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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
THE CROPS.

Replies to circulars sent out by St.
Louis firm to ascertain the effect of the
severe weather of the past two months,
indicate that in Illinois the peach crop is
entirely killed; cherries have been badly
injured; blackberries and black raspber-
ries have been killed to the snow-line:
pears have been touched to some extent,
but red raspberries, strawberries, apples.
and other fruits are in good condition.
In Kentucky the peach crop was severely
bhghted.. III Mississippi the fruit buds
are all right, but fears are felt of wet
frosts in the spring. The prospects in
Louisiana are better than they have been
for six years. The winter in Alabama
was 80 severe as to almost completely
ruin the fruit crop, and gardeners have
turned their attention to cultivating
vegetables. In Texas the peach and
other fruit buds are in splendid condi-
tion. only, as in Mississippi, fears are
felt for frosts in the spring. The re-
ports from Arkansas are to the effect
that only a part of the peach crop was
injured by the cold weather; strawber.
ries promise splendidly, and other fruits
are in good condition, with the excep.
ton Of grapes.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
EXCITING SCENES IN THE HOUSE.
Hiscock Dons His War Paint and Proceed
to Make Things Liye,X -"

Hiscock Dons His War Paint and Proceeds
to Make Things Lively.
WASHINGTON, February 19.-In tho
house during the early hours Of the
morning there was scene of great con.
fusion and excitement. Hiscock at
tempted to have bill read and the dem.
ocrats objected with great emphasis,
Hiscock was standing full in front Of
the speakers desk. when he was sur.
rounded by an excited crowd of adhe.
rents and opponents, and finally the dis.
turbance became 80 great that the ser.
vice of the sergeant-at-armsw was required
to restore order in some degree.
Tucker, approaching to within
couple OF feet of Hiscock, addressed him
directly and called him to order. Ei
"The gentlemen calls me to order,n
exclaimed Hiscock, "because his side is
unwilling to have advertised to the
country the bill which they attempt to
force down this house."
The point in debate was that he un.l
derstood Morrison to say that seventy.
five democrats had been here and
skulked away, and Hiscock was proceed.
ing to make strong point upon this un
derstanding of the case, when Morrison
interrupted to say that such an assump-
ton was not true.
Mutual explanations followed and the
house again settled down into state Of
comparative quiet,
At o'clock motion was agreed re-
voking all leaves of absence granted for
this Legislative day. At 8:15 quorum
was obtained and Hewitt's motion,
making the Mexican pension bill the
special order for the 21st inst, was
secured-165 to /. The resolution was
then adopted, yeas Is, naye 35. The
announcement received applause from
the democratic side. and at S:55 A, M.
the house adjourned until Wednesday.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
A Jack.Tar Spider.
Letter IN Portland Press.

Letter IN Portland Press]
l took a large spider from his web un-
der the basement of mill, put him on
a chip, and set him afloat on the quiet
waters of the pond. He walked all
about the side Of the bark, surveying
the situation very carefully, and when
the fact that he was really afoat and
about yard from shore seemed to be
fully comprehended, he prospected for
the nearest point of land. This point
fairly Settled upon, he Immediately be-
gan to casta web for it. He threw it
rs far as possible in the air and with
the wind. Tt soon reached the shore,
and made fast to the spires of grass.
Then he turned himself about, and in
true sailor fashion began to haul in hand
over hand on his cable. Carefully he
drew upon it until his bark began to
hove toward the shore. AS it moved
the faster he the faster drew upon it to
keep his hawser taut and from touching
the water. Very soon he reached the
shore, and quickly leaping to terra
firma he sped his way homeward. Think
ing then that he might be a special ex-
gert, and an exception in that line of
workmanship to the rest OF his compan-
ions, 1 tried several of them, and they
all came to shore in like manner.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
THE OHIO FLOODS.

Nature seems to be inclined to go to
extremes sometimes, as well as do short
sighted human beings. Last summer
and the summer before the residents of
the Ohio River valley suffered severely
from extreme drouth, and everybody
was discussing the best method Of pro-
curing greater rainfall. One theory
was that the hills and valleys of the
sources OF supply had been denuded of
their trees and forests, and that the
remedy consisted in growing more tim
Der. Now the whole valley of the Ohio
and its tributaries is overwhelmed with
tremendous flood, a repetition of last
years disaster, and millions of dollars
uorths OF property is being destroyed.
Thousands of people have been rem
dered homeless, other thousands have
been financially ruined, and the end is
not yet "a great drouth is succeeded
by an extraordinary freshet, and one ex.
treme iolc,vs close upon the heels of an
other.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Penal Servitude in England.
From n London Latter.l


Penal servituoe is, as now carried
out in England, very dreadful punish.
ment indeed. From the dock the con.
Wet is carted away in the prison van,
and on his arrival at the Jail the heavy
gates are shut to with horrible sound
behind him. He is thrust into a mar
row cell, there to remain without com.
panionship for nine months. Scarcely
ever hearing human voice, save the
warder's, fed on coarse food, his fate is
sealed for thirty six weeks, and after
that he will probably be sent to another
establishment where the discipline is
somewhat less severe. The nine months
solitary confinement of fve-years'
convict is hard to bare. About five
feet from the floor is q peephole. The
warder can look in at any moment, snd
the dread of this constant supervision
induces in sensitive prisoners nervous
anxiety in such cases themost severe part
ofthe punishment inflicted on them. The
period of solitary confinement at IN end,
they are allowed to work in gangs,
under strict and purposely vexatious
discipline.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
How MilIionaires Are Made.

(From an Interview with Californian.]
Said 1: "Who is the wealthiest ma n
in California;"
"Jim Flood, worth $1OO, 200, 900; he
is q liberal man and shrewd one, He
has built up on San Francisco bay a
new port called Costa City, with magnif-
cent store houses and piers from which
the wood OF those rich counties is
shipped direct to Europe and the world.
O'Brien, Floods partner, is dead and
his fortune distributed. Mackey, one
of the bonanza crowd, is thought to be
worth $50, 900, 900, and Jim Fair worth
perhaps $40, 100000"
Said 1: How in the world did Flood
and O'Brien make such fortunes?"
"Just in this way, my FRIEND" said
Mr.. Hyneman, taking up piece of pa
per and pencil. "Flood and O'Brien
kept saloon, and the drinks were twep-
ty-fve cents apiece. Fair and Mackey
were miners who for some years did not
strike anything very rich. So they gave
mining stock for the drinks instead of
money. The habit was to walk into the
saloon with three or four friends, ask
for the drinks and drink them, repeat
and say to the bar.keeper, This is
mine,' and walk out. The bar-keeper
made four marks with pencil and
fifth mark across them, signifying ST.
for each round. These rounds would
go up to pretty high figure, but on
certain occasion Mackey or Fair wou Id
say, VIII Flood, we want to make a
settlement for drinks, and they would
give their mining stock at certain
valuation current at that time, which
Flood and O'Brien put into the safe
Behold On q certain day metal is
struck in prodigious quantities in the
mines that Fair and Mackey own, and
when Flood and O'Brien open the safe
and count the stock they have, it
amounts to more than Fair and Mackey's,
SO when the mines were pouring out
their million or two every week, these
saloon-keepers, who had been receiving
twenty-five cents per drink for watered
whisky, started fortune"
Have any of those men produced
sons of any consequence"
"None whatever. The parents were
tolerably keen and somewhat generous
people. Mackey has set up several per-
sons in business, partly flom generosity,
somewhat from conceiving that they
would make money. The tendency Of
such new-fangled families is to be vol
uptuous."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
WOMEN IN NEW YORK


The New York papers are seriously
disturbed over bill before the legisla-
ture of that state which proposes to give
married women the right to make con-
tracts in their own names, the same as
ii they were unmarried, and to make
them liable thereon according to the
laws governing such transactions be-
tween men. There can be no very forci-
bic objection to legislation of that kind,
it seems to us. Ii a married woman can
be trusted to raise family of children,
she may certainly be allowed to make
contracts as to her own property. Such
laws are in operation in several OF the
states, and their influence has been uni
formly wholesome,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Mr.. Gorman,s Brave Act.

The Norwich Conn Bulletin tells
how, after the driver of hack had
jumped off while the horses were run
ming away in that city, Mr.. Richard
Gorman, who was in the carriage with
two women and one or two children,
opened the hack door, stepped out upon
the step, reached the drivers seat with
his hand, and, stepping forward, drew
himself over the wheel up on to the box.
Finding the reins had parted, he let
himself down upon the pole, and, get
ting upon the back Of one of the ami
mails, he seized the remnants of the
reins and stopped the horses ON Soho.
fields hill after they had run half a
mile. Those who saw it say it was one
of the pluckiest things ever attempted
with runaway horses.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
ITALIAN RAILROADS.

The italian government has pur-
chased or is about to purchase, the rail-
roads of the country, but will cause
them to be managed by two great cor
porations. The latter will have control
of the rolling-stock, and will keep 62
per cent. of the gross receipts, the re-
mainder to be divided between the
government and the managing corpora
tions. One corporation will manage
the roads along the Adriatic, the other
those along the Mediterranean, includ-
ing the Alpine lines. The government
assumes no guarantees, and pays no
subsidies. If this account as given by
the Fanfalla and Italie newspapers, is
correct, Italy will see novel experiment
in railroads, namely, compromise be-
tween the state and private system.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
CANADIAN WINTER.

The winter carnival at Montreal
shows what cherry pleasure can be had
in acountry where. the rigors of the
climate are made to foster the sports
which seem especially adapted to it.
Our Canadian friends seem to have
caught the spirit.of winter festivities,
And their tobogganing and curling par
ties have added to the stock of amuse-
ments appropriate to the season.
Through their palace of ice may not
compare in magnifcence with the ia
nous structure which the Empress Cath
crime OF Russia erected on the Neva, it
has the advantage Of being illuminated
by the electric light. The spectral glare
OF this decidedly democratic invention
is well suited to set off the icy splendors
of the frost palace.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

and good results--the latter, never. Ihe nrst
see 10 it that their COWS aaye pure water-the
latter wonder what COW can want OF wafer;
any way, and particularly pure water. Inc nrst
provide convenient, well ventilated barnsItne
latter do rot seem to knew what good pafn
is. The hrst will keep up the tiow OF Mill miik ~
their COWS by extra feed during the droughts
of summer when prices are low, in order that
they may have abundant yield in autumn when
prices are high-the latter hold the feed cent
to close to their eve that they cannot see the
milk dollar. The first class, in WORD, are
ambitious of being dairymen IN the most pro-
life sense Of the word. They take pride IN
their business. in keeping posted in it and Their
splendid success attests their superior wisdom.
A very SERIOUS mistake is the lack OF cooper
alton on the part of milk producers-another,
in going along year after year without testing
the individual profitableness of their COWS.
All these are the errors of an Ignorant ana
Improbable practice. There is q better way,
and all intelligent men in the business pursue
it. I have tried in these remarks to divide
truth from error as best can, and to stimulate
thought, rather than please the ear and fiatter
vanity.
I cannot close without uttering few brief
words in tribute to the memory OF gentleman
now dead, to whose genus and laboTs the
farmers Of the northwest owe debt OF graft
tude which they will never be able to repay.
I allude to the late G. G. Fairlamb, the
founder Of the gathered cream system OF but
ter making. 1t was his fertile brain, his pa
tent hand and inventive purpose, that in .
great measure placed the scattered farmers Of
these northwestern prairies on nearly an equal
footing with the older and more favored dairy
districts. His labors have added immeasur-
ably to the health of the northwest. Although
possessed of frail health, his enthusiasm in
demonstrating the placticability of his ideas,
was unbounded, and he continued to work for
the success of the gathered cream system, even
after approaching death was visible to his own
eyes. He added another instance to the long
line Of thinkers and inventors, whose ideas and
labors have given to the farmers of the north
west and the whole country, new encourage
ment and hope.
The convention of this association held in
this city year ago. was one Of the largest and
most beneficial in its results of any like con-
vention in the history of the United States.
In all Of the discussions there was a con-
spicuous absence of personal vanity and a
marked singleness Of purpose to accomplish
the. greatest good possible. Let us work in the
same spirit this year.
desire on behalf of the association to ex-
press its sincere acknowledgements to the en-
tire press of the northwest, for the marked
courtesy which has been displayed in publish
ing, free of charge, the announcement of its
conventions, together with full and accurate
reports of the same. The progress of dairying
owes more to the press than to any other one
agency in society.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
A Dangerous Quarter OF London.

A gentleman writes to the London
Times: "On the Sd of last month. at
about 6 O'Clock, asI was returning home
from my Office at Whitehall, and had
lust passed small alley in High street,
st. Giles, halfway between ST. Giles
church and Tottenham Court road. a
fellow, coming toward me, snatched
my watch-chain Gan Aibert) and ran
down the alley. L instantly turned
round, and followed him down the al
ley, calling out: Stop thlet.' Two
young fellows were coming down the
alley toward the thief aud myself, and
might have stopped him at cnce. but
they made room for him to pass. and
then spread themselves out, arm in ann
to hinder me, but did not attempt any
violence. ] upset one OF them aud oct
past, but it gave the thief time to In
crease his lead, and, after keeping him
in sight for two or three turninps. I
finally lost him N The maze of small s,.
ieys behind ST. Gile church. Ifsund
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
A policeman. after some tr,,,,.

a policeman, after some trouble peo,
the Seven Dials, and then gave ipforma @
tion at Bow Street station. OF conrsa !
have not heard anything of NV nhs;n
There is comic side to almost all m;s
fortunes. I have SAID that l onlv Lost Ins.
my chain, but l was SO firmly conyinrad rcd
that my watch was gone also that aid
not investigate the contents Of ,s NV
watch.pocket after the affair, but 1scl,aS
my brains to give an accurate descrin'
tiop at the police station of the old fasb,
ioned gold watch which 1 thought i had
lost forever. My JOY may be imagined
when, on nearing home, from mere
habit 1 putmy hand omy watch.pockst
to ascertain how near it was to diurer
time, and found there, safe and sonnd
my dear old friend End companion
The tug had been SO violent tiist .be
ring attaching the chain to the va, oh
bad given way, leaving the watch be.
bind. The moral of all this is, not to
walk about ondon with your coat rot
hnttoned M" E. ~ ,ss
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
THE MEXICAN TREATY.

Ex-Governor McCook, of Colorado,
who was an active opponent of the Mex
lean treaty, says that the rejection of
that'measure was manly brought about
by use of the fact that supposing it
would be ratified, number of foreign
speculators had bought up large tracts
OF land in the sugar and tobacco dis
tricts of Mexico, and were making ready
to produce those articles at prices ruin.
ous to American labor. The treaty can
never be ratified in its present shape,
Governor McCook is confident, and the
extension OF the time for its considera-
ton is mere formality and signifies
nothing.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
w. g. BROWN. Publisher
TEXAS AVID IRELAND.

Theslawlessness prevailing in the cat
tle-grazing regions of Texas is having
it's effect. The agent OF a wealthy COM
pany Of English capitalists, who has
been visiting that state with view of
investing millions of dollars in lands and
cattle, has left in disgust. he declares
that property is more secure in Ireland
than in Texas, and he can see no sign
Of any Improvement in the condition of
affairs. And this, too, after the state
Legislature. in special session, has been
trying to suppress existing troubles by
statutory enactment.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
What Would a Woman Do.

If storekeepers wouldn't cut off SAM
Piles?
Il she couldn't taste lard in rivals
pastry?
Il she should forget to look under ihe
bed for a man?
II she had to wear boots that didn't
cramp her toes into peak?
Ii sealskin sacques should suddenly
drop down to % apiece?
If she couldn't rehectively scratch her
head with knitting needle?
1t her husband should offer to get up
once and quiet the bowling baby?
Ii her husband should forget himself
and remember to bring up a yeast
cake?
II she couldn't say anything when her
huRband came into the house without
brushing the snow of his feet?
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

The Revue Mensuelle de Medicine
notices case in which a woman who
was entirely helpless from chorea and
hysteria was told to take her medicine
very cautiously, as it was very power
full. She thereupon took the whole of
it, with the intention Of poisoning her
self. Two days later she began to assist
the nurses in the hospital, and in q
month was discharged, cured. The med.
icine was bread pills.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

States and Canada during the week ending on
the 23d, against 2s5 the previous week.
Geo. P. Curry, banker and cotton manu-
facturer at Augusta, Ga, fsiled on the 18th.
Liabilities, 100000; assets nominally the
same.
McGinnes Brothers and Faering, New York
stock brokers, failed on the 18th. Tho llabil-
tiles of the firm are estimated all the way
from 81 ,000, 900 to $4,000, 900.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
ENGLIsH TOLERATION.

The persistent refusal Of the English
house. of commons to allow Mr.. Brad
laugh to take his oath recalls the oppo-
sition which the late Baron Lionel Roths-
child 80 long encountered, only to tri-
umph OF last. The case was stronger
I'm favor Of Rothschild, for instead Of be-
ing . persistent" agitator like Brad
laugh, he represented the coaserva-
tism Of capital as the type Of the great
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Kioked by tha Rncket

Peter Connolly, aged 65 years, met a violent
death last night, IN the house of E. R. Austin,
Milwaukee, Wis. Connolly and his wife had
been quarrsling. On leaving their room, and
when partly down the stairs. Mrs. Connolly
The blow caused Connolly to fall down stairs
and break his neck. He lived but q few min
utes. Mrs. Connolly was arrested.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
A HorrfhIa Death

Rheuber Hart and wife, colored, residing
near Crockett, Texas, went to church on
the night of the 18th, and left six children at
home asleep. Hart locked the door and took
the key with him. At 10 o'clock the house was
discovered on fire, and it burned SO quickly
that it was impossible to save it or the children
every one Of whom was roasted to death,
Thc eldest was boy IS years old. ~
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Driven rhroneh u,.,

Jacob Dickey agitated an oil well near Brad
ford, Pa, with an iron rod on the 18th. Ther
was burst of gas. and the rod was driven up
ward into the derrick. In its descent it struc OK
Dickey on top. Of the head, pierced his skull,
passed through his left shoulder and lung,
and, narrowly escaping his heart, protruded
several inches below the last rib. Dickey lived
long enough to give directions about his
funeral
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

. remarkable case Of sudden death occurred
in Milwaukee on the 2Oth. f. G. Bradley. an
old and respected citizen, and his aged wife
were both found dead in their home, The
supposition is that Mrs. Bradley died from an
epileptic fit, and her husband, who suffered
from heart disease, WAS 80 shocked by the sad
event that his death Immediately followed.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

a most disastrous wreck occurred on the
18th at Trenton, o., on the Pan Handle, where
by three tramps were killed outright and one
SO severely injured that ii is thought be viii
die. The engineer, conductor and two brake.
men were badly injured, while two engines and
twenty one freight cars were almost entirely
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Murder and suicide

Nineteen miners were Buffocated by an ex.
plosion in coal mine at West Leisenring. q
little village near Uniontown, Pa, on the 26th.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

A dispatch from Billnga, Montana, of the
list inst, states that band of Piegan In
dians stole herd of ponies from the Grow res
ervation. The Crows, assisted by some white
men, chased the thieves, captured the ponies
men were also killed,
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Death of an ola p,.,t.r

Peter NJ. Pice de Bergondy, veteran Of
the war of 1872, died on his plantation in St.
James parish, Louisiana. on the 18Th. BE was
the hrst planter in Louisiana who. before the
war, made white sugar. Matthew Watson. aged
"a, an intimate friend, dropped dead on hear
ing Of the veterans death.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
A Case for Diplomatic 1nterferenoe

". NJ. Gardiner, an engineer on the Mexican
National Railroad, was recently Jailed because
bis train happened to kill Mexican. The
prisoners friends appealed to Lieut. Gov.
Meyer, OF Colorado, who telegraphed to Wash
ington for diplomatic assistance, and secured
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28

Serious cutting of freight-rates from Chicago
to eastern points is reported. and it is now
thought the east-bound pool will go to smash.
1t Is limited that the pool is held together to
assist the Gould Vanderbilt bull deal; that
craal, va. w :"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-28
Fugitive Revenue omcers

a dispatch of the 22d says; John Ray and
Robert Anderson. two revenue officers in the
western part of North Carolina, are fueitiyes
close pressed by wealthy citizens. They had a
quarrel with a party of mica miners, and
killed three of them,