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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-22

may De removed aS hay, and the land
yet remain greatly enriched with nitro
gen, and in an excellent condition for
producing a crop Of wheat.
AS TO the manurial value of different
cattle-foods, we find that tho oil cakes
yield the richest manure, as they con-
tain the largest amount of nitrogen and
phosphoric acid, with n considerable
amount Of potash. Next to these beans
and peas. malt-dust and bran. Glover
hay yields q richer manure than oats,
wheat. barley or corn, while meadow
hay stands below the cereal grains. The
various grains and the roots, like tur-
rips, carrots and Swedes, contain about
tho same proportion OF nitrogen in their
dry substance the roots, however, sup
ply much more potash. Potatoes stand
below other roots in manurial value.
Straw takes the lowest place as q ma
nure-yielding food, bean and pea straw
being more valuable for this purpose
than the straw Of the cereals.
IMPROVED HARNEss.-A recent writer
calls attention TO the fact that with all the
inventions and improvements that have
been made, we are still driving and guild.
ing our horses by means of appliances
practically the same as In oy-gone ages.
Horses still run away, as in years pas
they have run away, and the appliances
for stopping them are, In . great xoany
cases, inadequate. The writer alludsd
TO makes the suggestion that instead ol
attaching the lines direct, as now, they
might pass over n pulley on the head
stall, one end to be held in the hand AZ
now and the other fastened to some
fixed part Of the harness. This simpl,
contrivance, in accordance with well
known laws OF mechanics, would exact
ly double the power exerted by tn
driver. ALI possible safeguards shonlt
b. thrown around the liability of acci
dent to life or limb, especially as tn
handling the reins Ia often entrusted I.
timid or inexperienced persons.
tcan Ct1ltivator.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-22

DURNS's CATARRH SNUFF cures all affections of tn
mucuous membrane Of the head and throat.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10
NEW MEXICO.
RaIding Indian. and Determined In
habitants.

RaIding Indians and Determined In
habitantS.
GRAFTON, N. M, Aug. 25th, 1881.
To the Editor NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
Agreeably with my promise, l have
taken advantage Of my first leisure hour
in the Black Range, to condense and
forward you few wayside notes.
We have rain in this country plenty
of it-fully equal in volume to the rain
fall of your eastern section. Dame ma
ture, however, has not seen fit to distrib-
ute or equalize it throughout the year
with us, as she does with your more
favored country.
Our rain Is received for period, vary
ing from six to eight weeks, included in
the months Of July and August.
As a result the innumerable arOyas, or
dry creeks, incidental to western noun
tain countries, which contain no water
the major portion of the year, are filled
from bank to bank with swift running
streams.
These all being tributary to the only
drainage system of the Countrywide Rio
Grand-dump this vast surplus of water
into 1t, causing this insignificant stream
to assume during out wet season the
magnitude of nayigable one. Bridges
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

THERE were 102 railroad accidents in
the United States during July. Thirty
eight persons were killed and 12O wound
ed, Twenty accidents of the total num-
Der caused the death of one or more per-
sons, and twenty-four caused injury but
not death. leaving 500 per cent of the
whole number in which no personal in
Jury was recorded.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

The decrease in the public debt during
the month of August was $14,1S1,2 21.
This fact of itself, if there were no other,
would show how smoothly the machinery
of the government runs, without the
slightest friction, even while the chief
executive is PROSTATE and incapable of
giving attention to affairs of govern
ment.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

SETH GREEN says the difference in the
size of fishes in various localities Is due
to difference in the character of the
feeding grounds. He has seen genuine
brook trout that weighed ten pounds.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

The De Lesseps Panama canal scheme
gives promise of disastrous failure.
Many of the engineers have returned to
France, others have died, any but
encouraging reports are given of the
enterprise.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

DURING the last fiscal year the receipts
from customs were 1898, 59,676 which is
the highest amount ever received by the
government from this source with the
exception of 1871 and 1872.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

The internal revenue receipts during
the year ending June 30 amounted to
$135,264,3s5. A greater sum than has
been received from this source in any
wear since 1871.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10
100000 Acres
Q F
MICHIGAN Lam DS
FOR SALE.
The lands of the
Jackson lansing & Saginaw r. Il.
Are now offered for sale
IA, aoa.,ooo oaI Tonn Tsaoo

Lou prices and Long Time
The railroad is constructed and in operation
from Jackson to Gaylord, distance of two
hundred and thirty-siZ miles, and will soon be
completed to the straits of Mackinac, a further
distance of of about fifty-five miles.
Part lcular attention is called to the large
tracts of the best white and Norway pine tim
Der along the line of the road, and upon the
Ausable, Cheboygan, Muskegon and and Man.
stee rivers, the most important logging
streams in the state.
he farming lands of the company include
some of the most fertile and we'll watered
hardwood lands in the state. Especial atten-
ton is called to the farming lands in Craw-
ford, Otsego and Cheboygan counties, which
are high and rolling; timbered mainly with the
finest hard maple; soil, black sandy loan, and
Astounding in springs of the purest water.
These counties are being rapidly settled, and
the numbering business in the vicinity will af-
ford to farmers first rate market for pro-
duce for many years.
TERMS OF SALE.
For pine Lands, one fourth down, and re
mander in three equal annual payments, with
interest at seven per cent. For farming lands
10 settlers, longer time will be given If desired.
Send for illustrated pamphlet, full of facts
and figures, address,
o. NJ. BARES, Land Commissioner.
Lansing Mich
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

The present year will undoubtedly
show as large an increase in the extern
sion of the railroad system of the country
as was ever made. So far, 1896 miles
have been built, as against $500 miles
for the same period last year.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

In the chess contest at Berlin, Mason,
of New York, is so far the champion, with
three games won. Blackburne, of Lon
don, and Zuckentort, of Berlin, won two
games.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1881.

THE decrease in the public debt in the
last two months since the attempt was
made to assassinate the President has
amounted to the enormous sum of $24,-
259.244.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

LAST year in Virginia the BOurbons
cast 96,449 votes; the Readjusters, 81 ,527,
and the Republicans, S3,639. If the same
ratio is kept under the coalition, the Re-
publican Readjuster ticket will have a
majority of nearly 10000 this fall.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

CLYDE (ScOtland) ship-builders have
leased land at Havre, France, to locate a
ship-building establishment capable of
employing 5000 men. This is done to
secure the benefit of the French Govern
ment bounty for homemade ships.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-09-10

SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia, is to be-
come the fortunate owner of remark
able suit of clothes. 1t is to be manu-
featured of raw cotton, at the Atlanta
Exposition, within the space of twenty
four hours-the cotton to be picked,
ginned, spun, dyed, and woven in public.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
AN ASTONISHING STORY FROM
ALASKA.

A letter from Sitka, Alaska, under date
of December %, 1880, written by r. P.
Stiurfurth, states that everybody there
has been seized with the gold fever The
writer says that about two months pre-
vious to the date of his communication e,
report reached Sitka to the effect that,
gold had been discovered in Tahon, an
Indian possession about $50 miles north
east of Sitka. The people were at first
incredulous, because the old mines in the
locality named had often been examined
and nothing rich enough to pay the
necessarily enormous cost of working had
been found. But the fattering rumors
continued to come, and finally a party
of small capitalists left Sitka for Tahon,
with the intention Of learning the true
prospects there. After being gone twen-
ty-four days, they returned, and according
to the statement of the writer, declared
that nothing like the Tahon mine had
ever been seen before, as proofs of their
assertion producing several pieces of ore
aggregating 300 pounds weight, which
yielded upon assay nearly 5000 pure gold.
On this showing the people Of Sitka are
said to have commenced wholesale mi
gration.-San Francisco Chronicle,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
CHARLEY ROSS.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.-The reported
discovery of Charley Ross in Aldborough,
Ontario, has failed to awaken much con-
fidence on the part of his father, who
seems to have given up all hope OF ever
recovering his long lost son. The ques-
tions, which he sent to Peter d. McCol-
lum, the Canadian farmer who first call
ed his attention to the matter, have been
answered by the boy in q very unsatis-
factory manner and Mr.. Ross thinks it
is merely scheme gotten up by some
one who sees a chance for a speculation
in it. Mr.. Ross does not propose to visit
Canada unless he gets more hopeful in
formation. Meanwhile a Toronto lady,
accompanied by a newspaper reporter,
has visited the farm of Joseph Bonn, the
German with whom the child is living,
talked with him and obtained, to say the
least, a very remarkable story, the sub
tance of which is that while playing in
the streets of large city, he was seized
by man who had alighted from buggy
to catch bird, leaving companion in
charge of the vehicle. He was lifted into
the buggy and driven away. This is the
last he remembers until he found himself
among the Indians on the Tuscarora re-
servation. He was then taken to d
Moravian town and placed in a family,
whose inhuman treatment caused him to
run away. In his wanderings he met
white man named Wilson who had ne
gro wife, and he lived with them until
October last when he fell into the hands
of John Bonn, the farmer with whom he
is still living. He says when in the large
city at the time he was abducted he wore
a pinafore, kniekerbockers and frock
and was in charge of a woman he called
Besty. This is the only clue there is to
the identity of the child. The farmer be-
lieves him to be the genuine Ross but is
very particular whom he permits to see
him. The Toronto lady and the report
er had to claim relationship to Charley
Ross before they were granted an inter
view.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
ORIGIN OF DIPHTHERIA.

''Diptheria is generated by breathing
impure air, such as comes from dark
apartments. dirty cellars, cutters, sinks,
drcaying matters, pools of standing liquids
and other sources of filth. 1t is usually
confined to persons from 2 to Is years OF
age. The atmosphere, the breathing OF
which causes the disease, seems to be full
of living things, vegetable and animal,
the bacteria and micocoppins, some of
which lodge in the throat and from white
spotches, which are distinctive Of the
malady, and whose presence quickly
poisons the blood; hence there should
not be moments delay in sending for a
physician, as the march of the disease is
always ra pid, and its virulence increases
every hour"
The above is from Halls Journal of
Health. The theory impure atmos-
phere, ETC., is all well enough. The ex-
perience of this village is that the dis
ease goes at random as to clean or nasty
places. 1t has made fatal visits to as
neat, wholesome, well kept and clean
houses as are to be found in the county.
Its cause and cure are among the un
known things. we believe, notwithstand-
ing the high authority of Halls Journal.
jefferson co., Sentinel.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
VISITING CARDS.

The social use of visiting cards, says
The New York Times, varies not only
with periods and with people, but varies
sometimes in the same city, and in the
same SET as in New York, for example.
When ordinary calls are made, it is Gus
tomary, OF course, as it has always been
to send in a card by the servant to an
nounce your name and presence, and to
leave your card, if the person visited is
absent. This is common sense, and all
true etiquette is founded on common
sense But where many visitors are anti
cipated, as on New Years day, or at
general reception, it is expected that
cards shall be left, and they are left in
very irregular manner. 1t is natural to
hand the card to the servant who opens
the door, aud persons would do so at once
especially when they see the servant arm
ed with a card tray. But when the COM
pany is large, and has been formally in
yited, it seems superfuous, if not absurd,
to precede yourself with card: nor is it
supposed that you will. Nevertheless,
it is presumed that you will dropa card
on leaving, or before leaving, and you
comply with the fashion whether you
approve it or not On New Years day,
for instance, some servants are provided
with trays, and, on admitting you, re-
ceive your card. Some of them carry it
into the drawing room, and you instinc-
lively wait in the hall until it has been
delivered, for to accompany your card
renders the card redundant. Again, the
servant informs you that the ladies are
receiving, and asks you to step in, retain
/ ing your card, so as to make you feel, if
you are not familiar with, or indepen-
dent of, etiquette, as if you had made
mistake. At other places the servant
has no tray, and you are privileged to
leave the card in the basket usually stand
ing in the hall, either going in or COM
ing out. There is ITO positive rule on
the subject, but it is generally more con-
venient or less awkward to leave the card
coming out At kettledrums, which
everybody pretends to dislike, and yet
which continue in vogue, despite num-
berless manifest objections to them, the
custom of leaving cards prevails, and of
leaving them in the same uncertain way
At evening parties or private receptions
cards are never left, although there is just
as much reason for leaving them there as
at kettledrums. The excuse offered for
leaving cards on New Years at kettle
drums, the general receptions, is that
the hostess may know who has called, or
practically accep ed her invitation. But
she has the same cause, and, doubtless
the same desire, for knowing on any
other social occasion. Etiquette is often
very fantastic and financial, but sound
etiquette, is,, we repeat, 50 based OH
common sense that it may generally be
OWNED by delicate instinct. In regard
to cards, no man or woman of fine appre-
hension Or good breeding would think of
leaving card at a general assembly or
any kind, unless before entering draw
ing-room, and this is unqestionably the
best rule of the best society.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
SITTING-BULL.
HOW HE CAME TO GET HIS NAME.

FORT BUFoRD, d. T., Feb. IL never
saw more intense interest evinced than
was shown by Gall when he was told of
the retreat of the forty lodges and the
famed old warrior Sitting-Bull. He did
not, however, express the least surprise.
Probably he felt none Of Thompson,
the renegade halfbreed, who has fright
ened Sitting-Bull into running away,
Gall would say but little, except that he
had always been regarded by the Sioux
as their friend. He believes, however,
with every one else here, that Sitting
Bull, the head and front of the offending,
will, with his scanty remnant of recalcit-
rants, surrender voluntarily before many
weeks have elapsed.
Just here let me correct misappre-
hension which shared in regard to Sit
ting-Bull's character and influence. Up
to this time his power over the Sioux has
been almost limitless. Hated by many.
feared by all, he has found it necessary
to surround himself with relatives whom
he could trust, and who guard him day
and night; but in camp or council, fight
or foray, his voice has been as powerful
as his ambition had been lofty and his
judgment, from an Indian standpoint,
unerring. Gall told me how, in his ear
ly youth, Sitting Bull, then yclepted
Lame Deer, went out uInoted among
brother butfalO-hunters, and came in at
night carrying on his shoulders the car
cass of a young buffalo with a mystic
white cross on it's forehead, shot by him
and borne for so many weary miles that
ho AA,t> of fIo lodi fn
sitting posture. He thus became Sitting
Bull, for the carcass remained On his
shoulders and seemed part and parcel
of himself. The carcass of the animal
was left there, the camp abandoned, and
ever since has been avoided as cursed by
the spirit of evil, or at least as not good
medicine.
The scene of this occurrence Gall places
indefnitly somewhere in the Black Hills,
and thence Sitting-Bull went out Chief
whose power has aggregated ever since.
| Successful warfare greatly augmented
| it; but now the continuous cold and hun
ger and the admirable morale of the troops
have proven too strong for even his plau-
sible tongue and brave example, and soon
there will be none SO poor as to do him
| reverence. Gall cOnleSSeS that ne was
engaged in the battle of the Little Big
Horn; but when | showed him picture
of Long Hair (Custer) he disclaimed ever
Eaying seen the original: He was equal
ly non-committal as to the particulars Of
the fight, though relishing evidently the
remembrance o. the savage victory gained.
1t is believed that Maj. Brotherton, who
is as well posted in Indian matters as any
one in this county, that the campaign is
over for the winter, and he is also con-
vinced that before spring shall have come
and the vexed question of so many years.
| from which SO much sorrow, so many
deaths and wounds, and fatiguing cam
paigns have resulted, will be definitely
settled
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
THE RUSSIAN VICTORY IN CEN
TRIAL ASIA.

General Skobeleff's detailed account of
the storming of Geek Tepe shows the
Russian assault was made simultaneously
by distinct columns, and that final
breaches were made by the explosion of
the mines. Several hundred Tekke Tur-
comans were billed by one explosion
The hand-to-hand fighting with the
Tekkes on the walls lasted over one hour,
after which there was desperate fighting
inside the fortress. The day was finally
decided by the capture of the hill redoubt
of Dengil Tepe. Over 1000 corpses of
Tekkes were found inside the fortress.
The trenches were also filled with corpses.
Numbers were killed during the pursuit.
Four thousand families were found in the
! fortress and 700 Persian prisoners.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
GRANT AT GALENA.

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says,
with degree of sharpness not necessary:
An item has been going the rounds of
the press to the effect that General Grant
still claims Galena, ILL.,, as his residence.
The pity of it is that he ever made a
doubt possible on the subject. Grant
passing the evening of his ife-which,
we trust, will. be a very long summer
evening, too-at his modest home in Ga
lena, would be far more heroic charac-
ter fol history than Grant living in style
in New York as pensioner ON the boun-
ty of few millionaires. If Grant has
permanently left Galena, he has commit
ed the greatest mistake of his life.
There is in this paragraph more than
an intimation of the possibility that Grant
may do wrong. Whatever may be said
of the call for it, there is no doubt of the
truth of the proposition as stated, that he
would be stronger at Galena, poor and
modest, than patronized by New York
millionaires.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

MADISON, Wis, February AT the
meeting of the State Agricultural Society
to-day the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, J. M.
Smith, Green Bay; Vice President, ]. c..
Plumb, Milton; Recording Secretary, F.
w. Case, Madison; Corresponding Sc
cretary, A. J. Phillips, West Salem
Treasurer, Matt Anderson, Cross Plains.
1t was decided to hold the next fair in
September, commencing on the Goth.
The following Superintendent were ap-
pointed; Clinton Babbitt, horse depart
ment; A. A. Arnold, cattle; Chester
Hazen, sheep and swine; James S. Door,
education: d. R. Warren, machinery;
Sat Clerk, manufactures; Eli Stilson.
roots; A. A. Boyce, forage; Mr.. Morrison,
of Elkhorn, poultry; DR.. G. L. Martin,
department Of agriculture; d. F. Pilgrim,
fruit and flowers; w. w. Field, fine
arts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
SCHURZ'S POLICY ENDORSED

Mr.. John Lawler of Prarie du Chen,
who has spent great deal of time inves-
tigating the Indian problem, by visiting
the aborigines on their reservations and
at the agencies, has just returned to his
home from a trip to Washington. He
takes direct issue with the usual estimate
placed on Indian character by the from
tiersmen and he thinks they are as virtu-
Gus, as honorable, and as honest as the
white frontiersmen, and he would rely
upon them just as confidently. He
claims that even the most savage of the
Northern Sioux have growing apprc-
citation of the advantages of civilization,
and many of the tribes, as well as their
head chiefs, desire to acquire and enjoy
these benefits. Mr. Lawler attributes
mostof the Indian difficulties to the fact the
Indians have been unfairly dealt with; and
he declares Chat white men woul have
been made more desperate than these
wild men mad they been wr0nged so out
rageously as the Indians have been But
what is most marked and unusual is that
Mr.. Lawler should endorse Carl SchurZ's
Indian policy. In the press, in reports
of special Congressional committees, i'm
debates in Congress- Mr.. Schurz's policy
for the management o, the In lians has
been criticized and even Acknowledgement
advocated. Mr.. Lawler says that he
knows that Secretary Schurz's plans
have done more for the benefit of the
Indians in the past three years, than
has been accomplished by all
Others" He endorses the Indian policy
inaugurated by M. Schurz, claims that
it is based upon sincere determination
to secure to the Indians their just rights;
and he says it is the only policy that will
accomplish the permanent good OF the
Indians of this nation. 1t meets the
united opposition of scheming Indian
agents, and multitude of dishonest men
interested in Systematically ,robbing the
Indians; which of itself is an evidence in
favor of Mr.. Schurz, that recommends his
plans to the consideration and respect of
all true philanthropists
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
KATE CHASE SPRAGUE IN HER
YOUNG DAYS.

The following is a description of Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague in her glory: CAT
one of her receptions, when her popular
ity was at its height, her dress was, like
herself, a wonder-a marvellous satin robe
of two shades-a pale blue and pearly
white, a tint rather than a shade. It
was embroidered in wreaths on the blue
satin petticoat, and bouquets on the court
train and square-cut waist The sleeves
were tight to the elbows, and deep white,
duchesse lace fell over the rounded white
arms, on which sparkled gold bracelets
set with diamonds. On her head she
wore tiara of turquoise and diamonds;
her earrings matched the tiara