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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17
Ho For
THE HOLIDAYS /!

They coming FAST but already here and prepared
for them We are going to astonsh old Santa him
self year richness variety of presents from which
choose We have such of garments fo ladies'
wea such coaks from the panes and cheapest up to the
fashionable and richly trimmed domans that it has
been anyones pleasure to show.
We prepared with novelties all classes of goods such
people always look for at this merry holiday And then
dress goods-for of every girl and lady
dress before Christmas Why selling out immense
stock of plain and brocade veves at the ordinary prices of
worsted goods Be and these special bargains before
they all gone Then in order to have everything else
respond have made and will continue until January special
rates everything stock without reservation Civ
ing every person cordial invitation and during
carnival of low prices and fine goods,
We are truly
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

First Comptroller Lawrence, who
spent the holidays at his home in Ohio,
wrote letter to q political friend in
Washington. In this letter he said he
came in contact with quite number of
prominent Republicans in Ohio who
surprised him by their free trade utter
ances. He was told there are many
free trade Republicans in Cincinnati,
and on square issue joined between
the two parties on that question these
Republicans would vote the Democratic
ticket. He says he will not be sur
prised to find d few. of the most active
Republicans openly advocating the
election of the Democratic candidate
for President on the ground that the
Republican party is too much for prot
lection. 1t Is no wonder Santa Claus
didn't know which stocking to put hid
free trade package in, when filling thd
Republican and Democratic stockings|
Mr.. Lawrence might have also re
marked in his letter that the most inI
fuential Republican papers in the counI
try are free trade advocates, notably, thd
New York Times, Springfield RepubH
can, and Chicago Tribune. And therI
there IL Henry Ward Beecher rampant
for free trade, and no one ever doubted
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An exchange says: "Man's average
life Ia 33 years. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
will always live.
A Woman's New Pair of Shoes.


lChicago Tribuno.l
When woman has new pair OF
shoes sent home she performs alto
gether different from man. She
never shaves her toes into them and
yaDks and hauls until she is red in the
face and all out of breath, and then
goes stamping and kicking around,
but pulls them on part way carefully,
witches them off again to take last
look and see if she has got the right
one, pulls them on again, looks at
them dreamily, says they are just right
then takes another look, stops suddenly
to smooth out wrinkle, twists around
and surveys them sideways, exclaims,
"Mercy, how loose they are looks at
them again squarely in the front. works
her feet around so they won't hurt her
quite so much. takes them off, looks
at the heel, the toe, the bottom, and
the inside, puts them on again, walks
up and down the room once or twice.
remark, to her better half that she
wont have them at any price, tilts
down the mirror 80 she can see how
they look, turns in every possible di-
rection, and nearly dislocates her neck
trying to see how they look from that
way, backs off, steps up again, takes
thirty or forty farewell looks, says
they make her feet look awful big and
never will do in the world, puts them
off and on three or four times more,
asks her husband what he thinks
about 1t and then pays no attention to
what he says, goes through it ali again,
anu finally says she will take them.
It's very simple matter indeed.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

by service OF mere form, il the heart is
not in accord. You may count that
your service is according 10 the letter
of the Law; but | tell you it doesn't {
fill the bushel worth cent so far as
the spirit is concerned. The spirit
you are showing. ny lad, is the one
that leads to nsrrow-mindedness, TO
bigotry. to intolerance, and to fooling
and burning folks because they don't
fix up their formal observsnces Just
exactly as you have arranged and as
you assert must be right" And now,
friends it is to the credit Of the broth
er that he took his fathers square talk
in good par, and you bet that old man
was real thoroughbred-and don't
you forget it.
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his Republleanism. The whole Of
Arthur's Administration Is for free
trade.
Carl Schurz.

] "Do you know" said o prominent
lawyer to me yesterday, that Carl
Schurz is now reputed rich man%
How strange are the mutations OF for
tune! What whim has the hckle dame
regarding all Of US, and especially those
Of US who chance to go to Washington!
Schurz was once resident OF Detroit,
where he managed for time 10. exc out
precarious subsistence by writing for
one Of the daily papers. But fortuitous
event-he once upon time, as they say
in the story books, pointed pithy par
agraph at a man of some "infioOence."
He repented his rashness, but not In
time to save his official head from being
decapitated. All know his career since
how he went to st. Louis, conducted
paper there, grew statesman and Is
now in New York at the head OF the
EUening Post, unless he has resigned as
reported. But no one ever knew he had
any money before he went to Washing
ton. How shrewd our statesmen are!
How economical they must be. Schurz
is queer being, brainy but needless.
He reminds me of George Francis Train
in some respects, and of Prentice's de-
scriptiOn-"a ship without q rudder, a
kite without a TAIL" Read one of his
speeches; the figures appal you. There
appear depth of thought, strength of
argument, incontrovertible facts. But
read carefully, weigh every thought,
and all seems Elusive. AS Jules Verne
brings every science to bear in order to
make his phantasies seem realistic.
Schurz encompasses his mystic years
after the unattainable with masses of
logic that divert attention from his real
purpose, one that too often he himself
seems loath to disclose. [ have seen
him many times, a tall, angular, wild
looking man. His chief amusement is
playing the piano. Stretching back his
long neck and gazing upward into va
cancy, he lets his fingers wander idly
over the keys, and then, as if because
of an irr ,sistable impulse, brings forth
most weird and chilling music. He
seldom plays an air through, but inn
prOvises almost con family, and his inn
provisations are all of the somber sort.
Don't listen to him if you are fanciful,
for you may dream of goblins and see
Schnrz's haggard face as the uneasy
spirit of the SOrcerer of the Hartz
MOuntains.--D Detroit Times.
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In 1880. He is in excellent health.

In 1880. He is in excellent health.
George Mcclellan, aged one hundred
and sixteen years, of Blythewood, S. c.,
was married on Sunday to a widow of
twenty-seven years, named Jennie Will
son.
For fifty years Pierpont Potter, of ia
maica, has acted as clerk to the Queens
County Board of Supervisors. He is
ninety years of age.
Mrs. w. X. Dolbeer, ofPerry, n. Y,
died recently at the age of ninety-two,
and Mrs. Mary Price, at her home in
jamestown, N. Y, aged ninety-one.
Harry Skinner, the old ferryman at
the Forge, in Powell County, KY, is
ninety years of age. He has cut his
third set of teeth, and his hair is black.
Anasa Allen, ofTerre Haute, is nine
ty-seven years old, and has just cele-
brated his seventy-seventh wedding an
niversary. He walks erect and reads
without spectacles.
Uncle Billy Sisk, of Columbus, Ind,
WAS an ex-slave. and was supposed to be
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Mrs. s. P. Wagner, who died recent
ly in New Orleans, was one of the girls
who strewed flowers in the pathway of
General Jackson on his return from the
battlefield of Chalmett, and she danced
with Lafayette when he visited this
country in 1925.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Foster, of Cairo,
N. Y, have been married seventy-five
years. He Is now in his one hundredth
year, and in failing health. His wife
was ninety-five years old in May. Fos-
ter's father lived one hundred years,
and Mrs. Fosters mother, was ninety
nine wears old when she died.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Quack doctors, electric belt and other
swindlers who live by frightening our
young men and young women by nasty
circulars, will find their occupations
gone when it becomes generally known
that DIR. Guysott's Yellow Dock and
Sarsaparilla is certain cure for all
weakness of the urinary organs, nerv-
BUSINESS, etc. Obey the laws of health,
take few bottles of this simple reme-
dy and you will soon be restored to per-
feet manhood and womanhood, free
from all worriment of mind and distress
of body. 2t
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A Startling Discovery.

Physicians are often startled by re-
markable discoveries. The fact that DR..
Kings New Discoveries for Consump-
ton and all throat and lung diseases is
daily curing patients that they have
given up to die, is startling them to re-
alize their sense Of duty, and examine
into the merits of this wonderful dis
covery; resulting in hundreds of our
best physicians using it in their prac-
tice. Trial bottles free at J. G. Saur's
Drug Store. Regular size $1.00
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Sheriff Staples, of Erie county, Pa,
is in an unpleasant ntpredicament. Almost
year ago DR.. French was sentenced
to the penitentiary, since which he has
been confined to his bed, and the physi-
clans say that it would be his death to
be removed. The Judge informs the
Sheriff that unless he takes the Doctor
to the penitentiary he will be removed
from office, while the lawyers advise
him that If the Doctor is removed and
dies the Sheriff can be prosecuted and
convicted of man slaughter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Governor Knott, in his message to the
Kentucky Legislature, Indignantly de-
MES that human life is held in slight
regard in that State. He says the gen.
eral belief that murders or unprovoked
assaults are more frequent in Kentucky
than elsewhere is utterly untrue, as can
be shown by criminal statistics. He is
induced to make this statement because
the fashionable falsehood regarding the
frequency of murder in Kentucky pre-
vents strangers settling in the State.
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NAPOLEON, OHIO,
Loan Agency.

Money! to loan on from three to fve years time, in
sums Of not less than 81 000 to be secured by FIRST
mortgages on real lestate. Abstract showing per.
feet title to accompany each application. Interest
from to per cent. according to amount of1oar and
value Of security. Applications III person or
Aug .24-tf. HAGUE & HUBBARD.
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Brown-s'ConfounG it! Did you
sec me kiss this lady?" Boy--"Well,
Pm not stone blind" Brown
Heres fifty cents. You needn't say
- Boy-"Oh. it's all right. I've
made over ten dollars off her this sum.
mer and fall. PUCK.
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Humor in the Stomach.

Much of the distress and sickness at
trihuted to dyspepsia, chronic diarrhea
and other causes is occasioned by humor
in the stomach. Several cases, with all
tho CHI ra 1T aristiae of +i,nnn an-~,vI" ,+~
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Hoods Sarsaparilla is made of roots,
herbs, and bards. 1t gives tone to the
stomach and makes the weak strong.
Sold by druggists.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Eruptions, sores, pimples, Rheuma-
tism are but indicators of impure blood.
Acker's Blood Elixir is the remedy.
Sold by J. l.. & I. Leist. 6m
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-01-17

Are you miserable through indiges-
ton, sour stomach, or constipation?
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets we guaran-
tee will relieve you. 6m
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-12
WHY?
How Cookbook Got Even.

A few years ago there was a well
known actor by the name of Mexican
Buchanan, or "Old Buck" as be was
Familiarity called. At 3 hotel at
Cairo, Illinois, he met Charley Coul-
dock. The night was d~isagreeable;
the meeting was a merry one. After
partaking of a few glasses a game Of
poker was proposed. Now, Couldock
liked the sport, hut was not an ex-
pert. Buchanan was-not that he
was ever known to cheat, but ne al
way won. In a short tune Couldock
was ''cleaned out" and the party
went TO bed. Next morning Buck"
met Charley and said: II ara going
out West. for a little shooting recrea-
5ion, but would like to act while out
there as well. Do you know the man
ager at Cheyenne? p II do" said the
old man. aWeIl,'F said "6uck," II
wish you would give me a line to
him." "Lertainly.' said Couldock,
and he Immediately wrote the letter.
1t ran thus;
CAIRO, IT,. Dec. 7, l8ss.-Mr. Rus
kin MY Dear Sir: This will be
handed to you by my friend Mr.. Nc
Kean Buchanan, an actor Of much
merit. He comes to your town on
professional business. He plays
Virginius. Richelieu, Hamlet. Rich
ard III. ShyIock and poker; he plays
best. Your obedient servant.
G.. A, C0ULDOCK.
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The Cdur d'Alene Eagle.

Mr.. A. F. Parker, formerly of the
Walla Walla Statesman, will s'art a
paper at Eagle City, to be
called the Weekly Eagle. Mr.. Park
er's well.known ability as q newspa-
per writer is a guarantee that the
Eagle will be a thoroughly live news
paper. In his prospectus MI, Parker
says: The object Of the Eagle is to
advertise to the world the mineral
wealth and other resources Of the
northern portion of Idaho Territory.
It will contain articles descriptive Of
the wonderful placer fields and the
great b0nanzas cached in the bosom
of the great Coeur d'Alere range Of
mountains; of its magnificent system
OF navigable lakes and rivers; Of its
broad prairies, fertile meadows and
rich valleys; of its picturesque seem
cry and manifold attractions for the
tourist, the Spectator and the In
dustrial population.
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Tax and Property Items.

tHe'ena Independent, March 81
The total amount cf taxes collected
in Lewis end Clarke county in 1875
five years ago-was $780, 12 SIS, at
which time the taxation was % mills
on the dollar. In 1888 the total
amount collected was Ss9. 549. 80. the
rats o ftaxation being Is mills OH the
dollar. While the total amount is
not much larger now than it was five
years ego, 1t will be observed that the
rate of taxation mas been decreased
nearly two-tifths; which is largely
due to the fact tn t the amount Of
taxable property in the county has
more than doubled, tae total ASSESS
ment of 1873 being So, 7s7, O65, while
that of 1883 was 5 5,837,1l3. not in
Guiding the supplementary list-a
considerable item.
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The City Courts.

The stiffness of Judge Nichols
court was unbroken yesterday, not a
single violator of the law presenting
himself within'that temple OF justice.
In Judge French's court, Walter
Phoenix was sent up for disturbing
the peace, and Abner Algy sent be-
low for contempt of court. The lat
ter was arraigned for using abusive
language. In the course Of the trial
Algy came to the conclusion it was
necessary for him to make a state
ment. His Honor thought other
wise, and Algy insisting the Judge
made q statement that paralyzed the
embryonic orator. 1t he cooled off
properly and present himself In
good form to-day his 3 will be
concluded.
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Quail for Montana.

An exchange says: Last week Mr..
w. J. Mccormick sent east an order
for two dozen quail, which he pro :
poses to turn loose on the Burnt
Fork of Bitter Root next season. Mr..
Mccormick is of the opinion that the
birds will thrive as we'll here as in
illinois,, Wisconsin, Iowa OF Mime
sofa, and proposes to make the ex-
pertinent of transplanting them to
the mountains. We see no reason
why the eastern companion of the
prairie chicken, grouse and partridge
should no: do as well in Montana as
do the larger birds above spoken Of.
There are others, however, who say
that the lack Of the thick underbrush
of the east will prove fatal to the
quail.
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ADVICE to Mothers.

Are you disturbed at night and
broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and crying with pain of
cutting teeth? If SO send at once
and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's
soothing Syrup for children teething
Its value il incalculable. 1t will e
lieve the poor little sufferer immedi~
ately. Depend upon 1t mothers, there
is no mistake about it. 1t cures dys-
antary aud diarrhoea. regulates the
stomach and bowels, reduces infam
nation and gives tone and energy TO
the whole system. Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing syrup for children teething
is pleasant to the taste, and is the
prescription Of one Of the eldest fe-
male physicians In the United States
and Is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price 25c
per bottle. 6-l6-swly
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FrOuuceMarkeI Report.

BUTTE, N. t., March. 8, 1854
The following are the wholesale
prices paid by merchants and hotel
keepers for the commodities enuEuer~
ated, delivered from the wagons
Price list carefully corrected every
Flour Ruby Valley, xxx, $500
per cWt.
Mill Creek. XXXX. t4.nO
percwt.
Kansas xxx $3.50.
Bakers. $3.50.
Mill Creek, New Process, $500.
Gallatin, $40 per cwt.
Union Mills, New Process, Urea,u
Of the Valley, $500
Ruby Valley, new process 400.
Union Mills XXXX Snow hike,
$3.50.
Utah Common. $S.2n
Utah Choice, $3.50.
Graham. $500.
Wheat per ib., cts.
Oats, 81. D@l.S6
Butter, per h., $5dM ns.
Eggs, per case, Sl2.50@ 100
: Corn Meal, sc.
Beef. carcass, SC
Hay per ton. $40 SO
Balled Hay, per tou, S2233 '42i.t"
Cheese, 2OHA22 cts
Barley, s2.s5@2.5O per cwt.
Dried beans, Montana, : cts.
Mutton, y cts.
Pork, dressed, ssM. l0cis. per H..
Veal, l2zcts. per 10.
Sausage, Is Cts. per Id.
Venisoa carcass 5cIa,lb r
Chickens, live, 50 at $40 per icxeu.
Wood, $s.0OG,s7.
Potatoes, $3.50 RcWt.
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The Reformed School Of Begging.
Arkansew Traveller,

ArkanseW Traveller,
A mar elegantly dressed. and
wearing a plug nat and kid gloves,
storped a citizen in the street and
said:
"Will you please give me money!"
"Give you money! Indignantly
replied the citizen, why should I
give you money!"
because / am a beggar. I used to
go around with a hand organ and sit
or the street corners, hut close atten-
ton to business has raised me above
the common herd. l could dress in
rags and tell you a pitiful story of
long suffering; Of being struck by
lightning while at prayer, o Of a
boiler explosion that deprived me of
that vital and highly necessary en-
ergy. 30 useful in the support of q
bed.ridden wife, crippled small chill
dren and a scroful)us son, but I am
done with such artfnl wiles. l have
monev in bank. and upon the whole
anu in excellent circumstances; but [
am a beggar, an original beggar,
striving to reform the profession"
My friend" said the citizen, II
am delighted to see you, and am
pleased to note vour Improvement.
Here is s. check for $40. 1t does me
good to assist in the ref)rm.'
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Importation OF Pork.

PARIS, March 1.-THE Commits.
of Chamber of Deputies, to which The
question Of the importation Of pork
had been referred, left The sub
ject to the approval Of the govern
ment TO consult the generals Of vail
Gus departments upon such matters.
Meanwhile, MI. Lusson, a member
of the committee, resolved to reques,
the government to suspend tho
embargo on pork until the committee
shall have come to a final decision.
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THE POET
Summers Interview with Jenny
son-How Buchanan Keade
Made Response 10
the Poet.
PHILADELPHIA Press

Philadelphia Press.l
Charles Sumner, being abroad in
1857, met Tennyson, and the senator,
never remarkable for modesty, talked
to the poet Of American politics ana
his OWL position toward the South
and slavery. He Don perceived that
the Englishman was very impatient
under his discourse, and recognizing
the familiar truth that q man is a
bore who talks about himself when
you want to talk about Yourself, he
dropped the subject in order to let his
companion play bore.
Tennyson seized the opportunity at
once. AS they were in = library he
took down a volume and asked;
"Have you ever read the 'Princess?"
Sumner replied that it was one of
Lis favOrite poems.
"Read it. them" demanded the
bard, pushing the book toward him.
Although fully conscious of the ex-
IRENE delicacy of reading verses be
fore their author, he opened to the
page and began. He had not read
twenty lines before the Briton almost
snatched the book from his hands,
saying; "This is the way it should DO
read"
Then in his high, ponlpous. chant
ing tones, he recited the r eater part
of the poem. aifording his compulsory
listener no chance for n word. Snm-
her endured it all without a protest;
but he never, it is said, called on
Tennyson again-neyer, eve No
human creature could have the
h0rNvhnNd RI T2rnnf svynk. an az r,ar.
ence.
T. Buchanan Reade, the dead poet.
a native of Chester Co., Pennsylvania
was in London in the summer of 1861
and vas invited to meet Tennyson at
the house Of a common friend. He
went with eagerness and enthusiasm
to see the illustriOus singer, who
figured in his mind the striking,
handsome, noble looking creature
whose portrait. taken in his younger
days. is so familiar. An introduction
revealed a very dissimilar person. -
thin-faced, fussy, man, with scant
hair, blue glasses, and round shout
ders-the reverse of his ideal.
Immediately the Briton broke out
with; II wish to say, Mr.. Reade, that
[ have in the past had a liking for
your country, but, as it is now plainly
going to the dogs. l feel bound to tell
you that you need not look for aid or
sympathy from as EngIishmen.'
Very properly nettlcd at such I'm
p%ardonable rudeness, Reade replied
with heat: "Do not disturb yourself,
MI. Tennyson, about III country.
We don't care a -- for either you,
or your aid and sympathy. 1t is not
worth having under any circumstan~
ces. W. propose to fight this thing
out regardless Of Europe. John Bull
and his noble family can go TO-
tor all us. We Americans are not
going that way at present.
This insolent response. as Keade
himself said, instead OF offending the
elder poet, seemed to have a mollifY.
ing effect on him. "After that to
use his uwn words, "rennyscn
treated me quite decenlly, and spoke
very kindly Of America and Ameri-
cans. II l had allowed his efroptery
to pass in ~silence, he would have had
no respect for me. The only way to
get or with Englishmen who bully
you is to bully them in turn.
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Renshaw Opera House.

The Opera House was again packed
last evening to witness Miss Phosa
McAllister's rendition of Leah, the
Forsaken: In this play Miss McAllis-
ter is accorded by the Eastern press,
the first rank among emo ional act
'reeses. Those who were so fortunate
as to hear the lady last evening will
readily agree that she is entitled to
the distinction. She was called be-
fore the curtain at the conclusion of
the fourth act, q distinction which
has not been awarded to an actor or
actress BY Butte audience for years.
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DIED.

MOkkIo.-In Butte, March :, l'ei, Of pseudo
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Morris, aged Ii
years, 6 months ana ten days.
Little Daisy was a modest, retiring,
pure-minded, sweet dispositioned
and intelligent, womanly girl, with -
frame as fragile as "a flower. she
was a favorite with all who knew
her and loved Nv \ large circle of
friends who deeply mourn her loss.
The sorrowing family have the SYM
patny Of the entire community IN
their great bereavement.