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The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

clerk hire.
BILLS INTRODUCED IN q COUNCIL.
BY Jones, defining powers of the Prcsbytery
Of South Dakota. BY ,Bowdle, amending til
city charter of Chamberlain.
House bills passed:
Providing for the erection of a court house in
Clark county: Incorporating the city of Clark:
relating to county seat Of SPHINX county; chang.
amending the code of civil procedure: relative
to appeals by counties: making Burleigh county
warrants receivable for county taxes; amending
the penal code so that penitentiary sentences
Adams; providing for annual elections in Faux
county to locate the county seat until it is
located on a railroad; creating the Office of COM
missioner of immigration; tor the issue OF Nc
Pherson county funding bonds; revising and
amending the civil code relative to insurance
companies; for the protection of prairie chickens,
plovcr and other game: authorizing Minnehaia,
Miner, kingsbury. Beadle, Sully ana Aurora
counties to aid persons whose crops We're de-
stroycd by storms; prohibiting civil officers from
entering into contracts with municipalities OF
the territory.
Bills introduced in the house,:
By Mr.. Larson, amending section / and repeal
coupons issued by township of Elk Point. BY
MIR. .Parahall, providing for the purchase OF 100
copies of the first and second volumes. Dakota
dover school township, No. 8, Day county, to
issue bonds to build school houses. By MIR.
sstaele' amending n. All Sy. tho charter Of the city OF
'eSSAS. oS WY. SlAllA1l4ss VSCdDlkoulllk u Gull.
mission on legislation.
HOUSE Bills PASSED.
incorporating the city of Salem, McCook
county: amending the act establishing INDIE
pendent School District No. /, Turner county;
establishing Independent School District No. 9,
Turner county; amending the charter of the ci:"
OF Lisbon, Ransom county: appropriating 81 800
to drfray the expenses of the territorial board Of
ayriculturc: appropriating $500 for the con-
structlon OF a sewer and cesspool for the capitol
building; supplementary to art. 4, chap. II,
Code OF Civil Procedure; amending sec. 9,
chap. -, General Laws of 1881; amending
chap. 10. Political Code, providing that 4 tern
of the supreme court be held once ea,h
year at each of The following cities: Bismarck,
Yankton and Deadwood: relating to foreclosure
of MORTGAGES on real estate to be forecIosed III in
court rather than by advertising: amending SIC.
672, political code; relating to certificates;
amending secs. SO and SO. chap. 81. political code;
amending sec. ~, chap. %. political code. pro-
viding that the governor. treasurer and auditor
constitute a board to levy a proportional terri
torial tax; authorizing the commissioners II
Roberts county to fund indebtedness; incorpora-
ting the village Of Woonsocket: establishing an
' independent school district in Flandreau.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

In anticipation of the opening of the
Sioux reservation, several parties are
organizing for the purpose Of attempt
ing the coal exploration of the Moreau
and Grand river counties with the
opening of Spring.
Mr.. Collins of Grand Forks has adopt
ed q plan for winter protection, which
the Plaiudealer thus describes: The
method is to have q blank space around
the house OF about-four acres square and
around this space have the trees planted.
The strip the trees are planted upon
may be wide or narrow according to the
option of the farmer. The strip should
be planted with white willow to make a
low close hedge, and with cottonwoods
or other tall trees to make q wind break
higher up. The trees should be set so
that the trees in one row would be DID,
posite the space between the trees in
the next row. The willow hedge would
not only be a protection from the snow
in winter, but would protect the garden
in the summer.
Late Dakota failures: Castlewood,
G. M. Kinsmore. dry goods; Elandreau,
Gehr u Mcmillan, agricultural imple-
ments Sioux Falls, George E. Hendon &
Co., wagon makers; Springfield, Hiram
A. James, agricultural implements;
Valley City, William CraswelI, grocer;
W%atertewn, G. A. Blakeslee, general
store.
Samuel Lackerby was arraigned at
Minor on q charge of embezzlement,
preferred by A. NJ. Smith of Sioux City
and discharged.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14
The Inauguration Bal, at Washington.

The Inauguration Ball at Washington.
Correspondents say tho grand ball room las
never been equalcd in his country. The reader
may have some idea of it if he can imagine a
perFeating dancing t,oor300 feet wide. The OBJ
server looks upward more than fifty feet before
his eye strikes tire yanited roof. This great
space is filled with decorations upon which it
would almost seem that art had exhaust
ed ITS resources. Over one thousand persons
can dance at tls same time without ~troaling on
each others toes. Let him imagine the Whole
inter.o. blazing with a food of light from half
q hundred electric burners, and lie will have a
faint picture of the scene. Over 5000 people
present were President Cleveland and
family; President Arthur and cabinet;
Senator Bayard, Col. Villas, of Wisconsin, Gen.
Sheridan and Mrs. Sheridan, Gen. Rosencraas,
Hon. Dan Manning and wife, Senator Pcndle.-
ton, Hon. Richard L. Merriek, Senator Wade
Hampton, Senator Brown of Georgia, Justice
Field. Of the supreme court, and Speaker
Carlisle and Mrs. Carlisle. There was no
formal reception by President Cleveland, but
a large number of porsol IS passed about him,
and some of the gentlemen standing in the
immediate vicinity made tho presentation.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Proceedings of the Extra Session.

Proceedings of the Extra Session.
At the meeting of the SENATE on Thursday the
9Th, in extra session, the galleries applauded
Vice President Hendricks, which manifesto
ton its recipient abruptly terminated with the
gavel. The senators arose at this summons,
its conclusion the vice president took
the chair, and was again greeted with plaudits
by occupants of the gallery. He called tho
senate to order, AMI, in IL voice only audible to
the clerks, called for the readingo of the journal.
President Cleveland sent to the senate the names
of the gentleman he has selected as cabinet Of
ficers. They are as follows:
Secretary Of S~tate-1'homas F. Bayard of
Delaware.
Secretary, of the Treasury-Daniel Manning
Of New York.
Secretary of War-William G. Endicott of
Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Navy-William O.. Whitney
Of New York.
Secretary of the Interior-L @. O. Lamar of
Mississippi.
Postmaster General-William F. Villas of
Wisconsin.
Attorney General-A. II. Garland of Arkan-
eas.
Immediately on receiving the nominations,
I'm motion of Mr.. Sherman, the senate went in
10 executive session, which continued only for
a few minutes. 1t was supposed that the sen
ate, in accordance with general practice, had
promptly confirmed the nominations; and tho
fact that none of them were confirmed excited
great surprise.
1t was learned that onfrmation failed be-
cause of the single objection presented by Sen
ator l,ildleberper of Virginia. Az the rules
require that ali nominations shall first be re-
ferred to the proper committees, the reference
can be waived only by unanimous consent. and
hence Mr.. Ritldleberger's objection prevented
immediate action as it did in the caso OF the
nomination of Secretary McCulloch a few
months ago.
After reading the journal Mr. Van Wvc,, wa
ro,onn;,oa - 80, ~. w .
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14


The display of fireworks on the nigh
of the 4th was never excelled in this
country. Among the curious features we're
the light Of five thousand rockets at once FORM
ing a vast floral bouquet in the heavens. The
an area of two or three hundred acres slopings
gently away from the south fronts OF the treas
ury, executive mantion and state department..
Cncounted crowds began early to find their
city. For an hour or more they waited COM
menting meanwhile upon the singular apTe.r-
anre OF the monument, a hundred rods beyond
the fireworks enclosure. The lower third of tho
SHAFT was not visible, but all above was dimly
outlined like a ghost of itself against the black
sky, and rejecting to its peak rays of ele trio
lights in the city half a mile away. I Seemed
enormously higher than by daylight - sh
not the slightest relation to tsrrs 60 play "a
all he is worth, H. i.
.sa,f but so nice."-Bur- A.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14
Beecher's Prayer for Grant.

In his opening prayer this morning Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher evidently ,labored un-
der much emotion, and referred to the ap-
proach of death for Gen. Grant. He said:
Thou hast laid upon our hearts a great de-
sire aud a vehement petition for him that lies
IN sickness and before whom ere long opens
the gate to let him forth from life. Thou hast
granted him to be of great service to this day
and land, and by him thou hast borne the
banner anne of victory. and thou hast of
darkness wrought light, and out of con-
fusion, order. Thou hast laid upon thy
servant a very heavy yoke and bur.
den, and now through suffering he draws
near to the end thereof. God, be gracious te
hum and fill his room with thy divln e presence
and give to his soul the consciousness of Gods
iorS!Hing love. May he be patient and gentle,
looking evermore TO tile better life. May he
endure to the end and rise through the unspeak-
ahle merits and grace of Jesus to the minor
talty Of the blessed. May all thy servants
remembe him who remembered them in their
dark days, and grant that his family may be
prepared and blessed for thy will.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

h attention of the council was occupies
part of the afternoon considering the So
called sOmnibus appropriation bill, making
appropriations for the running expenses of
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

The emigration commission bill passed the
hose. According to the provisions of the bill,
the commissions will receive a salary OF
posal to expendin advertising, Office rent and
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

moody county: amending the charter OF the citv
OF Steele: amending sec. l and repeating sec. 6.
laws OF 1881, relating to bonds Of Elk Point:
defining the boundaries Of Kidder county.
Council bills passed:
Establishing territorial and county boards of
health; providing for the organization and main
tenance OF territorial militia. and appropriating
$4,000 for their support.
The Dickinson press., 1885-03-14

ing $35,0OO to the Fargo Agricultural college
and $500 for the erection of q reform school
building at Plankington with q veto message.
The message was we'll received and, upon
roll call, sustained by a unanimous vote as to
man voting to pass the Plankinton bill over the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26
THE SAFEST PART OF TRAIN.

The American railway conductor
who, when asked which was the SAT-
est part of a car, replied: ''That
part which happens to be in the shop
at the time of the accident was
wit. But leaving joking apart, it is
not generally known-in fact, popu-
lar prejudice rather points the other
way-that the last carriage in rail-
way train is the safest. There is no
doubt that, if you are in the last car
riage of train, and especially at Its
rear, and another train runs into
yours, you will probably not survive
to tell the tale of how the accident
happened. But in all other accidents
you can conjure up as liable to occur,
it is the safest If there is head
collision there is nothing back of you
to add force to the blow. If the car
riage leaves the track and collides
with bridge OF any obstruction on
a side track, it will not be in your
end. If the train is thrown down an
embankment. there is nothing to
land on the top of you. Moreover,
the rear part of train is the most
pleasant in travelling, for from it you
can best observe the scenery, and
this applies more particularly to
American and some continental. es-
pecially Swiss, railway cars, where,
by turning in your seat Oh stepping
to the door, you take it all in. 1t
will therefore be conceded that the
safest part of train is the last car
riage, although, speaking from our
own experience, it is not the most
comfortable, owing to the great
amount of oscillation.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26

Of the thousands who have been
moved to laughter or to tears by the
touching melodies of "Old Uncle
Ned," "Swanee Rlbber," ''Massa's
IN de Cold, Cold Ground" "Old
Dog Tray and between two and
three hundred other popular songs
from the same hand, there are very
few who ever heard the name of the
author. "He must have passed" )"
says a recent writer, "unnoticed thro'
the streets, when from every lighted
concert room, from almost every
family circle, from every hand-organ,
or roaming ballad-slnger's lips, were
poured forth his irresistible melodies"
Stephen Collins Foster was born in
Pennsylvania in 1926. In 1912,
when a merchants clerk in Cincinna-
ii, his first song was published. 1t
was so successful that he gave up
business and devoted himself to mu-
sical composition. Although not
literally educated in the technical
sense, he was man of culture and
something of an artist. His songs
have been translated into most of the
European languages. He was paid
by one publishing house nearly twen-
ty thousand dollars for portion of
his compositions. OF "Old Dog
Tray" one hundred and twenty-five
copies were sold in less than two
years. Mr.. Foster, like some other
authors who have elevated the tho'ts
and touched the sensibilities of thou
sands, was his own worst enemy.
Sensitive and retiring, he had few
friends, and spent his last years in
obscurity in New York. Careless
and improvident, he was ready to
sell for few dollars a song which
brought large sum to its purchaser.
Some of his best songs were written
in grocery store on pieces of brown
paper. He was taken i'll in hotel
in the Bowery, and carried to hos
pital, where he died in 1864.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26

Coming upon the following anec-
dote attributed to Robert Collyer, we
asked him if it was true. He re-
piled: 81 had forgotten that saint
in ebony, and Missouri; but it is all
true" II was as follows: "When I
was in Jefferson, in the fall of 1862,
| found the hospitals in the most
fearful condition you can imagine.
| cannot stop to tell you all the
scenes / saw. 1t is enough to say
that one poor fellow had lain there,
sick, on the boards, and seen five
men carried away dead, one after
another, from bis side. He was worn
to a skeleton,-worn through, so
that great sores were all over his
back. and filthy beyond description.
One day, little before my visit,
old Hannah, a black woman, who
had some washing to do for doctor,
went down the ward to hunt him up.
She saw this dying man and had
compassion on him, and said, %
doctor, let me bring this man to my
bed, to keep him off the floor
The doctor said: The man is dy-
iLg. He will be dead Tomorrow
Tomorrow came, and old Hannah
could not rest. She went to see the
man, and he was still alive. Then
she got some help, took her bed, put
the man on it, and carried him bold
ly to her shanty. Then she washed
him all over, as woman washes a
baby, and fed him with spoon, and
fought death, hand to hand, day and
night, and beat him back, and saved
the soldiers life.
The day before l went to Jefferson
the man had gone on "a fur
Tough to his home in Indiana. He
besought Hannah to go with him,
but she could not spare tune. There
was all that washing to do. She
went with him to the steamboat, got
him fixed just to her mind, and then
kissed him; and the man lifted up
his voice, as she left, and wept like
a child. l say we have grown no.
BILE in our suffering
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26
THE BUOYANT POWER OF
WATER.

According to an exchange, the hu-
man body weighs pound in the wa
ter, and chair will carry two grown
persons-that is, it will keep the
head above water, which is all that
is necessary when it is question of
life OF death. One finger placed on
a stool or chair, or small box, or
piece of board, will easily keep the
head above water, while the two feet
and the other hand may be used as
paddles to propel toward the shore.
1t is not necessary to know how to
swim to be able to keep from drown
ing in this way. A little experience
of the buoyant power of water, and
faith in it, is all that is required. We
have seen a small boy, who could
not swim stroke, propel himself
back and forth across deep, wide
pond by means of board that would
not sustain five pounds weight.
Children and all others should have
practice in the sustaining power of
water. In nine cases out of ten the
knowledge that what will sustain a
pounds weight is all that is necessary
to keep ones head above the water,
will serve better in emergencies than
the greatest expertness as a swim
mer.
A person unfamiliar with the
buoyant power will naturally try to
climb on top of the floating object on
which he tries to save himself. If it
is large enough that is all right. But
it is generally not large enough to
keep them all entirely above water.
This often happens when pleasure
boats capsize. All Immediately
want TO get out of the water on top
of the overturned or half-filled boat,
and all are drowned except those
whom the wrecked craft will wholly
bear up. l they would simply trust
the water TO sustain ninety-nine hun
dredths of their bodies, and the dis
abled boat the other hundreth, they
might all be saved under most cir
cumstances. An overturned or half
filled wooden boat will sustain more
people than it will carry. 1t will
keep as many heads above water OF
as many people as could get then
hands on the gun-wale. These are
simple facts, easily learned, and may
some day save YOUR life.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26
THE THISTLE AND THE CORNsTALK.

THE THISTLE AND THE CORNsTALK.
"A Canada thistle which had taken
root in farmers garden, one day
saw blade of corn peeping out of
the ground. and in a tone of ridicule
called out.
"What a little one for cent 1t
is wonder you have cheek enough
to force yourself into my company.
The blade continued to grow from
day to day, and it was of such bright
color, and looked so thrifty that the
thistle finally called to the farmer
and said:
Really, but | can't put up with
such impudence, and | hope you will
remove that cornstalk at once.
And who are you? queried the
farmer having for the first time no.
ticed the thistle.
Why I'm the biggest and hand
soonest Canada thistle in the busi-
ness. My genealogy carries me back
to king
Umph interrupted the farmer.
One grain of corn is of more value
than a hundred thistles. Come out
of that by the roots.
MORAL The thief who abuses the
law always gives himself away.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26

SoRTER WORK HIS J'NTs.-''Well,
Coleman" said an Arkansas planter
addressing one of his tenants, chow
is your crop this year,"
"Tain't SO mighty good, boss
tain't SO mighty good"
''Suffered from drouth, I sup
poser
''No sab, we've had rain er plen-
ty."
1.-The boil-worm, I suppose, has
injured your cotton?''
"No, sab, l amt seed no boil
worms dis yeah"
Crust, then, eh?''
ssNo, sab, no rust"
"What then, is the cause of your
poor crop?"
s'To much trust in the Lawd sah."
"What?"
100 much prar, BOSS, an not
enuff work. Yer see dat l thought
dat I'd try whut de preacher said I
must do-watch an pray. Wall, de
whole family woul' watch an I wouP
pray ebery now an den, specially
when de weder wuz hot, but some
how didn't peer to do no good.
Boss, does yer know what b'lebes? ?"
What do you believe, Coleman?"
"W'y sab, | b'lebes dat when de
cotton is in de grass elbow greese is
wuth er darn sight MORN pra'r.
Pra'r is all right fur Sunday, but
endurin' de week days er pusson
haster sorter work his j'ints.-AT-
kdnsdac IrdUeler.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26

A one-legged man will never be troubl-
ed with wet feet.
An important period-The one between
the dollars and cents.
pound party-the young lady who is
learning to play on the piano.
OF a man suddenly struck dumb it may
be.said that his melancholy daze has come.
New Jersey man has been fined fifty
dollars for keeping a cow. The cow be-
lOnged to a neighbor.
A 'smonster in human FORM says that.
the only time woman does not exagger--
ate is when she is talking of her own age.
He: 81 see the latest idiocy of women.
is to have a monkey for pet.'' She ::
''That is not new. 1t was so when we.
got married"
widow in Wilton, Conn.,, says she.
never intends to marry again. 1t isn't
safe to place any reliance upon the avow--
ed intentions of widows.
A prominent mathematicians wife has;
presented him with a pair of twins. He
has now attained the full sum of human
happiness, with two to carry
''Happy the man whose bride has many
needle marks on her fingers" This does
not necessarily follow. Perhaps she has
just completed a crazy quilt.
Girls in search of materials for crazy
quilts are advised to apply to the rail-
road companies, because they throw away
thousands of old ties every year.
Civilization is making great progress
in the Congo country. A few years ago
the inhabitants ate white persons raw !;
now they roast them.
Joaquin Miller says that nobody ever
wrote anything good on an empty stom-
ach. How does he account for SO many
brilliant editorials in the country week
lies?
onies of solitary confinement is the clerk
who works for q firm that does not ad-
vertise. It's the next thing to being bur-
led alive.
A kind word may turn away wrath,
but it won't turn away a bulldog when
he is after small boy, and the small boy
is trying to escape with the contents of
an orchard.
A horticultural authority says sthere
are 1000 kinds Of pears" 1t is the green
pear, though, that is the doctors favorite
This is one of the things that science can
| not alter.
Chicago Cinnamon are stealing young
ladies pug dogs and eating them. 1t is
suspected that the dudes, who are jealous
of the pugs, bribe the Celestials to do
this. Dudes are not good to eat.
A Hartford man owns dog which goes
on the street daily to pick up lost articles,
and the animal brings home an average
of 81 per day. One day last week he
brought in three bustles.
An exchange has discovered that in
1850 liar was legally punished by hav-
ing hole bored through his tongue. The
practice was given up several years ago,
because it took up so much valuable time.
George Eliot says "things look dim to
old folks They undoubtedly do when
old folks peer into the parlor between the
hours of nine and twelve in the evening
But the old folks look ominously distinct
to the occupants of it's dimness.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-10-26

A certain lady suspected that her
husband was in the habit of kissing
the cook. pretty German girl, by
the by, and resolved to detect him in
the act. After watching four days,
she heard him come in one evening
and gently pass through into the
kitchen. Now, Katie was out that
evening and the kitchen was dark.
Burning with jealousy, the wife took
some matches in her hand, and, has
tily placing her shawl over her head,
as Katie often did, she entered the
back door, and was almost immedi-
ately seized and kissed in the most
ardent manner. With her heart al
most bursting with jealousy, the in
jured wife prepared to administer a
terrible rebuke to her faithless spouse.
Tearing herself from his embrace,
she struck match and stood face to
face with Katie's beau, one of the
factory boys. Her husband says
his wife has never treated him so
well since the first month they were
married as she has for the past week.