Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-09-01
Things in General.

Dyspepsia is more potent than the sword.
The sword has killed its thousands, dys-
pepsia its ten thousands.
Anew York paper speaks of a man who
quietly submitted to arrest after he had
received several blows across the head
with the policeman's club" The club in
the hands of the finest police in the world
lays over chloral, morphine and all the
ether anodynes put together.
The latest fish story comes from Hol-
land. 1t relates that abouta month ago
Cornelius de Boer, fishing in the Zuyder
Zee, found tangled in his net large stony
mass covered with mussels. 1t proved to
be an aggregate of coins, mostly silver
pieces, 450 in number, chiefly ducatoons,
with few Spanish and other gold pieces,
all dated between 1860 and 1880.
The valuation of property in Boston this
year is reported by the assessor at $685.
5l3 900, an increase of S25, ,G54, 400 over
1880. Real estate, $455, 1888, 600; personal
property, S210, ,130,3 This amount to be
raised by taxation on the assessment is
S9,C32, ,329, requiring a rate of $13 80 per
81 ,OGO. Last year it was $500.
A gentleman who has recently made q
trip to Prince Arthru's Landing on Lake
Superior states that the Keccabecca falls
on the river about fifteen miles in the nte-
rior is one of the grandest sights in this
country of surprising natural scenes. He
describes it as 200 feet broad and LIS feet
perpendicular fall, and the volume of wa
ter as immense. They are very difficult of
access and but few tourists visit them, but
roads are being constructed that will enable
visiotrs to make the trip there by rail instead
of employing guides, and tramping through
the densely wooded and uneven approach
es as they do now. A resident of Niagara,
in speaking of them, said. "Their grand
eur is greater than that of Niagara.
Never in the history of the country has
the demand for labor been greater than it
is at present. Farmers, manufacturers,
machine shops and railroad contractors are
all complaining of a lack Of laborers. 1t is
said that there are no less than 80 men at
Castle Garden, New York, for the purpose
| of engaging laborers as fast as they arrive,
and shipping them atonce to points where
| their services are needed. One western
railroad company gives the superintendent
of immigration at New York a standing
offer for an unlimited number of abIe-bod-
led men for 81, so day, with permanent
employment. No able bodied man in the
United States, who is willing to work, need
be idle.-Iediandpots Times
The exemptions from taxation in Mon
| treal are something enormous. The churches
| benevolent institutions and parsonages be-
| longing to different denominations; all OF
| which are exempt, are valued at 81, 600, GOO
according to the last annual report of the
city treasurer. The assessed value oI
Protestant is greater than that of Catholic
churches, the figures being 81 1854 900 fol
the Protestant and 81 ,307 900 for Catholics
The benevolent institutions belonging to
the Catholics are assessed SO, 10000, and
those of the ProtestanIs only. at 100000
/ Opposition to these exemptions is becom-
ing greater every day. Included under the
head of benevolent institutions belonging
to Catholics is an immense amount of real
.estate belonging to nunneries, to the church
of Notre Dame and to the Sulpicians, from
which vast revenue is derived.
| g A past event Of romantic and tragic in.
terest is recalled by the death of Spotted
Tail. Shortly after the war battalion ot
the Second Dragons was ordereds to For
Laramie, and there Lieutenant Brockhurs
Livingstone, of the well known New Yorl
family, saw and loved the favorite; daughter
of the old Sioux chief, and found his pas.
sion reeiprocated. The young officer tool
her to his house and she bore him son
but Livingstone's health failedsand he was
ordered to Europe, where he died. The
Sioux girl died of q broken heart in 1866
after learning of his death, and was carried
to Fort Laramie by her father and there
buried. Her grave is still annually decor
ated with flowers by the soldiers. The
mother of the young officer has sought te
to find and educate his son, but the Sioux
either because they have lost sight Of hin
or because they wish to keep him, give M
trace of his whereabouts.