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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22

while her father Is III Europe. Mrs.
Tilton il still living in the house in
Brooklyn which her husbands agent
rented for her several years ago. Her
mother, Mrs. Morse, her son Carroll,
who has abandoned the notion of study
ing for the ministry and has obtained
position in a mercantile house. and
her youngest son, Ralph, live with her.
Theodore TiltOn has not visited his
wife for two years. Mrs. Morse. it is
said, recently astonished Beecher by
appearing in apew in Plymouth Church
at the memorial services held in con-
necti0n with Mrs. Ovington's death.
The French journals state that Sarah
Bernhard is in excellent health, and
one of them says that she has "almost
grown fatter," during her American
tour.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
Oil as a Sea-SOother,

Pouring oil Oh troubled waters is an
old phrase, and there are many authcn-
tic instances of the value of oil in pre-
venting the waves from breaking over
the vessel ut sea. Some interesting ex-
periments with oil upon water were
made at Pcterhead lately, and were SO
successful that the proposal TO lay oil
on to tho mouth of harbOrs by means
Of pipes was discussed as a not very re-
mote project. Bottles filled with oil
were sunk TO the bottom of the harbOr,
i'm which the sea was breaking heavily.
The oil was then released, and, rising
to the surface, it exercised upon the
troubled waters an effect almost mag
ical. Instead of the waves breaking,
the sea became smooth and glassy-lOOk-
ing, and there was visible sOftening
down of the waves. which, instead of
being sharp-crested, were turned into
long rollers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
Two Affsctionata Arrivals.

There were several men clustered
around the stove in the back room OF
Galveston saloon, and somehow or 9TH
or the question of newspapers came up
for discussion. One man said that CD
itors were moro jealous of each other
than any other class; that they never
had q good word for each other, etc.
A long haired youth, with q solemn
look, strobe up, and heaving sigh
said that he had had some experience
with editors. and he found them the re-
verse of jealous Of each other, that
Texas editor was always willing TO do
nv himself comfort for the benefit Of .
brother editor.
"Where did that happen?'
at happened in Western Texas
town where lived" sighed the young
man. IL had dashed oil little poem Of
ten or fifteen cantOs about beautiful
Spring. There were two rival papers
in the place-the Bugie and the from
bone. l had heard that the editors
were deadly enemies, and sighed to
shed each others gore, and l was afraid
if let the Trombone publish my poem
first there would be deadly encOun-
ter. finally resolved TO have it ap-
pear simultaneously in both papers.
When l called on the editor of the
Trombone he said that tho editor of
the Bugie had large family. and that
he would prefer it ~ appear in tho Bu-
ole, as personally he loved the editor OF
the Bugle. Invent to the Bugte man,
and he said the editor of the Trombone
was his warmcst personal friend. and
that he would be glad if l would lot
him have the poem, Us it would be put
ting bread in his mouth and clothes on
his back. So, owing to the love those
editors had for each other, couldn't
get my poem into either of their pa
pers, and it hasn't boon published yet.
/ never saw men so anxious to help
each other out of Distress" and once
more the long haired poet sighed like o
bellows.
There was pause. and an old coon
with frost-bitten nose drawled out:
eyer never tried them same editors
with cash advertisement, did yerP'
The poet answered in the negative,
whereat the audience significantly
nodded their heads and winked at each
Characterization Nems.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22
A Split in the Comet.

According to dispatch from Gin.
cinnati, while Professors Stone and
Wilson were observing the comet ut
the Cincinnati Observatory one night
last week, it was seen to seperate be.
fore their eyes, forming q double
comet. A jet was seen to proceed
from the nucleus in the same direction
as the tail and gradually separated
from the same and formed into new
nucleus, the division being sharply
defined. This Is the first instance ON
record where such separation has
been actually observed, the profes.
sors keeping close watch Of the phe.
nomenon. Blela's comet was known
to separate, but was not seen in the
actual separation.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22

IT'S summer time, it's summer time,
the leaty links of June do wed the dewy
hours Of morn with golden spells O
noon; DER billowy breasts Of grain thu
winds in phantom-vessels float, and
leave their course anon to blow o gad-
fly down our throat. ---.sR
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-07-22

Life is SO complicated a game that
the devices Of skill are liable to be de-
feated at every turn by airblowni
chances, incalculable as the descent OF
thistledo wp.-George Eliot, III
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

Our dispatches state that if indictments be
found against Brady for completely in the
star route frauds he proposes to enter suit
against Postmaster-General James and At
torney-General MacVeagh for criminal libel.
IT this report be true it merely shows that
Brady is either playing a huge game Of bluff
with James and MacVeagh or he is an lnno-
cent man and is able to prove his innocence
to the world. Tie latter he may do by a re-
publican congressional investigating commit
tee, provided he purchases the requisite
whitewashing for the committee to apply.
Brady is full of fight and being on the defen-
sive he has much the best of the coming
struggle. He knows the witnesses that can
be brought against him and where they may
be found, and if he has not already "seen''
them he bellies the reputation he has gained.
The odds are two to one in favor of Brady
coming out of the trial with a character for
official integrity as pure as whitewash, money
and the influence of those occupying high
positions can make it. The people, however
will hesitate to accept the gentleman as an
unsoiled dove.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

The Inter Mountain should bear in mind
that those who. live in glass houses should
throw nc stones. When it refers to a con-
temporary in improper terms it should not
complain if like courtesies are extended to it.
This is an age i'll which the law of compensa-
ton is observed. Its invitation to some
mythical person to engage in a wheelbarrow
exercise will, for sanitary reasons, probably
be declined. In view of this contingency we
would respectfully suggest to our suffering
contemporary, that if the aroma of its imme.
date Surroundings become unbearable, to
fold the drapery of its harness about it and like
another Caesar, fall at the base of the stable
pillar and die. If this be beyond its courage
an order may be obtained from the City
Council to remove the whole establishment
as a nuisance.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE.

The railway development in the United
is but a robust type of the active commercial
spirit of the age. This spirit is not confined
to any one nation, but appears to have spread
itself in every cline wherever opportunities
are offered for productive industries to MAIN
tain a footing. 1t signals its presence by
pushing forward lines of railways to the
heretofore obscure and almost unknown
quarters of the globe. These railways ale
opening up localities to settlement, and de-
~veloping a wealth that has been hidden in
the bosom of wildernesses. India has alb
sorbed and is still absorbing immense sums
in railroad enterprises. The French are Sc
riously contemplating a ~trans-Saharan railway
by which it is designed to connect their pos
sessions on the Mediterranean with Timbuc-
too on the Niger river. Mexico has caught
the spirit and is inaugurating a system of
railways by which she can connect herself
with the lines in thisc country and thus throw
upon the markets of the world a portion of
her now dormant wealth. Brazil has a dozen
different roads and is now breaking ground
for another. The Argentine Republic has
awakened from her lethargy and is now pro-
jecting new roads to feed her successful CEN
trail one. Other South American countries
are responding to the demands of the spirit
of the age, and are encouraging the more ex-
tensive use of the iron horse. Even China,
that has, from her earliest history to the pres
ant ts-,n o1hnrnI fn fhn hobifc nr1 ms
toms of her fathers and is welded
to her chop-sticks and carrying poles, casts
longing eyes upon the means of rapid transit
enjoyed by other nations and appears inclined
to divorce herself from her primitive ways
and place herself in the line Of progress.
But nowhere in the world has such enor-
nous strides been taken in railroad building
as in the United States. During the year
1881 over seven thousand miles of railroad
iron were laid and nearly 5000, 900 900 invest
ed in these enterprises. The present year
bids fair to see still greater results in this di-
rection. Our country has yet a grand area
of unbroken land to be developed and new
lines are being pushed out to reach it. Amer
lean capital, American pluck, enterprise and
spirit are backing, directing and constructing
them. They are working a revolution on
the face of the land. As they pass over the
fertile plains or around the mineral-bearing
mountains of the great northwest, they dis
cover homes for the eager multitudes from
the far east who are constantly pressing for
ward to occupy them. Hamlets, villages,
towns and cities spring up Oil every side and
mark the advance of a higher stage of civil
ization. These are only the lesser evidences
that are visible in The changes that are being
wrought by the commercial spirit of the day.
The greater may be seen in the bringing to-
gether, as it were, of the world in a closer or
more intimate relation, and in the dissemina-
ton of useful knowledge. 1t has made ev-
eryone our neighbor and we talk with him
though he be at the antipodes. In fact we
can stand in our doorway and shake hands
with the world.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

Father Thomas n. Burke, the learned and
accomplished pulpit orator and devoted
Christian, has recovered his usual strength
and is now engaged, as usual, in the service
of the Church. Dublin papers of a recent
date contain the report of a remarkable SER
mon preached by him in St. Joseph's church,
Glasthule, on the occasion of the dedication
by the Archbishop of Dublin of an altar
erected to the memory OF Canon McCabe. In
the course Of his sermon Father Burke gave
utterance to the following words:
'rhe priesthood means a life devoted unto
the very test of death, unto the service of God
and unto the service of the people, because
they belong to all things relating TO God.
And therefore, the only class Of men on this
earth that are to face death in very form, no
matter how it presents itself, are the priests.
Thu soldier binds himself to meet it in the
honorable warfare of the battle field, and if
he dies to die among all the accomplishments
of human glory. The sailor exposes himself
to all the dangers of the midnight storm; but
the priest is bound to face dea,h, no matter
in what form it presents itself to him. if it
only appears to him in the service Of God and
OF His people. He may have to die the slow
lingering death drunk in by him in the pest
house, in tever-stricken and cholera-stricken
wards of the hospitals; he may have
to expose himself to the death that
sweeps over the lost battlefield, as
in the evening Of the glorious day
that has gone he goes out and seeks the
dying that he may reconcile them to God
he may have TO meet them flung into sumo
dark, damp dungeon in some barbaric land,
death accOmpanled nv the most iucOnceiyable
and unheard-of t~ortures, in order to G We ties,
timony to the faith which he has preached
and to the God who sent him. But in what
ever form it comes, no matter who may
shrink from it, the priest, at the peril of his
eternal welfare or ruin, must 60 forth and
meet the conqueror, and overcome him fol
| God"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

We don't take much stock in the story the
Washington Post published in rega I'd to the
reported sayings of Conkling as they appear
in the MINERS dispatches. In the first place
we don't believe the democrats have made
any proposition to the stalwarts to return
MIR. Conkling to the United States Senate.
But there is much reason to believe that the
stalwarts are coquetting with democrats to
obtain their votes for their chief. If they do
a democrat will be Mr.. Conkling's colleague
in the United States senate. But the situa-
ton at Albany, at present, looks as though
Mr.. Conkling cannot control enough votes
among his adherents to effect anything. From
appearances al adjournment sine die is the
only way out of the deadlock that now holds
the legislature.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
English Sympathy.

During u last political campa5
much was printed regarding the I
claimed to ave been peipetrated d
negroes in this country !; Inc now, ID
mental people over in England are
funds 10 send TO America tor thei
The Oakland Times hits the nail Sd
the head in the following manner:
"Oi coarse the stories have tncread
the distance from the scene, and the
press seems TO have accepted our q
thunder as verllable truth. There
suffering among the laboring people
one Of the dozen great cities of Engla
among the entire colored race in A
The benevolent British can find a bel
for their money if they will aid !
peasantry, who are driven to the
famine by the expressions of their u
The colored men are better cared
more prosperous than the tailoring
any other nation in the world"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

rcinstate Prof. G. V Riley in his pol
Government Entomologist, as soon AL
settled in Ills position as ComMisl
Agriculture. LED &c quarreled with
tessor, ard a few weeks ago charged N
stealing a quantity of bugs from the
ment collection in his bureau, and
much fuss about it that the matter vi
red by the Interior Department to }
ernment law officer for settlement.
very highly esteemed, and he and Id
good friends.
LeDuc has not only taken measurd
pend the sum voted by Congress, To-
ment with artesian wells in the arid
Montana and Dakota, but is about
mence a very extensive improvement
Agricultural buildings, involving ap|
diture of $4,000, although he has |
month more 10 erve. He means to
to his privileges to the fullest extern
understood that Loring will try to h
bureau to the dignity of a departmAul
Speaking Of agriculture, Mr.. Olm1
New York, the landscape gardener
Capitol grounds, is in the city. nj
"wrinkle" is a 'grotto" just northwea
Capitol, in which he proposes to haN
sic box hidden, which shall discourse
Senators who may seek this cool reta
soothing strai $ of "Home, Sweet Ho1
"The Rose of Allandale." or fire tbd
otic sentiment with "Hail Columbl
yankee Doodle" This little hole
ground has cost, some say, upwards of
already. 1t needs only the addition 4
stead's music box, together with a han
and a baId-faced monkey, to completd
ensemble and make it the chief point 4
ton in the grounds.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

The Springfield Republican (Ind. Of ra-
cent date gives the following advice to the
stalwarts rt
"There is a better part for stalwarts to play
tnan turning half-Dreeds let them turn in
dependents and smash the machine. They
have served the party for naught and worked
for it's victories without reward, which may
do for civll-service r%efOrmers, but is loath-
some to the stalwart heart. All outdoors
yearns for the stalwarts. They can go on
playing second fiddle to Blaine or they can
set up their own orchestra, furnish their own
music and let the party dance to it. They
have played politics for the offices aud lost the
stakes let them pay up like little men and
go in for a fresh deal, JOIN the noble army of
scratchers and insist on reform and revolu-
ton. Theorists could not do worse Here
for a year they have been smitten hip and
thigh. The party has taken their help when
it wanted it, and then the offices went to
some one else. Independents are no worse
off, and there is lots more fun in being indie
| pendent"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
1t is said the readiuster's ticket nomin

1t is said the readjuster's ticket nominated
at Richmond will not get 5000 votes beyond
the Blue Ridge mountains. The republicans
are dissatisfied with it and propose to nomi
nate one composed of straight out members
of their own party. With two tickets in the
field against them the democrats will have a
walk over at the mex election. \ democrat
ic victory will carry with it the election of a
democratic United States senator to succeed
Johnston. Between the two leading parties
the Malone faction is liable to be crushed
out of existence. This being the case. what
will become of Garfield, Blaine and Dawes
plan of breakiug the solid south by the for
nation of a third party?
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Blaine the Mephistopheles-Ma-
homes Position-Le Dues Bugs
and Olmstead's Hole in the ground.

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Truth, dishes up Washington news in
the following interesting style. In a letter to
that paper. under date of the 9th ult. he
says
The best posted people here regard Secre-
tary Blaine as the Mephistopheles of the po-
litical drama now on the board. One Of these
remarked yesterday that the secret ary had dis
tinguished himself IN his high office in two
different ways already; he lad elevated the
American hog in Europe and inveigled his
superior. the president, into q deuce of a
mess with representative men of the party.
The last was a most serious affair, the gentle
man SAID, since it was likely to split asunder
and destroy the great party, without which
neither Mr.. Blaine nor Mr.. Garfield would
have cut much Of a figure in the political
world.
So, whatever of iii flows from the present
dilemma of the party will be ascribed to the
man from Maine a disastrous outcome will
involve him in the general wreck. 1t may
be that Conkling and his friends will be ru-
ined, but if they are, the architect of their
ruin will find himself and his party also bur.
led in the dehlis OF the temple he has, Sam
son-like pulled.down.
The democrats-what few of them are left
" GbO uSuU
with a good deal Of complacency, and con-
graduating themselves that, whatever the out-
come may be, it will inure to the advantage
of their party.
The resignation of Messrs. Conkling and
Platt has lett Malone, the little Virginia
general, as he expressed it, ''in a devil of a
fix Garfield had agreed to help him in his
summer campaign against the B,urbons in
consideration of his vote to give The republi,
cans the committees and the organization OF
the Senate. The bad management of Cor
ham has thus far prevented the consummation
of the bargain, aid the Senate Is now in the
hands of the Democrats, and will remain Sc
unless the New York fight can be be stopped
and harmony restored.
Meantime the time for the Readjuster State
convention draws OH apace, and to all Ma.
homes appeals for help Garfield turns a dea'
ear--he goes farther: he announces semi
officially that he proposes to stand by the
Jorgensen Republicans of Virginia and al
uses them to steer clear of any alliance will
Malone. Prominent Readjusters of all de
grees have been here this week, and a genera
consultation was held at the Arlington, il
General Mahone's rooms. The latter i
plucky, and declares he can win this summe
campaign without Garfield's he p, the great
est difficulty being to settle on a candidat,
for G vernon, for which there are three o
four aspiranls, Riddleberger being one. Tn
Readjusters say that the reason Garfield ha
} gone back on them is that he is afraid of tn
: Democrats, whose votes he will need to con
: from appointments next session.
DIR George b. Loring will, it is understood
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14

Our evening contemporary appears to
possess a huge vein of egotism running
through its mental composition that would
be a bonanza if owned by a tin peddler,
book agent or a drummer. 1t crops out in
our neighbor in its boastful reference TO is
own smartness, and in its supercilious ailus
ion to the intelligence of others. While it
manifests this disposition it cannot hope to
impress favorably those before whom it claims
some kind of a competitive examination is
going on. Can our %neighbor see?
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-14
Decoration day was solemnly observed

Decoration day was solemnly observed at
Albany and Richmond. There was an as
sembling of the members-of the several fac
lions of the republican organization, and
while the silence of death reigned over the
vast concourse the grave of the grand old
party was dug, and its now useless remains
which had become a stencil in the nostrils OF
the people, were sorrowfully laid away and
hidden from the public gaze. Flowers OF
sulphur were placed upon it, and amid curses
deep but not loud, the stalwarts, half breeds.
and regulators, quietly sought their respect
i've tents to devise plans by which they could
safely house themselves in the great demo
cratic fold.