Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-06-21
WILLIAM BIssELL, Editor,
Dollar Edition.


hungry or thirsty.
Preparations for war between France
and China still 90 on, those in the latter
country being, it is said, upon grand
scale.
Luther Woodford, a farmer of Tee
umseh, has been arrested for selling
cider to Sunday school children until
they were intoxicated.
The Gar of Russia has granted free
dom of religious worship to the sects
which disse mt from the Greek or nation
al religion.
Steps are now being taken by the
government to acquaint itself with the
Typography and resources of the far
away territory of Alaska.
The Inter Ocean notifies the civil
service commission that any action de-
barring women from employment I'M
der the government will be met with a
decided protest.
notwithstanding the constant denials
which have come from over the sea
that Queen VictOria's health is visibly
falling, and to such an extent as to
cause serious alarm, there seems to be
grounds for believing it to be the truth.
On@a cliff near Rincon Point, in
Ventura County, Cal, the rocks are so
hot as to be unbParable to the naked
hand. Sulphur fumes are also nOticea-
BILE in that locality, and from all indi-
cations fierce fire is raging below the
surface.
World: Every voter in the land
should post himself on the tariff ques-
ton. 1t will occupy q prominent place
in the presidential canvass next year,
and it will then only be fairly intro
duced to the people as a question that
has come to stay with them.
The June rise is giving good deal
of trouble to st Louis people who live
or do business in some parts of the city
near the river. At the foot of Market
street, Saturday, the river was twenty
nine feet, six inches above low water
mark, and great many workmen were
employed in removing or securing prop
erty.
An exchange remarks ''that in heav-
an, it is said, there is more joy over one
sinner who repenteth than over ninety
and nine who have gone not astray."
1t is just the other way here below.
There is more JOY over one righteous
man who goes astray, than over ninety
Ynd nine thousand sinners who have
keot at it all their lives.
Capital 1t seems that the star route
martyrs are not yet at rest, The grand,
jury, Sat. returned another Indictment
against Thos. j. Brady, this time for a
single overt criminal act. Brady is
charged with taking bride. 1t is al
legged that in July, 1880, he awarded a
mail contract to j. B. Price, and IN
the NEXT November received 81 ,250 as
compensation thereof. He will, OF
course, be tried alone on the charge.
No conspiracy need be proven.
A telegram from London, England,
dated 10Th, inst, announcer the occur
renee of terrible calamity on the
evening of that day in Sunderland, coun-
IL Durham, in which one hundred and
eighty children were trampled to death
Theseccident occurred ut the close Of
an eRssrtainment given by coniurer,
which. was attended almost entirely by
childrea. Many. of the victims who
were not kasied outright had their clothes
torn from tksir bodies.
The most a4ssrked indications of al
impending tornado, says the New EorE
Herald, are the syltry, opprest condi
ton of the atmosphere, a peculiar still
ness that cannot fail to attract the at.
tent:on of those living ia the vicinity
and ut the same time the appearance Of
very peculiar cloud formations in the
northwest and southwest. These cloud,
gradually approach one another. and
out of the chaos chat follows their con
tact comes the great funnel-Shaped tor
nado cloud, the lower extremity o.
which traces out, like 3 great finger, the
track of the devastating whirlwind.
Peck's Sun: The only way to dea
with a liar is to beat him at his owr
game. What started this item wa.
reading about an American who haC
peen to Europe, and who was telling +,
friend who knew he YVES a liar, abou
bis trip across the Atlantic, and how
ON the %. h of the month they eneOun
tered swarm of locuSts, and the 10
Gusts carried off every stitch of canvas.
on the ship. The listener looked
fhoughtfully moment and thea saiC