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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
PROBATE NOTICE.

stsss County ~ Of H'1asss's. Me1sisss: sa ..~
In Probate Court. Regular term, May 5th,
1879. In the matter of the estate of Fred Ch.
Muske, sen., Deceased. | ~
Whereas, An instrument in writing, DUR
porting to be the last will and testament Of
Fred Oh. Muske, SEN, deceased, late of said
County, has been delivered, to this Court;
And whereas, Frederick Muske has filed
Herewith a petition, representing among 9TH
things that said Fred Ch. Maske, Sen, died in
said County on the 5th day Of April, 1879,
tcstate, and that said petitioner is the sole
person named in said last will and testament,
and praying that the said instrument may be
admitted to probate, and that letters testamen-
.tary be to him issued thereon;i 5:tssH s',ssTif.
III is Ordered, That the proofs of said instru-
ment, and the said petition, be heard before
this Court, ct the Probate Office in said Coun-
~, on the I'd day Of June, A. D.I879, at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon, when all concerned
may appear and contest the probate of said
instrument pr Is szz7; j .z.a-+$E .:f&E =
i And it is Further Ordered, That pu bic no.
tice If the time and place Of said hearing be
given e. all persons interested, by publication
Of these orders for three weeks successively
previous to said day of hearing, in the Little
falls Transcript q; newspaper printed and
published at Little Falls, in said County.
By the. Court.
PETER NEWMAN.
Judge Of Probate,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
From the Pioneer Press, May 25.

From the Pioneer Press, May rs.
The. dedication of the Roman Cath
ole cathedral in New York, the larg,
est Of the kind in the United States.
will occur to>day, with imposing Ger.
emonies. Bishop Ryan, Of St. Louis
will preach the dedicatory sermon.
The cathedral is 334 feet in length
the transept no feet, the width of the
nave SO feet, including the aisles; o1
48 feet from pillar to pillar, giving "a
feet to each aisle; the height Of the
nave LOB feet, and of the aisles 50
feet. The clerstory is 1873 feet in
height. Four altars have been erect
ed, the cost of which alone is 100000
and there are spaces for ten more. The
structure has 70 windows.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
John Sherman, How is This :

A Washington telegram to the Pi>
oneer Press, dated May 26, says that
."eurrency is so scarce and at such a
demand in Washington that banks
will not cash checks Of depositors for
any large amount without one days
notice, and will not cash New York
drafts at all, except for their regular
customers, and then charge quarter
and ip some cases three-eighths per
cent exchange" and that there is much
complaint throughout the country.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
Summons. 2

State Of Minnesota,
County of Morrison.
The State ofMinnesots to A. ). White, de.
fendant. i.t:"
You are hereby summoned to BE- and appear
before the undersigned, one of the justices Of
the peace in and for said County, on the 6th
day of June, A. D. 1879, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon, at my Office in the Town of Little
Falls in said County, to answer to NJ. Maurin
and Peter Medved, copartners as Maurin &
Medved, in a a'civ1l action.
Should you fail to appear at tho time and
place aforesaid, judgment will be rendered
against you upon the evidence adduced by
said Maurin & Medved for such sum as they
shall show themselves entitled TO.
Given under my hand this 9th day ofMay,
A. D. 1879.
b.: t S, P.FULLER,
4 - Justice 70 the Peace.
3. S. SMITH,
PHf's Atty.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29

Lands For Sals.
5000 acres Of first class farming
lands in Morrison county for sale by
the undersigned. Prices moderate
and terms easy.
JONATHAN TAYLOR.
Little Falls, Minn.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
]. i The Silver Bill. !.

The new coinage bill passed the
4 House { Asy after Of having been amended, as
stated in these columns last week, 50
that 1t would be Of little or no effect
in bringing about the beneficial results
originally designed. But even in that
form the Republicans will not allow it
to become a law. It Is not probable
that it will get through the Senate, a
few recreant Democrats having taken
a stand with the Republicans on this
question; and if it passes the Senate,
it will surely be vetoed by the Presi>
dent. . -...- :,,,. ,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29

garded with unusual interest by the
physicians of the CITY, owing to its
novelty, and from the fact chat little
opportunity is given to combat the dis
ease, as it is exceedingly rare, and al.
most always fatal, over 10 per cent
dying who have the misfortune to be-
come afflicted. '..... p
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29

:. On the 24th inst. Frederick Bill
ings was elected President of the
Northern Pacific Railroad compa ny.
in place Of Charles B. Wright, who re,
signed in consequence Of i'll health.
. Mr.. Billings is the heaviest stock
holder in the company.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-05-29
JAMES BROWN

is doing General Livery and Express
business, delivers passengers, baggage
and freight in all parts Of town, is a.
the depot on the arrival of all passen>
ger trains, keeps horses and double
and single buggies for the aceommo.
dation Of persons desiring to travel in
the country, and promptly attends to
all business entrusted with him.
Charges reasonable.
JAMES Brown.
Little Falls, MINI.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
The BedOuins of America.

The Apaches, who have given us so
much trouble though not near so much,
probably, as we have given them still
claim to number, with adj their tribes,
from 5000 to 10000. When the Span
iards, in their search for gold in the
high lands of what is now New Mexico,
first met these Indians they found them
proud and independent, though harm
less and even kindly. Wronged and
outraged, the Apaches at last retaliated,
and the Spaniards were never able to
conquer them. To this day they hurI
defiance at all government and civiiza-
ton. They are the Bedouins of this
continent, and are all mounted on small
ponies capable of great endurance.
These savages, fierce and untamed as
they are, do not scalp their enemies.
They are fond of smoking and of cards,
and when idle have strange, monot-
onous chant. In battle they keep their
ponies in motion, and are themselves
always changing position. They seem
to be Monotheists, and Montezeuma, Or
the spirit of God, is blended in their
mind with some sort of religious aspira-
ton. They have superstitious regard
for the eagle and owl, and will not kill
or eat the bear Or the hog. Rattlesnakes
they dread, imagining them to be evil
spirits. They never cultivate the soil ;
live principally by plumber, and are in
the main Informed, emaciated, and mis-
cradle III appearance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

no constituency Whatever, in violation of law.
rebel soldier in South Carolina casts
vote worth just two and one-half of the votes
of Union soldier in the Union army to the
close OF the war. The white population is less
than the black by about that ratio, and yet the
black man is absolutely DISTINGUISHED. as though
ne were resident of another sphere and
the law says that where any class are disfran-
chlsed they shall not be represented on the floor
t OF Congress- and yet there they ara The rebel
who fought against the flag counts more than
two loyal men who fought for your flag among
our Michigan troops during the War of the Re
belllon. This state of things ought not, must
not and shall not be- Fellow-citizens, a great
deal has been said about frand [ suppose YOU
have heard the term Frand," fraud / had
the honor of having little something to do
with the election of 1876. 1t was an election ON
one side of fraud and violence: and without anv
exception say it deliberately and after mature
consideration-tnat the greatest fraud. in nv
judgment, that ever was seen on earth was
Samuel j. Tilden. As l have said. ran that
campaign to a certain extent. l was Chairr,-
of the committee and thev how're Fro,-d
! fraud,S 4fraud.S There was fraud b 1r"U On
the ossller side Now wish to say with regard
| to that campaign, as I have said over and over
again, that never did a thing, wrote line,
sent dispatch either cipher or in the English
language, or any other way, that would not
be 6 ad to see in print tomorrow morning
! in all the Democratic papers of these United
States Then, in the campaign of 1878
we had a solid SJuth-solid for the
reputation of our national debt, made
solid by murder aud outrage, by shot
guns and whips. It is solid for robbing the
treasury of the United States for the payment
of untold millions of rebel claims against the
Government, and it is sold after getting all it
can from the treasury of the United States, for
the Reputation of the balance. A solid South
for those objects means q solid North to thwart
those objects, and predict, although after the
4th day of March the rebels VIII have captured
when say rebels mean no disrespect to the
Northern men who occupy seats in the Senate
and House-but what do mean to say is that
majority in the Democratic caucus of both
honses-and majority in the caucus controls
Democratic Congress-I care not who you
send there to co operate with the Democratic
party of the South, he is controlled and must be
controlled by rebel intiuences-and predict,
my fellow citizens, that whether YOU nominate
for your standard bearer in 1880 the man who
they didn't love and did hate audyet fear-U. S.
Grant-or whether you nominate that gallant
standard-bearer Blaine, of Maine, or whether
you nominate John Sherman, the present Sec
rotary of the Treasury. that you and I will
march shoulder to shoulder to rescue from the
grasp of the rebel Generals and rebel Briga-
diers the capital of the nation Fellow-citi-
zens, again thanking you for the high honor
you have conferred upon me, I wish for you
one and all that Heavens blessing NAV rest
upon you
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

CHIEF JOSEPH has proved himself to
sbe a thorough business man while in
Washington. He has concluded con-
tract with the Secretary of the Interior,
and bill has been introduced by the
Chairman of the House Indian Com
mittee to give effect to this contract,
which provides that in consideration of
the cession by the Indians of their
Idaho lands they are to be given in the
Indian Territory four townships of good
agricultural land and $250,000 to be in
vested in 4 per cent. bonds as a perma-
nent fund for the benefit of the band.
The price of the new lands and cost of
removal thereto are to be paid by the
United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
Free-MasOnS.

The following statistics of the num-
Der of lodges of Free-Masons which ex-
listed at the end of last year will be read
with interest: In Germany there were
342 lodges; in Switzerland, 80; Hun
gary, A; Roumania, IL; Servia, En-
gland and Wales, 1,1S7; Scotland, 1874
Ireland, 299; Gibraltar, 5; Malta, 4;
Holland and Luxembourg, 46; Belgium,
Is; Denmark, Z; Sweden and Norway,
10; France, 287; Spain, about 800;
Portugal, %; Italy, 10; Greece, II
Turkey, 26; Egypt, %; Tunis, 2; AL
geria, II; Morocco, 2; the West Coast
Of Africa, II; African islands, %; the
Cape, 81; Arabia (Aden), |; India, 118;
Indian islands, Is; China, IS; Japan.
5; Australian islands, 4; Australia, 229;
New Zealand, 81; United States, 1894:
Canada, 535; Cuba, 80; Hayti, 80;
West India islands, IS; Mexico, 13;
Brazil, 256; and other States in South
America, 179-a total of about $4,000
lodges. The number of Free-Masons
is about 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.


Father at Play.
Such Jun as we had one rainy day.
When father was home and helped us play.
We made ship and hoisted sail,
And crossed the sea in a fearful gale
But we hadn't sailed into London town.
When Captain and crew and vessel went down
Down. down in jolly wreck
With the Captain rolling under the deck.
But he broke out again with lions roar,
And we on two legs, he on four,
Ran out of the parlor and up the stair,
And frightened mamma and the baby there,
So mamma said she'd be p'liceman now.
And tried to rest us. She didn't know howl
Then the lion laughed and forgot to roar,
! TIL we chased him out of the nursery door;
And then he turned to pony gay
And carried us all on his back away.
Whippity, liekity, hickity. no! ts
1t we hadn't fun then don't know!
Till we tumbled off and he cantered on. t.e 4
Never stopping to see If his load was gone
And couldn't tell any more than he
Which was Charlie or which was nae,
Or which was Towser, for al in mix
You'd think three people had turned to six,
Till Towser's tail was caught in the door: 2
He wouldn't hurrah with lis any more.
And mamma came out the rumpus to quiet.
And told us story to break up the riot.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

ST.. LOUIS goes on the book as having
furnished the swiftest case Of justice on
record. James Beck, baggage master
on the Iron Mountain railroad,
between that city and Columbus, KY,
was arrested at 1Oto'ciock in the morn
ing, on charge of robbing the mail.
He was taken to the postoffce, where,
on the production Of proof against him,
he made full confession. He was then
taken before the United States District
Court, pleaded guilty, and, at 2 o'clock
p. M, was sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary, the entire business
being accomplished within four hours.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

A REPORT of the Superintendent of
,ruancy in New York city closes with
he encouraging assertion that the Com
'ulsory Education LAWS steadily lifting
he children of the streets out of the
epths Of vagrancy and vice, and out of
he clutches of the law, and placing
hem in schools and institutions, ito
cleansed, instructed and reformed,
nd made blessing rather than a curse
} society,""
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

The air in the British House of Par
lament has been supposed the purest
attainable by human ingenuity. Hot
and cold air are turned in like cold and
hot water in bath, and spray fountains
are playing in the corridors to purify
the air. It has now been discovered
that close to the principal chamber a
cesspool containing the evil gases of
hundreds Of years has been sending
forth its pestilent vapors and laughing
all the machinery to scorn, There have
been complaints of the stencil, but no.
body knew whence it arose. One day a
carriage broke in the cesspool roof, and
the assembled wisdom of highland finds
that, instead of breathing the best air
in the world, it has been breathing the
worst.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
Gov. JOHN G. FREMONT, of Arizon,

Gov JOHN G. FREMONT, of Arizona.
in his first message to the Legislature
of that Territory, recommends that the
Legislature ask the National Govern
ment for 100000 to build roads in the
Territory land open up it's resources.
He reports that there are millions of
acres of land in the northern part of
Arizona that need only a supply of
water to make them valuable for farm
ing and grazing. He believes that arte-
sian wells and a system Of drains would
make all this section we'll watered, and
directs attention to such a measure, as
encouraging immigration. The Cover
nor reports the Indians quiet, and as
showing peaceful disposition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
Primitive Form Of the Mariners Com
pass.

Many people look upon the compass
as an introduction Of the fifteenth cent
ury, but it seems to have been well
known in a primitive form in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In
one of the popular songs written in the
time of King John, it is said that the
sailors who go on long voyages to Fries
land or to the East know their way w
observing the Tramontane or Polar
star; but, when the sky is covered with
clouds, and they could no longer see the
stars of heaven, they had contrivance,
which was this; They took needle of
iron and put it through piece of cork,
SO that one end remained out, which
they rubbed with the loadstone, and
then they placed it in a vessel full of
water, and, whichever way the end of
the needle pointed, there, without any
doubt, was the Polar star. This formed
a primitive but fairly perfect mariners
compass. Scientific american.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
ZULU LAND.
The British Disaster in South Africa.

ne disaster In South AFRICA.
The disaster to the British expedition
against the Zulu Kafirs in South Africa
will have the same effect on the hostile
tribes on the northern borders of Cape
Colony and Natal as would disaster to
our own troops on the Indian frontier
have on the hostile Indians
Since 1911 there have been six wars
against the Kafirs, each one settling
some new issue with the natives in and
north of Cape Colony. The present
war had its origin in the complications
growing out of the war in 1877, in which
the English espoused the cause of the
Fingoes against the Galekas, an indie
pendent tribe. This war closed in
June, 1873, but in the meantime new
difficulties arose with the Zulu Kafirs
on the northern borders of the Trans
vaal Republic. This territory was an
nexed to the British colonies in 1877,
and the claim of the Zulus to the land
on Blood river was disputed in the new
settlement of affairs. The new Zulu
King protested; and, when the war of
1873 closed, it was discovered that he
had endeavored, Or was endeavoring, to
form an alliance with the independent
chief Secocoem in Pretoria, and was
making arrangements to hold the lands
in dispute Lord Chelmsford, the of
ficer in command of the native and
British forces, massed his army for
campaign against the Zulus. Sir Bar
tie Frere, Governor of the South At
rican colonies, had meanwhile dispatched
an ultlmatum to CetteWayo, the Zulu
King, recognizing the justice of the
Zulus' claims to the disputed territory,
farmers who had to leave it through
fear of Cetewayo, the payment of fines
and surrender of certain chiefs engaged
in outrages, the disbanding of the Zulu
army, the establishment of British
Resident in Zululand with much power,
a fair trial for all offenders, permission
for missionaries to return to the coun-
try, and the freedom of Zulus to marry
on coming of age. CA Zulu cannot
marry under 40) A month was given
the King to make up his mind, and he
promptly refused to assent to the con-
ditions. The Zulu King had disbanded
his army IN December, and had ordered
compensation made to settlers, but the
conditions as to missionaries and change
in marriage customs seems to have pro-
voked his resentment His reply
should have been received before Jan.
II; but, as it was not, war was declared,
and the British troops and native aux
iiaries advanced.
Cetewayo, the Zulu King, is reported
the most powerful African monarch
south of the equator. He rules over
10000 square miles of territory and
100000 people. He has an army of
10000 men armed with breech-loading
rifles, and to some of the regiments are
attached batteries of artillery. The
frontier corps, directly opposite to the
British, was about 10000 strong, but
this could be easily reinforced.
Against the Zulu army the British
authorities sent an army of $4,000 men,
one-third of whom were British regu-
lars
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

Hon. A. S. PADDOCK, of Nebraska,
lately delivered speech in the United
States Senate upon the subject of agri-
culture, which contains much informa-
ton of interest to Western farmers.
Mr.. Paddock paid particular attention
to the increasing export trade between
the West and Europe. He showed that
the increase in the value of the ship
ments of horned cattle alone from 1877
to 1878 was $4,500000. There were
shipped over the Union Pacific road
last year more than 100000 beeves. He
showed that the cotton worm, in 1874.
cost the cotton-growing States $2O, OOO,.
900 in a single week. The Colorado
potato caused vast destruction
The chinch bug. in 1874, caused the
farmers loss of $60,00O,0O0, and 5000
100000 would not cover the loss from
the locust plague of 1873 to 1875
Fruit growers are beset with similar
pests. The increase of malignant dis
eases among farm animals is causing
great loss. Diseases among swine have
aggregated $3o,00O,0o0 per annum, and
there is great ignorance as to the cause
of the disease. The resolution which
Paddock advocated to authorize more
thorough investigation of this agri
CULTURAL subject was adopted
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
MYRoN III. COLONY, an old st. Loui

MYRoN III. COLONY, an old St. Louis
newspaper man, is perfecting at New
Haven, o., q number of warlike inven-
tons, among them being a submarine
torpedo, and bomb, both of which are
loaded with nitro glycerine and can be
arranged by internal machinery to ex-
plode at an appointed time; rife, from
which 120 rounds may bes fred more
rapidly than from a needle-gun or
Winchester rife, repeated pressure of
the trigger, while the weapon is at the
shoulder, being all that is necessary to
discharge it; gun with thirt, six
bores, from which 900 rounds can be
fired in very short time and single
barreled gun which is discharged eighty
times in succession by one man with
slight exertion. Mr.. Colony is backed
by DR.. J. Ell. Mclean, a ST. Louis MO-
capitalist, who has donated 100000 to
the enterprise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

LORD BEACoNsF1ELD reports to the
British Parliament that the object Of
he Government in inaugurating the
var in Afghanistan has been completely
ccomplished The object of the war
vas, as he states it, to secure control of
he great highways connecting Afghan
stan with India, and he announces the
purpose of the Government to retain
hem
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

o'clock, where Mr.. and Mrs. Grant were
waiting anxiously.
You must guess the rest how the
children We're Rugged and kissed; how
Uncle Jake had to lie in bed all the
next day on account of rheumatism /;
how the children related their advent
ure to their playmates the next day ;
and how they We're justas eager to have
another snow-storm come as they would
have been had this one afforded as much
pleasure as had been expected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

IT is estimated in Washington that
census of next year will show an
creased population of 100000, ne
'sitating, under the present appor-
nment, an increase of sixty-s in the
puse of Representatives, making
at body the unwieldy number
1853. New York would gain five Con
9ssmen, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mich
IN, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
xas and Wisconsin, four each. The
mates show no increase in the pop
ltion of Colorado, Connecticut, Della,
re, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada,
w Hampshire, Vermont and South
rolina.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

WHO can say that women are not adj
ncing? The Supreme Court Of the
nited States has decided that the fair
K can practice before it, and that in
5ah, as we'll as elsewhere, each woman
entitled to an undivided interest in a
sband; the University of Pennsyl-
MIA has opened the doors of its lee
re rooms to women, and, last but not
st, Nebraska damsel has entered a
It for the races to take place in Chi
20 next June.