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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28

At the breaking out of the rebellion
in 1861, the total number Of persons on
the pension rolls, including revolu.
tionsry pensioners, was 1912, and the
aggregate amount required to pay these
pensioners was only $1,os4,60O. In 1867
there were added 1884 names. and, not.
withstanding this addition at the close
of that year. there were but S,l99 names
on the roll. This is explained by the
fact that large proportion Of those on
the pension lists prior to the rebellion
took part in secession, and were dropped
from the pension rolls. The report for
the fiscal year ending June Both, 1864,
shows the effect of the war of the rebel
lion on the pension rolls, the payments
for that year rising to $685. ,474. From
1864. to the present time there has been
q steady increase in the rolls. the total
number, according to the last official re-
port. being 3O3.65s. The amount Of
money paid to pensioners in 1863 was
$l,025.l40, and in 1883 it was $60, ,43l, 1913.
Contrasting the machinery of the pen
sion Office as now constituted, with 1860,
it is found that in that year the business
was transacted by seventy-one clerks;
now there are $500 clerks, beside large
number of examiners and special officers
and twelve agencies for the payment OF
pensions. To pay this force re.
quires nearly $2.0Oo.000 annually, and
the rent of the building
requiring 100000 per year
additional. The highest rate of pension
is seventy-two dollars per month, in
cases of total blindness, and the lowest
rate is two dollars per month. Formerly
eight dollars per month was the highest
rate paid private soldier for any dis
ability whatever. A pension is now
allowed according to the nature and
measure of the disability up to seventy
two dollars per month. From July l.
1864, to July 1. 1883, there has been paid
for pensions an aggregate of $640. 900
in round numbers, which is equal to an
average payment Of $4,000. 900 per year.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28
sept to the Penitsntiary

syracuse, N. T.. Oct. 2s-six members
| Of the salvation army were sent to the
penitentiary from the police court, for
| violating the city ordinances.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28
The Weather.

The Weather.
Washington, Oct. 2o-The Indications
OF the weather for the upper Mississippi
valley are: Fair weather, southerly
winds, higher temperature.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
New York. Oct. %.
o. WaEAT- %asa Firm; No. 2 red s4@s4a.c November;
spSS sss5 ls;,xa !srs5 mixed western
0ATs-Irif1e strong.r; ;Western, S2G36Hc.
PoRK-S,eady; Sl675.
LARD-Dull. steam rendered, $7.52Kc.
ou1oAao.
Chicago. Oct. %,
~ ConsIstesasdy; 4sse cash, october and
sso : s9as 9stobsly May nove
bepp; 25lc year; zoe May.
BARLEY-Lowcr; ;82c,
FLAxsEED-StcadS; $l.SB.
WHISKY Sl.l3
Ponk- wesk, lower; sl5.5oc October; $ll $50
sea1 n1apnSWser pl .Sse !asHuSEy ootober M
vem0er, ID cember.
MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee. ct. %.
WHEAT-.Unsettled; No. 2 red. 7Skc cash,
72Ac October; 72saic November; 76ssc Decem.
Conn Lower rejected; 41M@!2xc
Oats Firmer; No. 2. 28c. No. 2, white, q.
RYE-Nominal. No. !, 5sAc.
BARLEY-Weak; No. 2, 58ac.
YhnEton Prices.
Yankton. Oct. %.
y HaEAT-No. 1,.......... ...........,...... .85088e
OATs .......................... %
DnhLEf......' .SUUH HdC
SS(
POTATOES. ..18Q1ak
FLAxsEED ........................... 81 .0e
LIVE aotS Eo.pU4L6.U
MooA.... .14tUl0
Eggs, per doz.. ........................ &c
butter. Der lD................ 6Gtl2c
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28
9Ailv gress mud 9akotaian

The recsipss Of the postoRce depart
nent for Me fiscal year ended June 80,
1884. exclusive OF the money order
revenue, we're $42sl8. .6S5. and expendi.
lures $464ll.772. leaving deficit, OF
$3,593, 1877, which is attributed to the re-
duced postal rate. The department last
year had q surplus of $s.653,ls9. This
years deficit, however, will be reduced
about 500, 900 by money order revenues.
The result confirms the estimate made
by President Arthur IN his message to
the last congress.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28

An officer Of tho signal service gays
relative to the long R-continued drought,
that during September Il existed in ali
sections east of the Mississippi valley
and Texas. General rains have fallen
during October in Tennessee, the Ohio
valley, and the lake region, but the
drought has continued in the Middle
Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Gulf states.
The little rain that has fallen has not
been sufficient to do any good to crops
in those secti ms. At Atlanta. Ga, rain
has not fallen for over two months, and
it is estimated that the cotton crop in
that vicinity will fall short forty per
cent. Near Shreveport, La, it is esti-
mated that the cotton crop will be only
two-thirds of the average. In the
vicinity of Petersburg, Va, it has
become necessary to close the cotton
factories on account of the scarcity of
water.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28

. the use Of the tel.
Short Line" in conneo
tion with the corporate
name of q great road, cor
veys an idea OF what is rG
quircd by the travelling
public-a Short L. e,
Quick Time and the beat
of AccOmmOdati0ns--all Of
by he greatest railway in
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-28
SHOR I
LIN NE

which are furnished by he greatest railway IL
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Blaine,s Personal Qualities.


Not even President Garfield attach
ed people to him by his personal quail
tiles more closely than Mr.. Blaine
His enemies are not to be found
s....s5.-,- -ss.'.u.a ---s---------
best or longest. A man in his position
becomes a target for all the partisan
and personal spite that can be raked
up, but it is a fact which always gives
Mr.. Blaine a great and sometimes un-
expected strength that attacks upon
him al,nost never come from any di-
rection except that OF strangers.
1t is not to be expected that a man
of Mr.. Blaine's positive habits and
vigorous methods could pursue Il long
public career as "a leader of leaders
without making enemies. No man of
his caliber can go through the world
without hitting a considerable number
Of his fellow men in places that hurt,
and so there are memories of sore spots
which in one way and another viii
show themselves when an opportunity
| ir'~,r os...,Iis,ssoy ru' IsizI- --s's-s r---~
sents itself; but in spite of all the dead
and wounded who have been carried
off from his battle fields, whose friends
can never forget from whom the blow
came that disabled them, the trI,th
remains that he holds the respect even
of those who bestow their hatred up
on bin AMI the personal confidence
of nearly every hsman being with
whom he ever came in contact.
There is hardly a republican who has
served with him in congress or met
him in political way elsewhere that
is not enthusiastically in his favor.
There are few democrats who have
had chance to come into his acquain-
tance that are not proud to reckon
themselves among his friends.
Mr.. Blaine's splendid qualities
which are learned by fnmiliar inter
course and which have always given
him great power among his neighbors
at home and his own constituents, will
tell as they ought to-fo~ they are
among important elements that so to
make up character--in the progress OF
tho campaign. It is like him TO take
the direction Of his own canvass. He
never shirks responsibility or fails to
lead the column. Ic wins admira
ton as he goes and receives the faitl
and trust of the people as things Chat
belong to him rightfully as their chic
captain Post dad Tribune.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Our TIan6nr.

In our candidate we do not look for
impossible attributes of perfection or
infaIlibility. His impulsive spirit may
have led him at times into the borders
of rashness. The loyalty of his friend
ships may sometimes have obscured
his clear vision OF what is called expe-
diency. The turmoil of party strife, or
in the struggles incident to n legisla-
tive period, rife with implacable ami
mosities, he may have departed more
than once from the strict rule of eti-
quette and ethics which govern the
clergyman in his pulpit. or the banker
at his desk. The marvellous vital
energy Of James q. Blaine always
spurred him into the thickest of the
fray. Small wonder that he escaped
without some slight confusion. Shall
the smoke-begrimmed fireman, who has
periled his life in the effort to stay a
threatening conflagration, be derided
and bufTeted by the clean-shaved,
white-handed spectator of his tolls
Heaven forbid
Those who delight to say that Mr..
Blaine is n visionary man, lacking in
practical sagacity and tact, devoid of
executive ability, vain theorist
abounding in dangerous heresies, will
be invited to study his record of six
years ~ speaker of the house of rep
resentatives
If any think lac is shallow and
superllcial;y smart pretender, we will
aid them i'm their honest researches 10y
! full references to the sources where
this count in the indictment may be
carefully studied. We cannot under
take TO print in this Journal even his
principal writings and speeches which
will refute this charge; for such a
course would fill our entire paper from
now until the date of election. Ifany
one considers Mr.. Blaine a danger
ous' man in diplomacy, we will even
reason with him, though we confess to
some impatience TO enter upon an argu.
Inent where we shall have TO meet not
only prejudice and presumption. but
also most astounding ignorance. bag
CITY Tribune
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Campaign Clubs.

The republican state central com
Congress street west, and entered up
on the work of the campaign by issu-
ing circular urging the Importance of
clubs. "The formation OF Blaine
and Logan club they say, 'isdesired
in every school district in Michigan.
Such an organization is deemed nee
essary for the advancement of the
principles of the republican party, and
the success Of its candidates, and that
the general interest and success OF the
party may be subserved by perfecting
organization on the part of all republi-
cans"
With this circular the committee
have sent out 4 convenient draft for
the constitution and bylaws of clubs,
with request that report a be made to
the committee whenever one is forin-
ed, to the end that papers and docu-
ments may be sent during the cam
paign.
Associations of the kind suggested
are of exceeding importance to the
welfar. of the party. They form the
most convenient medium for coinmu-
nication between the republicans of the
various localities and the committee
having the general oversight OF the
canvass. More important than this
even, they bring the voters together,
and especially the young men, and
asm for work grown out of discussion
and mutual encouragement Another
use of the local club is TO make prepa-
rations for, and take chrrge of, the
public meetings of the campaign and
receive and entertain the speakers
Nrbo come from abroad. The various
clubs of a town, or even cf county,
may on occasion unite in procession
or other public demonstration so as to
add variety and attraction TO the
more serious portions of the program.
The Club forms the unit of the cam
paign- the prime organizations foi
the advancement of party doctrines.
1t brings the issues home to the peo
pie for discussion 1t is the common
school Of political learning.
The action of the committee is wise
Ia calling attention To the importance
of neighbOrhood association thus early
in the season, and the good results oi
their action are sure to become mani
fest as the work goes on. Post dld
TfiJitHe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Blaine ans His Record.

The democratic party has nothing to
gain 10y campaign OF slander in 1854.
On the contrary it has every thing TO
lose. James G. Blaine and John A.
Logan are recognized as the representa-
tives of the highest type of the repub-
canism of to-day Their public rec
ords are by no means spotless, but they
will stand the test OF criticism quiet
as we'll as their democratic opponents,
whoever they may be. Democratic
orators and democratic organs will on
ly waste their wind and space by re.
viving the old attacks upon Blaine
The Plurned Knight has become the
accepted leader of ths republican par
ty in the face of all that has been said
against him. The clap-trap about the
Mulligan letters that has been publish
ed in the democratic newspapers has
had all the effect it ever will have.
Not one votes in thousand takes any
stock i'm them. and the charges con
cterning his railroad transactions and
guano legislation have been fully ven
tilated and fallen harmless at his feet.
Blaine's record is an open book. 1t is
linked with the entire history of the
republican party. He is proud of it,
and the republican party is proud OF il.
All the evil that c:n be said Of him
has been repeated thousdud tinies,
and yet he stands to-day as the ideal
representative of his party, with whose
y9nla9tS his nabpYe -
converts will be made by reviving the
threadbare scandals that have long
since been repadiated, and Blaine GER
tainly has no anxiety on this score. II
the democratic Darty can tlal no bet
ter lines of attack it might rs well re-
tire from the field. Detroit JourRaL
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Receipt for Masking a Live Town.

Receipt for Making Live Town.
1. Sell your building lots at reason
able prices
g If you can afford to do so, donate
building lot for SOME large business
enterprise and thereby enhance the
value of town property.
g. Induce business men TO locate in
your own town.
4. Patronize the business men Of
your own town.
5. Always sum up your expenses
when you visit places outside of your
own town to buy goods.
6. SPEAK well of worthy public enter
prises.
7. If anything should lie undertaken
that may be a benefit TO the town, do
not speak i'll of it to Others because
you happen to be prejudiced against
it
S. Speak well to strangers of your
own town and its people.
9. If You have n surplus of money de-
not invest i'm far-off speculation, but
give yourself and your town the bene-
fit of it by establishing SOME profitable
factory.
10. Encourage your local newspaper
by subscribing for, advertising in and
paying for it. instead of working
against it ; so that persons living at a
distance will know that all kinds of
business is being done in your town, SO
chat they will want to come and settle
among you.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
"Them 1thnra,, plains.

Unless we mistake the public pulse,
about the close of this season or be-
fore will witness n grand rush TO the
plains region west os here. Men who
have hitherto spoken of plains only in
doubt, when not In contempt, may
now be heard TO weigh arguments in
It's favor with a credulous air. Unless
the poor man sells this birthright for a
mess of pottage, by allowing the spec
ulator 20 get the start of him hero as
elsewhere, the plains portion Of this
county will soon be converted into
waving meadows and hcrded pastures.
-HWm0n RecjeW.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
Gath and the Independents.


Several years ago ! trained with re-
formers, and more cold-hearted pac k
of scoundrels | never knew. They
were nearly all cyclists, with but lit
tie balance of character, and that. il
why they preferred to be reformers
rather than upright partisans Some
little kink or scruple or insect seemed
to them bigger than the great question
on hand. Sometimes they had not
been consulted. At other times they
had done some frightful violence TO
human nature, and could not support
the nomination because they were
conscious of their own inhumanity. Ii
matters nothing to the young men
who have acted with the republican
party if Blaine is beaten they can fall
into line behind the chief magistrate,
whatever be his party relations. But
assassinating Mr.. Blaine will be an
end to civil service reform pretensions
in this country. If this respecting of
persons is TO demolIsh our conventions
and popular systems let the egotists fall
into the ditch they have dug. Blaine
is too much of man to please any
eunuch. It has been his misfortune at
different times in his life co entertain
at his house aud table some OF those re-
formers, men who are essentially spies
by nature and only knew a gentleman
fpr the purpose Of reporting somethin g
q gpinst him p Gath i'm Cincinnati
IB7uirer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03

The Detroit Journal saws: "That j.
r. Carbaugh, of Collins, has calf
that is strangely and peculiarly con
structed, resembling different animals.
Its head is shaped like rabbit, has
hogs feet, and the back of neck and
shoulders resembling a hippopotamus.
lt is "A curious monstrosity, or what
is itl" Greenbacker, by gingo.
The sectonalism of the democratic
party is shown by the fact that while II
proposes TO put lumber and salt, great
staples of the north, Oh the free list.
they will leave sugar, a southern pro-
duet untouched. If they placed sugar
on the free list they would lose Louis
lana. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota,
New York and Wisconsin are republi-
can, and they do not care for them.
Blaine and Logan have marked out
their parts in the brilliant foreign pol
icy Blaine Is to go for EnglishInen,
while Logan will maui the language, -
Portland Argus, (Dem). You are mis-
taken, it is the democrats that Logan
mauls, and does it well too, as the
southern wing of the party will testi-
fy. The correctness of the language
used by General Logan should not he
questioned by member Of rc,::tty c.
which six out of tea Of its .lembers
can neither read nor write.
The editor OF the Boston Pilot, was
interviewed in New York the other day,
........ 10. .l.,,.l. .ad ti.atz Rat az WAS th4
| only man that could stand any show
of carrying Massachusetts, against the
republicans, and that Butler will run
as an independent if the democrats do
not nominate him; and that Blaine is
strong nomination, and will have a
! large Irish vote rs against any demo
cratic nominee except Butler. lie
pronounces the Independent move
ment as of little Importance.
A republican organ claims that l.
500 American land leaguers are organ
izing to vote for Blaine and Logan il
| Cincinnati. The Boston Pilot, the
leading land league organ of Massa-
chusetts, says Blaine and Logan can
beat any ticket the democrats may
nominate. "A similar feeling is de-
veloping among the Irshinen of Chi
cago and Milwaukee. They want a
man for President who has the cour-
age to protect American interests and
American citizenship, and they think
Blaine is just the man for that. .-Det.
JOuTadL
The McConuellsville Courier, Dem. }
says: There Is no otller field of hu-
man action where the white-winged
hypocrite comes to the front with his
ridiculous whine 40 often as i'm poll
tics" Hard on the independents,
but rot any too severe, for they well
know that nothing can be accomplish
ed in politics outside of the two prom
inent parties An independent il
politics, especially the publisher of q
journal is nothing more than "a gueril
la, or free lance, who Is in the mar
ket waiting for n purchaser, and they
care little for the merits OF the ques
ton they are calle upon to help de
eide. There are Dugald Dalgetty's il
politics, as we'll as i'll war.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03

The Ludington Record, says that 1t
witnessed spectacle a few days since.
of which he had often read, bat never
seen, of q strong able-bodied man
pleading for the admission of his old
and helpless father to the poor house.
He didn't succeed. The commissions
ers Of the poor in that county certain
ly have no bowels of compassion. or
they would have admitted him and
run the son out Of the county.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03

The queen of all trees indigenous to
our latitude, gnd which develops most
into an object of beauty, is the sugar
maple. This gem of a tree is often
discarded by planters from its suppos-
ed slowness of growth. This, howev-
er. is a matter more of circumstance
than of necessity. If one goes iuto a
forest and selects his trees from a
thicket, using little or no care in get
ting moderate amount of root. and
then carelessly plants and afterwards
leaves his trees TO the merciless rude
ness Of the elements, the growth will
certainly be slow, if, indeed, they grow
at all. -Er.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03

Congressman Lyman, the independ
ent member from the ninth Massachu-
setts district, in his letter refusing to
support Blaine and Logan says; Gen
eral Logan is a brave, frank and honest
man, but illiterate, narrow, and pref
udiced." The Boston Journal reports
as follows: "When the country was
in danger, John Logan had no time
TO cultivate the classics, but thousands
Of literary men at home were mighty
glad that "a hundred thousand ilhte-
rate men like John Logan were at the
front. "
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03
rinid -nianondorts.

The New York and Boston independ-
ents appear to be- afraid TO act They
III aet every few days and solemnly re-
solve that the country is likely to go to
ruin in the event of Blaine's election,
and then they adjourn. The meeting
just held in New York resulted in
nothing Tie gentlemen who attend
ed again gave voice to their dissatis-
faatiasa ,-itla tho Tnna- nn,llinaas and
the persons who We're unable to be
present sent letters, which were read
All in favor of Hrover Cleveland.
If Cleveland should chance TO be
the nominee in July there would be no
independent movement at all. The
dissatisfied republicans would vote the
democratic ticket, and that would be
the end of it. The movement thus
loses the significance of bolt and be-
comes simply an abandonment of the
republican party by a certain number
Of its old time members and leaders.
who do not find themselves in accord
with its ruling sentiment nj the present
time. Such things have happened be-
fore and the republican party has gone
right on in the path of victory. If the
independents were brave and sincere
men they would have new party in
the field before the Fourth of July
Cnicago Herald Ind.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1884-07-03

While many Of the state papers are
booming gubernatorial candidates, il
is noticeable that the majority of
booms are instigated by local or per-
sonal reasons, and the AVALANCHE
has no fault to find with the plan or
with the candidates mentioned, yet
among them all we have noticed one
name that stands preeminent in the
state, rs "a representative man of most
liberal views, large experience, full
personal knowledge of the needs of
our great state, and with mind large
enough to recognize them as they may
arise. A soldier and friend Of the
soldier; man who would honor the
state and the position of governor,
Gen X. A. Alger.