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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
Hurricane in Great Britain

A terrible gale is reported from England on
the 9th. The glass roof of the Westminster
aquarium was demolished during perform
ance and panic ensued. SeveraIpers we're
hurt. Aprinting Office at Haymarket was un-
rooted and boy killed. Many vessels were
wrecked and large number of lives lost. The
free thinkers halla Portsmouth was destroyed,
and no boats were allowed to leave Portsmouth.
At Hastings, the theater and pier had to be
closed. Electric lights along the parade were
extinguished, and the seas dashed over the
streets, making walking dangerous. South
ampton and Easbourne suffered severely.
Railway traffic is greatly deranged. At Tor
quay there were many casualties. A mail cart
was overturned by the violence Of the wind
and many boats were swamped. The iron
chapel, at Newcastle, went down, and the fall
ing ROOF Killed woman and 1.-TWO children. At
Leeds the roof of dwelling collapsed, killing
one and injuring four occupants. Seven bodies
were washed ashore at HYthe
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
An Embezzling Bookkeeper Attempts I,
End His Troubles in Death.

An Embezzling Bookkeeper Attempts to-
End His Troubles In Death.
ST.. Louis, January 26.-Hiram H.
Post, superintendent and ex treasurer of
the Fourth Baptist Church Sunday
school and confidential clerk and book
keeper for u. w. Pratt, agent for the
Mccormick Harvesting and Reaping
Machine Company of Chicago, made
an unsuccessful attempt 10 commit
suicide last evening at his resi-
dence. He had taken a dose Of
laudanum without effect, and then
cut his throat in bungling manner.
when he was discovered by n young gen.
tleman roomipg in the house. His
wounds are dangerous, but not neces-
ssrily fatal. The cause of the rash act,
by his own confession is that he has
been discovered to be on embezzler
from bis employer to the amount
of $3.50. Pratt made state.
ment to the effect that Post
has been in his employ for the past
seven years, and that he placed the ut
most confidence in him, until short
time ago, when he discovered discrep-
ancy in his accounts. He confronted
Post with it and the latter confessed
that he had embezzled 81, 500, and was
forgiven on condition that he
make good the loss, and yes.
terday he sent Pratt writ
ten statement in which he con-
fessed being short in his accounts
$3.50. He then made the attempt upon
his life. Posts wife is in Now York. He
has two children here, aged 3 and
years respectively. Post claimed not to
have specnlated or gambled. There is
supposed to be woman in the case.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
SPORTING.

PIERRE LoR1LhARD has thirty five
horses in training for the coming cam
paign.
THE wrestling match at New York on
the 18th between Edward Bibby and
Matsada Sorakichi, the Japanese cham
pion, for $500 a side, was won by Bibby
in two rounds.
CAPT. A. b. BoaARDus, the champion
wing. shot Of America. writes that he has
matched his son Eugene against
Mitchell, OF Virginia, the contest to
come off early in May.
The Chicago team of 1871 was com.
posed of Wood, McAtee, Tracy, Duffy,
Simmons, Foley, Brannock, Hodes.
Zettlein and Pinkham, not one of whom
ls now known in connection with ball
playing.
SEvENTY-FTvE horses have entered for
the trotting race on the ice during the
week of the winter carnival at Montreal.
commencing February 4th. The entries
for the curling competition are also
numerous and fourteen gold medals will
be competed for.
EDWARD PAYsoN WESTON still con-
tinues his great walking feat over the
highways in England. AS rule he has
met with miserable weather aud bad
roads, but he is reported in good health
and spirits and confident of successfully
performing his great task.
MANAGER JACK CHAPMAN on learning
that Frank Wright was looking after
Hanlon, of the Detroit Club. for the
Cincinnati Union Association team, tele.
graphed the information at once to De-
troit, and the result was that Hanlon
was signed, presumably at his own
figures.
The twenty clubs of the League and
American associations occupy the eiph-
teen great cities of Boston, Providence.
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
Brooklyn, Washington, Pittsbure.
Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, IN.
dianapolis, st. Louis, Chicago, Detroit.
Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo.
A TEN-MILE heel-and-toe walk for $3.50
side and the gate receipts took place
at Lynn, Mass, on the 18th, between
Dennis A. Driscoll and George II Hos.
mer, the latter being the celebrated
oarsman. Driscoll won, covering 10
miles and 300 feet in l hour and l6
minutes and 371 seconds. It is believed
to have been an honest walk.
R1cHBALL, the sensational PAGER of
last season, is being wintered in Texas.
and his owners are out with challenge
for race with any trotter or PAGER in
the world, mile heats, three in five. for
from 81 600 to $10,000 side, the def
being evidently intended for Midway.
formerly Johnston, whose 2:1O, made at
Chicago last fall, is the best pacing
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
WHISKY IN MAINE,

"Nasby has recently been through
Maine, and writes the Blade that he is
entirely satisfied that prohibition does
prohibit" OF certain villagers he says:
" They go to Portland, distance of six
miles, and buy iugful of rum. They
leave their wagon in the open country
at the outskirts Of the village, and wait
till long after nightfall to make their
way across lots to their homes with the
contraband stuff. Their customers drop
in one at q time and take their drinks in
the kitchen, where it is concealed.
There are no crowds of men about a
bar, one to invite the other. The men
go for the drink alone, and their drinks
they take by themselves. In the very
nature of the case they dare not 20 in
ties. Two dan e not enter the house to.
gether. To separate, to isolate the
drinkers, is to kill drinking for anybody
except those in whom the appetite is too
strong to be resisted"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
WORKING FOR HONOR.
A Rara Avis in the Political Field Ou

A Rara Avis in the Political Field Out
West.
WASHINGTON, January 24-John r.
Irwin, who was appointed governor of
Idaho Territory in March last, sur
prised the treasury officials here by re.
turning his salary for the first quarter he
was in Office. It was such an unusual
thing the treasury officials did not
know what to do with it. The opinion
OF the second controller was asked about
it, and he decided that the only way the
treasury department could get out Of the
difficulty was to replace the returned
salary to the credit of the conscience
fund. When Gov. Irwin heard of this
he got very mad, and wrote the treasury
department that he had accepted the
position as governor for the honor in
volved, and as he intended to return all
his salary he wanted an "honorable
fund " started to which all such money
could be added. The opinion OF the at.
torney general has been asked whether
such fund can be started. AS there are
no indications that any other official will
return his salary it is not likely to grow
very large. That is the first case Of the
kind in the history of the government
where an official has refused to accept
his salary.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
FARMING IN IRELAND.

Irish land shows a continuous ten.
dency to go out of cultivation, the area
under all crops being this year but 49,
l6l. .230 acres, as against Is, 212, 800 last
year, and 15,3O4, 235 the year before.
The decline extends alike to corn, green
crops, flax, and rotation grasses, and
even potatoes occupy 10000 acres less
than in 1882. The decrease in the area
under wheat is enormous, amounting to
no less than IS, 900 acres, or nearly 3s
per cent. The growth in permanent
pasture does not, as in England, keep
pace with abandonment of tilIage. On
the contrary the cultivated area in the
whole of Ireland shows a diminution in
the year of more than 10000 acres.
There is some increase in the number of
cattle, and slight increase in sheep
and lambs, but the plumber of both the
latter is about % per cent. less than two
years ago. In pigs there has been de-
crease for the year of over 1OO,O 900.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
breath, much to the surprise Of the r..
potter who was slipping lemonade Win

breath, much to the surprise Of the 70.
porter who was slipping lemonade vitb
in eafohot
The bartender dipped out some blace
stuff from small tin can into thrsa
glasses, filled them up with steaminu
hot water and handed the decoclione
over.
Beef Tea being beverage familiar TO
the sickroom, but heretofore no. recor.
nized among the saloons, the repo,ter
was puzzled. Said he confidently to the
man behind the bar: When did beet
tea become popular drink ?" "Quite
recently, was the reply. It's craze,
you see. very new in Philadelphia and
novelty in New York. / think the idea
came from London. All the saloons in
the city are advertising it." This was
true, for nine in ten of the best patton.
ized saloons in the city display The some
what singular legend; Beef. tea" among
the list OF popular mixtures. TIE bar
tender continued:
:" 1t is mostly called for in the morn,
ing by those who have been off on an
all-nigtt spree. 1t is sort Of settler,
to tone up their stomachs; but we hsve
frequent calls for it through the day,
We dispose of about two hundred beef
teas day; so that, you see, is no small
thing. What is 1t !? Why nothing but
what sick people drink when they are
not able to take any other nourishment
the extract of beef, diluted with hot
water, and properly seasoned. Occa-
sionally theie is a dash of brandy putin,
Int not offap >,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
SALT BALLAST.

A branch of the Southern Pacific
Railroad is partially ballasted with salt.
There is vast bed of salt in the Col
orado desert near Indio, and in laying a
track to the salt mine there, says the Los
Angeles Herald, the builders were
obliged to grade the road for 1900 feet
with blocks of beautiful Jumps of crys-
tails. The sea, which once rolled over
this place. now 26O feet below the sea
level, dried up, and left vast bed of
salt about fifty miles in length. The
quality is superb, and the quantity in.
e1haustible. Grasshoppers of enor-
nous size, and giant cenhpedes have
been picked in the chloride OF sodium,
and are to-day, after the lapse of centu-
ries, in full size and perfection of shape.
This vast salt bed will be very valuable
to the reducers OF ores in California,
Arizona and New Mexico, and can be
supplied in boundless quantities.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
FEMININE FANCIEs.

SOMETHING new in dinner cards is a
tiny writing desk, on the lid of VIII ch is
written the name of the guest.
LONG walking coats give some young
ladies such good figure that they dis
like very much to take them off even at
home.
PLUSH as material has been used for
all it is worth in the way of ornaments,
and people are already beginning to cast
it out.
LONG plush cloaks and dolmans may
look like sealskin at night or in the dis
tance, but after all that is very poor con-
ISOLATION.
AN entertainment of magic by pro-
fesslonal performer is now the proper
way to supplement dinner party under
your own roof.
You must not hang up your ebony
cabinet between the front parlor win
dows. Lady Thingabob has been up
therein London.
Mrs. PARvGNU says she don't care to
see Matthew Arnold or hear his talk
about the copying ink that she has al
ways used in her family.
The latest designs IN leather wall
paper are very beautiful, and OF itself it
may be said to furnish room. Another
thing--it isn't common.
In "lumtum or fashionable station
cry the correct thing is to have merely
initials in cipher in the upper left hand
corner OF the note sheet and on the fly
OF the envelope. "Only this and moth
ing more
BEAUTIFUL little olive wood boxes now
come for postage stamps, with all the
compartments for the different denom-
inatious from one 10 ten. They are or
namental as well as useful, and nobody's
writing desk should be without one.
New pen-wipers tell the story ef Lit
tie Bo Peep and her sheep, each sheep
lying on mat made of bright cloth, on
which you have the privilege of .wiping
your pen. These are the kind of things
that sell like wildfre ut the country
church fair.
ONE cannot even purchase an eccltsi.
astIcal calendar nowadays without ind
ing very little calendar and great many
advertisements, from the shoemaker 10
the silversmith. Tho man who hesitaes
to buy calendar of this kird is lot
necessarily lost.
The ponderous fur wraps which some
wealthy ladies wear are Russian, and
can only be purchased in the czar's
domain, not being profitable enough to
import, so the furriers say. They are
only suitable for cold day, and are too
expensive even to get left anywhere.
II ALWAYS take an hour to eat my
breakfast at the club, you know" said
the languid swell at the charity ball 10
the lady to whom he was trying to talk,
zone whole hour" "Indeed," she
made answer, "why, how funny When
l was girl it didn't take me FIVE min.
utes to eat all my pap"
BLUE seems to be coming back again
as fashionable color, and at several OF
the large social gatherings of the sea.
son number of blue costumes have
been seen. Blue is said to be gerer.
ally becoming color, especially in con.
nection with gaslight, and this may be
one reason why blue comes back to us.
MANY of the pretty and antique things
from the auction eale of bankrupt
Belgian count in Brussels last moIth
have reached this country, and will cra
long be exposed for sale. Among them
Is the everlasting calendar" IN hrass
said to have beenmade By monk u,he
sixteenth century, aud for which fabu.
lous prices have been paid in formtr
years.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
Criticism from Under BOnnets.
From the New York Times

lfrom tue new 1Ork llmeR.l
A student of human nature who a.
tended a popular concert yesterday after
noon was filled with Joy and wonder by
the display of learning made by two
ladies sitting behind him. The student
did not know great denl about music,
though he felt reasonably sure of telling
the difference between funeral march
and galop, and consequently he drank
in with great avidity the free instruction
which came from behind him. The con-
versation began when Mozart's "Magic
Flute " overture was half played.
Chow funny! Do you hear anything
of the fute?"
"Not thing"
"Well, if had been writing an over.
ture about flute I would have made the
instrument more prominent. +"
$50 would j; but just look at the fur
on that woman's cloak"
"Isn't it lovely?"
Yes; I wonder how much it cost. -
"What, the overture?"
"No, the fur. /"
"Oh, I meant the music"
ooh, yes, of course. What are they
playing now?"
"Here it is, Airs de ballet, Orfee et
Eurydice. It has dance of the furies
IN it. I shouldn't think furies would
want to dance. :"
Then there was silence for a little
space. Soon the band played the allie.
gretto from Beethoven's eighth sym
phony. When it was finished, one lady
said to the other:
Sc How eweet on1 cim,,la -,
Yes, but that wasn't the symphony
a symphony is longer than that, j
know"
Well, what wes it ?"
"Why, this thing here, see? dance
of the F'uries.'"
"Oh, yes, that's what 1t must have
been."
Sson young lady appeared and sang
two Schubert songs.
"I don't think much of those songs.
do you?"
''No; but they say he is great song
writer" .
I don't see it. Now they're going
to play the overture to William Tell.''
"What is that instrument that is be.
ginning it?"
Good gracious, dear! don't you
know? Why, that's bass violin"
Silence reigned until the lovely Eng.
lish horn solo began.
What kind of thing is that pla wing
now ?"
"Well, I don't know exactly. It isn't
clarinet, is 1t 2"
"No."
It's bassoon, guess
BY and by the orchestra began
Gounod's +" Funeral March of a Marion
ette." 1t begins with tuttl passage
ending with crash on the cymbais.
The two ladies jumped.
my goodness That don't sound
like funeral march, does it?"
THAT'S what's on the programme.
well, the man must have died sud.
denly" '
The band played Webster's "Invita.
ton la Valse." The rapid loud pas.
sage which precedes the soft and gentle
close deceived the audience. Tbey
thought the piece was ended and an.
plauded. Then when the music con.
tlnued, they were surprised.
That's just like Theodore Thomas.
He's always trying to do something
smart. he did that on purpose, / know
he did. See him laugh! / knew he
was trying to be smart. He iust thinks
he has done it, nowp
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
TEXAS FIGURES.

The last census gave Texas total
population of 1851, 749, of which s37,-
$40 we're males and $4,000 females.
Native born, LAT, 1873; foreign-born,
114, 616; whites, 1,197, ,237; colored, 394, :
5l2. The area of the state includes
los, 42S, 100 acres, of which only s,S41,-
7O5 acres are under cultivation, and 49,
3O2,5O0 are covered with timber. In
1880 there were under cultivation, in
corn, 5000, 900 acres; in cotton, $780,
113 acres; in wheat, 400, 600; in sugar
cane, 1S1, ,592 acres. OF the religious
sects the Roman Catholics are the
strongest, having a membership of 12O,-
600 in the state; next are the Metho.
dists, 80. 1888; then the Baptists, 76, ,S59.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
A Quiet New Years.
.From the Sam Francisco Post.

Speaking OF hacks, reminds me that
about II a. M, on New Years four we'll
known local dudes went to livery sta
BILE on Sutter Street and engaged car
riage to make calls in. They were toler-
ably mellow at the time, and while the
team was being harnessed stretched
themselves over several more fingers of
fire water at neighboring saloon. The
result was that when they returned they
climbed into an old broken down hack
thst was slowed away in corner of the
stable, where three of them Immediately
fell asleep, while the fourth was unable
to recollect his own name. After vainly
endeavoring to straighten matters, the
stable proprietor closed tho door and
left them to their post-whisky slumbers.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
Death in n Mine.

A terrible explosion occurred in the Colorado
Coal and Iron Company's mine at Crested
Butte, Col. on the morning of the Gath. The
loss of life is known to be terrible. There
were sixty-seven men in the mine at the time.
or these, eleven, who were just entering, were
thrown back to the entrance by the force of
the explosion and have been rescued. One Of
these is dead and all the others are badly in
jnred. A dispatch from Gunnison of the above
date says: "There are tifty-seven men yet in
the mine and they can't be reached. They are
all supposed to be dead. The explosion was of
such force as to entirely wreck the engine
house which stood fully 100 feet from the en-
trance. 1t is supposed the explosion was
caused by a leak in the air compressor. The
Crested Butte people are doing all possible to
rescue the miners. Two special trains have
gone up from here with doctors and others on
board. The mine is owned and operated by
the Colorado Coal and Iron Company, OF Dem
yer, which employs from eighty to ninety min
ers in the shaft.
A dispatch Of the 25th states that thirty-four
bodies have been recovered.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
w. g. BROWN, Publisher
TIE ERIE CANAL.


The annual report of the board of
trade Of Montreal shows that there has
been q decrease Of nearly $1,000, 900 in
the value of imports at Montreal during
the year, and ascribes this falling off
very largely to the freedom of the Erie
Canal. The Albany Journal Gays:
:" That in a single year the abolition of
tolls on our own great avenue of COM
merce should have made itselffelt go de-
cisively in the business of the other.
route, indicates not only that canals
have by no means outlived their useful
ness, but that New York State will be
justified, practically as well as sentimen-
tally, in keeping the Erie Canal in her
own hands, and enlarging and improv-
ing it on her own responsibility"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
Seeking a Fortune by Litigation.
prom the BANGOR com,rorc,a

Herbert Blake, Rallowelllawye has
invented an ingenious scheme to make
fortune. He has sued the treasurers
OF nearly every corporation in the state
Tor the recovery in each case of $500 for.
feiture for failure to publish statistics o.
their condition of business, rs required
by law. Eight summonses have been
served on treasurers of Lewiston corpola'
tons to appear at The superior court IN
kennebec County, the second Tuesday
IN February, to answer ia the above
suits. Blake makes wholesale prosecu'
ton. He will make, if he RECEIVERS, be
tween four and six Thousand dollars IN
Lewiston and fortune in all.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31
LAY eouLD's BIG BOX.
He is Said to Have Opened 1t A. {
Brokers Estimate of His Hold s,s.

He is Said to Have Opened 1t A. "A
Brokers Estimate of His Hold as.
New YORK, January pa report
was current in Wall Street yesterday
that Gould had again opened his strong
box to allay suspicion as to his financial
| situation. At Mr.. Gould's office the
story of the report is denied in toto
"The story is absolutely without foun-
dation," said the gallant Slgnor Morosi
nj. The last time he was guilty O,
such g proceeding was in 1882. The
facts that led to the conclusion
of the report are as follows: Last Fri.
day MIR. John T. Terry, of e. D. Nor
gan & Co., heard that Mr.. Gou'd had
been called for a S2,0O0,000 sterling
loan, of which renewal was refused. he
at once went to the fnancier's cfice to
see if this was true. "Why, I've plenty
of money" replied Mr.. Gould, good
naturedly. ~ haven't had TO sell
anything" Turning to his son
he said: "George, put on your
coat and show Mr.. Terry our
new vault. Let him see what we've
got there while you are about it." Mr..
Terry expostulated, saying that he did
not want to be the repository for any Sc.
cret, but the little man insisted. az
want you to see the vault anyway" he
urged. Mr.. Terry then accompanied
young Mr.. Gould to the Equitable
Building, where the Mercantile Trust
Company has prepared a private recep.
tacle for the wealth OF the money king.
The vault is incasedin solid masonry and
massive steel Notifications. It is one of
the strongest in the world. The cele-
brated strong box was then emptied
and it's contents spread out to view.
What Mr.. Terry saw he will not divulge
save that the showing astonished him.
he had not expected such vast accum-
ulation of wealth as was there repre-.
sented. The action was entirely impul-
sive and was not intended as a public
statement of assets. Some way the story
leaked out, WIS altered beyond recogni-
ton, and did duty as sensation. Mr..
Terry said last evening, speaking of his
visit to Mr.. Gould's vault: I" only
counted the securities in one of the
boxes in the vault, and I did this out of
curiosity because it contained Western
Union. The syndicate cf liars, as they
have been aptly'called, bad industriously
circulated the 1umor that Mr.. Gould had
parted with all of his Western Union
stock and so had little curiosity to
see how much of it he had" "And how
much did you find ?" ST found $780,
1877, 500 worth, with one-half share over.
In the other opening, which contained
Missouri Pacific, I only examined one
package of the securi' les, but there were
several other packages in it." "How
much was there in the package which
you examined?" "I don't know exact
ly, but there Was over $4,000, 900
worth, and there were securities in all
other openings in the vault, as I have
said."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-31

entirely with books, of which he has a
large collection in his rooms. He affects
i'll health, and is the least popular mem.
Der of the Vanderbilt family. Most OF
the Vanderbilts are happy. It is said
that George is melancholy enough for
the whole family. According to reports
the youth has literary aspirations, but
he has as yet done nothing towards graf
living them.