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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

scribes a very aroll character. m. y,
Pancks, who always ate his dinno.A VIZ
If he were shovcLng in Goals? a.
Never eat with your knife. Aln.,
proper use is to III up food: il she ,e :
not be put in the mouth at all ''o ~,
fork is the proper thing to eat with hi,s
Eat soup with the side Of your sn "asa.
it is not nice to thrust the bowl If Sov IN
spoon into your mouth, Us if you inten uue
ed to swallow it whole. ouo'
Should you desire to leave tho to,,
before a meal is concluded, loos "'ie
your mother or your hostess, and hoa at
ing secured her attention, say, Mao.
antly: Excuse me, plcase,' and lag
ing her permission, you may witharaM
When asked what special bart ":
meat, fish, or fowl you prefer, remew W
her that p~oliteness requires Won 'i ~
make a choice. Even if YOU do 10
care very much about it, it is better S fes
You to say whether you like your ha. u0
steak well or under done, and whetSa-
the wing of the chicken or some of tho
white meat will lie the more agreeable
Take part in whatever conversatiSn
is going on, modestly, because yonnn
people should not put themselves fog
ward, but lot with bushes or confn-
sion, as though you were t%ongue.tiad
If you happen to have heard a yerv
good anecdote, or to know of some fnn
ny occurrence, it is we'll to save tho
telling of it until you are at the table
for a good laugh and a happy heart ara
real aids to Observation-Disclosures Youno
PeODLe, s
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
GRANTS OLD REGIMENT.

Reunion at Neogn of the Twenty-Iirss
Illinois Volunteers-Colonel Fred Grant
Enthu sins tically Receivod-The Gencraps
Last Peace Message.
MECCA, Ill, Sept. 23.-The veterans o.
the Twenty-First Regiment Illinois Volun-
tecrs are holding a reunion here. This was
the first regiment commanded by General
| Grant at the beginning of the late war.
! Colonel Fred Grant arrived during the
afternoon yesterday and was enthusiastical-
ly greeted. At a meeting held in the Pres
byterian Church last night Colonel Grant
was asked to address his fathers old COM
rades. He declined himself from making
a speech, but stated that lie would read
them the last line written by his father Of
matters pertaining to the war, ard which
had never before been made public. He
read as follows:
81 feel that we IRE on the eve of a new era.
when there is to be great harmony between
the Federals and 'Contederates. I can not
stay to be a living witness to the correctness
OF this prophecy, but l feel it within me that
it is to be SO. The universally kind feeling
expressed for me at = time when it was sup.
last seems to me the beginning Of the
prcSS!OnS OF these kindly feelings were not
restricted to Al section of the country, MOI
to a division of the people. They came from
individual citizens OF all nntionalitics: from
oil notwithstanding Protestant, the Catho-
ties ot tho land, scientific. educational or
otherwise. Politics did not enter into the
matter at all. ] am not egotist enough to
suppose all this significance should DO given
this matter because l was the object of it.
But the war between the States was a very
or the other had to yield principles
they, deemed dearer than life before it
could he brought to IN end. l COM
manded the whole of the mighty host en-
gagged on the victorious side: l was. no mat
ter whether descrvedly SO or not, u repre-
scnter of TINT SIDE OF the controversy. 1t is u
significant and gratifying fact that Confed-
crates should hnve joined heartily, IN this
spontaneous move. / hope the good feeling
inaugurated may continue to the end"
A general amen went up from the au-
dience, and then the meeting quietly adj
journed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
STRUCK BY A CYCLONE.
Barnum's Show-Tents Laid PROSTATE, an
Many People Injured.

narnum's Show-Tents Laid Prostrate, and
Many People Injured.
T%ITusvII.LE, Pa, Sept. 23.-Barnum's
show exhibited here yesterday, and during
the afternoon performance a cyclone struck
the tents, carrying them upin balloon shape.
The canvass afterward collapsed on the
crowd in attendance. There were 10, 900
tickets sold, but many persons, perceiving
the storm approaching, made for the
open air, leaving about three thousand un-
der the canvas. No one was killed, but
many were injured. Ambulances were inn
mediatcly sent to the circus, and all the
doctors i'll the city were soon OH the ground.
The majority of those seriously hurt are
farmers living within a radius Of twenty
miles, while a few live in the city.
The storm was similar to that which oc-
Cured at Cortlandt, N. Y, last year. The
tent was torn into shreds, and the center
poles fell, breaking arms and limbs, cutting
peoples heads open, and causing a terrible
stampede. The seats were thrown about,
women tainted, children screamed, and
even strong men realized that it was a case
Of life or death. Many were injured from
falling and being trampled upon by the
crowd.
In the menagerie the elephants got loose,
but were quieted before any serious dam
age was done. The monkey cage was
broken open and a few of tho monkeys
gained their liberty. The wires of another
cage containing wild animals were broken,
but the keepers kept the beasts In till as
sistance arrived.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
Interesting to Antiquarians.

An antiquarian discovery was made
recently in a field near Dumtermline,
Scotland. in the shape of tumuli of
large dimensions. Some masons were
digging for sand in the vicinity when
tumuli were come upon. Already four
cists with a large quantity of imple-
ments OF the Stone Age, and not less
than 1000 years old, have been turned
up. The urns were three feet six
inches in length by one foot six inches
in breadth. and about ten inches in
depth. They We're all filled with black
mould, in which was placed a clay urn
about five inches in depth and twenty
inches in circumference. There were
also flint fakes, arrow-heads, pestlcs,
and other implements inside the c;sts
or near them. The work of cxcaya-
ton will probably now be carried on
under the supervision of q gentleman
representing the Scottish Soci;.,.y OF
Antiauar.es. ~. Y. posk
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
Availability Of Education.

eve have a good joke on one OF the
boys" said a Chicago drummer:
won't tell you what his lame is, but no
travels for one of the biggest millinery
houses in Chicago. Not long ago no
was at Milwaukee, and got into . row
at the station with a hack driver: Inc
hackman vas a big fellow, and. plet
suming on his size, enjoyed hlmseI
several minutes abusing the drun'ue,'
who was a little man. Tho little chap
stood it about five minutes, anu lnot
his coat came off. I never saw q coas
come off a man SO quick in my life, ana
as it came off he gave it a vicious sli ny
to the other side of the room ~
meant business, and in about loitl
seconds that hack-driver had q I
eye, a bloody nose, and was ye'iDs
Justify take him eff
''Of course as soon as order "as
stored, we all gathered about our u1" hi,
mer and congratulated him on
nerve. >
".You did him up in scientific sn'p''
said one of us. ..nl;el
"'You bet your life l did ,;, 1Ip ex-
the millinery salesman, still Il aallers
cited; 4 dida't get a tirst-elass Iii, liz,
education to- nothing -t"'c"S
ala.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

in Cedar County, up in the northern part
Of the State. 1 bought a horse, built a
shack and squatted on one hundred and
sixty acres of the prettiest land the rain
ever beat on. That was in June. I had
just got out Of the army and l had my pay
to start in with. Well, we had a hard time
of it, stranger, that first year. We lived
mostly OH hog and hominy. But when 1
began cutting the first crop of wheat the
next summer, l began to feel like a million
aire.
"One July night" continued tie tall
man, II had my wheat all stacked ready
for %thrashing, and went to bed feeling as
rich as if l owned the whole country.
About midnight, as near as 1 can recollect,
| heard a clap of thunder and then the
Then everything was quiet for a little while
and l went to sleep. Early the next morn
ing my wife got up and looked out of the
window.
John said she, where on earth is
your wheatY
WHAT said 1, jumping out of bed.
Whats that you say?
where's the wheat?!'
81 looked out the window, too, and
stranger, [ saw the most remarkable sight l
ever saw. There wasn't a grain of wheat
within a mile of me. There wasn't a rem
nant Of my barn. My barn-yard was gone,
the house, the cows, and even the pigs were
gone. l got dressed and walked out doors.
The place was changed, stranger, changed
in a single night. My house was setting
in a garden by the side of a creek. There
was a new barn in the yard, some red COWS
mime were Wholesome black pigs-mine
were spotted-and instead of wheat there
was the alfredest stack of corn stalks you
ever looked at. [ thought at first 1 was
dreaming, and asked my wife to kick me,
but wasn't. About breakfast time some
neighbors came in and asked where MIR.
Jones was. l never heard of him.
"'He used to live here,' they said. He
lived here last night
"Then | told them of the crash and the
rocking, and they said l must have been
struck by a tornado. l asked where 1 was;
They said l was in lard County, which
was fifty miles south of where l went to
bed. Sure enough, they were right. The
strangest part OF it was the house wasn't
hurt a bit. The roof even didn't leak. The
neighbors said that it was a visitation of
Providence, and the place belonged to me.
Bit that wasn't all, stranger. About a
year afterwards / heard from some of my
old %neighbors that Jones' house had been
moved right up to where my old house
stood by the same blasted wind. We both
concluded to stay where we were and
avoided any trouble on that account. I've
been away three months and can't exactly
say where / do live now. But I expect
am still at the old standby. Y. Graphic.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
TABLE MANNERS.

"Aunt Marjorie Prccept" Tells What True
Poiitencss Springs from and How to
Behave Wolf ut Table.
There is no place where good or bad
manners are so quickly observed as at
the table. The way people behave there
shows plainly and at once whether or
not they are used to the company of la
dies and gentlemen.
Let me say here that our home man
rels are by far the most important for
us to consider. Persons who are rude.
selfish, or disagreeable at home will at
some time betray these traits when
elsewhere. P%ollteness springs FROM true
kindness of heart, and may almost be
dehned as caring q great deal for the
happiness Of others. l would give very
little for the politcness which is only on
the surface, and kept like a party
dress, Tor great occasions.
Clean faces and hands, clean fnrcr-
nails, well brushed hair and cloth1no.
ana 2 tasteful appearance generally.
should at the table distinguish Young
people who are well brought up. Never
let the weather be what it NAV. shoul,;
Jack com to dinner in his shirt sleeves
A coat OF some kind every gentleman
must wear at that meal. Jack, who i,
a boy growing up to be a gentleman.
ought 70 be as particular about this a.
papa or brother Hal. Girls should Le
AS careful rs their brothers
o the matter of toilet
Tor their meals. Pretty White
dresses, gay ribbons and a general
aaintincss should make a g,rl re-
semble her favorile flower, and delioht
the eyes of all who look at her. An
'1ltidy girl is like a false note in music
or a mistake in syntax-sh she Jars upon
II nerves. Po"
10 not bein a hurry to be he,ncd
VAT patiently until your turn comes
aha then eat slowly. Do Q rcm-m.
ees ~ ma ot Dickens stories he de-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
CHINESE MINERS MoRBEp.
A Washington Territory Outrage-Fiv.
Celcstials Lynchcd.

A Washington Territory Outrage-Five
Celcstials L.ynched.
SEATTLE, w. T, Sept 23.-The Chinese
quarters at the Black Diamond mines were
raided Monday night by a mob armed with
repeating rifles. Each man was disguised
Ey a sack drawn over his head, with holes
cut for mouth, nose and eyes. The Chinese
fled in terror from their houses, which were
then burned. These Cinnamon had already
been discharged from the mines and ex-
pecteG to return to Seattle. 0
There is much excitement over the Chi
nese question here. A convention, to con-
sist OF delegates from all parts Of the Puget
Sound country, has been called to meet
here September IS, to devise means of rid
ding the country of the Chinese. The fecl-
ing is increased by the fact that the Federal
authorities hardly make a pretext OF stop
ping the Mongolians from crossing the bor-
der into Washington Territory from British
Columbia, and the anti Chinese law has
thus become a dead letter.
LEWISTON, l. T., Sept. 23.-Five China
men, implicated in the murder of Daniel
Fraser and a robbery in Pierce City, were
taken from Jail by citizens Monday night
and hanged to convenient trees.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
A KANSAS TORNADO.

How n Kansas Granger Came Into Pos
session of a Thrifty Farm by Way of an
Aerial Journey.
~"Tornadoes, did you say?' remarked a
tall man whose bronzed and freckled hands
gave evidence of an intimate acquaintance
with the plow-handle. "Well, i'll haven't
seen a tornado you can sell me for a year
ling. Why, stranger, 1 was raised where
tornadoes grow. l used to play back of
their pasture ground. I've done everything
with a tornado but milk it, and as to cy-
clones, why, l take to them the way a boy
does to circuses. l live in Kansas when
Pm at home. What place? Well. that is
rather hard to say. moved out there from
johnson County, Ind, in IS. We settled
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

Half "a Million Dollars by Engineers and
Contractors.
MONTREAL, Sept. 23.-The Canadian
Pacific authorities have for some time ell
tertained suspicious that they were being
victimized by their civil engineers and con-
tractors in the section north of Lake SUI
perior. About a month ago all payments
~ contractors were stopped and a measure
ment of the different sections ordered. This
has just been completed, and it shows that
by blunder or fraud the company has paid
to its contractors hundreds of thousands of
dollars in excess OF the amount OF work
done. One contractor alone has been paid
more than 100000 too much and another
$50, 600, the full amount aggre-
eating $500, 600. Detectives have
been at work for some time
and have discovered that engineers who
were receiving salaries OF 500 a month,
were wealthy landed proprietors, and were
engaged in extensive building pursuits
some of them being worth from $35, 900 to
$4O,0 00, which had been accumulated in a
wonderfully short time. Criminal and civil!
proceedings will be Instituted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

Tue South %rejoices in a new industry.
The canning of oysters, shrimps, etc.,
has been begun along the Gulf coast,
and there are already five establish
nlcnts engaged in the business between
New Orleans and Mobile. They have
all tlourished from the start, and hav.
rapidly extended their operations. The
Gulf oyster now finds its way into all
parts of the South, and has driven the
Baltimore oyster out of much of its terri
tory.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
THE EDITORS MISTAKE.

1hear . footstep in the hall,
A knock comes at my door,
And fearful thoughts my brain appall-
I've heard that step before.
a man comes boldly in the room
His gaze l can not shun-
And everything seems clothed in gloom:
Ifccl he is a dun.
"Thc editor? Pray tell me, sir,
Can I see him today"
/ haste to say the editor
Has rome far, far away.
"He's gone abyoad-to Jericho
He'll not come back" say I.
"His health was very bad, you know:
Ills likely he will die"
Vim sorry, SIR" the man replies;
~ came bill to pay"
And then unhceding my surprise:
I'm bid yOu,si good-day."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
Killed by the Fa,, of an Old Mill.

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. GA Chesaning
(Saginaw County, special to the Euening
Journal says: On Sunday at Havana an
accident occurred which resulted in the
death of one boy and serious injury of
two others. John Deforest, Frank Niv-
ers and two others were sitting
Lnder an old mill fishing. In swinging
their feet loose post was knocked down
and the mill fell OH the boys, killing Defor-
est instantly, terribly crushing MYERS leg,
and breaking the arm of a third. Deforest
was found under the debris, with a broken
post and part OF the roof crushing in nis
breast.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

THE two Bulgarias, or Roumania and
Rou'nclia. have been held by the Turks
for nearly 500 years. Roumania com
prises the principalities of Wallachia
aud Mq}dsvia, the Danubian principal.
tiles, as they were called when their
possession was fought for thirty years
ago, Within its southern limits, just
beyond the northern slopes of the Bal
Kama, is Bulgaria proper, the mountain
range separating that from the other
bulgaria which is part of Roumelia,
which is now in revolt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

Tie family of William Talmedge, of
Des Moines, Ia, have fallen heir to an
estate in England worth ST., 500, 900. The
estate is one of the Oldest in England,
and comes through the wife of Mr..
Talmedge, who has been dead three
years. leaving a husband and three
children. Mr.. Talmedge was formerly
apoar man, having barely enough prop
erty to take him to the seat of his good
fortune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

The United States Treasurer is in re-
ceipt of requests from all parts of the
country for SIS and $40 notes in large
quantities. He says the supply of these
notes is sufficient to meet all demands.
The Treasurer added, in response to an
inquiry on the subject, that, so far as he
knew. there was NJ immediate prospect
of a resumption of the issue of ST. and
50 notes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

y AN American who is married in Mex
leo finds that he must be three times
married. twice in Spanish, once more in
English or Spanish as heprcfers, besides
having a public notice of his intended
marriage placed on a bulletin board for
twenty days before the ceremony. The
Mexicans, it seems, tie the knot so hard
that a Chicago lawyer would find diff
cult to unloose it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

B%urTERMlLKis coming forward in Eu-
rope as a cure for consumption. I'm
doubleday buttermilk is q therapeutic
agent when used judiciously. 1t
has proved effective in Bright's disease,
diabetes, Us we'll as lung disorders, but
discovery has been made in these but
termilk ''cures' which may or may not
have important consequences. 1t was
noticed that persons addicted to the en-
cessive use of wines and liquors had
thcirunnatural thirst assauged when liv-
ing exclusively upon a diet Of butter-
milk for q short time.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
Fatal Doses.

"There, ma! Pve given that tramp the
wrong pie. l thought Mrs. Cram would be
here to-day, and I put an insidious cartridge
in one of 'em, and he's got it"
: 'Oh, never mind! If providence has or
dained that your little explosion would be
more becoming to a confirmed peripatetic.
you can give Mrs. Cram some OF that apple
pudding you made yesterday. There are
germs Of rare tribulation in that."-Yonk-
CrS E,S-ptfp
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
Only a slight unpleasantness.

''What was the trouble at church this
morning.: inquired one Dakota citizen of
another. II understand there was a row."
''oh, it didn't amount to anything. Some
of the members in the back pews threat
ened to shoot the minister unless lie spoke
louder. That was all."--LVe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

The North German Gazette. a few
days ago, describes as a fable, the state.
mcnt that Germany was covetjng Cuba,
but admits that in the event of a war
between Germany and Spain, Cuba
would be an important object of attack.
1t ridicules the idea of q permanent an
nexation of Cuba to Germany. The
United States has her eye on Cuba.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

TIE other day a man who said his
name was Ford came rolling down the
main stairway of the New York Sun
office. His face was covered with blood
and his clothes in tatters. The man
had become aggrieyed at an article in
the Snn and went up to the office for the
purpose of sweeping up the floor" with
the city editor, which resulted as above.
Probably he "didn't know it was
loaded"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

THE artistic and literary conference
at Berne, Switzerland, has closed. The
delegates signed a convention cmbody-
ing a Number of resolutions looking to
the better protection of literary works.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

TIE Treasury Committee appointed to
count the moneys and securities in the
Su~b-Treasury at San Francisco has re-
ported that the count is finished and that
everything was found correct.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

The .Roumelian affair is enveloped
in the customary diplomatic tangle, and
all sorts of rumors fill the European ear.
Among others, the improbable one that
Salisbury is responsible for 1.-THE affair,
and that Parliament will be hastily sum-
moned. The whole matter is likely to
join the Caroline Islands dead issue and
be forgotten within q month.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

THE Louisville Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, in
session at Greenville, KY, refused by a
unanimous vote to adopt a resolution
looking to changing the name of the
church 10 that of Methodist Episcopal
Church in America.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16

A LINE of street cars will soon traverse
Braddock's battlefield. where the Brit
ish met with such signal defeat and
General Braddock was killed some six
score years ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
TOPICS OF II DAY.

JOHN H. PARNELL, brother of the Irish
agitator. has apeach orchard in Georgia,
which contains $50, 900 trees, and it is
said clears from $S,000to $40, 900 a year
from his crop.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
LAWS.

ioetofaoc, whether directed to his name or Whether he
IL a subscriber or not, Is responsible for tho pay.
The courts have decided that rcfustng to take news.
papers and periodicals from the pOstOffCc, or rcmOy.
Ing and leaving them uncalled for, 10 prtra Jacte cvii.
drncc OF INTENTIONAL FRAUD. =
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
AN OPEN CONFESSION.

DUDE: Ah-oh! What are you waiting
for!
UGLY TRAMP: Waiting for a chap about
like you, who's got more money than
brains.
DUDE: All, well, I've got neither
Judqe,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-16
GREAT FRAUDS.

The Canadian Pacific victimized Out Of
Half "a Million Dollars by Engineers and
(QntractOrA.