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Richland beacon., 1885-05-09

absve rates.
10 cs-ts per line, each insertion, LOT teaoins
matter or local notices. % per cent auued 70
sbovs rates for each change Of yearly nan
yearly or quarterly advertisements
Positively no reduction from above rates iof
the accommodation Of any one.
Cash mus, accompany every ofder nhiess
the advertiser or agent ie known oy 'he P'o'
prietor TO be u responsible parry
Communications must reach this ONCE "
Or before Thursday mornings, II they appear
IN the frs, issue after they are received, ano
advertisement. must-be handed IN teioie II
day neen.
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"Who is that across the street: ?"
"Oh that is a very close friend OF
NINE" "Indeenr' "Ies. Never
lends a cent"
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h published every Saturday morning, al
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[ IOnWei.
Death never paris
Such loving hearts
Love and respect
| do expect.
No gift can show
The love ! owe.
Let him never take q
wife
That will not love her
as his life.
In loving thee
! love myself.
A heart content
Can ne er repent.
In God and the
Shall my JOY be.
Love thy chas'e wife
Beyond all life.
Love and pray
Night and day.
Grea; JOY in thee
Continually.
Ny fond delight
BY day and night.
PRAY 10 love.
| oye TO pray.
In thee, my choice,
! DO rejoice.
Boiy and mind
Ia thee / find
Dear wife thy road
Doth lead to God,
God alone
Made us two one.
Eternally
My love shall be.
All | refuse,
And thee ! choose.
Worship is due
To God and YOU.
I wish to thee
All Joy may be.
In thee my love
All ioy | prove.
Richland beacon., 1885-05-09
POsies for Wedding Rings.

The old English custom OF having engraved
upon the wedding ring sweet sentiment has
We, many followers, bsnce We give ba''w
rp,rbar Of ui,e EXPRESSIONS, most of which
were written and used during the time OF
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
FOREIGN.

Over 10000 Christians have been
the provinces of Biendile and Phyen. Muir
ders and Incendiary fires are of daily occur
renee.
The cholera panic at Marseilles is in
creasing, and the number OF departures
from the city averages 1000 daily. OF thir-
ty-five new cases reported in Madrid fifteen
were on one street. The plague has broken
out in Hoi-Phong, Tonqun. where it caused
seventeen deaths in a single day. Several
clses resembling cholera have appeared in
the suburbs OF Odessa, Russia, where all ar
rivals from Marseiles have been prohibited.
Great mortality is being caused
among the Russians on the Afghan frontier
by cholera and dysentery.
In speech at Winbernminster, Lord
Randolph Churchill denounced the Radicals
for wishing to tax the poor mans beer,
which, he said, was food equally with bread.
He repudiated the charge that he desired
war with Russia for the sake of securing
votes.
Germany's supremacy in the posses
siOhS ny us suDJtCbS III LdnIlDdT mas
been conceded by the Sultan, under the po-
tent influence of a formidable squadron
which had taken a position in front of his
Majcsty's palace.
The extreme heat prevailing ut Mar
settles has given the cholera there a fresh
impetus, the number OF new cases and
deaths having been materially increased.
The autumn maneuvers in the south OF
France have been abandoned on account of
the pesticnce.
Afghan troops are said to be massing
at Herat.
The native troops have been with
drawn by the Sultan from the now recog-
nned German territory in Zanzibar.
The death of Lord yane Tempest,
who served In the Federal army during the
late war, Is reported from London.
Parliament was prorogued Aug. 10,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

scots. and south OF 81. Paul by hot weather
and storms. Corn In the same territory IL
doing well. In Indiana there lie an increase
In the acreage OF buckwheat and tobacco
and decrease in the acreage of haxseed and
potatoes as compared with 1884.
Cherokee Indians who are dissatis-
ned with tho leases OF their lands TO the
cattle syndicate will petition President
Cleveland to proclaim them invalid and
order the immediate removal OF the cattle.
The corn crop in Central Illinois will
be one of the largest ever known, many
fields averaging seventy-nve bushels TO the
acre.
Near Eddyville, Iowa, one section of
a railroad train carrying Forepaugh's circus
ran into another, wrecking several cars and
seriously injuring a number of employees.
1t is reported from Billings, Mon
tana, that a party OF cattlemen attacked a
band OF twenty Piegan Indians on the Mus
selshell River, killing all OF them, and re-
covering seventy-five stolen horses which
were In their possession.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
WESTERN.

Vincent J. Scott, private banker Of
Detroit has made an assignment. His assets
are given ut $4,000, which, it is thought,
will cover the liabilities.
The Missouri Monumental Grant AS
ISOLATION has teen organized at st. Louis to
raise funds to erect monument to the de-
parted hero in that city.
A San Jose (Cal.) dispatch says a
great sensation was caused there by the bold
daylight robbery of the San Jose Safe De-
posit Bank of Savings. man entered the
bank and obtained bill; of exchange for
S65.50. A few minutes after the stranger
departed the Cashier missed a tray contain
ing $4,000 of gold in twenties. The alarm
was Immediately given and search made,
but without avail. IL is believed two or more
men were engaged in the theft, and that
while the attention OF the bank officers was
engaged by the men i'm front others slipped
inside the counter and stole the money. The
bank has offered 81 900 Tor the capture of
the thieves or recovery OF the money.
A San Francisco dispatch announces
the death in that city of Helen Hunt Jack
sen, the well-known authoress. Her disease
was cancer of the stomach, and she literally
starved to death.
In q collision with riotous strikers at
Bay City, Mich, Sheriff Brennan was
wounded in the head. None of the mob were
arrested.
A sensation has been created in
Youngstown, Ohio, by the assertion of To-
cal clergyman from lis pit that several
society ladies' OF that city lave been un-
der treatment for delirium tremens. lndig-
nation was high, and the reverend gentle
man will be asked to name his authority.
The seventh anniversary of the insti-
tuition of the Independent Order OF Foreeters
in Illinois was celebrated at Chicago. There
was an imposing parade under command of
Chief Marshal William Fitzpatrick, with Chief
of Police Doyle as his aid. At the conolu-
sion of the parade addresses were made in
the Baseball Park. There were about 1900
men I'm line.
William Duff Haynie, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, has been appointed Chief Clerk to
First Assistant Postmaster General Steven
son.
Postmaster General Villas has left
Washington On vacation. He will be ab-
sent from duty two or three weeks.
Sixteen mills at Saginaw City are
now running on eleven hours time. and only
four ten-hour mills are I'm operation.
John Gate, an aged farmer, living
alone near Missouri City, Mo-, was found
dead in bod, with his hands and feet
bound, and several wounds IN his head.
There is no olew TO the murderers or their
motive.
In the Chickasaw Nation, I. T.,
David Hunter shot and killed Samuel Smiley
I'm q quarrel about some horses. Hunter
fed. but was pursued by Smiley 8 friends and
slain.
Wheat in Minnesota, north of st.
Paul, has been damaged by blight and i'm
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
POLITICAL.

Tie anti-monopolists of New York
will meet at Albany, Sept. 8, TO nominate a
State ticket
Following is the last batch of APP
pointments made by the President just be-
fore his departure from Washington:
William II. Taylor. OF Bloomfield. Iowa, to be
Special Indian Agent at g, 900 year, vice Paris
Ia. Folsom. removed.
Joseph Colburn. OF Denver. Colo, to be a
timber agent OF the and Office.
Adolf Erdman, of Missouri and James Du-
gan, OF Miss .ssippi to be Special Examiners OF
the Pension Office.
ico-Gsorge w. Lane, of Buffalo, n. Y.
To be Indian Agents-Joaeph Emery. OF Ore
gon, at the klamath Agency, oregon: Charles H.
J otter. of Nebraska. at the Omaha and Winnie
OF Nebraska, at the Satnee Agency, in Nebraska;
Robert L. Owen, OF Indian Territory, at the
Uni Agency. in Indian Territory.
TO be Collectors of Internal Revenue-John
Dowlin, for the Twenty second District of Penn
sylyania, and Frank SchlandecSer, for the Nine
teerth District OF Pennsylvania
10 be Receivers of Customs-John Il. Gath
right, for the port OF Louisville KY. and Leon
Trosdalc for the port OF Nashville Tenn
To Bc Postmasters-J. II. Jones. Portage, Wis,
vice V. Il. Brewer. declined; Willis b isbell,
Westviae. Conn. Jacob ID. Allen, Butler. Mo.
Chauncey nj. Freeman, Broadfield, No.. r. T..
Hitchcock. Tomah. Wis: VIM. s. Evans, La
Beal, Rich Bill, Mo-, vice @. p. Huckeby, sus-
pended; Frederick A. Verborg. North Vernon.
Ind, vice W. \. Prather, suspended Richard
Holmes, Natchez, Miss, vice Vim. MoCary. sus-
Pended: Michael Boland, DE Kalb, Ind. vic,
Geo. w. Gordon, suspended VIM. M. Gay. VIII
con. " c.. vice Mrs. Virginia Sharp, suspended.
Geo. Wise, at Hamburg, Iowa. vice g. q. Cool
Dakota. VICE LAIRD suspended: Henri;
G. Hunt, Reedsburg. Wis, wee John Kellogg.
suspended: Washington J. b rrett kinstJn,
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John A. Martin was born March 10, 1889,
at Brownsville, Fayette County, Pa While
mere lad he learned the trade Of printing
in the Office of the Brownsville Clipper.
In the spring Of 1857 he went to Pittsburgh
and worked at his trade for short time.
In October of the same year he emigrated
to Kansas. He located in Atchison, and
for short time set type for the columns of
the Squatter Sorereign. He purchased
the Squdtter Sovereign in February,
1888, changed its name to Freedoms
Champion, and on the Goth of the
same month commenced his long edito-
rial career in Kansas by the issue Of
the first number of the paper with which
he has since been SO honorably identified.
Since that time he has been elected TO sew
eral Offices, filing them to the utmost salts
faction of his constituents He was Sec
rotary of the Wyandotte Constitutional
Convention, and was elected State Senator
before he was twenty one. He served as
delegate to the Territorial Convention, at
Lawrence, of April IL. 1860. During the
summer of 1861 he assisted in organizing
the Eighth Kansas Infantry. of which he
was appointed Lieutenant Colonel. Early
in 1862 he was appointed Provost Marshal
of Leavenworth, and in March of the same
year his regiment was ordered to Corinth,
Miss, and thereafter during the whole war
1t served in the Army of the Cumberland
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

Proceedings of the State Convention-The
Platform and Candidates.

Proceedings of the State Convention-The-
Platform and Candidates.
The State Convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Greenback or National Labor party
was held at Erie on the 18th inst Twenty
one counties we represented by forty
two delegates. William Wilhelm, of
Schuylkill County, was made permanent
Chairman. Speeches were made by sew
eral delegates, and the resolutions sub
United by Thomas A. Armstrong, of Pitts
burgh, were adopted. They indorse the
National platform adopted at Indianapolis
in 1884, denou1ce the policy of boarding
money in the Treasury, favor the issuance.
of full legal-tender money in place of ma
tional bank notes, demand the enforce
ment of laws prohibiting railroad discrim-
ination, and demand that the right of pc
t,tion shall never be abridged by State or
National Governments. A resolution to.
submit prohibition to the popular vote
was tabled. DIR. N. G. Whitney. of War
rem County. was nominated for State
Treasurer. and I. p. Rynder, of Butler
Go1ntv. was made Chairman of the State
Committee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.

A terrific cyclone visited the village
of Norwood, St. Lawrence County, N. ",
killing eight persons, injuring many others,
and destroying vast amount OF property.
While the storm was in progress hailstones
as large as q mans fist fell, and not only
destroyed the growing crops, but assisted
the cyclone in doing very serious damage to
the buildings. Trees were uprooted as IL
they were but stalks Of wheat. Fences were
blown over, and the great sheet OF water
which swept over the surface OF the country
literally wiped out everything before 1t.
Houses, barns, one church, and the Ogdens-
burg and Lake Champlain Railroad bridge
over the Racquet River were destroyed as
though they were built of nothing stronger
than cardboard. A great stretch of the
railroad track was torn up and carried many
feet from its original position.
Atameeting of the Associated Bessem'
CIR Steel Rail Manufacturers ut Long Branch IL
was agreed TO limit the production TO the de-
mand, the reduction to take effect January
i, 1886.
James Horace Jones, wife
murderer, was execute at Troy, ". Y. He
made the following will: II give and be-
queath TO Rev. Peter Havermans. my sair-
ftual adviser, my body. hope and trust he
viii see il buried decently ana protected
from mutiation. / also give and bequeath
my heart to Rome and my soul t. heaven. i
appoint Father Hayermans executor of my
will" Jones walked to the scafold with IA
steady step and was wonderfully cool while
the final preparations for his execution were
being made. He refused to say anything,
and appeared anxious that there should be
no delay.
Several tenement houses took fire
from barrel factory in Jersey City, and be-
fore the flames were subdued six three-story
were burned to the ground. The tenants all
escaped in their night clothes.
Six gas wells are now in operation at
Findlay, Ohio yielding total average of
100000 feet daily.
John Roach's schedule, filed in New
the nominal assets are 50, TO- ,02s.s7, and the
actual assets 81, 4sl, f7s.23
A gray-haired woman of sixty, who
was once n reienng belle in Philadelphia,
has just been released from an insane
asylum in that city, where she had been in
carcerated for twenty-seven years as tex
travagant" and eccentric" She is in full
possession of her faculties, and, it is claimed,
has never been otherwise.
A young man known as Charles
Hyelm, who has been n waiter in Pitts
,burgh restaurant for two years past, proves
TO be the son Of a wealthy Swedish noble
man, who left his home on account of ex-
cesses while at college. Having received a
liberal remittance aud been promised
parental forgiveness, Hyelm has resigned
his place as waiter and will rejoin his family
in Sweden.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

N. O.. vice w. A, Coleman. suspended; John
w. Marshall. McIeansborouGh, Ill. vice
q. NJ Lyon. Suspended: Chas- II: Bur-
roughs. La Crosse. Wis. vice B. 7. Bryant.
suspended; u. ID. Penn, Nevada. Iowa. vice
Theodore J. Ross. suspended: Jerome w. Pierce.
Springfield, Vt, vice L.. y: Hurd, suspended;
Charles T. Marsh. Oregon, III. yios 3. I. Sheets,
suspended; Joseph III. Allen. Durham, N. c.,
vice ID. g. Mangum. suspended; George w.
Morse, Waterbury, Vt. vice ;: w. Moody, re-
signed: Francis q. Horton, Glendale, Dakota;
vice A. q. Tyner. Office becoming Presidential
April 1, 1885; q rnelius Carr, Woonsocket. Da-
kota, vice A. II. Tyner. office becoming vacant
April l. 1885: J. A. Mantry. Mound City. Kan,
vice g. l.. Evesat, Office becoming Presidential
July !. 1885; Frank w. Frye. Parsons. Kan. vice
s. A. File cher. resigned: j. NJ Gilliland.
Nashua. Iowa. vice j. +. Grave. suspended.
1t is understood in well-informed cir
Giles at Washington that Mr.. Carlisle viii be
nominated by reclamation for Speaker by
the Democratic members of the next House,
with the hearty concurrence of Mr.. Randall
and his friends-
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"Oh, missus, rs tarible skeered.
Las night / dreamed mos all night 1
wuz a-dyin', an is feared / amt long
fer dis world"
"Why, you shouldn't be alarmed |;
you know dreams work by the rule of
contraries."
mo, missus, / kant see dat, COZ
night TO- last ! dreamed / felled down
n well, an shuah / doan' understan'
how 1 could fall up one. "-Harpers
Bazaar.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

the Queens speech being read by the Lord
High Chancellor.
It is reported that Russia has made
propositions to England regarding the zui-
fear Pass OF such nature that the latter
country IL certain to accept
The Egyptian cotton crop will be
large.
The Kretis Zeitung, German news
paper of influence, has made the charge that
the british Consul General mt Zanzibar has
intrigued against Germany, and insists that
the time has come when his influence should
be brought to an end.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
SOUTHERN.

The Hon. Robert Mallory, member
of Congress from Kentucky during the war,
died last week athis farm near LAGRANGE, Ky.
Henry Freese was hanged for muir
der, at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, dying with
the declaration that he was going to glory.
At Laredo, Texas, two Mexican murderers
were executed.
"Buck" Anderson, q Cherokee des-
perado, was shot and killed near Fort Smith,
Arkansas, by II Deputy United states Mar
shall, while resisting arrest for smuggling
whisky into Indian Territory.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20
Gov. Dawes. of Nebraska.

James w. Dawes, Governor of Nebraska,
was born at McConnellsville, Ohio, on Jan.
8, 1916. Removed from Ohio to Wisconsin
in 1856, locating in the town of Newport.
Received common school education
worked on farm summers, attending school
winters. From October, 1864, to October,
1868, clerked for G.. j. Hansen Il Co., gen.
eral merchants. at Kilbourn City, Wis.
Studied law at Fox Lake, Wis, and was
admitted to the bar Jan. 10, 1871. Was
married at Fox Lake, May IL, 1871. Lo-
Gated at Crete, Neb., Sept. 5, 1871. En-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

Lieut.. Col. Martin was promoted TO be
Colonel on the LIST of November, 1852, and
was Provost Marshal of Nashville, Tenn,
from December, 1852, to June, 1863 The
regiment under his command took part in
the battles Of Perryville, Ky, and Lancas-
ter, Ky; the campaign against Tullahoma
and Chattanooga; the battle of Chicka-
manga: the siege of Chattanooga; the
storming of Mission Ridge; the campaign
in Eastern Tennessee in the winter of
1864; the campaign from Chattanooga to
Atlanta; and the subsequent pursuit of
Hood northward. Col. Martin commanded
the Third Brigade during the siege of Chat
tanooga; and commanded the First Brigade,
Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, from
August, 1864, until his muster out at Pu-
laski, Tenn, Nov. II, 1864. Returning
home, he resumed control of the Atchison
Champion early in January, 1865. He has
been Commander-in in chief of the State
Encampment, Grand Army of the Repub-
lie; a delegate from Kansas to the National
Republican Conventions of 1860, 1868,
1872, and 1880; member of the United
States Centennial Commission and one of
the Vice Presidents of that body; was
elected by the two houses of Congress one
of the Board of Managers of the National
Soldiers Homes in 1873, and re- elected in
1882, being Second Vice President of that
body until 1884, and was elected Mayor of
Atchison in 1865. He was elected Governor
of Kansas in 1884, defeating ex- Gov. Click,
the Democratic candidate, by 10000 ma
ioritv
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

Corn that is thoroughly ripened on
the stalks in the field, we'll dried in the
sun, traced up and placed in room,
possesses remarkable vitality. Some
seed corn was disposed of at an auction
sale in Vermont in the spring of 1883
said to be thirty years old, but it
sprouted readily and produced large
crOp.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

THE Longfellow monument will be med
eled by Franklin Simmons, one of the
younger band of sculptors in the Roman
art colony.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

WILLIAM DEAN HowELLs says that no
womln can live in the same house with o
genius.
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gagged in mercantile business from Sept. 5,
1871, to March, 1877 Was elected State
Senator in 1876. Engaged in the practice
of law since 1877. Held the position of
Chairman of the Republican State Central
Committee of Nebraska from May, 1876, TO
September, 1882. Elected delegate 10 the
Republican National Convention at Chi
clgo, June, 1880, and was named by dele
CATION as member of National Republican
Committee for Nebraska for term of four
years. Trustee and Secretary of Doane
College, at Crete, Neb., since 1875. Elected
Governor of Nebraska November, 1882,
and reelected November, 1884.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

HENRY SHAW, the St Louis phi 'anthro-
pist is making trip East, the first time he
has been away from st. Louis in twenty
years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

THERE were twice. as many lynehings 40
hangings in this country laot year.
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LOOK after your wife; never mind
yourself, she'll look after you
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

WHITE rabbits are fashionable pets in
Paris.