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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
Habits of the Beaver,

am well acquainted with the habits
of the northern beaver. Several years
ago bought up several hundred acres
of mining lands near the south shore OF
Lake Superior, in Ontonagon county,
Mich. On Carp river, a small stream
that crossed o part of my lands, the
: beavers had built several dams, and
formed extensive ponds, in which they
built their houses OF lodges, as the
Indians call them. These lodges are
built in water several feet in depth, and
the entrance is several feet under water,
but the floor of the lodge is built at
least two feet above high-water mark.
The floor is built solid from the bottom
OF the pond, except the entrance.
Although the beaver is warmly clad
with long, fine fur, he is very sensitive
to the cold, and rarely, if ever, leaves
the pond, or lodge during the cold
weather. He lays in his winter supply
of food, which mainly consists of the
bark of certain species Of poplar. He
cuts down small trees and cuts them
into short pieces Of one foot, OF a little
over, in length, and takes them into
the pOnQ. 1heSe pieces OF WOOD are
dragged up into the lodge as often as
food is needed, and the bark gnawed
off; and, after being denuded of the
bark, they are by no means thrown
away as useless, but are taken under
the ice, and carefully placed in the dam,
to strengthen it.
They built one dam little below the
foot of Carp lake, which raised the lake
thirty inches. The lake is small one
about one mile long and fourth Of
mile vide / measured the stump of
maple tree that they had cut down,
and it measured fourteen iuches in
diameter. There were no less than
eleven dams on the stream, all in sight
Of our buildings, where we were mining
for copper.
The beaver possesses great engineer
ing skill, always building his dams in
form of an arch. giving it strength to
resist the pressure of the water. The
Indians used to tell me many singular
traits of character that this animal
possesses. They build their dams and
lodges of mud, sticks and stones,
compactly and very strong. once saw
an albino beaver-skin. | thought, and
still think, that it was the purest white
ever saw.-I. Garlich ase Forest and
Stream,
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Gov. Pillsbury Names the Two New
Judges Created by the Late Legisla-

Gov. Pillsbury Names the Two New
Judges Created by the Late Legisla-
ture.
The legislature which adjourned at 10 m.
yesterday, created two additional judgeships,
one in the First and one in the Fourth dis
tricts. The first district comprises the coun-
ties of Chicago, Dakota, Goodhue, Pine and
Washington, with F. M. Crosby as judge.
The Fourth district comprises the counties of
Hennepin, Anoka, Isanti and Wright. Yes
terday Gov. Pillsbury appointed Hon. VIM.
Lochren, of Minneapolis, to the position
credited in the Fourth district, and Hon. W.
M. McCluer, oil Saltwater, to the First
district. Politically these appointments
ere a stand-of, Hon. VIM. Lochren
being Known as life long AMI answering
Democrat, while Mr.. McCluer is equally well
known as an incorporating Republican.
Both are old residents of the state, are recog-
nized as among the ablest of the profession in
the state, and possess in remarkable degree
the confidence ard esteem of their respective
communities, and their appointments will
give general satisfaction.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
A Missouri Editor Murdered

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19.-The Republican, s
Boonvilie, Mo-, special says: Thos. s. Nc
Dermon, marshal of the city, shot and killed
A. B. Thornton, editor of the Boonville
NeUs, Greenback organ, this afternoon.
The Neacs this morning had an article severe
ly rejecting on McDermon's official acts and
INDUCING is some personalities. McDer-
mon met Thornton on the street
early this afternoon, and an alteration en-
sued, during which blows were struck. Pistols
were then drawn, and McDermon shot Thorn
ton twice, once in the side and again in the
head, the latter shot killing him instantly
McDermon gave himself up.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
HATToN starts in very brashly, having
contrived to get out new postal ruling
about every day since he has been in Of
flee. He IS probably the first man in the
position possessing any knowledge of the
law. Of course Frank is candidate for
the presidency but of course would mod
estly decline any such vaulting ambition
were he taxed with it.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
THERE seems to be no real occasion 1

THERE seems to be no real occasion for
shooting Guiteau, as there can be no
doubt of his being found guilty and hung.
Hanging is more painful than shooting
iunless the shot wounds without killing,
and he should have the benefit of the
most painful death possible. Still there
would have been little regret if all doubt
as so results had been removed by little
better target practice at Washington
yesterday
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

Sidney Dillon, one of Jay Gould's partners
Is about to build the costliest and most ornate
private residence on this continent. 1t is to
be erected at the corner of Fifth avenue and
Seventy-sixth street, and the house, with the
grounds surrounding it will cover thirteen
full city lots, four Of which will be on Fifth
avenue
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
The Matrimonial Market.

Marriage licenses were issued the past week
by the clerk of the court as follows:
John Kassella to Hedwig Kosik, Thoma
Wallace to Honora Green, Anthony Yoerg,
Jr., to Ida Theobald, Otto Mohr to Johanna
Peterson, Charles 81. Burt to Carrie L. Ward,
Elon G. Holiday to Matte Holiday, Frank
Garvey to Mary E. Mcdonald, Oliver Gildart
to Mary A. Rogers, Simon Zollkowsky to
Flora Kasynska, Joseph Bernard to Mary E.
Solomon, VIM. Noonan to Bridget Maloney,
Dennis Reardon to Catherine O'Connor, Fred
erick Smith to Ellen Dahlberg, Chas. 81. F.
Neuefeldt to Amelia Kishoff, Ludwig Dreseli
to Katie Fischer, P. Mason to Bridget Mullen,
Theodore Becker to Mary Linn, John Koch to
Caroline Howard, Henry Henly to Amelia
Henly
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

Two gentlemen claim to have been the
first to seize Guiteau after he shot the
president. However as there is no hun
dred thousand dollars reward for appre
hension as in the case of Lincoln's assassin,
there will be no trouble over the ques-
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

GUITEAU in one of his ofice-begging
notes to President Garfield "claimed to
be gentleman and Christian" He
must have been a novice in politics not to
have known that the qualities mentioned
are mighty poor recommendation to Of
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

An clipping couple on a railroad train
in Pennsylvania were accosted by a man
protesting to be justice of the peace,
who offered to marry them on the spot
for SIS. They employed him to save
time, and week afterward discovered
that he was fraud
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

THE great tariff convention to meet in
New York on the 30th is expected to
overshadow that held in Chicago last
week. Protection is nearly alive to its
iptnrpctc
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

BALDWIN, Nugent, Benyon and Weeks
ought to form a copartnership. They
would make a strong team of bank
smashers
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

Last winter I fell on the ice" writes
W. T. Dowdall, Esq, of Peoria, ILL.,, ssand
badly dislocated my left shoulder, caus-
ing me intense suffering. The first ap-
plication of St. Jacobs Oil gave great
relief, and with the useof less than one
bottle l quickly regained my former
strength"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

THE high tariff party will always have
one advantage: 1t will always be well
provided with "the sinews of war" For
this are they protectlonists.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
wishes

A $4,000 suit has been brought
against some Philadelphia photogra-
piers for selling photographs OF the
baby elephant, the picture having been
copyrighted.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

THE favorite depositor who overdraws
his account and deals in stocks is getting
to be a greater menace to society than
the "crank.n
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20

IT may yet be necessary to formally in
troduce few bank officers to few lamp
DOstS
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-20
TIMELY TOPICS.

The much-puffed Fontaine locomotive,
which carries its wheels on its back, and was
designed to run several thousand miles per
hour, (more or less) has proved a failure in
experiments on the Pennsylvania railroad,
where the old-fashed snorting, screeching rat
Ting model is still preferred.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-16

The New York Express reasons it out that
the girls are parting their hair on one side be-
cause they don't want to look like the idiotc
youth who part their air in the middle.
The New York Sun asks: "Who is Gen.
Grant? ?" contemporary replies that he is
the man who as President refused to make the
editor of the Sun Collector of the Povt of New
York.
A paper in Chicago having said that that
city uses 10000, 900 gallons of water daily,
the Baltimore American remarks that half
of that amount is made into beer, and the
other half is used to scald the bristles of of
hogs"
pretty girl out West told her beau that
she was mind-reader. "You don't say so ~
he exclaimed. Eyes" said she, you have
it in mind to ask me to be your wife, but you
are just little scared at the idea." Their
wedding cards are out
Now the gossips have madea little romance
for Blanche Howard, who wrote clever triie
called Zone Summer" 1t is said she earned
with it the money for a wedding trip to
Europe, but ber lover was so mad at her for
putting their little story before the public
that he Tilted her. She had the European
trip nevertheless, and has just got home.
Said young lawyer in Denver not long ago :
''Pve made forty dollars this week" "How?"
was asked "Well, 1 got ten dollars for case
and l borrowed thirty" The story is not un-
like one told of Henri Muger, the noted Paris
ian Bohemian. "What is your income ?" he
was once asked. SIT is hard to tell" was the
reply, "but in good years l can borrow at
least 10000 francs"
The Troy Times invites Vennor to ''take a
back seat" Bless you Vennor can't take a
seat His prophecies have kicked so that his
Co..
ly demOralized. Veunor is a standing joke
-Sprin9feld Union.
Two young clergymen we're dsputing SO
loudly on the subject of religion that they
awoke big dog that had been sleeping on
the hearth before the fire, whereupon he be-
gan to bark furiously. An old preacher who
had been quietly slipping his tea while the
disputants we're talking, gave the dog kick,
exclaiming "Hold your tongue, you silly
brute You know no more about it than
they do !"
The proprietor of Louisville bone factory
announces that persons leaving their bones
with him can have them ground at short no.
tice.
A little fellow, on going for the first time
to church whore the pews were very high,
was asked, on coming out what he did in
church, when he replied, II went into a cup
board, and took a seat on a shelf"
One ought to look at life in a cheerful way,
and to tighten its evils as much as possible by
hope that refuses to give up. When tired
traveller said to a shepherd "My friend how
far is it to the next town. 2" the prompt reply
was, six miles, sir" Then the shepherd
saw how tired and disappointed the traveller
was, and quickly added, "Come to think of
it, sir, it may not be more than four" 1t
was a soft, good d-natured kind of ib, aud,
although the traveller trudged tho full six
miles, he got the impression that it was not
quite six, and that ''helped him out consider
ably"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-16

AMERICAN VERSION OF THE REVISED NEW TEsTA-
MENr.-we have received from Fords, Howard HUI
bert, New York. copy Of their edition Of the Revised
New Testament which incorporates the readings pre-
ferred by the American committee into the text, and
places the readings preferred by the English commit
appendix thus reversing the order observed
in the Oxford and other editions 1t is well-known
fact that many Of the readings and renderings pre-
ferred by the American branch Of the international
committee Of revision, but precluded from present
adoption by the greater conservatism Of the English
majority have generally been accepted as the truer
aud more faithful ranslations Of those portions OF
the sacred text. In response to the demand from
scholars and the scholarly press for edition which
should rescue these American readings from their
place In the appendix list put them In their places
In the body Of the text, Rev. Dr. Roswell d. Hitch
cock, president Of the Union Theological Seminary,
New York, eminently qualified for the work,
undertook the task OF editing edition with the Am
erican preference thus Incorporated. The result "a
this American version which is in its second ed
ition, and which, since its rst appearance has been
subjected to the closest and severest scrutiny by its
learned editor with a view to make 1t rreproaohaby
accurate and correct. In form, this American version
is reproduction of the Oxford Long Primer ocavo"
and is eearlyprinted, we-made book. II varies In
price from 81 in cloth to S325 in fun Turkey morocco
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-16
Uncle Sammy's Way.

The Chicago Tribune evinces stupendous
ignorance OF Mr.. Tilden's ways in warning
people that, because Mr.. Tilden has visited
the White mountains, one of the big hills may
have been carried of by him unbeknownst to
folks. If Mr.. Tilden really coveted noun
tain, he would make an arrangement with the
New Hampshire Legislators to have the noun
tain transferred to corporation, and then
Uncle Sammy would soon pop up as the re-
ceiyer of the corporation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-09-16
The Song Of Triumph.
By R. P. Wright and A. H. Palmer.
The Most UsefuI and InterestIng Work
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The Concert and Secular Department contains large
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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
STATE ITEMS.

There is no Bible in the Blair county
almshouse.
George NJ. Morrow, aged 81 years, a
bookkeeper, Of Philadelphia, was drowned
by falling out of a boat ON Darby creek.
A case of smallpox has appeared in
Pittston. The victim has family eight
children. all Of whom, it is feared, may
contract the disease.
Ella Stevenson, an insane girl, who was
kept an home, in McCandless township
near Pittsburgh, killed her father, IS
years, by kicking him in the stomach, y. s.
terday, during fit Of maniacal excite
ment
The manner in which the reorganization
Of the Pennsylvania militia has been ac-
complishcd to bring the soldiery within the
scope Of the S220, 900 annual appropriation
which has become a law Of the state,
meets with the approval Of Major General
John F. Hartranft.
A cat near Lackawaxen had three
kittens which died, and boy who had
found three young rabbits put them in the
place of the kittens. The cat has adopted
them, suckles them and apparently is as
fond of them as if they were kittens. while
the little rabbits take to their adopted
mother and thrive.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-19
TRAGEDY IN THE WEST.
Bloody FI:nt Among Indians.

Greenleaf, small village in the Chero-
kce nation, about 80 miles west of Fort
Smith, was the scene last Saturday of one
Of the most horrible tragedies ever ell
acted Oh even that sanguinary soil. The
Creek and Cherokee Indians held Il barbe-
cue on that day, preparatory to nominal
ing candidates for the annual election,
which takes place next Monday. AS usual
on such occasions, whisky flowed freely as
mythical milk and honey flows in the
Promised Land. Among those present
were two full-blooded Indians, Bill ,Lovett
and Deer Track. Between these two per-
sons and two half-breeds named General
Grant and Jim Satterwaite deadly feud
existed, and when whisky began to circu-
late trouble commenced brewing. In a
4 fit of frenzy Deer Track made onslaught
cral Immediately. and a hundred knives
and pistols flashed in the sunlight. The
combatants seemad like infuriated demons
and fought with desperation. Knife
clashed against knife. and occasionally Il
navy six rang out. They neither gave nor
asked quarter. For two hours bloody
conflict ragged. At its close. seven dead
and 4 score of wounded attcsted it's bitter
and deadly earnestness The full-blood
faction remained masters of the field and,
with their usual savagery began the work
of mut;lating the dead bodies Of their vic
emies. The heads of Jim Satterwaite
and his father were severed from their
bodies and were carried on poles in a pro-
cession. The bodies of the other victims
werd horribly mutilated. No arrests
have been made nor arc the authorities
endeavoring to make arrests.