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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09

There was 4 slight increase in The
national debt during pecenleer.
Cleveland has resigned his position
as governor Of Nsw York.
All lovers Of the filthy weed viii he,
pleased to learn that ti1"'c is no market
for Connecticut tobacco. The crop in
that region 21"s been large ard we]l
c1ret, bat Wholesale 1va'ers ind hat a
better ar'lclr is plocurahle IN Virginia
and ia other southern states for the, sak0e
price. al who llsve ever smoked clGors
III ade OF Ibis tobacco are generally Of the
the same opinion a. the man who, after
talk ing few whitlS ct Connecticut ci-
gar pr"st nlrd by 4 friend, said thst he
wanted the corntd beef and boiled beets,
and the rest of tie huit.d dinner; nc al
ready had the cabbage-Ex
PinnerrPresS: Tw" years ago Senator
Peck prepared bill for The incorpora-
li~a OF villages which was nor open 10
tue objection If special legislation, Il
passed TIE senate but house bill WAS
atlerward accepted Ivy the former boAy
and passed. This bill has since been de-
clnred unconstitutional in that j, b"leSat.
ed legislative Functions to the judiciary.
Senator Scenersoe will introduce cu9a-
live bill ]eSalizing tke incorporation Of
such villages as incorporated under the
unconstitutional act and also leyalzing
the offices in such villages. Later III the
session q bill fer the incorporation Of
villages in the shape Of q general law,
will doubtless he pre- pared and passed.
Lewis famous 1866 distilled whi.key
at SPKANDEL's.
Marshall County Leader: The Leg
islature meets next Tuesday. Much is
expected OF that honorable body. Wheat
must advance at least 5 cents a bushel
every day during the session; trains must
bc taught 10 stop whenever d sack Of
wheat shows up, take it on board, receipt
for it according 10 machine measure,
grade it strictly No. l, awful hard, and !
retura the bays an3 strings BY mail, pos
tage PREPAID. When these things have
been accomplished the rural roosters may !
return home 10 their admiring constit-
uents in s"feiy, but if they fail therein !
their home reception, as general |
thing, will lie q meek tie" sociatie.
The Washington Star says it is esti
mattel that 10000 ball tickets will be
required for the Inauguration ball
The. Pension building will be turned over
10 the committee on the 18th of January
by Gen. Meigs. Tie invitation cards
will be engraved and printed at the Blu.
reaR of Engraving and Printing. The
design adopted was made by the archi-
lect in the city. The central figure is a
representation of the Peace Monument.
On the sides are vignette portraits Of
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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09

ARew brand Of whiskey, pure Ken
sncky Snow Flake, at SrRA*nEL's.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09
EsTRAY.

EsTRAI.
Came onto my premises in the town OF
Little Falls, Morrison county, Mimi,
on or about Nov. 10, 1884, FIVE spring
cal~cs. The owner can have them by
paying for this advertisement! land paying
me for taking cave Of them. I live on
section 81, town 40, range 81.
KAspER TOMAS
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09

tS When yoa want a good nickle
cigar go 10 Vasa]y's aud get ''Natalia
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09

There WAS Il slight increase in thu
national debt during December.
Cleveland has resigned his position
as governor Of Nav York.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09
Runaway and Lost,

Little Falls, Dec. 26, 1884.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

| (From Our Regular CorrespondentD
do not think it exaggeration to
say that many of the Government
offices In Washington have accom-
plished more work in the last month
than was accomplished in any two
months OF the preceding year. say
many of the offices, for some OF them
have not done much for the reason
that there is not much for them to do.
A large number of offices, owing to
the negligence, idleness, and imcom-
petence of the clerks, are far behind
with their work. This is especially
the case with the Patent, Pension, and
Land offices, but within The last month
wonderful progress has been made,
and it is probable that the vexatious
and unnecessary delays that have
driven applicants for patents and pen
slons to despair will be suffered no
longer. From the President down to
his last appointment the personel of
the administration is capable of hard
work, and it has evidently this object
in view, more than pleasure, emolu-
ment, or fame. The cabinet of the !
new President are not men with itch /
ing palms. They are all men of suffi- |
cient wealth, or men to whom their
wealth is sufficient So it is with the
recent bureau appointees, a gentleman
whose fortune is not less than $780,
D0O was last week appointed to an
Office in one of the departments, the
salary of which is only $1,000. He did
not need the Office, but the office need
ed him.
Heretofore the staples of recon-
for office have been pow
'rty, and patriotism. "He needs the
'tfice, he has large family, and he
vas good soldier" No question as to
illness was considered, and the civil
ervice has been made an elegant and
lucrative asylum for incompetent dis
bled soldiers, and dishonest republi- s
an politicians. 1t is needless to saw.
hat this is perversion of the object
I government offices, which have Tor ]
heir end the transaction Of the postal, {
military, naval, and financial business
{ the entire country. The United
tates pension and bounty laws have /.
aid with lavishness unparalleled in Z
istory for the service which every e
IAN owes to his country, and it Is S
me this false philanthropy and SEN
mental craftsmanship of appointing
len TO offices they do not need and
'enot competent to fill, should end a
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
Lynching at Union CITY.

Bud Farris, white, and Freeman
Ward. col, were lynched at Union
City Monday night. They were mem.
bers of desperate band of burglars
who had infested the place for some
months, and were caught in the act OF
breaking into a house.
Last Christmas eve, Thos. Montgom-
cry, prominent resident of Obion
county, who lived four miles from
town, was awakened about midnight
by some one endeavoring to omen n
window. He rose, seized a pistol and
fired through the window. Remark
ing to his wife that he thought he had
wounded the burglar, Mr.. Montgom-
cry walked to the front door and OPEN
ed It, AS he did so shot was fired
and Mr.. Montgomery fell dead, being
rlddled with buckshot Mrs. Mont
go merry, alarmed by the shot and the
failure OF her husband to return. ran
TO the door, found him a corpse and
Immediately fled in her night dress
and with bare feet to her mothers
house for assistance. She contracted a
severe cold and died on the 9TH of
March.
The murderers OF Mr.. Montgomery
were afterwards captured and having
confessed their crime were lynched on
the night OF March 11th. The exasper-
ated feelings of the citizens ON account
OF the Montgomery murder caused
the lynehing Monday night, Farris and
Ward being members of the same
gang that committed the crime on
Christmas eve.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

In has for some time been the duty
of the CHRONICLE to maintain kind
of censorship over the columns of the
Democrat, and toput that journal right
when it falls into egregious blunders.
Our services in this particular have
not been called into requisition so fire.
quently of late as in times gone by, but
last weeks issue of that esteemed con-
temporary contained the following,
which de mands our immediate atten-
ton:
BarriOs the president of Guatemala
who has been raising such disturb
ance IN South America by his confed-
Grafton project. is reported to have
been killed at the Chalchuaha.
The Democrat is respectfully in
formed that the disturbance referred
to was not in South America, but on
our own continent, the Northern di-
vision OF the hemisphere We must
apologize to the public for stating
fact so generally known-this is in
tended solely for the benefit of the
Democrat.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

III England is victorious in the pend
ing conflict with Russia the arbitra-
ment of arms will not be finality. In
fact, it will be necessary for England
to whip Russia every twenty years to
prevent the egreSsions of that nation
southwark.
II Russia is victorious, the Prince of
Wales will never be crowned Emperor
OF India, or ii he Is, the title will he
as meaningless us that which will pro.
nounce him King OF Funce. The
British dominion in the East will rap
idly become a thing of the past Brit
ish wealth and British power will have
reached its climax, and the downward
tendency will have set in, which is to
terminate in Macauley's New leland
er taking seat con broken arch of
London bridge to sketch the ruins of
ST. Paul"
Englands empire in the Elst has
been political project, sustained by
commercial enterprise and the proves
of British arms The Russian move
ment southwark is the natural migra-
ton and swelling out of great people,
grown more civalized than their
Southern neighbors who seek an out
let by sea and more salubrious eli
mate. To epitomize, the English hold
on the East is artificial, the Russian
movement in that direction is natural.
England will probably triumph in the
coming war and in several others, but
by dogged persistancy, rather than
by conquest, Russia will eventually
accomplish her purpose.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

TURKEY is the natural ally of Eng
land, and notwithstanding Bismarck's
advice, must be drawn into the fight
There has been long duel between
the MuScovite and the Ottoman; they
are natural enemies. When the latter
was defeated before the walls of Wen
ma by John Sobeiski, the decay Of his
power set in and his country would
long since have been appropriated by
the former but for the interference of
England. Destroy the British power
and the Russian capital will be re-
moved from St Petersburg to Con-
stantinople in % years.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

Senators Harris and Jackson have
agreed OH u number of postmasters for
Tennessee whose appointment they
recommend to the President. Among
them is Mrs. NJ. w. johnson for the
postnfiice in this city, Removals will
be made only for inefiiciency or cor
ruption in Office or for offensive par
tisanship." The latter charge, Secreta-
ry Villas requires to be made in the
form of an affidavit by two or more
responsible citizens endorsed for verac-
itr by the congressman of the district.
Tennessee will probably not be reach
ed until August, though the vacancies
which occur in regular manner will
be promptly filled.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
THE REGISTRATION BILl~

The objection to the registration bill
that it is not general and applies only
to the larger towns is no objection
at all.
A registration law is necessary in
large towns, but absolutely useless IN
rural districts. In cities the number
of voters are too large to he personally
known to the election judges and if
the precincts were made smaller this
objection would still apply on account
of the transient ch ,racter Of many city
voters. A registration law Is the only
means by which the practices OF re-
pesting and importing voters can be
efectually prevented.
In large towns like Cincinnati and
Chicago where there is no registration
law, there is never fair election and
the number Of votes cast ALWAYS ex-
coed the legitimate voting population.
In a rural district where no more
than from 800 to 500 votes are poIled.
the voters are all personally known to
the election Judges; repeating or inn
porting would be next to impossible,
and registration law would be a USE
less and expensive piece of machinery.
In rural communities, too. such law
would, no doubt, prevent full ballot
ION account OF the remoteness of the
voters from the place of registration
and the tartly habits of rural popula-
tions.
Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga
and Knoxville should each have reg
istratiOn law, and it is not susceptible
OF proof that such a regulation would
.unjustly affect either the Republican
or Democratic party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

Is Gilbert and Sullivan's new comic
opera, "The Mikado," the japanese
M march proposes a plan, which if APP
piled IN this country, would considera.
bly, thin out the ranks of the young
penple and catch some who are not SO
very young:
so he decreeSl, in words succinct,
That all who fiirted, leered or wlnked,
UNLESS eonnubially linked
Should forthwith be beheaded."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18


There are great many Office seek
ers in the city at present The old
crowd that came here on or about the
fourth of March is pretty we'll thinned
out Some of them linger because
they cannot borrow money to get
home. But new crowd has come in
the last two weeks. Their disappoint-
ment and chagrin on learning the sit
uation OF affairs is picturesque. All
applicants are handed copy of the
civil service law, and blank appllca-
ton for examination. The President
does not consider any appointments
for small offices, and none will be made
until after the first of July. The new
administration seems more anxious
just now to empty than to fill offices,
and each week results in the discharge
of Number of those who have been
kept on the government pay rolls
although they have rendered no legiti-
mate service. If the discharge of
this class shall be made thorough and
exhaustive, literally millions will be
saved annually, and the moral of the
service will be greatly improved.
The daily routine at the White
House involves an immense amount of
work. And although President Cleve-
land is relieved of much work by his
Secretary, Col. Lamont, yet a great
quantity has to receive his personal at
tention. The President is ready for
work at eight o'clock in the morning,
and is usually busy until midnight.
About ten o'clock he begins the peru
sal of such letters as require his spec
lal attention. The great bulk OF the
letters sent to the President marked
personal and confidential are never
seen by him. They are from all sorts
OF people and on all sorts of subjects
Many of them are of a character that
would seem to entitle the writer to
place in a lunatic asylum. II is not
uncommon for these writers to send
ten and twenty page letters, and some
of them enclose their photographs.
The letters are carefully culled and
placed on the eccentric file and not
more than eight or ten letters per day
receive the special attention of the
President.
April Is, 1885.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
THE Russians have never been sue.

THE Russians have never been sue
cessful fighters. Since
dread Pultowa's day,
When fortune LEFT the Royal Swede, -
the prestige of the Russian arms has
not been much to brag on. They
gained kind of negative victory over
Napoleon by burning Moscow, but
they have engaged in several big wars
since they went to Paris with the Al
lies in 1914 and, excepting their brush
with Turkey in 1877, have always been
worsted. Indeed, it is question if
they acquired anything more than a
big debt in the Turkish war. 1t is
certain that they stopped short of their
purpose. At the command of Disreali
they halted at St. Stephano, and crept
back over the Balkans.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

ALL there is in the much talked of
Registration Bill can be put in nut
she'll Ii provides that in civil dis
tricts, cities and taxing districts where
in more than 200 votes are cast, voters
shall be required to register before
voting. Such an act is necessary to
preserve the purity of the ballot in
large towns. 1t would apply only to
Memphis, jackson, ClarksvilIe, Nash
vile, Chattanooga and Knoxville. The
cry OF the Republicans that it is "a par
tisan and DISTINGUISHING measure" is
utterly without foundation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
THE REruBLIoAss 10 BLAME.

The Legislature has adjourned with
out passing the appropriation bills and
the effect is very serious. Unless the
expense OF an extra session is incurred
the public schools will be closed, the
judicial and other current expenses of
the State will not be met and probably
there viii be default in the payment
Of interest on the State debt.
This bad state oil affairs is chargeable
solely to the nine Republican Senator's
whose disgracsful action is too well
known TO be again related. They are
wholly to blame and totally inexcusa-
BILE. The questions whether or not
Speaker Berry transcribed his author
ity in trying to enforce their attend
ance, or whether or not less than n
quorum of members had right to do
this, ii decided in the negative, in no
way relieves them.
They wilfully absented themselves
and refused to return unless they
should he allowed to dictate what char
acler OF legislation should he enacted
turing the remainder OF the term.
For the Senate in session to have par
leyed with them or, in any way, to
have noticed their propositions, would
have established precedent by which
a refractory minority can mark out
and command the entire legislation of
term.
The registration bill, concerning
which all the row was raised, would
have been good law The constrnc-
ton by which the Republicans made
ii PARTISAN measure was exceedingly
str lined, and they will not be sustain
ed in their position by candid public.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

y DISPATCH from Washington states
that Secretary Manning has received
information that the books of certain
bureau have been kept in careless
manner, that ensures and interlinea-
tons have been made after the books
were balanced, in order to cover up
immense Republican frauds, and that
an investigation will show a shocking
state of official depravitv.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

GEN. BARRIos is dead, and his pro-
ject ofcOnfederating the Central Amer
lean States by force has justly failed.
But would it not be a good idea for
these States of their own accord to
carry out the confederation scheme
The whole of Central America is not
as large as the State OF Texas, and
would, no doubt, prosper better under
one government.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

Boss BUTLER was heard to remark
that the action of the Republicans in
raising row about the registration
bill WAS "to consolidate the niger
vote." They feel the necessity of do
inS something to keep the colored vote
from slipping away from them. The
ruse won't work; the negro is too in
telligent to be imposed upon by such
q frirk
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

Gov. BATE should at once call an
extra session of the legislature for the
sole purpose OF passing the appropria-
ton bills. 1t will be no back down ON
his part that mention of the Registra-
ton bill be omitted from the call. In
TACT, it is not matter of sufficient i'm
portance to include in call for an
extra session, though it Is good bill
AMI one that ought to be enacted into
a Law. 1t can very easily go over to
the next term of the legislature. The
Governor is the Governor of the
State II is not his duty to maintain
party pride at the States expense.
The extra session should be called at
once. The Republicans alone are to
blame for the necessity of an extra
session and on them alone can it be
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

To the yOungster who has a sprain,
as well as the old gentleman who suff-
ers from rheumatism, Lame Back, or
Neuralgia, Coussens Lightning Lini-
ment, affords relief which such suff-
erers can appreciate. Owners of val
uaole horses also rejoice to know there
is such a remedy as this liniment for
Spawn, Ringbone, Scratches, Calls etc.
For sale by Owen d Moore and w. S.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

JOHN SHERMAN said in a speech at
Columbus, Ohio, recently: "The coun-
try needs more business and less poll
ties If we are honest and work to-
gether for the country's good, people
don't care whether we are Republicans
or Democrats"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

THE Memphis Avalanche rejoices in
the death OF two political machines in
Tennessee. The Vertrees & Co. machine
was laid out by the Legislature. and
fortunately the Butler-Houk machine
has also been moved, by benign Provi-
dence, to Il gracious act of suicide"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

THE local Republican executive
committee at Nashville was intrusted
by the absconding Senators to prepare
an address TO the public, and has done
SO. IL is silly and puerile document,
and will only serve TO advertise the
Zig blunder that party has fallen into.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
April Is, 1885.

Gladstone's craftsmanship is of too
timid kind for such an emergency as
that which has now arisen i'll the af-
fairs of Great Britain. The prompt
decisiveness, as well as the astute di-
plomacy of DisreaG is missed in the
present crisis.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

THREE members of the Illinois leg
islature have died during the present
session, and the demise of each of them
has been sudden.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18

Up in arms-The squalling infant
at midnight
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
THE MICHIGAN CROP.

LANSING, Mich, April 10.--For the
April crop reports the Secretary of
State has received reports represent
ing Gas townships The reports show
that the condition OF wheat in the
SOUTHERN four tiers of counties is los,
and in the northern counties 102 per
cent. OF the condition one year ago.
The present acreage as estimated in
November is ,454,059, or about 5 per
cent. less than was harvested in 1884.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-18
TENNESSEE.

GALLATIN, April 10.-A letter from
Carthage says: The wheat crop in
this section is thought to be almost a
failure, and much of the ground SOW
ed last fall has been piowed up and
sowed IN oats. One farmer near this
place has in eighty acres OF oats that
he had intended for a wheat crop.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-01-29
PIOCHE piCKrNGs.
Record, Jan, "A.

The cottonwood trees In PahranAgat Val.
ley are now covered with large buds. and
the grass 10 beginning TO appear from be-
heath the ground.
All persons who have visited Silver Reef
lately say that the place looks very healthy.
The ore in the mines OF the Christy Com
pany has improved in grade.
Notwithstanding that there 10 but little
sickness h~eresbouts there has been scarcely
. day for the past two weeks but what DR..
keeoe has been forced TO make q trip either
10 Panaca or ~Bullionville.
About swo-thirds OF our population are
smicted with distemper. They go around
running at the eyes and nose, and present
Is sad a spectacle a. a band OF condemned
government mules. afflicted in like manner,
and have been turned out TO die.
some OF the holders OF Lincoln county
Doads' being asked what they would dispose
bonds for to the county, sent up work
@N they would deduct the interest and
MAe dollar for dollar. We don't believe
me- very liberal terms will be accepted
~oondholders will be compelled to wait
: weir money a couple of months longer;
,ss perhaps, the county may be able Ia
'sss'm them on those liberal terms.