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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24
Selma Daily News Begins pub,rcat,ou

The Selma Daily News made its ap-
Pesrance Friday, with press dispatches.
1t is printed by the Selma Printing
Company. Tho initial number is q
very fair effort in journalistic work,
and it promises much good, as Selma
has been without press reports for
several years.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24
AN INTERESTING ARRAY OF
DIXIE HAPPENINGS.
THE STATE LuHBtRHEN's CONVENTION.
Found Nugget of GoId-A Deputy
sheriff Assassinated-A Young Man
suicided Because He Was Jilted-
The slnta FIoated.
Exempted From Taxation.

Judge Williams, in the federal court
Thursday, granted q temporary injunc-
ton restraining the State of Arkansas
from collecting taxes from the Pacific
Express Company. ~.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24
Treasury Statement.

The treasury Thursday lost S1e7, :
600 in gold coin and $27, 400 in bars,
which leaves the true amount of the
gold reserve s12s, 663, ISL.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24
southerners Granted Pensions.

Pensions granted; Anderson Par
goud, Monroe, Ouschita parish; Lu-
cinda Alexander, Dulac, Terrebonne
parish. Mississippi-John Anderson,
Nesbit, DeSoto county.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24

Gresham's Body Moved to Arlington
1t has been decided to change the
place of burial of Secretary Gresham
from Oakwoods cemetary, Chicago, 10
Arlington, at the national capital, and
the necessary application will be made
at once to the secretary of war.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24

The Lacey bill for the reorganiza-
ton of Greer county, claimed by both
Oklahoms and Texas, and which was
the subject of recent decision by the
supreme court, was fayorably acted
upon by the house Judiciary commit
tee Friday. The bill organizes the
county as Greer county, Oklahoma
Territory. with Mangum as the county
seat, and authorizes the governor Of
Oklahoma to appoint the usual county
officers. 1t provides for the transfer
of public buildings and records, and
establishes the status of cases before
the courts, also providing that acts of
the courts while the county was con-
sidered a part of Texas be valid. The
public lands committee Friday decided
to report bill to give the Greer coun-
ty settlers their lands free. There
was a bill before the committee which
provided that they should pay 81 per
acre for their holdings. Dslegste
Flynn called attention to the Oklaho-
ma act, which act includes provision
that If the supreme court declared
Greer county to be part Of Oklaho-
ma, the settlers of the county should
be given their lands on the same terms
with the other inhabitants of Okla
homs.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24
NEWS GATHERED FROM HEaE,
THEIRS AND EvERywHERE.
10 BUILD COOPERATIVE FACTORIES.
Explosion OF Coal on--H. H. Holmes
is Baptized = High Water in New
york--Mr. and Mrs. Harrison's Re-
ception-- Diamond Thieves Captured.
Yamaeata sails Tor Europe.

Field Marshal Yamagata sailed for
Europe on the steamship Touraine Sat-
urday.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24

An Old Man Killed by a Train.
Capt. ]. A. Faisin, aged 70 years,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24

To Bald co-operative Factories.
The Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton. which is the wealthiest labor or
in the world, may decide to
light the manufacturers on equal
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-04-24

The house committee on foreign
affairs has taken action regarding the
Canadian boundary. The matter was
brought before the committee recently
by Mr.. Heatwole. of Minnesota, who il
endesvoring to bring about settle
ment of the question of jurisdiction
over Hunters Island. A resolution
was unanimously adopted reci.ing that
the boundary between the United
States and the Dominion of Canada at
many points has not been definitely
settled and appropriating s75, 900 for
determining under existing treaties the
boundary at all necessary points be-
tween the st. Lawrence river and the
Lake of Woods. The appointment of
commission and the details Of negotia-
tions will rest with the president If the
proposition of the committee is passed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
TRADING IN HAIR.
Big Crops Secured in Germany-Blakt
Now the Prevailing Color.

Big Crops Secured in Germany-Blakc
Now the Prevailing Color.
New York imports four or five tons of
hair annually. and London twice that
amount. English women have never
depended upon their own hair for adorn-
ment us Americans do. They have
finer suits generally. but like to see the
head overloaded with puffs, braids, buns,
etc.
The big hair crops come from Ger
many and France. 1t is handled by the
agents of Il Dutch company who visit
America annually for orders.
BLACK hair is fashionable just now,
but there are certain golden tints that al
ways bring the highest prise; for ex-
fetch as much as 81 an ounce The
peasant women of Brittany and Southern
France supply most of the dark hair in
the market, and from one to five francs is
paid per head. The average weight of a
single growth is one pound, and agents
refuse. rs a rule, to handle less than that
amount, unless the hair is naturally cur
are obliged to wash it before the sale,
and, indeed, as hair-growing is business
with them, they learn that it pays to
keep it clean. The dealers are careful
to attend all of the fairs and merry max
ings in the fall of the year in following
up the trade.
II attended one such sale when visit
ing in France lately. The girls come up
to be sheared just as they would to ped
die cabbage, each ones hair hanging
down her back. By the side of every
shearer was a long basket, into which
was thrown each successive crop of hair,
tied up in a sheaf by itself. The wom-
en- wear close caps, shorn or unshorn, so
there is not much lost or gained in their
personal appearance.-NewY York Com
mprcial
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
Nickel Steel.

1t is somewhat strange to hear nickel
steel termed a new composite metal, yet
such is the expression used by one of
our English contemporaries. AS is shown
in our columns of correspondence last
week and this, the advantages gained
by the alloy Of steel or iron with nickel
have been known and acknowledged by
many investigators over a long period of
years before the actual use of the alloy
was put to practical test.
So far as it's adoption as an alloy is
concerned, the Engineering and Mining
Journal was the first technical paper in
this country to advocate the trial. based
entirely upon the results of james Ri
ley's tests and experiments carried out
in 1888 and 1889 for the benefit and at
the request of the Iron and Steel insti-
tute Of Great Britain. These results
were so striking and so conclusive that
we could not fail to see the advantages
of the employment of this new alloy for
machinery, armor plates, projectiles and
other things that required at one time
excessive hardness and at another in
creased tensile strength over ordinary
steel. 1t is no doubt we'll known to all
who have experimental in this line that
certain percentage of nickel added to
ordinary soft steel will produce material
that the very highest tempered tool can
not touch, therefore, between this ex-
trcme and the minimum whereby an adj
vantage is gained there is very wide
margin of conditions suited to the yari-
GUS rements.-Engineering Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
ANOTHER ssLEXOWING."
New York's Morals to Get Their Annua
Securing.

New York's Morals to Get Their Annual
Securing.
1t looks as if New York would have
another dose of Lexowing.
1t has just been revealed that the
newly-appointed "Greater New York
committee" of which joint body Sen
ator Clarence Lexow, the head of the
once nationally famous investigating
committee, possesses wider scope than
any department. Speaking of it's power,
Senator Lexow says: 1.-THE. joint legis-
lative committee, known as the Greater
New York committee, has a wider range
and greater power than has ever before,
as far as my knowledge extends. been
granted to any investigating body. The
same power which the Senate police in
vestigating committee exercised in that
one department has been given to us to
investigate all executive, judicial and
administrative offices in New, Kings,
Queens and Richmond counties-embrac-
ing the whole area, in fact, of the Great
er New York.
This body will consist of four senators,
three of whom are Republicans, and five
assemblymen, of whom but one will be a
Democrat. Its work, however, will be
entirely non-partisan. Gov. Morton will
name the members of the commission
who are to be intrusted with the task
of drawing up charter for the inflated
metropolis. As soon as this body be-
gins its work, the new LeXow committee
will convene, although the tasks of tho
two are entirely different. The powers
of the committee appear to be almost
limitless. Every governmental depart
ment from the Supreme court down
comes within it's province.
This certainly promises midsummer
fun for Gotham
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
AN EXCITING CONTEST.
Far West Washington Furnishes an L
s teresting Fish Story.

Far West Washington Furnishes AN In
+ teresting Fish Story.
= Two river men belonging to the Stone
breaker crew witnessed an exciting in
cident ON the Clearwater last week, says
the Lewiston (Wash.) Teller. AS they
rounded bend just above. the mouth
of the North Fork they observed the
water being dashed into foam. The
splashing was equal to the commotion
loose. With the roar of water came a
scream in Il voice of despair from the
concealng foam that rolled ten feet
high.
The men toiled Oh over the stony
beach towing their heavy boats. When
they came within fifty feet of The
strange commotion of water the battle
seemed to end, and only dancing bubbles
marked the scene of disturbance. Two
great bald eagles We're sitting on the
beach with native pride subdued by
water that dripped from bedragglcd
plumage. They watched the approach
ing men with savage glare and re-
on the boulders. They moved little by
little from rock to rock till they were
fifty feet above the river on a crag.
On the beach between the rocks, ten
feet from the water, was salmon. a
monster of forty pounds. 1t struggled
ana beat the rocks and gasped in the
battle for breath. 1t was torn by the
claws of the eagles. Its eyes were
picked out and it lay the prey of the
cruel birds. The eagles had bounced
upon the salmon as it cruised on the
ripple. They buried their claws in it's
back. Side by side there were dozen
wounds. The fish had borne the birds
to the shoals; they dragged him, inch by
inch toward the shore-inch by inch till
thew had him on the stony hea oh 'l'han
the battle was won. The victors waited
for the fish to beat out it's own life en-
the rocks. They waited for their din
ner, but the men robbed them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
HE STOLE GARMENTS MOTHER.
Now He is in Penitentiary and Carmen is
Betrothed to His Rival.

Betrothed to His Rival.
Jose Maria Marsinez is young Span
ish peasant, whose tiny farm is near Sa-
has, Galicia, says New York Sun COR
respondent. He loved Carmen, the
daughter of a widow who owned the
largest shop in Sabas. Carmen was
willing, but the widow thought such a
handsome girl ought to marry money, so
she withheld her consent, to break off
the match.
All efforts of the lovers to meet proved
vain. Jose heard that Il young grocery
marry Carmen. His friends told him he
must get her then or not at all. So he
resolved upon bold Galician scheme to
seize her and make her his at once
The evening of April - was the time,
and the bed chamber of Carmen was the
place for the execution of his plot. He
climbed up to the bed chamber window
and unmatched the doors leading down to
the street. He grasped the Whitehead
form that he found on the bed fast in
his arms and hurried from the house
across the fields.
Il am going to the priest" he repeated
several times, to rouse her from the 81
lence which fright had laid on her tongue
There were two or three sobs that made
Jose's heart stand still, and then an out
cry that caused him to drop the white
clad figure hastily. He lighted match
and saw before him, not Carmen. but
Garments mother. He started away on
the run, but Garments mother had recog-
nized him, and she began to scream for
his arrest. The night Waterman of Sa-
has came; Jose was arrested. On April
1S he was sent to the penitentiary by the
criminal court of the district, and on
April 10, which was Sunday, Garments
betrothal to his rival was announced in
the Sabas church. The Madrid newspa-
pers published the story OH April %.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
The Value of Water Power,

The condemnation of water supplies
for metropolitan and municipal purposes
has become Il thing of very common oc-
currence with the growing number and
extent of public waterworks. and the
owners of a water power which is there
by injured, Or, as is often the case,
ruined, must necessarily be recompe1fsed
for the loss, says the Engineering Rec
ord. The valuation of water power has
been, and will continue to be, the sub
ject of a great number of law suits and
Investigations by boards of commission
ers appointed for the purpose How the
value of a water privilege, of which a
mill is deprived, shall be determined is Il
question of considerable Importance to
both parties, when it is recognized that
a single horsepower is in some cases
worth no less than $1,000, and even a
larger amount. This subject has more
or less local interest at the present time,
on account of litigations between the
city of Springfield, Mass, and owners of
water privileges on the Chicopee river:
those between the state of Massachusetts
and mill owners OH the Nashua river;
and those between the city of Syracuse
N. Y, and parties who own the water
rights of Skaneateles lake. One of the
common methods Of ascertaining the
value of water power is to estimate the
cost of installing steam plant of sutfi-
cient capacity to replace the water
power, and the investment required to
maintain permanently the expenses of
operating the plant. the sum Of the two
quantities being the amount desired.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
Four Girls as Others See Tbo,n

They are four girls; one of them j.: cul-
tivatlng her voice, another is an ploru-
ZIONIST, the third writes for the papers
and sometimes sees herself in print.
while the remaining member of the quar-
tette is an art student. Recently they
wearied of the stereotyped lows of life
in large boarding house and decided TO
take fiat together.
1T will be so bohemian they told
their friends, though none of them had
very clear idea of the meaning Of the
word, and the orthodox aunt of one of
them translated it Uncomfortable"
The fiat is full of all manner of fem-
nine contrivances; the cooking is done
in closet, the beds look like anything
else, and the parlor is Il wilderness Of
cushions, draperies, and shrouded seats,
which sometimes break down. The art
student has her sketches pinned up in
every available spot and the singer has
mandolin.
They take turns" in keeping house
and doing the marketing; the art stu
dent is famous for making an t,nelrt
without burning her fingers, the writer
can make coffee if she has an hour TO do
It in. and the soprano has won renown
f for her e, met ,e of of Carrying saasagss
Of them feel like" cooking; then they
file over to neighboring drug store and
dine on ice cream soda.
When they first moved in they decided
that it would be so lovely and odd to en-
clude the light of day and burn gas con-
stantly in rose-tinted globes; one glance
at the first monthly statement sent in
by the gas company settled that idea,
however.
Somehow they don't seem to be popu-
lar with their neighbors; perhaps it is
because they sometimes give musicales,
when the soprano sings about lost loves
and messy dales ut midnight; perhaps it
il because the elocutionist practices at
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
That was All.

"Please state to the court exactly
what you did between 8 and 9 o'clock
on Wednesday morning." said a lawyer
to delicate looking little woman on
the witness stand. "Well," she said,
after moments reflection, II washed
my two children and got them ready
for school and sewed a button on
Johnny's coat and mended rent in
Nellie's dress. Then 1 tidied no my sit
ting room and made two beds and wa
tered my house plants and glanced over
the morning paper. Then l busted nv
parlor and set things to rights in it and
washed some lamp chimneys and combed
my baby's hair and sewed button on
one of her little shoes, and then l swept
out my front entry and brushed and put
away the children's Sunday clothes and
wrote a note to Johnny's teacher, asking
her to excuse him for not being ut school
OH Friday. Then l fed my canary bird
and cleared off the breakfast table and
gave the grocery man an order and
swept off the back porch. and then sat
down and rested for a few minutes be-
fore the clock struck g. That's all.''
"All!' said the dazed lawyer Excuse
me, judge; must get my breath before
call the next witness. "-Detroit Free
PraSS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
THE MOSQUITO FOUND OUT.
DR.. Ross Discovers in Him the NIicrot
of Malaria After AL Exneriment

DR.. Ross Discovers in Him the Microbe
of Malaria After an Experiment..
A Scotch surgeon in the British
India army, Dr. Ronald Ross, has
proved to his own satisfaction that the
malarial parasite goes through some of
the necessary stages of it's development
in the body of the mosquito. The in
sects suck the blood of malarial patients
and keep the germs in their own bodies
till they are thrown off, when they are
ready to enter another human victim,
in drinking water or by some similar
way.
DR.. Ross found malaral patient suf-
ficiently docile to submit to experimental
ton and confined him under a net with
a considerable number of mosquitoes
When these had had their fill of malar-
ial blood they were caught and "xam-
ined under the microscope at stated in
tervals. The result of this examination
leaves little doubt that the germs live
and develop in the insect. DR.. Ross also
caught a healthy native to drink water
containing the eggs of a malarial-!nfest-
ed mosquito, and he shortly came down
with chills and fever. From this it ap-
pears that mosquito infested malarial
district is worse than one without mos
quitoes, and that region may be thor
oughly inoculated with malaria by the
presence of Il single patient and rhe aid
of Il sufficient number of the blood-ttirs-
ty insects.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
Feminine Rights.

The modern idea of feminine rights
must be modelled after the habits of the
red-necked phalarope. bird with a spe-
cial fondness for the Arctic regions. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Elliott, the hen bird does
all the counting. 1.-THE male" he says
sis as coy and retiring as the most bash
FIJI maiden. turning away from the prof
fered attentions first to this side, then
to that. even flying to the opposite side
Of the pool or to another near by: but all
in vain, for he is followed by the fair
one who has chosen him from his fell
lows, and there is no escape At least,
he yields, and the nest, a slight structure
of dry stalks, is placed in the center of
tuft of grass. The eggs are four in
number. On these the poor male. the
victim of a woman's rights, is obliged to
sit the greater part of the time, the fe-
male amusing herself on the pool near
nv -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-05
THE SHAH AND KING BELL.
Their Daily Appearance with Tin Teapot
ut the Paris Exposition.

Their Daily Appearance with a Tin Teapot
ut the Paris Exposition.
a pleasant "Reminiscences of the late
Shah of Persia comes from the time
of the last French Exposition. When
the Shah reached Paris he looked for u
crow ned head worthy of his notice. For
several days he found none: Then he
tain. who, despite his English name, was
under German patronage. Bell had been
brought to Europe by his Berlin patrons
in order that he might be filled with
reverence for the wonders of civilization.
Now when Bell was in his African
home he had been visited by the Ger
man explorer, Ehlers. AS Ehlers was
then on his way back to the coast, he
already had disposed of all his red cloth
and variegated glassware, and was put
to his wits end to find something to give
the chieftain. The only available article
that he could turn up in his baggage
was Il tin teapot, which had been in
capacitated for further service by hole
in the bottom. So Ehlers had this tea
pot polished and gave it to King Bell,
telling him that it possessed the magic
power of protecting from all harm the
gangway of a North German Lloyd YES
sci in Bremerhayen he held fast in his
right hand a highly polished tin teapot
with hole in the bottom. Wherever
he went in Berlin. Bell carried the tea
pot, through the National Art gallery,
Inter den Linden, in the Thiergarten,
and into the audience chamber of the
royal palace. He would not leave it be-
hind when he started for Paris, and
when the Shah met him he still had it.
The Shah did not let the teapot weak
en- his brotherly feeling for man of
royal blood. He accepted Bell with the
teapot and courted his society to the
exclusion of ordinary European uristoc-
racy. Day after day he might be seen on
the exposition grounds. with Bell trotting
by his side and swinging the magic tea
pot. And when the Shah left Paris
one Of the last figures In his view was
that of the black chieftain, with the left
hand waving farewell and the right one
still clutching the pot that Ehlers gave
him-New York Sun.