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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-01
The Hostile Saya.cS.

A Portland, Oregon telegram says,
Oregon ana en{ =? Washington Territory
side is at the foot Priest Rapids, where they
are; collecting in good numbers. Chief Moses
says he cam teontrol his youG ameh 3and
warus settlers, ETC., to look out for themselves.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-01
Il LibelHuhs.
DR.. VIM. J. Sneid, of Nashvil

DR.. Wm. J Sne1d, OF NashVlIIe, enter-
ed suits in the United States courts at Cinci-
att July Goth, against the the Cincinnati En-
Quire,' for $4,000, and against the Commercial
for $4,000 damages for alleged libel in pub
fishing an article stating that Sneid oed
with the wife of citizen of Nashville.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

or modified by local authority or municipal
law in either country. At all events, Eng
lishmen can have but one wish, and that is
to do what is right and lawful, and If this
case is at all like that other dispute which
Lord Derby had with the American govern
ment, as to the administering of the extradl-
ton treaty in accordance with the local law,
we shall be as ready to abandon our conten-
ton now as we did then, after becoming con-
vinced that the law Of nations was, on the
whole, rather against US than otherwise.
Our argument was that we could not give up
an American criminal unless, in terms of the
extradition act, we were assured he would
not be tried in the United States for any
crime save that for which he was extradited.
Unfortunately, in trenty with America
which was signed before the passing of the
extradition act, no such stipulation was
made. The United States minister &C.
cordingly demanded the unconditional sur
render of a certain culprit whom We at first
refused to deliver. At last, as the result of
q long discussion between the two govern
ments, it was found that when We got into
the subtleties of international equity our
kinsn,en were our masters; and frankly ad-
uniting that they made out their case against
us, we gave in and surrendered the prisoner
about whom the dispute took place. What
happened on that occasion may happen
again. But, just rs there was no need to
bully us into doing what was fair and just
then, SO there is no need to attempt any
thing of the sort now. Let the whole facts
of the fishery dispute be put before the
public, and we are sure that the mon of COM
mon sense in both countries will soon arrive
at friendly agreement on the subject at
issue.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
Total ..... S47, 226, LOT s4s,72s.3l4 $685. 1852, 40

Total. SA7,226, lot s46,72S,sA S93,952, 421
The returns from California, Nevada, Color
ado, Montana and Utah, the largest bullion
producing States and Territories in the country
have been compiled from reports made by ex.
press companies and State officials, and from
the other States and Territories from the best
known and most reliable sources of informa-
ton obtalnable. A considerable amount of
gold bullion, produced chiefly in California and
Colorado; does not appear in the returns made
by the express companies; in California being
taken direct to the mint at San Francisco by
the owners, and in Colorado being shipped from
the State through private hands. estimate
that this would add to the gold product as
above given of California at least 81, 500, 600,
and to that of Colorado $5O0,O0O. These
amounts added to the foregoing returns would
bring the total gold production for the year to
5O,226 lO7.
The records of the minis show that $48 ,075,-
1876 of domestic gold bullion was actually
deposited, and the reports of the customs
authorities exhibit $205, 1919 of domestic bull
lion exported, thus leaving about So, 000, 600 of
the estimated production Of the country unac-
counted for, an amount most likely consumed
in manufacturs and also held by private par
ties, particularly in the Black Hills region and
other remote mining sections of the country.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
The Fisheries.
London Telegranh.l

lLOAuon 1eAeBIapn.J
In fairness, however, we must acknowledge
that there is some reason in what has been
written on the question in America. One
of the more respectable journals in the
States, for example, says, "We are going to
pay $5,OOO,OOO for privilege which any
local assembly can at pleasure render nuga-
tory" Another remarks, ''To accept Lord
Salisbury's construction of the fishery
privileges of the treaty of Washington would
be accepting the right of q British provincial
government to annul or cancel the privileges,
and, therefore, make the treaty waste paper"
If this be a fair presentment of the case, it
would not be in accordance with British
traditions Of honorable dealing to resist the
contention of our friendly opponents across
the Atlantic. Of course we could not expect
them to pay large sum of money for a
privilege which was not real privilege, and
there need to be no hesitation on our part in
recognizing that it would not be real
privilege if it could be made null and void
by the caprice or obstinacy of any little local
government with craze for interfering with
imperial concerns. At the same time, we do
not quite see how there can be much solidity
in this line of argument, for we do not ex-
actly understand how Colonial Legislature
could pass law modifying or canceling a
British treaty with foreign power, which
could not be vetoed by her majesty and an
nulled by the imperial government. In fact
it appears as if the question were one OF
those difficult points relating to q conflict Of
jurisdiction, and it seems to involve the con.
sideration of how far a treaty between two
countries can in it's application be affected
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

after Mrs. r. suffered so much at the hands
of some unknown ruffians. The grand jury
of Caldwell county, now in session at Prince
ton, has indicted the Ratliff brothers, for
manslaughter, their action, no doubt, being
based on the fact that the wrong men were
killed for an outrage most brutal in all its
details. The Ratliffs are wealthy, and stand
high in their county, and public sympathy is
strong in favor of the men who will avenge
any outrage upon the sanctity of home or
the marital rights of the husband. Report
has it that the Ratliffs have left Princeton,
though do not see that they need fear a
jury of their county, mon among whom they
were raised and who know them to be men
of the highest social and business standing.
The homicide in all its phases is one of the
saddest recorded in Kentucky for years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
Killed The Wrong Man.

Elizabethtown Special to Louisville Courier
Journal.
Some two months since two men, hailing
by the names of j. w. Riggs and J. w. Lut-
trell, were arrested near Princeton, Ky, on
charge of horse stealing, and at their exam
lining trial they were acquitted 80 far as that
court had jurisdiction. At the close of the
trial they were confronted by George X.
Ratliff, cashier of the bank of Il. B. Rat
iift, and his two brothers, on the charge of
outraging Mrs. George K. Ratliff few days
previous. The accused immediately made
an attempt to escape. when the Ratliff BROTH
ers drew their pistols, and the unfortunate
men were shot dead in their tracks. The
fact of their attempting to escape when
they were charged with the crime was
deemed as conclusive that they were the
guilty parties who had so brutally outraged
Mrs. Ratliff few days before, and the ven
geance OF the husband was SO swift and ter
rlble that public sentiment justified the kill
ing, and the Ratlif brothers were discharged
at their examining trial.
When killed, Riggs and Luttrell had in
their possession two horges, which thew re-
quested, before death, sheuld be sold and the
proceeds taken to defray the expenses of n
decent burial for them. The numerous ac-
counts of the homicide published in the pa
pers, together neutrality-suspicious. of the dead
men and of the hofAes, reached Tennessee,
and some gentlemen in that State who had
lost horses of the description, went to
Princeton and identified their property.
Their visit was fruitful of another result
which, while it furthers the ends Of Jus ID !,
makes the killing appear in less favorable
light. These gentlemen lost their l,orsoa o,
q certain night. and on the second night after
that Mrs. Ratlif was chloroformed. ont
ragged, and her house ransacked, while her
husband was away. The distance from
where the horses were stolen to Princeton
! is upwards of $50 miles, and it was known
that the thieves were not forty miles from
where the horses were stolen on the second
day after the theft. Putting these circum-
stances together, it is now we'll demonstrated
fact that Riggs and Luttrell, though horse
thieves, were not guilty of the heinous crime
for which they suffered. The trial at which
they were killed took place on the sixth day
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

of the most delightful diversions imacin-
able. The woods are calm then, ana the
ripe colors are blazing in all their glory.
The cone-laden trees poise motionless in
the warm smoky air, and YOU NAV see
the crimson crested woodcock, the prince
of Sierra woodpeckers, drilling the giant
trees with his ivory pick, and ever and
anon filing the glens with his
careless cackle; the hummipg bird, too,
glancing among the pentstemons, or rest
ing wing-wealy on some leahess twio:
and the old familiar robin of the orchards;
and the great, grizzly or brown bear SC
obviously fitted for these majestic soil
tudes--mammoth brown bears harmonic
ing grandly with mammoth brown trees.
But the Douglass squirrel gives forth
more appreciate life than all the birds.
bears and humming insects taken together
His movements are perfect Jets and flashes
OF energy, as If surcharged with the re-
fined fire and space Of the woods in which
he feeds. He cuts off his food cones with
one or two ships Of his keen chisel teeth,
and without waiting to see what becomes
of them,' cuts of another and another.
keeping up a dripping, pumping shower
for hours together. Then. after three or
four bushels are thus harvested he comes
down to gather them, carrying them away
patiently one by one in his mouth, with
jaws grotesquely stretched, storing them
in hollows beneath logs or unaer tho
roots of standing trees, in many different
places, so that when his many granaries
are full, his bread is indeed sure. Some
demand has sprung up for sequoia seeds
in foreign and American markets, and
several thousand dollars worth is annual
ly collected, most of which is stolen from
the squirrels.-Jo2,s NuSy, in Harper's
MGgasine for November M ~.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

three inches from his hand, he exhausted
himself with cries that were only answer e
by the whine of his little dog in the path.
It was calculated By him in his frenzy that
ne was sinking at the rate of one inch
every hour. Stupor fell upon him toward
Inc middle of the night. Ho was buried
nineteen hours. On Thursday Gilbert took
the old man home. For while it was
thought that his body would get its strength
ana vigor back, but on Friday he grew
weaker and on Saturday morning Coroner
; Murray was notified of his death.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
A Horrible Night,

On Wednesday Mrs. Martha Gilbert, whose
husband has small farm in the swamp near
Camden, N. j., was attracted by the contin-
ued barking of q strange dog. Upon the
approach of Mrs. Gilbert it crouched at her
feet as though it had something to com
nunicate. Mrs. Gilbert tried to take the
dog to the house, but it refused to stir in
any path except narrow muddy one that led
directly into tho swamp. Mrs. Gilbert got
her husbands boots. and struck out on
the little dogs trail. After going about a
quarter of a mile she was brought to sud-
den halt by the sight of mans head and
shoulders protruding from the black
Maud few feet from the edge of
the path. The mans head was bent
forward, the eyes closed, and the face black.
His arms were extended, one grasping low
tussock and the other resting few inches in
the mud, stretched straight out. Mrs. Gill
bert foundered into the mud to ascertain
whether or not the man was living. She
herself began to sink, and was only able by
the exercise of her whole strength to get
back on the path. When she did get back
she summoned her husband. MIR. Gilbert.
with two men, hurried to tho rescue. The
man was in the same position and still ua-
conscious. Mrs. Gilbert said the left arm
WAS DuTlcu b 1AtLAo uc0HeIs AIlU the
whole body had sunk perceptibly during the
time of her absence. After an
hours careful work the body was
hauled cut into the path. It was still
warm: the heart was beating family. It was
taken to the house and rubbed with flannel
Consciousness was fully restored after
while, and then the stranger told that his
name was Charles Yopp, cigar maker of
Trenton, and that he had been hunting for
water-cresses in the swamp. In attempting
to push himself from tussock to tussock to
reach a particularly fine water cress, he
dropped his basket in the mud, and, without
thought OF sinking deeper than the tops of
his shoes, he had jumped off into the mud,
but his legs went down into the black de-
post as though it were water. He caught
at the tussock, and was about to
gain 9 firm hold whom he sank
deeper and deeper. There seemed to be
something below pulling him down. With
the darkness his strength returned, but, as it
seemed to him the tussock had moved two or
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
Frauds by a Baronet.

Sir IIoratio Henry Wraxall, baronet ION
bail, and George Roskell Crawley, 80, clerk.
we're indicted at the central criminal court
for conspiring to obtain goods by false pre-
lenses; they were also indicted upon six
counts of obtaining money. Mr.. Douglass
Straight and Mr.. Baggallay prosecuted for
for the treasury: Mr.. Purcell defended
Wra1all, and Mr.. Grain represented
Crawlsy.
It was alleged by the prosecution that the
prisoners carried out their frauds by means
of the ''South African Trading company"
and whose officers were No. 1877 Strand. OF
this company Sir James Graham was repre-
sented as the manager, but who this gentle
man was did not appear. The prisoners ad-
vertised for manager to go out to South
Africa. The applicants we're required to pay
q deposit, which was to be repaid when the
people were on board the vessels. ..
Mr.. Rophey, landlord of the premises No.
137 Strand, said he left his Offices to the
prisoners. Wraxall said he was connected
with the stock exchange. Witness was only
q carpenter, and did not know much about
the stock exchange, except that it was re-
spectacle calling. Laughter. Wra1an
did not say that he was baronet, or he
should not have taken him in. Renewed
AOuEAtOA.J Ac SiIOuIu ldtc luS&Ao luItuor III
qairies about him had he said he was q
baronet. "A laugh When the prisoner
came to take the Office he unfortunately
agreed to take his rent fortni9htly and had
never received any.
The witnesses who had been defrauded
were then examined. From their evidence,
it appeared that in some eases the applicants.
had sold their furniture and property pre-
paratory to leaving to fulfill their engage
ments in the South African Trading COM
pany.
Mr.. Grain stated that he was unable to-
resist the evidence against his client.
MIR. Purcell pointed out the discrepancies
in the evidence as affecting his client.
The jury found Crawley guilty of obtain
ing money, and both guilty of conspiracy.
Inspector Hagan said that since 1867,
when Wraxall came into his title, he had
been continually connected with sham COM
panies. He was SO connected with the
Scotch Plate Glass company, the Trades
mans bank, the Merchant Joint Stock bank,
and other concerns, all of which wore
swindles. He used his address, Bolingbrook
park, for the purposes of the fraud, and was
one of the original directors of the company
with which Walters, Murray, Kurr, and the
others we're connected.
The prisoners were severally sentenced tn,
welve months imprisonment
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
A California Critic.
lSan Jose Herald-Argus.

William G. LIE Due, an obscure author of
Washington, D. c., has forwarded to us .
large volume of poems in the blankest
kind of verse on the most absurd subjects.
We suppose he wants us to gush about the
tender pathos, rhythmical measure, and
elevated sentiments of the following:
The chinch-bug is confined in its depreda-
lions e#
To the grasses and cereals; alternate
Your timothy, wheat, barley, corn, etc,
Upon which it hourishes, with any of
The numerous crops upon which it cannot
flourish
And you materially affect its power for harm.
Or maybe he would like to have full
some compliment on the classic beauty of
such incomprehensible trash as this:
Bombus pennsylvanicus is figured;
Theee insects destroyed sEk
BY vollceiloue, conops or tachina,
And seyeral species Of anthotnla;
Anthras (aiptera) anobrium, beetle,
Melee and slylops (coteopteri),
Antherophagas (Holy Moses save us),
And also by The chalcis or four-winged fly.
This last elegant epic is illustrated by
gaudy cuts OF Rocky mountains locust
Washers and patient horse power bug-crush-
ers, stolen from the patient-otfice art gallery,
to say nothing of two full-page chromos of
creeping, crawling, and flying monsters of
terrific and demoniacal aspect, that must
have been conceived by some fearfully and
wonderfully intoxicated artist in the very
crisis Of the jim jams. The book, ought to
be suppressed at once. tits not only q most
execrable piece of literary bladerdash, but
the extracts given above show that its tend
ency is to corrupt the morals of the youth
of this country and pander to the vitiated
taste for the sensational and false views of
life created in their minds by unrestricted
persual of the San Francisco papers. That
there may be no mistake, we will state that
this pernicious volume is entitled "Deoart-
3ment Of Agriculture, 1871"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
The Duglass Squirrel In the Sequoia
Forests.

The Duglass squirrel, the sschickaree''
of the west, is the happy harvester Of
most of the sequoia cones. Out OF every.
hundred perhaps ninty-nine fall to his
share, and unless cut off BY his sharp
ivory sickle, they shake out their seeds
and remain firmly attached to the tree for
many years. Watching the squirrels in
their Indian summer harvest days is one
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER.
All available means have been employed to
ascertain as accurately as possible the domestic
production of gold and silver, and the follow
ing are the estimates and actual returns which
have been furnished of the outturn from the
various States and Territories during the last
fiscal year, the aggregate Of which, however,
appears to be somewhat below, in gold, at least,
the actual amount deposited at the minis:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27
Coinage Of Money.

The annual report of the director of the
mint contains some matters of interest, in
addition to what has already been published.
The coinage of the different minis during the
fiscal year were as follows:
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-11-27

Total coinage. Sc, 1882 S81, 100 499 so
The earnings of the minis and assay Offices for the
year were S2,034 1869; the expenditures $780,
302.l7. :,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-27
Curious Facts,

.-H ?
In ancient Media all good citizens had
seven wives. f "t
Prussia keeps 100000 thalers in
gold on hand all the time. .........
Pliny the Elder says that he saw Lol-
lia Paulida wearing jewels worth 81, ;
614,58O.
Muslin derives its name from its re
semblance to moss, which is called
mousse in French.
The cholera Invariably follows the
great Indian pilgrimages, which occur
once in twelve years.
The word navy is derived from navi-
gator, an epithet applied to the laborers
who made the canals for inland naviga-
ton in Lincolnshire. .....,r .E
The Chinese read in columns from
top to bottom ofthe page, and begin at
the right-hand column. Hebrew and
Arabic read from right to left.
{ Some song sparrOws have several dis
tinct airs at their command. One bird
noticed by Mrs. Charles S. Paine, OF
Randolph, VT, sang nine sets of notes.
Lime trees sometimes attain an i'm
mense size. One which was planted in
Switzerland III 1410 existed in 1920, and
was thirty-six feet in circumference.
Explosions frequently occur during
the grinding Of malt, the fine dust in the
air becoming ignited. Any fine, i'm
palpable powder may. cause explosions
in this way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-27
WOman'S Love.

A man who had struggled with ma
lignant disease, approached that crisis
in It's stage on which his life seemed to
depend. Sleep, uninterrupted sleep,
might insure his recovery. His anxious
wife, scarcely daring to breathe, was
sitting by his bed; her servants, ex-
hausted by constant watching, had all
left her. 1t was midnight; door had
been left open for air; she heard in the
stiffness of the night window open be-
low stairs, and soon after approaching
footsteps. A moment more a man with
his face disguised entered the room.
She instantly saw her husbands danger,
and anticipating the design of the I'M
welcome intruder, she pointed to her
husband, and pressing her finger upon
her lips to implore silence, held out to
the robber her purse and her keys. To
her great surprise, he took neither.
Whether he was terrified or charmed
by the courage of her affection, cannot
be known. He left the room, and,
without robbing the house sanctified by
such strength Of affection, he departed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-27
The TyyO-Headed Eagle

The origin of the device of the eagle
on national and royal banners may be
traced to very early times. 1t was the
ensign of the ancient Kings of Persia
and Babylon. The Romans adopted
many other figures oftheir camp stand
ards; but Marius { B. G. 1927 made the
eagle alone the ensign of the legions,
and confined the other figures to the
cohorts. From the Romans the French
under the Empire adopted the eagle.
The emperors of the Western Roman
Empire used black eagle; those of the
East golden one. This sign of the
golden eagle met with in taverns is in
allusion to the Emperors of the East
Since the time Of the Romans almost
every State that has assumed the desig-
nation of an Empire has taken the
Gag lie for its ensign-Austria, Prussia,
Russia, Poland and France all took the
eagle. The two-headed eagle signifies
double Empire. The Emperors of
Austria, who claim to be considered the
successors of the Caesars of Bone, use
the double-headed eagle, which is the
eagle of the Eastern Emperors with
that of the Western, typifying the
Holy Roman Empire" of which the
Emperors of Germany (now merged in
the house of Austria) considered them
selves as the representatives Charlie
mango was the first to use it, for when
he became master of the whole of the
German Empire, ne added the second
head of the eagle, A. d. 500, to denote
that the Emperors of Rome and Ger
many We're united in him. AS it is
among birds the king. and being the
emblem Of noble nature from its
strength of wing, and eye and courage,
and also conscious strength and innate
power, the eagle has been universally
preferred as the Continental emblem of
sovereignty. OF the different eagles of
heraldry the black eagle is considered
the most noble, especially when blazoned
on Il golden shield. -...