Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-12

length.
THe Garrett Davis property at Par
ls, KY, has been sold for $4,000. Th,
place contains twenty-five acres and {
beautiful residence, built by the late
senator.
A COMPANY organized in Washington
D. O., has purchased 5000 acres OF lane
in Polk County, Florida, and will rails,
oranges, lines, lemons, and other tropi
cal fruit.
A MAN has been fined 5000 at Marl
boro. s. O., for selling Jamaica ginge
as medicine, the jury's verdict bein,
that it should be classed as an intoxicat
ing drink.
STREET CARS are running between
Billings, Montana, and Coulson, with re
turn tickets for 25 cents. which will in
clude two glasses of beer at the brewer,
in Coulson.
AFTER shooting at it eight or min,
times, Mr.. w. a. Richardson finally
killed, with a ninth shot, few days ago
milk-white deer in the forest neal
Bigbee, Ala.
A YOUNG San Francisco hoodlum, who
recently seduced 16-year- old girl and
placed her in house of prostitution, has
been sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary for abduction.
The icebergs which during the past
four months have drifted about in the
neighborhood of the Banks of Newfound
land, and which have proved very dan.
gerous obstacles to vessels passing tha,
way, are fast disappearing.
LYDIA ScovnLE, the young woman
who killed her infant near West Vienna
Oneida County, N. Y, has made a state.
ment in which she says that young
man named James Hall advised her te
wrap cloth tightly around tho face Of
the child, and, if that did not kill it.
choke it with card. She followed the
counsel and left the babe in the woods,
Hall, who has been arrested, has recent.
~ dissipatea d fortune of $4,000 which
was left him by q relative.
NEAR the famous Kanawha Falls,
West Virginia, an immense cliff over.
hangs the river. For some years pasi
this cliff has had a tenant, who dug O
hole under its huge wings and lives there
all alone. He is a very old darky, and
he has the den divided off into apart
ments, one for sleeping, another fol
dining-room and one for kitchen. He
does his own cooking and lives by fish.
ing and hunting small game. He seems
perfectly satisfied, and can almost always
be found under the rocks OF this cave.
1T now appears that Clara Rennicks,
the San Francisco girl for whom two
lovers have committed suicide, has fol
some time been married to soldier who
is now booked at the preside rs de.
sefter. Since Blamires suicide Clara
has disappeared, and as there is
no criminal charge against her the de
tectives do not feel justified in looking
her up, although it must be admitted
that young woman who has been the
cause of the death of two men, and the
desertion from the army of third. may
be regarded as dangerous sort of 8
person.
ABOUT six months ago man named
John Washburn, residing near Swan.
colts mills, in Lewis County, New
York, was afflicted with swelling or
his nose, which continued TO grow unit
it was as large as ball, covering his en-
tire face and disfiguring it beyond recog
milton. The man died last week. Sew
eral physicians were consulted, most o.
whom were unable to determine what
the difficulty or disease was. One Oh
two, however, pronounced it cancer
of some description, but all were unable
to give any relief to the unfortunate
man.
The Moniteur in 1915, then the organ
of Louis XVIII, thus from day to day
recorded the progress of the first Napo,
leon from Elba to Paris: "rhe anthro.
pophagist has escaped" "The Corsi
can ogre has landed" "The tiger ID
coming" "Ihe monster has slept at
Grenoble." "The tyrant has arrived at
Lyons. "The usurper has been seen
in the environs of Paris" "Boraparte
advances toward, but will never enter,
the capital" Napoleon will be under
our ramparts tomorrow. ellis impe-
rial majesty entered the 1uilleries the
21st of March, in the midst of his faith
full subjects. London Society.
The native mushroom is to be pro-
tected. The commissioner of customs
to the secretary of the TREASURY
few weeks ago for instructions con-
cerning the proper classification OF
mushroom spawn" 1t appears that
someone had undertaken to import
what the department describes as = the
sporales or terminating principle of the
edible mushroom, mixed with manure
and pressed into forms suitable for
transportation and future use in plant.
ing" Assistant Secretary French has
decided that these "sporales /" must
pay duty of 90 per cent. ad valorem.
The native mushroom wherever it may
be-in the caves and cellars of the cult.
vator, or in the fields where it serves
only to. fertilize the soil from which i,
springs-may now take courage, rejoice
and be thankful for the sheltering care
Of protective tariff.
EVER since the terrible catastrophe OF
1926, when the Inflated Wiley family
were buried beneath the down.rushine
surface of their mountain home, the re.
port of landslide in the White Noun,
tains has a peculiar significance to the
New England ear. The slip, however
that has just taken place at Franconif
Notch appears not only tohave been en-
tirely free from loss of life. but to have
greatly enhanced the grandeur of the
scenery in that wonderfully picturesque
region. The big bowlder has, however,
fallen. This huge mass was suspended
between the rocks. at a distance of man,
feet from the base. 1t was SO picely ad
justed that touch appeared sufficient
to hurl it from its place. But there i
has stood for centuries, until the recen
tremendous freshet, which probably un
dermined its support and caused it tt
fall. It has long been apuzz'e to sci
entiie men what held the bowlder il
place.
The HercuIean Gar.
[From Albert Wolff in De Figaro.)
The emperor alone stands up; th
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