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G. p. HUNTsNGTON'S CHANGE
OF BASE.
What He Thought Five Years
Ago of the Texas Pacific Land
Grants He Now Claims.
Special to the Co nmercial Gazette.


WASHINGTON, August 8.-The at.
tempt Of the Southern Pacific to get
possession of the land grant OF the
Texas Pacific, has called attention to
the fact that Mr.. Huntington, in 1878,
filed protest in the Interior De-
partment against any land grant being
allowed to the Texas Pacific, claiming
that the grant to the latter company
had been forfeited by its own delays
aud neglects, and that under the law
the Department could no longer rec
ognize it. The company, in its pres
ent effort to secure these lands, claims
them as lands hichinured to theTexas
Pacific, but which should now revert to
the Southern Pacicfic as the COM
pleted line. The Southern Pacific also
ignores the fact that it crossed
the Colorado river with its line in the
face of the law fixing the Junction,
and also in direct disobedieuce of mil
itary orders issued, torbidding the
crossing at the military reservation.
In spite of these orders from the
War Department, the Southern Pa
ciic company rallied its entire force
to the river, and weat to work
after dark, and by morning had trestles
completed across the river, the track
laid, and its trains on the east side
Its work from that point eastward was
by sufterance, and not under the au.
thOrity oflAw. These are points whnh
are under consideration at the D.
partment, and are regarded as very
unfsvQrable to the pending claims.
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The cutting OF telegraph wires,
doubtless done by overzealous friends
of the Telegraphers' Brotherhood, will
not strengthen the cause of the strik-
ers. The operators have a right to
ask for higher wages; this is a ques-
ton between employer aud employe,
between capital and skilled labor.
But any action of violence or destruc-
tion of property will have tendency
TO weaken and estrange the sympa
thies Of the public. 1t has been a
strong card in favor of the strikers
that they have conducted themselves
in arespectful manner; that they have
been quiet, sober, courteous and
proper in all their proceedings. The
linemen, or whoever it was that cut
the wires in and around New York
made mistake which is condemned
by sound public opinion, They
also violated the law of the
land, and are liable to
legal prosecution if discovered.
Whatever nay be the immediate re-.
suit of this strike, 1t will certainly
l.
lead to some serious and practical con-
Slderstion Of the relations and the rel.
ative rights of labor and capital. 1t
has already added to the number and
strengthened the arguments of those
who have favored system Of postal
telegrsphy such as exists in some
Otaer countries. This it is claimed
would not necessitate the purchase of
any telegraph line or company in OK
istence. The companies would be left
to take care Of themselves as private
enterprises without increase Of gov.
ernment supervision or control. The
government would build its own lines
and operate them as it does the present
postal system of the country, the diff,
ference being that it would own its
lines wherever extended and the
operators would be government ems
ployes aud not more likely to strike
or resign than any of the
1900 government clerks that swarm
around Washington. The strike has
also started suggestion Of action BY
Congress looking to the appointment
Of National Bureau of Arbitration,
to adjust such cases as the present
which affects the commercial interests
of the country. This would be a se-
rious rrlblem, AN attempt 1ever before
made, perhaps, by a constitutional
government. 1t would affect and in
volve vast interests, and would be one
of the biggest issues arising under the
new order of things since the war.
That the next Congress will consider
the questions suggested by, and arising
out Of the present strike, there seems
to be very little doubt. 1t would,
perhaps, be an antidote to any pre-
meditated and prolonged discussion of
the tariff question.
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JAy Gould aud Thomas Ecker {
Arrested. -
Special to the Ledger.

New YORK, August 9.-There is a
rumOr current on the streets to-day
that Messrs. Gould and Eckert were
arrested by Bergh, the humanitarian
on the charge OF cruelty to animals
hey hare not ,oatered their aockiu
ttoo months -hOrrible While in
prison they will smoke Samelson's 3
celebrated ChiOkasav Guard cigars.
Tell SamelsOn to send me one of the
canes they are giving away next Sat
urday. CAMPBELL.
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II was astonished," says one of
Morgan's famous riders, who attended
the reunion at Lexington, ITO see how
little the boys had changed since the
war. II laemsd TO NE that some of
them had actually grown younger.
II was great trouble to remember
names, though every face was a loved
and familiar ore You can see what
a hqmbqg a politician nay DO who
easily remembers names. It was
laqghable to observe the effect on one
good fellow when an old comrade came
up to him suddenly and said quickly:
Come, Tom let's go aud take / seaip
Tom looked, and instantly recognized
his old friend, but the name-he could
not recall it to save his life, The
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FORAIGN AFFAIRS.

BERLIN, August lO.-The state
ment of the Imperial Bank of Ger
many shows decrease in specie Of
4,4SO,OOO marks.
LONDON, August 10.-Tbe amount
of bullion gone into the Bank Of
England on balance to-day was 5000.
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Fire-One Man Killed.

WORCESTER, MASS, August TO-
The large tin shop of A. H. Jaquitb,
at Gardner, was partially destroyed by
fre this morning. Loss not definite.
VIM. M. Concen was killed by fallS
ing chimney during the fire.
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In ia claimed for Rutherford B.

IT is. claimed for Rutherford B.
Hayes that he is still regarded as a
strong candidate for the United States
Senate, and that he is by no means SO
unpopular in Ohio as he is elsewhere.
If he had the same old returning
board he might stand a chance; other.
wise be will stand out in the cold.
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Director GeRerAI Of the Cotton
Centennial.
Vicksburg POST s.

The Board Of Managers Of tbe
Worlds Industrial and Cotton Cen.
tenHial Exposition" held a regular
meeting in New Orleans last Tuesday.
The special committee to suggest a
proper person for Director General
reported that Major Il. A. Burke had
been chosen as the most fitting person
ior the position. 1t was also stated
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BIOOded Horses Rurno,,

LEXINGTON, August 10. The stable
at the fair grounds burned last mig ht
consuming seven fine trotting horses
owned by James ShacklsfOrd, mostly
OF the Wilkes stock. The horses were
valued at sl8,OOOi they were not in.
sured,
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RumOr That the strikers Will
Surrender.

New York, August 1O.-It is
stated on good authority this morning
that the striking telegraphers last
night practically decided to abandon
the strike.
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Phlladelphia Press.
A Bostonian, recently returned
from Europe, relates an incident
which is not without its point. He
was standing one evening 10 hotel at
Amsterdam when a lively cclloquy
took place between valet de place
and a couries. The former, while
wiping the perspiralion from his face,
burst out, These Americans beat
everything. A family came yesterday
and said they must see Amsterdam 10
one day, ! put them through, and
Lave just started them off in the cars.
Why, these AmerlOaDs when SIGHT,
seeing work like horses " "Yes,"
added the courier, sententiously "and
they spend their money like tsses. "
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mental struggle which his countensnce
betrayed was desperate one, but he
had to give it up, and he awkwardly
followed his fellow hero to the seat
where he at length recovered the lost
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NaratOga snortS.

SARATOGA, August lO-The first,
one mile, was won by Rona B; zonnie
Bird second, CsllaO third. Time, LA.
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hctter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills OF lading, cards, and all kinds of
commercial printing done as we'll and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anywhere in the United States,
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NOTICE.

HAVING sold my interest in the firm Of
IL j. b. Nicely 4 Co. Ia the bridge piling
business on the Memphis and VicksburE rail.
road to John Donnelby, have retird from
said firm and said Donnelly has assumed
my position. la5 ]. Y. JOHNSTON
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ALABOR BUREAU,

The TeIegraPhers' Strike Likely
10 Bring the Question of Capi-
tai and Labor BEFORE congress
and Cause the Adoption OF q
Preventive Measure.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
rs DOG Il WOLF?

The Anthropological Society of France
had under discussion, not long ago, the
question whether the dog descends from
the wolf. NJ. Harbourdin said that he
had brought up wolf that was how 6
years old and was as gentle as a lamb.
1t was, beside, remarkably intelligent,
and could open the doors by turning the
handles. When it heard clock strike
it would stand on Its hind legs to look
behind, and would move the hands
round with its paws. 1t is fond of per-
fumes, and lives ON good terms with
poultry and other animals, but has a
great aversion for cats. Its bark resem.
bles that of dog. M. de Mortillet, on
the other hand, said that he had been
endeavoring in vain to tame wolves.
They were gentle enough so long as
they were young, but became savage at
the adult age.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19

A Geographic weather-service has
been established in Japan by the I'm.
perial Meteorological Observatory
and receives reports from twenty-five
well-iisir buted stations. 1t issues
maps and bulletins three times day
but will not attempt forecasts until
the experience of the servic, has given
Il better knowledge of the conditions
governing Japanese weather.
The Granton quarry, on the east
coast of Scotland, admits the tide, so
that at high water the inlet has sur
face area of about ten acres and a
depth of sixty feet in some parts.
The mouth of this inlet is to be so
closed that fishes and other marine
animals may be unable to pass through
it while the circulation of the sea
water will remain unobstructed. The
enclosure will form a natural aquarium
which is to be stocked with marine
life of all kinds. A laboratory for
students is to be placed on n barge an
chored in the quarry, additional quar-
tiers being provided in cottage on
shore. This curious scientific acquar-
ium is being established under the
auspices of the Scottish Meteorologi-
cal Society.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
SCHOOL,EEEB If EF0N.

Fifty or sixty years ago English
srhoolmasters ruled with rod. They
appealed to boys fear Of punishment,
and to nothing else. Yet famous En-
zIish men speak in high terms of their
ahool-days. They even praise the
masters fogging, and have an approx
:ng word for the tagging which made
every small boy the slave of some
senior.
An American reading an article
i'll TempIe Bar on life at Elton, dur
ing the school-days of Mr.. Gladstone,
asks in establishment, How could any
hoy retain his self-respect, or be in
fuenced by a sense of justice, after
graduating from such schools
DR., Keate, the Principal, was mer-
CHESS despot. G. A. Selwyn, afterward
the missionary Bishop, was told to
bring his Greek grammar.
$50 and fetch it, said DR.. Keate; IF
you're not back in ten minutes, I'll fog
you,"
The boy ran hard, but in his con=
fusion brought back his brothers gram.
mar.
II knew IT." said the tyrant. you've
burnt your own, sir! Don't deny it; I
see guilt in your eye"
selwyn protested, and said he must
have mislaid his own.
Then I'll fog you for that" was the
cruel response. "A boy who mislaya
his books j. an idler." And the future
Bishop received severe fogging.
About the same time a small boy was
riding as fag with Senior to Marshs
inn to cockpit fight. The horse took
fright, and the Senior, paralyzed with
terror, ordered the fag to Jump On the
horses back and stop him by saving at
his bit.
The Dangerous feat was sccompz
lished, but the little fellows arms were
almost pulled from their sockets, and
one of them was dislocated.
Mr.. Gladstone tried to help the poor
sufferer, and bathed his shoulder with
yinegar till it was found that the limb
needed the services of q surgeon.
No such teacher as DIR. Keate would
be tolerated in aa American school, no
matter what his scholarship might be-
Youths Communion.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
THE NEWS.
A Minneapolis Railroad.

Articles of Incorporation of the
Minneapolis & st. CroiX Railroad
Company, were filed last Saturday.
The object is to construct and OPP
crate railroad from Minneapolis in
a northeasterly direction to some
point on the st. CroiX river, between
the city of Saltwater and point on
the boundary line between Minnesota
and Wisconsin, opposite the mouth
of Big Rock creek, in Polk county,
Wisconsin, the same to CONNECT with
the line of railroad of the Minneapolis
Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic Railway
Company to be constructed and OPP
Grated easterly from the west line of
the state OF Wisconsin. The place of
business of the new company is to be
Minneapolis. The capital stock is
stated at 81 200. 900 and the incorpora-
tors are Henery 7. Welles, William
ID. Washbarn, Jacob X. Sidle Charles
J. Martin, all residents of Minneapolis.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
SHAVING THE FACE.

Thirty years ago few persons of for
eign birth appeared in the streets with
hair ON the upper lip, and were objects
If curiosity and sometimes of public
ridicule. In 1850 some of the young
swells of the metropolis began to wear
mustaches, but for some time no clerk
would venture to initiate them. In one
case merchant on Pine street who had
just engaged clerk for twelve months,
OF during good behavior, discharged him
for wearing q full beard, claiming that
the adoption of the fashion laid the
clerk open to dismissal under the good
behavior clause to the contract. About
the same time number Of leading ner-
chants gave notice that they would en-
ploy nobody who wore hair on the up
per lip. AS late as 1851 the senior pro-
prietor of this paper made his cashier
shave off an incipient mustache, and
soon after brought his own son under
the razor. In the church of DR.. Be-
thune, on Brooklyn Heights, an elder
who was suffering from lame wrist al
lowed his beard 10 grow rather than
submit to barber. The habit, begin
ming i'll necessity, continued on account
of the increase of comfort which it af-
forded, and the elder Haunted his beard
before the congregation constantly. The
result was laughable. Many of the
brethren called upon the pastor to insist
upon doing away with such scandal
as full-bearded elder. He led them to
his library and showed them how some
Of the early fathers had pleaded against
cutting off the beard. "He turned to
Lactantius, Theodoret, st. Augustine
and st. Cyprian, who had stoutly con-
tended for the growth of the whole
beard. He quoted from Clement, of
Alexandria, the assertion that Nature
adorned men, like lion, with beard,
as mark of strength and power When
one of the visitors asked him how he
would like 1t II the clergy assumed the
mustache, DR.. Bethune referred him to
a decision of the fourth Council of Car
thage "a. D. 252, can. AZ, in which it
was positively enacted that cleric shall
not shave his beard, and to statement
made by Luther in discussing the sub.
iect, that all the Protestant martyrs
we're burned in their full Boards" This
did not settle the matter, for subse-
quently the ladies of the congregation
put in their protest. But in a few
months venturesome lawyer let his
beard grow after the manner of the ell
der, and in little while smooth-shaven
faces were no longer the rule but were
the exception.-NeeO York Journal Of
Commerce.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS AND THE;
HAPPY CONDITION.

They are small in stature, pure COP
per color, with more regularly form
features than their sturdier brethren q
the North The dress of brave is Il
breech clout and an ordinary calico O,
check shirt. Their head-gear is won
derfully picturesque. A brightly col
ored shawl is carefully folded and
pressed out fiat, and then coiled into a
turban foot or more in diameter.
Fancy feathers and other ornaments are
placed in the turban, which is worn
like Turks. Its bright colors and
curious shade suggest coincidence in
taste with Mexican and Peruvian Inli-
ans. The squaws are exceptionally
pretty and petite, They are lighter i'll
color than the braves, and are very coy
ard modest in the presence of a white
man, probably because they seldom see,
them. They wear two garments, shor'
calico skirt and a very contracted jack
ct.
They wear all sorts of ornaments, al
lirator teeth, curious bones, wild hogs
t"eth, and cheap jewelry, which the
lr.ve purchases in the town before he
lcgins drinking. Like all the Indian
women they do nearly all the drudgery,
hut the braves are generally kind to
them. The children are delicate-look-
ing little things, but the papposes are
really beautiful babies. These Indians
:; from place to place in cypress dug
oat, which is wider than the regular In
dian canoe, and which they usually row
instead of pole, owing to the fact that
the water in this country is deep. They
are very expert in using the oar.
They do not do away with the pole en-
ii ely, however. An Indian in the bow
Of the boat rows one oar, and another
SIS IN the stern with pole, with which
lie rows and steers. The sharply-cut
Il q out glides quietly through the wa
to-, the speed being quite wonderful
The boats go 800 miles into Lake Okee-
c&obee, and Florida Indian is as hap.
ly in one as he is on shore.-Cor.
Philadelphia Press.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19

Graceville.

Weather is continuing to be very
dry as there has been no rain of any
consequence since harvest COM
menced. There is but very little
plowing done hepe at present, but
threshing is progressing rapidly. The
wheat is averaging 241s bushels per
acre nearly all Of which grades No. l
hard. There is to be church fair in
Tara Traverse Co., Oct. 1911 & IS.
There are anticipations of a grand
success. Two jail birds escaped from
the prison at Graseyille but we; DIN
eeFely hope they will be captured and
receive their just deserts. Others bet
ter keep away from here as the jail
has had thorough overhauling of the
CRATES and bars and they will not be
so easily pryed out the next time. a
one year old child Of p, McFaddan
died Friday II inst. aftera long illness.
The bereaved parents have the public
sympathy. w. A. Kindred President
of the Fargo Air Line spent the
> greater part of last week in town.
The new store of P. H. O'Harra is
quite an ornament to thetown it has
now opened with large and COM
plete stock such AZ ia required In a
first class country store. Success to
you P. FL. The farmers feel jubilant
over their new wheat buyer Mr.. Fritz
as he is first class man in every re-
spect and in this business just what
has been long the desire of the farm.
ing community. We one and all well
come him here. M. IT. Sullivan is
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
Snoz1to iGpi6u,tc.
LOCALS
Nearly Complete.

The addition to Mr.. Danlelson's
store of which mention was made in
these columns some time ago is now
nearly complete. The carpenters
have nearly completed their work and
the painters are close after them. The
new counters areofexcellentde design and
workmanship with black walnut tops.
Two single windows and one double
one are placed in the back end of the
new part giving the store excellent
light The finished part of the store
is already filed with new goods and
by Friday morning Mr.. Danielson
expects to have the entire new adj
dition filled aud ready to display his
large stock for the benefit of his Gus
TONER'S, Boots and shoes. gloves and
groceries oeeupy one side of the store,
and hs siery, millinery, staple and
fancy DIZZY goods and notions ttlt up
the other. When the work now going
on is completed Mr.. Danielson will
have Que of the incest stores in town.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Writing from Fort Rae March 25th,
Capt. H. p. Dawson, Commander of
the British Circumpolar Expedition,
stated that winter really set in at
that latitude 81 degrees 3O' north) on
the first of December, when the Their.
mometer sank to "a degrees below
zero. In January the temperature
approached so degrees below, but dur
ing a storm in the early part of
February it rose to 20 degrees above
1t afterward fell again, reach
ing Sc degrees below on the 23nd
of March. He thinks it probable that
80 degrees below aero il aet upeom-
mon temnerature during the severe
winters. ut is strange" his letter
says, show much less one feels this
extreme cold than might be imagined,
For the first day or two 1t was I'M
pleasant, but after that the system
seemed to accommodate itself to it, so
that a day when the temperature
was anywhere abOve-15 degrees felt
quite warm and pleasant. To-day for
instance, am writing with my win
dow open, although the thermometer
is several degrees heloW sera, and
h tssrss is q hight breeze:'' . 80
However beneficial as exercise, no
amusement Is free from drawbacks.
Tn a paper entitled 'Remarks on
One Form of Tennis Knee" DIR. C..
Mansell Moulin, assistant surgeon to
the London Hospital, shows that lawn
tennis players are liable to peculiar
forms of knee-sprains, which be pain
fr,l and difficult to treat
An apparatus for registering earth
eurrenbs has p,een made by y Ref1ih
physicist. 1t consists of very deli
cate galvanometer enclosed in a case
with a clockwork arrangement fol-
giving a Photographic plate steady
downward motion. A fine ray of light
is focused from the galvanometeI
mirror on the Photographic plate.
The latter moves at 'theTrate of about
three inches per hour, and the mark
traced by the point of light shows the
observer the variations Of the galva.
nemeter from minute to minute.
From experiments at Caracas, Vene-
zuela, Mons. v. MarcanO concludes
that the sap of tropical vegetation cir
culates completely through the plant
within a period eef tWeaty.raqf hours
Two Scotch scientists have started
upon dredging expedition in The
Moray Firth, one of their chief objects
being to study the habits of the herr
ing.
A drawing of the skeleton of the gi
gantic fossil reptile known as Bron
tOsanrqs exceisus has been made by
Prof. O. 9. Marsh. Nearly all thu
bones illustrated belonging to single
individual, which was nearly or quite
| fifty feet in length when alive, anC
must have weighed more than twenty
tons. 1t had small head, massive
feet and legs, and a large tail. 1t!
small brain indicates that it was
stupid, slOw-moving animal. IT wa.
more or less amphilious, and it's foot
was probably aquatic plants.
Mr.. Thomas Urquhart has made 6
careful comparison of the cost of wood
anthracite coal and petroleum refuse
| as fuel for locomotives on Russian
railways, and finds that the petro
leum is at least fifty per cent more
economical than either wood or coal
The oil presents the advantage of Civ
ing rise to much less smoke and dir
than the other kinds of fuel.
Morris tribune., 1883-09-19
morning.

A CORRESPONDENT writes to know if
we think tobacco good thing to use in
hen roost, to keep the fowls healthy.
We would not advise it. A La Crosse
gentleman, who was a great fancier,
tried tobacco in beautiful hen house
that he built, and few days after he
went into the building and large
Bramah rooster was chewing tobacco
and splitting on the floor, and the hens
gathered around the rooster asking for
chew of tobacco. We should advise
total abstinence from tobacco IN q
hen house, if our correspondent desires
to promote morality among the hens
PecE'S Sun.