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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
PERSONAL AND PoLITICAL.

MRS. MARY CLEMENTS, born in Tyrone,
Ireland, 1888, celebrated her one hundredth
birthday at Cleveland, O., on the LIST.
The amended Internal Revenue law,
passed at the late session of Congress,
took effect on the LIST, so far as the reduc-
ton of the tax on tobacco, cigars and snuff
is concerned. The repeal Of the stamp.tax
on bank checks, matches, perfumery and
medical preparations will not take effect
until July 1.
GOVERNOR CLEVELAND, of New York.
has signed the bill which provides that the
Boards of Supervisors Of counties in that
State shall provide for the burial of de.
ceased soldiers, sailors or marines, and
shall also provide appropriate headstones.
PHIL B. THOMPSON, JR., Congressman
from the Seventh Kentucky District, was
indicted by the Grand Jury at Harrodsburg
OH the I'd for the recent murder of Walter
Fl. Davis.
CHARLES F. FREEMAN, who, in a relig.
ious frenzy, killed his child at Barnstable,
Mass, four years ago, pleaded not guilty
on the LIST to an Indictment for murder.
He claimed to have been insane when he
committed the deed, and thought he was
acting under Gods direction.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has en-.
acted a law prohibiting the performance of
any play representing Biblical characters.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the I'd appointed
William S. Woods District Judge for the
Seventh District of Indiana, vice Walter @.
Gresham, appointed Postmaster-G General.
AT the special Cabinet meeting in Wash.
ington on the I'd the Civil-Service Commits.
sion regulations were agreed to without
substantial change.
H Pennsylvania Greenback State Con.
vention has been called to meet at Williams.
port, August 80.
V1cE-ADM1RAL RowEN having been re.
lieved at his own request from the post of
Superintendent of the Naval Observatory.
Commodore Shufeldt has been appointed
to succeed him.
REPUBLICAN State Conventions were on
the I'D called as follows: Ohio, at Colum.
bus, June .; Iowa, at Des Moines, June 81:
Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, June II.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has been elect
ed President of the New York Civil Service
Reform Association.
MRS. MYRA CLARK GAINES secured
another judgment on the Sd against the
city OF New Orleans for 81 1925 ,6G7.
! AT the election in New York on the 4tb
for officers of the Vanderbilt system of
roads William H. Vanderbilt retired from
the Presidency ofthe lines, but remains a
member of the Board of Directors of each.
Mr.. Vanderbilt gave his reasons for retir.
ing to the assembled Directors, maintain.
ing the stability and strength of the cor.
porations: and resolutions regretting his
determination and e~ulogistic Of his man.
agement were passed.
The New York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 4th.
A BILL prohibiting free passes being
granted to any IL except railroad EN-.
ployes and officers passed the New York
Legislature Oh tie 4th.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

Not far from Louisville, KY, there
is a monastery of Trappist monks: a
visitor to this strange building is said to
tcel as If he had stepped back into the
Middle Ages. The abbot's chair is
sort OF elevated throne, and in order to
reach 1t he must pass over his own
grave. The monks live on vegetable
diet alone. They rise at two o'clock III
the morning, and when they die they
are buried without collins. There are
sixty OF them in the monastery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
A Liquor Law Decision by a Justice Of
the Peace.
STEuRENYIIIE q AI..,

s~rEuBENvILLE, o., May l.
The Scott Liquor law was decided to he
unconstitutional by Justice May yesterday
afternoon. A saloonist selling without tie
written consent of the landlord was arrest.
Ell. The defense was that the law was IN,
constitutional, because it impaired existing
contracts. The Justice gave the opinion
mat the law was unconstitutional because
the tax was unequal and impaired existing
contracts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
Killed Himself in the Presence Of His
Sweetheart.
JAMESTOWN Oak

JAMESTOWN, Oak, May 1.
Harry Smith, a young New Englander,
came here Friday for the purpose of marry
ing a lady to whom he had been engaged.
She, however, refused to fulfill her promise.
The following night lie invited her to take a
walk, and She accepted. Leading her to a
retired spot, he again asked her to marry
him. She refused a second slime. He then
drew a revolver and standing full in front OF
her placed the muzzle to his temple and
fired, falling dead at her feet.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19
FOREIGN.

A GREAT strike of carpenters and masons
for an increase of wages began at Berlin,
Prussia, on the LIST.
AT Dublin, Ireland, on the Cd Patrick De-
laney and Thomas Caffrey, two of the men
charged with completely in the Phoenix
Park ~assassinations, pleaded guilty. De-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

The Grand Jury of New York recommends
the dismissal of two police Captains for
Deglecting to enforce the gambling and ex-
c1Se laws.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

-Hand-illuminated marriage certlfl'
Gates on parchment are now made 10
order, and many Of them are very elap
crate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

The cotton mills Of the South give IN
plov@ent to about 400, 900 people.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

Terrific Explosion of Gas in . Coal Mine
Near Ashland, Pa.-Three Men Instantly
Killed, and Two Others Fatally Injured
"A Horrible Sight,.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-19

Destruction by Fire of the Steamer GRAY
pier, OF Seymour Narrows, b. C.-Fright-
full scenes Among the Pantc-Stricken
Passengers-Sixty Cinnamon Burned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17
WESTERN UNION.

Mr.. Russell Sage, of the Western
Union, is inclined to make light of
che suggestion that the election of
the Bonanza Maekey as director of
che new Postal Telegraph Company
will make that company a danger
GUS rival. Mr.. Sage points to the
fact that heretofore all rivals have
gone to the Western Union and
asked to be taken in out of the wet,
and intimates his belief that the
Postal will be no exception to the
rule. 1t is al naughty, impudent
tone that the gentleman employs,
speaking of the matter as if the
Western Union were complete mas
ter of the situation and impregna-
Die in its position. He may be
correct; indeed, the past encourages
him in assuming the airs he puts
On. The fact that he can talk in
this manner, as if his company
were supreme, is the very best rea-
son why an assault should be
made upon it by other combined
capital and by the public that
il daily and hourly rObs. We
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

THE STRIKING telegraph opera
tors are being steadily forced back
to their keys, the demands of hun
ger being more imperative than the
obligations to the Brotherhood. II
is a matter for regret that the poor
fellows have not money sufficient
to maintain them until the company
could be forced to yield to their just
demands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

don't know how much money
Mr.. Mackey and associates will put
with the Postal Telegraph company,
but if they will put in enough to
break the gigantic monopoly that
has its grip upon the pockets of
everybody in the land, from the
enterprisiug little newsboy to the
richest man in the Union, the pub
lie will be disposed to excuse some
of the sharp practices by which the
bonanza king obtained his enormous
wealth. In the light of the past We
can almost agree with MIR. Sage in
the belief that no company can be
formidable rival to the Western
Union. There is way, however,
for breaking the monopoly, and this
plan may have to be applied. Gov
eminent can control the telegTaphic
business as 1t does the postal ser
vice, and as it carries the mails at
or near cost, it can transmit tele-
graph messages on reasonable terms.
We hope Mt. Sage and his Western
Union will be as impudent and def
ant as they know how to be, for in
this way they may force their own
destruction and bring reljtf to the
peoDle,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17
VIRGINIA POLITICS.

It is strangely queer politics that
they have in Virginia, and parties
are sadly mixed and befuddied as
to non, measures and policies. The
regular, or rather the irregular
parties number tbres-the Bourbon
or Simon-pure democrats who be-
Iieve in majority rule, honest
government and the other cardinal
principles of Jeffersonian demo-
cracy the Readjuster or Mahoneites'
comprising dishonest democrats and
renegade republicans whose policy
is to get all they can, give up as
little as possible, and refuse to pay
debts; and the straight republicans,
who are the same everywhere-un-
principled generally in politics.
Until lately the Mah0neites have
been the more numerous party,
carrying everything before them,
electing the two United States
Senators, repudiating the state debt,
and bringing Virginia into ill
repUte among the sister states and
the world at large. Malone, as boss,
has run things in peculiarly out
rsgeous and corrupt manner, paying
noregard to the rights Of individuals
and showing no respect for decency.
The weight and influence of the
national administration lave been
thrown with him, a corrupt bargain
having been entered into by him
and the administration that in the
United States Senate he would vote
for the Republicans, his reward
bsing the surrender of Virginia into
his hands. The terms Of the trade
have been faithfully carried out,
much to the disgust of reputable
Republicans everywhere. The
Virginia straight Republicans are
now kicking at the unsavory condi-
tion of things, and seeking a change.
They have just been holding cons
yention, in which they adopted a
platform reasserting the regulation
Republican doctrines, the remainder
Of the declaration being devoted to
denunciation Of Malone, Malone
ISM and the corrupt compact
referred to above. Very little SYM
pathy can be aroused for these
wailing radicals. Their treatment is
merely righteous retribution for past
misdeeds. They trained with Malone
and were keen to help him into
power. Had it not been for their
assistance, poor Virginia would
not have been in her present dis
reputable plight. Mahone's I'M
gEatetulneSs is no worse than their
own base frailties and crooked al
.iances. Now that the rogues have
fallen out perhaps honest people
will get their dues. It will take
some time to restore matters to
their rightful condition and repair
the wrong that has been done in
the three years that Malone has had
bis clutches upon the State, but
we may consider the mending proc
ess has begun now that the unnatural
bedfellows have fallen out and are
calling each other names. One of
these days the administration will
nave no. further use for Malone, and
will drop him, which will hasten
ire day of redemption for Virginia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17
demands.

VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS have de-
clared in favor of Blaine for Presi.
dent. This is an instance where
Virginia win neither be the mother
nor god-mother Of the President
Perhaps all the convention intended
was to afilict the White-plumed with
another sunstroke.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

NEW JERSEY has prohibited boys
drinking liquor and chewing OF
smoking tobacco. And yet New
Jersey expects to keep her jails full
and maintain full delegation in
Congress. The inconsistency of
some Lawmakers is astonishing,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

You NEVER hear of newspaper
writer's striking. They know all
about other peoples strikes, why
some should be encouraged and
others frowned down, but it never
occurs to the journalist that he
can have a grievance demand
ing an adjustment through the
agency of strike. The telegraph
operators may go out, leaving the
editor short of ''copy," and the com
positors may throw up their cases,
leaving him "long" of copy, and
still he goes plodding along, driving
his pencil, quietly awaiting results
and trusting in Providence and good
times for better salary, though
never complaining of his pay. It
seems to make very little difference
to him whether he receives $40 or
$50 at the end Of the week; he
either doesn't know enough or
knows too much to strike. We have
heard Of the newspaper man "sey-
ering his connection" and now and
then one "resigning," after he has
been discharged, but never knew
one to strike. Shouldn't employers
take this matter into consideration
and do something handsome for the
newspaper fellows?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

CONGRESSMAN FINERTY, of Chi
cago, evidently wants to establish a
sand lot in the Garden City, and run
rival to Denis Kearney,; of San
Francisco; only Mr.. Finerty hank
ers fer the gore Of all EngliShmen
while Denis merely wants the life
blood of the bloated mOuopolist.
Finerty is a bigger man than KeaT-
ney. The former is a member OF
Congress. while our flannel mOuthed
friend on the Pacific is but dray-
man whose ambition is less soar
ing than that of his eastern fellow
agitator. Fortunately for their
reputation the decent people OF
Chicago do not recognize Finerty as
their spokesman or the exponent of
their feelings, any more than the
respectable.portion' the San Fran
cisco people acknowledge Denis in
a similar position. Flnerty declares
they in Chicago are proud Of the
man who murdered Carey. "They"
doubtless are confined to a few
saloon buns, street loafers and mid
night murderers, and they are proud
Of O'Donnell only because Finerty
says they are. 1t is sometimes mat
ter for regret that Congress does not
oftener exercise its right to pass
upon the qualifications of its mem
bers, and reject such wide-mouthed
blatherskites as the Chicago Mick,
who at this safe distance is brave
enough to howl himself hoarse over
the wrongs of the country which he
dares not defend on the ground. Fin
erty can be nothing more than a
nuisance in the American Congress :;
in an Irish jail he might be of SER
vice in increasing the fee of the
prison clearinghouse keeper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17

CATAnRh CURED, health ano
rect breath secured by Shiloh's
atarrh Remedy. Price SOC. Nasal
Ajector free. Sold By 2. G. II. l.
Ea& Stoke q
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-17
UNIVERSITY OF DESERET.

THE FIRST TERM OF THE AC-
i sdemic year 1883 4, will begin on
Monday, August 10th instant, at 9 am,
in the University building.
JOHN r. PARK,
aui2 President.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
The Markets.

In VERMoNT-At st. Adams, Tuesday, good
TO choice butt"r sold at 10 tn Is cents per pound
selections, 10 cents per pound At Richmond,
Monday, cheese sold ut from to . IL cents and
butter AT from Is To Is cents. At Vcrgennes,
Saturday, butter ruled at IL to Is cents per
pound; selections, IL cents per pound. Eggs,
Is cents per iuzen.
iiOsTON WOOL-The demand for wool has
been active AMI the sales of the week have been
2,75O0 lbs. and include all grades ant qualities
Ohio and Pennsylvania neeces have been sell
ing SO SIC for X 81 3Sc for XX and 30 a 4Oc for
Xxx and above. Michigan feeces have been in
demand, and sales 10 some extent at "a u 35c for
y, mostly at "a. OHIO and Michigan Wool is
now arriving quite freely, and manufacturers
have a good assortment to select from. No. |
Ohio has been selling at 40c per ID. Combing
and delaiae ne0ces have been in demand, and
sales at IS iOc for Michigan and Ohio fine de
laine and ~ n AZ for No. l combing. Manufac-
turers are buying all available lots at these
prices. Unwashed woods have been selling
quite freely, including Texas. Territory and
western neeces. The sales have been princi-
pally In the range of % "A 2Sc for fine and medium
grades, choice medium selections at higher
prices and low and coarse at 10 22c per Id.
Caliiorpla wool has been quiet with sales at - "A
SOC per Id. for spring, a. to quality. In pulled
woods there has been n fair business doing, and
prices range from % n 3sc for common and good
snpers and ~ iic for choice Eastern and
Maine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
Disastrous Fire nj XcrgenncS.

About s O'Clock last Saturday night
the building of the Vermont Stakeholder
Manufacturing company. at Vergenncs,
was discovered to be on fire, and was
totally destroyed. The main factory
building, the store house, the shaving
house and the barn, together with the
store of Thomas Mack, the upper part of
which he occupied as n dwelling; q
house owned by DR.. Hopkins. and barn
and store house owned by A. Graveline,
were consumed. 1t was the most
destructive conllagration that has visited
the city for many years. At one time it
was feared other buildings would go.
Smith IL kctchum's furniture shop mar
rowly escaped and it was only by the
most strenuous efforts of the fircmen
that it was saved. The fire is reported
to have caught in the boiler room. The
Waterman. j. j. Barley, was severely
burned in his efforts to eXtnguish the
flames. The fire was seen for miles
around and n large number of people
came in from the country. Some 30
hands were employed in the Shade
Roller factory. The losses and nsur-
ance are: Stakeholder company--loss,
$50 900; Insurance. $50. 100. Mr. Mack's
loss is $1,000; insured for 81. 400 in the
Vermont Mutual and the Sun. DR..
Ilopkins's loss is $500; insured for $500
in the Continental. \. Gravclines loss
is about $500 and is fully covered 10y in
gII1upp.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
West Cornwall.

Cherries are abundant everywhere.
Frank Casey is the happy father of a
big baby boy.
"A few sheep men from away are in
town, but prices rule low.
Mrs. Frank IIoley and little boy are
visiting at Ii. +. Sanfords.
Mrs. Byron Farnham is visiting rela.
tives and friends in Shoreham.
The hay crop is heavy. Farmers are
'usy, help is scarce and wages are high
Mrs. Alice (Foote) Bristol of Colorado
is ut her fathers, j. A. Foot, for few
weeks.
Mr.. Macintosh of Amesbury, Mass.
is visiting at his wife's fathers, Rev
Ahira Jones.
Housewives have been busy of late
canning raspbcrries. making jellies. jam
ETC., the supply equalling the demand
School in district No. closed or
Tuesday after Il successful term of tel
weeks; Julia Stapleton of Middlebury
teacher.
A nice little party of the young people
of the town tripped the light fantastic
ut o. A. Fields and otherwise enjoyed
themselves. last Friday evening. Coco
music and choice refreshments wer,
among the attractions.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
SllOrchanl.

Henry and Aldace Caswcll started
West with sheep Monday, July 1G.
Mr.. Dana Lewis of Orwell is doing an
extensive job of PARTING for f.. B. Doug
las.
Frank Turril is buying poultry again.
He has contract to dispose of it with a
party at Saratoga.
Miss Ida Armstrong, who has been
West for nearly two years, arrived home
Il short time since.
Mr.. Clark Kellogg was buried in Lake
View cemetery last Sunday afternoon.
Rev. Z. Marshall OBLIGATED.
Miss Georgia Wolcott came from Bos-
ton last Saturday. She intends to remain
at home during her vacation, which will
be till about the first of September.
Rev. III. II. Beach is taking a vacation.
lie went first to his home in Vernon.
Conn.,. but will spend some time on Block
Island. During his absence II. Il. Hack
will read sermons, by request.
Rev. Perry Marshall is engaged to
supply the Methodist pulpit during the
ensuing year. They have rented Levi
WolcOtt's house and Mr.. Marshall and
family moved in week or two since.
There was quite an excitement last
Sunday morning. AS ID. G. Smith and
family were on their way to church the
wagon tongue fell down, frightening the
horses and causing them to run away
They were all thrown out. but none were
hurt except Mrs. Smith. who received al
injury in the back. DR.. Howard was
summoned at once and at last accounts
she was more comfortable
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20
The Heaviest Fleece.

We publish by request the following
letter, signed "Justice," which ap.
peared recently i'm the columns of the
Brandon UniOn.
Mr.. EHtOr:-The heaviest fleece
shorn at the last shearing of the Yer.
mont Merino Sheep Breeders associa-
ton, was taken from "King All
Right" ram bred and owned by
RplIin Lane of Cornwall. This ram
IL 1882 shearcd 36 l2 lbs. which was
the heaviest fleece taken from a Span.
ish Merino in Vermont that year. His
second fle &C was 81 pounds. But his
last fleece OF 80 3 l6 pounds with only
3S9 days growth entities him to tn.
belt.
lie has always been publicly shorn
and the weight OF the fleece verifi
by reliable and disinlerested breeders
The aggregate weight of three Il ecc'
is lO5 1916 pounds.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20

IT has been charged in certain quarters
that President Garfield during the cam
paign preceding his election promised to
appoint Stanley Matthews to seat on
the Supreme bench OIL condition that
JAY Gould would contribute 100000 to
the campaign fund. The Troy Times de-
clares this las false an accusation a was
ever trumped up" and says
Judge Swayne, whom Matthews sue
ceeded. did not retire from the bench
until two or three months after the
election; so that when this alleged bar
gain and sale were going on Gen. Gar
field did not know there was to be a
vacancy in the court. President Hayes
appointed Matthews in the first instance.
but the Senate adjourned without taking
action upon the nomination. President
Garfield could not. if he had wished to
do so, in view of his relations to Matthews
and the fact that both were Ohio men,
have refused TO appoint Matthews with.
out subjecling himself to severe criticism
if not denuncation from friends at home
A President from some other State might
have named another, but even in that
case this would have been regarded as
the very height of injustice toward Mr.
Matthews. And it is well to remember
that the Supreme court has rendered
several decisions in railroad cases since
Stanley Matthews became member
and in every instance judgment was
against the corporations Jay Gould is
said to represent
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-20

IT is stated by Il member of the Utah
commission who has recently returned to
Washington that Mormon polygamy is
doomed. Polygamy, he says, is gradual
ly diminishing, and is now confined to
the poorer class of the Saints" lie
says that through the opening up of the
Territory by railroads the Mormons arc
fast losing their political power. The
Gcntiles are increasing in number, and
will soon be able to control matters in
their own way.