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WSTBBN APPBAX PUBLISHING CoMFANT.
ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA.
NOTES OF THE TIMES. m* ftH
KINO HUMBERT will shortly come in-
to the possession of an estate valued at
$160,000, which was willed to him by
Vito Cercolone, who died recently at
Milan.
Miss CAKR IE DUKE, the daughter of
he famous confederate Gen. Basil Du ke
is a fine player on the violin and in now
entertaining her friends at Washing
ton
_
A LETT ER from St. Petersburg in the
Vossische Zeitung says that Count Le
Tolstoi has turned playwright.
nas just finished a drama for the
people," in which the misery and
virtue of the poorest class are handled
in an extremely realistic manner.
has not fitted it with a title.
HENRY, WARD BEECHER said years
ago: I never had any sympathy with
the Episcopal prayer, 'From sudden
death deliver us.' When I go I pray
that I may go swiftly, like a falling star
go in the midst of my usefullness, and
not be chained in some living death, a
burden to myself and the friends I love.''
CONCERNI NG the rumor of the ap-
proaching nuptials of Secretary Bayard
and Miss Markoe, a clerk in the State
Department, the Washington Post says:
There is neither truth nor reason in the
report, which has caused a great deal of
mortification to thelady and her friends,
and no doubt an equal degree of annoy-
ance to Secretary. Bayard and his
family.
THE late Col. John W Forney's
family seem to have beeu thoroughly
infected with love for the profession
that he honored. Th youngest daugh-
ter has just gone into journalism, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of the other
members of her family. Tillie May
Forney is described as a very brigh
girl. She has joined the staff" of
Leisure Hours.
TAE New Orleans Times-Democrat,
reworking upon the death of James
ads, says regarding the jetties and the
benefits resulting therefrom is the
Mississippi Valley, that this one engi-
neering enterprise of Capt Eads has
added $1,800,000 to the wealth of
farmers and manufacturers of that vast
region A hich 3 opened to the largest
steamers of the world.
JOHN EUSKIN writes in the following
pertinent way to a Boston club which
has taken his name: "Our chief folly
and sin on this side of the Atlantic is
spending all our national substance in
war machinery, and the only general
advice for either side of the Atlantic
which I can bring within the compass
of a letter is that everybody should
mind his own business and leave the
guardianship of wealth and life to
God.
MRS. CLEMENT C. CLAY, wife of the
late senator from Alabama, is now in
Washington, where they tell this story
of her: When she we nt to Ireland not
lo ng ago the custom house officers be-
gan to examine her baggage, and asked,
as usual, if she had any arms in her
trunks. "No," said she, "but I have
two arms on my trunk, and I have
come to embrace all Ireland with them,
God bless her!" Th officers passed
her baggage without further search.
WASHI *GTON Critic: Of all the pleas-
ant things said of Mrs. Cleveland this
winter the truest is that no one has yet
heard from her the slightest suggestion
of gossip. Innumerable and as irresist-
ible as are the opportunities here to a
quick-witted woman to comment on
people and things, she has never made
the simplest remark which might be
construed as unkind. Perhaps no lady
in her position was ever a keener read-
er of what others say of her in print
than Mrs. Cleveland, and naturally
much of her knowledge of the social
doings of others comes to her only
through that medium. Sh expresses
herself as being thoroughly appreciative
of the kin 1 things said to and of her,
particularly of the success, whieh has
followed her career this winter as the
hostess of the White House, and in that
capacity has charmed the most critical
of Washington's cultured resident and
foreign circles.
ONE of the strongest temperance men
in Connecticut is Gov. Lounsberry.
One night recently, accompanied by
nis staff, he attended a ball in New
Haven. In the course of the evening
he suddenly entered a side room in time
to discover two of his staff, Col. S.
Home, of Winstead, and Surgeon Gen
C. J. Fox of Willimantic, in the act of
drinking the health of Gen. S. It. Smith
in a glass of punch. I an instant he
took the officers' arms and said: I want
it distinctly understood that no man
can drink intoxicating liquors in public
and remain a member of my staff."
-he oclonel and general were too much
astonished to reply, and quickly putting
down their glasses they left the room-
ftov. Liounsberry then filled a glass
with lemonade and said: "Gen Smith, I
will drink your health in a manner that
cannot possibly result in injnry to either
of us."
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HISTORY O THE WEEK.
The County Clerk of Cook County,
HI., has returned the alleged marriage cer
tificate of Nina Van Zandt and the anarch
ist Spies to Justice Englehardt,who claimed
to have performed the ceremony. The
clerk reminds the justice that as Spies was
in the county jail at the time of the alleged
marriage he could not have been, at the
village of Jefferson, where the justice certi
fies the marriage occurred. The clerk con
cludes by asking the justice to correct the
error.
the action of the Maine legisla
ture the repeal of the capital punishment
law has been effected, and imprisonment
for life is substituted for death in all cases
of murder in the first degree. Such con
victs, however, are to be kept in close con
finement, away from all associations, and
no pardoning power is left to the governor
and council unless the convict is proved in
nocent.
he circulation of standard silver dol
lars is now $5,214,510, out of a total coinage
of $256,471,647. The silver certificates in cir
culation amount to $123,290,392, which leaves
$75,966,745 net standard silver dollars in the
treasury. The gold coin and bullion in the
treasury, less $10,013,054 gold ertificates in
circulation, amounts to $175,274,795.
The business failures duriug the sev
en days ending March 11, number For the
United, States, 230 for Canada, 52 total,
282 compared with 230 last week and 239
the corresponding week of last year. The
increase is mainly attributable to Canada
and the British provinces. A considerable
increase is also apparent in the Pacific
States and in the South.
A incendiary fire occurred at
Howells, Mich., breaking out a little before
midnight on the 13th, in F. N. Monroe's
hardware store, and in a short time business
Sroperty
of the value of $67,000 was
estroyed, with an insurance of $20,000.
To the fact that Mr. Monroe is an ardent
Prohibitionist this destruction of property
is attributed.
Half the business part of the town of
Oxford, N. was destroyed by fire on the
15th, twenty-three firms being burned out.
Loss $100,000 insurance scarcely half that
amount. The general belief is that the fire
was the work of incendiaries. The white
people think they can lay their hands on
those responsible for the conflagration and
trouble is feared.
It is estimated that 40,000 people
witnessed the public funeral of Mrs. Neebe,
wife of the anarchist, at Chicago, on
Sunday. The procession was composed of
5,000 people and 177 carriages, with only
one hand of music. All banners were
furled and draped and no red flags carried.
The utmost order prevailed.
About 4 a. m. on the 13th, at Cole
man, Texas, masked robbers raided the
office of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
railroad and "held up" the Express com
pany employes, securing about $3,000 in
money, after which a car loaded with bran
was set on fire, to divert attention and
retard pursuit.
Columbus Temple, who lives in a
a lonely, sparsely settled part of Washing
ton, D. came home and found the life
less blackened form of his wife half envel
oped in smoke from smouldering garments.
The overturned kerosene lamp lying near
where she had fallen was all that "remained
to tell the story of the accident.
At Akron, Ohio, a boycott has been
enforced against Armour & Co's meat by
the local butchers. Armour has telegraphed
his Cleveland agent to go ?to Akron and
start five or six shops to sell meat at any
price and charge the loss to Armour & Co.
Fire, from unkno wn cause destroyed
the Voorhees cotton shed at Memphis
Tenn., at 1:30 a. m., on the 13th. Thirteen
hundred bales of cotton were burned with
the loss of $50,000 and insurance reaching
about $40,000.
The Commissioner of agriculture in
tends to make the promptest and best use of
the $500,00 appropriation to extirpate the
pleuro-pneumonia contagi which has
spread so widely among cattle.
The Montreal French board of trade
proposes an international congress of Cana
dian and American boards of trade in June
next to discuss the pending difficulties be
tween the two countries.
Michael Dumont, one of the leaders
of the Kiel insurrection, who escaped with
Gabriel Dumont to this country, has re
turned to St. Boniface since the proclama
tion of amnesty.
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, U. S. Min
ister to Germany, sailed from New York on
the 9th. Mrs. Bayard Taylor and daughter
were passengers by the same steamer.
The Governor of Tennessee has
signed the bill to submit to the people a
prohibition amendment to the constitution.
The election will be held in September
1 IN THE JSAST.
A the Sunday morning service,
March 18th, Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
famous by the iate Henry Ward Beecher,
never presented a more joyous and gay ap
pearance, It was decorated more as for a
May day festival instead of the occasion
of Plymouth's late pastor's funeral eulogy.
The rays of the sprmg morning sun shone
in through the east windows of the church
and reflected with exquisite effect the beau
tiful shades of color of the interming
ling flowers and ferns. Not a sign of crape
could be seen anywhere. The edifice was
crowded to its fullest capacity. The Rev. S.
B. Halliday, Mr. Beecher's assistant, who is
at present in charge of the church, assisted
the Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott in the con
ducting of the service. Dr. Abbott spoke
for over an hour, and the attention of the
audience was only broken by the occas
ional sobbing of some of the church mem
bers.
The reply of the executors of Samuel
J. Tilden has been filed in the supreme
court at New York to the suit brought by
Geo. N. Tilden, who contests the will on the
ground of being illegal and invalid. The
reply recites the names of the relatives and
claims that the plaintiff has no right to
institute or maintain the suit that the de
ceased was unmarried, and his father and
mother deceased the sister, Mrs. Pelton,
and the nephews and nieces are next of kin,
but under the will are not entitled to any
of the estate. It is denied that the amount
of the estate is anywhere near $15,000,000.
It is claimed, in conclusion, that the
defendants are appointed as executors
under the will, and refer to the original as
their authority.
The New York Central company has
begun steps to do without lamps in its cars,
and so lessen the danger of fire. A the
Grand Central depot an electric company
gave an exhibition of lighting the cars with
incandescent lamps with the aid of the
storage batteries. A drawing room car
was fitted up with twenty-four lamps and
the batteries stored to run two days. The
officers expressed themselves as much
pleased, and others were given to run the
cars regularly between New York city aud
Albany.! i-
About 7 o'clock Sunday evening the
13tb, a street car got stuck on the crossing
of the Pennsylvania R. R., at Frankfort,
Av. Philadelphia, and was struck by a pas
senger tram. Geo. B. Foster and his wile
and daughter were injured. The child,
three years of age had her feet cut off and
died, Mrs. Foster was seriously injured in
ternally and Mr. Foster had one hand
smashed.
Rev. Justin Fulton, the well
known Baptist clergyman, is about to
abandon his present pulpit in Brooklyn,
N. Y., and engage in the work of the con
version of the Catholics of this country.
His letter of resignation will be considered
by his board of deacons and will be read to
the congregation on Sunday.
A Buffalo, N Y. on the 15th fire
destroyed the wholesale grocery house of
Miller, Greiner &'Co. and the Masonic hall
in the same building was totally destroyed
by fire. The Mason loss was $35,000, insur
ance $25,000: the grocery stock and building
loss was $270,000, Insurance $125,000.
he Pennsylvania legislature con
gressional reapportionment committee has
agreed upon a scheme of redistricting that
gives
Philadelphia six districts, all Repub
can, thus making it impossible for Mr.
Randall to be returned to congress.
Justin McCarthy, the noted historian
andmember of parliament,sailed for home
March 9, on the steamer Aller. A number
of friends sent him flowers, and notes bid
ding him -'God speed" from the docks in
New York. ^mg$M&
"^WASHINGTON GOSSIP. I S
Washington Special: The decision
of the supreme court, as interpreted by
Chief Justice Waite, that there is no United
States law to protect maltreated Chinese,
creates surprise and comment almost akin
to that manifested when the infamous Dred
Scott decision was promulgated. If noth
ing but state laws on the Pacific coast can
protect the Chinese under present prejudice
then God pity them," said a prominent
Oregonian "For they will be at the com
plete mercy of wicked and vicious men.
Persecution, robberies, cabin burning and
murder will, I fear, ravage California,
Oregon and Wyoming, virtually unchecked
just as soon as it is understood that the
highest judicial authority has decided that
the Chinese have no rights which the
United States government is bound to re
spect." High parties here are unreserved
in their censures of the chief justice, some
even intimating that he must be demented,
or he would have witheld such an opinion
at this time, however strong his convictions
and advised congress at its next session to
remedy the evil by proper enactments.
Californian's comment at Willard's was:
"No man can foretell the results of the de
cision, which virtually grants immunity to
murder."
The impression appears to prevail at
Washington that the Fiftieth congress will
be called together perhaps in October, in
order that some of the important legisla
tion to come before it may be matured
early. As questions of revenue, taxation,
fortifications and others of great public
interest must receive attention at the next
session, it is thought that the President
will call a session to begin in the fall, and
that it will run along into the regular
session.
C. H. Taylor, a colored man, born
in Alabama in 1855, educated at Oberlin,
Ohio, College, a practicing lawyer and as
sistant City attorney, at Kansas City, has
been appointed United States Minister to
Siberia, by President Cleveland,
A BROKEN BRIDGE.
A passenger train of seven cars, ow
ingjtothe breaking of a truck went through a
bridge near Forest Hill, on the Deadham
branch ot the Boston & Providence R.R.,
at 7. a m., Monday morning. The baggage
car and three passenger cars passed in safe
ty and five coaches went down thirty-five
feet. It is stated that thirty-three persons
were killed and forty injured, the conductor
of the train being among the killed. The
bridge was a new one and thought to be se
cure.
LATERThe train to which this ca
lamity occurred was the morning train
bringing suburban residents to Boston for
their daily business and employment. The
number of those killed outright remains at
33, but the number injured is increased to
seventy. Upon inspection it is found that
there was a flaw in one of the bridge trusses.
The bridge where the accident occurred was
built in July, 1878. It was 104 feet in length
and 20 feet height, the rear resting on the
heavy stone walls. The grade of the road
is very heavy, and there is a sharp curve
where the bridge crosses the highway.
The latter runs diagonally under the
bridge, and the abutments upon
which the structure stands are set at sharp
angles. The bridge was designed for a
double track, but only a single track crosses
it now, and the experts cannot understand
how both trusses were carried down when
the bearing comes upon only one. Mr.
Manley, of the city engineer's office, made
a careful inspection of the bridge soon
after it had fallen. He said there was no
apparent reason for its giving way, or for
the breaking of the iron work. It seemed
as if some force had drawn it forward and
thrown it from its bearings. D. L. Davis,
of the Boston & Providence road, con
sidered one of the best railroad men in the
country, expressed a similar opinion. A
Mr. Blaisdell, who was crossing from the
first to the second car just as the tram
struck the bridge, says he observed a broken
journal hanging down. This would account
for carrying the whole bridge off the
abutments. A bad flaw has been found
near the end of a twelve-inch truss which
rests a few feet above the debris. It shows
a diagonal fracture of the iron twelve
inches Jong, of which eight inches is black
with rust, while the rest of the fracture is
fresh. The scene at the bridge was terrible.
In one place the bodies taken out were
Elarge
laced in a row. All were badly mangled,
numbers of women were on the
train and many were to be seen in the
ruins. One woman was cut completely in
twothe upper half only being found.
As to the cause of the terrible disaster
the Engineering News of New York City
having sent experts to thoroughlv investi
gate the condition of the Dridge 'publishes
its issue this week the following:
The parts which first broke were the two
hangers which carried the last or most
easterly pair of floor beams of the
northerly orlast built truss, which carried
all the load. So far as can be judged by
outside appearances, they are made of far
from good iron to begin with, but in
addition to that they are of bad design and
most imperfectly welded. Again, they are
both badly flawed by old and deeply rusted
breaks at the most strained sections, there
being two distinct breaks of this kind to
each specimen.
The first hanger has both breaks across
the weld, the first break being complete,
and the second break an inch and a half
above it, all but complete, the metal merelj
hanging together by the outside skin. This
hanger can never have done any work since
its original and now ancient fracture, or it
would have been broken apart long since.
The second hanger was checked across half
of its inside face (covered by the supDOsed
weld) for about half its depth of effective
section, and this was clearly where the frac
ture first began. It caused a secondary
fracture at a second old break in the hook
of the welded end, which cut off a some
what large proportion of the effective
strength of the iron. More shamefully bad
specimens of bridge design, metal and
workmanship can hardly exist.
THE OLD WORLD.
Fresh shocks of earthquake occurred
at Nice and other points, Friday March 11
At Nice the shock was felt at about 2
o'clock in the afternoon, and created
panic among the people. The vibration
traveled from northeast to southwest. The
Paris Le Temps puolishes a report of an
earthquake at Douai, in the department of
the Nord, and states that the walls of a
church were cracked by the shock. A
slight shock of earthquake was felt at
Cannes at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. More
violent shocks were experienced at Diano
Marino. At Mentone, the shock was the
most violent since Feb. 23. The walls of
many houses were again cracked and mir
rors, glassware, etc., were smashed. In
Monte Carlo the shocks caused a panic in
the gambling rooms. The tables shook vio
lently and the players fled in dismay. A
Porto Maurizio a shock was felt, butno.
damage done. v-. ^i?McS
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The Sulton of Morocco has prohibited
the sale or purchase of intoxicants of all
kinds, and abolished the state of the tobac
co monopoly. The Moorish tobacco and
snuff shops have been closed. Large quan
tities of leaf tobacco were publicly burned
by the Sultan's order. Several Moors
been stripped and flogged throughhave
streets for smoking in defiance of the
tan's decree. The populace of MoroccoSul
see no sense in the Sultan
commands, and are angry at
interference with their liabits,
assert that prohibition is enforced
against the poor.
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A the Papal Consistory at Rome
March 14. announced that Monsign
DeRendO papal nuncio
Paris, Rampallo Del Tendaro,
Vienna, Masala, ex-muncio at Lisbon,
aor
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and
Bishop Giordani. bishop at Ferra, had been
created cardinals. He also announced the ap
pointment of-eight" Italian, two Spanish,
one Portugese and three East Indian
bishops. The Pope did not deliver a political
allocution. He remarked that several car
dinals having died he found it expedient
to fill the vacancies.
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The London Standard, on the* 14th,
received a cipher dispatch, from what it
considers a trustworthy source, saying that
an unsuccessful attempt has been made to
assassinate Emperor William. No detail
has been given.
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NORTBtWESTERN NEWS.
he following is a complete statement
of the appropriations local to Minnesota and
Dakota made during the session of congress
just clesed: Completion of the public
building at Minneapolis, under the present
limit. $167,514.56. For the purchase of addi
tional ground fronting on Fifth street adjoin
ing the premises now owned by the United
States in St. Paul, $30,000, and the $35,000
heretofore appropriated for the purchase of
grounds adjoining the United States court
house and post office building in said city is
hereby made available for the purchase of the
ground herein authorized. For the support of
schools and annual instalment to Chippewas
of the Mississippi, $5,000. Annuities to Chip
pewas, Pillagers and Lake Winnebagoshish
bands, $22,666.66. Subsistence and civiliza
tion for two thousand Yankton Sioux, at
Yankton Agency, Dakota, an annual install
ment for their benefit $6i,000. Subsistence
and civilization of Arickarees, Gros Ventres
and Mandans, FortBerthold agency, $30,000.
Support of Chippewas of Red Lake and Pem
bina tribes, $10, 0. Support of Chippewas
on White Earth reservation, $10,000. Sup
or and civilization of Turtle Mountain
of Chippewas, Devils Lake agency,
$7,000. Support and civilization of the Sioux
of Devils Lake. $6,000 Incidental expenses
of Indian service in Dakota, $5,000.
Gov. McGill, of Minnesota, on the
10th, appointed the two new Judges pro
vided by the legislature. In the new 15th
district, composed of the counties of W a
dena, Hubbard, Cook, Itasca, Aitkin and
Crow Wing, Col. C. W. Sleeper was ap
pointed. He is 49 years of age, was born
New York, admitted to the bar in New
York City in 1860, served under Gen. Slo
cura in the Civil war, and has resided in
innesota since 1869 and at Brainerd since
1871, where he almost constantly
held some County office. For
the new 16th district, composed of Stevens,
Grant, Wilkin, Big Stone and Traverse,
C. L. Brown of Morris, Stevens county, was
appointed. He is 30 years of age, the
youngest man upon the State bench and
has been in practice eleven years. His
father, John H. Brown, is the presiding
Judge of the 12th district. He stands high
at the State bar.
A a regular meeting of the Bloom
field and Beaver, Minn., Farmers' alliance,
resolutions were adopted thanking Presi
dent Cleveland for "patriotic and manly
action in vetoing the dependent pension
bill, whose only merit was to take millions
of dollars from the people and give it to
parties liberally provided for by laws now
in force," and asking Congressman Wilson
to work against such measures as this that
may be brought before the Fiftieth con
gress and thanking Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
"for his heroic work in the interest of the
farmers and working population of the
state."
Frank Siddalls of Philadelphia, Pa.
has bought the bay gelding Johnston, who,
with a record of 2:06^, is the fastest pacer
in the country. The transaction was ar
ranged by Billy Blair during his recent visit
to Commodore Kittson's farm at St. Paul
The price paid is said to have been $12 500.
Early in the spring Johnston will be taken
East and Mr. Sidalls will run him with
Westmont, who has made a record of 2 -X)\%
with a running mate. Mr. Sidalls believes,
that Johnston will be able to pace in har
ness close down in two minutes
Secretary H. Hart of the Minne
sota state board of corrections and char
ities, has just returned frhm Detroit, Mich.,
where he attended a meeting of the secre
taries of similar boards from the North
western states. The secretaries of the
states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Illinois and Ohio agreed upon a plan of
uniform statistics for the various charitable
institutions, to include jails, poorhouses,
etc. It is thought that the plan is in the
interest of economy.
A Northfteld, Minn., on Monday, E
Birch came across the body of a dead man,
lying face downward, near the cemetery.
The body was alterwards identified as that
of Gunner Lochen, who left home during
the storm on the evening of Jan. 18, and
whose whereabouts were unknown. The
cause of death was uncertain. It is prob
able that, becoming benumbed by cold, he
fell down and thu 3
was 35 years old.
perished. The deceased
A Sioux Falls, Dak., telegram of
the 14th, says: Seeding has been commenced
in this county, and in a week will be well
underway. About the same amount of
wheat will be sown as last year, and 24 per
cent more corn and oats, much less flax and
about the amount of other grain. The total
acreage will be increased 40 per cent over
last year. The ground was never in better
condition, and the frost is going out rapidly.
Senators Sawyer and Spooner of
Wisconsin, visited Madison on the 15th,
and when they appeared at the capitol both
houses of the legislature took a recess to
compliment them. A informal reception
was held, atter which both senators made
brief speeches, in which Mr. Sawyer took
occasion to sincerely thank the legislature
for his recent re-election.
Word has just been received of the
death of Mrs. Mary H. Beaulieu, wife of
Brazil H. Beauiieu, at Whi+e Earth, Minn.,
on the 8th inst. Mrs. Beaulieu was born at
Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. She is well known
among the pioneers of Northern Minnesota
and Wisconsin in the valley of the Fox river
where she resided for several years.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
several washouts along the line of Yellow
stone river. A number of bridges in that
district have been damaged by washouts
near creek. On the loth, ne trains had
gasseGold
east and west since the 10th. A
eavy freshet causing great damage and a
hindrance to the mails.
At Faribault, Minn., the 25 mile
bicycle race Saturday evening between
Grant Bell, of Minneapolis, and Fred
Straub, of Faribault was won by Straub
inonehour32 minutes. Shock of Minne
apolis and Straub are to ride a 12 hour race
in the same rink the latter part of the
month for $50 a side. Ir,
an explosion inlthe Minneapolis
gas works on the 10, two men were killed
and two others hurt. The men killed and
injured were engaged walling up a new
tank. The cause of the explosion is at pres
ent unknown. Metzke, one of the men
killed was 35 years of age, and leaves a fam
ily-
Gen. E S. Bragg is confined to his
home in Fond du Lac, Wis., by blindness.
His eyes failed him while he was out
driving. Partial paralysis has completely
blinded one eye. The General thinks the
loss of sight is not permanent.
When C. Brown, appointed Judge
for the new 16th district, reached his home
at Morris, Minn., on Friday he was met at
the depot by a large concourse of people
and a brass band and escorted to his office.
His appointment gives,, universal satisfac
tion. ^|j|p iiNlP^^"
he Humboldt, Iowa, municipal
council ordinance against all forms of
billiard playing and other games for hire.
It provides a fine of $100, or thirty days im
prisonment for violations, m- C^|?
he State Teachers Insiniite held at
Wabasha, Minn., last week was largely
attended, 150 teachers being on the roll.
Prof. Marvell, Misses Hill and Sprague
were the conductors.
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COUNTRY UFE AJSD WORK.
^JJN TH E jj^p O SPBIN&%
When winter lingers in the lap ^t
Of spring, we hasten to denounce him,
i'uAnd urge her to pat on her wrap
1" Of emerald hue at once, and bounce him,
^ibne flirts with him until his sands ^Rll
Have almost runthe jade admires him
And even, when old Sol commands,
She soon forgets him, fickle thing I %"$"
Through grove and glade she gayly" passes,
And 'neath her fairy feet upspnng
The flow'rets sweet and tender grasses.
On. on through vales and over hills,
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While balmy Southern airs pursue her,-^*
^lAnd gurgling streams and rippling rills
Are babbling tender love tales to her.
Jn greening fields, 'neath smiling skies H&-*
She meets at last a later comer t-J*
With rosebuds in her hands she dies,
Clasped closely in the arms of summer.
EUI.ES FOE HOUSEWOEK.
It is as necessary to have order and
system, in doing housework as in doing
any other,kind of work. Th business
man, who has neither order nor system
about his affairs is not generally very
successful. Neither is the housekeeper.
he better system or plan we have of
performing our household duties, the
more easily they can be performed,
the pleasanter will be our homes and
greater the enjoyment of its inmates.
"Order is the first aw of Heaven."
"Let all things be done decently and
in order
W can have our fixed rules and the
question of health, the weather, etc.,can
be the exceptions. Those who do not
set "certain days for certain duties, "bu
do their work "any time,just as it hap-
pens," often find themselves, at the end
of the week, in a "snarl, "which will
take an unusual amount of labor and
patience to undo. Or, else, a part of the
week's work is left over until the next
week, which should never be allowed
unless positively unavoidable.
Has any one found abetter way than
the "good old way" of washing Mon
day, ironing Tuesday, sweeping We d
nesday, etc., But, do not leave too
much work for Saturday. Use Friday
for general baking and cleaning day
instead of Saturday then if so happens
that we do not accomplish all that we
had intended, we have still "another
day left us, in whi ch to finish our work
and prepare (a far as possible) the
Sunday dinner. Sunday, "Remember
the Sabbath day and keep it holy."
But each housekeeper can best arrange
the system of her" work and fix her
rules to suit the comfort and conven
ience of herself and family, and then
she should adhere to them. not
fret. House work was never lightened
by fretting. If you must fret or keep
silent, by all means keep silent.
diligent, but keep cool.
HOKSERADISH.
The botanical name of this well
known gai-den plant and popular con
diment is Armoracioe radia, a native of
Western Europe. It is remarkably
tenacious of life, and spreads itself
without artificial aid, coming up some
times at lo ng distances from the parent
plants in soils adapted to its growth.
The root contains an acrid oil similar
to, if not identical with, that of mus
tard, and to the pungent flavor of o.l is
due the desire for grated horseradish as
a condiment. It is considered medi
cally as a harmless stimulant, of use
in dyspepsia, and a syrup prepared
from the root is used in colds and rheu
matism.
The cultivation of the root is simple.
At the hjrvest, in the autumn, those
roots which are too small for commer
cial purposesless than a pipe-stem in
diameterare packed away in sand in
short lengths of from four to six inches.
In the spring these are planted in
ploughed furrows by means of hand
dibble, making a hole to plant the
slip in, upper end just below the sur
face. It grows with the commone st
cultivationfield cultivationand is
harvested by the plough and the potato
digger.
HOSTICULTURAL NOTES.
The Early Prize Head Luttuce is a
most excellent variety for spring and
early summer use. The heads are of
large size and remarkably crisp and
tender. It is one of the best for home
use, but unsuitable for market purposes,
as the heads are so tender.
There are several varieties of leeks enu
mei*ated in seedmen's catalogues, and if
all were grown alike and under favora
ble ciscumstances. I do not think that
much, if any difference would be found
between ma ny of them. I always grow
the Large Flag. It should be borne in
mind, however, that if large leeks are
desired,the ground cannot be too rich or
deep.
Watermelom seed should not be plant,
ed until the weather has become wai-m
and settled. I this vicinity about the
middle of Ma is soon enough. not
stint the quality of seed place from 16
to 20 in a hill, and when the plants
come up, remove all but four of the
most promising. Watch the young
plants as soon as they begin to make
their appearance, and if they appear
troubled by any insects, dust them free
ly with soot, ashes or tobacco dust when
et with dew.
WHY NOT HAVE TOOLS.
It must be a very bungling farmer
who cannot afford to have from ten to
twenty-five dollars' worth of tools
and a good place to keep and use them.
The interest on such an investment will
be less than it ay cost to make a single
trip to the village to get some small but
very indispensable repairing done when
harvest is driving and perhaps several
men waiting with nothing to do but to
figure up how much they will get for
the time they are idle. Some men have
ven little faculty in the use of tools,
bat if there are two or three boys in the
family there will probably be at least one
that will learn to use tools, if he can
ha-ve them to use.
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f. .STRAWBERRY CULTURE \A&
*^The easiest way to propagate straw
berry plants is to pot the young runners
after they have begun to take root and
while still clinging to their parent plant.
I about ten days the plant will have
made growth enough to set out in a
new bed. I is best to water both the
parent plant and therunners constantly
so as to insure rapid growth. Straw
berry plants set out thus gain one year
over those set out with a trowel or
spade, A good parent plant will in a
season produce about two hundred
runners. The best year of the straw
berry is the third, and it does not pay
to keep a strawberry plant more than
six years. I prefer the hilling" system,
as being more productive and requir
ing less labor. A acre set out in
strawberries may be made to produce
three hundred bushels. The most
vigorous plants are those from which
all runners are plucked. During the
winter a mulch of fine manure should
be applied, and during the bearing
season a mulch of straw, hay or sea
weed should be applied this latter to
keep the fruit clean. Remo ve this
mulch as soon as the berries are over,
so as to again admit air and light.
This mulch is beneficial during the hot
weather because it retains the moisture,
but if let stay too lo ng it blackens and
decays the roots of the strawberry.
John E. Parmly.
J*1
EARTH WORMS.
TREES IN SOD.
It has been found thattrees are long-
est lived when kept in sod. When the
soil is cultivated the trees, especially in a
in rich soil, will often make a rank
growth of three or four feet. The wood
will be soft, and, as it generally fails
ripen, the growth will be killed during
the winter. In clean, open soil, too,
the freezing and thawing of winter is
more injurious than if the ground is
covered with a good sod.
DAIRY RULES.
Boiling starch is much improved by
the addition of sperm, or salt, or both,
little gum arabic. dissolved.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
stains pour the water through the stain
and thus prevent its spreading over the
fabric.
The Michigan Dairymen's Association
presents the following rules for dairy
men who deliver milk to cheese facto
ries or creameries:
Cows must have an abundance of
good wholesome food, pure and not too
cold water, to which they can have ac
cess at all times.
Cows must not be overheated, or un
duly excited or worried at any time.
The udder and teats should be through
ly cleaned before milking, by washing if
need be, and the teats should be wet
during the process of milking.
Milk should never be allowed to
stand where it is subjected to foul odors
of any kind.
Kindness and gentleness should be
used at all times. Cows should not be
excited by loud talk or noises.
Cows should be milked by the same
milker and as quickly as possible, and
good, pure water and salt placed in easy
access.
During cold weather cows should be
comfortallly housed, their stalls we ll
cleaned and littered, and an abundance
of good, not too cold, water accessible.
Milk, if kept over night, should be
placed in a tank surrounded by cold
water or ice.
If the milk is for butter or cream
for the creamery or market, cool the
creamer to about forty or forty-five
degrees before turning the milk into.
Put the milk in the creamer as soon as
drawn. It should remain for twelve
to twenty-four hours for complete
separation.
If the milk is for cheese, aerate it
well, thoroughly stirring and cooling
to seventy-live degrees before starting
to factory.
Milk must never be allowed to stand
in cans after being returned to the
drm, and they should be thoroughly
washed in warm water and then scalded
with water, boiling hot and thoroughly
scoured with salt at least twice a week.
Soap, soda or other alkalies shonld not
be used to clean cans or pails.
A Surgeons Suicide.
A remarkable suicide has recently
been committed in St. Petersburg. A
short time ago a woman, aged 23, came
to consult Dr Bodtkine, who found
that she was suffering from a tuber-
culous ulcer.
A operation being deemed neces
sary, Dr. Botkine sent her to M.
Kolominne, a surgeon of considerable
repute. administered to her a
slight dose of saline acid of cocaine,
and finding this did not take effect he
increased the dose and performed the
operation witn complete success, but a
few hours afterward he received a mes
sage to say that his patient seemed t
be dying, and he found upon huriying
to her, that, judging by the feebleness
of the pulse and bluish appearance of
the face, she was suffering from the
effects of poison. All the efforts made
to save her were of no effect and she
died the same evening.
M. Kolominne was so overcome that
he denounced himself as her murderer,
though all his colleagues assured him
that he was in no way to blame. Bu
he would not listen to them, and a few
days afterward he blew his brains out,
leaving a note in which he said: I
must have been the victim of some
temporary abberration, and this has
caused the catastrophe which drives me
to despair. I am not guilty, for my in
tentions were good but I cannot live."
"M. life of indolent ease and sensuality, the
nse of highly seasoned animal food, and al
cohonc drinks are the firedigposmg causes
of Gout. When aware of its presence in
taonDfl. It kills pain. Prk* 25 owt. a
gllf* '4 Love at 79.
I the use of lane water to destroy* jection, he climbed in beside her
earth worms in the soil of flower-pots,
some persons fear injury to the plants
by using it too strong, and therefore
neglect to employ it altogether. I
should be understood that lime water
will not injure plants. And by lime
water is meant water containing all
the lime it will hold in solution. This
is a definite quantity, and cannot be
increased, no matter how large an
amount of lime in excess is used for a
certain quantity of water. Th water
will hold so much and no more. After
slacking lime in water it is allowed to
settle, and then the clear liquid is
poured offthis is lime-water. Th
soil of a plant can be saturated with
it by pouring it on, or by immersing
the pot in it for a time. This oper
ation will destroy earth worms or com
pel them to escape.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Thomas
Goodman, the reverend gentleman who
preached the funeral sermon over the
remains of Thomas Lincoln, the father
of the lamented President Lincoln, was
married recently in Charleston, 111., to
Mrs. Jane Hall of Hntton township.
Coles county. Th circumstances of
marriage are as follows*
Mrs. Hall was a widowlady. who had
made up her mind to remove to Indiana,
and had packed her house-hold good*
Wednesday, in order to have them re
moved to Charleston, whence she ex
pected to start to-day. She bad em
ployed a neighbor named H. L. Bran
denberg to convey her thither. Mr.
Goodman, who had been on the lookout
for a "spare rib" for some time past,
heard of her, and arrived at Branden
berg's just as he was in the act of start
ing with his fair load, asked permission
to ride, and. the widow raisins no ob-
All went very well for a time, but
afterward Bra ndenberg noticed that the
quilt in the sled that had until within a
few moments been only sufficient for
the widow was doing service for both,
and he could hear muffled whispers.
A a ruse to get nearer, he complained
of cold and walked beside the sled
where he could hear, and where he
shortly was aware of a proposal and an
acceptance, and then a prolonged kiss.
After a while they made known lo him
the result, telling him to leave the good
at Goodman's house in the city. Ar
riving in Charleston, the bride was left
at the grocery of Mr. T. J. Hutton,
while the groom repaired to the Clerk's
office for a marriage license, after which,
the services of Squire Alvin Wiley of
Hutton were called in requisition, and
the couple made .one. Mrs. Goodman
is51 years of age. while Mr. Goodman is
79. Rumor says he was to have been
married last Thursday to a Mrs. Hand
weurk, a German lady of this vicinity,
but that she bounced him Th Rev.
Mr. Goodman had never seen his bride
until then, which makes the courtship,
proposal, and marriage probably the
quickest on record.
Devil Extractig.
The Times, of* India, says that the
Madras Small Cause Court has brought
to light a gentleman who gains his liv
ing by devil extracting. This highly
lucrative employment appears, to be
recognized as a perfectly legitimate
profession. There was no disguise in
court as to the exact nature of the claim.
In fact, the Judge, a native gentleman,
appeared to resent the skepticism of the
defendant's pleader as to the possibility
of casting out devils, and his jocularity
at the expense of the plaintiff's profes
sion. "What, if a doctor does not cure,
he cannot recover!" his Honor exclaim
ed on one occasion and on another,
when the defendant's pleader expressed
his disbelief in devil extracting, he in
consequently observed, "but you be
lieve in haunted houses?'" this re
mark the pleader replied, "there ma}
be a spiritual manifestation,'' from
which it would appear that he i not
altogether free from the superstition
which he ridiculed.
The plaintiffs cross-examination was
very diverting. Diseases, he said,
were of three kindsmental, spiritual,
and physical. Some phj sical sicknesses
he could cure by his art, but not everv
case. Asked if he could cure love pains,
he replied. "That is a ver\ hard-" pain
to be cured even my father could not
cure that." Heeould not cure a person
unless he were a negative.
Other witnesses called described the
nature of the plaintiff's treatment and
its success. It was inferred that the
evil spirit of the patient in this case
was of the female kind. A the con
clusion of the evidence the worthy
Judge dismissed the suit, not because he
was of opionion that there was no cause
of action, but because there was no
evidence to support the contract sued
upon.
"What It M*y C-me To.
"Hello!" exclaimed a giddy little
comet, disporting itself in the milky
way. "Who are you anyhow? I
don believe I've seen you in these
parts before."
"No," returned the stranger, "this
is my first appearance here. I'm the
top plume of a lady's theatre hat. Th
hat's just below here a little way."
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Richest Man in the World
would be poor without health. The dying
millionaire consumptive would exchange all
he is worth for a new lease of life. He conld
have had it for a song had he used Dr.
Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" before
the disease had reached its last stages. This
wonderful preparation is a positive cure for
consumption if taken in time. For all dis
eases of the throat and lungs it is unequaled.
All druggists.
THE MARKETS.
St. Paul, March 15.
GRAIN
Wheat, No Hard $ 77V^a
Wheat, No. 1 Northern.... 75
Wheat, No. 2 Northern 74
Corn, No. 2 38
Oats, No. 2 mixed 28
Oats, No. 2 white 30
Barley No. 2 48
Rye No. 2 43
FlaxSeed 92
Baled Hay, upland 8 50
Baled Hay, timothy 10 00
PROVISIONS
Flour, patent f4 25
Flour, straights 4 15
Flour, bakers 3 40
Butter, creamery 35
Butter, dairy 20
Cheese i3V
Eggs, fresh 13
Potatoes 40
Dressed Beef, steers 3Wi
Dressed Hogs 5 00L
Veal 5 (&
LIVE STOCK
Steers $3 00
Hogs 4 75
Sheep 4 00
Minneapolis, March 15.
WHEAT
No. 1 Hard -Q
No. 1 Northern 75
No. 2 Northern 73
FLOUR-
Patent in sacks $4 30
Patent in barrels 4 25
Patent at New England
points 95
Patent at N. and Penn.,
points 4 90
Bakers 3 40
i^ Chicago, March 15.
GRAIN
Wheat, cash..,.,.^ 7fiiz
Corn, cash SOM
Oats, cash 24
FlaxSeed 1 00
MESSPORK: 20 15
LIVE STOCK
Cattle $4 00
!?g 5 50
Sneep S 50
?S& Duluth, March 15
WHEATs5
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