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Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
A Western Idyl.

A rather sad affair took place on
Main street the other day. A young
lady with her arms full of bundles
emerged from dry-goods store, when
one of them fell on the sidewalk with
out her noticing it. just behind her
was ayoung man, "a too-too club young
man, who if not polite is not anything,
and he quickly stepped forward to
pick it up. Now bundle done up in
piece of paper with dry-goods adver-
tisement on it is apparently as harmless
as maiden's prayer or a mothers
spanking, and there it lay as guileless
as blue-eyed bulldog asleep in the sun.
Just as he stopped to pick it up there
was rushing of the paper, the twist
began to come out of the ends, and in
another instant an indescrihable some
thing-a sort of a cross between a bal
loon and devil-fish-fiew into the air
before his eyes, and a number ten thir-
ty-six-inch- e-jointed-duplex clip
tic-steel-bowed- hustle inflator- dollar
and-a-half-bald-he aded-hoop-skirt with
two rooms in it waltzed around and
gyrated and opened and shut up and
fell on the sidewalk as flat and thin as
boarding house pie, and the young
man Strengthened himself up, looking as
if he wished a forty-ton zephyr would
come down from the canyon and sweep
him over into the next county; and the
young lady came back with face that
resembled an Italian sunset produced
by throwing ripe tomato against a
board fence, and she picked up that
wire continuance, and then she went
toward the east and he went toward the
west. The sun ducked his head behind
cloud to hide q smile, and three or
four of the boys who took in the show
laid down and laughed and doubled
themselves up in a manner that would
have made summer dose of gree1hp-
Pile collie hide its head in shame.-9an-
Won Cttv Nercurv. A
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01

from severe pain the throat and was very
restless His old neuralgia trouble troubled
him too. Nothing serious happened, how
ever, and this morning some exhau stion II
tho only result of the pain.
The patients condition was moi
naturally different from what it was
at the same hour Friday. The night in the
vicinity of the Grant mansion passed with
unusual dullness. No one event, in or out,
from the time the front doors We're closed at
midnight until the milkman arrived at
hali-past Saturday morning. DR.. Shrady
remained with the patient all night. He
went out of the house at half-past s. leaving
the general without immediate medical at
tendance. This is the third day in succession
that the doctors have done this. The doctor
talked for q moment with representative
Of the press. He did not think it at all dan
gerous to leave the patient alone. What was
most feared was re-occurrence Of the hem
orrhage. But the doctor considered that the
condition OF the patient was such that NO
such accident was probable ut present The
general slept up to Q o'clock without the aid
OF anodynes Then he became restless and
an anodyne was administered Then
this morning he took his usual
liquid nourishment Of condensed beef and
cocoa. He swallowed it in a mechanical
manner and without any particular sign of
relish or reluctance. Dr. Shrady will not
return to the house until evening. DR..
Douglas will be there at 3 o'clock.
Another crank called at the house. He
was Frenchman and exhibited certif-
cate or diploma from some medical institu-
ton in Marseilles. Harrison, the colored
servant shut the door in his face and he
walked away
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
She Enjoyed Cold Weather.

The recent spell of weather calls at
tention to recent article in Littcll's
Lifting Age called "A Lady's Life in
Manitoba. The writer says she bought
frozen milk by the pound all winter;
mustard froze in the muStard-pot, which
stood foot from the kitchen stovepipe
and two feet above the stove, where
there was blazing fire all day The
Kittens ears froze, and broke off: so did
the ears of ncighbor's pony. A pail
of water left in the kitchen all night
would freeze solid before morning.
When she had been ironing the top of
pocket handkerchief the lower part
would freeze on the table. The Their
mometer went to SO degrees below zero.
This is commented on at considerable
length, and then comes this remark:
''But say deliberately that l would
rather pass three winters on the prairie
in Manitoba than one summer" Worse
than all the freezing, the cold. the con-
fnement, and the whole category of
winter, is the mosquito, she says.-Hart-
ford CoUrGnt.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
A GREAT OPTIONAL DEAD.

The Lord Mayor OF London Passes Away
Tho Earl OF Selkirk Dead.
LONDON, April 13-George Swan Nottage,
lord mayor Of London, died Saturday morn.
ing.
The deceased was descended from family
who were long settled OF Nottage, in Clam.
organshire, but who afterward migrated to
Essex, in which county the future alderman
passed his early youth. In 1875 he was
elected alderman Of Cord waincr ward, and
in in 1877, in conjunction with Mr..
Alderman Staples, he served the office of
sheriff Of London and Middlesex in the
mayoralty Of Sir Thomas Owden He was
a member Of the Carpenters, Loriners' and
Spectacle Makers companies, and this year
was the master Of the Carpenters company.
The late lord mayor was for many years en-
gagged in the large iron business of his uncle,
Mr.. r. w. Ksnnard, late member of parlia-
ment for Newport. But he was best known
as the founder of the London Stereoscopic g.
Photographic company, a concern which has
agencies all over the world. He was in poll
tics Liberal, and q member Of the Church
of England. He was 81 years of age, and
In 1851 was married to Christiana, daughter
Of Mr. Charles Warner. By her he has n
son and daughter. The former, Mr. Charles
9. Nottage, who graduated with honors at
Cambridge, is barrister at-law. His daugh-
ter is married to Mr.. 8. e. Palmer q men,
ber Of the well-known Reading firm, Huntley
& Palmer, the largest biscuit manufacturers
In England.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
Indiana's Interest in Illinois Affairs.

CINCINNATI, April ia Washington cor
respondent telegraphs the following: A new
element in the Illinois senatorial fight has
developed in the interest shown by the In
diana statesmen in booming Gen. Blacks
candidacy and inducing Col Morrison to
retire from tho fight. The explanation Of
TIE Indiana interest in the affairs of her sis
ter state is that Gen. Blacks retirement from
the pension office would. it Is said, lead
to the promotion Of Deputy Com
missioner Mclean, of Indiana, to be COM
missioner of pensions This incentive has
stirred up the Indianians to an extent that
may prove important in SO close contest.
There is a general feeling among Illinois
Democrats il Washington that the talk Of
any other compromise candidate than
Black i. unfounded. The Democratic fight
now hinges OH the question as
to whether Col Morrison should
or should not retire in favor
OF Gen. Black. Sentiment on
tue que ton is divided. Gen. Sparks, the
commissioner of the land Office, is loyal to
Morrison, and resi>ts the efforts to super
.ede him by another candidate unless he
shall voluntarily retire. Many of the other
Illinois Democrats are loud in the demand
that Morrison should give way to a more
popular man. One of the stories in circula-
ton is that Gen. Black has received pledge
Of two Republican votes.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
A Sad Cnsa Of Destitution.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 13.-While a
patrolman was in the upper part Of the city
he discovered several human beings slowed
away under the logway Of saw-milL All
were miserably and scantily attired and in
depplorable condition, being in the last stages
Of starvation. The party consisted of Mrs.
Mary Draper, her uncle, daughter, and
niece. They claim they were driven from
their house and forced to leave West Point,
O small hamlet below Louisville, two
weeks ago. They managed to build a
boat, which is only an open con-
trivance, upon which is an old cook-stove
and a few blankets. They have been afoat
ever since, exposed to the cold and rain.
When discovered they were completely OK
hausted, and tho old man was in such a con-
dition that but little hopes are entertained of
his recovery. When food was SGT before
them they seized upon it and nearly choked
themselves in their haste to eat it. The old
man and the woman are illiterats, but the
little girls are uncommonly bright. considT-
ing their surroundings. The township
trustee has furnished them lodging and fosd
for the present.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
In the Pineries.

In one of his readable articles in the
Current Charles Ellis says:
1t is curious to see how the life of the
world, 1.-THE spirit of the age" as the
Sellers family call it, presses in upon
remote places and corners that seldom
see anything of the world. Habit, GUS
tom and fashion are contagious. You
cannot hide away from them any more
than you can hide children away from
whooping-cough and measles. They
seem to be in the air and to travel on
the wind. The love of novelty, and the
vanity of the human animal that in
cites it to have a trifle more than its
neighbor, are sort of scarlet rash of
the social world that one finds even in
the woods. But woman's nature asserts
its creative and hopeful influence even
through the often worthless and mis-
leading frivolities of custom and fashion.
In primitive times, when woman had
no home but the forest and the jungle,
and no ''rights" at all; when she was
looked upon as game to be captured,
dead or alive, but mostly half-and-half,
there was even then in her an element
of character that was slowly becoming
powerful to influence the whole life of
the world. She was submissive, pa
tent enduring. She learned to be still
and vet be content Man is restless
prowler, woman patient waiter.
Waiting for ages in bondage, woman
has learned to find peace, contentment,
pleasure and Indictment to artistic
growth in making her home, whether
wigwaln OF cave, Lighthouse, shanty or
better, more and more attractive from
time to time. Man alone, or human
race that should have in both sexes the
restless, aggressive, marauding. grasp
ing, greedy spirit that seems to actuate
the majority of the men of our own
race, would never rise above the plane
of the freebooter. The finer elements
of race evolution are due largely to the
quiet, brooding, home-loying nature of
woman.
Among these country homes find
old Lighthouses that have walls and cell
ing decorated with paper; not handsome
wallpaper, but old newspapers, those
that contain pictures being most deslr-
able. This is an improvement upon the
bare bark and the rough boards, and is
due to the housewife. Rags are treas
ured up and rag carpets are made that
are sometimes seen to be quite pretty,
and always strong and durable. There
are cheap pictures along the walls, with
indications here and there of fancy
work" The artistic sense of the house,
keeper shows itself also in the prepara-
ton of delicacies for the winters table.
Peaches, berries, grapes, tomatoes, ETC.,
these are all plenty IN season, and they
are canned for winter. and the work is
we'll done, too.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
An Opportunity for America

NEW YORK, April ia Philadelphia
correspondent of the Herald says: 1t was
stated to the writer that the Guion and
American steamship companies had been
approached by the British admiralty for
terms at which the vessels would be leased
to that government. Another steamship
agent went so far as to state that the
British nations claims upon the vessel
Of his line might be asserted at any
hour. The vessels of the American COM
pany all carry the British flag, under the
statute that only American built craft can
fly the flag of this land. The agent sail
that if Russia inaugurated the aggressive
warfare that was possible for her this statute
would prevent the American people from
taking advantage Of the splendid oppor-
tunity which such a condition of things
would present for their regaining
their once proud position on the
seas. He even suggested that in the
event of war an extra session OF congress
ought to be called to take advantage Of a
situation that may not recur again in a CEN
fury. "America's future" said he, belongs
to her, and she has stood long enough upon
cour tesy and the amenities of trade She
must regain what she lost during the four
years enforced lethary of the national COM
merce during the civil war. The ocean
trade was taken away from her fairly
enough. This is the hour for great stroke
VIII she rise to its"
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
SOMEWHAT RESTLESS,

Is the Report from Gen. Grant-Dozini
and Sleeping by Turns.
CHICAGO, April 13-The following bulle-
tins relative to Gen. Grants condition have
been received:
New YORK, April 11.-Gen. Grant
dozed comfortably until a. m.
when he became restless and suffered from
pain in his throat The usual local appiica'
tions were made, giving partial relief. At
q. m, however, the administration Of ar
anodyne was demanded. Since that time he
has been DOING and sleeping by turns. Hi
pulse is So, temperature 99.5.
GEORGE f. SHRADY, M. d.
New YORK, April lL-l2 m.-Gen. Grant
is restless; pulse &C.; temperature W.
GEORGE F. SHRADY, M. d.
New YORK, April i'll p. m.-Gen
Grants condition is unchanged. No bulle
tin has been issued.
New York, April 1.-2:45 p. m. AT the
visit of Drs. Baker, Douglas and Shrady a.
2p M. Gen. Grant was found in comfort
able condition He has rested all the morn
ing. Pulse, 70; temperature normal
J. II. DOUGLAS, M. d.
GEORGE F. SHRADY, NJ. d.
New YORK, April 11.-Gen Grants con
dition was somewhat unfavorable last night
In the early hours Of the morning be suffered
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. April II.
The Chicago wheat market to-day was
active and unsettled and closed &c higher
than yesterday. Corn was also active and
advanced 11sc. Oats was strong and i'm
proved. A@lc. Rye advanced &c, and bar
ley was strong at the advance noted yester.
day.
Live seock-The Onion stock yards report
the following rangs of prices: Hogs
Market moderately active but weak and
prices SC lower; light graiss, s435@47O;
packing and Shipping lis, s4.55@475.
Cattis-Markes fairly active; values un-
changed; good to choice steers, So 20@5 50:
poor to fair, 4.4o@5 %; butchers, 81 500
400;;..stocker;, -SS53@i Is; feeders, s4.00@
40 Sheep-Common to far, So 0Q6a4 25;
good to fancy, 81. 40G13s5.
Produce: Butter-Fire creamery, 25@25c;
good to fma dairy. 14@2Qc: poor TO good
lacking, 5@Sc EggS-Fres;i cunts. IGc;
geose eggs, Acc. Potatoes-Fine ke. t stock,
5S@60c; poor to fine, 5@lJc lower. Poultry
Live turkeys, 11@l4e: do chickens, l2@
leHc for hens, and &c for roossers; ducks.
$4.Oo@45a and goo e $500 per ao2 Apples
Poor to fine kept, S2.5j@300 par Dbl.
Hay-Fair to fine timothy. $11.11l2.&02,
and do prairie, si59g3li.0o par ton.
New York.
New YORK. April II.
Wheat-1;a01t5sb lshe: &ni very fever
lSh, with lanIy active husiGo $; n" l
white, nomina'; No : rel May, 9SlSG03c;
June, S1.o"@.HI&: July. $Lnl94GL U2i5;
August, 81 G3i x9LaS}s; s pcembcr, SLU+]a.
Corn-Ss@Jsc nGsIcI a,5i fairly active: new
mixed western spot, 52Qlo44 c; future,
521@55ssc. Oats-lEGI% tie ~, active;
western, SSGD4lc. Provi ion Beef firm;
new extra, SlL53@l3na Pork fin and
quiet; new mess $lS.0n1I325 Lard a
shade better and quiet; steam rendered,
$I271f.
st. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS, April II.
Wheat-Active, higher and unsettled, but
closed firm; No. 3 rcd 9S@9S16c cash: 93c
May: $1OlSs June; Sl.03X July. Corn
Fairly active and higher; 4215c cash; 1870
May; 45c June. Oats-Higher but slow; SIC
cash; 341sc May. Rye nchanged Barley
Unchanged. Provisions-P Pork shade
firmsr; Sass. Lard, nominally, S. S0@
ass.
Toledo.
TOLEDO April IL.
Wheat-Active and strong; No , cash
and April, SOC; May, S. q !; June, 92c.
Jorn-Firm; No. cash, 4515 Iit; May
and June 471Sc; July 49c; No 5, 46; No 3
yellow. 47c; No. do; acc Oats-Firm but
quiet; No. = cash, SIC; May, 36c bid. Clover
Seed-Nothing doing.
Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, April IL.
Wbeat-Easy at advance; Milwaukee No
= S6Hc; May, S7xc; June, S95sc Corn
Higher; No 2, 45c. Oats-Firm; No. q,
S}Sc. Rye-Easier: No. /, Csc. Barley
Strong; No. 2, 5sc; No. extra, 55l6c.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01

to the frontier in the state Of Chiapas
Wednesday. Guatemala is said to be max
ing extensive preparations to overwhelm
San Salvador and Nicaragua. and news of
the decisive conflict which, 1t is supposed,
has recently taken place is looked for daily
and oven hourly.
Guatemala is in great fever Of excite
ment ouer the tragic death Of Gen. Barrios
and his son. The resolve to avenge Barriu
has become the national cry, and all late in
formation from Guatemala indicates that
the people will make most determed strug-
gle to carry out the purposes of Barrios and
nifty Central America.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01

The law of the napkin is but vaguely
understood. One of our esteemed met
ropolitan contemporaries informs an
eager inquirer that it is bad form to fold
the napkin after dinner-that the proper
thing is to throw it with negligent dis
regard on the table beside the plate, as
to fold it would be reflection on the
host and imply familiarity that would
not benefit an invited guest. But the
thoughtful reader will agree with us
that this studied disorder is likely to be
a good deal more trying to fastidious
hostess than an unstudied replacing of
the napkin in good order beside the
visitors plate. The proper thing is to
fold the fabric with transformations care,
and lay it on the left of the plate, far
from the liquids, liqueurs and coffee,
and thus testify to the hostess that her
care in preparing the table has been APP
preciated. The napkin has played fam
Gus parts in the fortunes of men and
women. 1t was one of the points adj
mired in Marie Stewart that, thanks to
her exquisite breeding in the court of
Marie de Medici, her table was more
imposing than the full court of her great
rival and executioner, Elizabeth. At
the table of the latter the rudest forms
were maintained, the dishes were served
on the table, and the great Queen helped
herself to the platter without fork or
spoon, page standing behind her with
silver ever to battle her fingers when
the flesh had been torn from the roasts.
At the court of the Empire, Eugene
was excessively fastidious. The use of
napkin and the manner of eating an
egg made or ruined the career of a
guest. The great critic, Sainte-Beuve.
was dlsgraced and left off the visiting
list, because at breakfast with the
Emperor and Empress at the Tuilleries
he carelessly opened his napkin and
spread it over his two knees, and cut his
egg in two in the middle. The court
etiquette prescribed that the half-folded
napkin should lie on the left knee, to be
used in the least obtrusive manner in
touching the lip, and the egg was to be
merely broken on the larger end with
the edge of the spoon and drained with
its tip. The truth is luxury and in
vention push table appliances so far
that few can be expected to know the
particular convention that may be con-
sidered good form in any diversified So
ciety. The way for young fellow to
do is to keep his eyes open-which, UNI
less he is in love, he can do-and note
what others do.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
The Chicago sIayoralty

The Republican executive committee, to
gether with the candidates elected Tuesday,
hell meeting at Republican headquarters.
It was resolved unanimously to contest the
election in the case the council canvassing
board declared Harrison elected mayor. The
committee believe the face of the returns
will certainly show Judge Smith to be
elected unless they have been tempered with.
It Is further decided that in case o con-
test becomes necessary a now committee
would be formed to cooperate in the msas-
ures niece ssary to be taken to seat Judge
Smith. The committee Of public safety Is
still engaged In collecting evidence Of fraad
and proofs of the manner In which It was
carried ont
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
A Vigil.
I walk tho lanes dim hollow
Past il the TWILIGHT hour.

walk tho lane's dim hollow
Past is the twilight hour,
But stealthy shadows follow
And Night withholds her power,
For somewhere in the eastern sky
The shroudcd moon is high.
Dews from the wild rose drip unheard,-
Their unforgotten scent
With that of woods and grasses blent;
No mufficd flight of bird,
No whispering voice, my football stops;
No breeze amid the poplar-tops
The smallest leaf has stirred,
Yet round me- here and there,
A little fiuttering wind
Plays now,-thcse senses have OWNED
breath across my hair
A touch that on my forehead lies,
And presses long
These lips SO mute OF song,
And now, with kisses cool, my half-shut eyes.
This night? o what is here!
What yicwlcss aura clings
So fitfully, SO near,
On this returning override
When Memory will not he denied
Unfcttcred wings?
MY arms reach out,-in vain,-
They fold the air:
And yet-that wandering breath again!
Too vague to make her phantom plain,
Too tender for despair
Edmund Clarence Stednan in March Gen.
fury.
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
Eloped with a Black Man.

MEMPHIs, Tenn, April Is Quite sensa-
tion developed hero when it became known
that Mrs. Josephine Sseinriede had suddenly
left the city in company, SO it is alleged,
with colored man named John Irwin.
Mrs Steinrisde is the wife of DR.. j.
j. Steinriede, q wealthy planter and
physician, who cana to Memphis
about three months ago from Yazoo City,
Miss. John is 20 years of age and has for
quite period possessed complete control
over Mrs. Steinriede. The eyes Of the hus
band were suddenly opened by lady neigh
Dor, who found the wife and negro in a
room together. The husband charged his
wife with Inconsistency. She, replied: "lf
you believe it you had better leave me-"
Morris tribune., 1885-04-01
CONVERSATIONS.


PITTS 3URG, Pa, April 13.-The white lead
works Of W. W. Lawrence & Co., Ri3ge
avenue, Allegheny City, together with the
contents. were entirely consumed by fire
which was causel by spontaneous. combus.
tioi between ard 3 O'clock Saturday morn
L"ss, chont So, coo; insurance, $50, 900
COLUMBUS. Ind, April I3. -The Edinburg
Starch works ten miles north of here,
burned Saturday morning. Loss, SIS, 600;
Insurance, $4,000. The warehouse with
$40, 900 worth of starch was saved. One
hundred and fifty men are thrown out Of
endowment