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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25
To Assassinate Washington.

An attempt made to assas>inate
Gen. ashlngton in New York City
in l776, is imperfectly Described AZ
follows by James Thatcher, a Massa-
chnsetts surgeon in the Continental
army, in M iliiary Journal During
the American Revolutionary War;"
under date Of Sept. 10, 1916.
Il have omitted to record the fol
lowing incidents until | could ascer-
tain the particulars Of the reports:
We learn by accounts from New York
that sometime since a plot of most
atrocious nature was detected in that
city. A gang Of Tories had associat-
ed for the purpose of joining the Brit
ish army, and had concerted a plan, it
is said, to assassinatc his Excclency,
Gen. ashipgton, and some other of.
licers; and while our army were en-
gagged with the enemy to blow up our
magazines, etc. The Mayor of the
city, and an armnrer who was engag-
ed in making rifles for the Tories, and
several others were taken into Custody
and committed to close prison. The
Mayor, upon examination, confessed
that he received money from Governor
Tryon TO pay the armorer for the RI
fes. Two of his Excellency's guards
were confederates. and a third, to
whom the secret was confided, honest
ly disclosed the information. Several
OF these mlscreants were tried and
convicted, and two or three were exc
cuted."
A foot note of this account quotes
as follows from one of Ramsay's his
tories: Gov. Tryon had >uborned the
then Mayor Of New York to assist the
royal forces on their arrival in that
city, and Gen. Washington was to be
assasslnatel. This detestable. design
was rendered abortive by apmehend-
ing Thomas Hickey. one of Gen. Wash
ington's lite-guard men, who was en-
gagged in the conspiracy, and had en-
gagged others; this false miscreant vas
tried 10y court martial on the 2Slh Of
June, found guilty, and was executed
the same day, amid the curses of Il
American army"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

In Ireland the ouly fuel known is
peat, the Esquimaux use oil for fuel:
in Asia grass is burned, in Arabia
Camel chips, and people who live
along the shores of Nova Scotia burn
the antlers of the moose.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

Frank Lodeke of Trenton, Illinois,
struck William Woerners playful
blow on the side of the head with his
open hand, which broke his neck. and
he died iustsntly.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

Six Young Modocs, from the rem
nant OF Captaia Jacks band, nave ar.
lived at Philadelphia. to be educated
at the Emlcn Friends school.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

An American cheese bore away the
prize of silver medal at the late
great cattle and dairy show at Bir-
England. The prize cheese
was one Of the largest ever made
weighing three-fourths eff a ton. It
came from Iowa.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

The Scientific american gives this
as an excellent mode for preserving
eggs: Take fresh ones, put a dozen
or more into small willow basket
and immersc this for five seconds in
boiling water containing about five
pounds Of common brown sugar Der
gallon. Place the eggs on trays to
dry. Then pack, when cool, small
ends down, in an intimate mixture of
one par. of finely powdered charcoal
and two Of dry bran. In this way
they will last six months or more. The
scaldlng water causes the formation
OF thin skin of hard albumen next
the inner surface of the shell, and the
sugar or syrnp closes all the pores.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25
Baron Rothsch!d left $500, 900 900.

Four thousand women keep whisky
shops in New York.
New evidence Of fraud in the star
route business is being secured
against the ring.
Up to this time some 10000 appli-
cations for rcnt-rcducton have been
made to the Land Courts in Ireland.
In penetrating the earth Prof. Ev-
crit finds that the rise in temperature
is more rapid in the older and harder
rocks.
A Mormon elder has been imprison-
ed at Hamburg for trying to make
proselytes. They do those things bet
ter in the old country than here, where
the elders are sent to Congress.
Citizens Of Wyoming, Montana, Ida
no, Utah, Nevada, and other parts Of
the country west Of the Rocky noun
tains are moving Tor semi-daily mail
east and west.
There are prospects Of trotting
race taking place between the Ken
lucky col, "Phil Thompson" and john
Mackay's Sweetheart" in the Spring
The match will be for $4,000 aud
gate money.
A Dallas (Texas) special says a
woman was found dead in a shanty,
having died of starvatinn. The hus
band was lying sick, and three small
children, halt starved and nearly ma
ked, were hanging around their moth
err.
The liquor traffic is usually brisk in
the neighborhood Of large cemetery,
but rarely intrudes into the premises
AS at Evanston, Illinois, whore five
bar-rooms were open within the grave
yard bounds. 1t was common sight
before recent reform, to see drunken
men lying on the graves and in some
cases they were monrners gone astray
from funeral professions.
Charles Jones, one of the Two nj
ners who discovered the famons group
ut Robinson mines, in Colorado, died
while drunk in O Leadville saloon. He
then owned quarter interest in sew.
en- mines out of the twelve constitnt-
ing the Robinson consolidation, from
which the late Lieutenant Governor
Robinson made his fortune of over q
million. The heirs of Jones live in
Vermont, and not being informed oft
the great value of his estate, were in.
duccd to accept 81 900 for an estate
really worth $25o,0o0. A legal con
test is to follow.
Eleven years ago John Farrell, of
Troy, n T., swallowed two false teeth
and the rubber attached. Attempts
have been made from time to time to
force the plato into tho abdomen. but
the substance had lodged in the lower
part of the gullet. The suffering has
been intense, and at times Farrell has
been unable to partake of any but liz
uid food. One day last week ali op-
Grafton was successfully made to re-
move the obstruction. 1t consisted Of
making an incision in the neck be-
bind the ear, dissecting the windpipe
by an opening of about three inches.
and another incision 10 the gulet. Ii
was delicate and novel operation.
During the time occupied by the e.
{. Attorney in delivering his argument
IN the Gniteau case the prisoner as
sumed an air of apparent Indifference,
and devoted himself to the morning
papers, scanning the N hurriedly The
argument was delivered by Colonel
Corkhill in very effective manner
tears filing the eyes of many III the
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25

There are 6fly'seven Roman Catho
lie churches in Lima, besides twenty.
five chapels. The convent of San
Francisco, occupying seven acres of
ground, is the largest in Lima. The
churches and converts are extremely
rich. aud many images of the saints
are of massive gold or silver. In
these institutions are some of the fin
est paintings of the Spanish school.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-11-25
PAT ENTsy

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20

among his own kin and amid scenes winch
were dear to him in bis lifetime VIII DO pre-
ferred to the dreary honors of tomb In the
Great Abbey. Dean Stanley has made the
customary offer, and there is universal desire
that it should he accepted by the representa-
tives of the dead statesman but there seems
to be an impression that his will or other pa
pers will reveal wish to lie at Hughenden by
the side of his devoted wife, whose faithful al
lection and helpfulness for the husband 80
many years her Junior make bright spot IN
the history of English politics. 1t is one OF
the strange contrasts in human nature that the
man of the two named above whose nature was
comparatively without depth or sincerity should
have been the one to appreciate MS WIG
thoroughly while she was yet alive. DiSrien
dedicated one of his books to his perieo'
wife, Carlyle himself records how when Mrs,
CARLYLE needed a daily airing in carriage anu
would not spend the money upon herseh
needed to buy one, it was long before 1t
reused himself enough from his books 10 go
out and make the purchase himself-when II
WAS sadly behind time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20

the Republicans in the Senate is UNANIMOUSLY
indorsed by the Democrats who supported HIM
for Senator. If he is " traitor MS
treachery is of strangely open and frank KIND
and the people whom he has betrayed do not
ooem 70 be aware of the fact. IL there has
been a "bargain,r he has been astute enough 10
get a price for doing what consistency "ouiu
have. in any event, required Oh hili' Inc
nrice the Democratic Senators would nave us
believe. is the privilege of naming one hd-
dleberper for the vast and potential once OF
Seroeant-at-A Arms. But the important fact is
that ever since the beginning of the ndepend-
ont movement in Virginia Mr.. Malone has
followed one line of policy He is a TRAITOR Il"
Of long standing, and his bargain" must
have been made long ago.
But how about Mr.. Joseph Brown 1t is
notorious that AS a former Republican he was
expected to take an independent position in
the Senate This expectation was so strong
that he received every Republican vote in the
Georgia Legislature and it was echoed in
prominent Republican journals throughout the
North. Our Washington dispatches give some
further details of this matter. 1t lis asserted
by Republicans who heard Mr. Browns speech
at the time of the election, that he pledged
himself to preserve an independent attitude
and to remain outside of the Democratic
caucus. When the speech appeared in
print this passage had been suppressed.
In private talk he still claimed that his
election had been the overthrow of Bour-
bonsm in Georgia and so late as Feb
ruary the Republicans of the Senate were IN
formed that, if they would name certain
candidate for Scrgcant-atA Arms Mr. Brown,
Mr.. Ben HILL and another Democrat, would
vote for him. Now, it is said, Mr. Brown has
been telling his friends that the opportunity
to become the Democratic leader Of the Sen
ate was too great prize to he refused, and
that he has already turned his longing eyes To
the National Democratic nomination i'll 1851.
Senator Malone was expected to take an
independent place, and took II; Senator
Brown was expected to do the same, and did
not. Mr. Malone is representing the views
of the men who elected him Senator: Mr..
Brown is not Which is the TRAITOR" and
where was the bargain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20
TE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1881.

winter, all that they possibly might with tenn
porary profit. Whyi Because they DO not
dare to offer too great an inducement for the
building of new lines. Competition among
them is already 80 severe that they find great
difficulty in controlling it. Make rates high
enough to return excessive profits, and add
tional railroads would be built with all possible
speed
Thus restrained, the railroad managers sui
have some latitude for arbitrary exercise oil
mower Granted. Between possible rate of 40
cents and the lowest that will sustain life, there
is some room for choice. But Is the country
harmed by leaving them this frecdom1 1t APP
pears clearly, from the events OF the past week,
that the roads have all that they can do to hold
each other to a rate even as low as 80 cents
when ma vigation by lake and canal is not open
Il il reasonable in the face of this fact, to keep
up an outcry about the frightful exacuons OF
grinding monopoly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20
Nemc2lork Daily Gribnaae.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1881.
THE NEUS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Details of the death of Lord Beacons-
field have been received - The Monetary Con-
ference began its sessions AT Paris yesterday. -
The Gar it is reported will consult a committee of
elected representatives State questions. -
Senior CASTELAR, has announced the conditions of his
candidacy al the coming Spanish elections
DoMFsrIC-In the United States Senate yester
dav Mr. Blair introduced resolution declaring that
an extra session of Congress should be called. -
Tho President has nominated General Longstreet rs
United States Marshal To- Georgia - The an
nual session of the National Academy of Sciences
hogan Yesterday at W,<hinrion - In the New
York Senate, the Forster resolutions to make the
State canals free were ordered to a third aiding
in the Assembly, the Olcomargarine bill was made
the special order for Tuesday next; the bill was
passed reouirng mining companies TO make detailed
quarterly statements the State Engineer and tho
CARPENTER Street Cleaning bill passed. -
The Rev Phillips Brooks has declined a chair Mt
Harvard University. - The Illinois Southern
HOSPITAL for the Insane. at Anna, was bu ned Mon
day night loss $15OO0O. - business block at
Meridian. Miss, was burned Monday night loss
S25OOOO. - The boiler-makers at Pittsburg,
PENN are IN strike. - Great damage has been
done at Rockford. H.. by unprecedented rise Of
the Rock River - The Court at Baltimore yes
ierday refused to enjoin Manager John T. Ford from
producing the opera OF " Billee layiOr."
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Three cases OF cholera
have been found in this city, - The problem of
cleaning the streets discussed at several meet
ncs Yesterday, and in the Republican Central Com
mittee the discussion warm. - resolution
affirming Judge R0bertSou's nomination was de-
feated in the Kings County Republican Committee,
- The Whitaker trial continued. - The
Aldermen passed two measures over the Mayors
veto. - Incoming vessels reported consid, rablc
damage at sea. - Gold value of the legal
tender silver dollar (412lc grainsl, s77s cents. =-=
Stocks weak in morning hours but higher and strong
at the close.
THE WKATHER.-TRIBUNH local observations in
dicate clear and partly cloudy weather with higher
temperatures. Thermometer yesterday: Highest,
600 lowest, 3Ss average, 47ls9.
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PERSONAL.

Mr. Daniel Dougherty is TO give the address at tho
meeting of the Society of the Army of the Potomac
at Hartford June -.
Mr.. J. F.. Temple, of Philadelphia, has inst given
S2 600 A. the first subscription for statue 10 Cen
cral John +. Reynolds who was killed at Gettys-
burg.
The MARQUIS of Lorne is mentioned as the possesscr
of beautiful forehead and chin, and silky blonde
hair which crowns head "carred nobly like
proud young stag" He has good figure, handsome
feet, and frank, genial, refined face.
The Hon. Robert c. Winthrop and Others of the
elder members of Trinity Church, Boston. have
united in addressing eloquent appeal TO the Rev.
Phillips Brooks to stay with them and to decline
the Harvard chaplaincy. The matter Is causing
much excitement III Boston society.
One of the oddities Of modern art in England is
the fashion in which families take up profession.
Among the most successful of the younger painters
are Mr.. Wilfrd and Mr. Cecil Lawson. Their
mother also paints charming pictures. and the wife
Of Cecil Law son is an artist OF growing talent.
Lady Cayagnari. the widow Of the soldier killed>
i'm Afghanistan now lives in the royal apartments
nj Hampton Court. Queen Victoria suddenly APP
reared there the other day and was very charming
10 all the inmates: but Lady Cavagnans youth,
beauty and qnef sadness especially touched The
Queen, who kissed her tcnderly.
Mr. Milais is engaged upon portrait of Mr.. Ten.
ny,on IL is related proof of the extraordinary
power and facility which years of hard work have
given this artist that his line portrait of Mr Glad
stone exhibited last year at the Royal Academy was
uointed in five hours For his picture, Cinderella
ircrntlv completed. Mr.. Millais has received from
Mr. Ingram. proprietor of The illustrated London
Nctrs, the sum of : 1000.
Mr. Henry James, sr., metaphysician and phllos-
opher. is described as a man bright-lookng in spite
Of his many years short III stature, erect IN form,
with keen gray eyes. and modest yet distinguished
bearing. His father an Irshman by birth I'reshy-
terrain and a merchant at Albany, was successful n
business aud left n great deal Of money to his son,
who was graduated at Union College in 1881. Mr..
Jamrs during one of his visits To England, wrote
sornc remarkable letters to THE TRIBrNE. of Nr.
Jamcs's four SONS the eldest. pr William .iaines Is
nrofrssor of philosophy at Harvard of the two
Younger SONS one is artist and the other bus.-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-20
THE DJEOT1 DJSISTFP.

Tn his remarks at the Produce Exchange yes
terday. Governor 0rdway, of Dakota, gave
clear account of the disaster which has recently
overtokcn the farmers of the southwestern por-
tion of that growing Territory. 1t Is disaster
UNPARALLELED in the history of the Territory, and
one therefore which could not be foreseen or
overtcd. The unusually cold winter caused the
formation of an enormous quantity of Ice III the
l'ppcr Missouri River A sudden thaw anu
freshct broke up the ice on hundreds OF miles Oh
the rivers course. A short distance below
Yankton at a bend in the stream between lllgh
bluffs lam occurred, and the enormous docks
of ice wcdgcd together 10y the force OF the cur
rent made a dam rs strong for the time us a
granite wall. The ice constantly accunulatlng
AGAINST this obstruction filled the channel for
fine distance of nearly ten miles. and the river
ovcrtlowcd its banks and spread far and wide
over the flat bottom lands. a large part of lis
waters made way for themselves northward
across the country to the Big Sioux River a
distance of about thirty miles, spreading dcvas-
tation over hundreds OF farms, drowning the
stock. and sweeping of fences, granareS ana
houses. Two villages on the banks of the Nils
souri, we're entirely destroyed the ice masses
whrlcd along 10y the powerful current, batter
iur down the houses a. effectively ~ bonn
barlmcnt from battery of heavy artillery.
About 500, 600 acres of the richest farming
country in Dakota is covered with water 10 a
drpth of from two to six feet Most OF the IN
habitants have lost all their possessions save
the bare land of their farms. The devastated
region is the oldcst-scttlrd part of the Icul-
tory. and the farmers were iorchandcd' we'll
TODD people but, like all farmers in new
country. their savings were invested IN stock ana
improvements on their land. Their restitution
is complete They have no animals, tools or
seed to plant a new crop. and nothing to live
upon until harvest time. over 1000 OF these
unfortunate people are now supported 10y pub
lie charity. The appeal for means Ia relieve
their necessities which comes from the lanht"n
Committee through Governor Ordway VIII he
sure To meet with a grncrou, response III tins
CITY The victims OF the Missouri Hood want
only such help As will enable them to help
tlcmscl YES and the wealthy citizens OF New
York. who are proycrbal for their prompineNs
and hbcrality in opening their hearts ana
purses for the relief Of human misery the world
over. will We doubt not, Taise a handsome sum
for their relief.
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GENERAL NOTES.
ness man.

Hale the romance of travelling in Ireland has
hitherto lain in the necessity OF occasionally making
ones self uncomfortable in Irish jaunting ear bus
the modern appliances Of locomoion extending over
the Green Isle and II Is now proposed 10 pu "''''
railroad 10 the Giants Calseway.
When the entire Western press Is teen,hg
with apocypha anecdotes Of beasts BIRDS reptiles and
fishes Eastern paper may be parioned Tor inser.ns
"A modest little story about snake ana stoIk' in'
stork was shot by Lester Williams at Mount Vernon
While its mort al remains undergoing exaininauoR
at the hands OF onithooGical experts snake thrush"
head out OF the birds mouth. The experts, who were
NOT thero in the interest OF snakes naturally enough
Jumped TO side 10 await Developments. whereupoe
the reptile cawcd eisurely out OF the storkr stonacs
and admitted itself 10 measurement II four fees
I'm length and thrre and half inches In circumference
II hoped that later dispatches will mention ihe
Kind OF liquor usually consumed AT Mount Vernon.
Wendell Phillips has addressed to the Gov
ernor and Council OF Massachusetts protest aganstths
execution OF g. X Abbott for the murder OF Mrs Crar'
which is appointed for the coming Friday. Mr. Philips
thinks II extremely probable that Abbott kilhd Ars'
Crue although there Is at least other theory which
will explain all the facts satisfactorily as the enc
which supposes him TO be guilty: hut he aGirns 'hs'
there was no evidence offered which showed or even
tended TO show that Abbott, II guilty, acted with pro
meditation Such appeals for condemnet innrdcrerrNHo
are within the shadow OF death are common enough oa
Mr. Phillips goes further and, unless his meaning =
strangely obscurcd by language which seems 10 y"
perfectly plain, makes an EXTRAORDINARY chaie' =.
says "The only murder the law will see In this "D"'
transaction m the case stands Is that which 'e
executive proposes TO commit next Friday A state nv
violates law commits murder just much as An ino'
yidual does. I do not care TO enlarge on the mo"e
which think, mpels the executive 10 commit ,h hs
crime which, in my view, makes the act murder ~ ro ,
strctest sense OF the law But no citizen o, VA. To
monwealth, wish to wash my hands Of this blood ma
charge the executive with murder In the strictes
of the law" and to imply that some other motive Ia
the obiyaton 10 do exact Justice exists In o n0
and death, In serious business.
The Naples correspondent OF The Lo@ao"
yers tells the following strange story AT ocock
tho evening of March "a the steamer Treno belonging
To the Forio Company. when Its voyage from BAR.
sighted an elegant twooaed boat about nifty nve n.s
OF Venice The captain Of the Trreno. surprised ~
finding 30 small boat far out at sea, made asnA',
but received reply. He then stopped the steame,
sent some sailors examine the boat, when IL wa
that in Il Law thros persons apparently sssep one =