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PTTH OF THE NEWS.
EYENTS ~ W~ASHINGTON

Washington special: Col Tourelotte,
the staff Of the general ofthe army, received
a lie tier from General Sherman recently,
written at one of the stopping places 70
YELLOWSTONE Park. The general said the
accident to Chief Justice Waite occurred
when they we're going mp a hill A saddle
slipped back and the horse began acting
badly, and succeeded in throwing the chief
Justice. He was shocked considerably, but
the members of the party and the judge
himself thought the injuries sustained
were not serious enough to prevent mis-
continuing the trip. Judge Waite decided to
return east, however, In order to allsy the
apprehension of the members of bis family,
who would probably be alarme ed by ez-
aqgerated reports Of the accident.
The president has directed an army rs-
firing board to convene at Fort Smelling
MINI, the headquarters Of the depa It
meni of Dakots, on Aug. 16. Capt. Chas.
Steele Hammer, Fifteenth infantry, will ap-
pear before the board for examination for
retirement.
The first victim under the order Of the
postmaster general prohibiting postmssters
Of the higher grades from being absent from
their posts without leave, is Lyman NJ. Gates
Of Kalamazoo, Mich. He was suspended
to take effect when his successor is appoint
ed.
Col. Guido Ilges, eighteenth infantry, has
been directed to return to his station at
Fort Assinniboine, NJ. T., and remain there
in arrest pending the promulgstion o. the
proceedings of the general court-martial in
his case
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The income of the government for The
asst fiscal year was $685., 1895, $50 or near
v s. a head for every inhabitant of the
United States. The expenditures
amounted to S265, 56s ,Os1, an increase OF
SIS, 200 over the T gular expenses OF
1882, making the surplus revenue $780,
770.4S3. 1t is very clear that the reve-
nue. ought to be reduced and the expen-
ses c~urtailed, but there is not much dis
position among politicians to grapple
with the subject with q view to radical
reform. There is nothing that inspires a
legislator with more iubilant feelings,
save, perhaps, the success of his own
party, than an overlooking treasury. He
likes to have a hand in its depletion,
whether it be for public or private ben
eft.
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A Desperote Encounter with Bur
RIars.

A SPECIAL from Wisconsin Junction, Wis,
says: Lorenzo Crandali, keepe. Of the farm
ers' cooperative store and postmaster Of
the village, was attacked a.
his home on the % inst,
by three marked men, who rushed into the
sitting room while be was lying on thes sofa
taking 20 his wife. The men carried
cooked revolverS and ordered him 70 throw
up his hands. Crandall was lying on bis
back with bis hands IN bis pockets, in one
Of which he carried q revolver. Throwing
throwing himself upon the floor he
whipped out his pistol aud fred At the Lead
or, shooting him through the right breast.
Ons Of the assailants fired In re-
turn. the ball passing through the finger OF
Crandai's left hand The light vas put
out By the robbers, who fred hall a dozen
shots, one ball imbe1cinR itsoli IN Crandalla
night wrist. They fed. bat Crandsil followed
and being j0ined by friends be ran down
the leader " toe galR, Nno died 81 be
seized bin from the eaecis % The wound
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Iron : king in Pennsy .vania and eF-
erythins is made subsidary 90 that i'm
terest. During 1882 Penu-y.vania pro-
duced > 449, 256 tons Of pig iron, l,l25,-
SIS tons Of rolled iron and s50,9OS tons
oriron and steel rails, which was a little
more than half Of the product Of the en-
tire country. The rise and growth 0
the iron business in that state is a mat
er of general interest. The first iron
works were established in ZIG, but at
he outbreak Of the revolution there
we're only about sixty blast furnaces and
'ls-ges H. that state. After the war for
Independence the growth was more rap
!. but water-power was the only motive
agent until about fifty years ago, when
..eam-power was introduced into gener-
use. Not many years after another
great change in the industry was effect
a by the substitution Of anthracite and
Ui~tuminous coal for charcoal, the bitu'
minous being now generally preferrea
for blast furnaces.
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u il amusing to read some Of the
nObbish papers which assumes to be
te especial guardians Of society"
They have nothing but sagared words
for inscriptions capitalists; they can
endure sock watering; the cOntin-
lcr- extensions ofa gigantic monopoly,
frequent reductions Of the pay OF
men and women who depend upon
labor requiring untiriDg industry for
the support ofthemselYes and fam.
lies without murmurizg-but when
these people driven desperate by heart
less corporations, threaten 20 strike.
they are informed, that If they strike
for al sdyanoe OF pay and a reduction
Of bours q labor they must accepI
vhat society at large always gives e
those who defy or rob H." II society
enter,ains these views and purfc shs, %
eety l. peculiarly stupid and selfish
But society" IL not composed Of a Os'
only who have the power and disPosi
ton % cypress others, bat q vast mum
bers 4 good men and women, cbildre.
Ammon Father who recognize D
ome trtent the GINS Of human broth
no -
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The tendency to exaggeration in re-
ports of storms, cyclones, and kindred
occurrences, is almost universal, espec.
tally when these reports are written or
conveyed by witnesses to those who did
not see what is described. The &C
counts Of terrifying scenes may be strict
" true, but when 1t comes
10 actual damages they may be mon
-trers -x-sgqerations AZ vas the case in
tine cyclone OF a week ago. Under a
clear sky and bright sunshine a careful
enumeration Of personal casualties and
loss OF property, showed a wonderful
.hrinkage from estimates made amidst
the terrors Of the scene or Immediately
thereafter And .his is almost univer'
sally the case. OF course the actual loss
Of life, and injuries to person and prop
erty are TO be deplored but eXaggerat'ou
does nothing but harm 70 ali concerned
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he received in the house. The Others es-
capped. Crandall was presented with a
purse of money by the citizens and res
o~lutions ~applauding his bravery were
passed to-day at a mass meeting. Gran
dali had only $50 in his possession
when attacked. The burglar shot is IN
known
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The representative Of the Western Press
Association numbering about eighty per
sons, arrivei in 81. Paul Thursday evening,
&c route 70 the Northern Pacific, and were
dined and wined. They came through
from Chicago IN about eleven hours and 3
hall,
senator Crane Of Kansas oass~1 the Ma
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ThOma Barbour ba Re adieu 70 benedic-
ia Price at Liverpool twenty-eight years ago
and came to America to seek his fortune.
He found II, and she arrived in Philsdel-
phia this week on the steamer British
Crown. and found Thomas waiting TO re-
ceive and marry her.
On the Sd a crowd assembled atthe Jail at
Marysville, La. and demanded the keys
from the sheriff, who refused. They then
broke in the door, and took out ID. w.
Preset, under arrest for rape on a girl Of
nine years, and hanged him in the u
house yard.
Oliver Northcote, son of Sir Stafford
Northcote, who recently married a daugh-
ter of ex-secretary Fish, is TO be appointed
secretary of the British legislation at Wash
ington.
Chief Justice Waite writes that he is rap
idly recovering from the injuries sustained
by his accident.
Mai. Maginuis thinks that Montana's
present prospects for admission are slen-
der.
The treasury cattle commission in their
report say that, after examining Al
great stockyards and feeding stables Il a
Kansas City, Council Bluffs and OMAN 70
the seaooard, they have been unable TO = ind
a single case Of foot and mouth dis Rse
complained OF.
The wreck OF the ooliding fre.ght tHtins
on the Troy & Boston railroad, near 70 va
all. VI, has been cleared and bodies, be
lieved TO be those Of Mark Sutherland,
| e~pgineer; II. H. Bruce, Operator, aud Char
les Marden, engineer, found, burned fright.
fully. The remaining three bodies are still
missing, and believed to have been reduced
TO ashes. Loss $4,000.
The eolored citizen voters ofst. Paul have
chosen the folio wing delegates to the state
convention, which will be held in 81. Paul
Aug. 20: II. p. Wade. ]. II. Hickman n.
ii. LYLE, Fielding Combs, Thomas Jetier-
son. II. Reynolds, Harry Poward, g.. ..
Allen, Nelson Taylor, James Bannister, ~
II. Tabbert and George Morton. The con-
vention on the 10Th will choose delegates
to the national convention Of colored mel
In Louisville.
About . o'clock on the morning q the
ga an attempt was inside by two men "a
entes the store OF Hoace Bigelow A. Grove
Lake, MINI. This burglars tried botn
vindows and the door, when Mr.. blgeior
fred I've shots from MS rev liver, "hiqp
oause1 the would. be robbers 10 run
DIR. Young OF Waseca has reoeiVea nAeA
snsion 70 the amount Of Is 600.
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NEUS or THE R~4ILROADS

The loss by the burning of the Northern
OAK, on the Goth, is estimated at $4,000.
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Exact returns of the nationality Of all
the Union soldiers in the late war show
that the native Americans numbered
l,52S. 800 or 74.4s per cent. Of the whole.
or three-quarters as nearly as may be
the Germans 1896, or $40 per cent
the Irish 144, 200, or ia per cent; Brit
ish Americans IS, 800, or 2.65 per cent;
English $500, or 2.26 per cent; all
other foreigners Sc 800. or 81 per cent.
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The Financial Chronicle prints some
figures about railroad earnings during
the first six months of the year which,
so far as they go, indicate general pros
perity. In a long list, including nearly
all the principal roads Of the country,
there appears. with only twelve excep-
tiors, an increase Of gross earnings as
compared with the anne period last
year. Part Of the gain is, Of cour Sc, due
10 new mileage, but most oft must be
credited to the absence Of railroad wars
and the fullness of last years crops.
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Last Wednesday morning Ore broke out
in the row OF buildings opposite the post
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The estimate for the cotton crop OF
1ss2-'s3 places the yield at 100000
bales, which is 600 900 more bales than
was produced the preceding year.
This estimate is made in spite Of the
fact that the acreage Of this years plant
is I.55 less than that of the year before.
This comes in a great measure from
breaking up the plantation system, di-
vidiDg the large tracts into small farms,
where they are much better cultivated.
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9clO.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

his daughters body home. when ne
had been gone awhile, the house-dog
barked from under the table: 1.-THE old
mans daughter is being brought home
all in gold and silver, but the old wo-
mans daughter has no suitors." In
vain did the step-mother regale it with
cakes in order to make 1t change its
tune. 1t barked on as before When
the girl arrived in all her glory the step
mother was at first astounded! Then,
after hearing what had occurred, she or
dered her husband to take her own
daughter out to the same spot in the
open field and leave her there. He
obeyed. Presently Frost appeared and
addressed the girl as he had addressed
her predecessor; but no good words
could he get from her, so he flew into
a rage and froze her to death. When
her mother sent for her after time, the
house dog beneath the table again be-
gan to bark, this time exclaiming: "Suit-
Ors are coming for the old mans daugh-
ter, but the old woman's daughter is
bag of bones" The door opened, and
the girl was brought in dead. Her
mother wept and walled, but it was too
late.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06
he Stands bv the Pig.

The editor of the Germantown Tele-
graph has these excellent words to say
for the porkers;
The question is again raised as to
whether pork is wholesome or other
wise, some people declaiming against it
warmly as an article of food, ETC., though
they offer no solid reasons for their
opinion or belief. Now, so far as our
information and experience go, we can
regard such views as without the shadow
of foundation. Pork-eaters, who COM
prise nine-tenths of the population of
the civilized world, will scout at such
nonsense. For all persons of active
habits pork is just as wholesome as any,
thing else, and far more sustaining. II
is true that if too much of it is eaten at
time-in other words, if people will
make "hogs" of themselves-they will
have to suffer for it, as for an over-mess
of almost any other food. To discard
pork would be to discard one of the
main items going into our ''vital statis-
tics" What would become of the army
and navy, of our merchant marine, of,
in word, the great mass of our popu-
lation, if pork were to be thrown over
bodiu. l. uc ltiCt 10 oupltlucly dDSuIu
the abolition of this flesh as q prime
article of food would be just cause for a
sumptuary revolution. No, 90 on, we
pork eaters, among whom we number
ourselves, with craving stomach; boil
or broil your hams, pickle your sides,
cabbage and kraut your chimes, souse
your pigs feet, and enjoy yourselves
upon swine's meat to your hearts and
pockets content. Fling not dirt at the
grave, patient, acknowledgements, who
anticipates his fate with pleasure
which he cannot express in words, but
which he squeals to meet with the best
possible grace. He may not laugh, it
is true, but he grows fat without laugh
ing, so much more to his own credit and
to the profit of his friends, who literally
bestow upon him the wherewith to fare
sumptuously every day.
We shall stand by the pig He is the
patron of man. If he is generously
treated it is because he is expected to
return four-fold. If he is lazy it is be-
cause we give him nothing to do but to
eat, grunt, and sleep, having in view not
the good of the animal 1.-THE as much
as the hope of an affluent reciprocation
for all our kindness. Pork unwhole-
some! Nobody except lean, cadaver-
Gus, sedentary biped, who is obliged to
live, probably on account of early dissi-
patton, on Graham bread and weak tea,
would be guilty of such SANDER.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06
A Fragment Of Russian Folk Lore.

A certain woman had daughter OF
her own and step-daughter. She long
wished to get rid of her step-daughter.
At last she said to her husbands: ''Take
your daughter away from my sight; car
ry her wherever you like. Leave her in
the open field to the cracking frosts. !"
The father wept and walled, but at
length he yielded, placed his daughter
on his sledge, drove her out into the
open field and there deposited her,
Then. having crossed himself, he hasten
ed home, so as not towitness his daugh-
ter's death. The poor girl, left alone,
shivered and uttered silent prayer
Up came Frost and said: maiden,
maiden, am Red-nosed Frost" 'Good
day to you, Frost" she replied; II sup
pose God has sent you for my sinful
soul" Frost had intended to smite her;
but he was pleased by her way of speak
ing, so he took compassion on her and
threw her warm cloak. She wrapped
herself up in it and remained sitting
there. Twice did Frost come to visit
her, and each time she pleased Frost so
much by her sage replies that he made
her all manner of presents. She decked
herselfwith the gold and jewels he gave
her, and sat on the box which had con-
tanned them, singing songs. Meantime
her step-mother was baking cakes for
her funeral feast. When they were
ready she sent her husband forth to fetch
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06
Mr.. Gladstone's Tree-Felling.

/ see that Mr.. Gladstone was troubled
recently with lumbago, owing to having
caught cold when telling tree on wet
day. His family really ought to inter-
fere to prevent his exposing himself to
such very useless risks. He is IS years
old. A man of that age may be strong
and hearty, but his constitution cannot
be what il was, and does not throw OIL
easily any ailment. 1t is customary to
protest against Mr.. Gladstone overwork
ing himself in the House of Commons.
/ doubt whether it does him any harm
to sit there as many hours as he pleases.
and that to sit there many hours does
please him is unquestionable, for, so fan
as the business of the House is con-
cerned, he might be there half the TIME
that he is; while, if he would assume the
deus er mdchina, after the habit of Mr..
Disraeli, and only interfere with Qu0s
ego, instead of allowing himself to be
drawn into speech half a dozen times
in an evening, matters would go a good
deal smoother than they do. But fell
ing trees in wet weather at HawardeI
is very different thing to talking in b
warm chamber in London, and Mr.
Gladstone's life is far too valuable fol
him to be allowed to play pranks. Let
him leave the trees alone and apply the
axe to abuses. Any woodman can proba
bly, cut down tree at least as well ~
he can, while no statesman can ply the
axe so effectively in the Jungle of abuses
London Truth.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06
Gambetta's Power to do Battle With
Words.

The speech November, 1879 was
but just over an hour long. have al
ways been disposed to think it the
greatest single effort of oratory l ever
heard. Five years have passed and the
impression is hardly less vivid in my
mind than it was the next day, though
/ am only too well aware that the diff
Guilty of conveying it to others is vastly
greater with the lapse of time. The
broad outlines one can still reproduce;
the more delicate lights and shades of
that strangely picturesque scene are
hardly to be caught. l asked Gam
betta's friends, who had heard him Of
ten, if he had ever made a greater
speech. Never" was the uniform an
swer. He was then 80 years old, and his
oratory answered exactly and fully to
that maxim of the great orator of
Greece, who demanded first, second and
third as the condition of successful
speaking-energy. But / don't con-
ceive that any of us at that moment
thought of Gambetta as an orator. No
critical attitude could be taken or kept
until afterward. 1t is not meteorologi-
cal observations that you care about at
the hight of hurricane in mid-Atlantic.
The consummate art, the finish of die
ton, the argumentative weight, the per-
lection of delivery and method of speech
became impressive to you after the
speech was done. But at the moment
it was the tremendous sincerity, earnest
ness and force of the man which
absorbed everything else. 1t was not a
debate, it was battle, and this man
was leading the legions of France, his
life in his hand, and the life of the Re-
public bound up with his. That crowded
and brilliant assembly, those benches
where sat the Deputies of the Republic,
those galleries where the beauty and
chivalry of France, her youngest lowell
ness and her oldest nobility, were gath
ered-over all these passed the spell OF
that resistless eloquence and far more
resistless force of character, and of that
all-surrendering devotion which, during
that hour, inspired orator and audience
alike.-Geo. W. Snaalley in New York
Tribune.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06
Didn't Know.

He wanted to enter the boy at pub
lie school, and they asked the boys
age.
"How old is that boyp Well, let me
see. Them clothes he's got on are made
out of my wedding clothes. First John
wore 'em-he was my Oldest boy. He
got drowned when he was eleven years
old, and likely lad he was too. I don't
reckon that there ever was smarter
boy than that John of mine. He could
write his name and read out of a book
when he was ten years old, but he had
to 60 and get drowned. Jim was baby
then, there was three girls between him
and John, and when Jim growed up h.
wore 'em. This little Teller was nigh
onto two years oldwhen Jim he ups and
gets drowned. Jim wasn't much &C.
count nohow. kind of fool, took
more after his mother. That was-let
me see, how long ago was thatp Well
1 disremember exactly but it was along
about-no, it couldn't have been as long
ago as that"
'But how old is the boyp"
swell, don't know, you'll have t.
ask his mother,-Cin. Sat. Night.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

Farmers who burn green wood ar.
probably not aware of the waste of heat
The sap uses up-that is, carries off in a
latent state-a very large portion of the
heat produced by its carbon, or its dry
material. As much man and team
power is required to haul three or -four
cords of green wood as for six or eight
cords of dry wood. The lesson is: cut
the fuel, and split it as finely as it is t.
be used, in the grove; haul it home
when well dried, and keep it in a dry
place for use. 1t will be worth far NOR
for heating purposes than if burned
green, or wet, or damp even. The only
exception to this advice is, when by
reason of easier hauling on snow, and
on account of the leisure of men and
teams in Winter, it may be expedient tc
haul home the green wood then, but in
I'll cases let it be well dried before it is
lsed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

William Parsons, a Swede by birth,
who has lived twenty-nine years in Cal
ifornia, and is now making a visit in
Stockton, has written to the Hon. Thorn
as w. Palmer, of Detroit, for informa-
ton about land in Michigan. He an
nounces his intention of bringing to
this country in April, preferably to
Michigan, from 1900 to 1000 Swedish
families, provided he can secure tract
of land suitable for a colony of that size.
''f it were possible" he writes, II
would like to locate them somewhere
on waterfront so as to lay out town
and settle the farmers around it."
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

Herr Most appears to have blown all
the packing out of his ash-pan. At
last accounts he had dropped his eX-
haust and was working one side. Jo-
ham would be more dangerous if he
could make steam faster, but as it is, if
he is let alone, he will rant himself out
in ten days.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

A tie vote: When two people agree to
get married.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-04-06

BRowN's IRON BITTERs
will have a better tonic
effect upon any one who
needs "bracing up" than
any medicine made.
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new MAT NIRKET
HYesI SIC D yan slreel,
LAKE CHARLES, 1880. L0JIsE4N4

EAL1zESfs the demand and needing the
j Il popular cry for anofher meat market ir
Lake Charles, / have eIabarked 10 the busi-
ness, and opened d market a. Ryan street,
next 10 Lyons & Hager's ssiqon- ! shal
stltge TO furnish the hest meat 70 be had ~
tbs market, making the wants of my edstom-
ers 8 special study. Meat delivered free u
charge. Give Tne s t7ial.
We a2Af ACeURTEe LYONS
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Choice Town Property
FOR SALE.

RFsIDENCE and Fiye-aere Aais loea-
fA ted * the junction Of the Railroaa nnr
Ryau street IL addition 70 tAe Eesluelee <
prenises. There are % young orange Iees-
An III six hnadued doElsEs. Apply e
NV BRYAN, Agent.
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Residence for sale,

A CONYEas5ESF aad WsiI-ll genged cot
"A tage residence Two front rooms car
pessa E9' lq'sAss 9alsl.FlAsW III R{AS,
su ~ ~ gakf chEfss ~
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Session Of Law Department, begine NoEen
Der l3, 1852. Fun Courses IN Common and
Civil Law. -Four Professors and n students
during past sesFion For details, address
CARLETON HUNT LID, Dean.
aug5-lss2.
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Session Of Medical Department, commences
October IS, 1852 Full Medical Courses With
special advantages Nine Professors aud II I
Students i1 Medical Department during past
session Address for detaiis,
T. G. RICHARDSON, NJ. d., Deaa.
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A most deplorahle accident occurred
AZ Mansfield Do tha lTsh iass, ~ fhs
explosion of tbs locomotive Of
tic Mansfield Tap road, just a. the
train was about II pull oaa fpr she
junction with de New 0fleape Ard
Raeihe II resnllea ia she kiliiag aE
ilFse mcn With lqsssa saiagifs sa
5thegs