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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Japanese Chivalry.

1t is worthy of note that Japanese
does not require any exagger-
ated Difference on the part of men toward
women, and that Samurai treats a
lady with a courtesy very similar to
that which he displays toward a brother
Samurai. On the other hand, the saying
Of the conventional British sailor, He
who lays his hand upon a woman, save
in the way of kindness, is william" has
complete acceptance among the Japan
ese. When an ill-bred retainer of
Moronawo annoys Okaru, he is at once
called to order by two strangers, who
upbarid him as scoundrel and q william
for ilI-treating woman. Upon another
occasion lady is seized and her hair is
cut off by two masked assailants; their
real intention in thus acting is friendly,
but they are spoken of as brutal ruffians
because they attack woman. 1t must
be admitted that Japanese husbands
possess very arbitrary powers, being able
at any time to give their wives writing
of divorcement, and to put them away
without assigning any reason, after
which both parties are at liberty to
marry again, but legal polygamy is un-
known. Among the causes which justify
divorce are Observation-Disclosures
to parents-in-law, jealousy, and too much
talking; but these objections apply only
to the wife, and husband cannot be 90
easily disposed Of.-Fortmghtiy Reviesc.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

An evidently well-posted correspon-
dent writes to an exchange about large
London hotel in which the clerks in the
Office never seem to know the names of
any of their guests. They are distin-
guished by the numbers of their rooms,
ike convicts in prison. For instance,
a visitor for Mr.. A. sees that, for hotel
purposes, that gentleman is known as
No. 500. He is told to follow Master
Buttons on a voyage of discovery, and
is conducted first to the dining-room,
where five hundred persons may be din
ing or supping. If the guest does not
answer to his number shouted out at the
door by the aforesaid Buttons, he is sup
posed not to be present, and the visitor
follows his leader to the drawing-room,
generally crowded with ladies and gen.
tlemen reading or conversing. "No.
500 is wanted" "a visitor for No.
500" is again called out, this time,
perhaps, with success, and the unfortu-
nate owner Of the number, before the
gaze Of all the assembled company, rises
to greet his friend.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Lincoln /" Bids in y Himself.

Soon after President Lincoln went to
Warrington he attended the Foundry
Church, Occupying seat within the
altar while Bishop Simpson preached .
missionary sermon. After the collection
was taken at the close of the sermon and
the congregation was about to be dis
missed, an irrepIessible brother rose and
proposed to be one of q given number
to raise 500 to make President Lincoln
. life director of the missionary society.
The proposition was put, and brothers
A, B and G responded glibly. But the
inevitable pause finally came. A bal
ance was wanting. When the bishop
announced, "Who will take the bal.
ancef" the pause became slightly Inn
pressiye. The tall form Of Lincoln was
seen to rise, 4 long, bony arm vas ex-
tended imploringIy, and he said:
" Bishop, this ID the first time / have
ever bean placed upon the auction block.
Please let me pay the balance myself,
and take me down"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
THE MARKETS.
Reported by Chandler, Brown 4 Co., Commission
Merchants, Milwaukee, Wis.

NEW YORK, March 26-3 :00P. M.-Cotton
Quiet at 10 3-l6c for middling uplands.
Flour-Dull and unchanged; receipts l2,.
oO0 bbis; sales $4,000 bbls; super state and
western, $3.25@3.75; common te good extra,
IS 7o@390; good to choice, $3s5@4 sc;
sota patent process, $6 00@s.OO. Rye flour
Quiet. Wheat-Quiet; receipts l64, 900
bus; sales 5000 bus No red seller A ril
at Sll5M. Rye-Quiet and unchanged
Corn-Quiet; receipts 81 900 bus; sales co..
600 bus at 43H(0461ac. Barley-Dull. Oats
Firm; receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000 bus
at 3oz@32c for mixed western; 34@S6c for
white. Pork-Firm at $1037h. Beef
Steady. Lard-Firmer at $645. Butter
Unchanged. Cheese-At 3@9c. Whisky,
Sugar and Eggs--Unchanged. Petroleum
Crude unchanged; refined at 90. Coal
Dull. Leather Steady. Wool-Very dull.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

Information of undoubted reliability is to
the effect that Vanderbilt's tunnel for the
Canada Southern railway, under the De.
troit river at Crosse Isle, is now fixed fact
Work will be commenced April 2sth, and
the tunnel, when completed, will cost
$l,500,00O. The tunnel will extend from
Stoney island to Anderton, Ont, distance
of $500 feet, and will have double track
and double arches, each of the latter
eighteen feet high and fifteen feet wide.
The diversion of through traffic to point
below and outside of Detroit is deeply re.
gretted by her business men, but it is not
regarded as heavy blow to the city's
growth and prosperity. The worst effect is
that the railroad focus of all through lines
now in existence or to be built hereafter
will ultimately be ten miles below the city.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
The Estimates.

Accompanying the presidents message on
the convening Of the forty-sixth congress,
are estimates from the secretary of the
treasury of money needed for the army and
legislative, executive and judicial branches
of the government. These estimates are
the same as those submitted at the opening
of last session, with the exception of items
provided for at that session. The last con.
gress made provision for the military acad-
emy at West Point and for Notifications
and armament; this leaves, according to the
estimates, $2s, $40, 500 yet to be appropriated
for the army. None of the legislative, ex.
ecutive and judicial appropriations were
provided for, even in part. The estimate
for these expenses is SIG, 520,60l. To these
appropriations are also to be added the
item for court expenses, which is generally
placed in the suudry civil bill, but which
was left out of that bill at the last session.
The es imates for these expenses is $3,Ooo,.
0(0
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

John B. Morse, master mechanic of the
Hannibal and st. Joseph railway, died at
Brookfield, No., on tee 25th inst, of nervous
prostration, caused::by intense pain from a
sprained ankle.
Henry C. Bennett, a well-know journalist,
at one time United States pension agent at
San Francisco, Cal, died in that city on the
oath inst.
VIII. Buckingham, secretary and auditor
of the Vandalia railroad line, died at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 23d inst.
Ex.judge Giles died at Baltimere, Nd, on
the 22d, aged u.
L. r. Bradley, ex-governor of Nevada,
died at Elko, New, on the 2lst inst.
Major Phillip R. Fendall, U. s. marine
corps, died suddenly At Portsmouth, N. H.,
on the 21st inst.
Professor Anderson, the celebrated chess
player, died at Breslau.
Adolph Strodtmann, bicgrapher of Heine,
! is dead.
Rev. James DeKoven, D. D., dean OF
Racine, Wis, college, died suddenly of
apoplexy on the 10th inst
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Dishonest Omcials.

Nathan P. Pratt, treasurer of the Reading
(Pa.) savings bank, is defaulter.
Albert Falk, general manager and conf
dental agent for VIM. Ryle, silk importer,
New York, is in Ludlow street Jail, charged
with appropriatlng to his own use silks
valued at $6s,000. Falk has returned $24,-
of the plunder.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Sitting Bull.

The war department has ordered the
Eighteenth infantry from Atlanta to Bis.
msrck, to protect the border threatened
by Sitting Bull. Col. Walsh, commanding
the Canada mounted police, writes that
Sitting Bull and his two thousand warriors,
well armed and equipped, are showing q
very ugly and insubordinate disposition.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

normal condition. All that is necessary
to arouse her is to blow breath in her
face. If her eyelids be raised, or the
light exhibited, catalepsy again super
venes, and these changes-catalepsy
the mesmeric state, catalepsy recur
regularly. These experiments are as
interesting as valuable to the medico.
scientific world.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

Matthew Creed, proprietor of dry goods
store in jamestown, KY, having his suspi.
cions aroused by noise in the store, on the
night of the Goth inst, arose from bed, pro-
ceedei to the store, found burglar behind
the counter and shot him dead, fifteen buck.
shotpenetrating the body. 1t is not known
where the burglar was from.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
ScOurxeSl NV Water.

Renewed floods in Hungary have covered
10000 acres of land, already sown. The
waters were again rising at szegedin on the
25th, and the few remaining houses were
threatened. There is not single boat at
Devoonia, and great loss of life is certain if
the food increases.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
African ExuloratiOns.

Pinto, the Portuguese explorer, who has
crossed Africa, telegraphs: 81 struggled
with hunger, thirst, natives. floods and
drought l have saved all my papers, seven.
ty geographical charts; many topographic
al maps, three volumes Of notes, metereo-
logical studies, drawings and diary of com.
plete explorations of the Upper zambezi
with its 72 cataracts,"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

The London Times reports that there were
shocks of earthquakes in northern Persia
much damaged and the adjacent villages of
Tark and Mannan were totally destroyed.
Out of eleven hundred inhabitants only O
few escaped death.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
The RQault.

One hundred and twenty thousand per.
sons are rendered homeless by the recent
floods in Hungary. Eighty.two hundred
out of ten thousand houses in Szegedin,
have fallen, and one thousand four hun
dred persons lost their lives.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

Gen. Melikoff has returned to ST. Peters.
burg from Wetlianka, where it has been
decided to burn sixty.seven houses, valued at
1926 roubles. The minister of the interior
ordered the governors of the various prov.
inces to cooperate vigilantly against the
spread of the epidemics during the spring.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

A hand.car on the Toledo, Delphos and
indianapolis railroad, carrying N. J. Hunt,
president, and J. T. Clark, superintendent,
ran against tie that had been placed on the
track. near Delphos, Ohio, on the goth inst,
wrecking the car, breaking clark's leg,
cutting frightful cash in Hunts head,
and fatally injuring Pat Kane, laborer.
The tie had been placed there with the evi.
dent purpose of wrecklng passenger train.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

A PROJECT is on foot to have the
national guards of Pennsylvania assem-
BILE on the Gettysburg battlefield some
time during the coming summer, and 60
into camp for a week. 1t is intended to
make it the largest encampment ever
held in the state
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Chicago.

CHICAGO, March 26-1 80 p. M.-Flour--
Tame but steady; choice Minnesotas at
S4.50@5.00; fair to good Minnesotas at 81 90
@600; fair to good spring at $3,50@4 25;
low spring at So 50@3,25. Wheat-Strong.
er and unsettled at s93zc for cash; S97sc for
seller April; 9414c bid for seller May. Corn
Strong and higher at 32c fer cash; 3215c
for seller April; 362sc for seller May.
Oats-Firmer and steady at 81 Nc for cash
81 1ac bid for seller April; 25kc bid for seller
May. Rye-At 44X@47c. Barley-At 66c.
Pork-Strong and higher at $1O.071s@lO1O
for cash; 5000 bid for seller May. Lard
Strong and higher at $6.40 for cash; $6471<
for seller May; $6521a for seller June.
Whisxy-At $l.04. Hogs-Receipts q, ,0OO
head; weak and &c lower; light at $500
375; heavy at $3.55@4.1O.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Terms. $500 a Year in Advance.
,.rra or ADVERTISING
VARIOUS TOPICS.

The Philadelphia Society Of Friends
is taking active steps towards the for
nation of settlements in the west, to
bring together isolated members who
were gradually losing interest in the
principles and customs of their sect.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
The Fatal Frog.

At Homecoming, Md, on the 10th inst, a
young lady named Mary Keating, attempted
to cross the track in front of train when
she caught her foot in a frog and fell in the
middle of the track. The train passed over
her, cutting of both legs. She died imme-
diately
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

General Thomas w. Sherman's will gives
5000 to the negress in the family since his
marriage. George c. Mason is appointed
guardian of his son, who at 81 obtains abso.
lutte control of the property, estimated at
SlOO, COO.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

cellars o. dug-outs," or underground hab.
itations. But onelife was reported lost, that
of Mrs. Boryersex, who was burned to death
while attempting to release some horses
from burning stable. Several other per.
sons were severely injured. Loss estimated
at $40 GOO,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
BEYOND.
BT 1LIzABxrH sTRwARr PHHLps.

The 1relight listens ON the floor
To hear the wild winds blow.
Within, the bursting roses burn,
Without there elides the snow.
Across the flower zee the fake
Pass, mirr0red, mystic, SLOW.
Oh, blooms and storms must blush and freeze,
While seasons come ana 60.
/ lift the sash--aud live, Tire gale
Comes leapihg TO my call.
The rose Is but painted one
That hangs upon the vail.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
IL was Defeated.

In the lower house of the Rhode Island
legislature, on the Gath inst, the woman
suffrage bill was defeated by rs ayes to 81
noes-not the two.thirds necessary to SUBJ
NIT the constitutional amendment to the
people,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Milwaukee,,


MILWAUKEE, March 26-12 100 M. Flour
light; choice spring extras at
S4.0O@4.50; common to good spring at $3.50
@S.s7H. Wheat-Very dull; No. 2 fresh at
9lA@9ikc; No. 3 at 79Hc; No. 4 at TAO
74Hc; No. seller April at S9h@90c;
seller May iat 94A@94Ac. Corn-Quiet st
"a for No. 2; new at 33c. Oats-Quiet at
24c. Rye-At 45Xc. Barley-No. 2 at
62A@63c; No. 3 at Ale. Pork-Stronger
at $lO15 cash. Lard-$6.5O cash for steam.
Hogs-But little demand at $3.5O(G4OO.
Cattle-In fair demand at $3.50@5.00.
Sheep-ln demand at $3.75@45O
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
A New EldOrAdO.

Gold has been discovered thirty miles
south of Wichita, Kansas, and great excite
ment exists among the farmers and others.
A New York company is said to have
bought mile square of land and are trying
to secure more. Four companies are al
ready organized. The ore from shaft sunk
some time ago is said to have assayed over
s., 900 to the ton. One farmer has been
$4,000 for his farm and refused it.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Another Mine Explosion.

BY an explosion in the Pottsville, Pa,
snaft colliery ON the 10th inst Louis MUIR
ray and James Mulherran were instantly
killed and man named Boas slightly in.
iured.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

An explosion of q boiler in the De Forest,
Mass, steam saw mill on the 2sth inst,
probably fatally injured james Taylor and
Horace Egdon and severely injured two
Others
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
ForeiHn.

erpool wheat market opens with but very
little demand. Imports Of corn into the
United Kingdom the past week, 125,OO0@
10000 quarters; -four, 125,000@l30, 900
Ok
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

EsPARTo grass is largely used by paper
makers in France and England. That
which reaches England from Morocco is
used by the paper mills that supply the
Times. The great value of this paper
lies in the tenacity of its fibre and the
comparatively minute quantity of silica
in its composition; it is a rather coarse,
stiff, perennial grass, growing to a height
of three feet. 1t is found in the moor
lands of Scotland and in the boggy
pastures of Ireland, and has hitherto been
considered of little value.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
NEWS In BRIEF.
AvAlancheN.

Many avalanches have recently occurred
in Austrian Tyrol. At Bleiburg ten houses
were crushed and forty persons killed,
eighteen seriously injured and fifteen miss.
ing.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

New YORK city has about $50 daily
weekly, monthly and quarterly publica-
tions; but Paris, with a population very
little larger, including Brooklyn, Jersey
City, Hoboken, and other surrounding
towns and villages which are there be.
cause the metropolis is here, has nearly
three times as many publications of the
kind, the exact number being l,1sl. OF
these, II are occupied with theorogy,
l04 with Jurisprudence and administra-
ton, 153 with commerce and finance, %
with geography and history, 139 with
recreation, 81 with instruction, 80 with
literature and pathology, 8 with archi-
lecture, 4 with photography, ID with
music, II with the drama, 70 with fash
ions, 1874 with industry, 80 with medi-
cine, 4s with science, 23 with the army
and navy, SO With agriculture, and %
with sport. We have some Is dailies, oi
all kinds; Paris has ~, and II political
reviews, while We have not one, properly
speaking, our daily and weekly pres
covering the whole political field. These
figures viii, doubtless, cause surprise X
many Americans who are disposed to BE-
ievc that their land ID above al other
the land Of extensive journalism and
printing.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

WURTEMBuRG, in Germany, is often
visited by terrible hail storms. In some
parts of the country whole districts seem
to be exempted from the land tax on &C
count of the damage caused by the hail.
And these hail storms are apparently be-
coming more destructive. As regards
liability to being visited, it appears that
pine woods enjoy comparative immuni-
ty, while beech woods and bare hillsides
are particularly unfortunate. The par
ishes most frequently devastated lie on
the outskirts of wooded hills, but itdoes
not appear that clearance Of wood has
any deleterious influence. The valleys
of the Neckar and some other rivers are
the least troubled by this annoyance.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

THERE is at present rage in England
for the first editions of noted authors
works, and the prices are rapidly going
up. A bookseller in London has a COM
plete set of the first editions of Dickens
novels, and he asks $40O for it. The
works in part are considered more valua-
BILE than when bound. A set of Pick
wick, in parts, costs $2l. Ruskin's first
editions are going high, and are eagerly
sought for. Mr.. Jennings, the New
York World correspondent, writes that
"Modern Painters was recently sold
for 1925. The first edition of Charles
Levers books are going at $25 volume.
Thackeray's works are also in great
demand. This sudden rage for first
editions is caused by American buyers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
Stacking Affair

A terrible tragedy was enacted on the
night of the 22d inst, in the neighborhood
of Bethlehem Church, Boone county, Mis-.
souri,. James Rowland, well to do batch
elor farmer. had a niece, Miss Julia Row.
land, keeping house for him. On the
the morning OF the 23d inst his brother came
on visit and found the door bolted, win
dows fastened, and hearing groans inside
forced open the door and found his brother
in pool of blood, a revolver by his side
and bullet hole in his head. On the bed
lay Miss Rowland dead, with o photograph
by her side on which were written, "Dear
sister: / have taken poison and am going
my long and happy home; please forgive
me for this" Rowland was still alive but
refused to give reasons for the terrible
affair,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
came in collision with the Haytian steamer
Michael. The latter sunk and sixty persons
were drowned.
GnffeSl M0Rklnen.

~
The supreme lodge of the United Work.
men, in session at Nashville, Tenn, elected
the following officers on the 22d inst John
Frizzell, Nashville, supreme master work
man; Roderick Rose, Iowa, supreme fore.
man; M. w. Fish, California, supreme over.
seer; NJ. W. Sackett, Penn, supreme re.
corder; s. E. Davis, Ohio, supreme receiver;
H. C. Heath, Wisconsin, supreme guide;
Z. w. Boynton, Illinois, supreme watchman;
Leroy Andrews, New York, supreme trus.
tee. They were installed by P. =. NJ. w.
McNair, of Pennsylvania, and entered on
their duties.
The supreme lodge of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, approved of the pro.
position to give separate beneficial jurisdic.
tions power, if they see fit to exercise it, of
creating relief or sinking funds, providing
it does not conflict with the collection and
disbursement of beneficiary funds. Off.
cial enrolment reported to the supreme
lodge shows the order now has q strength of
$4,000. The supreme lodge adopted as an
emblem of the erder, an anchor and shield
and rays of the sun as combination, and
abolished the collar and aprons as regalia,
and instead provided for suitable badges to
be worn on the left breast.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02

The legislature of Indiana also seems
to have gone into the school-book ped
ding business. A bill has been intro
1uced in that body authorizing the state
BOARD of education to prepare lists of
school.books for county boards to select
from. The ostensible object is to
cheaper the cost of school-books, the
real object is to throw the sale of school
books into the hands of ring. The in
ference will be inevitable that the legis-
lators who vote for such bill are paid
by the ring for doing so.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-04-02
work OF the Flames.

Stratton & Storms tobacco and cigar fac.
tory, at New York, burned on the 25th inst.
The loss foo,s up 100000.
Washington Butchers Sons ham.curing
house, Philadelphia, was damaged by fire to
the extent of $25, 900, ON the Gath; insured.
A fire on the 23d inst, in Oelwein, Iowa,
near Independence, destroyed several
stores. Loss $l7, 600; insurance $500.
A fire at Tyler, Texas, on the Goth,
destroyed fourteen business houses on the
west side of the public square, valued at
10000; insurance $4,000.
A Are at vicksburg. Miss, on the 10th
inst caused loss of $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
The town of Pineville, county seat of
Mcdonald county, No., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire before daylight on the 10th
inst. Only the courthouse, one hotel and
two business houses are said to have es.
capped destruction. The FIRE il supposed to
be the work of incendiaries.