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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25

them the best interests of the public.
Therefore they will not care 10 vote, and
are virtually DISTINGUISHED. This order
upsets several sublime principles of the
Declaration Of independence: THAT all
amen are created equal that they are en-
slowed by their Creator with certain in
"alienable rights that among these are
alife, liberty aud the pursuit 81 liappi
mess that to secure these rights goyera-
"menta are Instituted among men, deri-
"5ing their just powers from the consent
"of the governed" The Office holder
henceTorth can have none of this Tor his
share. He may have been created the
equal Of all his fellows, but the coming
order will make him less than the lowest
ward meeting hummer. lie may have
been endowed by his Ccreator with certain
inalienable rights, but the president has
co~untermanded the decree of Providence
50 far as it relates to men of this class,
and they are less than the sparrow which
falls not unseen to the ground. To them
the opportunity Of life alone is loft-lib-
erty ana the pursuit o. happiaess is ,not
permitted. Liberty is the privilege to do
as n chooses, and office holders as q
class, al pursue mere happiness inside
of a convention than anywhere else. who
would care to be n Of the elect under
the new dispensation2
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25
The Northern Nebraska Journal. /

lhe Northern Nebraska Journal, pub
lished at Ponca, Dixon county, says:
An increasing wave OF discomfort and
disappointment has lately been rolling
over this county concerning the G. c. &
B. Ii. railroad. 1t is alleged that the
friendship and noble liberality which
Dixon county's generous citizens have
heretofore bestowed upon the railroad
company is not being met by honorable
good faith on the part of the company
The grievances complained of are that
the company purchases all its material
outside the county, that it hires all its
men outside the county at low prices.
that it erects stores and boarding houses
along its line of road, and gets back into
its own treasury the money paid out to
its employees, instead of permitting it to
go among the people, and that it con.
ducts itself generally as though it was In
an enemy's country, AS the company
had promised not to do these things when
it received Ss7, 600 of the peoples money,
the Journal is very indignant.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25

The Herald's correspondent at Vienna
sends further confirmation of the o Of
the Turks in the Arras valley beyond the
passes Of Topaz Kaleh. More than 10000
men were engaged on both sides, and, in
addition to the loss Of their commanding
officer, the Turks left Goo dead on the field
and were forced to retreat TO Delibaba.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25

a Deadwood dispatch of the 21st, says
Last Tuesday three horse-thieyes, Louis
Cary, James Hall, and A. J. Allen, were
caught near this place and two horses sto-
len from the stage company taken from
them. The thieves were lodged IN jail al
Rapid City. On Wednesday night the
Jail was broken open and the thieves taken
ont and hanged by unknown parties.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25

Contracts were awarded on Thursday
last, at Washington, for mail service to and
from the Black Hills, for nine months.
One information does not give the routes,
but the award probably includes them all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
A Brave Little Yankee.

IT happened in 1776 that the garden Of
a widow, which lay between the Ameri-
can and British camps, In the neighbor-
hood of New York, was frequently robbed
at night. Her son, a mere boy, and small
for his age, having obtained his mothers
permission to find out and secure the
thief, in case he should return, concealed
himself with a gun among the weeds.
A strapping Highlander, belonging to
the British grenadiers, came, and, having
filled large bag, threw it over his shoul-
der The boy then left his covert, went
softly behind him, cooked his gun and
called out TO the fellow: .F
You are my prisoner; if you attempt
to put your bag down, | will shoot you.
Go forward in the road"
The boy kept close behind him, threat
ening and was constantly prepared to eX-
ecute his threats. Thus. the boy drove
him into the American camp, where he
was secured. When the grenadier was at
liberty to throw down his bag, and saw
who had made him prisoner, he was eX-
tremely mortified, and exclaimed:
"A British grenadier made prisoner by
such brat--by such bratp'
The American officers were highly en-
tertained by the adventure, made a collec-
ton for the boy, and gave him several
pounds. He returned fully satisfied for
the losses his mother sustained The
soldier had side arms, but they were of no
use, as he could not get rid of the bag
Youths C0nlDGn6On.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

was built of brick, and stood back about
fifteen feet from the window, and venti-
lated only through an aperture in the wall
above the door, so that when the door was
locked the light of day never entered. A
mattress was the only article of furniture
in the cell.
The effect of the confinement was
plainly visible upon the man, for he
seemed in a partially exhausted state
when brought before the committee. 1t
appeared that he had been employed in
the tailoring department. and refusing to
obey the guard in charge, he was pun
ished.
He asked to be transferred to another
department, but his request was not ac-
ceded to, whereupon he refused to work
any longer under the guard in whose
charge he had previously been, anG was
locked up by the superintendent for
INSTRUMENTATION. In answer to a ques-
ton, the man said he would die in the
cell rather than again be placed under
the same guard, because he had abused
him
The councilmen were of the opinion
that while the discipline of the institution
should be maintained, and this was a
most remarkable case of obstinacy, the
punishment was rather severe, and that
the man should be removed to cell where
the atmosphere was more comfortable.
This was acceded Philadelphia Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04


silence; then, quietly recovering himself,
he turned to his hearers and related that
just fifty years before, in answer to a
prayer for aid in his studies. Mary, the
Queen of Heaven, had encouraged him
to persevere, promising that years of
fruitful labor should be his reward. But,
at the same time, she warned him that the
Divine powers then bestowed upon him
should in an unexpected moment be with
drawn, leaving him Ignorant as little
child. My friends,'' he concluded,
"what was then foretold is now to be ac-
complished. / recognize that my time is
spent. and my end is at hand" He
bowed his head, and, descending from
his place, took an affectionate leave of his
pupils, and, for the remaining three years
of his life, WAS the inmate of i D0mini-
cans cell.
During these fifty years of ineessant
toll, Albertus found time to write twenty
one folio volumes. The first six comprise
a commentary on the Sentences of
Peter Lombard, and complete para
phrase of Aristotle. Prior to the produc.
ton of this last work, only a portion of
the writings of Aristotle were accessible
to students, the remainder existing only
IN the Greek-a language then almost un-
known in European universities. BY the
task which Albert executed of rendering
the entire writings of the Greek philoso-
pher into familiar tongue, he conferred
an inestimable boon upon his age.
As an illustration of his mechanical in
genuity, it is recorded that he constructed
an automaton which distinctly enunciated
several words. Itchanced one day that
one of his pupils, ignorant of its exist
ence, came upon the image, and hearing
it utter the greeting, "Salvel salve!
salve!" he was so alarmed at what he took
to be an apparition of the Evil One, that,
with the abjuration, "Begone, Satanr'
he fell upon the figure and belabored it
with his cane until it lay in pieces before
him, and the work of thirty years was
destroyed. Another tradition states that,
on the occasion of a banquet which AL
bertus gave to William of Holland, King
of the Romans, at the Dominican con-
vent, in midwinter, the scene was, by his
magic skill, suddenly transformed into
summer-spectacle of verdure and bloom.
The story probably rests upon the simple
foundation of a conservatory, in which
the naturalist was easily able to render
the season of flowers peTpetual.-Ch6cdg0
T7Sb1L1e.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

s According to a special telegram, the
Democratic House, on the 21st, adopted a
resolution instructing and admonishing
the taxpayers of the State not to pay the
taxes levied by the Republican House,
nor obey any act, resolutions or proclama-
tions passed by that body or issued :" by
the said traitor ID. III. Chamberlain, now
attempting to usurp the Office of Governor
of South Carolina"
"A meeting of Conservative taxpayers
was held at Charleston on the evening of
the same day, at which resolutions were
adopted recognizing Hampton and Simp-
SON as lawfully elected, and pledging
them moral, financial and material aid.
A Columbia dispatch of the 22d saws
the Democratic House had adjourned
sine die. This action leaves two State
Governments acting upon their own re-
sponsibility Chamberlain made large
number of nominations for county Off
cials, which were confirmed by the SEN
ate in executive session. Hampton had
assurances of his friends, and was pro-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
The Popular Vote.

Nearly complete returns have been re-
ceived of the actual vote cast for Presi-
dent in all the States of the Union at the
late election, and the results are enumer-
ated in the table given below. One coun-
ty is lacking in the returns from Missis-
sippi, and from one county in Alabama,
only the majority declared for Tilden has
been reported. In the case of Colorado,
where the people-did not vote directly for
President, the vote cast for Governor at
the election in October is given in the Ia
BILE. 1t will be seen that no returns are
made of the vote for Peter Cooper, the
Greenback candidate, and Green Clay
Smith, Prohibitionist, in a large number
of States. The votes in Florida, Louis
lana and South Carolina are given as de-
clared by the Returning Boards of those
States:
The total vote is 8,425, ,977, against
6,457 ,315 in 1872, and 5, TIC, ,76S in 1868.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

ceeding also to organize county govern
mentS.
a special to the New York Times says
United States District Attorney Corbin ap-
peared before the South Carolina Supreme
Court on the 27th, in accordance with the
decision of the Court, denying the motion
to remove the quo aoarrdnto proceedings
against the Hayes Electors from the
Supreme to the United States Court
and requiring defendants to amend
their answer Mr. Corbin denied that
he had made any answer. He had made
a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdic-
ton. A heated discussion followed, dur
ing which Judge MILAN stated that the
whole course of the respondents in all the
cases against the Board of Canvassers had
been calculated to bring the Court and its
decisions into contempt. Chief-Justice
Moses was quite i'll from congestion of
the lungs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
TIE SOUTHERN INVESTIGATIONS.
Compiled from Associated Press Reports, unles
Otherwise Designated.
LOUISIANA

Sixteen witnesses were before the House
Committee on the 22d. nearly all of whom testified
as to the fairness of the election in different par
ishes, some of them corroborating the evidence
of former witnesses that colored men had been
prosecuted and abused for having voted the Dem
The tally-sheet of Poll of the Eleventh Ward of
his parish; saw the election officers sign it at the
polng-place, and they ali signed it willingly and
voluntarily; no pistols were drawn or any
otfsr intimidation, to witness certain know1
edge; witness read the vote for Presi-
dental Electors, showing Democratic ma
ority of over 800 for the Tilden Electors; this
poll was not included in the report of the Re
turning Board to the Secretary of State nor by
the Assistant Supervisor in his consolidated
statement to the Returning Board; the tally-sheet
was opened before the Returning Board. but
the vote was not included in his consolidated
statement of the Assistant Supervisor; A W.
Kempton was Republican Commissioner of Elec-
ton, and signed the tally-sheet in witness pres
ence Witness said the protest he (kempton)
made was an absolute talsehood, TO his (wltness)
certain knowledge.
The question of requiring the Return
ing Board to produce the original records of the
vote of the State for Presidential Electors dis
cussed before the Senate Committee on the 22d
and the resolution to that effect hnaIIy de-
feated by party vote. the Repunncan
members stating that they were ready TO
agree. at proper time. to any motion that would
throw light on the subject, but they thought the
resolution impracticable at present. Five addi-
tional witnesses were examined relative to affairs
in Ouaet,ita Parish. the general import of their
testimony TO intimidation, ETC., being similar
to that OF previous witnesses. ..zs
John Culpepper fcolored), of Ouachita
Parish. testified before the Senate Committee on
the 23d that he voted at Cuba at the late election:
the Democrats said they were going to carry the
election by ki ling the leading white Repu bicans
and if the negroes didn't vote the Democratic
ticket they would have to take the consequences:
Ihe n0ilS with LOT of ReOu DiICan tickets
and met some friends, who said they wouldn't be
allowed to use them-that there were no tickets
but Democratic ones there: voted the Democratic
tlcket and left; met some white men driving lot
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
FLORIDA.
At the session of the Senate Committee

At the session of the Senate Committee,
on the 21st according to Tallahassee special 10
the New York Times, further testimony was
taken concerning Jackson County, to the effect
that at the Campbelltown Precinct Democrats and
Republicans voted alternate hours in the fore
noon, and the Republicans in the afternoon. When
the count was made at night, all the kepubli can
votes were found on top to the lumber OF seventy
seven, and all the rest 291-wefe Democratic 1t
was in proof that many more Republicans voted
in the forenoon than in the afternoon. At
Friendship Church IL sworn to that sixty
seven Republicans voted, and but fourtyt our Re-
publican votes were found in the box. There was
person who was sent to Manatee County to get
infoImatio to the character of the election in
that county for the Canvassing Board. testified
that he was turned back at Sumpferville under a
threat that his life would be taken if he went fur
ther; that they had got large Democratic major
ity, and would not have it investigated. The House
Committee had left Tallahassee. We
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
Referring to Staniev's use of

lettering TO Stanley use or the
British flag in Africa, Moncure D. Con
way writes as follows to the Cincinnati
Commercial. sit is true that Lord Derby
has contented himself thus far with send
ing word to Stanley-which it would re-
quire another Stanley to carry-that his
raising the English flag over his massacres
or otherwise is not regarded favorably at
the Foreign Office, and sending a remon-
STRANGE to Washington on the behavior of
our countryman. But is he our country
man? If he comes here he win have to
prove it. A great deal of apparently
sound testimony exists in London going to
show that Stanley is a Welshman, and
though he may have taken out naturaliza
ton papers he viii be called upon to
show them or evidence of their existence.
I remember witnessing Stanley's wrath
when his American nationality was called
in question, but also remember that in
the course of a considerable speech about
it he did not once assert that he was an
American" EEf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
Nineteen Days in a Dark Cell.

THE House of Correction Committee of
Councils, in officially visiting the institu-
ton yesterday afternoon, discovered
locked up in. one. of the clark cells y a
man named Barry Jones, who had been
incarcerated for nineteen days upon the
exceeding plain diet of bread and water,
excepting every fifth day, when it was
stated that he was allowed to partake of
the usual House of Correction bill of
fare.
The cell in which the man was confined
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Both of the investigation committees
were taking testimony, at Columbia, on the 21st
subcommittee had been sent to Charleston and
Beaufort Counties, to obtain the testimony o f wit
nesses there.
The Congressional subcommittee of
the House was at Charleston on the 22d.- taking
testimony regarding intimidation in the coast
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

Coz, the .well=known Boston forger,
who, in 1874, was sentenced to the Massa-
chusetts State Prison for eight years, com
mitted suicide, few days ago, by taking
murlatic acid and Paris green.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

A CONVENT near Toilette, Canada, was
burned Christmas night, and thirteen per
sons, nearly all children, perished in the
flames. The building was a two-story
brick building, and was occupied by Sis
ters of Charity, fifty lady boarders, and
some fifty charity children and infirm
persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

A LARGE number of vessels were de-
stroyed, and over sixty persons are known
to have persisted during a recent severe
storm along the English and Scottish
coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

AT reunion on Thanksgiving Day of
the family of one of the old residents, in
which there are four solid sons and one
solid daughter, three average daughters
in-law, and a medium-sized son-in- law,
with grand children enough to make the
number who were present up to fifteen,
the follow statistics were taken: Er-
United weight before diuner 1862
United weight after dinner 1.S9714
Net gam :..--.-.-r-- -t..-..------..-..-.. 32A
Average gain per person on................... 10
Greatest gain of any person. ............... "a
Smallest gain of any person. ........-.. II
Greatest weight before dinner. ............, 185
Greatest wei hit after dinner ..a-...... 1897
Smallest weight before dinner. ...-..... 2sM
Smallest weight af, er dinner. ............... 2SR
The dinner was pretty thoroughly set
tied by half-hour's ride perpendicularly
upon the hay-rack, which, we believe, was
prescribed by the medicine-man of the
family, and fully in1Orsed by an.-CLia-
ton t1Nass.) COurapt. .5'a
The way in which Gov. Chamberlain
drifted into South Carolina is described
by correspondent of the Boston Journal
as follows g An old college friend of
Chamberlain was drowned in Charleston
harbor. He went there to settle his af-
fairs. That visit ended in his leasing an
abandoned plantation and in entering
apon the untried life of planter. He
was soon elected member Of the conven-
ton which framed the present Constitu-
tion of the State. ''-----a1s sf
The poet Tennvson is now sixty-six
years old, and still in the prime of thought
sf--f f<k,.x
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

A BRILLIANT meteor was observed in
portions of Kansas, Northern Missouri,
Southern Iowa, Central Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, etc, few evenings ago. 1t moved
across the sky, resembling comet with
a long and luminous tail. 1t moved
rapidly and exploded with a loud report,
in some places, being apparently split up
into innumerable fragments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

A RECENT fire in Toxic, Japan, de-
stroyed over 5000 houses, in value ex-
ceeding S10,O000U0.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe conducted the

-NIrs.sJulia Ward Howe conducted the
Thanksgiving services at the Unitarian
Church IN Newport, r. l. Her text was
taken from the story of the Pharisee who
thanked God that he was not as other men
were. In her view, neither as a nation
nor asindivfduals can Americans properly
thank God after this fashion. We should,
rather, in view of His great gifts and
mercies, feel ourselves overcome with
penitence, like the publican, and cry.
God be merciful to America, sinner.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

A PACKAGE sent from the National
Treasury Department. in Washington, di-
rected to Chicago National Bank, and
containing about $4,000 in currency,
was recently abstracted and another pack
age substituted therefor, which Was
found, on its reaching Chicago, to con-
tain brown tissue paper cut in the form
of greenbacks and bank notes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

The poet Tennyson is now sixty-six
years old, and still in the prime of thought
and capacity for work ass sz
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04
Albert the Great.

Total. ... 4,oi2, ,726l 4,29O, O,1s7s2 ,926I 10, ,lss
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

the Senate, The Presidents messages relative
TO the report of the Sioux Indian Commission,
and the Extradition Treaty with. Great Britain,
were received and referred, in the House. A pc
gard to the counting of the Electoral votes, and
containing a resolution declaring that the Presi-
dent of the Senate has not the power alone to
count and declare the result of such votes, was
presented, and after considerable debate was
read and referred to the committee appointed to
examine into the subject.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-04

Several witnesses were examined before
the House Committee. on the 9th, their evidence
being mainly to the effect that the negroes in
many cases acted with the Democrats voluntarily
and were persecutedby CO ored Republicans Tor SO
doing. James Lewis (coored) made a statement
relative to the testimony of n. Fl. Wilson, on the
26th; said he never told Wilson nor any one else
that the Republicans would be counted in,
whether elected Or not; said the statement of
Wilson was false