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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
A Montana Post.

The post. office at Iron Rod Montana,
has been discontinued, and the explana-
tion is thus given by an officer of the de-
partment: "a post-office agent, while
officially visiting various offices in Mon.
tana territory for the purpose of correct,
ing any irregularities of postmasters,
stopped at Iron Rod. Going into the
post office he found the room divided in
to three sections-first saloon, next
the post-office, and last faro bank. The
mailbag was brought in, rough-look-
ing customer opened it, and emptied the
contents ON the floor. The entire crowd
at once got down on their hands and
commenced overhauling the letters,
among which several were registered,
and selected such as they wanted. After
they were through the remaining letters
were shoveled into a candle-box and
placed on the bar. The special agent,
thinking the Office needed little regu-
lating, asked the barkeeper, who had re-
ceived and distributed the mail, if he
was the postmaster. He answered, No.
Are you the assistant postmaster?
NO. Where is the postmaster? out
mining Where is the assistant post
master?' 'Gone to Hell's Canon; and
by thunder Bill Jones has got to run
this post-office next week; its. hissturn.
The government official then stated
who he was, and demanded the keys OF
the Office. The barkeeper coolly took
the candle-box from the bar, placed it
on the floor and gave it a kick, sending
it out of the door, saying, There's your
post-ofice, and now GIT The agent
says: Knowing the custom of the coun-
try, lost no time in following his ad-
vice, and got. This is why the post.
Office at Iron Rod was discontinued"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12

"hope springs eternal in the human
breast, and that every murderer's OBJ
stlnacy is due to lingering hope
of pardon or communication; but
this seems to be very made
quate explanation. In works Of fiction
We frequently read of pardons received
on the gallows, but seldom or never in
real life. The chance which any given
criminal possesses of getting one by OBJ
stinately denying his guilt after the
moose has been placed about his neck, is
80 miserably small that to suppose he
estimates 1t as of any importance COM
pared with the risk he runs, is to assume
an imbecility of reason which is in itself
as great a paradox as the one it processes
to explain. The only explanation at all
satisfactory is that the experiences of
the trial and subsequent solitary con-
finement are sufficient to upset the rea-
son of many men who undergo them; or,
in other words, that a large part of all
the criminals who go to the gallows do
so while partially insane. This is only
a hypothesis, it Is true, but if it does
not fit into all the facts of the case, we
know of none other that comes so near
doing it,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
A Great Fish Exhibition.
[FrOm the n. y. Times.


Preparations are active in England III
regard to the great International Fisher.
les Exhibition to be held in London in
the early part of 1883. Arrangements
have been completed to hold the exhIbi-
ton in the Gardens of the Royal Horti-
cultural Society. With the existing
buildings and such additional space as
will be covered, the total area provided
for will be some 22O,300 square feet.
A subcommittee has been appointed,
who will undertake the installing OF
aquaria and the necessary arrangements
for the piscicultural department. Hun
gary. Italy, Germany, France, Norway,
Sweden, Russia, the Netherl ands, and
South America will ali furnish exhib,
its. At the annual conference of the
International Meteorological Committee,
held at Copenhagen, it was determined
that representations of forecastirg the
weather should be forwarded. Among
the numerous prizes is one of G6O0 fOi
the best life-boat. An award OF EDO il
offered for the paper on the food of fish
in fresh and salt water, and the same
amount for the best essay on improved
facilities for the capture, economic trans.
mission, and distribution of fresh fish.
In this country the United States Fish
Commission are thoroughly occupied il
preparing their exhibits. Models OF
every variety of tishing-boat, whether
used on the Atlantic or Pacific coast, for
fresh or salt water fishing, are being
constructed. The collection of fishing
apparatus will be most exhaustive, be.
ginning with hand-line and concluding q
with the seines. Prof. G.. Brown Goode
and Capt. Collins, attached to the COM
mission, have made an extended trip
along the coast of New-England and have
been enabled to add some most interest.
ing and novel features to the exhibit. II
is believed that should the Albatross, the
steamer to be attached to the fish com.
mission, (now in process of construc,
ton, be sent to London, the exhibit made
by this country will be perfect in every
way. A great many private contribu,
tions will be made.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
OF INTEREST TO FOREIGNERS.

A question of citizenship Of wide in
terest to persons of foreign birth has
been decided by Justice Harlan in
Springfield, Ill. A young man named
Kellar was indicted for illegal voting on
the ground that he was not a naturalized
citizen of the United States. He was
born in Prussia, of which country his
parents were subjects. His father died
there in 1865, and subsequently the
mother with the son came to the United
States where, in 1868, she married
Michael Gaschka, naturalized citizen.
Young Kellar attained his majority in
May, 1880, and in the following Noyem-
ber, without having been naturalized or
having taken any steps toward natural
izstion, voted at the congressional elec-
tion in Illinois. The district attorney
claimed that no person of foreign birth
and parentage could become q citizen
entitled to vote until he had been natur-
allied in accordance with section 2,167
of the revised statutes, regulating the
naturalization Of foreign born minors.
Justice Harlan decides that such is not
the law. He finds other sections in the
revised statutes which have an important
bearing on the citizenship of foreign
born persons who come to this country.
He holds that the marriage of Mrs.
Kellar with naturalized citizen of the
United States conferred citizenship both
upon her and her minor son, and that
therefore the latter, on reaching the
requisite age, became entitled to vote
without being naturalized.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
IMPENITENT MURDERERs.

There is seldom Saturday, says the
Atlanta Californian, on which the
reader of the morning paper is not
greeted with the announcemc mt of one or
more hangings occurring the day before
in some part of the United States, and
by all odds the most remarkable feature
of these events is the number of men
who die protesting their innocence.
Last Saturday there was an account of
one of these obstinate criminals; not a
great many weeks ago, three out of five
murderers who were hanged in a single
day died with solemn affirmations of in
noeence upon their lips, and during the
last six months fully third of all who
have died upon the gallows have done SO
in the same way. There are about $50
legal hangings per year in the United
States, and of these quarter or third,
or to say forty or fifty, annually go to
their graves obstinately denying their
guilt and refusing to ask the pardon of
God and their fellow-men. This pre-
sents very curious psychological prob
lem. We may assume that the number
OF really innocent men hanged is infini-
tessimal Perhaps one out of thousand
or two thousand is victim of circum-
stances, and wholly innocent of crime.
Bearing in mind the leaning of both law
and juries to the side Of mercy, we can.
not estimate the average higher than the
figures we have given, and il this as
sumption is correct, practically all the
men who swear their innocence with
their last breath are only adding sec
ond crime to their first.
1t is marvellously strange that men
should wish to set out on.their journey
TO another world with crime as their
last act in this one. 1t is not needfuI 10
inquire into the theological opinions Of
the class OF men who commit capital Of
fences, for if some Of them disbelieve in
future retribution Though probably very
few OF them do). they must acknowledge
that it is an uncertainty into which they
are going, world "with clouds and
darkness resting upon it" and whatever
it may reveal or conceal, the very worst
preparation for it is wicked life in this
existence. 1t appears incredible that
this conviction shonld not force itself
deep into the mind of every felon wait
ing in the solitude of his cell for the ap-
proach Of his last hour--if his mind re-
mains in state in which reasoning is
possible. II 10 sometimes said that
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
NUMBER 20.

A wind which had lashed the waters of
the usually calm sea-lagoon caused them
anxiety. But they relied for protection
against the ocean waves on the coral
reef which encircled the island. Be-
sides, hurricane had not been known
for eighty years.
Suddenly the cyclone rolled upon the
isle and laid low every tree. Tumultu-
ous waves swept over the barrier-reef
and broke upon the shore with tremen.
duous force. Such was the pressure
that water was forced up through the
coral foundation. The light, sandy soil
became quicksand.
Over hundred persons, believing the
island would be submerged, took refuge
in their boats. All but one we're swept
out to sea and perished in the seething
waters.
Others fed to the highest ground and
clung to stumps of palm-trees. All
night long cataracts Of foam rushed over
them. They were dashed against rocks
and stumps, as the swirling waters car
ried them to and fro. When morning
broke the island was a wreck and its
shores strewn with the bodies of the
dead.
A white trader on another island,
alarmed at the fall of his barometer,
moved his goods to house built on the
highest elevation.
The natives laughed at his precaution.
! That night the sea swept over the coral
breakwater and almost covered the island
with roaring waves.
The next morning mass of broken
timber marked where one hundred and
fifty buildings had stood. The ceme-
teries were washed ont, and bones and
skulls were mixed with the corpses OF
the drowned. On the white traders re-
turn to his wrecked home, he was
greeted by two grim skulls which the
ironical waves had laid in his parlor.
In the group over two millions OF
cocoa palms were uprooted, twisted and
snapped by the rotating gale. The peo-
pie looked sadly on the fallen palms,
their principal means of subsistence,
and thought of the eight years which
would have to pass before the young
palms could bear their fruit.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
THE CAUCUS INvADEs ENGLAND.

According to writer in a recent issue
of the st. James Gazette, our cousins
across the sea have taken several notions
from us in political way, which he re-
CARDS as altogether unnecessary and un-
suited to the situation of affairs in that
country, and contrary to the spirit of
her institutions. One of these things
is the caucus, which he says has been
organized by the Birmingham party
managers. He considers the main OBJ
jects of the caucus to be two: one, to
keep up political interest in a popula-
ton among whom it constantly tends to
die out through tho minute subdivision
OF political power; the other, to main
tain vigilant watch on not too honest
political representative who is discharg-
ing his duties at a great distance from
his constituency. These objects, he
thinks, are fairly well attained by the
American political machine. In Eng
land he considers the caucus un-
necessary, because these objects do
not exist. He says there is rarely
or neN er reason to doubt the integ-
rity of the regular parliamentary repre-
sentative and that in England the eau
Gus becomes simple expedient for con-
trolling the more intelligent, the better
informed, and, on the whole, the more
honest, by the more ignorant, the more
stupidity tactious, and, on the whole, the
less upright. He says the secret ballot
is an open secret, that taxation in the
United States has become enormous,
and concludes that self-government on
this side the Atlantic is on the whole a
failure. He regards the adoption of
the "previous question " as one of the
rul-s of parliament in the light of a
great calamity, and laments tue loss of
prestige which England has lately suf-
fered from the American policy of at
tending to her own business and letting
her neighbors attend to theirs. Such a
jeremiad from one of the ultra conserva-
tive journals, says the New York Ex-
press, is instructive as we'll as amusing
reading. 1t indicates the drift of opinion
in that country toward freer constitu-
ton and reform of the rest of the
abuses and relics of past
age, 80 many of which Mr.. Gladstone
has, by his influence and power already
buried in oblivion. The world moves,
and Great Britain must move with it,
such journals as the Gazette to the coll
trary Notwithstanding.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
Olives in California.
tFrom the New York SUM-

Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara, the
leading olive grower of California, says
that he has trees eight years old that
have produced 1000 gallons of olives to
the acre. This would be equivalent to
220 gallons of oil to the acre, and the
oil finds ready market at SIS gallon.
The yield of one acre would thus be
81, $50, which for a hundred acre ranch
would be a pretty fair income. But
these figures are not represented to APP
ply to any except the very choicest trees
and an uncommonly good year. But
even computing the profits OF olive cul-
ture at as low figure as one-tenth, a
twenty acre ranch weuld support fami
ly very comfortably after six or seven
years of waiting. One of the great ad-
vantages of olive culture is the fact that
irrigation is not needed. In a climate
where there is always such a scarcity of
rain as in California, this is matter OF
much importance. The olive tree also
grows very old. There are trees in Asia
Minor that are known to be over Zoo
years old, and are still in full bearing.
In considering the profits of fruit culture
however, the dangers of insect pests,
disease and overproduction must be kept
in mind, and these are usually passed by
without mention in the glowing discrip-
tions Of Southern California
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
HALLWAY Wrecks.

A special engine ran into a wood train al
Bridgewell, Del. on the 7th INST, killing Ed
ward Webb and injuriug twelve train hands.
A freight train and wrecking train on the
Burlington and Cedar Rapids Railroad, collided
near Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 9th. Sixteen
cars and two engines were demolished. Loss
$4,000. No fatalities.
fiagman's negligence caused serious
smasl up at Linden Station, Pa, on the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad. brakeman was
killed and two other trainmen badly hurt. Al
Goldsboro, n. c., on the same day train was
derailed killing one man and injuring several.
A passenger train collided with COW near
Chambersturg, Pa, on the Sd inst. One
coach was thrown from the track aud nine pas
sengers injured.
A Asmasb-up was occssioned at Salem, Kansas,
on the Sd inst, in which two engineers, their
firemen and baggageman were killed. The
wreckage was consumed by fire and the bodies
Of the unfortunates were charred beyond rec
ognition. A green brakeman who caused the
accident surrendered himself.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
From ..ERypt.

A transport has gone TO Suez to embark the
Indian troops, aud the household cavalry will
Immediately be shipped for home. The khe-
dive will give medals TO tho British expedition
ary force, and the notables will present swords
TO Wolseley, Seymour and Lowe. All natives
suspected Of participation in the June massa-
cres are to be sent to Alexandria.
Arab objects TO being tried by a court-mar-
tial composed of Egyptians saying that he sur
rendered to the English. and not to his own
countrymen, from whom he expects no mercy.
II he had supposed his fate was to be decided
by any Egyptian tribunal he would have es-
capped instead Of surrendering. De Lesseps
shows his gratitude for favors received by tele-
graphing to the president OF tie court-martial
his testimony to the effect that Arab during
the war did his utmost to protect and maintain
the neutrality of the Suez Canal and that he
preserved the lives and protected the interests
Of several Europeans.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
LIABILITY FOR CERTIFIED CHECKS.

A recent decision of the court of ap-
peals settles, in New York, at least, a
point of the greatest practical interest to
the mercantile community, touching the
certification of checks. The question
grew out of check for $254 drawn by a
Chicago bank upon the New York Bank
ing Association. The check was pre-
sented for certifcation to the latter bank
and by it duly certified. Subsequently
it was "raised to $3.50 and then Of
fered to broker in payment of bonds.
Before accepting it the broker sent it TO
the bank which had certified it and in
quired whether that certifcation was
good. The teller replied in the afGma-
tive, whereupon the broker accepted the
check. When it was presented to the
bank the fraud was detected and pay
ment refused. The broker then sued
the bank, alleging that he had taken the
check relying upon the representation
of the teller that it was good. The
court of appeals holds that the bank is
liable only for the sum which it cert
fied-namely, $254-and not for the full
amount of the "raised check. This
liability, the court decides. was not
varied by the representation made by
the teller, who simply guaranteed that
the certificate was genuine but gave no
assurance that the check had not been
"raised."
This may be good law, says the New
York Herald, but it is a question
whether it does not make successful
practice of fraud easier. When check
is raised after certiication and is then
accepted by person without inquiry
at the bank the bank cannot reasonably
be held liable beyond the amount which
it certified. But the c3se is different
when the person to whom the raised
check is presented takes the precaution
OF inquiring at the bank as to its genu-
ineness and accepts it on the assurances
there received. In such case it is q
very easy matter for the bank to detect
the fraud. A reference to its books will
show the exact amount fCr which a
check is certified and at once disclose
the fact of its being raised" 1t would
seem to be but reasonable to expect a
bank, when asked whether a certitca
tion is good, to make this comparison
between the certified amount as shown
by its books and the amount appearing
on the face of the check.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
A Pacific Cyclone.

This year and last have been remark
able years for floods and cyclones The
disasters they have caused in several
states justify the use of those overworked
epithets, "horrible and "terrible. u
Thousands have realized as they never
did before that the tremendous forces oi
nature, which usually do mems bidding,
may, without moments warning, turn
and rend him.
The story of Pacific cyclone, which
occurred in 1873, strikingly illustrates
this fact. The cyclone was accompanied
by tidal wave, and swept over group
Of Islands in the south Pacific. The
center Of the cyclone was ct Ksukura, q
low, Aat island, whose highest elevation
was not fifteen feet above the sea.
All the inhabitants had assembled at
one place TO gather the cocoanut crop,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12

A hardware establishment on the Boulevard
Charonne, Paris, burned on the 8th inst, caus-
ing heavy loss. The chief OF the fire depart
ment was killed and several men injured.
/. fire in a five-story building on Mercer
Street, New York city, on the 9th inst, infiict-
ed damage to the amount Of Sl50,000. -Four
notion firms are the sufferers.
Bryson. Magne d Co.'S -four mill Lowell
vile, o.. together with J. b. Vassars residence,
burned on the 6th inst. Loss $4,000.
Most Of the business portion Of Warrington,
Fla, was laid in ashes on the 9th inst. Loss
about S45,000.
Fires on the 4th inst: Hawley & Sons sash
factory and McLaurens notion factory, Mon
treal, S45, 900; two railway elevators with con-
tents, at Beileville, Ont, $4,000; Watson's
iron works and Craighead Il Elwelrs Manu-
featuring Company's establishment, Bridgeport,
Conn.,, S55, 900; eleven houses at Anita, Ia,
500. .OO0.l
The jail at Fonda, New York, was set afre
by hardened young burglar named Cs5erty,
who secured some matches in tobacco, tore a
hole i'll the plaster, stuffed in straw, and gnited
it, Twenty-Five prisoners were safely removed
TO the court house, but the Jail was totally de-
stroyed. The incendiary has been placed in
irons to await trial for arson.
RAYMOND 4 kinsman's wholesale grocery
warehouse at Fargo, ID. T., was destroyed by
fire on the Sd inst. Loss $4,000.
Frost's Sons furniture factory, Towanda,
Pa, vanished in smoke ON the 81. Loss s45,-
600,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
The Flea.

This insect belongs to the genus pu-
lex. When flea gets ON your arm you
pulexciteIly at your sleeve. You are
anxious also for the insect to leave. The
flea has strong love for man, but he
manages to get over his attachment. He
is leper. In olden times they used to
drive the leper out of the synagogue.
When the flea gets on you, he sees sin
sgog in your heart. The fea is para
site. You have not to cross the ocean,
therefore. to see Paris sight. Fleas are
very plentiful. You remember that
Mary had little lamb who's feas were
white as snow. In ancient times, how
ever, the golden feas were very scarce,
and consequently much sought after.
There can be no doubt about the habi-
tant OF this social insect, for does not
the Bible speak of it as the fea, from
the wrath TO Gomez Aud again it is re-
ferred to as the wicked flea which no
man pursueth.' But we prefer not to
dwell on this subject. Neither do we
wish 10 have this subject dwell ON US.
We might ere long, have flea in our
ear should We not stop.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-12
Requisites for q Physician.

To be successful physician a woman
must be lady, a womanly woman. No
aping Of masculine habits, dress or
foibles will conduce to success. She
must have an affinity for the work, feel
at home in the sick room, with desire
and tact to relieve suffering, devoid of
any morbid sensibility at sight of pain,
offensive deformities, and ghastly in
juries and operations. She must be born
to command, firm in purpose and quick
to execute, at the some time have dignity
and self-control. Nothing must escape
her observation. She must be able to
reason from cause to effect, strong in
convictions, but slow to give an opinion.
She needs love for scientific research,
and the ability to apply herself to study.
DR.. Alice Stockhana.