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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

The Burlington Hawkeye publishes Of
fclal returns of the state on the amend
ment election. The figures are furnished
by the various county auditors and are
reliable except Calhoun county. The to.
tai vote cast was 2eO,264; for the amend
ment, l54,85l; against, 125,4l3; majority
for the amendment, 29,43S.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
All Quiet.

Chicago, July 1l-Everything is quiet
at the mills of the Calumet iron and
steel works this morning although large
crowds are gathered around the depot
awaiting the arrival of trains. Prepara-
tions are beng made to start up three of
the sixteen furnaces, with non.union
men,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
A Big Wind Storm.

Hastings, Neb., July l1.-A severe hail
storm in this vicinity early this mo ming
broke all the glass in the north windows
and injured crops and fruits considera-
bly, within its limited circuit. 1t
unroofed the depot and elevator
at Glcnville and overturned the school
house. A strong wind prevailed for a
time and the elevator at Kenesaw' was
considerably racked,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
mill at Kasson burned. Loss, $4,000;
partly insured. Incendiary.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Washington, July 1.-THE conference
in the bank charter extension bill was
agreed to.
Mr.. Morrill,, from the finance commit
tee, reported favorably on the senate bill
repeating SO much OF section 1885, re-
vised statutes, as imposes charge upon
export stamps on tobacco. Calendar.
Mr.. Groome, from the committee on
pensions, reported bill to prevent pay.
ing double pension.
HOUSE.
Washington, July 1.-THE house
went into committee on sunday civil
bills.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
War Claims.

st. Louis, July 1l-Gov. Crittenden
has been notified that the United States
government is ready to pay over to the
states agent in New York S25O.OOO for
militia war claims. Senator John T.
Hurd, the state agent, will receive about
Sl1 1000, as commission under the law
providing for his appointment.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
Archery

Chicago, July 1.-THE National arch
cry tournament began this morning at
Lincoln park. Forty-eight ladies and q
large number of gentlemen participated.
Miss Morrison, of Cottage Hill, Cincin.
natl, won the highest honors at the sixty
yard range.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

Washington, July IL The weather in
dications for the upper Mississippi valley
are: Fair weather with westerly winds,
stationary or lower barometer, higher
pressure. Missouri valley, fair weather.
westerly winds. stationary or lower tenn
Derature
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

The latest report from the Crows is
that the cattle killing continues and
hunting parties are destroying wheat
fields in northern Wyoming. The re-
port that the settlers killed three Crows
lacks confirmation. It is feared another
Indian war will be inaugurated.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

Tue population OF Kansas increased
from March l. 1881. to March /, 1882,
but 26,95S instead of 100000, as has been
stated by Gov. St John. Those who do
not believe in the policy ofprohibition
claim that the small increase is caused
by the prohibition law keeping for
eigners from going into the State.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

The contract for building the Dakota
university ut Vermillion will be let on
Monday. The building will be of Sioux
Falls stone. with cut stone trimmings.
A $4,000 town school-house will also be
built at Vermillion. 1t will be of brick
with stone trimmings.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

Chicago, July Commissioner
Mudgley, Of the Southwestern Railway
association, announces that, commencing
August lst, freight rates for grain from
the Missouri river points will be ad.
vanced five cents per hundred pounds.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
To.Day's Crime Record,

Ao.Oay . OIIIHe 1seCVTu.
Cincinatti, July la Parkersville,
Kentucky, special says that John Pow
sic yesterday shot and killed his nephew,
John Lamb. Powsie and Lamb had
quarreled and the former ordered the
latter to leave his premises, when Lamb
cooked rifle he had in his hands. Pow.
sic fired Immediately with fatal effect.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
Freight Handlers

New York, July 11-No change in the
condition of the freight handlers strike.
Companies declare they are dispatching
freight received almost as fast as former
ly and the new hands are rapidly becom.
ing skilled in all work.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

The Chicago lumber exchange has
made general reduction in prices. The
comparison shows that tho reductions
made by the lumber exchange this after
noon are about one dollar per thousand
on lumber and fifteen to fifty cents on
ahinples
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
I,cr.,,t no subsft,,,,tou,

Insist upon obtaining Floreston
Cologne. II is pre.eminently superior
in pcrinanence and rich delicacy Of
fragrance.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
Obituary.

Boston, July 11-Rev. Henry Giles, a
we'll known writer, lecturer and preacher
died at HYDE Park yesterday. BE was
born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1900.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

The Bismarck Tribune makes this sen.
sible suggestion: Now that farmers
have no more need for their seeders,
harrows, plows, ETC., this season, they
should see to it that all such implements
are protected from the weather. More
harm is done to machinery as whole,
by leaving it exposed to the elements,
than ali the wear and tear of years of
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
SpOrtinl

Sporting.
Saratoga, July 1l-First race, e mile,
Saunterer won; Follow Play, I'd; Gu,
Matthew, Sd. Time, :O6ss.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

Chicago, July ia Rochester, Minn.,
special says, 8. H. Daniels steam -four
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

Chicago Inter- Ocean: No other coun-
try on the globe has such prosperity and
credit as the United States. Its 5OOOO,-
600 of people in millions of happy
homes attest the wise management of
its public affairs by the republican party.
They will hesitate before turning it over
to any new or any old party to expert
ment with. There is no better maxim to
guide us in public affairs than the ''let
we'll enough Alone"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11

WHEAT-Unsettled, No. red. July. S1.31A6
.S2si; Aug; S1.102s Sept. S1.Sg1.275i; year,
Sl.25s.@s1.6l..
CoRN-Less Active. lower; Mixed western
spot. s6GSs; futures, s3Gss.
OATs-Better, Western. 61s@6s; No. Q, Aug.
Ponk-Dull: new, $3.50; old s2l5o.
LARD-Sl3.35.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-11
CHICAGO.

Chicago, July IL.
WHEAT-Winter higher. S1.2O cash; spring
Steady Sl;s21s cash; $l.l4 Aug; regular, lower
Sl:l5i4 July: Sl.1lis Aug; 81. .lOl: Sept.
sos year.
oOATs--steady, So cash; 5s,4 July; 42.l Aug
399s Sept.
RYE-75.
BARLEY-Nominal
WHIsKY-S1.l6.
PoRK-Lower; s221o cash July; s22l5 Aug
22.32ts Sept; S22.45 Oct.
, LARD.Wea. lower; Sl2.25 cash, Aug; $12.2 4
Sept; S12.92H Oct.
Hog Receipts 600; active, steady; shad.
mixed packing, S775lls. 10; heavy, Ss5oIS9.0O.
Cattle Recepts-5.3OO; natives stronger; .x
ports $7.Ngs.25; good to choice shipping. $40
oslo common to fair, S. 5o@6.40; Butchers
0$56O.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
The Singing Tree.

Though the tropical scrubs of
Queensland are very luxuriant and
beautiful they are not without their
dangerous drawbacks, for there is one
plant growing in them that is really
deadly in it's Effects. e., deadly in
the same way that one would apply the
term fire; as if certain proportion of
ones body is burnt by the stingingt rec,
death will be the result. 1t would be
as safe to pass through fire as to fall
into one of these trees. They grow
from three inches to ten and fifteen
feet; in the old ones the stem is whit
ish, and red berries usually grow on the
top. It emits peculiar and disagreea-
BILE smell but it is best known by its
leaf, which is nearly round, having a
point on the top, and is jagged all
around the edge, like the nettle. All
the leaves are large, some larger than a
saucer.
Sometimes" says a traveller, while
shooting turkey in the scrubs l have
entirely forgotten the singing tree till
warned of its close proximity by its
smell and have then found myself in
little forest of them. 1 was once
stung, and that but lightly. It's effects.
are curious. 1t leaves no mark, but the
pain is maddening, and for months at
terward the part which is touched is
tender in rainy weather, or when it is
wetted in washing. [ have seen man
who treats ordinary pain lightly, roll
on the ground in agony after being
stung; and I have known a horse so
completely mad after getting into a
grove of the trees that he rushed open
mouthed at every one who approached
him, and had to be shot in the scrub.
Dogs when stung will rush about,
whining piteously, biting pieces from
the affected part"
The small singing trees, few inches
high, are as dangerous as any, being
hard to see, and seriously inperiling
ones ankles. The scrub is usually
found growing among palm trees -
Exchange.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
Texas and st. Louis Road.

Tyler Daily Courier: The Texas
and st. Louis Narrow-gauge Railroad
is gaining every day. 1t is growing
more important and more powerful
each day, and it will not be in the far
off future when it will be considered
one of the main lines for Texas and to
many points the most important. The
directors and officers are doing every
thing in their power to make it sue,
cess, and they are by no means meeting
with Disappointment in any particular.
In few months Tyler will have con-
lection with st. Louis by this line.
1t is also being extended beyond Waco
at rapid rate. The road is in good
condition, and it is extending accom-
modations to the public equal with any
other road in the State. Daily passen-
ger and express trains run from Tex
arkana to Waco, and the coaches are
first class. They are now running par
lor coaches,a and we are glad to notice that
the several coaches are not being pulled
over the road without passengers.
Besides gettinga good passenger GUS
tom, it is also doing good freighting
business. We mark the success of this
road with pleasure.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
The Good Husband.
Wall Street News.

Some weeks ago the wife of Phila.
derphia broker asked her husband to
give her $1,000 on which to speculate,
and like the good man he is, he com
piled. In day or two opportunity Of
fered to buy some county railroad
bonds at very low figures, and she in
vested. When he came home that
night she remarked:
George, it seems as if I remember
of your having some Blank county
railroad bonds.
Eyes, I did"
"Just a thousand dollars worth,
wasn't it?"
Exactly"
"And you sold themP"
@Yes; to-day"
what are they worth?'
about 10 per cent"
What" she shrieked. @Why, l
bought those very bonds and paid 50
for theml"
aJust SO, DAZZLING, Just sol You wan
ted to speculate; knew you would get
bitten. / therefore arranged il to
cover the most of that thousand back
into my wallet"
But, sir"
BE calm, Maria, be calm. II you
lose your temper that way you'll never
have any luck buying on an excited
market. You ought TO be proud of q
husband who can take in seven or eight
hundred dollars on little speculation
like that"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
What is Whiskey Bringing.

"What is whisky bringing?" asked a
dealer in that article one day. He
ment to ask, how much it was selling
for.
A gentleman who heard the remark
took it in an entirely different sense
from that.
"What is whisky bringing? do you
ask. I'll tell you: It is bringing men
to prison and to the gallows, and i'll is
bringing women and children to poverty
and want.
There never was a truer answer than
this.
II is estimated. that it sends to prison
every year one hundred thousand men
and women.
Twenty thousand children are sent to
the work house annually by drink.
Three hundred murders are caused py
intempersnce every year.
Two lnudred thousand children are
made orvnans every year, by this dread
full evil; and sixty-fve thousand are
killed by intemperance every year In
this country. -,
Does it seem possible that man Will
deal out to his brother such poisonous
stuff, when he knows that it Will prove
mis- ruin.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
The Suez Highway.


That the Suez canal is in any particu-
lar danger OF destruction at the hand of
Arab Pasha seems improbable. II is
very easy to defend. The canal for
almost its entire length runs through
either marshy lakes or an extremely
low and flat region. A few gunboats
stationed in the canal could very readily
command the approaches and sweep
with their fire the country over which
al enemy would be compelled to i'd
vance for distance Of several miles.
AT only three points does the canal run
between banks so high as to impede
the fire of the gunboats, and at those
points small force with artillery could
easily defend it. Nevertheless, the
canal is completely at the mercy of
the Egyptians. The entire fresh wa.
ter supply is brought by canal from
the Nile, at point called Zagaziz,
nearly half way from Ismailia, the
principal town on the ship canal, to
Cairo. From Ismailia the fresh water
canal follows the ship canal to Suez,
and double line of pipes convey wa
ter along to the various stations to the
north-ward, and to the city of Port
Said. This is absolutely the only
source from which fresh water can be
obtained to supply the places along the
entire lenght of the canal, except by
the process of condensation, which is
tedious and expensive, and which could
not be carried to an extent sufficient to
supply all the cities and towns of the
region, much less large army. In fact
the water supply of the most of Lower
Egypt has to be brought sby camels
from the Nile at point beyond the
reach of the tides, and the telegraph
reports that Arab has already begun
to cut it off. Zagazig must be within
his reach if not within his lines, and he
has merely to cut the fresh water canal
at that place, to force the abandonment
of the Suez canal, until such time as
the water supply can be restored.
Therefore, in sorder to maintain the
canal in running order, it will be neces-
sary for the English to drive Arab
into the interior beyond Zagazig and
to maintain at that point a force suf-
fcint to hold his army in check and
prevent his interference with the fresh
water supply. If this is done it will
be impossible for him to interfere with
the the canal, which is England's great
stake in Egypt; but the task is not an
easy one to perfrom and will doubtless
require strong force and some hard
fighting to accomplish it.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17

harbor, that on the west being mainly
artificial. It's excellent position for
trade made it the chief commercial city
of Egypt and the great central station
for passengers east and west. the steam
ers to and from India, the Levant and
Western ports all stopping there. It
is connected with Mansoora and the
Suez Canal by railroad, and with Cairo
by rail, canal, and river. In its newer
portion Alexandria had the appearance
of European city. 1t was lighted
with gas and supplied with water from
the Nile. Besides its large export and
import trade the city was the seat OF
large government and private manufac-
lures run by steam. 1t had many fine
residences. Among the prominent
buildings were the palace of the Khe-
dive at Ras. el-Tin, the large naval arse
nal, the naval and military hospitals,
the Custom House, Tribunal of Com
merce, haitian College, and the various
schools.
Alexandria was founded by Alexan-
der the Great in 332 B. @. Under his
successors, the Ptolemies, the city con.
tanned 100000 free inhabitants and as
many slaves. 1t be came the center OF
learning, and schools of Grecian philo.
sophy fourished there. Magnificent
monuments were erected, among them
the Pharos, the Museum, and the
Temple of Scraps, and there were
many gorgeous palaces and public
buildings.
Julius Caesar besieged and took the
city in 4S B. O., and eighteen years
later Augustus made it's imperial city
1t now began new season of prosperi
ty, continuing till the establishment Of
the seat of empire at Constantinople
The Catacombs, public baths, and Pom
pey's Pillar. with the Roman city wal
were erected during this period. In
the year 215 the Roman Emperor Cara
Gala visited the city and ordered q
general massacre, and under the rule
of Gallienus famine swept off hall
of the population. In 273 an insured
ton resulted in the destruction OF the
great library of the museum. In 29t
another revolt ended in general
slaughter, and in 365 an earthquake
destroyed $4,000 persons. The Pr.
slams captured the city in GIG
and yielded it to the Arabs in GAL. II
then contained 400 palaces, 400 theaters
1000 public baths, and 10000 gardens
From this time on it rapidly decayed
and it's population and trade dimin
ished. Cairo took its place as the chic
city of Egypt. 1t finally sank SO low
that in 1777 it's population was only
5000.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
The CITY Of Alexandria.

Previous to the political disturbances
which caused a general exodus of
Europeans from Egypt and led up to
the bombardment and practical distruc-
ton of Alexandria, the city has pop
ulation of about 215,OOO inhabitants,
nearly $4,000 OF them Europeans.
The city lies on the Mediterranean,
near the mouth of the vesternmost arm
Of the delta Of the Nile, and occupies
a peninsula, anciently the Island of
Pharos, and the neck Of land connect
ing it with the mainland.
On each side Of the isthmus Is q good
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17

The biggest cavern is the Mammoth
Gave, in Edmonston county, KY. 1t is
near Green river, six miles from Gave
City, and about % miles from Bowling
Green. The cave consists of q success
sion OF irregular chambers, some Of
which are large, situated on different
levels. Some of these are traversed by
navigable branches Of the subterranean
Echo river. Blind fish are found in its
waters.
The largest tunnel in the world is
that of st. Gothard, on the line Of rail-
road between Lucerne and Milan. The
summit OF the tunnel is 800 feet below
the surface of Andermatt, and 6.6OO
feet below the peak Of Kastlehorn, Of
the St. Gothard group. The tunnel
is 26f feet vide, and 10 feet 10 inches
from the floor 10. the crown Of the
arched roof. II Is 81 miles lOng-lt
miles longer than the Mount Gems tun-
mel.
The loftiest mountain il Mount Ev-
crest OF Guarisanker. Of the Himalaya
range, having an elevation Of 29,O02
feet above the sea level CNOt accord
ing TO Cook
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
that very thing by order of the Signal


Service Department. / have seen
seen mark you-a piece OF pine blown
through hickory sapling, making al
most as clean wreck of it as though
cannon-ball had gone through it. I
have seen shingles torn from the roofs
OF houses and driven into the telegraph
poles. There is one curious fact about
these tornadoes which I ought to men
ton. When q woman is caught up
by one OF them and whirled
around in the air awhile she is finally set
down without rag of clothing on her,
and when hen or chicken is taken up
the wind cleans the feathers off as
though the bird had been scaldea and
plucked for the pot. Now, the wind
treats men differently, rarely, destroy
ing their dress"
"That's odd enough" unused the re-.
porter. .....
"I've known objects Of considerable
weight carried from few yards to twen-
ty miles. knew piece of sill, from
barn, to be picked up by tornado,
carried eight Emiles, and then driven
half its lenghth into the ground, and
it weighed 400 pounds"
THE NATURE OF A CYCLONE.
"What is the difference between a
tornado and q cycloneP"
"a tornado is a baby clone. A cy-
clone sweeps over an ocean circle of
one hundred miles in diameter, while
I'm the case of a tornado the path of
destruction ranges from one fourth to
half mile in width. The disturbance
is local; it is like locomotive confined
to track. Three or four miles from
this track there is comparatively little
disturbance during it's progress"
"What becomes of the tornado after
tits satisfied with any single perform
ance; how does itsmake its exit, so to
speak, from before a critical Western
audience?"
"After running amuck for from twen-
ty to fifty miles the funnel-shaped cloud
is drawn up into the sky as rapidly as
it descended, and the shower is over
for that occasion. Heavy rainfalls fol-
low tornadoes, following in their track
as lady's train follows her as she
sweeps through drawing:room. This
is the water which the moist
winds spoke of have brought me from
the Gulf. found great deal of hail,
too, commonly, which shows that the
tornado clouds move in a belt of hail
clouds. Tornadoes revolve in the same
directions as cyclones, opposite to the
hands of watch. The belt of these
storms extends through the Carolinas
and Georgia, where they often clear a
track through the great forests as a
moving machine does through field
of grass"
care these storms more destructive
in the West than they were many years
ago2"
as the lightning any more frequent
OF destructive that it was 5000 years
ago, because more men, women and
barns are struck by it No; there are
more people out West to be stirred up
by the tornadoes than there used to be-;
that's all"
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17

LADY Visitor: your boy looks very
bad. Mrs. Jones; what's the matter?'
Mrs. Jones: yes, ms'am, he be very
had: and what's more, the doctors has
made him worse. I'm sure we poor
people need to pray with all our
hearts. From all false doctrine, good
Lord deliver US Inever saw its mean
ing afore."
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17

The largest body Of fresh water on
the globe is Lake SupC.ior-4O0 miles
long, I6O miles wide at his creates;
breadth, and having an area Of 81 600
square miles. Its mean depth is said 70
be leo, and its greatest depth about 200
fathoms. Its surface IL about 635 feet
above the level Of the SEA-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-17
A ToRNADo's TRAVELLING SPEED.

"How fast does the tornado move,
as body, across the country, when 1t
is bent OIL mischief? I've read in the
papers that in the late tornadoes in the
West the wind blew at the rate of six
ty miles en- hour"
THAT is true of the revolving motion,
but not of the general advance one.
The latter varies from ten te thirty
miles an hour. This movement does
no harm; all the damage is done by the
twisting, whirling motion, and the pow
. er of that is incalculable."
is the damage ordinarily as great
as reported in the accounts published
IN the newspapers?"
Not by a considerable margin.
viii you inform nae of any undoubt-
table cases that have come within your
knowledge illustrating the power OF
the tOrnado?s
i can do that honestly, because I've
been out With a view to investigate