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THE TRIBUNE.
lamed Every Thursday at
Morris, Stevens Co., Minnesota.
W.J. MUNRO,
«DrrOK AND gUFil.iaTTUVR.
Official Paper of Village ml Coanty.
Terms: 82.00 per Year In Advance.
CURRENT TOPICS.
Gov. CHARLES FOSTEK, of Ohio, at the
suggestion of political friends, has with
drawn his name from the senatorial canvas,
thus leaving au apparently clear field for
Secretary Sherman.
HON. ALEXANDER RAMSEY of Minne
sota, is now secretary ad interim of the
war ami navy ilopart ments of the govern
ment, owing to the resignation of Secretary
Thompson. This is piling the honors on
the old governor, and on the North Star
State, which takes just pride in the ad
vancement of her distinguished citizens.
THE dreaded trichina} caused by eating
smoked ham and imperfectly cooked pork,
has made its appearance in Chicago, with
fatal results. Iu one case, the trichina?, or
little worms, numbered 15,000 in an ounce
of pork. The symptoms of the disease were
generally the same—severe pains in the
stomach, through the muscles and the
abdomen, followed by extreme thirst, loss
of sleep, loss of appetite and flesh, and
finally dwindling to a skeleton, unless death
supervenes.
DB. I. W. HAND of St. Paul, who attend
ed the late meeting of the American health
association at New Orleans reports that
diphtheria was discussed, and that the con
clusion was arrived at that the disease is
an infection which requires the same sani
tary regulations for its isolation as small
pox or cholera. It is understood that very
little difference of opinion upon this point
exists among physiens who have had the
largest experience with the disease, but the
difficulty of impressing the fact upon the
minds of the people has caused unneces
sarv mortalitv iu manv families.
GEN. GRANT, iu a reception speech at
Washington, made a good point against a
common form of American snobbery, as il
lustrated by some of his countrymen whom
he met abroad. To his sorrow he was com
pelled to say that he met Americans who
magnified the virtues of foreign countries
in which they were, and belittled their own
homes and institutions, but he found they
were people who knew but very little of any
country, and who, if they were compelled
to earn the money they were traveling upon
and spending with such free hands, would
have been glad to come back here to earn
grand jurv in Olmsted countv, Minnesota,
called attention to the startling increase
within two years, of crimes against life and
person, and urged as a preventive an effi
cient, energetic execution of the laws on the
part of courts and juries. He mentions the
fact that crimes against property have de
creased, and might have truthfully said,
that in many localities, such crimes are re
garded as more heinous and are more se
verely punished, than assaults against life
and person. There seems to be an impres
sion with many people that while property
9hould be protected by law, persons must
protect themselves—in other words, that
life is less sacred than property—which is a
misapprehension of law, to say the least.
JCDGE W. B. WOODS, appointed justice
of the United States Supreme Court, vice
Strong, resigned, was made by Gen. Grant
circnit judge for the Alabama, Georgia,
Florida and Louisiana circuit. He is a
native of Ohio and shortly before the war
was a Democratic speaker of the Ohio house
of representatives. At thebeginiug of the
war he raised a regiment, fought it through,
and settled in Alabama, where he has since
lived, or until his more recent move to At
lanta, Ga. There is some complaint that
Ohio, with Justice Woods, and Stanley
Mathews in place of Justice Swayne and
Chief Justice Waite, is getting more than
her share of seats on the supreme bench,
and that injustice is done to other sections
of the country and to eminent jurists who,
unfortunately for themselves, do not hail
from that state.
THE full text of the report of Mr. A.
Hutchins of Morris, concerning the destitu
tion and suffering of the Conemara colo
nists, shows that he actually visited twenty
six families, and the evidences of the reali
ty and severity of their suffering were pre
sented in the palpable form of one hundred
and thirty odd children barefoot and nearly
naked, shivering in these shanties which, at
the time of the visit, were almost destitute
of fuel, while some- of them had been
wholly destitute during the fiercest severity
of the receent extremely cold weather, and
that general destitution of food, fuel, cloth
ing and bedding prevailed throughout the
settlement, with many cases of severe suffer
ing. Many of the colonists are helpless and
shiftless, and seem to rely upon outside aid,
rather than upon their own exertions, for
subsistence.
THE magnificent opportunity of improv
ing the weather bureau, is commended to
Gen. Hazen, the new chief, by the New
York Herald, a paper that has made a spec
ialty of its own successful weather predic
tions but that paper shows that to extend
the period of prediction, as well as to in
sure correct prevision of the tracks which
American cyclones and anti-cylones will
take, it is indispensable to extend the net
work of weather reports far beyond our
own territorial limits that we cannot hope
to secure the ends for which weather re
search was inaugurated in the country, ex
cept as we recognize the unity of the at
mospheric ocean and push forward our
observational work into the remote regions
of the extreme Northwest, Honolulu, Yoka
hama, Mexico, South America and the
West Indies—and that when this is done,
accurate predictions may be made a week
in advance.
Commentary Upon the "Lost Cttiite".
From the New Orleans Picayune.
The name of Jubal Farly recalls the prist
ine days of the Southern Confederacy. The
old hero passed down St. Charles street yes
terday, and at the corner of Common saw a
maimed man, claiming to be a veteran of
the Confederate service, asking alms. The
heart of the soldier was touched. He stop
ped and examined the credentials of the
mendicant. A tear came into his eye and
the rattle of coin was heard—not the small
sonnd of the nickle. The little assemblage
responded. Col. Dan. Wilson came up
with a large silver piece. Mr. Tupper fol
lowed, and there was for a time a showery,
metal of heavy calibre in the plate.
What a commentary upon the "Lost Cause."
This gallant soldier, who stood by his battery
ia the Confederate service for three years,
end had both legs earned away by a solid
shot while »erving his gun, is a public men
dicant.
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Tho people of Morris have made valuable
contributions for tho roliof of the Conomara
settlers.
The Transcript estimates that 3,000 deer
havo boon killed tho vicinity of Little Falls
tho present season.
Frauds Wittc, late of Hastiugs committed
suicide at Fremont, Neb., on tho lbth inst., by
shooting himself iu the head.
A draft for $100 from tho Indiana of Groen
wood, Dak., was the tirst contribution from
abroad to Albert Lea College.
Latest Minnesota patents: H. J. Anderson,
Spring Valley, heater and voutilater James M.
and R. P. Mathews, Owatonna, pump.
C. B. Chase, photographer of Minneapolis,
who has been sick for tive weeks past at the
Holland house, at Rockford, 111., died of heart
disease.
Assistant Kngineer Vanderwarker, of the
Hastings & Dakota cut-off liaB boen missing
sixteen davs and not tho faintest traco of him
has been discovered.
Rev. W. D. Thomas, of Winona, preached
liis farewell sermon at the Presbyterian church
to a largo congregation on Sundav evening last
He leaves for LaCrosse this week.
Two brothers named Moody, just returned
from a hunting camp near Milla Lacs, have
electrified Delano people with tho report of
having slaughtered eighty deers and nine bears.
Wm. Macey. a brakeman, was horribly man
gled at Rusiiford. The cars were backing
when his foot caught in the frog and one leg
was crushed aud the other broken in two places,
causing his death.
M. T. Grattan. Esq., of Preston, general
agent of McCormick Bros., of Chicago, for
southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa, has
handed in his resignation after seventoen
years' continuous service.
The grand jury of Scott county found two
bills of indictment against Herman Baumbager,
the present county treasurer, by appointment
last spriug by the board of county commissioners,
for embezzling some $500 county funds.
Following are tho latest post-oflice changes in
Minnesota: Established—Alice, Kitsou county,
Mrs. Afines Hawley Egby, Iowa county, Lewis
H. Shelly Wykenham, Todd county, Joseph
Clarno. "Discontinued—Sharon, teSiier county.
Judge Cox has granted twenty-sis divorccs
the ureseut year, and refused eight, one of
which was carried to the supreme court, and
the decision of the district court reversed, mak
ing twenty-seveu divorces granted in the dis
trict within the year.
Rig Stone Herald: There is a movement on
foot to the northeast of this sectiou to build a
railroad through the center of Todd county,
tapping the main line of tho Northern Pacific at
Motley, making Osakis one point in its course to
the southwest.
The Marshall, Lyon County News thinks that
the two men—Pagenkops and" Weeks—who were
found dead on the claim of the tirst named man
in Lincoln county during the latter part of
April last, were poisoned by Dr. Prudden, who
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Winona on a charge of
married on the 2nd inst., to a disreputable
it and that "from his knowledge of them they whom1^^ a ft^montha I ™aot exceed 62,000 when the valuation
would have found it v^rv up-hill work to i past. does not exceed ten millions, the gieater
have secured even a bare livin" in anv of the Hon. W. W. MeNair, counsel for N". B. Har- I includes the less, hence the maximum sa
r! I wood, has arrived home from New York, and I ary could not exceed $2,000 ui counties
countries own. represents the creditors as likely to accept Har- where the valuation is between six and eight
wood's proposition if they find things about as millions of dollars. In otheu words, the
JUDGE MITCHELL, in his charge to the represented, in which case they are also willing
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resume business
William H. Pinney, of Cincinnati, who became
estranged from his father many years ago, and
didn't hear of his death until some time after
that event, and then only incidentally, through
a son-iu-law in Nebraska.
Rev. W. C. Rice, of Red Wing, has presented
to Hamline universitv a complete set of the
Methodist Quarterly fteview comprising sixty
one volumes, (1818 to 1880), and of which
there is said to be but three other complete sets
in the United States.
ner in the person of Mr. Richard Patten From
February 1, 1877, to September 1, this year,
Mr. Patten ate but one meal (dinner) per day.
Since September 1 he has eaten but one meal
in two days, or fifteen meals a month. Mr. P.
is sixty-four years old, and says that he feels
first rate on his limited diet.
In the safe of Gottleib Qluvck, a recently de
ceased brewer of Minneapolis, was found
Minnesota Patrons of Husbandry.
The eleventh annual session of the State
Grange, at Minneapolis, was well attended, but
the major portion of the proceedings have not
vet been disclosod. On Thursday an interest
ing visit was made to the State University, an
executive committee appointed, and a vote
taken to hold the next meeting at St. PauL The
new officers elect, of the State Grange, are as
follows:
Master—Thomas T. Smith, St Paul.
Overseer—J. F. Hall, Armstrong, Freeborn
county.
Lecturer—Mrs. A. M. Thyng, Austin, Mower
county.
Steward—D. R. Farnam, Rockford, Wright
county.
Assistant Steward—N. H. Post,
Chaplain—Mrs. C. 8. Scofield, Bloomington,
Hennepin county.
Treasurer—Lorenzo Hoyt, Ramsey county.
Secretary—W. H. H. Taylor, St PauL
Gate-Keeper—Joseph D. Wolf, Marine Mills,
Washington county.
Ceres—Mrs. Geraldine Hall, Armstrong,
Freeborn county.
Pomona—Mrs. Isabella L. Blaisdell, Minne
apolis.
Flora—Mrs. Augusta J. Adams, Monticello,
Wright county.
Lady Assistant Steward—Mrs. Hendrickson,
Ramsev countv.
Minnesota State University.
The forthcoming annual report of President
Folwell will renew a request repeatedly made
to the legislature for $200,000 to )o expended
within the next few years for new buildings and
accommodations for an engineering depart
ment, a gymnasium, an astronomical observa
tory, a museum and a library in addition to what
it already has. There is no place for any of
these on a suitable scale, and until they are
added, this institution will 1h in no condition to
compete with the colleges of the country. The
regents beliove that they can present this matter
in such a way that the necessity will be apparent
and speak for itself. It is said that the uni
versities of the adjoining states havo been gen
erously treated by their respective legislatures,
and the university at Madison enjoys an income
oi .f80,000 per year. Resides this it has ample
buildings and accommodations, while our own
has been compelled to get along as best it could
on a very limited sum. This year, for the lirst
time, it lias reached $50,000 but all of this is
not available, as the expense of the geological
survey, amounting to $(,500, has to bo ad
vanced from this fund. President Folwell
states that, even now, $75,000 is needed to
properly carry on the work they are doing.
Insane Asylum Investigation.
Gov. Pillsbury of Minnesota, on the recom
mendation of the attorney general, lias declined
to appoint a commission to investigate tjio ori
gin of the great calamity at St. Peter, and it
will probably be left to tho legislature to per
form the work. Tho requost to the governor
to appoint an investigating commission came
from the board of trustees of the asylum. He
doubted the propriety of acceding to the re
quatrt, and the matter was referred to the legal
Whefttou
advisor of tlio state government, Attornoy Gen
neral Start, who furnished the following opin
ion to the governor, and which was duly foiV
wavded last week to the chairman of the Tboard
of trustees at St. Peter, and which will be laid
before the board at its meeting on tho 'J2d of
December. Tho following are tho views of tho
attorney general, and they probably coincide
with tho views of tho governor: ''I have tho
honor to adviso that the application bo denied.
It is due to tho trustees aucl the state that a full,
searcliiug and impartial investigation should
be made. Such au investigation can only be
made by an officer or committee having powor
to coinpol tho attendance of witnesses and give
their ovidonco under tho sanctions of an oath.
I am satistied that a committee appointed by
you would bo extra judicial, possessing no
power to compel the attendance of witnesses or
to enforce any order made by it. Tho labors
of such a committee, however distinguished its
members might be for their ability and iutegri
tv, would fail to satisfy the people of tho atate
tiiat tho iuvestig&tiou had boen thorough and
impartial"
Horace Thompson's Property.
The report Gen. H. H. Sibley, C. II. Bigolow
and£. M. Van Duzee, apparisers of tho prop
erty left by the lato Horace Thompson, of St
Paul, has boen filed iu the probate office of
Ramsey county. It is very long and complete
iu details. The estate in Ramsey county, in
cluding real and personal property, amounts to
$l,'Jir».oy5.ri5. Besides this Mr. Thompson
hexl real estate in sixteen counties in Minne
sota, and one county in Iowa, as follows: Blue
Earth. Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Jackson,
Kaudivohi, Le Suer, Martin, Murray, Xoblea,
Otter Tail, Rice, Rock, Stearus, Watonwan,
Wilkin, and Sioux, Iowa. This is not appraised,
and, of course is not included iu the nbovo
amount. The personal property is as follows:
Bills receivable, $l-JU,808.C7 accounts,!fWU,
501.Lio: stocks, $001,489.8tt: bonds, iji 120,
103.75: life insurance, #44,727.00 miscel
laneous, $15,929.50. Total. $1,057,019.00.
Real Estate. $158,070.00. Total real and
personal, $1,215, 095.00. It is believed the
total value of tho estate will be about $2,000,
000, the largest ever probated
in Minnesota, and
all accumulated in twenty years, save about
$25,000 which he brought to the state.
Salaries of County Officers.
It having been claimed in a certain county,
with a valuation of six and less than eight mil
lions of dollars, that the law is indefinite as
regards the salary of the county treasurer,
the examiner submitted the matter to Hon.
C. M. Start. State Attorney General, who
recapitulated the laws bearing upon the sub
ject, and concludes: N o county treasurer can
receive more than 81.200 for his services in
any one year in counties where the valuation
of taxable property is less than four millions
nor more than SI, 500 where it exceeds four,
but not six millions nor more than $2,000
where such valuation exceeds eight but not
ten millions. There is no express limitation
fellow named Sylvester E. Miner, famil- where the valuation is between six and eight
iarly known as Dick Miner, is under arrest at millions, hence the supposed difficulty of
ligamy, having been
perished in the late asylum disaster at St. Peter.
tjie euse
|nit it is to be observed that it is
expressly pr.ovided that the treasurer's salary
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only effect of the omission to fix a limi-
exercise such liberality as will enable him to tation where the valuation is between six
nn( e
There is at last a claimant to the estate of §2,000 applicable to counties where the
Ovid Pinney the rich man who died at Minne-
apolis several years ago. The new claimant is
jgjit millions is to make the limitation
valuation is
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between six and ten millions."
State School For Iiubeciies.
Reports have been submitted to Gov.
Pillsbury from the directors and superin
tendent of the experimental school for im
beciles, which was established at the last
session of the legislature at Faribault in
connection with the State deaf and dumb
asylum at that place. Hon. T. B. Clem-
Rev. Mr. Rice Las spent, ent, president, reviews the events leading
much timo and money in this collection, and has to the establishment of the school, and
refused $500 for the set. I
the serv
Le Sueur has a humblo imitator of Dr. Tan- and superintendent of the Connecticut in
stitution for imbeciles, in directing prepa-
number of mouldy and musty packages which plete success of tho experiment, and asks
proved upon examination to bo greenbacks and jje legislature lo make some competent and
national bank notes amounting to tho comfort-
ices of Dr. H. Knight, the founder
rations and superintending the organiza
tion and opening of the school until his son,
Dr. Geo. H. Knight, who had been brought
up to the work, took charge, in September,
1879. Mr. Clement thinks a visit to the
school must dissipate the doubts of the
most skeptical as to the wisdom and corn-
a(
pected bv anv one, and Mr. Gluvck had care-
The Sioux City depot at St. Peters was en
tered by burglars, and four trunks taken out
to the "stock-yard near by, where they were
forced open and rilled "of their contents.
Another trunk was broken open in the depot,
gone through and left there. Of those taken
out, one belonged to a Miss Casey of New Ulm
but as the robbers had no use for female ap
parel, its contents were comparatively undis
turbed. One of the others belonged to a voung
man from New Ulm, who states that it contained
$200 in money when the thieves got it
jeqUato provision for the permanent es
tablLmeEtofthe ,h£l Uf before
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fullv concealed the fact, even from liia wife and tv-five pupils have been connected with
children. the school, that it has been prosperous and
Wiuslow Mally, who was found guilty at the successful, and that since its organization
present term of the district court, at St. Paul, there has been no severe sickness and no
for an assault with intent to rob aud kill Anton
Triseo, in the mouth of May last, was sentenced
by Judge Mckelvy to five years of hard labor
iii the penitentiary, this being the full extent of
tho law. Langdon, accomplice of Mally, who
escaped his just deserts by turnfag States' evi
dence, skipped for parts unknown as soon as al
lowed to do so by the court.
Di. Knight s leport shows that twen-
death that its advancement has been such
as too add another link to the evidence
which shows conclusively that this class of
children are all capable of some improve
ment. In all methods physical training
akes the precedence, but all have learned
valuable lessons of decency, order and
cleanliness, and some have learned writing,
reading, singing, addition, geography, danc
ing, knitting, etc.
THE RAILROADS.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul has completed
its extension into Clinton, Iowa,
The earnings of the Northern Pacific rail
road (eastern division) for the first week in
December were: 1880 (estimated) $69,600
1879. $24,073. Increase, S:i5,527.
The great debate in the Canadian Pacific
scheme in the Canadian parliament began
on Monday last. There seems to be no rea
son to doubt of its approval.
The North Wisconsin railroad now runs
to Cable, Bayfield county, two miles from
the summit of the dividing ridge, which se
parates the waters flowing to the St. Croix
and Lake Superior and fifty miles from
Bayfield.
The announcement is made of the failure
of Seidenberg & Co., manufacturers of
cigars and importers of leaf tobacco, in New
York and at Key West, Fla., They were the
largest manufacturers of cigars in the coun
try. Liabilities $150,000.
The quantity of Northern Pacific land in
Minnenesota and Dakota that can be pur
chased with the company's preferred stock,
amounted on the 30th of June last to 4.056,
128 acres. Since that date, and up to Oc
tober 31»t last, there has been sold of this
land 351,611 acres—thus leaving subject to
purchase with preferred stock at par 4,704,
217 acres.
The earnings of most of the western roads
are beginning to fall off notably. The
causes for this are two-fold. In the first
place the western roads cannot work to their
full capacity just now on account of the
freight-blockades existing on most of the
eastern lines and, in tfae second place, the
business this time last year was unusually
heavy, and consequently the earnings very
large.
The report of Government Engineer Ni
chol of the inspection of the Northern Paci
fic road, says that the Minnesota & Missouri
division is in fair shape, although at some
points it needs more careful inspection and
the adjustment of many curves. Of the
equipment of the eastern division, it is very
fair.
Representative Washburn of Mijinesota,
has in charge a bill from the committee on
public lands, authorizing the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad to extend its
line from the eastern boundary of the Ter
ritory of Dakota, starting from a point on
the Big Sioux river at or near Canton to
such point on the east bank of the Missouri
as the company may select, and also grant
ing the right of way through the public
lands to the extent of 100 feet on each side
of the central lino of the road, with land
adjacent to the right of way, not exceeding
160 acres for each ten miles of road, and
five full sections of land on the east bank
of the Missouri river.
1 Superintendent of Construction Stickney
says it is expected that the work of construc
tion on the various extensions of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba railway will
be completed by the 13st inst.
Regular trains will be put on the Morris
& Brown's Valley branch, and the extension
south from Grand Forks.
VOLUME IV. MORRIS, STEVENS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1880. NUMBER 36.
NEWS SUMMARY.
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIMES.
John Pierce of Barksville, Ky., shot and
killed his brother William in order to save
his own life.
Joseph Kline of Cincinnati, has been ar
rested on suspicion of poisoning his father
to prevent his second marriage.
F. M. Perkins, president of the Western
Farm Mortgage company of Lawrence, Kan
sas, is charged with embezzling about
$2,600.
1 The directors of the Anglo-American ca
ble decided to postpone repairing tho Brest
cable of 1869 until spring, owing to boister
ous weather.
Hiram Williams, an estimable young man
of Cincinnati, was killed for his money by
a negro named Gibson. He was found by
tho roadside with seven wounds on his head,
caused by an iron bar.
Ernest A. Thompson, clerk in the United
States revenue department at Chicago has
decamped with nearly £5,000. government
money. He was forty years of age, and
married. A reward of $500 is offered for
his capture.
A stone mason by the name of Henderson
Miller committed suicide Friday night at
Trenton, Wis., with a shot gun. The top
of his head was completely blown off. Mil
ler had been insane for some time, caused
by business troubles.
Mr. Frederick L. Almy, book-keeper lor
E. T. Smith, of Boston, Mass., has been
leading such a high life that the attention
of his employer was called to his books, an
examination of which resulted in Almy's
arrest on the charge of appropriating $5,000
of Smith's money.
Railroad Commissioner Beerstecher was
shot at San Francisco on Monday last by an
old political chum named Antoine Fisher.
Just before the shooting Fisher had been
importuning Beerstecher to obtain for him
some official position. The ball struck
Beerstecher in the left breast, but it is
hoped the wound will not be mortal.
Charles H. Reed of Chicago, ex-state at
torney, has been committed to jail for fail
ure to render accounts of the settlement of
an estate. Mr. Young says it is not for the
failure to render money, but simplv an ac
count. Judge Wallace, attorney for the
heirs says Mr. Reed is probably deficient
fromS10,000 to §15,000 in the matter.
A band of young burglars was arrested at
Chicago. The men give their names as
"Bat" Shea, John Morris, A. T. Mason,
Henry Thomson and James Manning. They
range in age from seventeen to thirty years.
Shea, apparently the leader of the gang, is
known to the police as an old-time thief.
He has been in the"profession" for over ten
years.
Delia Fisher, to whom the train robbers
who robbed a railroad train at Winthrop,
Mo., last May, divulged their plans, and
who squealed, resulting in the arrest of the
robbers, skipped out immediately on their
arrest, since when officers have been hunt
ing her throughout the West. She was
overtaken at Bedford, Taylor county, Iowa,
where she arrived a few hours in advance,
and arrested and taken to Trenton.
A girl has been arrested at Quincy, 111.
She is but seventeen years old, and this is
her second offense—not being prosecuted
for the first. Henry Missell, said to be a
member of the Lizzie Barton horse-thief
gang, has been convicted of horse-stealing,
at Clinton, Iowa. It is said that with Liz
zie Barton he has stolen no less than twelve
horses in that county, and it is alleged that
the girl arrested at Quincy is connected
with the famous gang of horse-stealers.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Gen. Howard has been appointed to suc
ceed Gen. Shcofield at West Point.
Delegate Cannon, the big gun from Utah
says that he has no fears but that he shall
be seated.
The Vice President has now received,
either by mail or messenger, the votes of all
the States except Oregon.
The designation of Ramsey to be tempor
ary secretary of the navy cannot continue
under the law for a longer period than ten
days.
A gentleman just from the vicinity of
Mentor reports Garfield in excellent health,
and less troubled with visitors than some
timo ago.
By direction of the president, Maj.-Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock is assigned to duty
according to liia brevet of major-general,
to date from December 4, 1880.
Confirmation of the Senate Wm. Toman,
Independence, Iowa JohnN. Rider, Wilton
Junction, Iowa Martin L. Torpey, Morris
Ole Selvig. Willmar Minn.
United States Treasurer Gilfillan says he
is having checks for the payment of the
January interest on United States bonds
prepared at the rate of about 7,000 per day,
and they will be ready for mailing about
the 24th inst.
The president has designated Alexander
Ramsey, secretary of war, to act as secre
tary of the navy, in place of Secretary
Thomson resigned. Mr. Ramsey will per
form tho duties of the office in addition to
those of the war department until the end
of this administration.
Secretary Sherman has the plates and
counterfeit notes secured by the capture of
the Brockway gang. One of the best engrav
ing experts in tbe country says the work is
every way equal to that produced by the
government. Smythe, who did the engrav
ing, has been a first-class engraver for forty
years.
The messengers who carried the.electoral
vote of States to Washington, have been
disappointed as to the amount of mileage
they receive. Heretofore it has been twen
ty-five cents per mile each way. In the last
appropriation the bill was changed to twen
ty-fire cents for one way only. The mes
sengers growl at this, but there is t)0 help
help for it.
The president has nominated Edgar Stan
ton of Illinois as consul general at St. Peters
burg Wolf G. Schoonbe of Ohio as consul
at Bardau and John Hall of Pennsylvania
as United States marshal of the western
district of Pennsylvania. Postmaster—D.
J. Potter, Berry, Iowa A. Beadle, Cresco,
Iowa R. McCenhan, Sigourney, Iowa W.
G. Agnew, Osceola,' Iowa D. W. Reed,
Wauko.Iowa S. D. McKahn, Menominee,
Wisconsin.
The house committee on elections has
agreed to report on three cases of contested
seats. In the matter of Bovnton vs. Loring,
Fifth Massachusetts district, the committee
will submit a report in favor of Loring,
(rep.) the sitting member. In the cases of
Wilson vs. Carpenter, Eighth district, Iowa,
and Holmes vs. Sapp, Ninth district, Iowa,
the majority report will favor the sitting
members, both republicans.
Gen. Anson McCook called on the presi
dent and represented that Miss Margaret
Worth of New York city, a daughter of
Gen. Worth, of Mexican war fame, was
living in New-York city in distressed
circumstances. "What can I do for her
said?" the president. "Any thing to af
ford her relief," was the reply. Thereupon
the president wrote au order directing her
appointment as a clerk in the census office,
and her commission was at once forwarded.
The president nominated E. B. Turner
of Texas, United States district judge of
the western district of Texas A. Hughes of
Dakota, receiver of public money- at Yank
ton, Dakota postmaster, John M. Hibbard,
Stoughton, Wis. The senate confirmed the
following nominations. John B. Neil,
governor of the Territory of Idaho Steph
en P. Twiss associate justice of supreme
court of Utah Warren Bristol, associate
justice of supreme court of New Mexico
Wm. H. Bliss, United States district attor
ney for the eastern district of Missouri
John Seygley, United States district attor
ney for the northern and southern district'
of Georgia Charles C. Waters, United States
district attorney for the eastern district of
Arkansas.
FOREIUN FLASHES.
Arrangements have been made to send
5,000 men to Ireland if necessary.
Josiah Caldwell, railroad contractor of
London, has failed. Liabilities £500,000.
Caldwell is an American
Forster has informed his colleagues that
without coercion he declines responsibility
for the government of Ireland.
Lundon is full of Irish refugees, and tho
vacant sheds of the South Kensington mu
seum have been asked for the shelter of
Irish families that were rich u few months
ago, but now in poverty.
The new Mexican cabinet is composed
as follows: Foreign affairs, S. G. Marisca
treasurer, Flanders y Cos public works,
Gen. P. Diaz justice, Ezequil Montes
war, Gen. G. Trebino interior, Carlos D.
Guiterez.
As matters concerning the State trials are
now arranged by the land league, Pamell
will not insist on attending the opening of
parliament, January 6, as lie had intended
doing, even at the risk of personal collision
with the government authorities.
A dispatch from Berlin says a meeting of
2,000 persons was held, at which resolutions
were passed in favor of the suppression of
the liberty of the Jews to return no Liberal
to parliament who will not promise to vote
for such suppression and to buy nothing
from Jewish shops or firms.
A correspondent of the Edinburg Scots
man says the dispatcliment of further troops
to Ireland has no reference to any expected
popular outbreak. The government have in
view the use of the military in those districts
where magistrates declare they can no longer
depend on the police. The same course was
adopted in 18C4.
A dispatch from Paris states that the Pan
ama bank has been founded, with a capital
of 14,000,000 francs, and a commercial Pan
ama company, for food supply, has also been
organized, with a capital of 2,000,000 francs.
The success of the enterprise is assured,
and the enormous organization of the under
aking is in full swing.
A Dublin dispatch to the Times says: "It
is hardly correct to say that anarchy pre
vails in Ireland, for there is a very distinct
and potent government, which is rapidly
superceding the imperial government and is
obtaining the ascendancy. It rules with au
iron hand and a promptitude that enforces
constant obedience. Its code is clear, its
existence resolute, its machinery complete
and its action uniform."
William Brace Jones, an Englishman and
a large land owner residing at Lisseland,
county Cork, writes to the London Times
that he has expended £25,000 on the im
provement of his property, and has hith
erto enjoyed good relations with his tenants
but because he refuses to accept Griffith's
valuation, his tenants have been deterred by
threats from paying their rents. He is threat
ened that his grave will be dug opposite his
door. His laborers are compelled to leave
him and none dare buy his produce because
when it is sent to market it is surrounded
by a howling mob.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Mayor Prince of Boston has been re-elect
ed by 900 majority.
Edward Lloyd Ford, former publisher of
the Christian Union, at New York, is dead.
Henry G. Lovering, the Workingmen's
candidate, was elected mayor of Lynn by a
plurality of 299.
About 100 citizens of Whitewater, Wis.,
petitioned congress to amend the constitu
tes to allow female suffrage.
Mile. Jeanne Bernhardt, a sister of Sarah
has arrived in New York from Paris, and
will soon appear on the stage.
Henry R. Worthington, of the most prom
inent hydraulic engineers in the country,
died in New York, Thursday last.
There is a report that Jay Gould, not con
tent with controlling railroads and tele
graphs, seeks to have the New York asso
ciated press under his thumb.
Inspector General Marcy, McClellan's
father-in-law, has been retired, to take effect
January 6. Gen. Sackett succeeds him. Sur
geon General Barnes will soon be retired.
Mrs. Snider, who recently eloped with J.
L. Card from Woodbridge, Ont., has re
turned home, stating that her paramoiy de
serted her at Chicago, taking $17,000 of her
money.
Tim C. MurpM, of Norwich, Oonn., has
been awarded a medal by the Government
"for heroism shown in saving lives," he
having rescued twelve persons from drown
ing during the past seven years.
The Republican convention of the Third
district to-day nominated Hon. Ossian Ray
to fill the vacancy in the present and in the
Forty-seventh congress, occasioned by the
death of Congressmon-electEvarts W. Fan*.
A. K. Putnam, long in the employ of the
American Express company as a messenger
on the Siou$ City road, died in St. Paul
last Saturday, of quick consumption. He
was thirty years old, and leaves a wife and
two children.
Advices from Indian Territory say that
two full-blood Indians went into the housQ
of Alias McVeigh on Tuesday, and after
accepting the hospitality of McVeigh, shot
and killed him, and chopped a hired man,
named Barrett, with an ax, inflicting mortal
wounds.
Three negroes at Liberty,JBedford county,
Va., were put on the auction block the other
day and sold for three months, under the
vagrant law. Prospective bidders went up
to the darkies, examined them critically,
thumped their chests, examined their eyes
and teeth, and criticised them generally.
Tho bill to incorporate the Nicaragua
Canal company, provides for incorporators,
of whom Gen. Grant is named first, and it
is understood that the bill is offered with
his assent, and that he is to be president
of the corporation. Among the promoters
of the Nicaragua project it is thought only
about $75,000,000 will be needed, although
the charter provides for more.
GENERAL NBWS SI'MJIARY.
Joseph Nimons, chief of the government
bureau of statistics, bewails the decadence
of our merchant marine service.
Secretary Schurz will leave Washington
early in April with his family to settle down
and make St. Louis his permanent home.
Capt. Hill of the Milwaukee Light-Horse
Cavalry company, having determined to
leave the State permenantly, bus resigned
the captaincy of that organization.
The divorce case at chicago ot' Margaret
Davis, one of the many wives of the much
married Clarence E. Davis, was heard by
Judge Barnum, who granted a decree.
The official vote for congressman in the
Fifth Texas district is as follows: Jones,
ind., 22,911 Shepherd, dem., 22,708. Han
cock's majority over Garfield in Texas is
over 85,000.
Mrs. Bergman tho runaway Philadelphia
heiress has sought refuge at police head
quarters and still refuses to go home. Her
guardian threatens coercion bod her hus
band renounces her.
Mauna Loa, the great American Volcano,
has had a remarkable outbreak. Parties
have gone to the scene of action, and those
who have returned speak of the How as aw
ful beyond descriptioQ, rolling, grinding,
and burning its terrible way with irresistable
force.
Judge Corning of New Y'ork, refused to
quash the indictments for libel against
Charles A. Byrne, Louis A. Post and J. P.
Hart, editors aud publishers of Truth, and
Kenward Philip, for writing and publishing
the editorial libeling Gen. Garfield:
Rev. J. W. Carhart of Oshkosh, Wis.,
who was dismissed by the Wisconsin con
ference and appealed his case to a judicial
conference at Rockford, 111., was found not
guilty ol the charge against him—the fleais
ion of the Wisconsin conferenoe being re
versed.
It is understood that it has been decided
that a new military division will soon be
created^ and Sghoyeld b^ awi^ned to the
command when relieved at West Point.
The new division comprises the department
of Arizona and Texas and part of the depart
ment of Missouri.
Chas. H. Reed, the prominent lawyer of
Chicago who is in contempt of tho probate
court on account of failure to file u state
ment of the affairs of the Irwin estate, of
which ho is guardian, and who was recently
released on a writ of habeas corpus, was
again remanded to custody, having still neg
lected to file hi.s report. He is said to be
sick at his residence.
The committee of creditors of the Jay
Cooke estate decided on another distribu
tion of scrip and cash, which will be soon
made. The new distribution of assets will
be forthwith ordered by the trustee, and it
is proposed to make it live perccnt.and two
per cent, in cash. The catalogue now be
ing made consists of a full list of assets of
the estate—some 1,500 items, with new
prices, according to the present value. It
will be some years before a full settlement
will be completed.
The annual session of tho legislative as
sembly of Manitoba, at Winnipeg, was
opened Thursday last, by Lieut. Gov. Cau
cnon, with the customary ceremonies. The
speech from the throne congratulates- the
province on its rapid advancement in ma
terial prosperity and promises that bills will
be introduced for the enlargement of the
boundaries of Manitoba in accordance with
concurrent legislation by the Dominion par
liament, and to make provision for repre
sentation in the assembly of the population
of the territory thus annexed. No allusion
whatever is made to the Pacific railway syn
dicate.
There has been two investigators of the
South Carolina census, and both sustain
the census of 1874. Gen. Waiker sent Col.
Butterfield, of Vermont, and five experts
some time ago to take an entirely new cen
sus in the most suspicious townships, and
see how it compared with the June census.
The first of these townships has been com
pleted, and shows the accuracy of the cen
sus in a surprising mauner. The township
is Sturgen, Chesterfield county. The cen
sus in 1870 gave it 550 population, and that
of 1880 gave it 2,080 population, a gain of
400 percent. The new count under Butter
held shows 2,070 population, coming within
ten of the June count. The census of 18
70 is found to have been loosely taken.
"Following is the text of Gladstone's let
ter in answer to that of Boycott, asking for
government assistance: Mr. Charles Boycott
—Mr. Gladstone has received your letter of
the 18th inst. He desires me to say that he
is not sure in what way he is to understand
your request for assistance from the Gov
ernment. It has been largely afforded you
in the use of the public force. Beyond
this, the duty of the government to use its
best exertions in the enforcement of the
existing law which they are endeavoring to
force through the courts, and by asking
when necessary the assistance of the legis
lature to amend or enlarge the
vlaw,
is a
matter of much importance, on which you
can, of course, only receive information
together with the public generally. Seymour,
Private Secretary."
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
A colored man at Petersburg. Va., locked
his children iu a house, which caught fire
and burned with the children.
An elderley gentleman named Kenolpand
a young man named Walter McKenny, were
accidentally killed in Milwaukee on sunday
last.
A six-story building at Cleveland, Ohio,
occuqied by the Cleveland cooperative
manufactorv companv was recentiv burned,
loss $25,000.
A fire in Oleau, N. Y\, destroyed the
Buffalo house, Exchange restaurant and
three other buildings, besides Merrill block,
occupied by several firms and six families.
The residence of Mrs. Armille Mitchell
at Newton, Iowa, and Mrs. Mitchell was
consumed in the building. The cause
is supposed to be the upsetting of a kero
sene lamp. She was eighty-three years old.
Two children of Mr. Tarney at Milwaukee,
died from trichina?. Their father died from
the same cause a few days since, and two
other members of the family are prostrated
from the same cause—eating raw ham.
A boiler in Fabel & Son's Soap and Can
dle factory at Louisville, exploded, killing
Phil. Hemp, a carpenter, fatally injuring
Conrad Spark and Lizzie Ott, and severely
injuring Peter Botenberch, fireman.
At Clinton Junction. Wis. on Tuesday
night Calvin Pratt's elevator, burned with
10,000 bushels of grain. The elevator of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway was
also burned. Total loss, $15,000 to $20,000
small insurance.
Several other cases of suffering and death
jrom trichinae are reported at Chicago.
One family suffered terrible distress, which
may end fatally, four having eaten smoked
ham yielding 15,000 trehinae to the ounce.
Another family are lying at the point of
death, the husband and father having al
ready died from the same cause.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Colonel Tom Scott is in very feeble
health.
Nearly all of the people who belonged to
Alexander H. Stephens as slaves remain on
his.plantation. His house is always full of
visitors for although he eats almost nothing
himself he likes to be known as a hospitable
bachelor. He is passionately fond of whist.
He keeps on his place an old gentleman of
ninety years, with whom he plays cards.
Mr. Stephens has an accurate memory.
The following advertisement lately ap
peared in several newspapers printed in the
province of Silesia, Germany: "My be
trothment with Miss Edith Porter,' only
daughter of the Right Honorable Sir James
Porter, of Skaneatlles, United States. I hon
or myself by hereby publishing instead of
leaking a^y special announcement, Lieg
nitz, November 1880, Carl Von Jean."
A Mrs. G. C. Long, the widow of a for
mer merchant of Baltimore, is preaching in
the streets of Baltimore. She claims to
have received a holy telegram from heaven
commanding her to preach the religion of
reason. This religion concerns even her
petticoats aud other articles of underwear,
and orders that these shall be made in a
certain manner, and that she shall get into
them in a peculiar way. She has also been
ordered to brush her teeth with perfumed
water. Her religion also teaches that there
are but two persons—the Holy Parents—
and that Christ was but a human being.
Fire and Loss of Life.
A five story building owned by Geo. W.
Tafft, on Prairie street, Buffalo and occu
pied by Birgo »fc Sons, wall-paper manu
facturers was burned. The building was
eighty feet front by.about 300 feet depth,
and 150 men and bow are employed at the
present time, the business demanding ex
tra help. The building was without fire
escapes of any kind. The terrified men
jumped from tho windows, and many, of
them escaped with broke^i bopes
bruised bodies. Those i^ the upper stories
uviablo to DBcape, appeared for a moment
at the windows, and they sank back, suffi
cated iu smoke and flames. Thomas Fields,
John Malone and Win. Berry, were fatally
injured, several others badly, and seven
missing.
The flames were next communicated to
the Union malt house adjoining. It was the
property of Geo. Tafft, which was destroyed.
The building was three stories high, sixty
feet wide and 200 feet long, containing
$25,000 worth of grain, the property of
John B. Manning. The loss can only be
estimated at present, nvid is plaoed at the
following figures: Geo. W. Tafft, on build
ing, $105,000: IHrge & Sons, machinery
and paper stock, $150,000 John B. Man
ning, grain, $25,000 city engine house,
$3,000, by falling walls. The insurance is
estimated at $180,000.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
TUESDAY, DEC. 14.
SJWATE.—Tho bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter was taken up. A substitute offered by
Mr. Dawes, that the president bo authorized ia
eighteon months to appoint Porter to the army
with the rank of colonel on the retired list, with
110
back pay, was agreed to and tho bill passed.
The amendment of Mr. Dawes is as follows:
That the president is hereby authorized within
eighteen months from the "passage of this act,
in his discretiun, by and with the consent of the
senate, tc appoint to the army John Fitz Porter,
who was diamissad by sentence of court martial,
January 19. 1803," provided, however, that
such appointment
shall give no higher rank than
colonel on the retired list provided, further,
that said Porter shall receive no pay aud com-
Eetween
cnsation or allowance for the time intervening
dismissal and appointment.
HOUSE.—Mr. Morton of Now York, introduced
a bill incorporating the Maritime Canal compa
ny of Nicaragua, naming Gen. Grant tirst in .the
list of incorporators. A. W. C. Nowlan of Vir
ginia was elected postmaster of the house. Mr.
Bicknell called the previous question on the
electoral resolution, but the Eepublicans refused
to vote, leaving tiie house without a quorum,
and Bickncii said he would not press the point
but would call up the resolution in January s
soon as there were 147 members on his (the
Democratic) side of the house. The consular
and diplomatic
(.•j,l,li»0,4.'i5}
and military acad­
emy (:p322,i:i~) appropriation bills were re
ported. By a vote of I'M to 00, the house de
cided to go into committee on W jpd s
refunding
bill, when several substitutes were offered and
speeches made.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15.
SEXATE.—Senator Hill of Colorado introduced
a bill for the retirement of small legal tender
notes. It provides that in place of legal tender
notes of denominations less than $5 which may
be held in the treasury or hereafter presented
for redemption, the secretary of the treasury
shall each month substitute "notes of the same
character but of higher denominations to the
amount, as nearly aspracticable, of the standard
silver dollars coined duiing that month, and
that no legal tender notes of lower denomina
tion than $5 shall hereafter be printed. Sen
ator Pendleton of Ohio introduced a bill pro
hibiting political assessments and contributions
which provides as penalties for its violation dis
missal from oflice or annulment of contracts
with contractors assessed by contributors. Sen
ator Pendleton's bill regulating civil service
provides for competitive examinations from
appointments, except of highest and lowest em
ployes, ^md promotion on the grounds
of meritmu seniority in service.
Senator Morrill made a long* set-speech in fa
vor of setting aside five per cent, of the proceeds
of sales of public lands for a school fund, and
he was followed on the same subject by Sena
Cockrell. A bill to pay Samuel A. Lowe some
thing less than $.",000 for services as clerk of
the territorial legislature of Kansas, in 1855,
came up and formed the basis of a somewhat
heated political debate.
HOUSE—A bill was introduced for the retire
ment of small legal tender notes, by Mr. Bed
ford. It is the same as Senator Hill's bill The
fortification appropriation bill passed, after an
amendment appropriating $500,000 for coast
defences was argued at great length aud re
jected.
THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 10.
SENATE—A bill was introduced to place Gen.
Ord on the retired list with the rank of major
general. The education bill was discussed, the
principal speech being made by Mr. Pugh, the
uew senator from Alabama.
HOUSE—A concurrent resolution to adjourn
from December 'J'2 till January 5, was adopted.
The pension appropriation bill ($50,000,000)
was passed. Mr. Martin, of West Virginia, of
fered a resolution directing the committee on
Pacific railroads to inquire iuto the alleged
mortgage and sale of unearned laud grant* by
the Northern Pacific and Atlantic & Pacific
railroad companies.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17.
SENATE—The house joint resolution to ad
journ from December 22 to January 3 was dis
agreed to—27 to :*1. A bill appropriating
$180,000 to rebuild the I'ensacola custom
house, passed. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill
establishing a uniform system of bankruptcy.
The education bill was ag'ain debated. Mr. Tel
ler's amendment, providing that for the first
ten years the proceeds of public iands and pat
ents shall be paid to the states according to
the proportion of illiteracy, was rejected. An
amendment by Mr. Morgan, authorizing the
colleges established under the act of 18ti2 to
establish industrial schools for women, was
adopted aud the bill passed—11 to 0.
HOUSE—A bill passed limiting the sessions of
Territorial legislatures to sixty days. Nearly
all the day was spent on the private calendar.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18.
SENATE :—Not in session.
HOUSE:—There was a sharp debate in which
Mr. Congor of Michigan moved to strike out the
provision allowing the secretary of war to as
sign any officer of tho annv as "professor ot law
at tho military academy. There has been, he
said, alluding to tho W'hittaker case, au exhibi
tion mado by the officer in charge of the exam
ination of tlie colored cadet at West Point, that
was unworthy of any officer in the service of the
government. The motion was finally withdrawn
and the military academy bill, appropriating
$1,190,25, was discussed, together with the
foreign commerce and carrying trade of the
country. The house adjourned ror want of a
quorum.
Secretary Schurze on Da&ota.
Secretary Schurz embodied in his annual
report the following memoranda as to the
condition of Dakota territory:
The governor reports a rapid extension of
railroads in the territory, and that prosper
ous town* are springing up upon all the
lines of travel. Tho Northern Pacific Rail
road Company has 400 miles of road in ope
ration in Dakota at present, and it is expect
ed that it will be completed to the western
line of the territory during the year.
The governor estimates the white popula
tion of the territory at the close of the fall
of the present year at 150,000.
Advancement in the developement of
the mining resources of the territory is re
ported. aud the opinion is given that the
Black Hills will yield largo quantites of
gold and silver for generations to come.
The governor alludes to the great destruc
tion of timber in the pine forests around the
Black Hills by fires started during the dry
season either by carelessness or with crim
inal intent, and recomends that measures bo
taken for the [Protection of the government
timber, and that an agent be appointed to
sell tho same for mining and building pur
poses. He suggests that a small sum ex
pended in protecting the timber will save
millions of feet annually, aud that uuless
something is done to this end mining oper
ations will soon be checked by a scarcity of
timber. He also suggests that the laws now
in force are not adequate for the protection
of the sections donated by congress for
educational purposes.
The torritoiy of Dakota having no peni
tentiary, it has been necessary to transport
its convicts to Detroit. Mich., for imprison
ment. at an expense of nearly $10 (M»oyearly
to the people of the U'rvitoVy. it is esti
mated that $40,000 \yi»l build a penitentiary
of sufficient capacity for the present re
quirement of the territory. The peniten
tiaries in other territories have been built at
She expense of the general government, and
the propriety of making an appropriation
for the building of one in is submit
ted for the eousidcivaVtoa or congress.
The financial condition of the territory
has improved so that it is expected that at
the close of the present year it will be fvee
from debt.
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In an Old Man** SHpper.
There are times in the life of the small
boy (says the Callas, Texns, Herald) when
he feels very sad from the use of a slipper
upon him. But a slipper may now and then
be a means of sorrow to some one who is
older:
A gentleman returned home from his daily
toil one had pulled off liis boots and was
going to put on his slippers, when t\ howl of
intense agony resounded through the hall.
The affrighted family rushed to the door,
and beheld thair papa cleaving the shadows
with wild gestures aud frantic gyrations.
'take it off," ho shouted, aud made a grab
at liis foot, but missing it, went oh with the
war dance.
"Walter!" he shrieked, and started up
stairs, three at a step, and turning, (jam?
back in a single stride.
"Oh, I'm stubbed!" l\e cviv-A, aud sank to
the floor, and held Hgkt leg high above
his heqd then he rose to his feet with a
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for the boot-jack, and hold
his foot out to his terrified family.
"Oh, bring the arnica!" he yelled, and
with one desparing effort he reached Id*
slipper and got it off, and with a groan as
deep us a well and as hollow as a drum,
sank into a chair, and clasped his foot with
both hands.
'Look out for the scorpion," ho whispered,
hoarsely, "I'm a dead man."
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Boston has a new public school-house that
cost $748,000.
A writer calls attention to the fact that the
volume of water in the streams of Iowa is
much smaller than it was when the territory
was first settled. He states that in the year
1858 steamers made regular trips from the
Mississippi River to L)es Moines, and that
one went up as far as Fort Dodge. At pres
ent a first class pickerel can scarcely make
the trip. At that time the Boone Eiver was
a stream of considerable magnitude, but now
it is scarcely more than a creek.
In speaking of the recent annual dinner
of the old settlers of Niagara Falls district a
Canadian newspaper says: The knowing
ones after a careful inspection of tho fulls,
expressed great surprise at the wonderftd
alteration which had taken place in the
Horseshoe Falls since their last visit.
They say the the Canadian Falls have
changed more this year than in the previous
25 or 30 years. It is a known fact that the
Horseshoe Falls in the centre have fallen
back some 75 to 100 feet."
An actual count shows there are 300 boats
frozen in on the Erie Canal between Syra
cuse and Utica. The amount of grain thns
embargoed on the whole liDe of the Erie
Canal is officially reported at 5,419,055 bush
els. There are also large quantities of ap
ples and potatoes, the losses on which are
likely to be heavy. About 40,000 tons of
cOhl are frozen in on the Deleware and Hud
son Canal.
A Prince Earning His Living.
From the London Telegraph.
One of the Empress of Austria's brother*
Charles Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, sorno
months ago passed the examinations quali
fying him to practice as an oculist. It ap
pears that his Koval Highness' first opera
tion for cataract performed by him upon a
citizen of Dresden shortly after he had ob
tained his diploma, resulted in a complete
restoration of sight to his patient, and wa
now learn that he has again operated with
entire success Hpon a sufferer from cata
ract in the Munich Hospital. The Prince
is a regular attendent at Prof. Arlt's lectures
on diseases of the eye, and has in no respect
relaxed the arduousness of his studies
since he has become a regular licensed mem
ber of the faculty. Indeed if reports speak
truly, his royal highness. Dr. Charles The
der, won Whittelbach is fairly on the way
to attain high rank among the more eminent
practical oculists of Southern Germany.
The Cost of a War aud a Mutiny.
According to the recent calculations', the
Franco-German war and the Commune post
the French Treasury 24,038,098.814 francs.
The sum of human capital destroyed has
been calculated as follows by Colonel Pier
ron: German army—killed. iS.G73 died of
wounds, 11,516 died from sickness, 12,301
disappeared, 4,000 wounded who survived,
127,8i»7. French army—killed iu the war,
116,925 died in captivity, 17,240 died in
Switzerland. 1.701 died in Belgium, 124
wounded by the enemy's fire. 143,006. In
the Economise Francais, Mr. de Forville
shows that these figures are beiowthemark,
and estimates the number of Frenchmen
who fell between June, 1870, and July,
1871, at 150.000 and at 100,000 these who
survived.
DAKOTA* NEWS ITEMS.
Information from the lower Brule agency
is that the Brule chief Medicine Bull waa
shot by the accidental discharge of the re
volver of Mr. Beveridge. tho agency clerk.
A council had been called to discuss the
proposition for the right of way for Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul railway across the
Sioux reservation. The Indians were dis
puting with each other, and the whites
present deemed it prudent to arm them
selves. Beveridgc-'s revolver slipped from
his pocket, and striking the floor at Medi
cine Bull's feet, was discharged inflicting a
serious wound. Medicine Bull called his
Indians together and charged them to mo
lest no one because of the accident and to
show hia good faith, presented his be«t
horse to Beveridge. He is an iufiuetttiafe
chief, and did much towards keeping tho
Brules at the agency during the Sitting Ball
war.
There is a great disturbance in McCook
county over the county seat question. Last
Monday morning two of the board of county
commissioners of this county met and or
dered the county safe removed from Cam
eron to BriJgewater. Matters had been
previously arranged for teams to arrive at
the hour the two commissioners would meet
at tho county seat, and they ordered it re
moved without any notice* whatever and
against the will of the people. The county
clerk, it is said, was at Winona, Minn., at
the time.
Judge Shannon has appointed W. C. Met
calf, oi Mitchell, clerk of the court for Davi
son county, vice J. W. Walsh, resigned.
Deadwood Pioneer:—Two suits were be
gun in the district court yesterday, in which
the Dakota gold mining company is defend
ant, and A. J. "Rigby and .T. S. Wallace
plaintiffs each action is brought to recover
$62,500. or a total of $125,000. for propertv
sol4 to defendants, and for services. The
property consists of the Savage tunnel, and
several claims in ihat locality.
The La Belle House at Watertofn was
destroyed by fire on the 8th.
in dakota patents
The Dakota Journal is the name of a
paper just started at Pierrp, Hughes county,
by Dyke & Bros.
The "Dakota fever" is raging in North
ern Iowa, and a large immigration from
that section can be confidently looked for
iuthe spring.
"iankton Dakotian:—The goods belong
ing to E. H. Hudson when he was trader
at row creek agency, sier.ed two aud one
half years ago by the government, under
the Hammond-Dougherty charges, are still
held by the government and are stored iu
this city. The flour and hides were sold
and the government holds control of tht»
money, some $3,000. The government
failed in all its efforts to indict Mr. Hudson
or to produce a case against him before tho
United States commissioner, yet it neglects
to ret'.U ji to him the property seized, amount
ing in value to about Sn.000,
The Koaton HcraUI praises Dakota to the
skies and says: It is in some respects, an
inoppertuy.i1 time for a young territory to
seek admission to the Union. There 'is a
perceptible restlessness in the old and popu
lous state" at the equal representation iuthe
senate of the western boroughs, with barely
population enough for a congvf ssional dis
trict. Aud there is always a sus
picion, which is natttr.il enough, iu view of
the history of sojuc of the latest admissions*
that politico»intriguing and personal ambi
tion are at the bottom of these urgent re
quests. The '"land of the Dakota" is a no
ble domain, tuid it doubtless has a great fti
ture, but the country will need to be pretty
thoroughly convinced of the reasonableness
of the petition for admission to the Uniou
before congress will be justified in granting
The President has appointed Bris, Gen. Geo.
Crook, U. S. A.: Gen. Nelson A. Miles, United
States Army Wm. Stickney, Washington, D. C.,
and alter Allen, to procced to
tho Indian TeriKry, na soou as may he, and,
after conference with the Ponea tribe of Ii.dians,
to appertain the facts in repurd to their recent
removal aud present condition, so l'arasis neces
sarv to determine the question of what justico
aud humanity require should be do?ie 1 y the
goverment of the United States, and report their
conclusions and recoimncnd&tions iu the prem.-