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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02
How Did Maine Get Its Name I

In a paper read before the American
Antiquarian Society Hamilton R.Staples
said that the name of Maine was given
to that State descriptively, since in the
original charter it was considered 1.-THE
Mayne Land of New England" Mr..
William II. Smith writes to the Portland
Press, quoting this assertion and say
ing: 81 have heard that our State has
been named for Frankfort-on-the-Ma Maine;
for the Province of Meyne, in France.
Williamson says, Volume l., Section 4,
of his history, ''that the Maine was
called Mavoshen or Mavooshen by an
cient yoyagers and writers. In .Purchas'
Pilgrims Mr.. Haklynt describes it to be
"a country lying to the north and east of
Virginia between the degrees of 43 and
As. 1t is forty leagues broad and fifty
in length, lying in breadth east and
west, and in length north and south. II
is bordered on the east side with a
country. the people whereof they call
Tarrentines; on the west with Ephistoma;
on the north with great wood called
Senagloconna, and on the south with
the main ocean, sea and many islands.
In Mavooshen it seemeth there are nine
rivers, the westeumost of which is
Shawacotoc (Saco). At the head OF
this river, to the northwest, there is q
small province which they call Croke-
mayo, wherein is one town, probably
the Indian Peywaket.' I"
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American Manners in Travelling.

An English snob, named Robinson,
writing about his visit over here, de-
scribes certain bad habits as character
izing the travelling Americans generally,
leading to the idea that at least nine out
of every ten Americans. when travelling
grab their food, and gorge and snort in
ways too hideously unpleasant for repe-
tition. This is tetotally denied by Mr..
Richard A. Proctor, the English traveller
and lecturer, than whom few persons
have had such extensive opportunities
of learning the manners of different
peoples, especially in travelling. He
answers Mr.. Robinson as follows:
Il believe the truth to be that the
American system leads to diminution
of otherwise prevalent bad habits-for
ninety-nine hundredths of the so-called
lower class in America will not suffer
any inferiority to be shown in their
habits in the presence of those whom
they regard as no otherwise better than
in having more money to spend. But
be this as it may, fair, unbiased COM
parison of the manners of the travelling
community, class for class, or compar-
ing the whole number of travellers, would
show that-in some way or another-a
marvellous superiority has arisen on the
other side of the Atlantic. Such offenses
are the stolid, stupid staring so common
in England, even among well-to-do peo-
pie, rudeness to women or children.
carelessness as to the comfort of the old
and weak, ETC., are scarcely ever seen
on the other side of the Atlantic. If I
were an American, with what pride in
my port, defiance in my eye should 1
be tempted to boast that young, mex
perienced and pretty girl, poor or rich,
in her teens, can travel across the length
and breadth of the United States alone
and unprotected, not only in perfect
safety and comfort, but with the GER
tainty that nine-tenths of the men-of all
classes-with whom her journey brings
her into contact, esteem it equally a duty
and pleasure to assist her in every pos
sible way. How contemptuously might
be tempted to remind the Briton that
for reasons too well known-the most
courteous and well meant proffer of as
sistance to such traveller in England is
apt to be looked upon with suspicion. On
the Continent, and especially in France,
it is even worse"
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THROUGH A BROKEN BRIDGE.
Three Persons Killed and Twenty -one In
jured by the Fall of Train Through q
Broken Bridge at Fort Edward, n. Y.
FoRr EpwARp. N. y. Oct.

FORT EDWARD, N. Y, Oct. -
Train No. Z, on the Glens Falls Branch of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,
went through bridge over Glens Falls
feeder to the Champlain Canal, eighty rods
north of Fort Edward. The engine crossed
the bridge, but the baggage and passenger
car went down into the water, a total
wreck. About twenty passengers were
aboard. The following are the killed and
wounded
killed-Da]las Crippen, Glens Falls; Mr..
Wincop, Gloversville; Mrs. Michael Mono
han. Glens Falls. Wounded-B. THESE, ia.
tally injured; Thomas f. Connors, Glens
Falls, legs broken and shoulder sprained;
Patrick Howard, fireman, badly injured in
ternally; Thomas Brady, brakeman, Glens
Falls, leg broken, internal injuries; John
jenkins, conductor, face and head badly
cut; Edward Deal, engineer, cut about the
head; Mrs. B. THESE, Fort Edward, arm
broken and head badly cut; Mrs. L. w.
Rowland, Fort Edward, head and side in.
jured; Miss Tisdale, White Hall, injured
slightly about the chest; Thomas Loomis,
baggageman, shoulder sprained; Charles
Shelters, expressman, shoulder dislocated;
Charles Calestraki, foot burned and head
cut; James Loomis Sandy Hill, bruised and
cut; James c. Mcintyre, Ticonderoga, N.
y, leg broken and injured internally;
Abraham Wing, Fort Edward, head and
neck cut; Mrs. c. w. Carr, Fort Edward,
cut about the head and body bruised N.
Goldsteinpack, Glens Falls, badly cut about
the head; jacob Goldstein, slightly in
jured; John Fl. Messick, proprietor Of the
Albin Hotel, Saratoga, head and chest in
jured; Mrs. Florence Stoddard, Fort Ed
ward, injured about the limbs and head;
John Cashion, Glens Falls, conclusion of
che spine. Every person on the train was
injured except the newsboy, Eddie White,
Of Lake George.
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TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.


Two Cars with Their Loads OF Human Be
ings Overturned and Dragged Along the
Track OF the louisville q Nashville Air
Line Road Near St. Louis-Upwards of
Sixty Persons Seriously Injured, Some
Probably Fatally.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. q. :
The morning through train on the Air
Line from Louisville to this city, met with
= serious accident. The train had passed
Belleville, and was within five or six miles
OF East st. Louis, when broken rail on
the track threw the two last coaches, that
is the passenger coach and the sleeper.
Louisville, from the track. The train was
running at the rate of thirty-five miles an
hour, and the two coaches were upset and
dragged some distance on the ground, when
the coupling parted and they were de-
tached from the forward part of the train.
Both coaches were full of passengers, and
the scenes presented immediately af.
ter the accident were terrible in
the extreme. The passengers were
thrown violently forward and to the
side of the coaches, and were massed in a
confused heap Of mangled, bruised and
bleeding men, women and children. The
interior fixtures of the coaches were broken
and torn to pieces by the violence of the
fall and served only to wound the unfor.
tunate people in the cars. The toward part
of the train was backed to the spot as soon
as the accident was discovered, and the
work of extricating the wounded was
promptly and efficiently undertaken by the
railroad employees and the uninjured passen.
gers. Scarcely an occupant of either one of
tho coaches escaped without cuts
and bruises, but the number of ia
tnlitics was so small as to be al
most miraculous. The cars were literally
covered with blood, which was flowing pro.
fusely from cuts, and IL was at first thought
that the loss of life was very great So far
rs learned, only one person, gentleman
from Providence named Anthony, was ia
tally injured. His skull was crushed and
cut so badly as to make his recovery almost
impossible. The wounded were brought at
pnce to this city and medical aid was sum.
moned. A brakeman had his leg broken,
several passengers were injured internally
and many others were cut and bruised in q
terrible manner. 4 ~ 49,
1t is impossible to tell the full extent of
the fatalities at this writing, but report
states that there will he large number. At
least sixty people suffered injuries of vari.
Gus kinds and more or less severe in the
wrecking of the coaches. One woman,
whose name could not be learned, had her
scalp torn almost entirely from her head.
Tho number II people with broken bones
aud cuts makes up record of heartrend-
ing suffering. Fortunately most of the
children were taken from the debris with
only slight injuries. As one passenger re.
marked, 1t was simply wonderful that 80
many escaped immediate death.
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How a Ghost Prevented an Elopement.

Yet sometimes parents do succeed in
nipping elopements in the bud, as the
following case proves: A young fellow
from the country, whose finances were
con siderably wrecked by his extrava-
gance and dissipation, fell in love with
a beautiful country maiden, whose stern
parents vehemently protested. One
night they met and planned an elope-
ment. The spot they had selected as
trysting place was an old graveyard,
and the hour near midnight. The girl
was obstinate and would agree to no
definite plan, while the lover was plead
ing impetuOusly. Suddenly a groan
was heard among the white grave-stones,
and from behind one of them arose a
ghostly form. 1t glided toward them.
Neither could move, but, paralyzed with
fear, were glued to the spot. On, on,
steady on, came the moving figure.
The eyes seemed to flash fire, while the
bones ratified like crazy castinets. When
within few feet of the couple the figure
raised its hand, and pointing threaten
ingly toward the lover, Kissed: Begone,
you want nothing but the girls money.
say, BECOME"
The brave lover slid upon his knees
and promised to 60 if he was allowed.
Ten seconds were given him to get out
of sight, and he got. OF course the
girl fell over in swoon and tainted.
Then the old man threw off the sheet
that had enveloped him, dropped the
old cow-bones that had made such a
rafting, rubbed the PHOSPHORUS of
his face, and taking his daughter in his
arms carried her home. The youth left
the country and the girl is as gentle as a
cooling dove.
Men frequently elope for reasons
that will not bear as close q scrutiny as
those which actuate women, who are
more often dupes than adventuresses.
A young man of good prospects and
fair character has every thing in his
favor, so that the necessity of elope-
ment is done away with Cincinnati
E,i0nirer
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The ae,o,t C.se

The State Board Of Railroad Commits.
ioners recently heard a re-argument in
What is known as the Beloit case, Governor
Brown, of St. Louis, representing the Mis-.
souri, Pacific Railroad and A. H. Ellis the
complainant. At the same time the com
olaint from the Mayor and Council of
Cawker City was submitted to the Com
nissioners. Some additional evidence was
submitted by Governor Brown on behalf
If the company. The chief object of the
argument was to postpone the going into
effect OF the decision as to rates until the
9Th of November. 1t appears that a meet
ng and conference between the Commits.
yioners and the managers of all lines
operating in Kansas has been arranged be-
sween the Board Of Commissioners and the
railway company, on the 9Th of November.
Tor the purpose of arranging plan for the
equalization Of rates, and agreeing upon
revised schedule Of rates on all the lines in
The State. 1t is expected that at such con-
ference the Commissioners and the man.
ayers and freight agents can arrange and
agree upon schedules of rates and system
IF classification that will embrace such sub
stantial reductions in the present rates on
all the lines operating in the State as will
be fair to the railroads and just to the peo-
pie, and that by this method the people
will reap the immediate benefits of such
equalization and revision without havingto
wait the slow and tedious process of law.
The Missouri Pacific Company asked
70 have the Beloit decision suspended
until the meeting, and a system, uniform
all over the whole State, arranged. After
hearing the arguments the Board adopted
the following: In the matter of reopen.
ing the Beloit decision, the Board, after
hearing the arguments by consel on both
sides, desire two, or possibly three, days
for the purpose of examining the statistics
presented, and will advise the parties in
interest within that time of their final con.
clusion. In the meantime the decision
heretofore rendered in the case will be sus.
pended; and, further, that the investiga-
ton of the General Managers of the roads
to meet the Commissioners on November
9, next, to agree upon equitable freight
rates upon all roads in the State is accepted.
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The secret pied with Him.

PIrTsBURGH. PA. d, Oct. e.
The telegram from st. Louis stating that
q new clew had been found to Charlie Ross
has been corroborated by the statement
made by a gentleman here from Wyoming
Territory, who says that Henry Mosher,
brother Of the Mosher who admitted kid.
mapping Charlie Ross, was lynched near
Cheyenne five weeks ago. Mosher begged
that his life should be spared twenty-four
hours, and said he would give the world in
formation for which IL had been seeking for
years past. He admitted having custody
Of person held for ransom for more than
q year and said he had been driven TO the
far West by the hot pursuit Of detectives.
Time was not allowed and the secret died
with him
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

The machinery ofthe Government for the
punishment of fraud and the protection OF
disabled soldiers aud the parents, widows
and orphans of soldiers has been set in
vigorous motion, and as the first result
fifteen pension attorneys and firms
were recently suspended by Secretary
Teller from practicing before the Depart
ment. 1t is reported that further develop
ments are 20 be made which "will startle
the country.D
HE official report made TO the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue says the organ
zation of Red Men in West Virginia is not
engaged in violation of the internal reve-
nue. laws.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office is gradually reducing the number of
land offices as the opportunity arrives. The
Office at Des Moines, Iowa, will soon be
abolished, and others viii soon follow.
SINCE September 1, the Postoffice Depart
ment has furnished to postmasters 200, 926,-
l64 postage stamps, $685., 600 stamped en-
velopes and 1895, $50 postal cards, or a
total of A., 27l OLA pieces, of the aggregate
value of SS,520, $40. This enormous issue
was made upon 114,061 acquisitions from
postmasters.
1T is said that England has sent note to
France, complaining of the prolonged oc-
cupation of Tamatave, Madagascar, to the
injury Of commercial interests.
The Universalist General Convention
begun its annual session in Washington
City on the oath. The Woman's Centen-
nary Association held session in connec.
ton with the General Convention.
WILLIAM YOUNG, President Of the Com
mercial National Bank Of Reading, Pa,
recently confessed judgment in favor of
the bank for $72,357.12. Young borrowed
money from the bank for some time for
speculative purposes, and when the notes
became due he was unable to meet them.
HEAvY SHOWS have recently fallen in the
New England and Northwestern States.
A LATE fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, DESTROYED
Munderf's planning mill and one million
feet Of lumber, together with FIVE dwelling
houses and furniture. Loss, $4,000; par
tally insured.
IN the section Of country around Green's
boro, n. C., it Is thought diphtheria has
carried or no less than three hundred chill.
dren- So alarming was the condition of
Affairs for . time that there was q quaran-
tine by the people in some counties.
/, WILLIAM SrRATNAx Of the arm Of Strait
man & Meyer, livery stable keepers, and q
well-known local politician, OF st. Louis,
recently suicided by hanging himself in his
stable. Financial losses the cause.
FRAEcIs J. KELLEY, aged only seventeen
years, was recently arrested in Illinois and
taken back to Rockport. Ind, where he had
, murdered a man named Arnet, while the
latter was asleep.
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Incendiarism in st. Paul.

ST.. PAUL, MINI, Oct. q.
Shortly after midnight the livery stable
of Peter Burkey burned All the horses
and carriages were saved. Loss, 5000;
fully insured. While the fire department
was engaged az this fire an alarm was
turned in from Third and Wabash, one of
the principal blocks OF the city, and c. b.
Thurston & Sons carriage and farm imple-
ment warehouse and sales-room was totally
destroyed. A number of other buildings
were damaged by water. Tburston's loss
on building Is 5000; stock, $50, 900; It is
believed TO be fully insured. A number OF
incendiary fires have been started in the
city the past week, and these are believed
to be the work of the same gang.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02
THE PENSION BUREAU.
commissioner Dudley Recognizing the
Examiners ana the Interior Department
About to Decapitate n Batch of Swind-
ling Claim Agents.

ling Claim Agents.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. %
Commissioner Dudly is recognizing the
force of special examiners of the Pension
Bureau, so as to facilitate the handling of
cases and the detection of fraud. The
methods of fast work will be continued in
the future, but it is expected that results
will be improved. There are now $50 ex-
aminers IN the field and twenty others
ready to begin work. The Commissioner
says tina. $50 examiners can be profitably
employed. The most troublesome class of
claims for investigation and settlement are
those resulting from disease, OF which 49,
o69 were outstanding on the beginning of
the fiscal year. Commissioner Dudley says
that the Government is not imposed upon
by fraudulent claims to nearly the same
extent as persons honestly entitled to PEN
sions are imposed upon by swindling claim
agents. From time to time, as often as
fraudulent practices by these agents have
been detected, the Commissioner has
lodged complainst against the offenders be.
fore the Secretary of the Interior. Many
of these rogues have been disbarred, and
some by hard work have succeeded in be.
ing reinstated. Secretary Teller, il is said
has not been so prompt in disposing of the
cases OF those persons against whom COM
plants have been made as is desired.
To-day, however, action was taken
cases of all pension agents recon.
mended for suspension by Colonel Dudley
Tor irregularities in their practice before
the pension office, and il Is understood that
all requests of Commissioner Dudley for
suspension were agreed &c.
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recognize, the fact that this can be secured

recognize the fact that this can be secured
by maintaining its revenues so as to afford
| fair compensation for the service per.
formed. As was stated In the original de-
cision, the law requires just proportionate
rates TO be charged along the line of the
road, and that change at one point would
necessitate re-adjustment of the rates at
other points. The most equitable results
win be attained by providing that a revised
schedule of rates in conformity to the de.
cision of the Board, go into effect at the
same time the decision is made to apply to
the point from which the complaint comes.
1t will require some time to accomplish this
adjustment, which the law seems to contem-
plate must be made. Besides,
the general managers Of the diff
ferent railroads in the State,
through committee appointed by them at
their meeting held on October IL, 1888, have
requested to meetth Commissioners on the
9th day of November next, for the purpose
of adjusting equitable freight rates on their
respective lines, to which request the
Board acceded; and in view of this meet
ing and in order to avoid complications
which would inevitably arise if the decision
were Immediately to go into effect at Beloit,
and the Board believing that the best re-
suits will be obtained to the people of the
whole State by such meeting and confer
ence, and a postponement of the taking ef-
feet of said decision until such meeting in
November, at which it is believed fair ad-
justmenl of rates can be arrived at at all
points, without waiting the slow process of
successive adjustments under complaints,
it is ordered that the time for posting SEIZED,
ules of rates under the decision be post
poned to the 10th Of November, 1Ss2
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02

DALLAS. TEX, Oct. n.
Deputy United States Marshal Gerrin to.
day lodged in jail Jack Brock, J. Z. Terry
and J. c. Terry, the alleged robbers who
robbed the Henrietta and TT. Sill stage near
the first named place on the 18th inst
They were captured near Wichita Falls BY
Gerrin, 8. n. Pistt and ]. c. Plat. The
robbers took fifty-six dollars In money from
the passengers, also two watches ana
other valuables. They also secured reg
istered package containing sixty-hve dot
lars. The officers claim to have proof posi-
tive of the guilt Of the prisoners. A Con.
federate twenty dollar bill, 10 monte deck q
cards and the two watches were founo o
their person and Identified
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02

n WASHINGTON special states that
he last bond call seems to have hit the
banks pretty heavily. but this was not
unexpected, rs many Of the new insti-
utions seemed to have a blind hope that
something would turn up to prevent
he calling of the Thrce-pcr-ccnts, and
go took them. even at n premium, rather
han pay the heavy premium for the
tours. The Comptroller Of the Cur
'cncy hail urged bankers to buy Fours
Tor year. but they took the chances,
and many Of them will have difficulty
N finding the long bonds now. except
oy Offering an inducemcnt which will
oring them out Of their hiding places.
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A Stolen Hog and a Double Tragedy.

MACON, GA, Oct q.
News is received of bloody affair in
Wilkinson County. A negro named Joe
Holden, hunting, discovered another negro
butchering hog belonging to white man
named Clay. Holden reported the fact to
Clay, who, with two white men, armed with
doubled-barreled guns, went TO the house
of the thief, not finding him. His wife re-
fused to tell his whereabouts. Clay knocked
her down and the party left. On the way
home two sons Of the negro woman and an
ex-convict named Cooper armed themselves
and pursued the white party. Overtakina
them they fired, killing Holden instantly.
Clay returned the fire, killing Dick Cooper
and wounding the other two.
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COMPTROLLER Knox was recently
asked whether he thought there would
De any objections To his proposition to
allow the National Banks to use foreign
bonds a. part Of the basis of circula-
ion, TO meet the difficulty arising from
he growing scarcity Of our securities.
Hcsaid he supposed there would be a
difference Of opinion about IL. Of course.
Still the English and Germans had for
years held large quantities Of our bonds,
and he did not SEQ why we should not
1uy some of theirs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02

A CAT was the means Of saving the
life of the Captain Of canal boat. his
wife and four small children. at Fair
Haven, Conn, the other night. The
boat was from Baltimore with eight
thousand bushels of oysters on board.
The heavy load strained the boat and Il
look TO leaking. All the family were on
board asleep, when they were reused
rom slumber by the frantic cries of the
'at The boat sunk five minutes later
IN deep water, those ON board barely
,scapinp.