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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03

rant, came out from their cahi,.
often fell into wild commissions a. and
ror. They prayed, they shouted. !er-
GOMEZ The beautiful sight continn nss
until morning. 1t has never appearea
again. But meteors are always saeu
about the 18th of November, and e seen
thirty-three years they come in n rn
numbers. 1t would appear as + ' ta1
earth at those periods passed thronob bu .
cloud of them. None of them in 1sos
fell upon the ground or did any ha,m'
The meteors that come in Noyomha.
are called Leonids, because thew saoe
to fall from the constellation Leo. ""
The stones that fall from the slr
when the meteor explodes are blacTy
brittle, and covered with a shinins -,
dark glaze. Some of them are nor vi
than a hundred pounds in WEIGHT
They fall in all parts of the earth. Tho
Chinese have recorded great numhcr'
of them in their histories. Among ths
Greeks and Romans these black Stone,
that fell from the skies were wor'
shipped as if they were gods. One of
them was called ..the Mother of tha
Gods" 1t was brought to Rome from
the East, where it was said to hava
fallen from the skies in a cloud of fire.
The ancient philosophers thought these
black stones fell from the sun.
It is remarkable that these fallino
stones have never done any harm
They have usually fallen in the country
or in the sea, or even far away uporr
some desert island. One may almost
Always see Il or more meteors shoot
ing over the sky on clear nights, anc
leaving behind a trail of light.--Har
! per'S Young People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
Bold Robbery of a Village Bank,

BRADFORD, Pa, Sept. ia bold bank
robbery, the particulars of which until late
Saturday night were concealed, took place
at Eldred, Pa, Thursday afternoon. The
bank had just finished business, the front
door was closed, and Cashier Heasly and
Teller Sloan were putting away the money
used during the day. Heasly heard a
slight noise, and on turning round was
confronted by a powerfully-bu black
bearded man who held a pistol close to his
face and commai.ied both to throw up their
hands. They obeyed, whereupon the
stranger quietly !.s!ped himself to bills and
silver amounting In all to $4,000, after
which, still keeping his eyes on the bank
officers, he glided out of the rear door and
escaped. 1t is believed the robber is a no.
torious desperate known as "Black Tom
McINeon, recently released from Auburn
Pe%nitentiary, where he had been confined
1Or a safe robbery.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
Two Ways Of Doing Things.

There is such a suggestive lesson, says
the Christian Un,on, in the following in
edent, which we clip from the columns
OF n OF our exchanges, that we feel tia
duty to print it for the benefit OF Our
boy readers:
IAN express train filled with ~listless,
sleepy-looking passengers stood in tho
Pennsylvania Railroad station yesterday
afternoon, on the moment of departure
for Philadelphia. The locomotive had
backed up TO the cars, and poured a
volume of thick smoke into the not,
sitting atmosphere of the station. Inc
travellers lolled in their seats, looking
as though they dreaded the discomforts
of the long, dusty ride, but yet We're
patient to be whirling along through
the open country, away from the smoke,
the smell, and the noise. A slow-mov-
ing, surly-looking boy of fourteen or
Whereabouts passed through tue TRAM
calling out:
"'Fa-a-ns, five cents
"He spoke in a dreary, disconsolate
tone, which made the people feel more
tired and languid than ever. He WenI
from the smoEing-car to the rear OF the
train, and sold just two fans.
"a colored boy, about the same age
followed Immediately after him, with u
big armful of new bamboo fans. lho
difference in the two lads was striking.
The darby had a CHEEKY, business-llke
way with him which appealed dlrec1l!
to the comfort and to the pockets OF th'
perspiring passengers. In a Pecnl'al.,
boyish voice, as mellow as a flute n0
called out:
keep yo'selves c-o-o-o-l, now Ia
dies and gemmen! C-o-ney Islam
breezes! A big fan only five cehi 10
Zephyrs from de pillows! Buy EN- WHO
you can!
"The effect was like a draught OF 60"
air. Everybody at once wanted a Jas =,
The darby was as much in demand a.. ..
the newsboy on an early train from ~
suburbs. People left their seats to avid oId
getting left. In two cars the boy s sMl
si%xty-seven fans. He could have sJ II.
as many more if he had them. a;n
jumped off the platform as the u asst
moved from the station with his po; ;nv
full OF change and his heart fun o. vi
'Golly!' he shouted, dat was quick oui,
ness The other boy stared IN stu a.u
establishment. and wondered hs"
! done"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
GENERAL.

The entire population of the State
of Massachusetts could find seats in the
passenger cars OF the United States
Boston Post.
Every employe, big and little, of
the New Orleans Woman's Exchange
is given a two weeks leave of absence,
with pay, during the summer.
We are living in a fast age, and
what we need, and need badly, is a
school to teach a grocery clerk how to
propel Il leadpencil without being
obliged to take it from behind his ear
when he wants to write.-Youhers
Statesman.
We have distinctly passed the stage
in our growth as a people where the
professions monopolize the graduates.
The boys coming from colleges are fill
ing business positions to an extent
which is not realized by the general
public.-N0rthWeStern Christian Ady0.
ca &c.
When Postmaster Backus, of San
Francisco, went hunting near Red
Bluff, Cal, recently, a bear chased him
from a log where the Postmaster was
eating a tomaii for lunch, freed him
and tacn sat aad ate the tomali, watch
ing Mr.. Backus sh1ver up the tree fol
fourteen hours.
A Police Sergeant in Jersey City
was Boosting Of the honesty that pre-
vailed in his precinct. "Why," h
SAID, ''you might hang your gol,
watch on q lamp-post in the evenin!
and find it there still in the morning.
''iou don't mean to say nobody woul,
take the watch?" exclaimed the listen
er. mo: | mean 10 say nobody woul'
tako the lamp-post,' SAID the Se1
geAnt-Earter's Weeklu..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
Arrested for Train Wrecking.

J ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 15.--ychn Rob
erts was arrested at Harvel, ILL.,, on the
Wabash Railroad Friday by the chief of
tie secret service of the Missouri Pacific
system on the charge Of throwing the switch
at that place on August 81, by which a
freight train OF eleven cars was ditcled,
killing Engineer Henry Warmke and
Brakeman Peake and seriously i~njuring
the fireman. Roberts motive seems to have
been simply to get the job of tending the
switch. He was taken to Hillsboro and
committed to jail in default OF bail.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
,n],shed. and rowed, and watcbed.

splashed, and rowed, and watched.
One of the most curious effects was to
throw something from the boa to q dis.
tant part of the lake and sec the fire
splash. A fountain put in the center
of the lake would be a fountain of fire
We measured the. depth with an oa
and found it to be four or five feet.
is mentioned as a curious circumstance
that the water in the lake can be
changed as often as desired without de.
stroying its phosphorescence. Various
analyses of the water have been made.
but without any great results.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Mozart il to have a monum,

Mozart is to have a monument in
Vienna which will cost $50, 900.
If not overloaded, EsquimauN dogs
will easily draw Il sledge sixty miles .
day.
Tie clearinghouse forcats at Bat
terse ~ London. receives boarders ut the
uniform rate of about thirty eight cents
. week.
The smallest pony in the world is
the pet OF the Baroness Burdett-C outts-
Bartlett. He is five years of age and
stands thirteen inches high.
Tho northern half OF the London
Underground Railroad carried during
the last six months, 1923, 900 passen-
scneers and injured nc one.
The French Government has grant
ed Sl,60o year to the family OF the
late eX-Emir Abd-el-kader. There are
six widows to share the income and
some twenty six children.
Two hundred and fifty remedies
for cholera have been received by the
French Academy of Sciences. Each of
the senders hope to obtain the Breant
prize of 100000 francs.
Said Thoreau: 1 am inclined TO
think bathing ALMOST one of the nee
e~ssaries OF life, but it is surprising how
indifferent some are to it. One farmer
who came to battle in Walden, one
Sunday while / lived there, told me it
was the first bath he had had for fifteen
years.
While the elderly Baroness Bur
dett-Coutts appears always in public
dressed in the quietest black, her COM
~paratively young husband, Mr.. Bart
lett-Burdett-Co utts, is distinguished for
his dressing in clothes of the EXTREMIST
fashionable cut and of thunderously
loud colors.
Although there are at present only
10 prcfessed v%egetarians in Germany
they are the possessors of q library of
ECO volumes on vegetarianism. They
have also lately started a monthly pc.
riodical called Tcgcta1lahe Rundschou.
They call themselves ''The German So
ciety for Promoting a Harmonious Man
her Of Life"
in France there are two Jews in
che Senate, three in the Chamber, four
IN the Council of State, and i'll the Su.
preme Council Of Public Education.
One Cabinet Minister, M. ID. Raynal, is
q Jew, and so are ten chiefs of minis
terial departments, three projects,
seven sub-prefects, tour inspcctor-gen-
erals, four colonols, nine lieutenant
colonies and eleven judges.
"A remedy. or rather a preventive,
which at the time was much believed
in, was to take during the day, either
spread on bread and butter or in some
other way, two %spoonfuls of salt. This
salt acted as a disinfectant, and it was
asserted that no one who took regularly
his two spoonfuls caught the cholera. ]
am surprised to hear nothing now Of
this salt Specitic.-Londom IrHM.
DIR. Clifford Allbutt thinks thai
specialism is now being carried so fal
in London as to lower the usefulness o!
the medical profession in general. He
says, too, that the best specialists show
much affe tation in refusing to do regu
lar professional work. "a young lady
told me lately says Dr.. Allbutt, "tha;
a London physi ian-one chiefly know
as a lung do tor, but yet one under
whom l would gladly place myself fo1
any ma ady-sald to her, having founG
her lungs to be healthy, he would name
another physician who would care fol
her general health"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03

Preface-The American people are
busy and hollow-chested. leople VINO
are in a hurry have no time to waste
over q two-volume romance, and most
everybody is in a hurry nowadays.
This is what novel literature is coming
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
The Ballad of Cassandra Brown.
BY CoROkEUS GREEN.


lFrom the Century, Tor June.l
Though l met her in the summer wien ons,s
heart lles round at ease
AS 1t were In tennis costume, and n mans moi
hard to please;
Yet think Ut sny season to haye met her WAS IN
love, " " " "
While her tones. nnepoiled. unstudied, had the
softness OF the dove.
At request she read Us poems in nook among
the pines.
And her arless voice lent music 10 the least me
lodious lines;
fhough she lowered her Swallowing lashss in
an earnest readers wise,
et We Caught blue gracious glimpses of the
heavens that were her eyes
AS in paradise listened All ,i,d not under
staud
That little cloud. NO larger than the ayeraxe
Might, ss stated oft in fiction. spread into a
when she SAID J. that she should stady klocu1ion
In the fall;
admit her earliest efforts Were not in the
She began with, "Lit-lIe Maay bel, with her
laayce against the payne.
AND the beacun-light a-trrremble (which
, although il maie we vince.
Is thing OF cheerful nature 10 the things sh. q
rendered since.
Having learned the Soulful Culver She :ouirsd
the Meltn< Mo-o-an
hhu tNe way she gave ~ Oung GIaYhead,,
or would have liquifed n stone
iheh the Saneuinary Tragic did her energies
employ,
And she tore nv taste TO ,atters when sh. ,,
The Polish Boy
us not pleasant for fellow when the Jewel of
his soul "
"ad.s through slaughter on the carpet, while
,u her orbS in frenzy roll;
What was l thai | should milrmur ? Yet il g.,
-, me grevOus pain
MAI she rose In social gatherings and Searched
among the Slain.
was forced TO Ioob upon her, in my despera
ton dumb,
knowing we'll that when her awful ouportp-
nifty Was come
She would give us battle murder, sudden ,ieatb
at very least,
As skeleton oil warming. ana blight upon the
feast. ' s
Once. ah! once l Tell a-dreaIniug; some one
played u polonuis-
l associated strongly with those happier August
days; ''
And unused. "l'll speak this evening, recent
pnngs forgotten quite.
Sndden shrilled scream of anguish. "Cnrf.,v
SHALL not ring to- o-nightl'
An, that sound was ourfew, quencbipg
49, rosy VAIN romance;
were " safe to wed woman one 80 oft would
wish in Francep
On' rs she cull-lmbed'' that ladder, swift INV
mounting hope came down,
All StAl D single cynic; size is sTlll Casssp,ra
Brownl
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
JOINS THE INDEPENDENT MOVE.
Wilmington New, (ren INN. 10 7

Those WIN regarded Blaine an unenvia :
BILE candidate are already justified in their
Judgment, their predictions and their fears.
lhis movement on the part of lEe republican
press and in respect TO The republican canii
date Is startling by ITS snidcnneSs. its deter
mlnation and its extent. Ii adds >quurelv
before the noise Of shouting ai Chicas, ha,
ialrly died away. Il new element of uncer-
talnty as to every eastern state that mas hith-
ertO been conceded to lie doubtful. ana il dis
tinctly adds Massachusetts 10 the list. Ii Is
too early Yet to measure the full force und
significance of this revolt. That it exist, nj
all Is striking evidence OF the >agacity OF
those who regarded Mr. Blaine, domination
Us ihJudicious. 1t bring, into the opposition
to the republican ticket-hot necessarily into
the democratic party-an intellectual and
moral power which hitherto has berh among
the most cherished and useful of the repubi-
can resources.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
IT Is A KNOWN FACT.

Though it may not be generally
known, it is fact, which General Logan
while seeking the soldiers vote, might
perhaps keep In view with profit to him
self that chapter ", article TX, Rules
aid Regulations Grand Army of the
Republic, excludes politics. The arti-
Gle reads:-"No officer or comrade Of
the Grand Army of the Republic shall
in any other manner use this organizs-
ton for partisan purposes, and no dis
crssion OF partisan questions shall be
permitted at any of its meetings, nor
shall any nomination. for politicai otfica
be made" -Ss
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
MASSACHUSETTS, INDEPENDENTS.
From the N. Y. Herald, June 14thl

From the N. Y. Herald, June 14thl
The Boston Advertiser of Yesterday
morning published the signatures of a
call for q conference of"republican aud
independent voters" of that city and it's
neighborhood who "believe that the
nominations just made at Chicago
ought not to be supported in any con-
tingency that now seems likely to rise."
They were more than fifteen hundred
in number, and nobody acquainted
with the representative men Of Massa-
chusetts can doubt, after examining the
list, that it contains material to give the
thirteen electoral votes of that state to
the democratic presidential candidate
If the democratic national convention
ls sensible enough to conciliate its favor.
Inc conference was held Yesterday
afternoon, and was an assemblage of
men OF such intelligence aud personal
ihnuence as seldom gather to confer
abont politics. Our news columns>con-
tain reports OF il, land show that prac-
tlcai political movement was started
which soon will spread to New York
and be propagated thoroughout the
northern states. The organization is
no repetition OF that which eliminated
in the Cincinnati convention of 1872
and set up Horacetireely for democrat
lc adoption. 1t does not 20 to work in
that way. It seeks to force no
candidate on the democratic party.
Cincinnati fashion. 1t waits to know
what the democrats will do, and tells
them that it is in their power to pepel
its saportat their pleasure. Its attitude
was defined by Colonel Charles Il.
Goldman, the president of the last re-
publican state convention i'm Masss.
chnsetts. who also presided over this
conference 20 and was made chairman of
its permanent committee: s.H
line democratic party has Its oppor-
tanity now We have no favors To ask
and no bargains to make ;but there are
statesmen in. the democratic party for
whom independent republicans NAV
vote without q blush. fthe democratic
party wants our votes It knows how
they are to be obtained. If It does NOT.
we know how to Withhold, thema q
It was also formally set forth In the
following resolution adopted by the
conference = '''''- ''H'ii III ~
Resolved, That we look with solici.
tude TO the coming nomination by the
democratic party. has the nroner
men; we hope 1t will put them before
the people for election. = ~ sas
In the debate some of the speakers
named Senator Bayard, ofDelaware,
and Governor Cleveland, of New York
as examples Of "prOper men," and the
name OF Governor Cleveland was greet
ed with cheers. .,, =.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
NEW YORK IN THE CAMPAIGN.

1t is plain that the attention of The co,n,r,
VIII be centered on New York in the coming
campaign. The situation there at present
gives promise ofa ter rifle and exciting strn9 .
gle' Tar more obstinately fought than wss
Lne great battle of 1880. A vast number of
republican>-the very men who this vesr
loyalty supported Blaine. giving him twenty
eight votes in the convention, and who win
be his Jealous sdherents In the campaign
stayed away from tie polls and Folser WAS
S6serwhelmingly over defeated, Cleveland's vote
lsSO. 1t Is now said that the refusal OF these
2U,ooO republicans to support Folser two
years ago will be remembered by the great
body OF voters who were not In sympathy
with the sentiment which induced them to
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
Misunderstood.
BY STANLEY WOOD.

hold tits solemn truth which bears a lesson
good,
'Tis better not to speak at Ill than be misunder.
stood.
In slience there may be balm. in speech q
deadly bane,
Therefore, tits best to silent be: and alusvs
thus remain.
and lest you doubt the fact which so earnestly
declare,
Please call to mind the story ofthe Lambkin
and the Bear.
A Lambkin sported gay and free. liie was joy
to hun.
When in his pathway there appeared Bear
mOrose and grim.
"Good day. quOth Bruinwl q grin, .'how
syOur dta ina-ma?''
Inc Lambkin irembled with alright, and only
answered '.Ba-a'
And do YOU dare say Bah to me?' the mon-
ster 1iercely cried;
''l'll eat you up" and SO he did. and thus the
Lambkin died.
So. hold it is u solemn truth which bears 4
lesson good,
It's better not to speak at ell than be misunder-
stood.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
The Council PROCEEDINGS.

CITY HALL, June 10. 1884.
Council met in regular session. Present
Mayor Ballard, Councilmen Holwell, Homer
Walk, Love, Kriehu and Winsor; Marsha
Crowder; Register Taubman; Attorney Viii.
son; Engineer Mulligan.
Minutes of previous meeting read and ap.
proved.
MIR. WInsor made the following report
from the finance committee:
The committee appointed to examine thi.
account, report that they have performed
that duty, and find statement to be correct
The amounts reported rs due the city. have
all been paid over to the register aud treasu
rer June II, 1884. t.'.
f. WINSOR
CHARLES F.. HOMER,
G. A. kRIEHN.
Committee,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
A CHORUS OF DIsAPPOINTMENT
Buffalo Express (rep..) june 1o.l

The nomination of Blaine and Logan hos
called out chorus of disapproval from thai
element OF the republican party which was
L ost honestly opposed to candidates of their
partisan stamp. The Arthur men, the most
Of whom consider politics sort Of game in
the sunshine of perpetual office .holiinS % more
generally gave their adhesion 10 the ticket.
whether they are sincere or not remain, TO
De seen; but obviously there was nothing else
for them to do. The independents stand upon
u very di1erent footing. Their delegates
sonai gain. They were not satisfied with the
candidacy OF Mr.. Arthur, and they hoped to
secure better man. They wanted u presi-
dent who would represent in his character,
and highest aspirations of the republican
marty >FN'AS-AAA
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
GOING BACK ON BLAINE.
Boston Republic Und.)

There are thousands upon thousands
OF respectable republicans in every
state IN the Union who will not vote
for Blaine and Logan, and who will
support good democratic ticket in
preference to the one named at Chicago
last week. While we firmly believe the
democratic party has strength sufi-
cient in its own ranks to elect its can
dldates If these are OF the right sort, in
view OF the dangerous character of the
republican nominees, we do not think
the July convention, in making it's
nominations, ought to ignore the fact
that large number of disgusted
republicans stand ready to help The
democracy to defeat Blaine, whose
election would be national calamity.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
FATAL REPUBLICAN BLUNDIR1No,

New Haven Morning News trep.,J June ~
Is thst man going to build up the party
whose nominstion alienates some of it's, most
honored leaders Is the great army of re-
mander who begins his first battle with the
corps Of independent republicans deserting
from his standard 2? Is this selection the
choice of leader who will conciliate and
unite sather than distract and weaken A
republican national convention has at last
made one Of those mistakes which 1t has SO
often had opportunity to charge upon its foes.
whether the error proves fatal depends large
y on whether the coming democratic hatlon-
evils. Va
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28


JOAN TAUBMAE City Treasurer
Lexington. M June 3. Ies4
On motion of MIR. Howell the report WAC
received and filed.
The retiring mayor appointed Messrs.
w insor aud Homer tu conduct Mr.. Hamlett
to The chair.
The new councilmen, Messrs. William and
Simmons, took their seats
Mayor Hamlet read his inaugural MESSAGE
as follows:
Gentlemen ofthe City Council:-Allow me
10 congratulate you. and through you your
constituents, upon the new era of life and
prosperity which seems to peryaIe our en-
tlre city. Its citizens have laid aside the
iethargy with which they have been bound
ior 50 many years, aud are now working to-
sether earnestly and het rIily In an endeayor
10 build up aud foster every deseryin. enter
prise raic"lated to add to GU. prosperity, and
put forward the car OF progress in our midst.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-28
OORD5R.

Rev. Bedsworth preached here last Sunday
morning in the Methodist church.
Mr.. Frank Burton who has been attending
school at fayette, Mo-, we are glad to say, is
with us again where he expects to remain
during the summer.
Miss Lee Corder, who has been attending
the Commen cement exercises at Fulton and
Fayette, returned home last Saturday.