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Western appeal., 1888-02-04
THE EAST.

IN Philadelphia on Jhs 9th it was esti-
mated that the effec5 of the high-license
law, fixing the fee at $500, won be to re-
duce the number of saloons from six thou
sand to thirteen hundred.
IN the East the snow blockade still ore
vailed on the 3Oth and was said to be the
worst ever known Railway tratfic was
suspended, and many trains We're fast in
snow-drifts thirty feet deep
AT Malone, N. Y, the Empire block in
cluding hotel, opera-house AMI seven fine
stores, was burned on the 29jh Loss.
$20O,O0O Isaac Chesley, a prominent
merchant, was killed by an explosion in the
hotel =
CHRISTIAN FEICK, of Snowlen, Pa, a
miner, killed his wife and himself on the
295h 1t was thought poverty drove him
insane. They leave six small children.
HE death of Rev. David Llthrop Hum
occurred at Buffalo, N Y, on the goth in
his ninety-ninth year. Before his demise
he was the oldest living graduate of Yale
College. s@
JAMES HAssEY, of Beaver Falls, Pa, who
was kidnapped in 1868, WAS found in Phila-
delphia on the 2Sth by his father.
THERE have been twenty-five incendiarv
tires in Pittsburgh, Pa, during the past
three months
NEAR Palmyra, N. Y, fifteen carloads of
cattle and hogs were frozen to death on
the 3Oth ult. and several carloads of stock
persisted at other points
The Troy (N W Steel e. Iron Co. IS en-
ployes on the 30th ult refused to accent a
ten per cent reduction of wages, and the
works We're shut down, throwing three thou
sand men out.
PROF ASA GRAY, the eminent botanist,
died on the 305h ult at Cambridge, Mass.
aged seventy-seven years, of paralysis.
FIRE on the 3Oth u t. on Broadway, New
York, burned out thirty firms, causing a
loss OF 81 200, GOO. Several firemen were
hurt by falling walls, one fatally.
OVER fifty vessels were reported in the ice
near Nantucket, Mass, on the 306h ult,
and many of them would be wrecked
JOHN CULLEN, q Buffalo [N W hip car
penter, while drunk on the 31s5 ult, killed
his mother with an axe He SAID he com
m1tted the crime to save her from the poor
house
TELEGRAMs on the 31st rult. say that owing
to the heavy ice no mail had been received
atNantucket, Mass, for over two weeks, and
the scarcity of coal and other commodities
was beginning to be felt
a NINETEEN of the forty three furnaces in
the distr CT have gone out of blast since
the beginning OF the Reading strike, and it
was said on the 3 1st ult that others would
soon close down
CARPENTERS at Pittsburgh notified their
employers on the 31st ult. that on May 1
they would demand ten per cent advance
IN wages and nine hours work for day.
WHILE shoveling snow at Hampton, N.
j., on the 3lst uir. Jacob and David Cam p
bell, father and son, Were killed by train.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, Cyrus NJ. Brownell and
George w. Esnmon, counterfeiters were ar
rested on the 31st ult, and q complete set
OF implements and many unfinished silver
dollars We're secured
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

JHE Iowa legislature declares by resoly,-
ton that the RAJ road Comm ssioners
should be elected by a direct vote of the
people.
The public debt reduction for January
was SIS, ,3S7, ,320.
The Wisconsin pinery dens are in full
operation, the efforts of the authorities
having apparently been thing but talk,
and he evil is more rampant than ever.
UP to the End inst, two hundred and
seventy-two ST. 600 liquor licensss had cen
taken and paid for at st. Paul.
An epidemic of pneumonia prevails in
Montpeller, Ind, and vicinity, and in ad-
dltlon numerous cases of black measles
have broken out.
A MOTOR. oUs Sioux City Ia, tough, Jack
king, has been gwen six years in the peni-
tentlary or trying to kill young Mckenzie
a horse jockey.
ANOTHER incendiary fire is recorded from
Wlnona, Mlnn, the residence OF Simon
Sholt. The family were in bed and es-
| capped with difficulty.
ARGUMENTS were heard Wednesday by
the House Committee on Terri ores Ly
Delegate Clifford for the admission OF
Dakota as two states and by Mr. PURGE l OF
Wahpeton fer admission as one state.
DAMAGE amounting to 100000 was done
BY fire in he Union cotton press wharf at
Charls ston, s. G.
TIE Presby terian church at Lake CITY,
MInn., took fire on the End, from the fur
mace and burned. A residences adjoining
was damaged.
The Duluth Chamber of Commerce repre-
sented by Prof. Phelps and Congressman
Nelson have presented memorial to the
House Committee urging the Improvement
OF the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
FIRE originating from gas jet in the
basement destroyed the dry goods store Of
Barnes, Hengerer & Co. at Buffalo, N Y.
Feb. !, Lo $ Vi ,sOo,0oa, insurance large.
Four young roughs of Maine Prairie,
Mimi, are under arrest for stoning the store
of D. Guptill.
The insurance companies doing business
in Winona have offered reward of $500
tor the arrest and conviction OF any one
setting fire to buildings. The managers OF
Lalrd-Norton compan say they firmly be-
ieve their shingle shed was set on fire by
some sfire bug
EARTHQUAKE shocks were reported on the
lst at many points in Maine, New Hamp-
sure and Vermont, not severe enough to
d. greater damage than the rafting OF
winaows and cre cAery.
The eommissi ners of Brookings met to
settle WITT ex-I asurer Nichols When
the books were examined last fall he was
short 81, 100. Since then Nichols has visited
all the town treesurers in the county ana
as procure receipts to show the county is
indebted to him.
Patrick Sullivan, an empsoye of the Man
itoba road at Grand Forks, was waylaid
and beaten into inslbility aud then rohbed
of q considerable sum OF money in East
Grand orks. An officer went to his as ist-
ancs, but the assailapts escaped.
The lower House of Congress has decided
to investigate the Reading strike.
The Dubuque ice palace, the first and
only one ever constructed in Iowa. was
opened to the public on the End
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

ON the 27 th the French merchant steamer
Suez was run into Off the mouth of the
Tagus by a German steamer and went down
in a few minutes, nineteen of the officers
and crew being drowned
ToNQU1N adyices of the 9th say that
eighteen French soldiers had been shot for
desertion.
TwENrY-EIGHT persons lost their lives by
the recent loss of the bark Lizzie Perry off
the coast of Barbados.
CHOLERA returns on the 29th from Chill
We're: Valparaiso, 46 cases and 80 deaths;
Santiago, sd cases and 8 deaths.
All FAT was hanged on the 3Ofh ult. at
Victoria, B. c.. for the murder of Chinese
woman, Chuey Whey. He declared his in
nocence to the last
A1soNE, in Italy, was almost destroyed by
fire On the aO5h ult, and two persons were
killed and many injured
WINNIPEG adv.ces of the 3Oth ult. say
there had been great loss of life on the line
of the Canadian Pacific railway owing to
Bnow-slides.
The jubilee gifts to Pope Leo amounted
in value to over $40, 100000, one-half OF
which were in cash
ON the 3OGh ult Father McFadden. Of
Gweedore, Ireland was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for holding anti
landlord and ant-poice meetings.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
EpitOnle Of the w eek.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATIONS
FIFTIETH CONGRESS-.

FRIDAY, Jan 27. The Senate was not in
session. In the House the del~yed De-
ticiency bill OF last year was passed. A
Dill was introduced to withdraw from dis
posal the unsurveyed public lands embrac-
ing natural forests, and all public lands re-
turned by the public surveys as timber
lands, and providing for the appointment
OF Commissioner of Forests and four as
s1stants The Indiana contested election
case Was disposed of by the Committee on
Elections by declaring the seat vacant. on
the ground that White R ap.), the sitting
member. is ineligible, while Lowrey
dem J, the contestan5, did not have ma
lority OF the votes cast Adjourned to the
3Oth
MONDAY, Jan. So In the Senate the
House bill to carry into effect the law
establishing experimental stations at the
agricultural colleges was passed. The
bill to reduce letter postage to one cent
was reported adversely A bill was intro
duced granting pensions to Union soldiers
who were confined in Confeiera.e prisons
In the House bills We're introduced to place
salt on The free list; to abolish the tax on
oleomargarlne; for the issue Of fractional
silver certificates; providing for q boun y on
wheat, corn and flour exported from the
United States; to prevent combinations for
the purpose OF regulating the prices of
produce, stocks, bonds or labor; to prevent
the creation of trusts; fixing the salaries of
Supreme Court Jus ices and Cabinet officers
at S15, 600 a year; to regulate the manu.
facture and sale of adulterated lard: in
structing the Committee on Ways and Means
to report a bill repeating the internal-reve-
nue. laws and revising the tariff so as to
abolish specific duties; for the further COIN
age OF silver and fo1 the redemption of
National bank notes; prohibiting aliens
from becoming officers of corporations or
accepting employment on steam or stree
railroads, on any Government OF State con-
tract work, or on any vessel wholly en-
gagged in navigating United States waters,
and to prevent aliens from pre-empting or
entering homesteads. Mr. Cutcheon Mich
offered resolution declar ng that in any
proposed revision of the tariff the principle
OF protection to American industry ana
maintenance OF wages of American work
men at the American standard ought to be
firmly adhered to.
TUESDAY, Jan. 81. The Senate passed
MI. Hoar's joint resolution for constitu-
t.onal amendment changing the time for
the meeting OF Congress and for the in
auguration of the President 1t provides
that the terms of Office of President, Wee.
President, Senators and Representatives
shall commence and expire on April 80, in
stead of March 4, as at present Mr. Evarts
spoke in favor of the Blair Educational bill
IN the House bill was reported granting a
pension to the widow of General Logan and
increasing the pension of the widow of
General Blair. A bill was introduced to
prohibit enlisted men from being engaged
IN any employment where they come into
competition with civilians.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
Counterfeiting.

Aliens Iron Tonic Bitters have proved to
be the finest thing of t,e XII d ever dis
covered. an consequently dishonest per-
sons are coun terfei,i ~ them.
The genuine is put up in round black
bottles holding IL pts, with a white
autographed Label on one size, bear rg the
signature of j. p. Allen, ard yellow label
on the other side These are the old
genuine end original Aliens Iron Tonic
Bitt. rs, and if they had not been good no
one would have thought of counte rfeiting
them. This is no advertising dodge. Look
out for frauds
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

A PHILADELPHIA grocer has con-
Guided that thirteen is an unlucky num-
Der. He advertised to give every thir-
teenth customer the amount of his pur-
chase free. The plan worked finely
and he did thriving business, but one
day the boys tricked him. Twelve of
! them each made a trifing purchase;
the whole bill for the dozen was less
than one dollan Then the thirteenth
man walked in and ordered a barrel Of
sugar, ten pounds Of tea, ten pounds
OF coffee and a box of cigars. The
grocer faced the music like man, but
ct once took down his sign.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

IN the London divorce court a few
days ago in the case of an English
woman named Turner, who had mar
rled an American named Thompson,
and who had had the marriage an
nulled by an American court, the
Judge said in his decision that the
woman, having married an American
and lived with him in America, was
entitled to the same laws as her hus-
band; and, therefore, the decree pro-
nounced by the court in America was
equally binding in England without a
further decree from an English court
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
WEST AND sn,!ru-

AT st Paul street-car cable train be
came unmanageaDle on the 9th, and when
descending a hif the cars shot downward
at great speed rsn of the track and were
smashed to pieces Three persons were
fatally injured and fourteen were badly
hurt
MASKED men took three negro prisoners
from the jail at Plymouth, n. c., on the
9th and shot them to death.
BUSINESS was resumed on the 9th by the
San Frar cisco Bridge Company, which
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

The distinction of being the oldest
man IN indianapolis is claimed for
Michael She,. who was born St.
Michaels Day, November, 1881, max
ing him one hundred and seven years
OF age. Mr.: Shea is still in good
health. He prepares the stovewood
which is used in the household, looks
after the COWS and attends church
services every Sunday, walking eight
squares and more in doing so.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

1HE most remarkable old man in
New Hampshire is Thomas Murphy,
OF kntield, who, at the age of ninety
years. lives entirely by himself. does
his own cooking and washing and knits
his own socks. He is well-to-do
farmer still hale and hearty. and
boasts that he never took q dose of
medicine in his life.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

EVANGELIST MOODY had to give the
two hundred and fifty boys in his Mt.
Herman school talking to recently
because some of them eDdeavored to
haze one Of their fellows. They got
him in room and were about to put
him through a course Of sprouts when
ne pulled big jack knife and threat
ened to carve into little pieces the first
boy that touched him. Nobody
touched him. Mr. Moody got the
knife and talked like kind father to
the boys. They seemed impressed and
undoubtedly left his presence with the
determination to be good.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has no
indications of widowhood or bereave-
ment in her dress. for she shares her
dead husbands disbelief in the propri-
ETY. of mourning garments. She looks
exceedingly venerable, however, and a
little less austere than of yore.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
# you vant the best garden you haze
. eve7c had, you n1ust sow
MAULES SEEDS.

There is no question but that
Maule's Garden Seeds are unsur-
passed. Their present popularity
in almost every county in the
United States shows it, for I.
now have customers at more than
22,500 post-oHces. When once.
sown, others are not wanted at
any price. More than one-quarter
Of million copies of my new
Catalogue for 1888 have been
mailed already. Eyery one pro-
nou,aces 1t the most original and read
able Seed Catalogue eoer published. It
contains among other things cash
prizesf premium vegetables, etc.,
to the amount of s2500, and also
beautiful illustrations of over 500
vegetables and flowers (15 being in
colors). These are only two of
many striking features. You
should not think of Purcha-
sing any Seeds this Spring
before sending for it. It is
mailed free to all enclosing stamp
for return postage. Address
WIN. HENRY MAULE,
mn Elbsr ST PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Gr HAn SU0 4Ax0 Wsy hsysusdA
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
An elk weigh ng eight pounds was lately
killed in Coos County, Oregon.
The Michigan Centra1's Niagara.

The Michigan Central does not assume the
ownership of Niagara Falls, but it does offer
to its passengers from its station at Falls
View, the grandest and most comprehensive
spectacle that the great cataract affords. 1t
Is the only road that runs directly by the
falls, and from this point all parts Of the
cataract, the angry rapids above and the
boiling caldron below, are in full view. At
gigantic icicles, and the trees and shrub
berry covered with curious formations Of
frozen spray, the scene reaches, in the Ian
guage of Bayard Taylor, "the climax OF
beauty"
-"Oscar Observation-Disclosures the King
of Sweden-has just published a volume Of
poems.
Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by
Dr. Sage's Remedy.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

ACCORDING to official statistics on
the subject, 1892 cabin passengers
were landed from the various steam ers
at the port of New York during 1887,
The total number of steerage pas
sengers arriving was 81, 619, and the
trips made by the steamships of the
various lines aggregated SS5.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

IHE Secretary of the Treasury re-
Gently submitted to Congress the draft
OF bill prohibiting the importation of
opium containing less than nine per
cent OF morphine, and authorizing the
Treasury to seize and destroy all
opium prepared for smoking. The Sec
retary says that under existing laws
the department is unable to sup
press the smuggling of opium by sys-
tematic organizations on the Pacific
coast @as --
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

Upon the stomach and bowels are perpe-
who, upon experiencing the annoyance Of
constipation in a slight degree, intiltrate
their bowels with drenching evacuants,
which enfeeble the intestinal membrane to-
serious extent sometimes, even, superin-.
Stomach Bitters is the true succedaneum.
for these nostrums, since it is at once in
vigorating, gentle and effectual. It also
banishes dyspepsia, malarial complaints.
rheumatism and kidney troubles.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

IHE accident to Mrs. John A. Logan.
some months ago in Central Illinois,
by which she was thrown from car
riage has left lasting results. Her
friends are informed by letters that
she has severe pain almost constantly
in the injured shoulder, Mrs. Logan
Is said to have grown old rapidly since
the Generals death, and to have lost
much OF her old-time vivacity and en-
erpy,
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

The monument of John T. Allen. a
former State Treasurer of Texas, will
be in the form of an industrial school
in Galveston. for the establishment of
which he bequeathed his entire fort
une, amounting to $3.50. 600.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

The bodies of soldiers killed in In
dian wars in Wyoming, and buried at
stage stations or military reservations.
are being taken up by the Government
and reinterred in the National Gene
terry at Fort Mcpherson, Neb.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

The season for fatal bicycle and tri-
cycle accidents among the tall New
England hills is over until spring; but
the festive coasting-sled more than
supplies the deficiency.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

MIR. WHITTIER is still illreceiving birth
DAY presents, one of the latest being a
balsam pillow embroidered with pine
cones. The balsam grew by the grave
OF Helen Hunt Jackson, in Colorado.
and the pillow was made by an Indian
pir1
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

MARY BAKER, the once famous fast
Ing girl of White County, Ind, is now
employed in a restaurant at Monti.
cello and weighs 120 pounds, whereas
at the close of her long fast she kicked
the beam at 35a pounds.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

FRANK VINCENT, author of "The
Land of the White Elephant may
justly lay claim to the title of the great
American traveller. Within the last
eleven years he has travelled 265. 900
miles.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

LAST year one hundred and twenty
bull fights were given in the City Of
Mexico. Seventeen bull-fghters were
wounded and one professional, and
two amateur fighters killed
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

A firt is like dipper attached to a
hydrant, everyone is at liberty to drink
from it, but no one desires 10 carry it away.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
DAKOTA.

- DAKOTA.
While cutting ice in the Jim river near
Huron, Ed w. Hines caught catfish weigh
ing fifteen pounds
An old blind man, Abel Allen of Miner
County, was recently taken to Sioux Falls
by the sheriff of that county He was
found in Oregon, where his daughter has
held him prisoner since October. The old
man has consider able property and gets a
Government pension OF $72 month. To
get possession of his money his daughter
kidnapped him and ran him off to the Pacific
coast
The Black Hills gypsum deposits are pro-
nounced equal to those of Nova Scotia
which are the purest yet discovered. The
manufacture of plaster Of paris has begun
already at four poin s.
A locomotive boiler exploded at Egan
recently, killing fireman.
Mrs. Fred Tassler, of Willoughby town
ship, near Gary, who became insane over
the fate of her two boys who were sup
posed to have been lost in the late biz
zard, has died The boys sought shelter in
schoo.-house, taking their cattle in with
them, and were saved
The Farmers Mutual Live Stock Insur-
ance Company of Aberdeen will close up
its business, owing to members having
failed to pay assessments
The number actually known to have died
from the effects of the recent S -orm, ac-
cording to the Press aud Dakotaian is 1O4
Many were still missing, and there were
others whose hold upon life was very un-
certain.
Advices from Pierre say the Sioux In
dians have elected twelve delegates, one
from each tribe. to represent tue nation at
Washington on the proposition to open the
reservation.
The remains of George Patrick, a school
teacher near Mandan, were recently sent
to Peosta. near Dubuque. Ia, where his
mother and sister live Patrick and five
pupils were caught in a school-house out
on the prairie wnen the last blizzard ragged
1t was death to leave the frail building,
and for three days and nights they suff fered
from cold and hunger. The brave man
broke up the desks and floors for fuel. but
when a rescuing party reached the school
house they found that teacher and pupils
had died together
John Boiler, who died few days ago at
Jackson. was known to be over one hun
dred years old
Western appeal., 1888-02-04
Gross Outrages

Shelley says that time but ssstains the
marble radiance of eternity.''
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

ONLY twelve Indians are left of the
tribe of one thousand who inhabited
the Yosemite Valley few years ago.
Western appeal., 1888-02-04

THERE are said to be but four horses
in Alaska-three at Juneau and one at
Sitka.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-03-16
FALLsrON FARMERS CLUs.

According to appointment the Club met at Mr..
WIN. T. Watson's, Feb. sd.
The inspection committee visited the various
points of interest and made the report that Mr..
Watson had improved his buildings considerably
since our last meeting there, and had built new
ice-house and stabling with carriage house at
tached. The latter building is very complete
and built, as all improvements should be- with
view to durability.
Favorable comment was passed upon his white
corn, which is ofa character to recommend 10
growers.
The committee in charge of the Improved
Road system" proposition reported that 100
names were upon tho petition handed to the Com:
mssioners, but up to that time, that body had
taken no action upon II.
At former meeting the propriety of calling
county convention of farmers was discussed
The subject was again brought up and resulted
in the appointment of VIM. l.. Amoss j. w.
Moore and Jos G. Favour to formulate plan.
The principal subject of interest outside OF the
business was tho comparative profit of Sugar
Corn for Gamers as against the ordinary growing
of Field Corn. The prevailing sentiment was in
favor of the latter.
CD. MOORE. Cor, Secy, Pro. TEN.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-03-16

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