Times And Gazette (Newspaper) - May 31, 1884, Marshfield, Wisconsin THE VOL MARSHFIELD WISCONSIN SATURDAY MAY 31 1884 VOL LATEST TELEGRAMS GENERAL NOTES THE wife of Henry Dillon of Akron Ohio him recently taking their children with her Since that mence Dillon has fallen heir to a large Conro river with the expenditure of fortune and baa begun the search for nt Detroit THIRTEEN deaths from yellow fever occured at Havana Cuba last week THE Baptist Missionary Union at its session in Detroit voted to com- mence christianizing work on the per annum FLAGS were flying from the lyn bridgo towers on Saturday in litnor of the first anniversary of its opening During the year foot passengers crossed structure vehicles and car sengers The receipts were LORD the English ter at Constantinople stipulates that if Turkish troops arc sent into the Soudan British officers must be placed in command England ho promises will pay all the expenses and must have solo control of the withdrawal of the forces A A HOLCOMB the State ary Surgeon of Kansas after a tour reports glanders ing among horses in fifteen counties Montgomery Lyon Shawnee Riley Clay Dickinson Davis Rice Ottawa Edwards Kingman Marlon and Greenwood THK now Queen of is young of a pleasing expression of countenance and singularly dignified and ladylike On the occasion of inauguration sho wore a dress of ivery satin with much gold embroidery She had a train two or three yards in lenth of handsome dark crimson vet spangled with gold borne by six officers of state The gold crown was already upon her head and thus she stood upon the The Prime Minister is her wedded and old enough to be her grandfather She is the third Queen who has been his wife A WRITER says that a year's ence with broad wagon wheels is con- as to their value A four-inch tire will carry two tons over soft than a two and a half inch tiro will carry one ton The wheels arc not so much strained by stone and rough tracks on the read and the road is not place of safety cut up but on tho contrary is packed down and keeps smooth The pre- valent idea that the draught ed by widening the tiro is altogether baseless on tho contrary a wide tiro reduces the draught Tli of the tiro is repaid many times over be done by a team his at hurricanes in Macon and Champaign counties 111 and in several localities in have done serious damage THE rupture between Victor and Jerome Bonaparte is said to be com- plete Victor has fallen heir to willed by an unknown person AN natural gas well was strwck on the ty in the oast end of Pittsburg a depth of feet A LICENSE was the iron at Pittsburg Saturday by Judge Stowe to create a tribunal for the settlement of disputes with their em- ployes on tbe wages question advices from Vice President and manager Van Horn ot tho dian say that no new branches of the road will be built or extensions of the present branches mado this son He Bays Mr has failed in securing money in England for the ex- tho Manitoba Southwestern AT Mexico a serious conflict is reported to have occurred Monday be- tween the troops and the people and fears are expressed that a revolution has begun which will spread to all sections of the republic It is said tkat tho present government is so corrupt that any change would be desirable TiiE St Paul Minneapolis and Mani- toba railway company has been by tho collector of customs at Winni actual office in question the ments and burdens of which I do sot desire to assume DISTRICT ATTORNEY Buss of St Louis who has been here a day or two is in- himself ia the fixing the salaries of the district officials of the department of justice The as it now stands fixes the salary of the St Louis district attorney at per year than that of the sama officer at and Chicago he thinks ia an injustice as tho duties of his office are quits as heavy as those of either of the ethers THE sub-committee having in charge tho Sioux Reservation will report it to the full Committee on Indian Affairs Tho most important amendment they recommend to tho senatu is to out the clause which provides for patents in feo to tke Indians as This will probably be agreed to by tho full committee and it is understood the friends of the measure will not oppose the amendments In other respects the full committee will undoubtedly agree lo tho substantially as it is THE recently reported from the Pacific railroads committee authorizing tho construction of a railroad from City west via Yankton to con- with the meridian is MAY 31 resolution calling on the president for information concerning the appointment of commissioners to examine certain sections of the ern Pacific railroad was referred to the judiciary committee yeas 27 nays 23 The following bills were For the erection of public In Vicksburg Chattanooga 000 lasd Oregon mento 000 La Dayton the minority resolution declaring Kinley entitled to a seat It was lost yeas 108 nays 158 A Methodist Story Sunday Magazine One secret of the power which at- tends the simple ministrations of the Methodist preachers of the type was the spiritual and unseen things were to them what they are truly more real than the objects of mere sease The training of spine of those men was favorable to this ATI iyuu UUU men uuu Springfield O j illustration was once given by an old The sums include cose man with whom I used to chat in the Tha J a Dumo sites and buildings The to tho issue of the congressional record and statutes at large to public libraries Tho passed authorizing th e construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Sibley Missouri Tho Utah was laid aside and the establishing a bureau of labor was taken up claims of the arable debate Peele addressed the house in his own behalf English's claims were advocated by Hurd Springer Henley and Converse of Ohio Hart then offered to substitue for the majority resolution the r supported the B contestee Alter wun tne lautn meridian is tne majority resolution 100 inga good deal of attention from tho I or the minority confirming the northwest It authorizes the of Peele to bis scat During the tion of a road over the line which the j progress of the vote there was a Union Pacific have built deai Or interest manifested Mr Sioux City west and requires the Union at a desk in ths last row and horntho United States into all persons on or hereafter for breeding purposes and that the n roll while of hoes into is for- f nf thn in tlie military or naval service of the tion of Union rats with-it It is kept tally and looking over his ed that line will put Minneapolis I der stood his father A number of 400 nearer the Pacific coast than members watched each vote intently now anol Milwaukee 150 miles nearer the conclusion of the call when it besides giving them the advantage of evident that the substitute was being in Union Pacific territory agreed to Springer who had voted in THE house committee on invalid the negative changed his vote to the siona has unanimously agreed to report affirmative for the purpose of moving favorably tho increasing certain tho reconsideration Tho vote was pensions prepared by then announced yeas 131 nays 111 as a substitute for the ef The following democrats voted tbe republicans in the Aiken Boyle Budd Connolly Dargan Findlay Greenleaf Hardeman Herbert Hewitt of Hunt Jones of Wis Dare Miles Morgan Neese Peele litions must OB given a t of per month and if that they will be slaughtered j fchey rocei d wound or disability in addition thereto shall re- AT Memphis Tenn the caving of the i a pension of per month and river bank from the mouth tit Wolf j ay who have a leg amputated river and along the center landing is m- at creasing daily Since Saturday a large i iost au nrm at section of laud has split off and bled into the river in front of the of the Colton Compress and Storage and the platform m front ot shed was removed to save it from destruction The bank in the rear of the Oil Works is ling rapidly and there are signs that another section of the big elevator will fan the river works are bound to go under and and all persons who shall be entitled ef and all persons who lost an arm and a leg be entitled to a pension of per month THE of ths Treasury tele- graphed tho Assistant Treasurer at New York as i- i From this date to Juno 1 you are out authorized to pay tho bonds embraced The rails neighborhood of One ning as we sat by tie fireside I re- ferred to the old Minister Church not far a romantic valley and spoke of the curious ghastly legends that floated about it Yes said he queer things have been said and queer things have been met with say what you will I can tell you one thing that I know to be true There was ono John Warden Jol n Warden that afterwards got to be a preacher John Warden sir was a farmer's laborer poor fellow The Lord touched his heart sir and John Warden turned Methodist Well sir his master and all about him turned upon him and the poor boy had to bear all sorts of persecution One night as they were ail around the fire in the kitchen and many ways had been tried to pAt poor John out of temper the master said at says ho What sort of religion hast got John Why be to go down to the church to-night at 12 o'clock eh This was a sort of challenge sir to try whether John was good enough to be above fear Poor John in his simplicity sir thought that the credit of his religion was really at stake and screwing up his Iv No I afraid to go to the Will A QUEER MANIA About San Francisco Francisco and over I caught ze worthy citizens living in the gaire I caught ze church by night or by day of Ark Potter Stevens Col e w suburban districts of South San cisco and ex- cited at but their amounts to almost nothing when com- pared with their indignation The peace of their homes hasbeen ly shattered by the advent of a crank in their midst amd all the efforts of Officer Bennett and the other men stationed in thai district have thus been unsuccessful in ing him out When the neighbors meet in the morning the Erst question they ask one another is Whose feet were tickled last The cause of their uneasiness can briefly be ex- Shortly after midnight a few weeks ago a gentleman living with his family near the slaughter house was awakened from his sleep by the shrieks of his ter a young miss of 1C summers He grabbed a revolver and hurriedly ran to her room in the expectation o meeting a burglar The girl was most dead from fright and in broken accents sho narrated lo her father the cause of the outcry She from had her tiro will carry two tons ef the gauge at ground with greater ease to tho team the of has sunk pavement and all Tho in front of Buchanan's grain elevator near the boiler has been removed to a CRIME Jons of Hoosac Fall vy was arrested at Troy NY charged Tim with robbing the depot at Eagle Bridge iho extra cosi of worth of tickets uru ia times over THE murderer Joseph Frazior hanged vear in the extra work that can himself in tho jail tt Anderson Ind lu thus the county the last night thus saying the county the Vliw expense and trouble trying and exe cuting him THK Washington Post prints brief i oio Kittleson a Norwegian farmer re- interviews with eighty-two Ming near Pine Goodhue ic members ef the house of in support of tho demand thai a clear and explicit statement of principle absolutely committing the party to the issue of revenue reform in tho presidential canvass shall bo mado by tho Chicago convention of July Among those are Carlisle Morrison Hewitt Hurd Slocum Cox of Xew Holman Burner and Blackburn The latter says look to tho convention for tion of tho con test made this session for tariff reform The box factory of the Erie Preserving Company's works at Long Island City burned Saturday the flames spread to adjoining structures and residences and destroying erty rained at The flro ia the oil works of the Atlanta Refining Company at continued all day Sunday At Stonebridge K I the Sauton House consumed Loss insurance In Harmony township near Janesville Wis a spark from a cooker set to tho barns on tho Jackmam farm which destroyed a largo corn crib machinery house hay barn and granary with 28 hogs aud a valuable Durham bull Tho loss is with insurance of AtDccauter 111 Koach Caun tile works caught fire from tho room and the sheds were destroyed inflicting a loss of insurance t Minn killed his wife and then com- mitted a few days ago The bodies of both founi Monday They lived unhappily THE City Clerk's office at East St Louis was entered by burglars day night The safe was broken open and money and scrips to tho of several thousand dollars taken There ia DO clua Mas MILLEK 401 Hanover place Brooklyn engaged Abraham Douglass colored to her ture While they in the house Douglass criminally assaulted her asid escaped A himself Clarence McCarthy was fatally shot by James B Neal at New York early Saturday morning when forcing an entrance to Neal's bedroom JOHNSON one of the crs who killed the Taylor family and delivered the bodies for apiece to the Ohio medical the same night was found guilty at Cincinnati day of murder in the first degree FERDINAND WARD of the firm of Grunt Ward was arrested by the uty sheriff in a brought against him bv Nelson I Tappan chaimberlain Ward ia held in bail the amount in the order of arrest He has not yet lodged in jail but is in custody of the Bail has not yet been furnished by Ward DR S A HUBBELL son of Judge Hubbell Milwaukee being ed with death by Keeler of Medford Wis for seducing his wife shot and killed himself in the latter town night Tha confession to her husband led to the suicide John Carpenter recently released from prison for assaulting his wife and ed to lay that on tVe table pending which Mr Converse moved to adjourn The motion was carried 110 to 113 amid applause on the democratic fide THURSDAY MAT 22 tho tte title the Bureau of Labor Statistics was changed to Department of Labor The senate committee ed an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation giving for the ex- ploration of Alaska An amendment granting to consular re- lations with tho Congo country The closing the mails to publications in which are lottery advertisements went to the foot of the calendar the house Mr English the contestant in case was seated by a vote of 180 to 127 It was charged that Win H English his father had used his privilege of the floor as an to lobby for Kis son's success and that Representative Weller had been influenced to cease voting against the contestant after the first A committee was appointed to investigate the charges In tho house the to forfeit the land grant of the Central railroad was debated The committee on ways and means haa decided to give no consideration to that part of the Hewitt Tariff which looks towards a reduction of tariff FRIDAY MAY 23 the senate Mr Harrison re- ported favorably a providing that the Dakota legislature shall consist of twenty-four members of the council and forty-eight of the house The pension AN me commons appropriation pasted the senate Joseph Chamberlain spoke for nearly the establishing a bureau of Tour hours and moved to a second labor with a commissioner at a u and calls with interest subject to the decision of the Department M to tho regularity of assignment the to the De- to bo paid as heretofore by the having bonds redeemed Sinned CHARLES J Secretary FOREIGN THE admiralty has ordered tho do flotilla at Chatham and Portsmouth to be prepared for active services of Spain promises that of the ahall be in- and that there sball be a in the system of national taxation PRINCE VICTOR recently stated that ho considered tho act of adhesion to the re- public part of father Jerome as an abdication of hia claims to the Bonapartist headship Victor in that case will vindicate his rights aa heirs to the imperial crown Is the commons Monday so far from the valley The question how they should know that he had been to church A plan was hit upon He was to take a large spike nail and a hammer and to drive the nail into the church door John went off sir with his hammer nail and an tern and as he told me afterwards years afterward he was a sir he never forgot I the says went down amon John and the win Tittle queer But I got to the church all right though just as I was going nto the wind came ng round the church and outwent my candle I declare I then wished myself away from the place It was pitchy dark I asked God to help me and then felt my way to the door put my nail to it and gave first blow I felt a tingling all over me as the echoes went round inside tho church They sounded hollow But I picked and hammered away till the nail was a lone way in Then I turned and my way back to the farm They laughed at me and said they would go down in the ing to be sure before they would be- lieve I had been there They went down early and there was the nail But when they opened the door to see whether the nail had went through oh how they stared at one There waj the nail turned back ed in and clenched in the door as if the cleverest carpenter in the world had done ing the Merchants Shipping David Maclver Conservative md owners opposed the motion The ago of the is regarded as n year and a chief at the Mr Weller in- denied that he had been in- to ceasa voting against lish Mr appealed for an j UU of infantry were ot tho charges against him across a bridge just completed I m the and after some i n iv for the hesitation it was referred to the com- at Berlin Wednesday lor the to decide whether purpose of testing its strength a tion of the structure gave way tating many of tho to tho g river Twenty persons some of them mortally soldiers and into by the were lior arrived day Knife in Field ot THE Held of Gettysburg promises to be tho most accurately marked field the world In addition to the large number of tablets aud stones already to mark the position of troops and to designate the spots the various events in that wonderful fight took place a groat many more will be put ia place ing tho coming summer A tee of the Seventeenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers visited the field and determined upon the spot lo locate a memorial to mark tho tion of that regiment m the first and second days of the batlle The let will probably be placed in position on 1 On the 2d the Pour Regiment will erect a stone to mark ill position during the fight The dedications of these memorials will bring the Governor and his staff and many other prominent people of Connecticut to take part in the monies various other regiments from the different tUttt will visit the field toon to for to mark the occupied by cross the river Humber on the ice i body was found yesterday horribly ment waf mutilated by being jammed in the ice THE Cincinnati Load Pipe and Sheet Company's works at Cincinnati wero destroyed by fire involving a in New York Mon ho rushed upon ay ne n an them and when tha sister threw herself before his wife he stabbed her twice Mrs Carpenter rushed into a storf but the assassin and plunged his knife into her body several timas ing her instantly Then he lay beside the corpse two iH his abdomen Carpenter and his sister-in-law removed to Hospital where the woman lies dying WASHINGTON THE president nominated John D Sea -an to be receiver of public moneys at North Neb THE House Ways and Means Commit tee Friday consideration of that part of Hewitt's tariff which was prepared at the Treasury Department THK president ban a granting a loan of Orleans Exposition House Committee on Civil vice Reform has unanimously directed a favorable report on the o repeal the tenure ot office acts has ordered nil mail matter heretofore sent from New York New Orleans and Galveston to Mexico by sea shall after be eent via Elpaso Texas over the Mexican Central Railroad THS students of Washington and Jefferson college recently nominated Mr Edmunds for president at a mock convention and notified him He senis the sincerely thank the young gentlemen tbe compliment I much prefer tbe approved the to the new FIRES AND CASUALTIES shoddy at Philadelphia were burned recently Loss ola county fire last on to decide whether tho house had power to investigate the acts of a person committed before he became a member ot tho house Mr Springer attacked Gen Grant in the calling attention to his tion with the greatest of the ago The house favorably reported a giving to pay ter MONDAY MAY 20 Cao ravaged by THE wa of Toronto while fche Qf until Dec 31 1885 was to The to the Atlantic Pacific railway's was jrr of Toronto while out the Atlantic Pacific railway's two months ago attempted to i grants reported ss the river Humber on the ice His -A constitutional loss of ly burned Two persons were A PORTION of the Owensboro Ky factory was turned recently quantity of bubs and insurance with ft spokes 000 AT Minneapolis Willie aged 9 years while watching some players was hit by a horse knocked under the cars and instantly killed the holiday games at ham the grand stand and 150 persons were several seriously No fatal are feared The injuries consisted of broken lees and ribs night lightning struck a tank containing barrels of oil ing ta the Star works and the the fluid burned until Saturday inR creating a loss of THE box factory of the Erie ing works at Long Island City burned Saturday the flames spreading to structures and residences and valued at 000 ELLETT Dewey Co wholesale dry goods of Richmond Va have assigned liabilities not known Dewey thinks they will pay dollar for dollar Preferred creditors dues amount to THE across the Scioto river Portsmouth Ohio fell under the weight of a drove of that were passing over it Wednesday The structure valued at ia a com- plete wreck and three children who were on the bridge at the time A New Tom Thumb Turns Up Union One of the smallest in the Sates lives at Cedar Key His name Livingstone He years old forty and one-half inches high weighs 39 pounds and the captain he came over with from Key says he can eat more than any two men in the state The midget was born and reared m KeyWest He is is J very bright and moaned I felt a been rudely awakened dreams of innocence by sation in the soles of her feet When she opened her eyes she saw by the aid of the pale moonlight which was struggling through the dow a masked man standing at the foot of her bed She shrieked and tbs intruder sprang through the window out into the yard which is a few feet below and made bis escape The father at first thought that the girl bad been dreaming but tbe cold night air wafted up from the bay soon made him realize that the window was open and tho adventure was a reality He closed the window and sat down on a chair to cogitate on tlie strange when his teeth began to chatter He started oft for his own bed to continue his tion when he discovered that the front door was open He closed and locked the door and when he ed the he found his wife closing the window in the room A hurried investigation showed that all the windows and doors oa the lower floor of the house had been opened by the midnight prowler The next day the police authorities were notified of the action of the nocturnal visitor Scarcely a night passes now but some female is awakened by the fiend ling her feet As soon as the victim wakes up the man makes his escape either through an open window or door In every the prowler opens all the doors in tha house before with his deviltry and widows he proceeds The man wears a wide-brimmed hat ries a dark lantern and has the lower portion of his face concealed by a cloth He never steals anything or e the church at any rate has been missed But i i from the houses visited except ID one rpH wav tlH case where a towel was missing It is probable that the fiend forgot his disguise that night and took the towel to use as a mask A few nights ago a married lady felt the prowler ing her feet She quickly lit a Wanted to Pool Detroit Press Yesterday noon there were about twenty people m line at the general delivery window of the post office when a woman undertook to crowd into a place near the head observed the man she would have crowded down the line this window is run on the principle of a come first served Yes but I am terribly anxious to get a letter she replied Anybody No My husband is in Cleveland and I expect a letter with money in it If I don't get it I don't know how I'M going to get along over Sunday a he ed Jly wife is in Buffalo and I'm expecting money from her If it doesn't come my landlord will set me outdoors and I'll have to pawn my coat to raise a stake to play Can't we What do you mean your husband won't support you nor my port me let's chip in and hire the same lawyer to our Comes cheaper you know where the are rolled into one She flatly refused to join in any such arrangement and when the clerk answered Nothing for the hyena of a raan grinned and chuckled said he was giad of it- served her right been for him and he seems to be aware of the fact for be always a victim at a distance from where the officers are stationed Un- less he is caught in a short time the fair lasses in the locality infested by him will be compelled to wear their shoes in bed to having their sleep disturbed Of late cows have been stolon from stables in the vicinity and some of them have afterward been found shot Of the others no traces have been found but whether tho stealing is a part of the programme carried out bv the feet tickler F Malaria mom introduced extending the presidential tenure of office to one term of six yeara and making the dent ineligible if he had been called upon to fill the presidential chair by son of the death or resignation of the Brown proposed an amendment to the Utah making the voluntary intercourse of married people with persons of the opposite not their husband or wife the only cose for absolute divorce in the district of Columbia or the territories being day it was taken up mainly by tho introduction and re- ference of bills Mr.'Belford introduced a appropriating to erect a homo for confederate soldiers senate amendments to the agricultural were agreed to Mr to grant a pension to nil The leave tracts covered honorably discharged soldiers on vegetation to of ing at the age of 45 years TUESDAY MAY 27 Camerou Penn in the senate this morning and the senators congratulated him on his safe and improved health eral petitions were presented opposing government assumption of telegraphic functions Sen Slater from the com- on public lands reported ably the to forfeit the grant along the uncompleted portion of the ern Pacific railroad Sen Hill ted a report from tbe committee on postoffices and post roads the subject of a postal telegraph Sen Lapham submitted a report from the on privileges and on the ville investigation Sen Yance is pre- paring a minority report Sen bury submitted a minority re port on the Copiah county investigation In introduced a to provide for the sale of lands belonging to the Prairie band of Indians Messrs Dibrell Williams and white to confer on the agricultural Mr Ellis called up the joint resolution jT t hirx He ran into tho street tind his neighbors stood aghast tmd asked him what the matter was he almost cried for joy as he said over J In his subsequent cooler moments Mr explained the matter and set up the drinks ze fellow comes back he said I will him the pail and ze and will giv him ze shake of hand Zs war is all IN WOMEN More Air Needed fcr Comfort One cause of the extreme ness of American is living too much in the darkness when indoors says the Herald of Health The rooms are kept dark to save the pets and keep out the flies and a consequence both tke house and the occupants lack the benefits af the fresh air and sunshine Houses from which sun is excluded are not WEED The Storr William II Seward told His Thurlow Weed ia his memoirs la connection with Mr ard's executive service there used to be told a good story which had wide circulation and which was CD joyed by no one more than the governor self While journeying about the state Mr Seward of accosting all sorts of people with whom he dis- cussed public measures without dis- closing nis own identity It was safe to resort to this in districts removed from the ordinary route of travel On one of his trips the governor was passing through a far western country and as was his custom rode on top of the stage by the side of the driver He took a lively interest in all that was and his companion with questions He ed to know about the crops facilities of transportation the population of each hamlet who kept the taverns ij wholesome There is always a damp j who the leading politicians depressing condition in them that what was the condition of churches makes itself evident at once to a schools poorhouses etc temperament The minds anil it came to the driver's turn to ask questions and with Curiosity to know who this inquisitive temperament bodies of all who live iri such houses are by it Both health and are depressed Their occupants have only the depressing effect of the lack of light and suo to con- tend against but the reaction quent upon living in unwholesome conditions All the rooms in the BOUSO should kave both light and shine freely admitted at all times whether they are in daily use or net They are thus kept sweet and a re in good condition when they are kelson Sizer said when ing a phrenological Be as much possible in the shine People who live in dark rooms wear black arc pale ail You can not have too muck of light and sunshine either iri your lives or in your houses for good health You may live but it lam not a A lecturer No sir I am not a A No sir After a moments the driver You must be grain sir I am not Then I know what you are you must be a or you wouldn't ask so many questions That is not my at present Wiio are you finally ex- claimed the driver unable to restrain the direct inquiry I am governor of this state It asking a good deal of the all of life to Merely to exist is a driver to expect him to believe that small part of our work in this world He showed his incredulity We should all live that body and said Mr Seward suppose mind are at all times in their best con- you wait until the stage gets to the next town I the landlord there and he can identify me He won't say you're the governor I'll bet a doller Soon after tho stage drew up in of the next tavern and ing up to the landlord who stood among a crowd of loungers on the steps Mr Seward See here Mr Tompkins you know me do you dition We arc then ready and able to do whatever duty may be required of us in such a way that the doing merely shall be pleasurable and the reaction on ourselves and others It should be iu fact the religious duly of every one so to live Many a woman and child have been sacrificed to save the and keep out the flies Many a fit ot illness has resulted from the same cause Many a disappointed life can be traced back to sunless rooms as a beginning Multitudes of en and children are only to-day because only half-fed shine and light and air are as much food for body and soul os the fruits and grains and vegetables that we take into our and we can not get a surfeit of them as of food The more we have the better A Bird Country American The Guatemala as the of the narrowing land strip of Yes sir I do Well then driver is not willing to believe that I am governor of New York Stick to it said the I dont be- lieve it either exclaimed Mr Separd iu astonishment Then who is ing ner leef one no a LUC die which the intruder as promptly North America accommodates with blew out and then jumped through homes a great many of the migratory an open window The officers have birds and that such a country which an eloquent speech wt rotting vege tho sun which evaporate tho o chills and fever and other malarial diseases both and virulent This year ID consequence of the unexampled inundations in towns and cities no less tban in bottom lands and along river banks is fecund of disease Certain may be found ia Hostetter's Bitters The urban suburban residents ot towns as well as the agriculturist tho miner and tne ern will exercise precaution by forestalling the peril with this excellent sive agent It renders vigorous promotes Mbit of reforms of the lirer and renews digestion aud petite Tho wholesome warmth which tt begets in system counteracts n to rheumatism and kidney complaints fostered by dampness and unwise exposure and sudden produced by a fall of temperature Workers in ornamental wood now assert that pine hard finished in oil is the rival in beauty of any that grows not excepting the costliest of the hard susceptible of receiving as degree of polish as any known wood No Marts Mr T M Casad editor of the don Iowa Times writes that his little for the of sufferers by the over flow of tbe Mississippi river and taries passed yeas 120 nays 38 The house resumed tion of the contested election case The house committee en military affairs will report favorably on the retiring General as colonel Mr Turner closed the debate and tho house vote upon Oil the great cured it completely leaving no marks By two applications of St Jacobs Oil he cured himself of a torturing in the side Triumphant Americans Americans defeated the Yorkshires day ia a lacrosse HE WAS THERE TOO Tell SCory pany Capture Mr Michel Boesinger of 130 Bridge street Brooklyn is a small-sized Frenchman with a big heart he became a citizen this country he went to the war and enlisted in the northern army He was ber of company C of the New York volunteers and at one period the duel between the south and north was stationed with his company on Edisto island at the mouth of Edisto river The New York Mail and Express says he likes to tell reminiscences of that period On Tuesday last he sent his wife to hire a man to calcimine his kitchen arid when Mr came in at noon the white wash artist who was a coal-black negro was hard at His back was turned to the small but leonine Then the latter When 1 was at ze war he be- gan I visited many states in ze south So did rejoined the negro I was in continued Mr Boesinger So was said the whitewash artist And in interjected the Gaul Me responded tho ler continued the Frenchman I wan on Edisto island So was broke in the said the little Frenchman warming up Edisto island is where I was by zs A with one eye he cams one day to our and zed he wanted to join ze company The next day ze he skipped out and ze night of day he led the confederates down and captured ze whole lot He the password I'd know zat nigger anywhere He was but the one eye Mr Boesinger in his excitement had worked himself around until he was iu front of the whitewash artist He glanced up and saw the was pockmarked bad only one eye and was in fact the veritable gentleman who had company C By ze shades of ze great you are ze said the little Frenchman and his ment giving way to his anger he un- loaded himself of a dozen choice and unbiblical expletives as he ran up the toward the negro latter did not wait He jumped the seven steps and went through the door like a gust of windr The pail ot impetuous Frenchman and in its tropical climate on the coasts eternal spring in its middle elevation and cold atmosphere on the heights dotted bv lakes and covered by a work of rivers rivulets brooks and brooklets and blessed with fruits of both hot and cold temperatures and has many creatures peculiarly its own needs no expatiation The birds for instance encountered here are said to represent COO species There are no eagles so to speak but three kinds of hawks the same number of buzzards or carrion crows and six different marauders at night The sparrow family the dominant in the land for it numbers -110 species The bri or is found in thirty-six species belonging to eight genera In tho parrot family eight species are known as Auroras all of brilliant and and metallic plumage The quetzal or quesal tbe most beautiful and striking of all the Guatemala birds and which stands on top of state's escutcheon forms a genus by itself It inhabits the high est mountains Verapaz but that particularly in relentless tyrant v iri A fashion penetrates its craggy fastness butchers it unmercifully and ments her silly person with tbe rowed plumage Several hundred of them are thus slaughtered every year 0 the hooded parrots there are eight while the common ones called loros are divided into fourteen species Among the songsters tbe a small clack biro living on bananas plantains and similar fruits and our catbirds is considered the finest and called the nightingale of the country In the gallinaceous order ono may mention the a magnificent wild creature quail in turkey in size ind peasant ia color with a long slightly curved and round-pointed and crest con- sisting of fine blue-black and white speckled feathers of which tho first is five and tbe last is three inches in length When caught quite young it is easily tamed and contented in the poultry yard but in the first and ond pairing is sure to silently away into the wilderness from Ohio The turkey of tbe Cordilleras called pavo de cacho is peculiar to the est volcanic summits Singularly the turkey of Peten is confined to that region and is of a distant species Of COMMOTION IX i Tlie Trick a Sharp on a Fat Man and a Falter Woman Philadelphia Times Pretty sharp curve jaid tha sleeping car conductor as lurch of tho car threw a from the aisle across the back of a The train was A very funny a few years ago on these curves running a sleeper on the line to the West When we Newark one of the biggest women ever didn't an less into tbe car and handed me a ticket for lower y 5 There was nothing very inary about that bat when we got to Philadelphia and a man a little bit fatter than the woman called for lower 4 then thore was a smile all around Wo pulled out of Philadelphia about at night and the porter making down the berths retired behind her curtains as soon as her birth was made In a few tes we heard her snoro with a sound that rose above the rumble of the 1s we seared faHy Nc 2 got sleepy and began his preparations for going to bed His berth remember wao exactly opposite that of trie woman and after he had removed his shoes with the tance of tho porter ha stood up and began at hiit coat Just we struck a sharp curve The lurch of the car sent the fat man plump into the fat woman's birth How she ed land how he puffed and panted and struggled But he couldn't get up She was true game you bet and buried her hands in his hair and tore at it for all it was worth It took three of us to get him loose and put him on his feet God in he said vat is ing explained things all around we got him stowed away in his birth but the fat woman jave tbe porter a lar to stand guard her for the rest of the night Sleek and Blockheads Ken Perley Poore When the for the payment of Texan claims was under discussion in the thirty-third congress Mr len in advocating the reduction of the amount to bo appropriated ed to the remarks of the and quails there are seven and of pigeons seventeen species not counting the waders as crane shitepoke sandpiper snipe woodcock curley wigeon and rail or are believed to have mora than 250 species There ia also a variety among the web-footed bird Repousse Life kind of a looking nan was it that called Jones a Bangle of her husband Oh 1 he was short and stout with blue eyes light hair and nez Nez re- trousse my corrected Mrs B Thank you rejoined Bangle Then that ia just the word to describe it when Jones got done with him The in British army in 1883 were altogether tion is prevalent among the young soldiers Of the cases last jear only 617 or just of men who bellowed so loudly ho said but to his sleek-headed colleague Mr lor Mr Taylor who was entering the hall just as this allusion was made to him replied that would rather have a sleek head tha blockhead Mr McMullen rben I in- tended nothing personally offensive which no one ought to havo known better than the gentleman himself I made use of the remark at which the gentleman exhibited an undue degree of to produce a little levity neither of us ought to complain of our beads If united there would not be more brains forone com- Mr Taylor rose to reply anil no ob- being made Tarn the last man to make an improper ion though first to defend myself from offensive remark I take back what I after the personal ation of friend with I have had long inter- course I think neither he nor my self nor the whole house more than the at our hands L A lace factory which be tne one ol tbe kind in the United States w to be Pa
