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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16
NoTidE i FOR PUBLICATION Biz Al '
Land Office at Yankton. u. T.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following.
II named settler has filed notice of his inten.
tion to make final proof in support of his
claim and that said proof will be made before
register OF receiver, at Ynnkton. Dakota. on
December I'D, lssS. viz: Maren Olsen. Yauk-
ton county, Disk, 6ecinratcry statement No.
1855, Tor lot s, southwest quarter section !,
township Ri, range 20. He lanes the follow
ing witnesses 10 prove his continuous resi-
dence upon. and cultivation of, said land, viz:
tiot, ieib Uemer. Mons b. BIatbers. Lara U.
Aaseth, John U. Aaseih, of Jsmesvllie, IAnk-
GA. WETTER, Register.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16

We Solicit sSs ..s & ss, from Z, m. t4e:s ,:
class real estate. or who may. want any legal OF
land Office business attended 70.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16

Law. Will practice in ell. the courts, and
tests involving land titles. .nsdsr the Homestead,
pre-emption and timber culture laws . special.
~. Nearly nine years exps5iedce q receiver Of
the Springfield and Watertown land offcss
enable us % handle this class Of business with
superior skiu.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16

HOmcs. corner of Douglas avenue and
Third street. directly opposite postotiee. up
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16

Average menbenhlp. Observation-Disclosures. sls
Average daily attendance. ....... 474
Fer cent ct attendance ................... 1884
dy during the year -. =. .... o
Number Of pupils under six years Of age 1s
Number Of pupils between the ages of SIX
Number Of pupils over sixteen years Of
ASe.... ..........................
Pc! cent: of school population enrolled in
Number of days the schools we're taught
:, during the year. ..........:............ lis
Number of cases of suspenson ........... 8
Number of cases of corporal punishment. S
Average cost per year for tuition for each
pupil on average membership, estimA-
ted on salaries paid teachers ........... $40 50
Average cost per year. estimated on all
7 other incidental expenses, except inter-
est ON honds. & IA
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16
DsGstts's Scientific sys.s.n.

Which In is.s'f ssssa.Aa ~ S.stAAs 4
n: 9 Z Ao{Ala sl..ssas I. 60.
tfs.a ~--.--
.sss:.. css::-Rsss.zs ss.zH ''lts.v.ss;staE MN.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-11-16

Office, No. .. second floor postonics block
Third street, Yankt0n, DAkotG
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
Gen. Grants Narrow Escape.

The Washington CORE respondent of the
Boston IFaUeler tells this rather sensa-
tional story; General Grant, in a recent
conversation, said:
The darkest day of nv life was the
day | heard of Lincoln's assassination.
| did not know what it meant. Lincoln
was killed on the evening of the 14th of
April. [ was busy sending out orders
to stop recruiting, the purchase of sup
plies, and to muster out the army.
Lincoln had promised ta 60 to- tine the
atr-. nrN vented ma to- ga with him.
Wmly ] was with tine President. Cd note
.r.. r.u Mrs Grant saying that She
must leave Washington tlI,.t night. She
wanted to go to Burlington to see her
children. Some incident of a trifiing
nature had made her resolve to leave
that evening. | was glad to have it so,
as | did not want to go to the theatre.
So | made my excuses to Lincoln, and
at the proper hour we started for the
train
"As we were driving along Pennsyl-
vania avenue, a horseman drove past us
ON a gallop, and back again around our
carriage, looking into it, Mrs. Grant
said: There is the man who sat near us
at lunch to-day, with some other men,
and tried to overhear our conversation.
He was so rude that we left the dining
room. Here he is now riding after u.s.
[ thought it was only curiosity, but
learned afterward that the horseman was
Booth. 1t seemed that I was to have
been attacked, and Mrs. Grants sudden
resolve to leave changed the plan. A
few days after [ received an anonymous
letter from a man saying that he had
been detailed to kill me, that he rode on
my train as far as Havre de Grace, and
as my car was locked he failed to get in.
He thanked God that he had failed. |
remembered that the conductor had
locked our car, but how true the letter
was l cannot say. l learned of the
assassination as l was passing through
Philadelphia. [ turned around, took a
special train and came on to Washington.
1t was the gloomiest day of my life"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
A WOrkingman's Reward.

There is a legend connected with the
Bank of England that is worth relating :
A sewer workman, while pobing around
under ground, found that by raising a
fagstone he could penetrate into the
bullion room of the bank. Amazed at
the discovery, he pondered over it, and
finally concluded that he would utilize il
to his pecuniary benefit without stealing
He therefore wrote to the directors, ask
ing what reward he would receive heil
should meet them at any appointed hour
of the night in the bullion room, and
thus reveal to them mode of ingress of
which they We're entirely ignorant. They
named a sum which would make him in
dependent for life, and to their ever
whelming surprise he kept his promise
by popping up through the sewer, for
which he received ten thousand pounds
or so. This is supposed to have hap,
pended long ago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
The Tramp and the Dog.

A big lonesome-looking dog sat at the
gate of house on Cass avenue the other
day, eyes full of tears and his whole body
shaking with cold. A tramp, who had
neither overcoat nor mittens, and whose
bare toes peeped through his boots, was
making his way up the street in search
of the right kind of a side entrance, when
he espied the dog and crossed over and
said:
"WelI, now, this is an unexpected
pleasure Upon my soul, but [ have
found one living thing in this town as
poorly off as myself. Say, old fellow,
where do you hang out?''
The dog looked at him through his
tears, but had nothing to say.
"'Tough, isn't ?" continued the man.
81 look old and seedy, and you are the
the homeliest dog 1 ever saw. That
strikes a fraternal chord and we meet on
level [ haven't had a square meal for
week, and you haven't seen a bone
for the past ten days. Even again, eh?
The dog shivered and whined and got
up and sat down, and the tramp drew
closer and said:
'No home, Ell? Neither have I. No
one to whistle for you? Same here.
That's even again. l can warm up my
shakes with whisky, while you have to
grin and bear it. That's where I've got
the dead wood ON you. I can talk
through my nose and tell fifty different
pitiful stories to excite sympathy and
bring out cold victuals, while you have
nothing to say for yourself and must
take bones or go hungry. That's an
other for me. On the whole, I'm ahead
of you, and although you are only dog
I'm glad on it. It's something to fee
that you are one peg higher than an old
yaIler, homeless, hungry cur. SO long,
old fellow"
As the tramp started to go the dog
reached out and snapped his leg and
then took a run for it.
Say, there. hold on y called out the
man as he wheeled around. said |
was ahead, but I'll take it back You
can lunch on my legs, while I'll see this
country teetotally busted to New Jersey
if [ don't die of starvation before [ come
down to eating dog Even, Old fellow
Just about even on the average, and no
use of any hard feelings over it IN.
QUAD
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
Disasters in Schools.

The disaster in New York City by
which sixteen little children, of a Ger
man Catholic school were smOthered to
death while escaping from building on
fire, recalls the story of one of the most
disastrous panics ever known in New
York, which occurred in October, 1858.
Thomas f. Harrison, at present Assistant
Superintendent of Grammar Schools,
but at that time principal in one of the
high schools III New York City, thus
describes it:
"The school-house in which the panic
occurred was in Greenwich avenue, near
Jefferson Market. The building was
four stories in height, and contained at
the time 1,5OO children in the several
grades. The girls department was upon
the second floor. One afternoon, my
sister, Abby Harrison, who was at that
time the principal of the department,
was conducting a recitation IN the
furthest classroom. Calling little girl
to her side. she told her to go out and
get her glass of water. The child hurried
out into the next room and said in pass
ing that Miss Harrison wanted some
water. Some one said Fire, and in a
minute all were in confusion. The children
rushed toward the stairway. Unfortu-
nately the doors of the school-house
swung inward. The children crowding
up against them were not able to force
them open. The railing gave way, and
in moment the children, pushed by
those behind them, were forced over The
edge into the we'll below. Down they
fell. one after the other, until there was
a pile of them not less than twelve feet
high. Fifty of them were killed. The
shock to the principals of both the male
and female departments was 50 great that
they died within three minutes after the
the accident"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15

Here is a new dodge that is being
practiced: A successful specuIator hires
a store III a thriving village, stocks it
with snowy but poor merchandise. and
pretends that he means to establish a
permanent business. At the end of a
month or two, he receives a telegram an
nouncing the death of his father i'll Lon
don, and urging him to come at once to
look after the estate. Then he an
nounces that he must sacrifice his goods
in order to get off quickly, and they are
sold by auction at good price. The
legitimate business men of village are
the men to do business with and will
always treat their patrons fairly. They
have a business reputation to maintain
and must maintain it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
The Original Tramp.

There is good reason to believe, says
Western Massachusetts, paper, that the
original tramp came from the town Of
New Marlboro. His name was Jake
Clark. He was a young man at the time
of his exploits, and began to distinguish
himself about the year 1880. He was a
bachelor, and lived part of the time with
his widowed mother. With many things
wanting that go to make up a well-con-
stituted man, Jake, nevertheless, had
elements of shrewdness that might have
made him great man if he had pos
sessed industry, dignity and self-respect,
and had not been a slave to the habit of
drinking New England rum, apple-jack
and old cider He planted himself
squarely on this ethical platform: 1t is
lust as well to tell lie as to tell the truth,
if the lie has the semblance of truth.
And he was frequently heard to say that
a man WAS ga blank fool for telling a lie
unless it had about it a great degree of
apparent truth" Jake wouldn't work.
He was constitutionally disposed to be a
man of leisUTe-not elegant, but happy,
and his great scheme was to travel from
town to town and get his living by his
wits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
Railroad Stories.

The deep snow and hard ice
are making trouble on the Yer
mont railroads. There is an occasional
amusing incident connected with the
blockade. The other night freight
train broke apart ON a curve. The first
section had run quite distance before
the accident was discovered. Then it
backed up, coupled on the missing sec
ton, and went on to its destination. But
on looking over his way bills the conduc-
tor found that one car was missing from
the center of the train, and its disap-
pearance was a mystery. Going back,
he found it down IL bank. A still more
singular accident occurred to n passenger
train. 1t had halted as usual at n little
station during the night, but no engine
was to be found in the morning. The
tender was there all right, and as it
proved had piloted the train for long
distance ON down grade, the engine
having jumped the track without de
railing the rest of the train or checking
its speed Neither the engineer nor
fireman was injured.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
The Ashland Murder.

The jury in the case of Ellis Craft,
one of the Ashland murderers on trial at
Grayson, Ky, after brief deliberation,
found the prisoner guilty.
Two nights before Christmas, 1881,
Mr.. aud Mrs. J. w. Gibbons, living in
Ashland, Ky, went visiting, leaving at
home their son Robert, a daughter Fanny.
age fourteen, and Miss Emma Thomas,
age seventeen. In the night the house
was entered by men, who assaulted the
girls and then murdered them. Robert
Gibbons was also killed. The heads Cf
all three were split with a hatchet. The
men then saturated the girls clothing
with oil and set fire to the house, which
was burned to the ground. William
Neal and George Ellis, married men, and
Ellis Craft, a single man, were arrested
on January 2, 1882, on suspicion, and
George Ellis made a confession to Con
stable Hefliu. On November ]. 1882.
while the troops guarding the prisoners
were on their way to the steamer Granite
State they We're attacked by a mob. At
Ashland the steamer was overtaken and
another attack was made. The soldiers
returned the fire, and five or SIX persons
were killed and about TWENTY-FIVE
wounded
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
What it Proposes for Internal Revenue and
the Tariff.


, What is called the Senate Tariff Bill
bears the title of can act to reduce in
ternal revenue taxation," though only
It's first five sections are devoted to in
ternal taxes These repeal the taxes on
capital and deposits of banks and bank
ers, the stamp tax on bank checks,
drafts, orders, and vouchers, and the tax
on matches, perfumery, patent medi,
cmeS, etc. They fix the annual tax on
wholesale dealers in leaf tobacco at S12
instead of $25; on manufacturers of to-
bacco and cigars at $6 instead of $40,
and they make n similar reduction in
favor of the various grades of tobacco
| peddlers.
The tax on retail dealers in leaf tobacco
IS fixed is $3.50 instead of $500, with an
additional tax 80 cents for each dollar on
the amount of their monthly sales Sin
excess of the rate OF $500 per annum. -
and the bill enables farmers and produ.
GERS of tobacco to sell at the place of pro-
ductiOn tobacco of their own growth and |
raising, at retail directly to consumers. |
to an amOuntnot exceeding 800 annually.
Section of the bill makes the taxes on |
snuff, and smoking and manufactured to- |
bacco cents per pound instead of Is |
cents, and on cigars 50 instead of Sc per
1000. On cigarettes weighing not more
than three pounds per 1000 the tax is
reduced from S1.75 to so cents per 600
and on cigarettes above that weight.
from Sc to So per 1000.
The bill reduces the duty on steel
rails from $28 ton to $15.6S ton, or
about 45 per cent. 1t reduces slightly
(by l. 10 cent per poundD the duty on tin
plates; on various forms of iron and steel
by some 90 per cent; on
bar iron / cent per pound; ON Russia
sheet iron l cent per pound. 1t rejects
the Tariff Commissions proposition to
increase the duty on cotton ties and on
some other forms of iron generally used
1t reduces the duty on sugar below No
l3 some Is per cent, and on the higher
grades still more-a questionable dis
tinctiOn. 1t reduces the rates on some
forms of cOttOns, on some forms of wool :
ms, and on woods, on silks, and puts
ute butts on the free list 1t consider
nbly increases the free list as to chemi-
'als and as to sundries reduces books
rom 70 per cent. to Is per cent, and ,
ldmits books in foreign languages free.
1t reduces the duty on salt 20 per
.ent., and grants a drawback on salt
lsed in curing meat and fish. On the
he other hand, the Senate bill makes :
My an illusory reduction in pig-iron q
nd none at all in iron ore. 1t retains :,
he wicked and preposterous duty on fl
opper ore at p cents instead of cents Y
er pound. 1t advances the rates on Il
eel blooms, and retains those on some
the more extensively used forms of
on and steel. 1t retains some Of the G,
Ost OnerOus duties on wOOleDs, and APP
-ars 10 tax cloths more heavily than
.ady-mude clothing. 1t reta fuo
resent duty raw hemp of -' per
Dn, and changes the cotton good -s.ud-
le in Il way to seriously interfere with Il
ONE important kinds of manufactures.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
STANLEY AND HIS RIVAL.
Frenchmen Anxious about VI. de Brazza's
RecCption on the Congo.

A letter from Paris says In spite {
the absorbing nature of political affair
III Paris at this moment the journals fin,
time and space occasionally for the con
slderatlon OF the doings of Mr.. Stanle7
and the conflict that it is presumed mus
eventually take place in Central Africa
between him and De Brazza, the repre-,
sentative (when he gets there of the
French flag on the Congo. Mr.. Stanley
| Is doubtless by this time on his favorite
work ground again. He left Europe
| hurriedly. " He was already in view of
| the African coast" says the Figaro,
''while we were dreaming that he was
still in Madrid. 1t was necessary to get
there ahead Of De Brazza at all cost auc7
to prepare for him there reception
which he doubtless does not expect"
To show you that Frenchmen believe
that conflict is probable or even inevi-
vitable between the two explorers, Imay
quote the substance of letter published
by the Figaro recently from cor
respondent in Brussels. This gentle
man says that persons whose author
lty and sincerity can not be questioned,
assure me that an insurrection prevails
at this moment among the natives of the
higher Congo, and that Stanley will have
a very bad reception when he gets there.
All their sympathies are for De Brazza,
who won their confidence in a manner
very different than by the rifle bullet In
order to cOunteract this state of things
the international African Association is
sending at this very moment 'veritable
small army to the Congo The army
has been recruited to a great extent
among the officers of the Austro-Hun-
garian army, to whom the superior posi-
tons have been given, and many have
recently passed through Brussels on
their way to the Congo. It is to be a
military occupation of the Congo.
Two days ago I met a Hungarian
officer who has been engaged in the as
sociatiOn for an important position His
name is Carl d'Obner, and he brought an
letter from Crown Prince Ru-
dolph to His Majesty the King of the
Belgians. King Leopold was prevented |
by sickness from receiving the officer,
but the latter had an audience with the
Queen and with the Minister of Foreign |
Affairs, NJ. Frere- Orban. The Officer
left Antwerp on the 7th, on one Of the
steamers of the association. Communi-
sative as are all Hmgarians, he made no
attempt to conceal the fact that the OBJ
ect of his mission was to assist in
hwarting NJ de Brazzas projects and
wen to capture the French explorer
Ich aCerdc linn 60id .tange5l Ct will
soon catch him , were the words he used
These words, spoken by an officer in the
service of the African international AS
scarcely harmonize with the
llleged pacific and civilization miaa.vII oi ,
}u.. Iuttr Belgium r- -,,-Lius. fu ,+ta1, !
s-u ue..--u FIRMLY "1l srr Congo, ..s..' -'..- .
3uIqrau authorities evidently tluuk aha- .
lg treaty made hy DE BraZza with hn.-
N.Euzo and recently ratified by the /
French Chambers i, ol 10 value what
,ver. NJ. de Brazza will have to be on
lis guard. p"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
If our neighbor doesn't want our
smoke, let him move away.

The FIoridg Irgu,- -uvs- A~theaftcr-
noon tram on tne EloII>.a Transit rail-
road slowed up to water tank where a
creek flows out of a dreary cypress
swamp, and crosses the way, hunter in
high boots, and corduroy coat, with a
huge bag swung to his broad shoulders,
climbed out of the tail grass and boarded
the principal passenger car. 1t was
Prof. James Bell, the Smithsonian Insti-
tute's agent The train was full Of peo-
pie who, for three hours, had endured
the innocent babble of two guileless
and agents. We had learned from these
truthful real estate missionaries that al
ligators were as harmless as geese, and
that there We're fewer snakes by far in
Florida than in New York City or Phila-
delphia. The professor found the one
vacant seat and flung himself into it.
Good afternoon, professor" an ac-
quaintance at the further end of the car
cried out to him; "do you have any luck
catching snakes these days?"
And within five minutes Mr.. Bell was
answering questions from nearly every
occupant of the car. Where there really
any snakes i'll Florida? Was it safe to go
through the woods? How big did snakes
grow in this State? What sort of snakes
are common here? etc. Very graciously
the professor answered them an and
soon had betrayed himself into disser
tation on reptiles generally, till, in an
absent way, Just to illustrate point he
was calculating, he unbuttOned a capa-
cious pocket in the skirt of his coat and
drew out an enormous and newly caught
"coach-whip," which he exhibited to a
throng of staring and excited people. Its
habits and peculia1ties were described
and he laid his subject on the seat and
from another pocket drew out number
of chicken snakes and water snakes of
various kinds. Would they bite? No,
indeed, they were harmless. They look
kind of ''crawly" they are so small.
He replaced them and unstrapped his
game bag. Here we have" he said,
ga beautiful snake, naturally tame and
perfectly harmless, which anybody can
play with" And he drew out what is
probably the biggest king snake ever
caught in Florida, nearly eight feet in
length.
There was a chorus of screams, and
women and children, men even, fled to
the farther end of the Car. During the
rest of trip the disconnected professor
sat alone, and when, at Gainesville, he
rose to leave the train, little girls hid
themselves behind their mammas and
screamed with fright.
"As travelling Snowman [ do not
seem to be a success, said the professor
sadly to himself as he strobe toward his
lodgings in Oak Hall.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-15
ALL WE'RE BABIES.

What curious tales has life in store,
With all its must-be's and its maybe's!
The sage of eighty years and more
Once crept nursing on the floor
Kings, conquerors, judges, all were babies.
III fearless soldier who has faced
The serried bayonets gleam appalling,
For nothing save pin misplaced,
1he peaceful nursery has disgraced,
With hours Of Unheroic bawling
Ihe mighty monarch, whose renOwn
Fills up the stately page historic,
Has howled and wakened half the town
And finished OFT by gulping down
His castOr-CI or paregoric.
The Justice, who, in gown and cap,
Condemns wretch to strangulation,
Has thrashed his nurse and spilled his pap.
And sprawled across his mothers Ian.
For. Wholesome laws administration.
All, life has many reef to shun
Before in port we drop our anchor.
But when its course Is nobly run
Look aft, for there tie work was done.
Lie owes Its hcadway to the spanker.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.