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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23
George WashingtOn's COurtship,

Near the end OF May, 1858, Wash
ington was ordered by the quarter
master-general of the British forces
to leave Winchester and make all
haste to Williamsburg, there to ex.
plain to the governor and council in
what a desperate condition the Vir-
glnia troops were as regarded CLOTH
ing and equipments. Accordingly he
set out on horseback, accompanied
by his servant Billy Bishop.
The two men had reached Williams
ferry, on the Pamunkey river, and
had crossed on the boat, when they
met Mr.. Chamberlayne, a Virginia
gentleman, living in the neighbour
hood. The hospitable planter insist
ed that Washington should at oncego
to his house. 1t was forenoon, and
dinner would be served as usual, early,
and after that Col. Washington could
go forward to williamsburg, if 60 he
must. Besides all that, there was a
charming young widow at his house
Col. Washington must have known
her, the daughter OF John cambridge,
and the wife of John Parke Gusts.
Virginiahospitality was hard to resist.
Washington would stay to dinner if
his host would let him hurry off i'm
mediately afterward.
Bishop was hidden to bring his
masters horse around after dinner in
good season, and Washington sur
rendered himself to his host. Dinner
followed, and the afternoon went by,
and Mr.. Chamberlayne was in excellent
humor, as he kept one eye on the
restless horses at the door and the
other on his guests, the tall, Indian
like officer, and the graceful, ,hazel-eyed
animated young widow. Sunset came
and still Washington fingered. Then
Mr.. Chamberlayne stoutly declared
that no guest was ever permitted to
leave his house after sunset. Mrs.
Martha Custis was not the one to
drive the soldier away, and so Bishop
was hidden to take the horses back
20 the stable. Not till the next morn.
ing did the young Colonel take his
leave. Then he dispatched his bust
ness promptly at Williamsburg, and
whenever he could get an hour dashed
over to White House, where Mrs
Custis lived. So prompt was he
about this business, also, that when
he returned TO Winchester he had the
promise of the young widow that she
would marry him as soon as the
campaign was over.-St. Nicholas.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23
The Arkansas Contributor.

The Atlantic Monthly is likely to So.
cure as contributor MIR. George Sab
berly, of Dry Fork, Ark, a gentleman
who has written for the North Ameri.
can Review and the Century Magazine.
His matter, however, has tailed to ap.
pear in either of those publications,
which slight, whether Intentional or
not, has caused the eminent writer to
address the following letter to the edl.
tor OF the Atlantic Monthly:
DRY Fork, ARK, February, 1886.
"MY DEAR SIR: l hear that you air a
great lover OF fresh, original matter 40
thought Id fine you. The New York pam
phlets haven't trea ted me ia 'rly. They said
that they would pay well for literature, but
they don't do it. I regard liar as being
about as bad as the ordinary boss thief
When I tell a man I'm going to do thing
I'm going to do it. Some time ago adver.
tised that had a couple OF calves for sale,
and when parties come to buy them. al
though meat had riz, let them 20 at the
advertised price. Now, stand in with me
and I'll get you good list OF signers in this
neighborhood. The Tally boys air great
hands to read when they amt out stealth
stock, and know they'll sign ef tell them
to do it, for I've sorter got EN- on the hip.
Two years ago they stole 81 heller from me
and by threatening to prosecute 'em can
make 'em do any thing. Now about the pay.
Good literature, l unders tand, is gittin'
higher all the time, an / therefore don t
want to enter into a long contract. You
may have the enclosed for three hundred
dollars. l wouldn't sell it SO cheap, but
the fact is I've got to have money!"
DRv EOPk 1rEAfc
We look for q early sp1 ing.
The river is falling fast.
Some fend in human shape knocked
a horn often Nose Phillips COW the
other day. The community ought to
frown down on such acts. We hate a
man that'll hit a. COW.
Uncle Jesse Patterson has the thanks
of your correspondent for a nice mess
of squirrels, we are very fond of sQuir-
rels especially at this season of the
year.
A big tree was chopped down on the
McQuerter place the other day. A
good deal Of honey was found, and
Mack has our thanks for bowl full.
Uncle Nick Boyle died last week. He
was respected and esteemed by all
who knew him. He was great ras-
sler in his young days, and is the man
that flung Black Buck at Scroggins' g
store before the war. OBSERVER.
"Now, sir" Mr.. Sabberly continues,
"you couldn't get these facts from
any other source, for am the only
literary man in this part OF the coun.
try. Please excuse mistakes, and send
money as soon as convenient. Say, ii
you'd give away some pictures you
would be helped in this neighbor-
ood."-Arkansaw Traveller.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23

Bette was disappointed, broken.
hearted, dead, or hYthinR Of the sort
that night. She was recklessly, des-
perately gay. Dancing on the edge OF
the volcano, she called it. And so
she was the next night, and the next,
and for a week running. till all the
chaperons in the house were getting
wild about her and expostulating with
me-and that was the way learned
that I was supposed to be her chaper-
on--and couldn't think where it
would end. And then she went to bed
sick for q couple of days, and then
said to myself that this was the end,
anyway. And then one morning, when
thought she was in bed still, and was
just getting ready to 60 and see her,
she burst into my oom, radiant, rosy
as q peach, fresh as q new-blown flow.
er. and caught me, and covered my
old face with caresses. ooh, I must
kiss somebody cried she. And he
isn't here. And l must tell you.
can't let anybody see it, actually see
it, it's too precious!"
And it was q letter from Mr.. Dun
robin, and in it he told her frankly
that he had run away from her, if she
chose to call it so, because he felt there
would be no happiness for him, or her
either, in q marriage with such differ
ence in age and taste and temporal
ment. And now he had discovered
that there could beno happiness with
out it: And he was coming back to
learn his fate.
"Oh!" she cried, bursting into tears,
otis perfectly dreadful that I'm so
wicked. Pm not fit for him! Idon't
deserve him! ought to be punished!
l shall be-oh, l shall be! l shall tell
him everything. shall tell him just
how maneuvred and schemed and
plotted and"
"Bettie, it will finish everything"
1T ought to. I can't help it if it
does. l won't let him take me believ-
ing I'm all I'm not. If there's anoth.
er world, he wouldn't know me in it.
And, oh, I'm afraid he wouldn't want
to! Oh, isn't it too bad l should beso
wicked, when I'd die to do him good!
And perhaps the best good I can do
him is to de-"
But when that night she came in
from the beach, dripping with dew
again, and hanging on Mr.. Dunrobin's
arm, her face pale and shining as a
star, she stopped and bent over me,
facing d line OF angry mammas, and
kissed my forehead.
,"Well, what did he say, Bette" /
whispered.
"He loves me, he adores me-" MUIR
INJURED Bette. ''He-he said he didn't
care" -Harper's Bazaar.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23
The Work the Negro Loves

Dill arp la tne dGlanCa constitution.
The negro loves to plough and split
rails. He is perfectly happy when fol-
lowing mule on hot Summer day,
and happier still when the horn blows
for dinner and he can ride home side
ways. The mule is happy LOO, and
answers the horn with acheerful bray.
It is astonishing how much sense an
old farm mule has got. / knew one
that when it was most dinner time
kept one ear back towards the house
when he was ploughing the other way,
and kept both forward when he was
coming back. One day blowed the
horn about IL o'clock to see what
Beck would do. She was at the end
of the row, and it took the darby ten
minutes to make her turn round and
go to ploughlng again. But it is fun
to see the darkies when Summer rain
comes up. They will plough on until
the shower comes, and then mount
and lope home and get wet all over.
and by that time the rain is over and
they have t. go back again. The
darby takes more care Of his head
than his feet. Hedon't want his head
to get wet or cold. He sleeps with his
head to the fire and covers It up good,
and lets his feet stick out any way.
He will warm his hands before he will
his toes. There is one thing that 8
dairy can do better than q white man.
He can beat us making fires on q cold,
Wintry morning. Sometimes when
the wood was wet and the kindling
while and almost despaired Of making
it burn, but a darky never fails. The
FIRE seems TO recognize him, and I have
thought that may be it drew some
colored caloric from his carcass.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23

Miss Fanny Mills, Of Ohio, who
claims the distinction Of having the
biggest feet on record, has just had q
pair Of shoes and pair Of slippers
made for her in New York. Their size
ls 3O. The measurement around the
ball OF each is % inches; instep, %
inches; heel, 25 inches; ankle, 90 inches
The cost 81 shoes and slippers was $40.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23

quiet, middle-aged gentleman of unas.
Stunning manners. She flashed me q
glance as she passed that might have
put out the evening star. He sat be-
side her at the concert: he went with
her next morning to the archery; he
rode beside her all the way to the
Wells; he sat beside her as they sailed
to the Red Reef Light. He walked
with her the next day after dinner.
but this time they stepped down and
away from the lighted piazza, down
the pebbly walk, down the rocks and
out on the sands and along the beach
in the starlight. When Bette came
in she was drenched with dew; but she
looked divlnely happy-too divinely
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23

The Hancock equestrian statue ii
be erected at Norristo Pa, Win
cost $25, COO. ! "a
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-04-23

Chicago Odd Fellows IRE forming q
company for the erection Of 9. $780,
600 temple. q.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
Minor Mention.

The receiver of the defunct firm OF Grant
q Ward has begun suit against Mayor
Grace, of New York, to recover $4,000
alleged to have been received by him as
profits in transactions with the firm.
The noted imported stallion, Prince
Charlie, the property of Dan Swigert, died
at Elmendorf Farm, Fayette County, Ken
lucky, on the night of the 11th Of collie. He
was worth $4,000.
The annual convention of the Farmers
National Alliance began at Chicago on the
18th. About 200 delegates from fifteen
states were present. The organization has
a mem bership of 100000.
The New York Board of Health has con-
demned $3.50 gallons of wine in that city
which had been made under the following
formula by W. J. Borream: Dried fruits,
such as currants. raisins and peaches of
low grade, macerated with water, mixed
with d percentage of sugar and fermented.
Fermentation is checked by salicylic acid.
Tt is then clarified, favored and colored to
resemble port, claret or any other kind of
wine desired.
Seven persons were burned to death in a
barn at Fussdorf, Moravia, on the 9th.
Sixteen others are missing and are sup
posed to be dead.
Stockmen have driven $1,000 cattle on
the Piegan reservation in Montana.
Richard Smardon, Montreal boot and
shoe manufacturer, has failed. Liabilities.
$4,000.
Walter Masking, operator at Pike Sta
ton, on the Marquette, Houghton & On
tonagon Railroad, Was riding from Hough-
ton to Pike on the morning of the 9Th on a
freight train and fell under the wheels and
was terribly mangled. He was taken to
Houghton for medical aid. There is little
hope of his recovery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17

ARIZONA contains about 100000
acres of land. OF this, Is, 900, 900 are
utilized for grazing. In these grazing
districts are about 1, 100000 head of
cattle, and about the same number of
sheep. The great demand is for more
water. When some great subterranean
reservoir is struck in the great cactus
belt that section will bloom and bios
som as the rose. But until then mill
ions of acres will continue q desert
waste. The finest tract of land in Ar
iona is the San Carlos Indian Reser-
walton, containing 2,528,0OO acres
well watered and finely timbered.
There are upon this reservation $500
Indians. Each Indian has at least
700 acres. AS it is held in body it is
in a measure valueless for agricultural
purposes, and the people of Arizona
have hungry eyes fixed upon the red
mans wealth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
BREWERS COMBINE.
They Unite To Maintain the Price of Bee
and to Fight Labor Unions.

They Unite to Maintain the Price of Beer
and to Fight Labor Unions.
The brewers of Paterson and New
ark have joined hands with those of
New York and Long Island, forming g.
combination to maintain the price of
beer, and put check on boycotting
and the labor unions. Each brewer is
required to deposit SIS, 900 in cash as
g. guarantee of good faith, the sum to
be forfeited if the agreement is violat-
ed 1t is estimated that tbs guaran-
tee fund will reach very nearly
$1,OOO,OOO. All existing con-
tracts are to be carried out,
but thereafter the practice of
furnishing costly saloon fittings
and signs will be discontinued. The
price of beer is to be So per barrel,
with 10 per cent. discount. II g. Gus
toner changes his brewer, the percent
age will be only 5 per cent, and the
brewer must pay So per barrel to the
association for every barrel furnished
the new customer. The object of this
provision is to prevent ruinous COM
petition. Should any brewer outside
of the combination begin to cut prices,
the agent of the new association is to
be allowed to meet any figure offered
by outsiders, the brewer who is thus
compelled to cut the combination
price to be reimbursed for all losses by
the association. The brewers say that
there are no politics in the move
mont,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
Political Notes.

Illegality is believed to have existed in
the election in Ward Five, Manchester, N.
H., which will, if established, be far reach
ing in it's effects. It would result in the
election of Mr.. Sawyer (Rep.) to the gov
ernorship by the people; in the selection of
Congressman Haynes (Rep) and in the re-
versal of the election of a Democratic may
or of the city. This irregularity was in re-
gard to the posting of the warrant for the
election. The law requires the warrant to
be made out at least two weeks before the
time for the election, that it shall be signed
and sworn to by the selectmen and at least
two attested copies be posted in conspicu-
Gus places in the ward the same length
of time before election. 1t appears that
the clerk of Ward Five made out the origi-
nal warrant and two copies, posting the
latter, to which he had signed the names OF
the selectmen. The original warrant was
not actually signed until the morning of
election day. Thus the election was called
by what purported to be copies of a war
rant that had no legal existence at the time
required by law. To these facts the clerk
and one OF the selectmen have made aft
davit, but the former claims that he made
and posted two copies under the direction
of the selectmen.
The official vote of the Ohio state cleo
tion received at the office of the secretary
of state gives Robinson (Rep.) O,895;
Mcbride (Dem.) 329,314; Smith (Pro.)
%, 657; Bnnsal (Greenbacker) l .9O2; Rob-
inson's plurality, IL, 581. The total vote
of the state was a little over 700, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17


depth of $50 feet. The building i'm
mediately took fire and the depart
ment had hot fight in subduing the
flames. One girl, Carrie Bruner, aged
Is, is missing.
Following is a list of the injured:
Ella stocker, aged 81, badly burned
about face and hands; Carrie Miller,
aged Is, burned about body; Emma
Miller, aged 16 years, burned about
the face; Mary E. Knecht. aged Is.
years, face and body burned; Amanda
Cook, aged 10 years, burned about the
face, back and hands; John Pollock.
aged II years, injured about the head
by falling bricks; Joseph Rehmer, aged
II years, hands badly burned; John,
Klengelhafer, aged 81 years, head cut
and hands injured; George Kimball,
aged 10 years, head and face cut; Dan.
Fries, an old man, both head and face
burned and arm cut.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Reaching Out in ALI Directions and Stri
Ing for American Business.

Reaching Out in ALI Directions and Strtv.
ing for American Business.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 1O-The Times
this morning says:
The plans and schemes of the Canadian
Pacific, which just at the present time seem
to be reaching out in all directions on
American soil and striving for American
business, contribute an element to the sit.
uation that is at least q prolific source of
comment and speculation. The latest is
that in the near future the Canadian line is
to become an active competitor for Central
traffic and trunk line passenger and freight
traffic. the project is worked out some
what plausibly as follows: As the Times
noted some weeks ago, the Canadian
Pacific is building a new line or extern
sion Of the Credit Valley Road, from Wood.
stock to Detroit, where operations west.
ward will end for the present. But the
Canadian Pacific has concluded trackage
contracts with the Wabash from Detroit to
Auburn Junction, and with the Baltimore
q Ohio from Auburn Junction t Chicago.
BY these the Dominion Line will run it's.
trains directly to this point. This, however,
would only give them an outlet Wis Montre-
al, but even that is enough to demoralize,
the pools and force the Grand Trunk out of
the association. 1t is claimed that this
does not satisfy the Canadian Pacific.
engineers in the field marking out
line from Woodstock to Niagara
Falls, and it is positively stated that
this extension is to be built at once. or
that work will begin upon it early in the
spring Up to the present the Michigan
Central and Canadian Pacific have ex-
changed business at st. Thomas, but the.
new arrangement, even If the Woodstock
and Niagara Falls branch is not built, will
work to dissolve that connection. The
Canadian Pacific has demand of the Mich
igan Central on several occasions tha6ratee
via Montreal to Boston and New England
points be equalized with those via New
York Central and Boston & Albany,
which, OF course. has been refused as the
Michigan Central could hardly afford to
discriminate against, or rather put the
Canadian Pacific on an equality, with
it's natural connection, the Boston
& Albany. The Canadian Pacific is
ripe for a rupture, and what with it's Wood
stock and Detroit branch and it's contracts
with the Baltimore & Ohio and the Wabash,
it looks as if it would soon be in position
to sadly demoralize Chicago traffic. There
is also an added whisper that when it builds
to Niagara Falls it will find at Buffalo
natural and ready ally in the Lehigh Valley
road, which, If true, would 81 i've it a line
through to New York outside of the pools,
and unless one or both of the roads were
brought in those associations would find
combina tion impossible. With the interest
on it's bonds guaranteed by the Canadian
government, and in position to haul
freight at cost, in following out it's favorite
theory that it's present mission is to demon
strate it's capacity to secure business, the
Canadian Pacific is becoming q dangerous
menace to American lines.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17

CONNECTICUT does we'll to keep alive
the fires of patriotism by erecting g.
fitting monument over the remains Of
Gen. Israel Putnam. "Old Put" con-
tests with "Mad Anthony Wayne"
the honor of being the staunchest,
sturdiest and most romantic charac-
ter among revolutionary patriots. It
is good for our young men to have such
examples always before them, and a.
country that does not honor it's
heroes of the past deserves none in the
fl1tTra
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17

DR.. MORN, q French physician, in
his new work on the hygienics of beau-
ty makes dead set against earrings
In numbers of cases he has known
erysipelas 30 proceed from their use.
The idea that they are good for weak
eyes he quite disposes of. It is posi-
BILE, he says, that in cases OF infamed
eyes they might act as a counter irri-
tant, but if they did they would keep
the lobe of the ear, which not being
rich in blood vessels, has little re-
operative vitality, in astate ofperma-
nent liberation. There is no surer
test of a good or bad constitution
than the state Of an ear which has
been pierced and exposed to the irri-
tation of heavy earrings. If the lobes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
Great Fire in Louisville.

The store Iof Robinson Bros. and VIM.
Cornwall at Louisville, KY, were Quilted by
fire on the night of the 18th. l.. L. War
rem, boots and shoes and Grammar &
Shuttleworth also suffered. Robinson's
loss is $50, 900; insurance, 100000; Corn
wallis, $4,000; insurance, $35, 900; War
ren's, $40, 900; insurance, 100000. It was
thought that the Louisville Hotel was on
fire, and a great crowd gathered in time to
zee the large cistern at Sixth and Main ex-
plode and tear up the street. This was
caused by foul gas. There was much ex-
element. Two engines were demolished by
the explosion, and James Connell. engineer
of No. 1 company, was killed outright.
Charles Obst, captain of No. 9 company,
had three ribs and a leg broken, and Denny
Hamilton and Sam Scanlon, firemen, were
painfully injured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17
keep red and swollen they proclaim
bad blood and scrofulous tendencies.

A SAD state of affairs now in Atlanta.
The mayor has vetoed an ordinance
permitting the sale of beer, which had
been passed as q sort of safety valve
by g. considerable city council, and g.
leading divine OF Atlantis has been de-
nounced as liar by one of the alder
men Both these events have pro-
duced an unpleasant commotion.
Why cannot the brethren dwell to-
gether in peace, plenty and prohibi-
ton?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-17

1t Is Being Investigated by the Crane
jury,

1t Is Being Investigated by the Grand
Jury.
Sioux Cry, a., Nov. 12.-The Had
dock conspiracy and murder cases are
now under consideration by the grand
Jury. At APO yesterday afternoon
the grand jury filed into the box, and
the cases against John Arensdorf,
Henry Sherman, Paul Lader. Fred.
Munckrath, and Albert Kozenit-
sky were called. The district at
torney asked if all the jurors
were citizens, and on receiving
an affirmative reply asked each
one his name and occupation. The
questions being answered, the state
passed the panel. 1t has been reported
and currently believed that the de-
tense would challenge all except one
juror, and that the panel would proba-
bly, be exhausted. This was not done,
however, and Attorney Tredway, for
the accused, arose and simply said
that the defense passed the panel and
the Jury. The jury then retired, and
was followed by the district attorney
with the papers relating to the case.
Nine of the jurors are residents OF this
city, the other six being from
different parts Of the county.
Among them are three farmers,
one banker, two city councl.nen, two
city merchants, one shoemaker, one
clerk, and one livery-stable keeper.
Nothing can be said as to when they
will get through with their work. Judge
Cole, OF Des Moines, has been secured
by the prosecution. It is not expect
ed that the trial will take place until
the January term Of court