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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
THR S0UTH.

FIFTY-FIvE Apache Indian children were
recently sent from the San Carlos Agency
at Wilcox, Ariz., to the training school at
Carlisle, Pa. Four chiefs accompanied
them.
A MAN named Webb recently got in a
difficulty in Jackson County, Ala, with
three brothers named Wilburn, killed two
and fatally wounded the third. The origin
was trivial matter.
CHARLES NEWTON was recently killed at
Hawesville, KY, by r. L. Bruner.
A BOULDER as large as box-car recent
" fell from the mountain in front of NOV
ing passenger train on the Chattanooga &
st. Louis Railroad, about twenty miles
from Chattanooga, Tenn, wrecking the
train and killing the engineer and fireman.
The conductor and five train-men were
badly hurt.
A CONSULTATION was held recently by
the leading whisky men of Louisville over
the pending Congressional legislation on
extending the bonded period for two years.
Their council was held with closed doors,
but it is understood that those present re-
solved to lend no assistance to any lobby
in the interest of the measure, but agreed
to let it go before Congress upon its simple
merits.
THREE of the Howard County (Arl)
rioters, who were under sentence of death,
were recently granted an appeal, and the
Judges who granted the appeal were hung
in effigy by some lawless parties. The de-
cision of the Judges was generally sus-
tanned by the people.
THE Texas House has passed bill pro-
viding that the punishment for fence-cut-
ting shall be from one to five years in the
Penitentiary, and that no person owning
and residing upon land enclosed by an
other who refuses ingress and egress may
lawfully open passage way through the
enclosure. Also bill providing that the
illegal enclosing of the lands of another, or
of the public, be made punishable by a fine
of from fifty cents to one dollar per month
each acre.
Boys recently discovered the mutilated
body of man on the prairie, near Gum
Island, Tex. Both legs were cut off and
his neck broken. No clew to the perpetra-
tors of the deed.
A DIFFICULTY occurred recently in Henry
County, Ala, between John Boatright
and Rev. j. W. Malone, Baptist minister,
in which the latter was fatally cut with a
knife. An old feud led to the trouble.
Both were represented to be men past the
prime of life, of steadyhabits and respecta-
bility
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
THE EAST.

WILLIAM HATTEN, aged eighty-one, re-
Gently committed suicide in New York
City.
1LDEN G. ABBOTT, for ten years cashier
of the Union Market National Bank at
Watertown, Mass, has absconded. He is
over So, 900 short.
1t is said that an oath-bound organize
ton has been discovered in Pennsylvania,
whose members swear not to buy French
goods, and to boycott all dealers selling
them, until the embargo on pork is removed.
The New Jersey Legislature has defeated
a resolution asking Congress for National
Postal Telegraph law.
THE Boston & Albany Railroad recently
made a sweeping reduction in the wages
of its men, and also reduced the number Of
employees.
AN explosion in a burning building at
Rome, N. Y, recently killed Joseph and
Samuel Alexander.
THE Phoenix Glass Works at Pittsburgh,
Pa, were destroyed by fret other night.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $74 900.
j. NJ. RYFoRD, a merchant of Moriah, VT,
with his wife and two daughters
started for Warder, Vt, several weeks ago
to visit his father. He drove a team of
horses, and as they had not been heard
from it was feared that they either broke
through the ice on Lake Champlain or
were frozen to death in the Green Noun
tains.
A LATE midnight fire in a five-story
apartment house in Sixth avenue, in New
York, created a panic among the occu-
pants, dozen of whom OCCUPYING the up
per floor escaped to the roof in their night
clothes, and jumped to roof six feet be-
low. Mrs. Michaels and her grand daugh-
ter were probably fatally burned.
REPORTS from the wreck of the steamer
City of Columbus are that she is gradually
sinking, but little of the rigging being now
visible.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the other day, as
three men were engaged in loading pieces
of steel plates on cars, and were standing
on the platform on which there was from
fifty to seventy-fve tons of the iron, the
platform gave way and the men fell to the
ground with the metal on top of them.
John Butler and Thomas Liney were killed
and John Roach fatally injured.
THE breaking up of the Allegheny and
other rivers in Pennsylvania did great
amount of damage. Bottom lands were
flooded and families had to seek safety in
fight. The town of Freeport was at one
time in danger of destruction, the ice be-
ing piled thirty feet high.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
GENERA AL.

The American Lumber Company, at
Toronto, Canada. has failed, with liabilities
of 81, 100000.
AT San Juan Bantista, Mexico, a recent
accident caused the death of a son of DR..
Thomas Fitzpatrick, and Catarina, his
niece. They were working at night on
picture as present and surprise to the doc
tor, and, desiring to dilute some colors
with warm water, tried to light fire, and
to hasten their work poured liquid gas on
the fire. The result was an explosion, and
the two were so badly burned that they
died.
IT is stated that General Gordon, before
his departure for the Soudan. telegraphed
Colonel Cortlogan, commander at Khar-
toum, to send a trusty messenger to Ell
Mahdi, and ordering Cortlogan to suspend
operations until Gordon's arrival. Six
hundred men had left Cairo for Suakim.
THE bodies of victims of the Jeanette
Arctic expedition recently arrived at Mos
COW, Russia. American residents placed
flowers and wreaths upon the biers.
A PROMINENT Washington friend of the
Nicaragua Canal Company received a letter
from Manaqua, Nicaragua, written by
native citizen of that country, in which the
"failure of the canal project" was spoken
of as deplorable, but recognized the fact
that it is but for the present. The writer
expressed hope for the future, believing
that the canal will be built through some
OF her instrumently than the existing com.
pany.
A RECENT explosion on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, near Fort Arthur, Mani
toba, caused by dynamite cartridges left
on a stove, killed five men.
BAKER PAsHA was reported as having
defeated several of the False Prophets
Chiefs, and was marching on Khartoum.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
THE LATEST.

AT Lancaster, Tex, the other day, John
Nash, an old gentleman, was fatally
stabbed by maniac brother. He had been
caring for the demented relative and kept
him in a room at his home for number of
years in preference to sending him to an
asylum. On the morning of the tragedy
the maniac escaped, got hold of knife
and inflicted several frightful wounds
upon his brother before he could be Sc
cured.
THE Hamburg American Packet Com
pany recently telegraphed the Secretary of
he Navy, offering to transport to New
York without charge the bodies of Captain
belong and party, expected to arrive at
Hamburg shortly.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER recently
placed at the disposal of the House Com
mittee on expenditures in the Department
of Justice, the entire force of the Examiners
Department, to be sent alone or with sub
committees, to investigate the alleged ir-
Irregularities in the offices of United States
officials. 1t was said the committee would
probably go to New York City for short
time and investigate the Office of John /.
Davenport, Supervisor of Elections.
THE Senate Committee on Judiciary re-
Gently ordered the Lowell Bankruptcy bill
to be favorably reported, with amendments
1t preserves State exemptions, and author
ICES involuntary proceedings only against
persons whose debts amount to more than
one thousand dollars and only against
traders. 1t diminishes the number of Com
missioners in Bankruptcy.
SIxTYTwo new pupils recently entered
the Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa.
MILLERsBURG, O., was recently shaken
up by an earthquake.
THOMAS CoLLYER and his wife, residing
poisoned by pepper used in the household.
John Cowley and his brother-in-law, were
arrested on suspicion of having poisoned
the pepper. Annie Cowley, a sister to
John, was also arrested. The only motive
known for the crime was that they wanted
TO get possession of their fathers property,
which amounted to about $500. The
father died n1ysteriously some time ago.
FOWLER BROTHERS, the pork packers, re-
Gently entered suit at Chicago against the
members of the late firm of McGeoch,
Burlington "a Oo'' LUZ HAL d HluAiOH Uoi-
lars damages owing to assertions made by
that firm against the purity of lard the
plaintiffs were putting upon the market
just prior to the collapse of McGeoch.
WENDELL PHILLIPS died at Boston,
Mass, the I'd, in the seventy-third year of
his age.
ELEVEN men were recently arrested in
Robinson and Brown Counties, Tex, by
the Sheriffs of those counties and lodged
in Jail at Jewett, for whipping q negro
man.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
A Roman Circus.

Rome is astir early, citizens and
strangers, slaves and soldiers, all are
hurrying toward the great pleasure
ground of ROme-the Circus Maximus.
With flutes playing merrily, with sway
ing standards and cleaning statues
with proud young cadets, with priests,
and guards with crested helms, skilled
performers, restless horses, glittering
chariots, down the Sacred street winds
a long procession, led by the boy
magistrate, Marcus of Rome, the favor
tie of the Emperor. 1t passes into the
great circus, and files into the arena;
two hundred thousand excited people
think, boys, of a circus tent that holds
two hundred thousand people!-rise to,
their feet and welcome it with hearty
hand -clapping. The trumpets sound
the prelude, the young magistrate.
standing in his SuggeStuS, or state box)
filings the nGppG, or white flag. into the.
course as the signal for the start; and,
as ringing shout goes up, four glitter
ing chariots, rich in their decorations;
of gold and polished ivory. and each
drawn by four plunging horses, burst.
from their arched stalls and dash around
the track Green, blue. red. white
the colors of the drivers-stream from
their tunics Around and around they
90. Now one and now another is ahead.
The people strain and cheer, and
many wager is laid as to the victor
Another shout The red chariot
turning too sharply, CRATES against the
meta, or short pillar that stands at the
Af hn IL hp.
lower central wall; the horses rear and
plunge, the driver struggles manfully to.
control them, but all in vain; over goes
the chariot, while the now maddened
horses dash wildly on until checked by
mounted attendants and led off to their
stalls. "Bluei bluer' Green! greenn'
rise the varying shouts, as the contend
inc chariots still struggle for the lead.
White is far behind. Now comes the
seventh or final round. Blue leadsi
No. green is ahead Neck and neck
down the home streatch they 90 mag
nificently, and then the cheer of victory
is heard, as, with final dash, the green
rider strikes the white cord first and the.
race is wont
Now, in the interval between the races,
come the athletic sports; fOOt-racing and
wrestling, rope-dancing and high leap
ing. quoit-thrOwing and javelin matches.
One man runs race with a fleet Cap
padocian horse; another expert rider
drives two bare-backed horses twice
around the track, leaping from back tc
back as the horses dash around. Can you
see any great difference between the
circus performance of A. ID. 1873 and one
of A. ID. 18S4?-E. S. Brooks, in So.
NichOLnS
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07

January, s11, 95s,0CS; decrease since June
30, 1888, So, O07, 4S7.
A COMMITTEE, composed of members Of
different labor organizations with head
quarters at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently went
to Washington to urge the passage of bill
restricting the importation of foreign labor
under the contract system.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
A False Move.

He was q porter in wholesale dry
goods house on Jefferson avenue. His
salary was not large enough to warrant
him in buving fast horse and wearing
silk undershirts. but he was growing fat
and smoking fair to medium cigars. In
an evil moment the tempter came and
whispered in his ear that he could
make SOC as easy as rolling off log.
With thai much money in his hind
pocket he could cheese the racket and
have new tailor every week in the year
Yesterday morning at nine o'clock
the porter invited the senior partner to.
90 upon the roof with him to see about
repairs. There was a wicked leer on
his face and strange light in his eyes,
but the guileless senior partner noticed
nothing but the fact that the porter was.
getting 4 brandy-fush on his nose. No,
sooner had they reached the roof than
the villain seized his employer and
held him suspended over the dizzy
hight and cried out:
''Your check for $4,000 or 1 drop
you into the alley!'
Say $4,000"
Never
MAKE IL SlI ,OOO-
81 viii not! Give me what / ask OF
over you go.''
VERY WE'LL knock under"
The senior partner sat down on the icy
cover of the trap-dOOr and wrote check
for the sum named. The porter seized it
and swiftly descended and closed the trap
to keep the victim on the roof. 1t was
but the work of five minutes to run to,
the bank and present the check. r
Never had cent on deposit with
usi'' said the cashier as he showed it
back.
The porter had made false move,-
and he had lost. He crossed the river
on the ice, and is now a wanderer on,
fc reign shores.--Detroit Free Press. q 81
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07

wrecked and the ruins took fire. F. n.
Orr, his son Elmer, Mrs. Homer Highland
and daughter, Mrs. Frank Evans and two
children were either killed outright or
burned to death, and many injured.
ROBERT W. LEONARD committed suicide
on sleeping car of the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad, at Cincinnati, the other night.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07
I'D like for you to return my saw


said a carpenter to a cOlOred man.
HAS / got yer saw?" Il suppose So.
for YOU borrowed it, "An' amt /
dun fotch it back?" mo, you haven't"
"Wall, tell yer,1 bOrrid dat saw
for de s'preme cor't knocked de socks
often de cibil rights bill. De law ez it
stan's now, says dat white man amt
got no noah rights den a niger, in
fack, dat da's jes' de same, habin'
right fur right" THAT has nothing
to do with my saw" DE mischief it
don't, Yer had right to len it, didn't
yer?" 'sOf course l did" ''Yas, wall,
OATS one right, an has a right to keep
it, OATS anuder right. Good day, sab
Wheneber yer wanster dicuss de CON-
sutton o. de country, blow yer hon an
I'll be ArkdHSQs0 Traveller.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07

"A woman was fined twenty-five
dollars at Huntsville, Tex, for carry
ing concealed weapons.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-02-07

''The foregoing rates." the Commission
ers say, 1--WE believe to be just and reason
able and so decide. There are strong rea-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17

BILLY MCG1oRY, the New York
tough, who reformed and swore off,
but not in time to prevent his con-
viction for violation of the excise
law and sentence to six months on
Blackwelps island, has suddenly be-
come the pet and admiration Of the
temperance and truly good people.
In some OF their meetings they
have asked God to bless him, and
help him keep his promise and re-
frain from intoxicants. If Billy
should behave himself in the pen
itentiary, and maintain a proper
demeanor of piety, by the time he
gets out he ought to be able to tap
some of his sympathizers for snug
little sum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THIRTY-FOURTH DAY.
February Is, 1884.

House met at 10 am.
Minutes read a. d approved.
Mr.. Dusenberry moved to take
up the regular order of business.
Carried.
Mr.. Hatch presented the petition
of Thomas e. p it's and about sixty
others, asking an appropriation of
81 900 for a road in Wasatch county.
Referred to committee on highways.
Mr.. Thurman submitted the re-
port of the committee on NUM-
cipal corporations and towns,
relative to III. r. No. as, a bill
amending the charter of SaIt Lake,
recommending its passage. Report
received and the bill placed on file.
H. F. No. 80. bill providing for
the establishment and support of
District schools and for other pur-
poses, was taken up on its third
reading.
A message was received from the
Council, giving notice of concur
renee in amendments by the House
Of @. F. No. 8.
Various amendments were made
to 81. f. No. 80. Pending the con-
sideration of the bill, its further
consideration, on the motion of Mr..
Stanford, was postponed till Monday
at 2 pm.
Mr.. Morgan moved that when the
House adjourned to-day it be till 10
a. m. next Monday. Motion lost.
Mr.. Thurman moved to suspend
the rules and take up 81. F. No. 45.
Carried.
II. F. No. As, a bill amending the
charter of Salt Lake City, was taken
up on it's third reading. This bill
relates to licensing, governing or
pl 0hibiting saloons, billiard and
pool tables, ten pin alleys, etc. The
power to employ special police, to
extend the power to license, and to
prohibit the employment of females
about saloons, ETC., is also granted,
with power to punish various
offenses. The bill passed-ayes Is,
nays none, absent five.
A message was received from the
Council giving notice Of the passage
Of @. F. No. ~, and also G. f. No.
20.
c. F. No. 81, q bill amending
Section 1444 Compiled laws Of Utah,
was read the first and second time,
and referred to the committee on
judiciary.
G. F. No. 20. bill amending
Chapter %, Laws of 1882, was read
the first and second time, and re-
ferred,to the committee on judiciary,
At 1910 o'clock, on motion of Mr..
Rider. adjourned till Monday next
at 2 pm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
LEAD RATHER THAN Drive.

Stringent measures, whether ap-
piled to young or old. are not always
! productive of good results. When
certain privileges have been enjoyed
for any time We learn to look upon
them as our rights and are not will
ing to be deprived Of them without
some opposition, no matter how in
furious may be the effects. Where
young people are interested 1t is
necessary to move with caution as
they are not, as q class, given to
reason in such matters. They do
not hesitate to say that they are be-
ing ill-treated, and that their domain
of enjoyment is being encroached
upon by their seniors. Besides,
many of them can remember when
that " hich is tabooed now was en-
joyed By those who now oppose it.
They ask fer reason to be given
why that which was not con-
sidered improper formerly should
be so now. They ask that some one
explain the cause for the thought of
danger which is claimed to attach
itself to their favorite amusement.
Unless this eaa be clearly shown
they will seek their pleasure where
there is far greater danger of con-
tamination from contact with those
who are not moral and hence the
worst associates possible for the
youth of either sex. They do not
do this to court danger; neither do
they wish to disobey their parents
or guardians, but they will seek
harmless amusement that is up to
their standard wherever they can
find it and it would be equally as
wise to give them at home what
they demand from habit and en-.
enlargement as to drive them to
places where they will revel in that
which, to their innocent minds, is |
not wrong, and thereby work injury
to themselves physically and per-
haps morally. Children approaching
the boundary Of manhood and wo-
manhood can scarcely be dealt with
as children; they should be reasoned
with and won by love and kind
ness, and not subjugated by those
,terner measures which, to them,
nave no color of justice. They feel
hat they are the wronged indivi-
lual and to place matters right
hey will be led by this thought
nto disobedience, and from dis
,egard for parental mandates in
his they will naturally drift to o h,
ITS, the result of which may be far
more serious to all concerned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17

EMORY SToRRs, the Chicago poll
tician.lawyer, says that nine.tenths
of the delegates from Illinois to the
Republican National Convention
will favor the nomination of Sem
ator Logan for the Presidency.
Some hard things have been said
about the intelligence and RESP cot.
ability Of Illinois Republicans, but
this is the severest assault upon
their characters that has yet been
made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17

PETITIONS ARE pouring in asking
Congress to enact a prohibitory
liquor law for the District of Column
bia. Washington is good place te
make a practical test OF prohibitory
legislation, first, because it is sd
mitted that more liquor is drunk
there than in any other city of
equal population, and second, be.
cause less should be drunk. 1t
seems more humorous than earnest,
to ask Congress to sup
press the business.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
THE CITY OF THE DEAD.

There is something beautiful to
admire in the cemeteries OF other
cities leEs wealthy than ours-plea'
SAINT walks and secluded, shady,
seats wherein the heartSore pill
grims may sit and worship at the
shrine of sorrow; tiny streams from
which vegetation can gather that
moisture so necessary to its life and
beauty; silent city with walks and
roads made sacred by the memory
of the jewellers. To such haven
as this the mourner can 60 and not
feel that the bitter parting with
those we love is made more
bitter by the drear and DESC
late surroundings which charac~
terize the cemetery on the hill
side. AS 1t is now there
Ia no encouragement to make beau
tifal the resting.places of the rela-
tives and friends who have fallen
asleep. There can be nothing more
touching than the sight of weep-
ing mother placing flowers upon the
grave OF her child, and as each deli
cate touch indicates tine love that
prompted the act, so each sabbath
finds her there and every visit re-
veals the fact that the flowers have
withered and died as her hopes have
done before. Though we may be
busy and have no time to visit this
place, there are times when
we recall some face or form
and incidents in the life Of an init
mate friend. when we can think |
only of the barren waste wherein
he rests and wish that it were less
repulsive. We are not less mindful
of our dead than others and there
have been obstacles in the way
which have retarded any movement
In that direction perhaps, but there
should be no longer any excuse of
that kind. Let the City Council
act in this matter Immediately
and win the gratitude and
thanks of q patient and
just community. Let water be
brought to the city cemetery by one
OF the two methods now before the
City Council, and people Will take
an interest in planting shrubbery
and flowers in this barren enclosure
where rest the city's dead. We do
not mention this by way of COM
plant against the city fathers, but
simply as a reminder that this mats
ter has been delayed for 30 long that
people are watching anxiously how
long the report of the cemetery
committee will lay on the table SUBJ
ject to call.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17

WHEN THE Salvation Army broke
cut in. Allegheny city, the other
day, people in Pittsburg thought it
was the railroad riots over again.
II the Salvationists want to find
something that will make them hide
their heads for shame in the matter
of noise-making, they should come
ont here and fscs the 5 O'Clock fog
horn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17

THE CoPIAH county, Miss, cleo
ton investigation in which Senator
Sherman's committee is indulging,
seems to be second edition, copy.
righted, OF the Eliza PinkstOn bust
ness. It's a pity that poor Eliza is
not there to exhibit to Sherman's
longing gaze those CORY and CHASTITY
gsshes which erstwhile convulsed
the nation.