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Morris tribune., 1883-03-07

Mrs. Hodges says. cannot too highly praise
Kidney WORT" says Mr.. Sam Hodges, Williams
town, W. Va SIT cured my terrible kidney disease.
My wife had to turn me over in the bed, before
Morris tribune., 1883-03-07
4. Z. STOKES
GREAT SAVING FOR FARMERS !

General Eastern Agent,
81 Clark St, Chicago, III.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14

sir" said, trying to look stately. 81
sent a message to you by your cousin,
which ought to have suficed any gen.
tleman"
He laughed disagreeably. ''Oh, when
young ladies write love- letters to gentle
men they can't expect to 90 scot-free
at their word. Come, now, don't put
on airs. | declare, / love you just as
much
"You scoundrel,' cried Harry voice
from the inner door, and I saw him
makea rush for the man and strike him
to the floor. / saw no more, for utter
ing scream after scream I rushed out.
and tainted at the foot of the stairs.
l was very i'll after this, SO i'll that it
was weeks before ] heard all that took
place. My poor, impetuous Harry had
beaten the man SO severely that it was
long time before he could crawl
about, and then he brought against my
brother an action for assault and bat
terry. But that was nothing to the no,
toriety given to the whole matter, and
the humiliation / have brought upon
those who are dearest and nearest tc
me.-Ma19e B. Wallaanas, in Youths
C'o7flpGniOn.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14
The Great Brooklyn Bridge.

This whole work = bridge. APP
proaches, anchorages, railroads, depots
and all-cost sixteen million dollars in
money and thirteen years of time. What
is the grand results Is it worth all
this? How many people can use it in
day? Let us see. On the approaches
the bridge is one hundred feet wide. On
the suspended part it is eighty five feet
wide. This gives room enough for two
lines of teams on each way, or four in
all. All the teams going in one direction
take the right hand road, the heavy
teams on the outside and the lighter
ones on the inside. The two roads will
allow one thousand four hundret. and
forty teams to pass in an hour or four.
teen thousand four hundred and forty in
ten hours. There viii be eighty cars on
the railroad. and twenty cars can travel
on the bridge at once. When all are
running, eighty thousand people can
cross in an hour. The total length of
the walk is five thousand nine hundred
and eighty feet (nearly mile and a
quarter), and of this e--e thousand i've
hundred and seventy-five feet are in
cluded in the span above the river.
Charles Barnard, IN st. Nicholas.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14
Fatal Boating Accident.
BUFFALO, July 2.

BUFFALO, July z.
A terrible accident occurred near Batavia,
the seat Of Genesee County, Sunday after
noon at about six o'clock. A little steamer
called the Stranger, which plies on Tona-
wanda Creek, between Whisky Run and Ba-
tavia, was capsized while on its six o'clock
trip about mile up the stream from Ba-
tavia. The boat is a little Catamaran-like
craft advertised to carry thirty people.
Twenty-eight were OH board, when sudden
scramble to one side of the boat for view
caused something to break, and all hands
were thrown into the water. Four persons
were drowned, as follows:
Eugene Hamley, aged twenty-one, a har-
ness maker; Clarke Tenney, aged forty, an
employe in the harvester works; Bridget
Fannery, aged eighteen, u hotel dining-room
giri: Sarah Maloney. q servant in private
family.
These bodies have been recovered. The
victims were all resident here except Miss
Maloney, whose home was in Crittenden, Pa.
The accident created intense excitement,
and fully a thousand people gathered at the
scene to learn the whereabouts Of friends
An INQUEST is in progress.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14
LOUISIANA.
OLD CUSTOMS.

Old customs! Well, our children saw
We getalong without them;
BUT you and l, dear, in our day
Had other thoughts about them.
The dear old habits of the past
can not choose but love them,
And sigh to think the world at last
HAS SCARED so far above them.
We had not, in the years gone by,
Ihe grace that art discovers;
Our lives were calmer; you and I
We're very simple lovers.
"A nd when, our daily duties DER,
We strayed beside the rushes,
Inc only gems you ever wore
Were bright and blooming bushes.
Our rustic way was slow, but yet
some good there was about it,
And many ills we now regret
Old habits would have routed.
know our children still can see
the Fifth Commandments beauty
May they obey as once did we,
From love and not from duty.
The world to-day is far too high
In wisdom to confess them,
But well we know, dear, you and I,
For what we have to bless them.
Though love was in the heart of each,
trembled to accost you;
Had you required a polished speech,
! think ! should have lost you.
No doubt our minds are slow to gauge
Ihew ways we are not needing;
But here upon our memOry'S page
Is very simple reading.
itsays the forms we still hold fast
We're wise as well as pleasant
Inc good old customs of the past
Have leavened all the present!
Edmund Lyons, IN ~. 7. Sun.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14
Where a Tragedy Took Place.

&C / wouldn't tear that front wall down
for $4,000 cash. said Mr.. Thomas Fl.
Green, of Philadelphia. 'sHundreds of
people have asked me why didn' t
cree, a nicer front when I was over
hauling the building" continued Mr..
Green, ''but much prefer allowing the
old brick front to remain, because of
| the historic associations of the build
ing Here it is that Benedict Arnold
once made his ho1ne. In the early part
of the present century the building
came into the possession of the ances-
tors of the well-known Burd and Ship
pen families, whose histories are prom
inently interviewer with that Of the
city itself One OF the female members
OF the Burd family on dying bequeathed
the property to a relative with the in
junction that the home should never be
converted into stores. To disobey this
command would necessitate demolsh-
ing the front, and so you can see why it
is wish to allow the wall to remain,
because by so doing I consider [ am
complying with the dying injunction of
its former owner.
"Do you know there is romantic
story connected with the housep" said
Mr.. Green. ''About fifty years ago one
of the daughters of the 3urd family was
engaged to be married to a prominent
Southern gentleman. On the night be-
fore the day fixed for the wedding
large company was gathered in the par
lor of the mansion, and the ccnversa-
ton turned upon ghosts. When the
hour for retiring had arrived the ladies
Were pretty well worked up with the
ste des they had heard. The betrothed
coslple fingered few moments in the
parlor, and when the lady expressed a
fear of meeting with a ghost her broth
er spoke up and said: Look out for the
ghost of Benedict Arnold tonight The
Southerner, handing the lady pistol,
said: place this under your pillow and
if any ghost appears don't be afraid to
shoot The brother, who was sort of
daredevil fellow, resolved to have some
fun. He contriyed to steal the Weap-
on away from his sister, and when
everybody was asleep he dressed him
self in the uniform of an officer of
the Continental army. Entering the
chamber of his sister, he made noise
which awoke her, and when the terrified
girl saw what she believed to be the
ghost of Arnold she set, up such
screaming that she awakened the house
hold. In a few minutes the room was
filled with the other members of the
family When the matter was explained
by the erring brother the future hus-
band of his sister became so angry that
he grossly insulted the young man and
then and there challenged him to fight
a duel In a few hours the prelimi-
naries were all arranged. A little piece
of woods in the southwestern part of
the city was selected, which they
reached about daylight. Pistols were
proposed, and the two plucky men
faced each other at twenty yards dis 4
tance. At the first fire both fell, NOR
tally wounded, and when the seconds
and the physicians drove up to the man
sion in the early hours of the morning
they tenderly conveyed two corpses to a
resting place within its portals, and the
heart-broken sister was compelled to
mourn the untimely death OF a brother
and a lover. ."-FtiladeLphia Record.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14
Panic at a Saturday Night Hop.

333l ATLANTA, Ca, July 2.
A special from Geneva says: Saturday
night as crowd attending Professor Rob-
inson's hop at the City Hall was leaving a
stairway fell, precipitating thirty or forty
men, women and children in confused
heap twenty-five feet below. A scene Of
wild excitement followed and the screams
and shouts frightened q team of horses that
dashed madly away. Two daughters OF
Philip Heidlingsfeller, d young lady who was
with them, and T. L. Crosby, j. j. Jordon,
and Pierce Weston, we're seriously hurt.
Others were slightly injured.
5&538 --------1H
Hanlan has won $4,000 in the last slx
years by rowing.
St. Landry democrat., 1883-07-14

"A Marylander shot a colored man
in tree on his farm the other day, and
when the negro came tumbling dowE.
apparently mortally wounded, asserted
that he had Thoughts he was crow.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
RATHER TOO LONG.
After twenty Wears On the
wrong side OF Life a Virgin
an Turns the Table

''How long did you say:"
'Twenty years, l said. Up 10 the time
| mentioned | had suffered from diseased
liver for twenty years. said Mr.. S. T.
Hancock, of Richmond, Va, half sadly,
as though thinking OF that dilapidateA
section OF his lite. 'At times / almost
wished it had pleased Providence to omit
the liver from the human anatomy
"Bad enough-twe "ty years of that
sort OF thing" responded listener
"What was the upshot OF it,''
"The upShot was that some time age
went down to SCOTS drug store in this
city, and bought one OF Benson's Capcine
Corous plasters, applied it and was re-
Pered in few hours, and am now a.
pound as though my liver was made of In
dia RUBBER.
Benson's-uniike the old kind OF plas-
ters-act promptly. Look for the word
Capcine which is cut in the genuine.
price 3 cents. Seabury and Johnson,
Chemists, New York.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14

the Civil Rights bill, said: ''lt IT IS
unconstitutional. we should kno"
it, furthermore, he continued:
s.If we have no protection under the
law. il is high time that colored men
should stop voting for white men 10
make laws. II it IS white man
law. it should be 4 white mans bal
lot. and colored men should not visit
the polls at all
Mr.. Alexander Tillery, when ask
ed his opinion regarding the bill,
said: ~ think no party had caused
the decision. and that it is simply the
Anglo. Saxon race VS.. the Negro,
and he was against them by sections.
He concluded, I am glad to know
how my race stands to-day
Mr.. F. Quarles, when speaking OF
the decision of the Supreme Court
regarding Civil Rights, sad: The
decision was very unexpectedly re-
ce;ved by myself, but l hope it may
stimulate our people to a greater
anxiety for achievement"
A. Baker, one of Northwest Mis-
souri's well-known and highly re-
spected colorcd gentlemen, on hear
ing Of the recent decision OF the
Court, SAID: Il am somewhat sur
pr1sed to learn that the bill Is uncon-
stitutional, and has been SO long re-
vealing itself to US, but l hope our
people may be inspired with new
zeal. and gain wealth and advance.
ment, cultivate good morals, and
prove themselves the white mans
equal in all branches of industry. -
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
TIptTpS

She was from the country, seeing
the sights, and wanted her ''picture
took so she called on the photo
graph man.
"Well, madam" said the polite
engineer of the camera, what can
we do for you?''
you take lIkenessess here, don't
you:'
Eyes. madam
s.Well, | want some struck off
The engineer got everything
ready, and telling his victim to take
her place, he moved his box around
sighted her once or twice, and pop
ping up his head suddenly said:
Full length, or bust::''
''What's that" asked the startled
victim.
Full length, OF bust, said
Hold on minute. Drat your
machine. Don't pull the trigger
yet. I never had no likeness took,
and want stand up. picture, but
If you're got to take 1T that way, or
bust, l reckon III set down. I'm
i'll town to see the sights, anyhow,
and if you're going to split, / spose
| might as we'll rake in the whole
show. Now go ahead with your rat
killIng.-Merchant Traveller.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
FOR SALE.

North half North East, East half South
East, Sec II, Township II, Range 20,
containing t6o acres. with house OF FIVE
rooms, one good well and 100 apple trees
bearing, and other small fruit, including
a good peach orchard. There is I54 acres
of this land in cultivation, 40 acres OF fall
plowing, I6 acres of wheat. This farm IS
situated S miles northeast of Butler, in
Shawnee township. Will be sold separate,
or all together atS771a or separate at Sa5
and $50 per acre, cash. For particulars
call on Ben. B. Canterbury. Butler, or T.
B. holland on the farm ,7-rm.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14

leave to society a wretched char
acter. a Wretched example and a
memory that will soon rot.
| leave to my parents, during tne
rest of their lives, as much sorrow as
humanity, and feeble and pc
crepid state can sustain.
[ leave my brothers and sisters as
much modification as I could entail
upon them.
1leave my wife a broken heart, a
life of wretchedness and shame. to
weep over my premature death
Iowa Falls Sentinel
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
MADE ON PURPOSE.
One of Those Mistakesl Which zre
More Frequent than Profitable.

One of Those Mistakesl Which zre
More Frequent than Profitable.
why. my Child that Is not Benson't
Capcine Porous Plaster" said father "
his little daughter, after examining 9
dackage she had just brought from ing
drug store.
"1sn'tit, Papa, i'm sorry, but I askes
the man for Benson's-f know did, anf
he took the * cents you gave me 10 osf
for II WITH" exclaimed the child positive
". "Maybe the drug man made nif
take"
"I'li go round mvself and see," wz
the geatleman's comment a. he donDeg
his coat ard han.
ssWhy didn't you send me Bensonf
plaster. instead OF this cheap and trashs
,hing?"
"Why, thought that would suit yoe
Just as we'll"
"You thought: you thought! What
had you to think. / don't pay
you for thi mixing, but tor filling my orpef
said the Indignant caller, contemptuous.
Iy. "Theve! take that thing back anc
give me my money, I'll get what want
elsewhere"
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
The Atchis0n, Topeka & Santa
Fa r. II

SERVES ITS PATRONS WITH
Three Trains Daily through Kansas.
Two Trains Daily to Colorado.
Two Trains Daily to New Mexico
Two Trains Daily to Arizona.
Two Trains Daily 70 Old Mexico.
One Train to Utah.
One Train Daily to Nevada.
Two Trains Daily to California
and connects by stage. rail or steam
er with all points, on the coast, in the
west or southwest.
ONLY ONE CHANGE OF CARS
of any class from Kansas City to
San Francisco. Through trans car
rY.
PULLMAN SLEEING CARS.
to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pue-
bio, Den.ing and Ell Paso.
THE THUNDERBOLT."
is the fast through train be-
tween Kansas City and Denver,
via Pueblo and Colorado Springs.
IHE SANTA FE RAILROAD DINING
HALLS are the best On the continent.
and every care Is taken to make the
journey an agreeable one.
THREE ROUTES TO THE PACIFIC.
Take the direct route to Pueblo.
Denver, Leadville, Gunnison, Salt
Lake CITY, Ogden, Las Vegas, San
ia Fe, Albuquerque, Ell Paso, Chi
huahua, Tucson, Guaymas, Los
Angeles, and San Francisco, via
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad. The Grand Canon OF the
Arkansas, the healthgiving Hot
Springs at Las Vegas, the ancient
city of Santa Fe, the silent abodes
Of the Cliff-dwelers, the quaint pu-
eblos of the Zunis, the Grand Canon
Of the Colorado, and the tar-famed
I osemite greet the eye of the tourist, /,
and unite to make anv one CT these |
hree trans-continental lines Of travel |
attractive and interesting.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
THE BLACK FLAGS.
They eat the hearts and liVers 0f
Their enemies to make
them brave.

From a Hong Kong Letter.
To day l men Major General
Mesny, of the Imperial Chinese ar
my, Just arrived from Ruman, where
he had an opportunity to observe
much OF interest concernig the re-
cent operations in Tonquln. He is
well informed in regard to Chinese
affairs. He has spent fifteen wears
out of twenty FIVE travelling through
the interior, chiefly III an Official ca
papacitv. He was ordered from
the Monaghan province to Iuman
to assist the viceroy, in consequence
OF his perfect knowledge OF the
French Language. He is 4 native
of the Island of Jersey. He is now
en- route for Foochow to take charge
of the naval arsenal. He wears the
chinese costume, with quene, and
speaks the chinese languague fluent
ly. While IN Iuman two of his
men spent month in the Black Flag
camp. He also met the chief, who
holds commission in the Chinese
army. The Black Flags received
exaggerated reports concerning the
French losses at Hanoi, but correct
reports concerning the Chinese loss
are stated in my dispatches. He
says that if prisoners fall into the
hands of the Black Flags they will
be reserved for torture, but the bod
les of the dead will not be found. as
the Chinese believe that eating the |
flesh OF ferocIous men makes them |
brave, especially the heart and liver. |
Therefore, they are accustomed to |
eat their enemies. The Black Flags
are strongly addicted to this habit
they even eat their own people who
die by accident on the march. This |
may account for the Ill success which |
the search tor the bodies of
Rivere and his followers, whose
heads alone Were found on the last
sortle by General Bouet. He re-
CARDS fighting the Black Flags as
lighting the Chinese army on small
scale. The Chinese undoubtedly
arms, ammunition and
men to perpetuate the harrrassing
var upon the French in Tonquin.
rhe French originally made such
'ugbare of the Black Fass that the
Chinese considered 1t worth their
While to keep up their hostile organi-
alton by subsidy as long as they !
continued the wal with the French.
At that time they numbered only
500 men; now they can put 5000 :
, the field and still garrison the |
My informant consid- d
rs the Black Flags to be the best t
nd bravest hrancn of all the Chi
csc soldiers He has no douh, that
rance would conquer China if she
lade war in the same way as with
uropean power, but as she wars in
onquin she must suffer defeat and
sgrace. In the city of Canton ev-
ything is apparently quiet. Six
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
Cards.

Aesthetics, (4 designs.) Sometkig
good mailed on receipt of b cents IL
stamps. lIearne & Co p. O. Box r4;,
". Y.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14

Whereas, Richard Curry and Martha
I. Curry, his wife, by their deed of trust.
bearing date April 18th, 1882, and duly
recorded in the Recorders Office OF Bates
county, Missouri, in book No 26, page
o6, conveyed to the undersigned trustee,
the following described real estate, sit
uate in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit:
The west half of the northeast quarter
of section twentyfour (2D, township
forty-two (42), o. range thiity-one (3D,
In trust to secure the payment OF one
certain note and coupons in said deed OF
trust fully described, and, whereas, cou-
pons numbered two and three, OF said
note are past due and unpaid, and the
whole OF the principal having been de-
clared due and unpaid. Now, therefore,
at the request OF the legal holder of said
coupon note, and by virtue OF the au-
thorily in me vested by the terms in said
deed of trust fully set forth, will on
Wednesday, November 18th, 1889,
between the hours of nine O'Clock in the
forenoon and five O'Clock in the after
noon OF that day at the east front door Of
the court house, in the CITY of Butler,
county OF Bates aforesaid, expose to sale
atpubllc out cry Tor cash in hand the
real estate III said de d of trust and this
notice described, or SO much thereof as
may be necessary 10 pay said debt inter
est and costs.
F. NJ. ALLEN, Trustee.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14

war ships help to preserve order.
The Palos has gone to Formosa.
The Niceroy has about 10. 900 troops
in the city to curb any attempt at
rebellion fomented by the secret So
cietIes.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14

volumes, the choicest literature OF the
world. loo-page CATALOGUE tree. Low
est prices ever known Not sold by deal
ers. Sent for examination before pay
ment on evidence OF good faith.
John b. Alden. Publisher.
P. o. Box 1927. Is Vesey ST., y. Y.
The Butler weekly times., 1883-11-14
Music without "A Teacher!

Soper's Instantaneous Guide to Keysof
Piano and Organ, Price 81. VIII teach
any person TO play 10 pie ces Of music u
one day. You co uldn't learn it from .
teacher in month for $40. Try it ard
be convinced. Sampi: copy viii b
mailed to any address on receipt Of u
cents in stamps by Hearne & Co. Pnh.
fishers, P. Q. Box 1887, New Yo'k.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-30
DoWyIyG DETERMINED TO STICK.

The Democratic Central Committee of Queens
County met yesterday afternoon in Mllss Hotel, Long
island City. Senator James W. Covert, County Clerk
John sutphn, xDistrictAttoney Benjamin W Downing,
the candidate for Senator and nearly all the leading
Democratic politicians of Queens and Suffolk Counties
were present The committee met for the purpose Of
arranging plans for the campaign and also TO try 10 in
duce Mr. Downing to withdraw from the for Senator
A committee OF three appointed TO wait on MI.
Downing and ascertain his views In the matter. Mr.
Downing positively declined TO withdraw from the race,
and said nc would be elected by handsome majority.
The committee reported Mr.. DOwnng's determination TO
fine central body and went Into executive session when
81 passed resolutions "ndorsing the state County ana
Assembly nominations unanimously. resolution i'll
.orngJ the candidacy OF Mr. Downing for senator
tanled EX-Julge Bustced of Jamaica, in the lobby
while the committee in session. and offered 10 bet
81 600 10 $500 that Downing would be defeated. The
General feeling among those present was that hr Down
ING could not be elected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-30
4 RIINY DAY OF 4 RAINY MONTH

Yesterday was disagreeable day from the
beginning to the close. It warm wot aud muddy.
A steady began falling about o. clock In the morn
Ing and did till after p October has been
a remarkable month for weather. Including yesterday
there have been thirteen days OF rain aud the total rain
fall for the month up TO yesterday has amounted
to All inches The rainfall for the whole month last
year was only 80 inches while the average for October
since the work Of the Signal Service begun has been
1902 inchos The total fall yesterday was SO OF inch
The storm was general throughout the northern part OF
of the country Late In the afternoon the storm centre
was ut Rochester and moving In nUTthoasterly d.
reCtion There rain In Cincinnati Boston Philadcl
phia Baltimore Pittsburg and Erie Penn, At Saniusy,
Ohio there thunder storm The rainfall at
Cincinnati 2.O5 inches Severe winds were reported
from the Northwest and ON Mount Washington the Winds
velocity 90 miles an hour. Additional oautonary
signals were ordered along tho Atlantic coast.