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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-05
GRAND
MASONIC BALL
AT.
BELLEVUE, AUGUST 10, 1882.

BELLEVUE, AUGUST 10, 1882.
Invitation Committees.
Bellevue-Capt. ]. G. Kelley, Judge Aubury,
Geo. l.. Wedekind DR.. r. W. Marshall, James
Hayes. R.P. Dayton, Il. NJ. q. Bradley, E. Brimxn,
Maj w. A. Stanton and Fred H Meyers.
Broadford-Frank Peed, Henry V. Barnes and
Hailey-W. W. Treat. J. F. Cliff, VT. Riley.
Jos. Oldham. J. o. Swift. H. z. Burkhart, Robt.
Mulhai1, Jos. Burkett, Frank ?. Cavanah + Hafght
and Judge D. ". Douthitt.
Bullion--Col. E. A. Wall. G. D. Bradley, D. Har-
rington, Judge Turner and Judd Bates.
Ketchum-T. L. Clohecy. c. W. Weaver and Jos.
Pinkham
Galena-I. p Anderson
Sawtooth-Geo. Il. Almond,
vienna-Dr. W. N. Bell and c. j. Johnscn.
Nuldoon-Wm. H. Greenhow.
Committee Of Arrangements:
CAPT. ]. G. KELLEY, Gro. L. wEDEx1sD.
Maj. W. A. STANTON, r. NJ. G. BRADLEY.
H. V. BARNES.
Reception Committee:
fE ENSIGN, wM DAVIS A. J. Woop,
JOHN RYNo
Floor Managers:
DONALD MCKAY, CAPT j. g. KELsr,
MAJ. W. A. STANTON.
Floor Director;
W l. CUMMINGS
Tickets, admitting gentleman and ladies-in.
cluding supper) $500.
Tickets be procured from any Of the Invita-
tion Committee. jy25td
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-05
Notice of Forfeiture.

To Jack Goodman George Goodman and Gsoree
Wells: You will please take notice that have ~
pended the sum Of One Hundred t$l001 Dollars In
money and labor on the JUPITER lode mining
claim, located in Beaver Canyon, in the SawtOOth
Mining District. Alturas county, Idaho Territory.
for the year 1884, and unless share OF the said
one hundred doilars lit being one-fonrth theIeof).
together with interest aud costa are paid within
ninety 90 days of the service Of this notice, jour
interest In the said mining claim or lode viii b
forfeited 10 me by process OF law, under Act =
Congress approved May 10. 1852.
6avtocth. July Is. 1884, lIKK 1oek
JySl km
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-05

Committee Of Arrangements:
CAPT. ]. 6. KELLEY, GEO. L. WEDExIND,
MAJ. W A. STANTON, h. NJ. G. BRADLEY.
H. V. BARNES.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-05
Floor Director;
W. I. CUMMINGS.

Tickets, (admitting gentleman and ladies-in-
Guiding supper) $500.
Tickets can be procured from any Of the Invita-
ton Committee. jy25td
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

Some suggestive figures were sent to
Congress Wednesday in response TO q
resolution by the House asking the Sec
rotary of the Interior to furnish list of
States and corporations that have re
ceived land grants and have not fulfilled
the conditions on which those grants
were made. The grand total of the land
grants made to States and corporations
is 137, 1881, 357 acres OF this vast
amount eight railway companies have
been granted 116, $50, COS acres, and to
them have been patented 3,971, S91 acres.
These railway corporations agreed to
build 7,74s miles of road. They have
built ,465 miles. Grants of 81 1872. $40
acres Of land have been made to ten
States for railroad building purposes,
and about one-half Of this amount has
been patented to the railway corporations
in the States. This brief statement sug-
gests the freedom with which the railway
corporations sometimes make promises
and the reluctance with which they per-
form them. Another important feature
Of the business is that, although the cor
porations may not fulfill their part of the
compact, they hold the government rig
idly to a performance of its implied
obligations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03


The American Association of the Red
Cross has published an appeal for con-
tributions to aid the Mississippi flood
sufferers. This association originated
in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1858, and has
spread over Europe and South America
Its flag is a red cross on a white ground,
and its original object was to mitigate
the calamities of war. 1t cares for the
wounded without respect to nationality,
and protects field and military hospitals
in actual use The American Associa-
ton, however, was incorporated in
Washington, and specifies as one of its
objects, "To organize system of
national relief, and apply the same in
mitigating the sufferings caused by war,
pestilence and famine" Miss Clara
Barton is the President of the associa-
ton; and Mr. Folger, Secretary of State,
and Mr.. Bancroft Davis, Assistant Sec
rotary of State, are among those asso-
ciated with Miss Barton in this appeal
for the relief of the food sufferers. 1t
is considered noteworthy circumstance
that in an enumeration of the specific
objects to which such an association
might advantageously devote itself in
time of peace, the relief Of sufferers
''from destructive foundations in the
Mississippi" was particularly mentioned
in an appeal addressed only a few
months ago by its President to the
American public for sympathy and sup
port to the purposes of the incorpora-
ton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

1t seems that in their reckless desire
90 control the Congressional delegation
in Virginia, the Readjusters, in their
recent outrageous gerrYmander of the
State. have fagrantly violated the
Ststo constitution. That instrument
declares that in the Congressional appor-
tionment ''the State shall be divided into
districts, which shall be formed respec-
lively Of contiguous counties, cities, and
towns, be compact, and include as nearly
as may be an equal number of popula
ton" To show how completely this
constitutional provision has been ig-
nored, the Richmond dispatch cites the
case Of the present Tenth district Of that
State. It says part of that district lies
between Richmond and Washington and
another part adjoins North Carolina,
eff we take the Chesapeake and Ohio
Road for Cincinnati, we pass across the
Tenth district. If we take the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad for Washington, we pass across
If. If We take the Richmond and Ale
ehany Railroad for Lynchburg, we cross
it. If we take the Danville Railroad
for North Carolina, we cross it.
If we get of the Danville train at
Burkeville. and take the Norfolk and
Western Road for Bristol, we cross it.
The Dispatch may well ask: "Aow is
that for compactness and contiguity Of
ierriloTy!7
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
The Senate Committee on Territories

The Senate Committee on Territories
on Friday decided by party vote to
report back, with a favorable recon-.
mendation, the bill for the admission OF
Dakota as a State. Before reaching this
decision the committee heard Delegate
Pettegrew in explanation of the Yank-
ton county bond affair. Mr.. Pettigrew
said the citizens of Yankton county had
acted in good faith in voting the bonds,
but the company had utterly failed TO
fulfill its promises in regard to the con-
struction and equipment of the road and
the building of depots and shops at Yank.
ton, and that its management had been
of such a character that the people
found they could haul their goods by
teams from Sioux City to Vermillion
more cheaply than they could obtain
transportation by the railroad over its
forty-five-pound rails and cotton wood
ties. Finally, the company, in order to
avoid the consequences of its own want
of good faith, had sold the bonds in
question to innocent persons, but at
prices far below par. and the people OF
Yankton although thus far unsuccessful
in their efforts to compromise the matter,
are still able and willing to take care of
it for themselves.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

Senator Hampton gave Honest % John
Sherman, Of Ohio, the cut direct few
days ago. They were in BARRIERS shop
in Washington, and after a while Sher-
man remarked to the South Carolina
Senator, Governor, they must be hav-
ing beautiful weather in your
part of the country now" Mr..
Hampton raised himself TO an up
right sitting posture, wheeled slowly
around, and looked for a moment as in
surprise at Mr.. Sherman. Then, with
out having spoken, he wheeled as de-
Iberately back for the barber to resume
his work. Mr. Sherman, of course, said
nothing. The BARRIERS were overawed,
and further proceedings in the shop dur
ing that occupancy of it were conducted
in silence. No explanation of this con-
duct was sought by Mr.. Sherman and
none was offered. The cause of Mr..
Hampton's action was Sherman's malig-
nant and persistent utilization and mis-
representation of him during the last
political campaign.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

According to late Washington dis
patches the recent sale of certain build
ings belonging to the Freedmsn's Bank
have enabled the Commissioner of that
defunct institution to declare a further
dividend to depositors of 20 per cent.
The Comptroller is figuring how to make
this dividend. He is undecided whether
to announce = dividend of 10 per cent.
in q short time ana further dividend Of
10 per cent. in September, or to wait
and make a 20 per cent. dividend in Sep
TENDER. 1t would be less trouble to
make the full 20 per cent. dividend in
September; and another reason which
makes it probable that there will be a
delay until then, is that 1t is reported by
that time that number of claims against
the bank will be barred.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

1t is being remarked that the anti
Chinese law can easily be evaded. All a
Chinaman has to do is to go to the island
Of Hong Kong and become naturalized,
and he is no longer subject to the pro-
visions of the bill just passed. The Gin
cinnati Times Star, however, thinks this
scheme viii hardly work. Itsays: "But
it goes against the grain of a free
Chinaman to cut loose from his country,
and if an attempt is made to bring
coolies into the United States by that
means, Congress may be relied upon to
stop the proceeding at the next session,
and in the meantime somebody will get
hurt"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

Amongst the many gloomy reports
which are constantly being received
from the Mississippi valley, it is pleasant
every now and then to note an item
which reads as if hope was not dead in
that section yet by any means In its last
issue the Greenville Miss Times says;
"With the exception of one stormy,
rainy night the weather has been favorable
to planting preparations, which are going
forward steadily over more than half Of
the cultivated lands. As the waters re-
cede the area of land unfoOded increases,
and the spirits and hopes revive apace.
We may be well off yet"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

1t is proposed to make the fund for
Betty and the baby" equal to eight
years of Sergeant Mason's pay, or equal
10 what he would have received in the
army if he had not been convicted.
This will be great deal better for Betty
than if her husband had have regarded
his duty and not attempted to murder a
prisoner whom he had been appointed
to guard.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

It is predicted that there will be no
tariff changes during the present admin
istration, and that the country will have
to possess its soul in patience until after
March 4th, 1885. This will give the
protectiOnists three more bonanza years,
and, by that time, they viii be able to
stand a slight reduction in their profits.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

The Sunday question is agitating
California as we'll as Ohio. A law
passed in 1855 makes it a Unable Of
Tense to keep open any place of business
on Sunday, but it has never been en-
forced. Recently police officers in San
Francisco were instructed 10 look up Of
tenders, and a regular earthquake is
threatened in that free-and-easy city.
The jealous advocates of the law in al
parts of the State are uniting for a gen.
eral war on Sabbath breakers. 1t is
needless to say that they have a big fight
on their hands.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

On Thursday last Miss Eleanor Ewing,
daughter of Rev Hugh Ewing, of Ian
caster, Ohio, and niece of General Tom
Ewing and General w. T. Sherman,
took the white veil of the order of the
Sisters of Mercy at the convent in Pitts
burg. Miss Ewing is a beautiful and
wealthy young lady, and was formerly
great belle in Washington society.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

arthur Clubs" are being organized
in New York city. The Philadelphia
Press thinks that there is probably no
surer way to end man than by clubbing
his political future. The past is eloquent
with the fate of candidates dubbed to
death
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

One pleasing fact in connection with
the recent large immigration to this
country is that the immigrants come
tolerably well supplied with money.
This viii tend to increase the circulating
medium in our midst very decidedly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

Twenty-three papers in Kentucky are
finding fault with Governor Blackburn
for too free use Of the pardoning power.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
miscellaneous.

KEROSENE IS cents a gallon, 2 for 25c.
All kinds DRUGS, MEDICINES, TOILET and
FANCY ARTICLES low.
q Johnson GO CO..
Corner Brouehton and Habersham
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
aotteTtss.
43rd
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
luESIiI! BUTTON 10 0.


SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1857
These drawings occur monthly (Sunaays'
excepted under provisions OF an Aet OF TIC
General Assembly Of Kentucky q,
The United States Circuit Court on Maren 81
rendered the following decisions: -
fsr-THAT THE COMMONWEALTH DAS-
TRIBUTION COMPANY Is LEGAL
2p-ITS DRAWINGS ARE FAIR.
N B.-This company has now On henu
large reserve fund. Read carefully the Iiae O.
rriZaa for the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
4anAdry.
Shipping & Family Laundry

T SOLICIT Washing, Ironinly and General
l. Laundry work. Orders from ships or
families win receive prompt at tention. Wash
ing called for and delivered In any part Of the
city. Satisfaction guaranteed.
MRS. r. e. ROBBINS,
3, p. cor. Of Bull & New Hous con sts,, Savannah.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
Waatta.

WANTED Estimates will he -
w the building of a double tep lSSelVed for
until u WEDNESDAY. 9Th inst st0iiiT pi house
served to reject any or all bids Eight re.
specIncatlons can be seen at TIMOTE1IWS ans \. and
MONS. Sims street. my MAN.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03

WANTED, the public to know, -
~ Southern Stamp, Stencil and Seal a. a. the
4 n0 0Te e9nhe he with Telephone Fc1os
SMITH BROS. on,rii,oeseeton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
lOchr01l E7ltefprlsf

Colonel William T. Thompson, the venera-
BILE editor of the Savannah NEWS, died at his
home in that city on the Gath instant Colonel
Thompson was one of the leading editors Of
the State, and his death is blow to jour
nalism.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
Vdldostd Times
Snlranfa Telepho1ae.

1t was with deep regret that we read the
announcement of the death of the venerable
editor of the Savannah MORNING NEWS, Col
William T. Thompson, which occurred at his
residence in Savannah, Ga, on the night of the
oath ult. He was the founder of the NEWS and
for more than thirty years was its chief editor.
He was one of the most influential writer's of
the Southern press, and was most highly
esteemed by all classes of people. He died
full of h0nors and Of years, and lamented by
hosts of friends and admirers.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
Mineral SLATER

For sale by 1ippmAn Bros. and solomOns & Co
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fpr Rent.
fur Salt

GARD COLLECTORS. -Four lovely Fagto-
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Stamps taken. H. NJ. RICH, 60 W. BaltiT ora
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-03
Boarding.

BOARDING. Respectable persons can get
I'D good board. with plenty to eat and GOOD
bed to sleep in, at moderate rates, by applying
at so Broughton street.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
STRANGE CRIMINAL EPIDEMIC

1t is reported that at place in Hungary
with a cacophonic name no less than one
hundred women have been arrested for
poisoning their husbands, and that thirty.
five of them have been convicted. No
doubt there is an interesting history at
tached to this affair. 1t may be that some
former emigrant to Boston had returned to
her native Hungarian village, bringing with
her receipt for the deadly American
compound known as mince- pie, and that
having impaired this receipt to her friends,
they began experiments upon it and their
spouses, with the lamentable results re-
lated. The Hungarian authorities, natu.
rally ignorant of the character of ths bane-
full compound aforesaid, and finding traces
of it in the viscera of the deceased, would
almost be sure to jumpat the conclusion that
deep and widespread feminine conspiracy
against the lives of the heads of the house.
holds had been the precursor of the sudden
fatality. 1t is difficult to believe that the
Hungarian ladies deliberately did to death
so many husbands with lethal drugs
The proportion of men to women in Hun.
gary is not such as to warrant any conclu.
sion of this kind. 1t is far more probable
that the catastrophe was the result of &C.
cident, and that it followed upon too con-
fiding attempt to acclimatize the memorable
and death. dealing American pie.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
IRISH EMIGRATION.

MIR. j. Fl. Trke has a very interesting
account, in the Nineteenth Century, of the
condition of the Connemara peasantry and
the measures taken to relieve them by emf.
grafton. He says that there are probably
half million of peasants who ought to
emigrate, because their holdings are so
poor that even if they occupied them rent
free they could not make living from
them. The poverty of the west coast of
Ireland indeed is almost beyond belief, and
the statistics given by Mr.. luke are terri.
BILE. Thus he tells US that "in five
" counties in the west of Ireland, contain
ing a population of 1000, 600 persons,
" living on los, 400 holdings, 1920 hold
"ings are at and under "a $500 valuation,
with rents varying from ten to twenty
" shillings, and 60 to f3, and up to f5 or
"f6. The total acreage under tillage be.
"ing 5S4, 700 acres, of which 255, 100 is in
"oats and 2l2, 700 under potatoes, 49,
$500 other crops, giving an average for
leach holding, large and small, of about
three acres under crop in the five coun.
ties" And there are many much smaller
averages than this, as in Clifden Union,
where it is less than two acres, while in
one large district the average is only half
an acre. The Duke of Bedford gave
$50. 900 toward an emigration society, and
other wealthy men joining it, it was made
possible to send some 5000 persons to the
United States. The account of the cheer.
fulness with which they left their native
country is very significant 1t shows that
even they, so habituated to privation, had at
last despaired, and realized that the only
thing left for them was to abandon the
place. Mr.. luke says that he believes the
Government will have to advance s., 500 900
for emigration purposes in the next five
years, and that it is the only thing to do,
since the people who are to be aided can
never acquire independence, or even get
out of debt, where they are.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
MR.. HARRIsoN's GRIEVANCE,

Mr.. Harrison, a member of liquor.
dealing firm in San Francisco, has hired a
hall and made a speech against the railroad
company. He announces his intention to
start another anti-monopoly party. Prob.
ably he has been inspired by the example
of the celebrated Mr.. Thurber, Of New
York, who has found this kind of thing a
capital advertising dodge, and who formed
an anti.monopoly party out of his own
employees. Mr.. Hsrrison's grievance. di.
vested of the lurid rhetoric in which he
enveloped it, is not complex. He was in.
vited to make contract with the corpora.
ton, and he refused to do so, his ground
CT objection being that the corporation re.
quired from him such undertakings as
would have compelled him to keep the
contract faithfully. His idea of contract
evidently is that only the railroad should
be bound to anything, and that he should
obtain special privileges and rates without
any consideration. The railroad offered
him special rates if he would give it all his
freight. This is kind OF proposition
which is made and accepted by business
men every day and hour, and in every bust
ness that can be named. We have no doubt
whatever that the principle of it is habitu-
ally applied by Richards & Harrison in
their business transactions. Mr.. Harrison,
however, thinks it monstrous outrage
that he should be required to make a con.
tract which he could not break at will, or
which conferred advantages upon anybody
but himself. The one consideration to the
railroad under a contract is the Obtain.
ing the whole of the merchants business.
If he should enter into an arrangement
with some other merchant who shipped by
the Horn, to divide with him, the effect
would be to deprive the railroad company
of that single advantage, and to give to
those who offered nc consideration, the
advantages enjoyed by those who con.
tracted for special rates. There must be
some guarantee for the faithful perform.
ance of contracts, but it is these rational
guarantees which Mr.. Harrison objects to
SO fiercely. He says that because he would
not sign contract he has had to pay $50
a carload more than those paid who had
contracts. Under the circumstances one
would think that his practical course
would have been to take advantage of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-26
TIE WOMEN ON TIE wARpATa.

A warning note comss from Washington,
which the Stalwarts may perhaps find it
necessary to heed. Recently movement
has been set on foot which appears to be
designed to GUST all the women from pub
lie offices in the departments, in order to
make room for men. The latter of course
are workers, and can be useful to their
Congressional patrons in many ways be-
yond the reach of the women. Among the
last batch of appointments there haye been
no women, and it has been whispered
around that this is only the beginning Of
the end. But the women are not disposed
to give up the ship. They think they have