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V The Grant County News. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT CANYON CITY, OREGON. g. H. Shepherd Editor. TELEGRAPHIC. EASTERN. A Spirited Circular from Got. Weaver to GrecnbaclcerN. Indianapolis, Sept. 28 The following circular letter has been addressed to Greenbackers of the union by their can didate for president. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27, 1880 To the Greenback Labor Men through out the United States: I urgently request that you have struck off by the.tbousands, for circulation in each county, full extracts from Mr. Bayard's New York speech, in which he says the democratic candidates for president and vice president and the democratic party are in favor of his bill to destroy greenbacks, and that they will carry out that policy. Publish the Bayard resolution with lull extracts from his speech so that people may know just what it is that the democratic party and its candidates arc pledged to carry out, The issue is now fully made up. Let every greenbacker in the union arouse himself to the real situation and brand as an infamous traitor to our holy cause any man without regard to his former stand ing in our party, who attempts to transfer voters to either of the old parties. J. B. AVeaner. JL Sail Catiu. AVars aw, Ind., Sept. 2'J. Three weeks since, Annie 1 Shaftin, daughter of a di rector in the First National, secured SoOO on a forged check. Her father imme diately made the discovery and failing to keep her away from a married adventurer, thought best to have her arrested for forgery. Three days after being jailed, she confessed that G. L. Smith, a married man, was the forger. He was arrested, gave bail and since has been trying to secure bail for Annie but faf.ed. This afternoon he went to the jail, shot Annie dead and killed himself, devotion said to be the cause. & Scheme of Great Importance to Oregon. New York, Sept. 29. The Times prints an article headed ''Another Great Hail road," giving the history of the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company and the p.ans of the eastern capitalists to push it for ward. It is proposed to go to work at once and finish theEline from Corvallis to Yaquina bay and to construct 70 miles irom Corvallis eastward, the entire 130 miles to be equipped and in running or der by September 1. 1SS1. A line of steamers will then be nut on to run from Yaquina bay to San Francisco. A Murclvr confessed Mantitomac, Wis.. Sept. 20. Annie Stroker, who has been on trial for the murder of her employer. Miss Nancy Heywood, to-day was visited by her mother, who, holding up the Catholic cross and adjuring her to tell the truth, got from her a confession of th" murder which confession she subsequently made in court. She said that Nancy scolded her and called her crazy, which so exas perated her that she pushed her down on the floor, and picking up an ax struck her on the head and neck, and finding her lifeless, dragged her out into the yard and concealed her body. The girl Is only seventeen years old and (ran neither read nor write. She has hitheito shown no signs of grief. Fire at Fort Dodge. tour Dodge, la., Sept. 20 A destruc tive fire occurred here last night. The dry goods store of Hall & Julius, boot and shoe store of Crosby & Co., hardware store of Prussias and First National Bank were burned, besides smaller buildings. Loss estimated at one hundred thousand dollars; insurance, fifty thousand, Tlic Benders Again. Topeka, Ks., Sept. 30. Gov. St. John to-dav, on request of the county attorney of Labette county issued a requisition for the Bender family. It is not known on what state the requisition is made, but tne governor declares belief that no mis take has been made this time, and that the Benders have really been found. Tlicy Blow Out the Ga.H. Indianapolis. Sept. 30. James Forester and wife from La Porte stopped at the Lyle house last night and on retiring blew out the gas. This moruing Forester was found dead in bed and his wife's life is despaired of. N. P.R. K. Co. Election. New York, Sept. 30. The annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railroad was held to-day and the following were elected directors to serve one vear: Fred'k Billings Charles B. Wright, Benj. P. Cheney, Johnston Liv ingstone, Jos. Dirworth, Joseph P. Potts, Alexander Mitchell, Hugh MeCulloch, AshbellH. Barney, AVm. R. Garrison, Henrv E. Johnson, Robt. Harris, and James B. Williams. Resolutions were adopted requesting and advising the di rectors to provide as early as in their judgment prudent for the construction, completion and equipment of the com pany's railroad to the western terminus on the Montreal river to Puget Sound, and for that purpose to use and employ all the resources of the company as far as required and to execute such mortgage and mortgages on tne whole or any part of the line of constructed road and lands granted by congress appertaining thereto as shall seem to the boaid of directors best calculated to accomplish the early . completion of the enterprise. Tne newly elected directors organized by ek-cting Frederick Billings president; Samuel AVilkeson, secretary Robert Belknap, treasurer, and George Gray, general coun sel. , Chinese Embassador. New York, Oct. 1. Among the passen gers for Havana by to-day's steamer, the Saratoga, is a member of the Chinese em bassy to the United StatesSpain and Peru in a passport given by his imperial Chin ese majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. The name and title are given as H. E. Tong Ling Kang inteudant of the circuit of the empire of China. He jroes to Cuba fornirposes connected with the embassy, one of the principal objects being investigation of the coolie trade. Wlient Crp of the Northwest. Minneapolis, Oct. 1. In the aggregate, wheat in Minnesota and Dakota has turned out better than expected three weeks ago when heavy rains overtook harvesterin Minnesota. The crop is but little short of an average and Dakota's is fully up to average turning out 20 to 30 bushels to the acre, and mostly grading No. 1. In some localities the yield is 35 bushels to the acre. The Northern Pa cific railway is employing its entire frieght ing capacity to move the grain to Dnluth. Receipts there last week reached 193.C00 bushels. Prii-es rule, SSc for No. 1, 85 for No. 2, 77 for No. 3. Millers pay as high as 91c for Mo. 1, delivered at Duluth. Re ceipts of wheat approximate 300,000 bushels per week, and it is shipped at once by lake to the sea-board. Prices rule as high as OS for No. 1 hard, and 94 for No. 1. which are fair prices. Still Another Slityrc Bobbery. St. Louis, October 2. Specials from southwest Missouri, say that the stage which runs between Pearce City, Mo., and Eureka Springs, Arkansas, was stopped on AYednesday last, some twenty miles from the former place by a party of six masked and well armed men. The passengers were robbed of their money and other valuables. About nino hun dred dollars was taken. Other passen gers threw away their pocket-books con taining fifteen hundred dollars, when the stage was stopped, but recovered them when the robbers left. Mr. Chainplain attempted to draw a revolver, but a bul let from one of the robbers which passed through his coat-sleeve admonished him to keep quiet. J'i a 'toton, J. Tiienton. N. J.. October 2. A tire at Trenton basin this morning destroyed the property belonging to tne Mer chants' Transportation Company; West, Clark fc Case, wholesale grocers, and Grant & Sons, coal dealers, to the value of $30,000. Insured; incendiary. Arn-sl of a Murderer, Chicago. Oct. 2. AVm. Fairchild, who has as occasion served, borne the alias of Burton, Clark, Howell or Shoemaker, and who served terms for various crimes in the Michigan and Ohio penitentiaries.. was arrested here to-clay lor tne muruer of an old man named Richard French whom FairelnVt and his wiie had enticed to Kansas linger promise of taking care of him, and then murdered him in cold blood. The crime first became known to the Chief of Police of Toledo, Ohio, to whom the prattling of Fairehild's little girl revealed it. The body of French Avas exhumed, and Fairchild has been followed for some months with tho re sult in to-day's arrest. The murder was committed in 1878. J'rot in Virginia. Petersm-ik!, Ya., Oct. 2. There was frost here and in adjacent counties last night for the first time this season. It is not thought any material damage was done. ExperirnoutBl Biimc B ill dilate. Chicago, Oct. 2. Chicagos. 2; Buf falos 8 exhibition game with square bats and a lively ball. It was not a very satisfactory experiment. Piercy, late of the Oaldands, pitched for the Chicagos. The a.oinsvllle Kuces. Louisville, Oct. 2. Mile heats for 3-year-olds that have not won prior to August, 1SS0: Ventriloquist 1-2-1, Yir ginia 2-1-2, Dictum 3d. Time, l:4va4, 1:45 ? and 1:49 . Selling race, all ages, 14 miles: Matagorda won, Miss Naiter 2d. Time, 2:32. Third race, mile dash for two year-old colts: Lelex won, Lucy May 2nd. Time, 1:45. Dash n4 mile: Malone won, Blanche 2nd, Miss Naiter 3rd. Time, 1:17. Races r-t Brighton Reach. New YoitK, Oct. 1. Brighton Beach races Handicap heat race, mile heats, won by Surge, who took the second and third heats, Mainie R. taking the first; time, 1:441:451:49. Boardman won the 2d race, milo and an eighth; Ike Braham, 2d ; time, 2 minutes. The 1 mile dash was won by Nimble Foot, Krupp Gun 2d; Calmogner 3d; time, 1:44. Handicap hurdle race, mile and a half; won bv Miss Mallow; Ohio Boy 2d; Bay Bum 3d; time, 2:13. Si ngnlnr ne. New Albany, (Ind.) Oct. 2. Edward Cromwell, while working in a field with Nathan Lamden in Orange county was seized with a chill, and in the delirium that attended it, seriously stabbed Lam den, and then drowned himself in the river. Unf-'S t St. Louis St. Louis, Oct. 2. Mattie Hunter paced in 2:10 'V, failing to heather own record. Match race, 3 year old colts: Cole man's colt won. distancing Hunt's colt; 1 miles. In 2:2o class, Robert Mc Gregor won, Minnie R. 2nd, AVm. H. 3d. Time, 2:23.2:20. 2:29V Free for all: C barley Ford won, beat ing Hopeful, x'.me. JL.li, -.o2. The L'iiirry Question. Washington, Oct -1 Po&tmasler May nard decided m-d;.y not to suspend the recent, order of the postoilice department forbidding the deli very of registered letters and postal orders to the Kentucky Lottery Company. He declines to reverse the past action of the department ar, least until the I. S. supreme court shall have disposed of the lottery question which is ncv before it. PrcnnrliiK tor a Strllic. Fall Kivli:, Oct. 2. A delegation from the spinners' union had a long conference this afternoon with four mill treasurers on the subject of wages and a strike. No settlement was effected. A mass meeting of spinners decided to leavethe question of a strike to some future time when manufacturers can be taken more at a disadvantage. Ah extra assessment will be levied so that when the time to strike conies the union may be better prepared. The Salt Lake uffrage Case. Salt Lake, Oct. 2. The Mormon suf frage law of Utah makes the voting quali fications of women different from those of men. Believing that this renders it invalid a writ of mandamus was sued out of the supreme court of Utah, requiring the re gistration officers to strike all women's names off the voting list or show cause why they should not. After hearing, the supreme, court decided that mandamus will not be issued to compel the registra tion officers to strike off any names placed by them on the lists, because it is not a ministerial act. The effort to have the validity sf the law tested in the courts wil not beabandoned. Distressing Case. Jersey City, Oct 2. Mrs. Mary Doyle, temporarily insane from malarial fever, threw her two months' old babe out ofn third story window and it was instantly killed. TlielVlieellmrrow IiOoney. Mercershuiwh, Pa.. Oct. 2. R. Lyman Potter, the wheelbarrow man, -arrived here this evening from San Francisco in excellent health, not much worse for his extraordinary feat. The wheel of his barrow looks like a ball of rope bound with an iron hoop. He will push it to the Antietam battlefield thence to Gettys burg and from there to New York. Hunting Vieiorio. Dexter, Oct. 2 A Santa Fe special says commissioners brought information to F.l Paso that yesterday Col. Buell's command passed through the Candelera mountains following a large trail, suppos ed to be Viclorio's southeast to Pine mnnntuns: also that of .loavuin Terras- sas with 430 .Mexican troops is two days behind Col. Bnell and marcliing to eneei a junction when .Mexicans and Americans will i-oopeiate. Buell's column has now marched through the entire length of Chihuahua, the Pine mountains being near the border of Nueva Leon. If Vic lorio's band is reallv ahead it will have to stnn and fiirht. Col. Can's command is scouting on the northern border of Chi huahua and southern extremity ol .New Mexico. PACIFIC COAST. Atrocious Butchery. Sierra City, Sept, 25 The most atro cious murder in the annals of the county was committed on Alfred Smith, a native of the stale of New Yorl;, aged about 00 years, lie was living on the north side of the Sierra valley stage road, about three quartets of a mile from this place. By lestimonv of the coroner's jury held yes terdav evening we learn the following facts:" That Allied Smith was murdered some time on the evening of the 22d of September about one hundred and twenty feet sout h of his house on the south side of the road. Large pools of blood, with gray hai rof the unfortunate old man stick ing to the sharp edge of numerous rocks, in dicate a most hoirible butchery. Fiom there he was dragged down the ravine, and all along the way blood and bunches of gray hair can be plain! v seen on sharp rocks. The ravine showed a trace where the old man was finished, as blood is spattered about for twenty feet, and then it seems that ho was canied across the road into his house, where iiis body was deposited in the woodshed with wood piled around and on the body, and the premises given to the flames. A teamster, driving up the road about 7 o'clock in the morning, was the first one who brought the news to town. Within a short time the entire population visited the premises. The trunk and head of the old man was all that was left. He was burnt beyond recognition, his arms and legs being comnletely burned to ashes. A post mortem examination by Dr. J. J. Sawyer disclosed a fracture over the left temple, besides two more on top of the skull. Suspicion of this foul deed is pointed towards his nearest neighbor, T. Bovine, a man with whom Alfred Smith has been having a law suit for nearly three years, on account of disputed land. Devine was arrested and a coroner's jury brought in a verdict that Alfrea Smith was murdered and aroused Thomas Devine of committing the crim2. Seiiriiitloiinl Sin ry Concerning the Lioss of I lie Stenmer "Mathilde." San Francisco, Sept. 27. Henry Wil liams, who claims to have just arrived in port from the Mexican coast, tells a sensational story concerning the loss of the bark Mathilde. It will be remem bered that a boat with the chief mate and a portion of the crew arrived at lUazatlan, and that the government yacht Freda and Sir Thomas Hesketh's steam vacht, Lancashire Witch, were dispatched in search of ('apt. Jones, wife and boat's crew, without success. Williams says the second mate and seven seamen remained on the bark, which, after being tossed about for some days, went ashore thirty miles above Altata on August 2lst, The vessel was soon covered with quicksands of the coast. In an attempt to make a landing in a boat Charles Smith (second mate), Fdwarl Brown and two sailors were lost. Williams, Martin Johnson and iienjsf Smith finally reached Playa, Colorado, thence the former made his wav to San Francisco. The chief mate, in "his account of the wreck, made no mention of anyone being left on board the bark. KcMirney Semis Greet in,; to Weaver. San Francisco, Sept. 29. The following characteristic telegram was forwarded to day: Janm B. Weaver, Apostle of Xew Civiliza tion Jmlianapolis: None but traitors to our cause will fuse with old prostituted parties. Spread the light. Dennis Kearney. Matrimonial. San Francisco. Oct. 1. Loring Picker ing of the Morning Call was marneu to night to Miss Margaret I. Crothers of San I ran Cisco. A Woman Murderer. San Francisco, Oct. 2. At Sacramento yesterday Mrs. George Hamilton sent a note asking an interview with her hus band from whom she had separated. He called on her and during the conversation she shot him dead. Cause, jealousy. Last winter she shot and severely jounc ed a young girl who had excited her jeal- U6y Shootin scrape nt Tiicon. Tocson, October 2.-This rnoon Wm. Eger shot and probacy totally wounded B. Hefii. The affray originated at a meeting last night where a mixed ticket was selected and recommended to voters of the county. Hefle is an earn est Kepublican, and denounced the at tempt to claim that Germans had the balance of power, and said that they should stick to him irrespective of par ties. To-day Hefii was very abusive to Eger, who had him arrested and fined. The abuse was renewed this afternoon m front of the German saloon, when Eger, who is a consumptive man, pulled a re volver, shooting his antagonist through the left breast. He gave himself up. Hefii is very low. 5i tinier at Sun June. San Jose, Oct. 1. Harry- Diamond, aged twenty, while walking home with two ladies to-night was shot, probably fatallv, by a party unknown. It is sup posed" the assassin mistook Diamond for some other person. A Fatal .!lfst:!tc. Auburn, October 2. Last Wednesday a report was circulated that a masked man haibeen seen hiding in the brush near thesceno of tho late robberies of Forest Hill stage. Fearing another rob bery an arrangement was made between stage drivers and J. B. Billiard, who lives near the road, that ho and his son should meet the stage nightly and follow it over the suspected portion of the road. This was done Wednesday night without result. Last night Sheriff Boggs, know ing nothing of this arrangement, sent Dopntv Adams out on the stage as a guard,' armed with a shotgun and re volver. About a mile and a half above North Vork bridge, the Billiards were seen by tho driver. Report sa a that the driver explained the arrange ments witn them to tho man setting inoide the stage, telling liim to explain it to Adams so he should not mistake the two armed men as robbers. This man claims to have done it, but if he did he was misunderstood, for upon Adams seeing the men he discharged his gun at them, killing Mr. Billiard instantly, but not injuring tho son. Adams walked back from Grizzly Bear House, and, learning of his fearful mistake, gave himself up. That this affair is the result of a misunderstanding, is certain. FORX2IGR7. Decim al I m of War. Gkavosa. .Sept. 27 Yesterday the prince of Muiiteneirro received official in formation that, an advance to Dulcigno would be regarded as a declaration of war. The prince of Monteneuro consequently has telegraphed Admiral Seymour, that he is not prepared without aid to land troops to attack the Albanians, reinforced as they are by Turkish regulars and ar tillery This step of the porte must be regarded as paramount to a declaration of war against Europe. JjimtUorrl Murdered. Gai.way, Sept. 2U. ord Montmorris, a small land owner on bad terms with his tenants, has ben found murdered near Ballinrade. lie had received six bullet wound. A land meeting was held Sun day near the spot where Lord Montmor ris was ln.irJereJ. The speakers- dis claimed any connection of the land league with the murder. DcnuN, Sent. '27. The murder of Lord Montmorris has caused the greatest sensa tion in Dublin, it is expected that the affair will induce the government to take diei-dve steps to control the utterances of land agitators. An Awful Fate. Tho Chicago Tribune states that an awful case of the consequences of refus ing a young man's honorable love is re ported on the West Side. A really nice young man fell in love with a handsome girl, the only daughter of a handsome and well-preserved widow of 3S, and offered her marriage. She ridiculed him because he was "old enough to be her father, and so on, and with her taunts goaded him to such a pitch of frenzy that he swore he would be fearfully re venged. Accordingly he propoposed to and married the wretched girl's mother" Now that wretched girl has to wear stout leather boots two sizes too large for her, and go to bed at 9 p. m., and eschew the theatre, chocolate car mels, ice-cream, and in everything else that makes life worth living for, her step-father's nominal object being that when she grows up she may be as splen didly matured a woman as her mother, the compliment implied in this inducing the mother to second him enthusiastic allv. Whon a young man comes round to see that wretched girl, her step-father bounces him down the front steps, throws his hat after him, and tells the wretched girl that the young man is not a fit companion for her future as he would be for that of his own child, and altogether, in the kindest manner pos sible, he makes that wret'died girl even wish she were dead as many as a hundred times a day. Let all other beautiful girls who are often tempted to refuse the matrimonial offers of eligible young men, be aimrncd by her unhappy fate. . o The Princess of Wales is a picture of modest good taste as she walks the deck of her husband's yacht. She always wears a plainly-made dress of some dark color, with a sailor's hat, or a close soft hat, which is exceedingly becoming to her. Her little daughters are dressed in black serges or simple cottons, and sailor's hats t-lways crown their long, fair hair. Four Current Anecdotes. The actress jNIalibran, after singing the rondo of "La Somnambula," on one occasion ended with a three-octave trill. She worked hard to get that trill, it seems, for being complimented upon it, she re plied: "Oh, I sought it long enough. For a month I have been running after it. I chased it everywhere when ar ranging my hair, when dressing myself, and I found it at last one morning in the toe of my slipper." Prince Talleyrand once upon a tun summoned his cook, who was none other than the great Careme, and said to him severely: "I am greatly displeased with you. Yon served me at 8 o'clock yester day with a salmi which should have been ready at 7, and thus my evening's ap pointments were all interfered with and grave matters of state were left uncon sidered or only half considered." "Will vour Excellency deign to inform me if the salmi was good?" "It was delicious sir " "That, your Excellency, was the important point." And with a profound bow the artist retired. It is retold of Marivaux, the celebrated French dramatist of the seventeenth cen tury, that while still a youth he fell deeply in love with a young girl, to whom he at last declared himself and was accepted. Now, the object of this passion was a coquette, whose business it was to play tlje yoang Marivaux all those little tricks wmcn are oeueveu iu fan tho flame of love. One evening it was the eve of their marriage Mari vaux, arriving very early at the house of this young lady, resolved to take her by surprise. Entering her room on tiptoe, he found her before her looking-glass busv at her toilet. He lingered a mo ment on the threshold before revealing himself, when to his horror he found this ideal woman rehearsing the smiling anil the ogling with which she proposed yet more deeply to enamor her expected lover. Unheard, and before his mistress had discovered his presence. Marhaux retired not to return. There is a story told of a passionate old Spanish artist named Alonzo Cano. He had lived many years, which he had devoted to his art, and was passionate as well as old. A judge came to him one day and gave him an order for a figure in little of his patron saint. Cano made a bcautifnl statuette, and charged the Judge one hundred doubloons. "A hundred doubloons," said the Judge, "for work that has occupied you less than twenty days; audi, Chancery Judge as I am. only receive one poor doubloon a dav for my services!" "Twenty days!" said"Cauo, dashing the statue to pieces at the Judge's feet, "it has taken me lifty years of unremitteut study to learn to make that figure." The frightened Judgo left the artis: s workshop as quickly as he ioiild. for Alonzo Cano was a rough man in his wrath, and was said to have murdered his wife. It was this same Cano who, on his death-bed, refused to take the crucifix from the priest on ac count of its bad workmanship. Tlic Small Arts of Living. Hardly anything is too small to spoil the comfort of life, if it bo misplaced. A speck in the eye, a kernel of wheat in the boo!;, a pin-point touching the skin, a band too tight or a needed strap gone and good-bye comfort! Considering how much depends on our daily food, it is surprising how little is thought of the conditions under which it is taken, in many families. Some people think a good deal more of what is on the table than what is said or done around it; and some few, perhaps, reserve the order an operation that may do very well for special occasions, when what is said is something extraordinary; but one that Ave shall beg to be excused from as "reg ular diet," even if the gods came to dine, until we are able to dispense with all that is implied in a good appetite! The cookery is too big a topic to touch in this connection; though what with cookery schools, a better knowledge among the people, and higher staudards made familiar by our best hotels and dining places, the art has greatly ad vanced in this country within tho pres ent generation. Good bread, a prop erly broiled steak, and a roast done to a turn, no longer excite the special won der that once they did. By-and-by, perhaps it will not be unusual to find a good soup, or vegetables that haven't been spoiled in cooking. But consider the meal cooked: how shall it be best enjoyed? By having it daintily and tastefully arranged and served, in the first place. We always mark the good housewife up a notch or two in our esteem if we see that, however competent Uelp she may have, she always slips out to give the "last touches" to the table before the family or the guests sit down. Some do it for the guests but not for the family, but that is an error. The artistic arrangement of the table furniture; the skill that avoids crowding dishes together, or leaving space too b are; the forethought that looks out for flowers for the dinner table, though the centre table go bare; the quick eyo which sees that everything is in its" placo these supplement the fare wonderfully. Promptness in each member of the family is another essential. It demoralizes the group to have stragglers dropping in all the way through the meal, and gives a restaurant air a suggestion of mere "feeding" to the family meal, which it should never have. Golden Rule. Prof. Marks, of Philadelphia, stated at a recent meeting of the Franklin Insti tute that he had made some calculations of the maximum speed at which locomo tives could be driven before the centri fugal force on the tires of the driving wheels would become so great as to cause them to burst. Those calculations, which were approximate only, showed that the limit of speed was in the neigh borhood of 150 miles per hour.