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Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-01-04

! PHILADELPHIA GALL: 1t is said that one OF the
|menabers of Irving's company had never left the
(,,o.rda of his London theater for forty years
,,rt;l arriving in this country. This does not
,.f.r 20 Miss Terry - that l.dy has appeared at
:other London theaters.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-01-04

J so,x friend sent Professor Swift, of the War
Iner observatory. a bottle of Montana whisky for
|, Christmas gift, aud that night he discovered
S.177 new comets with shaved tails and i've
I,ronoed horns. Warner wouldn't let him re-
hort 'em.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-01-04

CHRISTMAS and twins can come but once q
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
BLOWN UP ON THE RIVER.
Probable Loss of Twelve Lives by an Ex-
ploslon on Board Southern Steamer.

Probable Loss of Twelve Lives by an Ex-
ploslon on Board Southern Steamer.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Nov. 20.-The river
place and seTma, ran on sahu.Dar I tese
day evening about mile below Wash
ington ferry. While the crew was try
ing TO get her off it is supposed tho
boilers were neglected and exploded,
blowing the boat to pieces. At
latest accounts four persons, including
the Captains little girl, were missing, the
others being three deck hands. Eight other
members of the crew are reported to have
been so badly injured that their recovery is
impossible. Timbers Of the boat were
blown one hundred yards from the bank OF
the river, and the crew and passengers scat
tered in all directions, many being seriously
hurt Captain English was blown thirty
feet from the boat, but was rescued by the
engineer, who was himself badly
scalded. There were no houses near
the scene of the disaster, and the wounded
were left lying on the bank of the river UNI
til nine o'clock yesterday morning, when as
sistance arrived and they were brought to
this place. There were twenty-five people
on board, and of those now alive every one
was more or less injured but the pilot The
be in good 'ScoGntd2tiSna and %es 81 ssggRgosed to
an old vessel. Her cargo of fifty bales of
cotton and five hundred sacks of cotton seed
was scattered broadcast. The boat is q total
wreck
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

IN the rebellion against the national Govern
ment. IL lisa stlll more Significant fact that In
those States no man who was loyal 20 tho
may be to-day. has tho slightest chance OF
political promotion. The one great avenue
TO honor In that section is the record OF zeal
ment. 1t Is certainly an astounding fact that
the section In which friendship for the Union
IN the day ofits trial and agony Is stu polite
over the Union. All this takes place during
the lifetime of the generation
THAT FOUGHT THE WAR
and elevates into practical command OF the
American Government the identical II On who
organized for its destruction and plunged Us
into the bloOdest contest or modern times.
have spoken OF the South as placed by the late
election In possession of the Government, and
mean all that my words imply, The south
furnished nearly three fourths OF the
party, and they Will step TO the command OF
the Democrats as unchallenged and as unre-
strained as they held the same position for
there can not be political inequality among
the citizens of a free Republic; there can not
be minority OF white men In the South ruling
majority OF white men In the North. Pa
triotism, self-respect pride, protection for
person, and safety for country all cry out
against II. The very thought Of 1t strs the
blood OF men who inherit equality from the
pilgrims who first stood on Plymouth Rock,
and from liberty loving patriots who came TO
the Delaware with William Penn. 1t becomes
tho primal question of American manhood. 1t
demands a hearing and a settlement, and that
settlement Will vindicate the
EQUALITY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS
In all persona. and civil rights. IL will, at
least: establish the equality of white men I'M
der the National Government, and will give to
the Northern man. who fought to preserve tho
Union, as large n voice in its Government as
may be exercised by the Southern man, who
fought TO destroy the Union. The contest
Just closed utterly dwarfs the fortunes and
fate of the candidates, whether successful or
unsuccessful Purposely-I may say instinct
ivoy-I have discussed the issues and conse-
nuences- Of that contest without reference to
my own defeat, without the remotest refer
Presidency. Toward him personally have
no cause for the slightest ill-will, and IL is
with cordially express the wish that his of
and beneficial to the country, and that his Adj
ministration may overcome the embarrass-
ments which the peculiar source of its power
imposes upon it from the hour OF its birth"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

State show the vote in Georgia at the re-
cent election 10 be: Cleveland, 0i,567;
Blaiue, 47,00l; Butler, 1925; st. John, 1884.
In quarrel in saloon at Sherman,
Tex, ON the 2lst J. w. Atkins and his son
Henry and an officer were shot dead and
two other persons were seriously wounded.
THE three children of John Reader per-
ished by Are In his farmhouse near Vas
sar, Mich, few days ago, while the par
ents were at work In the fields.
A FIRE a few days ago destroyed the
Commercial Hotel, town market and thir-
teen other buildings at Wilson, N. G.
AFTER hearing arguments, the Utah
Commission decided on the 2lst to refer the
question Of the right of Mormons to vote at
school elections to Attorney General Brew
ster.
On the 21st two hunters found the dead
body of a young and pretty woman, neatly
dressed, in Baltimore County, Nd A ring
on her finger bore the inscription: "Miz-
pah, May /, 1885," and on the back of her
gold watch were the Words "Frank 20
Gertrude" In purse in the pocket of her
gown wa $500.
THE appointment is announced of Con-
gresham Tucker, ol Lynchburg, as guard
ian to the minor children of the late Presi-
dent Garfield, and he will have control of all
the Garfield property in Virginia.
A FEW evenings ago the Matthews House
at Duluth, Mimi, was burned, the guests
losing all their effects. M. j. Kolsmech
was suffocated and two variety actresses
were lowered from window by a negro,
who then had to jump for his life.
THE execution of Oliver Bateman, who
murdered and outraged the little McLaugh-
lin girls, took place ON the 2lst at Savan-
nah, Mo. John Bush (colored) was exc
cuted at Lexington, KY, for murder COM
mitted six years ago. He had had ten
trials.
ROBERT EDDINGToN, boy of seventeen,
was reciting "Hohenlinden" at the Mont
gomery Bell Academy at Nashville,
Tenn, on the 2ist, when he paused,
confused and forgetful of the poem.
His face withered, and he started to
his seat, when he fell dead on the floor.
Heart-disease was the cause.
In the Jail at Lima, o., Benjamin Hef-
ner, a wife murderer, killed himself the
other night.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
FROM WASHIN0TON.


w. b. THOMPSON, Superintendent of the
Railway Mail Service, submitted his annual
report on the 18th, showing am extension
In the mileage Of the service to Ill.,
miles, an increase OF 6,052 miles over the
preceding year. He asks that the present
appropriation OF 81, 300, 900 for the general
service of the department be increased
1901 600 for the next year.
In tho Treasury Department a sensation
was caused few days ago by the suicide
of clerk named Hiram Bodine, who shot
himself through the heart while seated at
his desk.
A STATEMENT was made by Chief Brooks,
of the Secret Service, on the 10th that there
are now in the hands of counterfeiters
nearly 100000 new spurious $40 and $40
notes p oduced within the year. The per-
ccntage of circulation of counterfeit money
in 1884, however, has been the smallest
since the crime began TO flourish.
COMMISSIONER LoRING, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, in his annual report
shows that during the past year the value
of farm products has in the aggregate
more than doubled, increasing from
$780, 900 to $4,000 ,000, 900 in round num-
bers.
THE Garfield statue at Washington is to
be erected in the circle at the foot of the
grounds at the west front of the Capitol at
the intersection of First street and Mary
land avenue.
THERE were 2S3 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 21st, against 200 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, GO; New
England States, so; Western, 20; Southern,
81; Pacific States and Territories, %; Cam
ada 3D.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
A QUEER CLIMATE.
In Alaska, Where the Rain 1t Raineth
Every Day.

In Alaska, Where the Rain 1t Raincth
Every Day.
During the fifty years that the Rus
slams kept their careful meteorological
records at Sitka, Alaska, the thermome-
ter only went below zero four times,
and the variation between the average
of summer and winter temperature has
never been more than twenty-five de-
grees. The warm current of the Kuro
Siro, or Black Stream of Japan, sweeps
fogs and clouds with it along these
shores, and while modifying the temper
ature, gives cool, moist climate. The
three and fffty-four degrees pieasesi NE
fancy of dwellers in the East quite as
much as the average winter temperature
of thirty-one and thirty-two degrees.
The only drawback to this cool and
equable climate is the heavy rainfall,
that is gagged at seven and eight feet a
year and continues the resemblance to
the Scotch climate.
Any one might complain like the
Scotchman that it is "a wee hair too
wet" but one gets used to it and goes
around unconcernedly in full panoply
of rubber and gossamer cloth. Ice is
seldom known, and skating on the little
lake beyond the church is rarity in
Sitka's amusements. The snow lies on
the mountain tops and sides all the year
through, though in warm, dry sum-
mer like the present one it retreats to
the SUBMITS and higher ravines. The
fine little sponges and the delicate coral
branches that are occasionally found in
the harbor puzzle one with another hint
ntthas tyqeias.inth -hiGh- titnda-G GRAFT.
banana leaves drift on the rocks with
the rushing tides, and the snaky alge
that float on the water are often eighty
and one hundred feet long 1t is of
these tough, hollow pipes that the In
dams make the worms for their rude
hoochinoo distilleries, or splitting and
twisting it. make fishing lines many
fathoms in length. The same little
teredo which eats up ship timbers and
piles in southern oceans is as destruc-
tive here in the harbor of Sitka as any
where in the tropics. The piles of the
wharf only last for five years at tho
longest, and the merciless borers even
ate up the timbers of the old wrecks and
hulks with which the first foundations
for wharf were begun. Cor. 81. Louis
Globe Democrat
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A CANADIAN expedition recently discov-
cred Lake Mistassini, in Rupert Land, a
body of water supposed to be larger than
Lake Superior. Fur-bearing animals
abound on its shores, and fish are very
abundant. 1t was believed that the Hud-
son Bay Company had known of the ex-
istanee. of the lake for "A hundred wears. hut
kept the matter secret.
GREAT excitement prevailed at the Mex
lean capital on the 18th in regard to the
conversion of the English debt. Crowds in
the street threatened President Gonzales
with death, and marched to the residence
of General Diaz to make him state his po-
sition.
The Irish Compensation bill, which
sought to extend the provisions of the
Land act to the smaller towns, has been
rejected by the British House of Com
mons.
THE territory in West Africa bordering
on the Orc River has been taken possession
of by Spain.
A FEW days ago Caleb Butt, married
man of Toronto, eloped TO the United States
with Captain" Fisher, an Irish girl con-
nected with the Salvation Army.
THERE were forty five deaths from chol-
era in Paris during the twenty -four hours
ended at nine p. m. on the Goth. The COM
plete official retnrns of the cholera in the
scourge there were 1907 cases and 7,70G
deaths, of which number 12,402 cases and
6,620 deaths were in the city of Naples.
In the village of Sloco, Can, twenty
seven cases of smallpox occurred on the
Goth, and business was entirely suspended.
THE Alert-a Boston ship-bound from
New York for Shanghai, and carrying
100000 gallons of kerosene oil, was struck
by lightning recently near Pernambuco
and burned. The officers and crew were
saved.
BETWEEN France and China peace
negotiations were suspended on the 21st,
and couple of Chinese iron-clads would
be sent to force the French blockade at
Formosa.
THERE were during the twenty -four
hours ended at nine p. IN. on the 21st
twenty three deaths from cholera at Paris,
fourteen at Oran, one at Nantes and
eighteen at Compeigne.
CANADA has decided that it will not be
represented at the New Orleans EXPOSE
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

sand employees were ON the 10Th reduced
from sixteen TO twenty per cent.
THE other day Arthur Clark, sailor,
was found dying In New York boarding
house of yellow fever. No other persons in
the building were I'LL
SEVERAL powder cartridges exploded
recently while being warmed by workmen
at Worcester, Mass, one Of the men being
killed, two injured, and all the windows in
the vicinity wrecked.
In Central Park, New York, a statue,
representing the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers, will be erected by the New En-
gland Society.
Boston merchants met on the 2ist and
urged Congress to suspend the silver dollar
coinage, to pass a Bankruptcy law, and to
effect as speedily as possible reciprocity
with Mexico and Canada.
REV. w. II. RAMscAR, Superintendent of
the Home for Children and Seminary for
Girls 1t New York, was recently convicted
of sending children out to beg, and was
sentenced to thirty days in the city prison
and to pay'a fine of 500.
THE Board of Canvassers of New York
On the 2lst declared the result of the recent
election in that State as follows: Cleve-
land, 563,Ols; Blaine, 56l,07l; plurality,
1917. st. John, 24,9Is; Butler, 1921.
In the cotton mills at Peterborough, N.
H., Hopedale, and Fall River, Mass, and
in the iron mills at Pittsburgh, Pa, notices
have been posted of heavy cuts in wages.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, street-car dashed
down the incline in Butler street a few
days ago, and, jumping the track, ran ON
the sidewalk for block, when the horses
fell, and the car passed over them, inflict-
ing injuries which necessitated their be-
ing killed. The twenty-three passengers
on board were badly bruised, two of them
aariOuSIv
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
- .
INDIAN OuTRAGES.
A Band OF Murderous Apaches Said to ID
Devastating Western Texas.

A Band of Murderous Apaches Said to BE
Devastating Western Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 2O.-Rumors
are rife here of terrible outrages by Indians
at Camp Pera, Preside County. Atelegram
received from that point Tuesday night says
that an American named Petty and his wife
were brutally murdered and their three chill
dren carried off and slaughtered Also 1t is
said that many other murders have been
committed, but no means exist for the cor
roboration or denial of the stories that are
aaoat. A detachment of cavalry, under the
lead of General Stanley has started for Fort
Davis 10 intercept the marauders.
The murderous redskins are believed to be
portion of the band of Hpaches that were
driven over the Mexican border by General
Crook. Since the expiration of the treaty
between the United States and Mexico, by
which the troops Of both Republics could
cross the Rio Grande In pursuit of Indians
or cattle-thieves, the Indians have become
cognizant of the inability of the United
States troops to pursue them, and are COM
ing from the mountains, crossing the Rio
Grande in small bands. General Stanley
will promptly overhaul them. This partlc-
ular party Of Indians Is believed to number
about fifty. A mining engineer named Co
bard is missing, and It is not thought posi-
BILE that he can have escaped.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
A Gasoline Explosion.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 20.-While two
plumbers were at work at the residence Of
George c. Hogan at Newcastle Tuesday,
gasoline forge which they were using ex-
ploded, sending the flames and pieces of the
forge in all directions. James Stepenson
and Henry Dunlap, the two plumbers, were
severely but not fatally burned. The cloth
ing of Jennie Dewbery, a domestic, who
was standing near, took fire, and before the
flames could be put out she was burned in a
terrible manner about the face, breast and
arms. 1t is thought however, that she
will recover
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
LAYER.

- Etc
THE official canvass of the vote at the
recent election in Illinois is as follows:
Blaine, S37 ,4S1; Cleveland, 312,S55; Butler,
1920; st. John, 1904; Mr.. Blaine's
plurality, 25,126. For Governor-Oglesby,
1884, PIT; Harrison, 319,577; Hobbs, 10,7S6;
Harper, s,6S7; Oglesby's plurality, 1860.
AT Denison, Tex, early the other morn
ing burglars entered the saloon of j.
Lewis Libbe, broke open the safe, and
stole 81 900.
A CYCLONE which swept over two plan
tations few nights ago, just above New
Orleans, killed Mr.. Mialarat and Anatole
Perret, and wrecked several houses.
THE Grand Opera House, in Market
street, st. Louis, valued at $4,000, was
destroyed by fire few afternoons ago.
= A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt in
Concord and in various other portions of
New Hampshire on the morning of the 23d.
SEVERE wind and rain storms prevailed
in the East on the afternoon of the 23d. At
Wilkesbarre and Scranton, Pa, houses
were flooded and swept away, and IL por-
tions of New York and Massachusetts, con-
] siderable damage was done. No lives
were lost.
THE annual report of the First Assistant
Postmaster General, issued on the 22d,
shows that there were 3,414 post-offlces es-
tablished during the year and ,260 discon-
tinued. The whole number of offices is
50,017, an increase of 2,1A. There were
2,166, 13O,306 postage stamps, stamped en-
velopes and postal cords issued.
THE Sanitary Commission in Paris on
the 23d ceased to hold daily sittings and
the cholera epidemic was considered ended.
w. A. PLEDGER, Chairman, has issued a
call for meeting of the Colored National
Committee to convene at New Orleans De-
cember II to consider the situation of the
colored people under the Democratic party.
TELEGRAPHIc reports received at the st.
Paul Railroad Company's Office in Milwau-
kee on the afternoon of the 23d state that
the mercury was ten degrees below zero all
along its lines in Dakota and Minnesota.
Two MEN started in sloop recently from
Victoria, British Columbia, with cargo
of nineteen Chinese, who were to be SNUG
gled into Washington Territory, but all
were drowned while on thesway by the
sinking of the boat.
THE Osborne building at st. Paul, Mimi.
was destroyed by fire few evenings ago
causing loss of 100000.
THOMAS KEY, a ferryman, with his child
was conveying nine persons across the
river ut Cuperton's Ferry, Ala, on the 22d
when the boat capsized. Only three OF
those on board were saved, the ferryman
his child and four others being swept
away and drowned. Keys wife, who wit.
pessed the accident from the bank Of the
river, hadIgone mad.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

What 1t Is Doing to the Planet on Which
We Live.
Tho tides arc caused tuafufy f,y-.tl,e-
moon, as &c were, Catching hofd of tfsS'
water as the earth rcvolvcs around, on
its axis. This must cause friction on
the earth as it revolves, and friction, as
every one knows, causes loss of power.
Suppose wheel, with hair round its
rim, like o circular brush such as is
used for hair-brushing by machinery; if
this brush be revolving rapidly, and we
hold our hand ever so lightly on the
hair, so that 1t is slightly rubbed back
ward as the wheel revolves, we can uu-
derstand that the speed of the wheel
will be gradually diminished, until at
last it will be brought to stand-still,
provided there is no additional power
communicated to the wheel by machin
cry or hand beyond what was given to
set it spinning round. Now this is
somewhat analogous to what is happen
ing to the earth in its rotation. There
is reason to suppose that the action of
the tides is slowly but surely lessening
the speed of the earth's rotation, and
consequently increasing the length Of
the day, aud that this action will con-
tinue until the earth revolves on its own
axis in the same time that the moon
takes to revolve round the earth. Then
the day, instead of being twenW-four
hours as now, will be about twenty
eight days, and the earth will be ex-
posed to the full blaze of the sun for
about fourteen days ut time. The
change this will bring about on the face
of the earth can hardly be exaggerated.
All life, both animal and vegetable, will
be destroyed; all water will be eyapor-
ated the solid rocks will be scorched
and cracked, and the whole world 10.
duced to a dreary and barren wilder
ness. 1t is supposed by some that the
moon has already passed through all
this, hence its shattered and bare-look-
ing surface. That the earth, being so
much larger, has more quickly acted
upon the oceans which once were upon
the moons surface, and stopped almost
entirely its revolution round its own
axis, thus causing it to have day
equal TO twenty-eight of our days, and
the heat of the sun has already done to
IL what in future ages it will do to the
earth. -Harper's Weekly.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27
Cattle Thieves LYnched.

BISMARCK, d. r., Nov. 2O.-News has
Just been received here of the hanging OF
George Grinneli, desperate, by cowboys
of the Missouri slope. They also hung two
men, one half-brecd named Gar,lupee, and
one Simpson The cowboys who did the
hanging are in tho employ of the Montana
Cattle Mems Association. The men hanged
were cattle-thievcs
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

The London Globe, in an article on
"Nationality ip Voice." declares that
America for the next century will pro-
duce the finest singers in the world,
owing to "the semi-barbarous condi-
tons essential to such productions"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

Joel NJ vanarsdalen, well-known law
yer Of Philadelphia died OF paralysis in the
Eastern Penltentiary of Pennsylvania, where
he was sent for ten years for forging the
will o. millionaire named Robert Whit
lker.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

Among n lot of modern proverbs
sent to London newspaper were these:
"Its poor musician who can't blow
his own trumpet" 1.-The want OF
money is the root of all evil" IF
you'd know a mans character follow
him home" "Only whisper scandal,
and it's echo is heard by all"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

On the morning of election. Daniel
Gildersleeve, of New York, as he took
his seat at the breakfast-table, remarked
that the day promised to be fair one.
81 am going to the polls" he said land
rs l am eighty-fve years old, it is not
unlikely that shall cast my last vote. }"
Having finished his breakfast the vet
eran proceeded to the election district
where he was registered. A friendly
policeman assisted him to the head of
the line amid much cheering, but Just
as he was about to step up to the ballot
box his feet faltered and he fell dead on
Che sidewalk. Tenderly the aged form
was lifted and borne back to the home
never more to be gladdened by its living
presence y Herald.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

"A scientific observer claims that the
flatness of the earth at the pole brings
the polar ocean thirteen miles nearer
than any other portions of the globe to
the central ball of fire, upon which he be-
lieves the earth to be built. Conse-
quently the heat is so great that the
water could never freeze over, and IL
there is a sea at that spot at all il must
bean open one Chicago Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-11-27

Sitting Bull advises young man 70
60 West and turn Iniun."