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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-06-16

| Canadisn Bishop aud ore or two other
cclesiss ic i d:gnit uies, Errington was
announced aud walked III, dressed 20
longer in the frs.e-and'ea>y Summer
SUI which he aft cted in the days OF
his grandeur. VIXEN visiting all the per-
sons nf lesser Importance than the f"l Q
snd Cardinal Jacobini, but III a cers-
| monions black looking garment Er-
r,nst N was lingering in the hope OF b :
Jag lowed q farewell audience with
the Pupe. VIII ,ch hear from an ec' Isl.
astic high in authority at the Vatican
the Pnpe has refused to grant him. lie
has taken his departure. The general
impression here is that this amateur di.
plolnatiet {. who cunfesSes he knows little
about diplomacy, will now cease to be
tacsor 1T the Vatican. TIE American
A-chbishops are expected in K me IN
November. They will probably stey
at the American College.
TALK WITH CARDINAL JAcoBlNI.
I have been favored a.ss with an
audience wit, Cardinal JacoH,ns, Secre-
tary of State In the " t.can. He
shook me heartily by tne hand and ex-
pressed pleasure IN receiving yoar cor
re<pausie, t Att r acme petite phrases,
his Eui, ence retnas ked that he was
happy to see that the violent passions
watch had been aroused by the bu l of
the Prnpags.nda wera caimlng down. L
tick the opportunity Of dire cling ,he
Criminals attention to al interesting
interview he]ts recett'y with Alexander
Nj. Sullivan, Pce-ident of the Irish ma
t...al League. Tae Cardinal appeared
much gra,.Sei by Suilivau's ss;i ude
during tas interview, and promised t.
bring the rn er under the notice of
thu Pope.
asked tie Cardinal whether the
V. t;cau Was satisfied with t'e Eccies,-
asGicai b Il just preset ii t. the ffus-
sian l. init ". His E pinence thought
it deiicsu. qaes ion snd was chary ct
expressing az opinion. He said tae bill
wa- q, uh,isss step toward the satls-
fac,i WHICH tie Church had hopsd
aad prayei for, bat t was only ste!,
and it could hardly be that the Church
would be cont ut until the oppressive
laws Of May are repealed. "The
Church." added The Cardinal, has
shown 80 much good will, and has gwen
,ucs ready help 70 the various govern
m4nts of the woli. taat il may reas-
onahIy hope taat its patience viii be
sconcr or l. t e rewarded"
Taking leave of the Cardinal, l
passed The Catholic archbishop Of 4 lin
burg, who. with TIE stadeutF Of the
Sc tn Col g, had been to the Vatican
t, pay bis homage 10 t,e Pope.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-06-16

Lake Tahoe Stages arrive and depart
c-oIa this House
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
Washington on Baron Steuben.

At Yorktown there was nobody who had
ever been present at q regularly conducted
siege, except Steuben, and it was natural
that most Of the designing Of operations in
general and detail as well as Of their prac-
tcal execution should have fallen to him.
How highly Washington prizes him ap-
pears not only from frequent expressions
ofapproval In his communications, but es-
pecislly from the more striking tact that
his last official act as commander Of the
American army was letter addressed to
Steuben, dated at Annapolis, December %,
1888, in which he said: my dear Baron:
Although have taken frequent opportu.
mites, both in public pnd In private, Of &C.
howledging your gre&t zeal, attention and
abilities, in performing the duties of yottr
Office. yet wish to make use Of this last
moment Of my public life to signify, in the
strongest terms, my entire appreciation Of
your conduct, and to express my sense Of
the obligations the public is under to you,
for your faithful and meritorious services.
}. This is the last letter shall write
while continue in the service Of my ooun-
try. The hour Of my resignation is fixed
at twelve to-day, after which shall become
. private citizen on the banks Of tho Po-
tomac, where I shall be glad to embrace
you and testify the great esteem and con-
sideration with which am, my dear
Baron, etc., ''GEoRaE WAsHNaEoN.'
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
A Railway In the Tree Toys.

1AOAA 9AO osuAAAA0 \SoS/ <AA6Ao'
It may not be known outside of the
neighborhood where it is situated but it is
nevertheless a fact that in Sonoaa coun-
ty (Cal.) we have an original and success
full piece Of railroad engineering and bull
ding that is not to be found in the books.
In the upper part of this country, Lear the
coast, may be seen an actual roadbed in
the tree tops. Between the Clipper mills
and Studarts Point, where the road crosses
. deep ravine, the trees are sawed off on a
level and the timber and ties laid on II Q
stumps. In the center Of the ravine me-
toned, two large redwood trees, standing
side by side, form substantial supper,
and they are cut off seventy-fv feet apove
the ground, and cars loaded with heavy
saw logs pass over them with as much Sc
cnrity as if it were framed in the most sci
entific manner. railroads lead to Rome,
except this one. The builders never con-
templated terminus at San Francisco,
Petulma or Chicago, but merely to convey
heavy timbers from their woods to their
mill. There are many places in our red
wood forests where this example might be
followed pro6tably, as it would be cheaper
to grade through with Cross cut saw and
lay the ties hn the stumps than to remove
the trees. We can boast of a broad gauge,
q narrow-gauge, and a road in the tree tops
yet we are not at all happy.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

American Agriculturist for September.
Sickness is too apt to be synonymous
with sadness, and it is all important that
the person in charge of a patient should
wear bright, hopeful countenance.
The weak look to the strong for support,
and are quick to mark the slightest to-
kens of uneasiness or apprehension on
the part of those about their bedsides,
althoug h they may give no outward ex-
preston Of their sense of it at the time.
A nurse who combines apparent conf
dence as to q happy result. with the
tender attentions necessary to secure 1t,
does but discharge the proper functions
of her calling, save in extreme cases, of
which we are not treating here.
Let the nurse be quiet. Let her dress
be Of no stiff or rustling material; her
shoes of kind that shall in no wise
creak or cry. The modulation of the
voice, too, should be carefully attended
to. We cannot, and should not, forbear
attendance upon the sick, because ma
ture has gifted US with that rare, blessed
boon, of a sweet and musical voice; yet,
even more earnestly than the elocution-
list, should the nurse study to modulate
such organs as she does possess, to the
utmost gentleness of which they are
capable. For nothing is of greater i'm
portance, we would assure her, if she
desires TO soothe irritated nerves, and
quiet perturbed spirits, than to use an
habitually soft and calm speech in all
her conversation, either with the sick or
in their presence. :. -.
tits primarily important that an at
tendant should give quick heed to the
physician'e orders, aud obey them ex-
actly. The .hardheaded and opinionated
nurse is one who incurs heavy respon-
sibility, and in nine cases out of ten
brings to grief her patient as we'll as her.
self. &.
Take care that no disagreeable topic
of conversation be continued, if per-
chance introduced. Get more impera-
tive; guard against talking at all when the
patient indicates by his own silence 4
desire for quiet. il the vote Of all the
I sick were taken as7 to that fault Ia theif
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
NOrthwestern Patanta

Alexander <A'bien, MENDOZA. Mimi. punching
machine; Asher W. Avery. verndale. Mimi. car
coupling: Cyrus Fl. Blossom, Algona, Iowa. cream
San: George F. Burton, Eau Claire. Wis, adjusta-
bic roller frame for edgers: Robert 81: Davis. Mil
waukee. distributing printing type: N. A. Ellies,
Boonesborough. Iowa, siphon Faucet: William T..
Herrick. Grinnel, Iowa, apparatus for distillina
water and other fluids Johiel Jackson, Fort At
kinson. Wis. blackboard wagon: Horace L. Kings
:ey. Racine. Wis, road cart; Charles 81. Lathrop.
Lyons, Iowa. combined cut-out and ground switch
tor telegraph and telephone lines: John b. Nc
Bride. Des Moines; Iowa. riding attachment IT, for
bay fork; Theodore G. Munger, Cedar
Rapids; Iowa. PUMP pump bucket; o, orson
James y. Pierce. Milwaukee, covering for steam
pipes, etc.. reissue); Louis W: Pruss. Minneapolis.
vshea SSn e.
den, Iowa. carpet stretcher: Daniel d. sRoeau.
Cedar Rapids. Iowa, sewing machine; Albert
{. Talbert. Eldon, Iowa. stock feeder; Daniel G.
Van Brunt. Harrison. Wis:. cultivator beam;
James J: Wheeler. Grinnel!, Iowa. shaft coupling:
Daniel Eirde, Washington. Iowa, Bagasse furnace
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
A Bad Account Of The OId Bay Sta.

A Massachusetts letter in Massachu.
setts newspaper, says: The depravity of
Our rural communities is fast growing, and
. home missionary could find fields quite
as sadly in need Of evangelizihg here in
Berkshire as in India or China, while q
large majority Of the loafers whom one sees
on public days at such places as Pittsaelds,
Great Darlington, Lee or North Adams,
who get the drankest, feel on the streets
and are easily distineuishable by their un-
couth appearance and dress, with pant legs
inside their boots, come from the back or
hill towns, and their home life is Of the
same grade. A drive through most Of the
towns will show scores of homes little bet
ter than huts, with tunable-do barns and
fences, and the general surroundings on the
same level" 49,, ~
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
A Fate Almost Identical.

The tragic fate of Park Valentine, OF
Burlington, Vt, and his young wife. nee
Garland, of North Adams, Mass, who were
crushed and burned to death at Spuyten
Duyvel, says the Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican, is almost exactly like that which
overlook Professor Henry Rogers and hif
young bride, of Springfield, at Ashtabula,
except that in the case OF the Valentines
something is known Of the manner in which
they met their fate, the bride clinging to he,
preventing the rescue Of both. Nothing
has ever been known as to the last hours oil
Professor Rogers and his wife, and not 1
scrap of anything that could be identified
as theirs has ever been recovered.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
Is America the Haven for all the
Fools?

Pail Mall Budget.
If the amount Of oak and triple brass
that was about the breast Of the man
WHO first put his foot into boat and
went, to sea has been accurately de-
scribed by Horace, in that case one
would like to know how many times the
brass surrounds the bosom Of General
Beck, who is now about to cross the At
lantic in balloon. If Horace is right,
the general ought to be the last person
to undertake this journey. for no NOR
tai balloon would be capable of lifting
him. It is quite plain, however, that
Horace is wrong. The general has .
notion that he can by means Of a power
full petroleum lamp increase or decrease
at will the temperature and volume Of
the gas in his machine, and 50 keep it
at any required elevation, and, relying
make start. At present, however.
the weather is agaimd him, for he is ex.
pecting q hurricane which will take him
over &C the rate of three miles q minute,
As this is very moderate indeed for Z
hurricane, We maysexpect him over in
about fifteen hours or 80, which y some
eix DAYS lees than the shortest pasehRe
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

That only men incredulous of despair.
Half-taught ID anguish, through Tho midnigha
air rs ts'S 4s2s3sss S 4. -
Beatupward 10 Gods throne IN loud aooess
OF shrioking and reproach Full desertneas
In souls - countries iieth silent-bare
ynder the blanching, vertical eye glare
Of the absolute heavens. Deep hearted man,
express Z
Grief for thy dead In silence like to doath-
Most like monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless WOO,
Till itself crumble to tho dust beneath. :,
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet;
nit could weep, it could arise and go.
{ Il --T Elizabeth Barrett BROWNING.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

nurses, from which they suffer most, We
should not be surprised i, with one
voice, thew would say, gafrulity. Il %
conceded that truth lies at the foundar
ton of all popular beliefs; and il 90,
then nurses, as class, are prone to talk
too much. Let so base vice as gossip
no longer degrade one of the noblest and
benefcent Of human callings the care
of the sick. e. - s.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
ACase or Singular sinfuIpess.
FranR Grosa If M;nnoapol;a uant II r.

Frank GROSS OF Minneapolis went to La
Crosse after his wife, who had run away
and entered . house of i'll ia ne He Sc.
woman, Addie Gross, and a companion
also from Minneapolis, named Bertha Gil
let, arrested for being inmates of 8 house of
prostitution. In court, the woman stated
that she was but seventeen years old, had
been IN" rried yecr, and during that time
had been obliged te support her husband
by prostitution, he first driving herto the
street to seek customers and safterward
bringing them to the house. She was.
tired Of this business, and concluded to
strike out on Fer ewn account. The court
lined her as q common prostitute and set
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
Fhpper 1u Trouble Again.

Ell Paso, Tex, Special. -. = =.
Ex-Lieut. Ffipper was up in the police
court. He i, accused by another negro
named Hudson Woodruff of being too in
innate with the latter's wife Woodruff was
corporal in the Tenth cavalry while Flip.
per was lieutenant, and claims that he has
been aiding FIipper ever since Last night
Woodruff found that his hospitality had
been abused, and ordered his wife and
Flipper out of the house. They went, and
this morning Woodruff met his wife on the
street. She struck him on the head with q
stone, inficting an ugly wound, for which
is also accused OF threatening the lite OF
Woodruff. It is not probable that the af-
fair will increase Flipper's chances of getting
back into the army, it he had any. ,4s,.i;
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
Another Steamboat Horror

The steamer Riverdale, having on board
about fifty passengers bohna for Peekskill
and intermediate points on the Hudson,
blew up on the 28th, in the North river and
Accounts ot the number OF passengers vary
from SO to 200, and of killed from ten to
f ty.~ The most Trustworthy accounts place
the number of killed at from three to six.
There is reason to believe nearly all had q
chance to escape. Among those killed were
Mrs. Julia Lisson of Tarrytown, N. J.,
Ca,rles Lisson, Der grandson, W. B. Cha.
Pm, Thomas Gregg of New York, John
Or .vett, fireman.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
PERSON AZ GOSSIP.

PERSON AL 9o991P.
The leave of Second Lieut.. Alfred McC.
Ogle, Fourteenth infantry, 10 extended six
months on surgeons certificate OF disabil-
ity. The commanding general of the de-
partment OF Dakota viii, assign an assistant
quartermaster now serving within his COM
mand to duty at Bismarck to relieve Capt.
Ezra B. Kirk, who will repair to Jefferson
vile, Ind, and report for duty.
The daughter Of Bayard Taylor has until
recently, been supporting herself as COVER
ness in New. York. She and her mother
declined purse of43O, 600, raised BY New
York la1ies on learnidg that Bayard Taylor
died poor. s. s.
Gen.J q. Ekin, colonel and assistant
quarter er-master general stationed at Louis-
vile, was placed on the retired list 81 the
army. He yhlb succeeded by Col. Rufus
6axton. q
Edward ssanisr, the Oldest postm astsr ii
Amsrica. y dang rously III 8 Sandy aprins.
Md. BE was appointsd % sttmassr NJ 6sn..
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

OF the Alaska. ssNo one but donkey.
3 goose or baboon would 70 up IN No
vember in any balloon, says the IN
goldsby Legend, but in case of oyeY-sea
aerial voyages it need not be limited to
Nevembef
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

Mr.. FINN an Mcdonald, who died .
Crookstan recently aged sevea.ty-two years.
was one of the earliest pioneers Of the Red
y0r valley. 4
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
The Rriaesroom's. .stBees Man.

The custom Of Il bridegroom being at.
tended on his marriage by . friend or rela-
tive, who is styled the !4best man, 50 prac-
tised at weddings in the present day, is OF
great antiquity, descending from our Saxon
ancestors. In their time marriages were
always celebrated in the house of the BRIDE
groom. On the day before the wedding all
his friends and relatives, having been in
vited, arrived at his house, and spent the
time in feasting and preparing for. the ap.
preaching ceremony. Next came the BRIDE
groom's company, mounted on horseback
and completely armed, who proceeded in
great state and order. under command Of
one who was called the forwistamsn or the
foremost man, to receive and conduct the
bride in safety to the house Of her future
husband. The bride. in her turn was at
tended by her guardian and other male rel.
atives, led by matron who Vus called tho
brideswo,man, and followed by company
of young maidens, who were called BRIDES
maids. The Saxon forewistaman OF the
ninth century is the prototype of the Eng
lish ''best man" Of the nineteenth.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

The &. Cloud land sale aggregated $2d6
600, 81 "a average Of g. 80 pr acre.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
Killed in the Big Battles.

The following table gives the dates OF
the principal battles of the rebellion,
and the number killed (based on medi-
cal official returns), north and south the
first column of figures being for the
north and the second for the south:
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

Bull Run (irst), July 81, '61.. 48l Unknown
Shiloh, April 7, '62............1, ,735 1,728
Seven Pines and Fair Oaks.
May 81, June l., '62...... 800 $500
Antietam, September 16-
II, '62......... ......... ..........2,OlO 3,5W
Charlottesville, May 2-3,
'63........ ......... ........ OH 1,5oa
Gettysburg, July 1-2-3,
62......... ......... ........ ......3, S34 sou
Vicksburg, July 3-4, 63... 545 Unknown
'6s........ ......... ...............1,644 1889
Wilderness, May $50,
'64......... ...s:.... OSt L,VU
Spottaylvania, May 8-N,
"a 4......... ......... ......4, ln 1,0VU
Totals. ,,22.425. 18,49e
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

AS the remaining guests passed under the
arch in turn flowers were rained upon
them. and it was noticed that the elder
gentlemen were the most gallant in theii
acknowledgements, raising their hsnds and
throwing kisses to the fair nymphs. Jusi
west Of the hiumphal arch two long plat
forms were constructed, and these were
crowded with children dressed in white.
who, provided with bouquets, awaited the
arrival OF the grand procession.
The procession moved to Rice Park, near
the Metropolitan. Several sections of opera
chairs stood in the park for the accomma-
dation Of Mr.. Villard's guests of the city
The seats commanded an unobstructed
view of Fifth street. In the front row were
Mr.. Willard and Gen. Grant, sitting side bv
side; Gov. Hubbard and the general officers
of the national guard; Gen. Terry and staff,
and Bishop Ireland; while Immediately in
the rear Mayor 0Brien and ladies had
seats. Ex.Secretafv Evarts also had q seat
ing, were the distinguished Americans and
foreigners, deoked with white satin badges,
and button.hole bouquets.
The committee had provided refresh
ments, abundant and tempting, for the
guests. Beneath . canopy near the band
stand and around its parterres of doWers
stood lunch table, laden with good things
and 6 4rnished with bouquets Of bright flowers
To this table all were invited, and after the
eye had tired in watching the stream ofex-
hibits that passed around the park-for
even the procession became tiresome in its
endless array of industrial and commercial
displays-there was . gensral movement
toward the center of the park. The lunch
included cold chicken sand Wiches, fruit of
all kinds and wlns; etc, Q:
Mr.. Willard was saluted time after time