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VOL. XIV."""NO. 6.
BUSINESS CARDS.
H. MERRIOK,
LA WYER,
Richird*' Block, Austin, Minn. 40-ly
0 C. KINSMAN,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
Real Estste. Insurance and Loan Broker, Main
Street, Austin, Minnesota. 40-ly
QllMANZO ALLEN,
JUDGE OF PROBATE,
Attorney at Law and Keal Esta'e Agent. Collec­
tions made and Taxes paid. Office in Bastard's
block, Austin, Minnesota. 39-tf
McDOXALD, M. D.t C. M„
Graduate of McGill Medical college, Montreal,
has located in Austtu for the purpose of practicing
his profession. Office at Rev. S. W. Day's resi­
dence, south side Public Square, where all day and
night calls will bo promptly responded to.
w.
L. HOLUSrEB, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURG EOS,
Corner of Main and Winona Streets, Austin, Min­
nesota. No cards. jun20
M. GREENMAN,
A TTORNEY A LA IF.
Will practice ia the courts of record, and the IT. S.
courts. Ofllc3 in Schleuder's block, Main street,
Austin, Minn. 40 ly
D. B. JOHNSON, JB
A TTORNEY A LA »F,
Austin, Minn. P/acMces in all the courts of the
pfate. Prompt attention given to Collecting. Of­
fice over the Mower County Bank. juo20
"y^INDSOR HOUSE,
GERMAIN,
Proprietor. Newly fitted and refurnished through­
out.* Terms reasonable. 'Bus to and from all
trains. Telephone connection with depot.
J^ED CEDAB MILLS.
J. GREGSOX,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in the best
brands of Grecers' and Bakers' Floor. Also all
kiiuU of Mill Feed for sale at his store cn Main
stree Austin, Mian., and at the Mill, two miles
south of the city.
31
BS. D. L. AMES,
(Or bitter known as MRS. TOPLIFF.) ia back to
Austin, to attend to all calls as HIID-WIFE, day or
nigat. SUe is the rigii" wouiau in the right piaco.
Back rooms over Solner's store, Basford'tf block.
P. O. Box 271.
YY M. HO VE,
LATE REGISTER OF DEEDS,
H«s a complete Abstract of title to all the Real Es­
tate in Mower cmnty. Will etomia* titles, pay
taxes for non-residen s, etc. Office in Dunckel
man'8 block. jun20
N. WHEAT, M. D.,
HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAX & SURGEON.
Office and risidence corner St. Paul and Mill Sts.,
Austin, Minn. jyn2)
"J^AFAYETTE FRENCH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Austin, Minn. Collections and other business at­
tended to carefully and promptly. Agent oi the
jEtna and other Fire Insurance companies Office
B&uk block. jun20
J^AILWAY HOUSE.
SHERW1N cC- FRENCH,
Proprietors. Ra'es, #2.00 per day. Good Sample
Rooms up town. Gucsta carried to and from the
city free of chirge. Up town connect by tele­
phone. Austin, Miun.
JJLACKSMITH SHOP.
W. W. PATTERSON
H*.s b.-ught out the shop, tools and stock ot J.
Reinsujitii, and does all kinds of work in his line
on shortest notice at low prices for cash. Shop cor­
ner Br.dge and St. Paul streets, Austin, Minn.
JOHN KENT,
From his new Grocery House at Ramsey, supplies
the surroundiag community with everything need­
ed in his line of trade. Goo is first-class. Prices
low. Give me a call.
A. VTE3,
MANUFACTURES ASD DSAI.EB IN
LIGHT AXD HEAVY CARRIAGES.
Makes these goods to order in a tip-top, satisfactory
manner. Dexter and side bar buggies a specialty.
Fac ory northeast corner cf public square, Au-tin,
Minnesota. 40-ly
E.
B. CRANE,
-1TTORXEY AT LA W,
Real Estate and Collection Agent. Taxes paid for
non-residents. ^""Office, 2d floor of Dunkelman's
new block. Main street. 19-tf
JgULLOCK PIERCE,
BARBERS fc HAIR DRESSERS.
Eooms under Mower County Bank, Main street,
Austin, Minn. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay.
All branches of the business conducted in the most
approved style. E5P~Baths— plunge or shower, hot
or cold -att-.ebed.
KUSTAD,
CUSTOM TAILORIXG,
Pep iring and Cutting. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Ovtr Daloger Bro*.' grocery s'ore.
M. CAMERON,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
And Real Estate Agent. Collections made and
taxes paid. Offi:e, north side Public Square, in
brick building, Austin, Minn.
"PI" A. AVERY,
DENTIST,
AL'STIS, SMS.
Office over Dona &
•FC OLD'S Drug store.
BROWNSDALE.
"Y^EISEB & SHORTT,
REAL ESTA TE fc COLLECTION AGENTS,
Conveyancers aDd Notaries Public, Brownsdale,
Minn. Improved and wid lands for sale in Mower
and Dsdge counties, litles examined and taxes
paid for non-residents. Jun20
SOCIETIES.
J1IDELITY LOtGE, No. 89, A. F. St A. M.
ft The regular communic%tlons of this lodge
tly™'1®!1'in Masonic Hal!, third story Bis
ford a1 block, Au*tia, Minnes ta, on the first
an*
intra Wednesday evenings of each
month. W. T. WILKIN5, W. M.
JOSEPH ADAMS, Secretary.
JJOYAL ARCH CHAPTER, No. 14.
The stated convocations of this Chap'er are
J|Wh»ld in Masonic Hall, Austiu, Minnesota, on
sy the Sicond and fourth Friday evenings of evsh
mouth. O. WEST, M. U. H. P.
C. H. DAVIDSON, Secretary.
gr. BERNARD COMMANDERY, K.-. T.\ U. D.
/T\ 1 Meets second Monday evening of cach
jJiSL.month at Masonic Ball.
D. B. SMITH, E. C.
I» C. H. DAVIDSON, Recorder.
O O.F.
The regular meetings of Austin
Lodge, No. 20, ara held ia their hall
revery
Tuesday evening. Odd Fellows
_r.a 'rom other juri-diclions, whose bu=i-
lead
them to Austin, are cordially invi ed
ntVf
P' V^N
VALKENBURG, N. G.
m. I3iAKLOW, Secretary.
PENSIONS.
.ss «£s ms
FKNBIOJS INCKEASKD.—Many are drawing 1P««
than entitled to. Thousands of Heirs enti&d to
PENSION and Bounty. R»«CTW OASSS re opened
ABANDONED OASES finished. Copies of lost dig."
charges obtained, Claims of every description
prosecuted. PATENTS PBOCUBBD.
Address, with stamp,
H. 8. BERLIN 00., Attornejs,
BjX 893, Washington, D. O
CLOTHINC.
CLOTHING!
AND GOODS FOR
Merib', Youths', Boys' and
Children's Wear,
In fine, medium and low-priced.fabrics. I offer
the largest stock of the best
Ready-Made Ming
EVER EXHIBITED IN THIS CITY,
Adapted to all purposes aud at lowest Cash Prices.
My goods aro
BETTER MADF,
CUT, TRIMMED,
AND FINISHED
Than aie to be found elsewhere. This I guarantee
ALSO A FINE LINE OF
GENTS* FURNISHING GOODS,
Hats and Caps,
Trunks and Valises.
AQ inspect ion of my stock is respectfully so­
licited.
E. DUNKLEMANN,
THE CLOTHIER.
Store, corner Main and Bridge street*, opposite
Firet National Bank, Austin, Minn. 40-ly
HARDWARE.
IRA JONES.
THE
THE
THE
PIONEER
PIONEER
PIONEER
HARDWARE STORE!
HARDWARE STORE I
HARDWARE STORE
The best and most economical OOOKINO and
HEATING STOVES ever brought to
this Market.
HARDWARE!
Unprecedented low pricrs for Cash.
TINWARE AND CUTLERY!
TINWARE AND CUTLERY
TINWARE AND CUTLERY
THE BOSS
THE BOSS
THE B0S3
HARDWARE STORE
HARDWARE STORE
HARDWARE STORE
IRA JONES.
SADDLERY.
J£AISEK & GUISEI,
AUSTIN, MINN.,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
HARNESS,
SADDLES,
HORSE COLLARS,
TRUNKS AND WHIPS,
&c., &c., &c., &c.
RtPAIRING neatly and cheaply done. All work
warranted.
JEWELRY.
"DON'T YOU FORGET IT!"
Gr. Sclileudei?
IS AUSTIN'S
I O N E E
DEALER IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
SILVER-PLATED WARE, ETC.
gST'Call
cn
Main street.
him, and look over his elegant stock.
DRUGS, Ac.
JJORR & WOLD,
PRESCRIPTION
DRUGGISTS,
And dealers in
Stationery, Books, Etc.,
jftn20 AUSTIN, MINN.
SCALES.
Victor Standard Scales,
Manufactured by
MOLINE SCALE CO.,
MOLINE, ILL.
Every s«a1e warranted accurate and durable, and
in every particular equal to the best.
prices call upon or address
J. W. ELDRIDGE, Agent.
CARPENTC AND BUILDER.
s. cox,
J.
Carpenter & Bite
Shop 011 Mill Street, opposite Coming's Hotel,
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.
SP330IALTIE8,
Ornamental Work
and Stair Building.
I solicit a share of patronage and guarantee that
all work shall be done in a flrst class slid satisfaoto
ry manner.
THE
CENTRAL IOWA R'Y
_RS THE—
INTERMEDIATE CONNECTION
In the Great Through Lit.e between the
Wortla. and South.,
Fam'ii rly Known as the
"0TT01WA ROUTE!"
The Traveling Public concede this to be
TZZI3 ROUTE
BETWEEN
ST. PAUL OR MINNEAPOLIS
AND
St. Louis, Kansas City,
AND Al.L TT rfl ~1
Points e)U 1 Xl.
IT IS ALSO
THE CRE^T ROUTE
For Distribu 10a of Travel
East ancl
is It cros-ves llm Thrr© Trnnh Lines of
Ivwn, antl niitbrs close csnnrc
tlons nt at I Jnnctton
Stat'ous.
2 TRAINS EACH VWDAILY.
7.
Pullman Sleepers Daily
BETWEEN
ST. PAUL & ST. LOUIS!
THROUGH TICKETS
To All Important Points!
ASK FOR IICKET8 VIA
THE CESTRAL IOWA RAILWAY.
D. N. PICKERING, 0. A. JEWETT,
Supt. & Treas. G. P. & T. Ag't.
TAKE THE
THE GREAT BURLINGTON ROUTE
VIA
Ottumwa or Burlington.
f^Thra? Through Pissenser Trains Daily for
Council Bluffs, Omaha, Lincoln, St. Joseph, Atchi­
son, Top ka and Kiiisis City. Direc' connections
for a'.l points in Kansv*. Nebraska. Colorado, Wyo
raing, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona,
Idaho, Oregon and Californn.
THE FAVORITE ROUTE FOR
I A O
Wlie Direct Coniecfions are made with
Through Sleeping Car Lines
—10-
'ew York, Boston, PIiIlatloipliia, Balti­
more, Washington,
AND AIL EASTERN CITIES,
THE SHORT LINE
via PEORIA for
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville,
And all points in the
S
OUTIIB AST.
The Best Lino to
Where direet connections are made for all points
sotjt:
The unequaled inducements offered by this Line
to 1 ravelera and Tourists, areas follows: The celt
brated Pullman (lfi-whee!) Palace Sleeping Oars,
run on yon this Jine, C., B. Q. Palace Drawing
Koom Cars, with Horton's Be lining hairs. No
extra charge for seats in reclining chairs. The fa
moui C., B. & Q. Palace Dining Cars. Go geoui
Smoking Cars fitted with tlegatil high-bacted Bat
tan Revolving Chairs fvr tho exclusive use of first
class passengers.
Steel track and superior equipment, combined
with their great through car arrangement, makes
this, above all others, the favorite, route to the
East, fouth, Southwest and the far West.
Tiy it, and you will find traveling a luxury in­
stead of a diicoznfort.
hrough tickets via. this celebrated line for tale
at all offices in tbe Uaiied S'ates and Canada.
All idformation about rates of fare, sleeping car
socommoda'ions, timetable*, etc., wi 1 be cheerful­
ly given by a p'ying to JA8. R. WOOD,
OF
Genera] Passenger Agt Chicago.
T. 3. POTTER, General Mtnag :r, Chicago.
THE SILENT No. 8.
THE EASY RUNNING No. 8.
THE No. 8 for FAMILY SEWING.
all modern improvements and
inventions in Sewing Machines, the
New Wheeler & Wilson, "The Silent
Number 8," is the greatest success.
Wherever it has come in competition
before competent judges with othei
machines, it has universally come of
triumphant.
"WE declare it the best in the
world."—Judges American Institute,
N. Y.
AWARDED the only grand prize for
Sewing Machines, at the Paris Expo­
sition, 1878, over 80 competitors.
ACENTS WANTED.
Address
WHEELER & WILSON HF'G CO.,
155 Stato Street, CHICAGO
W. I. BROWN, Agent, Austin, Minn.
VARIOUS TOPICS.
THAT immense bodies of fresh water under­
lie a large portion of Texas is well known.
Occasionally some portions of it find vent in
rivers—like the San Marcos, San Antonia, and
others—which bnrst forth in full volume, and
unlike most rivers, are larger at their heads
than their months."
AT a meeting of naval architects in London,
recently, it was stated that there was invented
in the shipping interest of England £1,000,000,
000, and there were employed 200,000 men and
and boys, who earned £10,000,000 or wages an­
nually. Besides this, there were 100,000 em­
ployed in ship-building factories and marine en­
gineers' works, earning £7,000,000.
WHILE New Orleans is highly pleased with
the development of the Mississippi grain trade,
it is also a little fearful that a rival city may
grow at Eadsport, to be built on piles at the
jetties, liumors are afloat that grain elevators
are to be put up at the jetties, so that the trans­
fers from the river barges to the ships can be
made at that point instead of in the port of New
Orleans.
A SOOTH CAKOLINA plantation is to receive
Chinese laborers from San Francisco by way of
experiment. They aro to be sent there under
the watchful supervision of an overseer, who is
to see that none of them take advantage of hav­
ing their expenses paid to the Atlantic states to
slip away and settle down among their country­
men in one of the larger citics. If they prove
desirable laborers others will probably follow.
IT is reported that the Brooklyn jeweler whose
shop was robbed while the patrolmen slept has
recovered the stolen articles by the offer of a
liberal reward and no questions asked." Be­
side an addition to the familiar examples of
condonation of felony tho proceeding furnishes
further proof of tbe general belief that a police
force which is not wide enough awake to pre­
vent crimes is not alert enough to detect crimi­
nals.
THE introduction of steam into the English
navy has to a great extent diminished that
prestige which the superiority of her seamen
gained for her at a time when navies consisted
exclusively of sailing vessels. The introduc­
tion of ironclads has diminished the numbers
of ships of war, and produced a distinction be­
tween men-of-war and merchant vessels, which
was undreampt of at the beginning of this
century.
ANOTHER effort to attract German emigration
is being made by some Mexicans, who offer land
in the vicinity of Acapulco at forty cents an
acre, with ten years time to pay for it. This is
one of the attempts to draw desirable European
settlers to the Spanish-American countries.
Although it is reported that a small colony of
German families have started from San Fran­
cisco, to the place designated, it is not probable
that it will succeed much better than most of
the others.
THE African colonial possessions of Great
Britain seem to be in a more secure position
than the American. They comprise Gambia,
Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos, Cape
Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Ascension Island, St.
Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Mauritius and its
dependencies, St. Paul and New Amsterdam.
These colonies seem in a safer position, because
in those parts of tho Dark Continent in which
England has a firm foothold she has at the mo­
ment no European rival to fear.
A PROMINENT Russian engineer, who has made
the subject of petroleum a special study, and
who is now on a visit to tliis country, expresses
surprise that we are not using this substance as
a fuel for locomotives, steamers, etc. He states
that for the past twelve years petroleum, as a
fuel, has been ueed exclusively in the distant
east countries aud he advises American engi­
neers to utilize the already existing appliances
for burning petroleum which have been found
to answer tbe purpose elsewhere, instead of
spending time aud money in the endeavor to de­
vise something of their own.
THE prospects of moor and forest in Scotland
are, on the whole, very favorable. Notwith­
standing the extremely severo winter—un­
equaled in entensity for many years—grouse
and other kinds of game are quite plentiful.
Deer have required considerable attention. For
some time past large quantities of hay, turnips
and beans have been regularly placed in many
of the forests by the gamekeepers, and this
system of feeding will have to be maintained
until there is a fair crop of grass, which, this
spring., will be very late. Notwithstanding the
attention thus bestowed upon them, the loss
among the deer during the winter has been con­
siderable, being heaviest among the young
stock, last season's calves.
A BEBLIN engineer ha« constructed an appar­
atus for train conductors, which, hung around
the neck, completely manufactures passenger
tickets. They are made before the eyes of the
wondering public, and though the apparatus is
said to be of a somewhat complicated construc­
tion, its manipulation is as simple and easy as
its working is correct, for, should the operator
not proceed in the way required by the mechan­
ism, it will not print all the figures and words
wanted, but tho word falsh (wrong) in the
place where the fault was committed. At the
same time this portable printer checks the num­
ber of tickets issued, to enable the controlling
officer at any given moment to compare tbe
money in the hanJs of the guide with the value
of the tickets printed and taken.
RESPECTABLE rogues find no quarter in Cuba.
A batch of eighteen of them who had been
condemned on the charge of having defrauded
the naval department of the island have been
sentenced to penal servitude, which very just
proceeding caused a great sensation at Havana
but public sentiment approved of what was
done. A much larger batch was ordered for
trial, last week. It is the intention of the gov­
ernment to show no mercy. The higher the
criminals the severer will be the punishment in­
flicted. Law now means something solid under
Spanish rule, though onco under that rule the
saying held good, Show me the man and I
will show you the law." Bitter complaints of
the law and its delays, its favoritism and its in­
justice, fill no small place in the literature of
Old Spain.
THE Massachusetts bureau of statistics of
labor made a careful examination of the influ­
ence of liquor on crime in Boston during the
year 1880. The points examined were as fol­
lows: 1. Whether the criminal was under the
influence of liquor at the time the crime was
committed 2. Whether the criminal was in
liquor at the time he formed the intention to
commit the crime 3. Whether the intemperate
habits of the criminal were such as to lead to a
condition which induced the crime 4. Whether
the intemperate habits of others led the crimi­
nal to a condition which induccd tho crime.
5. What were the drinking habits of thecriminal,
whether total abstainer, moderate drinker, or
excessive drinker. In each criminal court of
Boston an agent was stationed to gather infor­
mation on these points. The result is thus
summarized: The total number of eentences
for the year was 16,897. Of these 12,221 were
sentences for the various grades of drunken­
ness and sixty-eight for keeping or selling
liquor without a license. Of the remaining
4,608 offences, 2,097, or forty-five per cent.,
were committed by men under the influence of
liqnor, and 1,918 by men who were in liquor at
the time of the formation of thecriminal intent.
In t,304 cases the intemperate habits of the
offenders were such as to induce a moral con­
dition favorable to crime, and 821 were led to
commit crime by the example of intemperate
men. Of the 4,608 convictions, tlie total ab­
stainers numbered 1,158, the moderate drink­
ers 1,918. and the exceeeiye drinkers 1,317.
MOWER COUNTY1 TRANSCRIPT.
AUSTIN, MOWER COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 4,1881.
JFTRR^A
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Evacuated.
The retirement of British troops from southern
Afghanistan was completed on the 28th inst.
Welcome
Contracts have been made to carry 60,000
emigrants from Norway aud Sweden to Am­
erica.
A Holy War.
A report from Tunis that the principal Arab
theological institute had resolved to unfurl the
standard of the prophet and proclaim a holy
war against infidels is confirmed.]
Pillaged.
Elizabethgrad, Russia, was the scene of riot
and carnage recently, when one hundred Jewish
habitations were pillaged and destroyed, the
walls and roofs only being left standing. A
number of Jews were killed.
Self mutilation.
A Boston barber named Thomas Harragan,
who was sentenced to state 'prison for twenty
years for outraging a woman, deliberately cut
off his right hand with a circular saw to escape
labor.
CTnveilcd.
A statue of Admiral Farragut, the naval hero,
wad unveiled with imposing ceremonies at
Washington, D. C., on the 25th inst., President
Garfield accepting the monument in behalf of
tho government in a brief speech.
A Royal Convict.
It having been proven clearly that the Russian
Grand Duke Nicholas was connected with the
Nihilists in their successive murderous designs
on the late czar, he has been sentenced by a
decree of the emperor to imprisonmont for life.
Stage Coach Robbed.
The east and west bound stages were robbed
on the night of the 30th ult., near Sabinal,
Texas. Mail bags were ripped open and the
registered letters extracted'therefrom. Major
Fell, the only passenger, lost 89, being success­
ful in concealing §18,000.
Mysterious.
A young man named Stephen Smith, under
sentence in the Indiana penitentiary, died re­
cently, and a post mortem examination made at
the instance of his father developed the fact
that the deceased's neck had been broken.
The matter will be investigated.
A Defaulter.
It has transpired that C. E. Tockhart, exe­
cutor of the estate of G. I. Ray, St. John's,
N. B., is a defaulter to the amount of $30,000
to the Methodist conference of New Bruns­
wick and Prince Edwards island, to which body
$60,000 was left by the estate.
The Murderer's Doom.
At Charleston, S. C., on tho 29th ult., Mar­
shall Baxter was hung for the murder of Bob
Hennegin in January last.
John Gothard, a murderer was executed at
Baltimore, Ma., on the 29th ult. His wife wit­
nessed tho proceedings from a window in the
jail.
Royal S. Carr, convicted of murdering W. W.
Wurcommuck. in December last, was hanged
at Windsor, Vt., on the 29th.
Tbe French Tunisian War.
On the 25th inst. the French iron-clad Sur
vcillante bombarded and destroyed the Tunis­
ian forts on the islanl of Tabarca. Gen. Lo
geiol's column has invested city of Keff.
In order to repress any attempt by Algerian
Arabs to take advantage of the Tunisian diffi­
culty and revolt, France has decided to send
considerable reinforcements there. It ia stated
that 50,000 troops will be dispatched.
Rusiness Failures.
The firm of Lee, McBride & Co., cotton brok­
ers of Galveston, Texas, has failed, with liabili­
ties of ©50,000.
The- £?ncy dry groods houso of Joseph and
Isaac Bloom, New York city, has failed. Lia­
bilities 8100,000. Tho junior member of the
firm was found dead in the hotel on the night of
the failure.
A Fishing Party Lost.
George H. Snook, Dr. W. Decker, Morris
Axtell and Charles Wood, prominent citizens of
Mt. Clemens, Mich., started out on lake St.
Clair, on a fishing excursion on tbe 29th ult.,
since which time nothing has been heard from
them. The boat was last seen late in the after­
noon from one of the islands, just previous to a
severe squall. After the storm cleared up the
boat had disappeared, and two tugs sent out in
search of it returned without tidings.
Forcibly Vaccinated*
The physicians at the New fork quarantine
had an exciting and novel experience on the
25th inst.j when the steamship Victoria, of the
Anchor line, arrived with small pox on board.
While the ship was being fumigated medical
officers proceeded with the duties of vaccinating
the passengers, mainly Poles and Russians, to
the number of one thousand. Vigorous objec­
tion was made and some of tho most furious
were conveyed to Dix's island and held in dur­
ance until they submitted to the precautionary
operation.
The Irish Troubles.
The city of Dublin has been proclaimed un­
der the arms act.
A youth named Farrel gave information which
led to the discovery of arms in a house where he
was employed, at Dublin, for which act he was
shot and dangerously wounded by unknown
persons supposed to DO Fenians.
A bailiff named King was roasted over afire
by a gang of disguised men at Galway on the
29th until he promised'to resign his office. His
condition is thought to be hopeless.
Lightning's Work.
During a heavy rain storm at Louisville, Ky.,
on the 28th, lightning killed four boys named
Leo Fleck, Jos. Schultig, Will Falhalser »nd
Henry Soety, who were playing ball in afield on
the west eido of the city. The bodies were
scorched and disfigured badly, the clothes hav­
ing been ilterally Tburned from young Soety's
body. The spot where the deadly fluid entered
the earth, could be covered by a bushel measure
the central point resembling a hole mado by
the point of a crowbar.
Fatal Flood.
The feats at Kansas city, Mo., were flooded
by the sudden breaking of a dyke on the 28th,
water covering the district to the depth of from
four to ten feet, A number of the stores on
Union avenue have seven feet of water over
the floors, and water covers tho street for sev­
eral squares. In the neighborhood of avenue
Dale, across the Kaw river, a number of col­
ored families were surprised by the flood, the
water washing over the houses so rapidly that
the inhabitants could only flee for their lives,
without being able to remove their household
effects. Five persons were drowned.
Suicidal.
John W. Minturn, of the old house of Grin
nell, Minturn & Co., New York, committed sui­
cide pn the 30th. He was in the 43d year of his
age, and was suffering from over-work and
prostration.
Selina II. Ditzell, a 14-year-old servant girl,
committed suicide at Chicago on the 29th ult.,
because Bhe was accused of stealing a small
sum of money.
Wm. Kidwell, of Clarkesville, Tenn., suicided
on the 28th by shooting himself through the
throat.
Job E. Owens, a prominent citizen of Ham­
ilton, O., committed suicide on tho 27th inst.,
by shooting himself in the head with a revol­
ver. Cause, business troubles. Air. Owens
wns 63 yeai-8 old, and leaves a wife and five
children. His estate is valued at $50,000.
Gilbert Pereton, a sawdust peddler, took a
fatal dose of poison at Detroit, Mich., on the
24th inst., while laboring under a fit of de­
spondency.
Nominations and Appointments.
President Garfield has appointed tho follow­
ing government directors of the Union Pacific
railroad company, for tho ensuing year: S. T.
Everett, Cleveland, O. R. II. Baker, Racine
Wis. Charles B. Peck, Port Huron, Mich. Geo.
W. Frist, Omaha, aud A. Kountze, New York.
Roswell G. Wheeler has been nominated agent
for the Pima and Maricopia Indians by the
president.
Wm. McMichael, of Philadelphia, and John
K. Boies, of Hudson, Mich., have been appoint­
ed members of the board of Indian commis­
sioners.
John L. French, chief clerk in the contract
office of the postoffice department, Washington,
has been removed and Henry D. Lyman, of
Ohio, appointed in his place.
Col. 8. D. Sturges and Lieut. Col.
J. S. Mason
havo been detailed respectively governor and
lieutenant governor ot soldiers' homes.
Bnrned to Death.
The little daughter of Simon Devour, of Ar­
eola, IlL, fell into a bonfire and was burned to
death.
In Stone county, Ky., on the 25th inst., the
family of Isaac Dement, who were camping
out for recreation, were overtaken by a forest
fire. Mr. Dement and his sons were fishing
some distance away from the camp when they
discovered the dangerous situation. Directing
his two sons to flee down the mountain for suc­
cor, Mr. M. hastened to the rescue of tne bal­
ance of his family, but arrived too late. His
wife and two small children were burned to
death and all his household effects destroyed.
The bereaved man was badly burned in bis
frantic attempts to rescue his loved ones.
Official Business Clogged.
The dead-lock now existing between the op­
posing parties in the United States senate, has
caused quite an accumulation of executive
business in the shape of nominations made by
the president, which require action in executive
session. The total number is 217, and include
97 postmasters, 20 army and navy officers, 17
collectors of customs, 3 surveyors of customs,
11 consuls, 4 judicial, 6 diplomatic, 8 collectors
of internal revenue, 7 United States marshals,
6 United States district attorneys, 15 receivers
of land officers, 5 registers of land officers, 4
Indian agents, 1 governor of territory, 2 as­
sistant appraisers, 1 associate treasurer of the
United States, 1 naval officer of customs, 2 sur­
veyors general, 7 miscellaneous. These nom­
inations include Wm. W. Phelps, as minister to
Austria, William H. Robertson, collector of cus­
toms at New York, Mr. Elmer as second assis­
tant postmaster-general, W. A. M. Green as
third assistant postmaster-general, Mr. Hill as
secretary of state, and Mr. Price as commis­
sioner of Indian affairs.
A Terrible Calamity.
A frightful calamity occurred at Elgin, 111.,
on the 27th, by the swamping of a ferry boat
used in crossing the river at Chicago street,
from which point the bridge was carried away
recently. The boat was crossing tho river from
the west side, and when nearly two-thirds over
began to fill with water, whereupon tie affright­
ed passengers at once flocked tp the dry
part of the boat, clinging to the railing which,
giving way, precipitated them into] the river.
As tho water poured in the boat sank below the
surface, leaving thirty touman souls battling for
life in the angry waters. The river at this
point is full fifteen feet deep, and the current at
least six miles per hour. A number of small
boats immediately put to the rescue and suc­
ceeded in saving twelve of the unfortunates.
A multitude, powerless to aid, were compelled to
watch the victims drown before their eyes. Tlio
lost are mostly school children, who were on
their way to the west side school.
Shipwreck.
The British steamer Tarawa was wrecked on
the reefs off Otago, New Zealand, recently, and
eighty persons drowned.
The schooner Palladium, sunk off Point
Judith, on the night of the 30th ult. Fred. W.
Chase, Jr.. the captaiu's son, and Samuel Walk­
er, the mate, were lost.
The bark Mary A. Nelson, picked up a boat
containing the master and steward of the
schooner L. B. Wing, of Mobile, which vessel
was bound from Matanzas for New York, but
became waterlogged and rolled over on her
beam ends during a gale. The balance of the
crew of the wrecked vessel were lost, The sur­
vivors had tossed about for 108 hours before
being picked up.
The steamship Chesapeake, is ashore on
Fisher island, off New London, Conn., and like­
ly to go to pieces. No lives were lost. Slio is
the vessel which did such good service during
the rebellion, and was captured and taken to
the provinces, where a part of her cargo was
confiscated.
The steamer City of Austin, loaded with su­
gar, cotton, sponges aud fruit, ran on Pelican
shoals, a mile inside of Fernandinabar, Florida,
on the 26th, owing to a mistake of the pilot. No
lives were lost, but the steamer is breaking up.
Her cargo is insured for $75,000.
Obituary.
Capt. Louis Brant of the steamship Herder,
died of heart disease, at Jersey City on the 1st
inst., aged 59.
Julius von Barries, a Louisville, Ky., banker,
died on tlie 1st inst.
Thomas J. Abbott, of the old-established
carpet house of Abbott & Ketcham, Detroit,
Mich dropped dead on tbe 29th ult., as he was
leaving his home for his place of Lupine?.-.
James Badger, a venerable citizen of New
Albany, Ind., died at the age of 83.
EmileDe Girardin, the eminent French writer,
is dead.
Gen. Louis von Benedeck died at Gratz, on
tbe 27th.
John G. Palfrey, at one tune editor of the
North American Iievieie, died at Boston, Mass.,
on the 25th.
Hon. A. Brower Brown, one of the best known
criminal lawyers in central Illinois, died at De
catur on the 25tb.
Pierre Alfred Ravel, the actor, died in Paris
on the 26th.
The German general Baron Yon Der Tann, is
dead.
The Earl of Fingal, whose estates lie in county
Meath, Ireland, died in London. His heir is
Lord Killeen, 22 years of age.
Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, the foster-mother of
Edgar Allan Poe, died in Richmond, at the age
of 83. She was a cousin of General Winfield
Scott.
The death iB announced of Congressman
O'Connor, of Charleston, S. C.
James T. Fields, the well-known writer and
publisher, died suddenly of heirt diseased at
Boston, Mass., on the 25th. He was sitting at
home reading when be was attacked,and expired
instantly. Sir. F. was in his 64th year.
General McAuliffo, of Washington, died sud­
denly at Newark, Ohio.
Work of Flames.
M. Frost & Co.'s woodenware works, with a
largo amount of lumber and material, and
Croule Bros.1 tannery were consumed by fire at
Detroit, Mich., on the night of the 30th. Loss
about $75,000.
The greater part of Krasnoriarsk, the second
important town in Siberia, was destroyed by fire
recently.
Property to the amount of $40,000 was con­
sumed by fire at Prescott, Ont., on the 29th.
Insured for $27,000.
The town of Mount Morris, Mich., was almost
wiped out by fire on the 29th inst.
The Girard Point elevator, at Philadelphia,
Pa., burned on the 28th with $70,000 bushels
of grain. The loss on the grain amounts to
$97,000, and on tho buildings $600,000. The
insurance on buildings foots up $387,000. The
elevator had twelve elevating machines and a
total capacity of 650,000.
The steam tannery of Gunn & Co., at Kings­
ton, Ont., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss
of $50,000.
Eddy's match factory at Hull, Ont., the larg­
est in Canada, was damaged $50,000 by fire on
the 25th.
An incendiary fire caused the destruction of
the sutler's store at Fort Lyon, Col., as also the
Smith's box factory, New York city, burned
on the 26th inst. The employes became panic
stricken and a number were injured in the
stampede from the burning structure. During
the progress of the fire a sawdust warehouse ex­
ploded, throwing the walls over the crowd of
spectators. George Bloomfield, aged 23, was
caught beneath the mass and burned to death,
a number of others received burns, some fatal.
The Trondo mill and lumber yard, Fife Lake,
Mich., burned on the 24th inst. Loss $70,000.
No insurance.
Decatur, Mo., suffered a loss by the burning
of Duncombe & Co.'s large flouring mill. Loss
$25,000.
The town of Buenaventura, Isthmus of
Panama, was swept away by fire on the 12th.
Three persons were burned to death, and
fifteen hundred rendered homeless. The
pecuniary loss amounts to $1,000,000 or over.
A steamer which called on the 14th inst., left
all the provisions they could spare.
An incipient blaze in the Oriental mill, Provi­
dence, R. L, on the 25th inst., caused $75,000
worth of damage.
At Buffalo, N. Y., on the 25th inst., ten cars of
coal, four box cars and two tank cars with oil,
burned.
Tragical.
Geo. Maronia was fatally shot by Antonio
Mucisto at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 1st inst. It
is alleged that the man Maronia insulted Mucis
to's wife.
At Galveston, Texas, on the 30th ult., Sam
Brown cut his wife's throat and then his own.
A little nine-year-old child attempted to take
the razor and waa badly cut. Brown was in­
sane.
A few days since three white men and one
Chinese were murdered while asleep in their
cabin near Sitting Springs, Inyo county, Cal.
The murderers are supposed to be Chinese or
Indians.
Wm. Mcintosh shot his sister, Airs. Lousia
Hardy, at New York, on the 29th ult., because
she refused to give him money. Mcintosh, who
formerly ran a liquor store, says his siBter owes
him over $11,000.
William Stewart, a farmer living near Dun­
dee, IlL, was murdered and his body thrown in­
to the Fox river, on the 29th ult. Robbery was
the motive.
The body of F. Y. Folsom, a wealthy livery
btablo keeper of Baltimore, was picked up in
the river on the 29th ult, with feet tied and
hands badly bruised. It is thought he was
robbed and then thrown into the river.
Amob entered the jafl at Paris, Ky., on the
38th and attempted to secure a murderer named
'.J'jl: ..3Kiuuii
&
Winn in order to lynch him, Winn, when or­
dered from his -?11, refused to obey and made
preparations for defense, whereupon several
shots were fired at him, with fatal effect.
A fight ensued at Covington, Ga., on tho
night of the 27th, between Dick Allen, Henry
Hunton and three men named Allen, Young and
Campbell. It seems that Hunton acted on the
defensive, the others having attacked him.
Allen and Young were badly cut in the back and
Campbell's throat was cut from oar to ear.
Hunton surrendered, but was released after a
preliminary trial.
D. McCartney, Jr., a druggist was fatally
stabbed in front of hia store at Pittsburg. Pa.,
on the night of tho 27th, by Charles Dalgleish.
The murderer was one of a party of loungers,
whom McCartney had ordered away from his
place.
T. M. Pearce, a tinner, got into a difficulty at
Midway, Ky., ou the 2Gth inst., and was shot
dead by Jacob Williams, a farm hand. Pearce
leaves a wifo and four children.
J. W. Robb, prosecuting attorney at Astoria,
Oregon, was shot dead by G. Robson, a former
client.
The sheriff of Trinity county, Cal., killed a
stage robber on the 27th.
Three robbers went into the house of John
Baker, near Mannington, West Va., on the
night of the 26th, and after failing to shoot him
through a wiudow, entered and assaulted the
old man with an axe. He was felled like an ox,
whereupod the villiams secured $300 and mado
their escape. Mr. Baker's son-in-law was uo
stan-s at the time, but was too cowardly to go
down.
A well-known character in Cincinnati, named
George W. Stevens, stabbed his father-in-law,
Harvey Newell, four times, inflicting fatal
wounds.
Bridgeton, Mo., a point twenty miles from
St. Louis, was the scene of a fearful affray on
tho 25th. A fight ensued inifront of a saloon
between Valentine Walker and James Williams,
when Walker, who is a half breed, beat Wil­
liams' brains out with a stone. A farmer named
Michael Revoir attempted to stay the terrible
proceedings, when the enraged Walker felled
him with a fence rail, inflicting probably fatal
injuries.
A farmer named Legden, who was worldng a
farm near Clifden, Ireland, from which tenants
had been evicted, was shot dead by nine men
who surrounded his his house on the night of
the 24th. His son was severely wounded.
Two darkies at Culterville, 111., quarreled
about a woman while returning from church on
the 24th inst., one of them was stabbed and
killed.
A bootblack named Jesse Terrell was fatally
shot in a billiard hall in Paris, III., by William
Bowen.
Minor Casualties.
The widely known Chicago real estate man,
James II. Bowen, who before the great fire was
worth over a million dollars, was killed by being
thrown from his buggy, which was struck by a
locomotive as it was crossing the railroad tracks
in South Chicago, on the 1st •ntt.
At Pottsville, Pa., on the 30th ult., two min­
ers were fatally injured by an explosion of sul­
phur.
A fractious horse in Geo. Lyons stable at
Brooklyn, N. on the 30th ult., kicked Mary
Scott, an infant, fatally. Mr. Lyons while pick­
ing up the child's body, was kicked in the leg,
fracturing that member. Henry Argne, hearing
the commotion, ran to assist, and had his thigh
broken by a kick from the vicious horse.
A fall of rock occurred in the tunnel of the
Susquehanna coal company, at Nanticoke, Pa.,
on the 29th, killing Andrew Parteck, Adam
Uriceo and John Martin.
A premature explosion occurred in a sub­
marine gallery at the IJell Gate improvement,
East river, New York, on the 29th, killing Josiall
Whitney and injuring Patrick Dougherty aud
Patrick Sullivan.
Wm. Ontv, a sailor, climbed out of an upper
story window at Cleveland, O., on tho 29th,
while laboring under a fit of nightmare and
sustained fatal injuries.
James Pearson's house near Charlotte, Mich.,
burned on the 28th ult. Mrs. Pearson and a
child were burned so that it is thought they will
not recover.
A loss of S10,000 occurred at Hannibal, Mo.,
by the giving way of the walls of Worrell's ice­
house.
Some 500,000 feet of lumber wero carried into
the lake and abridge destroyed by the bursting
of a dam at Alpena, Mich., on the 29th ult.
Ed. Droyer, of Harrod county, Conn., was
instantly killed at Bird's Point, Ind., on the
28th, by a tree falling on him during a terrific
hail storm. He was yard master of the Iron
Mountain road.
George H. Boyd, ex-sheriff of Hamber county,
Tennessee, was only twelve hours in the em­
ployment of the Nashville & Chattanooga road
when he was killed while coupling cars.
Wm. Little and Nathan Lynn, employes of
the reaper works at Youngstown, O., were
pushing a car, loaded with lumber, along aside
track on the 26tb, when a switch engine backed
into their car and crowded it back upon and
over the two unfortunate men. Both were
crushed to death.
A middle aged man was run over and killed
while walking on the railroad track in Columbus,
O., on the 26th. A telegram was found in his
pocket addressed to M. D. McCoy," and signed
R. N. Mueller, Pittsburg."
The chimney of the glucose factory at Rock
ford, 111., which was one hundred and thirteen
feet in height, toppled over on the 25th, causing
a loss of $4,000 but nobody was injured.
A workman named John Kirchen was caught
in the machinery of Kern's flour mill at Mitwau
kee, Wis., on tho 26th inst., and crushed to
death.
Hiram Wightman, station agent at Inkster,
Mich., twenty miles west of Detroit, was in­
stantly killed by the car? on the 25th. He was
83 years old and very deaf. His aged wife sur­
vives him.
LATEST MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK.
FLOUR—Common Extras $ 4 45 4 60
WHEAT—No. 2 Spring 1 21
COKN—No. 2 (a 58
OATS—No. 2 (A 45
BABLEY—No. 2 1 08
RXE—State 1 17
PORK—Mess @18 00
LARD @11 82j£
CHICAGO.
Fmhjb—Good to Choice Spring $ 5 00 5 25
Common 3 50 3 75
WHEAT—No. 2, Cash 1 00%
TERMS: Two Dollars Per Annum, in Advance.
No. 2, Seller Juno 1 02%
COBN—No. 2 42
OATS—No. 2 35J£
BARLEY—No. 2 1 05
BYE », 1 14
PORK—Mess, June @17 40
LABD—Seller June @11 37£
MILWAUKEE.
FLOUR—Good to Choice Spring 4 75 5 25
Milwaukee Standard 4 15 4 35
WHEAT—Spring, No. 2, Hard 1 08
Spring, No. 2. Regular 1 00
Spring, No. 3, 92
Spring, No. 4, 83
Spring No. 2, Seller June 1 02)£
Spring, No. 2, Seller July 1 02?^
CORN—No. 2 42
OATS—No. 2 35#
BARLEY—No. 2 94
KYE—No. 1 1 10
PORK—Mess @17 30
LARD @11 40
HOGS—Good to Choice 5 70 6 10
ST. LOUIS.
WHEAT—No. 2 Red 1 07}$
CORN—No. 2 42%
OATS—No. 2 36^
RYE—No. 1 1 20
POBK—Mess @17 40
TOLEDO.
WHEAT—No. 1, White Wabash 1 11 hi
COBN—Mixed 47
OATS 35
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Extra Session.—Senate.
TUESDAY, April 26.—Edmunds asked leave for the
committee on judiciary to sit during the recess of the
senate to pursue some Investigations upon the sub­
ject of bankruptcy. Granted without objection....
The balance of the day was spent in the usual
dilatory actions incident to a dead-lock.
WEDNESDAY, April 27.—Morgan asked leave to of­
fer a concurrent resolution declaring that the people
of the United States of America and the welfare and
security of the government are so involved in the
subject of the construction of ship canals or other
ways for the transportation of sea-going vessels
across the isthmus connecting North and South
America, that the government of the United States,
with a frankness which is due all other people and
governments, hereby asserts that it will ir6ist that
its consent is a necessary condition precedent to the
execution of such project, and also as to rules and
regulations under which other nations shall partici­
pate in the use of such canals or other ways, either
in peace or in war. Dawes objected to the senti­
ments contained in it, as on account of the fact that
it needed the concurrence of the house of repre­
sentatives. After debate Morgan modified his reso­
lution so as to make it a senate resolution. It was
referred to the committee on foreign relations....
The vice president then laid before the senate unfin­
ished business, the resolution for the election of offi­
cers of the senate. After two or three ineffectual
calls, Harris moved tho senate go into executive ses­
sion, stating that there were 300 nominations on the
table awaiting action. Lost—23 to 23. Several dila­
tory motions were voted down and the senate ad­
journed.
THURSDAY, April 28.—The time was consumed by
Butler, who answered Burnside and Frye's charges
of corruption and villainy against southern Demo­
crats. Burnside and Hale answered Butler, the
former reasserting that all charges against the Re­
publican side of senate were false.... Adjourned
till Monday,
iiMin'ij
'mmm
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
A FARMERS' insurance company has
been formed at Harmony.
GLANDERS in horses is increasing in
the vicinity of Little Falls.
CHARLES ESSLING of Bemadotte was
gored to death by a bull the other day.
HASTINGS is to have a new $6,000
brewery.
ANDREW LINDSTROM, of Cannon Falls,
had a leg broken tho other day by the
upsetting of a loaded wagon.
FISHER & WELLINGTON, of Sauk Bap
ids, have 300,000 ties cut above Atkin,
which will be floated down to Sauk Bap
ids.
CLAREMONT proposes to grant but one
license, and has put that up at auction,
the highest bidder to give bonds to keep
an orderly house.
SEVENTEEN head of cattle belonging
to A. Gooler, of Lamberton, have died.
Mr. Gooler thinks feeding them oats in
the sheef is what killed them.
A SON of Mr. Sauer, of St. Cloud, was
accidentally shot while hunting. He
pulled his gun towards him by the muz­
zle, but will recover with the loss of an
arm.
A CONTRACTOR has built forty houses
in Murray for expected colonists, and
has twenty more to erect. The sixty
families to occupy the houses are from
Ireland.
THE house of Samuel Hawkins, in
Cannon City, was burned last Sunday
morning, the owner losing his life while
attempting to save some valuables in the
second story.
COMMODORE KITSON, of St. Paul, has
purchased the trotting stallion Yon Ar
nim, record 2:22, for $10,000. Yon Ar
nim is by Sentinel, and is 6 years old.
Kitson purchased him from Dr. L. Herr,
of Lexington, Ky.
MR. LUTTMAN, of Biceford, recently
found the destroyer of his daughter's
happiness at Fort Atkinson, Ia., and
made him come back as far as Hesper and
marry her, but since that event he has
refused to marry her.
O. L. SMITH, of Waseca, lost twenty
five hives of bees out of forty which he
attempted to carry through the winter.
He attributes his loss to the attempt to
keep the hives out of doors in the long,
severely cold winter.
MANTORVILLE, Claremont and Owa
tonna are all talking about having the
Bed Wing and Iowa railroad cross the
Winona and St. Peter at these points,
and the newspapers of the respective
places are urging the citizens to raise
means to help construct the road if it
will only come to those points.
CAPT. C. E. SENCERBOX, well known
upon the Mississippi for the past quar­
ter of a century, has been engaged to run
the Helen Balch upon Big Stone lake
duriug the present summer, and the
Manitoba road is to put in a spur track,
one and a half miles in length, at Brown's
valley, connecting it with Bayview,
which is the head of navigation.
A SUIT has been commenced by Messrs.
Brown & Chew, the attorneys of Mr. H.
D. Wheeler, of Morris, against the St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba rail­
road company for $5,000 damages. It
will be remembered that a young son of
Mr. Wheeler was killed last fall in an ac­
cident on the Moorhead and Brown's
valley branch, caused by the engine and
several cars leaving the track.
A SON and daughter of John C. Smith,
of the town of Parker, killed a bear last
Thursday. Tbe bear was in a hole, and
the boy shot the animal, but the shot
did not kill it. Miss Smith then armed
herself with an ax and kept the bear in
the hole by chopping its nose whenever
it started to come out, until her brother
had time to reload his gun and fire a
shot that proved fatal.—Little Falls
Daily Transcript.
ON Wednesday evening, about 8:30
o'clock, Belle Evanson, a girl of. 14t
years, who has lived for a year or two
past in the family of Mr. P. Prinzi, of
this city, went to the river for a pail of
water in company with Emma Bhine
hart, a neighboring girl. The two girls
went out on the footbridge of Wright's
dam, and as Belle was in the act of dip­
ping her pail into the fearful current
pouring over the dam, the pail-handle
either broke or was drawn from her
hand, and in the effort to recover tho
pail she was drawn into the terrible vor­
tex. Miss Bhinehart tried to catch her,
but saw the unfortunate girl swiftly
taken underneath the bridge and down
the apron to an instant death.—Fergus
Falls Journal, April 22.
The Flea.
[From the Boston Transcript.]
This insect belongs to the genus Pelex.
When he gets on your arm, you Pulex
citedly at your sleeve. You are anxious
also for tho insect's leave. The flea has
a strong love for man, but he manages
to get over his attachment. He is a
leper. In olden times they used to
drive the leper out of the synagogue.
When the flea gets on you, he sets sin
agog in your heart. The flea is a para­
site. You have not to cross the ocean,
therefore, to see a Paris sight. Fleas
are very plentiftil. You remember that
Mary had a little lamb whose fleas were
while as snow. In ancient times, how­
ever, the golden fleas were very scarce,
and consequently much sought after.
There can be no doubt about the habit
of this social' insect, for dses not the
Bible speak of it as the flea, from the
wrath to come And again is it refer­
red to as the wicked flea" which "no
man pursueth." But we prefer not to
dwell on this subject. Neither do we
wish to have this subject dwell on us.
We might, ere long, have a flea in our
ear should we not stop.
Hunting for a Place.
A good many people spend all their
life hunting for the place in this world
which they were intended to fill. They
never settle down to anything with any
sort of restful or contented feeling.
What they are doing now is not by any
means the work that is suited to their
abilities. They have a sunny ideal of
a very noble life which they would like
to reach, in which their powers would
find frep scope, and where they could
make a very bright record. But in
their present" position they cannot do
much of anything and there is little
use to try, their life is a humdrum and
prosy routine, and they can accomplish
nothing really worthy and beautiful.
So they go on, discontented with their
own lot an sighing for another and
while they sigh the years glide away,
and soon they will come to the end, to
find they have missed every opportun­
ity of doing anything worthy of an im­
mortal being in the passage to eternity.
The truth is, one's vocation is never
some far off possibility. It is always
a simple round of duties that the pass-,
ing hour brings. No day is common­
place if we only had eyes to see its
splendor. There is no duty that comes
to our hand but brings to to the possi­
bility of kingly service.
A WOMAN of 50 at Spotswood, N. J.,
has married a boy of 15, and the village
is in "a state of mind" about it,