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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08

District Court, civil term. will
open at Franklinton next Monday.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08
81
THIRTEEN WEEKS.

The POLICE GAZETTE will lie mail
ed, securely wrapped. to any address in
the United States for three months, on
receipt of
ONE DOLLAR.
Liberal discount allowed TO postmas-
tiers. agents and clubs. Sample copies
mailed free. Address all orders to
RICHARD X. FOX,
FRANKLIN SQUARE, n. \.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08
SHEEP

! will exchange one pure Merino Ram
and some high-graded Rams for common
Ewes. in proportion to quality.
A. THOMSON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08

Our regular installment of wea-
Their failed to arrive this week.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08

Blackberries are red.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-05-08

slid, and if I could have slid
Right back from whence came,
I'd have done it gladly, and, '.you bet,
Id never change my name.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
CRIME.

M. b. BUsKIRK, a dry-gOOds dealer at
Clinton, Mo-, has fed, taking all his avail
able assets. and leaving unpaid debts of
$4,000.
LEVI r. REESE, treasurer of the Knights
of Labor at Fort Worth, Tex, has been
arrested for embezzling funds sent to re-
lieve sufferers by the strike.
SAMUEL j. SMELLING, for 81 years treas
urer Of the Lowell Mass, Bleaching
company, is alleged to be defaulter to
the amount of 100000 and possibly much
more.
INCLUDED in party of Wyoming con-
victs placed in the Joliet prison, was a
Crow chief, who will serve one year for
stealing horses.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY SEARCH, aged, re-
spectively, rs and IS, who lived near
GAINESVILLE, Wis, were murdered Sunday
night. and their dwelling then robbed of
money and valuables. farm hand nam
ed Ed. w. Moore, who has disappeared,
is suspected of the crime.
A POUCH of mail containing 1000 let
tiers was stolen at Alton, Wis, on Satur-
day. The letters were rifed and left
near by. 1t has not yet been learned if
any of the letters had money.
CHAELEs A. DAVIS, an attorney, and DIR.
Wellington Adams, have been arrested
at st. Louis charged with attempting to
bride certain members of the House of
Delegates ia aid the passage of a railroad
bill
THIEVES entered the farm house of
Lewis Dick, near Waikiki, N. Y, druged all
the members of the family, stole $1,000
in currency, and fired the building. Neigh
bors extinguished the flames and rescued
the unconscious people.
SAMUEL X. GAY, chief clerk in the pen
sion Office at Pittsburg, has embezzled
from $4,000 to $4,000 and fled to Can
ada. He was leader in the Murphy tenn
perance movement and Young Mems
Christian Association.
WILLIAM PIERCE, confined for horse
stealing, and John Kackiser, for forgery,
escaped from the Jail at Rome, n. Y,
Tuesday night, by cutting bar out of a
window grating in the corridor. George
Penner, the only other prisoner confined,
preferred to remain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
A Good Business.
Boston Record.

Speaking of close competition, the his
tOrian is reminded of case out west
that probably came as near bringing bus
mess down to hard-pan as anything that
Massachusetts dealers are familiar with.
Two rival general dealers" struck new
town with their commercial curiosity
shops the same day, and each set about
running out the other. They dealt in
every sort of goods needed to supply the
wants of primitive community. One of
tho dealers, in order to completely put
his competitor to rOut, announced that
he would give a free drink of whisky with
every purchase and the business came
pouring in.
There hove upon the dealers vision one
afternoon venerable female, who pro-
ceeded to unroll from her pOcket-hand-
kerchief, with much impressiveness, a
single hens egg, which she laid upon the
counter.
"What are you givin' for eggs?" asked
She
''Twenty-five cents Dozen
"Well, that's little over two cents
apiece" said the old woman. ''What are
you gettin' for darnin' needles?''
"a cent apiece
"Three for two cents, [ suppose. Well,
take this ere egg and give me three darn
in needless
The dealer agreed to the bargain and
passed her over the darning needles.
Now for the drink said the old wO-
man.
The bottle and tumbler were set out
and the old woman poured liberal por-
ton into her glass.
II say, stranger said she, Il don't like
whisky, nohow, without an egg in it.
Break one in, will you?"
The dealer shrugged his shoulders and
broke into the woman's glass the egg that
he had just traded for. And, behold,
as he did so two yolks fell into the
whisky.
"Hooray!" said the old woman, as she
drank off the contents of the glass. "It's
a double-yelked egg. Now, give me three
more darnin' needles, please, for the extra
yelk!"
The dealer passed out the three extra
needles with sublime resignation, and the
old woman sat around as if she were wait
ing for something.
II say, stranger" she said firmly, ''you
don't call them three last darnin' needles
a new trade, do ye?"
The dealer reached for his gun and
the woman disappeared through the
door.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
FOREIGN.

PRINCE NAPOLEON is about to leave
Paris for New York to meet son who has
been making tour of the world.
The formal resignation of Gladstone
and his colleagues of the cabinet has
been forwarded to Queen Victoria on the
Isle of Wight, by special messenger.
THE senate of Lubbock has resolved to
erect electric works for public illum mat
ing purposes. This will be the first estab-
lishment of its kind in Germany.
THE conservatives are openly profess
ing their readiness to assume the govern
ment without the assistance of Lord
Harrington. Lord Salisbury, while accept
ing Lord Harrington's rejection of coal
ition as final, has not abandoned his eff
forts to bring about joint ministry.
ITALIAN papers published articles at
lacking France because the deputies re-
fused to accept the proposed navigation
treaty. The papers claim that France
must have made the acceptance of the
treaty a cabinet question. The refusal is
generally considered a great insult to
Italy.
The Bank of France has increased its
gold balance about $73, 100000 in the last
eighteen months, and Germany has
widened out its balance to large amount
The Banks of England, France and Ger
many now hold total of $95, 167 900 in
gold and $6O,427, 900 in silver, being a
gain of $9,4O0,00O in gold and $1,1OOOOC
In silver in the last twelve months.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

certificates was left in the shape in which
it was fixed this afternoon by the senate
as in committee of the whole. On motion
of Senator Dolph an item of $4,000 was
inserted for the salmon hatchery on
Columbia river, Oregon. The bill was
then passed, and the deficiency bill was
then taken up, and the first reading dis
pensed with. Adjourned.
House-Immediately after the reading
of the Journal the house went into
committee of the whole Crisp IN the
CHAIR on the bill for an increase of the
navy. Herbert said that the majority of
the naval committee had not changed
their opinion in regard to this matter but
1t recognized the fact that the committee
was SIMPLY representative of he house,
ana when 1t found that there was an
OPINION III the house that the original
oll appropriated too much money and
PROVIDED tor too many ships, it conform
ed the bill to the sentiment of the house
ana mad no apology to offer. The origi-
nal bill was then read by sections for
amendments. The committee rose and
reported the bill to the house. Mr.. Her
| bert offered as a substitute for the bill
| the proposition agreed to by the commit
tee on naval affairs, and which has been
published. 1t was agreed to: yeas, III;
nays, 1O4, and the bill as so amended was
passed. The evening session was devoted
to the land forfeiture bills, and without
action the house adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

Conewago, Pa, was set on fire by defec-
tive fue Wednesday evening and burned
to the ground. The father, mother, and
two of the four children barely escaped.
The charred remains of the two others
were found in the ruins.
The Soldiers Orphans Home at
Knightstown, Ind, was DESTROYED by fire
Wednesday afternoon, the inmates all es-
Gaping. The loss to the state will be $780,
OO0
FIRE at Ravenswood, N. Y, DESTROYED
property valued at 100000. At Minneap-
oils lumber mill, a cooper shop, and a
newspaper Office were buried and two
fremen were seriously injured. Loss 500
900; insurance 81 1900.
A FIRE in the new Nottingham Block
Cleveland, Ohio, fine new five-story bust
ness building, occupied by stores and of
fees. Tuesday morning, entailed a loss of
about $4,000.
HE loss resulting from the burning OF
the New York Architectural Terra Gotta
Company's works at Ravenswood, l., l..
Saturday night will not exceed $4,000 A
fireman was seriously injured by falling
wall. About $50 men are thrown out OF
employment.
EARLY Sunday morning flames broke
forth in a tenement house on East Six
teenth street, New York, where rs persons
were asleep. Two children were rescued
by Policeman Cox, one woman was fatal
ly injured by falling from the fire escape
and a lawyer wa taken from his room
nearly suffocated
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
GENERAL NOTES.

By the end of July the track of the
Burlington and Northern road will be
completed from st. Paul to Oregon, ILL.,,
356 miles. The road will not be opened
for Chicago traffic until September.
In the anarchist trial at Chicago the
superintendent Of the Arbeiter Zeitung
identified the Revenge" circular as the
production of Spies.
The picnic party of five, missing from
Bay City, Mich, since the 18th, were found
Wednesday forty miles from home, where
they had been driven ashore, but wereun-
able to communicate with friends.
TWENTY thousand visitors were at Mil
waukee to attend the Sangerfest concerts
the first of which was given Wednesday
evening before gatherin of 10000 people
Governor Rusk and Mayor Wallber well
coined the visitors in fitting addresses.
At Greensburg, KY, Monday, Glenn
Bishop, aged 70, Il backwoods doctor and
preacher, married his ward Retta Boston,
whose age is but years. Bishop obtain
ed the marriage license by fraud.
The severe drought still continues over
nearly the whole of Indian Territory,
and prairie fires are building in every di-
rection. The range is rapidly being
ruined, and murrain has broke out among
the cattle and many are dying. Unless
rain falls soon an epidemic among the
stock is feared.
A CORPS of Illinois Central Railway
engineers began work Monday at Free
port, ILL.,, running a line in northerly
direction. It is presumed the Genital in
tends to build road to St. Paul, Minn.,
via Monroe and Madison, Wis, under a
chapter obtained eight years ago for the
"Freport, Madison and Lake Superior
Railroad"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Chester, Neb., eleven horses perish.
ed in burning stable.
NEAR Westport, Ore, Weit's saw mill
was consumed. Loss, 100000.
AT Elkhart, Ind, Pratt's buggy manu-
factory was damaged $4,000.
GREENS Opera House, at Cedrr Rapids
Iowa, was burned Wednesday morning
entailing loss of $4,000.
The Union Machine and Foundry Com
pany's buildings at Allegheny City, Pa.
were burned Tuesday morning, creating
loss of $4,000.
NEAR Columbia, Tenn, Tuesday even
ing, special engine ran into Louis
vile and Nashville accommodation train
causing the death of seven persons.
DURING storm Monday the house OF
Rasmus Dilletson near Minden Neb., was
struck by lightning, Dilletson, his son
and his daughter being killed, anda child
seriously injured.
EULBERG il Sons brewery at Galena, Ill.
and frame dwelling were destroyed by
fire Thursday, the loss being figured at
$4,000.
THE dwelling of Alexander Roth, near
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
WASHINGTON,

The house of representatives is consid-
ering the ratification appropriation bill,
rejected an amendment to increase the
item for the sea coast armament to $500
600.
The governor of Maine has requested
the postmaster general to so modify the
regulations for sending liquors by mail
as to prevent the violation of the prohib-
tory liquor laws of the states.
A cablegram has been received announc-
ing the death of Rev. Chas. II. A. Dahl, at
Coonoor, India, in the list year of his age
after more than 30 years missionary work.
During the early part of his ministry he
resided at st. Louis.
SEVERAL weeks ago Third Auditor
Williams discovered that Pension Agent
Sweet, Miss Ada Sweets father, owed to
the government a sum of money that still
remained unaccounted for on the books
of the auditors Office. He notified Miss
Sweet, and has just received letter from
her in Europe, inclosing a check for 1881
the amount of Mr.. Sweets indebtedness
in full.
SUPERINTENDENT Bailey has been hard
at work this week, endeavoring to secure
IOl hCCuCo ~
pairs of the Chicago Custom House and
Postofice, and has received assurances
from the conference committees that
$4,000 will be finally appropriated. The
Illinois delegation has given Mr.. Bailey
active support in this matter, but he is
much annoyed over the fact that no ap-
preparation was provided as it should
have been for the breakwater and repairs
of the Marine Hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
FURY OF THE FLAMES.
A Large Lumber Yard at st. Louis
Totally Destroyed by an UGcOn-
querable Fire.
insufficient Water Supple Involves De
StructiOn of Millions of Feet of
Lumber.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 20.-A fire, which
proved to be the largest and most de-
structive of its kind that has ever occur
red in this city, was discovered at about 2
o'clock this afternoon in the lumber
yards of Knapp, Stout & Co., at the cor
ner of Angelica street and Bremen street.
An alarm was immediately turned in and
TIVE engines were soon at the scene. They
were, however, owing to the poor water
supply, unable 80 cope with the flames,
which, driven by a strong wind, soon COM
municated to the nearest lumber piles and
were making rapid Roadway toward the
Union Stock Yards, the destruction of
which for time seemed inevitable.
The wind soon shifted to the opposite
direction, however, and they were saved.
but the lumber yards were doomed. In
the meantime more alarms had been
sent in, and twenty engines were called
out. The water supply, however, was en-
tirely insufficient for the emergency, and
the flames leaped from pile to pile of the
dry lumber with incredible swiftness. The
fire was not confined to any one portion
of the yards, for sparks and burning
splinters were carried in every direction
by the wind, and the whole territory of
the yards, covering thirty-fve acres of
ground, seemed to be one mass of burn
ing lumber. The efforts of the firemen,
which would evidently been fruitless if
directed towards subduing the flames,
were from this time employed in keeping
them from spreading, and in this they
were successful.
The fire was allowed to burn itself out,
and at the end of four hours 25,0OO,0OO
feet of lumber were a total loss. The
contents of the yards were mostly lumber
of superior grades, and the loss on this
account is very heavy, 100000.
The companys stables were also con-
sumed, but the horses were rescued. The
total insurance cannot at this hour be
ascertained, but it is estimated at $685.
900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

A New Zealand correspondent says:
One of these mud volcanoes-To Huka-
spews forth very plastic and fine paste,
which the natives eat and enjoy. 1t tastes
like flour paste very slightly sweetened.
1 did not like it at all, anddoubt
if it is fattening. We were by this
time quite hungry, but this edible mud
did not tempt US, and we moved on to
the margin of lake Batomahana, where
lunch was awaiting US. The Maoris had
cooked potatoes and fresh water crabfsh
for US in the stream of the boiling
Springs, covering the opening with cross
sticks, placing the potatoes ETC., on these
and covering the whole with grass, which
sufficiently coafnes the steam. 1 sat
down on fat stone, and, enjoying my
lunch and the surroundings, gave myself
up to the quiet pleasure of the occasion,
when felt an increasing warmth where I
was sitting, and suddenly had to spring
from my seat, an unexpected burst of
steam from under the rock giving me the
hint to leave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

IN Persia the caiahvahs and taktravan
are substitutes of wheels of vehicles, to
be used when there are no wagons. The
former name is given to two light frames
with box bottom which are suspended
one on either side of the horse or beast of
burden. The cajahvah is more available
than the taktravan, and safer in most
places. The sides have to be equally bal
anced. Shift the occupant on one side and
if he is of less weight than the person in the
other side, the difference is adjusted by
addition of stone or some part of the
luggage. The top is provided with hoops
over which canvas is fastened, thus pro-
viding a protection from sunlight and
rain. The taktravan may be described as
a box set in the center of two parallel
pales. The ends of the box serve as
shafts. In them horse is hitched, the
head of the rear horse being tied to the
box. These convey ances are usually
made of wood, and of water tight top
and sides. The vehicle is sus pended in
two hooks attached to the pack-saddle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Milestones on the Road TO Health.

The recovery of digestion, and the resumption
of activity by the liver, bowels and kidneys, are
to health. They speedily become perceptible
when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is used by the
invalid. Nothing so surely and expeditiously
no bodily function can suffer interruption without
impairing the general health of the system. so
the system can never acquire perfect vigor,
health s synonym, until that function be actively
resumed. Take, for instance digestion, sus-
pension of which is invariably rectified by the
Bitters. 1t the organs upon which it devolves
grow weak, biliousnesS, constipation, headache,
poverty of the blood, and hundred other symp-
toms Superyene, which indicate Enthusiastically
the baneful general influence of dyspepsia. The
disappearance of all these symptoms through
the use of the Bitters show with what thorough
ness it removes their cause.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
A Sick Congressman.

The other evening the little daughter of
congressman was paying visit at
neighbours, and the respective mothers
were talking of physical ailments and
their remedies. After awhile the little
girl saw an opportunity to make a re-
mark.
''My papa" she said. 'always drinks
whisky when he is sick"
Then she stopped for minute, her.
eyes softened and saddened, and she con-
tinued slowly:
"And poor papa is sick nearly all the
time"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

The ne " revolution in Tamulipas, which
it was promised would sweep the existing
government from the face of the earth
turns out to have been very contempt
ible affair. Less than two hundred sol
diers we're sufficient to crush the much
vaunted uprising, and to kill off or cap
revolutionist is a success only in publish
ing terrible pronunciamentos. When it
comes to backing up his threats by brave
deeds he fails to materialize to any great
extent. He is simply cowardly brag-
CART, whose mouth is his most dangerous
weapon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Family Festivals.

'Confound these family festivals" said
a well known and talented actor, coming
out of a Kearney street jewelers., with a
morocco case in his hands. cts taken q
weeks salary for these earrings; had to do
it, through or it would have looked spitful;
I know the old lady will appreciate the at
tention." Mothers birthday" Oh no,
they're for my second wife; she's got mar
ried again; she's sent me something both
times since our deyOrce."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

There is stream in North Carolina so
clear that a stranger walked right into it
and was drowned before he knew the
that the stream was there.
A Hebrew in Pereslavl died lately at the
given age of one hundred and seventeen
years. The Krevlanen reports that he
had been arranging to marry for the
ninth time shortly before his death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
Full Enough to Be Bailed Out.

NdCIOnAI Weekly.
s.What did you bring this man in for"
said the Captain to an officer who had just
brought in a man somewhat under the in
fiuence of liquor.
"The man was full" replied the officer
Suppose he was" said the Captain
'He was behaving himself, wasn't he!D
''Yes, sir, but he was full, so L though
would run him in and let his friends come
and bail him out"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29
An Example Of Evolution.

First Burglar Gust arrived at new min
ing town)-Say, Jim, there amt no bank
in this hull DANCED place.
Second Burglar There amt!
F. B.-Naw; been all over it.
S. B.-Got any Doodle left!
T. B.-Some.
S. Enough to hire room?
F. B.-Plenty.
S. B.-Well, let's start one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

THERE is a growing sentiment in New
York state in favor of the state control
ling medical icensure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

The postoffice statistics sent out from
Washington certainly prove that the re-
duction of letter postage has only slim
ulated correspondence. When England
adopted penny postage forty-fVe years
ago, heavy loss to the government was
predicted, but there was a decided in
crease of over 81 per cent. In letters
mailed during the past year in the United
States proves the wisdom of the letter
postage reduction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

THE first silk hat is said to have been
made for French sea captain in China
fifty years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-29

THREE carrier pigeons were released in
Indianapolis lately, and one of them ar
rived in its loft in New Albany, ia miles
distant, ten minutes ahead of a telegram
sent thithcr from Indianapolis immedi-
ately after the bird was liberated.