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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-04-19

It has bt come well coated with IT, pour off the
Oil carefully, not disturbing the mucilaye at all,
ara Keep IL In t1ghtiy-corked bottles. Oh thus
prepared can be kept for years without danger
OF It's spelling or becoming thick when exposed
to the action OF the atmosphere.
FOOD CAN BIZ Sailed
on me outside, but the flavor Is perverted It
Is Tie permeat10n or the meat, fish Or vegata-
BILE with the condiment which is excellence.
ana that can only be obtained by a certai3
an,ouha OF khowledge, which, at the very CON
me- cement OIL culinary operation, decides on
the quantity The use of salt alone Is an arr
Ia polling as Its presence in the water te ads TO
raise somewhat the point OF ebuilition by 'tts
abuse, food, though overdone, may be re- ,dered
hard and tnd1gestibie, Too much salt i'm We 70.
, !"pies tefds to extract I'LL the natural flavor
which such f6oo Possesses AS has been before
mentioned, we mostly overcuG,, certain deficits
vegetables, notably asparagus, and TIN, yerg
Dest part u them goes Into the boiling water
A very aDom1fIah,e habit Of ours Is to cook cab
I page ana green sprouts with bacon, and 10 serve
Doth up separately. Now, II both the meat and
caODage are cooked together, serve them on
the same DISH That Is all we'll enoug 4, bat T.
dlvide them and AXE two dishes Of them Is 4
/ stupidity. We pepper Outrageously and OUT or
al season or seasoning In the American cut
sine. On the subject of pepper as IA strange d.
vergence OF taste, 1t may be cited that south of
I!ll.ed, RED pepper supplanttngit In former
times, OF dinner in Charleston or Savannah, a
guest using the black Pepper aston, II ne could
mo one, was thought to show a want OF proper
breeding. Still, IL wonld be i'm 20 ,stb.e to fay
down any positive laws as to the use Of popped,
as the further south the cook il found, the more
stonachs seem TO crave what gives a fictitious
warmth OF food The use OF onions Or garlic In
focO, II employed with judgment and temper
ance, is not to be decrled. Persons Ignorant OF
garlic, when they eat almost any really good
dish at the best restaurant In New York, would
/ be amazed could they discover the secrets of
the head COOK, TO find out In how many dishes
j and sauces garlic enters It's but SolDcon IT,
/ is true, nothing but fragment or bit OF bread
which has barely touched the bulb; but garlic
! ills, nevertheless, Almost all good cook-books
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-26
The Morals of Eating.

DR.. Book, of Leipsic, writes as follow,
on the moral effect of different articles OF
food and drink: "The nervousness and
peevishness of our times are chiefly at.
tributed to tea and coffee; the digestive
organs of confirmed coffee drinkers are
In q state of chronic arrangement which
reacts on the brain, producing fretful
and lschrymose moods. Fine ladies
addicted to strong coffee have q charac.
teristic temper, which / might describe
as q mania for acting the prosecuted
saint. Chocolate is neutral In its physi.
cal effects, and is really the most harm
less of our fashionable drinks. The
snappish, petulant humor of the Chinese
can certainly be ascribed to their inn
moderate fondness for tea. Beer Is
brutalizing; wine impressions; whisky
infuriates, but eventually humans.
Alcoholic drinks, combined with flesh
and fat diet, totally subiugste the moral
man, unless their influence be counter.
acted by violent exercise. But with
sedentary habits they produce those un-
happy flesh sponges which may be studied
in metropolitan bachelor halls, but better
yet in wealthy converts. The soul this :
may still linger in fat Austrian abbo
is functional in his body only as salt is
to pork-in preventing imminent putre-
faction.
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THE WEST.

A VIRGINIA CRY, Nevada, dispatch
Of the lsth announces the suspension OF the
Bank of Virginia. Cause, fall Of mining
stock.
THOMAS NELL, a heavy cattle dealer
of Peoria, Ill, has failed with liabilities
somewhere between $500, COO and $500, 200.
JOSEPHINE TAYLOR, aged %, daugh.
ter of the president of the Mormon church,
attempted to escape from Utah and her
fathers harem on the 10Th. She got on the
Union Pacific train, but having no ticket or
money was put of at the frat station east.
She endeavored to get the sgent at Uintah
TO secrete her, but he refused, and her
fathers friends being notified she was taken
back to Salt Lake.
SAMUEL E. PERKINS, chief justice of
the Supreme Court of Indiana, died on the
night Of the 18th, at his residence in In
dianapolis.
BUCKNER s. MORRIS, an old resident
of Chicago. died at that place on the 10th
inst. He was judge of the circuit court Of
Illinois at one time.
MUCH anxiety is felt at the con-
dition of affairs near Csmloop, British Col.
umbia. Government Agent Usher was re-
Gently killed by half-breed outlaws. who
also murdered herder named John Kelley
at Stump lake. At last accounts the des.
peradoes were surrounded in q log house al
the foot Of Douglas lake, in the Sicols
Valley. They have repeating rifles, and the
settlers are poorly armed. The Indians are
fearfully excited, and an Indian revolt j.
feared.
COMMANDER CHESTER HATFIELD, U.
s. navy, died at Vallejo, Cal, on the 18th
inst.
Col. ZKB. WARD, lessee of the Ar
kansas psnitentiary, has been awarded ths
contract for the construction of the Little
Rittle Rock & Pine Bluff railroad. Foul
hundred convicts will be employed. Ths
grading is to be completed by April LIST anG
the entire road in operation by July LIST
1880.
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mISCELLANE0Us.

GEORGE SAVAGE, q well known tenn
18th.
The Sierra Mojsda mines in Mexico
are now said to be rich, but no richer than
many in chihuahua and Zacatecss.
The Republican National committee
met at Washington en- the 18th and elected
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
chairman, and Thomas B. Keogh, of North
Carolina, secretary. Chicago was chosen as
the place for holding the convention, and
Wednesday, jane 4, was fixed upon as the
date.
CHRISTIAN French, a New York
merchant, lately dead. left 26O,OOO Danish
rowns to his brother Emil, and 125,O00 OF
the same to his sister Caroline. He directed
that his body be taken to Milan, Italy, and
cremated, and the ashes be buried at Co
penhagen.
THE negro exodus from Texas to Kan
sas continues. A considerable number of
colored people pass through Dallas daily
bound to that state. On the other hand
quite number have returned, stating that
they have been deceived.
The Virginia legislature elected
General Malone to the United States senate
on the 10th, to succeed Senator Withers.
AUGUST THEILE, editor of the
" Weehter am Erie" died at his residence
in Cleveland, on the 10th, aged Sc, of paraly.
sis.
The bark Monroyia sailed from New
York, on the 10Th, for Liberia with rs
colored emigrsnts and ten cabin passen gers.
The road bed of the Georgia Western
railroad reaching toward Decatur was pur.
chased on the 18th instant for the Louisville
and Nashville road.
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Senatorial "reminiscences.

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times tells these good stories:
The return of senators and members
of Congress always serves to make up
old recollections of time-worn anecdotes,
and in this connection one isremembered
of the story told of the economy of ex-
Senator McCreedy of Kentucky. he is
a great lover of tobacco in its natural
state, but, as the price of the weed was q
little too high for his ideas of luxury, he
always brought a supply with him to
Washington from his farm in old
" Kentuck." One day in the Senate he
put his hand in the pocket of his odd
"swallow.tail" for the scrap of plug
which was generally to be found there,
but it was missing. So he called q rid.
ing page and told him to 20 to bis hotel
In Georgetown (you can live in George.
town for 80 cents per day., and bring a
piece of tobacco about two inches long,
which he said would be found on his bed
room table. Welt the boy rode over to
the hotel, three miles distant, and re.
turned with the fragrant plug. The
Kentucky statesman looked first at the
youth and then at the tobacco. "Young
man" said he, you. can't come it that
way. There'sa chaw missing"
On another occasion a package was
received for him at the senate postofice.
and the clerk in charge paid the duties,
which were 80 cents. He took the
package to the silver-tongued apostle of
the bluegrass region, and told him the
circumstances. "Too much" replied
Nc Greedy; Z" never pay more than %
cents for a. package like that. Here's
quarter. can't afford to pay the
other five. You'll have to stand it your.
self"
Ex-senator Goldthwaite, of Alabama,
was noted for his extreme absent.
mindedness, and he was occasionally
seen running about the senate trying TO
get out, and not being able to find the
door. BE would have had the page-boys
in the senate looking for his hat or cane,
which would be all the while firmly
clasped in his hand. He was much
given TO walking up and down thelobby,
plunged in deep thought, often smoking
q fragrant Havana, and entirely obliv-
ious Of all things about him. Often
some cheeky page of the senate would
walk up and ask the senator for light.
Mr.. G0ldthwaite would mechanically
hand over his cigar, the boy would
take light, put the choice weed in his
precious mouth, and hand over his old
stump to the old gentleman, who would
continue his stroll In blissful ignorance.
1t il related on good authority that, In
one OF his fits of abstraction, he walked
into the senate elevator, dropped
nickle into the hole back of the mirror,
and calmy requested to be let out at
"Hn street,
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Island and Pacific railroad exploded its
boiler at Newton, on the 18th instant, In.
stantly killing the engineer, William Glib
hons, and fatally scAlding the fireman, Alex.
Jones.
The Red river country has suffered
from severe storm with very low temper
says two children Of VIM. Owens were
frozen to death aud two men, II. q. Herdsrk
and James Nalsu, are missing, supposed TO
Dc lost In the storm and frozen.
JOSEPH GEsBRo and q young lady
named Clotier, while skating at Penetan.
guishine. Ont on the 18th, fell through o
hole In the Ice and were drowaed.
j. GIILIs' livery stable at Little Rock,
Ark, burned on the l4th inst. The family
Of ellis were asleep in the second story,
and the only safe avenue OF escape being
cut of when they were aroused, Mr.. ellis
and wife dropped their children out of q
window TO the ground below. The wife was
sunocated by the smoke, and, falling back,
she Was burned. ellis jumped from the
seious condition, from injuries about the
head. Il is thought he inhaled the flames
and is fatally injured. Both children were
severely injured. Loss in stable 10000
The FIRE damaged cotton compress ad Join.
ing to the extent of $4,000.
REV. GEORGE WHITE, rector of Cal
vary Episcopal Church, Memphis, was
stricken with paralysis while preaching on
the l4th inst, and was carried from the
church on litter. He il 81 years of age
and his condition is critical.
MAY WILLIsToN and jamie Watt
were drowned at New Castle, N. B., on tbs
l4th. by breaking through the ice Will,
skating.
THREE tons of nitro-glycerine and
mica powder in q magazine on Fox Island
Detroit river, exploded on the 18th instant
Nobody was present at the time. Not |
yestige Of the magazine remains, q hole
fifteen feet in depth and sixty feet in diam
eter marking the spot.
ESGIEKER D. p. Stinson, fireman Ed
Markham, and bridge-tender d. F. Lyman
were killed by railroad accident near Rut
land, VT, on the 18th inst.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
TEE EAST.

A VEIN of platinum reported as
discovered In South Granville. Washington
county, New York, causes great excitement
In that region.
FULL details of the count made by
the governor and council Of Maine, show
the following result: In the senate the Flu.
sionists are given 20 members, and the Re-
publicans IL. In the house, Fusion ~,
Republicans 81. Five cities, with twelve
Republican representatives, Portland, Bath,
Lewiston, Rockland and Saoo, are without
representation. The house will thus be
twelve members short at Its organisation.
The actual result Of the election, according
10 the official returns, before being changed
by the council, was as follows: Senate,
Republicans ~, Fusionists u. House, Re-
publieans 80. Fusionists 81. Net change
In the senate l6; in the house As. By the
election returns the Republicans had ma.
iority Of So on joint ballot. As counted BY
the governor and council the Fusionists
have majority OF 20 on joint ballot. The
Republicans claim the rejections and
changes were wholly on technical grounds.
GEN. GRANT received grand recep.
ton at Philadelphia on the 10th inst, thus
completing q complete CIRCLE Of the globe:
In the procession q model OF the City OF
Toxic, the steamship on which the general
sailed from Philadelphia on his voyage,
was borne upon trucks through the streets.
TWENTY-FIVE women, including Nine.
Anderson, the pioneer Of female pedestrian
ism, started on q six-dsy's walk iu Madison
square, New York city, on the 18th. They
have all sorts Of names, real and assumed.
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CASUALTIES.

The farm of q man named Brown
ing, near Hardonfeld, N. j., burned on the
18th, together with twenty.three cows and
two mules. Loss $l4, 900; no insurance.
On the 18th Michael jenkins was
killed at Kohinoor colliery, near Pottsville,
Pa, and Adam Martinez at the PhIladel-
phia coal company's mine, near the same
place, by falling coal.
HARRIsToN's opera house, Detroit,
was damaged to the extent of $4,000 or
$l2, 900 by fire on the 18th.
SMITHS cotton storage house, Stone
street, n. Y, burned on the 10Th. Loss
5000.
A LUNATIC entered the Eastern rail-
road depot at Saco, Maine, on the night of
the 18th inst, and. although shot at and
wounded by the private Waterman, upset
the stoves and lamps, firing the structures,
which were destroyed.
A FIRE on Main street, Bismarck,
Dakota, on the 18th, destroyed twelve build.
ings. Loss $4,000.
A TRAIN on the Lehigh Valley rail-
road struck aud instantly killed Mrs.
Cramer and Mrs. Young, who were crossing
the track near Reddington, Pa, on the 18th.
B. B. MCELRKE, q farmer living in
Dallas county, Iowa, and VIM. Eitfritz,
while running their horses, crowded each
other of bridge as they were returning
from Des Moines TO their farms on the 18th.
McElree was killed instantly, and his son
George dangerously injured. Ei1ritz will
die OF the injuries he received.
The residence of JOSEPH Perry, at
Delphos, Ohio, burned on the 18th, and one
child, aged five years, was overlooked In
the confusion and burned to death.
The City brewery of Altoona, Pa,
burned on the 18th; loss $4,000. Several
men escaped only by jumping from the
windows.
NINE business places at Addison, N.
T., burned on the 18th loss $4,000. Sever.
al fremen were injured.
a YOUNG man named Albert p.
Duty was vbirled 10 death upon shaft at
Fueldner 4 Sens bog fectory, at Milwaukee,
on the 18th. His body was torn into an
unrecognizsble mass.
A BoILER In Louis Trumbuli's saw
mill at Collins, Ind, exploded on ths 18th
instant, killing Trumbull, his two sons, and
two other persons employed In the mill.
EATHER DOYLE, Catholic priest,
and Nosss Ksynhan, q clerk In store In
Athens, Ga, we're drsv2ed while crossing
q swollen river on the uigbt OF the l4th
instant, on their return from sick call.
ENGINE No. 4 of the Chicago, Rock
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ABROAD.

TwENTY-sIX Russian peasants from
the neighborhood OF Kieff have been tried
for forcibly occupying lands not their own.
Fourteen were sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment at hard labor, four TO four years
and the rest TO various terms Of imprison-
ment.
A FRUrTLEss attempt has been made
on the life of Prince Dolgrurski governor
OF Moscow, by the explosion OF petard.
DETAILS of the Gillian victory state
that the attacking force Of Peruvian and
Bolivians was 1000 strong. The loss on
both sides was heavy.
--LATEST advices from Afghanistan are
to the effect that the British troops have
evacuated Cabul and that the Afghans now
hold Balls Hissar and the city.
BEFORE abandoning Iquique the Pc
ruvisn and Bolivian allies burned the town
and blew mp the Notifications.
GEN. ROBERTS telegraphs from Cabul
that one mountain gun was lost during the
engagement on the 18th. He estimates the
number of enemy at $4,000, and says rein
forcements are necessary to enable him to
act vigorously. The most difficult position
held by the Afghans was carried on the 18th,
but later in the day the British were COM
PEELED to retire from it.
ADvICEs from Lima, Peru, November
rs, brings intelligence of an important
battle on November Is, at place called San
Francisco. The allied Peruvians and Boil
vians under Buendia, numbering about H.
900, attacked the invading army of Chilians
in q strongly intrenched position. The al
lies were-defeated with loss of 5000. The
ardor of the Bolivisns is cooling and dis
context is rapidly spreading. The Gillian
frigate Blanco Encalda captured the Peru
Wan gunbost Pelcomayo. The outlook for
the Psruvians is anything but favorable.
CoLcRAFT, for forty-six years hang
man in England, il dead.
liz the Limerick county club house,
on the 18th, an evicted tenant, with a cud.
gel, fellsd to the floor Lord Fermoy, who
resides in County Limerick. Lord Fermoy
remained senseless for time. His assailant
was immediately seized and taken to prison.
GEN. ROBERTS telegraphs from Cabul,
under date of the 18th inst, that the enemy
have been defeated on all sides, but that
Notwithstanding their heavy losses, parties
of Afghans still remain In the neigh borhood.
The total British loss during the days fight
ing is forty.three killed, including six off,
GERS, and seyenty-six wounded, of whom
sixteen are officers.
INTENSE excitement was created in
Calcutta on the 18th inst, by an attempt to
assassinate Lord Lytton, the viceroy. The
yiceroy staff was escorting him from the
railroad station when two shots were fired,
one Of them passing close to the lords head.
The would-be assassin was captured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-26

Neat, but not gaudy," as the mon
key said when he painted his tail sky
blue. The animal was proud of his tail,
and well be might be, for that appendage
Ii very useful and comfortable thing
to have. After due investigation, nat
uralists have come to this conclusion.
One of them says through Nature that
q very important function of the tail of
the yak, cat, squirrel, and many other
animals, is that the bushy tails Of these
animals serve in preserving their body
heat during their nightly and their
wintry sleep. In cold weather animals
With bushy tails viii be found lying
cu4led mp with their tails laid earefpliy
over their feet like 9 rug, and With
their noses buried In the fur Of the tail,
which u thus used exactly In the same
way and for the same purpose ~ we use
seprirstors.
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THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th in
slant, d. A. Rudolph, q real estate dealer,
was arrested for forgery. He was allowed
freedom TO consult with his lawyer, when
he retired to his flee and shot himself ia
tally.
Hon. K. E. LITTLE was shot and kill.
ed by his brother.in.law James II. Arnold,
al Louisville KY, on the 18th. Little was
prominent lawyer and politician.
THOMAS WALL has been arrested in
Chicago for robbing the Southern Express
Company of SIC, coo in New Orleans in 1868.
A DEFICIT Of about $40, 900 has been
found in the accounts of the late Mayor
johnson, of Cincinnati, and full investiga-
dead, his bondsmen will be called on to
make up the deficiency.
FRANK BRoDIE a young Chicago
rough went home drunk on the night of the
10th and set upon and beat his father, when
the latter shot him through the abdomen
from the effects of which he died.
ROBERT L. EDGERToN, aged Al, shot
himself, fatally, in Louisville, in q fit of
mental arrangement.
JOSEPH AND MARY VoLKNER, of New
York city, have been convicted and sen.
fenced to twelve years each in the peniten-
tiary, for administering poison with intent
to kill Chss. Z. Blair, q merchant of Chat
ham-Fopr-C Corners.
Col. w. r. Cook, noted counter
feiter, was killed on the 10Th inst, at his
house near Nicholasville, KY. He had es-
capped from a number of United States
deputy marshals, who undertook to capture
him, and i've marshals surrounded the
house and demanded his surrender. Cook
opened the door with pistol in his hand,
when he was Immediately shot through the
heart.
GEO. BEARD, laborer on the farm of
Luther Watkins. living near Pennington,
NO., killed fellow laborer named Eli Gun.
q sledge hammer on the 18th inst Beard
confessed the crime.
JONATHAN WHITAKER, on trial at
Batavia, Clermont county, Ohio, for the
murder of his father, Col. j. Fl. Whitaker,
in May last, pleaded guilty on the 10th, of
murder in the second degree, and was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for lie.
NICoLo IEFANTIEo, Antonio Ardito,
Saro Chivarie, Vincenzo Bandeiro and
Joseph Danati, charged with the murder Of
Joseph F. Frye, were arrsigned at Boston
on the 18th inst. Infantino and Ardito
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life. The others will be
tried as accessories.
MORRIS SMITH, who claimed to hail
from Wisconsin, was shot dead in an alter.
cation with David Norman at Plum island,
Tenn, on the 7th lost.
WIN. BURKE was shot and fatally
wounded at Cincinnati, o., on the 18th, by
Charles Brockmann, son of q prominent
grocer. Burke and his friends had beaten
Brockmann severely.
REV. W. II. PLEDGE, pastor of the
Methodist church at Atlanta, Ga. suicided
at the Markham house, in that city, on the
18th, by cutting his throat.
CHARLES w. MERRITT, a near rela-
tive of Gen. Merritt, late lieutenant of the
Tenth cavalry, but dismissed by court mar
tial, shielded at the Commercial hotel,
Santa Fe, on the 18th instant by shooting
himself.
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A Disgusted Newspaper SLAM,

The editor of the Warren Or. II
Gazette, who lately retired from the
ranks of journalism, says In his valedic.
tory address:
dOur reasons for quitting the business
may seem odd to some people but to Us
they are Sufficient. We dan earn our
living with less irritation and discomfort.
II we want q dollar why should we
stretch .hawser around the whole state
of Rhode island to get itf Why not
earn 1t quietly, in our own time and in
our own wsyf Alone in the world, and
feeling ourself 70 be one who, like Gold.
srith's Hermit, wants but LITTLE here
below, nor wants that little lone, we
can see no good reason for to7turing our
self By coufting unnecessary apnoyances.
For the last three years our position has
been such 81 would be exsmplifed By
that Of Q cFew, which, though requiring
for Its susteaahee only few kernels Of
grain, and for IT. rest but . perch In Q
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visions- Strong and higher. Pork Al
at $3.50 for cash : SIS IS for seller + sbruary;
SiS.tS for seller March. Lard-At AZ. ak
for cash H.66 for seller February; q. IS Tor
seller March. Whisky-Lowsr az el1l,
Hogs--Receipts $500 head; active; firm
and i00l6c higher; light at 81 iOGp4. 26 !;
mixed packing at $s.1094SO; shipping at
A.2bS4.o0. Castle-Rsceipts i,40O head |;
quiet; rather easier; shipping ut $500
o.i2Hi buteaers at $2.oO@S 40; stockers
quiet
ForeaGa.
LONDON, December 20--l2 80 p. M.-Liy.
erpool wheat market opens irmer. Float.
ing cargoss firm; on passage quiet but
steady. Good eargoes No. spring wheat,
of coast, ut 54s; good cargoss mixed Ameri.
can corn, OF coast, at 2Ss Sd; number Of
cargoe. on sale Of coast, wheat, IS to 40;
corn, 10 to 20.