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VOLUME VI.
HOTELS.
G
LOBE HOUSE—
Ura. A. M. McGbew, Proprietress,
(At the Teot of the Wharf-)
ISDLiSOLA, TzXAS.
The traveling community «re rospectfnlly in.
-▼i te«l to call. Accommodations excellent, and
all dn« attention paid to guests. Terms moder-
ate.
«- BAGGAGE carried te and from the
Steamships FREE OK CHARGE.
■J^JAGNOLIA HOUSE—
Mrs. Carter,
Pboprhstress.
This house having been thoroughly repaired,
'is once more open for the accommodation of
•both transient and permanent boarders.
Terms moderate.
"Indianola, March 18, 1871.
/^ULP HOTEL—
IJT
X. SIEDER, PEOFBIETOB.
llici Btbiet, Ixdiaxola.
%
Every accommodation will be afforded to trav-
jlers and emigrants.
A Restaurant is attached to the honse, at
which meals can be had at all boms of the
lay. July*20-lv.
B
ARHATTE HOTEL,
F. BARR.VTTE, Protiuetor,
Main Street, opposite Railroad Depot.
This Hotel is conveniently situated for travel-
lers to the interior, being inimeitiatuly opposite
the Railroad Depot. The House has been thor-
oughly renovated, and newly furnished through-
out. The Proprietor has made every exertion to
adapt it to the comfort and (convenience of its
patrons, and has spared neither pains nor ex-
pense to secure that end. Terms moderate.
Indianola, Texas, August 22,1871. ly
E
NTBRFRISE HOTEL,,
Mks. P. Smith, Proprietress,
Front Street, Indianola, Texas,
Formerly known as the "P. 8mith Hotel." The
.House has been thoroughly renovated, and put
■eailinese lor the accommodation of transient
t permanent boarders.
Baggage carried to and from the steam-
era and cars free of charge.
Not. 7, 2871. ly
^HE SAILOR'S HOME-
A
Main Street,
INDIANOLA, TEXAS,
Next noon below the "Magnolia House,"
L S. ENGLISH, Proprietor.
Sailors and boatmen will And good board and
i." Every attention
yam to tno.se who patronize the honse.
oet24-ly
oilgingiit the "Sailor's Home.
■wiiT be paid to those wh
Tenas voiy moderate.
M
fENGEIi HOTEL—
W. A. MENGER, Proprietor,
San Antonio, Texas.
^JITY HOTEL,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
| (To meet the views ami necessities of my patrons
and to conform to the demand of the times, I t ike
pleasure in announcing to the travelling public
that the price of board at the City Hotel from the
1st of April next will be reduced to $3,00 per day.
The City Hotel will continue to be kept iu as Une
style, and always niaintaiu its good name as a llrst
class hotel in every respect.
R. S. MORSL,
mar27-w-4t Proprietor.
EXCHANGE HOTEL,
(Late Island City Hotel.)
Galveston, Texas.
JOHN SUMMERS,
Feb. 10-tf Proprietor.
C
IT Y HOTEL,
ON THE
IVKOPEiN PLAN,
Corner of Main and Magnolia Streets,
ROCKPORT, TEXAS.
Traveling and local customers may be assured
of tirst-class accommodation and attention.
Charges reasonable.
M. A. SKIDMORE, Proprietor.
Sept. 28,1871. iy
MISCELLANEOUS.
B
LOOAI1NGTON NURSERY, ILLINOIS.
Twentieth Year! 800 Acres! 13 Green-
houses ! Largest Assortment. Bast Stock.
Low Prices, Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Bulbs,
Seeds, Stocks, Grafts, ftc. tOO Page Illustrated
Catalogue, 10 Cents. Bulb, Plant, Seed Cata-
logues, all lor *10 cents. Wholesale Price List,
free. Send for those, before buying olsewhere.
F. K. PHOENIX,
Aug8-8m Bloomington, 111.
I^RBSH Garden, Flower, Tree and Shrub, Evcr-
' green, Fruit and Herb Seeds, Prepaid by Mall.
A complete and ludloious assortment. Twenty-
five sorts of eitter class, $1.00. The six classes
(150 packages) foi $5.00. Also, an Immense stock
of one year grafted Fruit Trees, Small Fruits,
Fruit Stocks, i oung Fruit, Ornamental and Ever-
green Seedlings, Bulbs, Roses, Vines, House and
Border Plants. Ac., Ac., the most complete assort-
ment in Amerioa. Prepaid by mail. Priced cat-
alogues to any address, also trade list, gratis.
Sends on Commission. Agents wanted.
11, m. WATSON, Obi Colony Nurseries and
Seed Warehouse, Plymouth, Mass. Established
in 184 . sepS^-tf
T OU1S PEINE—
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
Maim Street. Indianola.
Has constantly on hand a general assortment
of JEWELRY, Gold and Silvor WATCHES, and
the most improved CLOCKS.
Watches and Clocks repaired, and work guar-
anteed. u.h38-ly
C
ATTLE NOTICE-
WEEKLY
INDIANfe, TEXIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1872.
BULLETIN.
NUMBER 7.
Jacob Garner, Indi anal*, Texas, is my dul}
authorised agent, to take charge of and to brand
mt cattle, from and after Jan. 1, 1872. Mj
brands are A D, A M, and 7M connected. Any
persons interfering with said catite, without
permission or orders from said agent, will be
brosecuted to the extent of the law.
junelltf A. MYLIÜ8.
ILLINEBY GOODS-
MRS. JOHANNAH MARSHALL,
yftyv Stub, Inuxsu.
M
. Invites the attention of tho pwfclio to her
large and haudeome assortment of
MILLINERY,
CONFECTIONEBS.
V. *. mndkll.
UUVIK XOLDA.
JJÜNDELL 4 NOLBA,
Snccessors te
Stiller * SudeU,
WOULD respectfully inform their frienSi
and patrons throughout Western Texas,
that they have purchased the interest of M. D.
Miller in the business at Inuianola, and are
now prepared to furnish stick and íáxcx c.
dies, tots, rine wobks, cigars. oikism
cakes lor parties and weddings, or anything
iu their Une.
We uan fix up anything in our line in any
manner required.
The confectioneries manufactured by «s are
made from the best crushed loaf sugar, and are
warranted to stand the heat of the climate, and
are free from t*na alba, or white elay, used by
confectioners in New York, 8t. Louis and New
Orleans. Thanking our patrens for past favors
and splinting a continuance of th« same we
hope to give general satisfaction. '
BUNDELL A KOLDA.
consisting
in this line,
to an elegant and
J. A. D'HIJTECOCRT. n r 0BAÜBANT.
THE ONLY STEAM MANUFACTORY OF
CONFECTIONARY IN THE SOUTH.
Silver
H
r.'^ais, DIPlomM-~a rreai
Chaurant fc C«.,
(Successors to Ernest Twbmn.)
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
STICK CANDY,
(the best made,)
FRENCH AND FANCY CAN*IES,
SUGAR TOYS,
CHOCOLATES,
JELLIES,
SYRUPS,
FRUITS,
All Sorts of Dry and Ginger Cakes,
Fire Works,
Surprise and Cash Bexss, ate., etc.
No. 93 Old Levee Street,
Mew Orleans, La.
Nov. 14. fm
MISCELLANEOUS.
j^IFE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA.
INDIANOLA DISTRICT,
Indianola, Tests
H. Seelioson,
Aug. Heyck,
D. K. Woodwabd,
D. C. Proctob,
H. E. Leake, M. D.
President.
Yics President.
Secretary.
Attorney.
Medical Examiner.
DIBIOTOIi:
H. J. Huck; H. H. Weodward;
H. Iken, of H. Iken A Co.; Ben. F. Hunt;
W. C. Vance, ofVance&Bro. A. B. Briscoe;
James B. Thompson, of Blossman A Thompson;
D. J. Sullivan, of Sullivan A Co.;
Emile Reiflert, of H. Rnnge A Co.;
D. C. Proctor, of StockdaJe A Preotor.
Applications for Life Insurance will he re-
ceived by the officers or trustees of. the above
association. The best guarantee of its safet. •
is that the money is loaned among as.
49- For loans, apply to the Secretary.
Aus20 ly
B
ENABD k NITCHE-
SHAYING AND HAIR CUTTING SALOO*
— and —
BATII ROO MM.
Opposite WesthofFs—Main Street,
Indianola, Texas.
N
OTICE.
I persons are forbid from interfering with the
: branded 71), connected—two splits in left
All)
stock 1 ......
and crop off right ear, without permission of
AUG. swabtz.
Indianola, Apr25-tf
^ J. PLATZ—
SHAVING AND HAIR CUTTING SALOON.
Oppoeite Dr. Lewis's Drug Store—Main Street,
Indianola, Texas.
49* Ladies' and Children's hair outting and
sharapooning promptly attended to.
N 6.—Also, Cupoing and Bleeding.
john henry brown. fikrrb U. brown.
ORTH TEXAS LAND AGENCY,
N'
JOHN HENRY BROWN A SON,
Dallas, Texas.
Ia all parts or the State wortn oi uhwm ««
and West as far as the Plains, including the
Concho country. Their whole time and attention
Is given exclusively to this business. The senior
of the firm has been thirty-live yer~~ ™
the junior is a native of the State.
Sept. 5,1811.
ears in Toxas—
tf
GREEN ISLAND STOVE WORKS—(Estab-
lished in 1836) 287 River street, Trey Ntw
York, M. L. FILLEY, Proprietor.
PHILANTHROPIST,
CHIEF COOK,
MAGNA CHARTA,
DIAMOND ROCK
PLACER,
PANAMA,
MENTOR,
NEVADA,
VICTOR, ETC.
Every variety of cooking stoves, etc.
H'.s stoves ara adapted to all climates, cironm
stances, and all kinds of fuel.
fgg- For sale in all the important towns ef
Texas. ^ ^ FILLEY,
38? Rivbb Street,
Feb98-ly Trey, New Terk.
INDIANOLA HOOK AND LADDER CO
NO. 1.—Will hold their monthly meetings at
the Council Room, every first Friday of each
month at 7* o'clock P. M. until further notice.
* ANDREW DOVE,
fehSS-w&twly SjrCBBTABT.
ÜKÜIT TREES,
EVERGREENS,
ROSE BUSHES,
SHRUBBERY,
TEXAS
Nov. 14-tf . Port Lavaca, Texas,
J^AND TO RENT!
Two Hwdi«4 Acres,
On the banks of Trespalacious Greek, Matagor-
da County, forty miles from Indianola. Two
fields under plank fence. Teams, tools and
buildings furnished, if desired. An unlimited
quantity of best manare known, free of chama.
Enquire on the place, or address
WM. B. GRIMES, .
Box 20. Tw/ii.mJ. Texas.
Dee. 18,1871. ^
QHOICE FAMILY FLOUR!
Having made arrangements fer
Family
from the Mills, we are
every barrel we
otwj WH«« j*" 8©U or
*K:*32*" a CO
DRUGGIST^.
the pur
J M, REUSS—
MAIN STREET,
hm^u, Texas.
'-Dealer in—
DRUGS, MEDICINES, _
CHEMICALS, TRUSSES, •
BANDAGES, PATENT MEDICINES.
TOILET ARTICLES,
PERFUMERY, COMBS,
* STATIONERY,
SPICES,
GARDEN SEEDS,
FLAVORING EXTRACTS,
HAIR, TOOTH, NAIL AND OTHER BRUSHES,
ETC., ETC.
If Prescriptions put up in the best order
and style at any time of the day or night.
dec3-no42-tf
su
J^AYID LEWIS-
MAIN STREET,
Indianola, Texas.
i m ^
_[edicines, Pains, Oils, all kinds of
iperior Varnishes, Brushes of all descrip-
tions, Window Glass, Putty, Pipes,Smok-
ing Tobacco, Cigars, Soaps, Garden
Seeds, School Books, Novels,'
Blank Books, Stationery..
r Latest Newspapers and Pehodicals ro-
eei4ed every mail.
The highest market price paid for
HIDES, TALLOW AND BEESWAX.
MM"All orders promptly attended to.
Aaent for the Texas Express Co., which
connects at New Orleans with all the responsi-
ble Express Companies in the United States.
Asr2 ly
EDUCATIONAL.
Washington & Lee University,
Lexington, Virginia .
THE session of this Institution commenced on
the third Thursday (21st) ol September,
1871, and continues without intermission until
the fourth Thursday in June, 1872.
The instruction embraces thorough Classical,
Literary and Scientific courses, together with
the Professional Departments of Laio and En-
gineering.
The entire expenses for the session of nine
months need not exceed $300 or $325, acoording
to the prioe of board. Arrangements are also
made for messing, by which students may re-
duce their expenses to $250 per session.
For further information address
G. 'W. C. LEE, President,
or
WILLIAM DOLD, Clerk of Faculty.
Dec. 13. 3m
qói\crets business institute,
CONCRETE, TEXAS.
4. 8. BONNET, Principal.
* course comprises :
Book-Keeping, Business Arithmetic, Political
Economy, Business Correspondence, Commer-
cial Law, Ac., Ac.
Tuition : (Time unlimited) Forty Dollars.
Next Annaal Session commences September 18,
1871. s6pl9-ly
MISCELLANEOUS.
bvexbtt lane,
Jftw Orleans, La.
f. a. jones,
Jefferson, Texas.
J^YERETT LANE A CO.,
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS,
No. 7ü Canal Street,
8eptl9-ly New Orleans.
Q H. MILLER A CO.,
Indianola, Texas,
Builders, Undertakers,
Aad Manufacturers of Doors, Sash, Blinds,
Cisterns, etc.
A full assortment of Metallic and other coffins
and a large variety of coffin trimmings, will al-
ways be on hand. Price'B according to quality.
PBICES and sizes of cistern8, with a top:
<fattons. I Outside Height. \ Do. Width | Price.
500
6 feet 0 inches.
it.
6
in.
$25 00
1000
6 feet 8 inches.
5f.
9
in.
10 00
1500
8 feet 0 inches.
6f.
3
in.
56 25
2000
9 feet.O inches.
6f.
10
in.
70 00
SOOO
10 foUO inches.
8f.
0
in.
90 00
4000
11 feet 0 inches.
8f.
9
in.
110 00
6000
U feet 0 inches.
lOf.
0
in.
125 00
The above cisterns are all made of choice
Cypress, with bottom of two inch Cypress, ex-
cept the 500 gallon cisterns, which are 1|
inches thick. Covers seni with them all. „
All orders for oisterns, etc., will be promptly
attended to and faithfully executed and deliver-
ed without extra charge on the wharf,'or at any
fe "
commission house in the city.
feb23-ly
N
OTICE.
This is to give notice to prohibit any one from
nterferring with the stocks branded 1 r\
formly belonging to S. M. Peasler.) H"'
without permission from 11/
AUG. SWARTZ.
Indianola, March 23. 1871. mar23-tf
H>
0OAL AND WOOD!
v- yKS w -
FAMILY GROCERIES,
DELIVERED IN ANY PART OF THE CITY,
FREE OF CHARGE.
CLEMENT * BURBA NK.
Dea 5, 1871. tf
rusT received—
Per arrivals from New York and New Or-
leans : 300 bbls flour, 100 half bbls o., 75 bbto
crushed sqgar, 120 bbls brown do., 40 bbls lice,
83 half bbls crushed sugar,20 bbls powdered do.,
sacks oats, 75 bags oofifee, 10
tbs demon doubt.
ey davie babbour.
"Then Sikion Peter answered and said, Lord, to
whom shall we go."
I sink int< the silence of the night,
The liabful day no longer frets my brain,
Upon my ips no "prayer, nor cry, that light
May shine again!
What i* taime the light that only bangs
Above th angry billows I must breast ?
Or hope, tint tears me with her bitter fangs ?
Give mo but rest!
And as the kst faint sound of battle strifo
Fades slo*y from the dim and darkened plain,
So dies the tirmuil of my restless life
From heart and brain!
An angel strove with Jacob through the night—
The Demoi men call Doubt bath been my
foe,
And for tbo bbssing loft with nothing light,
Darkness and woo.
My brain is al^bewildered with the cry
Of that Sere inward strife—ah, let it cease !
I take tho darkness for the golden sky,
-fa But give mo peace!
—a í*..j {iiia leave' mere *--u- ül.
shores, *
Would rise to light, if e'en beneath the rod,
But D^ubt from out my heart libation pours,
To some infernal god?
0 Son of God 1 the battle is too strong!
- My sullen pride at least must come to thee.
Thou Christ 1 who pitiest oft tiie weak aad
wrong, •
Wilt pity me.
1 am possessed with Doubt, to thee I come,
This Demon long hath borne ine to and fro,
And if from thee he bears me, then to whom,
Lord, shall I go ?
cases 1 and 2 lbs <r
raisins, 30 boxea ohewing tobacco, li
cases tumbler jellies, 50 boxes green tea, 20
boxes black do-, 120 boxes soap, 30 boxea caa-
dles, 25ferkins Western butter, 50 boxes starch,
125 cases pickles 75 caaes concentrated lye, 500
bags salt, 40 bbls Western whisk* y, 25 bbls
bourbon «asortad. 30 half bbls do., 40 bbls dried
apples. SO bbls soda cráckers, 30 bbls sugar do.,
ibis ginger nuts, 50 coils f inch rope, 40 ooils
'Is hide rope, 200 cases 2 lbs
2 lbs jpine apples, 25 eases
lobsters, 20 bo*es cheese, 50
do., 400 cases Devoe's coal
35 cases peas, 100 cases
sea brandy De&chea. 200
—„— . paper baga, wrapping paper,
ahot, powder, oape, be* lead, blackening, nnt-
gi 8«r, spice, mace, twine, pipes, agars,
iy other articles too tedious to
mention.
feb234f
many i
'bwlsantl drays.
H, SEELIGSON A CO.
r__ WAGONS.—I am agent tar
tier's celebrated PhUjulel *"
on hand two, four ant
- ox wagons, Mexican cart
*ork anu material guafran-
J.HCCK.
maril-tf
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
STOKM SIGNALS.
an hour with "old probabilities."
Washington, April, 1872.
Tlje other night while on the way home
I was invited to accompany the Commit-
tee on Appropriations on an impromptu
midnight visit to the headquarters of
General Meyer, cbief of the Storm Sig-
nal Bureau, better knowu as "Old Pro-
babilities." Amazed at what we saw, we
all agreed that the ship men and others
who read the Journal of Commerce
should be told how it is done. We went
up to the fourth floor and examined the
machinery. It looks very much like a
scientific lecture room, where nobody is
allowed to sit down while theiustrumeuts
are explained. I propose to give you a
description of the whole affair:
instruments.
There are sixtjrtwo signal stations in
the United States, the extreme outposts
being Portland, Maine; Key West, Flor-
ida; Galveston; San Diego; Portland,
Oregon, and Duluth. Each statiou is
furnished with a barometer, thermome-
ter, hygrometer, wiuilvane, raiu guage,
anemometer and a clock. The
barometer
is the Green's standard, and i always
carefully compared with the standard in
the office before issue for use. Iu trans-
porting it, even carrying it across a room,
it is screwed up and borne with the cis-
tern upperuaoefo' WUiie in, tbat position
it is not easily injured; but when hung
up by a sudden jolt might send a bubble
of air into the vacuum at the upper end
of the tube, and tbe instrument would
be useless until repaired. It is placed in
room of uniform temperatuA, not
heated or too much exposed to the sun.
It is suspended at the height of the eye,
near a window, in such manner as to be
lighted perfectly without exposure either
to the direct rays of the sun, or to the
currents of air which are always found
at the window casings and doors. To
protect the instrument trom external in-
juries, dust and the direct radiatiou of
warm bodies or currents of air from the
windows, the woodeu case in which it is
carried is fasteued firmly against tbe
wall in a vertical position near the win-
dow, in such manner that the cover will
open in a direction parallel to the panes.
An opening large enough to admit the
tube of the barometer is made iu the up-
per end of the box, and it is suspended
on a strong hook driven in the wall.
When not in ase the cover is kept closed.
Wheu an observation is taken it is open-
ed, tho instrument drawn out on the hook
olear of the box and in full light of the
window. Tho observation is taken and
the barometer slipped back into the box.
the thermometer
is hung at the height of the eye, in the
open air, facing the North in such man-
ner that it is always in the shade. It is
placed so as to avoid the light reflected
from surrounding objects, rain, snow and
hail. Reading the thermometer is done
rapidly and with great care, so that it
may be done with exactness, and the
working of tbe instrument may not be
influenced by the heat of the body or
lantern.
the hygrometer
is an instrument used in determining the
degree of moisture iu the atmosphere.
It is placed in the same shelter as the
thermometer, and near it The cistern
is kept supplied with pure water at all
times when the uir is above the freezing
oint, and the lamp-wick on the wet
alb is changed at the end of each sec-
ond month and the bulb carefully clean
ed. When the temperature of the air
is below the freezing point, the water is
emptied from the cistern and the wet
bulb moistened by means of a earners
hairbrush fifteen minutes before the ob-
servation is made, or long enough to per-
mit the ioe to form and dry on the bulb.
Tbe coating of ice must be thin, or the
reading is apt to be incorrect.
the anemometer
is an instrument used to measure the
force and volocity of the wind. It is said
of General Myer, "Old Probabilities,"
and of Captain Garrick Mallery, "Young
Probabilities," that they woald rather go
np to the roof and watoh those little sau-
cera traveling around a perpendicular
iron bar eaeh after the other, like a dog
trying to catch his tail, than to enjoy a
state dinner at Welcker's. The world
may wag as it will, bat tbeir ambition
aeema to be satisfied when they know
Low many miles an hoar the wind blows.
The anemometer is fixed in a vertical po-
sition upon a post of sufficient height to
bring it on a level with the eye of tbe
observer, and mast be ia an exposed po-
sition, so as to receive the full force of
U e wind. It is usually fixed on the roof
in frame* to prevent tbe vibration of the
I instrument. It is generally believed that
this instrument will tell accurately the
exact fate at which, the wind is traveling,
but there are some skeptics who would
like when the anomemeter saya the wind
goes at the rate of a hundred miles an
hour or so to see somebody test its accu-
racy in a balloon.
the wind vase
is worked on the same principle as are
weathercocks. It is, however, of scien-
tific construction, aud by means of a dial
tit the base, gives with great exactness
the direction of the wind in any point of
tbe compass. When tbe wind blows vio-
lently it vibrates continually, but by
gauging the mean direction of the wind
is easily determined.
the rain gauge
is placed with the top of the funnel-
shaped collector a foot above the surface
of the ground, firmly fixed in a vertical
position. It is examined daily; the
amount of water it contains carefully
measured with a graduated rod, emptied
and again fixed iu place. And the clock,
which is a good oue, keeps Washington
time.
With thesd instruments, none of which
are complicated, the humidity of the at-
mosphere, force, velocity and direction
qI fÉiia wtwiu vi iuu inermometer,
aud all particulars about the weatber, in-
cluding the inches of rainfall, are ascer
tained in every part of the Uuited States.
They have also an instrumeut by means
of which they determine the depth of
water iu western rivers at certain seasons
of the year, which information is highly
important to certaiu classes of p> ojie iu
the dry seasous.
RECEIVING THE REPORTS.
Observations ara made three times each
tweuty-four hours, moruiug, evening aud
midnight. At 11.35 p. m., on the night
we watched the operation, the regular
uight observations were taken. As the
clocks are all set by Washiugton time in
each of the 6ixty-two stations, all the ob-
servations are taken at the same instant.
By 12 p. m., everythiug being ready at
the telegraph office, a wire ou each cir-
cuit was surrendered by the telegraph
company for about teu minutes, and the
reports came rattling iu. All observa-
tions are sent in cypher, only understood
by thoso who write aud trauslate them,
but a cypher so well arranged that it is
oertain, if well managed, to avoid all
mistakes that would ba apt to ocour iu
usiug figures. In 55 miuutes from the
time they commenced comiug all the re-
ports were io, except from Portland, Or-
egon, where the liua was down, aud from
New Loudon, Conn., where there was
some unexplained difficulty. As there
was no preparation for receiving tho vis-
itors, it was evident that the result was
not reached with promptness forced for
the occasion. Geueral Myer even apol-
ogised for the leDgth of time occupied iu
getting the reports together, saying he
had frequently got every one iu by thir-
ty-six minutes after twelve, and had a
few times done a few minutes better than
that. All the reports iu, they are trans-
lated aud written out on manifold paper
to furnish copies for use of newspapers.
Then they take a skeleton map, and in
red lines mark iu circular or required
shape the state of the barometer in dif-
ferent sections—marking inside one space
-High," and the other "Low." These
spaces are in a diff -reut place at every
observation. The marks are transferred
to a lithographic stoue, aud the work of
lithographing commences. A peculiar
face plate is at baud for use iu printing
the different data at each statiou, synop-
sis of reports aud probabilities. This
plate is arranged by changing the type to
suit the changed particulars of the new
reports, and printed on the map from
the lithographing room.
During our visit the reports were re-
ceived, translated, set up for the map,
map lithographed and printed, and
ready for distribution, aud the whole re-
port in New York and iu course of trans-
mission to Chicago in oue hour and five
minutes from the time the work was com-
menced.
expenses op the bureau.
The bureau is at no expense for clerk
hire. All the attaches are regularly en-
listed soldiers, detached for this service,
and every aot of the bureau is effected
with military precision. The expense of
the bureau consists iu the cost of iustra-
ments aud telegraphing. Last year Con-
gress gave the bureau 6100,000, and this
year they ask $250,000, because the tel-
egraph company refuses to give further
use of the wires for the sum that has
been paid. Mr. Orton says it is only
one-fifth the rates paid for private mes-
sages, and is too small to remunerate the
company. The members of the Com-
mittee of Appropriations are thoroughly
convinced that the people of the country
would not be without the bureau for
$250,000 a year, and there is no doubt
General Myer will get $225,000 of it.
All scientific men who have examined
into tbe workings of tbe system say that
the instruments reach the results aimed
at with perfect acuuraoy. A handsome
young professor, whose name I forget,
explained the method of telling the prob-
abilities of the weather from the synopsis
of observations; gave descriptions of nu-
merous scientific tests, to show how, by
watching the shiftiugs of the low and
high barometer from one part of the
country to the other, they could tell just
when and where a violent or mild storm
was sure to ocour, and by illustration
and detail of scientific truths demon-
strated to our entire satisfaction that this
recent step forward in science eutitled
the inventors of each of the storm signals
to tbe thanks of th<* community, and the
man who combined them for atilization
in tbe way they are uow employed de-
sorves a monument. W. P. C.
THE POOR CUSTOMER.
"How much I niter?"—"One-half
pound, if you please."
"And sugar?"—Half a pound, sir."
"Aud those oranges ?"—Half a dozen,
sir."
"You go by halves, to-day. Well, what
else? Be speedy, ma'ni. yi u are keeping
better customers waiting."—Half a peck
of Iudiau meal, and one French roll,"
said the woman; but her lip quivered,
and she turued to wipe away a trickling
tear.
I looked at her straw bonnet, all brok-
eu—at her faded shawl, her thiu, stoop
form, her coarse garments; aud I read
"poverty" on all —extreme poverty. And
the palid, pinchiug features—tho mouru-
fnl but once beautiful faco—told me that
the luxuries were not for her.
Au invalid looked out from his narrow
wiudow whoso pale face louged for the
fresh oranges; for whose oomf'Urt the tea
and tbe butter aud the fiue Freuoh roll
were bought with much sacrifice. Aud
I « «■ iriui sip th« tea, aud taste tbe dain-
ty bread, aud • praiso the flavor of the
sweet butter, aud turu with brigbteuiug
eyes to the goldeu fruit. And I heard
him ask her, kneeling at the smokiug
hearth, to taste them with him. Aud as
she set hur broken pan on tbe edge to
bake her coavso loaf, I heard her say,
"By and bye, when I nm hungry."
Aud "by and V ye," when the eyes of
the sufferer are closed iu sleep, I s>ir, har
bend over him, with a blesaiuj; iu lior
heart. And she laid the remuaut of the
feast carefully by, and ate her bread uu-
mois tened.
I started from my roverie. The gro-
cer's hard eye was upon me. "You are
Keeping better enstomers waiting."
Ou, bow I longed to tell him how pov-
erty aud persecution, contempt and scorn
could uot dim the heart's fine gold puri-
fied by many a trial; and that woman,
with her little wants and holy sacrifice,
was better iu the sight of God than many
a trumpet-tongued Dives, who gave that
he might be kuown to men.
«SIVIT1BI.
Through tickets around the world are
now sold for $1,145 in.gold.
The anuual damage done to crops in'
the United States by insects, amo out to
$300,000,000.
Fifty American colleges admit women*
France dose not admit thorn to auy of,"
her colleges.
More thsn five times the usnal amount
of grain has been sown this year in some
parts of California.
Hon. W. H. Seward will proltelilv
deliver the oration at the dedioatiou of-,
the iSiatioual monument to Liucnlu.
Lingerie this season is trimmad with
applique insertion and lace, with inouog.—
ram or initial letter iu lace iusertiou.
In Iowa they now get "maple syrup«
n block walnut trees." and it is said,
be much better than that obtained
from the maples.
"Como where my love lies dreamiug"*
—and see how she looks without paiuk..
on her face—is the latest rendering,
They have a woman acting asoondaotor-
ou tbe Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad,
on oue of the the passengor trains, so the
Chicago papurs say.
It is said thst spinsters havo a better
"hanee of success agaiust widows in the
race for husbands than bachelors have-
against widowers in the race for wives.
' GRANT'S FAMILV RING.
Forty-one of 'em
(Keep the run of 'em,)
Suckers all—tho State needs none of 'em,
Avoidupoia there's more than three ton ol 'em,
Old Daddy Grant,
The liosa Cormorant,
Feathers his nest in tbe Covington postoffice;
Orvillo L. G.,
(Hunkey boy on a spree,)
Draws on his pal in an Illinois coa*t office;
Half the connexions of 'Lyssos can boast office—
Corbins and Dents,
Cramers aud Bents,
Sharpes and Rootes, Caseys and Pattons;
But the Dents take the lead
Of the whole blessed breed,
For when places were going they want for tho
fat 'uns,
Brothers-in-law, nephews and cousins,
Groups of 'em, troupes of 'em—several
dozens.
Billited all on a tax-ground community,
Plundering wherever they find opportunity,
Playing their grab game with brotherly unity,
Mocking the people with perfect impuuity.
Oh! what a set;
Lucifer's net
Iu a hundred primo cast9 euch a haul couldn't
get.
Ministers, judges, appraisers, collectors,
Marshals, assessors, surveyors, Inspectors,
Postmasters,mail agents,uninformed Hoctors,
God! what a corps of 'em,
Wait—there'll be more of them;
Forty and one—tnero will soon be threo score
of 'einl
Outside are hungry ones-fist to the roar ol
'oml
Chief and head man,
U. S. G. leads the van,
Bob-ltoying the public to fatten his clan.
If you're llob Boy'a relation
Walk up—take your ration;
If not, and you sigh for a government station,
Put your hand in your pocket and try a donation!
Motives in these days are not to be slighted,
Wheu knaves to office are suddenly lifted,
We say, when we hear
Of tho act, it is clear
That Grant, though not great, is uncommonly
gifted.
MONEY THROWN AW AT.
Working-men read this, and then re-
flect, if you will, upon the enormity of
tho taxation you are continually impos-
ing on yourselves; for at a fair estimate
two-thirds of the amount stated below
comes from the pockets of the working-
men. The figures are taken from the last
Internal Bevenue Beport for 1871:
Betnrns of distilled liquors in the
Fnited States, 72,425,000 gallons.
Government duties paid on all this,
$52,^81,559.
Betail oost of this liquor, at $4 per gal-
Ion, $289,700,000.
The amount of beer reported was
5,500,000 barrels.
Government tax on this beer, $6,319,-
126.
Estimating retail charges for the liquor
at $20 per barrel—cost to tbe people,
$110,000,000.
Betail cost of chewing and smoking to-
bacco, to say nothing of snuff, $150,000,-
000.
Think of these immense amounts! To
tbis is to be added the imported liquors,
which is equal to tho domestic liquors
exported and used in medicine aud arts,
and we have: National tax lor distilled
liquors, $289,700,000; • for fermented
iiquots, $110.000,000; for tobacco and ci
gars, $150,000,000;—or, a total annual
tax for stimulauts and narcotio poison,
of $549,700,000.
Bishop Simpson perpetrated a good
thing in answer to a question of church
government, raised by some persona who
objected that Dr. Newman ought to re-
sign bis chaplaincy to tbe 8enate, as his
pastoral period in Washington had ex-
pired. Bishop Simpson promptly de-
clared that, under the general rale of tbe
church, be had tbe power to appoint
chaplains to reformatoiy institntions,and
he considered tho United States Senate
to fall within the soope of the rale.
"Cauduks."—A society reporter states
that in Philadelphia small paste-b^ard
boxes, containing fried oysters, a sand-
wich and all other nocessary constituents
of a midnight sapper, are habitually
carried home by Benedick, belated to
unseasonable boars, onto Beatrice, who
sits "turning her wrath to keep it warm,"
as a peace-offering—a "sop to Cerberus."
They are appropriately denominated
• •Caudles."
LEG AX TAUTOLOGY.
Some idea of the tautology of tbe legal
formula may be gathered from the fol-
lowing specimen, wherein if a man wishes
to give another an orange, instead of
saying "I give you that orange," he must
set forth his "act and deed" thus:
"I give yon all and singular my estate
and interest, right, title and claim and
advantage of and in that orange, with all
its rind, skin, jaioe, pulp and pips, and
all rights and advantages therein, with
fail power to bite, out, suck, or otherwise
eat the same orange, or give the same
away, with or without its rind, skin,juice,
pulp and pips, anything heretofore or
hereinafter, or in any other dead
deeds, instruments of what kind or na-
ture soever, to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding."
A storekeeper at Quincy, Michigan,
having a pap that habitaally upset the
paint can in the rear of tbe store, rubbed
the dog's nose in the spilled paint as a
reminder tbat he must not do so again!
Last weak tbe dog again spilled the paint
and observing that his master was
gaged in waiting on a customer, the do
cile pup rubbed his own nose in the mix
ture and ran howling out the back way
The city of Nashville o?r*rs, without re-
spect of denomination, to contribute
$30,000 toward tbe erection of a new
publishing edifice for tho Southern Math*
odist Book Concern, provided the addi-
tional sum of $20,000 for the same pur-
pose shall be raised by other friends of
the enterprise. "Ai .... . " 3
All is not gold thai glitters nor silver
at shinaa. I* is
Washoe mines, whioh
mpre bullion. Üiab any iu Nevida, have
never paid, a dollar pro it to their owhers.
While the groas yield for ten years has
been $150,000,000, the dividenda paid to
stockholders biv# F
tilt)
000, and the
ceedad that amount.
A. little more —
of. Philadelphia <
Christian
beeu bat $24,000,-
its 'evied have ex-
the ladina
a Woman's
Toey have i
meal f« r
A smoothing-irou has beeu iuveuted
which can be heated on a gas-buruer iu
five miuutes, so that a young m m m- y
smoothe his silk hat previous to goiug
ou tho promeuade.
"Do you understand me now?" thun-
dered a country pedagogue to au urohiu
at whose head he threw au lukstaud.
I've got au iukling of what you rnoau."
It is proposed to ask the U6e of the-
cablo for a very short period to fire the-
guns iu Londou duriug the porforinauco
of "God Save the Queeu," in the Bostou
Jubilee.
A North Carolina State Senator has.
beeu fiued one dollar for shootiug ruoiu*
on the publio highway and he asks what's
tbe use of being a legislator if highway-
robiu is to be-suppressed.
The subscriptions for the completion
of St. Paul's, at London, are po iria^ ia
so rapidly that hopa are beginning to be
iudulged in that the Cathedral will, be
complete iu our day*
A sagacious Germau writer, eomplaiu-
ngof the diffijulties of the prouunciatiou
of the English language, oites tbe wur i
Boz, which he says is pronouueed Dick-
ens. ~
The origin of the title, 'The Thun-
derer," by which the London fiuys ia
kuown, was from a writer begiuuiug a.
leading article with the pluuod, "We
thundered forth the other day, "«a
The last of the trees of liberty, plante I
in Paris after the revolution, of 1818, has.
just been cut down. It stood ia the
court yard of a house ou Bue d* Amitei-
dam.
The total exports of railroad iron from,
ireat Britaiu in 1871 were i)¡ J, 017 tons,
oí which 511,059 were to the Uuiied
States. The country receiviug tho uext
largest amount was Bussia, 79,119, to us.
A young physician of Sedalia Mo., who
had waited patiently threo y.*ers for a
call, at last found the following cheerful
order on bis slate: "Doctor, come to
Jesus," plaoed there by 6Jine zealous
contributor of traots.
Patti's reoeut benefit at St. Petersburg
was a magnificent ovation. All the im- •
perial family were present, and the stage
was literally covered with fi.j-.vers and
wreaths. A number of the elite of
Bussia society presented the dioit with a
diamond butterlly valued at Ü5,000ír.
Two important projeots ore shortly to-
be brought before tbe London Stock Ex-
change. These are establish meats
of a compaay to supply Montevi-
deo with gas, and also oue fot steam
navigation on the river Amaz ju, uuder
a concession from Brazil.
George Brow, a truck mau in Detroit,
has dug np the old cannon buried for
many years near the foot of Wayne street.
It was captured by Percy's fleet in ¿he
naval battle of Lake Erie, and is quite a
historical relic. The figures "50—9—2"'
are out into the breeob.
Tbe gigantic elehpant shot by the Dak
of Edinburgh, at the Cape of Good
Hope, has been nomad monaroh of the
desert, weighs one ton,and thirty to forty
men were required to plaoe it for the
photographer to take itfc likeness. It is
probably the largest sporting trophy ia
existence.
Corpulent old lady—"I should like a
ticket for the train." Bookingclark (who
thinks he will make a joke)-—" Yea'in;
will yon go in the passenger train or ia
the cattle traiu ?" Lady—"Well, if yon
are a specimen of what I shall experience
ia the passenger train, give me a tiokat
for tbe cattle train by all ¡
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