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The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-15

Thousands upon thousands of bushels
of coal have passed up the road within
the last three months, and the demand
has not lessened any, apparently, as
about dozen car loads pass daily, on
an average, to points along the line and
to the eastern markets.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-10-15
THE TOURNAMENT.

When you got inside did you watch
the tournament E? There was one fellow
there, got up regardless of the hot wave,
In a sort of compromise between Knight
Templar and Militia Colonel. But he
rode splendidly and captured the rings
with his brave lance. Yet there was one
chap, in common attire, who did the
same thing with the butt end of his rid
ing whip.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
/ D A COAL CLAIM.
Bismarck Tribune.

s1Ah
Last week John Warren, the veteran
frontiersman, returned from the Yellow.
stone country to his shack atthe coal bank
and found his old friend Charley Green "a,
home" in it. Warren had located Green on
the CLAIM, pending his absence. for the pur-
pose of pratecting it. Green came to the
conclusion that it was his and when War
rem came back he learned that there was q
contestant in the person of his employee.
Warren entered the shack torciblv by
breaking the pad lock. Green was off du-
ty at the time, and when he returned he
found Warren in possession. That simple
circumstance seemed to exasperate him, and
with a rifle he perched on a big boulder and
whistled for Warren to come forth. He
cooed Ikea mad dove, but Warren wouldn't
heed his cooling worth a cent Warren was
unarmed and as Green was apparently in
earnest, be kept 10 doors. This Joke was
continued for three days. Green boarded
at the stage station and Warren Toasted on
-four and water. 1t was not an even thing
until Warran was presented with q
gun bv q friend, who stole a march on
Green's watch. When he got the gun,
Warren raised the black flag. He yelled to
Green to rally and open fire at once. Green
woaldn't rally for battle, but Pleasantly
asked the half starved Warren if he
wouldn't 60 a fishing with him. The be
sieged brother answered back thst be would
q cunning. The explanation Of his an.
swer in detail %pursuaded Green That there
might be a funeral if he fingered in those
parts long. Green fell back to Mandan.
Warren now holds the fort and is patiently
waiting for the railroad company to come
along and buy a few hundred tons of coal.
The coal is good Ignite and will make ex-
cellent fuel. There is evidently plenty Of
it under cover. The small excavations
show two veins four feet thick easy. The
claimant insists there is an inexhaustible
supply within each reach. He has been
holding on six years with the hope of see.
ing the day that will undoubtedly dawr
this summer.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
TRUE TALE OF HORROR
The Condemned Cell, the Gallsws, the
Dissecting Room, the Electrical
Eacaine, and the Escape.

u0 SOAucAA"eN SeAAs SAC ssc
Dissecting Room, the Electrical
Eacaine, and the Escape.
New York Evening Post.
DIR. Lambert, the man who restores drown
ed people to life by the application Of heat,
while leaving this Office yesterday afternoon,
stepped into the reporters room. Busy as
was their pencils, the scent for news was
keener.
"And if q man has been hanged, doctor,
can he too, be restored by heat 2" asked the
most inquisitive Of them, upon whom the
new method for resuscitating the drowned
had made a deep impression.
The doctor who had never looked better
in his life, answered mildly:
"Why not?"
"But what if his neck is broken 2" asked a
muscular reporter.
changing does not break q mans neck"
"Did you eyer see a man hanged?" de-
manded the youth, with the information of a
person who had devoted 3 century to sight
seeing Of that sort.
"Several times" answered the man slow.
ly.
"Why does a hanged man hang his head
over on one side for, then-so?"
mot because his neck is dlslocated. The
liEatures of the neck are stronger than any
rope. Hanging never yet broke q neck.
It's the shock that tends to kill the man =
the shock and, then, the euffocation. You
know how it shocks your brain in making
a misstep in going down stars. Well, there
are fifty thousand springs that your head
rests on from the neck to the feet. But
shock comes without any Intervention OF
springs"
"I've heard doctors say that a mans neck
was broken by banging" persisted the mus
cular man.
$50 have I-youag doctors. But surgi-
cal science does not report such q case"
20, we'll, now you're on science, III give
in" and the modest muscular withdrew &
step and filled his pipe. His forte is fact.
straight.
ibid you ever see q hanged mar come Il
life. docter?" asked q doubling Thomas.
"Yes, l have"
All ears bent percep,ibly toward tn
speaker, and there was silence % in death
IA young fellow" began the doctor
was condemned to be executed. Durinl
his incarceration he promised his body 4
the prison physician in return for the Il
. bacco he had used. When he was dead th
physician determined to try an s~lectrica
machine on him, but never having handle
: one, called me in to help him. 1 wen
!, We spilled electricity to various parts
. the body, and wherever 1t was applied th
= body moved. At length We sent . curren
. along the spine from end TO end. The fe
! low was lying on q long table long as
we'll Cooking around the room) rathe
longer than sny you've got hare. He 9.
. up; opened his eyes slowly; shut them
then opened them wide. The physicis
who owned the body. and two young me
Al. Who were helping hin, started afIrighe
for the door,"
Did the man come round oil right
inquired the Thomas reporter, earnestly.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
NO DISEASED CATTLE.

Washington, May 1.-THE treasury de.
partment received through the department
Of state q report Of principal and professor
of veterinary medicine Willisns of the new
veterinary college at Gayfeld, EdinburR,
Of the examination of certain portions ,r
the lungs removed from six American Cal
tie slaughtered At Of near Liverpool, on
which il was reported to him that the vet
erlnary officers Of the privy council had
given the opinion that said lurgs presented
characteristic signs of pleuro-pneumonia
contagion. The professor says, after the
most careful examination, that In his opin.
ion in non of them were there any sigus
of contagious disease. The evidence ni
capillary bronchitis and co!lapses of thu
central lobulss Of the lungs were Of recon,
origin. In non of the lungs were there
any traces Of pneumonia mol Of pleuritls
He is Of the opinion that the disease Origi,
mated during transit. He adds that the
above mentioned portions Of lungs have
been examined by DR.. Hamilton. patholo
gist to the royal infirmsry and demons,re-
tor Of anatomy in the university; DR.,
Young, professor of physiology aud ara
tony; Mr.. Kitchen, professor OF mst.ri
medica and therapeutics-all of the new
veterinary college of Edinburg, and other.
all of whom agree with him as to III.
nature of the disease and are ready to ep
dorse his opinion.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

-
"He didn't lie down again. In half ..
hour hs spoke-asked where he was ane
what We were doing with him. Ina couple
Of hours he was on his way out Of the Vail
a. fast as his legs could carry him"
ibid they catch hin sgain r
"No. The iahabitants to this day ahink
that he was dissscted.".
"Ought to have been hanged if he had
been caught !?
"Vyell, there's Indifference Of opinion
about that. Certainly the physician OWED
hin-had bought and paid for hin"
"Weuld it be wrong, doNtt66ff:. 1or the ply.
sician to kill him MsSehI 10 ssw him coming
to Liz lid robbine him of his property !"
The reporer who asked the question is
one Of the most b~loodthinsty persons In
the city. The doctor wisely replied BY
that the answer belonged to the de-
psrtment Of morals. in which he was not
4 professor.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
RAILROAD SPECULATION.
Fargo Republican.


| There are those who believe there
some foundation for the rumor that IN
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul had: o
is about obtaining, control OF the st. Pau
and Pacific r r. Several reasons presen
themselves why there should be no credt
gwen to even such q we'll founded N
The st. P. s P. is a great corporation in 1t
aelf with 574 miles of its " lines COM
Melted and the Red river s. Manitoba leased.
| tocetber with its Alexandra branch now
being extended through Fergus Falls to
B%arnesville, giving it two great lines from
81. Paul and Minneapolis to the Red river
valley, and the only road north from the
States to British America. The corpor-
alton has a series of land grants %unequslled
In muniticence and fertility. 1t is just N
crying from q long and tedious litigation,
and comes into the hands Of q new, young,
active and vigorous management. Mr.. j.
j. Hill, one OF the active capitalists con-
nected with this road, has long been in the
transportation business and now has q
chance to engineer an extensive line OF
paying railroad himself and he wont't want
to give it up. There is nc doubt but the
G. NJ. & st. P. would like to secure the St.
P. s. P. thus giving them two new roads
to the Red river valley and control of the
only all rail route to Manitoba. In the
event of their securing the st. P. Il P. they
must probably connect their Hastings +
Dakota branch, which now stops at Monte
video, with it, at or near Breckenridge, and
thus have three lines from this section TO
the states. The G. NJ. s. St. P. ought to
make the II. & D. in fact what it is in name.
q Dakota road, by continuing it on from
M%ontevideo through Browns valley into
the territory west and give the settlers
south of US an outlet. It's q grand COUNTY,
vast in area and rich In resources.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

The veteran, Capt. Joseph LaBsrge, than
whom no man is better qualified. makes
some corrections touching an article which
appeared in these columns q DAY or two
ago, headed Jim River" In the first
place the Jim river is not the Dakota river.
The Dakota river empties into the Missouri
river three miles above Sioux CITY and is
the dividing line between Iowa and Dako.
ia territory. The proper name for the Jim
river is "Gascques" river, hnd it was called
after an old French trader who settled on
its banks about the wear 1850. Captain
LaBarge was one of the first men to run a
boat on the upper Missouri and is quite
familiar with the history of the far west and
the numerous tribes of Indians that inhabi,
it. 1t was he who named the steamer De
Smet after the great missionary.-S Louis
Times Journal.
Captain LaBarge, we know, is one of the
early pioneers of this region. He may be
we'll qualified TO make corrections and he
may have named a steamboat after Father
DeSmet, but he is a long.wsys off the track
when he says that the Jim" river is not
the Dakota river. and that the Dakota
river empties into the Missouri near Sioux
City. An act of congress prescrlbes that
Jim" or James river shall be called the
Dakota river, and it is The BigiSicux river
which pours Its waters into the Missouri
three miles above Sioux City. Jim" river
was never called "Gascqses" river by the
early French traders, but Jacques" river,
or, more properly, "Riyer au2 Jacques"
which means literally, in English, River
to the James" As the Press and Dakota
ian put forth the article on the Jim" river,
above referred to, it feels like insisting that
its account of the longest unnavigable
stream in the world is correct.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

the judicial ermine. 1t brides voters, dis
qualities voters, corrupts elections, pollutes
our Institutions and G~ndangers the govern
nent. It degrades the citizen, debases the
Legislature, dishonors the statesman and dis.
arms the patriot. 1t brings shame, not
honor; terror, not safety /; despair. mot hope;
misery, not happiness and with the malev-
olence of . fiend, calmly surveys it's fright
full desolation, and unstained with havoc, it
poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals,
bliehts confidence, Stays reputation, and
wipes out national honor, then curses the
world and laughs at its ruin. 1t does that
and more-it murders the soul. 1t is the
sum of all villainies, the father ofall crimes,
the mother of all denominations, the DEVILS
best friend, and Gods worst enemy.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
,xeEasoLL on TEMPERANCE.

He Tells . Jury What Comes from In
Use of Alcohol.
Col. Bob. Ingersoll was lately employed
in a case which involved the manufacture
of ardent spirits, and in his speech to the
jury he used the following language:
am aware there is a prejudice against
any man engaged in the manufacture of al
cohol. I believe from the time it issues
from the coiled and poisoned worm in the
distillery until it empties into the hell Of
death, horror and crime, that it is demorali-
zing to everybody that touches it from the
source to where it ends. l do not believe
that anybody can contemplate the subject
without being prejudiced against the crime.
All We haye to do is to think of the wrecks
on either side of the stream of death, Of sui
eide, Of the insanity, of the poverty, of the
destitution, of the little children Juggling at
the breast of weeping and despairing wives,
asking for bread, of the man of genius it has
wrecked, the man struggling with imaginary
serpents produced by the devilish thing I;
and when you think Of the jails, of the aims.
houses, Of the asylums, of the prisons and Of
the scafiold on either bank, I do not wonder
that every thoughtful man is prejudiced
against this damned stuff called alcohol. In
temperance cuts down youth in It's vigor,
manhood in it's strength and age in it, weak.
ness. 1t breaks the fathers heart, bereave.
the doting mother, grasses conjugal love
blots out 6lial attachments and blights pa.
ternal hope, and brings down mourning age
in sorrow to the grave. 1t produces weak
ness, not strength sickness, not health
death, not life. 1t makes wives widows
children orphans, fathers tends, and al
paupers. It feeds rheumatism, nuraes govt
welcomes epidenics, invites cholera, import
pestilence, and embraces consumption. I
covers the land with misery, idfeness an,
crime. 1t e~ngenders controversies, foster
quarrels and cherishes riots. 1t crowd
your penitentiaries. and furnishes victim
for the scafold. 1t is the blood Of the gan
bier, the element of the burglar, the prop
the highwaymen and the support of II
midnight incendiary. 1t countenances tt
liar, lespects the thief, esteems the blasph,
mer. 1t violates obligations, reverenc,
frauds, honors infamy. 1t defames benev,
lence, hates love, scorns virtue and inn
cence. It incites the father to butcher b
helpless offspring, and the child to grir
the paternal axe. It burns up men, Co
sumes women, detests life, curses God, a,
despisss heaven. 1t suborns Witnesses, nj
10 perfdy, defles the Jury box and stat
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
THE GREEN.EYED MONSTER.
New York Dispatch.

NNV IA oPAsS
Mr.. Kroeger was TRANQUILITY eating his
breakfast q morning or SO ago, when his
boy broke the silence by asking him for
fifty cents to 90 to the Ministries with that
night. Mr.. Kroeger promptly refused on
the ground of hard times.
Mr.. Kroeger's boy is more than a boy,
and when ne sets his heart on having any
thing he generally succeeds in getting it;
his request, be moved over by his mother
and said:
Il guess III tell ma what the cook said
70 you last night"
"You are q nice man" she said %sarcasti.
cally, "to come home and pet me and kiss
me, and call me your little dew-gemmed
tulip, and then go and receive the caresses
of the cook. You miserable. frog eyed
runt, for two pins I'd come oyer there and
rake the eyes out Of you"
II, ali y stammered the lord Of the man
or, when his wife broke in
Oh, yes, I'll I, ali. you" and turning sud
denly to the boy, she demanded an expla
nation of the whole affair.
Evil you give me fifty cents?"
"Yes." she responded. "What did she
say to him!"
"Give me the fifty cents first!" said young
hopeful. I'm opening the year on the c
0. D. principle"
He Don had the money and relieved hi
mother by telling her:
Last night the cook came up to pop
and got pretty close TO him, and"
"Oh, you wretch! !" Missed Mrs. Kroegel
And when she got beside him sh
smiled very sweetly and said:"
The boy moved cautiously toward tn
door, and his mother yelled:
Come out with it,"
j And when the cook got pretty close I
: him, she whispered:
"Mr. Kroeger, the potatoes are getti.
pretty low. and you had better get suo,he
g barrel In q day OF two"
: An then the boy got outside as fast
a possible, while his mother sank into chat
Mr.. Kroeger lifted the morning paper b
fore his face to veil she smile which mat
|. it look like . calcium light.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

Caucus work has been suspended at
Washington until after the veto of the pend
ing legislative bill. Then the talent Of the
opposition will be.. evoked to produce some
kind Of . bill on most any subject which the
president will sign.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

In the senate, last Tuesday, McMahon's
amendment to the executive and legislative
appropriation bill, requiring the secretary
of the treasury to use $l0,OOO,O OO, held for
the redemption of fractional currency, for
the payment Of arrears of pensions, passed
BY twelve majority. Secretary Sherman is
hostile to this action, as he regards it a
move against resumption.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

Chew Jackson's best Sweet Navy Tobacco
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

The democratic caucus proposition to i'd.
journ congress on the blank day Of Nay.
having been referred TO the house commit
tee on ways and means. is developing q
hopeless difference of opinion. The proba.
bllity Is that there will be no adjournment
this month.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

The headquarters of the 7th cavalry have
been ordered from Fort Lincoln to Fort
Meade, in the Black Hills. Gen. Sturgis
will take six companies Of the 9TH to Fort
Meade and become c~ommandant Of that post.
The garrison will consist Of ten companies.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

Advices from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Illinois indicate an abundant rain fall
early this week. which is exceedingly bene-
!, fetal to the suffering crops.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
Jhe 2xily gress mud 4stataiau
yANKToN DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, May Is, 1879
Tho new York Graphic prints in each
days issue, weather map, which itreceives
BY telegraph from Washington.

/. The presidents backbone has ceased to be
= nassbb;sct Q .derision with confederate con-
gressmen. They begin tt6s.artertain for it .
decided respect.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16

Over 200 different styles Of wall paper a.
Mills & Purdy's. Parties designing to pur.
chase are invited to call and inspect.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-09
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 8

WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 3, 1879.
The subscriptions to the four per cent refundinG GER
tGcates since yesterdays report have amounted to
81 ,O97, $50.
The House Committee Foreign Affairs met to-day
and appointed subcommittee, consisting OF Messrs
WILSON, King and RObesOn TO consider the practicabity
of entering into additional treaty relations Win
Mexico
The House Committee Agriculture met again to-
day. but failed to reach any conclusion regarding the
report on the subject Of peurO-pneumona. A special
meeting of the committee Will probably be held early
next week.
The Senate Committee on Epidemic Diseases held a
meeting to-day for the purpose of considering and, if
possible obvatng the objections which influenced the
Senate recently to recommt the bill enlarging the
powers OF the National Board of Health and providing
for the establishment OF National quarantine rcgula-
tons. After informal Interchange Of views II
arranged that each member shall present the draft
amended bill at another meeting.
The bill introduced by Senator Kellogg "To
provide for The establishment Of steamship mail service
between the United States and Brazil" IL copy OF the
bill introduced IN last Congress By Senator Euss.
IL proposes to authorize the POstmasterGenera To in
vitc proposals aud make contracts at cost not exceed
ing Sl50 900 per for monthly service between
New-YOrk and New-Orlcans, respectively, and Rio
Janelro by American built iron steamships OF not less
than 5000 tons burden.
New-York tribune., 1879-05-09
NEW CONSTITUTION IN CALIFORNIA.

YESTERDAYS ADvICEs CoNTRADTCTFD-THE CON
sTITUuoN ADOPTED BY OVER SIX THOUSAND
MAJORITY.
SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-The official returns
tie this city yesterday give majority
against the new Constitution OF 1,2l5. The total vote
of the city 81, ,934. Returns from the interior
turn the estimates Of last night and show that the IN
strumcnt is adopted by majority OF from G,000 TO
10000 Farmers to have voted almost solidly
for it.
The result has cauSed much bitterness Of feeling in
business circles. where it Is looked upon to consider
able attack upon the interests OF the city
by the interior of the state. There is however evil
dent determination to make the best OF what's believed
to be the unfortunate issue OF important question.
The newspapers OF the city counsel quiet acquesceuce
In the inevitable and sustained endeayOr TO ward OF
the III effects which expected 10 follow radical
change In organic law. by careful choice of officers
prudent and conservative construction OF Its
visions.
disturbance feared in the city during the even
ing, but the feeling soon quoted down. merely a
few fights occurring
The workingmen 1ublant over what they consider
their own particular victory.