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St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
DEFENDING THE G. 4. r,
Communicating Chief Warner speaks on the
Rcnorted Defecttons

tnlAi warner Speaks on the
Reported Defections.
CHICAGO, Nov. 80. At the banquet
given him by Chicago posts Major Warner,
the ne" Commander-inC Chief of the Grand
Army OF the Republic, spoke briefly, and
referred to the reported defections in
Indiana and that of General Palmer in
Illinois. And [ say it here" con-
tlnued the Commander-in-C Chief with
emphasis, mo matter how high any
man is who says to the contrary, that this
organization is not circumscribed by Sec
tarianism or partisan feeling Let me say
here that the platform of the Grand Army
IS broad enough for every good citizen
to stand upon. We recognize that we
fought for reedom-freedom of thou ght
OF speech, and of the press-and we
will stand elbow to elbow in defense of
our comrades in the exercise of their
functions, whether we agree on ques-
tlons involving these principles or not
But though you wear this badge, and
many of you have purchased freedom at a
dear price, you should not live in the past.
You must discharge your whole duty in
the present as citizens. Your badge rep
resents tie unity of principles on which
your organization was founded-frater-
nifty, charity and loyalty. As long, COM
rades, as this country shall remain faith
ful to The principles for which we fought,
so long shall the right Of every American
citizen be respected before the law. And
the conrade who can not stand upon this
platform is entitled to our profound SYM
pathy, for he has read wrong the lessons
of the Grand Army of the Republic"
Ex-Cominander-in Chief Fairchild said
that the ones who had joined the organ
ization through selfish motives had all left |
1t, thank God. They found it didn't help |
their social standing, nor their business, |
nor secure their political Advancement. |
They discovered long ago that the Grand |
Army man who attempted 10 use the or |
ganization for selfish purposes was no
longer a Grand Army man.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
GOULD AND HIS TRUST,
He Fails to Convert the Rock Island Mag
nate to His Views.

He Fails to Convert the Rock Island Mag
nate to His Views.
NEW YORK. Nov. 30.-Mr. Jay Gould
spent the greater part of his Thanksgiving
day in missionary work. He devoted two
hours trying to convert President R. R.
Gable, of the Chicago, Rock Island &5
Pacific road, to belief in the big railway
trust by which it is proposed to remedy
all the evils and Generalization that
abound no" in the shape of rate cutting
wars. Mr.. Cable stated plainly the
weakness he saw in Gould's propo-
sitions and pointed out objections
that he believed would be raised by
anti nti-1nonopolists as rallying cries for fur
ther legislation adverse to the railroads.
He told Mr.. Gould frankly that he was far
from convinced that a trust such as is
proposed, could be operated for any long
time, or even while operated be equal to
the tasks prescribed for it. When the two
parted, however, Mr.. Gould was
reassured by receiving President Cables
promise to give the subject further consid-
GRAFTON with a view to its acceptance and
il possible
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
FULL OF FUN.

"A Japanese story-writer has jus
finished novel in ninety volumes. l
q Japanese messenger-boy ever get:
hold Of that story, the company might
hs well get new boy.-Sonnervillt
Journal
-Phetographer-"Ah, beg pardon,
did understand you to say that you
did not want a very large picture?'
Patron-"Yes." "Then please don't
smile-ah, that's IT, Yankee Blade.
-"Whew!' sighed the umbrella,
show l suffer! I am worn to skele.
ton, and have had four of my ribs
broken for week" "Go to-" re-
torted the hat. "You suffer! Why,
every night of my life is spent upon
the rack. ''-Iynae.
Miss Mahoney Ga boarding-school
graduate, to her father)-"Oh, papa,
won't you do something for us? My
best friend, Mr.. Gilhooly, is in a terri
BILE dilemma Mr.. Patrick Mahoney-
bad LUX to i'm, Biddie. An how long
is he in for?n Washington Post.
Mrs. Yerger-"I am afraid Colonel
Yerger is losing his hearing" Mrs.
Peterby-"I am afraid he has lost it
entirely. My husband told me that he
asked Colonel Yerger to join him in a
social glass and he didn't respond" :"
Mrs. Yerger-"He's a goner, sure. -
Texas Sytings.
-Stranger-'That's nice goat you
have there. Can he haul more than
one?" Boy-"Oh, yes, sir; sometimes
three of us ride in the cart" Stranger
Indeed! Why, he's strong, isn't
hep. Boy-"Yes. sir, he's pretty
strong; but we don't mind that now
we're used to him."
Uncle Ezekiel-''Has You heard de
scandal, Brudder Williams?" Will
iams-"Dunno es has" Uncle Eze-
kiel-" Bout Jefson jackson sellin'
his vote fo' dollah.n Williams-"Sell
his vote fo' dollah! Dat am pufectly
scandalious. I got two an a quatah
fo' mine. .n-Anaertca.
In the silent midnight watches,
when the house is calm and still and
the businesslike mosquito brings
around his little bill, laugh we now
to hear the begger, with plaintive
sigh, give up trying to collect it, say
ing, "By and BY" and in the chill
October weather crawling off to die
Burdette.
IL won a bet from Barrows the
other day in a very curious way" re-
marked Mr.. Hoskins, as he sat down
by the club window. II bet him a
tenner that he couldn't hit barn door
with revolver at ten PAGES. He bet
he could, and would you believe it,
when he fired, the bullet went through
a big knot hole in the middle of the
door without touching it. .n-Harper's
Bazar.
Yes" said Colonel Blood, II saw
poor Bradley about five minutes after
,he tree fell on him. Now there was a
nan cut off in his prime who had every
hing to make life enjoyable. He had
| wife who adored him, the prettiest
little boy I ever saw, a pointer dog
worth twenty-five dollars at the least,
md, what makes his untimely end
more touching, we found in his pocket
Untouched q quart bottle of some of
he finest old Bourbon that any of us
yer tasted. "-7erre Haute Express.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
IN a LOG CABIN.
Experience of Night in the House OF
True Pioneer.

True Pioneer.
NV first meal in a cabin was not al
tractive. 1t consisted of corn dodgers
fried pork, and something they called
ten. which I should never have sup
posed to be tea by it's taste; but l was
| full OF health and hungry, and rather
enjoyed the fare, coarse as it was. Att
er supper had a talk with the head OF
the household on a bench outside the
cabin, in the course of which, among
other things, I learned that he was q
native of North Carolina, and that ait
er marrying he had started with his
wife for Western Pennsylvania. tie
was not inclined to stop in Virginia
He had, he said, enough of a slave
State, where poor white man was not
considered as good as black one. he
remained in Pennsylvania five or six
years, until the people became too
thick for game, when he moved to
Ohio, spent some years in the eastern
part of the State; as MANY more IN the
western, and thence he came to Ind1-
ana. II have been, said he, ''a
kinder rolling stone, but | am q
good deal better off than / was when
started. | own eighty acres of good
land, twenty acres cleared; yoke OF
oxen, a mule, a cart and some farming
tools, and besides as good a rife as
you ever laid eyes on. "And then"
continued he, 1--WE have all the time
been peopling the earth, as the Bible
says we ought to. We have eight
children; two Of the boys have gone to
work in the city. 1t has been pretty hard
for her, but |, said he, Strengthening
himself up, "am as hearty as a.
buck. | sha'n't stay here long if l find
any body to buy me out. You see,
stranger, l am what they call per
neer, and pierneers oughtnt to stay
long in the same place. Here our
talk was interrupted by an announce
ment from one of the girls that it was
bedtime. On going in | perceived
that trundle beds had been rolled out
from under the large beds, and that
the floor was pretty well covered by
the sleeping arrangements. Pointing
to the small cot in the corner, my host
merely said: stranger. that's yourn,'
and blew out the candle so that | could
not see, if | had been inquisitive, how
the women disposed of themselves. l
recollect only that in an incredibly
short time the room was as still as if
nobody was in it. My bed was hard
could not see whether it was
clean or dirty-but novel as the Cir
were, ], slept soundly. In
the morning, just as the light began
to stream through the windows, was
awakened by the moving back of tho
jrundle beds, and / was soon left to
lress myself. Upon the bench on
which l sat IN the evening there was a
in basin, by it a bucket of pure spring
water Ca true pioneer never drives his
stakes where there is not spring.,
md hanging upon a nail in one of the
ogs a coarse but clean towel. Hav-
ng washed, paid my bill (ffty cents),
haken hands with my host. who
Wished me well, mounted my horse,
which had been brought to the door,
nd made my best bow to the girls.
7ho came to see me off. Such was
ny first experience in a log cabin. I
elate it because it was type of SUBJ
equens ones. Hugh McCulloch, in
'e7atalrY.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
SIBERIAN MAMMOTH.
How Great Beast Was Kept on Ice f
the Modern Scientist.

How Great Beast Was Kept on Ice for
the Modern Scientist.
1t must not be supposed that our own
elephant is in any way a degenerate
descendant of the true mammoth. On
the contrary, the great Siberian beast
was in many respect more and spe-
clalized representative of the original
family than his southern cousins. He
was, in short a progressive elephant,
which, seized with a desire to emil
CRATE, had gone north and overspread
the whole temperate regions of Europe,
Asia and North America before tho
coming on of the great ice age.
In his northern home he retained
or redeveloped the hairy covering
which the elephant lost in India
or Africa, and he took kindly enough
to the cold weather which preceded
the advent of the glacial epoch. In
short, he was rather an elder brother
of the elephant than In any sense o
direct ancestor.
Other mammoths have since been
found in Siberian tundra, buried where
they sunk in up to their necks among
the soft slush, and preserved ever
since, partly like timed meats by tho
exclusion OF the air and partly like
Australian mutton by the effects of
frost. The most interesting find was
that made by young Russian engineer
OF the name OF Benkendorf, who
steaming in small cutter up
the lndigirka river (not to know
the Indigirka, naturally argues
unknown), saw, during a
flood, to his immense delight, a real
dead mammoth, with its eyes open and
its hair trunk moving restlessly
through the turbid water, bobbing up
and down merrily in the stream before
him. There is d well-known Swiss
story of the wrinkled old woman in a
village who recognizes in
The fresh corpse of a young man Just
brought down among the ice of q
glacier to the point where it melts into
In Alpine torrent, the features of her
over, lost half a century before in tho
1awning mouth of d deep crevasse.
But what is a half s century of iced :
to one hundred thousand
years of preserved mammoth?-Corn
siH Magazine.
+
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
Quite the Correct Thing.

Old Heavywaite Cooking over the
Yell College account)-Bless my soul!
Twenty-Five hundred dollars! Jack,
Jack, this won't do!
Young Heavywaite-Quite the cor
rect thing, governor.
Old Heavywaite-But don't UNDER
stand why two-thirds OF your expenses
should be put down as extras.
Young Heavywaite-That includes
surgeons fees after the football match
and the regular police fines You'll
find that the charges are not eAorbi.
tant, sir, Drake's Magazine.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
Pugilists Fired At,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Some excitement
was caused in Kiernan's theater last night
by what is regarded as an attempt on the
life of Jake Kilrain or Charley Mitchell by
John w. Robinson, an intoxicated occu-
pant of one of the boxes The men had
just been introduced when a shot was fred
from the rear of q box in the second tier.
which whistled past the heads of those in
front and buried itself in the scenery at
the right of the stage. A policeman who
rushed into the box caught Robinson in the
act OF laying smoking revolver on the
hoor behind him. He was arrested. as was
Heasy c. Gray, who accompanied him.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

The proposed lockout of the ale and Dor
ter brewers of New Jersey has been avoid
ed, the men having agreed not to con
tribute in any way to boycott.
/ The steamship Allentown foundered il
the recent gales off Cohassett, Mass. Th,
crew of eighteen men were drowned. TIL,
vessel belonged to the Philadelphia ant
Reading Coal and Iron Company.
The round-house of the Omaha road al
Spooner, Wis, was destroyed by fire the
other day, seven engines being destroyed
Loss, 10000.
AT meeting of the directors of the
keely Motor Company in Philadelphia all
differences were said to have been settled.
BY the explosion of q shotgun near JEFF
fersonville, Ind, the other day an an
known man was killed and William Arms
dale and his son and young man named
Middleton were badly hurt.
THE dead body of Anna Ellen Neal, aged
nineteen, who disappeared from Cum
minsvile, O., November 6, has been found
in creek near Cincinnati. She had
probably committed suicide.
THE report that a lifeboat had been up-
set of Whitby, Eng, and twelve persons
drowned proves to be untrue, the boat
GARDNER, the chief of the opium SNUG
glers of Ogdensburg, N. Y, has been
found guilty on six counts.
A STORY was current in New York that
the trunk line rate cutting troubles, which
have occupied SO much attention of late,
were merely bluff to scare the railroad
men from projected movement for an in
crease OF wages.
DURING Thanksgiving celebration BY the
Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park, New
York, the explosion of can Of powder
caused severe injuries to three men and
resulted in a fire which destroyed the
shooting pavilion. Louis Mudhauk was
badly wounded by the accidental dis
charge Of musket.
The elevator at Green's siding, on the
Northern Pacific railroad, Casselton, Dak.,
burned the other night. Loss, $50, 900.
THE officers and crew Of the Haytien
Republic have arrived in New York, hav-
ng been sent home by the American Con.
,ul
A DUST explosion at Stepolein's furni-
'ure factory, Saginaw G III, Mich. re-
,ently, caused the serious IS jury. of two
men. Another man was reported buried
n the ruins. Loss, $40, 200.
r. G. DAVIS, member of Il eBritish Par
lament for Remington, sT.ondon, has
ss'ss ssa sTssssss sssss for na'adnia Of his
THE Anarchists celebrate Thanksgiving /
ay at Thalia Hall, Chicag6tby denounc-
ng God for permitting social misery on
be earth.
w. e. OWENS, the well known horse
.ainer, died at Toronto, Ont, recently OF
illumination of the lungs. His name was I
lmiliar on every race course in America.
SEVEN new cases OF fever were reported
Jacksonville, Fla, on the 2Sth, Of which
20 were white and two colored, There
ere no deaths.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

A MAN named Danth has been ar.
rested at Carlsruhe, Germany, for the
murder of Herr Hulseberg, of the
Hamburg-American Packet Company,
whose body was found in trunk in
Baakendeck. Danth had 5000 marks
i'm his possession. He confessed the
murder and tried to commit suicide.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

The late Commodore Cicero Price.
father of the Duchess of Marlborough.
who died last week at Troy, N. Y,
was tall, striking looking man, re.
served in manner and thorough aris-
tocrat. He was bitterly opposed to
his daughters recent marriage.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

Count KINsKY, son of the Governor
of Lower Austria, is suing for divorce
on the ground that his wife, whom he
recently married. deceived him as to
her parentage, her family not being q
noble one. Marriage with q plebeian
deprives him of the inheritance of his
family estates. The case was exciting
great interest.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

CHARLES CoLNEY and E. Fl. Nc
Michael. of New York. have begun
suit against the Gatling Gun Com
pany for $3.50, 900 for an alleged refusal
of the company to carry out a contract
with plaintiffs for the sale of the Cat
ling patent to the French Govern
mar1t
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

SECRETARY WHITNEY. following his
usual custom since he has been at the
head of the Navy Department, pre-
sented to each of the employees of the
department fine turkey for their
Thanksgiving day dinner. It took
four hundred to go around.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

JuDGE BREWER, OF the United States
seuit Court. has enjoined the Iowa
a,oad Commissioners from putting
s cAfTect their new schedule Of rates
Gast is known as the Dubuque,
tba ort and Burlington cases.
.gapfs November 8. He fixed the
i, fl,A The question OF the injunc-
Paul, December II.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

The Labor vote in the United States
was over 150. From official re-
returns Streeter. the Union Labor
candidate for President, received $500
votes in Wisconsin. 4.500 in Michigan,
13, 900 In Missouri. 10000 in Kansas,
So, 900 in Texas. Is, IN Arkansas
and 2, 600 in Indiana. The vote in the
other States was light.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

HERR WILLIAM HAssELMAN, an ex-
member Of the German Parliament,
who eight years ago was exiled from
the German fatherland on charge of
high treason, has just opened beer
saloon in New York.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

ROBERT TURNER, of Client, Ky, died
few days ago. In 1850 he bought
two slaves at auction and made 81, 800
by the tranaction, and now his will di-
rects that the amount be divided from
his estate among the four African
churches in Ghent.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

AN execution will take place shortly
IN the Choctaw Nation. The con-
demned man is Lyman Puslee, con-
victed of murder, who will be shot by
the court officers. The execution will
be public, taking place in an open
field.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

HE Harrisois inauguration commit
tee has decided to reserve place in
the line for veterans of the election
campaign OF 1910, and the committee
is desirous OF hearing from all such
persons who would like to be in the
parade.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

A CRANK signing himself stKnife
Stab and claiming to bea pal OF Jack
the Ripper" has been writing to the
police in Minneapolis, Mimi, that he
will serve the dissolute women of that
city as they We're served in White
chanel.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is astonishing
the Washington bar by the Chicago
rapidity" with which he rushes
through important cases in the Su-
preme Court. Ten cases a day is the
present average.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

MARGERY DEAN, known in private
life as Mrs. I. T. Pittman, the noted
writer, died in Paris yesterday. She
was the wife of the proprietor of the
Newport OR. !. Daily News.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

The prosecution of Deputy Numa
Gilly for libelling members of the
French Budget Committee has been
authorized by committee of the
Chamber of Deputies.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

The Sublime Porte is discussing a
scheme to establish State Bank with
a German as manager, the idea being
to manage the exclusive privileges of
the'0ttoman Bank.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

PRINCE FERDIEAND has donated two
million francs for the furtherance of
an official scheme for the establish
ment of National Bulgarian Univer-
sitY at Sofa.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

1T is rumored in Berlin that the New
Guinea Company has offered to sell it's
territory to the German Government
for 4,000,O 900 marks.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

THE international boat race between
Cambridge and Yale Universities has
been fixed approximately for April Is.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS,
Southern Industries.

The special reports to the Baltimore
M0AafGcturers' Record Of the activity of
the industrial interests C the South show
that the S'c'lth is marching on. Among
the new enterprises is a $s,rOO,00
company composed Of New En-
gland capitalists, organized at Fort
Payne, Ala, to develop mineral land,
build, furnaces, rolling mill, etc.; at
Knoxville, 100000 safeguarding COM
pany and 100000 Improvement company
TO build street railroads, ETC.; Ocal, Fla,
q Sop},0oo general improvement company;
Baltimore, $5oo,G00 agricultural imple-
ment company; Ell Paso, a S250, 900 irriga-
ton company; 100000 company will
bulld manufacturing town near Ashe-
vile, N. c.; cotton mills are projected at
Gaffney City and Winnsboro, S. c., and
tedartoWn, Ga, and at Macon, Ca,
100000 spindle mill will be built at once.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

THE Russian Government is about to
create department of railways to fix
tariffs and classify freights.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

IT is rumored in Paris that M. Gou-
nod, the composer, is losing his mind.
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08

"A facetious burglar who broke
into an editors house one night. said
the only thing he struck was d match,
-1e1as Sif1i7,qs,
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
A Big land heal

A Kansas City (Mo.) dispatch says:
Sam +. Scott and w. P. Rice have re-
turned from Alabama, and announce the
sale to New England syndicate of $4,000
acres Of mining land in that State. Mr..
Scottsald 1.-The safe has been all but COM
pleted, and needs only the ratification of
the directors, a meeting Of whom will be
held here within few days. 1t is under
stood that the cash payment is $35O000,
and the aggregate amount will reach
Sl,0OO,0O0. The members of the Alabama
company are almost all from st. Louis
and Kansas City. They include j. NJ.
Ford, ". P. Rice, of the American National
Bank; J. 5. Chick, W. NJ. Anderson, of the
Bank of Kansas City; S. F. Scott, of this
city; I. F. Scott, of ST. Louis, and Mayor
Nicely of LeaVenWorth y
St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

The strike of the coal miners in va
rlous districts of Belgium has ended.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1888-12-05

ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND MANITOBA Ra1l"'f
ARRIVES. DEPAk1o
Ex from East. 100 p NJ. Ex. to E;sSt.".3:iJ T. "
Distance to st. Panl. l,073 miles.
The Great Falls leader. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1888-1900, 1888-12-05
Rose Bennett Held for Murder,

Speclal TO the LEADER.
ANACONDA, Mont, Dec 4.--The Coro-
nor's jury this morning in the inquest up
OH the body of Frank P. Grave. who was
killed on Sunday night by Rose Bennett,
returned u verdict that deceased came to
his ddath from a pistol shot ut the hands
of Rose Bennett without cause Or provo
baton. This afternoon the murdcress
had hearing before Justice Fitzpatrick.
County Attorney Bournlan appearing for
the Territory, and lawyer Barker for the
defendant. After the complaint was read,
the miserable looking unfortunate plead
ed mot guilty" The examination was
suddenly brought to Il close by the an
nouncement Of defendants attorney thai
his client had concluded to waive further
examination. The two principal witnesses,
Frank Hadley and Maud Leonard. who
held the money wagercd about which
the fatal shot was fired. were held in two
hundred and fifty dollars bonds each to
appear before the grand jury. The pris-
ouer was remanded to the custody Of the
sheriff and committed, without bail, to
the county Jail at Deer Lodge to await
the action of the grand jury which meets
in May next.
The prisoner is coarse looking, pock
marked woman, about twenty-five years
of age She was doubtless 50 stupited
or frenzicd with liquor as not to be con
scious of the horrid tragedy she was en-
acting.