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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
Justice in Morocco.
(Fron Blackwood's Magazine

The court of justice was sitting, and |
had frequent opportunities of observing
It afterward. The procedure, to any one
fresh from the Old Baily, appears little
strange. The bashaw reclInes on a COM
Portable couch listening to the witnesses.
| who give their evidences with great
energy and volubility. Sometimes In
| the middle of it all the prisoner will
jump up and exclaim that he can get a
witness on his behalf. He will then run
out of court, unattended by guard or
policemen, and presently returns with
/ his man. No one expresses any surprise
at TINS performance, and it never seems
to enter their heads that he should avail
| himself OF the opportunity 70 escape.
| The usual punIshments, besides fine and
| Imprisonment, are mutiiation, by cutting
oil a hand or toot-the stump being
| plunged in boiling pitch To stop the
| bleeding aud putting
out the eyes. There used to be bind
beggar constantly demanding back
sheesh at one Of the gates, who had been
noted robber i'll his day, but falling at
last into the hands of bis pursuers mad
| Suffered this horrible penalty. There
| were Nv itdst tNO lIuIutlS uuIlub NY
stay at Gangier-both perpetrated M the
most open manner, though i'll neither
case was any adequate penalty (if any
penalty at alb inflicted. The first was
from motives Of jealousy, and the mur-
derer stabbed his victim in the middle Of
the town-the body lying ont i'll the
street till guide from the hotel stun.
bled over it on his way home ut night.
| The second was committed by Ritfian,
to wipe out blold-feud that existed in
his family. A relation Of his had been
killed 10y a map, and from that time the
soleInn duty devulvedupon him pfaveng-
ing his death. The act NAV have been
committed u generation back; but IL that
case the mother would daily charge the
child upon her knee with the task he had
to perform, and when he was grown up,
never let him rest till vengeance was eX-
acted. The man has little hopes to es-
cape. No Irish landlord under the baue
of Captain Moonlight could be So
certain OF his doom; and in Barbary he
cannot even avail himself of the doubt
tul protection OF police. In this case the
murderer coolly shot his victim dead as
he was sitting in the sokO, and then
brandishing his knife at all who attemp-
ted TO arrest him, got clear off into the
country. A friend of mine once heard
bashaw inhict fine of 18d. on Moor
for the peculiarly cold-blooded murder
of Jew-that impartial functionary OBJ
serving that the sentence would have
been heavier one, but that it was nec-
| pssary that Jews shOuli he llscourapel
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
An Electric Rat Trap,

According to a local paper Ralph
Corbit, an ingenious 12-yesr-old boy, OF
Honey brook, Chester County, Pa, has
devised a novel plan OF getting rid OF
rats which infest his fathers cellar. He
has constructed out of old fruit jars
battery of three Leyden jars, which he
connects and places upon a large iror
plate which touches the tinfol on the
outside. The bait is so arranged that
when the rat steps upon the plate and
seizes the bait he at once makes the con-
pection between the outside and inside
of the Jars, and they are discharged
through his body, killing him literally
AZ quick as lightning. The first time he
put the machine in operation he slaught-
cred Is rats in a space of three hours,
and in two days the cellar was entirely
cleared of the pests.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
She Wouldn't Do.


Mr.. Peterson Chatfey recently adver-
tised for colored servant. Among the
colored ladies' who applied was Miss Su-
sannah Grow. She was willing to do the
work and receive S15 month, provided
her conditions we're conceded to. She
wanted quite number Of concessions,
and among them immunity from any,
thing like work. ~ want it understood
amt gwine ter fotch no water nor wood
inter de kitchen, and somebody has got
ter get up in de morning and make de
fire." "Of course not, Susannah. No
body would expect you to do those
things. Whenever you want the fire
made, or water or wood brought in, Just
ring the bell for Mrs. Chatfey, aud order
her to bring in what you want" "And
Use not gwine ter do no scrubbin' and
no washin' OBJ de dishes. No culiud
lady in Austin does de like OBJ dat. I"
"Of course not, Miss Grow. I always
make my wife and daughter do the drud-
gerry about the house. II at any time
they do not speak respectfully to you,
just let me know and Ill see that it does
not occur again." "I believes I'll come
on de fust OBJ de munf." "Before hir-
ing you, Miss Grow, want to ask you
few questions" "What does yer want
ter know!" "Can you play on the
piano? Can you render Beethoven's i'm
mortal symphonies with the proper ex-
pression?" "No, sab; but l sings camp
meetin' tunes "Then am afraid you
will not suit the family at all. While my
wife is washing the dishes and doing the
scrubbing, l want the cook to play on
the piano and receive company. am
afraid you will not fill the bill. just
get out of here, you old charcoal fraud! "
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
A FEMALE FIEND.
A Dying Woman Unfolds Horrible Tale
OF Murder to Minister Of
the Gospel.
HER PARENTS AMONG HER VICTIMS.

MOUNT VERNON, o., January AID
ditional returns Of the Stilwell tragedy
have been developed that seem more ter
rible aud sickening. DR.. II. E. Ed.
wards, of Fredericton, who is also II
local preacher of the NJ. Z. Church,
spent the day with the dying woman on
Tuesday, administering spiritual conso-
lation. Gaining her confidence by his
ministerial Office he urged her to un-
burden her mind to him and held out
the blessed promise for forgiveness TO
hall who are truly penitent. Finally the
woman retold her story, relating how
she, her mother and her brother had
murdered her first husband, Benz. Swe-
CART, at Marysville, Mo-, in March,
1877. The second victim was stranger
whom the same party killed for his
money while stopping at a boarding
house. The third was her own daughter.
aged IA, whom she strangled
in the presence of her mother
at Rulo, Neb., in 1880. She
also confessed to having made
three attempts on the life Of her present
husband, Jay b. Stilwell, an employe of
the c., b. & Q. Railroad. She went
over the CHASTITY details, but at the con-
clusion said there were two black crimes
she would never tell. The lIinister
urged her by her hopes for forgiveness
TO make full confession. Yielding to
his advice, she informed him that she
had, in addition to the horrible crime
before confessed, murdered her mother
while lying helpless at t"r home in OF
tumwa, Ia, from the Elects OF her in
iuries in the railroad accident, as de-
scribed in her first confession. She said
she nursed her mother until she became
tired of it, and fearing that she would
make some confession that would impli-
cate her, she strangled her. She posi-
tively refused to divulge the other crime
limited al, but when asked Of what dis
ease her father died, she hid her face
and cried: "Acute throat" There is no
doubt but that the other crime was the
murder OF her father, rs he mysterious
ly disappeared at Marysville, No., and
was reported to have gone to California.
DIR. Edwards, who ranks high, examined
the woman's mental condition, and gives
it as his opinion that the woman is OF per-
fectly sound mind, and her story is the
/, dying confession Of a stricken woman.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

Near Darien, Ga. q negro entered the house
Of o farmer named Hayman while the family
were at dinner and shot Hayman. The latter
knocked the negro down, took away his pistol
and shot him. Both are dead.
George X. McConkey, county treasurer at
Hamilton, Nevada, was found dead on the
floor Of his Office, pistol lying beside him and
the safe door oI'en. case Of murder.
Thomas Jones and Geo. L. Franks, of Collen
Springs, Texas. met on the street on the Sd
inst. Both W sre well armed and for some rea-
son began firing. Both were instantly killed.
Tom Seymour was shot dead In a hospital
ward at Galveston, Texas, on the Sd, by Q de-
ranged patient named Morrison.
James Roberts was killed and J. A. Hesser
fatally injured by boiler explosion at Ada, o..
on the Sd inst.
While attempting to arrest notorious char
acter named McGowan at New York on the "a
inst. Roundsman Delaney was dangerously
wounded in the head. shot fred by the
wounded officer penetrated McGowan's heart
and ended his career instantly.
In shooting affray at Clayton, Texas, be-
tween Capt. Ross, Charles Carther and a man
named Mcdonald, the captain was fatally shot
and the two latter seriously wounded.
st. Paul, Minn., is considerably stirred fup
over a mysterious murder. The victim is a
son 81 J.. W. Pierce, lawyer. The young
mans blood stained clothing, cut in many
places by sharp instrument, were found on
the ice near the bridge on the morning Of the
% inst. It is thought the murdered mans
body was slipped into the river through an air
hole.
r. W. Cooke, his wife, eldest daughter and
one son were brutally murdered with an axe by
hired man at Little Rideau, East Hawkes.
burg, Canada West, on the I'd inst. Another
son had thigh broken and his sister Fanny
received severe wound on the breast while
endeavoring to aid her brother. The murderer
IL at large.
Hermosillo, a member OF the Mexican con-
gress, was mortally wounded in a duel with
swords at Pachuca.
A ranch near Mstamoras was raided by
twenty-five bandits, who killed the proprietor
and carried of his son. A squad Of cavalry is
in pursuit
A party Of lynchers hanged Bluford Smith,
a negro murderer, at Tazewell Court House,
Va, on the lst
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
EXHAUSTION OF ANTHRACITE COAL.

There are but four anthracite coal
fields in Pennsylvania, and their aggre-
gate area is hut 4S3 square miles. Re-
table engineers estimate that the
amount of coal the four fields will yield,
If the present wasteful method of mining
is continued, cannot be more than three
billion tons. But the year which ends
with the present week has taken 90, ,500,-
600 tons OF anthracite coal from Penn.
syvauia mines, and il is expected that
the amount taken will be greater, rather
than less, in future years, SO that the
supply will be exhausted in a century,
II not sooner, Besides Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Virginia are the only
states which produce anthracite coal,
and their supply is insignificant. The
service performed by anthracite coal in
the development of the resources of the
United States has been so great that the
prospect of the exhaustion of the sup
ply, even century hence, must be re-
garded with much concern. The declar-
alton that long before the century ends
anthracite coal will be luxury which
only the rich can enjoy will cause pop
ular demand that the wasteful method
of mining known as the "pillar and
breast" be abandoned, and that the more
economical method employed in English
mines be substituted for it. It is true
that the supply of bituminous coal
seems inexhaustible, although the an
nual product of our bituminous mines
does not much exceed $4,000, 900 tons,
which is about one. fourth of the coal
product of England. Ohio; which ranks
below Pennsylvania and Illinois In the
production of btuminous coal, can pro-
duce more than England, whose capacity
is already severely taxed. But the iron
and steel Industries of the United States
could never have reached their present
proportions but for anthracite coal, and
the exhaustion of the anthracite fields
inevitably affect the prosperity of the
country, unless Inventive genius devises
new fuel to feed our blast furnaces and
move our engines--a contingency so re-
mote that the gravest considerations
remain to urge economy in anthracite
mining
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
A Valuable Bird.


In one Of the prettiest stierts of West
Philadelphia is pretty girl who is the
owner Of bright and talkativc poll-par-
rot. A few mornings since the lady
stood at tine window drinking in the pure,
crisp air. Polly's cage hung in the same
embrasure, but the lace curtain made it
scarcely distinguishable from the out
side. On the opposite side Of the street
sauutered two young bloods enjoy ing
their after. breakfast cigarettes. Admir-
ing glances we're cast towards that win
dow and that pretty girl, when sudden
ly they were startled by clear GOOD
morning, gentlemen I" They had not
seen the rosy lips move, but Of course it
was the divinity" who had spoken;
no one else was about. The youths saw
the opening to delightful Irritation and
was Just considering the next move when
the voice spoke again; this time,
"Wouldn't You like to kiss me, gentle
men 2" fell upon their astonished ears.
Wouldn't they, though, and hssty
strides were being made in the direction
of the charming face and winning voice,
when the lady hastily drew aside the
curtain, disclosing mischevious Polly in
the gorgeous cage, who continued to call
after the disappointed youths - they
disappeared down the street, won't
YOU kiss me? Do; hs-hs-ha J"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

Fifty German villages are reported destroyed
by the present great overflow Of the River
Rhine. The loss Of property by this flood is
unprecedented.
All traces of the qusys and banks Of the
Danube are lost at Vienna, their places being
merely marked by eddies III the torrent.
From Mayeuce downward the entire pain
between Mannheim and WorJas il an immense
lake. Five hundred houses were destroyed in
villages around Worms.
The northwestern portion Of North Brabant
is submerged and hundreds Of people are
homeless.
At Frankenthal. Bavaria, six thousand peo-
pie abandoned their homes.
Seventy houses have fallen at Badcnhen
and at Rexheim, Morsch and Oppan 24O house,
have succumbed to the elements. The town OF
Eobstadt is deeply submerged. Ten thousand
people are rendered homeless near Worms,
5000 at Ludwigshsfen and 1000 at Mannheim
Mannheim appears to stand on an island in an
immense lake. The great Rhine dam at this
point gave way on the night Of the Sd.
Steamers and boats were rescuiug people by
torchlight
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

will of God that 1 shall ever see you
more in this life, bear it patiently and
with heart like thyself. Firstly, 1
send you all the thanks my heart can
conceive or my words can express for
your many troubles and cares taken for
me; which, though they have not taken
effect as you wished, yet the debt is
nathless. end pay it l never shall
in this world. Secondly, | be-
seech you by the love you bear
the living, do not hide yourself in
grief many days, but seek to help the
miserable fortunes Of our poor child.
Thy mourning cannot avail me. am
but dust, Remember your
poor child for his fsther's sake, who
chose and loved you in his happiest
time. God is my witness, 1t is for you
and yours desired life; but il is true
disdain myself for begging Of it. For
know, dear wife, that your son ia the
son of true man, and one who in his
own respect despiseth death and all his
misshapen and grizzly forms. cannot
write much. God Knows how hardly I
stole the time when all asleep: and it is
time to separate my thoughts from all
the world. Beg my dead body, which
living is denied thee, and either lay it
at Shelbourne or in Exeter, by my
father and mother. can wIite no
more. Time and death call me away.
The everlasting God; Iufinitive, Power
ful, Inscrutable; the Almighty God,
which is goodness itself, mercy itself;
the true light and life. keep thee and
thine, have mercy on me and teach me
to forgive my prosecutors and false
witnesses, aud send us to meet again liz
His glorious kingdom. My own true
wife, farewell. Bless my poor boy.
Pray for me and let the good God fold
you both in His arms. Written with
the dying hand of some time thy hus-
band, but now. alas overthrown.
Yours that was, but not my own.
w. RALEIGH.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE,

Although the tilling of the soil Is the
occupation in which the majority of the
race are and always must be engaged,
agriculture, says the Alta California, Is
the industry in which the application Of
scientific methods seems to make the
least progress. In the industries sub
sidIary to agriculture we have made
great progress, and it has resulted in
increasing the value of the land aud its
products; but in the art of making the
ground produce the greatest possible
amount there has been little advance.
All the great inventions in the United
States which have benefited the farmer
have been improvements in the methods
OF reapiug and transporting the harvest
after it is grown, or of getting the seed
into the land at the least possible ex-
pense. Improvements have been in the
direction of reducing the cost OF per-
forming the old operations of plow-
ing, planting and harvesting, and to
this end the invention of new plows,
harrows, drills, moving machines, head
ers, reapers, rakes and threshing
machines contribute. But in the art of
stimulating the soil and making it yield
as great an increase as possible of what
Is put into it, we are about where the
agriculturists were two thousand years
ago. Most of the questions which were
unsettled then are unsettled still, SO slow
Is the progress in arriving at fixed and
accurate results. 1t is an absolute fact
that summer-fallowing, the rotation of
crops and the preparation OF ensilage,
which are considered new ideas in farm
ing in this country, were all in practice
among the Romans in Italy at about the
beginning Of the Christian era. Virgil
describes the rotation Of crops and the
fallowing of the soils with a lucidness
which would do credit to modern book
GA scientific agriculture. 1t is still an
open question with farmers whether it
is iudicious to burn the stubble ON
wheat lands, and the curious reader will
find that question argued in much the
same way in the Georges of Virgil.
The differences of soils, climates and
seasons are SO infinite that it is work
OF difficulty to arrive at results with
sufficient accuracy to settle these old,
vexed questions, but it can be done il
the record of experiments is averaged
Tor long series of years and the expert
ments are themselves conducted on q
sufficiently extensive scale. 1t is ap-
parent that many things which have
been tanght in the name of scientific
agriculture ardnow exploded. But few
wears ago the first and last advice Of
every writer to the farmers was 10
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
AD,shones,Irsasurer.

Considerable excitement prevails at Men,
phls, Tenn, over the development that State
Treasurer Marsh I. Polk is a defaulter in the
sum Of 100000. Treasurer Polk left Nash
Milan, Tenn, from which poiut he wrote back
that be would return on Sunday. His family
do not know Of hlF whereabouts. The
amount OF the deficit in the treasury caunot
he accurately ascertaIned until after thorough
investigation. One of the boud5men who
have been examining the accounts says they
show thus far deficit of 1880, 900. The same
bondsman says the treasurer's books ana ac-
count at one Of the banks shows a discrepancy
of over $50, 900. Jut before Christmas he
said he drew out of the Bank of Pulaski
$4,000. The state funds were distributed in
various banks ut Nashville, Knoxville and
Memphis. Ikc missIng funds are supposed
TO have been lost in speculation or loaned TO
personal friends engaged IN speculation in
bonds and stocks.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
A Brave Fireman.

The feat of George Hutchins, q Boston
fireman, will bring him medal. 1t was
performed at the burning of gun store,
described the other day by telegraph.
1t was impossible to keep the people far
away from the building, although they
were told that it contained explosives.
The fremen learned just where the stock
of powder was kept, and Hutchins vol
unteered to go in after it. He climbed
througha a window, got down on his knees,
and crept toward the spot to which he
had been directed. The smoke was stiff
ling and binding. His hands touched
one huge oopper-box containing powder,
and carried it out. Then he went back for
another box. The copper burned his
fingers, and as he sprang out the flames
followed him, but the powder was safe
under the effect Of q powerful stream OF
water,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

plough deep, though it is now conceded
that the idea that deep plowing is
always advisable, was mistake. Among
practical farmers there is less unanimity
as to the proper methods of the art than
among the persons engaged in any other
calling whatever. If an inquirer we're
to undertake to. ascertain and reconcile
the different theories and opinions of
farmers upon the subject of wheat grow.
ing, he would find them the oldest jun.
BILE imaginable. Scarcely two farmers
would have exactly the same opinion.
1t is not that these problems are insolu-
bic. but that scientific methods have not
been applied to them.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
RaleiQh's Last Letter.

Following is q pathetic page from
Abby Sage Richardson's Glove Let
ter" s"-Slr Walter Raleigh's letter to his
wife just before his execution:
You shall now receive, dear wife. my
last words in these my last lines. My
love ] send you, that you may keep il
when I am dead; and my counsel, that
you may remember it when am no
more. I would not. by my will, pre-
sent you with sorrows, dear Bess; lei
them 60 TO the grave and be buried with
me In dust, And, seeing il is not the
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
Oysters il Puget Sound.

The oyster beds in Puget Sound are
attracting attention, and when railroad
facilities are completed there is no rea-
son why the northwestern section Of the
United States should not receive their
oysters from this source. The gathering
of oysters has been so far carried on by
the indians, but lately white men have
engaged IN the business, and transplant
ing has taken place TO the advantage Of
the oyster. OF late some very wonder
full beds of oysters have been discovered.
The oysters are described as being Of
unusual size, and, though more meaty
than those of the Atlantic coast, quite as
well favored.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
Deadly ExplOsiOns.

The boiler in Hoffman 4 Stilmans -four
mill at Fillmore Centre, Mich. exploded on
the 4th inst, wrecking the mill and injuring
six men. One OF the injured died soon after
wards and it is thought two more will not sur
yive their injuries. The boiler was hurled 800
feet.
McNIilson 4 Ports sewer pipe works at
Blackhorse Landing, W. Va, were wrecked by
a boiler explosion on the 4th. Two men were
killed and two badly injured.
boiler explosion at the Peninsula Manu-
featuring Company works at Muskegou,
Mich. on the 4th, killed four men and injured
as many more. The works were badly
wrecked
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

steamer City Of Brussels. OF the Inman Line,
was lying-to in the estuary Of the Mersey dur
ing a dense fog, she was run into by the
steamer Kirby HslI, just from Glasgos on her
maiden voyage. The Brussels was cut down
below the waters edge and Logan to FIJI rapid
ly. The passengers and crew Of the sinking
steamer were transferred to the Hall which
conveyed them to Liverpool. Three steerage
passengers and eight Of the crew of the Brns-
sells were lost. The Halls bow was crushed in
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11

Baltimore In having smallpox scare. There
we're seventy-ive deaths in that city from that
disease during the last week Of the cid year,
and 200 cases are reported.
Advlces from Capetown state that during the
past two months 5000 people have been
stricken with smallpox, and that 2,400 died.
The natives object to vaccination.