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National Republican., 1883-03-22
The Squattcr's Spirit.
ArLansaw narelier.

dThuHouW tIutttNf'
The spirit of the renowned old squatter still
fingers in the land.
(Which road shall take here?" asked a
traveller of a man who sat on the steps of a
crossroad store.
(Which one do you wantF' .-h
~ intended to ask which one should take
to lead me to the river|
"Take your choice"
(Which one leads to the river?" ~
"What rivera"
"Why, the Arkansaw"
"You want to know which road leads
thereY t-7
"Yes, SIR" ~
"How long have you been in this countryT
"That makes no difference, my friend. ]
want to know something of the geography oi
this community"
" No. it makes no difference how long you've
been here, but there amt geography in this
neighhorhood, but there was Il lot of 'em in
the school house when it burned"
How far is it to the river, any way?"
"Well, any way, it's about two hundred
miles"
"Oh, how far is it ?"
"You can make il as far as you pleaseo
al mean how near is itY'
"Thatll sorter do, l don't know"
"ls this temperance community
"Sortcr."
"How long has it been since you had Q
drink ~
"It amt been more than a month, but il
seems like II couple of years"
"What would you give for drinkW
"a common sized mule"
"rve got some very fine stuff here in a bot
tie; have somo2'
The native grasped the bottle eagerly and
drank.
"What is II you want TO know"
"The road TO the river,'
The native took another drink and said
"Tho rivers right over yonder, but the
ferryman will charge you like thunderif you
amt got no whisky. Good day"
When the traveller arrived at the ferry he
found his friend Of the store standing in the
boat waiting for him.
"Hello, here we are again. What will you
take to row me acrossW
"lIow much have you got"
Z" mean, what is your priceY
"Three drinks and the cork"
"What do you want with the cork"
"Want II to put in tho churn, to make the
milk taste natural.
National Republican., 1883-03-22
What is Brundys

The French brandy" merchants are much
moved at the publicity given to the tricks of
their trade in the English newspapers, The
figures given by their own minister of agri-
culture in his recent report ON the wines OF
1852 are conclusive as to the fact that the
vineyards of the two Charentes, which alone
supplied the genuine wine brandy, are ire
trievably ruined. These two departments,
which were devoted almost wholly to grape
culture, gave 81 100000 gallons Of wine in
1875, Last year they only gave one-eighth OF
that quantity, being n falling OF of 273OOO, 600
gallons and tho quality was execrable. The
condition of ChaTente proper, which produced
the true cognac, is even worse, for tho vim
tage only gave the twenty-second part of tht
yield of 1875, and the rayagos Of phylloxera
are each successive year growing from bad Ia
worse. In fact the pest has now utterly de,
stroyed throughout France nearly 2,O00,OO0
acres of vineyards. Besides this, 100000
acres more are now in different stages of de-
.struction, which goes on at the rate of three
years to each plant, for that is the time the
insect takes TO kill the hardest vine.
National Republican., 1883-03-22

81 i6,S6s1 1634 March 81 16l bid April 81 17sSlq
l79I; May, 81 20Gsl 20l6 June, 81 2lN@sl 2l9s,
Corn-Southern higher; western dull aud weak
southern white, G2@6ilzc; do. yellow 62g6io
western mixed, spot, CSC asked; March, 62Iaa@b5ci
April, CSC bids May, 6j4@65%c steamer, 6Jc
Oats lower and dull; southern, 5S@56c; western
white, 55@5jc do mixed 53@5ic; pennsylvania
b3@56c Rye quet at zoe Hay quiet prime 70
choice Pennsylvania and Maryland, Sl3 OO9lO w
Provisions quiet; mess pork, $40 90; bulk
meats, shoulders and clear rib sides. packed, SA@
llc bacon shoulders, 9j4c; clear rib sides, l2c !
hams, l4Gi5c; lard refined, 124c. Butter quit
western packed, 17@22cj roll H@lsc. Eggs
easier Mt l0c@20e. Petroleum firmer; rehued
S4@Slkc Coffee quiet; Rio cargoes, ordinary TO
hir S3@gMc. Sugar quiet; soft, $40. Cop.
per. rehued quiet at 16@1G1c. whisky quiet at
81 lSH91 49, Freights TO Liverpool per steamer
lower; cotton, 5.32t93-lGd. -four Is 3D.; grain,
5d. Reccipts-Flour, S03 barrels; wheat, 2l,OD
bushels; corn, $1,000 bushels; oat., 1000 pn b.
els; rye, 100 bushels. Shipments 10000
bushels; corn, G0,000 bushels sales-Wheat, 305,-
600 bushels; corn, 100000 bushels .st
PITrsBURG oil MARKET.
pITTsBuRG, Mar 2t.--Oil dull and not much do
Ing. The market opened with sales at 81 063t adj
vanced TO 1917, and declined to and closed at
81 06%. ..
National Republican., 1883-03-22
who Pays the Bliisl
Music and Drnmn.


In connection with tho Passion Play"
some facts are leaking out relative to Morse
and his hackers which are calculated to re-
move the former worthy gentleman from the
lofty pedestal ON which he has been posing.
II appears that on the many occasions on
whiclfhe stated that "he had spent immense
sums " on the attempted production, he should
have substituted his hackers for himself
Many persons, including Mr.. Abbey Mr..
Thomas Mcguire, and several dignitaries OF
the church, have been mentioned in this con-
nection, but mistakenly so. The true history
Of tho venture is, in brief, as follows:
Mr.. Eaves, the well known costumer who
furnished the dresses for Mr.. Abbey when the
latter tried TO bring ont the Passion Play "
at Booths, became infatuated with the play
and not only thought that % great work of
moral regeneration might he accomplished,
but also that many shukels would fill his
purse through its means. He accordingly
purchased part of Morse's copyright for $1,000,
and advanced n good deal more. IL was his
idea to build hall where nothing should be
presented but tho sacred drama, for his sensi-
bilities were shocked by the notion that
the boards which were one night occupied
by Christ and his disciples should be
trodden next night by tho scantily clothed
forces of the " Black Crook" Efforts
were made TO interest the Methodist Book
Concern, who thought iavorably of tho
scheme, but did not quito see clearly enough
how much money was in 1t for themselves.
Finally o Mr.. Severance and u Mr.. Ferris
Joined the firm, and Mr. George ID. Roberts, u
former California speculator, advanced money
to the extent of $4,000 on securities which
he asserts are sufficient, but which Others state
| to be almost worthless, consisting as they do
of about $4,000 shares of some mining stock.
Mr.. Morses endeavors to put himself forward
us the disnterested capitalist who is pursuing
whim and is willing to pay for it, have
rather dsgusted his financial associates, and
Mr.. Eayes states that if it had not been for
Salmi there would have been no trouble as re-
CARDS the securing Of license.
TO recapitulnte, itappears that about 100000
has been sunk, half Of which Mr.. Roberts has
supplied tho remainder being furnished by
Messrs Eaves Severance, and Ferris. Morse
himself has not put up one single dollar, II
| all that is stated be correct.
As to the recent transfer of the lease, which
was made without Mr. Eaves's concurrence
| IL is said to have been done for purely legal
accommodation and to enable Mr.. Graves to
obtain license for other purposes should the
passion Play" license be refused, as seems
to be likely, :.
National Republican., 1883-03-22
The Puzzle Explained.
10 Me EN0F,

Yourpuzzle in Saturdays General Gossip',
is an easy one. After you have cut your l3x5
slip diagQnally, and then taken rom the
large end of each half inches, the length
where cut would be not 3 inches, but
3.O6226 approximately, thus giving the side of
the square S,06226 inches, giving for contents
of square 65000136 inches Using more dooi-
mails would approximate still more closely
to the G5 inches. OfcouTse there is nothing
lost. Even careful measurement and cut
ting would show that the side of square was
more than inches. P.T.B.
SATURDAY, Mar. II,
National Republican., 1883-03-22

% whit. Corn. Oats. Pork. Lard.
National Republican., 1883-03-22
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET,

BALTIMORE Mar, 2l,-Cotton dull; middlng
1870. Flour steady and quiet; Howard street
al OO. DO. miniiy So a5@G 90 city mlls supeTiine
S8 876I 90; do extra, "a l5@6 80; do. Rio brands
60 OUaG - Patapsco family, So 70; do. superaliyo
patent 81 90. Wheat-Southern firm aud steady;
western shade better and dull southern red
81 l7@l 20 do. amber, 81 20@Sl "a; No. Maryland,
81 l9A@Sl 20 Ne, 2 western winter rcd, spot,
National Republican., 1883-03-22

ALONE fisherman down at Seabright,
Was SO sprained his wife took fright;
But in less than an hour,
st. Jacobs OILS power
Knocked The pain as high as a kite.
National Republican., 1883-03-22

Facilities are AT our cOmmaOd that enn-
HE uA Ia Keep before our customers the
hest, freshest, and most varied stock Of
Books, Newspapers, and mngiHineAi our
Inrge assortment permitting good Aelec-
lion in amy. department OF literature.
National Republican., 1883-03-22
alc6 qubIitations.
llr6 qubIitations.
A. BRENTANO & CO.,
PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, sTATIONERs,
AND NEWSDEALERS,
1918 Penna- -A-v nI Q,
COR. OF ELEVENTH STREET,
WASHINGTON, D, G,

Please bear In mind that our establish.
nient ~ kept open every evening until 10
o'clock.
National Republican., 1883-03-22
COTTON MARK
The following were the opening and closing

GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
The following are the opening, highest, lowest
and closing prices on the Chicago Board of Trade,
as corrected by special wire reports to Cooke Co.,
brokers
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14
WHEN THE present tariff bill was

WHEN THE present tariff bill was
under discussion its supporters as
serted that the average reduction OF
duties would amount to 20 Per cent /,
q statement that the Democrats
were as persistent in denying. The
official computations for the first
quarter of the new fiscal year prove
that the Democrats were right. The
average rate of duty on the total
merchandise reported during the
quarter closing September 3Oth, was
40 per cent. as compared with A
per cent. for the corresponding
period last year, when the old law
was in force. Thus it appears that
the reduction of duties by the law
that was to relieve the people of the
tariff burden, amounts to just 4 per
cent, which is so small that nobody
has appreciated its benefit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14

FLlPPER, the colored lieutenant
who was dismissed from the army
for creokedness in his accounts, is
now clerk in a laundry in Ell Paso,
Texas. He complains bitterly of his
treatment, and is trying to get in
duential persons to appeal to Con-
gress to reinstate him in the
ar my. His principal excuse for
wrong-doing seems to be expressed
in these words: Il was an. mex
perienced lieutenant-a mere boy
at the time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14
sin Washington to defeat any
legislation looking to the overthrow

cin Washington to defeat any
legislation looking to the overthrow
tofthe hierarchy" but from the
fact that he manufactured his
other statements, we must believe
that he is no seer and has invented
this one. If the Press agent will
take the trouble to search his mem
ory he will conclude that he is tax
ing large risks in predicting the
maintaining at the capital of a
Mormon lobby. The Mormons
have never shown themselves to be
a lobbying people. There have been
times in their history when an en-
ergetic lobby might have been of
great service to them, but they have
never caught on" to the utility of
the lobby, and may have suffered
from their slowness in the matter.
Why should there be lobby in
Washington next winter? 1t is
admitted by all intelligent people
that Utah Will be in less danger
from lunfrien0ly congressional
legislation during the coming win
ter than it has been in for many
years. Congress has the Territory
on trial, and is going to await re-
suits before attempting anything
further in the way of coercive laws,
hence whatever occasion there may
have been for lobbyists in the past
there can be none at the approach.
ing session.
The only value that news possesses
IS its truthfulnesS and reliability.
If it has not these, it Is utterly
worthless. The Associated Press
Jays for news from Salt Lake; it
loes not want romance and fabrica- !
ion; therefore, if it expects to OBJ,
ain what it buys, and not pay for
that is worthless, it had
etter change its local agent and
mploy man who will confne his
elegrams to statements of facts.
Jntil the change is made and reli-
BILE, truthful information is sent to
le Associated Press from Utah, we
aution editors against placing con-
dence in the kilograms from this
They are entirely un-
,liable.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14

MATTHEW ARNOLD is lecturing
through the east on Numbers"
It is hoped that Governor Murray
will attend the lecture before he
returns to Utah, as His Excellency
is evidently ignorant of the subject.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14
BUSINESS RECKLESSNESS
AGAIN.

been impressed upon merchants and
dealers about overstocking them
seIves,th stores and shops are being
literally crammed with goods. The
railroads are obliged to run extra
freight trains daily to bring in
goods, which are piling up as they
never did before. Shop-keepsrs, to
whom carload lots have always
been matters beyond their aspira-
tions, are stocking up as if they
were wholesalers, and dealers who
have heretofore conducted business
upon the safe principle Of supplying
the demand are laying in stores
that ordinarily could not be disposed
of in six months or year: Too
many merchants and traders have
allowed their heads to be turned by
the drop in freight rates. Everybody
is buying as If he were the
only dealer who could obtain
the low rates. Many, if not a ma
jority of the merchants are put
about good deal to find money to
pay freight bills. One of these days
the goods will have to be paid for,
when it is feared good many will
discover that sales have not in
creased materially, the merchandise
lying on the shelves and piled up in
warehouses. If some of the busi-
ness houses DO not regret their big
purchases before next spring we
will be delightfully."- mistaken. We
are fairly entered on a season when
trade is dull and money scarce.
From the middle of October to the
holidays is one of the dreariest peri
DDS for merchants; and the brief
squirt Of activity at the holidays is
succeeded by calm that is not
disturbed until the opening of the
spring. building operations
are at standstill, many
of the mines are closed down,
travel is light, and money-spending
is reduced to the minimum. Mean.
time, before trade activity sets in,
hundreds of thousands of dollars
must be sent out of the country to
meet bills for goods that have been
purchased with view to their
cheaeness rather than TO the prob
ability of their sale. The consumers
are not here, and it is feared the
money will not be forthcoming. in
(which latter event the sheriff may
be called in to make settlements.
THE HERALD does not believe
freight rates will ever again reach
the points touched before the late
drop. The charges have been out
rageously exorbitant, and while
railway corporations may not have
"souls," the companies will hardly
be able 10 make any lasting COM
bination or pooling arrangement
that will return rates to the old
figures. Merchants, therefore, had
better call halt on ihen3elycs be-
fsrs il is too late,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-14
~uR DAILY HERALD is published

THR DAILY HERALD is published
every morning. Mondays excepted, at
Esst Temple Street, near First South,
Salt Lake City by the HERALD PRINT
ING and PUBLISHING COMPANY, Sub
scriptior price $10.50 per snum, post
age included; parts Of the year at the
same rate. To weekly subscribers,
collections made by carriers, twenty five
cents week.
THE SEMI WEEKLY HERALD is
published every Wednesday sud Sat-
urday morning, at $3.50 year; six
months, $1.75; postage included.
THE WEEKLY HERALD is published
every Thursday morning, at So. year;
Elk months, $1.25 postage incluned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23
WOMEN IN 4 UNIVERSITY TOWN.



Cakes and ale ont of the May Term at Cambridge
is certainly an innovation since my time ne Au-
tuInn Term was never the busiest, but u was uh-
hroken by the serious dissipation that has been
invading the place under cover of the Greek plays at
GIrton and in the Old rink transformed into GTeck
theatre, near the post-9ihce. COUSINS NsbI-
mothers all over the place, aud all got up
under the prctence of witnessing the OTeck play
to which not half OF them 60, ana not
half who vo 40 wit the " aid Of Hookham
Ffere's excellent translation. An old Don sald I"
me What's the consequence of these Greek plays
and other entertainments when threaten 10 ptSplio
chronic1 The men waste whole term. These
men for instancc-sOme of them good scholars who
ougbt TO be reading-haye been dancngand iOoLng
ahout in their character of birds ever since they
came M and the frskiness thus begotten Will last
=. You take a gloomy view, | said, of what is
after all the most severe and scholastic form Oh
severe and scholastic! Rubbish! The ma n
incentive is the women O.,
What do YOU mean I" | asked in astonishp ent
There Is not u woman actor on he stage IN Inc
Birds and the Girton girls wont allow any men
except their papas and tutors. =,
Look at the women III the stats, gToWied inc
erustv old fellow; tell you they are at the bot
tom Of it, They UiH have amusement, and they are
disappointing the university, o;, % vo,, dor,t
surely mean that the presence OF lew rOsy-chcekcd
wide-eyed cousins and sisters, who come mp Tor
lay or two to peep INTO their brothers eoHege
rooms, AMI soften lhcH Hidhhcl'' "''oi t'''O ~
The oracle of tho combination room laid his arm
unnn mine and lowering his voice more cOniiden-
tally as a young Don with lady on his arm, i0l-
lowed by q nurse with baby, passed by, SAID ::
Listen yis not the outsiders Ills the local WON
al, have done il. There two sides to these
new-fanglod marriages of Fellows; DO you see
}arer. niece. and saw what is called st. Andrews
terrace. Who lives there, and who lives further
or. ali the way up to the sta,ion-and who lives
"Iundcrstand," | sald. "All these new buildings
have sprung up in consequence of the womenf
"Just so; directly and indirectly; the place
svarms Will, them: even the GirtOn and
NewnLau, movement contributes to the confusion.
Where women are men will flock; and where men
are women will flock if they can get an excuse re-
oardless of their protesting to desplso mankind
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23
1 rR4GLc pR1lrICAL JOKE.
Soyfagd,ld. ohio Later 70 me Pinsb,rg Dispatch.
L -. 1, AI,u.-url n nnInl mnchnmlC

Spriagdsld Ohio Later 70 me Ptnsbtrg DtsPdieh
Henry +. Milward, Il noted mechhilIoa ~
engineer and EXPERT committed suicide ia tils 'Iy V
soturlay last some weeks ago MllWWd. VINO Mas VI i"
Jolly nature aud had great relish Tor piaruChi Johus ~
sisted by "A number of friends. constructed duihH
corpse out Of bundle of towels ANA pillows hu 'u ~
ON bed I'm the Arcade Hotel IN this city inc ooI "9
carefully dnrkcned and the dummy coNtreh W.. 80
A pasteboarl head with lrutcsucly atnu Ichli,s va
attached 10 the body To he III pam Tlghl Wucu VIZ
sheet should nc rcmn When all was ready le Ilolt
was circulated through the city by the JokcrS that
drummer had committed suicide at the hOtcl ai pro
trarrd spree and that hia body was dnpositu III t
No 81 the Arcade Hotel The report HIIuCl'',
dreds citizens, including tho coroner VINO Wele pi
ND 10 the by one, ana the EIole7pu 80
hihitrd 10 them The sell lasted whOie uhy anu Iu
ducod end Of merrtmont, gcnefaIly ohns I" NV F
son fooled treating ,he crowd ,,,, .,u,.,,., -, n
few weeks later Miward shOt hlulscll WI ~
brain after "a weeks absence on uIlnhhk aptl' ~ .'IO
Arcade building the mock tragedy aud real trastuy
responding In every particular mo hlS"' y,ac s,,v
words with hIs roommatc, went 20 sleep ne nttcr
heard him sObbing during the might Dut thouRnt @ @
OF IT, aud never him again utll ne ehlcCn to lii,
the next day and found him gasping hlS St Nun ha
I'm his head. The surroundings shower tnhI tho u ~
goen nm dressed himself, and after lying uowh On INC
lnnnge fad deliberately shot himself In the NEAL -,
The remarkable part OF the case was UNI ~ A. n,r,,
eide Tailed with that or the pretended suclue III wy
narticulnr The time OF day the same the ~eapoh
tbe same the place the same, ana the w0unu tue
The cOroners jury decided tat hehlai 1,bt that
the cause of tho suicide there can be no doubt t
brooding over mock tragedy suggested ana WAS "o
cause OF the real one. H. -, .or,d ,ride re-
Henry H. Millwsd came Of family OF wotId~iuo 10
nown In engineering pursuits lie was l0Iinery o,,,
ployed engineering works Tor tne IN nos
tons In this country, being man OF the hghest neoh
nd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-23

cylindrical region of darkness from fifty to hum
dred miles so II diameter and see the impossible
ity that when the observer is on the extreme east
ern side and on the extreme western side OF that
Swallowed region he should see the same appearance
IN the air. or anywhere but in a region many MILL
ions Of miles away, around the sun. Add the inn
possibility that at stations two three hundred
miles apart the same appearances are seen, and not
only seen but pictured b. the unerring pencil OK
photography
Yet it must be admitted that certain interpreta-
ton of the corona solar appendage is so full OF
difficulties that one cannot wonder at IFS having
proved n stumbling block to many. l mean the
view that the corona is a solar atmosphere. The ex-
stence of gaseous matter in the does not any
more prove, as some seem to imagine that the
corona is an atmospheric envelope than the exist
ence of gaseous matter in comets. demonstrated over
and over again, proves that comets form an atmOs-
pheric envelope of the sum- The whole aspect of tho
corona seems to me to show Enthusiastically that tho
several parts of that solar appendage are as FREQ
from atmospheric association with the sun as are
meteor streams and the heads and tails of comets. L
doubt even for my own part whether what we call
the visible surface of the sun indicates the extern
sion OF continuous solar atmosphere to that dis
lance from the suns centre. And that the sierra
(which some still call the ehromosphere" word
as correct and pleasing as "phOgraph" 10 a class
zeal earl is not really an atmospheric envelope. in
the correct sense of the expression, clear when
we consider its depth, and the nconcevable press
ures which would exist at the base of such an at
mosphere under the solar gravity, exceeding moro
than twenty fold that at the earth's surface.
If DR.. Huggnss photographs of the corona arc
real the doubts Of those not capable of under
standing the Photographic evidence already OBJ
tanned will be dispeed; and to question the solar
nature of the will be- held obviously alb
surd as it would be in the presence of the daily
study of the solar prOmnences to maintain that they
are only phenomena of dIiractOn.
RICHARD A. PRoCToR.