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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
case,

The straight greenback state commit
tee Of Maine met Wednesday, about q
dozen members being present. including
Solon Chase. It was decided to organ
ize thoroughly for the next campaign by
. careful choice of town committees,
who will be instructed to arrange for .
school district campaign similar to the
one few years ago, which resulted in .
victory for the party. An address will
probably be submitted to the people,
and every effort made inside of the ranks
OF the ereenback party. A strong feel.
ing exists against fusion with any party
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

It seems that north Dakota is resting
on strata of very superior brick clay.
A sample Of the clay obtained from the
artesian we'll bore at Bismarck, says the
Tribune. about forty feet below the sur
face has been tested by a st. Louis
brickman. who says it will make as fine
pressed brick as can be made in st.
Louis. and which are worth in Chicago
$4,000 per Thousand.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

Gen. Grants new magazine article.
entitled "An Undeserved Stigma" con-
oisely reviows the case Of General Fitz
John Porter. giving the grounds for his
former belief in Porter's guilt. and his
recent conviction Of his entire innocence,
and appeals 70 the government and
country for prompt action in Porter's
hahalf.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

Sioux Falls Argus: M. Grigsby. pres
idant al the Dakota national bank re-
turnad from Washington Friday evening.
Ne reports his application approved by
ths department. The bonds are being
nerotiated for. A safe and Office fixtures
are purchased and it is expected that the
bank will be in full blast by January 1st.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

Company A. Seventeenth infantry.
Captain w. N. Van Horn commanding.
has been relieved from duty at Fort
Yates, Dakota, and ordered to take sta
tion at Fort A. Lincoln. Company B..
(Greens) Of tho Seventeenth. will pro-
ceed from Fort A. Lincoln to Fort Yates,
relieving company A at the last named
station.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
The Junketers.

Memphis, Nov. 1.-THE congressional
committee departed this morning at two
o'clock for New Orleans and they did not
inspect the harbor at this place.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

At the conclusion of the plaintiffs
testimony in the suit against Henry
Ward Beecher. growing out of his fail.
ure TO complete the second volume OF
The Life Of Cbrist, the counsel for
Beecher moved to dismiss the case upon
the ground that there was no date fixed
for the closing Of the contracts. Judge
Barrett held that the plaintiff had failed
to mako out case, but he would grant q
day for the production OF evidence to
show the limitation Of the contract.
Otherwise he would have to dismiss the
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

During the performance at the London
Globe theater Of Tennyson's new drama.
1.-THE Promise of May" the marquis of
Queensbury twice arose and protested
against Tenuyson's representation Of the
principles Of free thought, which he said
was . atravesty on the sentiments of free
thinkers. His remarks created q sensa-
tion. and the marquis left the theater.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
A Good Farm Of $40 Acres for Sale.

SITUATED on Turkey Creek II miles north
~ east of Yankton. This farm has 6s acres
under good cultivation, a good frame house
Also a new frame harm, For further informs
ton inquire At the MADISON HOUSE,
fankton, Dakota.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

the other, and is always participated in
by both parties. Possible the reds think
the millennium is near at hand and they
are getting in condition to welcome its
arrival.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

LID. Farmer has the best line
of DOlmans, Cl0aks and listers
I'm YanktOn.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
Wa ssfe1.

A glrl to do general house work. Ap.
ply to Mrs. E. ]. Anderson, first door
north Of Gov. Pennington's.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
A large line of Hosiery and
knit underwear at

Balls COrsets are warranted OF
money refunded. Go and and see
them at j. Max's.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17
Beware q, lmIta.ioes.

Dried beef at 20 cents per ID. at Chr
HAge's.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

Jacob Max has received q new
supply of fBall's COrscts.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-11-17

Beware Of limitations.
Tho delicate odor Of Floreston Cologne
10 entirely novel. Look for signature Of
Hiscox 1 Go, N. Y, ON each bottel.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
An Editors Business.

An editor is a mule whose bizness is
to investigate nuspaper. He writes
editorials, grinds out poetry, inserts
deaths and weddings, sorts manuscript,
keeps a waste basket, blows up tire
devil" steals matter, fites out other
peoprs battles, sells his paper for a
dollar and fifty cents a yea, takes
white beans andspple sass for pay when
he can get it, RACES a large fam, y,
works nineteen hours out of twenty
four, nose no Sunday, gets damned b.
everybody, lives poor, dies middle-aged
ard often broken-hearted, lie, YES no
mummy, is rewarded for a life of toll
by q short but free obituary puff in the
nuspapers.-Josh Billings.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
An Idyl OF the Red Maui.

Not many year ago where you now
sit encircled with all the destinations
of civilized life. such as draw poker.
third and fourth readers, pancake hats,
etc., the brawny brave looked undaunt-
eddy with his eye, and his buckskin
unmentionables Topped idly in the
wiud. But the restless waves of pale
face progress during the past few
fleeting years have driven the dusky
maiden and the plug hat chief afar, and
the same moon that once paled for
them now pales for you.
The council fires of the wild and dar-
ing, glare no more; the pipe of peace is
no longer passed, but in its stead-the
cigarette. Skin-tight pantaloons have
usurped the place Of brick. red bare legs,
and where the Indian once wooed his
dusky mate now roves the lah'de-lah.
Tomahawks an scalping knives we see
no more; the Ink thistles no longer
mods, and the wild fox does not dig his
hole unscared. Not much.
For all these things have passed
away.
The untutored sons of guns have left
their primeval forests and are drifting
towards the setting sun-God help the
sun. Where once Powhatan and his
daughter Pokahontas, trod the tangled
thickets Of the glade and roamed the
wild woods DER, where the tall pine
under whose shadows lurked the shad,
OF syed the deer. once reared their
stately heads, nov naught remains but
Advancing strides Of civilization and the
toy pistol manufsctory. John Smith
is yet With us tbs true, but not the
John Of yore. Ali no indeedy; he is
now driving a street car on the tArPOt
road.
Theresounding vAr-hOop ofthe Piute
or Digger Chief is hushed, and the
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

scattered remnants OF those once pow
erful tribes have mostly gone west to
grow up with the country or have de-
generated into the retail cigar business
In the place OF King Phi Hip, Tecumseh
and Daniel Boone, We have Shack
nasty Jim, Boston Charlie and joins A.
Logan, of illinois. Instead OF pur'
suing the painting deer, and threading
the forests wild with cat'like tread IN
ouest of food the Indian hunter now
sits in the sun, drinks Government
whisky and eats raw dog.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

boom in cotton seed, and mills for max
ing oil have sprung up all over inc
South.
After the oil has been extracted from
the seed the cake is ground into meal
and used extensively as concentrated
fertilizer, and is considered as such,
the best known, besides being the least
extensive. 1t forms an important
ingredient in the manufacture OF GER
tain commercial fertilizers, and the
cake as food for stock is highly consid'
cred, particularly in Europe. The oil
is regarded by tanners as entirely suit
able for leather, and when refined makes
one of the best lubricators for delicate
machinery. The most romantic portion
of the story is yet TO be told. Europe
an manufacturers had been using the
cotton seed for many years, to make
IAN oil which they sent back to Ameri-
ca, to be used by Americans us genuine
olive OIL" at the seeming low price OF
three to four dollars per gallon. For
tunately for our domestic economy the
preiudice which would naturally have
arisen against its uses was destroyed
under the false impression that we
we're using pure olive oil; since the
truth was discovered, the oil has been
adopted in large degree for culinary
purposes and found infinitely more
delicate, tasteless, and cleanlier than
lard. In addition to the above named
valuable properties contained in the
cotton seed, experiments have resulted
in the making of an excellent substitute
for butter from the oil. Indeed may
the South congratulate herself on soil
and climate which produces to perfec-
ton plant of such varied value as cot
ton; the lint makes clothing. and the
seed food for stock, manure for the soil,
delicious oil for the table use, and
cooking, and butter. Other invaluable
qualities may still remain to be develop
ed from the plant, though if not, the
ones already produced stamps 1t as
the "wonder of the world"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
The Woman Who Giggled.

II is a singular fact that some people
find il difficult to be serious and SOL
emn in churches and at funerals, and at
other places and occasions, when pro-
priety demands subdued expression
Of countenance. Mrs, Milo Stephens
an Austin lady, is just that kind OF a
person. Whenever she attends funer-
al, she gets giggling fit and brings
disgrace on herself and confusion on ev-
erybody. Not long since, accompanied
by her husband, Colonel Milo Stephens
she attended the last obseqeies OF a
prominent Texas official, having SOL
emily promised not to emit single
giggle until she got back home but she
was hardly in the house OF mourning
before she saw something to excite her
risibilities.
"For heavens sake, Mirandy, wait
until the funeral is over before you be-
gin your internal giggling."
"He he he!" giggled Mrs. Stephens.
"Think ofsomething serious. Think
of your uncle, whom Governor Roberts
refused to pardon out Of the penlten-
tiary.
The only response was partially
suppressed giggle, that attracted the
attention of nearly every body in the
room.
81 hope none of the children will 60
near the cistern while we are away, as 1
left the trap-door OPEN" whispered
poor Colonel Stephens in despair.
The only response was another sup
pressed spasm of laughter. Finally, a
happy thought struck Colonel Stephens.
He whispered in in her ear:
"The milliner on Austin avenue told
me to tell you that she could not get
your bonnet trimmed in time for you
to wear it Sunday"
The look of unutterable woe with
which she responded scared him. Dur
ing the rest of the funeral ceremonies
strangers who were present supposed
Mrs. Milo Stephens was the widow,
such an appropriately sad expression
was there on her countenance. She
even shed tears. T'eTas Sittings.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

GREAT interest is now taken by the
frequenters of Madison Square, New
York, in the performances of a bay
horse, Texas Jack, employed in shaving
the lawn. Jack is nominally under the
guidance of his owner and master, Pat.
rick Med ermott, but he really is quite
capable of doing the work unaided.
Being taken to plot, Jack will, with
out command or direction, drag the
machine carefully around the circum-
ference, avoiding trees and obstacles,
and then, after completing the circle,
step three feet nearer the center and
begin cutting new swath. He does
this with the utmost accuracy, gauging
the width of the cutter to a nicely. He
will proceed leisurely in this way until
the entire surface is shaven, and then
start for a new plot. Sometimes, in
occasional reaches for bunch of leaves
while passing tree, Jack will swerve
from his path far enough to leave a
strip four or five inches wide and say
eight feet long uncut. When his work
is finished. McDermott will point to
these imperfections, and Jack will at
once start for them and shave them
clean, laying his ears back, however, to
show that he does not like to have his
slight mistakes caviled at in public.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
Tarantula Prize-Fight.
Denver Tribune,

Many stories have been told of the
venomous nature and vicious habits Of
the Arizona tarantula, but Messrs.
Tammen g. Go. and few of their pa
irons recently saw an exhibition Of
the ugly creatures disposition which
shows that he is not afraid to battle
with his own kind on an equal ground.
Among their curiousities brought here
with the collection referred to were
two of these huge insects, both of which
we're full grown. One was of the brown
and the other of the black variety. The
brown fellow was Gagged in common
cigar-box and the black one in glass
jar. As they could not be exhibited to
advantage in contrivances of this kind,
and as they were not very pleasant
company to have running about loose,
box almost two feet square, with a
glass top, was procured, on the bottom
of which layer of sand was spread to
make the animals feel at home. The
cover was then drawn and both spiders
pitched into it from their separate
cages. No sooner did the one discover
the others presence than they rushed
at each other as viciously as two panth-
ers and Immediately closed in deadly
embrace. They came together with a
bound, and then twining their long,
hairy legs about each other rolled over
and over in the sand, biting each other
savagely and then tngging with all their
might. as if endcavoring to crush each
other by sheer muscular power. In
credible as it may seem, this sort of
warfare was kept up for six hours, dur
ing most of which time it could not be
seen that either was gaining the slight
est advantage, as neither showed any
sign or disposition to end the fight ex-
cept by the death of his adversary. At
last the black one succumbed and rolled
over dead on the sand, while the victor
Immediately proceeded to reap the
spoils of the long battle. Selling his
vanquished enemy in his stout horns
or pincers, or whatever continuance
he has for that purpose, he rapidly tore
him limb from limb and coolly proceed
ed, in true cannibalistic style, to make
a meal of him. In very short time
nothing was left except little pile of
legs and pieces of shells to mark the
spot where one tarantula had fallen and
another had dined. Many persons who
have passed the window within the past
two or three days have doubtless mis-
taken this little pile OF tarantula de-
bris for the real live animal, when a
closer inspection would have shown the
living vermin hidden away in one cor
ner of the box lazily digesting his
meal.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
Cotton Seed.
Southern Industries.

The following interesting facts are
taken from an article entitled Cotton
and the Coming Wonder" written by
Professor Stelle, and published in the
Southern CultiUator:
"Herodotus" astonished the reading
world two hundred years before Christ
by saying, There is plant in India
which produces wool finer and better
than that of sheep, and the natives
make their clothing of it." The people
did not believe the statement, but sup
pose that the author of 1t had gone
further and said the same plant yelled
ed the mutton OF the sheep as well as
the wool, then what? In this country,
before the war, cotton was extensively
grown, but only for the lint, the seed
being kept away from the livestock as
something palatsble, though injurious
to them. Scarcity Of food, however,
necessitated the farmers in many in
to allow their stock to eat the
seed; later on chemists analysed the
cotton seed and discovered the remark
able facts that they contained:
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
The Girls are Coed Enough.
Boomerang.

We have often noticed that the young
man who shrieks most frequently anu
shrilly for an improvement In the cnAi
acter of our women both mentally anu
physically is usually, little half clan is
spindle-shanked and lantern Is"Su
cuss, weighing about 100 pounds, wy
hasn't sense enough of his own 70 &C.
of the track when the cars are com ne.
Have no more such nonsense. liz
girls and women of to-day are a gre~
deal too coed for the deserts OF the ~
erage young man. When you hen
man groRling about the depreclaaol;oO..
the gentle sex, set him down as Hi-
compoop.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
THE MISSOURI OUTLAWS.
Governor CrIttsndon Tells What Has Become OF the
James Gang.


Cincinnati Enquirer
Governor T. Il. Crittendon, OF Mis-
souri,, was interviewed in Cincinnati on
Thursday last by reporter OF the hn'
quirer. The governor said: You
may say all the James gang are either
dead, in prison or under the control OF
the officials, with the exception OF
Frank James, for whose arrest and con-
yic,ien there is still a reward OF slO,'
600 offered. The Lewis brothers are In
Jail awaiting trial, and will certainly be
convicted. The Meyers gang are oil
dead or in the penitentiary: and the
Mason gang the Brookfeld bank-rob-
bers-were captured, tried and convict
ed, sentenced to twenty-five years
Imprisonment each, and placed in the
penitentiary in less than one week alter
the robbery of the bank"
The governor said he wished to I'M
press the reporter with the fact that all
these gangs were not Missourians, and
wanted the public to know the same.
He said that the Mason gang was from
Indiana, and was led by Frank Mason,
who once taught school near Terre
Haute, where he was well known; and
that the Meyers gang was from Illinois.
He thought these men had been at
tractcd to the state by the successful
raids of the James brothers, and the fact
that, Notwithstanding the amount OF
travel and traffic over and through the
state, they were afforded protection and
shelter by its comparatively unsettled
condition.
In answer to the question as to the
probable whereabouts of Frank James,
Governor Crittendon said that his
place of residence, if he had any, was
unknown, though he admitted having
received telegram some few days ago
to the effect that Frank was living in
one of the upper counties in this state.
He also said that, in his opinion, Frank
James was a much better man than
Jesse, and stated that he knew Of several
instances in which he had saved human
life at the risk of his own. Members OF
the gang relate that Frank had many
and frequent quarrels with Jesse on ac-
count of his reckless disregard for hu-
man life, and for long time he would
not forgive Jesse for shooting Express
Messenger Westfield in the Winton
train robbery, when it had been agreed
that no murder should be committed
unless absolutely necessary for their
safety. 1t will be remembered that West
field was shot down by Jesse in cold
blood while unresisting in order to show
his ac,omplices what would become of
them did they betray him.
The governor said that the mother
and wife of Frank James had called
upon him in Jefferson City, Missouri,
to see whether Frank would be allowed
to surrender and be free from the
charges against him. He answered
that he had no power to pardon before
conviction, but advised him to come in,
stand trial, and run the chances of be-
ing acquitted. He thought Frank
James was disposed to be quiet and
law-abiding citizen, and anticipates no
trouble whatever from him. He would
express no opinion as to the feeling
toward the Ford boys, who killed Je; sc
James, but declared the majority of the
people of the state were with him in
every move he made.
rnffN,, GaoI
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

IT's getting so the doctors can rebuild
8 man as easily as a carpenter can q
box. A Georgia doctor cut out a mans
diseased liver and put in a mules in
place Of it, and now the man is the
champion football player of that region.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

A BROOKLYN boy wrote a composlln:o.SS
on the subject Of the Quakers VI, VI,
he described as q sect who never -
relied, never got into a fight 80
clsved each other and never
back. The production contain J.
postscript in these words;
Quaker, but ma isn't.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21

NEARLY four hundred people COM
nitted suicide this year -en account Of
tho weather, and it didn't seem 10 i'm
prove the weather q particle.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
AMERICAN FABLES.
n0u The World Went Right Along.

How the World Went Right Along
A Bear who had made himself believe
that be had the worst luck OF any AMI
NAL in creation, crawling through the
woods one day when he met Serpent
whoinquired:
(which way now, my = iiendS'
81 am going to find some spot where
can retire from the World. The
World has not used me right, and in
revenge / will desert it,"
81 wouldn't do that"
"But will. can no longer trust
any body. / have been cheated, lied
10 and misused until l have no faith
left. | will now retire within myself,
and if any CONFUSION of nature takes
place the country must not blame me
for it. have borne all that one Bear
can be expected to put up with
Bruin went his way until he found a
lonely spot, and he then crawled into a
hole and began listening for the Crack
of Doom. 1t made him feel good to
think that the World was turning itself
bottom side up because he had absent
ed himself from sight and search, and
he was determined not to yield until
after several thousand terror. stricken
people had come to him with tears In
their eyes.
Much to Bruins surprise the night
passed like oil other nights. No one
appeared during the forenoon to plead
with him, and the afternoon passed
without IN Earthquake or Tornado.
He momentarily expected the advent
of crowed to plead with him to come
back to the World and have faith and
confidence, but the crowd didn't show
up. After long and hungry night
Bruin began to weaken. After much
argument with himself he crawled out
of his den and was sneaking through
the woods when he met Hare.
as the World yet standing?" asked
the Bear.
Certainly, never more solid since L
can remember"
"And is anyone searching for me?"
"Not that l know Of"
Everything goes on just the same,
eh?"
"Just the same"
"And didn't you hear that I had lost
all faith in human nature, and retired
from the World?"
"Never heard word of it. Tra-la,
old man, I'm off"
The Bear sat down on thistle and
thought the matter over for few min
utes, and then arose and made bee
line for his usual haunts, telling every
animal he met on the way that he had
been off on fishing excursion.
MORAL:
The cynic who fatters himself that
he is revenging on the world by with.
drawing from company forgets that he
will be obliged to associate with him.
Golf
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-21
MORAL :

The cynic who fatters himself that
he is revenging on the world by with
drawing from company forgets that he
will be obliged to associate with him.
self.