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The Sylvania Telephone.
C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Publisher.
.VOL. I.
I Shall Kt'i'p My Heart Warm for My
Own Fireside.
I.
I shall rise willi the laik, ot the break of the
morn,.
With a love and bright hope that tlip day shall
ndorii;
And liom angels above gentle rays shall de
scend,
With the bloom oi my bosom their luster to
blend.
li.
Freni the rise ot ! 1 ,.t sun, till the set ol the
same,
I shall seek tor true Bliss in the lisp ol my
name
By I In eliil.Blips I love; mid, whatever betide
1 ahull ko ip my heart warm lor my own fire
side.
in.
Fair friendships may greet me, as forward
I g°»
And tame, lor tlio moment, its guerdon bestow;
But the smiles ot my babes are more dear to
my soul
Than all this cold world or its Iriendsbips
conti ol.
tv.
Should my lair rose ot morning at evening
decay,
And the star that I lollowed grow dim with
lhe day,
I’ll turn train a world that’s so mourntully
wide,
With a heart that keeps warm for my own
fireside.
V.
As the rays ot the sun givo cheer to the earth,
Bright eyes of my dear ones lend bliss to m,
hearth;
As the zephyrs at eve breath balm to the
bowers,
The songs tiirough my lulls shed the f ragrance
of (lowers.
VI.
Thoic salvos ol joy, giving strength to mj
will,
Whatever my glint, lliey’re encouragement
still,
No sorrow, no torment, with me can abide,
While I keep my heart warm for iny own
Us esiilc.
VII.
1 care not how dreary the night-wind nm\
prove,
To home I shall fly on the white wings o
love.
My reward shall be sweet in the greeting:
I’ll find,
That 1 smiled at the tempest, and left it hi -
ll i nd.
VIII.
Li! alloc tion, and peiee, and contentment he
mine,
Wuile the revel 1 shun, and the quicksand ol
v ine;
Lei me think ol the mother who once was my
bride,
Till I glow with the charm ol my own flresida
— Huy1 1 F. McDermott
CAPTURING A WIFE.
Paul Cheney sat at his desk in the
schoolroom of a rural district, where he
had been teaching (to use a well-worn
adage) the young idea how to shoot.
His present task was that of writing a
letter to a chum in his city home.
“No doubt (he wrote) you imagine
I am dwelling in a sort of rural Arcadia,
and just as far as physical nature goes I
am,for there can be notiling more green
than the hills, nothing more clear, cool
or limpid, or musical than the brooks
that everywhere ribbon the valleys.
“A sort of gypsy encampment is
located near an insolated nook among
the hills. Among the tribe is an old
fortune-teller, and of course the pretty
heads of my female scholars are com
pletely turned, and I have not only laid
down the law against visiting the camp,
but fixed a penalty thereto.
“Now I know you will raise your
hands in horror when I tell you that
alter exhausting every other form of
punishment, from the dunce cap to
writing lengthy compositions (the bit
ter abhorrence of every feminine heart),
and all to no purpose,' I have in this in
stance resorted to the old-fashioned one,
the ferrule. And so help me late, I will
carry it out to the bitter end, and make
every little hand smart whose owner
disobeys, or my name is not Paul
Cheney.”
The school-house where our hero pre
sided was situated some distance from
the village where he boarded, and the
walk, though pleasant, was lonely and
passing a graveyard. And of late weird
tales had been told of ghosts who walk
there by moonlight, and in one or two
instances, when the schoolmaster had
been belated, he had observed an object
clothed in white flit at a distance before
him and in his very path. Though a
trifle startled, he had no doubt that it
was a riddle that time would unravel.
Therefore, upon the night when he had
remained writing to the city friend, as lie
hurried homeward to be in time fo rsup
per, lie gave the matter no thought, and
had reached the boundary of the grave
yard when he was confronted by the
white-robed apparition, approaching
him with extended arms.
The suggestions natural to its appear
ance were the reverse of pleasant, yet he
SYLVANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1880.
■
j never dreamed the gliding visitant was
j other than earthly, and quickened his
pace to meet it, but to his astonishment
it disappeared as quickly and entirely,
as if swallowed by the earth. Not a
little startled and puzzled, he hastened
home, but kept his own counsel.
The next morning he proceeded to
school more early than usual and spent
some time in roconnoitering the walk of
the ghost, and evidently to his satisfac
tion, for the broad smile that illumin
ated his face as he entered the school
room appeared^* assure the pupils that
their teacher was in the best humor,
and they would accordingly receive
many indulgences.
At recess a number of pretty heads
wore in close consultation, and Sue Sal
mon, a black-eyed beauty, said, with a
pout: Wasn’t of Mr. Cheney to
“ it mean
threaten to whip any one who went up
to the gypsy encampment? Just as if
he dared to do it !”
“ I would like to see him ferrule my
hand,”chimed May Ellis.
“Or mine, either!” exclaimed Kitty
Dalton. “ What’s the use of being such
cowardly ninnies, girls? Let us go in
spite of him.”
“I will pay lor any girl who will go
with me to-day to liave her fortune
told,” laughed Sue Salmon, merrily.
“ Will you? Then we will all go,
even if we have to submit to the pun
ishment,” answered May.
It was decided to run the risk, and ac
cordingly when school closed at noon
they marched off bodily to learn the
mystery of the future.
“It must be half-past one o’clock at
least,” exc,aimed one of.the number, as
ilu>y were hastening back from tiieir
visit to the gypsy camp, half repentant
and anxious to know what would be
the result of their breaking the law.
“I wish lie hadn’t gone,” sighed Kitty
ruefully. “ It was ail your fault, Sue.”
“ I know it,” returned the young lady,
with a merry laugh; “and I am ready
not only to take my share of punish
ment, but your’s as well.”
“It is all very well to talk,” said
May, “ but you are sure to get off witli
tlie lightest penalty, and that you Van
doHitfiyidiing ’ jotr yiiease willU ITiui
Cheney.”
“Can I ? Well, then I’ll shield you
>r vour disobedience. So cheer up
■t id be brave. Here we are and school
has commenced.”
They marched in and took their seats,
tnd lifted tiieir guilty eyes to encounter
the indignantly flashing ones of their
much-abused teacher. Of all the schol
ars Sue was the prettiest, most lovable
aid most trying. She laughed his most
serious and just reproof to scorn, find
when site found he was really wounded,
lier great black eyes would flash up to
him through tears and appeal to lie for
given. And somehow his voice always
turned itself lower when he addressed
lier, and in spite of himself she managed
to throw upon him the solving of alj
her most difficult pioblems. She would
come up to him witli such a pretty,
pleading pout, with “My head aches
so,” and protest she could not do her
algebra unassisted; or “ Might I not lie
excused from writing that dreadful
composition for just this once, please ?”
And promised to do anything else lie
wished; and she looked so winsome,
pretty and bright when lie yielded, that
she usually carried the day.
So, when the master, in a hard, cold
voice commanded the young ladies who
were late to school to leave their seats
and take places before his desk, to his
surprise Sue said something in a whis
per to her corupapions, and came grace
fully and quickly forward alone, and
leaning her white arms upon his deck as
for support to her trembling limbs,
said:
“ Mr. Cheney, we have been to see the
gypsies, but 1 alone am to blame, anil
am ready to take the punishment you
think the rest liave merited, together
with what is my just due.”
“Oil! you wish to make yourself a
sort of scapegoat for your companions?’
he questioned, with a flushed face.
“Yes, sir, if you please,” murmured
Sue.
“Well, if I don’t please? I think you
have sins enough of your own to an
swer for without shouldering those of
others?”
“But really and truly,” pleaded she,
with tears in her glorious eyes, “ I am
alone to blame. They wouid not have
gone but for me, and you will make me
perfectly wretched if you punish them,
when the fault was all mine,” and she
sobbed audibly.”
“ I should be sorry to do that,” he
answered. “It is enough that you
make every day of my life wretched
without my retaliating, and if you will
answer for the good behavior of your
companions in future it shall be as you
desire.”
“ I will,” promised Sue, but she
deadly pale to the lips as he extended
his hand to receive hers.
The next moment her little rosy palm
lay in his great broad one, above whiclt
the ruler was poised for .the blow;
though tiieir hands were hidden
the desk, the blows could be
heard.
“ ONWARD AND UPWARD.”
“One, two, three, four—one for each
truant,” said the teacher, looking down
into the eyes of Sue witli an expression
none hut she could interpret.
The next instant the face of Sue was
buried in her handkerchief, and her
cheeks crimsoned as with shame. Then
she spoke in a suppressed voice to the
teacher, and he had to bend low to hear
her.
“ Who is the scapegoat nowshe
questioned, and the dimples betrayed
tlwt her emotion was laughter, and if
her eyes were filled witli tears they were
not sorrowful ones.
“ Never mi#d.” was answered by the
teacher, as he bit his mustache to hide
a smile, “ you may take your seat now.”
“What a generous soul,” murmured
Sue, as she laid her head upon the desk.
“I knew he wouldn’t strike me. His
broad hand entirely covered mine and
received every blow. IIow the girls
would laugh if they knew it. l!ut I
won’t tell. That shall be our little
secret.”
The remainder of the afternoon slie
studied very diligently and recited
cleverly, though there was a very saucy
light burning in her brown eyes that
argued ill for some one.
When school closed for the day, the
girls flocked around her with many ex
press ions of sympathy.
“ It was so good and noble in you,
Sue, to take all the blame and the pun
ishment,” exclaimed May.
“And how ridiculous he lookid
pounding the little hand of a lady,” ad
ded Kitty. “ I am sure he must think
very little of himself, and, as for me, 1
hate him.”
“So do I,” said Annie Miller, “and
would sit up all night to .find time to
despise him,”
“Don’t be fools!” interrupted Sue,
with a flash of anger. “ I think he was
very kind and generous to let us off as
easy as iie did, for we were wrong and
he right.”
“I thought it belonged to a gentle
man’s code of honor never to strike a
woman?” answered May, witli a sneer.
“The tintli is,” replied Sue, “he
fixed the penalty so severe and unre
ii-nting that he supposed no forced one would ful
disobey, and when he was to
fill the law he punished one girl in place
ol four, and as it was neither of you, I
think you ought to be satisfied. Sup
pos" we let the subject drop.”
“So be it. But if he remains at the
sclioolliouse late again to-night, shan’t
we haunt tiim?”
“ Yes,” said Sue, “ and it is my turn
to be tlie ghost. There is jolly fun in
that.”
Meanwhile Paul Cheney was again
writing to his city chum, and in con
clusion he said:
“ I have had a hard day. The girls
were unusually provoking, and the
knuckles of my left haDd are very much
swollen, from an injury received while
punishing one of them. You need not
be surprised to hear that I have given
up teaching. The Plainville Academy
is proving too much for me, and any
day I may drop in upon you.”
The letter finished, he started for his
boarding place, but as lie approached
the graveyard there flittered before him
a white-robed ghost, which disappeared
as lie neared it, with a mysterious fa
cility. But, nothing daunted, he pressed
rapidly onward to an immense hollow
tree and forced his way into its depths.
There was a smothered cry of alarm, the
removing of a sheet, and Sue Salmon
stood panting in the anus of Paul
Cheney.
“ So I have at last captured the ghost,”
lie said, laughingly.
“ Oh, please let me go. See, you have
frightened the girls, and they have all
run away. So please let me go.”
“ I do not please just now, Miss Susie.
I have a long account to settle witli this
particular ghost.”
“Then settle it quickly and let me
go,” She said, impatiently stamping her
little foot.
“Well, let me see. How many nights
liave I been haunted on my way home ?”
“ This is my first night,” as sorted Sue.
“All the girls took it by turns.”
“Ah! did they? And you are gen
irous enough to again be their scape
goat, and take punishment along with
your own ?”
“Yes, yes; only please let me go.”
“And there were four of you,” and
stooping down to her flushed face he
left lour kisses burning there.
“I will never forgive you,” she ex
claimed, struggling from him, and,
standing a little apart, began twisting
her long loosened hair, and coiling it at
the back of her pretty head.
“ I shall be sorry for that, very sorry,
Susie dear. As I told you to-day, you
make my life miserable, yet I love you
with all my soul.”
“And I hate you,” she replied, pas
sionately.
“ Are you going, Susie,” questioned
lie, “ and without a single word P”
“Yes!” she snapped out, “and give
me that sheet. I am sure I don’t know
what mother will say, because it is so
toi n.”
"One little word,” he continued,
“ before you go. We may not have an
other opportunity to see each other
alone, as f shall leave this place next
week.”
.. “Going _ . away?" she asked, with ,
little quiver in her voice, and staying
lier stens
„ the term Will , lie out, , and . . I
soon
shall not teach longer--least of all those
who Who leite Hate and and refuse ltluse to to he suided glllrt bv >J
me.
She drew nearer to his side, with
ilowucfut eyes, and giving him her hand.
said, SOttlJ :
“Forgive me, Mr. Cheney, 1 have
been very unkind and rebellious.
dav day von you bruised biuised youi vnnr own own hand t and to to save save
mine. I saw how red ana swollen
was, and that was the most severe pun
ishment lsnnicnt VOU you could could have liave inllieled Oil on
me.”
“ A bruised hand is nothing to a
bruised heart,” he replied.
“ I did not know that I was injuring
so important an organ.’”
“ When you say you hate me, dar
ling—”
“I—I did not mean 1 hated you. I 1
am very grateful, and—and so sorry you j
are going away.”
“Then if you love me,” he whispered, j
twining an arm about her, “ bid me j
stay.”
“Then—stay—stay, only—” *
“Only what, Susie?”
“ I am done being scapegoat for an v j
mortal or ghost either.”
“ That is right, and henceforth receive
only rewards.”
What she might liave said in response
he never knew, as her lips were lor the
moment effectually sealed.
A few month’s later Paul Cheney’s
city friend was net surprised at his re
turn, though lie was at his bringing back
a bride, the chief of his tormentors.
lion the President’s Message was
Stolen.
The me true tlUt storv Stoiy of Ol hnw now tne flip President’s 1 lesit ents
message and Secretary Sherman’s re
port l were surreptitiously obtained
101 publication , *■ , lias come to . the
ears of our correspondent. The
matfAv awttet woo was pmrinppml engmeeiea Lv tiy TliPion melon
D. Crawford, the correspondent oi
tile Chicago Times, and formerly of
the Pittsburgh press. He approached a
printer, and finally secured
■ “*1«*> ! iroofs <* «*•»«"■
ment for $1,500. lie made an atrange
meilt with several papers to receive the
message ant. divide the expense. . ll
of them were disposed to weaken on
Saturday, / but Mr. Crawford was in
Strueted by the limes ahead, . , .. ll
to go
that paper had to assume all the ex
penses Ifself Itself, Till. lit message was was tele- tell
graphed SO as to close about four O clock
in the morninv, when the Chicago Tri
lii'.iie , got , wind , . of f it and ....., immediately
telegraphed tiie to New York, where a copy
nf ot the New New York tout Times J unes with Win the hu rues- m.
Sage in it, was obtained, llie WOlK ol
tele"raphing it from New York to the
T,;?, Tnhuae commenced commenced ut at loUl four o’clock O Clock ill ll.
the morning. Ten wires were used, and
the Tribune was enabled to appear witli
the message in a late edition about half
past seven o’clock. This is, perhaps, the
most remarkable feat of telegraphing
and setting up matter on record, as the
entire work of making arrangements
telegraphing and setting up over 20,000
words was accomplished in less than
four hours .—Pittsburgh Commercial.
Wliat a Paris Dog Can Do.
A Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune tells the following
story: There is a terrier in a cafe, Rue
St. Ilonore, that no sooner sees an
habitual customer enter than lie runs
up to the new-comer, opens his mouth
and looks imploringly at the customer.
The latter so well understands the panto
mine that lie puts a sou in the opon
mouth. The terrier bounds to the door,
and in an instant is at the nearest pastry
cook’s. The latter gives the dog a cake,
which the latter brings to his benefac
tor, who breaks the cake into three
pieces. One is forthwith given the ter
rier ; the dog, having eaten it, stands on
his hind legs, lets the customer put the
second piece of cake on hi3 (the dog’s)
nose, lets it stay there untouched until
the gentleman raps ten times on the
table; at the tenth rap the terrier tosses
the cake in the air and catches it before
it falls to the floor. The gentleman
then takes the third piece of cake in his
hand and says: “Billy you liave eaten
two of the three pieces of cake. There
ai’e thousands of dogs in Paris who have
never tasted a piece of cake. Now,
Billy, if you be a gentleman—and I be
lieve you arc a gentleman, Billy—you
will take this third piece of cake and
lay it in the street for dogs that are not
as well off as you are.” The terrier
takes the third piece of cake in his
mouth, carries it to the street, leaves it
there, returns to the customer, looks
inquiringly at him, as much as to ask,
“Have I done the genteel thing?” and
lies down to doze until another cus
tomer enters.
The gentlemen who essayed to serenade
Miss L. a lew evenings since should have had
clear” throats, and their efforts would have
been better appreciated. Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup is the best remedy extant for a “ thick ”
or congested condition of the throat and bron
chial tubes, spying instant relief*
A YEAR’S EVENTS.
__
dl/ the Fr/neipnl Occurrence* «/'
tS19.
JANUARY.—1. ...... Resumption ol specie pay
menta in the United States. ...2. Nine
men killed and thirty-three wounded by
the bnrsUng cl a gun on the British man
Ot-wnr Thunderer in the Mediterranean,
....3. Intensely cold weather throughout
J'™ Destruction fg*
by the State Senate....!. ot
the Chioago poatolHce by Are.
ol • l " an Moncasi in Madrid for attempted
assassination ot King Alfonso. Failure
ol the Cornish bank, olTn.ro, England,
lor #..,000,600 .... 5. Great republican
viotory at the elections tor French sena
tors .... 7. llie New lork legislature
meeU in the new cap,tol at Albany....9.
Forty Cheyenne Indian prisoners at Fort
Robinson, Neb., kdled while trying to
escape.... 10. Twenty persons ki led by a
railroad collision in Russia ••••11. Two him
dred Russian officers and soldiers killed by
tram breaking through a bridge m Turkey.
Intense excitement created in Germany by
Bismarck s lull limiting freedom oi debate
in German parliament.....12. socialism, 1 ho Pope’s
long circular against corn
m unis in, etc. is published.... 14. Fifty
eight miners killed by an explosion in a
Welsh colliery.... .20. threatened crisis
,n France averted by passage ot a vote
oi confidence m the government Several
United States Senators elected .... 22.
Severely cold weather and much destitution
reported tromEngland.. into cipher . .27. dispatches Beginning ol
investigation the by
Potter committee.....JO. Resignation ol
President McMahon and election of Jules
Grevy as president ol France... .31. M.
Gambetta elected president ol the Trench
nSSS5r?nv FEBRUARY. 1 epj 3. ltl ©s. Exciting debate m ex
ecutive session ot the United States Senate
on the New York nominations .... 4.
News received oi extraordinary precan
tions taken by European countries to
guard against the spread ot the plagua
ravaging Russia....5. Beginning of cipher
dispatches investigation in New York by Pot
ter committee.... 8. Mr. Tilden testifies be
lore Potter committee in New York. Heavy
strikes begun in England. Russians begin
evacuation oi Turkish territory and defini
tive treaty ot peace between the two coun
tries signed • • •• 1J - Eatal Jand slides in
Kan9as City, Mo., and Allentown, Pa....
12. Opening ot German parliament.... 13.
opening oi British parliament. Nine China
men killed by an explosion ol fire-damp in
Calitornia.... 14. St. Valentine’s day.... 15.
Bill lor restricting Chinese emmigration
passed Thre by the United killed States and about Senate.... 18.
« severely persons injured twenty
five by a train tailing
through a rotten lague bridge near Selma, Ala....
P ho ^ r ?, i \ K l*^
explosion in Stockton, CM. British steam
SCSI'S .tSSS,
being out tram New York forty-two days.
....25. Reports received ot disastrous storms
in France, Spain and Itaiv.
MARCH.—1. President Hayes vetoes the
Chinese immigration bill.... 2. Greatflrein
Reno, Nev.... 3. Reports ot Potter com
mittee published.... 4. The Forty-fifth Con
g res9 adjourns and the President issues a
proclamation Congress.... for extra 5. Close session of the oi Forty
sixth ° Vander
, )ilt wiU case ia New York....9.
persons killed at a fire in East St. Louis, 111
Beginning oi international six days’walking
match in New York... .12. The town otSzege
din, Hungary, destroyed by a flood. Twelve
persons injured by the fall ot a gallery dm-
aSrriageof ing a walking match in New York.... 13.
Prince Arthur, Queen VietoiiaV
third son, to Princess Louise Margaret, ot
Prussia. Arrival ot Bayard Taylor’s re
mains in New York.... 15. Rowell wins
internutional walking match in New York.
.... 18. Opening ot special session ot Forty
sixth Congress.... 19. Forty-seven lives
lost by the foundering ot a F’rench iron-clad
off coast ot France.... 20. Several New
Orleans banks suspend payments... .24
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s trial lor deceit
and falsehood begun before the Brooklyn
Presbytery.
APRIL.—2. Election in Rhode Island.....5.
Close ot debate on army bill and its passage
in the House. Cambridge detents Oxford in
annual boat luce on the Thame'. J
Spring elections ill Michigan, «tc .... 14.
Attempt to assassinate tlio Czar ot Kassil
in St. Petersburg. Disastrous tornado
at Collinsville, Nev.... 17. Syndicate oi
Nevv York and Boston bankers’ bid for
*200,000,000 four per cent, bonds uc
cepted by Secretary Sherman.... 18. Fatal
tornado in South Carolina. Marl ial law be
dared in six populous Russian districts...
20. One-halt ot Eureka, Nev., destroyed by
Are. .. .24. General Dix’s luneral iu New
York. Emperor ot Austria’s silver wedding
celebrated in Vienna....26. Brown makes
542 miles in six days’ championship pedes
trian match in London....29. President
Hayes vetoes army comprising appropriation bill. Oren- One
thousand houses, town ot
burg, Russia, destroyed by fire.
MAY.-—7. Calitornia Votes in tavor ol adopt ing
new constitution.... 8. Rev. Dr. Talmage’s
trial before a Brooklyn Presbytery ends in his
acquittal.... 12. The Pope’s creates “military eight
new cardinals. Veto ot the in
terferenee” bill bv the President.... 16.
Six executions in different parts oi the Uni
ted States.... 20. The legislative appropria
tion bill passes United States Senate... .24.
Participation of Brooklyn’s 13th regiment in
Queen Victoria’s sixtieth birthday festivities
at Montreal....25. Catholic cathedral in
New York dedicated.... 26. End ot war be
tween England and Afghanistan officially
announced.... 29. News received of a ter
rifle naval battle between Chilian and
Peruvian vessels. The President vetoes the
legislative appropriation bill. Several per
sons killed or injured at a hotel fire in
Hagerstown, Md International congress
in Paris adopts a plan to build a ship oanal
across the Isthmus of Darien.... 30. Decor
ation day. About fifty persons lose their
lives Nebraia. by a tornado in Kansas, Missouri and
JUNE.—1. Great eruption ot Mt. El ua report
ed.... 2. Great strike ot iron workers in
and about Pittsburgh, Pa....3. Secretary
ol War McCrary nominated by President
Hayes to succeed Judge Dillon as judge of
the eighth circuit.... 9. Reports received oi
great destruction of property in Italy by
bursting ot dikes and inundation of river
Po. Cessation of eruption ot Mt. Etna re
ported....II. Mysterious murder of Mrs.
Hull in New York city. Emperor W illiam’s
golden wedding celebrated in Berlin.... 12.
Eleven persons drowned by a waterspout
in the Black Hills.... 16. Hanlan deteats
Fllliott in championship rowing match at
Newcastle, England. Beginning of six days’
international walking match in London....
21. Weston wins the walking match in
London, scoring 550 miles.... 23- The Presi
dent signs the army appropriation appropriation bill and
vetoes the judicial Hull’s expenses murderer, arrested
bill. Cox, Mrs.
TERMS— fl 50 feb Year.
NO. 26.
i in Boston.... 26. The Khedive ol Egypt ab
dicates in favor ol his son... .27. Harvard
.leieats Tale in annual boat race at New
London, Conn....30. Federal marshal ap
propriation bill vetoed by the Presidenl.
JULY.—1. Extra session ol the Forty-sixth
Congress closed.... 2. Fatal storm in Wie
cousin and Minnesota....!. Seven lives
lost by an accident to a steamer on Lake
Quinsigamond, Mass. Large Are in Am
heist, Mass... .8. James Gordon Bennetts
j yttc h t Jeannette sails from San Francisco
ou exploring expedition in search ol the
; H t Boilie, Cal. Yellow lever panic in Mem
phis.... 12. Funeral ol French Prince Im
j perial at Chisellmrst, England. Eight lives
lost by wreck ot steamer State ol Virginis
OIi - th ooa8t ol Nova Scotia.... 16. Slany
„
ii ve8 i 08t in New p;,,gland during a ter
jitic storm... .18. Eight persons drowned by
) capsizing of a yacht in St. Lawrence river, de’
Uana(la . News received oi a great Zulu
j lettt ,d virtual in .South end Alrica by Lord Zulu Chelmsford,
j al ot the war 26 .
Uestructive storm in western Pennsyl
, V ania....28. A congressional committee
] begins Ht Chicago an examination into the
call se8 oil he labor depression.... 31. Five
persons drowned by the capsizing ot an
excursion yacht at Clayton, N. Y.
; AUGUST.—2. Disastrous storm in England
i ....!. Kentucky State election. Fitly per
sons killed during storm in Denmark. 'Town
o) Volcano, W. Va., destroyed by Are....
7 , li lection on question ol debt compromise
j in Tennessee. Financial panic in Montreal,
j Sarajevo, capital ot Bosnia, almost totally
| burned down... .9. Yellow lever declared
all epidemic in Memphis.... 12. Austrian
ministry resign.... 15. British parliament
prorogued. James McHenry, English finan
cial agent, lails in Ixmdon lor $5,000,000.
Fatal riot of ship laborers in Quebec. Sev
eral persons killed at the destruction by fire
of a summer hotel at Locust Grove, near
Coney Island .... 18. Tremendous storm
along the Atlantic cost., 23. Great excite
ment created in San Francisco by shooting
ol 1. S. Kalloeh, workingmen’s candidate lor
[ mayor, Chronicle by Charles De X oung.sr., .30. A monument proprietor
! General newspaper... unveiled West Point,
to Custer at
SEPTEMBER—3. California State election
Massacre of British embassy at Cabul.... 5.
Several persons killed or injured by boi er
explosion on steamer Alaska, Lake 11. Tarn- Erie
.... 8. State election in Maine....
many bolts from Democratic State Conven
tion at Syracuse.... 18. News received ot
the capture ol Cetewayo, Zulu king, by the
British .... 20. General Grant arrives in
San Francisco after two years’ absence
abroad. International talking match for
A.stley belt begun in New York... .22. Par
ticluars received of great fire at Kiev, Rus
sia....23. Alliance formed between Ger
many and Austria... .26. Partial destruction
ot Deadwood, Dakota, by Are.... 27. Rowell
wins the walking match in New York....
28. Prof. Wise and companion ascend in
–8??* 52**“^! halt* be
j oi*o«SiSi tweyn United States troops and Ute Indians
h_.
on the spot where he was hanged, at lap
pan, N. Y. About filteen persons killed
and many more wounded by tall oi a grand
stand at a lair in Adrian, Mich....4. Bo
ginning oi pedestrian match lor O’Leary
belt in New York. General Merritt’s force
relieves Captain Payne’s troops, beleaguered
by Utes, in Colorado... .8. Capture of fa
mous Peruvian iron clad Huascar by Chii
j ian vessels after a desperate naval fight....
10. Filteen persons killed and many
’ wounded by railroad collision at Jackson,
Mich... 11. Murphy wins the walking
match for the O’Leary belt.... 12. British
troops enter Cabnl.... 14. State elections in
Ohio and Iowa.... 15. Disastrous floods in
Spain.... 16. Dr. J.e Moyne cremated at
Washington, Pa. Hanlan and Courtney
make u fizzle of their boat race on Chautau
<l na Lake.... 18. Loss ot Spanish steamer
Nuevo Pajaro del Oceano in Bahama Straits,
West Indies, by lire, and lortyol her passer -
gers and crew perish.... 19. F'ormation oi
new Turkish ministry.... 20. Twenty-seven
British troops and many Afghans Cabul....21. killed by
blowing up ol a magazine in
Terrible distress in Hungary on account ol
bad crops reported.... 25. Yellow lever epi
demie in Memphis declared at an end.
NOVEMBER,—2. Five men killed by explo
sion of Are damp in a colliery near Scranton,
Pa....4. Elections in a number ot States,
••••5. Obsequies of General Hooker ia New
York, and ot Senator Chandler in Detroit.
... .7. Steamer Champion sunk by the ship
Lady Octavia, near Cape Henlopen, and
thirty lives lost... .8. Three lives lost and
damage exceeding #100,000 done by break
o1 “ train tluough the iron bridge over
the Missouri at St. Charles, Mo. Several
persons killed by the tall of a cracker lac
tory m Kansas City, Mo.... 10. A party cl
ARy white men troin Now Mexico, attacked
! by Indians in Mexico and thu-ty-two killed.
i ....11. Fatal cyclone in Crawford county,
; Arkansas.... 12. Reception to General Grant
m Chicago. Five persons killed at a New
i Vork tenement-house fire .... 17. Abo:it
j thirty Chinamen killed by an explosion in a
1 Calitornia railroad tunnel.... 18. Nine lives
I lost by the sinking ot General a portion Thomas oi a town on
LnkeOntario.... 19. statue
unveiled in Washington. Great excitement
in Ireland on account ol the arrest ot sev
eral persons for seditious utterances... .26.
Great sale ot 250,000 shares New York Cer.
tral railroad stock by V. 11. Vanderbilt to
a syndicate of bankers ler $31,000,000....
27. Thanksgiving day.... 28. Marriage at
Madrid ot King Alfonso to Mane Chnstine,
Austrian archduchess.
DECEMBER.—1. Opening ol the regular ses
s > on °f Forty-sixth Congress... .2. Attempt
to kill the Czar ot Russia while on his way
to Moscow... .3. Banquet to Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Boston in honor ot his seventieth
birthday.... 8. Opening ot the international
j dairy tail in New York... .9. United States
! Senate confirms Secretar y ot War McCrary
to be United States circuit judge.... 10.
: ; Ex-Senator Ramsey’s appointment as suc
j firmed cessor by to the Secretary Senato. of National War McCrary agricultural con
! society formed in New York.... 12. News
i received of great floods in lransylvanm
and Hungary. Destruction by fire oi Red
liock > Pa ..... l5 ‘ t welve miners killed and
eight injured by an explosion in a salt mine
in Wurtemburg, Germany.... 16. Great
welcome to General Grant in Philadelphia
.... 19. Details received oi heavy battle
between Chilians and allied lorces ot Pern
and Bolivia,
John Levi aroused the people of
Hawesville, Ky., by running from the
hotel into the street and shouting,
“ Help, help, they’ve got my wife.” He
had eloped with and married the
daughter of a larmer, who had come
into the village witli a party of farm
hands and captured the bride.
A Pennsylvania man has a hog fifty
years old. This must be ancient grease.
—Derrick.