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Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-04-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE EXAMINER-SATURDAY. APRIL 7, 1888.  PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT.  There is a town in the extreme western part of Kansas which enjoys a distinction which no other city in the world can boast of. Its affairs are managed, controlled, and dictated by women. This remarkable town is Syracuse, the county seat of Hamilton County, the west line of which is the Colorado border. A few years ago it was known as one of the " border" towns—a rendezvous for cowboys and gamblers. One-half the buildings were occupied by saloons, and after the usual " round-up "of cattle had occurred, the cowboys congregated there to drink and gamble away the sum they had earned during the year. Those were exciting times, and scarcely a day passed that a saloon row did not end up in murder. No attempt was ever made to arrest the murderer, the body of the victim was quietly carried away to some ravine or deep gulch, and no one ever heard of him afterwards. But times have changed in Syracuse. There are no saloons there now, and the gambling dens disappeared long ago. This is not due altogether to the election of a City Council composed entirely of women, but they have been a great power in ridding the city of evil influences. One of the lady councillors, Mrs. Knott, said to a reporter In all the work that has been done under our supervision—and we have expended about 17,000 dole—not one complaint has gone up from citizens about extravagance or waste of public funds. I flatter myself that we have expended the people's money judiciously, and I think you wiU find that to be the unanimous verdict of all our citizens." Mrs. Sarah Coe (no relation to our Captain Coe) is chairman (or chairwoman) of the Committee on Streets. She has been connected with the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Dodge City, where this organisation had a very extensive field for work, for it was in the palmy days when Dodge City was the field of the gambler and the saloon-keeper. Here Mrs. Coe acquired an extensive experience in dealing with awl correcting. the evils which abound in cities. and thin mak,. hor • N-atuatdu ;number ot the Syracuse Common Council. The female City Government of Syracuse seems to have proven quite satisfactory. The scheme of a lady council was suggested at first as a piece of buncombe, but it was at once taken up and struck the people in the right place. No one believes that the ladies will ask or receive a re-election. The ladies themselves think that one year as councilman is enough. Kansas not only has a female City Council, but a female mayor as well. Mrs. Susanna Medora Salter is mayor of Argonia, Sumner County. She is the wife of a prominent lawyer and land dealer of Argonia. After several weeks' experience she says she does not find the incumbent duties at all burdensome, as she still finds plenty of time to do her own household superintending. She takes a deep and sincere interest in promoting good morals.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-02-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

STOAT AND TEM BAT.  A writer In the English Illustrated Magazin, says When the hero of the "Water Babies" ventured on am enquiry concerning the nature of bees, he was fain to be satisfied with the gamekeeper's laconic reply, "What make honey." A small urchin of a farms es boy whom I once catechised as to his knowledge el the natural history of stoats, answered with line brevity, "They come for the ducks." This impeachment is but too true, the destruction of ducks and fowls being as natural to the stoat as honey making to the bee. The stoat not only "comes for "the ducks, but carries them away bodily, two of these animals having been seen to convey a full-grown duck between them to their nest in the hollow of a tree, six or eight feet from the ground—no insignificant achievement, considering the weight of the burden. When a young family has to be provided for, the quantity of haz. rabbits, and other articles of food which a pair M stoats will collect and lay by is only limited by the size of their storehouse. At other times they are cotemealy supposed only to suck the blood of their prey excepting in the case of rata. The brain of the rat affords a dainty morsel to the stoat and weasel. The late Mr. E. Newman in" The Rats and the Atic. says "Whether the rat be killed in his hole, in the water, or on land, by either stoat or weasel, I hare carefully examined a great many and have always found the brain completely cleared and the rest of the body untouched." It is obvious that this exclusive predilection for so small a portion of the body—infinitely less than would suffice for a meal—must lead to the destruction of great multitudes of rats, upon whose indefinite increase no effort of man's ingenuity could ispose so efficient a check. This much at least may .well be pleaded on behalf of an animal which is toe often condemned without a hearing. Every stoat nailed to the barn door represents a rapid multiplication of the most voracious and destructive pests with which the farmer has to contend. No doubt the sight of a score of slaughtered ducklings may induce him to regard the murderer as anything but a blessing in disguise ; but then it should be remembered that it is far easier to protect poultry at night than to serum corn ricks from the constant depredations of the rat, which cause an incomparatively heavier loss; while even as regards the feathered stock, the rat is a still worse neighbour, if possible, than the stoat. monants.  I have sotriewhere read a legend, Told, I think, in Barbary, That the tiny ants, in millions, . .  , Once absorbed the mighty sea. Now, each legend has its lesson, Though the tale be most untrue, And this story something teaches,  My dear boys and girls, for you. Minutes, like the ants, are little, Yet their power is also vast; When together they are taken, They an age will make at last. Use them, then, in earnest living, Waste them not because so small, Ere you know it, life by minutes Will have passed beyond recall.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1888-02-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

NEWS NOTES.  Me do 1,11:4 identify °ans.:Avail with our oorreopondouth opismo.)  Sin JAMES FERGUSSON, the Ulider-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has given an assurance in reply to questions put to him in the House of Commons that Great Britain is not bound up in any way with the Triple Alliance lately formed between Germany, Austro-Hungary, and Italy. There had been rumours of a secret treaty, involving obligations of military or naval assistance to these Powers in the event of a general European war; but Sir James Pergusson'sreplyshowed that those rumours were entirely unfounded, though some arrangement may have been come to in view of possible contingencies between Britain and Italy with regard to the combined action of their fleets in the Mediterranean. A reported speech of Admiral Hewett, of the Channel Fleet, confirms the latter conjecture.  ANXIETY has again been excited with regard to the condition of the Crown Prince of Germany, on account of an attack of neuralgic headache having visited him so soon after undergoing the ordeal of an operation on his windpipe. Relays of doctors are continually in attendance mxm him day and night, carefully watching all the symptoms that appear. It is stated in a Berlin newspaper that a Government official at Danzig, after undergoing an operation similar to that of the Crown Prince, had a tube in his windpipe for two years and a half, through which he breathed freely, and ultimately enirely recovered from the malady which had long afflicted him. What the doctors in attendance on the Crown Prince most of all dread is anything in the shape of complications.  NOTWITHSTANDING the publicity given at Boulogne and Paris to the large reward, offered by the friends of the late Archibald McNeill, for any information that may serve as a clue to the detection of his murderer, no further intelligence, beyond what was previously reported in the newspapers, has been made known to the police. In reply to a question which was put to ram in the House of Lords, the Marquis of Salisbury stated that he had every reason to believe the French Government were desirous that every facility should be given for throwing light on what still remains a mystery. English correspondents have made complaints of the slackness exhibited both by the French Government and police.  Tell great cricket match in Australia between men representing the Vernon and Shrewsbury teams and players selected from colonial clubs terminated in the victory of the English by one hundred and twenty-six runs, which must be described as a very signal success. The weather was not at all what could have been desired for the great match of the cricketing campaign t; but it told equally, of course, against both sides. Both in batting and bowling, the English players showed superiority over the Colonials. As the match took place so soon after the celebration of the New South Wales centenary, it would have been a feather in the cap of Australia if her players had proved the winners on the occasion.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-08-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

AIIGTIST 23, 1890.  COMPULSORY HOLIDAYS. Mr. Herbert Vivian, writing in the Whir/wind, says. "There must be many besides myself, who View the recurrence of each bank h eiday with disgust and distrust. The thoroughfares of towns become impassable from the throng of jostling junkettere, and the very country lanes are infested with turbulent tourists ; all travelling srrangements g. tout of gear. shops are shun, and even the postal service is at a standstill ; the morning is made hideous by boisterous children in what is terrnel high spirits.' and sleep is murdered at night-time by the drunken hrouhalut of returning revellers. It is the universal reign of disorder, dissipation for the masses and discomfort and despair for the classes. Let it not he supposed for a moment that I grunge the people their holidays; on tbe contrary, it is the infromency of their o,xurrence and their consequent character that I deplore. It is the old issue of Individual:am ver,e, the State—the old story of the State meddling unnecesifariiy and Caueing confusion. Having these holidays forced upon them by the State, the peop'e seek no others, but concentrate into these plethoric periods the whole store of suppressed liveliness in th-.r natures. Instead of moderate indulgence at constantly recurring intervals, they are driven to huge urges of pleasure at intrequent dates, a course about as sensible as total abstinence from liquor all the year round, relieved by disgusting intereperarre at Christmas I advocate the repeal of 'Sank Holiday legislation in the interests of the people themselves. Perchance thee they might follow the example of their brethren on the continent (Protestants and Catholics alikei and utilise their Sundays and their holy days for reasonable rest and recreation. Our unique custom of observing such festivals in • morose manner is one of the ninny loathly legacies that have come down to us from the pestilent scoundrels who styled themselves Puritans in the 17th century. The days that oreeeded were the days of " Mende England," the days of May-poles and morrie dancers, the days of manly spurt and wholesome mirth, unspoiled t y hypocrisy and unfettered by humbug. Can we not recall some of the memories of those good old times? Doubtless smoke and steam and other tiresome concomitants of that nightmare, civilisation, have rubbed the bloom from the poesy of existence, lout the spirit of national gaiety cannot be wholly dead, and, even in an age where originality is choked by bourgeois stupor and sentiment is deemed a laughing-stock, there must still remain a tradition or a fragrance of the brighter past. The relics of this bygone England it is my ambition—it IS the province of Individualism—to resuscitate ; and, purged alike of the old monarchical tyranny, which preceded stuart days, and of the new oligarchical tyranny, which has followed theca, another and a merrier Fagiand may yet be ours, • home of liberty and • garden of content, the model and the envy of all the nations in the world.  STEALING ThLEPHONE
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1890-03-08 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

CHILD BY ITS LATKISH.  At the Thames Police-court, Henry (jarred, 57, a commercial traveller, of Poplar, has been brought up in the custody of Inspector Parlett, K division, charged with feloniously slaying his daughter, Daisy (jarred, aged seven years, by cutting her throat with a razor. Constable Sidney Evans, 240 K, do that he was called to 41, Pygrove-street, when ne was told that the prisoner had cut his child's throat. Witness found the accused sitting in the back room in front of the fire, and the child lying on the bed, dead, with Its throat cut. Witness told the accused he would be charged with murdering the child, when le made no reply. When charged at the station he said, "I cut the child's throat with the razor Witness found a razor (produced) which had been thrown into the fireplace,. The prisoner made no other statement. IN hen asked if he had any questions to ask the officer the accused replied he had not. Inspector Parlett said be had heard the accused had been medically treated for mental debility. Mr. Montagu Williams ordered the accused to be remanded, and directed that the prison doctor should inquire into the state ot ha mind.  %pod  it appears that for some time past the accused has been very much depressed and strange in his manner. Ile has been very much troubled over money matters. At one time he was worth a considerable amount of money, but lately be has been in straitened circumstances. On Friday night of last week he told a pc-son that a certain man had ',lone him out" of £lOOO. On the following morning the prisoner's wife left the accused and his daughter in one room, while she went to the other. (jarred laid to the chill, ",Come and sit on daddy's knee and warm your hands," and she went and sat on his lap. Soon afterwants ides. Garrod heard a scream, and on running into the room the child ran towards her with blood streaming from a large gash in her throat, and said her father had cut her throat. Mrs. Garred bound up the wound, and sent for a doctor, but on his arrival he found that life was extinct. ills believed that the prisoner's mind is deranged, and that he is not responsible for his actions.  THR Shah cf Persia has, ever since his visit to Europe, been in correspondence with a lady at the Berlin Court, who has given to this potentate a diaant candid report of the Impression. left by hie Majeety. The correspondence i. carried on in Prench, and the Shah sends hi retum occasionally valuable presents. . .  THRVEN, In one of his published lectures, relates a good story about a girl who went to his outpatient rooma at the London Hospital, very lame. He told her he must amputate one of her toes, ' and the girl was quite pleased, because she thought the operation would enable her to wear a still stual:er shoe.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-08-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

AFGHAN ISTAN. THE LATE BATTLE AND THE AMBER'S  PROSPECTS._  The Calcutta correspondent of the Time.. under date of August 7th, says: Full details of the battle of Races-i-Atta are still wanting, but the accounts, such as they are, all point to the conclusion that the treachery of his troops was the main cause of Gholem Hyder's defeat. An official prey. commusigri issued yesterday states that Ayoob's right wing had been completely routed and driven off the field when the defection of the Khanabad Regiment turned the fortune of the day. Candabar has fallen without a blow being struck in its defence, and Ayoob is new the sole master of Southern Afghanistan. Ile has reorganized the deserters into two regiments, and has marched for Cahill in oonsiderable strength. Another fight is expected at or near Relaxi-Gbilsai, where the Ameer has a strong brigade which is said to be loyal; but the desertion of the Ehanabad Regiment, one of the most trusted of his corps, shows how little trust can be put in the fidelity of Abdurrharnan's army, and it is only too likely that the battle of Eeleti-Ghilsai, if a battle does take place, may be s repetition of that of Karen- Daoud Shah and other Afghan refugees at Simla have expressed their opinion that with such Generals as the Ameer has nothing but defeat can be expected; that Ayoob will be enthusiastically received as faces Ghazni, and that if he gains one more victory the whole country will rise in his favour. We have not beard how the news of the defeat was received at Cabal, nor is . _ . . . .  anything definite known tie in the Ameefe deinge or  The following telegram has been received at the India Office from the Viceroy, dated the 4th of Aug., 1881 '' Report of Bhamaud -din's oepture is confirmed. He was made prisoner by Oabuli soldkes wen they now themselvee departed by their eonsmender. The report of nineteen persons having bespi mutilated in Oandahar streets is denied. The o.4mffl country are now said to be quite tranquil. All quiet about Pishin." ENTRY OF AYOOB KHAN INTO CANDAHAE; The following telegram from the Viceroy, dated led of August, 1881, has been received at the India Office  Ayoob Khan entered Candahar on the 30th. His infantry and guns are in the citadel, his cavalry in cantonment. Prom Chaman a report says that all is quiet within and about our frontiers. General Mir Ahmed has returned to India on a fresh mission from the Ameer. He must have left Cabul before news arrived of Ayoob's success. The Times Lahore correspondent telegraphs as follow% under date August let: Ayoob occupied Candahar on the 30th. A statement has reached Quetta that Shams.ud-din was captured. No action is reported at Candabar. One wing and head.triarters of the 63rd and 9th Bombay Infantry respectively left Quetta for Peshin on Saturday. Part of the 9th Bengal Cavalry follows from Kiandil Khan. Ayonb'e force, consisting of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, occupied Candahar citadel and cantonment& Nineteen Hawes and others were murdered. There were street riots by Afghans before Ayoob'a arrival.
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-11-19 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

PUT OFF—NOT DONE WlTlL—GerrulollB Old party (after • long rigmarole story): "Ah, forty years is • long way to go back to." Youth; So it is, maim; and what's more, I've got a long way to go, too, mares; so I'll hear the rest of the story when I comes down town next." An old Yorkshire farmer was once persuaded by his wife to attend a service in the Wesleyan chapel. A little tailor, who ene employed by the farmer to make his garments, was proceediog to address the meeting, when the farmer rose from his place as listener. emok the small man by the shoulders and cried wish much wrath Tom, why didn't you send my breeches home, hey?" When the clerk of the weather awoke the other morning he called his first assistant, who was floating around in a closed, and inquired what kind of a day he had 'best give bew England. "Well," replied the assistant, "we've got one of those dog days on hand, and I don't think it best t d carry it over." "All right!" exclaimed the clerk, "shove it out for New England, for in a week's time we shall have to begin to unload our frosty mornings." DECLAIIE, if there isn't the deacon's daughter out with a orand new shawl. Well, I never:, "Hush! sail a better informed female; '''tisn't hers. It's one she borrowed from the company that's visiting over t' the demon's." "Well, there's one thing I know. She (isn't depend on borrowing to look well in heaven. She'll have to wear her own angel plumage when she gets there." And they bowed their heads as the minister opened the services. A Hungarian entered the studio of a portrait painter and said, "I want you to paint a portrait of my late father." "With pleasure, sir. Have you a photograph of the lamented incensed? "'No you don't want any photograph. Just paint • wild-looking Hungarian, about sixty yqsrs old and six feet high, with,, big white moustache." Fora weeks later the family came roaud tome the picture. "Bravo !" said the Hungarian warmly, "It's a speaking likeness, only the old man wins to have changed a good deal since his death." IT WAS ALL SlGHT.—Several persons were making purchases in a grocery in Kansas City on a snowy day, when an old man with a can in one hand and a bundle in the other entered, and asked: "did any o: you drive up here in a sleigh?" "Yes." I did." replied one. "Was it an old white hose?" "Yes,' 'And an old woman in the cutter?" "Yes." ?And can she manage the boss?;' "I gess she can. "Teen it's all right," raid the man of the can and bundle. "The old hoes has ran away, and the old woman is hangmg to the dashboard and shouting 'Murder!' with all her might; ,but, if she can manage him, there's no use of anybs ly getting en' sited over it. Let me inquire what the price of cranberries is to-day, A Mat BY
Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-02-05 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

JNG'S NEK.  The Times Durban correspondent, under date of Jan. 29th, eat s: The Boers fought in the action of yesterday with deter mined courage. They captured the colours of the 58.11 Regiment, killing the two officers in charge. The men of the regiment recaptured them at the point of the bayonet. An eye-witness states that the Boom butchered our wounded, shooting them through the bead es they lay. If the 58th had been suppored by another thousand men, the position would have been taken and the Berg cleared. Forty Boers felt close to our lines. Their loss further up the hill, through shell, Ac., cannot be stated. One shell killed five men in one group. The rockets had not fair play, owing to the huge boulders scattered about the spa. The engagement was not a defeat. We simply failed to take the position. It is reported that the Triumvirate demand a copy of the declaration describing Captain Ell!ot's murder, and say that if the facts are as stated the guilty persons shall be punished with the utmost rigour. The following authentic acecunt of the engagement has been published by the Natal Mercury: " Major Darnell and the Mounted Police returned to Newcastle from the camp on Saturday morning. There is no doubt onto Friday's fight being a repulse o! the British forces. The Boers were strongly in. trenched at and beyond Laing's Nek, where they had occupied a house and cattle kraal, from which they were shelled early in the day. Laing's Bob is the most difficult point on the road from Newcastle to the Transvaal. At nine o'clock the guns and the rocket battery advanced within range. The guns were then ranged on the right and the rockets on the left of the road to the Nek. The Nek was shelled for one hour, when there was little sign of the enemy. The 58th Regiment then advanced to storm led by Colonel Deane. Then were met by a destructive fire, but held their own gallantly. Meanwhile, the Boers emerged Doss dongas to the right and left, and poured a heavy flanking fire into the 58th Regiment, who now suffered severely, especially among their officers. Their ammunition ran short, and their supports failed to reach them. They, therefore, retired with their guns towards the camp, keeping up a bold front the whitened now the encounter at times became hand-to-hand. The Boers advanced on the left and the right of the camp to within a short distance. The General then sent out a flag of truce, asking for time to bury the dead. The proposal was accepted, and both parties proceeded to the task. One British surgeon attended a Boer who was wounded, and is said to have been detained. Our shells apparently passed over the Boer earthworks. The Getting guns were kept in the camp to guard it. The rockets, when they were fired at any considerable body, proved to be very effective. The Boer losses are estimated at 500 killed I and wounded. CAPTDBB OF A BOER_ LA &