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-rcavuMi survivors of tne Dammars, to this city, took her departure from Philadelphia, Friday afternoon; Capt-Mur-rell's last day in port was signalised'' by a" generous mark of Bentimnt oa behalf of kjself and the officer of the steamer. The vessel's officers have contributed their entire stare of he testimonial raised for them to the survivors of the
Danaiark. Th rew retin their, .Tpor-
tidth. "Cap. Murreli an reeeptkn on
board the Missouri, and for three hours contioaooaly shook tke ceaseless Use of men, Women, and children by tke hand. A fierel souvenir, tied witk a silk ribbon to a card, was banded to each lady M b paaaed in ; Una. The oatda bad printed on them, "Compliments of Capt. Hamilton Vorrell, of the Atlantic Transfer Steamsbipktiaao&Ti, April SS, I8W." Among others who presented their coavpUnteata to tke Captain were fifty IndiaB girls froaa the LiDOoIa bowse. They presented, bias with a gold watoh chain with a blood stone setting and pair of baadod moccasins. -
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Cheese lav Tartan TMKewk ' j Ib Preatdeat has appointed the tollown Western poatntasteri: Indiana Mlohnol 2. Garber. Madison; Xra. Margaret L. Bowe, Torthinyton; B, F. Beooct. Bush, rille. Ohio-John W. Steel. Oberlin; Samuel 0, Moore, Ftadhtf. Iowa John E. Piokeras. Attn; Wim&m H. Tnrreil. Waverljr. Heeraaka Mrs. A. A. Blgnor, ludlngton. Kansas Harry H. Task, Paraons; Kenry & CoWgiU. Baldwin. Missouri 4)rin D. instill. BnOar. At) sona .fieorge H. Cook. riasstaS. .Idaho Edward AngeL Hailey. The' ruaWsht has appotated Willis inert, of Idaho Territory, United States attorney lor the Distrjot ( Idaho. She Poetraaster General has promoted TV. B. Oooley troai Chief Clerk of the Honey-Order Barean' to Chief Clerk Jt the Foetoffloe pepartment.. He m afco pointed Sdward O. Carlin ksaistattt BnperinteiHletat of the Railway ait Serriea: John A. Chapman, of Illinois, Chief of the Inspsotion Dirtelon; LS. Terry, Bsportntendent of Kails at Nashville, rnn. : Prank H. Smith. Superintendent of Veils at Baltimore, and 8. 0. gnlUraa. Superintendent of Matte at Cincinnati. James 9. Wardle, of Hew. York, has been appointid Chief of Division to the Census OJBee.
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Immediately upon the receipt of press Tepoits that Goremment' offcifala and ethers tempomrilr in GoTemment employ fa Oklahoma bed need their authority as tach ofaotals to secure prior riahftsin the lands in the territory, in dsnegardof the rights of others, the President and Secretary Noble telegraphed the special agents of the departments now In the territory, to make a thorough and prompt inTestigation of the facts in the case, taii uem its completion to immediately notify the Secretary of their findings. A report is expected daring the week.. In speaking of the matter Secretary Noble said that not the least shadow of an injustice to settlers in Oklahoma would be tolerated far a moment, and that as soon as the fasts in the esse could be ascertained, it officiate .were found to haTS been implieatod in any attempted injustice or wrong-doing, the action of the Gorern-. asant In the matter would be Tory prompt and decisive.
The capital punishaect bill, whieh passed-the Minneapolis LegisUtnre in
its bat hours, is a peculiar oak, Uader-
ita prorisions the prisoner is to be kept fafeseJitaTy confinement -nd see no one bat his family, his lawyers, and bis spiritual advisers. He is to be exeeuted before sunrise and may invite three persons to he present. The Sheriff inrites six persona besides the surgeon. The most unique feature of the law, however, is tha provision whieh makes it a misdemeanor for any newspaper to prist anything more about the matter than the
E. B. Cowgfll, the Kansas State Sugar In-
( ipeetor. says that there wtfl be a number of
sew sugar faetotms started in Kansas this rear, and that the sugar product of the State will be many times greater than it wasiastyear. In addition to the Ness City fnstltutioa n factory la now being built at
Kediefne fledge -at a coat of 73.O00l The Cowley Springs factory Is being rebuilt at an additional cost of tSO.OOO, so that its capacity will be doubled. The Kansas State Sugar Company is now erecting sugar works at Attiea. to eost $73,000. Bonds for ingar works hare been roted at Ubeiml and 3hlrey, and Mead Center is making preparations to establish a lactory. The Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed W. W. Seett. of Kedioine Xetlge, to be Superintendent of the government's experimental work in sorghum sugar manufacturing. He wilt visit all the sugar factories in the State and report his obaarTattenu to the AgriouIloral Department. a'mimi wejqg laanrMt wmwn, ttlmf Attempte toSeewe sniooo from nCaHlornteBajik, bwtls Arrested. A bold attempt at bank roboory was mads at Yentura. CkL, by a man named McCarthy. He entered Collins & Sons' bank while the :nehier. Collins, was gone to lunch, leaving Jack Morrfcoa alone. McCarthy ente-ed and complained of his poverty, whieh had drawn him to think of suicide. He laid a package on the counter whish he said was dynamite, and drew a six-footer and demanded (30.0001 Morrison dodged behind the counter and ran out or the back door. The robber then seised a tray containing shout SajDOO and -walked into the street, Morrison gave the alarm and people gathered on the atreet, but no one was armed. The thief had horse hitched near the
bank, aid was' making for that. The sheriff
happened to be near, but was without firearms. He stepped into a hardware store and seised a shotgun, when the robber suddenly surrendered. Toe money was all recovered except tao, which was probably lost on the street. .. KtsXX WOSK WITH 1'UK SWITCH.
- war veterana who are enisled to eohttaritatlon for the loss of the use of their iimbs by disease or injury are now fiQng their claims' in vast numbers. It is stated at the office of the Surgeon General of the army that a considerable percentage of the money whieh Congress intended for those disabled soldiers is unnecessarily wasted in attorney's fees. Notice is given that all sacliaims can be settkd by a tetter to the 'Surgeon General of the amy, without incurring anyi expense to the elnim-
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Tle Ohd4MMWDHamsn O. 4elected3ejOamsef H. Hons, of ChOiieethev depaitment commander, and passed resolutions favoring s pension of fit per month to every soldier, with one eent per day per month in addition for all over ninety days service. Mrs. William Herron of Cincinnati, wan elected President of the Women's Belief Corps, of Ohio. . Mf-liintliiiiii WMartwriwBBem. Berlin speetel: Mr. Pendleton, the United States Minister, will take no part in tbe conference on SamOen affairs, lie has presented his letteie of recall to Zmperor William and will' immediately retire front Berlin. The affairs of the location will be conducted by Mr. Chapman Coleman, .the First Secretary of the Legation. talii a Tiaialiii WiliSxa A freight train on the Pennsylvania Beitroad ran into e burning bridge at Catswassa, Pa., and broke through into the ravine making u terrible wreck and fatrihr injuring JEagineer Joel Bowsinos, Pixenan Jonns BosselL and a brakenmn ,aned James InSine. The loss is abot seventy thousand dollars. . C f m ISuirial Pay. ,
Postmaatm V al Wansmaker :tas
"ets-of the postausters iwta, Ga., forper;ir ofaees on. April memorial day.
granted taint at Kavannat mitsiott to e. , S6; theOonft
Acting ComptMrller of Currency has authorized the First' National Bank of Murphyboro, Ills-, to begin, business with a eapjtel et fdOW,
Pred W. Meier m tew days ago
borae thief, and took morphine to avoid the smjnenand punlahmeot which were inevitable. The poifloo was taken while he was eoafesed teuestl at the Pour Courts, in St. Itds. Mo. The horses were stolen from Charles SehJaroth, who luntdes near BeUevilla.la. ' ; -. . Tatww sses a uselaift Vta, Bargeon General Hamilton, of the Marine Hoenttat "ervfes at Washington. D. C, has been informed by the President of the Boardof Health of ftenford, Pla.. that a esse
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Hsmfltonamys every precaution has been taken to. jrevent the spread of me disease and so danger ht apprehended.
A fereeof Boudanese attaskad and detented a party of Egyptians from Suahto who were building s fort at Port HaMlt. The Bgyptians lost ton kitted and wounded. They were forced to take refug on the strt.aeye- Agatnt .end hays returned to lied arilsv Wastee. T. X Bergees. City Treasurer of DurangO, ..was arrested, e barged with being miter to tM extent ot tlXOOft He-wa srfdautunriasr evert :.j eitya,eer
Caves ml Corporal gnn-
IssaneatnTea In theBoston Schools. Superintendent Seever of the Boston, Mass,, public- schools, ban presented his annual report to the School Board. The ttrietnres on corporal punishment were the features. He says that he does not advise the complete abolition of such discipline, but so far has it gone in. Boston that it has become "oxeessive. unreasonable, and injurious, amounting, in fast, to a gross abuse." There have been, be says, over 18,000 cases a year for the last three years. In 1H87-'8S the average number ot boys' belonging to grammar schools was 1&29B; the numbs of corporal punish -stents daring the year was 11.788. In the same year the average number of boys be
longing to primary schools was 11383; the number of corporal punishments wa-i 6,898. These rates had practically been maintained for two or three years,, if not more, and once at least exceeded.
ATJED VROM TBuB WATKK8,
IV, i wagon and Crew of Oh
Taken Offer Um MUMoarl. All of the passengers and crew of the
Danmark were saved. Mr. Baben, the first
tear, who is among them, reports that
en Anril 4 the Denmark's shaft was broken.
The next day the disabled steamer met the steamship Missouri, from jLondon, March 98. for .Philadelphia and Baltimore. The Missouri, towed the Danmark unlit the
Cth. when the latter seemed to be
about to sink. At first the Missouri was. only able to take aboard twen
ty of the Denmark's passengers, but after
hsvteg; thrown over a portion ot her cargo she found accommodations for all the
crew and passengers of the Danmark. The Missouri then proceeded to the Azores and
left there the first and second officers and
829 passengers. Bhe then continued her
journey to Philadelphia, Pa., with 840 passengers and the remainder ol the crew. Where she arrived safely. The Captain, attd
three engineers of the Danmark left the
Asores the 14th for London. The Danmark
was about 800 miles from Newfoundland
when the accident happened. JNCCOMK8 A3 AGNOSTIC.
A.mMari Bplneopal Xmlater Deposed at
JBJ Own atonuert. In accordance with his own request, the Bev. Henry Truro Bray has been deposed from the Episcopal ministry by Bishop
Tnttlo. Dr. Bray's ease is celebrated In
ehuseh circles. ' After serving several years
in the ministry a spirit of disbelief took
poesesiion of him. and he became an agnostic. He was rector or the church as Booneville, Mo. He wioto a letter to
the Bishop, in which he outlined his
religious platform. In this letter he set
forth that he did not believe Christ was
God; nor did he believe in revealed religion
or the God of the Bible. In an interview he asserted that disbelief Is widespread in the pulpit, and that a Bishop told him that he did net believe in the Bible, but thought
Plato was bettor than the Bible. '
rmoqc rust bukmed to death.. HerriMe Scene at aFtoe In a Detroit fcodgaas; House. A fire at Denn's Hotel, a cheap lodging house at Detroit, Miob.. caused the death ot three men and serious Injury to a fourth. Malaehl Powell, porter, let a lighted lamp fail from his hands in the rear of the bar
room, and hi an almost incredible space ot
time the entire building was fall of smoke, . J. Gibson, a bartender, and F. T. Bolllo
were asleep on the third floor and Loth were suffocated. William Wblttaker, a sailor, was seen at his window on the fourth floor, but before the firemen could reach bimhefelbaaad wasimotfaered. Pow
ell was badly burned but will probably recover. The fire was confined to the first floor and the loss will not exceed $l,E0a,
STKVCK DEAD HV MOHTNISO,
Several Persons in Conneotkmt Killed In a
Furious Kleetrteal Storm. Several persons were killed end many
others injured by lightning during a terrlflo
thunder storm near Danbury, Conn, While the family of Levinda Adams, of Trinity Lake, was at supper the house was struck by lightning and the entire family rendered
unconscious. Mrs. Adams, when regaining eonsolousnesf i, woe horrified to find two of
the family dca 1 nod the rest terribly injured.
The house vas also set on lire. Noah
Adams, a relative, was horribly burned add Instantly killed by the bolt. A daughter of Mr. Adams was also Instantly killed and her body terri bly mutilated. The neighbors succeeded in dragging the unconscious people from the burning building. Important Pension Decision, . ,
Corporal Tanner, the Commissioner ot
Pensions, at Washington, D. C, has rendered an Im portant decision on the application, of John Webb of Indiana for an inornate of pension from $34 to $30 month. Webb Is receiving the former rate tor varicose veins Jt the left -leg, had aslied for - the increase on the ground
that total disability in the foot now
exists. In granting the increase asked for the Commiss ioner says in his opinion that It was not the Intention ot Con&reai In using the words "total disability" to debar claimants for pension bom the benefits of the act until the hand, foot, arm, or leg is a worthless incumbninoe. Hereafter, he says, total disability shall be held to exist when the affected member, by reason ot wound, injury, or disease, is useless in the performance ot ordinary manual labor. - Oklahoma or Bust," The scramble for virgin soli in Oklahoma, I. T.. begun on the 22d .Inst Fully 50,000 people vera waiting on the border ot that small patch ot ground. Past horses, railroad trains, stages, and all sorts of private vehicles bore them into the coveted territory at the earliest possible moment. Ten thousand or more will likely get; possession of ail the desirable land, and then they Trill ha ve to hold it against five times as many disappointed men. Everybody, is armed with deadly weapons. No government save that of the War Department exists. There Is reason tc fear, therefore, that muoh bloodshed will result from the general turmoil boforo tht rush is over and the country settles dowi to quiet business. Fouith-Clans Postmasters. In one day First Assistant Postmastei General Clatkson appointed one hundred and seventy-five fourth-class postmasters. Of this . number about 75 per eent were made to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation. Mr. Clorkaon said that practically no changes are belna made in fourth - class olflces. except, upon sustained chargos against the postmas'Sers or to improve the location? of the office, and where the postmaster had held ofll ie about four years. In those cases, he said, changes would continue tf be made upon the recommendation of members of Congi oHS or other competent persons in whose dls srlots the offices are located. Want l3,3IW tor Doctoring Mr. Tlldsn In the suit. . x.New York City, ot Dr. a E. Simmons for the recovery of $148,350 from the estate of the late Samuel J. TUdon fo prof esslonsliiervtoes, motion has been made that the casti be sent to a referee. Fiulntifi claims to have paid 8,200 visits at $50 each, and also demands compensation for th time since 1878, when be had himself in readiness tc devote his attention exclusively to Mr. TUdon, pursuant to an arrangement between them. Counsel for Mr. Tilden's executors denied any arrangement tor Dr. Simmons' oxclusire services, anl characterized the Doctor's claims as most extraordinary, - Cera Crashed STogetliar. A wreck iras caused near "Davis' Cottage." Mass., by the breaking in two of a freight train, the two parts of which crash, ed together. Several oars were smashed, but it is not known that anybody was hurt. An Electric Company. . The Edison General Eiectrlo Company has been incorporated (it Albany, N. 'Y., with a capital stock of $12,900,000. Among the incorporators are Henry YiUard and Thomas A. 15dIson. A Corrupt Official, John P. MoOrath. a county magistrate si Louisville, Ky. , was sent to jail for twenty four hours for approaching a juror with intimations of bribery. Double Tragedy at Lebanon, O. Prank Lynn, a young, man boarding ai Mr. Wilborn Noah's, shot and killed Mrs. Noah at Lebanon, Ohio, and then committed suiolde. v A Wet State. The proposed p ohlbition amendment tc the Constitution, whs defeated .in Massachusetts by about 44,003 votes. Tlii Deadly Cigarette. Willie P. Welch, a Xa-yoar-old boy at Rockland, Me., died from immoderate cigarette smokin;f. Destroyed by Fire, The bottling works of C. B. Williams at BIsmark. Dak., have been destroyed by fire. . Loss. $2,000. XHBMABKKTS. CHICAGO. CATTUi Prime. tt.00 m 4.50 Ootid 3.50 W 4.00 Ooximon & 3,50 Boos Shipping Grade.. t.m & ft.oo Sbebp 4.00 5.50 WWU.T No. a Bed 81 & .89 Cons No. t .01 (! .35 Oats No. 3. S3 & ,S Bra Na a 40 & .4t Butter Choice Creamery. .t4 a M Cheese W.l Oream, Hats. lVbtg) .11 Eoos Pnsb 10U& .UH JPoTATOxa Hsw California, H bu L5J at 1.75 Pork Me an u.ao UOO MILWAUKEE WirsAT Canh , 78 & .7SJ4 Coax No, a Wa& .8-1)4 Oats No. a White W & 2a Brs No. 1 43 & .44 Babldy -Nh 8. 57 & -59 Poaa Megs. lLO'J ! 12,00 DKCIWUT. CAXTLB 3.03 & 4.50 Hoos., 4.03 ." 5.O0 i Brbkp. 4.09 (r 5.00
Wheat Ho. lied. .WUif Cork No. a Yellow 34 mi Oats No. 8 White ; .S3 &
TOl.KDU. Wheat No. a Bad 9) & .91 Corn Cash 85 & .33 Oats J47, ... , 85 & .30 NEW V011K. Cattle 3.75 01 5.00 Horn. 6.00 it 5.75 8h):p , 4.50 (3 0.00 Wmuat No.aited...: 85 3 .80 CoiJi No. 4 43 a .47 Dais Whiti 35 & .40 Pons New Hen 13.00 0U8.75 ST. VQVIH. OATTW 8.73 & 4.50 Hoes 4.25 4.75 Wheat No. a , 81!4 .68)4 CtiRK Na Si SO & .81 Oats .23 & .24 Bauiibx WUoousln ,63 & .70 INDIAN AFOUN. CATTLH 3.75 & 1.50 Hoos 4.50 0 5.00 Riuskp , 8.00 4.00 Lambs 4.00 i 6.00 CINCINNAW. Hog Bute bom' 4.00 & 5.00 Whuat No. 4 Bed .B5(9 .SOU Cons No. Si S5ijl .8(1 Ji Oats Na S Mixed 97 & .48 Byis-No. 60 tf .51 Poms Men 12.25 aua.73 KANSAS OIXT, CaxxXE flood 4.00 0 4.50 Common. 3.00 & 4.00 Stookers 2,50 3.7S Bog Cholos 4 50 0 4.00 Medium.... 4.25 4.50
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THE mW EL DORADO.
8TIKKRINO SCENES AND INCIDENTS AT GVTIliUE, OKI.AHOMA.
A Town of Plfteen Thousand Population Without Shelter or Provisions A Graphic Becital of the Confusion Disgruntled
Boomers Bound to Have Heine.. . ArkansM City (Kan.) special.
NFOBMATION from
Guthrie, It T.olthe
f..ct that (bat towu is plunged in aeculingly IneitricStblo ooiifus'on, a state of affairs that pertains throughout the' entire Oklahoma oountry. Tfao differences of rival factions that seek to control the town have baffled the efforts of half & dozen public meetings to settle them. The ex. citement Is at very
high itch and uoufldonoe Is beginning to waver. The suffering of tho 15,000 unsheltered andunproritiloned people Is soinethuig thatooid9.be endured only ainid t wh a furor. Ijio Quonrio correspondent Kintluuus: Thousands-ar6 See. ing tho town and the country, hst thousand' more bavo uciired in. Ihexe is f eoline of wild uneertatutv and apprehension that amounts to distraction. There is no food, no water, no oovc from the bitter cold of the nights and the Kithorins heat of the day. The railroad is gorgsd with business and is temporarily Inoperative. The town site is changed every hour by the rival parties, as each secures a temporary duminanco, Not a building has been started, and but few tents have been .reared, Nobody knows where the streets are, every one is ust now yielding all things else to a clamor for food, drink and sheLteror means of flint) t. The sight at Guthrie upon which the sun 70se this morning was probably never before wit. passed in the history of the world. Theraejority
OI (no xu.wu p 001)10 lay oi&nKeiiBBB upon luo
lund. either t :uarding their claims or slumber-
in las BV
could took the meager shelter
around, either t:
lug where they (iad fallen of fatiguo. U
pot platform tnoy u In the few tents the
111 tho de
lay aa clone ad corded wood.and
orowaeu 111 uuaa lea masses.
afforded, but there quickly came a limit to capacity, beyond whieh neither tears nor bribes could prevail. Among the thousands stretched on the ground vera women, many of tbetu of respectable quality. Those who Could not sleep and they were legion iu the stinging cold crouched iu groups, swearing
A SEW TOWN SITE.
or weeping as suited their spirits. The sun fairly leaped ou t of the prairie and within two hours the cold had been supplanted by a Sahara heat. The wind rose, but without cooling effect. It blew a hot sirocco that scorched tho flesh and filled tho air with blinding alkali dust. To complete the general misfortunes th only large tent, eecoinmodatinff 150 people, fell under stress of the furnace blast. It could not ba' repaired and ether tents could scarcely bo mounted. The climate rirovckes an Insatiable thirst, aud water was the first supply to fail. There is a little stream near by, but the water is too strongly alkallno to drink. Tho railroad tank that takes its supply by a gravity pipe front a distant elevated spring afforded the only possible drinkable water, and it is brackish. It was attacked by tbousauds of people uutil the railway people lll the military to protoet it, under a protenss that they needed tho water to operate the road. The tankman, however, sold the water at li cetits cuint thereafter, as did the locomotive engineer from the tanks of their engine. The railroad seems to be completely prostrated and does not deliver tho baggogo of the suffering throngs. Pnounionia aud sunstroke are beginning to claim their victims, but the sick have neither rtfuge nor sympathy. Tho whole scene, in Its countless, varied, and painful details, is simplly indescribable. Here stands a big city out ol doors and without supplies. Only one train Left over tho crippled road, and it was crowded beyond additional space for a mouse on the floor or a sparrow ou the root. Those who could not got on cheered defiantly as tho train pullecl out and another just as crowded pulled in from the north. Tho correspondent, secured a tooting on the pilot of tho locomotive to reaoh Arkansas City, nearly eighty miles north, with this dispatch. Along the rou te during tho Ion;; hours of tho laggard ride, soorcei ot boomer wagons could bo seen forging sorth-irard across the Cherokee strin. rctracluo the hard ionraev thev had but
juat completed. Hundreds and probably thou-
sauas 01 &uenj. wiu net on me strip ana
ORASD PALACE HOTEL, aOTBIUtB.
try to foroo a settlement, They aro
strapped buii ut'huerate, aim lue uuvernment must yield this fine region, now uselessly sequestered, or cause great trouble. Cooci'liumor is splendidly maintained in the face ot theg hardships. One boomer, hailod from the train as to whether ho was northward bound, cheated, "I'm going baok to mv wife's people." Everybodv of whom inquiries were made on the train declared tout he was disappointei lu tho country and would not put up ith the suffering for the scant chauce of gain. Guthrie la fllliug up with gamblors, thimble-riggers and thieves, and t tie shrewdest and most unscrupulous scheming is practiced. Tom Needles, the newly appointed Marrhal from Illinois, is hem with 300 donuties, and hai demonstrated Ids fitness by a wholesale gobble of property. Nothing, however, can bo dono to remedy the re,cally oouduot of the Federal authoritios and their favoritios uutil the courts aro invoked. It was so evident from the first that controversies must occur tliat it was asy enough to stop rumors of Moody collisions. Tho report v as split out last uijikt that lliroo men had been killed nrar Guthrio. This proved utterly false. Tho story finally settled down to one man killed and the names and location were given. The correspondent mdeoverto the soeno, about three miles west of (luthrio, and found that the two men had divided Ills' disputed claim and were sleeping in tho saino tent. Pistols were drawn tioo last night and UMtay in the town, b at in each case one party retired before foroing troubl?, Somo substantial news fatalities in other parts of the territory wero brought in by Deputy Marshal J. G. Vaiiium. He said that Mania Colbart, a wcalthv resident of the Chickesaw Nation, was slot and killed over on the eastern border by a man named Nolant, who m allied. Fourteen miles v;est of Oklahoma Cit a man uiunod Martin was found by a patrol (iidUBtrlously building a sod house. A f ow yrds distant a man lay shot through the body aid dsad.
A EW TOWN THAT PROMISES vO BKCOXB FOPO-I.OUB,
Martin said that he had left bis familv on thn
I southern bordor' and had run Ids horse to the I cluituH he had lu mind. He bad found it occu1 iticd by a boruier, who bad laid for days iu tho ! bushes, and in a quarrel had killed him. The ; dead man could not be identified. Tho patrol aud I Martin buried him, without box or shroud, in a shallow grsvo on tho claim. When the case was reported, Gen. Merritt ordered Martin's arrest. The excitement in the southern part of the Territory is as great as in the north, and
allbotigfa the ernrds are not nearly so crest the people wo of a more turbulimt character. A Texan named Davis took the word of leave at nodn on tho southern line, with the soldiers as witnesses, nud ran hi horse across the intervening twelve miles and tho two Canadisii Elvers to Oklahoma City iu forty minutes. Ho filed a homestead claim on tho town site, and ulthougn the deputy luurshals and railroad .nuployeu there had alroady dono so, Davis atone conformed to the law. Every town site in the Territory and half the lots andhomestt adx will be in the courts, and a stupendous tannin of legislation is bound to enBuo. A young man named Compis, who had failed to fuoure a lot in Guthrio. filed a homestead elniiii ntiout two miles northwest of the town. Ho was aacompauied by a friend, name un. known. The two bad scarcely driven stakes when a man, armed with a. Winchester rifle, issued from the bush and ordered them oil Coinpis showed fight, whon the man shot him through the breast. The wounded man was dtp&cd into tho timber by his friend, and there died in half an hour, when the news reached Guthrie a posse of thirty men organized aud overtook the murderer about twelve miles north. He Tcfused to surrender Bad was killed at a vol-
A MARSHAL EmXUUTES A BOOMER.
lev. Reference to entry books show that his name was probably 0. Y. Land. . LISBON ALRKADY A CtTT The Citizens Claim to Have the Liveliest Town iu Oklahoma,' Lisbon (I. T.) speclaU Lisbon, or Kingfisher, as It is sometimes called, is s large town already. Chicago avenue is half a mile long. The town, however, is yet a city of tents. Capt. Woodson gave the settlers under his direction a fair start on the line on the 23d inst. The horseback men dashed recklesslv across the prairie, the wagons and carriages following in baste and confusion. The first arrival at Kingfisher as W. B. Guthrie, From Custer County, Nebraska. He rode a slim bay mare, and covered the twenty-five miles in one hour and threequarters. Not twenty feet behind him was W. C. Yocuui of Harper, Kan. Tho two rode side by side nearly the whole way. W. H. Donley of Harper and Jerry Natter of Looti came just behind. They wore after town lots. The greater majority of those to whom Capt . Woodson gave the starting signal went directly to their claims. Many passed through here southward. Almost ovcry Kingfisher man wears a six-shooter, and 1.. 11 ...1 ,.4. 1, ni),. l,n, ull
n . ""ui" m... ... . vj . ......... vu. "
are good.liumor settled by tow.
wnoie section. Accounts from the lino say that the start from there was an exciting spectacle. Tho line was formed at 10 o'clock and was ton utiles long. At the signal the noise that broke forth was terrific. Wagons were broken in the rush, and others broke down in the gulleys and sharp turns in the road, and all the way from here to the lino tbo road is strewn with wrecks. Among the first vehicles
id-humored and disputes will probably bo
xue town w spreaaiug vrw
INDIANA HAPPENINGS.
CTSNT8 AMD INCIDEHTS THAT BAYS LATELY OCCUBRED,
An Interesting Summary of the Here Important Doings of Our Neighbors Wed. dlucs and Deaths Crime, Casualties and deneral News Note.
Board of Trade Organised. The business men of Frankfort have reorganized tho Frankfort Board ot Trade by the eleotion of the following officers and directors: Eon. D. W. C. Bryant, President; George A. Smith, Vice President; W. H. Hart, Secretary; Ool. J. IV. Coulter, Treasurer. Di-rectors-D. F. Allen, W. B. White, S. A. Coulter, G. A. Smith, V. It. Hiaes, N. 3. Gaskill, Milt 3. Swann, W. H. Hart, E. H. Staley, D. W. C. Bryant, and G. A. Smith. The completion and great success of tbo natural-gas plant aud th location of the Clover Leaf BailroarV shops there is making the city experience an unexampled prosperity, and the Board of Trade proposes to add as many other substantial and legitimate industries as possible. Minor State Items. .-The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. A cow owned by Francis Plummet, of Greenfield, has died from hydrophobia. Mrs, Melvaniaf of Oorydon, was cut by the fin of a catfish and died of blood poisoning. James Walsh was killed by the cars near Goshen. He had a wife and two children living in Auburn. Joel Kewlin, a Hendricks County farmer, while crossing a field, was seriously gored by a vicious bull. The Governor has appointed Theopbilus B. Kumler, of Butler County, to be a Trustee of Miami University. Jacob Clark, of Goshen, while touring down a barn on Friday, was struck by a falling beam and fatally injured. Brazil's business boom of last year is still on, many residences and business blocks being iu course of construction. The school ; trustees of Winchester have bought four acres of ground, and will erect a $50,000 school-house thereon. The Portland Wind Engine Company, with a capital of $300,000, has been organized. The factory will employ 400 men.
Burning stubble, nearRushvilie, set ! . (touted them.
fire to the clothing of the 4-year-old , hsif.grown and have been placed in the
ehiitt ot Lewis uagiey, ana eausea us , court-yard at Soottsburg.
death,
The completion of a large drainage
Jonathan Davce, -ho lrv. is five miles nortl east of Martinsville, wat; very badly crushed while loading a saw-log. A chain broke and the log rolled back over him. He is past sixty, t uod cannot recover. Charles Howe, an cmpltiyo at the Monon shops iu New Albany, was caught' by the belting and jerked ove tho uhafting. His head was omskee, both legs broken, each in two places, a ad an arm broken. He was i',lso internally hurt. The farmers f Clay Oountj are of ganizing, cUimin ; they have been made the victims of imported beef and other trusts. A M"tini will be he Id to effect a permanent organization, a committee having been appointed to report at that time. A Deputy State Veterinarr Surgeon is investigating two cases of glanders among the stock ot a farmer named Ham, at Mt. Etna. A valuable horse and a mule have already died, a: ds.aother animal is ill, The farm has been quarantined. James C. Morgan, a carpenter, by the fall of a portion of the building on which he was working at Indmnnpolis, was crushed to death. He was aged 38, and leUvos a wife and two children. The fall of the houae was due to a sadden squall of wind. Harrison Hogan, the old man who made Ihinga warm for the deputy sheriffs when they attempted to arrest him at his floating arsenal on Bull Creek, Clark County, is again free, having paid his various fines and compromis ad the trouble with his wife. George Perkins, of CetDentvUle, Clark County, tied bell to a co it's tail and the animal was frightened to death. He was compelled to purchase th ownei another cow, besides being proi eouted for the offense by the Humane Society. His sport cost him $70. William Guntle, of Goblitsville, Huntington County, claims to hare perfected a perpetual-motion machine. It is a complicated piece of mechanism, with fifty cog wheels made ot wildcherry wood. Pendulums, levers, aud weights, with an eccentric trip, delicately arranged, keep the wheels turning after having once been set in motion. Russell Bice, a Soott County farmer, bos a oat that has raised five young squirrels with the tender ears that she would have bestowed upon hir own young. Some time ago Mr. Itassell found a nest of young squirrels in the woods and took them home, and the eat
The squirrels are now
OKLAHOMA OB "BUST."
to arrive was a light wagon drawn by a splendid pair of horses, Tho occupants were George B. Norris and W. Jt. Brownley, both formerly of tbeljnrned Laud Office, and George Worrell, of Larncd. Thoy took J ( iu Kingfisher. Two young ladies earned Stint took a claim ibis side of the north line. The men gave them a show, and their claim is not di puted. Thoy were in an open- b.jj, orawn by a mule, aud with a tent dangling behind. A man named Roner bas a lot here, and bis sign reads : "Keep off this claim. I have a gun." This evening the ladles were on hand and strolling about as spectators. The lawyers' sisns are out. The"lloek Island," which is an alleged "crock hostelry, " is full of guests. Unless Guthrie or some oilier of the eastern Oklahoma towns beat this town this is the liveliest place In A tnnrlpS t njla ti
-.- . - - 7tea in
wan to luvn nvAa.
Disappointed Boomers Kesolve to Invade the Cherokee Strip. Arkansas Cliv (Kan.) telegram.! A meeting of Oklahoma boomers, disappointcil in securing claims in the Territory, was held hero. Tilers was 11 largo and enthusiastic atte ndauce. Speeches were modo denouncing the manner in wldeh Oklahoma was settled. It ws freely declared that large bodies of men served as Uuited States Marshals in older to get into the country and select the beet clsims, and that this was unfair to law-abiding settlers. They came here to eeoure homes, and as they could not get them in Oklahoma thy were going to nave them iu tho Cherokee strip. About five hundred men in this town bv pledged themselves to go to the Cherokee strip and take claims, lot tho eon sequences be what they may. There Is a Iiresf.uro of the surplus peoplo driven lack here from Oklahoma, and awaiting iu the terri''ry the first chance to got out, that must be re Ueved. Tho baffled Hottlers are earnest and undismayed. Thoy will oxeoute their purpose. Tho troops iu this rcition, fortunately, aro in command of Capt. Jack Hayes, an old frontiersman and a cool aud discreet officer. There is, nevertheless, going to be great turmoil ou the
A OEXOTKE OKX.AI10MA SQUATTER.
Cherokee strip unless the government at Washton interferes. MAIL KOUTKS IN OKLAHOMA, Xhe Autlioiltle.i at Washington Will 1 "robably Open Several. Becond Assistant Postmaster-General Whuvford ban under consideration the establishment of several "tar mail routes through Oklahoma. Tho Secretary of the Interior has rect-ivod telegraphic report i fr-m department inspectors stationed at Guthrie, Oklahoma and Arkansas City, Kan. The former says : "Everything quiet here ; 1. gocd clans of people in charge of atfairs. iluthrie laud office, in full operation. Klne.;lKUor v 111 opou at once. The people will settle the v.iwn site question quietly aud await legislation f. perfect their titles. There is absolutely no inound for administrative uneasiness. A publio meeting held was as orderly and conservative in character as it would be In New York." Plenty ef OHIco-Seokors on Hand. Candidates for city offlcos are canvassing Guthrio and other towns for votes. About t'.voiit y-flvo men are anxious to sorvo Guthrie aa its first mayor. Prominent among these in an Illinois man who Is well-known throughout the Htuto, Geu. Jasper N. Hcoco, Tom Needles, the marshal, and a dozen others. Illinois Is In a fairway to obtain recognition of her greatness.
A Cai.ifohnia paper asserts thatono of the tramps of tho .Santa Cruz chain gang wears kid gloves when sweeping the streets.
Fiiakok is tho greatest snuff-am-Hitming country in the world, using 13,000,000 pouiKk a year, or an a erao of five ounces per capita,
ditob just north of Peru has reclaimed thousands of acres of extremely fertile swamp land. The question of applying for a city charter was voted upon at Marion and resulted in favor of the charter by a majority of 486. Two hogs belonging to George Craven, a farmer near Milan, died from hydrophobia in (he most violent form a few days ago. Herman Gallert, of Wanatah, while crossing the Kankakee Biver in a boat.
fell overboard and was drowned. He
was 23 years old. A 3-year-old child ot Mr. and Mrs.
Nice Baker, living near Spencer, foil into a tub of boiling water and was
scalded to death. A cow in Scott Township, Mont
gomery County, last week had a calf, one-half of which was a perfect goose-
head, wings, and breast. .
Owing to the. pollution of Eel Biver
by I-akuge of oil from the tank at Lake-
ton, the fish have left that stream and
gone into others tributary to it.
Will Murphy's meetings at Spencer
are proving very successful, and many
men heretofore tipplers are now seen.
wearing the blue ribbon ontjio-ertaet-TjiBiUi0fJeBta1n"," who was in-
n accident on the fairiand
Bail way at Morgantown, last August, has compromised his $5,000 damage suit for
$600. Jesse Crecelius, of Eokerty, aged 70, and Miss Ellen Cunningham, yet in her teens, were married a few days ago at the residenee of the bride's father, near Jasper. Ceoil Higgins has been selected as the choice of Fort Wayne Bepublioans for postmaster. He has been for many years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company. A new G. A. B. post has been organized at Bussellrille, and is named HazlettPost, in honor of a deceased soldier. There aro seventeen charter members. An enraged bull created a panic in the streets of LaPorte recently. Before it could be captured several personf were knocked down and one young lad) fatally injured. Andrew J. Sutton, aged 62 years, at. early settler of Elkhart county, and 1. veteran of the Mexican war, fell deacl from heart disease. He leaves a smal family in Elkhart.
Thomas J. Aerea, of Columbia, Foy. ette. County, has been granted a ponsior of $13,919.77, the largest ever granted under the general pension laws, Acrea's disability is total blindness. J. W. Caldwell, a Morgan County farmer, had a valuable colt ruined a few days ago by on enraged cow's horns, which so incensed the farmer that he has since had all his cattle dehorned. Samuel Iteist, an alleged clairvoyant, has oreated a sensation by looating boxes of old coins buried ou farms ii. tkevieinity of Goshen. His last discovery contained money to the value 01! 10. Adjutant-general Buokle says tha: the colored men of Crawfordsville can not be mustered into the Indiana Legion, from the fact that Montgomery County has now two oompanies of in fantry. A number of cattle and a young sou lit William Sylvester, a Madison County farmer, were bitten by a mad dog recently. The cattle died. The ohild ii now at Terre Haute for mad-stone treat ment. Jack Canctsey, residing fourmilei southwest of Martinsville, was kicke 1 on the side of the head by a mule while he was currying it. Mr. Oanatsey was rendered unoonsoious and may not r -oover. Xhe citizens of Tipton are muoh ei -thused over the knowledge that the Lake Erie Western Bailway Company will locate shops there, making Tipton the division of both lines. It is undei -Stood that negotiations are pending fc r iorty acres of land east of town on the rnsin line st $100 per acre,
growth mm
HOW STAR AFTEIt il
AIDED TO ttlB3
4
Interosaiift Historical
the I'ntott Not Generally
.eleven States iu 1766 Sony-two.
TATKSof this
tho CottstBui
bored oolr el-
Una fnrmallToasjet
ber.. of that jjjflfcjgj
vjwm, w iw 1 ft 19 a of tlU'oi-i'-lnalrtf
the C r.tll utile j
May, 1790. HiM
State deln m !
niijh: liav-t bdea
a newcomer, for.ua
of March it.ShW.jri
neon rormf J outot 1 territory ol 3JeW"9f
February 1-1, in&j$
cress anion leiajaer-
nana rou mp&t ;
';iereuy Blown i
Vermont wiis that I
Statu addei:tt4 tttej
teen, lae :tm(.m
tuoky was rei
armroved a
than tliior. eiii
Kentucky's application hiKl beoir' tS k eari-r than the Green li.oimtin;BtW
the aot admitting ber was rr anted s nfbfit nnlv on June I. 1792. so thA
second. Fifteen States joi md'te Bfel
rrnaianm wasmngion ioi, i As Now York had set aft V
cinla, ha, I set off Kentnakir. I
1788, North Carolina, had s si 09
onrlv the following veer ttJ '.
lYiAll j coveved to the (leasn
and by it accepted. Siljeiursl In inwTition. adoiited a emst
plied for admission into tlio CrilaDi 1 Jlication was promptly Rn-nted, tod une 1. MS. Ijong tiefore tliat timet! vest Terrltorv had been eMablishsd 1
famous frdnianceof Jul; 19, 17B?, DuBf t
remainin; years oi rue ciiiiiiurysmaapaetg!
flow Iv settlea, ana an ao, was appweyev so. lsii'. allnwinc tin casta Dortibn m fbt
come, a litate on forming a constitution,':
was effec:ed on c vemba: 1 tou eomnllance vdth Uie lawmSo'
so that Ohio then became, the Statu.
Nine mars and m w poeacd before
sion or anoiner tmate. Louwaaa
icimel out oi tnevanior,-ceacu r
car me treaty ox apniuu, iosta, .
van this Frtuun temtorv iaa
Congress into two parte, the
Joshua Ooons, employed in Gen-
ford's mill, near 'Windfall, Tipton County, fell on a large saw, which struck him just below the hip, penetrating the right side and passing t irough the body to the head. None of hi t limbs were severed from the body, but he was sawed through and through frtim the hips to the lower base of the skut. He leaves a widow and children. While Boger Conliu, a farmer 37 years of age, who resides twelve miles southeast ot Washington, was on his way home, his team became frightened and ran away. The driver was t hrown from the wagon, and in falling the lines caught around his neok. In thii manner he was dragged 200 yards, when he was found in an unoonscious stats half an hour later. Bis injuries are probably
fatal. While boat-riding at Bookvilie, Willie Butterbs.il, son of a wido-r, and Johnny Beadle, both aged 8 years were drowned; Glenn Tenbrook, an older
boy was in the boat Ih 'Him f&gaslt 1 tMjmd w upset, and he sscaped, but thn otherT herTTrlfr-et
boys could 90 swim. The wutr was f romflUftan to twenty teet deep. The danr of the pond was cut to get the
LfeodieB which were in the water about
two hours. A gas well is being drillod on the edge of famous bull-frog pond in Blackford County, into which is mn m exhaust pipe from the engine. By this means the water for several l'eet uround the pipe is kept much warmer thitn tke remainder, and is quite an attract ion for the frogs, whioh gather there is large numbers. Frequently they get too olose to the pipe, and a sudden exhtust of steam is sure to kill several hundred. It is estimated that nearly 2,000 have been killed in the past week from this cause. The largest gas well ever drilled in Delaware county was developed on the land of - the Delaware County Land and Improvement Company w-sst of Muncie about one mile. The capacity is estimated at 13,000,000 cubic feet per day, and the flow of gas is so strong that the drillers have found it. next to impossible to pack it. Heavy weights pitched into the mouth of the six-inch
orifice are thrown up through the der
rick, a distauoe of one hundred feet with the velocity of a huge ball ehotont of a cannon, Muncie is highly elated over the good results. William J3. Lowe, aged 21 years.
went to Millhousen, riding a Maxican
pony, ne ana a neigntor noy recurnca together, and separated a short distance from Lowe's home about midnight. After passing into a lane leadiug to his father's house, the pony evidently became unruly, and when about a quarter of a mile from, the house throw young Lowe, breaking his neck. Earl ? next morning the father found the pot y near the barn. Asearoh resulted intlnding the son's body lying in the lane, dooth having been instantaneous. A farmer named Shpaf, living in Parke County, was bitten, in February, by a dog, and has just died a horrible death from hydrophobia. He was not alarmed by the bite uutil recently, when he informed his wife he believed he had hydrophobia. From that time on he was almost constantly in spasmc, barking like a dog and trying to bite "everything in reach. -Ho was tied with strong ropes to keep bim from injuring himself or others until death brought him relief. A boy named Myers bitten V-me dog has begun to show the 'uptoms. His arm, like that of has swollen and turned btaok. . The outlook for an abuu, it orop of all kinds ot fruit throughout Central and Northern Indiana was never more promising at this season of the ynr than at presont. The season is fully three weeks earlier than last year, and peach, cherry, plum, and apple orchards are in full bloom. The wheat crop, of which a large acreage was sown, looks fine and promises an enormous yield, "he soil is being prepared for an immemie corn orop. Farmers have their spring work well in hand, aud many are nd to plant.
Km:
called the Territory oi vrininsaoqi me act the District of Louisiana. The people former, early in unit formed a goveranw der an enabling act pessal byCongtessi months previous, and the act far their s
sion as the State of Loiin&ae was! Anril 8. 1812. Lo.ii -u'c-lh vas fbllowa
diana December 11, 1810 ; 1 Mississippi 1
mv, nf. .iui , try iiiiuuu u-au. v, vw,, bv Alabama December 1L 1810.
new States in four successive Decembers.
diana and Iluncds, o:' course. Has-
formed Irom tue n-tnwest T the other two from territory to tho United 8 Utter bv
Carolina and Georgia. Maine Uso quickly i
lowed, jnarcu ju, iks), oemgron-ieaoutoie.p
or Massachusetts; wmie Missouri, nose -
rormariy rne jusn'ic : oi Jj3isiana, ana . coIvihI its new name in 18 IS, was adroitt trust 10. 163L Hers 'res oiie of the saost
omble of all admiss:IODS. lor the actawtl
it was al io entitled un uct to proMWt alavwyj In certain Territ-i-8," assea March S, Wtc j
The memorable debotee o i lOiat subject rosult, in the annointmeni; of a ioint eo9iiiiftt'
Senate a id House, v.-hioh reported S "resolution proitlini( for the admission of the S$n of Miftsouii itr.o the Onion on a owctntn condition," whleji condition was formally aeeesfed. . The nine years frcmlPU to ISM Mad thus been fruitful to the extension of the Pnita ai system,
Having icsuited in tan acausuOBOl sr-v
States overing a large aires. Thla .-acti city i
atate-mii.lung was lojioweci oy a isu lasxpu: nr-tet-n yesrs, during which no Btate w as added. But when the first belt st.ury ot ttb, Government under the TJni m drra ta etose the event was prefaced by tho creaticnof twojiew fetates Arkamiaa. formed out of theKrasSjb Territory, admitted June 15, 1S36; Micliisiqfriued from the Northwest Territory, a hrjttsd January 98, 18S7. Thus tho fifty years 'do - vath tsenty-
iHA onatcs iu wie i. ii.-va. . .... . .. , a Alinhhir lonu Interval ioriawed HmoivU-mm
neriod c,f State-fcrmuia rctfvttv. BmdfclwC.''
ceded Florida to the United States under the
treaty of February H, WW. and twenty )iari'
arterwant. in lsi'-'. lis pec pie soogsi i
as a Btcte. But a oont est arose over
posal to divldo the terrifain for the purpoe nltimatc admlesian into ll Union of na
West Florida. Ttta w.rhiess wllieh had J
many years existed regard!: ig the admlHloe!
a great preponuercnee or eisaer noztivn
EKmtuern states pr-iongeu lids oaspuio, t
mea n wiiiio tne greet ncc-tewen naa di grow rapidly. The ctms.qnooce was e admission, tho first in the ?dstorv
country though now outloue by tl '
quadruple aumtssionrt.o lerriioneA
bv it bems Iowa and FloridA. There i
thing very significant la the- extreme souti and the extreme north we ft of the then-)
laud regions being trou(ht m together asg offsot each other. It happened, howeVtf tho admission of Iowa ws.s not consul!
meanwnue xerias came ma
usual fc-rmnluL all
m&ir -7
That the States of Iou a and Ptort' i
Instead of one
the same are hereby declared tebc, wji
tho Cuited States of America, and ar - bereby admitted into the Cnloi on an egual fojiiu; with tho original States in all respects whatever, , V The entrance of Texa j, which eewrret! comf, the end of 18A5, wan exceptional as th" fitst nl- v mission of an indeuendeni; reimbmi. aiiL sleo.
of couriie, in its being foll-lwed wa.-',i5il
uteAJCO. Jii loto nucuu.uii usina .;in unu. fornia followed hi IdSil. Another irt.ivtJof eight years then occurred, wtthfmt the aduus. sion of a State, succeeded l.y a perloi.ui nineyears during whieh no fewer tbaa '.she Htates were adioitted. These vers Mmriesjota, in 13S8; Oregon, in 1859: Kansas, in lSSHvust YirsicJa, in 1903 ; Nevada, in 1864- Nejbraska, in But. 'then, After another cine years-cam Colorado, In 1870, Flaally, titer an. Juturvul of thirteen years, we see tine first esHbary ot the
;es, norm
Cnlon i-c-unded out bv four new
Dakota, South Dakota, Weaatm
tana, - W
BUstetstdtr
OVTB CKN-CBKSlAl
aadkfua-
Amert-
A Svtenle Event In the 1
. cmldbetttiv
The centennial cekibmtiiin on AprB SO mark the most interesting and rwstimpsrra" -nt in the history of American liberty. Sio uw.wation aud the wot ot ihe revolution which established it was th b-sgi inlnc of " Mh in tho lilatovy of nction-i, lmt aU th.l:ia and eacrificos o.' that time v otid have eten in vain hadiiotagovurnnMinibiieti dsvine whicl hcinonised to a great extent the epafijatiug ideas of State and national authority. ' After experiencing U tie incoaveiii "lives of an inadequate and p wcrl iss oennaliuitiinrity, and staggering along ut.de r the eoefe.i-4-acy for eleven yoai-s, the States dually Adopted the present Constitutor., thtugh notasitnoiit extreme reluctance, T fri inters oopjehidiH! their labors iu Philadelphia Soptemberiff, ITirf, and provided that tho rati fioatou of thepvenl iuis of nine States for the cftsbyshmentcf It- - Con6 1 it u tier should be iiulftcient aeMfvvi-oti tl Stat-R s ratifying, s.. lat e Wtibad th-- that all tho thirteen wou! i accept, the tui-viu inent. It was not until mi Unuimu of the f!l.-tog year that the consent )f th? r nuistteuii.." Staw-s was obtained, with Uie redncattak by Ken Bitrapshlre. ' VJP Then f olh wed Viral aia .nd New,SWk. making eleven Status, and the Con tiaentalCtiigrots au
pointed the first Wednesday of Jonawy, ft Jt
the States to cnoosc electors; tne first W'.i
dav in Fcbraary for thoso electors to cii-use
a Frosideut and VicU'rosideut, and tin:1 fij-st Wednosday in March for tho newGoVei i:i,..i,6 to go Into oixu-iktion at the eity of -Kow Tork. The last-named day sell on the 4th of Mu-rel-. Tliat dav has toner bet n familiar tosmrv Aiimt-t.
can, aud it is a pusile to many mlnda nov uhy
the 80th of April should be the aaeAVersa r of the eoleliration and cot the 4th ,of?Mn.ri li ' Tt
the latter day had bet n fixed for Ms er-'ic-'niiial obsorvauco all woulc have understood it, and yet it would not have been the pronssjlii .
" .::-m One Haafttit Tea AcefOne hundred vears aeo Daniel Bnoii mu
fighting the Cherokee Indiana tKmtnckr. Tho Territory secured by treaty at :th" clime ot the revolutionary waa- strotched froni tin Atlantic Ocean westward to the banks of the Miiv.
stsslppi ana from a iu e runumg along rent lakes on the north it snread southwaxd loUa..,..
thirt y-first parallel an 1 the southern bdievpf ; . Georida. This extensive tract was parceled otit'.'L among the original thirteen States. And yet with ali this vast expanse of territory the
States were but little, hotter than agveat wiklelr.
ncss. l'lttsburg was a military post and St,
Iiouis a mere trading post one hundred leant
1780 the population of the tmlted 8ttee
was little more than 3, WO, 000.
in nisi Aioany was ,u sieepy uuten men or . v a , ma Jl..l,i...,' e.-- VwJrll J. mn L . . . .
15,000 and Pdelphia 32,000. While W' - .Eton was servinc his first fausn
two staties aud twelve horsos suffloed tor carry, rying all the travelers and goods paF-stn between New York and Boston, then the ooiunwuN. cial cen'ers of the country, nioktiig from twenty. -fl re to forty miles a day, aoemdlug to the season There was no proi ectiou for tho nulla, aud the . iuquisitiveipost-rider often beguiled time on the mad by reading all lettors in his charge. . . Ocean voyages were rarely taken hundred i vnars siM- as nothiD.fi short of the most mvnn .: . -
iiuslneBS could induce a man to shut htmsell up ' "-i In a packet from one to tlu-ee months aba 'f
oreatno tne rout air oi a aingy eaoin. . H ,i , i- ,-,,- M.,,1 .-, ll Ii Kl.iu m Mntl,tA.nA '.'- i
its esser.tials wero unknown, or known only aa luxuries., 100 years ago. Tho tomato plant we elf
used onlv for ornament, its fruit being
ercd poisonous, and culled the "love ape! Onuices. bananas, and other Ironical In
were seldom seen, even on tho tables of (fee, at
Bug-want and caulUMwert wero no
as wuDies.
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