1882-08-03; Saline Observer

              NISSLY & EMMERT, Publishers.
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1882.
VOL. II. NO. 41.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PROFESSIONAL.
Q  "W. OHANDIiEBj M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
All calls promptly attended to.  Office at residence, first door north, of M. E. Church.
0.
C. JENBTS-S,
Surgical and Mechanical
DENTIST.
Office, 19 South Main Street, opposite First
National Banlr,   •
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-A^an. Arbor,
■Midi.
TV  ?.-dcIiACHLAN,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office and residence opposite M. E. Church,
^^f3-*li*iattstreet, Saline, Mich.
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& SON,
Attorneys.
All kinds of legal papers neatly and correctly
dratm. Collections made and promptly remitted.  Office on Mc Kay street, Saline, Mich.
E. 3 ones. Frank E. Jones.
TOT, B. GILDAET,
Attorney at Law,
And Justice of the Peace. Office overNichols
Bro's. store, Chicago street, Saline, Michigan.
ry E. HITMPH-RE-r,
Real Estate Agent.
Government Lands located. 20,000 acres of
choice wheat lands, for sale. Correspondence
solicited.  EBsbuiy, Barnes Co., D. Tv
-f-nSCEL-GAKSOUS.
Rfirs. W. F. LARSELERE,
The Old and ReUable
DRESSMAKER and GUTTER
Again offers her services to the ladies of
^T this vicinlry.
PRICES SbS^^SOlSr-^-SHj-S
and Satisfaction. Guaranteed.     Shop at
residence on Henry street, west..
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GEO.
Thi
f?  SHERMAN,
i old and reliable
on and Carriage Maker,
Jo"b work and repairing promptly done at reasonable rates.   Shop on Chicago St., west.
MYRON WEBB,
JUSTICE  OF THE   PEACE,
And. Ins-iranee Agent.
COSVBX ASCIXG ATTEXBED TO PROMPTLY.
Spocial Attention Given to Collections.
Otlivii 3d door west of the postoffice.
E. A. REYNOLDS,
-Notary Public, Real  Estate,
IX.<t*RAS-CE AND COLLECTION AGENCr.
_-.>iiice over X. C. Putnam & Go's, store, .Milan,
-All business entrusted to me wilt
receive prompt attention.
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^-atr-oiiize     The    Boys !
4AUSER~& CLAKK,
Proprfetors of
THE NEW LIVERY STABLE,
 At the	
OL35 AStSSICAlT HOUSE BAB1T.
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THOMAS ECCLES,
a The Pioneer
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Is now located in the Burg building-, on
Chicago St., where he will be glad to see all
his old customers and many new ones.
Repairing Neatly and Promptly Done.
THE REVENGERS.
Ballou's Monthly.
-PopI'
•Yes'm.'
• 'Take that big basket with the broken
bale, an' dig me 'bout a peck o' potatoes.
Look lively now. Don't stand there
staring at me like a dumb thing. Fiy
around.'
'Yes'ui.'
Pop, a thick-set little fellow black as
the ace ol spades, seized the basket
Miss Faithful Sharpe designated with
her lean fore finger, and started out.
In the garden, Andy, Miss Faithful's
nephew, and the cause of much of her
tribulation, was engaged in weeding.
-He averaged one weed a minute. At
that rate it would take about three
months of constant work to clear the
beds. But Andy didn't care. He
hated work, and it wouldn't have distressed him if the garden had remained
unweeded from the beginning to the
end of the year. His aunt's example,
and her many niaxims,and long lectures
on the nobility of honest toil, never
W. HELLER & SON-.
Horse Shoeing & BlacksiiiitMng
If ydm* horse forges, interferes or is irregular
in his gait, give as a call and we will regulate him s> he will not anoy you.
Special Attention Given
To horses havinjc weak and diseased feet.
SHOP 02T ANN ARBOR STREET.
GEGS-tGE   EHM1S.
Merchant Tailor and Cutter,
I have a, full line of samp les of goods carried
by a leading eastern -lobbing houae, which I
will furnish my customers at
^7vTHOIjS!S^.11iE PH-ICB-
I buy my trimmings of jobbers and give my
customers the benefit. Don't buy anything in
the clothingr line until you have examined ray
samples and got my prices. I will save you
money. All wort warranted. Shop over Davenports & Son'3 store.
xion.
A.S.BHIO-*. •W-.B.-fflBBEl".
BLITO'N' & I8BEL.L,
pnorr.rE*coits op the
Livery*,. Sale and Feed Stables,
STAGE AND DRAY LINES, •
Office    South Front Street,  West Broadway,
TOWER CITY, DAKOTA.
ways furnished at reasonable rates,
QCHAIKEE & SCHMIDT,
Proprietors of the TJnion. Block
MEAT   MARKET.
_ All kinds of —
MEAT,POULTRY, FISH ETC
AtLowestLWn-rPrlces. No. S, Union Block,
saline, Miehli-an.
FIRE, FIRE,  EIRE!
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Protect yourselves against Ibsg by fire,
insurin-f property with
W. H. DAVENPORT, Apnt
J?or the foljowlne first-class
companies:
KEAG-ARA, of Hew York,
CONTINENTAL, of N, Y,,
Detroit FIRE & MARINE
ASSETS, $6,000,000
tosses paid Promptly.
RATES AS   LOW AS ANY
First-class Company*
had any perceptible effect upon Mm
'What are you going to do, Pop ?' he
asked as Ms co-sufferer, who viewed
things pretty much as 'Mars Andy'did
emerged from the house.
'Goin' to dig taters.'
Bigging potatoes had always been
hateful work in Andy's eyes before,
now it did not strike him so. Anything was better than weeding.
'Say, Pop, I'll dig the potatoes, if
you'll weed some.'
Pop shook his head.
'Can't Mars Andy,' he answered.
"Ole Missus, she tole'me I'd got to go
and get dese yere taters my own self,
an' not stop foolin' roun* wid nobody.
She say she spec Mars Andy gwine to
ax me to weed, an' so she tole me not to
stop nohow.'
This was delivered very glibly, for
Pop hated weeding as much as' Andy
did, and never found any difficulty in
framing an excuse.
'O, pshaw,' said Andy, who did not
think of doubting Pop's veracity, knowing as he did his aunt's opinion of his
industry. 'That's the way she always
talks. She don't mean nothin.' Gim
me the basket.'
'I dasn't Mars Andy,' and Pop clung
with a well-simulated shiver of fear to
the broken bail. "Ole Missus, she'd
take an' tar de head square off'n me.
'Deed she*would.'
'She I Now you know you're gassin',
Pop. There ain't as much fight in her
as she makes out. But go'long. I believe I'd druther weed anyhow,' said
Andy, making the best of the inevitable. 'I only know one thing: you're
that mean a Jew wouldn't buy you.
Pop proceeded to the potato patch
with a heavy heart. Andy's last words
eut deep. He wondered how he could
make peace, and turned out the contents of his pockets, thinking he might
find something to propitiate the friend
whose friendship was so dear to him.
But nothing appeared of sufficient
value to serve as an offering—an alligator's tooth, a rattlesnake's rattle, a
big cone, a piece of string, the core of
a turnip, a glass button, and a piece of
rusty iron. Por none of these things
would Andy care. He had plenty like
them; only better.
Two boys, in close conversation.came
to the rail fence, taking the road which
led to the river, half a mile off. Pop
pricked up his ears on hearing something one of them said, and ran to repeat it to Andy, forgetting, in his excitement, all about their recent difference.
'I say, Mars Andy, now's our chance.
We can get eben "wid dat Bob Harris
and Tim Waters for stealin' our clo'es
when we was in a swimmin' las' Sat'-
day., Dey's gone down now to go in
dairselves.'
'Good luck!' cried Andy. % didn't
believe we'd get a chance for revengef
so soon. You get through your potatoes, Pop, and let's be off.* We'll show
'em that stealin' clothes is a trick we
can play at, too.'
Pop wasn't ten minutes digging the
potatoes. Then he walked softly
around to the kitchen window, which
was open, for the weather was very
warm, aKd succeeded in getting the basket on the deal without attracting the
attention of argus-eyed Miss Paithf ul.
A little later, when she went to the
door to see how the weeding progressed, neither of the boys were to be seen,
and she screamed their names until
she was hoarse, without eliciting any
reply save from , the echoing pino
woods.
The boys proceeded with great caution as they neared the river. In the
middle of iHay a small island, almost
overgrown with bushes, which afforded
a capital screen. On the other side of
this island from where the boys were,
the water was very deep, but nearest
to them it was so shallow that they
could wade across with ease and perfect safety. Very careful to make no
noise, they hunted around among the
bushe3 until they found two piles of
clothes. Hastily picking them up,
they ran off with them, just as a shout
was raised by some one in the deep
water.
'You'll know how it fells to have
your clothes carried off, now," sung out
Andy, as he and Pop waded back to the
shore in great haste. -You'll let ours
alone the next time we go in, I reckon.
They did not stop to hear the answer
that was shouthd after them, but, hurrying home, hid the clothes in an empty
bin in Miss Paithf ul's corn-shed.
•Let'em get home as best they can,'
chuckled Andy. 'We had a good right
to take our revenge.'
'Lessen us call ourselves de revengers,' suggested Pop,
'That's the name for us,' cried Andy. 'You've hit it this time, Pop.
'Revenge is sweet,' you know, and I
reckon we never felt better than we
do now. Tim and Bob'll never hear
the last of this,'
This was Thursday. Every Thursday night there was a prayer meeting
held in Crosstown Methodist church,
situated a mile from Miss Faithful's
house.
Andy and Pop always went; not because they liked it, but because Misa
Faithful, who was a devout member of the congregation, was afraid
to leave them at home, for fear they
would burn the house down or commit somo other desperate deed of a
like nature,
"Please let us stay home to-night,
aunt?" pleaded Andy, as he sat with
her at supper, while pop slowly polish
ed the tins at the sink, averaging a rub
every two or three minutes.
"No, don't ask it," was the decided
reply. "I can't trust you. Like as not
you'd burn the whole place down before I'd got half to Crosstown. Come,
Pop, sit down and eat, while I clear
away the dishes, and then we'll start.
You both deserve a thrashing for going
off this afternoon without leave, and
attending meeting is small enough punishment, goodness knows."
The church was full. It had been
previously announced that Deacon
Ellis and Deacon Snow of Glenville,
who were visiting Deacon Marley for a
few days, would give their experience,
and the attendance was consequently
very large; for these gentlemen were
looked upon as "shining lights," and
great respect was paid them. Miss
Eaithf ul had invited" them both to a
late supper when meeting should be
over, and had; on the way to church,
given Andy and Pop many and earnest
directions as to their conduct on the
forthcoming great occasion.
But neither of the eminent gentlemen had arrived when Miss Faithful a
little late, entered the church with her
two charges. Already inquiries were
being made about them, and anxiety,
mingled with disappointment; was vis-
able on every countenance.
Half an hour passed, and still the dea
cons did not come. And then Deacon
Marley rose slowly from his seat.
'My friends,' he said, 'I am likable
to account for the extraordinary absence
of our respected brothers. They left
mvjhouse at five o'clock with the intention of taking a walk by the river,
and, since thej> did not return to tea, I
anticipated meeting them here. I greatly fear some accident has befallen
them.
Andy looked at Pop. Pop returned
the look. The same idea presented itself to the minds of both. It was an
idea that struck a chill to the very marrow in their bones.
'Aunt,' whispered Andy to Miss
Faithful, 'I'm awful sick to my
stomach. I guess it was that piece of
cocoanut pie I ate. I've got to go out.
Can't Pop go with me?'
He looked so pale that Miss Faithful
credited his assertion of sudden illness,
and nodded assent. t.
The boys went out together, careful
not to glance at each other, for fear of
being suspected of their complicity in
the absence of the deacons.
'We've done gone an' done it now,
3hore 'nuff,' whispered Pop, with a
shiver, when they were once out of the
church.
They set off for the river with the
speed of young deer. When within a
few yards of it they heard shouts for
help.
'Dat's dem,' said Pop. 'Dey mus' be
pow'ful mad by dis time.'
Tha deacons were indeed considerable
out of temper, as well they might be,
far they had been wading around in
the shallow water near the island for
nearly three ho"urs, shouting at the top
of their lungs for assistance.
'Hollo!' answered Andy, 'what d' ye
want?'
He asked the question by way of
taking every precaution against suspicion, for, of course, he knew very well
what they wanted.
'Some wicked boys stole our clothes,'
answered Deacon Snow; and we've been
here ever since half-past five. Whoever you are, I'll give you a dollar if
you'll go to Deacon Marley's, and tell
him to send us something to put on.'
'And I'll give you another dollar if
you'll hurry up, said Deacon Ellis.
The boys were off like a flash, and returned in a short time with all necessary garments, and Deacon Marley following in their wake.
It was too late now for the deacens
to attend meeting; the congregation
had dispersed. So they went at once
,to Miss Faithful' a, where, over a goodly
supper, they recounted the story of
their wrongs.
Andy and Pop were sent to bed, after
receiving high praise for their timely
aid.-
. 'What made v >u think of coming to
the river?' asked Deacon Ellis, as he
patted Andy on the head in a benign
manner.
'Deacon Marley said you'd gone there
to walk,' answered Andy, in a "very
low tone, 'and we thought you might
have fallen in.'
'Good boys,' said the deacon. 'You
deserve a holiday to-morrow for this.*
The boys did not seem very appreciative to the praise lavished so freely upon them. Miss Faithful, made suspicious by sad experience, detected embarrassment in their manners, and guilt
in their faces. A horrible thought
seized her as she recollected their unexplained absence of the afternoon.
She waited until the Deacons had lighted their pipes, and then excused herself
for a few minutes.
Going up stairs, she opened the door
of the back attic.   Pop's bed was empty.
In the front attic the   condition  of
affairs was tlie same; Andy's bed had
not been disturbed.   Suspicion ripened
into certainty at once.   Miss Faithful
leaned from the window of the back attic, and looked down into the yard below.   Nothing was to be seen or heard.
Going softly down the back stairs she
opened the kitchen door and went out.
All waa still. .Exercising great caution
in her movements she made her way
toward the barn-yard, turned a corner
of the barn suddenly, and almost fell
over two small boys, who, by tho light
Of a lantern, were digging "with an energy she had never seen equaled.   The
hole was already nearly two feet deep.
On the edge of it, awaiting buri?l, lay
a heap of clothes.
"Andy! Pop!"
Perhaps it is as well to draw a veil
over the *cene that followed. Suflicient
be it, that both the deacons were given
a chance to excerise their muscles on
two small boys, and that the boys in
question "took their meals standing"
for a^ week to come.
More than all, the story got out, and
was the source of unmitigated delight
to Tim Waters and Bob Harris, who after all, had not gone in swimming on
that fatal day, and who were never
weary of taunting the unhappy revengers with their unfortunate mistake. *
LILLi'BOWERS.
Abducted Fifteen Yeais Ago.
tfOTOTO BY HER MOTHER, JtJI-X20th. '82
A sensation was caused in Hudson,
Michigan, over the discovery of a lost
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James I.
Bowers. She was stolen at Sandusky,
Ohio, 15 years ago, her whereabouts being only just discovered. She arrived
in Hudson with her mother Saturday
night, July 22d.
In the eastern suburbs of Hudson is
small but pleasant farm-house, the
home of James I. Bowers. He has
been in the employ of Wm. A. T/hitney
& Co., spoke and hub manufacturers
in Hudson, for many years.
In 1867 the family removed from
Hudson to Sandusky, Ohio, as Mi-, Bowr-
ers had secured work in that place. It
was Saturday afternoon, October 26 of
that year, their little daughter Lilly,
then only about 2i- years old, went to
play with a little girl in the next house,
In about half an hour her mother went
after her but she was nowhere to be
found. Four or five of her playmates
were around but nothing could be discovered. Bells were rung all night and
criers sent out, "On the following Monday the public school was dismissed and
the children turned out. en masse to
join in the search. Every well and
ci3tem was examined and the bay
.dragged, but to no avail. Whether
she was lost, stolen or dead no one
knew. On Tuesday a reward was offered for her body, dead or alive, and the
next week a reward of $1,000 was offered for her delivery with a promise
that no questions would be asked. The
case was placed in the hands of a detective; constant clues kept springing up
as to her whereabouts, and reports coming in frqm different places that she
wras found, but all proved false. Time
and time again the anxious parents'
hopes were raised high with the
thought that their darling was
at last found; but they were
hopes raised only to be dashed again
into disappointment, when they would
discover what seemed to be the right
track was the wrong one,and the reports
were groundless.
The following spring it was rumored
that an* old German woman, living
near Fremont, O., had found a little
white girl in a gipsy camp in that vicinity. Mrs. Bowers went to Fremont
at once, but she arrivad too late. The
old German told her that, some days
previous, a band of gypsies who had
been encamping there had left a little
girl behind them. She found the child
crying in the camp and took it home.
She kept it three days;and then another
band of gypsies coming along, she had
given it to the leader, a man by the
name of Jack Patterson, who said they
had spent some time recreating at the
state prison in Jackson, Mich. She
said the child had a sore foot, which
convinced Mrs. Bowers that it was her
daughter.
Nothing further could be found of
Patterson till about five weeks after,
when Mrs. Bowers learned that he was
camping near Elmore, O. She went
there immediately, and traced him to
within about ten mile3 of Perrysburg,
when he was immediately lost sight of.
Most women would have given up in
despair, but she went home to try
again. She- spent a whole night in
writing letters to towns throughout
that vicinity in hopes of learning where
Patterson was; but nothing could be
heard. She wrote to a man by the
name of Levi Stanley, at Dayton, who
was then the chief mogul of the Ohio
gypsies. Stanley at that time owned
two or three farms in that vicinity, on
on which he lived with a portion of his
people. He sent her a very polite Teply,
saying he would do all he could to help
her; but it was an unheard of thing
for his people to steal children, as they
had all they wanted of their own.
Mr. and Mrs. Bowers stayed in Sandusky about a year and a half after
their child was lost, and then moved
back to Hudson. As a drowning man
catches at a straw, so every new clue
was caught at by the afflicted mother.
Bumors would come that the child was
in Minnesota, in Wisconsin, in Illinois,
and then back again in Ohio. Many
places in these states she visited, but
everywhere it seemed to be a search in
vain. In a buggy Mrs. Bowers traveled through the country north of Hudson, stopping from door to door with
her anxious inquiry for her lost child,
but as usual her search was  fruitless.
On the 9 th of July she learned' that
a lady living at Genoa, Ohia, could give
her valuable information in regard to
her daughter. She went there last
week, and after a search of 15 long
years found her child at last.
The girl was brought to Genoa about
12 years ago by a gypsy, who gave his
name as McElroy, but who in reality
was Patterson himself.   He went to
work on the railroad in that place keeping the little white girl locked up m a
log hut,with four other children which
he claimed were his, while he was absent.   His cruel treatment of the authorities, and Patterson,to save himself
from trouble, handed her over to  a
well-to-do farmer of Genoa, Mr. James
Calkins, who adopted her,   and  with
whom she has lived and enjoyed a comfortable  home ever since.   Her only
clothing at the time  she  was taken
from the gypsies was a piece of old
sacking around her waist.
It has been a most remarkable search,
and the child has had a most remarkable mother to persevere in the search
for 15 years. The. lost child is now a
young lady of 18 years, and is a healthy,
intelligent girl. It is not as yet determined whether she will remain with
her parents or return to the family in
Genoa with whom she ha3 so long lived.
and swooping down on the sleeping
prey in the early dawn —he is right.
For such work horses are not suited.
No Biloeh is a "man" until he possesses a mare. Until that climax to his
ambition is realized he is a coolie, a
cutter of grass, a herder of sheep, a
mere cipher, a clod, a thing of no account in the body politic of .his clan.
Government, seeing the wiry endurance
of the Biloeh mare,, has for some years
been wisely liberal in its endeavors to
encourage horse breeding, especially
that of colts, in the district. With
this view a large number of first-class
Arab and T. B. E. horses have been introduced into Derah Ghazi Kban, and
annual horse fair i3 held, at which
large money prizes are given for young
stock, particularly for colts and geldings. ' Thus* in spite of his prejudices,
the Biloeh is, by that all-powerful destroyer of inherited customs, self interest, slowly but surely learning that it
is worth his while to rear his colts.
Another means, and almost more effectual, has been followed for years by
successive district officers, and that is
by having at the annual races for
mares, races for colts.
Sleepy NeAV Yorkers.
If the New York route is to successfully compete with the St. Lawrence
route, the New York canals must be
made free, and must also be enlarged,
and the shore sharks at Buffalo—the
middlemen, the elevator combination,
and the "'forwarders"—must reduce
their charges. Of course, nothing
will be done that is not forced. Well,
the force lever is already at work, but
the New Yorkers-are not yet fully
aware of the fact. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain from Chicago
are even now going through Canada
by rail or by water down the St. Lawrence, which might just as well be secured to the New York route. First
of all, the elevator combination at Buffalo must be broken. Two or three
elevators, bought or built by parties
who will not sell out to the combination, would burst the ring in twenty-
four hours. The following, from the
New York Nautical Gazette, indicates
the apathy as yet on the question of
free canals:—"Kepresentatives from
the different commercial orgaizatious
met last Thursday at the Chamber of
Commerce to organize for the purpose
of securing the adoption of the free
canal amendments to the constitution
at the approaching State election. Only
twelve or fifteen members of the committee were present, and Mr. L. J.
Stark, the chairman, was absent. It
was stated as an excuse for the small
attendance that most of the members
were out of town. Mr. George Wilson, secretary of the Chamber introduced Mr. A. B. Miller aa temporary
chairman. Mr. Miller said that as
there was not a quorum present all the
business that could be transacted was
to name another day for a meeting.
He referred to the importance of the
issue to the people of the State, and
said that this movement, should have
been begun three months ago, and
there was all the more need of speedy
organization now*. He said it was
necessary to reach the farmer and obtain his vote in favor of the amendments. The farmer's bugbear is taxar
tion; and as the amendments would
throw the support of the canals on the
people of the State, the farmers would
be likely to vote against the amendments, as adding to the volume of taxation. They must be educated out of
this idea and be.taught that free canals
would be beneficial to the whole State.
After some discussion it was decided
to adjourn the meeting till next Tuesday afternoon.
A continuation of the big grain shipments from Chicago to Montreal, via
Kingston, will bring the New Yorkers
to their senses. Chicago and the West
don't,Qare especially-which route the
grain goes by, so long as it goes and is
paid for.—Inter Ocean.
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Fashion Notes.
Egyptian Canals.
Feather fans are very fashiouable.
Handkerchiefs embroidered in colors
are in high favor.
Embroidered crepe is among the
novelties for mourning dresses.
Pink cambric dresses trimmed with
lace are very fashionable.
Flowers are the extravagant trimming of the dressiest bonnets.
New French capote bonnets are covered with white elder blossoms.
Long-wristed mitts and mousquetaire
gloves are worn almost exclusively.
A new and very handsome shade of
cardinal is much used for children's
dressess.
Clusters of large strawberries on a
cream ground is one of the. latest designs for painted muslin.
Ficelle lace in wide fan-pleatings
with smaller fans above of ivory-white
pleated lace are worn as throat bows.
Tenetian lace three inches wide forms
a flat border for neckerchiefs of light
silk. The scalloped edges are turned upward.
Dotted and plain mulls will be very
popular this season; so also the striped
mull in white. Tinted mulls are not so
fashionable as white.
Daffodils, dandelions, yellow xulips,
and buttercups are the fashionable
flower of the hair. White lilies are
the choice for house decoration.
Bridal dresses are again being made
of white gros-grain and repped silk.
They are elaborately trimmed with elegant white silk, embroidery and lace,
and the regulation orange blossom is
now mingled with white roses, geraniums, and lilies.
Eastern Horse Racing.
The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company have issued orders to all ticket
agents to refuse to sell tickets to persons who are intoxicated, and all gate-
men are instructed to pass no one who
is under the influence of liquor. Is it
strange that so large a corporation
would attempt such an outrage upon
"personal liberty!'
Muckwoocl's Magazine.
A Biloeh has an intense  love for
horses   and  horse  racing, or  rather
mares and mare racing;, for these outer
barbarians kill all their  colts,   partly
because from the scarcity of fodder at
certain seasons -rearing them would be
expensive,    but   chiefly because the
horse is almost valueless among them.
One man can hold twenty mares, but
not two horses. Mares neither fightnor
neigh; horses   do both.   Mares  are
gentle, easy to manage   gregarious;
horses are rough, troublesome, unsociable.   So argues the Biloeh; and in his
hills, where every man is still a preda-
tory animal, living largely by sheep
stealing, making long, forced marches
—often fifty or sixty miles in one night,
"Gen. W. Wright, a well-known engineer who marched with Sherman to
the sea, and has been prominent in
political affairs, died in Moyamensing
Prison, Thursday night.   He had been
arrested and sent there for lying drunk
in the street.    Gen. Wright became
connected as civil engineer- with the
Pennsylvania Railroad  Company  in
1848.    Leaving   the employ  of the
company in 1854, he was appointed revision engineer of the Honduras Inter-
oceanic Bailway survey, which was
made by John C. Trautvine in 1857.
After remaining under Trautvine until the surveys  were completed, he
traveled about. the world  until  the
breaking out of the late war, during a
part of which he served as .chief of
the Engineering Corps of the Army of
the Potomac.   After the war he became careless in his personal habits
and finally descended lower and lower
until he. became a common  sot."—
Newarlcltaily Advertise*}.
Arabi has already dammed up the
Mahmoudieh canal which runs from
the Nile to Alexandria, and diverted
its current in order to rob the city of its
water supply. The level of the water
between the dam and Alexandria is
said to be falling at the rate of seven
or eight inches a day, and-when that
ditch-full is exhausted there will be no
more from the Nile until the annual
inundation, now about commencing
reaches its height in August or September, when it may be impossible for
Arabi to prevent the overflow from
finding its way into the canal. English
engineers have been busy in cleaning
oat the reservoirs on the site of ancient
Alexandria, which have been unused
for several hundred years, and it is
hoped that a considerable quantity of
Nile water may be stored away in them
before the channel became empty.
This canal, which was one of the
great works of Mehemet All, connects
Alexandria with the Nile at Africa,
about 27 miles above Bosetta, and f ol-
lows in a part of its course the ancient
Canopic branch, and the old canal of
Fooah, which the neglect of the Mamelukes allowed to finally dry up about a
century ago. The present channel was
begin in 1819, and during the ten
months of its construction by the labor
of 250,000 men, it cost $1,500,000 and
20,000 live3 of those who perished by
accident, hunger and disease. Its length
is about 50 miles, with an average
width of 100 feet, and it has hitherto
been navigable for large river craft,
throughout the year.
The entire cultivated portion of
Egypt is covered by- a network of
canals whose maintenance and repair
have been the special and anxious care
of the government from the time of the
Pharaohs. The whole system measures
lineally more than 8,400 miles, with a
water surface of nearly 100,000 acres.
It comprises two classes of channels,
the largest of which/called sefl, or summer canals, are used for both navigation and irrigation, while the smaller
ones, called nili, or high Nile canals,
serve only for irrigation.
Of the 113 navigable canals,' 62 run
through upper and middle Egypt, and
51 through the* lower provinces. Of
the former, the chain of channels which
generally go under the name of Bahr-
Yousuf winds down for about 350 miles
on the west side of the Nile to a point
a few miles above Cairo. The Bahr-
Yousuf proper, however—literally "Joseph's river," from a tradition, that it
was built by Joseph, the son of Jacob,
during the captivity of Israel in Egypt
—taps the Nile above Mellawee'and
runs Westward through the Libyan
range, after watering a great expanse
of country enters the Nile again above
Eigga.
The lbrahimich, the work of the late
Khedive Ismail, and the next greatest
channel on the west side of the river,
begins near the town of Assiout and
runs nearly parallel with the Bahr-
Yousuf for more than 90 miles, f utther
watering the wide extent of fertile land
which the- sweep of the river to the
Arabian hills, below Behnesa, leaves on
its Libyan side.
Besides the Mahmoudieh, there are
four other canals of chief importance
in the region below Cairo. The Ismai-
leh, built by Ismail, the predecessor of
the present Khedive, starting from the
Nile near Boulak, runs northeasterly in
a fine, broad, navigable channel for
about 55 miles to the fresh-water channel from Zagazig to Suez by way of Ismailia, and so gives water communication between Cairo and Suez. The
original fresh-water channel from Zagazig to Ismailia was widened and deepened to 180 and llf feet so as to be
made navigable, and by that means
produce from middle and upper Egypt
can be shipped to Europe from Ismailia
instead of being sent to Alexandria.
The Bar-Moez, supposed to be the old
Tanitie branch of the Nile, runs from
the right bank of the Damietla branch
into Lake, Manzaleh. The Chibin-el-
Koum, a fine canal nearly 90 miles long,
zigzags across the delta, and the Me-
noufiehd crosses the delta a short distance below its apex.
These main arteries, however, form
little more than one-fourth of the whole
canal system of the country. In upper
and middle Egypt there are 348 minor
channels which are only used for irrigation, and in the lower provinces there
are 408. Of this total of 756 irrigating
canals, measuring in all 6,500 miles, a
few start in the delta direct from the
Nile, but the great majority are secondary channels distributing the water
from the main canals to the arable extremities of the country.
By means of this network of canals,
aided by large reservoirs oi natural
basins for holding the overflow of water, the yearly  inundation is caught
and distributed over the whole agricultural portion of Egypt.   The canals
are embanked like the Nile itself, and
each village is compelled to keep the
works in repair.   When  the annual
flood comes, a section next the river is
dammed up   until   the   surrounding
fields are drenched, and then the first
dams are torn away and. others built
further down, and  so on   until the
whole country has been watered.   The
usual rise of the. river is from 19 to 24
feet, and when it exceeds or falls short
of  these limits the crops suffer  by
drouth on the one hand or too much
flooding on the other.
The canals have in recent years been
largely under the management of European engineers who have now abandoned their work, and unless Arabi is
speedily" out it is to be feared that the
year's crops will be destroyed by too
much water or too little, to say nothing
of the water famine that he is likely to
produce by cutting the canals that supply Alexandria and the towns from
Suez to Port Said.^--Post <& Tribune.
leaving him in a tight corner for the
night.
"The next morning, I went around
early to the market to buy something
for my snake to eat. I got a couple of
little animals, something like our rab-
bits,andI carried them around to my
consignee's house. I found the old
gentleman hadn't turned out Of his
hammock yet; but he soon got up, and
went with me into the yard. When
we got there, we saw the .packing-box
all burst open, the boards lying around
loose, and no snake to be seen. We
looked about, but could see nothing of
him. I was amazed enough, to be sure,
and the old gentleman felt quite uneasy
at the thought of such a creature wandering about his place.
" 'We won't look for him,' he said.
'Those Indians are still in town, and
we will send for them.'
"The Indians came, and they soon
found him. You can't imagine where
he had hidden himself. There was a
pile of earthen drain-pipes in one corner Of the yard, behind the bushes, and
he had crawled into the one next to it,
and then into the next one, and so on,
inand out, until he had put himself into five or six of the pipes. He had
probably seen, through the holes in his
box, some of my old consignee's eMck-
ens, and, being made perfectly ravenous
by the sight, had broken out. Then,
having made a meal off one or two of
them, he had crawled into the pipes.
"TheIndians were nofrlong in capturing him. Fortunately, his head stuck
out of one of the pipes near the ground;
and one of the Indians, taking a long
pole with a fork at the end, climbed on
a high tree fence near by and pinned
Mr. Snake's head to the ground, leaning on the pole with all his weight.
Then the other Indians straightened
out the drain-pipe3 in which he was,
and began to draw them off him, pulling them down toward his tail, and '
first exposing the portion of his body
nearest his head. Then they took a
long, strong pole, and, with bands of
the tough grass whieh grows in that
country, tied his body to the pole close
to his head. Then they bound him
again, about eighteen inches further
down. Slowly drawing down the pipes,
they tied him again to the pole, about
eighteen inches below, and so on until
his whole length was fastened firmly
to the pole.   Thus he was held secure
RELIGIOUS.
until the box was nailed up again, and-
I had sent for a blacksmith to put iron
bands around it, so that it shoiild be
strong enough to hold any snake. Then
the creature's tail was loosened and
put through a hole in the top of the
box. Then, one after andtner, every
fastening was cut, and the snake pushed gradually into the box, until, his
head being fastened over the hole, and
he was snug and tight and ready for
his voyage."
An honorable member of Parliament
who presided at the recent anniversary
of Mr. Spurgeon's Orphanage, Mr. Msr-
ley, complimented the orphan boys
there trained by saying that he found
among them better manners than were \
displayed nightly in the House of Com- !
mons.                        -                      '•-.          ■ |
The motive which inspires England's !
European policy may be as selfish as f
that which has  actuated hei*"move- j
ments in India and China; but it can i
hardly be doubted bu^that, if she as- ' S
sumes a protectorate in'Egypt, it will ' j
subserve the ends of peace aiid order, **"    i
and promote a better  than   Moslem j
faith and civilization. |
A cobbespokdent writes from Sar- 1
atoga to remind christian people that 1
it is a good place for them, if they only j
bring their religion along with them, !
and that it is not necessary for them I
to say with the little girl, the night j
before leaving, "Good by Dod; I am do- j
in'to Saratoga to-morrow." j
It is stated that within ten years a j
Protestant christian died for his faith !
alone in the prison of" Kioto, Japan, j
where Joseph Cook recently defended 1
the christian faith before an immense \
audience of legislators, vice-governor j
and lower officials, together with phy- I
sicians, lawyers, editors, teachers, - j
priests, pupils and merchants.. ■-In'''a *-«^-f
brief time, how great the change.. [
Goethe says:   "Thelonger I live the }
more certain 1 am that the great differ- !
ence between men, the great and in- I
significant, is energy—invincible  de- j
termination—an honest purpose once j
fixed—and the victory.   That quality j
will do anything that can be done in [
the world, Snd no talent, no circum- ;
stances, no opportunity will make a \
two-legged creature a man without it," I
 *          :*te> ''
A Parallel Case.      ' I
c:
<**9B*
Weld Dogs.—Wild dogs are plentiful iu Assam, less so in Burmah.   All
wild dogs are said to belong to one
species only, but I should say the Burmese wild dogs differ from the Assam,
and both from the beautiful animal
found near or at the foot of the Western Ghauts  in Indian   Col. McMaster
had a Burmese wild bitch, Evangeline,
5 nasty mangy creature, and as offensive as a polecat.   He gave it to the
People's Park, Madras. * She was much
smaller and of a different type altogether to the wild dogs I have seen elsewhere.   The Karens   also   assert the
existence of a black-and-white wild dog
found in their hills, the young of which
they capture when mere pups and train
to  the   chase.   After an infinity  of
trouble, Capt. D'Oyly procured a pair
about half grown; they were about the
size of a small eolley, black and white,
tails very eurly, carried over the back
in almost a knot; very hairy, especially
about the fore-quarters and chest; small,
uptight ears; head pointed like a fox's.
They dug holes, and crawled into them
backward, lyingwitli just the tips of
their noses and ferrety eyes visible.
They were very savage, and, although
very young, would not allow themselves
to be handled.   The bitch soon escaped.
The dog, after that, in time became
quieter, and D'Oyly, by feeding it himself, got it to be more sociable, and it
became sufficiently tame to follow him
about.   Knowing the interest Sir A.
Phayre took in natural history, D'Oyly
took his dog down to Bangoon to show
Mm to Sir Arthur, but the very first
day he was taken out in Rangoon he
got  separated or ran away from his
master, and was never seen again.  We
both tried to get others, but did not
succeed, and though I have traveled
about a good deal in the Karen hills, I
never saw a dog or bitch of the same
breed again.—The London Field,
As a parallel to the strange sight in
Frankfort, Kj„ when 23 convicts,
professedly converted, were escorted by guards, armed with rifles,
from the penitentiary and baptized, the Rev. G. J. Johnson furnishes
the following for the Christian Secre-
tary. It is mentioned in the Life of
John M. Peck: A murderer by the
name of Green was in prison in Alton,
Ills., in 1823, awaiting execution of a
death sentence in about one week. Mr.
Peek and others were so impressed
with the true repentance and genuine
faith of the man that they resolved
upon complying with his request for
baptism. First, Eider Peck preached a
sermon in the prison from Luke xxiii.
29-42, the case of the penitent thief.
The prsoner then related his experience
fully confessing Ms crime and exhibiting sineerest penitence. All who
heard were deeply affected and many
were melted to tears. He was then
conducted to the water, the Mississippi river, about 200 yards from the prison, having a small chain attached to
his leg. and a rope around
his body and arms which the
Sheriff continued to hold, even
while the ceremony was being performed and until he was restored to
his cell. Mr. Peck says of the event:
"To baptize a murderer, under sentence of death, and who was inevitably to be executed in one week, was a
novel thing, what I should least
thought of doing once; but in this
ease I became satisfied that it was my
duty, and therefore would not shrink
from it."
Return to the Holy Laud.
O
A Bothersome Boa-Constrictor.
Krom St. Nicliolas for August.
"Did you ever carry any really dangerous animals on your ship, Captain
John?" said I.
"Well," said he, "once, when I was
in Para, I bought a snake, a boa-constrictor, seventeen feet long. I got
him of four Indians who caught him
some twenty-five or thirty miles up the
river. They brought him into town in
a strong covered crate, or basket,
Avhich they carried into my old consignee's yard, and I got a stout packing-
box, and had it all double-nailed, and
holes bored in the sides to give * him
air. Thenthe Indians put the snake in
the box, and we nailed him up tight,
About Sweet Cobist.—Strange as it
may seem to those accustomed to sweet
corn, there are parts of the country
where it is yet unknown.   In many
places in the West and South people
still content themselves with the "roasting -ears" of the common field corn.
The history of sweet corn is obscure,
but there are facts which point to its
origin with theNarragansett Indians in
Rhode Island.   There is the same differ-.]
ence between.sweet and field corn that
there is between wrinkled and common
peas.   The conversion of the contents
of the grain into starch is arrested,-and
the seed in both remains much wrinkled.   The writer can recollect  when
a Massachusetts man living in Rhode
Island sent annually by stage, as an acceptable present to his friends in Boston, a basket of sweet corn.   Itis within   comparatively recent  times  that
sweet corn has become common.   The
American    Agriculturist    no    doubt-
reaches many, who are not familiar with
the varieties of corn known as "sweet,"
and we do a good service to these when !
we call attention to its superiority to
any common kind of corn.   The mail
now allows every one to procure seeds
from dealers anywhere at a mere trifle
for postage, and the seeds are within
the reach of all.   Among the earliest
varieties "Early Minnesota" is one of
the best: for the main crop we have
used "Triumph" and "Excelsior," and
consider which ever one of these happens to be on the table at the time as
the best.   Besides these  there are a
dozen or more varieties, all good and
vastly  better than any field corn.—
American Agriculturist.
The temperance ladies of Denver,
The Jewish Chronicle, the organ of ,
the wealthy English Jews, believes in
the literal return to possess the Holy
Land.   Its confidence seems to be in
efforts to colonize Palestine,  and  is
stimulated by the New Exodus which
recent persecutions have caused.   As
the movement seems to be irresistible, '
and as it cannot be stemmed, that jour-,
nal thinks it should be guided into
right channels.   The Chronicle says:
"We Jews have held" for nearly two
thousand years, that the consummation
of the ages of suffering we have passed
through will only be reached when, we
again possess the land of our fathers.
Is that trust to die away just at the
moment when it appears about to he
fulfilled?   Or, is it to be expected that
the return will be brought about by
mean*" so mysterious as* to be beyond
the co-operation  of human beings?
Goi works his will through the wills
of men, and if tlie prophecies, are to be
fulfilled it will be because they are to
be fulfilled by human wills and. energies.   These may seem to be high topics to drag into connection with a practical plan for placing a few Jewish
colonies in Palestine.   But itis from
small beginnings such as these that
great events often arise, and the return of a small body of Jews to the
Holy Land can never fail to bring to
mind the possibility and the practicability of the larger return to which all
Jewish   aspirations    have    hitherto
pointed."
A New Sermon Every Two.
Col, arranged for a large procession of
boys on the Fourth to march under a
temperance banner. The whisky interest got wind of it and hired the
boys not to march, giving each a pair
of roller skates. The ladies will try
the boys again.
Mr. Mahaffy in his book breathes a
liberal sympathy for the poor and hard-...
worked parish  priests   of England,
who are too much occupied with the
distractions and trivialities of family
life to prepare suitable sermons.   He
suggests that a collection of sermons
be  made by  each church,  from her
greatest  doctors, and  used freely by
every parish minister.   He thinks this
would cure the habit of plagiarism,
which is now permitted, and must be
permitted, and which leads to lax notions of honesty and a low standard
of   morals.     The  following- extract
contains food for reflection by occupants of the  pews as well as of pulpits:   "To expect from any one two
good sermons every week, or even one, •
is unreasonable;  how much -more to
expect them from a hard-working parish priest—from a  man whose practical duties and whose family cares must
occupy most of his time.   This is a
matter that is already pressing^!or action.   Our church members have decided against a second preaching service by staying at home.   It is high
time they should release the minister
from the cruel necessity of preaching
to pews.   Lknow it will be said, fill
the pulpit and you will fill the pews,
but  this reply is as shallow*as itis
false.   It is to be hoped the time will
come when no man who is capable of
making a good sermon will be expected to produce an original sermon more
of ten than once in two or three weeks."
Mrs. J. W. Woodworth of Boston, is
said to be ex-Vice president Wheeler's
prospective bride.
The Biblical Hecorder of Raleigh, N.
C.,says that "Rev. Mr. Hicks, who has
made so much of Guiteau, once lectured at the north on Mr. Lincoln and
then turned south with the name of
Gen. Lee in place of Lincoln. He
made money by the lecture."      • • •.
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