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Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
THE WORLDS DOINGA.
GRIMES IND CRIMINALS.


I AT a picnic quarrel in Louisville, KY,
ten or fifteen persons were wounded, and two
killedby beng stabbed.
Two drunken tramps quarreled at Wi.
mona Friday July 26th. One dangerously
stabbed the other with knife.
A colored ex-sheriff, of New Orleans,
recently committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head. Cause, drink and loss
of money.
An affray occurred at Nashville, the
oath inst, in which shots were exchanged.
Two men were killed, and several wounded.
A stray shot severely wounded a colored girl.
There was row in East ST. Louis on
the 23rd inst. Some fifty shots were fired.
Two were wounded and girl standing in q
doorway was shot in the head. Whisky Is
charged with being the cause of the trouble.
The defalcation of John g. Tappan, of
Boston, treasurer of the Betting company, ag-
gregates over eight hundred thousand dollars.
The company is ruined, and takes down sew
eral other large firms in Boston and New
York.
A Portland, Oregon dispatch says the
bodies of Lorenzo d. Perkins and wife murd-
cred by the Indians near Rattle Springs,
Columbia river have been recovered by party
OF citizens who went on the trail of the miss
ing people. 5
On the ESD inst, near Flemina Court
House, Va, Wilson Howehins murdered his
wife, mother-in law and one child and then
killed himself. A son seven years old saw
his brother attack his mother, and snatched
the baby out of the cradle and ran to place
! of safety.
The newspapers have a tale of lady
being abducted from a drawing room car on
| the New York Central, outraged and robbed
1 If such things can be, what female can be safe
in travelling without a male protector. The
bold audacity of prowling Williams has got to
be alarming.
John G. Tappan, of Boston, Mass, a
hitherto honored, and supposed honorable
business man, Treasurer of the Betting COM
Pany, has Incorporated to his own use over
100000 of the company's money. He has
held the position as treasurer since the organ
ization of the company, thirty years ago.
The coroner's verdict, in Cincinnati
July Gath, upon the death of Nellie Srickley
the woman of ill-fame who was shot by
+ Joseph Payton, is that she came to her death
from pistol ball found in the heart, said bal
being fired from pistol in the hands o
Joseph Payton, and that the shooting was I'M
provoked, malicious and premeditated.
Reports from Cheyenne state that &
fierce encounter on the night of the Goth o
July inst, occurred between E. Fl. Smith thu
messenger accompanying stage coach, ant
4 six highway robbers. The robbers discharged
fifty shots, Smith twelve. The robbers retired
without molesting the coach. Smiths horse
was killed. His cool bravery is greatly com
mented
Walter A. Shupe, the would be leade
of the national greenback party, and editor O
! its organ, the n. Y. 44dyoente was sued the 9th
er day by his office boy, for his wages. Tn
disclosures show Shupe to be very impecuni
GUS, and the Aduocate to be on a precariou
foundation. Shupe swore he was merely edi
tor of it, and refused to give the names o
parties running the paper.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
Female Eigilantes.
om the Yirginfa City Chronicle

From the Virginia City Chronicle. aHo tia
1t is BEGINNING to be suspected that a
sort of Vigilance Committee exists among
the married ladies of this city, the OBJ
ject of which is TO keep husbands away
from gambling games. Night before
last one Of them walked into a saloon
along G street, looked about for q time,
and, without saying word, went out.
she was probably skirmishlng for the
main body. The masculine Vigilance
Committee of our town is known as
"601;" the feminine is therefore more
likely s106." When husband is spot
ted he is quietly marched away and
taken before the grand tribunal in the
secret hall of the committee, where he is
hauled over the Goals A man who was
thus marched away the other night says
he is not at liberty to tell all that hap
pened to him, but relates that while on
the march he was suddenly biindfolded.
and presently, when the banuage was re-
moved from his eyes, found himself in a
large room filed with masked women.
There he saw and heard things so fearful
that he will not forget them till his dy-
ing day.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
An Old-Fashoned Tramp.

Thirty or forty or more years ago
almost every locality had its regu-
lar tramp. He was not the lazy, repul-
sive, slouching reptile that now iafests
the highways, and prowls about farm
houses terror to the unprotected, but a
harmless half simple being that made HIM
self a general fay orite by his helpfulness
and the amusement afforded by his &C.
centric ways. Such ono was old Tony,
we'll remembered by old residents Of
Chatham and Lebanon, in this country.
He was Swiss by birth, who had been
conscripted In the armv of Napoleon /.
and was with him in the campaign in
Egypt. How be came to this country we
never learned. We we'll remember his
story of how he was torn away from his
family, of his experience ard suffering as
a soldier. When enlivened by little
''schnapps"' from the black bottle, he
would go through the7drill of arms with
his long staff, and generally wound up
with song, whose chorus was "Schnap-
3pooter, schnappeter, schnappof."
Tony was small, irregular shaped
man. with sun-faded hair, milky blue
eyes, prominent nose and glowing COM
plexion, kept bright by frequent appll-
cations of, his favorite scnnapps. His
speciality was to distribute the mails to
residents mile or two distant from the
post office, and to- execute any little err
rands intrusted to him. Bread and but
termiIk we're his staple fare, which was
never begrudged. He always made him
self welcome, did not trespass on time
or hospitality, and was a regular institu-
ton of the locality. In winter he hiber-
mated at the county poorhouse and came
out regularly when the first bluebird ap-
peared. he lived to a good old age,
seventy or more, and was greatly missed
and regretted when death ended his pill
griInage.- Hudson Republican.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
MORMON DUPLICITY.
A BGIefaGl Influence E1eTted By Their
Priests Upon the indians.

A BGIefaGl Influence EceTted By Their
Priests Upon the Indians.
Secretary Schurz has received the follow
ing letter, dated at Ogden City, Utah, the
18th inst: ~ sNA-5a
SIR: The object of this letter is to give
you some information relative to the traffic
in ammunition which is carried on by the
cooperative stores with the Indians. The
cooperative stores are conducted by the
Mormon priesthood. MY informers, the
deputy United States marshal here and
others, tell me this traffic is carried on daily,
and, beyond doubt, by all similar institutions
all over the Territory and in Southern Idaho
at the following places where the cooperative
stores exist: Malade City, Soda Springs,
and Paries. These places are directly on the
Indian borders. The Mormon priesthood
have constantly missionaries among the
Indians. The latter are converted to Nor
monism and taken through the endowment
house, where they (the Indians) pledge
themselves to support this priesthood, and
they are called by the Mormons ssOur little
battle-axes." Therefore almost every Indian
war is carried on directly or Indirectly by
this priesthood, and therefore this traffic of
ammunition. The great aim of the priest
hood is to intimidate nom ormons from
getting the valleys anywhere within 800
miles of Salt Lake for the purpose of keep
ing the lands vacant until by the natural,
steady, and rapid growth of Mormonism the
priesthood can COLOMBO the unoccupied
region. The so-called masonary that binds
all tribes together, so often referred to by
the press of the United States, emanates from
the endowment temple at Salt Lake, where
the secret work and the endowment gar
ments are given them. The so-called friend
~ Indians are always carrying information
and ammunition to the hostiles. As this is
as serious as costly, deem it my duty, to
report the same to you, and if there is no
law to stop the sale of ammunition to the
Indians, suggest that the President issue q
proclamation in which to prohibit the sale
of ammunition and firearms to the Indians
during times of hostility. If our govern
ment in this Territory would be alive to the
interests he should represent, am certain
this traffic could not be carried on as extern
sively as it is. m 293a lNs
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
Rats,


This is a subject which cannot fail to
interest all poultry breeders, for the
amount Of loss directly chargeable to
their wholesale depredations is almost
incredible. It costs as much to feed the
rats and nice of our country as it does to
feed our l1or, and even more. They are
left until they become so numerous that
something must be done to stop their
ravages, when raid is made on them
with terriers, ferrets, and many are driven
out of the runs or killed. This quiets
them down little, and peace is declared
until the rats again become troublesome
The most efectual way to get rid of them
is to poison them, for which purpose a
preparation of phosphorus, spread on
small crumbs of bread, is very effectual
though nothing can be gotten in this line
which Is not dangerous to other beings
Small bits of cork fried in lard is also a
"sure pop" while corn meal and plaster
mixed dry and in equal parts, will get
heavy on their stomachs, and ere long,
cause q cessation of breathing. Blu all
these things are alike destructive to dogs
cats, or poultry, and you run great
risk If you have any young folks running
around, you may be sorry all your life
that you ever used poison for rats. A
trained ferret to drive them from their
leads, with good terriers or shepherd
dogs to catch them when they run out,
will soon clean them up. A few farmers
or fanciers could buy, own and use a
trained ferret in partnership, and thus
rid themselves of rats effectually.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
oaeomargarlne unaer the miscroscope

OleOmargarine Under the MiscrOsc0pe.
Mr.. Thomas Taylor, microscopic ofthe
Department of Agriculture, has incident
ally made q few examinations of market
butter, pure butter and oleomargarine, or
butter made by churning fat with cream
He finds that pure, dairy butter, when
viewed under the microscope, presents a
uniform appearance so far as color is con-
cerned. The forms seen consist of oil
globules and the CRYSTALS of common salt
When viewed by pola lied light, every
little change of color is observed; but
when specimen of oleomargarinc is ex-
amined in the same manner, the field I'M
der view is speckled all over with shining
particles, which change color with tverg
quarters turn of the analyzer, and Mr..
Taylor has demonstrated that these glis-
tening points consists of crystalized fat.
In using power of about two hundred
and Fifty diameter, animal tissue is also
seen more or less over the whole field,
and a thin sheet of fat, placed under a
power of about seventy-five diameters
exhibits the polarized light beautifully,
each solid fat cell showing all the colors
of the rainbow, and, on turning the anal
yzer or polarizeT, the changing, compile
mentary colors are exhibited.
The process of grinding the fat by
means Of rollers destroys the solid, crys-
taline, cell contents, but the glistening
appearance, under polarized light, re-
mains the same, only subdivided, as a
natural consequence. Pure butter may
therefore be easily detected from oleo.
margarine by the means proposed by Mr.
Taylor.
0ce specimen Of butter examined by
him was highly charged with animal tbs /
sue and the urate Of magnesia, the crys.
tails of which we're well defined, showing
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
PERSONAL AND ruATrIcAL.

Gov. Noyes, minister torrance, is at
Long Branch. E
Hon. Charles Foster has declined a
nomination in the Seventh Ohio district
Assistant postmaster general Tyner,
arriveda at New York on Saturday, from
Bremen.
s. s. Cox thinks Tilden has no show
for denomination, nor has Hendricks. He
speaks more encouragingly of Thurman's
prospects, s.r - g Tfs-a@E
1t is intimated that Mrs. Tilton is about
to take the lecture platform to follow Mr.
Beecher. The report is not from a very trust
worthy source,
Queen Victoria has conferred on Lord
Beaconsfield, the Order of the Gorter The
tnyestiture took place,at Osborne, Monday
morning, July 2sd, t ~
The Nationals met in State convention
at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 23d inst. There
was great confusion and acrimony developed,
resulting in a bolt.
The Steamer Tallopoosa with the
Secretary of the navy and party on board
reached Portsmouth New Hampshire, on
Saturday July 27th.
Gen. Sheridan was reported at Dead
wood, Dr., July 18th. He expresses the opin-
ion, that permanent Black Hills military
post will be located at some point between
the Spear Fish and Roped creek valleys.
Mrs, Ida Pierce, confined in Jail at
La Crosse since last spring for contempt OF
Ise0urtfo for refusing to deliver to her divorced
husband sher child, has been released by or
der Of the Supreme Court, on the ground
that she was improperly imprisoned.
At club banquet in London the other
day, Lord Beaeonsfeld speaking of the asser.
ton of Gladstone that the Turkish convention
was an insane one characterised Gladstone as
"a sophisticalThetorician inebriated with the
exuberance of his own .verbosity and egotis-
| teal Imagination.
Col. Mosby, the Virginian, of rebel
guerrilla fame, has been Interviewed, and
declares the opinion that Gen. Grant will be
the Republican candidate for President in 1886
and that he viii be elected. He says he can
carry oil the States that Hayes carried, and
more too. He says he is the only Republican
that can carry any Souther State, declaring
there is no section of the country in which
Gen. Grant has warmer and stronger friends
than in the South He thinks he win be
nominated by reclamation and win be sus-
tanned by the conservative settlement of the
country, and be sure Of an election. q
A Chicago dispatch of July gath says:
| 1t having been discovered that in the last
election for Congressman from the second
district, West Side, that the certified returns
| in the Office Of the secretary of state show tie
| vote was. Col. Geo. r.. Davis 14,436, Hon.
Carter Fl. Harrison, present incumbent, A..
391, giving Davis an actual majority of As.
The resurns as made up at the time of the
election gave Harrison majority of 642
Colonel Davis this morning represents his in
tention ofcontesting on the grounds furnish
ed by these figures but 1t Is believed that 1t il
too late in the session ito accomplish any.
/ thing.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

that the fat used in this case was impure,
and probably that of diseased animal.
Such practical illustration OF the uses of
the microscope cannot tail to convince
the public and the government Of the
value of such investigations. Since the
government is large purchaser of but
ter, microscopic examination should be
made by it to ascertain in what portion
the solid fats are used, but mere especial
1y to ascertain the purity of the fats used
in the manufacture of olcomargarine
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

A Portland paper gives this as aproof
of the force of Imagination: The owner
of a standard thermometer, on Exchange
street, etherized the mercury to-day, re-
ducing it to temperate. Men came along
perspiring at every pore, with fans spread
and umbrellas, and when they saw the
indications, lowered the umbrellas, fold
ed their fans, and remarked how quickly
they felt the sea breeze.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

"A leading scot the panic and much
of the trouble that followed is given in a
nut shell by the Commercial Bulletin
which says "One-third of the railroads
were built in advance of the wants Of the
country, and their stockholders have been
obliged to wait until the country grew
up to them." The country has almost
grown up to them now and the expert
ment willnot be tried a second time.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
CAN'T rs.

The loss in thereeent Catlettsburg KY,
fire was $1500OO.
A freight train On the S. F. & l. NJ.
was ditched at Gardner Station, forty miles
from Little Rock, Ark. The engineer, Robert
Wilkinson, was killed, and Fireman Hastings
badly injured. A broken rail was the cause
of the disaster.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
The First District.

The Democratic Convention for the
First Congressionaf District met at Owa.
tonna on the 25th of July and organized
by electing VIM. Breshaine of Waseca,
chairman, and A. II. Lewis of Steele
Secretary. A platform was adopted sub
stantially the same as that adopted BY
the Ohio Democrats. No nomination for
Congress was made bnta distrgcf commit.
tee was appointed and instructed to select
a nominee. The following IA the com.
mittee:
Resolged. That the following named gentle.
men be appointed as the Congressional com
mittee for the ensuing two years, and are au.
thorized to select q candidate for Congress to
be voted for at the ensuing November election.
b. 8. Cook, Steele county.
James Shoemaker, Blue Earth county.
H. s. Sherman, Martin county.
w. r. Bennett, Mobiles county.
G. f. Buck, 'Winona county.
H. @. Woodbury., Waseca county.
Balcomb Huntley, Dodge county.
William Brown. Olmstea county.
e. @. Stacey, Freehorn county.
The conventicn then adjourned.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
Milwa,.Irsa prodIoe market.

4 GRATN--wheat opened unsettled and hc lower,
and closed steady; No hard Sl.15; No. /, 1.1A1k
No. 2, LA; July LA: August 96hc; September
$3.50; No. 8, 90cc. Corn, quiet and shade easier
No. 2, 1850. Oats, steady and quiet; No. 2, 27c.
Rye, steady; No. cash SAC. Barley, No. 2, SIC
cash and August.
PROVISIONS Firmer but quiet; mess pork $9.62
cash and July. Lard, prime steam ITO.
Chicago Produce Market.
GRAIN-wheat unsettled; cash higher and options
lower; No. red winter 96a96a No. 2 do g5lsc
cash: 93093h August; No. Q Chicago 1.05H cash
and July; g21s 0e99s August; S81S 0Selzc Heptem-
Der; sales Oh u @93A August; 87s6W90c September:
No. Chicago Doc; rejected Gao. Corn fair demand
at 800 cash and July; SSk August ana September;
rejected SIC. Oats 26a1 cash; 2%c August; 40
September. Rye steady; az 54054Sc. Barley duh I:
prices shade lower; at 72mc cash: 9Oc September.
PROVISIONS Pork In fair demand, but lower
rates; 9.550S SIX August; 1909 79h September
Lard steady at 10 cash lilo August; I'LL
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Cooked icing. One cup of coffee sugar,
water enough TO melt the sugar; put on
the stove ard let it boil; beat the
whites of two eggs to stiff froth and stir
in the boiling syrup; continue the beat
ing until nerly cold, add fiavoring and
you have it ready for cake.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Rural debating societies in Western
Massachusetts are debating the three
cornered question: Which is the worst
nuisance to the farmer-the potato bug,
the tramp, or the peddler9
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Three cents on dollar to offer to cred
>itors does sound small, but when you
come to make it go round on an amount
of sixteen millions it will make a very
respectable appearance in a savings bank
account
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

During the great plague IN London
one pit was dug In the Charter House,
forty feet long, sixteen feet wide and
twenty feet deep, and in a fortnight re-
ceived 1 ia bodies.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

AFlerida negro mlstook q mule for a
ghost and poked il with stick. The
verdict recites that he came to his death
by using too short q stick In probing the
unknowable FIR evidence of q future ex-
istence. #
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Teach your daughters and your sons
alike, next to honor, next to love of home
to love their country. Then. when her
need comes, if come it must, in any
struggle, her honor will be their own, and
life itself will not be too dear 10 offer for
her sake. Who that remember a battle,
u husband OF son sacrificed; who that
ever saw soldier die, or stood IN any
silent city of the country's slain, or In a
churchyard where the village heroes rest,
can eyer make our country seem again a
vague or visionary thing2
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01
MIsOEILANEOUs.

The Pennsylvania miners are organizing
to force an increase Of wages.
The Nevada bank has sold million
ounces Of fine silver to the government.
President Mcmahon of France has
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Small Boy tenterlng the shop). ~
want pennyworth o eanary-seed"
Shop-keepef (who knows the boy). us
for your mother9''
Small boy Acontemptuously). mo its
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

A political Convention in California
consisted of $50 delegates, but man
who was nominated for the best place on
the ticket saws there were 1898 persons
presented to him as delegates, and when
ne left his room at the hotel it was lined
with three rows of empty bottles its en-
tire length, and there was pyramid of
empty cigar boxes.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

A New York contemporary, gravely
discussing the effect of the heated term
in that city, says: sit is evident, also,
that open spaces, particularly. when they
are abundant in foliage, carry with them
striking immunity from prostration by
heat, and act as centres Of hygienic in
fuence that is felt for many contiguous
squares in every direction" Philadelphia
knew that long ago, hence numerous
outrageous squares and the largest pub
lie park in the world; hence one-half as
many cases of srlnstroke as New York
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

Now that the weather is warm, perhaps
you'd like to hear of way to keep cool,
as practiced in much warmer climate
than ours India. In the warmest
weather there is a strong, dry, hot wind
blowing, and to keep the breeze, but
make it cool and moist, they use tattie.
This is aqbamboo. lattice which fits the
door, Land thiniy covered with fragrant
sort of grass. By the door stands jar
of water and a native servant. With a
cup he throws water over the tattie. The
wind blowing through the wet grass,
cools the air perfectly.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

:
1t appears from Investigation made by
the N. Y. World that the tenement
house system prevails in that city to an
extent even more alarming than had been
supposed 1t is stated that nearly three
quarters of the citizens live in tenement
houses, which mum beers $1,000 out.of the
$4,000 buildings in the city. New York
is beginning TO rival some of the Euro
pean continental cities in the extent to
which this style of building is employed,
but by no means in regard to comfort
and gdecencg of life in them. Luxury
often characterizes tenement life in Eu-
rope; while wretched and unhealthy
poverty is almost universal in such
houses in New York.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-01

The large demand for the Government
four per cents, mainly in small amounts,
shows that people Of small means have
more confidence in Government bonds
than was expected. It world also ap-
pear that notwithstanding the lack Of
employment OF which much complaint is
made, and the poverty Of the people, a
good many of them have something left
tolay aside for rainy day. This fact
may also have some tendency to embar-
rass those who, for political reasons, are
advocates for taxing Government securi-
ties. It is undoubtedly better for tho
country that its own citizens Should in
vest in governments than have them alb
sorbed abio9d, though patriotism may
not oe the motive ..fter all.