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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
1t Didn't Hit.

49,, trrom tnc Detroit Free Press.
There was chap on the boat who
lived at Jackson, Miss, and he was tell
ing us many anecdotes regarding the
negro population. Among others he had
a friend who one day asked of an aged
darkey:
"Well, colonel, what particular ossifi-
cation has predominated over the rami.
tications of late ?"
The old man gave pull at his hat
with one hand, and scratched his head
with the other, and answered:
Wall, sab, l reckons dat was him
gwine down de road few minutes apo
on top of a mewl"
Ihere was passenger from Rhode
Island who was greatly amused by these
anecdotes, and two or three times after
ward l caught him hunting in diction-
ary for big words and stringing them to-
gether. When we arrived at Natcbez
he YVES ull loaded up. A lot of us went
up to see the town, and as we paincd
the crest OF the locg and dusty hill we
met colorei woman on her way down.
Here was the chance the smart Aleck
had been waiting for, and he halted her
and demanded:
Siauhnl, nave you systemlzed the dis
ability OF the precocious influenza this
morning 2"
He was bowing aud smiling, and she
looked thunder struck. After minute
she said:
"What's dat you remark ?"
81 percolated the Interrogation as tc
whether you had ambuscated the pipan.
tic verbosity," he continued.
"No. sab, | HASN'T" she said as she
removed the basket from her head, "bu,
Ize gwine to right away!'
With that she brought him clip with
her hand on the ear, and followed it ur
by bunt in the back that sprawled him
lnto the dust and left him gasping like {
fish.
"if de verboshity wants emmy mo- he
can foller me down to de Ievee!" she re.
marked as she walked off; but he didn't.
He was dust from head to foot. his
humorous nature had evaporated, ant
he got back to the boat to keep his bertf
for the next eight hours. The negro is
an odd coon at times, but there ar,
other times when the ''gigantic YER
bosity" doesn't hit his funny-bone With
! IN rod.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
THE NEW cA1sK111 HOTEL

A new hotel has been built in the
Catskills by a Philadelphia millionaire,
named Harding. Last summer he was
visiting with his family another hotel,
where the host when the boarders COM
planned would tell them that they
didn't pay for their feed; that he gave
them that. What they paid for was the
mountain air. Ii they didn't like the
price they could go to some other hotel. !"
One day Harding daughter thought she
would like broiled chicken for breakfast
and her father asked if it could not be
obtained-tor consideration. To the
landlords insolent refusal aud his ad-
vice to find another hotel if ts.at didn't
suit, MIR. Harding replied that he would
build hotel where guests could get
what they wanted by paying for it and
the mountain air would not be charged
for. The hotel was built in one hun
dred days, after the road had been made
to the top of the mountain. When the
checks came in thick and fast to pay for
the work the Catskill Bank telegraphed
TO Philadelphia bank for advice. The
reply was: "Cash for us George Hard
ing's checks up to eleven millions and
then advise us.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26

AT New Haven, Conn.,, on the 22d inst, Joh1
Z. Camstayneti fatally shot John Reizzo dur
Ing quarrel about a woman to whom Cam.
staynetl is engaged. He also shot an officer
who was endeavoring TO arrest him, and es-
| capped. The officer is likely to die.
special OF the 22d tells OF the killing of
Adrian Underwood by DR.. E. G.. Scrsggs al
Scrudysville, Glascock County, Ga, in u family
feud. Scraggs represented the county in the
state legislature for number of years.
AT Allentown, Pa, on the 22d inst, George
keilmer, German baker, robbed his room
mate and in making his escape from the CITY
was run over by a train and horribly maugled.
During the trip Of an excursion party from
Jersey City, N. j., to Staten Island, on the
22d inst, riot was INDUCED in by the par.
tlcipants, who had got away with 700 kegs of
beer. Pistols, beer glasses, clubs etc., were
used, and several persons we're killed. There
were 10000 people in the crowd.
At the picnic Of the German Methodist Epis-
copal Church at Cincinnati, on the Goth. at n
grove five miles south OF Newport. Otto Haper
quarreled with boy of 1S, George Neir, pur-
sued him to the river, stabbed him to death.
and then escaped.
Two boys named Smeed and Jolitfe, aged
IA end 16 years, respectively, are under arrest
at Marshall, Mo-, charged with the murder Of
a companion named Geo. Conger.
Texas cowboys attempted to capture the
town of Toyah on the 10th inst, and met with
a warm reception from a guard of rangers.
One OF the boys was killed, three were wounded
and five captured. ''S's'
Joseph St9gamer. saloonkeeper at No.
2,Oos Market Street, Philadelphia, shot his wife
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
Heavy Fire in New YORK;

A little after o'clock on the afternoon of
the 22d, flames were seen TO break out of tho
sixth story of the Munro building, n large
nine-story structure extending from Vando-
water Street to Rose Street, New York, in
which George Nonro published the Scuside
Library aud the Firesido Companion. Tho fire
started III tliway on the west side of the
sixth floor. The Munro building IL practically
two structures, one of which faces Vandcwater
Street and the other Rose Street. The Vandc-
water Street building is only eight stories high
The two buildings open iuto one another ON
the fifth and sixth floors. 1t was i'll the Vande-
water Street building that the fire was discov.
covered. The top floor of this building is oc-
cupied by Geo. Munro's press-room and by the
Hoe Publishing Company. On the seventh
floor were the Stock Company and the Clay
Novelty Manufacturing Company. The whole
of the sixth floor is occupied by Lovejoy, Son
Co.. clcctrolypers. The flames soon spread
from the clectiotype rooms to the stock rooms
above. Owing to the narrowncss of the river,
and the fact that the buildings were supplied
with inside shutters Of iron. the fire gained
great he dway before it could be reached by
the tircmen: Shortly sfter3 o'clock the presses
fell from the eighth story to the fifth story,
which is occupied by A Anderson; printer, and
the Vulcanite Jewelry Company. At the same
time Lovejoy's batteries and hydraulic presses
made similar descent. AT 4: $50 the fire was
got under control. The losses aggregate 1882
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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
CYCLONES AND AERoL1rEs.

After time the scientists may reach
the conclusion that there is some affinity
between cyclones and the remarkable
fall of .so-called aerolites at intervals.
When bowlder weighing from 500 to
GOO pounds comes sizzing down from the
heavens it argues the fact that the bowl
der must have got into the air by force,
and it is not always in conformity with
reasonable logic to assert that they are
thrown upon the earth from frisky
planet, or that they are upheaved by
volcanic eruption. Since it has come
to be accepted as fact that cyclones
are electrical, the result of forces OF cleo.
tricity striving for equilibrium, it is not
out OF the question to presume that
these rocks may be snatched up by an
excess of positive influence, and set in
motion by terrific power of swirling
electric currents. This process might
change the chemical quality of the stone
80 that when returned to the earth again
Its proportions might have just the per-
picking difference from the siore of
known localities to answer to the solu.
tion science has SO long applied to the
theory of the aerol te. Subjected to the
intense electric fluids various forms OF
rock might be converted into the APP
pearance of lava, and have all the peces-
sary sulphuric odor. When we consid
er the power for destruction shown in
the operations of recent cyclones it re-
quires no very vivid imagination to sup
pose bowlder of many hundred weight
beng lifted into the air and transported
a great distance from its original loca.
ton, being afterward flung to the ground
scorchod to the core.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
SPORTING.

In recent contest at Cleveland,
Higham, the English bicycler, rode 10
miles in 4S:l5.
MADAM TOBIAS has accepted the chai-
lence of Miss Amy Howard to walk "a a
six DAYS &c. as. she -plcases race tor z, 5Oo
cents side. :,
Two homing pigeons recently made
the distance between Lynchburg, Va,
aud Northampton, Mass, .,-5O5 miles
in % hours and As minutes.
THE gelding, John Davis, has quite q
romantic history. Not long ago he was
pulling harrow on the track and sold
for $50. Recently $25, GOO was refused
for him.
PrrrsBURa is no longer on the grand
trotting circuit, but has published MI
independent programme for a trotting
meeting, July Oath to 9th, Offering
purses amounting to $25, 900.
EDWIN THoRNE (2:16l) won seven
races in straight heats this season, max
ing twenty. one heats better than 2:2O,
and the fastest in 2:14, 1t is tborgbt
he will touch 2:12 at the coming Chi
cago meeting.
THs heaviest winners at the recent
running meeting of the Coney Island
Jockey Club were the Dwyer Bros,
their stable, including Barnes, Miss
Wvodford, Burton and Bootjack, gain
ing S20,340. OF this sum, Barnes won
$14, ,595.
A LETTER from London announces
that the champion chess player, Iuker-
tort, will come to America in the fall to
make tour similar to that made by
Herr Steinitz. A series of games will
probably be played in New York city
between Zukertort and Mackenzie.
FANNY WITHERsPooN is developing n
considerable deal of speed and steadincss
in John Splan's hands. He drove her
recently, on the Clevelpnd Club track,
four heats in 2:3O, 2:2O, 2:l93, and 2:15l.
A good Judge who Witnessed the heats
says: "She is one OF Splan's kind, and
he surely could have sent her the las:
heat in 2:l4.
SCHAEFER, Sexton and Wallace, the
billiard players, have entered into a
contract to play series of games in
San Francisco between August Goth and
9th. There is also strong probabil-
ity that Vignaux will join them. They
will be due on the Pacific Coast about
August 18th.
HANLAS and Ross have mutually
agreed upon John Eustace, of the At
lahth Boat Club, of New York City, as
referee in their race for the champion
ship of the world, on the st. Lawrence
River at Prescott and Ogdensburg on
July 18th. Both oarsmen are a2ing
hard work III traiaing, and in their prac-
tice spins are watched by admiripg
crowds.
HARRY GENETs old war horse. Gen.
Butler, now 80 years old, was recently
driven to road wagon over the course
at the Gentemen's Driving Park, New
York, and made half mile in 80. He
was famous as a trotting horse as long
ago as 1897, and when he got upon The
track again his nostrils expanded and
his ears flew up, as if ms eager for trot
rs IN the days long gone by.
THE following table shows the stand
ing of tho league clubs at the close OF
the games on the 18th inst:
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
Transferring PAINTINGS,
tFrom the New York sun.]

:" To transfer painting from one can.
vas to another is not difficult" SAID tho
renovator. 81 first place several thick
ness OF tissue paper on the face of the
painting, after taking it from the frame.
When it is dry the canvas is wet thor.
onghly, and peel it from the back OF
the picture, leaving the painting fast to
tho tissue paper. After it dries again
glue new canvas to the back OF the
picture, and when it has dried for the
fourth time / wet the tissue paper and
peel it off. Tho picture is then ready
for the usual cleansing and renovating
processes.
Are their many important paintings
on wool in existence?"
Very many, or there were before
they We're transferred 10 canvas. When
The wood isso old that the. paint begins to
lake of, from old age, then the only
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26

TOLEDO.
Doina a Smart Ihina.

FROM inc Detroit Free Press
A lew days ago an eminent citizen Of
Detroit, or at least one eminent enough
to own 81 umbrella, left the article in
store on Gratiot Street, and some one
gobbled it. Eminent citizen was thor.
oughly indignant. and he went to de-
tective to see what could be done. AS
there was no clew to pick up and fol-
low to success, the detective could do
nothing. All of a sudden bright
thought occurred to the loser, and next
day an advertisement appeared as fol,
lows:
The man who took that silk umbreI.
Ia from store on Gratiot Street last
Thursday will save himself trouble by
returning it, as he is known
Eminent citizen was chuckling over
his smartness when n man dressed like
iaborer and having an umbrella care
fully tied up in paper entered the office
and said:
So you knew me, ELI ?"
eyes, sir" was the prompt reply.
Somebody must have seen me
take it and told you?"
eyes, that was the way"
"What would you have done if l
hadn't shown up2"
Secured warrant and made it hot
for YOU"
"Well, give me receipt ard I'll leave
it aud never try to get away with an
other mans umbrella"
a receipt was written and passed over,
and the man seemed so contrite that he
was handed a half dollar besides. It was
full half day before the parcel was un-
wrapped for look at the umbrella. and
then eminent citizen kicked mp row to
alarm the whole building. The umbrella
was old, faded, rib-broken and worth
iess, and it was evidently put up job
to take the smarlness out of man who
thought he had hit it.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
The Fond du Lac FIoed.

A dispatch from Fond du Lac dated July
E2u, says: cat intervals during the entire
week Fond du Lac has been visited by tho
most terrific transforms accompanied by heavy
wind. Last night about 1870 o'clock the
heavens seemed to open and deluge of rain
fell, sweeping all light material before it. This
was kept up during the greater part of the
plght. and at dawn everybody was of the
opinion that heavy rain had prevailed. At
about 11:30 o'clock A. NJ. several dams in De
Neyuo creek gave way, and the vast quantity
OF water which was thus confined swept through,
tho entire eastern portion of the city. Upwards
OF 2oo dwelling houses were submerged more
or less, according totheir location. The only
mode of conveyance IN that section is by boat.
Fortunately there are no accidents or fatalities
to record, but tho damage to property is esti-
mated at fully S25,000, the larger portion OF
which falls upon tho poorer classes. For two
hours the water continued to rise, until it was
three feet deep in the middle of the streets.
Later. however, it began to recede. The
water Travelled with such velocity that it tore
up tho Division Street pavement at the lower
end of the street, washing it away to depth Of
several feet"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
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JUDGE GRESHAM AND THE LorrEIs, rs

Tue United States government will
no iol.ssG-Sn'a -Sn'a a partner OF the Louisiana
Lottery Company. This is the meaning
OF Postmaster, General Gresham's de-
clsiop, A single lottery company has
been permitted for years to use the
mails, while all other companies were
excluded, and the sole basis of this
strange monopoly has been the claim
that this company was chartered by a
state, and therefore could not be con
sidered as a fraudulent lottery com
pany. The statutes governing registered
letters and money orders declare that
they shall not be delivered or paid to
fraudulent /" lottery companies. The
state-chartered company, holding that
1T cannot be considered fraudulent,
claims as the converse of this law that ii
has the right to use the mails.
The undisturbed exercise of that
right was maintained for several years
III curious way. Postmaster-G General
Key forbade the issue of mail to this
co:hpany His order was approved by
the district courts, but he agreed to sus-
pend it until the United States supreme
court should decide upon the contro.
versy. Then the company through an
understanding with the solicitor general.
withdrew the appeal. The case has
never been decided, and the suspended
order has never been revived until now.
1t would certainly seem that some influ-
ence favorable to the Louisiana com.
pany has been at work underneath the
surface in the Washington depart.
ments.
Now, the law distinctly declares that
mo letter or circular concerning lot.
aeries, so-called gift concerts, or other
similar enterprises offering prizes, shall
be carried in the mail.' No state char
ter can give the right to break the laws
of the United States.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
A Duel Between Rirds

A singular contest among b!uebirds
and martens occurred in Lexington. Ky.
While two bluebirds were building a
nest In boxa pair o! martens laid claim
to the nest. Considerable skirmishing
was carried on for several days. the blue,
birds every time coming off victorious.
The neighborhood WAS startled early one
morning by the noise made by CON
gregatlon of hundreds O.: martens end
bluebirds, and coon general battlo
along the whole line began. For an
hour it was carried on with great fierce
ness and vindlctiveness. The birds paid
no attention 20 the Surroundings, but
fell fighting at the feet of persons stand
ing in the yard. The weather being
pleasant, the Windows in the hcuse were
raised that the family might witness the
conflict. Numbers of birds passed
through the windows, and several pairs
were caught in the rooms fastened to.
get6er. There were no towards or
shilks, but every bird seemed intent on
doing his whole duty. In one hour
the martens 1@ere beaten and retired
tron he contest, leaving the blaebir,'s
III possession Of the field,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
GROWTH OF RAILROADS.

In Poor's Manual of Railroads for
1882 striking exhibit ie made of the
amount OF business done by the railroads
OF this country during the year 1881,
and OF the rapid increase Of mileage.
Our national debt is in round num-
bers s., 300, 100000. The gross earn.
ings OF all the railroads for that wear
we're $725, 1926, 119, an increase of Sl1O-
100000 over the preceding year. The
net earnings were $276, 654, ll9, an in.
crease of $21 100000 over the year 1880.
1t will thus be seen that the gross
earnings would in 81 years pay our ma
tlonal debt, and the net earnings would
accomplish the same in years. In the
same year $3.50. 900, 900 were paid, large.
ly in wages for the construction and i'm.
provement of lines, and 9,35S miles
we're added to the mileage, larger in
crease by 2, 600 miles than any previous
year shows. From 1870 to 1881 the rail-
road mileage increased from 81, ,914 miles
to l04, ,S13. If in the next ten years It
doubles again, in 1890 we shall have
10000 miles of railroad. It is believed
by those conversant with the condition
OF the country and capable of Judging
OF future needs, that this estimate falls
short of what will be the actual increase.
Mr.. Poor believes that to meet the re.
qurements of our mineral and agricul-
tural resources, as they shall be here.
after developed, l50,0 miles of rail.
road, IN addition to what we now have.
will be called for. The amount of cap.
ltal already invested in the construction
and equipment Of railroads is s5,577.-
996, 1881. Estimating the cost of the ad-
ditional mileage to be constructed dur.
ing this decade at the same rate aa that
OF What has already been built, we lind
that In 1880 the tremendous sum Of s11 !
goo, ,0OO, 600 will be invested in railroads
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26

The opinion which predicts this In
crease is based on our growth in popu.
lation and the increase Of the tonnage
transported; $50, 900, 600 tons being car
RED in 1881, against 6, 100000 in 1851.
The value in 1851 was $40 per head of
population. 1t was in 1881, 5000 per
head. Another astonishing fact is that
In operating and constructing lines of
railroad there were employed in 1881,
l,6OO,O0 persons, or thirty second
part of our entire population estimated
at So, 100000.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
Vessels Burned,

AT about 1880 o'clock on the morning CT the
18th inst, spark from an engine fell into a
pile OF jutc, which had Just been landed on
Harbeck's dock, New York, from the vessel
Lawrence L. Delap, from Calcutta. Tho dock
was filled with hemp, jute and coffee. The
flames spread with rapidity and in u few min
utes the entire dock was ablazc. The Delau
was the first vessel to catch fire, and all her
rigging was burned before she could be towed
out. Next to her, OH the south side of the
dock, was the ship Perseverance, also from Cal
cutta, which arrived on the 18th, and on the
north side lay the ship Col. Adams. from Cal
cutta. To both these vessels the flames were
communicated, and the crews jumped over.
board for safety. The ship Delap was burned
to the waters edge. She was valued with her
cargo at $50, 600. The ship Col. Adams burne d
at the pier. The bark Perseverance floated
IN INTO the stream and burned to the waters edge.
The total loss is now estimated at 81 900 600.
Twelve men were seriously injured and one
man is reported missing.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
village i'm Ruin..

tornado which was unequaled for destruc.
tiveness in that section passed over the village
OF Darlington, few miles north of Fargo,
Dakota, OH the night of the 10th inst. In,
town is total wreck, fourteen of its principal
buildings being totally destroyed. The storm
WAS terribly destructive. almost leaving the en-
Sheridan House, almost completed, was eptire.
" demolished. Casualties from the falling
houses and flying. debris are not numerous
only one man being seriously injured. He will
die. The storm was accompanied by a heavy
rain. Il is not thought that tie crops have
suffered any considerable damage.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
The A.inIir Stn,,run.

A Cairo, Egypt, dispatch, of the 18th saws
the number, of deaths from cholera far ex.
ceeds that given by the officials. The deaths
in that city on the 10th inst, according to the
correspondent, numbered over fifty. The sani.
tary commission nus is doing everything possible
have appeared. On the 10th there were
twenty-eght deaths at Damietta, thirty. eight
at Mansulah, fifteen at Samanoud, fortv-two
at Menzaleh and twelve at Cairo, according TO
Official report. Several cases of cholera have
appeared at Palma, in the island of Mariorca.
The Spanish government has voted to raise
i,ooe.0oo pesetas to protect the country from
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26

ipcharge of Rev. Mr.. Shaw. To-day dispatches
were received addressed officially to Consul
Cap'pbell, notifying him that last night the
american consuPs Office was entered by mob
Of Mexicans, and Rev. Shaw, acting United
States consul, at Monterey was attacked and
beaten nearly to death. The furniture and
papers belonging to the consulate were de-
stroycd. Tho information creates profound
sensation at Laredo. The citizens deploro the
rupture between the two governments, but con-
slider that the insult is so bold that the United
States mnst it. Employees of tho Moxi-
can National Railroad who arrived tonight say
that Shaw, after being beaten seasclcss, re-
yived sufficiently to crawl to one of the public
hotels and give an account of the outrage, but
IN few moments became again insensible, and
at last accounts was still unconscious