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Daily Republican., 1879-06-21

NOTlCE.-The undersigned hereby gives
IN notice to his friends and customers, that
by selling his goods for cash, he can and will
sell them much cheaper and he will adopt
ter July st. A. HILL,
inl4.2l.2s >. W. cor. Sesond and Justison.
NOTlCE.-Al persons are forbidden to
AN trust my one on eur account with.
out written order from us. GEOkGE W.
VERNON g. SONS. lall.tf
NOTlCE.- Mechanics Loan Association
~ offers for sale 800 shares new stock, first
payment TO he made In May. Application
can be made to W. J. MORROW, Sec'y.,
aD1l-tf-e0d alt French street,
Daily Republican., 1879-06-21
STATEMENT rs.

q ATEMENT OF THE BUSINESS OF
y THE WILMINGTON NSAVINGS FUND
SOCIETY, FOR THE YEAR ENDING DE-
CEN BER 81, 1878:
Daily Republican., 1879-06-21

UNION VI. L. CHURCH. corner 9TH a I'd Wash
ingtOn streets, Rev. j. B. Mann, pastor.
Services ut 1890 A. m. and 7-45 D. m. The
public is cordially invited. Seats free. Stran-
gers welcome.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-21

UNITANIAN CHURCH, West street above 8th,
Rev. J. NJ W. Pratt, pastor. Service at II
a. m.--" n,pirition ard Incarnation. ~ Sun
day school meets Mt $50 p. m. BILE class on
Wednesday evening at o'clock.
WEST FREsByrErIAN CHURCH, corner sth
and Washington streets, Rev. A. N. Keig.
win, pastor. Services at 1920 a. III. and y y.
IN. Illustrated sermon on the parable of the
talents in the evening. Sabbath school at 2
O'clock y. N.
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and siezed tho haploss buildings in theil

and siezcd tho haploss buildings in theil
fierce embrace, cast a solemn and awo in
splring glance upon the helpless and pan
icstricken crowd. No facilities for bat.
thing the flames and resisting them
was at hand. Not even bucket brigade
could be organized on account OF tho lack
of wa'er. The few wells near at hand
and which afforded the only means OF
getting water were inadequate, and tram
the very start all hope of successful resis-
lance seems to have died out in the
breasts of the terror stricken citizens. In.
deed, from the outset, 1t locame manifest
that nothing but steam engine and
plenty of water could adequately cope
with the rapidly spreading conflagration.
Inc citizens had long talked of the i'm
portance and necessity Of making provis.
ION against file, but as in hundreds OF
similar cases, nothing had been done.
and, almost in the twinkling of an eye,
and apparently without moments
torowarn1ng tho emergency had arisen
which proved that they had rested too
securely in their presumed or fancied
security. The mistake of the past was
seen IN an instant, but too late to admit
of remedy. From the time tho fire was
first discovered until the last building
was but mass of smoking ruins, scarce
ly an hour had elapsed. Indeed, manv
now estimate the time in which the
flames completed their devastating circuit
as not exceeding thirty or 1T most forty
FIVE minutes.
The fire, as above stated, originated in
the rear OF the Nlskern hotel, and is sup
posedto have started in pile Of cornstalks
adjoining the stable. The theory most
generally accepted as to to its origin
is that 1t sprung from spark from pass
ing freight train which was blown by
the prevailing west wind and lodged in
the heap of indammsble matter above
spoken of. Once started tho progress
was SO rapid that the citizens did not cv-
en- bring out their hook and ladder CON-
pany, which is the only apparatus provid-
ed by tho city authorities for use in sim.
liar emergencies.
Upon the arrival of tho MINNEAPOLIS
steamer, the work of destruction was
complete, and of course nothing remain
ed to be done. Had the steamer arrived
in time it is doubtful whether she could
have extended much aid on account of
the scarcity of water. Il +
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CASUALTIES.

There was a $4,000 fire in Chicago,
Nov. IA. A lard refinery was destroyed.
Recent heavy falls of snow in Canada
have blocked rail roads, and greatly disturbed
and retarded railway travel aud transporta-
tAtion. e% III -.H 49,.
Nov. IS, tive young sons Of Mrs. II. P.
Beard, of Andover, Mass, were burned to
death by fire which an incendiary started
in their room. =~.. >--.,. %.
Reports of storms, gales, disasters on
Lakes Erie, Michigan, and Ontario continue,
involving loss Of life, wrecks Of shipping, and
large amounts of freight.
Unusually heavy gales have been re-
ported on the Lakes, and numerous disasters,
loss of vessels and loss of life occurred on
lakes Michigan and Ontario.
Owing to the prevalence of the scarlet
fever in Springfield ILL.,. the public schools
have been ordered closed till after Jan. 1st.,
and the board of health recommend that no
public funerals be held in churches or at
private residences. There are said to DO 500
cases Of scarlet fever in the city.
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Teach . Trade,

Tho Jews, even II q rich ss tho
Rothschilds, teach their children q
trade. Some wise man is credited with
having said, IF I had Is many sons as
old Priam, I would have them all learn
trades, SO they would have something
to fall back on in case they failed in
business" A Philadelphia paper thus
speaks:
The number of Young men and girls
who are brought up to nosuseful trade
or calling is on the increase. The ef-
feet of this is seen in political life,
where thousands of men are begging, "a
at present in Washington, for position,
with an idea that vague unframed
powers can find shelter in some coy
nook where they may at least draw
their pay. IL -
Beng practically Of no earthly use to
themselves OF anyone else, they only
hope TO find some place where they can
continue to exist without benefiting
anyone. .e a. =.
A destitute young man without
trade, who is not qualified BY practice
to become . tramp, is very likely to be-
come one, OF fare worse BY becoming =
criminal. T31G 1N.tb,s5
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Tobacco In the Hem oost.

A French gentleman has developed
q theory that the inhalation of tobacco
smoke by fowls causes their flesh to as
sumo q wonderfully white color and be-
come very tender at the same time. He
accordingly shut up q chicken in his
fowl-house, and Get fire to store OF
scaporal." which he left burning in the
place. Tie young fowl, 50 far from
being averse to the odor Of the narcotic,
was inclined to try it's taste as we'll as
it's smell, and had in . few days time
consumed 20 much "caporal" that its
flesh was not only whitened, but abso-
lutely "nicotinized" with poison. To it
Is it stood-probably in rather stupid
state upon its porch entered one night
an adventurer. The precious bird was
carried of, plucked, cooked and eaten,
and . short time after breakfast the
thief WAS seized with violent and intol-
cradle pains. He rushed TO the doctor,
needless of the necessity which would
arise of disclosing his nocturnal esca.
pade. He was found to have been poi
soned by the nicotine contained in the
flesh of the fowl, and was with some
difficulty saved from death.
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Tho Rtse Of Stock.JobbinR.

Stock. jobbers and stock jobbing took
their rise in the end of the seventeenth
century, and, like Pallas, they seem to
have sprung forth full-grown from the
brain of their progenitors. The last
few years of that century were indeed
years to be much remembered in the
financial history of this country. In
1892 the loan of Ell, 0OO, 900 laid the first
foundation of the national debt. In
1894 the first charter was granted to
the Bank of England. The currency of
the country was reformed in 1854, and
to meet the deficiency of coin the first
E1chequer bill was issued in 1896. The
charter of the old East India Company
was renewed in 1893; the charter to the
new East India Company was granted
in 1898. The abortive scheme of the
Land Bank was started in 1897; the ILL.,
starred Darien expedition was planned
in 1898. Together with these greater
ventures came the shoal of smaller fry
which never fail to follow in the wake
OF any great speculative movement. In
1892, England, says Macaulay, Witnessed
for the first time those phenomenawith
which experience has made us familiar.
Then comes list of the companies
brought out, described with all the
picturesqueness of detail in which
Macaulay so excels. The list is q
strange one-not so strange, perhaps,
as the list of 1870. and scarcely stranger
than some of the schemes which in the
last ten years have sought admission to
the London Stock Exchange. In 1892
there was Copper Company which
proposed to explore the mines ct En-
gland, and held out a hope that they
would prove not less valuable than
those Of Potoi. In 1873 there was the
Gold Company, Limited" for work
ing an extinct gold mine in Wales,
which actually fingered on in existence
till 1878, though it never obtained
either = settlement or quotation from
tho Committee of the Stock Exchange.
In tho means used for floating these
new schemes, the promoters of the
seventeenth century seem to have been
but little way behind their SUCCESSORS
in the nineteenth. In Shadwelps play
of tho Volunteers; or. The Stock-iob-
bers," brought out in 1892, Ill doubts
IS to whether it be cody or not to hold
shares in company for bringing over
Chinese rope-dancers are set at rest by
the reelection that the shares will sell
well, and then the holders need not
care whether the dancers come over or
no.--BlackepOOGS Ma0uztne,
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A RAPID penman can write thirty
words minute. To do this he must
draw his quill through the space of
rod-sixteen feet and Z hall. In forty
minutes his pen travels furlong, and
in five hours and . third, . mile. We
make on an average sixteen curves or
turns Of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words q minute We must
make 488 to each second; in an hour,
28,SO0; in . day Of only five hours,
$4,000, and in 9 year Of 800 days, 49,
200, 900. The man who made / ,OOO, 900
strokes with pen month was not at
all remarkable. Many mon, newspaper
men for instance, make 1000, O00. Here
We have, in the aggregate, mark 800
miles long to be traced on papas by
each writer in year.
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Memory in Old Persons.

The brain is the instrument OF the
mind. Every thought and feeling is
dependent on certain changes that take
place between it and the blood. Men
tai activity may be quickened or re-
tarded, exalted or depressed, by the &C.
ton of drugs upon the brain. Singular
effects are produced by cerebral disease.
Age works permanent changes in the
brain; it shrinks its bulk and hardens
it's substance. In consequence of this
there is change of mental manifesta-
tons. This mind acts more slowly in
old persons. It does not turn readily
to new subjects, and is not capable of
as protracted or as lofty efforts. The
feelings, too, are much lessened in
susceptibility.
But in the memory the most marked
changes occur. Some persons who
have been more than ordinarily gifted
in this respect in old age become Pc
culiarly deficient in memory. With
the aged recent facts and events are not
so readily taken up into the mental
storehouse. and what is learned is
sooner forgotten j -
At the same time the past stands out
in vivid contrast with the present.
EARLY habits return again. For in
stance, the pronunciation or the spelling
of youth often reappears, to the sur
prise of friends. Sins, early repented
Of and forsaken, obtrude themselves
painfully on the memory.
From this.we sec how important it is
that the associations and habits Of youth
are such rs shall give only pleasure in
old age.
IF one would not sink into imbeciity
when the brain begins to sink, let him
cultivate all his powers right along
through life. Z &c.
The aged should take special pains
10 keep up their mental activity.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
cR1MEs,AND CRIMINALS

AtFort Adams, Rhode Island, the other
night a drunken soldier was pushed into
cistern by his drunken omranion and was
so injured that he will die.
At Cinc,nnatti, O., on tho evening Of
Nov. 10, John Ritter, well known butcher,
engaged in a dispute with Chas, Bergman, one
OF his employees. A fight ensued In which Mr..
Bergman drew knife and cut Ritter three
times on the head and once In tho abdomen.
The latter wound which Is very dangerous,
may result fatally.
The November term. of tho district
court In session at Glencoe, Mcleod Co., Mimi,
adjourned Nov. 20. One OF the last acts Of the
court was the sentencing of G. r. Minis, the
defaulting treasurer of Mcleod county. This
case had been running In tho courts fer the
last three years, and every effort that legal tall
ent Is capable Of putting forth has been exert
cd to save him from State Prison. But few OF
the town people had notice of the hour when
he was to be brought In for sentence, conse-
quent there was no crowd In the court room,
and the unpleasant duty Of sentencing ono Of
Mcleod countys most prominent, and, until
this unfortunate defalcation, most respected
anu LTlStcu CltlZoIS, W CtIllWAtoI AOI lOuI
years, and to pay a due Of $3s,24O,94 was very
quietly DONE Before receiving his sentence,
Minis made full and clear statement Of the
circumstances that led to his disaster.
A great defalcatlon or ENLIGHTENMENT
has como to light in Milwaukee. Chas. E.
Bosse has been bookkeeper In Alex. Mitch
ellis bank for thirteen years. and the public
were startled day or two ago by the an
nouncement that there was crookednees In
his accounts. The Milwaukee evening Signal
of tho 10Th gives the following: The matter
was the only subject of discussion all Of yes
terday, last night and to-day. Groups of men
could be seen eagerly discussing the case,
and it was a little strange that everybody
seemed to thin!; that Bosse was an embezzler
to considerable amount That was the ono
general opinion. A Signal reporter asked his
brother Mr. Gustav Boese, also bookkeeper
by occupation, whether he thought Charles
was an embezzler. He merely replied that all
cases had two sides, and walked away. There
are numerous estimates as to tho amount of
the embezzlement ranging from $4,000 even
up to quarter of million.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

Rev. Ethan, relative of the revolu-
tfonary Ethan Allen, died at Newport Rhode
Island Nov. IS. .s 80. go. .Ll.
The New York Sun says Bayard, is a
very good man, but when it comes to talk
about electing him President, he is nowhere,
that any Republican, except Grant can beat
him. .-...r -..
Ex-Gov. Swami Of Maryland, about a
year ago married the. widow Of Senator John
R. Thompson Of New Jersy It is now an
nounced that they have finally separated.
She going to her New Jersey home, aad the
Governor seeking refuge in tho home of his
sister In Washington. Both are rich and old
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26
New Remedy for Rattlcsnakc Bite,

Henry Benson, of Fairfield, was bit.
ten on his foot in South mountain by q
rattlesnake. In returning home, dis
lance of three miles, his foot was great
y swollen, and fears were entertained
of serious consequences. A poultice Of
camphor and tobacco was applied to the
bite, and in q few hours the foot was
reduced to its usual size, removing all
poisonous matter. Mr.. Benson is now
doing we'll, and has thus given to the
country an antidote for the poison of
che snake.-Leringto1a (Va.) Gazette.
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QUEEN VICTORIA once signified to
Viscount Macduf, now Earl of Fife,
that she would not be unwilling to have
him for q son-in-law.s The nobleman
respectfully declined the honor. He
is not yet 80, was schooled at Eton,
has eight residences in the Highlands,
and is warmly spoken of by all classes.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

A New YORK man was made Jealous
BY the receipt of perfumed letter ad-
dressed to his wife. He tore his hair
and raved around until it occurred to
him to tear open the missive. This he
did and discovered-e milliner's bill for
q new fall bonnetl Which same he inn
mediately took pains to settle.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

The French government has apprcpri-
ated for agriculture for 1880 the sum OF
25,56s,427 francs, of which 1,12S,2SO are
fer veterinary schools and public services,
1875, 100 for agricultural education, and
over 100000 for the care of forests.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

~~AsseAASAA>ASSSSs
The latest cholera retufhs show 10000
deaths from that disease in Japan.
On tho morning Of Nov. 10, severe
now storm prevailed across Lake Champla,n
in New York.
The survivors of Admiral Farragut's
feet have formed an association, the object
OF which is to secure tho settlement of prize
money due the fleet for the capture made at
New Orleans in April 1862, and decreed to
them by the United States supreme court.
The Lake City Sentinel states that the
loss by the recent fire there will amount to
$4e,S75 over the insurance.
The U. 8. Treasury department, Nov.
20 purchased $4,000 ounces of silver bullion
for delivery at the Philadelphia and San
Francisco minis. ...,.
In New York city, Nov. 20, there was
q driving snow storm and the wind blow
gale; there were also hight winds and snow
In Montreal, Canada, st. Johus, N. B., Glou
cester, Mass, Syracuse, N Y. and other places,
Involving wide sweep Of country.
New York city for several days has
been convulsed by financial crisis and CT.
element unequaled by any thing befor or
since the historical "Black Friday of 1879.
Stocks have gone up and down with fearful
velocity, land many firms wrecked. The
Bears and the Bulls have been having death
struggle. Jay Gould and q few associates
are credited with producing this financial
tarnado. ~ e @ssssss.
President and Mrs. Hayes gave q re-
ception at tho White house on the evening
CT Nov. 90, to members Of the army OF tho
Cumberland aud their personal friends. to.
eether with officers and privates Of visiting
military companies, who have acted as escort
for the society during the past two days at
Washin gton. The reception took place in
the east room, which was especially decorated
for the occasion.
At meeting Of the band of directors
OF tho Northern Pacific railroad held at New
York November 81, tho following resolution
was adopted: Resol,ed, That the agricultural
lands OF this company west Of tho Missouri
river to Puget Sound, shall DO offered for sale
TO actual settlers at the government price Of
$3.50, cash. per acre, to be paid to the com.
pany to reimburse 1t for tho cost of selecting
surveying and conveying said lands. This re.
solution docs not apply to coal or iron lands.
nor to lands chiefly valuable for timber, nor to
lands required for towu sites, or suitable for
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

The Duke Of Beaufort, in q late agri-
cultural speech, said the English farmer
could not hope to compete with the
United States in the raising OF grain, and
they must turn their attention to cheaper
and better modes of growing beef and
mutton, SO as not to he driven out Of that
market also 10y the Americans.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

AN international peace congress is to
meet at once in Naples, to advocate a
partial disarmament throughout the
world. Delegates from Amelica will be
present. We hardly can see why. since
the armament of the United States is OF
the smallest and most peaceful kind.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

The statement of the public debt If
the United States for the month of o..
tober shows the aggregated interest bear
ing debt to be, including registered aad
coupon, $1,796,950. Aggregate debt in
which interest has ceased on maturity
$23, 0s6,035.29. Aggregate debt bearing
no interest, 2,4O5, 5s5, 1901, making the
total debt, principal and interest, $2,245,-
694,557.63 There has been a decrease
Of the debt during the month of $10,:52,-
9O6.62.
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AN OLD MANS DREAMS.
u 1LIzA x. sasanAI.

twas the t~ flight hour;
Behind the western hill the sun had sunk.
~. .ns Ky .sow With crimson light
high IN the tops OF shsdowy vine-vreathed trees,
Grave parent birds were tvittering good might
70 still th1r restless brood.
Across the way
noisy little brook made pleasant
music on the summer air,
And further on the sweet FAINT sound
OF Whippoorwill falls ross on the air and feu,
Like some sweet chant Of vsspers.
The air 10 heavy
With the scent Of mignonette and rose,
And from the beds Of flowers the tail $780,
White liles point Ike angel fingers upward,
Casting on the cir an incense sweet
Thst brings to mind the old, old story
OF the Alshsster box that loving Mary
Broke upon tho Masters feet
Upon his yine-wreathed porch .
An old white-hesded man sits drssming
Happy, happy dreams Of days thst sre no more.
And Listening TO tho qnstnt old song
abide with me- she ssys;
~Fast falls the eventide;
. u.s.. Tho darkness dsepenS-
Lord with me sbide.s =
And ~ he listens to the sounds that all the
summer ar, sweet dreamy thoughts
" ms lost youth -" come crowding thickly up;
And for awhile he teems . boy again.
With feet all bare
ae ~. .son the ripping brook and with boytsh
Gathers tho violess blue snd nodding ferns
That wave Welcome from tas other side.
With those he wreathes
The sunny head Of little Nell, . neighborx child,
Companion OF his sorrows and his Joys.
sweet, dainty Nell, whose baby life
seemed early linked with his,
And whom he loved With I'll : boys devotion.
Long years have down.
no longer boy ana GIRL but man and woman
They stand again beside the brook, that murmu,,
Ever IN it, course, nor stays for time nor man,
And promi:. to BE- tr.e lii us, for than ss.,, .ns
-. & Again The yea1s roll On,
And they are old. Tho most Of ~
HIS touched the onoe-b brown hair, -
Ana loft 1t white - sre the chaliced hliss.
Children whose rosy lips once claimed
q a. fssners blessing and mothers love.
aave grown to mans estate, save I've <se-.
Wnom aod called early home, to vait
And then The old man taiaks
How On night like this, when faint ;ss,.
And sweot - half remembered dresns
Old Whippoorw1u falls did murmur son
Pointed mp the way her Christ hed gons,
100 zoo ss1ed the wife and mother home.
Oh, Why IL 1t 90 hard 70,
Man to waltz TO sit With folded hsnds
Apart amid the busy throng,
And hear the buzz and hum Of toll around
To see men reap and bind the golden shaaves
OF earthly fruits, which he looks idly o.
And knows be may not Join,
But only wait TILL God hes said. aEnoushr
And calls him honsp
And thus the old man dreams.
And then awekes-swakes 10 hear
The swett old song Just dying
On the pulsing evening air:
f. When other helpers fail. ~se
And comforts Zee, : Eesf
Lord of the helpless, e $50
OIL abide with ma'
BRoDREAD. Wis.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

OFFICIAL figures show that our exports
to France are healthy and increasing
rapidly. Not only are values of exports
increasing, but the number of the invoic-
es sent are larger than ever before. For
the quarter ending September 80, 1879,
the value of exports Of the United States
was $12,527,753 over the corresponding
quarter of 1878, and an increase of 81,
s77,966 over the quarter ending June 80,
1879,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

IT is mentioned as result Of the az
riculturvl depression in England that
$50 acres of freehold land were recently
sold in Berkshire for $4,000. The rent
Of the farm was formerly $9,750, out of
which 81 $50 had to be paid IN tithes and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26

THE Hunk Lane E1press, in relatio ,
to land rental, taxes, etc., in Great Brit
ain, says: An owner Of 900 acres receives
$4,000 rent, and pays sis land and in
come tax. The tenant pays; Rent 81, 100;
poor and highway rates, $40: drainage
rate $3i5; income tax, 1875; total rent
and tax, $2,977.5O, or at the rate Of $14.-
70 per acre per year.