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The Princetpn Union.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
JBriii.h Oram Traac.
The Mark Lane Express says: Supplies
of English wheat hate been very limited both
in the country and at Mark Lane. At no cor
responding period within the past ten years
ave sales at the principal markets been so
light as those for the week ending Feb. 2nd.
The imports of foreign wheat into London
were materially increased by arrivals from
Pevel, shipments from that port not having
been interrupted by ice to Jan. 31st. Germany
has also furnished a fair proportion of supplies
but the Indian arrivals have decreased some,
and the inquiry for this class of wheat has
shown signs of flagging since the market was
well supplied with American and Russian. An
important movement as regards the irrain
trade the raising of the blockade and rewith
opening of tbe Black Sea ports. If the recent
advises are to be credited, the accumulation of
grain in Odessa alone amounts to something
like 650,000 quarters, while at Nicolaietf the
stocks are said to exceed 375,000 quarters, so
that should America and Germany continue
to export freely our imports during
the spring will probably be very
heavy. There is no doubt that a con
siderable portion of the grain accumulated in
southern Russian ports consists of maize, but
of whatever description there is no doubt that
the holders arc most anxious to get it off their
hands, as tt is calculated that the loss to com
merce in Odessa alone by the blockade of the
Black Sea has been $70,000,000 to 80,000,000
roubles. With such large foreign supplies in
prospective, it can hardly be wondered at
that prices are weaker and, apart from politi
cal influence, as far as can be seen appear
ances seem to point to an ultimate if not im
mediate decline. Prices will probably not
vary much for some weeks for millers, who as
a rule are holding little or no stocks, will have
to supply their wants as they have been doing
of late and at about the same currencies as
depressed values must follow actual arrivals
and not anticipated shipments. The require
ments of the country must inevitably be large
between this and next harvest, as the home
crop of 1877 was unsually deficient and the
stocKs of English wheat in farmers' hands have
inK undergone considerable depletion. A revi
val in the country demand should take place
shortly as it is now some weeks since country
millers bought with freedom. The floating
cargo tradefor wheat opened quiet,but towards
the close of the week prices improved six
pence per quarter. Owing to the politica ex
citement maize is dull, without quotable
change, and barley is neglected.
A. Tale of the Sea.
The schooner Speedwell from Cadis
arrived at New York on the 11th Inst., with
the captain and crew of the schooner Sallie
M. Steel man, from Charleston for Baltimore,
which was abandoned at sea. The captain ef
the Steelman makes the following statement:
January 30th, twenty miles southeast from
Hatteras encountered a terrific gale lasting
70 hours, which washed everything: movable
from the decks. Used our last provisions the
morning of January 22d. On the night of the
34th, during a heavy gale, sprung a leak. On
the 27th, three of the crew gave out, leaving
only four to manage the vessel and pumps,
and we fast becoming exhausted. On the
30+b, Geo. Seaman, colored, who had become
crazy, attempted to take the life of Walter
Simpson, but was instantly killed by the lat
ter who, during the afternoon, ate a portion
of his dead body. On the 3d we were rescued.
Before leaving the schooner the crew became
so crazed with hunger that it was suggested
they would be obliged to cast lots for one of
the number to furnish food to keep the oth
ers alive. Fbr eight days nothing passed
their lips" except fresh water and tobacco,
which appeased their hunger only slightly
finally one of the sailors was killed in a quar
rel, when his body was cut up. The upper
part was thrown overboard and the limbs were
salted down for food. Prom the thigh steaks
were cut almost before the flesh was cold and
broiled. These were eaten with a relish by
the starving men. The crew consisted of the
captain, mate, cook and four seamen, three of
the latter colored.
The Cabs. Rebellion.
A newspaper in the interior of the is
land basamblished the following: An official
dispatch received from headquarters, dated
San Joan, Feb. 10th, gives the following con
dition for peace: Article firstThe Island of
Cuba to receive the same political organiza
tion and administrative concessions as those
njoyed by Porto Rico. SecondAmple par
don for all political offences committed since
I860 and liberty of those persons under sen
tence, and political prisoners, and a general
pardon to deserters from the Spanish lines.
ThirdLiberty to be given to slaves and
Chinamen within the insurgent lines. Fourth
No person recognizing by virtue of this
treaty Spanish authority can be obliged to do
war service unless it be re-established in the
whole territory. FifthAll persons desiring
to leave the island.to be furnished means to
do so without touching either village or city
if so desired. SixthCapitulation of each
force to take place on an inhabitatcd spot
where the arms will be deposited. Seventh
The Spanish general-in-chief for the pur
pose of facilitating the adhesion of other de
partments to these conditions to give free ac
cess to roads by sea and land. EighthThe
foregoing basis to be considered general for
all departments of the island excepting these
propositions. The Spanish troops have re
ceived orders to suspend operations, remain
ing on the defensive. A practical guide has
been dispatched to make known these con
ditions to all insurgent bands. The insur
gent Camara and his government has resolved
itself into a central committee for treating for
peace.
Victor Kiuanal.
The last hours of Victor Emanuel's life
was filled with peculiarly distressing scenes.
The Princess Marguerita was wild with grief
and had to be taken forcibly away from the
couch. The king, in a feeble voice, said to
her: "Why do you weep, my child don't
you know that sooner or later all must die?*
A little later, as the members of his civil and
military household passed before him to bidwas
him farewell, he saw the strong men con
vulsed with sobs, and said, with much dignity,
Don't cry. Kings, as well as other people,
are mortal!" Shortly before the King
breathed his last the physicians endeavored
to prevent his wish to be seated in a chair!
They advised him to remain in bed, but he
said: I beg of you, my friends, let me die
in my own fashion." And they concluded*
they would. To Prince Humbert he said
(this version of his words has been author
ized): Hold firm and good, and love with
equal love country, liberty and religion."
Knglantt'i Mlflit.
W take the following from the Finan
cial Reform Almanac: England's naval
strength is 579 vessels of 915,560 tons burden,
with 2,819 guns, and steam* power equivalent
to 608,448 horses. Sixty-four of these vessels
are powerful iron-clads. So far as the num
ber stated go, it appears that wo have an
admiral for each of the 207 vessels in commis
sion, with 36 to sparo for receiviug, store,
training and surveying ships, dispatch and
tug vessels, yachts, etc., and 48 more than one
for every two of the 579, including coal depots,
chapels, hospitals and reformatories. There
is a similar glut with regard to the army. Of
generals, counting those on the active list
only, there is one for every two of the 151 reg
iments, with 20 to spare. There is a lieuten
ant-colonel for each one of them, with three
over, and for every regiment there are ihree
major-generals within eighteen, six colonels,
with nineteen over, fifteen lieutenant-colonels
forty-four over, and nine majors with 116
to spare. Proportionately, therefore, if not
actually, we are more abundantly supplied
with officers than even the great military pow
ers of the continent. Of regular troops we
have 151 regiments of militia, yeomanry and
volunteers, 488 regiments, making a total of
639 regiment*, to say nothing of pensioners
and reserves. We have also a sea force more
powerful than that of any other two naval
powers, and the advantage an insular position
instead of open frontiers. We are in a state
of profound peace with the world, and may so
continue if we please. Yet, notwithstanding
all this, there are persons among us who be
lieve, or affect to believe, that there is nothing
to prevent the landing of a hostile force of
100,000 men upon our shores in a single night',
and that there will be no safety for us until
every able-bodied man among us is trained to
arms.
TJirice Married and Onco Divorced.
On or about January 1, an advertise
ment appeared in the Ne York Herald in
quiring for the address of "the daughter of
the late Horace Meech," to whom, tit stated,
the late William C. Glynn of this city had, by
will, left a fortune $80,000, application to be
made to Mr. Choate, Tremont street, Boston.
Mr. Horace Meech was many years ago a
well-known resident of Albany. William C.
Glynn was at the same timeperhaps a quart
er of a century agoa teacher of music in that
city. Among his pupils was Miss Meech,
daughter of the aforesaid: Glynn fell in love
with the young lady, and she, presumably,
with him, and they were married. Miss
Meech's parents persuaded their, daughler to
obtain a divorce, which was done, Glynn re
moving to this city. His divorced wife soon
married a young gentleman in Rochester, who
died not long afterward in the South. The
widow married, for the third time, a gentle
man in Buffalo. also died leaving the
widow with one daughter, now grown up
married, and herself a mother. The widow,
in reduced circumstances, was liviug with a
sister on Staten Island, when some Albany
friends, seeing by chance the advertisement,
acquainted her with its contents. She at Jonce
took measures to secure the bonanza left her
by her first love. It seems that.Glynn,after re
moving to Boston made a fortune in the music
business. Time, however, nor circumstances,
didn't make him forget the girl he left be
hind him," although she had thrice married
and had become a grandmother since his eyes
had beheld her.
A Stock Marriage In Illinois.
One John Lagrange was arrested in
Aurora 111., on the 15th, for conspiring to in
jure the person and reputation of a Miss
Francis Place. A young Ingham was also
wanted, but had made good his escape. The
facts as near as your correspondent can learn
them from a personal investigation arc these:
Young Lagrange and the young lady, who is
the daughter of Esquire Place, had been keep
ing company, and were to be married, but the
father of the young lady was very much op
posed to the match, and on Jan. 7th they re
paired to the house of one Smith, produced
a paper which is claimed to be a forged
license, and were united, young Ingham act
ing1
ajustice, when in fact he was not nor
ever had been. Smith was called as a wit
ness. The young woman supposed the pa
pers to be genuine. Lagrange and his bride
went over to Shabbona to spend the honey
moon, but yesterday concluded to go down to
Aurora. Mr. Place found out about the mar
riage and that the papers were forged, and
put matters on foot to have them all arrested,
but Ingham had left. Lagrange and Smith
are both lodged in the calaboose. The young
woman finding how she had been deceived
will expose all she knows of the plot.
Will of a lrnl Millionaire.
The will of Theodore Roosevelt was
filed for probate, in New York, on the 16th
inst. The house and furniture are given as a
seperate estate to the widow, and also one
third of the real and personal estate for life,
and at her death to her children or their issue.
Four sums of $60,000 each are given to execu
tors in trust for the four children, to be ap
plied to their education and support, without
power of anticipation duting their life, and the
sums to be inherited by their issue, and in case
any children dies without issue, his or her
share goes to the surviving children or their
issue. Each of the children to dispose of the
principal sum of $60,000 or any part thereof
by last will and testament, not otherwise, to
their issue, or the other children. The re
mainder of toe real estate and personal is to be
divided into fom equal parts, one-fourth to be
given to each f his two sons to be his absolute
ly. The remaining two-fourths to be sepa
rately invested for his two daughters during
life, and the income of one share to be applied
to the use of each daughter during life, the
principal and interest to be free from control
of their husbands. Each daughter is empow
ered to dispose of said part by will.
I*lcd Talking of Uenth.
August Kimbell, a machinist of Cincin
nati, died suddenly on the 12th from hemorr
hage jf the lungs. He had been standing on
the corner for half an hour, talking to a friend,
to whom he said, if he was conscious the day
before he died, he would request the doctor to
n-akea pout mortem examination of his body.as
he believed-there was something wrong with
him. He left his friend and turned to cross Plum
street, and when in the middle of the street
attacked by a hemorrhage and fainting
sensation. He turned to come back, and was
caught by a passer by and assisted into the
store, a few steps away, where he had another
hemorrhage. He did not speak after the first
attack.
Klcli Mineral Mtrilic In Montana.
A rich strike has recently been made
in the Snow Drift mine about 33 miles north,
west of Helena, Montana, Fifteen hundred
daaMa^a^^ara^a^taaaMriMBMWMi
ounces valued at $34,000 are now on exhibi
tion. The vein is 13 feet wide. Weather
lovllestkind. Not a particle of snow this
winter.
Negro RavUner jbjwchoa.
A special from Boonesville Ky., reports
the lynching of an unknown negro near.,
Franklin, Howard county. An educated col
ored woman who taught school was on*ner
way home and encountered two negroes in the
woods. They overpowered her and outraged
her. Upon her arrival at the nearest house
sho reported the facts and a party was orga
nized to pursue. They traced the ravishera
to a vacant house. Ono saw thorn coming
and fled. The other crept under the floor.
He was taken out and hung to the nearest
tree.
CONGRESSIONAL,
SENAT E, Feb. 11th.A large number of
petitions and memorials for and against the
passage of the Bland silver bill were presented
and hud on the table, or referred. Bills were
introduced and referred. The senate voted to
meet with the house to day to receive the pic
ture presented by Mrs. Thompson. The bill
to provide that United StatcB district courts
for the southern district of Iowa shall bo held
at Burlington was reported favorably. Mr.
Saunders presented a remonstrance of citizens
of Omaha and Council Bluffs against the
Chaffee bill. The silver bill came up and Davis,
of West Virginia, spoke in favor or it. 8aj^B-
bury and Coke followed on the same side.
HOUS E, Feb. 11.The Alexandria rilill
claim bill was disposed of by laying on the
table a motion to reconsider. A large number
of bills were introduced. The house adopted
a resolution to meet in joint session with the
senate to-day to hear presentation and accep
tance speeches on the gift of Carpenters pic
ture by Mrs. Thopson. Mr. Clark offered a
resolution thanking Gen. Miles for his gal
lant Indian campaign. The Wst Point ap
propriation bill was taken up and the motion
to strike out the amendment allowing addi
tional pay to instructors defeated. After
further discussion of the bill and the rejection
of the amendment reducing pay of cadets,
the house adjourned.
SENAS E, Fb. 12th.Petitions and com
mittee reports were presented. Bills were
passed constituting a commission to report
upon plans for enlarging the library, and ap
propriating $275,000 to purchase the building
of the Freedman's saving bank. Resolutions
of State legislatures were presented among
them those of from Minnesota favoring exten
sion of time to the Hastings and Dakota rail
road. Bills were introduced, and the silver
bill was taken up, speeches being made by
McDonald ahd Johnston, with an intermission
to join the house in hearing speeches upo
Carpenter's picture.
HOUS E, Feb. 12.No legislative busi
ness was done except a brief consideration of
the West Point appropriation bill. The sen
ate then joined the House to witness the
formal presentation of Carpenter's painting
of signing the emancipation proclamation.
Speeches were made by Garfield and Stephens.
SENAT E, Feb 10.Bills and petitions
were presented. The petition to employ the
surpuls of the Chinese indemnity fund for the
relief of sufferers from the famine in China was
reported adversely. A resolution was adopt
ed calling on the secretary of the interior for
information as to the payment of pensions of
the South. The bill for holding the United
States court in southern Iowa was passsed.
Merrimon, Saunders and others spoke on the
silver bill. It was unanimously agreed that
debate should close and a vote be taken Friday.
HOUS E, Feb. 13th.The house spent
most of the session in committee of the whole
on the military-academy bill. Several amend
ments tending to cripple the academy were
rejected. A heated discussion took nlace be
tween Hewitt and Aiken, of South C&rolina,
and other southern members regarding the. at
tacks of the latter upon West Point, Aiken
accusing Hewitt, in the course of the debate,
of cowardice and selling the presidency, and
Hewitt defending himself and saying it was a
southern man, J. Madison Wells, who offered
to sell it to him. The debate caused much ex
citement and amusement on the Republican
side.
SENAT E, Feb. 14.After a brief discus
sion the house joint resolution declaring that
a reduction of the tax on distilled spirits is
inexpedient, passed, yeas 40, .nays 9. Mr.day
Jones of Nevada then spoke at great length
on the Bland silver bill.
HOUS E, Feb. 14th.Mr. Gibson rose
to a question of privilege and made a
speech in reference to the discussion of the
previous day. The speaker laid before the
house a communication from the secretary of
the treasury stating that the internal revenue
of the government had fallen off $4,969,000,
principally on account of the agitation in re
gard to the tax on tobacco and whisky, and
recommending the house to take immediate
action on the subject. The communication
was discussed at length, some members resent
ing it as a dictation, and finally the house
passed to the consideration of the military
academy bill, which was passed as it came from
the committee of the whole. The house then
considered the bill for the payment of pensions
to Mexican and other veterans, and adjourned.
SENAT E, Feb. 15.Petitions were pre
sented, among them one by Windom to per
mit the Sioux Falls railroad to extend its line
into Dakota to Siou I alls and the memor
ial of the Minnesota legislature for an appro
priation for the Red River of the North im
provement, bv McMillan. The senate then
took up the Bland silver bill, and Mr. Ingalls
spoke in favor of it. Mr. Allison then closed
the debate, and the question recurred on
amendments to the bill. There were a great
many votes on amendments, some verbal and
minor ones being adopted. The amendment
requiring a certain proportion of customs
duties to be paid in gold
was rejected21 to 46. Other amendments
were rejected. The amendment of the finance
committee, striking the free coinage clause
out of the house bill,was adoptedid to 33,thc
amendment for an international coinage con
ference adopted, and the bill passed.
HOUS E, Feb. 15th.Mr. Stephens, of
the eoinage committee, reported a resolution
in favor of an intern ation al coinage conference.
Private bills coming up, one appropriating
$375,000 to pay certain southern mail contract
ors caused some discussion, but without action
the house adjourned till Monday.
A Bite.
In Chili there is an elderly farmer who
is passionately fond of sportespecially
fishing and huntingand he has a son
who is a chip of the old block in that as
well as in other respects.
One day last summer the old gentleman
left home, but before going sot his boy at
a job he was anxions to have done. Re
turning sooner than he was expected, lie
found,that the boy was missing.
"Where's Tom?" he growled, as he en
tered the kitchen.
"Gone fishing," said the girl.
"Fishing! the rascal I'll fish him when
I catch him."
And away the angry fellow went for the
brook. Coming within hailing distance
of his hopeful son, who was bending eag
erly over the stream, the father yelled:
"Tom! you scoundrel, Tom!"
There was a deprecating movement of
one hand on the part of the boy, who did
not, however, turu his head. Still more
angry the avenging parent came nearer
and bawled out
"I'll learn you to stay home and work
when
"Sh! sh sh! father," said young Isaae
Walton. "I've got a bite."
The old fellow's passion perceptibly
cooled at that announcement, and, lucky
for the boy, the latter just then hauled
tip a handsome perch. This was tooto
much for the dad, who sprang forward
and helped unhook the fish, and then
"Tom, have you got another hook?"
Victory perched on the boy's fish line.
Iioe?te$ter(N. T.)8unday Herald.
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Twentieth Annual Session.
SENATE, Feb. 12.-Senate met at 8
o'clock in the evening. Petitions were pre
sented for the retention of the school text
book law, and for the repeal or amendment of
the some. Bills were introduced, to protect
livery stable keepers requiring farm insur
ance companies to invest two thirds of their
capital stock in farm mortgages requiring
railroad companies to construct and main
tain crossings to Bccure the freedom and se
curity of the ballot box. Bills passed, in re
gard to the Minnesota Baptist Central Acade
my for a commission to locate a second State
Prison transferring buildings and bonds of
the inebriate asylum to second hospital for
insane
HOUS E, Feb. 12.Met at 8 o'clock in
the evening. Petitions were presented in
favor of the text-book law, and also for the re
peal of the same Bills introduced relating
to elections to prevent the forfeiture of life
insurance policies. Bills passed authorizing
county superintendents to hold institutes
organizing county of Sumner protecting
mechanics, laborers, clerks and servants by
making their wages a lien upon property of
thcinemDlovera
SENAT E, Feb. 13.The judiciary com
mittee is called iipcn to report upon the pro
posed plan of adjusting the difference be
tween the State and Seymour, Sabin & Co.
The bill for foreclosing mortgages by adver
tisement was passedyeas 30 nays 9. Mr.and
Mcaley introduced a bill to encourage higher
education, by advancing money, on the re
commendation of a board consisting of the
superintendent of public instruction, the
president of the university and a third mem
ber to be appointed by the governor, to
schools which apply for the privilege of in
stituting a high school department, no school,
however, to receive more than $400 and the
annual aggregate not to exceed $9,900. Bills
introduced: To enable railroad companies to
condemn lands for storm screens to incor
porate the village of Stcwartville, Olmsted
county to vacate a cemetery at Sauk Centre
to allow less than twelve jurymen to bring in
a verdict to make paupers in Goodhue
county a twn charge relating to Plainview
cemetery. Senate bills passed: To allow
Kandiyohi county to issue $30,000 in seed
grain bonds t change the name of Union
cemetery, at Belle Plain to relieve a school
district in Scott county.
HOUS E, Feb 13.Two monster peti
tions from Scott couuty were introduced, one
praying for the removal of the county seat,
and the other against it, there were over 1,400
signatures to each. Some serious talk was
indulged in regard to the geological survey of
the north part of the State. All bridge bills
were indefinitely postponed. The senate bill
authorizing Kandiyohi to issue bonds to pur
chase seed wheat was passed. Mr. Ladd in
troduced a bill appropriating $5,0C0 to aid im
migration. Mr. Crandall, a bill making $8
the mimum price for lands. The bill to re
move the couuty seat of Watonwan county
from Madclia to St. James was passed.
SENAT E, Feb. 14.The senate, after a
good deal of discussion, tacitely agreed to re
commend the compilation of the statutes. It
also, in committee of the whole, recommend
ed for passage Mr. Edgerton's Reform school
bill. Senate bills passed: Appropriating
$40,000 for finishing and furnishing the deaf
and dumb buildings authorizing Belle Plaine
and also Murray county, to issue bonds to
amend the charter of Preston and to amend
the act relating to corporations. House bills
passed. Authorizing Morrison county to is
sue $25,000 in bridge bonds also, Detroit, in
Becker county and incorporating the village
of Richland, in Waseca county. New bills:
Punishing persons who fraudulently obtain
6ecd grain changing an Olmsted county
ochool district line to abate taxes- on State
lands in grasshopper counties authorizing
railroad companies to make running and oth
er connections to build abridare in Polk
county amending the law relating to countv
treasurers regulating fish-catching in Free
born county and to provide fish-ways in
streams.
HOUS E, Feb. 14.Almost the entire
was passed in the committe of the -whole.
The discussion of the bill relating to the re
moval of the county seat of Scott county was
sharp and long. The bill was recommended
to pass. The optional liquor license bill was
badly championed, and a vote to kill it stood
48 ayes to 33 nays. It was laid on the table.
The bill to provide for a revision of the con
stitution is the special order for Tuesdny, the
19th, at 11 a.m.
SENAT E, Feb. 15.The Senate showed
its wisdom in passing Mr. Edgerton's Reform
school bill. House bills passed: For the
compilation of the statutes Cliaska court
house bonds. Senate bills passed: Amending
the statutes relating to order of argument, so
it shall be the same in criminal as civil cases
for the protection of children for the appoint
ment of guardians for the challenge of jurors
Minneapolis Gas company's bond bill, and to
give Yellow Medicine a small slice of Chippewa
county, if Chippewa is willing. Bills intro
duced: For indexing State and county rec
ords reimbursing certain counties $3,434 for
money spent in killing 'hoppers Winona
city liquor law to allow women to vote on
liquor questions to compel the treasurer of
the St. Paul board of education to make
monthly reports to leagalize roads in Otter
Tail county to change the law apportioning
school moneys upon schoolable children in
stead of an enrollment amending the registry
law relating to the plat of the town cf Mon
tlcello.
HOUS E, Feb. 15.This was engaged all
day discussing the bill to remove the county
seat of Scott county, and the Merrill text-book
bill. No final action was arrived at in either
ca-e.
SENAT K, Feb. 16.--The bill to authorize
towns and villages in the counties of Henni
pin, Wright, Carver and McLeod to aid in the
construction of the Minneapolis & Northwes
tern railroad was passed also, the house bill
appropriating money to purchase seed grain
for grasshopper sufferers. Bills introduced:
Creating a State board of navigation detach
ing Kanabec from Pine county and attaching
it tolsnnti county, for judicial purposes ap
pointing a commission to prepare rules of
practice in probate courts amending the act
incoiporating the viliage of Bloomington, in
Steele county and devoting internal improve
ment lands to redemption of State railroad
bonds.
HOUS E, Feb. 15th.The board of re
gents of the State University, demanded an
investigation into charges made by Mr. Col
villc, on the 11th inst., againstPro'f. Winchcll.
A motion was introduced providing for an in
vestigation of the charges of drunkencss made
by the Lancsboro Journal|against Judge E. St.
Julien Cox. Mr. Brandt sent a $50 bill to the
speaker ,with the assertion that it was paid to
him as a bribe to vote against the Merrill text
book bill, and a committee of investigation
consisting of Messrs. Rice, Teller, Bishop,
Richardson and S. L. Campbell, was appoint
ed. Great excitement prevailed in the house.
A large number of bills were introduccd,most
ly of local character.
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A Geogln Girl's Appetite
Th# Savannah News says: A party of
merry girls and boys got on the train at
some station between Atlanta and Macon,
bound for home.. They were laden with
packages containing oranges, apples, and
other good thing,s and in evident disposi
tion to have a pleasant time. Shortly
after the train was in motion the packages
were opened. The girls were bright, rosy
cheeked, sparkling-eyed maidens, and
ranging in ages between sixteen and
eighteen years. Their escorts were court
eous, manly youths, and having secured
seats convenient for the group, proceeded
enjoy themselves, utterly oblivios to
the other passengers. One of the young
ladies ate four large apples, and com
mencing on a paper of oranges, in a few
minutes diminished the number by live,
after which she disposed of fully a pound
of sponge cake, when her appetite becom
ing satiated, she settled back in her seat
and very gracefully gave her attention to
munching goobers, ceas
ng operations
when about a pint of the fragrant peas
disappeared. Her friends were successful
in demolishing what remained, but, in the
opinion of the passengers, tliis blue eyed
laughing maiden* was entitled to the
champion as a healthy Georgia girl.
A Ghastly War Scene.
A Russian officer, writing to a friend
in Cleveland, Ohio, gives the following
horrible narration, a translation of which
we copy from the Herald of that city.
He says ^Comi ng to a place where the
road somewhat widened about two miles
from Telis, we halted, and after driving
away and cutting down in a short skirm
ish a party of Turks who were busy rob
bing our dead, we stopped to form betore
going on. A I rode along the front
shouting orders to my men, an agonizing
cry for help arrested my attention. I
looked round. Nothing but heaps of
dead everywhere. Oi these none needed
me. Bu hark! once more, and again and
again the piteous cries. Hastily dis
mounting, I threw the bridle over my
sound arm and ran toward some bushes
from behind which the sound proceeded,
there, in a small pool of clotted blood,
lay that which I at first failed to recog
nize as a human being, though human it
certainly was in its piteous cries, and the
seemingly gloved hands that clutched air
and earth in their agony.
The rest, from the waist upward, was
one mass of raw, quivering fleshthe face
featureless, eye-lids and eyes cut out. the
man flayed alive, all but the hands, whose
white skin at first gave the impression of
their being gloved. This ghastly object
lay a few steps from a dead horse, one of
our own regiment's golden bays. Faint
at heart I bent over the sufferer, evidently
one of our own men, but now mangled be
yond recognition. prayed for death
with his pocr torn lips, and in a minute
mor^ W., our surgeon, and two more of
our officers were by my side. I made room
for W., who stooped for a few seconds over
our comrade, and then rising, sadly shook
his head, murmuring "no help.*' A sud
den impulse prompted me to seize the
poor helpless hand in my own, and press
ing it, whisper a few words of comfort.
At the sound of my voice came the sadder
appeal "Nicolai, for old friendship's sake,
send a bullet through my heart!" This
voice sounded so strangely familiar, and
yet I could not recognize it. "Wh areor
you?" "Alexis S."
Alexis, my old schoolmate, who had a
few hours ago shared my breakfast by
our bivouac fire, and then rode away,
handsome and bold, at the head of our
first squadron. had fallen wounded,
helpless, his horse shot under him, and
the fiendish Turks were slowly torturing
him to death when our approach drove
them away. Clasping my hand in his,
he stiil begged for death. revolver
was empty, discharged in the scuffle a
few moments before. I looked at W., who
silently dreAv out his, and shuddering in
every nerve, placed the muzzle against
S.'s breast, and, with averted face, fired
twice in succession, while I still pressed
the poor hand in mine. W wrapped him
up in my cloak and placing him in the
shallow ditch, rolled a boulder over him,
and then, with our hands still moist with
his blood, we swore to each other never
to empty the last chamber of our pistols,
but always to reserve a sht for ourselves
and friends, should any of us, wounded,
have to be left behind. Ma a quick
death, a soldier's death, be ours.
Worth on Dressing.
Worth is a tallish man, with a big clev
er head and very prominent forehead.
His brown eyes are singularly shrewd
in expression, and their seizure "of detail
is surprisingthat is, for a man A a
rule men have no more eye for detail
than owls have for the sun. Worth takes
you in at a glance, and knows what your
style ought to be, which is such a comfort.
When I goto a dress-maker I don't care
to "work my passage," as Bo would say.
I want to order a harmony in one or
two colors, and to encounter brains equal
to the occasion. Worth's taste, when al
lowed full play, is irreproachable. "I
prefer simplicity in every thing," he says,
"but there are women who don't believe
in the value of a dress unless it is loaded
with trimmings. They drive me mad
for they won't take advice. Now, what
is becoming to one person is hideous
when worn by another. I study to make
the best out of the subject given me, as,
unfortunately, we can't have people made
to order, can we? I I had my way, all
women should be slight, graceful and pret
ty. Then dressing them would be all ar
tistic pleasure. A dress should never
overpower the^ wearer. I should merely
be an appropriate frame for a charming
picture, bring out the beauties of the
picture, but never distracting attention
from it. So few women understand this.
Why, when I find I can make a costume
for less money than has been agreed up
on, I actually annoy clients by telling
them so. They think that it canno Ibe
as handsome as it ought to be, and they
would rather have more material added,
however much the design may "be marred,
than pay less. Iassure you this is a fact..
Consequently when I meet ladies who
know that dressing is an art, I take very
great satisfaction in having them as pat
rons. I isn't every woman who knows
how to wear a dress. When I have done
my best I try to make my client do her
best by seeing her walk and sit down.
To walk with style is rare enough, bnt
wheu it comes to being able to sit down
in a dress properlywell, there arc not
many equal to lluit, I can tell you. Then,
women think they ought to have a nu
ber of dresses, however hideous, than wea
one dress, however becoming. Ther3 nev
er was a greater mistake. If your frame
is appropriate stick to it. Don't be get
ting out of it and trying experiments.
I have just made a dress for Madame
Nilsson, in which she looks better than I
ever saw her before, and I have begged
her to wear that dress constantly in Rus
sia, if she wants to produce a most charm
ing effect. A she is sensible, I think she
will take my advice, which, you perceive,
is against my interest, but, good gracious
e! money is not my only object. Art is
intended to beautify nature, not to deform
it.
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
NICOLLET COUNTV.
The St.Peter Tribune hi entered on its
nineteenth year.
Nicollet county is afllicted with a spread
ing horse disease.
There are G3 students in the Swedish col
lege at St. Peter, and the institution is re
ported as highly prosperous.
During the two weeks preceding the Gth
inst,, over 132,000 pounds of p^rk were
bought and shipped at St. Peter, the price
ranging from $8.50 to $3.00.
On the 31st ult., Henry Lane, an old resi
dent of Lafayette, Nicollet county, met with
a severe accident by falling from a straw
stack, having, at the time, a hay knife in his
hand. Although his body was cat half
through, he is in a fair way of recovery.
DAKOTA COUKTYJ
Anfl settler's ball is toJbe
mgs on the 28th.
civeiHUu, Haslrs 8 ~-M
Hastings boasts that there in scarcely- a
vacant house within its limits.
There is not an empty store in Hastings.
he trial of the soldier robbers at Hast
ings has been set for the 21st inst.
The store of W Poplin, near Vermil
ion bridge, Dakota county, was recently
burglarized to the extent of |5 No ar
rests.
Henry Sutherland, of Hastings. recently
lost his horse by the animal's breaking
through the ice in crossing the Mississippi
river, near Nminger.
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Hastings mounted a new fire-alarm bell
on the 8th and it was kept clanging for days
for the delectation of a few childish men, to
the utter distraction of the more wisely dis-
Joseph Sedrick. of Seiota. will be tried at
Hastings on the 21st inst.. on the charge of
adultery with Mrs. Lucy Straider, on which
occasion the disgusting revelations incident
to such cases are promised and expected.
Hastings had 400,000 bushels of wheat in
store on the 13th, with storage room for 1*0-
000 more. According to the Hastins Union,
buyers there have paid prices during the
season averaging six cents morebthan
Wing.
RICEPe COUNTY.
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Drthfield by Messrs. Walsh & Henry, of the
Mail.
Faribault is agitating the propriety and
possibility of establishing there a kindenra'
ten school.
Charles F. Miller, of Dundas. has received
from United States Agricultural Commis
sioner LeDuc, an order for abont $700 worth
of seed of the celebrated amber cane.
Northfield and Faribault, according to
Superintendent Burt's report, pay smaller
average wages for the instruction of their
youth than any other cities of their character
and size in the State.
John Oltman. at one time county- survey-
of Eice and a favorably remembered old
settler of that shire, was murdered on the
20fchult. near Los Augelos, Cal.. to which
btate he removed in 1874. Plunder is
presumed to have been the incentive of the
bloody deed, as the deceased was supposed to
have quite a sem of money upon his person
nothing being secured, however, but his
watch.
LTON COUXTl".
Marshall, Lyon countv. is talking about
erecting a big hotel, and several buildings
are to be erected there in anticipation of the
spring immigration.
The Marshall, Lyon county, 3/esssnger is
to be enlarged, and anew dress of type is to
be furnished it. In addition to these attrac
tions it is to have a prize distribution in the
early part of March.
A horse company has been formed here for
the purpose of improving the stock in the
county. It will be operated under the laws
of the State, and has a capital of $2.0(M
The shares are all taken, we understand, and
twenty membera have joined the company.
Two Norman grade stallions have been pur
chased, which will be kept in Marshall
Marshall Messenger.
An Exeiling Scene at a Murphy Meet
ing
At cue of Mr. Murphy's meeting at
Troy, N Y., after the uual introduction
exercise he brought before the audiences
man well known to the people of Troy,
and who had run through a good prop
erty and a fair reputation by intemper
ance, but had now resolved he would en
deavor to retrieve his character. He ad
dressed the people in a very touching
manner, and to illustrate a sentiment in
his brief discourse, he pa'scd to the rear
of the platform and brought forward a
wretched, ragged, trembling victim, the
very embodiment of rum's ruin. This
wreck of a man, after a moment of silence
was recognized by many of the audience,
and the simple recognition brought tears
to the eyes of hundreds. Presently he
endeavored to relate his history:
his trcmbliug limbs almost refused to
support his body, and his words, feeble
and broken, were indistinct and incoher
ent.
But gathering himself by a strong
effort he gave a narrative of himself
from his boyhood in that city, his
refined and loving home his college life
his marriage his gradual decline his
dishonored iiarents his dead wife his
disgraced children his own utter degra
dation to a gutter drunkard and there he
stood, having been brought from the jail
to tell his story, and then return to com
plete his last term as a common drunk
ard, Mr. Murphy sprang to his feet as
the poor fellow said this and exclaimed:
"He shall not go back!" and the audi
ence instantly responded, "He shall not
go back," and in a minute the necessary
sum for his release by the payment o*f
the fine was raised, and .the officer who
had him in charge lift him in the care of
Mr. Murphy and those who were with
him. Th man belonged to one of the
most respected families in that city was
highly gifted, and one of the most promi
nent young men of his day. Th scene
was the more affecting, as hundreds
knew the truth of his history.
A shrewd, keen-eyed*Scotchman is em
ployed to do nothing else than board, out
side the New York Central Depot, in New
York, all incoming passenger trains, and
go through the passenger cars,immcdiate
ly after the passengers have left them,
looking after Jost articles. N trainmen
or other employes are allowed to precede
him, and if one may judge from his find
ings his search must be very thorough.
Scarcely a train comes in from which he
does not gather up something. Over
coats, shawls, rubber shoes, sachels, um
brellas, canes, packages, silk hats, pocket
books and jewelry are turned in him
in a steady stream, that iias,uotwithstand
ing the outgo to claimants, made up an
accumulation that tills a huge closet
and the greater part of a store-room be
side. Some things have been on hand
for five years.
