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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

In 1903 it was decided to place me-
mortal of Addison in Westminster Alb
hey, but there was difficulty in finding a
trustworthy portrait for the guidance OF
the sculptor. At length it was decided
to use head-size picture of the great
essayist, which had been in Holland
House for many generations, and was al
ways supposed to be portrait of Add
son. The statue in the Abbey was &C
cordingly copied from the work; but
sometime afterward it was discovered
that the picture in Holland House was
in reality portrait of Sir Andrew Foun-
tome. The statue placed in Poets Cor
ner in honor of Addison is therefore, in
fact, a portrait of his friend, the founder
of the Norford collection.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

> The New York Greenback State Conven-
ton has been called for August 22nd.
It has been decided to hold a convention
of Irish American Republicans at Cincin-
natl.
The Republicans of the Fifth District
of Indiana, nominated Geo. w. Grubbs for
Congress.
The Democrats of the Eleventh Indiana
District have nominated Maj. Kidd for
Congress.
J. N. Allen, was nominated for Congress
by the Democrats of the First District OF
Mississippi.
The Democrats of the Seventh Illinois
District have nominated Eaton for Con-
gress.
At Republican ratification meeting in
New York City, Hon. NJ. M. EYarts ad-
dressed the meeting.
1t is reported that ex-senator Wallace, OF
Penn, will be elected Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee.
The Republicans of the Sixth District
of Mississippi, nominated E. d. Robinson
for Congress. Chalmers was endorsed by the
Independents.
The Republicans have nominated for
district of Indiana and Geo. W. Fleeger for
the TWenty-sixth district of Pennsylvania.
The Republican State Central Committee
has decided to open the campaign in Indi-
ana, at Indianapolis the last week in Au-
gust. Gen. John A. Logan viii be the prin-
cipal speaker.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

The name of the inventor of the Their
mometer is unknown, and the earliest
mention of it as a scientific appliance,
then fifty years old, was in work by
DIR. R. Fludd, published in 1888. As to
the instrument as it now exists, Robert
Hooke suggested the use of the freezing
point. HALEY, the boiling point, and
the substitution of mercury for spirit,
and Newton, blood heat. Fahrenheit,
although German by birth, was pro-
tege of James I, and died in England.
Reaumer's thermometer in its final form
owes its Origin to DeLuc; and although
the centigrade thermometer is almost
universally attributed to Celsius, it was
really invented by Lin@us. Celsius in
strument had its scale the reverse way,
the boiling point being % and the freez-
ing point 1902
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

A RUSSIAN nobleman who lived under
the assumed name of George Leeder, and
who has resided at st. Nicholas, Lehigh
county, Pa, was found dead in an out
house near the railroad station at that
place recently. He was driven from the
land of his birth in 1860 for political of
Tense, and landed in this country twenty
years ago. He enlisted as private sol
der in the Ninety sixth Pennsylvania
volunteers, which at that time was mus
tering, and distinguished himself during
the war for his bravery. After the close
of the rebellion he returned to Pottsville
and secured clerkshlp in one of the col
lieries, which Office he lost through the
change of owners. Negotiations were
pending for some time with view ofse-
curing a reconciliation with the pres
emit Car.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
WASHINGTON TOPICS.

Secretary Frelinghuysen has instructed
the American ConsuIs in Europe to employ
competent physicians to inspect all vessels
and passengers departing for the United
States.
No more one-dollar notes can be supplied
by the Secretary of the Treasury until
about the 1st of August. Any order for
their preparation could not be given until
after the Appropriation bill was passed, and
the failure to supply is due to the delay of
Congress.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed by one of its agents an the Cana
dian border, that paper rags supposed to
have been collected in the cholera injected
districts of Egypt, Turkey and Southern
France, are being imported into the United
States through Canadian ports. They are
described as of low grade and likely to
contain the germs of disease. A large lot
was recently shipped to this country from
Liverpool.
Through inquiries made at the Postoffice
Department. IN regard to the recent thefts
of stamps, it is learned that Thomas P. Ora
ham, Chief of the Stamp Department, was
charged with the duty of seeing that the
condemned stamps which were forwarded
to the Department from the Stamp Agency
were counted and destroyed. The Post
master General thought Graham's negli-
gent manner in discharging this duty en-
abled BruZzeman, as a member of the Com
mittee appointed to count and destroy
stamps, to steal those which were found in
his possession. The Postmaster General
therefore required Graham to resign, which
he did solely on account of his negligence
in the performance of his duty. His ac-
tions were honorable.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

Albert Miller (colOred) who murdered
his wife in fit of jealousy IN September,
1882, at Natehez, Miss, was hung for the
crime.
Policeman L. 7. Arnold was shot dead at
Augusta, by Sam Taylor, cOIored, while
fresisting arrest The jury returned a YER
dict of justifable homicide.
A difficulty occurred at Hickman. XIV.
and VIII Oakley was killed and Cal Britt
dangerously wounded. Two other parties
in the fight.
Some citizens of Kewanee, Illinois,
tarred and feathered a social offender. and
rode him out of town on a rail to the music
of sleigh-bells.
Four men were drowned at the mouth OF
the Columbia river, making a total of 90
men drowned in the last three months in
that locality.
At New Straitsville, Ohio, the entire
Pinkerton police force was arrested, half OF
them for riot and the others for unlaWfully
usurping the Office of constable.
Chas. Shurbock, an ex-mem6er of the
Jesse James gang, has been sentenced to be
hanged Oct. 18th, for the murder of Alvin
Woods and his father near Charleston, West
Virginia.
At farm house near Sheldon. Iowa. Mr..
Hanson and his son were killed by light
ming without being disfgured, and Mrs.
Hanson and laborer were rendered in
sensible. A neighbor who saw the house
in flames, rescued the living and saved the
building.
During quarrel over an old dispute, at
NewcomerstOwn, Ohio, G. w. McNeally
kicked Lewis Brumley in the stomach, in
flicting injuries which resulted in the lat
ter's death in few hours. Both men are
highly respected and prominent citizens.
Medically has not been arrested.
The police of Milwaukee recently arrest
ed William @. Toon for carrying 500
worth of diamonds. A jeweler of New
York, bearing the Endorsement of Superin-
tendent Walling, made his appearance on
the scene and caused Toon's release by
swearing that the precious invoice was pur-
chased at his store.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
THE CLOSING SCENES.

The State ticket having all been nomi-
mated DR.. Philip KrOhn offered the
following, which was unanimously adopt
Resolved, That thestate Central Commit
tee shall be composed of twenty-five mem
bers to be chosen one from each judicial
district, selected by the delegates ofsaid dis
trict, and the remaining seven to be APP
pointed by the chair.
The Committee as chosen by districts are
as follows:
First Districts. C. Milligan. Leaven-
worth county.
Second District-PhiIlip Kelley, Doni-
phan county.
Fourth District-A. T. Sharp, Franklin
county.
Fifth District-Harrison Kelly. Cofey
county.
Seventh District-T. w. Walton, Sumner
Eighth District-w. S. stumbaugh, Dick
Ninth Disfrict-A. L. Green, Riley county.
Tenth District-A. G.. Talbot, johnson
Eleventh District-J. E. Bryan. Labette
Twelfth District-Wm. Common, Cloud
county.
Thirteenth District-Asa Thompson, =
Fourteenth District-D. B. Long, Els
worth county.
Fifteenth district s. Mcdowell, Cher
Sixteenth Dlstrict-W. R. Hoole, Stafford
'p seVsnteenth Districts. <. Pratt, Norton
Eighteenth DISTINCT. H. Fullenweider,
At large: ?. 1. Bonebrake Shawnee coun-
ty, E. B. Purcell Riley county, Writ w.
Walton Clay county, J G.. Eckles Rice
w. B. Townsend Leaven worth county.
Adjourned sine die.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

SIR Jos. FAYRER, who has been invest
igating snake poisoning, says that to him
one of the greatest of mysteries is that
a poisonous snake cannot poison one of
its species, scarcely its own congeners,
and only slightly any venomous snake;
but it kills innocent snakes quickly. A
vigorous cobra can kill several dogs, or
from dozen to 20 fowls before its bite
becomes impotent, and then the immu-
nifty is of brief duration, for the virus is
rapidly reabsorbed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
FOREIGN

The police suppress all Socialist meetings
at Marseilles.
The French Senate made an appropria-
ton tor the relief of cholera sufferers.
The Gulf coast of Mexico is quarantined
! against France on account of cholera.
DR.. Koch is inclined to the belief that an
| English ship carried the cholera to Toulon.
Minister TAFT leaves Vienna to-day for st.
Petersburg.
Thirty thousand people fed Marseilles
| since the epidemic appeared.
A fund is being raised in Dublin to pay
the expenses of Editor O'Brien in the libel
suit.
Charges of bribery are made against
the members of the Canadian Lower
House.
A large portion of Persia is devastated by
floods, and the cotton crop is practically de-
stroyed.
There is great excitement among work
ing men at Versailles, and placard makes
call for arms.
Jos. Grattan was arrested at Harley, Eng
and, with dynamite cartridges and fuses in
Ibis possession.
Three cases of cholera-one fatal-are re-
ported from Alexandria, Egypt. It is
claimed they are sporadic.
The wife of John Stewart, colored, of Sc
daia, Mo-, i'll shooting at her husband, hit
her child, who will probably die.
Deaths from cholera at Marseilles are SO
numerous that the widest panic prevails,
and the people are feeingin great numbers.
The situation at ToulOn is almost as bad.
: The troubles between France and China
are growing more complicated. The Prince
is said to have had advisers, and does not
realize the defenseless condition of the Chi
nese coast.
The police of Glasgow arrested a man
named James Walker, on suspicion of being
dynamiter. He had an American revol-
yer and cartridge belt, and attempted to cut
and shoot his captors.
The British Parliament will soon be
closed, but will meet again in Octo-
Der, when it is thought that a fran
chise bill will be prepared that will
prove more acceptable to the House Of
Lords.
The Chief Secretary of Ireland announc-
ed in the House of Commons that persons
recently charged with crimes in Dublin
would be prosecuted; whereupon the
Parnellites created confusion by plying
questions.
At Mount Holly Station, N. G., negroes
had festival. One claimed that the wrong
change had been given him, whereupon a
dispute arose. Razors few, and one of the
negroes fell to the floor, his head hanging to
to the trunk by piece of skin only. LOT
| ten Marten got pistol ball in his brain,
and brass knuckles and slingshots did
deadly work. About thirteen negroes were
hurt. Three negroes have been arrested.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

IN Thomas street, Bristol, R. L, there
is venerable building known as the
Mansion House. The exact time of its
construction is unknown, but it was
owned and occupied by Captain Nathan
lei Phillips as early as 1855, and his de-
scendants lived in it until. 1885. It is
said that over fifty children have first
seen the light under its roof, and that
the services of the undertaken have been
called into requisition by its occupants
nearly as many times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

A PECCARY is in all respects hog. He
looks, smells, taste like a hog, and is a
hog, but for a thing of indomitable cour-
age of the lower type, for hater of
quenchless fury, and for a fighter to the
last throb of his heart. he has no paral-
lei in the animal kingdom. They never
begin war, but when one is assailed the
entire drove rush to the attack as men
rush when martial vigor urges them.
Each bead-like eye is a fire spark; tusks
are protruding, the eschinated spine
Strengthened, and woe to the wretch who
falls in their path. Gored, bitten, tram
pied upon and eaten up, to the very last
shred of his clothing such is the fate of
the man caught by a drove Of angry pee
carries. With the same fury they assan a
wolf or attack a bull, and neither the
wolf nor the bull can stand up against
charge of half a dozen peccaries. Both
know this, and. fly in terror from the
field.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

OFFICIAL notification has been received
by the collector of the port at New York,
from the Secretary of the Treasury, that
Mr.. Jas. R. Keene, owner of the Ascot
cup, has applied for permission to -ex-
port it to England in bond, without the
payment of duty. Mr.. Keene refused to
pay fine of $1,1OO for bringing home
the cup that Foxhall won, and is now
permitted to send the cup back to Eu-
rope, if he does so within 80 days, other
wise it will be sold for non-payment of
duties.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A cyclone did considerable damage at
Jacksonville and Greenwood, Me.
An anti-papal demonstration at Rome
would have caused serious trouble but for
the intervention of the police.
AshootiDg and cutting scrape. with four
parties engaged in it, resulted quite serious
ly, near Bloomington, Ill.
In hotel at Keokuk, B. D. Courts killed
q Wabash brakeman named Richard Spence,
for charging him with the theft of $50.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

A FRUGAL Bostonian, and one who has
tried it, advises clerk who wants to
know of"a pleasant place where a vaca-
ton can be spent" to close up the front
of his house, move back and stay quietly
at home. In the seclusion of his kitch-
en- he can recuperate his wasted vitality,
and save money enough by the close of
the season to begin business for himself.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

-"American catarrh," so-called, is,
according to the opinion of an English
constant irritation of the mucous MEM
brane of the respiratory passages, pro-
voked by the clouds of dust that We
breathe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
REPUBLICANS IN COUNCIL.

The Republicans Assemble q Topeka and
Nominate a State Ticket-JOhn A. Mar
tin Nominated for GOyernOr-Ths Plat
for a Adopted Which the Coming
Battle is to be Made.
The Republican State Convention con-
vened in Topeka of July 18th.
The appointed place for the holding OF
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

DR.. Krohn was. appointed a committee to
wait upon Col. Martin and escort him TO
the hall. They soon appeared, and the con-
vention cheered. Col. Martin spoke at some
length, eulogizing the Republican party, its
candidates and platform.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

Lawhead was declared nominated, and
on motion his nomination was made unani-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

There being no choice second ballot was
ordered, but before proceeding with the roll
call the name of Willard. Henderson, Ward,
0rner and Anthony were withdrawn, thus
leaving the fight between Higgins and Al
len. The vote taken resulted as follows
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

The Chair announced that w. a. john
ston having received q majority Of the
votes was declared nominated. On
motion the. nomination was made unani-
nous.
GOVERNOR
The chairman then announced that the
convention would proceed to vote for the
nomination of a candidate for Governor,
Whereupon DR.. Philip Krohn, of Atchison,
arose on the platform and presented the
name of Hon. John A. Martin.
When the vote was taken on Mr.. Martini
nomination the delegates arose to their feet
and cheered long and loud.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
4 California Romance.
Los Angeles (Cal) Republican.

Last evening Robert Drake5 was
married to Tua3alupe de Randini.
Under such an announcement rests
hidden a gallant deed which had
passed unperceived It was during
the flood. A young widow with her
two children was standing on the
porch of house situated on the bank
of the river, and there was no escape
for her. Spectators looked horri6ed,
1~r the waters had surrounded the
frail building, and the cries of the
children and the agonizing looks of
the mother were piercing their hearts,
but none would brave what appeared
certain death to rescue the unfortun-
ates. A young mechanic brought to
the locality by curiosity, appeared
among the spectators. Realizing the
danger, and divesting himself of his
surplus clothing, he plunged into the
turbid waters. Soon he reached the
doomed building. To strap the children
on his back and seize the mother in
his strong arms was but the work of
moment. Soon he landed them on
safe ground, amid the plaudits Of the
crowd, and as he assumed his outer
apparel the house disappeared in the
roaring waters of the river. The
gratitude of the mother found vent in
the flowing language of the natives
Of Spain, and our hero who could only
guess at the moaning of the musical
words, read in the eyes of the Qua
dalupe incipient love. His bushes
were a response to this language of
the heart, and, moved by an ire
sistibIe impulse, they few into each
others arms and then pledged them
selves TO one another, not in words,
for he understood not her language,
nor did she know his, but by look,
and the pledge was ratified last night
IN the presence OF the Father Peter
and crowd Of mutual friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
BIRD IN THE MAPLE.

In a fairy world dwell and one that love well,
A flood Of green leaves green leaves all around
me,
and sometimes the summers bloom, fills my nest
with such perfume
That find in poet dreams they've found me
found me.
Who can wonder at my song, so joyous, sweet and
Who can wonder that from morn till night I'm
singing.
In praise of Him who made for me the Ieafy
shade,
In zephyrs' odorous arms my cradle swinging.
Green leaves! gree3 leaves! who can know-whO
dwell mOrtal-like below
Of the beauty of the glory, of my dwelling.
In my forest grand and high, lifting to the rosy
More poetic than can bill of bird be telling.
Bard alone, my joy, can guess, or the thrilling
tenderness
feel for her, my little bride, my dearie,
Or the bitter pain feel, when cruel boy would
Her precious life, and leave our home-nest
dreary.
D, my little brides nest, rocks upon the zephyrs
breast,
Where to love and dreams the wavering shad-
OWS WOO me;
50 dense in grandful shade, that a sunbeam
hther Strayed.
Could scarcely throw its golden kisses to me
Sarah Sumner Lewis in Home Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Snake-Bites in India.

Their thatch and mud houses, with
walls often honeycombed by rats, at
ford natural shelter to the cobra
and KRAFT. The want OF light in their
houses by night, when nine-tenths of
the snake bites occur; a footstep in
the dark; hand Or foot resting over
the edge of their low charpoys during
sleep-an irresistible temptation to a
prowling cobra; the accidental strik-
ing OF seizure by the hand of a snake
while cutting their crops, and crop
watching by night are among the
most common occasions of snake-bite.
Often SO light is the bite on the finger
or toe that it is not enough to break
sleep, and thus the sleep of life grad
ually and unconsciously merges into
that of death. The poison seems to
steal insensibly and painlessly through
the system, gradually benumbing the
springs of life, till it brings them to
a standstill forever. Nor is there
anything left to tell the cause except
the minutest speck, like q flea bite,
only visible to a close examination.
In the morning the bitten person may
be found either dead or in the last
stage of nake-kite poisoning; it may
be a dead mother with her living
child still clinging to her, drinking
in, in the milk, the poison which,
even in such a minute quantity, also
leaves the child dazed and lethargic
for many hours to come. Strange to
say, so apathetic are natives Qndian)
that often they get bitten and go to
sleep again, without thinking more
about it, on the fraiI chance of the
bite being non-poisonous, and so sleep
on till their friends find them, or
Sleen ceases In death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

walking alone several hundred yards
away on one side. They charged,
but retreateu when he kneeled and
fired.
Arriving at camp after an hours
ride and running fight, we founl the
escort thoroughly alarmed and just
starting out to pick up our dead bodies.
for they had seen SO many Indians
about that they made sure we were all
killed. It was a scene of mutual re
joicing and congratulation, as we had
feared that they had met an untimely
fate.
A hasty council of war was held as
to what was to be done. We were
unanimous in the opinion that it was
folly to continue work without a
larger escort and a personal body
guard, besides it was necessary chat
my wound should be dressed. Con
sequently it was decided to turn our
faces in the direction of Sheridan,
which we did, arriving there late in the
afternoon, the indians following us
all the way, seeking an opportunity
to attack us again. With them it had
become a question of revenge, as they
had lost heavily, while we escaped
entirely.
The horse that carried Howard so
nobly through this flight ultimately
recovered. Three of the five bullets
were extracted. Iafterward took him
home to Burlingame, where he was
carefully fed and pampered for some
years TIL he died.
I recovered from my wound very
quickly, and within six weeks rejoin-
ed the party, receiving promotion to
the first place In the corps-that of
transit man-which [ occupied until
the road was completed.
Our miraculous escape was long the
subject of wonder on the frontier,
where it was regarded. as the most
marvellous on record, as we fought
against such fearful odds. hope the
narrative as I have written it will be
Ineligible. I fear [ have not made
1t as clear as I could verbally. 1t
always excites me to think or tell of
it.-New York Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Valuable A she's.

On Saturday, March %, package
of burnt money, representing So, $50,
was received by treasurer Wyman for
redemption. It was the property of
Thomas Downing, a quarry man liv-
ing near Menasha, Wis, and repre-
scented the savings of twenty-thr e
years of hard work. His cabin W s
destroyed by fire March 6, and with it
all his money, which was in the form
of greenbacks and national bank
notes. The charred remains of the
money were submitted to the exami-
nation of a committee of treasury ex-
perts, and all the legal tender notes to
the amount of 81, $50 identified. They
were redeCmable at once. The re
mainder. will be transmitted to the
banks of issue for their action, and
the result will be that the entire
amount Of money will be restored to
its owner. This is only one of many
cases of this kind acted upon by the
treasury. Washington Post.