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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-19
Pansies.

! send the pansies while the year Is young,
Yellow ms sunshine, purple ~ the night;
Flowers Of ~rcmembrancc, ever fOndly sung
BY all the chicf,.st of tho IONS OF Light;
And IL IL recollection lives regret
For wasted days and dreams that were not
true,
I tell thee that tho ''pansy frcaked with j0t"
Is still the h"a 1T s-casc that the poets knew.
Take al the sweetness Of q gift u%nsOught,
And fer the pansies send mt back = thought.
SARAH DOUDNEY.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-19

A bright little boy. who had been en-
gagged in combat with another boy, was
reproved by his aunt, who told him he
ought always to wait till the other boy
''pitched upon" him. "Well," ex-
planned the little hero, ''but il L wait
for the other boy to begin. I'm afraid
shara WON'T he any frhtn
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-19
ArgOnaut.

There is said to be one more survivor
of the Dartm0or massacre in David
Wingate. OF Rochester, N. H.. who is
81 years old.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-19

The four or five colonies Of Catholic
Irishmen in Minnesota now number
nearly ten thousand families.
, 1881-05-18
FALL OF A CHURCH TOWER.

About 2 o'clock on the morning o f15
April the inhabitants Of that part of
Chester near the ancient cathedral church
OF st. John were reused by the crash Of
falling masonry and the changing of bells.
Half Of the venerable tower of st. Johns
Church, 15Oft. high, which was a landmark
for the surrounding country, had fallen,
and with it had come several Of the bells.
An immense crack, which had extended
from the summit. to the base for years
past, had, after the rigour OF the past win
ter, opened more widely, and the whole
tower had given such signs of insecurity
that the authorities of the church had
taken steps to repair it, These precau-
tions, however, came too late, for on the
north side the tower was then evidently
giving way, aud was pronounced unsafe
by tine builder engaged on the work. The
church itself and the abbey adjoining date
from Saxon times, aud the tower, built of
the red sandstone OF the district, 10 the
early English style of architecture, was
one of its most beautiful features. In the
tower was peal OF eight bells, the most
melodious in the city, and five of these
lay buried in the ruins, while lhe other
three remain suspended in the belfry by
the mosr slender support. Fortunately
no lives have been lost, aud the body of
1he church has not suffered except to a
slight extent, the tower being isolated
from it. The most serious loss is the
eotire destruction of a very massive and
beautiful English porch ard gateway.
The half Ot the tower which ia still Rtand-
ing is in a very precarious state. Times
, 1881-05-18
THE UNITED STATES CENSUS.

The computers of the United States census
OF 1880, after having asoertained the tota,
population of the country, proceeded to snpa-
rate it into the native and foreign born and
the white and ether races. In the aggregate
the population is 5o,152,S6 Of which
43,475 sos are native horn and 6,677, 800 TO-
reign born, while of the total 43.404,976 are
whites, 6,577,151 coloured, 105 III Asia,ics,
aud 65,122 Indians mingled with white men
and not under tribal relations or living upon
reservations. Compared with the census of
1870, when the total populationwas 80, 5S9, 377;
the foreign born, 5,767,299; the Asialics,
56,l97; the civilized Indians, 25,731 and
the coloured people, 4,SS0,0e9, the relative
increase is shown to be about 80 pr. cent.
In the total population, while the coloured
have gained nearly 80 per cent. and the TO-
reign born but Is per cent. TIE foreign in
crease is, of course, entirely by immigration,
as the children of foreign parents born here
are enumerated as native born, The natives,
It will be seen, increase at a much faster rate
than the immigrants, large as the in-fOwing
tide has been.
To examining the relative numbers of native
and foreign born, it is found that while the
foreigners were equal to nearly II per cent.
of the natives in 1870, the proportion
had decreased to about 15 1S per cent in 1880.
The territorial distribution of the foreign born
is also very III Unequal. In Nevada they are
equal to 20 per cent. of the native born, while
10 North Carolina the proportion is barely /
OF | per cent. In Arizona the foreigners are
cog per cent, in Dakota 62 per cent; in Min
~nesota, So per cent; and in California, 81
per cent. Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wisconsin,
and Wyoming report 40 per cent. or over.
New York has 81 per cent. Massachuss cts
33 per cent. ;Rhode Island, 363 per cent;
Michigan, 81 per cent and Connecticut
&c per cent. Pennsylvania reports 16 per
cent. Ohio. ID per cent. Iowa, IL per cent;
and Kansas, II per cent. Delaware. Florida,
Louisiana, Kentucky. Maryland, Texas. and
West Virginia have less than 10 per cent,
and the remainder of the South less than 2
per cent, while Indiana in the North is under
8 per cent. and Maine under 10 per CO Mt.
The South, which has the most negroes. is,
excepting in the States above mentioned,
practically without any foreign element, show
, 1881-05-18

naval stores had even to part with all they
could spare, and the cold was often so Sc
we're that it was impossible to warm our
rooms with peat and frewood. can as
sure you it has been a dear winter for us,
the stocks of petroleum, groceries, &c,
being almost exhausted. Fortunately the
Sound is now open, and several steamers
have. arrived and sailed still prices are as
dear as ever, and will not fall before larger
arrivals come to hand. We could not have
been worse Off in many respects ever if we
had been besieged by an enemy. Although
the ice in the South is burst by the late
storms, the weather is still as wintry as
ever, frost every night, and one 10Y
storm after another. No mail has reached
us for two days,'-& Th0m@ TideDde.
, 1881-05-18

for five days and nights, the wind
still blowing with great violence, and
seas breaking yer the vessel. Several
of the crew entered the l~azarette and
broke through the bulkhead into the
hold, and in this manne jettisoned
about 1912 tons of the cargo. It was
then seen that the water was coming
in large quantities through the
seams in the deck. When the vessel
was in this disabled condition the
German barque Leopoldine Fraude
hove in sight and rescued the men on
the 9Th ult. Next morning it was
found that the Leopoldine Fraude
was in a sinking state, and a large
quantity of her cargo vas thrown
overheard. She was laden with oil
cake, and was going to Queenstown
from Galveston for orders. The
crew had been pumping for two
weeks, the stem having been serious
ly injured by the waves. On the 1st
inst. the N~ovaScotian vessel Northern
Chief hove in sight, and the Leopol-
dine Fraude was abandoned by her
own crew and the crew she had res
cued. The men GO in number)
could save little of their clothes, and
when they reached the succouring
vessel they found that she was short
of water. They remained on board
the Northern Chief with scarcely any
water to drink tor five days, and on
the 9th inst. the Spanish steamer
Eduardo came in sight and received
them all on board. Two days pre-
vious to this, however, the Allan
steamer scandinavian, bound to
Liverpool, was spoken, and in re-
Spouse to the distress signals she bore
down to the assistance of the Northern
Chief. She steamed round the vessel
nearly half. a-dozen times with the
object of getting an opportunity to
launch a lifeboat, but this she could
not do or account OF the terribly high
sea running and the violent gale
which was blowing, and was at last
compelled to proceed on her course.
When the Eduardo was sighted the
weather was fn~e.-I5id.
, 1881-05-18

STRANGE EXPERIENCES ATSEA.-The
crews of two vessels abandoned at
sea Zone crew was mourned as
drowned) have just arrived at Liver
pool in the steamer Eduardo. The
crew supposed to have been lost be-
longed to the barque Alfred, and they
met with some strange experiences.
The Alfred was partially dismasted
on the voyage out from Liverpool TO
Para. From the latter place she pro-
ceeded to Bull River, whence she
sailed for Plymouth with a cargo of
phosphate rock When out only a
few days she met with bad weather,
and her foremost shroud gave way,
placing the mast in danger. A cy-
clone was subsequently encountered
and on the 18th of February the YES
sci sprang a leak. The men pumped
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
A Pie.PIant Leaf as Big as a Table.

About three weeks ago the local of
the Union gave notice of mammoth
pie-plant that is now growing on the
premises of j. w. Higgins in Sherman's
addition. We stated at the time that the
largest leaf of this plant, grown from
seed put in the ground on the Goth of
last April, measured seventeen feet in
circumference. Our contemporaries
criticised us as though we were the lin
cal descendant of the celebrated Baron
Munchausen, and had inherited all the
leading traits of our noted ancestor.
This treatment, of course, has been as
a thorn in our flesh ever since. We
vowed that we would get even. We
are now ready to vindicate our honor as
a truthful journalist. Yesterday we
measured that leaf in the presence of
two witnesses-Mr. Higgins and DR..
Port Its circumference was twenty
one feet and nine inches. There is no
"shenanigan'' about this. The plant is
somewhat the shape of palm-leaf fan,
with smooth edge, and not full of
deep scallops, as has been surmised by
those who had not seen it.
Mr.. Higgins, who was formerly an
iowa farmer of the old school, has
many other ''big things growing
alongside of this pie-plant. We saw
beet of six weeks growth that meas
nred three feet one and half inches in
circumference, and a turnip of the same
noe one foot eleven and a half inches in
circumference. We also saw a small
hush, transplanted last spring, that bore
4 ounce which measured eleven and
balf inches in circumference; fig cut
TING. planted about the same time, is
bearing fruit. Besides these there were
souashes. watermelons, muskmelons,
tomatoes and flowers, all growing in
tronical luxuriance. The man who
Who wrote a little book entitled, "Five
Acres Too Much,' must have seen a
duplicate of Mr., Higgins place; The
ondount of .'truck'' on that lot OF 1O0x20O
feet feet is something simply amazing. We
I have seen ''pore'' farmers with good,
s;red ranch who couldn't make as good
? showing. San Diego (OaI.) Of''on.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
Fashions at Mt. Desert


At Mt. Desert, says the american
Queen, the fashion has been for some
years for the men to wear flannel shlrts'
Knickerbockers, little skull-caps and a
pipe, for so seemingly necessary ana
universal is the last article that it may
be classed as portion of their attlrei
while the girls dress in heavy short
dresses of dark blue or white hannel'
with silk handkerchiefs of contrasting
colors jauntily placed around their
necks. This last summer, however
the dressing has gone beyond all bounds,
and has been more eccentric than un-
conventional. The girls, who on leay
ing for Mt. Desert, told their dress
makers to send them something thai
would look effective against a rock,
certainly accomplished their desires
or the rocks and islands of the lovely
spots are said to have resembled varle'
gated tulip-beds on afternoons OF the
2ast few weeks. One man wore a red
and white striped jacket, and was
dubbed the animated peppermint
stick" another very short individual oil
facetious turn, who wore striking
costume, was called "a joke in Knick-
erbockers;" while still another is said
to have worn white flannel Knicker-
rockers, crimson stockings, cap 50
small as to be held in place by an elias
tic' and to have had his front hair
banged and held in place by ''front
hair-net.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

We wonder if grass widows ever
have hay fever?-C Cambridge Tribune.
Never Judge bed by its cover or
the beauty of its head. What seems so
tempting may prove pillow sham.-N.
Y. Commercial ADVERTISER.
Don't tell young man who is
wrestling with his maiden mustache
that he looks down in the mouth. 1t
isn't kind. Huntington HdUk-Eye.
Lot used to speak of his wife as the
salt of the earth. She was never &C
cused of being too fresh after that Sod
ON and Gomorrah episode. Boston
Transcript.
"A Kentucky man has been married
in the same house and by the same min
lister to four sisters. He is looking
around for another able-bodied family
when he runs through the one now in
hand. detroit Free Press.
A boy fourteen years of age was
brought before the San Antonio Re-
corder for being drunk and disorderly,
but the official only fined him two dol
lars and half, remarking that he only
charged children half price.-7eras
Sytings
They couldn't get the boy to take
an emetic anyhow. But the doctor
knew boy nature. He had the boys
father forbid him to smoke, and then
went and got a bootblack to propose to
the boy to get out behind the barn and
try his first Havana. And no emetic
was needed. Boston Post.
The Ras~ sasr of the Erie girl of the
are small, tapering and beautifully
shaped, her ii are as brilliant as the ~,
and she is without her frown is
+, and her figure excites /! ! of surprise
and hankering ~ her.-YonkerS Ga
zette.
Were we Yonkers printer,
We'd to some place,
And lock her form up tightly,
Within our fond -
oil City Derrick.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
Russia,s Colonization Scheme.

The plan of Russia to settle forty
thousand families in the country to the
south of Vladivostok, her most South
ern port on the Pacific coast, becomes
all the more significant when viewed in
connection with the treaty she has Just
ratified, after three years of weary ne
gotiations, with her persistent Chinese
neichbors. By this treaty she has vol
UNFAIRLY given up to its former owners
the fertile province of Kuldja, or the
ancient Iii, lying directly north of the
Kashpar Valley, and one of the few pos.
sessions she had in Asia which yielded
any revenue. China thus acquires her
ancient western boundary, and her en-
pire is restored to its pristine limits. II
was eighteen years ago, at the time
of the Mohammedan uprising,
that Kuldja was released from Chinese
hands, and for ten years past it has beer
under the sway of the Russian Car.
China, by the treaty. pays some pecu.
mary indemnity, but it is little more
than fair return for heavy expenses
Russia was put to last year, and the
payment of it is extended over a period
of two years, while Chinese occupation
of the province begins at an early date.
Other concessions made to Russia relate
entirely to trade. They include the
right to enter China by another passage
through the Great Wall, there having
been for Russian merchants heretofore
only one passage way in 200 years. 1t
does not appear, however, that Russian
trade will derive any important increasS
from this second gate, which lies at th,E
western end of the Great Wall. To the
north of it there is vast steppe, with
out towns and almost without roads,
while to the south extend the barren
table lands of Thibet, neither Of which
countries would be of any startling
service in the development If trade.
Even the tribes that now live there have
grim struggle for existence, and what
Russia can lind of satisfaction in this
concession for the surrender Of Kuldja
it is impossible to see. Elsewhere. if
anywhere, her satisfaction evidently
must be found. She will, al least, it is
believed, obtain in China, a neutral
Asiatic power, for China, having now
acquired her ancient boundary, and al
tory beyond that, might easily remain
Indifferent to Russian conquests else
where in Asia. 1t is perfectly well
known that for more than generation
Russia has desired on the Pacific coast a
harbor that would remain open for the
year. She did not get this in Nicolai-
evsk at the mouth Of the Amoor, nor
has she realized in Vladivostok, farther
south, on the Sea of Japan, what she
expected. On the Corean coast, oppo-
site Vladivostok, there is a port known
as Lazaretf, which would be, reports af-
firm, all that Russia could desire. Her
sending forty thousand families-the
population of small city-into that
neighborhood, makes it look extremely
suspicious whether the Asiatic eye of
Russia is not now fixed upon Corea-or
enough of it to secure the first-class
Asiatic port she SO much desires.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Cincinnati has eighteen Methods.
churches. The highest salary is 81, 500
the lowest 1886.
Joseph Cook writes from Germarr
that the rationalistic theological nro'
lessons are now attracting fewer stn.
dents than the evangelical ones.
Rev. John Hemphill, of San Fran
cisco, is being tried for heresy in IN.
holding the views of Mrs. Sarah s
Cooper, cousin of Robert G. Incar,-
soil, who conducts three kindergarten
schools in that city.
The fact that Bishop Riley. of tbo
Protestant Episcopal Church, is wealtIE
is felicitous circumstance for the wor,,
in Mexico, of which he has charge. Ha
has thus far spent out of his own means
$40, 900 for this work.
THERE'S now an Evangelical Church
of l, 400 souls at Ur of the Chaldees. the
modern Urfa. An Armenian weaver
was converted at Aintab, and returning
to Urfa, combined evangelical work WITH
his daily toll with the above result. =
President Darling, of Hamilton Col.
lege, announces that that institution hos
lately received $4,000 from the estate
of the late James Knox, of Knoxville
Ill. The original bequest was $50 00O'
but the estate has been subject to con.
siderable litigation.
MIR. James Arlington, of Leedo
has offered the Wesleyan Foreign NiS'
sion Society $4,000 as the nucleus of q
fund for establishing Wesleyanism in
Central Africa, along the line OF M
territories visited by Livingstone and
Stanley, and an appeal is made to
Methodist young men to 90 as mission
ary ministers.
The experiment in teaching indus
trial and decorative art in the Philadel-
phia public schools is reported to be
thoroughly succe ssful one. Metal work,
painting, wood-carving, hammered
brass decorations, needlework. ETC.,
have been taught in connection with
the regular work of the schools, and the
pupils have shown interest, persever-
ance and aptitude.
The Bulgarians are said to have
made rapid strides in the field of public
instruction. In all towns and villages
are schools, either communal or gov
eminent, and more than sixty per cent.
OF the children are in attendance. The
teachers are men of good education, and
no profession in the principality is con-
sidered more honorable nor is more
honorably filled than that of school
master
The French Senate on the 4th of
July passed an amendment providing
for religious instruction in the element
airy schools. This measure was ad-
vanced by M. Jules Simon and was car
ried by vote of 139 to 126. BY the
provisions of the bill teachers are or
dered to instruct their pupils in their
duties toward God. 1t is not thought
likely that the Chamber of Deputies
will approve of the measure. and the
Government will probably withdraw it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
How Speech Was Reported Without
# Notes. -

The other day while a Journal re-
porter was sitting in Governor Porte1's
private room with both feet noncha-
lantly perched upon the costly rose
wood secretary, the Governor was in
one of his storytelling moods. and was
entertaining the reporter and few
other distinguished gentlemen who had
dropped in to pay their respects.
Among other things he was telling
something of the history of Indiana in
the days of the late Jesse ID. Bright,
when that gentleman was scanning the
political horizon. 1t was when Mr..
Bright had been elected to the United
States Senate, and had just retired from
the Lieutenant Governorship, and upon
his retirement made very celebrated
speech, which Mr.. Carnahan, who was
then Legislative reporter for the Jour
nal, had failed to report, not being
present when the speech was delivered,
on account of sickness.
At that time Governor Porter was a
roommate of Carnahan, and the latter,
knowing the responsibility of his posi-
ton as reporter, was compelled to
make showing of some kind in the
shape of a speech, and there was no
other means by which any could be had
other than by having one written, and
it fell upon Governor Porter to write it.
Mr.. Porter consented to accommodate
his friend, and wrote what purported
to be Bright's speech, although the
Governor was not present when the
speech was delivered, and had neither
seen anyone who had heard it. Mr..
Porter exerted some diligence in max
ing it as brilliant as possible, and what
he supposed Mr.. Bright should have
said. After he had finished the speech
he took it and read it to Brights broth
er, Michael, who, after having listened
to it, pronounced it good speech, and
said it was what his brother should have
said, whether he did or not. The
speech appeared in print as the Gov
ernor had written it. The next day,
and for weeks afterward, Bright was
anxious to know the author of the
speech, but never found it out until
Governor Porter became q member of
Congress while Bright was Senator on
his second term, and then the Governor
Oold him the history and secret of the
speech. Bright acknowledged it to
have been good speech, and compli-
mented the Governor on his ability az
a speech-writer. They were ALWAYS
warm personal friends thereafter until
Mr., Bright's death, Notwithstanding the
political agitation brought on by the
war; which resulted in Bright's expul-
SION from the Senate. -India,adpoIis
Journal. 'O''''