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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TIE Greenbackers of Massachusetts
will hold Il convention at Boston Septem-
Der 4 for the nomination Of State officers.
In the recent county elections in Utah
the Mormons elected all the officers.
A STATE Convention of the National
Greenback Labor party Of the State of ILL
nois will be held at Bloomington, August
~, for the purpose Of nominating State Of
1icers.
The following Congressional noralna-
ticns were made on the 9th: Democratic
Maryland, Third District, William H.
Cole; Fourth, John V. l. Findlay: Fifth,
Barnes Compton,; Sixth, FREQ j. Nelson.
Illinois, Nineteenth District, r. w.
Townshend (renominated); Indiana,
Eighth District, John e. Lamb: Virginia,
Eighth District, j.. S. Barbour (renom-
inated); Pennsylvania, Twenty fifth Dis
trict, j. D.. Patton. Repubiiran-Ohio,
Sixteenth District, Halry c. Hedges;
Iowa, Fifth District, Milo p. Smith.
The committee of Chicagoans which
made the arrangements for the Republic.
an Convention reported on the 9th having
collected S225, 164, of which amount ST., 542.l ~
would be returned to subscribers.
GENERAL BUTLER on the 9Th sent a let
ter to the New York SIN stating that he
intended to stand by the nominations of
the Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists
for President, and hoped everybody would
vote for him who thought it was the best
thing to do.
The members of the National Commit
tee of the Anti Monopoly party have been
requested to meet at Chicago August l6 to
nominate a candidate for Vice President
Of the United States.
THE New Jersey Republicans met in
State Convention at Trenton on the 9Th
and nominated candidates for Presiden-
tial electors.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
as follows III the 18th: Republican-Ohio,
First District, Benjamin B~utterworth;
Second, Charles E. Brown; Eighth,
Judge Little. Indiana, Fourth District,
join 0. Cravens. Iowa, Third District,
ID. B. Henderson (renominated). South
Carolina, Fifth District, w. II. Weller.
Democratic-Ohio, Fourth District, C. NJ.
Anderson. Virginia, Tenth District, j.
Randolph Tucker (renorninated). North
Carolina, Seventh District, Kerr Craig.
Georgia, Tenth District, Henry f.. Harris.
Pennsylvania, Twenty-tirst District, C. E.
Boyle (renominated).
IEE National Dental Association at Sar-
atoga on the Sth elected George H. Cash
lngton, of Chicago, President, and decided
to m"ct next year at Minneapolis.
JOHN JouRDAE, the notorious burglar
WHO robbed tne Middletown Comm Say.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
FOREIGN.

CHINA on the 9th refused to accede ia
the terms of France. The Celestial
authorities would pay 500, 900 indemnity,
but no more. The French Admiral, Cour.
bet, was preparing to begin operations
against Foo-Chow.
THE British House of Commons on the
9th appropriated s 100000 for the expe
dition to relieve Gordon by a vote of ia to
IA.
FIVE deaths from cholera occurred Mt
Marseilles and four at Toulon during the
twenty -four hours ended at nine p. III. on
the 9Th. The sanitary condition of Italy
was improving, and Russia was declared
to be free from epidemic of any kind.
Spain had decided to establish a quaran.
tine of ten days against Italian ports in
fected with cholera and seven days against
other Italian ports.
TIE steamer Amsterdam was wrecked
| off Sable Island, N. S., a few days ago,
during a fog. There were So passengers
on board, but only three We're drowned.
MERCHANTS in Mexico complain that
most goods received from the United
States are inferior to the samples shown
by drummers.
The steamship Oregon arrived at
Queenstown on the 9Th, making the trip
from New York in six days thirteen hours
and twenty-eight minutes, the fastest time
on record.
DURING the twentv-four hours ended at
nine p. III. on the 7th there were five cholera
deaths at Marseilles, five at Aries and six
at Toulon. There had been a slight in
crease in the cases owing to the great num-
Der of returning fugitivcs. A disease
known us "English cholera" had broken
out in the villages near Blackburn, in Lam
cashire, Eng, and was spreading.
A SEVERE hurricane and rain-storm
visited Sebastopol, Russia, on the 18th.
Twelve persons were killed, and an i'm
mense amount Of damage was done to
property. In the Linz Grein and kirch-
Stag districts, near Vienna, a storm in.
jured many persons and a large number
of buildings were washed away.
TIE Queen of Madagascar on the 7:h
proclaimed negotiations with France at
an end, and ordered her subjects to pre-.
pare for war.
FOUR shocks of earthquake were felt on
the eth in a line of Italian towns & few
miles southeast of Rome.
A RACING scull was swamped on Quivi-
vidi Lake, n. f., a few afternoons ago,
three Of the oarsmen being drowned, the
fourth, who was rescued, dying the next
morning.
DISPATCHES Of the 7th from Foo Choo as
serted that the trouble between France
and China was certain to be settled. John
Russell Young, the American Minister, was
to be arbitrator.
S1,rT T fArIJrD ON ,~{r;,- o-1,.1,s.&
who was executed OH the Sth at Vienna,
participated in the brutal murder of a
banker named EiSert and his two sons,
and also killed q detective named Block.
DURING the twenty four hours ended at
nine p. III. on the evening of the Sth twenty
four deaths from cholera occurred at Mar.
settles and two at Toulon.
LIGHTNING on the Sth started a con1agra-
ton at Villard-Lurin, France, which ragged
until ninety houses were destroyed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
FOR GIFT.
The Corner Stone of the BarthoYdi r
tai Laid During II Drenching Raj

The Corner Stone of the Barthoydi redti-
tai Laid During II Drenching Rain.
New YORK, August 6.-The storm y+
terday interfered very much with the CT
rying out of the programme arranged ts
laying the corner stone OF the pedestal
Bartholdi's statue of Liberty at Bellies
Island. About five hundred persons vEs
present. These, for the most pa,
were officials identified with lie
ceremony, the Masonic fraternity
and invited guests. All stood for tire
hours during a drenclling rain while tie
programme of the exercises was being %
served. Ii it had been a good day dorN'
less the ten thousand expected on Btd,ot:
Island, each paying fifty cents admission
would have been there. The guests wua
met on their arrival at Beldoe'S /"
land by II hundred men from tie
Fifth Artillery, U. S. A., and a corps Of
policemen. The Governors Island Ban!
played several National airs, including he
Marseillaise. Controller Grant was tie
only members of the New York City soF
ernment present. AT the appointed TN,
the stone was laid by the Most WOrShIliNl
Master of the Grand Lodge of the State d
New York, and Immediately twenty-o"e
guns We're fired from old Fort Wood, aia
the band played praise God from NNVI
all Blessings Flow" H..
Deputy Grand Master Lawrence, in MS
address, said: Never since the building
the Temple of Solomon have the Ma,cA'
participated in a work more exalted lL'1
this" Hail Columbia" followed and Nv
"Marseillaise" again. Albert Faivre' IN
minister in charge of the French Con>'&.s
General, was introduced. He said thai IL
a few weeks the statue OF Lloti!.
transported by a French ship u
war, would arrive in this coNH3!
and be erected upon the sGy"
Travellers arriving from Europe would ~,
hold it and to all it would be the type Oh NV
protecting influence of a free Nation. iI,
American Government has never s~lislc'Gr'
the reign of law. 1t has never reSoEe' "
proscriptive measures, and after tile Gu"
clusion Of the great struggle it entrtls'e' y
Liberty the task of healing the Wo0'"'
caused by war; ,n,
William Allen Butler then delivered NV NY
Grafton and was frequently intcrrulie" ::
applause. The exercises closed with a w."
edicti6n by the Right Rev. Bishop lien:
{. Patton. Upon arriving again i'll the y%, ~,
tie musicians halted before the frehcN'v"
sulate and played the French NatlonI' a.,
the compliment being acknowledged !; y,
Faivre in person, and by the dipping o. IA 4
French flags. The company then proce'" ii.
TO tie Washington building upon 'le ~;
of Washington's headquarters, and PlWV~
Of the lOsDitaIity of MIR. CYRUS w. lt'"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
Receiving the White Veil.

WuKESBARRE, Pa, August s. n~,
morning, at st. Nicholas Cathollc .l" Il
in this city, twenty young ladies, Nv" ''i T.,
them from Germany, received the wi! ;a:
veil, the solemn and impressive service oe. .s
conducted by Rev. Father Nayle, in the A.
sence of Rev. Bishop O'Hara. y lais'S,
gresation of friends and relatives "'','e Inn,
the services. Minnesota contribute" yor;
OF tie noviccs, Pennsylvania, New ,r.
and Missouri one each. Following III" hla,;
emory eighteen others received tle nn,a
veil and took VOWS, eight OF W''o'' Dam
from Germany, and the others IRON ,iarse.
s:"lvania and Minnesota. ScvHfal O;
men from New York assisted tile clei7'
THIS section in the solemn rites.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
KILLED AT A CROSSING.
A Startled Team Stops on n Pennsylvania
Railroad Track and Five Lives are Sac
rificed.

rlllceu.
G1RAEDy1LLE, Pa, Aug. "a frightful
accident occurred at Conner collierv, near
here, yesterday morning. A family named
Dixon, returning to their home at Lost
Creek after attending a funeral, were rid
ing in a close carriage drawn by two horses
and driven by a man named Ready.
When the carriage arrived at the rail-
road crossing at the Conner collierv
breaker the noise occasloned by the
workings of the breaker and the whistlinrs
OF a small mine locomotive frightened the
horses, which stopped right in the middle of
the track. The driver sprang from his seat
and endcavorea to pull the balky animals
Off the track. but before he could do
SO a Pennsylvania railroad engine which
was pushing a long train of empty
cars INTO the Conner cOlliery came
up, and the cars struck the carriage, smash
ing It to pieces. The occupants of the car
riage We're Martin Dixon, aged ffty-four
years, his wife, his son Anthony Dixon,
and the latter's wife and child aged six
months, Mrs. Cuff, sister of Mrs. Dixon.
senior, and Jennie Dixon, sister of An
tlony. Martin Dixon sprang IRON the car
i'"St ~ INC lllolllcIit tuG Tram Strtlck 1t,
and escaped with serious injuries. OF the
others, Anthony Dixon, his mother, wife
and aunt were killed outright. Jennie Dix.
on was 0irightfully injured. Every rib in
her body was broken and she also suffered
a severe conclusion of the brain.
iier death was reported at 7:3U.
The baby was found lying under
the mangled bodies of its parents, appar-
entity unhurt. The driver and Martin
DlSo' We're the only ones who escaped
death. One horse was killed and the other
died shortly after. The bodies of the killed
were horribly mangled, that of Anthony
DIXON beng cut to pieces, which were gath
ereu together and placed in a
box. The women's bodies were
mansled almost beyond recognition. The
entire party live at Lost Creek, near here.
lle spot where the accident occurred has
always been looked upon as dangerous, and
several Schuylkill County Grand Jurjes
nave pronounced it SO and
the placing of a Waterman there, but the
company has never done it. The Corouer's
AnQues' will be held to-day.
The steamship Great Eastern,
which fulfilled her great mission in law
ing the first Atlantic cable, has been
chartered to bring exhibits from En-
gland to the New Orleans exposition.
While lying at New Orleans she will ba
lifted up as Il hotel, to be anchored near
the exhibition grouuds.-N. o.. Times.
One hundred thousand dollars,
worth of frogs legs are contributed
yearly to the markets Of the LARGE ci>ins
OF the North from the tributaries of ,ho
Chesapeake Fay alone. The FROGS are
Killed with shot-guns, and the hunter,
get tor them about fifty cents a dozen.
~. Y. l3lUune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-08-29
ing, Bank of $4,000, was captured In New

IF . EaIIk OF Iio,VVVj WITS C"FtuIcU III NtN
Y DIRK on the 9Th.
THE Bear, Thetis and Alert, of the Greedy
expedition, arrived at Governors Island,
N, ", on the Sth, and were received by
Secretary Lincoln, Generals Sheridan and
Hancock, and other officials, the forts
firing a funeral salute. The bodies of the
dead would lie in state III the hospital un-
til removed by friends.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the Sth as follows: Democratic-South
Carolina, Second District, George D. Till
man; Third, d. Wyatt Aiken. North Car
DINA, Eighth District, w. H. II. Cowles.
Pennsylvania, Twenty-seventh District,
William l.. Scott. Greenba ckers-Kansas,
Fourth District, NJ. D. Tommy.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
A Bottle .4s Years Old.

From the Washington No., Observer.
Mr.. l.. Green, of Newport, called at
this office last Saturday morning and ex-
hibiteu to us a four ounce bottle, the
existence of which is clearly traced back
248 years. 1t can not properly be called
a square or round bottle, as the corners
and edges hardly approach either.
Evidently the process of blowing glass at
the time it was made was in its incipien.
cy. The bottom was doubtless intended
to be flat, but the corners and edges are
not squarely and smoothly turned, and
in the centre of the bottle a daub of mol
ten glass seems to have been cut on to
stop up the hole that was left by reason
of the edges failing to come together and
close in the bottom. The shoulders at
the top of the bottle,
too, look as if they were intended to be
blown square, but instead of this they
awkwardly doubled in toward the center.
The neck of the bottle is short and
straight, without the usual rim atthe top,
and at the bottom Of the neck it spreads
out and is apparently nodded into the
hole left at the top of the bottle where
the glass laps over from the shoulders.
Up and down the body of the bottle in a
sort of twisting shape are large but pretty
uniform ridges which appear to be on the
outside, but upon feeling the bottle they
are discovered to be but slightly indented
on the outside and must be either inside
or running through the interior of the
body of the glass.
This bottle was brought from Germany
in 1916 by John Baker (the German
name would probably be spelled Becker),
who settled in Philadelphia. When he
died the bottle fell into the hands of his
son, Fred Baker, then into the hands of
Fred's son. Karl, and then into the hands
of Karl's daughter, Rachel, who married
VIM. Ramey and settled in st. Lsuis
county in 1880. VIM Ramey was an un-
Gle of Mr.. l., Green who secured the
bottle from his uncle's wife. Mr., Green
has lived in this county sor twenty-five
years, and still holds out to certify to
what We have here written aud show us
the documents"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

the first month is in your money Ia gone,
and no more will come for two months.
In the meantime you must live, but II
you are able to sleep any desired length
of time your living need cost you nothing,
You curl yourself up in an attic, and there
you are until the next day Of payment
draws near"
The student gracefully parted his coat
tails and took his place on the hearth
rug beside the cat.
"That is all CANNON. How am j, for
instance, to go to sleep for two months
at a stretch when / can't by any possibili-
ty manage to keep my eyes closed for
two hours2"
"Do as | told you at the beginning of
u talk and you will sleep. But / don't
want you to take my word for the fact that
men have been in Information for as
much as six weeks at a time. Sir Claude
Wade, an attache OF the British govern
ment in India, witnessed the burial alive
of a mar who was taken out of his grave
after forty days and restored to consci-
l can show you his own testi-
mony."
He produced from the same cupboard
that had sheltered the bucket in which
was the drowned kitten, a copy of Serb.
ner's Monthly for December, 1880, and
pointed to a paragraph in page 250. 1t
read:
81 was present at the court Of Runjit
Singh, at Lahore, when a fakir was bur.
led alive for six weeks, and, though l
arrived a few hours after he was inferred,
| had the testimony of Runjit Singh ana
others, the most credible witnesses at his
court, to the truth of the fakir having
been buried before them; and for having
been present myself when he was disin.
TERED and restored to a state of perfect
vitality, in a position so close to him as
to render deception impossible, it is my
firm belief that there was no collision in
producing the extraordinary fact that l
have related"
"There, you see, the voluntary hiber.
nation of human beings is already an &C
complished fact, and when the civilized
world becomes as higly educated in the
mysteries as these heather Hindoos have
been for fifty years, perhaps you will be,
lieve it,"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The owner was called for, and a strap
ping fellow about 30 years of age ap-
preached. He was attired in the Turk
ish costume, consisting of a short Jacket,
blue vest embroidered and covered with
bell buttons, and red fez; his hair was
short, face dark, with bright, cleaning
eyes, and a fierce mustache. He was
above the medium size, and withal a
pleasant-looking fellow.
"Now, my son." said the Captain,
show much do you ask for the horse2"
Making a salaam the Kurd answered.
"Master, if thy servant hath found fa-
vor in thine eyes, thou shalt have the
horse for 200 sequins."
go, Father of the Faithful, herr the
thief I" shouted the old fellow with the
swivel neck.
"Two hundred sequins for the brute,
when Twill sell my beautiful bestfor 100."
"You ask too much, my son, said the
Captain.
'SThou seest, o Frangistani, that my
horse is swift as an arrow from the bow,
and that he springeth like a jackal. See
his loins ; they are in strength as the
lion."
81 see all these things, o child of the
Faithful, but yet thou asketh too much"
"Well, please God, thou wilt buy him
for $50 sequins."
''Now, may dogs de6le thy grave, thou
robberl' shouted the fellow who sported
the blue gabardine and yellow slippers.
"Wouldst thou cheat the stranger within
our gates, when for eighty sequins he
can buy my beast, the pride of Bassora,
instead of mounting the old camel, which
is fit for nothitg but lepers to ride?"
81 will count down in thy hand twenty
sequins with the Sultana of FRANCISCAN
thereon for thy horse" said the Captain.
"What hath thy servant done to thee,
o master, that thou should thus revile
him2 Say eighty, and we shall rejoice
"No: | will give the twenty"
"Fifty sequins, and he is thine"
"No."
"He is of the children of Araby; but
still thou mayest have him for forty"
Twenty, or we shall depart in peace
SIN Allaha's name, say thirty"
"No."
swell, thou shalt have him for TWEEN.
ty; but be kind to Selim, for he is q
good horse, and loves not beating"
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
Indulgence and EXcesses.

Whether overeating or drinking are
made harmless by using Hop Bitters
freely, giving elegant appetite and enjoy.
ment by using them before and removing
all d~ullness, pains and distress afterwards,
leaving the head clear, nerves steady, and
all the feelings, buoyant, elastic and more
happy than before. The pleasing effects
OF a Christian or sumptous dinner contin-
uing days afterwards.
Eminent Testimony,
N. Y. Witness, Aug. Is 1880.
81 find that in addition to the pure
spirits contained in their composition,
they rontain the extracts of hops and
other we'll known and highly approved
medicinal roots, leaves and tinctures in
quantities sufficient to render the article
what the makers claim it to be, to wit, a
medicinal preparation and not a beverage
unit and unsafe to be used except as a
medicine.
From a careful analysis of their for.
Amula-which vas attested under oath
find that in every wine.glassful of Hop
tiers, the active medicinal properties
lie from tho distilled spirits are equal
full dose for an adult, which fact in
opinion, subjects it to an interal row.
tax as a medicinal bitter"
ZEN B. RAUM, U. S. Com. In. Rev.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
hepeDeratiaii 4


hegeneratisn Tor
systems,
suffering from agen.
oral want Of tone,and
its usual concomit.
dyspepsia and
nervousness Is sci.
dom derivable from
the use OF o nour-
ishing dict and slim
nj Of appetite, un-
aided. a medicine
that will effect o re.
moval OF the specific
obstacle to renewed
health a~ndvigor that
is n genuine correc.
tive, Ia the real need,
1t isthe pc session Of
this grand require
nlont which makcs
Hsstetter' Stomach
Bitters 80 effective
! Druggists aud deal
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
Very Well Put,

Why do we defer till tomorrow what we
should do to-day? Why do we neglect q cough
till it throws us into consumption, and con-
sumption brings us to the grave? DIR. WIN.
HALLS BALSAM is sure to cure if taken in
season. 1t has never been known to fail. Use
it thoroughly according to directions. Perse-
we're till the disease is conquered, as it is GER
tain to be, even If 1t should require a dozen
bottles. There is no better medicine for pull
monary disorders. Sold everywhere
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
Hardened Liver,

Five years ago l broke do wn with kid.
ney and Liver complaint and rheumatism
Since then | have been unable to be about
at all. My liver became hard like wood;
my limbs were pulled up and filled with
water. All the best physicians agreed
that nothing could cure me. resolved to
try Hop Bitters;--I have used seven bot
ties; the Hardness has all gone from my
liver, the swelling from my limbs, and It
has worked a miracle in my case; other
wise l would have been now in my grave.
j. w. MoREY, Buffalo, Oct. /, 81.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

the misoreants actually proposed to make
the experiment a second time. 1t is a
singular fact that Lord Mountford, whose
suicide we have just related, bet Sir John
Bland that Beau Nash would outlive Col
ley Cibber, and that both the persons, the
subjects of the bet, survived the bettors,
and that Bland, as well as Mountford
died by his own act.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

It'll you are bothered nearly to
Lie death with rheumatic twinges
or the pangs of neuralgia is no reason
why you should continue to suffer. Ex-
pertinent with a good medicine. Try
Thomas Eclectric Oil. Recollect it is
GUARANTEED by every druggist. Neural.
gia and rheumatism never stood before
it.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
Poverty and Suffering.

IL was dragged down with debt, poverty and suf-
fering for years, caused by q sick family and large
bills Of doctoring. I was completely discouraged,
until one year ago 9y tne auVice on my pastor, !
we were all we'll, and none OF us have seen n sick
day since, and I want TO say to all roor men you can
keep your families we'll a year with Hop Bitters for
less than one doctors visit will cost, I know IT,"
A WnpuINuuIN
Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16

Although Pozzoni's medicated complexion
powder is perfectly harmless and non-explo.
i've, still il goes off and makes a good report.
Sold by all druggists,