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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-21
Living. Rooms at the White House.

Washington Letter.
There are five rooms in the White
House on the second floor, the private
portion of the mansion being obscured
by a slight partition of stained glass.
AS the visitor ascends the stairway to
that portion of the presidents house
used for offices, Il large door leads to
the left. This communicates to the
first bedroom, a large airy apartment
looking north. A small room inter-
yenes, which has been used for q store
room, and this leads into what is
known to the attaches of the White
House as the Girls ROOM
Mrs. Sartoris, nee Nellie Grant, was
its first occupant, and subsequently, it
was used by Miss Nellie Arthur and
her maid. Another passage contains
the elevator Of the private part Of the
house, and across tbs space is the
presidents bedroom and bathroom.
The chamber was occupied by the
Prince of Wales when he visited this
city shortly before the war. At the
rear of this apartment is a smaller one
looking westward to the war, state and
navy department, and this is used by
the president as his private office. A
long corridor, similar to that on the
first floor. adjacent to the public par
lors. extends to the glass partition al
ready referred to, and this has been
fitted up in a luxurious name as a
sitting-room for Miss Cleveland,
The little o on the south side of
this corridor, corresponding to the
president private office. is used as a
storeroom. and the bed room immedi-
ately opposite that of the president is
devoted to the use of his sister. 1t was
in this room that President Garfield
spent his last days in the White House,
and the view from its windows is one
of the pleasantest imaginable, COM
handing the Maryland and Virginia
hills. the Potomac river. while the
Washington monument is prominent
in the foreground. The furniture of
this room is of a light material, and
the bedstead is made in imitation of
bamboo, with Joints corresponding to
those of . fishing-rod.
Next to Miss Clcveland's room is the
| guests chamber. which contains the
only specimens of antique bedroom
furniture about the White House. The
tall. four-postcd bedstead and its con-
tents can only be reached by means of
a small step-ladder conveniently
placed alongside, while over the bed
is IN old-fashioned canopy With silk
hangings. During President Gartield's
sickness the doctors held their consult
atoms in this room. This completes
the private apartments of the White
House, as the library, which adjoins
guest chamber, is used by the presi-
dent for receiving his callers. Under
the last administration all the bed
DON were thoroughly overhauled and
refurnished, and the president and his
sister found their new residence in
every respect a very comfortable one.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-08-21

Miss Emily Davis, of North Carolina.
vas refused admittance to the bar OF
that state and tried to drown her dis
appointment in suicide
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
a PRECIOUS PAIR.

a Couple of Mormon Emfssaries Air Their
Opinions On the Subject of the Surviving
Relic-Polygamy Tenet of the Church.
and What is Congress Going TO Do About
1t?
ST. LOUIS, Mo, January 16.
John Morgan, of Salt Lake City, and
John A. Groesbeck, of springyille,
Utah, are in the city the latter on his way
to the New Orleans Exposition, aud the
former going to Chattanooga, Tenn,
where he expects to meet o party OF 100
emigrants, men and women, who have.
been collected all over the South by Nor
mon missionaries. He will bring them
west during February to COLOMBO in
Conejos County, Col, where already sew
eral colonies have been established dur.
ing the past four years by the Church of
the Latter-Day Saints. Both men are in
telligent, well educated, in good circum-~
stances, and can be taken as fair rep
resentatives of the shrewd and influential
Mormon worker.
''The church is growing in power every
day." said Mr.. Morgan. cts colonies
are prosperous and its people more firm
ly bound together to resist oppression
than ever. Concerning the dispatches
scattered over the East with statements
of the violent intentions of the Mormons
toward the Gentiles, can say positively
that they are false. The MormonS are
too sharp to kill any Gentiles. Some of
those VINO are making themselves conSpic-
uously disagreeable may get slapped
In the face on the streets, but that is all.
These tales are the expiring efforts of the
Gentle ofiice-holders who 60 out March
4th, and who have been hoping to obtain
the management of our Territorial fin
ances which we are managing for our
selves by electing our own Treasurer and
Auditor"
Springville, the home of Mr.. Groes-
beck, is a large agricultural center. Dis
cussing the attitude Of the Mormon
Church towards the National Govern
ment: "Polygamy,' said he, lis tenet
of the church and is upheld, practiced
and taught just as much as ever, ia spite
of the efforts which have been made
lately to cloud that fact. How is the Gov
eminent going to stop it? Congress has
tried it once and failed, hasn't it, What
is it going to do about it, The Govern
ment can't interfere with our individual
liberties"
Neither of the Mormons were inclined
to praise Kate Fields writings on the.
saints. ssShe has found out more about
the church in the short time she was there
than l have III my twenty-eight years OF
life in that Territory" remarked Grees--
beck, sarcasticallY.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

MARTIN, VEEL & EscoBEL, tobacco mer-
chants and manufacturers, of New Orleans,
failed on the 18th. Liabilities 1924, 900;
assets 100000.
DURING the year 1884 there were 167 fires
in Memphis, causing loss OF property
valued at 500, 056.
On the night OF the 18th procession,
parporting to be Of Socialists, paraded the
streets Of Cincinnati. They carried a
black flag and red one made of paper
muslin, also transparencies rudely made
containing incendiary notices.
THE Citio 15O-ton furnace of Chattanooga,
Tenn, which has been idle for some
time past, encouraged by the outlook in
iron, resumed on the 18th.
REV. FRANK WHITE, a blind minister, has
been elected Chaplain of the Arkansas
State Senate.
THE effort to establish female college at
Baltimore under the auspices of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church has so far pro-
crossed that $4,000 of the 100000 has
already been subscribed, and the indica-
tions are the remainder will soon be
obtained.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, was visited by a
heavy wind storm on the night of the 10th.
A number of business houses were I'M
rooted, trees uprooted, and several small
factories damaged.
THERE was another shock of earthquake
at Granada, Spain, on the 10th. Heavy
snow storms and frosts continue. In
Malaga the most severe snow storm since
1861 prevails. The situation is most criti-
cal The earth is again trembling under
the influence of strong seismic movements
The store Of r. w. Thornton, at Raleigh,
N. G., was burned on the 18th. Loss $1l5,-
900.
Arkansas was awarded the first pre-
MUM for the best one hundred varieties Of
apples at the New Orleans Exposition.
DR.. CARVER finished his great task at
New Haven, Conn, on the 18th, of hitting
10000 balls in six days. The score was;
Shots, s., s81 misses, 1856; hits, 60,016.
JoNEsBoRo, Ark, had $4,000 fire on the.
night of the 10Th.
MATTERS are working in such a way in
Congress that it is at least possible that
Mr.. Cleveland may have to call the next
Congress together in extra session almost
as soon as he takes his seat.
GREAT damage is being done by the
foods of Red river in the neighborhood of
Shreveport, La.
IN a ten mile bicycle race at Memphis on
the nth between Prince and Woodside, the
former won, making the ten miles in IS
minutes and IS ii seconds, z
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
DESPERATE BURGLARS.
They Add Ferocious Assault and Probable
Murder to Their Record-TvEo Brothers
Their Victims.
GREENsBURG, PA, January


GREENsBURG, PA, January i6.
A terrible and brutal outrage oc-
Cured Wednesday night at Everson.
Two brothers, Adam and Christopher
Keck, are the proprietors of the Vance
House in Eyerson and a store-room adj
joining the hotel, of which it was part
To carry an insurance on the store-room
it had to be occupied, and on the second
floor of the room Adam keck slept,
He had retired to his bed, and at 80.
O'Clock his brother heard noise there,
and started for the store, arriving at the
door, which was open, he was knocked to =
the floor, and two men dressed in regular
Indian costume with their faces painted
red, feathers on their heads and blankets p,
around them jumped on him and beat him
cruelty. Had it not been for his wife,
who heard his cries and rushed out into
the street and cried murder they would
undoubtedly have killed him. When
Mrs. Keck gave the alarm, the burg
lars fed, and in a short time a crowd
collected. Chris Keck was carried into
the house.
Then inquiry was made about Adam.
A party went to the store, ana In
the back part of the room found
him lying on the floor gagged
and bound. The gag was removed,
and he was asked what happened His:
reply was, 81 don't know" after that he
didn't speak again, and has since been
unconscious.
The burglars had, previous to their de-
.pa7ture secured considerable property,
aud some money, but the extent of the.
loss is not exactly known.
The condition of Adam Keck is very
serious, and he will probably die. lis
head was crushed on the back part, and!
his ribs were broken.
A man who gave his name as A. Coff--
man was arrested yesterday between La
trobe aud Derry, charged with completely
in the robbery, and is noW in jail. he
will be taken to Everson to be identified
Popular Indignation is at fever heat.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24

THE Erie and other trunk lines have re-
duced the emigrant fare from New York
to Chicago to S..
ArLyons, France, an Anarchist plot
was discovered on the 10Th, by which
arms were to be seized and q revolution
declared.
PANAMA advices are to the effect that an
alarming condition of affairs prevails in
the entire Republic, and general war is
regarded imminent. War is already under
way in Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Santander
and Magdalena.
On the 10Th the extensive wire and steel
manufacturers, Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of
pittsburgh, Pa, suspended, and asked for
an extension. The liabilities are roughly
estimated at between $4,000, 900 and S., 0OO,-
OQO.
LAST year Michigan shipped 2,5SO,2O1
barrels of salt.
The British troops in Egypt are re-
ported by General Wolseley to be in good
health.
AT Buenos Ayres the commercial situa-
ton continues uncertain, and the premium
on gold is rising.
THE Indian appropriation bill was agreed
OPOA ny Gn6 mousse COuI1llbtS0 On INC 1OGus
The amount provided is 1864, 1876.
In Philadelphia money has been sub
scribed to take legal measures to prevent
the old Liberty Bell from being taken to
New Orleans.
On the 18th trains were delayed many
hours on nearly all the railroads on ac-
count of the heavy snow drifts, and in
some instances were totally abandoned.
IN the United States of Colombia seri-
Gus revolution is in progress. The rebels
have captured Barranquilla.
The Department of Agriculture, in its
annual report, places the yield of corn for
1884, at 1876, 100000 bushels; wheat, 3d.
100000 bushels; oats, $jS3O)0, 900 bushels.
These aggregates are the largest ever re-
corded.
THE blockade of freight trains on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne Sc Chicago Road
was unbroken on the 10Th, and the strikers
continued TO prevent the moving of trains.
The situation at Fort Wayne was very
serious one.
THE Secretary of the Treasury sent to
the House on the 10th draft of the bill
prepared by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue to amend the law relating to the
entry of distilled spirits in distillery and
special bonded warehouses, and the with
drawal Of the same therefrom.
THE effort to establish female college
in Baltimore, Md, under the auspices of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, has so
far progressed that $135OOO of the 100000
requisite is already subscribed. The indi-
cations are thesremainder will soon be OBJ
tanned.
The Lancaster Watch Factory, of Lam
caster, Pa, is to be removed to Chicago,
it's managers having accepted bonus Of
$3.50, 900 for so doing.
ON the 10Th another shock of earthquake
was felt at Grenada, Spain, and caused a
revival Of the panic among the inhabit-
ants.
DURING the seven days ended the 18th,
there were 445 failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet's against AS in the
preceding week, and 321, 31S and 21O in the
corresponding weeks of 1884, 1855 and 1882
respectively.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

The freight yards of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Road at Fort
Wayne were blocked with trains on the
14th, which the strikers would not allow to
go out. Mail, express and passenger trains
were not molested.
A CONTRACT has been made by the Atchi-
son, Topeka s. Santa Fe Railway with the
Mexican Government which will benefit
United States trade on the west coast of
Mexico.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Penn
sylyania Senate on the 18th, requesting
the Congressman from that State to use
their influence to make the trade dollar a
legal tender.
TIE Eastern Pig-I Iron Association met
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on
the15th.
GERMANY is reported to have rejected
the proposals of England regarding Egyp-
tian finances, andGs disposed to coincide
with France.
'HE Pennsylvania Rad has Substantial
,ly4efqsed to enter the BAL com bination.
'sIuE Bdblin Frgo.,,ssaSs Journal has paid
ST. q Clergyman to stop libel suit he
had Sssaeted.h
AYAysmfnginam Eng, q bread riot is
threateh. by five thousand men who are
out of EN- loyment.
THE I'm bn Base Ball Association under
took to I'D a meeting at Milwaukee, Wis.,,
on the 18TH but only two clubs were repre-
scented. 1t aas decided to disband and
form new league.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


PROF. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, of Yale Col
1ege, died at New Haven, Conn. 1.-THE might
of the 14th.
ON the 14th j. II. Pittenger, prominent
lawyer of Tifhn, o., and at one time Mayor
of the town, died, as it is supposed, from
an overdose of morphine.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY, in the French
Chamber of Deputies in a long and inter-
esting speech on the 14th, went b1untly to
the point by announcing that the Govern
ment intended Immediately to increase its
energies in Tonquin, and would not stop
until the entire country up to the frontier
of the Chinese empire was occupied. The
French military strength at home would
not be compromised.
On the 18th Thomas Farrell died at st.
Paul, Mimi, at the advanced age of III
years.
In speech on the 14th Bismarck de-
clared that the Government would re-
quire, In order to meet the demands of
farmers, that the duty upon wheat be in
creased to three times the present rate.
On the 18th John J. Cisco &sson, Wall
street IN. Y. bankers and brokers, made
an assignment.
SECRETARY AVERSION of the Duluth
tfinn.) Board of Trade, mysteriously dis :
appeared on the 18th.
ON the 18th the body of the late Major
Charles B. Brady, of st. Louis, Mo-, was
cremated at Lancaster, Pa, wi4h Mason
ic honors.
ON the 18th the acratic members of
Che House of Represents GasaS held eau.
Gus at Washington to agree Gr,.cia plan Of
work during the remainder of the Sc, a.
AN open letter has been written by Geo.
r. Downing, a well-known eolored man, to
prominent New York Democrats, in refer
ence to his race. He thinks the election Of
Cleveland happy event.
An interesting correspondence is going
on between Bishop Lee of Delaware and
Bishop Potter Of New York, in reference
TO the admission of Mr.. Huntington into
the Order of the Holy Cross, hevenerable
Bishop Of Delaware taking issue with the
New York Bishop on his action.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

The offices of the American Legation III
London, Eng, were slightly damaged by
fire on the 14th.
ON the 14th Ben F. TAFT, clerk of the Gin
cinnati Police Department, was arrested
ON a charge of embezzling $4,000.
On the 14th Matthew Brown, promi-
nent citizen of Toledo, o., was run over
and fatally injured by a team of horses
POLICE COUNCILLOR RUMPFF was fatally
stabbed at Frankfort on the Main. It is
thought to be the work of unknown Social
lists.
on the night of the 18Th farmer sixty
years of age, living near Howell, Mich,
who had mourned only nine weeks for his
deceased wife, when he took unto himself
another, was given tin horn serenade
A shot was fired into the crowd and one of
the serenaders killed.
FIRE destroyed an elevator and 5000
bushels of grain at Big Stone, D. T., the
night of the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
By an explosion Of fire. damp forty eight
men We're entombed in a coal mine in
France on the 10Th.
OK the 18th the bodies of four infants,
ranging from the age of one to three years,
were discovered buried near Big Rock
Bridge, Franklin, Pa. Great excitement
was occasioned by the find. The bodies
were encased in rough boxes, and one, at
least, had been recently buried.
A FIRE in the dwelling of Abel Kitcharn
in New York on the 18th, burned the owner
TO death before he could be taken out. He
was over eighty years of age.
On the 10Th MATTHEW Brown, for many
years prominent eNEin merchant Of To-
ledo, o., and at preafEBt Director in the
Second National Y'1,lk of that city, was
run over by runaN11Sy team and received
injuries which were supposed to be fatal.
He is about eighty years old.
EARRING, Ia, was almost wiped out by
fire on the 18th. Ten business houses, and
the hotel and eating-house were destroyed.
Loss, over $40, 900.
OK the 18th Richard Odds, at the bottom
of the Star of the West Mine, at Butte,
Utah, gave the wrong hosting signal.
The bucket turned with him and he fell
out, alighting on an upright drill which
ran into his body, causing his death in a
few hours.
The Adams Express Company's Office,
at Greenville, Conn, was robbed the night
of the 14th of $500 in money, taken from
four G. 0. D. envelopes. Frank W..
Brewster, agent of the company, was ar
rested and made confession, returned
the money and gave bonds to appear for
trial.
On the 10th Weight Leroy was hanged
at San Francisco, Cal, for the murder of
Nicholas Skerret.
On the evening of the 18th five employees,
Of the Philadelphia Oil Works, located at
Point Breeze, were dangerously and prob
ably fatally wounded by the explosion of
gas in tank on which they Were at work.
They were taken to the University Hospi-
tai.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24
PERIsHlNG CATTLE.
Texa. Cattle Drifting and Dying From.


Exposure.
AUSTIN, TIN. January lG.
Brinkley Otel, one OF the largest cattle
owners in the State, arrived here yester--
day from the Sweetwater locality, where
50 many cattle are reported as having
tlrifted. He says that the reports have
not been exaggerated, and that against.
the wire fencing running along the Texas
Pacific west of Fort Worth there are over
100, 600 head of cattle, and they are dying
at the rate of nearly 1,000a day fromcold,
hunger and thirst. The situation, he says,
is simply dreadful. The cattle will not.
turn against the north winds and seek
other sections for food, and there is not
sufficient help in that locality to turn
their heads and drive them elsewhere. At
present no effort is being made TO drive
Them out, and unless something is done
with but little delay the immense herds il
that section must soon dwindie to moth
ing. Most of the cattle men st the meet
ing Of the Live Stock Association in this
CITY left for their homes this morning, and
it is thought that they may maze On effort
to save the herds now in such sore dis.
tress, whether they own them oE not. No
effort at concerted action was E,ade Whug
they we're here. -.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-24

DON Cameron received the Republican
caucus nomination for United States Sem
ator from Pennsylvania, to succeed him
self, on the 10Th.
REAR ADMIRAL POWELL, United States
Navy, is dead.
FRANKIE ROBERTS, the midget, died at
Syracuse, N. z, on the 18th, from the ef-
fects of the C9esarian operation.
ON the 14th Senator 2. B. Vance was re-
nominated by the Democratic caucus at
Raleigh, N. c., by reclamation.
The British Court of Appeals having dis
missed his appeal, Edmund Yates OF the
London World is to undergo four months
imprisonment on the charge of ibeling
Lord Lonsdale.
Hon. WIN. M. EvARTs now appears TO
have clear race for the New York Sena-
torship. Russell hos withdrawn, and it is
said the friends of Minister Morton VIII
advise him to do the same thing.
THE Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has pro-
hibited the circulation of the last number
of O'Donovan Rossa's paper, received in
ireland.
KING ALFONSO Of Spain has conferred
upon Nine. Christine Nilsson the Cross OF
the Royal Civil Order of Benefcence, as q
recognition of her deeds of charity.
ON the 10Th General Robert Morton Brin-
ton, the "Hero of the Roundhouse," dur
ing the Pittsburgh riots in 1877, died at his
residence in Philadelphia, of neuralgia of
the heart.
J THE House Committee on Military Aft
fairs on the 10Th practically killed the Ed
munds bill passed by the Senate intended
to place General Grant on the retired list
Of the army.
Savannah morning news., 1885-02-26
Improving on Acquaintance

The impression appears to be growing
among the statesmen at Washington that
| they have mderestinated the ability and
requirements of Mr.. Cleveland. Those
who have had an opportunity to meet him
have not hesitated to say that they found
him very much better informed about
public men and national affairs than they
expected,
This is rather gratifying intelligence.
Those of the party leaders who thought 1t
would be necessary for them to take the
| President-elect in hand and direct him in
the discharge of the important duties that
devolve upon him, have discovered that
their services are not now, and are not
likely to be, needed.
They would gladly have shaped the
course of his administration for him, and
would have relieved him of all anxiety.
1t may be that they feel hurt that he has
decided net to lean on them with absolute
confidence.
The few who have been called to Albany
to visit him, and those who have visited
him without an invitation, have dis
covered that he has wonderful ability for
aShluA questions, Dul luStt hS has AAbOhS VI
no talent for imparting information. He
keeps his mouth closed, and he gets credit
for discretion and wisdom.
A Washington correspondent says that
some Of the Democratic leaders have be-
gun to study Mr.. Cleveland as he appears
in his few public addresses and State pa
pers, and that much surprise is expressed
on finding that he is man of such broad
and progressive views. 1t may be they
thought that a man comparatively un-
known could not possibly be a statesman
in any sense of the word.
A careful study of Mr.. Cleveland's pub
lie utterances shows that he is thoroughly
we'll acquainted with the general princi-
pies which underlie our government, and
that he has always been guided by honest
purposes and high sense of duty.
1t is safe to say that Mr.. Cleveland
occupies now much higher place i'll the
estimation of the leaders of his party
than he did the day he was elected.