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The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
Latest Northwestern Patents.

George +. Bauder and A. M. Pease, San
born, OAK, harness pad; Thomas w. Bren
nan and ID. J. Brennan, Wexford, Iowa
wheel cultivator; Charles Gratz, Ottumwa,
Iowa, machine for nicking screws; JohI
Handy and ID. H. Lord. Northfi. Id, Minn.,
-four packer; John II. Harding, Milwaukee,
embossing upon plastered walls and othei
surfaces; O. A. Harris, Madelia, Mimi.
washing machine; Alonzo Wilson. Racine
Wis, hub for traction wheels; Il. Y. Burgen
Corning, Iowa. check rover for corn plant
ers; Willard A. Clark, Saltwater, Mimi.
water gauge; Thomas NJ. Dedman, De
MOines, Ia, weather boarding, sage clamI
and saw guide; Charles @. and +. q. keene
North McGregor, Ia. rub iron for vehicles
Charles Newburgh, Beloit, Wis, pump pis
ton; Sophia Polkey, Eau Claire, Wis, med
icine spoon and vial holder; John Stever
Neenah, Wis, automatic grain weighing
machine; Lemuel and M. Taylor, Jordan
Wis, wire fence; Amos Woeber, Daven
port, Ia, two-wheeled vehicle.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
The Pcrils OF Army Pickering.

Washington Special: Ii is almost GER
ain that the exposure of Col. A. y. Nor
row will result in further exposures, which
will bring much needed publication to
army circles in Washington. To state the
whole case in word Col. Morrow is the
latest victim of the army poker club here.
1t includes among It's active players two, il
not three, officers of the highest rank and
each handling and disbursing large sums o
public money. With these there are doz
en- military men who are known in army
circles as active poker players. Col. Nor
row is not by any means the :rst
victim. Members Of the club are be-
lieved 20 have used their knowledge OF
their superior's shortcomings To attempt
the control of their actions in important
matters OF public duty, mainly in cases
where punishment for otIenses should have
been inflicted bv those superiors in the dis
charge OF their duty. II is expected that
COL Morrow case, which officials OF high
rank supposed had been buried beyond dis
covery, will bring out the more prominent
features of the situation. This seems inev-
liable, because the official efforts to cover
the matter up have apparently very serious
ly compromised number of prominent
persons. The duplication Of this Of
ficer's pay accounts became known
only last Month. The paymas.
ter general promptly issued al order to re-
fuse all pay accounts OF this officer. But at
this point proceedings against Col. Morrow
halted. 1t is understood that as one means
OF concealing the affair the duplicate pay
accounts have been withdrawn and that,
with The consent o. superior officers, a new
set of pay accounts, reaching many mouths
into the future have been made up and
signed and delivered to the bankers and
Others who had advanced money or taken
pay accounts for debts. If ii turns out TO
be true, every officer connected with it is
liable to trial and punishment by military
court.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
A Fatal Fight About Gladstone.

st. Louis dispatch: Between - and |
o'clock this morning Iobn Thorne and
Joseph Jackson, two young English me-
chanics, became Involved in a fight on Il
street car. Otto l.. Dierberger proprietor
oi q beer garden, ineriered, stating that he
was a justice ef the peace, and with drawn
pistol threatened To arrest the men. Horne
Ccnied his authority, and resisted, and is
said to have struck Dierberger, whereupon
the latter she him in the ~ eek, the ball en-
tering the jugular vein, killing him instant
ty. Dierberger wss arrested. All of the
parties hal been drinking. The two Eng
lishmen had been at an entertainment in
the honor Of the queens birthday, and
their original dispute grew out OF heated
discussion Of English politics.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

A branch of the benevolent society the
Catholic Knights ofAmerioa, has besn organ
lied ut st. Paul in the Office Of william l..
Kelly. The following officers ware elected
President w. L. Kelly: secretary, d. ID. Har-
ington, treasurer, p. L. Dawson; medical
examiner, James G. Markoe.
An 1, 800. 900 acre purchase ofland in the
Pan Handle OF Texas by IN English syndi.
cate is reported: price, $500, 900. The
tract will be fenced. 1t borders 200 miles
on Indian territory.
Mrs. Julius Goodwater, indicted for shoot
ing her husband at Long Prairie has been
released on bail, Notwithstanding she was
indicted FOR murder in the first degree. Pub
lie sympathy 10 in her favor.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

operation ofthe measure TO agricultural and
forest laborers. The paragraph with an
amendment making the Insurance Of such
labOrers optional, was agreed to.
Last Sunday in Paris fifteen hundred per
sons joined in the anarchist demonstration
at the graves of communists at PerIe ia
Cnaise. The red flag was displayed and
the crowd raised frequent cries of "Vive la
Commune" Several speeches were made.
Many policemen were present, but nobody
was arrested.
Mr.. Ruskin recently pail 5000 for a
manuscript book made by Miss Alexander,
young American lady living IN Florence
which treats of the folk. lore of the Tuscan
peasants, is engrossed in copperplate
hand, and illuminated with pictures that
ars said to be gems of art
Two more arrests in connection with the
murderer conspiracy have been made at
Castlebar. The Castlebar murder copspi-
racy prisers have been remanded to prison.
RedpatlI's cable says the Parnell fund
subscriptions are larger than ever.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Col. Frank +. Howe of Boston, and
formerly pension sgent at New York, died
in WasbiHgton recently. He was at one
time special agent of the treasury depart
ment.
A. ID. German, of Albany, n. y, has given
$4,000 to found professorship of national
theology at Williams college, Mass, in
memory of q deceased son, student at Will
liams.
The guardians of the Cashel Poor Law
Union have passed q resolution expressing
deep affection for Archbishop Croke.
Gen. Grant admits that he is satisfied
with Arthur.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

packages Of money and other valuables
from the east bound Lake Shore train at the
Union depot and put them in a buggy
standing outside Somebody from the ice
room called to him, and no one being in
sight, he stepped a little ways from the We
h!cle to ascertain who called. Re
turning he drove to the express
company's main office, and there discov-
cred two bags similar t. the company's
pouches but filled with brown paper, which
had been substituted for the two contain
ing money. 1t is supposed the robbery
had been careflly planned by experts and
executed at the monent Changers atten.
ton was diverted The missing pouches
are said to contain in the neghborho od of
$4,000, in thirty packages of remittances
from railway stations.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
The Failures Ofa Week

Bradstleets Journal furnishes the follow
ing: There were 155 failures reported 10
B.adstieet's in the United States during the
week ending Goth, eleven less than the pre-
ceding week, thirty.oue more than the cor
responding week of 1882 ard fifty eight
more than the same week of 1881 The
important failures we're: Jesse Oakley &
Co., soap manufacturers; Thaddeus Davis &
Co., ink manufacturers; +. G.. Rideout 4
Co, novelties, and White e Rund, wholesale
clothing, New York City; f. +. Woemer.
ath, turs, Philadelphia.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
To Serve Another Term

A snort time since ,a- residence vS Dat,i-i
Hentleman of Sheribis Mount, in this
county, was broken open during the :b-
sence of the family and S3,l in gold and
currency was distracted. The robbery has
been I. aced To Ed. Williams who has lately
served out sentence in the Minnesota pen
itentsry and is now in Jail to answer to the
charge. He deposited the money in St.
Paul and Minneapolis banks. Steps are
being taken to recover the money and
Williams will be held on a criminal
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

wiser 1t is thought that the amount of the
defalca ion, S., 500, will be refunded before
trial, witha view to escaping the peniten-
tiary.
Postoffices have been established at Bed
ford, Cobourn, Sims and Wolsey, OAK, and
at Drybone and Poygan, Wis.
Mrs. John Butler residing near Ruther-
ford, n. c., has given birth to four children.
All are doing well.
The American board calls for $700, 600 for
next years mission work.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
At Minneapolis recently fire broke GU

At Minneapolis recently fire broke out
in the shaving house of Nelson, Tenny q
Co. s mill, between Central avenue and first
avenue north and Eighth and Ninth streets
The following buildings were destroyed A
part of the shaving houses of Nelson Tenny
Il Co.; and occupied by their engineer, Mr.
X. Buckley; the sash and door warehouse
the glazing shop and glass warehouse, thu
mcnlding warehouse and the dry kiln. ths
latter four buildings owned by Smith 4
Wyman. Total loss Al, ,0O0.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
An Express Agent Badly Fooled.

At Cleveland, o., on Thursday last the
United States Express company's money
carrier, Alexander Granger, received sundry
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

The Macon Telegraph thus makes .
,God point: "a great deal that is at
riruted to Yankee enterprise is really
lue to Yankee selfdenial and many
yonng men of yhe south would do well
20 make q nots OF il.
The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

The late Mrs. John q. Merriam, Of
Troy, who left an estate valued at over
half million, beQueathd S2,GoO to tho
Day Home of that city, 5000 to the Troy
Orphan Asylum, ana 500 to the Troy
Methodist Conference for the benefit Of
superannuated clerpymen.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-08-31
ALSO, A FARM, containing

ALSO, A FARM, containing
$50 ACRES
of unimproved land, situated about 2 miles
from Washington city, Z from Rockville, 3
from Randolph's Station, on the b. & o. r.
r., 4 from the Conduit and 2 from George
town pike A great deal of this land Is
cleared, and is all well watered.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-08-31
ELOoR MATING,

ELOOR MATING,
- AND OIL CLOTH,
Just received this week. Please call and see
my stock before purchasing elsewhere No
trouble TO show goods at the same old place
Of business
apr " d. H. B0UIC.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-08-31

A FARM, containing
lab ACRES OF LAND,
mostly cleared, well watered, impro yements
fair; lying within one mile of Gaithersburg.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
An Expert Shot.

Ellsworth Bierbower is remark
aoty sklllful with rifle. One Of
ms ms latest shots is described as
follows; A piece of half-inch
S"S-plpe was inserted through a
neavy piece of iron as a base. At
one one end Of this pipe he affixed the
81 GLade Of d hatchet, 50 thai the
H sharp edge rested against the pipe
I'm either side of the Ratchet he
nung glass ball. Standing off at
d distance of forty feet, lie fired
WIN a Winchester repeating rife
az The exposed end of the gas-pipe
through which the bullet passed
ana was split on the hatchet's
s1uge' each half breaking the glass
pall on either side of the hatchet.
! Having done this remarkable shot
70, ms satisfaction in the ordinary
1il hand way. he tried it in a diff.
t h manner. Holding the gun
oyer his shoulder; he sighted
through a small mirror, to be held
In tn ms left hand as he fred with
ms ms h pack to the object. Again did
s sne pail pass through the gas-pipe
f bot1 on on, the hatehet edge and break
a pom balls. Still another way was
tfied' Bending over, he held tie
i In. down and sighted under his
iE made; 10 '"ooe''A"i
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
Fo0D FOR THOUGHT.

Affection, like the ironsmith,
shapes as il smites.
Hope is the brightest star in the
armament of youth.
Every man esteems his own mis-
fortune the greatest.
If you would create something
you must lie somthing
The Bible without the Spirit Is 4
sundail by moonlight.
1t IS opinion that wins battles, and
tits opinion that loses them.
lie who throws out suspicion
should at once be suspected himself
A cheerful face IS nearly as cool
o. A i1ylli i as healthy weathcr.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02

A AAVon' want you, TO pay
me eth the money you owe me-
1llton was so astonished that for
some time he was unable to say
sshsthlng, but at length asked her
loi What he was indebted to her.
You have been using my lee
lure long. enough, she replied,
for it." " p@S
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
THE LIME KILN Club.
Brother Gardner Discourses Very
Wisely.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
cam Purveyor Hopewell in the
hall this evenin' 2" asked Brother
Gardner as the meeting was call
ed to order.
Eyes, sab" replied a voice from
the back row Of sets.
"Den please step dis way
Brother Hopewell shuffled for
ward with mixed look of hope
and doubt on his face.
He couldn't make out whether
he was to be rewarded for pulling
a stranger out Of the river the
other day, or court-martialed for
having wheelbarrow in his pos
session which three different men
claimed to have been stolen from
them.
"Brudder Hopewell," continued
the president, as a great silence
fell upon the meeting, ode odder
day / met you down de street and
| shouldn't have knowed who you
was, if Pickles Smith hadn't iden-
tilted you. You had on suit of
togs dat must have cost $40.
Eyes, sah.." ill.,.
"You had hair lie on year ha'r,
yer smelt of 'fumery, and Gard a
cane"
eyes, sab"
like a man who owned half detown
and when you stopped you struck
a pose to show off yer fgger.
Brudder Hopewell, how much
money does you airls8 week?"
"Bout SO, sab"
"And how much am you behind
in board?'
I'll spedt Pze bout chen
yes, sab a.
"Brudder Hopewell, you am IL
debt fur board, fur cloze, fur butet
fur cigars, and you has borrowed
money which you can't pay. | ha
my eye on yer fur de past tire
months, and knows all about il
Now, den, who an you?"
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
Fannie Mills Feet.
sandusky Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

Sandusky Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fannie Mills has the biggest feet
in the world, So far as Known, and
they are still growing. Your cores
pondent came here on purpose to see
the wonderful sight, which would,
under ordinary circumstances, be a
very indicate proceadihg. 1t seems
strange and rather unusual in d
young man to travel 200 miles to see
a pair of feet, and those belonging
to woman.
Fannie Mills is % years old, and
resides on the dairy farm of her
father, George Mills, two miles from
Sandusky. Your correspondent call
ed at the Mills home at evening, and
the head of the household was
standing in the yard. His greeting
was kindly and he entered into con-
versation on the subject of his
daughters big feet. He laughingly
remarked that people generally didn't
believe the seemingly incredible
stories concerning Fannie's immense
pedal extremities, but to prove that
they were really SO large he invited
the reporter into the house to see
for 1aslf; The young woman was
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
Had tic STUFF in Him.

A well known American editor
lately visited the school he had left
as boy thirty years before. 1t was
composition day, he writes, and as
one essay after another was read, 1
could hardly persuade myself that
a day had passsd, and ehese were not
my own classmates.
The boys read the same stelted
periods on the Fall of Rome; The
Tiumphs of Genops, Liberty, and
The Future of America, and the girls
overlooked with precisely the same
sentiments about violets, and fairy
dolls, and crimson sunsets, and the
lost Plead.
Now, whispered the old dominic
to the editor, you shall hear the
clever boy of the school. 1 anticipate
great career for this lad.
The composition was on the Indian
Problem, or Free Trade, or, some
other profound subject, on which il
was impossible that boy thirteen OF
fourteen could have a theory or argu
ment to advance, except those which
he had heard from others. These
were produced With flood of high
sounding irrelevant words. The ca
reer, said the editor; I would proph-
esy for such boy, would be that Of
an inlitator, who will make his trade
on the brain capital of other men.
After this boy, a quiet, round faced
lad stepped on the platform ara reat
a description of chickens. He had
a poultry yard of his own, and gave
his observations on tie habits, foo
and marketable valuation of til,
breeds he knew. The little pape
was full of useful facts, and he show
ed q keen capacity for observation
and dry humor.
There is the lad who has the stut
in him to mike a man of weight,
said to the dominie.-Youths Com
panion.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
ePurvevor Honewell Sss sab

EPurveyor Hopewell, yes, sab. ?
"Zactly 'zactly. You am a
single man, 25 years old a second
class barber, not worth $50, and
out of de 100000 people in dis
kentry not ober 100 has cher heard
of you. Now, den, you dress up;
yon swell around; you fling on
scollops; you try to deceive people
into taking you for a pusson OBJ
riches. What am your objict?'
81 / doan know sah,' STAN
mered the victim.
"Brudder Hopewell, let me tell
you something. When you fattef
yerself dat de people Of dis ken
try doan know de difference be-
tween de bray of de mule and de
roar of de lion, you am dreffully
mistaken. You have been follerin'
de lead of sartin white people. I
knows heaps of EN- who goes hun
cry and dodge creditors for the
sake of binding people. A woman
whose husband Arms $40 a week
has no bizness wild silks and dia-
monds, a SIS hat or a ST par of
shoes, but she am the pusson who
will have EN- for fear dat some
body will say that she isn't rich.
Half de kentry am in debt fur
cloze which only de odder half kin
afford. De woman who wears de
best cloze on the street has de most
holes in her parlor carpet at home.
DE man who swells de biggest
owes de most to his tailor and
shoemaker. You am a poor man.
You will neber have a hundred
dollars in bank.as long as you live.
You will neber arm more dan
huff to run a small cabin in
small way, and yet you am swellin'
around as if a $4,000 mortgage
wouldn't bodder you half an hour.
What's your obiick?
'I-I-doan know, sab.
boy! take off dat swaller-tailed
coat Jump outer dem tight
pantsl Drap dat silk necktie!
Den go to work and find cheap
boarding house and begin to pay
your debts. Let your cloze match
your salary. Let your board
match your cloze. Be what you
ana common sort Of pusson
whose assets will kiver his liabili-
ties by hard pulling. You cant
deceive anybody, and de less you
try to de better people will like
you.
Brother Hopewell retired to his
corner all broken up, and his first
move was to offer to trade hand
kerchief with red border to Shin
dig Watkins for a white handled
knife with all the blades broken.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02

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a neighbours henhouse and some
times he wouldn't come back till
the next day. The hen would be
sorry she had spoken SO cross, and
would be panied at his going away
and would look anxiously for his
return, and when he came back
after being out in the rain all
night she would be solicitous after
his health, and tell him he ought
to wrap something around him,
but he acted as though he didn't
care for his health, amp he would
go out again and get chilled
through. Finally the hen came
off the nest with ten chickens, and
the rooster seemed very proud,and
when anybody came out to look at
them he would crow, and seem to
say they were all his chickens,
though the hen was long time
Matching them, and il it had been
him that was setting on them he
could have Matched them out in a
week, or died a trying. But the
exposure told on him, and he went
into decline, and one morning we
found him dead. Do you know, I
never seen a hen that seemed to
realize calamity as she did She
looked pale and her eyes looked
red, and she seemed to be utterly
crushed. II the chickens which
were SO young they could not rea-
lize that they were little orphans,
became noisy and got to pulling
and hauling over worm, and con-
Quoted themselves in an unseen
lngly manner, she would talk to
them in hen language, with tears
in her eyes and it was picture of
woe. But the next day a neigh
boring rooster got to looking
through the fence from the alley,
and trying to firt with her. At
first she was indignant, and seem
ed to tell him he ought to go about
his business, and leave her alone,
but the dude kept clucking and
pretty soon the widowed hen edg-
ed up toward the fence, and asked
him to come in, but the hole in the
fence was too small for him, and
then the chickens went out in the
alley and then the hen followed
| shall always think she told the
chickens to go out, so she would
have an excuse to go after them,
and firt with the rooster, and [
think it is perfect shame. She
is out in the alley half the time,
and could cuff her. It seems to
me wrong to SO soon forget de-
ceased rooster, but ] suppose a hen
can't be any more than human.
Say, you don't want to buy a good
dead rooster do you? You could
pick it and sell tito somebody that
owes you for spring chicken.
mo, [ don't want any deceased
poultry, that died of grief, and you
better go home and watch the hen,
oryou will be bereayed some MORE
and the grocery man went out in
the shed to see if the cat was over
its fit, and when he came back the
boy was gone, and after awhile the
grocery man saw crowd in front
OF the store, and he went out and
found the dead rooster lying in
the vegetable stand with a paper
pinned on his breast, on it
was a sign, ''This ruster dido Of
colix. For sale cheap to bording
house only" He took the dead
rooster and threw it in the street,
and looked up and down the street
for the bad boy, and went III and
hid a raw hide where he could
reach it handy.
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02
That First Bale of Cotton.

Il litor Morning News: All the pa
pers to-day announce with alarums
and fourishes the receipt Of the first
bale Of the new crop, which reached
Savannah this morning. 1T occupied
a conspicuous position in front OF
the Cotton Exchange to-day and at
tracted general notice. / do not
wish to make any disagreeable insin-
uations, but only give expression to
the general opinion of our local ex-
perts, whose views were expressed
by the we'll known Dir. f. Lee G.
Staple, as follows:
cit don't look like new cotton
1t don't feel like new cottoa--it
don't smell like new cotton, end,
it amt new cotton, for here an old
'cockspur in it p
We believe the eocpsnuir never
ripens for some two months later,
ard moreover. cotton, With a cock
spur 1T may safely be set down
as having been picked up from the
ground ~ the fail of the, year.
As stased above, 1 only voice the
general Cotton Exchange opinion
In fact, the bale is a little 100 previous
aud the enterppising Albanian Whe
paid 25f cents for it must be con
| graduated on the possession of {
superab indance of dollars.
DEMoCRirUs,
The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-08-02

was made.
The left shoe is 161 inches long,
the right Is inches in length the
left is y inches wide and the other
s inches. Tie tight instep of the
shoe measures l94 inches, and the
left liz inches. Fannie Mills weighs
100 pounds, and, although delicate
looking, says she has good health
1t takes two calf hides to make her
pair Of shoes, and all her vitality
goes to sustain her massive limbs
and feet. The girl had unusually
large feet when she was born, and
they have continued to grow alarm
ingly fast ever since. The girls of
Chicago ,whose big feet are pro
verbal, must now surrender the palm
to poor little Fannie Mills, who bears
her hard fate cheerfull9.