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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-09-01

Richmond Livestock Market, Aug so.
Receipts; $40 head of cattle. 449 sheep and
lambs, 3f5 hogs
Sales: 3O4 head cattle, 322 sheep and lambs,
81 hogs.
Prices were as follows:
Cattle-Best. 4a41ac. gross; medium to good,
3a334c gross; common to fair, 11Sa215c. gross.
Sheep-Mutton, 2a4c. gross; lambs, 315a5c.
gross.
Hogs-511zza654e net.
Baltimore Livestock Market, Aug. IS.
AT CALvERTON YARDS.
Beef Cattle.-Pr1ces Of Beef Cattle ranged as
follows:
Best..... 62% % 90
Generally rated first quality SS7L g 40
Medium or good fair quality ...... IS q 375
Ordinary thin Steers, Oxen and
"a 20
Extreme range of prices............ 25 q 4W
Most of the sales were frOm....... 3 90 "a 70
Total receipts for the week 1886 head. Total
sales for the week 1857 head.
The trade in Beef Cattle was fairly active to-
day. with a full offering as to numbers, but the
quality was not of a very prime order. thin
and middle grades predominating. with fewer
tops, and not as good ones as last week, among
them. Buyers were in full force, TRY dea.
ers and Eastern traders being we'll represented.
Prices, in the opinion of some. wers &c. dover,
while others THOUGHT there was little or no
Sheep and Lambs-The number of the Offer
ings is quite heavy. with a fair representation
each of butcher Sheep. Lambs and stock sheep
Trade has been good, on Monday as well as to-
day. The quality will average up to that OF
The previous weeks offerings. Prices are a
at Base. per ID gross. Stock Sheep in good de.
mand at 81 25a3 per head. Arrivals this week
$3.50 head
Hogs-The offerings this week are of a rather
better average quality than the previous week
with numbers few hundred less. Trade has
been fair, generally at lower prices. We quote
Hogs at 5ssa534c~ per Id net. Arrivals this week
720l head.
Baltimore Livestock Market, Aug. so
Arrivals Of Live stock at ClareInont Stock
Yards via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the
week ended Aug. 29-ls3 cars. containing 233l
| Cattle, 95 Calves, 6406 Sheep and Lambs, 1885,
Hogs, and so Horses.
| Shipments to New York, Philadelphia &c.
| 992 Cattle, 80 Calves, 1888 Sheep and Lambs an6
Is Horses.
All Hogs and Sheep sold in these Yards by E
| A. Blackstone are at gross weight. Receipts O
| Hogs this week l493 head against $50 last WeeH
Selling from 81 to SIS 20 per 100 lbs. Prospects
| for lower prices next week.
Receipts OF Sheep and Lambs for sale in these
Yards sill head. Sheep sold at 3@3Z cents, extrs
1 a shade higher: LAMBS 1861 cents per lbs T
4 Some 3u head Cattle sold 20 dealers.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
CITY Girls at q Rural Resort.

Girls are everywhere. They sing, they
fish, they play the piano-and whist. They
are pretty, too-some of them very pretty
but they are apt to overestimate the license
which tleir beauty and extreme stylishness
give them. They come out from their forest
fastnesses and act like veritable little savages
In the most elegant of yachting costumes
and most reckless Of huInors they set their
white sails for the breeze and their caps for
something else. They arc young ladies who
in the most critical and exclusive society in
the city have never outraged any of those stu
pid things called proprieties, but here they
appear to think themselves unknown, or di-
vorcei from any need OF caution by the in
forInality OF the surroundings
They shout and sing, blow the shrsl whistle
Of their boats, or the horns which are used in
lieu OF whistles. and once on land show a dis
regard for the opinion OF the quiet villagers
which wc,.,d utterly condemn them with any
public except an American and a western one
One high-born daulsel signifies her contempt
OF the simple country folk by sitting in church
Sunday mornings and vigorously chewing
gum throughout the service. Those who in
dulge in the more startling pranks arc the
bread-and-butter misses, fresh from the re-
Of 4 boarding school, who next
winter viii shine SIS viyac.ous debutantes in
the metropolis. - Geneva Lake (WiS) Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
An Interview with President Lincoln


In 1862 the people of New York were ap-
prehensive of bombardnent by some of the
Confederate cruisers A delegation Of fifty
gentleman, representing in their own right
100000 900, was selected to visit Washington
and have an interview with the president.
and induce him to detail gunboat TO protect
the city. The committee called at
the appointed time, and were introduced as
gentlemen representing 800, 200, 900 in their
own right.
Mr.. Lincoln b ard them attentively,
evidently impressed with the $4,000 ,O00.n
and replied as follows: Gentlemen, | an,
by the constitution, commander-in-chief of
the army and navy of the United States and
as matter of law can order anything done
that is practicable to be done; but as matter
of fact am not in command OF the gunboats
or of the ships of war-as a matter of fact I
do not know exactly where they are. bat pre-
sumo they are actively engaged. 1t is impos-
sible for me, in the condition of things, to
furnish you with a gunboat. The credit Of
the government is at a very low ebb Green
backs are not worth more than forty or fifty
cents on tie dollar, and in this condition
of things, il ! was worth half as much as YOU
gentlemen are represented to be, and as badly
frightened as you seem to be, would build
a gunboat and give it to the government.
The gentleman who accompanied the dele
cation says he never saw one hundred millions
sink to such insignificant proportions as It did
when that committee rccroSsed the threshold
of the White House, sadder, but wiser men
They had learned that money as well as
muscle WAS q factor OF war-Lawrence
Weldon
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
\ Curious Custom of Diyination.

In Berlin there is an association OF thee
logical students bearing the name "WingoI-
tites, which has for years observed on the
Wednesday before Ascension day the curious
custom OF divining for the eInperors destiny
The way of doing this is unique. The mem
bers OF the association proceed from Berlin 70
the village Of Pichelswerder on the Havel, and
here they celebrate the anniversary of the
guild at the Wlhelnlshohe restaurant. They
immediately climb up an oak tree in the CEN
ter Of the garden and seat themselves on the
branches. Beer is handed up from the ground
and after the third glass has been drained the
president delivers the anniversary snee.,h
after which cheer is given for the emperor.
Then at the word Of command all glasses
are hurled to tae ground and the notion is
that the einporor wiz live as many years as
there ara broken glasses. This year twelve
glasses were broken, SO that the emperor
should vet Ge 4 centenarila-
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
Where Oysters Were Firs. Planted.

Wellheet, on the tip Of Cape Cod bay,
claims to be the first town in New England to
engage in oyster planting. Years ago they
imported from Virginia 60, ,ooo to 10000 mol
lusks. and dropped them in the water tha. lies
near the town. The meaty bivalves thrived
for tine, and those engaged In the industry
made money, but in 1850 the interest In the
trade relaxed, and the oysters died ou. Re
Gently few energetic persons have combined
and sent to the south for another instalrnens,
and propose to revive the industry and make
Il parmaneok-Chicago Time8
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
Women More Honest and Conscientious.

Women as a rule make better executors
and administrators than men They arc
honest and conscientious in the discharge OF
their duties During my thirty years con-
nection with the probate court have never
known but one woman to become short Ii
her settlements. and that was case of mis-
management and Eisinterpretation of duty
rather than Of intention As q rule they are
scrupulously honest. OF late it IS quite usual
for wills to provide that executors or admin
istrators shall Tot give bond I think the
law should be amended 50 As to provide that
none but wives should administer upon es-
tates under such conditions Men IN charge
Of such trusts often dcfraud estates, but
women mover do-CierS IN Globe Democrat
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-03
A Newly Discovered MILESTONE Mine.

The recently discovered milestone mine,
near Buffalo Gap, D. T., is one of the most
important and promising finds of the year
The home rock is Of superior quality. Speci-
mems have been sent to the principal hard
ware dealers Of the east, and such replies a
have been received are of the most encourag-
ing character. Chicago Herald
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-21
MISCELLANFOUS.

THE number of employees required in the
customs service the next fiscal year is esti-
mated at 4,02S, and the total expense OF
collection at s6,5O1 ,5S3. The persons en-
ployed during the year ended June 50,
1885, numbered 4,527, and the expense of
collection was s69lS,221.
THE outbreak Of smallpox in Chicago
has been laid to the door of quack or un-
licensed doctor named Bertholdi, who ig-
norantly treated the disease for something
else. The quack fed, but was arrested and
jailed.
a STAGE coach was robbed recently of
$1,000 by highwaymen between Chadron
and Fort Robinson. Cavalry detachments
were sent out from Fort Niobrara to inter-
cept the robbers.
AN attempt was reported being made in
the New York courts to have the sale of the
Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany set aside.
CAPTAIN CoLvIN and the remainder OF
the crew of the Hylton Castle, which foun-
dered off Long Island during the recent
storm, were picked up by the Stephen
Woolsey and brought to New York
A NOVEL and foolish wager was made at
Montrose, Ia, during the cold snap be-
tween two men who were anxious to as
certain which could endure the cold long
est while taking walk barefooted. The
men were out on their barefoot tour forty
eight minutes, at the end of which time one
OF them gave up the contest
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, recently, the boiler
in the basement of st. Mary's Catholic
Church exploded instantly killing Fnpineer
Anthony Evans and little school girl A
few minutes later fire broke out, destroying
the building. Loss, about $4,000.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-21
ROYCOTTED BOOTS.

List of Boycotted Boot and Shoe Houses
Employing Convict Labor.
CHICAGO. I'LL, January 16.-The State
Assembly of the Knights of Labor closed
its session at Decatur last night, and in a
resolution denounced five of the leading
boot and shoe houses of Chicago for en-
ploying convict labor and called on the
public to boycott their goods. The firms in
the list are NJ. b. Wells, Selz, Schwab &c
Co., c. II. Fargo &c Co., P. 81. Henderson
and Phelps, Dodge &c Palmer. Boots and
shoes are made for NJ. B. Wells at the
Waupun prison in Wisconsin; Selz,
Schwab 6 Co. have goods manu-
factured at Joliet; the Fargo firm
get goods from the prisons at IOnia
and jackson, Michigan; c. NJ. Henderson
handles boots and shoes made in the peni-
tentiaries at Jefferson City, Mo-, and
Allegheny City; and Phelps, Dodge &
Palmer deal in goods turned out at the
prisons in Michigan City. Without eXcep-
tion, these firms to-day expressed their in
difference to the action of the Knights and
disclaimed any belief that the boycott
would materially affect their business.
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Panic In an Opera House.

CHICAGO. ILL, January 14.-At an s1-
tertainment given last night by the Con
seryatory of Music, in the Chicago Opera
House, the house being packed to its ut
most capacity, smell of something burn
ing was perceived, and lady in boz
shouted "Firer' a regular stampede be-
gan, and Mr.. Samuel Kayser jumped OH the
stage and cried aloud that it was only a
bundle of paper burning and many resumed
their seats, and those who were rushing out
began to take it more calmly. Most of those
present were ladies. After the fright was
over the performance continued with q
rather thinned house, and it was found thai
no one had sustained any serious Injury.
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MISSING MARINERS.
n Number of Coasting Vessels Overdue
Fears for the Crews.

II Number of Coasting Vessels Overdue
Fears for the Crews.
New York, january 16.-A great deal
Of anxiety is felt in shipping circles for the
safety of number of coastwise vessels
which were at sea during the recent storm,
and which have not been heard from yet
Over dosen are overdue at this port and
fully as many more at Others. The Ameri-
can Undaunted, which left here in tow for
Philadelphia, has not been heard from since,
the tug abandoned her in the storm on the
Sth inst She is first-class ship, and was to
be placed on the line between Philadelphia
and San Francisco. Tie agents
express confidence in the belief
that she will yet turn up. They do not
blame the tug for cutting loose from her, as
it was an act of self-preservation. The
schooner Alice b. Phillips, of Baltimore,
which sailed from here on the 5tll, with a
cargo of coal, is still at sea, and the Ulrich
Church, of the same city, is not yet re-
ported. The fishing smack Eliza Baker,
with a crew of nine, is now a number OF
days overdue. and it is believed that she is
lost. Very feS of the coastlng steamers
have arrived here on time for a week past.
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Water Famine at Cleveland, O.

CLEVELAND. o., January 15.-The city
Is threatened with water famine. The
two big pumps which were kept at WORK at
intervals during the afternoon were shut
down last evening. the supply of water hav-
ing been cut of entirely. The cause of the
stoppage as given by the waterworks off,
ciais is that the standpipe which leads into
the tunnel at the crib is choked with ice.
The top OF this standpipe is several feet be-
low the surface of the lake and Is covered
with a grating to prevent the entrance OF
driftwood and other large distractions.
Inc hne ice is, however, sucked through
me grating and has been solidly packed
into the pipe by the force OF the water.
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SERIOUS CHARGE.

Prominent Merchants of Charleston, VI.
Va, Implicated in a Conspiracy to De-
fraud Insurance Companies.
New YORK, January 16.-The Times this
morning publishes the following special
from Charleston, W. Va: There is great
excitement here over the discovery that
some OF the most prominent citizens in town
for years past have been organized into a
regular society for the destruction of prop
erty by fire, thus procuring the insurance.
Several arrests have been made, and others
will follow within two days. For several
years back, fires of evidently indendiary
origin have been very frequent in the
region of West Virginia and Maryland, of
which this place is the center, insurance
companies of Wheeling and several East
ern cities suffering to the extent of thou
sands of dollars. w. S. and p l.. Morgan,
prominent citizens, were arrested last night,
and other important arrests are expected.
Every insurance company in Wheeling lost
through this plot to defraud.
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

MILTON WESTON, who stands convicted
In Allegheny County, Pa, as accessory to
| a murder, returned to Chicago recently to
| close up some business affairs prior to re-
| turning to Pittsburgh to receive his SEN
tence OF four years in the Riverside peni-
tentiary. The crime for which Weston
was convicted was the killing of a man
named Haymaker in the Murraysville riots.
THE clearing house returns for week
ended January 16 showed an average in
| crease of $50 compared with the CORE
spending of last year. In New York the
increase was PA.
Miss KATE BAYARD, eldest daughter Of
the Secretary of State, died very suddenly
of heart disease at Washington on the aft
ernoon of the 10th. She was just about to
attend Miss Cleveland's reception at the
White House when her death occurred. In
consequence of the unfortunate circum-
stance, the festivities were abandoned.
A RECENT dispatch from London reported
| the probability that the Salisbury cabinet
would decide upon very repressive meas
ures in Ireland. The National League would
be proclaimed and generally coercive meas
ures be adopted.
NOTHING has been heard from the over
due steamship City of Nassau, which passed
out of the Delaware Capes on Christmas
morning for Jacksonville, Fla, and beyond
doubt she is lost with all hands, seventeen
in number. She was fully insured.
SENIOR DoN MANUEL DEL CAMPo, Secretary
of the Gillian legation, who has figured
rather notoriously in Washington for
several months past. owing to his unruly
conduct, has left Washington for his home
in Valparaiso
THE National ZeitssHg of Berlin says that
the expulsion of the Poles from Prussia was
a precautionary measure which was
THE Secretary of the Navy has directed
chat vessel of the Pacific station be sent
to the Samoan Islands.
TIE Postmaster General has refused the
request of petitioners in Baltimore for
Sunday delivery of the mails.
BENJAMIN F. WEEKS, Receiver of the col
lapsed City Bank of Houston, Tex, has
filed schedule showing the total liabilities
of the bank, including the capital stock to
be 81 ,22SS, ISL. The assets will realize $780,
400.
LEADERS of the Salvation Army at Joliet,
H., were recently placed under arrest for
parading the streets.
DURING the first two weeks OF January
Commissioner Sparks, of the Land Office,
cancelled fer fraud seyenty-eight home
stead, pre-emption and timber culture en-
tries and 101 pre-emption filings, and held
for cancellation upon the same grounds
seventy nine homestead and other entries.
This action restores to settlement between
5000 and 10000 acres of land.
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STAGE ROBBERY.

A Stage Coach Robbed in Nebraska-Gov-
ernment Funds Stolen-After the Rob-
bers.
OMAHA, NEB., January ia telegram
received at military headquarters to-day
advised General Howard that the stage
coach had been robbed near Fort Robinson,
and the money intended for the payment
of the United States troops was carried off,
Other dispatches since received give fuller
particulars OF the robbery. From them it
appears that point short distance from
Dawes City, between Chadron, Neb., and
Fort Robinson, about eighteen miles from
the fort was the scene of the attack. The
coach was travelling at a good rate of speed
when six masked men suddenly appeared
as though out of the earth. The robbers
leveled six carb!nes at the driver and or
dered him to throw up his hands. He
Obeyed. Without further ado the robbers
proceeded to rife the coach. Each passen-
ger, in turn, was relieved of his money and
other vaIuables he chanced to have about
his clothes. The brgands then bid adieu to
The party, carrying off, in addition to the
personal property secured, the heavy iron
box belonging to the express company and
containing sc, 900 of the Governments hard
earned cash on its way to the paymaSter at
the fort. News of the robbery was imme-
diately conveyed to Fort Robinson, and the
entire garrison was sent out post haste to
scOur the country for the highwaymen.
Orders were also wired forward to Fort
NiobraTa to send out detachment of troops,
and all other points in the vicinity, includ-
ing Deadwood, Cheyenne, Laramie, McKin-
ney and Sidney, have been advised OF the
robbery and posses are on the lookout for
the depredators. The loss falls on the ex-
press company, but the utmost exertions
are being made by the civil and military
authorities to capture the robbers.
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Strictly Business.

CHICAGO, January 16.-Speaking this
morning of the report that his company
was about to make extensive extensions
into Kansas, President Cable, of the Rock
Island Road, said that he was not prepared
to admit that it intended to build into that
section. The charter to build into the
Southwest had, however, undoubtedly been
obtained by parties in the interest Of the
Rock Island, but that road was not pre-
pared to definitely announce that it pro-
posed TO extend its line. At the same time
there was no intention OF trying to frigh:en
anybody, and il was neither trying to Sc
cure better traffic arrangements with the
Santa Fe or endeayoring to force the Union
Pacific to sell the st. Joseph & Grand
Island Road. If the Rock Island built a
new road it would be to secure new busi-
ness and for no other purpose
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The town of Paso del Norte, which
has long been plague spot on the fair
face of Mexico, on account of the large
number of desperados and bunco men
who congregate there for the purpose
iof preying upon American tourists and
passengers, and which seemed to be to
isome extent protected by the local au-
lthorities, according to a dispatch from
Ell Paso, Tex, has at last with the new
year turned over q new leaf, and prom
Uses to be hereafter safe and pleasant
city to visit. A new jefe politico, or
Mayor was installed soon after the new
year named Esperidion Provencio, a
wealthy and progressive merchant,
who is thoroughly Americanized, and
who will model his administration
upon American usages. Soon after his
accession to Office the leading citizens
held a mass-meeting, in which they
decided that hereafter no more lawless-
ness should be tolerated, and that they
would tender their active assistance for
that purpose TO the new Mayor. The
iawless element took the hint and left
at once.
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CONFIRMED,
A List OF Western Nominations Con
nrmed.

a List Of Western Nominations Con-
nrmed.
WARRINGTON, January 14.-The Senate
in executive session yesterday confirmed
the following Western nominations:
United States District Attomeys-Wil-
| liam c. Perry, Of Fort Scott, Kan, for the
District of Kansas; George n. Baxter, OF
Minnesota, for the District of Minnesota.
Registers of Land Ofices-Clate NJ. Raj
stOn, Of Kansas, at Independence, Kan.
Nathaniel II. Harris. of Mississippi, at
Aberdeen, Oak; James D. Stewart, of
Mississippi, at Jackson, Miss; Robert c.
Yeakle, of Arkansas, at Little Rock, Ark.
James r. DeReamer, Of Colorado, at Lead.
Vile.
Indian Agents-Moses Neal, Of Kansas,
at the Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Terri
ritory; E S. Carson, of Texas, at the Ouray
Agency, Utah; Jesse Lee Hall, of Texas.
at the Kiowa, Comanehe, and Wichita
Agency, Indian Territory.
Receivers of Public Moneys-Samuel l..
GiIbert of Kansas, at Wichita, Kan; Sam
nel ThOnhauser, of Kansas, at Garden City,
Kan; TuIly Scott. of Kansas, ct Oberlin,
Kan; Henry L. Beckett, of Kansas, at Lar
ned, Kan; Alfred L. King, of Arkansas, at
L1hllloO AIM -. w u
at Salt Lake City: Andrew J. Quinby, of
Arkansas, at Little Rock, Ark; William K.
Edgar, of Missouri, at Trenton, Mo.
The Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska
postmasters whose appointments were con-
firmed were as follows:
In Kansas-Ethan Wall at Kingman,
B. j. Sheridan at Paola, George C. Rem
baugh at Winfield, Cyrus A. Rieder at An
thOny, T. A. McCIeary, at Medicine
Lodge, j. A. Manley at Mound City, R. r.
LawsOnon at junction City, J. p. Deyar-
nette at ChetOpa, ii. V.Gavigan at Column
bus T. W. Frye at Parsons, Is. F. Devore
at Independence. John +. COttrell at Fort
Se1tt, Colin Campbell at Florence, Samuel
T. CaricO at Harper, William c. Butts at
Valley Falls, Hattie p. Blair, Great Bend
and Max Allwens at Bellville.
In MisSouri-S. L. BasSett, Richmond,
D. J. C. Evans at ST. joseph, T. Ii. Frame
at Liberty, C. w. Freeman at Brookfield, p.
S. FulkersOn at bennington, w. A. Wright
at Moberly, L. T. Phillips at Bethany, u.
A. Warde at Butler, w. II. Piplin at
Springfield, James S. MeGee at Paris,
Charles w. hodge at Columbia, G. NJ. Har-
wood at Harris0nville. II. S. Herbert at
ROlla, William Grosbeck at Independence,
s. d. Garth at Clinton.
In NebraSka-Miss Caradova Clark at
Blair. Edwin T. Best at Neigh. John A.
Franlley at Stormsburg, Albert Watkins
at Lincoln, T. E. Wilson at David City, j.
S. Kittie at Seward. Edward II. Krier, at
Plum Creek, Alvin s. Marsh at Red Cloud,
James Murray at Fremont, Simon Sawyer
at Fairmount, A..P. Sharp at McCOok. Ed
J. Spohn at Superior, S. S. Sturtevant at
Fullerton, G. A. Tracy ut Wilbur.