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Those who recolIect s7dn,

Those who recoiIect Sidney Smiths
Remarkable statement of the far-reach-
ING and minute taxation Of England, will
appreciate what is said by the Phila.
delphia Ledger, Of taxation in
ito various forms ct homo. mo person
who buys anything can escape
taxes. It B not alone the real es-
tate owner who feels the burden; it is
the tenant also; and the boarder and
ledger, and the person who buys a hat,
or boots, or suit. or coal, or clothing for
the children. Taxes run into the rent.
and then follow everything bought and
sold. They spread everywhere, and
when they are paid in this indirect
fashion they accumulate. The fraction
Of 9 cent has to be paid by a whole cent
and those whole cents soon amount to
dollars" In the United States all these
minute exactions go into an OVERLOOKING
treasury from the pockets of people in
moderate circumstances who need all
they can get for their cwn use.
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Business on the Pacific coast is not
what1t was six months ago, particularly
In Oregon and in Washington territory.
Owing to the completion Of the North
ern Pacific railroad, and other causes, a
very lafpe number OF laborers and me-
,chAnics have been discharged, and this
has as5ected general trade and industry.
Portland, Oregon, is filed with unem-
ployed people, many of whom lack the
means TO get to their eastern homes.
But this state Of things will not last long.
Every new country has to pass through
just such experiences before business
settles down to 3 steady basis. OF Port
land, siiti is said to be the wealthiest city
of it's size in America. Its streets and
squares are projected on . magnificent
ecale, and il commands a large share Of
trade and commerce both by land and
water. The largest ocean steamers find
easy entrance to it's fine harbor."
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There lisa compliant Throughout the
~...x.-Al.A n l.. AsAa.ik ~ Gnd nnrnAn.

There lisa complaint Throughout the
country that 1t IL difficult to find carpen-
ters enough. It comes from Boston
Springfield, New York. Philadelphia
and many other cities. At Washington.
there WAS never known 30 much build
Ing at once and the official reports show
that 2.2l5 new BUILDINGS have been
projected the past "a In many Of
the country towns east and west, build
ing has been proportionately AZ lively
- IN the cities. and the almost universal
report in the larger towns and villages
isthat there is akreatdemand for more.
sThsre are many workmen, who are
d1bl,ed "wood-butchers" on account
Of incompetency. but good carpenters
are the men that are always in demand.
Carpentry is one Of the most honorable
and dignified of trades and boys who
are willing to work with their hands
and are ambitious enough to learn TIE
trade thoroughly have a pretty certain
promise OF success before them in that
frAIn
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From the Old World.

The Hon. Mr.. Monseau, the first minister
OF lie Dominion government and a member
OF .he privy council, is charged with having
been influenced by u clique of Spectators
tor q heavy financial consideration to refus.
a charter to a new gas company which a
number OF prominent citizens inausurated
as a rival to thu present gigantic concern.
Mr. Mouseau is the same gentleman who
had his election annulled for corrupt prac-
tises, but WINS Afterwards reelected. He was
to have be'n created Il judge soon, but a
protest is made against his fituess for such
appointment.
The news from France and China is be-
ginning to alarm Englishmen. Heretofore
it has been supposed that the Tonquin dis
pute was really q game of bluff on both
sides, and few entertained any fear that a
general war between FIR nee and China
would ever occur. Now it is believed that
war is certain.
Bernhardt has bought a dairy farm near
Havre. 1t produces a fashionable kind OF
cheese sold as the petit Sara Bernhard"
Marquis Tsang gives Minister Ferry a
bad character.
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General News items.

Henry Wattuson of the Louisville Jour
nal delivered q free trade address in New.
York and was introduced by Henry Ward
Beecher in.the following characteristic style:
Bsecher said. "As to the charge that l am
a republican, / do not deny it, but they do
not own me. Everybody must do what he
can to further the government. This be
can only do by working with one of the
great political parties I am also a clergy
man, but only by courtesy. I am also a
citizen, and am bore to perform my duties
as such" Beecher went on to say he be.
lleved the protective system was 8 grinding
oppression upon the poor men of the coun-
try. lit was right to tax clothes, books,
pictures and iron, it could not be wrong to
lax minis ers, and yet he did not intend
that q tax should be put upon such men as
DR.. Taylor and DR.. Hall 1t was perfectly
consistent wits the theory of the protection
lists
Work was suspended at Chess, Cook &
Co.'S establishment in Pittshurg, and two
thirds of the men employed at Graft, Ben
nett d Co.'s three mills were SUSPENDED.
This adds 5000 more to the number Of idle
men. Some manufacturers say that the
depression is due to imperfect tariff laws.
No ole anticipates another Panic.
The sanborn Enterprise says w. d.
Luther, of Eccleston, attempted to elope
with the wife of Martin Draper, Luther
leaving q board bill of so unpaid. Draper
captured his wife before she got away.
Luther was candidate for Justice Of the peace
at the recent ele ction.
Teller Graf, of the Wall Street National
bank, has been indicted for certifying Cecil
Ward g. Co.'s cheeks after tt cir account had
run low.
John Manville, postmaster at Rantoul,
H., is missing at Cavour, OAK, where he
was last seen looking after a claim.
Montreal wheat receipts fell of from
1900, 900 to s 300, 600 bushels this year.
A civil rights bill has been prepared for
the New Jersey legislature.
Connecticut skunks are being extensively
made into sable.
The Mississippi Valley bank at vicksburg,
has failed.
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Things in General.

President Barnard OF COIumbia Col
eye. who has made a careful exam.
MASON ~ 4 Eyvn,;an ohal;sL that no.
s.."s 49," r., css
100 10 G : MI Nh tor;Wo yeaIs,
ofthe stone, but 4 Is SO small that the
change would o be noticeable at the
emu OF Six THOUSAND years.
1t is said by q paper published in
Portland, Me-, that one of the lottery
companies se,ia more than eN,n t;cLots
every month IN natrons in thar c;tv TIE
ontoo ia theraf,re large Int tha rat,,rn
il. 81 course insivn;f .ant
ice tIeh SUCK u as 90 sail
Ors. The u having crossed the line
when the wind was in the south. they
hold that tho wind viii cont;n,a 4, nat
dire,.fjon fnr tLa raxt civ ,n,ntLo H.
after giving ma q mid ,ar@rKi
sion Freeman. A
The Electrical Power and Storage
Company of London recently sent a
secondary battery, charged and ready
for nse, into the ountr The railroad
company charged 22s. 81. for the out
ward journey and only It's. sd, for The
return, and j n reply 10 a remonstrance
40 this difference OF rates explained that
the cells wentiully charged, but returned
empty. The Joke is on the railroad com
pany, which has s.nce learned that
..ur,. Nv.
" 10 hee'eo. says e'e New lots
MAI and Express. are laws increasing
the legitimate supply of material tor the
d~i-seciing table. and more severely pnn-
ishinp the pnrchasers OF stolen cornses
as we'll as those who steal them. The
bodies Of ali executed murderers. and ri
all conv.cts who die in prison. and of all
persons VINO commit suicide In public
i Ill., 'sn nr s W un a.,,vaaau 70 . ,a1t ."an
Il nnyht, To he made q 3 ATE nrisnn nf.
tense 10 purchase a corrse, as we'll as Ia
| rob a grave. The depredations of ghouls
make one of the terrors which turn the
| th lights OF many toward cremation as d
substitute for bsrial."
T..a, n~.a,;s.;,
= . RI
anu mere Is one OF thetn' Ahlrty wears
ago q family named Taylor, IN Milan
county, we're attacked by Indians, but,
with the aid OF a stranger, three uf the
savages were killed and the rest nut tc
| flight. One OF the daughters became at.
ttCfleQ TO the stranger and the were
snor to be married.; but one day the
iover told his bei.r ,thed that he could
9 marry her untli he a kiled one
n;,a ~ aa,.h , W.. ,ns .nd Ia = w n.st !, anu ha aeeog
the death. Years nnssed' and the orr
| hearing nothin. 81 her lover. finally
married a prosperous farmer. Recenti
g oody OF the lover anu that OF 1he In
ulan ne mao 70 XIII were foahm together,
ootI completely peulned. u White
man had oeen cus 70 death ana the In
dian fatally shot.
A Burlington correspon lent saws that
,ha y.rmnnt law .,;.;,, uo,nan ~
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Heavy verdict Against a railroad.

A verdict for $25, 000 has seen rendered
by a jury in the case OF Beems VS.. The
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railway
f'ompany, tried before the district court OF
Cass county, Iewa,a at Atlantic. The action
was brought or damages accruing to Mrs.
Beems, u account of the death oil her hus-
band, it is alleged by the carelessness and
negligence of the company. Mr.. Beems
WAS u brakeman and was engaged in un-
coupling cars at Nicola when the accident
occurred. The suit was first tried more
thah a year ago. The railroad was de-
fented bnt appealed the case and the gu.
pfeHle court sent it back for retrial. The
second trial was had last April, at which
time the company YVES beaten a second
time. The defendant, however. succeeded
IN getting the verdict OF the Jury set aside
and an order for q new trial, with the re
salts mentioned above.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-30
A Double Wisconsin Murder Mystery
Cleared UD,

An old resident of Ludington, Wis, who
was lynched iniCoiorado, confessed his pre-
vlous crimes, among them the murder in
Lud'ngton, Wis, OF the brothers Johnson,
which occurred about six years ago, which
he described particularly. He said he
poisoned the Johnson who was found at
home with strychnine contained in whisky.
10 misdirect suspicion, prob bly, he deter
mined to get rid Of the,other one in a dit
ierent manner, and SO ten pied him by say-
ing he had seen a bear, and shot him, in
the most obscure place he could.6nd. The
murder was committed for money, and the
assassin secured about-$7OO. The Johnsons
were bachelors who lived on adjoining
farms, and reputed to be wealthy. The
oody OF one of them, evidently sumo weeks
dead, was found in the house, and the
~nelghbors e to tell his brother. To
their surprise he proved to be missing, and
hl5 stock were dispersed and near v starved
TO death. 1t was, therefore, suspected hat
one OF them had killed che other and alter.
ward committed suicide. Some two or
Three years later the skeleton of the missing
man was found in q thicket, with an emp.1
gun beside him and skull fractured con.
hrnlng the original impression until the
ABOVE news was received.
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Amending Land Laws:

Washington, Special Telegram, Nov. ~.
Early in the session a bill will be introduced
by . northwestern member to amend the
presumption, homestead and timber culture
laws. 1t is not proposed to repeal the pre-.
emptiou law, but to exclude from its oper.
alton pine timber lands, and provide 70.
the sale of the timber at public auction af.
ter appfaisement- In framing the proyis.
on the principle of the Minnesota law re-
gerding the sale OF school lands of the state
will bs followed. Ut is argued that pine
timber lands are unit for agricultural pl,r-
poses, and that the Exemption law only
opens up . way for specnlators to obtain
possession OF the valuable timoer on them
for almost nothing. The member says:
BY fixing q minimum at which timber
can be sold and offering 1t at public auction,
the government will receive u fair price for
the Timber d remove the opportunity for
fraud by land sharks an speeulators. 1t
will also do away with the necessity and
expense OF sehding out INSPECTORS and
special agents 70 investigate these frauds,
which are Only partially discovered and ex-
posed. Under the present law the special
agency system is g necessity and has done q
great deal of good; bat IL has been ard will
be unable tn entirely prevent fraud. I do
not favor the entire repeal OF the pre.eMp
ton law. By 1t . MI honestly Intending
to enter land and obtain q farm can do so,
He may have failed through misfortune to
sec ire his farm under the homestead law,
and the presumption law enables him ia
carry out his intention; so If he had previ.
ously entered . quarter section py pre-emp-
ton, and had failed, through no fault of hi,
own, to complete his entry, the homestead
law affords him an opportunity to secure
his farm. I think the tinlber culture law
rs it is, opens the way to fraud, and I shall
embody In my bill . provision to eithel
amend or repeal it. I have personal Knowl-
edge that the law is being grossly violated
For instance, the provision which prohib
its more than one enuy in q section,
find on q recent visit to Dakota, was in ont
locality entirely disregarded; also a fraudu
lent entry in one section prevents q bont
ide one in the same section. I nave also
noticed that no trees are to be seen over vast
ragions.of country, where timber culture
entries have been most numerous. F0l
these reasons this law should either be re
pealed or materially amesded.
The same bill will probably also contain
a provision to amend the homestead law.
by increasing the notice ofintention to max.
proof from thirty days to six months. ire
speclive of alleged time OF residence prior tt
entry. This would De in accordance witt
the Recommendation of the commissions
ofthe general lana Office.
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herself the other DAY b.csuse some one
kept sending her letters charging her hus.
btHd With unfaithfulness.
JacobA. HelisigeI was convicted In the
United States court 10 Philadelphia of EN-.
b.zzlirg government funds while postmas-
ter of Steelton, Pa.
Andrew Wolf, of Albin, Grant county,
OAK, was assaulted by an unknown person.
roboed, and Jeff for dead, but will recover.
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The business prospects of the country
form the staple OF q good deal of edito-
ial writing, about this time, when the
Jet OF failures are unusually large. While
there are some.grounds for apprehen-
sion and encouragement there
are certain hopeful signs upon
which q cheerful Wet of the future NAV
be predicted. In the matters Of iron,
for instance, prices have declined to a
low figure, an J. many furnaces have gone
out of blast. But stocks are consumed
and APPOINT must soon be reached when
solvent iron establishments will meet
with better remuneration on an increas-
ing demand for their products. There
is coed encouragement in the agriculture
a outlook aRd its bearing upon the for
sipn trade of the country. The crops,
with the exception Of wheat, are all
that can be desired. While the wheat
crop falls short Of the extraordinary
yieid Of last year it must not be- forgot
ten that the surplus carried over from
1882 was large enough to make the az.
gre2ate at the disposal ofthe farmersthis
year almost equal to that of one year
~ 80 S0A
ago. The cotton crop, while smaller
than that OF n year ago, is still large
and will bring Southern planters quite
As much money as if it had been greater.
In faut q crop equal to that of 1882 might
have forced prices down and proved
less erative than it will under
present circumstances. while wheat is
not going ont IS freely as might be
wished vet the demand will increase as
European stocks diminish. Europe is
quite likely to consume whatever we
can conveniently spare, and will take
our surplus al some priceaor other. Our
exports for the present calendar year,
with the exception Of June and July,
have exceeded the imports. Deducing
b adverse balance of the two months
named, the balance TO our credit on the
1st OF October aggregated nearly forty
eight millions OF dollars. Gold has COM
menced coming this way and the strong
probabilities are that increasing exports
wliikesp the tide moving in our favor.
Ihers,are absolutely, no grounds for APP
pretending q general repuislon or wide
Z starvation, and there is nothing
70 a revival of activity in bus
,neas in the spring.
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SpECTER.
How n Sice.Looking Ghost Was Cap
tured in Savannah.

From the s annah News.
Yesterday morning about 3 o'clock
Mr.. Warning Russell caught a suspicious
looking character entering the premises
of wealthy citizen, and the circumst m
ces which led to the capture are sid to
be us follows: During the past three
or four months the residence of the
gentleman was securely locked every
night when the inmates were retiring,
but every morning the rear doors we're
founo un'orke :, and on several occa-
sions wild open. The matter assumed
the stature of u mystery, and repeatedly
foiled successive attempts 10 explain it.
Whoever entered the house and passed
ont neglected to e1nove anything of val
ue, nd what the object Of The strange
visitor was and how he gained
an entrance to the resid ence
when the locks were repeatedly changed
We're annoying questions. The mem
bers ofthe family beea ne exceedingly
nervous, and their friends suggested
ghosts and other equally mysterious
and unwe'come intruders. The owner
OF the house finally called on MIR. Rus.
sell and offered Il liberal sum if he would
solve the matter. Mr. Russell said he
would undertake the task provided the
owner would take his family out
of town and not return until after 8
O'Clock the following day, the proprie-
tor to make the act of his intended Wis
it from the city known to every person
in the neighborhood. The condition
was agreed to. Mr.. Russell with two
detectives, that night early, went
thrDIgh the house, fastened every door
and window, and then locked the rear
door. and taking the key with him, Sc
GREETED himselfln the clubhouse in the
yard, alter taking the further precaution
to sprinkle lime on the ground near the
rear doors. Yesterday morning al the
hour mentioned, a weil-dresed young
man opened the side gate leading to the
premises, as ended the ba k steps,.
and then unlocking the door passed in
to the house. The detectives a few
minutes alter, with the second key, en-
tered nolselesslv and tracked the in
truder by the footprints to time in the
hallway and on the stairs to one of the
sleeping apartments, where they awak-
ened the Young man, who had zone by
this time TO sleep. The youthful inva-
der proved to be a son ofthe proprietor,
who was in the habit of stealing out of
the house and then returning before
daylight but who, knowing that his
family was away, concluded not to re-
turn until an hour or so before sunrise.
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largest ever made, measuring n.ne feet in
circumference and two feet in thickness. A
giant loaf of bread five feet in length decoro-
ted the table. This was the first marriage
of giants in America, and tie second in the
world. The combined height OF the bridal
pair ls fifteen feet. three inches, and they tip
the keam at 1,549 pounds. The wedding
ring weighed seventeen ptnuyweiehts,
and was five inches in circumference.
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A Bit Of Romance From Yer
.. mont.
From the Burlington Free Press -.

fiohi NC DuLiil5ton TFSs EreSS. .
Last Summer some Burlington people
were visiting in a Western town, and
there formed the acquaintance of a
furnitnre-dealer who had recently bu-
ried his second wife. They joked him.
little about his future matrimonial pros
poets, and he caudtdly adlnltted that hs
would Ike 10 marry again, and asked
If they knew an eligible lady. Suisse.
quently he looked at their photograph
album, in which was the picture of an
unmarried lady of tins city which took
the widower's fancy, and be was told
her name, The Burlington people
thought no more of it, but after Their
return home were surprised to leerT
that the Western gentleman had openei
a correspondence with the lady al
luded to- The course of true love ran
smoothly, the Western widower came IL
Burlington on Friday of last week, saw
his laav love for the arst time, and the
marriage took place on I tuesday,, the
happy couple starting at once for the
West,
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Gov ordway in " ashington.

Washington Special Telegram, Nov. 81
Gov Ordway of D.kota was quite pleased
to-day to get a telegram from Bismarck,
telling him that the west wall of the CAPT
tol building is half way to the third or last
story, and the east wall only one day be-
hind, and ~srowipg abrolute assurance that
tic building win be completed and roofeo
ty the list OF Jannary. 1t aas been sugges.
ted that Gov. Ordway came To Washington
To secure his reapuointmeut as governor of
Dakota. His lem will not expire Till ney,
June. The governor says lac will not &c
cep, the office agai but that he has no
thought OF dong anything looking toward
reappoiptmeni, ., d has not II ada M his
mind al present hat he will acc pit it If it is
rendered him.
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The oil wells Of California last year
yielded 5.Gl0,u00 gallons of oil, and it is
expected tue product VIII be redoubled
tins year.
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LATE MARKET REPORT.

WHEAT-The marke ct on Change was dull yester-
day, bur prices were a little better all around. For
No. l hard 9s lac was bid. but sellers he's out for
99c, and no safes were made. For January No. l
hard $l.01 was bid aud S1.O3la for February.
Sales Of MAY We" male at Sl.lO. From q to 1c
more was ash ed Q futures by sellers.
CoRN-Ihe ma.kt is dull aud steady. No. 2
was bid for at 4Sc on track. 49c asked: October
and November, 47c: year, 4Gc; condemned, 43
@46c.
OATs-Dull and steady. No. . white. 29c asked.
CSC bid; No. 9. 27c asked. 26c bid: rejected, 25@s
or.
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2 Gl&st0r HHtes aud John LangenfS no
tel g Hslsns. Mautaua were bnrned on the
18th. L0ss 5000.
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Capt John Doughty OF Lake City has gone
. Florida to spend the winter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-10-10
A Lawyer with q Henrt.

"Have you ever been in prison?"
asked badgering lawyer of a modest
witness, whom he was trying to bully.
The witness did not answer.
"Come, now, speak up, no conceal
ment. Have you ever been in prison,
sir %
eyes, sir, once" answered the wit
ness, looking modestly down to the
floor.
j." Yes, thought so. Now, when'
When were you in prison, sir?"
"Tn 1862
Where, sir?"
The witness hesitated.
Come, own up, now; no dodging,"
screamed the lawyer. "Now, where
were you in prison, sirs"
In-in-in---"
Don't stammer, sir! Out with il !
Where was it?'
" Ip-in Andersonville, sir"
There was 4 moments painful pause.
Then the lawyer, who was an old
soldier, put his hand to his forehead as
if pistol shot had struck him, while
the tears came to his eyes. Then,
jumping forward, he clasped his arms
around the witness neck, and ex-
claimed;
my God! | was there myself"