, Fbwbll, Mich. -  j
(T\  H. SUTHERLAND,
Notary Pttblic & Insurance Agt.
Money t© Loan
L^ix7& M&<liu3 j3Uitdin§, MhrwelL
W,
S. COOLEY,
DEALER IK
Harness, Whips, Robes, & Blankets.
The best assortment of Trunks and Traveling
bags in town, and prices the lowest.
THE BEST OF MATERIA!/ USED.
All work  warranted." Repairing done  promptly
I will sell cheaper than can be bought elsewhere in Saginaw Valley.
TD> UBEN SMITH,
NOTAB Y PUBLIC.
Real Estate and Insurance Agent.
:*■_____£, BUKDIHI.
Particular attention paid to looking land, estimat
ing pine timber,^ adjusting trespsasses and paying
taxes for non residents.
Manhattan Fire Insurance Company of New York
Strong and sound, with low rates.
-pyjT R. JEFFERIES,
DEALER IN
FRESH & SALT MEAT,
Fresh and Cured Fish,
Fine Groceries and General
.Farm Produce,
Cheapest T E A io Town!
Cash paid for hides.
MAIN STREET, CLARE.
HOTELS, LIVERIES, Ac.
•^EW^'U^TrURET^NEWLY
Befitted, New Proprietor.
3TE3L,
MOUNT PLEASANT,   MICH.
.First Class Accommodations.   Good Sample Rooms
for Agents. Good Barn.
If^ARWELL BILLIARE HALL,
"^ FARWELL, MICH.
FIMEST~CIGARS,
Pure Wines, Liquors, Ales, Been-, Porter, Cider, Etc.
Those desiring a pure article are invited to oall.
HENRY NEWTON.
aUMMERS & NEWTON,
Proprietors of the
FARWELL  LIVERY.
BY TEDS SEA.
FORSES & CARRIAGES
TO LET.
Parties conveyed everywhere in this
section and vicinity.
£S!j=-Term.s reasonable.
Ij^AG-LE HOTEL,.
Coral, Montcalm Co., Mich.
A. FRED GOODENOUGH, Prop.
j_ -*if emm-peffaffi.©© lKI©T'--*se(>
This is a new house, neatly furnished, convenient
60 the trains, with good accommodations at reasonable prices.
(SOD©!© lUTVISIKL'SZ' A-^IPACDISIlEIBo
BY J. B. CHBYSTAL.
My blue-eyed pet, with golden hair,
Is sitting on my knee,
And gazes eagerly afar,
Across the beach, beyond the bar,
Where rolls the restless sea.
She puts her little hands in mine,
And laughs with childish glee
To see the foaming billows splash,
Aa on the shore they freely drsh,
Then glide back silently.
But, while she laughs so merrily,
My heart is far away;
And, as I look upon the shore,
Where loud andlong the breakersroqj--.
My sad soul seems to say :
"The sea is like a human life;
It breaks upon the shore
Of time, with a resistless might,
And, when the goal is just iu sight,
Hies—to return no more.
"And, all along the shore of time,
Jfull many wreck doth lie;
The pangs of many a mad carouse,
Of blasted hopes and broken vows,
Of happy days gone by."
Yet, while I muse in mournful mood,
And gaze upon the sea.
My blue-eyed pet, with golden hair,
Whose heart has never known a care,
Whose voice is music in the air,
Still sMs upon my knee.
Her head is resting on my breast—
Her eyes in slumber deep;
The same rough sea, whose breakers roar,
And madly, fiercely lash the shore,
Has lulled my child to sleep.
A MACE .WITH WDlLYESo
Heroism of a Pioneer's BangSiter.
BY WILLIAM KENNEDY.
Of the many lovely counties of Hew
York, none present stronger points of
attraction to the lover of the pictur- .
esque than the beautiful eounty of Sul-   sp™ *™* the composition.   Begardlfa
Hvan.   Masses of rocks lay piled upoa-^f ^P^J^^^^^Tf^'^tf ^
in such magnificent elisor
speak bad French.   But she was a good
snot, rode weE onhoiBeback, and was as
swift on foot as Camilla herself; besides being deeply versed in the sublime arts of bread and butter-making,
stocking-darning,   mending,    and   all
those   other   feminine   mysteries   of
which the masculine mind is so profoundly ignorant, yet  which tend so
greatly to our comfort and delectation.
I am not prepared to say, either, that
she had what the ladies call good taste
in dressing, though it would be difficult
to find a more charming figure than she
presented   in   her   gray,   home-spun
dress, and neat little collar, or at* least
so thought Alick Harden, on the eventful evening of which we are writing. '■
Said Alick was a gay young student; *
who came to this wild region to spend, i
his   vacation  in hunting among   the j
mountains, and had nearly finished ii. *
by serving as lunch for a huge panthei, \
when he was fortunately rescued by twVi
of Jacob's sons. -i   j
The wounds he had received were b~ 1* t
slight, and he quickly recovered und j j
Kate's careful nursing; but he still Ii .-1
gered unaccountably, though he mai3"- j
f ested no disposition to accompany t: „■ j
boys on their various excursions, seei_i- j
ing to derive a vast amount of ■ amu^- j
ment in watching Kate as she wcpj&l
about her household duties. This pr&&~ f
tice was sp^dily productive of the m-^afc!
disastrous *pS*6lts; for, in the course^f 1
two weeks^Kate three times put buttf^ f
milk in ,-the churn, twice burned tp;& |
bread t0 a cinder, and finally set h!I \
their teeth on edge by the producti^a,;
of a-lemon pie without a particle hai .t
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:;isps, wben her heart gave a bound
: seemed to send it to her throat,
. then almost ceased to beat, as she '
i listening with such intensity that
/ery breathing seemed suspended.
'j that t!he wind moaning through
branches?   Hearer and nearer came
long, low, melancholy sound, and
THE BOGUS PROCLAMATION,
ona another
der as if tossed there in the antediluvian revels of some of our gigantic first
fathers. The roads wind broken and
uneven through every variety of hill
and dale, on one side not infrequently
rising in some lofty mountain, waving
with clustering foliage, and vocal with
the song of birds, while on the other
descends as abruptly a bristling precipice, the rugged horrors of its yawning
gulf half hidden beneath, mantling vines,
and only betraying its great depth by
the faint musical tingle of the stream
which hides in its grim bosom. But
uninviting as are. the features it presents to-day, to arty but the tourist,
sixty years ago so formidable were the
obstacles it opposed, deemed by the
fai?mera that wh.<9ii Jacob Weir* & sturdy Ie^ Seillli* .-,».-,
dacious Alick still persisted in this t1-> i
accountable  course  df  conduct,  dkui
had made himself so particularly $>{
noxious to Kate that evening by jC-31
doing that she was continually blusbii r; i
from sheer indignation; and it wm,c
great relief when her father bade $ \ -
get out the porringers and the pit, • r
ding, as  he was right-down hungl /„ I
Going to the dress'er, Kate uncovered r.
mighty earthen dish, filled with itv
lectable golden-hued substance, whi j,
she forthwith served out with due ci   '
and deliberation into nine bright pom   -
gers, and then proceeded to dxdwnll'* "\
a flood of yellow cream.  This done, i
fire was to be raked down, and the pj
ringers placed on the coals; andfi(
that luckless Alick, prompted .by i
evil genius, attempting to assist h&T.;
.\ she knew she had to run for her
* for she had recognized the howl of
,yss, and'was sure they were already
l\os track,
.iaie was a courageous girl, and swift-
:"   loci as an antelope; but when the
.ling pack burst from the bushes into
' '    ', and, glancing -over her shoulders
::    '.he ran,' she saw them  bounding
n i fi her, their heads outstretched, their
:.'    tongues  lolling from their open
r.   -:ths, snapping, growling and leap-
i: ; madly up, thirsting and raging for
Ii " blood, a sickening terror tookpos-
c .. ion of her.   Should her limbs' fail
fr.t  even for an instant; should she
r. .:::ible or fall, she would inevitably be
(ilv_ged down and torn in pieces by
{'. 3& ravenous monsters.   Horrible 1 to
I--'/Oi her-flesh rent from her bones and
r   jingleft but a bleaching skeleton
i • '*3_ of her sad fate!   On they came,
<:'   '3 to her heels, almost catching and
;    'ling her dress as it flew out in their
r   "aning teeth—their yelling,   savage
\  l?es ever sounding nearer and nearer.
I j 7 out of the forest and down the
I  yleii-p&th; but her limbs were flagging,
i   "closer and closer came the hurried,
,    ivtng breaths.    She   reached   the
, .jd-ga-gate, the house was closed be-
i3 her; but at her shoulders leaped
;   '1 howled the foremost of the pack,
) hxit breath on her cheek, and his
7 growl sounding in her very ears,
sn suddenly out- rushed seven stal-
sft figures, shouting and waving flam-
.   ; brand& around their heac|s as they
,  _:3.     Panic-stricken,    the    wolves
insed, back to the forest, and the xhalf-
^zlin^ girl, was conducted, or rather
rse, -kflto the cabin.
lie soon recovered from the more
..j-sdiate effects of her fright; but, to
7 riyfag day, she could never speak
•T 9ut a ghudder of her moonlight
x* *vp.th the wolves.
of tow-heads, built a log cabin in
that region in the very heart of a mighty
forest, and installed himself and said
family therein, there were not wanting
some of his neighbors to hint that the
act qualified him for a straight-jacket
and a straw couch in a madman's cell,
Jacob only laughed the croakers to
scorn, hewing away the while at the
huge trees that hemmed him in on
every side with untiring energy and no
small success, and, spite of prophecies,
matters prospered with him. The crops
and the tow-heads grew apace—the one
bringing money into Jacob's pocket, the
other sunshine to his dwelling; and, as
years went by, he began to be spoken
of with due respect as a well-to-do and
thriving man. Howhere was a heartier
welcome to be obtained than at Jacob
Weir's. Friend or acquaintance, or
passing stranger, alike were sure of a
seat at the hospitable board, and a warm
nook in the chimney-corner. And such
a chimney! none of your modern, degenerate fire-places, but a vast, black
gulf, yawning almost the length of the
house, and piled up to the very top
with huge logs of hickory and hemlock,
that crackled and blazed as though they
enjoyed being burnt. No wonder hospitality is out of fashion now; for what
man could ask another to take a seat in
the corner of his range?
It was in the early springtime of the
year that our story commences, when
Jacob and his family were gathered
around the hearth, as was their wont,
after their plain but abundant supper.
Bright and strong blazed the fire, casting flickering shadows on the rough
ceilings and rougher walls, flashing redly back from the well-scoured pewter
on the dresser, lighting up the ruddy
countenance of old Jacob, and the
handsome ones of six tall, broad-shouldered and strong-limbed sons, and,
finally, throwing a whole halo of light
around the spot where sat the torment
and the idol of the household, saucy,
daring Kate, Jacob's only daughter.
She was of the tallest height of woman,
and her superb form, unshackled by
the restraints of art, had all the elasticity and subtle grace which nature
alone can give. Her features were noble and regular in outline; her eyes
large, clear and blue as the heavens,
and her wealth of golden hair that,
when unbound, flowed almost to her
feet, would have been the envy and delight of a fashionable hair-dresser. In
short, she was a handsome, frank, unsophisticated girl, not in the least resembling the mincing, waddling,
many-skirted belles who walk,
or rather trundle, through our
streets, with hollow chests, stooping
shoulders, sallow skins daubed with
rouge, with lack-luster eyes, that meet
us with a cold, calculating stare. If or
was she, indeed, "what could be termed
a proper young lady; for, her mother
dying early, and there being no neighbors save the birds and squirrels, her
education had been conducted on rather an original system by her father
and her brothers. She was not what is
termed accomplished, for she had never
seen a piano, knew nothing of crochet-
wor&,  and  could neither  dance nor
teriously entangled, and Alick most in- *
geniously contnved to upset the porringers into the fire. " Ha, ha, ha!" roared
the brethren in chorus, as Alick and
Kate sprung to their feet in dismay; and,
"Ha, ha!" roared old Jacob, even his
gravity being unable to withstand the
frightened expression of the culprits'
faces.
" It is too bad," said Kate, greatly
provoked; "men are always so stupid
and awkward."
" Ha, ha!" burst out Dan, the eldest
of the six, "Kate's fingers are all
thumbs lately."
"Her wits are going wool-gathering,
or rather flour-gathering," chimed in
another, " ever since Joe, the miller's
handsome son, brought the last load of
flour to the house, and it took him and
Kate all the afternoon to put six bags
in the buttery."
" Come here, Kate," said her father,
" and don't mind those unlicked cubs.
You have more pluck than them all,
broad as their shoulders are."
" Kate wants a little maple sugar to
sweeten her temper," said Dan. "Pity
it is so early in the season."
" It's plain you didn't need any of
the sap," retorted Kate, "when you
left the dipper down in the bush tonight."   .
"I can't say how that it is,",answered
Dan, "but, with all your pluck, you
daren't go and fetch it."
"I dare,land I will," answered Kate,
now thoroughly roused.
"Why, Kate, you are crazy," said her
father. " It's more than a quarter of a
mile from here, and the wolves are
howling more than common to-night."
"I don't care," answered Kate. " Go
I will, and bring back the dipper, too;
and then we will see who has the most
pluck."
In spite of the remonstrances of her
father and the entreaties of the horror-
stricken Alick to be permitted at least
to accompany her, the headstrong girl
persisted in going, and, putting on her
shawl, hurried down the garden path,
and was quickly lost to sight in the
forest. It was a chilly evening, and
the halo that encircled the moon, and
the driving clouds that not infrequently obscured her broad disk, told of a
coining storm. A light snow covered
the ground, relieved here and there by
occasional black patches of mud, and,
as it crackled under her feet, Kate
would start involuntarily, and look hastily around, fancying the tread of some
wild animal. In tiie ghostly light, the
trees seemed to stretch up to a greater
height, and their gnarled branches look
strange, fantastic shapes. Dark clumps
of bushes seemed to her disturbed imagination crouching figures, ready
to spring upon her, and not
infrequently she paused and held her
breath, thinking she saw the glare of
eyeballs in the thicket, or heard the
sound of stealthy breathing close beside
her. Then, chiding herself for her
weakness, she would hurry on, till at
length the tall, slender boles of the
maple trees defined themselves against
the sky, and, seizing the dipper, with a
sigh of relief, she turned "on ber home-
mrd path.   She might have advanced
g©me Eras oi
, id year 1823 witnessed the com-
: tewevb of a speculation which cul-
ksS ias crisis such as had not been
,/a since the South sea bubble.
,\'  foreign loans   to the nonlfa^,
^ "l^l *3n,#0^^n.;igB^08p^OO^.i'-
>„. ^z'^-uoiS--'^ *
began the inevitable collapse." Chili
and Brazil led the way with failures
more or less redeemed in later years.
Peru the penniless and Paraguay are to
be found side by side, as in the records
of 1875. Poyais, an independent state
of Honduras, borrowed £100,000 on the
personal security of GregorMacGregor,
the cacique of the country, and proved
a worthy precursor of its present representative by failing to provide the interest on a single coupon. Its scrip,
adorned with all the high-flown titles
of its author, long served the turn of
petty jobbers, and may even now occasionally be found reserved as a curiosity of the time. Along with these
ventures from the New World just
starting into existence came appeals
from countries having a claim upon the
patriotic or the sentimental interest of
the English nation. Spain and Portugal contracted obligations for which
they are wholly or partially in default at
this day. Greece drew from the pockets of sympathizing bondholders the
loans of £2V,000,000, the interest on
which has been suspended now for fifty
years. The speculation of the period
seems to have been insatiable. The
political fate of nations hung in the balance of the stock markets. The operations of Mr. Eothschild and che London
financiers, it is said, created an excitement scarcely inferior to the march of
armies The troops themselves, as Sydney Smith wittily remarked, advanced
to the cry of "scrip and omnium," "reduced, and 3-per-cents." Following in
the wake of foreign loans and politico-
financial speculations came the more
usual devices of the ingenious promoter.
Foreign mines with a nominal capital
of more than £2-4,000,000, more than
600 industrial companies calculated at
nearly £400,000,000, stimulated the appetites of the small investor. As on
all such occasions, charity and self-help,
profit and philanthropy, went hand in
hand. The same touching sympathy
with the poor which produced the
charitable corporation of 1733 produced
the Equitable Loan Company of 1825,
and has since been the faithful parent
of more doubtful children in the shape
of companies for workmen's dwellings
and other philanthropic objects. Designed to relieve the industrious poor
from the usurious exactions of the
pawn-broker, and at the same time
promising" to its shareholders a dividend
of 40 per cent., the Equitable Loan
Company was one merely of the many
schemes by which the unwary were
lured to their destruction. Nor was
the speculation confined to the Stock
Exchange and its surroundings. Gambling in produce was another sign of
the same spirit. The markets were
glutted, the warehouses filled, speculative purchases were made as if prices
must always be on the rise, and by the
end of 1825 the ruin and consternation
were, wide-spread. As usual, upon the
Stock Exchange was concentrated the
wrath of those who had speculated and
lost.—Blackwood's Magazine.
Among the presents given a bride in
Brunswick, Me., were a pair of old andirons which had been a wedding-present to her great-grandmother.
Mr. tToseplx Howard's Sxplanatipn of How
He Came to "Write It.
[From the New York Evening Telegram.]
During Mr. Howard's editorship of
the news department of the Brooklyn
Eagle he wrote what has passed into
history as the "Bogus Proclamation,"
the true inwardness of which has never
been told. The fact, as we understand
it, was this: The Union armies were in
trouble. Disaster and defeat were rapidly depleting the Union ranks. Grant's
disastrous encounters in the "Wilderness
and the signal humiliation of Banks
upon the Bed river were sending a.
gloom over the entire country. Mr.
Howard, sitting in his ofiice, said: " I
wonder what I would do if I were President of the United States? These
disasters are substantial, and, if long
continued, will work ruin. This is a
religious country and a sentimental
people. First of all I would affect that
element by acknowledging the folly of
our course, and ask the Supreme Buler
of the universe to direct our path.
Second, I would call out a sufficient
number of men to put down the rebellion inside of sixty days." It will be
remembered that Mr. Lincoln was in
the habit of calling for small installments of troops, 75,000 and 100,000, and*
that the odious system of draft had
created disturbances here which resulted in murder, pillage, outrage and pub-
he scandal.- It occurred to Mr. Howard
that in no way could a lesson be better
taught than by a burlesque so extreme
in its nature as to attract attention, upon
which the needed criticism on the existing state of affairs would necessarily be
made. He therefore wrote what purported to be a proclamation from the President ©f the United Stated, first narrating
these defeats and disasters, and, .second,
appointing a day of fasting and prayer.
In other words, he took the people
with him into the valley of humiliation.
Then he called for 500,000 men between
the ages of 18 and 45, with whom to
subdue the enemies of the republic.
This was signed by "Abraham Lincoln"
and ""William H. Seward," Before each
name was written the word "Signed,"
indicating that it was a copy of a proclamation. This, on manifold paper,
was sent from the Eagle ofiice by Mr.
Howard to every newspaper in the city
of New York, in the full belief that it
"would; be published in every paper in
th&t-dity. j Accident and a number of
mj^-sessek: j^dninst^gyijes comTboaedl .to,.
prevent Its "universal' circulation; mid,
although it was printed in three papers,
so far as the public was concerned it
appeared in but two—the World and
Journal of Commerce. The Government instantly and arbitrarily suppressed them and put an armed force
before their doors, thereby magnifying
into a grave and serious matter a burlesque, which in any other time" would
have passed with a laugh and a joke.
Good judges, notably Mr. Baymond, of
the New York Times, insisted that Mr.
Howard had inside information of a
proclamation of a similar nature about
to be issued. The Government, on the
other hand, insisted upon it that it was
part of a Southern conspiracy and
treated it so, arbitrarily sending the
author to Fort Lafayette. It was born
of an honest desire to teach a much-
needed lesson. It was a burlesque,
pure and simple, in which there was no
treason, and, although a serious proclamation was issued not very long after,
the author of the burlesque knew nothing of it beforehand whatever.
Two Angry Bulls, a Mam, and a Buggy»
While Jacob G. Zerr, of Geigertown,
President of the Berks County Agricultural Society, was returning home
from the State Fair at Philadelphia in
a buggy, and when between the White
Bear Hotel and Geigertown, he espied
two bulls in the road. Mr. Zerr saw
that the two brutes were in mortal combat, but,*noticing that they did not obstruct the road, he drove on, with the
intention of passing by. Just as he
was about to pass the-ferocious animals,
the larger one shot across the road, and,
before Mr. Zerr was able to stop his
horse, the bull was under the buggy,
and then began a struggle between
buggy and bull. The animal's horns
were caught in one of the hind wheels
of the vehicle. The occupants of the
carriage, Mr. Zerr and his grandson,
were in terrible suspense while watching the infuriated bull's struggles to
free itself from the spokes of the wheel.
The other bull, which up to this time
was a quiet observer of what was going
on, suddenly made a bolt for its antagonist, and in a few seconds the light
buggy was completely overturned by
the struggles of the animals, and the
occupants were violently thrown out
upon their heads, but escaped injury.
Mr. Zerr kept hold of the reins, when
he was precipitated to the dusty road,
and checked the horse from running
away. All this happened in less time
than it takes to relate it. The vehicle
was a complete wreck. The horse was
not hurt, but was terribly frightened.
The bulls went to finish their battle
elsewhere.—Beading (Pa.) Eagle.
By Ome Slajorityo
Over half a century ago Marcus Norton was made Governor of Massachusetts by only one majority. Had two
young men, who intended to vote in
the election, not been delayed by an
accident in going from Worcester to
Boston, they would have changed the
result, and' Mr. Norton's opponent
would have been elected. They had intended to be in Boston in season to
vote, but  in  their journey  fche  old-
fashioned chaise in which they were
riding gave way, and they were not
able to reach Boston till after the polls
closed. One of the two men referred to
now resides in Augusta, and has never
lost a vote since.—Augusta (Me.) Journal.      	
IHE ICAMMSo
A Historical aiwl Uns-accessful Socialistic
Esperiment in Illinois and Iowa.
On a high bluff overlooking the valley of Nodaway river, in the town of
Corning, Iowa, stands a village composed of a dozen small white cottages,
as-ranged in the form of a parallelogram, in the center of which rises a
large building, containing a dining-
hall, which is also used as an assembly
room and for dramatic representations.
There are numerous outlying log cabins
still sentaneling the village, but they,
too, are within easy distance of the
dining-room. The village is encircled
by a community domain of more than
2,000 acres, 700 of which are under cultivation. Extensive meadows, fine tim- •
ber lands, possibly 100 acres of waving
wheat and 250 of rustling corn give &
dash of paradise to the summer aspect
of the.bluff. Such is Icaria, whose history is so intimately interwoven wift.
the story of Etienne Cabet, at one time
1840-7) the leader of Socialism in Europe. Bom in Dijon, France, in 1788,
Cabet had earned a high reputation as
a politician, journalist and historical,
writer before he adopted the role of th©
social theorist. At this period of
popular ferment Cabet published
his " Yoyage en Icarie"—am Im"
aginary journey to a happy land of
ideal Communism—and was at once admitted to the leadership of Socialism m
Europe. He started a journal—Le Top-
ulaire—which had a huge circulatioit.
His followers were numbered by tens
of thousands, not in France only, but
in Germany, Switzerland, England,
Spain, and even South America. His
call for colonists to settle in the United
States, and create a real Icaria, was responded to by thousands, and in February, 1848, having secured a grant ol
100,000 acres in Texas, the vanguard of
the new community sstiled for New Orleans. The Texas acres proved uninhabitable from malarial causes, and the
Communists, with Cabet at their head,
settled at Nauvoo, 3QL, which had just
been, vacated by Joseph Smith, and his
Mormons.   F-oj? a lev yeai'S they hed a
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rapidly in numbers that, in 1855, the
colony had a population of nearly 1,000.
But dissensions arose as Cabet grew
old and his intellectual faculties declined; the community was split into
factions, and in 1858 its founder died,
broken-hearted, in St. Louis, After
the removal to Iowa, no longer ago than
1877, faction again interposed, and an
embittered contest was the result, the
village now having a population of less
than 100 out of the thousands that
hailed Cabet's ideal community with
such enthusiasm.
. Turkish Slave Trade.
A gentleman has just been giving
some account of the Turkish slave
trade to a correspondent of the London
Standard. The hundreds of girls who
form part of the harem are, he avers,
mostly Circassian slaves. The household of every Turk who is at all well off,
be he a Pasha, a Bey, or a plain Effen-
di, is stocked with a certain number of
these slaves. They are generally supplied by Circassian families settled in
the empire. The parents, when they
have daughters at all well favored,
bring them up carefully, with a view to
their being sold. Touts go about the
provinces every year, as horse-dealers
travel in the horse-breeding regions of
England, France, and Hungary, and
buy the girls from their parents. They
are brought to Constantinople, and
there quartered until finally disposed
of in houses which are well known to
all old residents in the Turkish capital.
Some of those houses are in Tophaneh,
on the Bosphorus, and in the quarters
of the Sultan Mehemet snd the Avrefc
Bazar. Though they are not sold quite
publicly, there is no concealment about
the transaction. The terms of the sale
are set down in a contract registered
by the chief courts, which contract provides for the rights of the buyer in the
event of his purchase not being equal
to the warranty, or of the slave making
ber escape. The contract authorizes the
purchaser, when tired of his bargain,
to sell both the mother and her childy
and it appears that this occurs daily.
It is hardly an answer to this fearful
state of things to plead that volenti
non fit injuria, and that the victims
of this abominable system are quite
reconciled to their lot. England has
made herself responsible in a measure
for the reformation of so foul a scandal
against morality and civilization.
A fresh description of Charles Beade
says that he is big and manly-looking,
not fat, but large-framed and muscular.
He is very fond of physical exercise,
such as rowing, riding, cricket, swimming, and notwithstanding his hair is
grizzled, his stalwart body shows no
signs of decay. He is neat, though
careless in dress, and resembles, with
his ruddy face, easy gait, and unconventional manner, a prosperous farmer.
He likes congenial company, but not
formal society, which, as a rule, betakes
pains to avoid.	
Land laid down with clover is better
than money in bank, drawing, more interest than any bank can pay, and eom-
pounding the interest oftener.
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