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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
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cam Stepoff Johnsing IN de hall dis
eavenin'?" asked the President, as he
rose up aud winked at Samuel Shin TO
stir up the fire and roast Elder Toots
out from behind the stove.
eyes, sab" replied a high pitched
voice from one of the back cornera
"You will please step to de 'front.'
Brother Johnsing has always brag-
ged about the length of his heels, and
he now appeared to think that the hour
had come when he was to receive a
prize chrome. His face wore broad
grin, and just at that moment he would
have lent Brother Backslide Davis fifty
cents without the least security.
"Stepoff Johnsing," said Brother
Gardner in his deep toned voice, Il war
in feed-stoh de odder night to see
about gittin' two.bits with of meal fur
my hens, when you walked in an wanted
to git trusted fur bale of hay fur your
mule"
can he trusted me, sah."
EXACTLY, an it pleased me to see it.
In q few minits de ole man Cummins
limped in. De two of you talked
about de gineral wickedness of mankind
fur few minits, an den dispute arose
as to de aige of de world.s
Eyes, sab. De old man Cumming
doan' know muffin, sah.'
you called him liar"
aBut he called me fools
@You called him bigot.s
eAn' he called me humbug.S
"'Zactly-'zactly-I heerd It ALL
Brudder Johnsing, an now want to AZ
you what you know about de aige Of de
world?"
"I-I-knows as much as de old mar
Cummins.
SLOW old am de airth?"
II dunno, sab"
ooh, you don't! You an Cummins
call names an almost fight ober what
neither of you kin cum widin millyun
miles of knowin'! OATS mankind, 'zact-
~. We kin be bluffed on what We do
know, but we won't back water for any
ibin' man on what we doan' know.
When we GIT a theory we fight fur it
sooner dan fur solemn Jacks. If We
can't convince de odder party by blab
we am ready to do it by sluggin'.
Brudder Johnsing, it will be we'll for
you to disreckolect few Jacks. A gill
OF argument am worth bushel O abuse
It takes man of strong common sense
to admit his fault an errors. You may
believe wild all yer might an still be in
de wrong. Find man who prides
himself on stickin' to his opinyuns, an
you has found dangerous member of
de community, You may now sot
down, m we will attack de regular pro-
gramme Detroit Free Press.
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Personal News Notes.

Ex-Congressman Robert Mallory died at
his farm near La Grange, KY, OF kidney
trouble.
George Alfred Townsend has an income OF
$50, 900 year, and entertains handsomely
at his home on West Thirty fourth street,
New York.
Cadet Davidson. who should have grad
uated at West Point in June, but who was
tried by court martial, found guilty and
sentenced to punishment for insubordina~
ton, will have served out the sentence on
the 2Sth.
Charles Wright of Wetherstield, Conn.,,
seventy-four years old, was found dead in
his barn. Wright was one OF the leading
botanists OF the country. He was employ
ed by the government in an expedition to
Texas and Arizona and had also explored
Cuba for the Spanish government.
Lieut. Frank 4. Brownell of Cleveland,
Ohio, is at Saratoga. He was the member
OF the Fire Zouaves who shot jackson, the
proprietor of the Marshall house, Alexan-
dria, who murdered Col. Ellsworth on May
"a, 1861, when the latter tore the rebel flag
from the hotel Lieut.. Brownell wears the
insignia worn by Col. Ellsworth apd dis.
colored with his blood.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.
The Grasshoppers Coming.

Washington Special.-The signal service
observers in the Northwest have been send
ng Geographic reports for month past
IL regard to the visitation OF grasshoppers.
Many OF the observations give no cause Tor
serious alarm but in Il few localities the
oest has made its appearance in full
orce. The agent sent into the field
some two weeks ago confirms the worst
statements that have been made. Not only
are there large numbers of this destructive
Rocky mountain species at work, but the
common natives and non migratory spe-
lies are also more numerous than usual. AT
Fort Buiord and Poplar Creek agency the
ocusts are very abundant and are damag-
ng the crops. On July 20 during the mid
lle OF the day, large proportion of the
Rocky mountain species left toward the
ast and southeast. The outlook for Il
General sweep OF the grasshopper plague
eastward another year is at this time pref
y clearly indicated.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
Arrest of q Noted Burglar.

Billy Burns, supposed to be the one who
robbed Messrs. Cakes and Merriam at st.
Paul, was arrested at Detroit. Hehad been
making his headquarters at Hamilton,
Ont, but had mistress at Detroit whom
he frequently visited. She has been under
surveillance for some time, but Burns des-
perate character made an attempt at
arrest on previous visits unWise, The
arrest was very neatly planned and exc
cuted. Burns made great struggle to es-
cape, but was overpowered Burns is one
of the coolest and most desperate burglars
in the country. He is tWenty-eight years
old. five feet eleven inches tall, and OF De-
troit production. He served part OF a Ten
years term in Jackson and Ionia state
prisons. bnt escaped from tha latter. He
was captured at Louisville, Ky, and fin
ished his term at Ionia last year. 1t is not
certain that Burns can be convicted, as the
only evidence will be such as the victims OF
the '.gentlemanly burglar" can furnish In
the way of identification. Burns native
heath IL Detroit, his field OF operations being
over an area in which are included ST. Louis,
Toledo, Detroit and st, Paul He is not
ed burglar, his work bring Of the 'nervlest"
kind-of such s. character as to brand him
as professional OF perfect type. All through
the summer, in Milwaukee, La Crosse,
Detroit. and finally st. Paul, traces OF
Bucns work have been plain, and he has
been closely watched. 1.-THE charges against
him in Detroit are not proved or pushed,
Burns will probably be brought to st. Paul
at all early day.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

Senator Dawes, in vigorous letter
published in the New York Tribune,
states the origin OF the cattle-leases in
the Indian Territory and reviews the
difficulties which have been occasioned
by them. Up to a certain time, the
Government dealt firmly with the APP
plications which we're made for per-
mission TO lease the Indian lands.
Permission was refused, and the cattle
men were forbidden to erect rod OF
fence or appropriate an acre OF land.
Then came time when Secretary
Teller suddenly changed front. A
printed letter was addressed to certain
of the cattle men, informing them that
while the Interior Department had no
authority to ratify the leases, it
considered them highly advantageous,
and would not interfere to prevent
the Indians from making them, but
would on the other hand, SO long as
there was no complaint from the
Indians, keep other outsiders of the
lands so leased. This was all the PSF
mission that the cattle men needed.
It gave them the quasi sanction OF the
Government, allowed them to make
their own terms with the Indians, and
assured them OF protection in the oc.
cupancy of the leased lands. There
was, OF course, q great rush for this
new opportunity, and leases we're
briskly made, at a rental of one or
two cents an acre, until almost every
available acre of land was covered by
q lease. The Interior Department
meanwhile had virtually promised to
close it's eyes and permit what it bad
no authority to approve.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
Roman Opinion of Gaul and TeutOn.

Whereas Tacitus and other Roman
writer's spoke in glowing terms of the
Teutonic races, their remarks on the
Gauls, the ancient inhabitants OF
France, were not only far from COM
plimentary, but happened to touch on
points on which Frenchmen arc par
ticularlv sensitive. Tertullian. who
was a great admirer of the Jews, is
very wroth with Tacitus because he
used very anti-Semitic language. He
actually called Tacitus "brawlsr and
the greatest teller of lies" The
French do not differ much from that
opinion, not SO much because Tacitus
spoke Ill Of the Jews and likewise of
the Celts of Gaul, as because he spoke
SO well of the paysans du Danube. The
ancient classical writer's dwell rather
strongly on the unfavorable side of the
Celtic character. 1t is we'll known how
low an opinion Aristotle formed of Gel
tic morality. Strabo says that the Celts
are simple, but proud and sensitive,
fond of dress and ornaments. 1t is
even admitted that they dyed their
hair, and allowed their mustaches to
grow, SO that 1t interfered with the
comfort of eating and drinking.
Strabo goes on to say that they are not
malicious, but reckless, changeable,
fond of innovation, and never to be de-
pended on. They are quick in their
resolutions, but often inconslderate,
fond of war, brave, but intolerably
conceited If victorious, and quite de-
moralized If defeated. Polybius con-
firms that their first onslaught is ter
riblc, but both Caesar and Livy agree
as to their want of steadiness and per-
severance. Other Latin authors add
that they are unmanageable and in
clined to revolutions, and that owing
to continual faction, many are obliged
to leave their country and to try their
fortunes as Adventures elsewhere.
Still darker colors were added by
others to this picture of national de-
pravity. The state of morality in Gaul
was such that it was considered in
famous for father to be seen in COM
pany with his son before the latter had
come of age. At the death of noble
man his widow was, as a matter of
course, subjected to trial as to
whether she had been the cause of her
husbands death. Strabo affirms that it
was their custom to cut off the heads
of their enemies after a battle and to
hang them on the heads of their horses
or nail them over their doors. While
German scholars composed this mosaic
out of all the stones that classical
writer's had ever thrown at the inhab-
itants of Gaul, French writer's retail
ated by either throwing discredit on
Tacitus, the supposed encomiast of the
Germans or by showing that the ac-
cestors of the Teutonic race proves
better than anything else that at his
time the Germans had not yet emerged
from state of the grossest barbarian,
and were incapable, therefore, as yet,
of vices which they maintain are the
outcome of a more advanced state of
civilization.-Mdr Muller, IN The Nine
teenh Century.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

1t is certainly somewhat peculiar
that the cases of cholera that have ac-
cured in Marseilles have been not
among the squalid poor but among
the wealthy. While usually cholera
obtains its victims in thickly settled
communities, where poverty prevents
attention to sanitary conditions, peo-
BILE who habitually disregard the laws
of health, are likely to be carried of
by it. even though they have the most
desirable surroundings.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

1t is stated that Indications are
favorable for an immense cotton crop
IN most OF the States where it is q
staple. Texas will have the largest
crop that it has over raised. This will
tend to keep the price OF all cotton
fabrics down to level not higher than
present figures.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
General News.

There is rumor that Chief Engineer An
derson, OF the Northern Pacific, is to be
economical out OF Office.
The Cass county, Oak, board of health
propose to enforce the law regarding the
qualification Of doctors.
It is rumored that consolidation will
soon be effected between the Pullman and
Wagner sleeping car companies.
The new census in Massachusetts shows
a gain in population OF about one hundred
and sixty thousand since 1880.
New York Central and the Pennsylvania
are said to have reached an agreement
which will make them masters OF the Trunk
Line eituation.
The official figures, just issued show the
property valuation OF Illinois to be $733,,-
533, 951-a decrease OF 1000, 900 from
last years record.
Chicago Times: 1t took nearly one hun
dred years to build the Washington monu-
mept But this brilliant record Of delay
will probably be beaten by Now York in the
erection Of q Grant monument.
The New York Worlds subscription list
to raise 800, 600 for the pedestal OF the
Barthold statue vas filed in lat days.
The ; 80, 600 raised BY popular s,ibscrip-
tions Tor the Bunker Hill monument was
obtained in eighteen years. ~"
John w. Duncan, a. Long View, Tex, law
yer, in order to prove his assertion that
promiscuously signed petitions were value
less, secured a petition praying that one oi
the most respected men OF that town be
hanged, with the signatures fan the county
officers and fifty business men appended.
ss
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
NORRIS,

The petty carping at New York be-
cause Grants remains were allowed to
rest there-which was his home-is
simply disgraceful. New York is the
metropolis of this country, and will
eventually be the metropolis OF the
world.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

Blackwell, candy manufacturers, caused
loss OF $50, 900; fully insured.
A dispatch from Saratoga says the
storms, including rain, wind, thunder and
lightning, exceeded anything felt there in
fifteen years, and over four inches OF rain
fell in three and one-half hours. A team
ster named Chatterton was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
From Washington.

Washington is already agitating the CUES
ton OF the removal OF Gen. Grants re-
mains there
Vice President Hendricks says that he has
declined to recommend single applicant
for position under Postmaster Jones OF
Indianapolis.
The acting controller Of currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of Abing-
don, ILL.,, to commence business with CAPT.
tai Of $4,000.
Commissioner COlman admits that he ex
poets to have q hard time convincing con-
gressmen that it will be a good thing to stop
the seed distribution to their farmer con-
stituents.
There are about 200 small consular Of
fees, paying small salaries, to be filled by
the administration, At 81 900 year some
trouble is found getting good men for the
positions.
A correspondent OF a local paper suggests
that the Washington monument to Gen,
Grant take the form of magnificent bridge
across tho Potomac, to cost q million or
two OF dollars.
The postmaster general has appointed
William Duff Hainie Of Bloomington, ILL.,.
chief clerk to Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson, in place Of James II. Mari,
transferred to another position. Mr. Hainie
is lawyer and intimate friend Of Mr..
Stevenson.
The attorney general has decided that
pension agents are not entitled to fee for
paying pension attorneys their dues, the
law PASSED fixing the compensation Of PEN
sion agents repeals tho law previously in
force. which allowed them 8 fec Of 80 cents
in each case.
Three officers Of the. signal service-First
Lieut.. A. w. Greedy, Fifth cavalry: First
Lieut.. Robert Craig, Fourth artillery, and
First Lieut.. II. H. C. Dunwoody-are in
clu6sd in the provisions Of the recent order
directing shs officers who had been on de-
tached duty for iouz years back to their
regiments. An exception, however, will
probably be made in the case OF Lieut..
Greedy in order to allow him to complete
bis report on the ARCTIC expedition.
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G. J. EDDY,
General Freight and Pass. Agent. Far

Two through passenger trains daily, morn
ing and evening, between Fargo and ST. Pan
Leave Fargo for the east and south at 7:SQ
m. and 8 p. IN. Arrive at Fargo .. m. 81
6:40 p. m.
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Barnum has thirty-eight elephants in train
Ing In winter quarters at Bridgeport
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20
GREAT TRUNK LINE

TO oil EAsTERx and SouTHERN States.
The PEOPLES LINE is superb in oil
appointments, elegant coaches. Pull
Eleepers on all night trains and its rates
always as low and TIME AS QUICK as
ines
When you GO EAST or COME WEST
the Fargo K Southern.
Tickets for sale al all principal stations
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and all eas
and southern States.
For further information address
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-20

The city census OF Albany, n. W
shows a population Of 96, LOB against
90, GOT in ITO. :.
The South has 233 cotton mills in
operation, running over a million
spindles.
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Casualty Record

John Ruskin is very Ill.
Sturtevant Lumber Company Of Cieve-
land, o., lost $780, 900 by fire.
Mrs. j. 8. Laptz, and old lady living near
Logan, Ohio, swallowed herialse teeth while
coughing and chokcd to death.
Robert Williams, manager Western
Union Telegraph company Mt Butler, Ga,
shot and killed himseN by accident.
Fire in tho fifth story Of No. 1G7 Duane
street, New York, occupied by Greene 4
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
Horrible Death Of a Child!
A Mother, Crazed by Illness, Burns Her
Child to Death!

Over in what is known as Erietown, on
the old Harrison Stephenson farm, resides
Mr.. William H. Burnsides, a well
known citizen. His wife-always re-
garded as an estimable lady-has been
suffering for a long time from typhoid
fever. She had little child, some four
or five months old, to which she seemed
fondly attached. On last Wednesday
this. little one met most horrible death
at the hands of the mother, the facts
after condensing all the many rumors-
seeming to be about as follows:
The husband had been thinking of
placing the babe in care of kind and SYM
pathetic friends, until such time as the
mother should be able to give it proper
attention. This the sick woman found
out, and it preyed upon her mind greatly.
On last Wednesday, being craZed with
long sickness, and brooding over her
troubles, she arose during the temporary
absence of her attendant, took the little
one and placed it in the CRATE, holding it
face downward. It was almost instantly
snatched out of the CRATE again but the
fire and smoke it inhaled perhaps caused
its death. as the burn would not perhaps
have proven fatally-at least not so soon.
The woman gives no evidence of being
insane, and the probability is that she
was only trying to conceal the child in
order to keep her relatives from taking it
away, and in her weak condition placed it
in the CRATE without knowing the danger.
The fire at the time was a bed of hot
Goals, there being little if any blaze. Fur
ther investigation of the case is still
pending. Mrs. Burnsides is a daughter
of Wash. Keaton
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
Probate Court Report.

Ezekiel Burns, Guardian of Edwin Thompson: Ap-
prasement of real estate ordered cause contin-
ued.
Inventory filed, and ordered recorded.
Kate (Ryan) O'Malley, EXecutrix of William Ryan
Final account filed hearing Oct. 80 Patrick OMal-
ley appointed Administrator de 6onis non.
Owen o. Evans, deceased: Will filed for probate
hearing Oct. 3.
Nicholas Kasper and Frederick Bussman and Row
land Jones admitted to citizenship and declaration
of intention made by Thos. Durkin.
Sarah E. Jones appointed administrators of Daniel
w. Jones, deceased; bond $500.
r. t. Jones, Guardian of John w. Russell; hearing
account confirmed; notice of appeal given.
A, Borland ct al, Admrs. of John Borland End and
final account filed; hearing Oct. go
Conrad Miller, Admr. de bonis of Lewis Dau-
Der: Petition filed sell real estate; hearing Oct
26.
Matilda s. Frazee, deceased: filed for probate;
hearing Oct. g.
A. t. Davis appointed Administrator of the estate
of Erastus Davis, deceased: Bond $500.
VIM. j. Ragland, Executor of Daniel Ragland: Ap-
pcatton to sell personal property at private sale;
dere to sell at not less than appraised vaue and re-
port in 60 days.
Margaret A. Burnsides, alleged insane: Inquest
hold, ana cause continued.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
James II. Cade and Louisa Sly.
VI. N. Lottridge and Ida Smith.
George Ghanshimer and Cora A. Downey.
Thomas Barlow and Ella Manring.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
LOST A LEG!
A SAD ACCIDENT To JOHNNY O'BRIEN

Johnny O'Brien, a brakeman on the G.
w. s. B. freight met with a serious acci-
dent at the depot in this place on last Fri
day. He was engaged in switching cars,
and was walking along in front of the
engine, when his foot became fastened
between the iron and guard-rail of the
switch. Finding that he could not release
his foot, he threw himself back off the
track. the engine striking his leg, and
crushing it off above the knee. The en-
gineer, Barney Gullum, as soon as he saw
the man was caught, stopped the engine
before the wheels reached him, the leg
being crushed by the "cow-catcher."
The unfortunate man was removed to
the residence of VIM. Humphreys, the old
"Pickrel House" where DR.. Will II. Mon
ahon amputated the crushed limb, and
made the man as comfortable as possible
O'Brien lives at Hamden. and we believe
was the sole support of a widowed moth
er, who came down in response to the
sad message Of her sons calamity. The
injured man cannot be removed for some
time, even should he recover at all from
his severe injuries. He is in good medi-
cal hands. however.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
Read This

Farmers and teamsters, see how cheap
you can buy harness of M. A. Smith,
Jackson, Ohio. Single buggy harness for
$3.50, collars for so cents, blind brides
for IS cents, riding brides for so cents,
double buggy harness for $14.00, tug har-
ness for SIS to 500.
Call and see for yourselves.
1Oct4t M. A. SMITH.
Great bargains in
Hardware
at T. j. EDWARDS,
Opp. p. o.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01

The Ironton Register tells on Grassland
that he once went to seek a man of the
same name, supposing them to be relat-
ives, when huge colored man answered
his knock, and gave his name as Cross
land. The Capt. tried to sell the man
some notions in order to get out of the
predicament, but the colored man would
not buy
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01

The Waverly Watctnaaaa gives sketch
of the Hemmerly woman-now in Jail
here-who has been living with the col
ored man, ,Haman Wingo. She is said to
have been Miss Houser. her father-a
worthless fellow-having formerly lived
in Jasper, but moving after the war to
Mississippi, where he married a colOred
woman.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01

One of the finest displays of goods ever
seen in Southern Ohio is that now on ex-
hibition at the rooms of Sternberger
Bros, corner of Main and Broadway, in
this place. Ed. has just returned from
the city with such an immense stock of
Fall and Winter Clothing that some of
the cases have not yet been opened, on ac-
count of scarcity of room. Call and see
this great array of goods. 1t is a treat to
look at them.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01
They Must Sell

Mrs. N J. Graham is determined to
sell all her goods at cost. She says they
must sell, and she will sell them. These
goods are too numerous to specify. You
will have to see. them. They consist
largely of glassware, Queensware, Cutlery,
Notions, TOYS. &c.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01

Members of the Y. M. l.. L. are notified
that the next meeting will be at j. T..
Moore's, on Friday evening, Oct I'd. All
members-male and female-are urged to
be present
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-10-01

Republicans throughout the County
will notice that the Democrats are per-
fectly captivated with the Prohibition
Party. They praise and advocate it.
But don't be deceived. They will not
vote for it