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Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
RECORD OF CRIME.

Lee Tucker of Battle Creek Mich, took
dose of strychnine while drunk, and died short
ly after.
At Montreal T. F. O'Brien has been found
guilty of uttering receipt for 81 ,OU,, know
ing it to be forgery Two similar charges
are yet pending.
A man named Goodwin, in Jail at Clearfield,
Pa, for larceny was killed by fellow prisoner
named Evans, in quarrel about an abandoned
woman named Sample.
In Montana one John Douglas shot and
mortally wounded young woman named Alice
carp. From the statements of his victim, it is
inferred that Douglas wanted to marry her, ard
his tiendish act is attributed to her refusal to
do So
At Sunburg, Pa, While Mrs. Hover and
family were at dinner, a daughter aged seven
teen, and son, aged fourteen, quarreled. The
boy left the table, and, returning with a shot
gun, fatally shot his sister. The boy gives as
reason for the crime: ''They would not give
me enough to eat.
All Luck, Chinaman, was hanged at Nevada
City for the murder of a fellow -countryman,
May IS, 1879. He was baptized by a Catholic
clergyman, and seemed resigned to his fate, but
affirmed his innocence on the gallows. He
spokea few moments calmly, and broke down
completely when the straps were adjusted to
his limbs.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

TIE resignation of Homer E. Sargent,
as general manager of the Northern Pacific
RAILROAD, is generally regretted all along the
line, and by the directors as well, if their
resolution extolling his faithfulness and
ability, are not entirely complimentary
The question naturally arises, why did he
resign, and that is easily answered. Though
occupying the position of general manager
he claims that he was not allowed to ex-
ercise what he deemed the just prerogatives
of his position, and was compelled to divide
the legitimate authority and responsibility
of management with other operating Of
fiicials. He protested, the directors in
sisted, and the result was his resignation,
which was reluctantly accepted. A de-
cision as to which was in the right cannot
readily be made without full knowledge of
all the facts, and. indeed, it is unnecessary.
General Haupt who is reported to be en-
tirely competent in every respect, takes the
management subject to the conditions
which were so distasteful to Gen. Sargent.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Another Sensational Performance of the Great
Preacher.

Another Sensational Performance of the Great
Preacher.
A deep hush fell upon Plymouth church last
Sunday, and every ear was strained when
Beecher said he would relate an incident which
he had never spoken of before He remarked
playfully that he would now tell it confidential
Iy s'There came to me-" he said " member
Of my own church, the mother of young wo-
man, who said her daughter had become fasci-
mated with Roman worship and wanted to unite
with that church. said to her: Tell your
child to wait one year, until her own mind and
judgment are settled, and if, at the end of that
time, she shall find that she is drawn nearer to
God and to heaven through that church, let
her come, and We will take her by the hand
and carry her to the door, At the end
of the year che was still anxious to
enter that church, and I sat down
and wrote letter to an honorable Catholic pas
tor of this city and said: This lamb has found
greener pastures in your fields than in mine. ,
She Joined the Catholic church, and is to-day a
happy Christian girl in that communion" Any
one could have heard pin drop while Beecher
was telling this, and there is now what is called
quite sensation He added: 81 could do it
again if it were necessary, for when speak of
unity, of all that believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ mean it don't believe in external
unity, but believe in internal unity" In this
connection the preacher also said: 81 would
rather ride in the most ragged third class car
that was ever put on the railroad if it would
take me nearer home than in the most luxurious
parlor car that was ever built if it would take
me further from home"
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

Mr.. KIRKwooD, of Iowa, the venerable
secretary of the interior, thinks the civili-
zation of the Indians peculiar and diff
cult problem. He is reported to have said
recently, that when the young brave, after
days of hard and vexatious labor, has fairly
broken his wild pony to the plough, the wo-
men of his acquaintance and family will
gather about him and taunt him for doing
squaws' work; offering him articles of their
own fernaleEapparel as suitable for his pres
ent occupation. He is angered and ashamed,
abandons his plough, mounts his pony,
rides off, gives up agricultural life, and
henceforth devotes his valuable life to the
consumption Of government rations and IL
icit whisky. Thisis strong presentation
OF the case, though it contains elements of
truth. But the situation is not SO bad as
formerly. Tie women are becoming more
acquainted with the comforts attending civ
ilized life and are breaking away from saw
age traditions; they also realize the diff
ference between their own condition and
that Of white women whose comforts is sed-
uously guarded by husbands, sons and
fathers.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Beauty and its Disappointments.

From tofneys Progress.
Beauty in woman is a powerful weapon.
We all know what havoc, what transforma-
tions and quarrels the faverites of the kings
have caused; then, as in our day, beauty
could call smile to the sourest visage,
draw money from the closest pockets, make
Of strong statesman purring boy" Why
wonder, then, that it is so frequently turned
from its true course. Greater constitutions
thar those of our sex are shattered by fiat
terry. The beauty is the recipient daily of
compliments spoken and as many more
implied. She is courted, sought after, put
on pedestal wherefrom she looks down
upon her, less favored sisters. Then
comes the awakening. Hers is an
enviable condition for time; She is asked
to give back that which was but a transitory
gift. Rocheburne says: "A woman finds
nothing in this world SO difficult as accus-
toming herself to being no longer beautiful
when she has once been charming.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

AT late meeting of farmers club in
Western Massachusetts, it is reported that
President Stockbridge, who was to have
read paper on the comparative profit of
farming in the West and New England was
not present, but the subject was discussed,
and the sentiment of the club, as in for
mer discussion, was in favor of advising
the young men not to go West but to stay
upon the home farms. This is the stereo-
type announcement of the result of all
similar discussions at the east, but somehow
the boys do not accept such advice, and
HE themselves to the fertile west ;and who
shall say that in this matter, at least, they
are not wiser than the old folks at home,
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

First reports from vermilion stated that thirty
persons were carried away in the food, bnt q
later report from that point says that no human
lives were Lost, but a large amount Of stock was
drowned; the Instructions to live stock in the
bottoms is immense, the deep SHOWS in ravines
Leading to the hills rendering it almost impos-
siDie for the animals to escape when the floods
came upon them. =
The river at Yankton is now aboutften miles
wide and thirty three feet above the low water
mark
At Bismarck and Mandan the gorge has brok-
sufficiently to let the water out and confine
he river to it's channel
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
ELECTIONS,
Some of the Results of ApriI E,ectious.

SOWc VI Cne hesulCs O1 april E'eCC1onSs
John T.. Rich, Republican, was elected to
congress in the Seventh Michigan district
to succeed Hon. o. D. Conger, trans
ferred to the senate, by majority of 8, 900 or
upwards. Mr.. Rich was speaker Of the last
two houses Of the state legislature and member
Of the state senate. The Republican majority
on the state ticket fer supreme judge and uni
versity regents at the election yesterday is esti-
mated, from the returns thus far received, to
be 10000
In Wisconsin the democrats made local gains,
because of the passage Of the anti treating law
Orsamus Cole is elected chief justice Of the su-
preme court; J..B Cassoday, associate Justice
no opposition. Only two circuit judges were
elected, J. G. Sloan, Democrat in the third cir
cult without opposition, and Col c. A. Hamil-
ton, Republican, in Milwaukee. A light vote
was polled in most localities throughout the
state. Everywhere Germans cut the Repub-
the anti-treating law. A democrat was
el ected IN Madison by 627 majority. In
La Crosse, Smiley, rep, elected mayor; In Eau
Claire, DR.. E. ]. Parr, dem, mayor; Chip
pewa Falls, q republican mayor; In Chicago
Carter Harrison, DEM, was re- elected mayor,
and the democrats carried the entire city and
In Cincinnati, VIM. Means, (dem. was elected
mayor, but other city officers are republicans.
In st. Louis, Ewing, independent was elected
mayor against OverstaltZ (dem.)
In Omaha, the democrats elected James e.
Boyd, for mayor, and carried the general city
ticket
MINNESOTA ELECTIONS.
In Minneapolis, Buxton (den.) the present
city treasurer was reelected The democrats
elected aldermen in two wards, the republicans
III three, and one independent 1t is noted as
remarkable TACT, that only five or six women
voted for school officers.
In most of the other cities and towns politics
did not enter into the contest to much extent
Lake City elected the temperance ticket. with
J. M. Underwood for mayor, and voted against
license; Hastings elected for mayor John Byers
frep.); Duluth elected J. D. Ensign (rep1 for
mayor; P. Dick, mayor of St Peter; j. O.
Lawrence. rep.l mayor CT Wabasha; ia
cob Frankenfield, mayor Of Henderson;
Whitten, (ep.l mayor Of Rochester, John H
Allen, mayor OF Fergus Falls; Henry w. Lam
bertoa, (dem.) mayor Of Winona; H. r. Wells,
(dem.) mayor of Preston; M g. Butterfield.
(rep. mayor Of Anoka; G. G. Davis, mayor of
Crookston; j. j. Green, (dem) may or Of lie
Sueur; George Austine, mayor of Rushford
Horace W: Pratt, tdem.) mayor of Faribault; j.
A. Wiswell, (dem.) mayor Of Mankato: B, A.
Mann, (rep.l mayor Of Lanesboro
Kasson, Mantorville, Rochester, Window.
Preston, and Anoka, voted for license and Lake
City voted against license.
Farm ont, by an almost unanimous vote. car
ried the proposition to give So, 900 bonus Ia
aid in the building of the court house.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

The New York Public reaches the con-
clusion that heavy imports of gold are
the fact that the balance between exports
and imports of merchandise for the first
two months of the year is more favorable
to the United States by $50 ,579,334 than
for the first two months of 1880. The Lon
don Economist of March u, says that ex-
ports of gold to this country are not antici-
pated in London, but admits that country
which has taken $15O,OOO,OOO in the past
two years may repeat its drain of gold next
foil
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

AN incident of the burning of the State
capital at st. Paul has found its way into
Louisville paper. 1t is the story of lady,
who watched the flames at night from a
window, and says she observed that the
stars and stripes were flying above the little
dome Would the flag be reached and
consumed? The dome was blazing and
the flames shot up towards the national en-
blem, creating tremendous draft, which
drew the flag straight upward, but it held
to its fastenings, and the fire got nearer and
nearer every instant Just as the flames
had attained height sufficient to take in
the struggling bunting it broke away, sailed
towards the heavens and disappeared.
The fire had not touched it. The banner
of the fathers was saved. 1t is touching
relation and inspires patriotic thrill, but
truth must be indicated at the expense
of sentiment. The flag didn't break away
didn't sail towards the heavens but was
caught by the flames and shrivelled into
ashes, in much less time than it takes to
tell the pretty story Of it's disappearance.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
RAILROADS..

Secretary Window is put down as owning
2, 146 shares of stock in the Northern Pacific
railroad.
passenger train on the Southern Minnesota
division was run to Jackson on the 4th for the
first time since January 10.
H. c. Mccullough, freight agent of the Vino
ma & St Peter road. has been appo nted to the
same position on the Galena & Iowa division of
the Chicago 4 Northwestern road, with head
quarters at Chicago.
The Hastings & Dakota division, recently one
of the most effectively blockaded railroads in
the state of Minnesota, is the first to fully over
come the snow and present clear track from
one end of the line to the other. This has been
accomplished by the united efforts of 1000
men and four snow w-plows.
The Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul road an
nounces the following summer rates, all rail
to go into effect April IL: To ST. Paul, Mime
apolis, Saltwater, and Hudson, 20 cents per
100 pounds; to points on the Mississippi river,
Hastings, Lake City, Red Wing, Wabasha, 20
cents per 100 pounds; Winona, La Crosse,
Caledonia Junction, Waukon, Prairie du CHEN,
McGregor, Turkey river, 17la cents per 100
pounds.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

JAMES E. MURDOCH, the veteran
Shakespearean scholar and actor, whose res
idence has been in Cincinnati for quarter
of a century, has left that city with the in
tention of spending the remainder of his
days in Massachusetts. His farewell read
ing in Pixies opera house, at Cincinnati,
under the auspices of the Unity club, Is
represented as perfect ovation, and re-
called the night in the same building, when
Murdock read, while the ink was yetwet on
the sheets for the first time, "Sheridan's
ride" and sent those words of fire, as only
he could send them, to thrilled audience.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

SEVENTEEN leading trade and CONNER
cial centres report that the value of busi-
ness done in the first quarter of the current
year fell behind that transacted dur
ing the corresponding portion of 1880. The
unusual severity and lingering character of
the winter weather, with the lack of trans
fer faculties, occasioned by blockaded rail-
roads, combined to produce this result. The
outlook, however, is bright for brisk bust
ness during the spring and summer.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Bradlaugh has been reelected to the house
of commons
Sir John Mcdonald, the Canadian premier,
who has been in ill health for some time past,
is again reported seriously ill.
The will of the late Thomas Carlyle, in
paragraph expressing strong feeling of good
will towards America and especially New Eng
land, gives the books he used in writing the
lives Of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick the
Great to Harvard university.
Occasional shocks of earthquakes are still
felt at Scio All the open spaces in the town
are filled with wounded, many of whom are in a
are still under the ruins. Survivors are emil
grating in all directions There are far more
victims of damage in the villages than towns.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Great Flood on the Missouri,

At Omaha there is now at the highest high
wator mark eighteen feet above low water
mark, and is still rising The smelling works
have been flooded and have been compelled to
shut down.
The agent Of the Milwaukee & st Paul rail.
road at vermillion, d., reports that all but two
swept away. The water is up the roofs Of the
cars at the depot and at Yankton the water is up
to the front Of jerks hotel, twenty-one feet
above the low water mark, and rising six inches
an hour. The gorge has caused the river to
run out of it's channel and 1t is filing the bluffs
from Yanktoh to vermillion, on the Iowa side.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Communism in New York.

from the NEW IOrK IrlDune.
meeting in the interests of the high
rent movement was held recently A number
of speeches were made, principally in German
Samuel Schakerairtz reported that the organ
ization in the eighth assembly district had de-
cided to Boycott every shoemaker, grocer,
butcher and other tradesmen who did not join
the movement He considered that high rents
led to the use of smaller apartments, causing
immortality and disease. If nothing else we're
done he thought it possible, at least, to enforce
sanitary laws and compel landlords to furnish
better accommodations. James Ryan said prop
erty in earth must go, and denounced the
s'gormandizing landlords, those dregs, those
clogs upon the wheels of progress, who tear
out the hearts of our wives and children, that
they may live in idleness and luxury on the
sweat Of our brows."
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

The Official Price Of School Books in Minnesota
Superintendent of Public Instruction Burt
has, as by law directed, fixed the following
prices upon school books, the respective sums
being large enough to cover the cost Of trans
initial:
Cents
Common acho0l smaller -. 3. LIZ
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
The New Testament Revision,

The Rev. DR.. Phillip Schaff, member of the
American committee on the revision of the New
Testament, makes some interesting statements
in an interview with correspondent in New
York. He says that there is scarcely verse in
that venerated volumes, but that has been
altered, yet at the end of five years
he expects to see the new version,
acceptedly by all but the most narrow minded
person. Mr.. Schaff says eve have worked
between two fires, the radical wanting far more
sweeping changes than we would sanction and
the other party rolling their eyes in horror
whenever comma was transposed or small
letter replaced by capital" American pub
fishers advertise the revised work at as low as
fifteen cents each when issued
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Terms: $500 per Year In Advance.

The Baldwin locomotive works, at Phil
adelphia, have contracted to deliver $50 To-
comotives in Mexico, to be shipped as
wanted, and all to be finished by Jan. l,
1sS3-half for passenger engines and the
remainder for freight and general use.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Introductory geography. ................
Gnmmnn ach00l eaoDranhY ..--.-.
Jurtiss's Manual of Penmanship

Curtlss's MANUAL OF PenmanshIp. .6I IL
The moneys received by the clerk or agent of
any school district for books, sold ~ him in
pursuance of the provisions of the act referred
to, are to be paid quarterly to the treasurer of
the same district, for the use and benefit of
such district
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Profits of f,onanza Fmin .

From the Fargo Republican.
2 There is whole volume in the following fig
ures, from the bookkeeeper Of the Grandin
farm, last year:
Recapitnlation Of crop report
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
EARTHQUAKE.
One OF the Most Disastrous Ever Recorded
Three Thousand Lives Lost.

Three Thousand Lives Lost.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 4th says:
strong shock Of earthquake at Scio, in the is
land of that name yesterday, destroyed many
houses and seriously damaged nearly all left
standing. Later cables say tina: many inhabit-
ants were killed, and the remainder encamped
in fields. Many neighboring villages were de-
stroyed During the panic which ensued the
Eastern Telegraph company's Offices were pill
laged. Shocks were also felt in the islands of
Syria and Smyrna, but no damage is reported.
An Athens dispatch Of the same date says:
A government dispatch has been received con-
corning the earthquake at Scio, which states
that the number of persons killed and injured
is estimated at 8, 200. The shock was also felt
at Carsota and Constantinople There was fresh
shocks at Scio to day. The inhabitants are tax
ing refuge on beard the steamers in the harbor.
The governor and some of the officials have
quilted the town.
Scio is an island belonging to Turkey, off the
west coast of Asia Minor. Its length is, thirty
two miles, and its greatest breadth eigl teen
miles, while its area is 500 square miles. The
surface is very much diversified 1t is natural
ly one of the richest and most beautiful islands
Of the Levant, but it was many years recovering
from the desolation to which it was reduced by
the Turks during the Greek revolution.
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
Russias Acknowledgment.

The response of the Russian government to
the senate resolutions ON the assassination of
the ozar, a copy of Which was transmitted by
Secretary Blaine to the United States senate, is
in the form of letter from the Russian minis
ter of foreign affairs to Minister Foster, and
has the following paragraph: 'My august mas
ter has been profoundly touched by this mark
Of respect for his beloved father and of sympa-
thy with himself, coming from the high as
sembly of the country for which the deceased
emperor always professed the sincerest esteem
and warm friendship 1t is legacy which he
leaves to Emperor Alexander Ill, and which
his majesty, in accord with the Russian nation,
accepts from the bottom of his heart
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14
CURRENT EVENTS.

Fire at East Cambridge, Mass, destroyed
valued at $50, 900
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

Average crop Of wheat per acre, % bushels
and l l pounds. Profit, after allowing $15,-
600 interest on investment, at 10 per cent,
$5O, 900. The above figures are reliable, and
will be read with interest
Morris tribune., 1881-04-14

The morning session was devoted 10 the en-
animation of Witnesses for the defense, con.
densstion Of whose evidence is presented The
afadavit Of Mr. Empry, marshal Of Stevens
Point was partially admitted, showing Riley's
desire TO place Wood under surveillance.
Charles Riley, Jr., did not see John Riley 40
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-06-24

VITUPERATIoN IN PoLTTICs.--When ex-
Gov. Whyte declared, in one of his.letters
of acceptance of the Democratic nomina-
ton for mayor, that he would under no cir
cumstances engage in a canvass of personal
vituperation, he not only expressed a noble
sentiment, but a very wise one, and senti-
ment that cannot be too closely followed
and respected by every true party man.
Personal vituperation in party contests is
much to be deplored; but when it is in
dulged in between representative men, in
side party organization, 1t cannot be too
strongly condemned 1t is substitution
of petty prejudices for the reasons that
should enter into the selection of candi-
dates an abuse Of the liberty of consulta-
ton that wise men look to for unity Of &C
ton and aggressive power, and, in truth, is
kind OF mean vindictiveness, that ex-
presses itself under the shield of party de-
liberation.
The rule set for himself, by our Demo-
cratic candidate for mayor, should be kept
constantly in mind. 1t is well for us to re-
member that trifles not only affect ordinary
mortals, but sometimes great men, and often
determine grave events; and that personal
vindctiveness, in comparing the merits OF
men, is not the best evidence of purity of
purpose or fidelity of action. Therefore all
true party men should be prepared to look
on such exhibitions as nothing more or less
than "fap-doodle"-the stuff that fools are
fed on We have higher duties to attend
to and nobler aims to cherish. We have
great principles to defend, self-denying fl
deity to applaud, and a political future TO
conduct so wisely, that we may see at the
next presidential election the constitution
and liberty of the country turned over for
safekeeping to the Democratic party.-Bdt-
filll0re Gazette