Show EDIO E it ito 0 it RIALS fals J 1 X BLACKY i HEARTED VILLAINY i i bi BEFORE olt h us aro are three instances of s e J u A 19 fi ls reported in lil ody duex ax eb ebney ngy T crin crime ae I 1 which vill cati catl num tolerated in any com that would be morally he healthy a crime which in its more aggravate aggravated il phases deserves and sometimes receives condign and summary punishment without sj sall ll i marc mt rc to the tho de detroit ir i olt oll froe froc prem one ono archibald bixby with anaas of that city was engaged t to 0 1 be married to annie guinan bherman hu inan a canadian gi girl rl of seventeen daughter ofa widowed mother before the appointed time dime for the carrl marriage bixby rby proposed sed to the girl gir I 1 that slie shelve live with him as his mistress a proposition which she indig 1 bantly scouted and on hearing of it gis his employer discharged him and advised the girl to have no more to da doi with him however after a time tind he became so very sorrowful and contrite that she restored him to favor and he persuaded her to be married to him which ceremony was performed by a man who was introduced to the girl as justice thomas after the ceremony the thus married couple ceritto went to stay at a boarding house houm the third day after bixby went away and sent the girl word that the marriage was a put up job and that the best thing she could do was to keep silent and stay at the house which really was one lone of ill III fame similar to that concerning which the third district court in this city has just decided favorably the regular inmates of the house laughed at the bogus marriage as ashard a sharp trick and a good joke and pressed the girl to stay but she quickly left leaving two of her dresses to pay for her baard bill driven nearly frantic by the diabolical trick practised practiced upon her she probably would have destroyed destroyed herself but for the interposition of fr friends ienUs bixby boasted of his bis conduct as a good joke but it 1 is likely that he and his confederate will be punished for their rascally conduct as influential persons have taken the matter up in another instance as recorded in inthe the sonora cal Nde independent pendent orie one adolph Par roua roura roun French frenchman ma n of 60 years residing at columbia was shot and instantly killed nov 14 by thomas hays for crim criminal nal nai intercourse with the lat clatters daughter a girl of between 13 and 16 vears of age darrou is described as one who had indulged his base passions until it had become a mania with him he was a moral monster mon mos ster and more dangerous to beat be at largely large in the community than a wild beast no home was safe from the terrible scourge of his presence and the record of his crimes makes one blush for humanity manity under these circum instances the community dwell lwell L is well weli rid of his baleful presence the third instance is related b by y the union and advertiser of rochester cli cil fliesler oster osler new york one thomas oye ove courted borrowed money of promised marriage to deferred the same and ultimately seduced annie hoag a prep prepossessing oss essing irish frish dirl diri of twenty six years under said pro promise p 1 of marriage loves love tife th eh h cooled and he urged that he was as too poor to th marry annie brought suit against him 3 and obtained j judgment damages fop foe breach of promise and for barrowes ber bar rowed money all his mean ell eil charges arges of previous lack of chastity on her part being overturned 1 Iov ilove lov was ewas a also aiso iso sentenced ce d by judge miller fuller to three years in the state Prison the Judge cailing calling attention in 16 his remarks to the prisoner to the fact that cases of seduction were becoming too common and that the courts coura ought to seb set their thein faces rigidly against thern them A much heavier punishment was deserved I 1 I 1 HIGHWAY RoBBE bythe HYThe the new york yolk papers are complaining tha that t highway robbery is becoming a very common crime in that city and fears are expressed that it will become still more frequent the coming winter in consequence of the great dist distress fess through lack of employment one paper suggests that unless elemr exemplary lary iary punishment be promptly inflicted for by prince by the courts the carrying a ariouse aru ari iid ild duse of firearms for self protection jy lly the lie public will lecome become m dioro ioro oro frequent THE OF VENUS TOMORROW TO MORROW dec dee 8 the tho transit of the most brilliant of tho the planets pinn pinc ets venus the morning and evening star takes place that is that planet P passes asses between the earth and the sun un and appears like a small dot i as big as n pea as it appael apparently tle passes across the sung suns stir surface faeo face only twice will this celestial phenomenon be witnessed by thi this ge generation i p I 1 to and again in 1882 of late venus has been the evening star but soon boon after passing across the sun she ahe will appear as the morning star she is traveling from the left hand orthe or the east S side de of the sun to the west 0 or r right hand side of him tomorrow evening persons p e r situated a few fe ft w hundred miles west of california may observe venus like it a little black spot because they will see her shaded side passing across the upper portion of the thet orb of day this is considered the greatest astronomical event of the century being the first transit of venus in the century the importance of the event arises arisen from the fact that it furnishes the most trustworthy means of determining with a high degree of accuracy the dl stance distance between the earth and the sun upon which distance as a standard of measure and as a comparison par lson ison the distances of the other heavenly bodies are determined determine ter mined with the nearest possible approximation to accuracy an error of a thousand miles in the distance between the earth and the sun it is estimated would cause gause an error of of miles in calculating the distance of the earth from the nearest of the stars not the planets A more satisfactory is determination of this standard of measure would also be of great service in the sciences navigation and optics for the more perfect observation of the circumstances of this phenomenon no most of the civilized nations have sent out expensive and able scientific expeditions to various parts of the world russia has sent out twenty seven england france and germany ton ten or twelve eam each and the united states eight all the papers forthe for the week will be freighted with the transit question and in the scientific journals and records for this and the ensuing will have hav liberal attention various parts of the pacific ocean and northern europe and south africa are the chosen points for observation says an exchange transits transita Tran sits have been known to take place as follows dec 6 3 1631 lee lec 4 3 1639 june 5 1761 june 3 1769 transits hramits Tran Tra mits sits are calculated to occur hereafter on dee dec 89 8 9 1874 dec dee 6 1882 june 7 2004 june 5 2012 dec 10 2117 dee dec 8 2125 june 11 2247 june 8 I 1 2253 dec dee 12 10 2360 dec 10 2368 it may hence be observed that they take place in I 1 pairs bairs eight years apart and that the intervals of years between the them in are respectively 8 S 1041 8 1121 and so on this being the order of succession for a long duration of time THE PARDON championship governor moses of south C carolina a roli u a is not to wear his bis laurels unchallenged as the champion pardoner he has a rival in montana according to the following governor cGovern or potts of montana it is said is not at all vindictive as he pardons out about two thirds of the persons put in the penitentiary van WAL VAL OR WIL wll the T portland cortlan d oregon papers with the intellect and culture of that vicinity are having a warm wordy war u upon p on tho dlo dio the question wh whether ethera ethern a notel ore ord gon river er shall si bo be called walla metto at willamette wil wll lamette lamotte at last ad vices tho tW lyv evv Willamette rs rather had bad th the tho e advantage meantime stranger pay their money and take taue their choice 11 4 0 disturbance BREEDING calt cali CAR th tho ggreeley grecie Y itol 01 ol tribune sass sasa ode one thing Js is certai c tap jap there ls is is 19 a set bet of miserable G gentie gentle carpetbag gers athau t salt lake ake City I 1 who are all the a disturbance ev everybody kwil kwit knows aws th atthe bar car those in uth utah especial 1 ly IN area are a disgrace humanity to they are aue ac chronic mischief makers hild aud they beem seem to understand nothing better H AS one evidence hard times a new york let iet ter tt t T says swo I 1 cafa gafa caia at h recent advertisement lit for goo 00 chirls to dance or march in the extra ballot of af the black crook at the grand opera house applied limong whom were music teachers school teachers and a number of other well educated young lad les ies ies jes anxious to earn 6 a week and unable to procure procuro employment at anything else BUSINESS THAT the year nearly passed away has been bwll a disastrous one to business is almost too trite hn an observation to be made now some somme mighty firms in the states east have succumbed to the financial pressure press sure others have had to close reef ali ail sails and scud under bire bare poles thankful top tob babl the storm in any way few firms throughout the country as a rule but have felt the necessity of e extraordinary tra precaution and a apo policy lcy icy of retrenchment in one way or another un other to enable them to fo hold their own in numerous instances firms have been so far fai from doing this that they have been glad to just succeed in keeping their heads above water As to the masses of workers they have had a fearful time of which the present winter promises to toi be the culmination in new york alone are reported to be from to people now out of employment a deplorable state of things at the beginning of winter in many other places through the entire or partial stoppage of mills and manufactories manu factories of various kinds and the general depression of trade thousands of pho people particularly in the northern states are in little if any better condition than are the people of now new york hopes are entertained that in the spring things will mend and gradually improve until business reaches or approximates to the briskness of good times there are reasons masons for these hopes as extremes are usually of brief aeration de ration generally inducing a reaction one extreme being followed by a gradual approach to its opposite so that next year business may be much brisker than it has been during the present which everybody fervently desires As a natural consequence the comIn community unity here has felt the effects of the general depre sion and aud most business houses have been made fully sensible of the necessity of a strenuously careful and prudent policy in older to reta retain in their standing in the commercial world world and aud make a showing in anywise satisfactory at the cloe cioe of the year A A very few houses have given way under the pressure but most have passed through the trying times bravely and comparatively in a ve very ry sai sax satisfactory factory manner so ko our citizens generally have much to be thankful for in that the blighting effects effiec ts of the general business depression have fallen on them so lightly compared or rather contrasted with the distressing experience of le los ios js fortunate business centres centra in the east in this t his city Z 0 M L I 1 the largest establishment of tile the kind hind within hundreds of miles north southeast or ort west could not but he be by the tho severe and axten extensive and lengthened financial stringency which has so seriously borne down upon large merean mercantile tilo establishments aliments in the states State as well weli as the smaller houses but we are happy to be able to state that the institution has weathered the storm in a manner to exceed the expectations of its most sanguine friends we have been at some soine pains to ascertain its true situation and we are iq in a position to be able to 0 state from actual knowledge that that today to day the institution is I 1 in a perfectly sound condition financially as much so as any establishment in the country which is a most gratifying assurance to all connected with it directly or indirectly the same knowledge Is accessible to to every shareholder and the directors would be pleased to furnish all the tho facilities in their power to the shareholders in th tha of that knowledg knowledge e instead of their putting any cre credence 9 ence eneo in untrustworthy flying rumors shareholders who have been to seek this information doubtingly have returned unexpectedly gratified with the financial status of the institution A few persons who have become uneasy in their minds through trusting in unauthorized reports which have been instigated and circulated partly with malicious purpose may have offered shares for sale but the large shareholders and those others who have made it their business to become acquainted with the real condition of the institution hareno have no shares to sell they would rather buy than sell the few shares w which have been sold bold lo 10 the institution have been transferred at pai pal in consequence of the sudden stagnation of business and the don consequent scarcity of cash most firms throughout the country doing a ange large arge business sound found themselves necessitated to ask an extension optime of time on their liabilities A t that tune time the liabilities of uhe the lhez Z C CM M 1 I amounted to half a million of dollars the whole of which has been paid off by instalments installments in accordance with arrangements entered into between the institution and the houses to which it was liable and in addition the curren current t liabilities I 1 of the institution have been duly and promptly liquidated as the they have matured though bin hin in order to take up the pa paper r of those older liabilities when tu due 1 according to arrangement the institution like ilke most other firms found it expedient to turn the accruing profits into the surplus fund thus necessitating the withholding of dividends to shareholders until the liabilities were liquidated but thereby maintaining the soundness of the institution the current bu business siness einess receipts of the institution are fully equal to those for the same season in any previous year and the business is is the fact of the institution gradually retiring from the retail trade with the purpose 43 of confining its attention to the wholesale tide tile trade jennings and sons have purchased the retail dry goods department mr septimus W sears has pur pure based abased the retail grain and provision department day co have purchased the retail grocery hardware etc department the singer sewing machine department has been sold to the singer sewing machine company it is the intention for the other retail departments to bo disposed of at convenience and then the entire business of the insel institution tu will be in the wholesale line in accordance with the original policy leaving the retail business in all its various branches 3 to individual or ordinary corporate competition or to the establishment of other operative cooperative co institutions there is a policy in some busi bus t nesses of selling certain articles at very low prices even below actual cost to the firm the losses on these thes e articles art 1 cle cie 8 to the sellers are made lp ip sometimes much more than made up by comparatively high frices prices and increased profits upon other articles some things are marked down at extraordinarily low figures and at zit a loss that would be 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