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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29
HOME HAPPENINGS.

A wedding is said to be on the
tapis at Okobojo.
The porker groweth obese and
slaying time is near-with some al.
ready here.
-Cassius NJ. Reed, Esq, of 1877,
Ch IN. of the Co Rep. Cen. Com, was
in town, Tuesday, on final proof bust
ness.
1t was "squaw winter the first of
the week. 1t is usually followed by
Indian summer, and we should like a
little in ours
Phillip Freschl, one of Plerre's
pioneers and prominent business men,
died of pneumonia last week He set
tied in Pierre i'm 1880.
There seems TO have been quite a
decline in Republican poultry the past
few days. Guess they were hardly fat
enough for the thanksgiving market
Jonathan Owen, of ll4.79, lost a
horse, Monday, valued at 5000. 1t
was thought to have inflammation of the
bowels. 1t is serious loss to Mr..
Owen
Archie Potter, George Ross and
Willie Walter are in the muskrat bust
ness quite extensively. They proba-
bly, have a contract with the Hudson
Bay Fur Go.
The weather is getting about cool
enough for rise in coal The dealers
usually regulate the price by the ther-
mometer, AS mercury goes down the
price of coal goes up.
&C. Ii. Whitman and w. r. Bur
ton, who started out last week with
the expectation of visiting the Black
Hills, returned, Monday. They could
not get across the big muddy" with
their outfits.
Leap year is fleeting fast away.
Girls, there are a good many nice
young fellows hereabout who are plen-
ty ripe for the harvest and should be
picked before they spoil on the vine.
Take them in out of the cold and chilly
blasts.
The WATcuMAN will he on file at
the Worlds Exposition at New Or
leans during the winter Quite mum
Der Of our readers will be i'm attend
ance at the Exposition, and will find
its perusal pleasure, reminding them
of "home, sweet sweet home
A couple of gentlemen came in
from the East the first of the week
looking for some Dakota soil and were
greatly disappointed to find that Uncle
Sam had disposed of all of it i'm this
vicinity as they were greatly pleased
with our beautiful country Relin-
quishments and decided claims can be
bought very low at the present time,
however, and now is a good opportu-
nifty 10 secure them.
We see by the last issue of the
Okobojo Times that f. |. Frankhau-
ser, senior of that paper since it was
established. has severed his connection
Herewith and gone back to Michigan.
Mr.. Frankhauser is a genial young fel-
low and ready pencil-pusher and we
regret to lose him from the fraternity.
We shall look for him TO be slipping
back this way in the spring, bringing
with him 'pard who wears dlmity
and other such goods. He leaves the
paper in good hands, s. A. Travis, the
"old reliable, being ut its helm
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29

-WANTED.-Calves and young stock,
for which ] will pay the cash, Inquire
at my feed and sale stable i'm the rear
of the Clifton House.
Thomas PHILLIPS, Clifton, ID. 7.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29
Exit November tomorrow.

M. j. McCann, Probate Judge
elect, is visiting Huron.
The boys indulged in little shoot
ing match Thanksgiving evening.
Have you settled up your election
bets and how much are you out
The feet-footed jack rabbit is be-
ginning to attract the attention OF
sportsmen.
Rockwell Brown, of the Fairbank
Pilgrim, visited Clifton, Tuesday, and
made us pleasant call
A lively little daughter was added
to the household of p NJ. Liddy, Esq,
of Fairbank, last week.
M. NJ. Kenny, about two miles
from town, shot large wolf by moon
light, Thursday night.
Rev. q. Il. Black conducted
Thanksgiving services at the school
house Thursday morning.
ID. A. w. Perkins, Esq, Of Hyde
county, was in town on business cou-
Pile of days the first of the week
The boys took little exercise
with the ball and bat, Wednesday eve
Guess the season will last all winter.
Walter n. Meloon and wife enter
tanned some of their friends at their
home i'm the suburbs, Thanksgiving
The pupils of the Clifton school
participated in appropriate Thanks
giving exercises, Wednesday after
noon.
The Okobojo mill will commence
buying wheat about Dec. lst, but will
not be in operation for some weeks to
come
A new mail route has been open
ed from Okobojo, where it connects
Wi h the Pierre and Lebeau line, to
Fairbank.
DC Featherstone proved up on
fine claim few miles north of town,
Tuesday, and has gone back to Mime
sofa until spring.
Elder +. III. Kenny, of Iowa, who
has been visiting his son, Marcus NJ,
two miles east of town, departed for
the East last week
&c. NJ. Houtz has bought his part
ner's interest in that spicy paper, the
Potter County Union, and will hence
forth go it alone.
1t seems to be unusually healthy
hercabout just now, even for this al
ways healthy country. distressing
ly' so, Doc Vesey probably thinks.
Both Pres. Arthur and Gov.
Pierce forgot to send us turkey with
their Thanksgiving proclamation.
We are afraid they are getting little
careless.
p NJ. Liddy, of Fairbank, has
been appointed General Agent for the
Farm Department of the old Phenix
Insurance Co, of Brooklyn, n. Y, for
Snlly and Potter counties.
The Recorder announces that Ma
poleon Welcome, of Fort Pierre, was
convicted before the L. s. Court at
Y Yankton, last week, of assault with q
deadly weapon upon woman.
A pretty little girl baby
came to bless and cheer the home of
Mr. and Mrs S. NJ. Keith, of 1873,
on Monday last DIR. Vesey, of Cliff
ton, was in attendance.
M j. McCann, Esq, Probate Judge
elect, of Sully county, took the oath Of
office on Wednesday last. HIS bond
has been accepted and he proposes to
enter INTO the discharge of his duties
an Monday, next. See card elsewhere.
The Presbyterian church at Blunt
will be dedicated on Sunday, Dec 7,
1884, at 1890, A. NJ Following this
will be Communion Service at 2, p. m.
All Presbyterians living within reach
of Blunt are invited and urged to be
A cordial invitation is ex-
tended To members of sister denomi-
nations and TO the public generally.
A Gard to the Public.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29
LEWISTON LACoNIcs.

Plenty of snow first of the week.
A wedding, soon, in this neighbor-
hood
Some of our farmers are gettine up
their winters wood.
A few deer were seen last week
afar off.
One of the school houses is reported
as burned Sunday night.
+. W. Pearson talks of putting in
stock of groceries and provisions Mr.
Pearson is an enterprising man apd
We think it would pay.
Puck.
Buy your lumber of Laird Norton
Co, Blunt. l3tf
DIR. Vesey warrants all operations
in Dentistry to give satisfaction. Come
and get his prices before going else
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29

REFERENCES.-E. +. Bution Clerk Supreme
Court nj !; n Ellwood, Member of Congress. ssca-
,nofe, Ill. Sycamore Natl Bank, sycamore. ILL.,.
t,amph.ll. Lancaster 4 GO, Commission Merchants,
Kansas City Ma; B.adle Go. Natl Rank, Huron,
nak: r. T.. Stevens, Treasurer Beadle County, HUI
ron Dakota ely
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29
Groceries, QueensWaIe, CrockeTy.

Buying all goods strictly for Cash and in larger quantities other
house our ne enables us to offer cash bargains unpproacha
goods marked in plain figures One for ALL NH
times goods not satisfactory Orders promptly parts Of
the country
HAYDEN BROS.
Pierre d. T. & Chicago.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-29

Also Large Stock Of Crockery and Glass are at less
than Wholesale Figures.
STA Es CASH GROCERY.
r.. .. JONES, Proprietor.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11
LETTER FROM RICHMOND.

Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria GAzErrEl
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 1.-THE evidence
brought out at various times has shown
that if there is any thing rotten i'll the State
it is the management of the different lunatlc
asylums, and yet there are some democrats
who are slow in moving to rid the State OF
this great disgrace. The matter rises far
above politics. Humanity itself demands
aggressive and bold action on the part OF
the Legislature. Because men and women
in these asylums are mindless, is no reason
that they are not human. They can suler
from Incompetent treatment and abuse al
though their intelligence may be so inartlc-
ulate that their means of distress Will not
reach the outside world. Mr.. Opie is the
champion of reform in this particular, and
deserves great praise for his answering
and fearless manner in probing these out
RACES but he must have assistance. One
man cannot do every thing. Justice, honor,
charity demand the rescue of these asy-
lums from the partisan hand which has mis-
| used them.
The Legislatures still overhurdened with
work The night sessions are aiding in
clearing off the calendar, but even with this
advantage many important measures are
yet untouched.
The appointment of William Fl. Lester,
colored, to the position of Janitor of the
Capitol is good one. Lester was formerly
in the office Of the Collector Of Internal
Revenue, and was turned out because Of bis
| bitter and uurelenting opposition to Ma
hone Brides and fair promises from the
emissaries Of the Boss could not Shut his
mouth nor force him from work 50 pleasant
to him and unpleasant to Malone. His APP
pointment to his new place was through the
| influence of General Wick ham.
| A minority report will be presented i'll
the case Of Judge Newman, of Hanover
The people OF that county are very much
| opposed to him. STRoNGBoW.
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up. The bill also takes from the Governor
the power of appointing the visitors and
officers.
The coaltionists commenced to flibaster,
and by this means delayed action for some
time: but the Senate amendments were
finally concurred in, and the bill now awaits
the Governors action to become 4 law.
Mr.. Dunlop, of Richmond, introduced the
congressional reapportionment bill adopted
at the democratic caucus.
bill to provide for the preservation OF
oysters and to obtain revenue for the prl-
vilege of taking them in the waters OF the
State was introduced.
Duff Green, Mahoneite. Of stafford came
very near being arraigned before the House
for offensive language used to Mr.. Cardwell,
of Hanover He subsequently apoiogized.
and explained his language and purged
| himself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11

THE REPUBLICAN party is professedly the
great protective party, the party that profes.
ses to be solicitous for the protection of all the
industrial interests of the country. And yet
to such condition has protection reduced
one of those pbuilding-that
when the Government is in need Of ships,
as it is now, to 60 to the reliefof a lost arctic
expedition, it has to buy them in Europe
The republican party is the monumental
humbug Of the age. 1t processes to support
protective tariff upon the ground that it
enhances the price of labor, though under
such a tariff wages in protected industries
are as low as they ever were, if not lower.
1t processes high regard for the binding
obligations ofpecuniary contracts, but it sup
ports party in Virginia that 'eiminated'
one third of the State debt. Il processes 10
believe in the equality of the negro, but
ouly attempts to enforce that equality in
the South 1t processes desire for civil
service reform, but scouts and fiouts the bill
intended to secure that reform. Like the
veri~st hypoctite that it is, it is sincere III
none of its professions, and only makes
them as means to retain its corruptly used
power by deceiving the credulous people
of the country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11

MEDICINE IL by no means an exact SCI
encc, nor is it probable it will ever be
certainly not during the life of this genera.
ton But for all that, it, like grace, i'm
proves day by day, and its practical advan-
tages are becoming more and more appa'
rent. AL illustration Of lis benefits to hui
Inanity is afforded by the French
Academy of Medicine, which has just de.
cidetl that American meats imported into
France are not prejudicial to the health of
the people Of that country. American meats
can be sold cheaper in France than the
meats Of that country. But MS heavy duties
are imposed upon French products import
ed into this country, France, in a spirit OF
retaliation, and to protect its own meat
producers, excludes American meats upon
the pretense that they are unwholesome.
This pretense the French Academy of Medi-
cine has just exposed, so that if the exclu-
sion Of American meats from France be
continued, it can be done no longer for a
spurious reason.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette
WASHINGTON. d. c., Feb. IL, 1854

WASHINGTON, j. g., Feb. ii, 1854
Tn the Senate to-day Mr.. Riddleberger's
resolution Of enquiry into the removal OF
certain employees came up, when
Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, moved an amendment
that the Joint committee investigate, also,
all removals and appointments in Virginia
for the past three years. Riddleberger
could make no objection. whereupon Mr..
Ingalls, moved that the whole matter be re-
lcrred to the Civil Service Reform Com
mittee. Conger talked till o'clock, and
then the whole matter went over until to-
morrow.
The House Committee on Appropriations
at meeting this morning agreed to report
bill for the immediate appropriation OF
$500, 400 for the sufferers by the floods along
the Ohio river and its tributaries. The bill
will be reported to the House to-day.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
will be addressed next Saturday ut twelve
o'clock by Hon. VIM NJ. Evarts. upon the
subject Of the Texas Pacific land grant.
The Lowell Bankruptcy bill, as amended
by the Senate, was considered to-day by a
sub committee of the House Committee on
the Judiciary Representative Moulton,
chairman Of the subcommittee, is opposed to
any bill, and Mr.. Collins strongly favors
oue 1t is believed that majority OF the sub
committee vii. favor the passage of the Sen
ate bill with some amendments, and will re-
port the same to the full committee next
week. The bill, however, has not been sui
ticienty considered, for the members of the
subcommittee to speak definitely of the
amendments that may be proposed.
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TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

IO-DA4 Us IEtIfiEaGhll; NEWS.
Ship building on the Clyde is reported
improving.
Advices from Rome deny that any cool.
ness has arisen between the Vatican and
Russia. :.
Mount Etna is in state of eruption.
Strng earthquake shocks were felt before
this began.
The Cepington Waste Works, at Dundee,
Scotland, were burned this morning. Four
firemen lost their lives.
Mrs General Trevino, daughter of the
late General Ord, died at the residence of
her mother, at Fortress Monroe, last night.
The survivors of the steamer Noting
Hill, which was lost al sea on the 9TH in
slant by collision with an iceberg, have ar
rived in New York.
Jerry St. Arnold, telegraph operator,
shot Bridget Eagan ia Milwaukee last
night for refusing to marry him. He after
wards shot himself. Both are dead.
Rev. DR.. B. w. Stone, chaplain of the
celebrated light Harris cavalry during the
war, and pastor OF St. Barnabas, Episcopal,
Church in Reading, Pa, died there to-day,
aged 20 years.
The nail plate mill of the Pottstown Iron
Company at Pottstown, Pa, and seven
furnaces in the pudding department started
up this morning. The mill shut down Dec.
5th, and has been lying idle since.
Mr.. Michael Davit, speaking at Glasgow,
yesterday, denied the assertion of the Unit
ed Ireland that Irishmen would rejoice at
the death Of Gen. Gordon Gen. Gordon, he
asserted, was in sympathy with the Irish
national movement.
The Pope has addressed an Encyclical
letter to the French Bishops in which he
deplores The moral and intellectual condi-
ton of the various European nations, in
Guiding France. He exhorts the Bishops to
do their utmost to remedy the evil
1t is thought General Gordon will reach
Kbartoum, but will oe powerless when he
gets there. Ell Mahdi's troops have taken
Sankeit, near Kassala and Ravina, a small
sea port nerth of suakim. 1t says an Eng
lish gunboat has been despatched to she'll
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ANOTHER VIENNA ASSASSIN.

VIENNA, Feb. 1l.-There is great excite
ment here. Another police officer has been
shot and dangerously wounded. The as
sassin escaped. The policeman's name is
Huggenberger. He was shot at Donaust-
adj, nelr FIoridsdorf The bullet entered his
back and pierced his lungs. His dondilon
is precarious. The man who fred the shot
escaped. Groups of work men in Vienna were
singing noisily all day yesterday, keeping
the police and troops constantly busy to
prevent disturbance.
Later advices say the policeman accident
~ shot himself.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11
THE FLOODS.

CINCINNATI, o., Feb. 1.-THE river now
marks IS feet 10! inches, and is rising stead
lily. Ithas stopped raining, but the clouds
are threatening. The river has been rising
au inch an hour since 3 o'clock.
WHEELING, W. Va, Feb. ia heavy
and steady rain set in at 10 o'clock last
night. About $4,000 has been raised here
but much of it has been spent in the relief
of other suffering towns. The Daily Iatelh-
qencc,' has not missed an issue although the
building for three days has been under :
feet of water. The water is still over the
boiler furnace.
GALLIoPoLIs, o., Feb. 1.-THE Ohio riv-
er rose inches in the last - hours and is
now rising an inch per hour. There was
rain all night and there are indications this
morning Of more The river has fallen .
feet at Belpre, - miles below Marietta.
Telegraphc communication with all the up
river towns except Ripley and Maysville, is
still interrupted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

4 bill has been introduced in the Ken
lucky Legislature for the establishment Of 9
crematory in Louisville.
Emperor William is now trying to effect
by arbitration a reconciliation between
Prince Frederick Charles and the Princes:
his wife.
Captain Gordy. with the oyster police boat
William r. Hamilton. reached the Dorches-
ter grounds yesterday aud arrested several
of the oyster dredgers.
Capt. Turtle Of the engineer corps reports
adversely upon the proposed improvement
Of the PocomOke river with a view to cut
Clf in the bend just below Snow Hill and
similarly upon the Cherrystone creek, Va.
Wetepkin creek, Md; Piscataway creek
Prince Georges county, Md; and the Chi
camuxen creek, Charles county. Md.
The British government has ordered Ba-
ker Pasha TO report at once to Cairo. The
Khedive has created the British Admiral
Hewitt commander at Suakim. General
Gordon is expected TO reach Berber on
Tuesday. Provisions have been received at
Sinkat, and a less gloomy view is taken
Of the situation there. The British cabinet
has authorized scheme Of recruiting to iu-
crease the effective army.
Regarding the announcement of Lord
Claud Hamilton that Orangemen vii! shed
their blood rather than assent to home rule
in Ireland, the London Truth says: IF Par
lament ever decides in favor of home rule,
these presidential disturbers Of the public
peace who imagine that they have vest.
ed right in the government of Ireland, will
Not have chance Of shedding their blood
Theywill be dealt with in less heroic fash
ion. Their Rossmores their CIaud Hamiltons,
aad the rest of them, will, if they do not
obey the law, be placed i'll cells, where
diet of oatmeal and q plank bed will con.
vince them of the folly Of knocking their
heads against stone walls"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11

1T APPEARS that the press and people in
Berlin do not appreciate Mr.. Ochiltree' s
resolutions about the death of Laskar and
think they were neither statesmenlke
nor opportune, and both the liberal and
Jewish organs there agree in saying that
ITO style DR.. Laskar statesman is sim
gular display of lack of knowledge. He was
simply a politician parter leader" The
New York Herald thinks it unfortunate
that Ochiltree should be allowed to involve
diplomatic relations, and says that "a bull
in china shop may be very innocent per-
son by comparison with statesman of the
Ochiltree order snorting and cavorting
around in the neishborhood Of such delicate
machinery ~ but it concludes: "our shoo-fy
statesmen are always inducing Congress
to put its foot into things in very foolish
way."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11

BLOODY SHOOTING AFFAIR.-A dispatch
from Hot Springs, Arkansas, says: Three
brothers named Frank, Jack and VIM
Flynn were proceeding home in hack
through the main street of the city, when q
party of seven men, armed with double
barreled shot guns and Winchester rifles,
stepped out Of saloon and opened fire.
Jack was killed, William fatally and Frank
slightly wounded, Frank Hall, the driver
of the hack was fatally shot. Robert
Hargreave, bystander, was shot through
the breast and will probably die, aud
]. H. Craig, a prominent lumberman,
received charge of buckshot through
the back, and his condition is con
sidered precarious. The difficulty originated
some weeks ago in the effort of Frank Flynn
to prevent one Dorau from opening gamb-
ling house. 1t eliminated ut the time in
Doran making cowardly attempt to assas-
sinate Frank, failing in which he fled the
city. He returned few nights ago, but
Flynn was unaware of his presence in the
city until the fatal volley was opened OH
him. The seven men who did the shooting
were arrested They are S. A. Doran, two
Pruitt brothers, man named Howell, and
three others.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-11

TIE OLDEST HIsToRIANs.-He is
the oldest Of the Greek historians. He was
born Asa B. G. He is generally recognized
as the father of history. Berosus was an
educated priest of Babyl Ion, who lived about
360 B. c., and wrote in Greek three books
of Babylonian Chaldean history, the mate
rails for which he declares he found in the
ancient archives of Babylon Mauetho was
an Egyptian historian, of the priestly order
who lived in the reign of Ptolemy Softer, in
the beginning of the third century 3. C.
He, too, obtained the material for bis works
from the temple records at his command,
from which he wrote two works, one on the
religion and the other on the history of
Egypt. Only fragments of the writing Of
Berosus and Manetho remain-preserved in
the works of Josephus, Ensebius and other
later writer's. There are historical records
on the ancient monuments of Egypt, Baby
Ion and Assyria which date back to earlier
days, but, except the historical books of the
Old Testament, beginning with those Of
Moses (who was born 1873 B. c. and some
of the writings Of Confucius (born 551 B. c.
there is nothing antedating the writings
of Herodotus that is regarded as history.