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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Dec. II.
opened s% closed EsS
ruary opened s63s, closed SIC.
CoRN-No year. opened 4Nsc, closed 4O1sc;
op pn%s sese Closed ss 0Ssu 's' fe0r0"'y
2S31c; January, opened and closed 2s9sc; May.
opened and closed 31Ac
PoRK-December, opened So 10, closed So O7IS;
january, opened, Sl010 closed S10U71s; Febru-
airy, opened, SlO.a5, closed S1o,9,
Hoas-The market opened moderately active
and prices 56N10c higher: light grades, $500
ass; rough packing, s. .Go@sso; heavy packing
DRESSED Chickens, 7@716c per ID;
hens, &c; ROSTERS, 41a@5c: ducks, sCD16c; tur-
keys. io@io,ss; geese, 50 le g. 20 49,, ,,,. DE-.
banks esasSc; mixed lots, 4s@Soc, ali on track in
car lots: Illinois sweet potatoes, $sW@2Is
BuTrER.Fancy creamery S@SOc per ID; good
ESssMfresh-laid. a8c per dog; cold storage, 1sa
2oc; picked, 14Gt16c.
ArrLEs.choiee to fancy. si.5o@aO 90 per Dbl
seconds, $1.0O@l&
CArrLE-The week closed one Of the worst
markets of the season: 4Oa SOC lower fat cattle
bulls, S25On3OO; cows, S1.ShM3.40; stockers,
s2a5@sss; natives, $s.a5ta5.4O; Christmas fancy,
SHEEP-Holiday mutton, saoo@375; medium,
s25O@2.75; lambs, $+OoG4.'5.
Now York.
NEW YonK, Dec L.
"HEAT-S>O NiHteI, Odhuuy, uV
February, 9634c: do March, 9Sjsc.
CoRN-No. 2mixed, January, 5o14c; do Febru-
AIRY. 4914c.
OArs-No. mixed, December. 35c.
RYE-Dull.
BARLEY-Nominal
PoRK-Dull; mess, S9.75Gl 1000
LARr-$6.41 December; ST. As January.
Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. H.
WHEAr-Wet.k; cash, Sl9SG; January, &Aes
May, 92lsc.
CoRN-Slow; No. 3 40ilc
OATs-Dull; No. =, 2S4c.
klK-Dull; No. !, lO1Sc.
BARLEY-Quiet; No. Z, $3.50
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
THE CONTEST IN OHIO.
Tho Supreme Court Decides in Favor O
tho Democratic Candidates.

The Supreme Court Decides in Favor OF
the Democratic Candidates.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 14-There are a
great number of Republicans disappointed
over the decision Of the supreme court,
which was announced just before adjourn
ment Friday evening, entirely reversing the
decision Of the Hamilton county cir
cult court, in the contested election
cases from that county. The decis-
ion of the court is unanimous, with
the exception of Judge johnson, republican,
who will deliver dissenting opinion. The
court also came to decision in the man.
damus case which was instituted by the
governor and secretary of state against
Clerk Dalton, d Hamilton county, to COM
pei him to MAKE return of abstract No
of the late election, so that they might, as
the state canvassing board, complete the
count within ten days from the 1st Of
December, which is required by law. They
granted the peremptory writ and Dalton
has been notified to appear with the returns
in Columbus
This decision of the court is final, and
will dispose of the question definitely as to
who shall have the certificates. All the
Democratic candidates for the senate and
house will receive their certificates
The principal point gained by the Demo-
Gratis in the decision is the fact that the SEN
ate will be Democratic, which will prevent
the Republican legislature from redistrict
ing the state for congressional purposes,
reorganizing any of the state institu-
lions, or indulging in any other par
tisan legislation which they might desire.
Those who have made the strongest fight
against the Democratic candidate for sena-
tiicates Of election, were the Sherman sup
porters, who wished to provide against any
contingency in case there should be fight
made in opposition to his reelection.
Under the present ruling Of the court the
Republicans will have but three majority
on Joint ballot
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

Two men were killed and boy MORALLY
injured by a freight train near Altoona,
Pa, Friday evening.
"Gath'' says John Wilkes Booth was
never married, and that the story about his
wife AID children is hoax
The late John P Howard, of New York,
left $40, 900 with which to erect monument
to Lafayette at Burlington, VT
After modification, Capt Eads' Tehuan-
tepec ship-railway bill has been passed by
the Mexican congress, but has not yet been
signed by the president.
The boiler is foundry at Austin, Tex,
exploded Friday, killing two men, one Of
whom was Charles Jones, the proprietor,
and wounding two others
The Caledonia Iron Mining company,
which intends to operate near Ashland,
Wis, was incorporated Friday at Madison.
The capital stock is 81 100000
An infirm woman of 6S was held in $500
bail by the United States commissioner at
Centralia, Ills, Friday for writing obscene
letters to her sons prospective wife. 81
Reuben r. Thrall, of Rutland, Vt, is
said to be the oldest practicing lawyer liy-
ing. He recently celebrated his Goth birth
day and has several cases now on the
docket. -
Near Filson, Ills, Friday, a train on the
Illinois Midland road was ditched, q pass
enger coach and the baggage-car turning
upside down. No person was seriously In
juyed.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Feminine Credulity.

A curious tale of feminine credulity is
told by q battered stone image which
stands in the rear of tumble-down
old church on the water front of Vera
Cruz. From time immemorial it has
been believed that if q manageable
woman shall hit this image squarely in
the face with a stone she will immed-
lately obtain husband and advanta-
geous settlement for life. Evidently
the founder of the tradition was ac-
quainted with the fact that women are
not expert stone-throwers. If it were
not for this lamentable disability i'm
posed by nature the poor image would
have been demolished long ago. AS it
is, the battered face, which has lost all
semblance of features, and the heaps
Of small stones lying all about attest
the industry of the weaker sex, as well
as their good sense in desiring to be
married. -HcrG Cruz Letter TO SacrG-
mento Union.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Jane Austen's First Novel.

When Jane Austen, in the year 1903,
brought her first story, "Northanger
Abbey with nervous hesitation and
many doubts as to its intrinsic value,
to o publisher in Bath, she received
from this great critic and censor the
sum of f10-not large price. certain
ly, but sufficient to encourage her to 60
on with her literary work; and we may
imagine that she felt elated at the re-
suit of her application. The publisher,
however. on "A reperuSal of the manu-
script, does not seem to have felt either
elated or encouraged with the bargain
he had so hastily concluded. He grew
diffident as to its ultimate success, re-
gretful for the money given, and finally
he came to decision that the payment
for ''Northanger Abbey" must be look
ed on as money lost, and that to I'M
out such work would be throwing
good money after bad. And so the
manuscript was thrown aside in a
drawer and the dust settled down on
the "Northanger Abbey and the hero
and the heroine of this enchanting
book slept sleep which promised to
be the sleep of death.
But 10! at the end of years-many
long years afterward-the drawer was
opened again. Catharine Morland
awoke to life, the abbey stood up erect
and opened its windows to the sun, and
all it's inhabitants rushed forth to be
courted and admired, and to sun them
selves in the warmth of q popularity
which has never waned, and to show
themselves to public whose admira-
ton has not been for a moment, but for
all time.
But it was not the Bath publisher
who gave the great work to the world.
No; his eye had not yet recognized the
lustrous star, the advent of which he
might have been the first to announce
to the world and to attach his name
with honor to its appearance. His
vision must have been faulty or dimness
must have gathered on his lens. He
opened his drawer at the end of all
these long years and took out ''North-
anger Abbey not to gaze at it with
eyes Of newly-awakened interest and
delight, but to return it to the hands of
the author and to replace in the drawer
the f10 which he had originally been
rash enough to believe it worth.
He had scarcely, however, thus re-
couped himself for his previous folly,
and parted with the MS, than he dis
covered his terrible mistake. Mr..
Henry Austen, Miss Austen's brother,
who had called at his office to try and
effect this arrangement, had no sooner
regained possession of the despised
MS. than he made the unhappy pub
Usher acquainted with the fact that the
lady who had written "Northanger
Abbey and placed it originally at his
disposal, was no other than the Miss
Austen, author of .'Pride and Preju-
dice," Sense and Sensibility,' and
other tales, and with whose name the
whole literary world was now ringing;
and who, at the zenith of her fame,
had not wished to leave one of the
greatest efforts of her genius moldering
in drawer, alike unappreciated by
the purchaser and unknown to the
public.
So "Northanger Abbey was at last
given to the world and was read and
delighted in by thousands of her COM
patriots, and will be read and delighted
in to the end of all time. -CasseLt's.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
THE
Chicago,
. Milwaukee
& ST. Paul
RAILWAY

MALL w "a II
Is the Fast Mail Short Line from
st. Paul and Minneapolis via La
Crosse and Milwaukee to Chicago
and all points in the Eastern States
and Canada. It is the only line
under one management between
st. Paul and Chicago, and is the
Finest Equipped Railway in the
Northwest. It is the only line
running Sleeping Cars with lux.
urious smoking rooms, and the
finest Dining Cars in the world,
via the famous "Riyer Bank
Route" along the shores of Lake
Pepin and the beautiful Mississippi
River, to Milwaukee and Chicago.
Its trains connect with those of
the Northern lines in the Grand
Union Depot at St. Paul. No
Change of Cars of any class be.
tween st. Paul and Chicago. For
through tickets, time. tables, and
full information, apply to any
coupon ticket agent in the North
west. r. Miller, General Man.
ager; J. F. Tucker, Asst General
Manager; A. ". HI. Carpenter,
Gen'l Pass. Agent; Geo. Fl. Heaf.
ford, Asst Gen'l Pass. Agent, Mil.
waukee, Wis. w. FL. Dixon, Asst
General Passenger Agent, St.
Paul, Mimi.
w. NJ. ROMINE, Ticket Agent,
Norris Mimi
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Ward Quick ut Figures.

A feature Of the proceedings is the
rapidity with which Ward manipulates
figures. Being handed the plaintiff
exhibits of checks by Gen. Hubbard,
half dozen papers in bunch, Ward
lifts them one by one and at the same
time jots down the figures on them,
adds them up almost before the last pa
per drops from his hand, and announces
the total as corresponding with the sum
called for. BY his celebrity he at least
expedites proceedings. After going
over some eighty of the one hundred
and twenty checks representing SO, 0O0,-
600 Of transactions, Ward was excused
for the day.-AeW IorG Tribune.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

Gen. Daniel Dustin, of Sycamore, Col L.
T. Dickson of Danville, and Major Joseph
r. Rowland, of Quincy, were Friday ap-
pointed by Governor Oglesby trustees of the
Illinois Soldiers home
In fifteen-ball pool contest for $500 at
Boston Friday night, J. L. Malone, of Chi
cago, was beaten by Peter Rogers, of Phila-
delphia, who was allowed odds Of two and
three balls in alternate games.
At the time of the great strike in 1877 Mr..
Vanderbilt made plain business statement
to the employees on his roads, and then
ordered the regular 10 per cent. reduction.
OF the 1900 employees only 500 expressed
dissatisfaction. They protected the prop
erty, and Aug the millionaire manager
sent gratuity Of $1O0, 900 for. pro rata dis
tribution among them, with the announce
ment "Your pay will be increased the mo-
ment the business of the country will
justify it." a
Five years ago syndicate in Detroit,
comprising Senator Palmer and others, con-
tracted to pay Warner Newberry 81, 600 per
year until the death of his aunt, Mrs.
Walter L. Newberry, of Paris, IN considera-
ton of $780, 900 to be repaid from the estate
in Chicago. Milton H Butler paid $40, 600
for the claims of Edward II. and Walter A.
Newberry and is to receive therefore about
$250,OO0. Jesse H. Farwen and George
Jerome also purchased an interest in the
estate, and are certain of from $4,000 to
$1,000 Mr.. Butler says the estate owns
nearly the entire town of Green Bay.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
COAL MINERS TROUBLES.
Making Arrangements to Settle All Di

Making Arrangements to Settle All Dis
putes by Arbitration.
CHICAGO, Dec. 14-Col w. p Rend left
Saturday evening for Pittsburg, Pa, where
joint national meeting of coal-mine oper-
ators and miners will be held next Tuesday.
This will be the largest and most important
meeting of the kind ever held. All
of the leading operators of mines
will be present, and the min
ers will be represented by authorized
delegates from districts or states. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin, of the national organization, viii
probably represent the miners of this state
The object OF the meeting Is to arbitrate tho
difficulties between ;, the operators and the
men. and to establish q: national scale OF
wages, together with a schedule of the cost
Of miners supplies, which shall govern the
operators and the men in every mine in the
United States, and to which all shall bind
themselves to adhere
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

western Pennsylvania claimants to Harlem
Commons, N. Y, was held at Newcastle,
Pa, Friday, and was attended 10y lao ineal
d. endants of Luke Coover Walter II.
Shupe, of New York, was present, and
explained the scheme of the syndi-
cate 1t was decided to form separate
organization of the heirs in this section,
and a cooperative committee was appointed
to represent them in the syndicate meetings
in New York and Pittsburg. 1t was also
suggested that the number of shares be re-
duced to 1000, at $40 per share.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
the sANBy souDAN.
The Ens,ish Government wan Send Forth

The Enklish Government wall Send Forth
Another Expedition-Foreign Notes.
LONDON, Dec. 1A-oHicial dispatches from,
the Soudan bring accounts Of increasing
activity amoag the followers of the mahdi
and the British The British optposts at
Geniss are harrassed night and day, and a
large increase of the force is necessary to
check the Arab advance.
1t has for some time been pointed out by
military critics that the abandonment of
Dongola was a mistake which would have to
be repaired. The activity and daily in
creasing strength of the rebel forces have at
last attracted the attention of the govern
ment to the serious state of affairs in Egypt,
and to the fact that the present British force
in Egypt is totally inadequate to cope with
the army Of the new mahdi. Hence it Is an
nounced that the government has decided
to send new expedition to the Soudan,
and it is being prepared for immediate de-
parture for Egypt az
German-American Citizens In Germany.
BERLIN, Dec. 14-The Vossiche- Zeitung
publishes letter from Schleswig in refer
once to President Cleveland's message. In
abiding to that part Of the message regard
ing an apparent tendency on the part Of the
imperial government to extend the scope of
the residential restrictions to which return
ing naturalized citizens Of German origin
are asserted to be liable under the laws OF
the empire, the writer says:
"The German government treats alike,
regardless of where naturalized, all Germans
who emigrate in order to escape military
service and then return to Germany The
government will not tolerate American or
Danish colonies within its territory. The
Schleswig expulsion edict Is warning for
those liable to military service if seized with
desire to emigrate and then return to
Germany as naturalized citizens of another
country" - =
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Will Try to Change the Ruling.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 14-The Even
ing Star says: The ruling of Commissioner
Sparks, of the general land Office, suspend
ing the issuance Of land patents in certain
sections of the west, which embraces Dakota
territory, has created no little excitement
in that region. Complaining letters
from settlers affected by the rul-
ing are coming to senator's The COM
plant is that the commissioners action
makes the innocent suffer with the guilty
that it imposes the same hardship and in
convenience upon those who procured home
steads honestly as upon those who resorted
to dishonest methods. A strong effort will
probably be made to have the ruling
changed so as to apply to persons known to
have entered their lands in an irregular
manner
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Judge Coburn, of Indiana, Removed

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 14-Another
friend of Stephen W. Dorsey has been re-
moved from the United States bench
Judge John Coburn, of Indiana. A press
dispatch says Coburn closed his court at
Glendiye in the midst of trial and made a
speech saying that he had just received a
notice of removal for offensive partisanship
representing that the administration had
hit him very Unexpectedly. At
torney General Garland says that
Judge Coburn had no occasion
for such a dramatic display, because he was
aware that charges hud been preferred and
had been furnished with copy Mr. Gar
land declines to say what the charges were
further than that they were not based on
political grounds, and were considered by
the president as sufficient to justify the re-
movaL His successor will be Judge Pollard,
of Indiana, who was warmly Endorsed by
the late vice president for a iudoeship
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
The Work of the House.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. A. - The
speaker laid before the house Saturday
large number of executive commu-
nications including the annual reports of
the attorney general, the secretary of
the treasury, and comptroller of the cur
rency, and they were laid on the table for
the present. Buck of Connecticut pre-
sented resolution of the Connecticut legis-
lature asking that a suitable law be passed
Tor the entertainment and counting of the
electoral vote. Laid ON the table. At 1920
she house adjourned.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
The Presidential Succession Bill.

WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. 14-The senate
committee on privileges and elections held
another meeting Saturday, and after max
ing some verbal amendments to Mr.. Hoar's
presidential succession BILL authorized it to
be reported to the Senate with favorable
recommendation. The amendments made
are unimportant, and the bill
which will be reported back, win
be substantially the same as the one which
was passed by the senate last year. There
will be an effort made to pass the bill imme-
diately, but of course the subject is one upon
which many statesmen desire the opinions,
hence it is quite likely that the greater part
of the week will be taken up in its discussion.
There is, however, no opposition to the pass
age Of the bill.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Reduction of Money Order Fees.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 12-The post
master general has made an order fixing the
fees on international money orders on and
after the LIST of next January as follows:
For sums not exceeding $40, 10 cents; over
BIO and not exceeding $40, 90 cents; over
s20 and not exceeding $50, 30 cents; over
B0 and not exceeding $40, 40 cents; over $40
and not exceeding $50, 50 cents. This is
reduction of one-third of the present rates
paid by remitters for such orders
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Emperor william Is Well.

BERLIN, Dec. 14-Contrary to the ru-
mors aioat, Emperor William is we'll An
influential courtier who had half an hours
conversation with the emperor Friday found
his majesty in excellent health and spirits,
though he complained that he had been
troubled with a fit of coughing and with
sleeplessness during the previous night
Prince Bismarck has had slight recurrence
IF Inflammation, from which he has been
lately suffering. There is no danger,
out the chancellor is obliged to keep his
nom
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Drowned Dead.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 14.-Mr. Thomas
Hutchinson, chief of the pay office marine
corps, dropped dead Saturday afternoon at
o'clock of apoplexy, at the marine bar
racks. He was 80 years old
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
ABm to Repeal Civil serv,c. law


WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 14-At the first
opportunity Representative Seney of Ohio,
will introduce his bill repeating the civil
service law In an interview last night Mr.
Seney was asked in regard to the bill and
said: sit will be very short. It don't take
many words to repeal a law. 1t will not be
half a dozen lines in length. 1t will simply
say, BE it enacted that an act entitled, etc,
be and the same is hereby repealed"
How do the members of congress feel on
this Subfect:" was asked
''Oh, a great many feel as do. but do
not know whether the bill can be passed or
not That can only be told by trying
The anti-civil service members of congress
appear of have reached the conclusion that
their former demand for clean sweep was
a mistake Several consultations have re-
Gently been held on the subject by the oppo-
nents of the civil service law and it has
been agreed to advocate the removal of all
clerks who were in Office prior to the enact
ment of the civil service law and that such
clerks, with the general public,
stand examination before the civil
service commission and that in
making appointments the commission select
an equal number from each political party
to fill the places thus vacated They hold
that all officers above the rank of clerk
should be in political accord with the party
in power. These views are understood to
have been laid before members of the cab
met with the view of influencing the admin
istration to so regulate the civil service
rules to bring about the results advocated
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

ROME, Dec. 1.-THE pope it reported to
be rather better, although he is still suffering
from overwork, which has long prevented
him from taking sufficient rest At the
vatican some anxiety is felt, owing to the
holy fathers great age
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Parson Downs Indicted

NEW YoRK, Dec. 1.-THE grand jury has
found an indictment IN three counts asainst
che Rev. w. w. Downs and Annie Taber.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

This new institution, lately established in
Morris, Stevens County, Minnesota, Is stu.
ated in a healthy and delightful spot near
Lake Crystal, and has for its object the train
ing of young ladies in all the branches OF a
refined and useful education.
The school year has two sessions Of five
months each. The first commencing the
first Monday in September, and the second
the first Monday in February.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16
Liable to unsettle y;t,as.

FARGO, Oak, Dec. 14.-The Argus reports
the opinion of able attorneys to the effect
that if the reported decision of the United
States supreme court restraining the treas
urer of Trail county, Oak, from
collecting taxes against Northern Pa
cific ground that has not secured
title because the cost of survey is not
paid, is correct, it will unsettle the title to
some Of the best city property and greatest
wheat farms of north Dakota. It would
virtually determine the celebrated Paronta,
case, wherein haf-breed claimed a large
section of the city, in favor of his estate
It would also unsettle the title to the lands
of the Darlymple and Grandin farms. A
full text of the decision is awaited with
mich anxiety rea-
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-12-16

The Harlem Claimants.
PITTsBUHG. Dec. 14.--A neetino oz tbs