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The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-01-23
District Court. STILwELL-JUDGE.

Court convened at 10 o'clock yesterday, when the following business was trans. acted:
 The case of Contention vs. Head Center was continued. Capt Curtis examined for the defence.
 It was ordered by the court that the pro- ceeds of the sale of goods of Shatfer & Lord be applied to satisfying the judgment in favor of Stafford, Hudson & Co.
 prrv vot,r clothiuu u af Suruy arfi0ld Rrns
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IT is said that work will be recom- menced on the Trench mine ln the Harshaw district, and the main shaft put down 300 feet.-Citixen. k
 The Citizen has probably been misinformed, as Mir. Hearst declines putting any more coin in the Trench. It is mora likely that the Trench Aoisting works will be moved.
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North Dakota.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.--The sub committee of the House committee on territories will report favorably to the full committee the bill providing for the establishment of the territory of North Dokata.
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A Rig Blaze, ,

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan. 21.-Seven business building and blocks, includ- ing the cracker factory, burned. Loss, half million, partly insured. The loss is divided among several persons in small amounts.
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Killed in a Coal Mine.

JOLIET, Ill.,, Jan. 2l.-By an ex- plosion in coal mine one man was killed and two sereriously injured.
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The Jeannette Survivors.

The secretary of the navy has just received the following telegram form engineer Melville of the Jeannette. Irkutsk, Jan. 1S.--Melville, Don.
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Foreign Items.

HALIFAX, Jan. 2l.- Governor General Lorne has arrived.
 BRISTOL, Eng, Jan. 2l.-Burling- ton Smith, American vice-consul at this place died suddenly of heart dis ease,
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"It's scold day when I get peft," :" Xantippe remarked when Sc{rates went of to the circus without her.
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Beard of Supervisors.

The DoaTu Met dt lU d. ul., pursuaut to adjournment of the session of Jan. r., 1882.
 Present-Supervisors Joyce, Stewart and Tasker; Richard Rule, clerk.
 The following bills, as allowed, xeFe G. dered paid, and warrants ordered drawn for the same:
 Amt claimed. Amt allowed. A. L. Bancroft & Co. 8 13S 50 y$f3s A Hank Frasier. .... 10 co 10 co J. H. Lucas. % 65 25 65 J. B. Ludwig. ...... 131 % 126 0n W. il. Seamans. ..... l130 35 562 Master Safe O.. ..... 10i7 50 TAG D
 The following bids for sealed propd ..s~ fer various county purposes were opened
 To care for the indigent sick--A. E.l Goodfellow, s1.111s per day per patient no charge for outside patients. D. Me- Swegan, $1.25 per day per patient; 90 cts per day for outside patients. N. s. GibeY son, l.l211a per day per patient; no charged for outside patients. H. M. Mathews andy W. J. Miller, SIPS per patient per day; ;| $1.25 per day for outside patients. -,
 To feed county prisoners--Charles Mason, "A cents per day per prisoner.
 For burying the Indigent dead--Ritier & Resm, $50 per ordinary cases; contag- eous levers and smallpox, $50 each. Still man Thomas, $32 per ordinary cases; $53 for courageous levers and smallpox. Thomas Finney, $32 for ordinary cases; $55 for courageous levers and smallpox.
 To publish the delinquent list-Epitaph Printing & Publishing O., 99 cents pel name.
 To publish the proceedings of the board ot supervisors-Epitaph Printing & P9h fishing Co.,, 20 cents for every inG fractional part thereof. Nugget, 5( for every inch or fraction thereof.
 TO DO COUNTY PRINTING.
 Epitaph Printing < Publishing advertising, first weeks insertion, 5Q per square; second weeks inserti cents per square; third weeks ins l5 cents per square: fourth weeks ton, 10 cents-per square. For pr full-page blanks, per 1000, $6.50; ha blanks, per 10O0 $5.50; quartsa blanks, per 1000, $450. the
 Commercial Printing office al PSg blanks, SS.S3; halfpage blanks, 7;fquar- erpage blanks, $6.
 Nugget--For advertising, per every . inch or fraction thereof, first ins}rtion, $l; subsequent, 75 cents each insertipn.
 Adjourned until Monday a f
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TICK {! TICK l!
Not That It Is Given On Long Time. but Being the Itegu- lar Output, like Clock work, of the Bonanza
 Camp.

Nothing Special to Report, Except the Constant Dropping of Stamps on the San Pedro and Swear.
 ing of the Teamsters at
 Overloaded Teams Talk sf ing the lirist to Grind.
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Buy your clothing at summertisld Bros.
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No drifting IS being done at present in the Contention, but cross cutting is pro gressing from the lowest levels of the Flora Morrison to connect with the 800 and 600- foot levels of the Contention, to which stoping is at present confined. Mine look ing well.
 Girard.
 From the 200 level of the Tough Nut the Girard management are sinking winze (now down 80 feeD to connect with their workings, for better ventilation. Mill about completed and water connec ton with Sulphuret nearly finished.
 Bob IngersOll.
 East drift of 300 foot level in 56 feet. Ore dump constantly increasing. There
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Assessments. CALIFORNIA.

Total (Jan. 1 to dste,.. .s14, 723, ,O6'
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-21

AT baptismal ceremony near Can
ton, Ga, the other day, rotton bridge
carried two hundred persons into the water,
many of them having arms or legs broken.
Latest reports put the number Of seriously
wounded ut twenty-five.
ADAM DOLLER, a saloon-keeper in
Cincinnati, was shot dead by Anthony Bac-
ciocco, drunken policeman, Oct. 10, for
refusing him drink.
Mrs. JOSEPH DAMONs was killed by
falling chimney during fire at Suncook,
n. H., the other day. The Methodist
church and several dwellings were de-
stroyed.
r. L. BERKSHIRE, q wealthy farmer of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, committed sui
eide by hanging, Oct. IL. Religious excite
ment last winter made him mad, and he had
just been discharged from an asylum DIV.
Seward, whose three children have been in
the poorhouse for some months, took fatal
dose OF morphine at Napoleon, Ohio, on the
same day.
HENRY kEMME, q carpenter at work
on the tower of st. Navier's Catholic
Church, Cincinnati, fell distance Of sixty
feet the other day and was killed.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-21
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

| A. W. SLAYBACK was shot dead BY
John A. Cockerll, in the Office of the Post
Dispatch. St. Louis, Mo-, on the 18th.
! Bob TAYLOR, one of the Tennessee
desperadoes who murdered Sheriff Hautil-
ton and his deputy on the 18th of septesn-
Der, was shot dead by Sheriff r. p. Goodall,
of Laclede County, Mo-, on train near
Lebanon, Oct. Is. Taylor had been hiding
in Missouri for some weeks. When ordered
to surrender he drew his revolver, but the
sheriff was too quick for him.
Two little daughters of Louis Wright
! were run down by train at Natick, Mass,
on the 18th, and fatally injured.
HURD's elevator at Bridgeport, Conn,
burned on the 18th. Loss, Sl35,OOO.
A HAND-cAR was run down by train
on the Sciota Valley road, near Chillcoshe,
Ohio, on the 18th. A laborer named Lcng-
man was killed and two others were eeri-
ously injured.
SOME months ago William Kenneck,
q government detective, gained the cent?
denee of lot of connterfeiters in Upton
| County, Ind, and was admitted to n2em-
bership in the band. He got matters in
shape the other night and fourteen Of the
coiners were arrested aud taken to Indian
apolis. Warrants have been issued fos the
arrest Of half dozen others.
LIZZIE JACKSON, a pretty girl of
eighteen, hanged herself In q station house
at Chicago the other night.
EXECUTIONS on the 18th: William
Austin, at Lancaster, KY; Paul Pringle,
colored, Mansfield, La.
THE strikers on the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Montana having driven the
Chinese from the works and threatened to
hang Superintendent Hallet, United States
soldiers have been dispatched to the scene
and conflict is anticipated.
GEORGE D. RICK, cashier of the bank
at Lebanon, Pa, was knocked down and
robbed of a sachel containing 49,, 00e the
other evening. Mr.. Rice had just brought
the money from Philadelphia. and while on
the way to the bank he was passed By two
men, and directly afterwsrd received
stunning blow, knocking him into the gut
ter. He held on to the sache, and cried
for help, but the robbers, after beating and
kicking, wrenched 1t from the hands and
escaped. - ~
THE Commissioner of the Land Qffice,
Ia his annual report, states that the sands
now embraced within the limits Of the. pub
lie domain amount to SOC, oe0.0 600 acres, in
Guiding Alaska. He recommends the pre-
emption laws be abolished. as the kome-
stead laws cover all cases now arising:
MAGGIE O'NEAL made 8 savage at
tack upon Jane Bradt, 10 Sanford's mills,
Amsterdam, n. Y, on the 18th, stabbing
her twenty times with pair OF scissors.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-21
YELLOW FEVER is spreading 6. Pen

YELLOW FEVER Is spreading F. feE-
sacoa, Fla, and an insutticiency OF funds
makes the situation alarming. All classes
and denominations are asked for contribu-
tions.
ALEXANDER KIER, foreman of the
men whose incomplete work caused the ter
rible accident on the Long Branch Rail-
road, at Parker's Creek, N. j., in June
last, has been indicted for manslaughter.
THE National Treasury has received
bonds amounting to $780, bequeathed the
country some months ago by Joseph L..
Lewis, Of Hoboken, n. j., for the purpose
of paying off the bonded debt.
OWING to the alarming increase of
paupersm in the South Of Ireland, tie Dub
lin Union has taken the lead in proposal
to send 1000 able. bodied men and women
to Canada, at cost Of e. 900.
THERE was an expensive blaze at FL
Paso, ILL.,, the other night. The fire origina-
ted in the kit chen Of the FL Paso House, and
was first discovered by one Of the proprie-
tors, who at once aroused his boarders, some
of whom were compelled to escape through
windows. The loss is estimated at 0,00O.
PROFESSOR SWIFT, of the Rochester
Observatory, says that the new comet lately
discovered in Greece is a fragment Of the
great comet, broken off at its perihelion
passage.
A DISPATCH from Chatham, .Pittsyl-
yania County. Va, says the raYages OF
diphtheria are fearful. Most OF those who
die have black vomit and some are covered
with running sores that eat to the bone.
The doctors are unable to account for the
terrible fatality, and think scarlet fever and
diphtheria are combined.
In the Jeanette investigation at
Washington Commodore Calhoun testified
that at the time the vessel sailed she was
perfectly seaworthy. but he conceded in the
opinion expressed by the inspectors in their
report to the Navy Department at that time.
that from her construction sit was not pos
sible to make her particularly adapted for {.
long cruise in the Arctic regions.' Capt
Johnson corroborated the statement Of
Commodore Calhoun. Both gentlemen are
of opinion that it would be impossible to
construct q vessel of either wood or iron
that could successfully Withstand the strain
to which the Jeanette was subjected.
The charges against Gouverneur
Morris, Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alas
ka, including frauds upon the Government
in connection with the importation and sale
Of liquor, drunkenness, the ruthless slaugb
ter of Indian dogs, arbitrary and aggressive
conduct toward the natives, rs we'll as OFF,
GERS Of the Government having business
with him, have been referred to Secretary
Folger.
THE Ballou House, at North Adams,
Mass. was fired by an ncendiary the other
morning. A fireman and lady boarder
were hurt.
STRONG achievements have been
sent to Southern Tunis, with the object Of
carrying on operations on large scale
against insurgents during the cold season.:
THE President has accepted fifty
miles of Northern Pacific Railroad. begin
ming In Idaho and ending in Montana,
which was lately examined and reported
on by Commissioners Blackstone. Fry and
Reed
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-21
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

HOWARD CARROLL, a Journalist OF
New York. whose name has been mentioned
as the Republican candidate for Congress-
man. t-large, sends out card stating that
he will pay nothing to secure an election,
nor, if elected, will he take any notice Of ap-
plications for office.
ELECTION,returns from Ohio give the
Democrats majority of sixteen to twenty
thousand. West Virginia has elected three
Democrats and one Republican to Congress.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has with
assigning as q reason that as a Christian
gentleman he could not afford to lay on any
body the responsibility for his radical views.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Minnesota unanimously Endorsed the Re-
publican nomination Of James Gilfillen for
Chef-Justice of the Supreme Court. The
platform opposes the submission of an
amendment to the Constitution lessenin.
the rights Of the people, and demands a
chance to sell in the highest and buy in the
lowest market in the world.
IT is reported that the prospect of a
duel between Wise and Smith in Virginia is
limited only by the willingness or unwilling
ness of Wise to fight with shotguns.
WILLIAM, the youngest son of Prince
Bismarck, has been raised to the rank of
Government Councillor.
THE London Times believes that M.
De Lesseps is more reasonable than might
appear from his proceedings during the war.
II those Objectionable proceedings, it says,
should be renewed at critical time, Eng
land might be driven TO adopt stringent
measures as safeguard of her interests.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR attended the
Webster centennial, at Marshfeld. Mass,
on the 18th, and paid glowing tribute to
the honored dead. He was warmly re-
ceived.
Representative LOWE, of Ala
bama, died at Huntsville, Oct. -.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-10-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CHARLES ScARR1TT, wholesale gro
Ger at Columbus, Ohio, was thrown from a
buggy and fatally injured on the 10th.
AT Speedsville, N. Y, on the 9th, q
dentist named COPYRIGHT shot dead ped -.
dler named Joel Evans. The killing was in
settlement Of an old grudge.
THREE firemen, named Stoltz, Brand,
and Thiessen, were badly burned by the ex-
plosion Of an oil.tank, in Milwaukee, Wis,
Oct. 8. Stoltz can not recover.
P. T. LANGUELLE, a prominent law
yer OF Galveston, Texas, was drowned while
yachting the other day.
REV. j. L. DENTON, Superintendent
of Public Instruction of Arkansas, cast him.
self from balcony at Fayetteville the other
day and was killed. He had been mentally
unbalanced for several days. He was for
many years one Of the most prominent di-
vines in the Methodist Church.
RICHARD CHAPMAN, a Baptist minis
ter, had difficulty with John Turner at
Pine Bluff Springs, Texas, the other night.
Turner was stabbed three times, and died
soon after. Chapman escaped.
RICHARD DAVIS was shot and fatally
injured by James Dunden, near Macon, Ga,
the other night. Dunden says he mistook
Davis for thief.
q. G. RANDOLPH, 8 merchant of Rip
ley, Miss, took fatal dose of morphine at
Holly Springs the other day. Business
troubles prompted the act.
GEORGE YOUNG was killed and Henry
Smith fatally injured by the explosion Of
saw-mill boiler near Shelbyville, Ind, on
the 9th.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at political
meeting at kenner, La, the other night.
Daniel King, white drummer-boy, was
killed and several negroes were hurt.
In political quarrel at the Soldiers
Home, Dayton, Ohio, the other evening,
August Mencke fatally stabbed John Dean
in the groin.
A FARMER named Davidson, living
near Deckervile, Mich. killed his wife and
seriously injured his son the other after.
noon. They were quarreling about some
property.
JAMES PRICE, q Texas & Pacific
brakeman, was crushed to death at Dallas,
Texas, Oct. 8.
ROBERT SELTz was fatally injured by
a train at Port Clinton, Ohio, the other
night.
A DISPATCH from Detroit, Mich, on
the 10th says: BY the fall Of a rock in the
Republic mine this morning, John Car
roll, Roe Erickson, Robert Roberts and
Peter Domer were killed. Thomas Hooper
was fatally injured, and it is reported that
others were killed whose names were not
sscertained.
In d collision on the Atlanta division
of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad, at Ooltewah, twenty miles from
Chattanooga, the other morning, Engineer
j. N. Waters and Pilot John Hobbs were
killed and two children were fatally injured.
There was dense fog. - 9. .
Mrs. JAMES CowGER, residing near
cambridge, Ind, committed suicide the
other night by hanging herself to tree.
The act is attributed to ill-health. She was
over 80 years Of age, and the mother of four
children.
ERNEST DoURBoUGUE, French ma
MAC, got at large on Fourteenth street,
New York. the other day, and cut and stab
bed all he met. using pair Of compasses.
Quite number Of ladies and children were
seriously injured.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-12-08

or dealer IN any fertilizer, such secretary chemist
shall upon conviction thereof, be sentenced TO pay
s sEc. IL The university Of Vermont and state
agricultural college shall receive nys dollars lor
nine Of this act The SECRETARY Of the 6oaTd 2.
each license. and two dollars a day for time neees-
sariiy spent in drawing samples and bis avsentng
such fees and compensation shall be paid from the
state treasurer. but the fees and COMPENSATION IN
one brand OF fertilizer and recording the license for
such brand, shall not exceed the amount paid Tor
SEC IS This act shall take effect from Its passage
Approved November 20, lSsz
No l2s-An act relating to onacial advertising aud
the publication of the laws.
| IL is hereby enacted, etc:
SEC. i. There shall be paid to the several news
napers in this state publishing such acts OF the
legislature shall be designated by the secretary
of state tor publication sum egua 70 c 9ns
provided that no paper shan IseeNe more INA"
| SIC. 2. The account for publishing the laws
as provided in section of this act-shall in each
% BE y % Se the
actual number of copies OF his paper regularly
SEC 8. This act shall take effect from its pas
approved Nov IS 1854.
No pam act relating to the proposed articles
of amendment of the constitution.
1t isshercby enacted, ETC.:
SIC. l. The following articles of amendment OF
the constitution having been proposed by the last
general assembly, published in the manner re-
J quired by the constitution, and concuTTed in by
the general assembly in session, shall be sub
mlted to the people for their ratification and
adoption
| First article of amendment:
Sec /. The representatives having met the
4 day appoin ted by law for the commencement OF n
/ biennial session of the general assembly, and
chosen their speaker and the senators having met,
shall, before they proceed to business. taSe and
v subscribe the following oath, in addition to the
Il / on m now prescribed: .Iou, do
e soemny swear Tor afirml that you did not at the
time of your election to this body, and that you do
= not now hold, any Office OF profit trust under
# the authority of Congress. So help you God, Cor
s in case of afirmation,l under the pains and penal
G ties of perjury"
S Sec. ,. The words office OF profit or trust under
e the authority of congress shall be construed to
t mean any ofice created directly or indirectly by
congress, and which emolument vided from
m the treasury of the United States
Second article of amendment:
vs. Sec l. The secretary OF state and auditor of
accounts shall be elected by the freemen OF the
81, aI-a
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kiIling or destroying muskrats on his own premises
when the same become nuisance.
Approved Now p, 1852.
No. 1l6X.-An act in amendment Of chapter 10
revised laws and in addition thereto rehtng TO
game and fisheries.
SEC. /. section ssh chapter 10 revised laws
The selectmen OF any town may appoint and re-
move at pleasure a person TO be nsh warden . IN
public OF priyae OF this state or on the waters OF
person found violating the provisions Of chapter
l10 revised laws, or any amendment thereof, ana
Such FISH warden shall have the same right that
a sheriff would have to demand and receive assist
visions OF this chapter Any person refusing 10 aid
such ash warden, on demand In the name OF me
ties provided for in section 1855, chapter 200
SIC p Section $3.50. chapter 10, shall be
amended so as to read as follows:
All pound net, trap net, gill net set net, and iyke
fishing, any other device for entrapping OF en-
snaring fish IN the waters of Lake Champaign or
of the rivers emptyng into said lake not TO exceed
ten miles from the mouth of said river are hereby
prohibited; and any person persons who shall
| hsh in said waters with any such pound nets trap
for ensnaring entrapping fish shall forfeit the sum
ton on the case founded on this section onehalf to
be paid the of the state, and one-haf to
the informer and prosecutor. Any person discov-
ering any such net nets devices for ensnarlng
Dish set or being used in the waters herein before
described, the thereof. contrary TO the
provisions of chapter 10 revised laws or any
amendment thereof, may seize the same. and the
nets seized shall be conscated Tor the
use the state and destroyed by the persons sez-
ing the Provided seine fishing shall be
allowed during the month of October and the hrst
fifteen days OF November in each year; and pro-
vided this section shall not be construed to pro-
hbit the capture of minnows for bait; and provided
this section shall not be construed to prohibit
fishing in said waters with hook and line as here
matter provided
SEC. 3. Any person who takes or catches any
black bass, pike, wall-eyed pike, shad or pond
pckerel from any of the waters public or private
! Of this state, or from the waters OF Lake Cham
plain or has any of said fish in his possession be-
| tween the first day OF January and the first day OF
May in each year shall forfeit the sum of five dollars
for each fsh caught. taken or possessed, to De
recovered In an action the case founded on this
section one-haf to to the treasurer OF the
and one-half to the prosecutor Provided this act
n shall not be construed to prohibit tim catching
h any kind of fish in the waters of Lake Champlaiu
h with hook and line with a spear.
r SEC. A.. Section 1895, chapter ITO revised laws
h shall be amended to read follows
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