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twenty-fo,r hours ending at $50 T. NJ.
There have been two deaths at Mount
Fortorgans. AT To, lion no deaths are re-
ported to-day. Three patients were ad-
mitted to the Pharao n, 9spital to-day, eight
discharged cured, one 'anent died and
"A cases are under treatm ent. II Is esu-
mated that since the outbreA s,Ooopersons
have been attacked and 500 dl ed
LONDON, August 11th.-Chole "a has ap-
peared in Manrozene, near Valcl ICE and is
raging with violence. Beseirs has also
suffered greatly.
England and Egypt
5 LONDON, August 11th.-In the Comm, ms
Gladstone said that Earl Northbrook ha d
been sent to Egypt TO make inquiry ano
advise the Home Government concerning
the new position the Soudan disasters and
Egypt's financial trouble had created.
Gladstone reminded the House that, even
had the Egyptian Conference succeeded in
adopting the French agreement, it was en-
tirely and absolutely dependent on the will
of Parliament The powers to be given
the Debt Commissioners under the agree
ment were entirely of a negative and re-
straining character, and had III view the
prevention of an expensive outlay. The
financial troubles of Egypt, the speaker
Sttlt, nau elITeIN CfldnSeu lDe aspect Oh
affairs there. Her Majesty's Government
would be careful 10 respect the supreme
authority of Parliament
After More Territory.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 11th.-Russia
occupied Fort Shurukhs near the northern
frontier of Afghanistan, some months ago,
and collected the tithes of corps. Later
she abandoned the places, owing to its
ruinous state. She is now pressing Persia
for its formal cession TO her
Another Fund.
LoNDoN, August 11th-The sympathits
ofIrishmen areso thoroughly aroused by the
fate of Egan and DAILY, who are believed to
be unjustly sentenced at Warwick. that n
fund for the supper; of their families has
been started at Limerick with great sue
cess.
The Floods.
PEsTH, August 11th.-During the terrible
storm which ragged here and throughout
Upper Hungary yesterday, the streams
were raised 10 floods: villages were swept
away and many persons were drowned.
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REAL ESTATE, ETC.
AGENT FOR
UNION INSURANCE COMPANY.
J. n. SULLIVAN,
EDUCATIONAL.

So RENT AND OTHER COLLECTIONS MAEE
al1-9ptf
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.ention of Passenger Agents.

DENvER, August 11th.-The Inclination
al Association Of Travelling Passenger
Agents, of the United States and Canada,
meet in annual Convention in this city to-
morrow. About 100 members have already
arrived, and others are coming on every
train. J. d. WEIGH, President, and W B.
Tinney, Secretary, arrived this afternoon,
Elaborate preparations are making for the
entertainment of the visitors, which in
clude a banquet and ball at the American
Hotel Tuesday evening. Thursday morn
ing, the 18th, they start on an excursion to
the principal points Of interest in the State,
rot11rr,iDcr IrCr1,St
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Enthusiastic Reception.

ALBANY. August Flth.-General Logan
arrived here en- route to Herkimer, this
afternoon. lie was welcomed by 1000
people. Guns were fired, hats waved and
continual cheering kept up until the
train left twenty minutes later. In the
crowd were large representations of work
ingmen. Logan made breef speech, ac-
knowledged the reception, and left with
Senator Miller.
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Inonstration at Rock Hills is having the
effect to open the eyes of the remaining
boomers. and they are leaving in most
cases without the interposition of the mill
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Desperate Duel.

NEW YORK, August 11th.-William a.
Dewar, wealthy miner of Helena, Mon
tana, came to this city last January. and
from the I'd to the 18th stayed at the Astor
House. On the evening of the 18th he left
| the hotel, saying he was going to the the
alter. lie did not return, and since then
his friends have searched for him in vain
He left considerable baggage and an I'M
paid bill He generally carried large
amount of money. Dewar was said to be
part owner of the Taylor e. Thompson
placer mining claim, the richest in Last
Chance Gulch, Montana
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new YORK, August llth.-An interesting
feature of the earthquake excitement yes
terday, says the Sun, was the curious light
it threw on the tendency of mems minds
TO find Il reason for such an unexpected
phenomenon close at home There were
almost as many different notions about the
cause of the roar and shock as there are
different occupations. The men at the
police headquarters, with an eye to bust
ness, thought burglars had blown open q
safe in the Treasurer office. Upstairs the
employees in the newspaper Offices thought
the presses had suddenly been set going on
lump. In crowded tenement houses the
cry of fire was raised, and the occupants of
municipal buildings in Brooklyn,
where severe gas explosion had
occurred, thought it another explosion.
Residents in the neighborhood of the big
factories thought the boilers had burst. At
Green Point the police were sure another
old tank had been blown up. The toll COL
lector at the entrance of the big bridge
supposed o car had run off the track in the
depot overhead, and workmen reconstruct
ing the burned bridge in New Jersey
thought the timbers were falling. The EN-.
ployes of the elevated railroads being nc
customed TO the continuous shaking of
these structures, thought nothing oft until
il was discovered that no train was passing.
when superstitious dread filed their minds.
In majority of families the uppermost
thought was that heavily-loaded wagon
was hurrying by, or that the kitchen boiler
had exploded. Old Californians were about
the on V persons who instantly recognized
the cause and kept cool, drawing out their
watches, and timing the vibrations. South
Americans and others, who had had much
experience of earthquakes in their own
country. obeyed the irresistible impulse to
run into the center OF the streets ana wait
for the buildings to fall down on them,
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New YORK, August 1lth.-A Tribune's
Washington special says: Kellogg recently
arrived here, and says; " Louisiana is
doubtful State, but there is good reason to
believe that the electoral ticket to be
selected by the sugar planters and Others in
tcrested in protection to American industry
will be approved by the Republican State
Co1nD,ittce tn he electc ed -
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
ARMoEY Co. &,

SACRAsiENTo, August II. 1884.
All members of Company "G' are requested
to report at the Company ArmOry. THIS Tues
day EVENING, at O'Clock.
INIllN L NIIIn,N, II
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Campaign Documents.

WASHINGTON, August 11th.-Thc Repub-
lican Congressional Committee is sending
out Miller's speech on The Necessity of q
NaXYN By the wagon-lo load
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100000 PAID

Attest THos. L. THOMSON, Secretary Of Stat
iySQ-4p3m
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PEsTH, August 11th-During the terrible
storm which ragged here and throughout
Upper Hungary yesterday, the streams
were raised 10 floods; villages were swept
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

Guiding pickerel, perch and catfish; that GO
pliers are plentiful on the prairie, and badg-
ers and rabbits, and even wolves not rare
that various game birds and wild fowl
are quite abundant in their seasons: that
nearly every acre of the million is in the
hands of settlers; when We have said ell this
we have about exhausted our material for
description. ANY further account of the
natural features of the county would proba-
bly, apply equally as well to all the best por-
ton OF the valley of the jim. To be sure
there are portions OF the country said to be
better than other portions, as there are also
portions Of the valley said to be better than
other portions; so, perhaps, it would be safe
to say that Sphinx county is part of the very
best of the best portions. But when it is
considered that only four years ago this
great country, with its tens of thousands of
acres of well-cultivated ground with its
thousands of comfortable homes; with its
5000 of population; with its busting towns,
and churches and schools with its roads and
bridges; with its railways; with its thousands
of horses, cottle and other live stock; with
its present civilization and Development
had not single house or single human
inhabitaut, one is lost in establishment and
proud of the people he calls his neighbors
and friends.
Redheld, Ashton and Mellette are at
present the most important towns in Sphinx
county.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

Is situated due west Of ST. Paul about 800
miles, being thirty-ive miles south of Aber-
deem and almost in the geographical centre
Of the now famous county of Sphinx.
The site upon which the city OF Ashton
stands, was plated by c. II. Prior, general
superintendent OF the Chicago, Milwaukee Il
st. Paul Railway company. early in the year
1881.
Through immigrant trains from Atlanta.
H., and other eastern towns, came in the
spring of 1852, each train that arrived repre-
sentiug from twenty to sixty families who
were to find homes ut or near Ashton These
people were gathered, in the main, from the
foremost families in their respective loeali-
ties, thus giving Ashton and vicinity class
Of citizens, mostly Americans, as refined
and intelligent As can be found in any east
ern community.
The yea 1883 was prosperous one for
Ashton. Daring the year over S10o, coo was
paid to the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway company for freight alone. Fifteen
hundred tons Of soft coal and 500 tons Of
hard coal were sold and some $50 ears OF en-
igrAnt movahles unloaded. In 1888 Pratt S
Co 5 steam elevator handled 90. 600, aud the
mill Of c. Z. Spencer n Co. consumed =
large additional amount July 4. 1888. the
srtesian well began its flow ST the rate Of 100
barrels an hour.
Ashton's reputation as being su5sIant isl
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Sanborn co,satu. Dakota.

Litcher, Woontocket, Forestburg and Ros-
well are important towns in this county which
was once the western half of Miner county,
and is as fine county of land as is often seen.
The far-famed Jim or Dakota river mearders
through the county from north to south
nearly in the centre of the county, and hence
it lies in the very heart of the Jim River Val
ley. A part of the county east of the river
has been settled for some time. and has
many improved farms with from fifty to one
hundred acres each already under cultiva-
ton, and the quantity and quality of the
crops that have been produced are not sur
passed by any section of the Territory.
The country west of the river can almost
be said to be the stock mans paradise. The
grass starts earlier in the spring and keeps
green later in the autumn than in any other
section of the territory and the hay produced
from it will keep stock growing and in good
condition through the winter without grain.
One OF the most successful stock men, who
has been here eight years, and is everywhere
known for the fine quality of his stock, says
that he can make more flesh in the winter
than he can in the summer, and that he
never feeds any grain.
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Madison, Dakota,

Is the county seat of Lake county, and is
situated on the line of the southern Mime
sofa division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway. Lake county embraces sixteen
townships, and Madison is located very near
the geographical center of the comfy Nearly
every branch of business is represented.
There are three banks, six general stores, two
hardware stores, two drug stores, two furni-
ture stores, one clothing store, one book and
stationery store, one exclusive grocery store,
one boot and shoe store, one jewelry store,
two harness shops, several blocks with shops,
barber shops, millinery stores, restaurants,
meat markets, ETC.; two livery stables, two
hotels, two newspaper offices, two lumber
five machinery yards.
Among the most prominent institutions in
town is the Lake county steam mill. Madi-
son has four churches, Presbyterian, Catho-
lie, Baptist and Methodist. The public
school building was constructed at cost of
81, 500. The Territorial normal school,
which was located in Madison by the terri
torial Legislature in 1881, is in operation in
the upper rooms OF the public school build
ing. The normal school building, when
completed, will probably cost not less than
$50, 900.
The Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges are
represented in Madison, besides Rebekah
lodge and an Eastern Star chapter; also
Good Templar's lodge. The town is blessed
with the very best society, and anything like
old frontier times has long since departed
from this community.
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SninA C.,l,,t,.. DnLntn

When we have said that Sphinx county lies
in the midst of the James river valley; that
it is divided by that river in a generally
north and south direction into two not very
unequal portions; that four important and
several small branches OIL creeks connect the
main river within its boundaries, watering,
in their winding courses, very large extent
Of country; that the more important of these
ere known as Turtle, Snake and Timber
creeks and Dry run; that the county con-
tains forty-two townships, seven from north
to south and six from east to west; that its
area is, therefore, 1,512 square miles; that
this is equivalent to 81, $50 acres-in round
numbers, a million acres of land, almost the
whole Of it highly fertile and susceptible of
easy cultivation; when we have said that the
surface of the country is partly level prairie
and partly of gently undulating character;
that bluffs of moderate height and narrow
strips Of bottom land are characteristic of the
streams, as well as frequent fringes and oc-
casional groves of forest trees; that the wa
tiers abound in several varieties of fish, in
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s32, 900 for his labor on an eighty-acre farm.
The expense of living must come out of that,
and this can be made as large as any one
desires, even so large as to leave the poor
man without house or home. But there is no
need of this. A man must practice economy
in any business to succeed. A large garden
and fruit can be raised poultry, pigs, etc,
which will in no way interfere weth the gen
eral returns Of the farm. In fact, the more
stock raised and the more varied the crops,
the more likely are the returns to be regular
year after year.
We know there is a profit in good farming.
We have seen farmers go on, year after year,
adding to their buildings, stock, acres, and
getting money out at interest, when mer-
chants and other business men went by the
board. The main wealth of the land to-day
is its farms. A farm is certain, constant
gold mine, and requires only surface mining
to find pay streaks.
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L1NDEKEs, WARNER s. scHURMEIEK.
Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.

Wholesale Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.
CORNER FOURTH AND SHELLEY STREETS.
Few buildings in this metropolis attract
more attention from visitors than that which
occupies the southwest corner of Fourth and
Sibley streets. It is attractive both on ac-
count of its splendid architectural finish and
its stately, palatial proportions. 1t scars to a
considerable height, having four high stories
above the sidewalk, but really only one-half
of the building is visible, the basement and
sub-basement being mostly hidden from
view. The ground occupied is 101x130 feet
thus giving about two acres of floor room in
side. 1t is truly dry-goods palace such as
has but few equals on the American contin-
emit, and it was especially designed and built
for the well-known and enterprising firm
that occupies it, Messrs. Indexes, Warner
s. Schurmeier, the members being William
and A. II. Lindeke, Reuben Warner and
Theodore L. Schumacher, all gentlemen of
long experience and fully cognizant with the
needs Of the extensive extent of territory
which they serve, territory including
all the northwestern states and ter
ritories: from the great lakes to the
great ocean, and from the western middle
belt Of this union to the northern
limits of the western Canadian
provinces. Since the year of its establish
ment. 1873, the business Of the house has
constantly grown, until now its annual sales
reach to millions Of dollars.
A visit to the great depot of dry goods and
notions is extremely interesting, and viii
well repay any one who would gain an idea
Of the vast extent TO which the mercantile
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08
.Frmit CuLture in Dakota.

Under the above caption a correspondent
writes the Parker Era as follows
Allow me through your columns to say to
those who do not believe Dakota is or will be
a fruit growing country, that they would be
surprised TO visit the Alderman nursery,
two miles south of Hurley, and see quarter
section of land covered Win fruit trees, vines
md shrubbery, all grow NJ, and much OF it
laden with fruit. | would not attempt to
tell how many bushels of fruit of different
kinds will be harvested, but | counted TWEEN
ty-two apples on one limb, and many others
were apparently as full. 1t would surprise
any person not acquainted with the facts TO
visit the place. The proprietors, who have
made fruit culture in this country a special
study, will gladly show you over the orchard
and nursery, point out and name this shrub
and that tree or vine, telling you their ad-
vantages or failings, what is most adapted to
this climate and soil, and why it is so, and
why some do not do so we'll The instruc-
tions and sights are well worth any PERSONS
time and expense who cares to raise fruit
!, for one am so much interested, that |
wish every person who has tract of land
would go and see for themselves. | am sat
sfied it would awaken in them an interest
in fruit culture.
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Mitchell. DnE0fI.

One year ago, Mitchell, although the then
wonder of the west, was but an Incorporated
town of 2, 600 inhabitants. To-day she is q
full-fedged charter city of double the size,
and with all the paraphernalia of city gov
eminent. The year has been remarkably
busy one. Every day has been the accom-
plishment of some purpose previously formed,
and the foundation of new hopes to be real
lied. One notable feature of the improve
ments of the past year is the substantial
character of the buildings, Gladstone, sand
stone and Milwaukee brick blocks, with
French plate fronts, have crowded along both
sides Of Main street for distance of half a
mile, and have branched out into the side
streets. Palatial residences have
doomed up in every portion of
the city, and coy cottages line
all the public thoroughfares. Among the
public buildings the court house is a hand
some structure, and the court room, offices
and furniture are generally pronounced the
best west OF the Mississippi. The Catholic,
Methodist and Baptist churches, are buildings
metropolitan in arrangement and design
The public schools have been graded through
out, an admirable course Of study adopted
and introduced, and the whole school system
put in systematic and harmonious motion
A great university has been located, aud
commodious buildings will be erected during
the coming year. In the near future Mitch
ell will be as noted for her manufacturing
industries SO she is now for the intelligence
and enterprise of her citizens. During the
present season, business blocks, residences
and railroad houses and machine shops,
foundry and machine shops, Touring mills
and feed mills, the university building, the
great National Homestead Monument, sys-
TEN of water-works and fire protection, a
grand opera house, and Mitchell promises as
rich future as any town the sun shines on.
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Brown county, of which Aberdeen is the
railroad and commercial centre, occupies a
place in the heart of the James River valley,
thirty-six miles east and west, by forty-eight
miles north and south. and contains 1,105,-
$40 acres OF land, with soil Of black loan of
eighteen inches 10 FIVE feet in depth.
This county was organized in the year
1850. and il has been scarcely two years
since yartiou Of it was occupied by band
OF Sioux Indians under Drifting Goose. In
deed. TO-DAY the trails Of the Indian vie with
that of the Buffalo. Brown county IS new,
and not one-hslf OF the surveyed lands have
vet been taken. Yet everywhere can be
seen evidences of incipient farmilg-little
humble c2eins or the prOsy sol houses con
tanning occupants, each OF 'shom possesses
the faith larger than that Of the
mustard seed. who hopes aud viii see
the full fruition of the hope, that in less than
five wears these sod dwellings viii give place
TO bright sir. residences, tie homes o. cul-
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The "Jim River Valtey" eff Dakota,

The "Jim River Vattey" eff Dakota,
Nine-tenths of which is fertile prairie, is, be-
yond all doubt, the best wheat growing coun-
try on the globe. The soil is rich, dark,
vegetable loan, containing lime, potash,
soda, magnesia, sulphur, and phosphorus,
with from ten to fifteen per cent. OF finely
pulverized organic matter. The soil is un-
derlaid by marty clay, and is from two to
three feet deep. The subsoil contains from
twenty to forty per cent. of phosphate OF
lime, and is great reserve fund from which
crops can draw substance whenever the soil
has been exhausted. The whole valley is
well watered by nature; there being large
number of small streams tributary to the
jim, or more properly, the Dakota river,
which not only drain the land well, but sup
ply an abundance of water, and they are
all, to some extent, skirted with fine growth
of timber. Water, clear and pure to the
taste, is found in abundance by digging
from twenty to fifty feet down. The climate
is not severe. The winters are probably
three weeks longer than in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois or Michigan. The air is clear and
bracing, and malarial diseases are almost
unknown. The inhabitants are thrifty and
generally wel-to-do, and have come from all
parts of the globe-not to live in idleness,
but at ease.
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Dakota sod will produce good corn the
FIRST year it is broken. II the corn is plant
ed with a common hand sod planter between
the burrows, and planted in season, it is as
profitable Il crop TO raise as corn on oil
ground, is It saves labor in cultivating.
Potatoes make AN excellent growth on sod
with no cultivation, blowing them in by
dropping them in every third furrow near the
edge. From 100 to 175 bushels per acre
have been raised, planted in this way
Flax also is good crop, where the object
is 10 subduc the sod as much
as possible in one season II q
pulverizer is used and the ground is
thoroughly prepared, fax will yield from ten
b fifteen bushels per acre, but great care
should be used in the selection of seed, as
there is apt TO be great variety Of weed seed
among the flax, that it is almost impossible
to remove. Flax may be sown as late as the
2Oth of June, but earlier will be better on
account OF dry weather
All kinds Of root crops will do well on sod
If the pulverlzcr is used.
Turuips and rutabagas especially do well,
even without pulverlzlng. Turuips should be
sown as late as July, aud will produce a
good crop. For stock, the mangel-wurLel is
very profitable root crop, and cap be raised
as easily rs rutabagas Az! % an enormous
yielder.