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Personal Points.

The body of Jerome Collins IS to DC taken W
ireland for burial
Mrs. Wendell Phillips objects TO the lde9 VI
a sfatue Of her husband in Faneuil hall.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor is dangerously Ill
with typhoid fever. Her son, the American
minister at Rome, has been caoled
Miss Carrie Sheards, who was principal OF
the Oak Ridge seminary at the time oil the pat
lie of gettysburg and became prominent by
her heroism in aiding Union soldiers "ounu0u
in the battle, died in Reading fecehuy'
Robert Broker, a New York broker at WASH
ington. tells how, during the Chicago hre' ne
drove a draw cart of milk to a relief hall ana
Senator John A.. Logan's wife sat on the dIay
holding the milk cans. TIL other asslstah'
had mutimed.
David Walker, the recently concecrated
bisbop of Northern Dakota, was rendered a re-
cention on the evening of the goth, at the res
idence of his brother, J. M. Walker, ESD, NO.
345 Dearborn avenue, Chicago. Blshop WalAe5
was recently consccrated III New Aoi6 ol'f % ,as
preached in Chicago ON the 18th IN d. Jahloa
church. He is now on his way 10 ms How
charge. The reception was a very pleasant al
fair. and was attended by a number OF "oh-
known society people.
Mrs. Fred w. Paramore, wife OF the son OF
Col j. W. Paramore, president Of the Texas d
| st. Louis railway. died i'll St Louis recently
Mrs. Paramore, prior to her marriage, was MISS
Nellie Hazeltine, daughter of w. b. Hazelnner
formerly a prominent merchant OF oL LOUIS
and was a leading belle of the city for several
wears. She was very beautiful ana accom-
nlished. and a lady well known in Eastern anc
southern society, and became famous lev
wears ago as the reported fancee OF Samuel j.
Iilden.
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miscellaneous views Notes.

The Democrats will hold their national circus
Aug. g.
Norfolk is the first Virginia city to have the
electric light
William J. Sullivan has been nominated post
master at Leon, Iowa
ANational Decentralization convention is
to be called for May 2o.
March 25 a convention of Americaninventors
will be held in Cincinnati.
The Iongview private insane asylum at Gin
cinnati is offered TO the State of Ohio.
At Metropolis. Ill, the floods destroyed the
National hotel, made famous by Dickens.
The New York assembly has passed. a bill
vesting absolute appointing power in the may
or of New York-Aycs ~, noes 81.
The republicans of Massachusetts, will hold
a state convention for the choice of delegates
to the national convention in Boston, April d.
The defaulting city treasurer of Chicago,
Dave Gage. befriended a poor miner in Colo
RADIO. The miner. William p. Linn, prospered.
and at his death left $40, 900, 600, o~ne-quarter OF
which was bequeathed to Mr.. Gage.
KeziahB B. Blackburn Of Brooklyn her
self comforts for fifty years, that she might be
extensively buried and that her grave might re-
cefve daily attention. Her parents had been
buried in paupers' graves. Her funeral cost
$1,000.
Hugh J. Jewett is a director in twenty rail-
road companies, Samuel Sloan in twenty-three,
jay Gould in twenty-four, GeorgeB Roberts III
twenty-sIx, Augustus Shell in twenty.elght,
Sidney Dillon in thirty-six and Frederick L.
Ames in tifty-two.
John H. Kinley, counsel TO the Real Estate
Owners Protective association, New York, has
been arrested on a charge of Matchmaking. II
is alleged that he extorted money from owners
of property on the East side, telling them thell
houses were used for improper purposes, and
threatning to bring actions against them.
The steamship Frisia, from Hamburg, arrived
attn. v, the Goth, with bodies of Lieut. belong
and comrades on board. Lieut., Ward, U. S. N
representing Commodore Upshur, met the
Frisia at quarantine and came on it to the docI
at Hobo ken and transferred the cases OF bodies
to an undertakers Woodlawn cemetery.
The surrogate of New York has given a decis
ion in the case,of the will of Sarah Burr, VIII
disposed of her whole estate, valued at $1,000,
600, for charitable purposes. The surrogate
decides the contesting relatives, and conclude
that the will expresses the free, unrestralne'
and deliberate purposes of the decedent, tina
she was of sound mind and memory when sh
signed it, and hat it is entitled to be admittec
, TO the probate.
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Democratic National Convention.

A meeting Of the democratic national COM
mittee was held in Chicago on the 22d.
The first thing done which was regarded
with special significance was the first ballot on
the.time for holding the convention. Dates from
early in May to the middle of August were pro-
posed, the earlier dates generally being regarded
as in the interest of St Louis, and as these dates
were taken up and acted upon, there was cor
responding interest on the part of representa-
tives of the rival cities. The first ballot was fol
the Goth of May, the vote begin II to 20
The final vote on the location showed that
the vote on this date really indicated the
strength of the respective cities of st Louis
and Chicago, the latter getting twenty-one votes
for legation and the former seventeen. Inc
next Ballot on the date fixed it on the 24th OF
June, but this was changed, after the location
was agreed upon, to the Sth of July. Three
ballots for the location were taken the last re-
suit was Chicago q, st. Louis IL.
The following call was presented by the ex'
ecutive committee, and agreed upon:
The national Democratic committee, havlne
met in the city of Washington on the I'd o.
February, 1884, has appointed Tuesday, tht
Sth day of July next, at noon, as the time, anC
chosen the city of Chicago as the place, 1ol
holding n national Democratic convention
Each state is entitled to representation therelI
equal to double the number of senators anC
Representatives in congress OF the United states
The Democrats of each organized territory
and the District of Columbia are entitled t.
send two delegates, subject t
discretion of the convention as II
their admission. All Democratic citizens of the
United States. irrespective of past pOihIca! assO
Citations and differences, who can unite with u
in an effort for a pure, economical and constl
tutional government, are cordially invited to jon
in sending delegates to the convention.
The call is signed by all the members of tn
national Democratic committee. On motion o
McHenry of Kentucky, it was resolved that tn
next meeting of the committee be held at tn
Palmer house, Chicago, July 18th next The com
mittee then adjourned.
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The Criminal Calendar.

Love-sick Ed. Rail, suicided at Fort Scott,
Kans.
A Tombstone, Ariz., dispatch says the five
Bisbee murderers have been sentenced to be
hanged March IS.
The mayor of Fremont, Ohio, MARCHED
through the streets the other night beastly drunk
with a brass band preceding him.
Harvey Chapple, aged seventy-eight, a veal
thv farmer living alone near Lebanon, Conn,
was found murdered in his own house.
At Jersey City, N. J., DR.. Rufus Peacock has
been sentenced to two years in the state prison
for defrauding the American Legion of Honor,
Henry Mccullough was killed and Ed. Jones
seriously, if not fatally, injured by a train at
Trenton, Ohio. Both lived at Wheeling, W.
Va.
Cannon Sander and Rafael Caprone have been
sentenced 1T Bangor, Ne. to be hanged the first
Friday of April, 1885,, for the murder of Pasquale
Coscie on the eth of September last
Mrs. Haight of Derryten,N. Y, who shot her
husband at night as they lay in bed, is on trial
At Morrisville. Haight's deathbed statement il
tic chief evidence against her. She had per-
suaded him to take out a large life insurance.
A party of fifteen raftsmen, returning from
the Licking river to their homes in Magofiir
Co. XIV. became involved in a drunken fight
and Elijah Lee was shot dead and SIX other
were more or less seriously wounded by staps
The people living in the mountainous region
Of Fayette county, Pa, have been terrorized b,
a band of highway robbers and burglars, VIII
made their headquarters in the mountains an
sailed forth at night, and frequently in broal
daylight to plumber.
Emma Mccoy, tcolorod) Of Ia Grange, Tex
gave a poisoned biscuit 10 her husbands al
legged paramour The latter, instead of parta
king Of il divided the gift between two chi
dren, one of whom dIed, and the other wa
saved by physicians.
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AdolphB oeckler, salesman and collector for
f. Eggers 4 Co., St Louis millers, has keen
detected approproiating funds Of the firm, He
Acknowledges having stolen about S5,OOO the
past two wears. He has a wife and family,
and have not been arrested yet.
The people OF Gore, Ohio, placed a guard
around their cemetery to prevent the burial
there of William v. Terrell, the murderer OF
the Weldon family, who died in the pemtent,
iary. The body was, in consequence. buried
on the murderer's own farm, and within view
Of the scene OF the tragedy.
John Brehmer of Glasgow, Ohio, vent home
intoxicated and attempted to murder his wife,
when his son John interfered, whereupon the
old man took a shotgun and shot the boy IN
the breast, inficting a fatal wound. Inc old
man is fifty, and his son twenty-five years OF
age. Brehmeris under arrest
Marley Rowe, a prominent citizen, rode up
10 the depot at Wharton, Tex, d~ismounted,
stepped within three feet of a young fellow
named Louis Charlton, leveled a gun and dis
charged a load of buckshot into Chsrlton's
right side. killing him instantly. Rowe I'M
me1iately surrendered He said Charlton m
suited Miss Rowe.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20
I. o. O. x.-Minaesota Grand Enoarnpment

The tenth annual grand encampment of the
Independent Order of d Fellows of Minne.
sofa was opened Wednesday, the goth, at s
o'clock, at Odd Fellows hall, st Paul There
was a full attendance of delegates.
The report of the grand patriarch was pre-
scented. 1t showed a very favorable state OF
affairs from ~tventy-six deputy district grand
patriarchs.
The report of the grand representative to the
sovereign grand lodge was presented. II
showed that the report of the sovereign grand
sire denoted a net gain the last official year OF
1850, making a total membership of 4S, 99l
in the United States; encampment member
ship, 81, 10 net gain, 4,46G.
Mr.. Williams report as grand treasurer
shows receipts, $1S6. ~; expenditure of grand
oncampment for the year, $225S. 46; in treasury
at close of term, S52&2G.
The encampment proceeded to the election o.
oficcrs-with the following result:
Grand Patriarch-Thoma Riley, st. Paul
Grand High Priost-W. X. Read, Lanesboro
Grand Senior Warden-E. R. French, Brain
erd.
Grand Scribe and Treasurer. F. Williams
St Paul.
Grand Junior Warden-J. Minges, Wilton.
Grand Inside Sentinel-A. G. Long, st. Paul
Grand Representatives,. w. Smith, Minne
apolis, elected 1885. for two years.)
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Record of Casualties.

The damage by the storm at paducah, KY,
on the 10Th was SlO0,UOO.
Mrs. Hullv, a prominent lady of Switzerland
county, Ind, was drowned in the flood.
The Southern cyclone killed no less than five
hundred persons, and destroyed $1,0OO,000
of property.
A saw mill boiler exploded at West Carlisle,
Pa, killing two men named Ridenbaugh and
Buckmaster, and severely %wounding several
others.
fire at Charlottetown, Primo Edwards Is
land, destroying all the business places on the
south side of Green's square, the postoffice and
custom house. The loss is placed at s2J0,OOO;
insurance 100000.
An oil tank that was leaky rolled from a car
in Be~llefountaine, Ohio, and a boy lighted the
oil on the ground. The fire ran to the tank,
which exploded. scattering the burning oil over
six children One of them will die andthe 9TH
ers are seriously burned
The heavy iron roof of the retort house of
Charleston, S. c., Gas works fell in killing
John McGann and injuring Cornelius Mellow
an and Edward Clarkin, firemen, who were en-
gagged in the building at the time of the acct
dent The damage TO property is S10,000.
There will be no interruption III the lighting of
the city.
Reuben Hart and wife (coloren residing
three milos in the country from Crockett, Tex.
went to church and left six children at home
asleep. At ten O'Clock the house was discov-
cred to be ON fire, and it burned so quickly
that it was impossible to save it or the chill
dren, every one of them was burned to death
The eldest was a boy thirteen years old.
A wire bridge spanning the Kiskaminet rive
at Apollo, Pa, parted Immediately over tn
pier in the middle Of the river. and went dow
with a crash. William Henderson and Harr,
Yeneins were crossing the river with a load o
sheet iron, and were thrown into the river
Henderson escaped with a cold bath, but Ken
kins and the two horses were drowned
| Thomas Default and Bernard Houle, two o
/ the oldest and most respected citizens of
ern Dakota, were found about five miles Yves
, of Pembina Tuesday afternoonfrozen nearly I
= death When found they were unconsciOu
and Default died the 20th. There is n
hopes of Houle's recovery. Default hada Wit
! and four children. Homie is unmarried.
Among the buildings destroyed by the foo
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

A passage in Queen Victoria's diary,
lately published has created something
more than passing interest, in view OF
certain expressions showing that all thu
sympathies of her majesty went out to
the Germans in the Franco-Prussian
war, and that had she possessed the
power to direct it, the strength OF Eng
land would have been thrown into the
scale against France, yet she was pow
erless. Says the queen, apropos OF
sermon which she attended at Crathle
Church, and which was preached by
one of her favored and most favorit'
pastors: doctor Mcleod gave 1
splendid war sermon. Without men
tioning France, he said enough to make
every n understand what he mean
when he pointed out how God woul'
punish wickedness and vanity and sen
suality. The chapters he read wer
really quite wonderful for the way i
which they seemed to describe France.
This passage has stirred ba
blood in France, and a feeling OF irritf
ton which will continue to rankle !
the minds of Frenchmen, and which a
ready finds expression.
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The Markets.

MnwAUKEE-Wheat, No. 2, Ole; bid NAY
$1.O0%.
CoTn-No. 2, 4Xc.
Oats-No. ., 33c.
Rye-No. l, SOC.
Barley-No. 2, 5Sc@5sH.
CHIcAGo.-Wheat No. 2sprinG, 3%c994Hei
No. 3 spring, S2@s315G
Corn-54c@4%c.
Oats-32Ic@33c-
Rye-5Sc.
Barley-G2@6Scc.
Flax Seed-S1.5A
Pork-$17 6215@17.I6.
Lard-S9 55@S9.60.
Hogs-$6 60(0Z25.
Cattle-s5. 00(65.75.
ST. PAUL-Wheat, No. l hard, sL0O; No I
hard, 93095c, No. 1 regular, N@goei NO :
6orn3No. 2, 51c@5sc; new mixed, $c@Sc;
rejected, Hc046c.
Oats-No. 2mixed, S1%c@32kc.
Barley-No. 2, 60c; No. B extra, %sc; NO o
Sc.
Rye-No. ., 63c
Ground Feed-sS OO090
Corn Meal-S20M.
Bran-s12 50@13m. -nv
Baled Hsy-Wld, S6759625i tm0'N''
$9O0.
Live Hogs-S5.50
Dressed Hogs-S7M
Timothy Seed-Sl.156L26
Glover Seed-S55 0@6@
! PotatOes-42c,
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

The old Credit Mobilier, supposed to
be dead and buried, with the regulations
of not a few statesmen concerned IN 1t.
is revived in the United States circuit
court at Boston, in a suit involving 49,
900, 900. The opinion of the court is in
substance, that the trustees, Thos. @
Durant and six others, to whom was as
signed the contract between Cakes Ames
and the Union Pacific Railroad, have
failed to account for many millions oi
dollars due under that trust to the stock
holders of the Credit Mobilier of Amer
lea, and that the trustees have been
guilty of wilful negligence and miscon'
duct in the arrangements of the trusts.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20
Flashes.

Mr.. Buckle, thirty years old, is editor-in-
charge of the London Times until some great
man can be found for the place.
In Paris the current topic of gOesips is the
dispute of Mrs. Mackay and Meissonieri in regard
to her portrait painted by the latter. The
price paid was $1,000 francs. Mrs. Mackay
was dissatisfied with the likeness, which her
friends called a ca~ricature, and she burned IT.
Messonier. resenting remarks of the Gaulois
wrote the editor, that he would fight
Meyer, the Gaulois critic, if he
Meissonier) were fifty instead OF
seventy-three years old. Meyer replied that
Meissonier's son should take his fathers place
and fight.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

A dispatch from East Saginaw, Mich.
SAYS that Col. Hunt, a lately deceased
millionaire who had a keen appreciation
of humor, b~equeathed in his will $4,000
to the mother of Charles Brown Gear
temus Ward'), and a similar sum to Eli
Perkins and Josh Billings. Some OF
the neglected humorists cannot see why
Eli Perkins should be virtually desig-
mated as q humorist as he has always
been classed, whether justly or other
wise, a one of the tribe of Annanias and
Saphira. The funny men will now I'M
derstand that pleasant words rather
than satirical are most relished by mil
Iionaires.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

A couple of years ago Miss Salhe
Mclean, a bright Connecticut girl, uti-
lzed her observations as a teacher by
writing a clever book entitled Cape
Cod Folks" which gave some excellent
pictures of the quaint types of charac-
ter to be found in that corne of New
England. Miss Mclean was utterly
without experience as an author, and
was so indiscreet as to use some of the
real m of the people whom she de-
scribed. This naturally provoked their
great Indignation, and although the
publishers changed the names in later
editions Of the books, the person most
aggrieved, one Nightingale, brought
suit for damages. The publishers
showed that they we're free from NAL
ice, but the jury, nevertheless, held that
they ought to suffer for their negligence
and awarded the young man S1,OO5 as
salve for his wounded feelings. As the
publishers testified that the use of the
names had already eaten up all The
profits of the book, Miss McLean's frs
ventare in authorship was a failure IL
pecun larry results at least, though sh'
has reaped a rich reward in other re
spects.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

Companies for cremation of the dead
have been organized in Eastern and
Southern cities, and spots selected Tor
the erections of furnaces. This dlspo
sition of the remains of the dead was
somewhat revolving at first to relatives
and friends, but timeis gradually wear
ing away objections, and cremation may
eventually come into general practice.
Stranger things have happened IN this
world.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20
How a Faripault Lady Was Robbed in
Chicago.

A dispatch from Chicago says: The Palmer
house was the scene last Monday the I'D, of
a remarkable bold assault and ROBBERY. The
hotel manager declines to give the name of the
lady, at her own request She is said, however,
to be Mrs. Dudley or Mrs. Sykes, a miIliner Of
Faribault, Mimi, who arrived in the city ear
", and after registering at the hotel, went to
Gage Bros. and purchased a stock of goods for
her business. Returning to the hotel she stop
ped at a drug store to get a prescription put up.
Noticing that she was being watched by a loaf
er in the ladies' entrance TO the hotel, she
asked to nave the medicine sent to
her room, preferring not to
expose the sum of money which she had. She
then went to her room; a few minutes later,
hearing a knock at the door, she opened it to
admit, as she supposed, a boy from the drug
store. Instead of the boy, she was confronted
by the mar who had watched her from the
ladies' entrance a few moments before. This
man seized her by the throat, put a handker.
chief saturated with chloroform to her nose
which soon rendered her insensible, and tool
everything he could lay hands on and left
After a while Mrs Dudley recovered sufficient
ly TO ring the bell and make known her situation
She soon recovered entirely from the assault
and has now left the city. Her loss was 500
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

At Metropolis, H., was the old National hotel
CIV wears old. made famous by Charles DICK
ens in his Martin Chuzzlewit The new NC
CawIev house has given away on the river 1Iont'
and is expected to collapse at any mon hnan
Mrs. Green's hotel on the river front t nag ia
conc The Metropolis foundry has yielded 10
the waves. The pillow factory and many 9tnea
business industries in the flooded dsnloIs havo
been swept away. Many private houses n4 ~
collapsed, and the streets, where they enSo ar IA
water, are filed with the debris Oh ueSN05N
buildings.
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The lists of failures are growing short
or and the signs Of improvement IN bus
mess a~re5becoming more frequent. Con-
fidence is being restored, and that means
better times. Nobody expects a revival
of speculative booms but the outlook
for legitimate business is much better
than for months past, This is especially
true of the northwest, where the field Is
open for labor and capital, and is not
cIutted with the one or the other.
The Mineral argus., 1884-03-20

The foods of the Ohio and tributaries
arc rapidly s~ubsiding. A full r~ealiza'
ton of the damage is said to be APPALLING
while the fear of future experiences Oh
the same sort operates as a disecur'
apement to any effort.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A Battle With an Alligator.

Robert Carroll, trapper and hunt er,
while trapping for otters on West Choc-
tawpatchie River, in Alabama, had a
terrible fight with an alligator, so local
paper tells us.
Seeing the water agitated in a hole
near the river, and supposing that otters
were fishing therein, he mounted pole
on tussock just above the waters edge.
His steel traps were in a sack suspended
from his neck. His only weapon was
his hatchet. He sat on the pole. with a
mass of vines at his back. He held his
weapon ready to strike an otter. should
one arise.
Soon he saw a young alligator near
him. He caught it up and it uttered a
cry. In an instant there was a terrible
splash of water, and huge alligator
with distended mouth and glittering
teeth rushed for hin. With little hope
of escape he fell back upon the vines,
and as he did so kicked the pole from
under his feet.
The terrible jaws closed on the pole
and crushed it. Carroll tried to inter-
pose the traps, but a vine had caught
them and partly held him down.
Seizing his hatchet he struck into the
open mouth of his assailant. 1t closed
on the weapon, and with great difficulty
he saved the hatchet. Getting free from
his traps, he dealt the alligator fatal
blow on the skull as it made the next
charge.
He secured the skin and such teeth as
had not been destroyed in the fight
The length of tine alligator was about
nine and half feet. The hole was its
den. Alhgators rarely attack human
beipos
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
The Growing Powers of Chilli.

In lecture on ''The Growing Power
of the Republic of Chilli the lecturer
summed up the results of the recent
war with Peru as follows: Chill, VIC
torious at every point, in diplomacy as
well as war, has discouraged European
Intervention with the aid of the United
States and at the same time has averted
the intervention of the United States by
her profession of willingness to fight
sooner than to submit to it-has brought
Bolivia into antagonism with her former
ally, and has so entirely subiugated
Peru that, if her own population were
large enough TO warrant such a policy,
she could annex the whole of that coun
try to her domains, but she has con-
tented herself with the nitrate district,
with the possession of Tacna and africa,
and thereby the control of the main out
let of Bolivia to the world, the perma-
nent dissolution of the Peru Bolivia con-
federacy and the opportunity at almost
any time to force war betwe cen those
countries by instigating and helping Bo-
livia to seize Arequipa, Pumo and NAL
linde. The Chilian revenue has in
creased greatly. In 1873 the receipts
from all ordinary sources of revenue
were only $4,000, 900, in 1882 they
amounted to $40, 100000, and besides
reducing the public debt nearly 81, 500,-
600 in that year, there is a cash surplus
of more than S8,OOO,OOO at the present
time. The value of the agricultural
lands has doubled within five years.