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And their Noble Forms are Clothed
inAnnuity Blankets.
Custer's Horse Shot Dead IN
Under Him.
Tho March for the Great Porcupine
Resumed.
The Expedition to Return by the 18th
ofSepten1bsr.
The Report.

Iho Report.
Special Telegram to BismQrck 2Si6dnt.'
ST.. PAUL, Aug. 26.-Stanley's report
to Terry, dated the nineteenth, from
Muscel Shell River, five miles below the
mouth of Swimming Woman's Greek,
has been secured at headquarters.
The dispatch is sent by Fort Benton,
and says the command reached Pompey's 8
Pillar on the 18th, and found the Yel-
lowstone road bad to travel but from
Long River to Pompey's Pillar the val
ley is represented as very fine.
THE FIRST FIGHT.
Clusters first engagement was on the
fourth. Three hundred Indians tried
to draw him into ambuscade, but failed.
After skirmishing some time Custer ad-
yanced and the Indians fed.
THREE VICTIMS.
AT the same time Veterinary Surgeon
Hansinger, Seventh Cavalry, and ira
der named Ballerain, both unarmed, be-
tween the river and the troops, were
surprised by seven Indians and killed.
Private Ball, of Company F, Seventh
Cavalry, was also killed.
TIE BATrLR CONTINUED.
On the seventh while hunting the
main body of the Indians they broke
camp and retreated. The eighth Gus
ter followed to the Yellowstone. On the
ninth he found the Indians had crossed,
and the high water stopped pursuit.
On the eleventh the Indians attacked
from the opposite side of the river and
bluffs in Clusters rear. Their number was
estimated at FIVE hundred. After q
skirmish on foot the troops were mount
cd and
CHANGED,
driving the Indians from nine to ten
miles. Stanley thinks the Indians lost
in the two engagements forty men,
killed and wounded, and many ponies.
His loss was four men killed and four
wounded.
: CUsTER's HORSE SHOT.
Custer and Adjutant Ketchum had
their horses killed under them. Chas.
Beaton, Seventh Cavalry, had his thigh
broken by a bullet. The Sioux were
dressed in Agency clothing, and threw
away Winchester rifles and ammunition,
showing that they were recently sup
piled.
TIE MARCH RESUMED.
Stanley's march will continue to the
Big Bend Of the Muscel Shell River, and
thence to the head Of Great Porcupine.
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THE RED RIVER.

Navigable from Fort Garry to. Fergus
J.. s Falls.
Spscial 7ele0ran to tho Bismarck; Tribune.
BREcK1NR1DGE, Minn., Aug. 26.-The
steamer Alpha has arrived, on her trial
trip from Fergus Falls to Fort Garry,
with sixty.five tons Of -four and fifteen
tons ofmerchandise. The entire stream
is believed to be navigable the whole
season.
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The Expedition is to return to Fort Lin
coin about September twelfth.
Another Account.

RI
Special 7sssgron, to tile Bismarck tribune.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26..-Yellowston
advices to the 10th have be en- received.
Indian providers were observed on the
first Of August, in the vicinity Of
Tongue river. There were no overt acts
until the 4th. when a squadron of cav
airy, with Custer at the head, at Bloody
Knife, ten miles in advance Of the main
column, was met by the Indians, who
made q demonstration. Skirmishers
were immediately thrown out and the
Indians driven off: The Indians soon
returned three hundred strong, and at
tackled the Eighth Cavalry, who were
awaiting the main column. A three
hours skirmish ensued, when, the main
column not arriving and atarsanition
giving out, Custer ordered i charge,
which scattered the Indians and they re-
treated to the Bad Lands. One cavalry
man was wounded in. the arm. DR..
Housingmsyer, veterinary surgeon, the
cavalry suttler and a private were
killed while struggling. Two Indians
were killed. .... G.|,1
On, August 10th the Tenth Cavalry
found the recent Indian village deserted,
and Stanley ordered Custer with 45O
men to follow. The Indians were chas-
ed to the Yellowstone. This was found
45o yards wide with the current swift
and deep. To swim the horses was i'm
possible, and the attempt abandoned.
The Indians escaped on RATS.
The same evening Clusters camp was
discovered by the Indians, and at day
light Of the 11th, eight hundred savages
attacked it. A fight ensued which last
ed three hours. Three hundred Indians
crossed above and below the camp, and
endeavored to reach the bluffs in rear Of
the men. The cavalry were dismounted
and pursued the Indians eight miles.
The train then came up, when the In
dians were opened upon with artillery.
A few shots dispersed them and they fed.
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"Petticoat" Allan, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio, is cool.
ly cutting his own political throat. He
has taken the stump, and proposes in
flicting upon the people the history in
detail of the country. After three
weeks hard work he has got as far
along as the Missouri compromise. II
his health holds out he will probably
reach the assassination Of Lincoln by
election time.
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The TRIBUNE is more generally quoted
than any paper published west Of Chi
cago. This is fact, and no buncombe.
1t also has a larger and more general
circula tion than either of the journals
published at St. Paul or Minneapolis.
Business men may cut this out, and
paste it up where they can see it.
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A blacksmith at Sioux City wished to
get rid Of his dog, and adopted highly
original plan. While old Towser WAS
taking his MONDAY siesta in the sun,
the owner gently attached flask Of
powder to his tail--and touched it off
with match! His family physician
thinks that if he has good luck he may
recover the use of his eyes by the time
the hair grows again ON the dogs back.
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A gentleman at Brainerd Eve refuse
to tell his name,) received postal card
the other day upon which was written
in beautiful female hand the following
expressive and suggestive sentence: "1f
you don't send that ten dollars imme-
diately, l will be compelled to inform
your wife of the whole transaction.
Morian
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The $15,ooo,ooo British indemnity,
adjudged by the Geneva arbitration, has
been paid into the United States Treas
ury: In spite Of the promptitude Of the
English in the matter, no money was
ever paid with worse grace, and
Johnny Bulp' will watch impatiently
for an opportunity for revenge.
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Laura Fair says that after all she
don't believe it pays to commit murder
unfortunately. She hiss just struck
balance sheet, and finds that it cost
her triAe over II, 900 to settle Critten-
den. How pleasant it would have been
for. Crittenden had she only thought Of
IL hefore
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1t, T. W. Thibault, stationed at ft.
Buford, is in Bismarck on military duty.
He states that the health at'Ft. Buford
is excellent. No hostile Indians in that
vicinity, and everything quiet.
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There are no Developments showing
disposition to resume work on the st.
P.& P. extensions this fall, as was
hoped. A few days more at best will
settle the fate Of the land grant in
,ro1roI
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Sunset Cox has been again nominated
to Congress in New York city. He
ought to be elected, as he is about the
only man ever in Congress that could
oeat Ben. Butler at his own game
bluff. CAB and cheek. ...
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Ben. Butler was invited to accompany
the balloon "Graphic" on its trip across
the ocean. He refused, much to the
disappointment Of certain politicians in
Massachusetts.
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The Minneapolis Tribune suggests
that the new farmers party in Mime.
sofa be called the Potato Buggers. As
the new party is nothing but the old
Democracy revamped wouldn't "Old
Rivers" be better?
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LAND OFFICE NOTICE.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
'pRyBrNl n. n. Aug. 81 1873

~ 'PEsBrSA, D. t.. Aug.2l, 1873.
rVNO JOHN 9. WARN, ELIZABETH GIBBS AND
l. whom It may concern:
You will take notice that WILLIAM 8. YOUNG
has this day made application at this Office to make
proof and payment on the 81 Of III and Lot No. 8,
Section IS, Township 1888, Range 90. under the pro
visions OF the preempon act that on the 22d day Of
september next at this Office, at 10 o'clock said
proof will be heard and taken and ps yment received
uness cause be shown to the contrary and at which
time you may appear and show cause, II any you
have, why such proof and payment Should not mads.
=. B. BalsHER, Register.
SIT GEORGE E. PoTMR, Receiver, n
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The New York Tribune announces
that Anna Dickinson will not take to the
stage as profession. The question
now is, does she object to Reid in pri-
vate circles ?-[Minneapolis Times.
Take our hat, Frank. You hold full
hand, which is too much for. our '9iftle
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Frank Mesd, Of the Minneapolis
Times, frankly acknowledges that he
would rather pick pocket than write =
sonnet! Visitors at the sTimas, %afties,
make note gift. 3 r. 49,.
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Personal.

- Es' ,as, Personal.
Senator Bachelor, Of Faribault,
Mimi, was looking over our town dur.
ing last week. - ''.'. - '.,,....
C.B. Jordan. of Wadena, Minnesota,
has again visited Bismarck, this time
with view Of investment. "
Mr.. Bill, Of the firm Of CLARK & Bill
returned from the East last week. A
large invoice of goods followed his re-
turn.
Secretary of the Interior Delano, Mr..
B. s. Russell, banker of Duluth, Gen.
LeDuc, Mr.. Coolidge, and others of Chi.
cago, with their ladies, spent the Sab
bath in Bismarck, and returned East by
a special train Sunday evening.
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Rosser Coming.

.S3,ecias Dispatch to Bisn,arck Tribune. ,+
DULUTH, Aug. 26.--Gen. Rosser lei
Duluth for Bismarck this morning. III
will arrive to. morrow (to-day).
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SENSIBLE.

Our Eugene Declines to be Martyr
lspscial 7sleg,am to the Bisn,a'ch Tribune.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2e.--Eugene NJ
Wilson declines the Democratic nomlna
ton for Governor.
Bracket returns Saturday. No Man
itoba news. ..s-..' 81
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GOOD BYE JACK.

The Murderous Modocs to Hang
October Third.
!Specia1 Telegram to the Bisnarck Tribune.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.-The Presi-
dent has confirmed the sentence of the
Modocs, and they will be hung October
Sd at Klamath, Oregon. r---.....s =
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LAND OFFICE NOTICE.

United STATxs LAND OFFICE,
PgxBlNA, D. T., Aug. 81, 1878.
.rJ,O EDMUND HACKETT, MICHAEL TIPPIE,
Il and "Board of County Commissioners" of Bur
leigh county:
You will take notice that JOSEPH PENNELL has
this day made application at this Office to make proof
and payment on the 8 Of W aud lots ''3 and AZ
Of Section T. Township l9S, West of Range 50 West,
that toe 25th day Of September next, at this o.
fce at 10 o'clock said proof will be heard and
taken payment received uoless cause be shown to the
contrary, and at which time you may appear and
show cause, If any you have, why such proof and
payment should not he made.
L. 3. BaAsHRR, Register.
Sat GEORGE r. PorTEB, Receiver.
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Telegraphic.

Several car loads Of cedar poles ar
rived Tuesday evening aud more will
follow for the purpose of rebuilding the
line across Dakota eastward. A wire
will speedily be strung across the Mis-
souri, River at this point and extended
along the line Of the Northern Pacific
westward. ..sy..t
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Steamboat Disaster.

Special 1eIegrQa to the Bismarck Tribune.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 26.-The steamer
Wolfexploded Saturday evening wound
ing several.
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Tho scandal mongers are after Matt.
Carpenter. There is "highly respect
able LADY, in the case, and the scene o.
he drama is Long Branch. = - = =
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Tb. Mavor and merchants Of !

The Mayor and merchants Of Yank-
ton have provided an emigrsnt house,
for the accommodation of the. large
number Of emigrants coming into the
Southern part Of the Territory.
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LAND OFFICE NOTICE.

United STATES LAND OEficE,
@i5- =a FEasmA, D. T.. Aug. 2l, 1878.
'T'O LOUISA CLAY, JOHN ". PROCTOR AND
i whom It may concern:
You will take Notice that SAMUEL Fl. LILLE has
this day made application at this Office to make
proof and payment on the 8 OF N aud lots and
2of Section 4, Township 1888, Range 50, that on the
18th day of September next, at this Office, at 10
o'clock a. M. said proof vii, be heard and taken and
payment received unless be shown to the
trary, and ut which time you may appear and show
cause If any you have, why such proof and payment
should not be made. .-.. ..
.-.#N L. B. BRAsHRR, Register.
SAT GEORGE +. POTTER Receiver.
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And One More.

Special Telegram to Bismarck Tribune. -. .
LYNN, MASS, Aug. 26.-A fire last
night destroyed the stores of Green,
May and Whiting, Robinson, Tuttle and
Bailey. .~7 ..
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Belfast, Maine, Swept BY the
Great Destroyer.
One Hundred and Thirty Eamil-
les Homeless.
Blatz' Milwaukee Brewery Burned
d Loss $25O,D00.
Terrible Fire.

Special Diapatch to Bissadrck Iyibuas.
BELFAsr, Me-. Aug. Pa Are Monday
night beginning at Lehlay' wharf spread
with fearful rapidity as far as Carter's
ship yard and Marine Railway crossing
at Union street. aud then extended to
Hill street, consuming all buildings in
the route, one hundred and twenty
FIVE in all. Loss, $500, ,ooo..,. One hum
dred and thirty families are homeless.
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The Bismarck TRIBUNE is the newsiest
paper on the line.-T TAudubon journal.

An old negro woman at Buford, N. c.,
got so happy at a watch meeting last
week that she shouted herself into the
next world.
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TAKE NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given that all parties cutting hay
or timber on Railroad Lands without permit from the
Land Department will be considered trespasscr aud
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Col H. Brownson, the duly appointed Agent Of
the Department will have charge OF all its interests
at bismarck and vicinity, to whom application can
be made for permits.
5tf GenI Agent Land Dept N. P. r. R..
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Another.

~ ..J AnUGn6r, e. = Z q "a
Special Dispatch to Bis'pa''cs a't6a4',e. ..
MILwAuKEE, Aug. 2G.-Blatz's brew
cry and adjacent buildings, occupying
nearly ablock, was burned last night.
Loss $3.50, 900. -,
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By Telegraph.

By Telegraph.
WHOOP!
Custer Cavalry Turn
edLooseon the
Sioux.
The Indians Are
Most Woefully
Thrashed.
The Hatchet Buried
Where it will do
Most Good. -
Forty Of the Red Keathen Gone
|. to Kingdom Come.
And there is More of the Same
Left When Wanted.
The Indians Fight with
Winchester Rifles
And their Noble Forms are Clothed
inAnnuity Blankets.
Clusters Horse Shot Dead In
Under Him.
Tho March for the Great Porcupine
Resumed.
The Expedition to Return by the 18th
ofSeptenaber.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12
CA AS.

A New York letter writer furnishes
some very interesting gossip about
Astor, Vanderbilt and Stewart, the three
richest men in America. Astor's wealth
is mainly i'll real estate and revenues !;
Vanderbilt's in railway stocks and divi-
lcnds; Stewards in goods, houses,
stores, factories, lands and stocks. The
aggregate wealth of them all is supposed
to be between scventy-tive and one hun
drcd millions. Astor lives plainly; Van
derbilt occupies a thrcc-story brick
house on third-class street Stewart
lives in marble palace on Fifth avenue,
one of the finest residences i'll the world
Astor is native of New York, and II
large, heavy man of 70, with strong
features, and rubicund face. lie is
an Independent Methodist. The Com
modorc, also II native of New York, is Il
tall, slim, handsome, proud-looking man
of nearly 50, straight Us an arrow
Stewart, II native of the North Ireland,
10 ~ illCuiuili-HiHtt Hull, IdtliCl SltllttcI
and tall, with II face like parchment,
which gives the impression of being
hard up. Astor has heirs Vanderbilt,
children; Stewart is childless. Astor
gave couple of hundred Thousand dol
lars to the Astor library, and two golden
candlesticks, nine feet high, to Trinity
Church. The other two are inclined to
be close -fstcd. Stewart is the scholarly
man; Vanderbilt the shrcwd man
Astor the man of the world. Such are
the three wcalthicst men in America.
Are they the happicst?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12
GASTELIH.

Emilio CASTELAR,, the Spanish orator,
has made history his special study, and
if is of immense assistance to him in his
speeches. lie has travelled much,
though never yet outsluo - Europe.
Rome, Berlin, Paris and London arc
us familiar to him as Madrid. Writes Il
World correspondent He often
speaks of New York, with it's great
newspapers and its great publishing
houses, such as the Messrs. Harper,
with whom he is under contract. Their
enterprise and liberality, SO different to
that of Spanish houses, has secured his
co-opcration in their Monthiy on terms
highly rcmumcrative to him. Between
his engagement with them and the cor
rcspondcnce of two South American
journals who pay him $50 each for BIZ
weekly letter. he was adding some
thing like $4,000 year to the 81, 500
he received for his professorship of his
tory in the University of Madrid. All
literary work he has had to lay aside
since he entered Office, and drop down to
the miserable pittance of $4,000 year
tho salary attached to the Spanish
Ministry of State"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12

Gen. w. s. Rosccrans contributes an
original article to Fan Nostrand'S En-
ginccriag Mogaeinc for June, on the
Effects Of Railroads on the Value of
Lands" Gen. Rosccrans believes that
these effects, like all others, must be
ruled by fixed laws. These he expresses
in mathematical formula, from which he
deduccs rules for calculating the cash
value of an acre of land for any kind of
crop; for finding the greatest distance
from market for which any product will
pay for finding ut what distance from
market the acre ceases to have any
value; and for the solution of similar
problems. As Il specimen of his con-
clusions, we quote these sentences:
a single line of 400 miles of railroad
proceeding from Il general market ut the
averages assumed, adds 1898, ,592, 800 to
the value of the lands alone which is
an average of s9S3,9S5 per mile of road.
Were we to consider the first 200 miles
only, the gross gain to property would
THE THEE HEALTIiIEST A.MERI-
be Ss3I2, ,392, 720; the average per acre
$l5.36; and the average per mile of
road SILL, ,96S. And for a road 100
miles long from the market, the gross
gain to the lands would be 1920, 992, TO,
or 81, 900, ,927 per mile of road.
Should amy reader be filled with sur
prise and amazemcnt at these enormous
sums, let him observe the careful steps
and moderate averages used i'll obtain
ing them, and he will sec that tley are
the expression of an incontrovcrtiblc
law. Nor will its verify DC materially
affected by local variations from our
averages. No one, perhaps, dies exactly
at the time computed for him by the
tables of morality, yet the average per
son of his class never outlives the time
computed by the tables.
The immense gains to landowners
thus shown will be participated in by
the State, which gains to its taxable
property the same sum, 1898, 592, 800.
This, yielding from taxation II net of
81 pcrhundred, would produce S3, 935, ,923,
equal to capital of $65, ,59S, TT, bear,
ing 6 per cent per annum in pcrpetuo;
or Sl53, 99G per mile of road
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12
PREVENTION or .SUNSTROkE.

We are now in the midst of the heated
term, and the dangers of sunstrokc are
again imminent, and cannot be to care
fully guarded against. Below is given
what is SAID to be specific against sun
stroke, which may prove useful in the
communities in which this paper cir
culatcs "About yeal since l saw in
Il newspaper an account of case of
sunstroke, written by the party him
self. After suffering long time from
the attack, and having to considerable
degree recovered, he experienced suffer
ing even from the rays of the moon.
This led Iim to the reflection that it was
not altogether the heat of the sun that
produced prostration. After much re-
search he discovered that the injury
came from tho chemical and not from
the heated ray. He was guided to this
by observing the fact that photograph
could not be taken through hollow
glass. Accordingly he lined his hat with
arrest the chemical ray, and one of green
to arrest the heat ray. Thus prepared
he went where the rays of the sun were
most intense with imprnity. 1t is well
known that the negro is seldom or never
sunstruck. The color of his skin over
the skull being of the orange yellow may
assist in accounting for the fact.
practiced upon this suggestion all last
summer, lined my hat with green and
orange yellow paper, and had confidence
enough in the truth of the theory to
neglect my umbrella, which | had never
done before. [ mentioned it to many,
who tried it also, and in many cases that
came under my observation they uni
formly asserted that the oppressive heat
of the sun upon the head was much
relieved"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-07-12

Glove laughs at locksmiths," is IL
saw as true us it is old. But we do not
remember ever having read of II more
forciblc illustration of its truth than is
conveyed in the following extract
from letter from Bonham, Texas
"On Sunday, the Sth inst, couple
Mr. Igo and Miss Tcftcllcr-agcd re-
spcctivcly 10 and 13, who had clopcd
from schoolat Paris, Texas, went to Il
preacher near the Red river, i'll this
Qannim county, and requested the
man of God to unite them in the holy
bonds of wedlock. The minister, OBJ
serving the youthfulness of the twain,
declined to tic the knot. The young
couple, not to be foilcd in their pur-
pose, proposed to the minister to cross
the river and perform the ceremony in
the Indian Territory. To this he as
scntcd; but, there being no boat OBJ
tainablc, they were again balkcd. How
ever, where there's will there's Il
way, and, Mt the suggestion of the
young lady, a large cottonwood log was
rolled into the stream, which the deter
mined lovers mounted and driftcd out
into the river. The minister stepped
upon II stump which stood in the waters
edge, and, rcciting the marriage cere-
mouy, pronounced the twain one flesh
Mr.. ISo then returned to Texas with his
baby bride, and they Immediately en-
barkcd for Mckinney, Collin county,
where they intend making their future
home. Altogether, it was the most OK
traordinary wedding that ever took
place in these parts, and has been a
fruitful source of gossip ever since"