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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-24

Foreign correspondence. collections for immi.
grAnts and saalleue1t 81 hoass naSsss fcs eDs-
etgneTA made = specially.
kSal estate bstzanea befofe the land once par.
ticuiAsiy attended 70.
Collections made throughout the teualory And
northern ScbraskA, by special agency, A&d oil
law business peosnp4iy attended ".
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-24

Seal. Probate Judge Of Yankton county, D.
Yankt0n, DIT, June 10, 1873.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16
A Noble Woman.

A five dollar nste would be an extrava-
CANT price to pay for her establishment
and all * contains, but if heroic woman
hood ever found embodiment in human
shape, it can be seen nightly upon st.
Charles street, just below the Academy
of Music. A week ago Grandma Wilson
was in Memphis, battling pestilence by
her tireless vigilence Hailed by ter
ror-stricken community as their guard
ian angel, Elizabeth, in the zenith of her
splendor, could not have commanded the
adulation which spontaneously went
forth to that plain old woman. For
thirty eight days and nights during the
frighful harvest of death at Grenada
those withered hands were often tie only
ones to soothe the burning brow or close
dying eyes. To her tender CAFE were
committed their children by diving pa
rents. Appointed by the divine man
dates of gratitude universal executrix
and administrative, in that season of
deadly peril and death, the confidential
friend OF the highest, she now sells pea
nuts on st. Charles street. She did so
before, and were another epidemic TO
carry desolation into thousand homes,
after another heroic battle with disease
would do SO again; but is Cincinnatus re-
turned to his pillow much more heroic
than Mrs. Mary Ann Wilson returned
from the devastation Of Grenada Grand
Junction and Memphis to her peanut
standa Mrs. Wilson was faithful nurse
here in 1887 During the epidemic of
1858 she was on duty the entire summer.
Ia 1865 she devoted her time to the sut-
ferers of Norfolk. Another year she yisi-
ted Savannah, and, in short, for forty
years this noble woman has flown to the
aid Of the sick and suffering the moment
she heard of their needs. There is sea,
above for her among the best of Gods
children. -Neao Orleans Times
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The Liberal Stranger.

A red-nosed stranger shuffled into
aloon yesterday evening where crowd
OF loungers were discussing the political
situation, and waiting for successful
candidate to drop in and SAY something
Making a low obeisance to the man be-
hind the bar, the stranger turned to the
oungers and sad:
"Gla you're ON deck, gents; was afraid
1 would be obliged to drink ale, and If
there is any thing despise it is to play
game of SOLITAIRE at public drinking
fountain. Come up and join me"
The boys rallied to the call, and haif-a-
dozen glasses were filled and emptied
with MY regards, stranger
In the words of the Latin poet" said
the strange man, whirling his empty
class across the counter, "'FIl lim up
dgdinf"
The order was obeyed, and the bever-
age drank to the heslth of the genial
stranger.
"Whats the penaltyl" he asked, wip-
ing his lips on the back Of his hand.
Dollar-f forty"
"Only dollar ortyw ne exclaimed !;
"as sure as my name is Goosie- it's worth
twice that if it's worth a cent. Why, my
dear sir" he continued, unearthing a
greasy pocket book, 1--WE travelled from
Maine to Californv, from Camden to Kali
amazoo, and dog my cats II ever heard
tell of such cheap entertainment"
1--WE try to do the fair thing by our
customers" said the bar keeper, vislbly
touched by the compliment.
81 have slased my thirst at the Fifth
Avnue, at the Palace Club, at the South
ern, at Days, at the Brunswick, at the
Continental, and can truthfully assert
that never before have my lips touched
JUICE of the corn that could hold candle
to that with which you have just RECALLED
US. Dollar forty, indeedw
II won't have any but the BEST" sa:o
the har-man, blushing slightly
"As go up and down through life"
continued the stranger with enthusiasm, VI
will rake it a pleasure to call every mans
attention to the fact that at your place
and will note the street and number as
| 90 out-that at your place, sir, sign OF
Ganbrinus sitting on beer keg, is dis
pensed balm 10 Gilead at ten cents a
glass. that can be had nowhere else on
the footstool for less than twenty five.n
! II wi ii be much obliged to vou."
Don't mention it. | will go miles out
| of nv way to call a travellers attention
to the fact that beneath your 0unter is a
black bottle with a corn-cob stopper,
which contains the identical nectar that
Jupiter sips. In addition to this full
page advertisement embellished with
original cuts. | would gladly hand yos
the patty dollar and forty cents. and
he unclasped the pocket-book and helped
| himself to a chew of fine cut therefrom-
ssbut the fact Is, sir, the failure of the
Bank of the City of Glasgow has left me
without cent in the world; ta-ta-come
and see us often y and he was gone.
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ut is Nothing. as You See.''

1t was in 1866. BlsmarcK--then Count
Bismarck-was returning from the palace
where he had been to see the king. While
passing through the large street of Berlin
called Inter den Linden, and quite near
the place where Hoedel and Nobiling
have sill ce attempted tue life of Emperor
William, he suddenly heard shot fired
close behind him. He turned sharply
round and saw young man who, with
smoking revolver, was aiming at him.
He strobe at once up to the man and
seized the arm. that held the revolver,
while with the other hand he seized the
throat of the would-be murderer, who,
however, had had, time to pass his weapon
on to bis left hand, and now fired three
shots in quick succession. Bismarck felt
himself hurt in the shoulder and in one
of his ribs; but he held his furious assail-
ant fast till some soldiers came up ard
took hold of him. Then Bismarck
walked home at brisk pace and reached
his own house long before anybody there
could know what had happened.
The countess had some friends with
her when her husband entered the draw
ing-room. He greeted all in friendly
manue1, anu DeSSSu " VIC cASuScu III o
few minutes, as he had some urgent busi-
ness tie attend to. He then walked into
the next room where his desk stood, and
wrote to inform the king of the accident.
Having attended to this duty, he returned
to the drawing-room and made one little
standing joke, ignoring his own I'M
punctuality, and saying to his wife
"Welll are We to hive dinner to-day
You always keep me waiting" He sat
,.on-.. - partook heartily of the dishes
set before him, and it was only when the
dinner was over that he walked up TO the
countess, kissed her on the forehead,
wished her in the old Germsn way
'.Gesegnete Mahlzeiti" (may your meal be
blessed and then added: You see
am quite WE'LL She looked up at him
4WeII," he continued, "You must not be
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16
Pioneer DAYS.

An ancient da ne who settled in Indi-
ana sixty years ago-she it now ninety
four years old-recently gave cores
pon dent OF the Cincinnati Enquirer a
few "reminiscences of early lite on the
frontier. She said: ave bad no win
dows to our house, and the door was
made of blanket which was hung over
the doorway We bad large fireplace
made of sticks. in which fire was always
kept burning. My babe was then three
months old.
"All we had to keep house with was a
small provision chest, bell-metal tea
kettle, ugar-bowl, pewter plates, and
some cups and saucers.
when we moved into our cabin we
had no beds, and nv son, then lour years
old, had the whooping cough, / felt that
it would be dangerous to place him on
the puncheon floor so | aad my husband
make hammock by suspending a quilt
from the rafters by q BEDFORD.
1--WE made table cut of walnut slab,
and then three stools, and our house
keeping outfit was complete.
swell, as | told you, my husband
started to mill and expected to be absent
week | had brother living in Vim
cennes who had sent us word that he
would pay us visit, and was expecting
| him.
"rhe second night after my husband
left heard some hallooing down in the
bottoms, AMI felt certain that it was
my brother who had lost his way in the
darkness. I Immediately answered the
cry, and was promptly responded to, and
continued to approach. | set candle on
a stump in the yard, and leaving my
little boy sitting in the door, advanced
toward the wood, calling to the approach
| ing person to come to the light.
you cannot imagine my fright at
hearing the yell between me and the
house. and on looking around iscovered
large panther pass between the light
and my boy. gave a scream and picked
up the candle, and dashed into the house
and lowered the quilt. l can't tell you
how long that night was, or the nights
which followed until the return of nv
husband.
Il had to bake my bread at neigh
bo-'s, and usually went over at night,
but never dared to go unless | carried
firebrand III my hand Many a time I've
seen the flashing eyes of panther, but
they never dared attack me ON account
of the fire.
when the neighbors went visiting in
those days, they took their teams and
guns and stayed week, the men hunt
ing, and the women quilting and helping
each otner at their domestic duties.
HOW did | make butter? Oh, easy
enoughl l put the milk in gallon jug
and shook it until it was churned. The
trouble sometimes was in getting the
butter out of the jug.
81 have frequently gone to mill alone
when / had to swim the horses across the
river, the boat not being large enough to
carry them. have often seen the wom-
en- walk five miles on visit and carry a
babe They would set the child straddle
of one of ;heir hips, and putting their
arm around it, could carry large child
with ease. The men in those days wore
buCksin trousers and went barefooted In
summer, while the children seldom had
shoes at all -
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Decorating Their Dead Foes.

The respect paid to courage 10y the
warlike tribes of the Anglo-I Indian border
is strikingly illustrated by an episode
Of Napier's famous campaign in Scinde.
A detachment he been sent against one
Of the brayest of the native tribes. almost
every warrior of which bore the proof of
his valor in the green thread tied around
his wrist. badge more priced by the
sshilI men, than the Cross of the Legion
of Honor by French soldier. In the
course of the skirmishing that ensued,
an English sergeant and eleven of his
men, installing the orders giveE them,
advanced up narrow gully, where they
suddenly found themselves confronted
by more than 100 of the enemy. The
gallant handful charged without mo-
ment's hesitation, and were slain to man
after killing nearly thirty of their op
ponents. When the last Englishman had
fallen, tie old chief of the tribe, one
of the most renowned warriors of North
ern India, turned TO his men, and said
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Causing His Brides Arrest.

A Belgian bridegroom being about to
start for Psris on his honeymoon tour,
was informed BY his bride that she
thought of concealing several thousand
francs worth of lace about her, hoping
by its sale TO pay the cost of their jour
new. The bridegroom was not smitten
with this frugal project, and pointed out
that there were custom house officers
and female searcher at Erequeiines who
we've sometimes struck with an unac-
countabIe fancy for examining passen-
GERS. pockets. This is said to be timid
man. and his bride. to humor him, prom
ised to give up her plan; but of course
she secrered the lace all the same with.
out telling him about it. As the train
approached the French frontier, the hus-
band reflected that. if his wife were moi
searched, his fears would be Knocked al
as having been groundless, and now held
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16
A Cullurd SarmOn.

Belubbed fellow trabbler {. in holding for o
day,
doesn't quote no special verse for what has
De sarmon will be berry short, and dis here
am de tex:
Dat halfway doin's amt no count for dis
world or de mex.
Dis world dat ives a-lbbin in is like a cotton
row,
Whar ebbry cullard gemman has got his line
TO hoe;
An ebbry time lazy Niger stops to take a
nap,
De grass keeps ON s-g-own'. to smudder up
his crap.
When Moses led de Jews across the waters OBJ
de sea,
Dey had to keep a-goin' jest as fas' as fas'
could be.
Do you s'pose dat dey could ebber have sue
ceeded in DER wish,
An reached de promised land at last, II dey
had stopped to fish?
My friends, dar was garden once whar Addem
Wild no one round to bodder dem, no neighbor
for 10 thieve;
An ebbry day was Christmas, an dey got DER
rations free,
An ebbryt'ing belonged to dem excep' an
apple tree.
You all know bout de story-how de snake
come swooping round,
stump tail, rusty moecasin, crawlin' on
the groun'--
How I've an Alden eat their fruit, an went
an hid DER face,
Till the angel oberseer he come an drove 'em
off de place.
Now, s'pose dat man an woman hadn't
tempted for to shirk,
But had zone ahout DER pardenin' am tended
to their work;
Dey wouldn't hab been a-loafn' whar dey had
no biAness to,
And de dehberd nebber had a chance to tell
'em what to do.
No halfway doins, bruddren. tn nebber do,
| sayl
Go at your task and finish it, an denis de time
to play;
For even ii the crap Is good de rsin'n spoil de
bous.
Unless you keep a-pickin' in de garden OBJ
your souls
Keep a-plowin', and hon', and a-scrapin' OBJ
de rows,
And when de ginnin's ober you can pay up
what you owes.
But if you quit a-workin' ebbery time de sun
is hot,
De sheriff's gwine to Lobby on ebbryt ing ous
got.
Whatebber tie you's a dribin' at, oe sure ana
drive ii through
And don't let muffin stop you, but do what
you's gwne to do;
For when you see u niger foolin', den as sho's
you're born,
You's gwine to see him comm out de small
end OBJ de horn.
Tanks you Cor de 'tention you hab glib dis
afternoon,
Sister Williams will 'blige us by de raisin' OBJ
tune;
see dat Brudder Johnson's bout to pass
round de hat,
And dent let us hab no halfway doin's when
it comes to dat
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reappeared. He apologized for his mas
ter's non-appearance, and requested me
! to obey the instructions of note which
he handed me from a massive silver sa.-
yer.
tore 1t open and read:
NIB. PHILIp FosBERRY WILLIAMS: The
next time you travel by rail dc not smoke or
annoy old gentlemen. do not make the in
firmities Of age and seeming poverty your
laughing-stock; do not tell your friends of
your great expectations: do not speak of
your crack Drained relatives; do not make ex-
inguishers of old gentlemenis hats; do not be
slangy, vulgar and insulting 10 srran gers; do
not noursh vain hopes of inheriting me; and,
finally do not lose any time in leaving forever
the house OF your old fireworks OF a fellow
traveller.
'PHLIP FosBERRY.
''P. ST. inelose $50 note TO pay your ex-
penses.p
How l got out of the house-how l
got back to the station, and spent the
night in wretched inn-how | returned
10 town and told my enraged relations
my woefuI tale-whelein played such a
sorry part how my abject letter of
apology was returned unread cannot
tell, | only know old Fosberry died
worth 100000, leaving his niece sole
heiress, and that quarreled with Jack
Evans about it; nor have | ever spoken
TO him since.
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start on his married career with prestige
impaired. This was not desirable not
rather was it essential that he should
from the very outset assert his infallibil-
ity. So, when the train stopped at
Erequelines, and the passengers all hted.
the Belgian bridegroom left his brides
arm for moment, and, siding up to a
customs officer whispered:
Il think if you search that lady yon-
der you may find some lacen
The officer winked, and the happy
bride was accosted with an invitation to
walk into the female searcher's room.
She turned pale and tottered, but was
led away, and five minutes later dismal
sounds of mysteries was heard. Then the
officer reappeared and said to the hor-
rified husband:
"Thank you, sir; it's good capture
The lady will be taken to prison, and
half the fine will go 10 you"
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Wonders of the Prairie Mirage,

The mirages of the plains are OF won
drous beauty, writes a correspondent.
La the autumn, when all the atmospheric
conditions are perfect, strange transfer
nations take place upon the prairie ocean.
1t Is the morning of such day. Along
the eastern horizon narrow belt of silver
light appears. As it Crews broader the
silver gray of its lower line changes to
gold. Fleecy clouds above the belt take
on yellow red. The grayish shadows
of the dawn lift slowly from the earth
and imperceptibly float skyward. Just
before the red disk of the sun peers above
the horizon line weird islands appear in
the sby-islapds clothed with trees and
waving grasses, and held together by
threads of yellow, green and azure. The
earth stands inverted in the sky. The
wooded bluffs and timber islands of the
prairie turn bottom upward in the
glaucous ether above, with their feet
knee deep in water. The ground work of
this illusion is a grayish semi-opaque
mist, but the smallest object on the plain
is limned against it with marvellous fidel-
ity. Objects far beyond the range of
vision over the prairie are brought into
have seen little village thirty miles
away, over the plans standing in the sky,
every feature traced with the minuteness
of a line engraving / could distinguish
the dogs wandering through the streets,
the cows standing idly about the yards,
and the opening and closing of door in
the cabins. | have seen dog sledges,
whose trains were out of sight below the
horizon, trail through the heavens in tor
turous course; long lines of cart trains
swaying to and fro over the sand dunes
of the sky. In all these cases the ground
does not appear; only the objects growing
upon or passing over it. Everything has
the appearance of growing or standing in
water. The feet of animals, the roots of
trees, the foundations of houses are all
lost in an aqueous mist.
The ordinary features of the mirage
the simple drawing of distant objects
near the spectator-are of common, and
in many places, of every day occurrence
at some ses sons of the year. A few rods
way on every side slight line of gray
ish mist, exactly resem bling that rising
from lake or stream in early spring, APP
pears, and upon its surface i, limned the
Who'll" landscape, changing constantly
like the colors of Kaleidoscope, as the
traveller advances. The illusion continues
but few minutes, however. The gold
fades from the fieecy clouds overhead as
the yellow light descends upon the plain
chasing the receding shade before it. 1 he
sun rises, and the dissolving views of the
mirage fades slowly AVA.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16
How the Errors Crept In.

Florence De Laigne, who recently
published some verses on Autumn in
these columns, writes to ask: who is
responsible for the typographical errors
in the Haaokey5lH Lean down here,
Florence, while we whisper in your ear
..-sh: nobody is. The editor writes So
nlainly that even blind man can spell
oct his words; the composltors are col
Ieee men who have edited papers of their
own. and set up the matter exactly as II
is written and correct what mistakes the
editor makes; the proof rtader IS a pro-
fessor of rhetoric and philology IN an
Iowa college, and never made mistake
in his life; and he correc.s what few mis-
takes the compositors may make; the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16

foreman is .. Gottingen graduate, who
has nothing to do but see that the matter
il perfect when the forms go down. There
isn't mistake in the Haoteye when il
reaches the press. But Wen tell you, as
u professional secret, Florence, how the
mistakes creep in. The pressman told
the manager, and the manager told US,
it's tine ink, Florence, it's the ink. We
pay out thousands and thousands of
dollars year for good ink, and we can't
get an article that won't fairly measle the
paper with typographical errors.-Bur
Iington Haaokeys.
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How say ye. my sonsl were these Fer
inghees (Europeans) brave men The
bravest we have ever met, answered the
mountaineers with one voice, "Then,"
cried the old man, taking the precious
thread from his own wrist and fastening
it to that of he dead sergeant, "biad the
green thread upon them all, and not
around one wrist only, but around both
Unbehevers though they may be, there
are no drawer souls in heaven; and it
may be that when God sees how we have
decorated them He will grudge such
heroes 70 Shaitaum (satan) and give them
q place beside His throne"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16

Canned fshballs are now being put up by a
Massachusetts, firm, which employs $50 men
besides sixty tinsmiths. Extra fine Goldfish
the best of Nova Scotia potatoes and gilt-edged
New York butter are employed, and a rousing
business is done, constantly increasing orders
coming in from all parts of the world, even
from China and Turkey.
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anxious, my child. Somebody has fred
at me; but It is nothing, as you see.''-
Blackgood's Magazine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-01-16

For upwards of GnIrGs Gears mrs. WINS
LOWS SOOTHING SYRUP has been used
for children with neyer-failing success. 1t
corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowls, cures dysentcry
and diarrhea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well-tried rem
edy. % cts bottle.
Catarrh is the forerunper OF consumption
consumption means death. Juniper Tar CT
garettss are the only common-sense, pleasant,
certain cure for Catarrh, Asthma, Colds and
Hoarseness. Price % cents; sold by all drug
gists. Mailed on receipt Of price by Liebig
Chemical Co., 2 Barclay -, New York.
Neglected Coughs ana CDids.-Few are
aware of the importance OF checking Cough
or Common Cold" in its first stage; that
which in the beginning would yield to
BROWNS B. oNoHIAL TRoCHEs," NEGLECTED,
often works upon the Lungs.
Ifyou are sati fled to have poor organ, or
run the risk of having poor one, take any
organ that is offered you. But if you desire
to be sure Of having the very best. insist on
having Mason 81 Hamln, and do not be
persuaded to take any nthrr
Chew ,JaekSUns DcaI sweet NAVY Tobacco.
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THE CHANNELS for The exit u Impurities
from the system must be kept unobstructed
or deplorahle COZ Sequences will follow. DR.
MoTr's VEGETABLE LIVER Pills. by restoring
the Bowels TO al active condition, act as 8
cleanser of all the bodily fluids Moreover
they render The digestive and assImilative or.
gaus vigorous, rouse the liver, and purify the
hillary secretion AS oathartic they are i'll
initely to be preferred to dangerous blue pill
Sold by Druggists.
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Fl. BALDWIN, OF Monroe CIV, lad, W ties
under date of Dec. Sd, 1877, thai ais wife used
DR.. Perce's Fayorite Prescription with won.
derful results. 1t Effected her entire cure
after several physicians had failed. The
many similar letters positively sffirming that
the Favorite Prescription had cured tue dis
eases and weaknesses peculiar to women, in
duced DIR. Pierce to sell it under guarantee
Ladies need no longer submit to useless and
and painful local treatment, as the Favorite
Prescription IS safe, sure, and speedy cure
Hundreds who had been bed-ridden for years
have been restored TO perfect health by its
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