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TJIE MOUNTAIN MEADOW
HOUROR.
PABTICIXARS OF THE BUTCHERT.
Joha D. Leo1 Confession All the Par.
ticlpators UMiKnated-lMae C. Ha.lt
and John M. llijrby th Instigators
Mitnation of BriKliam Yottn f.
Bkaver. July 20. Tho California
Associated Press reporter is enabled
by W. W. Bishop, Attorney for John
D. Lee, to give tho following details
of the confession of Lee. which sets
out the character of the whole affair.
which is very lengthy. Air. Bishop
said that when he got to Beaver, he
found that there was great excite
ment against Lee, and the people
believed ho should be sacrificed to
appease the Moloch of the law. He
believed he could not get a fair trial
in Utah, and consented that his cli
ent should turn State's evidence to
get immunity from his acts. The
prosecution agreed to enter a nolle
prosequi as to the hrst indictment.
After a long consultation with asso
ciate counsel he agreed to it; also, if
his confession proved satisfactory,
they agree to dismiss all kinds of in
dictments against Lee. After Lee
made his confession, the prosecution
found that it did not implicate high
church authorities, also those in brief
authority in military districts, so
they refused to accept his statement,
behoving, as Bishop presumes, that
they could, by trying Lee, procure
testimony reaching nearer the apos
tolic centre; so they disregarded the
agreement, and placed Lee on trial
Leo s statement opens as follows: It
now becomes my painful thongh im
perative duty to chronicle the cir
cumstances that led to tho unfortun
ata affair known as 'the Mountain
Meadow massacre, in Utah, which
has been shrouded in mystery for
fifteen years, causing much comment,
excitement and vindictive feeling
throughout tho land. The entire
blame rests upon Mormon people in
Utah. .TNotv. in justice to huammty.
feel it my duty to show up the
facts as they exist, according to the
best of my ability, though I may
implicate myself by so doing. I have
no vindictive feeling whatever against
any man or ciass oi inuiviuuais;
what I do is done from sense of duty
to myself, to my God and tho people
at large, so that truth may conio to
icrht and blame rest where it proper
y belongs. I have been arrested on
a charge of being engaged in a crime
committed at the time and place re
ferred to. I have boon in close con
finement "over eight months, since
my arrest. I was in irons three
months of tho timo during my con
finement. For tho last seventeen
years, in fact since the commission
of the crime, I have given the sub
ject much thought and reflection.
I have made an onort to bear my
confinement with fortitude and res
ignation, well knowing that most of
those engaged in the unfortunate
affair were led on by religious influ
ences, commonly called fanaticism,
and nothing but their devotion to
God and their duty to Him, as taught
them by their religion and their
church leaders, would ever have in
duced them to have committed such
outrageous and unnatural acts, be
lieving that all who participated in
the lamentable transaction, or most
of them, wero acting uuder such or
ders that they considered it their
duty to obey. I have suffered all
kinds of ill-treatment, as well as im
prisonment, rather than expose these
men. Knowing uio circumstances,
as I do. and believing in the cinceri-
ty of their motives, as I always have
done. I have a duty to perform. I
have, since I was arrested, become
convinced that it was not the policy
of tho Government or the wish of
the Court, to punish these men, but
rather to protect, and let the blame
rest ou their leaders, whero it law
fully and justly belongs. After much
thought and meditation, I have come
to tho conclusion that I cannot long
er remain silent on this subject, but
so far as I can I must bring to light
circumstances connected, and remove
tho cloud of mystery that has so long
obscured the transaction and served
to agitate the public mind, believing
it to be my duty as a man, duty to
myself, to my family, to my God
and to humanity, to cast aside the
shackles so long holding my con
science in silence, and in pursuance
of the disinterested advice of my
attorneys. I now submit the facts as
far as I know them, stating nothing
from malice or for purpose of re
venue, and holdini? back nothing
that I can state of my own knowl
edge. Willing that tho world may
know all that was done, and why the
acts wero committed, I submit the
following as an exact, unvarying
statement of facts and circumstances
connected with tho crime known as
the Mountain Meadow massacre. The
facts aro as follows: At this point
pages of tho confession were reiusea
reporters for the present, but the
character of them is permitted to be
stated, as follows: He gives at great
lenertb. a perfect and concise state
ment of acts and facts connected with
the massacre, giving names of per
sons, dates and places. He claims
to fully expose all classes of men and
every person connected with the out
rage. He starts ont with his first
knowledge of the emigrant train, fol
lowing them through their unfortun
ate experiences and conflicts up to
the termination of their sad career
He describes all that was done by
the murderers after the commission
of the crime, and the actions of al
concerned with it; also, the actions
of Brigham Young and the high
priesthood; also, the acts of those in
authority, the disposition of children
saved, and particulars of their deliv-
err to Dr. x orney, agent of the Gov
e rumen t, who removed them to- Mis
souri. In fact, the statement of Les
fully explains, who, for what reason
and how th tragedy was a.ccon?plish.7
ed, stating the justification relied
upon by participants for th rnmmla-
sion of that fearful crime. Ua Ac.
tsils fix tho crime unon TaAo n
Haight and John M. Higby. com
manding officers, the former stand
ing on an eminence and givmz the
signal agreed upon for the slanc-htfir
after the emigrants had been decoyed
out vi vutsir uironguom by the nag
of truce. The wounded ' had fir At
been hauled out and were dispatched,
iiiere eio miriy winte men anil a
large number of Indians. The de
tails of tho killing of men. women
and children, surpasses in horror all
that has ever been written concern
ing the massacre, and is more terri
ble, atrocious and bloody than the
most vivid imagination could conjec
ture; St. Bartholomew's day, and
the utmost barbantv of humanity.
aro absolutely pale before tho sicken
ing tale. In concluding, Lee writes
as follows: A few days after the mas
sacre, I was instructed by Major I.
C. Haight, next in command to "W.
H. Dame, in Iron Military District,
to carry a report of what had been
done to President Brigham Young,
at Salt Lake City. He directed me
to give him my report and Btand up
with manly courage, and I shoulder
ed as much blame as possible, he
sa-ing that if I did I should receive
celestial reward This, however, is
my nature, never to bind burdens on
others that I am not willing to bear
myself. I then went to Salt Lako
and reported to Brigham Young the
exact facts connected with the trans
action, shouldering the greater share
of the responsibility that justly bo
longed to me. In justice to Brigham
Young I must say that when he heard
my story he wept like a child, walked
tho floor and wrung his hands in bit
ter anguish and said: "This is a
most unfortunate affair, the most un
warranted event that has ever hap
pened to the Mormon people; this
transaction will bring sorrow and
trouble upon us in Utah; I would to
God it had never happened." After
hearing this l returned home with a
drooping heart and reported the re
sult of the mission to those in au
thority over mo. Lee says seventeen
children were saved, and delivered
to Dr. Forney, who promised to send
them to friends in Missouri and Ne
braska. He says the massacre was
the result of military orders, Utah
then being under martial law, bv
order of Brigham Young. Johnston's
army being east, in Echo Canyon,
and an invasion being expected from
the west, by way of California, the
Mormon people were in a stato of
excitement, and acted as desperation
dictated. Attorney Bishop alleges
that Leo offered to give the prosecu
tion tho names of several of the mur
derers, who could be found, as he
believes.
Bkaver, July 20. In tho Court
his morning. Judge Sutherland pre
siding, tho counsel for Dame said he
had found a fatal delect in the in
dictment, which he had intended to
overlook in tho trial upon it, but
finding that Lee's case would be tried
first, and JJame s not reached tins
term, he asked that the indictment
be cmashed upon the ground that
the crimo was not alleged to have
been committed in the Territory or
District, nor in any county, but sim
ply in Mountain Meadow valley,
without any designation, whereupon
Mr. Carr arose and presented a now
indictment, which charges Dame,
Lee, Elliot, Wilder, William C
Stewart, Georgo Adair, Jr., John M
Higby, I. C. Haight, Samuel Jukes
and Philip K. Smith with conspiracy
with Indians to kill those emigrants,
and that in pursuance to that con
spiracy they did kill them. Tho in
dictment will not be made public till
to-morrow morning, at which time
Lee will be arraigned and plead to it
Beaver, July 21. In the Lee trial
to-day. Dame's counsel asked the
Court to decide on yesterday's mo
tion to ouash Dame s indictment.
The Court refused until Lee's case
had been disposed of. Lee's counsel
asked what was to be done with the
first indictment against him. The
prosecution refused to reply. Lee
was then arraigned ou the first count
in the indictment charging him ana
seven others with conspiracy to mur
der and the accomplishment thereof,
His counsel put in as pleas m abate
ment that: First, tho grand jury was
improperly impaneled, as out of
twenty-three jurors drawn eight wero
dischareed without canse, three wero
drawn at largo and tho panel finally
made, which was illegal; that the
second indictment does not show,
nor does it record that the indict
ment was presented by a grand jury
in open court. The prosecution ask
ed till 2 o'clock to reply, which was
o-ranted. At 2 o clock the prosecti
tion demurred to tho plea as to the
rriml inrv. and the Court sustained
the demurrer. A replication was fil
ed as to the second plea, denying its
truth. Tho Court asked tho parties
enhmit proof as to it. Each claim
ed that the other side had the affirm
ofivp and both refused to move first
The Court said the defense had raised
the matter, and hence had the affirm
ative. It refused to prove its charge,
tfrrA ho overruled tu plea
r tUnn rdeaded not guilty. The
prosecution moved the Court to make
the records of the Court conform to
the fact that tho indictment was pre
sented by a grana jury iuwu",
made an order to thai
effect, munc pro tunc The Court
i k ,-niVtment did not bear an
endorsement of the Pfi1
was marked niea Du
? i-o,l 30. The m
showed that No. 30 was presented by
tlia errand iuTV. he flUQ WJ"!"
. ' rt nut the names
indicted parties on the record until
they wero arrestedehey might just
TvaMiKhed in newspaper.
Tba den le.1 "ef
will win tho case. ltt -" ""i"01""
Court.
There is very general .aiK on the
street about the blunders of the fed
eral attorney. The hrst indictment
proved worthless, because it did not
state where the crime was committed
neither State, Territory, nor conn-
tv: th second indictment was not
endorsed bv the Clerk as presented,
and exeentions are taken on which
the defense declare they are willing
to risk all. The Court asked the
prisoners if they were ready for trial
Dame asked to be tried jointly with
Lee, for fear his trial would not bo
reached this term. The prosecution
objected, and tho Court refused to
order a io:nt trial. He said the cases
should be tried this-term,' if they
lasted till the last day he would ask
the Government to extend the trial
till finished. Lee's counsel asked
till to-morrow to decide if they were
ready to go to trial on the conspiracy
case. The Court granted it but said
a very strong showing would be re
quired to get any continuance. .It is
now believed the trial will go on to
morrow. The feeling in town is in
creasing against Lee. Me appeared
in Court with three wives and two
daughters. He seemed cool and col
lected. A stronger guard than usual
is kept by the United States Marshal
There aro witnesses now hero who
could probably never be got together
again. The attorneys for ljee ana
Damo to-n:rht decided to answer
that they will be ready to go on with
tho trial Thursday morning. New
witnesses aro constantly turning up
ivee's trial.
Beaver, Utah, July 22. Lee's tri
al for the Mountain Meadow massacre
began to-day. The Conrt was crowd
ed. The defense skirmished on every
point. The jury found up to 2 o clock
is as follows: Josephus Wade, Cren
tile, native, two years resident of the
Territory; J. C. Heister, Gentile, na
tive, two years resident; uavia itog-
ers, Alormon, native, iourteen jar
resident: Isaac Duffin, Mormon, nat
u rali zed, ten years resident; J. P.
Chedister, Mormon, twelve years res
ident; James C. Robinson, .Mormon,
native, eighteen years resident; C. J
Arthur, Mormon, native, twenty years
resident, son-in-law to Haight, who
cravo tho order to. fire on the emi-
grants, but has no opinion; Joseph
Knight, Mormon, native, twenty
years resident; Paul Price, Mormon,
native, six years resilient; Lreorge x-
Jarvis, Mormon, naturalized, fifteen
years resident; Bobert Heyborne,
Mormon, naturalized, seventeen years
resident, a Californian. stepson to
Urie. who was engaged in the massa
ere, has been on the ground, knows
nothing of it; John Beaver, Gentile,
native, ten years resident.
The following were challenged and
excused for cause: James Gibson,
Gentile: J. W. Hunt, Mormon; Wm
Thompson, apostate: Elijah Ellmore,
Mormon: James linnter, uentue;
John J. Waller. Gentile; Henry Hoi
ling, Gentile; F. L. Hersmger, Gen
tile. The defense' goes after the
Gentile jurors, but easily passes the
Mormons. Tho jury will be secured
to-dav. Each side has fifteen per-
en-mtorv challenges. Tho Mormons
examined as jurors would swear that
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they had lived lrom ten to eiguieen
vears in the recrion of the massacre.
ere,
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yet never hoard it talked of, and had
no opinions auoui 11. xna suuject
'a mi 1 . -
causes much open comment and bit
ter feelincr.
Tho first witness will be called in
the morninir. The excitement is now
intpnsn. As the Court closed tho
.Tn.1ro allowed the lurors to can
friends in tho open uouri; auu opeuiy
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give instruction as to their families,
home, stock, larms, etc. j.ms scents
was very amusing, lhe delense say
thev caro little how the case goes,
as they rely wholly on two points to
reserve in the supreme jourt: x irsc,
Failure to endorse tho presenting of
the indictment in Court. Second,
The Poland bill crives tho Governor
power to fix the terms of Court. He
fixed the terms for September, No
vember. February and April, and
afterward revoked tho order as to
February and mado the July term
This, thev claim, is a fatal error. It
is now thought that the trial will not
be so long as was expected, and will
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be closed rapidly.
Hearsay Evidence. "I say, Mr.
Smithers," said Mrs. Smithers to her
husband; "didn't 1 hear you down
in the kitchen kissing the cook ?"
"Mv dear. replied tsmithers,
blandly, "permit me to insist upon
my right to be reasonably ignorant.
I really cannot say vuut juumaj
liavn heard."
"But wan't you down there kissing
the cook ?"
"My dear, I really cannot recol-
Wt. T only remember going into
the kitchen and coming out again
T mav have been there, and from
vl.flt tmn bit T infer I was. But I
cannot recollect inst what occurred
"Tint. " nersisted the ruthless cross-
examiner, "what uiatue menu ucu
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she said: "Oh! Smithers, aon t kiss
so loud, or that old she-dragon up
Rfairs will hear us!"
"Well," said Smithers, m his
blandest tones, "I cannot remember
tta ,'Tifpmror.A.tion 1 did put on tue
words at the time. They are not my
words, you must remember.
Satisfactory Evidence. A male
ftnnviet at Cayenne obtained per
mission to marry a female convict,
but as the man was a widower the
Governor declared it was necessary
first to obtain the ceruncate oi mo
rWth of his first wife. A communi-
addressed to the authori-
ties, but without any reply. J. no
convict insisting that the ceremony
should be no longer delayed, the
r.nromnr said: "But what is there
tn nrova that vour first wife is dead?'
The reply of the convict was tolera
bly satisfactory on this point.
"wTi-p " rifl said. "I'm here for hav
ing assassinated her.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.
How to Kill a Town.
Wo take the following extract from
one of our exchanges. It is a true
picture as to "How to Kill a Town,
and is vprv applicable to some
of
our citizens, among whom are some
that rely on their incomes entirely
tho people of their own town.
Here is a long lesson in this short
article, and wo feel confident that
many who shall read it will say 'that
means me.
Where thero are so many who act
upon the principle of sending out of
town for everything they want, is it
any wonder that our homo factories
and merchants complain of dull
times? Is it not stransro they suc
ceed as well as they do? We have
right here at homo too much of this
sending away for everything. Pat
ronize your home merchants and me
chanics, and see what a difference it
will make.
When a man gets so elevated above
the community in which he lives and
is dependent-' upon for his support
and business patronage that lie can
not get anything good enough for
him without sending to some distant
citv or market for it he had better
rmvA The. community is ueiier ou
. -, 1 11 LC
without him. and his place had bet
ter be filled by some one who will
take sufficient interest in the town
in which he lives to do his trading
at home, and thus keep the money
he pays out in the community, in
short, the way to kill a town is to
import everything you can, and ex-
nort as little as possiDie. xub
to build up a town is to import as
little as possible and export as much
as yon can.
.
"Sunset" ou the Sunrise.
Tl.fl TTnn. K. S. Cox. of New York
recently delivered a speech be
fore tho Young men's Democratic
f Columbus. Ohio, which
stirred up the boys considerably.
From a report in the Ohio Slate Jour
nal we clip the following extract:
I have found the old and pure at
tachment to the Democracy as the
nnlinr snra rind steadfast for our
Republican guidance. But why
shniil.l T hero to-nirht. under the
impulse and-nuspices ot a new gene-
mttnn rm i v ne a memory.' in
still on. .Duties arise witu
pvrv vefir. 1 am Still a watcumau
-r I'll 1. 1 .
on tho walls of political Zion. Y'ou
ask me: "What of tho night?'' The
question is -well put. "Night!"
what of it? The nigut 01 nuueu
years ot liauicai ruie; uio
. - 1 i 1:1 l .
when personal ana puouc nuenv
wero eclipsed; the night which no
freeman could work well; the li'ght
which, beginning in tho crimson
tuMlin-hf in lsno. unstarrea tnrouKn
gloomy years, still lingers thick and
black, and now portentous! wnai 01
it? Why hope, exultation the
aionlrra of a new sunrise! The
lono- shadows point to the morning!
Joy cometh in the morning! Rise up!
Ilnmnerats Ot UlilO. ana see meyiun
f ba dawn! Rise no and let the
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"Bilrerv of your couch!
"Eiso up" from unpleasant dreams
about unpleasant facts when the pro
vost was on our tracks ana w e ere
hunted from meeting to meeting by
blood-hounds and by blood-tracks,
and when our house was not so much
nf.i castle as the open air! hise up,
Democrats of Ohio. Vigilance, not
ia Mm nrifift of liberty!" "Rise
""i'.'." f .1 - -
v. Wiiimm Alien, ana cumu
nu v.a ond Ken tho dory of the
1111 U-y w
the sunrise!
Couldn't re Bluffed. A 'couple
of horsemen, going into V icksourg
other dav from the interior, over
tnnl- an old man and his wite seaieu
in the bottom of a mule cart. Feel
;n ,'n hitrli-fmirits. one of the men
i"b " ."o a
v i. . ...
"Hello, uncle! how much win you
take for your wife, cash down?
"O. I dunno he siowiy repneu
"Well name your price."
"Ten dollars."
"TViL-a her."
The horsemen didn know what to
c-n-rr nnri irns tratnerinK ui tuo i.o
. .i .. ... . s vrtino
TOi.I tUa old woman lumped to the
-wi am rnrelaimed:
"wv " . . , T
X w i v i '
iv.. r.i.i man nml lie Uses me
Hive uio 1 . , , ,
I o o. fAmilv that cant bo
UUt "O "u J - .
uieraA lw tic, man on horseback.
rri Miiffprs" o-ot out of tho
scrape by riding off at full speed.
A Sctferino Capitalist. "Yes,
these are awiul nara times, saiu a
t oll street broker, as he stood
his steps talking to a friend, last
evening. ,
"Mighty tougn, a expect,
was the
x-rJ' ., i v it i
"Why, saia me uioivci, a. uuo
invpstincr ana investing ior a
,r Kick a pile of money, I assure
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xovl ana a iiuu a o uu i"01ub
fary."
' I nrleed !
tv as I'm liviner. If I've lost
a cent I've lost 3300,000."
"Certain." continued the broker,
and what cramps me most, and
makes me feel the worst, is that fully
S150 of it was my own!
Then the friends retirea to a se
cluded place and "smiled."
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At a meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Masons of Massachusetts held last
week in Boston, an apron worn by
General Joseph W arren was present
ed to the Grand Lodge by the heirs
of Grand Master Benjamin Enssell,
who was at the head of the Lodge in
1813; also, on apron, worn by Gen.
Lafayette on. the occasion of the lay.
inc of the corner stone of Banker
Hill Monument.
The Way to Judge Wool
on a
Live kiieep.
The finest and softest wool is al-
-a 1 IT
ways louna on tue snouiaers oi a
sheep. But not one person in ten
thousand is aware of this fact. Let
us watch an expert when he is about
to pass judgment on a sheep concern
ing the value of the animal for pro
ducing wool, and it will be seen he
always looks at the wool on the shoul
ders first. A writer of extensive ex-
perience in rearing fine wooled sheep
ana in nanaiing wooi, cuiuuiuuicuicu
the following suggestion for select
ing a good wooled sheep:
"Always assuming iu uui
inspected is really a fine wool we
first examine the sliouiaers ac iue
part where the finest and best wool
is usually found. Tins we take as a
standard and compare it with the
wool from the ribs, the thigh, the
rump and the shoulder parts, and
the nearer the wool lrom tne various
portions of the animal approaches
tho standard tho Detter. xirsi we
scrutinize tho fineness, and if the
result is satisfactory we pronounce
the fleece in respect of fineness very
even. Next we inquire into tne
length of the staples, and if we find
that the wool on the ribs, thign ana
back approximate reasonably in
length to that of our standard, we
again declare the .sheep, as regards
length of sample, true and even. We
next desire to satisfy ourselves ot the
density of the fleece, and if we do
this by closing the hand upon a por
tion of the rump, and of tho loin
wool, the fleece at these points being
usually the thinnest faulty, and it
again gives satisfaction, we signify
the fact by designating the wool
even' as respects density. Now to
summarize these separate examina
tions: If you find tho fleece of near
ly equal firmness from the shoulder
to the thigh, 01 nearly equal lengiu,
shoulder, rib, thigh and back, and
density on shoulder and across the
loins, you may conclude that
you have a penecu sueep xor puj-
ducing valuable wool. oeiecung
sheep for valuable feeders is quite
another thing. Trade Journal.
How They Bceied the Hatchet.
The Boston Herald tells the follow-
ing:
The
ilav following our centennial
festivities the following incident oc
curred in a South Bend saloon: A
friend had invited one of the South
Carolina soldiers into the saloon to
put another turf on the buried hatch
et. While standing at tne uar a
stranger came in. The Carolinian
suddenly dropped his glass and
closely eyed the stranger. His gaze
was so steady and peculiar iiiat me
friend began to be alarmed and to
fear that the hatchet was about to be
dug up again. Directly tho Caroli
nian asked the stranger it no Knew
him. There was no recognition,
whereupon the Carolinian asked Rim
if he was not in the late war. "Yes,"
was the reply. And you were once
stationed at such a place? "Yes.
And took part in a skirmisur
Well I thought so, replied tho Caro
linian, and raising his hat, showed a
largo sear on his forehead, saying
"There is your saore mam, my uu ,
come up and take a drink. And so
then and thero they decorated the
grave of tho buried hatchet.
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Frightening Children. Nothing
can be worse for a child than to be
frightened. The effect of the scare
it is slow to recover from; it remains
sometime until after maturity, as is
shown by many instances of morbid
sensitiveness and excessive nervous
ness. Not unfrequently, fear is em
ployed as a means of discipline.
Children aro controneu uj uci
made to believe that something ter
rible will happen to them and pun
ished by being shut up in dark
rooms, or by being put in places
they stand in dread of. No one,
without a vivid memory oi his own
childhood, can comprehend how en
tirely cruel such things are. we
have often heard grown persons tell
of the suffering they have endured,
as children, under like circumstan
ces and recount the irreparable in
jury which they then received. No
parent, no nurse, capauie oi alarm
ing the young, is fitted for her posi
tion. Children as nearly as possible
should be trained to not know the
sense of fear, which above everything
else is to be feared in their educa
tion early and late.
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Connecticut has always been prom
inent among the btates which sneer
at the laxity of the marriage tie in
the West and at the ease with which
divorce is there obtainable; but sta
tistics show that Connecticut has too
many widows in her house to indulge
very ireeiy in tnis Kina oi sione-
throwing. The number of divorces
granted in that State in 1874 was 4'J2,
which was in tho proportion of one
divorce to nine and a half marriages.
It is doubtful if Indiana, even, can
make a worse showing
A printer's devil, in sweeping up a
larare collection of rejected manu
script, both prose and poetry, with
downcast look and blanched cheeks,
exclaimed to himself: "Oh! dear,
what a, waste of brains. I don't think
I shall ever write for the newspapers,
except I am one of the editors. They
hiivA flip hpt. of ir no matter wntiu
. ... . . i.
er they write sense or nonsense."
Honor the CotoRS. The climax
of college patriotism has bfn-
ed at Harvard, wnere iu t -ciers'
Union," a society in the .col
lege, have, dyed all their dogs in
gorgeous crimson, and will take them
to the Saratoga regain-
y. irnf fatorV
turns out
a uonnecuua. " prfl-
SffS.1!!- -
comes of the pins?
A Jollj- Hoy Is Sartoris.
I have seen bat very littlo of Grant
although there is an employee of
Col. Presbury's among his 250 ser
vants at the West End Hotel which
is said to be the picture of the hero
of Appomattox. He is, I think; a
stage driver and a strawberry blondo.
Grant keeps very quiet, and will not
talk to his most intimate friends
about the third term. But tho most
popular and best natured and most
jolly boy at Long Branch is Alger
non Sartoris, the husband of Nellie
Grant and the son-in-law to the Pres
ident, and when helis not driving hi3
pretty wife along the beach in a lit
tle pony chaise, he wanders along
the drive in an unassuming manner
in a loose sack coat, valued at about
$6, and makes himself good-natured,
plucky way, that defies criticism and
makes him quite liked by all tho
young people. He is a fine gymnast
a good boxer in an amateur way,
and a hard walker; but then the
walking at Long Branch is so
bla-a-asted dusty' that he does not
c:ire to do enough of it for his health
Young Sartoris is also fond of a glass
of lager, and has taken a great liking
to that beverage in schooners. His
usual way, as I understand, is to
step intoJouss lager beer saioon,
and with a good-naturea noa, cry
out: Oh, I say, isn't it doosed 'ot.
Just give me a largo glass of beah,
won't you, old fellah. And I say be
pretty smart about it, you it's so
doosed 'ot. Thanks old fellah, I'll
take another, like a good boy.' I
can't help thinking that to be a dem
ocratic kind of a way for a man with
$00,000 a year, an old family name
and married to Caesar's daughter.
Country Press.
The prophets of evil who for yeaTS
have been predicting that the coun
try newspapers were to be swallowed
up by the gigantic monopolies of tho
metropolis, have missed their mark.
Never before was the country press
so strong, so influential, so respec
table, as to-day; and never befoTe
was its success and prosperity so
well assured. If the metropolitan
press has had any influence in shap
ing the career of the country journal,
it has been beneficial rather than
detrimental, in creating a thirst for
news that the former could not sup
pi y. The man who takes a city po
litical or religious journal becomes
much more eager for home new3
than ho who does not read at all.
He finds that one does not answer
for the other. He would as soon
think of making his overcoat do duty
as hat and boots, as seeking local in
telligence in a New York daily. Tho
home organ lurs a distinct mission of
its own, which no other can supply;
and the more journalism advances,
the stronger becomes its growthOand
the purer and belter its influence.
Seattle Tribune. o
Parental Lote. No love is so
true and tender as the love our pa
rents give us, and for none are we so
ungrateful. We take it as a matter
of course, as something we deserve.
Especially may our mothers toil and
deny themselves, think all night and
labor all day, without receiving any
thanks whatever. From, the day
she walks all night with us, while
wo cry, to the day when she helps to
make our wedding dress and gives
us thoso cherished pearls which she
wore in he:: girlhood, we do not half
rAcnfrnize her love for us. Never
i until we are parents ourselves, do wo
quite comprehend, let is there any
thing like it? Alio lover may aeseri
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us lor some ungnter Deauiy; ino
husband grow indifferent when wo
have been his a little while; tho
friend bo only a summer friend, and
fly when riches vanish, or when we
are too sad to amuse; but our pa
rents love us better in our sorrow,
and holds us dearer for any change
or disfigurement. There isn't much
of heaven here on earth, but what
there is of it, is chiefly given in a
parent's love.
Lady Franklin is dead. For year3
that name has been associated with
and suggested all that i3 tender and
beautiful in womanly and wifely de
votion, her conduct setting an exam
ple as lovely and lasting as that of
Griselda herself, or of Enid, tho fair
and faithful, or Oriana, the beloved
of Amadis. Lady Franklin will
leave behind her as the fruits of her
beautiful life tho finest example of
conjugal love, and patriotism, and
fidelity, the world has ever seen.
"Until death do you part" had no
meaning for her; hers was a death
less devotion; theirs the perfect
union of heart and soul for life and
for death, the here and the hereafter,
that is the only true marriage before
God.
During a trial the judge called a
witness. No one answering an elder
ly man arose and solemnly said, he
is gone.' 'Where has he gone?
asked the judge in no tender tone.
I don't know; but he is dead, was
the guarded answer.
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Several Quakers aro looking a
Oregon for a good place to found a
colony of Friends. They havs gone
to take a look at tho Walla Walla
country, but havo received a good
impression from looking at Yamhill,
and will probably settle there.
Who can sound the depths of wo
man's love? A New Hampshire wife
says of her husband: His kick is
an inspiration, and when ho knocks
mo down I feel my measure of hap
piness is full to overflowing.'
The most quiet and unobtrusive fe
male can create considerable sensa
tion when a frightened cockroach
mistakes her leg for the nearest-way
home. The cockroach is an ugly
bug.
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