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Show fm THE BLADE. t NEPHI, - UTAH. - - THE DIRECTORY. TJ. S. . Senators....".- " JFrank J. Cannon. JArthur Brown. .0. E. Allen. - Delegate to Congress. STATE OFFICERS. Hefoer M. W ells. Governor. 1 Secretary -.of State. ... .James T. Hammond. James Chipman. TreasurerAuditor. . ; Morgan . Richards, J r. . A. C. Bishop. Attorney General Supt. of Public Instruction...John.R. Park. 'C. S. Zane. G. W. Barch. J. A. Miner. Judge Fifth Judicial District.. E. V. Higgins. Senator, Seventh District. James P. Driscoll Member Lower House Adelbert Cazier, Groo, Registrar Land Office ,....Bryon Receiver Land Office.. Frank Harris JUAB COUNTY DIRECTORY. W1. Chappell Probate Judge Charles Foote Selectmen Hugo Depjrezin A. L. Jackman J. T. Snllivaq '.IX W. Cazier Assessor and Collector.. v Cletk and Recorder .William Burton, Thomas Winn Edward Pike Attorney........ ........... N-.Fr- ? ' MILLARD COUNTY- - DIRECTORY. Joshua Greenwood Probate JudgeAndreas Peterson. --r J ohn Styler. Selectmen. . James Gardner. O. C. Holbrook. . Sheriff. . .. .Alma Greenwood. Assessor Collector ........ . . . ... A A. Hinckley .Thos. 0. Calllster Clerk and Recorder.. M. Hanson. , . .Attorney. ,Jno. Willftrd Surveyor .Treasurer,. ...Joseph D. Smith . . Coroner. ..Sidney Teeplei .D. C. Calllster Superintendent Schools The English people are not as yet ac- quainted with the American nation; and what little they know is mostly things that arent so. ' Again comes the cheering announcement that the Keely motor is practically complete. All. it needs now is a little more patience and several more j ' dollars. as-eu- T. C. Hanford .William Ockey Eustice J.....T. Miller Surveyor...., Treasurer. Coroner Superintendent' Schools N If war, pestilence,1 famine or something of the kind doesnt come along to check the growth of the magnetic healer he gives promise of pyexrunning the country. i " An orchestra leader licked the marquis of Queensberrys son the other day and the crowning humiliation Is that he didnt do it according to the rules so carefully devised by the young mans father. Richmond, Ind., is boasting because It has a couple that have been married over seventy-fiv- e years. That is nothat all. Chicago has people who have ing been married half a dozen times in half ' . that time. A Jewish rabbi lecturing from the pulpit of a Methodist phurch is a very pleasing spectacle. If Moses and John there is no Wesley were living ay reason for, the belief that they would not be friends. Now that Gen. .Harrisons engage- ment has been indorsed by the members of the womens clubs in St. Louis the general can go on his way rejoicing heedless of such little things as presidential nominations. me i j COURTING Winter i to-d- iIm THE PARK. fchills Have No Terror for Loving; Couples. the said the! sparrow cop tp the New York World jman. ThereSirio for as for spoonbut Accounting taste, in the mud on a night like ing arpuiid this I hkvej my opinion of them that does it. Now with me I have to hang around hsre whether it rains or shines, but its s.botit as Cheerful a place as a. cemetery, to do your courtin' in if youre selecting a place to spend the evenin' with your b4st girl. But, on my honor, theres couples that comes spooning here, on the coldest drizzly wintert nights and seem to like it. They dont seem to mind thelweather a bit. Now, look at em trailin' along there like as it was a night In June. Down he pathway and up the next, and circling the arch and around the four sides of thef square, slowly, very slowly, dnder the, drip of the branches and the drizzle of the sky, they loitered.. And lingered. A long! time and slowly. Very slowly. And when the reporter passed that way half an hour later they were still lingering under one umbrella and the drizzle of a December night. And loitering. Very Slowly. And the; sparrow cop watched the bro-iback of the, romantic umbrella as it peregrinated ifs leisurely way with , d the bitter of nostril upper-curv- e that claims to have Niagaras settles upon the .face of him who has water-powexactly where it wants it considered the folly of the world and unlimited immigra- doe not approve of it. invites and now, on tion the strength of its new business boom. Buffalo surely would not ' John Browns Handcuffs. deceive the people and obtain their Daniel Lizer, living near Lincoln-Villmoney on falls pretenses. Ind., while rummaging around In his garret, found an old trunk that Chicago and New York capitalists had remained unopened for years, have organized a company with $2,000,-00- 0 contained the first pair of handof for the developpurpose capital cuffs ever worn by John Brown. The ing on a very extensive scale large gold cuffB are very heavy, and are made mining properties, covering several to he held in position on the wrists thousand acres In Buckingham county, by screws. Asa Maysteller had charge Va. Investigations of experts, it is of the armory where Brown was imprisclaimed, show that the average of these oned, and presented him with the hand-oufores gives even a better percentage thirty-tw- o years ago. Mr.. Lizer of gold than either' the South African lived at Harpers Ferry at the time or the Cripple Creek districts. of th uprising, A circular on the prospects of emiGoethe Took His Time. gration to the British colonies from of the first part of The the British Emigrants Information Of- Goethescomposition Faust was .done at odd infice states there is no opening for latervals during nearly twenty years; bor in Victoria or South Australia, and the preparation of the second part conthat in New South Wales only experi- tinued over twenty-sienced rflinere and agriculturists with capital have any chance. In QueensSPEAKING OF PEOPLE. land the labor outlook is improving. In western Australia, says the circuTheqneefi of Roumania fairly revels lar, there is a good demand for miners in literature. at the Coolgardie goldfields; but the and Gotha The duke of cost of living is high, water is very, plays the fiddle with fervor and skill. scarce in summer and the heat very King Humbert of Italy is a strong no one so to is advised that go great, man, but his only son and heir is slight some is and has he unless there strong and delicate. money. The British program of pubCrown Prince William of Germany, lic works gives promise of increased now 13 years old, is not half so bright employment for men In the building and strong as his younger brother. trades. In Natal there is a demand for Speaker Reed denies the report that bricklayers, carpenters and black- he studied for ,the ministry when a smiths, but the office warns emigrants young man, but admits that his folks that there is danger of the labor mar- wanted him to do so. The wife of President Cleveland has ket in the Transvaal becoming overa most mellifluous voice, and an adstocked." mirer says, Her speech is a continual of house representatives song without words." The national of its Chaplain the prayer Bjornstjerne Bjornsons new play, applaud for her in win fight Der that Cuba might' Konig, is objected to by the Danthe would give ish censorship, as its hero is King Oscar freedom. If the house Almighty a little assistance by granting and the play is an attack on royalty. And now they are saying that WashCuba belligerent rights the prayer would shortly be answered. Its pow- ington played the flute. But the muse der, not prayers, that the Cubans need. of history adds that, though he played very well, he never did so when any- -' half American married girls, Having body was within hearing distance. would of The appalling statement is made that England the dukes and lords war case of on our in side be Gladstone is at present engaged in editinaturally Otherwise their with that country. ng1 the letters "which he has received fathers-in-lao like-twould be American and which he thinks worthy of precut off their cash supnll. servation, and these are said to number no fewer than 200,000. Buffalo , er - 5, and-whic- fs j t x. Saxe-Cobu- w DU MAUIUEH'S TROUBLE. rg Mississippi Negress Who Uoals a fusion of Uuc Hair. From the Memphis Scimitar: Tbs' In the course of a talk Du Maurier described the tragic affair that occur- MIssissippians in Memphis tell Cf J, red at the Antwerp academy, where ho strange negro character living near' was studying under De Keyser and Holly Springs, forty miles southeast! Yan Lerius. It was on a day in Yan of this city. The negro, or rather ne-- 1 ' is named Nancy GarJ Lerius' studio, he said, that j the great gress, Itqquestion to be thd only longJ is said and rison, tragedy of my life occurred. haired member of her race. Nancy jJ The voice of Du Maurier, who till a genuine ne gress; black, with' then had been chatting with anima- kinky hair. She is 48 years old. Until tion, suddenly fell, and over his face 1878, after the yellow feer epidemic came an indefinable expresision of min- there was nothing remarkable about' gled terror and danger and sorrow. but during the scourge she had the1 I was drawing from a model, when her, and came near dying. It was fever suddenly the girls head seemed to me months before she was able to leave her! to dwindle to the size of a walnut I clapped my hand over my left eye. hbuse. Immediately after her convales-to1 Had I been mistaken.? I could see as cence her short, kinky hair began well as ever. But when in Its turn I grow rapidly, and in a, year's time it' covered my right eye I learned what grew from three inches to three feefJ had happened. My left eye had failed in length, thickening as it grew. A few me; It might he altogether lost. It was years later the crisp mass of hair fell! so sudden a blow that I was as thunderstruck. Seeing my dismay, Yan below her knees. About this time a! Lerius came up and asked me what wonderful change of color took place;! might be the matter, and when I told the jetty locks turned white as snov him he said that it was nothing; that and remained so until two years ago; he had had that himself, and so on. since then the hair, has turned graduAnd a. doctor, whom;I anxiously con- ally to Its natural blackness. It cosulted that same day, comforted me ntinues to grow and now measures elevand said that- the accident was a pass- en feet. Prominent physicians of the1 ing one. However, my eye grew worse and worse, and the fear of a total Holly Springs neighborhood have ex- -' blindness beset me constantly. That amined the womans head and are diswas the most tragic event of my l'fe. posed to think that the spell of fever1, It poisoned all my existence. the unnatural growth. She is Du Maurier, as though to shake off a produced a living curiosity, visited by hundreds' troubling obsession, rose from hia braids before chair and walked about the room, ci- who handle her massive Like the mthe believe truth. they garette in hand. is of the negroes, Nancy superIn the spring of 1859 we heard of ajority a great specialist, who lived in Duseel-dor- stitious, and the story she tells about' and we went to see him. He ex- !her hair is interesting. She claims amined my eyes, and said that, though that she had a vision while she lay the left eye was certainly lost, I had sick of fever; that a blackwoman stood no reason to fear losing the other, but her with three long braids of that I must be very careful, and not before hair that fell to the floor; the drink beer, or eat cheese, and so on. kinky It was very comforting o know that I woman pointed to the hairand disap- was not to be blind, hut I haye never peared. When her hair began to grow shaken off the terror of that apprehen- Nancy often thought of the visicn. A' ' sion. later, when she was alone in her My life was a very prosperous one cabin, the vision appeared again, holdfrom the outset in London. I was paar-rie- d braldsJ in 18G3, bnd my wife and I never ing In her hands the massive Is once knew financial troubles. My only She said to Nancy: (Behold, this your trouble has been my fear about my hair. Mark me, it is as black as night; eyes. Apart . from that I have been it shall bb as white as snow. This Ever Since Youth He Has Bee Threatened With Loss of Sight, j Published Every Saturday at i FELINE MODELS FOR ARTISTS. Hbw Cats Are Caught and Made to Foie for Painters. Frsm the Brooklyn Times: The celebrated artist, Henrietta Ronner, of is the foremost animal Pari, who lix the feline1 department at painter present, has been the subject of much attention concerning her methods of work among the lowly or the aristocratic, fo she paints' cats of both high and low degree Brooklyn has ai kitten painter also. He did not begin life as one, figures and fruit having always stood for August Laux in art. A patron wanted him to paint a cat group once, and the artist jsucceeded so well with the order that he took felines on his list, and his name has become largely associated with them of late. Mr. Lau was found in his pleasant studio oiT Carroll street, and responded to the request fo givesome information methods of work as follows: large cage to put my little models ih when I am ready to paint them, p I want a lively, bright subbas-tii- e. ject I place a work basket in their That brings oiit all the mischief there is n them. They tangle the thread, roll the spools about and th very sauciest,1, most comical expressions and poses. When they are tired of flaying they go to sleep, and then again ou comes my notebook and I jot down some very pretty attitudes. Do you wpnt a quiet,,' pleasant little picture? Then jplace A saucer of milk in the cage and the jlittle animals will come afojund it, and all you have to do Is just to! paint them. The picture is almost x stire to be satisfactory if well handled. Of course, Mr. Laux did not attain his present felicity of delineating the cat all ftt once. To paint Miss Tabby is one of tiose things which break your heart., as Tait, the famous animal painter, nce said, Kittens are mercu-- , rial. it requires much practice and long concentration Of mind to make a perfett sketch of grimalkin, for often it must be done at lightning speed. -- - . had a fairly-goo- d claim; nothing of the bonanza in its nature, just & good, or two-ounhonest, beat that proposition day wages by a shade only. There is one thing about Farncomb Hill that its uncertainStories of gold strikes at Cripple ty. You never know is,what the next Creek have revived those ancient le- wallop with the pick or the next shot Southgends of ' accidental mineral finds, with a cartridge will uncover.I was on and which lends such a glamour to the av- er was down in the hole he buckets the the windlass ocation of the prospector. If one can filled with. ore.hoisting a soft had We tiding, find an old miner with an unoccupied so far as labor was concerned, and the ore up. It was half an hour, lies rare and picturesque could almost a-shovel cross beteen chalk and a soft talc, and 'sufficient in number to freight a at last along a I bucket got putty. train can be had for the asking. CoL about 2 in the afternoon that weighed an ' like a ton. I could scarcely lift it. I Thomas Jefferson Maloney,-nodead. operator in Cripple Creek properties, dumped it, and almost dropped see could The ore was so rich in gold I has been through all the flush times it and shine. I examined the bucket Colorado has known, and has likewise found little strings of wire gold hangtightened his belt for lack of a more ing to it. Jim had struck one of those at those times celebrated Farncomb freaks, and it satisfactory dinner when Colorado was not so flush. was so dark down there that he had There have been no such strikes to not noticed the alteration in the charthe last five or six years, said Col. acter of the stuff he was sending up. d gold Maloney, as we used to have in the Do you recall that good old days when old man Tabor wire exhibited at the' worlds fair? grub-stake-d the two German shoemak- Mild of that was what Souther and I ers, Hook and Riche, and went to sleep took out of that shaft. I called to J im in his clothes two nights afterward a to stand from under, for I aimed to millionaire owner of the Little Pitts- come down and see him a while I bed, broke ;tke news to him, and then we burg. It was hard getting him to celetoo. I think he would have been began to figure out how we stood. As had the if strike the boys had a yet brating nearly as we could decide, weextendnot chloroformed him. Now when a pocke; or chamber of this stuff man makes a find he goes and covers ing ihto the side of the shaft about it up until he can con his neighbors eight feet. We could reach in and get n out handfulls of gold that looked like it came from under & redheaded girls hat. But we couldnt stand In .he shaft and admire it all 'Thare was at least $15,000 worth of the stuff. The metal that was not free could easily be separated .from the rpst of the ore. It was enclosed in ' decomposed quartz, and required nothing but rubbing between the fingers to get it. We decided to raise it all that night that is, unless it turned out a bigger find than we. thought. We figured it best not to go about heating the drum . to advertise our strike, but hoist the ore and do oqr talking later. Jim stayed in the mine and I went backj to the winch. Then my temptation came to me. There was a good, big piece of money there fbr one man, and just half as much each for two. I have read somwehere that every man has his price; if you keep on bidding, you jean reach him sure at some spot. I Could See the Candle Flicker. Since that day I have shuddered to out of their, claims. In the other days think cheap I, am. A measly $15,- I speak of, when a man struck it rich 000 inhow near getting me. It dre he went out on the causeway and pro- all came to came me as if It were printed in claimed his great luck. He spent all held letters before my face. I and big his money in . adding, to the general could call to Jim and get him out of no and made joyousness of the camp, means into bottom the of the shaft, the drift infor bluff at work until his windlass. and let the There would go exwere wholly ducing celebration a not In man a be kick who had left hausted. on been a sev- -' smashed head the with Nearly all the bonanza strikes have 200 with bucket, been made by acedent. There was fifty-foore of in a after It, San-dipounds a Adams famous luck over in the fall.1 range. Adams said he was a deThe first time I called I couldnt scendant of the family that had so raise voice over a It remany presidents and signers of the mindedmyme of the time whisper. pneu-tnoniI had the Declaration in it. ,1 always set him first in the mountains, my year came from down for, a liar he Elgin, and Jim nursed me out of it. He 111. He was invariably making this walked miles over hills in the twenty Declaration of Independence play a storm to medicine for snoX me, get when he should have been doing as- and surest in the I world the its thing sessment work. This mans name was have been wouldnt pure hoisting gold John Quincy Adams same as the last out of a Farncomb Hill shaft If Jim president of the,name and he never Souther hadnt sat up with me day and let you go to sleep In ignorance of the a week for four before. I years night out should Providence fact. Why pick this while I was such a man to shower favors on I nev- thought of all voice for the second try at er could imagine. It was his idiotic ing up my him. That time I did It. calling carelessness that made him a plutois What he hollers back. It, crat. Any man with a morsel of sense 1 could see hisBilly? candle flicker as I would have never have got rich as he looked down the let go shaft, ready was did. He always prospecting the winch, when I had himto placed most in around the unpromising spots. Whats eating of you now? he of plunder with right. on. He packed a jack-loa- d We aint got any time for him, pans, and picks, and shovels and keeps or visiting if we get this powder, besides his grub. One day he merrymaking out he says. money was projecting around the Sandla hills, spending Bill. Make talk yor quick, thinking he was looking for float, and to try three times again beletting his heart swell with family foreI had could make a noise. Shake a pride. He had his haversack slung bush, I says Jim, if you cant speak. . over his shoulder, and among other want I you to come up and work truck In It were ten or twelve cartridgI yells back I Idont like winch! the es for blasting. His magnifying glass to so be from the stuff. far away sat lay at the top of the bag. Adams All hollers up, If you he right! down against a rock to rest. And the it. know you cant But you prefer glass focussed the sun so that it set stand it down here as well as I can, fire to the canvas hag. Adams said, some and afraid Im get the youll he made the subsequently quickest worst of it. . of his life in from under play getting So Jim came up and I took his that haversack strap. He hit one ridge and landed forty rods away behind an- place. When I was going down the he says: other rock. He had just reached cov- shaftYou look like you had seen a dead er, and, bing went off his blasting powder. Adams wentj back, out of. the friend, Bill. I think another strike idlest curiosity, to see what kind of a hole It had made. He found the rock he had leaned against scattered at large over the face of the earth. The haverack had fallen into a sort of crevice at the foot, and the explosion h&d lifted everything Into the air. Among other things, it opened a vein of ore running $3,800 to the ton. That man Adams sold a tenth interest for $10,000. It was worth ten times as much, but he deeded money for development. He made more than a million, and they are working at the vein yet. Adams is blooding it back in Massachusetts. He bought some of the property of the old family back, and, naturally, gilded and varnished it. He says the Adamses are on earth for the second time. I never let fewer than three men werk In one of my mines. said an owner of property in the Clear Creek district. It may be an idle notion, He Skule tlie Quietest Play of III hut I have been haunted by the idea Life. that I erme near committing mur like this would give you heart failure. der of the most What did the find do? We took out a few years ago. If there character, had been $22,000 ,and sold the three of us, Instead of two partners, claim forfrom that pocket is still Souther Yes, the thought would never have come to in the $45,000.business me. I with mining me, and I wouldnt have the bad dissolve to about him told my plan dreams that disturb me occasionally. he was in the shaft, when partnership J have never since put myself in a po- lie said: Do you know. Bill, I had a sition where a possible homicide would not have at least one witness. I will strong notion to belt you on the head not work, alone with another man ina with a pick Iwhen you came down thea found wliat kind of shaft, and mine. Will-igI of putty had dug into. I got my start up in Farncomb Hill. pile Eugene in Lewis, Chicago Jim Mouther was my partner. We ce ounce-and-a-ha- lf , w ; j , fine-twiste- fine-spu- -- enty-flve-pou- - i ! f, f f yc-a- r very happy. Westminster Budget. ENGLAND ! frightened the negress and she bound up her hair in a cloth and was afraid to loosen It or to look upon it for a month. When questioned about it she Its all the spirits always says: work. WANTS THIS. Pile of Rock in the Channel That' France Say Is Her. crmall Maitre islet is the ?most prominent ro.:k on that dangerous reef which Is some ten miles from the castle and the harbor of St. Heller. These rocks are, with the rest of the Channel Isles, the last remaining jewels of the crown ; of the conqueror. Two months ago the governor of Jersey, accompanied by a few mem- - OSTLER & OOEEY, Wholesale and Retail , Bute tiers, CURED ot - . to-da- y, , -- free-milli- ng : . j cold-bloode- d i j ' m ol ol the Norwegian exhibit at the Paris exhibition of 1867, which was dropped overboard when it was being sent bach to Norway. If this fact had.not been remembered, tbe stone would probably have been taken for a relic of the Yik Ing settlers of Normandy. i nd a, A Relic Spoiled. x A runic stone, lately dredged out Havre harbor, turns out to be pat BEEF PORK Maitre Islet. bers, of the States, set ont to Inspect HUTTON VEAL the roads. The union jack and St. Andrews 'flag were hodsted on the staff and saluted by the cheers of the ALSO elated spectators. These facts were communicated to the inhabitants of Saint Malo and Grandeville, who wired In detail what had taken place to the Paris newspaEY, pers, in which virulent articles appeared, declaring positively that the OSTLER-OCKMinquieres belonged to France, and not to Britannia. NEPHI CITY, UTAH. A diplomatic correspondence ha taken place between the foreign office of the city. of both countries, who, if rumor Is Cor- Free delivery to any part Butter, Lard, Sausage . rect, wish to name a commission, &a they did in 1SS3 In the matter of the Ecrehos ,when it was proved that these islets belonged to the 'British crown. London Sketch. K. E. L. COLLIER, C. E. ! Engineering in. all its Branches. A LIST OF ACQUAINTANCES. Land and Irrigation' Work a Specialty Very Few Men AVTio Knowby Name .One Thousand People. Engineer for Centrl Lend and Irrigatioi A email party seated in the ManhatCo., Clear Lake Land and- Irrigation Co, Fillmore Land t nd Irrigation Co. and WbfM tan club night before last was discuss- Mountain Land tnd Irrigation Co. One the of question acquaintances. ing well known lawyer said he knew as Office: Court llonse, Fillmore, Utah. many people as any mhn in the room, he did not care who he was. I asked THE DESERET DAIRY CO, If he could say how many acquaintances he had not friends merely, but HAS FOR SALE persons knawn casually and slightly. After thinking it over he said 10,000. f FULL CliEAli CHEESE. I bet $50 to $5, said another of the party, that you cannot name 1,000 Desejet is noted for the fine quality of and persons your acquaintance, give of its Milk, Butter and Cheese- - 'Gii you all night to de It. The bet was o nr products a trial. made, and the lawyer began, a friend keeping tally. ; N. S. BISHOP, When, after two hours of hard thinkSUPT. ing, he had reached between 500 and too, he was going very slow and strainhe was so ing terribly. At midnight far from the 1,000 i mark that the party broke up in disgust. TJ3CE I doubt if there Is, a man ia this country who could write down the names of 1,000 acquaintances aA a moments notice. I dont believe there are five men In the United States who are acquainted personally with 10,000 HcaincartErs for HIM HHL people. Dan Lamont, secretary "if war, is said to know more faces tFan any other man. He made a study of face CSty and county Newspaper from ill P when Mr. Clevelands private secrefUUh. tary, aud became indispensable to the Ore specimens from Detroit wi president; It might be said that there where. are many politicians who know more than 10,000 people personally, but you Every thing RESPECTABLE. cant rely upon a political asquaint-ance-. wu-- in WU of The politician has a way of preEABTII. THE tending to know every living man who Cm PUREST WATpIl ,ON the Fremlaes. This Water Is a OVA has a vote. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew as an lias wide ANXEKD CURB fer n probably acquaintance as any man we know. Many men remember faces without being able to Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder recall names. That Is not an acquaintance. It will not do to say we have Testimonials on Application. such and such a man before MRS. J. F. GIBlte, Prop. somewhere, but cannot recollect; bis UTAH- name. 'ew York 1rer.a, DESERET, - ! ( ' i , i DESERET HOUSE. 1 . 8 i |