Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 44, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 September 1881 — Page 2
BLOOMING TON COURIER.
H. J. FELTUS; Publisher.
BLQOMINGTON.
INDIANA
HJEKE AM THESE.
Ar Kan Sam will have only half a
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cotton crop.
Pbksident Garfield's life is insured fQt$mm, - . v The JRepuhlieans gained heavily in the recen t election in France, " The surplus wheat crop of Oregon is estimated at 300,000 bushels. Cincinnati has 2,000 saloons, and Mayor Means and Deacon Smith. A fcUKViviNa brother of the late; Jas. Buchanan is eighty-eight years old. On last Sunday the thirty-second murder for 1881, was recorded - in Chicago. m ........... CoiiOB ADO papers of the SOth inst., complain that "there is too much rain for the crops., It is estimated that sixty millions of eggs per annum, are bought and sold in Cincinnati. " 1 ', ' i It is estimated that there are 378,000 persons employed in the.mines of Great Britain. CAt a cost of $10.50 per day, New York gave 286,350 of her people free baths-last: week. - V " The Minnesota wheat crop of this year is quoted at 10,000,000 bushels in excess of that of 18S0.
AcsTRo-Hungary has the largest surplus of wheat for export that country has had since 1868. The President grandly vindicates the truth of his maxim that "A pound of .pluck is worth a ton of luck." ! Cathomc priests in several cities of the country, notably New York, are vigorously, opposing Sunday beer picaiev - A theater in Berlin gives a performance at half past 6 o'clock in the morning, .when the weather is pleasant. The Liberals, under the lead of the great statesman, Castelar, won a grand victory in the recent elections in Spain i The movement to enforce-the laws against carrying weapons is accompanied by a boormng business in the pistol factories. The sale 'of five thousand lots of ground for 'unpaid taxes is the drag upon an alleged real estate boom in Sew Ymtecity. s There is now about 8,000,000 in gold in transit from Europe, which will arrive in J$e w York? within the next two weeks.. -The grain gamblers of Des Moines,. Iowa, are said to be l,000.000ahead
on recent Chicago market bets. .One.
man won, $120,000. - - - It is estimated that the production "of anthracite coal, this year, will be about 7,0)0,000 tons in excess of the ainomitirwlicediast year $ -f ' The total -value of our exports for the seven months ended July 31, 38S1, was 82708,077 as against $8Q,286,!16 for the same time in 1SS0. In the enforcement of the laws against carrying concealed weapons in SL Louis during the last two months 55ffc weapons were captured: The Delaware peach crop is a failure tliis year, "for sure." Instead of the usual two to three million baskets, there will be , not much over 1 100,000 The law of -compensations appears to be in- full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield rshort but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine, "i" ..- J . Goia shipments from Euprope to this country have been resumed. The steamer City of Richmond, which arrived at New York Friday, brought $500,000. L' " Luke Frarcis?s barn, on Rolling 'Prairie, Lapoi -e counly, full- of grain, horses and imx iements, was burned by , fn unknownjncendiary. Loss, $2.500 ; .no insurance : .,: i,-
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The forthcoming report of the New York City Saving's Banks wiU show $10,000,000 of deposits during the past six months in excess over the corresponding period last y ear. TjiB aessed valuation of the real and personal property hv Dakota, exclusive of railroad property, this year, foot sup 30,000,000; an increase of-50 ?peip cent in one year. 44 Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is writing a reply which will straighten outi the crooked places in Jeff Davis' account of the 4 'Rise and Fall of the Soutnern Confedraeyv" " - " j I U Ju mm '.V Great excitement prevails in Fort .Sill, Indian Territory, consequent upon the recent discovery of gold deposits in the Wichita mountains ten , miles west of that place. A woman's right's eon ven tion at La Mars, Iowa, would draw immensely. Three hundred stalwart young Englishmen, nearly all unmarried, settled in that vicinity, recently. ' v? Charges Stewakt, a Mississippi ; wife- murderer, was hung; the 'other day, by order of a Judge Lyn eh court, and h is dea r9 father-in-law had the r pleasure of adjusting' the noose. The Right Reverend Joseph- C. Talr bolt, Episcopalian Bishop of t he Diocese of 1 ndiana,- is lying dangerously - ill at Indianapolis, from the eCects of a paralytic stroke. This is his third ; attack, and a fatal result is feareiw Quern Victoria has signed the s' Irish Land Bill, and it is now a law. A careful examination of this t ill as it finally passed Parliament - shows it to be much more satisfactory to the farm j tenant than it was at first supposed; ;f. C. Davis, of Jefferson county, has . a 500 acre peach orchard contain ing 30,000 trees ail full oft fine fruit. He employ a seven ty-ft ve men in gatln ering and shipping the peaches, ami ; the crop this year is atevX the average. " . 2 "' Coif. BI.ISS, an intimate friend of
Vice Freaident Arthur, says that no authority, less tbati that of Congress' ? : 'f ,r ' '
will induce fcho Vice President to assume the duties of th'e President while the. latter lives, and all the reports to thocontary aresensational falsehoods, t ' ,. It is now thought that the defalcation and embezzlements of Captain
Howgate maynreach $4qp,000, which isl
the largest steal by any officer of the Government thathaspccim'edin-mauy years. The national debt has been reduced
in tne amount 01 3di,i,yy siuuo
August 31, 1865, to July 31, 1881. In. the meantime there has been reduc-; tion of 81,596, 782 in the annual inter-; est on the delit. ' 1 . In some portions of New England the corn crop will be ialmost a failure on account of unseasonable cold weather, and in Western New York, Qhio, Indiana and Illinois, a partial failure on account , of .the hot .weather and
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drouth. :
It is said of the Rev. Thomas Harrison, the boy evangelist, that he is now not only a man in years, but is quite able to manage his own world
ly (affairs,. Being inviteqao, attena
the recent camp-meeting at" Acton, this State, he demanded $100 in advance fpi four days services. ?
One of the features of the Atlanta cotton exhibition will be 4 the manufacture of a suit of clothes from raw cotton in twenty-four hours; The cotton will be picked, ginned, spun, dyed, woven and made into a suit of clothes for Senator Brown inside of one day. . The petroleum trade of this country is hecominsr enormous. Durine the
month, of June, 18811, we shipped abroad $5,553,268 worth of that fluid, being double the amount during the corresponding mon th last year. During the last fiscal year the petroleum shipment) amounted to $40,315,596. Tjmiwocwylidates for.Qovernor of Virginiafare holding "joint discussions', after the- old-fashioned way of electioneering in the South, and the political cauldron is boiling furiously. The frienls of both candidates flock to meetings in large nunibers, and the colored brother enjoys the debates witli a great relish. V In a resent speech in j the House of Commons Mr. Cfladstone declared that "there is no country in Europe that in the last thirty years has advanced more ur wealth and prosperity than Ireland," and "no country in Europe that has made such progress in the last half century with respect to obediencCito the law7 L -
persons destitute, and nine-tenths of T
the population Jjpe without slieller. At Miusk it is said to have been three
times more terrible,
-It is estimated that thero is an average of five drunkards to 0very saloon in.. Chicago, s which ind icr.i es a good busifiess' Two" good drunkards Will usually support a saloon. Their spendings in each case represent the average wages of $, man-, and sometimes that of his wife. On the other side of tlae accottntFthe assets' of the drunkard Would would list about, as follows: The saloon-keeper gets his money, he gets the spree, and his wife
-and. family get the anxiety, disgrace
and privation. It evidently don't pay to be a drunkard,
Since the light bwtween the -Monitor and theMerrimac, the powder charges of great guns have grown from 15 pounds to between 400 and 500 pounds, and the new guns to be built at KJswick for the. Italia aud Lapan to are to be used with a charge of powder-950 pounds. At first the powder charges Of our 510-ton io-inch guns were 35
pounds. They were then put up to 50
pounds, and when they worasraised to 100-ppunds of mammoth grain powder, after the war, the army and navy men trembled with anxiety. But? now the 23-ton 12J ineh Woolwich rifles, T of Which the Thunderer's guns were examples, use 150 pounds of powder, and the 35-ton 11-inch Armstrong; guns made at Els wlc k for the Chinese navy Toset th charge) 235 pounds, . A QUiOEXYresponsive chord in the heart of the people is touched by. the Springfield (Mass.) Bepublican as fol
lows: i;The Garfield legend, sure to
cluster and grow around the story of his life, whether it; ends now or When he is old in years and of longer honors, will gather about him as his mother's son. ; Their relations will . be remembered and told and made the foundation of tale and story and picture when the refunding of the 3J per cents, or the
struggle at Albany are the dry dust of
forgotten politics. The son's kiss on inauguration day, the heart-broken cry of the mother over 'ray baby,? -when the strong man, high In place, was shot down, the solitary letter which the 4 weak fingers of the President found strength -to write in the weary weeks of. illuess-T-tbese. are the things for which tte man and the mother will be remembered.' Linked to au emotion and a memory which comes
home to the hearts and the bosoms of
men and women, the lasting remem
brance of President Qar field will rest
secure."
It is said that on last Sunday the President awoke from a troubled sleep and said: "X dreamed that I was dead, and the doctors were dissecting me." The account further represents that the dream-east him down greatly, and he did not recover from its effects for a considerable timeali of which
may betrue and then again it may
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The New York Times, an excefient authority, says: "The grain gamblers' reports! of the condition of crops are not al ws ys reliable. There is reason! to believe thes 'harvest id the United Sfcates wiil show- a yield but slightly falling off from last year. The best agricultural authorities in England and France estimate a decided diminution
in the quantity of breadsuils produced
there this year. The indications' are, therefore, that America will have a surplnswhiah Europe-will require." The New York Medical Record, speaking of the condition of the President's says: "Whatever may be the result of the case, it is due to the gentlemen in charge to say tnat the treatment has been skillful from the start, and that every means has been used to mitigate the sufferings of the patient and to ward off every possible danger from all threatening complications. It iS!tobe credited xovour profession, and especially of the gentlemen in charge of the case, that so little can be said,concerning what might have been done .and what was not done. . Johk; Saville. the Allegheny man who drank three quarts of whisky on a wager, died at the hospital. The port-mortem examination shows that his stomach andin fact thfe whole ih-
i ternalorganism, had been burned to a
crisp by the large -quantity ;xfi whisky he so foohshly drank. This terrible condition of his internal system caused intense suffering while Saville laid at at the hospital, and finally resulted in his deathT' He was only 24' years o age, and was a very stout young man un to.the'.time-when; he made the fatal
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Eng msh co-operative soci ties appear to still flourish. The statistics presented at the recent co-operativfc conr gress at Beeds shows that the aggregate capital of these enterprises is nearly $85,000,000; their nei .profits about $8,000,000 a year; and their membership'over 500,000; It is estimated thafrat least half - a million persons -are directly interested in these stores, with their savings banks, reading-rooms and wholesale purchasing agencies. They support a.' large-wholesale' establishment at Manchester, and an agency at New? York to buy American provisions of the, best quality and at wholesale prices. , u The shipments of breadstufife to Europe hatve fallen off within the past few months. According to the report of the bureau of statistics just received, the value of the shipments of bread stuffs for July. 1881, was but $19,081,792,;as compared to $ 31,229,677 for July;,-1880.-The value of the shipments for seven months ending July 31, 1881, was 1131,0(709, as against $153,50,302'fer the ' corresponding 1 period last year The decrease in Indian corn, barley, oatsand rye is large, The only description showing an increase is wheat flour, the value of which increased during the seven months from 120400,808 to 25.096,759. . "Dttbing the first six months of this year, no fewer than sixteen Russian citieij inhabited by Jews were bunted. Some ;of them had; a pgpulatiMi , of 25.0C0.' The most te rrible consequences resulted at Komsz and Miusk. At the- ferine r place 1 020 houses were entirely destroyed, as well as twelve places of "worship; thirty-nine persons were burned th: there are 5,000
Governok St. John, of Kansas, in interviews published in .the IntJianapolis papers, fjbears- ,stro n g teslimoii y to the efficiency, popularity and good results of the prohibitory liquor law of that State. ; It appears that the people there had been prepared for prohibition, by five years of local option which had become,- insa large portion ;of the Slate, nearly prohibitory. The Governor says the law is enforced in all parrs of the 'State except a few of tlie larger 'Cities, and 'tbat its results' are most salutary. 'Crime husdargely decreased,
the number of prisoners in the peni-j
tentiary being sixty less than it was before the law Went into operation , while ' : heretofore t h ere had been ; a -ophstant" increase. The immigration to the State is-choice and desirable;' while the emigration, from the State-is a decided advantage. The people are .more prosperous than they ever were before, and . were the question of prohibition again submitted to them the majority in its favor would, be overwhelming nwt less than 75,000. He is an enthusiastic believer in and - supporter of the law, but he, also, has the best; of opportunities for observing its; working. Other reports and views on that subject, widely differing irom his, are abroad in the land. The- careful and conscientious searcher after truth and right, will "prove1 all things and hold fast to that which is good."
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i- Home Items. Oysters will be dearer this winter because of the lixcepl ion ally cold weather last winter. ' - Ten thousand workingmen, with their- lady friends,' attended the pien i 0 at Ogden's Grove, m Cnicago, Sunday. The Chicago House of Correction has earned' $40,000 this year b3T the labor' system'. It goes into the City. Treasury. Sessions, the alleged corruptionist and briber, will be tried in 4.1lany on the 12th prox. r The anli-proh:ibili,n majority in North Carblina is 115,556. , Only four counties voted in favor of the law. Later investigations into Captain Howgate accounts makes the sum total of his ailed ced defalcation so far about $70,0001 A lady candidate is running for the office of County Superintendent of Schools on the Democratic ticket in Iowa county, Wis. . The- JJnited Spates .torpedo ram Alarm has been thoroughly tested "and pronbuhcea the most formidable vessel in our n a vy. The case of the Malleys, charged with the murder of Jennie Cramer at K'e w Hay onY Con n . , h as been post--poned;for two weeksl s -f Mrs. Hayear portrait, presented by tlie women of the United. States, cost $15,000. It was paiqted by Daniel Hun tin gtoh, of New York; $ During the past fiscal-year $185,-
229,902 were collected- by the Commissioner of Internal fBevenne and paid into theTreaauryy The widow of ex-President Fillmore makes bequests of 50,000 .$W various public institution's, including one of $20,000 to licchester University. f urther evidence- in the Christian cy divorce suit is mot ait all favorable to the exSenatoi - A Wsbing(ou drugcist charges him with being au abortiomst. At Clinton, III., the 'Circuit Court will try George Hale, a saloon is fc of Bloomiuglon, wlo is under 204 indictment for selling liquor to minors and others. " .....
Mayor Grace, of N-w York, removed.:
tlie Police Commissioners Tuesday, after a trial in whi';h they Avore found guilty, of faiUnj,o keep the streets (tean' An Irish widow lady, with a 1 0-year
ol daughter, was evicted from her
seated borne, lo. V IJubbard street,
Chicago, and remained in the alley all night. ' ' --- - A general strike of railroad hands is feared in New York and contiguous States. The operatives; want anr advance ol from, to to 15 per cent, on present wagea. J At his wifes request; a man in New York named Lauten sold his wife to an acrjuaintaaee named Jansen for $1. Mr. Lauten aud Mrs. Jansen have both sued for divorce. In response to the invitatiofl of the United States Government, the French Government has appointed a military commission to attend the Arorktown centennial celebration. That'hugo monopoly, the Standard pit Company-, has at last a compRtitor in the Buffalo arid Hock CityvPtpe Line Company, which commenced delivering Oil Tuesday. ; In the case of McGrath and McKtvitt, the dynamite fiends, ithe Liverpool jury found both persons guilty; and sentenced McGrath tp,penal servitude for life -and McKevitt for fi.teep years.
A majority of the stockholders of the JEtna Insurance Company, of New York, havo petitioned the court tp,lis-. solve the corporation and divide the assets among the stockholders. The company ceased operations in h$79;H - QThe city ofiieiais or Lerwick, Sbefland Isles, North Britain, have sent a
circular to the. Chicago municipal authorities igsking aid for : the families of
fifty-eight fishermen, lost in a storm
'which recently swept the Shetland. ;
A iigh t between Lieu ten an t Sha Iter, of the Fort Bliss (Texas) garrison, and Indians 100 miles northwest of El Paso, resulted in the killing by the enemy of Lieutenant Smith, four soldier?:, and Mr. George Dalyi a 'cele
brated mining expert d mine?owncr-
For the York town Centennial celebration a New Yorker has ordered a vase costing $1,000, to be presented to
-the best drilled battalion narticipHiius:"
in the alraar. The Pennsylva.ina.lwilr road have donated $5,000 , to IrnvvMo buildings for the convenience of visit ors. . - . v The Secretacy of the interior has' ha 1 the felicity of bringing about a cordial
interchange of fraternal relations between the Sioux and Poneas The' fornier, with many kindly sentiments j are, yielding the letter tribe .a jaj'ge slice of their . reservation; . , 1 ' Owing to the prejudice against American pork, and the scare of' trichinte there. is; a considerable falling off in trade in these products. In July of last yea'ir there was exported $I,078:180 worth of bacon, while during July of the present year there were only Mr 633,559 worth. . " . : ,! .. . " Attorney General MadVeagli decided that, although the law gave preferehoe to ex-soldiers as candidates for government positions, the right fqr preference could not be observed untii they had passed the same examination prescribed for pother camlidates in the civil service.4 Wilhin the past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago .which is- largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. MmnSe Brooks, for years the, proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women, which are already meeting, with good results. A letter has-been received at iJrash-r ing ton from Captain Hooper, of f the U. S. steamer Cprwin, 'sent into the Arctic seas in search of the Jeanette, stathig that he had heard nothing of that ver-sel on the Siberian coast,!; that he had diebvered an island near Cape Serdze aud had victualled it for the winter, if he fopud. that hehad to be oiitso long. ' .; . ' ! :t Several' great conflagrations occur red Wed n esday. At iEvaiisvill e , Ind9 at 4 p. m., fire destroyed nine wholesale establishments,, involving a loss" of $200,000. At Harrisburg, Texas, the shops of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Bailroad were destroyed: loss, $200,000; Dan-
gerheld, Tex:is,; Was nearlv en destroyed; loss, fSOiOOO.
Forelgni . It is. reported that a case of yellow, fever has appeared at Key West which was not imported. ' A Madrid dispatch announces the srresi of; forty imiendiaries in the Provi n ce ,of Mad ura , Spain. ;- v ' Twenty-seven persons were kiUed and 306 wounded at the bull fight of last Sunday at Marseilles. A $t. Petersburg dispatch sta.tes that the;jHussiau Government will ask the extradition of Leo Hartmau, the dynamist, from the United 'States - ' Paruell made a motion in the House of Commons for the release of , Michael. Davitt. It was defeated by a vote of 62 to 12. The Kilfinane, County 'Limerick,
tt' -. rgg i.jiiiiiP .mini in 1 1 1 mill 1 1 It is stated that he will form a now Irish'party; - - The House of Lords looks upon the Irish land bill as a very bitter dose, which it is compelled to accept as an expediency. J It will be considerably
amendeil by them, ho wever, before it
receives the royal signature.
It is rumored that the Ultramontane leaders in Germany have been instructed from the Vatican to support the Conservatives in the elections for the Iteicbstag in those districts where their,, own . candiplatjEsL chances., for, election are doubtful, Cardinal Jacobini; on behalf of his Holiness Pope Leo- XII., telegraphed Secretary Blaine the congratulations of tlie Pope on the President's escape and prospect of recovery. In response, Mr. -Blaine spoke of the unfavorable change, adding (he hope lhat remained. A scheme has been proposed to the German Government to unite Alsace with Baden, and' make the Grand Duke of Baden . the itrst king. Lorraine is to be united m ith t he province
of Rhinelahd-p and become a part of jp.russia. ; . . . Afghnisatan dispatches ..state that the battle between the Ameer aud Ayood Khan lasted tbree hours, and that 300 or 400 men were killed on each side. General Hume, in command ot the Anglo-Indian contingent' at Cjiiietta, had from 5,000 to 6,000 men with him. His nearest outpost was seventy-eight miles from Candahar. Geneva, Switzerland, dispatches state f hat the Socialists have written the Federal C:aihcil a bulldozing letter, threatening to blow up the balf of Switzerland with dynamite, and start
the tire there which is to burn up the
worlu Toe tbreal is on account of the Grand Council of Zurich forbidding the holding ofHlie Social Congress 'there in
September. H - '. . The world' harvests are reported from London as follows: France, a better crop th au " 1.880 j G rea t Br: tain , i 0 per cen t. bt lo w the average ; Austria and Hungarjrj, good;J-Ilaly, good in quality, below the abundance of last year1; Turkish Danube Provinces', mediums Russia, 1 barley aud rye abundant; Cjerrmi.ny, generally good ; Prussia, fair1, Switzerland: Small, but
li no; Belgiu 41, whej it bel u w th e a ver-
age; -Spain., bad; htpltand good; United States, under tin?' average.
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FAUM AND WORKSHOP NOTES
THE STATE,
The siXf-y car-old child of William
,SmviIlenvof liiucie, was kidnapped on
. Saturday, . ..t 1
tar.shai Makepeace, 01 Nobleaville, was badly bitten hf a young man "named Ivy, 'of S-terMan, Saiurdayj while the 'latter Was? being placed under
larrest.. r .
I Julius Pornin , a lad of eight years, residing with his. parents on a farm three miles north of Monroeville, was almost instantly killed on Saturday morning by a farm gate falling on him and crushingh is skull. 1 The yearly temperance meeting at Quaker town, Tin ton county, held Saturday, was attended by. a large crowd, between 8.000 and 9,66o being present Stirring speeches were made by Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and others. The charge of admission to the State Pair has been ( raised from 25 to 50 cents. An increase In the premiums to be awarded, and the debt of the State Board; of Agriculture, are giveii as the causes of th is high price of ad-mission'-j A. German fanner iii "1 fine 'circumstances, ktiown throughout Benton county as, Dutch Louie, living two miles north of Raine3ville,on the creek committed-' suicide Saturday night. During the afternoon, in a quarrel with his wife, he declared his intention to kill himself, and. during' the evening he took a dose of 'arsenic and expired .shortly after. The largest grain transaction ever occurring in Benton county was the sale, by Barnard ( & Co , of Fowler, of 240,000. bushels of - com to Richard Godman, of Iafayette. It is understood that the grain cet the firm about thirty cents a bushel. The price paid is said to have been fifty cents per bushel. Thompson's Bank Note Reporter gives a' list of women who are filling positions in banks, as President, cashier, ere. , Among them is Miss Sarah F. Dick, cashier of the Firt National Bank of -Huntington, in this State. Mrs..J W. Bursou, of Muncie, is also said to b4 a Director and executive manager of a bank in that city. The destruction of fish in the Whitewater by dynamite fish torpedoes is not confined to the locality . of Richmond alone, but it extends for thitty miles along the stream and its tributaries It is estimated that ten thousand fish have been destroyed by them. At Cambridge City there are hundreds of them that weigh two . pounds apiece or more floating in the old Whitewater canal. Only the best ones are taken by the fishermen ; the others are left iii
branch of the Land League has, in j the water. - , spite of Parnell, heartily approved the i '$he labor of the convicts in the
northern prison has just been relet for
A mongrel sire of any kind of stock should never be used. Vegetable charcoal is highly recommended by English army veterinarians as a cheap and efiicient dressing for wounds. i In light soil it is desirable that the : surface should be continually covered by crops beariug as much leaf as possiole to convey to the land from the atmosphere its manuring properties. A subscriber at Pemberton, N. J.,
writes .that twopr three bricks laid fiat.
on the ground near the roots or rose bushes, and other plants will prevent evaporation ami be of great benefit during hot and dry weather. . Edoes .& Co. , New Souih Wales;upou one sheep farm at -Bunawary, had a sheep shearing, whiuh lasted ten weeks during which time 230,123 sheep wrere shorn. One hundred shearers besides the regular hands were employed. A herd of shorthorns owned by Abram Renick, of Winchester, Ky., consists of about 100 head, for which it is reported, he has been offered and: refused $200,000. This gentleman is seveniv vears of ase. and has neither
wife nor child; We are accustomed to associate the idea of combustibility with vauer. If it bo wrapped tightly around a metal to rod it can be held in a gas flame without burning. The metal carries the heat away from it as, fast applied,- becoming hot itself; After awhile it will reach a temperature, provided the flame is iaru;e enough, at which the paper will burn. Of 60,000 acres devoted to the growth of hops in this country, according to the New York census of 1875. Otsego had 7,570 acres: Oneida. 6.600 and
Madison. 6,552, making in all 20,712
acres. These figures have not mater
ially changed since that time. The an
nual value of the crop in these three
counties is over $700,000.
The much abused dragon nies are
perfectly harmless to human beings;.
thev neither bite nor sting, hut des
trov vast quantities of mosquitoes.flies
and other insects. They erin be brought
into the house to catch flies and mos
auitoes. which dutv thev perform if
unmolested. While in the larvae state
.they perform the same good wcrk.
The presence of one-twentieth of
per cent.of lead or certain other metals
in standard gold will render a oar an inch thick so brittle that it may readily
be broken with a, slight rap witii a hammer. Less1 than one-half of 1 per
cent, of iron"-in "metallic Conner will
reduce the electrical conductivity . by
about 60 per cent., while a far smaller
quantity will render it quite unfit fo
maLufacturmg into teiegrapn cables or
lor otner eieccncai purposes.
The cow Jersey Queen. of Barnet,
owned bv Josiah S Kenerson, of Bar
net, Vt eave from May 20 to June
480 pounds of milk, averaging 40 5-12
pounds per day, which made 20 pounds
5 ounces of butter. From June 1 t
July 1 she gave 1,2S6 pounds of milk, averaging 46 pounds of milk "per day,
which made 80 pounds bk ounces o
butter. A total of 1,881 pounds of milk
maKing luu pounas 14 ounces or outter,
between the 20th of May and the 1st of
July. v . .
The smalr estates oi Jufiriana are
nearly all mortgaged to two-thirds "o
their value, ana the rents now receiv-j
ed are im ufiicient tbi)ay the r in tercst, let alone support the 'Squire and his
family. Columns of the London Times
are filled with notices of old country residences, 1 broad 'demesnes, wooded parks and snug country homes to be sold. In Lincolnshire farms .can be had if the tenant will only keep down the taxes; jn Shropshire lands can not be let at any price ; in one Parisli in ' South Warwickshire, only 600 can' be let out of 3,000 acres. ; ; ., .
laud bill.
Another Hungarian loan f '40,000,
uuu norms is to oe placed on tne mar
ket at 4 per cent by the Rothschild syndicate. The military authorities in Dublin 'have ordered flying detachments to proceed to different parts of County
( Limerick to quiet anticipated riots.
Of five 'persons arrested at Genoa for
participating in the meeting for the abolition of Papal guarantees only two w?re sentenced, and to very light terms of imprisonment. Heavy rains in England and Ireland have done great damage to the crops. This is especially the case in Ireland, where wheat and potato crops have suffered extensively. ; The Central Land League at Dublin acknowledged 1,315 at the last meeting, aud granted the Whelans, who were tried and acquited for the murder of farmer Boyd, 50. BangKok, the capital of Siain, is being ravaged by Asiatic - cholera. From 100 to 300. natives are dying daily. The Europeans have mostly lied tn Singapore and Hong Kong, -It is stated tliat Father Sheehy, Mr. Kettle, and six other persons arrested under the coercion act, will be released before the dissolution of Parliament. There will be no general amnesty. Iii the French elections -so far the Republicans have been the principal gainers, th Bonapartists losing the most. The socialist and revolutionary candidates received a mere handful of votes. A s a m ca u re of precau tion agai nst the machinations of the Nihilists the Czar, who is residing at the palace of Cz?rsko seio, ..near St. Petersburg, is navinir more attention to the well-be
ing of his army. Since tlie Emperor of Germany has expressed his dislike to the antiJewish persecution, the authorities have made eflorts to suppress further rioting. The pro-Jewish press 'is triumphant. Sir Charles Gayan Duffy, the wellknown Irish author and: publicist, has written an open letter to his countrymen, heartiv indorsing tlie laijd bill.
sixtys three cent-! a day, an advance of eighteen cents. The old contract, by which fifty of the convicts were worked at forty-five cen ts, did not expire till May, 1882, and the contract by which the other seventy-five were held, did
, not expire till April. 1883, yet from
some fault in the original contract they were .relet at the ad vance described
above, thereby saving to the State some $10,000- ; ' August Berm met a horrible death in St. Joseph county the other day. He attempted to jump from a threshing machine and missmg his footing fell between the cylinders feet foremost; The machine was running at its highest rate of speed, and the cylinder teeth clear of straw, hit into his legs. The right leg was drawn its . whole length between the cylinders and was pulled from the hip socket; the teeth cut into, his lower abdomen, tearing out the entrails. His left leg was also badly torn and-broken. In one place his right leg was wedged so tight that, after chopping air the machine, he could not be leleased, and act it hung to his body but by a shred of sfe in it was cutJof The machine h id to be taken to pieces to get the dismembered leg from the cylinders. Be mi lived nearly two hours after the accident. f Workmen employed in making an excavation near she river, at Misha-
waka, unearthed a number of Indian skeletons, some of them comparatively near the surface. Some had been buried singly in graves; and others looked as though they had been hastily thrown in a trench. , Some of the older residents of Mishawaka thought they were Indians buried in that spot, at an early day when the sma! I pox raged among them, but it is more than prob
able that thov are skeletons of Indians
who were pounded in a. great battle fought in the early part of the century between (he ' Pottawataniics, under
Chief Pokairon, and the Shawnees.
under CJhief EL'shart. ' r- ' ... . Don't let any one keep your conscience for you, You may havo a difficult task 011 hand it you propose to keep it yourself, and to keep it without a muzzle or collar, but not half as d i fiieu.lt as to- it to please every body. The poot saysf Who eoela to pleattft all lueu eixeh yiy Aad not hiu: self offoud, Ho wuiy begin his tyork to day, fwhPawwUeuUeUlead : i "i
now. it's an ngut to taJKanout enterprise and yoUni? blood, but a doctor-
should not" be too onterprisingZ7? f
After talking until the -lire-burned
out, the. two. friends, retired. . - ,-. ''Speaking about oung doctors, said Dr. Snort, CiI have always held
that the best physician is he who his
the age. It is all practice anywa$-,ana
I believe that a 50-year-old doctor as
more reuaiue tnan oneio years oiu,"
"Yes , said Billsins, "but alter l hey
pass 50 it doesn't make much differ
ence.";
"yes. it does. A 5o-year-old doctor
is naturally more reliable than one 50 years-old," . -.. ..
'Now, here," said Bilkms, "you say
that just b(cause5l'm, 50, and you 4re about 55,"
"No, I didn't tbink of the difference
in our ages. However, in our case it s
different." ,." 'V:
uDon t try to crawl out of it, doctor,
you mean u as an insinuation., xou can't pul? tlie wool over my eyes, for I
can doctor the life out of you any
time.'v. .
llK6 doubt of it. Let's go to sleep." "Sleepjthe deuce,"said Bilkins,turn-
ing over, "fctir a man up ana tneu
tell him to go. to sleep ! . I want you -to
understand that i stand niirner as a
physician than you do,"
"JNo use to talk: that way wuen you
know that I can doctor the socks off
you." '. m . ,
"That's, the trouble. You can 00c
tor the. socks or! anybody; I suppose
vou are not aware that Bilsley tells it
all around the neighborhood that .you
killed his wife.". ;
' 'See here, ' ' sn arled. Snort, "you are
too infernal insolent for an old man.
never intended to say, anything about
it. but I know one t thing concerning vour medical career that is a blot to
the profession. You poisoned Glaxon's child out of pure ignorahcet" T y "You are a rheumatic old liaril" ex
claimed Bnktns,:sprini?inE up. ; 'SYou
are a wheezing old scoundrel.'' ;
"You ol 1 carrion crow !"yelled Snort
"I woulden't take tliat from my fath
er." ' ...
"Take vour hands oft. I'll punch
the life out of you. Take that," howled Bilkins,- as he struck the wall with
his fist, ..
Then they grappled, and began a inouth-to-mouth engagement. They
rolled out of bed, got up, braced,- grap
pled and fell again. Finally tne nigh
porter broke open the door, rushed in and lit the eras. Snort stood in one
corner of the room, holding a chair
Dr. Bilkins stood on the bed witn a
boot in his hand. ,1.
f'Drivo'that madman out!" exclaim
ed Snort. "He -Was been trying to
murdeivme." ,
..UHe is an old liar !" vociferated
Bilkins ; ' 'he tried to poison me. Shoot
him. Call the'police and-let them kill him." :'..:.., Several men , disturbed by the noise, entered the room, and the1 two' old' .friends were compelled to occupy different apar tmen ts. Tlie affair has created a profound sensation,- and ware rants of arrest havebeen issued for the oldtime physicians. y. r -t
TABLE TALK.-
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I am com in t by and by.
You will hear my plaintive cry . . , . . In jicccutH mild and Rentle asa lamnf ? Ero lag I'U be on deck, :l BriDf'inc hl.nty cents apcok. ; .-- Singing hero the sweet potato that I yam ; : The passage on the fine clipper ships r rout Melbourne to London, 70 or 80
days, is only $250, and a writer in a London paper suggests the excursion as a modfi for families With fixed in-
comes-torelrench, as the living is good.
he trip is health-giving, and xnere is ; r.o mpurifl nf snfvdinflr money. It is I
nurther suggested that girls might pick ,J
nphuBbattdfiistf" - - tt would not be possible Jot an"Tei-? ierieheed raiser o thorouffnbred stock. '
whatever; might be his nationality, to A ; visit tho blue-grass region of Kentucky i
and the adjoining States or xennssee and Virginiaw?ithoutatonce admitting that soil, air, water and climate there
combine to contribute au tnat is neces- ; sary for theprodueUpnpf a.pert type
01 race noises. . -vff.t.
Phila-lelnhia has a severe law againsts
gelling liquor on Sunday, and of late
an effort has been maae to eniorce iu
Keepers of beer garden's in' tme-suburDS :
eomnlairr bitterly" that; 5 WKife ttteur ,
places are relentlessly ciogea, crarac ui sniiituous beverages goes' on brisklj in airmont Fark, under the' cbuntenaDoe,
of the Park Commissioners, van
I'ark is the chiefattraction which, the
city has for strangers," says a memDer-
of the Board, "and it snaunot oe man
aged id a narrow, runtamcai spini." He defies the Mayor to interfere in the management of the-Parks and fiayss t hat 4 temperance spies?', wiU:b kissed out, -;, v , -.. . , Ben Thompson, who keeps, a gainbi ling hell at Austini3Texa9,lfe, soft in speech, small in stature aniuhusually:"
mild in manner ; yet; he -is one of ther" iptedlesTOraoes ofeothwest$ -. and has killed half a dozen naen. He?
r-'Smnot, be-accused. l-iower, of downr j TTvili;; fnr skn f'.verv-instance he f
techniculiyacted4ii seir-ddfence. That i is his neeuliaritv. " whenever he gets H
into a-fight in wbicha pistols are drawn.n f hereckfesslyaitQ -uutjl. Ihisopponent
has nreu, ana tnen aeiiDerateiy sjiuous a back. This plan affords him a clear de fence'incourtj'and has noisy et resulted 7 in his death; a4triig treasonably be J expected to doi ? ; ' '. "V' . According to the frankfurter ValksvKMtnnif 'in :18()5 the number of letters
?Berit thr6ugbmpbsl aillover theMrorld was estimated at 2,300,0)0.000. The available daTfrlfcr 1877 sjiows that the postaf correspondence had risen to nvAr 4 OifiO 000.000. which gives an av
erage4 of 11 ,01000 ;p day, or 127 per ! secori(L Enropi contributed 3,036,000;- 4
000 letferssto-tms tflrpormous mass or j correspondence: iAmevica about 7(HK(.00,000; AsiaTdXJ.OCKj. Africa 25 i 000,000. : Australia 50,0000. AssumT ing that the p6Sula&6ii Withe globe I was between l,300,C0OO00 and 1,400,-j C00.000 this would give an average of
tnree letters eacn ior .uus t-uiuc uumou
race.
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yOR A3SFD ABOUT WOMEN'
Miss Eliza M. Marshall has resigned as a teacher in tne public schools at Portsmouth N.r H., after forty-live of uninterrupted service. ' ii A country girl, coming from a morning walk, was told she looked as-fresh as a daisy kissed by the dew. To which she innocen tly replied '' You've got my n ame rightDaisy ; but his isn't Dew." The latest thing ' in stockings, not couuting leet, is pink silk with overtrain of flowered lace. The effect-is to cause a inuddy crossing to assume the appearance of abed of pausies, and to bloom and blossom as the rose. ' Biehard Grant White fainted the other day when a friend, whose grammar he was correcting, told ' him of a Western girl whose comnauion asked her at a party: "Shall I skin a banana for you?" "No, I thank: you," she . replied, "I have one already skuiiY" ',..-..... A new trimming- for the neck and sleeves of dresses is a pulf of surah, made by plaiting the edge, hen joining them together,-afterward pulling out the plaits, in the middle to give a soft effect. This is sewed in the nc ck and the wrists of sleeves, and constitutes a perfect .finish without the addition of lace.
Young lady: to say that at
enough to eat.
"And ypu really mean times you do not have Why, I always, thought
that noor neonle in the eouutry could
get eggs, bacon, milk and vegetables for nothing!. Country-woman : "Only three things as we gets fur nufiin, Miss air, water and the parson's advice!" . ' I can't think that sinners wilt be lost," said Mrs. Nimbletung. flThere's my husband, now. He's a bad man a very bad men ; but I trust he will be saved at last. I believe he has suffered his due share in his life." "Amen,"
shouted Nimble tuhg from the back sent. Mrs. N. gave him such a look,
but saidmothing. . . -. i$he was our washwoman, and she is dead. She had much to wringer heart and soaker ambition. She hung out resolutely on the line of duty and
stood' firmly unon her plus. She. was.
not polished, but we ' seldom arousei her ire'n,.when we did the foam was transient. Let's 'oap she's past safely over the billows into tlie blue x waters beyond. ;:. : . -.V. The night had suddenly overclouded and become quite stormy. Being of a sentimental turn, she accordingly took took her seat at the piano and began to sing, 'Into some lives the ra n must fall." But he was entirely practical, and, cinching her by the arm, said tenderly: "Sing xne something else, darling: you know J didn't bring my umbrella." ' Two Old Physicians. GIe.elaiitV Leader. The other night Drs. Snort and Bilkins. two of the oldest phyaiciaus in the
country, met at a hotel iu Cleveland. They were on a journey, and their meet ing was acciden tal. I . "We must occupy the same room," insisted Dr. Snort, "It has been so
long since I met an old-time doctor that the occasion shall retain pleasant memories." , '"Nothing would give me greater pleasure," answered Dr. Billuusr "It is pleasant to meet a genuine physician. 'b. The two old men were snown to a
room, where, with a bright fire, ' they
built an auaiuon to an acquaintance begun when Ohio was not regarded as the great State of Presidential production. "There are a great" many tricks in the medical prof usion now," said Dr. Snort; '"these upslar doctors are killing the people off at a shameful rate." .'It wasn't so in our day, "replied Dr. Bilkins; "a boy 19 years of age wasn't engaged as a family physician then."
"No: nor there .wasn't inatjeaiousy
i His Pay. ' ' Will S. Hays,of Louisville, has made a small -fortune' by writing songs. Among his popular . compositions are "Mollie Darling," "Noi-ah O'Neal," and "Evangeline," But he 3ot no money from the latter, though it gave him a start in business. "Just befbVe the war,", he says, 1 wts with somb youug visitors up in Oldham coimty; ICy. Among theni was a ' beatftifm girl who resembled the ideal pictures of Longfellow's' 'Evangeline' so closely that I called her by that namev We danced at an out-door frolic, one' evening, and soph discovered that four of us could sing together; k We tried pop-; ular quartettes, and got along so well that wb became enthusiastic. About 2 o'clock ., inr tho morning we started to walk home. The night was as bright; as day;' with trie full moori hanging in the sky, and &s we walked we sang. We sat down in a nook to r. st, and 'Evangeline' began' to suggest sothel songs to sing; I'll write you a song,' said I, 'if you will promise to siuk it
before we go home.' This was agreed to. On the opposite side of the road was a white plahk fence. Where ' we were sitting a party of negroes had been roasting ears - of corn, and the3 charred sticks lay all around. k With them I wrote the first verse of the song on the top plank of the fence, and the notss for four voices on the four planks beneath. Then we stood off, and sang ft. The girls were delighted, and insisted on having; a choru?, so I wrote the chorus on the planks. Well, we& sang it; Over and-over, and went home singing it. Next morning :'Evange line' came down stairs humming the.
flrj and, asked me to write il out andfinish it. I told her I couldn't do it ;
aiut she might go down and copy it oil tneferiice. She took-an umbrella and a sheet of paper, and soon came back
with words and music. Tben she in'-"
sisted on having another verse ; . so T wrote another verse, ;on condition that I was" to have a kiss fdr: it; and she to have the music." Have sent the cc imposition to various music publishers, but couldn't sell ir,ahd it was at length made public by the voice of Jampbel3t, the negro minstrel. Three hundred thousaud copies have been sold, but the kiss was the only pay. the ? authori hast received.
A Small Boy's Explanation,. , i"L Yoakers' .Statijsmaii. ; f ; j y ' fe , ' . It was Sunday eveningi Angelica had invited lier "best young man" to, the evening meal.41 Everything had nassed off harmoniously until Angeli
ca's seven-year-old brother broke ,tke.
blisstuliienco nv exciairaing: "Oh, ma !1, yer oughter4 seeri t Mi. Lighthead the other night, when he called to take Adeie to the drill. He
looked so hieo sittin' 'long side of her
with his arm " "V ; ''Fred !" screamed the maiden, whose face began to assume the color of &
well-done crab quickly placed her
UltliU V.. W AAVV. - . - 'f Yer oughter seen him,". continued; the persistent informant, after gaining" his breath and the embarrassed girl's hand was' removed he' had v his arm" . , ... ' V--' "IJreddie!" shouted the mother, as iii her frantic attempts to reach the boy's auricular appendage she upset the contents of theteapot iu Mr. Light-'
head's lap, m aki ng numerous llussian
war maps over his new taloons.
I was i ust goin' to say" the half frightened boy pleaded, between a cry and -Ait injured whine, "he bad his arni-r-" -. :. v . "You boy!" thundered the father, "avav to the woodshed." , 1 : ,. And the boy made for the. nearest exit, exclaiming as he waltzed, "I was only going to say Mr. Lighthead had his army clo thes on, and I'll leayb iMo him if he didn't." . j , And the boy was permitted to return and'the remainder" of the meal was spent in explanations from the family in regard to the number of times Freddie had to be "talked to" for using his
nngersto a lacue.
The city 6f Baltimore Is in an ea T 1 viable position: . It is Well governed, j J A hew prbbf of ' this is-' givfeo in tbe construction of the Gunpowder water I Works. . Several years ago the people J voted 1,000,000 to censtifict the works A macniflceh'fctto i
;d:ong. a greater prr t of ft through soUtt J
i-oek, was cut; ana.now toe worKs are, : combleted, and tneiremam teppropa-ia?ea P9$l8i- unex I f pended. This circumstance, however j 2 has ib parallel in the history of the -City Hail of theame c'ty, fir whicU ; $2,W)0,000 were appropriated : After it ; was entirely com plete" I lie" Bu ddin g Commission had over; $t00,000 unex' , , penned money oai their hands v 1. - 5 f K. i ; While all the world nowadays know . of the torpedo, invented and -named J ; by-Fultbhas a machine to Jlbw up :
ships, compar,ativ,ely4 rew know that iti takes its nariie from a fish, f marvel
-ous electrical rproperties, which was
anatomised by tlie lamous surgeons
.fohh Hunteiv IThe torpioi is lounq in the MettiteraneaUv the Bay of Biscay . :ind the southern Enclish and- Irisht
waters. -Ths ancients emplpyei it. as a? 5;
uieraneuuc ageut. xx, w, ucupyw w use its' extrabrdinaty -phweta to tom
pnnmb a big enemyr cir tp: capture a'
smaller nstv. it ioves to ne in-snu,iu5 hichM t will bury itself by flanping itsj
extremities, throwing the saup over its; back. Tread oh it then' and5 you . will1 fee proheh a moment. -ItJis sometimes; sold for food in Fiench nrkete. i A Santa Fe paper tells a, tale which recalls Holme's novelof "Slsie Veht ner." . It says that there: is a, resident' at Faudalaira, ah individual navinv scaly green skin, exactiy?rlikeja vipei8 which he sheds every year. ,It comes off in a single piece. He bas no hair on his head. His sister- who- died a short time ago, had similar, pecuhanties. Toward the close of her life this viperous skini encroached tonjlier eyes' so that she could see only througn - small aerature'. The same ftte over hanffft iier -brothers These unhappy
people are known ass .'jvipermen. atid J
women." rne pueuonieutu auuir uted. to the fact pfj their mother having: (as is common in Guba?) taken an ex- : cess ofipei3n,eshi t& 4fiae8az. . r Mr: Ii;' J. rBarroii secretary . of thra Swimming Association ol . Great Brit- ; to ihft London Times to
urge fhe hecessity of children beings taught to swim Mttgbod, straightfbt . ward breast stroke.11 e In case a person . fixHstin to :a heavy sea, a ti4db strokes ahculd be adobted prefenting the back. ot the head to: the dash of M waves, , If, he says, a child is taugnt merely to ; 'tread water," nov douliafter a few t less ons 1 e will support hiniself- but he witl'noif be likely ieverVaiterWam to earn to swim with a good stroke. But -if a child is taught the breast stroke, Pronerlt he will-learn to suppbrt him- 4
self in fewer lessons probably v ana aa he gains strength and confidence insucceeding yeariU practice and be come efficient in-s a great varletv 0 f
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Stt: Loais GibbeDeTaioCrati,
? -Tie.her6 of thepnr iii ew- Mexic ; i tftA kior lion .of the Territorial
.nous Jtiussian " - c SMr cirt f i la vr ' -rv kvMifiAi' Mtu menagerie, i Patsey varrer, tne siaj layendet paite Bipth His namets4n eyeiy f
bodv's month. 'I he
his exploits aud his praises.
chil
him
S Increasing PopiUarity ofBeer. Ulobo. Democrat. ; It is said that laser beer is becoming
the fasliionable drink in aesthetic and abstinent Boston. A few years ago ostracism was promptly visited upon any man who had a beer wagon stop in front of his door; now, the beer wagon comes and goes among the princiu 'l residences as openly and regular
ly as the milk cart- The . amount of
beer aold in the city last year reached the dizzy hgure of 641,603 barrels,1 an increase of 61,081 barrels. Sver the preceding ye4tr nearly as much as w&s sold iii St. Louis or Milwaukee, and more than Nas sold in Cincinnati or Chicago, Is our civilizatibn i a failure, and is Wenilell Phillips played out? f -'..
The idea of fertUizing tland witb
filll Of Mi;
r"ry": - - tt
The veiryf r
Jren in tne streets scop aim uuuw
Witli a curious ana admiring siaro
asses- x tuei will -"jr
rtA ho n
Santa Fo and a milder-looirag, gen;;- . Ier-spoken fellow I never sawv He is about 27 vears old, 6 fQl 5inches lall i ; and'oT aimosfi1 willowy, slendrness, V with the slight tendency, to his build; . His complexion, naturally fair, is sun-- ;. tan ned tp a ruddy brownt . His eyes are . grayish brown, and kp.en as an eagle's
aim ws uair aiui sjhiau mu.vof a li-it broM tintscarceiy deeper
than golden. His Voice is as soit as a
womans, aant ne rareiy uses y is:nvAir. shok&veYv kindly of the
Kid, and hvina: 0ccasiQmT iu freply; to a question, to allude to the, exploit which has made htm famous,1 simply remarked ; "He-was taketv ,the night of the 14m of this monUv I asked hihi if the -KiuV'had really r killed as mauy men rs the paperyeport, from nineteen to twenty six 'No, he an, 6Wered, in his musisalfemiuiae voicei heoniykilled eleven that tl-JmoW ot," I thought one for every tvfo year of his lif was nearly ehouch ; - r Some hitchjhaviugqccurrcd in regard to the reward Garrett expected to get from the Territorial atuhorities, tlie people of all ithe ci ties m towns 111 the Terri tox.v have gone to work to raise a subscHpUnY for lilro, and, Jw wegas alone bas a ready made up a purse of nearlv $L2t0 in gold. If other places
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existing; between doctors, that you fiu4 1 10.
do- as much . in uronoruon, ine luuu
salt was conceived by John ,Kapier, iu j Vill ; ainouht
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