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Year: 1879

to success. He was favorite; and had q
host OF friends. The only theory that is
plausible, in the face of all facts, is that
he was in the meshes which beauty and
culture had woven, and in its mysterious
constructions he had become SO encom.
passed about that he fingered too long be-
fore the shrine and forgot duty; and in
his alteration there came to him an infat-
uation; that infatuation found itself


CONFRONTED BY A RIVAL


and here there came to him what comes
to every man in tthat predicament- -ieal-
ousy. Soldier that he was, he fell before a
weakness of human nature. This led to
another weakness drink and drink led
to ordinations and recriminations be-
tween the lovers. The lady was the daugh-
ter of Gen. Sturgis. Carrow received Or
ders to report to his regiment, the 7th cav.
airy, and should have left on Saturday.
He kept lingering and drinking, appear
emily unable to tear himself away from the
object of his love here His convival hab-
its stood between him and her, and this
affords the only explanation of the desper-
ate act. 81.


A special from St. Louis says that the
mystery surrounding the affair is cleared
up somewhat by the finding, among his
personal effects, of letter written by
Ella Sturgis, daughter of Gen. Sturgis.
Miss Sturgis had met Carrow at Fort Lin
coin, where she and the young lieutenant
had become very friendly. The General,
thinking his daughter and the young
lieutenant were becoming too devoted to
each other, removed her to St. Louis, hop
ing IN this way to break up a friendship
which they deemed unwise. 5sl


CARROW's PRIDE WAS sTUNG,
and, after nursing his atf1iction for some
time, he resolved to go to St. Louis and
settle the momentous question. Six weeks
ago he arrived, and at once plunged into
all the destinations Of the best society,"
Two weeks ago he attended a German at
the house of wealthy resident He was
to lead in the evening with the young
lady he so passionately loved. He told a
friend Of this before the evening arrived.
and seemed delighted at the thought Of
seeing Miss Sturgis. He further stated
that his prospects were never fairer, and
that he believed he was going to be sue.
cessful. The next day he met the same
friend, and said that he tlattered himself
that the long and anxiously discussed
question had been decided in his favor.
Just week after the event above men
toned Carrow told the same friend that
he was going to make final chare, and
IF am repulsed," said he, .,


"I'LL GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE"


The charge was made 1t was neither a
defeat nor a victory. Ella had answered,
"Wait few days, and I will write you a
letter." It is supposed by those who
knew the young officer intimately that he
received the fatal letter Sunday. It was
the final and unfavorable answer. The
result is we'll known, and the mystery is
lifted. Thursday night the body of the
young man was placed on Vandalia
train and taken to its last resting. place in
Pottsville, Pa.,where his father lives.
Year: 1879

STRANGER THAN FICTION.


Astartling report reached Bismarck
on Thursday evening, announcing the,
drowning of Col. Fred w Jones' It came
SO straight that every body believed it, and
subsequent advices only confirm the sad
intelligence. The Colonel was out with
old man Boughton and partner. Bough-
ton is a hunter, who has thoroughly
tramped the country between the Missouri
and Yellowstone. He knows it well and
makes the most Of hunters life. He
has a completecamp outfit and is prepared
to fight grizzlies, Indians fire and flood.
It was natural for Jones to fall in with
Boughton. He found in him a man who
could teach him something and give him,
full cup of frontier experience. Last
week the hunters with their OK, horse,
pony and wagon moved out


z WEST OF MANDAN


and camped lin wide coolie thirty-fve
miles from the Missouri. Their camp
was finely located on what
would be an island if there was any
rise of water in the sickly creek that
drained the cooley. The past week has
been one Of rains. On that side of the
river they have come down after the fash
ion of water spouts and "'busted'' mill
dams. Four o'clock on Wednesday the
sun light Of heaven was shut out and the
darkness of an eclipse settled down upon
the prairie With the darkness came
terrible storm thunder, lightning, hail
and rain. In a few seconds torrents of
water were sweeping around the
island and in few more @


ts THE HUNTERS WERE 1APRIsoNED.y


Jones and Boughton got into their boat
and undertook to escape in that way.
Their companion said he would try it on
foot. He did, and with the desperation
of a lost man reached the bluff. He saw
| the boat drift down stream and capsize.
Jones went out of sight at once. Bough-
ton struggled a few seconds in the stream
and went down. The boat was no fit
craft for flood. 1t was only built for
quiet waters, and steady padding or pol
| ing 1t is easily understood how she hap


pened to upset. Hanlon couldn't have
kept her ahoat The strongest man in a


prairie flood can only go down. The
housetop topography of the country makes
the most improbable flood popularity.


The man who escaped told the Keogh mail
driver Of the accident and he brought the
news to town. All rumors disproving the
original story have been found false. The
Colonel's unhappy fate is sincerely de-
plored in Bismarck. He fought with
Custer during the rebellion and was a
soldier of stainless record.
Year: 1879

has been met with universal condemnation.
Other legislatures have denounced it in the
severest terms. The newspapers Of all par
ties have united in condemning the vote as
an unparalleled outrage upon the honor of
the nation. u = ..-'...-. ...t ..


have not cared to discuss the advantages
or disadvantages Of having the Chinese in our
country. There is no allusion to that in the
resolutions. They are here, by the permis-
sion of our government, and are under its
protection the same as the citizens of any
other country. There is only one honorable
way by which we can require their return
or stop their coming, and that is by friendly
negotiations. Any other way is contrary to
every principle of justice and will surely
bring ruin and disaster to our commercial
and mercantile interests as well rs contempt
and obloquy upon our country. / trust, Mr.
Speaker, that the gentlemen of this House
will view this matter in its true light and
unite with me in endeavoring to prevent what
would prove a lasting disgrace.
Year: 1879

In the Mississippi Valley Labor Con
veution yesterday the Committee on
Resolutions reported that after a care
fnl examination of the subject, they
had concluded that the exodus was
owing to the low price of cotton and the
partial failure of the crop; to a vicious
system of credit; to apprehension on
the part of many that their civil and
political rights were endangered, and
to reports of life of ease and plenty
to be had in Kansas. They submitted
resolutions favoring an improvement in
the contract system, asserting that the
color4d race are on legal plane of alb
solute equality with the whites; pied
ging themselves to 10 all in their pow
er to protect the ne .roes in their rights;
fsvoring the reprl of all laws author
iziDg the right of the colored people
to go where they please, but urging on
them the importance of looking before
they leap. After long discussion the
resolutions were adopted, the negroe:
refusing to vote. They are very vel
satisfied with the result Of the conven-
ton, and it is believed the exodus will
b. checked by it.
Year: 1879

Among the many liberal donations
made by Walton & Bros. is a fine sup
ply of ice to the Holly Tree Inn and
many a wayfarer's heart will be made
glad by ther" liberality. They seem
to be on the liberal order practicing the
doctrine that the liberal hand maketh
rich.
Year: 1879

Charles Kyle will open his ice cream
ery at the N. i. cor. Of Sixth and Or
ange S,s., on Saturday evening. He is
fitted up very nicely and his ice cream
is of the best. Give him call and he
will treat you well.
Year: 1879

1t is surprising to me that so few
of our market gardeners and growers
of small fruits adopt measures. for ir-
rigating their grounds in times of de-
ficiency of rain. The cost of wind
engines and water pipes is much lower
than in former years, and the expense
of apparatus would hardly exceed the
losses sustained in single season of
drought like the present, in the fail
ure of crops of vegetables or fruits, or
the cost of watering by hand. Two
or three acres of strawberries, for in
stance, would be more than doubled in
yield. and the profits at last trebled,
in d dry season by .irrigation-for
prices are always high at such times
and this grain would almost pay the
cost of the apparatus in a single sea-
son. So it is with such vegetables as
lettuce, celery, cabbage and cauli


flower !; on majority Of soils and in
most seasons the yield and quality of
these crops may be nearly doubled by
frequent and timely irrigation-in fact,
celery and caulifower can hardly be
grown at all without some source of
water supply in addition to that form
rains, and hence only few gardeners
grow then with any profit. In some
localities there are springs that with
out much expense can be utilized for
irrigation by means of pipes, etc. (.
and occasionally water can be conduc-
ted from q creek or mill pond into a
low field or garden patch of bottom
land. In the majority ofcases, how


ever, resort must be had to wells and
machinery for pumping water, such
as is afforded by the wind engines, of
which there are half a dozen or more
different forms ard patents. l am
not writing in the interest of any OF


these nor do I know enough about
them to speak of their comparative
merits. ! only know that several OF


them are good and reliable, and that
their cost is not dear Practical
Farmer. agt y 20 sssG Teds.
Year: 1879

A young mechanic in one of our
shops put his dinner basket on the
first floor of an Office attached to
the establishment a few days
ago. and some hogs passing
that way went in and dined,
leaving nothing for him. But as they
are health preservers he oughtn't to
complain If he did lose his dinner. 1t
is one OF the sacrifices we must make
in the interest of health.
Year: 1879

re Eki0iruieH HAS ONh Sauotuafy AoL


the Presidency.


Chicago, Dec 19.-AnUtica special
gives an interview with Seymour. The
reporter asked him If be would accept
the democratic nomina tion for presi-
dent, If such course seemed necessary
for the party's success. He said, 'tas
for myself, do not think thereis o
general disposition to nominate me,
nor do l think it wise to do so, for
many reasons. should not be strong
candidate. and what have said in re-
gard to the numerous invitations to
make an address upon political or other
subjects, would of itself be good rea-
son why should not be elected, even
il nominated While my name was
spoken Of, do not consider it anything
more than one of the speculations Of
the day in the time of political uncer-
tainty. In the face of what I have
said, it is absurd to suppose that shall
be nominated. have no idea that 1
shall be nominated by any convention
for president. l should be guilty of
self complacency, which would be ridic-
ulous. If / thought great party were
anxious to make me their candidate
against my wishes, even in that impos-
sible event, should do my friends
very great wrong if should go on
ticket with the knowledge that was
the wrong man in the position.
Year: 1879

QclpnlH.


Philadelphia, Dec. 19.-The CONNER
cial exchange gave General Grant q
public reception to-day. The exchange
building was very beautifully decora-
ted. In response to an address of wei
come from President Bailey, General
Grant delivered brief address in which
he said: "My visits abroad have en-
abled me to see how greatly our foreign
trade can be increased. In Europe it
is already we'll taken care Of, but in the
east, America is only beginning to be
known and appreciated. We are now
badly represented there, and will be
until our policy shall be SO changed
as to allow our representatives to in
crease their compensation by acting as
the business agents of American man
ufacturies and business houses, thus
making it to their interest to increase
and develop our trade, rather than to
repress it, as is at present the case"


In conclusion the general said: 81
had no idea of saying this much, and
am almost sorryI have said it. again
thank you for the very cordial welcome
which you have extended to me-


The remarks Of the general were
warmly applauded.
Year: 1879

A correspondent of the New York Sun
gives q number of what he calls seasonable
hints, and among them is the following in re-
ference to the pest known as mosquitoes {:
Mosquitoes can be driven away from rooms
by the smoke of insect powder, burnt on a
hot shovel. When it is not easy to get fire,
put on piece of gum camphor on shovel,
light, and the gum will catch as quickly as
alcohol; then sprinkle Tablespoonful of in
sect powder (pyrethrum) on the same, let it
take fire, and blow out the blaze, close the
windows, and let the smoke arise for five
minutes. 1t will not injure walls or furni-
ture, and does not harm human beings,
though obnoxious to insects. Hanging q
cloth on which teaspoonful of carbolic
acid is poured at the head of the bed will also
keep mosquitoes away, and the writer has
repeatedly obtained good nights sleep by
this means when others failed. Take care to
place the cloth or sponge so that there is no
danger of touching it with the face or hands
in the night, as the acid burns like caustic.
1t is not generally known as it ought to be,
that the remedy for burns by carbolic acid is
Canada fir balsam, spread on the part at
tackad
Year: 1879

Give any boy saw and hammer and he
will make cart to please him better than the
costliest vehicle ever turned out. The wheels
won't be true circle, but that fact won't
bother him bit. Rusty ten-penny nails
will make excellent linch-pins, and an old
soap-box is ''body'' to be proud of, especi-
ally if the brand on it was stencilled with red
paint. The tongue is made of broomstick,
and no time is wasted in calculating curves
and angles. A shingle nail will hold han
die in its place, and the cart is ready to hold
the big boy of the neighborhood, whose
''horses" are to be the little boys. 1t is q
proud moment in the life of the builder and
owner of that cart when ''she" is first run
out Future Presidents gather to comment on
the workmanship and declare it boss, and the
''convention" nearly always reaches the unani-
NOUS conclusion that nothing is lacking un-
less it be some blue paint on the handle. The
favorite boys of the town are ready to sacri-
fee pride and position to draw that cart the
first time, and when the big boy has gathered
up his lines and made ready there is dash
down the walk which may leave wheels here
and there, and end up in q general wreck, or
prove the staying qualities of a rusty old nail
driven home with stone or fat.iron. The
man who has been boy without boys
homemade cart never more than half en-
joyed his boyhood days. He might have
succeeded in getting his kite up, but what is
kite flying compared to front seat on cart
''humping" along the walk at the rate of five
miles an hour?
Year: 1879




A bad little boy in Portland lit pack of
shooting crackers, and threw them into the
street. to see them ''go off," One of Ike
Bateman's mules came along and swallowed
them before they "went off," The mule
walked about fifteen feet and stopped.
Things wasn't acting just right inside. He
began to taste the smoke of the fre-crackers.
He laid his left ears around against his ribs
and heard something. 1t was them crackers
having fun. The mule picked out about
three and half miles of straight road and
started. A negro met him about mile the
other side of the aims house going south,
white with perspiration, with streams of
smoke shooting out of his nostrils, mouth
and ears, while his tail stuck straight up,
and a stream of blue-and.green smoke about
ten feet long followed in the rear. Ike
found his mule yesterday morning sticking
half way through farm house near Paddy's
Run still smoking. The man got his family
out and put them up into LOT of trees. Ike
hauled his mule home when he got cool
enough on dray. The man is going to move
his house further back off the road, and his
wife and oldest daughter will be baptized
when the water gets warm.
Year: 1879

A writer in a foreign journal devoted to
agricultural interests strongly recommends
the introduction of the Japanese goose into
poultry yards. The goose is as nearly as
beautiful in appearance as it is possible for q
goose to be. 1t is equally at home on land
or water, and all its movements are graceful
and. swanlike; they Withstand changes of
climate even better than our domesticated
geese, and can be kept without shelter in the
most severe winter season. The Japanese
goose is much more prolific than the ordinary
breeds, and commence laying in midwinter,
rarely showing any inclination to set before
June or July, which of course renders it
necessary to hatch their eggs under ordinary
fowls of some good heavy breed. The
Cochins have been found best adapted to this
purpose. As regards food these birds are by
no means fastidious, and the yield of feath-
ers and down is described as something won
derful to see.
Year: 1879

One day while was at work, in the drift


one of our party who was bailing in the
shaft said:


''There's something big happened up above
Tom; hear great buzziDg and shouting.
''Perhaps it's fight" l suggested, as
stuck my pick in the soil and unearthed q


nugget as big as walnut.


''Perhaps it's fnd," suggested my mate.


''There's a find here, said, as crawled
out of the drift and exhibited the nugget
had just taken out Then heard the clamo1
also; it was like the murmur of distant


waves. We shook the rope, and received no
answer to our signal. we concluded that some
thing important had happened, as our
mates above had evidently left the windlass.
A moment later shadow appeared above,
and Bills voice was heard shouting:


''Come up, boys, and see the big gnd.''


'Where is it p l asked, on reaching the
surface; but scarcely needed to ask, for it
must be where the crowd was collected some
fifty yards distant from our claim. The
crowd was large and every moment increas-
ing, but being brawny and broad shouldered
l pushed my way through it, and was almost
overwhelmed with astonishment at the sight
that greeted my vision; 1t wasn't nugget,
it wasn't q boulder No wonder that the
miners were excited. The spectacle was
enough to excite the most phlegmatic indivi-
dual that ever breathed.


1t was a solid mass of gold as large or
larger than 4 leg of mutton, and not unlike
one in shape. This was the mass which has
since been widely known as the Welcome
nugget. A fac-simile of it may now be seen
in the mineral department of the Boston
Museum of Natural History, where the
weight is given at 2,166 ounces, and the
value at $41, 822.70; the further information
is impaired that the nugget ls the largest
piece of gold ever found. This is an error.
A larger nugget was found at Bendigo lead
on February 9, 1869; it weighed 189 pounds
/ ounce Troy, or 2,269 ounces.


had been mentally congratulating myself
on the discovery of a nugget as large as
walnut but the sight of this mass of gold
took all the copceit out of me. Nevertheless
I was glad that the nugget had been found,
for the claim from which it was taken was
right in the direction in which we were work.
ing, and our claim was daily growing richer
in ore.


The Welcome nugget, as large as it was,
did not enrich its finders, for there were
twelve shareholders in it, and it brought them
less than a thousands pounds apiece; it
would have been lucky find for couple of
mates. The man who dug it out tainted
dead away before he unearthed it. When his
pick first struck it, he reached out his hand
10 pick up the lump; the light from his can
die shown upon it and revealed its nature.
To his surprise it did not yield to his touch.
Then he began to feel around it with his
hands, and it grew in size under his exploring
lights. he gave it a wrench, but it did not
oudge Seizing his pick he began to dig
around it, and as its proportions grew under
lis eye the spectacle overcame him, and he
tainted for joy.
Year: 1879

Larcom in Harper's Magazine for Septeml
Oh. he goes away, singing,


Singing over the sea!
Oh, he comes again, bringing


Joy and himself to me!
Down through the rosemary hollow
And up the wet beach ran,
Ny heart in a flutter to follow


The flight of my sallor-man.
Fie on husband sitting


Still in the house at home!
Give me mariner, fitting


And flashing over the foam!
Give me q voice resOunding


The songs of the breezy main!
Give me free heart bounding
Evermore hither again!
Coming is better than going;


But never was queen so grand
As !, while watch him blowing
Away from the lazy land.
/ haye welded an ocean-rover,
And with him own the SEA;
Yet over the waves come over,
And anchor, my lad, by me.
Hark to his billowy laughter,


Blithe on the homeward tide!
Hark to 1t, hear! up and after;
OFF to the harbOr-side;
Down through the rosemary hollow
And over the sand-hills, light
And swift as a-bird follow;
And no! for sail in sight!
Year: 1879

The morning of our rest has come,
The sun is shining clear;
! see it on the steeplc-top;


Put on your shawl, my dear,
And let us leave the smoky town,
The dense and stagnant lane,
And take our children by the hand
To see the fields again.
I've pined for air the life long week;
For the smell of new-mown hay;
For pleasant, quiet country walk,
On sunny Sabbath day.
Our parish church is cold and damp;
/ need the air and sun;
Well sit together on the grass,


And see the children run,
Wen watch them gathering buttercups,
Or cowslips in the dell,
Or listen to the cheerful sounds,
Of the far-Off village bell;
And thank our God with grateful hearts,
Though in the fields we pray;
And bless the heathful breeze of heaven,
On a sunny Sabbath day.
I'm weary of the sitting room,


Where all the week we're pent:
OF the alleys filled with wretched life,
And odOrs pestilent
And long once more to see the flds,
And the grazing sheep and beeves;
To hear the lark amid the clouds,
And the wind among the leaves:
And all the sounds that glad the air
On green hills far away;
The sounds that breathe of Peace and Love,
On sunny Sabbath day.
For somehow, though they call it wrong,
In church cannot kneel
With half the natural thankfulness
And piety l feel,
When ont, on such day as this,
lie upon the sod,
And think that every leaf and flower
Is grateful to its God;
That l, who feel the blessing more,
Should thank him more than they
That can elevate my soul


On sunny Sabbath day.
Put on your shawl, and let us 60;
For one day let US think
Of something else than daily care,
OF toll. and meat, and drink:
For one day let our children sport
And feel their limbs their own,
And basking in the healthful ray,
Thank God that we can still enjoy
A sunny Sabbath day.
Year: 1879

ATHLETICIsM AND CRCELTY.-The Phila-
delphia doctors have called the attention of
the police authorities to the spectacle of a
woman show " now before the public in
that city. BY the terms of the match in
which the women are there engaged they
must make four thousand quarter miles in
four thousand consecutive quarter hours.
Four thousand quarter hours run through
forty.one days and sixteen hours, and for
that extended period these women can
never get good sleep--since even with the
best strategy on the part of their attendants
they can never be off the course for n!ore
than twenty minutes at any one time. The
physicians very properly suggest that the
| police put stop to this cruel exhibition.
Year: 1879

AN INGENIOUS GAMBLING INSTRUMENT
An exceedingly ingenious apparatus, design
ed to facilitate cheating at cards, was re-
Gently captured in gambling room in San
Francisco. 1t consists of springs in a frame
which passes around the players arm
beneath his coat sleeve, and contains the
cards designed to be used in cheating.
Attached to the apparatus is a string which
passes around the players body to his left
hand. BY means of the string the player
can throw out the cards so as to" stock >
his haud and withdraw those that he does
not consider strong enough to play against
his opponent. The machine bore evidence
of long service, and has doubtles emptied
the pockets Of many greenhorn.