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ffR*v -f txh "-m JF- •if 6EKERU D1RK1TOKY. JUDICIAL OFFICERS: How II. BROWS,District Judge. JSO. W. AHCTAIWKB, METHODIST. District Attorney. COUNTY OFFICERS: CBAS. P. MAUINKW, SCHORL IT. HTGH W HITELET Treasurer. HENHV BALTWIN. Clerk District Court- Tiuw. K- UEEN AS. Auditor. JVSTIS L. M11.1.BH. Kfgi®tero' C. II. BBOWS. IROWN & CHEW, B1 JJ L. HULBURD, Deeds. K. i'KARi i'. Omluv «f Probate. C. L. UBOWN, Attorney. II L. HI KLBI n». Corouer. 1). T. WHEATON, Surveyor. MAX BI I KKM IN. Court Commiwuoner. J. A. JMRA^OX, CO. Supt.of SckMlt. VILLAGE OFFICERS: *. BmsRiNE. Prviiilent. 8A*I EI. LAA*OX,-1 Iri'sSSSu. B.C.MOOR*. I Jso. A. On.RIN \N. Kecorder. ASDHEW HEI.OE50S. Treasurer HENRY HALUWIV, LJUT,Ticesof TT»P*KE. -SSNHI Ul TCHlNS, JJ. T. WHEATON. Assessor. M. WEBBER, Marshal. CHURCH DIRECWRY: MPIAPNP 4I.. Kov. T- Hudson, Kector. GONUKEO\TION AL.KOV. J. P. Hutchuisoa,P«Btor Kev. B. T'HELI*, IN*tor- ROMAN OVTUOLIC, Rev. Francis W atry, Pn68t- SCANDINAVIAN* EVAK«IUCAI IUTHEUAS, Johnson, Pastor. Rev. CIVIC SOCIETIES: A."» *.%* A.-. M.—Golden Sheaf Lodge No. 119, JBKet? 1st and 3d Saturday* of each month. O. C. HANSON, Soc. Jous lloi'^E M. UNION NO. 41. Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Me«ts every Monday even ing at 7:30 P. Visiting members cordially in vited. Non-members n speetfully requested to join. P. A. MICARTUY, Prerident. W. 1. 8w. Secretary. Railroad Time Table*. LITTLE FALLS A DAKOTA. EAST. Leaves Morris at Arrives at Little Falls at il:off a. m. COINU WE'T. ave» Little Falls at P- *n Arrives at Morris at .........ti fl0 P Connecting with trains on mam use, ootn norm and south. ST. P., M. & M.—Main Line: Leave St. Paul. 7:15 a.m. Arrive. St. Paul, 7:30p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:80a.m. Leave Morris: Going East: Going West: r«1 ii 11 12:17 p.m. Passenger, 2:45 p.m. 13:53 a. m. a. m. Freight. 13:53a.m. Freight, 9:05 p.m. VO'i a.m. 5K)5 a. m. :45p.m. *S0p. m. Brown's Valley Trains: Luve: Arrive: Morrhr, 3:00 p. tn. Brown'sValley, 6:15 p.m. Bronwn's Vallev, 8:3«)a.m. Mem*, 11:45 a.m. A. MANVEL. Gon. Manager. W. S. ALEXANDER, Gen. Pass. VV. M. ROJUNKAgt. Local Agent. Arrival and Departure of the Mails. Alexandria stage arrives Monday and Friday departs Tuesday and Saturday. i*Un\vood stage HIT!VPS Tu-stlav and Friday dopurts cdnt'saAv and Satur'.i.'.y. Postoitice opt'iis at 7 at 8 A. M.. exce *. to 1 P. A. M.. closes cent Sundav. Open Sunday from 12 M. L. TDIU'EY, P. M. ai BUSINESS CARDS. W. GlilsWOLD, Attorney at Law. MOBRIS, MimrjssoTA. Veal Estate, Collection, Loan and Insurance Agent. Office at the Court House. F. B. GUV. Attorneys at Law. MORRIS,MINK. & FLAHERTY, gPOON'ER, DARLING Counsellors at Law. L- C. SPOONEH, 1 ,,, GIO.E.DARI-I!TO, ». A. FLAHEETT. Morn*, Minn. Practices in all State and United States Courts. Office over Stevens Connty Bank. S. GRIFFIN, Law Office, yy Over Helgeson Hanson's Store. ^NO. A. GILTINAJT, Attorney at Law. XORBlg, INH Physician and Surgeon. W. MAUGHAN, $ HORRIS, 3IINN Office over G. H. Munro & Co.'» drug store. Office hours from & to 9 o'clock o'clock P. A. Z., E. HEENAN, flrt 1 to A Physician and Surgeon. XOBBIS, XONT Veterinary Surgeon. Horses and stock treated Iy the day, week or month at npuclal rates. Veterinary medicines furnished to order. All calls promptly attended to. Morris. Minn. JSO. RICHARDS. R1 i ICHARDS ALLEN, 6tf CTBDS iLLII Draymen, JFOBFMS, KIMJF Ml Business in Our Line Attended to Promptly, Sn in business like manner. Metropolitan Hotel, i rris. Minn. I A- BEMIS, Formerly of the Lak^ Park Hotel, at Lake Park, Minn., Proprietor. Tfia Honsw ha- been Thorouehlr Renovated, Refittei an4 Famished, milking It Strictly First ClaFti inpvorv rcKitct, iiivl wul be conducted with a view to the comtort of the onunercial trade and the travel!ing public generally. lfi 1 FRED BURXCLL, Clerk. SPECIAL OFFER. A. P. Kron, of 8candiaville, former lyone of our popular clothing mer chants, offers to pay the fare for rounc trip between Morris and Scandiaville, to those that will call on him and buy a s i it of clothes, a nd prices guaranteed 0 be lower than ever. He also keeps a*ge stock of GENERAL MERCHANDISE.' If you want to save money go and ee him. HENRY i 11 PETERS p. iy Ai»»r» 0 Hud ma Sowu of .•Tesh, Salt, smoke# iff and Dried l&EATs, &C„ tpblch are Always Fresh and FLLIT-CIAN k": AU Ordert Filled Promptly. Af^- Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. IE?, A TT3D A .T, Sc BODEB2T Publishers. THE SEWS CONDENSED. The car wheel foundry of Fargo is financial wreck Winnipeg has organised a cricket club for the season. Pullman cars do not run further west than Livingstone. The signal office at Miles City Mon? tana has been discontinued. Vermillion elains to be the "leading educational town of Dakota." A national bank is to be established at Pierre with a capital of ^50,000. The work of printing the new two cent postage stamps will soon begin. B. W. Raymond, the third mayor of Chicago, las just died at the age of eigliey-two. An editor was shot and killed at Baton Rouge, La., by a broker, on Wednesday. The'coaL found 0:1 the Northern Pacific is said to work splendidly as fuel for locomotives. Cincinnati has had seventy-nine murders to one execution. The ratio is not a wholesome one.' About 1,200 painters are on a stride at Philadelphia for $•' per day. They had been receiving $2.50. The statue of Gen. Lee will be un veiled at Lexington, Va., next Jane. Jefferson Davis will preside. Philadelphia body snatchers have l»een sentenced to imprisonment for from tour months to two years, Tho Texas legislature has but six out of its oue hundred and six mem bers, who ttre not carpet-baggers. The anti-Cliiuese legislation has reduced the number of immigrants arriving at San Francisco one-half. Over 2000 applications for patents for electrical contrivances were filed in 1882, two-thirds of which were granted. A West Point cadet begins with the same pav which a Prussian captain receives after twenty years of service. The anniversary of Lee's surrender will be celebrateed by a camp fire of the Grand Army of the Republic, at Elmira. Lake Minnetonka and vieinity ia. booming, and the coming Summer is expected to eclipse anything seen pre viously. It is now learned that army officers are overworked and discouraged. They have to boss an average of eight men each. Milwaukee Catholics hope for the great university sanctioned by the pope, and for which $20,000,000 has been subscribed.- The Wisconsin legislature has passed a bill to imprison tramps in the state prison not less than six lucntha nor more than a year. The claim that the losses of cattle were much greater the past winter than usual, is believed to be simply an excuse to raise the price. The Pennsylvania legislature refuses to repeal the old law of 1794,.imposing penalties on Jews and seventh-day observers, for Sabbath breaking. The outlook for winter wheat 'in Ohio is poorer than it has been for eight years. On the other hand, the condition of live stock has rarely been better. After a week of idleness and agita tion the miners of the Streafer 111., coal field resumed work Tuesday at the fi ve"Cents per ton reduction ordered by the mine owners. Blue Horse, an Indian chief at Pine Ridge agency, Dakota, put out his eye while chopping wood, and has written to the Commissioner of Indian Affiurs to send him a new eye. An unsuccessful attempt was made to rob the First National batik of Butte. The cracksmen were iglit ened away just as they had nearly completed their work. Dakota is the magnet that draws from all quarters. It i» estimated that thirty per cent, of the settlers of ^southern Manitoba will come over into Dakota this season. Letter carriers will begin perambu lating Fargo*s streets July 1. The post-office business of the town last year amounted to $28,000 which brings it within the free delivery limit. Young Daniel Boone a greSt-grand son of the brave Kentucky pioneer ex plorer, delivers packages foroneof the great New York Broadway dry goods houses on a salary of $1.50 a \veek, Hie bill for a constitutional amend ment prohibiting the manufactury and sale of intoxicating liquors in Massachusetts has been defeated in the House of Representatives of that State —125 to 83. V Door County Expositor k nmriber of old suger makers will not go into the bush nor tap a tree this Spring, because everything is against making suger—deep snow, no frost in the ground, Ac. The eoetof the proposed canal for •uniting the ^ay of fciscay with the Mediterranean is now estimated at 248,000,000, the length of the canal being 170 miles. Engineers speak confidently of the perfect feasibility f{ the great undertaking, fr{ i *C"f ?"r''.'S Jti Wf- i '4 v Canadian newspaper men have asked their postmaster general to abolish the postage on papers delivered in the city or town of publication. An order to that effect will shortly be published. The secretary of the Hoard of Trade has been in correspondrce with a number of parties in different States in regard to establishing a vegetable canning establishment in Hoeherter. The Dominion government on con sideration of the strong protest from Manitoba merchants has concluded to postpone its project of increasing the duties on agricultural implements and machinery. It is estimated that the overflow of the Ohio between Louisvilfband Cairo has caused damage of a million dollars. Hundreds of farmers have from eight to twelve iuchesof pure sand deposited over their entire farms. A religious sect in Switzerland con templates emigration in mass to the Argentine Republic for the purpose of escaping military service at home, it A baby camel has just entered on its earthly career' at Central park New beiug contrary to their doctrines to York. A bill has hten introduced in the legislature to annihilate Salmi Morse's Passion Play. bear amis or take part in warfare A hog belonging to John Lyean, about seven miles north of Brown's Valley, was exhumed from underneath a stack of corn stalks, having lain there seventy-six days, alive and hearty, but having lost 100 pounds in weight. The St. Louis Merchants'Exchange has establihed a uniform tare of sixty pounds on corn and ninety o:t wheat to the car, nd grain goingintoelevator or warehouse, the same to be deducted from the gross weight of grain in cars. This is to cover waste in handling. On Tuesday morning a large build ing on the northwest corner of Church and State streets Rochester N. V. fell with a crash. The side wall facing Church street had been erected this winter. It is supposed that the mor tar was frozeu ond the warm weather of yesterday 'oosened the bricks and caused the fall. There were seventeen men at work in the building. Bishop Coxe. of the Episcopal Di ocese of Western New York, has issued an address to the clergy suggest ing an appropriate observance of the 19tli of April of his year which will be centennial of the peace which estab lished our independence and nation ality. On that same day, in 1775, lios. tiiities were begun between the mother country and her colonies on that day, in 1783, George Washington an nounced the peace to the army. There are now in operation in Min nesota sixty eight creameries, and eight or ten more will be built this season. The American hog is forbidden o enter Germany. That shuts out the man who occupies four seats in arail road car.—Burlington Hawkeye. W. L. Rutt, cashier of the Union Pacific at Council Bluffs, couldn't make ends meet in his accounts with the road by about $8,000. The mystery is that he neither drank, gambled, nor indulged in any other vice. All the details having been com pleted, the Scliults interest in the Manitoba Southwestern railway has been transfered to the St. Paul, Minn eapolis & Manitoba. The line from WinnpiegtoRock Lake, 120 miles,will be completed by October 1. Let us rejoice. After .July 1st, we shall be freed from the oppressive blood-sucking tax on perfumery. The horny-handed granger who wipes the sweat from his brow with a linen hanh kercheif (taxed per cent.)c-an revel with delight at the liberty of scenting the same hanbkerchief with the choicest perfumes, free of tax.—Red Wing Argus. The British parliament lost no time in dealing with the dy amitp develop ment of the Irish troubles. An exceed, ingly drastic bill for the punishment of i he crime of causing explosions with intent to destroy life or property was introduced by the governmeut, con sidered in committee, passed both houses, and received the royal assent last monday,Not a voice was raised in opposition to it in any party or ip either house, This is ai» evidence of theextijnttii which the public mind has been roused in England by the cowardly attempt lately chronicled. The bill punishes all grades of com plicity in the dynamite act, from di rectly causing an explosion to having explosives in one's possession with intent to use them. The penalities range from imprisonment for fourteen years to the life penalty, and in the present state of the public mind, they will be freely administered upon oc casion. The air of England will be exceedingly unwholesome for O'Dono van Rossa's agents henceforth.—pio neer Press. There were twenty-two desertions from the 2nd cavalry and 3rd infantry last pay, and double the number are expected in may. About the same ratio is reported from all the regiments in the regiments in the regular army. The authorities attribute it to the poor quality of men enlisted, but in our oppinion it is due much more largely to the insufferable caddishtiess and petty tyranny of the regular ar my commissioned officers. There is not a lieutenant in the service but feels himself to be a "bigger man than old Grant,"and who does not regard a privat soldier in the light of a serf or slave. An old time mggei- driver in the south as iuie treated hia chattels better than some commissioned army officers treat their men. And then again, aside from the petty tyranny of the officers, the rules, or at least the customs of the service, seem to permit the privates being put to all sorts of menial employment to whicii a soldier ought not to be subjected, Let service and the oHtcers 'be so reformed that the private soldier will he treated as a man, and there will be fewer tieoer tlons.—Eyeniug Journal. At Eagle Lake a large portion of the people observe Saturday as the Sab bath and ply their usual avocations on Sunday, whereat Sunday observers object and have threatened to prose cute the offenders. t' Duluth Tribune: People have com menced moving out of St. Paul be cause they cannot secure houses to live In at anything like reasonable nte». *V -i o Horse theives are at work in the southern part of the state. A Swede was lynched at Garfield recently for jumping a claim. A Creamery lias been started at Ma rine Mills, Washington county. Duluth will soon gaze on the foun dation of her first flouring mill. There is a movement on foot to in corporate the village of Plainview. The pile driving for the new bridge at Fergus Falls is now completed. The tug boats in the Duluth harbor are actively, preparing for the coming season. The state apportionment of school funds for March is on the basis of 43 cents to each pupil. Sauk Center has organized a foundry and machine shop company, with a capital stock of $50,000. Viola farmers meet once a week, at the town hall, to discuss practical methods of farming. Princeton carried the question of $20,000 bonds for court house and jail, by a majority of six votes. Fifteen million feet of lumber are awaiting shipment at Winona, for want of transportation facilities. Nine passengers in a caboose were more or less injured by the car being thrown from the track a few miles be low Lake City. St. Cloud is justly proud of the new post-office fitted up by Captain West. The wood work is of red oak finished in Eastlake style, The amount of wheat now stored in the different elevators in Duluth is: Elevator A, 419,900 bushels B. 861, OlObushels total, 1,280, 91G bushels. The round-house and machine shops of the Winona & St. Peter Division of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, burned at Winona. Loss f55,000 no insurance, Dr. Stone has sped Judge Evans of St. Cloud on a medical bill. Mrs. Evans came near dying from an over dose of atropia and the Judge sets up the plea of malpractice against the bill. A wild goose weighing twelve and a half pounds and measuring six feet frbm tip to tip of wings, was killed the other day in Whitefield, Kandiyohi county. Old hunters say it was the largest goose they ever- saw. The earnings of the St. Paul & Man itoba Railroad company for the last six months of 1S82 were $4,570,407.18, against $3,351,051.76 for the first six months of that year, showing an in crease of $1,225,415.42. The state tax for the last six months of 1882 was $130,309.15, against $100,531.55 for the first six months, showing an increase of $35,777.00. A strange and fatal nceident occur red at the vesiuence of Peter Freeman, a few miles west of Howard. A double barrel shot gun. hung on the wall, one barrel of which all of a sudden was discharged. This caused the gun to fall to the lloor, when the second bar rel went off, the contents of which went through pilluw and struck an infant grandchild of Mr. Freeman's in its right shoulder and penetrated its vitals as it lay in its cradle neat by, causing instant death. CoMissioners' Proceedings. AJiRIL, EXTRA SESSION. VOLUME 8, NUMBER 15. MORRIS,' STEVENS COUNTY, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18,1883. $2.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. STATE NEWS. hM "Rod «md Gun Alexandria Cub." Red Lake Falls Is driving piles for a iniH race. Kasota and St. Peter report a freight blockade. The Aitkin Age, No. I, Vol. 1, ap pears this week. The Winona Dally Tribune has sus pended publication. The Zumbrota Free Press has sus peifded publication. A post of the Grand Army has been organized at Waseka. Rochester has made out her pK» gramme for July-1th. Bismark greenhouses are furnishing new radishes and lettuce. Aim 10,1883. The Board of County Commission ers of Stevens county, Siate of Minne sota, met in Extra Session, at the Auditor's office, in the Village of Morris, in said county, on Tuesday, April 10th, A. D. 1883, in pursuance of call for meeting. Present—A. H. Taisey, K. C. Helge son, M. Finuegan, H. Hutching L. L. Heglaiul, Commissioners of said coun ty, and Thos. E. Heenan, County Au ditor and ex-officio Clerk of the board. The Call for the meeting was read and approved. The Stevens County Bank asked per mission to withdraw their proposal for $30,000 of County Bonds, presented and accepted by the County Commis sioners of Stevens county, at thesir meeting on March 20tb, 1883, On motion, the above request of the Stevens County Bank was granted. On motion, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That all action heretofore taken by this Board, in so far as it re lates to the negotiation of $30,000 of the bonds of Stevens county, Minnesota* under an act entitled "An act to au thorize the Board of County Commis sioners of the County of Stevens to is sue bonds for building court house and jail," "approved February 2d, A. B. 1883," and an act entitled "An act to authorize the Board of County Com missioners of Stevens county to fund the floating indebtedness of said coutS ty," "approved February 2d, A. I)/ 1883," are hereby declared void. Resolved, That the proposition of D. 0. Shepard, of Saint Paul, for the pur» ir'+.'K 3 chase of $30,000 of Bonds of Stevens county, Minnesota, authorized by the acts described in the last resolution, be and he same is hereby accepted, and the Chairman of this board and the County Auditorof said county, are hereby instructed to prepare and exe cute said Bonds and deposit them in escrowst The First National Bank, St. Paul, according to the terms of said proposition, and the County Au ditor is hereby instructed to spread said proposition on the records of the Board for reference as the contract for the sale and delivery of said bond% Proposition: ST. PAUL, March 24,1878. To the Boardmof Count}/ Commission ers of Stevens County, Minnesota: GENTLKMUX :—The Stevens County Bank having made you a proposition to take !".')0,000 of the Bonds of Stevens county, about to be issued under two acts ol the Legislature of Minnesota, approved February 2d, A. D. 1383, with a view of placing them with me, and said proposition having been accepted b.v you, but as a legal question has arisen growing out of the claim of said bank tor commission, and to obviate such question said bank has with drawn their said proposition for said bonds, dated March 20th, 1883, I now propose to purchase at the par value thereof said issue of $30,000 of the bonds of Stevens county, on the fol lowing terms: The bonds are to be for $1,000 each, and to bear date April 10th, 1S83, and fall due July 1st, A. D. 1913 to draw per cent, interest, commencing July 1st, 1883, payable annually principal and interest payable at the First Na tional Bunk Saint Paul. The bonds to be issued and deposited in escrow in the First National Bank, St. Paul, to be paid for by me on resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of Stevens count}', either in install ments or as a whole as required, at the par value thereof, with accruee inter est on such bonds as shall be delivered to me after July 1st, 1883, and for such bonds as shall be delivered to me prior to July 1st, 18H3, I will pay the par value thereof,- but 1 am to be allowed and paid interest at 0 per cent, on such bonds at the time of delivery and up to July 1st, 1883, when the bonds be gin to bear interest. All of said bonds are to be delivered to me and paid for on or before September 1st, 1883, so that said county shall realize the par value of every one of said bonds in either case. Very Respectfully, D. C. SHEI'AKJ). On motion, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the First National Bank of St. Paul, is hereby authorized to turn over to D. C. Shepard or his representatives, ten thousand dollars (f 10,000) of the bonds of Stevens coun ty, upon bis placing the funds there for in said bank to the '-redit of the County Treasurer of said Stevens county. The Morris TRIBUNE presented a bid for County printing at legal rates. Ou motion, the bid was accepted and the Morris TRIBUNE have the contract for County printing, &rtiie ensuing year. The following bills were audited and allowed by the Board: Geo Grow, supplies county poor Mrs Dunieavy, $11 87 A Benson, care county poor, 43 50 Janes A Johnson, supplies teach ers institute, 7 15 Wheaton, surveying etc, 8 00 Stevens Co Bank, services nego tiating bonds, 150 00 Hulburd, services coroner, 15 40 The report of the meeting of the Building Committee is as follows: MINUTES: AUDITOR'S OFFICE, MORRIS, March 27, 1883.)' The committee appointed by County Commissioners to meet on Marcli 27th, to open bids for new court house and jail, and to transact other busines re ferred to committee. Present—A. H. Taisey, H. Hutch ins, M. Finnegan, L. L. Hegland and K. C. Helgesou, The County Auditor was requested to act as Secretary of the Committee. Six proposals were received for build ing court house and jail: TReardon, br'k part'n walls, $17,950.00 17,450.00 Spooner, .•-Jo,725.00 EF Hill, Io,OlS.95 W Hancock, 21,000.00 Olof Olson, 19,s:«.00 A A Whittmore,- 16,780.00 16,380.00 (Mr. Whittmore proposes, if white pine be substituted for Georgia pine, to reduce his bid $400.) On motion, Mr. A. A. Whittmore's bid was accepted. On motion, the bond of Mr* A* A. Wbittmore was fixed at $800. .... The matter of drawing up the con truct and bond was referred to County Attorney. Four proposals we*e received, for erfceting jail cells: Herzog Mfg. Co., .Minneapolis) $2,375 T. Jieardon, St. Paul, 2 4H0 P. J. Pauly & Rro., St. Louis,) 2,300 presented fourproposals 1,600 as follows, 2,450 2,300 42tna Iron Works, (Quincy, In., 2,405 On motion, P. J. Pauly & Bro. were awarded the contract at $2,380 this bid includes an iron door to be used on one of up stairs rooms. The matter was referred to the County Attorney te draw up contract, etc. The County Attorney completed contract with T. J. Pauly & Bro. and Commissioners, and both parties signed the said contract, and same was filed with the County Auditor. On motion, the bond of A. A. Whitt more, in the sum of $8,000, is here pre sented with James L. Kitcbei, Win? field S. Sliandlow, J. M. Severence, S. W. Frink, Owen J. Wood and C. B. Nettelon, all of Chippewa county, Minnesota, as sureties. Said bond is accepted and approved. motion, the Board adjourned. A. H. TAISEY, Chairman of the liowrd Co. Coos'en Steven* Co., Winn Attest. Titos. E. HEENAN, t* County Auditor. BLUE STEM WHEAT.. 1 hare a small qufmtltv of chfcfee Blue Stem Wheat, For Sale, for Seed. Call soon if you wish any of it. 4». RICHARDSON, Morris, Minn. It has been reported on good author ity that an important conference rela tive to railroad improvements in the Northwest was held in Chicago last week. A number of Fargo people, to gether with several Canadians, were in consultation with Vice President Cable of the Rock Island *road, with ref erence to the extension of tlieBuriing tou, Cedar Rapids & Northern road. The present terminus is at Worthing |ton, Minn., and the proposition is to fxtend the road to Fargo by way of Lake Kaenpeska, there to be joined by a Canadian line from Winnipeg. The conference is reported to have been of a satisfactory character to all par ties concerned. By this route the distance from Fargo to Chicago will bfe reduced UK) miles. COSTLY MUGS. Where and How They Are Made emd Horn They Get to This Country. [From the New York Evening Post.] When an American buyer arrives in the heart of the rug-making country in Asia he selects the best agent he can find, and gives him an order for, say 100 rugs of about the colors and sizes of certain samples which he may find in the bazars. The Turkish agent then employs natives of the villages where the kind of rugs selected are made, giving to each a bag of gold and in structions to order four rugs. The sub agent then goes among the families and talks rugs with them, drinking many cups of coffee and discussing the price for days at a time. When a bargain is concluded some money is furnished the family for wool, dyes and food, and the agent goes away, sure that in the course of a few months the rug will be ready. Upon a carpet measuring eight by twelve feet a whole family will work for months. The cotton or woolen threads which form the groundwork or warp of the fabric are stretched upon a huge frame the width of the rug, and the family, or such members of it as are able to work, sit on the floor and tie knots in the warp threads with the colored wool tufts, tightening the fin ished fabric now and then with a rough comb. Each worker takes about twenty-seven inches of the rug and works along this. strip. From two to four inches a day is the speed at which the rug advances if the family is large enough for the whole width of the rug to advance at the same time. A rug eight or nine feet wide requires four persons, who work side by side. The finishing of the rug, smoothing, clipping, etc., is a work requiring skill and judgment. The wages are small and the payment is ac cording to the number of square feet. The workers know certain patterns by heart, and dye their own wools. The old dyes have in some instances been supplanted by aniline colors, which do not keep their tones, and fade without giving to the rug the softness of tint .which is the chief glory of a fine East ern rug. So many merchants have re fused to buy the carpets in which ani line dyes have been used that the use of them may eventually be stopped. The rug-makers, as a class, are poor in money, very ignorant and very relig ious, but live comfortably. Especially around the borders of the Caspian sea, in the country watered by the rivers from the Caucasian mountains, are the people in comfortable ciecumstances, although about three centuries behind the rest of the world. Wine is still brought into Tiflis in ox-hides holding a hogshead of wine, and is sold for about 15 cents a gallon. The rugs and carpets are brought in from Persia and the neighboring districts on camels' backs, the arrival of camel-trains being one of the curious sights of the town. War SILAS MARRIED A YOUNG WIFE. "Silas," said the Secretary of State, "I understand that yon have married a young wife." "Yas,"sah, gedered in a gal." "I should think that a man as old as you would want a wife somewhere near your own age." "No, sah I'se dun tried dat mefod an' I doan like it." "What's the trouble? Old wife need too much waiting on "Yer's mighty nigh got lint not qtiite. It's myself wnac needs do waitin' on. When I had a ole wife, beta' as she was nearly as ole as I was, she let me make all de fires an' tote all de water. But dis young wife, nuthin' more'n a chile, you know, compared wid me, pulls off my shoes an' makes herself useful." "Does she ever grumble?" "Sometimes her lip sorter hangs, but den I begins to talk what a short time I'se gwine ter live, an' dat I'se afeard dat I neber will enjoy de money what I'se gwine ter git from de Guberment. Den she humps."—Arkcmsaic Traveler HE was a disgusted boy. He had ex. ercised great oantion, and had finally succeeded in creeping, nnolftserved, un der the canvas into the tent. And ha found it was not a circus, but a revival meeting in progress A $20.00 Bible Beward._ The publishersof Ruilcdye's We will give $20.00 in gold to hap person telling us which is the shortcut chapter in the New Testament Script•» ures (not the New Revision) by May 10th, 1 *'•}. Hh^uUl two op moro cor reot an vwer*?1 e received, the reward^ will be tU«v:ded. The iisouey '.viU'w forwarded to tha wiftr^rMny 15U?,I8e-. Person.1* trying for the reward mti't send 20 cents i n- liver S#S^ (HO -i vV poftagtf^ stamps taken) with their answer, for? which they -will receive the "'id Monthly, in which t.be patina and ad dress of the winner of flu- reward nn-Ip5 the correct answer will be publised* and in which severs*i more viUuciKt* reWards will be offered. Addas*, KTTLE1«K Coaly A**K, Easton, Penh. SPIDERS. Interesting Fact* About Theee.Inatelt. I From the Philadelphia Pre-s.j The destruction of 'insects bf spiders is enormous. I have counted 250 in sects, small and great, hanging en tangled in one orb web. In one net in Fairmount Park I counted thirty-eight mosquitoes in another, hung under a bridge in Asbury Park, and out of reach, there must have been two or three times that many." Green-head flies by the legion have been seen in the webs that fairly enlace the boat-houses at Atlantic City and Caje May. The very small spiders prey upon micro scopic insects like gnats, and devour myriads. A glance at the fields, bushes ind trees on a dewy morning in Septem ber will reveal an innumerable multi tude of webs spread over the landscape, all occupied by spiders of various ages, sizes and families, and all busy destroy ing the insect pests of man. There are several species of spiders, divided into two classes, the sedantary and the wandering spiders. To the first class belong the orb-weavers, who make a circular web the line-weavers, whose web is labyrinthian the tube weavers, who hang their uets on walls or rocks or branches of trees, and the tunnel-weavers, who live in tunnels cut into the earth and having automatic doors ingeniously contrived. In the wanderers are included the cetegrades, whose motions are quick and vivacious the laterigrades, who have a queer side ways motion, and the saltigrades, who jump and dance and vault. The dolo mede spider is a swimmer, and lives on or under water. She builds her nest on the detached branch of a tree or bush, which she makes into a tent. The ar giopa fasciapa, or banded spide& is ft. silver yellow and black color. Spiders are not sociable creatures. They are generally, on the contrary, of solitary habits, and are mostly canni bals, eating each other with great gusto. They mate in the spring and autumn, and the mating is often a trying and dangerous one. They reverse the ordeflf of nature in one respect, for the males are infinitely inferior in every respect to the females, and the latter are well aware of the fact. Their courtships are scenes of violence, and not of love and peace. The lady looks with sublime contempt upon the gentleman and keeps him at a distance. He can ouly ap proach her by stratagem, and some times she nips off one of his legs in her anger and casts him adrift a cripple. I have seen poor fellows who have lost four out of their legs, and still they were attracted to the opposite sex like moths to a cradle. A spider will never eat her own young, but the ma'os will destroy them when they can. The mother either goes away or dies soon after the hatching of her eggs, which number about 100 to each nest, and the little ones are thrown upon the world almost as soon as they see light. There are several varieties who carry their eggs in a silk pouch until they are hatched. The tube weavers sometimes care for their young until they are able to get about, and I had a brood of about sixty in my jsod until the rains de stroyed them. Spiders have numerous enemies, and much of their clever nest-building is de signed for protection against these in" roads. Toads and birds destroy them by the thousands, and a little parasite called the ichnumen—a small fly—lays its eggs in the cocoons of the spider, and when the larva appears it feeds first on the eggs and later on the young spiders. Orb weavers and line weav ers desert their eggs when laid, and meet their offspring, where they live so long, as strangers. Another bitter enemy of the spider is the mud daub ing wasp, which has a process that might be valuable to humanity, if it could be discovered, of keeping a sup ply of fresh meat. When they capture a spider that is not needed for present use they sting it in such a manner that it lives, but has no power to move until HQ IIP I&eal Ticket* 0 3/ttnthly offer twelve valuable rewards in their Monthbi for May, among which is the* following: *#h# r*?* ...... v. God had to make the nose first, before He put the lump on it, for if He made the lump first, He would have no place to put it, would He -The nose was made first," replied* the- old man, who was a miracle of goo# nature. "I said so. God made your eyes be fore he put that lump on your nose, didn't He?" "Yes." "Then you saw God put the lump on Jtaurnose, didn't you, or did He put it on your nose when you were asleep?" Here the boy's mother managed to get him under control, but he broke out in a fresh place. "Are you waiting for the train?" "Yes, my boy." "You are not waiting for the train that went off yesterday, are you?" "No, I am not, sonny." "I thought not, because if you was, you would get left. But you didn't tell me if you saw God put that lump—" Here his mother shoved her handker chief in his mouth, and the scene was over.—Texas Si/tings. CHARACTERISTICS Of JIEX. e to lia Mow. I "Nvisli TO iitiuouuco (o my OLCL CHKI OIUCITS, that I keep u. complete Htock orGcnertil Mer» ehitmline, ami well as cheap us ever. I will pay lhre lor any one IVom Morris and return, wlio will buy suit orclothes oi'me. l.Vly RESTAURANT! MEIALB A1KALL HOURS. Highest Price Paid for Good Butter, Eggs .i'. and Potatoes. jT V ii Public Patronage 1m spectfully Solicited. i: SUCH time as the captor is ready to vour it. It is rather a singular thing that the wasp in its babyhood feeds on meat, but in its maturity eats nothing but the nectar of flowers. IXFAX TILE CURIOSITY. The candor of the RTnall boy is ocotr sionally very distressing to his friends and relatives. In the waiting-room of the Austin depot, there was a lady with a small boy, and also a benevolent-look ing old gentleman, who had a very sift* gular protuberance on his nose whitfe attracted the attention of the youth. "Mister, did God make that round lump on your nose "Hush, Johnny," said his mother. "I ain't talking to you, ma, 'e "3 S •. V V .-I%. ... I am talk* ing to this gentleman." "That's a wen on my nose, little boy,* remarked the gentleman, pleasantly. I* "What did you say "Wen." "That's what I say, when?" "What do you mean, little boy," sai$ the old gentleman, losing patience just7 a little. "I want to know when God made that lump. He made the nose first, and then put the lump on it afterward, didn't He "Keep quiet, Johnny." "But, ma, I'm not talking to you. TRAnsLnro Various traveling men have various characteristics, and the following list mentions some prominent ones: The hardware man is ironical the boot and shoe man is a whole-soled fellow the cutlery man is keen the flour is well-bred the yeast man shows his raising the dry goods man is a prints of good fellows the grocery man "su gars" his trade the confectionery man gives a customer taffy and is too sweet for any use the hat man wants to be ahead the coffin man keeps everything on the dead the tobacco man is any thing you choose the liquor rnan is good stuff the steel man is high tem pered the jewelry man is ornamental the clothing man wears well the pa per man is stationery the furniture man goes so far but no farther the mu sic man takes notes the cordage man knows the ropes the queensware muri is not incrateful the toy man is a reg ular plaything the oil man is a slick one the blacking man is a mtin of pol ish the pork man is hoggish the wall paper man is stuck up, and every man in the gang is a genius. They talk a great deal, but they never give anything away—they sell it, because that's what they are on the road for.—The Drum mer. WILD rabbits are so plenty in Austral ia that they become a great nuisance. A company has established a factory for preserving them, and canned rabbit will soon be an article of export from th at country. A. P. KRON. WENJST Y°QN i EALS. stersjr Fruits. Confectioneries, CaiiGoois, lince leal, Pip'Feet, Toliatco, CIGARS, Etc., CouHtuuily ou Htiud. $5.00 G. ROWLES, PROPRIETOR. Athuiiic Ave., Opposite Lower Ele^ ater. 39 Lumber. E. J. ones & Son. A. i fi- Morris. MI&& i' I PI tTiv -1