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His sisters money was also in his pos.
session. At that time (August 1879 he
concluded that Central Hudson, which
stood at par, would 60 to l30, and lie
spread his $l50,000 SO. as to. control q
million. In other words, he bought q
million worth and paid $l50,000 down
las margin, and a bank :. lent
him the remainder, holding
the stock : as: security. His
plans were disappointed.' The public
Knocked the stock down to IS, and the
bank demanded its money. His loan
was at i've days call and he could not
meet it. The stock was sacrificed, and
in one week he was beggarcd, besides
sinking his entire patrimony. Fortu.
nately, he has since got employment at
$l0o month, and this keeps him from
the street. He does the low drudgery
for firm which gave it to him, princi.
pally on the score Of friendship, and his
sister takes in sewing. Such is the con.
dition Of q once envied speculator.
do not wonder at his lingering round
this former resort, and he will continue
20 do so is long as he lives. The tears
he sheds real tears, not. figures of
speech relieve his agony, aud after the
fit is over he goes to bis drudgery with
as much resignation as possible. The
method Of operating, which is described
above, is called "buying on a margin, :"
and no one can prlct:cc it in q widely
extended manner, uatil he has become
reckless in prodieious degree.
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A singular Occurrence.-A Child
Stran1lsd BY 4 Cat.
middleton IN. ~ Mercury.1

A strange occurrence took place
few morning since in the family Of Mr..
Silas Doloway, engineer in Babcock,
Fuller & Co.'s new hat factory, who
occupies J. w. Garfield 8 house on Mul.
berry street, in this village. Mrs. Dolo.
way is accustomed to leave her babe, 4
little girl four, months old, on. the bed
upstairs while she does her mornings
work in the basement, from where she
could easily hear the least noise. On
the morning in question she heard the
little one growing rs usual, but finally
noticed that the sounds ceased and
shortly after heard q strange gurgling
noise. .Supposing that the child had
got its heat under the bed.clothes and
was sufocating, she ran up stairs to see
about it, and found the house cat with
its nose in the child's mouth. The
child was strangled black, and was
fighting feebly with her hands. She
caught the child and shook it several
times, when it caught It's breath and
came cut al right, In ! few. moments
more it xwould probably. Fave been
strangled to death. Mrs. Doloway had
to pull the cat of the child, so eager
|N,sit to remain, It had . paw on ei:
ther side Of. the child's head, and had
its nose pressed deeply into the child's
mouth. The cat was instantly killed;
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woR14McToN, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER a. 1874

sion that the National Drama has been
before him, End that 1t is safely over,
cannot be too highly commended. As
to characters, there is but one, and that
one appears to be the fault Of Mr.. John
7: Raymond, who plays it, rather than
Of the gifted author. His ideas appear
to have been, as already suggested, to
omit characters altogether as : weak
extravaganza, in the National Drama,
and confine himself to = the
representation Of few broad,
familiar phases Of everyday American
life. Mr.. Raymond unfortunately fail.
ed to comprehend the central idea Of
the dramatist, and he has inadvertent.
ly made Of his part Of the best, most
mirth-provok,ng and most original bits
Of ofcharacterization which any American
actor has lately given us. How that
unlucky slip may react upon the future
of the National drama we can not even
conjecture. But We strongly advise
MIR. SHARK Twain" when he shall have
finished his next American play, to
have nothing to do with Mr.. Raymond,
unless he wishes it spoiled by the in.
PRODUCTION of characters whore he nev.
er intended it.
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A Fortune Of e150,O00 Lest I'm One
Week.
NEW York L0tter.l

Here is q man of sixty who looks ex-
tremely shattered, and. as he is an old
acquaintance, I am much interested in
his case. He has wife and family,
which have for years considered them.
selves rich, but they arc now poor and
must remain so. The present is hard
enough, but the future looks worse.
This man sunk everything he had in
one week. He spends certain amount
If time every day at the Stock Ex.
change, INDUCING his feelings and try
ing to recall the past. After this he
goes to his desk and tolls through the
duties which now giv. him bread.
/: have known this man half life
time and knew his father also. The
latter was thrifty man, Vho by great
industry paid for 4 farm, which he be.
queathed to this fellow and his sister.
The young man studied law and had 4
good practice. but he got to speculating
in stocks, and this destroyed his habits
for labor. He made sonic good hits,
which only led to bolder attempts. His
luck continued, and IT. last he became
proverbially successful, so much 40 that
many applied to him for advice on thu
subject. He gradually reached = for.
tune Of &l05. 900, which was secure ia
his own hands = wssk before the panic
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the OcIosER ELECTIONS.
OHIO.

The delegation elect to Congress-
stands as follows: Democrats-1st
district, Milton Sayler .2d, Henry B.
Banning; : 3d., -. ~ Us. :; Savage /;
~4th.,t - John T. A. ! MacMahon; !;
5th, A. ". Rice; 9th, Frank H. Hurd;
7th, Lawrence T. Neal; 9th, E.. F. Pop
dleton; llth, John L. Vance; 18th, A.
IT, Wa1lins; 18th, Milton,J. Southard !;
18th, Jacob p. Cowan; Goth, H. b.
Payne-in Ill, 13. Republicvns-Sth
dist, William Lawrence 10th, Chas.
s., Foster; 18th, Nelson H.. Van Vor-
hes; 18th, L. A. Danford; 18th, L. D.
Woodworth !; 18th, James Monroe;
10th, James A. Garfield-in all, I.
The estimated. net Democratic ma.
|jority<.' on Congress. tickets is
26;000!'s' The returns on the State
ticket 50 far as received At ii o'clock
last night show a net Democratic gain
ovirlsst year Of 1902, and il is be
lieved the Democratic majority is about
10000.
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D. W. 1SeERsoL1 & Co. havo had a
large trade the past week. Largo
stock. good goods and low prices is
what did the business. No firm in the
State has a mora firm hold upon the
confidence of the people than Messrs.
Ingersoll 4 Co., and descrvedly so, for
there is no clap-trap abont chem. They
are daily sending goods to al; parts Of
the State, and their order department
is managed with care and judgment.
Their system Of buying for cash and
selling for cash, and at one price is, aud
always will be, popular, and We SEQ no
reason why people all over tho State
should be content to pay the prices
they do for their dry goods when an or.
der to some such house as lngersoll &
Co. can be filled At the very bottom Of
the market and forwarded to their
very door by express, to BE- paid for
when the goods are delivered.
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Indiana.

The Congressional delegation elect
stands Is follows: Democrats-lst
pistEict, Benoni s. Fuller; I'd, James
D. Williams; 3d. NJ. e., Kerr; 4th, J.
D. Nex;y 5th, WIS. Holman; 7th,
Franklin Landers; 10th, VIM. S. Hav.
,mond; 18th. A. H. Hamilton-totalra "a.
Republicans-8th district, Milton IS,
Robinson; 9th, Morton c. Hunter; 9th,
Thomas J. Ceson; llth, James l.
Evans; 18th, ]. II. Bakea
total, S. The official votes
Of 27 counties show a net Demo
cratic gain on the State ticket over 1877
Of 4,753, and the Democratic majority
in the State is estimated at $4,000. TIL
estimate Of the complexion Of the Leg
Mature IL @ follows: Senators holdini
over. 10, .Rspoblieans,, g. sDsnocrats
! elected, {. 1epsblicans, u penecrsts,
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1Iark Twainss Simple Play and the
Way It Was Spoiled.

. The plot Of "rhe Gilded Age is, rs
We have imtimated, simplicity itself.
It consists of steamboat explosion on
the Mississippi, visionary speculator
and . murder trial. The local .coloring
is intensified by an extremely original
and humorous negro, who is, if we mis-.
take not, an addition to our list Of
stock characters, and by . feast of tur-
nips, which Col. Sellers provides for his
guest and which gives an agreeable
glimpse Of American domestic life. The
Ingenuity With which these slender
materials are worked up, SO - to leave
upon the mind Of tho: spect3tor atstha
elsss only = vague apd pleasing imprse'
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Another White House Wanted.

A Washington correspondent says:
A strong effort, in which the President
will cooperate, will be made At the
forthcoming session Of Congress to SC:
cure an appropriation for the purpose
Of building new executive mansion IN
the western section of the city. made
:omcwhat: famous by the district real
estate pool. in which Hallet, Kilbournc,
Boss Shepard and Senator Stuart were
interested. The expense Of the annual
repairs to the present headquarters, for
the past several years, approximates a
sum which would amount to enough to
build new. and pretentious home for
the President: It is the design to have
the present building used as the exeeu-
tive Office for the transaction Of business
and the proposed structure for q resi-.
q
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MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

! ~'c-"'H.o - sHvpuA"sAOA VI
1900 *<S
VIZ. S. GoRsL1x, late Of Belvidere,
ILL.,, is about to build Touring mill and
improve the water power at Houston.
I'VE town of Chester, Wabashaw
county, has decided against the narrow
gauge railroad project.
An outfit of. "prairie schooncrs"
passed through Rsnville last week
bound for Nebraska.
GEORGE and Nelson Wilmot in tho
District Court at Winoaa, "Wednesday,
plead guilty to stealing two horses in
July last.
CHARLES KELLER of Henderson, re-
turning to his home. from: the county
fair, was thrown from his wagon aud
had his collar bone broken.
A W1soS1AS eating raw oysters Tues.
day night, discovered in one largo bi.
valve sixty'one pearls ranging in sizs
from pigeon shot to a pea.
Ar Faribault Saturday q laborer
named Frederick Pfeusky, fell Of 4
gravel train, breaking lis neck and
legs, instantly killing him.
Doxls1ck OcT of St. Cloud, whilo en-
gagged in digging well at Fair Haven.
was caught by a cave Friday of last
week and instantly killed. His body
was recovered Sunday.
TnEY fine a man in Mile Lacs county
$25 and costs for indulging in the man
ly sport Of assaulting his wife and
breaking two Of her ribs. $l2 apiece
for ones own wifc's ribs! What is the
world coming tol
Nh. D. A.. HoYr Of. Maine Prairie,
Stearns county, has gone into deer rails.
ing. He has a sixteen acre park enclos-
ed with . high fence, in which ho now
has nine deer, which he will increase by
breeding and by catching wild deer un.
til he hopes to be able to supply vension
by the thousands Of pounds yearly.
Mr.. Hoyt says deer confined in this
way keep we'll and breed freely.
GEO. ". swEErsER decamped from
Winona Friday afternoon, leaving bis
bride, whom he had married four days
before, at Plainview. He left several
hotel and livery bills unpaid. Tho
scamp halls from Arcade, n. Y.
ORN CRAvArH, well known citizen
Of St. Charles, died of apoplexy Of the
heart Friday night. He was in bis
usual health up to the time Of his sud.
den death.
THREE horse thieves named john
Quackenbosh, Charles Miles and Alfred
Smalley, with team stolen from DR..
Bemis Of Faribault, on the night Of
the 18th, were captured near Oronooo.
Olmsted county, Friday night.
The Faribault Republican learns
that the farmers of Bridgewater, Rice
county, have been obliged to dispose Of
their sheep, on account Of the ravagcs
of the wolves, a large number Of sheep
having been killed the past summer.
MONDAY as Mr.. Jcwett Of Faribault,
and Rev. c. H. Plumer were driving
into Lake City, the horse took fright,
upsetting the buggy, throwing both 90
cupants violently to the ground, Mr..
Jewett sustaining broken arm and Sc
we're bruises Of the body. Mr.. Plumer
escaped with q few bruises.
| A LITTLE daughter Of G.. G. Fox OF
Rice county, saw her father strike a
match. She liked it so we'll that she
tried it in the vicinity of her fathers 8
hay stacks. Mr.. Fox SUMS up his loss
in stables burned, also sixty tons Of
hay, his granary containing $40 bushels
of oats and 100 Of wheat, his farming
tools, harnesses and one horse, in all
about 81 900, with no insurance.
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What Attorney General Willialas'
= Detectives Are For.

Detective Hester, employed by tho
United States government in Sumter
county, Ala; has arrested fifty whites
for acting as Sheriff 8 posse in sup
pressing negro riot in Sumter and Sat.
urday, Just as Democratic meeting
vas assembling, caused the arrest Of
Col. Whitcmore,- chairman of the Dem.
ocratic county committee, on charge Of
conspiracy against him, Hester. The
latter proceeding caused considerable
excitement, $50. i. II ..s> ;.c.
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Newspaper Ethics.
New York Nation.1

A point o; a good deal Of interest,
both to newspapers and their readers,
will probably before long be submitted
to the United States Court" in this dis.
trict, in the shape of an application by
the trustee in bankruptcy Of Jay Cooke
Il Co.. to set aside contract made by
that firm with Mr.. Henry c. Bowen, the
publisher and proprietor Of the Iaade.
pendent, and to recover the considera.
ton on which it is based. The contract
provided that MIR. Bowen was to lend
the use Of his editorial columns and
otherwise exert himself to promote the
sale Of the bonds of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, in return for which he was to
receive in bonds and stock percent.
age on the amount of bonds sold through
whatever channel. and he did actu-
slly thus receive $685. in bonds and
$400, 900 in stock, face value, of course.
The trustee now repudiates this con.
tract as contra bonos 9',ores, and asks
that the bonds and stocks be surren.
dered to the estate. 1t is possible that
as between Jay Cooke and Mr.. Bowen
the contract would stand under the
rule known to the lawyers as ''iaa pari
delicto, potion est co1,ditio defendentis, -
which may be freely translated by say
ing that where there is rascality on
both sides, the defendant may keep
what he has got. The Court will,
therefore, probably have to decide
whether the trustee stands morally in
Cookies shoes, and, if not, whether the
contract is immoral. If it decides the
latter point in the affirmative, of course
the bonds would have to be restored to
the estate for distribution among the
credi tors.
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Revocation Of Powers of Attorney


Last Monday there was recorded in
the Secretary Of States Office, four le.
gal documents addressed "To all to
whom these presents shall come greet.
ing revoking certain powers Of attor
ney granted to Hon. Geo. L. Becker, as
one Of the trustees for the sale of lands
of the st. Paul & Pacific railroad COM
pany, held in trust for the payment of
four several mortgages issued as securi-
tiy for the payment Of certain bonds Of
the company. Heretofore Mr.. Becker
has been acting alone under power Of
attorney for the other trustees of the
company in the sale Of these lands,
but now that Hon. Edmund Rice, one
Of the trustees, has commenced pro.
eeedings of foreclosure, this power has
been revoked. The only effect Of this
revocation is that no disposition Of
these lands can now be made without
the acquiescence of all the trustees
under The several mortgages. The
first Of the mortgages affected by this
revocation is dated June lst, 1862, fo1
81, 200, 900, and is signed by Samuel J.
| 4uuen VI NEW 1OTk anu Eu1uuuu Dlct
and Horace Thompson of St. Paul
The second is for $2,800.000, Of date
Oct. l, 1865, and signed by George I
NJ. Davis of New York and Horace
Thompson. Both of the above cove,
lands on the Branch Line, the tw,
following being for Main Line lands
The third is for s3,0o0,000, datet
March lst, 1854, and signed Horac'
Thompson and Edmund Of St. Paul
and Samuel J. Tilden of New York
The fourth is dated July LIST, 1868, i
for SO, 900, 900, and signed by Samuel J
Tildsn of New York, and Horac
Thompson Of New York.
These several documents have TO b
} recorded in Ill the counties in which ar
any Of the lands covered by the resps<
tive mortgages.
While the legal effect of these docu
ments is only as stated above, it is prot
able that their real effect will bo to ii
up the lands until the litigation fror
which they sprung, il ended.
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Independents, doubtful. In the House,
81 Democrats, 40 Republicans and o In
dependents.
Iowa.

:: The unofficial returns give J. L. Aims.
worth, the Anti.Monopoly candidate for
Congress in the Third (McGregor) dis
trict, 10 majority over G. L. Granger,
Republican. The other eight districts
undoubtedly elect the Republican
candidates, as follows: LIST dist,
George w. Craney; I'd, L. G. Tufts !;
'4th, H. 0. Pratt; 5th, james Wilson {;
9th, E. S. Simpson; 7th, John A. Kas.
son; 9th, j. W. McDill; 9th, Addison
Oliver. The Republican majority. in
tho State is estimated at about 10000.
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"a Fifteen persons arrested at Coush.
alta, e.. charged with participating in
the recent outrage there, are reported
en.route for New Orleans, under : guard
of federal soldiers, -.
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The Democratic State ticket ran even
WITH the constitution The Democrats
estimate from the returns already in,
that 105,000 votes were cast-the
largest, ever polled in the State; that
tho constitution and Democratic State
ticket received 90,000'to $4,000 against,
thus giving the constitution $4,000 ma.
jority. In Lee county the entire col
ored Republican element voted for the
constitution. In Phillips county about
700 colored votes were cast for the con.
stitution, and in Pulaski about 800. 1t
is estimated that from 5000 to 10000
Republicans voted for the constitution.
The vote is very full all over the State.
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A Woman's J Judgment of Mrs. Ttlton.
Mrs. Swis.helm in the Chicago Tribune. J


Mrs. swis,helm in the Chicago Tribune: j
OF all the moral lessons ever Henry
Ward Beccher taught, the most impress
siye is contained in those. words which
Mrs: Stanton truly says must have fall
en- with "withering cruelty" on her
whom he ''casts aside like = withered
flower" ''She thrust her affections on
me unsought.' These are the most in
structive words; this is the greatest
sermon that ever fell from the lips Of
the great preacher Let all women read
and ponder. They teach an old, old
lesson, with new and mighty force.
They say to every woman: The man
who would induce you to do that for
which you would hide your head in
shame, if known to the world, is sell
fish cgotist and coward! No matter
how gracefully he may kneel, how elo-
quently and passionately he may plead;
no matter how thickly he may paint his
purposes with ooatings Of piety and
philosophy, his nature and his purposes
are base. It is himself he loves, and,
under sufficient pressure, he will sacri-
fee and trample upon you. The man
who can get his own consent to live a
life he dares not acknowledge, confcsses
himself coward; and coward, in
presence Of danger would betray any
trust. A man who would make dishon.
orable proposals, under the plea Of love,
to woman, is SO essentially sneak =,
that sacrificing her to save himself is as
much necessity Of his nature, as truly
part Of his make up, as are claws to a
lobster.
One must pity poor little Mrs. Til
ton. Think Of tho great mesmeric
force which holds hundreds of thous-
ands in spell, which makes right wrong
and wrong right with q word, a look
and gesture; think Of the power Of
Beecher being concentrated in one hu.
man. soul--a soul made for devotion,
predisposed to believe in anything which
took the form Of piety-and what result
could be expected? What man could
resist Beecher if he would concentrate
his power upon him? Mr.. Tilton is
surely right in feeling that his wife't
fall, under the circumstances, is no evi
dcnce of unusual weakness, and he may
wen pardon her on the ground that hi
himself committed a blunder worse than
a crime in consenting to the unusual in
timacy in his family Of such man =.
mar who had long been charged will
immortality. The world can we'll alfort
to pity and pardon poor little Mrs. Til
ton. Those who were at all familiar
with the fragile, nervous, sensitive, af
fectionatc little creature may we'll cove1
her with a mantle Of charity. Tn
;, strong can afford to love and, trust her
) when not under the baleful influence
that wrecked her life but she is n
pattern Of womanhood to be held "
!: for other than condemnation.
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Charlotte Cushman, the veteran
actress, is playing . farewell engage.
ment at Booths theater, New York, to
large and enthusiastic audiences.
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Chicago Produce Hoard, Oct. 10.

| 1880 4. x.-Wheat steady ard fairly 90
to 68xc for November; se4 for .Decembe.
aud SIC bid for No. 3. Rye quiet At e2c lid.
-ll:45 4. x.--Provisions heavy aud lower;
Pork SO for October; S,665 seller the yea<
$l7:20 for February, and SIC SIX to Sl6.93
for January and February. Lard 1870 to
Ike seller the year; offered At '!xo for
Eehruary =. -
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Milwaukee Produce Board, Oct. 10.
II. x.--Wheat dull At 97xc for No. !;
9ox c for No. 2; 9Oxc Tor October; sSkc sell
Ter the year. Nearly nominal market.
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SEND your orders for Dry Goods to
D. W. 1ngersoll & Co. and save money.
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West virginia.

The latest returns elect BENJAMIN
Wilson; Democrat, in the first Congress.
sional district over Nathan Goff, Jr.,
Republican. In the second district
Charles J. Faulkner, Democrat, is
elected over Boteler, Republican. The
third district is yet to be heard from.
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TuIsDA1, Oct. 2o.-0mcial returns from
ssvsnty three Of the ninety
counties Of Indiana give Z
Democratic majority Of 14,733. The
counties yet to henr from gave a Demo:
cratic majority At the last election. Tbt
b: noet,ts have good majority on join
''okillo1t1 ~ tha Elssislature. ..R. n. Boskin
oeutils, viii contest The 'siiat IL Congress
efc.anen; pelysanist, .. a''esase f.es
- III r. ~ T.A tEz