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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-06-06
A Grand Ball.

A Grand Ball
Will be given on the evening of the Fourth. The
HancTng Hall will be 66X30 feet, and, when filled
with Substituting strains of music, will furnish all
the opportunity which merry hearts and flying feet
could wish.
Tickets, including supper, $500.
TARGET SHOOTING. BALL PLAYING,
BILLIARDS,
And a great variety of other amusements calculated
to ettiiy and interest all who may attend.
The large new Hotel now in course of erection at
this place will be completed and furnished in good
style. The Dining Room willbe enlarged so as to
seat one hundred persons, and the tables supplied
with the best that skill can produce. The sleeping
accommodations will be ample.
For entry Of horses and further particulars apply
to SPENCER BROS
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-07
EASY CALCULATOR.

1t is used by thousands of farmers,
mechanics and business men, who speak
in the highest terms of its practical util-
ity and convenience. Its wonderful sim.
plicity enables even the most illiterate
to calculate with absolute accuracy and
speed while its original and rapid
methods delight and benefit the most
scholarly. Its entirely new system of
tables shows, at glance the correct
value of all kinds of grain, stock, hay,
coal, lumber and merchandise, of any
quality and at any price the interest on
any sum, for any time, at any rate per
cent measurement of lumber, logs, cis-
terms, granaries, wagon beds, corn cribs
wages tor hours, days, weeks months
etc. 1t is we'll and neatly gotten up, in
pocket-book shape; is accompanied by a
silicate slate, diary, and pocket for pa.
pers. 1t is unquestionably the mos,
complete and practical Calculator ever
published. Cloth. $l,OO; Morocco, 81, sc
Russia, gilded, 81 90; Flexible cloth, &C
cts. For sale at Press & Dakotaian Office
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-07

CONNECTIONS,
l. At U. P. Transfer with Union Pacific kail
-nxl omaha.
:. AT Council BlufFs, with Kansas City, 81. Joe
and Council Bluff Railroad for st. Louie and ali
potnts eouth.
5. Al Missouri Valley with Chicago 3 North
wca,ern Railway for Chicago and all points cas-,
4. Al Sioux City with the Sioux CITY xnd 81
Paul, lllnoss Central and Dakota Southern Rail
roads. Steamers for upper Aisnouri river, during
navigation, and with stages for all poin,s In tho
Northwest.
5. A. Blair with Omaha and Northwestern i
X. for Omaha and southern Scbraska.
6. Al Fremont. Nsb.. with the Union Pacific T.
K. for all poias wcst. snd tho Pacific coaai
I. \, Wiener. with stages for Norfolk, and all
.oin's in Northern Nabfaska.
~ be euye your t,ckets read via &C. APR
S.e. Y0IS, 0enI Ticket As't.
S.0VS3049. Snr~e rscndcnt
G., !. VCosaoA
Wss'ssn fsseeaesv Agent,
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-07
SCHOOL DISTRICT BOOKS AND BLANK.

SShOOL bOOAS AND BLANKS.
FOR THE USE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT OFF,
GERS.
Prepared and approved by w. E. CATION,
Superintendent Of Public Instruction, Da-
kota. including
TREAsuRER's BooK.-With blank form.
for warrants paid school house fund; con.
tineent fund, and teachers fund
CLERKS BooK-Wih blank forms for
Proceedings Of District Board Warrants Is.
sued and Record of Teachers Reports also
Deeds Of School Property.
Orders on District Treasurer.
Treasurers Bonds.
Teachers Contract.
Notice to County Clerk of Rate of Tax
Voted.
Notice of Special School Meeting.
Notice of Annual School Meeting
Sufficient to last an ordinary district ten
years. Price per set, $500
Sent by mail or express Address
BowEN & kINasBuRY,
Yankton, D. T.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
ported each year.

And up to this time of the crop of
1878, there has been exported r.
100000 bushel.
Taking gold as a basis of values,
wheat in the years 1869 and in 1874,
was lower than it is now.
There are some 100000 bushels of
wheat in store in Chicago, now, the
largest on record, and the prospect
of foreign demand is peculiarly
gloomy, as the business of the coun-
tries to which we have been ship
ping is badly crippled, and the
laboring classes are idle, and are
unable to purchase at any price.
With these facts before US, should
the farmer wait for a higher price
before selling? This is a question
difficult to answer. About four
weeks ago it was asserted that
Eastern and Western capitalists had
combined for the purchase of
the better grades of spring wheat.
This, no doubt, was a fair business
transaction as fairness now goes.
The above table shows that the
average monthly price of No. 2
spring wheat for December is Sl.O6
per bushel. l find that the average
price for the same wheat for the
month of April for the past ten
years is sl.22ls per bushel. From
this it would appear that the farmer
would be safe in taking the chances
of an advance in the price of wheat.
l give you this 10 show what |
conceive to be the only method of
looking at the chances of wheat
being worth more than SO cts. per
bushel, in Columbus, within the
next four months. KY.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
Class Legislation, &c.

The Syracuse Journal, noting that the
code now preparing by commission is
said to contain Objectionable features:
that 1t contains too much class legisia-
tiOn and is adapted to increase the busi-
ness of the legal fraternity, says ''the
press should watch this thing closely, -
-Omaha Republican.
We showed the above item TO
Hon. j. II. Ames, member of the
commission at work on the new
code of laws, and got the following
reply:
If giving mechanics and subcon-
tractors a secure lien for their SER
vices if providing that homestead
exemption shall be an exemption i'm
fact and not in name il the low wering
of interest from l0 to s per cent; if
the reduction of penalty for delim-
quent taxes from 40 to 20 per cent.
II the rights OF the people are SUBJ
served by provisions which shall
hold pnblic officers to a stricter ac-
counlabliity; if more rigid provis-
ions are made for the collection of
taxes on the property Of persons and
corporations which, under existing
laws escaped taxation /; Productions
in fees of officers, and an increase in
jurisdiction of county courts,
rendering litigation less expensive; !;
il the enactment of better laws for
the settlement of estates of deceased
persons ii providing means for less
expensive municipal governments !;
If all this and much more of the
same sort be "class legislation" then
the new code is full OF it.-LtncOln
Journal.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
Newnlan'S Grove.

Since our last communication VIM.
Menice has lost another child, boy
one year and eight months old. lie
died of inflammation of the brain.
There is considerable sickness
among the children hereabouts.
Mrs. John Lymath has been seri-
ously i'll for a long time, but is now
reported better.
A late arrival at Geo. Lymath's,
ii is a girl and weighed five and a
half pounds. Mother and child do
ing well. OF course it is the finest
child, "entirely,' and both parents
are happy.
John Krudson and brother are
building a blacksmith and wagon
shop. Thus improvements still con-
tinue, Notwithstanding the hard
times.
We have, also, a shoemaker lit
tie at one side, not just at the centre
of gravity.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

ing polygamists. is full of deep
interest, and will doubtless be read
and re-read until the public opin-
ion of the nation will be so reused
to action that the system will be
wiped out of existence.
Such result, we are confident, is
most ardently desired by the great
body of people in the United States,
and by none more so than the fol-
lowers of Joseph Smith, the True
Latter Day Saints. To this result
the original Republicans are pledg-
ed, and that pledge, for one, we feel
like seeing made good.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
SHERIFF'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE of an order Of sale di-
Id rected to me from the Clerk of the
District Court OF Platte County, Ne
braska, on judgment aud decree Oh
tanned before the said District Court at
its December adjourned term, A. d.,
1877, of Platte County, Nebraska, in
favor of Andrew J. Hodges, as Plaintiff
and against John Witchpy and Victoria
C. Witchey as Defendants, for the sum
of four hundred and thirty five dollars
and ninety-seven cents and the further
sum of fOTty-three dollars and tifty.nine
cents, attorneys fees, and costs taxed
1T $9.61 and accruing costs, have levied
upon the following real estate, situate
in said Platte County, taken as the
property of said Defendants, to satisfy
said order OF sale, TO wit:
The Island No. four (4), Of Section
nine (9), Township NJ. sixteen Is }, of
Range one CD west, in the district Of
lands subject 10 sale at Omaha, Nebras-
ka, containing sixty and forty -one hun
dredth acres according to the United
States patent OF the same: also north hal {
~ of the northwest quarter "a of See
tiOn four (I}, Tow hShiP No. sixteen (l6),
and the south half ~ of the southwest
quarter ~ of Section thirty three (33).
in Township seventeen I'D, north Of
Range one y west, containing one hun
dred and hity one and twenty-seyen
hundredth (l51.2I) acres according to
United states patent nf same, and will
offer the same for sale to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand on the 2id day
of January, A. d., 1879. in front Of Court
House, ut the hour Of o'clock p. m. of
said day, when and whore due attend
ance will be given by the undersigned.
Dated ut Columbus, this 18th day of
December, 1873.
BENJAMIN SPIELMAN,
sheriff Of said County.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

GREAT destitution and suffering
exist in portions of England, and
Scotland has her share Of suffering
poor. At Birmingham means for
raising and distributing relief had
been adopted. At Sheffield 1000
children and 5000 adults received
aid last week. At Stockton the
distress is great and on the increase.
AT Glasgow the distress is unexam-
pied. The streets are swarming
with idle and starving people.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
One Of The Twin Relics.

IL is not an uncommon belief that
all "Mormons, "or Latter Day Saints,
are polygamists, but such is by no
means the fact. The original ad-
herents to the doctrines of the Book
of Mormon, and the more intelli-
gent of the church as at present con-
stituted are not polygamists, in
theory or in practice, but are heart
lily aud entirely opposed to it, and
none, SO well as they, understand
the enormity of the evils hid under
the cloak, Polygamy. Outside of
the territory of Utah there are but
few polygamists, and to-day there is
no class of people in the United
States who have done more effectual
work against the "A static barbarity"
than the Joseph Smith Mormons.
An address delivered at Syracuse
by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in Sept.
last, ana recently published, has
served to attract fresh attention to
the subject, which with slavery, the
Republican party at its organization
denounced as twin relics of barbar-
ism. Among other things Mr.. Col
fax shows that the practice of
polygamy was parasitic growth, a
fraud palmed off upon the too-cred-
ulous, and that the Book of Mormon
is as severe in its denunciation of
polygamv, as the laws of the United
States are.
The history of the conflict in Utah
between the United States authori-
ties and the law-brcaking, law defy
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

A RESOLUTION was adopted in the
House the other day asking the sec
retary of the interior to report why
the Cheyennes who were engaged in
the late massacres in Kansas, and
depredaiions in this State have not
been surrendered to the State au-
thorities for trial. This is a very
proper question 10 ask Mr.. Schurz,
and one that deserves TO be answered
with considerable more alacrity
than the secretary has chosen to ex-
hibit. If he is not willing to trans
fer the Indians to the management
of the War department, he must not
stand in the way of just punishment
for their fiendish crimes.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
THE Chicago Tribune has a special

The Chicago Tribune has special
from Washington City, of recent
date which states that Virginia has
again introduced the whipping-post,
and public whippings in Alexandria,
almost in sigh; of the National Cap
itol are of frequent occurrence.
Moses Ford, a colored man, was
recently arrested for stealing, and
was publicly whipped at Norfolk
the other day, and he became so op-
pressed with a sense of shame, that
Immediately after he got home, pro-
cured his gun, shot himself in the
head, blowing away a part Of his
skull and scattering his brains over
the ground.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

The case of James f. Whalen
against General Sheridan, pending
in the L. S. Circuit Court in New
York, for the recovery of damages
for the seizure of Whalen's plantation
in Louisiana in 1867, returned a
verdict On the Goth in favor of the
defendant. AT the time General
Sheridan made the order he was the
military Governor Of the situation.
A motion will be made for a new
trial.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

SENATOR PADDOCK on the 18th
called up the bill recently reported
from the committee on military af-
fairs 20 amend the posse com;tdtus
clause of the army appropriation
bill for the present fiscal year, and
amendments were agreed to so as to
include the states of Nebraska, Kan
sas, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and
the territories subject to Indian in
surrection. The bill then passed.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

LATER accounts from Berlin speak
briefly of the funeral services OF
Minister Bayard Taylor, which took
place on the 23d at 2 o'clock. An
aide-de-camp, Count Lchendarf, rep
resented the Emperor; Major Won
Parmaritz represented the Crown
Prince and Count Won Buslow and
Count Philipshorn, of the foreign
Office. All ambassadors were pres
ent. The funeral procession was
followed by two six-horse carriages
belonging TO the Emperor and En-
press, the carriage of the Crown
Prince and a number of private car
riages, and many mourners. A
dense crowd of people lined the
streets through which the procession
passed.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
JUDGE HILTON of New Yol

JUDGE HILTON of New York, il
appears from recent correspondence
published in the newspapers, can
not, by offers of contribution of
money, buy back the good feelings
of the Hebrews of New York City,
which he so signally forfeited when
he issued his edict prohibiting them
from occupying rooms in the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, i'm the sum-
mer of 1871. The Judge writes
Mrs. Stewart desires TO contribute
$500 to the funds of the Mount
Sinai Hospital. Your treasurer can
have this amount by calling upon
me with this letter any afternoon
after 3 O'Clock. 1t is highly proba-
bic that the treasurer will not call.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
For the JOURNAL.
The Price Of Wheat.

During the past week 1 have
heard many farmers complain of
the low price of wheat. 1t struck
me that in the last ten years wheat
had, two or three times, been as low,
or nearly so, as at the present time.
In looking over the rates paid in
Chicago, for December, the past ten
years, find the following prices:
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
TIMBER CULTURE NOTICE.

L. s. Land Office, Grand Island, Nebr..l
December 18th, 1873.
COMPLAINT having been entered at
~ this Office by Victor Yung against
Adam Walkingshaw for failing to plant
any timber, seeds, nuts or cuttings as
required by law on his Timber-Culture
Entry No. 446, dated April 10Th. 1875,
upon the northwest i Section 10, Town
ship 30 north, Range west in Platte
County, Nebraska, with view to the
cancellation of said entry: the said par
ties are hereby summoned to appear at
this office on the 9th day of January.
1879, at 10 O'Clock IA. m, to respond and
furnish testimony concerning said alle-
cations. Depos tions in said case will
he taken at the Office Of Speice & North,
Columbus. Platte Co., Nebr., January
sd, 1879, at ii O'Clock a. m.
VI. Il. HOXIE. Register.
4j0-4 WM. ANYAN, Receiver.
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

The next table shows the amount
of wheat raised in each year for tie
last ten years, and the amount ex-
ported each wear
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25
WARY ALBRIGHT.
Merchant TailOress,
is.z Greet. .yp..::e 7..t-s.es.

Mems and boys suits made in the
latest style, aEG good fits guaranteed at
very low prices. Mems suits $500 TO
$500. according 10 the goods and work.
Boys suits $500 to 500, according 70
size
III CLEANING AND REPAIRING DONE 81
Bring on your sOiled clothing. A
whole suit renovated andl made 10 ap.
pear as good as new for SI.25 42Iy
The Columbus journal., 1878-12-25

j. A. RE r.; ID,
Columbus. Nebr.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-31
SOME WOMEN WHO DO NOT MARRY.

Within the past few years many new ave
nues CT employment have been opened to
women, and they have found their way into
many DEPARTMENTS of industry. Thus young
girls nave acquired a certain spirit of indie
pendence, and as theyhaye grown in helpful
ness the helplessness of those about them
seems to have increased. As the girls in
some households became bread-winner the
boys seemed to grow careless, and, lacking
the spur of necessity they fell into tho habit
Of lazy trust in their sisters industry which
the sisters Of the last generation showed in
the industry of their brothers. Thus, in ad-
dition to that large class ofworking girlswho
have been left to support n widowed mother,
or n family Of younger brothers and sisters,
there are thousands who have to becomeyir-
tuallythe head of the household through the
drunkenness OF n father or theworthlessness
Of q brother. When girls had not SO many
Cmplnyments as they now have, and were in
capable of earning such good wages, 1t was
simplyimpossible for them to take such bur
dens on their delicate shoulders. Now they
accept these tasks in a spirit of cheerful self
sacrifice, and soon find their youth slipping
away from them and their beauty fading.
They cannot think of marriage, because mar
riage would sink their Individuality, deprive
them of the power of earning money, and
turn adrift those dependent upon them for
support; so the wrinkles come, and toll
hardcns the frame into grim outlines, and the
shadows of unrealized dreams and unfulflled
hopes fall over the brightness of the eyes,
and the woman is merged in the worker. 1t
is wonderful how many cases of this kind
there are in the country. They outnumber
the cases Of young men Sinking matrimony
through dread of women's eStrnvagauce three
to one.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-31

"a wen .rSr this conversation they were
naried, and then ooh their departure for
Caracas, where they arrived in DIS time.
Time.sped on its winged flight, and Emily
became conscious OF a change in the manner
81 Rojas. His demands for money became
more and more pressing. Soon his absence
.rom home began to growlonger and longer.
One daywhile Rojas was lying on q sofa in
bis chamber, smoking a cigar and enjoying
himself, the door of his room was suddenly
thrown open, and his wife rushed inwith the
lir Of an enraged tigress AL the fire of her
passionate nature was a~rousedwithin her. In
her hand she carried an open letter. The
senior smoked on unmoved, although he sur
missed something terrible had happened His
GOODNESS maddened her. "Rojas," she cried
In a voice almost ehoked with passion, Ro-
ies, you are a villain! You nave ruined mel
I received this letter n moment or two ago."
she cried. Tell me, sir, are its statements
true or false ?" and she placed the letter in
his hands.
Rojas removed the cigar, and read the let
ter without moving muscle of his counte-
nance while SO doing. 1t read as follows:
INV YoRK, january 9Th, 1875.
DEAn MADAM: Allow me to congratulate
you on your choice of a husband. In accept
ing him you not onlyDleased your own fancy
but mine also. / chose him for you. know
sou that your husband. Senior Enrico Rojas,
+ N oyenezuelian but q New FORK adventurer,
his real name being Joseph Parker, his pro
~fession, gambling. You spurned my love
and / an Low reyenged for the slight you
put upon me. / wish you every happiness
with your dear husband.
Your old friend,
HARRY MARTIS.
''weE sir. is that letter true or false, said
Emily.
MADAM, IL is true" was the cold reply.
True! My God !" groaned the wretched
woman sinking into a chair.
Every word" replied Rojas.
william, Villain! you have dcspoiled me of
fortune, robbed me Of my virtue, but you
shall rue this yet! l have a nome yeti"
''Then seek II at once. / have no desire
to detain you. have no claim upon you,
you are not my rife"
mot your wife2 Liar!"
mot so, for when l married you my first
wife was living. never loved or cared for
you. You were rich, / was poor your for
lunowas a stakewor III playing for; l played
TOR II and won it,"
While he was speaking the eyes of Emily
rested on a mall dagger which was lying on
a table near her. Possessing herself of this
weapon and as the lastwords passed his lips,
she sprang madly forward and plunged the
dagger in his bosom. Rojas uttered a loud
cry and then fell forward on his face, a
corpse. Emily stood for a moment viewing
the body, with eyes that cleaned with the
wild fire of insanity, and then plunged the
dagger into her own body, dying instantly.
Harry Martin was terribly avenged.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-31
CALIFORNIA PLANTS AND TREES.

California has no magnolia or tulip trees,
nor s%tar-anise tree nor so-called papaw,
no barbery Of the common, single-leaved
sort, no white water-lily, no prickly-ash no
sumach, no loblolly bay nor s~tuartia, no
Eastwood nor linden trees neither locust,
honey-locust, coffee trees, nor yellow.wood.
Nothing answering to hydrangea, or witch
hazel, to gum trees, viburnum or diervilla.
1t has few asters and golden rods no lobe
las, no huckleberries, and hardly any blue
berries; no epigea, charm of our earliest
eastern spring, tempering an icy wind with
= delicious wild fragrance no kalmia, nor
elethra, nor holly, nor persimmon; no
Cntalpa tree, nor trumpet-creeper nothing
answering to sassafras, nor to benzoin tree,
nor to hickory neither mulberry nor elm
no beech, true chestnut, hornbcam, nor
iron-wood, nor n proper birch tree; but in
shcir place California is filed with plants
Of other types, trees, shrubs, and herbs.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-03-31
II pARpANEILEs.

The strait of the Dardanelles is about
forty miles long and from one to four miles
broad. The Asiatic side presents the most
beautiful scenery. but the European side is
steep and rugged. Gen. Macintosh, in
his - Strategic Tour in Bulgaria" says con-
corning the Darinnelles Even though
the Russians were to be the conquerors in
case OF hostilities with the Turks, and even
though they were to effect the occupation
Of Constantinople, the D~ardanelles might
still be held by n power having the com
mand of II fleet, even though that fleet
might not be on the very spot at the mo-
mcnt; but this could only be done il that
position were to be augmented in strength
on the land side. On the Asiatic side of
these straits forts were erected about the
time Of Mehomet Ais (the powerful Egyp-
tian ruler detection, from n fear Of his ad-
vancing and selling on that important
channel. In case of a and attack il could
not be defended by the old Turkish castles
or batteries, chiefly on the waters edge +;
and if the peninsula were once occupied,
they must themselves very soon fall into
the hands of the assailants. To prevent
such occupation by n force passing over the
neck or isthmus, n strong line OF defensive
works should be erected across its mar
rowest part, Wholesome miles northeast
of Gallipoli-is only a few miles broad. "
-BostOH Globe.