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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Keen Observation.
[Erom the Arkansaw rraxel,er

FROM the Arkansaw TraVeiler.l
A man is never SO much impressed
with his wife's powers OF discernment as
when he goes home drunk and attempts
to play sober. AS rule, the man has
only taken one drink. He doesn't un-
derstand why one drink should make
him drunk, but after a while he ac-
knowledges that he did take two drinks,
but the last one was SO small that he
had forgotten it.
The other night when Mr.. Harvey
Blades, we'll ll-known Official of Arkan.
sas, went home, he had reached that
close observing stage of intoxication
when man stops and minutely exam
ines the most unimportant objects and
makes wise comments. In this state of
drunkenness man takes notice of every
househould article. Every chair de-
mands a certain amount of attention.
After sitting down with studied gravity,
Mr.. Harvey Blades noticed feather ly-
ing on the floor. He debated for awhile
whether or not it would be an illustra-
tion of sobriety to remove it, and re-
membering that he had often seen his
wife pick feathers from the carpet after
having jammed the pillows in making
the bed, he arose, took up the feather,
examined it q moment, raised a window
and threw it out. This performance
did not entirely satisfy him, for in his
mind there lurked suspicion that his
wife might fancy him to be drunk. In
looking around for another test he dis
covered the water-bucket. He knew
that to bring fresh water, beyond a
doubt, would settle the question of his
sobriety, SO he took up the bucket and
went out to the we'll. Feeling around
and not finding the s'moss- covered buck
ct, but deciding that it must bs at the
bottom of the well, he began to turn
the windlass. For fifteen minutes he
turned the crank. "Deepest well ev-
er saw" he mused, and continued to
grind. After awhile his wife came out
and said:
Harvey, what in the name of COM
mon sense are you trying to do?'
"Try'n to draw bucket water. Deep.
estwell ever saw. Grindin' for hour,
bucket not up yet"
"Why, don't you know that we had
the well cleaned out, and that the buck.
st has been taken off? Come on away.
You are as drunk as fool.''
''Keenes' observation I ever saw"
said the gentleman to himself. "Nezer
saw any thing like it."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Dog Trains in Idaho.

(Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.]
During the day of my arrival saw a
few men sweating under the labor Of
pulling two sacks Of flour on toboggan
and several dog trains. These dog trains
are amusing, if not admirable, as means
of transporting freight. They are made
up of Indian dogs, colies. mongrels,
scrubyelpers, Newfoundlands and mas.
tiffs, with now and then bulldog. The
driver goes behind and urges them on
with snowballs, now and then finding it
necessary to go forward and make a lazy
cur work up to his collar by giving him
the blight of packing rope. Poor brute!
Probably it is his only bite of any kind
for many hours. / asked one dog-team
man what he fed his dogs and he said:
sTallow and Indian NEAL"
"Are they trained2" " ia,
NO; We pick up all sorts Of dogs and
work them in very soon by putting u
good dog on the lead.
'eDo they never balk?" "a IL
ssNo; dogs is sthe--foGls in the world.
while they is the sagaciousest animals,
Why, when them dogs near about pnll
their toe-nails off comm up steep hill
they bark out their delight when I 90
up and pat them ON the head and call
them 'dood dogs Horses nor other
animals won't be fedon such tafy. Why
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
/ SENSIBLE FIRM.

The great manufacturing tobr . 10
firm of Lorillard & Co. employ three
thousand operatives in their factory at
Jersey City. On last Christmas they
presented each Of these operatives with
o weeks double wages, and now they
are at work fitting up building for
their employees, which is to contain Ii
brary Of ten thousand volumes, read
ing room to be supplied with newspa-
.pers and magazines, and room for
cards, chess, and other games. Such
acts are well calculated to promote
good understanding between the en-
iployes and employers, and it would be
well for both capital and labor il things
OF this kind We're more common.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Horse.cars in Turkey.
[cor. San Francisco Chronicle !

tCor San Francisco Chronicle,l
There are no sidewalks in Galata, and
everybody goes in the streets. AS a con-
sequence the first weeks receipts of the
horse-car company included four Ar.
niepians, three Turks, Nubian, and q
Gre elk children and dogs not counted.
Business was equally good the second
week. But the third they had the mis-
fortune to include pasha. It was n
bungling piece of business, for they did
not kill the pasha they only mangled
him. And when he got round again he
put in his whole time working for an in
junction against the road. 1t was shown
in evidence that the company did not
want the pasha or the other people killed:
they had been at considerable expense
to dispose of them, and further that it
had rung its bells, as by law required,
and was not responsible for the people
who got in the way. The pasha filed
his answer and said that he had heard
the bell; that anyone not deaf could not
well help hearing it; but that it was not
his bell and he could not be expected to
look out for every elave that rang one
In the public streets. If the slaves were
to be bell-sheep for the pashas he
thought it was time for the latter to re-
sign. It was very pretty quarrel and
occupied q good deal of government
time. But finally compromise was
reached and an arrangement adopted
which has continued in use until the
present time. The speed of the car was
not slackened nor its right Of way de-
MED. But in consideration of the crowd
ed state of the thoroughfares and the
impossibility of making the populace
turn out or mind their bells, the compa
ny was handicapped with out,uuners,
Each car was provided with q negro.
armed with club-wbip and tin born,
whose business it was to run some fif.
teen PAGES ahead on the track blowing
his horn and iu3ustriously clubbing the
pashas, donkeys, and small boys into
openings swath through which the car
could follow in his wake. They are pict-
uresque fellows, these outrunners. in
their red fezzes and green shirts that are
open nearly to the waist. They are
small respecters Of persons, and their
pace is SO tremendous that they are gone
before vengeance could reach them.
The dogs have learned the ropes, and
very few OF them now go to sleep on the
trsck, but the people never will learn.
and in the more crowded portions to-day,
whenever car passes, with the scatter
lrg and excitement and whips and horns.
1t is more like riot than anything
know of
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
RAILROAD TRAIN ulTcHED.
Ten Miles South of Decatur, Ill, by IA
Broken Rail.

Ten Miles South of Decatur, I'LL, by a
Broken Rail.
DKoAruR, ILL.,, May IA broken rail
ten miles south of this city. on the st.
Louis division Of the Wabash Railroad,
threw passenger coach and two sleep
ers into the ditch, injuring twenty peo-
Pile seriously and three fatally. 1t is
reported that Conductor Vincent, OF the
Michigan, in charge of one OF the sleep
e,s, was SO badly crushed that he cannot
live; also that Miss Emma Walker, OF
Vermont, will die. Five surgeons have
gone to the scene. The names OF the
injured have not yet been learned.
ST. Louis. May Information re-
ceived from an official source says Q
west bound train on the Wabash road
struck broken rail near Boody Station,
ILL.,, 1O4 miles from here, early this
morning, and coach and two sleepers
were overturned. Twelve or fifteen
passengers were slightly injured and q
sleeping car conductor seriously hurt.
The company Immediately sent half a
dozen physicians to the wreck and at
last accounts the wounded were being
well cared for.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
A Colorado Snow.slide.
From the Denver News.l-

One of the grandest snow-slides that
ever occurred in Colorado took place a
few days ago just back of the Upper
Twin lakes. Judge Harlan, an eye.wit.
ness, says it was the mos; sublime sight
that he ever witnessed. Just back of
the Twin lakes are Pomeroy. Gordon,
and Francis gulches, on each side OF
which the mountains rise thousands of
feet. The sides Of these giants OF the
Rockies had been covered during the
heavy and protractedi storms with an
enormous depth OF snow, until the weieht
had become such That it could be sus-
tanned no longer. The Judge says that,
it happene', he was standing where
he could see the avalanche perfectly.
All at once. he heard low rumbling
sound that seemed like the roar of a dis
tant storm, and almost simultaneously
an immense volume of snow began to
move down the mountain side in one of
the gulches toward the road. The agita-
ton seemed to break loose the snow
from it's moorings in the other two
gulches, and almost before one had
time to think hundreds OF acres OF snow
were coming down the mountain with
roar like thunder and filing the air with
spray as they tore through the trees and
carried everything before them. AS they
descended their velocity increased, until
the rapidity with which the great
field of snow and debris came down was
something terrific. The distance, he
saya, must have been a mile from where
the avalanche started to the valley where
it stopped. So deep was the snow that
a grove of quaking asp, whose trees
were from twenty to forty feet high, was
completely buried from sight. Logs
a foot and half in thickness that lay in
the way of the slide were snapped in
two like straws. Trees that were too
tall to be covered up were torn from
their rooted places in the mountain side
and carried like leaves with the ava.
lanche. The velocity of air produced
by the avalanche blew down trees that
were clear outside of the track of the
slide.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15

these dogs will stand it to be cussed for
miles and then be tickled to death at a
pat on the head. A
Il So be ratified on about the dogs. The
merchants say the dog teams spoil goods
like the mischief. They are all the time
tipping over and rolling them around.
The latest method of packing has been
developed to-day. Two fellows came
into camp with two sticks and q cross
piece, upon which were piled iour sacks
and bacon, the ends of the sticks resting
upon the shoulders OF the carriers. The
days of the toboggan are pretty much
ended. There is snow enough, but it is
not evenly enough distributed to be of
any use. The toboggan has loomed up
during this Cmur d Alene excitement
and has found its way into literature to
% remarkable extent. The men who
have been most intimate with it will cuss
the toboggan for the remainder of their
lives j ~ .sIl
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Power of an Elephants Tail.

Two young ladies were gazing at the
white elephant as it stood enthroned in
all its sacred splendor, and surrounded
by the mystic emblems of its holy char.
acter and the adoring priests who were
knesling devoutly on every side.
GLOW curious it sis," remarked one.
"that any race of people should be SO
deluded as to worship an elephant
"It is. indeed" replied the other, sad
ly. "When look upon this Worship
ing throng of ignorant, superstitious
creatures and realize how earnest and
sincere they are, cannot but feel that
there should be no rest until the mis-.
sionary message is borne to the last one
of these benighted heathen."
True" asserted the first speaker, SIT
is grand and solemn duty"
just at this juncture the animal
tiicked its tail and ruck one of the
Buddhist priests in tho mouth.
"Bowly Moses!" he exclaimed, iuter.
rupting his devotions, Eye hathen bsste
-" and then the young ladies strolled
on to the monkeys cage.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
RAILROAD WRECKlNG.
Important Decision of the Supreme Court
" 6 In u Railway Case.

Important Decision of the Supreme Court
Y rs In Railway Case.
!. WASHINGTON, May 5.-A decision was
rendered by the supreme court of the United
States to-day in the important case of the Pacific
Railway Company, of Missouri, appellant, against
the Missouri Railway Company, G. X. Garrison,
J: Gould and others, on appeal from the circuit
District of Missouri. This suit arises out of
the alleged fraudulent foreclosure IN 1876 of a
mortgage on the Pacific Railroad, OF Missouri,
and the sale Of that road under decree of
foreclosure, and its Reorganization in the
hands of Garrison. Gould and others under the
title Missouri Pacific Railway Company. The
suit therefore is virtually one brought by the
former holders Of the railroad property against
legal title to it on the ground that they were
deprived OF it by gross fraud. 1t was alleged
by appellant in the court below that default
in payment of the interest on its bonds, which
was made pretext for the foreclosure and
sale of its road, was fraudulently caused and
procured by means Of dishonest collusion
between its untaithful board of directors and
the present appellees and that therefore it is
entitled to have the decree of foreclosure and
sale set aside, and its property restored to it.
Appellees demurred in the court below upon
various grounds. which this court in
ford declares to be insufficient. This
court holds that the charges of fraud
in the bill were sufficient to warrant the recoy
cry and relief based on these charges, and
that the case set forth in the bill was one
knowing that no real defense was made in the
foreclosure suit of 1876, because of the un-
faithful conducto the solicitor and directors
of the defendant in that suit, and it was there
fore case of which the court of equity would
take cognizance. The decree of the circuit
court ls therefore reversed, and the case re-
manded with directions to oyerrule
demurrers with costs and take further
proceedings not inconsistent with the
supreme courts. The decision rendered
to-day will erable the plaintiffs 10
bring the case here upon its merits and get q
final decision upon the charges of unfaithful-
ness and fraud which it is alleged were the
means by which the road was wrecked.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
A FEMALRsLAWYER.

Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore has been ad-
mitted to practice law in one of the Phil
adelphla courts, which includes her ad.
mission to the bar generally. She was
formerly Western woman, and was a
snbol dinate teacher in one of the schools
at Madison, Wis, where she married
David Y. Killgore, the principal of tie
school, man Of some reputation
throughout the West as lecturer on
radical topics. They afterwards re-
moved 70 Philadelphia, where Mrs. XII
gore, afters long struggle, has secured
this victory, Two years ago she was
granted a diploma as I" Bachelor of
Laws" by the University of Pennsyl.
vania, and has been engaged since that
time in her struggle to be admitted to
practice. .'She is no longer young"
says the Chicago Journal, "and how.
ever susceptible jurors might be to
youth and beauty and eloqueuce in
pleading the case of On unfortunate
client, not much success can be expected
for wrinkles, gray bairs and other marks
aots vithered female age, when the !.
pear in court
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Did Not Lose Her Head.
[From the penyer Tribune 4

Last Saturday evening, as Mrs. j. @.
Alexander was walking up Welton
Street, she was ordered to halt by two
men who stepped from behind tree in
front of her. One of the men took hold
OF her in rough manner, attempting
to search her, at the same time demand
ing her money. The villain placed his
hand over her mouth to prevent an
alarm, and he proceeded to search her,
when he was suddenly interrupted by a
very painful sensation. Mrs. Alexander
bit through his middle finger, inflicting
serious wound and drawing blood in
streams, Then, with great presence OF
mind, she threw the highwayman back
and drew from her pocket purse con-
tanning 81 and handed it to the man. saw
ing: Here is all the money have.
Take it. The thief took it, and the
two men walked off without further mo.
testing the lady. Mrs. Alexander had
agold watch and about $50 in money
concealed in her bosom, which the rob.
bers failed to capture by her quick ac.
tion -
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Inside a Base Ball,
IFom the New York snnl

tFom the New York SUM-
In all the toy, games and sporting
goods stores the new supply of balls for
the game of base ball has been laid in,
and the balls, lying in pasteboard COM
partments and rolled up in tinfolI, or
having their coverings colored red or
blue, are as pretty as so many Easter
eggs. The frst.class regulation ball for
this year is no different from that in use
last year. It costs $1.50, and sells at
wholesale at the rate OF SIS dozen. It
weighs about five ounces, and when
thrown on board floor sounds like a
young paving stone. 1t is just about as
solid and as heavy as turnip of the
same size, and though it is perfectly
round and smooth, and tho stitches are
almost even with the leather, it stines
the uncalloused hand of its catcher as
il it were red bot or covered with prick
ers.
Base balls are dear because they are
made by hand, and they arc made by
because they must be wound very tight
ly, carefully, and evenly. The basis of
each one is little lump Of Para rubber,
round and weighing an ounce. Wound
round this in every direction is worsted
yarn. In some balls, after thick layer
OF yarn is wound on, the ball is dipped
in rubber, then more yarn is wound on;
then it is dipped again, and finally yet
more is wound on and then the cover is
fitted over it. Ono ball affected by
many professionals has thin skin Of
concrete midway between the cover and
the rubber. Girls make all the balls.
The process is something like that of
making certain mixed drinks, wherein
the bartender puts in lemon to make
them sour and sugar to make them
sweet. Players want what is called a
dead ball, that ia, one that won't bounce
much. A stone viii bounce more than
base ball ought to. So the rubber is
put in to make it bounce just little,
and the yarn is wound tight and con-
crete is added to stop it bouncing at all.
Thus the happy medium is reached,
Sometimes moulded vulcanized rubber
is used.
The best balls are covered with horse.
skin because it is strong and tough,
Many of these are sewed with cateuts.
but in damp weather thecatguts loosen,
and therefore at such times those balls
are used which are stitched with flax.
Professionals have agreed upon the
best form OF bali and have ruled that
it shall accord with these specifications:
The ball must weigh not less than Eve
nor more than five and one-quarter
ounces avoirdupois. It must measure
not less than nine nor more than nine
and one.quarter inches in circumference
1t must be composed of woolen yarn,
and shall not contain more than one
ounce of yulcanized rubber in mold
form, and shall be covered with leather.
Base balls can be purchased for S, 10,
20, 25 and so cents. Many of these are
machine made. They are stuffed with
odds and erds of leather, wound. up
with cord, pressed into shape and COW
cred with leather. The second time
one is hit with bat it assumes the
shape OF an egg. A little later it still
resembles an egg-one that has been hit
with bat.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
CREMATION,

Cremation is exciting considerable at
tention in Great Britain. It is not only
the subject Of an exciting debate in
Parliament. but the directors Of the
coming International Health Exhibi-
bition in London announce that they
have decided to collect and arrange in a
museum all models and illustrations of
objects relating to this method of dis
posing OF the dead. Abroad, as well as
in this country, the question of cren,a.
ton is rapidly coming to be considered
IN its sanitary rather than sentimental
aspect. And in this view its considera-
ton is especially essential in an over
crowded community like London.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
a COALITION VICTORY.
pecision of the Supreme Court
: ~ it,oA sN''.s sN' . = S.sasia nf Yirginia.

I = H 81 = r. $50
Important Decision of the supreme souf'
OF Appeals of Virginia.
RICHMOND, Va, May S.-The supIelne
court Of appeals to-day rendered decis-
ion declaring unconstitutional the law
passed by the last legislature provlding
for the election Of registers and JUDGES
of election by boards of three members
chosen by that hody for eaoh
city, town and county IN the
state, because it requi,ed The mem
bers of said boards to be freehoiders:
This decision makes the elections OF
registrars and judges by these boards to
be Illegal, and of no effect, and conse-
quently takes the whole election ma
chiuery of the state outiof the hands OF
the Democrats and replaces it wnere it
was before the passage of the law, in
the hands of the Coalitionists.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
TIE IRON INDUsTRY,

In the last five or six years the pro-
duction Of iron in all countries has ir-
creased by 5000, 600 tons. or more than
43 per cont; the production of steel has
increased 9, 1900, 600 tons, or 140per cent. ],
and the production of coal has
increased about 100, 100000 tons, or
about 81 per cent. Iron and steel are
principally consumed in the manufact-
ure Of agencies and instruments for the
use of industry and commerce, and coal
is the source Of their motive power.
The nnexampled expansion Of industrial
activity and trade is thus illustrated by
the expansion in the chief universal in
struments which they use in their varied
creation. No staple products of indus
try have felt such an expansive force as
these.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15
Deeds Of Blood.

In an ARRAY. in which whisky took prom
Ment part, at Minnicks Station, near Pittsburg,
on the 11th, James Moore shot and fatally
wounded Michael Hart.
In a fight between policemen and gang of
Eamps At Nation, III, on the 10th inst, two
OF the latter were shot. 80 -,
At smithland, Ky., on the 10th inst, in a
Eight, the result Of q quarrel between the wives
Of the principals, James Sullivan was killed by
Dick Crouch. -
In quarrel in beer garden at Cincinnati
on the 11th, Thomas McDefmott wss shot and
seriously wounded by a Ispecial policeman
Jas. 8. Coleman (colored), was hanged at
Columbia, s. G., for murder on the 9th inst.
An EHglshman, named Thomas Leonard.
WAS murdered for his money at Nebraska CITY.
Neb, on the night Of the Sth. His body was
shockingly mutilsted. "A'
A Mt Starring, Ky.. dispatch Of the 9th, an
nounoes the killing Of the penitentiary guard
by one OF gang Of eight prisoners, and the
escape OF shree of the prisoners
Fred. Hogan, wire pullsr in Oliver's Mil.
at Pittsburg, became incensed at his Hungarian
assistant, named Rice, on the 9Th, and Struck
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-15

"Prof.' A man who can turn a somer-
sanlt successfully three times out Of five
advertises himself as an acrobatic s.Prof."
The barber who can cut off one hair
while he pulls out two is tonsorial
|ssProf. - and there are culinary and
prestidigatory "Profs.," chiropodal
ssProfs. "-"Prof. anything you want,
till the man who has rightly obtained
and really merits the title feels cheap
when he is addressed rs Professor"
and yearns for plain Mister.