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Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

for the founding of a college of music at ST.
000, 900, was not the intent in law of the tes-
tator, aud that the terms of the original
will shall hold. This evidently contemplates
the endowment of an institution for the bene-
fitof needy relatives who are to be the bene-
ticiaries under the terms of what seems to be q
somewhat singular will
The democrats of the Virginia general as
sembly honored United States Senator Johnston
with a denomination. The readjusters have u
majority of twenty-six on joint ballot
The total coal shipments from Pittsburg on
the late rise were z, $50, 600 bushels Of which
5,442, ,0G0 were for Louisville and 2, 123, 900
for Cincinnati.
Charles T. Deacon, inspector of customs al
Philadelphia, and representative of a number
of insurance companies, is missing since the
10th inst
1t is stated that Judge Devens will be ap-
pointed to succeed Judge Gray of the supreme
court of Massachusetts,
The r. NJ. Deuham 4 Co, fruit canvassing
company, of Cincinnati, has made an assign
ment
]. T. Warren & Co., wholesale grocers. Gin
cinnati, have failed. Liabilities not given.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

the naval department received report from Com
modore Delong on August 25. He left for st.
Michaes on August g. The expedition was last
heard from at Herald island, from the neighbor-
hood OF which the expedition disappeared in the
direction of Wrangel land. Since then two parties.
the Corwn and the Rogers have explored the north
ern latltudes in vain search for the Jeanette.
Capt. Howgate was anxious to make third, but
ran against suag in the shape of defalcation in
his accounts. which brought his prospective cruise
to an ignominious end.
Commander Delong imbibed his love for Arctic
adventure while serving navigator OF the Poaris
expedition in 1873. After his return from that un
fruitful cruise old whalers in New Bedford con
vinced him that the route to the pole by the way of
Baffins bay was an uphill journey, and that the
true course was through Behring'S straits He
expedition that attempted the passage over this
route He is thirty-seven years of age, was born
in New York city, and graduated at the naval
academyin S65. Lieut.. Charles w. Chipp, U. S. N,
the executive officer is thirtytwo years of age He
was with his present commander on the Polaris ex
pedi:ion. Lieut.. John w. Dannenhower, United
States navy, is the navigator: surgeon, JAS. M. NJ
Amber, United States navy; chief engineer, Geo.
w. Melville, United States navy. Jerome J. Col
the New York Herald The naturalist and taxider-
mist Is RAYMOND l.. Newcomb. VIM. Dunbar, the
ice pilot, has been a seaman for thirty years.
Tho ST Uf the petty Off Gers and the crew Is as FOL-
lows: John Cole, boatswain; Walter Lee, machin-
list; VIM. Lenderman, quartermaster: John Sher-
mann, carpenter. Seamen Louis Niros. Herbert
Leach, Peter johnson, Ed. Stats, August Goertz,
D. Warren, Henry Kaack, George Kahn, G. w.
Boyd, John Linderback, Nelson Jansen of Den
marck, Fred. Keuman and three Chinese, steward,
cook and boy.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

The funeral of Col. Forney at Philadelphia
took place Monday. For several hours lines of
men, women and children entered the house
and viewed the remains. Many prominent
citizens were present, including Gems. Han
cock, Sickles and Ruff, ex Speaker Randall,
Mayor King and city officials generally, Geo.
w. Childs, John Russell Young, a. Z. Mcclure,
and many other well krown Journalists. The
interment took place in the West Laurel Hill
cemetery. Newspaper publishers and editors
passed resolution of coincidence with the
family and attended the funeral in body.
The Iowa people are pushing their public
buildings scheme quite vigorously. Their plan
is quito novel, and while it has enlisted the sup
port of the entire delegation, is watched with
considerable interest Ex Secretary of War
McCrary has drawn tha bill authorizing tho
secretary OF the treasury to provide for the
election of buildings attwenty two places where
courts are now held, tie cost to be such as at o
rate of per cent per annum viii produce the
amount now paid for the rent of the court
house and posteficee.
Surrogate Colvin of New York has ruled that
he codicile of Samuel Woods win, providing
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
POstofHce Changes.
MINNESOTA.


Postrnasters Observation-Disclosures. Kitson county,
William Thompson; Maydwell. Traverse county,
Charles E. Collins; Nerstrand, Rice county, Henry
y Hegnas; Roseville, Kandiyohi county, Fred
Smithson.
stablished-Keley, Marathon county, Charles
q. Kelley, postmaster: Melnick. Langlade county,
Joseph Duchac, postmaster; Swansby, Chippewa
county, Peter Swansby, postmaster.
Name Changed-West Branch, Richland county,
to Bon.
Postmasters Appointed-Annaton, Grant county,
Sylvester Moody: Ashland, Ashland county, Emert
H. Wilson: Beaver Greek, Jackson county, Martin G.
Johnson: Cartwright, Chippewa county, Charles
NJ. Tarr: Bob Creek, Chippewa county, Alex. Pine
gore: Red River, Kewaunee county. d. A. Gibson.
stablshed-Farnhamville Calhoun county, Os-
car G. Riddle postmaster; Green Bay, Clarke
county, Abraham Lefler, postmaster
scontinued-Northvilie, Greene county.
Names Cnanged-Camden, Appanoose county, to
Polo; st. Gilman, Osceola county, to Ashton;
Shinn, Adams county, to Carbon.
Postmasters Appointed-Albion, Marshall county,
VIM. c. Smith; Beaver, Boone county, Gustav
Eickmer: Dry Lake, Wright county, George Il.
Troworidge: Pacidc Junction, Mills county, Frank
A. Sherman; Page City, Page county Jas. 8: Har-
rington; Rockwell City, Calhoun county, FL W.
Dudley.
Estabshed-Calumet, Turner county. Amos w.
Hilton postmaster: Galatin, Griggs county, John
Fl. Atchison, postmaster: Olo, Lake county, Timo-
thy P. Russell, postmaster Ricevile. Cass county,
August Divert, postmaster; Windsor, Aurora
county, VIM. q. Hooper. postmaster,
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
Guiteau's Former Wife Visits Him.

Washington special to the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat: Guiteau was visited in jail the
other day by Mrs. Dunmore, his divorced wife,
who was visibly affected on seeing her former
husband, Tears swelled to her eyes as she
said, "Charles, Pm sorry to find you in this
condition"
s'Never mind, he said, and then went on to
abuse Corkhill for having brought her on as
witness.
She then said she had called to bid him good
by, and she never might see him again. Gui-
teau, however, seemed anxious to proiong the
interview, and asked of Mrs Dunmore about
her little daughter, who was with her then. A
peculiar look passed over his face, and his thin
lips twitched nervously. Said he:
"Anna, can wish you 10 harm. I hope
your life may be prosperous and happy"
The lady's husband then stepped forward
and shook Guitesu's hand, ssying, "We cay
good-ty now, for hope TO leave for Lesdyllle
Monday night 1t is too close for me round
here"
s'And for me too," added Guiteau with g
CHASTITY smile-snd they parted
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
The Family OF Capt. De.Long.

A pleased family was found bya Tribune
reporter at the house of William c. Walton,
brother Of Mrs. Capt DeLong of the Jeanette,
the other evening. There were present Capt
Walton and wife, the parents of Mrs. DeLopg,
and William @. Walton and wife. Mrs. DeLong
sssr up
She has passed the time since her husbands
departure alternately with this sister and with
her brother in that city. Capt Walton tele-
graphed to her at once the news Of her hus-
bands safe arrival at the mouth Of the Lena
river. The other evening map Of the polar
sea and adjacent lands were spread out upon
the center table in the sitting room, and upon
this had been marked the spot where the jean
Eette was supposed to have been abandoned.
Burlington, Iowa, dispatch says: Mrs.
DeLong, the wife of the commander of the
Jeannetre, has lived in that city with her sister,
Mrs. Gen. Glasgow, ever since the departure
of the expedition. She has received dispatches
from MIR. Bennett of the Herald, but has no
news from her husband on the expedition ad-
ditional to that already given to the public.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
TALKING HORSE.
with Purpose. and With the Desired
Effect.

Effect.
Newark Special.
The question has often been asked, how
Cashier Baldwin was able to hoodwink the
government expert, who, in 1880, examined
the books of the M chanics' National bank
of Newark. A story patty answering this
question comes from trustworthy source.
In one of the other years examiners were
sent to the bank. Their first days work
was in such direction that it did not
worry the cashier; bat the second day they
were likely to get dangerously near to facts
which must be concealed. Baldwin had
discovered that both the examiners were
fond of hors s. lie conducted them to
the Essen Club house, in Park Place. and
then sent for friend who could talk horse.
The friend appeared, and entertained
the examiners with interesting
facts and opinions about trot-
ters. and while he talked to his new friends
drank costly wine. When they returned to
the bank to complete the examination they
were in q pleasant mood, and Baldwin
turned IN and helped them through with
their work. On the following day nothing
remained for them to do but to ascertain
that Baldwin's statement of the banks ac-
count with the Merchants bank of this city
should be verified. Baldwin wrote tele-
gram 10 the New York castier. asking for
statement In time O telegram, giving
figures substantially the same as were on
Baldwin's books, was received apparantly
from the New York bank. It Is said that
the telegram from Baldwin did NOT 80
through any telegraph ofi ,e in New YORK.
The message being communicated over
some private wire. But the response was
made over a telegraph sompany's wife.
wrrtt II.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
MR.. justice GRAY.
The New Judge of the United States Sapreme
Court

Court.
Hon. Horace Gray of Massachusetts, has been
appointed to fill the vacancy on the supreme
bench of the United States occassioned by the
death of Justice Clifford of Maine. Judge Gray
is at present the chief justice of the supreme
bench of Massachusetts,, his native state. He
is a man not over ffty-fve years of age, if he is
go old, and was appointed an associate justice
of the court of which he is now chief justice,
perhaps fifteen years ago, receiving his pro
motion to the latter place ten or twelve years
since 1t is said of Judge Gray that he studied
law with the sole object Of becoming judge,
and that during all Of his career he kept that
goal constantly before him. Being man of
large inherited wealth, he never sought prac-
tice as lawyer, and consequently made no
great figure in that line He is Of the bluest
blue Beacon street blood, of aristo cratic ten
denotes and associations. He is q bachelor and
a generous liver. In appearance he is more
imposing than any Of hls new associates, being
at least six feet four inches in height and pro-
portioned accordingly. In distinguished per-
sonal appea rance he is compared with Charles
Sumner. Judge Gray is a man of great inde-
pendence Of character and also of great legal
lore
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
T,a ftnc'S Tea Farm

DR.. Loring, the new commissioner of sgri-
culture, says:
The expense of the stsempt to cultivate the
tea plant in South Carolina has been somewhat
contracted without detriment to the experiment
One of the experts (Saunder-) who visited the
tss ia, m established in Snmmervile. S. c., re-
norts ha5 200 acres Of the land selected for
experiment are most of them covered with
heavy forest, the ground soil b ing poor, and
of character to support only tho scantiest
kind of vegetation. OF this about fifteen acres
have been cleared and were under primitive
cultivation. Ga these acres operations were
commenced in January last Space wAs pre-
pared FOR sowing tes seed and preparation made
Ior covering the plants, which, when young,
euffsr severely in being exposed to the sun.
The plants were growing well and constituted
the entire tea crop of the farm. Saunders re-
ported that with regard 10 the future prospects
OF the enterprise if continued in the line
OF the present scheme and under the pres
ent system, it may be said there is not much
room for encouragement.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
Pacific Railway Snow sheds.
From the Nashville American.


These wonderful wooden tunnels cover
forty niles of the Central Pacific railway.
They were first suggested by its practical
vice. president, Charles Crocker, but his
companions hesitated through fear of their
impracticahility and expense. They are of
two kinds, one with very steep roofs. and
the other with fat roofs. They cost, per
mile, from 50, 900 to So, 900. and in some
places, where heavy masonry was nss tai, !,
The cost reached $S0,0O0 per mile. They
ar firmly constructed to supoor I he gceat
weight Of snow and resist the rush of ava
lanches. Corrugated plates of iron separ-
ate the buildings into sections, and in the
great ten mile shed there are automatic
electric fire alarms. At the summit is an
engine and tank always ready to food the
ignitsd spot in an instant. These sheds
shut In the view of the great Sierras, but
without them winter travel would be i'm
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
Thief as Well as Traitor

The Philadelphia Press publishes o five-col-
umn interview between a staff correspondent
and Gen Joe Johnston, in the course Of which
he charges Mr.. Davis with stealing a large
amount of money. Gen. Johnston is quoted as
saying:
Itfollowed or preceded the head Of the civil
government of the confederacy to the south
about the time Mr.. Davis went in that direction.
Col Paul, an eminent artillery officer, said
there was q car load of it boxed ready for ship
ment Gen. Beauregard, who was in immedi
ate command at Greensboro while the presiden
was there told me that he was convinced tha
the president had S2, 100000 in specie
Greensboro. Dir. Davis has never given any
satisfactory account as to what became OF it,
and what is q strange thing to me, the southern
people have never held him TO an account for
it. A short time before the evacuation Of
Richmond the bankers in that city placed in
Mr. Davis hands 1850, 600 in specie for the
defense of the city. There was never any SER
vice rendered for this money, but it was trans
ported south with the specie belonging to the
confederacy. committee of Richmond bank
ers succeeded in getting back between $I1O,-
600 and $120, ,0O0, but it was captured and
turned into the United States treasury. II is
now there and in litigation.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
CASUALTY RECORD.

At Allentown, Pa, James Campbell and VIM.
Rast were drowned by the upsetting of
boat.
John Ingraham Of Mount Union, Pa, placed
can Of dynamite on the hot stove to dry
one morning before breakfast The build
ing was blown to atoms, together with himself,
wife aud four children.
A fire IN Lorain, Ohio, destroyed the ma
chinery of the Cleveland, Tuscorrora & Wheel
ing railroad shops, with contents, including
machinery, tools, stock, one coach and three
tenders. Loss estimated at $500 to $780,
0O0 No insurance
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
Sentenced to the Gallows.

A dispatch states that Michael Mooney. who
murdered Union Pacific Agent Hinckley at
Franklin, Idaho T., on the Utah Northern
railroad about three months ago. has been SEN
fenced to be hung January 20. Barnes, his
accomplice, was sentenced To fifteen years i'm
prisonment These two men entered the
depot intending to rob the station. They we're
masked and had revolvers pointed at Hinckiey.
Mooney's revolver was disch .rged and the bull
let struck Hinckley in the head, killing him in
stantly. The murderers fed without carrying
on tho robbery. Two thousand dollars reward
were offered for their capture by the Union
Pacific, and they were pursued and caught
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
They pon,t Like Eoualitr.

About twenty leading manufacturers of Him
ois have adopted resolutions on the action of
the state railroad commissioners in fixing uni
form rail rates, requiring companies to charge
large patrons exaclv the same price per car as
small ones. They declare that this action will
drive from the state S2a. 600, 600 of business,
and that they will combine against this unjust
discrimination il necessary by making poiiti-
cal action. The movement seems likely to be
come formidable one, and the interests in
volved are immense aud fully aroused.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
A Wisconsin Man Killed in Tex.s.

Fort Worth, Texas special OF thes22d says:
William Raynor, deputy United States revenue
collector, and son OF Hon. Kenneth Raynor, of
the treasury department, Washington, recently
shot and killed John Morris, one of the best
known sporting men in the southwest The
affair grew out of an attempt on the part of
R4ynor to take away from Morris a woman
whit whom he had been intimate. who on this
occasion refused to go with him. Raynor sur
rendered, and was admitted to bail in So s. O
He is married man, while Morris is single.
Morris remains we're shipped for schullsburg,
Wia
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

II know. said the little girl to the elder
sisters young man at the supper table, that
you viii join our soci.ty for the protection
of little birds. because mamma says You
are very fond of 1arks." Then there was o
silence, and the Limburger cheese might
have been heard scrambling around in it's
min boxo the cupboard shelf,
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
Ground House Fire at Brainerd, MINI.

At Brainerd, on Tuesdaylast, the Northern
Pacific round house took fire and in few min
utes burned to the ground. The round house
was frame structure of six stall capacity.
One locomotive had just pulled out and started
east with q freight train. Five other loeomo-
tives were in the house, but the fire was too
quick for the boys, and they had to pass
through the fiery furnacs The dry structure
with the oil mixed in made it burn like q kero-
sene lamp. Loss on building and tools about
$5. 900. The locomotives were worth about
$35, 600, and were damaged to the amount of
10000. They look as il they were wrecks,
but the railroad mon know better. They are
principally hurt externally. The insurance
carried by the company covers the loss
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
A Delicate Question

The Washington postmaster wrote the post
master general "a mans wife dropped letter
10 this office addressed to another man. The
husband suspects something wrong Shall I
deliver the letter to him?" The postmaster
general answered s'The husband could not
get the letter that Wayn
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
PIatform,of Iowa Tree Traders.

The State Free Trade league met last week
and adopted an address to the people of the
state, and the followin PLATFORM:
First-We believe that the only commercial
policy which can be made permanent is un-
changeable, and therefore consistent with sta
bility in all kinds Of business, absolute free
trade.
Second-The only tax on nimports which should
ever be collected by free trade people is tariff
for revenue only.
Third-That the greatest burden now borne
by the American people is the unjust, unequal,
iniquitous system Of taxation called protective
tariff. We therefore demand that the removal
of import duties be steadily continued until
every protective feature is eliminated.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

possible. Sometimes five feet of snow fIl
upon them in one day, and often thirty
feet lie upon the ground at time, and in
many ctses snow accumulates to the depth
of fifty feet above these great wooden
oroban
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29
4 Southern Type.

In the south one soon meets the young
man, a lawyer, or editor, or physic an, who
will talk for hours, to any one who will
listen, of the superiority of tAe south. its
people and its civilization, cvef the north
and everything northern. He always talks
well, and is usually very good fellow, but
he proceeds entirely upon the priori
method, and his conclusions have little
relation to me facts of life. He knows
little of his own region Of the country. and
nothing whatever of any other. Young
men Of this type always dwell with proud
and endless iterat;on on the superior pu-
rity of southern woI en-" Their persistence
always brings the mere fact OF chastity
more nakedly and definitely before the
mind than seems wholesome cr de;ira-
bic to persons who have seen more of life
and of the world. These youthful eulog-
glsts appear to think that it IS virtue which
is almost unknown except in the southern
states. They 90 not recognize the fact
which is OF great importance in any real
discussion of this feature of our civilization,
that the women uf another race, formerly
helpless and now degraded, have always
formed n protecting barrier between the IL
ceutious passions of Southern white men
and the women Of their own race. I do
not suppose the best women of the South
have any superiors on earth. but their i'm
munity from temptation and wrong has cost
other women dear.
What young men of this class most need
is a wider observation and larger knewl-
edgs of the world, or, especially of their
own country. They would thus, IN time,
understand how much better it is for our
young men to be penetrated and inspired
by the idea of being Americans than TO be
always dwelling upon the fact that they are
natives of Virginia, or Massachusetts, or
New jersey. There is really no harm in
these young gentlemen, although their We
hement utterances regarding subjects with
which they have but slight acquaintance
have sometimes furnished convenient ma
terial for the use of northern politicians
who were hostileto the south.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

After Remarkable Voyage Over 5000 Miles
of Bleak and lee -Encumbered Sea-The
Long Missing Steamer Je annette Found In
the Ice North west OF New Siberia Island.
Morris tribune., 1881-12-29

John g. Whittier's birthday was appropri-
ately celehrased by the school children OF So
Paul.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28

OF lime is shown by the well-known fact
that soils underlaid by limestone, and
naturally containing large proportion of
timely divided carbonate of lime, are
as much benefited by the use of quick
lime as are soils deficient in limestone.
Ihe advertisements of ground limestone
that we have seen make great use of the
experiments of one person in Pennsyl-
vanla, who states that his yield of wheat,
treated with ground limestone, was more
than doubled that to which Stacked lime
had been applied. He also claims to
have found it much cheaper fertilizer
than lime and bone dust, and more profit
able than guano and superphosphate'
These statements have been sent by
several who ask our opinion. Our
"opinion" is that we do not accept as
final the results of any one eexperimenter,
when they are in direct opposition
to the accumulated evidence of those
whose practice runs through many
years. In nothing more easily than in
agricultural experiments can an effect
be ascribed to the wrong cause, and when
we see the fertilizing value of ground
limestone placed above guano or super
we do not accept it.--Ameri-
can Agicuhurist.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-28
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


Every farmer and gardener should
personally test the seeds he purchases, as
well as those he saved last year, before
sowing those intended to raise crop. 1t
is but little trouble to test seeds in adj
vance, and it frequently happens that by
doing so q total failure of crop may be
avoided. No one wants to SOW seeds
that will not grow, because if the first
put in the ground fails, the season will
usually be too far advanced before the
failure is discovered for q re-sowing OF
planting. A few shallow boxes or flower
pots is all that is required for testing
seeds in house where the heat is suffi-
cient to insure growth. 1t is always well
to note the proportion of seeds that
sprout in order to know how thick OF
thin they should be sown in the garden
or field. If the seeds start freely in the
house, and fail when sown in the field,
then the farmer can blame the soil, man.
ner of sowing, or the weather, and not
the seeds of the scotsman who sold
them. NeU York ISUn.