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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-02-08

Well-known establishment of n. G. Tbomn-
son, Rockford. Illinois, we had the pleasure
OF investigating the merits of the Gorham
binder, which he has been deyelonino and
IS now manufacturing with a view of intro
duclng them next harvest. Last season he
made and sent out some ten or a dozen of
them, and there was a general expression of
favor and satisfaction with the work they did.
since then improvements, suggested by field
experience, have been made, which were
apparent by comparing the binder of 1876
with the one now under process of construc-
ton for 1877. Mr.. Thompson is confident
| that IN the coming haryests his string binder
VIII be complete success. At the shops of
the Marsh Harvester Manufacturing Co..
Sycamore, we were also shown another
binder employing string, that bids fair to
accomplish all that is desired of such q ma
chine, and what seems somewhat strange
without even tying knot in the string: the
cord employed my be a rough, uneven sub
stance, as it cannot interrupt the working
OF the machine. It is fastened by being
drawn through the sheaf, wound twice
around and the final end also passed through
the bundle and cut off. No machine that
we have seen will wrap bundle more tight
ly than this one. Its experience in the field,
however, is yet to be had. In our last mum
Der we mentioned the fact that Mr.. j. p.
johnson, Of Minnesota, had worked out an
other idea in binders employing string. We
saw the original rough machine, made by
him without mechanical experience, and as
model it Gid its work; what it will do as a
yet to be solved.
Another class of inventors are not content
with obviating the use of wire only, but are
laboring in the direction of making each
harvest provide its OWN material with which
to bind itself when cut, as has been done in
bandman was not supplemented in his work
by machinery. At the time referred to,
when we We're in the Marsh Harvester shops,
at Sycamore, we We're shown
EowLER's AUTOMATIC STRAW BINDER,
the only one, we think, ever attempted which
makes its own bands from the straw gather
ed in the gavel. The hepatentee has been three
years improving and developing the idea;
the result is machine that does the work,
the chief and perhaps only objection to it
being its weight and cost; these, we are as
sured by Mr.. w. w. Marsh, the general SUI
perintendent of the shops. and the real
genius cf the establishment, could be reduc-
ed TO an extent that would make it practical
and able to compete in cost with any other
binder made. 1t certainly is an ingenious
machine, accomplishing its work in a most
peculiar manner, but there being no material
to buy to make expense, and no wire to mix
in the straw or injure the threshing machine,
it will, when simplitied and modified, mark
an era in grain gathering as important and
great as any stage of progress in the history
of harvesting machinery Factory and
Farm.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22
Electricity in Surgery.

A lady living in Allston, who was
troubled with some affection of the
throat, took a trip South, and on her
way back consulted an eminent ply
sician in Baltimore, who said that a
tumor had formed inside her windpipe.
On reaching home the statement was
confirmed. 1t was with great difficulty
that she could swallow any thing, and
her breathing became obstructed. 1t
was decided that the tumor must be re-
moved, though such an operation as
taking tumor from the inside of the
windpipe was unknown, and an instru-
ment must be invented for the purpose
A tube was put into the windpipe below
the diseased spot, and the throat sub.
jected to a course of education" fol
the operation. An instrument was de.
vised, having at the end a combination
of claws, which could be worked from
the other end, so as to close firmly over
the tumor, and an arrangement was
made for passing acurrent of electricity
through the instrument. In due time
the operation was successfully perform
ed by gently pressing the instrument
down into the windpipe, firmly claspine
the tumor in the claws and burning i
out by the electric current. 1t wa
drawn out, and the lady, who under
went the ordeal without the use of an,
anesthetic, was doing well at last &C
counts.-Boston Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22

amount of indebtedness, and Mrs. Bal
lard refused to surrender the lady's
trunk until the board bill was settled.
Complaint was made at the Ninth Pre-
cinct station, and Capt. Kennedy not
only removed the trunk but ordered the
arrest of Mrs. Ballard. She was taken
before Justice Flammer, who promptly
discharged her, asserting that it was a
matter for civil action and not criminal
prosecution. She claims that she was
maliciously maltreated, and declares
that she will prosecute the suit for dam
ages with all her power, not for any
money that she may recover, but to vim
dicate her character, and to show the
police that they can not arbitrarily ar
rest and imprison those who are guilty
of no offense but that of refusing per-
mission to police captains to enter pri-
vate residences and insult the inmates.
Capt. Kennedy declines to make any
statement concerning the case, and ex-
presses regret that the damages have
not been placed at 100000.
Superintendent Walling states that
Mrs. Ballard is one of the shrewdest
WOIHCA HC Ids CFCl IuCt, diu Seth cuCVAs
most detectives. He has affidavits from
some of her neighbors complaining Of
the conduct of Mrs Ballard and hel
boarders, and charging that the Ian
guage used at times in and about hel
house is very Objectionable. The Su
perintendent says that he was visited by
Mrs. Ballard, who objected to removing
from her present home, and upon hel
assurance that she had rented part o
her house to private family, he ordered
| the police surveillance to cease.
Mrs Ballard left the city for Boston
week before last, in order to visit he
husband and demand wife's portion o
his deceased fathers estate. The som
crime and Imprisonment so deeply al
fected his old father that he became in
sane and soon died. The felon SON.
share in the estate is about $50, 900. Mrs
Ballard imphatically denies every charg
of improper conduct and insists that a
her troubles have grown out of her mai
riage to criminal whose guilt was nc
suspected by her at the time of her mai
| rage at.s.1
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22
80 much pig-iron,3 useless as pocket
money and difficult to be carried away.

90 much pig-irOn,5 useless as pocket
money and difficult to be carried away.
The occupant of ar adjoining room the
next morning found drifting about the;
floor in a dark corner wad of brown
paper, which, upon picking up, he dis
covers to be a roll Of greenbacks, 81, 800
in amount He knocked at the door of
the raneher, and asked if he had lost
any thing The reply was that,nothing
had been missed. III His friend Showed
him the brown roll, when King replied,
q Well, I, vow.,i I'll bet that is my roll
of greenbacks. It ,ain't in, my pocket,
sure" He spent. S15, 600 on that trip.
King pays his taxes with great regtt-
larity, and takes special pains to aid the
Assessor to make his assessment. - 1t
takes several days, to get the herds ,to-
gether in order that they may be assess.
ed and valued. With all his vast estate,
| King has livery little idea Of business in a
commercial senses and is easily gulled.
He came very near losing his ranch re-
Gently through California speculator,
who almost succeeded in giving him
worthless bonds for it. - 80 -.
The ranchers in that country, from
necessity rather than aristoeratic ten
denotes, have adopted. the custom of the
English Lords.uG.l They have their-manor
houses or ranches in the countrYs and
maintain besides residence. in town.
The dangers Of the border country are
SO great, travel is so beset with perl, ,
and the conditions of human life are so
uncertain, that, during a large portion
of the time, the families of theigreat es-
tate owners residein the nearest town
where there is, a military post. Il |. G3g
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22

>as sstrange Life Of Woman Who Fell in
Love with a Bank RObber.
~ From the New Yorl. Tribune

~strange Life Of n Woman Who Fell in
Love with a Bank RObber.
From the New York Tribune.l
a suit for $4,000 damages has been
[xgan against Police Captain Kennedy,
\ me Ninth Precinct, by Mrs. Gather
~ ballard, woman of unusual per-
Daa attractions, and of remarkable
aAory, She is the wife of man who is
s nv serving out a long sentence in the
ssaassachusetts NJ State-prison. In 1870
ss, ss, Billiard, then Miss Clark, was
Srsging rn,i visit at the house of her uncle,
nSallam Clark, of Liverpool, England.
aere Francis Ballard first saw her and
~ captivated by her beauty. She
handsome blonde, with regular
sssares, avivacious and intelligent face,
petit figure. Ballard determined
make her his wife. He was then
Ssswsllng under the alias of Francis
ssus, He represented himself to be
fa merchant from America. His
ss1n w.llon that he was possessed of great
Sih seemed to be borne out by his
NJ snsa expenditure of money, and by his
s.sa ssaaoie gifts. No suspicion was excited
ss,ss. ss@ns was fugitive from justice, and
s.he money which he was then scat.
ny NY profusely was obtained by an ex'
'4siSe bank robbery in Massachusetts
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22
Piute Barbarity.

On Thursday last medicine woman
of the Piute tribe, who had beM living
near Bridgeport, was shot to death by
three buck Indians. On Friday morning
the chief of the tribe called upon Judge
Whitman and related to him the circum-
stances of the killing. The medicine
woman had failed to cure a sick child Of
the chief, and this being the third pa
tient who had died on her hands, she
was condemned to death. Two young
men assisted the father of the dead child
in carrying out the edict of the law. She
was removed to a short distance from
from the camp and shot, the three shoot
ing her with one or more balls from six
shooters. The object of the chiefs visit
to Judge Whitman was to procure a
coffin in which to bury his child, he not
liking the rude mode of burial more
generally adopted by the savages. The
Judge kindly furnished a coffin that
had been around the Courthouse for
some time awaiting tenant. The child
was buried with great ceremony, all the
| members of the tribe attending the fu-
neral. The old medicine woman was
buried without coffin, a hole being dug
two or three feet deep, and she tumbled
into it in every day attire. This is the
third case of Indian justice being car
ried out that has come to our knowledge
in few weeks, yet we fail to near OF any
arrests.-Bodie (Col. J Standard. -, -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22

A coNvISE 8 named Camp, who es-i
capped from aVermont State prison 10
years ago by tupneling under, the wall,
and was caught, only last year, has Just
been discovered digging away N me
same place. : He was within one foot OF
liberty, and had somehow managed to
stuff his haversaek provisions and
clothing.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-11-22

THE wedding clothes of young wom-
an in Troy, o., were stolen by spite
full rival, and the ceremony had to be
postponed until more could be made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10

President MacMahon has received at the
f,yscc General Eiuoy and Senators d Andigne,
Clement, De Mootgoilicr, Delsol and Bramc,
sho, il is believed will form part Of new
Cabinet OF a resistance.
At meeting of forty Corstitutionalists the
Senate, including Tie leaders of the Orlcanisls,
a nj ,rity voted that The party should not sane
ton a new dissolution Of the Chamber OF Depu,
ties if il was demanded nor support the present
Ministers.
The delegates Of Tic Bonapartist party wait
q! upon President NlacMahon yesterday and
assured him Of their dcvotcdntss. They say
t'.;.t the President received them very cordially.
AL the members Of the Cabinet were present
al yesterdays sitting of the Chamber Of Dapu-
ties, which, however, was uncventiu. The
Chamber confirmed the elections of sufficient
1nmbcr of Deputies to form quorum.
Il is reported That the Right intends to iu-
tcrpcIl&tc the Cabinet to-day, in order to give
ii 40 opportunity Of defending its system Of
official candda!ures. The Left, however, seem
resolved 10 take 90 part 10 the debate, not
wishing 10 i.,iitate the Cabinets retirement
before the ASSEMBLING Of the Senate as it is
said th2t ia that event it would be replaced by
fresh Conservative Cabinet. There is 50 far
% Indication that the Senate will encourage
the conflict dcsired by the Ministry.
Nj. I}ochcr, L leading Oreauist, who repre-
scented III: Conslitutjonasts IN the deputation
Ct members ct the Right which waited upon
President MacAlahon gu Thursday night and
promised him t:cir support, writes that the
Office! OF The iou:litutionaIi-lS was to explain
that their refusal 10 support the Ministry did
MT Imply Hostility to President MacMahon
Tie attitude of the Orleans Princes now en-.
cages attention, as they can dispose of twenty
one hcsitaiog votes in the Seoatc
The recent article in the Solcil recommend
ipE MacAlahon to pursue concliaLcry policy
Was the direct expression of the views Of all the
Princes. These utlcraocts are dictated by the
Interests f liberal France on the one hand, and
On the other hg the fears of evils which would
&c The inevitable result OF either B5naparsist
r an extreme, kadical SUCCESS
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10
BL1s4ED DAILY AND TRiWEEKLY B>
EDGAR SNOwDEN.
SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10.

During the debate or the Army apprOprla
ton till 10 the United States House Of Repre-
sentalives yesterday, Mr. Foster, republican,
from Ohio, iu his speech opposing reduction
of the numerical streneth Of the army, struck
the West Virginia aud Maryland members,
who. together with nearly all the democratic
members were 10 favor of the reduction. a
centre shot when be told them that 10 the late
riots the Governors Of those States both dem.
ocrats we're the first TO call for Federal troops.
We arc as nuch opposed TO denaeoeiSm In
democrats as 10 republicans and that the at
tempted reduction of the army, for the reason
that it may not be used in the Suppression OF
riots, is lcmaeopism, 10 1no knows better than
its champions. The idea that a riot can be
quelIed Iy u force composed Ut the fellow
citizens OF the rioters, who, even ii they don t
approve Of their course naturally sympathize
With them, is au absurdity OF which the affair
at Martinsburg last summer must have dlsa'
bnsed the minds even of The few who up to
that time had been such strangers to human
Oat uTC Us W cutclth oou 'houSh 'hS ~oe'S~
of the rcductionists may be popular with 4
certain class of voters, it does not meet with
the appreciation of the conservative classes at
both the great political parties-those who have
An interest ia the stability Of the government.
and upou whom the institutions OF the country
depend for support That those in favor OF
the reduction were not hc|uated by the fear
that the army would be used for election purposes
10 the South was proved by their voting tor q
resolution striking out the provision prohibiting
such use. Had they beeu influenced by that
fear, their action would have been proper, and
none would have sustained them 10 it more hear
tily than the classes whose disapproba!ion they
have now incurred. Not being actuatcd by
that fear, the hostility Of the indians i0creas-
ing, the possibility Of difficulties on the Next
can border approaching the condition Of
probability, aud with the rioters Of last sum-
mer embroidered By their Successes. the course
of the democratic members OF Congress on the
army bill, sc are sorry to say. does not tend
to elevate the party they represent IN the estl.
nation of the true friends Of the country, and
is not calculated to improve the prospects for
democratic administration 10 1881
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10

Mr.. Hewitt's amendment to the bill proTil-
ing for the American representation at the
French Exposition provides for tie appoint.
ment of Commissioner General and twenty
assistants with, aud one hundred honorary COM
missiopers without, pay; also for the establish
mout Of an American kitchen at the Exposi-
ton, 10 which shall be taught the modes of
making and cooking various preparations Of
Indian corn, to be sold as low as possible, aud
to distribute gralutously recipes for preparing
and cooking in the several languages represent
ed at the fair A petition asking Tor the pas
sage of this bill, signed by capitalists repre-
sentipg five hundred millions, will he presented
to Congress-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10

In the United States Senate yesterday the Va.
cancies ia the standing committees were filed
10y the appointment Of Mr.. kirkwood to the
Committee on Foreign Relations Mr.. Ingalls,,
of Kansas, on the Committee nf Privileges and
Elections. Mr.. Saunders. Of Nebraska, on the
Committee on Railroad
In tho House Of Reps, yesterday, during
the discussion of the Army Appropriation bill,
Mr. Tucker moved to insert land no money
appropriated by this act shall be paid for recruit
ing the army beyond the number Of enlisted
men Gncludng Indian scouts and hospital
stewsrds) actually on the army roll on the first
of November, 1877, except for tho cavalry SER
vice and for employment exclusively in tho do
Tense Of Mexican and Indian frontiers and so
far only as shall be necessary for that purpose.
and no further" The amendment was adopted.
In all the divisions thu republicans voted solidly
against any reduction, and we are glad to say
carried their point with the aid Of the Texas
members, Luttrell. If California, ard Williams
of Michigan.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10

The President. in the expressive slaug of the
period, has evidently slipped up 10 his civil
service reformation. His appointment to lu-
crative Offices OF the men from South Carolina,
Louisiana and Florida who we're instrumental
in securing him the electoral votes of those
States did not seem proper 10 the eyes OF those
whose actions are controlled bv proper prlncl'
pies; his later appointment Of Col. lngcrsol 10
the German Mission is so Objectionable that the
Illinois members OF Congress hasten TO declare
it was not with their approval, aud a member
Of his owo Cabinet. Gen. Devens, has such
little regard for the policy alluded to that in a
letter to q working politician in Massachusetts,
before the late election 10 that State, said he
''let the civil service 90 to smash.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10

The Nov'r. Deer. number Of The North AM
ericsn Review contains the following articles: -
Resumption Of Specie Payments. by Hugh Nc.
Culloch, Judge w. d. Kelley, Gen. Thomas
Ewing, David A. Wells. Joseph S. Ropes and
Secretary Sherman; Cavelier de Ia Sale, by
Francis Parkmsn; The War in tho East, by
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan; The Functions of Un-
belief, by Thomas Hitchcock; The Southern
Question, by Charles Gsyarro, Of Louisiana;
Michelangelo and the Buonnarroti Archives, by
T. Adolphus Trollope; America in Africa, py
Gilbert Haven; The Situation in France, by
Paris Resident; How shall the Nation regain
Prosperity by David A. VOLS; The Ultra.
montane Movement in Canada. by Charles
Lindsey Contemporary Literature. This num-
Der is published by James r. Osgood & Co.,
Boston, The Review in tho future will be pub
lished by D. Appleton & Co.. New York. For
sale by all booksellers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-10
The Eastern Wax.

a correspondent at Dogat telegraphs The
CONVICTION is s.roag here that Plevna cannot
hold GU. many days. Oanau Pasha's men are
dcscltDg 10 large DumCers on account Of priya-
tons anA hardships The Ru:aiars base a
leii telegraph line completely around Pltv
na, 50 they en- Concentrate immediately gu any
polHI attacked.
The l:l-;iana have con meuc:d Dew bridge
1T Si>t0va.
The Iurk~ yesterday attempted 10 izoj
u@ar ONcnlZ., but we're repulsed with great
ln.a
\ Dispatch, dated Constsnlnopc 9ib says:-
[: i Expected coin biucd operations will be at.
tempted by Osman Mehemet Ali and CLevket
l'asna, upon whch the fate Of Plevna will de.
pai.,: The Po!te has determined to fight
to he bitter cud. Mabmoul PAsba is i'll.
MouShtar Pasha sends the following from
EGZeroum, Gased noon yesterday AT 6 o'clock
this uornius the Russians attacked our forli
fed positions at Az e. Our troops, fighting
Hi;h great v.'or, rtpulsed them and pursued
theta four or five miles from Erzaroum. The
Russians were totally defeated. Oar trenches
and filled with their dead.
| EGlicr advises at ConstaDtinople show that
before the Suc3a-S the situation atElzcroum was
vriy critical. The inhattants demanded that
! the authorities should capituate the expected
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