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n Parallel Case

\ ragged, shiveriDg middle aged
,-au called at house in Detroit and
asked Cor food. but the lady Of the
house called. cut:
Why don't yOu work for your iood?'
I would if knew where | could
..rd work. he promptly replied.
There a place down town where
so. caa saw wood and earn your din
acr. she continued.
That seemed TO stick him for half a
minute but he sinal,y said. with great
cicmn.iy:
Madam. let me state parallel case.
fr,rc e place 10 Heaven ior you,
a, Won don't want 20 die ;iil you are
i-ivcu right 10 it
She vorderyd over his philosophy
.-T,ieE seconds and then called out
&C. &C cock to pass ont half loaf Of
-sad ard some meat
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Marriage.

DR.. Forbes Winslow, speaking OF
marriage, says:
Nothing delights me more than to
enter the neat little tenement Of the
young couple, who, within perhaps two
or three years, without any resources
but their own knowledge of industry,
have Joined heart and hand, and en-
gagged to share together the response
b,li,ies, duties, interests and pleasures
of life. The industrious wife is cheer
fully employing her own hands in do
nestic duties, putting her house IN or
der, mending her husbands clothes or
preparing the dinner, while perhaps
the little darling sits. prattling on the
aoor, or lies sleeping in the cradle, and
everything seems preparing to welcome
the happiest of husbands and the best
Of fathers, when he shall come home
from his toll to enjoy the sweets OF his
little paradise. This is the true do
,nestic pleasure Health, contentment,
love, abundance. and bright prospects,
are all to be found here.
but it has become prevalent SEN
timent that man must acquire his
fortune before he marries, that the
wife must have no sympathy nor share
with him in the pursuit of it, in which
most pleasure truly consists; and the
Young married people must set out
with as large and expensive an estab-
lishment as is becoming those who
have been welded for twenty years.
This is very unhappy; it fills the
community with bachelors who are
waiting to make their fortunes, en-
aangering virtue and promoting vice !;
it DESTROYS the economy and design OF
the domestic institution, and produces
iueficiency among females, who are ex'
pecting to be taken by a fortune, and
passively sustained, without any care
aud concern on their part and thus
many wife becomes, as gentleman
cnee remarked, not a help-mate, but a
help-eat."
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n mr. week & y0u- osu town e $3.50.
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AND CASES, LAND WAR
RANTS, AND SCRIP.

Contested Land Cases prosecuted before the n
s. General Land Office and Department OF the In.
terror. Private Land Claims, Mining and
Pre- -cn ptiO ON Claims, and n NinesIend
Cases attended to. Land Scrip In 40. so, and lct-
acre pieces for sale. This Scrip is as,ignabe, and
can be located In the name Of the purchaser upon
any Government land subject to private entry, Al
SI.25 per acre. II IL Of eqnal value with Bounty
Land Warrants. Send stamp to Gilmore Co.,
or pamphlet Of Instruction.
OFFICERS, soldiers, and sailors Of the
ate war, or theirtheirs, are IA many cases emit,
led to money from the Government Of which they
have no knowledge. Write full history of service
and state amount Of pay and bounty received. Rn-
close stamp to GILMORE Il CO., aud a full reply
after examination, will be given you free.
PENSIONS.
All OFFYOERS, SOLDIERS, SAHOPs
wounded, ruptured, or injured In the late war.
however slightly, can obtain a pension by ad.
dressing GILMORE & CO., 629. F. Street, Wash.
ington, DC.
Cases prosecuted by GILMORE 4 co. before
the Supreme Court Of the United States, the Court
Of Claims, and the Southern Claims Commission,
Each department Of our business 10 conducted
in a separate bureau. under charge Of the same
experienced parties employed by the old firm.
PROMPT attention to all business entrusted to GIL.
MORE Il co. is thus secured. We desire TO win
success by deserving it.
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JETrEK. car AND BILL FAPEks, Ensfn'
|, &c Aitss FREE PRESS POOH Il ~
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greatly shocked, having never suspect

greatly shocked, having never suspect
ed any cause for separation. Asking
where Gen. Houston could DO found,
Mr.. Carter replied he was in his room,
but could not DO seen. / went i'm
mcdiately to his room, and found him
in company with DR.. Shelby. He was
deeply mortified, and refused to ex-
plain the matter. I left him with DR..
Shelby a few minutes. and went to the
court house on business. When l re.
turned ! said to him, "You must ex-
plain this sad occurrence to us, else
you will sacrifice your friends and your
self" He replied, II can make no ex-
PLANTATION; l exonerate this lady fully,
and do not justify myself. am
ruined man; will exile myself, and now
ask you to take my resignation to the
Secretary Of State" replied you must
not think oft" when he again said:
ut is my fixed determination, and my
enemies, when l am gone, will be too
magnanimous to censure my friends.
Seeing his determination, l took his
resignation to the Secretary OF State
who received it The following morning
he went in disguise to the steamboat
accompanied by DR.. Shelby and my.
self. He wrote me afterwards that he
was not recognized until he reached
Napoleon, at the mouth of the Ark
aosas river, where he met friend, OF
whom he exacted promise not to
make him known. He went up the
river to Fort Smith, thence to the
Cherokee Nation to his old friend Jol-
", q noted Indian whom he knew
when sub.agent. He remained in
the nation some time, and on one &C.
casion passed through Nashville with
a delegation of Indians, on their way
TO Washington, in the full garb OF a
Cherokee. From the Nation he went
to Texas, where his history is the his
tory Of tho State.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION /.

Investigating the Election of 1870
Dnder she Potter ResOButiOn-James e.
Anderson and Secretary sherman ON
the Staud.
MONDAY. July 15.--The Potter sub
committee met, and examined Isaac w. Pot
ter, chairman OF the Democratic State conven-
ton in 1876. j. 4. Anderson madea PROPOSE
sion by which the Democrats could have two
members OF the Assembly from East Feliciana
Parish. Further testimony was given about
cashing scrip for Anderson. Witness agreed
with McCabe to pay Anderson $3.50. Witness
gave jerks 500 jerks said he would not
take 1t as brlbe, but as a loan. Other wit
nesses were examined without elicting much
of Importance.
TUESDAY, July 1G.-Minor witnesses
on minor points continue to be examined by
the Potter subcommittee. Many contradic-
tons of previous witnesses and denials OF
their statements are developed but nothing OF
general interest produced.
FRIDAY. July 19.-The subcommittee
in New Orleans examined, July 10th, Judge
Morris Marks. He was Republican elector
testified as to registering certificates, and as to
Anderson s going to Washington and having
an interview with Secretary Sherman. He
testified as to the Sherman letter; that the
widow of ID. A. Weber could find no such let
ter among her husbands papers; that Mrs.
Weber contradicted Mrs. jerks statements,
and denounced her as an inpostor.
SATURDAY, July 20.-Tne Potter sub
committee are continuing their labors in New
Orleans. Strange developments are made as
to the verocity of witnesses, as persons testi-
fy that their own former affidavitI were false,
and made for political effect. The value and
weight OF such evidence will be duly consid-
cred
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

It is sometimes desirable to store away
eggs in the summer or fall, when prices
are so low that we cannot afford to sell
them, till the winter, when they are often
very scarce, and will be keenly relished,
or can be disposed of at good price, if
good and fresh. To keep them thus we
do 7ot believe there is more simple and
efficient way than the one we have always
practiced, and which was successfully
practiced by the father of the writer Of
this for at least thirty or forty years.
This is by simply taking nothing but
perfectly fresh and sound eggs and set
ting them IN layers IN the "tip" or small
end in a box, or basket, or anything that
will hold eggs. We do not put anything
between them, nor do we put. them up
sair tight, but we always keep them in
the cellar. Eggs that we have put away
in this position last fall, are to day-after
SIX months-as fresh and good as the day
they were laid, and we have never found
one that was spoiled or stale among them.
We feelconfident that they would keep
good and fresh for one year, We wish
some of our rea iers would try this
method and see how long they can keep
them, and report the results. es
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Miss Mary Wells, an actress in New
York was reported dying. Tuesday the 10th,
from cancer in the stomach.
The Emperor William is able to ride
out He has recovered from the wounds In
flicted by the murderous gun of the assassin,
but is very weak
A Virginia congressman, Hunton by
name, has challenged Columbus Alexander,
Of Washington, to mortal combat.
President Hayes will leave Washington
July 10Th, for Newark, Ohio, to attend the
soldiers reunion to be held on July %.
6 Archbishop Henri, Of Milwaukee was
Frustrated by the heat, and his life was dis
paired of but later reports say he islikely to
recover.
1t is rumored that tire Hon. 7. Donnelly
may enter the field as an independent canii-
date for Congress in the third Minnesota
district, against Mr. Washburn.
A telegram from the city of Madrid, of
July a1st, says Mrs. Foster,wife of the Minister
of the United States, is very Ill, but her physi
clans are confident she will recover.
July 10Th the President appointed
Gen. Bod6er, postmaster at New Orleans, Fin
place of J. NJ. G. Parker, suspended. Parker
is bIother-in-law of Gen. B. F. Butler.
Gen. E. A. Merritt, recently appointed
Collector at the Port of New York, vice Ar
thur removed, has given bonds, qualified
and entered upon the duties of his Office.
The Potter subcommittee at New
Orleans have consented to summons q wit
nesses moved by Secretary Sherman, and will
summons any others, on either side that may
be desired
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

Atkinson was making balloon ascension,
and when about 200 feet from the ground he
lost hold of the trapeze bar and fell, killing
him instantly. Deceased was an experienced
aeronaut and acrobat. His home was at Bur
lingtcn.
An Indianapolis telegram of July 18th
says: As an east bound freight train on the
p, G.. & st. L, railway was passing over
bridge gave way, precipitating the engine
and twenty cars into the Tipacanoe river,
eighty-flve feet, killing the engineer, Louis
Bland, and the bridge Waterman, Jerry
UKeefe.
In Chicago, on July the 10th there
were IS cases of sunstroke, more or less
Severe, and number of deaths. Reports
from all points throughout the Northwest
give accounts of the the terrible effects of the
heat. At Milwaukee on the 10th, 90 cases of
sunstroke were reported 8 fatal. At all points
the thermometer rangedfrom 90 to 100, going
as high as lO5 in the shade in some places.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
C4EEALTXE6.

There was $4,000 fire in Montreal,
July 18th.
There was destructive fire at Defiance
Ohio, July goth.
There was heavy fire at Grand Rapids,
MiLh., July 2lst.
A destructive Ere occurred at Kittan-
ming, Py.July II.
There was $4,000 FIRE at Pittsburgh,
on Monday night July 18th.
Fanny McGroth, aged ten, was drowned
in tn river at Memphis. while bathing.
A fire in Lexington, Michigan, Monday
the 18th inst. destroyed a planning mill and
furniture factory.
Gen. Sheridan has gone to the Black
Hills. He will select prominent location
for military post there.
During heavy thunder gust, July 21st,
at Gloucester, Mass, Miss Julia McPlee and
Mrs. Byers were killed by lightning.
John Franklin Noyes, actor and thea
ter manager. was drowned in Harlem river,
New York. Saturday, July the 18th inst.
james Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, ana his sister Miss Jeanette
Bennett, reached New York, from Havre, on
the 10Th inst.
Two Boys were drowned at Albany,
July nth. They were in boat, and fearing
they would be run down by a steamboat
jumped into the river.
On the 18th inst, a scaffold at the
new State asylum at North Warner, Pa, fell
with eight men on it. All were severely, and
two at least fatally injured.
Near Monticello, Indiana, a freight
train of % cars went through bridge, and
fell into the stream distance of 90 feet The
engineer and bridge tender were instantly
killed.
The testimony on the part of Fitz John
Porter, before the court martial at West Point
has been all submitted. It 10 thought thai
the testimony produced bears favorably or
| his case.
A telegram from st. Peter of July 18Th
says: The Nicoliet depot, Oh the Winona
st. Peter railroad, was struck by lightning
and burned during the thunderstorm Sunday
afternoon.
Saturday night, July 20tn, the yachts
men left Milwaukee, for Racine, when of
South Point squall capsized the Ina. Ont
of the young men was lost.
A young man named Switzer wa
drowned in Madison Lake, Blue Earth county
| about fourteen miles from Mankato, Sunday
the 14th inst, while bathing. His body hat
| not been recovered up to Monday morning.
On July 10th, lightning struck the new
church, 57th street, New York, killing Ed
ward White and Bernard Gray, who were a
work laying brick. White fell to the street
distance Of sixty feet, and was terribl,
| mangled
| A cyclone struck North Albany Sun
| day, July 21st sweeping through West Albany
| unroO6ng hous es, scattering the contents Q
the lumber yards. and destroying cattle pens
The gas works were 80 badly damaged tina
North Albany was In total darkness.
/ Reports of the fatal effects Of the grea
heat of the last few days continue to come Il
4 from numerous points all over the country
/ But the number Of casualties reported ar
decreasing ip number, as greater caution ]
observed, and the beat aiminishes.
Elmwood, I'll, July goth, as 7. D
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
HOUSE AND FARM.
Poor and HAPPY.


Up in the morning early,
Before the break of day,
A slice of bread and coffee,
And then to work away.
You never hear murmur,
Nor disconnected word,
He's whistling and he's singing,
He's happy as bird.
He envies not his neighbor
Who owns q house and lands,
So long as he can labor
With his two honest hands.
His capital Dame Nature
Bestowed on him at birth
A happy constitution
And that's all he is worth.
No medicines are needed
To rasp his appetite,
No OPP iates are taken z
To make him sleep at night.
He suffers not congestion
Of blood in heart or brain.
No pangs Of indigestion,
Or any other pain.
And while crowned "heads uneasy"
Turn on soft beds of down.
On straw he sweetly slumbers-
A king without crown.
His cottage is his palace,
Contentment Is his throne,
And self control his sceptre,
His master. God alone.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

To Clean soapstons, Etc.--Soapstone
hearths are. FIRST washed in pure water
and then rubbed with powdered marble,
or soapstone, put on with piece of tie
stone. Gray marble hearths can be rub
bed with linseed oil and no spots will
show. rs
Wafer Cake.-One tcacup sugar, two
eggs, half cup butter, one teacup water,
two teaspoonfuls cream Of tartar, one. OF
soda; beat the butter and eggs to a
cream, then add the other ingredients;
stir well, and bake quickly.
Cooked Ic:ng. One cup ofcoffee sugar,
water enough TO melt the sugar; put on
the stove ard let 1t boil; beat the
whites of two eggs to stiff froth and stir
in the boiling syrup; continue the beat
ing until nerly cold, add davoring and
you have it ready for cake,
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
Chicago Produce Market

GRAIN--wheat active: No. Chicago csc; No. a
Chicago go cash; 96LkGl97c July; S6A GaSSEc Aus
gust; $3.50 September. Corn dull and q shade
lower; SS5s 03SAc cash; SIC July; ST%@LS7ac An-
gust; S7aiQS7S 10 September, rejected 95aSre 0a1R
fairly active shade hgheIs 26sc cash al gaalSp
July; 22Sc August; a2%c ssptembsr. Isyc arm;
PROVISIONS -poFk dull and nnchanresass eosan.
cash; 9.s7sk August; g.AOQo.4oa< September: Eard
dup; tending downwaras 500 cash g2,k August.
= New York Produce Market.
GRAIN-wheas. receipts sseuo Bushels: unrradea
spsns Winter red No. 40 40 1ls1 ~
No. amber LOO; white state l.25ll.25; white KEN
lucky Il0@l.12. Rye, western saS76lc. Barley and
malt nominal. Corn, receipts 1884, 900 bushels: nm
No. 2, 46@47kc; No white SIC: No. do bS,<c
Oats quiet and unchanged receipts 66.OOo bushels;
No. Q, 3Se; do white 34@S4lkc: No. il $S,s7alc. AZ
white s6M@s7c; white western M0S7c; mixed 50
GlS2kc.
PROVISIONS Pork, $1o.2s0lO.SO. Beet. din
Cut meats western long clear middies &c OO city do
6.25. Lard, prime steam s72G, mixed also. =,
Milwaukee Produce Market.
aRAIN-whea openea firm and xc lower. ana
closed firm; No. hard Sl.o6; No. i, i.olI; No, 4.
i:0sh July l.osh: August s0asc; September s5Nc:
NO. y, SOQS!c. Corn nrm: No. 2, Sakc. oats IN
good demand: No. 2, 26Ae. Rye In good demand:
no. !. ole. Barley, unsettled; No. 2 cash and Al-
PROVISIONS Steady but quiet; mess PORK, ss.ss
ash and July. Lard, prime steam $500.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

Sarah Knaack, Of Mankato, who was SEN
fenced last December at our district court to
two years in the penitentiary for conveying
q saw into the county Jail, with the view Of
aiding certain prisoners to effect their es-
cape, received pardon from Gov. Pillsbury
on Friday last ON the recommendation Of
Judge Dickinson, Hon. Franklin Waite, and
other citizens of Mankato.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

Some interesting information about
the German postal system has been re-
ceived at Washington from N. K. Griggs.
our consul at one of the cities of that
country. There were 49, employees in
the general post Office department at
Berlin, in 1875. the post-master-genera
receiving 1915 salary a year, and a
house to live in; the director Of the post
and the director of the telegraph $3.50,
and the clerks salaries which average
1929. Only twenty. five received over
$1,000 q year. In the forty-one chief
cities the postmasters receive $1,904 per
annum, except Berlin. where the salary
is $4,000. Telegraph operators receive
1886 to 500; women 1914; and letter-car-
riers 1928 to 1915. In the railway SER
vice the superintendent salary is 1851,
and few employees receive over $1,000
Section hands are paid $144 to STA a
small sum in addition being allowed for
clothing, and in few cases employees be-
ing furnished houses and servants. En-.
gineers are paid $685.; fire men $500;
conductors $444; ticket agents 5000 to
$72s: and freightmasters $57l,
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25

Can the north pole be found? DR.. Pet.
termaD, the distinguished German scien-
fist, believes that it can. He believes
that the energy devoted to the task OF
building railroad over the Rocky
Mountains would strip the ice mountains
of the polar sea of half their terrors. He
doesn't believe there is an open polar sea
as DR., HAYES describes it, but thinks the
sea is more or less covered with ice
mountains, which escape from it and float
into warmer waters. If they do not, be
argues that the new formation of ice
each year would cause North America
aud North Europe to retrograde back to
the ice ages. He believes that there is
land near the pole crusted over or coated
in ice, with ice mountains on Its coasts,
and crushing against each other in the
seas about it. This land, he believes, is
inhabited, and the people love their ice
mountains as we'll as the negroes love
their country.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25


Full official returns show that in the
late election at San Francisco, if all the
o:her voters, including Republicans, Dem,
Ocrats and non-partisans, had combine d
against the workingmer, the majority of
the latter. over the amalgamated vote
would have been 103. The fact thus de-
veloped. that in San Francisco the work
ingmens party outnumbers all others
combined, gives some indication of the
marvellous growth Of the infant party in
the few months Of its existence. its VIC
tory in California places it prominently
before the public view. and puts it on
trial. If it shall yield its guidance to
the ugly and Objectionable elements that
exist in it as in all political orgapiza-
tions. its temporary elevation will Iesem-
BILE that of the eastern pashas, who are
described by Marryat as men with their
heads slightly raised above those of their
fellows IN order that they may be more
easily decapitated.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

Walter Whitman is described as being
still sturdy hale old man, despite his
severe stroke of paralysis. He walks,
but with cane and a perceptibie limp
His shirt is still orn open, and much Of
the magnificent physique of old remains.
He lives with his brother in Cam len, but
spends much of his time on lovely farm
in South New Jersey.
The mortuary reports from all parts OF
the South show that the colored race at
the present rate of mortality is solving
its future by the saddest of all remedies
extinction. Even in the District of
Columbia, according to the May records,
their death rate was two and half times
as great as thar of the whites, or 40 per
thousand, while the whites died only at
the rate of 10 per thousand. During
the days of slavery they multiplied at
the rate of % per cent, every ten years.
Now the oeaths exceed the births. Free
dom ought not to be fIsal to them, and
if they can 10 brought to see and i'm
prove their opportunities there is no rea-
son why il should be.
The oil producing union, which Is be-
lieved in some quarters to hGld the bal
ance of powerin the coming Pennsylvania
elections, seems to be looking to the adj
vancement of its interests by other means
than those which combination will give
it in politics. 1t is proposed that all the
oil produced shall be turned over to the
central agency, and only so much put
upon the market as the consumption of
the world will demand, and for which a
fair price can be obtained. The unused
surplus will constitute reserve, to be
held until the market can stand it with.
out depression. A check on overproduc-
ton and an assurance of a paying price
for their product will thus be assured, by
scheme somewhat similar TO that at.
tempted By the coal companies, who
were dubbed ''conspirators" for their
The stringeney in business circles in
this country aud the hardest of the times
among our laboring population, however
severe, are nevertheless in wide contrast
with what is Witnessed in other parts:pi
the world. There has been comparative
~ little absolute suffering for want OF
common necessities. The intelligence
from China of the ravages Of the famine
is fearful. From a statement in.the Liv'
erpooL Post, based on official reports, il
appears that the number in China requir.
ing gratuitous relief does not fall short of
three or four million souls, equal 70 the
sntire population of the United States
when its Government was formed. The
roads are lined with corpsas in such num-
bers as to render their interment impos-
sible; while women and children, starving
and in rags, know not where to Il ok fol-
the means of keeping body and soul to
ge:her.