St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 September 1886 — Page 4

BYTEMPH. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. The accounts of Deputy Collector Smith, ■who was recently deposed from the New York Custom House, were found to be over $5,000 short.... The nephews of Samuel J. Tilden have concluded to contest the clause of the stateman’s will creating a trust for New York Citv. . . . A slugging match between John L. Sullivan and Frank Hearld came off at Allegheny City. The tight was short and vicious, the event being stopped by the police during the second round. The referee awarded the fight to Sullivan, who gave ample evidence that he could have knocked Hearld out. A New York paper reports that a keeper in the Kings County Insane Asylum placed a helpless lunatic in a bath of boiling ■water, so that when the unfortunate man, who screamed horribly, was taken out, his flesh was parboiled, resulting in death in a short time. The keeper has been arrested. The Unitarian Conference, in session at Saratoga, subscribed SII,OOO to help rebuild the Charleston churches.... A severe frost damaged vegetation throughout northern New Hampshire and Vermont. THE WEST. Dr. Casewell, State Veterinarian of Illinois, has discovered pleuro-pneumonia among distillery cattle in and about Chicago. Strict quarantine has been established, and there is every probability that nearly three thousand beeves will be slaughtered... .Martin Irons was arrested at Kansas City and taken to St. Louis to answer to an indictment for complicity in tapping the private wire running into Vice President Hoxie's residence.... C. S. Hayes, editor of the Traver (Cal.) Tidings, while chatting with his betrothed, Miss Lulu Smith, in the house of Dr. Lovelace, of Lemoore, Cal., was shot and instantly killed by some unknown person, who in the darkness managed to escape. The shot was fired through a street wirescreen door, near which Hayes was sitting. A lover, who was jealous of Hayes’ attention to Miss Smith, has been arrested on suspicion. The case of The United States vs. The Bell Telephone Company was begun Sept. 20 at Cincinnati, Circuit Judge Jackson and District Judges Sage and Walker occupying the bench. Argument was begun against the jurisdiction of the court. ExSenator Thurman and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald are opposing counsel in the case. Mr. Thurman was serenaded at Columbus, and in a speech said: “I shall never again hold office—never be able to reward friends or punish foes.” The banking firm of Lee & Brown, at Saranac, Mich., is reported to have collapsed, and that Brown has fled to Canada. The liabilities, due to workingmen and farmers, are $30,000, with no tangible assets. Lee asserts that $6,000 worth of the firm’s paper is a forgery... .The business portion of Greenfield, Neb., was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $40,000. THESOITn. General S. W. Crawford, who went to Charleston immediately after the earthquake, has returned to Washington. He says that the most pressing need in the afflicted city just now is among the small property-holders, whose little homes have been destroyed. These people are utterly unable to repair their ruined dwellings unless it be by mortgaging or otherwise incumbering the property to an extent that would in most cases be a virtual transfer. There being no law in Louisiana against the intermarriage or cohabitation of races, the people of Bossier Parish have started a practical movement for the abolition of miscegenation, and appointed a vigilance committee of nineteen to serve notices on white men living with negro women. Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of the Confederate President, was made an honorary member of R. E. Lee Camp at Richmond, Va., Governor Lee investing her with the badge of membership... There was a violent shock of earthquake at Charleston and Summerville, on the 21st of September. In the former city part of the wall of the wrecked medical college was thrown down. WASHI^GTOA. Secretary Whitney has issued to the assignees of John Roach, in full payment of all claims for the Dolphin and Puritan, a warrant for $45,000. It is reported from Washington that Secretary Manning will go to Austria as United States Minister instead of returning to the Treasury Department. During the last fiscal year the star-route service cost $5,414,804 —a decrease of $62,623 as compared with the previous year. .... Commissioner Black has started westward on public business. He will visit the Soldiers’ Homes at Dayton. Milwaukee, and Leavenworth, and inspect several of the pension agencies. POEITICAE. The Wisconsin Labor party assembled in State Convention at Neenah, and nominated an out-and-out labor ticket, constituted as follows: Governor, Colonel John D. Cochrane; Lieutenant Governor, George A. Lloyd; Secretary of State, J. P. Jasperson; State Treasurer. Frederick Hoenig; Attorney General, John E. Thomas; Railroad Commissioner, Henry Zinn; Superintendent of Public Institutions, J. K. McGregor; Insurance Commissioner, Rittner Stephens. The platform declares that the use of violence in any form to settle disputes is utterly unjustifiable in a civilized community, whether advised by fanatical anarchists or practiced by corrupt politicians; favors the Government control of money, land, means of communication, and public improvement; advocates labor bureaus, conducted in the interests of the whole people; t 1 j simplification of laws to but one on each subject; arbitration in place of strikes; the prohibition of child and convict labor; a graduated income tax; the amendment of the patent laws so as to give labor a part of the benefit of labor-saving inventions, and to prevent monopolies; the forfeiture of all land grants, and the abolition of alien ownership in lands; a Government loan of money, and a rigid enforcement of the law against the importation of foreign labor .. . The Pennsylvania Greenback-Labor Convention at Harrisburg was presided over by Congressman Brumm. A resolution declaring that the convention should not affiliate with any other party or indorse any other candidates was adopted with a shout, after which the following ticket was nominated: Governor, Robert J. Houston; Lieutenant Governor, John Parker; Auditor, General Daniel S. Early; Secretary of Internal Affairs, Seth H. Hoagland; Con-gressman-at-Large, Dr. C. D. Thompson. The platform of the party demands that the Government shall issue all money; that no more bonds be issued by the Government; that all unearned lands be forfeited; that after 1990 the Government buy all lands held by aliens; that any deec made by a citizen of the United States tc an alien after January, 1887, shall be void and that land held by individuals oi corporations in excess of 160 acres

j whether improved or unimproved, shall jbe taxed as cultivated land; dei noUnces convict, imported, pauper, and I heathen labor; demands a graduated inI come tax; the recognition of trades unions, orders, and such other organizations, and that the Government buy all telegraphs and railroads; favors a practical eight-hour law; the prohibition of child labor; the abolition of the contract system in public work; the adoption of laws providing for the health and safety of workingmen and their indemnification from injuries.... At a State convention of the Missouri Prohibitionists, held nt Sedalia, the following ticket was placed in the field: Supreme Judge, I. B. Orr; Superintendent of Public Schools, A. J. Emerson; Railroad Commissioner, J. F. Brumer. The platform arraigns the Democratic and Republican parties and urges voters not to abandon their demands of Congress to suppress the liquor traffic wherever it is prohibited by law; that a prohibitory amendment be submitted to the next L< „islature of Missouri, and that the Sunday laws be enforced. It declares for woman suffrage.... Congressional nominations: William 11. Neece, Democrat, Eleventh Illinois District; Ralph Plumb, Republican, Eighth Illinois; J. H. Gallinger, Republican, Second New Hampshire; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Byron Dunn, Republican, Fourth Missouri; Editor Joseph B. Cheadle, Republican, Ninth Indiana; Robert M. La Follette, Republicen, Third Wisconsin; W. T. Wallace, Greenbacker, Tenth Illinois; George H. Lacy, Greenbacker, Eighth Illinois; John J. Donovan, Democrat, Eighth Massachusetts; M. A. Haynes, Republican, First New Hampshire; Dr. Stelye, Democrat-Greenbacker, Fifth Pennsylvania; Martin L. |Clardy, Democrat, Tenth Missouri; Marshall Parks, Democrat, Second Virginia; W. H. Forney, Democrat, Seventh Alabama; Frank T. Shawq Democrat, Second Maryland; Barnes Compton. Democrat, Fifth Maryland; John H. Rogers, Democrat, Fourth Arkansas; E. C. McFetridge, Republican, Second. Wisconsin; Justin R. Whiting, Democrat - Greenbacker, Seventh Michigan; Ives Dungan, Democrat, Eleventh Ohio; J. J. Pugsley, Republican, Twelfth Ohio; R. M. Murray, Democrat, Third Ohio; Gen. Jasper Packard, Republican, Thirteenth Indiana; Wilbur T. Sanders, Republican, Montana Territory; O. B. Thomas, Republican, Seventh Wisconsin; Sherw'ood Dixon, Democrat, Seventh Illinois; W. W. A filer. Prohibitionist, Fourteenth Illinois... .An Augusta (Me.) dispatch says that official election returns from 472 towns are as follows: Bodwell, Republican, 68,115; Edwards, Democrat, 54,764; Clark, Prohibitionist, 3,839; scattering, 192. Bodw'ell's plurality, 13,351; Bodwell’s majority 9,493.... The National Anti-Saloon Republican Convention, held in Chicago last week, had nearly two hundred delegates, representing eighteen States. Senator Blair W'as made temporary Chairman, and announced that they’ met to organize for the destruction of the rum traffic throughout the country. Ex-Senator Windom was elected permanent President. Resolutions W’ere adopted demanding that the Republican party take a decided stand as the enemy of the saloon, and favoring legislation by Congress to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquor in the Territories. Mr. McFetridge declines the Republican nomination for Congress from the Second Wisconsin District. The total vote of Arkansas in the September election foots up 143,000. The Democratic majority is 37,000. The Legislature stands: House, 90 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 3 Wheelers. Senate, 37 Democrats, 5 Republicans and Wheelers. Commissioner Oberly, in a brief card, says a distinguished advocate of civil-serv-ice reform in New York has begged him to end his controversy with Dorman B. Eaton, and therefore he will not expose what he calls Mr. Eaton’s “many misstatements of factsand perversions of the record.”,... The official returns from Maine give Bodwell (Rep.), for Governor, 12,850 majority over the Democratic candidate. Congressional nominations: Ornam Pierson, Republican, Twelfth Illinois District; Frank Hiscock, Republican, Twentysecond New York; Charles R. Buckalew, Democrat, Eleventh Pennsylvania; James Phelan, Democrat, Tenth Tennessee; W. E. Robinson, Democrat, Sixth Louisiana; C. Newton, Democrat, Fifth Louisiana ; Amos Townsend, Republican, Twenty’-first Ohio; R. W. Dunham, Republican; First Illinois; Andrew Haben, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; Lewis C. McComas, Republican, Sixth Maryland; William Elliott, Democrat, Seventh South Carolina; James Brocklin, Democrat, Eighth Wisconsin; Joseph E. Washington, Democrat, Sixth Tennessee; John P. Sanborn, Republican, Seventh Michigan. __________ GENEBAL. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee held its annual reunion at Rock Island, 111., last week. The society elected General Sherman President, and decided to meet next year at Detroit. A resolution was adopted calling for the appointment of a committee to consider the advisability’ of selecting a permanent headquarters and choosing a central place for holding the annual sessions. The American Agricultural and Dairy Association held its seventh annual convention in Philadelphia last week. The members characterized the passage of the oleomargarine bill as the greatest victory ever won for the farmers. The protection of American industries was demanded. President Cleveland wrote a letter expressing regret that he could not be present A special agent of the Treasury Department who recently returned from Alaska says the master of the seized British vessel Onward admitted having killed his catch of seal along the shores of the islands. Capt. Abbey, commanding the revenue steamer Corwin, reports that he has taken to Nanai Nio, B. C., twenty-two British seamen released from sew.ed sealers, and that the master and mates of the captured craft have been convicted and sentenced to fines or imprisonment, or both. IORESGA. Colonel Dupars writes from Havre that the French Government will take nc steps toward the repeal of the decree against American pork ... The American Consul at Trieste reports that Russian petroleum is crowding out the Pennsylvania product an account of the lower prices.... A regiment of infantry, with a numbei of men from two cavalry regiments, ii all numbering about three hundred attempted a revolution at Madrid They deserted their ban-racks, aftei ■ beating their officers and wounding three ' and inarched in two bodies through thf town, being joined en route by many civilians. One body went to the Prado ’ where 2,000 troops were quartered, whon ' the revolutionists expected to join them ’ The other body went hurrahing througl ■ the center of Madrid, calling on the peo ' pie to join in the revolution, crying 1 “Live the republic!” and making all kind: • of threats against the monarchy. Th, insurgents attempted to secure pos ’ session of the arsenals, books, an< barracks, which they attacked with opei ’ fire, but all these places were well and sue * cessfully defended, and the rebels were re ’ pulsed. Finally, their reverses drawing ' them together,'the insurgents attacked am ' got possession of the Southern Railway " After a short fight at the railway the loya 1 troops dislodged the revolutionists, win dispersed into the country. y During the fierce riots in Belfast las e week a mob got into a fight in a tram-ca 5' stable, and, surging out into the street threw a passing car from the track an d overturned it. The car was filled with pas o sengers. The terror-stricken passenger 1, crowded close under the seats an >r under one another, and shielde 3, themselves as best they could with th

floor-mats and seat-sections. Several were hurt. The situation was dreadful until the military rescued them and escorted them to a place of safety. The funeral cortege of a man named Boyle, while returning from the cemetery, was attacked by a mob, who assailed the mourners with stones. The military charged on the mob and arrested a score of rioters. Another mob in a different locality attacked with stones the Black Watch Regiment of Welshmen, although the soldiers were fully armed and in fighting array. The troops with fixed bayonets charged in double-quick time on the mob and drove them from the scene, wounding a great number of the rioters and arresting tw0.... All of the officers implicated in the attempt at revolution in Madrid have been condemned to death. The common soldiers generally repent of their folly and are yielding to the authorities. They blame their officers for leading them astray. A band of rebels at Ocana, Spain, killed its commanding officer and then returned to its allegiance and prayed for mercy. Loyal soldiers are still scouring the country in search of the insurgents. Arrests of persons of well-known republican views continue... .In the British House of Commons Mr. Parnell’s bill for the suspension of evictions was defeated by a vote of 297 to 202.... Mr. Gladstone denies that he is about to join the Catholic Church. ADDITIONAL NEWS. The President, Mrs. Cleveland, and Mrs. Folsom, Col. and Mrs. Lamont, and Master Lamont returned to the capital on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They all looked the better for their vacation. The President looked particularly well. The President expressed himself as thoroughly delighted with his trip, but glad to get back to work again. Col. Lamont said that the President had found Secretary Manning in good health and spirits at their interview in Albany, that there was no truth in the story that Manning had insisted upon the acceptance of his resignation, and therefore there was, of course, nothing at all in the rumor that he would be appointed to a foreign mission.... Secretary Lamar has had a vacation in New Hampshire. Gossips assert that he is about to marry Mrs. Holt, a handsome and wealthy widow of Macon, Ga., to whom he paid attention in his early’ years. Dr. A. C. Wedge, of Albert Lea, presided over the Minnesota Republican State Convention., at St. Paul. A. R. McGill was nominated for Governor, A. E. Rice for Lieutenant Governor, Haus Matteson for Secretary of State; W. W. Broden for Auditor, Joseph Bobletter for Treasurer, and M. E. Clapp for Attorney General. The platform adopted favors laws prohibiting railroad companies from furnishing passes to legislators; the establishment of a bureau of labor statistics; the payment to women of the same wages paid to men for the same labor; the prohibition of the employment of children under 12 from working in mines, etc. It opposes prison labor. It favors the free coinage of silver, and declares that laws should be enacted making employers liable in damages to employes injured in their services, whether the employes are negligent or not. It favors the reduction of the tariff on the necessaries of life, and. declares in favor of civil-service reform... The committee appointed at the National Labor Convention to select a State ticket for Massachusetts met at Boston last week and agreed on the following: Governor, George E. McNeill, of Boston; Lieutenant Governor, Robert 'Howard, of Fall River; Secretary of State, A. A. Carleton, of Somerville; Treasurer and Receiver General, Frank K. Foster, of Haverhill; Auditor, T. C. Thompson, of Boston; Attorney General, Asa F. Hall, of Hudson. Hundreds of civilians have been arrested in Spain who are suspected of complicity in the recent revolution.... It was announced in the British House of Commons that negotiations were in progress with the United States for the removal of the friction between the fishing interests of this country and Canada. James Howe, who published the first sporting paper in the United States, died last week at Lafayette, Indiana... .A collision on the Missouri Pacific Road, in a cut just outside Independence, killed both engineers and wrecked eight car-loads of live-stock.

Fifty sleeping-car porters met at St. Louis, aud organized the Sleepiug-car Porters Association. They have drawn up a petition, which will be forwarded to all the companies, asking for increased pay. . .. .The Superior Court at Taunton. Mass., decided that sleeping-car companies are liable for losses sustained by passengers while in the cars, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the ruling. The plaintiffs sued for money which had been stolen from their vests, which they had concealed in their berths. George M. Bartholomew, President of the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, is a defaulter for $127,000, and has disappeared from Hartford. He at one time indorsed for the company SBOO,OOO worth of paper which could not otherwise be marketed. He was manager of many leading enterprises, especially the Fishkill Road. The directors of the insurance company have asked Judge Pardee to appoint a receiver. The Governor of Texas has been asked by the relatives of the deceased to approve of papers claiming from the Mexican Government damages of SIOO,OOO for the murder of Erresures by the Marshal of a Mexican town. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Beeves 84.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat —No. 1 White 86 @ .86% No. 2 Red .85 @ .86 Cobn—No. 2 49 @ .50 Oats—White 34 @ A0 Robe —New Mess 11.25 @11.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 & 5.50 Good Shipping 4.00 & 4.75 Common 3.00 & 3.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 425 @5.25 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat —No. 2 Red 74 @ .74}^ Corn—No. 2 37^j@ .38>5 Oats—No. 2 24 @ .25 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 @ .24 Fine Dairy 16 @ .18 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .09%@ .10 Full Cream, new 10)s@ .11 Eggs—Fresh 16 @ .17 Potatoes—Early Rose, per bu.. .50 @ .55 Pobk —Mess 9.50 @IO.OO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 73 @ .74 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .38)2 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .26 Rye—No. 1 .51 @ .52 Pork—Mess 9.50 @IO.OO JTOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 77 @ .78 Corn—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 .26 @ .27 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 400 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5.25 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.25 Wheat—Michigan Red 77 @ .77’^ Corn—No. 2 42 @ .43 Oats —No. 2 White 30 @ .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 74 @ .75 Corn—Mixed 35 @ .36 Oats—Mixed 26 @ .261$ Pork—New Mess 10.25 @10.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 2... 41 @ .41)4 Oats —No. 2 27 @ .27)4 Pork —Mess 10.25 @10.75 Live Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 82 @ .82'4 Corn—No. 2 44 @ ,45 Cattle 4.50 @ 5.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.25 @ 5.00 Sheep 2.25 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Mixed 74 @ .75 Corn—No. 2 38 @ Oats —No. 2 26 @ .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle —Best 4.75 @ 5.25 Fair 4.25 @ 4.7 u Common 3.25 @ 4.20 Hoc 1.• .....••••••••••. 5.69 @ 5.50 Sheep 3.75 @4.25

The Great Animal Fights in Cashmere. The animal fights formed part of the festivitiss in connection with the installation of the Maharajah of Cashmore. Two huge water buffaloes, with ropes on their feet and a dozen men at each rope, were introduced to each other, the crowd closing around them to within a few feet. Neither animal required any urging, but put his head down at once and butted. The shock of the opposing skulls rang like the sound of a hatchet on wood across the arena. Then both brutes laid head to head, and pushed, and grunted, and pawed, and sweated for live minutes, the crowd yelling madly meanwhile. The lighter weight was forced back into the crowd, recovered himself, butted again, turned sideways, and was again forced back. After a few minutes more, when each animal was settling down to his work with wholehearted earnestness, the order was given to separate them, and very reluctantly the gigantic mussucks were hauled iu opposite directions. Next came the fighting rams, spotted and shaven beasts, with Roman noses and rowdy visages, straining away from their owners, and all apparently spoiling for a tight. Two or three couples were let go together, ran back to gather way, came on and met; ran back, charged again, and repeated the performance till the sound of their foolish colliding heads was almost continuous. After the first few minutes, when you begin to realize that neither animal is likely to fall down dead, ram fighting is monotonous. Sometimes a ram runs back to his charge valiantly enough, and midway in the outset loses heart, turns tail to his antagonist, and flees to his master. The adversary, being a beast of honor, immediately pulls up and trots back to his master. One light-limbed doomba with red spots seems to be the champion of Jummu. His charge generally upsets his antagonist at once, and few of the rams care to stand a second. As soon as all the rams had been disposed of, certain vicious shrieks and squeals gave evidence that the horses W’ere being got ready, and the police set about widening the ring. Presently a bay galloway and a black pony danced out, dragging their attendants after them at the end of a long rope. The instant they were let go they ran openmouthed at each other, turned tail to tail, and kicked savagely for five minutes at each other, the black suffering the most. Then, after the manner of horses all the world over, they turned around and closed, each striking with his fore feet and striving to fix his teeth in the other’s crest. They squealed shrilly as they boxed, and finally rose on end—a magnificent sight—locked in each other’s arms. The bay,loosing his hold on the black’s poll, made a snatch at the black’s near foreleg, which was at once withdrawn. Both horses then dropped to the ground together, and kicked and bit at close quarters, till the bay fled with the black after him through the crowd. The saiees at the end of the drag ropes were knocked over, scrambled up, and caught at the ropes again, while the two maddened brutes plunged and struggled among the people. About half a dozen people were knocked over and shaken, but no one was hurt; and, a "ter wild clamor and much running hither and thither, both bay and black Were caught, blindfolded, and led away to reappear no more.—Homeward Mail.

Saw His Freedom. Old Bandsom had been blind during many years. He had heard the guns of the war, had heard the shouts of his emancipated brethren, but had never seen his freedom. He continued to live in his cabin, surrounded by his wife and children, who supported him. His wife died, and his heartless children, one by one, deserted him. After this he contrived to make a living by bottoming chairs. Several months ago he became too feeble to work. About that time a young man whom the old negro had nursed came home. “You needn’t try to work any more, Uncle Bandsom,” said the young man. “I have bought the plantation, and a part of what I make shall be yours.” “Thankee, Mars Bob; thankee, sab, ’Twon't be fur long, sah, fur de ole man is gettin’ putty close to de eend o’ de row.” It was not for long. One night, after a storm, when the wind was sinking to rest, the young man stood by the bedside of the old negro. “Are you suffering much pain, Uncle Bandsom?” “No, honey, nuthin’ hu'ts me er tall; de diffikilty" is dat my bref is sorter wraung.” “You are dying, old man.” “Yes, sah, an’ thank do Lawd fur it. Use been in de dark er mighty laung time, Mars Bob, er mighty laung time, an’ now I’se gwine out inter de light. Dese ole eyes o’ de body ain’ no count, but de eyes o’ de soul ken look at de glories o’ de udder worr. ” “Do you wish to leave any word for your children, in the event that I should ever see any of them’?” “No, sah, nothin’ in purticTer, only dat I forgibs ’em. Sorter prop me up, es yer please, sah. Dar, dat’ll do.” “You are happy in the belief of a future life, are you not ?” “Oh, yes, sah; oh, yes. Es dar wa’n’t no life arter dis, de worl’ would be er I failure. De Lawd wouldn’ wanter create me ter be a slabe ha’f my life, an’ blin’ de udder ha’f, if it wa’n’t ter teach mo er gre’t lesson. Whar dat light come from?" lie said, raising his hands. “Mars Bob, Mars Bob, I kin see—l kin see! Look at de light. Tildy,” referring to bis wife, long since dead, “yer’s fotch er lamp to light de ole man erway. I’se gwine—l'se gwine! De light gits brighter an’ brighter. Hol’ it up, hoi’ it up. Thank de Lawd dar ain’ no mo’ night. Thank ” The young man eased him down. At last the old man had seen his freedom. Arkansaw Traveler. His Vinegar. A hurried grocer gave a countryman a jug of coal-oil instead of a jug of vinegar for which he had asked. Several days afterward, when the countryman camo back, the grocer said: “My friend, I have an apology to make to you!” “How so?” “Why, the other day when you were in here I gave you coal-oil instead of vinegar. ” “Wall, I’ll be blamed es that don’t splain it. When we poured some o’ the stuff on the turnip greens wife ’lowed that it tasted quar’, but I Towed that it was because she had been down with the chills. Yas, an’ I now un’erstan’ er nuther thing. I spilt some on me an’ er minnit airterwards I drapped a lit match on my britches an’ I’ll be dinged es I didn’t think I’d burn up ’fore I could shuck ’em off. I thought that it wuz the caperinest vinegar I ever seed, but didn’t find nothin’ quar’ in the taste ’cept it wan’ sour er null.” —Arkansaw Traveler.

Condensed Wisdom in B. Be just, but trust not every one. Be timely wise, rather than wise in time. Beware of bosom sins. Betray no trust; divulge no secret. Bounty is more commended than imitated. Bear your misfortunes with fortitude. Be always at leisure to do good. Business is the salt of life. Brevity is the soul of wit. Better to live well than long. Be not too hasty to outbid another. Building is a pastime that men pay dear for. Be watchful of the geese when the fox preaches. Better a small fish than an empty dish. Business neglected is business lost. Be active, for idleness is the rust of the mind. By doing nothing we learn to do ill. Better to slip with the foot than the tongue. Be very vigilant, but never suspicious. Better to do well late than never. Birds of a feather flock together. Bacchus has drowned more than Neptune. Beggars have no right to be choosers. “Bear and forbear,” is good philosophy. Better to be alone than in bad company. Better to be untaught than ill-taught. Bad looks are the public fountain of vice. Books alone can never teach the use of books. Bear in mind, blame not what you cannot change. Beware of him who regards not his reputation. Believe after trial, and judge before friendship. Boston is the hub. Be as just to friends as to foes. By your acts prove your faith.—Chicago Ledger. Mr. G. E. Reardon, Baltimore, Md., Commissioner of Deeds for all the States, suffered for a long time with rheumatism, which yielded promptly to St. Jacobs Oil. Why Middle Seats in a Car Are Best. A very common theme of conversation among commercial travelers is the question of whether or not a car rides easier in the middle than above the trucks. One of our railroad contemporaries some time ago published an article on the subject, and took the ground that there could be no difference unless the sills and framing of a car yielded like the buckboard of a wagon. There is certainly no yield to car sills and framing; yet every old t raveler avoids the seats, and especially the sleeping berths, above the trucks, and old travelers generally know what they are doing. If the party who insisted that there could be no difference in motion in different parts of the same car had ever crossed the stormy ocean in a moderately long steamer he might have received some enlightenment, especially if seasickness urged him to find the point of least motion. It is well known that there is less motion amidships than there is at the stem or stern, and less motion at the bottom of the vessel than there is on deck. A car acts in a similar way. Anything defective about the track jerks the wheels, which transmit the irregular motion to the truck, and that in turn to the body of the coach.— Railway World.

Diphtheria is frequently the result of a neglected sore throat, which can be cured by a single bottle of Red Star Cough Cure. Price, twenty-five cents a bottle. Manners Between Boys. There is a good deal of rudeness between boys in their intercourse and bearing with one another that is not really intended as such, but is not, therefore, any the less to be disapproved. It is often simply the overilow of excessive high spirits. But the very best good-humor, unrestrained by proper bounds and limitations, may become the most positive incivility. We often apologize for the coarseness of people by saying, “He means well.” It is well if we can make such an apology for them, for if their rudeness is really intentional they are not fit to be received into any worthy person’s society. But they who mean well should also do well, and the ways of politeness are never so easily learned as in youth. The boy who is habitua ly coarse and rude in his bearing toward other boys will be such as a man toward men, and all his life will never gam the reputation of being a gentleman. Prompt Reform of Bodily Evils. The prompt reform of those bodily evils, enfeebled digestion, incomplete assimilation, inactivity of the liver, kidneys and bladder, as well as of the nervous symptoms which these ailments are especially prone to beget, is always accomplished by the use of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a medicine accredited by physicians, pronounced pure by analysis, and eminently wholesome and agreeable, Surely such a restorative is preferable to unpalatable and indigestible mineral drugs ana unsanctioned nostrums. The nation at large assuredly thinks so, judging by the unprecedented demand for the article from Maine to the Pacific, a demand now supplemented by immense orders for it received from tropical America, Mexico, the British and Spanish Colonial possessions, and elsewhere. Both at home and abroad it is recognized as a standard remedy and preventive, the decisiveness of its effects recommending it everywhere. j Why Have Yellow Fever I Singularly flattering reports continue to be made concerning Dr. Domingos Freire’s system of preventive inoculation in yellow fever. A late one to the Paris Biological Society states that during the three hot months in Brazil ending with February last, 3,051 subjects were inoculated in Bio de Janeiro, and not one had the fever, whereas in the same districts and houses 278 non-vaccinated succumbed to the disease. What is more remarkable is that severe cases were inoculated in the second stage of the disease, and all recovered. Another Life Saved. About two years ago a prominent citizen of Chicago was told bv liis physicians that ho must die. They said his system was so debilitated that there was nothing left to build on. Ho made up his mind to try a “new departure.” He got some of Dr. Fierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” and took it according to directions. He began to improve at once. Ho kept up the treatment for some months, and is to-day a well man. He says the “Discovery” saved his lifo. We hear a great deal of talk about the consumption of fish. We wonder they don’t try cod-liver oil. ‘‘Frailty, Thy Name Is Woman.” —Hamlet. That she is frail often in body, “ 'Tis true, 'tis true, 'tis a pity, And pity tis, tis true.” Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” is the i best restorative tome for physical frailty in | women, or female weaknesses or derangements. By druggists. Price reduced to one । dollar. I “Struck down,” as the barber said when j he shaved the first crop of fuzz from a i youth’s chin.— Dansville Breeze.

Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save baggage, expressage, and $3 carriage hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, $1 and upwards per day. European plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cars, stages, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the city. For Tired Young Men of Thirty. The young man of thirty who complains that he feels tired, has had his day, can’t keep up with the procession, and the like, should call to mind the work such men as Gladstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bismarck, and a score of others are doing, though they have all passed the three score and ten years allotted to the span of human life. All these men have been hard and life-long workers. A locomotive will be more damaged by a year’s lying up on a side track than by twenty years of hard steaming and hauling. Not one toiler in a thousand dies of overwork, but thousands have died and thousands are dying of the diseases induced by sloth, and the vices of which idleness is the appointed guardian. Gladstone at 73 could fell a tree for the pleasure of the thing, and would defy the blows of the enervated youth of modern cities. George Cruikshank, the artist, walked ten miles a day when verging on his 80th year. Titian did some of his best work when he was 70. The natural stimulus and support of the muscles and the nerves is work. For want of it the system rusts, like a machine that is retired from service. Young men are very wise in their own conceit, but they can still take a lesson from the old, especially when these old men bear the honored names ot Gladstone and Holmes.— Baltimore Herald. We ought not to bo too anxious to encour ago untried innovation, in cases of doubtful improvement. For a quarter of a century Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy lias been before the public and passed through tho seven st test, and is pronounced the most reliable remedy for that disagreeable malady. Thousands of testimonials of its virtues. 50 cents per bottle. By druggists. Are hatters and bootmakers divinities because they shape our ends? Dumb Ague can be speedily cured by taking Ayer’s Ague Cure. Try it In Paris it costs $3 to cremate a body, and it is well urn-ed. Is not a dye, and will not stain or injure tlio skin, llall’ Hair Ilenewer. King Kalakaua is reported as wishing to dispose of his kingdom. Perhaps he wants to buy a horse.— Lowell Citizen. DEI>-BUGS, FLIES. Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, water-bugs, moths, rats,mice,sparrows, jack rabbits,gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by “Rough on Rats. ” 15c. buchu-paiba. Cures all Kidney Affectations, Scalding, Irritations, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the Bladder, th ROUGH ON KATS clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, anta, bedbugs, vermin; water-bugs, skunks. 15c. “Roughon Corns" hard or soft corns, bunions. 150 “Rough on Toothache.” Instant refief. 15c. Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility relieved by taking Mensmau’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generating, and life-sus-taining properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exjiaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, or acute disease; particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. THIN PEOPLE. “Wells’ Health Ilenewer” restores health, and vigor,cures Dyspepsia,Malaria,lmpotence,Nervous Debility." Consumption, Wasting Diseases, Decline. It has cured thousands, will cure you. HEART PAINS. Palpitation,Dropsical Swellings,Dizziness,ln- ' digestion, Headache, Ague, Liver and Kidney Complaint,Sleeplessness cured by" Wells’ Health Renewer.” Elegant Tonic for Adults or children. LIFE PRESERVER. If you are losing your grip on life try “Wells’ Health Renewer.” ‘Goes direct to weak spots. Great Appetizer, and aid to Digestion, giving strength to stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels. The best cough medicine is Plso’s cure tor Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. An Editor’s Testimonial. A. M. Vaughan, editor ot the Greenu-ich Review, Greenwich. Ohio, writes: " Last January I met with a very severe accident, caused by a runaway horse. I used almost every kind of salve to heal the wounds, which turned to running sores, but found nothing to do any good till I was recommended HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE. I bought a box and it helped me at once, and at the end of two months I was completely well. It is the best salve in the market, and I never fail of telling my friends about it, and urge them to use it whenever in need.”

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