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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

The proprietor OF the Vancouver Brewery
begs leave to announce that he his leased
the brewer, and appurtenances to George
II. Mockel and John Hu h, to take effect o.,
the 18th inst All debts due the proprietor
should he Immediately paid to the under
sisned. ANTON YOUNG.
Vancouver, July Is, 1851.
Banks Favorits" for sale only at the
Brewery.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

List of letters reni,inin. uncalled for in
the pnst-oifice in Vancouve Clar g county.
W. T., July 9th. 1881. Persons calling
for these letters will pleaseyive the late Of
advertisement.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

Try one Of .B.aks' Fasorits," to 10 hal
oaly q the Brewery.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

LADIES LIS
Adams. Miss Rosa > Mansll, Mrs T.
Andrews, Mrs X A Pelt,, Carrie
GENTLEMsN's 1T.
Cloninger. DAP kaufman. -
Dolsor, Luther Mor,on. Geo "
H.nley, .loln McLrey,
Hurley. j W Msgi Lenn
JOHN EDDIN. Postmaster
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

Banks Favorite' is the boss of all ciears
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-07-28

IRA - AVID. III re IS ntN OrLruiL,uL in
Ttncou,er a .r,ss h,nl whoa i. is pro.
posei maze L credit 80 the tovu. Seven
exp r!ruccd musicians are alre ally enya. ci
anl more are w,ntel. ri,re is t. be i.
mrelin. OF the iand at the City hall to.m,r.
r,a might for the lr,rp se of perfrcting the
"rItAiAt,ion. ~ watch all l'ers"ts DESTROYS
at ining H. aud my apply tor AL nj ,snn.
pers 'ns wishing t, JOIN. who ave not had
experience, will be a.cep eel.
CAvD OF THANKS. I desire to return my
sincere THAI 8 through the INDEPENDENT to
friends on Fn.r!h Plain, and especially to
Mr.. z. O'heanc and family of Vancouver.
for kind attentions rendered during the sick.
ness and at death of my mother, Mrs Phebe
Seiferd. For fonr years she suffered, and
during that time Snd neighhors have rem
ierel invaluable services which are deeply
appreciated, and will ever be remembered
With feelings Of gratitude.
WIN. HoDGKIss.
vIsTrINo THE SOUND The Seattle Intei-
'ijencrr says Capt. Jas. Troup, young hut
very skilful steamboat captain, who has
nav,gated the waters Of the Columbia from
youth to manhood. is at present OH the
Sound He brought the Steamboat Idaho
over the cascades to Portland. where she is
being overhaulel and put in shape to make
the passage around to the Sound. Captain
rroup and wife went to Victoria and passed
upon the Gro. Il. Starr Friday. on their
way back to Portland 1t is m,re than
likely that Captain Troupe will bring the
Idaho around and become her master OH the
Sound
A PERILoUs RIDE. week ago Saturday
the government propeller Chsidn. which was
used Oh the upper Columbia until the ahan-
Comment OF Fort Chelan, arrived down at
Cello. after = dangerous passage of four
days. Louis Meyer contracted for $500 to
bring the boat down to Vancouver. After
two weeks Of preparation in repairs of the
boat, she steamed down thu Cnlurnhia with
Meyer in command, and Capt W. H. Trnup
at the throttle. Thirteen rapids we're passed.
No difficulty was met in passing over Priests
rapids, but while going over Rock Island
rapids the tiller rope broke and but for the
management Of the engine by Capt Troup
the boat would have been bst, with all on
hoard. She was finally landed at Cello,
without material damage, tut her crew are
not willing to maze anothS such lassage.
After transportation of TIN portage at the
anil brought to Vancouver, to await orders. |
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

hot fight over the right Of way through Waco,
Tex. The militia had to be called out.
Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, the foster-moth-
er of Edgar Allan Poe, died. q few days ago, in
Richmond, at the age OF SO. She was q cousin
of Gen. Winfield Scott.
Congressman O'Oonnor, of South
Carolina, is dead.
Fred Grant has assumed the Presi-
dency of the Texas Western Narrow Gauge
railway, projected from Houston to Preside del
Norte, geo miles.
Four school-boys were struck by light
ming and instantly killed in Louisville, Ky.
Two Of their companions were stunned by tho
shock. Their clothing was literally torn from
their bodies. The boys were playing baseball
Their ages ranged from 10 to IA.
An agreement has been reached that
the Texas and Pacific road shall absorb the
Iron Mountain, paying for it by issuing new
stock, allowing difference which has not been
made public.
The States Attorney at Louisville has
brought suits for $3.50 against the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, for running trains and
employing men Oh Sunday.
John Gothard was hanged at Town
sentown, Nd, for the murder of Joseph
Woods, in December last. Marshall Baxter
(colored) was executed at Charlotte, N. c., for
the murder of Robert Hennegan, in January Il
this year.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Within two years the annual pay Oh
ninety-three star mail routes was raised from
1921, 1l9 to $2,so2,2l4.
It is understood that the Brazilian
mission will be given to James Monroe, OF
Ohio, and the Italian mission to J.. NJ Gregory,
of Illinois.
Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become
Superintendent Of the Naval Academy in June,
and Rear Admiral Balch will go to San Fran
cisco and take command of the naval force on
the Pacific station.
With reference to the projected in
vasion Of Indian Territory by the Freedmen's
Oklahoma Association, recently organized at
st. Louis, the Commissioner of the Land Of
fee has made a report to the Secretary of the
Interior, in which he says there is not an
acre Of land In that Territory which is open
to settlement under the land laws of this co,,n-
try:
The statue of Admiral Farragut Aas
unveiled with imposing ceremonies on the 18th
Of April.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. decides that money in the custody Of the
Government and belonging to . citizen Is not
subject to levy and attachment under proceed
ings instituted in State court by creditors.
There are over 5000 applications for
Consulships now on file at tho State Depart
ment in Washington. There are about It's
Consulates oil told, and there are only about
half dozen vacancies.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
POLITICAL POINTS.

The National Committee of the Ma
aonal Observation-Disclosures party is called 10 meet
by Secretary Crandall ct St. Louis June 7, to
elect Chairman in place of T. H. Murch.
The Greenbackers of Ohio will hold q
State Convention at Columbus, on June Is,
and nominate full ticket
The people Of North Carolina will
vote on q prohibitory constitutional amend
ment the first Monday of August.
A conference at Washington of West
ern candidates for the speakership resulted in
an agreement that he who shall receive the
highest vote on first ballot shall have the full
support Of his rivals for the..position. It is
generally conceded that by united action the
West can carry the election.
In regard to the star-route contracts,
George G. Gorham is indulging in bitter insin-
nations against President Garfield, and charges
that Samuel J. Tilden is at the bottom of Gen.
Brady's downfall.
At a Cabinet meeting in Washington,
the other day, 1t was determined by the admin.
istration to lend encouragement to the Malone
movement in Virginia by liberal distribution
Of Federal patronage.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

The Governor has selected a de-.
sign tor new capitol. The build.
ing will be cruciform shaped, each
arm being SO feet wide. The cast
and west arms will be 81 feet long.
the Tenth street arm 30 feet long
and the Exchange street arm Sc #.
long The lenght of the building
will be 204 feet, and the width 156
feet The basement will be 10 #.
in the clear, the first story Is feet
and the second story Is feet, this
latter giving space for two tiers Of
rooms where needed, making practi.
cally a third story. The Senate
chamber will be in the Wabasha
street end, and will be 50 by so feet.
The hall of the house of Representa-
tives will be located on the Tenth
street arm of the building, and its
dimensions will be SO by "a feet.
The old walls will be utilized where
ever it can be done.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Smith, Cobb & Co lost 400 sheep
and 500 head Of cattle Oh their Jim
River ranch in Dakota. The snow
prevented the stock from reaching
the hay and feed stored for them.
AL. Foss, whose interest in the
Mankato Free Press was purchased
by Mr.. G. G. Cham berlain, expects
to stalt a paper at Wells. Scribner
the proprietor of the Wells Advocate
talks Of starting greenback paper
at Falrmont.
A little child of Mr.. Schultz, of
Rochester, swallowed quantity of
quicksilver and died from the effects
on Friday last.
The Princeton Union says: On
Sunday, Mr.. NJ. M. Smith espied
several snakes coming out Of a goph-
er hole close by his house, and on
digging down about four feet he dis.
covered regular nest of the rep.
tiles and killed eighty nine of them,
some Of them three feet in length.
He says there were many more
which he did not kill, but shoveled
earth upon them.
The Mankato Review states that
the saloon. keepers and liquor dealers
of that city at recent meeting
passed resolution requesting the
mayor to notify them Of all persons
reported to him as habltual drunk.
ards, that they may not sell liquor
10 such persons, and also requesting
that laws against the sale Of
liquor to minors be rigidly enforced,
and all persons violating the same
be prosecuted to the extent Of the
law. They promise to unite with
him and the authorities in the en-.
forcement of the laws on these sub.
jects.
Mankato Free Press: Cargill
Brothers are negotiating with the
city for land upon which to erect a
mammoth elevator capable of hold
ing 100000 bushels of wheat. It
will be built either by the above
parties or the Milwaukee railroad
company and commenced at once,
| and completed in time for the boun-
| tiful harvest our anticipations force
us to expect this fall.
Col. G. A. DeGraff, of this state.
purchased in Chicago last week the
| famous short horn COW, Duchess OF
| Oxford 2lst, from the stock Of the
Hon. George Brown. The price
paid was $4,000. This is probably
the highest price ever paid for a COW
by any resident Of Minnesota.-St.
Paul Globe.
The St: Peter Tribune says: ;'Pre.
vlous to the flood rats were numer.
Gus at the slaughter house, and
when the water got up around the
building the rats took shelter on The
first floor. They were so numerous
that Mr.. Whips took fork ane
forked them into the water. The
number of the pesky things is vari
ously estimated at from 500 to l.,
oOO."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

An exchange says ON the subject
Of flax growing: A man of large ex.
perience in raising fax states that
to insure good, paying crop not
less than three pecks of seed should
be used to the acre, and that it can
be sown as late as June 1st and
raise a good crop. He says that it
requires less care in harvesting,
commands ready market, and a
higher price proportionally, than
any crop he can raise. It is doubt,
ful if farmers in this section can dc
so much better than to try a few
acres of flax.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
MISCELLANEOUS a1EAN1Nas.

The large jewelry store of William
Wise In Brooklyn, N. Y, was burglarized q few
nights ago. Six large holes were bored in a
safe containing $50, 0Go worth Of diamonds, but
the steel plates broke the drill. Another safe,
Weighing 400 pounds, was lifted out of the wall
by jackscrews, and robbed Of 100 watches, val
ued at $4,000.
A report comes from Panama that the
cashier Of the Dc Lesseps Canal Company has
absconded with $4,000, oOo in gold belonging to
the company.
Our exports of merchandise exceeded
our imports during the year ending March 81
~ ga, assoc.
The sixty-second anniversary of the
introduction Of Odd Fellowship into this coun-
try-April 26-was celebrated by the members
Of the order all over the United States.
The new Government Directors of
the Union Pacific road are s. T. Everett, Of
Cleveland; R. H. Baker, Of Racine; Charles
B. Peck, Of Port Huron George W. Frost, Of
Omaha, and A. Kountze, Of New York.
Three thousand dollars, instead Of
81, 0o0, 900, was the amount stolen by the treas
urer Of the De Lesseps Canal Company.
Several Americans are in Mexico
seeking railway concessions. Three parties
are applying for the Eagle pass and Tepolo
vampo routes.
The Northern Pacific managers will
make no compromise with Henry Willard, In.
volving the cancellation Of e1s, o00, 600 Of stocl
| recently issued, and have refused to listen t.
his demand for two directorships.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

A party of sixty armed and mask.
ed men rode INTO Toledo, Arkansas,
little town about sixty miles south
of Little Rock, and while detach.
ment surrounded the Court House,
as guards, the others broke into the
Treasurer's office, broke open a safe
and taking out $40, 900, joined the
Court House detachment. when the
entire party rode away. After the
invaders were out Of sight, the off,
GERS recovered f. ON their surprise.
organized a force and started in
pursuit. At last accounts the rob.
bers..had not been captured.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
DoINas IN CONGRESS.

The usual diatory motions and the motion.to
60 into executive session were voted on in the SEN
ate, on Thursday, April 49, and after less than the
usual amount Of talk the grave body adjourned.
Senator Edmunds asked that the Judiciary Commit
tee be granted permission to sit during the recess
(should that ever occur, no parenthetically said)
in order to investigate tho subject Of
bankruptcy. Leave was granted President
Garfield appointed John K. Boies, Of Hud-
son, Mich. and William McMichael Of Philadelphia,
Col. s. D. sturgs and Lieut.. Col. J. g. Mason have
been detailed respectively - Governor and Aeutsn-
ant Governor OF tho Soldiers Home. The President
be Agent for the Indians aa Pima and Nazicopa
Agency, Arizona.
o. the meeting Of the Senate on Wednesday,
April ~, Mr. Morgan asked leave to ofor , concur
rent resolution declaring that the interests Of the
people Of the United States Of America and the well
fare and security Of the Government arc 70 In
volved in the construction Of ship canals or
other ways for the transportation Of sea-going yes
sells across the sthmus connecting North and South
America chat the Government Of the United
States, with frankness which 10 due all
It viii insist that its consent is necessary condition
precedent to the execution Of such project and also
e. to rules and regulations under which other na-
tons shall participate in the use Of such canals
other ways, either In peace or In war. Referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations. Only . short
session was held two caucuses being had by the Re-
publicans, when the question Of the deadlock, the
Presidents nominations, executive sessions and
other matters were discussed. The gen.
oral feeling was that the effort to elect
held by some, however, that discrimination to pur-
sue the course outlined was not incompatible with
executive sessions, and there seemed to be general
feeling that the Presidential nominations and the
Chinese treaties should be acted upon very soon.
No formal action was taken, and the whole matter
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04


= Il. G: Judson, secretary of the
State Agricultural society, says ne
yer before was the prospect 50 fiat.
terlng at this season for the State
FAIR Applications for space, and
notice by exhibitors of intention tc
be present, exceeding the actual en-
trles OF previous years, having al.
ready been received. Both the officers
and the good people in Rochester,
where the exhibition is to be held
are equal to the occasion, and as
they did last year, they will see
that both exhibitors and visitors y W
well provided for and Hospitality
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

Hon A. R. McGill, State Insur.
anGe Commissioner, had a very close
call tor ms life last Saturday. He
was IN the act of removing some
documents from his vault in the old
capitol ruins, when one of the walls
was toppled over by the then pre-.
valllng high wind, and he had bare.
~ time to save himself by jumping
into a window opening. The fail:
ing wall crushed in one side of the
vault, and had Mr.. McGill remained
where he Was standing when the
wall began to topple, he would have
been crushed to atoms. It was tru]y
q close call, and the Hon. Insurance
Commissioner has the congratula d.
tons of ye REVIEW on his lucky es
cape.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
Port Huron COMMERCIAL

Charles Nelson, Esq, Proprietor
Nelson House, speaking to us recent.
]y, observed: I suffered 50 much with
Rheumatism that my arm withere1,
and physicians could not help me.
was in despair Of my life, when some
one adviced me to try st. Jacobs Oil. i
did so, and us if by magic, I was in.
stantly relieved, and, by the contin
ued use of the Oil entirely cured.
thank heaven for having used this
wonderful remedy, for it saved ma life
1t also cured my wife.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
DOMESTIC 1NrE111azN01,


-Four business houses and three dwell
ings in shamokin, Pa, were destroyed by an
incendiary fire. The loss was 100000.
It has been discovered that domestic
at Middlesex, Pa, named Hattie Mosley, was
recently buried alive. The agony she endured
was plainly depicted on her face.
The Oriental Print Mills, at Provi-
dence, R. l., were damaged by FIRE to the
amount Of $50,
One hundred and fifty Poles and Rus
slams, who arrived at New York on q steamer
injected with smallpox, resisted the quaran-
tine regulations, and had to be vacoinated BY
force.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, President Of the
Ladies' Deposit Bank at Boston, has been con
victed Of the frauds with which she stood
charged.
James T. Fields, the well-known au-
thor and publisher, died suddenly in Boston Of
heart disease. He was 81 years old.
The Pennsylvania House has defeated
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
ut is Curing Everybody, /"

writes q druggist. ''Kidney- Wort is
the most popular medicines we SELL y
It should be by right, for no other
medicines has such specific action on
the liver, bowls and kidneys. If you
have those symptoms which Indicate
biliousness or deranged kidneys do not
fail to procure it and use faithfully.
In liquid or dry form it is sold by all
druggists. -Sall Lake City Tribune.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

The latest boom for President in
1884 is Robert Lincoln, son Of
Honest Abe," and present Secre'
tary Of war. His name is being
brought forward, too, by some OF
the ''heayiest men, in the Country.
They say the hard. working, modest
and honest son Of his father is bound
to win--through no effort of his
own, but through the powerful will
ofthe people, that is sure to devel-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

It now transpires that the ''color-
ed man" was never elected in Farm.
ington, and that he had only SO
votes out of 112. ''But,' says bro.
ther Emmery of the Press, who APP.
parently didn't relish the joke, cit
serves the Damphool editors for a
joke, all the same, and relieves their
barren w.t."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

The horses of the Chicago street
car companies are suffering from a
new disease, which commences just
below the fetlock and grows into a
dlscharging sore. 1t is attributed
to the long periods of cold, slushy
travel and the use of salt on the
tracks.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

Frohloff, the executioner of the
nihilists, has been given one hun
bred lashes because in the hanging
of Michailoff the rope broke twice.
The Red Wing Argus thinks that if
some of the same medicine was CIV.
en- those who bungle the executions
in this country it might have a good
effect.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

came to no definite conclusion TO what should be
done with the resolution, and cnded by referring
it to subcommittee, consisting Of Gen. Burnside,
who will report it back to the full committee at
early day. Senators Butler and Hale were the
speakers and the old straw was thrsshed once more
Nothing was done, and the Senate adjourned to
Monday.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

THE NEWS.
A Brief Summary.
Events Of the Past Week,
General, Personal and Political
Interest,
At Home and Abroad.
-NCLUDINo-
Financial, Commercial and Indus
trial Points,
Crimes, Casualties and Gossip3
Carefully Solicited. CONDENSED and
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

Crimes, Casualties and Gossip3
Carefully Solicited, Condensed and
Arranged for the Readers
Of this Paper.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04

AVI 6ACAGCA W0A0 U0AA48 HAO6oOO AAIO S0I t4C0 yot
thousands were compelled to sleep In tho open
air and depend upon charity for food. Many
of the houses had been moved to railway
tracks, but several had gone down stream, and
more were expected to follow. The Hannibal
railway bridge, which cost d, SOC, 900, was In a
perilous situation.
A horrible tragedy is reported from
St. Paul, Howard county, Neb. Mrs. Koch,
the wife Of Christian Koch, q railroad night
Waterman, while laboring under At of tenn
porary insanity, killed her three children by
cutting their throats with razor and then cut
her own throat. Ono boy was years old, the
second boy was 2years and the third child :
girl aged months.
South.
The discovery Of a deliberate scheme
Of general escape in the South Carolina peni-
tertiary at Columbia was the means Of pre-
venting an extensive uprising among the con-
victs, who had provided themselves with axes,
knives, clubs and pieces of chain, and with
these weapons intended to overpower and, IL
necessary, kill all the prison officials Two
negroes under sentence Of forty years for muir
der were the dngleaders.
A 4lan named Dement,, emigratine
from West Virginia to Louisiana, encamped On
the mountains in Stone county, Ark, for 4
week or two Of recreation. While he and two
Of his boys were at the foot Of the mountains
fishing, fire which had been burning In the
woods south Of the camp suddenly spread "a
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-03-15
MARRrAaTa.

DnLMAN-LANTz-On the 7th of Feb. 1881. al
the NJ. E. Parsonage. Thompsontown, by Rev
Geo A. Singer John w. Dillman. of Greenwood
twp, this county, to Margaret A. Lantz, Of Walk
er twp, Juniata county.
BrrTING-STRoUP-0n the 3rd OF March, 1881
Mr.. Peter Biting, of Mllerstown, this county. C
Miss Julia q. Stroup, OF Dimmsville. Juniata 60.
BRUBAKER-JoNEs-On the 9th OF March, 1881
at residence of Augustus Jones, ESQ. In Lock
Haven. Pa, by Rev. Joseph Nesbitt. Dr. j. L.
Brubaker Of NIillerstown, this county, TO -
Ella j Jones, of Lock Haven.
HALDEMAN-MIILER-On the 3rd of Ma
1881, at the Presbyterian parsonage, in Mil
town, by Rev. w. II. Logan, jerome S. Halden
of Thompsontown, Juniata county, to Ida
Miller, OF MillerstOwn. this county.
VARNES-SMITH-On March Sd. 1881, at the
dence of the brides parents, in Harrisburg
Rev. A. w, Warfel, Edward B. Varnes, Of
port, to Emma j. Smith.
BEARD-BERNHEIsEI-O March Sd, 1881. at
brides home, Green Park. by Rev. L. Aura
Oliver +. Beard to Aunle Nj Bernheisel.
CHARLRs-DUNKEL-On March lst, 1881. by Rel
G. @. Henry John W. Charles, OF Buffalo twp. 81
Mrs Elizabeth Dunkel, OF Penn twp. l.