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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11
NATURES RIDDLES.
The Instincts of the Lower Units of Gre
alton.


Chickens, two minutes after they
have left the egg, will follow with their
eyes the movements of crawling in
sects and peck at them, judging dis
lance and direction with almost infalli-
BILE accuracy. They will iIstinctively
appreciate sounds, readily running to-
ward an invisible hen hidden in box
when they hear her "call." Some
young birds also have an innate, in
stinctive horror of the sight of hawk
and of the sound of its voice. Swal-
lows, titmice, tomtits, and wrens, after
having been confined from birth, are
capable of flying successfully at once
when liberated ON their wings having
attained the necessary growth to rem
der flight possible. The Duke of
Argyll relates some very interesting
particulars about the instincts of birds,
especially of the water ousel, the mer-
ganser, and the wild duck. Even as to
the class of beasts | find recorded:
"Five young polecats were found COM
fortably imbedded in dry, withered
grass, anu IN Slue nOle, Oh proper
dimensions for such a larder, were
forty frogs and toa,is, all alive, but
merely capable of sprawling a little.
On examination the whole number,
toads and all, proved to have been pur-
posely and dexterously bitten through
the BRAIN" Evidently the par
ent polecat had thus provided
the young with food which could
be kept perfectly fresh, because alive,
and yet was rendered quite unable to
escape. This singular instinct is like
others which are yet more fully devel-
oped among insects-a class of animals
the instincts of which are so numerous,
wonderful and notorious that it will be,
probably, enough to refer to one OF
two examples, The female carpenter
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11

The emigration statistics from Ire.
land for 1884 show that the emigrants
who left Irish ports last year were TO-
043, a decrease of 32,S73 as compared
with 1888, the number of males being
38.177, or II, PIG less than in the pre-
vious year, and of females 81, 1866, a de-
crease of 1867. OF the 76,043 emf
grants in 1884. 1888 were natives of
Ireland, and 100 were persons belong
ing to other countries.-Ch Chicago Jour
nal
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11

-Alpharetta, young Georgia city.
with population of two hundred, has
five lawyers, or one for every thirty
nine persons.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11

The Anneke Jams heirs who have
proved their pedigrees are now said to
number FIVE thousand persons.-M Y
Times,
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-11

"A law was passed by the recent
Montana Legislature prohibiting the
killing of quails for the next six years
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15

The Barnes County Record says: Fore
most among the questions that is likely
yet to concern the people of this, ana
some adjoining counties, Is the taxatlon
of Northern Pacific railroad lands. The
policy of this county in the matter has
been based upon the opinion that lands
over which corporate body exercise ex.
elusive control, which are sold and other
wise managed as though individual bold
ings, we're subject to taxation. Acting
upon this belief the lands of the North.
ern Pacific Railroad company, ever since
the organization of the county. in 1879.
have been assessed and had taxes levied
against them.
As . preventive of smut in wheat the
Sterling Farmer gives the following ex-
periments: "One of our subscsibets, Ar.
John Bead, OF Glencoe, informs 40 that
he has been regularly successful in pre-
venting smut in his wheat by the vitrlol
process. Mr.. Beal has crop OF No.
hard this season, clear of smut excspt
some four acres sowed with seed that Aad
not been prepared BY vitr,ol. This would
seem to settle the question, but saoeher
subscriber, Ed. I. Field, Who dsAes aay
one to find gram Of smut in hts Ne. !
hard, contends that his freedom froa
smut IS due to proper cultivation Of the
ground
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15

TIE idea prevailing TO some extent that
the whole territory of Dakota will be ad-
mltted into the union as y ST ate this win
ter is simply preposterous. as no consti-
tutlon has been formed for that purpose
and no territory can he admitted as q
state without constitution. The COM
ing session of congress will be frittered
away in this particular BY the contentious
and wrangles Of Dakota delegations over
the scheme Of division and statehood for
the southern part Of the territory, to end
with the adjournment OF the session and
nothing gained but making public what
the wrangling factions think of each
other. The status of Dakota IN year
from this time will very likely be the
same 1t is now, w.th the exception that
some who are now uncompromising divi-
si0nists may be convinced of the utter
hopclessness OF the scheme. Admission
as a whole will not bc accepted by the
people as long as there is any hope of
securing division, and then convention
will have to he held to form constitu-
tion and the document be submitted to
the people in some torn or other for their
ratification or rejection. This, If done
at all, will not be done in time tor the
coming session Of congress TO act upon 1t.
The whole territory of Dakota will be
represented IN the next legislature, which
will be territorial body, and that body
will meet in the capitol at Bismarck.
While South Dakota IS playing state and
waiting for congress to breathe into their
imaginary state officers aud Legislature
the breath of life, let North Dakota see
to it that she selects her best timber tor
the next territorial legislature. South
Dakota will be more bitterly divided the
next session than ever before, on account
of the bad blood stirred up between her
contendlng factions over imaginary state
officers and the location of the capitol of
the proposed state, and If North Dakota
is judiclous in the selection of her mem.
bcrs she can control the next legislature.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15
]. G. WARNoCK. Editor

TIE state election in Ohio on Tuesday
seems from the reports obtained up to
this writing to have gone republican by
about $4,000, which will probably be in
creased or diminished by the full returns
but the general result Will remain the
same. This will insure the return of Hon.
John Sherman to the United States SEN
ate If he desires 1t. The prohibition vote
was light,
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15
Mr.. Burke Convicts Himself OF S>iua re.
tCcd Lying.


The ordinary liar does not attract much
attention in neighborhood, but the man
Burke who publishes paper IN this city
called the Capital IS an extraordinary liar.
Not 80 because it Is an uncommon thing
for him to falsify facts but because he
does it under cover of the christianity
dodge. When he committed perjury a
few years ago by swearing to contin-
uous residence for six months on q claim
upon which he had not spent week all
told he easily satisfied his conscience by
saying some others did the same thing.
Up to that time Mr.. Burke was probably
a fairly truthful maa, but he let down
the bars then 80 wide that he now faIsl-
fies often WHEN the truth would answer
his purpose better. The Alert has sew
eral times within the last year pinned the
lie onto HIM, and row in his recklessness
he does 1t himself The 'sour grapes"
he has been eating ever since he failed to
get the city printing last spring has dis
ordered his brain 80 that he makes false
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15


TIE war that is being waged upon
Gov. Pierce by the South Dakota malcon-
tents who want the earth as we'll as the
capital of the territory, is not likely 10
effect the object sought, but Will rather
delay it, and possibly defeat it altogether.
So long as the pressure for the removal
Of Gov. Pierce was solely political he had
no defense to make, nor did he have any
disposition to palliatc the charge that he
was AMI is a republican, but now that
charges arc made affecting his integrity
as an officer he and his friends, whose
name is legion and include many demo
Gratis, must and will resist them. In such
cases the president has shown that he
will not be governed by the expartc evil
dence and findings OF star chamber po-
litical examination but will hear the ac-
cused for his cause and IN his defense
This is all that Gov. Pierce and his
friends desire and 1t is the very thing he
accusers do not desire. 1t must now be
conspicuously prominent before tho eyes
of even those democrats Of this territory
who have arrogated to themselves the
selection Of its federal officers, that the
president is running his own machine and
running it IN his own way. NJ. IL. Day,
the heretofore acc, edited Jumbo of the
democratic party for this territory, was
flattened out as thin as shad by the ad-
ministration in the appointment of Capt.
Maratta to the marshalshlp, after Mr..
Day had canvassed nearly the whole ter
ritory for months in the interest of Nc.
Cormack, Of Grand Forks, for the posi-
tion. The president gives little weight
to recommendations for office. When
candidate is brought to his notice he
seeks reliable and unbiased Information
IN regard to the mans capabilities and
personal integrity In his own way, and
that deue he makes up his own decision
as to whom he will appoint and puts his
foot down to stay. This is what he will
do in the case of the charges against Gov.
Pierce, and when he finds, as he surely
will, til at the charges affecting the gov
ernor's official integrity and competency
are "baseless as the fabric of vision"
be will condemn the assallants rather
than the assailed.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY.
JAMESTOWN. OAK, THU RSDAY OCTOBER Is. 1885.

by any outside ''understandlng'' Of il?
Tho whole sum and substance of the mat
ter is that our sanity competitor tried to
crawl out Of one lie by telling another
and is caught IN both.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15
Gov. Pierce's Address at the TOrrite-
rial Fair.

NONs IicICc AUuEeSS NJ Suc sViIllc
rial Fair.
Gov. Pierce delivered an address at the
territorial fair recently held at Huron
which abounds with go many good, prac
tical, sensible hits and suggestions that
many of them will bear publication and
republication all over the territory and
not come amiss with our readers back in
the states. The governor has a peculiar
faculty for saying the right thing at the
right time and place. He can accommo-
date himself TO nearly all circumstances
from bout with the mem bers Of the leg
islature, ramble with the farmers, to the
laying of the corner stone of church at
which he of1iciated few days ago with
all the solemnity of bishop. Passing
from an eloquent dissertation on the po
litical and moral duties of the people of
Dakota as citizens, IN his address at ltu-
ron, he launched out upon the dignity Of
agriculture in Dakota as follows:
want to say word about the respect
ability and di gnity of agriculture as
pursuit. l think we have higher res
pect for the occupation of farming out
here in Dakota than exists IN any other
section in the Union. Whatever the bus
mess of any citizen, he does not feel con-
tented and happy unless in some way or
other he IS associated with farming. And,
while there are many restless falEers IN
the east, men and boys who think some
profession highly preferable to tllling the
soil, they have very little regard for the
person hailing from Dakota, il that per-
son is not engaged In agriculture. They
have heard of all these big truths concern
ing the enormous enterprise and enor-
nous farms of Dakota until they fancy
that everybody engaged in the business
up here docs it by wholesale-that it takes
him days to ride around his farm and
hours to count the reapers which are cut
ting down the golden grain. If You want
attention IN the east, just go there and
announce that you are engaged in wheat
and cattle raising in Dakota. But farm
ing is not considered so aristocratic down
there and, as SAID, eastern young men
want to go into banking or law or mer-
chandislug. 1t may cone to be so here
after a while. The desire for fine clothes
and shady place on work days as well
as Sundays and on public occasions like
this is no, confined to the ladies, though
We often assume to think so. The clerk
and the doctor and the lawyer and the
| preacher do not need to soil their clothes
or burn their hands. The consequence il
that many foolish young men yearn for
professional life and many fond mother,
| and fathers sympathize with this desire.
know of nothing more absolutely en-.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1885-10-15

writers Of the press as these points Nigh
be overlooked by the scribes in their eager
ness to explain away the bad traits which
would be freely furnished them by out
side parties. AS our matches had alb
sorbed the prevailing dampness thest
notes had to be written IN the dark, and
they will probably sometime be gathered
into the archaeological department of the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington AZ
specimen hieroglyphics Of prehistoric
race.
After all these preliminary arrange
ments for an unreturnlng excursion over
Jordan had been made, thoughtful
member of the party called attention to
an empty quart bottle that would show
up in the coroner's invoice of our outfit
and be ''dead give away to the party
as clrcumstantial evidence to which the
jury might incidentally refer in their YER
dict The bottle had been Inadvertently
picked up by one of our party during the
day as relic while on the trail of another
jamestown hunting party, consisting of
McKechnie, Mcclure and Lewis, who
had been up there the week before, hut a.
we had no means of communicating these
facts 1t would be credited to US because
found in our possession and the real own
crs would never claim it. THIS was a
stlcker which exhausted the ingenuity Of
the whole party. But sit is an i'll wind
that blows no one any good" and the
same rain that brought us face to face
with death loosencd the label on bottle
of chow chow which was altlsticslly re-
moved and placed on the empty bottle,
not for the purpose of deceptisn but as a
precautionary measure.
During all this time the water with
which our clothing and lmprovised bed
were soaked had seemingly become wet
ter and the night wind colder and fiercer.
In this extremity of distress the Lords
prayer would have been recited in concert
but none of the party happened to know
1t end that exercise had to be dispensed
with.
About this time the grey streaks OF
dawn began to show up in the east and
were hailed with as much delight as the
sight of sail by wrecked mariners. The
party clutcned these signs of approaching
day as new lease of life and it was unan-
lmously agreed that in case the hope
should be realized all the proceedings that
had taken place should be declared "off. :"
After standing on our heads to empty
the water out of our boots and engaging
in violent exercise to revive circulation
of the blood we discovered several shacks
only a short distance from where we
spent our Night Of Terror
1t was now Sunday and Of course NJ
hunting was to be done. One duck was
shot, however, as matter of self-defense,
which is the first law of nature, the water
fowl being killed while sitting IN pond
meditating ferocious attack upon one
of the party. We came hcme on Sun lay,
not as scheme for saving day, but to
relieve the anxiety Of our friends about
our safety at the earliest possible moment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-19
DIED.

CURRAN. On Friday, June 10Th, 1855, RIvEs
TARKINGTON, infant of Hives c. and Lillian
Curran, aged three ysars and three months from
diphtheria
GIHON. On Thursday morning. June 18th. 1sss
CHARLOTTE, only dau ghier of Medical Director AL
bert L. and Clara Moutfort uihon.
Services at ~. Johns Church, Saturday. at 8:so n
m. TO which friends invited IntermeIt Phila-
delphia.
HALL. On Thursday morning at O'Clock. at her
residence. No 1l62 Twentieth street, Mrs SARAH
HALL, aged 81 years. Faithful servant ia the family
of Mrs NJ h. SInoot
Funeral from Mt Zion church, Georgetown, satur-
day. June %, al O'Clock p. m.
June 18th, 1855, at $40 O'Clock, W. H. hATrON, be-
loved of Charles r. aud Deliah IL HaIton, aged 20
years. month. Is days
Funeral sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, from A.
bury M E church, corner Eleventh and h streets
northwest Relatives and friends respectfully invited
70 attend.
New York and Philadelphia papers please copy.l
JOHNSON. On Thursday, June 18Th. 1s,5. az
sixtwenty O'Clock p. m, HARRY F. youngest child
OF Robert and Annie Johnson.a aged seven months and
twenty seven days.
Funeral from his parents residence No. 40 War.
ner street northwest Saturday, at ninehirty clock
Relatives and friends respectfully invited 70
attend
RENNER; June IL. 1885 Of pneumonia. THBo-
DOSIA T. RENNER
Funeral will take place from her residence 324
-Four and-a half street northwest, sunday, 10Th al
O'Clock. Friends and acquainances are most respect
fully invited to attend 2s
WHITNEY. suddenly, In Detroit, June 18th. 1855.
LoTTIE wife of o. III. Whitney and sister vi ArA
K l.. Bruce. of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-19
Surface Street improvements.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE THE PAST YEAR AM
WHAT is PROPOSED To no

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE THE PAST YEAR AND
WHAT is PROPOSED TO DO.
The streets and alleys of this city were never
In more satisfactory condition than at pres
est. The streets are I'm good repair and well
swept. and the alleys are clean and flushed out
whenever ordered by the health officer.
During this hot season this state of things
conduce greatly to the comfort of the citizens,
and a subject Of favorable comment by visiting
strangers.
The fiscal year now about to close has been
conspicuous in adding to the beauties and con-
yeniences of the city. The important outlay
i'm The STAR, costing 5000, o0o nearly all ex-
pended in the past year, has made it possible to
add many other Improvements, both of public
and private nature. The sums appropriated by
Congress for other street improvements have
nearly all been expended. These appropria-
tions were: S263,OOO for replacement of wood
streets and avenues, $50, 900 for repairs to con-
crete pavements, $4,000 for materials tor per-
avenues and alleys, $4,000 for county roads,
1000 for cleaning streets $4,000 for clean
ing alleys, S95, $50 for lighting and extending
street lamps, and SIS 900 to be expended under
the parking commission for the Ornamentation
of the streets, avenues and reservations.
The replacement of the old wood and cobble-
stone pavements has been a principal object
governing the District Commissioners from the
outset of their terms OF office. The appropria-
short of their estimates the work could not be
advanced SO far desirable, and something
over one mile OF crumbling wood still remains
patched and mended as best it can be. The
first cost of these wood pavements, il will be
remembered, was four million of dollars, on
which the citizens are still paying interest, aud
Capt. Greene in his annual report, says that
the replacement has absorbed about nine-tenths
of the money available for streets in the last
eight years, the amount expended during the
six years since the present form of government
was established being about 81, 100000.
After all the experiments with patent pave
ments the Commissioners have settled down
to three standard classes as the best suited for
this city, the adoption of which for years past has
given such uniformity to the streets and elected
the praises of all persons. The granite block,
sheet asphalt and asphalt block are the kinds
selected; the average cost being in the order
named: $2.65, S2.25 and So. o per SO uare yard
When the wooden block disappear the atten-
ton Of the Commissioners will be given to the
cobblestone and macadam streets. For the ne xt
fiscal year the expenditures will be quite linn
tied in comparison with years past-$265 900
being the sum total for street improvements for
both underground and surface work for the
coming fiscal year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-19

HANLAN's MARROW ESQ APE FROM DRowSISG.
Toronto special To the Philadelphia Press
says:-Hanlan was practising on the bay yes
terday, when his new boat, which he had out
account of the accident il a. follows: 81 lad got
out some three-quartegs OF mile in the bay,
when suddenly the boat broke up completely,
throwing me into the water. There was not
sufficient OF the boat left together Ia support
in the water, but, with the assistance of what
little there was, swan towards the wharf. and,
after getting over about half "A mile OF distance,
was exhausted. Some sailors belonging 20 "A
schooner, who observed me, came To INV assist
ance and saved me from drowning. IL was a
very marrow escape. l was never 50 much ex-
hausted In the water before, and the wafer
seemed TO be intensely cold and chilled me-"
Hanlan left tonight for Buffalo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-19
baltimore Markets.

BALTIMORE, Mp, June 19.-Virginia sixes con-
solidated 81: past-due coupons 50; new tenforties
35l2 new threes. 53ls Did to-day.
BALTIMoRE,Mn,J June 19.-Cotton dull and lower,
street and western super 300as SO; do extra, 3.65
IA 25; do. family, 4.5Oa5.2O city mills super 3.25
ALSO; do. extra B. .5a4OO do. Rio brands 49Oa5 10:
Patapsco family, 5.75; superlalive patent. 600
red, 9Oa95 do. amber. s7alo0: No. l Maryland,
99iaa1 90: No: 2western winter red spot, 95aa95s4
July, 962sa965s: August, LOCAL .OOla; September
1.03lsal N3l4 october, l05lsal.0 6 Corn-southern
firm western higher and more active: southern white
62a62i2: do. yellow, 56a56i2 western mixed, spot,
52a52l2. Oats frmer-sOuthern, 37a39 western white
3Sa39; do. mixed, 36as1; Pennsylvania, 31asS. Rye
dull, 6Sa Hay steady-prime to choice Pennsylva-
mia and Maryland, 16.00al 700. Provisions steady
Bulk meats-shoulders and clear rib sides, packed,
51a6As Bacon-shoulders, 90: clear rib Sides IN;
hams, 1l14a12la. Lard-refned, g. Butter steady
western packed 10a13; creamery. 16al9. Eggs
lower. 13saa14 Petroleum quiet-reined, 7a4a17s
Coffee quiet-Rio cargoes ordinary TO fair, Lash
Whisky steady l.20a1.21. Freights to Liverpool per
steamer dull-cOtton 16d; -four 3d. grain 2i.d
Receipts-fOur. 400 barrels wheat. 1900 bushels;
corn p 900 bushels; OATS 1000 bushels: rye, LOCO
bushels: corn, 10000 bushels. Sales-wheat 52I 600
bushels: corn. $4,000 bushels
Chicago Markets.
firm throughout nearly the entire session. shaded off
toward the close owing rather free realizing and
closed y under yesterdayCash, S91; July, 9O, Au-
gust 92i4aS2as: september, 9las. Corn ioxer-Cash,
ATS: July. Ats; August 46s4; Oats lower-Cash 33:
Whisky. 1.15 Pork easfer-Cash and July, 1885;
August, lO.42l; September, lO.5212. Lard steady
Cash, $685. July. 6.67iz; August. 6.75.