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The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
ALABAMA CLAIMS.
] Judgments Announced Yes,erdav

Judgments Announced Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Mar. AIN the court Of com.
missioners of Alabama claims today judg'
ments were announced as follows, with inter
est at per cent:
No. ,929, E B. Drummond s4O8S.
No 8. 99I Edwin ID. Morgan, Jr. John T. Torrey
solon Humphrey and Henry Day, executors of Ed
win ID. Morgan, deceased, S27o.
No. 1928. Jay L.. Adams 1874.
No. i, ,242. James II. Coghiil, So ,oo3.
NO. ], ,s43, Lewis ID. Bulkley and VIM. Q. Dunton
of the firm OF Buckley Bros. Co., 81 ,265,
No. ,244, Edward Hotchkiss and Henry O
Hotchkiss, Of the firm Of E. & H. 0. Hotchkiss
$2,04S.
No. 1,245, John G. jackson, 3,767.
No. ], ,S41, Daniel D. Smith, $209
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
FninI Callahan.

MACON, Ca. Mar. IA passenger train
train from Macon Monday night nesr Macon.
The engineer aud fireman on the up train
were killed, the express messenger badly
hurt, one passenger had an arm broken and
the enstDes and several freight ears were com.
pletsly wrecked.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05

VIENNA, March 4. Two tailors named
Sieneez and Hirsch and four workmen nave
been arrested at Agrsm, cspital Of Croatia,
They are believed to have been connected with
the recently arrested editor of the Pesth radi-
cal anarchist newspaper. in whose house Sc
cnrities belonging TO Herr Esert, the murder
ed banker Of Vienna, were found, and to be in
utilization with Swiss socialist clubs.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05

The literary properly Oi Tue works of the
well known French historian, Henri Martin.
COMPRISING IL HiStoire d- France insou,a
l7s9," and L'Histuice de France jusa,.'a NOS
Jours," was sold by auction Ia lars ON
Feb. Tor 2oO,OVo ,ranes, being 10000
francs above tbs upass prics,
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Ex-Gov. HENDRICKS WRITES
A LETTER.

He is nota Candidate for President-His
views from Foreign shore-SOme
Opinions with His Usual Provises-Nice
Balancing on the ariff Ques' ion-He
Advisss the Democrats that the snde.
pendent Vote will Determine the Com
test.
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GERMANY.
FRANCE.

PARIS, March IN. Paul De Cassagnac
writes in lie Matin, urging that Bonapartists
and Royalists should unite with view to eff
hicting the downfall OF the Republic.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
sw,TzER,AND.

BERNE, March 4.-Swiss police are search
lag the house OF Anarchists. The President
Of the Berne Ansrchial CLUB has been arrested.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
THE DOMINION.


@~s Onitafen Burned - Weath.
MONTREAL, Mar. 4.-The dwelling occupied
py onariSs I Varon at Tnree Rivers, was burned
speesfyely, psrished In the flames.
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05

"Are you sure yon ara conyerte6?" said Mr..
Spurgeon TO deyout houssmaid. 'Plesse
sir, think am, for sweeps under the
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
POLITICAL.
I he state Republican. Couven,ioa.

NEW York, March A. The Republican
State Committee voted today to hold the State
convention at Utica, April 23d next.
The following resolution was then unani-
mously adopted
Resolved, That This committee recommend
and advise that delegates to the Republican
national convention be elected by Conversations
held in and for their respective Congressional
districts and that the ratio of representation
therefor, In the districts now without any dis.
trict organization aud without any understand
lug as to the basis OF represen, alton, be based
on the Republican vote as cast in Assem- bly
districts at the last presidential election, the
various assembly districts to be entitled to the
same representation as they respectively ad
In the last State convention unless otherw iss
agreed upon by the several congressional dis
tricts."
A committee was appointed to draft O call
for the State convention, after which recess
was taken.
California Republicans.
SAN FRAucIsco March 4-The Republican
State committee today decided to hold their
convention at Oakland, April 80. An infor-
NAL vote OF the committee gave Blaine 27,
Washburn 8, Coakling 2, and Arthur 4.
Connecticus Prohibitionis,s.
HARTFORD, Conn March 4-The Prohi-
bition State convention held i'll this city to-
day made tue following nominations. For
Governor, hon. Elisha H. Palmer of Mont
VILE; lieutenant Governor, franklin 81. Sage
OF S!ouingtop; Secretary of State, Aaron
Morehouss OF Danburt; Treasurer, Edmund
Tuttle of Meriden; Com ptrolleY. Calvin s.
Harrington of Mddletown. The delegates to
the National convention are DR.. e. B. Lyon OF
New Britain, Elisha II Palmer, W. McKiu.
ley and Capt. Oliver w. Ward. Resolutions
were adopted demanding that the manufac-
ture anu sale OF intoxicating liquors be pro-
hibited by law and By constitutional amend
| m0uf,
The Portland daily press., 1884-03-05
MAINE.

Patents TO Maine xnveniors
Especial to the Press.l
WASHINGTON, Mar. A. Patents we're issued
to-day to Maine inventors as follows:
Orison Huff, Woodford's. for pocket knife.
Frederic NJ. Libby. Portland for pepholder.
Geo. W. Davis, Freepoit, for watchman's
electric time recording system.
Gilbert I. Bailey, Portland, for reel fasten.
ing for fishing reds. P.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04

make the best butter-not the most
profitable necessarily, but the best.
Having this object in view, / have been
obliged to discard oil-meal and thus re-
duce the quantity of my butter and
value OF the manure. I have been
forced to, instead of dropping the ma
nure into a convenient cellar below the
cows, to give up the cellar and wheel
manure to shed. / have been obliged
to discard deep setting and content my
self with the open shallow method,
which is more expensive and requires
more attention. and returns less butter.
1 have been obliged to reject all feeds
except corn, wheat, hay, beets and car
rots. have been obliged to give up
using the milk of COWS that have calved
too recently or too remotely. l have
for dozen years carefully, faithfully
tried to make good butter, as good as it
could be made; this has always been the
first -profitableness has
always been secondary. Theresult has
been for many years this butter has
brought higher price than any butter
in Berkshire, where so much good but
ter is made, and it has taken the first
prize over the country. 1t has been in
such constant demand at 65 cents
Us SIX per pound the year through
that when making 100 pounds week
there have been untitled orders for
twenty-five to thirty pounds more.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
FACT IND FANCY.

The best time to take down your fish
ing-rod and fowling-piece and 90
abroad into the country, is when your
wife is up in arms in the midst of the
delights of fall house cleaning.
The true workmen are those who love
work and love to see it rightly done
those who finish their task, however ar
duous it may be, for its own sake.
''Hire hail." ''give us a rest'' and
all the others of the category of can't
expressions and slang phrases used to
intimate bore that his conversation is
not essential to your happiness, have
gone out of date, and now you hear in
stead, ''chalk your chin!'
A turkey on your own table is worth
two in your neighbours coop, unless it
is dark night and there are no man.
traps around.-NeW York Morning
Journal.
There is Little Rock down in Ar
kansas, that is covered DER with moss
backs. 1t is supposed to have been car
ried there by glazier-one who had
the rocks-in the early history of the
state. The glacier was known as the
"Arkansaw Traveller" -CAteaqo Sun.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04

statesmen and great philanthropists
always have q loose, shambliag gait,
which comes from thinking OF others
more than themselves. The strut Of
the vain man, the lettering trip OF the
dude" the lounging gait OF the unem-
ployed club man, are all too familiar to
calf for description. To say that per-
son walks like a lady or gentleman is
high praise. The gait can never be
picked up in after life; it must be born
in man or woman and cultivated in
early youth. 1t is lost to man when
he falls into bad ways, for so surely as
he loses his consciousness OF rectitude
and pride of honor, so surely will he
pick up the gait OF the loafer An hon
est man, gentle or simple, never walks
like thief, and thief can never coun-
terfeit the gait of an honest man; but,
in attempting to apply these rules to
men one knows, it must be remembered
that all thieves are not caught, and all
suspected persons are not bad.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
Curiosities of the Mails.

Only domestic letters are opened bv
the Dead Letter Office, and of these
during the past year, $1,000 Contained
money; $4,000 contained drafts. checks
and money orders, and $1,000 contained
receipts. In these letters the actnaI
money received was S32,647, and tba
drafts, checks and money orders
amount to the enormous sum of moro
than S1,300,000. In these letters there
were $4,000 photographs and &c. 600 of
them contained postage stamps. A
great many of them contained articles
of merchandise and curiosities of VAR.
Gus kinds, and there is now IN tbe
Dead Letter Office museum enougb
specimens of different things wbieb
have been sent through the mails to f;n
the shelves lining the walls of a GOOD
sized parlor. These curiosities are Of
all kinds, from dirty shirt cuff To
polished dirk, from hand-msde I.ce 70
Indian moccasins. from a cows boof ~
human skull, from an eagles claw ~
live snake, from an Easter card 70 ~. W
alligator, and from gold nuggets 70 NJ f; 1n
Jewslry. Everything, in fact. that nn ne
would think impossible to send tbronah
the mails people attempt to mail.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04

..He was older than jim ~,
"What do you do here for iiving
"Eat." LEV,
"The best way we kin" A.,
"How do you spend your Sundays
Like the week days. :.
..How do you spend them!
Like Sundays" 49,,
sis that your daughter, yonder9
'No, sir, she AMT my daughter yon-
der, nor nowhere else. ;"
lis she relative of yoursP
..No, sir; no kim" -,
"Kin to your wife, SUPPOSE
"No kin to my wife, but she's kin TO
my children" .o,,
"How do you make that out?'
"She's my wife" -,
.How far is it to the next house!
1T is called three miles. but the man
who calls it that is liar. !"
.Tve got enough" said the Judge,
turning to the lawyer. '.Drive on.
pity the man who depends on this man
for information. :"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04

Natures Serial Story is concluded
by Rev. E. P. Roe in the coming Christ
mas issue of Harper's Magazine, with a
pleasant episode which readers will
have more than suspected. In this
story Gibson and Dielman have co-ope-
rated to make it the most richly illus
trated work of fiction ever issued, and
the former has given a careful as well
as picturesque series of portraitures of
the varying seasons of the American
year. The story will also make SUI
perb holiday volume from the press of
Harper & Brother, in which Mr.. Gibson
will add few decorative illustrations
not given in the magazine.
A, Baltimore paper intended to be
plimentary when it said the Catho-
lie clergyman attending the plenary
council in that city appeared ''far above
the average of intelligence"
To write for all time is the ambition
of every author. The man who origi-
mated the series of negro minstrel jokes
is the only one up to to date who has
apparently succeeded in his endeavor.-
Boston Globe.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
CURRENT NOTES.

An English surgeon says that shaving
is deadly practice, and if steadily IN
dulged in, shortens life by several years.
One reason why pure olive oil is diff
cult to procure, is because OF its large
consumption by silk manufacturers as
material for loading their fabrics.
Manchester. England. is threatened
with water famine, and the mills, dye
works, and other industries will be
stopped unless there be more rain.
John S. Prince, who rode mile on a
bicycle in 239. says that the wheels
catching the trotting horse is only a
matter of time, and thinks that the re-
cord will be reduced to two minutes or
less in year or two.
In the old records of the town of Clin-
ton, Mass, certain little thoroughfare
was called Scat Alley" In the present
book of tax registration" and the name
is euphonized into PUSSY Avenue"
and it is supposed that the next step
will be Feline Boulevard.
The growing crops and pastures of
all the Australian colonies have suffer-
ed severely from drought Recent rains
have saved the wheat crop from the al
most complete destruction at one time
feared; but there appears to be very lit
tie hope of prolific harvest.
The Arctic regions are not without
their pleasures. The Esquimaux girls
are very pretty, dance. sing and do not
care for ice cream. Hot drinks and
walrus blubber are their peculiar vani-
ties and sealskin sacques are sold at two
iron hoops and q ten-penny nail.
The Hawaiian Gazette complains be-
cause its hack-drivers occasionally be-
come very impertinent and attempt to
make overcharges. 1t says: "One of
our citizens was abused the other day
because he would not pay twenty-five
cents for being driven from the bank to
the government buildings.
Englishmen eat at shorter intervals
than Americans are accustomed to. The
farm laborer eats four meals day, and
in some of the baronial halls in England
the tables are spread for meals at inter-
walls of four hours during the day and
evening.
A gentleman in Ware, Mass, recent
ly let 90 tame deer in the woods near
the town. All the young bloods imme-
diately started out with their firearms
in spite of the protestations of the deer's
former owner. They have as yet failed
to bring down the game.
The Tallien band is the newest sort of
girdle, and Felix is using it on many
costumes. among the rest on one which
Mrs. Langtry is to wear as Pauline.
This band is of velvet, and is wide I'M
der the arms, where it is fastened into
the seams, and then narrows to two
straight ends, which are crossed in front
under a buckle.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
Il SOU4TTER EMILY.
arkansas Natures on Their O,cn Stamping
Ground.
Arkansas Traveller.

Arkansas Traveller.
81 do not see any popularity about
your people," said an eastern judge, adj
dressing his travelling companion, a
well known Arkansas lawyer, 81 have
travelled quite extensively in that state,
and have not as yet found that eccen-
tricity of action and prevarication of re-
ply that has often amused me in the
newspapers.
"You have done most of your travel
ing by rail-" the lawyer replied. ''This
is your first trip away from the main
road. I'll show you some of our genu-
inc natives. Yonder is house. Call
the landlord and hold a conversation
with him.
':Hello!'' called the Judge.
"Comin!' the man replied, depositing
a child in the doorway and advancing.
Flows all the folks?"
"Children's hearty; wife not well.
Amt what you can call bed sick, but
Just sorty stretchy."
"Got anything to eat in the house?"
''Ef | had it anywhere I'd have it in
the house."
''How long have you been living
here"
"Too long
GLOW many years."
''Been here ever since my oldest boy
was born
What year was he born?''
THE year [ come here"
ssHow old is your bOy?'
EFF he had lived he would have been
the Oldest until yit, but he died. Jim's
the Oldest"
How old is Jim?'
'He amt as old as the one that
died"
"Well, how old was the one that
died?''
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
Abuses at Edi1.S.
Rural New Yorker.

Rural New Yorker.
Most of the fairs have now been held,
and the Rural has been represented at
a large number, and we are sorry to say
that, while none were entirely free from
objectional features, they have, with
three or four exceptions, been so con-
Quoted as to be disgrace to the man.
ayers and curse to the communities in
which they have been held. The great
central idea has seemed to be, to get all
the money possible. No matter how
fraudulent, demoralizing, degrading or
corrupting the thing seeking admission
has been, if the proprietors were only
willing to pay freely for the privilege,
they have been permitted upon the
grounds, and been usually allowed to
locate in the choicest positions, and there
ply their nefarious trades entirely I'M
molested by the officers, managers or
police. The fairs, as now conducted,
are the most pernicious of all influences
at work to ruin our people, and unless
changed and purified, or abandoned,
will result in exerting most powerful
influence to corrupt the morals of our
sons, our daughters-indeed, of the ma
ton. We have not time or space at
present to enter into this matter as it
deserves; but we cannot refrain from
calling attention to it, and asking farm
ers and decent people of other callings
to carefully consider and talk it over
with their neighbors, and resolve that
when the annual meetings come, they
will see to it that men are put in con-
troll who will show some regard for the
honesty, morality and decency of the
Young,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
The Evolution of american Manners.

The Evolution of american Manners.
N. Y. Herald.
In the matter of society, America, at
a first glance, seems worse off than
England. We have no native social
traditions and we are shy of adopting
foreign ones. Every one wants good
manners, but how to get them is the
problem. At this late day of our ma
tional and social existence we are not
to be ruled from Buckingham Palace,
and to 90 on our present basis is practi-
cally to stand still. But we are the
corner stone of the future, not the cul-
mination of the past. The geographical
limits of America are its narrowest
bounds. It is new theater of the hui
man race. Our first impulse is to re-
greet the ease and automatic smoothness
of the Old World. But those who stick
to that impulse and do not rise to the
new plane will be left behind and for
gotten. We have OUT evils. But the
American snob is not a feeble-minded
man. He is an unjustifiable monster.
These snobs will go, for the people have
no sympathy with them. The young
American Hercules will strangle these
two old serpents- hereditary power and
personal pretension. He is rough and
crude about it now. Until the millen-
mum comes we must regard with suspi-
cion any man who claims to be immac-
ulate,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
BREWSTER'S HOUSE.
The Curious Mansion of the attorney Gen.
eral of the United States.

Philadelphia Letter to the Chicago Tribune.
Attorney General Brewster, who re-
Gently arrived from Newport, is still in
town. He will leave for Washington,
however, next week, and during the
season will entertain with his usual
antique elegance. Brewster's house
his home-here is one of the queerest
and at the same time contest old man.
sions in the city. TWAS in the fashion
able part of the town forty years ago,
but fashion has tucked up her skirts
and left it. 1t is now in the midst of the
section of the city that is devoted to
lawyers offices, banks and beer saloons,
Mr.. Brewster has always used the
suite of rooms on the first floor as his
own offices. Queer looking old rooms
they are, too, like big square boxes,
with high ceilings, quaint holdings,
unlocked for recesses and heavy
wooden mantel pieces covered with
carvings or angels heads and punches
of grapes. His law library takes up
nearly three sides of the rear room. He
has been gathering it book by book for
years and years until it is one OF the
best collections in the state. Over the
doorway hangs rusty sword that the
attorney generals grandfather received
from the hands of the great Napoleon
when he followed the little corporal to
Moscow and back. His library of gen
eral literature occupies another room.
1t contains everything probably that
our grandfathers might, could, would,
or should have read. The attorney
generals knowledge of the polite litera-
ture of the days of knee breaches and
frills is extraordinary, and it is to that
fact that much of the reputation as
literary man that he has with some peo-
pie is due. Before he was appointed
attorney general his own were the only
officers in his house. After he had gone
into the cabinet, however, and removed
to Washington, he rented out
nearly all of the rooms. 1t requires
a good deal of skill now for
him to stow away his household
with its retinue of servants whenever
he is in town. His valet used to sleep
on a bed nicely arranged over the tub
in the bathroom. so as to be within call
of his master. The valet came home
late one night, the bed
tumbled down, and, striking the spigot,
the befuddled servant was almost
drowned before he was pulled out of
the tub. Since that time the valet
sleeps over barber shop round the
corner, and when the attorney general
desires his services he hangs silk
out of the rear window of
his sleeping chamber as signal. Mrs.
Brewster has very little love for the
musty antique, and has for years been
urging her husband to move to m ore
part of the city. Her de-
sires, apparently, are about to prevail,
and when Mr.. Brewster leaves the cabi-
net he will, if he shall not have caught
on to some other office meanwhile, take
a residence near George W. Childs'
marble town house in the west end.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-04
Hog Cholera and Corn.

American Agriculturist.
We often here it asserted that hog
cholera, so called, is due directly or re-
motely to the too exclusive use of Indian
corn. There may be some truth in it.,
but there is no proof. Indian corn is
one of the best foods for fattening hogs
1t is particularly rich in starch and oil,
and of course, this means comparative
ly low proportion of heterogeneous or flesh
forming ingredients. Wheat, barley,
and oats, contain more nitrogen and
mineral matter. Peas are still richer in
nitrogen.
The nitrogen and mineral matter of
wheat exists largely in the bran, or in
the part of the grain Immediately under
the bran. If corn is deficient in nitro
gen and mineral matter, the evil, it
would seem, could be corrected by feed
ing bran and fine middling in connec-
ton with the corn. The practical diff
Guilty is to get the pigs to eat bran.
They prefer the corn. The low price of
wheat gives good chance to see if pigs
will be healthier with less corn. We do
not say that wheat is worth more
than corn to fatten hogs, but it is cutie
probable that for young growing pigs,
wheat is the healthier and better food,
and if wheat is worth no more than
corn, wheat is probably the cheaper
food, especially for young animals. We
believe in corn. 1t is the grand Ameri-
cereal. We can raise it at less cost per
bushel than wheat, but when wheat
cannot be sold for more than corn we
can feed it to our animals with good
advantage.