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Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

A SHORT time ago the Spanish stu
dents while making a tour of Mexico,
gave an entertainment in the city OF
Puebla for the benefit of some charita-
BILE society. So keenly did the men,
bers of the society appreciate the cour-
tcsy extended by the Spanish students
that they had silver medal engraved
for each of the students, who, at the
time, were in Boston, or had just left.
The medals were sent through the mails,
consigned to Mr.. F. de p. Villasana,
of Boston, but the officials of the Gus
tom-house, on discovering the contents
of the package, turned it over to the
inspecting officers of the custom-housc
service, whereupon the medals were
seized under article 3,06l, Revised
Statutes. M. Villasana has written to
Secretary Folger explaining the facts
of the case, and 1t is probable
that the medals will be released with,
out the payment Of duty.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

ABLACK snake four feet long was
seen near the south beach, Staten is
land, recently, with two-thirds of a
two-foot garter snake protruding from
its mouth. A farmer explained the
matter in this way: "This is proably
the first day that has been warm
enough to bring the reptiles from their
holes. When they first come out after
the winter Information, snakes are very
hungry indeed, and eat the first NOV
ing thing they see. At no other season
are snakes known to be so hungry that
they will eat snakes. Probably they
rashed at each other with open jaws
and the biggest one got the best of the
bargain" The farmer killed the black
snake, which could only crawl back
ward slowly, as the garter snake pro
truding prevented forward motion
The tails of both continued to twitcl
for some time.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

A SALOON advertisement in a Cuur
dAlene paper after giving the loca-
tion of the place and the elegant
drinks served, wound up with the
pleasing information that the tiger
growls night and day."
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

CHERRY birds are doing damage to
the cherry crops in the vicinity of Al
bany and Lebanon, Ore. The crop of
one of these birds was found to be
filled with young cherries from which
the blossoms had Just fallen.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

AN Atlanta Clergyman was aston
ished the other day bya request from
an anxious couple that he should marry
them in street car. He persuaded
them to wait until the Office of the
railroad company could be reached,
when the knot was successfully tied.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

ABOUT 2,500,00O acres were sown in
Ohio last fall for the wheat crop, and
late reports estimate that the yield
will reach fully 34,0OO,000 bushels.
The same report puts the condition of
wheat at SO per cent. Ohio's largest
wheat crop was that of 1880, when
4S,5O0, 900 bushels were produced.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

Mrs. MARGARET CROCKER, of San
Francisco, the widow of Judge L. b.
Crocker, and woman of great SYM
pathy and benevolence, has just COM
pletcd and handed over TO the trustees
an admirably equipped and appointed
home for aged gentlewomcn at Sacra-
mento. The house and endowments
cost 100000, and Mrs. Crocker in
tends to add other buildings in the iu-
turn
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

As the result of Il winters trapping
on the streams tributary to the Aroos-
took river, in Maine, four young men
bring home the skins of 1877 beaver and
other furs, which are worth Sl,2O
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

Mrs. Ivy GRACE HUGHES, the re-
markably beautiful woman who died
recently in New York, was well known
in Montreal. She lived in luxurious
style with her first husband, namcd
Candle. She was native of Mel
bourne, Australia, and was received in
the best society. Her second husband,
whom she left in England, is an elder
ly man and very wealthy. Her J us
band gave her an ample income.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

The wheatlands, President Buchanan's old
home, near Lancaster, Pa, is offered for sale.
Before Buchanan bought II It was owned and
occupied by William M. Meredith, President
Taylor's secretary Of the treasury,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

FIFTEEN designs have been submitted
for the proposed Garfield monument in
Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, but
no award has been made as yet. The
committee in charge of the work limi-
ted their estimates to Slj0,O00. 1t is
said, however, that none of the designs
submitted could be carried out for
that price.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

AN interesting case has developed
at Johnstown, Pa. Remhold Brix, an
employc at the furnace, has brother
living in Canada who wrote him of Il
young lady there that would make
him an excellent wife. Several letters
passed between them on the subject,
but the young people had never seen
each other. Meantime, however, the
Johnstown man concluded to take out
an accident insurance policy, which
was made payable to his prospective
wife. Some time afterward he met
with an accident that caused his death.
The insurance agent stated to his par
ents the conditions of the policy, and
the girl was written to She rclin'
quished the money in favor of his par
ents and they drew the $1,000.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

The laborers at Fort Davis, Texas,
are Mexicans, who have neither the
ability to lead nor the docility to fol-
low. They plow with forked
stick and hoe with root. They sleep
on q shcepskin and eat prairie dog and
hominy. They will beg you for a nickel
and murder you for 81. They work
three hours day and steal ten hours
at night They can live on SO Ia month
where they keep themselves, and eat
SO day when you have to feed them,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

HENRY BELrzHoovER, aged 70ycars,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, is now suing for II
divorce from his wife on the ground
that sin 1854 she called him hog, and
had said that she would rs soon live
with hog as him, that she would not
pour out his coffee, that she refused to
permit him to enter the house by the
front door, and that she hid the butter
from him.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

1.-THE only medicine recommend" thus
saith druggist Of Dr.. sapford's Liver lnvig-
orator,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-05-15

is good and wholesome, and enough
for any workinTman. Cleanliness is
compulsory, and bath must be taken
at least once 4 week by each convict.
The life is ~ regular as that in garri-
son. and, all in all, the prison is Il
model institution Men are sent here
who commit military crimes, such as
dcscrtion and insubordinatc conduct,
while those who have been guilty Of
theft and other crimes against the laws
of the state are sent to the state pcni-
tentiary. An English officer who
visited this country was much struck
with the way the military convicts
were treated; but this does not stop
dcscrtion by any means. Some course
more severe and direct must be adopt
ed for that purpose, In time of war
the death penalty is visited upon de-
scrtcrs, but that is altogether too
severe for the piping times of peace y
An army, however, must be main
tanned by every civilized state, and
the more compact it is the better. \
nation with an army and navy can be
insulted with impunity, and, though
no people are more proud of the
achievements of their army than the
Americans, it is apt to be neglected at
times.
All prisoners under confinement in
the military prison undergoing SEN
tencc of courts.martial are liable to
trial and punishment by courts-mar-
tial under the a, ticles of war for often
ses committed during confinement. In
the case of n convict who, while con-
fined at Leavenworth after discharge,
had been brought to trial for an escape,
and sentenced to an additional term of
imprisonment, the Judge refused to re-
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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04

in the sitting-room with their
there was q OF dreary loss
Mrs. Skinner sat with the Bible o ~
on her lap. and wondered ==hy ma E -
gone out and remembered that he ny
looked queer. 80
1t was in consonance with her bols.
OF living that she got up in the m;dass
of these speculations TO catch a wandas
ing and belated fly and induce him ].
be annihilated. =
STRANGE she said, as il grew da,r
It'll take the children and 20 dow
his mothers and see if he is there and
If he is, I'll just give him a piece Of NV
mind"
But he was not there. and his no.h
er said Lot had looked badly the last
time she saw HIM, and she Thought IL
seemed worried; hoped it wasn't bus;
ness troubles.
No, it wasn't business troubles: Mys
Skinner knew that, and began to won.
der if she had cleaned her husband out
of his mind. 1t came over her Win
sudden force that she had been in thu
habit of driving him from pillar to most
at railroad speed and at the end If !
broom or dust brush. He actualIv
found no rest for the sole of his foot Il
his own house. 1t might have worked
upon his nervous system until he had
become suddenly insane. Horribia
thought! He might have committed
suicide.
She hurried home with the children
All was gloom. She went to his bureau
to look for his razor. 1t was the onlv.
fire arms he possessed-it was gonei
Then Mrs, Skinner broke down and
cried, and it was indeed a scene OF des.
o~lation, when suddenly the door of that
horrible parlor opened, and an appar.
ition-no, it was Mr.. Skinner himself
stood before them looking very sheep.
ish.
II overslept myself, The said in a meek.
apologize tone, looking at the clock.
IL should say udid," answered his
wife, and the dinner is all eaten up
but I'll fix you up something NICE and
she went out taking the children With
her.
How much of it Mr.. Skinner ever
knew it is impossible to say, but there
was an immediate and satisfactory
change that at first amazed and thsn
delighted him. He could lay down
anywhere when he was tired and his
wife would throw a shawl over him.
and leave him in peace. He has even
been seer to lie down on the sofa in the.
parlor where he took his Rip Van Win.
kle sleep and nobody disturbed him.
Mrs. Skinner was at heaIt a woman Of
sense, and when she relied that one
hair of that grizzly-gray head was
worth o than all the pillow shams
in the world to her, she put the last
one away in the company OF a demented
assortment of superf1uous tides. And
they are really and truly, and not in
any geological sense, a HAPPY family
now.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04

and modest little presents were begin
nng TO be sent IN from friends and
neighbors.
Here's my present" said Uncle
Cuthbert, walking in one 6ly and tos-
sing a little box of carved wood into
Lizzy's lap. Il cut out those wooden
flowers myself, when l was in Calitor-
MIA"
We'll, but open it; it's lined beauti-
fully" said the old man.
Lizzyobeyed.
"Why there's a parchment chart in
it. Uncle, cried the astonished Clarence,
who was leaning over Llzzy's shoulder.
"Of course there is-a deed making
over $50, 900 to Lizzy Eldon the day of
her marriage" answered Uncle Cuth-
bert, dryly, and I've got just another
one for you at home, Clarence, my boy!
Aha! The old uncle was not sopoyerty
stricken after all. You mustn't think
my Young lady" he added, turning alb
ruptly to Rosa, that gold isn't gold be-
cause it's a trihe furnished and rusty.
Appearances aren't anything in this
world" o..
And so Clarence and Lizzy began the
world with the fairest of prospects, and
true love enough to float the barque of
life into the sweetest haven.
Rosa Eldon was some what chagrinned
in her secret soul, but she wisely kept
her feelings to herself, and Old Uncle
Cuthbert was quite satisfied with the
choice his nephew had made.
"She's worth twice a hundred thou
sand dollars in her own sweet self, Clar-
ence," he said, confdentially, to Mr..
Hyde, Junior.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
cAss1Us cLAY's CIRCUS.
A Noted Man Who, In Retirement Watch
es His Skipping Lambs.

&A ~ &1@ ~ @A0f 40 -
es His Skipping Lambs.
Lexington Letter in the Cincinnati Commercial
Cassius NJ. Clay's home is near Fox
town, twenty miles east Of Lexington.
To a visitor the other evening Mr.. Clay
said "Tell me what's going on, for I'm
out of politics now. I'm here almost
alone-no, I'm not alone, for / have my
sheep, cattle dogs, birds, flowers, and
books. And, by the way, | nm writing
a book-my memoirs" 1t was a beauti-
full evening and the scene was one OF
peace, Forest and orchard trees and
shrubs surround the house, o. mansion,
for such it really is. To the west IS q
sweep of ablue grass AT the east side
are lowlands, from which came the tink-
ling Of sheep bells. II have four hum
dred Southdowns," said farmer Clay,
''my father used to be q great merlno
sheep-raiser, but / prefer Sonthdowns-
You city people might think It curious
when / say that my sheep give me 2
great deal Of comfort. To my mind, no
landscape is complete without some
Southdown distributed about. In Eng
land, and in the East here
they are placed in the public
parks as ornaments. The South
downs are to sheep what the Short
horns are to cattle. I have great fun
watching the lambs. Upon my word, 4
think the little rascals know / enloy Their
ganahals- Over Wonder Is a clrenlar de-
preston in the pasture. out OF which
was taken before I was born the clay
for the bricks for the house here. Well
I 20 there every day to watch the lambs
run races. It's aperfect circus. some
times / have to hold my sides Laughing
to see them painting and catching tneif
second wind and then 60 tearing
around the ring again.
We sat before an old-fashloned wooo
fire. The logs cracked and blazed on,
q capacious hearth, which guarded
on each side by q taII Grass dog
Lying on the table was a thick bundle;
of manuscript. II have finished writ
ing Mr.. Clay said, catching o look q
inquiry on my face. "and am now nego-
tiating with the Hampers for the pubil1
cation Of the memoirs. They published
my other book, edited by Horace Gree
ley. The events there treated were oply
up TO 184s. The present Memoirs Will
be in two volumes; they will include the
gist ofthe matter III the book prepared
by Mr.. Greeley, and viii come down e
when T retired frcm the active discus,
sion OF politics." Pointing 10 . box fun
Of letters, he said he was going to Try
to have oil Of them published; he had
"boiled them down. as much AZ posi-
bic, but was even now afraid ne llad TOO
many. There are letters in that ok
Mr.. Clay went on 10 say from every
prominent man III the United States
Then Mr.. Clay talked for more than
an hour Of what they contained and whas
he was going to write.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
HIS DUTY FIRST.
After that Retaliation for Insults ana Ar.
yam

NY ASCS
A lady living on Harrison avenue,
Boston, near the Albany bridge, is the
owner of a very large and intelligent
Newfoundland dog. He is a faithful,
animal, and has been trained to run on
errands and fetch up wood and coal,
which duties he PERFORMS as faithfully
as a human being. Yesterday morning
she wrote an orcer for her dinner, and
placing a silver coin inside the paper
put them In a basket, and giving it to
the dog sent him ont to the market.
He was returning with his purchase
when a gang of corner loafers called up
a few idle eurs and set them on him fol
sake of seeing what he would do.
They barked and yelped and howled
around him, biting his legs and tanks
until the blood came in places; but with
the exception of occasionally striking
at his annoyers with his feet when they
came close in front of him, the New
foundland paid no attention to his dis
agreeable companions until he
had arrived home and placed
the basket on the house steps.
After whining and scratching for a few
minutes he was relieved of mis- charge
by his mistress coming to the door. As
soon as the basket was taken from him
he turned upon his heel and walked
back leisurely with his hands in his
pockets, apparently for the sole pur-
pose of inspecting the weather. Arriv-
ing in the midst of his late antagonists
he sauntered upon one of themin a pat
ronizing sort of way, and taking him
into his capacious jaws nipped him
until there wasn't a.yell left inside him,
and then threw him against the side of
a building. By the time this was
accomplished the other ours had taken
the hint and begun to ~evacuate the side
walk in an undignified manner But
the Newfoundland was after them in
earnest. Selling one by the nape of
the neck he threw him across the bridge,
another was hurled through an open
doorway, a third was cornered at the
| door of his own residence and whipped
into submission, ard in this manner the
avenger pursued his task until the last
one had been thoroughly chastised.
| Then the master Of the field went home
as quietly as he had come, and, after
dressing his wounds by the most APPROX
ed methods o~fcanine surgery, composed
himself for sleep.--Boston Globe.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-04
rom the Philadelphia Times.

from the EnHduclphla luuts.
Henry Ward who lived at the corner
Of Moyamensing and Snyder avenues,
met his death in a horrible form recent
Iy. For some months past he had had
in his possession a large hog, which
was, during the daytime, allowed to
run In The back yard. During thenight
it was kept in Q pen in the northeastern
corner Of the yard. Some days ago the
hog developed an ugly disposition, and
protested by vicious grunts its aversion
to confinement. Several times ii
turned on its owner while being driven
to its pen, and had to be subdued with
o club. Yesterday the animal became
unusually vicious and attacked every
one who came near. Al dog that was
ct on the brute in the hope that he
would drive il to the pen was routed
and narrowly escaped death by scaling
q fve-foot picket fence.
Mr.. Ward returned home at 2 o'clock
and undertook to drive the hog into its
pen. The beast trotted ~sullenly ahead
until within a few feet ofthe gate, when
il turned, and, with q vicious snort,
charged on its owner. The man tried
to beat it of, with b stick, but was over
powered IN an instant. The hog reared
itself off its hind feet, and, throwing les
weight against the man, bore him to the
earth. 1T then sprang on him, and
With its front hoofs drawn closely to-
qether, and before the ~sroptrate man
cou1d recover his footing the hog had
Il .AMI - II M&&I.- @4.-~ - IL XIMI4-
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-08-27

At 2l0 sharp as stated by police officer Crabbel
on the morning of the 9th inst. an alarm was
given at the police station that fire was in pro-
gress in the store of p. A. Dias, located in the
brick building opposite the Bethel Church, on King
street. An alarm was rung in from ward and the
engines were soon on the spot, No being pro-
PEELED by five men. like service being per-
formed for Engine Co. No. by First Assistant
Engineer Wilson and two men, Pacific Hose No.
being absent by of lack of hose the reel.
The police officer Marcos, and others had in
the meantime awakened the proprietor and his
family, who slept over the store, but the head
way attained by the flames had cut off their re-
treat by the stairway and they were compelled
TO escipe by window onto an awning and
from thence by means Of the verandah of Wolfe
i Edwards store, to safety. Engineer Wilson,
being on the spot, quickly placed the pipemen in
position and at 22s the first stream from No 5s line
was thrown upon the FIRE, followed quickly by an
other powerful stream through No 5 line.
The headway which the fire had obtained would,
had the building been a wooden one, have been
sufficient TO have caused considerable trouble to
coufne, but happily the nature of the structure
helped to keep the destructive element in bounds
and the adjoining buildings only received seorch
ing.
The cause of the FIRE is supposed to have been
from the explosion of kerosene lamp. The loss
to Mr., Dias is about $1,000, which has
insurance of 5000; the building is insured for
5000 Happily there was no wind, and water
was plentiful.