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Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
Gen. Robert E. Lees Death.

The Philadelphia Press publishes an in.
teresting private letter from the late Mary
Custis Lee, containing an account of hel
husbands death as follows:
That Wednesday night, at Z: 30 o'clock,
after day every moment of which had been
filled with care for others and the closing
hours to the vestry meeting of the church,
my husband came in. We had been waiting
for him, and I remarked: "You have kept
us waiting long time. Where have you
been?" He did not rep y, and stood up
as if to say grace, but no sound proceeded
from his lips and he sat down in his chair
perfectly upright and with sublime look
of resignation on his countenance, but did
not attempt to reply to our inquiries. That
look was never to be forgotten, and have no
doubt that he felt then his hour had come,
although he submitted to the doctors, who
were Immediately summoned and had not
even reached their homes from the same
vestry meeting. His whole demeanor
duridg his illness showed one who had taken
leave of earth.
He rarely attempted to speak except in
his dreams, and then he wandered to those
dreadful sattle-tields. Once, when urged
him to take some medicine, which he ALWAYS
took with reluctance, he looked at her and
said: "Tis no use," but afterwards took
it. When he became SO much better the
doctor said: "You must soon get out and
ride your favorite gray" He shook his head
emphatically and looked upward.
He slepta great deal, but knew us all and
greeted us with kindly pressure of the
hand, loving to have us around him. For
the last forty-eight hours he seemed quite
insensible of our presence, breathed heavily
and at last quietly sunk to rest with one
Deep drawn sigh.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

THE constitution of Georgia gives the
legislature power ''to pass laws from time
to time to regulate passenger and freight
tariffs" Two years ago the legislature
availed itself of this power by passing a
law comforting the authority to fix the rates
upon board of three commissioners. The
commissioners have undertaken to fix the
rates, but before putting their schedule in.
to operation, it was thought best to test the
consttutionality of the law; and to that
end case was made up into which the
companies put the best legal talent that
could be secured. The strongest point
made against the law was that while the
constitution conferred the power to fix tar
ifs upon the legislature, the delegating of
these powers to commission was, not con-
stitutional. Judge Woods of the United
States supreme court, when in the circuit
court, held that enacting law empowering
commissioners to make rates was not del
egating of its legislative powers to others
by the legislature and was within the fair
construction of the constitutional mandate
that the legislature shall pass laws from
time to time to regulate freight and pas
senger tariffs. This decision is virtually in
accordance with the decision of the su-
preme court of the United States, which,
by the way, railroad attorneys have not yet
acquiesced in as the law of the land They
still retain the hope that the composition
of that court may be changed and the form
ers decision reversed.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
Damage hY Recent Storms.

On Thursday night there was severe light
ming, rain and hail storm, that did considerable
damage il some localities. In Nicholet county
the storm extended over a territory four miles
in length by two miles wide, and has complete
ly destroyed the corn crop in that section. Hail
stones, fifteen inches in circumference, were
picked up after the storm had spent its fury.
At St. Charles, Winona county lightning
struck Calvin Carter's barn setting it on fire.
Loss on grain in barn and stacked in yard,
1,5O3; insured for So, 600. John Persons lost
a stack of wheat by being struck by lightning.
Some damage was done at Waseca, Eagle
Lake, GAINESVILLE and other sections of Waseca
county Several buildings are reported un-
rooted, trees torn up by their roots, glass bro
ken in windows and cattle killed.
At Owatonna the Cong sregational church had
thirty lights broken, and many other similar
cases were reported. Lightning struck in seY-
eral places, but the damage from that source
was not severe. Frank Holmes of Meriden,
owner of the best farm house IN Steele county,
reports damages not less than 5000. The
windows in the north and west parts of the
house were completely destroyed. He has
taken barrel Of hail out of the rooms Every
thing is cut to the ground. Eugene Soper, on
the way home to Lemond. had his wagon with
a hay-rack overturned on him, the wind carry
ing his boy ten or twelve rods. Meriden sta
ton reports equal damage, one house being
blown down. No lives are reported lost.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
'Cures'' for Rheumatism

Sufferers from that dreadful ailment,
rheumatism, will invoke blessings on our
head for placing within their reach the fol.
lowing infallible cure: Sleep with your
head toward the north. Wear chest pro-
tector. Take nitrate of potash. Use mag
nefism. Put on mustard plasters, lemon
juice, sage tea. Wear sulphur in your
SHOES. Garry piece of sulphur in your
vest pocket. Try hard rubbing. Eat COM
pressed cooked corn beef. Wear silk, white
flannel, red flannel, buckskin. Exercise.
Keep as quiet as possible. Take morphine,
carbolic acid; soft soap bandaged with fam
nelfwill do. Do not eat eggs or potatoes.
Eat anything you please. Do not smoke at
all.s Smoke as much as you like. Drink
nothing but beer. Do not drink anything
but. whiskey. Drink no ardent spirits.
Keep in the house. Take ride whenever
you can get free one. Garry a piece of
alum in your pocket. Battle in hot water
with pearl ash in it. Bathe in cold water
frequently. Do not bathe at all until you
are nearly well. Go to Chicago, to Sarato-
ga, to Florida, to Bermuda, to the Sand
wich Islands. to California, to the south of
France, to Niagara Falls. to South America.
Wear a horse chestnut in your left hand
breeches pocket. Wear potato in the
othef.<f Take Constitution water. Don'i
eat onions. Eat vegetables. Wrap the
Joints with cotton, and cover with oiled silk
Get out on the prairies. High land is bet.
ter for rheumatism. Rub with kerosene
Put mustard poultices over the heart. Pu
on slippery -elm poultice,
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.

The rag factory of Davis & Co., at Louisville,
was burned with loss of 81 900.
man named J. T. Howard was drowned n
the Mississippi at st. Paul. Supposed to be a
suicide.
Henry Berkaw, E. NJ. Ferrell, E. Lospie, and
James Radisel, were drowned near Lockport
Indiana.
J. G. McElwee s Co.'s packing factory mill,
at Big Rapids, Michigan, burned. Loss, $780,
900; insurance, So 900. Forty men are
thrown out of employment.
At Newport, r. L, on Monday last, Lieut. B.
Long Edes of Washington, and Lieut. Lyman
g. S.aulding of Portsmouth, N. 81. were plant
ing minesin the harbor defenses in connection
with the annual experiments which take place
before the examining board. These are what are
known as circuit closers, and when the buoys
of these are struck an explosion of torpedoss
takes place. The buoys were accidentally
struck and Edes and Spaulding were blown in
to atoms. Their remains were sent at least
thirty feet into the air.
Fifty buildings were destroyed by cyclone
near Augusta, Ga, the loss of life among the
colored people occupying little huts on the rice
plantations and along the river was very great
Ten negro hands Of the Coosaw Mining com.
pany returning home Saturday night got in the
ferry house at Fort Royal ferry, ten miles from
town, for protection. The house washed away
and the men drowned. Several pilot boats and
q United States tug were washed ashore.
At Mason City, Iowa, man by the name of
William Brainard Of Portage City, Wis, tried
to board q freight train after it was in motion
He caught hold of the end ladder of one of the
box cars, missed his foothold and fell between
two cars across the rails, and the wheels passed
over his legs, near his body and also crushed
one hip. Both legs were completely severed
from his body. His clothes were caught in
one OF the brakes and he was dragged about
ten rods He lived about an hour in great
agony.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
Pleasant Picture OfJtalian Women.

A correspondent of the New York Com
mercidt draws not altogether unlovely
picture of Italian ladies in the following;
Italian ladies do not and cannot
pretend to be as fashionable as Partisan or
American ladies'; they cannot afford it. At
the utmost they can afford one new dress
for summer and another for winter; and
tine less they nave to pay for these the bet
ter. 1t is only foreigners whe dress ex-
travagantly in Italy, andthey are not envied;
they are rather condemned than otherwise.
1t is true that italian ladies go out but
very little. and one dress season is quite
sufficient for their needs. To have more is
scarcely concidered to be respectable in
good society. am not sure If they are
not be envied more in this simplicity than
their more extravagant sisters across the
Alps or oceani You would scarcely credit
the simplicity of Italian houses - furniture,
dress and living-of the middle classs in
Italy! You must live in the midst of Ital-
iaus, as if of themselves, to see this
Young girls of comparatively well to do
parents make every article Of their wedding
outfit themselves, and the linen itself is
homemade, spun from flax that had grown
on the family's microscopic fields. From
childhood girls are taught to sew and en-
broider on linen or cotton intended for
their own marriage. I have seen hand
kerchiefs which took year to thus en-
broider. To be sure, after this practice
the girl was an accomplished embroideress.
Ayoung girl of my acquaintance en-
broidered her entire wardrobe during her
school years, after which. she marked every
chair, stool and sofa for her future draw
ingroom, not forgetting the curtains and
occasional tables of her own work. She is
now % years of age, and has been married
two years. She had but three new dresses
in her wedding outft--a black silk, visit
ing dress anda travelling dress, in which
she was married. Her solitary gala even
ing dress was, according to custom, given
by her husband. Nor is the family poor or
of inferior social position, the father being
one ofthe highest government officials in
Italy. But simplicity is inherent to- re-
spectibility here, where the majority Of
the people still live in the most primitive
style. Italy, therefore, can well afford to
! tax French luxuries, since no one requires
them excepting the foreigners, ana they
can afford to pay for them and their taxes,
too. This may astonish some persons,
! perhaps, but lisa fact.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
with its great Northwest. 1 repeat, you can
form no idea of what the future will bring
1t will exceed your most sanguine imaginings."
RECORD OF CRIME.

Dr. Otto, who, during last fall, cody and with.
out provocation shot and killed his brother-in-
law near Jasper, Ind, was taken to the Jeffer-
sonville prison for ninety nine years.
Theodore D. Everstine, young and unmar-
ried man, aged about twenty-five years, who
was making his home with his cousins Charley
and Cal. Bell of Western, committed suicide by
hanging himself on Saturday morning last in a
stable.
C. H. Keller, treasurer of the st. Louis
Carbon works, was arrested in east st. Louit
and taken to Belleville. the county seat of st.
Clair county, charged with fraudulently draw
ing drafts and issuing notes to the amount of
about $4,000.
Alfred Horgett, train dispatcher on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway, was found
dead in his room with a revolver ball in his
head and revolver in his hand. His brother,
to whom he had written letter, feared such
an act and had the shock of finding the dead
body
At Milwaukee, on the 29th, young man
named Herman Hildon,a German, shot and kill
ed his STEP father, Paul Kremmer and mortally
wounded his mother, Mrs. Kremmer, at the
residence Of the Kremmers, No. $50 Clinton
street HildOn was at once arrested. Family
trouble is the cause assigned
Among the articles captured from the White
Bear monte men were couple of decoy rolls
of money. On the outside of one counterfeit
81, COO bill was neatly folded and on the other
| a$5OO bill Inside the roll was composed of
brown paper, the edges of which look at first
sight marvelleusly like good collateral
| Near Ithica, Michigan, on Sunday last, a
man named Martin X. Walker went into a field,
stripped himself of his clothes, set fire to a
brush heap, placed gun to mis- head and was
found with the top of his head completely
blown off and his naked body partly burned, on
blazing heap of brush, which he kindled. He
left a letter expressing confirmed hope
lessness as to himself and warning his
children to avoid whisky.
During a recent political debate, rough Ian
| guage passed between Mr.. Robert s. Campbell,
readjuster, and Mr.. James Scott, founder,
| both young lawyers of Warrenton, Va, and a
hostile meeting resulted on Monday evening.
Alexander Hunter of Alexandris, Va, CORES
pondent of the Capital, of Washington, was
Campbell's second. and Mr.. Richard Scott of
Petersburg sec onded Scott. The weapons
were revolvers, Scott using a central fire
Smith & Wesson and Campbell a Colts. The
distance was twenty PAGES. In the first shot
Campbell shot Scott through the hand. Scott
asked for second fire, to which Campbell
aceeeded, but Hunter interferred, taking the
pistols from the combatants and firing them
in the air. Campbell is the son-in-law q
Col John s. Mosby, and is the readjuster
candidate for the legislature. Scott is the
son of Col. Scott, the commonwe alth attorney
of Fauquier County.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
POrterhOuSe Steak.
From the Burlington Hawkeyo.


At the restaurant: This is the porter
house, is it?" asked the sad passenger, sit
ting at the corner table in the restaurant.
Yes sir" said the waiter, with the weary
air of one who was tired of of having to tell
the same lie thousand times day, "por-
terhouse stake, sir, same as you ordered,
SIR" do you cut porterhouse steak from
between the horns this year?" asked the
sad passenger, with the intonation of a man
who wants to know "Sir?" said the wait
er. ut seemed to be trife tenderer lact
year." the sad passenger went on, with the
air of tired man indulging in pleasant
"reminiscences of the past, ''but I remem-
Der, now; it was cut a trif1e lower down
then. Last year you cut off your porter
house steaks from the curl in the forehead,
and the sirloins from the shin. But think
this comes from between the horns. fused
to live in boarding house where they cut
the porterhouse between the horns, and
this one reminds me of them. Animal dead
this steak came from?" Dead" echoed
the astonished waiter; 'of course. sir. He
was butcheied, sir" "Butchered to make
a Roman holiday" sighed the sad passen-
ger. HE would be more likely to make
Roman swear. Well, it was time he was
killed. He hadn't many more years to live
from one of his horns. Dropped into the
steak 10 doubt, while you were slicing it
off. What do you do with these steaks when
the guests are through with them?" The
waiter looked puzzled. Why, SIR he
said, ''they amt nothing left of 'em when
customers gets through with 'em, sir? >
Possible, said the sad passenger, what
becomes of them?' The waiter looked
nervous. WHAT" he said; ''the custom
ers eat them up" The sad passenger look
ed up with an air of interest. Incredible,
he exclaimed; cannot accept your state
ment without proof. They may hide then
under their chairs, or secrete them in their
napkins, or they may carry them away in
their pockets to throw at burglars, but
cannot believe they eat them. Here, let me
see one of them eat this, and will believe
you. Trust me, good waiter, L"
But the waiter pointed to placard in
cried Positively no Trust, and went to
tn. cashiers desk to tell the boss to look
out for that man at the corner table, as he
didn't seem to be satisfied with his steak
and had asked for trust.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

The changes which have taken place in
our prolific wheat states are beginning to
be revealed in California, as we'll as in some
portions of the northwest east of the noun
tains. The San Francisco Bulletin saws
that wheat farms, which have been produc-
ing successive crops for quarter of GEN.
tury or more, show nearly as low average as
those CT Illinois, where, indeed, the soil
was much richer. The owner of a small
farm in California which has been success
sively cropped for wheat many years does
not expect now to. make more than nominal
profit from wheat growing. In England
such soils are renewed, or, rather, they are
kept up to the highest condition of produc-
tion by the liberal use of fertilizers. In
the United States only a very small area of
wheat growing land is ever renewed, and in
the western and Pacific Ecoast states hardly
none at all. Land is so cheap and there is
such an immense area not yet brought I'M
der cultivation that, when a wheat grower
has exhausted his land for wheat ne either
plants other crops or moves on, seeking
new land for his favolite cereal.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
CURRENT EVENTS.

Alexander Moselv, for many years editor of
the Richmond Wing, is dead.
Col James G. Benton, ordinance department
United States army died recently at Spring.
field, Mass, of heart disease.
James F. d. Lanier, the founder Of the
banking firm of Winslow 4 Co., died in New
York recently at the age of eighty y-one years
At Chicago, on the I'd, the bank clearings ex-
ceedej, by over $l2, ,OOO, 600, the largest ever
before recorded-they were $50, 500, 900 and
May I'd were $17, 900, ,000
Chicago operators were in great furry on
Monday over report that the elevators were
full OF hot wheat An examination was had
and it was found that some s, 900 bushels were
out of condition.
Six companies Of soldiers, with rations for 0
forty days campaign, have left Fort Assiniboine
for the Milk river country. They 60 to drive
back the CANADIAN Indians, now crossing the
line - large numbers,
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
DYSPEPSIA.
A Warning from the Presidents Case.

A Warming from the Presidents Case.
From the Providence Journal
The national American disease is dys-
pepsia-so much so that it has become in a
measure hereditary, like the gout in the de-
scendants of the hard drinking generations
of England, and which the temperance of
more than one succeeding generation has
not been sufficient to eradicate in predis-
position. It is due in its national charac-
ter to the abundance and cheapness of food
in the early days of the country, and which
is still continued, to the haste which both
energy and condemnation of self f-indul-
gence produced in the habits of eating, and
something also to the instincts for full
feeding derived from Angle Saxon or Teu-
tonic ancestry.
What the conceptions and practices of
cookery were in the early days of the
country may be judged not only from
their effects upon the succeeding genera
tions, but by what now prevails in the
primitive regions of the West and South.
They were enough in spite of the most
healthy and vigorous life in the open air
to plant the germs of chronic and
hereditary weakness. Healthier and
wiser habits now prevail, and it is no
longer thought to be self indulgent weak
ness to secure health giving and appetizing
as well as merely satisfying food, or to make
the enconomy or hygiene of the table an
intelligent and careful study. Something of
this has been due to the growth of leisure
and the accompaniment of luxury, but more
to sensible understanding and the pressure
of necessity from chronic discomfort and
weakness nndcr the influence of hereditary
transmission and change in habits.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

SHOULD the president recover, it is the
unanimous opinion of his physicians, that
his recovery will be very slow, even under
the most favorable circumstances. He has
now been lowering between life and death
for over two months, aud il is almost too
much to expect that he " Ill be able to write,
or even dict1te, message to the new con-
gress which commences the first of
Decemher
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The four cared crew of the Minnesota Row.
ing club of St Paul arrived here late, Monday
night and took lodgings at Mrs. Corning house,
on street, not far from the river Their boat
ing headquarters are at the Potomac club
house They will practice twice daily until the
Sth of September, when the regatta occurs.
Kennedy, the Portland, Me-, oarsman, is coach
ing the crew.
Judge Wilson, counsel for the star route peo-
pie, has applied at the postoffice department
for permission to examine the accounts in be-
half of ths defense, and the privilege was re-
fused. The postmaster general sent for Col.
Cook and the proposition was submitted to him !;
he advised against it, and the permission was
therefore not given. The defense will, it is
thought accordingly apply for continuance,
should indictment be found to make proper
preparation for trial
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
Bob IngersoII wakes Flyers. /"

New York Letter in Atlanta Constitution.
I hear that Bob Ingersoll is taking fly
ers in stock now and again. He has built
him small cottage at Long Beach, and oh.
SO awfully swell, down on the seaside
shore of Long Island. He comes up to the
city almost daily, and smiles SO much that
he makes people laugh without knowing
why. Last year he made more than $780,
600 by lecturing, and his law practice is
said to have brought him even larger re-
turn. What fine looking man he is! He
always seems SO merry and bright. His
voice has such CHEEKY ring. I Iam told
that the stock operations in which he in
dulges have been far from renumerative.
fact they have brought him sad losses.
Some day when all his money is gone he
will be heard to say: .sThis is hell;
have been wrong all along"
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
NORRIS STEVENS COUNTY

vampires (who now disgrace the once
proud title of editor) had found something
upon which to glut their morbid appetites;
for weeks and months they printed any
and everything, false and true, that was
calculated to keep up and increase the nat
ural excitement against me. Nothing was
too false to publish, nothing too sacred to
be assailed."
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

THE fall of Lieut.. Flipper, the only col
ored officer of the army, is regarded as most
unfortunate, but his friends are inclined to
make belief that his ottense is technical
lather than criminal, and that Investigation
will exonerate him from any intention or
purpose to defraud the government. He is
under arrest in Texas for embezzlemert of
commissary funds.
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

WHEN the senate meets whether it be
in extra session are not until next Decem-
Der there is likely to be another deadlock,
unless both parties exhibit a split of COM
promise that is not often witnessed in leg
islative bodies where parties are so evenly
divided. If President Garfield Ghould die
Vice President Arthur will be president.
The senate is now left without secretal Y
by the death of Col. Burch, and also with
out president pro tenn from ne failure to
elect at the last session,
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08
SNOW DROPS.

A small bird twitters on leafless spray
Across the snow-waste breaks gleam of gold ;
What token can give my friend to-day
But February blossoms, pure and cold?
Frail gifts from Natures half reluctant hand
What fhe deems them meaningless aud pale?
see the signs of spring about the land,
I hear in dreams the cuckoo's summer tale; :;
And these chillt snowdrops, fresh from wintery
bowers,
Arc the forerunners of world of flowers.
Sarah Drudney
Morris tribune., 1881-09-08

IT is pretty we'll settled doctrine that q
person who is surrendered under IN ex-
tradition treaty can only be hied for the
otfense for which he is extradited: and the
same rule governs, to great extent, if not
absolutely, in the cases of criminals given
up by one state of the Union to another,
under acquisitions from executive au-