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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN.,. APRIL 7, 1881.
VOL. I.-NO. 21.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Important Intelligence from AU Parts.
c       Tire XT. S. Senate.
The resolution lor the election of officers
was again called up on the 29th, and Mr.
Johnston stated that he had intended that
dayt65ci§|)ly*io the speech of his colleague
(Mahone),' hut would postpone his remarks
unti\ he could have an opportunity to read
the spe'ech in the Record. Messrs. Hampton,
Brownv: Reek, McMillan and Jonas made
speeches, in, answer to allegations made by
Mr."*Mahone in his remarks of the day before,
and Mr. Kellogg spoke concerning the course
of the Democrats in iojiisiana in respect to
the^ebfroffjthat State. Several dilatory mo-
tiori§7were*niade and voted down during the
day, hut a motion by Mr. Dawes to adjourn
was finally agreed to.
On the 30th ult., on motion of Mr. Cameron
(AVis.}, a resolution was adopted authorizing
the Senate to pay the necessary funeral expenses of the late Senator Carpenter. The
pending business—the resolution for the elec-
tionlbft Senate officers—was then taken up,
and a motion to go into executive session was
rejected—2a to 25.' Mr. Harris then, after some
remarks, ino\-ed that when the Senate should
adjourn for the day it be to meet the first
Monday in December next. Lost—23 to 28.
"Various other dilatory motions were made
andj^goted-'down, after which Messrs. Hill,
Davres.'Hoar and other Senators indulged in
remdrSs.bifa partisan and personal nature.
On mbrlotfof Mr. Dawes an adjournment was
finally agreed to.
The resolution, for the election of officers
was agaiibP'calied up on the 31st ult., and
speeches were made by Messrs. Cameron (Pa.),
Maxey, Dawes, Jones "(Fla.),"Kellogg, Jonas,
Beck and others, and resolutions for an executive session, and for adjournment to the first
Monday in December, were offered and rejected:? "On motion of Mr. Dawes an adjourn-
-mentEfor;the;day was finally eifected.
Ak exciting personal and political debate
took up the time' of the session on the 1st,
Messrs. Lamar, Beck, Hampton, Bayard, Hoar,
Dawes,T Vodrhees and Mahone making remarks. An angry altercation occurred between Messrs. Voorhees and Mahone, the latter having demanded of The former whether
he 'had;lapplied to him (Mahone) the terms
""rehegade'Democrat," " Repudiationist," etc.,
.and the latter having finally said he indorsed
■every word of a newspaper article containing
the epithets as having been applied by Mr.
Voorhees, ln> a speech delivered by him.
Miv" "Mahone" denounced the references
thus iriade'to him as such that no honorable or
brave man would make, and .applied his denunciation, to Mr. Voorhees personally. Mr.
V. replied that that was a question for the
"nsrer.aHd the hereafter.'' Mr. M. saidthe
hereafter^Avould come as soon as he (V.) want-
edafctcf^ Mr.* V. then replied that he would
know exactly how to meet it, and again indorsed every word in the article containingthe
epithets, objected to by Mr. Mahone. The.
wordy war continued a little further, when,
on.ffiufibn ofi'Mr.-Dawes, an adjournment to
the 4th was agreed to.
/I 3      /Domestic
A" iPEw'days ago floating oil in Tuna Creek
at Bradford, Pa., was set on fire by an engine
en tne Erie Eoad, and the railway bridge and
McEe.eJs whgel factory were burned.
OSRtfie'SOth ult. a Wabash tra n was thrown
from tie track at Colton, Ohio, by a defective
5WtteB?%h"d"eight passengers were injured.
The Supreme Court at San Francisco, in
-*<>ne oI'tfie"2snits instituted by Burke against
Flood and the other bonanza, kings, hasren-
-dei-eua.decision which, it is said, will force
the"latter to disgorge over ?SO0,OOJ to stockholders.
A CTGLONB in Randolph County, Ga., on
the 30th ult. killed Jack Embrey and his wife
and two children.
Ox the 30th ult.. a party of ten cowboys engaged in a lark at O'Neill City, Neb., and
killed ShferifE Kearns and seriously wounded
his deputy because they objected to the
breaking up of an auction.
sA Leaf; of valuable hogs, belonging to
Michael; Simpson, at South Framingbam,
Mass., jjtjpere so badly affected by trichinae that
orders f,7vere recently given to kilL them.
Five oftne Jot had been slaughtered f ormar-
ket, but an examination by a chemist disclosed mites which, moved when ether was
applied.
AccoEcrse to the Cincinnati Price Current
thewlnler pbrfe-paclnng of the West reached
the total of 6,916,456 head.
The announcement was made from Washington on the 30th ult. that the Treasury was
prepared!^to^fedeem 'the outstanding five per
cents^f'1831 at the rate of 101.25.
^Hiaffauians at Hoocheno, Alaska, recently
burned at the stake two of their number for
some crime.
The Secretary of the Navy hasr:ordered the
Wachuse.tt to put to sea from San Francisco
" in searchTof'the missing mail steamer City of
'New York.
Up to the recent great storm, and covering
a period of fifty-four days, the officers of the
2*orth_we3tern Eailroad report that they had
paid?out $300,000 in overcoming obstructions
caused by drifted snow.
Butter-dealers in Boston have made the
discovery that oleomargarine is being shipped
in tups to farmers near St. Albans, Vt, who
slip in a sample occasionally among their invoices of genuine country butter.
Jl^tg^state'd oil the 31st ult. that five hundred negroes had within three days left
Huntington,,Tenn., for Kansas.
Mrs.■„ Albright, residing near Youngs-
town, Ohio, recently hanged herself with a
skein of yarn, leaving five children. The
receipt.of the news caused her uncle, John
Ellzera, to fall dead.
Tee Illinois & Mississippi Canal Commission has arranged for a Northwestern Convention at Davenport on May 25, the delegates to be appointed by tbe Governors,
Boards of Trade and Farmers' Clubs. The
object^!.the^gatherlng is to invoke the aid
Of CongsejS3. in creating a water route from
the father of waters to the lakes.
The cofnage at the mint in Philadelphia
during March was 4,561,890 pieces, valued, at
S8,793,£>1. Of this amount §4,871,800 were
eagles. £3,292,400 half-eagles and $600,500 silver dollars.
The public-debt statement, issued on the
1st makes the following exhibit: Total debt
(including interest of S18,133,230), $2,104,-
57&2g.C%a.sh ih Treasury, §230,814,692. Debt,
lersKanfoBfltfe Treasury. §1,873,763,593. Decrease during March, §6,192,819. Decrease
since June.gfc. 1880, $68,408,70L     •
Ox the 1st a locomotive burst into fragments while standing oa the track at Tyrone,
Pa. Five persons were "injured, and considerable damage was done to property close
by.
A comtaxt has been formed in Buffalo to
light the streets and public buildings of that
cftlMpge'lrfeitsv
*Tfr#tl®t^rriage of the United States
mints during March was .$13,058,161, Of which
$2,300,000 wajS-silver.      „,--,.
The iron-'moiders of Pittsburglx have secured an advance of ten per cent- iu wages in
forty shops. *      "'
Goux> to the amount of $1,400,000 arrived in
N^^g^^kSpn the^ 1st from Europe.
A New Yoric mining expert has been sued
for $£1,000' for making false reports as to the
value 6¥a^0a?i'fo£nia silver mine.
jS.n ice-gorge at Davenport, Iowa, on the
f.   lit carried away the Northern Line dock and
warehouse.   On the Rock Island side  the
Diamond Joe  warehouse  was  crushed  by
blbcTrs of ice'sixty feet in height.
The body of Colonel J. N. Roes, of Hblden,
'''•Mass., was cremated at Washington, Pa., on
the afteruooa of the Slat uli.
Recent reports from the winter wheat in
Ohio are said to show a large increase in
acreage and a  promising condition of the
plants.
Bt a collision on the St. Paul, Minneapolis
& Maniioba Road, near Rothsay, the other
morning, two men were killed and five seriously injured.
Mrs. Jennie Perrt, of Baltimore, while
alone in her room a few days ago, wa9 stricken with apoplexy, fell again»t the stove, and
was roasted alive.
While making dynamite cartridses at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., the other day, William
Hinsley was torn into fragments- and the
building was demolished.
A recent New York special says: "The
records at Castle Garden show that during
the past thirty-four years 2,113,688 Irish immigrants have arrived in this city, and 2,309,-
371 Germans. From January 1, 1881, to
March 31, inclusive, 7,709 German immigrants
arrived here, and 5,243 Irish. It is a noteworthy fact that during these' three months
nearly 1,500 Russians-have reached this city."
In the region of Somerset, Ky., Deputy
United States Marshals Bates and Cooper,
who had been active against the illicit distillers, were recently killed in affrays into which
they were forced.
Considerable excitementhas been recentr
ly created at Rockford.IH., by the attenvptof
the Chicago, Milwaukee <fe St Paul Eailroad
Company to seixe the Chicago, Rockford &
Northern Eailroad. The attempt was made
on the 30th ult, and was forcibly resisted by
tbe latter road and its' employes,
and for a time the.. St Paul Road
were kept out of possession. On
the 1st, however, the Sheriff of the county
succeeded in gaining possession of the depot
at Rockford and in firing the Chicago, Eofk-
ford & Northern people out,- and gaining entire possession of the disputed road. The
contest will be transferred, to the courts.
Recent heavy frosts nave damaged vegetation in the northern portion of the Gulf
States.
Four negroes were killed and five badly
scalded by a boiler explosion in a saw-mill at
Berkley, Va., on the 2d.
Eev. Dr. Philip Schaep, of New York,
who was one of the American Committee on
the Eevision of ther "New Testament, stated
on the 2d that the changes in the new version
are so many that3 scarcely a verse remains
unaltered, though in many instances the alterations concern punctuation and minor
words only. He .said " th,e New Testament
will be sold in England, Scotland, Ireland,
Australia and the United .States on the 20th
of next May. The stories that large numbers
of books are now in this country, under lock
and key, are false, -the revisers only having
received copies." It is understood that
within forty-eight hours of the appearance of
the English copies upon the market reprints
will appear from six New York publishers,
the price of some of the editions to be as low
as fifteen cents. '    •
On the 2d the United States Ti-easury held
Government bonds to the amount of $351,-
444,000 to secure National Bank circulation,
and §15,19J,500 to secure public deposits.
The bonds deposited during the week for circulation aggregated $1,042,000; withdrawn,
$1,S10,000; National Bank notes, received for
redemption during the week, $955,090; Bame
week last year, $534,000.
The skeleton of Joseph McLane, who was
killed by the Utes near Wallace, Col., three
years ago, has been recently found and idenr
titled. .
Personal and Political.
General Lew Wallace has telegraphed
the President a declination of the South
American mission, to which he was nominated.
The German revolutionary hero, Dr. Hein-
rich Windward, died in New York on, the 30th
Ult. c.'
Oscar de Laxtayette, a grandson of General Lafayette, died a few'days ago in Paris.
At his funeral on the 30th ult President
Grevy and United States MinisterNoyes were
among the pall-bearers.   ^       . . .
Naval Lieutenant R. MV Berry"has been
appointed to the command of the steamer
Mary and Helen on her Cruise in search of
t.the Jeaunette.
: The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a
bill forfeiting the office of any Sheriff who"
shall permit a prisoner totbe taken from his
custody and" lynched.
The Indiana House on the 30th ult passed
the proposition for a Prohibitory amendment
to the Constitution by a voie'ol 55 to 35.
Thomas M. Nichol, nominated for Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on the 1st requested the President to withdraw his name,
on account of ill health.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
has defeated a proposed Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors.
The Senate of Tennessee has rejected^—
12 to 13—the House bill to settle the State
debt at par, allowing three»per cent, interest
on the bonds.
. The Massachusetts House of Representatives on the 31st ult, defeated a. Erohibitpry
Liquor bill. >,     .=»,.," *. i       < •
In the second trial at Chicago of the action
for libel brought by Alice A. Early against
Wilbur F. Storey the jury fixed the damages
at $500. On the first trial Storey was mulcted
in the suni of $15,000, "but that Verdict the
Supreme Cgurt set aside./ , c
The ATk~ansas"Legislature has passed, and
the Governor has signed, a bill forbidding
any persons in the State \6 carry "concealed
weapons. Police officers only are excepted
from the provisions of the law.
It was stated on the 2d that the resignation Of Andrew D. White, United States
Minister to Berlin, had been in the jhands of
the President for some time, coupled with
the request that his successor be nominated
at an early day. ■   ;   - •
General Grant and party left Galveston,
Tex., on the 2d for Vera Cruz.   .  ,   *■    ,-
Word was received on the 2d from Senator
Edmunds, in South Carolina, that his health
was much improved. .. :   :■■;"
Forelsm. ■»...-..
Weyprecht, the explorer, who discovered
Francis Joseph's Land, 'died at Vienna on the
30th ult.
Sophia Peiopfsky, one of the parties ax^.
rested for beingaiConcernedinrthe murder of
the late Czar, has made a confession which
shows that only Jelaboff and Jierself knew
of the time and place for the assassination.
She says she sent Roussakolf and his accomplice with the bombs 'to the stations assigned
them.
On the 30th ult. the British Privy Council
declared the Birkenhead abaitofr arid cattle*
depot afflicted with the foot and month disease, and*ordere<T the establigjhmenTclosed.
Air authoritative denial comes from Copenhagen tbat negotiation?, were pendingfor
the cession of the DanisTi West Indies to the
United States.
A report that a revolt had occurred at
HeratTyas confirmed on:the 30th ult. It was
believed that Ayoob Khan was a prisoner.
Jasper Jully, editor of the Herald at Eos-
common, Ireland, has been arrested on charge
of intimidation.
It was announced on the 31st ult. that
England would not Rend a representative to
the Monetary Conference at Paris.
Members of the German Reichstag have
requested Bismarck to arrange with other
Powers for the punishment of subjects attempting to assassinate the heads of States,
and to deliver foreigners so offending to the
Governments of their native country.
Is the British House of Commons on the
31st ult Sir William Harcourt declared that
the arrest of the editor of the Ifyeiheit was
not instigated by foreign powers, but arose
from the conviction that to incite murder was
a domestic crime.
A Vienna telegram of the 31st ult. say.s
Greece had been warned by the Powers that,
if she rejected the compromise proffered by
Turkey, they would not intervene.
Ax ukase was issued by the Czar of Russia
on the 31st ult ordering an election for two
hundred and twenty-eight members of a
Temporary Council to assist the Commandant of the city. All landlords and independent tenants might vote. It is stated that the
late Czar had contemplated the extension ol
this plan to the whole Empire.       _,
On the 1st the French Chamber of Depu
ties voted 6,000,000 francs to indemnify'sufferers by the coup oVetat in 1851-.
The policy of the, British Ministers in tie
Transvaal was fiercely attacked by Lord
Cairnes in the House of Lords on the 1st
A recbnt experiment of lighting portions
of London with electric light was entirely
successful. ,    - ;      .
Four thousand persons sailed from Bremen for New' York on the 1st,, making 20,000
leaving that port since January 1,1880.
An unsuccessful attempt wasmaderin the
British House of Commons on the 1st to secure the passage of an order directing flat
American compounds resembling butter shall
be sold under distinctive names, and the importation of those dangerous to health prohibited.
A London dispatch Of'the 1st Bays that
Most, the editor of the Freiheit, who was to
answer for advocating regicide, had received'
a cablegram from Justus H. Schwab, the New
York Socialist, urging him to resist tyranny,
and notifying him that he could draw on the
International Bank for funds.
. Powell, a member of the British House of
Commons from Wigan, Lancaster, was expelled on the 1st, for bribery.
In a speech, in the Italian Parliament .on
the 2d the Minister of Finance expressed the
hope that the Monetary Conference would
result in giving silver the widest possible
market on the same terms as gold. ;
Four natives arrived at Ouarglo, in Algeria,
a few days ago, bringing intelligence that the
French expedition exploring a route for the
Trans Sahara Railway had been overpowered
by the hostile natives. Colonel Fathers, the
leader, and the greater part of his forces
were..killed. One Dianons, with sixty-one
men, escaped, but most of these were overtaken by another tribe, claiming to be friendly, who fed them on poisoned dates, and
caused the death of more than balf of them.
At this time the messengers were sent to
Ouarglo for help. The fate of the remainder
was unknown at Algiers on the 2d.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the 2d says
the city was surrounded by a military cordon,
and no one was allowed to enter or leave the
city.
A Madrid dispatch of the 3d says the
Spanish Cabinet had decided to apply the
Constitution and Press laws to Cuba and
Porto Rico.
A land meeting at Clonmel, Ireland, on
the 3d was attended by over 10,000 people.
Anticipating a descent by the authorities,
the Land League has removed its books and
papers from its officein London.
The Porte has agreed to cede Kholour to
Persia.
It is stated that the peasants of Russian
Poland refuse to take the oath of allegiance
in the Greek churches, but demand to be
sworn before Catholic priests.
The death is announced of Jules Noel, the
French painter.      *
On the 3d a bomb wa& exploded under the
windows of tbe palace of the Duke of Son-
.tona, at Madrid.
IiATER.JfEWS.
The municipal .elections in Ohio occurred
on the 4th. - In ^Cincinnati the indications on
the evening of that day. pointed to the elec-
of Means, the Democratic candidate for
Mayor. In Columbus, Dayton and Cleveland
the Republicans -elected their candidates, and in Toledo jthe Nationals were successful. "■•'*
The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine
die on the* 4th. At.the last moment it was
discovered that the Apportionment bill recently passed disfranchised the town of
■Ridgeway. Au attempt to correct tha blun ■
der failed, and the Governor vetoed the bill.
A State election was-held in Michigan on
the 4th, resulting in the re-election of Isaac
Marston to the Supreme Bench, and the
election of James F. Joy and Austin B^air as
University Regents. These were the _,Eepub-
lican candidates.
The Island of Scio, in .the,.Grecian Archipelago, was during the two days preceding
.the4th visited by earthquakes. The number of persons kiiled or injured is said to
have been three thousand.
A London* telegram "of trie 4th 'Vays. the
authorities had declined to admit "Most, the
editor of. the Freiheit, to bail.
O'Connell, one of the persons who planted the h6mb at the Lord Mayor's mansion in
London, reached New York on the 4th.
On the 4th the Missouri River nt Omaha
overflowed its banks. The smelting works
were compelled to shut down.
A Washington telegram of the 4th says
the attention of Secretary Blaine had been
called to the imprisonment of Boyton in
Ireland., >.The Secretary said the case was
receiving his serious consideration, and
the State Department would promptly per-,
form its duty. *.'       *   c   ;•
The Republican United States Senatore
held -a caucus^, on the 4th and decided
to continue their efforts to secure the passage of the pending resolution for an election
of Senate officers before proceeding to other
business. This course was decided upon by a
vote said to be substantially unanimous.
The Caucus also discussed the expediency of
allowing the dead-lock to be broken from
time to,tim.e .by executive sessions, for the
confirmation ot uncontested*1 nominat'ons,
but it was decided that, at least for the present, such a course would be unadvisable.
The United States Senate on the 4th resumed -consideration of the resolution tfpv the
election Vf officers. Remarks were made by
Messrs. Johnston, Dawes, Saulsbury and
Jones (Fla.) ; A motion; by Mr. Harris to lay
the pending resolution on the table was defeated—23 to 27—after which rpll-call followed roll-call in quick succession tipQii dilatory motions. An inquiry by Mr. Dawes as
to when the Democrats would, permit
a vote to be taken on the resolution
met with the response: "On the
first Monday in December," Finally Mr.
Dawes, remarking that-it had become evident
that the majority of the Senate was opposed
to postponing consideration of the resolution,
and ex'ressing the hope that the minority
would come on the 5th prepared to stay until
the will of the majority was obeyed, moved to
adjourn, which motion was agreed to.
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Oleomargarine in New York.
Whatever may be the fact in respect to the
quality of oleomargarine and lard butter—
whether these substances are better or worse
than real butter; whether they are harmless or
hurtful or beneficial to the persons eatinj?
them—it is clear that the consumer has an
indefeasible right to know when he is buying
them.
From the testimony already given before
the committee of the Legislature now investigating this Subject in this oity it appears that
in the greater number of cases this information is not attainable. As a matter Of " business," it was said on Saturday, the.crrocer who
has laid in a stock of these substitutes for butter—costing him less than butter—finds it judicious to sell them at the market price of butter, because iF they were sold at a fair profit
and under their real names the consumer
would not take them..
This may be regarded as a very shrewd proceeding from the point of view of the grocer,
but jrom the point of view of the public, it is
thoroughly disreputable and outrageous, and
an end should be made of it forthwith.
Some'distfoguisbing marks'should be affixed
to these substances, in order ,to prevent eon-
BUineisfrom being swindled, for that is the
precise- word which describes trade of this
sort,    f,
Ifoleomargarine and lardino are wholesome
and worthy objects of commerce, they will
iurely make their way under true colors; but
whether they are so or not, the public cannot
afford to be cheated systematically as to an
important part of their daily food.
Some of the men concerned inthe manufacture aud sale of these substitutes for butter
have estimable public reputations to sustain.
If they have any intelligent regard for their
reputation they Will forego for the present all
argument as to the actual qualities of these
substances, which is an entirely secondary
matter, ani will unite in defense of the community from an unconscionable practice in a
well-devised and practicable measure which
will enable any buyer, however dull he or she
may be, to distinguish readily and certainly
the substitutes for butter from the genuine
article. '      ,     ■
According to the testimony presented on
Saturday, no one in th:3 or the adjacent cities
can tell as he sits down to dinner this evening
oE what the "butter" on his table is made.
From this doubt and uncertainty the public
must be relieved, and we hope that the relief
will be given voluntarily.—N.Y. Postt March 23.
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Death of a EemarkaMe Dwarf.
John Lewis, the famous dwarf, who died
recently at Watertown, Wis., was born in the
town of Ixonia, in 1S57, and was the eldest of a
family of seven children. His height was
twenty-sevea inches, and average weight nineteen pounds. At the time of his death he
weighed about twelve pounds. He had a web-
foot, and both of his hands were without
thumbs, but in all other respects he was a perfect little man. He possessed more than ordinary intelligence, and had a very retentive
memory. He was thoroughly posted in farm
topics, and could recall incidents, the occuiv
rence of which dated back more than fifteen
years, with wonderful precision. Although
his younger brothers and sisters outstripped
him in crowth, he never permitted them to
domineer over him nor look upon him in
any other light than as their superior in experience and intelligence. He was an apt
scholar and a ready conversationalist. He
spoke the Welsh and* English languages fluently, and could tell a story with a moral to it
as cleverly as anybody. ^As a member of the
Welsh Methodist Church, in his native town,
he frequently took part in the meetings, often
giving out hymns for the congregation to
sing, and was specially prominent and active
in Sunday-school exercises. In giving out a
hymn he invariably stood on the top of the
pulpit, and read his lines with such vim and
distinctness as to be heard in all parts of the
robm. He traveled but little, and was always
opposed to being placed anywhere on exhibition. Thousands of people visited him during
his residence in Ixonia, and from them he received many gifts. About a year ago his usual
vivacity gave way to despondency, and for
some months prior to his death he conversed
but little, and then only in a Sad and subdued
tone. The cause of his death was congestion
of the stomach.
A Man Attacked  by a Pack of   Curs.
A Charlotte (N. C.) special of a recent date
to the Chicago Inter Oce.in says:
A very remarkable occurrence at Shoeheel,
a small town between this city and Wilmington, has just* stirred up the whole section of
country contiguous thereto. Mr. William D.
Baldwin, a highly respectable citizen, was returning, Saturday night, from a trip on horseback to the country, when on nearingthe
town about midnight he was furiously attacked by a pack of fifteen or twenty dogs. They
bit the horse he was riding, caught the bridle
in their teeth, _ pulled the stirrups' from Mr.
Baldwin's feet, and made frantic efforts to
tear him from the saddle. Finding that he
could not scare them off, he put spurs to
his horse and rode for his life, followed
by the yelping, barking, biting pack of
curs, into the heart of the town, their
glaring eyes and protruding tongues
proclaiming them bent upon his
destruction. The •citizens were hroused, and
came to Mr, Baldwin's rescue with guns and
pistols, and the infuriated brutes were compelled to take to the woods, where they remained* until Sunday,'attacking and killing
grown cattle. By that time the excitement
had greatly increased, and the danger was so
manifest that the Shoeheel Rifles, the military
company of thatplace, were called out to hunt
the dogs, the people of-the neighborhood join-
lngln the pursuit, and after a whole day spent
in the effort, the pack was broken up, many
Of the dogs being killed. The curious part
about the whole story is that the dogs belonged to people in and around Shoeheel, and
no one has yot been able to explain their conduct or to account for their combination.
Hydrophobia was suggosted, but those who
witnessed their behavior say that it was not
such as to justify this theory.
A Milwaukee Grain Elevator.
In order to begin at the beginning— .
"get to the bottom, as it were, of an
elevator-^-one must climb to the very
top. The building is perhaps one hundred and fifty feet long by seventy-five
feet wide, and, like all of its class, it
rises eighty feet or more to the eaves,
above^which a narrow top part forty or
fifty feet highex-, is perched upon the
ridgerpole. _ It is built of wood,
sheathed With corrugated iron a little
Way xij& and then slated the rest of the
Way. .
Entering one end, where twd railway
tracks rim into the building, we find
a narx!dw stairway, ahdbegin oxir ascent;
The-flights are short ones, but eighteen
are stepped over before we emerge into
the topmost attic. Alongside of us, as
we climbed, ' has been running the
strong belt which carries the power
from the great engine on the g'rdxind-
floor to the gearing in the roof—a belt
of rubber canvas four feet wide, and
perhaps two hundred and fifty feet long.
When grain is bbught^-perhaps a
hundred car loads from the vast: fields
of Dakota or the wide farms between
here and *St."Paul—thetrarin is backed
right into", the elevator, and stands so
that opposite each door :is a receiver,
which is a kind of vak. or hoppex*, in
the platform. By the help of steam-
shovels, operating almost automatically,
two men in each car will in ten minutes
or less empty the whole train.
As fast as the grain is dumped, the
receiver delivers it to.iron buckets.holding about a peck eacli,, Which are
attached to endless belts, and travel up
a sort of chimney, called a ".leg,'.', to
this roof chamber. These buckets'will
hoist 6,000 bushels, "an hour at their
ordinary rate of speed. That is-equal
to one bucket going up 24,000 times,
at the'■ rate of 400 'times a mixxufe-4-
tolerably lively work!. To-day up here
in the topmost loft there is nothing doing,   ahdrwe are saved   strangulation.
The light'hardly pjenetrates thx*ough
the cobwebbed windows, and the most
jsulygrdus df dust lies everywhere hall
an inch ■deepje- slxowiiig the marks of &
few boot soles, many foot prints of rats,
and the lace-like track of "hundreds 6f
spiders and bugs. Y6xi step over and
under broad horizontal belts as you
make your way gingerly from one end
of the attic to the other. They run the*
fans that winnow the grain as" it comes
up in the buckets, after which it is
dropped into the hoppers, ten feet wide,
and-twice as deep," that open like hatchways every few feet, "in the center of
the jfloox-. .Now .all is perfectly quiet;
we are* so high that even the clamor of
the wharves does not reach us. But
when the ^machinery starts in motion
then fearfixl roars* and clash, .of cogs,-
and' whipping of slackened belts, assault the garret, until this whole upper
region rocks like a ship in a gale, and
chaff and dust cloud the eyes and stifle
the throat. "
Descending one story, we find another
garret1 with nothing in it but the square
bodies of the hoppers. Going down a
seeoiid flight shows xxs that the hoppers
are suspended,not upon pillars, but
loosely on iron stirrups, so as *to shake
a little, and the ifoxi gate which lets on
or shuts off the fall of the grain through
the tubular orifice at the bottom is
operated by s^eam.*
There-are twelve of these hoppers.
Sticking up through theiloor underneath each one gape the flaring
mouths of twelve sjjouts or sluices', all
of which point directly at the gate in
the hopper, as though earnestly begging
its bdunty of grain.. -Every one of these
144 spouts leads, into a bin, near or distant, and are ail numbered, so that the
superintendent knows which spout conducts to: any one. bin, and qan distribute
his cargoes accordingly, the result of
his choice being recorded in cabalistic
abbreviations upon a Jblackboai'd close
by. A movable conductor is swung
into place between the hopper and the
spout; the gate pulled open, axxd down
slides the wheat, with a musically rushing noise, into the* grateful bin.
Tosee^ the bins we descend again,
this time reaching the top of the wide
part of the building. We walk very
circums'pectly, in the half-light, amid a
maze of beams, stringers, and cross
pieces of wood and iron. The whole
interior of the elevatdr beldw this, level
is now seen - to consist of,a series of
rooms, betweeii which there is no com-
munieatioii. They are ceilingless, and
the only exit from them is through a
spout in the- bottom. Peering .over the
edges frdm the narrow loot-walks, Sve
I can only-1 guess how far the person
" would fall who should lose his balance,
for the eye can not reach the bottom; it»
is sixty-five feet belbw, and hidden in
darkness. , Of these deep bins there are
144, some  twjee-the  size  of  others.
Sometimes they are aU full at once,
and hold eight or nine hundred- thousand .btfshelsV weighing fifty millions ol
pounds,?and-good for over two hundred
thousand barrels of flour.—Ernest Ihger-
soll, in Barker? s*Magazine.
SCHOOL MD CHUECH.
Death of the Oldest Woman in Lonls-
viile.
" Aunt Betsy Givens," probably the oldest
woman in Louisville, Ky., and certainly tho
first girl child born in that city, died on tho
28th ult. She was born in 1788, in the old fort
on Beargrass, in Jefferson County, Ky,, and
has been areSIdent of the place all her life-
She remembered the time when Louisville was
a very small town, and used to tell some very
interesting stories of its growth and progress.
One of the most astonishing, things about her
was that she was"never outside of LouisArille
but once or twice in her life, and had never
been on a railroad car. Sne had up to the
time of her last illness a remarkably clear
memory, and was acquainted with all the distinguished men of Kentucky, among whom
Henry Clay7 was one of her especial f avorjites.
She was. well informed on all political matters
that transpired fifty or sixty years asro, and
used to take great pleasure in telling her
friends how matters were conducted then, and
contrasting them witii affairs of To-day. Mrs.
Crivens had a holy horror of theaters, und used
to boast of the fact that she ifever was in one
in her life. She was a life-long member of the
Methodist Church, arid up to a few years ago
rarely a Surtday piissedthat her face was not
seen among the worshipers. Her health was
remarkably good, and she was wont to say that
she was never sick a day in her life. She
could thread a needle without the aid of glasses, and her hearing was also very good. Last
summer she had a severe fall ou a stairway at
home, and this hastened her death.
—Rev. E. P. Hammond is,conducting
revival meetings in Toronto.
—The colored Baptists of Baltimore
have dedicated their new church, which
cost $20,000.
—Professor S. Wells Williams, df
New Haven, has been chosen President
of the American Bible Society.
—Rev. Dr. Wilkes has woxxnd up a
half-century of pastoral sex-vice at Montreal by resigning and has been re-
Warded With a purse of $8,000.
^-The banner Baptist State is Georgia* With its 235/381 membel's. There
were 12,933 baptisms last year. The
nximber" df churches is 21755, and of
pastors 1,630.
—The recent gift of $50,000 to Union
College by the Hon. Levi Parsdiisj of
New York City, is to be devoted toward
establishing thirteen free scholarships
at that institution.
—D\ L. Moddy, the evangelist, will
spend this sxxmme'r at his rural home in
Massachusetts, where he ig to. hold a
sdrt of select camp-meeting for" advanced Bible schclars, and inthe fill he
will again visit Europe.
—Rev. Dr. S. B. Shaw, of Providence,
R. I., has celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his ordination in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He served thirty-
four years as rector of St. Luke's, Lanes-
boro, Mass. He is still hale in his eighty-
second yeari
—A special meeting of the Moravian-
Synod for the Northern District of the
American Province is called for May df
this year, at Bethlehem. The regular
session df the Synod occurs in 1883.
This meeting is called to consider pressing financial questions.
-3 —The Pope, in a, recent address to
the Cardinals, referred to the renewed
attacks and the insults heaped upon the
Church in nearly all jparts of the world.
Therefore, an extraordinary jubilee is
announced this year throughout Christendom, for the purpose of imploring the
-Almighty to bestow better times upon
.the Church.
—An extended system of industrial
education! is td be introduced in connection with the communal schools of
Paris. Fifty workshops will at first be
opened, and should the experience succeed others will be added to every
municipal school in the city. Instruction will be given in a variety of handicrafts, and every child will thus have
the means of starting in life.
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Earning His Bread.
Yesterday forenoon a tramp called at
a house on Adams avenue and asked
if* he might saw enough wood to pay
for his-breakfast.
" Titans" a pretty old- dodge,'' replied
.the house owner"; "Ydu knew We
burned coal before you came in.''
"You haven't any snow to shovel
■off?"
"Snow? Why the walks have beexl
bare for two weeks !"
"Yes, I believe they have, but I'd be
willing to shovel snow for half an hour
for my breakfast."
" Would you ? Then you shall have
the chance: *-• Come out here-.''
The citizen produced a snow-shovel
and pointed to an old snow-bank on a
vacant lot and said :
"There's your job. Shovel away on
that for half an hour and you shall
have a solid meal."
The tramp felt his lame back, and
rubbed his rheumatic wrists, and wondered if lie wasn't going to have the
ague, but couldn!tt,very well back out.
He rushed- by the small crowd which
had gathered, and-when bis half3 hour
was up he was damp clear behind his
ears, and he complained that his appetite for breakfast had all been worked
away. A compromise Was therefore
eftected^on a cash basis, and he took
two nickels and hurried off as if .he
much feared some one else would try
to help him along by offering Mm work.
—Detroit Free Press.
Florida Oranges—An Industry Worth
Millions to the Little State.        .
Fragments
,tli
of, a Prehistoric Monster.
Sonoma and adjacent counties'appear
to be a perfect mine of interesting curiosities itf the shape of petrifications
belonging both to the animal and vegetable kingdom. What is mostromark-
able.is.the fact that these relics of bygone/ages are often found in the alluvial deposits so near the surface of the
earth^as to frequently be revealed by
the plow. 'We have Before us a petrification recently plowed up on the ranch
of Patrick Lawlor on the Sonoma
Mountains, four or five miles from this
city'!4 and at an altitude of several hundred leet above the valley or,tide level.4
The.specimen is the head and neck of
the femur or thighbone of a mastodon
or "some other mammoth animal belonging to the prehistoric period. It is a
complete petrification-, nearly sixinches
in diameter across the crown and about
seven inches from apex: of crown to
base. It weighs eight peunds. We
ha>e sevei^al specimens of large bones
found in this Vicinity, bxxt this is the
most perfect petrification of the kind
that has come under our notice. As
this was found so near the surface we
doubt not but that with little labor
Other bones belonging to the sjame mon^
Ster animal of which this is a part can
be found.—Pelalunia (Cat.J Argus.
—.—; ' — • —	
—When a poet tells you that the
ocean kisses the shore, he does not refer to fishing smacks.
A Prospector in Petticoats.
"Woman's, sphere is daily enlarging,
and their invasions in the field of labor
threaten fresh incursions into the kingdom iormerly held sacred toman. The
latest development in this line was
brought to the attention of a Globe-
Democrat reporter, yesterday, at the
St. Louis Mining and Stock Exchange,
when he was introduced to Mrs. Alice
Berge Clarke, ,a lady prospector, assayer
axid mining correspondent. Mrs. Clarke,
by the death of her hxxsband, came into
the possession of sevei-al mining claims.
In order to superintend their development she, passed through a course of
study' iii Pi*of. Mux-dock's 'school of assaying and chemistry in Chicago. She
is a skillful prospector, and in handling
the mineral specimens on exhibition at
the Exchange, displayed her familiarty
with "their Component parts by intelligently criticising their probable assay
value. Mrs. Clarke is also a comprehensive writer on mines and minerals,
and utilizes her knowledge to pecuniary
profit by acting as speciarcorx'espondent
for a number of mining journals, prominent among which is the Daily Stock
Report of New York. She is now engaged in inspecting the Missouri coal
and iron mines, ana will leave in a day
or two for New Mexico.—St. Louis
Globs-Democrat.
A Chaugc of Time.
A Galveston 'clerk went to his employer, 01d Twopercent, yesterday, and
said-to him
"My uncle has arrived from the interior to spend Mai-di Gras, and I would
like to be excused from the store for a
few hours, just to show him oxir Cotton
Exchange, oxxr harbor improvements,
jjartiexxiarly those on the bar, and a few
other natural advantages."
OJd Twopercent got as mad as the
mischief. He scolded, stamped his
foot and bawled oxxt:
4' \ our pishness is in the store. You
schoost go away froiu de store and I
docks your vages on the spot."
"I am -sorry," responded the clerk,
demurely; "bxitif I don't see him, he
may buy his goods of some other house.
Hft usxxally buys about $10,000."
"Ish dot so?" said Old Twopercent,
smiling a smile saints might have envied.    " Vy didn't yer tole me pefore
so I could meet him at de depot ven det
train eaime in."—Galveston Nezos.
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The orange Cloture lhElorida amounted to little or nothing before the war.
Northern industry and methods have
found their way into the State since, and
gave this cultivation a remarkable impetus.   Ten years ago even the product
amounted to but little.    Now it brings
millions to the State, and its increase
for the next ten years can hardly be es-'
timated.   Gen. Cameron was taken yesterday by ex-Senator Yulee, a friend
and former associate, who represented
Florida in the Senate thirty-five years
ago, to see the largest orange grove in
the world.   Thi3 was the first time they
had met since Mr. Yulee left the Senate
for the South in 1861, and the renewal
of the friendship between the two Ixas
been one of the pleasing incidents of the
stay in Elorida.   Colonel Duffy and myself were invited to accompany the party, and did so. Long before we reached
the great grove toward which we were
tending, there were patches of orange
trees to be seen on every side, many of
them with the golden fruit still hanging
to  the  branches.      Beautiful  flowers
blootiied.in the black muck, and early
Vegetables were just springing up.   A
litfle later the train dropped us in the
midst of 75,000 orange frees, covering
over 400 acres of ground.   A perfect •
wilderness of orange trees, apparently
not cultivated with care, certainly not
planted regularly, but  just as nature
had  sown the wild seed.    The wild
luxuriance of nature had, however, been
curbed by  man,   who,   in  pursuit of
wealth, tiad turned vinegar into honey,''
'and, by grafting on the sour trees the
finer sweet varieties, had snatched from
the wilderness an income of over $40,000
a year.   General Cameron rambled with1
us over the place, all of us plucking the
.golden fruit ad lib., and imagining ourselves in the veritable Garden of Eden—,
earth, air and sky,   soft,   balmy  and
ethereal, combining to fix the illusion,
and were only brought back to arealiza-_
tion that we were fifty miles from our
hotel by an exclamation from one of the
party:   "By Jove, we're lost!"   This
fact soon became apparent to us all, and'
just think of it—you who are bound by
bands of thick-ribbed lee—lost in  an
orange grove in Florida!    General Cameron enjoyed the joke, and busied himself eating the fruit plucked with his"
own hands.   Many of she trees, were
laden with fruit of immense size and
beautiful color, although' much of the
crop had been gathered.   One of the
tempting sights in tlie grove was-the
grape fruit, of great size and beautiful
lemon color.   It is said to be the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.   It is
useless, except to look at and for preserving, although it is eaten by some;!
If has a sour, insipid taste.   Lemons of
immense size, growing updn small trees,
now and then ddtted the  orange orchard.   After an hour spent in looking
over the grove we, one by one, found
our way bacif to  the paeMng-house,
where the superintendent told us that
13,000 boxes  of   oranges   had  been*
shipped this season from one-half of the
grove over which we had  been rambling;  that means 1,700,000 oranges,;
for which the owner had been offered
|35,000 while the fruit was on the trees.;
"How many years does it take for an:
orange "grove to come into bearing?" I
asked the superintendent. "Eight
years frdm the seed, and about five
years if grafted dr budded en to the'
wild fruit. That is, I mean td say, they
will bear in eight years f rem the seed,1
and in five years from the graft. They
constantly grow better and bear more \
oranges every year. No man can tell 4
how long the tree will be useful—certainly more than 100 years." •
People hr Florida are naturally as en-
•thusiastic over orange culture as miners. -
are who find rich placers, and they tell
almost as marvelous stories. You hear
them talk about trees upon which grow
from 3,000 to 4,000 oranges, b»:t there
is a great deal of fancy in this statement, _
and the truth is marvelous enough.
Mr. Fairbanks, the historian of Flori-..
da* and an eminent authority upon the
orange, says that an average tree will
bear, season in and out, 700 oranges, -
and that, where they are grown from
the seed or transplanted regularly, about.
sixty trees to the acre would be a f air
average.    These sixty trees in a fair
season would   yield" 42,000  oranges, -
Worth at the grove, $840.    This is a ,*
cold, reliable estimate.of whatanOTdi--
nary orange grove will do; many will do
more, and still more will do. less, but;
$840  worth of  fruit upon an acre'of
ground will strike the Northern farmer
as being decidedly profitable.—Cor. Boston pLerald.
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—James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of, the New York Berald, who at
present spends his time at Pau, France,
a short time ago engaged Johann Strauss
and his orchestra to leave Vienna for
one nxonth^and play at Pau exclusively,
for himself (Bennett) and his friends^
He demanded 100,000 francs salary for
himself and orchestra, and Bennett ac- ■
cepted without a word. So we read in
the papers of Germany.
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—In the caboose attached lo freight
trains on the Erie Railroad there is
placed an automatic contrivance called
the "tell-tale," which registers all the
stoppages and the rate of speed over
every foot oi the road. Freight trains .
are not allowed to run more than fifteen
miles an hour, and if this speed is exceeded the fact is at once disclosed, on
Inspection of the apparatus.
— ■*■»»•	
. —While a party of American travelers
were visiting the battlefield of Waterloo
an iron box was found by one of them.
It contained the will of an English officer, Sir Charles O'Neally, and by it the
present heirs of his fortune suddenly
find themselves dispossessed in favor of
the children of his eldest son.
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—An Indian woman in a village of
British Columbia was taken with an infectious fever. The medicine men held. „
a consultation over the case and decided
that she must be buried alive to prevent
an epidemic. Victoria newspapers say
that the deeree was carried out literally.
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—When the betrothal of a young lady
in Boston society is announced, her g$n^
tlemen friends signify their congi-atula-^
tions by sending her bouquets and bas-'
ketsdf flowers. They call this "the
latest fashionable Parisian whim.''
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