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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01

The report Of the commissioner of the
general land Office for the fiscal year
ended June goth, 1883, will be completed
in few weeks. 1t is said that it will
show an incle1e Of twenty per cent. in
the acreage of public lands disposed of
during the year, or about II, 100000 acres.
Nearly half, or 100000 acres, were sold
in Dakota alone. This is about double
the number of acres disposed of in Da-
kota the year before. The report for the
year ended June Both, 1882, showed sales
amounting to over 100000 of acres,
being an increase of twenty-five per
cent. over the sales of the year before,
and the largest disposition of public
lands in any preceding year. The num-
Der of acres sold in Dakota during the
fiscal year 1872 was 100000 acres.
The acreage disposed of during the fiscal
year just closed is unprecedented. AnG
yet there are men who profess to believ,
that Dakota does not possess sufticien,
population to cntitle it to statehood
Twelve and one.half million acres of il.
land hare been occupied in two years.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01
Gun-CheMinene defended.


Gum chewing in itself is not so bad.
Some of the most pleasant "reminiscences
of my own life are connected with chew
ing gum. Have you ever hunted or
iished in the Adirondacks Well, what
can compare with the fragrant lump of
spruce gum which you pick with your
own fingers from the broken bark
through which it has exuded and where
it has dried. until it is as hard as resin
and almost as clear as amber. Do you
remember the men, yes. and women, too,
whom you have met in those great
woods, armed with u long pole, upon the
end Of which was fastened broken
knife, with which they Iossened from the
old trunks the gum which they could not
reach with their fingers and packed il
away into sacks for the market? Have
you ever been boy in the lumber
regions and manufactured gum from the
raw turpentine, which you gather with
case knife from the ends of the pine
logs in the logways scraping it off on
the edge of an old tin pail without bail,
where it gradually settled, firm mass,
full of glittering bubbles of air? And
when the turpentine has been sufficiently
cooked upon the stove. have you ever
known the intense excitement Of lifting
with rag tho bailless pail, with its ter
rible hot mixture, from the stove, to
pour it into cold water, where it becomes
q clear substance, not SO hard as resin.
assuming all sorts of fantastic forms ?
And have yon known the solder to melt
and tile bottom to fall from the pail, as
1t sometimes does, while your boiling
turpentine created frightful contlagra.
tion on the red. hot stove and ruined for.
ever the whiteness OF the kitchen floor,
the whole family flying in CONSERVATION
from the door, and your mother wear.
ing frown on her face for day? Well
l have known all this, and don't for.
| get it,
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01

The following are the officers elected
at the closing session of the Grand
Army of the Republic:
E. X. Warren of Kansas City, senio,
vice commander; w. II. Holman of Gala.
fornia, junior vice commander; Aze]
Ames Of Massachusetts. surgeon general
and j. w. Foster. chaplain -in-chief. The
different departments selected the fol.
lowing council of administration: Iowa
Henry Frey; Minnesota, VIM. Thomas
Wisconsin, James Davidson. The new
commander-in-chief announces the fol.
lowing staff: Adjutant general, NJ
Vanderstels of Philadelphia; quarter
master general, John Taylor of Phila
delphia; inspector general. c. A. SAINT
myer of Ohio; judge advocate general
William Vanderver of Iowa.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01
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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-01

To cultivate kindness is a valuable
part OF the business Of life.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
Explosive Roast Beef.

We were lying down along the Rap
pahannOck some time in the fall of 1868,
when Andy said one day: ''Look here,
Harry; let s. have some roast beef once.
I'm tired of this everlasting frying and
frizzling, and my mouth waters for
good roast. And I've just learned how
to do it, and tell you it was success!
You see, take your chunk of beef and
wrap it up in cloth or newspaper, and
then get some clay and cover it thick all
over with the clay, until it looks like
bio forty-pound cannon-ball; and then
you put it in among the red-hot Goals,
and it bakes hard like brick; and
when it's done, you simply crack the
shell off, and out come your roast, just
prime!''
We at once set to work, and all went
well enough till Corporal Harter came
along. While Andy was off looking for
more clay, and l was looking after more
paper, Harter fumbled around our beef,
saying he didn't believe we could roast
it that way.
Just you wait, now said Andy,
coming in with the clay; ''we'll show
YOU
So we covered our beef thickly with
tough clay, and rolled the great ball
into the campfire, burying It among
the hot ashes and Goals, and sat down
to watch it, while the rest of the boys
were boiling their coffee and frying their
steaks for dinner. The fire was good
one, and there were about dozen black
tin cups dangling on as many long
sticks, their several owners lounging
about in a circle, when, all of a sudden,
with terrific bang! amid a shower of
sparks and ashes, the coffee-boiIers were
scattered to right and left, and a dozen
quarts of coffee sent Kissing and siz-
zling into the fire-and our poor roast
beef was a sOrry-looking mess indeed
when we picked it out of the general
wreck.
We always believed that Harter had
| somehow Struggled q cartridge into
that beef of ours while our backs were
turned. Harry II. Kieger, IN 81. Nscb-
/ OLGS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
Didn't Mean Him.


'"Take square look at metz he com
manded as he halted in front of a
policeman on Michigan avenue yester-
day.
The policeman looked him all over.
He was pretty good chunk of man,
carrying fOrid face, a prominent nose,
and an air of general innocence.
81 don't see anything wrong about
you, said the officer.
'.Do my clothes fit? Do Iwobble
when I walk? DO wipe my mouth on
my coat-tails? Does the sight of me
remind you of cabbage and other green
things?'
E'Well, no. You look to me like an
honest good-natured fellow"
brought his fist down with a thump,
there's going to be bloodshed in the
town. came in this morning with an
excursion. We had scarcely landed
when a man called out: Did you
bring along that keowp' Did you mean
that for me?' says l. He said he didn't t,
and I passed on"
''He might not"
.'Then, as [ was going up the street,
chap in a door says he: ''Ah! smell
the carrot cropr DO you mean that
for me?' SAYS [ as I walks up to him.
He says he didn't and passed on"
81 presume he didn't"
''Well, [ got up to GriswOld street,
and was looking for the PostOffice, and
a man calls out: III bet he brought
along raw onions and turnips for his
dinner! do you mean that for me?'
says 1 as walks up to him. He says
bo didn't onH I 1Oocco6 on -
''He must have referred to some one
else
''WeIl, I walked through the Post
Office and started for the City Hall, and
was almost there when young fellow
in the door of a barber shop calls out:
There goes the biggest cabbage-head
of the season. DO you mean that for
me?' says [ as walks up to him. He
says he didn't and passed on"
''He could not have meant you"
''Well, as was walking through the
City Hall a great big overgrown chap
sings out through his nose: Behold the
second crop of dandelions! Oh, my!'
DO you mean that for me?' says [ as [
walks up to him. He said he didn't,
and passed on"
THAT right"
''Mebbe so, but you look a-here! I'm
going down to the ferry dock. The
first man OF boy who calls out carrots,
pumpkins, onions, turnips, scare crow,
green-horn, pig-weed or hucklebery
blossom to me won't have no chance to
lie about it. I'll turn on him and rend
him, and slay him and hammer him
stone blind! Mebbe nobody means
anything, and mabbe its simply their
way, but I've got my dander up, and if
you hear a roaring sound like cyclone
you may know that I'm climbing for a
man who has called out summer
squash!' to me" ~-DetrOit Free Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
A CIRCUS PANIC.

OI3rien's Circus Struck by a Sudden Gale
During a Performance at Barry, Illinois
"A General Panic Ensues, but FOrtu.
nately Without Very Serious Results.
BARRY, ILL.,, Sept. Is.
This city last night witnessed one of the
most thrilling and exciting scenes in all it's
history. O'Brien's circus was here, and dur
ing the evenings performance frightful
storm came up from the south west very
suddenly, sweeping the entire area of
tents before it. The canvas was completely
packed with people, and in the panic that
ensued the widest confusion and excite
ment prevailed. Fathers were in terror
for their families, mothers frantic over
their children, and everybody rushing pell
nell in search of safety. The scene for a
time was most appalling, and, added to the
walls and screams of the terrorized mass,
were the bowling and moaning of the ami
mails, rendering the affair all the more ter
rible. The elephant became frightened and
rushed from the scene, making straightway
for its car and clearing the way before it.
Animal wagons and cages were capsized,
and horses tore loose from their tethers,
many of them fleeing from the place
at full speed. The strangest part of the
affair was that nobody was badly injured.
Several parties were somewhat bruised by
falling poles, but aside from this the acct
dent was without serious results, which, in
viewing the scene afterward, seemed al
most miraculous. The damage done to the
CIRCUS property vas very slight, consisting
principally IN the cutting of ropes and tents
by the crowd in their attempts to escape
The storm lasted only few minutes, but
the wind, rain and hail were most terrific.
About nine p. m. the sky became clear, and
the work of clearing up was inaugUrated.
During this the most serious accident of the
evening occurred. In descending the hill
this side of the circus grounds one of the
large siX-horse wagons left the road and
capsized in the ditch, killing two fine horses
and injuring two men on the wagon. It is
reported that one of the men has since died.
The show left here for Mt. Sterling at five
O'Clock this morning in a dilRpidated con-
up in time to exhibit tomorrow. This is
said to be their third experience of the kind
this season.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27

passes across the top. IS fastened SIS
each side by silver pins, and falls thence
as strings. There are also round hats
IN the new Henri Trois shapes, covered
smoothly with cloth, and trimmed with
many folds of velvet, or chenille and
silver galloon, or else with the repped
uncut velvet, and a large panache of
ostrich tips.
For more dressy bonnets, silver braid
third of an inch wide IS plated with
fine chenille cord in the basket designs.
Paris milliners arrange of these a sym-
phony In gray, covering the corOnet
with darker gray velvet, and flashing to
the top with velvet bands a swallow. a
sea-gull, or other gray bird; Renais-
sance brooches of old silver then fasten
the dark gray velvet strings on the
sides, and the bonnet is completed.
With others some bright relief of color
is used, such as a dark red bird or a
deep yellow oriole; the new golden
brown and the red maroon contrast well
with silver in feathers and in velvet.
One of the daintiest silver bonnets has
large panache of white ostrich tips di-
rectly on the top, and is otherwise all
gray.
For early autumn wear are bonnets of
ecru lace laid over velvet This is
ticelle lace in wide, open patterns, and
narrow velvet ribbon is drawn through
the interstices of the lace, giving the
effect of checks, blocks or lozenges of
| velvet resting on the lace. These are
made in capOte shapes, with soft, high
cap crown gathered to q stiff brim. A
twist of velvet ribbon across the top
and a cluster of loops holding robin
redbreast are the only trimmings Tin
sci laces, bronzed and red gilt Gaces are
used in the same way with velvet and
feathers, and chenille braid of some
quaint, dark color. Hdrper's Bazar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
Collie.

This disorder is caused by costiveness
structure Of the bowels, tumors in the
mesentery, sudden change from dry to
green and succulent food, and vice versa,
sudden application of cold water to the
hot skin, drinking of ice-cold water
while the system is heated, etc. Its
symptoms are usually sudden, and
sometimes liable to be COMPOUNDED with
those of widely different diseases. A
horse attacked with collie suddenly
evinces great uneasiness, shifts his posi-
ton from side to side, paws his litter,
and impatiently stamps with his feet
An observer with limited experience
might readily suppose him to be suffer
ing with Inflammation of the bowels;
but may, by five well-defned points of
diagnosis, readily distinguish between
that disease and collie. In inflammation
of the bowels the attack is progressive,
or passes from mere indisposition to vio
lent pain; but in collie the attack is quite
sudden; in Inflammation of the bowels
the pulse is very quick and small, but
in collie the pulse, though sometimes q
little quickened, is natural; in infam-
nation of the bowels the horse lies
down, suddenly rises, and seldom rolls
upon his back, but in collie he lies down,
IGlndluS SOIuCUll1G uOWu, anu luis
abundantly upon his back; in infiam-
nation of the bowels, the legs and ears
are generally cold, but in collie the legs
and ears generally warm; in infamma-
ton of the bowels intermissions never
occur, but III collie short intermissionS
are frequent.
The necessity of discriminating be-
tween Inflammation of the bowels and
spasmodic collie is very great; and be-
fore remedy in any case is applied,
the discrimination ought to be fully,
satisfactorily and promptly made. When
collie is seen to exist without symptoms
of Inflammation, an antispasmodic mix
ture ought to be speedily administered,
and, if requisite, repeated at an inter
val, according to the severity of the
symptoms. of from half to one or two
hours. Beside internal remedies. mod
crate exercise (galloping or sharp trOt-
ting should be avoided as always inJu-
rious) smart friction of the belly, relax
ing injections per rectum, and ample
space, well provided with bedding,
should be provided. When the collie
proves to be Hatulent, and develOpe5
itself in great and very painful disten-
ton of the abdomen, the accumulated
gas which causes it, and which Is
usually a combination of hydrogen
with some other gas, must either be
chemically destroyed by some such
means as drink of watery solution of
chloride of lime, or drawn off by pune
ture with trocar; but the latter remedy
should not be used unless the former
can not be had, and the case appears to
be one of imminent danger.-L1raErEe
Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27

of "Kriegsraad. . or war councillor, Is
usually borne by the nlildest of village
apothecaries It is the same with our
esquire and ssmister. y Anybody can
bear arms. and, for the matter of that,
does so, without troubling the College
of Heralds; and except hatsometimes,
in addressing letter to ones tailor or
butcher, there may be doubt whether
he should be called by the first or the
second title-all distinction between the
two has been lost, and it is perfectly
certain that TO neither attaches the
smallest title of honor. They only
puzzle the intelligent foreigner. He
cannot understand why ''sir' before a
Christian name is a title, while '.Mr. y
lis not. It puzzles him to grasp why
''Sir Jones, Esq" is wrong, why dear
sir'' is right, and ''dear mister" vulgar.
Why not save ourselves useless trouble,
and strangers endless blunders, by
dropping both the designations, just as
in America the republicanism which
was so long tempered by honorable
and colonel is rapidly reconciling
itself to plain Hannibal T. Smith,
without either the prefix of mister or
the affix of esquire. London Nea0s.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
A SOUTHERN KIDNAPER.
Georgia and Alabama in a Ferment Over
the Operations OF John OgIstree-A
Posse in Hot Pursuit


the Operations OF John OgIetree-A
Posse in Hot Pursuit.
COLUMBUS, GA, Sept. 16.
Three recent kidnapings by a man named
John Ogletree have exercised Georgia and
Alabama as thoroughly as the Charley
Ross case did the North. On Wednesday
last while James G. White, who lives on a
farm in Jackson County, Alabama, was
absent from home, Ogletree rode up on
horse and induced one of Whites young
sons to accompany him to spring half
mile from the house on the pretext that he
wanted to herd some cattle at the spring
Ogletree made the boy prisoner and hur-
ried away with him. Upon his return
home White gathered posse of farmers
and started in pursuit. Yesterday Ogle-
tree darted through Tallapoosa at break
neck speed, but his crime being unknown
there, no effort was made to detain him. A
few hours later White and a posse of seven
teen rode into town in pursuit Of Ogletree,
and learning how near they were to their
game, continued the pursuit on gallop
without moments delay. It has since been
learned that the boy was last seen in the
kidnaper's company at Oak Levee, small
place fifteen miles from TallapoOsa. The
child had been brutally beaten, and his
blood-stained clothes attracted so much at
tention that the villagers became indignant
and demanded an explanation of his condi-
ton. With undaunted temerity Ogletree
said that the boy was his son, and the in
juries were the result Of beating admins
tered by negro woman whom he had
knocked in the head with wagon spoke in
retaliation, and left for dead in the road.
The villagers seemed satisfied with the
story, and Ogletree passed on as already
narrated. When he rode through Talla-
poosa blood stains were noticed on his
clothes, and there is little doubt that, being
hard pressed by his pursuers, he murdered
the boy after leaving Oak Levee and hid
the body in the woods by the roadside. The
boy was only nine years old, was dressed
in homemade clothes and had one very
sore foot when carried off. The body can
therefore be very easily identified if found.
Ogletree has a swarthy complexion, is
muscuarly built, half-breed of medium
height, with a murderously bad record. A
few weeks ago he threw Atlanta into ex-
element by abducting Charlie Tilden. The
chase got too hot, however, and the boy was
recovered. Soon after that escapade he
was again frustrated in similar attempt
an Paulding County, this State. The Ala
bama authorities have offered reward of
$500 for Ogletree's arrest, but there is not
doubt that he will be overtaken and
lynched by White and his companions be-
fore morning.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
A CUNNING SCHEME.

An Escaped Convict's Game that Did NOT
Materialize An Alleged Conspiracy to
Rob the State Treasury Revealed by
Clutch Charley in the Hope of a Re
ward for the Information.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Sept II.
On Saturday morning last State Treas
urer Chappen received a call at his resi-
dence from a stranger apparently about
fifty years of age, who informed him that
the State Treasury was to be robbed at
noon on Tuesday, and that he was one of a
party of five who were to do the work.
However, he concluded it was too risky
job and had determined to give the gang
away. The plans as detailed were to enter
the Treasury Department at the time desig-
mated and capture and gag whoever hap
pened to be III the office at the time, and
then go through the vault and take the
money and bonds deposited there, after
which they would make their escape a la
Jesse James. Mr.. Chappell put his mystic
rious visitor through arigid cross-examina-
ton, which developed the information that
the stranger was pretty thoroughly &C
quainted with the workings of the Treasury
Department, as we'll as the number OF men
who would probably be about the Office and
building at the hour proposed for the rob-
berry. Mr.. Chappell told him that should
this affair turn out as he stated, he would be
we'll rewarded. This seemed to satisfy him,
and he took his departure, saying that the
robbers were all st. Louis men, and had no
idea that he would give them away. He
also promised to call on Mr.. Chappell at
eight o'clock Sunday night. This ended
the interview, and MIR. Chappell went to
the Capitol and informed his clerk of what
had happened, and Notwithstanding the
story was discredited it was deemed wise
to take proper precautions. 1t now turns
out to have been nothing but the ruse of
"Dutch Charley" low-grade criminal of
the sneak-thief order, who put up the story
in the hope of inducing the State Treasurer
to pay him something by way of reward
for the information. This Treasurer Chap
pell refused to do unless it should turn out
to be worth something. Dutch Charley rep
resented that he had recently been dis
charged from the Penitentiary, under the
three-fourths rule, when in fact he is an
| escaped convict. He failed to keep his APP
| pOintment made with Treasurer Chappell,
which goes to confirm the opinion that he
! told the story merely to make raise, par
ticularly as he was very solicitous about
funds to pay his hotel bills. He is we'll
known to the prison authorities here, and
| they all pronounce him a sneak-thief and
| liar of the worst character.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-09-27
The Best Bacon.

The best bacon is made from pigs
which will not weigh more than 125
pounds dressed. The rashers or strips for
the bacon are cut lengthwise off the pig
and about half of the sides are used
The portion next to the backbone is fat
Ter and lacks in muscle, and is not so
good on this account. When bacon Is
made from small pigs-thOse weighing
less than 100 pounds-the whole of the
sides are used. Red and black Berk-.
shire hogs make the best bacon, because
they have the largest proportion of lean
meat. Six pounds of salt and four
ponds of saltpeter should be used for
100 pounds of meat. Five pounds of
brown sugar may also be used, or two
quarts of molasses. If the bacon Is
cured in a barrel the salt, saltpeter and
sweetening should be mixed and portion
sprinkled on the bottom of the BARREL
and some also between the layers OK
meat and on the top, and water enough,
after the meat is packed closely, put on
to cover it. In a month the meat viii
be ready to smoke. Too much smoke
win color the meat and give it rank
taste. Another way to cure bacon IS TO
rub the above mixture on the flesh side
of the strips of bacon and then pile up
one piece above another, and let the
mixture strike in After three days
rub again and pile up as before. A
week after rub again and pile it up, put
ting the flesh side up every time. The
mixture should be divided into three
equal parts, to provide for the several
rubbings. At the end of a month the
meat win be ready for smoking, or be-
fore if the salt has all struck in and the
surface has become perfectly dry, which
is an indication. After smoking the
rashers should be sewed in bags made
of cotton cloth and hung up In dry.
dark place. II the bags are white
washed on the outside all the better, a.
this viii keep the worms out.-N =
Tribune.