| Show A WIFE OR A FARM unique matrimonial lottery in minnesota THE WAY THE faill TAKE PLACE every lady wishing a husband regardless gard less of aasc or nationality will be entitled to a draw special to alie ENQUIRER ST 7 wm C eing is a farmer at newport minn and is about of age and unmarried sidney C king who is three years older and carries on a teaming business at tilt same place is his brother A few days ago they were sitting in williams house reading the when sidney noticed a paragraph about a man in the east who was advertising for a wife sidney said lie thought that was a plan by which to secure a nife william said ho think it was and the brothers got into a heated argument over alio question 1 I will YOU what I 1 will do finally declared sidney 1 I will bet you even that you daro not select a wife by lottery in a way that I 1 will indicate 1 I have no money replied william but J have a farm eliat at least aud I 1 will take that bet if you will put up your money against mv farm at all right its a go said sidney and they set to work to prepare the terms ot alic bet A contract was drawn up in legal form and each signed it it provided that william shall not go more than mils nor less than oliree miles from hiis home and select a wife by lottery lie is to make tickets numbered from 1 to which are to be put into envelopes and one given to every lady wishing a husband regardless of her age or nationality A certain day is to be announced for the drawing and a public notice is to be given of the place and where it is to take place on the day of alie drawing some person is to be selected by the audience and blindfolded the tickets are to be placed in a hat and well up alie man then blindfolded will be brought to alie stage and requested to draw one ticket from alie aliat liat by the number it bears alie future wife of william king is to be determined as lie must marry alie lady holding alie corresponding number or forfeit hiis farm if he carrys out this agreement lie will receive alie sum of bet by his brother stanley special to the enquiring LONDON dec 7 stanley will be surfeited with welcome upon his arrival in england everybody desires to do him honor at the next meeting of the council of alio etoyal geographical society arrangements will be made for a banquet to stanley emin pasha will of course be included in alie invitation should lie come to london A proposal will also be made at an early meeting of alic common council of the city eliat stanley be entertained at guild hall on a date to be fixed by himself it will be remembered eliat the explorer was made a free man of the city on the eve of hiis departure to relieve emin it lias already been decided that if stanley accept the invitation of the king of alie belgians and visit brussels he will be entertained by alie burgomaster at a grand banquet to which the delegates of the antislavery anti slavery conference now in session will also be invited on alie day following a gala performance will be given in liis honor at the opera stanley will be the gueft of the king during his stay in brussels the cost of the emin relief expedition will be met by the fund which was raised by public subscription sup and otherwise when the list closed shortly after stanley get out the total amount collected tell something short of of this amount it is said only ia on hand As there remain the cost of the homeward journey and salaries to be paid it will be been that further funds will be wanted AX special to the ENQUIRER BUFFALO X Y dec 7 dr lewis Mus buger of this city died here last friday night ate was one of the leading of aliis city and well known all over western new york he came to buffalo in from germany where lie had for years been surgeon in the army he was of noble family being a cousin of alie duke of westphalia but an early quarrel with his family had alienated liis affections and from that time lie was noted for most singular eccentricities he was most skillful in liis profession and within a year after his arrival in this city had established a large practice he was a leading member of the society of free thinkers thin kera and the features of liis will were most peculiar by it liis body is to be incinerated at a crematory and the greater part of a moderate fortune is divided among local characters but a codicil added bix months ago waa moat singular it donates to a funeral repast for liis friends alie feast is now being partaker partaken par taken of incineration having taken place yesterday champagne and oysters are lead ing courses and over two hundred people are enjoying alie repast A free concert is also provided alie scene transcends all description da THE SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR special to the CHICAGO dec 7 the wisconsin legislature having awarded a gold medal to H E francisco of mason city iowa as the youngest soldier of alic late war the old discussion has been opened and a number of claimants have come forward to show eliat he is not entitled to rank as alie youngest of alie veterans mr francisco was about 14 years oll whon he enlisted 0 II 11 of sioux city claims to have been only 13 years and 11 months old when he entered the service J L keplinger was 13 years anil 4 months and andrew F links of chicago was 13 vears and 3 months old but chicago lias another young veteran who r saying nothing though he beats the record by throe years this is gilbert van zandt the adjutant of habcock post no mr van zandt entered he was 10 years 8 months and 11 days old he enlisted at port william clinton county ohio and served in company D of the seventy ninth ohio kes ament lie yaa mustered into alie service by a special order obtained from the war department two months after his enlistment list ment he served to the close of the war aud was mustered out at cap dennison june G esgo lie drew a pay and did a soldiers duties was in the fight at reseca but was afterward assigned to duty at headquarters to carry dispatches when alie regiment was on its way home tho pony young van zandt rode through the war was taken from him in washington and he was refused either permission or transportation for it to his home tha boy walked up to the house told chiq story to president johnson and the order for for his poev wa signed by the president himself it any of tho veterans can beat the record cf mr van zandt let them show their papers OLD hass ADAMS HIS GOLD special to J w N M dec 7 old man 1 adams of the lost adama f t t i aings gings with a party of adventurers from california who have a physician with them to look after the old mans health arrived at navajo springs on the atlantic and pacific road a few days ago dafter an a nights rest left fora hunt tor the diggings mr adams ia now under the impression that the lost mines are about miles south of gallup and the californians are to accompany him with a view of ascertaining the truthfulness of his story he claims to have encountered near the arizona new mexico line placer beds 0 o fabulous worth twenty fears ago but was prevented from working them because of the hos tile apaches eliat have operated through that region until live years ago no less than a dozen large carlies have at various times been out in search of these gold fields but without result HOLDING THEIR CO special to the the convention of the board of corrections and charities and conference of county agents began today to day in philharmonic hall at alie opening of the meeting delivered an address of welcome and commissioner james A responded for alie delegates the secretary a statement of alie work of alie board for the past year and the chairman appointed a committee to udit alie report of alie treasurer alie routine business being disposed of papers were read by john of wayne county on the duty of alie society toward insubordinate and vicious children and by john W holcomb on the present terms of sentences is related to the objects of our beform schools A MARVELOUS ESCAPE special to the ENQUIRER MILWAUKEE dec 9 an almost miraculous escape from death is reported from jackson county georgia two men were working in front of a circular aaa when one of them reached over to remove a clipp from behind it the saw caught his sleeve and dragged him over the shafting hound and round he went until his fellow workman could run and stop the machinery when ho was taken out not a scratch or bruise was found upon his body hut the saw had torn every thread of clothing off him and lie was entirely naked AND CO special to the ENQUIRER VIENNA dec 9 tho hungarian government lias adopted a novel but expensive mode of ical cating tea ranco among its subject it is actually the owner noar of public houses which it has acquired by vested interests the cost of redemption is to be defrayed by special loan of eighty million florans florins flor ins A very large number but not all of alie dram sloops are to be closed and re opened as schools this is regarded as a drastic method of dealing with the alcoholic trade but the proprietors boullit out profess themselves satisfied their compensation remarkable FOR ONE SO YOUNG special to the j LONDON dec 9 alie grinton mining company liaa a remarkable boy in its employ if all that is said about him is true it is claimed for the boy eliose name is bodwell Ko dwell that in seeking for mineral veins eliat they are always found at alie places indicated by him lie usually walks with his hands clasped before him holding the divining rod and when he steps upon a mineral vein or water he is powerless to unclasp them until he moves away from the region of alie conduit he is 14 years old A BRIGHT special to the ENQUIRER LONDON dec 9 A monument to john bright was unveiled today to day in the cemetery of rockdale rochdale Roc hdale it bears no inscription except his name and the dates of his birth and death the oration was delivered by prof thorold bogers |
