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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
by the astrological predictions Of Doctor

by the astrological predictions Of Doctor
Dee. Charles /. consulted Lilly, the
astrologer, before his attempted escape
from Carisbrooke Castle; Charles u.
was a bigot to the science; Catherine de
Medicis brought Henry ~. of France.
when a child, to Nostradamus for his
destiny; Burton, the author of the
"Anatomy of Melancholy" is said to
have committed suicide merely to verb
fly his prediction; Dryden cast the
nativities of his sons; the Royalists and
the Puritans in the civil war had their
astrologers, and Lilly was considered to
have performed q great feat by his pre-
diction for the Roundheads of the vic
tory at Naseby. Falling stars. the
prominent features of the August heav.
ems, are still looked upon with a certain
amount of dread. In rustic England
they are said to prognosticate a birth;
in rustic France they foretell a death;
and it is. a very popular opinion that
every falling star means aworld hurried
into oblivion. There is also q common
fancy that a WISH. if it can be formed
during the passage of a falling star, will
be fulflled.-LOHdOn Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
Reads Like a Lie.

The Richmond correspondent of the
Ba1timorean, in a recent letter to that
paper says: ga gentleman from Fred
e%rlcksburg brings an account of a some
what romantic affair, which recently oc.
Cured, and in which your city furnished
one Of the prominent actors. 1t seems
that a young farmer of Westmoreland
County, in this State, published a per-
sonal in a daily journal of Baltimore,
proposing a correspondence with any
young lady VINO might answer to the
description given, with a view to mat
rimony. No joke was intended. 1t was
answered by a young lady of the Monu-
mental City of unusual personal attrac-
tions, and who stated that she was in
real earnest. Wednesday of last week
the young lady left Baltimore via the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway, for the
Lower Cedar Point excursion, and at
that locality met her matrimonial cor
respondent, who proved to be a sturdy,
fine looking, prosperous Virginia
farmer. During the day they greatly
enjoyed the occasion and freely mingled
with the other excursionists from Balti-
more and Washington; but when the
crowds were ready to return this par
ticular two embarked in a handsome
sailboat for the Virginia shore. Here
they were met by a minister of the Cos
pei, who speedily made the twain one
flesh, and from that time to the present
the la:ge number of beautiful women
lately in Baltimore has been one less"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
Curious immigration to the Sandwich
Islands.

John Tucker, manager of one of the
large plantations on the island of
Hawaii, of the Sandwich Island group.
arrived from Panama Thursday On the
Pacific Mail Steamship Colima, bringing
with him thirty-six pairs of that curious
and useful animal called the mongoose.
MI. Tucker was sent by the planters of
Hawaii to Jamaica to procure the ami
mails at a cost of about 81, 3 The
mongoose is similar to a weasel, andhas
proved of incalculable service in the
island of Jamaica in Kidding it of rats,
which are so destructive to sugar-cane.
1t has freed that island from the rat
pest, and has also acted as a modern ST..
Patrick, and has destroyed every snake.
One Of the growing troubles in the Ha-
waijan Islands is the rat-pest. Cane is
destroyed in the fields and great losses
are entailed on the planters. Nothing
seemed to be able to put a stop to this
wholesale destruction, and it was deter
minedto import the mongoose. Ten ofthe
plantations combined, and Mr.. Tucker
was sent to Jamaica. in that island
the mong6ose had multiplied to such an
extent that they are to be seen every
where. They run across the roads,
swarm in the fields and are found every.
where. They are caught in box traps,
as squirrels are, and are sometimes
caught when young and tanned. The
tame mongoose lives around the house
like a cat. They are about the size of
an ordinary rat, with a longer body and
a tail similar to that of a cat. The I'M
tanned animals are savage little crea-
lures, having a large and ugly mouth
filled with sharp and glistening teeth.
They are fleece fighters, and their move
ments are like a lightning flash. When
two of them are fighting in a cage it
looks as though there were simply q
shadow fitting about within.
1t is said that whenever their teeth
meet in flesh they can MOI be made to
let go their hold until either they or
their prey is dead. They are the natu-
raj eNterminators of rats, entering every
rat-hole and killing it's inmates. They
h make the rats abode their own.
never preparing shelter for themselves
They live on animal food, and in Ia
malca, now that the rats are gone and
they have ex%terminated many of the
other pests, they kill many of the ne
groes' chickens. Mr.. Tucker obtained
lO6 animals in Jamaica,s and put them
IN cages, in each apartment of which
We're placed a male and a female. 81.
lost twenty OF them before he left ia
malca through their proclivities to fight
among themselves and to suck each
others blood. On the Panama Rail
road the employees treated the cages and
their occupants as if they were cast iron.
n several more We're lost. But sew
enty-two were got aboard the Colima
ahu since 'hen none of the animals
afFe dleu --Sam Francisco Bulletin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
TRAVELLING in the North Sea.

A trawl is a complicated engine, both
In it's structure and in the method of it's
working; and it is difficult to explain
either without a diagram. 1t is a long,
funnel-like net, shaped like a jelly-bag
or a cotton night-cap. Its mouth Gan
swering to the caps edge) is kept dis
tended by a s'beam'' some orty-five feet
in length, and at each end of the beam
are two large hoops or rings-the
'irons," that keep the beam raised
above the ground. From iron to iron
the upper edge of the travis mouth is
dashed to the beam. The slack part of
the edge is weighted by a heavy ground
rope" which Keeps it dragging on the
sand. Such is the structure Of the net
itself. 1t remains to explain it's mode
OF action. AS the beam is dragged
along, it drags the net after it. The
fish, lying close to the bottom, are first
startled by the beam passing over them.
Some dart forward and escape. Those
that take the other direction encounter
the ground rope, beneath which they
can not possibly force their way. They
pass over it, or it is dragged under
them. and they are at once hopelessly
ensnared in the body of the net. Drag
an envelope, deeper than it is broad,
slowly over the table, with its direction
side uppermost and its mouth slightly
~,distended, and it will sweep up the
crumbs in its path exactly as the trawl
sweeps up the fish from the bottom.
The analogy will be more complete if
rAe envelope toward it's lower part ia
pers to a point, in which the crumbs
collect. To put down the gear, you first
throw overheard the pointed end, or
''cod," of the net. AS the ''cod'' paws
away the net follows it until the whole
net is hanging out in the water taut
from the beam, with its upper surface
(the back of the envelope) floating, and
the lower kept down by the weight of
the ground-rope round the lower edge
OF the nets mouth. Then the beam,
which until now has been dashed tightly
at each end to the vessels side, is sud-
denly let go, and the trawl at once be-
gins to sink. To the iron at each end
Of the beam is attached a stout rope
some fifteen fathoms long. The two
ropes meet in a shackle. and are called
the ''bridle," and to the shackle is at
tached a large hawser, or tow rope,
called the ''warp," which is slowed in
the hold and passed out round a cap
stan or "wink" in the center of the
deck. AS the bride and after it the
warp are paid out, the weight of the
whole gear and the friction of the
ground rope and under surface of the
net upon the ground arrest the vessels
course; and, although all her canvas is
full and she is apparently making rapid
way through the water, she in reality
to drift away slowly to leeward,
owing the gear in her wake.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
PITH AND POINT.

The quality of mercy is not strained,
but much of the stuff called mercy
ought to be.-M O. Rcayune.
Mrs. Suddnriches has her butter
stamped with the family coat-of-arms,
and she says the die, made in lockwood,
cost twenty-five dollars. Fortunately
the butter she uses is strong enough TO
hold tn: Y. Times.
When Mrs. Homespun read that
Mary Anderson had abandoned "Ihe
Hunchback," she remarked: "You
can't really blame her. 1t would have
been too bad for a poorly gal like her to
marry a hunchback "-Bostom Pos.
"A professor who recently tried to
mesmerize a bull by gazing fixedly at
the ferocious beast has just recovered
from the effects of his involuntary
arial navigation, and has quite lost
faith in the power of the human eye over
brutes.
There is an old proverb which says:
"You a not get more out of a bottle
than was put in it." This is o mistake.
A mar can get all that Was put in the
bottle and in addition to this can get
ten dollars or thirty days.-Endianap'-
lis Journal.
1t is in a Western city that a barber
announces himself as "a professor Of
%crinicultural abscission and crainiolog:.
ical tripsis, t~onsorial artist, physiognical
halr-dresser. facial operator, Uranium
manipulation and capillary abridgger."--
Boston transcript.
Wisconsin seports a hail-storm
which knocked the horns off a steer,
but that is nothing; Pennsylvania hau
a hail-storm last summer which SPIN
the top crust of a pie baked by NassaF
College girl who is known to the para
grapher Of the Philadelphia Call.
A big Yankee from Maine, on pay
ing his bill in a London restaurant was
told that the sum put down didn't ~
clude the waiter. oval" he roareq,
81 didn't eat any waiter; did IT, no
looked as if he could, though; and the u
was no further discussion.-N. l.
Graphic. 49,.
On the edge of a small river in mo
County of Cavan, in Ireland, tae1e 10
Cor used to be) a stone with the 1o!lo% W
ing inscription cut upon 1t, no uo .ars
intended for the information OF strahSssis
travelling that way: IN. B.-When s tnI
stone is out of sight it is not safe 10 io'N
the river" -.
The following is Artemas W patsey
description of why he courted Del t;cs
Jane: "'There were many atfectl n4 cav
which made me banker after p e'r
Jane. Her fathers farm joined o ,h,ir
their COWS and III s%quenchea n "a,
thirst at the same spring; our ola n'u .he
both had stars in their forreasi At
measles broke out in both families ssnts
nearly the same time; u p%aular-
(Betsey James and miae) slept r esetin'.
ly every Sunday in the same meo nerve:
house, and the Majors used to oosir'
.How thick the Wards and PeasiGs Of
II was a sublime sight in the sPal n15ers
the year to see; our seyera ha;r Gowns
(Betsey's and mine) with Their Eo,e
pinned up so that heycouldnt sn ,ul
effeckshunitely bilin' soap toss''e
aboosin' their nabors."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

"A quilting-frame has been ;n,.
shat can be used in connect;on uvented
sewing-machine.- Chicago Times WIN .
The farmers of Hartford Coru-
Md, have 100000 invested E; IN
ming factories, and the business. i can,
growing. 40 Still
Mrs. Edison, the wife of A.
ventor, is the originator of what Va" ~
Uses to be a popular arraneemsn+ Prom.
electric light in chandeIiers.wNW me
San. I.
"A factory at Savannah, Ca. c,o,..
$500 per day by manufacturing q erears
rior quality of wrapping paper o Sape,
rice straw and palm leaves. form - 81
waste material. Manufacturing ;nta!y
ests are developing all over the Sow. owl
Chicago Inter- Ocean. S0u'n'
The speed at which explosion.
travel has been looked into by M. R eaa
thelot. He took for the gases carb,ai.
oxide and oxygen, and these he q.
ploded in a tube sixteen inches lono o VA,
one-third inch in diameter, by means sl ~
electricity. The rate observed was tL "
unexpectedly high one of $500 metros n.
a second.
The introduction of electricity &c .
substitute for lamps and candles ~
board ship is making rapid progress
There is n source OF safety in tfis IT,
the ship and the passengers. All ljsbts
are put out at eleven O'Clock. After
this time people may talk in the darl
but there is no possibility of the recl''
less use of lights and lamps.-Uieano
Journal.
"A simple and useful bolt has hpA,
invented by Mr.. Arnott, of the Lyceum
Theater (London), having for its object
the fastening of doors of theaters and
other public buildings, SO that they can
be opened by mere pressure against tha
door from the inside, and not at all FROM
the outside, dispensing with all other
fastenings, which cause so MANY acc;.
dents in cases of panic. One ADVANTAGE
is, that being once u~nfastened it can not
be rebolted by accident.
1t was reported a short time non
that piles had been driven by dynamite
in some German experiments. Later
advices concerning the process STATE
that an iron plate sixteen inches in d.
ameter and five inches thick is placed
on the top of the pile to be driven. and
upon this plate a pound-and-a-haltf
charge of dynamite is exploded BY cleo.
tricity. The force of the explosion
drives the pile into the mud as far as
would five blows struck by a weight Of
$3.50 pounds falling from a height Of
ten feet, The system was originated by
Herr Pradamovic, City Engineer Of
Pesth.
A Bridgeport Conn., man has bro.
duced an invention SO dangerous that
the Government refused him a patent
on it. The description tells of a hollow
steel belt filled with compressed air
from an air pump, and which can be
worn so that it is completely concealed,
with the exception of a tiny nipple pro-
truding through a vest buttonhole: a
pellet Of condensed poison placed in this
nipple can be no;selessly sent, with
force sufficient to penetrate a quarter
inch of rawhide, a distance Of forty
feet; and if the pellet penetrates the Au-
man skin, in fifteen minutes death en.(
sues, although the first indications Of
poisoning do not appear under five mn.
ntas.-ROSt0n Post
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24

j. D. Moore and Louise Anderson,
OF Montgomery County, KY, were rid
ing rapidly on an elopement to Ohio
the other night. when they drove over .
high bank, broke the wagon to pieces,
killed the horse and were painfully hurt
themselves
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24

Somebody has brought home from
Europe an opera cloak made of white
fur and lined with quilted satin. People
have no idea what a nice garment this is
until they hear it cost s., STANDARDIZATION
Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-24

AS men were scarce women were
employed to help the masons construct
ing the bridge at Springfield, N. j., and
they. did the work well and received
mems ~pay.-Newark Register.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
Iowa.

Lady's suicIde-senator AlltsOn's Wife Droyvns Herself While Suffering From Mental Disease.
 DUBUQUE, Aug. 13.-Mrs. W. B. Allison,
 the wife of United States Senator Allison,
 drowned herself in the Mississippi sometime
 last night. She left home yesterday after noon after one o'clock. telling the servant that she was going to one of the neighbors
 Instead of this, however, taking her gossamer on her arm she went in an opposite direction where she has been accustomed to take daily walks. It is ascertained that she wandered around in the suburbs during the afternoon where she was seen by several persons walk ing rapidly and somewhat excited. Not re- turning by g o'clock from the place where She was thought to be the alarm was given and a search was maintained during the en- tire night. This morning her body was dis covered by an outgoing train man shortly after o'clock in the river about mile below the city. She had cut up her gossamer, placed some stones in it and tied them securely about her neck and then walked into the river about fifty feet from land, laid down and drowned. herself where the water was only 24 feet deep. Mrs. AL ison was of highly nervous temperament and during the past two or three years has suffered from and been treated for mental disease. While at water cure establishment in western New York in 1881 under medical treatment she attempted suicide in much the same manner but was rescued. She was a niece and adopted daughter of the late Senator Grimes of Iowa and has been married ten years. Senator Allison had opened the campaign at Clarinda on Satur- day and yesterday was in Council Bluffs. dispatch was sent him last night as soon as her disappearance was known, but it is thought he was not reached until this morn ing. He is now on his way home by 8 spe- cial train, but cannot reach here until late this evening. The shocking event has cast gloom over the entire community.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
NEW JERSEY.

Kicked to Death-A Murder I'm Which
 Some Good Detective Work Has Been
 Done.
 RAHwEY, Aug. 13-Henry A. Dietz, who died on Sunday morning, is supposed now to have been kicked to death by May and Clay. ton, who are under arrest. The autopsy to- day shows that while his skull was not frac- tured as was at first supposed, he died from internal injuries not produced by natural causes. The physicians will not give their decision on the post-mortem until they have had time to make 8 further. examination, which they will do before the inquest to- morrow. Chief of Police Tooker did neat piece of work when he succeeded in getting May to confess that he had Dietz's hat on and by securing Clayton, an Engli shman em. pleyed iu Bloodgood's factory, two miles from the city. without any other clues than the personal description Helmstraedter was able to give of two men whom he had never seen before and whom he saw then only in fight on a cloudy night. A curious thing about the affair was when May confessed his identity he was already under arrest for par ticipation in drunken row mile away from the place where the murder had been con- mitted twenty minutes previous
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WIRE CUTTERS AT WORK. Nearly 4 Thousand Western Wires
 Down. THE LETTERS OF lNFoRMER CAREY. He Protests His Innocence to
 His Counsel. AN IRISH TRAITOR'S EXPLOITS.
THE LETTERS OF lNFoRMER CAREY,
AN IRISH TRAITOR's EXPLOITS.
McDermOft's Mode of Re-
 traying Dynanfters.
THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE.

Cutting the WIres-Nearly 8 Thousand
 of the Western Circuit Down-Finan-
 eial Assistance for the Strikera-TheIr
 Reports of an Encouraging Nature. NEW YORK, August 13.-The statement is made tonight on authority which is good that the Western Union Telegraph company has been busily concesling all day the fact that they had only thirty-nine western wires out of one thousand which were cut this morning. The officials do not admit this to be true, but the written message comes from their office and from Q man who must know i: Nearly one thousand wires were cut in and near the city this morning and we have only thirty. nine wires left Vest This fact was only known to few tonight, but will spread rapidly. There were already evidences at Il o'clock tonight that more wires were being cut not only on the Western Union, but on other lines. The strikers have been much encouraged during the last two or three days and the backbone of the strike is stronger than it ever was The latest item received by the executive committee was to the effect that the five men who had returned to work at Baltimore had again gone out and left the office empty. The company has it is understood ceased paying the extras which were paid and which were very high prices, but it still demands wear ing amount of work and keeps it's men so far as possible confined to the building. An effort is apparently being made vi1h some probability of success to combine the South ern Telegraph company, the Baltimore & Ohio' the Postal, the Bankers and Merchants, the Chicago and Milwaukee, the American Rapid, the Board of Trade from Chicago to St. Louis and other competitive local lines into an opposition to the Western Union. They have that one advantage over the extended Western Union system of tapping all the central points from which comes three fourths of the commercial business, while they are not embarrassed by numerous small offices producing no profit.
 The meeting of the teIegraphers at Claren- don Hall this afternoon was largely attended. The report of the finance committee showed that subscriptions from the various trades unions in the city already amounted to near ly $5, ,000 and various sums are being re- ceived at all hours of the day. It was sta ted that operators employed by the Wes- tenn Union company will have to renounce the brotherhood and take an oath not to join any other organization.
 At the hearing to-day of the sub committee of the United States Senate Committee on Labor and Education Master Workman Campbell and John Mcclellan, one of the of- ficers of the brotherhood, were examined. The special subject of the ub-committee's investigation is strikes and labor movements in general, the object being to obtain infor- nation which may be used in securing future legislation to prevent them.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
TELEGRAPaIC JOTTINGs.

Mrs. Francis Hart has brought suit in the Brooklyn City court to recover $15,O0O damages from the Long Island railroad for injuries received by falling from Manhattan Beach train.
 Mike Righton, colored man, murdered his wife Sunday night at Edenton, s. C., by shooting her deliberately after a quarrel which grew out of jealous charges made by both husband and wife.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, 8 widow forty-two years old, died yesterday at Brooklyn from the effects of the burns she received at the fire in the tenement at the corner of Doherty street and Elizabeth place. She is the third victim of this fire.
 Base ball yesterday: At New York, New Yorks 8, Philadelphias 1 i; at Cleveland, De- troits 4, Clevelands 2; at Buffalo, Chicagos 14, Butfalos g.; at Philadelphia, Athletics 5, Metropolitans 9 at Cincinnati, Cincinnatis F, Eclipse 3; at Pittsburg, Baltimores II, Allegnanys 3.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
POTATOES.

WKYE have just received 8 lot Of the hnsbt Native w Early RoSe Potatoes we have had this year, which we are selling at 90 cents bushel; call and zee them before you buy. We have Pure Coffee which we grind to order for only % cents pound.
 rv M 1t is sure to suit II lbs Granulated Sugar for SI Best St. Louis Flour 95c bag. Southfngton Grsamery Butter al&ays on hand. A little of that RoOd old Cider left at R. G. BALDWIN'S,
 eue Al WhAIey Avenue.