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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19


WASHINGTON, November IA, 1885,
Miss Cleveland returned to Washing
ton this afternoon, after an absence of
several months, and was driven imme-
diately to the White House, where all
the preparations had been made for
her coming. 1t has been learned that
Miss Cleveland has no immediate in
tention, as has been reported, of writ
fng another book, though she may do
SO in a year or so. Miss Cleveland's
book on George Eliot has been re-
markably successful in financial
way, and her publishers have asked
that she write another book. Mrs.
Hoyt will remain at the White House
until next week, when it is understood
she will go to her home in New York,
to return here in January to assist
Miss Cleveland in dispensing the hos.
pitalities Of the White House.
Mrs. Stanford's diamonds are val
ued at 81 100000, She has four en-,
tire sets, which her husband bought
when the jewels of ex-Queen Isabella
OF Spain were being sold, and he paiC
100000 for these alone. Each SCI
has tiara necklace and pendant, ear
rings, brooch, finger rings, and from
four to six bracelets. Besides these
she has other sets OF diamonds and
necklace of those stones, which cos
100000, and pendant to be worl
with it, the price Of which was $50,
} 900.
A Texas doctor gives the Medicd
Bulletin an account OF the case will
which doctors are made in that State
He took a six-hour ride with Texal
villager, who asked him a great man
; questions about the remedies used 70
! certain diseases then prevailing in tn
, locality. On the following week h
{ had occasion to visit neighborin
village, where he found his recer
companion with his shingle out as
a full-hedged doctor. He had gradt
/ ated in that six-mile ride.
Governor Bate has appointed Ii
u Commissioners to the Farmers N
. tional Congress--six from the Sta
Z at large and three from each Congre
g sional district. The congress meets
It indianapolis, Ind, Thursday, Decor
q Der 8. John G. King Of Bristol is OIL
Of the commissioners at-large. Tho
+ from the first district are ]. B. Stok
+ ly, Newport; II. b. Clay, Rotherwool
George D. Taylor, Johnson City.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19
LOgan's Faded Hopes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. S.--A personal
friend of Senator John A. Logan says
that Nj. Logan feels worse, if possible,
over the results of the recent elections
in New York and Virginia than he
did when he was defeated himself on
the Blaine ticket 1t was Logan's
idea that in the campaign of 1884.
with some Stalwart Republican like
himself at the head OF the ticket and
the old rebellion issues brought prom
inently to the front, success would
have been reasonably certain. He
thought this could be demonstrated
in the recent elections and went into
the canvas to do it. The bloody-shirt
issue was Logan's strong point. To
win with it against square, old
fashioned Democrat would be to oper
the way for Logan in 1888.
He is now forced to give that idea
up and acknowledge the hopelessnesl
of such probability. For the frs
time in his life General Logan fully
realizes that the war issue is playeC
out and that his party must reorgan
ize on a stronger and more moderr
basis before it can hope for nationa
success. With this conclusion he will
personally retire in the background
SO far as all national candidacy is con
cerned, and will not allow his nam
to be used at another national con
vention.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19

In Germany, the safest country for
railway travelling, there is an engine
driver who has travelled distance
equal to forty-seven journeys round
the earth without a single accident.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19


ub 'ministrashun at Washentog gw'n
to hab on de rites an privileges ub de
culled man?"
"Well, Willum, wild all de fo'ce ub
my 'lectual 'pacity / do mos conf'den-
shully 'fo'm yo' dat dat am a ser'us
questun. De culled man may be lif'd
up to de prominence ub de white man
an git grab at de fat of'ces ub de
guv'ment, an agin on de udder finga'
he may be sot down 'pon hab faces
made made at him, an trabbel long
'troo de stubble fels ub ig'nace de
same as alters"
"But, jim, Use bin hean rumo's."
"Wat kin ub rumo's"
20, de very baddes' kin ub statlin'
rumo's."
"Well, why don you open you big
mouf an tell wat dem dar rumo's 'sists
ub?"
"Don' tawk SO loud Jim, an cum
push yosef ub clost an / tole yer.
heah it rumo'd to-day dat deyl pass a
law maxim chick'n stealin' 'tentiary
fence"
Oh, glong! doan b'leve eny such'r
thing; doan b'leve dat de Geo'ge
Washenton constushun ub dis we're
'Nited States ul low ub eny such'l
'fring'ment; de sakerd rites ub all dc
'habitents dat lib in dis yere pow'fuI
Ian ul stan like er stone bres'wo'k an
'tect us"
The idea Of having Northern stumI
orators come South during importan
elections, and our Southern speaker
go North, seems to be gaining ground
and may be considered, on the whole
u wise movement. 1t gives us cleare
2 iuCuo vi bilC WdutS vi btlc WuOl6 COun
try. Said Governor-elect Lee, of Vir
ginia, in dispatch to Boston the 9th
er day:
An interchange of speakers woul,
make the sections know each othe
better, and might do good. We woul
!, like the Republican party of the Mort
to see what the Republican party {
the South is composed Of.
Andrew B. McCreary, a Californi
: millionaire, has purchased of Colont
Robert G. Ingersoll the elegant res
dence 1915 K street, together wit
Q the household furniture. The pric
4 paid for the house was $3S,00O., an
the furniture brought $1,000. TIL
property was subject to deed Of tru
1t for $1,000 Col, Ingersoll is going
l. New York to live He has been en-
Ie ployed as counsel by railroad co
poration.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19

Mr.. Blaine is reported to have once
said, in reply to a remark: "In poll
ties there is no gratitude. Politics
mean ambition and success"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19

The Marquis of Bute's new castle
will cost as much as the Capitol at
MISUNDERSTANDING
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-11-19

Miss Cleveland says she will not
publish another book while her broth
er is President. There is where the
lady makes a serious mistake.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

Henry Ward Bcecher, now on lect-
uring tour at the south, has given ut,
terance to his views concerning the re-.
lations between whites and blacks.
While firmly maintaining equal rights
under the laws for both races, and es-
peoially those guaranteed to freedmen,
he was explicit upon one or two points.
He said, he did mot think it wise that
whites and blacks should mix blood,
yet it is their right and liberty to do so
if they choose. But it is to be dis
couraged on the grounds of humanity.
The slaves are free; they must come
under the universal law. As to their
social position, no legislation can put
ignorance and knowledge on a level,
Incidence and industry, virtue and vice,
rudeness and refinement. The house.
hold is to be free to choose or refuse its
company; no obstruction should be put
in the path of education. :. All oppor-
tunities for development should be sa-
credly kept open to every class, every
encouragement given to. industry,
wealth, refinement and good citizenship.
After that, society must be free, SO far
as legislation is concerned, to choose its
own partnerships.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

Commissioner of Labor Wright has
sketohed out the plan of work he pro-
poses to undertake the coming season,
and the readiness with which Secretary
Lamar falls in with the prospectus in
dicates that the labor bureau will re-
main in Mr.. Wright's charge for at
least year. The commissioner intends
to devote the coming months to an in
quiry into the cause and cure of "hard
times" which, as he says, is "the con-
stitutional disease so far as the labor
question is concerned" So long as the
times are prosperous and business is
brisk, labor shares in the sunshine.
But then come darker days; trade falls
off, shops are closed, wages are reduced
animosities are excited between capital
and labor, there are strikes, violence
and distress. It will be the first inquiry
fthe bureau to seek the reasons for
these industrial depressions and discov-
er, if possible, their remedy. For this
purpose the bureau will study the po-
]itical, social and moral questions in
volved in labor depressions both in
this country and in others.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

The seventeen anniversary of the
birthday of Prince Bismarck was cele-
brated throughout the German Empire
as a holiday. The emperor, members
of the royal family, the federal COUNSEL
lors and ministers, and hosts of other
dignitaries, called on Bismarck. He was
presented with the titles to great es-
tate. The entire day was taken up by
delegations which had come to present
testimonials from all classes of the Ger
man people and from all parts OF the
empire. All the newspapers published
warm tributes to the worth and genius
of Bismarck. The opposition papers
praised the chancellor's efforts during
the present and recent years to main
tain peace among the nations and to
fulfill his duty to the emperor and to
the German nation.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

The friends of the Mississippi river
improvement have discovered that there
is balance of SO, ,OO0,O to the credit
OF river and harbor improvement, and,
according to law and the precedent es-
tablished by Grant in 1875, this sum is
wholly at the discretion of the Secretary
of War. Gen. Gilmore, President Of
the River Commission, il preparing a
report in which he will recommend
system of perfect banks and first class
levees as the only practical means of
improving the river, but this view is
vigorously combated by the upper river
people who do not wish the money to
be expended in that way.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
Personal MENTION.

At Yankton, Oak, Rev. DR.. Hoyt celebrated
the semi centennial of his connection, with tho
Episcopal Board Of Domestic Missio1k
Mise Mary Packer, daughter of u y Judge
Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, Pa, was mar
ried to Charles H. Cummings of New York
The bride is one of the richest women III the
United States.
proposed bsnqdet to President Arthur,
to welcome him back to New York, had been
liked for the 14th Of April, but on account of
Gen. Grants critical condition it has, on Gen.
Arthur's own suggestion been postponed
The malady of which ex- Secretary Freling-
huysen is now dying OF his home in Newark,
N Y, is q hardening Of the liver: and his suf-
ferings are intense. Mrs Frelinghuysen is
still feeble from her recent attack, and the
least shock is liable to prove fatal. Miss Tilly
who walks on crutches from the severe sprain
to her knee-joint last May, is self forgetfully
assiduous to her parents, and Miss Lucy and
tho sons are with them at Newark
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

James Lambert of Chicago, shot his moth
erin law Mrs. Anna R. Mulligan, then his
wife, and then himself. The wife still lives.
George H. Mills who murdered his wife in
Brooklyn on the 9th of October, 1888, was
hanged in the yard of the Raymond street jail
At Poplar Bluff, Mo-, Louis Derry, member
of the city council and at one time city mar
shal, shot his vito four times, killing her in
stantly, and then blew his own brains out
A man giving his name as John W. Redman,
was arrested near near Varnier, Lincoln county,
Ark, charged with committing murder near
Shawncetown, I'LL. last fall The warrant CALL
cd for John Mccoy, which is thought to be his
proper name.
Mr.. Vankirk Bum Of Milestone, N. j., has
disappeared after telling his family he was 60
to New York on business, leaving behind
forged notes to the amount Of $4,000 he
forged his fathers signature to note of 49,
600, and tho national banks of New Brunswick
and Somerville hold worthless paper for &1,-
20O each
A sheriff and posse of six men attempted ia
capture A. B. Dimmick, noted desperate and
fugitive from justice, at Gervais, Oregon.
When the officer presented q shotgun and or
dered Dimmick to yield, the latter sprang for
ward and seized the weapon, tore it from the
sheriffs grasp, and turned it on the whole
posse, covering all before any could make re-
sistance. Dmmick then "held up" tke crowd
at the muzzle of the gun, and made his escape
in the darkness.
A great land fraud has been unearthed in
Arkansas, duplicating fifteen persons who
fraudulently secured letters Of administration
on estates of heirs of parties who purchased
land under the graduation act of 1845 at SO
cents an acre from the government under a
misconstruction of the law, which required but
l2115 cents. The sharpers have beon collect
ing the 3713 cents overcharge with tho false
papers.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

The mercantile failures for the quar-
ter ending 30th March, number 1858,
which, compared with the correspond
ing quarter last year, shows an increase
of 362 failures, or about II per cent.
The liabilities for the quarter juss closed
foot up $40, 18l, 95l, against $40, 1856, 97e
for the corresponding period of last year,
an increase Of nearly $6,0Q0, 900.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARIZED,
FROM WASHINGTON.

A story is current bit not vouched for, at
the department. Of justice that Marshal Botkin
OF Montana desires to resign
DR.: Wales, ex-chief Of the bureau of medi-
cine Of the navy department. petitions to bA
discnarged from the custody of the secretary
of war:
A committee Representing the Grand Army
Of the Republic called on the president recent:
lly and presented an appeal for the retention
IN the government service Of old soldiers
President Cleveland expressed himself very
strongly Ill faver OF the object of their visit
Gen Lawton, nominated for minister to Rus
eda, but not confirmed, told the President
that he wished to relieve him from all
embarrassment, and wanted him to proceed in
the case without Any regard to him IaWton)
personally. The attorney general ls preparing
an opinion with regard to tho eligibility Of Gen.
Lawton It is understood that the opinion will
affirm LAwton's ability.
Appointment Virginia Democrat and an old
friend of the Lee family, said recently: ssThe
talk about aen. Fitzhugh Lee being made
marshal of the District of Columbia, feel sure
is without his consent He would not accept
the position. Fitz Lee wants to be governor
Of Virginia, and he will get it, too. He natur=
ally desires to perpetuate the family name in
the history Of the state He has more friends
than any man in the state, and will be elected
governor next fall"
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
The First Mrs. Storey.
The wits of the lawyers employed il

The wits of the lawyers employed in
the celebrated Storey will-case are
about to be exercised by a fresh com.
plication which has just arrived bodily
in New York. The. first Mrs. Storey,
who was divorced from her husband
about the year 1867, and has since re-
sided in Florence, Italy, has just
landed in this country, and is coming
to Chicago to file bill for the purpose
of setting aside the decree of alimony
awarded her quarter of a century,
ago and getting instead her "dower'
out of the estate. The bill can hardly
be in strictness bill for dover, though
that term was loosely used by the So
licitors. At all events she is going to
file bill, and the facts which she
relies on are these: In 1847 she married
Wilbur F. Storey, and lived with him
for many years. Her name before
she married was Maria Isham. The
union did not prove happy one, and
in 1867, or thereabouts, she filed a bill
for divorce and alimony, on divers
grounds, and obtained decree. For
alimonv she was awarded certain
yearly sum charged ON the lot of land
on the northwest corner of Dearborn
street and the alley beteewn Washing
ton and Madison streets. Now she al
leges that the statement of Mr.. Storey
at that time as to the value of his estate
was false; that her own representative,
who is now dead, colluded with her
husbands lawyer in the misrepresenta-
ton, and that she ought to have had
decree for far more alimony than sno
got-Sl0,000 year rather than $4,000.
The evidence, it is declared, has but
recently been discovered, and conse-
quentIY she thinks she has been guilty
of no laches in sleeping SO long upon
her rights. 1t is probable that the bill
will be framed with view to modi-
fication of the original decree of ali
mony, so as to give Mrs. Maria Storey
the amount she ought to have had ia
the first place, together withil,Hrest
for seventeen years upon tho sum of
which she was unjustly deprived.
Compound interest would roll up
very considerable morse] of the Storey
property Chicago Sun.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
The Winnebago Reservat1 on Order.

Attorney General Garland's opinion on tho
Winnebago reservation has been made pub
ic After reciting that Clark Thompson,
under an act of congress Of Feb. 81, 1868,
and by direction of the Indian commissioner,
removed the Winnebagoes from Minnesota to
what is now known as the Winnebago reser-
vation, and also under an act of March 3,
1868, he removed the members of the Sisse-
ton, Medawakatton, Wahpeton and Wahpakon-
ia Sioux to what is known as the Grow Creek
agency and the further fact that the Winneba-
goes, on March 8, 1865, deded their land to tho
United States and went to Nebraska, and in
1866 the various bands of Sioux on
tho Crow Creek reservation were removed
to Nebraska, and wandering bands
Of Sioux went upon and occupied the abandon
ed lands, the opinion is stated that these lands
are found not to be re servations in q strict le-
gal sense, but understood to have been such
generally and by the government itself, there-
fore the grant must be held to refer to such
lands as were reputed to be reservations.
The words in the treaty are amply sufficient
to point out tho portion of the public
domain intended to be ceded. To these con-
siderations may be added that Indian treaties
are not constructed strictly but literally in fa-
vor of the Indians. q opinion, 465, tho Kan
sas Indians; Wallace, 1917 In conclusion, I
am of the opinion that the lands in question are
covered by the treaty of the 29th of fApril, 1868,
and consequently that the executive order Of
the 9th of February, 1885, is imperative.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
Learn q Trade.

During a conversation with a fore.
man of a large manufacturing COM
pany he said incidentally: ''We have
had no American apprentices in two
years." and in reply to my lnterrogs>
ton said that American parents were
more desirous of their sons learning
to despise labor than to adorn it.
Looking the matter over carefully l
have reached the conclusion that he is
right. It is pity. Young man, look
forward few years. You have good
homes to-day and homes where every
comfort possible to have IS in your
grasp. You do not appreciate these
things. They come to you without
effort, they are retained to you with.
out effort on your part and you per-
nit yourself to slide along on the
creased pole of confidence in the
ability of you" parents to provi;e.
Did you ever think that money, som
times, YES, often, takes wings? Weir7;
it does; it goes in the twinkling of an
eve sometimes and then your father
has to work, and you, if you have any
thing in your composition and make
up which has the appearance of a
man, will go TO work to help out your
father. Now. if you had learned
trade you would not be obliged t
search for six-dollar positions as
clerks, but could step into places that
are waiting for just such men as you
might be, at fair salary.
Don't think when you light your
Gig arctic and walk down the street
that you are any better than anybody
else. Don't imagine that the meci
ic as he passes you envies you. Doi 6
imagine that society could not get
along without you. You must know
that society thinks only of your money
and nothing of you, and if your father
was to lose his dollars to-day that to-
morrow would find you knocking at
societv's closed doors. And the me-
chanic pities you and says, ''Well, l
would not exchange places with him.
and he means it.
Suppose you put on an old suit of
clothes and 60 down to the machine
shop or the factory or the printing
Office and commence at the bottom
round and work up. There wNl be
boys there that will laugh at your
white skin and delicate looks and YET
secretly they will admire you for hay-
ing the good sense to do what you
ought to do. Your employer will ad-
vance you as fast as You deserve ard
with your natural ability there is no
reason why you should not reach the
top round of the ladder in a few years.
Then if your parents have money and
you feel desire to do something else,
do it; and if days of adversity come,
as is very probable they will you will
have something to fall back on which
will support you and your wife and
babies in comfort. What this country
needs is more of its young men to
learn trades. There are enough who
will be bound to make fools of them
selves and try to navigate life wlthc L
it, and look to the professions for a
dry and uncertain living. It is no
disgrace to any young man who, hav-
ing the opportunity to learn trade
which will be of use to him in after
years, throws it away and with it his
comfort and that of those dependent
on him, to satisfy the pride of society
which looks simply upon the wealth
and not the worth of man.-E. G..
Ddvis, in Arkd7as1av Traveller.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
THE CASUALTY RECORD.

At q terrible earthquake at Tamative NADIA
gascar, on the 25th Of February, twelve vessels
foundered in the harbor-five French and six
native vessels and the American bark sarah
Hobart
Mrs. Wander Horck, wife of Capt John
Wander forck. sutler of Fort sisseton, living
on Nicollet Island, Minneapolis, committed
suicide while insane, by leaping into the Mis-
sissippi from the Manitoba bridge:
An iron bridge over Indian ereek, eight miles
east of Cennellsville, Pa, on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, broke down, precipitating an
the water twenty five feet below. The engine
and seventeen cars were completely demolished
Two brothers, H. H. and Benjamin Fuller,
conductor and brakeman were killed.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16
CRAFTS LIFE PROLONGED,
The Medical Aspects Of tho Case Present.
cd Clearly.

New York Special: There has been so much
unsatisfactory speculation about the danger of
an immediate fatal termination of Gen Grants
disease that the Pioneer Press correspondent
gained an audience with q gentleman who
knows as much about the medical and other
aspects Of the case as any one He allowed
himself to be interviewed on the condition
that his name would not be used It is sufi-
cient, therefore, to say, that the gentleman has
been regular visitor at the generals house,
and has seen the sick man every day for :
month. He said:
1t will surprise Gen. Grants physicians very
much if he dies within week. The chan COS
are that he will live two weeks longer, and
would not give much odds that he will live un-
til May. OF course, some unforeseen accident
such as sudden faintness of the heart, may oo-
cur at any moment and upset my phrophesy,
but with that possible exception, + think you
will find it true one"
"What is to be feered most?" was asked
First Of all, blood poisoning. The trouble
Tuesday morning was caused by the lodge
ments in the rear Of the larnyx suddenly be-
coming loose and leaving the raw sores un-
covered. Thus, at the first friction they be-
gan to bleed In their present exposed oondi-
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-16

Marshal Bazaine, the French General
who was Mt one time under sentence of
death for cowardice in surrendering
Metz during the Franco Prussian war, is
now penniless and in a most destitute
condition at Madrid. 1t il said that the
DUO d'Aumale, who presided over the
general court-martiala at Versailleswhic
sentenced Marshal Bazaine to death.
has just learned Of the refugees poverty
and sent him some money.