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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-03-26

Auriga, is called Menkalina. THERE'S some
mystery about this constellation. 1t ID
ordinarily supposed to represent a chariot
eer, but nobody seems to have been able to
account for the goat and kids that tradi-
tion places in his left arm. The Greeks
were unable to agree as to the meaning of
this constellation. DIR. Sciss says it repre-
sents shepherd and gives religious sig
nificance to it, The ancients seem to have
attached a somewhat similar meaning to
it, as a savior and protector to those in
Distress for Aratus wrote:
" II thou wouldst gaze on starry Charioteer
And hast heard legends of the wondrous
Goat
Oft look to rescue founderlng mariners,
Vast-loomiDg shalt thou find on the Twins
His form bowed forward"
The right foot of Auriga rests upon the
point upon the left horn of the Bull, which
is marked by lone star ofthe second mag
nitude, called FL Nath. This brings the OBJ
server to the great constellation of Taurus,
which contains two of the most beautiful
groups OF stars in the heavens, whose
names we mentioned above-the Hyades in
the Bulls head and the Pleiades in his
shoulder The brilliant reddish star in the
upper left-hand part OF the v formed by
the Hyades is the celebrated Aldebaran, a
star that is known to every sea captain,
and that is much used in astronomical OBJ
servations as the moon not infrequently
passes over it in her monthly journey
around the earth. Close observation will
show that the light of Aldebaran is of a
pale rose color. different from that Of any
other star.
Ae the sun is in the constellation of Taurus
in the spring, the Bull was naturally con-
nected in the minds of men in olden times
with the breaking up of the winter and the
opening of the season of flowers. So we find
Virgil writing of the time:
When with his golden horns I'm full career.
The Bull beats down the barriers of the
year."
The Pleiades are so closely clustered that
they seem to averted vision like a piece OF
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The Leacock Farmer and His Lady.

Sunday last a well-known farmer Of
Upper Leacock township had a somewhat
singular experience. He was returning
with hts wife from a funeral in West Lam
peter township and was riding in sleigh.
his wife sitting behind him. The man had
his ears closely muffied, and was surprised,
after driving some distance, to meet d
friend, who asked him what had become Of
his wife. Looking behind him, the man
saw that his wife was not in the sleigh,
and he drove back the road until ne found
her In a snowbank. The lady had been
spilled out Of the sleigh and called to her
husband, but he, having his ears 80 closely
mufied, was unable to hear her end drevs
~ without bsy.
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pemocratle Central commi,tss.

u. Y. CARUruEHs. Medicine Lodge.
W. n. WuttAMS. sharon.
- r.. DfCHEHsON, Film Mila.
n. :. PROtTOH, sun City,
W. NJ. MASON Lake CITY.
J. ". SIMMONS New Ki0wa
W. a.. ALFOHB, Uazcltun
T. g.. CuAuu. SEXTON
LIN. MURDOCH, Lodi
THO-. J. DyEu, Cumminsford.
T.. l.. CAHUTTERs. Chairman.
W. II. WILLIAMS. Secretgry.
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WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS.

Orion and His Neishbors-The Little Dog
and the Twins, Auriga and Taurus.
Ii the observer goes out between ten and
eleven O'Clock at night, at this time OF the
year, and faces the south, he will see the
consultations here represented high up in
the sky, and extending from side to side
across nearly the whole southern quarter OF
the heavens. Orion is readily recognized
by the three stars forming the belt, lying
somewhat askew, in the center of a paral-
telegram, two of whose corners are marked
by the first magnitude stars Betelgeuse and
Rlgel. This belt may serve as a convenient
measuring stick for an observer, as it is
just three degrees in length. Another
celestial yardstick is furnished bv Rigel
and Bctelgeuse, which are about eighteen
degrees apart. The belt of Orion, as
we said before, serves to point out the
Chief OF all the stars, Sirius, which may
be seen in the center of the map at
the bottom. The first bright star above
Sirius, and appearing in the left hand side
oi the map about on a level with Orion, is
Procyon, the leading brilliant OF the small
constellation OF the Little Dog. Above
Procyon is the constella tion of the Twins
marked by two first magnitude stars Cas-
tor and Pollux, and number cf smaller
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frosted silver work upon the sky The ira
ditional number of the Pleiades is seven,
but it requires n sharp eye to distinguish
more than six. The fable is that they rep.
resent the seven daughters of Atlas, and
that one of them named Merope married
mortal, whereupon her star grew dim
among those of her sisters. The brightest
OF the Pleiades is Alcyone, which was once
supposed to be the center around which
the whole starry universe revolved. This
theory has in recent years been exploded.
We advise anybody who supposes that in
teresting views Of the heavens can only be OBJ
tanned by means Of the great telescopes in
the observatories to take a good opera
glass and look at the Hyades and Pleiades
with it. He will be not only interested
but astonished by what he sees. Here in
full truth, 1.-The floor OF heaven is thick
inlaid with patines of bright gold"
The Pleiades were connected in ancient
times with the seasons, and as the sun is
near them in the month of May they were
sometimes called the Virgins of Spring.
Their influence &as supposed to be benef-
ceet to the husbandman and the sailor,
and everybody remembers how oh rebukes
his officious friends in the desert by asking:
"Canst thou bind thesweet influences of the
Pleiades?" showing that even in that very
ancient time this cluster OF stars delighted
the imagination of men with its mild vet
wonderful radiance, as il has continued to
do through the whole course of human
history. just here lies the chief charm
of the consultations; they have out
lived history. The men who traced
them among the stars also divided the
earth into nations, and built cities and
capitals. But these ancient things of the
earth have passed away; cities have
crumbled; imperial capitals have been
humbied into dust; nations have risen,
hourished, bloomed with civilization. and
sunk into the darkness OF savagery; "the
glory that was Greece and the grandeur
that was Rome" have faded like an ap-
partition, but enduring in the heavens re-
main the fanciful labors of those early
men who divided the starry expanse into
consultations, and made the glittering
armament reflect the fame of the age OF
gods and heroes.
There are many interesting telescope
objects in Taurus, but we have space only
to mention the celebrated Crab nebula
which may be found short distance
northwest OF the star in the end of the
Bulls lower or southern horn This is a
marvellous phenomenon when viewed vita
powerful tefescope.-N Y Sun.
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A Bear as High as a Horse.
INez Perce News.I

A monster black bear has long been the
terror OF the Little Salmon stockmen, and
P. Cleary, A Berg and others have offered
standing reward for his scalp for long
period, as he has been in the habit of kill
ing stock, and is known to have killed
twenty five head last summer-some Of
them the biggest steers on the range. Last
week the "Kid" was out hunting stock and
sighted the bear, aud by skilltul maneu-
vering succeeded in driving him into an
Indian camp on the creek bottom, where
he was promptly killed. The Indians say
he is the biggest bear they ever saw or
heard of In the mountains. He was as
high IS horse and weighed every ounce
Of twelve hundred pounds. josh Fociler
traded horse Cor the hide.
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principal stars are located. The bright
star Procyon, in the Little Dog, is very in
teresting and remarkable, because astron-
omers have found that it is accompanied by
an invisible companion. This unseen star
betrays its presence by pulling Procyon
now this way and now that. OF course
these motions could never be detected by
the naked eye. But the refined instruments
OF measurement used by astronomers en-
able him to detect them, and he is even
able to make a not wholly untrustworthy
estimate of this mysterious dark star, and
its distance from Procyon. The two are
unquestionably revolving around one an
other, but, as it's companion is invisible.
Procyon seems like some traveller of the
sky staggering under a burden.
The two first magnitude stars in the
Twins mark the heads of these interesting
celestial brothers. The right hand and
northernnost is Castor, and the other is
Pollux. Everybody knows the romantic
story of these brothers as it is related in
Grecian mythology. Castor is one of the
most splendid of the double stars 1t does
not require very powerful telescope
TO separate the two components of this
beautiful star, and the effect OF the two
stars almost touching one another, and
outshinipg any diamonds, is indescriba-
BILE. The feet OF the Twins, marked by q
row Of stars through which Saturn is just
breaking his way, are dipped IN the Milky
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A Birds Way of Killing snakess

Harry K. Chamberlain has added to his
collection fine specimen of the paisano
or chapparal cock, bird somewhat rare
in this section. This was shot about forty
miles below here, near Fort Sumner.
He measures over two feet from end of
beak to tip of tail. The paisanos are pug
nacious fellows, and are great snake
killers. Their scheme is to find a sleeping
snake and then pile cactus around it,
worrying the imprisoned reptile until it
impales itself on the needles. These birds
feed largely on grasshoppers, too, and
horned toads. In the crop OF his specimen
Mr.. Chamberlain found two full-growu
horned larks or snow birds, heads, feath-
ers and all. Mounted with his crest erect,
showing his bald red-and blue head, the
chapparal cock is a handsome specim en-.
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SNOW JOKE.

Now we hear the Dlaintive scrape
OF the spade;
And the snow-balls take a shape,
To evaGe
Which the mortal tries in vain.
And his language is profane
When the brseln ent of his brain
They invade.
Now the small boy makes q slide
On the walk,
And he straightway doth deride
Sons of York
VINO tirst step upon and slip,
And then tumble up-kerblip!-
While the maker OF doth SKIP,
With squauk.
Yes indeed the time is here.
You must know,
When the seasons bleak and drear
And a foe
10 Whatever may be gentle
In man. and de tr mental
Is this awful, se,; t:mental
Ice AMI su ow.
Iifs
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ORION AND HIS NEIGHsoRs.


stars below them and in the direction OF
Orion. In a row of these twinklers appears
at this time a splendid star, almost equal
to Sirius itself in magnitude, but lacking
the dazzling scintillations OF the Dog Star
1t is the planet Saturn, which, in its great
thirty-year journey around the sun, has
now arrived in the midst of the splendid ar
ray OF consultations grouped around
Orion. The observer will notice that
Saturn is near two small stars.
Still higher, near the center of the upper
part of the map is Auriga, with one first
magnitude star, called Capella, another of
the second magnitude not far from it and
several small stars at some distance below.
Lower than Auriga, and in the upper right
hand part OF the man, facing the scattered
little stars marking the lions skin that
Orion is supposed to hold in his hand as
shield, is Taurus. or the Bull. A cluster Of
stars forming V-shaped figure marks the
head OF the Bull. These are the Hyades
The little cluster of stars above and to the
right of the Hyades are in the shoulder OF
the Bull, and are known to astronomers
under the famous name of the Pleiades.
The observer will notice that the first mag
nitude stars Rigel in Orion, Sirius in the
Great Dog, Procyon in the Little Dog
Castor and Polux in the Twins, Capella in
Aurigs, and Aldebaran, the brightest star
In the head Of the Bull, mark the corners of
an immense six-sided figure, which once
recognized can never be forgotten. Betel-
geuse in Orion and the planet Saturn are
within this great hexagon, and on opposite
sidcs OF its center, Saturn being the upper
most.
But no one can pretend to a knowledge
OF the stars who is not acquainted with the
forms of the consultations. Accordingly,
We give pictures of those that we have
named, showing in what parts Of them the
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DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF THE CITY AND COUNTY
HIGHLAND ADDITION
TO THE
City of Medicine Lodge.

Most beautiful resident property in
the City. You have a view of the
Depot and entire City. Large Lots
5OxlOO feet. Cheapest property in the
City. See plats at principal hotels, and
at the Office of
W. J.EsTILL & Co.. Agents,
81 SW. Cor. Main Il 1st SITS.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
EIGHT HOURS OR STRIKE.
TROUBLE IN STORE FOR EVERYBODY
ON MAY I.

The First Blow Struck at Chicago on the
Northwestern-Pros for "a Great
Strike of All Kinds of Labor--situation
at ST. Louis-Striker Killed.
CHICAGO April 30-At noon, Thursday,
sixty nine men, including clerks and truck
men, Icing all employed in the freight house
of the Galena division OF the Chicago Il
Northwestern railroad, went out on a strike.
A committee of five was appointed to wait
on A. B. Brinkerhoff, local freight agent
The men want eight hours work and ten
hours pay The strike was a surprise to
tie railway officials, and no conclusion has
teen reached.
A strike compare with which all other
strikes that have occurred in Chicago dur
ing the past eight years will be considered
| Insignificant, is on the prog ANNE
| for May l. Several days ago the
| in and out freight-handlers in tho
employ of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy freight houses IN this
city notified Mr. Cook, the local freight
agent of the company, that on Saturday
| they intended to begin working eight hours
| a day, and would demand the same com
pensation as they are now receiving for ten
| hours Mr. Cook submitted their demand
to the the general officers of the
| company, who have, it is said, held sew
eral consultations but have not yet re-
| turnei definite answer 10 the committee
| appointed by the men to wait upon them
l Mr. 'pnL haypayar informal fhan that in
the event of other roads conceding eight
hours without reduction in wages, his com.
pany would do the same.
| Wednesday night the freight handlers in
/ the four local depots of the Chicago, Nil
waukee x st Paul Railroad company held
a meeting. They appointed a committte 9
freight agent, and inform him that
they had resolved to begin work
ing eight hours for ten hours
pay May !, and that, in the event of re
fusal to grant their iuest, they would at
noon OF that day, inau ;urate a strike. The
frei2 bit handlers on each of the roads named
number about COO and in case they do not
| get favorable reply from the officers of the
companies ani they carry out their threat
the result is difficult to foresee
The men claimed to be able to enforce
their demand. should our petition for
eight hours work and ten honrs
pay he disregarded,' said one OF
them, not pound of freight
will come into OF leave Chicago over the
Chicago, burlington & Quincy and the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st Paul roads unit
the officers of those roads signify their viii
hngness to give us what we ask for.
The situation is the same in all trades
The word is eight hours time and ten hours
pay or strike In some cases compromises
have been made on nine hours but the ont
look is for tronhle.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
Distinguished Persons in Attendance.

New YoRK, April 30-A Montgomery
dispatch says of Wednesdays celebration
There were pres MT many who made a
name by their ehorts for the lost cause
Among the,e were Thomas IL Watts, at
torney general in the Confederate cabinet
another was Ju !ge ". W Brooks, who pre-
sided owe. the convention of January, lS6l,
which took Alabama out of the niop. The
chief marshal of the occasion was Gen. r.
W. Pettus, OF Selma, Ala, who was minis
ter of state from Alabama to the state OF
Mississippi at the time of Mr. DAVIS inau
suration, and was afterward brigatliel
| in the Confederate army; others were Ma j.
Gen, William Nj. Allen, of Montgomery
now United States marshal; Brig G Ell.
NOW governor u'Neal; and Brig. Gen.
Henry ID Clayton, of Barbour county, re-
comfy circuit judge, and now n strong can
didate for governor There were also some
women of note upon the porch behind the
speakers, and none more conspicuous thar
venerable, but still brilliant, Mrs Clay
widow of the Confederate senator, Clemen!
G. Clay. She sat Immediately behind Mr.
Davis
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
WANT TO SETTLE SOMETHING,
While One Side Says There's no Quarrel
and the Others is Indifferent.

While One Side Says There's no Quarrel
and The Others is Indifferent.
Sr LoUIs, April 2a-The citizens com
mittee here which has been trying for soma
time TO secure a settlement OF the Knight,
of / abor formerly employed on the Missouri
Pacific, has submitted a proposition to tha
Knights, the advances in the direction OF
HoXIs not having been phenonlenaly
successful This proposition does not
appear TO be very desirable from
knighty point Of view, as the
only prominent point Of it seems to I've that
the strike shall he declared of No decis on
has been arrived at by the general executive
board of the knights NJ On the proposition.
The JOINT loarIs If the three districts inter
estei, together with the 10, al executive
boards of several OF the larger assemblies.
have been convened, and now have the pa
per before them for their consi leration.
Committe, man Hayes was asked what the
prospects for an carly settlement were, re.
piled that they were not very
brilliant We will consider the letter of
the citizens committee as soon as we can
get the boys together, but do not hope for
any favorable action upon it Just now No,
hpthih- 10 sdih III ~ hbVut ttt ditCtS VI
the strikers, and we could not consent to
carry out such request without their be
ing provided for, especially when every
thing is in our favor rs it is at present
A telegram from New York says Mr..
Gould laughed when he heard of the above
and remarked there was no difficulty to set
tie; the Missouri Pacific had all the men il
wanted.
On Fourteenth and Poplar streets, two
blocks from the Union depot, Johnnie
Gibbons, a striker, aged 10, formerly EN-
ployed by the Bridge and Tunnel company
was shot and killed by William E. Withers
non union switehman, at present In ths
employ OF the same company. The tragedy
occurred shortly after q O'Clock Wednesday
evening, aAd the shooting appears TO have
been in self-defense, as Withers was at
tackled and struck by Gibbons while beins
held by Others. After the shooting Withei,
was pursued by a great crowd that threat
enad to lynch him, but was safely lodged in
the -Four courts Witbers was attacked be-
cause he was "scab" He came from In
dknapolis about ten days ago The Foul
courts is strongly guarded to prevent moi
violence
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

MONTREAL, April ga pastoral letter
was received here Thurrday norning from
Cardinal Tascherau condemning the Knights
OF Labor as secret organization inmical
to the interests of religion and good morals
Great efforts had leen made by the local
officers of the order to influence
the cardinal and prevent the issuing
of this pastoral letter. The cardinal, it is
understood, before issuing it, conferred with
all the provincial bishops, who agreed with
his decision. This action is in accordance
with decision of the holy see, which de.
clares the Knights of Labor wholly repug
nant to the church and requires the excom.
munication of all members thereof.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

LOUISVILLE, Ky, April SO-At Auburn
Logan county, Tuesday night a mob o
citizens shot Meridy Jones' negro. Mon
day night Jones gained entrance to til,
room of two young women after havin.
fIlle1 the room with chloroform lie wa
frightened away 10y one of the women, bu
was followed and captured by officers. Tn
prisoner was taken from the officers Tuesday
night, tie intention being to hang him H
tried to escape and was shot
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
BOYS SUITS.

Commencing at S1,75 to 81 50
for good, seryiceable everyday
suits and rising at easy stages
to the finely trimmed, elegantly
made suits, calculated to please
the most eXacting.
In the Gents Furnishing
Goods Line we always carry the
largest assortment and have the
lowest prices.
Our Hat Department is com
plete. We have an immense
line of Straw Goods for Mems
and Boys wear, the latest styles
Prices from 5 cents upwards.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

New York, April % The Reading
railroad securities pledged for payment of
Indebtedness of the New Jersey Central
railroad were sold at auction here Weines-
day. They consisted of $l,oo0,00 first
series and s2,000000 second series Reading
consolidated 81 per cent bonds Wharton
karker, of Philadelphia, bought the 81 900,
900 hrst series at prices ranging from - TO
tA Mr. Valentine, OF New York, bought
500, 900 of the second series at 81 The
remainder were withdrawn for the day.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
Heavy Damages Awarded

NEwRERG, N. Y, April 3a-WiIliam
Alberti, Of Afford Centre, Allegheny ooull-
ty, N y, who sued the New York, Lake
Erie 4 Western railroad company, for $50,
po for injuries received in July last in an
accident near Oxford depot, was awarded
s2',HD Wednesday by the supreDs court
Alberti received permanent injuries The
company will appeal to the general term.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

BELoIT, Wis, April 50-A woman
named Rachel Peterson came to this city
Monday night from Clinton Junction
While waiting at the st Paul depot she was
lured from the building by two men, who
told her they were watehmen As soon as
she was outside the men seized her and car
ried her to lumber yard, where they out
RACED her. The officers have been unable
to discover the perpetrators of the crime.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

cHATTANoGA, Tenn, April 31-The
students Of the Grant Memorial university
at Athens, Tenn, asked for holiday on
Gen Grants 64th birthday. 1t was not
given, and all but eleven refused to attend
college exercises They returned Wednes-
day, but there is likely to be more trouble
over an attempt of the faculty to pledge
them never to strike again Several students
mill l,a
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30

Sick and bilious headache, and MI &C.
rangements Of stomach and bowels, cured
by DIR. Pierce's "Pellets" antisbilious
granules 25 cents vial. No cheap
boxes to allow waste of virtue. BY drug
gists.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
Hard Coal Market.

Pea coal $500; CRATE and egg, SS 25;
range, nut and No. A, $3.50 per ton;
screened and delivered all best quality
of anthracite Extra carriage charged on
| orders of less than one ton. Blacksmith 5
caol, Connellsville coke and charcoal
| 1903 Second avenue. L. Il. FRAZER
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
RHEUMATISM AND PARALYSIS,
oaonn acs s MINNESOTA LAMBS are to be

SSUUU sold at Public auction. The Trustee
Of the Estate of JAY Cooke & Co., in Bankruptcy,
will offer for sale to the highest bidder $4,000
acres valuable lands yet remain ng. The real s.
tate must be disposed of Immediately so as to set
tie with creditors. Such an opportunity IL rarely
offered for safe and paying investment. Sale
takes place at the Chicago Real Estate Board,
Room S. f6f LasaIle ST., Chicago. ILL.,. Wednesday,
NAV 25. at twelve noon. Rach tract sold sepa-
rately. Address W. j. BARNEY &Co.. 81 Tribune
Building, Chicago, H.. or James z. Young. Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. ap-s6 dwim