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At Clearfield, Pa, Thomas Martin was fatally
shot by his wife. Jealousy.
Dick Brown, colored, of Ascension Parish,
Ga, was shot and killed by Della Knox, whose
room he was trying to enter
Lincoln, Neb., is infested with burglars,
whose depredations are so numerous and bold
as to produce partial reign of terror.
Postmaster Cotton Of Rocky Comfort, Ark. :,
is reported to have absconded, leaving his &C
counts with the government short to the extent
of about 81 200.
posse of five men attempted to arrest Will
liam Searey, charged with the murder of two
men in Nelson county, Ky. Searey was heavily
armed and refused to surrender, and was shot
and instantly killed by the posse.
West Gordon of Fort Gaines, Ga, colored,
being jealous of his wife's regard, tried to
hang himself easy like, to test it, but came
near dying before she cnt him down, and
wished he had when she remarked: "You old
fool, I've most mind to let you stay dar."
Miss Mary Rice asked William b. Wansley
to meet her in court at Elberton, Ga, the 9TH
day, and, complying with her request, he made
her proposal Of marriage, which after half
an hours hesitation, she accepted, and the
eleventh hour wedding took place then and
there
J. Milton Traber, a young society blood Of
Hamilton, Ohio, has been writing to the keeper
of Cincinnati bsgnio offering to furnish in
mates for her house. He was decoyed into
talking with an Enquirer reporter, and stated
that he had for some time been supplying girls
for houses in St Louis, Indianapolis, Dayton,
Ohio, Sidney, Ohio, and other places. He also
said he had on certain occasions got victims
from several educational institutions in and
about Cincinnati.
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General Gatherings.

The seriousness of the collapse in
the shipbuilding in Scotland was made
apparent during the attempted sale of
fine new steamer the other day. The
vessel is class,d A 1; she is well en-
gined, and guaranteed fast; yet no Of
fer above 81 los. per ton could be OBJ
tanned, and she was finally withdrawn
from sale after one bidder had offered
$4,000 below the contract price for her.
So that before leaving the ship-y ard
this vessel had fallen in value by the sum
of $4,000, or 40 per cent of her estimated
worth.
An old Indiana railroad man recently
remarked that 95 per cent. of the acct
dents which occur when men are coup
ling cars are through their own reckless
ness or want of attention. In his large
experience, he said, he had never known
half dozen cases where men had been
injured in coupling cars if they had
been duly careful.
The following is a list of the guns now
in course of construction for Spain: In
England, IA Armstrong; and Is Norden-
felts lin Germany, 16 Krupps; in France,
80 steel guns, principally of II and 10
centimetres, and in the Spanish nation
al mandatory s OF 16 centime!res
and two of 20 centimetres. More artil
lery is being contracted for abroad.
The following samples of the spelling
of a man graduating with honors at
Harvard College last June are taken
from his examination papers: Prepair-
ing, ORDINARY, boundaries, descent (de-
cent?, CLASSIC. lmmence, icolate. comerce,
cheepness, cituated, cristeline, polluted.
temperature, satisfactorily, freeky,
gasses, valley, Tindel CTyndalD, Hum
bolt, Surage beverage, week (weak),
boaring (boring), emmlrant (eminent),
alum. orange, dycoteledous (dicotyle,
donous), deteriates (deterierates), sui
pher, stratesecation, Cleavage (clevage),
EXPERIMENT, PEBBLES, Apanines.
TIE business of making wooden
houses in the United States for custom
sale is stimulated by brisk demand
for these products in Brazil. Several
large shipments have been made to Rio
Janeiro, aud they were all sold soon
after their arrival. Fifteen hundred
of them have been erected in the new
city of La Plata, the new capital of the
province of Buenos Ayres.
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Railroad and River yeyvs.

Railroad earnings: Chicago Northwestern
railway, second week in September, $514, 500;
decrease, SO, 800 Omaha railroad, $11O, 200;
decrease, $4,000 Northern Pacific, 1919 961 !;
increase, $54, III. Chicago, milwaukee Il st
Paul road, $47 200; comparative decrease,
S69,674
The St Paul directors have declared q regu-
lar dividend of So per cent payable Oct 81.
The books will close Sept 29, and reopen Oct
% The meeting was harmonious A full
board was present The statement is said to
have been made that St Paul will have sur
plus Of 5000, GOO after the dividend is paid
A circular is being distributed among parties
interested by President W. o. Wright, of the
Chicago, Freeport& ST. Paul Railroad company
1t is dated Sept Is, 1884, and states that work
on the proposed road will be vigorous
ly prosecuted during the coming season
from Chicago to Freeport, Ill, in almost an air
line, thence northward up the valley of the
Pecatonica river, crossing the Wisconsin river
near Lone Rock; Thence along the north bank
of the Wisconsin to the mouth of Mill creek in
Richland county; thence northward through
Boaz in Richland county; Spartay in Monroe
county; Melrose in Jackson county; Whitehall
in Trempeauleau county; Durand in Pepin
county snd River Falls in Pierce county, to q
point upon Lake St Croix, in the town of Troy,
in st Croix county; thence in direct line to
St Paul and Minneapolis.
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She twankled tune on her light guitar,
A low, sweet jangle of tangled sounds,
As blurred as the voices Of fairies are,
Dancing in MONDAY dales and downs;
And the tinkling of the strange refrain
Ran over the rim Of my soul Ike rain.
The great blonde moon in the midnight skies
Paused and poised ore the trells caves,
And the stars In the light OF her upturned eyes
Sifted their love through the rifted leaves
Glinted and splintered in crystal mist
Down the differing string that her finger
kissed
Oh, the melody mad! Oh, the tinkle and thrill
Oh the ecstacy of the exquisite thing!
The red rose dropped from the window sill
And lay in a long swoon quivering;
While the dying notes of the strain divine
Rippled in glee up the spell bound spine.
John Vance Cheney.
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Not an encouraging report is that
recently made of the acreage under
cultivation in Ireland. 1t shows that
Of land devoted to cereal, green, and
fax crops there are 94,67S acres less
under tillage this year than last. This
falling off is reduced by an increase Of
30, 946 acres meadow and clover land.
The net decrease, therefore, is 63,732
acres, which is nearly 1.3 per cent.
This evidence of diminished attention
to agriculture is somewhat frightened
by the returns showing that between
1888 and 1884 there has been an in
crease in the number of cattle amount
ing to 1874; of sheep, "a, 261; Of
horses and mules, $685. But there has
been decrease in the number of pigs
amounting TO AZ, 169.-
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Polygamous Economies.

From Harper's Magazine.
The private home routine of a polyga-
nous family is matter upon which so
much curiosity is constantly expressed
by my acquaintance that / venture tc
say here what little I know; but the
reader must remember that less than
ten per cent. of the voting Mormon
population of Utah are polygamists.
The polygamist as rule, has accum-
ulated some property and owns house
before he takes second and successive
wives, though sometimes he begins by
marrying two or three at once. All of
these marriages, however, except the
first are made secretly by the Church,
and no record of them is accessible.
In the city, at least, it is seldom that
different wives share the same quarters.
In the country this is not SO uncommon,
but the natural unpleasantness follows
in most cases. The general method is
to have a large house, the main part
of which, perhaps, is occupied by the
first wife and wings or additions by the
successive candidates for marital honors.
These large, struggling, hotel-like
houses are common in Salt Lake City
and mark a difference between it and
town of small houses like Cheyenne and
most other western Villages. In many
cases, however, the husband sets up his
wives in separate homes, either side by
side or in different parts of the city. In
any case each has her own kitchen gar
den, etc [ have in mind a wealthy
digintary of the church whom you
might eaisly have mistaken for the late
Peter Cooper and who is possessed
of seven wives. Each of these
women has some farming and
garden ground of her own and all
are greatly devoted to rearing bees.
With the help of their grown children
they each raise a large amount of pro-
duce and honey annually. The husband
acts as their agent. He hives their
swarms of bees and charges them for it;
he renders special aid when called up
on and is paid for it; he sells their
crops and honey when it is ready and
credits each wife with her due share.
Most OF them live III suites OF apartments
under the roof of his great house Id
town, but the first wife has beautiful
farm of her own little out of the city,
to which she and her children have re-
tired, to end their days in peaceful in
| dependence.
The way in which this old gentleman
has always arranged his domestic life is
reported to be thus: He had certain
rooms in his house where he kept his
bed, his wardrobe, his books and saw
any visitors who called upon him. Here
he was bachelor and here he stai1
every other day and night. On alter
nate days and nights he was the guest OF
one or another of his wives in regular
rotation, devoting the one day lin this
case fortnightly) which was hers dill
gently to her society. Of course this
routine was not invariable, but for the
most part it was regularly followed.
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Record Of Calualfdas.

Two stables of the Northwest mounted police
were destroyed by fire at Fort Macleod on the
18th inst Loss, SIC, 600.
Otto Schlessing, q prominent farmer living
near Pomeroy, Wash, was instantly killed
while feeding steam thresher. He got caught
in the large cylinder, was darwin in and his
body literally torn to pieces.
The factory of the Temple Manufacturing
company at Muskegon, Mich, was burned
yesterday Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50.
The stock of the company was chiefly held by
Boston and Chicago parties. The fire started in
the yard about six hundred feet from the mill
Plat Saeger, of Cedar township, Washington
county, Iowa, was burned to death. He was
troubled with asthma and got up at midnight
and saturated his chest with turpentine and
kerosene. While drying it near the stove it
some way took fire. His father came to his call
threw blanket over him and ran for water,
but before he returned Plat fell and soon died
He was thlrty-two years old.
Gen. Alfred NJ. Scales, Democratic candidate
for governor, was crossing Western North
Carolina when his horse run away while cross
ing the Cowee mountains, jackson county
The horse fell down precipice one hundred
feet and was killed The buggy was smashed
to atoms. Gen. Scales caught in tree, and
barely escaped with his life. He reached his
home at Greensboro this morning. very much
bruised, and is now in bed.
In Sioux City, Iowa, Wednesday night, the
American hotel, Wilcuts livery stable and
Young's lime house and Office were burned,
and other property destroyed and damaged
The fire started in the American house, spread
to Wilcut's livery stable across the alley north
The vehicles and horses were rushed out of
this before it was too late The fire spread
north, then to the rear of the Young lime and
stucco warehouse, which building fronts on
Fourth steeet West of it, on the corner, is
John Munday's two-story brick building, just
completed. East is the Peter Lappes building,
started for a two-story brick, and the walls up
just little above the second floor. Both
brick buildings suffered in the wallis
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-09-25

Careful investigation of the condition of the
wheat throughout the state of Minnesota shows
that the damage by the recent rains has been
exaggerated by the fears Of elevator men and
dealers. Some wet wheat is received by the
elevators, but it is an Insignificant proportion
of the whole and is, it is believed, the result
of poor stacking or premature threshing
Oarelessly stacked grain was thoroughly
wet by the rains, but the cool
weather and brisk winds that followed
were sufficient to dry it out Some
farmers, however, in their haste tn thresh their
grain, could not wait for the drying process,
and the result is that some wet wheat has
found it's way to the elevators. The extreme
estimate damage however, is only 10 to Is per
cent, in limited localities, and this will proba-
bly, be reduced by drying before threshing 1t
is to be noticed that the elevators are careful
not to buy any wet grain and that the infection
of large quantities OF grain by few wet and
fermenting car loads, which damaged the pro-
duct SO fatally two years ago, is not likely to
recur.
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strange people who do not love dogs to
to have been present just then, to wit
ness the looks Of gratitude ii poor Nep-
tunes eyes as he .tenderly licked my
hand with his soft tongue.
My regiment went on; I stayed at
the nearest village hostelry with Hans
Hegel. !. /!
When he was well enough he told
me of the duel. So far the affair was
unromantic enough, for there was not a
lady in it. The quarrel had been
forced upon him by fire. eating French.
man, and swords were drawn on a point
of national honor.
II owe my life to you," Hegel said.
"You owe your life," replied, ITO
Heaven and that faithful dog."-Cas-
sells Magazine.
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Sovereign Grand Lodge I. o. o. T.

Sovereign Grand Lodge I. o. o. Z.
The business session of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge L o. O. F. held in Armory hail. Minneap-
oils, was mainly occupied with the election of
officers for the ensuing year. The election
passed off tremendously. The candidates for
the Office of grand sire were Judge H. F. Carey
of Baltimore, and the Hon. John Underwood Of
Kentucky. The following named gentlemen
were elected for the ensuing term:
Grand si1e-Henry +. Carey of Baltimore.
Deputy grand sire-John 81. White, Albion,
NY
Grand secretary-Theodore Ross, New Jer-
sey, IRE elected.)
Grand treasurer-Isaac A Sheppard, Phil
adelphia.
The only further business was with regard
to mileage and per diem. After some debate
IS per day.
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The tobacco crep of this country,
which IN 1864 was but 197, 1000, 600
pounds, promises in 1884 to be between
600 ,ooO, 900 and 700, 600, 900 pounds, OF
more than three times that of twenty
years ago, The acreage. which in 1864
was 1896, has jumped up to nearly
100000, while the value of the cron,
which in 1864 was $50, 900, 600, will
probably reach $40, 900, 900 or $50, oOO,.
900 In 1884.
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A gale at Yokohama caused considerablelo loss
of life and property, especially in the native
quarters.
Thomas Sexton retires from parliament a.
representative from Sligo, and will contest an
other seat
The lord lieutenant of Ireland has "pro-
claimed" Nationalist demonstration, an
nounced for Barradow, County Kerry.
Capt Dudley and Mate Stephenson, of tho
lost yacht Mignonette, have been committed
for trial in London, on the charge Of murder.
They killed and ate boy.
At Liverpool Thursday Henry Irving and
Ellen Terry sailed for Montreal in the Partisan.
The general public and theatrical profession
assembled in force to see them of. As the
special tender left the dock, bearing the dis
tnguished actors to their steamer, the crowd
raised an enthusiastic cheer. Irving and Miss
Terry continued to bow and wave adieus to
friends as long as they remained in sight
The Journal de St Petersburg, which speaks
with some official authority, says: ''The meet
ing of the three closely united sovereigns, &C
companied by confidential statesmen, indicates
policy of peace. Every question outside the
present status quo will find the monarchs act
ing conformity where their interests will coin
eide, respecting the rights of all, but keeping
watchful eye on those who disturb the existing
order of things-the anarchists, who prowl
about in the dark and aim to destroy all insti-
tutions
The cholera epidemic at Naples continues to
abate. There is marked decrease IN the num-
Der of fresh cases and deaths. Great quaint
ties Of sulpher are still burned, with view of
purifying the atmosphere. Considerable appre-
hension is feltlest the epidemic may again be re-
newed in force from the excess which is likely to
attend the feast of San Gennaro on the 18th inst
The poet Cavalotte arrived at Naples with four
squadrons of men from Milan and Tuscany,
mostly Garibaldians, to assist in caring for the
sick The police dispense religious process
sions, in the efficacy of which the lower classes
devoutly believe, but shrines are still placed
in various parts of the town, and are visited by
throngs of suppicants Outbreaks of violence
on the part of the ignorant rabble still occur
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1t is said the "oldest inhabitant" does
cot recollect more prolonged season
of verdure in the northwest than the
present. The season began somewhat
later than usual, but has been uninter-
rupted by drouths or frost, and seems
likely to last at least a month later.
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who had by this time got his arm around

who had by this time got his arm around
Kitty's waist.
Well" said the doctor, ri don't
known that I've any objection. Have it
your own way, young people: Only, if
you have any more counting to get
through with, I beg you won't do it up
over my apple pies!"
Harry Browne was rich man that
July afternoon; he had two treasure
troves-a promised wife and seal
ring And the doctor was happy,
for he had found something to tease
Kitty about Chicago Popular Month
w
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Mrs. William Walter Phelps and daughter
are in Switzerland with large party Of Ameri-
cans
E. G. Larned, one Of the oldest and best
known members Of the Illinois bar, has just
died at Lake Forest
Senator George H. Pendleton, who has been
confined to his house in Cincinnati for the past
ten days by serious illness, is now recov ering.
Mother Superior Mary Francis Xavier Waldo
founder of the order of Sisters of Mercy in
America, died at Mount St Mary's convent at
Manchester, N. H., recently, aged seventy -four.
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must say in justice that the Germans
took no unfair advantage, and if any
allusion was made to them as conquer
ors they laughed carelessly, muttered
something about the fortunes of war,
and changed the subject
was riding along one morning early,
when saw several of our fellows on the
brow of hill looking back with some
degree of interest, but trotting on all
the same.
Ishould have followed their example,
but the mournful bowling Of dog at
tracted my attention, and went straight
to my very heart. So I rode up and
over the hill.
I was hardly prepared for what saw
"a beautiful black Newfoundland,
whining pitifully beside what appeared
to be the dead body Of man.
I dismounted, and the dog came to
meet me. He jumped and fawned on
me, then rushed wildly back to the side
of that PROSTATE form. But I stood
as one transfixed. could mot mistake
those eyes. It was Neptune, that I had
given--a seven-m months old puppy-to
Hans Hegel three years before.
And the poor fellow who lay before
me with sadly gashed face, upturned to
the morning sun was Hegel himself.
He lay on his sword, lay as he had fall
len and the absence Of the coat. the SASH
bound waist, and sleeve uprolled, told
to me the history of his trouble in away
there was no installing. He had fallen
in o duel.
But was he dead? No; for. soon af-
ter I had raised him in my arms and
poured little cordial down his throat,
he opened his eyes, gazed bewilderedly
at me for . moment, then his hand
tiqhtened on mine and he smiled. He
knew me.
/ should have liked some Of those
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when hc Pa~nei D. wasch-- bosion
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a Boston man advertiscs that he
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have GOOD run d custom We would
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kc could recover the six one We los
last spr;nc. S0nerriI< JosrnsL
- Western woman applied .
doctor for prescription for hcr nus
hani-s rheumatism Let thai pre-
p.red. sid the medical man. 'a1d
rub Il well into your husbands back
n Il dos him my good let me know
I've Z touch u Rheumatism myself --
n. y. knn.
The Corsicana TEX Courier has
this lift,e notice: Through the urban
: ~ n = pcrsonal friend wr have been
favored with copy u The first animal
: r~norf a. fhe Corsc1n1 public schools
/. 80 the wear lsS2-s3. The pamphlet cnn'
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|. two hundred and sixtx-six errors
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