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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
A Horse for a Stake.

In a party of poker-players here, q
night OF two ago, the conversation
turned upon high stakes at gambling
and then upon the queer character Of
bets made in the presence of the speak
ers at times in the past.
"Mustang joe" said one, 81 knew in
Texas. He made his living by outching
and selling mustangs, and he was a
gambler from way back, too. Played
to win or lose. and when short cards.
were concerned generally won. He
rode a brautiful horse he called DAM
Hal him capariSoned as gorgeously as
q lady at the Vanderbilt ball, with gold
and silver trappings, and had him
trained better than any circus horse |
ever saw. Joe had refused s., 900 for
him, saddle and bride. One night |
was watching a faro game in San Anto-
MO. The chips We're five. dollars, and
there was no limit. Joe had Just come
in from Mexico with nearly S1l, 600 in
cash, and he was playing. The ace and
queen seemed to be his favorite cards,
and $500 went on every bet he made.
He finally got broke. Go on with the
deal-Ill be back in a minute he said
to the dealer. Jack Bryant, and went
out. The next deal had Just commenced
when Joe returned, and after him, un-
led and harnessed in all his bravery,
stepped the horse Dan.
"'Any aces out?" asked Joe, coolly.
while the crowd looked with amazement
at the horse. who was gazing with al
most supernatural intelligence at the
faro layout.
One answered Bryant, l%aconic-
ally.
Jack, will you give me $4,000 for
Dan" asked Joe.
"'Yes.'
"'He goes for s $4,000. then. DAM
The horse reared himself at a sign from
Joe. and one of his fore hoofs the gam
bier placed on the layout, on the ace.
Every one watched in breathless silence.
The card won. GO home, Dam said
Joe. and the horse trotted out of the
room and to his stable. Joe sat down,
played all night, and drew out of the
game $1,000 ahead"
''Nhat became of Joe?" asked one of
the listeners.
He was killed by the Mcxicans near
Chihuahua while trying with two COM
panions to raid a hacienda and steal its
horses. He and Dan were shot toeeth-
or. You'll find few old border Texans
who don't remember him.n-Ourav
Cor. Deurcr Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
THE o OF 1883.
Annual Report of the Statistician of the
Agricultural Department Giving Crop
Estimates for the Year.

Annual Report of the Statistician of the
Agricultural Department Giving Crop
Estimates for the Year.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. -Prof. J. r.
Dodge, Statistician of the Agricultural De-
partment. has just competed his prelimi-
nary estimates of the principal crops for
1883. OF corn, the Professor says the average
yield per acre for the present year is nearly
twenty-tliree bushels-more exactly, by pre-
llminary estimates, 22.7, which is 10 per
cent. less than the average yield for a Sc
ries of years, or l ,55l, 066, S35 bushels. This
stands for the quantity of the present
crop; the quality is another consideration.
IT the soft corn is cribbed in masses and
after a few weeks mild and moist weather
is badly injured, or even spoiled, it does not
change the fact that the corn was grown
and harvested. 1t is doubtless true that the
quality of the corn north of parallel forty
Is worse than for many years, increasing
practically the amount OF shortage indicated
by the number of bushels. AS the whole
corn grown in 1883 i'll Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Dakota, added to half that
grown in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska, would make 400, 600, 600
bushels only-a fourth of the whole crop
SO that the possible depreciation of forty per
cent. in all Of it would be equivalent to a
ten per cent reduction in the value of the
entire crop. Our Illinois agents make the
quality thirty-one per CEN. less than the
average in that State. An effort will be
made later, after the worst Of the crop has
been fed, to test the feeding value of the
years product. One feature of corn
growing in 1888 should prove a lesson to the
farmers Of the country; that is, the general
use of seed-corn in the West, grown in
lower ATTITUDES. The planting of Nebraska
seed in Minnesota, and of Kansas
seed in Illinois has demonstrated
the folly of attempting to acclimatize the
Southern maize in the more Northern dis
tricts. Much loss from frost would have
been avoided had the seed been carefully
selected from the best corn grown in the inn
mediate neighborhood.
The wheat crop is, as before stated,
slightly in excess Of 400, 900, 900 bushels.
The cotton product, as shown by the De-
cember returns, is about 5000, 600 bales.
There will be another investigation after the
close of the cotton harvest and the shipment
OF a large portion of the crop, when precise
results will be approached more nearly than
has been possible hitherto.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
FOREIEN.

FIFTEEN deaths fB2m yellow fever oc.
Cured at Havana, Cuba, during the week
ended on the odd.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS writes from Rome
to Vicar General McColgan at Baltimore
that the American Bishops will not discuss
the Irish question, and that Pope Leo will
send no message to American Catholics
regarding Irish agitation.
SURVIVORS report that on the stean:es
st. Augustine, which was burned recently
in the Bay of Biscay, terrible scenes were
witnessed. Sailors stabbed and drowned
themselves in franzy, and the second mate
shot himself. One of the Captains legs
was cut off by eccident, when at his re-
quest a weight was tied to his body and hc
was cast into the sea. Several survivors
had been landed at Dover and Newcastle.
BY an accident to a passenger-train re-
Gently between Paris and Avricourt, in
France, many persons were killed and ir.
jured.
In a rece..t lecture at Paris, De Lesseps
stated that the Suez Canal would remain
under Fret-sh control so long as he or his
sons live.
THE steamer Severn exploded her boiler
a few days ago at Cartnasena, killing sew
Ell men sad doing considerable damage.
NINE. VANDERLINDEN was arrested o II
the Oath at Loyden, Holland, for murder
ing sixteen persons, five being her w
childrel:, to recover insurance policies on
their lives. She confessed her guilt.
The Russian General Kantakuzin has
been appointed Minis5er of War of Bull
garia.
NJ. BERT wrote to the Paris papers on
the Goth that there we're grounds to fear
an outbreak of disease rom the use OF
American pork, quoting statements from
the Inspector at Chicago, who maintained
that dying and diseased hogs were packed
and sent to France.
LONDON advices OF the Goth state that the
Haytien rebellion had practically ended.
The insurgents at Jeremie Miragoane had
surrendered, and both towns were occu.
pied by Government troops.
AN earthquake slcok Zebec, Bohemia, SO
violently on the 9th that the people fed to
the open country.
COLONEL H. II. RATHBoNE, who married
the daughter of ex-senator Ira Harris, OF
Albany, N. V, killed his wife and himself
Ill hanover, germany, a lew days ago,
while temporarily insane.
A DISPATCH Of the 9th states that in the
recent assault upon the Orange procession
at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, four men
were killed, eight were mortally and
twenty were seriously wounded. One
thousand citizens of the neighboring town
of Carbonear were parading the streets
and preparing to march to Harbor Grace.
THE Trades Congress at Toronto, Ont,
OH the 9th voted unanimously against tho
Importation Of Chinese labor.
KHARToUM was on the 9th garrisonel
by four thousand Egyptian troops.
A LADY residing in Smyrna writes to the
Boston Journal that the recent earthquake
left the city uninjured, and that the loss Of
life was less than three hundred, although
fifteen Thousand people in the country lost
their homes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
PERSONAL AND PoL1T1cAL.

Fort COLUMBUS, in New York harbor,
fired a National salute and the bell in In.
dependence Hall, Philadelphia, was rung
ahundred times On the oath to commemorate
W~ashington's surrender of his commission
as Commander-in-Chie of the army.
MRS. R~osECPANS, wife Of General Rose
Grams, died at Washington ont he 25th aft
er a lingering illness of several months.
LoRILLARD & Co. distributed among
their 5000 factory hands at Jersey City on
the oath $1,000.
In the New York Superior Court the 9TH
Ell day Judge Truax refused a Chinaman.
who had obtained his first papers, natural
ization documents, citing the provisions of
the anti-Chinese act.
Mrs. O'DoNNELL,w wife of Carey's murder.
er, reached New York on the oath from En-
gland. She felt elated because of a dream
during tile voyage that her husband had
been respited, but her hopes were dashed
upon learning the truth.
A LARGE Number of colored people met in
State Convention at Columbus, O., on the
10Th, for the purpose of organizing for the
protection of all rights belonging to them
as citizens.
JOHN H. DIEHL, ex-Collector of Customs
at Philadelphia, was suffocated by Goa!
gas at Delanco, N. j., the other night.
The Standard Fire Office, of London, has
withdrawn its agency in this country.
General Grant was one of the trustees.
H saloon-keepers Of Atchison, Kan.
on the Goth yielded TO the Prollibitory law
and closed their doors.
GENERAL MACKENZIE was on the goth
temporarily relieved of the command of
the Department of Texas, after Excessive
nervous prostration, and his friends were
preparing to take him to the Military In
sane Asylum.
A STATUE of Harriet Martineau was on
the 10Th unveiled in the Old South Meeting.
mouse at Boston, to commemorate her serv.
ices to the cause Of emancipation. Mrs,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
ACCIDENT TO GENERAL GRANT.

The Ex-President Has a Severe Fall on
the Icy Pavement In Front of His Resi-
dence-No Bones Fractured, but His
I Left Limb Temporarily Paralyzed, Caus-
ing Him Much Suffering.
New YORK, Dec. 2S.-General Grant
lives at No. 8 East SiXty-siNth street, in a
handsome brown-stone house. On Monday
evening last, between ten and eleven O'Clock,
he sent for his coupe, intending to make a
call in Madison avenue. 1t was a cold
night, and the sidewalks were covered with
a coating of ice. 1t has always been the
custom of General Grant to make presents
of money to his servants OH Christmas, and
this seemed to him to be a good time to
tip the coachman. He stepped to the
box, handed the man a bill, and
then turned to enter the cab. His
feet slipped from under him, and he
fell with very great violence on his left
side. Before the servants could reach him
he rose, but his left leg gave way under
him and lie sank to the sidewalk i'll a faint
ing condition. His colored valet and coach
man carried him up the 'front.' stoop slowly
and carefully, as lie seemed to be suffering
great agony. They placed him in the ele-
vator and carried him to his room. The
cab hurried away for the physician of the
family. He found the General suffering
great pain and having no power over his
left leg, which scemedto be quite paralyZed.
There was a large blue mark on the outside,
just below the hip, and another mark a lit
tie further down. The ley was bent and
had to be supported N pillows. 1t was
rubbed with liniment, and everything was
done to ease the suffering, but the pain was
so great that he could not sleep. The great
pain continued all Tuesday and Wednesday,
and the General got no sleep until Wednes-
day night. 1t was believed at first that
the femur was fractured, and it is not
certain yet that it is not. The pain in the
limb is SO great that thus far it has been
impossible to make a thorough examination
for a fracture. The General preserves his
usual good health, takes his meals regular
ly, and is as cheerful as his pain will per-
init. Surgeon l.. II. Simpson examined
the limb yesterday, but gave no definite de-
cision as to the extent of the injury. He
will finish his examination to-day. General
Grant himself does not believe the bone is
broken. He was much better yesterday,
the pain had lessened and he had re-
gained some control over the muscles
of his left foot. DR.. Barker said yesterday
that he did not believe there is a fracture,
but that the sciatic nerve and the muscles
are badly bruised. 1t is not thought likely
house for two weeks. Many inquiries are
friends are constantly at his bedside. His
fall was heavy, for he weighs more than two
hundred pounds. He is nearly siXty-two
years old. At midnight he wa resting
comfortably, and his condition was said to
I've much hattpr
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
later. NEWS

the United States and Can.
d the business failures during the seven
days ended on the cSth numbered 2s4.
against 313 the previous week. The distri.
tribution was as follows: New England
States, 81: Middle, 81; Western, 101; South.
era, 63: Pacific States and Territories. 21:
Canada and the Provinces, "a.
Two NEGROES, accused of shooting white
men, were taken from Jail OH the 2Sth at
Brooksville, Fla, and shot dead.
IT was stated on the 2sth that the surplus
in the United States Treasury ut Washing
ton at the end of the present month would
be $142, 900 900. This amount is about
$4,000, 900 more than the forty per cent.
which it is considered ought to be kept as
a reserve fund.
A s~TAGE-DRlvER who crossed the noun
tains on foot and arrived in Denver on the
18th reported that twenty-seven men had
been killed by snow.slides.
REV. MIR. freddy, of Shreve, O., while
standing at a window recently, stopped to
pick up his little daughter, and missed a
bullet fired at him by some miscreant.
IT was discovered on the 2Sth that Sam,1.
ell C.'Blodgett who was lately dismissed
from a savings bank treasurership at Prov
ldence, Il. l.. embazzled no less than $27..
900.
A. A. HUMPHREYS, who was
retired i'll 1879, died suddenly in Washing
ton on the aSth. He was Major General of
volunteers, and afterward became a Briga-
dier III the regular army, serving as Chief
Engineer for twelve years.
EX-PoUNDMAsTER MCCAIN, of New
York, and a woman named Jennie Smith,
were found frozen to death near the Erie
Hallway shops in Jersey City on the 2Sth.
Both had been intoxicated.
E thousand men, women and children
gathered at Nevada, No., on the 2Sth to
witness the public execution of William
Fox for the murder of Thomas Howard,
HE WOODEN mills of A. G. Van Egmond,
al oeaforth, Ont, and of Henry g. Co., at
West Chelmsford, Mass, were DESTROYED
by fire on the 2Sth.
The defense in the Emma Bond case at
Hillsboro, ILL.,, rested on the 2sth, and sui.
sequently moved for continuance, which
was denied. Several witnesses testified
in rebuttal, among them being Miss Bond,
who was seized with a fainting fit, and
had to be removed. On recovering she re-
marked that her condition was caused by
the presence of John Montgomery.
A FARMER named Kimball, living near
Cape Girardeau, Mo-, after losing some
valuable stock, organized a party and
started in pursuit of the thieves. James
and Andrew Davis were overtaken on the
2S5h and killed, and IN accomplice was ia.
tally wounded. Two of the pursuers were
also fatally wounded by shots from the
robbers
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18

Livermore presided at the ceremonies, anti
Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Gar
rison delivered addresses.
GENERAL GRANT, on leaving his house in
New York a few evenings ago fell on the
ice on his left side, iniuring his leg so seri'
ously that it would be paralyzed for e
time.
GENERAL SHERIDAN was or the 9th in
formed that the missing Charlie McComas
was probably with a band of Chiricahun
Indians who were daily expected to arriv'
at the San Carlos Agency.
JOHN N. IRWIN, Governor of Idaho, de.
clines to receive his salary sehce July l, as
he has been unable to attesa to his duties.
Rev. L. w. WARREN, Methodist Bishop
of Georgia, was married 6 few days ago to
the widow of Tiff, this Colorado cattle
king, with two children s:,d 10000
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Nuptial Customs Abroad.

In Bavaria the peasant girl tells he,
love. and after the engagement danca
her mother relieves her of all hons
work and sets about fattening her I'm u
for the wedding-day. Though relieved 4
of domestic cares, she is by no means a
idle, and finds the days and long nieh,s n
too short for finishing her SEWN.
which includes dresses and under.
clothes, sheets, pillow-slips, quilts, !
mats. tides, table-linen and stockings i
enough to last her for a dozen years, 4
ANY fantastic goods will make her
toilet, but be the color or fabric what II
will q veil is Indispensable, with a !
wreath of orange blossoms and a little ]
satin pillow on which the wedding rino B
is carried. The cushion is usually abouse
eight inches square and radiantly dee.
grated with embroidery or bead-work.
in which all the village maidens have a
finger, if but to do a single stitch. Thu
Russian bride wears a trousseau of blue. h
with a short, full veil fastened on the
hair with a wreath of silver leaves.
which may be made of solid silver or
tine wire, but where this ~cxtravagance
is beyond the means of the bride, silver
paper or tin-foil is substituted, unless \ /
coronet IS plated with silver ribbon. In q
the ceremony two rings are used, the l
bride decorating her husband after ac-
cepting his ring. 4
An Australian groom has to face the {
village maidens, who force him to rup y
a shower of spear-shaped arrows. IN \
farther India the couple are married I
while seated on a circular mating \
placed in the sun. All the girls in the 4
| place constitute the bridesmaids. Each I
carries a staff bound with blue and lin
ishcd at the end with q bunch of fiery
red feathers. They dance round the
happy couple who are not permitted TO-
rise till the girls have exhausted their
vocal selections and are too tired to vary
their graceful motions. An Egyptian
bride wears a gorgeous robe of blood
red satin, embroidered with roses, birds
Of gay plumage, and graceful little
: cupids, thrown out into broad relief by
outlines of silver thread d gold lace.
The veil is carelcssly draped over the
left shoulder, so as to partially obscure
and fastened on with q diadem Of gilt
tering gems. In Natal the bride wears
a dress of feathers, with metallic flowers
IN her mar. she kneclS on a brass wire i
mat, with q shield in one hand and a
knife in the other. Her attendants, who
are selected because of strong lung
power, dance round her in circles,
stamping. jumping, kicking any impe-
diment that comes in their way, and /
making the air resound with their hide
Gus screams. In some of the Barhary
states the bride is contided to the care
of her mother-in-law for forty-eight
hours, in which time her hands are
painted with ugly figures and compli-s
Gated designs symbolic Of the obstacles, I
difficulties and miseries that will Ger
tainly cross her path.-Chicogo News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
A Modest Claim.

WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. 2s.-Thc fam
lily of Edwards, one of the wealthiest and
most prominent in Mason County, are MAX
ing desperate efforts to establish their claim
to the Trinity Church property. including
eight or nine acres in the heart of New
York City, and also several thousand acres
on the Hudson River. The family held a
reunion at Clifton Wednesday, at Which
time an attorney was employed and sent to
New York to take the preliminary steps in
the interest of the heirs. The property is
valued at S64. GOO. 600.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
A young man who occupied one {

"A young man who occupied one Of
the boxes in a Bradford (Pa.) theatel
n night recently threw . shining sill
YER dollar upon the stage. A pert young
woman, a comic singer, stopped to pick
1t up: Like the Yankees flea, it was
not there. 1t was a coin with a hole in
1t. Through the hole was fastened a
cord, the end of which was held bv the
young mar in the box. He started to
haul in the "cart-wheel." AS it hung
ternptlngly over the stage box II festive
youth seized it and put it away FOR beer
and cisars.-PiNsburgh Posi-.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18

-Prospective brides may be interested
TO learn that there are thirty-two days
IN the year on which it is unluckv to
marry. according to the authority of a
manuscript II dated in the fifteenth century.
These days are January l, 2, 4, 5, Z, 10,
10; February 6, Z. IS; March i, G., S:
April 9, II: May 5. 6, Z; June 7, ID;
july ), 10: August Is, 10; September
e, I; October s.; November Is, l6, and
December 10, is, II. Consequently
January is the worst month and Octo.
Der the best month in the year for mar
riasp.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Died from Too Much Dancing.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec. 2S.-Adalene
kolkawoski, aged twenty-onc, died here
from excessive dancing. The deceased
came from Poland with her sister, a mar
ried woman, whose husband lives in Chi
cago. They went to a Bohemian hotel,
where a ball was given Christmas night, and
both women took part in the dancing for
several hours. Suddenly Adalene was
seized with conyulsions. Two physicians
were telephoned for, but they failed to re-
Epond, and in a few hours the woman died,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18

The State ~Penitentiary at Auburn,
n. Y, is being fitted with an cleo
trlc apparatus similar to that en-
ployed in hotels. whereby if 4 convict
attempts to scale the wall the bell on
the annunciator sounds the alarm aud
at the same time the machine gives the
number of the station.-Kochsstcr Eu-
press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18

-"Cncle Remus" states in the Crit.
&c that the banjo is the musical instru-
ment OF the stage negro but not of the
plantation negro. He adds that lie never
saw a pair OF bones in the hands Of an
Old-:ime slave.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
EPlTOME OF the WEEK
Interesting News Compilation.
CONGRESSIONAL

liz the Senate on the 9th, in executive
session, Royal NJ. johnson was confirmed as
Sdrveyor-General Of Arizona. Adjourned to
January 7....In the House the Speaker pre-
serted q message from the President trans
hitting the report of the Secretary of State
and the papers relating to the trial, conviction
and execution of the late Patrick 0iDonnell.
Laid on the table for future action. Speaker
Carlisle announced the standing committees.
Adjourned to January I.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
Sonora. old as that State is, has

Sonora, old as that State is, has
not more than 125, 600 inhabitants. and
$4,000 of these are pure Indians. There
States in the State, mostly spectators.
Fabulous sums are said to have been
taken out of her mines, and now and
then a vase filled with gold nuggets left
by the Spaniards.- Chicago Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18
-Mrc Annie Cutl;, =

Mrs. Annie Cutlip, who lives about
seventeen miles from Addison, Webster
County, w. Va, during her lifetime
has Killed twelve bears. twenty-seyen
deers and fourteen wild turkeys. What
woman hunter can beat this?-M Chicago
Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-18


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