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The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

The unfortunate career of Anna
Dickinson should be a warning to stage
struck women. She had scored great
success and made a comfortable fortune
as a platform speaker. In her field she
scarcely had a rival, and despite the dis
favor into which lecturers have fallen of
late years, she could always command a
large audience. But she suddenly con-
ceived the idea that nature had designed
her for an actress, and in middle-life
without any previous training in the pro-
fession, she began writing plays of her
own and assuming the title roles. 1t was
aforegone conclusion that she must fail,
but when the critics told the truth she
ost her temper, and declared that they
had formed a conspiracy to ruin her.
She appealed from the critics to the peo-
pie, but their response was equally dis
heartening. Her audiences fell away, and
her last engagements in eastern cities
were fiat failures. Still refusingto learn
the lesson, Miss Dickinson resolved to
abandon the east, and appeal to the
critical favor Of the wild west, SO she Or
ganized a company and set out on a tour
Of the one-night towns. Now this has
come to an end. Her manager deserted
her the other day in Michigan, and the
company has gone to pieces. After
years of hard struggle in q hopeless en-.
terprise she has lost all her old prestige
wasted her fortune, and has nothing tt
show for it all except disappointed
ambition,
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
A Bad Preacher.

Valley City, OAK. Special: Rev. Isaac M.
Frey, for five or six months pastor of the
Congregational church of this city, has sud
denly left for parts unknown. His financial
matters are in very bad shape-that is. for
his creditors-he having converted every.
thing into cash, beside. it is reported. taking
$3.50 of church money. Among the proper
ty disposed of was some that wa mortgaged.
He leaves a wife and three children in this
city in embarrassed circumstances. Rev.
Frey came to Valley City from Washington,
D. G., where he married his present wife
last spring, he being a widower with three
children, and she q widow with an equal
pumber, born of a union of q recently de-
ceased. and it is understood, quite pronin-
emit Washiagtonian. At the time of the
lady's marriage with Frey she knew but lit
tie of him, having been acquainted with
him but a short time. He carried recommen-
dations from Michigan, however, and his
ministerial bearing did the rest. At this time
the lady was possessed of the remnant of q
small fortune. in amount about s. 600. Out
of this she furnished Frey with money to
come to Dakota and sent him frequent
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Gen sherman's Retirement.

The correspondence incident to the re-
tirement of Gen. Sherman from active com,
mand of the army is as follows:
Headquarters Army United States, Wash.
ington, D. G., Oct. 8.-Hon. Robert T.
Lincoln, Secretary of War-sir: By act of
congress approved July Is, 1882, all army
officers are retired on reaching the age Of
sixty-faur years. If living, I will attain
the age on the 9th of February, 1884; but as
changes which have already been assigned
as appropriate duties. in their own
branches Of military services all
SHOULD retain the rank and pay
as aides de.camp until Feb.
8, 1884. BY or before the last of November
| can complete all official reports, and I be-
lieve l can surrender the army to my sue
cessor in good shape and conditions; well
provided in all respects and distributed for
the best interests of the country. I am
grateful that my physical and mental
strength remains upimpaired by years, and
am thankful for the liberal provision made
will enable me to respond promptly to any
call the president may make for my militia
~ services or judgment as long as / live. I
have the honor to be your obedlent ser
want.
(Sigred) w. 7. SHERMAN.
Washington, Oct. 1o.-War Department
Gen. W.. T. Sherman. Washington, D. o.:
General: 1 have submitted to the presi.
dent your letter of the 9Th inst, requesting
that you be relieved of command
of the army on the LIST of November
next, as a more convenient time for making
changes in the military commands which
must follow your retirement from active
service. In sigoitying his approval of you,
request the president directs me to express
to you his earnest hope that there may be
given to you yet many years of health and
happiness in which to enjoy the gratitude
of your fellow citizens, 80 we'll earned by
your most q Distinguished public services. Ii
will give me pleasure to comply with your
wishes respecting your aides-de-camp, ana
the order will be duly issued.
I have the honor to be, general, your
most obedient servant.
(Signed.) koRERT T. LINCOLN,
Secretary of War.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

the grade for the Winona, Alma & North
ern railroad caved in and covered two Ia.
borers. One of them, Michael Hackett of
Lake City, was alive when dug out, and,
though considerably bruised, will recover
The othe., young unmarried Swede named
Eric Borg, who lived near Stockholm,
died before he could he reached.
A fire started in the new barn ola hotel
and destroyed a large part of the village of
Willoughby, twenty miles east of Cleveland,
O. High wind increased the force Of the
flames, which consumed about twenty
stores, dwellings, sheds and barns on
Spalding and Erie streets, also cremating
six horses and n span of mules. Loss
500, 600.
Mrs. L. Wolfstein. we'll known in Jewish
circles, went to the window of her fourth
story residence in Cincinnati, on the I'd inst,
to call her coachman and fell 10 the ground
below. She was shockingly crushed, but
lived till 6 p. NJ.
Theodore johnson was struck by the east
bound passenger train of the Rock Island
road on the night of the Sd, within the city
limits of Des Moines, and instantly killed.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Fortune and Rank.

johnson.
In civilized society we all depend up
on each other, and our happinessis very
much owing to the good opinion of man.
kind. Now, sir, in civilized society ex-
ternal advantages make us respected. A
man with a good coat upon his back
meets with a better reception than he
who has a bad one.
Sir, you may analyze this and say,
"What is there in it?" but that will avail
you nothing; for it is part Of a general
system. Pound st. Paul's church into
atoms, and consider any single atom; it
is, to be sure, good for nothing. But put
all those atoms together and you have
st. Paul's church. So it is with human
felicity, which is made up of many in
gradients, each of which may be shown
to be very insignificant.
In civilized society personal merit will
not serve you SO much as money will.
Sir, you make the experiment. Go into
the street and give man a lie :ture
on morality and another a shilling and
see which will respect you most. Per.
haps he who has a large fortune may
one; but that must proceed from other
causes than from his having the large
fortune, for he who is rich in civilized
society must be happier than he who is
poor, IS riches, is properly used. must
be productive Of the highest advantages.
Money to be sure, of itself, is of no use.
for it's only use is to part with it.
When I was running about town, a
very poor fellow, I was a great arguer
for the advantages of poverty, but / was
at the same time very sorry to be poor.
Sir, all the arguments which are brought
TO represent poverty as no evil show it
to be evidently a great evil. You never
find people laboring to convince you
that you may live very happily upon a
plentiful fortune. So you hear people
talking how miserable a king must be,
and yetthey all wish to be in his place.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

Lord Coleridge has sailed for England,
after spending two months in the Uni
ted States. During this period he has
travelled over 5000 miles, and despite
the hurried character of his trip, he has
been able to get a good idea of the
country. He has taken kindly to Ameri-
cans, and Americans have returned the
feeling. Perhaps nothing has more
commended him than the freedom
from dogmatism in the conclusions
which he has expressed as the result of
his observations. The chief Justices
asst speech was delivered at Yale Col
eye and was a vigorous defence of the
study of the Chassis. He attributed his
own success largely to his constant study
of the ancient languages, and mentioned
the interesting fact that ver since he
left Oxford he has made it a religion. so
far as possible, never to let a day pa SIS
without reading some Latin and Greek.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Dakota Territorial News.


A telegraph Office has been opened at
Waghburn, and is now ready for busin-
ness.
Peter B. Wilcox of Bismarck has
drawn 81, 1000 in alottery.
Cooper, injail at Grafton, charged with
an aggravated attempt to ravish a young
woman, has escaped from prison.
The Phillips estate, in Sioux Falls is
about closed up. One third of the prop
erty, which according to the appraise-
$4,000 and $4,000, goes to Mrs. j. L.
Phillips, and the other two-thirds to the
seven children. The property is es-
timated by many to be worth double the
amount ofthe appraisement.
The store of w. II. Long at Forrest
burg, Sandburn county, vas burned
recently. 1t was the largest store in
town. Partly insured.
John Kelley, living on Beaver creek,
Stutsman county, accidentally shot and
instantly killed himself.
A petition asking the president to re-
move Gov. Ordway from the executive
office of Dakota is in circulation in
Yankton.
J. d. Diamond ofBrookings is accused
of trying to palm off a large portion Of
an old speech of Congressman Young
on the death of Andrew johnson as orig
inal in his address on the death of Judge
Kidder.
Delegate Ra hmond has recommended
the appointment of Frank j. Mead at
Mandan.
Mclean county has been organized,
; and the county seat temporarily located
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Court of Enquiry Ordered.

The wal department has issued a special
order appointing a court of inquiry to in
vestigate the cause of the failure of the
Greedy relief expedition. and report wheth-
er the conduct of any officer of the army,
in the premises, calls for further proceed.
ings before q general court martial, and
reasons for the conclusions they may reach.
The detail of che court is: Brig. Gen. 8. v.
Benet, chief of ordnance; Col. R. B. Ayres,
Second artillery; Lieut.. Col. o. NJ. Poe,
corps Of engineers. Maj. Henry Goodfellow.
judge advocate United States army, will act
as recorder. The court will meet in Wash
ingten on the 9Th OF November. 1t is un.
derstood that the navy department will not
take any further action in the case of COM
mander Frank Wildes, commanding the
Yantic, for the part taken by him in the
late expedition, unless it shall be deemed
expedient as a result of testimony which
may be developed in the proceedings of the
court of inquiry appointed by the secretary
of war.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10


drafts after his arrival here, and he BON.
stantly beseiged her for more money. This
she refused to send, and Frey brought her
to Valley City, whore she deposited about
81. 600 in the First National bank and took
q check therefor, made payable to herself.
To this the reverend forged his wife's name,
drew the money and left Mrs. Frey and her
children penniless. This action seems to
have been premeditated before he arrived
in Dakota, as he left his three children at
stature, dark completion, dark eyes, hair
slishtly tinged with gray, and wore, when
last seen, q beard of several weeks growth.
which he will probably cut off at the first
opportunity. He is about forty years of
age, and has the appearance of q blase man
of the world. His wife tainted upon hear
ing of his desertion OF her, and is almost
heart-breken on account of her children.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

The car has decided to arm the Russian
army with repeating rifles of the latest
American pattern. He BIAS just ordered
100000 ofthese arms through q London
firm.
Leopold With. the we'll known distiller
Of Milwaukee. was quietly arrested for OBJ
tanning goods under false pretenses. The
arret was mace by the United States mar
shal or his deputy. on affidavit of George H.
Webster, Q member of the firm of Armour &
Co., OF Chicago.
The anonymous letters lately sent to the
marquis sof L~ansdowne, at Ottawa, Can,
threasening his life. are locked upon as
merely the work of some crank who wants
to ease his excited feelings, or who has the
will but not the courage to do mischief.
However. the letters are severely condemned,
and all necessary precautions taken to pre-
vsnt their infamous threats being carried
out.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

An elaborate calculation has recently
been made by Mr.. Edward Atkinson, IL
noted statistician Of Boston, showing the
cost of loaf of bread made at the east
from the grain g,own on the fields of
Iowa or Dakota, and how the cost is dis
tributed. This history of the cost of a
loaf of bread is a very interesting and
ingenious one, and at the same time
very simple. Of the value of 100 barrels
of -four, $500 goes to the Dakota farmer,
the freight to Boston will be Sl97.5 50; the
the barrels will cost $45, the grinding
$50, and the commissions and carriage,
$50, making the tot Il cost ofthe hundred
barrels Of flour $6s2.50 when the flour
reaches Boston. The baker then takes
the hundred barrels of flour and adds
$2l0 worth of oven-heat and yeast and
5000 worth of labor, so that when the
flour goes into the shop for sale in the
shape of 5000 loayes of bread it has cost
$l.092, 50-an equivalent of 3 1-2 cents a
pound. For this bread the baker or the
retail dealer gets Z cents a pound; that
is to say, the baker and grocer in Bos-
ton get about one-half of the money
paid for a barrel of flour, the farmer
gets a fifth, the railroads one-tenth, the
miller, merchant and cooper one four
teenth. Mr.. Atkinson's object in this
calculation seems to have been two.fold
first, and most important, to show the
poor people of this country who live
from hand to mouth that their bread
costs them about double what it would if
they should make it at home; and, secon-
dly, that the most ofthe profit on a loafof
bread does not 60 to the farmers and to
the railroads.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

Congress will reassemble in less than
q month and then Washington will be a
point of more national interest than at
present. After the organization of the
time branches and the reception of the
presidents message and accompany
ing reports, and other preliminary
business. The work of president MAX
ing will begin in earnest and may
continue until next July. Politicians Of
all lines will be drawn to the national
capital from whence %will:radiate schemes
to enlist the wire-working politicians,
at home. There will be no end Of false
reports, humbug and rot, spread before
the people from day to day, to the in.
finite disgust of sensible people who
feel that life is too short to dige st such
sort of stuff.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Patents to Northwestern Inventors.

The following is a list-of patentees to
whom patents were issued on the 3oth.
Talbot @. Dexter, Des Moines, Iowa, sheet
carrying and adjusting device for paper
folding machines; also, paper. folding past
ing and trimming attachment for printing
presses; E. @. Gaze ASHAMED to himself and
]. L. Kneedston, Whitehall, Wis. grain
screener; o. @. Graves. Highland. OAK,
grain thresher and separator; A. ]. H%orring,
Bozeman, Mont. packing and storing box;
John and ?. Herman, Evansville, Wis,
wagon axle; o. B. Jennings, Honey Creek,
Wis, manufacture of sugar
from sugar cane, sorg-
mum, maize and other plants; also, cvapora-
tor for making sugar frem sacchsrinejuices,
etc; A. c. Lamar, st. Paul, Mimi, flax pull
Ter; B. Locwenbach, Milwaukee, combined
letter sheet and envelope; Joseph McMullin,
Casey, Iowa, device for unloading cars;
Charles F. Miller, Cresco, Iowa. trace car
rier; Walter 8. Morton. st. Paul, ~e.kcavating
machine; 81. w. Pasz, Winona, Mimi,
toot-power; Gardner B. Root, Amherst,
Wis, feeder for grinding rolls; George Roy
al, Davenport, Iowa, railway track cleaner;
Henry Schuyler, Sturgeon Bay, Wis, ap.
paratus tor raising sunken vessels; F. Setter,
Dubuque, Iowa, centrifugal boiling ma
chine; g. A. Thode, Holsteip. Iowa,
ton engine.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10

The maps of Minnesota and of Dako-
ia, Published by Messrs. Warner & Foote
800 Nicollet avenue. Minneapolis, are
the latest, most elegant-and what is Of
vital importance-the most correct of
any ever issued. They show the con-
gressional, township range, and section
boundaries, together with the railroads,
main travelled roads, streams lakes, or
ganized towns, villages, cities, and town
sites, railroad stations, p%ostofices, and
other essen ial eatures never before rep
resented. Every business man. and
every intelligent citizen, will prize such
maps far beyond their cost. People re-
siding in such large areas of country can
not do business intelligently without ac-
curate knowledge of their geographical
and Typographical features.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
PITH OF q NEWS.
Washington News Notes.

Postmasters commissioned: Wisconsin
John Fritz Borglof, Worcester, new Office:
Iowa: Fenton D. Orme, East Midway;
Thomas scavinger, Avery. Dakota: Alden
w. Durham, Weston, ! ew Office: Martin
Robinson, Mardell; Mrs. Charles B. Cor
don, Greenwood; Andrew I. Anderson,
Ashtabula. Postodices established-Da-
kota; Forman, Sargent county. Kellerton,
Hamlin, Templeton, Jerauld county.
Minnesota, Tansem, Clay county. Post
Offices discentinped-Iows: Far Haven,
Tama county. Postotice site Changed
Dakota: Elmer, Jerauld county, two miles
southeast. Special service discontinued
Dakota: Carleton.
Postmasters commissioned: Minnesota,
Alex b. Ridgeway, Morristown, Rice coun-
ty. Iowa, John f. Irwin, Maine, Appa-
moose county; William R. johnson, Gray,
Audubon county; William P. D%inwiddie,
Selection, Monroe county; Elmer Stone,
Silver City, Mills county. Dakota, Frank
as Smith, Pactola, Pennington county; Pc
Ter L. Holland, Aneta, Grand Forks county.
When Hellett Kilbourn said on the wit
ness stand the other day, in Washington,
that from his cell in Jail, when wrongfully
imprisoned, he could only see the capitol
and the Goddess of Liberty, Enoch Totten,
of opposing counsel, ironically remarked:
"But you also had the consolation of see
ing the stars n stripes, didn't you?"
Postmasters commissioned, lows: Miss
Cyrthia Mills, Comanche; William M.
Stevens, Page. Wisconsin,: Ferdinand A.
Strupp, Black Creek Falls. Dakota: James
W. Davidson, Davidson, Porter county;
Henry Hansbrough, Creel City; Jeremiah
Driscoll, Emery. Postofices established,
Dakota: Dunlap, Cass county.
Postofices established: Dakota-Wes-
ton, Dickey county. Wisconsin-Wor-
cester, Price county. Postofice site changed
-Minnesota-Union Hill, LIE sueur coun'
ty, four rods into Scott county.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
The m Record.

United States Marshall of Indiana, r. 8.
Foster, with a posse of detectives, went 20
Pike county on the 31st inst, in pursuit of
a gang of counter letters supposed to be 10.
cared in that portion ofthe state. They sue
ceeded in arresting nine of the gang
at steinville, a small village in Pike
county about twenty. five miles from Evans.
vile, after a desperate fight. The following
are the parties captured: Three brothers
named Columbus, Jesse and Joseph Hanch-
ems, Henry Grossmen, Kinney Kinder, West
ley Woods, Phil Taylor, BERTHE Smithers
and Andy Hart. They were all brought to
Indianapolis in charge of the marshal.
AT New Edinhurg, Ark, during the after.
show or concert Of Hunters circus, some
unknown parties outside fred a volley of
shots into the main exhibition canvas and
ten beat a hasty retreat, disappearing IN
the darkness and escaping. Strange to say,
only n person was killed, though
the seats were crowded. The bullets
passed through all sections of the audi
ence, and one of the circus per-
formers was shot through the head. diving
in the ring.
A nan named w. A. Wood, who refuses
to give his place of habitstion, has been ar
rested at Eau Claire, on suspicion of being
implicated in the robbery of So, 600 worth Of
jewelry from DucumoHs' store in tina, citv
week before last. The accused was taken
before Judge Larson and pleaded not guilty.
HIS examination was postponed ten DAVIS.
In default of 81, 1000 bonds he was commit
ted to Jail.
A prize fight for $1,000 q side between
McFaddsn, a Winnipeg man, and Maitland
of st. Louis, took place at Caldwell, Idaho.
1t ended in the fourteenth round, Maitland
receiving punishment from which it is
thought he cannot recover. he was carried
from the ring in an inst nsible condition.
In De Witt, New, on the evening of the
29th, Frank Sisk and John Dolan got into
an alteration in the saloon owned by the
latter and the city MARSHAL, Billy Kar-
meichl undertook to quiet the disturbance,
when Dolan shot both Sisk and Karmeichl'
atally ouading both.
Charles G.. Mccain, q Camden, N. j.,
mail agent, wat convicted of stealing six
dollars worth of postage stamps and three
dimes from the Bridgeport postofice, and
sentenced to pay a fine of 81, 200 with.
III q week, or go to state prison one
year.
John G. K. Heine, a prominent lawyer O
Reading, Pa, has mysteriously disappeared.
1t is alleged that he retained $l3, COO col.
iected for heirs of an estate. He is also
charged with getting worthless checks
cashed.
Steve Raymond, the English forger con.
victed of passing coupons of the Northern
Pacific railroad has been sentenced in New
York to life imprisonment.
Mabel Stone, the. pretty sev~enteen-yea,
old daughter Of q rich and indulgent faith
er, shot herself fatally at Newton, Mass
Insanity was the cause.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
General News GOSSIP.

Al order was issued on the 18th inst. es-
tabiishing an exchange of through register
ed pouches between the pcstmasters at Wi
mona, and Tracy, Mimi, to go into effect
Monday, Nov. s, 1883, pouches to leave Wi
mona daily, except Sunday, at 10, and leave
Tracy daily except Sunday, at $3.50 a. M,
via the Winona ana Tracy railway postof-
fee. P~ostofices uiscontinued-Iowa, Hus-
am Scott county; Waconesta, Humboldt
county.
In New York photographs of American
beauties are selling rapidly. Among them
are those of Hon. Mrs. Roche, nee Fannie
Work, daughter of Frank Work, and Lady
Randolph Churchill. nee Miss Jerome,
daughter OF Leonard W. Jerome, Mr.. Van
derbilt's daughter, Lady Vaudeville, and
Miss Chamberlayne, the prince OF Wales
tav9rite.
The faculty of Vanderbilt university have
decided to remove the restrictions hereto.
fore enforced against secret societies, and
an announcement to that effect was made
by Chancellor Garkner. This is said to
have been the only institution of promi.
nence in America where secret societies
were not allowed.
+ Thomas Walls & Sons, commission mer-
chants and trade %auctioneers, have failed.
Liabilities, $50, 00O; assets small. The Can.
adian creditors are secured, but the English,
who are largely interested, will not receive
more than thres cents on a dollar. Walls
is amissing, believed to have gone to the
states.
The liabilities of Rev. G. M. Pierce, of
the Rocky EMountain Christian Advocate,
Utah, are greater than first reported. The
ascertained liabilities are $38, 600 and assets
Sc, 5000.
N. M. Swazey, insurance agent, of North
Haverhill, Mass, has failed for q large
amount. Twenty-four writs have been
served against him.
The Idea that women can vote in Mime
sofa for the Office of county superintendent
is an error, according to the attorney gem
eral.
Franz Gindele of Chicago confesse d
judgments a~ggregating $22, 900. Liabilities
$25, 900, and assets $4,000.
John Demijohn's sweetheart wanted him
to change his name. He didn't and los
5000, 600 in Peru, Ind.
All Oregon, Washington. and British
Columbia mails are to pass through st. Paul
hereafter.
The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Personal News Paragraphs.

Cards have been received announ ing the
marriage of Mr.. William Hope and Miss
Kate @. Grant ON Wednesday. Sept. II, at
Los Alamas, Rosario, Argentine Republic.
Miss Grant was for several years a teacher
in the high school, aud for several years af-
terward Ii the Normal school in Winona.
Col. Frank B. Pond. author ofthe famous
Pond law for taxing saloons, died at Malta,
Morgan county, Ohio.
Judge Brewe Of Hillsboro, ILL.,, a promin-
ent man, is dead.