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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-03

The world can maintain sixty thousand
millions of people 1t has never had more
than two per cent of that number living at
any time on its surface.
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vEGETINE
For Dropsy.

CENTRAL FALLS, II. l., Oct ~. 1877.
Dir. IL. II. STEVE EMS - .Q.
1t is a pleasure to give my testimony for your
valuable medicine. | was sick for a long time
with Drppsy, under the doctors care. He said
it was Water between the Heart and Lirsr.
received no benefit until l commenced taking
the Vegetine III fact. was growing worse.
have tried many remedies: they did not help
me. Vsgetine is the medicine for Dropsy. be,
gan to feel be.te" after taking Il few bottles. l
well-never felt better. No one can feel more
thankful than do.
l am, dear sir, gratefully yours
A. u. WHEELER.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-03

VEGEr1NE is nourishing and strengthening
purifes the blood : regulates the bowels: luiets
the nervous system; acts directly uDon the Sc
cretiOnS and :rOuSeS the whole system to action.
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Mutual Friends.
Daubury News.


Human nature ia the same the world over
as the following incident will serve to show
A Danbury insurance agent called on TIVE
OF his customers whose premises adjoin, fol
renewal Of their policies. The first one
is a grocer. The agent said to him
"I suppose. Mr.--, that you will re-
new your policy which expires next week
I have called to see about it.
"Well, suppose I'll have to-" said the
grocer. GAS far as am concerned there
is NO need whatever that should insure.
am here all day to look after things, and
there amt bit Of danger Of fire from my
place. But there's no telling what that
fellow next door will do, and as longs he's
there I've got to keep insured"
The agent called ON the customer next
door, who is a baker. He could not help
reasoning that if the danger in that estab-
lishment was so great there was possibili-
ty of having the amount of its policy doub-
led at least.
He told the baker why he called, and
limited that there be desire to increase the
policy.
"No," said the baker, scratching his
head thoughtfully, SCI don't believe I'll add
any to it. wouldn't insure at all if !
wasn't where am. You zee am up all
night baking and can watch things, 80
there's no danger here, but there's no tell
ing what that chap next door will be mp to.
If it wasn't for him, wouldn't insure .
cent. But as it is I've got to do it,
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SUICIDE.
THEY LOVED NOT WISELY But TOO WELL

Camp Douglas is enjoying sensation
just now in the shape of double suicide.
One of the soldiers of the 14th married a
Mormon girl at Beaver some months ago,
and brought her with him to Camp Doug
las where they lived for time, when the
soldiers company was ordered to Ft. Hall,
Idaho. He left his better half at Camp
Douglas, and while he was gone she expe-
rienced change of heart, having fallen in
love with Louis Schaffer, one of the trom-
bone players of the regimental band. While
the husband was away the lovers had o
happy time, but as soon as he returned,
Schaffer went on drunk, and last Thurs
day he quietly disappeared. 1t was thought
that he had deserted, as he had called at
his lady loye's home and said goodbye to
her. But she intimated that he had de-
stroyed himself, it being clear case of
hopeless love. Search was instituted, and
finally. on Saturday evening, the reservoir
from which Douglass is supplied with wa
ter, was drained. and Schaffer was found OF
the bottom. The body was buried on Sum
day, and even before his funeral was over,
it was discovered that the woman in the af-
fair was dying, it being reported at the
time that she had taken potion of poison.
Whatever the cause may have been, matters
not, she died and was buried yesterday.
And then it was reported that her death
was The result of hysteria, but we are in
formed no postmortem examination was
made.--S. L. Tribune. ..-.....
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Deadwcod Diversions.

DEADwooD, May 15.-An entirely new
phase of the road-agent business developed
itsel If to-day, and shows the desperate char.
acter of some of the roughs who infest
Deadw BOD. A man named e. G. Dnrnnel
displayed considerable money at the stage
Office, while purchasing ticket to St. Paul
via Bismarck, and short time after two
roughs came in and purchased tickets for
Crooks City, 10 miles out. No other pas
sengers were in the.coach, and while the
driver was changing horses at Crook City
the two robbers demanded Durnnell's g
money, and putting pistol to his head
forced him to indorse check for s215, ta-
ken from his pocket. d After robbing him,
one of of the robbers mounted horse, re-
turned to Deadwood Immediately, got the
check cashed Through confederate, and
then lefs the city. The victim returned TO
Deadwood en- foot and told his story. The
officers arrested notorious bunko sharp
named Baggs, he having got the check
cashed. The other parties have not been
cantured.
The Pioneer and Times of this city each
came out to-day in favor Of some action Of
the citizens to punish the crime in our
midst. WY
Bell, the murderer of Lee. win have q
preliminary examination in the jail to-mor-
row, protected by strong guard Of depu-
ty sheriffs. it being feared that citizens viii
take him on his way to the Courtroom and
hang him.
Sheriff Manniag arrested man this
morning for trying to incite party to at
tack the JAN. and has given the newspapers
notice tha.if incendiary articles are pub
lished, he win arrest the editors. Good
citizens laugh at this sort Of bullying by.
the Sheriff and will sustain the papers in
denounciug tho Iarity Of the law. Dsspe-
radoes lately driven out Of Omaha are COM
ing into tie Hills BY The score, and the ac-
tion of 4 Vigilance Committee is nightly
expected.
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A First Glass Butter.

Mr.. Atkinson is farmer, and very fond
of joke. Recently be wrote to a business
house in Boston, with whom he is on terms
of intimacy. as follows: 81 will send you
the taest butter next week you ever saw.
Win divide the proceeds of sale with you."
Encouraged by the liberal terms of the of
fer, the firm advertised extensively, that
they we're prepared to fill orders for dairy
men and produce merchants for the finest
butter ever sent to the market. At the
appointed time the consignment failed to
arrive, SO the merchants telegraphed up to
Mr. Atkinson, and received the reply that
butter would be down by the first train the
next morning. The butter arrived as
promised, but in the form of q most fero-
cious goat of enormous size, who was NO
sooner liberated from the crate than he COM
menced career of the most unbridled viii
lainy ever witnessed. He knocked the
senior partner into the corner, and butted
three of his RIBS ont; the junior partner
took refuge on the top of some bales of
wool, but the goat jumped after him and
butted him off on to the floor, and prodded
him with his horns until he was insensible.
After knocking about things generally, so
that each member Of the firm looked as if
he had been invited to first-class massa.
ere, he wound up by determined assault
upon a threshing machine. The "first-
class butter" was at last caught with
rope and sent to the city pound.
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During lull in the conversation yester.
terday evening, grandfather Lickshingle
startled the family by remarking:
"I've lived over hundred years by the
watch, and never felt this way before, !"
and he blinked IN very sorrowful man
ner.
"What's tho matter?" asked mother,
who was at his side in an instant.
"I don't know" he said, "unless have
quickened conscience and he blinked
and stared by turns in very alarming man
ner.
81 feel sort of hot around the ears" he
went on, SAM mebbe I'D better confess. =
His whole frame trembled like % leaf,
and deadly pallor overspread his face. a
window was thrown open, which seemed
to revive him, and no gasped;
"I wrots Beautiful snow"
/" You did nothing of the Sort yelled
father, 81 wrote 1t myself, and ] can prove
it.' s..ss,.s.4 -ss
Grandfather went on with his confession:
az killed old man Junius, am wrote the
Nathan Letters! Bind up my horse! Give
me another woundr' s
Another window was opened. Sumnon-
ing bis strength again be whispered:
!" Il was who struck Billy Patterson
struck him twice; once for Y, next time
for twenty !" and grandfather fell back In
his chair exhausted. - OF, City Derrick.
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Russia Is not Afraid.

N. 7. Herald interview with Captain Gr,ppenberg
In answer to q question as to the proba-
bility Of a peaceful solution of the difficulty
Capt. Grippenberg said:
81 see by the papers this morning that
European advices are more pacific and that
war may yet be averted. do not see how
Russia can back down and give way to the
demands of England. Russia has already
granted more concessions than could have
believed. Our people, although they ars
willing to defend their national honor upon
both sea and land, desire peace, but they
are not willing to be robbed of the benefits
OF their victory over Turkey. That victo-
ry cost us the lives Of thousands Of our best
officers and soldiers, and having accom-
plished the freedom from Turkish thraldom
of the Christians in Bulgaria and Roumania
we are not going to permit England to
come in at this late hour of the day and
dictate to us what terms we shall impose OF
accept.
NOT AFRAID OF ENGLAND.
England has made mistake this time.
She will find that in case of actual hostili.
ties we will crush her handful Of an army.
The greatest number of men that England
can muster for active service is in the neigh
borhood of SOC, 900 fighting men. We have
an army of 1,500,o0 men, including aOO,.
600 veterans camped in the vicinity oi
Adrianople and San Stefano. Our navy is,
of course, not so effective as that of Eng
land, but our vessels, such as we have, are
supplied with the best and most effective
ordnance in the world, manned by first
class sailors and commanded by experienced
officers.
WHERE ENGLAND CAN STRIKE.
The only towns in the Russian Empire
that the English can attack with their men,
of-war are few unprotected places IN Fin
land, the destruction Of which would not
entail serious loss upon the Empire, al
though should be very sorry, indeed, for
any loss that might occur to the inhabitants
Of these towns. No, sir, rest assured that
we are not afraid of the English either upon
land or sea.
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TERMS Payable Invariably IN advance
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS
EvE-ANGELIcAL CORNER,

Lavender colored gloves grace the hands
of Beaconsfield.
The swans down which ladies sigh after,
is piucked from wild geese.
Crownless bonnets are in the latest Pa
risian importaticns at New York.
Mrs. Lockwood, the lawyer of Washing
ton city, has made sec, 900 at the bar.
The new spring parasols have round tops
instead of the pointed canopy fashion of
last spring.
Mrs. ex- Secretary Belknap sailed for Eu-
rope along with Joaquin Miller, Wander.
bilt and Sothern.
Combinations are still in vogue. Moth
ing is worn as the sole material of dress
except black silk.
"Bonnets for elderly ladies are shown
by the New York modistes, but of course
there is no demand for them.
Queen Isabella will sell at auction at
Paris in July her jewels for which she has
no further use; value, 100000.
All bonnets must have strings, either Of
lace or double-face ribbon, brought forward
from the back and tied under the chin.
Old Deacon Dobson always boasted that
he was prepared for the worst, " and his
neighbors thought he got it when he mar
ried his second wife
Soon the young man long will tarry
On the stoop in twilight faint;
In his heart his love he'll carry.
On his trowsers, fresh white paint.
-Neao Jersey Republican.
The newest colors are opal, eourquoise,
silver-grsy, lavender and fawn. We hope
soon to chronicle the introduction of the
new shades of stovepipe, peppermint, wheel
barrow, zinc and petroleum.
When you see little man with patch
cd pants, and shoes oil down at the heel,
trotting patiently alongside great big
wife, rugged out in gorgeous bonnet and
sealskin sacque, make up your mind there's
missionary wanted in that family.
Although Victor Hugo refuses to sx.
change autographs with the Sweet Singer
of Michigan, she can proudly point to her
baby and scornfully cry out, I" Match him I
Me-atch him if you can ~ And he can't.
Hats and bonnets this season are either
tipt forward over the noses, or backward
close down to the nape of the neck. Dear
woman, you can have frau's night-cap,
coquettish Gainsborough, an idylic Wat
teau, a high-peaked Japanese, modest
cottage, din fact, any sort of shaped
head-gear you choose except poke or
coal-scoop.
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a Jolly Duel.

The jolliest duel ever recorded took place
in Lyons, France, the other day. Two
journeyman tailors had . quarrel about the
cut Of a pair of trowsers. and it could only
be settled by meeting ON fhe field of
honor. Seconds were chosen aud meeting
took place at six in the morning in the Tete
dor Park. The principals had their eyes
bandaged and were placed back TO back,
each with pistol, loaded. however, only
with blank cartridges, though each snppos-
ed i to be charged with bali. At the sig
nal given they turned and fired. One of
the seconds cried out s am hit = and
each combatant pulled of the bandage from
mis- eyes, expecting to see bis adversary
fallen. The seconds and witnesses we're
roaring with laughter, and The duelists, sec
ing the Joke, rushed into one another arms
and kissed Id French fashion. The result
was grand festival for all parties at a
neighboring restaurant.
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AN HEIR TO THOUSANDS.
A LUCKY MAN IN ST. JOE BENEFITED BY
THE RESULT OF A CHANcERY SUIT OF 140
YEARS. %
st. Joe Herald.

L Il is with feelings of congratulation aad
l.dellght that we are this morning called
upon to chronicle the news Of good fortune
to one of our Oldest Inhabitants, MIR. John
Clark. He is just in receipt Of a letter
| from Cheshire, England, from sister who
addresses the communication to the FAM
ily, asking for the date of the death of
Mr.. Clark's sister, also tor the date of
Mr.. Clark's, whom she thought to be dead.
The letter says that the estate, which has
been in the Court of Chancery for 140
years, has been acted upon finally, and all
that now remains is for the heirs to prove
their claims.
The estate is known in the Court OF Chan
Gerry as the Case estate. The heirs to it are
John CLARK, of this city, Mrs. Alice Foulk,
of Cheshire, England, and Mrs. Blackford,
deceased, late of this city. The estate is
valued at e234, 4,OO0 in English money, or
about 81, 170, 900 in United States money,
making the share of each heir e7S, 600, or
1890, 0O0. The estate was that of a man
named Case, grandfather of Mr.. John
Clark, one of the heirs. AS stated before,
all that Is necessary is for the heirs to pre-
sent their individual claims, and it will not
be great while until they are paid. Mr..
Clark has been engaged in looking up his
share in the estate for number of years,
and the final tidings of good news will be
heralded with pleasure by his many true
and warm friends.
Mr.. Clark came over from the old country
in 1849, and for ten years lived in the
East. he came to st. Joe In 1859, and
has resided here ever since. He was, for
number of years, heavy contractor, until
1874, when he was appointed street COM
missioner under Mayor Hosea, which Office
he held with honor to himself and credit to
the city. He is quite aged. and has of late
been residing with his son at Craig, about
forty-fve miles north of St. Joe.
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THE CAREER OF GEN. GARFIELp.-A
Dir. Patrick, who was one of Representa-
tive Jas. A. Garfelfs earliest friends, in
giving sketch of his career to some school
children several years ago, said:
I" want to tell on about young man
who came to my farm house from the canal
He had been canal boat driver, and as the
canal had just frozen up. he wanted to do
chores for his board during the winter.
James, for that was his name, was o stall
wart, honest looking fellow. and so took
him in. My own childern soon began at
tending school, and I ask ed James ifhe did
not want to go TO School with them, but he
declined. soon noticed that he seemed
to be quite despondent, and asked him if
he was troubled about anything, and he
then confessed to me that although he was
nineteen years OF aGe, he could neither
read nor write, and ! Z was in such mental
distress because, as LIE thought it was too
late for him to begin. Iassured him it was
not too late, and urged him to begin at
once, which he did, with so much energy
that within year from that time he was
teaching school him>sif.''s sa7 MI
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CusTER's SWORD FOR a 6TovE-P PoKER.--
a Custer sabre for stove poker seems like
returning to base uses. In the postoftice
at Lincoln is . heavy cavalry sabre once
worn aud carried by Gen. Geo. q. Custer.
The postmaster has put crook on It and
thinks be has made first-class peker.
We offered TO steal III but be demnrred and
added that money bad been put up for that
poker Corr. Psoaesr-Press.
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OUTRAGE ON CHINAMAN.--A Stockton
dispatch of May 10 says: News was brought
to this city to-day of most horrible out
rage committed on Chinaman By two
boys, Mexican and white boy, on one Of
the levees few miles from the city. These
boys have been collecting toll from China
men who run across this certain path, and
at once demanded toll of this Chinaman,
who refused. The boys were mounted on
horses and carried lariats, and at his refusal
one lassoed him around the neck and the
other about the heels, and started their
horses In opposite directions, drawing on
their lassoes till they straightened the
Chinaman clear from the ground. Then
they dragged him about half mile at a
rapid rate, he tumbling and bounding several
feet in tie air. Having finished their dcy-
elish work they remarked to . passer-by
that 6 The Chinese must 60. tits doubt
al whether the Chinaman will recover.
officers have been notified and win have the
young men in custody IN short time,
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Scientific.

The following receipt for imparting to
stoves fine, black polish, which will
neither burn off nor give put an offensive
smell, will prove acceptable to some of our
readers. Lamp-black is mixed with water
glass "a solution of silicats of soda) to the
consistency Of syrup, and applied with q
brush as thin, even coating, then left "a
hours to dry. Afterwards graphite, or
black-lead, mixed with gum water, is ap-
piled, and polish is obtained by rubbing
in the usual manner.
From study on the subject, German
doctor has come to the conclusion that the
monollths of Egypt decay with rapidity in
European climate. Observations on the
Luxor obelisk shows that within the past
% years it has suffered gradual change
in the atmosphere of Paris. Gradually
the red color of the syenite has become
duller and lighter, and now the obelisk
wears white film OF kaolip, the last pro-
duct of the decay OF granite. In 36 years
the stone has received moro damage from
the atmosphere of France than during as
many centuries in Egyptian air. The in
Jury which the moist climate Of England
will effect upon Cleopatra's needle win be
yet more rapid. g
An elaborate series Of measurement of
human lsgs has been mads by DR.. j. s.
Brooklyn. In the proceedings of Kings
County Medical Society, the results of tho
Investigations are very fully given. 1t ap-
pears probable that not over one in three
persons has legs of equal length, and that
there are about twice as many left legs as
right legs of extra length. Ths average
superiority Of one leg over another is about.
. quarter of an inch. The inquiry arose
from discussion as to the amount that
limb may be expected to shorten after
treatment for fracture of the thigh. The
conclusion is that the average Inequality
of the limbs after good treatment of such
fracture is about three-quarters of an
inch.
In country schools q good blackboard
is sometimes not easily had. The material
for the following composition may be had
anywhere, and when applied either to a
ard, smooth-fnished wall or to smooth
boards answers admirably One quart of
shellac dissolved in alcohol, three ounces
pulverized pumice stone, two ounces pull
verized rotten stone, four ounces lamp
black. Mix the last three ingredients to
gether, naoisten portion at q time with
portion of the shellac and alcohol, grind as
find as possible with knife or spatula,
after which pour in the remainder Of the
alcohol, stirring often to prevent settling.
TIE preparation dries immediately, and
the board may DO used within an honr, if
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P 0 = T r 2
IRISH SONG.

On Innisfallen's fairy isle,
Amid the blooming bushes,
We leant upon the lovers stile,
And listen to the thrushes
When first sighed to see her smile,
And smiled to see her bushes.
Her hair was bright as beaten gold,
And soft as spiders spinning.
Her cheek out-bloomed the apple old
That set our parents SHINING,
And in her eyes you might behold
Ny joys and griefs beginning.
In Innisfallen's fairy grove
hushed my happy wooing,
To listen to the brooding dove
Amid the branches cooing.
But oh! how short those hours of love
How long their bitter rueing! .-.=
Poor cnshat! thy complaining breast
With woe like mine 10 heaying,
With thee mourn fruitless quest
For ahi with art deceiving
The cuckoo bird has robbed my nest,
And left me wildly grieving.
London Spectator.