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The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
WILD WHITE CATTLE.
Those That Roam Through ChartIey ParI'
StalIOrtlshire, England.

Those That Roam Through Chartley Park
StaRordshire, England.
Chartley Park is in StaffOrdshire,
overlooking the Trent, belonging to
Earl Ferris, and is likewise an estate
of great antiquity. Elizabeth was
there once as a guest and Mary Of
Scots as prisoner The park is part
of Needwood Forest, and large tract
of it is wild moorland; 1.-The turf is in
a primitive state" The cattle have
fine pointed horns tipped with black,
black muzzles and ears; and the in
ference is that there are occasional de-
partures even from this type, for a
legend runs in the Ferris family that
if a black calf is born a member of
their. race dies; therefore, says the
story, the keeper Immediately puts to
death any such ill-omened new conner
perhaps averting the calamity by
concealing evidence of the event.
There is a curious bit in a quaint
Natural History Of StnD0rdshire, by
Robert Plat, keeper of the Ashmolean
Museum, to the effect that If cattle eat
the grass that grows in certain lOcali-
ties in that county tthey will surely
turn out whittish dun" He got fact
and fiction confused.
Chartley was visited by Elihu Bur
ritt, who wrote of the cattle as "a kind
of whito buffaloes, which doubtless in
their day and generation supplied the
Druids with raw beefsteak.0 lie goes
on to say that they are quite untama-
BILE, and 1.-The keepers must keep at d
respectable distances" "the touch Of a
| human hand is an abomination tC
/ them" When the calves are born far
out in the wilderness and need care
/ the keepers run two fork handles
under them and so carry them. as or
a litter, TO the shed. The mothers
would desert them if hand touched
/ them. Bewick, who went to see the
/ cattle and made an engraving Of COW
with great, limpid eyes, having a star
tied look like a hind, tells about thu
same story, and that if one goes neaI
the calves, they clap their heads Close
to the ground and lie like hare il
form, to hide themselves" +" and II on
should cry out, the whole herd woul,
come believing to the rescue Hid
As0d5e.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
eUILFoRD MILLER CASE.
Secretary Villas Puts 1t a Solid Legal
% Ground.

Secretary Villas Puts 1t on a Solid Legal
% Ground.
WAsHINGTO N, Anga- 3.-Secretary Villas
yesterday rendered a decision in the cele-
brated case of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company VS.. Guilford Miller, which
has been pending in the Department of the
Interior for more than two years. The de-
cision places Miller's claim upon a solid
legal ground, and not upon any equitable
consideration in his favor. The order is
that the homestead entry shall remain in
tact. Miller will, OF course, be obliged to
prove up, as between him and the United
States. and show his continued homestead
residence and cultivation, and il the rail-
road company makes any further con-
test it must be in the courts. The opin-
ion is decisive as to the claims in the Inte-
rior Department. 1t is understood that
there are about :, 900 cases in the General
Land office awaiting the determination of
this case. The case in which the decision
was rendered was a contest between a
homesteader and the railroad company.
Miller claimed that he settled upon the
land, which is $50 acres in the eastern part
of Wyoming Territory, in 1873, and after
ward, in 1884, he made homestead entry
of it. The land lies within the indemnity
limits of ten miles, between forty and fifty
miles distant on the definitely located and
constructed road of the Northern Pacific
Company, and in 1888 the company claimed
and selected this land for deficiencies in
its grant by a list of selections which it
filed in the land office. The company then
asked to have Miller's homestead cancelled,
because it was in conflict with it's grant.
The General Land-office refused to do this,
and the company, more than two years
ago, took an appeal to the Secretary.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
"UNTo THE DESIRED HAVEN"
PSALM CVTI-

PSALM Cvu-
What matter how the winds may blow,
Or blow they east or blow they west;
What reck how the tides may flow,
Since ebb or flood alike is best.
No summer calm, no winter gale,
Impedes or drives me from my way;
I Tsteadfast toward the Haven sail
That lies, perhaps, not far away.
mind the weary DAYS of old,
When motionless seemed to lie;
The nights when fierce the billows rolled.
And changed my course, knew not why;
feared the calm, 1 feared the gale,
Foreboding danger and delay,
Forgetting was thus to sail
To reach what seemed so far away
I measure not the loss and fret
Which through these years of doubt bore;
keen the memory fresh, and yet
Would hold Gods patient mercy more.
What wrecks have passed me in the gale,
What ships sunk in the summer day;
While I, with furled or spreading sail,
Stood for the Haven far away
What matter how the winds may blow,
Since fair or foul alike is best;
God holds them in His hand I know,
And I may leave to Him the rest;
Assured that neither calm nor gale
Can bring me danger or delay,
AS I toward the Haven still sail
That lies, know, not far away.
"A. d. +. Randolph, IN Sailors Magazine
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
STANDING ROCK COUNCIL.
Belief That the Sioux VIII Sign For Few
Extra Ratfons.

Extra Rations.
ST. PAUL. Mimi, Aug. 3-The reports OF
the Standing Rock conference are rather
contradictory. The regular correspondent
at the agency says yesterdays council
lasted over four hours, but nothing was
accomplished The Indians refused to
sign. Speeches were made by Gall, Mad
Bear, Sitting Bull and other chiefs. Sit
ting Bull said he was opposed to the treaty
and many of the Indians had crops to
look after there was no use of keeping
them in council longer. Gall said that he
would never sign either paper and that
this was final. After making this declara-
tion he went up and shook hands with
each Commissioner as evidence of his
friendliness to the whites. He simply
opposes the treaty and says he
does not believe the Great Father will
be very much displeased. The Indians
have not much land left compared with the
vast possessions of their forefathers, and
he could not see why the Government
wanted to take half the land left when
there was so much vacant land elsewhere.
1t was expected that if the Indians could
be convinced to-day that they had not in
terpreted the. 1868 and 1876 treaties prop
erly they could be induced to sign. The
Commission had these treaties explained
by the same interpreters who participated
in making Them but it seemed to have no
effect. 1t is believed that after the beef
killing Saturday and drawing of rations
Monday most Of the Indians will leave the
agency, and the Commission will open the
papers for signing Friday 0r Saturday,
and will get the interpreters, who are get
ting five dollars per day from the Govern
ment, to lead off. They will hardly have
the courage to refuse.
A Pierre correspondent says: "Direct
and reliable information tonight from a
Government official now at Standing Rock
agency, is to the effect that the Indians
will sign the treaty beyond a doubt. He
says the commission received it's instruc
tions from Washington to get the Indians
signature and they are going to do it. The
reds are simply holding off for presents
and feasts and at no conference has there
been any strong opposition to signing the
treaty" e@
This intelligence, together with that re-
ceived from Lower Brule and Grow Greek
this morning to the effect that there was
no opposition down there, confirms the be-
lief that the commission will succeed with
its work and that within three months the
reservation will be thrown open. Governor
Church has returned to Bismarck from the
Standing Rock agency. He says tha4
while the Indians are stubborn, he believes
the commission will finally induce them to
sign. Auditor Ward thinks they are sim
! ply holding out to get more rations.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10

"A manager of a woman's exchange
reports that during the past year she
has given advice to five hundred and
eighteen women. Some lawyers have
not been more busy, and few, probably,
were obliged TO solve cases in equal
variety.
Miss Beatrice Clugston, who has
recently died, was one of the most
prominent and active philanthropists
in Scotland. She founded a Gonzales
cent Homo and Home for Incurables,
and, by means Of bazars, she raised
$255, 900 for those institutions and 9TH
ers in when she took an Interest.
1t is Thomas A. Edison's intention
to take record of the strength of his
baby's lungs every three months Il
will preserve the record" said he re-
Gently, until the child becomes
young lady. Then the phonograph
can be operated for her benefit; and
she can see for herself just what kind
of a baby she was, and won't have to
take her mothers and the nurses
word for it. t."-L0aceH Times.
Z For long and faithful service the
record of Miss Sarah NOrcrossis prob
ably unparalleled in this country. This
/ lady went to Lowell from Pennington,
Me, in April, 1898, and obtained en-
! plOyment in the dressing-roOm of the
Boott cotton mills. During the fifty
| intervening years she has been con-
stantly employed in the same room and
at the same work, and for forty-fve
! years under the same overseer.
When Annie Louise Gary returned
from her study abroad she came in
concert company with Nilsson. Cary
was only at the beginning of her earn
| ings, comparatively, and had but
! limited wardrobe Nilsson always
| asked her what she was going 60 wear
and then adapted her own dress 10 suit
! Miss Cary's, her own wardrobe being
4 so full and varied. This was done in
full kindness for Miss Cary, and was
one of the ways in which she showed
her natural delicacy of spirit e-
Empress Eugenie, early in her
reign, wrote OF the late Emperor Fred
ericl1: The Prince Is tall and hand
| some, almost a head taller than the
Emperor; he is slight and fair, with
stFaw-colored mustache IA German Gas
Tacitus might describe him) OF chiv-
alrous courtesy, with something Of the
Hamlet about him. His compan-
ion, q General Moltke (or some
such namel, is a taciturn gentleman,
but by no means dreamer, and, be-
ing perpetually on the lookout, takes
one by surprise with bis pointed re-
marks. They are an imposing race,
these Germans. Louis calls them the
race of the FUTURE
-Gladstone's first OratOricHl quail
ification is his fine voice. II is said
that Il foreigner who heard him one
night declared that until then, he
had never regarded the English as a
musical language; but now he was
convinced that it was one OF the most
melodious OF living tongues. Some
body once said that Mr.. Gladstone was
the only man in the House who could
talk In italics. This saying" adds
MIR. Justin Mccarthy, "was odd, but
was, nevertheless, appropriate and ex-
pressive. Gladstone could, by the
slightest modulation of his voice, give
all the emphasis of italics, OF small
print, or large print, or any other ef-
feet he might desire, in his spoken
words -
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10

DEs MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 3.-Mary Flynn
has filed petition in the district court
claiming $4,000 damages from her uncle,
Michael Flynn, wealthy farmer of this
county, for damages to character, bodily
suffering and fright. She charges that
Flynn, who is her guardian and has
charge of her property, accused her Of
stealing his money and shOckingly abused
her. At one time she says he put
a rope around her neck by which he
dragged her out of the house and then
hanged her TO tree until she was nearly
dead. She charges that he afterwards cut
her down and dragged hor back into the
house by the rope and set her in a chair
with the rope still around her neck, but
that she was so badly hurt that she fell to
the floor. After she had lain there some
time he threw bucket of water over her,
which partially revived her. He then ac-
cused her of stealing his money, winding
up by demanding: "My money or your
Iife." He was trying to find revolver to
enforce his demand when a neighbor came
along and stopped him. Since the alleged
assault the girl has been stopping with
relatives in Des Moines.
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10

TIE goodly people Of Cleveland, Tenn,
are very indignant over the fact that
William Van Patton and r. E. Brooks, two
farmers living near that place, have
snapped wives.
Gov. LOWRY, of Mississippi, on the 9th,
issued a requi-ition on the Governor of
Arkansas for the extradition of Harrison
Page, the negro who assassinate John p.
Briscoe, of Claiborne county, Miss, DIR.
Charles Buck, the sheriff aud one of his
deputies, and wounded another while they
were endeavoring to arrest him.
f ADv1CEs from the Choctaw Nation, In
dian Territory, say that Charles Perkins,
a noted horse thief and murderer, shot and
killed two Deputy United States Marshals
and one citizen on the 4th, while resisting
arrest Perkins escaped. There are nine
indictments against him for murder. He
says he will never be taken alive.
GEN. Phil. H. SHERIDAN died at Non
quitt, Mass, on the 9th.
JOHN ROBINSON, the veteran Snowman,
died at Cincinnati on the 4th. Mr.. Robin
son was more than eighty years Of age
He spent nearly his whole life in the man
agement of circuses, being succeeded by
his sons within the past few years. He
had amassed a large fortune.
AT picnic at LutherwoOd, W. Va, on
the 4th, Edward Shaffer aud Josiah Smith,
old enemies, get into an alteration because
Smith hurrahed for Cleveland. ShaffeI
attacked Smith with a knife, stabbing him
brutally. Smiths sister interfered, when
Shaffer attacked her, stabbing her in the
head several times. Both Smith and bis
sister are fatally hurt.
Ex-STATE TREASURER IKE Fl. VINCENT,
now serving out a sentence at the Pratt
mines for misappropriating $4,000 OF the
State funds of Alabama, has created no
little excitement by stating that he was
about to make full confession of che en-
tire facts. 1t is expected that severa
prominent men in the State viii be spoker
OF in the confession.
THE vacancy in the clerkship of Critten-
den county, Ark, has been filled by Gov
Hughes appointing VIM. Vance, Jr., {
white man and Democrat. to iii the un.
expired term of the exiled negro clerk
David Ferguson.
Mr.. WIN. BURTON, sixty years of age
and a prosperous farmer living near Cof
feevile, Miss, whose wife died about thre,
months ago, was on the 81 united in mar
riage to Miss Alice Spears, a charming
young lady of sixteen
TIE following postnasters were ap
pointed on the 4th: Arkansas-M. A. Sim
mons, Palmer. Tennessee-W. Norrod
Hanging Limb: A. Q. Knight, Model
Mary f. Drake, Pulmersvills; s, 7. Pickle
Wheel
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
CoNGREsa

G0AARAEaAs
TEE Senate on the Goth further consld-
urod the Sundry Civil bill. An amendment Of
Tered ~ Senator Bowen appropriating se5O,OOO
Tor the purpose OF investigating the extent 20
Mhich the arid region OF the United States can
% reoeemed by irrigation was AFTER debate
eoopteo- An amendment appropriating e75 900
Lor public building at Atchisou Kan, was un-
Ger confederation when the Senate adjourned.
--.-AIter oispOsiug OF several motions and com
mittoe reports the House went into Committee
ot the Whole on the Deficiency bill, and when
@ne committee rose the House adjourned.
IN the Senate on the 31st Mr.. Frye ra-
ported the Union Pacific Funding bin Cthe
housa OUtnwaite bilD. The committees report
vas Unanimous After other reports, the
s9Eate resumed consideration OF the Sundry
Civh bill. The amendment appropriatinR
$4,000 for public building at Atchison, Kan,
was rejected. Pending consideration or the
bill tho Senate adjourned .... In the House,
after the usual routine, the Army Appropria-
tion bill was taken up in Committee OF the
Whole and considered until adjournment.
In tho Senate on August the bill to Gre
ate the Department OF Agriculture was favora-
bly, reported from committee. II IS the House
bill for making the agricultural bureau an OK.
eoutive department. A numb"r OF bills passed
and the Sundry CiYn bill was taken up which
after further cons deration was finally passed,
and soon after the Senate adjourned y Soon
after meeting the House went into Committee
Of the Whole on the Senate amendments 10 the
GRAFTON adjourned.
AFTER disposing OF unimportand bust
ness the Senate on the 2d resumed considcra-
ton Of the Fisheries treaty, and Senator Rid
dleberger spoke in oppo ,ition and Senator Nor
gan supported the treaty. Soon after resum
ing legislative business the Senate adjourned.
lin the House the Senate amend.
ments 20 the Army Appropriation
pill were -concurred IN and a new con
ference ordered. The Deficiency bill was then
taken up In Committee OF the Whole. The de-
bate drifted into tilt between members on
political matters, including the tariff and pen
sion legislation, and but little progress was
made before tho House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 3D., Senator Cullom
onercd a resolution directing an inquiry and re
port ns 10 violations OF the Inter-S ate Com
merce law by Canadian roads owning and oper
httng lines in United States territory and also
whether commerce originating in the United
States is diverted from American TO Canadian
lines, and spoke at length on the subject. A
long discussion followed, when the resolution
was adopted. Tho Fisheries treaty was ther
debated until adjournment. In the House
after disposing Of preliminary business, the De
hciency bill was considered until recess, and ni
the evening session thirty private pension bills
passed
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10

as he saw by the starlight the large
eyes ef the dog fixed upon him. ''Do
you know that you are accused OF
crossing the frontier aloneP They say
that you come over into Switzerland
one day and go back the next. Aha,
old fellow! are you smuggler. tooP'
BrunO's reply was renewed licking
of Hcrman's hand.
Come to the cabin with me-" con
tinued the boy, rising.
And when he started of down the
pass, he had the dog at his heels.
A few minutes afterward the Swiss
boy reached the hut and was about to
turn on the dog, which had followed
him in, when he was accosted by 3
gruff voice.
care you the guards boy?' it said.
Bruno set up low growl as Herman
turned and saw before him rough,
desperate-lool1ing character, man
who looked bad enough to do any thing.
Il am Sergeant Hatell's son." Her.
man answered.
II thought so. You don't want peo-
pie to make a living, but you watch
them like hawks day and night"
eve guard the boundary as best we
can, which is right"
''Yes, but you report every thing you
see"
''Isn't that right, tooP"
Nor
The right foot of the man slipped
forward, and Herman, as he instinct
lively retreated, saw long knife along
the smuggler's sleeve.
The boy-guard hardly knew what to
do. He knew that the man was bent
on dark mischief, for his eyes seemed
to glow like Goals.
Suddenly Bruno, without warning OF
any kind, leaped at the smuggler, and
in twinkling the two, man and dog
were struggling against the wall of the
hut
Then it was that the man became un-
masked, for in the fight his false beard
dropped to the floor, and Herman re
cognized fellow when he we'll knew.
With a sharp cry, the man pushed
| the dog off, and struck with his knife
at the same time; then, as Bruno was
recovering at Herman's feet, he darted
from the cabin and disappeared.
The next moment Herman opened
his eyes wide with amazement, fOr
Bruno was no longer the beautiful dog
| he had been. He stood erect, looking
sheepishly at the boy guard, for the
handsome jacket of hair which had
covered him from his hind legs to his
shoulders lay under his feet, and his
body was wrapped closely with fine
lace!
The knife Of the smuggler who had
fled had solved the mystery of the
frontier, and Herman knew why the
officers had given his father orders tC
watch the dog.
You're shrewd old fellow, Mon
sieur Moscowrn laughed the Swiss
boy, as he examined the treasure car.
ried by Bruno. Il have made dis
cOverY that will keep this place fol
father; and am going to see that the
noble friend who saved my life to-
night ceases to be "A smuggler's prop
erty."
Herman was as good as his word, for
when the Swiss officials heard of the
strange discovery he had made, they
took steps to arrest the little French
man; but he effected his escape, getting
away without his dog.
Bruno was presented TO Herman by
the customs officers, and when his vel
low coat grew again, he became the
most watchful frontier guard in thC
| service.
After Herman's adventure the lace
trail was abandoned, showing that
"Monsieur Moscow and Bruno were
its principal patrons.-T. G. HGrbGugh
| I'm CfOLflP2 DngEs
The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-10


TEE Inman lines new steamer City Of
New York left Liverpool on the LIST on her
FIRST voyage to New York. A large crowd
Of people were at the landing stage and
pier-head TO see her depart. She carried
1000 passengers, among them James G..
Blaine and his wife and'daughter.
hartley CAMPBELL, the welI-knovn
playwright, died at Bloomingdale Asylum
FOR the Insane, n. Y, on the Both. He had
Ssen an inmate of the asylum for almost a
year. He was born in Allegheny City,
Pa, on August u, 1S43.
AN eight-year-old daughter Of William
ROLAND was burned TO death by the explo-
sion OF n can of kerosene at Pittsburgh.
Pa, the other morning, and Mrs. Lille
Mclaughlin received fatal injuries from a
similar explosion in the afternoon. Roll
lands house caught fire, but it was extin-
guished without much damage. The resi-
dence OF Mrs. Mclaughlin was totally de-
stroyed.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on the
p Delaware, Lackawauna & Western rail-
road recently near Scranton, Pa, bv which
an engine was blown to pieces and the
fireman, Henry Keidler, killed. Irving
Stein, the engineer, was severely injured.
A NEW YoRK sherifT's jury has decided
Broker Charles A. Johnes to be insane.
Johnes was one Of the most daring operat-
Stock Exchange.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, saws
that the meners Of the fourth pool have
struck for an advance OF 25 cents per IOC
bushels.
MAYOR HEWITT, Of New York, has APP
pointed the new Aqueduct Commissioners
as follows General James G. Duane
United States army, retired, Democrat;
Walter Howe, eN-member of the Legisla-
ture, Independent; John G.. Tucker, an ex-
tensive contractor and builder, Republic.
an; Francis ID. Scott, present assistant
corporation counsel, Democrat.
THE Supreme Court of New Jersey has
rendered a decision affirming the consti-
nationality of the Local Option High Lii
Oense law. The opinion as regards the
high license feature was unanimous. On
the local option section the court stood
eight to seven.
DUR1NGJuly 2S,G9O immigrants arrived al
Castle Garden, an increase Of 1,246 over
.July last year. Thus far this year there
have been 2S,351 more immigrants landed
than for the same time last year.
JUDGE ALFRED HAND, of Scranton, Pa.
has been appointed to the vacancy on the
State Supreme Bench.
Hw-AIAYoR EDWARD COOPER, of New
Yerk, has left London for an extended
tour OF the continent of Europe.
BT premature blast Of powder on tn,
Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Hancock
Nd, recently, J. II. Shackleford, foreman
was killed and William Stottler, Andy
Smith ana Henry Green were seriously in
jured.
by fall Of a span Of the railroad bridg,
near Connellsville, Pa, the other day al
engine and one car fell into the river. n,
one was hurt. Cause, rotten timber.
THE cigarmakers of the East propose Il
Rppeal from the decision Of the New Jer
sew Chancellor that any one can use tn,
tntarn ational cigar label.
EHaHTEEN persons were burned TO deatl
and many more injured by fire in a tene
ment house at 1877 Bowery, New York, Oh
the afternoon OF the I'd. The unfortunate
were principally Polish jews, engaged II
The ooOupation 81 tailnrinE.