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TRUSTEES SALE
l. OF VERY
Valuable Mill Property,
In Taneytown District, Carroll County, NJ


By virtue Of decree of the Circuit Court
for Carroll county, sitting in equity, and passed
in cause No. 2390 equity, wherein Chas E.
Eek and others are complainants and Ellen
C. Eek and others are defendants, the under
signed, trustees, will offer at public sale, on
the premises, on
SATURDAY, sth OF SEPTEMBER, 1888,
at l O'Clock, p. m, all that valuable mill
property and water power known as 'Eck S
Mill" situate and being in Taneytown district,
Carroll county, and being about a miles from
Taneytown and . miles from Mayberry, and
containing
% ACRES AND 81 PERCHES OF LAND,
moro or less. This property is improved by
n large weatherboarded Mill
AklE-A House, Dwelling House and
@ssa numerous outbuildings, ell in
EI9y.Ssssy excellent state of repair. The
mill commands a lucrative trade, and the
machinery therein is adapted to custom work,
and has an ample water power.
This mill property is located on Big Pipe
Creek, and adioins the land of VIM. Feeser,
Frederick Bankard and Jacob Rodkey. and
is very desirable property of the kind.
Terms of Sale as prescribed by the decree
are One third of the purchase money to be
paid cash on the day of sale or upon the rati-
fication thereof by the Court; the balance in
two equal payments, of one and two years,
to be secured by the notes of the purchaser or
purchasers, bearing interest from the day of
sale, with approved security.
CHAS. r. MILLER, T...o.
JAS. A. C. BOND, ifus'ees'
augl8 is VIM. Brown, Auct'r.
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II OST.-On Thursday afternoon, 23rd of
~ August, Snakewood Cane with Gold
Head, my name engraved thereon. "A suit
able reward WILDE paid for its prompt return.
WM. A. McKELLIP,
sep1 1t Westminster, Nd.
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Jacob Hoffman, auct., John 3. streVig, clerk
augl8ts
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When Lord Undercroft was gone Fanny
felt frightened and miserable. She feared
she had done very wrong in encouraging
his visits in the first instance. This catas-
trophe had been quite unexpected. Then
it occurred to her that in telling him to
come again on the morrow to receive her
answer she had unintentionally led him to
believe that she meant to accept him. But
strong as had been the momentary tempta-
ton to do so, impossible as she had found
it to pronounce definite refusal, much as
she dreaded the blank in her life which
would be occasioned by the loss of his
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DoAD NOTICE.

Jacob Hoffman, Auct
auglS IS John
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HOUSE AND LOT
IL AT PUBLIC SALE.

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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
MISS MENARD,s MAD SUICIDE
A Fathers Cruel Act Leads Her to DroiD
IFs,-asIf

a Fathers Cruel Act Leads Her TO Dr0t0n
Herself
Minneapolis Mimi special: The
body of Miss Adele Menard, the beauti-
full daughter of Joseph Menard, a well
known citizen living at Oliver avenue
and Twelfth avenue north, was found
floating in the Mississippi river late this
afternoon. The young lady, who was
but 16 years old, suddenly disappeared
from her parents residence Monday
night or early Tuesday morning, and
under sensational circumstances Miss
Menard spent Monday evening in the
company of young man to whom it is
said she was betrothed. Before retir-
ing, Mr.. Menard whipped his daughter,
for what, it has not transpired. Miss
Adele went to her bed chamber, and the
next morning when member of the
household visited her room, the dis
coYery was made that the girl had de-
camped. She had left her best clothes,
which she wore when visited,
by her young lover Monday evening,
and had draped in a common calico suit
She had left two notes, one of them adj
dressed TO her father and the other to
her lover. In the note TO Mr.. Menard
she said that she WAS going to suicide by
drowning, and that she had been driven
to the desperate act by her fathers
cruelty, and referred especially to the
whipping she received Monday night
The note addressed TO her lover nm
nounced the same determination and
concluded by bidding the young man
an affectionate good bye. The girls
parents became frantic and al once in
stituted q search. The police were in
formed of the affair, and this afternoon
found the body floating in the river al
lover has not been seen since her note
was delivered to him, and ii is believed
he also has killed himself.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
WHAT They EAT IN HAWAII
Some of the DeIicacies 10 be Pound in
King Kalaf.aua's Realm.

Some of the Delichcies 10 be Pound in
king Kala'.sua's Realm.
''When was on Kauai" SAYS one,
Il was invited to a large and well ar
ranged feast everything was good.
Poi sour, fruits abundant sweet pota-
toes. fat juicy beef roasted with kalo
greens, Quau). sea moss fresh. dried
and boiled fish. and most excellent
Young pig How | enjoyed every thing,
& N youth and n one days fast supplied
sJhs sauce for my dinner The next day
NJ good native friends wanted TO know
BItBjoyed my dinner. Oh, yes /
answered. especially the fine young
pig Pig they exclaimed, you had
no.Pig; that was a dog 20
''And ]. goes on another. twas
staying ~ small town 10 Hawai-,
when firkt came here. and one day I
went down 10 the beach, where they
were hauling in great loads Of fish. and
as true as you live the natives were eat
ing them raw"
l'Uncooked?n You family ask.
'.Uncooked. unscaled, and uuc7ean-
ed Ate the fish inst as they were,
with their tails still wriggling as they
cbewed them down" DON'T. don !.
please tell any more" But your re-
monstrances only rouse the good old
bishop Of our little flock. and he says.
seriously:
''Haye yon noticed the oil d, lame,
nearly blind fellow who lives in the ba-.
mana grove under the hille He had a,
nice. good little yellow dog for his COM
panion and playfellow which used often
to come down TO me as walked in.my
garden and frisk and play about in the
sunshine. One day l missed the dog.
and could hear it moaning and cry
ing in a curiously muffied way. went
up to the old mans hut to see what
was the matter. He had got string
tied 10 the doggie's nose, and was
holding him down into the ground, try
ing to smother him. | guess. Then.
getting out of patience with waiting,
he took doggie up still crying. and put
him across some banana sticks over hot
fire and there he held him, despite the
wretched creature cries and struggles.
until it was still and partially cooked.
when he proceeded to scrape the
scorched hair of l couldn't stand any
more and came away. have been
mad at the old man ever since. quaint
" concludes the old man.-SGlt Lake
WomeH's Exponent
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
rnE END APPARENTLY wan.
sheridan's Condition saoh as 10 Preclude
the POssibiiltv OF His Rec0perU.

sheridafi's Condition Such as 10 Preclude
the P0ssibtittV Of His Hec0rerv.
WAsHHdroH, ID. o., June 4.-June 8,
q a. m.-General Sheridan is resting
quietly. DIR. Pepper is expected to ar
rive from Philadelphia within half an
hong Colonel Blunt Inns just driven
down TO the train 10 meet him There
will probably be no change during the
night the sinking spells usually
come ON in the daytime. The ac-
ton % the heart is so rapid that more
blood is forced into the heart than can
be aereated, hence the congestion and
subsequent hemorrhagc. The generals
diet is confined almost exclusively TO
peptonized milk, which does not give
the strength required TO combat the
disease.
Midnight-Those waiting at the bed
side Of General Sherman are expecting
the spark of life to die ont at any NOM
emit All the hope and cheerfnlness
which marked Sunday has gone, and in,
stead OF hope and life, il is despair and
death. Mrs Sheridan, who has been a
constant attendant, bears every indica-
ton of hopelessness The brave woman
realizes that there is no nope and that
her gallant husband is surely passing
away. When the attack came on to-day,
il came without the premonitory symp-
toms which have usually manifested
themselves. IL was sudden and il was
by the most strenuous efforts that the
break In the thread of life was prevent.
ed. The general had q hemorrhage
which showed that his lungs are in a
much worse condition than has been
admitted. Masses OF cOagulated blood
OF dark color were expelled from the
lungs, and the sands of life seemed fast
ebbing away. In spite Of his weak con-
dition and the sapping of his constitu-
ton by his military exertions, lie rallied
at the last moment when the case
seemed lost, and just as his troops we're
led from hopeless defeat in the old days,
so did his determination 10 defeat dis
ease oyerpower the conquerOr once
again. But il was only the rally Of a
forlorn hope. He can not win. He
must succurab. To-day the nurse. from
Baltimore, the faithful Sister OF Charity
who has been constantly at his side, was
compelled TO give mp, and she was re-
/ lieyed by another from that place.
| Father Chnppelle Of st. Matthews
| church has been al the house all even.
ing. He is still there and ready 10 ad.
minister the last rites OF the church.
Everyone has given mp hope. and while
| all admit that previous predictions have
not been borne out, those present to-
day say that the end is certainly neal
aud that nothing but miracle can save
him.
DIR. William Pepper WAS again sum
moned 20 Washington tonight for con
sultation in General Sheridan's case
and left here on special train al II 80
The doctor said before leaving that h,
had been in constant Geographic com
munication with the generals plysi
clans all day, and had been informed
that unfayornble symptoms have re
CURED to-day, with renewal of tbs
alarming failure OF the hearts actor
and congestiye condition. Furthe
thar this he did not care 10 speak.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
aMashing,, Unknown in Texas

''The art of MASKING" remarked an
old, weather. eaten Texan. as he slow
" tilted his chair ON the polished Gags
of the Southern Hotel rotunda, lis an
requirement of the effete East and the
masher is an evolved product of the
conditions of that country. In the
virile Southwest the genus is an UNI
known quantity The air Of Texas Is
too bracng for it 10 develop the species.
Equal parts of egotism and lack of re-
spect for women are required-that is.
TO produce the masher pure and sim
pie. Now. those who live on the great
plains may have a fairly good opinion
OF themselves, but they have still
better opinion Of the other sex. and
would go TO any extreme to resent an
insult offered to the homeliest woman
on earth. This feeling peryades all
classics of men. and consequently one
will see camp full OF cowboys smoth-
er rough oaths and converse like Sun
day-school children II there be petit
coat in the neighbood. In the towns
is seen no ogling OF and staring at wo-
men. as Is tho case in ST. Louis where
to stare lady out Of countenaucc APP
pears to be favorite pastime with the
well-dressed youths about town. "-SL
L0uis Post. Dispatch
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
TheY WIN Bnild in the Bottoms.

The Mississippi River Is on its an
nual rampage, and thousands of acres.
of bottom land are now covered by its
murky water. If this humiliation of
land were the only result of these
grand freshets they could not be re-
garded as unmixed evils, for the sedi-
ment left upon the soil by the reced-
ing water enriches ii and greatly in
creases its productive capacity. The
Egyptian tillers of the bottom lands
of the Nile depend upon the annual
overflow for The very bread of life;with-
out the Nile sediment their lands
would be unproductlve and widespread
famine would follow.
But whenever the Mississippi, the
Missouri. the Ohio, or other larger
rivers of the United States rise from
between their banks--it matters not
how often they may have previously
acted in the same unrely waY-there
is report of great property loss
through the moving or wrecking of
buildings and carrying away of buoy
ant material; and families are report
ed to be homeless refugees on the
highlands while Others are imprisoned
| in homes surrounded by water OF
threatening depth and rapidity. The
lessons of the annual flow seem to be
without result and when the waters
rise they evict people who have been
driven from their homes time and time
again.
When trust is reposed ia the strength
of levees that suddenly break there is
some excuse for the habitation of low
land SUBJECT to overflow; but where
there are no leyees. the man who
builds house or establishes place
Of business below high-water mark is
walking into danger with his eyes
open. Land once in inundated should
/ always be considered dangerous
ground, as the work of the ruthless
timber cutters on the small tributaries
of these mighty streams is making
the latter more erratic and there
| fore Less worthy of trust
The harsh lesson OF one overflow
ought to be sufficient TO warn men to
build where they will not be in dan
ger of getting wet -MilgdHkee Ms
| cOuSiu
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16

silver question. Having d. I'd a desire to
visit Europe, he improved this ,oppor'
tunity and made an extel ided trip.
Since then he has been IN pm Tate life,
practicing law. His candidate. ior the
presidential nomination ia 1888 Is fresh
in mind.
Senator Thurman is one Of tIae most
thorough scholars in public life m this
country Always a student, he beesa ne
early in life great lawyer, and siiot g
then has devoted much time to Tighten
study. He is fine French scholar, and
his fayorite books are the works of the
earlier French dramatists, which he
rehds in the original He has an unusu-
ally large and well selected library, and
there are few books in the range of
political literature that he is not familiar
with. He has a genlous for mathematics,
and frequently occupies himself in work
ing ont the most abstruse and intricate
problems. He says that he is pronder
Of his knowledge of mathematics than
he is of anything else.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
~ rHE POLITICAL FIEED.
Nores on TIE hoard Hsfore the assr,pbttne
Of the Convention

NtFINNE AHNfrIltgNHG
81 me Convention.
New York dispatch: Colonel Henry
Nj. Dufiiold Of Detroit, the manager foi
General Algcr, accompanied by OK Con.
gresham Horr Of Michigan, arrived
here to-day for conference with OK,
Senator Plat, which fact gives color 10
the report that the Plat and Hiscoch
forces in the New York delegation may
support the Michigan man.
The afternoon papers are full OF re-
ports OF the differences between Mr..
Depew and Mr.. Plat and Senator His.
cock. lie is reported as having been
asked by them il he was candidate
and desired their support. He replied
IN the negative, and in spite Of their
continuing 10 press him still refused to
commit himself They thoreupon made
other alliances, and are now bound by
them, Mr.. Dopew, however. the re-.
ports say, ia continuing 20 tell every.
body that he can have the solid vote OF
New York il he wants IT, and IL is 10
this statement that the others object.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, the fourth
delegate ut large, is reported to have
committed himself TO Harrison through
the same refusal of Depew 70 be con
sidered candidate. Mr.. Depew has
moro to sacrifice il no becomes a candi.
date than most men, and the Wander.
bits have intimated TO him that with
his nomination his connection with
their roads must be severed as they
would ho Obliged TO I'LL his place NJ
once. Twenty-Five thousand dollars n
year and position second only TO
that OF the president of the United
States is thing not easily given M,
and that is what troubles New York. II
Is not probable that any one can tell
how the delegation will stand until Il
reaches Chicago.
=. Is. Elkins has gone TO Deer Park
with his family and will not return here
until after the nomination is made.
This would seem to indicate the com
plete abandonment OF the field, but in
reality II is thought TO be good strategy.
The Blaine men in the several states are
said TO be holding back and refusing
TO commit themselves TO any one. Ii
has become pretty evident that they in
tend TO stand together and make the
nomination among their own friends.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
has given $1,000 TO tho 81, 100000 per.
mnnent fund for ministerial relief that
is being raised by the Presbyterian
church.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16

zSss norrists Hatchery or ne Drake FdmtV
Arrmnsd.

ESs# HORRIBLE BaichsrB Of ne Drais Fdmiiv
ArrHgsd.
ysFoqua CWis,) dispatch: Andrew
0fAadstaT was captured while in bed
lass night by Pinkorton detective and
aw0 lpcal officers. To-day the detectives
pnmped full confession out OF him.
lie attended to rob old man Drake, but
wMa nnablc 10 mako him disclose the
PLACES where the family valuables were
hid This led 20 his killing. Mrs.
Drake attempted 10 shoot GrandstafI
aud BE- killed her in the presence Of tho
aw@ehildren. 10 prevent the little ones
telfIng he cut their throats.
tEznndstaif has been known as an ig-
noxaht but cunning and daring semi
da8Nbrado. He has been participant
IN s@sernl ARRAYS and tho associate OF
hAxa characters. Little is known Of
hlA #ntecedents, only that he was Of IL
feazAsmato birth. As the people were
@f0aaly excited and lynching was threat
essA8 troops were promptly ordered out
BY Npvernor Rusk.
An late hour tonight 1000 deter
HninAd men surrounded the jail but tho
nutzzpritiea refused 10 give up the pris-
dow and the officers were oyerpowered.
I An Nour was spent in breaking down the
steNI cage, and then the prisoner fought
wassA desperate fury against those who
eou@ht 10 enter.
1lze struggle did not last long and he
wHa tpken out, bound hand and foot,
Rf4a vas led 10 the porch below and there
zfaIMrations were made TO hang him. A
7 xop@ was placed around his neck and the
I rTI#Vnor was asked what he had to say.
ha Protested his innocence, but IL was
/ hnnWn he had made full confession in
(. taA9 afternoon and he was not believed.
Al midnight the scene at the Jail was
haMible. The prisoner was covered
Will blood, having been terribly man.
Nie@ while the steel cage was being bat.
I A@Re down. He stood with halter
\ AxS7snd his neck, pleading for his life.
{ Az u 40 the mob hung the prisoner TO a
Z trzN IN front of the court house and
/ sHxN lot him down TO see IL he would
esfizess.
MArEB- -Grandstafr refused TO make
ANH confession 10 tho lynohers, and NJ.
tak some time they strung him up again.
4 WIN lowered the second time he was
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
nRTrFs nr rnE HIRE.

The twenty-fifth national sangerfest
OF the North American sangerbund com.
mences at st. Louis on June 10, and Will
last till June 16.
The statement Of bonds purchased by
the treasury department under the cir.
culation of April ~ shows n saving OF
81, 278, s74 over the cost at maturity.
Al vincennes, Indiana, Prof Ander.
son, principal OF the Spencer high
school, and the Misses Lille and Clara
Harnaday were drowned by the capsizing
Of boat while rowing in the White
river.
The gross exchanges at the leading
clearing houses in the United States for
the week ended June Q, 1883, were ss27,
lsg. Os6-a decrease OF 10.2 per cent as
compared with the corresponding week
last year.
A Kansas City Times special says a
furious storm swept over Washington
county, Arkansa,, causing much loss of
life and property. In one hamlet
twelve houses were destroyed. IL is
rumorcd that seven persons were killed
and seven or eight more badly injured.
In log cabin on farm four miles
from Logan, o., the dead bodies OF
James Phillips and his wife were found.
IL appeared from note left by Phillips,
and from the testimony Of their chill
dren, that he had cut his wife's throat
with pocket knife and then had used
the same upon his own throat.
Adam Gable, the oldest son OF promi-
nont farmer OF Indiana, living near
Armstrong station, on the Peoria, Deca-
tur & Evansville railroad, shot himself
in the head. He had been paying at
tentions to n country maiden, and they
uuarreled over some trivial matter. He
was to have married the young lady,
The following advices were received
by the steamer Oceanic, which arrived
from China and Japan on the ID: On
the morning Of the sth of May fire
broke out at Tsurangaeka, Japan, which
consumed over $50 houses. The fire
was extinguished. On the following
morning another fire occurred at kRme-
dnx. On the 9th 40 houses, one tenn
pie and thirty six huts were destroyed
Loss not stated.
Lewis Kastner, about thirteen years
of age, employed in a shooting gallery
at Nebraska City, attempted 20 do the
side show fire eating act He filed his
mouth with gasoline, and squirting IL
out between his teeth applied match
TO the stream. The result procludes all
possibility Of his accepting an engage
ment TO travel with Barnum thisseason.
His hair was burned from his head,
leaving him rs bald ms n pumpkin, his
face terribly blistered, and he may lose
his sight,
Stillman Il. Kelly, president of the
National Sugar Manufacturing com.
pany, Inns made public the plan by
which the concern is TO manufacture
sorghum sugar on larger scale than
ever. The concern has capital Of 81,
600, 900, is Incorporated under the laws
of Kansas, and claims TO hold patent
| (Swenson's) by which II can extract
three times the amount of sugar that
has heretofore been possible, anil the
extract will be of an improved quality.
The works are at Topeka and Fort
Scott.
Miss Mary Allen West, editor Of tn,
Union Signal, was nominated by the I'LL
nois Prohibitionsts as one Of the trustees
| of the Stnte uniyersity
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16
Mhr Sic Pnckered.

Iwill tell you how 1t happens
That one sometimes viii make slipa,
We were sitting close together.
When she puckered up her lips.
Yes-she puckered up her lips;
II seemed that Cupid beckoneds
] took up the invitation
Aud kissed her In a second
She blushed, she turned away
Came within an ace Of crying
Twas not meant az all that way,
But ITO whistler was che trying.