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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

The soft maple tree that was cut
down on the white house grounds re-
Gently, had many historic associations.
President Lincoln had habit of stop
ping at this tree, when thoughtfally
strolling about the grounds, and pull
ing twig from it. Then he would
take out his pocket knife, and slowly
whittle the stick as he walked on. The
tree was planted during the administra-
ton of Andrew jackson.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

The improvement of the understand
ING is for two ends. First, our own in
crease of knowledge; secondly to en-
able us to deliver and make out that
knowledge to others locke.
According to the returns of the CEN
sus bureau in 1880 the United States
has become the second copper produc-
ing country in the world.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
CAPITAL TOPICS.
MORMONIsM IN IDAHO.

Residents of Idaho are very much
alarmed over the spread of Mormonism in
that territory. Delegate Singiser, of
Idaho, in letter to Senator Plat, urges
the passage of bill Reproducing the leg
islature of the territory. He says promi-
| nent people from all over the territory have
| written him urging its passage as a neces-
sity in curtailing the rapidly growing power
of the Mormon church. OF the member
ship of the legislature, ten to thirty.six are
Mormons.
BUTLER FOR PRESIDENT.
Intimate friends of Butler say that
before the meeting Of the national demo
| cratic convention the general will already
be in the field with two presidential nomi-
nations-that of the greenbackers and that
of the laber reformers. They say that with
any other candidate but Tilden this will
give Butler balance Of power as between
the two parties and throw the election in
the house of representatives.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The house committee on judiciary
adopted Representative Maybury's adverse
report on the Joint resolution. proposing a
constitutional amendment to give woman
the right of suffrage. Dorsheimer agreed
to report on the ground that it is expedient
to extend the right Of suffrage now, but
WAS OIL LuC OplulOu Luht IL VIII Uc dutlS1Ulo
at some future time to give women the
right to vote.
LAND GRANT FORFEITURES.
The house committee on public lands
to-day adopted the report proposed by Mr..
Henly on the bill to forfeit portion OF the
land grant of the Northern Pacific railway.
Messrs. Oates, Van Eaton and Strait voted
against the report. Mr.. Belford was not
present. Delegate Brents will offer sub
stitute when it Is brought up for consider
alton In the house.
INSPECTION OF MEATS.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations agree to report favorably certain of
the amendments to the bill to provide for
inspection of meats for expectation, Of
fered by Sherman, togt ther with an addi-
tional amendment determined upon In the
committee. One of the Sherman amend
ments agreed upon provides Tor the pro
hibition of the importation of cattle infect
ed with contagious diseases and for quar-
antine and slaughter of diseased animals.
The amendment agreed upon in the COM
mittee, in addition to the Sherman amend
ments, provides that whenever, in the
opinion Of the president, 1t shall be neces-
sary for the protection OF animals In the
United States against infection or contage-
GUS diseases, he may, by proclamation, sus-
pend importation of all or any class OF ami
mails for a limited time.
PROTECTION OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
The bill introduced by Senator Bowen
provides for protection Of employees Of rail-
road corporations; that railroad companies
shall be compelled, after the 1st Of Septem-
Der, 1884, to have all new freight cars pur-
chased or built so equipped as to admit
their being coupled without it being neces-
sary for the employe to 60 between them
for that purpose, and in making repairs
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17
BOUNTY AND BACK PAY.

Representative Warner reported from
the committee on pensions the back pay and
bounty bill, providing that every person,
as specified In the pension law, who served
for period of three months or more, who
has an honorable discharge, and who is not
receiving greater pension than that pro-
vided by the bill, and who is now disabled
by reason of any wound, injury or disease
which there Is reason to believe originated
In the service, shall be entitled TO receive q
pension during the continuance of the dis
ability at a rate proportionate to the degree
thereof. The bill further provides that de-
pendant parents shall not only show by
competent evidence that they are without
present means of support than their own
manual labor, or contributions of others
not legally bound for their support.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

upon old cars to furnish them with similar
equipments; also, that when any employe
of such railway company may sustain per-
sonsl and disabling injury by reason Of hay-
ing to 60 between freight cars for the pur-
pose OF coupling or uncoupling the same,
where both or either one of said cars are In
use, the company using such car shall for
felt to the employee or his heirs, II he should
die, $500 rs penalty, this penalty being no
bar to the recovery Of any sum In damages
for such injury, which competent court
may award.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

orgies.
Thomas Mcclure, of Elk Creek, had
close call for his life few days ago. He,
assisted by man named Wilkinson, were
driving posts, the latter welding sledge
Of enormous weight. The handle broke
and the sledge struck Mcclure on the head,
inficting two deep and ugly gashes, one on
the top Of the head and another above the
left eye.
A new bank has been opened at
Plattsmouth, and the citizens Of that town
now rejoice In afinancial institution of great
strength.
Christian Amber, formerly of Taus-
lock, Ontario, was arrested in Seward
county for embezzlement and forgery, and
proceedings have begun In the name of the
dominion government to secure his extra
dalton. He is charged with having swindled
various parties at his former home out of
money aggregating $40 200. Detectives have
been on his track for some time.
The recent election at Seward par
took Of the nature of liquor contest, the
result being In favor of the prohibitionists.
W. r. Davis, an old resident, was elected
maTor.
The money derived from the sale of
school lands in Nebraska now amounts to
nearly two hundred and fifty million dol
lars.
Charles Nellmore and Charles Nc
Calm, of Wayne county, quarreled con-
corning horse race, and the latter was IA
tally stabbed by the former, who is now In
iail at Madison.
Christian Cizelis, the Canadian
svindler arrested at Seward, was induced
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

NOTES FROM THE.' CAPITAL.
The Back Pay and Bounty Bill
of the Committee on
Pensions.
Amendments to the Measure Pro-
viding for the Inspection
of Meats.
Relief for the Greedy Expediti0n---Va.
riOus Matters at the National
Capital.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
MONDAY, April AFTER the trans
action of unimportant business the senate
resumed consideration of the education
bill. Brown spoke in its support In answer
to the opposing argument made by Morgan
Saturday. At 3:45 the senate, by vote of
3S to II, adopted the house amendment to
the education bill fixing the total sum to be
appropriated at ST., 800, 900 to be distribute
ed over period of eightye
On motion of Logan it was agreed to
strike out the section which permitted
states having less than two per cent of illit-
eracy to use money for normal schools or
industrial education. A number of amend
ments were offered by Harrison and agreed
to. The bill being completed in commit
tee of the whole was reported to the senate,
read three times and passed.
The chair laid before the senate as the
next business in order the bankruptcy bill.
The educational bill as passed appropri-
ates SIT ,000, 900 to be distributed among the
states in proportion to illiteracy on the basis
of the census of 1880. The payment of the
money to extend over series of eight
wears.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
March Planets.

During March, Neptune, Mars and
Venus are evening stars; Uranus and
Mercury are morning stars until the
morning of the 10th, when the former
planet will be in opposition to the sun
and at his nearest point to the earth.
After this event the five other planets
are evening stars. and are all travelling
in opposition to conjunction in the fol-
lowing order: Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter,
Mars and Uranus. There will be nc
saOre opposition to note until December,
when Neptune again takes the lead.
March closes, however, with every one
OF our brother planets congregated on
the Easeern side of the sun. for, or the
10Th, Mercury becomes an evening star.
The March moon fulls on the 18th. On
tue 26th the moon is in conjunction
with Mercury, the day before Ter
change.
The new moon of the 9th commences
the same unceasing round, passing near
Neptune on the 29th, and paying her
respects to Venus and Saturn ON the
30th.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
NEWS NOTES.

The Invalid Pensions Committee will
recommend To Congress that tie widow
of General Frank p. B air be paid $4,000
down and a pension of City dollars
month.
1t is estimated that from twelve to
thirty-hve thousand Mexican veterans
survive and one Thousand widows who
were married before the war broke out.
The pensions called fer under the Town
shend Bill will therefore amount to from
one to three millions annually.
Joaquin Miller has favored the House
Committee on Territories with his opln-
ion of the Mormons. He said they were
an extremely ignorant people led by
crankS and Guiteaus. He thought poly
gamy was on the decrease, and that ed
ucation would reform Utah more effect
ually than force.
Colenel Ellsworth N. Driscoll. of Gin
cinnati, was killed by train while
walking the track near Cumminsvills,
on Thursday.
The Committee on Ways and Means,
by strict party vote, has decided to ia
vorably report Mr.. MoTrison'S tariff bill,
as amended.
A meeting of barbed wire fence man
ufacturers was held at st. Louis, and it
is said the price Of barbed wire was ad
vanced half cent pound.
The people of Wichita and Sedgewick
counties, Kansas, propose sending twen-
ty-six car loads of corn for the benefit of
the Ohio River flood sufferers.
Charles H Reed the assassin Guiteau's s
counsel. says his client dlsclaimed any
influence except that from on high which
prompted him to shoot the President.
The Louisiana Republican Convention
confirmed nominations of delegates to
Chicago. Resolutions indorsing Mr..
Arthur and Mr.. Logan respectively for
the Presidency were referred to COM
mittee.
The Prohibition State Convention, at
Columbus, arranged for delegates to the
National Convention at Pittsburgh, May
81, and passed resolutions. There were
expressions of hostility to the Scott
Liquor Law.
Governor Hoadly has appointed John
G. Reeves to be Trustee of the Reform
School,and for Fish Commissioners, Len
A. Harris, of Cincinnati. George Daniels,
of Erie county, and James Dorrety, of
Lucas county.
A WYOMING man recently blew out
his brains because be had the rheuma-
tism. If he thought that his rheuma-
tism was caused by too much brains, he
must have been badly mistaken.-Chi-
cago Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
School Examiners Questions.

The following is from the ceres
pondence of the Ohio Educational
Monthly:
81 cannot too strongly condemn the
foolish questions that are sometimes
put. Our journals frequently amuse
their readers with examples of silly an-
swers. But what shall be said of fool
ish questions? A foolish answer merely
shows that one candidate is not fit to
pass, but foolish question is an Unjust
ice to a whole class of candidates. l
have seen an Arithmetic paper at a
teachers examination in which one
problem required the demonstration of
new proposition in geometry, and
when it was done, the only arithmetical
part of the solution was to divide 80 by
.. Besides these harmful questions,
there are many simply useless. Such
as questions about some obscure item
of knowledge, an exception to rule in
grammar. or the location of some small
town. knowledge or ignorance of such
matter is no test. Every question should
test not strain the candidates skill or
knowledge"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, in a
recent letter, SAID: 81 have written MANY
verses, but the best poems | have pro
duced are the trees | planted on the
hillside which overlooked the broad
meadows, scolloped and rounded at their
edges by Loops of the sinuous Housa-
tonic. n ture finds rhymes for them in
recurring measures of the seasons.
Winter strips them of their ornaments
and gives them, as it were. in prose
translation, aud Summer reclothes in
all the splendid phrases of their leafy
language. What are these naples and
b eches and birches but odes and idyls
and madrigals? What are these pines
and frs and spruces but holy hymns, too
solemn for the many-hued raiment of
their gay decIduous neighbors."
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
Vick'S Floral Guide.

For 1888, is an elegant book of $50 pages, 3
coored plates of Flowers and Vegetables, and
more than 100 illustrations of the choicest
Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, and directions
for growing. 1t is handsome enough for the
center table or a holiday present. Send on your
name and postoffice address, with 10 cents, and
will send you copy, postage paid; this is not
quarter of its cost 1t is printed in both
English and German. If you afterwards order
seeds deduct the 10 cts. VIoKs SEEDS ARE
THE BEST IN THE WORLD The Floral Guide
will tell how to get and grow them.
Vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, IT'S
pages, colored plates, 500 engravings; for 50
cents in paper covers; 81 in elegant cloth; in
German and English.
Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 80 pp.
a colored plate in every number and many fine
engravings; price SI.25 year; five copies for
So. Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents; 3
trial copies for 25 cents.
JAMES WICK. Rochester, N. Y
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
Free Trade Illustrated.

The destruction by fire of the large
laboratory of Powers & Weightman has
drawn attention to the effects produced
upon the quinine market by the repeal
of the duty on that article in 1879. The
history of the trade since that step was
taken shows most conclusively that no
more certain method could have been
adopted for destroying that industry
than simply to place the product upon
the free list. Many who were really
Protectionists in principle yielded to the
humanitarian argument that an article
of medicine so essential to the health OF
large numbers of people should be made
as cheap as possible; but this has turned
ont fallacy, since foreign manufactu-
rers control the market and fix their
own prices.
Under the tariff we were independent
in the manufacture of quinine; but i'll
1879, when the duty went off, we i'm
ported 22S,34S ounces, as against l1,549
ounces in 1873. These inrortations have
steadily increased until last year they
reached tbe aggregate of 1,055,764 ounces.
On the otker hand, in 1879 the American.
manufacturers imported as raw materi-
ais 6,3S9,37S pounds of cinchona bark,
while last they imported only S.639.S15
pounds of bark The thirteen European
firms engaged in this business have the
five American firms by the throat, and
can strangle the life out Of them at any
time. The only result to consumer"
is an inferior article of quiDins at as
high rates as would have been demand
ed for good quality had the duty been
continued. la other words, the consul
mers of quiniDe have not been benefit
ted a farthing, while the great bulk OF
the home trade has been transfer red TO
foreign hands, to the great damage of
our own manufacturers and those in
their employ.
The Free Traders are anxious to get
number of other articles on the free
list, ostensibly for the purpose of cheap
ening prices to consumers; but when
the products in iron and steel, glass and
pottery, wool and cotton, are left with
out protection, the result will be the
same as in quinine. The country will
be supplied with foreign goods of infe-
rior make, while our own mills and fac
tories will stand idle. No matter how
cheap the goods may be offered, our la
borers will not have the means for puT
chasing which they now command and
will continue to enjoy so long as they
stand up for proteetiOn.-Plt
Commercial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
A Painful Parting.

How well do remember
The night when last we met!
The pain of that last meeting
Still fingers with me yet.
Twas at the pasture bars, dear,
And the stars shone clear and brlghI
AS fingered At the bars, dear,
Only just TO say Good night.
Your heart was full of hope, sweet,
And was full of beer,
And knew not that behind me
Stood your fathers Texan steer.
held your hand in mine. sweet,
And | vowed eternal love,
Wren suddenly l Was lifted
To the starry realms above.
Not borne a,oft by angels,
But by your fathers steer.
Who parted US abruptly,
And foreve Tmere, my dear.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
LincnIn's Percention.

President Lincoln was not a scholar,
but he was student of human nature,
ard he knew men. A good illustration
of the Presidents sagacity in dealing
with men is given in the following an
ecdOte, which was published in Blue
and Grey:
Jack Williams Was brave sergeant
of regiment which, undrilled and Nd
disciplined, had Joined the army of the
Potomac, just as the terrible campaign
of 1864 began.
Before the army reached Petersburg,
Jack commanded the company, the cap
tain and lieutenants having been killed.
His gallantry was so conspicuous that
he was recommended for captaincy in
the regular army.
Ordered before an examining board at
Washington, Jack presented himself,
dressed in a soiled, torn uniform, with
bronzed face and uncut beard.
The trim, dapper officers composing
1.-THE board had never been under fire or
roughed it in the field, but they were
posted in the tactics and the theory of
war.
Though shocked at Jacks unsoIdierly
appearance, they asked him all sorts of
questions about engineering, mathemat-
les, ordinance ana campaigns. Not a
single one of their questions could Jack
answer.
What is an echelen p asked one of the
board.
Don't know answered Jack.
What is an abatis?'
Never saw one.'
a redan?'
You fellows have got me again. re-
piled Jack.
Never heard of one before, guess they
don't have them down at the front, do
they?'
what would you do, sir, if you were
in command of ii company. and cavalry
should charge ON yOu?' asked a lisping
fellow, in white kids.
DO, you foolr thundered Jack, I'd
give them Hail Columbia, that's what
I'd do!'
This ended the examination, and the
report of the questions and answers,
with the adverse Judgment of the exam
lining board, were sent TO President Lin
coin.
His private secretary read the report
TO him, aud when he came to the only
answer Jack had given, the President
said,-
stop, read that over again
That's just the sort of men our army
wantp said the President, taking the re-
port and dipping his pen in the ink. On
the back of the paper, he wrote in a clear
hand:
Give this man captains commission.
A. LINCOLN
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
PPrHHa.

This medicine was introduced to the medi>
cal profession and to the public at large by s.
b Hartman, NJ. D., in 1877, after he had
prescribed it to over 10000 patients in almost
every disease to which flesh is heir; it is
wholly composed of numerous vegetable in,
gradients, each one of which is acknowledged
by the medical profession to be the most DO
tent of all the herbal remedies known to med
ical science; but its great virtue is mainly at
tribuiable to the new and peculiar proportions
in which the harmonious ingredients are COM
bined, and TO the extreme care exercised in its
manufacture, using only the pure, active
principles, and excluding all that is crude or
irritating; no one should be without Peruna.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
A NEW Mother Shipton poem is now

A NEW Mother Shipton poem is now
going the rounde. We quote:
when lawyers fail to take fee
And juries never disagree;
When politicians are content,
And landlords don't collect their rent;
When parties smash all the machines,
And Boston folks give up their beans
When naughty children all die young,
And girls are born without tongue;
When ladies don take time to hog,
And Office-holdeIs never flop;
When preachers cut their sermons short
And all the folks to the church resort !;
When back subscribers all are paid,
And editors nave fortunes made;
Such happiness will sure portend,
This world must soon come to an end"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

WHILE a New Yorker was nosinp
around Birmingham, Ala, in search of
4 coal or iron mine at a bargain, a native
accosted him with a request for 10 cts,
and added: "Only yesterday / owned a
coal mine worth $4,000" And why
don't you own it to-day?" Because a
man got me drunk aDd coaxed me to
trade it for an old mule" "And how
will 10 cents help your" "Why, want
to buy whisky to get him drunk enough
to trade back for blind dog and an old
shot gun. Stranger, don't let me lose
$4,000 for the want of 10 cents" He
got it.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

EVANS & CLOSE, the Marble dealers
contracted last week with Aaron Ram.
say, a well-known wealthy citizen of
YORK township, to erect a fine family
monument in the cemetery at SunHsh.
at cost of $4,000. 1t will be of gray
granite, and stand about 80 feet high.
ana II VIII be one of the finest and most
elaborate designs in monumental work
in this part Of the State.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

THIS is baby. 1t is girl baby. How
red its evesl What horrid contortions
it makes with its face. See how savageIy
it kicksl How like demon it wells !
Yet in few short years some man will
be half craZed with wild suspense, wor-
shipping the very air this being breathes.
devoutly kneeling at her feet and fran
tically begging for one word, one pres
sure of the hand-even a look which
will give him hope.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

Trains run Oh Columbus time west Ohio river
EAST BOUND.-New York Fast Line daily;
with through Sleepers from Chicago to New
YORK; Washington and Baltimore Epress with
through sleeper from Chicago to Baltimore
daily, and Through Coach from Sandusky to
columbus daily. New York and Baltimore
Express daily Newark to New York; on other
DIVISIONS. daily. except Sunday. Sleeping
gar chicago to Cum berland. All other trains
daily, except Sunday
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13

ALWAYS keep the love letters your
husband wrote you before marriage in a
wei. locked iron box in the dal kest cor
ner of the attic. Nothing puts man in
such a temper as to stumble across his
former effusions and read few pages
of them. Some men under such circum-
stances have been known TO kick them
selves down stairs and be seriously in
iured.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-13
POETRY.
The Old Printers Prayer.

God guard and bless
The Printing Press;
Its mission grand
Guide with Thy hand;
Its potent might
Direct Alright;
Untrammeld, pure,
Let it endure;-
With high emprlse
Let it arise
To teach mankind,
To lead the blind;
To cast aside
Ignoble pride;
To conquer wrong
However strong;
To help the weak,
And dare to speak,
As with Thy tongue
All powers among.
Its labOrs Thine,
Make them divine
With justice blent,
OmDipOtent.
From pole TO pole,
As ages roll,
Let it diffuse
(And scorn misuse)
The living truth,
And, in Sooth,
Its wond'rous rays
Hume our ways,
And wisdom, peace,
Without surcease,
Shall mind control,
And every soul,
Enlightened, free,
Rejoice in Thee.