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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-10

John Randolph Tucker, congress
man from Virginia, recently told the fol-
lowing story, which is reproduced by
the Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record: "Years ago one
of the most intelligent and highly cul-
tivated men in public life, a great states
man came over from the other side OF
the House to my desk, and knowing my
idiosyncrasy in regard to the tariff, said I:
Tucker, whatever political barriers
rise between us, let there be free trade
between you and me in literature and
science with all my heart, Garfield, !"
said I, for it was the late president. Not
long after that we were reading Virgil to-
gether and we came across his description
Of the preparation Of Roman salad. He
dwells, You remember ,on the whiteness
Of the milk and the greenness of the
herbs, and then on the peculiar result
ant color after they have been mixed
together. There occurs the phras,
color pluribus in unis.' There, Tuck
err said Garfield. that's where we gel
our "E Pluribus Unum." What, said
I, do you mean to say that we get our
national motto from Roman salad?
Certainly he said there's the "unis'
lionel, you see. Yes many, said
and there's the "pluribus" (many), two.
You must never forget that this Is an in
dieeQlp blp union Of ndestru0tible States.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-10

The supreme court of Iowa refused
to grant a divorce to woman with a
drunken husband for the following rea-
sons: "She does not show that her
personal safety or even her well-being
q. 3quires her to leave him. She doubt
less would have lived more comfortably
In the society of sober man, but she
ought to have considered and doubtless,
did consider, the discomforts of drunk.
en- husband when she married the de-
PENDANT. But, she urged, he promised
reformation before marriage. His fail
ure to keep his promise did not justify
her in deserving him. All the world
knows that such promises made by
drunken man are always broken. In
few words, as she knowingly married
drunkard, she must be content to be
drunkards WIFE, "
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Rules of the Minstrels.

MID. B. Hodges, minstrel manager.
was asked:
"Do minstrel companies have series
of rules which they are obliged to re-
spect?"
Members of our company are obliged
to assist in moving objects from the
stage. Only short time since I had
occasion to discharge a man at Odens-
burg for refusing to assist IN removing
the chairs after the first part. Not very
long ago I fined one of the principal
members in our company $50 for APP
pearing in state of intoxication.
"What becomes of the money after
the fines are collected"
Eve make seperate fund it, and on
Christmas or New Years day enjoy an
elegant banquet in some hotel. A por-
ton of our last fund of $50 was devoted
toward paving the funeral expenses of
member of our company, and the re-
mainder was presented to his mother?"
''Tell me something about your rules"
"We allow no arguments in hotels,
other than conversations on usual top
ics Members coming late to rehear-
sails are fined s. for every offense; men,
befs not appearing in proper gentle
manly dress, with boots BACKED. etc,
for street parade, are fined 81; if they
become intoxicated at any time during
the engagement, they are obliged to
forfeit one half week salary for the Sec
ond, and receive an Immediate dis
charge for the third offense. We allow
no liquors on the stage OF in dressing
rooms under any consideration. Meth
er do we tolerate playing on instruments
of singing at hotels or any place out
side the theater."
"Are the rules generally strictly OBJ
served?"
Eyes, sir; every time; our discipline
is of the strictest kind, and it matters
not who the guilty party is, the fines
are either collected or the person re-
ceives his immediate discharge"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-04-10

The bondholders of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company have applied to the house to
be heard before action is taken on the bill to
forfeit the grant of that company
The gross earnings of the St Paul l. Duluth
during the fourth week in March decreased
81 ,405. 20 The earnings during the week were
va, 4a2l, and during the same week Of 1888,
SCI, 3S4 96
The Milwaukee L St Paul has just con-
structed fifty furniture cars. The new cars are
81 feet inches long, Sfeet wide and feet LIZ
inches high and are solely designed for use in
transportation of furniture, light agricultural
implements, carriages and other bulky freight
of that description
The Railroad Gazette says there was total
of ITO accidents during the month Of February,
in which % persons were killed and $50 injured.
As compared with February, 1888, there wasa
decrease of "a accidents, of 80 killed and5f So
injured The two months of the current year
to the end of February show q total of 257 acct
dents, 70 killed and $50 injured This is a
monthly average Of 129 accidents, 40 killed and
Io5 hurt, February being considerably below
the average.
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MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.



In response to question of Charles N.
Hewitt, N. D., secretary of the state board Of
health, Attorney General Hahn yesterday ron.
dered an opinion to the effect that the state
board Of health has no power to enforce the
provisions Of the sections Of the statutes as to
the apointmento or election of local health boards
or as to the securing physician as member
Of said board. An individual citizen has the
right to apply to the court for mandamus to
enforce the election ofsuch boards. Mandamus
is the proper remedy In such case The MAX
ing OF the annual inspection and report can be
enforced in the same Way.
To NJ b Chadwick, county auditor OF Steele
county, the attorney general writes that q cottn-
ty auditor cannot pay bounty to any person
for killing wolf Unless the claimant produces
the head Of the wolf with the ears and scalp
entire, and delivers it to the proper officers no
promise or agreement can be substituted, and
to pay bounty without receiving such head and
scalp would Be dereliction of duty.
To e. p. Peterson, county attorney of Meek
or county, the attorney general writes that
county treasurer, in all counties where the
valuation is less than $4,0O0,O0O, can receive
but 81 200 in fees, and all excess thereof must
be paid into the revenue fund. The point
arose as to whether fees received on collection
on sales Of school lands were to be included in
the 81 200, and the attorney general rules that
they are.
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Fred Davis, Sharon's private detective, gave
the San Francisco editors dinner April 1st
just before the senator went on the witness
stand for himself.
The will of the late Gen. Weitzel devises his
entire estate to his widow for life, to 60 to his
daughter after the death of her mother.
Frederick Leypoldt, the well-known publish
er, formerly of the firm Of Leypoldt 4 Holt
Of New York, is dead He was native of
Germany, and before the war conducted for
eign book store in New York, and in 1896 en-
tered into partnership with Henry Holt
The remains Of the late Minister Hunt are ex-
pected to arrive in New York ON the steamer
Elbe from Bremen. Mrs. Hunt accompanies
them, and they will be received in New York by
four sons of the deceased who will accompany
them to Washington. The interment win be
made in Oak Hill cemetery, Washington, to be
preceded by brief funeral services, either ct St
Johns church or at the cemetery chapel
Mary Anderson says she cannot guess who
inspired the recent slanderous paragraphs in
London She is indignant and angry and pro-
nounces them cruel and practical Jokes. She
says she is suffering greatly from isomnis, and
is going away Saturday for few weeks rest.
After this she will fill three weeks engage
ment in Edinburgh, and then 60 to Venice. In
September she will return to London Count
Gleichen has completed bust Of Miss Ander-
son, and George Boughton has painted her por-
trait
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Providence. r. l., March 2S.-John
Bright was informed of the intention to
place marble bust of him in the
Friends boarding school here. In
letter of acknowledgment of the COM
pliment, Bright writes:
You say was friend to your country
in days of need. / did what / could to
prevent discord between the two English
nations, and to teach our people the
nature of the great issue which, twenty
years ago, your people were engaged.
I lamented the conflict, but I wished
England should offer her sympathy on
the side of freedom to the slave, and In
favor of the perpetual union of your
great republic. When look back on
the past look with unalloyed satisfac-
ton and would withdraw no word ut
tered in connection with contest on
which Englnad and the civilized world
looked with profound interest. The
question of peace to which you refer
claims the sympathy of all Christian
nations. On your continent we may
hope your growing millions may hence
forth know nothing of war. None can
assail you, and you are anxious to alb
stain from mingling in the quarrels of
other nations. Europe, unhappily, is
a great camp. Allits nations are armed
as if each expected an invasion from its
neighbor, unconscious, apparently,
that great armies tempt to war the mo-
ment any cause of dispute arises. The
potentates and governments Of Europe,
I doubt not dread war. They seek to
guard themselves against it. We, in
England, are net free from blame, but
with us love of peace is increasing, and
no government can engage In war with-
out risking and ever losing the support
of our people. We are so involved
with territory and populations over
half the globe, that difficulties are al
most constantly arising, and our danger
of war is greater than that of any other
nation. / am however, confident that
our feeling against war is sensibly in
creasing and J. trust and believe that the
moral. sense Of our people will more and
more condemn it. England and your
United States are two nations, but al
ways like to regard them IS one people.
On them the growth Of al that Is good
IN the world greatly depends.
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In the cause of debate in the New
York Senate on bill to prevent the
sale of oleomargarine, Mr.. Law stated
that the committee at the outset had
no conception of the extent to which
food adulteration was practiced. One
hale of that so-called butter sold in
New York he said is made of hog fat
and oils imported from France and
Italy, colored by chemical substances
and deodorized by some other chemicals.
Out Of q hundred million pounds of
butter sold, between forty and fifty
million was bogus. At present, the
state raises little grain, most of it being
brought from the West. Nearly all Of
the 375 900 farms of the state are de-
voted to stock raising and GARY pro-
ducts. One-half Of the population Of
the state, he claimed, derived it's sub
sistence from farms, and one-half Of the
remainder subsist indirectly on farm in
dustry: Oleomargarine has cut down
the price of butter 10 cents pound,
involving loss of a, 900, 900 to the
farmers, and of cheese one cent per
pound, involving the loss Of several
millions Of dollars, making the total
material loss from 5,O0O, 900 to &c.
600, 900, to New York state. Mr.. Law
said it was bad enough when the west
sent its cheap products into competi-
ton with the farm products of
this state, but it is fraud to pour
upon us the refuse Of it's slaughter
houses. The legislative act prohibits
the sale Of oleomargarine Is butter,
or otherwise, unless explicitly labelled
as oleomargsrine. The difHculty shout
the whole business i ID nut shell.
Oleomargarine and the kindred article
called butterine are better than good
deal Of the stuff exposed for sale -
hutter. Skill in manufacturing has
made the bogue better than the genu-
me y many cases.
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President Adams Wife.

Abigail Adams, the Presidents wife,
was undoubtedly the most conspicuous
American woman of her day, whether
by position or by character. When
writing to her husband she often signed
herself, "Portia" in accordance with a
stately, and perhaps rather h-fown
habit of the period; and she certainly
showed qualities which would have done
honor to either the Roman or Shakes
perian heroine of that name. In her
letters we see her thoroughly revealed.
While the battle of Bunker Hill was in
progress, she wrote that it was dreadful
but glorious; and in the depression of
the battle of Long Island she said, IF
Ill America is to be ruined and undone
by a pack of towards and knaves, I wish
10 know it," and added, Don't you
know me better than to think me a
towards" When, first among American
women, she represented her nation
1T the court of st. James, she met
with equal pride the contemptuous de-
meador of Queen Charlotte, and when
her husband was chosen President, she
wrote to him: "My feelings are not those
Of pride or ostentation upon the occasion ;
they are solemnized by sense of the
obligations, the important truths and
numerous duties, connected with it. F"
When finally after four years, he failed
Of reelection, she wrote to her son !:
''The consequence to us is personally
that we retire from public life. For my
self and family I have few regrets. .
. = If 1 did not rise with dignity, can
at least fall with ease" This was Abb
gail Adams. In person she was distin-
guished and noble rather than beauti-
full, yet it is satisfactory to know that
when she was first presented at the Brf-
fish court she wore a white 1utestring,
trimmed with white Grape, festooned
with lilac ribbon and mock point lace
over hoop of enormous extent, with a
narrow train three yards long, looped
up by ribbon. She wore treble lace
ruff1es, dress cap with long lace lap
pets and two white plumes, these last
doubtless soaring straight into the air
above her head in the extraordinary
style, familiar to us in Gillray's carica-
lures of that period.
It was in those days no very agreeable
task to be the wife of the president.
Mrs. Adams has left on record graphic
sketch of the White House, where she
presided for three months. The change
in the seat of government had been de-
cided upon for twelve years, yet the
building was still q vast unfinished bar
rack, with few rooms plastered, no main
stairway, not bell within, not fence
without; it was distressingly cold In
winter, while the Chief Magistrate of
the United could not obtain for love or
money man to cut wood for him in
tha forests which then surrounded
Washington From Washington to
Baltimore extended an almost unbroken
growth of timber, varied only by some
small and windowless huts. There
could as yet be in Washington no such
varied companionship as had given at
traction to the seat of government at
New York and then at Philadeldhia !;
yet at Georgetown there was a society
which called itself eminently polite,
and Mrs. Adams records that she re-
turned fifteen calls in o single day.-T.
W. Higginson, in Harper's Magazine
for March.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.



w Ex-senator 1lisohen q Oregon isl0ossea II
Northern Pacific company.
The senate Committee on public lands unan-
imeasly instructed Chairman Plumb to report
the nomination Of W. J. Anderson for the recei-
The treasurer Of the United States is signing
about ! go checks day in payment Of the re-
this average FOR two months or 60
Representative Maybury was instructed by
the house committee on judiciary to prepare an
adverse report ON the joint resolution propos-
ing constitutional amendment to confer the
right of saffrage on women
George Bliss, the star route counsel for the
government had b testify before Springers
committee, that he had already received
$51 ~ ID with II, 400 still due him, making
s64, 4G. Is IS compensation for isservices.
MI. Strait was before the subcommittee of
the committee on military affairs in favor of
the bill for the relief of James II. Bacon of
Litchfeld, Mimi. The subcommittee agreed
to report the bill favorable to the full committee
Confrmaions: Col David s Stanley, Twen-
ty-second infantry, brigadier general; ]. A
Riner, Wyoming, attorney of the United States
for Wyoming; James G. Tracey, Texas, mar
shall of the United States, Gastien district
Texas.
1t is related that Representatives George D.
Wise of Virginia and Townshend of Illinois,
and Senator German of Maryland were once
pages in congress, along with the actor, Stuart
Robson; and Gormon was afterward president
Of the National Base Ball club.
President Arthur and his cabinet, together
with Generals Sheridan, Sherman and Hancock,
Postmaster General Gresham, and Hon. Lionel
Sackville West, the British minister, and his
family, have promised to attend the Cincinnati
dramatic festival, beginning April %
The attorney of the notorious Maj. Nicker-
son, late of the army has filed his answer to the
divorce suit brought by his original wife, in
court It Is sworn to before the United States
consul at St Catherine, Canada He swears
that he is not fugitive from justice, but is in
on account of his health" But his answer to
the petition is that the original divorce, which
he secured in Philadelphia while his wife was
in Europe, is legal, and that his wife has no
further claim upon him.
The famous Bill Jones, the man on the gray
mare, who tried to shoot Guiteau while on the
way from the court house to the Jail, about two
years ago, appeared in court the I'd, to answer
an indictment for assault with inten to kill
When the case was called the court remarked
sententiously that he believed the prosecuting
witness WAS dead. The district attorney re-
piled that he understood so, but they had as
witnesses several policemen to prove the act
The attorney for Mr.. Jones asked that the case
be nolled, in order to save expense to the gov
eminent, as he would be able to show that will
liam was not the man on the gray mare who
fired at the assassin, but his suggestion was
not adopted and the case was set for trial
on the 2Sth of the month.
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A dispatch from Sutherland, O'Brien county,,
states that number of farmers from Central
and Eastern Iowa have arrived in that locality.
and squatted on what is known as the overlap:
ping lands Of the Sioux City, st. Paul & Omaha
and Milwaukee & St Paul railways These
lands were never earned by the railroads and
ture passed an act cedipg them from the state,
which held them in trust, to the general govern
ment in order that they might be opened to
actual settlers. There are about eighty-five
thousand acres Of land, which are now quite
rush Of claimants Those already upon the
ground say that they were advised by the gov
ernor and secretary Of state that they could
hold the lands by improving and living upon
them. They are therefore putting up buildings
ternity Of O'Brien county the belief prevails
that the railroads will eventually obtain the
title and GUST them, retaining all improvements.
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Terrible Cyclone ana Great Loss Off Ito.

Terrible Cyclone ana Great Loss Of Z lie.
About o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, on the
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad,
heavy black cloud came driving from tho
west and another from the north. The two
clouds met at the house Of Lewis Cochran, two
miles from Oakville, Indiana, lifted it bodily
from it's floor and foundations, and tearing tin
10 kindling wood minute later 1t struck
Oakville carrying dsnth and destruction in its
track OF thirty houses in Oakville all
but three were torn to atoms. Four persons
were kill ed outright in Oakville, and the fifth
died this morning, while James Sanders, two
miles west, was also killed, making Blk killed
and large number wounded.
The following were among the killed and in
jured:
Mrs Anna Dearmond, widow aged fifty.
Susan Hyles. aged fifteen. When discovered
she was in an almost nude condition, her cloth
ing having been literally torn from her person.
4 babe Of G. G. johnson, found in field $50
yards from where the house stood, with head
crushed.
A baby Of Charles Brown was injured.
Turner johnson, twelve years, blown twenty
yards, skull crushed; will probably die.
John Huffman and wife, both badly bruised
in head and otherwise injured.
Jen Hoover, engineer at saw mil, leg
broken in two places, injured internally and
will probably die
JEFF Miller, hip dislocated
Fred Coldstock, Of Ehelbyville, three rib
Widow Miller. ! bad cut on shoulder.
On the farm Of James Sanders, four miles
east Of Middletown, his barn and house wers
completely destroyed Sanders who is NOR
place 1t the time, and had taken refuge IN
barn was instantly killed. At the town of Nur-
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Nurier at Agate nay.

Sheriff McQuade has receiveda telegram from
Agate Bay informing him thAt E. A. Mute had
stabbed and nearly killed cook in the saloon
and boarding house of Charles Larue at that
place, and that the criminal would probably ar
rive on the noon stage Will McQuade,
the sherif's deputy, was on hand and arrested
Mute as he Mt the stage at the foot of First
enue east soon after noon. He was confined in
the county jail Mute had been at work get;
ting out ties up on the line of the Duluth & Iron
Range road and went down to Agate Bay and
got drunk Thursday forenoon. TWAS not long
after noon when he got into quarrel with the
cook, who struck him in the face. Then it was
that Mute drew a knife and stabbed the cook
several times in the left side, so seriously that
his wounds are considered fatal Mute started
on foot for Duluth, sleeping at the halfway
house Thursday night, and coming into Duluth
by stage, as stated The name of the injured
man is not learned