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The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
THE pITH OF THE NEWS
Washington usv,.

Somebody at6Washington seems disposed to
worry because the electoral votes of the states
IRE not coming promptly to hand.
Congressman Whiting Of Massachusetts
claims that there is no authenticated case Of
the introduction Of contagion through rags.
Tn treasury department order concerning
the importation Of old rags is said to have
crippled the rag trade, and prices will 30 up
The reported charges against Sergeant Otto
Holtnorth, Of the signal service, were pre-
ferred on Monday by Capt 2. H. Ray, IN charge
Of the o2amining division, and were forwarded
". Gen. Hazcn to Lieut. Gen. Sheridan for
action. h9ltnorth is on duty in the meteoro-
logical division.
Among senator's there is q kind of under
'tanding that tho house bill passed recently
making the agricultural a executive department
nd the commissioner Of agriculture o member
4 the cabinet, will be allowed to sleep the sleep
hat knows no waking, which was its fate at
previous sessions of congress.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Rich Gold Fields in Georgia.

A special from Spring Place, Ga, says: The
discovery Of large veins of gold oa Fort noun.
tain has now been supplement- by the discov.
cry Of silver in wonderful yell, in consequences
OF which there is great excitement i'll that sec
ton, aud men are docking thers from all parts
known is on the land of MI. Tyler, ssyen miles
from tins place and eisLt,en from Dalton,
which Is the nearest poin Ito the railroad. A
shaft, six feet deep, four wide aad twenty long,
old miner. The 'lead'' is at least 1900 feet
wide, 800 deep and twenty eight miles long, be.
ing the same that is now worked at Ducktown,
Tenn. Here orc WAS found at five feet from
in the famous sCcmstock" of Nevada, ~assaying
from $50 to $1,000 ger ton. 1t is said to ID
more advantageousfy situated than any minein
the west. 1t will drain itself to a depth of 900
feet, has a water supply sufficient to operate
esaary.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Nuggets OF Foreign News.

At Paris Madame Francey killed Architect
3risbard because he forced his attentions up
N her.
Grimm, the body physician of Emperor Will
lam, and the originator Of the army sanitary
,ystam, died recently.
England has secured Italy's adhension to her
Egyptian policy in return for the support of
Great Britain to Italy's scheme for colonizing
;he Red Sea.
Ingalls,, Philips & Co., wharingers, OF Lon
don, have failed. Liabilities, e2OO, OOO; assets
vii exceed that amount Tn firm was short
$4,000 barrels of petroleum.
The British Medical Journal states that
Queen Victoria and the duchess of Albany will
shortly visit Cannes, where Prince Leopold
died last March.
1t is stated that Queen Victoria desires the
'pening OF subscriptions for the poor of the
arge English cities, and that Gladstone is un.
Filling to admit the extent of the distress pre-.
FAILING.
In consequence of the students of Berlin un.
iversity holding forbidden meetings in sym.
pathy with Socialists. the rector appeals te
them to respect the laws and submit to the
rules Of the university.
The North German Gazette has an official
advising the abandonment of the scheme t<
raise a publicfund to pay for an assistant 70,
Bismarck. 1t says the factions of the reichs.
tag united by common hatred Of the chancellor
darA not again refuse the credit solicited by
the government.
London Truth asserts that an important re-
suit of the recent conference at Skierniwice be.
tween the amnerors Of Germany and Austris
and the car Of Russia was the arrangement
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03

Of an alliance between the Romanor and Ho.
henzollsrn houses, whichis to be accomplished
in due time by the marriage Of the czareIitch,
Nicholas ~Alexandrovitch Of Russia, to one OF
the younger daughters of the Crown Prince
Frederick William of Germany.
Eighty-fve thousead Chinese troops under
Ii Hung Chang are massed at Pei Ho. The
works at Port Arthur, Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, built
by German artillery officers, make the strong
est fortreses in North China. The works are
mounted with heavy Calling and Nordenfeldt
guns. The entrance to the port is guarded
with torpedoes. The Chinese have warned the
French that they intend to make the attack.
Letters from the French fleet at Xelung state
that Admiral Courbet is ill and worried over
his forced ~inaction. 1t is feared that he can
not continue operations. The blockade ia with
out results. The mortality of the troops is in
creasing.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
The Criminal Calendar.

Walt Henry, a saloonkeeper of Akron, Ohio,
vas arrested recently for wife murder.
Judson E. Parce, postmaster of South otse-
ic, Chenangs county, N. Y, committed suicide
'ecently.
Cowboys took possession Of a Southern Pa
aic train at Pecos river and amused the pas
'engers by Kidding the cars with bullets.
The body of Mrs. John Carroll of Greenridge,
Pa, was found recently in the woods a mile
from her house, bearing marks of violence.
James Ruckwan and his son, the former be-
ng one of the wealthiest men in Peasants
county, w. Va, were arrested last Tuesday for
shopifting at Parkersburg.
William Striker, late teller of the Second
National bank of I%ronton, Ohio, who was in
iicted on nineteen count IL for the embezzlement
IF $26,OOO of the banks money, was found
guilty.
Herman Gowan, alias Henry Holbrook, ar
rested in Minneapolis on q charge of embez-
element of the funds of II. r. Weisner g. Co.,
York, Pa, whom he represented Boston, has
returned to the latter city.
James Campbell, for twelve years stage
manager and director of amusements for Harry
Hill of New York, has been discovered to have
aefrauded his employer out of $4,000. He
pleaded an extravagant wife and Harry took
pity on him Withdrawing the charge.
On request of the chief of police of St.
Louis, Sloan Pitzer, nineteen years old, and
Miss frankie Obarron, seventeen years, both
from st. Louis, were arrested in Milwaukee.
Pitzer is charged with enticing her away.
He is the son of DR.. Pitzer of ST. Lonis, and
worked as a clerk i'll the Southern express
nfira Tho GIRL Woa fn,1p1 in n bo,,oa &c I'll
tame, where she has been for the last three
weeks.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
m1sc.ll.neous news Notes.

Wages of 400 iron workers at Pittsburg have
been reduced from 10 to Is per cent.
At Jackson, Mich, Gibson & Westerns in
crest and deposit bank failed. The assets and
liabilities are not known.
Elliott Bros. & Co., dry goods merchants
# Philadelphia, have announcedthei inability
. meet their payments. The firms assets are
l220, 600, and liabilities $227,O 700.
Some weeks ago some waggish friends of o.
/ Mellon of Danville, Pa, had published a
tory of the discovery by him Of $47,o 600 in
Spanish coins on an island in the Susquehanna.
The other day two mon from Philadelphia
called upon him and laid claim to the proper
y, avering it had belonged to their g~randpar-
bnts.
Roberts county, Oak, %rejoices in two county
Ieats. That is the outcome of the Wilmot-
Traverse war 80 far. Wilmot has the safe and
Traverse has the records, and each town has q
full set of county officers. There Is a goos
deal of lurid talk about shooting and burning;
but the fact seems to be that the people of each
own are afraid to approach the other, and
magnify the dangers Of the unknown country
Is the ancient photographers located lions in
unexplored regions.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Gov. Cleyeland will be the twenty

Gov. Cleyeland will be the twenty
second President of the country. OF
the Presidents, seventeen were elected,
and four-Tyler, Fillmore, johnson,
and Arthtr-succeeded to the office
from the Vice Presidency. Thomas
Jefferson and John Quincy Adams were
elected by the House of Representatives
in default of an election by tho Electoral
College, and Rutherford B. Hayes was
declared elected by the commission Sc
lected to decide the disputed election Of
1876. Seven of the Presidents-Wash-
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
Jackson, Lincoln; and Grant-were
were elected a second time.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Drinking Etiquette.
London Brewers Guardian.

AOuuO DIOWCTS dudIOldQ.
The custom of touching glasses prior
to drinking healths is very common in
England and other countries, and
especially in Germany. 1t is curious
to trace how this custom has prevailed
and still exists even among savage tribes.
To drink out of the same cup and to eat
off the same plate was one Of the ways
in which the anclents celebrated a mar
riage, and the wedding feast continues
to be not the least important. Of the
marriage ceremonies to the present day.
The Indians of Brazil retain "a custom
of drinking together a little brandy, as
q sign that the marriage is concluded.
In China similar customs are met with.
In the medieval banquets~ of Germany
it. was the custom to pass q glowing cup"
from hand to hand, but this gradually
necessitated that the cup should be of
enormous size, and thus smaller cups
or glasses were adopted, and the old
custom was conformed to by the drink
ers touching their glasses before drink
ing. The ceremony attending the pas
sing and drinking out Of the lowing
cup" as practiced Yat our great city
festivals and at some Of u college
halls, is said to have arisen from the as
.%sassination of King Edward. It was
then The custom Of the Anglo Saxons to
pass round q large cup, from which
each guest drank. He who thus drank
stood up, and, as he lifted up the cup
with both hands, his body was exposed
without any defense to a blow, and the
occasion was often seized by an enemy
to murder him. To prevent this the
following plan was adopted: when one
OF the company stood up to drink he
required the companion who sat next to
him TO be his pledge--thatis, to be re-
sponsible for protecting him against
anybody who should attempt to take
advantage of his defenseless position.
This companion stood up also, and
raised his drawn sword in his hand to
defend the drinker while drinking.
This practice, in a somewhat. altered
form, continued long after the condition
of society had ceased to require it, and
was the originsof the modern practice
ct pledging by drinking. In drinking
from the glowing cup" a now practi:-
ed, each person rises-and takes the cup
in his hand to drink and. at the same
time, the person seated next to him
rises Also: and when the. latter takes
the cup in his turn the individual next
to him does the same.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03

This is the season of church fairs and
at not a few of them fancy articles are
disposed of by by a sort of lottery, con-
corning which class of transactions q
San Francisco paper is moved to say
that talking will be in vain and laws
will be in vain against gambling as long
as the very children are inoculated with
the virus of gaming. 1t is surprising
chat our church people, who encourage
rafaes, and our charitable people who
hold lotteries, do not see the harm they
do"
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03

The German Reichstag made a mis-
take IN refusing to grant Bismarck a
small sum for clerical assistance. It
was a petty piece of business. ct best,
and has reacted in q manner not expect
ed. Tenders from all over Germany
have been made from private individu-
ais to contribute the 1000 marks that
Bismarck asked from the Reiohstag.
But he won't have it that way. His
SEVENTEEN birthday is near at hand, and
his friends are preparing to celebrate
it all through Germany. The members
of the Reichstag who refused to vote
the 1000 mark s are losing caste, and
are being execrated generally through
out the world.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03

How to avoid the long and tedious
voyage around Cape Horn, has long en-
gagged the attention of the world. De
Lesseps, the great French engineer,
who constructed the Suez canal, backed
by French capital, has begun a ship CO.
nal across the isthmus and now it is
proposed that the United States shall
build a canal also, crossing the Nicara-
guam peninsula from the port Of San
Juan de Nicaragua, or Greytown, on
;he Atlantic coast, to the harbor of Bri-
TO-, on the Pacific. A treaty for this
purpose has been drawn up between
The Republic of Nicaragua and the Uni
ted States and now awaits ratification.
The treaty requires the United States
10 begin work on the canal within two
days alter the treaty is ratified by each
party to it, and to complete it within
ten years after b eginning it. The esti-
mate cost of the canal ranges from $4O,-
900 900 to 800, O0O, 900, and our Gov
ernm ent is to loan Nicaragua - 900, 900,
which that republic proposes to expend
in constructing railways, telegraph Ines
and improving some of the auxiliary
water. courses, which will be for the bene-
tit of the ship canal. Nicaragua is to
give the United States the right of way
through its territory, the use of auxiliary
water courses, and is to cede 8 strip of
land three miles wide on each side OF
the canal for the whole distance. In
return for these concessions, the United
States, while it is to have complete
control of the canal, and virtual owner
ship, is still to give Nicaragua one-halt
of the tolls received. Nicaragua also
gives, with the grant, the terminal
ports and harbors. and allows the Unit
ed States to provide any Notifications
and d~efensesi it may deem necessary, on
~ stipu!ating that it shall not wage Of
fensive warfare against any Central
American State friendly to Nicaragua.
The treaty also guarantees that the
Canal and its accessories of every kind
shall be exempt from all taxation, and
no duties shall be levied on material
used in its construction and mainte-
uance.-
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Railro,a and River News.

The carvings of the Milwaukee & St Paul
tor tho third week Of December aggregated
s5O4 GA So, against 1857, 526. sc for the same
week last year-an increase Of 37,eS7.9 u.
Chief Engineer Anderson, and the commits
sioners appointed to examine portions of the
Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific, are
IT'LL snowbound at GAINESVILLE, On the Oregon
Railway and Navigation.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
It is stated that 500 of the standar

1t is stated that 500 of the standard
sugar-coated quinine pills are made
from an ounce of quinine. TIE pills
sell for half a dollar a box, containing
two dozen pills, so that the ounce OF
luinine made up would sell for. $40.
The price Of quinine was recently down
to So cents IN ounce. The present cor
ner in the article, however, has caused
o rise to 50 an ounce.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Record Of casualues.

TIL Masonic temple at Cincinnati was
burned on Wednesday. Loss $4,000.
Tn Eagle hosiery mills at Mechanicsville,
:: Y, were burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$500.
A most remarkable and disastrous collision
occurred off the New York Battery Christmas,
n which the English merchant ship Lornty of
liverpool was sunk by the steamship Corn
vail, of the Great Western Steamship company.
The Cornwall was making for sea at the time
# the accident, while the Lornty was at anchor.
for some unexplained reason, when the Corn
wall approached the other vessel, the helm
would not work properly, and she ran Straight
nto the Lornty, while going at the rate of Six
niles an hour.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
Personal Points.

Thomas Van valan, aged 1O4 years and II
-ionths, died at Syracuse. He was a pension
Dr of the war of 1912.
A R. Fauntleroy, assistant engineer of the
chicago, Milwaukee g. st. Paul railway COM
?any, died suddenly at Milwaukee. He was a
prominent man in his profession.
Lawrence Barrett has undertaken the educa-
ion OF a son of the late Gen. William +. Bart
ett of Pittsfeld, Mass. Gen Bartlett, who was
,ne of the most distinguished officers on the
Union side in the war Of the Rebellion, died a
lew years ago, leaving an estate insufficient
or the proper schooling of his children.
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03
The attendance thus far at the New

The attendance thus far at the New
Orleans cxposiE n does not meet ex-
pectations. This IS owing in some de-
gree to the expenses of the trip and the
cost OF living IN New Orleans, but in a
greater degree 4. <he fact that the pop
lation of that section is not sufficiently
dense, nor Of the quality, to adequately
sustain an enterprise Of hat charac-
tor
The Dickinson press., 1885-01-03

confessed, slightly Disguised Ssilence,
she went OIL. "And now, Mr.. Creigh-
ton, rather than prolong our unpleas-
ant interview; had we better not say
goodbye"
So, for the last time, Con went down
the marble stairs, saying to himself,
"At any rate, I still have two thousand
and Mabel"
He walked along the streets, feeling
his spirits considerably lighter, his
troubled conscience comparatively at
rest; but just as he reached his mothers
residence Gray once more encountered
him.
"Ah. here you are again! The very
fellow I want! Your cousin has ar
rived and is anxious to see you. Would
you go to her at once? She is with
some relatives at the Grand Hotel"
Con turned on him, o sulky express
sion w%reathing his handsome face.
"Look here, Gray! Isn't it enough
for a fellow to be lett penniless, with
out making him play lackey to the girl
that's got his money? AS you're so des-
perately interested, you can tell my
cousin that I am very much engaged to-
day, and can't go to her. If she wishes
to see my mother, I presume she can
find her"
Arthur Gray whistled as he turned
his back upon his late client.
He was a young man, and still unmar-
ried, so it may be presumed he didn't
feel very badly as he returned to pay his
devoirs to the heiress.
But Con felt far from comfortable as
he passed the massive portals of his
mothers door, and strobe impatiently
down the stately halls that were theirs
no longer.
AS he stood inside the lofty room that
his imagination had already peopled,
and looked around on the velvet
chairs and lounges, in every nook of
which he had already ensconced, in
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13

Cuba's two millions of people have to
pay $14.000,0oO year for the support
of the army and navy that keep them in
subsection. The island yields Spain an
annual revenue Of $37, 100000.
The London Times celebrated its one
hundreth birthday on the last day of
1884 by thirty-line editorial, in which
it said: eve write our own history
day by day along with the history Of
til g world"
A writer in Science, discussing the
subject of rainfall in Kansas, finds
that while this has increased 20 per
cent in the eastern half OF the State
since it's occupation by the white set
tiers, Western Kansas has little increase
for. He greatly doubts indeed whether
this half of the State lying outside of
the immediate track Of vapor-laden
winds, can ever have rainfall adequate
to maintain successful agriculture.
No city in the world has the magnif-
cent fish supply found in New York.
In its markets may be had pompano at
So per pound and fresh cod at cents.
Spanish mackerel, founders, trout, cells,
frogs. green turtles, sharks, salmon,
halibut, smells, white bait, shrimps,
crabs, Holsters, mussels, sting rays, cleo
trio cells, devil fish, polyp, scollops, stur-
geoa. drum-fsh, squids, sword fish, sea-
horse, coa-tongues in punches, roe, CO.
hogs, logger heads, terrapins, sea- robins,
king crabs, and vast variety of animal
life brought from the sea; most Of it de.
icious food.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13
literary pr1xs.

TheAnoka Herald says 81 The Sunday Pioneer
Press is 1 paper that every resident Of Mime
sofa can be- proud Of In fact, there are not
half dozen magazines in the country equal to
It in point of literary productions and ability"
The choicest literature appearing in the Sun
day Pioneer Press, appears also in the weekly
Pioneer Press. The Galaxy of Genius" arti-
cles which that paper h h contracted foE foE the
ing many enconiums The weekly Of Feb.
18th is promised Of this series, Turkish AZ
fairs and English Policy by Hobart PashA,
Admiral Of the Ottaman fest; among the Budd-
hists IN Ceylon' by Moncure D. Conway; and
Life in other Worlds by Richard A. Proctor.
These articles are ~ copyright matter.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13

A divorce case involving former men,
Der of the clergy, who has enjoyed more or
less notoriety was commenced in the district
court of Minneapolis The Rev. Edward s.
Bowdish has sued for divorce from Mary Bow
dish On tho ground ofAdesertaon Mr.. and
Mrs. Bowdish were married in Minneapolis, IN
December, 1881. In January, 1SS2, the plain
Mrs. Bowdish deserted him, and has since re-
fused to live with HIM: that ho furnished her
good homo, and in all things conducted him
self toward her IS loving husband should,
and requested her to live with him as his wife
but she has persistently refused and neglected
to do CO. IT..
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13
M URIERER ARRESTED.
George Miller, the Murderer Of Mrs. Smell and
Son In dakota, Captured at Anoka and
He Makes q Full Confession.

BRA1Srnp. Special Telegram, Feb. s
George Miller, the murderer of Mrs. Smell
and her little boy, near Larlwore, Qak. vas
arrested at Anoka to-day by T. j. Hartley,
NJ. McIaren and J. r. Glover, all of this city,
aud brought here by the o'clock train this
afternoon aud lodged in jnil, where he ooolly
confessed bis crime with very little interro-
CATION He ia ked freely of the matter to
visitors, of whom a large number called to
see him durinE the afternoon. he gives the
following version of his villainQus atrocity:
S.5urlry. J IN ~, I to,ka 1oll Of waeas to
town and br 'uxht bottle st whisky home with
to- dance in tie neirhboThcod, telling Mrs.
mor2jng abe fouad had besh to the dance, to
which she was Ma2a IMPOSED. Aad sooldod me
until she naada 11e angry. went to the barn,
and that Is the last / know. don't know
how killed them, whether with All axe or beat
about Two hours came to myself, and rcalist ne
what had dove. took what money could dpd
In the house, absnS 81 80. hitched up the team,
aud frum here to Brainerd. Ism sorry I did
It, and have not cared rnuch since lett whether
was caught or hung Or shot. or what became Of
me. I hated the sight Of the money, aud spent
it as fast as / could 20 get rid OF It.
arrested He came to Brainerd on Wednes-
day morning. JAM 20. and stopped at the
Bra1nera house, depositlng his pocket-bo
with three $50 gold coins with nv McLaren,
proprietor, and one of the parties who ar
rested him he remained here, spending
most of his time at q house of i'll fame, until
yesterday morning, when ha took the 7
o'clock train south, buying q ticket to
Anoka After no had gone the description
OF him came in the ST. Paul papers The
parties named having seen him were con-
WINGED Of his identity. and separately started
quietly in pursuit Meeting st the train at
O'clock this morning, they united in the hunt
with the result above stated, agreeing to
divide the reward equally If successful. The
prisoner first gave his name as William Nor
rison. Il was evidently his intention to go
across the country in a livery rig. but he did
not have money enough to hire one.
The circumstances of Miller's fearful crime are
wildly rernem bcred the double murder having
come tolight within the past week. The wife
and son of Rev. Smell were found butchered In
bed, their heads fl'ightfully cut and gashed. APP
parently with an Tx and knife. Rewards aRsre-
eating $500 were offered for the apprehension
OF the perpetrator aE ~. >#
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13

ABold Counterfeit or limitation of Dr. c. D,
WARNER's WHITE WINE OF TAR SYRUP and
GERMAN Hop B1TTERs is being, sold in the
Northwest Beware Of the dangerous ,,imita-
tons. The worthless stuff is sold to Druggists
1t $3.50 per dozen, or'about 90 cts: per bottle,
and they charge you 50 cts. The Genuine
WHITE WINE OF TAR SYRUP aud GERMAN Hop
B1I1EEs bears the name of DR., C.&Ds WARNER
on label and wrapper and blown in bottle.
Takeno otherg b na a. ~