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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-06
SPECIAL NOTICES.

DIAMONDS reset-Rings made over-Hair
- jewelry manufactured, by II. g. Clark d
Co., the jewellers.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-06
For Rent.

STONE dwelling house, with six rooms. cis-
- tern. shrubbery, large garden privilege.
Magnificent view of the city. Enquire Of
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-06
$3OO,OOO.-Five Years.
For Rent.

8 Good dwelling houses. ARP1y A% tR; RoRrRrs.
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She WouId Not Sign .

The car was entered by man with
book and pencil in his hand, who be-
gun taking vote Of the passengers
Some of them answered and some
didn't, and some did not exactly un'
de,stand what he wanted. When he
came to little old woman with her
lap full of parcels and bundles, she
called OUT
"There is four of us IN our family
and we are all grown up. Our chris
tan names are John Henry, Betsy
Ann, Melinda and Aaron, and that's al
the census you'll get out ofme."
Pm not taking the census, madam,
he explained. "I'm simply"
"You raise on your water-tax, II you
dare" she interrupted. "We'H dig a
we'll before We'll pay another cent"
~ am not the water-tax man; L am
canvassing this car"
"Well, you can't canvass me" she
snapped. "Pm bothered to death with
canvassers at the house, and | don'i
care what new tangled clothes-wringel
you've got-I won't SUBSCRIBED!
The passengers were all laughing
and he didn't want to give up his pur
pose
Madam" he began, shave you any
objection to-"
Il won't sign any Petition, if die
for III" she shouted: land il you dom
stop Fostering me III open this pack
age Of pepper and fill your eyes fol
you, and my husband will thrash you
to boot"
The man with the book gave it up
aud left the car.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20
New Orleans to the Sea- Big Puff for
the Jaties.
New Orleans Democrat.

Our local columns this morning con-
tain an elaborate and circumstantial ac-
count of visit paid to the jetties on
Thursday, and of the observations there
taken. The party to which we refer
did not go in a spirit of mere curiosity,
as may be inferred when we state that
one OF them was the general manager
and another the chief engineer of the
Texas Pacific railroad. Their object
was to see for themselves the condition
of the Mississippi rivers outlet to the
sea, and to form an estimate of the ca
pacity of this route for q great and
growing commerce. Although we
have grown used to the tremendous
change which has taken place IN this re-
spect. and by such slow degrees as to
mitigate the startling effect of its signifi-
canoe, it reads like fairy story to car
nv ourselves back five years, and, from
that standpoint, 10 contemplate the
perfected situation of to-day. At that
time New Orleans was almost an IN
land town. Although we had the finest
deep-water harbor in the world. and lay
| at the mouth of the river which, with
it's tributaries, drained an area as vast
as the continent of Europe, we were
virtually deprived of maj ority OF the
benefits by the fact that our outlet to
the sea was impracticable for the larger
class of vessels and dangerous and ex-
pensive for the medium. We could
not compete with the Atlantic ports,
notwithstanding our tremendous ma
tural advantages, because of the diff
culties and risks attending the naviga-
ton OF the passes. To-day we have a
permanent channel Of over thirty feet
n depth connecting the deep water OF
the rlver proper With the deep water of
the sea. Steamers pass TO and fro
without detention or dsnger OF deten-
ton, and without expense other than
that Of pilotage, which isincurred at all
ports and which all careful sbipmas-
tiers are willing to sustain. South
Pass, which five years ago was not nav
igabie for vessels drawing over six
feet, is now magnificent stream .0OC
feet In width. with central channel va
rying from 80 to 500 feet in width
| where twenty-six feet is the least depth
on the outer edges, and whore thirty
FIVE feet is the average Prevailing depth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20
A FRONTIER HERO.
Joe Rankin, the Famous Scout. Who
Saved 1h0rnburg'S Command.
Dan.

A Republican reporter last evening had
the pleasure CT meeting Joe Rankin,
the hero of the Thornburg massacre.
He was the plucky scout who made
himself famous by his wonderful ride of
765 miles in twenty-four hours through
the wilderness of Colorado, and thus
saved the gallant little command of
Major Thornburgh from the sclalping-
knives of the Utes. Mr.. Rankin, though
emphatically frontiersman, not hav-
ing been east of Denver until now for
ten years is quiet, unpretentious gen.
tleman entirely free from the rough
ness and swagger usually associated
with men of his life and habits, and as
Colonel Bracket very appropriately re-
marked to the reporter GAS modest as
lily" He is a native of Indiana
county, Pennsylvania, but has spent
most of his life upon the plains. He is
about 80 years OF age, has ruddy COM
plexion, wears a dark mustache, is
about medium height, solidly built,
with close-knit, hardy-looking ply
sique, and weighs about $50 pounds.
He is evidently a man of nerve, and
with powers of physical endurance
our business the gentleman demurfed
somewhat, saying he disliked news
paper notoriety, and begged us to ex-
cuse him. He was very courteous,
however, and gave us the details of his
famous exploit, which will doubtless be
recorded in history as the greatest
equestrian achievement of the nineteenth
century, as follows: He left the be-
leagured camp about midnight, and,
eluding the vigilance of the savage
horde which was thristing for his blood,
rode without a halt to Bear River, q
distance of forty-fve miles, reaching
there about day light. Here he halted,
perhaps fifteen minutes, for cup OF
coffee and fresh horse, and then rode
to Lieutenant Prices camp, some
twenty-five miles further on, where he
hastily swallowed a cold lunch while
another horse was saddled for him, and
was offagain like the wind. After q long
ride of sixty-five miles or Whereabouts,
he next drew up at Lambert's ranch for
bite and another change of horses,
and then, without a moment OF rest,
comprised the thirty miles which Jay
between him and Rawlins. Three men
started with him, but, though accustom-
ed to the fatigue of the saddle, they
| proved unable to endure the terrible
strain. and Mr. Rankin went into Raw
Inns alone. He changed horses with
one of his companions before leaving
hisn, his, own animal showing signs OF
weakness, thus using four horses in all.
We should like to obtain further details
of this gallant feat and the exciting
events with which it is SO intimately
connected. Mr.. Rankin will remain in
the city, at tne Metropolitan probably
until Wednesday next.
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Death Of Onca Noted Irish Journalist.

The last foreign mail makes mention
of the death of once celebrated jour
nalist, Thomas Sheehan, in the 93d
year of his age. Thomas Sheehan and
Benjamin, his brother, were educated
for the priesthood at the Roman CItho-
lie College at Maynooth, but, abjuring
their religion, they started in 1920 a pa
pei in the extreme Protestant interest,
called the Dublin EreniDg Mail, publish
ed every second evening, and conduct
ed it with so much ability and enterprise
that it soon became the accepted organ
of the Tory and Orange party in Ire
land, and grew into a most valuable
property, yielding some $40, 600 year.
The two brothers, who were bachelors,
erected O handsome residence IN Dub
lin, where they dispensed a magniti
cert hospitality, enlivened by their
great anecdotsl humor and racy Irish
wit. Benjamin died IN 1S49, and Tom
sold his Interest in the paper,which still
tiourishes, in 1856 Tom would seem to
have returned to the ancient faith, as
the funeral services were read by rel
alive, distinguished Catholic priest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20
An Afghan Story.
Afghan Letter in London Times.

In the Village of Gandsmak there
lives Mohammedan mollah, or clergy
man, named Said Mir, to whose house
there came from the neighboring VII
lage of Petta one Kadir, potter. The
reverend gentleman supplied his guests
with dried mulberries, the only food at
that hour available in the house, after
which the pair sat down on the terrace
below the pomegranate grove, which
overhangs the stream, to smoke and
talk. Said the potter to the mollah: Il
have in my house a daughter who is
beautiful and of manageable age; II
could suitably dispose OF her | should
have room in my establishment for an
other wife. Brother potter" replied
the mollah, 81 can well feel for you. ]
have myself daughter whose face Is
like the moon, whose lips are like the
seed of the pomegranate, whose hair
is like tangled snakes; but what avail
eth all this beauty? Wives are certainly
more useful than daughters" And SC
the two old reprobates talked the mat
ter over, till at last is was agreed that
they should change daughters; and in
due time the mollah married the
potter's daughter and the potter mar
ried the mollah's daughter.
Now, the potter's daughter had mol
been brought up with a proper sense oil
propriety, and soon after her wedding
began TO make eyes at the young mel
of Gandamak in a manner most I'M
becoming to the wife Of a clergyman
the mollah perceiying this cut eli hei
nose and ears and sent her back to hei
! father with an intimation that he
punished her, and that he had no fur
ther use for her. The potter in getting
/ his daughter back mutilatec
/ in this horrid way was sorely distressed
He argued thEs: IF the girl goes abou
/ The village in this state the neighbor:
will never cease to twlt me about her
and | shall be known as the father o.
| the noseiess girl. Such shame is not I,
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of the middle. This channel, also, has
projected itself beyond the jetties, for
at distance of 500 feet outside the
sea. wells there is well.defined chan
mel, 1000 feet in width, with depth
of twenty-six feet on the edges and of
thirty-two and thirty-seyen feet in the
centre.
And now this miraculous change,
this conversion of a wretehed lagoon
into broad, swift thoroughfare of COM
merce has been rought in five yearsl
During that interval New Orleans has
become formidable competitor of
New York. With net work of river
routes reaching from the eastern slope
of the Rocky Mountains 10 the western
slope of the Alleghenies, and from the
Canadian line to the Gulf of Mexico, all
paying tribute to the common route,
with land-locked harbor in which the
navies of the world can ride, and with
permanent deep-water outlet TO the
sea. New Orleans has bounded from a
fourth-rate port OF entry into the front
rank of commercial depoh! No Won
der that great railway and transporta-
ton corporations seeking cheap and
practicable access to tl.e seas are turn
ing their eyes toward New Orleans and
the Mississippi delta. No wonder that,
whereas five years ago it was impossi-
BILE TO have Texas railroad built,
there is nov an enormous volume of
capital ready to seek that investment,
and the long-neglected New Orleans
bids fair to become the object of jeal-
Gus and eager rivalry. We are, indeed.
on the threshold Of new era of de-
velopmeat and progress. The outlet
OF the great Mississippi has demon
strated its capacity to meet all the de-
mauds of commerce, and the transcon-
tinental stream of traffic is about to
follow the laws of economy and turn its
rich volume southwark into the males
tic channel which nature fashioned for
-
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The wor'a's Dispensary at Buffalo, \; T., i
great tnsGitetion, having its auxiliary tnyaltds'
Gott,l for accommodation Of patients, costing its
founder nesflY half million Of dollars, ana Us
branch In london. England, of similar proper
tjo4-s where Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoy-
cry Pleasaas Purgatiye Pellets and other remedies
are manufactured for the foreign trsde which s1
tsns countfses. All this Monmouth business has
baen organized, systemized and butt up ~ Dr.
- " pgsrr no has associated with himself as a
isse,,ltv rfrgsar the name Of the Worlds Dispen-
go NadicaE Association. q most competent stsn
- !: h,-ssris~l. and surgeons who annually treat
- 49, thonszints or cases Of chronic diseases. not
~ set lot Of remedies but by nsing
III ss,,rb sssiiic remedies az have, In large expe-
r5s,sre heegs fornd most effcaefous. Besides or
seTtT5nc snll directing this namnnoutn business
81 EsoTlf;rie3e proportions, DR.. Pierce has foana
tsva - W.; u svorl On domestic medlcsue--enti-
tYa'f ssI,e psl.,rIs,s Common sense Medical Al
yise-s,f- gsss psces SO Illustrations eeliing y
Fl "a and $50 Is serve q term IS Stsis senator
and fafer as4senber Of Congress. Surely ne mlsA
~ eorapeferk III he were 80 take the lecture pl ~
fortsl 10 discourse np0n 81 the recoilecttois ~
busy life. '- fatioaas Rfpaeticafa-
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A Rem lrkable Resurrection story,
Special from Frankllnton

The following remarkable story is
published in the local paper of this
place this evening: Mrs. Martha
Smith, of Chatham, reports remarka-
BILE case of suspended animation, burial
and resurrection. A married lady of
that county possessed a gold watch and
finger rings. which she often expressed
q desire to have buried with her when
ever she was dead. Finally she was
taken i'll, and life seemed to gradually
ebb away until her attending physician
pronounced it extinct. At her burial
her previously expressed desire was
complied with, and the second night af-
ter her iuterment white man and ne
gro went to the grave and exhumed
her for the purpose of obtaining her
jewelry. AS they took the lid off the
coffin and the darby began pulling of
the ring from her finger, she raised up.
At this both men took fright and ran
away. Finally the negro went back.
She asked him what he wanted. He
told her he wanted her ring and the
whiteman her watch. She requested
to see the whiteman, whom the darky
soon found and brought to her. She
requested them to, go home with her.
They did so, and, reaching the door,
she knocked. Her husband opened
the door, but tainted when he saw her,
thinking 1t was his dead wife's ghost.
Mrs. Smith says the lady is now living,
and bids fair to attain a good old age.
and that she visits and is visited by hel
frequently.
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be thought Of" So he killed her. Hav-
ing killed his daughter the potter was
stung with pangs OF remorse. He
thought to himself. "The moilah was
a great brute, and will be avenged on
him." 50 he called his wife and said:
"Your father cut off my daughters nose
and ears and forced me to kill her.
Now. must have revenge, so | shall
cut of your nose and ears and send you
back to him." "On hearing this the
lady began to cry, and begged for a
few days grace. Every well" said the
potter, II will give you till tomorrow"
1t was IL o'clock at night and the
potter had fallen into his first deep
sleep, when his wife rose noiselessiy
and crept out of the cottage into the
dark, cold night. She had seen the
tents of the Fernigs, the Caffres, and
she would go to them for protection
Well she knew that if she went to her
father he would kill her to avoid a blood
feud with her husband; if she went
to the native officials they would take
no interest in her fate, and would re-
turn her to her husband with as little
conjunction as they would return a
stray heifer to the butcher. There was
nothing for her but to go to the Fernigs.
1t was a long and difficult strip of coun-
try to traverse, but fear lent her strength
and speed. She sped miles across the
Ishpan plain, she plunged without hes
itation into the icy ford across the
Turkab, she climbed with painful effort
and with hard drawn breath the rugged
steep above Sarandu, she fled with
stumbling steps the winding the British
camp at Penwah, she crawled past the
sentry. she glided into the nearest tent,
the morn was beginning to dawn, and
81 was safe. Do you know Fitzgerald?
1t was his tent. He took her 20 Bail
Acton, who commands at Pezwah, and
Col. Acton wired to Gen. Arbuthnot at
Gandamak, and Gen. Arbuthnot made
arrangements for the young woman's
safety. | do not know what will be
done with her, but she has saved her
nose and ears for the present.
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Sqnibs.

The darkest horse is just before the
convention.
A Dartmouth college Pinafore com
pany is travelling in New Hampshire.
In franklin county, Texas, horses
are killed by buffalo gnats.
OF course the Grant party took in a
Little Rock and Rye.
King Theebau's mother-inlaw tried
to poison him recently. Now she
sleeps in tue valley.
A Minnesota farmer raised last year
seven hundred bushels OF clover seed
and is now selling it at S. per bushel.
English papers are now using the
word BOOM" After while it will
get into the dictionary.
We are told that "Gen. Sherman was
always coolest when on the point of at
tack" Most people are hottest when
on the point OF tack.
We hear of man who has made a
fortune by attending to his own bust
nessl This is authentic. But then he
had few competitors.
"Silence is golden" Aunt-"Has
any one been at these preserves? dead
silence.) Have you touched them,
Jemmy?' Jemmy-"Pa never lows
me to talk at dinner?'
A St. Louis rich man drew up will
which was so pathetically worded that
it moved all his relatives to tears. 1t
left all his property to an orphan asy-
lum.
A distressing affair occurred in Louis
vile recently. A gentleman in duel,
at the word fire, shot and severely
wounded his foe. The melancholy oc-
currence was, however, wholly acct
dental, and the seconds and surgeons
exonerate him from any blame in the
matter.
A bold, bad man of Kokomo, recent
~ broke up church 5ociable at which
conundrums were being given, by ask
ing why women were like flowers. and
then, after everybody had given it up,
replying that they shut up when they
sleep.
''See here" said fault finding hus-
band, eve must have things arranged
in this house SO that we shall know just
where everything is kept" "With all
my heart" sweetly answered his wife;
"and let us begin with your late hours,
my love. / should dearly love to know
where they are kept" He left things
run on as usual.
The girl puzzle is the latest. 1t con-
sists in putting an average girl in front
of the ribbon counter of dry goods
store, and having her find the particu-
lar shade she is after. Since dry goods
stores were invented, innumerable wo-
men have purchased countless ribbons,
but that one one of them ever admitted
getting just what SD was after is not
recorded.
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THE BABYS CHRISTENING,
BY EMILY HUNrIEGLox MILLER.

BY EMILY HUNTIEGLON MILLER.
Sweetheart thou hast no NAME
Only such tender words as love can frame:
Christened anew with kisses every hour
Our pearl, our dove, cur fiowerl
So we have come to-day
name ia blessing on thy brow 10 lay,
Wreathing the font with buds Of pa,est dyes
And violets, like thine eyes.
o child we cannot see
All that the coming year may bring to thee:
II on thy path the dews drop cool and sweet,
Or stones shall brHise thy feet
And II our love could choose
Lies sweetest gifts, and all it's III refuse,
Pefchance the treasures We should deem the be-
Would fill thee with unrest
So we, who love thee, dear,
Lift empty hands to One who waiteth near.
Praying, "In all our liyes, Thy will be done:
Bless Thou the little one ~
-ChristiaH Union.
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DURING the course of some excava-
tons and dwellings which have been
carried out within the historic lines OF
Plevna by the Bulgarian government
sixteen cannon and ten thousand mus
kets have been found, which Oman
Pasha caused to be buried before he
surrendered to the Russians.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20
"Reminiscences of Early RailrOading,

"Reminiscences of Early RailrOading.
Mr.. J. III. Jackman in recent letter
shows that in the matter of speed loco
motive engines Of to-day are not great
~ superior to those of earlier times.
He says: "In 1849 Ross Winans, Of
Baltimore, built locomotive for the
Boston and Worcester railroad. 1t had
a seven-foot driving wheel, and was in
tended for very high speed. 1t had
steefsprings to support the weight, and
and was fitted with many new devices.
| was sent to Baltimore to look after
the instruction and delivery of this To-
connective, and also to study the matter
of coal burning. which was new thing
on roads in New England at that time.
| ran the engine for about six weeks,
and should have run her longer but
from the fact of her driving-wheels
breaking. They were made entirely OF
cast iron, with chilled faces. These
broken drivers were replaced with inn
ported wrought IRON wheels, the
first of the kind ever imported. The
locomotive was named the Carroll OF
Carrollton. It's speed under favorable
circumstances was one mile 10 sixty
seconds, the fastest ever ran it; the
trial was not accurately noted, | having
enough to do to attend the machine,
and those with me were too much fus-
tered with the excitement to accurately
note anything. / have travelled many
thousand miles on locomotives since
that day in order to test speed: and while
have seen some high speed made,
still | have never seen the locomotive
that could lay right down to it and out
run the Carroll of Carrollton.' In
those days We had no power brakes,
and to run at such high rates of speed
sometimes became dangerous. l re-
member one instance in the night time
of rounding curve at about sixty miles
an hour, when danger signal met my
view; 1 shut off steam and whistled
down brakes, but they did not
seem to check me. | whistled
again. Still the speed kept up.
| gave the third signal for brakes, and
then reversed my engine, saying to her:
DO your duty, my beauty, or in twenty
seconds it is good-by to railroading
We came to stand still eighty rods
from train on the main track, having
run one mile and quarter from the
place where first discovered the red
| light"
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Low Prices for Butter.

The New York Tribune In its market report, ex-
planned why some butter is sold for such low
prices. In speaking of butter It said eight col,
lots were thought well sold at 8 to 10 cents" II
butter makers would get the top price, they should
Richardson & Co, Burlington,Vt. Itgives pure
dandelion color and never turns red rancid, but
tends TO improve and preserve the butter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20

A LARGE society of married men IS
organized against high-heeled SHOES for
women. Husbands think that high
heels have tendency 10 keep their wives
hacks up.
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A Losing Iake.

prominent physician Of Pittsburgh said lok.
lppjy 10 Iady patient who was complaining OF
her continued IN health, and OF his inability 70
cure her, "try Hop Bittersi" The lady TOOK u u
earnest and used the Bitters, from " hich abs OBJ
tanned permanent health. She now laughs o. the
doctor Tor his Joke, but he IL not 50 wen pleased
with il, As il cost him good pstieut.-H0rrssoRTe
Patriot
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Er0m Hell TO HAaIen.

Sometimes the pains OF disease are so great that
1t seems as If they could not be borne, and some
times the minor pains worry men and women into
the grave by preventing rest and sleep. Then the
soothing influence of Warmers Safe Nervine 10
like translation from he'll to heaven.