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The Wilmingtonian., 1886-05-08

VIEW IN ST. CLOUD AFTER THE CYCLONE.
Human negligence is in great measure re-
sponsible for the terrible loss Of life in the
recent Minnesota cyclone. They have had
many previous experiences of a similar
nature in that country which should have
warned them to build cyclone pits, and not
trust to cellars that are covered only by the
floor of the house above, so that when the
latter is swept away the uncovered cellar
becomes pitfall for flying debris, which piles
in upon the unfortunate inmates who have
sought it as place of safety.
Among the cyclones which have recently
occurred in Minnesota, previous to the last
one, the most destructive was that which
visited Rochester early in the evening of
Aug. o. 1888 The entire northern part Of
the city was laid in ruins, twenty-six people
killed outright and eighty others badly in
iured The storm was terrific, carrying
everything before it. After leaving Rochester
il swept onward to the west through Dodge
county, carrying death and destruction in its
path. The loss in property from the effects
Of the storm was about $3O0,OOO.
In the recent cyclone at Sauk Rapids and
st. Cloud the number of killed and injured
were as follows:
st, Cloud-Killed, 81; injured, So
Sauk Rapids-Kiled, 3S; injured, 100.
Rices Station and adjacent country
Killed, Is: injured, 80.
Total-Killed, "A; injured, 2lS
Besides many who have died since from in
iuries The property loss is estimated at
S3OO,OOO.
This cyclone swooped down on these towns
about p. n, and wrestlsl with them about
twelve minutes only leaving the terrible
amount of death and destruction recorded
above
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FLoRuS 3. PLlMPToN.
Death of well-Known Ohio Journalist
and Poet.

Florus B. Plimpton, for many years on the
editorial staff of The Cincinnati Commercial
and of The Commercial Gazette, after the
consolidation of the two papers, died on one
of the last days of April, at his home in Gin
cinnati Death was caused by heart trouble
His body is to be eremated
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REv. JAMES MoNnoE rAYLoR.

While search was being made for party
to fill the rather trying position of president
of Vassar college, it was suggested that
woman be given trial This, for some un-
explained reason, was not done, but the next
thing to it was effected in the choice of a
Vassar girls husband, whose sister is presi-
dent of the Vassar Alumne association. So
it is presumed that the fair sex will have
this time an opportunity of carrying out
their wishes in the government Of the insti-
tuition, with the advantage of having an ex-
ceedingly handsome and efficient man to car
ry out their behests
The father of President Taylor was for
twenty-five years a Baptist pastor in Brook
lyn, where, in 1878, this son was born, Great
care was taken with the future Vassar
presidents education From private schools
he was sent, in 1864, to the University of
Rochester, from which he was graduated
with high honors-afterward spending three
years in the Rochester Theological seminary.
He spent the year 1871 in Europe in travel
and study. Upon his return he was called to
the Baptist church at South Norwalk, Conn,
and after nine years of remarkably sue
cessful pastorate he accepted a call to the
Fourth Baptist church of Providence, r, L.,
from which he was chosen president of
Nassar
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Mr.. Plimpton was born at Palmyra, O.,
55 years ago. He comes of the strong
hearted, long-lived stock that peopled what
is known as the western reserve. His father,
a Methodist preacher, is still living-a hale,
rllddy man, past so. Florus was born
a poet. Some of the strongest, sweetest and
most graceful lines ever written by an Ameri-
can are from his pen. That they are so little
known is because they were usually written
at his desk in the midst of his editorial duties
and published only in his own paper. OF
spare hours he had few or none If he had
been at ease financially in his youth, he
would have been at his death one of Ameri-
cas- distinguished poets. Indeed, he had al
ways looked ahead to gathering his poems at
some future time and publishing them in
volume. His friends and those familiar with
them very much desired this, but the leisure
to make the book never came. Bits of verse
from his pen are found in collections of
American poetry.
Methodist preachers sons must turn out
early to earn their own living. Florus
learned first the printers trade. But writing
for newspapers suited him better than put
ting other peoples writing into type and he
early began to do that. He graduated at
Allegheny college, paying for his education
himself. After a varied newspaper expe-
rience he became member of the editorial
staff of The Cincinnati Commercial in 1860
He left The Pittsburg Dispatch to become a
writer on The Commercial. He was offered
at one time an editorial place on The New
York Tribune, but he declined it. He was
identified with The Commercial and its for
tunes for twenty-six years.
During the absences of Mr.. Halstead, Mr..
n L 4
absences lasted for months sometimes, and
occasionally they came in the midst of i'm
portant political campaigns. AT these times
The Commercial did brave and brilliant
work for its party Mr.. Plimpton frequently
slept upon sofa in his editorial rooms and
did not leave the office for days, so busy and
anxious was he. His last years were sad
dened by Encouragement and declining
health. He was a forceful, witty writer, one
of the brave, quiet newspaper men whose
fame is unwritten.
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-05-08

Here, as in the case of the recent disaster
at Lee, Mass, stock company constructs
dam to store water power. Their aim is, of
course, to build il with the least possible ex-
pense and with the greatest show of strength
Residents of the town detect signs of weak
ness in the dam. The persons who own the
structure have their attention called to it,
but they are too busy making money to
bother about it. Sufficient unto the day."
etc, they answer. One fine morning, at $3.50,
the dam gives way and the torrent washes
down the valley, plowing a gully or channel
in the earth from so to 200 feet wide for
distance of some four miles, wrecking $3.50,
600 worth of property, besides killing nearly
a dozen persons. The loss of life would have
been greater had not farmer boy, named
Dwight Baker, who heard the crash of the
bursting dam, rushed down the valley and
aroused many slumbering families of the
danger that was upon them.
Similar disasters have frequently occurred
in the New England states and always from
the same cause the criminal neglect and
avarice Of mill owners and water power
proprietors. This is the season of the year
for such catastrophes, and this should be a
warning to settlements with such elements
of destruction stored above them to examine
and strengthen their dams
The Wilmingtonian., 1886-05-08
MAP OF ST. CLOUD.

In the above map the path of the cyclone
is shown, and this is curious feature of
these visitations, that they will cut swath
across a country moving everything to the
level of the earth and leave all outside its
path untouched.
Among the freaks of this cyclone We're
the waiting of a suit of clothes from tailor
shop to Brainerd, sixty-two miles away, and
the carrying Of headstone from grave
ward to st. Cloud, across the Mississippi, and
landing it three miles away. In the heart of
Sauk Rapids safe weighing l,5OO pounds
was carried 400 feet.
The iron bridge at this point, which
weighed hundreds of tons, was carried clear
over the town, and dropped in the country
some distance on the other side.
The depot sign, "Sauk Rapids was car
ried thirteen miles away, in the direction OF
Rica'g
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SUNDAY TRAINS.


SUNDAY trains will leave as follows Going North
Wilmington French street at SOS a. M. Dupont s. 25
A. M Chadd's Ford Junction S,Ii a. M. Lenape S.
a. M West Chester ;stage) sos a. IN. Coatesyille 9s5
a. M Waynesburg Junction 1903 a. m. st. Peters
$40 y. NJ Warwi ck $50 p, M. Sprinfield l022a m.
IO2 y. IN. BirdsborO lO5S a. IN. and 44l p. IN Read
ing, P. & r. station II 30 a, m. and rs p. IN.
Sunday trains going South will leave Reading p
4 II. Station at 8. a. m and 800 p IN. Birdsboro 93l
a. M and SS2 y. m. Springfield 1923 a. m. and
4O2 p m Warwick 1898 a. m. st. Peters 1913 a. m.
WaynesbuIg Junction f2O p. m. COatesville ass p.
M West Chester tstagel AS p. m. Lenape 5.29 p IN.
Chadd's Fords Junction 40 p. IN, Dupont 6.C5 pm.
Wilmington, French street g S0p.m
For connections at Wilmington, Chadd's Ford
Junction, I.enape, Coatesvie, Naynesburg June
ton Birdsboro, and Reading see timetable at all
stations
A. G, MCCAUsLAND, L. A. BOWER,
Superntendent GeI-. Pas, Agent.
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Eclectic Magazine
Foreign Literary, Science, and Art
..THE LITERATURE OF THE WORLD"
lSS6.-42d YEAR.

The Foreign Magazines embody the best
thoughts of the ablest writers of Europe. 1t
is the aim of the ECLECTIC MAGAZINE to Sc
lect aud reprint all the representative arti.
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The plan of the ECLECTlC includes ''Sc'-
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Its Editorial Departments comprise "Lit-
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and Art, summarizing briefly the new dis
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consisting of choice extracts from new books
and foreign journals. The subOined lists
exhibit the principal sources whence material
is drawn, aud the names of some of the
leading authors whose articles may be
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WIND AND FLOOD.
oALAMlTlES WHICH ARE COMMON
TO THE EAST AND WEST,

But Which Could be Prevented in One
Case and Provided for in the other,
We're Not Human Avarice so Strong
Illustrations From Photographs.
None of the effete monarchies of Europe
can boast triumphs Of natures handiworls in
the way of water falls and caves and canyons
such as we possess, neither are they privi-
legged to witness such grand exhibitions Of
natures power when agitated. Our bliz-
yards and cyclones are guaranteed to excel
anything of the kind elsewhere. Then our
floods are warranted to be full width, and as
full Of destruction as those found anywhere.
Our losses from this last cause are in large
measure due to our want of caution. We
build our bridges and dams and locate our
houses good deal on the Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" principle. The old
country people err almost on the side of UNI
due caution. Witness their bridges, they
are always built with provision for the
stream running beneath to swell past all the
bounds of reason or precedent Then their
milldams are built even more solid than the
walls of China.
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prnying for Newspaper Men.

The members Of the Salvation Army are
adown on" to use slang expression, the
Williamsport newspaper writers. AT Times
speeches and prayers throw all sorts of male
dictions upon the heads of the newspaper
men Last evening one of the soldiers,
named Joe Nelson, after denouncing the
newspapers in an expressive manner, prayed
that 1.-THE Lord would make the journalists
hearts as soft as their heads, w Willismsport
Sun and Banner s5sE
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Tho New senator from Tennessee.

The successor to Senator jackson, who has
been promoted to a judgeship, is w. c.
Whitthorne. His appointment by Governor
Bate was surprise, being unexpected, and if
the cannon firing and bontires which greeted
the announcement can be taken as an ex-
preston of feeling, it is certain that the
choice was highly acceptable to at least one
partY in Tennessee.
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LII, = Sullivan nn Honl,h.

.John," said |, there are lots of people who
are not fighters or athletes-men who are
clerks. or in scdcntary positions, who would
like to know Just how to condition them
selves in the spring. What ought they to dos"
"In the first place." he answered, "they
ought to set apart fifteen minutes to half an
hour every morning for exercise. More than
half of them lie in bed until the last moment
in the morning, then jump up, dress in
hurry and go right to the breakfast table,
and wonder why they have no appetite and
feel dull and stupid. The human stomach
was not made TO be treated that way. A
man should, after getting up, take a ten
minutes brisk walk, if possible, or, if that is
not convenient, use a light pair of dumb
bells for three or four minutes, so rs to bring
ON a slight perspiration. Then he should rub
himself dry with coarse towel, and after
that take sponge or towel bath. Then,
after he has rubbed himself dry, he should
Iub and slap himself briskly, as have done
inst now. Then, after dressing, let him 60
10 the table and eat couple of poached eggs
on toast. or bit of nice steak, with bread
and coffee, and he will be fit for his days
work, and my word for it, he will want nc
other tonic to give him an appetite for his
dinner.
E,sp aY,E tfE
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when a man has TO chalk his head and usa
a shoe horn to get his hat on, it is time for
him to think seriously Of reform, Chicago
Ledger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
Law and LAWYERS.
WANDERER,

1t cannot be supposed that every one
who appears in court of justice posses.
ses that amount of familiarity with his
country's laws which would make him
fit or capable exponent of his own
cause, although there are some chronic
offenders who. by long experience, have
become as expert in cheating the gal
lows and the jail, as regularly ordained
CONSIDERABLY.
Almost every person who attains
years of maturity, sooner or later, has
some cause which can be settled only
at the bar of justice, as for instance,
when the matured person refuses to
comply with his promise to commit
matrimony, and refuses to meet his
other obligations.
The duties of lawyer are not such as
can be discharged by one who is un-
familiar with their requirements, for tie
art of bullyragging witnesses and
throwing dust in the optics of the jury
is not as easy as might be supposed. 1t
requires time to harden the cheek of the
criminal lawyer to the requisite degree
of toughneSs.
At all times the harvest of lawyers has
been abundant, and there is no lmmedi-
ate reason for fearing that the supply
will diminish, as the crop is not affected
by late frost or drouth, or the seventeen
year locusts.
Laws are formed to guide the good
~ A.
er the one nor the other, owing to the
skill with which the laws are perverted
by the lawyers, who get themselves
elected to the Legislature, where they
can mix up the laws so as to promote
litigation. Its apostles and expounders
should try above all others to see its
majesty maintained. The fact that a
man is lawyer does not argue that he
is wholly abandoned-thathe has moth.
ing in common with his fellow man.
Their interests are identical with those
of other citizens. They cannot harm
others without sooner or later harming
themselves. Let the lawyer vindicate
truth and elevate his profession from
/ the labrynths of past darkness.
The first duty of every citizen is to
his country. Law is the only profession
that reverses this maxim. The lawyer
claims that his first and highest duty is
to his client. He has no desire to see
justice indicated; usually that is pre-
cisely what he tries to prevent. Since
the days of Socrates this has been lie
gal maxim: The advocate should keep
probability IN view, and say farewell to
the truth" This is a little trying to
tender susceptibilities, but it is true. II
| is rather q cruel statement of the case
but lawyers throughout The worlds
history have justified the remark. Few
lawyers ever make a speech at the bar
that is not full of fallacies. The mos
brilliant advocate and the most con.
temptible shyster make common cause
to subVert the laws of their country.
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consider his land was being ruined were
it pIoyed when it is as wet as they re-
ouire IL here. Moreover, the land de-
mands so much more labor here than in
Utah. that a moment dare hardly be
wasted. ALI their selling and market
ing is done in the winter time; their
potato pits are opened any fine day and
once or twice a week sees them travel
ing to the nearest large town to dispose
of milk and butter, hay and vegetables.
Farming in Utah, though it may be
considered hard, is veritable circus
compared with the tremendous amount
of work involved in this land, and the
people are not to be envied.
All the money in this country has q
nick name and our quarters" and
'bits" are not circumstance compared
to them. Here is list which a bust
ness man gave me: A "cad" or "char-
ley" is what they call farthing; a
make" is half penny; wing" or
"blad" is penny; trace of makes"
is three half-pennies; "dnce" is two
pence; ''duce makes" signifies two
pence half-penny, or five cents; a
.'thum" is three penny piece, while a
four penny piece is known as "crook-
err" kids eye and thum" stands for
HVe PENCE tanner is SIX pence
bob or Robert" one shilling; leigh
teen WINGS" one shilling and sixpence: :
a couple of hobs, va two shilling piece
"half-ounce" is half-crown or two
shillings and six penny piece; Five
bob" or a Grown" is a six shilling
piece; "half-quid" means ten shillings
and pound SO designated is "quid. )"
| have heard them say TO man who
had been dirty and was cleaned up that
he now had more Protestanter
look, )" intimating the filth and Papacy
were synonymous according to the Pro-
'testant view; and 1 have also heard a
woman, when expressing herself as be-
ing highly pleased over something that
had TRANSFERRED. declare: ut was the
fiddle O. my heart"
WANDERER.
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1000. A neat and attractive brick
AIi,I cottage of five rooms, in the Tenth
~. Ward, one-half block from horse-car
line, lot by 10rods. ITO.
1000. Brick Cottage, Two rooms
III; on car line, First South street, choice
~. location, lot 211zx1O rods. 1877.
~ LOO. Adobe four-room house, Six
Ala teenth Ward, lot 5xl0 rods, good garden.
O. $500. Five room house, close to
I'm. business centre, hydrant water, lerge
-. barn, lot Sx10 rods; desira Die neighbor-
hood. l69
IL Second Ward. on Seventh South Street;
lot 6111x10 rods. 10
Building Lots for Sale.
$50. Full lot. 10x10 1wenty-frst Ward. 20
$50. Ten BY ten rod corner lot. First
Ward; or 5x10 corner Tor $3.50; OF 5x1O for
1000. Beautiful corner ,ot, 5x1O rods,
Eighteenth Ward, choice location. y
AS Five by twenty rods. Nineteenth
1000. A well-fenced and improved lot
on Brigham Street. 1ex10 rods, in prime con-
dition for building upon at once. SO
$50. Five by ten rods, on State Road "a.
$50. Three and half by ten rods, Sew
enth South Street. IS
600. Good building lot, Nineteenth
Ward, on Centre Street. Sc.
$50. Ten by ten ro1s, Sixteenth Ward.
LOO: Corner lot, "a by 10. Eighteenth
1900. Four by ten rods, Second South
street, two blocks from Maiu street 81.
900. Whole lot on Arsenal Hill. 62.
600. A lot with full water rights, on car
line, Twent eth Ward, by 2 rods. south
front. "a. .n
1000. Building lot, Eleventh Ward.
south front, 5 by 20 rods, near car line. IS.
1000. Corner lot, by 10 rods, in EleV-
n A oh
lot. Call AID see it. 35
$50. Building lot Twenty-first Ward, on
horse-car line, corner, by l0rods. 40.
600. Corne- To-, by 9. rear alley; or
800. Corner lot, 5 by s, rear alley:o
500. Inside lot, by g. rear alley; or
400. Inside lot, by s, rear Hey. All for
sale on the instalment plan; two or three
years lime, by easy payments. J..
1000. Building lot, by &c rods. on Sec
ond South street. 80.
5000. Corner building lot finest situa-
ton in the city, 49, by rods front ng on
three streets, corner Main and First North
streets: commanding view hydrant water
or will sell smaller piece off the corner or
inside for less money. Is
325. Two full pasture lots, 2Ox20 rods %
acres, Nineteenth Ward. 81
For Rent
5. Three room house, Twentieth Ward
10. Seven room house, near U. C. Depot.
10. Business shop, Third South street.
Three-room house, Twentieth Ward.
IS. Second floor on Main street, over
Ats bowling alley.
IL. Business shop, Third South Street
Z. Three rooms on Center Street.
ESQ Three rooms opposite Metropolitan
Hotel.
II. so. Seven room house, corner Fifth
South and Main Streets; hydrant water.
5. Two rooms on Arsenal Hill.
20. Six room brick, No 264, Sixth Eas.
Street, well, celler and stable
3. Two rooms, corner West Temple and
Third South Streets
10. sixroom house, No. S1s, Sixth East
Street, hydrant water.
25. Six room brick house, No. 127, Sixth
East Street, closets, celler pantry and
hydrant water.
and West Temple, hydrant water.
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Very Remarkable Recovery.

Mr.. George V. Willing, of Manches
ter, Mich, writes: MY wife has been
almost helpless for five years, so help.
less that she could not turn over in bed
alone. She used two bottles of Electric
Bitters, and is so much improved, that
she is able now to do her own work"
Electric Bitters will do all that is
claimed for them. Hundreds of testi-
monia:s attest their great curative
powers. Only fifty cents bottle at 2.
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How to Consult DR.. Foote, Sem. b,
=

DR.. Foote. Senior, author of "Plain
Home Talk, Medical Common
Sense" ETC., etc., would say to those
who would like to consult him by mail
that they can have a list of questions
and circular of gratuitous advice by
addressing Box Al, Salt Lake City. The
doctor has arranged to have such in
formation supplied in this way to save
time. Receiving such printed matter
the correspondent can describe his OF
her case fully and direct to the doctor
in New York. DR.. Foote is successfully
treating all forms of chronic diseases, q
specially to which he has devoted thirty
years of study and practice. Evidences
of his success can also be had by adj
dressing Box Ala, as above, bui all let
tiers of consultation and orders for rem.
edies should be addressed to DR.. e. B.
Foote, Sr., 10 Lexington Avenue, New
York City, N. Y. Consultation free.
An advertisement of DR.. Foote, ST.,
in the Sunday edition deserves attention.
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Special Notice. haze a large number O
Properties on my books FOR SALE, ranging
in prices from $500 to $4,000, which do no
appear on my advertised list, some Of tOhfcl
are positive bargains.
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WILLIS L. CULVER, of Pavilion,
n. Y, says hat Gilmore's Magnetic
Elixir cured tim of a long standing
Throat and Lung Trouble. For sale at
A. G. Smith & Cos Drug Store. 10
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IL NJ. WELLER AND MARY A. WELLER,
u, the executors of tt estate of Joseph
Weller, deceased, having filed their petition
herein, duy verified, praying for an order
OF sale OF portion OF the real estate OF said
decedent, for the purposes therein set forth,
it is therefore ordered by the Judge OF said
OUurJ, thai I'll persUnS Interested in the es:
tate Of said deceased, appear before the said
Probate Court on Tuesday, the 30th day OF
March, 1856, at II o'clock in the forenoon OF
said day, at the Court Room of said Probate
Court, at the County Court House, in the
City and County of Salt Lake, Utah Terri.
tory, TO show cause why an order should
not be granted TO the said administrator 10
sell so much of the real estate of the said
deceased at private sale as shall be neces
sary, ana that copy of this order be pub
lished at least four successive weeks in THE
SALT LAKE HERALD, a newspaper printed
and publisher in said city and county.
Dated February 26th, 1886.
ELIAS A. SMITH,
Probate Judge,
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REV. E. J. WHITNEY, of Clarkson.
n. Y. says Gilmore's Aromatic Wine
for Female Weakness stands without a
rival. For sale at A. C. Smith & Co. s
Drug Store. 16
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10000 Eastern and local money to losn
on approved City and County Real Estate,
in sums of $50 90 and upwards