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Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14

! by the Amazon tributaries. The wants OF
the natives are small. as the rivers TEEN
| with fish, which, with the fdriuha, CON-
prise their only food, except some little
game and still less quantity of beef The
natives dress very scantily, the men wear
ing nothing but shirt and pants, and the
women loose skirt and calico Jacket The
feeling OF the inhabitants is very friendly
toward the United States. In regard to
trade 1t Is said:
american manufactures are popular in
this portion of Brazil, and the principal
merchants manifested a great desire for
closer communication with the United
States. They say that anything of Amer
lean manufacture is guarantee that it is
good. The principal imports from America
are cotton goods, hardware, candles, pc
troleum, CLOCKS aud sewing machines.
Commander Selfridge states that there is
scarcely a hut but what has on its floor a
sewing machine. The printed cloths are
mostly supplied from England and France,
either IN consequence OF their superior
quality, or because our manufactures have
not made an effort to secure the markets
Captain Selfrdge does not think there is
much OF an opportunity for American
houses to establish themselves in Para
The merchants are Of the old Portuguese
Sloth, nave itfge Cdpitai, anu besides there
Is "A system pursued throughout the coun-
try OF debt and credit. The small traders
send their orders for goods to Para which
they pay tor in native products when the
season arrives. These traders buy the
products from the natives, giving in re-
turn such goods as they need. The result
Is that one party or the other is always in
debt, very little, II any, money ever pass
ing. There is none on the river, all ex-
changing products for goods and rice versa.
The captain says that an American house
to be successful In Para would require a
large capital and al acquaintance with the
people OF the Interior, only obtained after
many years OF close intercourse The best
plan, in Captain Selfridge's opinion, would
be tor manufacturers, who represent the
wants of the country, to combine and have
at Para and other seaports OF Brazil a
sample house. Then with an intelligent
agent aud direct commune alton, the lat |
ter paramount necessity, the merchants |
OF the country could be induced to pur- |
chase of our manufacturers much more !
largely than heretofore. What Is first |
needed to build up a trade is direct steam
communication. without which we cannot |
compete with England, for scarcely day |
passes but what an English steamer enters
Brazilian port"
The Amazon has an average depth OF
twenty fathoms one thousand miles from |
Its mouth The width is nowhere greater |
than four miles nor less than one BoS- |
ton Journal.
Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14
What Government Cannot do.

Government IN any country is very i'm
portant matter; but it is not best to fall
into the mistake of suppOsing that it can
do everything which the public welfare
NAV require. Ii has immense power over
life and property. and pretends to punish
crime. and To educate the people. and TO
alleviate and improve the condition OF the
great mass of those who live under its au-
thority.
But If any one will look closely into the
matter. he will be surprised to see how lit
tie government really does towards the
promotion of the public good, and how
largely the most important services to So
ciety fall upon the shoulders OF volunteers.
What. for example, il the city of New
York, would become OF the hungry and
starving poor, but for the private charity
which feeds and clothes them! What hope
could we have for the ragged and house
less outcast child, If his fate depended on
the action of the government alone? How
many of the destitute sick would be reiev-
ed, how many of the Respondent would be
encouraged, how many of the young would
be kept out of the ways of crime. if there
we're no agencies for the accomplishment
OF these objects but such as the government
proyidesf The voluntary charitable and
benevolent associations of this city are far
ulois Important 10 the welfare OF It's people,
and do far more towards the improvement
OF their condition and character, than the
whole force of its government with the
millions of dollars which it expends every
year. There is many poor, obscure but
large-hearted woman, whose labors for the
good of the lonely and the deserted accom-
plish far more for the good of society than
any member of the Common Council, with
all his power.
The fact Is, government after all Is
very clumsy machine. 1t expends a great
deal OF energy, and a great deal of money,
in accomplishing very little. 1t deals only
with the external form, and cannot or does
not reach the real spirit and life of society.
1t can hang criminal. but 1t cannot pre-
ve0t his becoming one. 1t can build prs-
ons but it does not understand the most
desirable OF all arts-how to keep them
empty. 1t can maintain armies and police
men to restrain violence, but it cannot in-
still into mems minds the temper which
would render outward violence impossible.
1t deals with bodies, and outward acts -
1t cannot reach souls. and affect the innate
and essential character. This, which is
much the greater work of the two, must
be done by The personal and voluntary et-
forts OF individuals. And those who ap-
preciate most profoundly the real wants
aud necessities of society. will feel the i'm
portance of keeping alive in the public
mind warm interest in those charitable
aud benevolent associations, which render
services that government itself can never
perform.-[ Exchange.
Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14
poftrp.
The Bear and the Dorg.

NEw VERSION OF An OLD STORY.
Saws Uncle Slow to Uncle Joe.
This card that Jest read
Is as square" says he. las a card can be.
An the amt no more to be said.
The hunt for fraud. is a good hunt yit.
An Sammy is still ahead
Saws Uncle Joe. II guess that's so:
That. Jest about So SAYS he.
Sans like the pup Tom Beale brought up
Good pup as ever We see
To bark at a bull behind the bars.
Or squirrel up tree.
jest fetch his nose to a chipmonk hole,
How the critter would tear an yelp,
You'd a sartin thought that dorg could a
fought
Six grizzlies. an ax'd no help.
Upon nv word IL ever you'd heard
Tom make his brags o. the whelp'
Zone night a bear lugged of pair
OF nice fat pigs for Besle.
One Indcr each arm. he crossed the farm,
An ye might a heard EN- squesl
All over the lot, till he come 10 spot
Where he stopped to have his meal.
Tom heard the racket. an rushed to the pen
An found what the brute had done
lie III hs lantern snd cslled his dorg.
An now says he. for the FUN,
A. he rammcd large bulldozin' charge
In his doublc-barrelled gun.
"lle found the spot an made one shot;
An then begun the chase!
The sun was up, when the bear an pup
Tore off al \ thunderin' pace
Through piece Of woods, an Tom was len
Behind em in the race.
HE folered the trail-'twss easy enough:
Bimeby man he met.
Mlk-pail in hand, and Tom didn't stand
Very much on etiquette.
'Hey yr seen saw he. a bear an dorgF
An the man, saws he. YOU bei'
" How long agoT Bout quarter n hour
Tom wiped the sweat an said,
Which bad the advantage. should We think
The ieller scratched hi head
10 a candid wsy: VA. the dors sh'd say,
For he wa- Z leetlc ahead
Now II seeins 10 me- Uncle Joe, saws he.
That. jet the or mans case:
The hant for fraud j. a good hunt still.
An hi card may be an ace.
But sammy some how has got Jest now
At the wrong eend of the race
j. T. TRowBRrDGE.
Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14

The lnan-eater sharks are becoming
numerous in the Sound. They are probab-
ly New York hackmen thrown out of cm-
ploymcnt by the elevated road
Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14

An aged negro died in Baltimore. re-
Gently, who was Commodore Decatrr's
cook. In other words. he was de caterer
OF Decatur.
Ellsworth American., 1878-11-14

-An@mia or bloodlessness is common
among the English colliers. Ever work in
. collissy, Mr.. Tilden?
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Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
Foreign Grain Markets.

LONDON, July 30.--The Mark Lane Express
says: Wheat cutting is now becoming general,
and, judging from recent agricultural advices,
wheat has improved wonderfully in many parts
of the country. The sunshine has repaired the
injury caused by the rainfall of May to an UNI
looked for extent, excepting in districts where
the drought was severe, causing premature
ripening. The prospects for the barley crop
are variable and generally unpromising, par
ticularly on high lands. The yield will GER
tainly lie light. Oats and beans promise fairly.
The grain trade in London and the provinces
Is devoid of any special feature, but prices are
the harvest. There is an under-current of
steadiness observable and the opinion generally
obtains that whether bought for consumption
nr speculation, wheat at present prices cannot
do much harm to millers or spectators if the
strengthening influence at work is continued.
There is constant demand for white for ex-
port, and cargoes off the coasts have been
taken for continental account and
the fact that prices are stationary in
the face of liberal imports and
the improved crop prospects is in great meas
ure due to this legitimate increased demand
The arrivals of wheat cargoes off the coast, es
pecially from America, appear likely to be small
for the next few weeks, but as brilliant pros
poets are entertained OF the crop on the other
side of the Atlantic the probability of any
material rise here is more or less remote. With
moderate arrivals at ports of call, the floating
cargo trade for wheat is steady without quota
BILE change. The demand for the continent
continues and helps to support prices. Maize
dull. Barley unchanged.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
DON'T Like 'Etpt.
detroit Free Press.

Little English the sinner worked in with
a Sunday school excursion the other day,
and there was look of awful disgust on his
face as he came into this Office yesterday to
relate his experience.
Gin the fust place, he began, 81 sot down
on two cheers ON the bow of the boat, an /
was gittin' luvly breeze right between the
eyes when along comes one o. them kind
eyed deacons an SEE he: Now, my dear
hangel, you git JPN fly right smarty' had
ter cave, an he took one o. the cheers an a
fat woman TUX the other. was sIidin'
along fur stool when big good boy what
kin learn ten verses for Sunday skule
grabbed me by this ere hair an called out
that the wicked shell not live out half their
days, an he sot down on my stool. Then ]
went down among the good children. One
of 'em offered to fight me three strings for a
cent, another hooked my sandwiches, and a
boy with lots of good clothes on him said my
presence on that side of the boat oppressed
the hatmosfere. If l slid inter the cabin,
the teachers sid me out. If went haft the
women spit on their handkerchiefs an
wanted to wipe off my chin. If I went ford
the good boys hit me in the eye with peanuts
and said they'd like to make me climb fol
low wages an poor pay.
''Well, sur he went on, after taking
breath, "when we got to Sugar Island there
wasn't bit of sugar there. 1t was the dead
est give away you ever seed. Every body
got a tree of his own, while l had to walk
around in the sun. One fel err axed me un-
der his tree to sit down on thistle, but
didn't tumble. I didn't git nuthin to eat
but one pickle and two drinks of water, an
afore we left the isla ID drove of good boys
slid down on me and rushed me over fence
an through half an acre of briers, an fei-
Ter picked up my lost revolver an chucked il
into his pocket for loot. I got cinder il
my eye comm home, had three fights an go
licked, an when we reached the wharf 6
hackman pulled my hair an said he coulG
see my hangel wings sproutin' out. You'c
orter say in your paper for all good boot
blacks to stay to hum an let these ere Sun.
kay-skule 'scursions go right on to destruc
tiOO -
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
Chicago Produce Market.

GRAIN-Wheat higher and active; No. Chicago
81 .04; No. Chicago 05 cash and July: 94GD947sc
August; 9014 @90%c September; sales 87h@901ac
September; No. 8 Chicago Gle. Corn active firm,
and unsettled; 37A@38c. Oats steady; at 26A bid
cash; $3.50 August; 1880 September. Rye active !;
at 53hc. Barley active and firm, especially options
at 74@75c cash; 75c August; 74c September.
PROVISIONS-Pork active and firm; at $3.50
$50 cash and August; 9.7O@9.T2a September. Lard
demand active and advanced; at $7.05 cash; 7.05@
7.O7h August; 7.1507.17h September. Bulk meats
steady.
New York Produce Market.
GRAIN-Wheat higher; receipts 1,O92, 900 bushels
No. Chicago Slot; ungraded western red S0c@115
No 21.12ll1.131s; No. amber 1.10lD1.11 ungraded
white 1.15. Rye quiet; western 60@61c. Corn ac-
tive and shade higher; receipts $4,000 bushels
ungraded 4S11049c; No. 8, 47@D481&c; No. 2, 1870
49Ac; Kansas 4914c white western 5415c. Oats dull
receipts 1900 bushels; No. 34c No. white 341a@
35c; No. /, 344@35sc; mixed western 31@35c;
white 32037Ic; mixed state 32034Ac.
PROVISIONS-Pork, mess $1,000. Cut meats,
dull; western long clear middles 6.25. Lard firm ,
prime steam 7.30.
Milwaukee Produce Market.
GRAIN-Wheat opened excited and 25sc higher,
and closed firm; No. hard S116k; No. 1, 1.16
No. 2, 1.15%; July 1.15B; August 99c; September
94c; No. 8, 85@94kc. Corn scarce and firmer; No.
Q, 4O1c. Oats steady and scarce; No. O. 261ac. Rye
scarce and higher; No. l. 53hc. Barley excited and
higher; No. 2, 85086hc.
PROFESSIONALISM but quiet; mess pork $3.50
cash and July. Lard, prime steam TOO.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
NOrristOWn Herald EtciiiDgs.

'One is glass in the eyes and the other
is isinglass." That is the answer and a
clever one it is, too What we want now
is conundrum to fit it.
Powder and gloves are the last thing
put on girl going to party. Es.
You are not going to get us to ask what
is the first, if we never find out. Besides
we don't want to know.
We are informed that ''the price of
diamonds was never so low as at the
present, and now is favorable time TO
purchase them" This is welcome news.
We shall take our market basket this
evening and go out and purchase our
next winters stock.
your flannels, or put your ovcrcoat in
pawn until August. Prof. Tice predicts
several hard frosts in July. This same
man predicted snow last winter, and his
prediction was ful6lled---but not to the
satisfaction of the young man who owned
horse and sleigh.
Victoria Woodruff is Amencanizing
England. She has three libel suits under
way, and has married Londoner. Her
biographical friend T. Tilton has gone
over 10 congratulate her. Is it any won
der that England hesitates about adding
a war to her other horrors2
A late article in scientific month ly
attempts to show that plants really pos
sess many of mans physical faculties
This is to certain extent true, for it is
undeniably fact that onions smell---N
7. Star. According to this reasoning
flowers are the politicians OF plants
They elbow"
That genius who invented stocking
with no ankle, is now employing his
powerful mind on pair of trousers with
out legs. 1t will soon be warm enough
for such trousers, but the inventor is GO
ing to have considerable difficulty in get
ting them introduced. Young men who
wear collars fourteen inches deep may
take kindly. to EN-. but sensible people
are slow to jump into these new-fangled
! Hotions.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08

Information that yellow fever SO prevails at
New Orleans that it would not be proper to
issue clear bills of health to vessels leaving
that port Up to July 20, there were reported
80 cases and SS deaths in the city.
Geo. w. Maddox, who appeared the
other day before the Congressional labor
committee IN New York wanted the govern
ment t, issue fourteen thousand million dol
lars or SO to build docks, and so forth, and
comparatively similar sums to other cities to
be expended in public works.
An acrimonious debate occurred in the
English House of Commons July 30th, be-
tween Gladstone and Beaconstield. The
former arraigned the latter for his transac-
tons at the Berlin Congress. Gladstone
makes but little impression in his hostile
attacks upon Beaconsfeld and the Berlin
realty.
A Great flutter in high life in London
was made July 2sth, by the marriage of Ar.
thur Henry Paget, Captain of the Scots Flu
silier Guards, fifth son of the first Marquis
Anglessey, to Miss Minnie Stevens, of New
York. The Prince of Wales and other mem
bers of the royal family graced the occasion
l
by their presence.
A Helena, Montana dispatch OF July
29th says, Lieut.. Wallace overlook and fought
the Indians who committed the recent
murders at the mouth of Bear and Rock
creeks, on the North Fork of the Clearwater
Sunday, July 2lst, killing six and woundine
three. Among the killed was Tababor, thei
chief They also killed twenty-three head O
their stock and captured thirty-one Indians
consisting of seventeen bucks and two squaws
Lieut.. Wallace's party numbered thirteer
soldiers and two citizens. No casualties OF
our side except the wounding OF few horses
The fight lasted two hours.
A Chicago telegram Of July 31st says
at meeting of general managers and freigh
agents of the trunk lines, at which the New
York Central and Pennsylvania railroad
were represented, and sixteen other roat
participated, resolution was adopted ad
vancing the rates from Chicago to New Yorl
to 25 cents per hundred pounds for grain ant
flour, to 80 cents on fourth class freight ant
other classes in the same proportion. Tn
new rates will take effect August 5th. Othe
| points in the West and Southwest will establish
proportional advance. An agreement wa
made to hold meeting of trunks lines a
Long Branch, August 18th, to arrange south
western rates. The meeting did consider
able business of minor importance.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-08
CASUALTIES.

Central Illinois suffered great loss from
Tornado. Aug I'd.
A $50, 900 Iire accured at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, Aug. I'd.
Three men were sun struck at Cairo,
ILL.,, Aug. LIST. One is dead.
The mining town of Ala, in Utah, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire, Aug. LIST.
A steamboat exp .oded her boiler at
New Orleans Aug, LIST. No persons injured.
In Choton village, N. Y. lately, Paynes
paper mill was destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
600.
At Hewa, ILL.,, Aug. LIST, an elevator
was struck by lightning and burned to the
ground.
The body of an unknown woman was
found floating in the river at Memphis, Tenn,
July 10Th.
At Davenport, Ia, Aug. 1st, planning
mill was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground.
A family of four were poisoned in New
Orleans, by using oxalic acid in mistake for
sugar, and one died.
On the Both of July, the Balson &
Currier mills at Halls Landing, opposite Otta-
wa, Ontario, were burned. Loss 100000.
J.E. Gauther of New Orleans being
mistaken for burglar was shot by Charles
Hernandez, In whose house he was rocming.
Richard Morgan's barn in Strathav,
Ontario, was burned July Both, and his tile
daughter, playing therein persisted in the
flames.
A train was ditched, July Both, on the
Little Rock & Fort Smith railroad. Ark. and
number ofpersons seriously hurt some dang.
ereusly.
A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch of Aug. I'd,
speaks of heavy wind and rain storm in that
section Of country which did great damage to
the crops.
An E gin, ILL.,, special reports the loos
by fire Of J. T. Hunt,ey's Touring mill al
Runtley station. Loss $4,000. An incendi
AIRY tramp fire.
John McCsun. OF Troy N. T., was suf.
located while attempting to save books and
papers from his burning paint shop. He
leaves wife and FIVE children.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 1st, Warren
Cooper was killed by lightning while stacking
hay. Mr.. Hildebrand was severely stunned,
span of horses killed and the stack burnt.
Aug. Sd, the tow boat Brilliant ex.