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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08

ploslon the other day. Several persons were
Killed and many Others wounded.
April 20 ARCHER shipment Of Sl,77s, 900 In
gold left New York for Europe.
Orders have been sent from England To
Cairo TO establish special messenger post 10
convey dispatches TO Gen. Gordon. Sir Evelyn
Barring has advised the government TO abandon
the soudar after relieving Gordon.
Estimated that daily average of $50 French
Canadians leave the province OF Quebec daily
for the states. AMI government aid is invoked
TO check the depopulatlon.
The steamer Thetis flag ship OF the Greedy
relief fleet, sailed from New York May ]. and
the supply ship Alert will follow on In ten days.
Henry w. Canon OF Minnesota has been ap.
pointed comptroller OF the currency, vice
Knox resigned.
come, but 1t must come by degrees.
The House committee will report fayorably
on the bill to secure cheap telegraph cores
pondence
The Interstate conference of colored men
held In Pittsburg recently was notable gath
ering OF representative men OF the race. The
political status OF the race was ably discussed,
and plans adopted looking to the attainment Of
that recognition which should be accorded to
oil.
The walls of the building of William White
ley's mercantile establishment, Westbourn
grove London, which was partially DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday, collapsed few days ago.
Fifty men engaged In making repairs were
buried In the ruins.
While workmen were at work on the ruins
OF the burned court house In Cincinnati the
walls fell In, and a number OF men were bur-
led In the debris. One man was taken out
dead and several others were badly injured.
Four large dynamite cartridges were found
under the government buildings in Toronto the
other day.
The governor general OF Canada vetoes the
act imposing heavy fees On the holders Of Do
minion liquor licenses, in addition TO the usual
license fees
Caleb Saunders, ex-mayor Of lawrence, Mass,
is on trial for tampering with ballots.
Coinage at the mint for April was g. 400,
4l0
Ex Senator Kellogg has been declared ''aot
guilty" of the charges brought against him,
because of some tecbnicallty In the manner in
which the Indictment was made out.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
The Ohio Cyclone.

The southwestern Ohio cyclone of few days
first reported. At jamestown, Green county,
property valued at fully $500, 900 was destroyed.
Three churches are in ruins, houses and their
entire contents have been carried away, and
many families are homeless. The individual
losses number 1856. Five persons have been
killed, five MORALLY injured, and at least 50
others seriously hurt. Among the killed and
injured are: Mrs. Carpenter, Miss Jenkins and
Miss Jones, crushed to death; Homer Boul,
killed while running to his father house; Miss
Bother, killed by falling timber; George Bal
lard, Edward Wallace, Edmund Johnson and
Alex Rayburn, fatally injured; Mrs. William
Stewart, crushed and seriously injured.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
Minor State Items.

"Arbor Day" was very generally
observed throughout the state.
The state pioneer society will hold its
10th annual meeting at Lansing on the
4th of June.
Only four OFT of ten saloonists in Ed
more have had their licenses accepted
for this years business.
The Ducey lumber company at North
Muskegon lost $1,000 worth of lumber
by fire the other day.
The state agricultural lands are again
in the market NJ prices ranging
from So to Sl5 per acre.
John Dereen, well known land sur
veyor of Lapeer county, committed sui
eide by poisoning April 30.
The Northwestern hotel at Marquette,
owned by Newbcrry and Mcmillan of
Detroit, burned few days since.
Swift's saw mill, three miles from
Chase, burned u few days ago. Loss
$780, with very little insurance.
The sum of $4,000 is recommended
by the river and harbor committee for
the work at the Portage Lake harbor.
Stearns & Bakers lumber mill, seven
miles west of Grape, burned April 30.
at loss of S12, 900: insurance $4,000.
Ypsllant Is enjoying regular
"boom." Rents have advanced % per
cent, and it is very difficult 10 find
houses to rent.
Four saloonists in Dundee were un-
able to pay the Sc, 900 bonds required of
them and have closed their doors.
Others will follow.
l. is claimed that Michigan furnishes
more cedar than any other state in the
union, and that it has just commenced
furnishing that article.
Frankfort is enforcing the compulsory
schoo, law and the attendance has
through this law been increased 20
more Than any year previous.
Miss Maggie Scott, public school
teacher, Grand Rapids, has been Up
pointed general superintendent of the
reform school for girls, Adrian.
IL Is said that retail liquor dealers
throughout Michigan are complaining
of hard times and that many Of them
will 60 out of business before the next
tax Is paid.
Decatur is all torn up over the liquor
question. The council have refused to
approve the bonds of the three druggists
after applying prohibition to the
saloonists.
Geo Geppert, banker of Medicine
Lodge. KS, was shot Aprl % in an at
tempted bank robbery. He was for
merly a prominent citizen and merchant
at Allegan.
Pontiac han more saloons under the
prohibitory law than all Oakland Coun-
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
DEATH MOST HORRIBLE.
Van Buren, County Poor House Burned
Fourteen Persons Burned 10 q Crisp.

A disastrous fire occurred at the
Van Buren, county poor house, between
Lawrence and Hartford, early on the
morning of April 80 which, in its re-
suits, was the most terrible tragedy
which has occurred in that part Of the
state for years. So rapidly did the fire
consume the building that Of the 40 in
mates, IA were unable to make their
escape, and, imprisoned by the fire,
were compelled to suffer death the most
horrible. The means at hand were 90 in
adequate that before the bodies could be
recovered most of them were burned
so that recognition was impossible; in
some cases all there was left to ind cate
that the remains were those of human
being was little pile of charred, black
ened and half burned bones. Nearly
all the victims appear to have been
smothered In their beds, although sew
eral were found as though they had
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08

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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
SECOND EDITION.

For thirty cents in cash or ten three
cent stamps, We will mail to any address,
postage prepaid, an octave illustrated
book of ll2 pages, with handsome illum-
mated cover, entitled Donald Mckay
or, The Last Var Trail ofthe Modocs. This
bool is a true exponent ofthe old saying
Truth is stranger than felton," and
contains the romance of the life of Don
aid Mckay, the great Scout and Chief o.
the Warm Spring Indians. The story is
founded on facts, and is the only true his
tory Of the capture Of Captain Jack, the
Chief of the Modocs, the warrior who
defied the United States troops in the
Lava Beds; and every incident men,
toned therein can be corroborated by
Donald Mckay, who is still living, and
for whom this book was published.
Address the Publishers,
@. P. SOULE & CO.,
l75 MONROE ST., CHICAGO, Ill.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
His Own Eyaoutioner

Allan ingalls,, the Negro who, wish Robert
johnson, another Negro, last winter killed old
man Taylor and wife and their little grand
daughter, and sold the bodies to the Ohio
medical college, hanged himself in his cell In
the county jail In Cincinnati the other morning.
he hao torn some strips from blanket, and
securing the rope thus made TO a bar In his
cell, tied 1t round his meek and drew his legs
up, re was literally strangled to death, as he
was in a crOuchirg position,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.

Charles H. RuQg the Negro convicted Of the
murder Of Mrs. Msybee aud daughter at Oyster
Bay, Long Island, has been sentenced to be
hanged June 9.
Glen Falls, N. Y, was visited by 100000
fire on the 2Sth inst.
The House committee on public lands have
agreed upon bill to repeal the presumption
and timber culture acts and amend the home
stead laws.
It's learned at the treasury department that
soldiers are being extensively swindled by false
representations on the part Of attorneys as 10
money alleged 10 be due them under the new
laws on account of bounty, etc.
An explosion Of dynamite IN stone quarry
at Ellettsville, Ind, resulted IN the death OF
one man and the serious injury Of Is others.
Havana was badly shaken by a powder ex.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08
Henry's story-The Recovered PAPERS in
Court.

The examination into the case of
Joseph Allen was resumed May End in
presence of good sized crowd.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08

VttlGeSilIOs Chssinut ST, Phiia.S
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09
THE ORIGIN OF TIE PosTOFFIeE.

Toe postoffice is an example OF the
mode ia which things change while
names rem ain. Il was originally the
Office which arranged the posts or
places at which, un the great roads,
relays of horses and men could be
obtained for the rapid forwarding OF
Government dispatches. There waa
chief postmaster Of England many
years before any system OF convey
snce of private letters by the Grown
was established. Sach letters were
conveyed either by carriers, who used
the same horses throughout their
whole journey, or BY relays OF horses
maintained by private individuals,
that 10. by private post. The scheme
OF carrying the correspondence OF the
public by means of crown meesen'
gers originated in connection With
foreign trade. A post Office for Letters
to foreign parts was established "for
the benefit of the English mer.
chs nte" in the reign of James l., bat
the extension OF the system to inland
letters was left to the succeeding
reign. Charles I. by . proclamation
issued 10 1886, may be said to have
founded the present posloffice. By
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09

this proclamation be commended
ibis poetmaster OF England fol
foreign parts to settle q running post
or two. to run night and day between
Edinburgh and London. to 60 thither
and back again in six days, and to
take with them sll such letters as
shall be directed to any post town in
or near that road" Neighboring
towns such as Lincoln and Hull we're
10 be linked on to this main route,
and posts On similar principles were
directed to be established on other
great high roads. such as those to
Chester and Holyhead, to Exeter and
Plymouth. So far no monopoly was
claimed. but two years afterwards q
second proc 'ama.;on forbade the car
riage OF letters by any messengers
except the &c OF the Kings postmaster
general, and thus the present system
was inaugurated. The monopoly
thus claimed. though 20 doubt de-
vised by the King to enhance the
royal power and to bring money into
the exche quer, was adopted by Orom.
well and Dis Parliament, one main
advantage in their eyes being that
the carriage OF correspondence by the
government would afford "the best
means to discover and prevent any
dangerous and wicked designs against
the Commonwealth" The oppor-
tunity of an extensive violation of
letters, especially il they proceeded
from suspected Royalists, was no
doubt en- attractive bait; and it is
rather amusing to notice how the
tables were thus turned on the mon
srchal party by meaps OF one of the
Sovereign's own acts of aggression.
However. from one motive or an
other, Roy alists and Psrliamentari-
ans agreed in the establishment OF
state post. and the institution has
come down without q break from the
days of Charles l. to our own.-Eng-
lish Illustrated Magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09

A TRAMP carries about with him q
box of dead oockroaches. When be
feels hungry he goes to a restaurant
and orders q good dinner, nearly 6n-
ishes it, puts cockroaoh in the prin-
cipsl dish, and, calling a waiter,
point, With horror to the object. In
stead of being charged for dinuer he
8 apds a chance Of getting paid fol
keeping silent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09

Women

Who want glossy, luxuriant
and wavy tresSeS of abundant,
beautiful Hair must use
LYONS KATHAIRON. This
elegant, cheap article always
makes the Hair grow freely
and fast, keeps it from falling
out, arrests and cures gray
ness, removes dandruff and
itching, m axes the I'll air
strong, giving it a curling
tendency and keeping it in
any desired position, Beau
tiful, healthy Hair is the sure
result Of using Kathair0n.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-09

Mr.. J. M. Farren. Logansport,
was cured Of chills and fever OF five
years. standing by Browns Iron
B:tteYe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
Too Biz.

Big things are not often useful OF
profitable. Bulky, unwieldly property
that a person can do nothing with, is
very forcibly characterized by the phrase,
"He has an elephant on his hands,
Many great works of human skill and
boldness, however, that are too big to be
profitable, are not too big to be useful,
and the following pertinent remarks OF
the Railuay Age are rather suggestive
than otherwise:
Whether the great bridge between
New York and Brooklyn will pay even
a low rate of interest on its cost, beside
the large SUN which will be required
each year for repairs, is not at all certain.
1t seems as if there was q limit in size for
structures of all kinds, which is not
profitable to over-pass.
The Great Eastern steamship, while
it was in many respects a mechanical
success, was, on the whole, a great fail
ure.
Locomotives beyond a certain weight
are not profitable. The wide gauge for
railways has been abandoned, because
the one was found to be best
adapted to all the conditions involved.
The use of driving wheels of very large
diameter on passenger locomotives was
continued tor only comparatively short
time.
Nature herself, while she may produce
the immense, does not obtain from it her
effective uses. The vast proportions of
the London d%ray-horse can be probably
employed only in a narrow range of con-
ditions.
The giant %grenadicrs, whom Frederick
I. ransacked all Europe to obtain, were
not effective soldiers in the field. 1t is
the man of average size who is enduring,
alert, adapted to all the varied demands
of practical life.
In the case of both machines and men
the gigantic is not, all things considered,
the most serviceable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
CAPTAIN Kid.

Kid was the son of an old %privatecr in
the West Indies, and being known as a
brave seaman, was recommended by Lord
Bcllamont, then governor of Barbados,
and several other persons, to the home
government, as one admirably fitted to
command a kings ship cruising against
pirates, on account of his knowledge OF
those seas and practices in warfare. The
project met with no favor in England,
and would have fallen through alto
gether had not Lord Bellamont and his
friends fitted out the Adventure galley
at their own private charge. Kid was
put in command, and furnished with the
kings commission, charging him to hunt
down pirates, all and sundry, especially
Thomas Too, and others specified by
name. He also held a commission of re.
p~risals, for it was then war times. m
towering him to take. French merchant
ships in case he should meet any.
The Adventure galley sailed from Ply
mouth in May, 1896. carrying thirty guns
and eighty men; and, after securing the
North and South Atlantic, tried the In
dian ocean, picking up n French mer-
chairman or two; but OF pirates never d
one. At last, the patience of Kid, who
appears to have meant well originally,
wore out; his crew turned mutinons. and
he became, according to his defense. q
pirate ma!gre lui. After a lucky cruise
he sailed for this city, thinking his Of
felse would be winked at, but was i'm
mediately seized here, with all his books
and papers, sent home for trial, and
hanged at Execution Dock, with six of
his associates. His career proved an ex-
ccption to the rule that it is we'll to set q
thief to catch a thief.--Nep York Macs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
Conld See Well With Them.

"You have no idea of the number of
absurd things that happen in our bust
ness" said Il salesman in the store Of a
prominent New York %optician. Not
long agoa well-known Wall street broker,
whose ideas Of life 90 but a little way
beyond margins and futures, walked
briskly in and said that he wanted q pair
of gold spcctaclcs.' There were Il num-
Der Of frames lying on the counter at the
time, and in a busincss-like way he began
trying them on. Finally he got q pair
that apparently suited him, and after IN
curing the price, walked to the door
and looked out into the street.
"'These are excellent he said; 4 can
almost see the print on the paper that
gentleman is reading on the platform OF
the car going down the street. lie threw
down a s. note and was about to rush
from the store. lie was rather crestfallen
when I called him back and asked whether
he wanted glasses in the frame or not
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
Goats of

In oldcn times people of distinction
had coats of arms, is they are called: and
in England the nobility have them on
their furniture, coaches, silver, etc. This
is the way they came in use. AS the
poor people did not know how to read,
the lords and other great men had ban
ners made and on them various figures,
such as a lion, dragon, lily, helm, were
PAINTED. Thus the soldier could keep
near the leader. Then it seems that the
same figure was embroidered OF the out
side garments, so that the common
soldier would know where he met a per-
son of superior rank. Sometimes these
figures recalled some notable event in
the fortunes of the family; the spider,
which Robert Bruce watched mcnding
its web in the cave while he was hiding
from his enemies, was placed in the
royal arms after he became king of Scot
land. In order to show that they have
had brave, courageous or loyal anccs-
tors, their descendants keep up the prac-
tice of wearing coats of arms; they value
them very highly. -Srhobtr's Companion
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
The Water Lily'S Story.

When I first opened my eyes to the
daylight l was in Il lovely place. My
home was a beautiful pond, whose waters
were so clear they reflected the blue sky
and tleecy clouds overhead, and where
everything was still and calm and quiet:
wa surrounded by fair companions
each rs lovely rs myself. We grew
.fairer and sweeter every day, and we
thought ourselves better than the COM
mon flowers that grew on the farther
side of the pond, the Daisies, the Blue
Violcts, Adders' Tongues. that queer
fellow, Jack in the Pulpit, and the Wild
Rose, vino was so rude if any one
touched her. Were We not tall and
slender, fair and sweet Of face. and did
not our green dresses become our fair
compilations wonderfully? Were we
not admired by every one who saw us;
and more than all, did not Il mirror,
the pond, tell US we were beautiful
every time VIC glanced in it? Yesterday
there came to our pleasant home q gay
pleasure-boat with a party of ladies and
gentleman: the ladies all exclaimed. as
0 as they saw us. "Oh, how sweet,
how lovclym and one, whose face was
like an angels, reached over and took
me and several of my companions into
the boat with them. The other ladies
gathered some of my fair sisters, and VIC
were all carried away to our new and
| separate homes. The lady that | and my
| sisters were with took us to a grand
house on Il hill, where VIC were again adj
mired and Our fragrance inhaled, and at
night | shone like a star in the raven
braids of my new mistrcss's hair in ball
room. Her lovers hand placed he there.
and as he did so, he bent and whispered
something in her ear, and then kissed the
rosy lips that looked so tempting. The
warm bloom rose to her check, and |
thought | never had beheld anything so
beautiful. / missed my old home and
nv pretty mates, but l felt sure | had
fallen into good hands, and | felt proud
in having so beautiful a mistress, and
being so admired. When my mistress camc
home and looked in the mirror she saw
nv dropping head, for the heat in the
ballroom had made me faint and Ian
guild. She took me from her hair, and
said tenderly, as she held me in her
hand, Poor wiltcd lily, I'm sorry you
faded 50 SOON" Then she put me in a
vase of water, which refreshed and
strengthened me. and this morning when
she looked at me my white petals were
open oncc more, which made her exclaim:
"Ah, my pretty lily, YOU are alive yet,
amt you. But have lost some OF my
fragrance, and l know that before the
sun sets | shall be dead, for the life of Il
lily is very frail. They say this is a cold
world, but my lines have fallen in pleas
ant places" and l am sure that when I
am dead, and all my beauty and fra
GRANGE gone forever, my sweet mistress
will not throw me into the street to be
trampled in the mud, but will lay me
carefully away in remembrance of the
night when her lover whispered sweet,
tender words rs he placed me in her
shining braids of hair.-Fbral World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-06-11
An I1uoynlorpl Table Land,

According to Mr.. I'm Thurn, whose
travels in British Guiana have recently
been published, there is in the far west
of that country, or over the Brazilian
boundary, where the savanna itself rises
5000 feet above the sea- flat table land,
the edges of which are more or less per
pcndicular cliffs 1000 feet high. No
traveller has ever been round it, so that it
may be accessible from the other side,
and there is a way. as yet untried, which
Mr.. I'm Thurn believes may prove prac.
ticable. The summit of this plateau OF
Roraima seems to be forest covered, and
enough is known of the fauna and flora
of the district to make it certain that Il
naturalist would find himself well re-
warded for the ascent. There are tradl-
tons of strange isolated tribes that live
in this inaccessible region.