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The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-03-22
THURSDAY, March 22, 1888.

THE Orange Observer says the Viz
ginia Legislature has at last deter
mined to do something. They have
concluded to draw their pay and go
home.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-03-22

The Clinton Caucasian says the
people of that section believe that
Maj. Stedman is the man to lead the
party to victory in the approaching
campaign.
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-03-22

We are prepared to do all work in eur
line on short notice and in a satisfactory
and workmanike manner We have
the best fitted up shops in this part OF
the State, being thoroughly equipped,
with complete set of the latest and
most improved tools, and employ none
but skilled and competent workmen
We have tie only bolt cutter and nut
tapper in town, ard can cut threads and
make bolts and tops Of any size to I'll any
kind OF work. We do q general lack =
smithing and woodworking business.
also ges and steam fitting, and solicit a
share of the public patronage promis,n g
entire satisfaction IN eyerv Instance.
MIR. j. ii. Burroughs and Mr.. Arthur
Smerdon are with US. the former in the
wood shop and the after in the black
smith sh"p-both very fine work men
and will be pleas ed to serve their friends,
We also do house, sign and carriage
painting, paDer hanging, &c.
Verv Rhsnectfully,
CROW Il Ma RSTON,
| (O'Nei.'s old Staud) aendersor, n. c.
lfeb-2 5 II
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17
A Cows lnJratitude.

Mr.. Richard Nee was informed yes.
terday 10y Mr.. John La Mott, who
was in from that neighborhood, that
Flat creek, which lies between Arrow
creek and Records ranch. is in u very
bog.y condition and nearly as bad as,
Arrow creek. Several days ago Mr..
La Mott found three head OF cattle
stuck hard and fast in one place.
Having no saddle he attempted to,
pull them out with n pair OF work
horses. lie succeeded in getting out
two. but the third had to he left,
"owing to circumstances over which
he had no control" 1t happened this
way: When he got the second COW
out and she realized that she was
again oii terra iiriria. she tUuk mean
advantage OF his being afOot, not
approaching his thoughtful Kindness
as she should have done. and opened
the fight with "a bawl that would have
made Comnnche Indian flee the
range. After several unsuccessful
attempts to hang him upon her horns
to dry, she pcrsua icl him that he
was not there ior his health and that
it was quite out of fashion for road
supervisors to punch COWS on foot.
lie escaped from the field minus his
hat and coat, leaving the other poor
creature To perish. We are informed
that nearly all of the force OF men
who were employed for this purpose
have been Withdrawn, and that there
are but two men now on Arrow creek,
and it j. feared that after the recent
/ hard rains those streams will he worse
/ than ever.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17
CELESTIAL PHENOMENON
4 Lurid Mass Drops Out Of the Sw1 and
Falls 10 mo OOO Miles.

Prof John NJ. Klein, Kentucky's em-
inent astroloeer. was greatly surprised
last sunday evening by witnessing a
vertical upheaval on the suns face,
writes correspondent from Iitch-
field, Ky, { q the Chicago Tribune. The
way it appeared through his telescope
was as ii one of the huge spots on the
sun was projected with great violence.
beyond the suns center of attraction
and was coming directly toward the
earth. The distance from the sun Is
about 10000. 900 miles, and Prof.
Klein estimated the Off-shOot from the
sun would strike the earth some time
this morning, unless it was consumed
10y friction in it's rapid flight.
His calculations proved right, how
ever. rs the heavenly visitor struck
this planet about l0O'clock last night.
Its iurld light and Missing sound star
tied the citizens of I.itchiield and sur
rounding country as they had never
been before. The huge mass fell near
/ Bee springs. in Elmondson county, on
lands owned by John T.. Stone, the
|
ers about 10 acres of ground and IL
about 5000 feet in height. 1t has
probably sunk into the earth at least
400 feet. 1t is n glowingme mass
and enits n terrific heat, so that it Is
impossible to get near it. Its proper
ties are as yet unknown.
Prof. Klein's observatory is ut Hart.
ford, over fifty miles from where the
meteor fell. Every vehicle in I.itch
field is in demand. and hundreds ol
people are Hooking to Bee Springs
The following citizens of Litchiield
have Just returned from there: John
T.. Stone, county surveyor; John 4
Bishop, merchant; X. .. Willis, mer
chant; Judge II. X. McIIeath, circuit
Judge. They fully corrobOrate all thu
det ails herein given, and pronounce il
one of the greatest wonders the wOrl,
ever saw. Bee springs is nineteel
f: miles from I.itchiield and fOurteei
miles from Mammoth Cave.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

II there is anything more sui prising
than the explosive force OF nitro-gly-
cerine, says the American Architect, 1t
is certainly he carelcssness with which
that substance is handled. Ii IL well
known that ntro-elycerine freezes at
a temperature considerably above the
freezing point of water, and scores oi
accidents have resulted from the reck-
less methods employed for thawing it.
Years ago, when pure nitro-slycerine
was used for blasting, II workman in
Germany found one morning his can
OF explosive material frozen. Being IN
"A hurry to begin work, he returned to
the house heated n pokerre hot. and
started off to thaw the nitrO-glycerinc
with this instrument. 1t IL hardly
necessary to say that he succeeded to
perfection, the nitro-g -glycerlne changing
It's condition with an energy which pul-
verized not only the operator, but all
other surrounding objects.
A few DAYS ago, according to Fire
and Water. five miners in Michigan
4 tpfotlEIll IL -~'A' PiPN w 4" ''''s' ~
smiths shop. where it was heated and
| strairhtcnel. Without waiting for il
to cool, they then filed it with dyna
mite. which Immediately exploded
killing them all. Almost at the SAM
moment Il man in New Jersey brought
some blast ing cartridges to thaw then
out by fire. lie accomplished TIM
result by holding them on the f'am'
for "A suitable period and Is SUPPOSE
to have dropped one during the pro
cess, for hi- remains were found IN !
fragmentary condition sixty feet AWAY
At Richmond, Ind, on the sam" day
six tons of dynamite, which had beef
stored on II farm, exploded, blowing
horse and wagon to pieces, rNc'iYatin
a pit fifteen lee, deep and twrniy-lv
feet in diameter. iniuring Il woman
, quarter of II mile away, and breakin
every window in Il neishborins Villas'
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFsom Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May I, lssS

w
Since its occurrence the Ingalls, VOORHEES,
exhibition in the senate on Tuesday mas
been the subject Of everybody's small talk
ut the capitol. In both ends Of the build
ing. in every corridor, and ut every turn
where friends and officials CHANGED to meet,
the first question put was whether the war
was over, or whether all was quiet ON the
Potomac.
The oldest senators, men whose memo-
ries go back to the fighting days, cannot
remember anything like il for acrimonious
abuse and low, unparliamentary language.
1t was the more extraordinary that such
"A scene should occur in the United states
senate, because that body deservedly has
the name of being the most polite, disnliied,
accomplished and parliamentary body
considered as IA whole--in the world, and
still more astounding was the break be-
cause it was made by two Of the most
prominent rnembers oi that august body.
heepithets sinterchansed-such as liar
'inianIous liar" "scoundrel' and dirty
dog'-were entirely objectionable on the
stump. but that they should have been ut
tered ON the floor Of the United States sen
ate is unprecedented.
M. ..,;,,,,s,l fame ho,rs A,
i"e "''
its close Senator Eustis, Of Louisiana, said
he had heard Washington pleasure seekers
...,..,., ,..,, Ill, a., r.s IN.
III v,,,,,,o.,. a., sa,,e wool
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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

\ weak solution of salt is u remedy
for Indigestion.
Don't permit the surface water to
How into the well or ciStern.
An early spring cleaning OF the cellar
j. conducive to summer health.
For constirati ION, try II tablespoon
iul of bran mixed with milk, before
meals.
For the freckles that spring winds
pro, o,lucr, battle the face night and
mornin. in lemon water, squeezing the
juire oi "a l,nnn into hall cup OF
water for the purpose.
pnp of the most agreeable a. well as
cliicaciou- remedies for sore throat is
the white uf an c.-, beaten stilf, with IA
generous amount of sugar acidiiied
with the iuirs Of lemon.
Who j. this natural beauty that
advaurr- With 80 much grace? The
rose D. uu her checks; her breath as
pure a. morning dcW; Joy, tempered
T Nith muit.-ly, "aimatc> her -ounte-
nar,c. II j. IIcalth. tie daughter OF
Exercise AMI Temperance"
one OF ie best and simplest rene
+ dies iof torpid liver or Dliou~It>> i u
ala~- oi hot Waterwith thu juiceoi hall
~ lemon squeezed into ii, but no sugar,
ui.It and morning. \ person towhom
this was recommended tried Il, and
found himself better almost immedi
ate.y. Iii, daily headaches. which
medicine had fuiird to cure. lett him
his appetite improved. and he gained
several pounds within a few weeks
This l. - sinpie Il remedy that any
. person thus afflicted will do well tC
give it trial, ~ it cannot possibly d,
any harln.-Scicntiiic american.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

W. \. Clark has Just negotiat"dwith
he Frazer Il Chulmer Mining Mlrhin-
r.v company Tor Il smelter ol about
2ou tons capacity, ami also Il 100
horse power engine to run the work.
Mr.. clark recently sold his toln-1
-rnrltcr to the Boston & Montana com
pany and has since acquired poS~' So
sion oi the Butte Reduction works, a
snicltin inI plant al about 100 tons ed-
uncity. The now works viii br erected
ON the same site H. the Butte Rcduc-
tion works, in which the incandrscert
.lpht will he used. Tine cost ii thepro-
posed plant j. estimated al : uu.opo
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17
The Drum lummon's Showing

The following is the output OF the
Drum I.ummon mine for the month of
April, lsSS: Ten-stamp mill crushed
80 tons, yielding Sl3,UoO; JO-stamp
mill crushed 2,919 tons. yielding S56,-
100. GO--tamp low gradel millcrushed
1890 tons. yiridin, S26 300. Total,
SD5. 700. Working eXpen -es, S52, 900.
Independent.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

\ wrestling match ior the world :
championship between kyan Lewis,
The stranger" and Jack Wannap,
champion of England. took place at
Chicago May :. Tine terms were best
three in i've fails, three point, doNn,
and catch-a--catyt-cau style. The
American weighed - ppUul-anl th,
iiriton twenty pounds more. only
three bout : were necessary. i.cWl- win
ming e.trh and the championship
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17
Daniel in the Lions Den.

Commissioner MaXey has a ranch
and on the ranch is n mountain non
which i, chained to II post IN n loI
building. Not long ago ~ Mr.. MiN"y
was passing the building, the hon
reached out and scoopcd III - do"
which was following at Mr.. MaNey :
heels. The commissioner mentally
calculated that the dog would soon
lay down with the lion. that l.. the
dog would bc on the inside of the hon,
and PASSED ON. shortly after. nov
ever. he heard "a noise similar 20 that
emitted from the dog when IN good
health. and concluded that hr would
venture into the den and Investigate.
Grahbiu. Il club he walked IA nud
there found that the dog WAS YET alive
and was making "a fight for his ME
whereuppn Nj. MaXry >pat upon hi~
hands AMI procee'.ed to punnel the
lion most numerically. uutll the kiu-
beast of the mountains was more thHu
dad 10 let 20 his hold and allow tht
doughty commissioner to retire VII i
the dog under hi- arm. The dog .,
fast getting well and will soon bere.,dl
ior another scrap.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

Eo--oeConklins's will. dated in >6I
leaves all hi> properly TO hls wife
There 3, no later will. The estate l.
valued al S3un.uoO.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1888-05-17

Thomas Browne of Montana has
been nominated United states consul
at Para Maribs.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
ingalls, and Voorhees,,

The country was not disappointed in
its anticipation of the extraordinary
scene that occurred in the United States
senate on Tuesday. When last week
Senator ingalls, announced that he
would reply to the speech of Senator
Voorhees,, a sharp and bitter exchange
Of personalities was assured. No man
in the senate has a keener tongue, q
more incisiye i~nvective than the Kan
sas senator, and having a vulnerable
record to attack every opportunity wa
given for the widest and boldest use of
his peculiar talents. The Indiana sena-
tor has a generous endowment of SINH
lar gifts, but he is less fortunate in
temper, and being on the defensive
allowed himself to be irritated be-
yond the point of discretion. The result
was q scene the parallel of which has
been rarely witnessed in the senate, and
which was neither honorable to that
body nor creditable to the nation.
The responsibility for this unworthy
incident rests with Senator Voorhees,,
and he will undoubtedly find it a good
deal Of n burden. He was not called
upon to defend the memories of Han
cock and Mcclellan, and as Senator In
gals very fully showed was the last
man who should have taken upon him
self the task. The alleged assault of
the Kansas senator On the dead soldiers
was sufficiently answered at the time,
and the whole matter had nearly passed
out of the popular thought. There were
few men of MI. Ingalls, WI party
who did not think he had spoken I'M
wisely in what he said. He had him
self offered an explanation of the in
tended meaning of his remark designed
to relieve it of the character imputed to
it. With this the matter should have
been allowed to drop out of memory.
But Senator Voorhees,, consumed it may
be by an ambition to pose at this par
ticular time before the country as the
defender and eulogist OF union soldiers,
brought the unhappy incident again
into the full light of day and blazed it
before the country with all the elo-
| quence he could command. 1t was a
mistake which the Indiana senator, if
Nc NC CdpdDlc VI CuiIh IlSHb, HiuSl
now see and regret.
AS we have said before, this contro-
versy is absolutely to no purpose. II
cannot affect the just opinion of the
country or the verdict of history re-
speeding the merits as soldiers and pa
| triots of Hancock and Mcclellan. II
cannot help or hurt the cause of either
political party in the campaign at hand
or in the future. Judicious men of both
parties will turn from il with profound
regret that senators, distinguished for
their ability and prominent as leaders.
| should thus rant and wrangle and hurl
coarse epithets at each other over the
| graves of the dead. The whole matter
is one for the American citizen To
be ashamed of, and it is to
be hoped the country has heard
the end of it. Unhappily, however,
there is reason to fear that such will
not be the case. The hot blood that has
been made will not cool until there is
more bitter elimination and recrimi-
nation, and the senate chamber may
nave To witness other scenes quite as
~disgracoful to the senate and the
country as that of Tuesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
The Nebraska Platform.


With the exception Of the plank on
tariff revision and its endorsement Of
Grover Cleveland and his administra-
ton, the platform enunciated by the
Nebraska democracy is a compound of
stale platitudes. In reafirming allie
glance to the principles laid down by
jefferson, pledging itself to economy
and good government, demanding the
forfeiture of land grants, expressing
sympathy for the old soldier and depre-
eating the reopening OF sectional issues,
this platform differs not one iota from
every other platform that has been
built and mounted by democrats from
Texas TO Oregon for years and years.
Monopolies and trusts are struck at in
the usual vague and bombastic way, but
great care is exercised not TO touch any
of the ~monopolies that have despoiled
Nebraska, nor is there any allusion to
the gigantic grain elevator trust which
now monopolizes all the grain traffic on
the Burlington g. Missouri railroad sys-
tenn. Great stress is laid on sympathy
for home rule in Ireland, but not a word
about home rule in Nebraska - not
a whisper about Piukerton me%rcenaries
being imported by the hundred into this
state to exercise police and military
powers which our constitution solely
confers upon the legally constituted NJ
thorities Of the commonwealth. No
body in this whole convention dared to
grapple with the Union Pacific and de-
nounce the monstrous doctrine e%nunci-
ated by Judge Dundy that this imperial
corporate monopoly, protected by the
state and fed by its people, is above the
state and may defy its authority.
The political giants in the democratic
convention have shown the most abject
cowardice in the presence Of Nebraska
~monopolies and trusts, but they g~allantly
struck out at unpalpable evils which
the conventions of all parties make it a
practice to denounce year in and year
out. 1t was to have been expected that
the Nebraska democracy would COM
mend every act Of the democratic ma
tional administration, right Or wrong,
but the exhibition Of political indecency
in their denunciation of Grover Cleve-
lands immediate predecessors as cor
ruptionists and public plunderers is, to
say the least, highly discreditable.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03

reached, or some general financial plan
is adopted for meeting the cost Of such
work in advance Of entering upon 1t.
This, Mr.. Adams says, will be the policy
Of the road during 1888. But such
statements are TO be taken with modif-
cations. From Mr.. Adams report it
seems that the cost of construction OF
new lines during 1887 has forthe greater
part been carried as a floating liability,
which has absorbed all the company's
spare cash and involved IL in debt. OF
course, Mr.. Adams did not intend TO use
the money which was falling due the
government. But the temptations to
follow the example set by Sidney Dillon
and Jay Gould we're too great to be
resisted. Mr.. Adams promise to pay
whenever the road felt able ought TO
satisfy the most urgent creditor. Such
is the outline proposed by the president
OF the Union Pacific. With an indul-
gent congress to swallow fair promises,
the professed policy of the Union Pacific
is one thing, its actual programme is
another. There never hes been and is
uOI uOW uuy lHbclblUu vi phS phtb VI
this corporation to tax the stockholders
for q dollar Of its enormous debt, o is
there any proposition to assess the
stockholders to pay for the extensions
and branch lines built out of earnings
that should have been set apart to
meet the bonded debt. Mr.. Adams
blandly tells the stockholders that the
increased earnings will in due time
liquidate the debt il congress gives the
company a blank permit to exact ex-
orbitant tolls from its patrons for the
next hall a century. This programme
will be very satisfactory TO stockholders
and stock jobbers, but there is very
little comfort in it for the people who
are obliged to %patronize the Union Pa
cifc who had a right to expect relief by
this time from the burdens which they
have borne since 1869.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03

her social duties, having never been known
10 keep an engagement at the hour named,
but is invariably late at dinner parties and
lunches, in fact even at little gatherings
given in her special honor. Nevertheless,
she is a great favorite among her friends,
who overlook her eccentricities.
Some one has been collecting facts about
the fathers Of the United States presidents,
with this result: "Grover Cleveland is the
only clergyman's son wEo has ever been
elected president, though Arthur's father
was a clergyman. He was not, however,
elected president. The fathers Of the Vir-
ginia Observation-Disclosures, Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe-were planters.
John Tyler's father was a lawyer and
a statesman, and John Adams, the father
of John Quincy Adams, was by profession
q lawyer. Grants father was a tanner,
Hayes father a merchant. and the fathers of
Garfield, Lincoln, Pierce, Fillmore, Polk, Van
Buren,, and Jackson were farmers.
M. lola, the novelist, has just completed
his forty-eight year. His father, an Italian
by birth and an engineer by profession, died
when Emile was in his eighth year. mile
became clerk to the French publisher Hach-
cite, wrote verses which nobody would
print, and was at one time so poor that he
lived during the best part of a winter on
bread and DILL His first prose work, a col
lection of short tales, was published nearly a
quarter of a century ago, but it was the
novel, ''Therese Requin," which first brought
him intO note.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-03
The Sioux Reservation.

The bill for the opening OF the Sioux
reservation in Dakota is now alaw, hav-
ing received the approval of the presi-
dent on Tuesday. The BEE some time
ago gave the general provisions of this
measure, which if il shall &c into effect
will open to settlement about eleven
million acres OF as fine land for agricult-
ural purposes and stock raising as there
is anywhere on the continent. Another
good result will be in the removal of
what is now q serious barrier to the
progress of settlement west of this res
ervation. The whole country contigu-
u to this fertile area will undoubtedly
feel at once the benefit of the
law providing for opening the reserva-
ton, and preparatory to that result may
be expected to experience a healthy adj
vance in population and industrial pros
perity. For as Don as the reservation
is opened there can be no doubt that its
most desirable land will be greedily
taken up by the best class of settlers.
1t is to be remembered, however, that
the law does not open the reservation,
that result being made dependent on
the will of the Indians, duly expressed,
who possess the territory. Unless this
is done within a year, in a way salts
factory to the president as being in
conformity with the prescribed method,
the law becomes null and void.
There is perhaps no very great
probability that a majority of the
Indians will reject the terms of
the law, which are just and liberal, but
q pretty strong opposition will have to
be overcome, and this may be a task
that will fully tax the judgment and
tact of the government officials whose
duty it will be to carry out the provis-
ions Of the law. A number OF chiefs
are known to be opposed to giving up
any part OF their lands, the ''squaw''
men generally are unfavorable to the
plan, and the white men who have
profitable contracts with the Indians
will use their influence to have the
terms OF the law rejected. 1t will thus
be seer hat the opening Of the Sioux
reservation is still dependent on an UNI
certain contingency.