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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-06-05
THE GRANT COUNTY HERALD
The Largest Home-P Printed County
Paper in Wisconsin


ht WutS hUlht ANU NUS HtAD PAPEh IN SOUTHWESTERN MIS-
1t is Republican paper and supports Republican
and men, 1t hates mposters, in the Re-
publican party for the spos 1t goes greeting to the peo
pie who work. and is with them in all opposition to pre-
tence shams receptions by which working peoples
earnings 60 for to little consideration to idlers.
AS NEWSPAPERS will keep posted qase-
lions OF public interest As Family paper will give
Grant end surrounding Counties this other
Per has ITS facilities Goodhues lively story STRUCK Lead
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-06-05
J. B. BAcHMAN,
o. S. JONES,
Mrs. w. BARLOW.

Committee.
The minutes were read and ap-
proved, and the Convention ad.
journed sine die with the benediction
by the President.
w. HAMILTON, P. +.
President.
f. HowA 9TH, Sec'y.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

The Hatch commission has reached the
luminous conclusion that the massacre of
T%hofnburg BY the Utes was purely an &C
cident. The report says: "The Indians
had left the main. road to avoid the soldiers
and !! Thornburg had kept the main road
he would have reached the agency unmo-
Tested" Ampliied. the report might read
Indians accidentally formed On am.
bush around . canyon through which the
road ran; Thornburg turned his column
from the road TO avoid the suspicious spot;
the Indians accidentally left their hiding
places and formed their lines about him;
their guns we're accidentally discharged and
kept going of day after day, BY pure acct.
dent, until . large portion of Thornbure's
command had been slain. The accident
continued to progress very satisfactorily 10
the Indians until the arrival Of the relief
command and then they accidentally rar
away and are now being coaxed back to u
agency to take taffy from such idiots q
Hatch. He has accomplished his missile,
-he has made it appear that the Who'll,
trouble was caused by the laundering stu
pidity Of the wal department. which didn'
know enough 10 keep 10 the road and avoi,
running into ambuscades aud causing te,
stbe sceidents To- occur.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
BRvLE CITY.
St. Paul Independent Farmer

-, st. Paul Independent Farmer.
This is the name Of a new town, located
on the Missouri river, about $50 miles be-
yond YanktoD, aud directly on an almost
air line to the Black Hills. 1t was laid out
BY the irrepressible Charles Collins, who i
offering uncommon inducements TO settlers.
On the 29th of August, the president of the
United States issued . proclamation, throw.
ing open to the public 100000, acres Of
land. and this land surrounds the new
city, and is rich aad we'll adapted to farm.
ing. Brule iueif is finely located OF. the
river, the streets running parallel to each
other, with a width Of 100 feet-one street
being las feet wide-and provisions have
been made for the capital Of Dakota and the
county buildings, two squares having been
appropriated for this purpose. The ground
upon which the city is located rises grad.
ually from the river, and is most elegant,
adapted for . large metropolis. The Mis-
souri, is navigable to this point, and abov,
it. while the Chicago, Milwaukee. and 8,
Paul railroad is making for Brnle, being d
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

The elections committee of the house of
representatives has sixteen contested casss
to be disposed Of. The only n acted on
in committee was that Of McCabe, democrat,
". Orth, republican, from the ninth Indiana
district, in which the decision Of the ques.
ton whether McCabe be allowed further
time was postponed. OF the sixteen con
tested cases before the committee four are
ready to be heard. These are the cases Of
Bradley, republican, vs.. Slemmans, demo
crat, in the second Kansas district; Bisbee
republican. vs. Hull, democrat, second
Florida district; Donnelly, democrat, vs.
Washburn. republican, third Minnesot,
district, and Curtin, democrat, ". Yocum
republican, twentieth Pennsylvania district
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

One Of the first things to come up before
banking and currency committee will be to
change the amounts named in the bill agreed
to BY the committee last spring of the pro-
portion of silver to be kept bv the national
banks a. . part of the reserve fund. The
bill referred 10 provided that the banks in
fifteen of the largest cities should keep
three. ffths ofthe Eve per cent? fund in silver
and that the country banks should keep two.
ifths. A Washington correspondent says il
will probably be changed SO that all bank,
shall keep one-half in silver.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

In the cases Of Holmes, democrat, vs..
sapp, republican, eighth Iowa district, and
Wilson, democrat, vs.. Carpenter, republican,
ninth Iowa district, a majority report will
be made by the elections committee that the
sitting members are entitled to their seats.
A minority report will also be made that
under the constitution Of. the state of Iowa
no legal election was held, and that there
fore neither Of the contestants are entitled
to seats. These cases we're decided BY the
conmittee Just before the close Of the last
session, of congress, but no report has yet
been made.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
SOUTHERN DAKOTA.

rrEHlE -TU4L-AF 0-- 49,
Burglars are operating in Watertown.
The Marion Gazette 10 . quarter Of q year
old.
Bon Homme had its dance Thanksgiving
night.
Six hand-car houses are being built At
Marion.
Horse thieves are operating in and around
Marion.
The new Pembina depot at Sioux Falls il
nearly completed.
Thes grist mill ON Emanuel creek, 10
about ready to start up.
Telegraph poles are being raised along
the line of the Pembina
Surveyors are buslly engaged on the line
between Watertown and Volga.
A Methodist minister was at Elandreau
prospecting last week, but he ataid not.
A stranger was severely injured by q run.
away in Sioux Falls, Thanksgiving day.
The little burg Of Herman il reaching
out for especial journalistic attention soon.
Vermillion proposes to establish q first
class steam ferry boat at that place In the
spring.
Several boys have broken through the
ice at Sioux Falls, and came near being
drowned.
The district court for Clay county will
commence the third Tuesday in January.
at Vermillion.
Canton's annual masonic ball will occur
December 25th. under the auspices Of Sill
yer Star Lodge.
Since the first of August 5000 head Of
cattle have been shipped from Clay and
Union counties.
A sort of donation reception was rendered
the Congregational minister Of Canton last
Friday evening.
There will be an immense crop of ice
harvested in Watertown, if only the grass.
hoprers stay away a few weeks longer.
A man at Bon Homme has disposed OF
500 cords of wood this season, and is now
having 1900 cords chopped for the coming
season.
The right of way, over condemned land
10 Bon Homme county, will cost the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad com
PAW $l,794.
Mrs. Hickey's five months old babe, wa
found dead in its mothers bed on Thanks
giving morning, at Canton. 1t was in it
usual health the night before.
The Canton News gives the Ysnktor
schools . very complimentary notice par
t,cularly those over which Mrs. BRISTOL,
Mrs. Everett. and Mrs. Lyons preside.
The bows of Sioux Falls receive invita-.
tions to Thanksgiving dinner something
after this style: MADAM Kelly at home
dine at two o'clock, Thanksgiving dinner,
House on the Heights No one admitted
except those holding invitations. PATRON
of the house cordially invited. Dancing il
the evening""
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

Grand Forks has its railroad.
Fargo is soon to have a library sssocia-
ton.
Fargo Is resolved to have It's board of
trade.
Dime concerts are the order of the day In
Grand Forks.
A series of revival meetings are IN pro-
gress at Bismarck.
Valley Ci,y's first snow came the day be-
fore Thanksgiving.
The sisters are building q very fine school
building at Bismarck.
Hank Woods.an old resl1cnt of Bismarck,
died on Thanksgiving day.
Petitions are being circulated for more
posto6ices in Grant county.
The GRAFT County Herald will be the OF.
fetal paper for that county.
Fargo's first sleigh ride of the season &C.
Cured on Thanksgiving day.
jamestown 10 booming with parties, con-
certs, dances and sleigh rides.
Isdians are visiting Big Stone City in
great numbers. with furs to sell.
A large commodious hotel will soon add
to the business appearance Of Big Stone
City.
A theatrical combination benefit netted
the Episcopal society Of Bismarck thirty
dollare.
A term Of the district court will be held
in Big Stone City during the latter part of
the winter.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, of Fargo, gave . grand ball on Thanks
giving night.
New Methodist churches will so0n be
established in Ortonville and Big Stone
City, Giant county.
Bismarck -four is said to bs worth TWEEN
ty-five cents per sack more than any other
-four in the market
Grand Forks young people will have
series of u dances. The older ones want
. debating society.
The business men of Fargo are making
strenuous efforts to secure water works, OF
q supply Of water for the protection Of the
city against fire.
The Northern Pacific railroad company
has determined to offer its lands west Of thu
Missouri river at . uniform prics of o. SO
per acre with ten cents an acre added TO
surveying.
Two cases of attempted suicide, one o
select readings. q fight between two theate
managers, Of elopement of one female will
three males, the desth of an old settler, On,
Thanksgiving day, oil occurred In BlsmarcI
: in one week.
The Bismarck Tribune says the Sherman
: made the latest trip ever made on this Dor.
: ton OF the Missouri river. She left Bis
msrck on the 18th ult., for Fort Bennett,
returning on the 20th, making her va
. through no small amount of ice, and an ut
usually low river. John Justice vas alon
at the wheel. Capt. J.. d. Maratta on decl
Both deserve great credit. Tbs 6herma
e has had an unusually successful season.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

ready within seventy miles Of the coming
great city. Tho inevitable rapid popula.
tion Of the 100000 acres Of farming land,
just thrown open to settlement in and about
Rruie, the navigation of the river TO that
point, and the positive completion Of the
railroad thereto. backed By the uutiring
prietor, the genial Collins, mus. make this
2 rapidly growing city, and 70 predict for
ita very prosperous cafeer.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

A petition is being circulated throughout
the Red River valley asking congress to APP
propriate 100000 for the construction Of a
lock and dam at the Goose river rapids. 1t
is .tated in the petition that this improve.
ment would render the Red river OF the
north navigable throughout seven hundred
miles of it's length.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

Delegate Cannon 10 of the opinion that
the anti.polygamy clause in tho presidsnt's
message 10 q death blow to the hopes Of
Utah for admission % . state. He 10 much
excited over the position taken BY Presi-
dent Hayes against q favorite Mormon in.
stitution.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

The house appropriations committee are
unanimous in desiring the early compilation
Of the appropriation bills. The deficiency
appropriation for the pay Of marshals and
their deputies will doubtless be the first
provided for, ~ it vas thoroughly discussed
in committee meeting Wednesday.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

Twsnty-a,e rich widows joia il calling
ths al.snsioa ~ofsoongreas 70 The set that
tasys plystaxes, but do not vote. AEbiil tor
u relief a. fich. widows would b. IN inn
mortalising theme for some congressional
gallant.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

The president 6ndsn no fault with congress
bscause Il iai6 10 coincide With hia financial
views. Hsxas merely maklne~ susesstioas
and If the Law making body failed to agree
with him there was no occasion for any i'll
feeling about it.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
WANTED.

Sherman s. Co., Marshall, Mich, want
an agent in this county at once, at q sal
airy of 500 per month and expenses paid.
For full particulars address as above.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

Senator Baldwin has been assigned to
Senator Chsldlsr's place on the committee
of commefcs and Senator Ferry oils the ".
cancy on the naval committee.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

BLANK FORMS
FOR
Timber Culture Entry,
Homestead Entrys,
Homestead Final Proofs,
Soldiers Discharge.
Soldiers Power Of Attorney,
Protest Papers,
Naturalization Papers,
Marriage Certificates, according to Dakota
Statutesl,
schoo, District Books and Blanks, Copy
right,
Eureka School Register, pronounced the
most perfect Of any register published,
compiled from the School law Of 1879.
District Court Blanks. QbO forms),
Justices ofthe Peace Blanks, (ao forms),
Deeds. Mortgages. Quit Claims, Leases,
Chattel Mortgages, Bonds for Deed, Mort
gage Discharge and Assignment, and all
kinds of cOnveyahclng papers.
Sherih's Deeds, Reports and Certificates, .
full assortment.
Township Plats and Shipping Bills.
All blanks used by Lawyers, Land Agents,
LOcators, Clerks Of Court, Justices. Sherirs and
C%lcrgymen. kept In stock.
Catalogue by mall on application.
DoWDM & EINoSDURY Pssps
Yankton, Dakota Territory.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05

The Merchants billard parlon have been
moved 10 . location one door north OF Ed
mund's and Wynn's bank.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
Gle 9xily 3ress yud Sxtststxs
YANKToN DAKOTA
Friday Evening, Dss. 5, 1879.

The spoford-Kellogg COMMITTEES has 6n-
i,hed It's work in New Orleans and has adj
journed to meet in Washington.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02
THREE YEARS IN BATTLE,
AND
AND
THREE IN PRISON.

P,RT IA Narrative OF Escape from 1ankeedom 10
Dixie in 1861; Scenes in Washington City after the Bun
Run Stampede; Perils in Passing the Potomac; tu-
fllment of a Boyish Vow; Lights and Shadows of Camp
Life: Sixteen Pitched Battles; a Brief Campaign III
Eastern Carolina, Capture within Grants Lines on
James River. and cruel Treatment as an alleged spy;
Fscaue and Iecapture; Ten months of Torture IN the
Rebel 80 prison Pens" at Point Lookout and Fort Della
ware: Murder of Col. Jones, and other Atrocltles; Fail
of the Confederacy, and the End OF all things; Footing
it hundreds of miles homew&rd amid the wreck and
wretchednesso of the Ruined Confederacy. ETC., etc, etc.
- PART II.-Surprising Submissiveness of the South;
Grant. the Victor, bears witness 10 the utter doc1lty, ana
good intentions of the Vanqushed; Congress begins 4
policy of systematic Irritation; The Freedmen's Bureau
sets up a petty despotism in every southern village; The
friends: Swarms of Sharpers, S~windlers, and all manner
of Scallawags, Settle upon the South to Steal what Sher-
man left; Race Riots for Party Purposes Provoked
whenever Possible; The most Brutal of the Blacks
Banded into Midnight-Leagues, Oath-Bound, Controlled
by Wicked Whites, and Attended by Accountable Atroci-
ties: Robber Rule and Ruin as the Result; Rise of the
White Brotherhood, and Kindred Societies, m
Called the Ku-Klux-Klans; Very Troubleous Times;
The Holden-kirk War; Grants Military Measures for
Capturing the Electoral Vote of the Southern States,
Beginning with the Carolinas; Spies, Soldiers, and
Bond Spreads his SpyGer-Web in the Capitol. and Ma
lgnantly Inficts the full Venom of an Unlawful Law
upon Whomsoever he can Catch, the Unohendlng, and
the Offender, Alike; Old Men of 20 Years, and Boys
Under IT, Sent, III Mid-Winter, Shackled, to a far
Northern Bastile, to Undergo Years of Torture, for
Alleged N~isdemeanors, of which they were Entirely
Innocent: Journal of Life in Albany Penitentiary; the
Whole Comprising a Faithful History of Reconstruc-
ton i'll North Carolina: 1865 -1S75-inclusive.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02

(CoNTINUATION.)-One or two facts in re-
lation to the failure OF the Peace Measures
deserve to be engraved upon the minds Of
our Southern youth, especially in view of
the persistent declarations by Northern
writer's and speakers that the South began
the war. 1st. That South Cardinals first
act after withdrawing from the Union was
to send commissioners to Washington to
urge peace, and urge the evacuation of Fort
Sumpter, IN order to prevent any accidental
conflict. Col. Hayne proposed, in writing, TO
the Washington Government to either ing
the fort, at It's cost, or to leave the matter to
arbitration. End. The Confederate Govern
ment first act was to send commissioners
to Washington asking peaceful relations.
3rd. The Federal garrisons at Sumpter and
Pickeus were left unmolested for nearly four
months after the secession of the States,
Haunting their flags in open defiance of the
people who regarded them as aliens. All
these four months the S~outherners We're
se,kng peace, seeking to avoid the necessi-
ty of firing on the old flag. 1t is safe to say
NJ New England State would have been so
pltient half so long. 18th. Every "peace-
measure brought forward in Congress after
Lincoln election was by Southerners. 9Th.
Every Southern member voted for the Crit
tenden compromise, while every Republican
member voted against it and yet, the
South rather than the North, had reason to
complain of It, for instead Of being a COM
promise, which implies mutual concessions,
it was a complete surrender of one half the
rights of the South (as a co-equal partner
In the Union) to secure unmolested posses
sion of the other half.
| an glad to see that one Northern author,
namely, Mr.. George Lunt, of Boston, a gen
tleman of extensive experience in public
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02
BY
RANDOLPH \. SHOTWELL.
FOURTH.

The Peace Coufereuce.-The Confederate Congress.
jefferson Davis elected Provisional President
Old "Fuss and Feathers Scott alarms the country by
various military movements, and silly display Of troops
to guard Washington, and the Electoral College,
Lincoln set out for his Capitol.-Myt first view of the
"Rail Splitter President.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02

Continued on page l97.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-02

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will be charged for doublc-column advertise
mentS.
The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-28
How "sIeepy TOM Beat the World.

July %, 1879, will ever be a most
memorable day in racing annals, for on
that day, at Chicago, the blind PAGER,
Sleepy Tom, cut a notch in the racing
calendar higher up than had even been
seen before.
AS Tom walked out of his stable and
came slowly up the track, the spectator
saw before him a medium-sized, compact
ly-built animal, with head and ears erect
and clean, shapely legs and feet. He
ambles along at a slow pace, acting as
though he was tired and a little stiff. A
glance at his sightless eyes tells at once
his name and his misfortune.
When the horses came to score. Tom
got an outside position, and was. with
considerable difficulty, started for the
first heat. He broke badly and seemed
reluctant to get to work. His driver
tried to urge him, but he failed to re-
spond. When at last the word was piyen
Iom fell in the rear, stayed there all the
way around, broke fearfully on the back
stretch, and came very near being dis.
tanced outright. Those who did not
know him, looked erestfalIen enough,
rs this all?' broke inyoluntarily from a
thousand lips. The second heat was
SIMPLY q repetition of the first. Tom
was disappointing everybody, and it
looked a. though Matte Hunter, his
pFincIpai competitor, would walk awav
easily with both money and honors.
In the thirdheat Tom suddenly awoke
to a consciousness of his situation. The
race was twa-fifths gone, and he was mo-
where. A thrill OF energy shot through
that somewhat emaciated frame. and t6a
seemed strung with sinews of steel
and filed with ambitious life. He swpnc
into the lead as easily as d child world
roll 4 ball over the floor, and kent il
steadily all the way round, lowering the
time and winning the heat. The f6nrtb
heat was like the third in all its distinct
features, Tom waking up more and
more and getting down to solid work Ia
! beautiful manner. Ats the conclusion
this heat, darkness shut in and sent
,he race oyer into the next dav.
The climax, however, had not been
The afternoon Of the next day
warmer and stiller than the previous
ne had been, and 50 was more favorable
or fast time. The track was in a superh {
9ddItlon, and everything eonspired r.
lEe the horses a grand chance for the {
heat. Tom and his competitors
anne out looking and feeling in good I
nm tor the contest. There was Some 2
i%ticaity in getting an even send-oF but t
t length the word was giyaa them and I
way they flew like the very wind. "a 9
-as to be a Iife-and-death struggle he {
Feen Tom and Matte Hunter ar the
and the money. There was no extra
iarts put forth to make Unprecedented u
nae. 1t was simply d question Of m &
reIaacy for that heat. Tom had tba i
be and at ance vent 10 The frnr,
+ driver leaned forward to eet into 1
closest possible sympathy with lis il
Ilng eoufser, Dawn flse backstretth a.