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WOULD' MAKE. THlJfGS LIVELY. It I were a railroad brakeman, I'd boiler tbe stations so plain That the man who was going to TnM WoaW go clnr through to Haina ; I'd open the door of the smokuigmr And I'd give such a mighty roar That th passengers back in the Blesnsr "Would all fall out on the floor; For Icouktat afford a tenor voice, And I ccralebVt afford to speak fa the sweat, soft tones of JWtanrtatpi Foe eleven dollars a weak. If I were a baggage-master. I'd rattlo tho trunks about ; I'd aland them up in the earner AodTd tear their bowels out; I won'dimll the handle! out by the roots, J would kick their earners in. And strew their staffing all round the ear. And make thorn lank and thin: For I couldn't afford to wear kid gloves Nor pa soft pads on my feet, Kor to hamO things Gently, when an my pay Jnst keeps main bread and meat. If I were a railroad conductor. As through tho train I'd go, I'd hare tor exery question they'd ask This answer all ready, "Dont know f Vdmias eonncetlona for lots of man. yilguusanaws nsat- -I'd terftheaa-twaa eight, when Iknew 'twas ten. And I'd swear their watches were fast. Iter IconMnt afford to be civil When I knew erery man in the toad Would look at my teh and ring and say, -115 ttoks them things from the mad.' iFiltl&mvjTt Sunday Globe.
A CASE OF EXHAUSTION. BT SLOWCCK. Be wasn't a bad-looking fellow. I've seen worse the morning after an election, or a big political Jroeesaion. He had an air of good breeding. Now I think of it, that was alt he had that was noticeable. About six feet in Us stocking 1 mean ' abacs, rerw bad shoes indeed. There was a hole in the heel of one. .Looked as if it might have been fished up ont of a barrel
that had stood a siege of cats, dogs, and lively boys on an ash-heap. I saw just
as plain aa yon ever sawthesan bis skin ttirongh that hole.
' I smiled. "Who wouldn't? A strapping
bis fellow Bka that, with no socks on.
Directly be turned. As I met his eyes, I
felt as mean as if Td been detected flngerfag the coupons on another man's bonds. He was snch a straightforward, honestlooking sonl. I made an excuse to sneak to
. "Excoeeme did ! meet you in Omaha
tastHonday?" "Wish to heaven yon had! Nov sir, I
enaldn'tget that far if wings were as plenty
a grass, and as cheap. I belong to a large .senr large family, air." a t Al,p J answered, very much amused " .i:' with hi Btnile and sancy speech. So hrocgy so lnalter-of-conrse.
of the family is
Prolific. beats every-
i Pacific slope. Iu fact,! don't
Jpfrigjaafig yon, m are the real, genuine, ; shnotpttis oot-nnd-ont topers." i -Be looked at me quizzically, as if to say:
fliamawaxel am as object of ridicule, Ililt l KiTe yea to nnderatand I am not so
soW tVnt lam; able to discount iw
. i Tsw toblring for a quiet place to sponge
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-'T mmraiiutiiiHiigmTfw in at mum.. &wu
irlif 2-iWfW Jfm i waaiiiai mwc w m
W'irr'. " "jUe olace where tho sooirrel-caee is in
; the. window ton or twelve door around
'ti&eoTaec.'
lie1 was moaMC en, when I called after
TStSbU -: lmn. "See bere. my mend, I never could
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"v1 Vwniii liai s said leaked in wet eyes sauarelv.
rMSrayOT like.bnt'srM)tmy way If
m i 30sn the company ex a poor aevu
l UD m, MtM. WH BUMS A wuv
So we went
toltomther to took at thekqoirreL
.'as
of eight thousand for schooling alone, and my elocution has smashed me.
'when I was ready to pat a shingle up
announcing another lawyer had dawned on the world, I abstained. An actor a man
who "knew it all' convinced me I would
rob the world of a genius, a marvel of his
trionics. Now, that's not the sort of a man I am. My aim is to benefit mankind. Icon
can nnderatand I availed myself of the opportunity offered me by my experienced discoverer well, at least he was one of the people who discovered me to demonstrate
to a waiting, yearning, hungry public my
histrionic powers. I oined a theatrical
company. 1 believe I might nave con
vinced the public, bat there was ne teette drawback. There were just ten of as, and seven of the ten, I give yon my word, had no mere knowledge of the stage than I have of Arabic. Seven sever were elocutionists, like iself. We started no! let not the spicy mint betray me into loose language. We rose L-. the East, about meridian, let me say, and set instantly. That, we seven were assured, was a mere trial of some dog. We rose again. We sat down again. There was either too much action, or too mnch elocution. It is a knotty problem. I have not solved it to my satisfaction, bnt I suspect, I begin to suspect it was a surfeit of elocution that did the business. "Then our guiding spirit, scorning the East, made a bee-line for the West. Bo yon know the real reason the star of Empire takes its way West? It's because stars don't need any creature comforts to speak of. They don't need three square meals a day. One will do. In a pinch, tbey can make t on a cracker. They don't incur unnecessary wash-bills. In short, I can prove to you the laundry is not included in the appointments. No overcoats, no fires in cold rooms, no fine linen, no linen at all, except a dickey to dress the 'Count' in and then he fights a duel buttoned up so close hia arm would snap sooner than his sword. "Well, stranger, my marvelous elocutionary powers, reinforced by the six I have referred to, were so strong that they bronght the company to Omaha. We lodge no! we 'hung out' there a fortnight. Then the voice culture that charmed a circle in Vermont gathered fresh force, and wafted as well, as far as eating was concerned we traveled light wafted as clear over here to San Francisco. And
Captain T. E. Halleck, of New York, has
then, all at once I may say, .the propellmg-j-purchased tha log house at City Foint, Virginia,
. j diansotKl pin, and superb head of hair was
'Jiiiliiap Hia drinks. I Iffanwd whT-mtA man
a "stoper. as any attempt to modify the phraseology of my
SjaTvaciamtauiM
y mijijmiiiiilmw rare m gum mum, on low
fit apeak for himself:
t& A. very good iiqnor permit me to aay 1
-yOBr H oe a joage. inim wtxs pour at
.';? stair' down are notoriously bad
-jjadgeav A mant woo hasn't had a mint-jnlep "inya nuantk'nf rmadava wnv. he is a
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?Hve long and prosper,' and
to depend upon
A ghostl I tee you don't take." ,I do thamka a, second won't hart me. WeB,haU a dozen on the shell to oblige you Not Oat I'm above oysters haven't tad May amce I left where was it? Kansas City? yes; 'been fiat broke ever
Now, if yon don't took at me that
Fll tell y -i my story. And
then yon may ti',l 1 to everybody you . know. Maybe it iil prevent seme donkey aa big as I ha.'e proved myself but no! Oatin't possible, there can't be another dltnk like me front going over the same ground -I've been over. ' "Know anything about voice culture? Ever belong to a Thespian society? Ever Btage-strnck? Know anything -about elocution? Thank God, stranger, grvS me .your band. It's like striking a fountain of ' eternal youth to a desert of burnt half -bricks to meet a man who don't know anything about any of them. I do. Look at me; I'm the embodiment of elocution, in all that pertains to the stage of human action, where there is no action to apeak of when a man's beard is a month long, and he wants money enough to pay a barber no possible way of raising a dime when whisky is only a dollar gallon. - Tm from Vermont. There's a snug little farm-house way up in Vermont where, if I could toast my shins before the fire, I'd ba coddled by half a dozen pretty cousins. Well, they won't buzz aroandme fjUs tummer. There' a college Mlebrated for its crack educators and product in that State, of which lama aps, woaYt blnsh for my appearance in its eorridora this yev likely. And
lato't half bad looking. Bow dees it aU come about? Let me whisper in your ear
. one word eloeiiffoH. ' "Fact. Tells the whole story. TO
en the Mmming for your especial benefit.
I wa asked to assist at m farce my
ottrelass got it up. I
That was 0e word. It broke me all np. I wasonhandin every amateur performance from that time forward. What did I ,aet? What didn't I act? Iam a fine, O,
-an elegant, a superb reader. No? I won't
lead to you. I'm not an ingrate. rm run
down at the heeL Blest if I've had a pair
of socks since I left St. Joe. But I wont, I poeitivexf deaUne to denionetrate my etoeiititjfeary powers bete; bealdee, if a bariwofi TlsJe outfit pipbably ooat $3,000,
(,lMSe it with my.ieountet.
force gave out. Yon may believe me or not, I haven't power enough left to pay for wasting a shirt. Consequently I don't wash my shirt, or permit anybody to pass around it with soap. "If I had been born dumb it would have been a great blessing- to me. In my opinion, seven moles would make more headway in histrionics than the seven unfortunates that came hers together to illuminate the western horizon. It won't bare us. It won't let us go, either. If it only would send us baok to Vermont! Do me a favor. If yon know a young man or woman with fine enunciation a thorough knowledge of the roles governing elocution kill liim or her, and you'll save them a world of suffering and humiliation. "'See, I am thinking of walking back, hat Tm too heavy yet. I must reduce myself. When I left Vermont I bronght down the scales at 182 pounds 8 ounces. I've got rid of forty pounds in less than two months. When I get-down twenty or forty pounds lower I'll be light enough to go in a pine box.! But he was induced to change his mind. The proposed reduction was not made. He returned to Vermont a month later, looking like another, as I am convinced he is a wiser num. He is copying law papers in a town in Connecticut. , The- pay is poor,
but he writes me he manages to get enough to pay for his tobacco, which is more than
be received as an exponent of elocution on
the stage. Chicago Ledger.
ISBAX1TT AlfB CRIME. " The relation, between insanity
and crime is one both of cause and of effect Esquiro! has shown aa in
crease of insanitr and suicides at each outbreak of the French revolution.
Iiumier declares that the excitements of
1870 and 1871 were the store or less indirect eaases of 1,700 cases of insanity. This simply means that the same morbid element, tending to pronounced CTiminaHty in -another, is brought to the front by the common causa Very frequently, too, both tendencies can be seen in the same individuals. Marat, for example, had attacks of maniacal exaltation, and a passion for continually scribbling. He had a sloping forehead,
was prognathous, had a prominent jaw
and high cheek bones, and a haggard eye, all of which correspond closely with the insane type of face. Later his delusion of ambition changed into one of persecution and homicidal mono
mania. Dr. Lombroso cites case after case, aU tolling the same story. He includes Gitteau in this list, and agrees with the opinion of an Italian alienist that his trial was simply "scandalous." The real place for such beings is a much-needed institution, an asylum for insane criminals. Science. ABOUT 8TAKS. Alpha Centanrii, the leading star in the constellation of the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as known. Its distance is usually placed at from 20,000,000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles from the earth. A afar called Sixty-one Cygni is classed as second in distance, being put at 54,780,999,000,000 miles distance from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of times farther away from us than these. Light travels about 186,000 miles in every second of time, and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating us from that star. From the greater portion of the stars light would bo many centuries in reaching us. That is to say, in these particular instances the Btara which we see are not the stars as they exist to-night, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam. Si. Louis QlobeDemocraL Cents are not wanted in British Columbia, says the British Columbian. Five-cent pieces are in circulation, and we hope that no smaller change will ever find its way' into this province. Thisfc not a land of copfew. -m.
Ltwit is the art of being well deceived,
THE NEWS. Intelligence by Wire from All the World P0EEIGN. . It is stated that the Bulgarian trouble lias hai a paralyzing effect on tho trado of Ituss a. It is reported that thirty Hnssiau sympathizers have boon whipped to death iu Bulgaria, Bulgaria will agree to tho domands of tho Czar, provided nor independsnco is guaranteod. Tho general outlook in Enropaan Continental affairs is of a very warlike cliaraotsr. Two 16-yoar-old youths in Franoe, whoao heads had been turned by sensational novols, have boon sentenced to fifteen yoars' hard labor for the murdor of Mario a Dout, a girl acquaintance 15 yoars old, Tho effects of tho notorious Cora Tearl, who diod recently in Paris, have been sold at public auc'ion. A deputation of Irish ladles, headed by tho wifo of tho Lord Mayor of London, visited Hawarden to present to Mr. Gladstone a potition for homo rule bearing half a million siRnaturos. Tho Mayors of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Clonraol then teudered Mr. Gladstone the freedom of their respective cities. Tho ox-Promier closed his reply with tho assurance that the Irish people will always largely sharo his interest and affection. Every village on tho island of Kiapa, one of the IWondly group, was destroyed by an earthquake. Ill ground is covered for twenty feet with volcanic dust, and a hill two hundred foot high was formed. Hanlan and Boss will row on tho Thames in England for 500 a si'le. Russia will introduce a tobacco monopoly throughout the empire next year. PEBSONAL, Justin McCarthy, M. P., was banqueted in Now York at lie expense of tho Irish Parliamentary fund Attorney Gonoral Garland ban returned to Washington from Arkansas, whore ho has been spending his vacation. Ted Jy Solomon, husband of Lillian Kussoll, the actress, has boon indicted for bigamy by the Grand Jury of Hudson County, New Jersey. Albert Cnrrliu, a rabid St Louis anarchist, has boen engage;! as eJitor of tho Chicago ArbeUer Zeituag, formerly edited by August Spios. Jones and Small, tho rovivalists, will be invited to labor with tho Bostonoso heathen.
in which General Grant wrote tho order announcing tho terms of Gonoral Lee's surrender, and will sell or give it to the Grant Monument Association, to be ro-ercoted in Biverside Park. The Damoeratio State ticket, headed by Gen. Gordon for Governor, was elected without opposition in Georgia, A light rote was polled throughout tho State, there being no issues or opposing candidates to bring ont a full vote. Very few anti-Prohibitionists have been elected to the Legislature.
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.
the lumber mills save one at East Mich., have shut down for want of
All Tawas,
logs. Pittsburgh lad a trades procession which extended foi-i wolvo milos and consumed three hours iu passing. Justioo Gordon of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided that the store-order system, under the act of Juno 29, 1881, was unconstitutional and void, inasmuch as by it "persons are prevented from making their own coniracte. The paper currency outstanding comprises S303,0S2,487 iu national bank notes, and S34U,681,010 in greenbacks. . Tho public debt statement issued oa the
1st inst shows tho reduction of tho pubUc debt during the month of September to bo $lit,(87,013, and total cash iu the treasury
S4oT,3T5,ria The following is a recapitulation of the statement: INTUlslisr-BEAttlSa DEBT. Bonds at i4 Ter cent S25O,On,OT0 Bonds at 4 pb? cent 7S.,76.,iK0 Bonds at 3 per oont il5,lji4.3i)J Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. rmVjOO Navv pension fund at 3 por oont. . . . 14,000.000 PacinoSaUroad bonds at5 percent. 04,023,512
,,1,13I,7j7,SU ,. U,9ii,6U
Principal., ..... Interest ..'
Total SV9V91.123 DEBT OH WHICH INTERF-ST HAS CEASED BINCB MATUKITI. Principal S0,n8,73J Interest SJl,0jl
Total 7,199,790 DEBT BEAliraa N INTKBE3T. Old demand and logal-tonder notes. $340,738,131 Certificates of deposit 7,7Ui,MO Gold oer .if.cats 84, m, 07 Rilvor certificates 9yJS7,U2 Fractional currency (lesi Sfl,375,934 estimated as lost or distroyodj. . . 6,953,703 Principal 541, 170,01a TOO'AI. DEBT. Principal ; fl,73 '.aSl Interest 12,137,872
Total.
Less cash items available for roduotion of thodulit Less reserve held for redemption of U, S. notes
Total
.Il,742,3j9,9si
810,921,013 100,000,000
SKK.9 '4,;13
Total debt lost, available cash iteinsSM 5, 4 i,f t8 Net oash in tho Treasury 07,K!,321
mm-.imOimmmmr. aJOKr -t At itt
Debt less oash in Treasury Oct. 1, lWil 51,317,549,567 Debt less cash In Treasury i-opt 1, 1830.; ., 1,738,17B,530
Decrease of debt during tl.o month. $10,S37,013 CAbB IX TUB 'JHEAUUllY AVAILABLE FOB UEDUCTtON OP imM' DI'.UT. Gold held fort:old certificates actu
ally outstanding 884,691,807
onvur iioiu ror silver cerctucaios actually outstanding 8S,3S7,Ua D. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually ootglaudloa ...... 7,705,000 Cash held lor matured debt and interost unpad 19,130,007 Fractional currency 3,517
Total avail ablo for reduction of tho dobt BKSKftVK FUND. Hold for redemption ,i V. H. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1870, and July 12, 1882 Unavailable for redaction of "the dobt-
Frur tionol silver ooln S2fi,899,745
atinorooln w
$200,924,043
$100,030,000
ta ,
01', no
Total ( rtificates held as cash Net cash balance on hand. Total cash in Treasury as shown by
two Treasurer's general n- -o mt . Mfii. lT'."! i
The tolal gold coin and bullion in the Treasury Kept, 80 wai S24'.,,KI0,018, as compared with $2)5,4";i,63r iho 81st of the pre
vious montli. xno not gold in tho Treasury,
after deducting gold certiflcstos in Treasury
Gash and m oiroulauon i-opt. 30, w,u 9167,917,211, as compared with $157, 72,288 ttieJSUt
of the previous month.
Commissioner Colman of tho Agricultural
Dopartmont, in muoh elate 1 ovr the sue '.ess
of experiment at Fort Hc;U, Kansan, td apply
tho diffusion sivsnr process to poiKhmn eano.
In tho ordinary process nearly 5' I por cent of
the saccharine matter is lo.-rt, wbuo tho c-x-
perimcnt-i at i'ort Scott show an absolute ex
traction of all the sugar.
The failure is roportod of tho carriago and
harness house of W. D. Suydam&t'o , of Den ver, with liabilities of $30,000.
Tho freight brakomen of the Pennsylvania
and Ohio Itailroad aro out on a slriko for nn
increase of wngo.
POLITICAL. Congressional i.omiiiationH: Sixth Kentucky District, John O. Carlisle, Domnorat; Sixth Mioliigan, John H. fedowu, Fusioi; Twe.ity-flrat PoniiiiylYttnia, Welly JieCullcugU, Republican; Tenth Miisuachuaott-', J. K Bus. fall, Democrat; SUtti Viffiwift, Samuel J, Hep.
kins, Knights of Lalr, vice J. B. Pago, declined; Tonth Michifitan, IL M. I'ud, Bopnbli-
can; Twonty.flrst Pennsylvania, J. w. Uitta, Democrat; Kightoenth Now YorU, H. G. Bnrloish, Kopublican;Tlitrty-third New York, J. B. Webir, licpublicau; Nineteenth Pennsylvania, Ivi Marsh, Democrat; Fourth Connecticut M. T. Grangor, D.nnoorat; Tenth Massachusetts, W. H. Karlo, Prohibition; Seventh Massachusetts, H. Wiiiting, BopuM.oau; First Ohio, Samuel A. Miller, Democrat; Saoond
Ohio, Hngh SUiels, Doraocrat; Eighth Pcnunylvania, George D. Slitzol, ltepubliean;'lhird
Ncbraslia, J. W. Dorsoy ; First Mow Hamp
shire, Danitia Knowlos, Prohibition; E.ghth
Missouri, Jf.mes It Harris, Prohibition; luntu Missouri, W. C. Wilson, Prohibition; Tenth Missouri, K. 11 Gram, Prohibition; Sixth
Texas, Ju.ltto A. B. Norton, Uepublicau.
-A Washington spocial says it is now made
known that Attorney General Garland had sorioiw thoughts of resigning his offlco last spring, and offered his resignation to tho
President nioro than oneo. Ho was led to this partly by Jus poor health and partly by the
criticisms upon hie course m connection with
tho Pan-Eloetrio Company. But the President
absolutely refused to entertain- the idea, and
told him by all moans to remain where he was. Now that his health is completely re
stored ho v.ill continuo to hold the Attornoy
Gonoralshiij, doubtless, as long as Mr. Cleve
land holds tho Presidency.
Trcauror Roilly, of tho Irish National League of America, enye ho can show that
cvory cent ho has received has been turned over to duly accredited agont of tho Natioual
League in Ireland. The Colorado Democracy, in convention at Denver, placed iu the field the following ticket: Governor, Alva Adams; Lieutenant Govornor, H. B. Gillespio; Secretary of State,
Jerry Mahone; Treasurer, James F. Benedict;
Auditor, Oasimoro Barela; Attorney General, Col. Stirman; Congressman, Ilov. Myron Boed. The platform favors free and unlinitea silror coinage; criticises tho Bcpuilican party fr creating and maintaining monopolies while iu power, which wilted in a conflict between capital and labor: commends the Democratic Congress for refusing to-feuspend the silver coinage and for passing tho surplus resolution; commends President Cleveland for his impartial execution of the civil-sorvice law; congratulates the party upon its honest administration, ani approves the reclamation of public lands. "It sympathizes with the Irish honie-Dulo movement, favors interstate legislation as to railroad corporations, and denounces convict labor.
GEliiUltAL.
President Fitzgorald, of tho Irish National
League of America, has, in reiponso to Mr. Parnell's appeal, is.su 3d an address soliciting contribntitiiis for the Irish auti-evictiou fund. Nine cases of pleui-o-pncnmonia were d scovered or the farm of William Chase, near Vienna, N. J. T.'u'eo of them proved fatal The Governor of Pennsylvania, with a view of breaking ut the hard coal combination, has called the attention of the Attorney Gene al to tho fact tint tlio State constitution
prohibits carrying companies from engaging
in mining: or manufacturing articles for transportation over their roads. Tho collector of customs at St John, Now
Brunswick, would not permit the bark Orient
to fly tho Irish Hag in that harbor. Her officers yielded when thoy found thamselves liable to a uno of 5'Mi "
Tho Chicago Postofllco now has 381 lettercarriers, the total number of employos being
Eilwa;l F. Moore, a colored man, has
brought siit for $10,000 damages for having
been ejected from tho Washington Park Club lion o Chicago, on account of his color.
Tho Treasury Department at Washington
publishes a statement which irivca tho
population of the United States aa 58,430,000,
and tho not revenue for the last fiscal year at
8i):!(yl8!,727, being a per capita of 5.70 or .06
greater thin tho fiscal year 01 1885. Tho ex-
ponditureii were $242,48S5,138, a per capita of
4.15, or .21 less than that of the previous year.
At a I ranch Irish League meeting hold in New York several speakers declared against
fur.her contributions to tho Paruell funds
until an accounting is had for tho $1,000,000
or mora already sent across tho Atlantic.
The superintendent of tho D-kota Board of Heal h his ordered Dr. Coo, of Mandau, to kill and cremate at once all cattle in Morton
and Oliver Counties having plouro-pneumonia,
and also to keep au suspected animals ui
quarantine i. Tho r. ports of suffering in tho drouth.
stricken d stnets of Texas, a Galveston dis
patch affirms, have been exaggerated.
Commissioner Colman, says a Washington
dispatch, receives information that tho epi
demic of hog cholera is widespread. Hois
not informed dciflnitoly how much there is of it. but it ousts at so many points that he is convinced that it must materially reduco the
supply of hogs for tho winter packing season. He has d routed Mr. Dodgo, the Statistician,
to send to all his correspondents for ertiniates
of tho extent to which tho supply will bo im
paired by the disease. Tho results of this inquiry will appear in the November bullotia of
the department.
Tho triennial couno'l of the Protostant
Episcopal Church of tho United States began
its sossk ns in Chicago on the Cih iuatant.
There were in attendance nearly sixty Bishops
and four hundred clerical or lay deputies.
'1 ho two houses organized by electing Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, Chairman of the House of Bishops, and tho Bov. Dr. Morgan Dix, of Sow York, Chairman of tho House of
Deputies
A eontaut raiufaU from a cloudless sky is
reported from Dawson, Ga. Tho prohibition loaders at AHanta aro in
dignant over a resolution passed by th-j City
Council ;iermitting the delivery of beer at pri
vate residences. CASUALTIES,
R. S. Hamilton, a prominent citizen and
pork-paokor of Louisville, Ky., foil down 1 stairway and broke his neck. While weighing out gunpowder, a mer
chant at Brin;!burst, Ind, dropped a lightod cigar inio the keg. 'lhe building was wrecked
by tho sxplorion which folio we I, and three
men car not survivo the iujurios received.
On ii trestle about two hundred miles oast of Winn peg a passenger train on the Canadian
Pacific iras wrecked, ivud the upsetting of a
stove cmaod the burning of four ooaohes. Several persons received serious injuries.
Par s groon, which had bo.-n spread on the
cotton fi rMs to kill worms on Iho .foster place,
II ssier Parish, La., poisoned a number of
liol.l hands, causing their death.
Tim boilers of tho Missis-dpi river stofimor
Ijv Maseotte ox plotted at Capo Girardeau, Mo.,
killing ami wounding a numlier of persons.
Eleven lives at least are known to havo been
lost. Tim boat, which was valued at $30,000,
was bur lod to tho water's edge.
By 'he explosion of tho steamer Masootto,
near Ca o (l.rnr leau. Mo., six of thecrowwere burned to death by escaping Btet.m; sixteon persons aro known to ltavo boon drowned, and five dee ilmuds and one passenger vfero fatally burned. It is feared that otiiora perished
whose todies havo not iioon recovcro-L CEIMES AH1 CRIMINALS.
The people of Qu.uoy, Florida, lynchod
I two mmi KuspMiod of firing a new mtlL
lliif;h O'.Unon fa:wly shot his brother
Matt iu a street ei oouuior At New Oilcans.
Col Do Bevoiao, ohiof clerk in the stamp department f the Brooklyn l'oetolfioe, wit9
died a fow days ago, is alleged to bo a do fauller for a largo amount It is also said
that the Colonel committod suicide. Harry Hotohkits, of Hartford, Conn., killed his wifo and made an ineffectual attempt to commit suicide, A mob stormed tho jail at Bteolvitto, Ma, and took out It, P. Wallace, chargoU with raurdormg the Logan family, at Cuba. Wallaco protested his innocence, and pleaded for mercy, but lie was slruug up to a tree and strangled to death. Tom Farrar, a negro, who had assaulted and murdered Miss Lizz;o Murrey, and afterward murdered her father, was takon from the . ail of Throckmorton, Texas, and hangod to a tree. Ho coiif. ssed the crima negro named Thomas Israel was lynched atR 'cky Ford, Ga., for brutally assaulting a ten-vear-old white girl Tho safe of the Ashland Avenue Building Association, Chicago, was blown open and $2,0.10 in en?h and 97,t00 in bonds were carried away. U South Bend, Indiana, thievos broke into tho Church of tha Sacred Heart at Nott'e Dame, aMt) stole tho famou crown of the Blessed Virgin, worth several thousand dollars, and a smaller crown. Tho robbers were captured with their booty, whhh bad b ;en ham inored out of shape,
POWDERLY'S ADBEESS,
XSKB ASS T3!! Judge Gaivt, in tho Chicago Criminal Court, overruled the motion for a new trial in behalf of the condemned Anarchists. Judgo Gary, in delivering hn decision, reviewed at considerable length the evidence brought out at tho trial. Cor Lamont has returned to Washington from New York, His visit to that city
was made at the request of the President for the express purpose of ascertaining the exact state of Secretary Mnuning's health and prospects of his resuming his duties at the Treasury Department. According to Col. Lamonf 8 report, Secretary Manning is in good condition and shows no sign whatever of his recent illness beyond a slight lameness. The Secretary earnestly desires to go back to the Treasury, and expressed confidence in his ability to again take up the work of the department, temporarily at least. He suid he would be iu Washington as soon as his honse was ready to receive him and his family. THE boom for Henry George appears to be growing. He has received uolice that George Hutchings, a farmer of Blue Anchor, N. J., who had been woo over by George's book, "Progress and Poverty," had Soft him the bulk of his estate, amounting to $10,000, for the purpose of creating a trust to be used in spreading light on social and political liberty. H. L. IiEAViTT, ex-manager of the Standard Theater of Sioux City, charged with complicity in the assassination of Eev. George C. Haddock, the well-known Iowa Prohibition cl.ampion, delivered himself to the authorities of Chicago, and left for the sceue of the crime. It is not thought or believed that Lonvitt is the murderer, but Prosecuting Attorney Wood is satisfied that he knows aU about who committed the murder, and that he cannot enly tell who the murderer is, but who were in the conspiracy. A special fiom Sioux City, says: Upon receiving information that II. L. Lenvilt had surrendered to the authorities at Chicago, and would turn State's evidence, warrants were issued for Fred Munchruth, son of Alderman Munchrath, and H. Sherman, proprietor of the
'English Kitchen, on the charge of con
spiracy in the Haddock murder. In Silver Bow Canyon, M. T., 24,000 cords of wood, in two ricks, owned by William O. Williams & Co., and intended for the Colorado Smelting Company, wero fired I v incendiaries and totally destroyed. Iioss, if: 100,000; insured for 50,000. Areward of 3,000 is offered for the guilty purlies. Mb. LAkin, the son of the proprietor of a colliery at Newbold, England, descended the shttft, fearing something wrong. He did not return, and one of his brothers descended in search of him. He also failed to return, when another brother and then the father descendod. As tney did not return, a earoful search was made, resulting in finding the dead bodies of the four men nt the foot of the shaft, where they had been suffocated by choke-damp. The colliers were subsequently rescued from another part of the mine. Eeports from Moorehead, Minn., say that prtvirie fires are destroying considerable pwnerty in that vicinity. Owing to continued drought aud high winds fires are more frequent and extended than usual. In Hawley and Skree Townships losses have amounted to nearly $5,000 in grain and buildings. The country between Moorehead and Bnruesville is burned over. Large quantities of hay and some wheat stacks were destroyed. Bed Eiver is almost drv, and it is proposed to dam it below Fargo and Moorehead, and thus secure a supply of water for tho winter." The troops sent from Mirihla to relieve the surrounded garrison at Myotheit, Burmab, succeeded in performing their mission, ft took six days to march thirty miles tlrough one jungle. In this the troops found several crucified British mesEverv officer and nearly every
man iu the rescued garrison was prostrated
with fever when the relieving expedition reached them.
The National Assembly Knights of
Labor is in session at Richmond, Vo.
Tub full Democratic State ticket was
elected iu Georgia.
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the General Master Workman'. Report oa the Condition of the Order.
k Temperate and Accurate Discussion of tho Labor Problem in All Its Phases.
To the members of the General Assembly: It wo aro guided by the exporieuoe of the past, and ac; accordingly, wo can plaeo the order upon a tooting so safo and suro that no assault! from its cuomiea can injure it. If wo are not. guided by that experience, it we fail to read aiight the signs of tho times, and wo close this General Assembly without having improvod 011 the past, we will fail to properly represent those who sent us here. Tho rapid iucreaHO in organization since tho Hamilton session of the General Assembly wail most marvelous. An examination ot tho reports of the General Secretary-Troaauror fort 110 year ending July 1, 1880, will show that in oao year 4,0 8 assemblies have been organized. Tha now members so sudd-nly brought together could not bo properly assimilated. Thousands have been attracted toward the order through mere curiosity; others havo eomo lor purely selfish motives ; while tho great bulk of our now recruits bars jatned us (or the good that they could do. Quits a few havo entered our order for the purpono of redressing thoit existing wrongn, and, boforo waiting td learn anything concerto' Ing tho duty ot the Knight to the drderhaV0 plunged Into rash and til-consider, d striken. The troubles coming from this direction began wbilo tho last General Assembly was in session. Iho cur-drivers of Sc. Louis wero organized under promise from tho Organizer that thoy would recoivo aid, unstinted, in cagi ot a strike, Evn
bt fore the receip t of their ohartef thoy wero on strike Their proceedings wero olmracteriiol
by audi utter disregard for our laws and teach
ings, that the. paid and known agents of thoir employers, the detectives, bail no d fhculty iu securing tho passage of motions of a violent character. 16 is iin established fact that men
who were empl.-yed by detective agencies stood up on the floor of that assembly, made intluiamat 17 spciohes urging men to deeds of v.jlonoo, and urged that tho property
of tho Btioot-car companies bo destroyed.
It watt only the good sense of tho mon thut provented such outrages front being pori9tr6od, although these agents of a nefarious spy system induced some dtspoiate mon to blow up tlio
cars upoil the streets. For these outrage tlio order was in rid way responsible. The St. Lords car troubles wore but thi beginning of tne tidal wave of strikes and boycotts which swept over the country, and which strained the stremth
itu-
und resources of your general officers almost
yonu tneir powers 01 endurance. The Southwest strike began when the time and attention of the goneral offlcofs were taken up with other matters of vital importanee. No notice of tbe contemplated actiou was given to us, and wo knew nothing whatever concerning it or tho causes leading to it until it had beon in progress sevenUdiiys. It has been asserted that I condemned the men while they wore on strike. No such statement over escaped my lips. The only statement of mine that could 60 made to apnear la lhe liKht of a condemnation was that coat-dned in my seer, t circular of the 13tii of .March, a copy of which is herewith submitted. I did not not upprove ol that strike. I could not do so, since cenndeuce enough was not reposed in the General Kxocntivo Board to give them a chance to exiiuiiiia into the grievances which tli memoerg of District Assembly lol complained of. It was only when the threat was made to stop every wheel in the United States and engage the whole order in tho difficulty that I romdd my voido In denial, t did that hi defense of the order and the country.- I am quite willluf to assume aU the responsibilities attached to the act, uid would do the same thing again under similar circumstances. That the men of the Southwest suffered wrongs is truo ; thoy were many and grievous ; and it is my firm belief that the railway or mpanios, with a full knowledge of what theao grievances were, ure.ciiitated the light thtmsolvcs at a time "whon it would appear to tho world that tho strike was for on insigtriUVAnt causo. I ran do no better than to submit tt:e repoit of Brothers Litchman and McGulro. Thcst) tw o members wore by in personally detailed to go with the Congressional Committee, and with that eoamiittco oxamind into the stiik 1 and its causes, so that an early repoft might be made to tho order by its own roprosentativ 'S. If tho position which I took during the strike was wrong, then tho entire order sustained mo in it, for when I issued th . avpeal for aid to support thoso whom tho companies refused to treat with, I was generously tnsta ued, as a reference to the report of tho General SiM-retary- froasur er will show. Tho documents and correspondence relating to that strike are nt your disposal. Th .' eight-hour strike which took place Hay 1 was not succo38f.il except in oases whore amployei s and employes were acting in liormouv. or iv aero employers wero willing to adopt tho plan. Iu many cases tho old system of working long hours has been revived. Tho Federation of Trades recommended the 1st of May. but adopted or suggested no definite plan by nbicli the short-hour system could be inaugurutoil. I cautioned our members against rushing ..itii this movement. I had tho right to do it, and am firm iu the belief that hud I not douo so great loss would have been entiitled upon vast numbers Of our aBotnblies. What I said in my secret circular of Starch 13 has ueen sovcroly criticised, and I have been aeeiis-d of oprriHingthe eight-hour movement. No statement ovor was further from tho truth. 1 opposed the strike of May 1 because I knew that uoithor workmen itor cmplovors were ready foif
it, be cause the education which must (ilwuys prect de intelligent set on had not boen givoii to thosi most in need of it, because no definite,
busiiii-ss-lika nlan for the inauguration of the
eigut-hour movement had been mapped out. In fact, 110 preparat ons had been made to put the plan, if it can be 0 tiled a plan, into oxecution. These aro tho reasons why I opposed tho movement May 1, and for these somo reasons do I still opiioso it. A reduction of the hours of labor la a tlocdssity, and sooner or later must bo bad ; but wo must not forgot that in many places tho tenhour plan has not boon adopted yet. It 111 ay do very well for an organisation which looks after tho interests of bat one emit, or calling, to neglect thoso who stand most in need of help, but (l Knight of Labor must never close his eyes to tho wants of tho humblest of his fellowcreanuros. Tho very discussion of tho sudden introduction of the eight-hour plan injured business, so much so that la many places men were reduced to half-time, or thrown out of employment altogether. Millions of dollars' worth of work was left undone because of the uncertainty in regard to taking contracts, or in making ongd jomonts to perform work. Never was it more clearlv demonstrated that "an Injury to one is tho concern of all" than in tho movement I am speaking of. The house-builder, through uncertainty as to how many hours of labor his eurphryes would wor i for him, made no contracts to erect build ings. and the carpenter was thrown out of employment ; the man who made the windowglan, tho man who inado the nails in fa 't, every raan or 'woman engaged in the mamiiiic uro of articles which go to budd or furnish a house suffered through the attempt to enforce tho eigi.t-hour svstom May 1. The move was iu tho rigi.t direction, but tho time and circumstances woro not wuitablo. Bcforo tho eighthm: r plan is ndopted the Knights of iJit or and the trades unions of Anionoa must lay aside their jealousies and differences, como tegi ther, naiao a day on which to put tlio plan into execution, adopt the plan of action, which must be gralual and such as will not indict injury upon either employer or workman. Tha plan presented by Mr, Norton, of Chicago, to tho special session of the Gonoral Assembly at Cleveland is a good ono In n -arty evtry particular, and if tbo workingmeu's organizations and tho maimfaeturers' associatloas ugreo upon putting into practice such a plan it can bo done without jar or friction. No workiugman need strike, nor noc .1 business be unsettled. Why should It not bo don -? Kithor adopt a plan for tho perfection of this idea, or else place it in tho hands of tho incoming Gonoral Executive Hoard, with instr .ietious to perform the duty. If we do not do either lot us strike tho twontv-flrst declaration from our preamble and no loner proclaim to the world that wo are in favor of eight hours for r. day 's lalior. Before a short-hour system that will be of any benefit to mankind c:u be inaugurated tlio relation which the wtukmun b.'a s to tho laborsaving machine must undergo a radical change. Shorten tbo hours of labor under oar present system, and tho streets will uot be emjiliod of thoir idle thousands. More machines will bo rectod, and more children called into service to foed them. Tho assertion that tho advoouto of liort hours desires to stop production :,s false, it :.s to make production gradual, healthy, and bliro it keep peace with the wonts of tiio consumer, keeping all men employed, so that idleness will disappear, and the 1 reducer remain a coustimer to his fullest capacltv, tint we desire a shortening of ti-o boms of labor. Visit our largo aud small factories, and you find t ut the uucbauio of the pist is but the feeder of tho machine of the 1 r 'sent. Wo already hear of maehinos in course of perfection which will set the fypo and mold the cigars fuster lmn human hands mu do tho work: an olec:riolty will son take the throUIe-levor from he bond of tho man who runs the locom . tivo. The tlay will tiOiin dawn when theso agencies nil be doing their work ; and, when thut day toes come, the mechanic, now so pr- ud of his -ailing, will standi! co to face with tho uUernaivo of asking for charity, or the adoption of tho -ailing of tho i,treet scavenger. When t but d:iv
ionics, the mau vhonow seoKsto airtiy labor
igaiust iuiior in -tsciting that th
should not move in lite saino roc
-villi the 1111m who works for si ada will eitlv-r ,oek to crowd the $1 a day mini out of li is plpeo ir accept tho orumbii of charity to sust lib life.-
liitori w in refloat itself, and tho tight, lor e-
L'lan, instead 1 f koopiia the man in attendance ! on and sm ordinate to iho machine. A phvu of ' co-op.rainn thro 'h which the workman may I c.witr-i' he niucliiii as operatss must ono day . K.mcrsiutu t in mosc t vstpiin. To iiroocrlv
map out su ;h a plan requires more time than I have had or am likely to hove at my d.sposal. I can nlv co o,n r:.te with others in the work. Tho t'lirt -'ilth article in our declaration of prln -iples r'ads : "Tiio prohibition by law of the owpio incur, of children under Of teen years of age in workshops, Mino.i, 1 ijd factories." The end sought f .r iu carrying thia declaration int. eii'oct is not that tho child may livo in idleness ; It is not that more adults may bo employed. It is that the child of the poor man may bo enabled to ite'ruir 0 on education to equip him for the duties which will in future fall upon turn as man aiidci:izin We cannot afford to puss this iju-stion by and legislate on soroo simple o.u -:-iion of tritd' di-cipl.iio, Tho qr.estiu of ch Id-labor and cducntun is them&st imii vtaut that 1 an come bcforo its now or at
I i.uy oth r time. With on euueat on all th ngs
arc easy 01 a cuiiipimujuvuv, muiuu. i, uviv its If alnmM d es, nu 1 II berty is a farce. In our ortaniwtio'i-i of la'ior- aud 1. has bom fo from .ho eg nniH',' we take np the work of reform whon the ntilliect is advanced in years tho new member must Im above 10 years before we admit him. W i att mpt t drive from his mind iho fnJso idean gathered in from the workshop, . r, i ossibly. tlio "tivet c rnor. His habits i-.ro formed, and the work that should have l,cn begnu at seven years wo tako up at twentv or tit r in life To attompt to s ttie so intrieat" a -.iiestXl a the ono we aro grappling with, or to ;,ucce8sf illv solve tiio question, is a tank sodifi: nit th.it: I do i.ot wonder that men drop out of ti.e.inis of ial or organizations discouraged and h, pcl.'Bs. To make tho neccssa y progress uo must bo; in with the child and se.i 10 it that h ? has an odncation. If tho principles of the Knicut of Tm' or are right and fow men quostion them we should touch thom to the young. It should be a part of the duty of every assembly t ascertain the number of children who do ne t attend school in its vicinity, learn what the causes ere, and take steps to have them attend school. The sword may strike tho shackles from the limbs of ti 0 slave, but it is education aud organization that niivko Him a fro mau. He Is still a slave whoso limbs alono have been freed. Of what avail is it to say that we are laboring to ostai Jish a pyst. rj of co-oporatlon, when that wliich is most essential to the success of co-operation is lacking? A business training is necessary to successfully carry on a eo-opero-tivo enterpris '. If th- managem nt of tho large or small concerns now iu operation in this country wero t.inie-i ovor to us to-day we would but run th in intc the ground, for we lack the brislucSs training necessary to successfully operate thorn. Our vanity may prevent us frem acknowledging ti i to be true, but wo cannot deny it. I; is throu ,h no fault of ours that it is true, but t( it continues It will lie) our fan t. I ask that a spa- ial t ommittee on Education be i-ppoiut-ed to proparo and recommend to this General Akscnibiy a plan for the better educate n of the American youth. The fcou Ho wltii trades unioos in which certainof ur members and assemblies bav been engaged was greatly magnified and distorted. The prooeiidiuge of tho Cleveland special session o: th Genera! Assembly and the report of tho t ienerol Efiui:lvo Board imbrnittcd to you to-day will b" suffleiout. I nee l not eater into details further than to say that thi re were mistakes inad ou botr Hid s. Some of our organizers ha 0 b sen so zoalom in their way of organizing that tney have encroached upon tho prerogatives of other associations, and on several o-jcations tho rights of our members have beon serious lv interfered with by members of trades niiions. Sinco the special session of tho Geu.-nd Assembly over fifty cases of dispute between parties of our order
ana otner societies novo wen piaeea neiore me for adjustmont. Itwae. not necessary to place these cases befcre tho General Executive Board. A fow lines in oach instance was stUBcieut, and tho trouble ended. To dig up past troubles is mmec 'ssary, and, in consultation with promliiei.t in- u of tbo trades unions, I was grutinod to loarn that thoy had no desire ti rovlve tho past. For tha future I recommend that all matters likely to create a roaeh of th" pence betso u our order and any other be at once subuittcd to tbe executives of both organizations. If a trade union complains ofauyaotion on the part of our order, let the aggrieved party submit the matter to the president of his union ; lio to investigate, and failing to effeot a reinodv, to place the matter before the General Mast r Uorkmnn and Executive H-iard. If the aggrieved party is a member of an assembly of tbo Knights of Labor, let tbe same mode of procedure bo gone through with, and, above all things, let a sueec'y and impart'al inv. stUKttiou snd an immediate settlement be-made. This phm hes worked well in every now case called to my attention since the Cleveland session, and it Is worth of adoption. More trouble haf been caused u by men who prot'6-is to be members of tho Knii-h of Labor than liv 11, embers of trade unions. I respect tho mau w ho, being a nieu: bor of a trade un.ou, does cvervthiuj honorable in his i.o.vorto defend and periietuato hie organization ; bat for the Knight of Lalior who would even attempt to subordinate Our order to auy oyhor I have nothing but contempt, In my estimation there is but one place tor f.uch a man, and that is on the outside of our order. If tho representative of the trado unions and of our order oomo together, and both are slu-
cero in thoir devotion to tneir respective organizations, an houost nnd satisfactory solution of., very dilHciilty can bo arrived at Xo sacrlfloe of pri acplo or regard for either organization need attend such a meeting. But the man who through fear, pilicy, iudiftorence, or a desire to ao uiro popularity, neglects tho interest t'f the orcer ho raprofitnts is not honest, and li ould no: bo allowed to act in any capacity for an.-societv of worilngiaen. With tl b session of the Gonoral Assembly onlythrot dais away, it would not be possible for mo to nay all that I would liko to upon the CjUestie-ns that will cmno boforo us. My time baB boen entirely taken up with tho detail work of tho ei' .er, aud I was forced to neglect this dutv in crJcr to give any time or attention to a preparat ,111 for tho con; ing of the General As-s-'iiililv It w ill surprise yon to learn that even this 1 moment, waen every membor knows full well that .we ore assembled in general convention, See r!taries and members are addrosslng me at m ; offlco In tho oxpeetatlon of receiving 1111 immt'iliato r. ply. Iietiters and t-.'lograms by the hundreds will flow in Upon me even while tl 10 Gent ril Assou My :s In session. The duties wi.ich col cd me away from home for th neater part of the year that has closed made it :uiposibl to give proper attention to my corrcsiiondence. To reo1 oach letter addrnssed to mo would occupy every moment of the tivoutv-four hours, leaving no time to answer or c.ictate an answer to any of them. I attoadot! to all t!i.t I could, and the others will novor be roncued.. If this is neglect of duty, then I am gniltv; but Ihavo no apology to offer. I did all that I waul do more could not be expected of 1110. I have never, during the soven years that I have serviid ao General Master Workman, made a member of thia order a flubject ol personal or miblio cri ticism orttbeao. Knch treatment has iiot been accorded to :ne. Whether the intention was to have me reply through the publio press I do not kt ow. b'lt I havo mado It a rule never to sp.-ak in criticism, harsh or otherwise, of a miu i, except who 1 standing face to f aeo with him. And I have as studiously refrained from replying to or di uylng attacks or accusations against me, except hi the. presence of thoso who ma lo them, When called upon to defend tho order or its principles. I nave ( tempted 10 do so, ... . I havo boen accused of diaxlying a moR or, norie,"ol' - 1v11.1t of backbone," and of beiug too
u-enlr n. nill to lead A SCtOUU UlowaiBBU A
have nevt'r rcpliwl to thoso ebargos, nor will I do so nc w. I simply point baok to a record of sovou years of scrvlso and ask this question: If, while holding a position suoh as no man, living or ded, . ver held before, with the full blaze of public sorutlnv shiulhg upon my every action, wiili publio opinion as ready to condemn as to applaud. I haro displayed a lack of ii-r.-o or backbono, why is it that a million -non and womon of norve, Imokbone, and common-sense have gathered around the stmdart. which was placed in my hands soven years ago by tho fouuder ol tho order liimseHV If I havo been 1 roveu a weak man, who do so many strong ni?ii support mo? I dislike to speak ot those matters, but I believe that, in justice to yoiii'M'lves and me, you should know of hem. Bv mon wl.o are uot Knights of Labor I have booh called weak because I dlscountc-
inauccd violcnc and hasty, ill advisod action.
I have no excuse 10 ouor, ror u sois i w w lot tho Gem ral Assembly its lf olferan apology. My viows upon such questions wero known to each General A semblv before my election as Gone a Master Worlmnin. and iu electing me thov indorsed and made thomselvos responsible for thon i-ont .m -nrs. It has boon charged that between member of tho G n. ral Exocutlve Board aud myself torlo s disturbances Lave taken place; that mpturohave ocaurred of a ue iuis oharaeter. Others h ive charged that tho Board constituted its If a ring to manage a'Ta-rs '111 81 stutomo its, tnveutlou of tho eiiemv, haw 1 d .inaging e.T. i t when ti Id to the nutvary. Th fiit essorlion is utto'Iy falso. for between tho Board and m self there luis boon no ruptura nor evon a d.irereuoo. If at first we d d not a r o upon a (luestio i, vvo .lisciirsod it until tho fullest poss -bio Ugh ; shone upon it, and, when we went to tile world ith i, we went asonoinan Kveiy a tempt; to di id 1 us ha been a failure Thu wo have const , tutnl ourselves a ring to manage aflairs is true; that Is nl-at you elootod us or. Wo or--1. 1 nj. s did aud unbroken ; and I h ye the next boaid will be tbo same. For standing togo'.her in unit, we havo no ayologles to offer. IVr myself, I say, m ly :t uover bo otherwise. "You know that swuet little sculptress who hns a stnd'o ou Stato street?" said young rrettyboy. "1 met her ot Mrs. i'imhbecVs hurt night. She complotely turned 111 v head." 'Iiidecd!" said the judge who was trying the ciise, thoughtfully: "I knew that she modeled in clay, but 1 didn't suppose she u-orkel in wood at all. However lint young rrettyboy, who is 110 ass. if ho doiM look uico, had slatted to vnlk and think it ever.
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ittruco win oa waged witn uurcionting tiry. 'J,'k nxaoiaa must bseem th liavi of V
"What would yon tlo-aw if I were you andyo'i a- were, me?" luusuWly lisped ti Hii,-io;v swell. i'S lit. irnzed Sdillitlllv tli:eilb.
i.ty'eh'elc's i l's o 11 sonrfble youug lady who dotesie .
mm. email 1. answer you lauuHiiy. sm 8 iiil, with a wi n i : smile. uAw yes; I n
Hunh I aw shall be ohitwmed." "Weil, if
I wero you, I would go as a misstonftrv to
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INDIANA 3TA11
A man clniming to lH(,.i,,-
olaim agent has been
ion vouniy, arnmmmg up -mwMip, wmw
b narrana ismfiH sis ihimh si nw sw ?r:. mmmm m m m m
v :j-;5fg-gs taili
BSsertea mat persons iisvin;-3BWr" ,
all the land they want, sad vfffp
vauce he undertook to atteirdji
for them. Among those who
to advance the money were 1
Henly, Whicker, Perry, ,
other families, who Mow
been victimized. The some -
to be working Morgan OronljVf jj,; t. .;
Considerable alarm lmfn
Spencer and Warrick QsnMi
invKqv w n lumaTOWwsj many instances it toisl
while in other ease "Wja
after only a short bnt anj
tack. A post-mortem
made on an animal that
closing the fact that tftg
the stomach was fawl;
parasites, and it may lie
-disease is not cholera, dangerous trichiniasis.
Two Elkhart sportsmen
son Lake to hunt '(fecke;
find any until the oy
wnen tney saw tsprac, mfti0A in a rwind tifl" rir-i
had passed away.Omy
the fifteen ducks all killed brlttBWsrt i..;t 11,. ii.. iv M'aaraaiik?r
ir,i..i. tn n. Hi .ui iff iMiiiliteeiiaf i";1
their skill, tint a post-ptortem trtnMmawoB M
exnlain matters aa above: ' , -. ,m'tliss
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wen MUier, a para sewrfwasjwmcj. was the scene of a fierce and lai; ewnbat V
between two elks a lW' dMtnfU
whose antlers still showed yoBHilv
nesa by thej velvet covering,. W,!,:!
of the eld buck were huge an4Bong an ,.
the probable victor ha m3K&Wi!
rutting contest in Bmxormer i
The fight was an uniMrnal ;
quickly ended by the oJder--
the younger to the groi
toaeain. '--fili Warkhaa been becrnB-iOB xll
at uecator. eo xar. weusoi
era Indiana, except tbe . XitoirJv
been almost entire'
and I'urtland they havo began 1
However, the country abont 1
Pindlay, O., gas r.ejpa
flnnuiu to cuui)suij iiuj hiuimar in ml rir oil witMn tfaa jsei
days. MxMW
A short time since three
n T! -77:;rrjX' ' iWHCfln;
mull uw cucvw vm. m . . w. 1 .. , mm.
ir,;aj;ii!irfi inn;
the boundary line of ME!smWH
ooncht aid in tne matter ot borisX - their .til:
stories as to the death iaH11rodflp of the deceased were b)boia(BhB'
.id fl,a m.H.Flfl hnino invesaanBSaii. "-fUJirrrt.
r-. 41otll. 1 n.iit 'ilihi In; iTT
small colored bov ran tMIHwiPBj
a colored lady, badly afH4
noma then ran irnon a sMawalfcaiaa mmatK
a ladder upon which WpWWae
Warner was thrown upon U jpavewe S"!!!?!
and received seriomi ittiniies. iijmeil'wF
of Mr. wamer niay prove wefiKj9, stUH
ivo men wno naiaaa m nuomr uiua"jr-iK-3.
rranai oni aim su iuw affAi. tliAn. hirhW Kw .flhvist - lmmaflSi
tnat tne piace w awaw isa,. -w '"T''iS5MEs
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pearea in spun ana nwmi.j
winamg up ujr wwwii imiyww" wwwjw''
in life. :: r?' rr 4"Js"j
r. v. hg&3 awtss
oreanlxed win tne lotus
James 0. Batliff, PnesMg
Vice President and Sn
13-11J Caamam MtS JMriiA UJWIMt
usuw, nun-l . -JSfgfSSB., ;"nw
Tnuumrer: Lewis K. 1T ana.Ztialss
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OTASHW-ia neWJBBBH.W'Ju-B
t AM 'ifflsM Saw V -'l u
counties, reports that
distilleries are in
The "stills are mant
two hundred gallons!
ine afeeadv turned out
barrels, and that the ' 'Mm
.-a , a -V i'- Bl t -aMfA
jeffersonville, . n -pommnu amfijs
the Gretna Green of the.
ing to work up a
paradise, A looal wen...
1,000 keno players fceei nr. 1a M.'tn UAa
centlv, and that no iMMiim,
conceal varanw swr; s-""TA' running wide open. KTj
Among the tmriosities-oa.t lttoavA the fairs in the southern part tfmA .
" " - T : 11- VtfFtV
raised in nasningnit first product of the hind 'eyerjl
Wabash Valtsy. A. monsteT antler
sons who are engaged itf
Yellow Greek, near iDebidMr.
is five feet long end has fte-pso
measnriog sixteen tvehf well preserved, yet hist
there for ages. The Clerk of Vit
373 marriage licenses o:6fc 't
asainst 313 for the same i
South Bend has several -thouial
sparrows now than it heL 1$
xne Mree nau woicn sou wsw; -b
i.-:AA tin-.im Ih Imms rWlim slut
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snaaenreea, uuw 1111 wo .iwi. J.v,
:uKe awBi sn nw s
..Xt2ejtfMfcl"'-4r
had taken refuge among the )
The Indiana Starch Worked a3
lin. will build a new erib ttMlpl i
60,000 bnshels of ov whiiiffif
oonoem, with its ether orijbsie.lej
capacity of 90,000 tmsfaels.
St. Louis capttallslB
ArAAtirm of iluw VoOAlen'miif aJ; j
The dissppeanwee & comb from her heM'iaf'wm
about three week aj)tjy fn- ti Dm onnnnhMtn-nk fit lhaa
at astempnis, nmvi wa. ar my
The hog oholersi it re in Miami Cowity. and dollars' worth of litoek
Farmers are at a loss for WW 'S
ot winter pork. The sate of
store at eteviQii,
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