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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-10-15
Grants Neiarness.

At Richfield Springs one day, General
Buckner heard some military skeptics
criticising General Grant military
ability. "Why, Hooker was as brave
as Grant. " said one man, excitedly.
"But Grant was very near man.
said Buckner. ''And Mcclellan was q
greater strategist, said another scoffer.
but Grant was famous for his near
ness" said Buckner. "He may not
have been brave, but he was ALWAYS
near." What do you mean by near.
ness?" asked. another scoffer, petu-
lantiy "Why, when looked around
at Fort Donelson for some one to sur
render to. Grant was right there handy:
and / noticed when General Lee sur.
rendered at Appomattox, Grant was the
nearest General to take, his sword. o.
he was near, Grant PIN z. In
dependent.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-10-15

There are In England 1877 ragged
schools which are attended BY 81 600
aAildcen,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1885-10-15

An exchange asks: why wasn't
the spring chicken chosen as an en-
blem of this country?' We can not
answer with any degree of exactness,
but suppose the. fathers of the country
were not familiar with antediluvian
ornithology. Ror6tsry -AdUocate.
IAN eminent physician thinks thai
men should not run after they reach
forty. Chicago Herald.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Edmunds, in calling the assembly to order,
said: THE two houses of congress have met
in pursuance to the constitution and laws and
a concurrent resolution for the purpose of ex-
ecuting the duty required by the constitution
and laws in tie matter of counting the cleo
toral vote for president and vice-president of
the United States, cast by the electors of the
several states, for the term commencing the
4th of March, 1885,"
The certificates having all been examined
and announced, the presiding officer of the
senate announced that Grover Cleveland and
Thomas A. Hendricks have received major
ity Of the electoral votes for the respective Of
fees Of president and vice-president of the
United States. The declaration, he said was
only made as a public statement in the pres
ence of the two houses of congress, and not as
possessing any authority of law to declare any
legal condition whatever.
At the close of Edmunds' announcement
that Cleveland and Hendricks had received
apparently, a majority Of the ballots, the i'm
mense audience broke into applause and
cheers, which the presiding officer attempted
to suppress, but with little success.
A concurrent resolution was adopted that
three representatives and two senators be ap-
pointed to wait on Cleveland and Hendricks
and notify them that they have been duly
elected.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Chicago dispatch: The live stock market
during the week just closed was pretty weak
and slumpy, especially for the poor rif-raff
which has formed the bulk of supplies.
Country shippers are losing a great deal of
money on many consignments of shipping
1eeves, which show unmistakable evidence of
poor feeding. Such stock should not be sacri
feed. as by few months care they would be
in good condition TO market, and bring at
least fairly remunerative prices 1t is difficult
to make readers understand the depression in
The market for common to fair cattle. Men
who come to market and see the glut of low
grades can unders tand it, but as an old dealer
said this morning: MANY of the country
Shippers are paying 81 per cwt. more for COM
mon cattle than the prices of any consump-
tive or distributive market will warrant" A
few of these cattle can be handled, but when
they come in such numbers the market and
all hands lose money
With fairly good demand from Gamers
and city butchers, the market for cows and
mixed lots has been fairly active and about
steady in price. Stockers and feeders, after
an easy opening, owing to absence OF buyers,
picked up considerably and the supply and
demand was about evenly balanced.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
POLITICAL. NOTES.

John A. Logan has been renominated for
senator by Illinois republicans.
''You may say that the next CABINET will be
chosen from the following ten gentlemen"
said a senator who is very close to Mr.. Cleve
land, and who has recently seen him: bay
ard Garland, Whitney, Villas, Jones of New
Hampshire. Mcdonald, Lawton of Georgia,
JONAS Mcclellan, and Wallhall of Mississippi
cannot state how they will be placed, but
you can rest assured these are the only names
under consideration by the president-elect,
and anything else is mere guesswork.''
Samuel ]. Tilden is credited with the opin-
ion that there should be no particular stress
laid upon having rich men in the cabinet fam
lily. He is of the opinion that the new adj
ministration will have something better 10
depend on than that of mere social populari-
ty. He is opposed to w. G. Whitney and Col
Villas on the ground that their regulations
are not national enough. The news of Hen
bricks endorsement of Holman has made
q eat stir in Indiana circles. The general eff
feet is to strengthen Mcdonald with his
friends.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
How to Select Clothing.

"How is an inexperienced buyer to
distinguish between all-woolen goods
and the material containing a cotton
warpP" asked a reporter of an uptown
tailor. ''By merely. travelling out the
rough edge OF the material and inspect
ing the threads" said the tailor. 'Any
one can tell a cotton thread from a
wooden thread. The one will break
short in two, on being tested, while the
other will fray and floss out, like yarn
and worsted. In this way you can
readily detect mixture of cotton warn
in a sham all-woolen fabric" 'How
do you detect shoddy in cloth?" In
just the same way. and even more cas-
lily. Fray out two or three threads
from the rough edge, and untwist them.
If they contain shoddy, it will drop out
of the twist, sometimes like sand, and
then again in an impalpable dust, that
will like enough make you sneeze. If
you'd inhale enough of the stuff it
would be apt to give you both head
ache and a sore throat for most shoddy
is rank poison. York San.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
CRIMINAL.

| Frof. II. Frank Dodal has been indicted by
the grand jury of Madison county, Iowa, for
bigamy.
Thomas Morris, negro aged %, was taken
from the calaboose at Schulenberg, Texas,
by masked mob and hanged to tree. 1t is
alleged that he outraged a white girl of 10.
Lee Linn, editor of the Courant at Wabash,
Ind, was accosted by william Hickey, of
Lagro, who had made threats against Inns
life. The latter pulled a revolver and shot
him twice through the breast. He will die
Frank Binham, the Oldest son of widow
living on farm near the village of Radical
Kansas, returned home after a three days alb
sence, and found his mother. brother and
sister murdered. The trio had apparently
been dead at least forty-eight hours. No clue
to the murderers.
Mrs. Dudley, of New York, who shot Rosa,
was taken to the supreme court on a writ of
habeas corpus. Her counsel claimed that as
she had not been convicted of any ofrense
she should be released from Imprisonment or
admitted to bail. Counsel for the prosecu
ton asked to have the prisoner remanded and
Judge Donahue granted the request.
A terrible tragedy is recorded as having oc-
cdiiCu Oh Chstm . III Chu JUN county.
Oregon. James Barker had gone on hunt
After lapse of ten days he did not return,
and John Kelly, sheriff of San Juan county.
a search party. They arrived at
the cabin of Hugh Parks, an eccentric indi,
vidual. He refused them entrance and the
sheriff swore out warrant for his arrest.
The men hid near the cabin to watch. After
some time Parks emerged, dragging the body
If dead man, that of James Barker. After
his Parks secured himself in the cabin, which
he men continued to watch for three days |
No sign of life within being made, one of the |
men stepped to the door and was immed ately |
hot by the crazy man. The rest of the party |
hen saturated a bale of hay with coal oil, |
oiled it to the door and fired it. burning the |
abn and its occupant, whose charred re-
mains were afterwards found In the ruins
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
June and January.

Her face was round as an apple, and
painted with the rich hue of perfect
health. Her cheeks resembled the sun
lit side of a ripe peach clad in its softest
down, the sublime color which seems
the suspicion of an artificial tint toned
by the shadow of orange blossoms.
The lips were like ripe cherries, and as
they parted made a suspicion of
dimple on each tempting cheek. This
maiden of twenty summers was very
fair to behold. Her deep blue eyes
wore soft and tender light. The long
eyelashes would hide them now and
then. as if defend them from the gaze
of'the curious. Her tresses showed the
richness of gold in color, and her form
was a model for any artist. With man
ners shy yet winning, she seemed a
mate for an angel rather than for a
man. Yet she leaned upon the arm of
a stalwart citizen almost thrice her age,
and will soon go with him to the altar.
Curious meeting this, when January
and June join hands. Do the demands
Of nature prompt such unions?-Pbila-
lelphia Neacs
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
CIereIand Ven POSTED poIi,;c,U,,.

Washington special: 1t would appear from
what is said by some who have means of
knowing, that Mr. Cleveland is not SO igno-
rant as to the characters, standing, ability,
etc., of leading men of his party as many
seem to suppose. One gentleman who had
met Mr.. Cleveland several times since his
election. said: at is great mistake to
assume that teeause he has not been in public
positions that brought him in contact with
the democrats of the country that he does
not know our prominent party men. Gov
ernor Cleveland has been an active democr at
ever since he became old enough to take any
part in politics He has kept well posted.
and since his election he has paid special at.
tention to the doings of our prominent men.
of our party men more accurately than Others
who have been in national public life He is
not 30 much in need of advice in this respect
as many seem to think"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

! mends an appropriation of s2l,213,7Ol, when
is 81 Oss 46s less than the estimates and S2i29V-
less than the appropriation passed for the
fiscal year. The bill reduces the salaries OF
$50 special examiners in the pension bureau
provided for at the last session from Sl,60o 10
Sl,400 annually.
At meeting of the river and harbor COM
mittee it was decided to report amendments
to the river and harbor appropriation bill,
eliminating the item which proposed to make
Capt. Eads consulting enginee for the Mis-
sissippi river and to place him in charge of
the Improvement of Galveston harbor. The
amendments will reduce the appropriation
proposed for Galveston harbor from S750.0OO
to 100000. and will provide that no part of
this sum shall be expended until the harbor
commission provided for iii the bill examines
the harbor and makes report to the secre-
tary of war;
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
COMING MEN FOR THE CABINET.


Cleveland Makes Definite Sign What He
Intends to DO.
President-elect Cleveland, when in New
York city few days ago, was called upon by
many prominent men. Among others was Isaac
H. Hunter, the colored orator, who advocated
Cleveland's claims to the presidency on the
stump at the late election, who waited on
Cleveland TO urge his claim to be minister to
Hayti. Senator German called to perfect in
augural plans
A gentleman prominently connected with
the national democratic committee during the
recent campaign, said to a reporter: II have
good reason to believe that Cleveland has made
up his mind about at least one member of the
cabinet. The choice will give general satisfac-
ton to the democrats of the country. Senator
German and Colonel Smalley have said to
Cleveland in PLAN words: we have no favors
to ask of you for ourselves, but If it is your
wish, in any particular manner, to testify your
appreciation of the efforts of the national
committe in the last canvass, the appoint
ment of Jonas in your cabinet would
be accepted by us as a settlement
in full and we ask that, and that
only Jonas has many friends in the senate
who urge his appointment, and petitions from
all parts of the south and from business men
are continually coming in, and others are in
SO far Cleveland has made no
definite sign of what he intends to do, but
believe he intends to call Jonas, of Louisiana,
into the cabinet as postmaster general" The
name of William Springer is urged for secre-
tary of the treasury. Editor Munford, of the
Kansas City Times, presented the name of
Gen. Charles B. Blair, of Kansas, for any cab
met position Cleveland might be pleased to
select for him.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Peterson's Magazine for March opens
with beautiful steel-plate of two girls
caught in a snow-storm, and entitled
1.-The Sisters" illustrating powerful
story by Frank Lee Benedict. In addi-
ton, there is the usual double-size fash
template, printed from steel and col
ored by hand-"Peterson" being the
only magazine to give these expensive
and refined fashion-plates. Besides
this, there is colored pattern for
tidy on Java canvas; a capital humor-
GUS illustration, 1.-THE Beleaguered Gar
rison;" and some fifty wood-cuts of
fashions, embroideries, workable de-
signs, and other things useful to ladies'
The principal article is an illustrated
one, entitled washington City-Its
Pictorial Side" remarkably we'll
written and discriminating paper on
the federal city, considered artstically,
INTELLECTUALLY, socially, ETC., etc. The
stories, as always in Peterson" are
the very best of their kind. The con-
tinued novelet-'The Lost Ariadne,"
by Mrs. John Sherwood, of New York
increases in power with every num-
Der. Every lady, as we have often
said, ought to take this magazine. The
price is but two dollars a year. with
great deductions to clubs. Address
Charles j. Peterson, 306 Chestnut St,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
FOREIGN NOTES.

Advices from Kortl state number of spies
have been despatched to Khartoum TO ascer
tain the fate of General Gordon.
| There is considerable speculation as to
| whether Arab Pasha did not have q hand in
bringing about the fall of Khartoum.
An official note from Turkey declares Eng
land denied the agreement with Italy as to
the occupation of Egyptian ports, and that
Turkey has requested Italy TO withdraw he
troops from the Red sea.
Rumors have reached Cairo that 1900 men
were massacred at Khartoum. The news of
the disaster cast gloom over the entire Eu-
ropean colony in Egypt The English garri-
son now consists of 1900 men at Alexandria,
1850 at Cairo and $50 marines at Suez.
The fall of Khartoum produced profound
impression in Rome. The newspapers unite
in expressions of sympathy with General
Gordon and give utterances to the belief that
the Mahdi's victory will draw England and
Italy into yet closer relations with view of
joint action in Egypt.
The council at the English war Office de-
cided to advise the dispatch of 5000 troops to
Suakim Immediately. Gen. Stephenson tele-
graphs that 5000 men will be needed to clear
road to Berber, as the news of the fall of
Khartoum will induce the central tribes to
join Osman Digna.
Italy has replied formally to the protests of
the porte against the occupation of Egyptian
ports along the Red sea by Italian forces.
Italy admits the claims of the sutaa to Suzer-
ainty over the Red sea but, says it felt COM
PEELED to occupy certain ports in order to
protect Italian subjects imperiled by the
withdrawal of Egyptian garrisons. Italy says
she will allow the Egyptian flag to remain
side by side with the Italian at every occupied
point
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
General George B. McClellor m

General George B. Mcclellan will
contribute two articles to the Century
war series, one of a general nature on
the Penlnsular campaign and the sec
ond on the battle of Antietam. Gen
Joseph e. Johnston, who, until the
battle of Seven Pines, commanded the
confederate forces opposed to McClel-
Ian In the same campaign, will write of
the confederate side, covering the pc
rod from Manassas to Seven Pines.
dealing with both battles, and with his
own relations and differences with JEFF.
erson Davis. 1t will be remembered
that Gen. Johnston was wounded ut
Seven Pines and was soon after sucN
decided in command by Gen. Lee.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

THE homeopathic believers" writes the
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Traveller, ''are exnlting over the success of
Dr. Winslow in the case of Chief Justice
Waite. WOO Is now on the high road to recoy-
cry. Mrs. Winslow is one of the most popular
lady physicians in Washington, as well as one
Of the most successful. She also attends Mrs.
McEroy and her family at the White House
Just as DR.. Susan Edison attended the Garfield
family. Baro 'ss de Strive, the wife of the
Russian minister, is also homeopathic pby-
siclan, and practices among the poor as we'll
as in her own family, With signal success,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
s. c. d s. Z. LAND GRANT.
Urging Action Upon the Bill to Forfeit Ger
tain Lands.

Urging Action Upon the Bill to Forfeit Ger
tain Lands.
A Washington special says that DR.. Fl. NJ.
Hamblin secretary OF the squatters' union of
O'Brien county, Iowa, has arrived there to
urge upon the senate the necessity of acting
speedily upon the bill to forfeit the land grant
Of The Sioux City and St. Paul road. Dr.
Hamblin says there are 500 families of vari-
Gus nationalties located upon the 5000 acres
Of the unearned grant The settlers were
letter of Secretary Teller of March, 1882
published in the report of the secretary of
state for Iowa. which said that the tract was
unearned. They entered on it, expecting
That 1t would revert to the government, be
spec lily opened to settlement, and that they
would, as squatters, have the first claim I'M
der the homestead and presumption acts. The
railroad company has never ventured to GUST
them, as, in a suit of ejectmert, it would be
required to prove Its own title, which, of
course it could not do. DIR. Ham bin SAYS
That all that section of Iowa is in a ferment
over it.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
For Gorer,,or of W,,o,,,;,,

The entire Iowa delek alton united In reoo,,-
ommending to the president the appointment
or General Iutt Q, of Iowa, for governor of
wyoming, TO succeed VIM. Hale, of Iowa de-
behalf was inaugurated without his knowl.
edge, the object Icing to give him the first IN
u alton in the shape OF the appointment To
me g vernorship. The outcome of the move
ment is uncertain, as several other applicants
have entered the field and the president has
no. signiied his intention in the ma, Ter.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

ONE of the richest women in Europe
is the unfortunate Carlotta, ex-em-
press Of Mexico, whose personal ex-
penditures are small, while the inter-
est on her large fortune every year is
of itself a fortune. She has brothers
who will inherit her estate.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Mrs. ALLISON, mother of Joaquin
Miller, lives at Eugene. Oregon, and,
according to The Portland Oregonian,
has been deserted by her 22-year- old
lover, whom she married year ago.
'She is entirely alone, and trying to
take care of few half-frozen cows and
horses, and, by the aid of the neigh
bors, to keep herself provided with
food and fuel. She resolutely wipes
away the tears that at times will fall
and declares she will not think of her
present condition and the future,
which a short time ago looked 50
bright"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20
Pronounced the Meres, posn

Herr Most says that the story of impending
socialist riots in Pittsburg is all bosh-t the in
vention of some newspaper men. If the So
cialists contemplated such things they would
not tell of it.. He said he favored the use of
dynamite to terrify the despots of Europe. for
there was no hope of reforming the laws there
by peaceable methods. AT pr, sent he did not
proceeding in the right direction.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

BY her marriage the Princess Beat
rice will become sister-in-law to the
prince of Bulgaria, and, curiously, sis
ter-in-law to her own niece, the daught-
er of the Princess Alice, who is mar
ried to the elder brother of Beatrice's
.hetrOthed
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Mr.. ADoLPH SUTRO while abroad
made collection of over fifty thou
sand rare hooks and manuscripts,
which he now proposes to arrange in
library form at San Francisco.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

DR.. HOLMES has rendered the music
of the village choir into words. He
says that three hymns more or less
lugubrious" were rendered by vii
lage choir, got into voice by many pre-
liminary snuffles and other expiatory
efforts and accompanied by the snort
of huge bass-viol which wallowed
through the tune like a hippopota-
mus"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

j REV. DR.. SCOTT, whose death is an
uounced in San Francisco, has been
preaching there for thirty years, with
the exception of year or two in war
times, when his congregation hanged
him in efligy and drummed him out
of the city for offering prayers pub
licly for the success of the rebels and
president" jeff Davis.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

A STRONG effort is being made to in
duce Edwin Booth to play in Wash
ington this winter. He has never Wis
tied the capital since the assassination
of Lincoln by his brother
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

The Rev. DR.. Newman says that the
expenses of Grants trip around the
world were borne "by his noble son,
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., who paid all the
drafts made while the general was
TRAVELLING
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, in recent
interview. says: 1.-The Prince Albert
coat, so much affected in this country,
would not be accepted in an English
pawnshop of any standing.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

The marquis of Butte has expended
more than $2,500,000 on his residence.
Mount Stuart house. When finished
it will be the finest place north of the
Tweed.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

PRINCE BISMARCK makes his foreign
office cost only 81, 400, 900 year, while
those of England and France cost 49,
600, 900 each. His own private fortune
is said not to exceed 100000.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

Mrs. BLACK, the wife of William
Black, novelist, has preserved the orig
inal manuscripts of ''Madcap Violet"
and Mcleod of Dare" to hand down
as heirlooms to her children.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-20

The Hon. Albert G. Porter, who has
completed his administration as gov
ernor of Indiana, proposes to write a
history of the Hoosier state.