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Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
The Millennium Mill.

By the death of his father Harold Fletcher succeeded to the management of the mill which his father had built up, and the larger portion of the stock of which had been left to the young man. It was only month or two after the sole management came into his hands.
 Harold had studied the history of the manufactory, ana investigated for him. self the condition of the workmen and now he had sent them word to appoint 8 committee of their number to confer with him. They had known what hard times meant, under old Jonas Fletcher, and heard of the young heirs accession with some hope, not unmingled with suspicion.
 "These young chaps, they makes the mouey fy," said one of the men 1; "'nother ten per cent. of, I reckon"
 Give the young 'un achance, cawn't yep growled one of the old leaders :; :" he cawnt be any worse than Old Skin flint"
 And so committee of three, repre- senting Labor, met the president of the corporation, representing Capital.
 I have sent for you," he said, after putting them at their ease, "to talk about the mill. It was built, as you know, with the money of men who had saved where others spent, risked where others held back, and put their dollars to work while others kept their money at the dull business of earning interest. My father worked at the bench till he was twenty He was g good work man with his hands, but better with his brains. He got start by his industry, bis temperance, and his wits-without pushing anybody else back, or injuring human being. He had the knack oi making money. So did two or three others of the hundreds of young fellows who started with him, and had an equal chance. He came to love money toe we'll, as men are apt to do who make ii by hard work and saving. He was g hard man, you think, but he was just and square.
 "Now this mill," continued Harold, !" has been a good investment. It has paid those who built and run it. It has given work to five hundred men, anG enabled those that were sober and de cent to support their families and seboo their children better than they could d. in any other country in the world. I has helped all sorts of trade in the vii lage. It has given work and, profits tt other hundreds of men who furnished the material, transported it here, took i away manufactured, and sold it agail for hundred times its original value You see, manufactory is something more than place to earn piece wage and make dividends.
 We'll, this mill belongs to its own CTS. You and all the men must under stand that. While ] run it, we shal hire whom we please. as we can, wher' sud when ws please, and psy what VI
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
Trichin@ in Pork.
SOME PLEASANT EXPERIMENTS MADE UPON
 HIMSELF BY PHYSICIAN OF CHICAGO.

Some investigations have just been completed by two Chicago microscopists as to the presence of trichin@ in the pork that comes to our markets, that seem worthy of record. Dr. William T. Be1feld, of Rush. Medical College, and MT. H. T. Atwood. Vice. President of the State Microscopical Society of Illinois, were asked by the Commissioner of Health, of Chicago. Dr. DeWolf, to examine specimens of pork taken at random from the hogs being slaughtered at the different slaughtering houses. Specimens from one hundred hogs were carefully examined, and in eight trichi- ne were found, the number varying ac- cording to estimate from thirty-fve to thirteen thousand to the cubic inch of muscle. This is doubtless approxi- mately the average of infection of the pork brought to Chicago for packing. The trichinous disease among hogs-if disease it is-must be much more prev alent now than ten or twelve years ago. Then an examination of quite large number of hogs in behalf of the Acad- emy of Sciences showed only about one ;n fifty infected.
 Messrs. Belfeld and Atwood have ex- perimented with rats and other animals, to which they have fed trichin@, and have reached the conclusion that, taken in small numbers and not too frequently, any animal or man may eat these worms with impunity. A rat weighing two ounces was fed at intervals of two or three days few trichin@ for six weeks, when it was killed. It was full of live trichin@ which, immersed in warm water, would move vigorously--the esti- mated number in the rat being 100, 900. During the six weeks the rat appeared perfectly healthy. Dr. Belfeld felt so sure of the innocuousness of small num- bers of the worms, that he made 8 practical test by himself eating twelve live trichin@ three weeks ago. He has not experienced an unpleasant symp- tom to date. He believes a large per cent. of our population are really in fected with trichin@. It is a fact in confirmation of the theory of these ob- servers, that many of the infected hogs have received the trichine without symptoms of disease, certainly without any damage to their fattening qualities. It is surely impossible that eight per cent. of all the hogs raised for market could get sick with symptoms approach. ing in severity those of severe human infection, without such panic among farme1s as would be noticed by the whole country.
 Some experiments with different agents used for the destruction of the worms showed that the best inexpensive agent was sulphurous acid; Q very little oi this acid, mixed with the brine in which pork is preserved or pickled, will kill all the trichin@, without, of course any damage to the pork for any purpose The lowest per cent. of the acid required to be effectual has not. yet been deter mined.
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
Prairie Dog Villages.

The little prairie dog village of the West is a curiosity. Authorities say that the first move of the dogs when 8 village is located is to dig hole, and they will go down two hundred feet for water. Wells of this depth have been found. There is no foundation for the prevailing notion that dogs, rattlesnakes, and owls occupy the same holes. When for one cause or another g prairie dog abandons hole, it is taken possession of by an owl, who stops it up with rubbish at about three or four feet from the mouth, and con- structs it's nest. Rattlesnakes infest the dog towns for the purpose of preying upon the young dogs, and the eggs of the owl. MT. Leech states that he has several times killed rattlesnakes, within the stomachs of which he has found on dissection young prairie dogs three or four days old.
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
The ApRches.

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 all their tribes, from 8, ,OOO 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 hurl defiance at all government and civiliza- tion. They are the Bedouins of this continent, and are all mounted on small ponies capable of great endurance. Their chiefs can have any number of wives they want; but the Apache squaw found guilty of adultery is most atro- ciously tortured, and all women cap- tured are infamously treated. These saYages, fierce and untamed as they are, do not scalp their enemies. They are fond of smoking and of cards, and when idle have strange, monotonous chant. In battle they keep their ponies in mo- tion, and are themselves always chang ing position. They seem to be Mono theists, and Montezeuma, or the spirit of God, is blended in their mind with some sort of religious aspiration. 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 plunder, and are in the main ill. formed, emaciated, and miserable in ap' pearance.
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
AT THE GARDEN GATE.

They fingered at the garden gate The moon was full above; He took her darling hand in his, . The trembling little dove, And pressed it to his fervent lips, And softly told his love. ....a About her waist he placed his arm; He called her all his own; His heart, he said, it ever beat 7 For her, and her alone; And he was happier than king Upon golden throne. "Come veal, come woe" in ardcnt tsnes This youth continued he, "As is the needle to the pole, So will constant be; No power on earth shall tear thee, love, Away, swear, from mel" From out the chamber window popped A grizzly night-capped head;. A hoarse voice yelled, "You, Susan Jane, Come in aud go to bed!'' .,,. And that was ail-it was enough; The young man wildly fled.
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Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
4 FARMHOUSE DLRGE.

"I thought you would come this morning, ma'am. Yes, Edith at last has gone; To-morrow's a week, aye, just as the sun right into her window shone; Went with the night, the Vicar says, where endeth never the day; But she's left darkness behind her here wish she had taken away. She Is no longer with us, but we seem te be always with her, In the lonely bed where we laid her last, and can't get her to speak or stir. "Yes, I'm at work; 'tis time was. should have begun before; But thls is the room where she lay SO still, ere they carried her past the door. I thought never could let her go where it seems so lonely of nights; But now am scSubbing and dusting down, and setting the place to rights. All have kept are the flowers there, the last that stood by her bed. suppose must throw them away. Shelooked much fairer when she was dead. Thank you, for thinking of her 20 much. Kind thought is the truest friend. wish you had seen how pleased she was with the peaches you used to send. She tired of then, too ere the end, so she did with all we tried; But she liked to look at them all the same, so we set them down by her side. TLeir bloom and the flush upon her cheek were alike, used to say; Both were so smooth and soft, and round, and both have faded away. She never wished to be smart and rich, as so many in these days do, Nor cared to go in on market-days to stare at the gay and new. She liked to remain at home and pluck the white violets down in the wood She said to her sisters before she died, 'TIs so easy to be good She must have found it go, think, and that was the reason why God deemed it needless to leave her here, so took her up to the sky. The Vicar says that he knows ahe Is there, and surely she ought to be; But though I repeat the words, tis hard to believe what one does not see. They did not want me to go to the grave. but could not have kept away, And whatever do can only see coffin and churchyard clay Yes, know it's wrong to keep lingering there, and wicked and weak to fret And that's why I'm hard at work again, for 1t helps one to forget. The young ones don't seem to take to work as their mothers and fathers did. We never were asked we liked or no, but had to obey when bid. There's Bessie won't swill the dairy now, nor Richard call home the COWS, And all of them cry, How cdn you, mother i? when I carry the wash to the sows. Edith would drudge, for always Death the hearth of the helpfulest robs. Bus she was so pretty could not bear to sci her on dirty jobs! "I don't know how it'll be with them when sorrow and loss are theirs, For it isn't likely that they'll escape their pack of worrits and cares. They say it's an age of progress this, and 6 sight of things improves, But sickness, and age, and bereavement seen to work in the same old grooves, Fine they may grow, and that, but Death as lief take the moth as the grub. When their lear ones die, suspect they'r
 wish they'd floor of their own to scrub
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

LEGAL TENDER. the papers of the Nebraska State Grange produced in recent lawsuit was resolution ap- pointing committee to urge the Legis- lature to pass an aot to regulate the price of country produce for period ot five years and to make it lsgal tender,
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

PoLo.-It is said that all English team of Polo players will be sent over to play at the International match at Newport, next summer.
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05

HEA1rH.-Many people get their best health in later life. The nonagenarian poet Rogers said he never had three consecutive days of good health till past forty.
Connecticut western news., 1879-02-05
Connecticut Western News.
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Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
River News

The Bachelor will go to Sioux { ity upon her
arrival from Buford. +sfrsr .-t,-.- .r-.
The ways are being put in good orderand every
thing will be in readiness TO receive the boats
for the winter :s =
The Bachelor arrived Thursday of last week
from Buford, and departed Saturday noon on the
last trip Uf the season for Fort Buford -
If YOU cannot sci, Jones, why let him sell
you-the boss clothing, gents furnishing goods
etc, a. the st. Paul Branch Clothing House.
Tie COL Macleod passed Poplar Creek on the
25th of October and the Butte on the 26th botli,
bound for Cow Island. They are due here about
the 18th and will be the last bOate of the season
down. .." -......- --E ...s... 81
The Big Horn arrived from Poplar Greek
Wednesday. She leaves for Iankton to-day.
Bishop Martin was among her passengers, also
C. W. and Capt. Gould, Of Fort Peck lndi"n
traders.
The boats that are likely to winter here are the
Butte, OF the Benton Line, the Macleod, OF the
Baker line, the government steamer Sherman
and the Eclipse. The Coulson line boats have
all gone. below. 81 - tt- -...... -.-
The Sherman arrived at Buford "Wednesday
evening with the thirty-fve mechanics who will
be engaged in improving the post. She Is eN-
pccted here Monday and will probably go down
TO Fort Bennett and return here for the winter.
The Benton arrived from Poplar Greek Satur-
day with ninety tons of wool and hides. IL 7
wool was shipped east. She left yesterday for
Yunkton with a load of freight for Standing
Rock. She will not return this season and VIII,
probably winter at Sioux City.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
Fort Buford Briefs.
Especial Dispatch to The Tri6u,ae.)

Especial DispatcA to The Tri6une.p
Fort BUFoRD, Nov. 7-Steamer Shcr:
man arrived yesterday afternoon with ma
terial for the new quarters for the troops
at this post and force of mechanics to
erect the same. She landed her freight
for Kecgh and Custer on the south bank
of the Missouri opposite this point, and
steamed down past the landing with her
nose pointed B1smarckward at 7:30 this
morning. The Bachelor passed Matll-
cws place at the Little Muddy, a. noon
to-day, and will arrive here tomorrow
forenoon. Leighton & Jordan purchased
the Government beef cattle here. sold, a'
auction, paying $17,50 per head,
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
Worth Pacific Land IN Time:

A new scheme will be Adopted soon for.
the sale IF North Pacific lands. They
will he sold, say for purpose Of illnstra-
ton, at $3.50 cash, or ON tame at seven per
cent, deferred payments, to be made in cash
at So per acre one fourth downs or at So
in preferred stock; or at Sc per acre in
nreferred stock 0nefourtil down and BAL
ance ontime to be. paid in cash or stock.
This willgive one an opportunity to rus
tle for their. lands, and 10 realize a hand
some margin if they decline. It: will en-
able many wholc0uld. .notsotherwise do SO
to, buy and occupy lands ;t it will enable.
Others to take asectiOn and become "bls
farmers who would otherwise be confines
to a quarter. The move is wise.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
The Extension.

The North Pacific extension is graded
100 miles west of Bismarck. Contractors
are at work ON all ofithe forty miles be-
tween the Green and Little Missouri riv-
ers and the work from the Little Missou
RI to the Yellowstone also undcr con-
tract and grading has scommenced on some
sections. The track isslaid fifty.ivemiles
west Of Bismarck and is progressing as
rapidly as supplies for the work can be
had, and will continue just as longsa
work can he done. Grading will con-
tinue. Ill winter in some secti. NJ
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
BISMARCK FRIDAY NOVEMBER y 1879.
PURELY PERSONAL.

Johnny Barr goes to Chicago next week.
Capt. Geo. Moore arrived Fl ON st. Paul Tues
day.
John A. Mclean has returned from his East
ern trip.
Joe Leighton and lady returned to St. Paul
this week.
". B. Jordan and lady left fol Buford on the
Bachelor.
jerry Duane, tie hack man, returned from
Miles City Wednesday.
Lieut. Bailey, 5th Infantry, Ft. Keogh, is IN
the city on his way east.
Capt. A. N. Lee son of Admiral Lee, died at
Baltimore q few days ago. qf-ss ~ 5aaf *
Alex Mckenzie returned this week from his
trip to Detroit, Mich, with prisoners.
Capt. Michaelis, of Gen. Terry's staff, arrived
Wednesday and visited Ft Lincoln yesterday.
Jesse James was killed last week-shot In the
back by treacherous comrade named Shepherd.
Hon. c. II. Gould, Of Gould & Kennard Indian
traders at Ft. Peck sgency, went East on Mon
DAYS. traii.
Charley Gurley, of Ft. Stevenson, has been
promoted to first Lieutenant ofhis company 3D.
9th Infantry.
The importation of Canadian cattle into the
United States has been prohibited as measure
of retaliation,
County Clerk Richards is visiting his home in -
Binghampton, N. Y. Mr.. E. N. Corey is deputy
in his absence. f-.a
Lieut.. Ogle and his new wife, and Lieut.. Roach,
! and family were passengers on the Benton down -
to Standing Rock. ~,
F. Douglas returned to Standing Rock on
the Benton. He has been superintendng the
shipping of his goods. a.,
Rev. w. g. Stevens, of this city, was ordained
at Fargo last week. Rev. D. r. Breed, Of St.
Paul, preached the ordination sermon. =
Lieut.. Clark, I'd Cavalry, who was in command
Of Gen. Miles scouts this season, in the skir
mish with Sitting Bull, is in the city on his way
home from the East. - ~ as
The National bank circulation was increased
last month $7.5OO, 900. Add to this the fifty
million gold from the old world and we have an
enormous imitation. al--l.3 l#N :,
The Northwestern Railroad Company has
built hfty miles west from Tracy this season
and one handred miles more is being graded. It
is pushing for Deadwood. @4S-
Billy Learned, the violinist, arrived from Miles
City Wednesday. He joins the Vincent combin-
alton, Mr.. Learned is thorough musician amt
will be beneficial addition to the troupe. " ~
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
or starve. He was very kindly received
by both q. 8. and Canadian officers and
enjoyed his trip. rs a
AFTER THE COUNCIL,

AFTER THE COUNCIL,
Bishop Martin returned to Fort Walsh,
Woody Mountains, where he was hospita-
bly, received by Maj. Walsh, who accom-
panied HIM to Wolf Point At this point
he was met by Maj. Anderson, U. S. In
dian Agent at Poplar Creek. In the for
mer agency he found many Yanktonais
and in the latter a large number of ASSN
aboines. They welcomed the Bishop
with hearty shakes and other tokens of
respect. They wanted him to send them
missionaries and priests that they might
learn the ways of the good white man.
AS yet there are no resident priests or
missionaries at these posts. They are,
however, occasionally visited by the Je-
suit Father. 0 -@A
BISHOP MARTIN
is man of medium stature and about
forty-siy years of age. He came to this
country with Father Chrysostom and on
the 18th of last July was appointed Bishop
Of this Territory, and goes east soon to
receive his Episcopal conservation. He
has done much toward civilizing the
Indian and this year on the farms cultiva-
ted by them unGer his direction, over
$4,000 bushels of corn was raised. The
farms cover an area of fifteen miles east
and west and forty miles north and south.
The object IS to scatter the Indians that
they may sustain the same relation to
each other that white men do Each In
dian is given a tract of land, cows, farm
ing implements, ETC., and the progress
being made at this agency towards enli.
ghtening the natives is astonishing. The
Bishop will go to Rome early next spring
but will return again to his good work
and many friends in this vicinity.
FATHER CHRYsOsTOM
accompanied the Bishop to Standing
Rock on the Benton yesterday, but he
will return in time for regular services at
his church Sunday.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
Fargo Items

Cactus, writing from Fargo, says the
beavers are cutting down the pile bridges
on the extension; that A. J. Wylie was
killed accident'v at Valley City last week
through dropping a shot gun; that brick
is SIS per m in Fargo; that there are TO-
600 bushels of wheat IN the Fargo eleva-
tor; that half a million dollars worth OF
farm machinery was sold at Fargo this
wear.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-11-07
Loudest I'm The Tribune ONCE.
iElk Point Courfer.l

The Lounsberry boom seems to sound
the loudest in the Bismarck TRIBUNE Of
flee. The Coloncl's escape at the Terri
torial convention a year ago seems 10 be
evidence enough for him to base the be-
lief that he is the coming man for Dele
gate. The press of Dakota should cease
fooling the fellow.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-04-25
SHAW's MOUNTAIN.

Mr.. Andy Thrash was III Town last
"Wednesday to record $500 feet of
quartz located by himself and two or
three others on Shaw's Mountain.
He made call on the WORLD and in-
formed us that the chances for rich
mining camp there are very bright
In fact, he thinks the surface pros
poets the most favorable by odds that
he ever saw. Several mines tina, are
exceedingly rich on the surface have
been discovered, but no depth Of any
consequence has been reached on any
Of them. Enough prospecting has
been done to prove the existence of an
immense quartz belt. Galena has
been found in some of the mines, and,
strange as it is, is rich in free gold.
Lee Owens has discovered ledge
west of the Emigrant. 1t is not wide,
but very rich.
Hugh McGraw has discovereda mine
that prospects well on the surface.
Several experienced prospectors
have arrived in the new district, and
we may expect to hear of more impor-
tant discoveries at any time.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1879-04-25
A Fashion Editor.

4 fashion note says: Square
necks are much worn on low corsages.
y necks are also seen; but ronnd low
necks are preferred by most young la
dies for ball toilets" We prefer
round low Decks, and object strongly
to square necks, because the corners
cut your arms, and the v necks (which
means five dollars we suppose, are
too costly BY all means keep the
round necks in position, for we'd hate
to ses ladies going round looking as
II they had put a white pasteboard
box down over their heads. Oil City
Derrick.
THAI man is either crazy or drunk
/ lie don't know anything about fash
i ions. A square neck is the upper
works Of dress under the throa,
gashed out down about two chains
and three links, thence west tw,
chains, thence up there to the place q
beginning, leaving a clearing tl,a
makes you feel as though the wearel
Ought to have window pane in tht
sash to keep from catching cold. anc
you think you are just about glazic
enough to set the glass. With 81
many free schools it is sad to see
young man Of so bright a mind as til,
Derrick man SO misled about fashions
- Milwaukee Sun.