The semi-weekly miner., 1882-04-15

county Judges refused to hold the de-
fendant, on the ground that farmer IL
only responsible for restraining his own
animals, If he have any, but that there is
no obligation upon him to maintain =
line Of defence capable of warding off
all cattle which may happen to be ca
reering across the country"
CURRENT NEWS.
The Chicago Tribune calls Captain
Ealls 1.-THE most audaci0us, unprincipled
and successful lobbyist the national cap
ital ever had"
Commissioner Walsh, of Texas, esti-
mates that certificates have been issued
for 5,OO, $50 acres above the public do
main in existence open to location.
A young man of port Jervis was en-
gagged to marry young lady, but she
retrOgraded him. He then took y step
farther and proposed to .her mother.
They are now boesing the girl together.
At the present time there are no less
than three dozen applicants among the
cities of the United States for public
structures, involving an anticipated ex-
penditure Of over 81, OOO, 900.
Sixty head of 'grass Texans" the
best cattle in the market, were sold ut
st. Louis the other day for $3.50 per
hundred pounds, and the price is said
to have been the highest ever paid In
the West.
The estate Of A. T. Stewart is gradu-
ally selling out it's manufacturing estab-
lishments throughout the country, and
the great store on Broadway will soon
be relinquished or passed over to other
hands.
At Des Moines, Iowa, distlllery the
other day, by mistake, alcohol was
run through waste: pipe into troughs
in the hog vartl. The result was that
the swine did eat thereof, and for sew
eral hours thereafter acted as though
possessed Of the devil, sure. In short,
they were hilariously drunk.
A committee Of the city government
of Boston reports that arrangements are
now being made to pay all city lab0rers
every fourteen days. About 600 pcrsons
employed by the city make assignments
of wages. and 1O7 Of these assignments
are held by one money lender at rates of
interest from five to twelve per cent. per
month.
There is some talk in Wall street over
the new code If criminal procedure
which goes into effect May 1st. Under
it "circlllating false intelligence, state
nlcnt or runlOr,o is Il misllrnneanOr. and
"a person who secretly loiters about i
building with intent to overhear dis
course therein and to repeat and publish
the same to vex Or annoy q: injure 9TH
ers is guilty OF Il mistlenleanor."
Among Longfe'low's classmates at
BOwdOin in 1928, were John T.. Abbott,
the popular historian Jonathan Cilley,
the Maine Congressman, who fell in the
duel with Representative William J.
Grayes, o: the Louisville District: J. W.
Bradley, the eminent lawyer and ),Oliti-
clan; George B. Cheever, tho anti: lave
nv advocate: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
and others who achieved enincnce.
st. Louis has had u s.,a>m Of enforc-
ing the law for licenaing vehicles and
drivers have been arrested 10y scores. A
singular part Of the performance was
setting a lot of policemen to watch about
the principal dry goods stores, and ar
resting the drivers of carriages bringing
women shopping. The Jchlis were !
whisked away to the police court while |
the women were making clerks unhap- |!
pv, and there was ruiIiiny Of tenpcrs !
when going home time came.
Mrs. Nackey is exceedingly indignant !
at the reports current in Paris OF her !
approaching marriage with a ,
herself very strongly on the whole sub ;
;ert. She complains that she is be-
sieced by fOrtune-hunters. ''If thi,
goes on, | shall have to put u notice up
on the door," said tine wrathful little
lady, ''announcing that, in conformity
with American customs, Miss Mackcv
will not have any marriage portion"
st. Louis school-n,a'am statistics
There are $50 female teachers in the
Of whom 225D have been in the
service less than ) and :;.W more than Id
years. The average aye when II pointed
is - years. aud ti,e pay 1T first is s:aH).
which rises in five years to $3.50 and in
ten years to $S't,. There ar.. ~ married
teachers ~ whom ten have husbands de
pendent upon them. Three-s,uarters of
those who resign have immediate mat
rinony in view, but they rarely stop
work for that purpose until ut least after
five years service and, upon the other
hand there is no case on record of u sue
to the tender passion after
ten years.
Cornelius \. Logan. the newly ap-
pointed minister to Chill, is brother Of
olive Logan. He ut an early day emf
grated to Kansas, and to,k an active
art in the politics OF that State. In
ISL: he was appointed United States
Minister To Chilli. and ut the request of
ne Governments Of Peru and Chilli was
made arbitrator t" adjust the difficulties :
hen existing between these republics
rlativc 10 the dvb+, contracted by the
south American republics while ut war
With Spain. His success in this won for
,;p,s -!