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washing about his feet. ss.ss7
Increase of Failures.


Bradstreet's Journal furnishes the fol-
lowing: There were ISL failures in the
United States reported to Bradstreet's
during the past week, seventeen. more
than The preceding week and nineteen
more than@the corresponding week OF
last year. The failures have been larger
than for some time past, the principle
ones being the following: L. H. Zerega
4 Co.,, cotton brokers; Smell e. Co.,
cheese commission; c. F. Goddard &
Co., Wholesale milliner; Arguimbum...
Willis 4 Co., importers of fruits and
wines, New York City; L. Cray, manu-
facturer Of boots and shoes, Newark and
New York; Hair & Odiarno, lumber,
Chicago; B. Benjamin & Co., ., rolling
mills, Cincinnati; Meyers & Marcus,
wholesale dry goods, Augusta. b Ga. !;
John G. Allen, dry goods, Sedalia. Mo. !;
P. w. Smith & Co., general traders,
Tombstone, Ariz. A. Richardson, Boyn-
ton & Co., manufactures of stoves and
ranges, and who recently suspended,
have assigned. "&
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A Pension Thief Co,,victafl

- = NAASSA"AA - AAAOA SOABV ANVVUs
AT Milwaukee, on Monday last, the
arguments in the George H. Danbner
pension fraud case were concluded in
the United States court and Judge Dyer
delivered lengthy charge to the jury,
in which he summed up the testimony
carefully, and concluded by instructing
"the twelve men, good and true" to
bring in a verdict based solely, on the
merits Of the testimony. After being out
less than two hours verdict Of guilty
was rendered. 1t will be remembered
that Daubner was last year arrested On
the charge of fraudulently obtaining a
pension by claiming his health was per-
manently ruined by army service. The
usual motion for new trial was made,
and the defendant was required to enter
into new recognizance in the sum of
$500, pending the motion. The penalty
Of the crime for which Daubner stands
convicted is imprisonment at hard labor
for not less than one year nor more than
FIVE years, and a fine not more than
5000 nor less than 81 900.
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The causes of discomfort in France,
which have led to serious outbreaks at
certain points, are not explicitly stated,
but it is said that causes have prevailed
for some time, tending to such uprisings.
France has lately suffered from bad sea-
sons, the phyloxera has damaged the
Vineyards, the harvests have been def
cient and food had to be imported in un-
usual quantities: increase of protective
duties, which has enriched few at the
expense Of the many, has been decided
lymischievous, while the expensive ways
Of the government have added to the
various causes ofdepression. The policy
of:the French government has always
been directed toward placing almost
every profita ole industry under its own
immediate control. -. 4.r ~, I. 2ra,,.}.9t; +
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The growth of New York city is one of
the wonders of civilization. The most
remarkable phenomenon is the growth
of Fifth avenue, east of the Park. Here
Il continuous row Of magnificent private
dwellings is going up, reaching from
Fifty.ninth to Ninety-third streets. The
next most remarkable growth has been
in Fifty-ninth street, which now reaches
from Aver to river with belt of buildings
more stately than can be found in any
other street save Broadway. The most
conservative observers have settled
conviction that New York is destined to
be the most populous and richest city in
the world. The progress now making is
without parallel in the history of cities.
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This is above all others, the mating
season, and the papers abound in elabo.
rate descriptions of "social events" and
''society weddings" made generally con-
spicuous much oftener by the wealth of
the parties than from any other consid-
Grafton. ''To whom that hath shall be
given" is verified in events of this
character by long lists Of valuable gifts.
The ten thousand union of souls, with
single thought and hearts that beat as
one may be contemplated with quite as
much satisfaction as those made more
.pretentious by environments of wealth
and station.
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Last week the New York stock ex-
change listed new securities to the
amount Of $6l 900, 900. This at the rate of
three thousand millions year. There is
little trouble in printing all the secur;-
ties that gullible public can absorb
Railroads that cost $4,000 a mile are
bonded at $4,000 and. telegr,rhs
and scores of other things are watered
in the same way. Prices are then forced
up by holders for market, and money
borrowed for fat dividends. Then comes
the unloading process upon innocent
purchasers who are without sufficient
knowledge to protect themselves.
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The advantages of limiting legislative
sessions have been made obvious by the
Oregon legislature, which balloted for q
United States senator during nearly the
whole session Of forty days without a re-
suit. But on the fortieth day the pay.
stopped and members stopped their fool
ing and elected a senator. as
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In the United States supreme court
last week, the case of Gen. NJ. n. Cur
tis, under sentence of imprisonment,
being convicted of violating the law re-
]ating to the soliciting of political contri-
buttons, was under a review on an ap-
plication for writ of habeas corpus.
The cause is one of great interest, and
the attitude Of the court, so far as shown
in the questions put to the counsel for
Curtis, is not favorable to the petitioner.
The decision is awaited with great inter-
est by politicians of all classes, as all de-
cisions are which effect the machinery
Of politics.
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lDI0lIlLUNIoN.

.Ah! vhetxould youth, 10 dofn6. ..f
To hoist his crimson .sails,, -'x.,t.
To leave the wood doves cooling
The's0lg ofnig ghtinkales:
y To leave this woodland quiet ia.
For Mururing winds q strifalt. 81
For waves that foam aud riot s,t !
About the sea of ne ,1.5s,..;,
81 FROM still .beys yssilvsr sa1ded w; il
Wild currents hasten down,
To, rocks where ships arc stranded :,
And eddies Whero men drown.
Far out by hills surrounded zf~ Il
- II The golden haven rate, ss:s9s :
And all beyond unbounded s; ::
Are shorelese seas Of hta All. ,x'j
! They stear Sor those far highlands
=. Across the summer tide, ',.s5gs
II And. dream Of fairy iSlande I ~
Upon the further side. g: -
They only see the sunlight, s>as
The flashing Of gold bars,
= But the Other side 81 moonlight, 81 J!
n1 And glimmer Of pale stars. = -r
They will not heed the warning
Blown hack on every wind, ~;
For hope is born With morning,
The secret is behind. !, - IL
Whirled through in: Wild col,fumion
They pass tho narrow strait ....
To the sea Of disillusion
That lies beyond the gate.
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"A great deal of romance has been dis
sipated by the publication Of the recollec-
stions of MS. Canler, who was for many
years at the head of the detective bu.
reau in Paris, that has been regarded as
the finest AMI most astute in the world.
It is found that English and American
detectives, if not the systems under
which they operate, are at least on
par as respects method and analytical
acct,men.in the tracing Of criminals, and
that personal courage and heroism is not
more common in France than elsewhere.
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:, How Western Cities Grow.

How western Cities Grow.
Philadelphia News: A Western man
has been telling some Philadelphians
how Western cities grow. He says he
went off into the mountains hunting
and, night coming on, he went to sleep
in tree to be out of reach Of the wolves.
He was awakened early the next morn
ing by some workmen, who told him to
get down and finish his nap on the court
house steps, as they wanted to turn that
tree into a fag-pole for the hotel across
the way. He got down. and while rub
bing his eyes, was nearly run over by q
street-car, and got his feet tangled in an
electric light wire.
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Fratricide Near Benton, Mon.
tanA

Last Thursday cold-blooded murder
was committed by William McCowan up.
on his brother Archie at ranch upon
the Shonkin, about eighteen miles from
Benton. The MCGOWAN brothers have
been farming in partnership, and having
some trouble in settling up their &C.
counts, ill-feeling existed between them.
Will was standing with Henry Wareham
at the Va9ian Hall place with rifle in
his hand when Archie came up and ap-
piled base epithet to his brother, who
raised his rifle and shot Archie through
the heart. The murderer was arrested
promptly by Sheriff Wareham, who got
possession of the rifle, and is now safely
lodged in the Jail at this place.
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Escape Of . Noted Murderer.

Escape Of q Noted Murderer.
Col. Tom Buford, who some three years
ago shot and killed Judge John: M. ,El-
lott Of the Kentucky coort Of :appeals,
has escaped from the. Central! Lunatic
asylum and gone to Indiana; Il lis the
opinion Of the best lawyers Of both: states
that he cannot be brought back to Ken
tucky on requisition, as there is no
longer criminal charge againet him.
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President Arthur, in his proclamation
for national thanksgiving on ths 3Oth
INST, recommends that the da
pointed be made a'special occasion for
deeds of charity and kindness to the
= suffering and the needy, go that MI who
dwell within the land 1nay rejoice and
~-be~-erlad.~Fhis Recommendation will
,doubtless be met with hearty response
from the people.
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A Revolving Anatr Ii, Pennsyl-
am. 49, rg,r.-e =, ynnt0.

s McKeesport,G; Pa, Special: a emgst
shocking case Of rape, incest and suicide
has been developed here. In August
last Edward Coulsonsmarrieda Miss Jen-
kins and shortly after Julia Crawford
made a charge against him of rape.
Coulson succeeded in persnading her to
let the matter drop. Last Saturday,
Coulson's sister, aged twenty years, per-
ferred . charge against him offornication
and bastardy. When Coulson heard of
this he was shaving himself, and when,
in answer to his query, his wife told him
what was the matter he grabbed the
razor and ran out Of the house aid was
never again seen alive. His body was
found floating in the river this morning.
To-day his sister gave birth IS q child.
The desolation which this villain has
caused cannot be computed, bit the
hate of relatives and acquaintances can
be Imagined from the fact that ten ihou1rs
at least since the body was found it still
lies uncared for in the mud at the rivers
edge, the sun beating upon the loathsome
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IL - Is o. : |--
The appointment Of sBrigadier Gener-
al John Pope to- be- Major. General in
p@ceofs sM1dr- General irwin Mcdowell,
retired on his 9th year, is not entirely
satisfactory, but there seems to be little
doubt Of his confirmation. He was the
senior or ranking brigadier-gensral, and
his promotion, Of course; was based upon
iehts hct, though this rule was not OBJ
served in the appointment of Col. Roland
S.-McKenzie, ofthe Fourth cavalry to
be brieadier-general in place of Pope,
2promoted. While the president had, q
whole host Of colonels, some of higher
!, 2rank, and many lieutenant colonels who
had seena' good deal of service from
whom Who TO make m q choice, his selection
could not have fallen upon moro worthy
,tfhcer than Col. Mckenzie. @s ~ : ...s, =
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Another Woman in the Case.


VIM. G. Russell, paying teller Of the
Pennsylvania company for insurance on
lives and granting annuities in Philadel-
phia, has ahsconded with discrepancies
in his accounts amounting, it is under:
stood, to over $4,000. Russell has been
connected with the institution for TWEEN:
ty-one years. He has wife and two
children, but it has been ascerained
that he has been criminally intimate with
another woman for some time. He left
October Is, fora two weeks vacation and
during his absence the defalcation was
discovered, His leave Of absence ;expir-:
ed on Saturday, but he did not appear.
Russell was thirty eight years Of age.
Detectives are now employed in search,
for him, =.
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Gen. Rosser Comes out Ahead.

Gen. ROsser Comes out Ahead.
In the case of Gen. Rosser vs. the Can
adam Pacific railway the plaintiff was
nonsuited on the first two counts of the
Indictment, but obtained averdict for ST.
600 damages on third count for malicious
prosecution. The grounds on which the
jury found were that the plaintiffs in the
case could, if they had chosen, have OBJ
ined sufficient evidence to warrant
their abandoning the case prior 70 the
action Of the Canadian Pacific Railway
vs.. Rosser coming on for trial. ,,-
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Sad Case of Insanity,


A peculiarlysad case of insanity oc-
CURED on Saturday last. A young man
named Mcdonald, clerk in the Palmer
house, Chicago, on a vacation pleasure
trip to Clark, Oak, accompanied by his
sister, Miss Mary Mcdonald, and cous-
in, Miss Fay, reached St. Charles, Vino
ma county, Minn. Saturday morning on
their journey, when it became painfully
manifest that Miss Mcdonald was suffer-
ing from alteration of mind. 1t was at
once determined to return to Chicago,
and the party arrived in Winona Satur-
day afternoon. The young lady was Ia
boring under the hallucination that she
was being pursued with evil intent, and
on discovering Officer Hefelbecker on
the platform at the Northwestern depot,
forsook her friends and relatives and
clung to the officer, insisting on his, &C.
companying her in carriage to the resi-
dence Of Father Cotter. Once their she
instantly formed an attachment for Mr..
Cotter's mother, and it was with great
difficulty that they were separated when
the time came for the insane girl to take
the cars. .'-a Is fs9'.< -; : -" :s:' ~: ]
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Boardine House Portraits:

Is: - tslAlSeSSIarAlAnS mouse foOfCr81C9. +
From the Texas siftings. ..r:t.g.: -, rs.~;z
This vision Of female loveliness is the
hnqdlady'ss daughter. The picture rep
feesants her in the act of telling m eli
gib!e boarder to "step this way into the
parlor, SIR" where she will play tune
for him on the upright piano, and sing 4
song which begins ard ends with the
line, "Meet me where the flowerets
droop.""t After an eligible gentleman
boarler has listened to the mocking bird
the landlady asks for a private con-
,sultation. She tells him that under ordi-
nary circumstances, owing to her aristO.
cratic birth and associations, she would
have to refuse him the hand of her
daughter, but that she is mother, and
what mother will not sacrifice her feel
ings, her pride. her everything, rather
than blast her daughters happiness for
life? The eligible young man is sur
prised, and endeavors to explain, but,
with a winning smile, she says she, too,
has once been young, and she will not
keep him from the side of his inamQyata
(she invariably drops into foreign Ian
guages when she is confidential). There
is tableau, of course, but next day, and
forever afterward. the place that knew
that eligible young man knows hlm no
more. He has skipped.
This is the picture of widow who
lives at our boarding house. She, accord
ing to her own account, has seen better
days. She tells how different things
were with her before the war, how many
negroes her husband owned, and what a
dreadful thing she would have con
sidered it in those days to have had to
live in a boarding house, and how pain
full to her it would have been to have
been compelled, as she is now, to dine at
the very questionable hour of o o'clock.
She and our landlady exchange remin-
iscences Of the past, and of the pedigrees
of their ancestors, at the table, when
strangers are present, and the very for.
the table says that they Often go of to-
hndlady's family plate.
This is the boarder, but he is timid,
poor, and although ineligible, is deeply
in love with the landlady's daughter,
Notwithstanding his affection is not re-
ciprocated by either. He isnever asked
into the parlor to listen to the vocal
music If he hands up his cup for more
coffee the landlady scowls, and rattles
the silver spoons in the tray. He is
never asked it he will not please take
another piece of the breast Of the chick
en-, or another piece Of pie. He is as
willing a little creature as ever lived,
but he is never asked to fix day for the
nnptials, although he occasionally screws
his courage nearly up to the sticking
point. He believes all the landlady saws
about her aristocratic antecedents, and
respects her accordingly. He has nota
is really solid. He also believes that the
curls and teeth of the landlady are gen.
uine. He is the most profitable board
,er she has, for the reason that being in
love he does not eat much, while he
pays promptly, and even makes advanc~
es, not only to the daughter, but also to
mother, the advances to the latter be-
ing of peculiar character. and yet he
is treated like dog. 80
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Scheme for swindling Soldiers.

Scheme for SWtndltng Soldiers.
There seems to be no end to the de-
vices which the fertile brains of claim
agents originate for the purpose ofswind-
ling soldiers. A copy of a circular issued
by N. w. Fitzgerald 4 Co., of Washing.
ton, has found its way to the war de-
partment, which has no doubt caused
many veteran to throw away S. bill.
1t is directed to old soldiers, promising
to procure an honorable discharge for
them under any circumstances. The
circular says: .>..
For those who have once received dis
charge and lost it, we will procure new Ger
tificates. For those who were never dis
charged We will get discharge. In every
case S. must be paid in advance to pay ex-
pense.
A series of questions is propounded to
be answered by the applicant. The offer
to procure the discharge, no matter
what the cause of the absence, is under
stood in the circular. Such proposition,
which substantially promises an honor,-
BILE discharge for deser:er, stamps the
thing as swindle, as the agent knows
very we'll that he can do nothing of the
kind. Those who have lost their papers
can procure them without cost by max
ing application to the department..
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A fcpoIt from the bureau OF statistics in
relation to the expectation of wheat for the
month Of September shows that for that
month In the present year there wese export
for the corresponding month lat yaar.
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D psyeMns: Adelina Patti, the lannon's min.
donna, arrived at New York ON the Servia
: : Tuesday morning, after : stormy trip The
Ship was met by q reception party composed
OF Col. Napleson;; Sgn0r Artliti and . ft,ll
baNd' OF music. Patti looks somewhat older
than on: her last visit to America and her
con,plexk.n is not SO easy.
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FaCtiOlls Fancies.


A Pennsylvania paper chronicles the
attempted suicide of one Agnes Wunder.
Of course Agnes will recover, for Wun-
ders, you know, never cease.
Huxley Gays "there was time when
men walked on all fours." He probably
alludes to that interesting time in tn.
early life Of us all when we approached
a neighbor's melon patch from the back
way.
{ y"Do you like candy, mar" asked lit.
tie Austin boy Of his mother. "No, my
son, it makes me- deathly sick" Il am
so glad to hear it. You are the kind of
a woman can trust to hold my candy
for me until Pm done playing"
Under drill: Young and fashionable
wife Ito very plain and old-fashioned
husband Now, my dear, before / for.
getit, let me remind you that at our dinner
to-day wish you to omit those horrid
tales of yours about how you went bare
foot when boy. and do try and have a
little more style than an Egyptian num-
my"
+ A badgered mans revenge: A story is
told of a cool Bostonian when undergo
ing a savage crossexamination. General
Butler had badgered him numerically,
and finally said, witha mixture Of solem-
nifty and tierceness: "Can you look me
in the eye and repeat that?'' The wit
mess looked at him moment and asked
quietly, (which, eye", aa s,.=s2 sfr- J:
J. A lady and gentleman: els this wom-
an your wife," asked the Justice of col
Sored man, and pointing to woman. ,Is
;Sswhat my cwife?" SIS that woman your
I'wife?'' II don't see no o'oman. seesa
!, lady, an de lady is my wife, ''Is this
ssman your husband?" asked the Justice
.ofzthe woman. - dat gentleman is nv
husband" "Well, ladies and gentle-
men, have investigated this case, and
decided to send this lady and gentleman
to Jail for six months: :"-Arkansaw Trav-
eler:. s,lx:' -. -: z
u. "A Kind Employer;-N1os Schaumburg
J the Austin avenue merchant, is strict in
regard to the personal appearance of his
clerks. He was very much opposed to
his clerks wearing a moustache, and
when one ofthem applied to him for per-
mission to raise q moustache, dot wash
all. right replied Nose, "you shoost
raise 60 much viskers as you tam please,
60 long as you don t wear them in the store
during pishness hours" Texas Siftings.
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j Lewis Lyon, president Of the Third. Avsn-
ne Railroad company Of New York was twice
fired At Friday by his nephew, who then
blew ont his own brains,
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,;ffSat HUDLIeHDD THURSDAYO
,r<5 A. as
vvsethiaston, Mobiles County, Mi,a.
: 2. =. -: z. s:.ss ysss, = sa.sasa O. -.
|. yeso Oh 9oteollol10o Pop0r. ofl5olal
p0pO1 OF tD1O County,
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Dditoe an1 Psupvaoooe

Hon. Alexander Ramsey has given five
thousand dollars to the new Maccalester
college,, "a presbyterian institution to be
located about midway between st. Paul
and Minneapolis, south of the Hamline
(MethodieE University.