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1 I Hem Ito gSkuie.w JAS BOBELETETER, Proprietor. 1SEWULM MINNESOTA CUKRJSNT TOPICS. The influence of a tender, jadicious, intelligent mother, seldom, if ever, de part* from her well trained child, either in youth, manhood or old age. The hab its judiciously formed in childhood by her fostering1 care, go down to the ut most verge ot human life, however pro longed. It tbeie is no law for then protection is it not time for the tanners to take the law into iheir own hands, and for their own protection admintster such effec tual punishment to ti amps who are burn ing their barns and stacks, and poisoning their cattle, that when once chastised they wen't do so any more. I Mosby, the ex-guerilla, is described as a quiet-looking, medium-sized man ot pleasing manners, with clean shaven fea tures, good-sized nose, blue eyes, a reso lute mouth and short gray hair. He is very reserved in speaking of his own ex ploits, but smiles grimly when reminded ot some of his surprise captures of Yan kee officeis. In this season of camp-meetings, thou sands thionged to the religious convoca tions. Recently, at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 10,000 people crowded the relig ious exercises, and when tne great con gregation joined in singing "Rock of Ages," it was as the voice of many waters jresounditg through the great open-air auditorium. The Rutland, Vt., Herald says: "An eminent legal luminary, wuo is also an intermittent preacher, spoke recently in his argument of the time when 'Noah end his ark rested on Mount Siani,' a speech that indicated how a man may be an earnest and able theologian without knowing much about the chronology of the Scriptures or the geography of Pales tine. Grant's fnena Guilds, ot the Paila delphia Ledger, says that the General has given him to understand that he does not desire to be President again, because he is tired of public life and desires to settle down again into the-seclusion of private citizenship, and Childs thinks that if the politicians tr7 to nominate him he will give them notice that they must seek somebody else. The celebrated and eccentric John Randolph, of Roauoak*\ said, in his ma nure years, but for the remembrance of the fact, when he was a child, that his mothei clasped his little hands in hers, and taught him to repeat* "Our Father ho art in Heaven, etc," he should have been a French infidel. Thus the influence of a mothei often goes down through the years of manhood, to beautify and adorn manlv Ci-aracter. Tbe Smith sisters of Glastonberry, Con necticut, will be remembeied by newspa per readers. They weie lonely old maids, one aged eighty-two, and the other eighty-six. They have always refused to pay taxes without they were granted the right of sufferage, and each year, foi many years, have litigated with their native State, but without success. Some friend would invariably step in and pay their taxes for them, and save their property. O the 24th ult, Abigail, the youngest ^sister, died Monteller Utz, at oi.e time, perhaps as wealthy a man as lived in Page county, Va., was, on last Tuesday, taken to the county poorhouse as a pauper. was taken thither by Edward Stroll, of Shen andoah Iron Works district, who bought for him at a store in town a suit of clothes .on his way there, as those he was wear Ting were insufficient to hide his naked mess. Before the war he owned 1,500 acres ot land and forty three slaves, be sides much other valuaole property. His ^property was lost through mismanage iment. He has in this country no rela itives that we knew of. 1 I spite of Gladstone's querulous anm mosity, Lord Beaconsfield is the hero of the hour, the central figure of British statemansbip. He retires from his success- ful peace negotiations like a conquering liero. The people throng to meet him 33is path is strewn with roses, and the highest civil honors are bestowed upon bu,an his gracious Sovereign, not to be outdon by her grateful, applauding sub jects, gracefully constitutes him Knight of the Garter, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Peer of the realm. the midst of all this, the envious ex- tFrenvier, Gladstone, vexes the air with his vindictive diatribes against the dis memberaaen of Turkey, and the hard date of,poor little Greece. His criticisms .are drowned by the popular adjulation. "The viper gnaws a file, to his own mani fest jseraonal harm. THE WORLD'S UUlNtiS. CBIME8 ANlt CRIMINALS. The Greeks are persecuting American missionaries, A dishonest Bank President has been arrested in San Francisco Jbhn Christopher shot his wife, and then hiinsflf in 'New York Aug. 3d. At tbe election in Mempnis Aug. 1, in a quarrel, a white voter shot and killed a colored A oter A $2 quarrel sit Fortress' Monroe, Va, between two brothers, resulted in one of them stabbing the other to the heart. A negro burglar was fatally shot at Memphis, Ten Tuesday night, August 6th. by officer Rodgers. Served him right. B. B. Conaut, cashier of the Elliott Na tional Bank, Boston is discovered to be a de faulter to a large amount, some $70,000. In Bloomington, 111., Aug 1st, the private bank of L. Holmes, was robbed of $46,000 in bonds. No clue to the robbers. The president of the New York Teu tonic savings bank, is under arrest for false swearing in regard to the affairs of the bank A fellow in St. Louis, the other day, blew the top of his head off with an old horse pistol, loaded with water, instead of a bullet. In a quarrel in Cincinnati, August, 6 James McDonald, a variety theatre actor stabbed John Shav, manager of Hencks opeia house, probably fatally. An insane daughter of Thaddeus Frost of Boston aged 29 years, poured kerosene over her head and clothes, and set fire to it, and was burned to death. A prisoner in the jail at St. Louis, the other day, jumped from theupper balcony, a distance of over 20 feet to the pavement, and received fatal injuries. Early in tbe morning of Aug. 3d, at West Randolph, Vermont, Michael Winn probablv fatally shot his wife and babe, and later shot himself to avoid an est, A. M. Tullis, a wealthy faimer of Grand Island, Saciamento county, Gal, was murdered parties unknown, Aug. 2d while at ork in his orchard. About three miles in the woods, out ot Alion, 111., a cblored woman and her child were found in a cabin, murdered. A white man and a negro are under arrest. Harry Smith, a policeman of Jersey City, was murdered in his bed Aug. 1. His wife was lying by his side, but professed she knew nothing of the murder. His skull was crushed. An application has been presented to the board of pardon, of Pensylvania, for a commutation of the death sentenee of Blosius Pistorious, ex-Catholic priest, to imprison ment for life. Custom house frauds have been discov ered in New York, and custom house inspect ors have been placed in ge of a store charged with making fraudulent under val uation of invoices. E. Stone, in New York on the 3d inst, while returning to Hall's piano factory fiom the bank with $2,950 to pay the workmen was gai roted in West Street and robbed of his monej by two men who escaped in a butf her cart. Five of the Georgia "chivalry" from Augusta met on the Carolina side of the ri\er the other day, and exchanged shots according to "the code." Unfortunately no bodj was hurt Honor was satisfied an 1 hand shaking ensued. A Boise City dispatch reports the murdei by Indians, of George Miller, a heavy stock raiser, Joseph Miller, wife, daughter and son, Robert M. Muiray and one othei man. The moutains are said to be full of Indians. A Rawlins, Wyoming Territory, the trial of the tiain rob'bers resulted in their conviction and the sentence of three of them to the penitentiary, for periods of nine, seven, and five years Gibson, who turned States evidence, was fined. R. Conant the defaulting Boston bank cashier has been lodged in jail, but re leased on $20,000 bail. It turns out that he lavished money on a pretty actress. The "Hub" it may well be feared is getting to be demoralized. A San Francisco telegram says, Tullis, a rancher on Grand island, murdered on the 1st inst, is believed to have been killed by members of some labor organization. Tullis had received threats by letters that if he did not discharge his Chinamen, whom he em ployed in large numbers, he would be killed. Gen. Clarke of Springfield, Otsego county, N. Y., is a large landholder and has numerous tenents. Barns and property to the amount of $46,000 were destroyed by fire, by his tenents, the gang being led by one of them, Charles Montague. He had a disagree ment with his tenents on account of rents. Montague the chief of the gang is in jail Over thirty United States prisoners from Fort Smith, Arkansas, arrived at St. Louis, Aug. 5th, and left for Indiana and Michigan penitentiaries. They consist of half-breed Indians, negroes, and eight white men, all from the Indian Territory, convicted .of horsestealing, violating tbe revenue laws, and a few o! them being accessory to mur ders. A Burlington, Iowa special says, Thursday forenoon two tramps stoppod at a farmer's house near Trenton, Henry county, Jowa, on the 1st inst., and after getting a good dinner from the farmer's wife and learning that her husband would not be at home till evening, suddenly seized her, outraged her person and left her insensible. They had stopped the cries of the farmer's little daugh ter by rolling her up tightly in a blanket. When unwound the child was nearly suffo. cared, and ed in an hour. The neighbors are scouring last accounts the country for the fiends, but at had not found them, OttfP CASUALTIES. Central Illinois suffered great loss from Tornado,. Aug 2d. A $30,000 nre accured at Parkerstmrg, West Virginia, Aug. 2d. ^^W^f^ 1 Three men were sun struck at Cairo, HL,Aug. 1st One is dead. ^^sf^w The miniier town of Alia, in 'Utah, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Aug. 1st. A steamboat exp oded her boiler at New Orleans Aug., 1st. No persons injured. I Choton village, N Y. lately, Payne's paper mill was destroyed by fire. Loss $60*. 000. At Hews, 111., Ang. 1st, an elevator was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. At Davenport, la., Aug. 1st, a plaining mill was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. There was a severe and destructive storm at Fox Lake Junction, Wis., on the evening of Aug. 5th. James Jones and Edward Burns, boat men, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Hudson river near New York, Aug. 5. A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch of Aug. 2d, speaks of a heavy wind and ram storm in that section of country which did great damage to the crops. A young man in Fredricksburc, O blew into the muzzle of a gun see if it was loaded. The'gun went off and carried away the top his head. An incendiary fire at Boston, Monday night, Aug. 5th, destroyed the car shed of the Eastern railroad company, with six passenger and two Pullman cars. Loss $55,000. At Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1st, Warren Cooper was killed by lightning while stacking hay. Mr. Hildebrand was severely stuned, a span of horses killed and the stack burnt. Aug 3d, the tow boat Bri'liant ex loded her boiler when opposite Gallipohs, on the Ohio river, instantly sunk a total wreck. The crew of 18 men were either killed or wounded, some of the latter mortally. A Havana telegram of Aug., 1st says: Nine vessels are reported lost and six ashore in the storm on the south-western coast on the night of July 30. The steamer City of New York, from New York, has arrivied. The cause of the fire in the town of Alta, on the Little Cottonwood, Utah Territo ry, was a cigar of Judge Van, who was lying on a lounge in the Swan house. The flames spread with great rapidity consuming 200 wooden buildings. Loss estimated at $100,. 000. i A Hagerstown, Md Aug. 1st, at a pigeon shooting match, Samuel Donohue, aged 50, was shot dead accidently by Wm. Cokenon At Lanaloring, Maryland, Richard, aged 19, was killed, Robert Dick, aged 20, probably fatally injured, and Abraham Lynch severely bruised by tbe breaking of a swing. A serious railroad collision* occurred Tuesday ni*ht July 30th, about 15 miles south of Madison, Wis., on the Chicago and North Western railway. The two colliding passerger trains were going at the rate of 25 miles an hour. The shock and wreck were fearful and terrific. Both engines were smashed up, cars broken to pieces, and a number of persons seriously injured, al though nonp were killed outright. A Philadelphia telegram ot August, 1st, says, two heavy rain storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, swept over the city that evening, doing considerable damage to the exibition buildings and goods therein. A portion of the roof of Wannemachei's establishment fell under the weight of water, but only one salesman was slightly injured Cellers were flooded level with the street in many places, doing immense damage to goods stored. Culverts were choaked, trees blown down, and roofs demolishe'd. PERSONAL AND PUMJITICAL. Mrs. President Haves is at JNewpoit, R.I. The Sultan of Turkey has sanctioned the treaty of Berlin. Walter H. Shupe, editor of the New Advocate, has gone into bankruptcy. Hon. Charles Poster has declined a nomination in the Seventh Ohio district. Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, it is reported will go to Asia Miaor as British Comtnissoner. Jonn P. Pennington, ex-Governor of Dakota has been appointed collector of Inter nal Revenue for that territory. It is announced aad believed that Prince Bismarck and the Vatican have come to an understanding and b*en reconciled. Queen Christiana, widow of Ferdinand VIL and grandmother of Alfonso XIL the present King of Spain, is dangerously ill. Whiting Sweet, deceased, of Northap ton, Mass., who was worth half a million dol lars, leaves $125,000 for charitable objects. Lord Beaconsfield has been sustained in his Berlin treaty, in the British parliament notwithstanding the opposition of Gladstone, by a yote of 335 to 195. The Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, being the husband of the Princess Louise, it is said is to be Governor General of Canada, in place of Lord Dnfferin. Michael Reese, the San F*ancisco millionaire, just deceased, left the bulk of bis estate, estimated at several millions of dollars, to his five surviv ng sisters and thoir children residing in Chicago. Representatives of different sections of the labor greenback party convened in Wash, ington Aug 3. with the object of systematizing their operations and to establish at Washing ton a national committee. A Memphis telegram says, in the county election on Aueust 1st, the National Greenback party elected their entire ticket of thirteen candidates, by majorities ranging from 4,000 to 6,000, poling about 16,000 votes. DewittC Wheeler of New York has been adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. Li abilities $150,000. Assets nominally much larger. Nearly all his liabilities are on en dorsements for others. Direct liabilities less than $5,000. Mrs. Ida Pierce, confiined in jail at La Crosse since last spring for contempt of court for refusing to deliver to her divorced husband "her child, has been released by or der of the 8npreme Court, on the ground that she was improperly imprisoned. MISCELLANEOUS. Indications in New York and Philadel phia point to another coal strike and war. The Mustin bank of Kansas Ci*y has suspended. Its suspension is believed to be only temporary. iwANew Orleans telegram of Au g. 2, says of the yellow fever the past 24 hours: cases 38, deaths 7, total cases to Aug. 2, 238, total-deaths 60. 'if The rumored change in the cabinet oi President Hayes is entirely without founda tion Topeka, Ks., National bank closed its jdpors on Monday Aug. 5. Deposits $130,000. It is believed all its depositors will be paid in full. A Denver. Cai., telegram says that Pi of. Watson f*els sure, that duiing the late eclipse he discovered the planet Valcon south-west of the sun about two degrees distant Gen. Howard with his ctaff and the main body of troops te between Silver City and Jordan Valley. It is reported that 35 of White Bird'b Nez Perces have surrendered. A letter just received by Gen Sherman from Gen. Ord, states that Gen. MacKenzie has not crossed into Mexico as has been re ported. The river is so high neither party can cross. Everything quiet on the border. A San Antonio special of July 25th says Lieut. Kelley, with a detachment of United States, cavalry crossed the Rio Grande near the mouth of San Felipe Creek, in pur suit of cattle thehes and to recover stolen stock. A dispatch from Fort Lapwai says, the Indians, supposed to be White Bird's band, Droved to be Ouly a small fpai ty of th'n teea men and tight women. White Bird and most of his band are still with Sitting Bull. Geo. W. Maddox, who appea ed the other day before the Congressional labor committee in New York wanted the govern ment issue fourteen thousand million dol lars or so to build docks, and so forth, and comparatively similar sums to othei cities to be expended in public works. A Chicago telegram of July 31st says, at a meetiig of geneial managers and freight agents of the trunk lines, at which the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads were represented, and sixteen other road parcipitated, a resolution was adopted ad vancing the rates from Chicago to New York to 25 cents per hundred pounds for grain and flour, to 30 cents onfouith class freight and other classes in the same proportion. The new rates will take effect August 5th. Other points in the West and Southwest will establish a proportional advance. An agreement was made to hold a meeting of trunks lines at Long Branch, August 7th, to arrange south western rates. The meeting did consider able business of minor importance. Milwaukee Produce Market. GBAINWheat opened unsettled and %o lower, and closed firm No. 1 hard $1.13 No. 1,1.11 No i, 1.08 August 1.0278: September 9S%c October93%c No. 3, 86@91c. Corn declined He No. 2, 38%c. Oate declined %c No. 2 old 23?Sc new 23^o Bye quiet and steady No. 1, 60c. Barley unsettled and weak No. 2 cash nonuualat 1.12@1.12/ old Sep tember 1 14 new 1.20. PEOVISIONS-Firmer but quiet mess pork $10.25 cash and seller August. Lard, prime steam. 7.S2i/2. Chicago Produce Market. GRAINWheat Irregular active cash 94*c Sep tember No. 2 old $1.07 new 95Wc cash 95c August Bales at 944@95%C August 89@89%c September 88Ms@88%c October others nominal. Cornm fair demand 38?4,@39Hc cash} 38*c August 3R?sc September higher mixed 39i4c refected 37*4@ 3712c. Oats in good demand 23^ cash 22 3.c Au gust 22?8c September Rye steady, 49{4@50c Barley in light demand holders a shade lower late, 900 cash: $118 September. PROVISIONSPork fair demand $10.25 caBh and August 10.25@10.27 September 10.374@10.40 October. Lard fairly active $7.o0@7 65 cash and August 7.674 September. Bulk meats strong $5 12&@6.25@6.374. New York Produce Market. GRAINWheat quiet and steady receipts 372,000 bushels sales 442,000 bushels No. 2 Milwaukee $1.10 ungraded red winter 97c@1.08 No. 3 do 1.02@1.03 No. 2 do 1.06@1.074 ungraded white 1 00@,1.20 extra white 125. Rye firm and nominal. Corn active receipts 471,000 bushels sales 88,000 bushels ungraded 43@49c No. 3, 46@4b4c steamer 46'4474c No. 2, 48J4c Oats dull re ceipts 76.000 bushels sales 67,000 bushels No. 2 33c white 33%@34c No. 1, 34c do white 37c, mixed western 32@34^c white 33@37c mixed state 32ya@34'/2c. PROVISIONSBeef quiet. Cut meats, western long clear $6 50@6 65 city do 6.75. Lard film. ONE OF RUSSIA'S SCHEMES. How She Proposes to Gain an Advantage at the Mouth of the Danube. Hobart Pasha writes to the London Times: ''I remark that Russia always insists that, however much she may curtail her demands territorially speaking, her new territory must include the Eilia mouth of the Danube. Of course it mustthat is, if she is to have any thing of great value commercially and strategically, for the following reasons: At the Kiha, or northermost outlet, or, as it is called branch, of the Danube, the sand-banks are growing so fast to seaward that already a harbor fairly protected from all winds has been formed between the point of sand at the entrance of the branch and the main land, a distance of about two miles in fact, during the late war I was anchored there with several ships in perfect safety. In a few years a capital harbor will be formed. Admiral Sprett, R. N., who has surveyed that coast, can corroborate what I state. In ad dition to this, there is another point of still greater importance connected with the Kilia branch of the Danube which would be gener ally known. It is thisthat whoever com mands the Eilia branch of the Danube com mands all trade in that river 'at all events, so far as the entrance and some ten miles up ward is concerned: because by deepening the channel in that branch he would invite fit must be remembered that the Eilia branch is the first outlet the water in the great river finds in its downward course) the great rush of water into its channels. This rush would of course lessen the depth of water in the two other or lower branches, and this little game might be carried on so as to render Sulina and St. George's mouths mere mud pools. It may be all very well to talk of retribution for the manes of the Emperor Nicholas, but I strongly suspect that the great champions of the cause of humanity and religion think more of possessing a snug little port in the Black sea, with the power of any day stop ping the commerce of the Danube, or at all events commanding it, than of the dear de parted. If Russia is to have the Eilie branch of the Danube, the waters, works, etc., mus be in the hands of the European commis sion of the Danube, or else we shall live to regret it. Yes, and to the very mouth of the branch, and no means must be at hand which would admit of her suddenly taking possession. She is very fond of sudden ac tion explanations, afterwards." A Birthday Present, HOWA HUSBAND DUTIFULLY TOOK HISWIFB'S ADVICE UPON ITS MERITS. "Hither, my pwnest," the hi,, Unto his wife did say4 "Thou knowest to morrow is thy Dear Consin Flo's birthday, Te twain have e'en as sisters been, And 'twere both just and pleasant. That we on her should now-confer A handsome birthd&j present. 'Twas at her house I first met thee, And when thy hand I sought She lent such aid as usually Girls in her place do not So forth to the store of Tiffany, From counter or from shelf ~"ZZZ A fitting uresent to select, Jewel, or bronze or delf And let it be such gift as thou t. Would'st choose for thine own self On such occasion one should not Be covetous of pelf. Forth fared the husband* and the wife To the store of Tiffany When bhe had heard her husband's word An angry wife was she! "He hath thought eno\" 6he said of Flo, But never thought of me. He knoweth, or ho ought to know. If he knoweth anything, That the dress I wear was worn thread baie When 1 had it turned this spring. When at the Easter-tide the tbeme Of hats I dared to broaeh, He sai i, 'You may,' but in a way Of innnite repioach, My raferences to expenditure Of dollarse'en ot dimes Are met with gloomy lectures on The hardnesb of the times. And yet, in spite of his complaints, When it is Cousin Flo, To whom a birthday gift he'd give He can find ca&h eno HI. "He should ha\e known," the wife wen* on, With a sardonic grin, "Not only I Flo's cousin am But a sense her twin. Her birth and mineaie on one leaf Of the family Bible writ My birthdav'b on the same day as lit rs, But he does not think of it, Satsuma are. or bronzes fair Or dead gold jewelry Tohis Flos lie fling, but inything Is good cnongh lor me'" In such ungentle mood she came Te the store of Tiffany. IV. "We gro&ais mortals cannot judge 'Tween diamonds and 'tween paste," The husband said unto his wife "And hence on woman's taste Implicit reliance in such things As these must aye be placed. Sit down my dear, selection make As if 'twere for yourself Of any pretty aiticlc In show case oi on shelf, I care not what the price maybe Or what the article An it please ttiine eve, have it put by And I will foot the bill." A fiendish thought was in fchat wife's heart, And she smiled as if in glee, As they bi ought her there all that was fair In the stole of Tiffany. "These diamond eai rings," said her lord. Seem nandsonie unto me." "Diamonds," said she, "aie worn no more In the best society "Fair is this stung of Onent pearls," 4 Tis prett), without doubt, But I read in the last Sunday Wot Id That pearls were goiug out" "Goodl} to see these opals be." 'John, opals do not wash And they only wear coral jewelry In the wilds of far O&hko&h, No woman that respects herself Wear& costlj lewels now, She leaves their use to the parvenuea And the Boweiy maids, I trow. An I had my choice of all the store For my own self, i. wis No article it wul more Suit with my taste than this." "What,J" said the lord, reluctantly, "Perchance you're satisfied, But as a gift would not this look, In the poet's language, snide9" She heat the pavement of the store With an impatient toe, "What's good euouj?h for me," she said, Isn't good enough foi Flo'" Her husband marked an angry flush On her round cheek come and go "I did not mean that, Louisia, dear You bhould not answer so Ho, salesman! in a package do Me up this article Send it to day to this address." The salesman said, UI will," And the hubband he got back some change Out of a five dollar bill. 1 VI I. The wife had hardly reached her house When at the door she sees A agon, the superscription Whereof is Tiffany's. Waey give to her a parcel sma Sue tears the paper away, Withih's a card, "To my dear wife, On her twenty third birthday." She opens the casket with trembling hand, And it to her eyes doth show, The twopenny halfpenny article She had picked out for Flo r v,/ Which she had sworn beyond return ~.r In the monde was all the go! "Her dark eyes filled with tears, for breath i i i- rs*iei*i A moment did she catch, Tfm ^f And gazing on her husband's gift. She softly said,"The wrrrrrrrrrretch 1" The Maine Farmer says: "One of our ubstantial subscribersjn a recent convers ation, gave his experience in treating nefct stock affected with the habit of eat ing wood, chewing bones, etc. His cat tie were one spring affected in this way they became thin in flesh, refused to eat bay, and presented a sickly appearance. He put about lour bushels of leached ashes in his barnyard, and threw out to them about a shovelful each day. They all ate it with evident relish. After turn ing them out to pasture he' put one peck ofdryainegper week on the ground in the pasture. They ate itall up and gnawed off the grass where it had bem 4yu:. The cattle began to. iinpro/e, gaining flesh and looking better tb*r they had for several years. now give one quart of ashes, mixed in the same quantity of salt, to twelve head of cattle about once a week, and finds it to agree with them wonderfully." i Jk*i-Al~