Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-03

MI. Airthul's four stylish bays with
banged tails still remain in the white
house stables, and President Cleveland
takes q spin generally every afternoon
with them, although not in a gorgeous
lourI-ln-hand, like Mr.. Arthur. AS soon
as he can attend to it the president will
buy g pair of horses for his carriage
only two.+ Ey.
II. ). Bateman returned from his Wis
1T in Wisconsin Saturday night with a
carload of farm implements, etc. He
was somewhat surprised to find us en-
joying such fine weather, and farmers
busy seeding, while the ground was
covered with snow in easterns Wiscon,
sin. Frank Ming, of Appleton, Wis,
accompanied him on his journey.
An incendiary fire was started in the
Huron Hotel building on Thursday
morning. The fire was set in two plac-
es bu5twas discovered and eNtinguished
before much damage was done. These
fiiires IRE securing with such fret qaeney,
and have been so fortunately discover
ed, that we fear our people are losing
all realization Of the great peril which
they entall.-Huronite.
The testimony Of Gen. Grant, read
last week in the Fish trial. gives a full
and frank history of his connection
with the firm Of Grant & Ward. 1t
confirms the impression that has hith-
erto prevailed that Gen. Grant was the
innocent dupe of rascals, and that,
though undoubtedly guilty of foolish
ness in trusting the mere word of Ward
in matters that demanded his personal
investigation, no stain can be placed
en- his honor Or integrity as man.
Mr.. Elijah Moon returned from Iowa
last week. He informs us that there
are parties in his neighborhood, near
Gordon postoffice who give him the
credit (?) of writing certain articles for
the HERALD in the way of correspon,
dence from that locality rejecting on
the character; of certain residents in
that vicinity. We wish to state that
Mr.. Moon has never sent us ANY article
of this description for publication in
| these columns. Whoever accuses Mr.
Moon of being the party who wrote the
articles signed "Truth," "Veracity," o.
anything else that has appeared III The
HERALD without his own name attach
ed is on the wrong trail and "sadly off.
Mitchell Capital: f. A. Marcher, ot
Woonsocket, who has been running +;
| jewelry store in connection with ths
drug store of Smith Bros, with acces!
to the safe of the latter, was detected
| last week in abstracting money from
the safe. The proprietors Of the drug
store had been missing money on Sun
days when Marcher had sole epossession
and at times they found their cash az
much as 800 short, The unfortunate
jeweler was detected by Marshal Briggs
OF Sunday the 18th inst, when he ac-
knowledged the corn and begged fol
mercy. He was brought up before JUS
tice Kanouse and plead guilty to 8
charge of petit larceny, when q fine OF
$50 and costs was imposed.
A destructive prairie fire which start
ed near Crow Lake and ran north on
the west side Of the hills until nearly
opposite Mr.. Wallace's when the wind
changed to the west, driving the fire
across the country to the east. Then
the wind changed again and drove the
flames toward the town. Our citizens
| turned out en- masse and burned q fire
break from Mr.. Blowers house to DR.
Matthias drug store, thereby preventing
the fire from destroying the town. This
is the first time that the grass in this
vicinity has been burned in a number
of years and consequently the flames
at times were terrible to behold. For
tunately, at the present writing, we
have heard Of no serious damage being
done, It was rather a sad April Fool
Joke as it was.
| Communicated.
Editors WEss1NGroN SPRINGS HERALD:
| -Gr,y,,- ANEW