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.GRADY
An Eloquent Memorial Ser
mon Preached by Dr.
Talmage.
Beyiews the Life of the
-Great Orator and
Vr? Editor.
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The subjsctofDr. Talmage's sermon *u
"The Life And Death of Henry W. Grady, the
Editor 'antK^rator." He took for hit text
Isaiah vlil, 1: "Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man's pen." The preacher
••aid:
To Ieaiah, with royal blood in his reins and
habitant of palaces, does tbis devine order
come. He is to take a roll, a great roll, and
write on it with a pen, not an angel's pen, but
a man's pen. So God honored the pen, and
40 he honored manuscript. In our day the
mightiest roll is in the religious and secular
newspaper, and the mightiest pen is the edi
tor's pen, whether for good or evil. And God
says now to every literary man, and especial
ly to every journalist: "Take a great roll
and write in it with a man's pen."
Within a few weeks one of the strongest,
most vivid and moBt brilliant of those pens
was laid down on the editorial desk in At
lanta, never again to be resumed. I wns fur
away at the timo. We had been sailing
His father dead, Henry W. Grady, a boy 14
years of age, took up the battle of life. It
would require along chapter to record the
names of orphans who have come to the top.
When God takeB uway the head of the house
hold he very often gives to some lad in that
household a special qualification. Christ
remembers how that his own father died
early, leaving him to support himself and
his mother and his brothers
in the carpenter's
shop at. Nazareth, and he is in sympathy with
all boy* and all young men in the struggle.
You say: "Oh, if my father had only lived
I would have abetter education nnd 1 would
have had a more promising start, and there
are some wrinkles on my brow that would
not have been there." But I have noticed
that God makes a special way lor orphans.
Tou would not have been half the man you
are if you had not been obliged from your
early days to fight your own battles. What
other boys got out of Yale and Harvard you
got in the University bf Hard Knocks. Go
among successful merchants, luwyers, phy
sicans and men of all occupations and pro
fessions, and there are many of them who
will tell you: "At 10, or 12, or 15 years of
ates I started for myself father was sick, or
father was dead." But somehow they got
through and got up. 1 account for it by the
fart that there is a special dispensation
God for orphans. All hail, the fatherless
and motherless! The Lord Almighty will
see you through. Early obstacles tor Mr.
Grady were only the means for development
of bis intellect and heart. And lot when at
39 years of age he put down his pen and
elosed his lips for the perpetual silence. He
had done a work which manyamanwholives
on to 00 and 70 nnd 80 years never accom
plishes. There is a great deal of senseless
Serful
raise of longevity,, ns though it were a won
achievement to live a good while. Ah.
my friends, it is not how longwelive, but how
well ire live and how use uliy we live. A man
who lives to 80 years and accomplishes noth
ing for God or humanity might better have'
never lived at all. Methusaleb lived 969
years, and what did it amount to? In all
those more than nine centuries he did not ac
complish anything that seemed worth record.
Paul lived only a little more than 60, but
how many Methusnlehs would it take to
make one Paul? Who would not- rather
have Paul's 60 year*
than Methusaleh's 969?
Robert McCheyne died at 30 years ot age,
and John Summerfield at 27 years of age,
but neither earth nor heaven will ever hear
the end of their usefulness. Longevity!
Why, an elephant can beat yon at that, for
it lives 150 and 200 years. Gray hairs are
the blossoms of the tree of 11 if found in the
way of righteousness, but the frosts of the
second death if found in the way of sin.
One of our able NewYork journals last
spring printed a question and sent it to many
people, and among others to myself: "Can
the editor of a secular journal be a Chris
tian?" Some ol the Newspapers answered,
No. I answered. Yes and lest you may not
understand me I say. Yes. again. Summer
before last, riding with Mr. Grady from a
religions meeting in Georgia one Sunday
night, he said to me some things which 1
now reveal for the first time, because it is ap
propriate now that I reveal them. He ex
pressed bis complete faith in the Gospel, and
expressed his astonishment and his grief that
in onr day so many yonng men were reject
ing Christianity. From the earnestness and
the tenderness and the confidence with which
he spoke on these things, I concluded that
when Henry W. Grady -made public profes
sion of his aith in Christ and took his place
at the holy communion in the Methodist
Church, he was honestly and truly Christian.
That, conversation that Sunday niarht, first
in the carriase and then resumed in the ho
tel. impressed me in such away that when I
•imply heard of his departnre without any of
the particulars, I concluded that he was ready
to go. I warrant there-was no fright in the
last exigency, but thatlis found what is com
monly called "the lost enemy" a good friend,
and from his home on earth he went to a
home'in henven. Yes, Mr. Grady hot only
demonstrated that an editor may be a
Christian, but that very great intellect
may be gosnolited. His mental capacity
was so wonderfnl it was almost startling, I
have been withhim in active conversation
'while at the same time he was dictating to a
stenographer editorials fort-he Atlanta Con
stitution. Bat thin "intellect was not
•shamed to bow to Christ.
Among his last dying htteranoes was a re-
fcrtW
up
from the Mediterranean sen, through the
Dardanelles, which region is unlike
anything 1
ever saw lor beauty. There is not any other
w^ter scenery on earth where God has done
so many picturesque things with islands.
They are somewhat like the Thousand Isl
ands of our American St. Lawrence, but
more like heaven. Indeed, we bud
juBt
passed
Patmos, the place from which John had his
apocalyptic vision. Constantinople had
seemed to come out to greet us. for your ap
proach to that city is different from any
other city. Other cities as you approach
them seem to retire, but this city, with its
glittering minarets and pinnacles, seem al
most to step into the water to greet you.
But my landing there, that would have been
to me an exhilaration, was suddenly stunned
with the tidings of the death of my intimate
friend, Henry W. Grady. I could hardly be
lieve the tidings, for 1 had left on my
Btudy
table at home letters and telegrams from
him, those letters and telegrams having a
warmth and geniality and a wit such as ho
only could express. The departure of no
public man for so rann.v years has so affected
me. For dnys 1 wnlked about OB in adream,
and I resolved that, getting home. 1 would
for the sake of his bereaved household, and
for the sake of his bereaved profession, and
for the sakeof what he had been to me and
shall continue to be ns long as memory lasts,
1 would speak a word in appreciation of him.
the most promising of Americans, nnd learn
some of the salient lessons of his departure.
I have no doubt, that he had enemies, for
no man can live such an uctive life as lie lived
or be so far in -advance of his time without
making enemies, some because lie de'oatod
their projects nnd some because he outshone
them. Owls nnd bats never did like the rising
sun. But I shall tell you liow he appeared to
me, and 1 am glad that 1 told him while lie
was in full health what I thought. of him.
Memorial oratioiiB and gravestone epitaphs
are often mean enoueii. (or they sny of a
man after he is dead that which ought to
have been said of him while living. One gar
land for a living lirc\v is worth more than a
monument of jnponiensand cullalilies heaped
on a funeral casket. ISy a littlo black volume
of 50 pages containing the eulogiums and
poems uttered nnd written at-the demise of
Clay and Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln
anil Sumner, the world tried to pay for the
40 years of obloquy it heaped upon those
living giants. If 1 say nothing in praise of a
man while he lives I will keep silent when he
is dead. Myrtlennd weeping willow can nev
er do what ought to have been done by ama
rnnth and palm brunch. No amount of
''Dead March in Saul" rumhlinir from big
orgnns at the obsequies can atone for non
appreciation of the man before he fell on
sleep. The hearse cannot do what ought to
hav« been done by chariot. Hut there are
important things that need tu be said about
our friend, who was a prophet in American
journalism and who only a few years ago
heard the command of my text: "Take hee
a great roll, and write in it with a man's
pen."
behalt
There was that particular quality in Blip
that yon do not flndin more.thU one person
out of hundreds of tibaueands—namely, per
sonal magnetism. People have tried to de
fine that quality,
felt its
ml
la,v
and always failed, yet we
have all felt its power. There are some per
sons who have only to enter a room or step
JPWJ platform or into a pulpit and you are
thrilled by their presence, and when they
speak your nature res punas and you cannot
™'Plt What is the peculiar influence with
which such a magnetic person takes hold of
social groups and audiences? Without at
tempting to define this, which is indefinable,
it seems to correspond to the waves
of air set in motion by the voice or the
movements of the body. Just like that
atmospheric vibration is the moral
or spiritual vibration which rolls out from
the soul of what, we call a magnetic person.
As there may be a cord or rope binding bod
ies together, there may be an invisible cord
binding souls. A magnetic man throws it
over OB a hunter throws a lasso. Mr. Grady
was surcharged with this influence, and it
was employed for patriotism and Christian
ity and elevated purposes.
YOII may not know why, in the conversa
tion which I had with Mr. Gladstone a few
weeks ago, he
uttered thesememorahle words
about Christianity, some of which were
cabled to America. He was speaking in re
ply to this remark: I said, "Mr. Gladstone,
we are told in America by some people fiat
Christianity does very well for weak minded
men and children in the infant claBS, but it is
not. fit for stronger minded men but when
wo mention you of sucji large intellectual
ity, as being a pronounced friend of religion,
we silence their batteries." Then Mr. Glad
stone stopped on the hillside where we were
exercising and said: "The older I grow, the
more confirmed 1 am in my faith in religion."
"Sir," said he, with flashing eye and uplifted
hand,"talk about the questions of the day,
there is but one question, and that is the
Gospel. That can and will correct every
thing. Do yon have any of that dreadful
agnosticism in America?" Having told him
wo had, he went on to sny: "I am profoundly
thankful that noneof my children or kindred
have been blasted by it. I am glad to say
that about all the men at the top in Great
Britian are Christians. Why, sir," he
said, "1 have been in public posi
tion 58 years, nnd 47 years in the cabin
et of the Bristish government, and during
those 47 years I have been associated with
60 of the master minds of the century, and
all but five of the 50 were Christains." He
then named the four leading physicians and P'®yed to celebrate the victory,
surgeons of his country, calling them by
name and remarking upon the high qualities
of each of them nnd added: "They are all
thoroughly Christians." My friends, I think
it will be quite respectable for a litt.le longer
to bo the friends of religion. William E.
Gladstone, a Christian Henry W. Grady, a
Christian. What the greatest of Englishmen
said of England is true of America and all
Christendom. The men at the top are
the friends of God nnd believers in
the sanctities of religion, tho most
eminent of the lawyers, the most eminent of
tho doctors, the most eminent of tho mer
chants, und there are no better men in all our
land than some of those who sit in editorial
chairs. And if thatdoes notcorrespond with
your acquaintanceship, 1 am sorry that you
have fallen into had company. In answer to
the question put last spring. "Can a secular
journalist be a Christian?" I not only answer
in the nffirniintivc. but I nBsert that so trcat
are the responsibilities of that pro ession, so
infjnate and eternal tho consequences of their
obedience or disobedience of the words of my
text. "Take thee a great roll, ami write in it
with a man's pen," and so many are the sur
rounding temptations, that the men of no
other profession more deeply need the de
fenses und the reenforcements of the grace of
God.
And then look at the opportunities
ot jour
nalism. I praise the pulpit and magnify my
office, bnt 1 state a fact you all know when
1 say that, where the pulpit touches ono per
son the press touches 500. The vast major
ity of people do not go to church, but all in
telligent people read the newspapers. While,
thfreiore, the responsibility ot the ministers
is great, the responsibility of editors and re
porters is greater. Come, brotherjournalists,
and get vour ordination, not by the laying
on of human hands, but by the laying on of
the hinds of the Almighty, To you is com
mitted the precious reputation of men and
the more precious reputation of women.
Spread be'ore our children an elevated lit
erature. Make sin nppear disgusting and
virtue admirable. Believe good rather than
evil. While you show up the hypocrisies of
the church, show up the stupendous hypocri
sies outside the church. Be not, as some of
you are, the mere echoes of public opinion
make public opinion. Let the great roll on
which you write with a man's pen be a mess
age of light and liberty and kindness and an
awakening moral power. But who is suf
ficient for these things? Not one of you
without divine help. But get that influence
and the editors and reporters can go up and
take thia world for (lod and the truth. The
mightiest, opportunity in all the world for
usefulness to-day is open before editors and
reporters and publishers, whether of knowl
edge on foot, as in the book, or knowledge
on the wing, as in the newspaper. I pray
God, men of the newspaper press, whether
you hear or read this sermon, that you may
rise up to your full opportunity, and that
you may be divinely helped and rescued and
blessed.
Some one might say to me: "How can
you talk thus of the newspaper press, when
you yourself have sometimes been unfairly
treated and misrepresented?" 1 answer that
in the opportunity the newspaper press of
this country and other countries have given
me week by week to preach the gospel to
the nations, I am put under so much obliga
tion that 1 defy all editors and reporters,
the world over, to write anything that shall
call forth from me one word of bitter retort
from now till the day of my death. My opin
ion is, that all reformers and religious teach
ers, instead of spending so much time and
energy in denouncing the press, had better
rpend more time in thanking them for what
they bave done for the world's intelligence
and declaring their magnificent opportunity
and uriring their employment of it all for
beneficent and righteous purposes.
Again I remark thnt Henry W. Grady
stood for Christian patriotism, irrespective
of political spoils. He declined all official
reward. He could have been Governor if
Georgia, but he re.used it. He could have
been senator of the Onited States, bnt declin
ed it. He remained plain Mr. Grady. Near
ly all the other orators ot the political arena,
as soon as the elections are over, .go to
Washington, or Albany, or Harrisburg, or
Atlanta, to get in citv or state or nation
al office reward for their services, nnd not
gotting what they want spend the rest of
that administration in pouting about the
manaicement of public affairs or cursing Har
rison or Cleveland. When thegreatpolitical
campaigns were over Mr. Grady went home
to his newspaper. He demonstrated that it
is possible to toil for principals which he
thought to be right, simply because they
were right. Christian patriotism is too rare
a commodity in this country. Surely
the joy of living under such free in
stitutions as those established here
ought to be enough reward for Political fidel
ity. Among all the great writers that
stood at the last presidential election on
Democratic and Republican platforms, yon
Again, Mr. Grady stood for the new South
and was .ust what we want to meet three
other men. one to speak for the new North,
another for the new Eust and another for
the new West. The bravest speech made for
the last quarter of a century was that made
by Mr. Grady at the New England dinner in
New York about two or three years ago. I
sat with him that evening and know some
thing of his anxieties, for he was to tread on
dangerous ground, nnd might by one mis
spoken word have antagonized forever both
sections. His speech was a victory that
thrlllod all of us who heard him and all who
read him. That speech, great for wisdom,
great for kindness, great for pacification,
great for bravery, will go down to the gener
ations with Webster's speech at Bunker Hill,
William Wirt's speech at the arraignment of
Aaron Burr, Edmnnd Burke's speech on
Warren Hastings, Robert Emmet's speech
for his own vindication.
The grand jury at New York .found ,two
indictments against Cashier Van Zandt, of
tbe Lenox Hill bank, one 'or forgery nnd the
otber.fpr perjury in connection with the bank
wrecking. Vnn Zandt has been arrested and
was placed wider $5,000 bail, in default ol
which he was taken to the Tomb*. Ex-Pres
ident Wallack has also been indicted for per
Jury. He will be called on for more bail on
this account.- ~v r.
I- iftlfSS.
cannot recall in your mind ten who were not the grand lodge Brotherhood of Locomotive
themselves looking for remunerative ap
pointments. Aye, you can count them all
on the fingers of one hund. The most illus
trious specimen of that, style of man for the
last ten years was Henry W. Grady.
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A Snmmi
Events oi
S Northwestern S
MINNESOTA.
The authorities ofDuluth have
to glove contests and all kinds of
exhibitions.
The labor unions of Minneapolis and St.
Pant have placed a vigorous boycott on non
union made cigars.
The chamber of commerce of St. Cload,
have agreed to doaats a site for a govern
ment building providing congress will ap
propriate 9100,000 for the building.
The largeflourmillandelevatoratChamp
lin, Hennepin county, were destroyed by fire.
Loss, |20,000 insurance $10,000.
A pleasure party often persons were thrown
from a wagon near Rochester and all more
or
lesB
injured, Mrs. Daniel Madden and Miss
Annie Grady seriously.
Charles Elsbury ofEyota has been allowed
a pension of $3,150 and 950 per month. Mr.
Elsbury has been perfectly helpless lor sev
eral years and was in dest
it to
circumstances.
Charles Singer, a farmer living in Stone
Prairie township, Wadena county, while
hunt
ing rabbits, accidently shot himself in the
bowels. It is thought he will live.
Fritz Uhlenhut was killed at Dow in Otter
Tail county whilecutting down a tree, one of
tho limbs striking him on tho head, fractur
ing the skull.
Clifton Holden, for the murder of his cousin,
Frank Dodge, at Redwood Falls, on the 23d
of November, 1888, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sentenced to
be hanged on a day set by the governor.
Holden had two trials.
The county seat contest that has been on
for five years between Currie and Slayt-on was
derided by Judge Perkins in favorofSlayton.
Bells were rung, whistles blown and bands
Jay Bevier, a Stillwater youth, tried to
commit suicide in a dressing-room in the
opera-house in that plaeo by asphyxiation
with illuminating gas. He was nearly dead
when discovered. Dissapointmcnt in love
was tho cause.
William Tucker was tried before Justice
Johnson and a jury at Hastings upon tho
charge of drunkenneBS upon a change of
venue from Justice Pe Kay. Tucker was
found guilty and sentenced to ninety days in
jail, under the Scbcffer law, it being the third
flense.
Andrew J. Clark will issue the initial num
ber of the Presto-Change, a seven-column
folio weekly newbpaper at tho new village of
Presto, Todd Co. It is to be independent in
politics. The name of the village has lately
been changed from Staples. It is located
at the terminus of the Little Falls cut-off.
The merchants at St. James have entered
into an arrangement to have all butter
brought to that place graded, nnd the cer
tificates will be paid by any store in the
town. By this arrangement it will bo sold
upon its merit. It will then be pucked and
handled by one party.
Worthington is becoming one of the most
popular summer resorts in the state. The
town iB locnted between two beautiful lakes,
which contain an ubundancc of fish and the
hunting season is excellent. Large numbers
of visitors from the oast spend the summer
season in Worthington. and the hotel men
nre already preparing for the cxpected influx
next season.
At a special term of the district court at
Fergus Falls, Judge Baxter decidcil that the
city was entitled to $7,000 which had been
deposited in CBcrow as bonus to Wilmar
parties to locate a wooden mill there, which
they (ailed to do and refused to allow the
city to withdraw the money. The city hus
recovered nearly all its bonus money now,
and it is watching with interest the experi
ence of other places in the same business.
A controversy between the local school au
thorities of Goodhue county and the state
text book contractors seems imminent.
The county treasurer says lie will pay no
more money to school districts save on cer
tificate from the county superintendent that
the state text book law is complied with,
and the superintendent says he can give no
such certificates in the cuse of many school
districts, having advised them to use other
books.
NORTH DAKOTA.
Jake Walker, a German aged 45, was killed
at Devil's Lake by being kicked in the head
by a horse. He is supposed to be single and
has a sister in Stuttgart, Germany.
In a quarrel over a game of "high-five" at
Mandan Julius Wales carved Henry Wagner
with a jack-kni so seriously as to prepare
him for along reaidenee in the hospital.
Minnie Bush, the sixteen-year-old daughter
of a hotelkeeper of amestown, committed
suicide. No inquest has been held, and the
family refuse to assign any reasonable cause.
A store building in East Grand Forks,
owned by Appel & Co. of this city was burn
ed. It was occupied by three families, who
succeeded in getting most of their effects out.
Loss, $2,000 insurance, $1,200.
Senator Casey in Congress introduced a
joint memorial of the North Dakota legisla
ture asking for the legislation favored' by the
national committee on pensions from the G.
A. R.
Ex-Postmaster Fulton, of Cassclton, has
been arrested on a charge of embezzling
money from the government while in office.
The shortage is about $700. He will have
an examination March 3.
A German farmer from Bathgate, arrived
in Winnipeg in search of his ivife, who eloped
with a neighboring farmer named Blondeau
about the 1st of February, lie found her
employed ns a domestic in Winnipeg, and is
endeavoring to get her to return with him.
A carload of ash bureaus and washstands
has been sent from the east to Mandan to be
distributed among the Indians at the btand
ing Rock agency. The Mandan Pioneer says
the bureau drawers will probably bo used for
tobboggans and the rest of the furniture will
make good picket pins.
J. J. Hannahan, of Chicago, organizer of
fireman, organized a lodge at Grand Forks,
Representatives fiom Winnipeg Fargo, Breek
enridge, Brainerd, and Minot were present.
The lodge here starts out with a membership
of 30.
Sheriff Bartlett received a dispatch an
nouncing tbe capture Henry L. Ode, who
escaped from tbe sheriff at Rutland while on
the way to Wahpeton jail, a few miles from
Britton. When found he was badly frozen
about the fare and ho nds and had be been
exposed to the cold a few hours longer he
would undoubtedly have perished.
Rev. Father Stephan. the Catholic mission
ary, and Bishop Shauley were in Grand
Forks en route to the Turtle mountains.
Father Stephan. who has been commissioned
by Miss Drexei of Philadelphia to relieve ths
wants of the Indians living in tbe mountain
district will make a thorough investigation
and take steps toward relieving their present
necessities.
Copt. A. T. Price, of Forman, received a
disoatch from Senator Pierre announcing
Price's appointment by the president as
United States marshal of North
fISr
A
Dakota.
While the captain has been assured of the
appointment beyond a donbt ever since Hag
gart's resignation, a happy smile illumined
his countenance when he read the telegram.
He immediately went to all the stores in
town and ordersd cigars
pat so
tbe free
list.
In response to a telfgraak *s»eived from
•4
a
jf-mtm
Poliee HeftlMssy o# Qrwtf Forks an^tsf
two passengers on soith: bound
Northern Paeifle train on charge of
forgery. Both prisoners are Englishmen snd
apparently 22 or 28 years of age. They were
taken to the county jail. When seen they
protested Innocence, and said they wers ac
tors In theCampbell troupe of Winnipeg and
and were enroute to St. Panl to All another
engagement. Both are perfectly willing to
return to Winnipeg. They gave the names
of George Brooks and Frank Jeanette and
is claimed to .be former residents of London,
England.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
One- hundred houses were pnt up in the
town of Slprman inside of four days.
That part of the recently opened reeerva
tion'known as the "Nebraska strip" is rapid
ly being occupied by German settlers.
A trial at Kimball, in which the sum of 15
cents was the bone of contention, cost the
plaintiff $60.
The steamer Last Chance ie being fitted up
by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
company to be used as a ferry between
Chamberlain and the new town of Sherman.
There are 3,000,000 acres of land subject
to entry in the Chamberlain land district. A
handsome new land office is now being
erected in that- cit.y.
An Indian of the Yankton agency while
crossing the Missouri on the ice at tbe mouth
of the Choteau creek with a team of ponies,
broke through and all were drowned.
The settlers of Stanley county bave organ
ized a defense association to prevent the
jumping of claims and for the settling of dis
putes growing out of the recent taking up of
land.
The treasurer of Custer county is reported
to be short in his accounts to the amount of
$6,000. Examiner Blanchard hae obtained
bis resignation. His bondsmen are amply
able to make the loss good.
Then is a good fiel.1 in South Dakota for
hop raising. Hops grows in wild profusion
along the banks of the streams, and it would
require but little effort to make hop culture a
paying investment.
Monroe Cortlow, a young Lnke county
farmer, dropped dead on the street while on
a business trip to Madison. He was a victim
of heart, disease He leaves a wife and child.
Attorney-General Dollard haB decided that
women nre eligible for notaries public or any
other office in the state except, such as are
specifically declared can be filled by male
citizenes only.
An effort is being made by the boards of
trade of Onida and Copp to have the D., A.
and U. H. railroad change the line of its sur
vey from Aberdeen to Pierre, sons to take in
those places.
Even the hens ofSouth Dakota are making
a derided protest, against tho exaggerated
storiesofdestitution. An Alexandria "biddy"
the other day produced an egg measuring 8
inches the long wa.v and GVi inches ttie short
way—just twice the size of an ordinary egg.
Andrew Erickson, a farmer living twelve
miles north of Sioux Falls, fell from a wagon
and received injuries which have resulted in
completely paralyzing his body Irom the
neck downward. He can Bpeak as well as
ever, but his condition is such that the phy
sicians think be can not rccovcr.
As a result of a fetid of long standing C.
Carter, an Elk Creek, Meado county ranch
man, was killed by a neighboring ranchman
named La Flumme by being struck on the
head with a billet of stove wood. La Flnmme
gave himself up and is now in the county jail
at Sturgis. The victim was 73 years of age,
The horses at the La Belle ranch, near
Madison, have been attacked with a diseuse
with symptoms similar to those of la grippe.
The only medicine given so far by the ranch
managers is quinine and whisky, and over a
barrel and a hulf of the latter have been used.
The horses are said to take to the beverage
like old topers.
An Indian died at the Cheyenne agency
and a telegram was sent to the undertakers
for a coffin seven feet long. The longest
made is six and a half foet- and one of these
was sent to Bennett, whero it was delivered
to the Indians. Nothing has been heard
from it and the query is how they got a sev
en-foot Indian into a six und a half .oot box.
WISCONSIN.
John Herman, a Racine cigarmaker, was
attacked by hemorthage of the lungs while
sitting in a chair, and lived but a few minutes.
A young mun who represented himself to
Lederer, the Chicago artist secured $9 on
aId -,.—1 check at Watertowd. He was sub
sequently-arrested at Madison.
Miss Emma?'tr.bner, the youug woman
who disappeared fr6*_ Appleton February
13, has not been heard rn, ana her con
tinued absence is causing grt-t anxiety.
A wealthy Racine lady, who cUes not wiah
her name published, has in her -ill, which
has lately been drawn up, left tlie.um of
$20,000 to endow a chair ofuaturalscit.ee
at Racine college.
Ex-Sheriff Len Johnson, of Sparta, has
brought suit for slander against James Mc
Laughlin, a wealthy farmer of the same
county, cluiming damages to the amount of
$3,000
The fatal row at a dance in the village of
Jordon grew out of a dispute substituting a
waltz for a square dance. August Kote lo
was stabbed to death and six others serious
ly gashed.
Two eons of R. Olmstead, of Vienna, Dane
County, were pouring melted lead into
mould. The lend set fire to tho table, and
water was thrown on. The, lead coming in
contact with the water, exploded, and both
children were badyl burned.
In the old Loan and Building Association
suit at Hudson, J. H. Childs, cx-presidcnt,
and C. L. Dennison. ex-secretnry, were or
dered to pay the stockholders $21,000 for
neglect which it is held permitted Henry Har
vey to wreck the business.
Archbishop Heiss. who is still in La Crosse,
has had another attack of illness, and will
not return to Milwaukee at once. He has
partially recovered from his last attack, but
'his physicians udvise him not to make the
trip to that city in his present condition.
Matthew Lawrance has bought up the
claims of tbs log drivers, who brought down
Sam. Lawrence's drive on the Wolf lliverthis
spring, and intends to sue for tbe amount
due, which is about $3,000. To secure him
self be has levied upon tbe logs, which are
frozen in the river.
An eleven-year-old son of Ole Huuge, Vienna
township, fell from a tree, on his father's
place and fractured his skull. The surgeon
who was called found that the skull was also
dented in, bone resting on the brain, render
ing the lad insnne for several days. It was
necessary to preform an operation on the
skull to relieve the pressure.
J. E. Jffiger Grufton, aged 14 is charged
with rifling an express package thnt was
shipped to his address. It is claimed thathe
removed the contents of the package in the
absence of ths express agent, reseated the
package after Ailing it with sawdust, and
then refused to receive it. He has been
bound over for trial.
A man arrested at Eau Claire for robbing
the office ofD. S. Kimons confessed and
promised to show where be had concealed the
stolen goods. With one hund menucled he
escorted Dr. Simmons several miles through
the woods, and after showing where the
property was hidden was released. The of
ficers was disntisfled with Mr. Simon's
course and re arrested the thief.
A few weeks ago the authorities of Clinton
ville were advised to look over the accounts
of the late treasurer, T. F. Fluton, who con
ducted the office from 1883 to 1889. A com
mittee was appointed to investigate, and
two or three days ago reported a ebortuge
of $1,300 in Sal
ton's accounts which had
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"Theodore Dahmsn Is ayonugGemaa «flk
peddler at Ean Clair* He and his father
and mother and slstsr and brothers Hkvs
been struggling along for ytars la makfhga
livlihood. A letter reached them few days
ago informing them of the fact that, owing
to the demise of a wealthy relative in Ger
many, the Dahrnac family, of Eau Claire,
had fallen heir to 104,000,000 marks, which
is in the neighborhood of 940,000,000.
The fortune comes from a relative who died
without other heirs.
A reservation boomer^ jumped claim a
short distaneefrom Fort Reno belonging to
a Sloox brave named Crow Eagle aad pro
eeeded to build a "shack" on it. Crow Ea
gle looked on with stolid indifference until
the^house was completed. Then he palled
gun about a yard long and with the remark,
"Crow Eagle's heart is bad—don't monkey
with Crow Eagle," ordered the "jumper" to
jump, which he very suddenly did. Then
Crow Eagle set fire to the improvements and
burned them to the ground.
IOWA.
A woman was granted a divorce by the dis
trict court at Tipton and imme
diately walked into the county clerk's office
and took out a license to marry.
The Iowa man who wants a government
office because his wife presented him with
triplets makes a preposti -ous claim. Let the
wife have the office. j:
A 13-year-old boy ntk' Avcrill, living
near Jefferson,tried to ribti on a yearling calf.
He is now laid up with an arm broken in
two pieces.
An experimental shaft has been sunk to a
depth o. 6Q feet near Sac City, and the per
sons in charge of the work are hope.ul that
coal will be found.
Two little Muscatine boys named Gallup
and Westjwere bitten by^a mad dog the other
day and were taken to Paris, Lien county,
to be treated by Dr. Byam, who possesses a
madstone.
A New York glass works company is con
templatingputting in a glass factory atlowa
City. Town meetings are being held to dis
CUBS the question offering inducements to the
company.
John Schiling. of Carroll, was fined $50 for
levying ontoii "jack pot" in a poker game
to which he had ho moral right, and forstrik
ing his opponent over the head for makinc a
kick.
A firm at Washington, D. C., are sending
out circulars stating that they nro able to
procure und deliver tho original patent for
over 700 piects of land in Tuma county at a
cost of $4.00 each.
A leading educator of the state has offered
to build a $10,(t0t school building and open
a college nt Iowa Falls if the town will do
nate the land. The proposition will likely bo
acceepted.
Mrs. Briggg. daughter of an offlccr in tho
war ol 1812, died at lier home in Carson on
the loth at tho use of 9." years. ShewaBtho
mother of sixteen children, uiuong them
Representative R. W. Briggs, of l'ottawtta
mie county.
A tanner named John Tomlinson, living in
Bear Grove township, Jasper county, for
some cause unexplained, shot his wi through
the head, the ball passing in below tho eye
nnd coming out at the back part of the head.
The wound will prove fatal.
Large numbers of human skeletons are be
ing unearthed at Thompson's mill, Dubuque
county. The place is believed to have been
used as an lndiaa burying ground long be
fore the advent, of white men.
Herman Schroog, of Cedar Falls, while try
ing to break a pony to ride, was thrown "in
such a way ns to break his neck, causing
death almost instantly. He wns nineteen
years old.
Mrs. Marshal, of Dubuque, had a laughing
spell and laughed so heartily that,
she opened
her mouth so wide that she was unable to
close it. A surgeon had to break one of her
jaw bones in order to "shut her mouth."
She is now eating liquid food with a spoon.
The Ida County Watch claims that the jack
rabbit ofnorthwestern Iowa is nothing but
the common English hare, several hundred of
which were imported by LeMars Englishmen
a few years ago and turned loose upon the
prairies.
Dr. J. F. Kennedy, eecretary of the state
board of healt h, says the Health Bulletin
this month will show the smallest list of con
tagious and in ectious diseases prevailing in
the state for several years. He says there
are comparatively no cases of diphtheria in
the state und only one case of scarlet ever.
A scamp named Sund recently deserted liis
sick wife and five children at Dvenport, leav
ing them in destitute circumstances. The
woman died in the hospital the other day,
and the children, the oldest 10 and the
youngest 2 years, are left to the care of
strangers.
In a runaway at Linn Jnnction Mrs. Hen
ry Usher, of Cedar Rapids, was thrown from
'he wagon against a tree and then nnderthe
N. A wheel passed over her face, crush,
ing in ter nose besides this she has several
injuriesi.Kout the ao .head and back,and lies
in a rriticai condition.
In lie disti ,-t court at Osceola Newton
Taylor was foun guilty of crime of forgery
and selling forged nies on farmers, and was
sentenced to two an1 a half years in the pen
itentary. Taylor b:i\an accomplice who as
sisted him in the execution ot the forged
notes, but so far all efTortt to induce him to
inform on the accomplice ha been un suc
cessful.
A short time ago the wife of a Keokuiv
(forth Dtksta'i
v-r-
ber expressed a desire to visit her parentB in
Jacksonville. Consent was given by the hus
band. Before going she induced him to buy
her a plush cloak and other good clothing
and to give her a good sum of money. Short
ly a'ter her arrival at the parental home she
wrote the tonsorial artint bat she would not
return to Keokuk, and that she would apply
for a divorce.
Giant Worms,
The work of earth worms, in tlieop
erations of nature, is a very import
ant one. Darwin has shown us that
they are constantly occupied in
makine: the soil more mellow by per
forating it with their galleries, and
that they enrich it by collecting in
these subterranean passages earth
that has been subject to change in
their intestines, and also leaves,
which have fallen to the ground and
are dragged into their retreats. But
if these little beings can accomplish
such wonders, it would be interesting
to know whether the Megascoliilee
Australia, an earthworm of Australia,
has alike mission. This creature is
of the size cf an ordinary adder, and
at least six feet long.
A writer in La Nature says that it
is usually to be found on the banks
of small rivers,
though it occasionally
seeks the open country, where one
may come upon it by palling up a
stump or upturning the earth. It is
notan easy matter to drag this worm
from its retreat. It glides about
the sinuous passacre with great rap
idity, inflating its anterior and pos
terior extremities at will, und thus
bracing itself against the walls, which
it renders slimy by a secretion from
its own body. Its inoist substance
slips easily through the hands wliich
would retuin it and when once fasten
ed to the adhesive walls of its home,
it can only be removed by breaking
its length in twoi
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StKAn.
Ths senate passed ths house revenue MB,
which provides for taxation of real sad per
eonal property. Tbe dams Which sset with
mot opposition was that whleh provided
that when any oae Is obliged to make a list
of bis credits for taxation hecan deduct bona
fide Indebtedness, provided Mssredltors sis
residents of the stat*.
.The senate passed, a Mil appropriating
$20,900 for'the penitentiary at BMmarck. A
resolution Introduced by Senator Smith, fa
voring the Blair educational bill pending la
congress, was tabled.
A
SENATE.
Very little business was done by the legis
lature. The senate passed the following bills:
Providing for the election ofcounty officers
at the general election of 1890, and every
two years thereafter requiring the appoint
ment of a resident agent lor non-resident ad
ministrators, executors and guardians, to
receive service in actions at law.
The bill reducing the salaries of state of
ficers was made a special order for to
morrow. This bill reduces the salary for
the seed is sown.
HOUSE.
Business in the bouse was confined to the
first and second reading of bille and reference
to committees. Bills were introducod as fol
lows:
Amending the act providing for the Incor
poration of building and loan associations
providing for the diminution for good be
havior of terms of imprisonment of convicts.
SENATE.
Regarding the story that the present ses
sion of the legislature is illegal. Attorney
criven
law allowing aid to lie given for the construc
tion of railroads so it will conform to tbe
constitution.
HOUSE.
notaries in unorganized counties licensing
SENATE.
The senate passed a bill providing for a
gross earnings tax upon railway companies.
According to this bill the tax is to be 3 per
cent., oi' gross earnings lor the first five years
and 2 per cent thereater.
It ie estimated that the amount collectable
under thia law would be at present $175,000
per year. The whole amount is to go into
the state treasury and be apportioned to
countieB according to property value.
Tbe senate also pnsses bills
to regulate polit
ical caucuses and prevent thegivingof proxies
in political conventions to non-residents, and
the house bill providing for the erection of
grain warehouses and elevators on tbe right
of way of railways.
BOUSE.
The house passed five bills, including one
requiring railroads to fence the right way,
and in case of non-rompliance with the law
making them responsibln for stock killed al
so the eenate bill requiring a f«e for the in
corporation of all bodies except for religious,
benevolent, charitable or cemetery purposes,
building and loan associations, county mu
tual fire insurance companies, agricultural
fair associations, and companies manufac
turing dairy products, and senate bill pro
hibiting pools, trusts nnd conspiracies.
The senate bill giving women the right to
vote was made a special order in the nouse
for next Tuesday. Acommunication was re
ceived from the city council of Devile Lake,
endorsed by the chamber of commerce of
that city, offering to take care of the deaf
mutes the state tor the same price that
the South Dakota school wants or such care,
namely, $180 per year per capita.
SENATK.
Thi house bill passed fixing the rate of
freight on roal mined in the stute. The rates
increase according to distance, varying rom.
i-nt«]er ton forthe first SUmileB to$2.1
per ton -or 350 miles and not to exceed 'P*
miles. Ttie «nnte .ilso passed the If Ji
bills: °re
Appropriating Sio.noofor tA new
maintenance of tfi«
(-ii.pitol
«al itntM
bill was Introduced
providing for the payment to Jacob Dobmelr
of Grand Forks of $72,640 for damages
to his brewery plant on account of the pass
ages of the prohibitory law.
HOUSE.
In the house a good part ofthedaywas
spent in reading the senate publicechool bill.
The homestead and pre-emption bills were
made a sjiecial order tor Thursday. The
railroad committee reported back tbe senate
railroad bill with mojority and minority re
ports.
Senate Bills—MakingNew Year's day, Mem- JT .nrv ^""vation one
orial day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving day
and Christmas school holidays clmniring tho ahpeton Indians, and
law nllowinir aid to
tfGrapegtf
Past
Senator Davis*
on tbs calendar.
put business under
lows tbe passage
no objection. It
go through ths mill at
act, bat one or two
cratlc side exercised tl
Hon, and tbe bill was
Some time ago one Or1
notice that they woald
lumpsum bills tor tot.
""to"*' Mr- Davis, however, s*
thoWIIwillpsss,in viefroflk*
of ths improvement.. Few_ Ml
stronirer advocacy than tMs' At
with the speech of ths senator alter
troduction and continuing' tliouk
tire couree to ths calendar.
•ov».
The house military committee wUI eft
prepare a favorable report oh' the Cfcf
prepare a JavorauM report oft th« CbfoMf
ga and Chattanooga National Park bill.
The honsecommltteeon'military affain
tborized a favorable report on the bill Inti9« fe'
dured by Mr. Carter of Montana graattog'
portion of Fort Keogh military reservatlotb
to Miles City, Mont, or nse as a public park.
The house committee oa commerce to-day^
authorized a favorable report on the bill itei
traduced in the house by Mr. Gifford, to ktm
tborizfl the construction of a bridge srroilg
the Missouri river at Pierre, 8. D. 'Y',
SENATE.
governor from *3,000 .o*2,000andofoth.r ^ffldSTOgo^0*
officers from $
J,000 to $1,800. Among the. Senator Moody introduced a bill asking
bits introduced was one by Senator Stevens appropriation of $100,000 for a public build*
forbidding the mortgaging ot crops before ing at Yankton, 8. D.
Senator Stanford from the committee Ott
public buildinge and grounds, reported fkv-
HOUSE.
The House, after a straggle of six hoara
and after eight bnllots, voted to have tho
World'e Fair held at Chicago, the last Tots
standing Chicago 157 New York 107
Louis 2Q Washington 18.
SENATE,'.
The senate had another animated discu*
sion of the charge tljat Mr, Call had interpo*
lated remarks in the official report or tho
proceedings of the senate. The resolution o£
.ered yesterday by Mr. Chandler censuring
v, Mr, Call was taken up and Mr. Sherman
General Goodwin makes the following state- moved its reference to the committeon privib
,, .. ,, eges and elections which was agreed to.
The point that the legislature is illeKal has The amendments of the houso to the senate
t«n!L!rt'lfnt'1nr!V, Jit
lst t,IIle
c°n*
by the constitution, nothing could bo done
except to elect United States senators. But,
as the cnll provided lor the trunsactiou of
any other business which might come before
it, I guve ns my opinion that all acts of tho
session are valid. The other point was that
the legislature, if in general session, had no
power to udjourn tor a period, as it did over
the holidays. But there is nothing to com
pel the legislature to sit for 120 consecutive
days. I have examined the law very care
fully in both cases, and Bee no reasoa to con
sider this legislature illegal. I do not know
of any point which could bo raised beside
those mentioned. In the senate tbe follow
ing bills were passed:
bill to amend the act for a bridge across tbo
tended that, as this session was called by the Mississippi river at Clinton, Iowa, were con
governor and did not meet atthetimespecified curred in by theseuate. v.
HOCSE.
The houso passed the bill authorizing ths
appointment of two delegates to the inters S is
liutionul con erence for the protection of in
dustrial property, to be held at Madrid,
bpnin, April 1.
By a vote of 129 to 24, the house to-day
re used to strike out the first section of thert
house bill, which is a substitute to the Ben
ate bill, fixing the boundaries of Oklahoma
territory so as to include the Cherokee Out.
let.
Representative Gilford to-day presented
memorials from South Dakota legislature
favoring the opening of tbe Fort Randall
military reservation one favoring the rati
with the Sisseton and
and one in favor ol
hospital of ths Soldiers?
hospital at Hot Spring*, Ark.
ol
^be treaty witl
Inr tli« rn Nut rim. making a national bospit
Allowing the railroad commissioners $1,000 "booting and whipping colored voters that
per year for clerk hire requiring registration schools and churches had been demoralised
of births and deaths imposing afine for Sab- and ballot boxes carried off and asking for
bath breaking allowing the erection of dams the protection guaranteed by the constita
I across unnavignble streams for irrigation
purposes providing for the appointment of
,m
$1,500 to pay newspaj(9rsc8
a„
constitution providing
coroner's inquests in iiiplP
ties.
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The house passed, a
nently locatingth&
and appropriate
1800. The bill rat
acres of land by,^
also concurred if
the revenue bill,)f 1
ing the time in .,
wheat may be
1,1
Tbe senate bill IJ
system of voting
form Bchool at
ported.
oer
sec
AnOpitnr
A medical
nP
The Londo^01?'
lieve that cl
found a mop
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mi«n,aniean*yfe
that seem t1
1
over-work.
have tried
been marv
?al
of
lady who
ject ol mof™
tncks of i,*,p
occiput,
remedies^
and in tH
of impen
of the •_
it act-s
nervonsj
no effect!
grains i|
or three
and theniL
a day'or
chnnceof a.
being at tbs
SENATE.
tition trom Union county, Ark., representing
September,
In the bouse the following bills were intro
duced. To prevent the parking of juries and ™,n,t at the state election there in
prohibiting gambling in grain, stocks and 1888, a systematic reign ol terror prevailed
bonds. The following house bills were armed and reckless mobs paraded ths
passed: county night and day. terrorizing whites and
t'on-
A
senate special committee is tryingtoflnd
out how
express companies permitting probate court secret sessions, but is meeting with poor
to sell real estate to pay debta ol deceased
persons allowing less than twelve persons to
constitute a jury in the justice courts: to
prevent decpl ion in the sale of dairy pro
I ducts permitting counties to bond their in
debtedness to prevent tho adulteration of
foods.
newspapermen secure their reports
success.
BOUSE.
By a' strict party vote the house com*
mittee on territones decided to report
favorably the hill admitting Idaho. Al
though Delegate Dubois has a letter from
Bpringer. in which lie guarantees the Idaho
representative his hearty support, he and ths
Democrats on tiie committee will submit
minority report against not only Idaho bnt
Wyoming. Springer insists on his omnibus
bill admitting these territories and Arizona
and New Mexico at- the same time. Ills bill
provides for enabling acts only, while ths
Idaho and Wyoming bills admit upon ths
constitutions already adopted.
SENATE.
Senator Davis says that he believes that
his bill appropriating $5,000,000 for ths
Soo and Hay Lake channel wiH pass as
soon
as reached in tbe regular order. Bnt no
matter what may be done in tbe eenate thers
is not the least hope for it passing as a sepa
rate measure in the house. It will come in
with the general river and harbor bill, and
probably be for a hies sum than that named
in the Davie bill.
Senator Moody of South Dakoa presented!
a bill which covers the substance ol a memo
rial introduced from that state early In ths
session on the snbject of Indian depredation
claims. The bill represents that ths secre
tary of the interior has approved claims ol
this nature to the amount ol $628,148, aad
recommended that congress pay them. Ac*
cordingly that amount ot money la asked tot
by the bill.
Mr. Lind has introduced a bill appropriate
ing $50,000tor an.Indian school at Pipestoao
reservation, in Minnesota.
A bill was introduced to amend the world's
fair bill so as to require at least two of tbs
board of control to be women.
Among the bills introduced was one for tho ':!i
relief oi dependent widows of soldiers who
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