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Proposals for School House.
OFFICE OF BOARD OF SCGooL
TRUsTEEs, CHEYENNE, Wyo.,
July ., 1851.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
office Of Luke Voorhees, until 6 O'Clock p.
M, July 10, 1884, for the building Of a
brick school house similar to the johnson
school house.
Parties desiring particulars are requested
to confer with Luke Voorhees,. John Dur
bin or the undersigned. BY order of the
Board Of School Trustees.
[seal. L. P. Snow, Clerk.
, 1884-07-10
bargains and Cheap
Goods

take the best in stock and mark them
down to a cheap price.
We offer this morning one dozen only
Of a medium weight Cashmere Suit, light
color, for SIG. 50, former price S24. 90.
Also Children's Suits for $500. Scarfs,
two for % cents.
Bargains in Millinery Goods, as it is
drawing near the close Of the season.
Bargains in
, 1884-07-10

At Elitchs.

Benton & White, located on Hill street
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth,
keep a feed, sale and boarding stable.
Teams for sale at reduced prices.
, 1884-07-10

The largest stock Of Carpets ever in
Wyoming at Craig. Davis 4 Go. s.
, 1884-07-10

\ new lot Of decorated china tea sets at
Craig, Davis & Co.'S,
, 1884-07-10

Light weight underwear at Polack's.
, 1884-07-10
Mems Suits for $40 and SIP.

Every one adyertises cheap clothing,
and every house has cheap clothing, some
houses so cheap, much of it, as to be
nearly worthless. We carry no shoddy
clothing, but for our
, 1884-07-10

House moving and repairing promptly
done by Ferris. 37S Fifteenth street.
, 1884-07-10

Something New.
Brass hanging lamps with colored cut
glass prisms at Craig, Davis & Go. s.
, 1884-07-10
Lots for sale

Lots for sale.
Lots near the ground bought by the
Cheyenne, Black Hills &. Montana rail-
way company for depot purposes. Prices
low. BAIRD & CAMPBELL.
, 1884-07-10

For RENT-Furnishcd house with three
rooms, pantry and closet. | will furnish
two buarders and pay balance in money.
L. USHER, at Martin lumberyard.
, 1884-07-10

New Novelties
4 host of them, at Rhodes K Troxclls 5.
, 1884-07-10

Good rooms with board, Apply at
southwest corner Seventeenth and Bent
streets,
, 1884-07-10

es & historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1884-07-10

WANTED-Immediately a dining room
girl at Kapp's restaurant.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Chicago Divorces.

AS Illustrating the wholesale charac-
ter Of the divorce business in Chicago, a
few figures, taken from the court rec
ords. may be of interest. During the
year closing December 81, 1882, there
were 74s divorces granted, whereas the
marriage licenses issued were about
5000, or II divorce to eight marriages.
No other city in the United States a
show so large q proportion Of divorces
to marriages. During the last year, in
the two chancery courts presided over
by Judges Jameson and Gardner, 364
divorces were issued, and it is thought
as many more were granted in the two
circuit courts. OF the 374 divorces
granted in the chancery courts, 266
were issued on complaint of the wife,
and lO3 on complaint or the husband;
345 cases Went by default, and 81 were
contested. Divorces were granted on
the following grounds: Dcseltion, 1850;
drunkenness, as; adultery. 81; cruelty,
IS; felony. 6; bigamy, 4; void for fraud,
Z; dismissed by court, II.
From these figures it will be seen that
more than twice rs many women APP
piled for divorce as men, which indi-
catcS 10 4 certain extent tnattne divorce
lawyers, of whom Chicago boasts quite
Il number, have been a%ssiduously at
work. The fact that of 374 petitions
343 We're granted on default, no de-
fence being entered, is considered espec-
tally remarkable and can only be ex-
planned on the ground that in many in
stances the defendant knows nothing
about the cast until after the affair is
closed. The deputy sheriff, who serves
the necessary notice, is taken to some
person in the hire Of the divorce attor-
ney, who p%ersonates the defendant.
Service is made in a bona fide manner
and certified to, and that ends the mat
ter. Meantime the unsuspecting hus-
band is i n blissful ignorance that legal
proceedings have been instituted against
him. The first thing he knows Of the
affair he finds himself q divorced man,
his wife gone and his home ruined, and
then he does not attempt to even inves-
tigate the matter, but accepts the situa-
ton. and perhaps murmurs, s.What a
lucky escape."-Boston Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Henry Wizards Romance.

After reporting what was to be seen
during the first attack on Charleston,
S. c. Henry Willard came North and
made the acquaintance of William
Lloyd Garrison and was taken to that
gentleman's home in Boston and intro
duced to the Garrison household rs a
hero and strong anti-slavcry advocate.
Here the young man saw Miss Fanny
Garrison, a beautiful young lady, who
was about completing her education in
a Boston seminary. She was consid-
cred one of the bellies of Boston society,
was patriotic, bright, and, though quite
Young. thoroughly understood the
causes which led to the breach between
the North and South. MIR. Willard
passed many hours in conversation with
the enthusiastic maiden before he again
started for the front. Her vivacious
manner and winning ways had driven
from his memory the early resolutions
made before he sought his fortune on
this side Of the Atlantic, and the modest
desire for a little cote in sunny France
with the dark-eycd girl who had first in
spired him with the tender sentiments
Of love, as his wife. Never in all his
travels in Europe or in any portion Of
the West and ~South-for by this time
Willard had seen much of the world
had he come in contact with u soul
which had so thoroughly charmed him.
He returned to the South, fully deter
mined to keep her foremost in his mem
DRY. When. later on, malarial fever
contracted in the Southern swamps
forced lin again to return North he was
assisted back to health by the tender
sympathies and cheering smiles of the
beautiful Boston girl. Then he declared
his love both to the daughter and pa
rents, and Il little later he led her to
the altar. Since his marriage MI. Viii
lard's life has been one of unusual sue
cess.
To-day the once poor but ambitious
emigrant youth may be found surround
ed by a lovely family of children in a
grand old mansion bordered by parks
and lawns on the banks overlookingthe
Hudson, near this city. The beautiful
young Eastern girl is Just Us charming
as ever.-N. Y. Morming journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

A great number of peach orchards
have been set out on the Maryland pen
insula this fall.
Louisiana gratis Japan persimmons
on the native American tree, and the
fruit is as large as a tomato.
A number of capitalists have pur-
chased eight hundred acres Of land in
Pickens County Georgia, for the pur-
pose. OF quarrying MARBLE Chicago
Herald.
The lumber business in the swamps
of the Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers
in Mississippi is assuming immense pro-
portions.
A Philadelphia scientist claims that
he can tell, on examining a hair pin,
the color of the owners hair, and readi-
who wears false hair.-PAiladelph,a
Press.
An illustration of the activity in
cotton manufacturing in the South is
afforded by the mill in Rome, Ca,
which has doubled its machinery since
its start, eighteen months ago. 1t is
running night and day.
The prospect now is that only
about two-thirds as much lumber will
be cut on the kennebec and its tributar-
les the coming winter rs usual, says the
Augusta Journal, owing to the low
prices which operators have received
for their lumber. A leading Augusta
operator in lumber says that, practical
ly lumbermen received nothing for the
stumpage of last years cut.
A method of washing butter has been
patented IN Germany. 1t consists in
taking the small particles out of the
churn when about a tenth of an inch in
diameter, and placing them in a CEN
trifugal machine whose drum is pierced
linen cloth. Pure water is added from
time to time till that which is thrown
out contains no butter-milk.
Some of the conclusions of science
would indeed be appalling but for their
practical harmlessness. Thus, geolo-
gists assert that if the continents and
the bottom of the ocean We're graded
down to a uniform level the whole
world would be covered with water q
mile deep. so much greater is the de-
preston of the ocean bed than the ele-
walton of the existing land.-N, Y.
Times.
In Arkansas the counties lying con-
tiguous to the Mississippi or any navi-
gable stream, are rapidly filling up with
Northern, Western and foreign immi-
grants. They are building saw-mills,
and many have already begun cutting
timber. Land is still cheap in most
places, yet the advance has been mar
velous within a few years. That which
now commands from one dollar to five
dollars per acre was at that date posi-
lively unsalable.-Iroy Times.
The exceedingly delicate photo
graphs colored on glass which have re-
Gently come into fashion are produced
by fixing a paper photograph upon a
cushion-shaped glass with transparent
cement and when it is dry rubbing
away two-thirds of the photograph with
sandpaper. The thin film left is then
rendered transparent-by soaking in
melted paraf1ine a after which trans
parent colors are applied, which appeay
softened down looked at from the front.
-Chscag0 Journal. 4,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Mr. Swift. ADDRESSING his L.ordehip,

Mr.. Swift, addressing his L%ordehip.
said all he wished to say on behalf OF
this unfortunate woman was this-that
she seemed to have met with q bad hus-
band in the first place and an ignorant
man in the second. He could only ven
ture to hope that his Lordship would
not think it a case in which she ought
to be punished-at least, not severely.
His Lordship directed that Wardle
should be called, and this was done
without eliciting any answer.
His Lordship addressing the prison.
cr-It is absolutely necessary that 1
should pass some punishment upon you
in order that people may understand
that men have no more right to sell
their wives than they have to sell other
peoples wives. or to sell other peoples
horses or COWS. or anything of the kind.
You can not make that a legal transact
ton. SO many of you seem to be ig-
norant of that that it is necessary l
should give you some punishment in
order that you may understand it. 1t
is not necessary that it should be long,
but YOU must be- imprisoned and kept
at hard labor for one week.-London
Te,eQrGph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
GENERAL.

An Arkansas editor retires from
journalism because he is troubled with
govt.
Samuel Carson, q son of Kit Car
son. has struck 4 rich mine in Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Bcrgh is after the New York
millionaires who pin butterflies to their
dinipg-room bouquets.
Caleb Fisher, of Warwick, Pa.
makes a living by catching mud turtles
for the Philadelphians.
"A New York society paper saws the
most fashionable thing there this win
ter is to be economical, and it's a good
sign.
A Nebraska man has been placed
III q lunau!c asylum because he drove
his wife out into the field with a shot
gun and compelled her to plant corn.
A man in Lockport, N. Y, has
been suffering from blood poisoning.
the result of 4 fly bite. His life was
despaIred Of at one time.-Bufalo Etc.
p1es%.
Parental discipline in these latter
days is so tender hearted that truly good
mothers always give their children chic
roform before applying the switch.-M.
Y. Herald.
"A man stole three cents in Farm.
lnton, Me, one day recently, and was
arrested, tried and sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment before nightfall Of
the same day.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that a policy of life
insurance is not made void by the sui
eide of the insured person while insane.
Washington Star.
A Hanover (Mass.) householder
was surprised to have a call one nipht
recently from Il well-known resident of
the town, with the demand for $1,000
as a forced loan for Jesus Christ, the
threat being made that, if the money
was not forthcoming, the windows Of
the house would be smashed in. After
some parleying, the defendant was per
suaded to 60 home and wait till morn
ing, when he was secured and taken to
the Taunton Lunatic Asylum.-Boston
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
The Secret Hip We Tong.

For some months it has been believed
in certain quarters that the Chinese
have in this city a secret tribunal. or
court, which has both original and final
jurisdiction, and whose DEGREES are alb
solute. Several civil cases that have
been begun in the various regular courts
have been mysteriously withdrawn,
without settlement, and a number of
other cases have been settled in a curl
GUS fashion by the litigants, to the great
mystification Of their attorneys 1t has
come to be understood among police
men stationed near Mott street that
there is a Chinese court somewhere, and
a Sun reporter set out to find this court.
At No. Is Mott street is a three-storv
brick building, with a high wooden
stoop in front. Over the third-story
windows hangs a red and gold sign,
bright with bits of scarlet bunting. Its
cabalistic characters convey no intelli-
gence to Americans. Ask the few white
residents in the neighborhood what the
place is, and they will say that it is q
Chinese club room. The policeman on
the beat will say he thinks it is a Chinese
Masonic lodge room. The fat and
stolid storekeeper down stairs will look
innocently through his round, horn
trimmed spectacles, gurgle "No sabe,'
and shut the door in the inquirer's face.
Having the idea that this was the
place he was in search of, the
reporter a up stairs to the top story
of Is Mott street without encountering
any one. The first two stories are dirty
and ill-smelling, but at the third story
a sudden transition takes place. The
hall floor is covered with soft mating,
and the walls with bright paper splashed
with gold, while a huge Chinese Ian
tern lights up the passage. A broad
doorway, tlanked on either side by red
scrolls with notices written upon them
in black, terminates the hall. The re-
porter opened the door and stepped in.
1t was a large, double room divided bv
an arched partition. The floor was car
peted with Turkish carpet, the walls
We're hung with scrolls, swords, battle
axes and spears. The furniture was of
teak wood, richly carved, and consisted
OF settees and chairs, set against the
walls in solemn array, with an ebony
table about two feet square between
each two chairs Carved lanterns hung
from the ceiling, and wax candles and
oeIfumed punk burned il front of an
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
The Buying and Selling of Wives in
England.

Before MI. Justice Denman, at the
Liverpool assizes yesterday. Betsy War
die was charged with marrying Gorge
Chisnel at Eccleston bigamously, her
former husband being alive. The case
was a peculiar one. 1t was stated by
the woman that rs herirst husbandhad
sold her for a quart of beer she thought
she was at liberty to marry again.
His Lordship-1hat is not what she
stated before the magistrate. She said
then that he was idle and would not
work. When she left him she took the
child with her, and he said if she would
bet him have the child he would not
trouble her any furthur. He added
that he would sell her for a quart of
beer.
Prisoner-.Please your worship, he did
so. Laughter.
His Lordship-Is there ANYBODY here
who knows that? Yes, my lord: Alice
Roseby and Margaret Brown.
His Lordship-Call Margaret Brown.
Margaret Brown thereupon stepped
into the box and was cross-eXaminei by
his lordship. She said she was present
at the second marriage. She knew the
first husband Wardle was alive; she was
told that he had sold her for quart of
beer.
His Lordship-You believe it would
be binding? Yes, SKI.
His Lordship-And you thought it
right she should marry again? . She
wished me to give her away, and l did
$50. Laughter.
His Loruship-You helped her to COM
init bigamy. Take care YOU do not do
1t AGAIN or you will get yourself into
trouble.
Alice Roseby was next called. and
said Sc saw Wardle drink one glass of
the quart.
His Lordship-Who was the bargain
maize with? With George Chisnal.
His Lordship-I am not sure that Won
g e not guilty of bigamy. or of being an
accessory before the fact. You must
not do this sort of thing again. People
have no right to sell their wives for a
quart OF beer or anything else. Laugh
ter.
George Chisnal, the second husband,
apparently just out of his teens, was the
neXt witness called.
His Lordship-How did YOU come to
marry this woman? Witness lin the
Lancashire vernacular)-How did a
what? Laughter. Question repeated,
A howt her. [Laughter.l
His Lordship-You are not fool
enough to suppose you can buy another
mans wife? vi. Laughter.
His Lordship-How much did YOU
give for her? SiNpence. [Great laugh
ter
His Lordship-You are as guilty as
she is. You are accessory before the
fact to her committing bigamv. You
have commit ed bigamy yourself.
Everybody has committed bigamy in
this case: Laughter. Go down.
The witness left the box with alacrl-
ty, but was Immediately recalled by his
Iordship, who asked him how long he
had lived with the prisoner. ,
Witness-Going on for three years.
His Lordship-Do YOU want to take
her back again? Awl keep her, if YOU
Joke. [Iau ghter.
His Lordship-You need not keep
her if you DO not want. She is Wardle's
.W.fs. -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

AN English woman, calling herself
hours.
-Epitaphcopied in French cemetery:
81 await my husband. 10th October,
1920" And below: Here am! 9TH
February, 1880"
The profits from the international
fisheries exposition are to be devoted to
establishing an orphanage for English
fishermen's children.
The new Lord Mayor of London
declines to take out his state carriages
and liveries on Sunday because it would
give work to his servants, and he wishes
them to have a day of rest.
-Monsignor Vannutelli. the new
Nuncio for Lisbon, is n OF the taliest
men in the world. Plus IN. used to
call him the one-and-a-lalf priest. on
account of his extreme height. He is
also described as Il man of great genius
and learning.
An illustration of how prisoners in
Sill ria are treated may be got from the
statement that a two-vear-old child of
an innocent mother who had followed
her convict husband was chained hand
and foot in the chain gang with its par
ents.
The Egyptian Project of Police in
Alexandria recently declined to release
a prisoner whose term of six months
imprisonment had expired, on the
ground that the prisoner had appealed
against his sentence, and the appeal had
not yet been heard.
The London General Omnibus
Company, who have given a fair trial
to the experiment of using Belgian
horses, have given it up. 1t has been
ascertained that the serviceable life OF a
Belgian horse Costing S20O) does not
average more than six years: while a
British horse Costing on an average nc
more) will last double the time. When
the Belgian horse is used up, the com
pany can only get $40 of so for him.
The British horse under similar condi-
lions will realize S75.
Medical men have for some time
arrived at tire conclusion that consump-
ton is infectious. The matter has been
taken up in a practical way in the Ger
man army, in which the disease is
stated to be very prevalent. All sol
diers suffering from it are isolated and.
to prevent any possible infection, on no
account are they to be allowed to asso-
ciate with patients suffering from pneu-
monia or acute bronchitis. while special
means are to be taken for the disinfec-
ton Of the sputo in infectious cases.
1t seems that the Marquis Of Kill
dare, eldest scn of the Duke of Lem
ster, is about to be married to the great
beauty, Lady Hermione Duncombe,
eldest daughter Of Lord Faversham,
whose daughters are by far the most
beautiful girls in England. Lady Fa-
yersham, the daughter OF the famous
Sir James Graham, is herself very
beautiful, and Lord Faversham is. one
OF the best-natured of the peers of his
year. He has a picture of his daugh-
tiers as young children. painted by SAINT
in his house in Belgrave Square, Il per-
feet dream of beauty and grace.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
PITH AND POINT.

The ancfents could beat us to death
painting pictures; bullock at ourtrames!
-Baptist Weekly.
-When a poor widow finds a load of
wood left cautiously at the door, she
can conclude that she has struck q ten-
der cho.d somewhere.
Yes" he said, cts easy enough
to see that it's a lie. But the difficulty
is to determine whether it was intended
to be believed or not."-Detrou Post.
A Chicago philosopher has been
asking what is the most generous OF
creatures. The oyster, of course. 1t
shells out well and pans out delightful
ly.-N. Y. Herald.
Come, little one, you've only full
filled half your contract-you promised
to play four tunes and you have PLAYED
but two" (Which fills the bill, nv
cavalier, for tune two are four, YOU
know."-Erchange. \
"A young woman who was married
three months ago was asked how she
was getting along with the mysteries
Of housekeeping. "Oh, I'm learning
very fast. Why, would you believe tips
she exclaimed, II hemmed a whole
towel myself in six hours yesterdav.''-
Ioston Post.
A man makes an awful row if his
wife takes his razor to trim a little maze
on her little toe, or sharpen a lead zen
Gil; but he thinks it is all right and
SCOTS at her if she shrieks her feeble
protests when he takes her little en-
broldery scissors to cut q copper tele-
phone wire.-N. Y. Mail.
-"'How much do you think you can
get along on, my son? l want to allow
you enough to make a decent appear
ance in society, but yet will not coun-
tenance extravaganza" 'Just my
idea, dad: [ think, say, about $40, OO0a
acknowledgements, You know,
would be about the thing ."-Boston
transcript.
-"Let me see," said the Young man
Saturday evening as he was going home
from his work; "my wages is So L ken
get a horse and buggy tomorrow and
take my girl out ridin' for 81. That
leaves -. l ken get along with $3.50
for spendin' money and will have fifty
cents left to give mother for board. I'll
Chicago Herald.
The old saw about the folly of wis
dom when ignorance is bliss has Just
been enforced by an old lady, who,
speaking Of a young man rather def
Gent in brains, who had just reached
his twenty-tirst birthday, said: ..Oh,
dear; how bad poor George would feel,
II ne were bright, to think that he doesn't
know any more than he does."-N. Y.
Graphic. ,
beg yer pardon, but do yer think
! a find buffalo in New York;" in
CURED a Nath'l Wrinkle looking-got-up
Englishman of an American fellow pas
senger on the steamship. "Buhalo in
New York? Certainly; only about 400
mules from the city at the end of the
Central Railroad "Ah, yes! thank
yer; Teller down in the cabin lust now,
said there wasn't one thin two thou
sand miles New York, yer know. Can't
100 an Old sportsman, yer know, W:
that sort OF gammon.'-M Y. News .
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18

The social event in Portland, Ore,
recently was the marriage of Law Yep,
a wealthy merchant. He is widower,
forty-tive years of age. He sent atrusty
nephew to China TO. select a bride for
him, and from q number of portraits
that the nephew mailed to Oregon the
uncle made his choice. He made the
customary presents to the parents, and
they shipped their daughter to Port
land. After the marriage ceremony
there was adisplay of fireworks, and the
celebration was kept up for some days
at a cost of S2,0OO.-Denrer Iribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Tn q raoant ort;o1o IN ~. ~.

In a recent article in the North
american RerieW, Gail Hamilton gives
her own idea of a marriage engagement.
She says it is not a life-and-death at
fair. On the other hand, it is a period
Of probation. during which, if either or
both of the parties to the preliminary
contract are dissatisfied, they may witty
draw frou it.