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The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07
LOVE LIGHTS THE WAY.


Struggles Of Yosag Ceupas 70 Keep the
Wolf From the Door.
There Is young married couple In
Milwaukee who have found it uphill
work to get along in the world. They
came here two Or three months ago to
find work, having been married but a
few days. The parents OF both are
well-to-do people, and it was no runa-
way match. for two pairs Of paternal
hands were laid on their heads in bless
ing when they plighted their troth. In
fact, the young Benedict's father lnanl-
tested his good will by giving him one
thousand dollars in cold cash, and told
him to buy farm with it. The next
Sunday they took a buggy ride, and
when they stepped out from the vehicle
the young man found that he had lost
his money. A distracted search was
made. but the person who had picked
up the purse hadn't taken the trouble
to advertise the fact very extensively.
Not daring to tell his father that he
had lost the money. the young man
agreed with his wife that they should
go as far away as the money they had
would take them and try to earn the
money back before returning home.
They found they had just money
enough to take them to Milwaukee, and
on they came. When they had been
here week they found that making
living in hard, cruel world was not
like lying down on a feather-bed and
having the old folks take care of you.
The boarding-house keeper threatened
to fire them out bodily if they didn't
pay up; they hadn't money enough to
take a street-car ride, and no prospect
Of getting any. They used the
medium of the "want" column to
tell an inquiring public that a man
and his wife wanted a position together,
the one as cook or domestic, the other
as gardener or hostler or utility man
about the house. 1t happened that
just such a couple was wanted about
that time at the Mitchell farm in the
town of Greenfield. 1t turned out
that the man would answer very well,
but the young wife proved to be very
bad cook.
"Can you bake bread?" she was
asked.
She sadly said she couldn't. Other
questions elected the fact that she
didn't know enough about cooking to
boil eggs, and SO, Of course, there was
no job for her at the farm. Deter
mined to live or starve together the
husband threw up his job, too. 1t be-
came necessary for the couple to change
boarding-houses, and in this operation
they left their trunks behind. When
finally things looked pretty desperate
for them they decided that perhaps,
after all, they could not get places
jointly, and the girl accepted a situa-
ton in West Side family as second
girl. The husband made up his mind
that he couldn't get job in Milwaukee
and determined to 60 to Oshkosh. He
had no money, and so one fine morn
ing he started on foot for the home Of
the baseball champions. When he
came to the stock-yards, just beyond
the city limits, he was gratified to find
that he could get place there, and he
went to work at once. He works there
yet and his wife is now employed in q
laundry. The curious feature of the
affair is that through all their trouble
they have never faltered their resolu-
tion to write home until they have
earned $1,000 and can 60 back to the |
old folks with il. MilWaukee Sentinel.
The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07

.-''.Do you believe in reciprocity"
asked Augustus Of his Amanda.
"Well." said Amanda, thoughtully,
II don't know exactly what you mean.
Il you mean fisheries, l don't know
any thing about it II you mean kiss.
Ing, ] believe in reciprocity every
time. Chicago Tribune.
The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07
-Om.h. W;fo--..Wh.t rna., N.

Omaha Wife--"What under the
sun are you doingf' Nusmnd-"Try.
Ing to tie this string around my finger"
"Why. did not ask you 70 do any or.
rand" mo, this string b to remind
me that have nothing 10 rememhes
to-day."-OD,aha World.
The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07

Young Man-"I love your daugh-
ter, Sir, devotedly. May hope for )
blessing from your" Old Man-"Havs
you spoken to my daughter On the
subjecte" Young Man--"YeA and she
refused me" Old Man-"Well. doesn't
that settle itr' Young Man--"No.
DIR. You forget that I am life insur-
ance agent, and never take 40 for n
answer. "-.M Z Sun
The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07

To remove mildew wet the gar.
,ment, rub it with soap and chalk. and
expose it to the sun. Another method
is to soak 1t in buttermilk few hours,
then lay it in the sun. Repest the
process. until the mildew is gone.
The Grenada gazette., 1888-01-07

"A lobster caught In q Nova Scotia
trap weighed thirty-two pounds, and
fishermen said 1t was two hundred
years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

majority feeling, but 1t will make itself
felt. NJ, you don't know whata nature
fellow gets, not only after be-
ing a soldier a while, but
after living in the sights and
influences Of the camps, the wounded,
etc.---a nature he never experienced
before. The stars and stripes, the tune
Of yankee Doodle" and similar things
produce such al impression on a fellow
as never before. | have seen them
bring tears on some mems checks, and
others urn pale with emotion. ] have
a little flag lit belonged to one Of our
cavalry regiments), presented to me by
one of the wounded; it was taken by
the secesh in a fight and rescued by our
men in a bloody skirmish following. 1t
cost three mems lives to get back that
four-by-three flag---to tear it from the
breast of a dead rebel---for the name OF
getting their little rag back again.
The man that secured it was very badly
wounded, and they let him keep it.. I
was with him a good deal; he wanted to
give me some keepsake, he said---he
didn't expect to live--so he gave me
that flag. The best of it all is, dear NJ,
there isn't a regiment, cavalry or ill.,
fantry, that wouldn't do the like, on the
like OCCASION"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
HIS LAST MARRIAGE FEE.
A LOVE STORY.

N NM
George Alfred Townsend, in the
Baltimore Home Journal: Some years
ago, when marriage licenses had
90 be paid for, the Marylanders and
Virginians rode across the narrow
frontier in the valley and were
married for nothing in Pennsylvania.
OF course, they gave something to the
preacher for his trouble. The conse-
eence was that all the preachers on the
Maryland side OF the line became as
lean as geese, and the preachers across
Che line in Pennsylvania grew as fat as
turkey gobblers. But there was on
preacher near WaynesborO' who did not
grow fat. Garrick Howton, who did the
largest business, became leaner and
0eaner the faster he married people.
He was too mean the people said, to en-
10Y life like a good Methodist itinerant
or a rubicund priest. No chicken coops
sTere agitated at his approach. No
little pigs squealed and got under their
anxious mammas when Garrick leaned
over the sly and surveyed them.
Nobody knew just what sect or church
Esarrick belonged to there where every
body was his own theologian.
He called his church The Zionskitcs
and was the only one of 1.-THE bishop
andeed-except his son, Weasley How
ton, whom he called 1.-The deacon"
The church building did not exist,
though branches of The Zionskite body
were said to be ''furder west by both
the bishop and the deacon.
Inquisitive people limited that there
0eve would have been as many as two
Zionskites except for the fat marriage
fees which were to be had along Mason
and Dixon's' line; and that Bishop Gar
rick Howton only ordained his son
Weasley into the priesthood reluctantly
that he might occasionally take some
recreation himself and not miss any
runaway couples which should arrive
between midnight and morning.
All people far or near understood that
che Howtons would marry anybody, the
delivery Of the certificate being condi-
tional on the payment of the fee; and
pains were taken to impress strangers
That in The Zionskites discipline the
certificate was n part OF the ceremony
itself.
A story was started and grew that old
HOwtcn married children Tor the sake
Of his fees.
This story came up IRON sorrowlhe
and and broken-hearted parents IN
Virginia and from the rich manors and
Eamlets OF Frederick in Maryland. The
Pennsylvanians never verified these re-
ports because it was none Of their busi-
ness.
That was the golden age. when the
people Of every state did to the people
81 every other state Just what they
Dleased, and the boundary line made
outrage justice or simplicity criminal.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
RELIGIOUS.

Bishop Ncwman's old church on Madison
avenue, New York, is being RACED to the
ground.
The Young Mems Chri stian association
hold property valued at 81 900, 900, an increase
of 81 1000, 900 in u year.
The receipts of the American board tho
past year reached s679, 572.24, a large in
crease over the previous year.
Bishop Foster of the Mcthodi st church
was tine original boy preacher. He was con-
verified at six and licensed to preach at four
teen.
There are eight mission ships now cruising
in the North Sea, each a combination OF
church, chapel, temperance hall and dis
pensary.
There are 1904 Congregational churches in
the United States, 246 having been organized
last year. Benevolent contributions for the
same period reached $2,095, 49,, aud home ex-
penses amounted to S5,01S,9 $50,
Father Kalasinski, the Polish priest who
involved his church in Detroit in such serious
troubles, has finally been deposed from the
church in Dakota, TO which he went from
Detroit.
At the meeting Of the Ohio NJ. f. confer
ence in Columbus, two Jewish rabbis, DIR.
Jesselson, Of Columbus, and DIR. Wechler,
OF Mississippi, were present, and introduced
to the conference. It is said that this is one
OK the DrSt, IL not the nrSt, case or the KIND
on record.
This advertisement recently appeared in an
Ithaca, N. Y, paper: Base Ball and Bap-
tism. A game of ball will be played at
Cayuga lake park next Saturday afternoon
between the Y. M. g. A. nine or Ithaca and
Mynderse academy nine OF Seneca Falls. At
the conclusion OF the game will occur the
baptisIng in the lake OF converts of the
coiorcd camp meeting"
The Rev. Charles Howard Malcolm d, D..
corresponding secretary of the American
Church Building Fund Commission, q So
ciety OF the Protestant Episcopal church,
with its headquarters IN New York, has
Just received the sum Of 81, 900 from Willard
H.. Winner, of Kansas City, completing the
sum OF $4,000 given by Mr.. Winner to the
commission for the creation Of a special fund
to be known as che Bishop Robertson Memor.
ial Fund,
Jacob Bloom and Elnira blank were mar
ried IN Cincinnati thirty years ago. He was
a Hebrew; she was a Christian, Since that
time Mrs. bloom has often expressed 70
Raohi Wise her desire to embrace the He
brew religion, but the rabbi, who has a
positive horror Of PROSECUTING, put her on,
advising her to give tue matter further
thought. Six years ago her husband died.
ana after that she was more determined
IMAM ever TO become q Jewess in religion, but
u was not until . few weeks ago that the
raDbl yielded 10 her wishes aud received ne
into the family OF Israel
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
To Elevate the Stage.

Boston courier.
The maiden doffs her sailor hat
And puts it by with care,
And brings the Flower of Pisa out
Just for theater wear.
And when the seasons in full blast
Tall hats become the rage;
We trust they will succeed who seek
To elevate the stage.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
WHY THEY RAISED.

Detroit Free Press: Dealer Ito clerk)
-"I'm going to mark those boys dia-
Eonal suits SIS Tomorrow"
Clerk-''Fifteen dollars! Why, we've
been selling them for $40 all along"
Dealer-''I know it, but I'm going to
give away q base ball bat with each n
of them free of charge"
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

writes that a proposed line across the
Kiusiu, the sOuthernmost of the four
principal islands of the empire, has met
with unexpected popular favor, and Will
soon be constructed. Its course
lies through the Satsuma country, and
that it meets with favor there indicates
the disappearance OF that hostility to
foreign nations which has marked pub
feeling in this portion OF the empire.
lie. The new road is to be go miles in
length, and is expected to cost about
$40, 900 900. When completed it will
be an important adjunct to the system
that is rapidly covering the main is
land.
The China Railroad company, accord
ing to Minister DENLY, had in May
completed much of its line from the
Hai-Ping mines 20 the Peiho river and
Tien-Tsin, and it was thought that by
July or August the work would be fin
ished. In that case a railroad Of con-
siderable length and value is in active
operation in China, where the intro
duction Of railroads has been so stub
bornly fought. and we may look to see,
now that the ground has been broken,
other roads soon in course of construc-
ton. The system projected for the
PHILIPPINE isles, Consul Webb reports
from Manila, is on a small scale, but
may lead to more important projects.
We have only space to mention the
more important railroad enterprises Of
tropical America lately put in working
order, the Guatemala Central, which
Consul General Hosmer reports has be-
come, alter much serious tribulation,
the greatest commercial interest in
Central America. He writes.
The Guatemala Central railroad runs
from the port Of San Jose on the Pa
citic coast, latitude - deg. 50 min. 10
sec. north, longitude 90 deg. 40 min. IS
sec. west, in a general north by east
direction to the capital city OF Guate-
mala. The length OF the main line is
us miles. The road is thoroughly built
and equipped, well ballasted with gravel
and broken rock, and runs as smoothly
as the best OF our own railroads or those
OF any other country in tho world. The
scenery along the line Is grand and
picturesque; especially on the ascend
ing grade between Escuintla and this
city (Guatemala) the varied views which
comprehend the perfection OF landscape
scenery meet the eye in a succession OF
panoramic changes that are indcscriba-
bly, delightful. The towering volcanoes
Of Aqua and Fuego loom forth. their
clear-cut outlines piercing the cloud
less sky, with an undulating wave OF
foothills rolling up to- their base, while
at one point on the road the train skirts
Lake Amatitlan, some five miles in
length and about two in width, from
whose surface here and there no,
springs are continually brbbling and
breathing forth steam, a reminder that
it is the howl of an old volcanic crate,
with hidden fires now s%lumbering be,
meath its placid bosom.
around by his indefatigable driver
through jungles and over mountains t.
the uttermoSt corners OF the globe. And
wherever he goes barbarism sink
crushed beneath its heels.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07
Walt whitman's Hospital Experience.

Walt Whitman contributes to the Oc-
tober Century some verbatim extracts
from letters home during the war from
which we quote as follows: After first
Fredericksb urg | felt discouraged my
self, and doubted whether our ralers
could carry OF the war. But that has
passed away. The war must be carried
myself if | thought il would profit more
than as at present, and I don't know
sometimes but shall, as it is. Then
there is certainly n strange, deep,fervid
feeling formed or aroused in the land,
hard to describe or name; IL 10 No q
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04

WE made some remarks IL few
weeks ago in regard to the Indian
question in which We took the ground
that the government was wrong in
going through the foolish farce of
making treaties with Il lazy worthless
gang of Indians, who in reality have
no right to the land they are asked to
cede to the United States. If they
ever had any right to the land they
lost it when they submitted to the
power of the government
and became Il conquered race. 1t is
llumiliating to read the accounts of
the commissioners and the governor
of the territory pleading with the in.
Solent savages to carry out the wishes
of the American people us expressed
by Congress when it passed the bill
TO open the immense reservation
which these pauper b%arbarians, who
are supported by the government in
comfort and idleness. demand Shall
remain an uninllabited wilderness
thus causing one of the finest agricul-
tural domains to be closed to the
rightflll owners, the citizens of the
United States. The present commits.
sion should be recalled at once and
Congress should pass a bill declaring
the reservation open and if the recall
citrant redskins do not like it and ut.
tempt to opposed by force, wipe them
out,
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04

ONCE upon Il time Il few men. with
an itching for office. raised Il dreadful
cutlery that the Boss was running
things with IL high hand: that county
affairs were I'LL topsy-turvy; that the
men holding office We're walking over
the rights of the people; that ring
rule rrlgned supreme; that property
would be used up in high taxes: in
short. that unless prompt measures
were taken. things in gcne,al were on
the high road to the Devil. AS the
people only laughed at them, they
cried the louder. and finally succeeded
IN elcctinS one of their number, to
the office of register of deeds. He
has served almost two years; assumed
such Il dictatorship over the people,
goaded on by his tyranical disposition
to acts more despotic. until he capped
the climax by asserting that lie had
his feet on their necks. This opened
the eyes of the people somewhat and
they began to see that there really
WIS 10 Boss until he assumed that
exalted position. They then took
steps To release their necks from the
iron heels of his feet. How well they
succeeded will he seen by reading the
proceedings of last SATURDAYS owen
ton at Gladstone.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04

TIE Republican county convention
held at Gladstone last Saturday was
very harmonious after the Dickinson
contest had been decided. Three
good loyal republicans. Il. $. Under
hill. y. G. Lawrence and Geo. w. Lee.
were elected to represent Stark coum-
ty in the territorial convention and
the delegates We're unanimous i'm fa-
Vol of II Republican county ticket be-
ing placed in the field this fall.
This is right, and il the rcpuh.
licans of stark county place good
men on their ticket i'll will he elected.
The central committee is composed
of staunch republicans swho will look
after the interests of their party and
success will crown their efforts ut the
November election.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04
POLITICS IN MINNESOTA.

ST. PAUL, July 2 7.-Atl0:2O Chairman
Olivier called the Ramsey county Dem
ocratic convention to order. w. p. Muir
ray was made the temporary chairman
and George II. Allen temporary secretary.
The temporary organization was after
wards made permanent.
Delegates were elected to the Demo-
cratic state convention and resolutions
were passed declaring that Albert
Scheffer was the choice of the con-
vention, and pledging the delegation
to work for him as a unit.
st. PAUL, July 2S.-The meeting of the
anti-county Democracy was called to or
der at l1:2O a. m. Dan Lawler was made
chairman.
After considerable discussion q new
county committee was appointed and a
complete set of delegates were chosen
'on'ehtloh. sAI4s:i
ST. PAUL, July 3l.-By the action of
ramsey county Democrats in indorsinc
him for governor, Albert Scheffer is
piaceo IN al embarrassing position. He
has also been nominated by the Farmers
alliance, and is an avowed candidate for
the Republican nomination for governor.
He has written to the chairman of the
Ramsey county committee e%mphatically
declining the Democratic nomination.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 1.-The Daily News
publishes a second letter from Hon. Ed
mund Rice, in which he says he will op.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04
Investigating Immigration.

New YORK, July 27.-The congress
stonal committee appointed for that our
pose has been investigating the manage
Went of Castle Garden. E. l.. Boss, pas
senger agent of the Hamburg line testi-
fled that about forty per cent of the sales
of the c%ompany's agents were prepaid
tickets. The company was especially
particular in investigating passports
with reference to liability to military
service.
Mr.. Coverly, of the Anchor line, said
the majority of prepaid tickets from
Italy We're sold by Italian bankers of the
city, who issue their tickets in the form
OF orders on agents in Italy.
New Yotk, July 30.-In the immigra-
ton investigation reports of societies in
Bavaria and Germany were read showing
that twenty-seven discharged convicts
were sent here by those societies in 1887.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04
T OF THE DEAL
Between the Manitoba Government and
the Northern Pacific,

the Northern Pacific,
WINNIPEG, Aug. 1.-The text of the
agreement with the Northern Pacific rs
ssiged by the government and railroad
company is made public. 1t provides for
the maintenance of maximum rates from
the province to Duluth on wheat and
certain other classes of freight. This
rate, it is understood, is considerably
lower than the Canadian Pacific rate
from Winnipeg to Port Arthur. The
agreement also distinctly STIMULATES that
the Northern Pacific shall not enter
into any pooling arrangement with the
Canadian Pacific road. 1t is stipulated
that instead of s., 900 a mile guarantee
the government is to guarantee So, 800 at
5 per cent. for twenty-five instead of
twenty years; the latter period being the
period stipulated in the act. The gov
crnment will only have to pay interest
in the event of the road not
paying more than running ex-
penses. All over that goes 90 pay inter
est. The agreement is only a provis-
ional n The Manitoba legislature is
to be called for Aug. % to confirm the
agreement and pass necessary legislation.
Hendricks, chief engineer of the North
ern Pacific, and his staff will leave for
Winnipeg almost Immediately to COM
mence operations.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04

Tile democratic administration
makes IL great noise over the railway
lands restored to the public domain,
claiming millions of acres; but the
Washington Reporter gets at the real
facts as follows:
The boastful but not discreet fe.
male whose desire to surpass her hus-
band i'll the brilliancy Of his achive-
mentS during Il four years absence,
prompted her to hold up to his aston
ishing gaze the tokens of her energy
in the shape of four members of light
infantry, and eXclaim that she too
had not been idle, did not surpass i'm
her astuteness the brilliant idiot who
conceived and brought forth the tabu.
lated statement given to the world as
the report of lands restored to the
public domain since March 4, 1885, to
May u. 1885" OF all the statements
that have been officially promulgated
first and last from the departments of
the government. we undertake to de-
clare that this is the most atrociouslv
false and deceptive. In the June
number of the Reporter we showed
from Mr.. Sparks own official reports
that the total number of acres of pub.
lie land cancelled by him. land he can.
celed everything that lie could lay his
hands on was a total Of 35l .52Oa cres.
and this ostensibly had been restored
to the public domain. though we do
not believe the public domain has vet
seen an acre OF it. In the face of
this official boast of the late Mr..
Sparks, claiming it as one of the
greatest achievements of his official
career, here M somebody who as.
sumes that we are all simpletons, to
tell us that the enormous amount of
2!,46o,G0s.74 acres of the public land
has been restored to the public do
main by cancellation! This is the
hugest lie i'll this hugely lying table
but the other items representing mil
lions Of acres (some 50.OOO,) as having
been restored to the public domain
after having been recovered from
railroad grant companies, are eacl
and every one of them as palpable, as
absurd, and transparent Il lie as that
pertaining to preemptlon %cancella
lions. 1t is difficult to conceive Of a de
gree of human mendacity that would
spread before the public eye a string
of figures so abno:mally false. thai
with intelliaent readers carry ltheil
own refutation upon their face.