Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-10-09

prohibiting secret marriages. The new
law will require that the officiating
clergyman shall receive four days notice
from the contracting parties Of their in.
tent to marry, and then tho same shall
be announced four times, ut least twice
BY the priest.
SPEAK1Na of the harvest Of cereals In
Europe, = French paper says that In
Italy it is fair, in England, Spain and
Holland good, in tho Danubian provinces
and portions Of Turkey mot tho scene oi
war, magnificent, and only fair In Rus
sia. The editor says that no advance In
the price of bread will be necessary, and
with their usual importations neither
man nor beast viii suffer for the want Of
food.
MRS. MAcKEY. has been q great pur-
chaser of jewels at the exhibition in
Paris She has bought = parure of dia-
monds, consisting of . diadem, brooch
and pendants, bracelets, ring and ear.
rings. The parure is ornamented pro.
fusely with blue sapphires and termi.
mates with a handsome pearl. The
center sapphire is valued at 200, ,OOO
francs, and the entire parure At $50, ,OO0
francs Also q necklace of brillianta
terminating in briolet drop valued At
125,O0O francs.
THE late Hank" Smith, police COM
missioner of New York, in Tweed's
palmy days, and a favorite member of
the ring, was supposed to have left an
estate of half million. The recent sale
of his assets shows the way in which his
ill-gotten wealth was sunk. A batch of
notes, whose face value was $500, was
Knocked down to the highest bidder for
$3.50. A lot of fancy stocks, whose par
value was $26s, 900, was knocked down
at $40. The fortunes" 20 quickly
made by the old ring generally vanished
almost rs quickly.
FARMERS who have plenty of apples
of first class quality this year are out Of
sorts because they cannot get any price
for them, while last year when "apples
were apples" they had none to sell, and
there is some discussion of the means OF
making trees bear in the old years. One
proposition is to pick all the fruit from
trees as soon as the blossoms ret. This
will, it is said, throw the trees into bear.
ing next year, and it will then continue
to bear in the odd years. The work OF
plucking the fruit from young tree is
not great.
President WHITE, of Cornell, says
the French exposition is q greater sue
cess than most people imagine, but its
most pleasant feature to him was the
American exhibit. He says Americans
and French Republicans were greatly
concerned about the troubles attending
the late presidential election in the
United States, the latter fearing the
effect of second civil strife here would
have on their own republic. He thinks
Bismarck made q mistake when he un-
dertook to suppress Socialism in Ger
many. The better way was to let it die
out Of itself.
A NEW YoRK letter to the Buffalo
Courier says Mr.. Charles O'Conor CLOCKS
quite as we'll as before his wonderful
battle with death, whom the doctors gave
him up and he took the fight entirely
into his own hands, Mr.. VConor was
always delicate in appearance and is 50
still, but as the issue Of his contest with
death proved, he has = constitution of
wonderful. elasticity and recuperative
power. He il now entirely out Of &C
tive practice, but he occasionally acts a.
counsel in important cases, con6ning
himself exclusively to An examination
Of the law, and never appearing in
court.
An extraordinary explosive called
tonite or cotton-powder, the product Of
gun-cotton and nitric acid, treated in =
peculiar manner, has been recently in
vented. Il ID cheaper than gun-cotton,
and weight for weight 1t il thirty per
cent. stronger; and it occupies the same
space a. dynamite-the power of which
it surpaases, without its terrible danger
and only two-thirds the bulk Of gun
cotton. Yet, strange u 1t may appear,
4 cartridge of tonite b no more likely to
catch fire from fame than . piece Of
soap, which it very much resembles.
When actually set on fire II burns q
slowly and harmlessly a. = torch, it,
great explosive powers being manifested
only BY use Of illuminate.
THERE will be at the great intsrna-
tional dairy fair at Gilmore's Garden,
New York 0ity, commencing December
4, under the auspices of the Amerioan
Dairyman's Association, the Northwest
ern Dairyman's Association, and the
National Butter, Chssss and Egg Aaso-
citation. There will h N extensive ex-
hibition Of butter, cheese, and Ill kinds
of dairy products and implementa Ten
thousand dollars in premium will b
awarded for the best butter and cheese
exhibited. Any desired information
may BE- obtainsd BY addrsming Colonel
r. n. Littler, secretary Of the general
executiyessmmitAse Of tho International
Dairy Fair, New York city.