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The National tribune., 1885-07-02
The Mississippi Marine Brigade,

To THE EDITOR: the ahove-named brigade
was an independent organization from no one
State, but from every Northern State, and com
posed of one reg giment of infantry, one battal'
ion of cavalry and one section Of artillery. The
organization was authorized and created by
Special Order, No. SO, Department of the Mis-
souri,. Its members were all veterans trans
ferred from regiments in the field. The artil-
lery was commanded by Capt. ID. T. Walling,
the cavalry by Maj. Hubbard. the infantry by
Col Chas r. Elicit and the brigade by Brig
Gen. Alfred w. Elicit
The command was quartered on board the
y. S. steamers Autocrat b. J. Adams, Diana
Baltic and John Raine. The service was on
both land and water-patrolling the Missis-
sippi River and its tributaries and raiding the
adjoining country. Soon after the organization
the infantry was mounted, the boys supplying
themselves by pressing into the service planta-
tion mules and horses, after which the whole
command almost daily made long and rapid
raids into the country. They were constantly
in active service. captured many times their
own number of prisoners. raised Gen. Marina
bia, Ark, and were in a skirmish at some point
almost daily.
A Reunion of this brigade, which is scattered
to the four winds, and is represented in per-
haps every State of the Union, is earnestly de-
sired by about so of the boys who have noticed
my request in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE OF
May %, 1885. 1 hope every surviving men,
ber of the old brigade who may notice this let
ter will send me his address. / have letter
from Gen. John c. Black, Commissioner OF
Pensions, requesting me to forward to his De-
partment the name and address of the officers
and members of the brigade SO far as they may
come to my knowledge.
Boys, write me. / think we can get together
at some central point within the next IL
months renew old acquaintance, and have a
general good time. Several of those who have
written me in reply to my notice of May 2s
say they have not met marine" since their
discharge, and are very desirous of Reunion
r S. MURPHY, First Lieutenant, M. M. B..
Autwern 0hin
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A Colored Episcopal Bishop.

Rev. Dr. David Ferguson was consecrated a
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church at
Grace Church, New York, on the Oath ult,
being the first colored member of the American
House of Bishops He was born 43 years ago
in Charleston, s. c. At the age of six years he
emigrated with his parents to Liberia In the
mission schools in that country he received his
education, and was ordained in 1865. The field
of his labors will be Cape Palmas, to which
place he will go in about two weeks with the
title of Missionary Bishop of Cape Palmas
and adjacent country"
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EXPOSITION NOTES.
j. 4 =. Coats,

Js L. SOItS,
The Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centen-
nial Exposition.
NEW ORLEANS, May %, 1885.
Messrs. Auchincloss Brothers, representing
j. & p. Coats:
Gentlemen: Your communication of April
81 incosing forty shares of stock of the World s
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition,
as a donation, is received, and am directed by
the Board of Management to express their
thanks for your enterprise and liberality, and
their appreciation of the interest you have
manifested in this and other ways in the Ex-
position to which you have by your splendid
exhibit contributed so largely. l have the
honor to be, very truly, yours,
(SigneD s. II. Buck Dir. General.
The National tribune., 1885-07-02
Life in the Paris sewers

is possible for a short time to the robust, but
the majority of refined persons would prefer
immediate death to existence in their reeking
atmosphere. How much more revolving to be
in ones self iriRg serer. But this is actually
the case with those in whom the inactivity of
the liver drives the refuse matter of the body to
escape through the lungs breath, the pores.
kidneys and bladder. 1t is astonishing that life
remains in such dwelling DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery restores normal
purity to the system and renews the whole
being
The National tribune., 1885-07-02
Vessels Infected with Yellow Fever.

The yacht Peter c. Schultz, bound from Mobile
to Philadelphia, is lying outside Cape Henry
with her Captain and Mate down with yellow
fsver. The Norwegian bark Nat, from Glen
fuegos, Cuba, is also lying outside the Delaware
Breakwater with her cOlors at half-mast. The
Captain and several of the crew died of yellow
fever during the voyage, and there are several
cases now on board.
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Is ne O ualed.

j. /. Miller, editor Of the "Lutheran
Home" Luray, Va, writes: O. advertise
nothing that do not know to be good. /
was saved from the grave, am sure, by
the use of Ayers Cherry Peetoral, and
have recommended it to others with the
happiest results" l.. j. Addison, NJ. D.,
Chicago, H., writes: 81 have never
found, in thirty-fve years of continuous
study and practice in medicine, any prepa-
ration of so great value as Ayers Cherry
Pectoral, for treatment of diseases Of the
throat and lungs; and constantly recon-
mend it to my patients. It'll not only breaks
up colds and cures severe coughs, but is
effective in relieving the most serious
bronchial and pulmonary affections"
The National tribune., 1885-07-02
ECZENA!

For the benefit Of suffering humanity, deem Il only
my duty TO give this unsolicited testimony in favor Of
Swifts Specific My wife has been afflicted with Eczema
from infancy. We tried every known remedy, but to
avail. She also afflicted with periodical
headache, sometimes followed by intermittent fever
so that her life became burden to her. Finally deter
mined to try Swift's Specific. She commenced seven
weeks After taking the first large bottle the disease
seemed to increase the burning itching and iufamma
ton became unbearable. She however, persevered in
the of the medicine. Aer taking the second bottle
the Inflammation began TO subsde After the third bottle
the inflammation disappeared and spots dried up
and turned white and scaly and finally she brushed them
Off III an impapable white powder resembling pure salt
She is taking the sixth bottle every appearance Of
the disease is gone and her flesh is soft and white
chds Her headaches have disappeared and she enjoys
the only good health she has known in 40 years No
wonder she deems bottle Of 5 s. is worth thou
sand times its weight in gold.
Any further Information concerning her will be
cheeruy given by herself at her residence 1S5 Mulle
Street, or by me.
JOHN F. BRADLEY, "A Griswold st.
Detroit, Mich, May 16, 1885.
For sale by all druggists.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
N Y, 157 ". 23d st. Drawer g. Atlanta, Ga
Mention The National Tribune.
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"Her face so fair, as flesh it seemed not.


But heavenly portrait of bright angels hue,
Clear as the sky without blame or blot,
Through goodly mixture of compilations due,
And in her cheeks the vermeil red did SHOW"
This is the poets description of woman
whose physical system was in perfectly sound
and healthy state. with every function acting
properly, aud is the cnviable condition of its
fair patrons produced by DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription" Any druggist.
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Do you ever have sharp pains in the
region of your heart. or any other symptoms
of Heart Disease? If so, you can find sure re-
lief in DR. GRAVES HEART REGULATOR.
Sl.00 per bottle. Free pamphlet of f. E. ingalls,,
Cambridge Mass
The National tribune., 1885-07-02
The Cholera.

The cholera appears to be rapidly spreading
in Spain. On Saturday last there were 1,257
new cases, and 577 deaths in the infested dis
trict. OF these 678 new cases and 349 deaths
occurred in the city and province of Valencia.
The National tribune., 1885-07-02
Ayers Cherry Pectoral

the greatest possible heal and affections the throat
children
found remedy for Coughs Colds Troa
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John ]. Uhlman, Brooklyn, Ms, writes:
"Twelve years ago, was afflicted with
severe bronchial trouble, pronounced by
skilful physician to be very dangerous,
and liable to terminate in Pneumonia.
After using one bottle ot Ayers Cherry
Pectoral, 1 found great relief, and an occa-
sional use of it since that time has, 1 think,
extended my life ten years at least" Mrs.
V. N. Thebaud, Montreal, Canada, writes:
"Last spring my daughter was attacked
by membraneous Group, or diphtheria.
The doctor prescribed Ayers Cherry Pee
toral, which cured her of the diphtheria.
Being still very weak and sick, she began
taking Ayers Sarsaparilla, which restored
her to vigorous health"
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n. Y, 157 ". 2sd St. Drawer 3, Atlanta Ga
Mention The National Tribune.
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WANTED-ADDRESSES.

Advertisements for addresses inserted tfr tas hcGd as
the rate Of nm cents for three lines address rsP''Ss 20
advertisers.
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PROMPT PENsIoNING.

Acting Commissioner of Pensions Mclean
granted a pension on Monday of last week in
just twenty minutes. His attention was called
TO a paragraph in a newspaper regarding a
woman named Cox, living in Philadelphia, who
was terribly burned the other day. The woman
was the mother of a large family of children,
and the paragraph stated that she had an appli-
cation for pension on file as the widow of
soldier. Col. Mclean hunted up the record of
the case. approved it, and in twenty minutes
the back pay and allowance was on the way to
the woman's home.
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YyTANTED-By George Blood. Springfield, Ill--The
w address of any members of Co. F, 1st Md. Cav,
who knew George Oliver. 1oo-1t
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VITANTED-By John Engel. Grove City, nl-The ad-
w dress of any comrade that was between Wilderness
and Cold Harbor Va, with the ambulance train. that
saw a comrade fall out and over by ambulance
and picked and hauled 10 hospital while the 0ate
vyas raoin an Cold Iarbor 20s-3t
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
First Power Printing-Press.
from the Boston Journal. I

From the Boston Journal
The first power printing press used
in this country or on this continent
was invented and patented by Daniel
Treadwell in 1926, and was put into
operation in Batterymarch Street, in
this city, in 1927. 1t was a bed and
platen press ofpretty large dimensions,
the bed being capable Of carrying a
form little larger than the ordinary
hand-presses then in use. The bed
was horizontal and reciprocating.
The press was constructed of very
large wooden timbers about twelve
inches square, and a great quantity
OF cast and wrought iron. Connected
with it's huge wooden frame was a
wilderness of belts, cams, pitmen, gear
ings, and cranks. It's weight was enor-
nous. A very strong rotating recip-
rocating vertical iron shaft gave mo-
ton to it's numerous and complicated
parts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
THE WATERW Us.
Closing Proceedings of the Convention
at ST. Paul.

at st. Iaul.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 1.-The
waterway convention adjourned sine
die this afternoon. This evening the
delegates were rendered banquet at
the Ryan Hotel, and tomorrow they
will visit Saltwater by invitation.
This afternoon the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions was unanimous
ly adopted. The resolutions were to
the effect that, as the immediate and
comprehensive Improvement of the
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and
their tributaries was necessary for
facilities for the transportation of the
Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, a
sufficient appropriation be asked OF
Congress for that purpose, and that the
convention urge upon the government
to appoint on the Missouri River a.
commission of engineers and civilians
residing upon and interested in the
improvement of that river; that, in
the opinion of the convention, the en-
largement of the Illinois and extension
of the same by the construction OF a
canal from the Illinois River at Henne-
pin to the Mississippi River at Rock
Island was necessary for the cheap
transportation of products to east
ern markets; and that representative
in Congress be called upon to urge up
on Congress the construction of this
canal. During the day speeches were
made by Judge Fry, OF st. Paul; .Sena-
tor Eustis, of Louisiana; w. III.
Hatch, of Missouri; Col. Clarke E.
Carr, of Illinois; Mr.. Murphy, Of
Iowa; Ex.-Gov. Bross, of Illinois, and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
A Nautical Relic.
from the San Francisco Chronicle.7

From the San FRANCISCO chronicle
$50 that's the old California, is it ?"
soliloquized an aged pioneer, standing
on Spear Street wharf under the bow
spirit Of a bark-rigged vessel, whose
battered sides bore evidence of many
a years struggle against wind and
wave.
eyes, that's the California" was the
reply from the man in charge of a re-
pairing crew who were replanking the
Forward part of the ship. "She was
the first steamer that ever entered the
port of San Francisco. Her boilers
were taken out of her in 1875, and
since that time she has been in the
lumber and coal trade, with an occa-
sional cargo of tea from Yokohama.
She's an old-timer, [ tell you. Well
do 1 remember the time when she
came in here in '49-how the people
ran out in crowds to Telegraph Hill
and Clark's Point to get a glimpse of
the first boat of the Pacific Mail Com
pany, from which great benefits were
expected; how they cheered, with
bands playing, flags waving and can
non booming. Why, they even went
SO far as to get up a general illumina-
ton in the evening. 1t was a stirring
time-a stirring time.''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

real estate on Cottage Grove Avenue,
and that her daughter and other rela-
tives behaved unkindly. Mrs. Can't
we'll says that there is considerable
property on Newberry Avenue, between
Twelfth and Taylor Streets belonging
to the estate of her brother, James
Kelly, a millionaire who drowned him
self in the Allegheny River years ago.
According to her story he left a good
deal of property to Bishop Duggan,
who is. now in the st. Louis Insane
Asylum, and made large bequeaths to
various Catholic benevolent institu-
tions throughout the country. Mrs.
Cantwell was sent to the insane de-
partment of the Jail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
A MOST TVRETCHED DEATH.
Lee Sellers Dragged from Jail at Knox
VILE and Hanged.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 5.-I.ast
night about 1870, large body Of
masked men passed down Gay Street
in the direction of the jail. They were
joined at various points along the
street by at least 200 citizens. The
mob approached the jail in perfect Or
der, except the firing of pistols. The
jailer surrendered the keys to the main
entrance, and the crowd broke through
the door of the cell containing Lee
Sellers, the young man charged with
the murder and robbery of Edgar
Names, last Tuesday morning, one
mile east of this city. Sellers had a
knife in his possession, and when one
of the vigilantes went in the cell to ad-
just the handouts he gave him two or
three serious stabs. Both doors were
soon battered down, and masked
vigilantes shot at Sellers twice with
out inhicting serious wounds. Selling
Sellers the mob poured out of
the jail yard and to the middle of the
high bridge over the Tennessee River.
A rope was placed around the crimi-
nails neck while he was yet in the cor
ridor of the jail. He stood with arms
folded, and never fiinched while the
knot was being arranged. He called
for drink of water before leaving for
the bridge. His wishes were complied
with. After reaching the middle of the
bridge the mob halted and demanded
a confession. Sellers refused to say q
word, and the rope was placed over
the cross-beam about twenty-five feet
above the floor, and ne was swung
off. He was not handcuffed, and as
soon as the moose began to tighten he
climbed up hand over hand and gained
the top. He crawled along the cross
beams to one side of the bridge. While
he was crossing at least fifty shots
were fired, none of them with fatal
effect. He rose to his feet and yelled
at the top of his voice: "My friends,
come to me! Pm murdered! Come
quick!" The wounded man then lay
down on a sleeper, and several more
shots were fired, but none of them
could hit him in a vital part. Run
ners were sent to the city for ladders
and another rope. The crowd was
orderly, and but few people outside of
those implicated knew anything about
it. Young men at ball left dancing
and followed the masked men in swal-
low-tails. After the ladders were
brought two men climbed up to the
top stringers to readjust the
rope. Sellers had taken the rope
from around his neck and begged
the crowd to kill him and end his suf-
ferings. The men started out to take
him down, but the wretch lost his
hold and fell to the water
eighty feet below. He has not been
found yet. At the very last he pro-
tested his innocence. Names was a
travelling salesman for a wholesale
house Of this city, and wasfound MUIR
dered one mile east of this city Sep
TENDER 1. He was known to have a
large sum Of money on his person, and
it was shown very conclusively that
he had been beguiled by Sellers to a.
remote spot and killed. Names was
very popular, and was engaged to be
married.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
an ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
Successful Trial of an Electric Motor on
the Elevated Road in New York.

Successful Trial of an Electric Motor on
the Elevated Road in New York.
New YORK, Sept. 1.-The managers
Of the Elevated Road are making
preparations to run their cars by cleo
tricity. Last night the Daft electric
motor was given a trial trip, which
was in every respect satisfactory. The
motor was attached to irregular Ninth
Avenue passenger coach with about
thirty people on board. At half-past
10 P. NJ. the signal was given by Mr..
Daft, and without the least Earring the
train started out from the Four
tenth Street station. Up the
steep grades it ran smoothly
and without noise, the intermittent
flashes OF electric light and sparks from
the still rusty rail markingits progress.
Thirty-fourth Street was reached at
twenty-three minutes to II. From
this on to the Fftieth Street station
the motor sped without stop, reach
ing the end of the Electric road at
forty-two minutes past 10. On the
return trip the run from end to end
was made in seven minutes. The
schedule time of the road including
stops is nine minutes. Hundreds of
people along the route cheered and
waved as the silent train sped by.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
NOT MUSHROOMS.
Fatal Poisoning by Fungus Mistaken for
Mushrooms.

Mushrooms.
SHENANDOAH, Pa, Sept. 3.-Thomas
Farris, his wife, Mrs. Rigley and her
son Thomas, ate poisonous mush-
rooms Monday, and were supposed to
be out of danger. They exhibited I'M
favorable symptoms Tuesday even
ing, and Notwithstanding thief that
everything was done to counteract the
deadly effects of the poison, Mrs. Far
ris and Thomas Rigley, her broth
er, after suffering the most in
tense agony and remaining in a
lethargic state for several hours,
died. Mrs. Rigley is beyond hope
of recovery, while the chances for
the recovery of Thomas Farris, the
fourth victim, are against him. Mrs.
Farris had only been married a year,
was only % years of age, and leaves a
baby not more than 2 months old. Dur
ing hesmall-pox epidemic herein 1884,
Mr.. Farris and his wife faithfully
nursed the patients, in a temporary
hospital which was built on the
mountain, while the inhabitants of
the town fled to more habitable quar-
tiers. Her brother was ID years old,
and worked at Indian Ridge colliery
with Mr. FarriS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
PERSONALITIES.

hCAhAh DhhNHARDI is 20 years OlO.
CARL SCHURz is writing a life OF
Henry Clay.
JOHN B. COUGH celebrated his sixty
eighth birthday August II.
SAM JONES says that it he lived in
Chicago he would drink river water in
preference to whisky.
ANDREW D. WHITE, formerly presi-
dent OF Cornell University, is to sail
or Europe this month.
MRS. CAROLINE III. HALL is at work
on a book to be entitled "What We
Actually Know About Shakespeare"
THE &c" in ex-senator Thurman's
name stands for Cranberry. His full
name is Allen Cranberry Thurman.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE is to be the
editor of a new magazine which will be
issued very soon in Boston, and which
will be the organ of the philanthro-
pists in that section.
Mr.. AND MRS. CAMP, living near Ma
con, ILL.,, have given O. 36O-acre farm,
Of the value of $4,000, to the Illinois
Wesleyan University, q Methodist in
stitution OF Bloomington.
DADABHAI NAosEE, of Bombay,
an eminent Indian politician, proposes
to visit England this fall and run for
Parliament as a general representa-
tive of the native Indians.
REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE asserts
that the choir leader should be as
good a man as the pastor, as he GER
tainly should, since, with his tuning
fork at all events, he gives the right
tone to the choir.
THE Providence Journal, noting the
alleged sensation that Rev. DR.. Tai.
mage, of New York, is creating abroad,
remarks that he els either very popu-
lar or has q very able advertising
agent in London"
VERDI, the composer, has, it is said,
added another item to the long list OF
his philanthropic deeds by abating so
per cent. of the rents of his tenants on
account of severe storms which de-
stroyed their crops.
A PARTY of Cambridge (Mass.) peo-
pie, including Mrs. Ole Bull, the Misses
Longfellow, Mr.. Thorpe and H. N.
Wheeler, of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
coAAO WIZ cOAO SOAA15 w OoO cOO
Moosehead Lake this month.
THE lately deceased Anna, Countess
of Moran, widow OF the Archduke
John of Austria, was famous in her
youth for a beauty which gained her
an aristocratic husband, by enchant-
ing him suddenly as he stopped at the
small post-ofice kept by her father.
The Birmingham (Ala.) Chronicle
has been making an exhaustive ex-
animation of the brain of Robert
Toombs. In the first place it is "god.
like" and moreover, it is like the
brains of Moses, Scipio, Alexander,
Caesar, Constantine, Charlemagne,
Bonaparte and Jefferson"
NEARLY two hundred newspapers
are received at the White House. Most
of them are sent without pay. Col.
Lamont makes extracts for the eye OF
the President. It is said thesystem OF
preserving newspaper opinions by the
occupants of the White House dates
back to the formation of the govern
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
Al MAD WO.TAN.
Desperate Efforts of a Chicago Lady to
Commit Suicide.


Commit Suicide.
CHICAGO, H., Sept. 3.-Mrs. Ann
Cantwell, aged IA, who has been living
with her daughter, Mrs. Quinn, at
1881 Wentworth Avenue, was arrest
ed by the Town OF Lake police, last
night and locked up. There was no
charge booked, but it is supposed the
oldlady had behaved disorderly. Dur
ing the night she made three desper-
ate attempts at suicide, the first time
she hanged herself with the sleeves of
her sacque to the cell door bars, hang
ing a shawl before the latter to screen
herself. When found and cut down
she was unconscious. She revived
soon after, and a short timelater took
a veil and tried to strange herself
again, but the act was discovered In
time. She was then handcuffed, but
managed to pull off one Of her stock
ings, and had almost succeeded in
choking herself to death. She
was then stripped of her out
er garments, her hands tied be-
hind her and handcuffed to
the cell doors. DR.. c. P. Collwell, the
health commissioner, called in and
pronounced the woman insane. Mrs.
Cantwell, on the other hand, says she
feels the disgrace of being locked up
too keenly to care longer for life and
will kill herself as soon as released.
She claims that she owns considerable
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09

due to carelessness on the part of the
train men. The bodies of the victims
were terribly mangled. They were
taken in charge by the Town of Lake
police. Another report says apassen-
ger train was going south and afreight
train coming north, that the section
men stepped on the track used by the
freight train and were watching the
passenger at the time the accident oc-
Cured John Petersen, the engineer
of the freight train, is under arrest.