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do not III nix the legislation of the next twenty years
will more than reach the ground which he had al
ready occupied in his advanced thought
when General Garfield took the oath of Office as
president he seemed to those who knew him best,
though in his 5Oth year, still in the prime OF splen-
did and vigorous youth. He was was
In some form pace of service, old addage like
that of Adams, whom in variety of equipment
alone of cur presidents he resembled, but he was
oollsd to sublime destiny.
The honors paid to Garfield are the protest of q
better age and better generation aganst the vulgar
heroism Of the past. Go through their mausoleums
and under their trumphal arches and see how the
names inscribed there shrink and shriyel compared
with that of this Christian soldier, whose chiefest
virtues after all are of the freside
and family Circle and of the dying bed. Here the
hero of America becomes the hero of humanity.
Let us not boast at the funeral of our dead Such
a temper would be doubly odious in the presence OF
such expressions Of hearty sympathy from govern
ments Of every form, but we shou be unfathful to
ourselves II. in asking for this man place in
the worlds gallery of illustrious names,
of the products of freedom. Is not that country
worth dying for whose pessantry are OF such a
strain Is not constitution worth sta ding by
under whose forms freedom calls such men to her
high places Is not the Union worth saving which
gives all OF us the property Of countrymon OF such
fame?
The eulogy was delivered by Senator Hoar by in
viation of the city council in Mechanics hall, which
was filed to overfowing. Mayor Kelly presided.
Among those on the platform were Gov Long,
Chief Justice Gray and Justice Devens Of the gu
prsme court Judge Nelson of the United States
court Justice Koowlton of the superior court, and
ma " Influential cit:z sns
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The Tadsbury Bat Fight.

The entire Tadsbury family were as
sembled in their front room, when sud-
denly a bat, decoyed from his hole in
the roof by the lamplight, flew into the
house. Mrs. Tadsbury's first impulse
was to faint dead away, but she changed
her mind and exclaimed, couch the
horrid thing. Oh, do put it out 1t
will bite somebody, and they say bats
are dreadful poisonous.
The next moment the family were in
arms, bent on the destruction of the un-
welcome visitor. Old man Tadsbury
grasped his walking-stick his wife the
tongs, while Johnny armed himself with
the broom. The old man thrust fran
tically at the bat with his stick, Mrs.
Tadsbury shrieked and knocked the var
nish off the furniture with the tongs,
and Johnny sent the broom kissing
through the air with force enough to
kill steer, but the bat flew high and
remained safe.
"Johnny," suggested the old man,
"that internal bat is sticking too close
to the ceiling, and you had better mount
chair and let him have whizzer, as he
circles around"
Cali right, dad," replied Johnny,
placing a chair in the middle of the
room. "You. get ready to pounce on
him when 1 knock him down."
Johnny took up his position on the
chair, and the old man yelled
"Look out there he comes
The broom went through the air like
a bullet; but the bat passed by un-
harmed
"Confound it! Stop banging me
with those tongs!" shrieked Tadsbury,
as his wife caromed on his left ear while
trying to hit the bat over his shoulder.
Once more the bat came around, and
again the excited father yelled
Now, Johnny now's your chance"
Whiz went the broom. The mark
was missed, and the blow descending
hit old man Tadsbury on the head and
sent him crashing over the washstand.
His wife, in wild attempt to get out Of
the way, fell over the PROSTATE form OF
her husband, and jahbed the tongs
through the window panes. Johnny
kept his eyes on the bat and worked his
broom like a machine, and every time
one of his parents attempted to regain
their feet the broom came along and
turned their heels up to the ceiling.
About the time he thought he was going
to get in solid lick the chair tilted and
ne dived headforemost into mahogany
bureau and broke the glass, while the
bat flew quietly out of the window.
elm murdered" moaned the old man
as he crawled from under a rocking
chair.
"My backs out of joint" sobbed his
wife, and Johnny, fearing that he would
have to answer for the general destruc-
ton, skipped out of the house and sat on
the back fence until the sticking plaster
had been distributed and the wreck
cleared away.-NeaO Orleans Times.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Secretary kirkwOod Applied TO for the
Arrest of the Caldwell Cowboys in
Indian Terrltory-Decision on the Lo-
cation of Town Sites on Mineral Lands-
Financial, Etc.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-The usual New
Years orders have been issued by Gen. Sher-
man and Secretary Hunt, directing all the
army and navy officers to assemble in full uni
form at the war and navy departments at 1850
Monday, to pay respects to the president.
THE KANSAS COWBOYS.
Secretary Kirkwood has received from the
mayor of Caldwell, Kansas, a telegram COM
planning that the desperadoes who raided
Caldwell have taken refuge in Indian Ter
ritory, and asking the secretary to have
them removed by the military. In re-
ply the secretary states that Wig
the guilty parties if they can be found, but
that those border counties of Kansas GER
tainly should consider themselves interested
in discouraging all attempts to make Indian
territory a rendezvous for outlaws.
BOND REDEMPTIoNs.
The total OF United States bonds redeemed
to date under the 105th call is SIT $50, $780, leav
ing 2,410, 400 outstanding, on which interest
ceased December q. The redemptons of bonds
under the 106th call aggregated s6,S9l, 400.
To this amount is to be added the bonds re-
ceived and not yet fully entered, less than one
half million. About $l2, 100000 are yet out
standing under the call, on which the govern
ment offers to pay interest without rebate up
to January 29th, when the call natures and
interest ceases.
TOO MUCH BULLION.
Two million dollars worth of silver bullion
having already been purchased and delivered
at the various mints, the present month, the
treasury department has rejected all offers re
ceived yesterday, except 10000 ounces for New
Orleans.
TOWN SITES ON MINERAL LANDS.
Acting Attorney General Phillips on the
oath inst submitted to the president an opin-
ion in regard to the Tombstone, Arizona,
cases, which was to-day referred to the inter
ior department. The opinion is in substance
that the location of town sites cannot de-
prive persons of mineral rights previously re-
quired to the same ground, that persons having
previously preempted mineral land have law
fully right TO go ahead and take out mineral
in the grOuud of the town site, but must not
destroy any of the town Improvements or
streets. That is, the surface may be preserved
for the town, but the mineral underneath the
surface belongs to the parties who have pre-
empted the mineral land there; but that the
mineral must be taken out without detriment
or injury to the town.
NOT THE MAN.
Gen. Thos. Ewing, of Ohio, has been very
much annoyed OF late by receiving letters of
inquiry from innumerable sources with regard
to the Robinson mines. There is another
Thos. Ewing, who is the superintendent of
that mine, which, it appears, has exploded, to
the loss of investors, The latter, apparently
under an impression that it was Gen. Ewing,
of Ohio, who was superintendent of the
mine, are continually writing on the subject.
Gen. Ewing is dasirous of having it under
stood that he has never had anything to do
with the Robinson mine, ard does not know
anything about H.
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Life in the Polar RsgIons,

1t is impossible to form an idea of O
tempest in the polar seas. The icebergs
are like floating rocks whirled along a
rapid current. The huge crystal mount
aims dash against each other, back
ward and forward, bursting each
other with a roar like thunder,
and returning to the charge, until
losing their equilibrium, they tum-
BILE over in cloud of spray, upheaving
the ice-felds, which fall afterward like
the crack of whip-lash on the boiling
sea. The sea gulls fly away screaming,
and often black shining whale comes
for an instant putting to the surface.
When the midnight sun grazes the hor-
lion, the floating mountains and the
rocks seem immersed IN q wave OF beau
tiiul purple light. The cold is by no
means SO insupportable as is supposed.
We passed from heated cabin at 30 deg.
above zero to AZ deg. below zero in the
open air without inconvenience. A
much higher degree OF cold becomes,
however, insufferable if there is wind.
At Is deg. below zero steam, as from
boiling kettle, rises from the the wat
Ell. At once frozen by the wind, it falls
il fine powder. This phenomenon is
called ice-smoke. At 20 deg. the snow
and human bodies also smoke, which
smoke changes at once into millions of
tiny particles, like needles of ice, which
fiji the air and make light, continuous
noise, like the rustic Of silk. ct this
temperature the trunks OF trees burst
with loud report, the rocks break UP and
tie earth vomits smoking water. Knives
break in cutting butter. Cigars go out
by contact with the ice on the beard. To
talk IS fatiguing. At night the eyelids
are covered with crust Of ice, which
must be carefully removed before one
can open them.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

COAL-SCUTTLES are now manufactured
Of rubber.
AN elephant drinks about forty-fye
gallons of water day.
The. people OF Ceylon worship the
tooth of an elephant those of Malabar
the tooth Of monkey.
IT is calculated that sixty tons of steel
are annually consumed in the manufact-
ure OF steel pens.
BEES have very little power of COM
municating with each other. F. Miller
gives curious instances of the inability
Of the bees to invent for themselves a
natural language.
A QUANTITY of -four was exposed by a
French experimenter to a pressure of
800 tons, reducing it to one-fourth its
original bulk. A portion Of it was then
placed in cans and sealed. the same be-
ing done with some impressed flour. A
year afterward the cans were opened,
when the Impressed flour was found to
be spoiled, while the pressed was in ex-
cellent preservation.
A SPIDERS web affords an excellent
barometer. An old sportsman of Cold
water, Mich, claims that one preserved
in his house has proved almost ilvaria-
bly, correct. When rain and wind are
expected, the spider shortens the threads
which suspend the web. When reefs
are let out, fine weather may be certain,
but if the spider remains inert, rain will
probably follow within short time.
TWELVE years after the landing of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth there was not q
pillow in the vicinity Of Boston, and the
farmers broke up the land with hoes OF
other hand implements. In 1857 there
were but thirty-seven plows in the
whole State, and at later period it was
the custom for one owning pillow to do
nearly if not all the blowing for town.
The town often paid bounty to one who
would buy and keep a pillow in repair
and do the work in this way.
The swiftest bird, probably, is the
eagle of the sea, or frigate-bird, often
measuring sixteen feet from tip to tip.
It hovers at an elevation of 10000 feet
when storm sweeps over the ocean. If
it wishes to travel, says French nat
uralist, it can almost annihilate space
It can breakfast in Africa and dine in
America. This bird reposes on its great
motionless wings, literally "sleeping on
the bosom Of the air."
THERE are in our land 25,520, 5S2
males and "a, 632, 2S4 females. The ma
tives number 43, 475, 500, and the foreign
born, 6,677,36O. There are 43, 4O4, 877
white and 6,577, Isl colored persons.
Beside those on reservations under Gov
eminent care there are Is, 122 Indians
and half breeds. The "myriads of Chi
nese" number 105, 1853, and there are
1850 other Asiatics. For every 100000
males there are SO, $40 famales against
1891 in 1870.
CRoToN Aqueduct, by which New
York city is supplied with water, WIS at
the time of its completion, and in fact
still is, regarded as one of the wonders
of the world. Its length is SO! miles,
and it is built most Of this distance OF
brick, stone and cement, inclosed over
and under, feet 3 inches wide at the
bottom, feet inches at the top, and s
feet inches high. It is carried even
Harlem river on a magnificent bridge,
1,460 feet long, and la feet above high
wafer nnsrk
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DAKOTA DEVsLTRY.
An Illegally Organized County Issuing a
Large Amount of Worthless !sonds.

An illegally rgsnixed County Issuing a
Large Amount of Worthless Bonds.
YANKToN, D. T., Dec. 30.-Last winter the
county of Douglass was organized in southern
Dakota through the grossest perjury L has
only about fortp voters, and the total value Of
its taxable property will not exceed Sl2, 600 or
$4,000, yet the banking firm of Jessup s.
Aloee, of New York, telegraphed yesterday
that 100000 of Douglass county bonds are
on the market there. They were informed
that the county had neither school house
nor an authorized school district, and the Sc.
curities are absolutely worthless, as the entire
organization of the county is Illegal Chas.
I. Mccoy, clerk of the district court, and can
didate for the marShalship of this territory,
has been removed because of certain suspic-
ions against him IN this connection. He is a
prominent politician OF Bouhomme county.
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Judge Lynch.

TExARKANA, Ark, Dec. SO-This afternoon
at : o'clock, man named Jno. Smith was
shot and mortally wounded by Geo. Berry.
Witnesses to the affair say it was a cowardly
and uncalled. for murder. Smith had never
seensBerry before the shooting Smith was =
hard working railroad man, Berry is a bad
chan cter generally. Berry was arrested, and,
while on the way to the jail, was taken from
the officers by railroad men, who tried to hang
him to pair OF cotton scales. The scales were
too low and they turned him over to the of
hcers, ana declared if Smith dies they will hang
MN tonight. Smith is dying, and the lynch
ing will probably take place
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Punished.

-ou can never answer bully with
moral suasion. To put down such q man
effectually, one must be able to crush
him down. How "tall Gen. Simpson -
served ga insulting braggart III a French
cofee-house, many years ago, is thus re-
lated in Col60r'a's United Service Mag
0ziRe::
When the allies occupied Paris, the
French officers, at all times superior
with the small sword, and equal with
the pistol to Englishmen, took every OPP
portunity to insult the officers belonging
to the army of occupation.
1t had been alleged that there was a
club OF Frenchmen, the members of
which had sworn to devote their lives TO
the killing of one ny one Of the English
army.
There was one Frenchman who boast
ed of having killed dozen of English
officers, and promised to go on IN this
work.
One evening, he staggered as usual
into the cafe, and, to his establishment,
actually saw one of those hated English
soldiers occupying his chair, be it re-
membered, that no one hitherto had
dared to sit upon except himself.
Mastering his passion, he undid his
sword-belt, and, having placed his sword
on one side, began to insult the perfectly
inofensive English officer who sat so IN
conscious in his (the Frenchman's)
chair.
He trod upon the English toes, he de-
prived the Englishman of his candles,
he Went from one thing on to another
without at all being able in the least APP
parently to disturb the others placidity.
AT last he snatched the newspaper out
of the Englishman's hand, and then the
Briton slowly rose up, displaying to the
astonished eyes Of the Gaul Guards
man some six feet six inches high.
The giant, bending across the table,
seized hold of the Frenchman's nose
with one hand, and his chin with the
other, and, wrenching his mouth open,
spat down his throat.
With howl, the Frenchman, holding
his under jaw with both hands, ran out
of the room. His jaw was broken, and
neither he nor any of his comrades were
seen again at the cafe.
We may as well add that the English
officer who thus made an example of a
bully was the late Gen. Sir James Simp-
son, who for q time commanded in the
Crimea, and who, from the day he joined
the service until his death, was the tallest
officer In the British army.
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Champion Beer Drinkers.

Most people have always regarded the
Germans as the champion beer drinkers,
but now comes the Journal Of Appljed
Science to prove that this supposition
is false. While the annual consump-
ton of beer in Germany is twenty-five
gallons for every person, it is thirty
three gallons in Belgium and thirty -four
in Great Britain. One by one our fond
delusions fade away.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01
Ice Famine Feared.

CHICAGO, Dec. 3o-Although there has been
no ice made this winter by any of the Chicago
firms, the ice dealers say they are not alarmed
as two winter months yet remain and the
chances are good for harvesting fine crop of
ice. In case these hopes should prove falIa--
cious, however, they acknowledge they are in a
very bad shape, and worse than ever before.
One of the companies, the Washburn, has an
immense surplus. but would not be able to
avert an ice famine if weather. continues mild.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01

"sHEr dat do, Sam" "Why, it
amt cold, marm.'' You shet dat do,
you brat oh course it amt cold, it's me
OATS cold. Tink / care wedder de dos
cold OF not ?"-Y onkers Gazette.
A SUSPICION is q feeling that impels
you to try to find out something that
you don't WISH TO know.
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CoNcE1r in all its forms is the token
of shallow nature /; but when it strives
to exalt itself by overthrowing another,
and to appear well by making others
appear Ill, it is not only shallow, but
mean and cowardly.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01

SLIPPERS at bali are quite things of
the past, and have been entirely super
seeded by satin boots.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01

SIDNEY SMITH once rebuked a swear
ing visitor by saying, Let Us assume
that everything and everybody ere
damned, and proceed with our subject. :"
a LITTLE girl read composition be-
fore the minister. The subject was E
Cow" she wove in this complimentary
sentence "A COW is the most useful
animal in the world except religion"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-01
Men. Women and Suicide.

Men are everywhere becoming more
weary of the burden of life. Authori-
ties on sanitation and vital statistics tell
us that, of late years, life-the average
human ife-has been considerably pro-
longed by greater attention to the means
of preserving health yet, concurrent
with this improvement, there are a
greater Impotence of Life itself and 8
greater desire to escape its burden.
Women are less prone to commit suicide
in Europe than men, and extensive in
vestigation of the subject has convinced
Signor Morselli that the tendency to
suicide increases with age more strongly
among the unmarried and widowed than
among the married of both sexes. The
following table curiously illustrates this
fact. Among 100000 Of persons of
each class In Europe generally, In so far
as the returns enabled him to compare
them, the following numbers committed
suicide:
Married men with children. 205
Married men without children. ............... 40
Widowers with children. Observation-Disclosures. 500
Widowers without children. ................1,0 04
Married women with children. ............... IS
Married women without children. .............. 1853
Widows with children. Observation-Disclosures. 104
Widows without children. Observation-Disclosures. 238
Women cling to life much more
strongly than men, and that under the
most wretched conditions. A childless
widow would appear to be far more desc
late in the world than widower similar
ly situated yet she bears her loneliness
BETTER doubtless from religious straints,
or from possessing larger measure Of
that hope which springs eternal in the
human breast.-The Contemporary Re-
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-08-30
Wnpl,iDrton Nexvs

WARRINGTON, August 2.-Mr. Wilson, Of
counsel for the defendants, continued his
argument In the star.route cases TODAY
Amor charging the prosecution with law.
lessness In asking the Jury to disregard tbe
wise rules laid down ior the protection Of
citizens, Mr., Wilson said that IL II were
done, Ne charged by Mr.. Merrick, that do.
PENDANTS conspired to defraud the govern.
men. In tie fall Of 1872, the case
Of the government must fall 10 tbe
ground, since the statute Of Limitation
would bar action for all oilenses committed
at that time. He then took up the charge
Of alleged conspiracy, and said It must 6e
proven beyond any possible doubt. Guilt
must not be inferred, IL must b. shown by
evidence which is utterly inconsistent with
any theory Of innocence. Such evidence
he declared the government had not pro.
duced. He denied that the defendants mad
ever come together again amer the frst al.
ision OF routes between them, and
blended the action Of Brady Ia expedilinR
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Tho County Assessment,

mr. H. d. Rawlins, county assessor, has
Just completed his tax rolls for the current
year showing an increase over last year q
N,op ITO. The total amount Of propertA :
ssses.e ss e ,his yeer Is slv,Jl5, ,2sO n.nlnst
Sy,an, lo last year. In addition TO this Mr..
mawnns mas YET to get up the unrendered
amount TO about $325, 600, making The ~ MI
county assessment for 1852 about Sio RSn :
~ The state tax for this year ia Sii :.
ssSa county tax, s63,G 49,: total ,as
xlV 502, II should be borne In m,nd
that since last year the state tax has bean
Ieduced 10 cents on the 500 for state, and
~ cents on the 800 for county tax. which
makes the increased value of pfopcr,v
snow 'no up much better. It is good show.
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routes AZ the request of the army officers
senators and most eminent citizsns Of ~.
psSns 70 oe benefited thereby, He con.
.enseu mat tne petitions upon which sncb
sNpeait,oh auidavits were made were NO,
'aise' lie reviewed in detail the evidence
concerning the Bismarck and Tonsns
river route, which he said was ehs
taw mead and bloody bones nl
ulls case, and declared that
tutre was nothing more upon which IN hase
cnarte OF conspiracy or fraud. IL was the
10y VI the government TO consider the
ueeus Oh the country as well as the produc-
no ,meSs n'ors VI .ne service, and the latter was
nrn,an PRIMARY consideration than the
lolher, because If service on given routs
cost more than il produced in son rara,, ,v".. !.
did not prove that Brady was aconsn;rs,or nu, ~
before Mr.. Wilson concluded his aro,,nant
court adjourned. MS III su"eh''
hoecletary foiger issued q call TODAY for all
W Me Iemainlhg ann registered bonds of the act oi
a,n, .aa,N, ,eoS' now known as the continued
,fIies, Wnich nave not been offered for ex.
cnahge Tor per cents. The smonnt
outstanding is estimated at s2 5OO ooo
py the direction Of the secretary Of war
BOARD OF officers and corps of engineers tn
CONSIST OF MAJOR Amos Sticknev Cant,;n
Aiexander a A. Miller and Captain Wiil;an'
=. ~ Marshall, will assemble At Msmnhis
n.an; neSn;essee, on Monday, September All
IoA,mo, pIe fnr OF as soon thereafter as practica.
o,e, ioI lne transaction of certain business
'eeea tbe ieveo. with m the building and repair OF
cnmn,a,ieS m eS On the Mississippi river. On
hoard in, viI, ro y, inns duty the members of the
Secretary Lincoln TODAY anmro,o, a.,
recommendations of the Mississinni riva,
commission con for the apportionment Of fnnd.
appropriated by the last congress for ,m|
p;toving .; ino navigation of the Mississinni
;ver' r;ver' ii ana II Is supposed that work oa the