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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-13
Whist.

The first consideration why whist
stands deservedly at the head of all
games of cards is, that each card, as it
falls from the players hand, conveys in
formation. With his own intelligence he
endows it, and it accurately fulfills its
mission. This statement will read strange
ly enough to the educated man in the
smoking car, who fatters himself he is
playing whist, but who cannot read the
language that is spoken by any of the
cards that fall upon the table at the club.
But it will be understood by the lover
and player of the true game, whose inter-
est centres npon the fact There are but
two legitimate methods of counting the
game First, English short whist, in
which honors are reckoned and five
points make the game second, American
whist, in which honors are not reckoned
and seven points make the game. Rub
bers are a consequence in both cases. In
diyidual scores may be kept. The Caven-
dish rules in the main apply to each The
American game gives more latitude for
play, and insists on certain leads not set
down by the English method no devil
alton is made in the rule for the last card
of the deal to act as trump and to be
turned, such innovations as the cutting
the trump from another pack or the hid
ing the trump in the playing pack being
of course rejected. In truth, each player
forms more or less his plan of play upon
the card, no matter what its denomina-
ton, that is turned as trump. Much of
the beauty of calculation based upon the
trump exhibit would be lost by any mode
other than that which allows each dealer
to show and to hold the trump card.
Lest it may seem to players of accord
with the English method that the term
American whist may lack significance, it
it may be asserted that at many of the
literary and some of the social clubs, and
by very many devotees at sessions in
their residences, the so-called American
game has utter precedence. One reason
for its adoption is that no party can more
than go out in a single hand, in contra
diction to the English game, in which it
frequently happens that single player,
upon taking up his cards could surely
count four honors and the odd trick. 1t
is, therefore, not conceded that game is
fully played which can be foreshortened
hv fraOupnt cfroEac of
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Agents for Shattuck & Fletcher's
weil-known Black and
Colored Inks.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-09-13
q Card.
Another Slaughter.

would state to the public that have been af-
licted for about ten years and doetoring for
ly every complaint with many reputed good ply
Van Den Bergh, Sr., who said worms were the
cause of my complaint. By taking five Of his
worm powders passed 6T0 worms in five hours.
They are about one and quarter inches in
length. Now all my ailments and pains seem to
have left me altogether. I reside at No. 127
Stsrk street JOSEPH LEHMAN.
PORTLAND, Or, August I'd, 1879.
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Sole Agent for Oregon, Wash.
ington and Idaho.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09

posted in three places for twenty days,
and duly brought before the attention Of
the board, who then shall appoint viewers,
and if protest is made against their action,
reviewers to assess damage &c.
The road or highway being obtained,
the County Commissioners may then after
submitting the question of bridge or no
bridge to the people at a regular or sre-
cial election, if bridge be voted for by q
two:third majority, build said brldge in
such manner as may seem to them best
A petition for highway will, we un-
derstand, be duly advertised and brought
shortly to the attenti Of the Board of
Commissioners, and our citizens in all
probability be able to say yea or nay, by
their ballots at an early day for bridge or
no bridge. H.. ..... ..
The bridge ought to be built before
the spring freshet, which according to a
fair estimate based upon the amount OF
snow fall, will be over the average one.
We say, build the bridgc-build it sub.
substsntially-build it for the least amount
ofnoney that coed bridge can be built
fnr-build it as soon as possible-BUlLD
THE BRIDGE.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
EDWARD H., FOSTER, EDITOR.
His ExcellencXs OF the Bismarck

The high and mighty, intensely moral,
I and: high nahdeds CO editor Of the Bis
sypasck Tr,t@, is playing schoolmaster to
Il tie palanssM Mthe fraternity in the Terri :
tory \ witb q vengeance. He evidently is
R possessed Of more egotism to the square
Inch tfansany knight Of the quill i'll the
y srtbvest.
az Tie brother is somewhat fluent in his
style, such faSit is, but like some privates
the ranks, ,vhen advanced to a com
"a, is inclined to think that he can do
6gs up ip. little better shape than
teey were done before, or will be
gain fora decade of centuries.
D ss;s Heas inst Spelling for a muss and has
thtr rasI topick quarrel, or seeks to do
) EbSgwith every editor within his beat, and
mot t,satisfed with that, like Alexander, he
3oegs5 for more worlds to conquer Always
a ssspicking up muss always spelling for a
.afuss, Stanley Huntley is his name. We
think that he will get It, .- 49,.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
The Reno Court.
THE BRIDGE

In reference to the alleged statement of
Col. Wier in regard to the misconduct Of
Col. Reno, a Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald says:
The statement was placed in the hands
of the proper authorities last summer,
after the war department had ordered an
investigation, and was so startling that
an examination was ordered into some of
the allegation made. During the past
summer party of officers, including
General Nelson A. Miles, colonel of the
Fifth infantry, who was then command
ing the Yellowstone district; Colonel
Edward W Smith, aide-de-camp to Gen
eral Terry, and Lieutenant Edward Ma
guirc, corps of engineers, chief engineer
officer on General Terry's staff, visited the
Little Big Horn and made series of ex.
periments and measurements, with results
which seem fully to prove the assertions
made by Colouel Wier and other surviv-
ing officers of the ill-fated regiment VIII"
were present at the battle. The distance
between the points where Reno retreated
to and remained, and where Custer fought
and fell, was accurately measured, and is
found to be much less than has always
been claimed by Reno in his reports. 1t
was also demonstrated, as retuting Rcno's
statement IN his official report that the
distance between the two commands was
so great that he could not hear the firing
| of Clusters column, that single shot
from carbine or pistol could be plainly
heard from either point, in nearly every
condition of the wind.
The following named officers have been
ordered to Chicago to testify in this case
Colonel E. W. Smith, aid de camp, and
Lieutenant Mcguire, corps of engineer OF
General Terry's staff, and the following of
the Seventh Cavalry: Colonel Frederic
W. Benteen, Captain Thomas H. French,
Myles Moylan, Edward S. Godfrey and
G.. Mathy, and First Lieutenant Charles
G. de Rudio, George D. Wallace, Charles
A. Varnum, and Luther r. Hare.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
Department Of Dakota.

Pioneer Press.
The new post to be located near Milk
river, Montana Territory, to be known as
Fort Assiniboine.
The post located on Bear Butte creek.
Dakota Territory, to be known as Fort
Meade .-.s.
Camp Baker, Montana Territory, as
Fort Logan, in honor of Capt. William
Logan, Seventh infantry, killed Aug. 9th,
1877, in action of Nez Perce Indians,
at Big Hole pass, Montana Territory.
Post at Standing Rock Indian Agency,
Dakota Territory, as Fort Yates, in honor
OF Captain George w. Yates Seventh
cavalry, killed June 25th, 1875, in action
with Sioux Indians, on the Little Big
Horn river, Montana Territory. .
Post at Cheyenne River Agency, Dako-
ia Territory, as Fort Bennett, in honor of
Capt. Andrew s. Bennett, Fifth infantry,
killed Sept. 4, 1878, in affair with Bannock
Indians, near Clark's Fork, Montana
Territory. ...-.-... .......
Post at Lower Brule Agency, Dakota
Territory, as Fort hale, in honor of Capt.
Owen Hale, Seventh cavalry, killed Sept.
80, 1877, in action with Nez Perce Indians,
on Snake river, Montana Territory.
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Jamestown Advez
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
Der he put forth the following:
'"The weather for January, 1879, by tn,

Der nc put 1Ortn tue 1OliOWlng:
''Tlle weather for January, 1879, by the
Atracto- Cosmical theory Of meteorology
will be variable The drst ten days will
be wintry, with storms of winds and
snow. The second decade will be more
mild, and in the lower portions and lower
elevations Of the cyclonic belt of the
middle latitudes, north, it will be inclined
to thaw. The last Of January will be
wild, more near the 10Th aud 23rd.
1.-THE storm periods will be from the
I'd to the Sd; 9Th to the 9th, two storms; {;
11th to 18th; 14th to 18th; 18th to 21st,
two wild storms; 22d to Gath, blizzard {;
Goth to 29th, 30th to '31st. The storms
wind, snow, rain, hail, etc.-appearing in
the West On the first days Of the above
dates, and in the East on the last days of
the dates. Auroras, 18th, !4th, 10Th, 23d,
9th, visible probably only in northern
sections Where there are two storms
they traverse different lines, and in places
overlapping. Storms, when of limited
intensity traverse only nirrow areas. We
cannot always ju1ge = their presence
unless by observations from large region
Of country" .
If 20 degrees below zero are the exper.
iences of his first storm periods, I'd to Sd,
what may we expect for "blizzards" OF
the 22d to gath?
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09

Volume of the Dakota supreme
court reports will he finished in about
three weeks and ready for delivery This
volume will include all the written opin.
ions emanating from the supreme court of
Dakota, from it's beginning up to the
year 187S, and is the first publication ever
made on these important documents.
The work has been prepared under the
supervision Of Judge G. G. Bennett.
Dakota Paragraph.
In accumulating the pile Of gold now
stored in the treasury of the United
States (the largest in the world except
that IN the Bank Of France), we have i'm
ported very little from abroad. We have
only accumulated the products of nur own
mints. AS long as we produce gold and
silver at the rate of $100, 100000 a year,
and have balance of trade in our favor of
more than 20,O00,00o month, we are on
the road to prosperity.-St. Paul Dis.
patch.
Tile tug Siskiwit started Saturday
night for Prince .Arthur's Landing with
the load of dressed beef, poultry, &c :,
some seven tons, as announced IN last
weeks News; trip Of 900 miles. If
Duluth was situated 500 or 400 miles
south in the boisterous climate of Cbica-
co. for instance, it would hardly be safe
to undertake such trip as this in the
dead Of winter. Since writing the above
the Siskiwit has returned, reaching here
at five o'clock this morning. She got to
Prince Arthurs Landing on Monday, and
left there at five o'clock on Tuesday
morning for Silver Island where she lay
during that day on account of the sea.
Fifteen miles the other side of Grand
Marais they took in Thos. Marks of the
Landing who was making his way to
Duluth with the mail carriers, stopped at
Grand Ma1ais, and made the distance from
there home in twelve hours and half
Lake Superior News, 2nd.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
i: DO We want u Bridge?

.s s9 lmatcer much talked about at present
,1pphgd town, is for and against a bridge
Ssb+idges across the James and Pipestem
streams ... -.
That a bridge on a properly laid out
highway, across either the James River
below the Junction of it and the Pipe
stem, or a bridge across the Pipestem
above the junction, is a necessity, cannot
be fairly disputed, as during the spring
freshcts which occur at the time that the
settlers south and to the northwest of
here must do most of their hauling and
travelling; to deprive, for want of safe
mode of crossing, the people that live on
the other side Of these streams, would
work a hardship.
A route that was looked at by party
of our citizens, of which the Board of
County Commissioners were part, on
Monday last, is in a nearly south direc-
tion from the south end of Fifth Avenue,
through A. Klaus farm on the continue.
tion Of said Fifth Avenue, which Mr..
Klaus has left unbroken, and over which
he will give right Of way. to the quarter
section line, then turning about 100 to the
west, bridge the river, which is at this
point IS feet wide, with approaches of
about as much, or say 1870 feet; thence in
a southwesterly direction about quarter
Of mile to the section line between
sections 35 and sc, or the section line
running south Of the school house.
This road would pass over very smooth
ground and would afford good satisfaction
to all having business both up and down
the river, until the county is sufficiently
we'll off to build another bridge across the
Pipestem, westward from town and north
of the railroad track.
The present bridge across the James
River above the junction, will with little
repair, serve we'll for some years to come,
and when it shall cease to serve our pur-
poses, another can be built further down
the river, either upon the section line
westward of the school house, or upon
some street line. .u. .......
As bridge is, by the Dakota Statutes
part of a highway, the first thing to be
done in order to get a bridge is to get a
highway. Section lines are by law high
ways, but in this case road must deviate
from the section lines at some point to
get q pactical line The code requires
that when road is sought to be laid out
upon private lands, that the petition of IL
freeholders, SIX Of whom live adjacent to
the proposed line of road, to the Board of
County Commissioners, is to be published
three times in the county newspaper, OF
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
NOTICE.
u, s. LAND OFFICE.

Fargo, ID. T., December 7, 1878.
Complaint having been entered at this Office by
Frederick H. Adams against Frank Erickson for
abandoning his Timber Culture Entry No. 36S, dated
and South half NV quarter, Section 2, Township
139 N, Range IS w, IL barnes County, d. T., with
view to the cancellation Of said entry the said parties
are hereby summoned 10 appear at this Office the
4th day of February, 1879. at ~ o'clock A. NJ, to
respond and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
J. WHEELOCK. Register.
THOS. NJ. PUGH, Receiver.
Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1879-01-09
January Weather.

January Weather.
Pioneer Press.
Prof T.. J. Couch, the Iowa clerk Of the
weather, must be credited with good sue
cess as guesser. On the 2Srd of Decem.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-24

enough as we came nearer we could see
the piles of boxes, barrels, wagons, etc.,
which had constituted the cargo of the
unfortunate steamer.
The yellowstone was built at Madi-
son, Ohio, by DR.. A. Lamme, os Bozeman,
nj. L. She was built expressly for the
Yellowstone river, and at tie time of the
accident was entering upon the fourth sea-
sons work. She was under the charge of
j. w. Jacobs, of St. Louis. She was val
ued at $4,000 and insured for $1,000; the
cargo was fully insured. She had about
twenty passengers, among whom were
DR.. A. Lamme, Bozeman, Montana; Mr..
and Mrs. Hemphill, st. Joseph, Mo-; Mrs.
Henry Pearse and three children, Crow
Agency, Montana, John Harlowe, Boze-
man, and Mrs. Jacobs, wife of themaster.
The accident occurred about O'Clock in
the afternoon, and nearly afI. IF the pas
sengers went on to Miles..City that night
or the next morning. Capt Jacobs, with
the crew, camped near the scene of the
disaster, and when the Helena stopped in
front Of his camp he oa"ae down to meet
us, looking with his strange surroundings
like modern edition OF Cyusoe.
INTENDED to have told you something of
Miles City and Keogh, but as my letter is
already pretty long | will leave that for
the next. We expect o start for Fort
Cnster tomorrow.
We haven't met any hostile Indians, tho
we hear of them all along the river. At
one of the wood-yards where we stopped
for wood two men had been shot the dav
before; they were brought to Miles City,
where one of them died; the Other, it is
,hought, will recover.
l. d W
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BY JOEL SLOPER.

have met Adam and interviewed him
The genuine, original Adam. Edison and
found him. Winding up the megath.
erone, and pointing it eastward, Edison
said:
'Now, Sloper, look through while turn
the crank, and tell ME when you have the
right focus"
"Hold on; easy now. Darwin's miss
ing link just passed before the lens"
''Oh, no, it was only that chap with the
replied Edison; s'I'll have
you out of the range of Washington
Squar' 'oon."
A few more turns OF the crank spread
the rosy Orient out before me, and drew
aside the curtains of its dreamy past, as
mighty centuries were passing in review
ike panorama before the monster lens of
Edison's latest Invention. @, beautiful,
grand and glorious were those pictures of
he dead and misty ages, in their tints and
inens of purple and gold; Ninevah, Baby
on and Tyre, there they wefe rushing past
With the centuries; seen for a moment in |
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Enigrant.

She clasped her hands on my arms,
She laid her cheek on my shoulder;
The tide Of her tears tell warm
On hands that trembled to hold her.
l whispered plying word,
AS the ship moved slowly apart,
And the grief of the friendless poured
Its choking weight on my heart.
For graves, in the evening shade,
Were green on far-of' hill,
Where the joys of her life were laid
With love that had known no chill:
But, however her heart might yearn,
We were facing the freshening breeze,
And the white wake heightened astern
On the rolling floor of the seas.
She quenched the fire of her tears,
Uplifting her meek, brave head.
''Or dark or bright be the years,
will take courage" she said;
back her lOose-blowing hair,
And her shawl drawing closer the while
So she drank in the strong sea air,
And left the old shore with smile.
University Magazine.
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A Brave Boy.


Dayton Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.
Miss Briggs, living near this city. accom-
panied by her brother-a boy about ten
years Old-went short distance from her
fathers house, to gather ferns. and while
thus engaged she was assaulted by man
who came suddenly upon and tried to take
hold of her arms. She resisted the assault
and was strnck in the face and knocked
down by the rufiian. AT this juncture her
little brother struck her assailant over the
head with club, and showed such pluck
as to compel the villain to leave the girl
and defend himself from the vigorous
blows of the boy. The cries of the girl
soon brought assistance, and the brute
fled, making good his escape.
Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-07-24

The Editors Room.
BY WILLIAM NJ. CARLETON.

The editor sat in his sanctum, his counten
ance furrowed with care,
His mind at the bottom of his business. his
/ feet at the top of his chair;
His chair arm an elbow supporting, his
right hand upholding his head,
His eyes on the dusty old table, with diff
ferent documents spread.
There were thirty long pages from Howler,
with underlined capital stopped,
And short disquisition from Growler, re-
questing his newspaper dropped;
There were lyrics from Gusher, the poet.
concerning sweetflowrets and zephyrs,
And stray gem from Plodder, the farmer,
describing couple of heiiers.
There were biliets from beautiful maidens,
and bills from grocer or two,
And his best leader hitched to letter, which
inquired if he wrote it, or who?
There were raptures ofpraises from writers
of the smooth and mellifiuous school,
And one of his rivals last papers, which
Informed him that he was fool.
There were several long resolutions, with
names telling who they were by,
Canonizing some harmless old brother, who
had done nothing worse than to die;
n II
There were long staring ''ads'' from the
city, and money with never a one,
Which added: ''Ple;. give this insertion,
and sendin your bill when you're done;;'
There were letters from organizations-their
meetings, their wants, and their laws
Which said: "Can you print this announce
ment for the good Of our cause?''
There were tickets inviting his presence to
festivals. parties, and shows,
Wrapped in notes, with ''Please give us a
notice, demurely slipped in at the close;
n short, as his eyes took the table, and ran
DER its ink-spattered trash,
here was nothing it did not encounter
excepting perhaps it was cash.
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The Man From the Rear Car.

A couple were occupying a middle seat
in the ladies' car, having got on at way
station. Probably attracted by the inyisi-
BILE fascination which never fails to bring
about contretemps, gentleman from a
rear car came in and took a seat immedi-
ately behind the pair. There was shock
of surprise as his eyes first fell upon them,
and deathly pallor oyerspread his coun-
tenance. But this was for an instant only.
Then flush succeeded, and queer smile
began to play around the corners of his
set, determined lips. An hour passed.
The billing and cooing went on, and the
man was a patient and evidently an inter-
este,l listener. The people in the car be-
gan to perceive that something unusual
was going on. Finally the man leaned
forward, with that peculiar smile still how
ering about his lips, and said:
~ beg pardon, bat you seem to be en-
joying yourselves immensely"
The lady arose with a stifled scream.
and wheeling around confronted the stran-
ger with pallid face and great, staring
eyes. Her companion was no less discon-
certed. He, too, had risen to his feet, and
stood uneasily looking at the intruder,
flushing and paling by turns.
"My God, it has come at last!'' walled
the woman.
The stranger was cool and imperturba-
Bile.
"You did not expect to see me, did
you?''
''He;.ven knows did notv' exclaimed
he lady, from whose eyes the tears had
llready begun to trickle.
''Well, it's not unusual. People often
meet under peculiar circumstances. sup
,Ose you are on your bridal tour?"
The lady covered her face with her .
lands and sank back into her seat. She !
lad already begun to sob Historically.
II happened along this way by mere
hance," continued the stranger. II am !
Ding West to Leadville. l thought | i
7ould try and do something for the chill L
rem, inasmloh as you have left us. But
trust that you will not let this accidental .
,eeting disturb your enjoyment"
The woman was moaning in abject mis- v
81 wish you all sorts of happiness, and n
i'll no longer intrude upon you. This,
dies and gentlemen, facing around to
e spectators. sis my runaway wife and O
n lover. They are very nice people - p
I'd then turning away he stalked of, leav-
& the guilty couple alone in their h.,mil- =
ton and shame, At the next station "
ey quilted the train. lty