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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-28

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then apply the manure, which fork in
next SPRING Er.
The Dairy tells us that cement floor
is not the best for dairy, as it ahsorbs
the drippings of milk and becomes foul
matched plankS, with tight Joints and
lure Whatever drippings fall from the
churn may be washed off such floor
without leaving any traces. Brick is
quite as absorbent as cement. A flag
stone floor. with close joints set in
cement, is the best of all.
HalpS Journal of Health says a towel
folded several times and dipped in hot
water and quickly wrung and then APP
Piled over the seat of the pain in tooth
ache or neuralgia will generally afford
prompt relief. Headaches almost al
ways yield to the simultaneous applica-
ten of hot water to the feet and the
back of the neck.
Take good, sweet cider, direct from
/ the press, boil and skim it until thor
oughly clarified, and no more; ana an
while hot put into bottles and jugs, NIL
ing them up to the cork. Cork tight;
/ Set in dark, cool place You Will ma
it to be the best cider YOU ever drank,
clear, pure and good as wine.
A physician who had seen over forty
thousand cases of smallpox says ne
never met with a case of the disease IN
a person with red hair. En-. we
always have had personal opinion OF
the advantages OF red hair. Now we
are convinced.
Whole cloves are now used to exter
inmate the merciless and industriou:
moth. Its said they are more etfectua
as destroying agent than eithel
tobacco, camphor or cedar shayings.
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a proanactirs Calico Boom

Henry NJ Stanley, the explorer, has
been calculating what the effect on the
calico trade would be if the people of
the Congo. who are now clothed chiefly
in sunshine can be induced to wear
American and English print. He says
that if every inhabitant of the Congo
basin should have one Sunday dress
every year more than 300, 600 yards
Of cotton cloth or calico would be re-
'quired; If two Sunday and four every
dav dresses were used the enormous to-
tai of 3. 500. coo, 900 yards, of the APP
proximate value of $50 ,000, 600 would be
required. He estimates that trade OF
$3.50, 900, 900 annually could be secured,
and said that it was the easiest matter
in the world to induce Africans to wear
cotton, when the basin of the Congo
would be more profitable to England
than even Ind Ia.
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Foreign Flashes.

/ At Montreal J. B. Tabelle, dry goods, has
assigned Liabilities $4,000
The prince of Wales will not ask parliament
for an allowance for his eldest son, Prince
Albert Victor, until the young man marries.
The liabilities of Gifin Bros, of Montreal,
are $4,000; amount due the British bank
alone, sl95,0o0, Of which is secured sl37, 600.
LIE Matin of Paris, says that Messrs. Bennett
and Maekay are at the head of a syndicate
/ formed to purchase the island Of Cuba for
sl00 GO0,000
In the Catholic church of Wexford, Ireland,
collections Of twopence on the pound on valua-
ton have been raised for fund to provide
pay for Irish members of parliament
Prince Alexis Tango of Japan, who has been
a member of the household of Baron De Strive,
Russian minister in Washington, for some
years, died Of typhoid fever
A story comes from porsetshire, Eng, of
the revenge of an enraged parent for dis
tasteful marriage contracted By his son The
father is the rector of one Of the most aristo-
cratic churches in the south of England
When the rector heard of his sons marriage,
he became furiously angry and vented his
spirit by shooting the favorite horses and dogs
which his son had leftat the rectory.
The Russian imperial council has rejected a
proposal made by Count Tolstoi, minister Of
the interior, that the government prohibit the
heads of peasant families from dividing their
lands among the male members thus giving
them power to obtain suffrage and sit in the
common councils. Count Tostois proposal
grew ont of fear that tine peasants would in
crease the opposition to the government
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General News Items.

Nearly all the iron manufacturers at the
East are reducing wages.
WB. Dean delivered to Vice President Ed
munds the electoral vote for Minnesota
None of the ex-rsbels in the senate confirm
shermans story of Jef Davis proposed die
tatorship.
From Springfield, Mass, comes the story of a
corpse revived on the dissecting table of the
Albany n. Y, Medical college.
George F. Deitz, of Glen Rock. Pa, dealer in
grain produce and fertilizers, has assigned
Liabilities, $4,000; nominal assets, s6ooo0
At Evansville, Ind, John c. Fares, dealer in
hats, assigned after executing mortgages to
the amount of $4,000. Liabilities, $4,000
The trouble over the county seat of Sphinx
county, Oak, is getting to be so serious that
Gov Pierce has asked Gen. Terry for aid, and
has ordered half dozen companies of militia
under arms
Il. J. Goodwin & Co, New York, dealers in
woolsns have assigned to ]. H. Bird. Prefer
ences, $4,000 The firm enjoyed the conf
dence of the trade and has been regarded
sound
Wescott q Co, brokers, Syracuse. n. Y, as
signed Liabilities $4,000 So also did
spencer D. Richardson, dry goods, of the
same place. for $50 600 All due to the failure
OF Wilkinson & Co.
At Angus, Iowa, a serious riot is feared, and
the governor has ordered some companies OF
militia to the scene OF the disturbance The
trouble grow. out Of the attempt Of the coal
compan les to fill the places Of the striking LII
uers with new men
There Is considerable talk of the prospects
AZ snothar strike Of telegraph operators Ac-
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Telescopes.

From the Edinburgh Review
The largest refracting telescope as
yet actually completed has a light-gath-
ering surface twenty inches in
diameter. This is the great Vienna
equatorial, admirably turned out by
Mr.. Grubb, of Dublin in 1880, but still
awaiting the commencement of its ex-
ploring career 1t will, however, soon
he surpassed by the Pulkowa telescope,
ordered more than four years ago on
behalf of the Russian government from
Alvan Clark & Sons, Of Cambridge,
Mass Still further will it be surpassed
by the coming Lick refractor. 1t is
safe to predict that the optical cham
pionship of the world is at least for the
next few years, secured to this gigantic
instrument, the completion of which
may be looked for in the immediate fu-
ture. 1t will have clear aperture Of
three feet. A disk of flint glass for the
object lens, 50. Is inches across, and ITO
Kilograms in weight, was cast at the es-
adjustment of NJ Fell, in Paris, curly
in 1882. Four days were spent and
eight tons of coal consumed In the cast
ing of this vast mass of fiawless crystal /;
it took calendar month to cool, and
cost 60, 900. 1t may be regarded as the
highest triumph so far achieved in the
art of optical glassmaking. A refract-
ing telescope three feet in aperture
collects rather more light than a specu-
lum of four feet In this quality, then,
the Lick instrument will have, beside
the Rosse leviathan, which for many
reasons may be considered to be out of
the running, but ono rival. And over
this rival-the rty-eight inch reflector
of tie Melbourne Observatory-it will
have all the advantages of agility and
robustness. so to speak, which its sys-
tenn of construction affords, while the
exquisite definition for which Alvan
Clark is famous will, presumably, not
be absent.
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ueelectsa plsinfectant.

When the household of our grand
mothers was threatened with infection
the common practice was to sprinkle
birthstone on hot shovel or on hot
Goals on shovel and carry the burning
result through the house. But now
this simple method of disinfecting has
gone out Of fashion without any good
and sufficient reason. The principal
reason is neither good nor sufficient,
viz: that no one can patent it and sell
it in twenty-five and fifty emit bottles
on the 18th of September last NJ. d
Abbadie read a paper at the French
Academy on Marsh feyers," and stated
that in the dangerous regions of Afri-
can river-mouths immunity from such
fevers is often secured by sulphur fun
ieations on the naked body. Also that
the Sicilian workers in low ground
sulphur mines suffer much less than the
rest Of the surrounding population from
intermittent fevers. NJ Fouque has
shown that Zephyria ION the volcanic
island of Milo or Melos, the most west
erlv of the Cyclades,) which had a
population of forty Thousand when it
was thecepter of sulphur mining opera
tions. became nearly depopulated by
marsh fever when the sulphur mining
| was moved farther east and the emana-
tions prevented by mountain from
reaching the town. Other similar
csses were stated.-Halls Journal OF
| Health.
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Calvin Beal, business man of Tacoma,
Wash, while crazy, attempted to kill Annie
Griggs, telegraph operator
Judson Garrison, a teamster, was arrested at
Plymouth, Pa, accused of the murder of Philip
Callander prominent and wealthy farmer of
Ross township.
Neil McKeague, recently acquitted for muir
der in Chicago, was arrested at Thorold, Ont,
for an attempted outrage at the American hotel
there on Fanny Delaware, a a clairvoyant from
New York.
Lawyer Corneilson, who cowhided Judge
Reid, of the superior court causing the latter to
commit suicide from shame, was sentenced to
three years in the penitentary by the court at
Mount Sterling, KY
George Brilland, under arrest for a murder
Gus assault upon E. B. Case a well known
Chicago insurance agent, a few weeks ago, has
made confession, in which he says he mis-
took Case for burglar.
E. A. Ramsay and j. s Crooks, members of
the suspended brokers' firm of E. A. Ramsay
4 Co. Springfield, Mass have been arrested
On indictments for embezzlIng stocks held as
collateral, and cash given for the purchase of
stocks.
Mrs. William Humphrey, a rich California
widow, was attacked in broad daylight on Thir-
teenth streeth, New York, by footpads, who tried
to choke her INTO giving up reticule contain
Ing $500, but she chung to it bravely until help
came.
During the recent robbery of a train on the
Little Rock road, the leader of the gang gave
this Characteristic order: "Hold on, there
don't injure those ladies or take anything from
them; don forget that my mother is lady,
even if her son is a id scoundreL"
Daniel H Slocum, of Otsego. Mich, while
crazy with drink, attacked William Heckson,
the bartender, and stabbed John Morter, by
stander, both probably fatally. Slocum then
dashed across the street into the meat market
seized meat ak, and chopped off the butch
er's finger. He was arrested after violent
struggle.
Ramon Hernandez and Miguel Altimveans,
Mexioans, quarreled over senorita at Oak
vile, Tex, and decided to settle it with duel
at ten PAGES, Colts reyolyeTs. Altimveans was
instantly killed and Hernandez wounded in the
shoulder He surrendered to the authorities
Officers are after the seconds, who fled to Mex
leo.
In the United States circuit court of New York
Thomas Watson and William Girdwood, com
posing the firm of Watson Girdwood and
William Liddell, manufacturer of Irish linens,
living in Ireland. were called to the bar to re-
ceive sentence for having made fraudulent en-
tries in invoices at the custom house, crime
to which they pleaded guilty in November,
when they were placed under bail of $4,000
each No one responded and the judge or
dered the bonds forfeited The three have
gone to Ireland
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It is stated, apparently upon good au-
thority, that among the more important
questions acted upon by the late Cath
Ole Plenary Council Mt Baltimore, and
formulated In DEGREES, it Is definitely
determined that while there will be no
general change in the status of the
Church in this country there viii be a
partial adoption of regulations prevail
ing in countries under canonical law in
regard to the removal of parish priests.
One-tenth of the pastors IN each diocese
will be irremovable except for cause,
whish the Bishop must satisfy at &c
elesiasticaI court is sufficient to justify
theremoval of pastor. A court viii be
constituted to each diocese of SIX of the
most suitable clergymen, known as con-
sulters. whose tenure will also not be
subject to the pleasure Of the Bishop.
Another important decree changes the
mode of selecting three names OF clergy
men from whom the Pope appoints a
Bishop when there is a vacancy IN a
diocese. These names are now selected
by the Bishops of the province. This
viii be changed by the decree, and the
consulters and irremovable rectors viii
select the three candidates from whom
she Bishop viii be taken. A uniform
catechism will also be adopted.
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rraveling co11eotor Murdered.

Winnipeg Special: Chief of Police Murray
has received advices from Chief of Police
Steele of Golden City, confirming the report Of
the murder of Baird, the travelling collector Of
Eddy, Hammond 4 Co, Of Missoula, Mont,
and the robbery of 81, 500 of that firms money.
1t seems that Baird and q packer named Harry
were travelling on the Gootenay trail, at point
about twenty four miles from the Golden
City. They met a tail, powerfully built
man who, without a word, drew on
Baird, killing him instantly. Harry
was also shot and wounded in the hip. Not
withstanding that he closed with his antag-
onist and had desperate encounter, which
lasted nearly fifteen minutes, Weakened by
loss of blood, and smarting with pain from the
hip wound, he was finally overpowered His
antagonist, who was very powerful man, af-
ter kicking him and leaving him helpless
turned to his dead master and rihed his pockets
Harry afterward revived sufficiently to ride tc
the nearest camp, where assistance was pro
cured and from whence mounted men started
in pursuit of the murderer.
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Pan Sherman and Ieff Davis.

st. Louis Special: Gen. Sherman, in answer
to question by reporter as to whether he IN
tended to reply to the letter of Jefferson Davis
recently published in this city, said he might
do so at some future time but he should con-
suit his own convenience; that Mr. Davis has
not addressed him, but the St Louis Republi-
can; and that if he made any reply it could on
" be through the war department Hefurther
said he did not suppose any reporter was pres
ent at the Frank Blair post the night
hespoke, as the Grand Army is an organization
only for the social interchange of personal
memories Still, he admitted the report pub
lished contained much truth, but not all. He
has most of louisiana papers, he said, TO make
good his assertions that the civil war was
forced on the people of louisiana by consplr-
ators in Washington, and that during the pro-
gress af the Rebellion Mr. Davis changed his
views of the doctrine of secession, and threat
ened to use force in case any state in the con-
federacy should attempt what was then known
as separate state action" The general has
already sent to Washington some letters anG
papers bearing on the case, but as to their pub
LEGATION, he stated the authorities there must
be consulted.
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The business men and property hold
ers of AIillbank met and organized a
Citizens Protective association for the
purpose of guarding against further in
cendiary attempts. 1t was resolved
that volunteer patrol of business men
should go on duty each night and that
all suspicious characters should be
promptly arrested. The city council
was requested to offer a reward for the
arrest and conviction of incendiarles.
This evening the council met and offered
a reward of $500 for the arrest and con-
viction Of the person or persons who
fred the town on Nov. II, and further
reward OF $3.50 for the arrest and con-
viction of any person detected at incen-
diariasm.
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morals is very detrimental.

The shipments of Southern pig-iron
to the Eastern states where it under
sells Pennsylvania iron is striking
fact connected with the conditions OF
the iron trade. The Pennsylvania iron
makers say they cannot afford to make
pig-iron for less than S1S ton, and the
price ought not to go below $40 ton
but Tennessee furnace owners say they
can make it for So ton and get a
profit. When rates of transportation
are low. Tennessee iron can be shipped
to Cincinnati and even to Pittsburg and
sold at a profit. Ohio iron sent to the
East undersells that made in Pennsyl-
yania. and Tennessee iron sent to Gin
cinnati undersells that made IN Ohio.
The inevitable result of these prices
must be, in the end, to transfer the
business of iron making to those re-
gions where iron can be made cheapest
the districts in the South where ore
and coal are found alongside, and lab
or and living are cheap.
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RAILROAD II! THE WORLD.
Let it be forever remembered that the
ChiCagO&NOrth- Western
CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO
II also operates the best route and the
short line between
gs!..g. and s:,?alI I Mha'asSGs

Milwaukee, La Crosse Sparta, Madison,
Fort Howard Green Bay, Wis, WinOna,
Owatonna, MankatO, Mimi, Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, Webster City, Alg0na. Gin
ton, Marshalltown Iowa, freeport, Elgln,
Rockford, H.. are amongst its 800 local
stations on its lines.
Among a few Of the numerous points
of superiority enjoyed by the patrons OF
this road are its DAY COACHES which
are the finest that human art and inge-
nuity can create; its PALATIAL SLEEP
ING OARS, which are models Of comfort
and elegance; its PALACE DRAWING
ROOM CARS. which are unsurpassed by
any; and it's widely celebrated.
NORTH WESTERN DINING CARS
the like Of which are not run by any
other road anywhere. In short, IL is as
serted that IT IS THE BEST EQUIP-
PED ROAD IN THE WORLD.
All points of interest North, Northwest
and West Of Chicago, business centres,
summer resorts and noted hunting and
fishing grounds arc accessible by the
various branches of this Jad.
1t owns and controls over 5000 miles Of
road and has over four hundred passen-
ger conductors constantly caring for its
millions Of patrons.
| Ask your ticket agent for tickets via
#, this route, AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticket agents sell them. 1t
costs no more to travel on this route, that
| gives first-class accommodations, than it
does to 60 by the poorly equipped roads.
For maps, descriptive circulars and
/ summer resort papers, or other informa-
ton not obtainable at your local ticket
office write To the
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Failures OF Last Week.

There were SIG failures i'll the United States
reported to Bradstreets during the week end
ing 18th, against 296ln the preceding week and
249 go and 165 in the correspondence weeks Of
1888, 1882 and 1881 respectively. About 81 per
cent. were those of small traders whose CAPT.
tai was less than S., GEO. Among those report
ed embarrassed We're:
Opdyke 4 Co, bankers; H. J. Goodwin &
| Co, wholesale wooden; George b. Skinner
Co, silk manufacturers, New York city. Wiki
inson & Co, bankers Westcott & Co., bankers
and S. d. Richardson, dry goods, Syracuse, N.
Y. Peter H. Mitchell q Co, bankers, Scheme
vus, N. Y. w. & +. III. Whitmore, oils, Boston,
and j. Case, Pho company, Racine, Wis.
SPECIAL dispatches to Bradstreets from lead
ing trade centers report the holiday purchases
are exhibiting contrast with the inactivity
previously noted, yet the volume of such sales
is almost uniformly below the total of 1888.
Aside from the continued firmness in prices
of raw cotton, and with the exception of q
slightly improved distribution of goods at Bos-
ton, Memphis, Wilmington and Savannah, gen.
eral trade at all points is at as low an ebb as
ever.
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cording to the statement Of operators, orders
have recently been issued at different points
through the country cutting of extra pay for
extra work, and compelling operators to worn
Sundays without pay
At Lafayette, Ind, at Col R. 6. Ingersolri
lecture on orthodoxy, when the lecturer haze
finished one of his fercer passages, ex-stah
Senator John A Stein, one OF Ingesoll's admir-
ers, arose in his seat and shouted so that the
house rung: Colonel, protest against sucl
blasphemy" ''Go out, them" shouted Col In
gersoll
The Mint of Philadelphia, Ohio, reports two
attempts were made lately to palm of spurious
bullion. An analysis revealed an ingenious de-
vice for the deception of parties dealing in gold
bullion. The grains found were nothing more
nor less than steel filings, and to give them the
appearance of the grains of the precious met
al they were covered with fine gold which was
made to adhere by the use of turpentne, The
gold on bogus grains amounted in value 10
about 81 an ounce.
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1t is reported that great reduction
of wheat acreage will be made the COM
ing year almost all over the world. 1t
is known that the winter wheat acreage
in this country is considerably less than
last year. 1t is quite probable that the
glut of wheat this year and correspond
ngly low prices will not occur next
year, and that the evil may correct it
self. Those who restrict their acreage
next spring, in the northwest, may
nave occasion to regret their lack OF
confidence in the future.
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SANTA CLAUS.

voice from out the northern sky:
On the wings of the limitless winds fly
swifter than thought over mountain and vale
City and moerland, desert and dalel
From the north to the south, from the east {.
the west
hasten regardless of slumber or rest;
Oh nothing YOU dream of can fly so fast
As on the wings Of the wintry blast!
There's never home so low, no doubt,
But IN my flight can find il out;
Nor hut so hidden but | can see
The shadow cast by the lone roof treei
There's never a home so proud and high
That am constrained to pass it by,
Nor heart so happy il may not be
Happier still when best by me!
What is my nane2 All. who can tell,
Though in every land tits a magic spell
Men call me that and they call me this,
1et the different names are the same, wis.,
Gift-bearer TO all the world am l.
JOY giyer, Light brInger, wherever fly;
But the name / bear in the courts above,
My trnest and hottest name, is-Loye!
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A Mcther,s Terrible Crime.

What Cheer, Iowa Special: Mr.. j. W.
Schultz, the husband and father, is the miller
at Thornburg, a town on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern. In fair circumstances. In
the morning he arose as usual and started the
fires. Mrs. Schultz soon after arose and COM
menced preparations for breakfast and wash
ing. When all were up Mr. Schultz went out
to milk and to attend to the chores He
had been out but ten minutes when his son, a
lad about seven years by his first wife, came to
the door and called him. He went in, when
the terrible sight met his eyes. Weltering in
its own blood in the cradle, lay his seven
months babe, dead, its throat cut By its side,
on her knees, was his wife, in the throes OF
death, her throat also cut These trans
actions were in the front or sitting room
Going further back into the kitchen he saw
upon the floor his little two-year old boy IN
a pool OF blood, dead The horrible deed
had been committed with razor. She had
first killed the boy in the kitchen, then, as told
by the older boy, who was rocking the babe,
came into the sitting room, picked up the babe
aud cut its throat The boy in amazement said:
Mamma what did you do that for? But with
ont reply she dropped upon her knees and
cut her own throat She lived about half an
hour. but was unable afterward TO speak No
cause is assigned for the terrible act