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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03
THE BATTLE OF HARLEM.
Revolutionary Incident Recalled by the
Finding of a SOIdier,s EodY.

N utionaFy InciuPnt hecailPu Dy the
Finding of "a Soldiers Body.
On the morning of the 10th of Sep
TENDER, 1776, Colonel Knowlton and
Major Leitch were sent out from Fort
Washington, at the upper end of Man
haitian Island, by General Washington,
to capture a small detachment of Brit
ish soldiers stationed on the high ground
at Morningside Park The enemy dis
covered the attempt, however, and es-
capped down the hill. Being reinforced
by the Forty Highlanders, under
General Leslie, they attacked the Amer
ty-fourth street, between Eighth and
Ninth avenues, but were driven back
to Il fence two hundred yards to the
south and east of the point of attack.
The Americans being reinforced by
Colonies Richardson and Griaiths, the
enemy were dislodged from the fence,
leaving five dead on the field, and re-
treated back to the high grounds at One
Hundred and Twentieth street, where
they were further reinforced by bat
TALON of Hessians, a company of chas-
seurs and two field pieces. The fight
lasted two hours longer, when the Brit
ish again retreated, leaving the field to
the Americans, and the battle of Har.
lem Plains was fought and won
Colonel Knowlton and sixteen privates
were killed, and Major Leitch and forty
others were wounded on the American
side. The British loss was fourteen
killed and seventy wounded.
Major Leitch died. and together with
Colonel Knowlton was buried in the
trenches at Fort Washington. L. is
supposed by many that their graves
are within the present limits of Trinity
Church cemetery. But few weeks
since, workmeh Who were engaged in
cutting a new street through in that
vicinity came upon several graves in
what was supposed to have been part
of the old trenches. One grave con-
tanned a coffin, and the remains evil
IDENTIFY of an officer of rank A bullet
hole pierced The tleshless skull. and the
bullet lay within the hollow chamber
of the brain.A As Knowlton was shot il
the head. the description and circum.
stances tally SO closely. it is believed
by some authorities that the remains
were these of the dead officer who fell
at Harlem more than one hundred ears
ags,-M, Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03
THE Elder DUCK.
How the Argus-Eyed Drake Watches His
More Careless Consort.

More Careless Consort.
The elder duck constitutes the wealth
of the Icelanders. These ducks pair
and make their nests every year about
the beginning of June. When the
female has chosen the place where she
wishes to lay her eggs, she plucks
from her plumage the feathers which
she uses to line the bottom and sides of
her nest; then she generally lays six
eggs, rarely more. During this time
the drake, more jealous of his marital
prerogatives than was Cesar, like the
father of IL good family that he is, ceases
not for moment to keep a watchful
eye on his consort and fetches her back
instantly if she gives the slightest indi-
cation of wishing to take walk
This curious phenomenon of a
male more careful of his offspring than
the female has been confirmed by nu-
merous observations. But. perhaps, his
motive in this is simply jealousy. The
next day the owner of the land comes
and carries away ut the same time both
the down and eggs. The unfortunate
couple, which sometimes make a
stout resistance, clinging to the clothes
of the robber with their beaks, 90 off II
short distance and begin again; but the
farmer comes once more and takes the
precious deposit. The interchangeable
mother goes to work anew, and this
time only part of the eggs are taken;
for if all were removed the depredator
in desiring too much would lose all.
But this reserve is made solely as re.
CARDS the eggs, for the down is re-
moved once week, and the Door
mother continues to strip herself so
bare that she has no longer wherewithal
to line the moist hole that contains her
egg. The male squatted near her, then
comes to her assistance, and he. too,
strips himself of his plumage, a quality
of down that the Icelanders distinguish
easily from that of the female be-
cause it is white and is taken from the
creatures sides.-.4U the Year Round.
"A hunting party killed deer, a
large gray fox and large turkey cock
In northern Georgia one day last week.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03

"A nameless professor relates the
following: During the after-dinner
talk. the man for whom l was survey
ing remarked that mathematics always
seemed a very wonderful thing to him.
Thinking to interest him somewhat, |
began to illustrate sme of the wonders;
among others, tried to show him the
way in which Neptune was discovered.
After some twenty minutes of elabo-
rate explanation, was somewhat taken
aback to hear him say: Yes, yes; it
is very wonderful, very; but with a
sigh there's another thing that alters
troubled me, and that is, why you have
to carry one for every ten; but, if you
don't, twont come out right. School
Journal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03
a Candid Author.

Al see that in the preface to your
book you state it is written to fill a
long-felt want.
B.-Yes; and so it is.
"What do you mean by filing q
long-felt want?'
What do mean? Why. I've been
needing square meal for the past two
years. Don't you call that long-felt
want?"- Teas Sifli1adS.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03

Experiments are in progress in
Russia, under the direction of the Gov
eminent, with the view of finding a
process of solidifying the petroleums
used as fuel. The process SO far en-
ployed consists in heating the oil. and
afterwards adding from one to three
per cent of soap. The latter dissolves
in the oil, and the liquid upon cooling
forms mass having the appearance of
cement, and the hardness of compact
tallow. It is hard to light, burns
slowly and without smoke. but develops
much heat, and leaves about two per
cent. of hard black residuum.-N. Y
Examiner.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03

-Wife-"I don't see why our Bub is
such noisy boy" Husband--.1t is
easy, indeed. 70 account for it; he's a
Boston boy" W.-"But why should
Boston boy be any noisier than the
boy of another cityP" H.-"simply,
my dear, because he is a Hub bub. -
Boston Budget.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03

"A hunting party killed a deer, a
large gray fox and large turkey cock
In northern Georgia one day last week.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-03

Most farmers can keep few hives
of bees to advantage. Honey, like
fruit, should be often found on the farm
er's table.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1888-08-10
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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
The "yigger" Who Woke uD.

There were a lot of negroes on the
boat as passengers, and one after
noon as the boat left Baton Rouge
a little crowd of us on the promenade
deck got to discussing the colored
man.. The colonel who was from
Wisconsin,, claimed that the reason
the white man did not get along
better with the negro was because he
did not study his physiognomy.
"You just set 'em all down DIS lazy,
trifing, and dishonest" he said to
the major, who was from South Car
DINA, "and the good suffer with the
bad"
"Do you believe there is such a
thing as an honest niger in Louisia-
na?" asked the major.
"Of course | do"
"Could you pick one out in that
crowd down there?'
Certainly could"
"WeI, 60 ahead for the cigars.
Just pick your man, hand him a
piece of money, and tell him to walk
to the stern-post and back and re-
turn it."
Say, major, Tiers thirty negroes
down there I'd trust with my wal
let"
every well. Wen go down and
you pick out one"
The colonel passed q dozen before
he came to a middle-aged man asleep
on a sack of cotton-seed meal. He
studied the fellows face for Il long.
minute and then shook him awake.
whats de row." demanded the
negro.
Il am going to trust YOU" replied
the colonel. i have been looking
you over and l know you to re an
honest man."
Il ar dat"
"Here's a $50 gold piece. Take Is
to the stern Of the boat. make wish
for one particular thing, anG bring it
back."s
The negro seized it and STARTED off.
and he had no sooner left the stern
than we heard a great yelling up
stairs, followed by the bells to stop
the boat. We ran up, a.d there was
the colonel's honest negro between
Us and shore, striking out like ii
whale, and his mouth out of shane
with the gold piece stuffed into it.
While we we're still looking he reach
ed the bank, crawlei upon the levee,
and then turned and shouted:
Il just dun wished l was ashore,
an we're | ami Goodbye, white
folksi'
"Still," said the major, as he turn
to sit down, ''the colonel might try
a dozen more and find them all hon
est"
But the colonel went off to his
seat-room in a huff.-petroit Free
Press.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
Spiders Webs.

Tread the statement i'll this maya
zine not long ago, about the spiders
webs that cover the fields and mead
W on certain mornings in the Sum
mer which vas not entirelyexact. 1t
is not quite true in the sense III T.hichit
a uttered, that these spiders webs
are more abundant On some morn
ings than on others. and that they
presa%e fair weather. Now the truth
is, that during the latter part Of
Summer these webs are about as
abundant at one time as another;
but they are much more noticeable On
some mornings than on others; a
heavy dew brings them to view.
They are especially conspicuous after
a morning of fog, such as often fills
our deeper valleys for n few hours
when Fall approaches. They then
look like little napkins spread all
yer the meadows. | saw fields last
Summer, in August, when one could
step from one of these deW-napkins to
another for q long distance. They
are little nets that catch the fog.
Every thread is strung with innum-
cradle fine drops, like tiny beads.
After an hour of sunshine, the webs
apparently are gone.
Most country people, | find, think
they are due to nothing but the mOis-
ture; others seems to think that tbs.
spiders take them in is morning adj
vances. But they are still there,
stretched above the grass at noon
and at sunset, as abundant as they
are at sunrise; and are then more
serviceable to the spiders becauseiess
visible. The flies and insects would
avoid them in the morning. but at
midday they do not detect them as
readily. If these webs have any
significance as signs of the coming
weather, this may be thaexplanatiOn;
\ heavy dew occurs under Il clear,
cool sky, and the night preceding a
day of rain is usually adewless night.
Much dew, then. meaas fair weather
and q copious dew discioses the
spiders webs. 1t is the dew that is
significant, and not the vsebs.-JOe,
Burroughs, in st. NichOla&
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19

old gentleman had been failing hast,
and for some time had been confined
entirely to his bed. He had passed
away quietly in his sleep, without a
sound or sigh. When we had talked
OF it for q little while | remembered
Philips observations, as he came in,
and asked him whatitmeant.
Philip smiled, "You know, OF
course" he said chat we-Nanny,
Charley and I-are Uncle Hugh's sole
heirs"
"Well," 1 said obviously, sit will
not be much divided among three.
You know he spent most ofhis money
fighting the railroad company"
You forget the buried treasures"
said Philip, with a curious twinkle in
his eye.
"Philip!" 1 cried, Indignantly, 81
shouldn't think you'd go making
stupid jokes now"
Philip became grave instantly.
at is not a joke, | assure you, my
dear. The simple fact is that Mount
Graham stands ove a coal
bed. My grandfather had always
suspected the fact, and he once
took up a mineralogist t omake sure,
but the effect on Uncle Hugh was sc
dreadful that he never dared to al
lude to it again. He told my father
of it, however, making him promise
to keep it secret as long as Uncle
Hugh should live. My father. in his
turn, told me, under the same re-
strictions. Uncle Hugh, as we all well
know, was half insane, and any at
tempt to use the knowledge would in
fallibly have pushed him over the
brink"
"But how can we use it now,
Phillip | asked, "when-'I paused,
but Phillip knew what | meant.
at is very strange" he said. "But
a few months ago | received a letter
from Uncle Hugh, written apparently
in anticipation of his death. 1t was
a strange, rambling letter, inspired
he said, by the spirit ofhis lost Elinor.
He said that she had convinced him
that the Lord had buried His treas
ures in the earth, to be disclosed in
his own good time for the use of man.
Therefore | was to consider myself at
full liberty to do as pleased with
the oldplace."
Glow strange!" | cried; remember
ing my last talk with Uncle Hugh. 1t
is as if the words had been put into
my mouth. hoknows whether they
were or not?
/ have never seen Mount Graham
since. Phillip and [ talked of going
up before operations were begun, but
[ decided that | wouldrather remem-
Der it as it was when I knew it first.
And now there is no Mount Graham
to see.
H. H. HOLDRICH,
in Harper's Bazaar.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
Wedding Story.
.om the london TeIegrnrh.

| From the London Telegraph.
The homily with which our mar
rage services closes lacks intrinsic
cheerfulness and its peculiar charms,
actual Or suggestive. are seldom up
preciated by the more youthful class
of brides. Neither. despite it's slight
indelicacy, do all bridegrooms relish
it with a perfect zest, although, in
summarizing the obligations of mat
rimony, it puts the case for the hus-
band a good deal more advantage
ously than for the wife. | remember
an odd incident, illustrative of the
objections entertained toward this
tiresome exordiam by men of the
"Time is money" and '~'SeIfhelp"
ways of thinking. 1t took place at
the second wedding of an honorable
and gallant friend of mine, whose
humor was abundant, but of the va
riety known as dry" Hewas being
married, let us say, at South Shields,
IL good many years ago, and, having
been through the ceremony before,
as II principal, was sharply on the
lookout for the hOmily, which he re-
garded in the light of n vexatious
s%uperauity. Accordingly when the
curate-a young and somewhat ner-
vouse cclesiastic-had completed the
"buckling-tO' part OF theservice, and
was mildly bleating out the exhor-
tation to ''hear what Saint Paul
SAITH" Captain P-held up his hand,
to the o~fiiciant's utter dismay, and
interrupted him with the words. 81
beg your pardon, sir; but are we le-
gally married." why, yes; certain
ly you are, was the h~esitating reply,
''Then, SIR" rejoined the captain,
"Tl not trouble you to tell us what
Saint Paul said. Saint Paul may
have been n very good fellow; but he
wasn't a South Shields man." This
said, he gave his arm to his newly
made wife, and led her away calmly
in the direction of the vestry.
The curate, it appears, entertained
so high an opinion of the occult viz
tues of the homily, and of the bene-
fetal effects they could not fail to ex-
ercise upon n young married couple,
that he took my friend aside q few
minutes before the wedding breakfast
and timidly asked him whether he
would permit him, the said curate,t to
impart st. Paul's views to him and
Mrs. P-Orally on their return from
the honeymoon trip? To this ques-
ton, dictated by professional zeal
which would have done credit to an
Early Christian, my friend returned
a polite, but eyasive answer. When,
however, husband and wife came
back to their native town, at the
conclusion of what the Germans 80
happily term ode FlitterwOchen,"
they were so obviously II happypair,
and the subsequent harmony Of
their married life proved so delight
fully continuous, rs far rs theirmany
friends and acquaintance knew, that
the reverend enthusiast never found
occasion to ''place"h fayorite hOm-
lily, and wisely left N least two Ofhis
welded parishiOners to work out
their connubial f%elicity in their own
way.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
This Happened at Nantucket.
HarpsTs Magazine.

HarpsF's Magazine.
Last fall a man Was arrested for
petty larceny and sentenced by the
Judge to three months in jail. \ aw
days after the trial, the Judge. ac-
companied By the sheriff, was or his
way TO the Boston boat, when they
passed a man Saving wood.
The sawyer stopped his work.
touched his hat, and said; Good
morning Judge"
The Judge lookedat him amoment,
passed on a short distance, aid then
turned to glance backward with the
question: why, sheriff, isn't that
the man l sentenced to three months
in iail?"
Yes" replied the sheriff, hesitat-
ingly; ives, that's the man; but YOU
-you-see, judge, we've haven't any
one in jail now, and we thought it q
useless expense to hire some one to
keep the jail for three months just
for this one man, so gave him the
| key, ard told him if he'd sleep there
three nights it would be oil right"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
She Refused 515G.00O.

Tie tenacity with which peopGeIove
TO hold to their hOmesteads is Illus
trated in a piece of land which IS at
Bar Harbor, the fashionable water
ing-place, and which has "a views
and would be a splendid site for a
cottage. 1t is owned by an old Irish
washerwoman who has a hut and
dries her clothes there. All persusa-
ions to sell it have failed to move
her, and it is said that $150,0O0 was
offered for the property this summer.
The supplemented Bar Harborites
have always resented the inroads of
''the swells" and the way they have
appropriated the place, and many of
them have similarly refused to
sell their Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
The Widow of a Celebrated Man.

From the Buffalo Courier.
A Buffalonian writes from Orr's Is
land on the coast of Main of a pleas
ant morning spent with Mrs, Mae
Gahan. the widow ofthefamous CORE
%spondent whose accounts Of the
Bulgarian atrocities had alarge share
in the work of changing the map OF
Southeastern Europe. Mrs. Mae
Gahan is a Russian, and at the time
of her marriage could speak no Eng
fish. As her husband could speak no
Russian, they used to converse i'll
French altogether. She now talks to
her little boy of thirteen one week in
Russian and thenext in French. She
is the American correspondent of two
st. Petersburgnewspapers, and is en-
gagged upon a novel OF Russian life
she is writing in English. At Orrs
Island she has been with the family
of Nathan Dole, Of Boston, the ac-
complished translator of TOlstOis
novels. 1t will be remembered that
Buffalonians were somewhat taken
aback last winter when Charles Will
Jams the English correspondent,
spoke of MacGahan as q fellow
countryman. He regarded the fact
of the latter's birth in Ohio as Il
matter of no consequence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1888-10-19
Is Tt for jay Gould!

There is a certain rich man of New
York, currently reported TO be out
of health, who isspending his summer
in cheerful mortuary pursuits. The
architects who design his houses and
yachts for him are just now hard at
work on the drawings for a tomb
that is to be at once the biggest,
most ornate, and most thoroughly
burglar-proof last resting-place in
this country. 1t will reach some hun
dred or more feet in the air, cover
nearly half an acre of ground, re-
quire something like three years to
complete the rich and beautiful sculp-
lures with which it will be adorned,
and the vault to contain the ashes
of the dead plutOcrat is a marvel of
mechanical ingenuity.
In the first place, the ponderous
slabs of granite forming the four
sides of the receptacle for the coffin
are nearly three feet in thickness.
The upper n moves on springs as
smoothly as a door, but only when
certain intricate combinations have
been carried out upon the lock, and
any fumbling with the ~fastenings by
a hand that does not know the.
proper springs to be pressed and
pulled awakens certain engines of de-
struction which will makeit decidedly
uncomfortable for the fumbler. But
the hardy body-snatcher would have
first to penetrate through many OBJ
stacles and difficulties before he
reached the place where he could sat
isfactorily blow himself into smith
ereens.-Brooklyn Eagle.