Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — Page 2

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Kati Foeld it ft stranjpa creature—■he evidently wants our congressmen to stand on their heeds, for in her Washington she admonishes them te eeftse "sitting’ on their spineK" -- This country held its grippe with ft frightful tenacity little expected when It first took hold. In this connection is well enough to remind the less classical that the technical French pronunciation is “lah gr-ripp.” Brethren of the country press ' should be cautious, and never buy diamonds except on a clear day. The least mist or fog in the atmosphere will prevent you from discovering the flaws in them. Damp, murky weather practically killa the diamond businesa.

Russian women who become doctors are compelled to submit to very stringent regulations. Among other things they may not practice as regular physiclans until they are 40, but mast, up to this time, be nurses in oharitable institutions of various kinds, or in hoepltaln - The most encouraging reports come from Greytown, the headquarters for work on the new Nicaragua oanai. The American diggers are at work on the ditch, and are conquering all obstacles. Present indications are that the gloomy fate of the De Lesseps canal will not overtake this enterprise.

L. F. Benson, Nashville, Tennessee, if treasurer for the fund that is being vftised to keep the Hermitage, General Andrew Jackson’s late home, in order, and to buy the relics and mementoes now owned by Colonel Andrew Jack*On. The sum needed is $150,000, and it is believed that this oan be raised in One dollar subscriptions. "Either Kansas will have to quit raising such enormous crops,” says the Atchison Companion, "or the railway companies of the state will have to begin building more para” To this 'tiie Emporia Republican makes curt reply, "Let the railroads get down to their knitting then. Kansas crops are not to be limited for the accommodation of anybody.” Thebe are important undertakings on the programme in foreign lands as well as in our own America; among them the building of a 4,600-mile railroad across Siberia by the Russian government. The estimated cost is $220,000,000. Another is the bridging of the Bosphorus, connecting Europe with Asia. French engiueors have tho latter under plan.

There is and always has been a most dreadful horror on the part of many people lest they be buried alive. It will be truly a relief to such to know that science is coming: to the rescue with an infallible means of testing whether or not the vital spark has forever left the mortal frame. Electricity is the potent agency, and very soon facilities for its application wilt bo doubtless made available to all. When it is learned that the colonel of the czar’s body guard and several other officers in it have committed ■uioide on account of having been i mplicated in & plot against his life, we eon realize the reason for the shattered nerves of the imperial family that are from time to time alluded to as something surprising. If & man has to guard himself continually against his body guard he may well wish himself dead and done with it

Thb Wabash railway company has issued an order of a most positive nature which will draw intelligence, if not experience into its service. It is that no boy or young man shall be employed in any of its shops or other departments for the purpose of learning any trade or skilled work unless he bring a certificate from his instructors stating that he has completed the studies of the second grammar department of school work. Thb rite of canonisation seems to be a long and difficult matter. It will take about nine years according to a Rome letter, to canonize Joan of Arc. The popular impression of the savior of Franoe is that she was an estimable and proper young woman, but popular impressions are not sufficient for the pope. He requires the frozen truth of history, and a learned advocate is diligently looking over musty old documents to see if any flaws in her character oan be discovered.

A Missouri farmer with a turn for statistics has furnished a communication to his country paper on the subject, of official salaries in which he states that an official who receives $4.tKK> per year salary absorbs the prioe of 5a.6.;6 bushels of corn at 15 cent* per bushel, or of 6.666 bushels of wheot nt 60 cents per bushel, or S 3, of outs at lSoenta, or the price of fifty good farm horses. He also estimates that a f irm hand at sl3 per month would have to work the year round for a quarter of aeeatury to earn the same amount, and adds that la 1866-7-68, about S,t» \ to bushels of corn would have footed *bo MU. or 3,000 bushels of

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

domestic. Wisconsin is gathering her ice harvest. The North Dakota lottery scheme has ooilapsed. The Jersey City election frauds are coming to light. Ellis Bard, cashier of the Lincoln, Pa., bank, is short <25,000. Six people were asphyxiated at Milwaukee, and two will die, — : — More than 5,000 people in Dakota are dependent on outside help. Eight hundred Indians are destitute at Devil’s Lake Agency, N. D. B. Ward has come from England to get fame by “shooting Niagara. Another ten-million gas well has been drilled In Wood oounty, Ohio. Glanders is said to prevail among horses at Plymouth, 111., and vicinity. The Cincinnati Beal Estate and Stock Exchange has been incorporated. Two deaths from freezing are reported on the 11th from L&ngdon, N. D. The cigarette prohibition bill was passed by the Kentucky House Wednesday. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to spend $1,000,000 for public libraires in Pittsburg. Public meetings are being held all over North Dakota to consider the lottery billA fire at Chicago destroyed the big brick and stone building of J. V. Tar well & Co. Mrs. Joseph Bastian of Pekin, 111. claims to be heir to a $48,000,000 estate in England.

Sash and door factories are now the industries sought to be purchased with British gold. T-he Salem, 111., national bank was robbed of $25,000 on the 14th by safe blowers. The Kansas City Paoking and Chase Refrigerator Company suffered a loss of $200,000 by fire. Charles Beans, a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, had his right hand crushed at Tiffin, O. The indictments against the New York boodle Aldermen, who have not been tided, will likely be dismissed. The law creating the Female Work House Board for Cincinnati has been declared unconstitutional. At Detroit, Mich., an attempt was made to murder Mrs. Lipmeyer by filling t.he stove wood with powder. Cincinnati saloonkeepers are making another effort to secure a refund of tax p aid under the Scott law. An infernal machine was sent to a Phil adeiphian named Mqßride through the mails, but it failed to go off. At Burlington, M out., Thomas Brezant sixteen years old, murdered his mother and stole S3OO of her savings. A locomotive boiler on the P., McK. & Y. railroad busted, near Pittsburg, killing one man and injuring four others. Mrs, MoFee, of Monroo, La., whose son was killed hy oars, got a verdict against the Railroad Company for $30,000. The Kentucky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarette to boys under eighteen years of age. It is claimed that the Chicago police have promoted crime in order that they might have the credit of making an arrest An attempt was made to wreck the C. H. A D. excursion train from Indianapolis to New Orleans, Sunday, near Cincinnati. The Gentiles were successful over the Mormons in the mayoralty oontest at Salt Lake City, on the 10th, by SSO majority. The Sons of the American Revolution organised a society at Wilmington, Delaware, with ex-Secretary Bayard as Presi dent Express trains on the Canadian Pacific railway collided. Robert Thompson, of Kingston, an express messenger, was killed. Five passenger oars on the Norfolk & Western were ditched at Roanoke, N. C., and George Kerr, express messenger, was injured. The tow boat Port Eads struok a bridge pier two miles below Memphis and sunk. Seven of the crew were drowned and ten j others hagt - i

The proposition to organise tire Western Distillers’ and Cattle-feeders’ Trust under j the laws of Illinois was carried almost: unanimously. A n accommodation on the Lake Shore , read ran into an open switch at Bellevue, Ohio, Thursday evening, killing one and injuring several. At Amerious, Ga., the six-year-old daughter of Colonel R. A. Crutchfield was burned to death by her clothing taking fire from a grate. Millers Will be interested in the decision of Judge Blodgett, at Chicago, on the 14th, In which he holds that all modern roller process patents are invalid. Disastrous storms have prevailed on the Virginia coast, and many oyster boats were wrecked or blown out to sea. Twenty or more lives are believed to be lost. Rube Burrows, the noted outlaw, murderer and express robber, bas been posi lively located near Milton, Fla., where he has been working as a farm hand. Carlo Brittain, a worthless colored man, shot and killed D. K. Gairard, a young lawyer, at Manchester, Ky., on the 12th. The murderer has not been arrested. Saengerfest societies en route to New Orleans were shaken up by a collision on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, near Birmingham. Engineer Doolittle was killed. The President has signed ths proclamation opening the Siou reservation In South Dakota. He has also issued an order establishing land offices at Pierre and Chamberlain. ,

Ex-Governor Foraker, la a speech at >' meeting held at Columbus, oa the 13th, to unite the Republican clube of that elty, l urged tee necessity of haraumy among the Republioaas of Ohio Farmers of central Illinois are complaining of the stagnant oondition of tee oorn market. Cribs and elevators are overflowing, and railway earn can not be secured to make shipment ■ Friday a portion often bottom of the town of Plains, Pa., fell out, .wreckinc severul mining tenement houses. The cave in was caused by taking too man;, pillars from the mines below tee place. A revivalist at Oakland, CaL, predicts the destruction of San Francisco, Alamo da aad Oakland within eighty days by an earthquake, Chicago by the overflow of

in 1880, previous to which all Europe will he a battle ground It is said that there are people who place faith in the prediction. V - - Colored Women in. Barnwell county. South Carolina, having learned lessont from the recent lynohings there, gave one of their sisters a whipping, beoanse she sympathised with the aforesaid murders. William Summers, arrested at Jefferson City, Mo., Monday night, on a description from sbe Chief of Police of Sacramento, Cal., has admitted that he collected SBOO on a forged note. He is over sixty years of age. The Roman Catholic’s Orphan Asylum on Fifth avenue, opposite the Vanderbilt mansion. New York, partially burned "Wednesday, with a loss of SIO,OOO. There were were 414 children in the bnilding, and all were removed safely. The United States mail was robbed at Fort Smith, Ark., as it lay in the baggage room of the ’Frisco depot, Wednesday. Several packages of registered letters were stolen, but the amount of money taken can not yet be ascertained. The British steamer Ludgate Hill, Captain Brown, which passed Pra vie Point on the 13th, bound for London from New York signaled that she had been in collision with tho British steamer Deeslde. The latter vessel was sunk and several of her crew drowned. Deputy United States Marshall W. B. Saunders was assassinated at Quincy Gadsen county, Florida, on the 14th, while in the discharge of his duty. It is believed the deed was doneaby cone McFarland, whom Saunders had arrested about a month ago. .-itirzgsisszssssszi In a prize fight at Dallas, Texas, Thursday night, Tom James was killed by Benegah, a champion light weight. In the fourth round James was hit on the neck and soon after expired. Benegah was arrested. He was a member of the Kilrain combination. Arrangements are making at Bioknell for a monster fox drive, covering the larger portions of Vigo and Washington town ships, Knox county, the ring to center on the farm of Samuel House. The date is fixed for February 15, and it is expected that several thousand people will join in the sport. R. A. Williams, who is chief of labor agents at work in North Carolina, reports that he alone has sent 22,000 negroes out of the State. He says that he has never yet put a negro on the train without having a home and labor contract provided for him.* He has demands for 5,000 more negroes.

The Niles Tool Works, of Hamilton, 0., hays finished and are now loading an immense armor plate bending roll that is to be sent to the navy yards at Mare Island, San Francisco. The tremendous machine weighs, in round numbers, 400,000 pounds, and the freight will be something over SIO,OOO. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad company has had a number of special flat cars built for the transportation of the load, and the whole train will be run through to the Pacific coast as a special. The executive committee of the coal operators of western Pennsylvania met in conference in Pittsburg Thursday. The conference was called for the purpose of effecting an arrangement for a joint conference of miners and mine-owners to arrange a scale for the year beginning May 1,1890, It was agreed that the mine-owners of wostern Pennsylvania would join with miners’ committees of other States in attending a convention to establish a scale, time and place of the convention to be agreed upon. t There are two sets of swindlers going through central Illinois, getting the best of the farmers. One scheme is to purchase the farmer’s oom at 25 to 30 cents per buShel aud get the farmer to sign a contract for the delivery of the corn, which turns up in some bank as a promissory note. Another and still later swindle is this: The sharper has a double fountain pen, which is so arranged that it uses two kinds of ink. One will fade and the other will remain, The sharper makes an agreement with the farmer and uses the ink that fades, and then gives the fariaer the same penholder, only it is reversed, and he signs his name The words of the agreement fade out and the signature remains, when the sharper writes whatever he please* over the signa tore.

FOREIGN. Toronto University, the finest educational institution in Canada, was destroyed by fire on the 14th. The Chilian government is resorting to the subsidy system to maintain firstclass steam communication with foreign ports. The influensa is spreading in the City of Mexico, and has assumed a more virulent form. A number of deaths have resulted the disease. In the House of Commons Sir James ' Ferguson said that negotiations on the fiishery question were proceeding between England and America under favorable , auspices.

A London court decided on the 13th that Salvation Army people have a right to parade the streets with bands and drums—that drums and musical instruments are adjuncts of their religion. A dispatch received oat London on the 13th, confirms s report of the death of the Sultan of Zanzibar. His demise was sudden. Seynoid Ali, the brother of the late Sultan of Zanzibar, succeeds him. One hundred and twenty of the persons who were arrested at Lisbon, Monday i night, for taking part in the riotous dem- ■ onstrationa, have been sent aboard the ironclad Vaaoo de Gama and the gunboat India. The oountry everywhere is Iran | T* 11 • „„', A sad accident happened to a wedding party at Pontivy, Paris, on the 14th. Tb* vehicle conveying the* bride and groom and a number of their friends was upset and the whole party were precipitated into the river. The bride and bridegroom ten others of the party were drowned. A special Rio dispatch says: fnero is s ministerial crisis in Brazil. The trouble has reference to the questions of financial reforms, which do not at present seem likely to be realised. Senor Denaetris Ribiero. Minister of Agriculture, has re tin* from tea Cabinet and a new appointmen has been made. Senor Rtbiero was no wall known in Brasilian politics before he. was called to ttoo Ministarv.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

The Senate on the 10th transacted routine business. Among the petitions presented and referred was one from the Indianapolis Board of Trade baking for the repeal of the interstate commerce act; also, petitions from Mississippi and Georgia praying for the passage of a national law to seeure the right of suffrage, and for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. The House bill appropriating $60,000 for the Marion Soldiers’ Home was passed. The Alabama bill was considered. The House Committee on the 11th decided by a party vote in favor of unseating Pendleton, Democrat, and seating Atkinson, Republican, from the First West Virginia district. The Senate on the 11th passed a bill for the relief of certain settlers. The Oklahoma territorial bill was considered as was also the Blair eduoational bill. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to prescribe!, in part, the manner of the eieotioo of members of Congress, and it was referred to the com mittee on privileges and elections. It provides that in all States in the Union representatives to Congress shall be elected in and for the districts now prescribed by' law until the apportionment of Representatives shall be made by Congress according to the census to be taken in 1890, any law of such State hereafter to be passed to the con tarary notwithstanding, Mr. Hoar stated that a fear had been expressed in various quarters that there would be an attempt to make new representative dis triota, to take effect at the" next election, and to gerrymander some States in the interest of one or the other political party, before the next census. The bill proposed he said, in the interest of justice, to apply to all the States the rule, under the constitutional power given to Congress, to prestribe and alter the mode of electing Representatives, that all the eleotions of Representatives for the next Congress, unless the new apportionment be previously made, shall take place in existing districts.

Senator Edmunds, Tuesday, introduced a bill for a public school system in Utah. It takes the whole oontrol of the schools out of the hands of the Mormons. Instruction is to be given in temperance, manners and morals in addition to the usual public school studies. No sectarian or denominational books shall be used or sectarian doctrines taught. A tax of 3 mills upen each dollar of taxable property shall be levied as a special fund forsohool purposes. The House considered the rules on the 12th. The Senate On the 12th adopted a resolution congratulating the people of Brazil on the establishment of a republic. A rfisolu tion was adopted inviting the King of the Hawaiian Islands to send a delegate to the Pan American Congress. The House devoted both day and night to discussion of the rules. The house resumed consideration of tho rules. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, offered an amendment providing that when any bill for the increase of pensions or for granting pensions, not formerly provided for, is pending, it shall be in order to 6ffer an amendment providing by taxation for the payment thereof. The amendment was rejected, after a warm debate, by ayes 96, to nays, 164. At 5 o’clock the previous question was ordered, and the rules adopt ed by ayes 161,*iays 145. The Senate on the 14th passed bills as follows: For the relief of sailors in the Samoan disaster; appropriating $25,000 for the relief of the Sioux Indians at Devil’s Lake Agency; providing for an Assistant Secretory of War, with a salary ot HfiOO-, to refund to the State of West Virginia the money paid to officers of the 133 d Regiment of West Virginia militia for services rendered during the rebellion; appropriating $125,000 for a Unitod States revenue cutter for services on the Pacific coast; to prevent the obstruction of navigable waters; to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State to another; concurrent resolution to invite iaterßationalar filtration as to differences between nations; to inorease the endowment of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural College. Altogether there were sixty bills passed.

SHALL IOWA'S WOMEN VOTE.

Sorernor Declares for Iniportait innovations. Governor Larrabee's message is a very lengthy document, making about 7,000 words. It touches upon almost every subject of interest to the State. He urges the adoption of the Australian ballot system, and that women be permitted to vote at municipal elections. He deals at great length with the railroad question, urges the adoption of appliances to minimize the dancer to employes in making np trains, etc., and that no more trains be run on Sunday than are absolutely necessary; railroads should give more attention to the improvement of their property, and should be compelled to do away with all woodon bridges. Railroad trusts and like combinations are ooudemned. The Skate, he says, cannot tolerate usurpation of power, nor conspiracy on the part of its creatures. Tne practice among publiooffl cuus of acoopting passes is thoroughly condemned. It is recommended that all corporations for pecuniary profit be compelled to make annual statements ooncerning their business. >

The Governor dwells at considerable length on tea question of prohibition. He does not believe that a high lioenao policy, or one which, he says, will leave only the “respectable” saloon in existence, will .'ver be sanctioned by the people of lowa, the '‘gilded saloon” he considers fur more dangerous than tee “squalid, outlawed srhisky dive.” The Governor then enters into a long argument against the licensing of saloons in any form. When the .aw has aot been enforced, the blame, he thinks, dot with the executive officers. A reoowaendation is made that the law bo amended so ante prevent undue searches of private houses.

Sex In the Struggle for Life.

Vtehison Cube. ** With » woman it is a struggle to provide something for the inner man, and *ilh a man it is an effort Ao provide something for the outer woman.

AN ASPIRANT SENTENCED.

Kxelttng Se«n«a in Court at tfte Dm D>Or--1 onus' Tnnl. - yv ‘ ' _ .ftS The Duke of Orleans, son of the Count and Countess of Paris, who came to Paris last week with the avowed intention of enlisting in the French army,and who was then arrested on the charge of violating the law exiling from France all pretenders to the French throne, was again arraigned before the Tribunal of the Seine, Wednea day. He was adjudged guilty of violating the law and was sentenced to two years’ im prisonment. He will be pardoned. The eourt room was orowded with spectators who had gathered to witness the proceedings against the young Duke. When the prisoner was arraigned the crowd broke out with loud cries for the army, the Duke of Orleans and the Republic. They became so demonstrative that the gendarmes were compelled to clear the room. Before judgment. was announced, the Duke addressed the Court in his own be half. He said: “I came to France to serve as a common soldier. I have nothing to do with politics, which only concerns my father, whose obedient son and faithful servant I am. I knew that by entering' Franoe I rendered myself liable to the law. but that knowledge did not stop me. I love my country, and wish to serve her. I am guilty of no crime.” The Duke will be allowed to remain in the Concirgerie Prison for a few weeks, before being removed to jail. The Government grants him this privilege in order to give him an opportunity to appeal fromthe sentence of the Court.

Upon being taken back to his dell, the Duke drew book the curtain which covers the window and saluted the crowd. The people were dispersed by the police in an orderly manner. During the hearing in the Court the Duke of Orleans asked his counsel not to defend him. He said that he had learned In exile to honor the magistracy and respect its decision. If condemned by the Court he was suretof acquittal at the hands of 200,000 conscripts of his class who were more fortunate than he had been, and who were able to serve their country. When the public prosecutor urged that the Duke was undoubtedly guilty and that he had been taken flagrante delicto there were murmurs in the audience, and the President threatened to clear the court. The oounsel for the defendant declared that the Duke’s act was the result of a generous impulse and would be an honor to him throughout his life. He hoped that in the hour of danger Franoe would have many such children to defend her. This sentiment was greeted with applause. The counsel further contended that the law imposing military service upon all Frenchmen nullified the law relating to the exile of the princes. After the sentence had been pronounced a thousand persons invaded the Advocate’s robing room. Many of them were monarchists and shouted "Long live the Quke of Orleans.” Their shouts were met with counter cries of “Down with the Duke of Orleans,” “Long live the Republio.” The guards were powerless to restore order. After venting their feelings here for a time the orowd shouted, “To the statue; let us crown Henry IX.” With one accord they rushed to the site of the statue, where there were cries of “Long live the King” from the Duke’s sympathizers, and coun -r cries of “Long live the Republio” from iis opponents.

BLEEDING KANSAS.

gnriUsg Times Over a Railroad Kleetien —Two Mon Killed. A special dispatch from Wichita, Kan., says: A hundred men or more fought yri-th guns, knives, clubs and various other weapons at Harper on the 13th, and when the battie ended two men bad received their death wounds, and nearly a dozen others were cut, bruised or shot, some of them so badly that there is little ohance of their recovery. The trouble grow out of a railroad Board eleotion and the stealing of their ballot-boxes, which have not yet been found. An election was held on the 12th at Harper, to vote on the proposiion to issue SIOO,OOO in bonds, to the Sali na & Gulf Road. The projeot was bitter ly opposed by many of the leading citizens, and as bitterly advocated by others. For a week both parties had made every effort to defeat or carry the proposition. The fight over the bonds was oomplioated and made hotter by the fact that Anthony, a rival town three miles west of Harper, promised to issue the bonds if the Railroau Company would locate its line at that place. Citizens living between the two towns were also deeply interested in the struggle, ana when the election was held at Harper the town was filled with interested outsiders anxious to take a hand in the matter.

The company preferred to ran its line through Harper if the bonds oould- be voted, and had sent a large gang of graders other employees to help carry the project through. Many stormy scenes were witnessed at the polls during the day and a half dozen fightif too* p J»:e, u ut a general riot was prevented by tee ooolness of the leaders. When the pods closed it was thought test the bonds bad carried. The ballots were not all oountod, and during the night the boxes containing the votes were stolen and disposed of so effectually that they oould not be found. The only ward estimate* a* going against tea bonds was the First, and ita ballots were aot stolen. When tee affair became known there was great excitement. The railroad crou d had a number of arrests made, and warrants were sworn oat for others who could not be f«i»d. An effort was made to arrest Tom babin, wno has been a oowbuymhisda/. He made a fight* and his friends joining, a hundred men in a few minutes became engaged in a desperate battle, with tee results above stated.

FROZEN UP IN MID-OCEAN.

The steamer Amsterdam, fifteen days out from Amsterdam, which arrived at New York oa the sth last passed through an ioe field 165 miles tong. While six miles south of the ioe, in latitude 45 degrees, 14 seconds longitude 48 14 seoonds the bark Oliver Emery, from Dublin, for Si. Johns, N. B , Was seen, frozen tight ia teo ioe. Shu waa given pmviskma.

A RUSH FOR HOMES.

Ope sing of tlto Bionx KaurrzUos sn< m Scramble to Got the Best. ' ——— ■■y-—T A Chamberlain, S. D., dispatch of th# 12th says: Every incoming train is heavily loaded with settlers bound for the reservation, and the stream of humanity crossing the river is almost continuous. Seven* thousand have already selected claims and began the erection of homes, the new arrivals being forced to go farther Into the interior. On the town site opposite this city the saw and hammer were plied diligently all night, and to-day several hundred buildings of a temporary nature dot the prairie. Stocks of lumber and provisions are being crossed over, and by tomorrow many business houses will be is running order. 8 One interesting event to-day was the arrival of a mixed train with a number es * flatcars absolutely packed with settlers,, there not being a sufficient number of' ooaohes available at this end of the line to’ accommodate the great crowd moving for: the reservation. A special train arrived this evening containing more than 500' persons, and reports are being received, from innumerable localities of the forming of colonies to start at once for, the reservation. People have been* disappointed so often regarding the* opening of the reservation, that they have< i been a little conservative, and the rush 1 a week hence promises to be greater evern than the rush at present.

The Indians at Lower Brule, whioh; agency contains about two thousand red’ men, are in the best of humor and- enjoy; hugely the Incessant strife between whites men for the possession of lands ceded by’ them. The agency is on the bottom where the great struggle is going on for ipossession to be used for town site purposes. The settlers thus far have been of a do-, sirable character, the tough element soj common on the border not having put ini an appearance as yet, but this crowd will* undoubtedly drift in as the opening ofj ;the reservation becomes generally known J The rush is on the increase to-night, and* interest is unabated. At the present rate< of settlement it would not take morei than three months to settle the entire. 10,000,000 aores acquired by the govern ment. A Pierre dispatch says: Another attempt to cross- was made by. the South Pierre boomers Tuesday night* about 11 o’clock. They had over twenty 1 'five teams with wagons loaded with lumber and supplies and managed with thei ’closest secrecy to cross the ice about one’ mile below the city and just above what is known as Farm Island. They were discovered by the sentry just as they were driving up a steep hill near the bank of the. river. The sentry attempted to raise the alarm but was seized from behind byai party that had been laying in ambush and was bound hand and foot and laid in thebushes. The boomers stealthily proceeded, over the bill to the number of about fivot hundred and had almost succeed in gettingbeyond tho lines when they were discover ed by a skirmishing party. To raise that alarm they fired over the heads of the boomers. Immediately a company of mounted infantry was dispatched from Ft. Pierre and was soon in hot pursuit. The boomers scattered in all directions, but were nearly all captured. V. E. Prentice, a great townsite boomer and partner of U. S. Senator Petti' grew, was shot in the leg. He was taken to the guard house at Fort Pierre, and the military authorities refuse to give him up to friends in this city. The boomers returned to this side of the river all worn out. and somewhat discouraged over the loss of ten teams and wagons loaded with supplies. West of the mile-square there are a large number of houses built by the Indians and. half breeds, who will claim all the land adjacent to the mile-square. Tuesday night several boomers built houses on the 'qfifet'tfi tKg aetghhorhood, and all were burned by the soldiers Wednesday morning. All night long boomers were sneaking over in ones and twos, and many escaped the guards. Wednesday morning the Indian police found a colony of boomers one mile west, whose houses and effects they burned and carried the boomers pris-' oners to Fort Sully. Tho boomers are becoming aqxious, but it is expeoted that! Thursday the order to allow them on the. reservation will be Received. U. S. Marshal l Fry arrived Wednesday night from Chamberlain with forty deputies, and a desperate effort will be made to keep the boomers off the reservation.

MORMON’S VOTING DAY.

The municipal election of Salt Lake City was held Monday. Some confusion has arisen over the application of a law passed at the last session of the Legislature in relation to municipal organizations and elections The old law provided for five Aldermen and nine Councilors, elected at large, to compose the City Council. The new law provides for three Councilmen and one Justice of the Peace, to be elected in each precinct Previous to the Ogden election, a year ago, the Federal Court de- ’ cided that the election should be conducted under the old law, but aa to this one the court decides that it must be conducted under certain provisions of the new law. A fragment of each enactment will thee govern, aad it is not unlikely that litigation will follow after the election, no matter which ticket wins the day. There are two parties in the field—the People’s party, composed chiefly of Mormons, and the Liberal party, made up of anii-Mormon*. The issues involved were government of the city and the bearing which the result of the election will have upon the Territory at large. If the Gentiles ’ are successful, it will place the city in harmony with National law and authority. Ibis recognized that the city has a great influence in tee Territory, and consequent ly the issue is a national one. Gentile success will mess that the redemption of Utah ia slowly but surely being aooom--1 is bed. •

Her Presence of Mind.

Lawrence American. Fledgelpy—Miss Hauteur, will you marry me? Miss Hauteur—ls I were a clergy man 1 should be pleased to. Mr. Flodgeiy. Who ia Iha happy girt?