Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-13
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Bnrdette's Sideshow.
Burlington Hawkeye:- Remembah
that this is theonly showhaving on eX-
hibition the statesman who has gone
on exhibition the statesman who has
gone out of politics, the Ottoman With
out an office and the original Garfield
man, that w have here in a glaWse
case the refcTmer who is working the
reform act without a salary and the
private Waterman standing wide awake
ON duty; we have here q church choir
singing and living in perfect harmony,
not having q%uarreled during the last
fifteen minutes; here we have an actress
with but one husband, her own and on
ly; also will arrive per next steamer,
consigned to this show, an English no.
bleman who has not proposed to Mary
Anderson, the only living specimen on
the globe, and all spread out before
your wondering eyes for the small sum
of a quatovdollar.
Mitchell Capital:-The editor of the
Woonsoeket News has started quite a
breeze about the Brown herd of cattle
in Sanborn county being affected With
something like the foot and mouth dis
ease. However, persons in the same
neighborhood who have observed the
cattle all winter, claim that exposure
and starvation caused all the difficulty.
Everybody in these parts who made
any provision fob their cattle brought
them through the winter all right and
herds that received proper attention
were in good condition for grass. Da-
kota is everywhere Acknowledged q
good stock country. but even in Dakota
it is hardly far to expect cattle to Win
ter On north wind and snow banks.
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Pierre Free press:-,rhe Free Press
has no objection to offer to the sugges-
Etion of a meeting [of editors at Mitch
iell, if that point would be more access
llble than any other point at present.,
but would say that Pierre would extend
! hearty welcome to the brethren of
the press, and treat them "a well as Il
shospitable citizens can. Let the press.
Of the territory speak OUT. Let ushave
a rousing meeting at some place, re-
CARELESS of political Affiliations and see.
VI we cannot present a bold and united
front for our best interests.
Alpena Journal:--If the editors OF
eastern newspapers, who howl so con-
'%tinuously about the climate Of Dakota,
could have witnessed the array of straw
hats and linen busters on the streets of
every Dakota town, May 80 and 81, and
then gazed on the decaying vegetation
in their own states, 0he effect OF frost.)
it5migbt have had a beneficial effect.
and render them less v~enolnous in the
People that shiver when Dakota is
mentioned should take notice Of the
fact that while growing crops in Hi
nojs, Indiana, Ohio and neighboring
were quite seriously injured in
many places by the recent frostS, not a
drop Of dew in the whole terrific
~ OF Dakota was frozen.
New York, June l.-Jeremiah IA
Milbank, a director and member OF the
executive committee Of the Milwaukee.
3 st. Paul road, well known in the
Northwest, and after whom Nilbank,
Oak, was named, died here this morn
of hears diseare.
Intimate friends of President Grant
say he is almost completely broken
down by the revelations attending the
collapse of the firm Of Grant & Ward,
in which he was nonlinally a partner
The failure came upon him like q stroke
lightning from a clear sky.
Mccormick, the great reaper man,
left in his viii ten million dollars to be
used in benevolent societies, with his
and son as executors. He left an
Qf q little over twenty million.