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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Hints to Those Calling Upon the
Sick.


/. Offer your help in the name of the
church, saying, "Can u church do
anything for your" and be ready either
to watch yourself, or furnish some one,
if watchers are needed.
z. Only call at the door, unless you
are sure your friend il able to see you
without harm.
8. Enter and leave the house, and
move about the room, quietly.
4. Garry a cheerful face, and speak
cheerful words.
s. In order to cheer, you need tell no
lies.
6. If your friend is very sick, do not
fall into gay and careless talk in the at
tempt to be cheerful.
Z. Do not ask questions, and thus
oblige your friend to talk.
8. Talk about something outside, and
not about the disease and circumstances
of the patient.
9. Tell the news, but not the list of
the sick and dying.
10. If possible, carry something with
you to please the eye and relieve the
monotony of the sIck-room; a flower, or
even a picture, which you an loan for a
few days.
II. If desirable, some little delicacy
~ tempt the appetite will be we'll be-
slowed.
II. The perfume of some flowers is
poisonous, and they should never be car
ried into the sick-room. Especially is
this true of the tuberose, oleander, hello
trope, hyacinth, orange, lilac, syringa
and lilies.
Is. Stay only q moment, or a few min
utes at the longest, unless you can be
of some help.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
One of Ganbaldi's Heroes.

One by one of the heroes of Garibaldi's
South Italian campaign are dropping
away. From Alexandria, in Egypt, the
news has just arrived of the death of
Napoleone La Cecilia, the son of the
celebrated man of letters and conspira-
tor, John La Cecilia. Napoleone was
still a young man, and, as such, remark
able for his fearlessness when he fought
beside Garabaldi in Sicily, in Calabria,
and on the famous " First of October, %
attracting on each occasion the attention
of his companions in arms and superior
officers, who foresaw in the youth one
of Italy's coming glories. He distin-
guished himself in the Franco-Gcrman
war, where, from a simple franc-tireur
he rose to the rank of colonel in Gen.
Chanzy's army. He was decorated with
the medal for military honor, and pro-
posed three times for the order of the
Legion of Honor. The Chevalier Nigra.
Italian ambassador at Paris, wrote from
Bordeaux to Napoleone's father;
Your son is regarded at the ministry
of war as one of the most distinguished
superior officers in the army; he is al
ready colonel, and has been proposed for
the Legion of Honor" The assault of
Ablis, the defense of C~hateaudun, the
battle of Coulmiers, the retreat of Or
leans, in which his regiment brought up
the rear, the battle of Alencon, were
among the occasions of brilliant service
rendered to France by the young Ma.
p~oleone La Cecilia. At Tours there vas
something like a national festa when, as
commandant, he led in an entire squad
ron of Prusssan huzzars made prisoners
by him at the assault of Ablis. He was
commandante de Place in Paris during
the whirl of the commune, and in its
closing days he retook from the Yer
sailles troops the Fort of Issy. He was
unusually proficient in mathematics and
the learned languages, and was not only
secretary of the Asiatic College of
Naples, but also profession of ancient
geography and the Persian tongue in
the same institution. "La Cecilia
says a fervent Italian friend, Twas, 40 to
speak, the trait d'union between Italy
and France" He died in his fifty-third
year.-L0ndon Neacs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Winter Hygiene.

As a friend of the widow and orphan,
and especially of the young and mex
perienced mother, we invite the atten-
ton of all concerned to a few practical
hints in winter hygiene. In the first
place we wish to state emphatically ION
high authority that with regard to chill,
dren, the system of Gardening" them,
by allowing them to 90 thinly clad, and
exposing them to all sorts of weather, is
q delusi0n from which the minds of some
parents are even now not altogether
free.
1t is thought that if their chest is
kept warm, there is no need of caring
about their arms and legs. But that il
. great mistake. In proportion as the
upper and lower extremities are we'll
clothed will the circulation be kept up
and determined to the surface of those
parts, and in proportion to the quick
ness and equable distribution Of the cir
~culation will be the protection against
those internal COMPOSITIONS which are the
first stage of the most fatal diseases of
infancy and childhood.
Now then for adults. For their bene-
fit the London Medical Pres and Csrcn-
lar condenses a great deal of wisdom into
a very small space:
"To take care that the body is thor.
oughly warm and well clothed just be-
fore going out in very wet or very cold
weather-to Keep up the circulation and
wavmM of the body rather BY ~'rercisc Of
sons> hind than by hitting oUe' great fires
or in overAe0ted rooms-to be sure that
the temperature of the sleeping apart
ment is not ever 80 many degrees below
that of the sitting-room-these are three
golden maxims, attention to which
would prevent thousands from catching
that chilli or cold to the results of
which 10 many valuable lives have been
premsturely sacrificed"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Burnell to Death.

A terrible accident occurred at the farm
house of Mr.. Thomas Hogan, near Daven-
port, L., on the 9TH inst. Mrs. Hogan was
seated before = stove with her child 10 her
arms, when she suddenly found her dress on
FIRE, burning fast. She Immediately threw
her babe from her, and, her husband coming
to her assistance, succeeded in tearing off
her clothes, but not until her body from the
knees up was a mass of burned and blistered
Aesh, at least three.fourths of her body
being s~hocklngly roasted. She lived in the
greatest agony until the 9Th inst, when
death came to her relief. In his efforts to
put out the flames, Mr.. Hogan's hands were
burned to a crisp.
The wife of Benz. Neal persisted in the
flames which consumed their residence at
Walpole, Mass, on the 4th inst.
James l.. Armour, pe~nsioner, and wife
burned to death at Brockton, a western
suburb of Toronto, Ont, on the End inst,
while intoxicated.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
A Fight with Thieves.

Two men, Noah Williams and Modoc
Gainey, living in Green county, Ind, made
arrangements to burglarize the store of
Walls Bond, at Oaktown, 40 miles south Of
Terre Haute, on the night OF the Cd inst.
The citizens previously obtained informa-
ton of their intended visit, and a large
party waited in a saloon near Bonds store,
having put cut the lights. The burglars ap.
peared soon after midnight, but went first
to the saloon to get liquor. The citizens
opened FIRE and in three minutes over
thirty shots were exchanged. Williams
was shot through the neck and killed.
Gainey was dangerously wounded in the
breast and ARM, and will probably die.
Henry Norton, one Of the citizens, was shot
in the face by the thieves and slightly hurt.
With the robbers was captured a complete
set Of tine burglary tools.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

Frederick H. Baifour, an Englishman,
writes to the London Spectator that he
has seen q cat give evidence Of being in
love with a terrier, and that the spoon
ing" going on between them was very
comic. On one occasion, he says, in my
presence, the dog (who was seated on .
iady's lap) feeling dissatisfied OF az.
grieved 81 something or other that was
taking place, vented his feeling in q long,
low whining or howl. The cat, who was
on the hearth rug, turned her head, and
gased with . wistful, sympathetic ex-
preston at her suffering friend for some
seconds; ut last unable to listen to bis
weeping any longer, she sprang upon the
lady's knee, put her paws around the
doQ's neck, and kissed his cheek with
her lips. This occurred twice, the rec.
ond time the dog respon1ing to her
'caresses by licking her back In the ten.
.derest manner conceivable.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
HI. Gladstone a. an Orator.

After listening to Mr.. Gladstone's re.
cent speech to bis constituents, the first
time be vel heard him outside of the
House of Commons, MI. Smalley writes
of him az follows: But whatever Mr..
Gladstone's defects may be, they are for
gotten when he begins to speak, and
while he speaks. If he was too much
the politician before, he is plainly states
man and orator at the first sound j.
heard of that wonderful voice. 1t would
be impressive if it uttered nothing but
nonsense. 1t is deep and musical, with
much variety Of tone, aud with a
strength * great that its beauty was
hardly impaired or its volume diminished
at the end of a two hours speech. The
orator stands almost erect, leaning very
slightly against the rail. The arrange
ment of the lights is bad. A row of
gas jets ran across the gallery just above
the speakers head, but just behind him,
80 that his face was in shadow. 1t was
only when he urn d half round to the
chairman that the light fell full on the
broad forehead, the sunken and glowing
eyes, the hard, strong lines about the
mouth, and the powerful jaw. / have
seen Mr.. Gladstone in many circum.
stances, and / know few faces more i'm
pressive than his. 1t is not like the late
Mr.. Webster's in feature; there is moth
ing between the two men which could
ordinarily be called a resemblance; but
MI. Gladstone's face nevertheless re-
minds one of the great expounder's;
Sydney Smiths description of Webster
might well be applied to Mr.. Gladstone.
He, too, is a steam engine in trousers.
The illustration is none the less apt be-
cause of a certain clumsiness of move
ment which occasionally betrays itself.
But at first you see none of that. You
see a man intensely in earnest and in
tensely conscious of his power. He
stands up in the spirit of an apostle
with a message to deliver, certain of its
truth and certain that he and not some
other man is appointed to deliver it. In
a consciousness of this kind there is
nothing offensive; it is too far removed
from ~conceit, and no man is great in
affairs without it.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

A fire at Quebec on the 9Th inst. destroyed
a saw mill and factory. A Waterman was
sufocated.
A large building with contents was de.
stroyed at Lancaster, Pa, on the night of
the 4th inst. Three iremen were frozen,
one, it is thought, fatally.
The extensive establishment of the st.
Louis beef canning company at st. Louis,
Mo-, was destroyed on the 9Th inst. Loss
on stock estimated at 500, OOO.
The Rankin house. Columbus, Ca, with
the skating rink and thirteen stores under.
meath, burned on the 4th inst. Loss &c..
900. Another blaze close by at the same
time burned two stores and the Wheeler 4
Wilson machine factory, and caused a loss
of $17, 900.
The Academy of the Holy Angels (Catho.
lic) at Buffalo, N. Y, was consumed on the
4th inst. Loss $50, 900.
The public library and postofice with
contents were destroyed by fire at Hing
ham, Mass on the 4th inst.
The Honore block, at Chicago, occupied
in part by the postofice was partially de.
stroyed on the 4th inst. The only loss sus-
tanned by the postofice department was
$4,000 stamped envelopes. Loss on build
ing estimated at from $780, 900 to $4,000.
Individual losses estimated at $4,000. Sew.
eral men and a lady were rescued with diff
Guilty from the upper stories of the burning
structure. .
The Second Baptist church at st. Louis,
Mo-, was totally destroyed on the Sd inst.
Loss 100000. The structure was one of
the finest and most imposing in the city.
A fire at ~Schoolcraft, Mich, on the night
of the End inst, destroyed five stores ON
Main street. Total loss ST., 1000.
A fire at Elgin, ILL.,, on the I'd inst. swept
the entire south side of Chicago street,
causing a loss of 100000.
The new Presbyterian church at Quincy,
Illinois, was burned on the I'd instant. Loss
$50, 600.
Dempster hall, at Evanston, Illinois, the
theological home OF a large number of
Methodist ministers of the northwest, was
destroyed on the I'd inst. Loss $4,000.
A large cotton warehouse was destroyed
at Charleston, s. c., on the LIST inst. Loss
on building and presses, $l0O,00O; insured
for $4,000. Loss on cotton, $3.50 0 insur.
nee $472,750.
The Minnesota hotel and eight smaller
buildings burned at Portland, Oregon, on
the night OF the 3lst ult.
Nearly a block of buildings in Tuscarora,
Nevada, burned on the night of the 3lst ult.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

The reaction in trade and commerce
at Paris after the close Of the exhibition
is very marked indeed. The larger shop
keepers and proprietors of magazines are
complaining greatly of the want of Gus
toners, but the worst sufferers are the
small tradesmen. Every householder
seems to be r%etrenchipg to make up for
the extravaganza of the last few months;
the hotels are empty, the restaurants
comparatively deserted, and the receipts
at the theatre diminishing. The prevail
ing distress has the effect of increasing
the number of street robberies to an
alarming extent, and they take place
constantly in the most frequented parts
Of Paris, the thieves in many cases using
rsvolvcrs to intimidate or disable their
victims. Murder cases, too, are ~ The
i1ssoaso.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
AEalling Wall.

While the fire department were working
at a co~nfiagrauon on Vesey street, New
York, on the 7th inst, falling walls buried
a group of firemen, killing John Irving, and
badly injuring Chief Rowe, foremen Reeves
and Van Horn and iremen Mcclure, Ryan,
Jones and Hogan. 1t is feared that Chief
Rowe and foreman Reeves will die.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Fatal Boiler Explosions.

An engine on the New York Central road,
sent out from Buffalo with a snow plough
on the 9Th inst, burst its boiler near Bata-
via. William Lawler, fireman, was badly
Injured, it is feared fatally.
On the afternoon of the LIST instant, a
battery of three boilers in the HUMAN &
Fairbanks distillery at Terre Haute, Ind.
exploded with terrible force. A colored
fireman, William Day, aged %, married,
and Franklin Hughes, white, aged 10, a
slop tender, were killed. Herman Myers, a
fireman, and a teamster named Brooder,
were also badly injured. A horse was also
killed, and one of the cattle sheds caught
FIRE and was destroyed. Total loss about
10000; insured.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

George Einsig murdered his wife at York,
Pa, on the Sd inst, because she would mot
live with him, owing to his dissolute habits.
On New Years day at q party in the vii
lage of Middle Greek, Floyd county, KY, .
dispute arose between Noah Watkins and
Greene Wade Hamilton, when the former
plunged a knife into Hamilton's neck,
causing death shortly aftsrward.
At South By6eld, Mass, on the night of
the 30th ult, John H. Caldwell, aged IS,
while kneeling in family prayer, was in.
stantly killed by his insane wife, who split
his head open with an sxe.
At San Francisco, Cal, on the 31st ult.,
Thomas Crossley, a shoemaker, shot and
fatally wounded his wife, and then cut his
own throat with a shoe knife, causing in.
slant death. Mrs. Crossley refused to state
the cause of the tragedy.
Edward Jobbins, aged 81, a me ter stone
cutter of st. Roehs, was murdered at New.
buryport, Mass, on the night Of the 30th
ult., by two brothers named Clavet and a
man named Chamberlain, for refusing to
treat them.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Chicago.

CHICAGO, January IL 20 p. M.--Wheat
-Firmef; No. 2 spring at S3c for seller jan
uary; $3.50 bid for seller February; 84Kc
Steady, firm and unchanged. Rye-Un-
changed. Barley-At &c. Pork-Easier at
$7.55 for cash $500 asked for seller Febru.
airy; $40 asked for seller March. Lard
Weak and easier at $5.47X for cash;
S. s2H@5.55 for seller February S. 62K@
5.65 for seller March. Whisky-Unchanged.
Hogs-Receipts 10000 head moderately
active and steady; light at 81 1902. rs; heavy
packing at $2.6oa2.S 80; shipping At g. Zoo
2.9O.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Frozen to a

James Macarthur, an old man, was frozen
dead in a snow bank at New York, on the
4th inst.
At Brooklyn, N. Y, on the night of the
Sd, an infant child of Mrs. keDney was
frozen to death beside its mother in bed.
Jacob Van Heusen, aged 81, went to dig
a grave in Greenbush cemetery, Albany,
n. Y, on the afternoon of the Sd inst, and
was found next morning frozen to death.
Four tramps were frozen to death at
Glasgow Junction, Ky, on the night of the
Sd inst.
Marie Schultz, an abandoned old lady, was
found in her squallid abode at Milwaukee,
Wis, on the 5th last, frozen stiff.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

Judge Charles T. Sherman, . brother OF
secretary and General Sherman died at
Cleveland on the LIST inst.
Robert ". Mackey, ex.treasurer OF the
state of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia
on the LIST inst.
Rev. Samuel C. Aiken, d. D., for thirty
years pastor of the first Presbyterian Church
at Cleveland. O., died on the LIST inst, aged
IS years.
Judge Henry Smith dropped dead on the
Memphis, Tenn. He wa at one time Judge
of the Supreme Court of the state.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

The weather in Great Britain il again
cold, and the increase in the ranks Of the
distressed is noticeable. At Man chester, on
the Sd, there we're three thousand applics-
tons from heads Of families, representing
1880 persons, to the relief con mittee, and
the 4th inst. there we're four thousand
fresh applications. During the week twelve
hundred families have been relieved in
Wolverhampton. A considerable increase
of distress il also reported from She fi eld.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

A CORRESPONDENT says that, instead
of Maine being lavish in her school ex-
penditures, she stands thirtieth from the
top in the pay of male teachers, and the
lowest of all in the pay of female teach
ers-$4.9o per month lower than any
state or territory, and s., SO per month
lower than the Choctaws pay their
teachers. Twenty-Five states and terri
tories pay more per scholar for education
than Maine, and but five less.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

BILLY BALLoU, a companion of Mark
Twain in Nevada, and one of the latter's
characters in roughing it," is dead.
He was a gold adventurer in the early
days of the Pacific coast, but usually had
bad luck, and latterly became a drunk
ard. He had a thorough education, and
was, at his best, a clever writer for SAT-
Francisco newspapers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

SERKYs tea, which gives the frmness
and freshness of youth to the oldest face,
IT drank copiously and regularly, is all
the rage in Europe. 1t has the color Of
amber, resembles no other tea, is drank
with OF without sugar OF cream, accord
ing to taste, and Ii . very agreeable
beverage. Louis XIV.'s physician, who
speaks of it in his travels, says that he
has seen women of seventy, who, having
drank Serkys tes all their lives, did not
seem more than twenty or twenty-five.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
Liberty or Death.

On the morning of the I'd inst. ten ~convicts
in Anomosa, Iowa, penitentiary broke out
of the stone cutters thed and made a des-
perate effort for liberty, the yard being
closed only by a board stockade. One of
the convicts was sho dead by the guard,
another shot through the bowels and will
die, and " dropped with broken
legs. The five others were soon recaptured.
John Donahue, a three year man, being the
only one now at liberty.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


TUESDAY, January BILLS were in
troduced and referred: For the interchange
Of subsidiary silver coin and United States
notes; to authorize the taxation of out.
standing legal tenders 49,. Edmunds intro.
duced q resolution declaring that in the
judgment of the senate the 18th, 14th and
amendments to the constitution have
been legally ratified end are as valid as the
is the right and duty of congress to enforce
such amendments by appropriate legisla.
ton; that it is the duty of the executive
department to impartially execute such
laws; that it il the duty of congress to ap.
propriate money to that end, and instruct
ing the judiciary committee to report q
bill for the punishment OF infractions thereof.
Laid on the table......The vice president
laid before the senate the memorial Of the
legislative assembly of the state of Oregon.
praying for the modifi cation OF the treaty
between the United States and the empire
of China, SO as to stop and prohibit the i'm.
portation or immigration of Chinese or
other Asiatic laborers to the Pacific coast.
Referred. ..... Voorhees, called up his resoiu-
ton instructing the judiciary committee to
inquire into the expediency of making the
trade dollar legal tender aud providing for
its recoinage into the standard silver dollar.
He addressed the senate ut length, de.
nouncing the trade dollar as fraudulent
mon which, having failed in its mission
abroad had returned home to cheat the
honest people of this country. The resolu-
ton was then laid over.....After an execu.
tive session the senate ad journed.
House.
TUESDAY, January 7-Harrison rose
to a question of high privilege and offered
a resolution reciting hat Henry W. Blod.
gett. United States district Judge for the
Northern district OF Illinois, had been
charged with gross misconduct and corrup.
ton and providing for a select committee
of FIVE members to examine such charges,
to inquire into Judge Blodgett's official
conduct, and to report what action the
house should take in the premises, with
power to send for persons, papers, etc
Adopted afler being amended SO as to refer
il to the judiciary committee ipstesd of a
special committee ...... Bills introduced and
referred To include newspapers, periodic.
ais and proof sheets in mail matter OF the
third class: relating to the classification of
mail matter and the amount Of postage
for the admission of Dakota rs a
state extending the time to pre- emptors of
lands who have suffered from prairie
fires. go. The death of B. B. Douglass, of Vir-
ginia, and A. S. Williams, of Michigan,
were then announced, and the house, in re.
spect to their memory, adjourned.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

NEITHER druggists n their clerks
have any right to make a mistake and
issue laudanum for rhubarb, or any
other poison for a harmless medicine.
And if they do, and fatal results follow
they should be deemed guilty of man.
slaughter, and punished accordingly.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-15

THE milling industry of this country
is said to rank mex to that of iron. The
number of mills is over $4,000, afording
employ ment to over $4,000 men, whose
annual wages are over $40, 900 900, and
turning out yearly about so, OOO, 900 bar
rels of -four, of which 1000. 900 are ex.
ported to foreign countries.