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A Moving MiShap.

Mr.. Drumme is a commercial traveller,
and is away from home good deal, and
besides that he is so very much absorbed
in his business that his wife never expects
any assistance from him in the manage
ment of household matters. When Mrs.
Drumme determined to move she cOmmu-
nicated her intention to her spouse, and
told him that she intended to 90 about it
during his next period of rest from his
jOurneying, and would depart from her
usual custom by asking him to assist.
Drumme declared his readiness, and was
particular to note the date of his intended
fitting in his memorandum book. He
then went TO the store, packed his sample
cases, learned two or three new funny
stories to tell his customers, and started
out and was gone three weeks, scouting
in Illinois and Kentucky. He returned on
one of the late night trains and started
home, thinking he would have a week s
rest before the moving process began.
He let himself in with latch-key, and
the first thing he noticed was the hollow
sound of his heel on the hall floor. He
proceeded. and on entering the sitting
room stumbled and fell into the midst of
two or three shrieking women and babies,
and before he could rise and explain, he
felt bed-Slat collide with his head several
times in quick succession before he lost
consciousness. When he "came to-" a
large man had him in his arms, and wO-
man was holding light and pouring wa
ter on his head. The man was saying /:
{" Bless my soul. | hope he amt killed
It's Mr.. Drummer
The explanation Drumme's wife gave
him was that the new house being ready a
week earlier than was expected, she had
moved, but he failed to get the letter ap-
prising him of the fact. As the gentle
man who took the house bought the night
latch and dOor-bell, she did not remove
them, and thus Mr.. Drumme got into the
house and tumbled right among the sleep
ing family, who were camping in the dim
ing-room the first night of their residence
in his late dOmicile.-EUansUiLl Journal.
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Now for Amnesty.

1t is reported that Southern COnserva-
tive members voted against the Centennial
$4,000, 900 fund for no other reason than
because they thought the passage OF gen
eral amnesty should antedatr an apprOpri-
alton to celebrate the hundredth anniver-
sity of the Union. But for this objection
they would have sustained the bill, per-
haps. The fundamental idea of the Cen
tennial show is to exhibit to the world the
greatness and unity of this nation. lis
but mOckery to talk of this while men
are deprived of their civil rights. in cOnse-
quence of events that occurred ten years
ago, and now have almost the dimness of
traditions. The injustice to these men, as
individuals. is but the least part of the
harm done by the policy of Ostracism.
Excluding them from the right of suffrage
and holding Office prohibits much Of the
native ability OF the South from TAX
ing part in the work of restoration; and
the i'll effects of this is seen in the wretch
ed misgOvernment of several of the South
ern States. Had universal amnesty been
proclaimed five years ago, and the best
men of the South had fair chancetO make
themselves felt in public affairs, we be-
lievc that South C-rolina, Mississippi.
Louisiana and Arkansas would now be
governed with something like decency.
But even without reference to these prob
able results. 1t would have been work of
common generosity and prudent states
manship to restore the eX-Contederates to
their lost privileges a long time ago, en-
naasse, instead of peddling out pardOnS to
them two or three at a time, after suitable
humiliation. If Congress wishes the peo-
pie to celebrate the Centennial anniversary
with unison and heartiness it should im-
mediately grant amnesty to all political
offenders, so that those persons may get
themselves into the proper frame of mind
for the jubilee of lS76.-N. 7. Journal Of
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Personal and Political Points.

An exchange says that ''Ben Butler
would be happy if he could get his
vignette on the ten-cent shinplasters."
No doubt of it. but he would be much
happier if he could get ais hands on them.
Another exchange declares that
"Gen. Butler and his personal followers
constitute no mean power in a political
convention in Massachusetts" No, but
they constitute everything else that is
mean, no matter where they are.
-" William Ward, of New York, openly
claims to be the greatest thief in the cOun-
trv outside of Con yress." That may be,
but he ought to remember how immeas-
urably he is beaten by many of the thieves
inside of Congress.
"A Nevada paper says that Senator
Stewart used to be restaurant waiter in
Denver, and he was as poor waiter as he
is Congressman" Then, the keeper OF
the restaurant must have been an idiot, or
he wouldn't have kept that waiter fifteen
minutes.
Having heard that General Butler is
going to Europe, st. Louis paper wants
him to take passage in steamer that has
been heightened : just as ifa heightened
steamer, or any other sort OF steamer,
could drown a man who was born to be
hanged.
The indianapolis Journal says: I'm
one respect, at least, the Democratic and
Republican parties differ IN toto. Ehe for
mer has never been known to expose and
punish fraud committed by one of its
own members, and the latter has never
been known to conceal one" This in the
face of the fact that if all the white-wash
which the leaders of the Republican party
have used in concealing one another
frauds were all in one mass, it would
form lake large and deep enough TO float
the United States navy.-LouisrtLLs CoaTi.
,y.- ToJty,snL
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

MOsT kinds of roots and barks are now
used as medicines, except the cube root
and the bark of dog.
4" A REVOLVING fragment of the paleOzO-
ic age collects no cryptOgamOus veget;-
tiOn,' is new translation Of a popular
prOverb.
IT is suggested that General Butler
would make a good stage manager, because
he always has a cast in his eye.
Mrs. PARTISGTON moved this spring to
a house OH the railroad. and she likes it
very much. g 1t is so pleasant and sOcia-
ble," she says, - when Ike is off, to see the
cars forty times day pass pro and con be-
fore the Windows
A MAN cannot wait for his dinner with
out losing his temper, but see with what
angelic sweetness woman bears the trial
Has the woman more patience? Not bit
only she has lunched, and the man has
not.
WHILE a couple of women were discuss
ing, the other day, the merits Of certain
physician, one of them asked the other
what kind of a doctor it was. sure, l
Dunno" was the reply, "but | think it's
an alpaca doctor they call him."
WEDNESDAY afternoon a Brunswick man
TOOK buckeye away from MS DOE, WHO
was carrying it for ''lucs," and flung it
contcmptuOusly out into the street. hen
he went into the house and said: = Wife,
it's the dark o. the moon nOw-let's plant
them taters."
A Few years ago a hungry crowd sat
down at the Widespread supper-table Of a
sound-steamer upon which one of the
dishes contained trout Of moderate size.
A serious-looking individual drew this dish
toward him, saying, apologetically, This
is tast-day with me-" His next neigh
Dor, an Irish gentleman, Immediately IN
serted his fork into the fish and transferred
IL TO his own plate, remarking: sir. do
you suppose nobody has a sowl to be saved
but yOurself?"
IL there is one thing more than any other
that will crush all the best impulses IN
mans breast, that will drive all beauty
from his mind, that will I'LL him with a de-
moniac desire to dabble his hands IN hu-
man gore and fling it around. as the laugh
ing child sports with punches of bl0Od-red
graDes-it is to struggle through the heat
of the sun. the dust of the street. the III
bald jcers of the heartless crowd, in order
to catch a freight train; to sink painting
and exhausted upon the seat Of the ca
boose-car, and gradually regain CONSCIOUS
ness while the train switches and jams
about the depot for two hours.
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The Logic of Politicians.

Congress has, since the war, assumed
the right to exercise supervision and con-
troll over the State Governments of the
South. 1t was one of the features of re-
construction. The object being the pro-
lection of the freedmen and immigrant
loyal men from the North, justified the ap-
parent violation of the constitutional prin-
ciple which guaranteed to the people of the
State the right to regulate their local af-
fairs in their own way. The South ac-
cepted this interference. Indeed, she could
not very well avoid it, since resistance was
impossible. Congress therefore became
the recognized arbiter of all questions aris-
ing between the white and black man !:
and. in the case of Louisiana, Georgia and
North Carolina, did not hesitate to act upon
this right, thus tacitly conceded. 1t is
true that in the cases referred to the COM
plants that invoked congressional prin-
ference were made by black men or by the
black mans party. 1t was not until the
taxpayers of South Carolina laid before
Congress their memorial, that an OppOsi-
ton case was ever made. 1t presented an
anomalous feature in reconstruction, and
was treated. considering the assumptions
of Congress in the other instances, in an
anomalous way.
memorial was referred, reported adversely
to the prayer of the petition. The reasons
embodied in their report point to an adj
verse conclusion. They admit the duty of
Congress to apply remedy to all wrongs
done the people of State, but they say
the grievances Cf the South Carolina me-
moralists spring from the constitutional
amendments, adopted since the war. The
amendments are national, and the wrongs,
if any are done, are of a national character.
In this sense, says the report, Congress
cannot interfere.
If this assumption is correct, the con-
clusiOn Is illogical. Precisely for that
reason Congress should interfere. The
committee knew the origin of the rcvOlu-
ton which enables an ignorant black ma
jOrity to govern the State. The State Con-
stitution under which it was done was the
creature of Congress it was framed by a
constituency provided by Congress, and
was made to conform to StipulatiOns laid
down by that body, and in OrdertO do this,
as Congress Overthrew the former State
Government, a precedent was thereby
established which justities it in interfering
again to redress any grievance which
might be produced by its former action.
1t is morally bound to do so. The cOnsti-
tutiOnal amendments were not the work
of South Carolina, but of Congress. and
forced upon her acceptance. 1t is claimed,
therefore, that the right of Congress to in
terfere to relieve the white people of
South Carolina from oppression is based
on the fact that the injury complained of is
the result of former congressional inter-
ference. 4 refusal to do so is an evasion
of the logical effect of the right assumed
~, 40
measures on the SOuth.-.St. Louis Repabli-
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The Warmth of Clothing.

The London Medical Record says that
DR.. Won Pettenkoter, in a careful study
of this subject recently published, has
pointed out that the permeability of stutfs
to air is condition of their warmth. OF
equal surfaces of the following materials,
he found that they were permeated by the
following relative quantities of air, the
most porous. flannel. such as is used Ordi-
narily for clothing, being taken at 100:
Flannel, 100; linen of medium tinenesS,
So; silk, 40; buckskin. 5S tanned leather,
/; chamois leather, 81. Hence, if the
warmth of clothing depends upon the
degree in which it keeps out the air from
our bodies, then glOve-kid must be 100
times warmer than flannel, which every
one knows is not the fact. The whole
question, then, is resolved into that of ven
tilation. If several layers of the same ma
terial be placed together, and the air be al
lowed TO permeate through them, the ven
tilation through the second layer is not
much less than through the first, since
the meshes of the two form a system of
continuous tubes of uniform diameter, and
the rapidity of the movement OF the air
through these is affected merely
by the resulting friction. Through
our clothing, then, there passes a
ventilation, depends upon the size of the
meshes, upon the difference OF tempera-
ture between the external and internal at
mosphere, and upon the velocity of the
surrounding air. Our clothing, then, is
required, not to prevent the admission Of
| the air, but to regulate the same so that
our nervous system shall be sensible of no
movement in the air. Further, our clothes,
at the same time, regulate the temperature
of the contained air, as it passes through
them, so that the temperature of the air
between the clothing and the surface OF
our body averages 81 to Sc degrees Fab
renheit. The microscopic property of
different material used for clothing essen
TALLY modiiies their functions. This pro-
perty varies with the different materials ;
wool, for instance, takes up more water
than linen, while the latter takes up and
gives of its watery contents more rapidly
than the former. The more the air is dis
placed by water from the clothes the less
will be their power of retaining the heat /;
in other words, they conduct the heat
more really, and hence we are quickly
chilled by wet garments.
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Cause of Mississippi OyerflOws.

At recent meeting of the Chicago
Academy OF Science, Ex-Governor Bross
of that city read an elaborate paper on the
subject of the Mississippi inundatiOns, in
which he argued that the OvertlOws which
are now devastating so large a portion OF
the finest cotton districts of Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana, and nearly all
the choice sugar region of the latter State,
find their explanation not in larger vol
ume of water than,usual poured into the
Lower Mississippi from its tributaries, but
in the fact that the bed of the river is grad
ually rising, thus lifting up its waters to a
higher level, and causing them to flow
over the banks and levees which once con-
fined them. In support Of this view he
declared that he had cOnversed with many
intelligent and observant bOatmen in St.
Louis, who confidently averred that the
bed of the river is gradually rising from
the deposit of sediment, just as the river
PO, in Italy, whose Overflows are more
frequent and destructive than formerly,
is lifting its bed from the same cause.
This view of a very interesting subject is
strengthened by circumstances attending
the recent overflow. 1t is d noteworthy
fact that this recent overflow was not
caused nor accompanied by any unusual
rise either in the Missouri or Upper Missis-
sippi; the floods came into the lower river
at and below Cairo, chiefly from the Ohio
Cumberland, Tennessee, White, Arkansas,
and Red rivers; and the flood in the Ohio
lacked several feet Of being as high as for
mer years have witnessed. Had the great
streams above Cairo, the Missouri and its
tributaries. and the Upper Mississippi,
with its affluents, participated in the rise,
the lower river would have been raised
several feet higher than it was-a height
that would have carried it probably, over
nearly all the levees. and caused the inun-
datiOn of all the lOwlands bordering on it..
That so great and destructive an overflow
as that which took place should come from
the comparatively limited volumes of
water poured into the river at and below
Cairo, seems to suggest decreased ca
pacity of the river channel to contain its
waters, owing to the elevation of the bed.
If this theory be correct, some very inter-
esting questions present themselves :
How long is the process to go on? What
will be its ultimate effects? If the
levees on its bank are to be built higher as
its bed is raised, to secure the country
from inundatiOn, there will come time
when the mighty river will flow to the
sea like an aqueduct, through channels
lifted up above the plain. But there is a
limit to the work of raising the levees ;
the higher they are built the weaker they
become, and in great flood, in which all
the upper rivers snail participate, the
levees would be carried away, and the re-
leased water would submerge the low re-
giOns in a far more destructive deluge
than any we have yet witnessed.-S.
Louis Republican.
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A Street-Car Incident.

Saturday morning, in a ride over the
bridge to Cincinnati on a Covington
car, we had the pleasure of the company
of three ladies and two children, all un-
known to us. One of the ladies was the
mother of one of the children. a little
girl. and one of them was the grand
mother of the child.
Stopping at the dollhouse on this side,
A pariey arose between the driver and the
toll-gatherer about the children. The
latter. TO settle the matter, said to the lit
tie girl, ''How old are you, sissie p and
the child innocently answered, Eight
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wears" The limit being six years, the
driver had TO give check for the child,
and. of course. collected full fare from her
mother. The lady was considerably pro-
voked, and rs the car moved on, said,
with emphasis and shake of the finger
at the child, Next time, you say five"
The grandmother demonstrated, but the
mother persisted in her instruction, and
argued the matter at some length. The
whole party were quite handsomely
dressed, and the mother of the child wore
a large cross around her neck.-Cineia-
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"Turn to book fourth" he said, cline
653, Vizs, Jet 9uen dederat catrsaan fortuna
peregt-l have lived and accomplished the
race which fate designed"
He loosened his hold on TheO.'s hand,
and Edward Wallace closed his own fing-
ers tightly over it and held it fast.
Daddy Dinkle seemed to have fallen into
a light slumber. His face was as beautiful
and serene as the face of an infant in a
happy dream.
The old man was dead Cincinnati Com
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At THE BRIDAL.
By HARRIET PRESCOTT sporroHD.

BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD.
Wide stood the door, that morning,
OF the somber and ancient church,
And gayiy The yellow sunshine
Streamed on Its seldom search
streamed over the rustiing saiinsi
over jewel and waving plume,
Over smiling and confident gailantsJ
over women all beauty and bloom.
And paused 20 look at the pageant
In the midst Of the simmer and stir,
And % hear the priest murmur, Forsaking
Al Others, cleave only 70 her.
Fair twinkled the tapeT-set altar,
Aud sweet blew the organs breath,
While the lover bent and repeated,
To love and 20 cherish till death.
The light from the great rose-winSow
Came splendidly sitting down;
On her face there fell glory,
And over her hair a crown;
And knew by the awful passien
With which he stood white and wan
That he cast his heart before her
For her feet 90 tread upon.
But the bride was softly smiling
LOvesome and bright and fair
lie was but the ring on her finger,
He was but the rose in her hairl
And would there had been a glamor
over my eyes, and a blur,
At that eager vow OF forsaking
All others, and cleaving TO her;
FOR out Of the pillsred shadow
saw beside me start
a wlld-eyed girl, with her baby
Clasped over her breaking heart, -
ana M down from the porch go flying
ne wreck OF q rOrture unblessed-t
with only the ri-er before her,
NIh only t,Ie river for rest!
-HayPer's Magdzine.
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While Mrs. J. Blenk, OfDallas Center.
Iowa, was doing her spring house-elean-
ing, she started to carry rifle upstairs,
when the hammer caught on step and
discharged the gun, the ball striking the
right eye and passing through the brain,
causing inslan death.
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A TEMPTING Cheerful
Agent for Life Assurance COmpany-"The
advantage of our company is, that you do
not forfeit your policy either by being
hanged or committing suicide! Pray
take prOspectns!''
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PERSONAL.

W. H. Simpson returned to Bismarck by Mon
days train. He reports business rather ''thin''
throughout the east and il glad to get back among
people who keep things moving. . .... a. .,.- d
Mr.. Bailey il happy. He kissed the bride after the
marriage ceremony at his hotel yesterday.
IS. Brown and lady returned BY Fridays train.
Nay their shadow never grow less.
Fred Hollenbaek returned last week, but he was
not narr1ed. Telegraphc reports are sometimes
erroneous. tts5E .~t - "'sa. .%.%. '~'~'
A. H. Wilcox, Col. Browns surveyor, left for
below yesterday he expects to return and reside ut
Bismarck. He is man that it will do to tie 70. :
Mai. Dickey has gone aad done 1t, and is expected
back with his bride the last OF the week. this Is
not so, charge it to Jack. ~
Capt. singiser has gone below for the winter.
Gen. Custer Is expected BY to-night's train. TO
him Bismarck will be iadebts I'd for mail this winter.
l.. T. Marshall and J. 8. Csrveile returned from
Carroll, last week.
The catfish having ceased to bite, Buffalo Jack will
return 70 Bismarck In . macinac soon: aFa
J. 8. Winston returned Monday, and is whooping
up business right lively. J. s.W. IL one Of the best
business men in the northwest. -f..-. - a -
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FortPeok News.

HIS. Parkins arrived from Fl. Peck
today, having been ten days on the
route. He reports no snow until twenty
miles above Berthold was reached:
Three Diamond r trains left Peck for
Helena on the 1st, and one was expect
al TO leave on the 9Th inst, taking oil
the goods left ct Peck by the Fontonelle
and Nav Lowry. One hundred and fifty
iona Of ore remain 1t Peck and sixty
TONS e Carroll for want Of transports.
tion. Can't. Marratta will be down in Z
nv DAYS. Charley Reynolds stopped Z
day 81 two q Besth6n on his way
Down.
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Reported Specially for the Bis
@ marck Tribune.
.SHERIDAN'S REPORT.
Black Hills Country Better than
Expected.
GOLD In THE BLACK HILLS.
Soldiers Discharged Miscellaneous
News.
BLACK HILLS.

BLACK HILLS.
+ WASHINGTON, Nov. lO.-Gen. Sheri.
dams annual report says the Custe,
expedition was successful rec0nnci
sance Of the Black Hills. The country
BETTER THAN EXPECTED,
with plenty of good timber and consid-
erable good soil at high attitudes, and
an abundant supply Of good water and
SOME GOLD WAS FOUND
near Harney's Peak, but no reliable in
formation % to quantity because sudf-
cient time could not be given to pros
pecting. He recomends the establish
ment Of military post in the Black
Hills to avert Indian troublss.
SOLDIERS DISCHARGED.
Fr. GARiY, Nov. 10.-One hundred
soldiers and seven officers were dis
charged from the garrison today.
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.
The Dominion government is matur-
ing plans for = territorial government
in the northwest on the plan Of the
United States. i
PHNDINA RAILWAY.
Only eight miles of the Pembina
railway is graded. The Ottawa author
tiles accordingly threaten to break
Whitehead's contract.
STARVING.
Sr. Louis, Nov. 10.-Forty thousand
people in the grasshopper regions Of
Kansas and Nebraska are in danger of
starvation.
| \ t.e5 HORRIBLE MURDER.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 10.-The terrible
murder committed last Saturday night
was discovered to-day BY the confession
Of . boy who. witnessed it. A young
German named Schlingen was killed
with q pitchfork and the body nearly
burned up in boiler fue in Frieburg's
tannery. He was killed by E0ger and
Rufer in revenge for alleged seduction
Of fingers daughter. aa} -
RAILROAD CELEBRATION <
MANKAro. Nov. 10.-The formal open.
ing of the Wells & Aankato R. R. was
celebrated to-day. .-@ "
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The Nicholson's Drug Store is nearly
ready for: occupancy. The. front Was
put in yesterday, and the painters are
at work. Msssrs, Diep : 20. have
done good job on the carpenter work
and Col. Wilson has the best and hand.
sonsst building Id tie city.