Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-01-21

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| VOLUME TX.
| VARIOUS TOPICS.
TEN years ago Z colony Of poor Swiss
settled in Tennessee. They have now Z
prosperous settlement and are far ahead
Of tho surrounding native poor white
trash In Ill the comforts Of civilized life.
UsLEss the address ON postal card
10 rendered illegible BY any portion Of
the message that may be written on the
face, such . card ID no longer, ~ once,
treated - unmailable; but of course
such . practice il not encouraged BY
postohics officials, and l. liable to cause
souis mistakA.
Il COna11n1lrAN COOK has proposed
lalatinn = coneres y mAke Il harder
- n : J. ,''s ~
imf6ftsd into this country, and .
taxof 90 on every pistol manufactured
here. This would put a quietus on the
cheap toy pistol, but we do not see what
this Georgia statesman's scheme would
effect. Every state has statute, more
or less severe, against carrying pistols,
yet the law is practically Z dead letter
everywhere.
AN act of congress makes it punish
able ofIense for the master of any vessel
arriving at an American port to land any
live animal not enumerated in the ships
manifest. A short time ago the captain
of q vessel arriving at New York landed
an English pug dog. He had no inten-
ton of violating any law, or perhaps he
thought the law would not take notice
of 80 trifing an animal a. q pug dog.
In this, however, he was mistaken, for
upon complaint of the custom officers he
was fined $4OO for the offense. The SEC
retary Of the treasury has authority to
remit fines imposed for violation of the
customs laws, and the captain applied to
him for remission of the fine. 1t being
made to appear that the captain did not
intend to violate the law nor insult the
peace and dignity of the United States,
the fine was remitted on condition OF
his paying twenty per cent. ad valorem
duty on the pug.
EVER since the year 1872, = tragic and
pathetic interest has been manifested in
the fate of Thedoaia Burr Allston. She
was the daughter of Aaron Burr, and
was probably the only person living that
the cold and heartless man ever really
loved. On the 30th of December, 1880
she sailed in the ship Patriot from
Charleston, South Carolina, for New
York, and was never heard of afterwards.
1t was known the ship she was in was
captured by pirates, and there has al
ways been the possible fear that she was
taken by them to some island Of the sea,
and prostituted to their uses. Now one
of the pirates has died, in q poor house in
. poor house in Michigan. and has con-
fessed the whole thing. He says all the
passengers in the ship Patriot were killed
BY being made to walk the plank. Mrs.
Aston was among them. She arrayed
herself In white and made the fatal walk
with . Bible in her hand without .
tremor. 1t was the dying sailor's lot to
pull the plank beneath her. Her face
haunted him ever afterward.
THHgloomiest view of England future
il taken in the Pail Mall Gazette. It
complains that the nation ahuts its eyes
to the fact that unframed levies have
ceased to count in modern warfare, and
experience goes to show that great masses
Of men skillfully handled are an absolute
necessity If any country is to hold its
own on land. With Germany, Austria,
France, italy, Russia, and even Spain
and Roumania armed to the teeth,
possessed al of them of system of
military. service which English states
men refuse to adopt or to find substi.
tuts for, the Britiah army holds = very
different position from what it did in
l84S, or even in 1860. Even the very
enumeration of forces show the differ
ence; for who twenty or thirty years ago
would have thought Of giving conaidera-
ton TO Italy or 6paini Yet to-day the
irst-named country il an element Of
disturbance the moro in an already
troubled medly; not the leM 70 because
she has worked hard to have powerful
feet, and at this moment, in conjunc-
tion with one other country, might oc.
casion England grave embarrassment for
! time. France and Italy hold power
on the Mediterranean ~ such - no
two powers have held in this century.
And It should never be forgotten that
the British navy h nowadays almost
purely experinsntal.
4 DECAY Of tempefance sentimentin In
New England h deplored BY the Spring
field Rep3baicda, which says that the
change for the woras within twenty-five
years 4 particularly married IN villages.
Montpelief, Vt, h illustrativsly do
sczihed: Thirty liquor prosecutions
have failed % secure : single conviction.
Yet tie evil Of intsmpsiance has gone
through that little town like destroying
angel, marking the Amt born for ruin,
With no check for half ! generation. II