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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.

AN ACTOR GOES TO THE INEBRIATES' HOME
william A. Mcconnell, once prominent theatrical
manager, was brought before Judge Massey yesterday
on a charge of ntoxicatlon. lie pleaded guilty and
asked tc be sent to the InebrIates Home at Fort
Hamilton. His request was compiled with and IL Is
understood that friends will provide for his main
tenance At the time of his arrest he had been re-
leased from Blackwels Island less than week, hav
ing been sent there for month for similar OFFENCE
As an actor and as manager Mcconnell Is well known
throughout the country. For several years he was
manager OF Iaverly Brooklyn Theatre, and few
years ago he and his BROTHER Charles H., we're
proprctors of the National Printing and Engraving
Company OF Chicago. For some time he was man
ager of the California Theatre I'm San Francisco.
Last spring william resumed his occupation as an
actor and started from Chicago to. star I'm play
which had been written for him by Chicago journalist
The play failed and he became manager for the Estelc
Clayton company, which produced The Quick or
and Mcconnell took to drinking heavily. Shortly
after that ho landed in Blackwells Isand lie stu
believe that he will recuperate aud become more
prosperous again.
MATTERS IN REGARD TO TIE PARKS.
The Park Commissioners held a meeting last night
and appointed Henry 5. Styles acting superintendent
In place OF John Hamilton, who resigned short
time ago. John II. Shuts sent letter protesting
against granting permission to the Ocean Transit
Company to build railway the Ocean Parkway.
The Commissioners awarded contract to John H.
ORourhc whose bid tho lowest, TO build the new
Willink and Ocean entrances TO Prospect Park at
cost OF so 900.
The report Of the Park Department made
public yesterday Tho appropriation for 1883 was
1915, 500. On December the cash in hand amounted
10 SOL .24o The report states that a contract has
been made for resurfacing 10000 square feet OF
asphalt walk around the dairy cottage, and that
81 900 square feet of walk In other parts OF the park
will be resurfaccd. The proceeds from the sale of
the East side lands on May S3sS.59O. Three
hundred new trees purchased and most of them
were planted in Ocean Parkway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23

slightly built with pale and keen gray eyes. ana
Is above thirty years old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23

TO GIVE THEIR FLAG TO GENERAL HARRISON
Harrisburg Penn, Dec. 22.-When the Harnson
Union Veteran Club a campaign organization com
posed of several hundred old soldiers, dlsbandeo
week or two ago they agreed to make Presidenteect
Harrison gift of the elegant SILK American nag
which thew carried on their marches. 1t Will be sent
to General Harrison neAt week, with handsomely en-
vrossed resolutions adopted by the club.
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rBr rnLEoRAra TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Next week will be busy one 1of ueherai
Harrison. Congress has taken recess and many
Western Senators and representatives may De
.xnec,ed 70 stop off on their way home or on
the Journey back to Washington.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
THE LIBRARY or CONGRESS-.
PLANS FOR THE NEW BUILDING

SPACE FOR OVER . 2oOo 900 BOOKs-A MODIFIED
PLAN FOR A BUILDING OF GREATER
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
ANNOUNCEMENT.

I hereby inform the pubic and
voters of Stevens County that am
candidate for election to the Office OF
County Attorney. -.-
The county commissioners, by
unanimous vote, appointed me in
March, 1887, to fill the vacancy in
that office, and it seems to me the
people will demand, and ought to be
given, at least one good reason why
should now stand aside and make
wap for another. Have I in such a
short time become chronic office
holder? Is my opponent better quail
ified for the position than I am, and
is it likely he will prove more faith
full servant? Will he improve and
purify politics and political methods
'u this county? How did he obtain
the seanty endorsement Of the Re
publican convention-was 1t by treat
ing his own supporters fairly. or by
deceiving them? ...~.
These questions should be consid-
cred by every voter In this county
before answering with his ballot at
the November election.
8. A. FLAHERTY.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
Why He Will Vote for Harrison.

Major Isaac Hall, lifelong Demo-
crat of Lewis county, New York, and
one of the heroes of Gettysburg, In a
letter to friend in Utica, gives the
following as his reasons tor voting
for Gen. Harrison in November:
If live I shall support Gen. Har-
rison at the coming election, for the
simple reason that he Is soldier, and
that I can. vote with my personal
friends. 1t doesn't make so much
difference to me who Is President as
who my friends are, except that
Harrison is soldier and Cleveland
is no friend of the soldier. My Demo-
cratic friends can not now complain
of my change OF base. have been a
black sheep in their flock too long al
ready on account of having been a
soldier and helped to save the ground
they walk upon. For the last As years
I have supported every Democratic
Presidential nominee and every
Democratic county nominee. 1 am
no politician, and have never asked
nor received any favors of the Demo-
cracy, nor any other politician. This
is not Jacksonian Democracy. A
soldier is an eyesore to Democratic
politician of to-day. The South re-
ward their soldiers, the Northern
Democracy desert theirs.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
'.Flush Times, Fifty Years Ago.

Fifty years ago Michigan experienced
that sort Of prosperity which, being based
upon rise In prices rather than upon an
increase of values, ended, as such pros
perity always ends, in panic and disaster.
There was an extraordinary demand for
wild lands and for places with "water
privileges" ON which to build up large
cities. The government had opened three
land Offices in different parts of the state.
These were besieged by crowds anxious to
center" land at $1.25 an acre. Every
proprietor Of q CITY" which ex-
listed on beautifully engraved map,
started bank. Money, in the form Of
bank notes, became abundant, prices rose,
speculation was stimulated, and men, and
even women, caught the "fever" incident
to flush times.
Then came the crash. Specie payments
were suspended, and money became
eight" Prices fell. The banks were
supposed to have in their vaults gold and
silver sufficient to meet 30 per cent. OF
their circulation. The specie kegs were In
some cases found to have an upper layer
of coin, which concealed nothing more
valuable than nails and broken glass.
One of these banks was known as 1.-THE
Bank Of Sandstone" being located In q
part Of Michigan where q1arries Of fine
grit stone had been opened. Its promises
to pay were widely circulated. When the
panic came, man who held many Of the
banks circulating notes made all haste to
reach Sandstone to get them cashed. The
bank had assets, out Of which it paid the
billholder-a milestone for ever $40 note,
grfndstone for every $5, and for every
81 bill whetstone. COMPANION.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES.
Minneapolis Exposition and Minnesota
State Fair.

Excursion tickets will be sold to
Minneapolis and return for the Expo
sition on the following dates at one
fare for the round trip. Tickets good
to return to destination until Monday
following date of sale, viz:
Aug. 21st, 23rd, 25th, 2sth and sOth,
Sept. 1st, 4th, 9Th, 18th, Goth, I'D,
25th, 9th and Goth. Every day from
Sept. 9Th to 18th. inclusive, tickets
will be sold to eitherSt. Paul or Min
neapolis at one fare for the round
trip, good to return to destination one
day after being stamped at st. Paul
or Minneapolis, but not later than
Sept. 18th.
On account of the Minnesota state
fair tickets will be sold to either St.
Paul or Minneapolis and return every
day on Sept. 9Th to 18th, inclusive,
good to return one day after being
stamped at st. Paul or Minneapolis,
but not later than Sept. 18th.
All exposition and state fair tickets
will include admission coupons at
twenty-five cents each for the expo
sition and fifty cents each for the
state fair, which will be added to the
railroad rates.
For rates inquire of ticket agents
[ N. P. r. r.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Whereas, default has been made In the
conditions of q certain mortgage executed
and delivered by Francis e. Newell and
Agnes c. Newell, his wife, mortgagors, to
twenty seventh day of July, A. d. eighteen
hundred and eiGhty-se and recorded In
the office of the Register OF Deeds Of the
County of Stevens, in the State of Minnesota
on the twenty-eighth day of July, A. d. 1887,
at two o'clock p. NJ, in book an" Of mort
cages, on page 623, on which there is claimed
to be due, at the date of this notice, the
Dollars and Fifty-two Cents t$5sS.52); and no
action or proceeding has been instituted at
law or in equity to recover the debt secured
ssaa or any Paf5 hsf {,
of a power Ok sale contained In said mort
gage, and of the statute in such case made
and provided, said mortgage will be fore
therein described, at public auction at the
front uoor of the Court House in the Village
OF Morris, in the County Of Stevens and State
Of MINNESOTA. on Friday, the twenty eighth
and eiGhty-eight. at four o'clock in the after
noon, to satisfy the amount which shall then
be due onsSaid mortgage, with the interest
thereon, and costs and expenses Of sale. and
twenty-five dollars attorneys fees, as stipu-
lated in said 1lor, gage in case of foreclosure.
,.he premises described in said mortgage,
and SO to be sold, are the lot, piece or parcel
of land situated in tle County Of Stevens and
as follows, to-wit: Lot number nine 9), in
Block number four a., in the Town (now the
Village) o. Morris, according to the plat
thereo on file at the office Of the Register OF
THEODORE L. sCHURMIER.
Mortgage.
KERR & RICHARDSON,
| st. Paul, Mimi.
Dated August 18th, 1888. aug15t7
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15

There 10 one aspect of protection
which appeals directly to q large and
influential class.of citizens. Scarcely
village in the country permits q
peddler or other itinerant trader to
prosecute business within Its limits
without first paying for such privilege.
ANY other policy would be injustice
to resident tradesmen whose property
is taxed for the support OF municipal
government. The free trader, who
demands that foreigners shall be per.
mitted to bring their wares into the
markets of the United States without
tariff, will be forced to claim tor his
fellow countrymen the privilege to
sell without tax wherever he can find
customers.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15

It Is pestilent folly for man to build
an ugly house; gloomy house; frown-
ing house; house with few and attenu-
ated windows. His children are to be
reared In the structure he builds. His
rest hours from the turmoil OF business
are to be spent there. The quality Of the
house is the gauge Of the civilization of
its occupant. The races which are prac-
tically houseless are the most wretched
In the world Dion Cassius' description
Of the ancient Caledonians Is suggestive.
They had no towns, no fields or houses;
roamed on the wild and waterless mount
aims and deserts; hid In the mud for days
together with only their heads out Of
water. The house makes the man-and
woman. So impressed were the old Him.
docs with this fact that they worshiped
with magnificent rites Visvu Kama, the
Carpenter of the Gods and he built
wooden structures of imposing charac.
ter and of beautiful design, In which the
fat roof has no place, but In which the
gable Ii curved Hne.--St. Paul Pioneer
prpea
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
Avery Bad Plank.

The right Of the ballot is dear to
every man, and IL any party should
arise whose aim was to deprive q
large number Of the people from this
most pieceless privilege one would
expect 1t to create revolution. Yet
such : party il in existence, and one
|of the most surprising things about 1t
il that II boasts of followers among
the very ones 1t would disfranchise
The Prohibition party in its last plat
form declares ssno person should have
the ballot In any state whosis not q
citizen Of the United States.n This
Ii o very innocent looking plank on
its face, and yet it would take away
the ballot from nearly q thousand
good residents OF Anoka county. The
laws of this state wisely recognize the
fact that thdse citizens. of other coun-
tries who come here and declare
their Intentions Of becoming citizens
are interested in the best welfare OF
this country and have a right to take
part in the election OF oil officers.
TO become an actual citizen of the
United States requires q residence OF
i've years, and 1t would be a hardship
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
Failures of young Orators.

- It Is encouraging to young speakers to
know that there never has been, and
never viii be, such thing as "born or
ator." There has never yet been an in.
stance of an orator becoming famous who
did not apply himself assiduously to the
cultivation Of his art. Many even had to
overcome great physical infrmities that
rendered it almost hopeless for them to
adopt the career of q public speaker. The
best known instance Is that Of Demos.
themes, who passed some months In sub
terranean cell, shaving one side of his
head so that he could not appear in public.
He there practiced with pebbles in his
mouth to overcome defect in his speech,
and gesticulated beneath suspended
sword to rid himself of an ungraceful
movement of the shoulder. Even then
he was Kissed from the bema in his early
efforts, but he persevered-the world
knows with what success. When Robert
Walpole first spoke in the house of COM
mons, he paused for want Of words, and
continued only to stutter and stammer.
Curran was known at school as ''stut-
tering Jack Curran," and In debating So
ciety which he Joined, as "Orator Mum. +"
Every one win also readily recall Disraeh's
failure when he rose to make his maiden
speech. Cobden's first effort was also q
humiiating failure.-Once Week.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
he Possibilities of Coincidence.

The possibilities of coincidence In hui
man affairs are incompatible. A gentle
man residing near New York remarked to
a friend on the 4th Of February, 1888,
eve shall have snow today" There was
not q sign Of 1t then; Su+ tefore they sep
arated the snow began to fall. 'How
did you know that it would snowf' asked
the friend. The sgd and singular answer
was, Forty three years ago today I buried
my only son. It showed that day and
every year since, and felt sure 1t would
snow today" Let those who fancy that
the law Of probabilities is Of any value
when applied to any particular day ascer.
tain how many chances there were that It
would snow for forty-three consecutive
years in certain part Of the country on
the 4th day of February.-Rey. DR.. J. NJ.
Buckley in The Century.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
Practical Hints On DisirEsction.

Corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride1
sulphate of copper and chloride Of iron
are among our best disinfectants, the first
two being poisonous. At wholesale drug
houses In New York single pounds can be
obtained, mercuric chloride costing 20
cents, the others 10 cents pound.
A quarter of q pound of corrosive sub
Innate and pound Of sulphate OF copper
In one gallon of water makes q concen.
trated solution to keep In stock. We viii
refer to it as solution A.
For the ordinary disinfecting solution
add half q pint Of solution A" to gallon
Of water. This, while costing less than 9
cent and q half per gallon, Is good
strength for general use. Use in about
equal quantity In disinfecting choleraic or
typhoid fever excreta.
A per cent. solution Of good chloride
of lime or quarter pint Of solution A"
to gallon Of water Is used to wash wood
work, floors and wooden furniture, after
Immigration and ventilation.
For fumigating with sulphur, three to
four pounds should be used to every thou
sand cubic feet air space. Burn in an old
tin basin floating in tub of water; keep
room closed twelve hours, to allow the
fumes to penetrate all cracks. Then open
a window from the outside and allow
fumes to escape into air.
Soak sheets, ETC., in chloride of lime
solution, wiring out and boil.
Cesspools, ETC., should be well covered
on top with mixture Of chloride of lime
with ten parts of dry sand. =.
Isolate the patient In an upper room
from which curtains, carpets and stuffed
furniture have been removed.
The solution of mercuric chloride must
not be placed in metal vessels, since the
mercury would plate them.-Lucius Pit
kin in The Century.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15
Clay County Democrats

There Is heap OF truth In the fol-
lowing from the Moorhead News:
Few men in this county who are
not blinded by prejudice will take
stock in the resolution passed by the
Clay County Democratic convention
which AYERS that Mr.. Constock OPP
posed in the legislature all legislation
in the interest of farmers. Mr.. Conn
stock has never opposed reasonable
legislation that would benefitfarmers
but he has been fair enough and
broad enough to discriminate between
legislation for the common good and
class legislation. The Democratic
party in the past has had great deal
to say In criticism OF class legislation
which it charged the Republican
party with championing, but now the
Democrats of Clay county come for
ward and ask legislation for the ex-
elusive benefit of one class. What ID
it they want? BY the resolutions
passed they want to give the manu-
facturers of foreign countries the
privilege Of bringing their products,
the fruits of pauper labor, into oui
markets without the payment OF Q
dollar, to drive sharp competition
with our own citisens who tight fol
the flag and pay taxes for the support
of government. Why? Because, for
sooth, the eastern manufacturers o.
our own country are supposed to oe
making meney-a living and some
thing besides, just what all men o.
honorable ambition desire to make
including farmers, we hope. Reason
and argument fall upon these mer
with as little effect as water on
ducks back. They are welded tt
their idols. They stand by Cleveland
The Democratic platform and thu
Mills bill is sectional in the extreme
which proposes to keep sugar a prime
necessity of life-on the dutiable lis
at about go per cent. because it is
southern industry, and put wool,
northern agricultural product, on tn
free list.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15

and an outrage to deprive q great
body Of good citizens of the ballot
this long. The blow to the ballot IL q
blow to the liberty Of the people.
This plank of the Prohibition plat.
form is not only an. insult to the
foreigners who COME to make Amer
lea their home, but it is in keeping
with that narrow policy OF the party.
They have announced time and again
that the greatest danger to q success
full Prohibitory law came from our
foreign population, who hold more
liberal views on this subject than do
many Americans. For this reason
the Prohibition party would deprive
all citizens coming from other coun-
tries of the right. of ballot for Ave
wears. Just imagine what an out
rage this would be In some commun.
tiles. Take Isanti county, for IN
stance. With such q law In force,
q hundred Americans could have
elected all the officers for several
years past, could have controlled the
| Interests of the entire county, and the
great portion OF the Scandinavian
people, who have by hard work and
Intelligent management. made it one
ofth most prosperous sections In
Minnesota, would had no voice In
their own local affairs. There are
| many other counties in this state,
where the same conditions are true.
And yet this very party has the ar
rogance to ask these citizens to put
1t in power, that it may then take
away the ballot from them. In An
Okla county 472 men have declared
their intentions Of becoming citizens
of the United states since September
1881. OF this number, or during this
time, only % have become actual citi.
zens. Enact a law as recommended
by the Prohibition party and $50 Of
these men, right here in Anoka
county, would be disfranchised. It il
not exageration 10 state. that with
such law in force one third OF the
\ people of this state could not vote to-
day. The Prohibition party la.
voiced its mistrust"of our foreign
population, and this large per cent
age of our people ought to recognize
in this party their open enemy. How
! many of the Scandinavians of Anokt
county will support party of so mar
row policy? The Herald believes thu
number is very few, when they come
to understand its full intention.-An
Okla Herald. a4,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-15

Messrs. Barrett and Hixson have
bolted the Republican candidate for
congress and will support Mr.. Can
ming. In an interview with the Fer
gus Falls Journal General Barrett
said Mr.. Comstock was an able man,
and personally above reproach. but
he thought his sympathies were not
with the people, etc. We have no
personal acquaintance with Mr..
Comstock, consequently are unable
to say whether his sympathies are
with the people or not. It is admit
ted on all hands that no man in this
congressional district has more per-
sonal friends than Mr.. G. and it is al
so admitted that he IS very popular
where he is known and that his &C
quaintance is very extensive in the
district. This being the case 1t looks
to us very much as though there was
a natural good feeling between him
and the people. And further, he has
been selected by the Republicans OF
this district to represent them in con-
gress land the TRIBUNE being aRepub.
lean paper, will do, what it can to Be-
cure his election. or course Gen. B.
and Senator Hixson have the un.
doubted constitutional right to bolt
Mr.. Comstock, but 1t strikes US that
it 10 mighty poor policy for Republi-
cans to pursue a course which gives
aid and comfort to the Democratic
party. We're not made that way.