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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-22

The bctrothal Of the Princess Louise, eld-
est daughter of the Prince Of Wales, to
Prince Oscar Guslavils Adolphus the eldest
son of the King OF Sweden, il now men
toned as an accomplished fact. The Prin
cess Louise is fourteen years of age, the mar
riagc will not take place for two years.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-22

May Adams, the 13-year- old daughter of
Allston Adams, well-to-do citizen Of AL
bany, N. Y, mysteriousy disappeared from
her home on Monday night, April 11th, and
as mysteriously returned after an absence Of
twenty-four hours May is bright girl OF
tho best character Her mother was a
Schuyler, one of the arlstocratic old Dutch
families. She has been properly educated
and brought up under good influence. The
details of the case have been made public
and indicate that it was bold attempt to alb
duct the girl, probably for the sake of secur-
ing reward for her recovery.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-22


Addiction STORY HYrn.
So much for the original story, and il is
certainly very pretty one MS II stands. But
the latest information shows the entire falsity
of the whole yarn told hy the child, as above.
The Albany Jour"d! SIT lis whole force al
work on the matter and the result of their
Investigations is given ia the issue of Satur-
day evening. According to this, May Adams
went to the house ON QuHCLrnbush street
alone and left It alone she boarded the
train alone she arrived nj Hudson and
went to the hotel alone and no such scene AS
she narrstes occurred there, no one calling al
her room and there bcin. no lock on the out
side of the door ii she went Ia pOughkeep-
sic at ull (Which Is doubtful she could have
stayed there forty minutes nj the longest =;
she did not go to Germantown she herself
| gave her name US May l.r Du : and at ilud-
son she tried To- procure employment as u
copyist for lawyers. Such, briefly, are some
| of the Journals dscovcrics There is still
some untouched mystery about the affair,
but the facts presented completely expose
the fnlsity Of Miss Adams account of bei
abduction" and wauderiugs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
Dreadful Customs.

The practice of head hunting still
exists in Borneo, though it is evidently
dying out in the regions where the
Dutch have control. It is curious
custom. No youth is allowed to don the
tokens Of manhood or pay his addresses
to any Malay maid till he has been able
to bring in two or three of his enemies
heads Births, marriages and deaths
and many other events in the lives of
these half-savage people cannot be
properly celebrated without the presence
of few fresh heads; and In almost every
house one or more of these trophies are
slowed away wrapped up in banana
leaves. 1t appears likely that the
custom is simply survival of cannibal-
ism. Indeed among the few remaining
cannibal Dyaks in Koetel it is still the
custom to reserve the head of the chief,
the remainder of the victims body being
divided among the common people.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
Plate Glass.
From the Pittsburg Telegraph

From the Pittsburg Telegraph
To cast, roll, polish and FURNISH plate
glass requires machinery of a peculiar
construction, and ''plart" is costly by
reason of its complex nature. The pour
ing of liquid glass from the furnace
upon the cast iron plates, and the subse-
quent rolling, are processes compare
lively simple. Any housekeeper who
has used rolling-pin on batch of pie
crust dough, performs an operation very
similar to this stage OF plate glass
making. 1t is the succeeding processes
of grinding and polishing and final
Furnishing that requires time and costly
mechanism. After leaving the rolls AM
bed-plate, the glass is rippled and
rough, and only fit for gratings or sky
lights. Each must be transferred to
machines that resemble the turntables
of a railway. On the revolving plat
form the glass is cemented into bed of
plaster of Paris, and the machine
arted. Bearing heavily on the surface
of the glass are blocks of metal, and
while in motion the surfaces are kept
supplied with sharp sand and constant
stream of water The next stage of the
glass grinding process is the same as to
machinery, but instead of sand coarse
emery is used in another revolving table,
and so on for half dozen times. The
final polishing is done by heavy recipro-
eating devices, fed with rouge, and main
tanning constant backward and forward
notion, and also O lateral movement
over the surface of the crystal All
this requires the assistance of large
force of men, many of them skilled la
borers. After going through these
different grindings and polishings, the
plate that measured an inch in thickness
is only three-quarrers of an inch thick,
has lost all it's rougbness, and is ready
tor the window of the purchaser.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
Up, up into the woods T!
From the Atlantic Monthly.l
SO AS BY FIRE.

''My housen be ready by the first
snow. But"
He was strongly made, sunburned,
demonstrating man not yet 80, and he
stood on high roll of the prairie, from
which he could overlook the waving
wealth of vast field of corn.
His mouth closed suddenly behind the
last short word, and shadow came into
his bright dark eyes. They had ceased
to study the cornfeld, turning rather
towards pair who were riding along it's
northerly border. They were too far
away for him to hear the tall, bearded
old man, on the heavy bay horse re-
mark:
''Virginia, thar's Marsh, standing on
the rise. Reckon he's takin' look of
his crap"
There was no verbal answer. but in
another instant the roam mare under his
lady companion was curveting spitefully.
"What on airth did you hit her for ?
She was goin' well enough, You amt
safe with whip"
She was evidently safe in the saddle,
however, and the bay now initiated the
roam in manner which brought them
rapidly to the summit of the rise
"Mornin', Marsh. How's your crap
turnln' out? Looks prime"
"Forty acres cut and shocked Go
ing In on the shocking tomorrow. I'm
counting on sixty bushels to the acre. -
ssMebbe it's thar. Hundred and forty
acres of it. You're workin' ahead,
Marsh Hayne. Corn's better'n wheat
this year.
"When are you going to thrash out
your yield? You'll have heap of it, ~
"Best yield I ever harvested if the
market was worth anything. They do
say it's comm up. Jest look at them
ricks of miner
They were mile and half due west,
but no trees stood between co prevent a
view of them, nor did any fences cross
the fringe of the open, unbroken prairie.
A line of forest arose beyond the ricks,
and beyond that, unseen from the knoll,
the great plain rolled away, with only a
few scattered farms, sixteen miles to the
county seat and "town"
"Your mares uneasy this morning,
Miss Crawford. What's the matter with
herr"
That was Marshall Haynes first dis
covery of something to say, directly, to
Virginia, while her whole attention had
seemed to be otherwise absorbed.
"I've spoiled her; let her have her
own way too much.
"Thatn never do. I keep pretty
steady hand over everything | ride OF
drive"
Every line of his face and every tone
of his deep, musical voice seemed tc
vouch for him. He was speaking OF
dumb animals, to be sure, but the color
deepened on Virginia's handsome face as
she replied, CURLY:
$50 do 1 %
There was a world of firm decision in
the words, and in the sudden compress
sion of the red lips which uttered them.
Even the roam mare must have compre-
hended, for she gave up her petty rebel
lion, and began to paw the hard black
surface of the prairie road beneath her.
"Marsh," remarked old Crawford,
isn't your house nigh done?'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16

I took your mare and the other horses
out into the wheat-feld. She's safe"
"You've been caring for us? Risking
your life for us Oh, Marsh, are you
hurt?"
"Not much, I reckon. Burned my
hands little. that's all. Have to get a
new pair of boots"
Yes, and new hat and coat; and his
hair, beard and eyebrows had suffered;
and the Crawfords would find only heaps
OF ashes where they had left SO fair
home. But what of all that! What
was any such loss compared to the treas
ure which had come to Virginia through
that wall OF smoke and fire, or to the one
Marshall Hayne had found at the end of
his desperate rush for life
Cit into the buggy, Marsh. He
won't need no help, jimmy. Did you
say you'd saved the critters?"
Reckon they re all right, but I didn't
get anything out of the house. You'd
better take the road to mine, at the
forks. We put in all day yesterday,
back-fring."
So That's what ought to have done.
stead of going to town."
ing the short remainder of that drive:
but old Crawford followed his young
neighbours advice, for the right hand
road, at the forks, would have led him
into better country than his horses
would have been willing to travel.
Before long they could all see the
great blaze which went up from house
and barns and corn cribs and stacks of
wheat.
"The land won't burn" said the
brave old man, almost cheerily. "Glad
the stock is safe. That was good of you,
Marsh. I don't owe cent, and it won't
break me up. Glad your place isn't
hurt; but you had close call of it your
SELF"
He heard a very long breath drawn, at
that moment, by somebody upon the
back seat of the buggy.
At the door of the new house they all
got soberly down, and Mrs. Crawford
walked straight to the door and through
it. Her husband stayed to care for his
over excited team, but Marshall Hayne
and Virginia were Justa little behind her
when she reached the threshold.
"Why, dear mep' exclaimed the old
lady. "It's nigh Almost furnished! It's
real comfortable !"
Perhaps it was mere curiosity that car
ried her on so quickly, then, out of hear
ing, although some experienced women
are very wise.
"Will you go in, Virginia.
"I? Marsh |"
"With me, [ mean-Virginia?
He passed the threshold as he spoke,
and there he stood, holding out both
hands, half welcoming, half pleading.
"Forever and ever, Marsh p
If, a few minutes later, old Mrs. Craw-
ford meant any more than she said,
there may have been some reason for the
high color in her daughters face, for
part of the added tint was dusky:
"Marsh, you'd better git clothes
brush and some soap and water. I de-
clare, Virginny, you Almost look as if
you'd been through fire yourself.
The further domestic arrangements of
Marshall Haynes new house were COM
pleted a good while before the "first
snow," although the winter set in early
that year.
He did not board with the Bitters fam
lily another day, but it was only week
or SO after the fire had done its work that
CELEBRITY remarked to Hank Sanders:
"No, sir I'm gwine to foller Jimmy
Crawford. Not till you've took some
kind of crap off that land O. yours, and
put house onto 1t.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16

The brewery on Staten Island burned
the other day occupied the site where
formerly Gen. Garibaldi manufactured
candles, about 1850.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1881.
WOOD LIFE.
BY DORA READ GooDALE

Up, up into the woods
Here have sought the summer days,
And brought the gleanings of her ways
This thorny branch of blossoms bears
The secret of the light she wears,
And in these scattered flowers l bring
The record of my wandering;
Pale clovers, bossomed in the rain,
And knotted grasses from the lane,
And pink-pointed laurel buds!
Up, up into the woods!
Here is hint of many places,
In blackberry vines and oxeye daisies,
In honeysuckles. sweet and close,
And bursting buds of mountain rose,
In heavy hemlocks to suggest
The wood-thrush startled from her nest,
And rarer woodland meanings in
The unexpected moccasin-
Sudden key to passing moodsl
Up, up into the woods
'Tis here the nesting robin comes,
And here the whirring partridge drums,
And every lonely woodland creature
Can haunt the secret ways of nature
Alas! they fear my stronger souch,
And break away at my approach;
The chattering squirrel leaves the path
And springs into the underground,
Down among the laurel buds!
Up, up into the woods,
Their eager life will not obey
My impulse of a summers day,
And when the June returns, again
Accept the claims of friends and kin.
In equal fellowship there lies
A knowledge of their mysteries,
He who would search the universe
May find light he cannot pierce
Where the summer silence broods
Up, up into the Woodsl
L CHANGED to-day in eager quest
Upon leafy partridge nest,
The mother, smitten by my eyes,
Trailed through the woods with broken cries :;
Thus would she lead me, nothing 10th,
Ranl- ha mt
BY this innate distrust, to show
Her instinct held me as her foe.
Fain to rob her tawny broods.
Up up into the woods
Here bird and nest shall live and die
For century on century,
Untanght. Unframed, with separate stress
Of life, and pain, and happiness
While yet the Bonded saplings fail
To catch the rabbit or the quail,
And snares are left untouched, we still
Must own them free of wish or will,
Safe among the laurel Dudsi
Up, up into the woods
Though here you share this wild retreat,
And sleep with them, and with them eat,
And greet the fox among the woods,
And leave the partridge with her broods,
If once you scorn your woodland kin,
Or find higher life within,
Through wish and doubt and all disguise
They read the secret in your eyes
AS it runneth in your bloodl
Up, up into the woods
The birds are still, the rabbits crouch,
The snake slips back at your approach,
And no familiar cal! cry
Can bring them to you where you he
The squirrel springs among the rocks,
Back to his covert leaps the fox,
And every lowly woodland creature
Finds fuller fellowship with nature
In the bursting laurel buds /!
Up, up into the woods
Here in these scattered flowers, bring
Sole record of my wandering,
And with the clovers blosSomed close,
And opening buds of mountain rose.
hint of life from woodlands gray
Which may not bear the light of day
If not l bring the forest flowers
From haunts that not wholly ours,
And pink-pointed laurel buds.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16

heart forbade it too long, and the next
sound she heard was the rapid stroke of
the hoofs Of Marshall Haynes horse upon
the road, as he galloped away.
"Gone? What did I say p
She sank upon a chair, and the very
dusk faded gloomily out of the little par
lor. Her struggle against the over
mastery of Marshall Haynes will had ap-
parently cost her something.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16

Up, up into the woods
'.Tis here the nesting robin comes,
And here the whirring partridge drums,
And every lonely woodland creature
Can haunt the secret ways of nature
Alas! they fear my stronger souch,
And break away at my approach;
The chattering squirrel leaves the path
And springs into the underground,
Down among the laurel buds
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18
Murder In the Second Degree.
Truet.s R.puSi;.aa. November le.

Truekss RspaIt;saa. Norsmber l6.
At half-psst I o'clock Sunday morning
tho Jury in the case Of the People vs..
Frank johnson. for the murder Of John
Noyss, brought in . verdict Of murder 10
the second degree. The verdict was 40.
companied BY o Recommendation for
mercy. The jury were out four hsurs
and . half. and tks&srdict Wal the resul,
Of q compromise. On the 9th OF July
the defendant, who Ii but twsnty.three
years Of age. and 10 . husband and father.
shot and killed John Noyes, q reputable
citizen Of Quaker Hill. In this county.
during . difficulty regarding . watch.
They had . hand 10 hand conflict In
Noyss' house, and we're separated. John.
SON started homo. bat after taking q few
steps turned and began airing at Noyes.
Who stood inside the house. The latter
ran to IN inner reen, johnson follow.
ing and firing ave shots, three Of which
took effect. The last shot was frsd BY
johnson reaching around Mrs. Nsyes.
who sprang between them. The two
men were formerly business partners,
and % such had much trouble.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18

Robert A. Psrks, ticket agent Of The
Baltimore and Potomsc, testified that be
saw 0uiteau on the morning Of July q;
saw the firing. and. rushed from the
office into the corridor and seized Guitsau
~ be fed and held him till . policeman
relieved him. He did mot see the first
shot. His testimony wal unshaksn BY
sharp questioning.
ToDAY's PROCEEDINGS.
WARRINGTON, November 49, Upon
the opening Of the court, scovills re-
qssstsd the Court to take some measures
to prevent the prisoner from giving TO
the public his unathofizsd communioa-
tons, and also to prevent the annoying
interruptions Of the prisoner in the
courtroom.
This brought on q scene. during which
Guiteau demanded that seovills should
get ont OF the case. he said that 10
was No criminal lawyer. and had no
sense; that 10 talked enc thing 10 him
In private and another In public.
Seovills ~sndeavsred to explain to the
Court, but Guitsaa became more and
more excited and addressed himself al
ternately TO the Court, to Eeovills and
the 1ailifis. who were ~sndsavoring to
keep him quiet. To the Court be said:
~ represent myself. ysur honor. and !
shall do a. ! please about counsel"
Then turning TO Scoville: "Yeu have
no capacity and Iwon't havs you man.
age my case" Then turning TO the
bailitis, be shouted: "You mind yeur
business, you conioundsd fools; you
amt got no sense"
The Court then stated to the prisoner
In decided terms that he would order his
renewal and proceed In his absence.
At this Guitsau shouted sxcitsdly I: 81
don't care II yeu do. The court In
bano will. reverse you and ! will get q
new trial. You have got no right to re.
move me-"
The Csurt replied In terms which
seemed 10 convince Guitsau OF their sin.
certify: "very we'll I shall do 30 II you
persist In any more disturbance and
there are presidents In this Court for
such rulings.
The testimony for the prosecution
then proceeded, and q number Of wit.
nsssss were examined.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18

When the Prince Of Wales visited
Swansea recently he was accompanied
by one hundred policemen from London
a. O bsdy guard. No disrespset to the
people was intended. 1t was against
the occasional crank that he desired to
guard.
The above editorial item In the Enter
prise yesterday morning 10 not correct.
so far as the Zone hundred policemen"
and the occasional crank" are con-
earned. A Swansea paper gives an
elabsrats account Of the royal visit, and
tells who composed and accompanied
the royal party On the special train from
London. a. follows:
Their Royal Highnsssss were accom-
panied by the Earl and Countess Spen-
Ger, Sir Deieton Probyn. Sir Daniel
Gooch. and Mr.. @. p. n. Talbot, n. P.
The Royal visitors were met BY Mr.
Vivian, NJ. p. Alderman Jenkins 1.-THE
Msyor). and Mr.. Yso, Chairman Of the
Harbor Board. Last night there was q
grand Masonic ball. The streets OF
Swansea present . brilliant appearances
the decorations and illuninations are
magnificent, over E2500 having been
spent in carrying them cut. Thousands
Of visitors have arrived in the town. and
their Royal Hiehnesses will. there Ia net
the slightest doubt, receive . welcome
today that will rebound TO the credit OF
the p~rincipality, and which will DO high.
ly gratifying to the Prince and Princess.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18
Immigrants.

Wiansmuesa Siiser State, November 16.
Seven cars. carrying 264 smigrants.
arrived here frsm the East yesterday.
and remained here several hours.
Among them were natives OF many Of
the Eastern States. a. well o. Of almost
every European country. There were
Russians and Italians, Germans and
Spaniards. French and Scsndinavians,
some Of whom were attired In outland.
ish-looking costumes. There were many
women and children on the train, and
the greater portion Of than we're going
to Warrington Territory.
An snigrant went into Bannistsr &
wsthsrly's yesterday. and called fer
twenty cents worth Of crackers. The
clerk Allsd the order. and the customer
pulled out . leather parse ~ large a. q
shot bag, from which he took twenty
niekls cents and dspositsd them On the
esuatss 70 pay for The crackers.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18
Fort Churchill.
Reno Gaxdfs.

Fort Churchill IL . mass Of ruins, the
adobe walls are ~crumbling. and . few
years will see nothing but heaps OF clay
where they stand. Tho roofs are all
gone, and the floors and windows have
been torn out and carried Of. The post
Was opened in 1860. after the Pyramid
war. II was intended for q two-csmpany
pest, and had . dozen nice buildings,
some Of them two-story, standing on
three sides Of . square. on . wide and
slspins point. running from the noun.
tains down to the river. It may DO seen
for Q long distance up and down the
road, which runs right through the
place. There are NO trees or shrubbsry.
and IL must have been . cold and windy
place to live. During the war Colonel
Sumner ssnt TO Virginia aud Carson and
arrested parties who were talking too
much against the government and the
war policy. Some Of these are dead and
some have moved away. One 10 0 IN
earnest Republican and lives in Reno.
In 1867 the troops were ordered away.
and the woodwork Of the buildings
were sold at auction, bringing about
S70O-
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18

The recent very heavy % storm was
Q pretty good starter. and rather sur
prissd these who have been 80 conf
IDENTIFY predicting . mild winter. The
snow piled up about four feet on the
summit Of the Sierra. whore the railroad
srosses. At Lake Tahoe the storm had
full sweep. and 10 described a. partisu.
larry active. The Carson Tribune OF
Thursday says:
A party from Msrlette and Folsem's
camp state that the storm wa terrific on
the lake yesterday. and the oldest dwell
lers on the shore say that II surpassed
anything Of the kind within their knovl.
edge. The waves ran mountains high;
trees were torn up by the roots; not Q
boat dare venture from . wharf and gen.
eral herror prevailed. The boat built
this season BY Mr.. Folsom was driven
hieh and dry st Crystal lake. and not an
inch Of her plankins or tinbers remain.
The snow was three feet deep on the
summit bstwssn here and Spoensr's sta.
ton last evening and must have increased
during the night. The storm Wa The
heaviest thai has Waited this section Tor
many years and Of course will cause en-
tire suspension Of work at Glsnbrook
and other places Of operation en- the
lake shore.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-18

Senator Jones' influence with the
present Administration IL 10 we'll reoog.
nizsd and appreciated that in his trip
hithsr the other day. as soon as ho en-.
tered the borders Of the State, and oil
the way through to his homo In Gold
Hill, he was assailsd BY ambitious per.
sons. particularly anxious 10 servo the
government in some lucrative capacity.
Hs was all right whom he got to Gold
Hill. however. His friends here are all
too rich to bother themselves about gov
eminent positions.