The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-09-18

pets. Besides" he said, "what do we
want with a revival? Weare out of debt
our pews are all rented our house is full
and revival would only disturb the quiet
and orderly development of the church. >
A great gold discovery was made In
western Australia. The gold is coarse,
much of it being in nuggets weighing
several ounces. The government geolo-
gist estimates that the new gold field
covers an area of from $500 to 1900
miles.
ADakota farmer, grumbling at the poor
outlook for wheat IN the early summer,
offered to give to his wife all the wheat
he would have over 1900 bushels. He
has just threshed triflc over 1850 BUSH
els, and the wife is going to have a new
black silk dress.
Lumbermen get 20 cents log at Wau-
saw, Wis, for raising "dead" or water
soaked logs from the bottom of the Wis
consin river. They have already raised
about 100000 feet, and logs that have
been dead for 20 years are said to be as
sound as the day on which they we're cut.
The British Trades Union congress at
Hull adopted resolutions condemning
over time work on the part of men hav-
ing employment as one Of the elements
of over employment which causes idle
ness and poverty by shutting thousands
out from their due share in the worlds
work.
The Niagara Falls excursion train on
the Nickel Plate railway collided with a
local freight train in cut on curve east
of Silver Creek, Tuesday morning.
Only those in the smoking car were hurt,
being completely telescoped by the bag
gage car. Sixteen were killed and many
wounded, many of the former being
mangled beyond recognition.
The British are establishing coaling
station at Thaso, on the northwest coast of
the island of Thaso, in the Egean sea.
England is ohartering steamers and max
ing other provisions against contingencies,
and if so, what are her reasons for this
activity? It looks to be in direction in
which Turkey has an interest.
C. w. Harvey, riding through Callfor-
mia woods, near Royalton, was scared
half out of his wits by. the fall of a
mountain lion close at his side. His
horse was quite as much scared, and
jumped into run just as the lion landed
in the road behind him. The beast
chased the horse and rider for mile be-
fore 1t gave up the effort to eat one or
both.
Miss Rolly Gehris of Washington
township, Pa, who recently died at the
age of "a, was always manly sort of
woman. She hired out to the farmers to
work in the field and could do a mans
work. She smoked and chewed tobacco
for over fifty years, and boasted that she
had never had beau, and that no man
ever lived who dared to ask her to marry
him.
| The marshes on each side of the Eau
Claire river, in Wisconsin, were burned
over this summer, and recent rains made
a strong lye which was carried into the
river. At least this is the theory advanced
to account for the fact that the other day
thousands of fish came down the river,
seemingly in great hurry, and went
over the dam and out into the Wisconsin
| river
George E. Faulker, fifteen-year-old
boy living near Trappe, Nd, loved his
mother devotedly. She was Ill and like
ly to die, and he often said, "If my
mother dies I do not care to live" His
mother did die on Monday, after calling
her children to her and blessing them, and
then George went out in the yard and
shot himself through the heart.
Bismarck Tribune: When asked to
provide counsel for Edward Powers in his
tlial for murder, Judge Francis asked if
1t was settled that he had no means of his
own for procuring such. "What was your
salary as SOLDIER" asked his honor.
.Thirteen dollars month, replied Pow
ers. "It is evident" said the judge, "that
no private in the United States army has
the means Of providing counsel for him
self when on trial for his life."
An attempt was made to blow up the
signal tower of the Lake Shore railway
company, Chicago, on Friday evening and
then wreck passenger train due in few
minutes. Of the one hundred batteries
in the building thirty-four were broken
and will cost 81, 900 to repair. The train
was signalled before it came up and ter
rible accident was averted. Another such
attempt was made on the Illinois Central
track and fifteen cars were derailed Sew
nra1 arrests were made