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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-03-08
CHERIFFs SALE.-Territory Of Dakota. Coun.
~ ty Of Custer:-ss
ittke vs. s. NJ. Booth, ct al.


Robert Wittke vs. s. NJ. Booth ct al.
Notice Is hereby given, that by virtue Of an
execution to me directed and delivered. ans
now in my hands, issued out OF the clerks once
OF the First judicial district court territory or
Dakota In and for the county of Pennington up.
on Judgment June 90 'S2 rendered In said court
In favor OF the said Robt Wittke and against s M
Booth, 5. X. Shankland, James C. Sanders Geo.
w Smith, Felix Michaud Babtiste Iayois L. g.
LrBarre. ChaS A. Haserodt J, T. Bliss Samuel
Ecsr--., J, A. Melvin A Towner. C. c. Crary
I. Fuller, ID. n. Ely and Chas Cornet, 1 nave
levied upon the following described real proper.
ty OF said defendant. Geo. w, Smith, to-wit:
Lots number one (D two (2) and three 90 In
block number one hundred and fifteen Ql5) OF
the townsite Of Custer city. Custer county
Dakota territory.
And that I shall on Monday the 10th day OF
March, A 1884. at the hour of 10 O'Clock a
m, ofsaid day, at the front door Of the cOurt
house In Custer City in said county and territory
proceed to sell all the right. title and interest Of
the above named Geo. w. Smith In and To
the above described property, TO satisfy said
Judgment and costs, amounting to three hundred
and ninety one dollars and Ave cents f89o1 0sl
together with all accruing costs Of sale, and in.
terest on the same from the 9Th day of Nov lSRa
atthe rate of seven per cent per annum n Unhiic
auction. to the highest bidder for cash.
JOHN 7, CoDs,
Sheriff.
Dated AZ Custer City, Dakota, February ls,.
1884 ~
franklin W. knight, Attorney for assignee OF
judgment creditor. eNW W
First publication February 2nd.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-03-08

A Courier-Journal Erin, Tenn, special
SAYS great excitement prevails at that
point oyer the discovery of gold mine.
While ont hunting A. III. Bernathy
found a cave and evidences of gold. He
took lease Of the land and is selling
lots at big profits. Over $1,000 worth of
nuggets are on exhibition in store, and
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-03-08

in already. Over 200 strangers are in
town. Picks and shovels are in big de-
mand, and the hotels are crowded. Erin
is a small place on the Louisville 4
Nashville road near the Tennessee river.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
PRICE THREE CENTS
So LONDONDERRY, VT, FRIDAY FEB 49, 1884, PRICE

them. He remained in their sight FOR
several hours, and took pains to show
them that he swallowed no antidote.
The grain of arsenic produced no i'll
effects on him. The prosecuting law
ser could not argue away the plain
fact of the harmless, though poisoned,
biscuit which the jury had seen eaten.
When the case was given to them they
very promptly acquitted the prisoner.
The truth regarding the biscuits of
which the farmer partook was, that
they contained four or five times as
much arsenic as the young chemist
swore they did.
The commonly.accepted version of
this famous story has always been that
Mr.. Van Arman ate one of the origi-
nal poisoned biscuits just as he closed
his Inal argument, and that, after
making his bow to the jury, he has
tened out of the court room and swal-
lowed a vast quantity of emetics as
soon as the door closed behind him.
This incorrect story is said to quite an,
noying to Mr.. Van Arman, as it repre-,
sents him resorting to disgraceful
trick to secure the acquittal of his cli-
ent.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
A Grand Deed.

"Did you ever accomplish anything
in your life that might be called grand
or wholesome action that would dis
tinguish you from your fellow men
and to which you can now look back
with pfeasurable emotions?" was the
rather clumsy question put by visitor
to state-prison convict.
The poor convict mused for a mo.
ment and then replied
Eyes, l have, l once did a grand
deed that gave me distinction of GER
tain sort, but" he added bitterly, 81
cannot say that l look back upon it
with any pleasurable emotion.
81 am very sorry" returned the WIS.,
itor, who was a good man, "that you
cannot find pleasure in its contem-
plation. 1t might afford you blessed
consolation in this, your hour of trial
and darkness. May l ask what this
grand deed was?'
"Yes, you may replied the poor
prisoner, while his voice became chok-
ed with emotion. 'It was grand lar.
ceny,"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
Trading on the Gold CoaSt.

"Those fellows down on the Gold
Coast" said an old African trader to
New York Tribune reporter, recent
ly "are the trickiest people ever had
dealings with. Talk about driving
treacherous trade with simple Afri-
cans for ivory and goldr Why the
cutest Yankee that ever came out of
New England can't begin with those
same Africans when it comes to bar
ter. fused to trade down there for
palm-oil and gold-dust. We bought
some palm-oil once in casks and found
that the guileless natives had nailed
great chunks of wood in the inside Of
the casks, which of course, took up
the space that would have been occu.
pied by the oil.
Sailors cannot work with safety in
that climate, so it is customary to hire
a gang of natives to do tho work of
loading the ship. They come out to
a vessel as soon as she appears
off the coast, in swarms, pad
ding out IN their little boats
through the heavy surf that al
ways rolls in on the shore. They are
accompanied by their chiefs, who are
called in the pigeon-English spoken in
trade there, their daddies.' One day
off the Guinea coast lot of them
came on board our ship and were en-
gagged to work on the vessel while she
was off the coast. We made presents
to the "daddies" and paid them tho
money agreed upon for the services
of the men. No sooner were the pres
ents and money fairly in the hands Of
the 'daddies' than the whole gang
sprang overheard, and swan to their
boats, and padded away to the shore.
The next lot we got we put below and
clapped the matches on them and kept
them there till we got to another part
of the coast. AS soon as you get them
away from the coast on which they
live there is no fear of their running
away. They always try to cheat you
in making up aecountS"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
Ginger Jars.

The ginger used in preserving and
crystallizing in the big London estab-
lishments all comes from China. An
amusing story regarding the familiar
blue and white stone jars is told. The
Chinese made very large jar. After
some years they were prevailed upon
to make a second size for the reception
of ginger. In time third size smaller
was requested. but here the stubborn
Celestials rebelled. Their conservative
character regarded any more innova-
tions as sacrilege "And, So" said the
superintendent, I'VE had to have small
jars made in the English potteries to hold
our Chinese ginger. So the ginger is
genuine Chinese, but the jars are not"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
Origin Of Skating.

To an enquiring correspondent, the
Continent replies, that skating proba-
ably originated among the Scandina-
vians. who long ago used skates made
of bone. Skates of this material have
been found in England. Iron skates
are supposed to be Dutch invention,
and a letter was recently published
claiming that one Thomas King intro
duced the art into England in 1870.
If this is true at all. it probably refers
merely to the introduction of iron or
steel skates.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The Babylonians invented the sun
dial.
The Chinese regard it as a happy
omen if the lily blossoms on their
New Years day.
A Worcester fiddler named Riedl
took his old instrument to be repair
ed when the repairer found it to be
an Amatis of 1910, worth $1,000.
In Madagascar, on the death of the
late Queen, the people were forbidden
for two months to wear hats, carry
umbrellas or plait the hair, to say
nothing of an interdict on building
and weaving.
Blindness has steadily decreased in
England for the last thirty years,
owing, it is thought, to the improve
ment of the opticians and the almost
complete extinction of the smallpox
among children.
In 1857 q Greek named Canopius
added coffee to the drinks of England.
Seventy years afterwards the first
coffee-house was started in London.
The seventeenth century introduced
tea; it was very expensive, and in
1867 sold at fifty shillings pound.
In ancient times peacocks' cresta
were among the ornaments of the
kings of England. Ernald de Accent
(Acland) paid fine to King John in
140 palfries, with sackbuts, gilt spurs
and peacocks' crests, such as would
be for his credit"
The national nickname of John
Bull' for an Englishmcn is from n
satire by DR.. Arbuthnot, representing
the Englishmen under that name as q
bluff, kind-hearted, bull-headed farmer.
The satire represents the Frenchman
as Lewis Baboon, the Dutchman as
Nicholas Frog, etc.
An Arab woman, when left Wild
ow, mourns her husband much, but
often marries again. The night before
her second marriage she pays visit to
her first husbands grave. There she
kneels and prays him not to be offended.
AS, however, she feels he may be, she
brings with her donkey laden with
two goat skins filled with water. The
prayer ended, she pours the water on
the grave to keep him cool under the
circumstances about to take place.
and, having well saturated him,
departs.
An old woman named Robinson,
well known as the Queen OF costcr-
mongers all over London was buried
there recently. She had been for years
vendor of cats meat, and made q
fortune in small usury. by direction
of her will, her remains were borne
by four men wearing smocks, followed
by twenty-four young women wearing
violet dresses, Paisley shawls, hats
with white feathers, and white aprons.
The corpse was shrouded in white
satin, with a handsome wreath round
the head. Free drinks and pipes were
served at public houses named. There
was an immense attendance, including
numbers of pony carts and donkey
barrows crowded with costermongers
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
The Professors Choice.

solve, Olive! where are you%
Octavia Weston's clear, sweet voice
rang like trumpet through the DESC
fate old garret, where the red glow of
sunset yet fingered amid dark cross
beams and festoons of cobwebs; and
out from particular nook where the
light shone longest, and the huge chests
and piles of lumber had been dragged
partially away from the window-ledge,
came brown-skinned, jet-eyed young
girl, her black hair twisted into a knot
at the back of her head. and her eye
brows knitted, as if in preoccupation
Of some nature
"Well?" she said, shortly.
"What little, old mole you are, to-
be-sure," said Octavia, "to burrow
here, when all the world is out in the
woods, picking up chestnuts and gath
ering autumn leaves! Writing poetry,
are you, or correcting the exercises of
those horrid little girls in the sixth
class? Olive, Olive, l wonder You
don't drown yourself! I am sure
should, if l were in your place"
"What is it you want, Octavia?'
said Olive, brusquely.
81 want you to sketch the letter G on
this piece of paper. Something origi-
nal and fantastic, you know; and il
lustrate it for me in gold-ieaf and
colors, that's a darling! l must have
It this evening at eight o'clock"
81 don't see how l can finish it, said
Olive. roughing up her black locks,
with mechanical hand--it was always
to this name of hers that she resorted
when she was in quandary--and
staring intently at the ceiling, as if
seeking for inspiration there
"Oh, yes, you can! And III lend
you my locket to wear at the picnic,
Do try-there's love-" urged Octavia.
Olive caught up the pencil and hur.
riedly skctehcd the initial---a Gothic
letter, twined in and out of ruined,
tyy-grown easement.
"Will this do ?" said she.
"Oh," cried Octayia, "it is exquisite!
After the ultra-lnarine and gold.leaf
are in. it will be perfect"
'Leavo it, then," said Olive, "and
you shall have it nj the children's tea!
But don't want your locket Jewelry
is well enough, bnt not when it is bor-
y0wed."
"IIow funny you are, Olive Dentv'
said Miss Weston.
But she withdrew in radiant good
humor.
"Olive never likes to be talked tc
when she has one of her inspired fits
on" thought she. "But the letter is
exquisite, and the professor is sure tc
oc pleased with it"
Octavia Weston and Olive Dent were
both pupils of Mrs. Hunt Sedley, who
kept fashionable institute for young
ladies.
Octavia was the daughter of an i'm
pecunious naval officer, who had not
paid any of her bills very lately, but
whose beauty and good humor made
her a universal fayorite.
Moreover, Professor Anderton, who
had instructed the girls of the schoo
in literature and belles-lettres, before
the great fortune had been bequeathet
to him by distant relative, and who
still came daily from AndeIton Prior,
to give his lessons, simply. he said. be
cause he liked it, had fallen in lov,
with her brilliant complexion and deep
liquid eyes: and this, in the estimation
of the Hnnt-Sedley Institute, was dis
tinction indeed!
Olive, on the contrary,wa an orphan
with TO friends and relatives in partic
usr, except one elderly aunt, Wit
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29
Old Customs

Old customs. Well, our children say
We get along without them; e,j
But you and /, dear, in our day
Had other thoughts about them.
The dear old habits of tho past
cannot choose but love them,
And sigh to think the world at last
Has scared SO far above them,
We had not, in the years gone by,
The grace that art discovers;
Our lives were calmer; you and
Were very simple lovers.
And when, our dai y duties o'cr,
We staid beside the rushes,
Tho only gem you ever wore
Were bright and blooming blushos.
Our rustic way was slow, but yet
S,me good there was about it,
And many ills we now regret
Old habits would have routed.
know our children still can see
The fifth commandments beauty
May they obey, as we once did,
From love and not from duty.
The world to-day is far too high
In wisdom to confess them;
But well we know, dear, you and l,
For what we have to bless them.
Though love was in the heart of each,
trembled to accost you;
Had you required polished speech.
think would have lost you.
No doubt our minds are slow TO gauge
The ways we are not needing;
But here upon our memory's page
Is very simple reading.
II says the forms we still hold fast
Were wise as well as pleasant
The good old customs of the past
Have leavened all the present.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29

The foundation of building in Hol-
land is commenced by digging out the
earth to depth of two or three feet.
The excavation thus made almost inn
mediately fills with water, which is a
proof of the aqueous nature of the
Dutch soil, and would present dreadful
visions of rheumatism and ague to the
minds of most Americans. Holland
ers have no such fears, and frequently
take up their residence in a new house
as soon as the roof is on and the glass
in the window-frames, without a
thought as to the dampness of floors
and walls. It has been facetiously as
serted that Dutch children are born
web-footed; but, joking apart, Neither
landers may be said to be almost am
phibious in their nature.
The next operation is to drive piles
the straightest that can be procured
thirty or forty feet into the ground, side
by side, few inches apart, in the lines
marked out for the walls. These are
forced perpendicularly into the earth
by powerful steam-hammer, or by
repeated blows from a heavy weight,
alternately raised and lowered by
means of pulley and ropes, worked
by gang of twenty or thirty laborers.
When the requisite number of piles
are driven in, the ones remaining
above the ground are cut off level with
each other, and horizontal beams of
oak are laid over them.
The building itself is then COM
menced by placing the bricks on the
foundation thus prepared. The back
and front of the house are never built
until the roof is on, in order that a
free current of air passing through
may cause the inner and side walls to
set more firmly, and dry quicker.
When the building is completed, coarse
canvas, stretched on wooden frames, is
fitted against the walls, and upon this
the paper is pasted; so that no matter
how damp the brick work behind may
be, the result is an appearance of dry
ness, which is often very delusive
Small tiles, instead of states, are used
for the roofs, and the internal and ex-
ternal decorations are completed with
much TASTE In at least one important
respect, in the arrangement of their
houses, the Dutch differ greatly from
the English.
In Holland the kitchens are general
ly in front; and as the windows face
the street, it affords unlimited oppor-
tunities for the cook and housemaid to
carry on fiirtations with their male adj
mirers-a facility Of which they are
by no means slow to avail themselves
Many Of the Dutch houses are far
more elaborrtely ornamented inside
than those of modern construction. In
some of them you may see spacious
entrance halls of white marble, broad
staircases of dark polished oak, doors
of shining mahogany, ceilings and
walls beautifully painted with figures,
fruit, and flowers, and mirrors with
exquisitely carved frames permanent
ly fixed over the fire places. Even the
charitable institutions and poor houses
in Holland are very different to the
plain unadorned buildings often used
in England as refugees for the unfor-
tunate and destitute, many of them
being structures of considerable ar
chitectural beauty, while in their
management the Dutch are very sue
cessful
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-02-29

"No, don't" said Octavia begin
ming to be impatient.
"Does Mrs. Sedley know?" asked
Olive.
"Nor' sharply retorted Octavia.
"Octavia, are you treating Professor
Anderton right?" urged Olive, grow.
ing more serious still.
professor Anderton is quite capable
of taking care of himself" retorted the
beauty.
"Octavia," persisted Olive. 81 believe
it is my duty to consult Mrs. Sedley as
to this new whim of yours"
'If you do" cried nctavia "Ill
elope tomorrow night"
"But what shall l do?" pleaded poor,
conscientious Olive.
"Why, mind your own business, OF
course" said Octavia, silencing her
with a kiss. "And now, 60 to sleep,
there's a darling, and don't preach at
me any longer"
But Octavia herself did not go to
sleep. For almost the first time in her
life, she lay awake until dawn, think
ing.
For she felt that the turning point
in her life had come at last.
x x 4
professor Anderton to see mew she
exclaimed, when little Amy Grace
brought her the message, at ten o'clock.
"Why, isn't that funny? 1 was just
thinking Of asking leave to speak with
him."
And Octavia Weston went, with
flaming cheeks and downcast eyes, into
the little reception-room, where her
middle-aged lover awaited her.
"Octavja," he said, gently, 81 have
come to ask YOU"
"Please don't ask me to be marriedp
interrupted the irl--"because--b
cause l think-in fact, l am almost
Sure-Pve made a mistakel Oh, don't
speak to mel Let me tell the whole
story out and free my mind. l love
somebody elsew
$50 do I!' said the professor. "L
too, Miss Weston, have erred in reading
my own heart"
"Oh. I'm so gladp said Octavia,
brightly. "And youth really letme off
from the engagements"
II most certainly snail absolve you
from your plighted troth," said Pro
fessor Anderton, half-smiling at her
schoolgirl earnestness.
So Octavia married Algernon Ave
nal, and her elder lover was left to WOO
and win sweet Olive Dent, who, in her
sweet humility, could scarcely believe
that she was worthy any mans affection
She had made up her mind to a life
of twilight obscurity-an existence Of
monotony.
"But are you quite sure you love
me-" she asked of the grave professor.
Entirely sure,' he responded.
"But l don't see acdy," she urged.
because, my own precious one,"
Anderton answered, "you are pure and
true-you are unselfish and lovely
Octavia Weston was mere sparkling
will-o'-the-wisp; you are star, shining
high above earth's mists and damps."
And when he put his arm around
her and looked into her eyes, Olive
Dent knew that he loved her, as she
had always hopelessly longed to be
loved.
And she had come into the blessed
inheritance Of her womanhood at lastl
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@J- Entered at the Post-Office at South
Londonderry, as second-class matter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-04-04
RULES OF NOMINATION
OF TTIE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
COLUMBIA COUNTY, PENN'A.

A new set of rules for the govern
ment of the nominations of the Demo
cratic Party in Columbia county were
adopted by the Convention on the 26th
day of December, 1870.
The Convention of 1874 ordered that
a committee be appointed to revise the
rules. J. G. Freeze, NJ. f. Jackson, C.
r. Buckalew, J. b. Knittle and d.
Lowenburg were appointed as said
committee. AT the Convention of 1875,
the committee was continued, with in
structions to report at the next Conven-
ton, and in July 1876, they made the
following report:
Report Of the Committee on Rules.
The committee appointed by the
President of the last annual county
Convention to examine and, if thought
proper, to revise the Rules of nomina-
tion of the Democratic party of Col
umbia county have examined the said
rules, and now, in pursuance of the
resolution authorizing their appoint
ment, make the following report:
That in their opinion several amend
ments of the rules can be made with
advantage to the general scheme Of
order and regulation which the rules
were enacted to establish.
1t is believed that the classification
and arrangement of the rules accord.
ing to natural or convenient divisions
of subject matter will render them
more convenient for use and to some
extent more easily understood.
The rules do not provide for cases
of tie votes, in electing delegates or
upon instructions nor fully define the
powers and duties of the Standing
Committee. And it is believed that
several of the rules may be more clear
ly expressed and some of them be
shortened and condensed.
The whole are now presented by us
in revised form with some matter
added and with some omissions of un-
necessary clauses, but most of them
are left substantially unchanged.
A code of good laws or rules must
be matter of growth and of time, the
result of experience and trial. We are
fully convinced that our rules i'll gen.
eral will compare favorably with those
of other counties of the State and that
they are much better calculated to Sc
cure those capital objects-purity and
fairness in nominations. We have for
tunately avoided the heavy expenses
and certain corruption of the Crawford
county system which has elsewhere
worked so badly upon trial and been
abandoned in Northumberland and
other counties, while several defects of
our old Convention system have been
corrected. Districts are more fairly
represented than they were formerly,
delegate elections more fairly conduct.
ed and Conventions of larger numbers
less liable to excitement and to impu-
tations of unfair or improper conduct.
Prudent amendments occasionally
made to the rules of nomination will
no doubt be advantageous in promot.
ing good feeling and securing fair play
in party action, but extreme or very
extensive changes of the rules do no,
seem to be now required.
The following are the revised rules
as reported: