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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-05
FROM RAPID CITY.

The Indian "whip'' Acquitted-Eencour
aging Prospects for Pennington County
An Important Letter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
Landlord and Tenant.
[Memphis Cor. chicago Inter ocean.l -

A decision has just been rendered in
the United States District Court, at
Chicago, by Judge Blodgett, upon a
question Of great Importance and inter-
est to landlords and tenants. The case
before the court was an application for
an order giving plaintiff possession of a
house occupied by defendant under a
lease, one of the clauses of which gave
the owner of the premises power of at
torney to confess judgment in suit of
this kind whenever the lessee failed to
fulfill his part of the contract. The de-
PENDANT had failed to paw the rent, and
judgment was asked by the owner under
this clause Of the lease. No case of the
kind had been presented hitherto. Judge
Blodgett held that the power of attor-
ney conveyed in the lease was as good
as any other power of attorney to con-
fess Judgment, and the relief prayed for
must be granted. The defendant gave
notice that he would carry the matter
to the Supreme Court. If the decision
of Judge Blodgett is sustained, as it
probably will be, landlords will not be
slow to avail themselves of the means
thus afforded for speedily getting rid Of
non-paying tenants. A clause in leases
giving power to confess judgment will
greatly simplify the hitherto rather
complicated job of BUSTING delinquent
leSseeS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
Material Effects of the Fever.

It is estimated that the actual material
loss to the region of country scourged
by the yellow fever, thus far, is not less
than $2O0,OO0,O0O, and this is, doubtless,
very low estimate. Splendid stands
of cotton will be lost for want of hands
to pick it, while the cessation of bust
ness in cities and towns, and on the rail
roads and river, has occasioned enor-
nous losses, which cannot now be com
puted. Beyond expression, this has
been a terrible year for the people of
the Mississippi valley. Some people
talk in melancholy way, and express
the belief that the South will be utterly,
irremediably ruined. That is an i'm
possibility. The South has been swept
by the food, pestilence and the sword,
yet has she come out Of the depths with
a firm step and a hopeful heart. Tenn
porarily crushed the South may be, but
destroyed never. There is reason to
rejoice that the yellow fever has spread
so little east of the Mississippi. It is
leaving broad, black mark from Cairo
to the Gulf 1t is terrible mark, to
be sure. It is trail marked by graves.
Yet out of the deeps of this woe those
communities will come with renewed
strength. If it were otherwise, we
might indeed abandon hope for the
South. The people have too much at
stake, and the business of the valley is
too great. It's demands will speedily
set all the machinery of trade in motion
again. The heart only aches in con-
temptation of the weeks of death and
misery which must elapse before this
plague-storm's horrors will vanish
louisville Coarier-Jou77adl. -.,l.u
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

' According to estimates compiled at
the Agricultural Department. in Washington
the cotton crop OF the United States this year
will exceed 5000, 900 bales IL, ....., W. q
d The owner of the horse Hopeful has
issued a sweeping challenge to all the horses in
the world to trot two races-O mile heats, three
in five, in harness, and ~ mile heats three in
five, to wagon-for any reasonable amount
LA report of business failures for 1878,
recently compiled, shows that in the third quar-
ter, ending Sept 80, there were 1858 suspen-
sions, as compared with 1875 for the same
period of 1877. The liabilities embraced in
these collapses amounted to $685. 000, 600 for the
quarter just closed, and to $40, 100000 for the
corresponding quarter last year. The failures
for the nine months just closed numbered S, 76S
and for the same term in 1877, $685. rs. U
The New York Mine Company s
book, 8 which were seized some time ago by Til
denis COUNSEL at Marquette, Mich, and spirited
away, have been surrendered up, in accordance
with the order of United States Judge Baxter.
q The transfer of the government of
Canada from the hands of the party in power
for the past four years, to those of the Con-
servatives who carried the late Parliamentary
elections is now complete, and Lord Dufferin
has sailed for England The Commander of
nor until the arrival of the Marquis of Lorne.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
Among the Cannibals.

The San Francisco Chronicle notes
the arrival at that port of an American
named Lewis Chase, who for more than
quarter of century has never seen a
civilized country, and has seldom looked
upon the face of white man. San
Francisco is the first glimpse of civiliz-
alton he has had since he left his native
home in Danbury, Ct, twenty-seven
years ago. For twenty-five years and
six months he has lived on a group Of
islands in the Pacific, inhabited by
ferocious cannibals, and he has seen
cannibalism practiced as fine art and as
a fierce display Of human ferocity., Mr..
Chase says that this horrible practice is
INDUCED in principally to crafty
deadly spirit of revenge which one tribe
of natives holds against another. In the
many brutal and bloody civil wars which
they have waged against one another,
the slain and captured victims are eaten
with vengeance In their religious
rites, also, they offer up human sacrifices
captured in battle. When a victim is
selected for a cannibal feast, his body is
washed clean, and the hair of his head
is burned off. If the feast is not of a
religious character. the victim is simply
beaten to death with 'war-clubs, and
when dead his body is again washed and
placed in large oven dug into the
earth. The body is cooked to a turn,
much skill and pride being manifested
in the profession, and when the corpse
''looks brown and beautifully cooked a
shout of demoniac laughter rends the
air, and the cooks are complimented in
the highest terms by the hosts of canni-
balls thirsting to enjoy the dreadful lux
ury.''a While the feast lasts the great
est hilarity prevails, and after the de-
bauch is over they repair to their huts
and sleep off their drunken carousal.
The flesh most highly relished is that of
the African, and colored man, who in
life neither drank liquors nor smoked,
will be luxuriously fed and tended until
he is ready for the sacrifice The bodies
Of missionaries rank next to the African,
because they ore believed to have lived
temporarily, and for that reason are,
healthy food. Young children and un-o
married females, if young, are also con-
s1dered tOothsome mOrsels. q
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Supreme Court is now in session.
The President and Mrs. Hayes visited
the Winchester (Va.) Fair last week
A verdict of acquittal has been
rendered at Montreal in the cases Of the Or
angemen on trial for illegal assembly on the
18th of July The presiding Judge instructed
the jury that meetings in lodge-rooms were not
illegal, and the twelve @good men and true" had
no alternative but declaration of not guilty.
1t is said the Orangemen will bring suit for
damages for false arrest. -
The October report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture estimates this years corn
crop at 10000, 900 bushels. The yield of
wheat will exceed 100000, 900 bushels-proba-
bly, the greatest quantity of wheat ever pro-
duced in one year in any country-and the crop
of oats will be larger than the very fine one of
1877.
Green G.. Chandler has been appoint
ed United States Attorney for the Northern dis
trict of Mississippi
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
When to Ask Her for Her Hand.

Young men contemplating marrias
have so frequently called upon us to a
wise them in the manner of popping Il
all-important question that we have co
Guided to give our opinion once for a
Never propose to a young lady after
hearty meal. The blood is needed
aid digestion, and her imagination
chilled. Nor should it come just befo
a meal, for the longings of an impC
tuned system conduce to anxiety and
aitability, and the shock may prove hs
erdous. It would be better to select t.
evening, and invite her to some e1tertai
ment which you know she wants to &
tend, and then propose to her just
she is ready to start. This will 7
greatly to your advantage, for she W
easily see that arejection will upset .
rvening's amusement.--LGdy's JO1t7'41e
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
A Wife'S Crime.

Mr.. and Mrs. George Hoffman, living
near Vesper, N. Y, quarreled for years.
They had nine children. The mother
sent her 14-year-old boy to Vesper to
purchase quantity of arsenic. She
met the boy on the road home She
examined the poison he had obtained
and told him to go home, and, if his
father had not eaten his supper, to put
quantity of the drug in his tea. If tea
was over, the boy was charged to put
the poison in his fathers breakfast tea.
The mother then went to Vesper and
remained with a relative. The boy
found that his father had been to tea.
Next morning he stepped some Of the
arsenic in his fathers tea Shortly
after drinking it the old man was taken
sick. He sent for his wife She would
not go to him. The boy who had given
the poison then went for his mother
He told her his father was dead. She
started home. On the way she said to
her son, taking him by the neck: eff
you ever say a word about this I'll kill
you the first chance [ get" The boy
did tell what had been done, however,
and he and his mother are. in jail Hoff-
man was 81 years old. His widow was
his second wife.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
DeadWC0d City.

Deadwood now has population
1000, and is the commercial center
the Black Hills region. It has ru,
theaters, dance houses, gambling hel
and uncounted bar-rooms; yet rece
visitor says there is far less rufianis
than might fairly be expected in ne
mining place. There are. banl
churches, school house, newspapt
and good hotels. Many lawyers get
good income out of the excessive litie
ton over the titles to mines. Deadwoo
is in an irregular gulch, has already OF
grown its space, and begins to climb Il
precipitous sides of the hills by viii,
it is inclosed. White cottages, a
preached by winding paths and ste1
stand hundreds of feet above the lev
OF the town Under Deadwood prop
there is another city-the city of t
miners. Openings to the tunnels al
shafts are seen at various places throug
out the upper town. In the TUNE
and shafts the placer miner digs out t
yellow earth, and sluices it for ii
crumbs of gold that, during the lol
ages, have been slowly escaping fro
the quartz lodes in the hills. But ca
italists have taken hold of the mimi
business of the Black Hills, and MAJ
| quartz mills of the best class are ru
ming. The truth about the yield
gold it is hard to find out, because Il
owners of rich mines seek to deprecia
values, and the owners of worthle
mines have contrary intention.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
The Russian NiIliliSts.

n The vast association of the Nihilists
is more comprehensive in its aims and
more thoroughgoing in it's principle
than were even the Anabaptists of Ley
den, or the Jewelers. and Fifth Mon
archy men, who fought and marched,
under protest, in Cromwell's army.
Their simple desire is to make clean
sweep of all human institutions and to
take their chance of what may follow.
Only give them leave to destroy, and
reconstruction may prove practicable,
or may not; but in any case, the world
will be tilted out of it's old grooves and
cut adrift from its old moorings No
more authority, whether of priest or
King, corporal or policeman. No more
property, be it an acre of potatoes or a
prlncely demesne Religion, learning
ambition, family life, are obstacles to so
gigantic change. Let all these go, say
the tierce-eyed apostles of this gloomy
creed, and then the new millennium
universal negation will run it's course
unchecked! That Nihilism should num-
Der millions of Russians among it's con-
verts is not very surprising, since an
ignorant peasantry, slaves but yester-
day, and used from infancy to a rude
tribal communism, cannot be expected
to grasp the truths of political economy
Nor need we wonder if Counts and
Barons, clerks, Captains and civil func-
tionaries, sincerely sick of the grinding
despotism that NEEDLES with everything
and mends nothing, should become fell
low-conspirators with those black peo-
pie, !" whose first act would be to i'm
prove noble, magistrate and official from
Oft the face of Russia. Even educated
Nlhilists perhaps cherish vague hope
that some order might be evolved out
OF the chaos that is to come, and that
the new system might be more to their
taste than the rule of sitting despot-
ism. The real ground for astonish-
ment is that SO many Germans, superior
both in culture and brain power to their
fiat-faced neighbors beyond the Niemen.
should have proved themselves pupils,
only too apt, in that dark and dismal
school which had it's origin in Russia.
Nothing but a violent reaction against
drill, bureaucracy and pedantry can ex-
plain the sudden adhesion of so many
myriads of thoughtful, hard-headed
Teutons to faith that is gilded by no
bright hopes and surrounded by no
roseate Illusions, and that offers, at best,
no loftier prospect of success than that
of set of mutinous urchins, who should
have achieved the triumph of tearing
up their books and barring out the
schoolmaster. Unfortunately, however,
Germans sometimes act where Musco-
vites are content to dream, and an armed
and aggressive sect Of revolutionary
zealots, ready to expound their doctrines
with rifle and revolver, may at least COM
pei society to an unwilling defense of
it's own first principles.-AU the Year
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
ChOate'S Ir0nv

Nobody at the bar ever eoualed him
In paying ironical compliments TO tbe
Judges who blocked his wav to the
hearts and understandings Of inr;es
Judge Shaw was specially noted for the
grutf way in which he interposed such
obstacles, and Shaw's depth of legal
learning was not more conspicuous than
his force of character. "'Tisn't so. Mr..
Choate," was a frequent interruption
when Shaw was on the bench and Choate
was arguing case before him. Choate's
side remarks on the Judge have passed
into the stereotyped jokes of the'bar,
and are now somewhat venerable. One
is, think, not commonly stated in the
exact words, Il alwaysapproaehJ Judge
Shaw, he said, "as a savage approaches
his fetch, knowing that he is ugly, but
feeling that he is great" Of Judge
Story he once remarked, "Ineyer heard
him pronounce a Judgment in which he
| did not argue the case better than the
counsel on either side; and for which,
he added with twinkle in his eve. "he
might very properly have been i'm
peached." He delighted in gravely jok
ing with a Judge. Thus he once asked
that case might be postponed, owing
to his engagement in another court
The Judge replied that the case was on,
IN which he might write out his argu
ment. With mock solemnity, whicl
1t always seemed to me no other huma
countenance could so readily assume
he replied, Il write well, your Homo
but slooCly." AS his handwriting r,
sembled the tracks of wildcats, wit
their claws dipped in ink, madly dasl
ing over the surface of folio sheet
white paper, the assembled bar coul
not restrain their laughter Indeed,
is affirmed that he could not deciphe
his own handwriting after case W.
concluded, and had to call in experts
explain it to himself. He congratulate,
himself on the fact that if he failed
get living at the bar, he could still
to China and support himself by h
pen; that is, by decorating tea-chests.-
Ed1ci9a P. Whipple, IN Hd1per's Ma
, dsi1ae for NoUeneber. ''."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
How a Bird Lined It's Nest.

Mr.. William H. Walton, farmer OF
Greensville county, was seated on fence
near a stack of oats, watching the opera
tons of his field hands, who were at
work. While seated, a small bird alight-
ed on his shoulder, and remained there
until frightened away by blow aimed
at it by Mr. Walton. It flew off but a
little way, and returned to be treated as
before, and repeated this feat until the
gentleman concluded to allow it to re-
main on his shoulder in order to ascer-
tain, if possible, what induced it to act
as described The bird moved close up
to Mr.. Walton's face, and deliberately
commenced to pluck mouthful of gray
hairs from his beard, after which it flew
away to the oat stack, and disappeared
in the crevices between the sheaves of
oats. Examination of the stack dis
closed the fact that the bird was build
ing its nest, and had used the beard for
the purpose of making lining for the
same. The bird is said to have been of
the wren species. Petersburg (Va)
I31deG.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
27o,996; Ray, National, IS, 1872; Robinson, Pro
hibition, 1914; Barnes plurality, 8, 154.

21O,996; hay, National, IS, 1872; Robinson, Pro-
hibition, 1914; Barnes plurality, 3,154
Samuel j. Tilden is out with let
ter denying all knowledge of the cipher tele-
grams recently published in the New York
Tribune, alleged to have been exchanged be-
tween his friends in relation to the purchase
of electoral votes in South Carolina and Flor
ida He says of the alleged kilograms,
which relate to an offer purporting to
have been made in behalf of some mem
bers of the State Board of Canvassers of
Florida, to give, for pecuniary compensation,
certificates to the Democratic electors who had
been actually chosen, none Of these kilograms,
nor any telegram communicating such OFFER
or relating to such offer, was seen by me,
translated to me, or the contents of it in any
manner made known to me-" In relation to the
ciphers bearing on the canvass of votes in South
Carolina, Tilden says: Il can speak of them no
less definitely and positively. No one such
telegram, either in cipher or translated, was
ever shown to or it's contents made known to
me. No offer or negotiation in behalf of the
State Canvassers of South Carolina, or any of
them, or any dealing with any of them in re-
spect to certificates to electors was ever author
lied or sanctioned in any manner by me, d-
rectly or through any other person"
Is Clarkson N. Potter declines nomina-
ton for Congress in the Twelfth New York dis
trict ei& ~4lH> 4#1 aGu u.s. ~.
Sam Cox and Fernando Wood have
been renominated for Congress in New York
Abram S. Hewitt was defeated for renomina-
ton by Orlando S. Potter '1b4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
A Queer Language.
IeSSeeS.

A fast man on fast day took his fast
horse and went to the end of the fast
land, and there tied him fast, and as
fast as he could broke his fast. Then
he rose, and took off his hose, and went
with his hoes along the rows, and put
the rose on the end of his hose which,
as every one knows, is sort of nose,
though I hear some noes-and, like a
fisherman, rows for the shad with noes,
or hunter goes for the forest roes. So
his hose waters every rose in all the
rows. Now tell me who knows how a
foreign wight Ct do not mean white)
could learn very fast the meaning Of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Considerable of furry has been
created in New York financial circles by the
failure of Haar & Co., an old and heavy stock
operating firm. The members of the collapsed
firm charge that Jay Gould and others formed
conspiracy against them and effected their
ruin Haar has been arrested and held in
heavy bonds on charge of swindling
A Providence Or. IT, dispatch reports
the loss of the bark Susan, which left New Bed
ford on whaling voyage Oct. II. Only three
of her crew of twenty-five escaped alive. 1o
New York papers chronicle the death
of Rear Admiral Paulding, son of the captor of
Maj Andre, and last surviving officer of the
battle of Lake Champlain.
An important arrest of counterfeit
ers was made by Detective Perkins, of the Gov
eminent force, in Bradford county, Pa, last
week. The gang was well supplied with $40
notes on the First National, of Lafayette, Ind !,
$5 notes on the Hanover Pa) National, and
counterfeit gold and silver coin of all denonina-
tons.
Benz 81. Latrobe, the famous civil
engineer, has just died at Baltimore, aged II.
His father built the National Capitol and many
public buildings in leading cities.
south.
Advices from the fever-infected dis
tricts of the South to Oct. 16 report hot weather
all along the Mississippi valley, and the outlook
exceedingly discouragng The disease was
fastening itself upon new country localities
daily, and the same sad scenes were being wit
messed that has characterized the appearance
of the plague at Vicksburg, Grenada,
and other stricken towns The
fever had broken out at Helena,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
POLITICAL POINTS.

Hon. Justin S. Morrill, has been re-
elected to the United States Senate from Yer
mont
The full official returns of the Ohio
election give the following as the total vote cast
for each candidate for Secretary of State:
Barnes, Republican, 274, 100; Paige, Democrat,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

hoes and rows, or nose and noes, or to
perform any rite right, or even to write
wright right, if his living depended on
getting some right which involved the
right writing of wright, right, write and
rite p Camden Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

cone of Them" writes to the New
York Sat11 that there are in the cities
of New York and Brooklyn at least
1000 young white women who have
married negroes, and the number is
constantly increasing. Nearly all of the
half-breeds born in New York have ne
gro fathers and white mothers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

AT the recent half-yearly meeting of
the Bank Of England it appeared that
the semi-annual profits were 9609, 594
After a dividend of 94 IS. per cent. had
been declared, the .rest," or surplus, re
manned 93,022, 818.