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Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
Chinese Journalism.

The progress of journalistic enterprise
is nowhere more fully illustrated than
in the following clippings from a Chi
nese newspaper. The triumphant news
paper correspondent and interviewer
has invaded even China, Mclean fash
ion. The almond eyed correspondent
says of our ladies':
When women go to court they regard bare
skin as mark of respect, and on ordinary occa-
sions when they meet their parents they must
apply their mouths to the right and left cheeks of
the elder with a slnacking sound, which is ex-
ceedingly strange.
Is it possible the inhabitants of the
celestial kingdom don't know about kiss
ing? What poor creatures they are!
Here is more:
Women who are shortsighted will mount spec
tacles in public; even young girls in their teens
will do the same, and so walk along the streets,
and it is not regarded strange
If man does not smoke or drink he is univer-
sally respected, and it is considered meritorious
AS regards women, most of them drink, but ex
ceedingly few smoke
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
Superior to Dynamite.

Experiments first made in London
with carlo dynamite, one of the latest
explosives, would seem to show that it
possesses some important advantages
over ordinary dynamite, among others
that of considerably greater power, and
the generation of much less noxious va
por when exploded in confined places.
1t is composed of nitro-glycerine absorb
ed by ten parts of variety of carbon,
and is claimed to be entirely unaffected
By water.-Sew York Telegram.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

This is great peanut year, and the
peanut boom is on At present this Vir-
ginia staple constitutes large part of
the cargo of the steamers leaving Nor
folk. Thousands of sacks are piled high
upon the docks and in the warehouses Of
that city. 1t is picture worth seeing,
the negroes tossing the bags and wheel
ing them in rhythmic motion, singing a
sort of chant to keep time with their
movements and tighten the labor.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

Mississippi is state in which peniten-
tiary convicts are leased out by contract.
What an edifying spectacle 1t viii be to
see the great John L. Sullivan hired out
to farmer and driving mule, or wheel
ing dirt on railroad embankment. It's
enough 90 bring tears to the eyes to
think OF IL.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

One effect which was not foreseen has
been observed in neighborhoods illumi-
mated by electric light. Crime has been
diminished therein. Burglars and sneak
thieves are afraid to ply their nefarious
trades in such powerful light, and have
skulked off elsewhere. Can't we man
age somehow to have our trusted cashiers
and highly respected bank officials con-
stantly under fire of powerful electric
light? ~
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

If the owners of the $4,000 barrels of
oil lost in the Antwerp fire belong to a
great petroleum combination the loss
will not fall so heavily on them, Other
members of the combine will chip in,
here little and there a little, and make
it up to them.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

Senator Wade Hampton remarks in
reference to the negro question: "No
country was ever made or can be made
for the occupation of two races distinct
from each other in color, habits and ira
ditions. One of the races must migrate,
or one of the two must be exterminated,
or the two must amalgamate.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
Half Fare~s5 Harvest ExCur-
SiOnS.
August 9th and 10th, September 10th and
24th, and October 9th.

The MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS
RY. C'Albert Lea Route, will sell
upon the above named dates round
trip excursion tickets to points in
Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Indian Territory, Colorado, Idaho,
New Mexico. Montana, Wyoming,
Arizona, Missouri, Iowa, Louisiana
for the round trip. Tickets good 80
days from date of sale. Stop-orers
granted in the territory to which
tickets are sold. For information re-
garding rates, maps, call Oh any
agent, or write to
e. HI. HOLDRIDGE,
G. T. & P. A.
Minneapolis, MINI. stiff.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

Chicago has already more millions sub
scribed for a worlds fair than New
York has The goose bone indications
are that it will +, cold day when Chi
cago gets left.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

The pension department has at last
been. forced to refuse an allowance to
a crippled volunteer He received his
injury in bloody engagement with one
of his own messmates.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
The Wicked Flea.

A very uncomfortable and trouble
some epidemic of most peculiar nature
has broken out in several of our large
cities. 1t is an epidemic of heas None
know whence they come, and they do
not go away at all. but stay and drive
people crazy. Washington, Philadel-
phia and New York have had their turn.
and now the wicked flea has attacked
Boston The idea Of Boston capering and
dancing about under such an undigni
fed inflictioH is calculated to upset the
solemnity cf Saturn himself. 1t is said
that the little creature with the pene-
trating proboscis and legs so strong that
he can jump a thousand times his own
length is in the very air of the cities
named, so numerous is he. But let other
towns not laugh overmuch Their turn
may yet come. Let the inhabitants
thereof fee
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18

The Fir Trees of Washington State.
Washington, the new state of Wash
ington, claims to have 20,000,000 acres
of timber land of almost incalculable
value. Around Puget sound is Il forest
the description of which makes eastern
eyes bulge out with wonder.
The staple Washington lumber is COM
posed of red and yellow fir of extraor-
dinary strengtI, Of fiber Already it is
shipped to mlny parts of the world.
Spars for the SHIPS built in the yards of
the Clyde, in Scotland, are sent from
Puget sound. Bridges, to be used across
streams in Ohio, in Michigan and Indi-
ana, and elsewhere, are built in Port
land, the parts numbered, packed and
sent to their respective states, to be set
up where they belong The gigantic fir
trees of Washington are often between
800 and 400 feet high, a single one some
times furnishing 10000 feet of lumber.
To eastern eyes the stumps left standing
look very strange. They are from five
to fifteen feet high Why all this good
timber is left in the stump only Wash
ington wood chopper knows
A lumberman told a CORES spondent of
The St. Louis Glo5e-Democrat that in
the forest fires in that region enough
timber had been burned this season to
pay half the national debt, and yet it's
loss had made no apparent impression
on the stupendous fir woods of Puget
sound.
In Germany or Italy this invaluable
forest would be taken care of. In this
country it will not be. We shall have
ten, twenty, perhaps thirty, years of
reckless, crazy wastefulness: then denu-
ded lands, floods. gullies, droughts, dam
disasters, and the people of Washington
state wishing they had even their old
15-foot stunlps Lack.
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
The Trihmme.
/. STEVENS, EDIToH.

il..p; ;.l.tE. SEpr Is, 1889
Morris tribune., 1889-09-18
The Suns Tota! Eclipse.

Some time in October United States
man-of-war will leave New York on the
peaceful expedition of carrying to Africa
the photographers, astronomers and
other scientific gentlemen who are to
take observations of the total eclipse Of
the sun Dec. 90 1t is hoped the new
cruiser Baltimore will be available for
this purpose.
Observations taken during this eclipse
will be among the most painstaking and
important ever made of the suns face, if
the weather permit. Attempts will be
especially made to solve the mysteries Of
81 ga which is the strange luminous
appearance observable around the dark
body of the moon during the suns total
eclipse. Apparatus for this observation
has been especially designed by Pro-
fessor F. H. Bigelow. Many and pow
erful photographs will be made by the
instantaneous process. 1t does seem that
with these increased facilities something
must be added to our little, very little,
knowledge OF the constitution and ma
ture of the SUM-
AS yet, no government but the United
States has prepared to send official OBJ
servers of the eclipse, though many pri-
vate parties will go to Africa to witness
it. Our vessel will land at St. Paul de
Loando, capital and seaport of the Por-
tuguese province Of Angola, $50 miles
south of the Congo river. The expe-
dition will then proceed with their in
struments sixty miles inland, in a south
easterly direction, to Maxima, where
they will be in the middle path of the
eclipse. One of the instruments is a
telescope lent by Harvard university,
specially constructed for noting the
eclipse of last New Years day in Cali
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22

ANGosTURA BITTERs makes health, and
health makes bright rosy cheeks and hap.
piness. DR.. ]. G. B Seigert & Sons, sole
manufacturers. Ask your druggist.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
q CARD.

MO COLLISION WITH THE SANITARY
~ Inspector. Cesspools and Vaults cleaned
Orders left at 725 street, or at IO25 Fourth
street, will be promptly attended to. The public
patronage hOnOrably solicited
J. II. CAMPBELL,
1p1m Residence, Ninth and S streets.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22

An enormous landslide at Spiessback,
Switzerland, destroyed villages, forests and
cattle.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22

IL you have over-indulged in eating or
drinking take dose of Simmons Liver
Regulator.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22

HARRY BERNARD,

NORNER OF SIXTH AND L STREETS, HAS
" on hand light open and top BUGGIES, light
tYc-seat canopy-tOp CARRIAGES, for family
use light for one or two horses to pull; also the
hnest family carriages in this city, light grocer
and butcher wagons, finest road carts; some
light breaking carts, price SO So Carriage
painting and repairing at the lowest possible
prices for good work. ap30-tf4p
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
FANNIE B. WARI

Painting the town red means headache
IN the morning. Simmons Liver Regulator
prevents it.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
HARDLY CREDIBLE.

A COLONY OF black snakes live In gar
den in New Jersey. They make themselves
useful by allowing the pea vines to be
trained over their bodies in place OF stakes,
while two Of them tie themselves into knots
about the gute 10 keep out intruders.
"STUMP" is dog living on the Jersey
coast and owned by the captain Of pilot
boat. Stump never likes to stay ashore and
can never sleep in less than ten feet Of
water, where no sinks TO the bottom and
curls up in the sea-weed and sand All the
fish eaten on the boat are caught by the
dog; but II is fair 10 state that they never
eat fish on board that pilot boat.
PARROTS as pets are very common, but
there is certain green parrot In New
Hampshire which is an extraordinary bird.
His owner is a deacon Of the church, and
the bird goes with him TO prayer-meeting
and leads in the singing. He knows every
hymn by heart, aud the deacon has only TO
give out the number Of tho hymn and he
starts of at'once. his favorite pieceis 30
for wings to fly"
THE editor OF Long Island paper has a
pet turtle which he uses as paper weight.
The turtle eats nothing but printers Ink,
and every night gathers up the papers
on tho desk into neat pile and then
sleeps on them. The turtle is marked 90.
W, l1s9,n but that is believed TO be fraud,
although any doubt uttered in his pres
ence 10 quickly denied by vigorous screams
on the part Of the turtle,
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19

IDAHO WANTS ADMISSION.
She Is Preparing . Constitution, but the
Mormon Population May Keep Her
Out.

she Is Preparing . Constitution, but the
Mormon Population May Keep Her
Out.
BOISE Cry, July 13-Tho convention
TO framo constitution for the admission
OF Idaho has been in session oLO week.
Congress fails TO give Idaho an enabling
act tho same as the other Territories,
but there is such q strong sentiment in
favor Of Statehood that the Governor
called for convention. This was after
he had been assured by members Of
congress that good constitution, rati-
ned by tho people, would secure the ad-
mission early mex session; also, the pay
ment OF the expenses OF the convention.
IL is claimed this convention is superior
TO any former organization In the Tor
ritory. The chief dificulty Is likely
10 arise upon the question Of suf-
irage. The Mormons formerly held
the balance OF power, throwing
u ,h,,r vote 70 The Psrty isS iaeasa.x-..
o. ago ft,e ras~aee ~ the test oath
cut them OF. Its constitutionality has
been tested in the courts and sustained.
As q last resort hundreds OF the Nor
mons withdrew from the church last
fall. The fact that the Mormons are
colonizing portions OF Idaho makes this
such a dangerous element that the Re-
publicans and anti-Mormon Democrats
oi the convention insist that they must
be shorn Of their power ~ evil, having
sufficient safeguard in a constitution.
This question will come up in the con
yention to-day and will excite a
lively discussion. Woman suffrage, pro-
hibition, governing corporations and
trusts will also be considered.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
THE DAIRY.


During the day the soiling can. u
preferred, all be done in the stable,
but the cows are much moro comfort
able during hot weather to be out at
night.
1t is largely TO the fact that the
food In the pastures is insufficient that
much Of our improbable dairy busi-
ness is due. The cows do not give
more milk because we do not furnish
them with more material from which
to make it. What right have we to
expect any great yield OF milk II we
only give tho COW food enough TO keep
her alive and prevent her losing flesh?
Milk is made from food, and II a COW
gives fair quantity when only moder-
ately fed IL is certain that II she can be
| made to eat and digest more food, her
| production Of milk will he increased.
! l-..--.Ia making your choice OF, cows be-
ware OF the large miiker, She is the
most deceiving animal in the world.
You think you have won aprize, and
every one the farm will be o. your way
OF thinking, but II you want to take n
nice little surprise party. pit her
against the smallest mixer in the herd
starting both on tie days they are
fresh, and keep years or six months
account of the daily yield, and the
chances are that when you have come
TO sum up you will find that the little
rejected mixer has actually given
something like third more milk in
the twelve months than the original
big mixer. This is by no means say
ing that you should keep the poorest
cows in the herd, but do not weed out
until you know what you are doing.
and this knowledge never will come by
guess-work. 1t requires real substan-
tial effort to know your cows, and the
scale is the oniy thing that can tell
you. II you are running n butter
dairy, then you must put the indi-
vidual butter test to them before you
can weed out intelligcntly. Jumping
at conclusions is a dangerous way OF
doing business, especially with such a
queer compound as a dairy cow
American Dairyman.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19

NASHVILLE, TENN., July l2.--whon
the train bearing John l.. sullivan And
party arrived at the union depo, yes,er-
day morning, that worthy was arrcs,l
on a rcquisition from Governor Low1y.
of Mississippi. sullivan at first resistel,
but a revolver thrust In his face had .
quieting effect on him. Charley joan
son. Sullivan's hacker, was also arrest
cd but Muldoon and Cleary escaped.
sullivan and johnson were taken before
Judge McAllistcr who decided that the
men could not be ncld as they we're
arrested without warrant and that
their misdcmcauoS we're not cXtradita-
BILE. They we're released.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
WIFE Murderer Lynchcd.

NEw ORLEANS, July ID a special
from La Fayctte, La, to the Times
Democrat, says that an armed body OF
men. about i50 white and 80 colorcd,
rode into town last evening, broke open
the parish pail and took thereirom
Felix Reyes, who in a jcaleous iit last
Tuesday near Carcnceco murdered his
wife, cutting her throat and then hitting
her on the head with an axe. lie was
taken to the seat Of his crime and exc.
cutcd.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
cro.h or an old Cns,oms nuiIdinr-

ST. LOWS, July i2-Ncstorday morn.
ing an L-shaped space OF about forty by
forty feet area in the old Customs House
building on the southeast corner of
Third and Olive streets fell with great
crash, carrying down part OF the third,
second and nrst floors The building
has been In process Of remodeling ioi
some time past, and quite number oi
mon were az work inside Of IT, hut for
tunatcly nobody was hurt The damage
Is estimated at about S2j, 600.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
A Mar,icrnus Assanlt.

CHAHIKsraN. W. VA. July IL AT
Grundy, Va, just across the line, yester-
day Frank Philips, one Of the Mccoy
Hatfield gang, got on a drunk and an
nounccd his intention Of doing up the
town. lie attacked VIM. keiscr prom
inent lawyer, and struck him on the
head with his pistol The he fired and
killed Mr., kciscr instantly. The muir
dorcr Immediately mounted horse and
rode of. No attempt has vet been made
TO rAnturo him.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
CHEAPER GAS.
A British syndicate Preparing TO Furnish
u at About Twenty-Five Cents Per
Thnu..nA

CMcA0o, July 10, Representatives Of
a London syndicate are in Chicago.
They know how To make cheap gas over
in the old World. They can make 1t
at eight cents per thousand cubic feet in
the holder. and make big profits selling
II at twenty five cents. The syndicate
proposes 10 give American people a
chance TO try choapgas. The syndicate
proposes to organize II company with a
capital Of $50, 0O0, UOO, and TO put In
plants for making cheap gas all over the
United States, following the line Of
least resistance and largest profits. II
the local capitalists accept the PROPOSE
tion made by the syndicate, work viii
begin here at once, as plenty Of capital
Is said 10 DC behind the Englishmon.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
Cattle Crushed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 16.-Two
heavy freight trains on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway came togeth-
cr with terrible force at the foot OF a
steep hill two miles south of Boonville,
Mo The trainmen escaped injury by
iumninr. but l5O head of cattle CON
signed TO Chicago parties were killed.
Both engines were demolished and
twenty-one cars were destroyed. Loss,
so D0D
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
A TERRIBLE FLOOD.
Nxty Thousand Japanese eDrowned-Burst
ing OF water-spout.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.--The steamer
City tf New York arrived this evening
from Hong Kong and Yokohoma. The
Japan Gazette OF the Goth ult contains
the following: Intelligence has been
received at Hong Kong from Kiaying
Chau Prefecture in the northeast Of
KwangNng, that early on the morning Of
the I'd inst, the Chan Pinges Ping Yuen
districtswere flooded by the bursting of
a WATERFRONT or tornado, described by
Chinese aS wateF-dragon, and the level
country whs flooded with nearly thirty
six feet o. water The villages of Chae
Kon and Ha Ku Hui in the Ping Yuen
district and Cucong Tan, Hop Lui,
Ngai Ku, Sam Chan Kiu and San Po Hui
in Chan Hing district were overfowed,
ma9y houses being wholly swept away,
while Others were inundated. Upward
OF 60 900 lives were lost
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
FOUND In A CAVa
A Revolutionary Soldier lmprlsori
10y Fallen Rock, "a
Shutting Him Forever From Life NJ
friends-wrltes n Letter, Puts 10 In
Bottle, Where 10 IL Discovered After
Moro Than One Hundred Years,
Telling OF Hts Fate.

READING, PA, July 15.-Editor KAT
man, of the Chester Valley Union, pi-
lished az Coatesville, Chester Coun,
and w W. Potts, of Warwick, superi
tondont Of one OF the extensive granb
| quarries, furnish here to-day one OF y
strangest stories on record and voucfs
for It's entire authority. 1t is briefly
follows: Recently, while a new quar-
was being opened at the Falls OF Frefh
creek, wild section OF country, q ffe
was discovered With -sieleten iyE
,ssss sssS;' sfs sftYetoh. On opening Il il wa
found TO contain manuscript, fadedshd
discolored by time. This manuscript -
very lengthy and is addressed 10 Miss
Virginia Randolph, OF Richmond, Va. The
writer signs himself Arthur L. Caring
ton. OF the same place, and the manu-
script develops that he was with Wash
ington at Valley Forge in 177s. He
goes on 10 say he was sent out on
foreign expedition 10 the vicinity OF
French creek, when he received word
that the British had sent out a consider
able force 10 cut him off. The writer
says that his men took refuge with
friends in the neighborhood while he
made his way 20 the cave, where he had
hidden before. 1t was marked by a
rock Just over the entrance so nicely
balanced that man could move 1t
slightly with one hand. He took refuge
inside. and had hardly done so when the
enemy came near and fred three shots
aftor his retreatlng men. The concussion
must haze destroyed the balance of the
stone above the entrance, for II fell and
held the writer a prisoner. A ray Of
sunlight alone streamed through the
top. The manuscript goes on TO say that
after many weary hours and some days
the writer became convinced that he
would have 10 perish, he feels the fever
coming on, and, with reason almost de-
throncd, writes this letter, having writ
ing materials in his pocket, with the
hope that the world may some day know
Of his fate. The date OF the manuscript
Is May 30. 177s. Mr.. Potts says that he
wrote to an old friend in Richmond, Va
This friend sent him word that her
grandmother's maiden name had
been Randolph, and that in an
old family burying ground near
her house there was monp.
ment with this inscription: Died Of .
broken heart, on the LIST Of March, 1779,
Virginia Randolph, aged el years and .
days. Faithful unto death" This
friend also sends Mr.. Potts two old let
ters written 40 years ago 10 Alice Pey-
ton by Rachel Randolph, in which the
disappearance Of the young man is re-
fcrred TO. and the approaching end OF
the young girl. Mr. Potts concl de - /.
statement a - Sloadpsnron of ""s, Nv
-,on~-4to ideatify the body ~ ~S
and win 70, t-ss' q
his beloved Virginia. Mr.. Fotrs'1IJl
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
Strcet-Cnr AcCidents.

CINCINNATI, July 15.-Mrs. VIM. E.
Tolghsdor was instantly killed and
several others seriously injured by
jumping from a Vine street cable ear
yesterday afternoon, which was running
at a rapid speed on account of a broken
brake. Three persons were severely
but not seriously hurt, yesterday morn
ing, by one of the electric cars on the
Mt Auburn incline running off the
platform and falling distance Of twelve
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
A Village Blown Away,

HAMILTON, O., July l5.-The town Of
Princeton, in Butler County, about seven
miles from Hamilton, was blown away
by terrific wind-storm that swept
through that section yesterday after
noon. There were about thirty houses,
including a saw-mill and school-house
.z tho place. AZ ara gone. The storm
was general throughout the section, and
much damage is reported.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
Penalty for Prize Fighting.

JACKSON, Miss, July l2.-An act Of
lss2 imposes a penalty not exceeding
81, 600 nor less than $500, or imprison-
rcrt for twelve months, or both, foT
prize fighting A party causing death
is guilty OF murder. II mayhem, the
penalties are provided for Aidcrs and
abettcrs are subject TO a fine OF not less
than 500, or iail for six months, or both.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
Tho Colorcd Christ I'm an Asylum.

SAVANNAH, GA, July 15.-The Ohio
man, Dupont Bell, who chews tobacco
and calls himself the new Messiah, is
now confined at the State Lunatic Asy-
lum at MillodRoville. His preachings
made such disturbance in Liberty
County. that warrant for lunacy was
sworn out, and early yesterday morning
he was arrested at Fleming. The arrest
was made at daybreaS TO prevent the
negroes coming to his assistance.
The Hickman courier., 1889-07-19
Riddlcd with Bullets.

BAssETT, NEB., July 16.-A squaw
man named II. A. Nauphin, who had
the reputation Of being ''rustler' or
horse and cattle thief, was jailed Satur-
day on the charge of horse-stealing un-
der a grand jury indictment, At mid
night last night a mob OF several hun
dred farmers broke into the Jail in the
sherif's absence and shot him to death.
Fourteen bullet entered his body.