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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
Sunday in Mexico.

A Sunday in Mexicois one long feast
of champagne, without a headache the
next day. When the first streaks of
dawn appear in the East people Dob
out from this street and that, hostlers
hurry horses otto private residences,
gay riders whirl by as If eager to
catch the shades OF night as they arc
sinking in the West, and by half-past
six it looks as il all Mexico was on
horseback. Ladies wear beautiful
costumes, dark habits, short skirts.
silver and gold buttons and broad
sombreros. Men display CRATER variety
OF costumes; some were yellow buck
skin suits trimmed with gold or silver
others have a drab skin suit artisti-
cally trimmed, still others wear light
cloth suits and high boots, buttoned
at the side, and reaching the knee. A
belt holding q revolver, and q Mexican
saddle to which is fastened q sword
complete this beautiful riding su;t
And then what riders. It ID the .Doet-
ny of motion; they are as but part Of
the perfect horse they ride. Take the
beautiful horses, ARTISTIC outfit, grand
eyes glancing at you from beneath q
pretty sombrero and you have q Mex
can scene which is irresistibl Even
Americans are q thousand times hand
Ssomer when they don this ont fit. and
at IS safe to wager that IL the men. Is
the States would adopt tho Mexican
riding suit there would not IL a 6inele
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
A Brick-Wagon Romance.

There was sensation in household
in the northwestern part of the city
one day last week, when the only child,
q daughter, aged about II, was discov-
cred to be married to young man who
earned his living by driving brick
wagon. The young lady in the case is
very attractive and her father is lead
ing builder and contractor of this CITY,
worth at moderate estimate upward
of 100000. Recently the father de-
cided to build several houses on lots
adjacent to the one occupied by his own
residence, and they are now nearly
completed.
Among the drivers who delivered
brick for the new buildings was tall.
awkward, sandy complexioned and
mustached young man, who had not APP
parently the faintest conception of ro-
nance. But he was fair in the eyes of
the daughter of the contractor, and
she frequently carried liberal lunch
out to him at the hour of the MONDAY
meal. Nothing was thought amiss by
her mother, who ascribed her motive
merely to kindness of heart, little
dreaming of the relations that existed
between the pair. Several days after
the meal incident, the young lady re-
manned absent from her home one
night and did not return until late the
following afternoon. When questioned
as to her whereabouts the night before,
she replied that she had remained at
her mother-in-law' S. Even then the
family entertained no suspicious, but
thought it was a joke on her part, and
the subject was not referred to again.
A repetition of the young lady's alb
sence was not treated so lightly, how
ever, and. to the astonisbment of her
parents when the afternoon papers APP
peared they contained the announce
n,ent that marriage license had been
issued to their daughter and the brick
cart driver. 1874. x. .' :: |.
Subsequently it was ascertained that
the young folks had been married for
several weeks past and that the honey
moon had been spent by the groom on
his cart enjoying the lunches furnished
him at his father-in-law's house by the.
bride. 59z: 81 5. .5Is
There has been domestic turmoil
ever since, and the young people are
Housekeeping alone, the bride : mother
harin & refused to aid them ia any way.
and has even gone 50 far as 70 retain:
her clothing bought before the #nlar.s
rage ashinq ton Critic.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

The San Francisco Chronicle calls
attention to. the fact that the Cana
dian Pacific railroad from P Moody
on the Pacific to Montreal is about
400 miles shorter than the Central
and Union Pacific to New York, and
says that if steamers at Montreal
were as swift as those plying between
New York and Liverpool, passengers
by the Canadian route would beat
those by the American route not less
than three days. If ever the Canadi-
an Pacific people put on a line of
steamers from Port Moody to China
and Japan, the Chronicle thinks
American transportation lines will
We to look to their laurels.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
Why He was Nicknamed ''Latch-
Key Ward.''
New York Letter.

New York Letter.
There was a marriage announced q
short time ago which created a mild
sensation and good deal OF newspar
per comment. the groom was alluded
to with much bonhomie as tLatch-
key Ward,'' or even the "Great Ward"
In private life this much-wrlttcn of i'll
dividual is known as Raymond Ward,
and not nine people out often, though,
his name was once in everybody's
mouth, remember how he came by his
queer nickname. There is little
story connected with it which is worth
telling. One night some FIVE years
ago, Mr., Ward was sleeping in q room
III the St. James hotel. 1t was a hot
night, and the window was open.
Through this window entered a burg
lar, pistolgirt, stocking, footed, and
stealthy. Decisive action being neces-
sary in his craft, he lost no time in
turning out the pockets of Mr..
Wards trousers. Mr.. Ward woke
up. He lay in bed watching the
burglar and thinking. He had
no fire arm near; in fact, the only
article within reach was a latch kew
lying on the table. The key glittered
furtively in the moonlight, which
glitter, catching Mr.. Ward 8 rowing eye,
suggested a course Of action. AS i
suddenly awakened he sprang out of
bed, grasped the key and leveled it At
the intruder, requested him to drou
the trousers, and with the other hand
ne pressed the automatic button.
The burglar seeing the moonlight
strike line OF light off the barrel of
the weapon pointed at him, found his
case too desperate for resistance. He
dropped the money, and, on a second
request, put at the point OF the latch
key, deposited his pistols on the table,
and surrendered. The janitor arriving
breathless at this stage, the interloper
was bound and walked off. AS he
went Mr.. Ward showed him the kew.
He looked at it for moment, then
cursing regretfully, observed, eff I'd
known that was key, you'd have
been getting pretty stiff by this time"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
Judge Barrett, ofNew York. who

Judge Barrett, ofNew York, who en-.
Joys the distinction OF being the first
American magistrate to sentence boy
cotters for blackmail and conspiracy,
makes a decided distinction between
plain boycotting and the same offense
with the Observation-Disclosures. The
five men convicted of extorting 81 900
from Thesis, the concert hall proprie-
tor, received terms in thepenitentiary
ranging from eighteen months to three
years and three months, while seven
OF the Bohemian bakers convicted Of
boycotting Mrs. Landgatf's bakery
have been sentenced to from ten days
to one month each.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

In a private letter from Virginia,
Rev. DR.. Lorimer of Chicago, the emf.
nent Baptist divine, gives the full de-
tails of the occurrence which came near
costing him his life. He was travelling
on train and had spent several
hours in conversation with Gov. Fitz-
hugh Lee and several other prominent
Virginians. When the conversation
Jagged he went into a. forward car,
when pistol ball crashed through the
window and passed out of the other
side OF the car near the roof. DR..
Lorimer says that had he not been
STOPPING at the time the ball would
have gone clear through his head.
Gov. Lee who came rushing in the car,
promised to use every exertion to
earn who fired the shot.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
Serious Fires in Iowa.

A destructive fire occurred atCedar Falls
on the 18th, caused by the explosion of
can OF gasoline in Hum bert & Co.'S oil house.
Seven buildings were burned, and two bust
ness blocks badly scorched. The loss was
about $25, 900, and the principal losers
and insurance are as follows:
Humbert & Co., drug store, loss $4,000,
insurance $4,000; Case & Tate, loss on
building, $4,000, insurance $2,OOO Riven-
burg & Son, agricultural implements ware
house and three dwellings, loss $40, 600, in
surance 81, 900; Curtis Ford, livery stable,
loss, So, 900, no insurance; L. H. SEVERN,
loss on building, $1,000, no insurance;
Harris factory: loss, $1,000, covered by
insurance.
The other losers were Ed Winslow, boot
and shoe stock damaged by water; Boehm-
Ter d Thomson, hardware house burned,
and o. Peterson, barn burned.
On the same day fire at Traer broke out
in Bonney's drug store and DESTROYED sew
eral business houses. Help was sent by
special train from Vinton and Dysart. The
total loss was SIG, 900 and S., 1000 insur-
ance. The principal sufferers are 0. D.
Bonney Sc 900; McCormick' 8 lumber yards,
$4,000.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

Great Britain has 336 available
ships OF war, manned by 5S,O 900 men,
and she maintains this ponderous
fighting machine at an annual cost O!
$57,OOO,OOO. France has 3O8 ships
and $1,000 men, and spends SAT, 000,
900 a year to maintain them. Rus
STA comes next with 1876 vessels and
$4,000 men, and an annual naval out
lay Of $25, 100000. Germany, Spain,
Holland and Turkey follow in the Sec
ond rank, and all of them areimmense-
|ysuperior to us inimmediately availa-
bic naval power. The United States
has but sixty-eight available ships
and IL, 900 men, to maintain which
establishment costs SIG, 100000 a
year.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
Condensed General News.
Letter from tho Duke Of Arsy,l.

I. Letter from tho Duke of Argyll.
The Duke Of Argyll, in a letter concerning
tho United States and Ireland. says: ~
Despite the national sympathies there is
2 profound ignorance in England and the
United States respecting each others con-
stitntion. He admits his own ignorance
in sympathizing with the South. The sym
pathy. OF the Americans for the Irish in
their present struggle arises from the error
OF thinking Of Ireland as an American state.
and that the English are withholding from
Ireland powers similar to those possessed
by different states of the American Union
Nothing could DO more erroneous than
this idea. Referring to the right oreach OF
the United States to due share OF the
general powers OF congress and to the
checks in it's power OF self-governmentw which
each state allows, he says that Mr.. Glad.
stones proposal violates both these prin-
cipies, for the corrupt and immoral bar
gain banishes Ireland from the imperial
councils and surrenders the nority entire
ly in the hands of the local majority
Americans will hardly believe this, but it
Is strictly true. The pretended limitations
and restraints against local tyranny ore
quite illusory. The duke then appeals to
Americans TO clearly Understand the
Unionist constitution, namely; that it
has been for Ireand's sake solely that
tho Unionists have given opposition to Mr..
Gladstone's Irish schemes. It is the Union.
lists and not the members OF the govern
ment who are fighting for the liberties OF
the Irish people. Even il Mr.. Parnei were
immortal. or il his party represented a far
larger numerical majority OF Irish people
than it really does, neither he nor they
would have q right to dispose OF the con-
stitutional rights Of Ireland. We do not
desire to see Ireland reduced to the condi-
ton OF being but a tributary province and
banished from the imperial councils, Meth
er can we see her endowed with powers
over her own people which no civilized
government ought to have or ask. We de-
sire to see her continue sharing in the de-
alterations which the eloquence OF her sons
has SO often adorned
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
How Visitors are Ushered Into
the Presence of a Princess.

the Presence Of a Princess.
London Letter in Boston Traveller.
On the Goth OF May was presented
at the drawing-room held by the prin-
cess Of Wales. It was 81 long and ia
tiguing process to be dressed in full
evening dress at ~ in the day, with =
train behind me four yards long, to
wait in my carriage two hours in the
queue at Buckingham Palace, exposed
to the cheers of the populace. For
women hold their babies up at tho
carriage windows, and men look in at
the occupants and make remarks. I
had a severe headache, and I dare say,
red face, for one young gentleman of
the lower class remarked, "rouge,
rouge" noticed that he pronounced
the ''g" very hard. There we had to
sit like monkeys in q cage, in our
plumes and wells, to be stared at and
laughed at; such is the privilege OF the
unwashed. However, like old Mother
Hubbard, we ''got there" at last, and
then all was smooth sailing. The mag
nifcent guards sat on horseback in
the splendid quadrangle, the band dis
coursed excellent music, within the
portal stood the immemorial beef
eaters, the gentlemen of the Queens
Guard helped us to alight, pages in
the royal livery took our cloaks, and
pass on through superb halls and up
an immense staircase, with our trains
over our arms, we finally reached the
saloon, where we were to await the
pleasure of the Lord Chamberlain;
pictures OF great interest on the walls,
and q plenty Of comfortable chairs TO
sit down in. Soon the room began to
fill with the gorgeous women in court
toilets: every one with white feathers
and veil, and low necks, bare arms
and fine gowns; or, as they say here,
"smart gowns 1t was really splen-
did scene.
We were all furnished with two
cards, one OF which we handed to the
Queens page at the door. The other
we kept until we reached the throne
room. Fortunately several ladies
preceded me to let me see that ones
train should be carefully spread out
like peacock's tail, and that there
was nothing formidable in the courte-
sy, courtesied four times as pass
ed the beautiful Princess of Wales,
Princess Christian, Princess Mary OF
Cambridge, and the ever popular
Prince Of Wales, and lived through
it: 1t is nothing but the early "bob'
OF our childish days made with re-
spectful intent.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

Two hundred schoolmarms and
schoolmasters from Massachusetts
left Boston on one train to attend
the annual meeting of the National
Educational Association at Topeka.
Kansas. The educators of AIassa-
chusetts manage to see q good
deal OF this great country, by means
OF cheap excursions during the vaca-
ton periods, and the information they
obtain thereby cannot fail to be OF
advantage to themselves and their
pupils.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

songs written by Jefferson at this
time are stillin existence. He sighed for
a year before he preached the subject
of marriage in a stammering way at q
ball. Miss Burwell did not give him
an explicit reply, and short time aft
forwards he found she was engaged to
another z< E;,3
James Madison fell in love with the
daughter Of General William Floyd;
while he was. a delegate to the Conti-
mental Congress. He was only twenty
eight years old then, was slckly, short,
and not good looking. Miss Floyd
rejected him and he wrote his grief to
Jefferson. ~
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

1t is reported that Gen. Gordon has
0ecured already 1913 out ofthe $50 del
egates to the Georgia State Conven-
ton, which is to meet at Atlanta on
the 28th, and so is sure of the Govern.
orship. There has been lively con-
test between him and Major Bacon,
and he has won by a good majonity.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
C0ngressman as Railway Attorneys,

Congressman as Railway Attorneys.
Following is an outline OF the railroad
bill as reported by Senator Hoar, from the
judiciary committee:
1t makes it unlawful for member OF 81 TIL
er house OF congress to seek employment as
attorney or payment for services OF any
kind in OPP osition to the United States, in
Gcy case to which the United States may
be party, Or in which it's interests may be
concerned, or for or against any rail-
road company which obtained it's charter
or any grants OF lands or pecuniary aid
from the United States. when measures
especially affecting the interests OF such
railroad are pending before congress, or
any bank or other corporation, which OBJ
tanned it's charter Or pecuniary aid from
the United States, or for or against any
corporation engaged in interstate com
merce, or in the transportation OF mails,
or any corporation, company, firm or pen.
sion, or Office, or agent thereof, engaged in
the production. manufacture, or sale or
importation OF any article upon which a
duty or excise tax is levied by the act Of
congress. Violation OF the provision OF
the act is made a misdemeanor punished
by imprisonment not exceeding one year,
or by a fine not exceeding $500, or both.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
81 The belief now is. that congress will
snotSadjourn before the first Of August.

! It is estimated by experts that the
average price Of drugs has fallen with.
in the last three years fully one-third
In some special instances the cause OF
the decline is apparent; in others, au.
thorities differ. >@a + is.sS >.''S @<sH<
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
e. S. WARNER, Secretary.


G. 6. Elliott of Illinois has accepted the
dictatorship of the typographical survey o.,
the Red River Valley, authorized by the late
eirainage convention st Crookston.g .
The customs officials OF st. Vincent arr
IN receipt OF a communication from the
netting secretary Of the treasury at Wash,
5ington granting permission for the removal
$of the customs office from it's present loca,
lion at the Transfer to the village proper.
The Manitoba road will now abando on it's
offices at the Transfer and all trains viii
be run into the village. r. | -. =
# The police Of Winona arrested the parties
who broke into Neerbovig's jewelry store
and carried of such an amount Of iewelry
on the right Of Feb. q. IN s#=5 5..s.s
sS Mr.. Med lillian reported favsrably from
the senate commit tee on comtnerce the
senate bill proyiiding Tor q bridge across
The 81 Louis river bet ween Wisconsin and
Minnesota. soIne minor amend ments Hers
made to Tho
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23
A Railroad Conference Called.

The following has been issued from the
office OF the Minnesota railroad and ware
mouse commissioners:
The statutes of this state provide that
this board shall, before the 18th OF Sep.
tember in each year, establish a grade 70,
all kinds OF grain bought or handled by
any public warehouse in the state, which
shall be known as ''Minnesota grades"
That this subject may be fully and freely
discussed in all it's. different as
poets, the board has appointed meeting
to be held in the senate chamber of the
capitol at st. Paul on Tuesday, Aug 10,
1885, at 10 o'clock a. NJ, of all who arein
terested in this matter, whether as produc.
,er, buyer, seller or consumer. The invita-.
ton is a general one, and it is hoped that
the attendance will fairly represent all in
the state who have given the subject mat
ter any consideration. BY order OF the
board.
q q
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-23

con6scation of the Phillipse estate
after the Revolution had become g.
success and his love had married his
rival.
John Adams love affairs were nu-
merous. In l764, the year in which
he was married, he writes in his d.
ary:--
Il was OF an amorous disposition,
and very early, from ten to eleven
years of age, was very fond of the So
ciety of females. Ishall draw no char
acters nor give any enumeration of
my youthful flames. 1t would be
considered as no compliment to the
dead OF the living. ThisI will say:
they were all modest and virtu-
Gus girls, and always maintain
ed their character through life.
No virgin or matron ever had cause to
blush at. the sight of or regret her &C.
quaintance with me- These erehec-
tions, to me consolatory beyond ex-
preston, am able to make with
truth and sincerity; and I presume
am indebted for this blessing to my
education. *;.r F.
Jefferson's first love occurred when
he, U youth of nineteen years, was go.
ing to college at Williamsburg. His
inamorata was Rebecca Bur.Fell, and
his letters Of this date are full Of her
and his love. He devotes many pages
to his grief over losing q watch-paper
which she had cut for him,
and on Christmas day. l762,
he wrote q letter about his sweetheart
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-09

The Industrial Journal, in very sensible
article calls attention to the great slaughter
of birds that is carried on in this State every
year by the men and boys whe engage in
the shooting tournaments These tour
aments" have been remarkably frequent in
the State this fall. Large parties from the
villages have collected on an appointed day,
chosen sides, and, armed with old muskets
and fowling pieces, gone into the fields and
woods to shoot birds and such small animals
as might come in their way. Each bird or
squirrel shot counts so many points, and the
side making the most points generally ban
quets at the village hotel in the evening, at
the expense of their less successful Opp0-
nents. But the game shot during the day
does not generally furnish forth the banquet
table, for the reason that nine-tenths of it is
unfit for food. Nor are the birds and small
animals shot such as the country is better
off without. Woodpeckers have in times
past been slaughtered most ruthlessly in this
way in some towns. In one town in partcu-
lar in this State most determined crusade
was made against these birds, by men and
boys, who were encouraged in their task by
the prevailing opinion that the woodpeckers
were hurting the apple trees by dor
ing holes into the bark" An uncommon
increase of insects injurious to apple trees in
the year following the slaughter of the wood
pecker caused the repentant overs of orch
ards to adopt when it was too late the oppo-
site theory that the woodpecllers were benefi-
cial instead of injurious to their trees But il
stoo generally supposed by the people of this
State, especially the young and thoughtless,
that everything wild, whether bird or beast
is an enemy of the farmer. In reality most
birds are his friends. Even the crows,
which are generally condemned by farmers
and are prescribed by the laws of some
States, have friends among many who know
the good they do by destroying noxious in,
sects. With so few birds and small animals
against which wrong doing has been fully
proven, the Industrial journal seems justi
fed in its singing comment: "These ruth
less slaughters are disgrace to our ciyiliza-
| tion -
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-09

Fifty years ago the most fashionable gar
ment for Harvard undergraduate was a
loose Bingham froek reaching to the knees
and gathered at the neck and waist. 1t had
turned over collar and small cape. The
sleeves were either hooked or buttoned al
the wrist and the whole garment was
trimmed with long tasseled white fringe.
With this was worn a low-crowned broad
brimmed straw hat, secured under the
chin by broad ribbon. And this was no
longer ago than 1886.