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The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
Church and State in Brazil.

A New York dispatch of the 18th says: Private advices received in this city from Brazil yesterday con- firm the dispatch published a few days after the proclamation of the republic, to the effect that the new Government proposed to sever the connection between the Roman Catholic Church and the State that had existed under the monarchy. From a perfectly reliable source this cablegram was received: "The Bra zilian Government proposes separa- ting church from State" Under the monarchy the established religion was the Roman Catholic, but the Constitution guaranteed the tolera- ton of other religions so far as the performance of worship was con- cerned in buildings provided for the purpose, but without the exterior form of churches. The Roman Cath ollie clergy and their educational in stitutions were maintained by the State.
 Further dispatches from guar anteed source say that the "Com- pagnie Mercantile" 2 native con- pany, have asked the Para authori- ties to compel all other buyers of rubber to pay 20 reis for their ac- count, with a view of helping sus- tain prices (this subsidy would be equal to about Sc pound). Buy CTS in Para are said to be greatly excited. This dispatch means that the native company has asked the Government of Para to collect Sc per pound on all rubber bought by other dealers and pay it over to them as contribution to build up their business to the prejudice of all their competitors.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
Jeff. Davis Praise of Grant.

When General Grant was dying at Mount McGregor the Boston Globe instructed its New Orleans correspondent to interview Jeffer- son Davis. MT. Davis was not seen personally, but sent the following letter to a friend in New Orleans:
 "Your request, in behalf of a Boston journal, for me to prepare a criticism on General Grants mili- tary career cannot be compiled with for the following reasons: First, Grant is dying; second, though he invaded our country ruthlessly it was with an open hand, and as far as 1 know he abetted neither arson nor pillage, and has since the war, I believe, shown no malignity to Confederates, either of military or civil service. Therefore, instead of seeking to disturb the quiet of his closing hours, 1 would, if it were in my power, contribute to the peace of his mind and the comfort of his body
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
Novel Way of Stealing Hogs.

Hog-thieves have become so bold in this vicinity that the average porker is not certain when he goes to sleep when or where he will wake up. These pig-tilieves are as dar- ing as the train-robbers of the Southwest. A few nights ago man named Laird, in company with a confederate, visited the hogpen of a farmer named Shaw, residing near Battle Ground, Indiana. A nice fat porker was selected and quietly Ire moved"-in the Cronin sense. Af- ter it's death the carcass was incased in an old suit of clothes, Derby hat covering the brute's head. In the night-light, sitting on the seat, it very considerably resembled a man, Laird drove back to town
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
\ Cattlemen's Convention.

A special dispatch to the St
 Louis Globe-Democrat from Sar
 Antorio, Texas, of December 13tf
 says:
 At a meeting of cattlemen here
 to-day, called to consider the pres ent depressed condition of the cat tie business, it was decided to call a Convention, composed of dele gates from all the Western and Southwestern States, to be held at Fort Worth, Texas, March, 1890, for the purpose of forming some plan to correct the abuses which now exist, and put their business on a better footing. Resolutions were adopted setting forth that inasmuch as the State Inspection law had been declared unconstitutional and the Senate Investigating Commit tee had been unable to suggest any means of relief, Convention, to be held as above stated, was impera- lively demanded, as being the best means of inaugurating movement looking to the advancement of the cattle-producers' interests; that without organization there was lit tie hope of overcoming the combi- nation of buyers in the leading markets of the country; that the value of their product had decreas- ed 60 per cent, while consumers of meat were compelled to pay the same price as when cattle were sell ing at a normal figure; that as result of the combination of buy CTS the producers were losing $200,- 100000 annually, and that to reme- dy these evils would require the combined efforts of the business men of the cattle-producing States to overcome. The Governors of the States affected are requested to appoint delegates to the proposed Convention. The resolutions are signed by w. L. Black, as Chair man, and by large number of the leading cattlemen of the State.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
Signs of NameIeSS Philosophers.

All men should do just as they please, if they please to do just.
 The surest way to please is to forget ones self and think only ot others.
 Borrowing brings sorrowing, and so dees lending, at least half of the time.
 Just as you are pleased at find ing faults you are displeased at finding perfection.
 Grit makes the man, and want of it the chump; the men who win, lay hold hang on and hump.
 The man who wants to get ahead of time when going for a train should use the spur of the moment.
 It is hard to tell which is the easiest-to go forward at a revival or backward when the revival is over.
 It isn't wise to say always all that you think, but it is wise always to think carefully oyer everything you say.
 The reason some men can't. make both ends meet is because they are too busily engaged in making one end drink.
 In life we ouhter recolleck dis fack: One word spoke ergin CT man has mo- weight den five words in praise.-Ex.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
A Sad Accident.

Western Judge-"You are charg ed, sir, with being the leader of party which hunted down ant lynched a horse thief. The day have gone by when citizens of thi great commonwealth can thus talk, the law into their own hands, hence your arrest. What have you to say?'
 Prominent citizen-"I ain't gull ty, Jedge. I'll tell you how it was We caught the feller and tied hi. hands and feet. Nothing wrong about that, was there, Jedge?"
 'No; that was no doubt neces. sary."
 "Well, Jedge, there was a storm comin' up and we couldn't spare him an umbrella very we'll, so we stood him under a tree. That was all right, wasn't it?"
 Certainly"
 We'll, the clouds kep' gatherin and the wind was purity high, and we didn't want him to blow away, so we tied rope round his neck and fastened the other end to the limb above-not tight, Jedge, jest so as to hold him and we left him standin' solid on his feet. Nothin' wrong about that, was there?"
 Nothing at all. But the man was found suspended from that tree and stone dead the next morn ing"
 "None of us had anything to do with that, Jedge. You see, we left him standin' there in good health and spirits, for we give him all he could drink when we said 'good-by,' but you see, durin' the night the rain come and I suppose the rope got purity wet and shrunk a couple O feet. That's how the sad acci- dent happened, Jedge."
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
The COIOred Man in Republican
 Kansas.

The American Citizen, the organ of the colored Republicans at Kan sas City, is doing B good work in calling attention to "the duplicity and treachery of the great mass of white Republicans toward the ne- gro, regardless Of section or local ity." A striking illustration is found in the scratching of Brown, the negro nominated by the Repub- licans at Topeka for county clerk. His nomination was conceded to the colored element of the party, which furnished 1,700 of the 4,28O Republican votes in the county. But at the election Brown received only 2,Q06 votes, which was but 47 per cent of the Republican vote cast. He got the 1.700 negro votes and 306 of the 2,500 white Repub- licap votes. Seven out of every eight white Republicans scratched MT. Brown saying "theY would not vote for nigger under any circum- stances" And this occurred at the capital of the "banner Republican State. .'-St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
How They Started

Senator Farwell began life as { surveyor. Cornelius Vanderbilt began life farmer.
 Wannamaker's first salary wa: $1.25 week.
 A. T. Stewart made his start as school teacher.
 Jim Keen drove a milk wagon ir a California town.
 Cyrus W. Feild began life as a clerk in store.
 Pulitzer once acted as a stoker on a Mississippi steamboat.
 Lucky Baldwin worked on his faith CTS farm in Indiana.
 Dave Sinton sold sugar over an Ohio counter for $1 a week.
 Moses Taylor clerked in Water street, New York at $2 per week.
 George W. Childs was an errand boy for book seller at $4 month.
 J. c. Flood, the California mil lionaire, kept saloon in San Fran cisco.
 P. T. Barnum earned salary as bartender at Niblo's theatre, New York.
 Jay Gould canvassed Deleware county, N. Y. selling maps at $50 apiece.
 c. P. Huntington sold butter and eggs for what he could get pound and dozen.
 A. Carnegie did his first work in a Pittsburg telegraph office at $3 per week.
 ". Reid did work as correspon- dent of a Cincinnati newspaper for 5 a week.
 Adam Forepaugh was a butcher in Philadelphia, when he decided to go into the show business.
 Senator Joe Brown made his first money by blowing his neigh DOTS field with a pair of bull calves.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
i Matrimonial Lottery.

William C. King is a farmer al
 Newsport, Minn., and is about thir
 ty years of age, unmarried, Sidney c. King, who is three years older
 and carries on a teaming business
 at the same place, is his brother
 A few days ago they were sitting at
 Williams house reading the. news
 papers, when Sidney noticed par
 agraph about young mrn in the
 East who was advertising for a wife.
 Sidney said he thought that was a foolish plan by which to secure a wife. William said he didn't think it was, and the brothers got into d heated argument over the ques- tion.
 1T will tell what I will do," finally declared Sidney. q will bet you $500 even that you dare not select a wife by lottery in way that I will indicate"
 q have rO money, replied Vii: liam, "but I have a farm wortl that at least, and I will take thas bet if you will put up your money against my farm at Darlington"
 'All right: it's a go,'' said Sid ney, and they set to work to pre- pare the terms of the bet. A con- tract was drawn up in legal form, and each signed it. It provided that William shall not go more than 800 miles nor less than three miles from his home and select a wife by lottery. He is to make 100 tick cts, numbered from 1 to 100, which are to be put in envelopes and one given to every lady wishing a husband, regardless of her age or nationality. A certain day is to be announced for the drawing, and a | public notice is to be given of the place where it is to take place. On the day of the drawing some person is to be selected by the audience and blindfolded. Tickets are to bc placed in a hat and we'll shaken up. The man blindfolded will then be brought on the stage and requested | to draw one ticket from the hat. By | the number which it bears the fu- ture wife of William King is to be determined, as he must marry the lady holding the corresponding or forfeit his farm. If he carries cut this agreement he will receive the sum of $500 bet by his brOther.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
4 Herd of Buffale.

The stocKyard yesterday resem
 bled a menagerie more than any
 thing else, the attraction being
 herd of thirty-fve bufaloes, min,
 silver-gray and black foxes, moos,
 cali and the largest COW ever seer
 in these yards. The animals were
 the property of Mr. c. J. Jones, the
 famous Buffalo Jones'" of Garder
 City, Kansas, and were en route fol
 Salt Lake City, where Mr. Jones is
 starting a ranch for the propaga-
 tion of the distinctively American
 animals, such as the buffalo, moose, elk, deer, mountain sheep, foxes black beaver, etc. The inroads ot hunters and trappers have threat ened the extinction of these species and it is Mir Jones' object to pre- serve them, if possible, at ranch provided for that purpose at Gar field Beach, which will be free to the public.
 The buffaloes are the last of the Canadian herd and have been rang ing in the vicinity of Stony moun- tain, Manitoba, the property of Col. $. l.. Bedson. Several of the herd were maimed, owing to the trouble in lassoing, and COW and bull died at Minneapolis from the effects of their capture. The moose is about six months old, and very pretty animal.
 MT. Jones has been experiment. ing with crossing bufaloes and na- tive cattle for seven years, and has now five distinct breed of cattle, ranging from quarter to fifteen-six- teenth grade. 1t is claimad these cattle will weather the worst bliz- zards that blow. The finest robes come from the crosses with the Galloway cattle, the hair beIng almost as fine as the Russian as- trakhan. He has now at Garden City sixty pure-blooded animals and twenty or more grades. The accession will give him 100 head of pure-blooded bufaloes, and it is the intention to move the entire out fit to Garfield Beach.
 The difficulty ill crossing with native cattle formerly has been that the COWS invariable died in calving but MT. Jones has. succeeded in saving four out of six COWS, and is satisfied that in time he will expert ence no difficulty in this line. The fine large Durham COWS he now has with him he expects to breed to a buffalo bull.
 The foxes will be placed on the rocky island in Salt Lake, near Gar field Beach. As the water never freezes over, and as they are afraid | of water there will be no chance for them to escape.-Omaha Stock man.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26

with his dead prize, while the con- federate went across-lots. The con- federate proved to be a detective, however, and now Mir. Laird is the sole biped occupant of neat but not gaudy cell at the county seat.-Chi- cago Times.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26

The smoke:ess powder that Aus tria is using makes such fearful smell that it will have to be aban- doned. At recent practice several men tainted from it.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26

Strikes have even spread to Egypt. The Cairo cigarette makers are the first to introduce this west ern system into the land of the Pharaohs, having struck against some extra strict regulations en- forced by their employers.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26
Odds and Ends.

Ink and rust stains, according to
 a pharmaceutical authority, are
 removed easily by a solution con-
 taining equal parts of tartaric acid
 alum and distilled water. The solu-
 tion has the trade name of"en-
 crivoir."
 Trains will soon be running to the summit of Pike's Peak if the winter is not too severe. Contracts
 have been signed for building cog wheel road up the mountain, with the stipulation that it must be com- plete by next May.
 Cracksmen now open safes by applying a powerful machine that pulls out the knob of the combina- tion lock. They do this easily and quickly, and the old battle between safe builders and thieves must now be fought all over again.
 A Georgia planter has curious variety of potatoes. The vine or bush sgrows four feet high and is a beautiful plant, and bas potatoes twelve or fourteen inches long and six inches in diameter. The seed came from Louisiana. The proudest boast among Cuban women is the dainty smallness of their feet. They require nothing larger in the way of footware than the No. size for American women. This peculiar endowment is perfect ly..natural; no pinching or pressure of any kind is used.
 A pair of horses were stolen from an Iowa City woman and taken ito a town eight miles distant. The men who took them there were ar- rested on suspicion, and to find the horses owner the animals were turned loose by the officers and followed back to the lady's barn.
 Matthew Walton, of Wyandot Co.,, O., recently dug up the remains of a sword, supposed to be the same that George Washington presented Col. Crawford, one of the heroes of the Indian war. It was found near the spot where Crawford was burn- ed at the stake 107 years ago.
 The Austrian Government, which controls tobacco trade, made a great financial loss by raising the price of cigars. In Vienna alone 35,OO0,- 900 fewer cigars have been sold, with corresponding increase in the con- sumption of cigarettes and pipes. In all, the loss amounted to 72O,OOO forins.
 The County of Custer, in Mon- tana, is the largest county in the United States. It contains 13, ,569,- 920 acres, and is 15O miles long and 125 miles wide. It is place of historic interest, containing as it does, the site of the great battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer and his forces were massacred.
 In the race between projectile and armOr, the projectile has just scored another triumph. Krupp's biggest and latest gun has range of over eleven miles, and recently sent a projectile weighing 1900 pounds with force enough to pierce 194 inches of armor, and to go 1912 yards beyond the target. Such guns come high to those who must have them, each shot costing over $1 ,250.
 A Chinese newspaper has been investigating the origin of foot cramping by Chinese women. The practice is of very ancient date. Some affirm that 1t arose in the time of the five dynasties-that is, in the tenth century, A. D. Jao Niang, a tavorite of Ii Yu, the last of these dynasties, tied up her feet with silk into the shape of a crescent moon, and all the H.. la...4:.. IL :. L:-..-
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-26

The government of France has ta- ken possession of the telephones and will operate them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-09
DEMAND KEEPS UP.
Lands and Houses Moving In City md
Suburbs-Latest Sales.

Lands and Houses Moving In City und
suburbs-Latest Sales.
L. o. Frazier, corner Forty-fifth and Butler
streets, sold for ]. Alexander Hardy, of the
firm of Hardy & Hayes, lot 40x85xl30 feet
situated on the south side of Main street. near
Penn avenue, Seventeenth ward, to Henry E.
Steffier for s., $50, cash.
w. e. Hamnett of 4O4 Smithfeld street.
Pittsburg, and Williamsburg, sold for Agnes
Burgess two lots on Biddle avenue. wilkins
burg, to James A. Wilson for 81 200; also lot
No. n, plan No 2, Wilkins estate, to John E.
Myers for $500; also lot 81, same plan, to G. A.
Beerman for $3.50.
Black & Baird 95 Fourth avenue, sold to Pat
rick O'Halloran lot No. in the People's Say
ings Bank plan, having frontage on Forty.
fifth street OF 2oxl6O feet through to School
alley, for $500. They also placed mortgage of
81, 500 for three years at per cent and the
State tax on Penn avenue business property.
Reed B. Coyle & Co., I31 Fourth avenue. Sold
to M. s. Stevenson lot in the Marion place
plan for $3.50.
Samuel W. Black & Co., 80 Fourth avenue.
sold lot No. 70 in the Blair estate plan. Glen,
WOOD situate on the corner of Allegheny and
14O for 5000 cash.
James W. Drape & Co. sold a house and lot
near Ingram Station, Panhandle railroad. six
rooms, lot 50xl50 feet, for 81, 500, and placed a
mortgage on property in the same neighbor-
hood of s., $50 at per cent.
w. A. Heron & Sens sold lot 6OxlsO feet.
near the loop of the Center avenue cable line
for 81 500. They also closed long lease with
Nelson, Morris & Co., of Chicago, In. dressed
beef shippers, for corner Liberty, Ferry and Dia-
mond streets lately occupied by George Roll,
grocer. Messrs. Morris q Co. will spend at
least 5000 in repairing the property and put
ting it in good shape
Samuel w. Black & Co., 90 Fourth avenue,
sold for the Blair estate, Hazelwood, Twenty
third ward, lot No. 16 northwest corner Lytie
street and Path alley, between Elizabeth and
Tecumseh streets, being 25x129 feet, for 500
cash
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-09
Grain, Flour and Feed.

Receipts, as bulletined at the Grain Ex-
change % cars. BY Pittsbufg. Ft. Wayne and
Chicago, 8 cars Of wheat, of hay, of oats, 3of
-four, of barley. By Baltimore and Ohio, 2 cars
of hay. By Pittsburg. Cincinnati and st. Louis.
2 cars of wheat, 4 OF barley, l of middlings
of corn. of oats. Sales on call, car coarse
winter wheat bran, sl2, 3 days, P. 4. R.; car
No. l timothy hay, Sl2 75. days. z. r. R.; l
car, half No. timothy hay, half No. 2, el2, 5
days, p R. r. Advices from the Northwest
show weakness in the wheat situation. Here
markets are unchanged. A leading flour job
ber reports that he is far behind in meeting
orders, but prices are unchanged. Corn and
oats of choice grade are firm at quotations,
but low grades are weak. Prices below are for
carload lots.
Sic.
CoRN-No. yellow. ear. 44@45c: high mixed,
ear 42@43c: No. 2 yellow. shelled, 40c; high
mixed. shelled. 39@40c; mixed. shelled, Ss14@
39c.
OATs-No. 2 white. 71S@2sc; extra, No. 8,
2673027c; mixed, A@25c.
KYE-No. Pennsylvania and Ohio, 50@5lc;
No. l. Western, 4s@49c; new rye, No. Ohio,
45G46c.
FLoUR-Jobbing prioes--Fancy winter and
spring patents, IS 00g5 80; winter straight,
81 1904 so; clear winter, "a OOg4 70; straight
xxx bakers. 50 50@3 70 Rye -four, s. 50@
AIS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., fine white, sl6 00@
l6 so q ton; brown middlings, sl2 5O@l3 90; win
ter wheat bran, sI1 50@l1 70; chop feed. Sl5 80
sHAY-Baled timothy, choice. sl4 oo0l4 Is;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-09
By telegraph.

NEW observation-disclosures 20 carloads
Tor expectation Is carloads for city slaughterers
dlrect; nothing doing in beeves: steady for
dressed beef at 554a7Ic per pound for sides
and 5Q6C for decent TO best and Colorado stocl,.
exports, 5l4 beeves and 1900 quarters of beef
Lo-uay 5 Liverpool cable quotes American
steers lower at II@Iz7ae per pound for dressed
weight; American refrigerated beef easy at
S14e. Calves-Receipts, 76O head: market about
steady, but SLOW; veals sold at 5@1Sc per pound;
grasserS and buttermilks at Ease. Sheep-Re-
celpts, S4OO head; no important chanpe in
values, but hrmer feeling: sheen sold at "a M
6O per lOG pounds; lambs at S. OOi17 OO HOGS
-,heeelpts ,,0O head; all fo- slaughterers
direct, except about $50; these sold at 81 606
B ~ per OOpounds, and the market was rated
steady.
KANSAS CITY-Cattle-Receipts T7O7 head.
shipments. 1855 head offerings mostly com
mon; oeSt natlve strong to lOc higher: common
steady; Texas slow but about steady. onaIit,,
OF COWS poor, and values steady to weak. STOCK.
ers and feeding steers active and firm Cor good.
good to choice cornfed steers, 81 OO9i IS: com
mon to medium, s. 9O93 IS; stockers and feed
ing steers 81 60d3 ID: cows. 81 35(12 5O. grass
range steers, 81 60@12 CO. Hogs-Receipts : 706
head; shipments Us head: market active mi
Sc lower; good choice light, 81 OOQ4 O5; heavy
and mixed, s. S0@3 80. Sheep-Receints 3S4
head; shipments, 2S2 head: market sTeaGy:
good to choice muttous S3 1904 D: stockeTs
and feeders, 81 90 Q3 25.
CHIcAGo-The DroUerS' Journal renorts.
Cattle-Rece1pts. ll.l0O head; shipments. 1900
grades; choice TO extra beeves 81 604I 81.
Steers, 81 1904 SO; stockers and feeders 81 z5S
81 IS; COWS. bulls and mixed 81 I032 so; Texas
cattle, 81 3562 so; Western rangers. 81 5N9
8 so. HOgs-Receipts, 19 600 head: Shipments
$500 head; market strong 5 cents higher.
mixed. So 90@4 45: heavy. S3 SOd4 80; iight
s. 95@4 40: skips, IS 1904 Sheep p-Reeeints
10000 head; shipments. 1000 head: marker
weak and common grades l0c lower; natives
s. 1904 SO: Western. s. 1904; Texans. S3G4:
lambs, S4Q5 80.
ST. s-Cattle-Receipts, 42GOhead: shin
ments, 600 head; market strong; choice heavy
native steers 50 sOlz4 50; fair to good, 50 2C6
90: stockers and feeders 81 9O32 Cd: rapge
steers. 81 9OG3 90. Hogs-Receipts 400 head.
shipments, 400 headi market active and higher:
fair to choice heavy, 50 O0GR4 Is: packIng
grades, So 1904 90; light, fair to best sS a5S
% Sheep-Receipts, LOO head; Shipments,
200 head; market steady; fair to choice, So 20
a 81.
BUFFALO - Cattle dull and UNCHANGED. re-
ceipts, none through; % sale. Sheep and lambs
steady and unchanged; receipts, 4 sale. Hogs
slow and unchanged; receipts, none through;
q sale.