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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-23

On motion OF Conner, Of Illinois, the resolu.
aprropr atlons to inquire INTO the recommend
atoms OF the Secretary OF the Interior for the
consolidation of certain offices of surveyors
general aud making It in order to propose a
reduction Ia expend lures bv the abolition on
u e consolidstion of any of these offices on the
aplro riltloU bill Belmont. New York, intro
dnced a bill for a commits on to settle the fish
es clam. Referred TO the commit on for
Ign affa RS. On motion OF Conger the House
bill TO extend the free delivery system Of The
Postofllce Department, passed By the house on
the h inst, was taken up and assed. Tue
house at IFS evening session passed eighteen
pension bills.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-23

WAsHINGToN-The Senate passed the bill to
repeal the tenrre of office act, 30 to 49, Petit
tons for the reduction of the tax on oleomar-
gaine were presented by Conger, Cullon, In
gals, Chace, Mitt hell. OF Oregon, and Hoar,
and referred to committee on agriculture. A
bill was introduced by Morgan to regulate
the fees and'salaries of Tn I d States district
attorneys in New Mexico and Arizona On
mott n of Miller, and after a brief statement
by him, the Senate TOOK up and passed with
out discussion and without division the bill
tor retirement and re-coinage Of trade dollars.
The bin authorizing the construction OF q
bridge across the st. LOUIS river at tine most
accessible point between Minnesota aud Wis
consn, and across the Mississippi river at
Memphis, Tenn, was reported from the COM
mittee on commerce, and passed. The Senate
III took up the unfinished business OF yes
rday, being the bill to repeal the tenure Of
flee act, aud W lout further discu sion the
bill wa passed yeas 30, nays 81 On motion
of Mcmillan, the bill for the apl o ntment Of
an insp ctor of hulls and boilers, in Duluth,
WAS taken up and passed. After executive
session the Senate adjourned till Moncay.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-23

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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
A QUEER COINCIDENCE.
After Twenty-Five Years of Wandering 4
Book Rcturne to Its Original Owner.

After Twenty-Five Years of Wandering a
Book Rcturne to Its Original Owner.
"a queer coincidence happened to
me recently" said y prominent local
Judge this morning. II was going up
Grand River avenue and was attracted
by n lot of ancient books in an old-book
store. Going inside I ran across a
novel by Anthony Trollope, my favor
tic author. l did not remember hav-
ing read it, SO l bought the book and
took it home. On reading a few pages
that evening l recollected that l had
read the book many years ago. My
daughter then picked it up and hap.
pened to glance at the title page.
There was the faint outlines of writing
which had been erased. We studied
at it for some time when we deciphered
TO my dear wife Julia from her hus-
band As 1 read the almost illegiblc
inscription my wife took the book from
me and deciphered the same words.
Then she looked at the binding and
burst into tears.
"'Do you remember this book?'
said she.
II hardly knew what she meant at
first, but it suddenly struck me that |
had presented her with that very book
twenty-five years ago-a few weeks
after cur marriage. I recalled writing
the inscription in it: TO Julia, etc.
and recognized my youthful handwrit-
ing. My wife remembered how she
liked the gift when she first got it, and
her chagrin at its loss. 1t had disap-
peared. borrowed or stolen. Il few
weeks aftor ] had given it to her. The
well-thumbed leaves showed it had
through many hands during its
trip of the last twenty-five
years. We now think more of that
book than all the rest of the library put
together. "--DetroI NeWs.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
the most northern place in the world
where wheat and rye rinen.

the most northern place in the world
where wheat and rye ripen.
1t is the opinion of Sir William
Thomson and other physicists that the
prolific animal and vegetable life
which covered Greenland and the
n~eighboring lands in a former geolog.
ical age, whose fossil remains have
been found in abundance, was due to
warm ocean currents flowing north a.
i time when Il continent had not yet
risen above the surface to impede 0,
divert their course. There seems. after
all, to be no inherent improbabilily in
the theory, to elucidate which two
books have recently been written. that
human hfe existed, and perhaps origin.
ated, in these polar lands before tina
present populous part Of the earth were
habitable.-N Y. Sun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
DANGEROUS
A Mans Intestinss Taken Out and Five
Cuts Sewed Up.
in. Y. Tribune.1

IN. I. Tribune.
Thomas Callagan, a boatman twenty
two years Of age, was taken 10 Bellevue
Hospital. He had had a dispute over
drinks with Carl Theming, who stabbed
him in the abdomen with a sheath knife.
A superficial examination showed that
the knife had probably not cut any dan
gerous vessel, and that the wound would
not prove to be serious. After Callagan
had been in his cot for several hours he
complained Of intense pain in the abdom-
inal region. His face became pinched, his
heart beat irregularly, and he had
spasms which indicated that peri
tonitis would soon set in. A consulta-
ton was held and the decision reached
that, to say the mans life, it would be
necessary to perform the delicate and dan
gerous operation OF exploring the abdom-
inal cavity. As this operation in nearly
every case results fatally, Coroner Mes
semer was called in and took the ante
mortem statement Of Gala gan. The man
who stabbed him was also brought into his
presence and identified.
Callaghan was then put on a stretchcr
and taken to the operating-ro0n, where the
whole house staff and a number of we'll
known physicians We're gathered. He did
not show any fear. He is a stout, rugged
young man. with powerful muscular de-
velopment. After he had been annstLe.
tized the attending surgeon with a sharp
knife made an incision, following the me-
dian line in the abdomen, about six inches
in length. The wall Of the abdomen was
found to be unusually thick. Then the in
testines were slowly taken cut and exam
ined. Each section Wa wrapped in a
warm antiseDtic cloth and laid on the out
side Of the chest. This course was fol.
lowed until all that could have been in
jured by the knife-thrus. had been exam
ined. Five deep cuts that nearly severed
the intestines We're found. They We're
carefully sewed up as soon as discovered.
The patient became exceedingly weak
at this stage and injection Of slim
ulants were given. He rallied from
the shock and the intgstinnS ware
put back into the cavity, which was first
thoroughly washed with an antiscptic So
ihI4"H' IuH ilfi0tyN n t1e aDtH!nEl wall
was stitched with catgu, sltures. The ex.
ternal surface Of the abdomen was united
with silver sutures. 50 a~rran-sl anil tight
ened as not TO tea? th= a4sA in ca,e the
patient should cough Or strain. The oper-
alton lasted about two hours.
The patient was sent back to his cot. anil
plenty OF stjmU.auts and M-""hia wero
given to accelerate the hearts action and
lessen the dangers from Inflammation. The
sick man lii not rally q, well as was px-
pected eftrr the OPERATION u SUI saGUent-
ly he revived and expressed himself = not
feeling in rool condition. H hri-htpnal
for a sine AMI then <2nk rapidly, ard it
was thought by pr Jarvis, the attending
surgeon, that he wolli lie.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
POLAR CLIMATES.
Only q Slight Change Would Cover Green.
land with Eerdure,

laiid with Eerdure-
The theory has long been advanced
that the poles of greatest cold are not
coincident with the territorial poles,
and that the lowest mean temperature
is to be found in the region of the Lena
river in Siberia. This idea was en-
couraged by the fact, among others,
that the Polaris party reported a mild
er climate at Thank God Harbor than
Kane experienced about two hundred
miles further south. The part of the
argument, however, which relates to
the Lena river valley is directly contra
dicted by Lieutenant Greely's obscrva-
tons for two years at Lady Franklin
Bay, where he found the lowest mean
temperature yet observed, about four
degrees Fahrenheit. Grinncll Land,
therefore, as far as we yet know, is
the coolest part of the Northern hem
isphere.
Danish Greenland, whose mean tenn
perature hovers around the freezing
point, is buried under hundreds of
feet of ice simply because about two
inches of ice forms in winter more than
is thawed out in summer The author
itics in terrestrial physics agree that
it would require only a slight change
in climate conditions to remove Green
lands ice blanket and cover the land
with verdure. We're it not for the
presence of these immense ice masses
constantly refrigerating the air, the
summers Of Danish Greenland would
be as warm as those of England. Mr..
Wallace is Of the opinion that if the
two Arctic currents that flow south
along both sides of Greenland were d.
verted from that country, the great ice
mantle would rapidly disappear, and
the country might eve become forest
clad and habitable. Mr.. Croll agrees
with him in this opinion, and both Mr..
Croll and Sir William Thomson believe
that it would not take a very large in
crease in the temperature and volume
Of the Arctic branch of the Gulf stream
to produce the same result.
The powerful modifying influence
that the great ocean currents from the
south exert upon climates is nowhere
20 strongly manifested as along the
north coast of Norway, which has a
temperature than any other part
# the world in the same latitude. At
his moment the little town of Bosse-
lop, lying at the foot of a ford which
opens into the icy waters of the Arctic {
wrapped in the twilight of its ,
winter night. is subsisting largely on J
he grain that was raised last summer
N the valley farms in a latitude about
TX hundred miles north OF the south 8
nd Of Greenland, This fertile spo! 10 9
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

"A tramp was found by a gentle.
man on his front steps eating his lunch.
Here! What arc you doing thereP"
he shouted. "Partaking of a slight
lunch; will you join mep" the tramp
politely responded. mo, I don't want
any of your villainous food" That's
so; it is a pretty tough kind Of fodder.
] just got it out Of your kitchen. Your
wife must be doing her own cooking
e. Mfgagp Ledger
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
A REMARKABLE TRIAL,
One winch Absorbed tile Attention of the
Yorkshire People Long Ago.

AeUIle AohS hSUs
About the middle of the last century
the county of York was deeply inter-
ested in the trial of the father of a
large family who, when living in the
greatest responsibility, Was accused Of
highway robbery. The trial was in
York Castle. The prosecutor was a
youth OF about twenty. years of age, the
son of a banker, and the prisoner a
stout, athletic man of fifty. The pros
ecutOr had transacted his business as
usual at the market town; he had re-
ceived several sums OF money in the
presence of the prisoner; he had dined,
and about five o'clock had set out on
his return home, II was a fine sum
mer evening, and he rode gently on.
In a solitary lane he was overtaken by
the prisoner, who seized him and de-
manded his pocket-book. In the first
agony of surprise and fear the prose-
cutor struck him a violent blow with
his whip; but the prisoner, who was a
very powerful man, dragged him from
his horse, knelt down upon him. and
took from HIM his money and account
books. In this situation the prosecutor
begged very earnestly for his life. As
he lay under the prisoner he watched
his countenance, and saw that he YVES
much agitated. The ro0ocr dcSisted,
arose, mounted his horse and rode
away. 1t was then about seven O clock
in the evening; but the Young man was
so much exhausted that he did not
reach home till late at night. He i'm
mediatclV stated these circumstances;
but the ~improbability Of his having
been robbed i'll open daylight, on a
public road, and of his having lost
various memoranda which a robber
would scarcely have taken, excited
some suspicion respecting the truth Of
his statement. As the jury were leav-
ing the box, the young man who had
been robbed begged to be heard. He
was so much agitated that he could
scarcely speak. When he recovered
himself, he said:
Il stand here to plead for youl
mercy towards = man vino listened t9
my voice when I bpg@rd for mercy
from him. If he had BEEN deaf to MY
cry, | should now have been in ny
grave, and he in the bosom of q re-
spectacle family, with the wife VINO be-
llcvcI him virtuous and the children
who loved him. 1t has been proved
to you that his connections. his char
acter, his religious persuasion, would
all have united to shelter him from sus-
it has also been proved that |
was lame from my birth: that l am
feeble; that ] had eXaspcratrd him by a
blow; and that he knew IcouIl identify
him; but the kindness If his nature
oreponderatcd. it overcalH" the fear
Of disgrace, and he suffered me to de-
'art, although l might be the cause of
lis death! If you do moi pity his
nomentary lapse, if you do not respect
lis return to virtue, it would have been
veil for me if had died! Ii is me thai
will condemn. | shall be the VIC
i'm of the law, and he gave me my life
n vain!'
He was frequently interrupted dur
ne this affecting appeal b. the tears OF :
he jury and the general distress of the ,
curt. The prisoner was. however, c
ound guilty, and was executed in due t
ourse.-LeedS Mercury. I
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

AT an inquest held at the Eor1s-
wood Asylum for Idiots, in Eu-lao@,
on the body Of a man Who died il that
institution. it was stated that 4 post
morton examination OF the dee .2,,l
showed the stomach to be very n.url
enlarged. and III it was discovered 4
large roll of foreign substance, consist
ing of human hair, horse hair, and
c]ocoanut fibre and 4 few dead leaves,
the whole weighing TWO pounds ami 4
quarter, and completely b~Iocning up
the SlNmAcl.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
SEA-ICE.
The Loss of Its Saline Qualities and Con-
seUuvUl Value to Mariners,

Tie Loss of Its Saline Qualities and Con
sequumt Value to Mnr;nrrs.
I know from personal experience
that saline fluid does, under certain
circumstances, pcrcolatc or "tiltratc
6omnwar1, converting %sca-ice, previ-
ouSly saline, into a sufficiently fresh
state to afford good drinking-watcr
when thawed. This discovery, like a
good many others of more Importance,
was accidental. In passing n piece of
old ice-that is, of 4 former years
formation which was known to be 50
by its wasted and rugged outline, as it
stood some feet above the surrounding
level ice-iloe-l knocked a small piece
off, and putting it into my mouth found
il quite fresh. From that time, during
sledgc journeys M thousand. two hun
dred miles in the spring of lSi7, /
looked out for some old rough ice, be-
fore building our snow hut for the
nights shelter. so as to get water
quickly. Experience had taught ne
that a kettlcful of water could be Oh
tanned much more rapidly and at q far
less waste of fuel by thawlng ice than
from snow, because the latter. how
ever closely packed, contained much
air, which at a temperature of zero or
lower. required extra fuel to warm it
up to 80 degrees Fahrenheit; a kettle
full of snow will give little more than Il
third of 4 kettleful of water, while the
same measure OF ice will nearly fill the
kettle with water. -JohH Rae, IN Nat
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
REAL WO


She wasn't very pretty,
Nor was she very neat;
Her hands were scarcely little,
And likewise were her feet.
She wasn't very graceful,
Nor was she very tall;
She wasn't very brainy
And didn't know it all.
She wasn't quite patrician,
Nor was she CONNIE il faut"
In very many matters
She really ought to know.
She had a Summer temper,
Her hair was truly red;
She wasn't always tender
In everything she said.
But what's the odds, dear reader?
You should not claim the earth,
A millionsgood hard dollars
Was what the girl al worth.
Merchant Trareler.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

The Lyon County Times tells of a
Iuliar breed of fish at Kinds Springs
Ech are all covered with a beautiful
e shaggy coat Of hair instead of
les. That, however. is uothin.
tngc. The writer of this has seen
kcrS in Reese River with fine White
81 all over them, except in spots
ng the sides where the wool was
tbCd of by contact with the river
ks or with each othU in passing mp
down the narrow stream tU-
ia (Ner) Enterprise.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

The demand for wives at C2<l,c
den is greater than the supply.
cral applications sent there a, y
wives could not be filled. ajGut.n
e were no restrictions, ~ J, AGi'-
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

WHAT i button \ >ma,, event tat is
always cOmlHE If.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
Tur farmers fa7or.te v.st-Harve>t-

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dun ~ IT.. A,rt'-
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-08
A Round Peg IN q square Hole.

Another great mistake OF parents is
made little further on when the ed lca-
tion the child Is TO receive and the work
he is TO do in life begin to be considered
Most parents ave preconceived ideas
o. what their children hall do In the
worll and Il Is somtimes very hard to
modify or change them in accordance
with the child natural tastes. They
are like the parents OF boy with whom
had acquaintance, who had determined,
thil X even before the boys birth. that
he must be a lawyer.
The boy proved to have no taste what
ever for the law or for students lie,
but seemed possessed OF real mechanical
genius. From child he could do any.
thing with tools requiring delicate manip.
ulatlon, was always contriving and In.
venting new machines TO work Within
short, was a decided genius OF the In.
ventive order. But he was laborlously
drilled in Latin. wept unavalling tears
over 1t, was sent TO college at great sac
riiice on the part OF his friends, gradu.
ated was made to study law. did study
1t, was admitted to practice. and tried
his best TO do what he was unified for
Having now come to mans estate. he
took the matter into his own hands.
turned his law Office into a machine
shop and began successfully the work
he should have been encouraged to un.
dertake In the first place.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-08
The IRE of Saturday morning was a

The fire of Saturday morning was q
most fortunate one for the town ut
large. The buildings burned were
principally one story frame or log
shacks that had been built in the
early days sand were standing menace
to the valuable buildings that had
been built around them. A fire In
this block had been foregone conclu-
sion for years past, and 1t never could
have come at q time when il would
have caused less damage than it did
last night. There was no wind what
ever, and the citizens worked with q
will and successfully to save such val
liable improvements as the Stockgrow.
ers bank block, VIM. Harmon's store,
Basinski's, Miles and Van Gasken's
brick blocks opposite, and Gallagher's
adjoining. This is the last chance for
big fire in the town and our citizens
feel very much relieved to think they
have passed the impending calamity
with so little loss. New brick build
iDgs will cover the burnt district
without delay.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-08
Sunday, August 8, 1886.
THE DECLINE OF THE CATTLE COM
PANIES.

The rage for organizing cattle conn
panies with large foreign capital and
highly paid managers is on the decline.
1t reached its height in 1852, when
more corporations of this class were
formed than In any year before or
since. The results of the two years
succeeding in loss of cattle, small calf
crops and dividends which ran from
only 6 per cent to worse than nothing
have exercised depressing influence
on foreign investors. Dundee and
Edinburgh and London have locked
their safes TO the American promoter
of ranch investments, and thousand
ckholders in the older enterprises
are wishing heartily that they were
we'll out of the business and had their
pounds, shilling and pence securely
placed in British consuls.
In the last Of the consular reports is
sued by the state department, Mr..
Wood, the United States representa-
tive at Dundee, makes some startling
exhibits of the returns for the past
three years made by twenty-three
British companies. From the tables
given, Mr.. Wood shows that the aver
age dividends for the past three years
have been little more than per cent.
OF these, two paid 10 per cent; one ~
per cent; three per cent; two 5 per
cent; two less than per cent, and
thirteen no dividend at all. To Eng
lishmen who have been dazzled by
promises of 33 per cent profit and
lured by reports of the wonderful sue
cess of the millionaire cattle barons Of
the plains such an outcome is natur-
ally depressing.
The trouble with most of the great
cattle companies arises from overcapi-
talization. Formed from the consoli-
dation of smaller herds turned in at
high figures, the first cost has, in most
instances, greatly exceeded the value.
Expensive management. restricted and
overstocked ranges, and three hard
winters In succession, make heavy
dividend returns an impossibility. If
the truth were really known, the
actual condition of affairs on the
ranges would still further decrease the
figures on the books. Thousands of
cattle are to-day being moved into
British America at heavy expense be-
cause settlement and the prohibition
Of fencing render their profitable feed
ing on Wyoming, Montana and Ne
braska ranges an impossibility. The
day for the large cattle companies in
this section of the west is rapidly pass
ing away. Their place will be taken
up by the large stock farms where
feed will be carefully provided all the
year around and the loss by storm and
starvation reduced to minimum.
This is the profitable form Of cattle
raising of the future. Itgives no room
for extensive swindling by book
count or double sale, reduces the ex-
pensive ranch system of feeding armies
of COW boys to hold the herds and at
tend distant round-ups, and replaces
careless handling Of herds by a de-
tailed supervision which can carefully
improve stock by cross breeding and
furnish the markets with the best
class and therefore the highest priced
meat animals.-Omaha Bee.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-08
where Our senator. Were Born.

Five Senators can never become Presl.
dents. as they are foreign.born. Beck
having been born in Scotland Jones. OF
Nevada, In England; Fair, Sewell. and
Jones. OF Florida. In Ireland
New York has given birth to more OF
the present Senators than any other
State. the numb, being eight Kentucky,
Ohio and Virginia can boast Of six each,
Virginia and West Virginia being con.
sldered In this estimate as one; Massa.
chusetts and Pennsylvania five each
with the remainder scattering Four cen
have been born In New England Only
four States west OF the Mississippi
Indians. Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota
have given birth TO Senator,
Not Senhtor has been born In the
western half ol the Unit d States.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-08

THE Mexican minister at Paris has
sent communication to the papers in
which he says conflict will not arise
between Mexico aid the United States
in connection with the Cutting affair.
He concludes that Mexico is perfectly
tranquil.