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hair; and as he sopped a four.incl,
swath, with piece Of bread, across a
frying pan, he repeated some lines.
"Them's they" nodded the poet.
"The Emp'ror of Austry writ me let.
ter highly complimentin' them pc ms. "
"They're very tech'n'," added the
wiry man.
l took no part in those remarks.
Somehow l did not feel like joining in.
The wiry man, having somewhat sat.
istied his appetite, rolled up piece Of
bacon-rnd into sort of single barreled
opera.slass, and began to squint through
it toward the northern horizon.
"What yer doin', Davcw asked the
stout man.
''Tanin' observations on the North
Star. Want to make some Astronomical
CIVILIZATIONS when Git inter Sackry-
menter."
"Well, yer needn't ter made that
telescope. l could cr tux yo' observa-
tons for yer, bein' as l haint but one
eye"
"Git out thar, yer burned ole carbon
ferrous pterodaclyl!" yelled the hame-
Jawed driver to an OK that was licking q
piece of bacon.
81 give u good deal of my time to
'stronomy whenI was in Yoorup," re-
marked the tall man.
"Over thar long?' asked one.
"Good while. Was Minister to
Eooshy. Then I spent some time down
ter Eome.''
"Rome!" exclaimed the lank indi-
vidual. "Was born thar. My father
was soul ptor."
"Good sculptor?"
EYES"
"Well, one wouldu' ter thought it, ter
look at yer"
IL never was in Yoorup," remarked
the one-cycd man. "When ocypicd the
cheer of ancient languages in Harvard
College my health failed, and the fcllers
that had me hired wanted me ter 90 ter
Yoorup for an out, but | concluded ter
come West ter look-hold up thar, yer
internal old flee-bittcn ichthyosaurus!"
he bawled to an OK that was chewing q
wagon-cover. @a -
| felt hot and feyerish, and a long
way from homes.
IL got ready once ter 60 ter Rome
wanted to complete my studies thar
but give it up said the one called
Dave. - Z s. !. rs
"What for?'' IA "a -. -.
"They wanted me ter run for Guv'.
ner in Virginny." -
"Yer beat emp"
"Thunder, yes"
"Why didn't yer stay thar?"
"Well, when my job rs Guv'ner give
ont they 'lected me 'Piscopsl Bishop,
an l hurt my lungs preachin.' Come
West for my lungs" So VI ~ va
"Found 'em?'
swell, I'm inprovin'."
l did not rest well that night. AS day
came on, and the men began to turn over
in their blankets and yawn, the tall one
said:
"He'lo, Bill. How yer maxim it?"
80, Pm Indigenous"
can Davc?"
elm indigenous"
IAN you, Lanky, yer son of q sculp.
tor?'
"Exogenous.'
Glow do you feel, Jake?" inquired
one OF the three who had responded.
"Cryptogamous, sir, cryptogamous."
l walked out few steps to little
stream, to get drink. | felt thirsty,
and | achcd. Then l. heard a voice
from the blankets:
''Wonder # thcn burned ole dinother'.
ums OF ourn are done graIn'?" "
Then L reply:
81 guess they've got to the tertiary
period"
| walked little piece on the road. to
breathe the morning air.
l kept on.-7he Californian.
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Experiences of \ College.bred Visitor
In q BullWhackers' Camp.

PERHAPS every person who is some
what advanced in life can remember
some incident Of his early years which he
would really like to forget, something that
resulted from the freshness and vast in
experience of youth. l remember one
which have spent good deal Of time
trying to forget. Just before the Union
Pacific Railroad reached the Bitter
Creek Country, made my first over
land trip to the Pacific Coast. l staged
it from TIE then terminus OF the Union.
Pacific ID the Central Pacific, which was
then pushi,.g east. The stage broke
down on Bitter Greek, and the passen-
gers had to walk to the next station. l
grew tired of walking before I reached
the station, and coming, lstc ia the At.
ternOon, to where some teamsters were
camped. l concluded to stop with them
for the night. On asking their permits
sion to do so, they assented SO heartily
that I felt at home at once. Life in the
West was something new to me. 1 was
young and buoyant, and Just out of col.
lege. was fond Of talking. Thought
it would be novel and delightful to sleep
out with these half-savage ox-drivers,
with no shelter but the vaultcd star.
gemmed heavens. There were four
teamsters, and as many wagons, while
thirty.two oxen grazed around in the
vicinity. eOf the .teamsters, one was !,
giant in stature, and wore a bushy black
beard: another was shorter, but power
fully built, and one-eyed; the third was
tall, lank and hame.jawed; while the
fourth was wiry, red-headed man. In
my thoughts l pitied them, on account
of the hard life they led, and spoke to
them in kind tone, and endangered to
make my conversation instructive. /
plucked a flower, and, pulling it to
pieces, mentioned the names Of the parts
-pistil, stamcns, calyx, and so on-and
remarked that it must be indigenous to
the locality, and spoke of tho plant be-
ing indigenous, in contradistinction to
exogenous, and that they could see that
it was not cryptogamous. In looking at
some fragments Of rock my thoughts
wandered off into geology, and. among
other things, spoke Of the tertiary and
carboniferous periods, and If the ptero-
dactyl, icthyosaurus and dinotherium.
The teamsters looked AZ me, then at.
each other, but made no response. We
squatted down around the fryiug-pan to
supper, and as the big fellow, with his
right hand, slapped or larruped, a long
piece of fried bacon overa piece Of bread
in his left hand sending a drop of hot
grease into my left eye, he said to the
one-eyed man: A..
"Bill, is my copy of Shakspere in yo'
wagon? i missed it today a.
"No. My Tennerson aud volum' of
the Italian Poetsi is in thar-no Shaks-
PEREZ" '.'. 'a.''''.' 80
: The lank looking teamster, biting off
. piece of bread about the size Of a sau.
cor. said to the big man, in q voice
which came huskily through the bread,
"Jake, did yer ever read that volum'
of po'ms that writ?' -
mo, but hev often hearn tell on
'em.' al; sa.-.s,.ai. Ia. ,s,5..
eyer mean 'Musin's of an Idle
Manp'" spoke up the red.headed man,
addressing the poet. ~
Eyes"
Hev read every line in it dozen
times" said the teamster with the red
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CoNDBNsED TGLIeRAls,

|, ,PORgIoNs,eio f } the wreck Of. tho
steamer Apena. have come ashore near
Holland, Mich, thus removing o oil
doubts q - Tie fate ct that YES.
self Several bodies hsve Also been recoyer!
ed. lAnong the Lost 'afv Mrs. Newton BfsA.
ley md her two daughters, Of Santa Te, \.
n; Rev. Farrell Hart and wife, Of White
llfiyeoa, Mich; John, Osborn, wife and
thee children, Chicago; Mrs.. g.. b., Cole,
O!ttsr,, III The only list Of passeageu was
kept ~ The Steamer and consequently Il 10
notprobAbl ethssths peseissnuubsr oabos1a
WIN eyer be known. The total number Of
hy4s 1pst b estimated 1t between seventy.
I've A. eighty. --sa 49, 60
inTHt cut IN passenger rates, inangur.
Nd By ~ Wab1SA between Chicago and
81. Louis, has hesn promptly met BY other
lines and extends 70. nearly every competing
point throughout the West. The prevailing
rate between Chicago, st. Louis and Kansas
City - the 10th wss only 500, while
10 Onaha,J 10 Couscil BLUFFS, Detroit,
Tolelosl festh WAYNE and otASr composing
points East md .Westth rates were sorrv-
spondlhgly low, The Wabash il reported TO-
haxs ed enough unlimited" ticket. 'Le,
saseen T. Louis and Chicago to supply the
probAS|e requirements Of all travel betwceH
the ITO poosssior two years 70 come. 81
- Hg Usissdl Safes Attorney General
has given ~ ODinla IN Tie matter 81 In.
dian Agent RsssytehYsd with eonpltity,
ln1 elhs nusdero ~ yOung jackson ,by ait
Et<s, tAae3tAS ensf properly comes under
Stato jnrisdlsetbS, Ind Ne military authcri!
tisa have bes1 ordered % turn him over q,
tAei AhMi2 % 0unaisoa County ifof trial.
Ch19jo 10 Jul A 0uAnison CITY. The OehAps
Emphasized ~ ~ large. Governor Pilkin,
oays mere oee4 he 10, apprehension OF mob
!! s!oifnce aad' That ths prisoness will have .
x BATTERY q three boiler. ID the IT,, di;,.
tillery Of Cox 4 Fairbanks q TER, Haute.
Ind, exploded On the 9Oth, inStautly killine
six mea and seriously injurine twice as
many mote. Ths names of us killed IL.
Joseph Decay John A. Brooks, II. Kellv.I
Mm. 1ssSlan. n IIaskoI Han)ey, ani
Harvey Day (eolored). Seriously Injured !:
henfy Mtlsea, Eugene .Mshrins. Henry
y10nIey ttu1k DyoWn. Jew Yeo. 'Wssk
8opeeo, 0ooge 0eeue NJ Wm, k{itlev.
- latter ,tl1191 ~ oouee az ~ e1rjo.
~ 61oe 00W0s OH 10 ,4..l go
IsAn1Ihg0kgsas 'in the sAoldy man.
>n.SAsSA - 0>an An -~stt - u .,,f~.
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Seven Hundred Lives for One.


The China Mail relates the following: "A
tale Of peculiar horror comes from the sw'-
tow quarter. The military Mandarin for the
hit Yang District. Pnng Tyc-jcn, who will be
remembered as the Mandarin who gave the
order for the cOmpradOr All P;c to lose his
head. and was also intimately concerned i'll
the Lee L,lm Kwai affair, has been distinguish
ing himself in thoroughly Chinese fashion.
Some small official, who held the position OF
Tax Collector had been murdered by the pco-
pie, who, exasperatea probably by his eternal
and extensive sulleeZes, considered taking the
law into their own hands to be the only way of
getting rid of him For this daring outrage
against law and order Pung Tyc-jcn under
took to inilct punishment upon the residents
and did SO with completeness we rarely see
equaled. He first secured the services or
glln-boat to protect or cover his retreat, the
place where the inhabitants had done rs we
have stated being within reach Of the guns OF
a man-of.war. The place was then besiegcd,
ard The soldiers killed something like 1OO' It is
said. Of the people who were supposed to have
taken part in the uprising against authority
and had caused the death Of this petty official
The number of those destroyed by the avens-
ing army of Pung Tye-ien is var!ously csti-
mated from 400 to the figure above stated"
Greenbacks Thrown Around Loose.
Mrs. EMMA SlMMs, residing in Washington
City, but stopping in Baltimore, dropped u
packet OF notes, amounting to 1880. from her
pocket on North Gay street, about ten o'clock
yesterday morning. The money, somewhat
scattered about, was picked up by Mr.. John
Myers. lie remembered that it was the day
OF the grand procession, and looked upon the
shower Of grcenbacks as Il sham or some I'D.
vcrtsing deiusion; he ut once resolved to
make it Il complete give-away, and handed
around the money to all who desired 1t with
al abandon beautiful to behold. Scenes that
were ludicrOns in the extreme ensucd,
though their ending was serious. The idea
Of Mr.. Myers took readily, and hve-cent ci.
gars were cOolly lighted with twenty-dOllar
notes, nearly all the money being in notes
of that denomination. Street gamins pasted
few around on awning posts to deceive
unsuspccting strangers. a boy sold one TWEEN.
ty-dOllar note for twenty-five cents, and It is
said $500 additional were sold for the same
amount. A lady. residing not far away, got
u twenty dollar note, which she said she
would keep in memory of the great cclcbra-
ton. 4 friend begged her for it that she
might frame it and keep it, and the lady gave
it to her. Mrs. Smms meanwhile informed
Officer Gibson Of her !oss. He fastened to the
Epot and managed to recover $50 of the
amount, among it the twenty-dollar note got
ten by the lady mentioned above. The discOv-
erv uf the faCtS caused cOnSt formation among
those who had so freely made away with what
they believed to be bogus treasure and much
regret was expressed for the loss sustained by
Mrs. Simnls. The case is decidedly one of tho
most singular on rrCord.-IduinOrC Sun.
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!. Spain. With only Ii. ooo. 900 ofinhab.
''anss' turns out yearly twice ~ much
wheat ~ does Italy with $4,000. 900 Of
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Sadberry on the other. Owens and one OF
the johnson boys were MORALLY wounded
sadsaGAsB=se Pasey eWese sslgsely
wounded. The johnson party were the as
Sdoapts. An old feud was the cause OF the
fight.
The steamer Alpcns, Of the Good.
rich Line, which left Grand Haven, Mich,
on the 18th, for Chicago, was lost during the
grle Of Saturday, the 10th, with all or board
about forty passengers and twenty officers
and crew. The schooner David A. Wells
went down near Chicago and eight men were
drowned. Other disasters are reported.
In the town of Sheffield, Caledonia
County, VT, on the 10th, Byron Blake, aged
26, murdered his mother, sister and step.
father, clubbing them to death, and then
hung himself. He had formerly been
insane, but for several years past
had :, not been considered danger.
ous.z The Old people We're inirm and unable
to protect themselves against the maniac,
who was man Of great physical strength.
The steam barge Trader was wreck
ed on Lake Michigan during the late storm
and her Captain and crew Of ten were all
drowned. stfIAn ~ 5aI... ..t
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The rag.pisten Of Cincinnati have
formed . aootety for mutual protection.
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Rl,f&sIlE y r1isYS,a,

Car. n ,S:as. :''g ~. -. |.
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s ss%s Si'sS Is9p1p,, '.ad
~- !lf.yySsp ss!y 10y - Tee etd1so11h {
lhhss nnsoe Nsess isaslly injured
u tAs sxpls11nso0 hagos dunn 4 noalt.
III dsseaataaassslasssavak, &. !. 5w
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A Terrible Expsss,,. {, Ch,e.r..

the disaster is condensed from the Tribune:
At seven O'clock ia the evening persons with
in mile or two Of the distillery were startled
BY loud rafting sound, followed by the roar
ing hiss Of escaping steam. One might have
OWNED from the noise that some large boiler
had exploded. Those in tho immediate vicin.
ity at the time of the explosion saw large
tank thrown many feet upwards in the air, and
were almost deafened by the noise. The
cngme-roOm, boilerroom and a large shaving
bin were completely demolished. The cook.
ing room was an institution uncommon in die
tilleries. 1t contained only q large tank, eight
cen feet high aud six feet in diameter, which
was apparently strongly built Of double plates
Of boiler iron. This was termed the cooker"
Bys new process it was used for the purpose
Of hasteoing ss well - improving distillstion.
1t was filed yesterday, and the contents, after
being subjected to twenty pounds steam press
ure, was considered ready for the mash-tubup-
stairs in an adjacent building. Along about
seven o'clock. it became necessary to blow
out the contents. Tho operation was being
conducted by Theodore G.. Kimme,,, the fore
man, and there were present besides himself
the following, who we're killed and buried in
the ruins Of the building: John or Andy DAILY,
Sandy 49,, Frank TrennOr Frank Pudra,z
Joseph llorika and wife and Jacob Kakuska.
Also the following, who were wounded and
Ie sn, En-, GgrSrEs scH s: Henry Fischer
increasing the steam pressure in the cooker
70 drive out some clog In the delivery-pipe,
tue cooker exploded. 1t was blown through
the lOOt aud went almost straight up into the
ar, some say until IL looked no larger than
nVur|barel The main portion Of it landed
feet west and little to the north of Its orig
1nai location. A considerable portion. to-
eet1er with one end Of It, was buried deep
INTO the Garth. The shaving, boiler, engine
ana cooking rooms were completely demOl.
isned. The force Of the explosion may readily
be IMAGINED when It Il stated that freight
Eect!y 10 front OF the opening, was overturned
on the track. and the timbers and framework
torn into shre1s a. IL by lightning. The tim.
oefs and masonry of the demolished build.
ing, together with the large shaving
chute, were shattered in places as II they
were were piPo.stems; and werc thrown into
tangled heaps. The employees beneath tho
rot were. of course. buried beneath the de-
bria The scene ut the distillery an hour after
the explosion was q heart.rending one. Days
body was the first found, and was carried into
the Office: The body OF Sandy. the miller,
vas next found. and was laid side by side with
horribly scaided that the skin and portions
OF the flesh poeled Of at the touch. A large
crowd soon gathered, among whom were
many women and children crying and be.
waiting the LOGS Of husband and father.
Days wife was among those who visited tho
scene, And when che saw the dead body of her
husband ne4 grief became uncomfortable, and
e was With great difficulty thst she was taken
from the room to prevent her from throwing
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'CARDs must no longer bs engraved,
but written.
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The Planet Mars.

MARS has of late been too far away to be OF
much account to star-gaxers. Eut an interest
ing epoch occurs on the 18th, for he is then in
conjunction with the sun. Two points in the
revolution Of the planets outside the orbit OF
the earth should be impressed on the memory.
These are conjunction and opposition, the
starting points in following the movements OF
Mars and the four great planets that roll their
mighty spheres beyond his bounds. At con-
junction these planets are mt their most dis.
tant point, the sun being directly between
them and the earth. As We look at them
they seem to be joined to the sun, rising ant!
setting at the same time, and becoming in
visible as they are cclipscd by his beams At
opposition they are ut their nearest point.
the earth being between them and the sun.
They then appear to b. opposite the sun, ris-
ing mt Sunset and setting ut sunrise. Three
planets illustrate these movements in Octo-
ber Jupiter and Saturn are in opposition,
and Mars is in conjunction. The former are
brilliant evening stars, rising in the east just
before the latter sets in the west, close to the
sun and hidden in his rays. After conjunc.
ton Mars passes to the western side of the
sun, and in Il month or two becomes visible in
tho east as morning stsw', continuing this role
aud gradually increasing i'll size and ruddy
glow until his opposition in December, 1881.
Observers have better telescope view Of
this planet than Of any other object in the
heavens except the moon. Mars is the earth
in miniature His day is a little longer, his
inclination to the ccliptic little greater, and
his year not quite twice as long as ours
Eagle-eyed astronomers have made wonderful
discoveries on our brother planet. They find
his surface diversified with land and water,
trace the red color Of his disc to the rudd.
ness of certain ingredients in his soil, discern
gases and vnpors in his atmosphere. watch
the floating clouds that make beautiful his
sunsets and sunrises, gaze with awe upon the
storms that sweep over his surface, and note
the icebOund circles kround his poles rs they
increase in the cold Of tho Marian winter
and melt partially away In the heat of the
Marian summer.-YoutNs Companion. OctO-
=. Y 70
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e az THE ALLIANCE. z. -
AMER the ADJOURNMENT Of the Convention
uumber Of delegates remained In the hail and
Organized NATIONAL Alliance. The constitu.
ton adopted sets forth that tho "National
Farmers Alliance II the United States"
should have power to make laws for the gov.
etnment Of the entire organization. The on
1ects were: 10 unite the farmers of the Unit.
ed stasos for their protection against Glass
'eSs:lMf n end the encro ienmcnts Of concen.
tratei c'ptaf and the tyranny ~ mon1opoly:
y provide iaeainst being tmpeset, ,upon b
swinlless and tswindiing advertisements IN
the pul}ic prints; to oppose IN their respect
I've POL ;cal parties tho elect ion OF any can.
didate TO- .0aioe, ilStats or, National, who
was not thoroushly Il hi sympathy with
ING farness ipterests,;,i 10 demand that
the existing political 4. parties should
nominate farmers o., those, who were in
sympathy with them for ,all Offices with
m the gift o., the people; aud to do any
thins IN legitimate manner that might serve
to benefit the producer. -. :. - =
The following officers were elected by
the Alliance: President, William J.. Fowler
New York;. vicePresident. L. 4. Conn
iowa, Secretary, James W. Wilson illlinois).
Vrc ssurer. Matt Anderson wisconsin, After
speeches BY several delegates the, Alliance
adjourned until tho hrst Wednesday af:er the
afss 1Ondat Of October, ISL, 70 meet In
ColCQEO luH7i niAIL9T fsF fFf HE T3
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-03-18
TEE WEST.

or February 2S Iieuts. Conlin and Stark OF
the Fiftoenth infantry, in command of scout
Of thirty men Of the Ninth cavalry struck
bend of about thirty hostile Indians in Amom's
canon, southeast corner of the Sacramento
mountains. Lieut.. Conlin, with twenty men, at
tackled the camp, and after a brief encounter
drove ont the Indians, capturing and burning
their e.Iuipage, while Lieutenant Stark, with
ten men rounded the Indian stock, capturing
the entire herd OF sixteen horses and fifteen
mules tho scout returning with the captured
stock to Fort stanton the Sd instant. This n
dams arc supposed to be some of Victor.a's
band.
A HpEcAL service will be held at Lincons
grave OF Springfield H., at twenty-five minutes
past O'Clock on the morning Of the 18th of
April, that being the precise anniversary Of the
eInancipator's death
TUE law and-order citizens of San Francisco
have banded together for the protection of their
interests from the threatened violence Of the
sand-ot agitators. Dennis kearnoy was ar
rested for mcendiary utterances on the 18th,
but gave bail and was released.
DISPATCHES received at st. Paul headquarters
say that o detachment of the Fifth Infantry,
with Capts. Baldwin and Hamilton, pursued the
Sioux who had boon committing depredations
near Fort keogh, and killed three of them.
Two Cheyenne scouts were killed. Tho stolen
stock WAS recovered.
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ical assessment bill aud the house was aelrss..,
by Young, of Ohio Richardson, Of New YorS
Crowley, Hayes and Butterworth. .Adjourne1
THURSDAY. March 11.--After receiving nm,
Der OF bills from committees the house M
ceeded to consider the political assessment bi1
A can for the previous question developej
hlhbuster1ng movement On the part of tie T.
politicians who desired unlimited debate q, ~.
bill Adjourned.
FRIDAY, March 12.--The bill auttarl2ang IN.
secretary of the interior to deposit certain In.
dian trust funds in the United States treasnr,
in lieu of investment was passed . Tho morn.
ing hour was dispensed with and McAlahon re-
ported back the deficiency appropriation bin
from the appropriation committee. The com.
mittee recommend the amendment approprist.
ing 100000 for the payment of fees aud ey.
penses of United States ;narshals and their gen
eral deputies for the present fiscal year, TIN,
making the total amount appropriated by thu
bill 81, 265, $50. The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole and debated the bill
When the committee rose the following bill,
were introduced and referred: For the suppres.
sion of pleuro-pneumonia in neat cattle; to ac-
cept and ratify the agreement submitted by the
Ute Indians for the sale Of their lands in Cob.
RADIO (appropriaung S3S0,o00). Adjourned
until Monday