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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-20
IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

On last Saturday morning, as reported by
the Tuscarora Times Review, one G. H. Bald
win, bad, quarrelsome fellow, got into a fist
and-skull fight with a man named Jim
Francis, druggist. They were separated
and Baldwin was made to leave the saloon
where the difficulty took place. Soon there
after he returned and struck Francis in the
face with his pocket knife, destroying his left
eye, and making SO ugly wound as to greatly
endanger the life of Francis. Baldwin is in
jail. He is known as a man who is inclined
to be violent, and some months ago made a
murderous attempt on an antagonist with a
bread knife. So bitter is the feeling against
Baldwin at Tuscarora that he has been quietly
shipped to Elko to avoid unpleasant results.
The Tuscaroras want a bank Have'n
Wells & Fargo an agency there?
The Reno Journal thinks that the high
waters of the Truckee have endangered Won
Schmidt DAM also that if it should break
there would be some very serious damage
done at Verdi, Boca, Glendale, Reno, Wads-
worth and other points on the river.
Harrington, the Storey county homicide,
has arrived i'll Reno there to undergo his
trial
Four vagabonds who recently robbed Har-
vey Tompkins' cabinet of curious and valu-
able specimens and coins have been arrested,
and are now in the Reno jail
Andrew jackson Hatch of Reno is said to
be a candidate for the workingmen's nomina-
ton for Governor.
OF an avalanche on the line of the C. P R.
r. the Reno journal OF yesterday says
Sunday a cave, or more properly a land
slide, occurred at Tunnel 20, at Bronco, on
the c. p. r. r., quite a mass of earth and
rocks falling upon the track. 1t was soon re-
moved and the delay occasioned was not very
great. These things are likely to occur quite
frequently now.
The cattle shipping business continues to be
carried on quite briskIy at Winnemucca. Says
the Silver State of Monday:
Several bands of cattle have arrived here
for shipment to San Francisco. One herd of
one hundred head purchased of James Hearst
of Quin River are as fine cattle as have been
shipped from this station this winter.
OF the Powning Thompson libel suit, the
Reno Gazette of Monday evening says
District Court convened this morning at 9
NJ. and testimony for defence was continued
Most of the forenoon was consumed i'll aTgu-
ments by counsel in regard to the admissible |
ity of certain evidence S. F. HOole, author |
Of the alleged lbelous article, and II. H. |
Beck were sworn upon side of defendant.
Court adjourned at y NJ. until l p. NJ. At
the beginning of the afternoon session r. NJ.
Clarke delivered opening argument on behalf
of plaintiff stating the law of libel bearing
upon the case at length. He will be followed
by Messers Cain and Lewis counsel for de-
PENDANT, and the case will be closed by c, s.
Varian for plaintiff. 1t is hoped that the
case will go to the jury tonight.
The Cherry Greek Independent wants
Broadhorns for a third time Governor, And
it is believed that Barkis is willin
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-20

Among the amusing advertisements in the
New York dailies is one entitled the "Martha
Washington reception and Chinese tea garden
of st. Johns Guild, for the benefit of the
poor of New York and the floating hospital,
Feb %, 1878," to which is appended a list
of 500 names of prominent ladies and gentle
men as managers, the first being President
Hayes If the managers all attend with their
families, it will be the largest affair of the
season.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-02-20

Among the curiosities in the Army Medi-
cal Museum at Washington, is the withered
and parched hand and arm of a man who for
got it on theibattle- field of Gettysburg. A can
non ball carried it to the top of high tree
where the crows overlooked it for the more
abundant carrion of the field while the wind
and sun came, drank up its juices and shriv-
eled it to its present well tanned condition.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
INVESTIGATION NOTES.
IN. O. Democrat.)

Ex-Congressman Darrall left for Wash
ington Wednesday night. He knows
considerable about the Anderson Matth-
ews correspondence, and will be called
upon to testify when he gets there.
It was rumored about the granite build
ng'yesterday that Mrs jerks, the lady
spoken of in the Anderson testimony, was
to leave for Washington on last nights
train and another runor was to the eff
feet that she had called once or
twice, since receiving the telegraphic
subpoena, upon Postmaster Parker for
advice.
Ell. Weber, Esq, ex-State Senator OF
West Feliciana, and a brother ofthe Web
er spoken of in the Anderson testimony,
was in the city yesterday, and was to
have left for Washington last night. He
will, ii is said, corroborate to great ex-
tent the testimony already given by An
derson, and may shed some new light up
on the manner in which polls 2, 3, 4, 5, O.,
and 10 of West Fcl1ciana parish, number
ing ITO Democratic and 1874 Republican
votes, were rejected by the Returning
Board in 1876. He may tell, too. how all
the votes of the parish of East Feliciana,
numbering 1876, were rejected.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15

Poor Judge Hilton has lots of trouble.
First his Women's Hotel failed, and then
in an evil moment he tried to explain the
failure of q newspaper man. What he
said is familiar to all. He said that the
hotel failed because women couldn't be
induced to live where the men were not
allowed to circulate freely. He got ex-
cited, in tact, and suggested that the
average woman would rather live IN a
pig pen with man than in a palace with
out one. All of which at last reached
the ears of the gentle sex, and made the
gentle sex very, very mad. They called
a meeting at Cooper Institute, while
Brook 1yu, not to be Outdone, began to
agitate on it's own hook, so to speak.
A wintry virgin with russell nose and
cork screw curls and other evidences of
superiority to the Vaccinations of man
kind, went about witha paper for women
to sign, pledging themselves not to deal
at Stewards dry goods establishment for
five years. We are waiting breathless
ly to learn what WIS done a. the Cooper
Institute meeting. 1t oughtto be very
impressive event.-Er.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
EIDEE &c CO.,
FIRE d. LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS,
W0oHVilie. SSIssi> slpn1.

Represent the following First Glass
Companies:
U. 5. Branch Liverpool and London and
Globe, assets over S5,652, 200. Planters,
of Jackson, Miss, Assets over 5000 900.
Phoenix, of Brooklyn, Assets over s. 1872
600. Home, of New York, Assets over
ST, 100000. Manhattan, of New York, As
sets over 100000. Hanover, of New
York, Assets. over 81 $4,000 New Or
leans ms. Association, cash assets over
So23,OOO. Piedmont and Arlington Life
Insurance Co., Richmond Va, S., 400 .0Ou.
Also agents for East & West Felici;na
Parishes of the Royal Canadian ms. Co.,
OF Montreal. Capital $6OO0,OOO.
Rates Generally lower, and security
more tangible than in New Orleans Mi
tual Companies.
Correspondence solicited from ncirh-
boring. Counties and Parishes, and any
desired Information most cheerfulIv 0ircn.
We give particular attention to tile In
surance of Churches, Dwellings, and
farm property for u term of years and
now offer $1,000 policies for 3 years at the
low rate Of $50. Gin House Insurance
a speciality.
For further particulars applv IN
Elder Il Co. Woodvillc, Mississippi, or to
JOHN ID. AUSTEN, st. Francisviile. In
ROBERT S. AUSTEN, Jackson L..
LOUIS NAUMAN, Clinton La,
Sub. Agents.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
PLEASURE FOR A CHILD

Douglass Jerro'd wrote thus
pleasantly of his child-hfc :
'tBlessed is a hand that prepares
a pleasure for child, for there is
no saying when and where it may
again bloom forth. Does not al
most everybody remember some
kind>bearted man who showed
him a kindness in the days of
his childhood The writer O,
this recollects himself, at this mo.
ment, as a barefoo,ed lad, stand
ing at the wooden fence of poor
little garden in his native village,
where with longing eyes, he gazed
on the flowers which were bloom
ing there quietly in the bright
ness of a Sunday morning. The
possessor came forth from his lit
tie cottage he was wood-cutter
by trade, and spent the whole day
at work in the woods. He was
coming into the gardan to gather
flowers to stick in his coat when
he went to church. He saw the
boy, and breaking off the most
beautiful of his carnations. which
was streaked with red and white,
he gave it to him. Neither the
giver nor the receiver said word,
and with bounding steps the boy
ran home. And now, here at a
distance from that home, after SO
many events of so many years, the
feeling OF gratitude which agitated
the breast Of that Toy expresses
itself on paper. The carnation has
long since withered, but now il
blooms afresh.''
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
PERNICIOUS LITERATURE.

The circulation of trashy, impure and
spread and has attained such enormous
proportions that Christian parents, pas
tors and teachers must combine speedily
and systematically for its abatement If
they would keep themselves clear from
the verdict of completely in the ruin OF
the youth who are committed to their
care and training. The great sources
from which the evil flows in q perennial
stream, and which are replenished from
week to week by a mighty wave, are the
book store, the circulating library, the
news and periodical stand, and the peri
pathetic vendors in tho cars anc on the
streets. All these are passed by careless
ly and without scrutiny by the parents
and guardians of tho children who stop
at them to suck in their stealthy and
deadly poison. If the children are to be
saved from oontagion, these pest-pots
must be rooted out. And we inquire:
Whose duty is it to do this work thor
oughlys Tho children do not know that
pestilence turks in these spots, and can
not be made to understand that it does.
Or even if they knew the existence of the
evil, they would still lack the will or the
influence to stamp it out. 1t is, then, the
duty of the parent, the pastor, the teach
er to investigate these poison-breeding
instrumentalities, and to cxtirpate them
by the weight of their influence as cit
izens,. as Christians, and as 'uen loving
their children, and having stake in the
welfare of the community. Or if moral
suasion fails, they should then call in the
aid of the law, which is on the side of the
right in all this matter. There can be
little doubt that if Christians every
where, in the most insignificant towns
and villages, and in our large cities,
should join in systematic crusade
against this momcntous evil, refusing to
deal \, it'll or in any way to countenance
those who perps trate it, arraying against
them the moral sentiment of their sever
al communities, ard, if need be, resorting
to the rigor of the law, tho plague would
he arrested, and thousands OF children
saved from pollution and vice in this
world. and from eternal misery in that
which is to come.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
LIGHTNING ON THE RAIL.

During the severe thunder storm
a few nights ago, persons who
were at Frascati saw a singular
freak of electricity. The light
ming came down on the track Of the
Bay Shore road, just north of Fras-
cati switch, and ran along north~
ward on the rails, emitting flashes
Of fire that looked most singular
in the darkness of the storm. 1t
lasted for several minutes, running
along the rails until ont of sight.
We understand that similar scenes
have been witnessed on the Mobile
and Ohio road, and other roads
where the rails are laid north and
south.-.Mobile Register.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
A HALF FINISHED WE'D.
DING.

Chicago Inter. Ocean {: The
young people Of Cincinnati arc ex>
cited over a promised wedding
that didn't take place. The
young man and young woman had
known each other from childhood,
and were prominent in social
circles. The wedding guests we're
assembled, and the loving couple
were on the floor. The
minister propounded the usual
question to the bride as to wheth-
er she would take the
man for her husband. etc., when,
much to the surprise of all present.,
she answered. No." Thinking he
misunderstood her, the minister
asked the aaes'ion again, and
again she answered "No." This
stopped the ceremony, and the
story came out. The young man,
addicted to the use of Intoxicating
liquors, bad promised to reform if
the lady would consent to marry
him and signed the pledge. He
had been on trial for months but
as the bride had turned to him as
they stood side by side before the
minister she caught the odor of
whisky on his breath and detected
signs of incipient intoxication'
She closed the extraordinary scene
by stating that she could not trust
her future to a man who had
broken a promise so solemnly
made. Expostulations and entrea,~
les were all in vain. The we'd
ding did not take place.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15
THE PRESIDEN CY .
IN. Y. Tribupe.7

A prominent Southern Demo-
cratic Senator, who has been inter-
viewed by the Sunday Herald, is re-
ported as using the following lang
uage in connection with prominent
Democratic aspirants for the Presi-
dency TN convention held to-
morrow, Thurman and Hendricks
would divide the South, with
Louisiana supporting Hancock.
Thurman always looms up prodig-
iously a couple of years in advance
of the convention, but his strength
fails when the time comes. I think
it very likely that Thurman would
capture the bnlk of the Southern
vote in convention, if the Ohio
Democrats would present him unan
imously and heartily. We should
then expect to elect him, because
we believe that he would carry
Ohio. 1t is evident that Hendricks
will have a tremendously active
and devoted following if Tilden
shall be gotten out Of the way.
Tennessee is solid for him. He
has also a strong backing in North
Carolina, and come in Alabama
and Kentucky. He has powerful
friends and able managers in Now
York and Pennsylvania, men
whom Tilden cannot conquer as he
did at St. Louis. Tilden sustained
a great loss in Morrisey,s death.
You remember Morrisscy's efficien>
cy at St. Louis in Tilden's behalf.
1t is doubtful whether Tilden, with
out Morrissey, can secure New
York, and that State is the base of
all his operations.'
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Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15

G@ 'Habit" is hard TO over
come. If you take off the first let
ter it does not change "a bit" II
you take off another you still have
''a bit" left. If you take off an.
other the whole of 1T" remains,
If you take off another it is not
't totally used up. All Of
which goes TO show that if you
wish to be rid of "habit," you
must throw it fl altogether.
Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-15

Call at Mumford's or Brooks Drug
Store and get a trial package OF DR.. A. G.
Simmons Vegetable Liver Medicine. 1t
costs you nothing and may save your
life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04
Cheap Living.

How to cook SO as to make clean
sayOry dishes is quite as important as tC
know what food to purchase, and in
what manner it is to be cooked so as
to secure the greatest amount Of susie
nance for the least money; but that is
chiefly to be learned by experience.
The bill of fare which Miss Corson, the
New York philanthropist, publishes in
her pamphlet on this subject will un-
doubtedly show something new to
many people now pinched for want Of
sufficient food. One direction is as
follows, for family of five:
" Monday there is boiled rice and
milk for breakfast, corned beef and cab
bage for dinner, and peas boiled in
stock for supper. That days food costs
80 cents. Tuesday, broth and bread fo1
breakfast, costing 10 cents; for dinner,
baked beans: supper, macaroni and
cheese. Wednesday there is toasted
bread and scalded milk for breakfast,
Stewed tripe for dinner, and polenta for
supper. Thursday, rice panada for
breakfast, salt pOtaufeu for dinner, and
lentils stewed in stock for supper. Fri
day, broth and bread for breakfast,
mutton and turnips for dinner, and bar
ley boiled in broth for supper. Satur-
day, mutton broth and bread for break
fast, beef and potatoes for dinner, and
beans boiled N broth for supper. Sun
days fare costs 81 cents, and includes
breakfast of cocoa, bread and fried len
tils, dinner of bean broth, haslet stew
and suet roly-poly pudding, and supper
of cheese pudding. For the week, that
makes a total expense Of $2.53, and
leaves a balance, on my estimate, of 81
cents for extra bread, milk and butter. u
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04

TRAMrs are everywhere reported on
the move. You cannot keep too many
loads in your revolver or take too good
an aim when you shoot at them. Dis
patches from Davenport and other
points report Il general movement OF
tramps, large numbers passing through
the cities and others going around them
on their journey. This general cmigra-
ton is accounted for by the fact that
harvest hands are wanted in the section
being deserted Another theory is that
the tramps are on their way to attend
the general convention of the work
ingmen's party, taking in on their way
the communist picnics in ST. Louis and
Chicago,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04
PhOtOgraphing a Heart Beat.

ONE of the most remarkable applica-
tions of photography is that by which
it is now made to register, and in the
most accurate manner, the mechanical
motion of the heart. The device by
which this result is attained is indeed a
triumph Of inventive skill. 1t consists
of a thin india-rubber hag, TO which a
short glass tube is attached; sufficient
mercury is poured into the apparatus
to fill the bag and a portion of the tube,
and the instrument is then placed over
the heart of the person to be examined
Arranged in this manner, every pulsa-
ton of the heart is indicated by a CORE
spending movement of the mercury in
the tube, and, by suitable Photographic
apparatus, provided with a moving
sensitive slip fpaper. a perfect registra-
ton of the extent and rate of the pulsa-
ton is obtained. The interesting fact
is made known by this process that the
fall of the pulse sometimes takes place
in successive horizontal lines, the column
reascending two or three times before
falling altogether.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04

AFTER Il cabinet consultation it has
been decided that the reduced revenues
Of the government will not permit the
expenditure OF so much money as con-
gress has appropriated and appropria-
tions will be used only where they are
strictly needed for public service. This
Will apply to the river and harbor ap-
preparation and sundry civil appropria-
tons especially and only as much money
will be expended under the provisions
Of these acts as public necessity re-
quires. The erection of buildings will
be continued and improvement of rivers
will go on in such places as the require
ments Of commerce or the slfety of the
public works already existing demands,
hnt expenditures beyond this will be
governed by the public revenues en-
trely. If it appears the money can be
spared it will be used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04

UNCLE SAM still continues to encroach
on what John Bull has heretofore con-
sidered his prerogatve. From supply
ing Europe with beef he has gone to
other articles of merchandise. Hither-
to all the carrying trade from the Guano
Islands, off Peru, has been done by the
English shippers. 1t now seems that
the authorities Of Peru and Chill have
recently made 4 proposition to give
the preference in this matter to Ameri-
cans. If sufficient fleet of American
vessels can be secured this country will
for the future be made the chief point
of distribution of the great nitrate of
soda and guano deposits of the South
American republics. This is an inn
mense trade, the report of nitrate from
Peru averaging about S12,000,000 per
annum. The nitrate and guano car
rying trade from Chill amounts to
about $3,0O0,OOO year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04
The Rush for Lands.
ST. Pau1 Pioneer PraSs Jrna y

! st. Paul Pioneer Press, June -,
The immense rush of immigration tC
this state and the rapid absorption OF
the public, and railroad lands has here
tofore been Illustrated in these columns
by the statistics of land sales by the
railroad companies and of the home
steads, pre-emption and other entries at
the United States land offices. There
has as yet been no diminution OF this
great rush for the fertile lands in the
western part of this state and alCng the
Northern Pacific, in Dakota Territory
The sales and entries of land in the
month of May, far exceed those of any
previous month. Following, for eX-
ample, are the sales for the month OF
May, of the three principal land grant
companies having their headquarters at
st. Paul:
Acres. Value
Northern Pacific c............ GOSH S2S741S
st; Paul & Pacific, Main and
St Paul Sioux City. .i7,147 % 1Oa ,Oa'oo' ,Oa oo
Sioux City u St. Paul I ..14.04 'l'4o' lo'''U5
181, ,598 G43094
The homestead, pre-emption and
other entries at the United States land
offices during May were corresponding
ly large. Thus at the land office at Far
go $40 new claims were made in Nav.
aggregating 12S,022 acres; while at Fer
gus Falls 517 new claims were entered,
embracing 69,S04 acres. At the Benson
land office the land entries amounted to
64, ,059 acres. A similar large business
was done at the Detroit land office, but
as that office is in process of removal
the figures could not be obtained. But
the entries there and at all the western
land offices have been unprecedentedlv
large. Apropos OF this rapid develop
ment of western Minnesota and Dakota,
we print letter from L. B.
Hodges, descriptive of the marvellous
transformation which the country has
undergone along the main line Of the
st. Paul q Pacific. The same meta
morphosis is visible along the line of the
Sioux City & St. Paul The change
from vast voids of solitary plain to miles
upon miles of plowed fields, and the
busy life of just opened farms is still
more conspicuous along the line of the
Northern Pacific in Dakota Territory.
Tens of thousands of acres of virgin sol
have been plowed this year in the high
plains..west of the Red river valley-and
on this side Of the Red river the same
activity in opening new farms is every
where to be seen. 1t is entirely within
bounds to say that more new farms
have been opened in western Minnesota
this year than in the whole state in
any two previous years Of its existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-07-04

BROTHER JONATHAN is now making
money as rapidly as the typical Yam
kee could desire. Since the passage of
the RECOMMENDATION act the total coin
age of silver has reached about S., 50O,-
600, being an average of little over
100000 per month. 1t is expected
that after the reopening of the mints,
now closed temporarily for the annual
settlement, which will be finished by
the Sd of July, the rate of coinage of
silver dollars will be increased to $3,-
100000 per month.