The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-11

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Cont aband wares. Oh sa lreoent police
raid iii ttlhas state, IL 81 house the bot
ties were found 4 int the I vel, tightly
lcorked and with sttings round their
necks for convenienc in raising, In an-s
other the bottles were under the cook.
Ing range In the ash pit. One liquor.
seller, q woman, had two fiat bottles
hooked to 9 belt which she wore under
her overskirt, and another dealer con-
lcea!ed his under a trap.d oor beneath III
pile Of hay In a cock loft. "
Wedding anniversaries First, paper
wedding; second, straw wed ding; third,
candy wedding; fourth, leather weddings;
fifth, wooden Wedding; tenth, tin we'd
ding; twelfth, linen wedding; fifteenth,
crystal wedding; twentieth, floral we'd
ding; twenty-dfth, silver dding; thir-
tieth, pearl wedding; thirty-hfth, china
wedding; fortieth, coral wedding; filtieth,
gold wedding; seventy fifth, diamond
wedding.
The famous Greeley farmin Cappagua.
Winchester county, N. y, has been nd.
vertised to rent, and will, before long,
be sold under the provisions Of Mr..
Greeley's will. Colonel Nicholas Smith,
who occupied the farms until recently,
has removed to Kentucky with his three
children, and Miss Gabrielle Greeley,
who, with these children, is heir to the
property, is living in New York. The
farm contains eighty acres, and has SOW
eral buildings upon it, including Mr..
Greeley's big stone barn. The old home
stead, where t.Busy Life" and the His
tory of the Rebellion" were written,
was destroyed by fire.
Chinese labor is becoming drug in
the California market, Notwithstanding
the check on immigration. The Chinese
are being discharged from the mines.
and they fail to obtain employment
when they flock to the cities. Recently
the largest contractor on the Northern
Pacific railroad said that he did not con-
slider Chinese labor really cheap, and
could employ Scandanavians with more
profit. 1t is also said that the contrac-
tor who is building the western end of
the Canadian Pacific has concluded to
dispense with them and employ white
men.
The American consul at Vienna gave
"sheet and pillow-case' party to cele-
brate his birthday, to the no. small
amusement of the Viennese mind.
ROBBED in sheets, with head covered with
the pillow-case, and wearing masks, a
"host of Americans" joined the consul
at supper, where the center ornament
was a cake supporting the traditional
cherry-tree, so inseparably connected
with Washington's boyish inability to
tell a lie. The tree was finally felled
with hatchetO to symbolic the fate
of its ancestor, and the cherries were
solemnly distributed. Behold some
thing truly American! must have been
the comment of the onlookers.
Some one in France has followed up
the recent statistics concerning wild
beasts and snakes in India with further
particulars: He says that as many as 90
600 deaths occur annually in India from
snake bites, and that since 1870 from
5000 to 10000 persons have persisted
in this way. India possesses more dead
ly snakes than any other country. In
1880, 212,776 serpents of all kinds were
| destroyed, and rewards amounting in
all to IA 1858 rupees were paid to the de-
stroyers. In 1851 wild beasts caused
the death of 1857 persons as against g.
$40 in 1880, and the number of animals
killed by them any year is enormous.
Lcopards are, he thinks the farmers
worst foes. and tigers rank next; but the
wolves are but little less destructive. In
1881, 1857 tigers and 1857 leopards were
killed.