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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-07

What "a Woman Cam do.

She can say NO." and stick to it.
She can also say NO." in such low,
soft voice, that it means "Ycs" She
can sharpen lead-pencil il you give
her plenty of pencils. She can dance
all night in n pair of shoes two sizes
too small for her and enjoy every min
ute of the time, She can pass dis
play-window OF Diapers shop with
out Stopping-if she is running 10
catch train, She can walk half the
night with noisy baby in her arms
without once expressing the desire to
murder the infant She can appreci-
ate a kiss from her husband seventy
five years after the marriage ceremony
has taken place, She can suffer abuse
and neglect for years, which one touch
of kindness or consideration will drive
from her recollection. She can go to
church, and afterwards tell YOU what
every woman in the congregation had
on, and in some rare instances can
give faint idea of what the text was.
She can look her husband square in
the eye when he tells her some cock
and-bull story about being detained
at the Office without betraying in the
least that she knows him to be n
colossal liar She can-but what's tho
use? A woman can do anything or
everything, and do it well. She can
do more in minute than man in an
hour, and do it better She can make
the alleged lords of creation bow
down to her own sweet will and they
will never know it. Yes, woman
can do everything with but one excep-
tion she cannot climb Il tree.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-07

The captain of the steamship City of
Rome, who has been so severely cen
sured for disrcgarding the signals of
the vessel which rescued party OF the
passengers and crew Of the wrecked
State of Florida, is out with, endorsed
by two other officers Of his ship, in
which he denies the charges against
him. He says that it was impossible
for him to clearly understand the sig
mails of the other steamer and that no
call was made upon him for assistance.
He says that it is not customary for
vessels to offer assistance under ordi-
nary circumstances, Unless ii is asked.
While this explanation in u measure
clears away the charges against the
captain Of the City OF Rome, what has
been said of the Indifference of the
great ocean steamers is to great ex-
tent, nevertheless true, and the de-
mand that the claims he recognized is
none the less timely.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-07

ending A Kiss.-Fnnd Wife Ito
telegraph operator)--0 sir! want to
send kiss TO my husband in Liver
pool How can do it?
Obliging Operator, casiest thing in
the world, ma'am, You've got To give
it to me with ten dollars, and Ill
transmit it right away
Fond wife, if that's the ease, the di-
rectorS ought To put mn.h Younger
and handsomer men in. your posi-
ton.
Tableau-opeEator indignant.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-07

A well-nformed and reliable CORES
pondent, writing from New York un-
der date of May %, says: THE lately
revived stories about Mr.. Tildens
failing health are entitled to no cred
it, and they receive no credit by those
who have the best means of forming a
correct judgment in the matter. 1t
ought to be understood that within
the week or ten days past the states
man of Gramcrcy Park has relaxed
his policy of exclusiveness, and admits
to the Gramercy mansion now almost
everybody that has any claim to his
attention. His visitors consequently
are many, and so far as your cores
pondent can ascertain they have but
one opinion to express on the health
question, and this is that at this mo-
ment there are few men at his age
who are looking SO well or presenting
more satisfactory eyiden,e G Of physical
vigor. The tremulousness with which
he was troubled awhile ago appears to
have left him he walks with Il strong,
steady step, his deafness is less pro-
nsunced, and he converses on public
affairs and social and financial topics
with cheerfulness that is quite at
variance with the commonly-received
notions ofhis alleged bodily infrmty."
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-07

Ex-Gov Chamberlain, formerly Of
South Carolina but now a practicing
lawyer in New York city, has address,
ed letter to Theodore Roosevelt and
Andrew d. White, delegates at large
from New York to the Republican
nation alconvention, in which he urges
them to vote for the admission of the
"straightout" Republican delegates
from Virginia, He says: "'Straight-
out delegates are understood to
be ardent supportersof Blaine
The other set arc for Arthur, ! sup
pose, until they can make a bet
ter bargain with some one else.
The 'straightouts' were chosen by the
remnant of the Republican party in
Virginia-the party which voted for
Garfield in 1880, and who have right
to call themselves republicans. The
Malone delegates represent that po-
litical gang of frdebooters, abhorredby
by all decent citizens or politicians,
led by Malone and brought into exist
ence to ,consummate great fraud on
those who have lent Virginia their
money. They are, in true sense,
born repudiators-to WHICH disgrace
ful origin they have added the charac-
ter OF political hucksters and camp
followers, living only for plumber and
patronage"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

,orts - A. +,, ,ot+o oe +,,o ,o++a,
poa'o: :, ,,o+1 ~ .s'e oosso'ii se u 'ne Ae''ei
10 {" p'o'"'o u " e0Ai"'
j. G. Cowan's granary at Sherman
was struck by lightning and burned.
The y;lue of wheat in Dakota is
so low tbe local naners fnroat to
publish the current pniee.
~.
An OWLS e teet tkn tip to tip,
was capGur8 pya Rar.old s9n OF
Chafles buAsoughs avNffa ftohfa
Tower CNye is toglave Bap
college, Sl8OOO haYihg alreaa
Oeen suosc4pea anqya seH, IL
efectloh. xsdi 81 e.
A package stoaf5
worth OF 'diamondsS
stolen from W: =
60, on the trainsN
and Milwaukee5
turning ehicat
ago.
A young man EMPLOY
Worthing and Lennox fonS
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

New York, 2O.--An elabora q,
xell-planned attempt at arsoi
house filled with people was brol
to light to-day. The crime, hi :
ever, miscarried. Its only resl1
was the killing of woman, tie
wife Of a man whom the police arr
rested, charged with setting fire til
the house. The woman was Mrss
Gusty, the wife of Leo Gusty, a 81
loon keeper. The fire was discovered
in his house. He lived on the
second floor with his wife and child.
Seven dodgers occupied the thirds
floor. Early this morning a policy
officer saw flames in the house siiiiH rid
gave the alarm. He and another,
officer went into adjoining rooms,
and reused the inmates, then ascend
ing the roof, they went to rescue the
occupants sof the building. But;
they, at the first alarm, had fled to
the street, all but Mrs. Gusty and
her, nine-year-old boy. They were
found on the roof, the boy nearly
choked witll.smoke aud. the woman
dying With horrible burns; fter
the fire was extinguished it Ss dis
covered that coal oil had been poured
eyeryWliere and all the gas turned
. i
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

q An experienced sheep grower, who
Ikat the present time flock num-
3|g about 500 head. informs the
fson Sentinel that his experience
the line indicated leads him to
d it as tho most, profitable
y Of stock raising in this sec
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

manager to believe poor Lo was
rapidly acquiring the ways of his
white brethren.
Walsh county ise to vote on the
question of being bonned for a $2O,-
900 court house this fall.
David Russell killed a buffalo
twelve miles southeast of Steele
on the 11th. There was a large
herd in the neighborhood. Great
excitement prevailed, and everyone
S&h9 could secure a gun and horse
st Is on !tsAunt.
* sers from Columbia, in
: = c6HAy, was in Casselton the
K sSh his way to court at
sWas run in by the police
Mcious character. He had
a of a vast amount of bad
"a did not look like Il
sBut lie talks of bring
sfor improper imprison
Falls Press: The best corn
the world is fifty OF Il hun
aogs. Guy c. Weed, who was
ln the interior of the country
ined the workings of one of
= cribs. While driving along
ward the city about ten miles
out, farmer cried to him: "Hello,
how do you like my patent corn
cribY" The granger was feeding
about eighty hogs with cornstalks
freshly cut from the field. "You
see,' continued the granger, "the
beauty this crib is, there's no waste.
The crib consumes everything,
stalks, ears and leaves, and when
that forty acre field Of corn is all in
these cribs I'll drive them to mar
ket." Mr.. Weed says he was favor
ably impressed with the desirability
of the crib. He further said that
this section was full of hogs and
plenty Of corn to fattenz them, and
that . large portion of this crop
was already beyond the. reach Of
frost. 4
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

Winnipeg, Man., 16.-Thomas
Booth, of Boyne, and James Davis,
two we'll known farmers, were suf.
focated by gas at the Grand Pacific
hotel. They had been put in one
room and retired early. at bout
a. IN. one got up and lit the gas,
and on going back to bed it is sup
posed blew it out. They were dis
covered about nine o'clock, one of
them, Davis, being dead, aaasz the
other unconscious but alisesEtAt
last accounts MI. Booth W3SNstill
alive but not expected to reanNer.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

More Junction, Ia., 19.-This
morning us a freight train on the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road was
crossing the Rock Island track at
this place freight train on the lat
ter company's track ran into it,
making most complete wreck.
The engine on the Rock Island train
was smashed and about Is freight
cars of both trains. The engineer
and fireman on the Rock Island en-
gine, seeing that collision was un-
avoidable, jumped off, thus saving
their lives.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

Uniontown, Pa, 18.-Intense ex-
citement was created here by the
discovery of villainous plot to
take the lives Of the entire Mutt
family. The water in the we'll
whence the family drew their supply
Of water was poisoned by unknown
persons. Two young ladies are al
ready dead. Last evening Miss
Annie Mutt, the younger sister of
Lizzie Mutt, betrayed. some time
ago by N. L. Dukes, which event
was followed by the murder of Capt.
Mutt and the shooting of Dukes,
was suddenly taken ill and died in a
short time. All other members of
the family are i'll, thus evincing
that Miss Mutt, another younger
sister of Lizzie, died from the effects
of poison. The water in the well
is being analyzed. Young James
Mutt, the slayer of Dukes, and also,
Miss Lizzie are dangerously ill. :?ls
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26
News Notes.

At Rome, from midnight Friday
to Sunday afternoon there were 6S7
deaths from cholera. sSs
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

Lynchburg, Va, 10 Great ex-
element exists in Amherst county
over the unprovoked murder of Sam
uel Mitchell, sixteen years old. The
boy in company with two others
was in search of cows, when they
arrived at Hunters Camp in the
woods, occupied by three men.
George Fortune, one of the men, Or
dered Mitchell to carry beer keg
for him, the boy refused and For
tund shot him dead in his tracks.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

- { polls, 17.-Negotiations.
have baa closed for the purcbassaf
the NJ r. eapolis Tribune FROM G
eral NIB. Nettleton by MI.
Blether, late business manage J.
the Kansas City Journal, ap6s u
2. Haskell, son OF E. j. Ha5keK; edl
itor of the Boston Herald. The
morning Tribune was established in
1880, and has been successful. The
consideration is understood to be
approximate par for a capital stock
of 100000. 1t will be several
weeks before the new proprietors
take possession. In the meantime
no change will be made in the man
agement Of the paper.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

DR.. Darwin Potter has examined
Kate Smulsey, the Fort PLANES,
N. y, fasting woman, and says the
girl is suffering from st. Vitus'
dance, pure, simple and uncompli-
Gated. II unhesitatingly pronounce
the alleged fast IN unmitigated hum
bug, a stupendous fraud and ply
sitlogical impossibility."
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

The Barrett circus bummers at
Owatonna, after insulting a girl
Saturday night, killed F. Blair, a
specialapoliceman with. aslung shot.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

manager to believe poor Lo was
rapidly acquiring the ways Of his
white brethren.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

Motley, Minn., 17.-On the occa-
sion of the opening of the roller
rink at Motley, crowd of drunken
roughs went to the skating rink,
and on being reprimanded by the
proprietor for their ungentlemanly
conduct, pitched into him and sew
eral Of the participants were badly
cut up with knives. Ladies tainted
and were carried home insensible.
The parties have been arrested and
will pay the penalty of their rash
ness in Jail.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1884-09-26

Des MOines, Ia, 18.aa@Platt Saeger,
of Washington county, was burned
to death this morning. Having an
attack Of asthma, he got up and
bathed his chest with turpentine,
and it caught fire while he was
heating it at the kitchen stove. His
father heard his call and wrapped
him in blanket, but on his return
with water Piatt was dead.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
yOR PEI.ibgsr,
JAMES @. BLAINE,
lis HN Of Maine.
~ F0R VICE PRESIDENT.
a.N JOHN A. Logan. f-
Of Illinois.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

II Ia ordered that Convention Of The State DO
hold at Petersburg on educ kday, July &c. 1881 at
l0o'eloCk A. ~, 10 NC D,IDAie candidates Tor Goyct.
nor, State Superintendent Of FIcc schools, Audi
TOT, Tret xuier, Attorney .3eneia, ard two Judses
o, the kupitm me- Court Of Appeals. to DO voted tor
At the general election 10 be held on tho tecohd
Tuesday Of October next; and 10 dominate h1
Presidential electors 10 30 voted for at the Pfes..
Dental election 10 10 held Oh the fourth day OF
November next = 10 Aeltct State Central commit.
to, and to transact such other business a. may
como before said convention. /.
The Republican e!eCtOis OF West Virginia ana all
oher voters without regard to past political ANNA
tlons, who are oppoted 10 the couite Of the Demo
cratic administration OF this state In creating n
deb, III violation OF the express PROVISIONS Of our
Constitution 10 tho oppressive aa esSmens ilet al
" I'm posed upon the people; 10 the unequal ard
burden some taxation caiIitd by thctupplemenhl
aUesmcnt order Of the preent administration; al
who favor tho low est taxation compatible with tic
pablo intcrett; Of elevatirg and cignt!ying Amir
lean labor; protecting hnu extending hcine indut
tries giving ilCe POI liar education 10 the mast
OF tho leopIe; securing ire sulrsgO and an hones
COUNTING u ballots: etectually protecting all hu
MN rights In every section OF our common coun
try; and who desire 10 promote friendly feeling
aud permanent harmony throughout the State by
maintaining State and Government pledged ia
these objects and principles are cordially Invited
TO attend this Convention and participate Its de-
uberatlous.
We would recommend TO County Committees
early action In the matter Ct holding county meet
inss for the purpose OF appointing eelegaes to the
State Convention, and that one delegate for ever,
one hundred votes csst for Garfield and Arthur BE-
the basis Of representation 10 the State Convention
BY order Of the State Central Committee.
WV, COwDhN, Secretary.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27
tries, see in Mr.. Blaine's elevation TO the
Presidency decisive policy 10 be frustrat.

S " 1890 ~ = 49, NJ m n
The writer read but q few days ago an
extract copied from the Pail Mall Gazette,
In which It was claimed he would in every
instsnce replace American enterprise In
lieu OF Epgland's where It conld be done
with safety. Wepay about 500. 000. 900 an
nually 10 English commercial companies
for carrying our products to European
ports. Why not supplant these with Amer.
lean steamers and leave this large sum to
the American people, where 1t rightfully
belongs Then sRaip, II must not be for.
gotten that II was under English survell.
lance on the Clyde tha. privateers were
constructed to prey on American COM
merce, that 1reland's supremacy 10 cast In
the clouds, and that Mr.. Blaine'a advocacy
for the rights Of Irish American Citzsns is
ioreshadowed and his overthrow desired
by these malcontents under the Disguise
that the Republican party "has ceased TO be
worthy organization" The same implia,.
cable course was determined upon should
President Arthur have received the noml'
nation. HTa
MIR. Blaine stands to-day fairly nomi'
mated as the candidate Of the Republican
party, the embodiment Of ils principles
There can DO no controversy about III
principles, nor as to the course to be- pur-
sled in maintaining them. | confidently
predict the election Of Mr.. Blaine outside o.
politics, for l believe the verdict Of tht
working classes will be to support Amerl
can industries, that is, with pro ection. And
# these brethren over In the Empire State
are Tres traders, which We believe Is In
con,rovertible, then the question has re
solved itself between parties. But MIR
Hallowell says they will not vote the Demo
cratic ticket. There Ia still Ban Butler
tea party for them. But they say they vii
have nominee OF their own. He will b.
no Irish.Anerican, that's q ioregone con
clusion. 1,4 n.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27
NOW We nave 1T,
Why England Pets the Tory Rolters and
Opposes Blaine.

Why England Pets the Tory Rolters and
Opposes Blaine. =.
London Telegraph. Z
In England it is difficult for us to con-
template the approaching struggle with
undivided sympathy for either party. On
The one haLd, the Democrats have, since
the days Ct Jefferson, been generally re.
galded as animsted. by deep.roo,ed hos.
tllity 10 this country. As a pro.slavery
party they always commanded the Irish
vote, which permitted them to show no
favor toward Great Britain. With the dis.
appearance OF slavery, the Democrats have
lost one OF their great grievances against
England as the head-Cen,re Of abolition,
and their leaning toward free trade-aI.
though little likely to be avowed NJ xt
month as a ..plsnk" in their Chicago=.plss.
torm"-has long been markedly on the in.
crease. The Republicans, on the other
hand, have been consistently lust and
unaggressive in their foreign policy during
their long tenure OF Office, and the sym.
pathy OF Englishmen, who admired their
vigorous conduct Of the Civil War, their
resumption OF specie payments, their firm
and enlightened ; maintenance Of public
credit, and their steady reduction Of the
National debt has been accorded to them
withouts stint. On sudden, howevsr, they
have chosen for their Presidential csndi.
date a statesman who ylories in his jealousy
Of England; who in;erprets the Monroe
doctrine in sense which it's authors never
meant it to bear; who is, to some extent, a
"know.nothing" in the barriers he would
erect against the "pauper labor Of Europe";
and who would iain attract the Irish vote
by posing as the irreconcilable foe o!
Great Britain. It is natural; that
upon this side Of the "A lantc wa
should watch without displeasure the re.
volt Of the Republican ,"bolters'' against
the "white-plumed Knight"-as his fol-
LEVERS designate him-who has jus. been
nominated at Chicago. Mr.. Blaine is OBJ.
jected to by many as an American "Jingo,"
but still mure as an uusc,upnlous believer
in those "machine.made" politics which
have done so much to lower official and
commercial purity in the United States.
In addition, there are many Americans
who condemn Mr.. Blains's conduct and
bearing when President Garfield was shot
while leaning on his Secretary OF States
arm in the railroad station at Washington.
20 1tf4t ts4t 7H -
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-27

It Is taking long time, cline upon line
and precept upon precept" TO teach some Of
the well.fed officers OF the army that this is
nolonger "a white mans government
that the army establishment is not main
tanned for the exclusive beneti. Ct white
gentlemen's eons." General Hszan, chic
Of the Signal Corps, has just placed himsel
in position 10 learn something, and Secre
tary Lincoln has given him condensed
course Of lectures that ought to be Of ser
vice 10 him and 10 others in the army.
Hallet Green is young colorsd man
just graduated from the College Of the City
OF New York. Desiring to enter the signal
corps he made application in due form,
stating therein that he IVES colored man.
General Hfzen, in reply to the application,
eaid 1t must be refused because "a mixture
OF races would not be advantageous to the
corpH." lie suggested that young Green
might enlist in one Of the regiments com.
poEed exclusively Of colored men.
This remarkable reply aroused the indig.
nation Of the President oil Young Green's
alma mater, who wrote 10 inform the Sec
retary Of War Of this advanced drawing Of
the color line. Secretary Lincoln advised
Green to make application again, and on
that document he wrote:
The Secretary OF War caa not concur in
the yiews OF the Chief Signal Officer as to his
policy In relation 10 psisons OF color being
enlisted or otherwise employed In the pub.
lie service. Just ate. the close OF the war OF
the rebellion, In the reorgan!z alton OF the
army, Congress declared that all OF the en-.
listed men Of specified number OF regiments
should be coiored. Since that time no legis.
la,ion is necessary. Colored men have been
Senators and Representatives in Congress,
and have occupied mauy high official
stations Of an executive character under the
Government No distinction is thought OF
in admitting or instructing them IS cadets at
the Military Academy, or in masking them
officers after they lave graduated; no dis
tincton In admitting them as clerks In this
department or other departments, and no
distinction should b. made In admitting
them to the signal corps In any capacity
they are qualified TO serve. 4
This is not more than the Secretary Of
War ought 10 have said and done, but it is
we'll said, and General Hszen will proba-
bly, understand it by the time 1T gets around
to him. II there ia need Of another man
in the Signal Corps, and ii this young COL
ored man is competent for tho work, as he
III said 10 be, it would be a shameful pro-
cseding to exclude him on the ground Of
his color. He isn't brave or admirable
white man who wants the law 10 protect
him in the struggle for bread asainst a
competitor who starts handicapped with a
prejudice which General Hszsn strongly
proclaims.